A day after delaying Skull and Bones for the sixth time, Ubisoft has provided a small update on the upcoming pirate game.
On Twitter, the Skull and Bones account shared some more information about the delay, and revealed that fans can expect to see new gameplay this week. The message read in part, "This extra time will help us in providing further polish and balancing to our game experience, following your feedback from previous tests."
While the team takes some extra time to polish the game, Skull and Bones will start sharing new and exclusive gameplay on its social channels. Tomorrow, we'll get a look at "new and exclusive gameplay footage focused on our game's lore." Previous Skull and Bones showcases have given us looks at how...
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The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has announced its nominees for the 26th D.I.C.E. Awards, with Santa Monica Studios’ God of War: Ragnarok leading the pack with 12 nominations.
The annual video game award recognizes the best games of the year as chosen by the members of the AIAS, and the winners are chosen at an annual awards show hosted in Las Vegas. This year's event will be hosted on February 23 on IGN.
This year’s awards will be co-hosted by Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller and IGN’s own Stella Chung, with IGN as the official media partner of the event. Check below for the full list of game of the year nominees which alongside God of War include Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray, and Vampire Survivors...
“Occasionally boggles my mind and martian postcards me that 90% of the games that are the critical and popular mainstays of our medium revolve around remote controlling a little toy person about like a human scalextric.”
That’s a tweet from Sam Barlow, founder of Half Mermaid and director of Immortality, posted in late November of last year just a few weeks after The Game Awards nominees were announced. Immortality itself was up for recognition in three categories: best game direction, best performance (Manon Gage as Marissa Marcel) and best narrative. While it deserved nominations for all three, Immortality is a curious contender: even a glance at its fellow nominees in any of the three categories immediately threw into sharp relief...
Despite key credits on franchises like Silent Hill, Serious Sam, and Legacy of Kain, for the last decade Sam Barlow has been mostly known as that guy that makes the “FMV games.”
Barlow went indie in 2014 and published Her Story the following year before forming studio Half Mermaid and releasing Telling Lies and 2022’s Immortality. With all three, Barlow took a very different approach to video game storytelling — filming scenes with real actors and playing with variations on central mechanics that have the audience searching for information through hours upon hours of footage.
For this, Barlow and Half Mermaid have received numerous awards and accolades, with Immortality nominated three times at The Game Awards for best performance...
Microsoft confirmed a Developer Direct event for January 25 that will showcase Redfall, Forza Motorsport, Minecraft Legends, and Elder Scrolls Online with a separate standalone event for Starfield coming at a later date. This will be a deep dive into the games with much less presentation and more gameplay according to the team at Xbox. As the titles listed are promised for the first half of 2023 we can't wait to see more. Plus, the Unlocked crew discusses the big Ubisoft news and some energy-saving options coming to Xbox consoles.
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For a limited time, Amazon is offering the excellent Wingspan board game for only $38.81. That's a substantial 40% off the original retail price of $65. If you missed the deal on Black Friday, this is another chance for you to pick up a highly rated and very accessible board game for a deal-worthy price.
Wingspan Board Game for $38.81
Wingspan from Stonemeier Games is an incredibly good board game. So good in fact that we deemed it the best board game of 2019. Wingspan looks like a deceptively simple game; the endgame goal is to attract as many birds as you can to your wildlife preserve and help them proliferate. There are only four actions you can perform: draw a bird card, play a bird card, get food, and lay eggs. Sounds simple...
Valve has given a warning to consumers to only buy Steam Deck handhelds from Valve themselves or through other official retailers and websites.
"Hello, and happy new year! A quick note that the only official ways to purchase Steam Deck are directly from Steam (in the US, CA, EU, and UK), or from Komodo (JP, KR, TW, and HK),” Valve explained on Twitter. “Steam Decks sold via any other websites or retailers are unofficial - please be careful.”
While Valve is being well-intentioned here, Twitter users in the replies have rightfully pointed out that Steam Deck handhelds are not officially available to purchase from Valve in certain territories. Places like Australia and Latin America are notably absent from the official list.
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Months after its console and PC release, beat 'em up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is the latest game to head to mobile for Netflix subscribers.
Yesterday, Netflix announced the game's arrival on mobile with a trailer. According to Netflix's in-app description, the mobile port still features controller support and online multiplayer gameplay.
Inspired by arcade beat 'em ups of the '90s (and including quite a few improvements to their combat systems), TMNT: Shredder's Revenge sees the classic Turtles, along with a few newly playable characters, taking on new foes through a campaign mode and an arcade mode.
IGN gave TMNT: Shredder's Revenge an 8 in our review, praising its "fun combat, a charming and nostalgic...
Simon Pegg has joined the wizarding world of Harry Potter, voicing the infamously cantankerous Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black in Hogwarts Legacy.
