NetEase Games has pulled from decades of comic book history to pack Marvel Rivals with 48 playable heroes – but will it ever slow down?
We caught up with creative director Guangyun “GuangGuang” Chen and executive producer Danny Koo to learn more about the trajectory of their ongoing superhero hero shooter at GDC. While opening up about how NetEase plans to maintain its one-hero-per-month live-service strategy, the pair touched on whether players could soon see an original character created just for Marvel Rivals.
The short answer? Probably not, or at least not anytime soon.
“We have so many right now,” Koo said. “It's not the time.”
Koo reiterated previous confirmation that the studio has permission to create original characters...
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Maybe I'm just making incorrect assumptions here, but in my head, only a very, very small number of people at this time know what's going to happen in Avengers: Doomsday. The film, planned to hit theaters on December 18 of this year, is expected to be a dramatic conclusion to Phase Six of the MCU and features just about every Marvel hero we've seen in the MCU so far that isn't dead (and seemingly at least one who we thought was? Maybe?). Naturally, then, everyone is wildly speculating about what's going to happen in Doomsday, but the only people that know are those working very, very closely on the film itself...
...and also, to an extent, the Marvel Rivals developers.
Speaking to IGN at the Game Developers Conference, the Marvel...
Square Enix, Innovation Arts & Entertainment, and AWR Music Productions just announced they’re partnering for “NieR:Orchestra Concert 12026 [ YoRHa ],” a concert tour that’s coming to the United States in the back half of 2026 and into 2027. It will visit nine cities during its run, with presale for all shows starting March 31 and tickets going on sale to the general public on April 3.
The tour begins in Seattle, Washington on August 7 and ends in San Jose, California on March 6, but will be in cities across the country in between. That includes stops in Illinois, Georgia, Colorado, Massachusetts, Texas, and Washington D.C. Game director Yoko Taro and composer Keiichi Okabe will be in attendance for opening night in Seattle, giving...
Marvel Rivals is officially coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, according to its developers.
In an interview with IGN at the Game Developers Conference, I asked Marvel Games executive producer Danny Koo if a Switch 2 version was still being considered. In response, he confirmed to IGN that it was actually in progress already. "We're working on it, but when we have news, we'll announce that one."
Just to be super sure he was really confirming a Switch 2 version at last, I reworded the question and asked again. He again confirmed, saying: "We will do it."
A Switch version of Marvel Rivals has been a point of discussion for a while now. Last year, prior to the console's launch, we spoke with producer Weicong Wu, who said at the time that...
A new VR game based on the heist action of Payday, Payday: Aces High, is coming later this year to Steam and the Meta Store.
The officially-licensed game brings four-player co-op to VR where you can "pull off daring jobs in VR using the latest black-market technology and high-caliber weaponry."
"After being framed by business titan Warren Jupiter, players team up to take revenge through the signature chaos of a Payday heist," the blurb teases. "Design your own unique loadout, mixing weapons, gadgets and skills to become the ultimate, high-caliber heister. Infiltrate banks, museums, and even a luxury penthouse apartment, surveying each scene before choosing the perfect moment to go loud and secure your payday."
Features include...
Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced it is laying off 1,000 staff, due to a "downturn in engagement" in its evergreen battle royale.
In a message to staff shared publicly this morning, Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney said the company was "spending significantly more than we're making", meaning that it now needed to make "major cuts to keep the company funded."
The news comes just a week after the launch of Fortnite's highly-anticipated new battle royale season, and two weeks after the company controversially raised the price of the game's lucrative V-Bucks in-game currency, prompting a huge backlash from players.
"Today we’re laying off over 1,000 Epic employees," Sweeney told Epic Games employees. "I'm sorry we're here again...
In the fast-paced, crowded landscape of live-service games, Digital Extremes' Warframe has been a recurring favorite among die-hard fans of online action-RPGs — and the community is still growing 13 years since its launch. With the volatility of the live-service games space in recent years, the creators of Warframe have managed to find their space and keep it growing, and the developers have plenty of thoughts on how their tenacious free-to-play online RPG is keeping things fresh, and has still got players clamoring for what's next.
Just before Digital Extremes' live showcase set for PAX West 2026, we sat down with creative director Rebecca Ford to talk about Warframe in 2026, how the evolving online action-RPG is continuing its...
