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Skull and Bones, Ubisoft's repeatedly-delayed multiplayer pirate game, finally has a release date. Again. After being delayed six times.The release date is now set for February 13, 2024 for Ubisoft+ subscribers and February 16 for everyone else. We also learned that a new closed beta will take place between December 15 and December 18. The game is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC.Skull and Bones has had a fraught development to say the least. It was first revealed at E3 2017, and at the time was planned to release on the last generation of consoles in fall of 2018. Then, in 2018, it got delayed to "2019-20"... and then never came out. Later, reports suggested that it had been quietly rebooted, before being delayed again...

The next game from EA Originals, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, got a gorgeous first look at today's Game Awards, along with a release date: April 23, 2024.It'll be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.The magical-looking side-scroller hails from Sergent Studios, and founder and CEO Abubakar Salim took The Game Awards stage to introduce the new game, alluding that it'll tackle the grieving process. In an emotional speech, Salim opened up about his father, who got him into video games."He passed away awhile back and I'll tell you what, I'm still figuring it out," Salim, who also voices Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins, said. "But four years ago, I decided to try and process my grief in a way that felt...

Today at The Game Awards, Black Myth Wukong developer Game Science showed off a new trailer for their epic fantasy adventure based on Journey to the West, including a new release date. But despite its unveiling of a bombastic new trailer, the studio is maintaining its silence on numerous allegations of sexist behavior from the studio's members over the last decade.There's a lot to be impressed by in the trailer itself, which shows off numerous new characters, enemies, and areas. The creatures Game Science has designed are stunning and strange, and the visuals - apparently a mix of gameplay and in-game cinematics - are impressive to behold. We're also introduced to some of Black Myth's main themes, with the trailer backed by...

In an unexpected twist, Sega announced that it has new games from the Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and Crazy Taxi franchises currently in development.While no release dates were given, the fact that these franchises are getting new games is huge news! Especially for Jet Set Radio fans, who have wished for years that Sega would release a follow-up game as the most recent release was Jet Set Radio Future which was released in 2002 for the original Xbox.The announcement comes as a surprise, though Sega has been open about working on reboots for some of its franchises in the past. In 2021, during a financial results presentation, the company unveiled a list of IPs in its vault that it was looking to bring back...

Did anyone have "brand new Mana game from Square Enix" on their Game Awards bingo card? Not me. But Square Enix showed up at The Game Awards with just that. It's called Visions of Mana, it's planned for release in 2024 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam, and it looks gorgeous.We're still dissecting the trailer to tease out just what Visions of Mana has in store for us. It's been 15 years since the last brand new, mainline Mana game - that would have been Heroes of Mana, way back in 2007. Since then, we've only had a variety of ports and remakes...well, okay, and a spinoff mobile game last year called Echoes of Mana. But needless to say, this is a pretty big announcement for Square to make.To catch up on everything...

We already knew that Behaviour Interactive was teaming up to make a narrative-driven game in collaboration with Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games. And today, the studio behind Dead by Daylight has announced The Casting of Frank Stone: a new story-based game set in the Dead by Daylight universe.The Casting of Frank Stone is a new narrative-driven game set in the Dead by Daylight universe. According to Behaviour Interactive, The Casting of Frank Stone will focus on a group of friends as they investigate a steel mill and unravel a gruesome mystery.The pairing is interesting as both Behaviour and Supermassive have established themselves as well-known horror game developers in the industry, each with unique strengths —...

Moon Studios, the developer behind Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, just unveiled its next project at The Game Awards. It's called No Rest for the Wicked, and it represents the studio's first foray into the Diablo genre of isometric ARPGs.No Rest for the Wicked, based on what we've seen so far, is quite the far cry from the Ori games while still being recognizable as a Moon Studios game. It takes place in a gorgeous, painting-like world with significant verticality and scale, hidden treasures, monsters to fight, and plenty of quests. It also features intense action combat necessitating practice, skill, and timing - not button-mashing, per the press release.The game takes place in the year 841 in the...

Honk! Or should we say...walk? The developers of Untitled Goose Game, the goofy puzzler about terrorizing a small English town as a horrible goose, are back. And this time, they're making an equally quaint and silly game about taking a big walk. It's called, literally, Big Walk. And it's planned for release in 2025.Big Walk is a cooperative online multiplayer game where players can connect with their friends to go on a walk together through the Australian bushland, particularly inspired by Wilsons Promontory National Park. On that walk, they'll explore, solve puzzles, and be tested as a group on their ability to communicate. To help facilitate this, Big Walk includes a proximity voice chat system.It's also apparently just a vibes...

