In 2023, E3 was canceled, leaving gamers hungry for news of what’s on the horizon. What games should we be looking out and preparing for? What should we make room for on our must-play lists? NetEase, a leading force in the gaming industry, has answered these questions with their NetEase Connect 2023 Annual Product Launch event. Whether you're a hardcore gamer seeking intense shooters, strategic masterminds yearning for immersive experiences, or casual gaming fans looking for engaging multiplayer adventures, NetEase has delivered an array of thrilling announcements to satisfy gamers everywhere.
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Fan-favorite Halo multiplayer mode Infection is coming to Season 4 of Halo Infinite. The mode will drop the same day the next season kicks off on June 20, developer 343 Industries has announced.
Infection is the Halo series' take on a zombie mode, which first debuted in Halo 3. Since then, the mode has returned in Halo Reach, Halo 2 Anniversary, and Halo 5: Guardians, with an altered version of the mode titled Flood taking Infection's place in Halo 4. 343 shared a piece of new concept art for Halo Infinite's Infection mode alongside the announcement.
Traditionally, Infection pits two teams against each other: A team of Survivors equipped with shotguns, and a team of Infected wielding Energy Swords. When a zombie eliminates a...
You may want to clear out some old games from your PC's hard drive because Mortal Kombat 1 will come packing a fatal 100GB of data.
NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Games announced the reboot of the 1993 game last Thursday, and a peek into the game's listing on Steam has revealed that it will require you to have 100GB of storage space available on your PC in order for you to install it without issues. And that is provided you have the correct operating systems and don't have any other games with nearly as much or equal to the amount of data Mortal Kombat 1 has.
Here are the PC specs for Mortal Kombat 1.
Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6600 | AMD Ryzen™...
Star Trek and a Telltale-style adventure game seems like a match made in heaven. The two just fit; Star Trek’s best and most beloved stories are about dialogue. Not just two characters talking to each other, but about how people relate to one another and the world around them. It’s about the choices we make when faced with tough decisions, what we could be if we learned from our past mistakes, and the strength gained by uniting diverse peoples and cultures. All of that can be hard to do in a video game, which are typically too busy firing phasers and torpedoes to get more than a few words in edgewise. Star Trek: Resurgence’s conversation-heavy approach doesn’t always work, but it never loses sight of what makes Star Trek, well… Star...
PC releases are under scrutiny as of late. When compared to their console counterparts, PC games more frequently experience anything from immense graphical glitches to game breaking bugs regardless of an individual’s specific build. And since many high-end rigs cost upwards of thousands of dollars, questions often arise as to why so many titles launch in unplayable states.
Games like The Last of Us Part 1 Remake, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Redfall, and even Final Fantasy 7 Remake recently suffered from ports that required extensive post-launch patches to fix. Speaking with IGN, three experts familiar with porting games to PC discuss the challenges of porting, the complexities behind changing control methods, and how studios can work to...
To celebrate the upcoming release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Miles Morales will be swinging into Fortnite on May 23.
Epic Games shared a short video announcing the update on Fortnite's official Twitter account. The teaser shows Morales' Spider-Man bursting through a skyscraper and swinging out of sight. Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 then steps forward and peers out of the smashed window.
The two new character skins will arrive in Fortnite with the next update. They will be available to purchase from the in-game item store, giving players a chance to pick them up and swing into action before the hotly anticipated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse arrives in theaters.
Miguel showed up in a post-credits scene for...
Calling all Warhammer fans! Actor and Warhammer aficionado Rahul Kohli will host 2023's Warhammer Skulls event on May 25. This will be Games Workshop's seventh Warhammer Skulls celebration, and as always, fans can look forward to world premieres, reveals, and tons more.
Warhammer Skulls 2023 Announcement Showcase Start Time
This year's Warhammer Skulls announcement showcase kicks off on May 25 at 5 p.m. BST / 9 a.m. PST. That's 12 p.m. EST for east coast folks, and May 26 at 2 a.m. AEST for Australians. (Brew that coffee extra strong.)
Where to Watch Warhammer Skulls' 2023 Announcement Showcase
If you're game for watching the Warhammer Skulls festivities, be assured IGN will make tuning in a breeze. You can catch the stream on...
THQ Nordic and Yuke's Media Creations have announced that AEW: Fight Forever, the officially licensed All Elite Wrestling game, will be available on June 29 for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
Announced in a new trailer (above), the long awaited wrestling game finally got its release date after being revealed two and a half years ago.
