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MultiVersus Delay Not Caused by WB Discovery Merger

It’s no secret that MultiVersus has seen its official launch delayed, and with recent troubles at Warner Bros. Discovery, fans were concerned about the game being a part of that wider issue. But don’t worry – the Season 1 delay is nothing to do with the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. According to game director Tony Huynh, the MultiVersus delay has absolutely nothing to do with the ongoing disruption at Warner Bros. Discovery. “For those wondering, we are unaffected by the Discovery/Warner Bros. merger. #MultiVersus,” he said via Twitter. MultiVersus was released into beta little more than a week agoan online platform fighter from Warner Bros. featuring many of the company’s hottest properties and most recognizable characters. But...

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IGN UK Podcast #656: The Build-a-Game OST Workshop

Game music is good, innit? To mark the first ever Gaming Prom this week Cardy, Joe, and Dale are here to build their ultimate game soundtracks. Expect sweeping orchestral pieces, chunky metal battle themes, and Flo Rida. All the good stuff. Want to get in touch to talk about cats? Custard? Feel free to send us an email at ign_ukfeedback@ign.com. IGN UK Podcast #656: The Build-a-Game OST Workshop IGN UK Podcast #655: Ranking Every Upcoming MCU Movie and TV Show IGN UK Podcast #654: Stray-son?! STRAY-SON! IGN UK Podcast #653: Lots of Love and a Crackle of Thunder IGN UK Podcast #652: All Things Stranger Things IGN UK Podcast #651: The RPG Build-a-Game Workshop Continue reading...

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Aussie Deals: $200 Off Logitech Wheels, Cheapest Spidey Remastered PC Price and More!

Thank your own personal deity—possibly Eywa—it's Friday! Top of today's priorities are two wheely good discounts on Logitech accessories at The Gamesmen. I reckon it's always worth supporting an OG 100% Aussie retailer. Fighting fans should also take note of the Evo Steam sale that doesn't include Streeties, but still punches well above its weight. As I always say—stay safe and save often. See you Monday. Notable Sales for Nintendo Switch Purchase Cheaply for PC Exciting Offers for XO/XS Product Savings for PS4/PS5 Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He's @grizwords and games on YouTube. Continue reading...

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Six Years After Its Announcement, Beyond Good & Evil 2 Hires Its Lead Writer

It’s been several years since Beyond Good & Evil 2 was officially announced. After a lack of news for quite some time, there’s finally a new development for the long-awaited game: they’ve hired their lead writer. In a tweet yesterday, Sarah Arellano announced that she was joining as the game’s Lead Writer. Arellano previously worked as Narrative Designer for Blizzard on World of Warcraft and at Volition, the studio responsible for Saints Row. Beyond Good & Evil 2 was officially announced in 2017 at E3. The game will serve as a prequel to the original game with promises of being able to explore alone or with friends in its massive and ambitious world. Beyond that announcement, there’s not been a lot of meaningful news since. We’ve...

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Microsoft is Testing an Xbox Game Pass Widget in Windows 11

Microsoft is testing an Xbox Game Pass widget with Windows Insiders according to a new post on the official Windows Insider blog. The widget will make it even easier to see the latest additions, what games are leaving soon, and other games from highlighted categories across Game Pass. The update test comes as part of the newest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build. It will hopefully alleviate some of the current unevenness while navigating the Xbox app. The widget will take you to the Xbox app where you’ll be able to install your favorite games on your PC and see game reviews. Windows also teased that they’re working on even more updates for the widget. Including the ability to “sign-into your Xbox profile and easily jump back into...

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GigaBash Review

Picture a game that looks left at all of the fans clamoring for a new Power Stone game, looks right at the ones who want a new War of the Monsters, and then shrugs its shoulders and says “Why not both?” That game is GigaBash. It’s a 3D arena fighter with a collection of 10 monsters and mechas inspired by classic kaijus and a focus on simple controls, environmental destructibility, and the power fantasy of being a giant monster slamming other giant monsters through skyscrapers. It’s not much more than meets the eye, but its claws are certainly sharp enough to scratch any kaiju-sized party fighter itches. GigaBash’s biggest strength is how it balances its immediately intuitive controls with just the right amount of depth underneath that...