Warframe turns 13 years old this week. Digital Extremes' free-to-play online action game has proven itself to be remarkably resilient over the years, establishing a loyal fanbase while staying relevant even when its competitors falter. And there have been plenty who have faltered in recent years. The live service space is littered with the corpses of failed video games. Concord. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Highguard. These are just a few of the high profile games that have tried and failed to carve out a piece of that lucrative live service pie. And with each big new live service release comes an obsession with Steam player numbers. Valve's is the only gaming platform to make concurrents public, and in lieu of sales and...
Scrambling up to a platform high above Trembling Gorge cost me time, stamina, and – when I mistimed my magical grappling hook – a big chunk of health. But it was worth it for the incredible panorama view of Hernand's eastern undulations.
Towards the southern coast, a stout fortress lurks behind a meandering line of spikes – a stone spire stabs skywards to the right, and from it a track tumbles down the hillside, spilling between gaps in the rock. North is a circular city squatting on a high plain, and beyond, faraway red hills, nearly flat-topped like mesas, an impossible spindly structure jutting from one peak.
Crimson Desert's world looks its best when it stretches beneath you, your eyes following natural paths between three, four...
You know that feeling of simultaneous delight and dismay you get when you finally roll the credits on a really good game? Well, a new report claims that that feeling is not only real, but has a name, too: "post-game depression."
According to a new study into the phenomenon, post-game depression (P-GD) is the "sense of emptiness that arises after completing a deeply immersive game," resulting in a sense of "loss, emptiness, or sadness."
As reported by News Medical Life Sciences, the paper claims that while "this phenomenon is widely reported by players (e.g., in social media), little research has been done in this field."
The study, published in January's edition of Current Psychology and obtained by IGN, claims to be the first-ever...
Crimson Desert has sold an impressive 3 million copies in just five days.
Pearl Abyss’ open world action game launched on March 19 and sold 2 million copies in a day. It’s now sold an additional 1 million copies in the subsequent four days.
“We are grateful to share Crimson Desert has sold through 3 million copies worldwide,” Pearl Abyss said. “To everyone who has stepped into Pywel and shared this journey with us, thank you. Your feedback continues to help shape the experience, and we will keep working to make the journey ahead even more enjoyable for our players.”
Crimson Desert launched big on Steam with nearly 250,000 concurrent players, but was met with a 'mixed' user review rating on Valve’s platform. Much of the early...
As players work their way through Crimson Desert, they’re discovering more and more unexpected things they can do in the open world. We’ve seen players learn they can tag team to an extent, cook meat with light from their sword, and even catapult themselves across the map with the power of trees. But this next find… well, I don’t think anyone saw this one coming.
Warning! Spoilers… and maybe a NSFW tag for Crimson Desert to follow:
Anyone who’s played Crimson Desert will know it’s packed with animals large and small. Many animals you can actually pick up (one early quest tasks you with lugging a sheep across town). Enter StaffProfessional68, who had a thought about the animals I doubt many others would have.
In the clip below, we...
If you're in the process of building a new gaming PC, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D should be your top CPU pick, especially since it's discounted during the Amazon Spring Sale. For a limited time, this CPU has dropped to $419.95 with free shipping, which is the lowest price I've seen since its launch. Even better, it comes with a free voucher code for the highly anticipated Crimson Desert game, which will be released on March 19. The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is widely considered to be one of the best gaming processors on the market and outperforms even pricier AMD and Intel CPUs.
The Gamer's Choice: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU for $419.95
Includes Crimson Desert
The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D boasts a max boost clock of 5.2GHz with 8 cores, 16 threads...
Crimson Desert might run pretty well on AMD and Nvidia graphics cards, but developer Pearl Abyss forgot about the third GPU manufacturer: Intel.
Tom's Hardware initally noticed the lack of suport, noting a FAQ entry that flat-out told gamers “If you purchased the game expecting Intel Arc support, please refer to the refund policy of the platform where the game was purchased.” Pearl Abyss has since walked back that FAQ entry, posting on Twitter that it was working on Intel Arc compatibility and to disregard the old FAQ entry.
However, it does seem that Pearl Abyss had every opportunity to work with Intel to ensure Arc support for Crimson Desert. In a statement provided to IGN, Intel told me "Over the past several years, we’ve reached...
After a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, pulling in 1.2 million dollars and reaching its funding goal in just 19 minutes, Night Crew Games' upcoming Cyberpunk Legends: Into the Night cooperative card game is getting closer and closer every day to those outstretched, expectant hands of its backers.