In a thoroughly surprising announcement, World of Goo 2 is coming sometime next year, it was announced during Thursday's The Game Awards.The news comes 15 years after the original was released, so it's a bit of a shock, but not an entirely unwelcome one. The sequel hails from 2D Boy and Tomorrow Corporation, the same indie developer and publisher behind the first game.The sequel got a quick reveal trailer as well as a 2024 release year, but no release date beyond that.World of Goo 2 also launched a website with the announcement, although it didn't give us too much more information other than it's "the biggest game we've ever made." That's a lot of goo.The first game hit the Nintendo Wii and Windows in 2008, with the...

Thumper artist and composer Brian Gibson announced Thrasher, another colorful audiovisual experience, for PC and consoles at The Game Awards 2023.It’s a project that, judging by its first trailer, seems to comfortably fall in line with the developer’s past work. Details about the game are light, but developer Puddle and publisher Creature did share a bit more about what fans can expect:“From the artist & composer behind the cult hit THUMPER comes THRASHER, a mind-melting cosmic racer and essential audiovisual experience. Use fast paced gestural controls to evolve your space eel from worm to megabeast in a breakneck race for survival that begins at the dawn of time.”No specific release date was revealed and the team did not...

During The Game Awards today, two of 2023's indie darlings announced some sort of collaboration. We're getting some sort of crossover between Dave the Diver and Dredge on December 15. But what that collaboration is, which game it is actually taking place in, or anything else was a mystery in the moment.Fortunately, a press release following the news helped clear things up. Dave the Diver is getting a free update that will bring the creepy creatures of Dredge onto its menu. It will introduce a new "fog" weather event that will contain the Dredge content, the ability to drive Dave's boat around like you do in Dredge, a new night map, the ability to catch aberrations, a new weapon, and new "Hooded Figures" who will want to eat dishes...

Motion Twin, the indie developer behind the critically acclaimed roguelike 2D game Dead Cells, has announced its next project, Windblown, at the 2023 Game Awards.Alongside unveiling its next project, Motion Twin also shared the first trailer, which delivers fast-paced action, an eye-catching transition from an anime-esque cutscene that cuts to 3D gameplay, and an emphasis on co-op play."We were craving a lightning-fast combat roguelite, but it simply didn't exist," the Motion Twin team explained in a press release. "So, we rolled up our sleeves and crafted the game we yearned for; one that lets us dive into the action on our own, and with friends, whenever the mood (or too much pain) strikes!"According to Motion Twin, Windblown...

Daniel Mullins, the indie developer beyond the 2016 meta hit Pony Island and 2021's 2021 roguelike deck-builder Inscryption, has a new game coming - and it's a sequel.Pony Island 2: Panda Circus was announced at Thursday's The Game Awards with a quick trailer, replicating the crude arcade-like style of its predecessor. We didn't get a release date or window, but it's still a good look at the thoroughly spooky-looking sequel."This is not a drill," Mullins wrote on X/Twitter along with the announcement trailer. "This is not a game about ponies."Inscryption was a critical hit when it was released a couple of years ago, with fans praising its satisfying deck-building and horror-inspired vibes. As IGN's Tom Marks wrote in his 9/10...

The Game Awards 2023 is underway right now, and we’re expecting a night full of video game recognition and, of course, reveals. Geoff Keighley’s annual December show has been home to some big game announcements, and we’re expecting no different tonight.This year, we should get some news regarding Baldur’s Gate 3’s Xbox release date, an update on Metaphor: ReFantazio, and a potential “major announcement” from Xbox. And, there are sure to be plenty of surprises in store. So keep refreshing this page throughout the night to get updates on everything announced at The Game Awards 2023 as it happens live.If you want to tune in for yourself, make sure to check out our article on how to watch The Game Awards 2023 and what to expect. Read...

The Game Awards 2023 has begun and it is set to once again honor the best games and developers of the past year. From The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to Baldur's Gate 3 to Alan Wake 2 and so many more, there were some truly remarkable games this year.This article will gather all the winners of the night to ensure you don't miss a thing, so keep checking back and be sure to let us know who you thought should win!Game of the YearRecognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.Alan Wake 2 Baldur's Gate 3 Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Resident Evil 4 Remake Super Mario Bros. Wonder The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomBest Game DirectionAwarded for outstanding...