AEW wrestler and executive vice president Kenny Omega took centre stage in the trailer to announce the June 29 date and that pre-loading is now available. "Thank you so much for your patience and being awesome fans," he added.
AEW: Fight Forever promises to bring easy to pick up but difficult to master arcade wrestling gameplay alongside a full campaign mode...
Developer Fairyship Games has announced a new PC and console game called Testament: The Order of High Human, an upcoming first-person Metroidvania action-adventure/RPG set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. It has no announced release window as of yet.
Players suit up as the guardian of the realm, a man named Aran, who is also the king of High humans in the land of Tessara. A betrayal by his brother Arva has left Aran stripped of his powers and the land plagued by monsters. Check out the debut trailer for Testament above, and the first screenshots in the gallery below.
Testament promises to offer 15 unique magic abilities, a bow with four different types of arrows, an XP and upgrade system, sword combat, 15 different potions with...
Star Wars prequel trilogy star Natalie Portman is up for returning to Star Wars as Padmé Amidala if Lucasfilm asked her to.
Responding to fan questions for GQ's Actually Me series, Portman replied to a Reddit post that asked if the character could ever return. "I have no information on this," she said. "No one's ever asked me to return, but I'm open to it."
Though her character's main story was completed in Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, the potential return of Padmé would follow in the footsteps of co-stars Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor, who played Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi respectively.
The following paragraphs feature mild spoilers for the Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series.
Both actors returned in the...
Following ARC Raiders' delay from 2022 to 2023, Embark Studios has now confirmed the game has undergone a shift from a co-op PvP game to a "PvPvE survival extraction shooter."
Aleksander Grøndal, ARC Raiders' executive producer, took to Medium.com to share the update to the game and also confirm that signups for the Closed Alpha test that will take place this summer are now open on Steam.
When Embark delayed ARC Raiders, it said the delay would not only allow them to let the game reach its "fullest potential," but also that it would allow the team to add a new PvP mode to it before launch. As it turns out, the team had so much fun implementing this new mode that the game underwent a "fundamental" change that would shift the genre of...
HoYoverse released Genshin Impact in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly three years ago, and it has become a major hit in the gaming industry. This free-to-play anime RPG from China allows players to explore the vast world of Teyvat as a traveler separated from their twin in another world and interact with — as well as play as — a wide variety of characters whose combat moves are based on elements, like earth, wind, fire, water, and electricity.
Although the story is about a traveler (male or female, depending on your choice) working to find their sibling, Genshin Impact becomes more about exploring the seven nations of Teyvat, learning of their cultures and customs, and fighting the monsters that reside in those nations and...
Alan Wake voice actor Matthew Porretta appeared on Monsters, Madness, and Magic and said Alan Wake 2 is "supposed to come out in October."
While we know Alan Wake 2 has a 2023 release window, Porretta may have narrowed down that window around the 16:37-minute mark of the latest episode of Monsters, Madness, and Magic.
"I've been working on it," Porretta said of Alan Wake 2. "That's supposed to come out in October. We're in the middle of working on it now. In fact, I was just in Finland last week, that's where the company is from... Remedy, they're amazing people."
It's important to remember this is not an official announcement and may not be in line exactly with the release date planned by Alan Wake 2 developer Remedy...
In June 2022, a new Reddit user named SadFutago joined the Nier Automata subreddit to ask what might seem to outsiders a fairly innocuous question: "How do you open the church?"
Their post was short and sweet, seemingly coming from a confused, not-exactly-internet-savvy gamer who wanted to know how to access a building in Nier: Automata that, they claimed, was closed off for their friend, but open for them. The problem? There was no such church in Nier: Automata, to anyone's knowledge. Dataminers had never heard of it. It didn’t exist in any guide, or video, or older build known to anyone in the audience. And as more information, and later images and clips came out of this location no one had ever seen before, the Nier subreddits...
Blizzard has revealed that over 50 accessibility options will be available in Diablo 4 and how making this latest entry in the legendary franchise as accessible as possible was a "flame that guided them all through development."
Some of Diablo 4's accessibility options were shared on a blog from Blizzard, and the post began with lead accessibility designer Drew McCrory stating that, "the only limitation to adventuring in Sanctuary should be interest, not capability."
The team began their accessibility journey in Diablo 4 by building off the foundation created with Diablo 2: Resurrected and ensuring they make the game open to as many people as possible while also "being careful not to mar gameplay for others."
