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He began life as a mistake that sparked one of the greatest hoaxes in all video games. Now, 30 years later, he’s finally in a video game.
Sheng Long is the once mythical Street Fighter secret boss who was mentioned in Ryu’s victory quote from the original Street Fighter 2: "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.” Fans vociferously speculated about the identity of the mysterious Sheng Long. Who was he? Where was he in the game? Is he Ryu and Ken’s master? Could he be unlocked somehow?
In the pre-internet era, Sheng Long was the subject of heated debate in playgrounds across the world. Little did players know, the name was simply the result of a mistranslation of “Shōryūken”, Street Fighter’s famous Dragon Punch.
Capitalising...
The dog actor Einstein, whose motion capture performance was responsible for bringing to life companion Cain from Rockstar Studios' Red Dead Redemption 2, has passed away.
“Einstein was truly one of a kind. From the moment we met, we formed a deep bond, and it was clear that we were destined for countless adventures together,” wrote Einstein’s owner Jason Barnes in a touching Instagram tribute announcing his friend’s passing. “You possessed an uncanny intelligence, earning you the name Einstein; even if, at times, the name felt like a joke.”
Players are introduced to Cain in Red Dead Redemption 2 soon after the Van der Linde gang sets up camp at Clemens Point, at which point the former stray wanders his way into the motly gathering...
A Diablo 4 player flew into a rage after his 172-hour, level 91 Hardcore character died during a loading screen.
New Zealand-based streamer Quin69 uploaded a video to YouTube of the moment he saw the dreaded Hall of Fallen Heroes on-screen message after Diablo 4 appeared to crash while teleporting his character to the town of Kyovashad following the completion of a dungeon. The only option open to Quin69 is to click "acknowledge."
“I finished the f**king keystone and portaled to town,” Quin69 said as realisation set in. “In the loading screen of me porting to town my character has died.”
What appears to have happened is Quin69’s character, which was standing inside a protection bubble during the portal to town, somehow died to an...
When Squanch Games announced yesterday High on Life’s first DLC, it revealed a venture into one of comedy’s most popular subgenres: the classic horror-comedy. The new paid DLC, High on Knife, which will be available sometime this October, marks a spookier tone for the game, and the teaser showcased just 40 seconds of darkness and body horror.
But, perhaps unsurprisingly, that turn to spook started as, well, kind of a joke.
“We joked a lot about it while we were working on High on Life like, ‘Wouldn't it be funny if we made it a horror game?’ “ Squanch’s Chief Creative Officer Mikey Spano tells IGN. “And we were all like, ‘We should really just do it. We should do it.’ And so when a DLC came up we were like, ‘This is a perfect...
I'm a sucker for a good sword-swinging adventure, and Throne & Liberty looks like something that I might find myself getting sucked into. Not only is it absolutely gorgeous, but it has a few hooks I enjoyed, like the ability to transform into different creatures to achieve different goals. The trailer promises the ability to even take on the form of defeated bosses, something I didn't get to experience first-hand in my demo, but definitely a concept I found pretty intriguing.
Stepping Out
Throne & Liberty's Days of Play demo started off with an opening cinematic before taking me into the character creator. As someone who can easily lose 30 minutes tweaking settings, I was pretty satisfied with the level of options available, although...
Rockstar Games co-founder and Grand Theft Autio writer Dan Houser has officially announced Absurd Ventures.
As spotted by Geoff Keighley, Houser's new studio is "building narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing stories for a diverse variety of genres, without regard to medium, to be produced for live-action and animation; video games and other interactive content; books, graphic novels, and scripted podcasts." Based on the quote, Absurd Games will dabble in other forms of media beyond video games.
Since 2021, it had been strongly implied that Houser started a new studio after Absurd Ventures in Games had been registered in the United Kingdom, with the business listing mentioning that Dan Houser was a director at the...
Oh, how I’ve missed Confident Microsoft. You remember: it’s the version of the tech company that brashly broke into the console industry over 20 years ago, and then muscled its way to a near-draw with the PlayStation 3 thanks to the Xbox 360, aka the perfect console at the perfect time. Thanks to the well-documented and repeated mistakes of the Xbox One era, Microsoft has spent most of the past decade in a defensive stance, back on its heels and frequently apologizing to its customers for screwing up yet again. Even the start of the Xbox Series generation was fraught with supply chain nightmares and a 2022 that sapped every last bit of momentum that a promising 2021 built. And then there was Redfall, but let’s not pick at that scab...