The Game Awards' favorite personality, Josef Fares, was back again this year to announce a new project. Well, sort of. In spirit, in the pre-show. Because it's not a brand new game, as many may have expected. Rather, it's a remake of Fares' very first directed project that kicked off his notoriety for emotionally impactful, cooperative play. Yup, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is getting a remake.If you're unfamiliar with Brothers, it's a pretty incredible indie darling from 2013 that follows an older and younger brother on a journey to obtain medicine for their ailing father. While Fares' other games, A Way Out and It Takes Two focus on cooperative play between two people, the original Brothers was a single-player game where one...

To say The Anacrusis is similar to Left 4 Dead would be a severe understatement. From hordes of mindless monsters, to deadly enemies that spawn regularly and use their special powers to put the party in a jam, to safe rooms that separate each act of an episode, this four-player co-op FPS sticks so close to its inspiration it could almost qualify as a spinoff. Unfortunately, that nostalgic mimicry allows for little in the way of interesting new ideas or even expected modernizations that might have made it more fun, resulting in a flavorless distraction that feels like it could have come out in 2008. Combat is bland and one-note, the graphics are well below the standards of today, and enemy variety is almost nonexistent. The only thing...

It’s good news and bad news for Assassin’s Creed Mirage. First, the bad news: the permadeath mode Ubisoft had said would come out in December is delayed to early 2024.Now, the good news: Mirage’s New Game Plus mode comes out next week, Ubisoft announced in a post on X/Twitter.Assassin's Creed Mirage came out in October and, soon after, Ubisoft revealed its launch was "in line" with that of previous entries in the series, Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey.IGN’s Assassin's Creed Mirage review returned an 8/10. We said its "return to the stealthy style that launched this series doesn’t do everything right, but everything it does feels like it was done with purpose."New Game Plus for Assassin’s Creed Mirage lets you dive back...

After trademark disputes, multiple delays, and everything in between, FNTASTIC has finally released The Day Before on Steam in early access. But it is not off to the best start right now with many players complaining, citing server and performance issues as among the biggest problems.At time of writing, The Day Before's Steam page has been flooded with negative reviews from users. Many criticize that despite being labeled an open-world game or an MMO, in reality, it is an extraction shooter, as some players have pointed out.One reviewer posted about how their character was randomly falling through the map as soon as the opening cutscene ended. My colleague Mark Medina actually suffered the same thing himself, and he was kind enough...

After launching nearly three months ago in early access, Skybound Games and Other Ocean Interactive announced that they're stopping the development of The Walking Dead: Betrayal, with the project set to be removed from Steam early next week.In a new blog post, Skybound Games revealed that The Walking Dead: Betrayal will be delisted on Steam on December 1. By December 15, the game will be shut down completely. Those who purchased the game will be able to receive a full refund with updates confirmed to be published on both Steam and the official TWD: Betrayal Discord server."Despite the hard work put into the game, we were not able to find a path to build the spirited community of backstabbers we originally envisioned," Skybound...

We only have a few hours left until The Game Awards, and everyone seems pretty excited. Some games will get some awards, we'll see some new trailers and announcements, great. Now, just for funsies, let's check in and see how the Elden Ring community is doing-...oh dear!The Elden Ring community is, uh, real fired up right now! They seem to be trying to manifest an Elden Ring DLC trailer or release date, and the fervor for it is reaching one heck of a fever pitch. It's like this on X/Twitter:But the Elden Ring subreddit has a couple wild threads going too, like the person promising to beat Elden Ring with "whatever awful build the top comment suggests" or this person, who is uh...significantly more threatening (and a bit...

A new trailer for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has seemingly leaked, revealing a playable demo that will drop on January 11, one week before the Metroidvania comes to PC, Amazon Luna, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S on January 18, 2024.The trailer, uploaded by PlayStation Brazil, is no longer accessible, very much suggesting that it may have been uploaded by accident. It seems likely that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was set to drop tonight as part of this year’s Game Awards, or at the least, sometime in the next few weeks. Of course, some keen-eyed fans, including X/Twitter user @BossBigBoss73, were quick to capture the video and reupload it.Today’s footage focuses on the...

LEGO Fortnite is out now and it’s a brand new survival crafting game built in the world of Fortnite in LEGO style. Everything in the game is procedurally generated for each world you create and it’s even built in Unreal Engine 5 using Chaos physics and destruction to break LEGO bricks apart just like in real life.This play experience is a new long term partnership between Epic Games and the LEGO Group that is speciailzing in a new open world game to let players of all ages build their own worlds with LEGO bricks digitally.Niels B Christiansen, CEO of The LEGO Group, said, "Our partnership with Epic Games isfocused on developing digital play experiences that are designed to be fun and safe, and havethe potential to bridge the...