As previously...
The Steam Deck lobbed an unexpected grenade into the PC gaming world, distilling the handheld PC gaming experience into a simple, approachable, and affordable device. Gaming laptops are versatile but expensive and lack the ultra-portable handheld convenience of Steam’s device. That may sway you towards Valve’s handheld, but the Deck’s shortcomings shouldn’t be overlooked.
We compare the Steam Deck and gaming laptops with the following in mind:
Game Performance
Compatibility
Portability and Form Factor
Battery Life
Extra features
Value
Verdict
Steam Deck vs. Gaming Laptop: Performance
Gaming laptops are available in numerous configurations and sizes that range from bottom-barrel budget devices with AMD or Intel integrated graphics to...
China's State Administration has approved Microsoft's attempted $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, joining a total of 37 regulators including the EU and Japan.
The news was first surfaced today on SeekingAlpha via a Dealreporter item, and has since been confirmed via a statement from a Microsoft spokesperson sent to IGN:
This news comes just a few days after the European Commission approved the deal in the EU. The one opposing voice thus far remains the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which blocked the deal on the basis of its potential to let Microsoft monopolize a nascent cloud gaming market. Microsoft has stated its intent to appeal the UK's decision.
The deal has yet to be approved in the US, where...
If you're bummed that the Steam Deck's display caps at 800p, you may have a solution. FX Technology Limited is looking to fix that problem with its own third-party display that provides a much-needed resolution boost to Valve's portable gaming PC.
DeckHD is a 7-inch IPS display, with a refresh rate of 60Hz and 400 nits of screen brightness, the same as the Steam Deck. But the biggest difference is that it is a Full HD+ display (1920x1200 resolution) and it has a 95 percent sRGB coverage as opposed to the Steam Deck's 67 percent sRGB coverage.
And just like the high-end Steam Deck model, it includes an anti-glare coating.
Though there are some concerns regarding the battery life, one of the moderators for the DeckHD Discord server...
Dead by Daylight's 7th anniversary stream has arrived and it provided a ton of new details for the future of the horror title, including two new spin-off games, the arrival of Nicolas Cage himself as a Survivor, a brand-new sci-fi chapter called End Transmission, and more.
There was a lot featured in the showcase, and this roundup will gather all the Dead by Daylight news you need to know, and be sure to let us know below what you are most excited about in the comments!
Dead by Daylight Spin-Offs Announced and Include a Story-Based Game from Until Dawn's Supermassive
While details are still scarce, Dead by Daylight will be expanding its universe with two new spin-off games, including one from Until Dawn developer Supermassive that...
Dead by Daylight's universe is about to get much bigger as Behaviour Interactive has announced two spin-off games, including a story-based game from Until Dawn's Supermassive Games and a multiplayer PvE game from Midwinter Entertainment.
The news was announced during Dead by Daylight's 7th Anniversary Stream, but details are still a bit scarce on what these games will truly end up being. However, there are tidbits of info that should get Dead by Daylight fans excited.
New ways to play Dead by Daylight
The Supermassive Games title is said to offer "an intense narrative experience filled with powerful life-or-death choices set within the backdrop of Dead by Daylight." For an idea of what type of game fans can expect, all they have to...
The sloppy man, Xûr, is now live in Destiny 2 for the weekend until next week's reset. If you're looking to get your some shiny new Exotic armor or weapons for your Guardian, look no further.
Each week, Xûr has a random assortment of Exotic armor, one for each Guardian class, as well as a random Exotic Weapon and an Exotic Engram available for purchase. In addition to his Exotic wares, he's got a random collection of Legendary weapons and armor to deck out your Guardians.
We've rounded up all the info on Xûr for the week including where to find Xûr, which Exotic weapons and armor are available, as well as which Legendary weapons you should pick up, either for PvE or PvP.
Where Is Xûr Located Today?
Xûr's location can be found at...
In what he described as an "emotional week", director Aaron Keller opened up about the decision to cancel Overwatch 2's planned PvE Hero mode, saying that the team "struggled to find its footing" amid what he called high expectations for the mode.
"Things rarely go as planned in game development. We struggled to find our footing with the Hero Mission experience early on. Scope grew," Keller wrote in a new blog post. "We were trying to do too many things at once and we lost focus. The team built some really great things, including hero talents, new enemy units and early versions of missions, but we were never able to bring together all of the elements needed to ship a polished, cohesive experience."