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Where Switch, PS5 Rank Among the Best-Selling Video Game Consoles of All Time

Sony's PlayStation 2 has long reigned as the best-selling video game console of all time. Despite its massive sales success, PlayStation 4 will end its run tens of millions of units away from the top spot. And while it, too, is still a long way from the top, Switch has maintained extraordinary sales momentum, recently passing Wii and PS1 to become the fifth best-selling console of all time. With Switch and PS4 having secured their spots among the all-time best-selling consoles, we set out to discover how the rest of Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft's hardware stack up. Now halfway through 2022, we've expanded our original list of 15 to 28, making room for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, as well as hardware from former console makers...

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Hard West 2 Review

Cowboys, outlaws, ghosts, demons, werewolves. These are all good things. Combine them together and you get the Weird Western genre, which must surely be an even better thing, right? Hard West 2 makes a good case for it, standing as a tactical weird western that knows this genre has to look, feel, and sound good first and foremost — even if that means sometimes it doesn't actually play as smoothly as you'd like. Hard West 2 is more of a thematic sequel to 2015's Hard West as opposed to a literal one. It tells a new, unrelated story across its 20-30 hour campaign, with three difficulties of escalating brutality to choose from, and even completionists shouldn't really worry about playing the original before this one. The world design is...

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Apex Legends Season 14 "Hunted" Full Details on Vantage, Kings Canyon, and Weapon Changes

Apex Legends Season 14, Hunted, brings in some things old and some things new. Slated to drop August 9th next week, there’s a lot of anticipation building around the new content. The newest Legend, Vantage, is a sniper-focused character who enters the games on the newly altered Kings Canyon map. There are a lot of new changes coming to leveling, weapons, Legends, and more so here’s everything you need to know about Apex Season 14. New Legend - Vantage Season 14 introduces the youngest Legend Vantage who enters the Apex games as an 18 year old. She’s Cuban American and is a sniper-based Legend who is going to make all the sharpshooter players very happy. Passive: Spotter’s Lens Vantage can identify targets on the ground for...

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Starfield Performance Preview: What to Expect Based on What We’ve Seen So Far

Starfield is one of the most hotly anticipated games of the next few years. Coming from the team that brought us the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series, Bethesda’s space-focused RPG has built excitement since it was announced in 2018, despite very little of it being actually shown. With a 2023 release planned, the recent gameplay reveal finally gave us a look at the upcoming Xbox and PC exclusive, and a chance to understand just what the team plans to deliver. At a headline level, the game is based on an evolved version of the Creation engine. Entitled the Creation Engine 2, it has clear similarities within its rendering output to both Fallout 76 and Skyrim, which were both built on its predecessor. Fallout 4 and later games ushered in...

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Gwendoline Christie Wants to Return as Captain Phasma in Star Wars

Gwendoline Christie has expressed enthusiasm for returning to play Captain Phasma in the Star Wars universe, saying she "would absolutely love" her chrome-covered character to make a comeback. Speaking to Empire, Christie acknowledged there could be more to explore with the character outside of her live-action appearances in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, where she fell in battle against Finn. Phasma has made a couple of appearances elsewhere in the galaxy far, far away and has even had her own comic run, but that has only left Christie feeling like there may be some untapped potential there. "I haven't read the comics but, I mean, it's Star Wars! I would absolutely love that," Christie said of any future opportunities to...

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Two Point Campus Review

Two Point Campus continues in the already impressive footsteps of Two Point Hospital before it, dressing up an engaging business management sim in goofy irreverence. To be honest, its dorky, oddball sense of humor misses me more often than it hits. But that all fades into the background for the most part when I'm having a blast laying out my new library, planning out dorms, and throwing sweet parties in the student union. Most of the time you'll be juggling your budget, student happiness, and the space requirements of running a university. It's similar to Two Point Hospital in that last regard – making the best of annoying geometry to cram in an extra lecture theater or much-needed bathroom put my mental Tetris skills to the test, and...