Pegg describes his character, the great-great-grandfather of Sirius Black, as the "least popular" Headmaster in the history of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. According to Pegg, he's there to "scupper the efforts of the player," though he would much rather tend to his surgically manicured beard than carry out any actual school duties.
"We saw Phineas in the books and in the films. He was a portrait in Dumbledore's office, but this is at a time when he was actually actively the headmaster," Pegg notes in the announcement video, taking us behind the scenes of Hogwarts Legacy...
Ubisoft has announced that it has, for the sixth time, delayed Skull & Bones, as well as canceled three more unannounced games amid "major challenges" in the industry, the underperformance of Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and Just Dance 2023, and an upcoming "restructuring."
In a press release today, Ubisoft outlined a new strategy for the remainder of its fiscal year, as well as lowered expectations for the last fiscal quarter. Ubisoft explains the move as a result of the company "facing major challenges as the industry continues to shift towards mega-brands and long-lasting titles than [sic] can reach players across the globe, across platforms and business models."
While Ubisoft notes its goal has been to build large...
An Xbox and Bethesda Developer Direct games showcase will take place on January 25, featuring new details on Redfall, Forza Motorsport, and more.
Announced on Xbox Wire, the event will start at 12pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern / 8pm UK (so 6am AEST on January 26). A Starfield standalone show is also in the works, meaning it won't feature at the Developer Direct, but Xbox and Bethesda still have plenty to show off for what's looking to be a busy 2023.
The showcase will give an "inside look at some of the games coming to Xbox, PC, and Game Pass in the coming months" presented directly from the developers.
Four games have been confirmed to star so far, with The Elder Scrolls Online and Minecraft Legends joining Forza Motorsport and Redfall...
It's a slightly quieter start to January for Xbox Game Pass, with only six more games confirmed to be hitting the service so far this month. We already knew about all six of these, including the three Xbox has chosen to highlight in their first Xbox Wire Game Pass blogpost of the year. But, there are normally several other Game Pass announcements across every month, so we could still hear about even more games to come in January.
For now, the most recent announcement has reaffirmed Game Pass will be getting Persona 3 Portable (January 19), Persona 4 Golden (January 19), and Monster Hunter Rise (January 20) on console, PC, and cloud gaming. These are two iconic Japanese franchises, and despite the limited selection for January, all...
As you may have heard already, Steam Decks have been popping up in Australian retailers. Finally. Kogan seems to be the best option at present for this expensive item, so be sure to start your snooping there. If you are going to make that plunge, be sure to circle back on our daily deals pages. I'm all about dirt cheap Steam gems from yesteryear. Not to mention sizeable discounts on the latest AAAs for your new Deck.
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Tough boss fights are the highlight of any Team Ninja action game, and it looks like Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty will be no different. For today’s IGN First, here’s an exclusive first look at one of the game’s earlier bosses, Aoye. Aoye is a fictional creature that appears in the ancient Chinese text Shan Hai Jing, also known as Classic of Mountains and Seas. It is described as a bull-like being with long hair reminiscent of a straw rain-cape.
In Wo Long, Aoye appears as a giant monster that attacks with its long hair and creepy tentacles. While it often lays itself open to attack, each of Aoye’s strikes are heavy and can be fatal. Aoye also has an attack that spreads ice throughout the battle area, which makes it necessary for the player...
An estimated 20 developers who worked on The Callisto Protocol were reportedly left out of the game’s credits by Striking Distance Studios.
According to GI.biz article, the individuals omitted from the end game credits included senior developers, directors, team leads, and a number of employees who worked on the project for over a year and contributed heavily to the game.
"I understand if a contractor does a small amount of work for a few months and is left off, but we're talking full-time employees with over a year invested in the title, and had a hand in significant parts of the product," said one unnamed developer. "That's where the surprise has come from for a lot of us."
Sources also aired grievances related to the general...
Several developers from Xbox's Forza Horizon developer Playground Games have left the company to form a new studio, Maverick Games.
As reported by Eurogamer, former Forza Horizon 5 creative director Mike Brown will lead the new studio and is joined by five other former Playground employees. The development team is at work on a "premium open world game for consoles and PC" and has already secured "significant seed funding".
The other developers making the jump to Maverick Games include Playground's lead producer Tom Butcher, technical director Matt Craven, technical art director Gareth Harwood, audio director Fraser Stachan, and art director Ben Penrose.
"For players, we're already at work on an exciting ultra-high quality title...
