Finally, after three years of yearning for more Hollow Knight, Silksong appeared at today's Xbox + Bethesda Showcase, but it does not yet have a release date. However, the trailer did confirm that it will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass when it arrives on Xbox and PC.
In the new trailer shown today and the first proper look at Team Cherry's insectoid Metroidvania we've gotten since 2019, with rapidfire shots of the main character, Hornet, battling Hollow Knight's familiar insectoid enemies, jumping around lava and more.
Hollow Knight: Silksong was first unexpectedly announced in February 2019 as the sequel to Hollow Knight, an acclaimed indie Metroidvania taking place in a kingdom of sentient bugs. Silksong follows the...
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Stealth-action game Plague Tale 2 showed up at the Xbox and Bethesda showcase as developer Asobo Studio revealed brand new gameplay, as well as a promise of coming to Game Pass day one.
Plague Tale: Requiem is the sequel to A Plague Tale: Innocence, the 2019 stealth game set in 14th Century France. Players follow Amica de Rune as she must use stealth and fire to navigate past a plague of rats spreading across Europe – as well as enemy soldiers in the midst of the Hundred Years' War between England and France.
Unfortunately, we didn't get any updated information on a more specific release date: it's still coming in 2022 not just to Xbox and PC, but also to PS5 and Nintendo Switch.
A Plague Tale: Innocence was one of the surprise hits...
After a year of waiting since its original reveal, we've finally seen gameplay of Arkane's upcoming co-op vampire shooter, Redfall. Unsurprisingly, it looks pretty slick.
Shown as part of the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, a roughly five-minute long gameplay trailer for Redfall showed off both single player and co-op in action, as well as a quick look at the abilities of all four of the playable characters.
That started with Layla, a telekinetic woman with the ability to create shielding spirit umbrellas and spectral elevators, we see a slice of single player as she sneaks into an abandoned church. Naturally it's not completely abandoned; a nest of vampires are in the attic. Thankfully Layla is joined by a co-op player, who helps...
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise, which launched as a Switch exclusive in 2020, is now out on PC via Steam.
Announced during the Future Games Show, Deadly Premonition is a sequel to the 2010 cult-classic survival horror original and this new entry follows FBI Agent Aaliyah Davis as she investigates a string of murders.
The game serves as a prequel and a sequel to the original, and the prequel part will see players taking on the role of a younger Special Agent York from the first game as they investigate another crime in the fictional town of Le Carre, Louisana.
In our Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise review, we said that it "isn’t good, nor is it so bad that it’s good (like it’s predecessor). It’s something...
While Street Fighter 6 may not arrive until 2023, we are beginning to learn a lot about the game, including that rollback netcode will return and that it will reportedly have cross-play.
Speaking to IGN's Mitchell Saltzman, Street Fighter 6 director Takayuki Nakayama confirmed that rollback netcode will indeed be part of the upcoming fighter, but it will not be the same as what was seen in Street Fighter 5.
"As you know, Street Fighter 5 also had rollback netcode," Nakayama said. "But in terms of SF6, it will have Rollback netcode, but it will not be the same as what we had in SF5, and this is something that we're building from scratch.
"There's a lot of effort being put into the development of the netcode. And it's not something...
Wholesome Direct: Everything Announced, Including Little Bear Chef, Bubblegum Galaxy, and Melodyssey
The Wholesome Games Direct just concluded, after showing off over 90 (!) games focused on cozy, welcoming, and generally, well, wholesome aesthetics. We got a handful of new game reveals, several announcements of release dates or windows, some free demos, and a whole heck-ton of new trailers. Everything was pretty rapidfire, but here's the basic rundown of what we just saw:
New Game Reveals
Three brand new games were revealed for the first time at the Wholesome Direct:
Bubblegum Galaxy
From the same studio as Wholesome Game alum Teacup, Bubblegum Galaxy is a city-builder of sorts…except you’re building galaxies and planets instead. It’s planned for release sometime in 2023 for PC and consoles.
Little Bear Chef
Little Bear Chef...
The Future of Play Direct has returned for its third year to showcase more than 30 indie games from just as many developers. Taking place earlier today (June 11), the show kicked off with video game music covers from orchestral composer Alex Moukala before delving into updates on games including Boyfriend Dungeon, Onde, and Psychodrama.