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Life Is Strange Developers 'Can't Imagine' Going Back to an Episodic Release Model

Life is Strange: True Colors was the first game in the series to be released as a full package – sidestepping the episodic release that the franchise was built on. Now, the developers can’t imagine going back. During an interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, senior narrative designer Philip Lawrence explained why the team wanted to try something new with the Life is Strange sequel, which was still separated into distinct chapters, but released as a single package. “I can't imagine we'd go back to the episodic model,” said Lawrence. “The reaction has been very positive. I think we were careful to keep that episodic structure, because that does seem to appeal to players. That's all part of the DNA of Life is Strange. As you can imagine, it...

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Hogwarts Legacy: Character Customization and New Cutscene Footage Revealed

New footage from the Hogwarts Legacy, the prequel game set in the wizarding world of Harry Potter has been unveiled. Revealed during a tech talk at the Autodesk Vision Series, the footage shows off a new section of cutscene work, as well as a glimpse at the game’s character customization. The new cutscene footage sees two Hogwarts students secretly watching while a trio of dark wizards attack and restrain a hippogriff: The scene ends with the students splitting up, presumably to tackle the dark wizards while they’re occupied, with the player character tasked with reaching higher ground. An aerial attack, perhaps? It’s an extended version of a scene we saw during the recent State of Play back in March, which sees the player-character...

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MultiVersus Season 1 And Morty Release Date Delayed

The first season of Multiversus, the platform fighter from Warner Bros, is getting pushed back to a later date. The news comes in a Tweet from the official MultiVersus account alongside the news that the addition of the character Morty of Rick and Morty has also been delayed. The first Tweet in the thread thanks players for enjoying and playing the game before breaking the bad news about the delays. The thread ends with more appreciation for the fans and that the timing for the release will be revealed “as soon as [they] can.” Earlier today MultiVersus director Tony Huynh outlined a few details on his own Twitter account about the now delayed Season 1 Battle Pass. The news follows last week’s confirmation that the game would not see...

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Aussie Deals: Thwip it Good With a $39 Miles Morales, a 49 Buck COD Vanguard and $9 PS Hits!

While I've not skimped on the other platforms, today's the day to score an inordinate amount of PlayStation savings. We can all thank the major retailers and their escalating price-match wars for this. Truly it's the only non-Star war worth celebrating in 2022. Something else worth highlighting: that Humble Bundle with all things Walking Dead. Telltale's GOTY-winning, adventure efforts are worth the price of that admission alone. Get bit by it. Thank me later. Notable Sales for Nintendo Switch Purchase Cheaply for PC Exciting Offers for XO/XS Product Savings for PS4/PS5 Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He's @grizwords and games on YouTube. Continue reading...

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Upscaled Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Map Offers Closer Look at Paldea Region

During today's Pokemon Presents presentation, the Pokemon team revealed a full map of Paldea, the region where Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet are set. While the official map is slightly blurry, a fanmade upscaled version is now giving us a clearer look at the Paldea region. Today, IGN's own Ryan Quintal created an upscaled version of the map, revealing notable details of the region in a Twitter thread. Quintal pointed out how diverse the map is, making note of several desert regions, seaside towns, smaller, grassy towns, and mountainous cliffside locations. Find all the details of Quintal's map below: The Pokemon Company also revealed further details about Paldea on its website, stating that it's filled with "a variety of...

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Big Steam Deck 3.3 Update Brings With It a Host Of Improvements To Docked Mode And More

The Steam Deck is getting a whole host of improvements in the newest update from Valve including improvements to docked mode, system updates, and more. The updates, detailed in the patch notes, include a lot of fixes as well as some new features. When in docked mode, you’ll be able to scale the Steam Deck user interface for external displays as well as toggle for automatic scaling. In an effort to presumably save battery life, the panel backlight will now stay off when docked. For those hoping to get a peek at what's to come for the Steam Deck, the update adds a software update channel selector. This will give users three options. Stable is the recommended channel for most users and will automatically install the latest stable Steam...