As a fan of other similar story-heavy deckbuilders, when the team reached out to see if I would be interested in checking out the game, I threw on my neon shades, grabbed all the eddies I could scrounge up, and headed to Night City. Little did I know then that I was about to try what would turn into one of my most anticipated tabletop games of 2026.
Cyberpunk Legends pits you and a team of up to three others into the streets of...
The Rock is currently losing Fortnite's new season vote that asks players to pick a side between his in-game character and a wintry villain.
It's a situation that caught the eyes of Fortnite fans this weekend after the discovery of a hidden in-game multiplier that appeared to be weighted towards The Rock's chances — even though he was still bringing up the rear.
The Rock's long-awaited return to Fortnite as the voice and likeness of fan-favorite in-game character The Foundation had been heralded by various trailers and teases, and in Fortnite lore he remains one of its most popular characters. So it's therefore been a surprise to see him currently lagging behind his new rival, The Ice King.
When first logging into the new season of...
Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida, known to fans as Yoshi-P, has admitted that long development cycles right across the Final Fantasy series make it "harder" for new players or younger generations "to engage with" the franchise.
Reflecting on the issue in a video interview promoting spinoff Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy, Yoshida discussed how young people might have struggled to "connect" with the Final Fantasy franchise simply because it takes so long to release mainline entries.
"I'm 53 now, and I've been playing since Final Fantasy 1 in real time... But for younger generations — people who grew up naturally accustomed to action-based combat and online competitive play — the recent entries in the series may have been harder...
Capcom tweeted a piece of artwork to celebrate Dragon’s Dogma 2's second anniversary. Nothing unusual about that in itself, but fans were quick to notice details in the picture which may hint at a possible expansion.
The artwork shows Dragon’s Dogma 2 characters including Brant and Sven partying it up underneath a “2nd anniversary” banner. However, sharp-eyed fans quickly homed in on two key details: a letter in the foreground and a mysterious character in the background, as summarized by user PaiDuck on Reddit.
The letter is written in the in-game Gransys alphabet. Decoding this reveals that the letter says: “Sightings of Griffins Flying in From the Northern Region of Organ Have Been Confirmed.”
Although mentioned in in-game text...
Dying Light: The Beast developer Techland has announced a new edition of its first-person zombie-slaying game. It's called Dying Light: The Beast Restored Land, and it includes the full game, all post-release content, and new Restored Land content. It launches on March 26 and is free for existing players of Dying Light: The Beast.
In that new Restored Land content, neither enemies nor loot respawn and thus the world is persistent. Killing all zombies in an area grardually restores the map to its pre-apocalyptic state, complete with non-zombified humans. Plus, there are competitive vehicular challenges called Roadkill Rallies, an optional One Life option for Restored Land that wipes your save file if you die. Watch Techland's new...
A generous price drop has seen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare break its own Steam concurrent record over the weekend, hitting an all-new high of 61,667 peak players and making it more popular than last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on Valve's PC platform.
Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare successfully rebooted the Call of Duty series, and was followed by the enormously popular battle royale, Warzone, which benfited from stay-at-home gaming amid the pandemic.
While the 2019 FPS usually retails for $59.99, it's currently available for just $5.99 (£4.99 in the UK or €5.99 in select European countries) courtesy of Steam's Spring Sale — likely the lowest price it's ever been on Valve's digital storefront.
Even when it first debuted on...
Capcom has clarified its current stance on generative AI in its videogames. The major Japanese publisher and developer behind popular series like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter has revealed that while it doesn't use gen-AI assets in their games, it is exploring ways to use generative AI to streamline the game development process.
On March 23, Capcom publicized the questions and answers from its latest shareholders’ meeting. In this session, Capcom was asked about its stance on using generative AI in game development.
“We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games.” Capcom replied. “However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game...
Microsoft has announced an Xbox Partner Preview showcase for this week. It’ll provide updates for a number of games, and bring with it “new reveals.”
As a Partner Preview, this showcase focuses on games coming from third-party publishers, so don’t expect news from Microsoft’s various first-party studios. However, what we will get is an update on Stranger Than Heaven, the new third-person action-adventure game developed by Yakuza/Like a Dragon creators Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, the Mass Effect-style game from Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader developer Owlcat Games, and GSC Game World’s Stalker 2. It'll last around 30 minutes, Microsoft said.
