We end January’s IGN First coverage of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty by going back to the very beginning: Let’s have a look at the game’s opening cutscene. Watch it above.
In the clip, we hear a man talking about an elixir sought by the sovereigns of ancient China. This elixir could grant immortality, but its power was overwhelmingly dangerous, and the elixir became the cause of conflicts and political machinations throughout the years.
While China’s ancient leaders are known to have actually been in search of such an elixir of life, it appears that in Team Ninja’s newest action game the elixir is real.
After the first phase in the battle against Zhang Liang – the boss in last year’s Wo Long demo – he swallows the elixir and becomes a...
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French games publisher Nacon, which is co-publishing Daedalic Entertainment's upcoming action-adventure game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, recently released an earnings report that detailed yet another delay for the Tolkein-inspired adventure.
The report lists Gollum as one of their titles that will be released in "the first half of the FY 2023-2024," which due to Nacon's offset fiscal calendar, places that window between April and September of this year.
Previously, Daedalic Entertainment delayed the title from its initial 2021 window to 2022, then delayed it again "by a few months," offering no specific release date at that time, but not so far off as this new timeframe places it.
Gollum is a stealth game with a narrative focus...
Mimimi Games, the developer behind 2020's great strategy game Desperados 3, has revealed its latest project. It's called Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, and the team at Mimimi describes it as a "stealth strategy" game.
In Shadow Gambit, you'll "join a ghost ship with a living soul and assemble a cursed pirate crew. Embrace supernatural powers to defy the menacing army of the Inquisition, who stands between you and the mysterious treasure of the legendary Captain Mordechai." Your own ship is the Red Marley, described as a "ghost ship with a living soul." From it you can take on individual character missions to learn more about your crew, plan your next adventure, or just hang out with your crew.
You'll also have the ability to pause...
Informa Tech has revealed the nominations for the 25th annual Games Festival Nominations, with Tunic and Betrayal At Club Low leading the way with three nominations each.
Both games were among the nominees for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, with the final awards being announced during the Game Developers Conference which takes place from March 20 to 24.
Six games in total were nominated for the Grand Prize, with Tunic and Betrayal at Club Low joined by The Case of the Golden Idol, Immortality, Neon White, and Not for Broadcast. Tinykin, Terra Nil, RPG Time: The Legend of Wright, Roadwarden, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and Citizen Sleeper also receive honourable mentions.
The full list of nominees can be seen below:
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Discussion of Hogwarts Legacy has been banned from popular forum website ResetEra due to the controversy surrounding Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
As reported by PC Gamer, ResetEra general manager B-Dubs has released a statement from the moderation team that bans all mention of the Harry Potter-universe video game on their platform.
ResetEra had previously banned any promotional posts around the game - things like new trailers and announcements - but has now extended this to include any discussion.
"The mod team has decided to expand our prior ban on promotion for the Hogwarts game to include the game itself," the statement read. "There will be no [off topic chat] and no discussion of this game."
Rowling has been criticised...
I didn’t know that I wanted to be a katana-wielding police officer in a cyberpunk version of Hong Kong who fights a giant spider tank and then eats five bowls of ramen, but that’s what I got with upcoming slasher/shooter Wanted: Dead, and I haven’t been able to put it down. Everything from its bizarre story and tone to its challenging and chaotic combat reminds me of the PS2/OG Xbox era of games from my youth, where experimentation and style was prioritized over polish. And there’s something awesome about that approach that’s captured my attention and kept me smiling ear to ear after over 15 hours with it.
One of the main ways in which Wanted: Dead nails its old school feel is in the high level of difficulty of its fantastic combat...
It's a new year, and that means it's time to start loading up on games that you may or may not ever get around to playing. But, with so many great deals, it's worth picking up at least a few, right? To celebrate the Lunar New Year, there are sales on many of the major storefronts including Steam, Ubisoft, Green Man Gaming, and more. You can score some of the biggest games of 2022, or fill out your backlog with some older titles you may have missed out on. Check out our handpicked selections for the top games you can buy this Lunar New Year from each digital storefront below.
Steam - Lunar New Year Publisher Sales
While Steam isn't running an all-encompassing Lunar New Year sale, there are a number of smaller sub-sales happening across...
Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is finally coming back to Netflix in the U.S. on February 1.
As reported by GameSpot, Netflix announced the return of all three films on Twitter (below), meaning The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King will once again be available to watch.