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First MultiVersus Season 1 Battle Pass Details Revealed

As MultiVersus enters its second week of open beta, its first official Season is on its way. Though we're just under a week away from Season 1's launch, fans still have plenty of questions regarding the Season 1 Battle Pass. Today, MultiVersus director Tony Huynh responded to a fan's Tweet with some details about the game's Season 1 Battle Pass. According to Huynh, the pass will cost 950 Gleamium — the game's paid currency — and offer 50 tiers. 1000 Gleamium is equivalent to roughly $9.99, meaning the Season 1 Battle Pass will cost a bit less than $10. Currently, the Preseason Battle Pass is running until August 8. It's much cheaper than the Season 1 Battle Pass at only 300 Gleamium, but it only has 15 tiers of character skins...

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Bungie Employees Reportedly Doxxed, Bombarded With Racial Slurs And Death Threats

Employees at Bungie reportedly became the victims of harassment in June. The harassment would lead to the employees being doxxed and bombarded with racial slurs, phone calls, and text messages, and it reportedly began thanks to a tweet in celebration of working with a popular Destiny 2 player. The harassment started after one of Bungie's employees tweeted about their new collaboration with African-American streamer Uhmaayyze in early June for their game Destiny 2, reports The Record. This tweet would lead to doxxing and death threats toward several Bungie employees. The tweet received a reply threatening to kill employees on June 14. This was reportedly followed up with Bungie employees getting voicemails and texts on their personal...

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Dead By Daylight Announces a New Resident Evil Collaboration: Project W

Dead by Daylight is returning to Raccoon City with a new Resident Evil chapter tentatively titled Project W. Behaviour Interactive, the developers of Dead by Daylight, previously worked with Capcom to bring Jill Valentine and Leon S. Kennedy to the game. Now, a new Resident Evil collaboration will bring two new survivors to The Fog: Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers. But with new survivors means a new Killer and it’s none other than Albert Wesker or The Mastermind as he’s called in The Fog. Check out the first teaser trailer below. Ada Wong is the series’ resident super spy while Rebecca Chambers is the young S.T.A.R.S. recruit and medic. Albert Wesker is a high-ranking Umbrella officer and is armed with super strength, a rush ability...

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Dead By Daylight Studio's Next Game Has You Create Evil Levels for Other Players to Infiltrate

Dead By Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive is expanding its lineup with a new game called Meet Your Maker, a first-person building-and-raiding game where players design the levels. As announced during the Behaviour Beyond livestream, the Canadian studio announced its next game to go alongside its hit horror game Dead By Daylight. Just like the studio’s PvP horror game, Meet Your Maker revolves around an asymmetrical PvP experience where players create maze-like levels called Outposts that other players must then work to infiltrate. Check out the official reveal trailer below. Set on a dying world, players will become the Custodian, a servant to a living experiment known as the Chimera. In order for the Chimera to evolve...

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AEW: Fight Forever Reveals Its Match Types and More

Fresh details about AEW: Fight Forever have emerged, bringing news of different match types and customization options that players can expect. THQ Nordic has also been confirmed as the publisher. Match types include Single Matches, Tag-Team Games, 3-Ways, 4-Ways, Ladder Matches, Casino Battle Royale, Falls Count Anywhere, Exploding Barbed Wire Death Matches, and some good ole' fashioned unsanctioned fun with Lights-Out Matches, which will see wrestlers brawl with weapons in the ring. There's also a wide range of customization modes, giving players the option to switch up their wrestler attire and appearance while also changing their entrances, move-sets, teams, and arenas. They can choose to join the AEW roster and appear in matches...

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Gotham Knights: Revealing 28 Superhero Suits (and How They Were Made) - IGN First

Gotham Knights will include a lot of superhero suits for your characters to wear – and we have the designs for 28 of them to show you. From suits inspired by classic cartoons, to a set designed by a bona fide comic book legend, developer WB Games Montréal has drawn from DC’s rich history, but created some truly new ideas for how Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing and Red Hood could look in their take on the Batman universe. As part of this month's IGN First, we spoke to the game's creators about the unusual way they were designed, how they’ll work in game, how they can be customized, and more. First, it’s important to realize that Gotham Knights makes a distinction between suitstyles (suits that come with cosmetic and stat changes) and...