FromSoftware fans are officially done waiting for Bloodborne on PC and as a result have made their own version out of the recently released Lies of P demo.
Anyone familiar with the likes of Elden Ring and Dark Souls will immediately notice similarities between Lies of P and FromSoftware's library of RPGs, Bloodborne in particular.
From its gothic architecture to its animations to its simple red health bars, Lies of P is reminiscent of the beloved PlayStation 4 game, and PC modders clearly took notice by turning the demo into the long requested Bloodborne on PC.
As reported by PCGamesN, modder Garden of Eyes released gameplay of the demo altered to include Bloodborne's Hunter character model replacing its own Pinocchio. Beyond that...
Not since 2016’s Suicide Squad was followed up by The Suicide Squad in 2021 has there been such a flagrant attempt to make something as needlessly difficult to Google as the new Layers of Fear. This 2023 psychological horror game is neither a sequel nor a total remake of the 2016 original of the same name. Instead it bolts together the first installment, its 2019 follow-up, previously released downloadable content, and a couple of new playable stories to form a Frankenstein’s monster of manipulated hallway horrors freshly reimagined in Unreal Engine 5. Yet while there’s no question that this Layers of Fear is the best-looking and most extensive version of these disturbing stories to date, it’s a package that fails to add up to anything...
While we love spending our time losing ourselves in epic games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, sometimes we just want to chill out and play something a little less intense and a little more cozy. Luckily there have been a spate of brilliant cozy games for us to enjoy lately and in even better news a ton of them are perfect to pick up during Pride month. From grim reaper adventures surrounded by queer love to witchy life sims that allow you to date whoever you want, there is a game for everyone here. Heck you can even run an 8-Bit coffee shop or explore an alien planet over a decade of your life. What a joy!
Spiritfarer
This melancholy yet beautiful game takes you on a journey through the...
Storage is one of the major concerns when it comes to owning a portable PC like the Steam Deck or ROG Ally. While video game install sizes continue to balloon with every release (e.g. Mortal Kombat 1 will require 100GB), the maximum internal storage you can get on either device is just 512GB. Even then, not every buyer has opted for the beefiest device, and some are stuck with just a measly 64GB.
TL;DR - Best Steam Deck SD Card Deal
Well have no fear, more storage is here. There are some excellent deals on SD cards at the moment, so we've collected together all our favorite options into one easy list for your convenience. Steam Deck, ROG Ally, and even Switch owners can get involved in these brand-new deals, (otherwise, check out our...
A logo for Star Ocean: The Second Story R has leaked via Square Enix’s support website.
Spotted by RPG Site, the banner with the logo was found on Square Enix’s official support site, but it has since been taken down. The link that leads to the logo now shows a box with the words “no image".
Star Ocean: The Second Story is the second game in developer Tri-Ace’s Star Ocean series, which is published by Square Enix. The game was released for the original PlayStation in 1998. An enhanced version of the game, Star Ocean: Second Evolution, was released in 2008 for PlayStation Portable.
In 2008, Square Enix remastered the first game in the series for PlayStation Portable, called Star Ocean: First Departure. In 2019, the game was...
CD Projekt has moved away from crunch according to one of its own developers, director of Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion Gabe Amatangelo.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Amatangelo said CD Projekt has lived up to its promise not to force employees to crunch — meaning to work long hours and extra days in order to finish a game on time — after it was heavily criticised for doing so for the base Cyberpunk 2077.
"Fortunately, it’s a very healthy work-life balance right now," Amatangelo said, something that was backed up by "lower-level staff members" speaking to Bloomberg.
Amatangelo is also set to direct the full sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, codenamed Orion, and the lack of crunching for Phantom Liberty bodes well for the developers...
At IGN Summer of Gaming, we were able to sit down with Starfield director Todd Howard for an exclusive interview about the upcoming Bethesda RPG.
After years of rumors, teases, speculation, and a high-profile delay, Bethesda is finally ready to launch Starfield into the stratosphere on September 6, 2023. Howard visited IGN and Ryan McCaffrey after the Xbox Showcase and Starfield Direct to go in-depth on what was announced and to try and explain the sheer breadth of all that was revealed during the show.
During the interview he discussed its delay, its performance on Xbox, the surprising influence of Red Dead Redemption 2, and much more.
"[W]e have put so much into this game, and it is, as you said, our first new IP in over 25...
IGN can exclusively reveal Dead Space: Deep Cover, a brand-new official scripted podcast launching in Q1 2024 that tells a story of a journalist searching for her missing sister who reportedly joined a local Unitologist church.