It’s telling that in the nearly decade and a half since the release of Burnout Paradise back in 2008 that both video game developers and perhaps their audiences have seemingly forgotten what a truly great arcade racer should look or feel like. With its deft blending of iconic, smashmouth Burnout thrills and deceptively intelligent open […]
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Welcome to our Genshin Impact beginner’s guide. Here we’re going to give you a few tips on what you should and shouldn’t do if you want to get the most out of Genshin Impact. Now, it’s important to note that this is all just advice, because Genshin Impact isn’t all that hard really, so you […]
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Destiny 2 is a game of two halves. You’ve got a brilliant universe dripping with story, filled with some of the most exciting and innovative FPS multiplayer action you’ll ever see in a video game. On the other side you’ve got a game that can seem utterly impenetrable especially to newcomers and lapsed players. This […]
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It can be sometimes easy to forget that shooters weren’t always the sort of bloated budget, cinematic driven and linear offerings that they largely are now. Eschewing such recent genre conceits as regenerating health and sticking to cover like an OCD afflicted barnacle, there has thankfully been a movement of sorts to get ‘boomer’ shooters […]
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The best Steam Deck games for 2023 are the ones that are either perfectly suited to gaming on the go, or the ones that naturally break themselves down into short chunks. The Steam Deck is undoubtedly one of the coolest new consoles around, and the ability to take your undoubtedly bloated backlog with you to […]
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What are the best horror games in 2023? We’re not talking about the best horror games that have come out this year, but the best ones to date. With gaming having a 1,000-year history, it can be hard to know what games are currently standing atop the mountain of contenders and shouting “Yo, I’m the […]
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Genshin Impact is a surprisingly in-depth action game and one that doesn’t do a particularly good job of explaining some really important systems within it. If you’re just getting started in Genshin Impact, you might be wondering what on Teyvat roles are, and how they impact trying to build a team in the game. It […]
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If you’re just diving into the world of Teyvat in Genshin Impact, then you’re probably just enjoying being able to climb on things and glide around. At some point though, you’ll need to start thinking about how to build a team in Genshin Impact, and it’s not something that the game does a great job […]
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The holidays are a time for food, drink, cheer, meeting up with folks and then soundly beating them into a festive paste at your favourite game. So with that in mind and in the spirit of festive, yet competitive, holiday cheer, here are the best local co-op games and best split screen games that you […]
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If you're the type who's always up to buckle some swash, there's a fair chance you'll like the cut of One Piece Odyssey's jib. It'll soon be ready to board for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X and S, and PC when it releases on January 13th. Played in a turn-based JRPG fashion, this all new adventure has you slipping into the straw sandals of Monkey D. Luffy and The Straw Hat Pirates as they (ship)wreck the hostile inhabitants of Waford island.
Speaking personally, I quite enjoyed the extensive hands-on preview I had in the opening hours of Odyssey. What impressed me most was an authentic plot penned by Eiichiro Oda, textbook One Piece oddness and a battle system that's approachable, cleverly layered and viscerally animated. Excuse the pirate...
Uncharted and The Last of Us are known for their cinematic storytelling, but Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann is becoming increasingly fascinated with more subtle worldbuilding. Speaking to The Washington Post, Druckmann said he's inspired by FromSoftware's minimalist storytelling in last year's Elden Ring.
"I'm more recently intrigued by stuff like Elden Ring and Inside that doesn't rely as much on traditional narrative to tell its story," Druckmann said. "Some of the best storytelling in The Last of Us is in the cinematics, but a lot of it is in gameplay, and moving around the space, and understanding the history of a space by just looking at it and examining it. To me, right now, that's some of the best joy I get out of games that...
Unlike some of its peers, The Forest – the survival horror from Canadian-based studio Endnight games – delivered on not just the popular gather-and-craft survival game format, but also added a surprisingly complex (and equally bananas) story featuring cannibals and mutants. With the immediate arrival of its long-awaited sequel, Sons of the Forest, comes not only the pressure to top the beloved experience of the original, but also to add some new and increasingly wild surprises. And, based on the five hours I’ve played so far, I’m not only excited about the sequel’s potential, but also confident that Endnight could revolutionise the survival genre.
The Forest began with a simple premise; you crash-landed on a mysterious peninsula and...
This is your last chance to use the NEW15 code on at eBay, as the promo code will expire at 23:59 GMT on January 9 (tonight). So, before it expires, make sure you check it out and have a full browse of everything on offer. My favourites from this deal are definitely the preorder discounts for Hogwarts Legacy and Dead Space, with a particular highlight being the Deluxe Edition of the new wizarding world game coming down to just £59.46. There's plenty more to check out as well, so see everything else included in today's Daily Deals just below, and make sure you're following @IGNUKDeals on Twitter for even more UK deal updates.
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Last Chance: Preorder Hogwarts Legacy on PS5 and Xbox for Just £49...
It's somehow the fourth week of the school holidays already. Time's running out to cram your brain with the educational experiences that truly matter—video games. As per usual, I've scoured the online and brick and mortar stores to find the best prices on any and all titles worth owning. Grab something cheap for a 'today play' or place a bet on the unknown quantity of a 2023 preorder.
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