Boyfriend Dungeon - Secret Weapons DLC Trailer
Kitfox Games revealed a first look at its upcoming DLC for roguelite weapon-dating simulator Boyfriend Dungeon. The trailer showed off a new dungeon and three new playable characters including one designed by Ikumi Nakamura (who's previously worked on Ghostwire: Tokyo and The Evil Within).
Psychroma - Announcement Trailer
Rocket Adrift Games, creator of...
Guerrilla Collective is back again this year, and the latest new showcase highlighted games from across the industry - and it brought a truckload.
Check below for over 40 new trailers and game announcements from the Guerrilla Collective:
Ugly - New Game Reveal
Ugly is a game that looks to mix something of Braid, Celeste and psychological horror to create a dark puzzle-platformer. It will arrive in 2023.
Rain World: Downpour - DLC Details Revealed
Rain World: Downpour, is a new DLC expansion for the challening 2017 action-platformer Rain World. Five new playable characters were introduced – the Rivulet (better able to explore, but with penalties for its food consumption), the Spearmaster (a slugcat that can summon spears), the...
Today, Capcom's Twitter released the new theme for Chun-Li that will be featured in the upcoming fighting game Street Fighter 6.
The theme, titled “Not A Little Girl,” “reflects her new philosophical approach to life” and is new for the iconic character and is a bit more upbeat and dancey than her past themes.
The theme reveal video doesn’t give us a glimpse at any new gameplay, but the track does give us a taste of the vibe we will be seeing and hearing in the new game. The Street Fighter Twitter account has been generous to fans of the series, though, with glimpses at features like character-specific taunts and in-game emotes.
There’s been a steady stream of reveals for the game outside of Twitter, too. Just yesterday at the...
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5 Freedom Games titles are available right now! Battle monsters, solve puzzles, and restore the paradise in the skies in Anuchard. Create your own flying kingdom in Airborne Kingdom. Expand the Queen's colonial empire in One More Island. Establish your own Cat Cafe in Cat Cafe Manager. And tame monsters roaming the land in Coromon.
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Beyond simply being one of the best gaming controllers, the Sony DualSense is also one of the best PC controllers. It has the ergonomics and grip to let you go ham for hours on end, and it’s crammed with some of the most meaningful innovations in gamepads since the contentious Steam Controller. But, getting the DualSense working on a gaming PC may seem like a fool’s errand — it’s made for the PlayStation 5 after all, right? Fortunately, PC support for the DualSense is a lot more robust than it was for the DualShock 4 controller just a generation prior. It can be as simple as plug-and-play or just a quick Bluetooth pairing to get started.
Items needed to pair PS5 controller with PC:
Data-ready USB-C cable
Bluetooth adapter for PC...
The 2004 hit RPG Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II is getting an updated re-release this summer. The game, from Publisher Interplay Entertainment and developer Black Isle Studios, will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.
The game will not be a remake, but it will feature enhanced graphics and up to 4K resolution on supported platforms. If you want to play with friends, you’ll be able to play co-op locally across all versions.
On the Steam version, you’ll also be able to use Remote Play for a long-distance cooperative experience. And yes, it’s fully verified on the Steam Deck for an on-the-go, handheld RPG experience.
The original game was released in 2004 on PS2 and Xbox, three years...
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is a brand-new game set to be released in spring 2023 that is billed as "the only survival crafting game set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth."
This new game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's work was revealed during the Epic Games Summer Showcase and comes from independent developer Free Range Games and publisher North Beach Games.
Return to Moria will follows the Dwarves of Middle-earth as they "embark on an original adventure to reclaim and restore their Dwarven homeland of Moria." At launch, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria will be available exclusively on PC via the Epic Games Store.
"The story of The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria takes players beyond the books and into the Fourth Age...
The pile of worms wearing a bathrobe, Xûr, is now live in Destiny 2 for the weekend until next week's reset. If you're looking to get your some shiny new Exotic armor or weapons for your Guardian, look no further.
Each week, Xûr has a random assortment of Exotic armor, one for each Guardian class, as well as a random Exotic Weapon and an Exotic Engram available for purchase. In addition to his Exotic wares, he's got a random collection of Legendary weapons and armor to deck out your Guardians.
We've rounded up all the info on Xûr for the week including where to find Xûr, which Exotic weapons and armor are available, as well as which Legendary weapons you should pick up, either for PvE or PvP.
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Xûr's location can...
Fans will now have to wait until the first half of 2023 to get their hands on Homeworld 3, the upcoming revival of the cosmic real-time strategy series.
Gearbox Publishing and Blackbird Interactive announced that they would be delaying the game “to make good on our commitment to quality in a healthy and sustainable way for all those involved” via a Tweet today.