Dead Space: Deep Cover will be part of the Cineverse Podcast Network and is being produced by Bloody Disgusting in cooperation with EA. As previously mentioned, the series will become available in Q1 2024 and will be free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all other podcasting networks. There will be a total of 12 episodes and they will be released weekly.
"In Dead Space: Deep Cover, journalist Emmeline Ayuba searches for her sister, who reportedly joined a local Unitologist church," the official description...
Director of Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion Gabe Amatangelo will also direct the full sequel from CD Projekt Red.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Amatangelo said he'll be moving onto the sequel once development on the long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 expansion is complete. Given Phantom Liberty launches on September 26, this should be within the next three months or so.
Little else is known about the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Orion at CD Projekt Red, but the developer promised it "will fully unleash the potential that this universe offers".
Development hadn't begun as of October 2022 as CD Projekt Red focused on building a whole new North American studio for the game, consisting of 350 to 500 developers between teams in Boston...
All Diablo games have a secret cow level, right? According to Blizzard, Diablo 4 doesn’t, yet. But that hasn’t stopped players from joining forces in an attempt to uncover the mythical space.
In the run up to Diablo 4’s record-breaking launch, development chief Rod Fergusson insisted the action role-playing game does not include a secret cow level, or any secret level for that matter, because Blizzard wanted to keep the tone and feel “grounded”.
"We wanted to make sure it felt authentic to the kind of gothic, dark themes we have. We've been really focused on trying to keep it as grounded as possible," Fergusson told Kinda Funny Games. "And because of that, there's no secret level in Diablo 4 that people might be looking for as per...
As IGN exclusively revealed during Summer of Gaming, hotly-anticipated space epic Starfield runs at 30 frames per second on Xbox Series X and S. The news sparked a vociferous debate about the performance of Bethesda Game Studios’ next big title, and challenged the expectation from some that big first-party games should run at 60fps on Xbox Series X no matter what.
But why does Starfield run at 30fps? In an interview with IGN, BGS boss Todd Howard said the development team decided to lock Starfield at 30fps on console to ensure “consistency” of performance.
“I think it'll come as no surprise, given our previous games, what we go for,” Howard said. “Always these huge, open worlds, fully dynamic, hyper detail where anything can happen...
Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotaku Studio has tried to explain why it changed the franchise's name to Like a Dragon but made things much more complicated in the process.
For those unfamiliar, the franchise is called Ryu Ga Gotaku in Japan, which translates to Like a Dragon. 2020's Yakuza: Like a Dragon therefore adopted both names, but the developer is fully switching over with its sequel, which is called Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
As explained in a tweet (below) from the developer, the Japanese version is remaining a simple Ryu Ga Gotaku 8 because "one subtitle simply isn't enough".
"Which character and which point of view in this complex, intertwined storyline do you think you'll most closely relate to? Depending on which of the...
After roughly 940 million kilometres, the Earth has reached the point on its 12-month celestial march around the sun where it’s time for another Formula 1 game. Fitting, perhaps, considering I feel like I’ve driven roughly 940 million kilometres in this series over the past decade-and-change. Jokes aside, it’s a testament to the incredible robustness of Codemasters’ brand of open-wheel motorsport magic that climbing back into the cockpit each year remains a pleasure, and F1 23 is no exception. Alongside noticeably improved handling for the new-era cars, F1 23 also adds the next chapter of the Braking Point story mode introduced in F1 2021 – plus a new reward-based progression system with daily, weekly, and seasonal goals. The result is...
Diablo 4 is full of more demons than ever before, and its expansive regions can be both dangerous and confusing to explore. Whether you’re looking to tweak the difficulty, get help in combat, or understand its various mechanics, materials, and currencies, we’ve compiled the biggest things Diablo 4 doesn’t always tell you outright.
See the full Diablo 4 Interactive Map with locations of Dungeons, Collectibles, Strongholds and more!
1 - When Can I Get That Mount?
As soon as you finish the Prologue tutorial and arrive in the main city of Kyovashad, you can try to interact with the stables where Lorath got a horse, only to find you aren’t able to purchase one as well. Even if you’ve bought special editions of the game or purchased...
For those who own a PlayStation 5, or recently picked one up, you can now purchase the console-exclusive Returnal at Best Buy for just $21.99. That’s $48 off its original price of $69.99, which is a deal absolutely worth jumping on!
You can check out the game's deal in full on Best Buy’s website below.