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World of Warcraft Mobile Game Reportedly Cancelled by Blizzard After Finance Dispute

A World of Warcraft mobile game has reportedly been quietly canceled due to financing disputes. According to Bloomberg, the upcoming smartphone game had been in development for three years but has now been canceled due to a dispute between Activision Blizzard and NetEase. “The two companies disagreed over terms and ultimately called a halt to the project, which had been kept under wraps,” said a source close to the deal. The project, referred to as “Neptune” by those working on it, was said to be a Warcraft spin-off, set during a different period to World of Warcraft. It’s unknown whether it would have directly tied into either Warcraft, Warcraft II, or Warcraft III. The good news is that it’s not Warcraft Arclight Rumble – the...

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Images Leaked By... the LA Rams

Images of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer mode have been leaked through a very unlikely source – the LA Rams football team. LA Rams player Cameron Dicker revealed a glimpse of the upcoming Call of Duty game’s lobby screen, which he appeared to be playing at an event. “Having fun on the new @callofduty” he revealed in a now-deleted Instagram post (via Charlie Intel). It’s thought that the high-profile event gave LA Rams players a sneak preview of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer. But Dicker also included a screenshot with his post, and several other images from the event give us an insight into what to expect from the upcoming CoD sequel. Although other players also posted images on social media, it seems...

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EA Says Single Player Games Are a 'Really, Really Important' Part Of Its Portfolio After Controversy

It looks as though EA is still trying to make amends for that joke about single-player games, with CEO Andrew Wilson calling them "really, really important." During a recent earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson reassured investors that single-player games are still a major part of the company's output… despite what it may say on Twitter. “As we think about single-player games, we think it's a really, really important part of the overall portfolio that we deliver in fulfillment of those core motivations.” EA recently came under fire after making a controversial tweet that mocked single-player games. The tweet itself was a poorly-executed response to a recent meme, but soon had gamers and industry figureheads alike wondering why EA...

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Aussie Deals: $64 Horizon FW and GT7, 29 Buck Dying Light 2, 61% off Nioh Col. and More!

As a deals writer, this is one my favourite kind of days. It's a situation where I literally have no time or space to construct a semi-amusing introduction, because there are too many deals afoot. Better yet—or worse, if you're not quick on your clicks—these deals are so good they might not be around for long. Honestly, my apologies if you click something and it's gone. Did my best. Notable Sales for Nintendo Switch Purchase Cheaply for PC Exciting Offers for XO/XS Product Savings for PS4/PS5 Legit Discounts for LEGO Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He's @grizwords and games on YouTube. Continue reading...

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Xbox Is Making Great Moves for Team Chat, Less so for Summer Events – Unlocked 555

With an official Discord chat integration on the way, the Podcast Unlocked crew discusses other features they'd like to see get an update or overhaul along with Xbox's Summer Spotlight program that's been a little underwhelming, though it did introduce the team to a particularly cool giraffe. Plus, the team discusses some awesome community creations for Halo Infinite and The Simpsons: Hit and Run. PT in Halo Infinite Forge Testflight The Simpsons: Hit and Run Fan Remaster Mod Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, to our YouTube channel, or grab an MP3 download of this week's episode. For more awesome content, check out our recent interview with Harvey Smith, who answered all of our Redfall questions after the gameplay...

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EA CEO Responds To Acquisition Rumors: 'We Couldn't Be in a Stronger Position As a Standalone Company'

With the finalization of Activision-Blizzard's acquisition by Microsoft imminent, EA is on the cusp of taking its place as the largest major standalone developer and publisher in the industry. Which of course has sparked plenty of questions about whether or not EA itself might one day be acquired. One of those rumors cropped up last May in a Puck report that revealed EA had been approached by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts about a potential acquisition — but it fell apart due to disagreements over price and structure. Though EA has repeatedly declined to comment on "rumors and speculation," CEO Andrew Wilson did answer a question on the subject of acquisitions during today's Q1 earnings call, reiterating that he didn't think the publisher...

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