Somewhat oddly, this will also be the first time all three films have appeared on the streaming service at the same time. The Fellowship of the Ring was available for two brief stints in 2018 before being removed in January 2019, and its sequels appeared from September 2019 to March 2020, but none of the films have been available since.
Though what's considered by many to be the best fantasy film trilogy of all time...
Not gonna lie. I was mighty sceptical in the lead up to HBO's The Last of Us series. (Chalk it to an absolute adoration of the source material.) That said, even I am pretty damn impressed with this new TV take. At minimum, it's making me want to replay The Last of Us Part I (most likely by preordering the forthcoming PC version). I'm also keen to give Part II another crack as well. If you find yourself in the same (or similar) boat, cheap ways to achieve all that exist below...
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Factorio, a very popular factory-building sim, is joining a wave of much, much larger game franchises such as Call of Duty, Star Wars Jedi, Final Fantasy, and others in getting a price bump due to inflation. But unlike the massive AAA audiences of those other games, much of Factorio's community seems...surprisingly cool with the idea. But not all.
While companies like Ubisoft, Take-Two, Xbox, and Sony have all effectively set a new standard for game prices over the last year, Factorio is a bit of an oddball because it's a much smaller game. Its developer, Wube Software, is a much, much smaller studio than any of the other companies that have announced price increases, and Factorio itself isn't increasing from $60 to $70, it's going...
Rockstar says it's preparing a title update for Grand Theft Auto Online in response to an exploit that is effectively locking some players out of the popular multiplayer game.
First spotted late last week, the remote code execution exploit [RCE] allows cheaters to effectively corrupt accounts from afar. Players affected by the exploit will finding themselves permanently trapped in Grand Theft Auto's loading screen.
RCEs have been an ongoing concern in several multiplayer games, most notably Dark Souls, which saw its PvP servers shut down for months due to the issue. While a firewall rule can help, fans are currently being encouraged to take a break since RCE expoits can be quite dangerous, allowing hackers to do significant damage...
Infinity Ward is bringing back Call of Duty's Hardcore mode for Modern Warfare Season 02, drawing cheers but also some grumbling from a community has been calling for more multiplayer support for the popular shooter.
The news was revealed in a tweet confirming that Hardcore is back and also encouraging players to follow the studio's blog for additional updates. As the name implies, Hardcore mode is for Call of Duty players who want greater realism, removing the HUD and making bullets far deadlier. It has been a Call of Duty staple since 2007's original Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but it was absent from the launch of last year's Modern Warfare 2.
Hardcore mode is part of a long wishlist for Modern Warfare 2 players, including red...
It's not enough to just watch The Last of Us — viewers are ready to play, too. As The Last of Us makes its television debut, the first chapter in Joel and Ellie's journey are reaping the benefits with a hefty jump in UK sales on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
According to GamesIndustry.biz, the game's 2022 PS5 remake, The Last of Us Part 1, reentered the UK sales charts at the No. 20 spot after a 238% jump in sales for the week of January 21, 2023. Its PS4 predecessor, The Last of Us: Remastered, also saw a sizeable boost with a 322% sales bump that placed it at No. 32.
Perhaps the least surprising detail is that those numbers coincide with the first episode of its live-action The Last of Us series, which debuted on January 15...
WWE 2K23 is set to release for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on March 17. John Cena graces the cover of this year’s installment, which features the debut of the 3v3 and 4v4 WarGames mode. It comes in standard, deluxe, and icon editions and is now available for preorder now (see it on Amazon). Read on for details about what comes in each edition, how much it costs, and where to find it.
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In an alternate universe, Sonic the Hedgehog instead looks like a little human boy with spiky blue hair. That's according to the original Sonic character designer, Naoto Ohshima, who recently shared some concept art of what would go on to become the iconic Blue Blur as we know him.
On Twitter (via CBR), Ohshima posted two images of concept art for early versions of the original Sonic the Hedgehog game. Ohshima wrote that the concepts were for "an action game about twin brothers who protect the dream world from Nightmare World's boss 'Thirteen'.
Ultimately, this concept evolved into Sonic.
Taking a look at the images, it's easy to see how this concept eventually morphed into Sonic. The nature in the background is reminiscent of...
