Developer FromSoftware is gearing up for The Duskbloods with a network test and a recent hands-on preview that I got to take part in. Coming off of its most recent game Elden Ring: Nightreign, which is a co-operative multiplayer experience, and now the upcoming PvPvE with The Duskbloods, you might be wondering if the studio has another single-player game lined up. Rest assured, FromSoft isn't putting all its eggs into the multiplayer basket.
As part of an interview I had with FromSoftware president and The Duskbloods director Hidetaka Miyazaki, I asked if doing back-to-back multiplayer games was indicative of the direction the team is going. He reassured us that FromSoftware is not done making single-player games.
"It's not...
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I’ve been covering deals long enough to remember the good old days when Amazon and Best Buy offered preorder discounts on every video game they sold. Those days are over, but Best Buy is bringing back the spirit of the deal. Right now, when you preorder select games (including The Blood of Dawnwalker), you’ll get a free $10 Best Buy digital gift card at launch. That’s the best (and only) deal going on most of these games. Let’s take a look at the current offerings.
Free $10 Gift Card When You Preorder These Games
So what games are we talking about, specifically? Four games currently qualify for the deal: The Blood of Dawnwalker, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, FC 27, and NHL 27. With the price of games going up to as high as $80 this...
James Bond video game blockbuster 007 First Light has sold 4 million copies in just three months, developer IO Interactive has announced.
The achievement comes amid uncertainty over the future of the James Bond video game franchise under Amazon, despite widespread acclaim for First Light itself, built by Hitman maker IO.
But for now, at least, there's a lot to celebrate — with 4 million copies in three months an impressive achievement, with the game's Nintendo Switch 2 launch still to come.
Today, IO also recommitted to updating First Light further with an array of post-launch updates, including a New Game+ campaign option, a fresh mission starring pirate king Bawma (portrayed by Lenny Kravitz), plus addition Tac Sim challenges...
Once-controversial cult classic Postal 2 is returning, with original developer Running With Scissors, Flat2VR, Team Beef, and Impact Reality confirming Postal 2 Redux, a complete rebuild of the 2003 first-person shooter in Unity 6. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign that saw it get funded in one day, Redux will be released in Q1 2027 for PC, PS4, PS5, and VR platforms.
The fictional town of Paradise, Arizona will once again have to deal with the presence of the Postal Dude, an everyman who just wants to get his errands done and get through his day. Naturally, things go sideways, and he'll end up getting mixed up in all sorts of shenanigans. "At its heart, “Postal 2 Redux is a sandbox in the truest sense: players decide how...
If you want to run around Arc Raiders looking like a Subway sandwich wrapper, now you can via one of the more unlikely collaborations we’ve seen in the world of video games in recent years.
Embark Studios’ super serious extraction shooter has partnered with the fast-food chain ahead of the Frozen Trail update release on October 8, which is intended to breathe new life into the game following last year's record-breaking launch.
Every qualifying Subway meal “Fuels the Raid” with a code for an exclusive Subterranean outfit plus a rotation of weekly rewards bundles that contain additional outfits and in-game items.
From August 20 to October 26, if you buy a qualifying Subway meal featuring a 6-inch sub, Footlong, salad, or wrap, you’ll...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first quarter-century.
Back in 2004, Halo 2 was the most anticipated video game of all time. I was at the tip of the spear for Official Xbox Magazine’s Halo 2 coverage back then, which meant I had one of the most exciting opportunities a games journalist can get: I was one of the first people in the world from outside of Bungie’s walls to play the landmark sequel. And I did so in a storage closet.
This story begins back in 2002 with the original...
In one of the most bonkers collaborations in gaming history, Yujiro Hanma is coming to Tekken 8 early next year. His reveal at Combo Breaker 2026 set off an avalanche of memes and speculation, leaving fans equal parts hopeful and terrified that he’ll be just as strong in the game as he is in the Baki manga.
We got the chance to speak with Tekken series chief producer, Naoya Yasuda, who answered our burning questions about 'The Ogre' and how the developers will adapt the famously overpowered fighter to fit within Tekken 8’s framework. We also asked what inspired this collaboration in the first place, and if Yasuda had seen the memes about Yujiro’s inclusion in the game. (Spoiler alert: Yes, he has, and he loves them.)
We also chatted...
Ten years on, it is hardly a stretch to call Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky one of the best redemption stories the games industry has ever produced. To understand the scale of that achievement, though, we first need to dive face-first into the pool of disappointment that greeted its original launch in August 2016.