In Microsoft’s announcement, it teased “new reveals” in addition to the...
As Crimson Desert players make their way further into the game, they’re coming to understand some of its more puzzling design choices. Chief among them is that creature mounts other than your horse are not permanent. And while the coveted endgame dragon is a permanent addition, its use has a 15 minute real-time time limit, and then a 50 minute real-time cooldown that's impossible to speed up.
Some players of Pearl Abyss’ open world action game went into the experience wanting to ride around on the back of a dragon - as pre-release videos had hyped up - as soon as possible. Why wouldn’t they? With a dragon you can fly anywhere and breathe fire. It’s a game-changer for sure.
As IGN’s guide to unlocking Crimson Desert’s dragon explains...
Masters of Albion is an almost nostalgically cute and sassy vision of the god game genre that veteran game designer Peter Molyneux made his name in. It brings in the elements of a city-builder and an exploration-focused action-RPG. I got an early look at the game by watching Molyneux play for about 45 minutes and found it, honestly, pretty refreshing—despite whatever marketing phrases might surround this game so far, it looked like the team at 22cans is just making a game that they think might be fun to play. It's an oddly refreshing approach for a midsize development team in 2026, when every other game preview seems like it’s trying as hard as it can to blow your socks off.
In Masters of Albion, you're a guy who's now a god—which as...
Marathon developer Bungie is "watching and ingesting" your thoughts and feedback about its new mode, Cryo Archive.
Cryo Archive, which went live over the weekend, was players' first taste of a raid-like experience in Marathon. It contains gameplay mechanics similar to those seen in Destiny raids, including puzzles, in-match events, and evolving sequences of objectives.
However, this is not just something that unlocks for all players; there are several requirements you need to meet in order to access Cryo Archive. Players need to be season level 25, have all factions unlocked (completing the initial liaison contracts), and queue in with a loadout value of $5k credits or higher. Oh, and it's only live on weekends, too.
Now that the...
Crimson Desert Steam reviews are improving, moving up from ‘mixed’ to ‘mostly positive’ on Valve’s platform as developer Pearl Abyss releases game-changing updates.
As IGN has reported, Crimson Desert launched big on Steam with nearly 250,000 concurrent players, but was met with a "mixed" user review rating. Much of the early criticism from players revolved around the controls, which some had called clunky and unnecessarily complicated. There were some performance complaints too. For example, PS5 owners joined forces to work out the cause of blurry visuals — an issue that was also on the PC version.
Meanwhile, Pearl Abyss saw its stock price plunge nearly 30% in what was seen as a reaction to review scores from critics. A day after...
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss just released a patch that makes a number of significant improvements, but one that players are already praising lowers the difficulty of one of the hardest activities in the game: the archery minigame.
If you’ve played Crimson Desert for a few hours you’ll probably have encountered this minigame, which challenges you to an archery contest against an NPC. The idea here is to be the first to score 10 hits, with targets popping up one after another.
It’s worth noting the control scheme for firing an arrow, which involves holding a button to aim then releasing the button to fire. It is NOT a quick process — certainly not quick enough for what’s to come. The further into the contest you get (it costs...
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has outlined a few improvements that have been applied to Crimson Desert in a new patch released today.
The studio has made some adjustments to both keyboard/mouse controls and gamepad, increased health restored from food and items, and introduced storage at the Howling Hill Camp to be able to stash inventory items in.
“[W]e have been paying close attention to your experiences across issue reports, videos, livestreams, and community discussions,” the studio wrote in a new post detailing the patch notes on Crimson Desert’s official website. “Your feedback has been invaluable to us, and we appreciate the time and care you have taken to share it with us. This patch includes some of the improvements...
A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Code Vein II, My Hero Academia: All's Justice, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, Square Enix RPGs, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, March 22, below.
Code Vein II for $49.99
Code Vein II is on sale for the first time since launch, and you can save $20 off a PS5 or Xbox Series X|S copy. This soulslike action RPG features an open world and multiple other evolutions from the first game. If you're someone looking for your next RPG, this could be a great option, especially for $49.99.
My Hero Academia: All's Justice for $39.99
My Hero Academia: All's Justice covers the epic conclusion of MHA, featuring the climactic final battle of Deku and Class 1-A versus Shigaraki and...