According to Keller, the PvE Hero...
The next installment in the delightfully ultra-violent fighting game series is called Mortal Kombat 1. It’s slated for release on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC on September 19, 2023. It features “reimagined versions” of the characters from previous installments, a new fighting system, new game modes, and more. It’s available to preorder now in three different versions, including a Kollector’s Edition, which is Kombat-speak for collector's edition. Read on for the details about what comes in each edition, along with pricing, preorder bonus info, and more.
Mortal Kombat 1 Kollector’s Edition
PS5
Get it at Target - $249.99
See it at Amazon (not live yet)
Xbox
Get it at Target - $249.99
See it at Amazon (not live...
The roster of playable characters and Kameo characters for Mortal Kombat 1’s first DLC Kombat Pack has seemingly been leaked online.
According to a product listing on Amazon Italy, there are six playable characters and five Kameo characters in Kombat Pack 1. The six playable characters are said to be Quan Chi, Omni Man, Ermac, Peacemaker, Takeda, and Homelander.
Packaged with them are apparently five Kameo characters, NPC fighters that assist a player during a match. The Kameo characters listed in the leak are Tremor, Johnny Cage, Khameleon, Mavado, and Ferra.
Of the playable characters, the two most interesting ones are Peacemaker and Homelander, which were previously reported to appear in Mortal Kombat 1. Peacemaker hails from DC...
LEGO 2K Drive may sound like it was named at 5:40 on a Friday afternoon – seriously, if blending the publisher’s name and a five-letter verb describing what you’ll be doing most is all it takes these days, I look forward to the next Call of Duty being christened Activision Shoot – but hey, don’t hold that against it. Highly charming and imaginative, 2K Drive fuses confident kart racing with a virtually unlimited custom garage, making it a place where you can spend just as much time fastidiously building vehicles as you do frantically racing them.
LEGO 2K Drive cribs from a lot of existing racers, which makes it fairly easy to explain. Forza Horizon 4’s dearly-loved LEGO expansion rates as an automatic mention as a fellow open-world...
The Wonderful 101: Remastered has received a free DLC update, shadow-dropped by PlatinumGames today. Available now, The Wonderful One: After School Hero Part 1 is an additional game mode that was promised as a stretch goal for the game’s 2020 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, originally announced under the working title 'Luka’s First Mission'. You can see some gameplay in the trailer below.
Part 1 will be followed by The Wonderful One: After School Hero Part 2 next week, on May 26. Part 2 was originally promised as the Kickstarter stretch goal 'Luka’s Second Mission'. A trailer for Part 2 will be released the same day.
The DLC focuses on protagonist Luka Alan Smithee from the original game. As he sets his sights on becoming a member...
If I was you, I'd want to know about the freebies first. So here's the jump to that. Can't say I adored Death Stranding, but I have warm memories of Metro Last Light—or is that PTSD? Other notable deals include a Bethesda Birthday sale, plus Netherrealm titles have been dropped like they've copped a Sub-Zero power-slide. Find one you like. Finish it.
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The latest Humble Games Showcase aired today, where its publishing arm decided to spotlight some games on the way this year and beyond. If you missed it, no worries; here's a recap of all the games Humble showed today, including Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical.
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
Today's showcase gave us more insight into Stray Gods: the Roleplaying Musical ahead of its August 3 release date. Originally named Chorus: An Adventure Musical before being renamed, Stray Gods: The...
Epic announced it has launched a rewards program for its PC storefront called Epic Rewards. Users can earn 5% back in rewards for every eligible purchase they make on the Epic Games Store starting today.
All Epic Games account holders are automatically enrolled into the program when they make a purchase. Any games, applications, DLC, and virtual currency, including V-Bucks, will count towards the 5% Epic Rewards. However, the rewards won’t be added immediately to users’ reward balance, but 14 days after the associated purchase is completed.
Certain subscriptions are also eligible to earn reward points. In order to activate that aspect, users need to accept the latest version of the Epic Games Store End User License Agreement by going...
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Bossa Games, developer of I Am Bread, I Am Fish, and Surgeon Simulator, has announced its next game. It’s called Lost Skies, and in many ways, it’s a significant departure from Bossa’s previous humorous sandbox efforts.
Lost Skies is an upcoming open-world, co-op adventure where up to six players work together to explore a world composed of floating islands, build flying ships, and take on gigantic monsters. It’s planned for a PC launch in 2024, but will enter what Bossa calls...