The Promise and the Disappointment
Despite getting on a bit in years, I remember the announcement of No Man’s Sky remarkably well. Before its reveal trailer had shown even a second of gameplay, Hello Games was already stressing the scale of its procedural universe: every planet unique, every creature unique and, in the trailer’s most audacious phrase, every atom procedural.
The pitch was irresistible. Here was a boundlessly...
Resident Evil Requiem saw a great discount during this year's Prime Day sale event when physical versions hit $56. However, in a nice little surprise between sale events, its PS5 copy is currently on sale for less than that at Amazon and Best Buy. Both retailers have it discounted to $53.99 right now, which marks a new low price for it from the former, according to price tracking website camelcamelcamel.
Unfortunately, this offer only applies to the PS5 copy of the game. But if that's exactly what you were hoping to get, it's a solid deal to jump on that saves you $16 compared to paying full price. It's also worth noting that the Best Buy copy is sold by a third party, antonline, but they have a glowing 4.06 star rating with 807...
Former Tekken 8 Director Kohei Ikeda has announced he has joined newly established developer VS Studio, the Tokyo-based, SNK-owned outfit that was founded in May 2026 by former Tekken producer and director Katsuhiro Harada.
“I’ve joined VS Studio as the next step in my journey,” confirmed Ikeda via social media. “Working on games again with two of my former bosses feels nostalgic in many ways, while at the same time, the excitement of creating something completely new makes every day incredibly fulfilling.”
“I’m really looking forward to seeing what we can create together!”
Ikeda left Namco Bandai back in June. His 20-year stint at the storied developer culminated with his duties as game director on both Tekken 7 and 8. At least...
Game Science has released a 15-minute gameplay trailer for its Black Myth: Wukong follow-up, Black Myth: Zhong Kui. It gives us a closer look at the new protagonist, combat, and the world, and is packed with impressive details.
The trailer begins with a peaceful seaside environment, foliage moving to a gentle breeze. The new protagonist stumbles onto a beachfront. He makes his way inside a cave before bumping into an old man eating some meat. The pair build a raft — are they both stranded on this beach? — and try to head out onto the water, but a towering wave appears to tear up their plans.
We then get a look at combat. Carrying the old man on his back, the protagonist encounters a pack of ghoulish enemies, who he defeats with sword...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's beta will utilize a divisive new matchmaking system in addition to the open matchmaking introduced last year.
Matchmaking is an extremely hot topic within the Call of Duty community, as it can dictate how much fun you might have playing online. Are you going to get steamrolled? Are you going to absolutely massacre the other team? A lot of that is in the hands of an algorithim pitting you against certain players. With Modern Warfare 4, the Call of Duty team has revealed its plans for what fans can expect in the beta this coming weekend.
In a new thread, the Call of Duty team confirmed that the beta will feature the new matchmaking system introduced in Black Ops 7 Season 5, as well as the open...
As part of its 60th Anniversary Sale, Best Buy is offering a major discount on a premium docking station for your handheld gaming PC. For a limited time, you can pick up the Razer Chroma Docking Station for a low price of $36 with free shipping. That's 60% off the normal list price of $90. This dock is compatible with a wide range of handhelds, including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, and Lenovo Legion Go 2, among others.
Save 60% Off the Razer Chroma Docking Station for Handhelds
The Razer Chroma is one of the more premium handheld docking stations around, and its retail price certainly reflects it. It features a universal stand design that accomodates most handheld gaming PCs and tablets, and there's even an adjustable hinge...
Key Preview Takeaways:
The unique visual style is instantly appealing.
The '90s-style adventure-meets-survival-horror gameplay makes it feel unique in 2026.
Monster variety is lacking in the short, early-game demo we played.
I’m continually impressed with how many interesting and unique ideas for video games still manage to pop out, even as we’ve got literally thousands coming out every year now. If you haven’t heard of Silver Pines yet, it’s a pixelated 2D survival horror that answers the question, “What might Alan Wake be like if it were made for the PS1 in the ‘90s?”, and it’s something I didn’t realize I needed in my life until now. After playing the first hour of this creepy, stressful demon lovechild of Silent Hill and The...
The Witcher 3 developers were so focused on making a realistic environment for players that they accidentally created a morbidly hilarious side effect for the game’s female NPCs.
In an interview with Edge Magazine, CD Projekt Red quest designer Philipp Weber opened up about the unintended consequences of this strategy, saying the team was so honed in on creating a believable world that they ended up causing chaos, instead.