News about the upcoming title isn’t far out, however, and the studio reassured players that they’ll get a closer look at the game during Gamescom 2022.
“Blackbird Interactive is building the Homeworld game that players have always dreamed of and we are excited to share the deepest look yet at Homeworld 3 during gamescom later this summer,” the Tweet reads.
Homeworld 3 was...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is out in digital form June 16. But a physical version, published by Limited Run Games is coming out in numerous editions later this year for Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC (see it on Amazon). Below, you’ll find all the info you need about what comes in each edition, where it’s available, and how much it costs.
Note: all of the special editions are exclusive to the Limited Run Games Store, and preorders from there close on July 24.
TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge Standard Edition
Nintendo Switch
Get it at Amazon - $34.99
Get it at Best Buy - $34.99
Get it at Limited Run Games - $34.99
Get it at Target - $34.99
PS4
Get it at Amazon - $34.99
Get it at Best Buy - $34.99
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Future Press' official strategy guide for Elden Ring, Books of Knowledge, is now available to preorder in the US and UK, costing $49.99/ £39.99 for each volume. Each volume will contain a complete record of The Lands Between, with the first covering the world, while the second will entertain the many creatures you encounter, alongside the arsenal of armaments you can acquire to deal with them.
Both volumes will release on July 29, and can currently be preordered from Amazon. Each premium book will likely contain plenty about the game you already know, in stunning detail may I add, but might also uncover some of the seemingly untapped secrets The Lands Between could still be hiding. Whatever the case, both of these look incredible, so...
Amazon currently has all physical versions of the base LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga on sale for 25% off its regular price. Previously, only the PS4 and Switch were discounted, but now you can save on LEGO Star Wars for Xbox Series X and PS5, too.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Deal
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a massive game, stretching across the entirety of the so-called "Skywalker Saga," a name Disney invented 8 movies into it to help them stand as their own, I guess? I don't really know why, but regardless, you get all 9 movies recreated in LEGO form, and in many cases, the results far exceed the quality of the movies upon which they're based.
In our LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga review, we gave it an 8...
Many of us at IGN have a fond appreciation for Sonic, even with some arguable missteps over the years, which is why it's so exciting to get some more insight into its next chapter with Sonic Frontiers. The Sonic Central Stream part of Summer of Gaming gave us another glimpse into the upcoming Sonic Frontiers alongside an announcement of a prologue story featuring Knuckles. We also got another look at Sonic Origins, new Sonic merchandise, news that a live Sonic Symphony will be touring soon, and more. Be sure to check out our Sonic Central 2022 coverage for everything that was announced. There will be more Sonic content as the month progresses but in the meantime -- my question for the IGN community is: what is your favorite thing about...
Reigns: Three Kingdoms is the fifth entry in Nerial & Devolver's Tinder-inspired royalty management games – and it's one of three Devolver games coming free for Netflix subscribers.
Announced during Netflix Geeked Week, Reigns: Three Kingdoms will bring the card-based binary choices of the series into a medieval Chinese setting, setting its latest adventures in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms period (familiar to Dynasty Warriors players, among many other games).
"Reigns: Three Kingdoms thrusts players into the turbulent final years of the Han dynasty," reads a press release. "There, they will encounter the many factions, wars, and heroes of the saga as they swipe their way through negotiations, marry to strengthen alliances, and...
IGN Expo 2022 is over, and included new announcements, game reveals, fresh trailers and more. If you missed the show, we've got a rundown of everything included below.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Exclusive DLC Reveal
IGN Expo has seen the exclusive reveal of Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Pathogen, the first major DLC pack for the co-op shooter, which will be released on August 30.
Pathogen will see Aliens: Fireteam Elite expanded with a brand new campaign containing three missions and new enemy types. The storyline sees the Endeavor's crew visit LV-895 where they find that the planet's xenomorphs have been infected and mutated into fearsome new forms. The trailer shows off several of these new aliens, which draw upon the grotesque white...
Cuphead has just about transcended games at this point. Since debuting in 2017, mischievous protagonists Cuphead and Mugman have been the subject of novels, comic books, tabletop games, and even an (excellent) animated show on Netflix. It’s frankly remarkable that we’re even talking about it as a humble video game in 2022, but Studio MDHR plans to make good on the promise of new content for the full service meal that was in the smash hit boss rush shooter. A Delicious Last Course, if you will.