There have been a few decent Xbox deals since the Black Friday sales ended, including the Xbox Series X for just $349, Assassin's Creed Mirage for $35, and even more remarkably Dead Space (2023) for just $8. As we approach the end of the year, there are still even more impressive offers to sink our teeth into elsewhere. For instance, Amazon currently has 10% off select Xbox Gift Cards for a limited time. This lines up perfectly with the latest Xbox Digital Sale, with games like Resident Evil 4 down to just $29.99 -- and even more additional savings on offer thanks to this latest gift card discount.Now while these 'gift cards' do make wonderful gifts for the Xbox fan in your life, nothing is stopping you from simply applying the...

The Alone in the Dark reboot is delayed from January 16 to March 20, 2024, publisher THQ Nordic has announced, citing the well-being of its developer.In a statement, THQ Nordic said hitting the planned January release date would have put developer Pieces Interactive under immense stress during the holiday period.“The year is coming to an end, and the Christmas holidays are upon us,” the publisher said. “However, until today, it didn't seem that way for Pieces Interactive, the team developing our upcoming survival-horror game, Alone in the Dark. With our initially planned release date in January 2024, the Christmas season would have been filled with stress and anything but a jolly time for them.“Therefore, THQ Nordic and Pieces...

IGN Roundtable is a brand new initiative we're starting that brings together the best and brightest in the worlds gaming, film, TV, and pop culture to talk about what’s really on their minds. From the state of the industry to inspirations, you never know what’s going to happen at these one-of-a-kind chats between legends.To kick things off, we're proud to announce our first IGN Roundtable will take place on December 7, right before The Game Awards, and will feature devs from Alan Wake 2 and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 talking about some of the greatest stories to ever hit the digital screen and whatever else they want to speak to each other about.Instead of having a host, these devs will have the chance to have a conversation with each...

Grand Theft Auto 6 has finally been revealed and looks set to feature dual protagonists, Lucia and Jason, but Cyberpunk 2077 fans think the latter looks rather familiar.Like the rest of the internet, Cyberpunk 2077 players were talking about the GTA 6 trailer (which was due to premiere on December 5 but was posted on December 4 following a leak) online, with several players flagging that Jason looks a lot like the male V."I can't wait for the scene in GTA 6 when Jason will leave Lucia, change his name to Vincent, and go to Night City," said Argeras on X/Twitter, shared on Reddit. They added a still of Jason from the GTA 6 trailer alongside the original Cyberpunk 2077 cover art featuring male V, with many users in the comments...

Here’s a blast from the past: PSone game Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace looks set to hit PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 via the PlayStation Plus Classics catalog.Gematsu spotted a rating for the 1999 adventure in Taiwan, which includes a launch on PS4 and PS5.A number of old Disney games have hit the PS Plus Classics lineup in recent months, including PSP game Up. Last month, IGN reported on the Taiwan ratings board listing Disney/Pixar Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (PS1), Thrillville: Off the Rails (PSP), and Thrillville (PSP) all for PS4 and PS5. Now we can add Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace to the list.Sony has yet to announce the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for December, but it won’t be far off...

Six years after it came out, Kingdom Come: Deliverance launches on Nintendo Switch early 2024, publisher Plaion has announced.The Switch version is ported by Sabre Interactive in collaboration with original developer Warhorse Studios, and is dubbed the The Royal Edition. Expect a physical release as well as a digital launch on the Nintendo eShop.The Royal Edition includes the base game as well as all the DLCs: Treasures of the Past, From the Ashes, The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon, Band of Bastard, and A Woman's Lot.IGN’s Kingdom Come: Deliverance review returned an 8/10. We said: “Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an RPG that does the medieval era right with a refreshingly small-scale story and strong realistic combat.”...

The highly anticipated LEGO Fortnite has received its first gameplay trailer alongside its launch today, December 7.The trailer, below, reveals how the brick-building gameplay blends with Fortnite's battle royale. The trailer didn't show any player versus player action though, instead focusing on the building, survival, and cooperative elements.The mode appears to be exactly what it says on the tin: Fortnite gameplay in a LEGO style. LEGO minifigure skins explore the Fortnite map, destroying trees and boulders to gain resources to then build as normal, except in the style of LEGO bricks.Building takes on a more permanent role in the mode, however, with various intricate and extravagant models being shown off in the trailer...