If your first real exposure to Ken Block was his collaboration with Codemasters for Colin McRae Dirt 2, released on PC and seventh-generation consoles way back in 2009, you may not have known what to make of him at the time. Pitched as the new face of the franchise in the early promotional materials, Block cut a drastically different figure on screen to the late Colin McRae. McRae had a famous reputation as a madman behind the wheel, but outside of a rally car the Scot always appeared calm, natural, and low-key. Perched behind a set of sunglasses indoors and flanked by Monster Energy models, Block certainly seemed like a contrasting character; a hot dog hand grenade set to blow up Codemasters’ conventions. Scotland’s South Lanarkshire...
Aloft, a "co-op floating island survival sandbox game," has been announced for PC. A demo is now available on Steam.
The publisher, Astrolabe Interactive, describes Aloft as such: "In Aloft, players must survive on islands floating around an eternal hurricane sitting at the center of their world. After building a base and calling one of these islands home, would-be adventurers can outfit their enclave with sails to travel the winds so that they may discover new territories and collect resources, technologies, and equipment upgrades. On their journey, travelers must cleanse nature of dangerous fungi that contaminate flora and corrupt wildlife in order to free and heal the ecosystem from harm. As they make progress on their expedition...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a down-on-their-luck orphan has their life turned upside-down when they get whisked away to a fantastical new world where they suddenly have magical powers, reluctantly rising to become the hero its people need to stop an evil threat. If that sounds like every fantasy book you’ve ever forgotten you read, it’s probably because Forspoken is a remarkably generic RPG – from its bland story to its lifeless open world. Thankfully its energetic combat and flashy parkour movement system do keep the relatively slim campaign decently entertaining throughout, but running through its boilerplate checklist of repetitive side tasks doesn’t hold much appeal beyond mindless trophy hunting after that.
The...
Dead Space remake's technical director has admitted that he struggles to play the game outside of daylight hours because he finds it too scary.
As reported by GamesRadar, technical director David Robillard told PLAY magazine in a recent interview that when he plays Dead Space remake at night, he can't use headphones because the game is extremely immersive and becomes too terrifying of an experience.
"When I'm playing it at night, I can't play it with headphones," he confessed. "It's just too f***ing scary. Just the amount of realism and, again, atmosphere. Not just visually, right? In the way we handle sound, ambience, effects, having systems that will try to spook you."
Dead Space has been rebuilt from the ground up in EA's...
CD Projekt Red allocated more budget to Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion than any previous DLC, meaning it cost more to make than The Witcher 3's hefty Blood and Wine expansion.
As reported by Polish outlet Parkiet (and spotted by Eurogamer), CD Projekt Red confirmed Phantom Liberty to have the "biggest budget" ever allocated to one of its DLCs.
Though this was originally interpreted to mean the "biggest ever DLC", there is an important distinction to make between budget and the size of content, and Idris Elba joining the cast will likely have led to an increase in cost.
Clarifying the difference on Reddit, community director Marcin Morton said this "is about the biggest budget when it comes to expansion packs we’ve...
Mac Walters, the lead writer on Mass Effect 2 and 3 and production director on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf who had been with BioWare for nearly two decades, has officially left the company as "with a new year comes new adventures."
Walters took to LinkedIn to share the news, and he described how these past 19 years have been a true "life-changing experience" and that the choice to leave was very tough.
"With a new year comes new adventures," Walters wrote. "As some of you already know, at the end of last year I decided to leave BioWare. These past 19 years have been a life-changing experience to say the least, and it made the choice to go very difficult. I’ve worked with so many wonderful people and had the privilege to be a part of the...
WWE 2K23 officially launches on March 17 with John Cena on the cover of all three editions.
Available on PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X and S, and PC, WWE 2K23 will celebrate Cena's 20th anniversary as a wrestling superstar by featuring him on the three covers (below).
While the Standard Edition ($59.99) arrives on March 17, the Deluxe Edition ($99.99) and Icon Edition ($119.99) of WWE 2K23 both launch early on March 14. A Cross-Gen Edition of the game will also be available for $69.99 on March 17, which comes with both previous and current generation versions.
WWE 2K23 also promises several franchise advancements. A refreshed 2K Showcase mode lets players revisit Cena's most iconic matches with commentary from the man...
Warning: contains full spoilers for episode 2 of HBO's The Last of Us.