We got to ride shotgun on a hands-off guided tour of some of the new features, and it's easy to report that Cuphead fans will have plenty to fall in love with here. Returning players will find new abilities, new bosses, and a whole new adventure...
VICE NDRCVR is a new game about taking down '80s drug cartels by using their computer systems against them.
Revealed for the first time during IGN Expo, VICE NDRCVR evokes the likes of Hypnospace Outlaw and Her Story by having you search through a fictional computer operating systems for evidence to use in busting – or aiding – Miami's biggest drug smuggling gangs.
You play an undercover agent attempting to maintain their cover as a part of the cartel, and seemingly making key choices that could see you crossing the line into a full-blown criminal yourself. You'll be hacking databases, poring over satellite imagery, transferring illicit funds and making major narrative choices. Naturally, you can also turn on a media player that...
Superfuse – a superhero dungeon crawler with hyper-customizable powers – will hit Steam Early Access this fall.
Announced in a new trailer at IGN Expo, we saw a hint of the story told through classic comic book panels, followed by some very gory gameplay. Players will create an Enforcer – superpowered humans given the job of eliminating corrupted beasts across the solar system – and take down enemies using a mixture of classic Diablo-style loot and deeply customizable powers split between 5 main classes.
The game offers both solo and up to 4-player co-op play across procedurally generated dungeons teeming with beasts – and a conspiracy-laden story to discover as you go. We previously played an early version, saying "The plethora of...
IGN Expo has brought the exclusive reveal of Starkeepers, a new MMORPG coming to Steam Early Access in 2023.
A cosmic sci-fi game at heart, Starkeepers' central race is a group of anthropomorphic Viking animal-people, including wolves and seals. These unusual heroes are the titular Starkeepers, god-chosen warriors sent to ward off eldritch cosmic threats.
A gameplay teaser showed off the game's low-poly looks, its mixture of action combat and town building, not to mention trap-filled dungeons. The developer promises a vast open world, filled with multiple factions, and the opportunity to fight both beasts and gods along the way.
PvP will revolve around cooperative base building, in which you create 'Starkeeps' filled with traps and...
Roots of Pacha, a life-sim about guiding a Stone Age tribe to success, has released a Steam demo today.
Shown during IGN Expo, a new trailer showed off the tribe learning to use seeds to grow crops, build settlements, irrigate fields, and even play music in rhythm action sections. The demo is available on Steam now, and using the code "SMILEY" will unlock a special hat for your character (which is just a cat balancing on your head).
Roots of Pacha was Kickstarted last year, and offers full co-op play alongside the more standard solo life sim experience. Planned for both conoles and PC, no specific release date has been announced as yet.
This was just one of dozens of announcements and trailers revealed during IGN Expo 2022 - make...
Dinkum will be released into Steam Early Access on July 14.
Revealed during IGN Expo, we got a new look at the life sim, which draws heavy inspiration from Animal Crossing, but adds town building, multiplayer activities, and lots of charming Australian touches.
The trailer gives us a look at (deep breath) exploring its modular Outback settings, wildlife, fishing, resource collecting, crafting, farming, bug catching, NPCs, hang gliding, spelunking, combat, and jetskiing. And this is just the early access version.
This was just one of dozens of announcements and trailers revealed during IGN Expo 2022 - make sure to check them all out.
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IGN is pleased to reveal that Voidtrain, the interdimensional survival game in which you pilot a train through the terrifying void, is finally coming to Steam this October.
Voidtrain has been available in Early Access on the Epic Games Store since August 2021, but developer HypeTrain Digital has now announced that the game's next stop is Steam, and it will pull into Valve's station in just a few months.
Not familiar with Voidtrain? As the new trailer above explains, it's a co-op first-person survival game in which you build an interdimensional train and pilot it through the void. That void just so happens to be filled with treasures and deadly creatures, so you and your crew must strap on your best weapons and head out into the...
Block N Load 2 got a re-reveal at today's IGN Expo, and we learned a Steam closed beta is on the way soon.
The destructive FPS, which mixes Team Fortress-like team-based battling with Minecraft voxels, is a return to the ideas of the 2015 original - albeit with better looks, more complex building mechanics and more varied combat. The sequel was first announced last year, but this is the first meaningful gameplay we've seen for some time.
The new version is coming to both PC and consoles, and offers multiple hero types, 40 different types of block, which react to your play and can change the shape of the match (literally), and a full create-a-map mode that allows sharing with other players. With a beta coming up, you can sign up to...