Returnal on Sale at Best Buy for $21.99
Returnal is a game we really, really enjoy. Upon release, we gave it an 8 and stated in our Returnal review that the gameplay "is sublime, with a great selection of weapons that each have a wide variety of interesting possible traits, meaningful strategic decisions that can either keep a run afloat or doom it to sink, and punishingly challenging yet rewarding gunplay that is consistently...
Way back in 2004, a story surfaced (in an interview with IGN no less) that the entire Kingdom Hearts franchise exists because of a fateful, literal elevator pitch. And now, over two decades after that strange merger of Square Enix fantasy and Disney magic became a hit, Disney Games is hungry for more wild pitch moments like it.
I meet with the VP of Disney and Pixar Games, Luigi Priore, at the most appropriate place for it: Disneyland. We’re at a preview event for Disney Illusion Island, nestled in a banquet room well-hidden within Tomorrowland, where Priore is clearly jubilant at the prospect of showing off the game at last. Disney Illusion Island has a look reminiscent of a slower-paced, more friendly Rayman game, with four-player...
If you could peer into the future and visualize the most immediate outcomes of your actions, would you be able to make the best decisions, or would the weight of your past choices still hold you back? Harmony: The Fall of Reverie artfully takes a microscope to this idea by giving you the power of foresight to make conscious choices about which direction the story flows between its otherwise linear conversations. It took a few hours to get past all the necessary exposition before Harmony really got its hooks in me, but the story it eventually unravels into is a must-play visual novel. It does an eloquent job of mixing its classic choose-your-own-adventure style of decision-making with modern stakes that effectively hold a mirror up to...
Black Desert Online's newest expansion "Land of the Morning Light" has officially launched, and it's bringing a whole lot of new content with it. Newcomers and longtime fans of the game can experience a new story, fight against fearsome new enemies, explore a whole new region, and defeat bosses based on traditional Korean folklore.
That's not even half of what’s coming in The Land of the Morning Light. Here are seven things you should know about your upcoming journey
1. Land of the Morning Light is Designed for Beginners
Black Desert Online is a big game with a lot of content, but new players shouldn't feel pressured to play "catch up." The Land of the Morning Light expansion is designed to be especially welcoming to newcomers, so...
Sony has revealed the latest games to join the PlayStation Plus library for June 2023. This includes Rogue Legacy 2, Far Cry 6, and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge.
In a PlayStation Blog post, Sony revealed some of the games that are going to be available this month. These games will be added to the service on June 20. While the post did not unveil the full list, the PlayStation UK Twitter account tweeted out a full list of the games, which you can check out below.
PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium: Game Catalogue
Rogue Legacy 2
Far Cry 6
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
Inscryption
Soulstice
Tacoma
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Killing Floor 2
Tacoma
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Killing Floor 2
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Vampire...
Grand Theft Auto Online players are freaking out over an in-game t-shirt that many believe is a GTA 6 tease from Rockstar.
As reported by PCGamesN, the t-shirt in question arrived in the San Andreas Mercenaries expansion and players who checked out the updated clothing stores immediately noticed one particularly odd item called "??? Tee".
This t-shirt shows a bunch of odd symbols with lines of numbers around them. While seemingly random at first glance, attributing each of these numbers to their respective letters in the alphabet reveals a hidden message.
Just as bizarre as the t-shirt name itself, this reads: "One day will reveal all." While this means nothing by itself, many fans are hoping it teases a full GTA 6 reveal, even if...
Outriders developer People Can Fly is working on a Microsoft IP codenamed Project Maverick, the studio has revealed.
According to the announcement published to Polish financial site Interia Biznes, the budget for Project Maverick is between $30-50 million, and its production will be carried out by People Can Fly in a work-for-hire model.
People Can Fly previously worked on Gears of War: Judgment back in 2013, so it’s possible the studio is working on something related to the Gears franchise. Whether it is Gears 6 or maybe even a remaster of Judgment is unknown. Project Maverick could be completely unrelated to Gears, too.
Back in July 2020, People Can Fly announced it was working on a highly ambitious AAA game, led by Just Cause 3...
Indie Developer Motion Twin announced today that an animated Dead Cells series is in the works and will air sometime next year.
Dead Cells: The Animated Series will comprise of 10 "roughly seven-minute long" episodes and will be released in France first before getting a wider release worldwide. The teaser trailer's YouTube description mentions that the series is set on "a cursed island that a strange plague has racked".
Alongside a teaser trailer, the developer confirmed that the series is being co-produced by animation studio Bobbypills and anime streaming service Animation Digital Network. Bobbypill previously worked with Motion Twin as the studio created animated trailers for Dead Cells.
Dead Cells originally launched in early...