HBO's The Last of Us is a mostly faithful adaptation of the hit PlayStation game. But just how close to its source material does it get? We've gathered images from episode 2 and put them next to stills from Naughty Dog's masterpiece to see just how similar some of it is.
For more on The Last of Us, check out our review of Episode 2 or our spoiler-free review of the entirety of season 1. You can also take a look at how The Last of Us makes its opening even more heartbreaking than the game, dig in on who the fireflies are, and then ponder whether or not The Last of Us can bring the zombie genre back to life.
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We have a warning for those who are excited to jump into the world of Forspoken on January 24 - Spoilers have unfortunately leaked onto the internet.
As it was with games like God of War: Ragnarok, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and many more, spoilers leaking near a game's release date are becoming ever more commonplace these days, so it's important to mute keywords when you can and be careful where you go on the internet so you don't accidentally stumble upon any of these leaks.
Eurogamer has noted that the opening hour has leaked online and, while bits and pieces of what those first few moments of gameplay hold have been previewed and discussed previously, developers usually hold back a few surprises or key story moments that they...
Welcome to another week that reeks of discounted gaming deals. Particularly ripe bargains include the decidedly decent Sonic Frontiers, going for 50 clams off. At that price, it's gotta (read: gonna) go fast. I'm also a big fan of a seriously reduced stash of PC-based PlayStation Studios titles. Rest assured, I'll be keeping my eye on those lunar sales for you as this week progresses...
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Alongside a number of fixes that, among other things, addresses the Maximum Security Achievement/Trophy bug, The Callisto Protocol's latest update has added New Game+.
Striking Distance Studios shared the patch notes for the v. 3.01 update on Reddit, and it will finally allow players to jump back into the horrors of The Callisto Protocol after they roll credits with all of their weapons, upgrades, and Callisto Credits.
Some of the other fixes include general performance optimizations, players no longer taking damage when vaulting over objects, voice leveling and subtitle mismatch adjustments, and much more.
The full list of changes in update v. 3.01 can be seen below;
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Users who previously completed the game will have...
Amidst rumors that 343 Industries has been taken off of lead development of the Halo franchise, the studio has taken to Twitter to state that it will continue to "develop Halo now and in the future."
343 Industries' studio head Pierre Hintze shared the message on Twitter, saying, "Halo and Master Chief are here to stay. 343 Industries will continue to develop Halo now and in the future, including epic stories, multiplayer, and more of what makes Halo great."
The news follows the mass layoffs of 10,000 people at Microsoft, which saw a number of employees at Xbox Game Studios, The Coalition, 343 Industries, and Bethesda let go. Shortly after, Halo Infinite director Joseph Staten reportedly left 343 Industries to rejoin Xbox...
Directors and Hollywood studios have been remaking films for decades. Many of those remakes are considered among the best movies of all time: The Thing, Heat, Scarface, A Fistful of Dollars, The Departed… the list goes on. Each one of these examples reexamines and recontextualizes the original story, creating a recognisable but – vitally – distinct final product. A good remake retains the core essence, but provides a new perspective on the same events. This is a pathway that video game developers seem largely hesitant to follow, and that threatens to have the industry stuck in a creative rut. Nostalgia continues to exert its iron grip on pop culture, and it's asking us to pay full price for games we’ve already played.
Among the least...
A little more than two years after its original release, Crystal Dynamics is preparing to end active development on Marvel's Avengers.
According to a blog titled "Final Update on the Future of Marvel's Avengers," support will discontinue on September 30, after which digital purchases will no longer be available. All solo content will continue to be playable after support ends, and multiplayer will also remain available.
The final balance update will be Update 2.8, which will be released March 31. Crystal Dynamics does not plan to release any new stories, features, or Heroes. Crystal Dynamics also confirmed that Spider-Man will remain a PlayStation exclusive.
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Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart said he’d like to create another Fallout game before he retires.
In an interview with Gamepressure, Urquhart was asked whether a new Fallout game would be possible under Obsidian, who developed Fallout: New Vegas. “I would love to make another Fallout before I retire. I don’t know when that is, I don’t have a date of my retirement,” Urquhart explained.
He continued, “It’s funny – you can say I’m already 52, or only 52. It’s one of those two, depending on the day. My hope is that’ll happen, but we’ll have to wait and see.”
Back in October, Urquhart said he’d like to create another Fallout game. The main question wasn’t whether Obsidian Entertainment would make one, but when will the...