Weber explained that they wanted to give NPCs authentic behaviors to increase immersion and reward players for exploring the nooks and crannies of The Continent, particularly where small villages in the countryside were concerned.
"Because we were focused on the countryside, it was easier for players to become...
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta will fix some issues that have plagued the series for the better part of a decade.
In a new blog post, Activision said it is reducing the number of times players will be prompted with the "update requires restart" message. For the last six years or so, Call of Duty players have been forced to restart their game right after booting up to apply new updates and patches. It's extremely annoying and slows down how fast you can get into the action. With the Modern Warfare 4 beta, the team is planning to reduce how often you see this upon booting up the game, but you might still get this screen if you're playing while an update is pushed out.
During the beta, your platform will dictate how much you see...
Control Resonant sees developer Remedy Entertainment take one step further into the world of RPGs, following its first experiments with the original Control. But this isn’t a studio that likes to follow conventions. Rather than rewarding you with XP for finishing missions, taking down bosses, and completing side activities as most games in the genre would, Resonant hands upgrades to the world around you. The open zones of this corrupted Manhattan react to you defeating the big threats infecting it, growing much more dangerous with each new zone conquered. We’ve already taken a look at how this sequel’s combat has evolved, but now it’s time to see how the threats you’ll be taking down have changed in turn.
As Control’s story expands...
Subnautica 2 Early Access 1.2 is out now, adding the Buddy System to the underwater survival and crafting game.
Developer Unknown Worlds has also announced a $100,000 donation to the appropriately named ocean cleanup non-profit The Ocean Cleanup.
Unknown Worlds previously donated a portion of proceeds from the original Subnautica to The Ocean Cleanup on World Environment Day in 2019, and has continued to support ocean conservation efforts since.
“Subnautica began with a love for the ocean, and it means a great deal to continue the conservation work we started with the original game through this donation to The Ocean Cleanup,” said executive producer Fernando Melo. “We will keep doing our part to protect the ocean we have spent so...
RuneScape: Dragonwilds will be available as a day one Xbox Game Pass title next month, developer Jagex has announced.
The open world, co-op, crafting and survival game is the first standalone title in Jagex’s long-running medieval MMORPG franchise, and the first RuneScape game set for consoles. It’s sold over 1 million copies during early access already.
Here’s the official blurb:
RuneScape: Dragonwilds launches on September 15 in 1.0 form, which includes the brand-new Scorned Wilderness update, alongside all content from the upcoming Umbral Sands expansion. As confirmed at State of Play in June, RuneScape: Dragonwilds is also a day one launch on PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds launches its 1.0 version...
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight’s upcoming DLC won’t be out for another month, but you can get a sneak preview very soon. A brand-new trailer for the game’s Mayhem Collection DLC will be shown exclusively during IGN’s gamescom Studio programming Wednesday, August 26.
The game, from TT Games and Warner Bros. Games, released this past May. According to our review, it features “a strong open-world Gotham and trademark Lego slapstick humour [powering] a fantastic plastic parody of Batman’s greatest hits." The Mayhem Collection DLC comes out September 18 and is included for players who purchased the LEGO Batman's Deluxe Edition.
According to LEGO, the Mayhem Collection features “the Joker and Harley Quinn as playable characters...
Legendary game designer Harvey Smith has said he pleaded with Microsoft to let his team release one final patch to improve the poorly-received Xbox console exclusive Redfall — even though he had been "fired."
First-person vampire shooter Redfall launched to negative reviews in 2023, and proved to be the final project for Arkane Austin, the Texas-based team behind 2017's Prey, which also worked on Dishonored and its sequel.
Smith, who served as lead game designer on 2000's Deus Ex, then creative director of Dishonored and Dishonored 2, found himself out of work in May 2024 when it was announced that Arkane Austin would be shut down, with ongoing work on Redfall's post-launch roadmap canned as a result.
But the studio had been hard at...
Decorated veteran game developer Harvey Smith (Dishonored series, original Deus Ex series), most recently of Arkane Austin – which Xbox shut down in 2024 following the failure of Redfall – has opened a new game development studio. Dubbed Black Pony Immersive, it will indeed focus on the "immersive sim" genre that Smith helped pioneer evolve through his work as co-creative director on Dishonored, creative director on Dishonored 2, and lead game designer on the original Deus Ex (which, not for nothing, this particular writer ranks as a top-10 game of all-time).
"My favorite gaming memories come from seeing players approach challenges with creativity, deep-diving into our world building," Smith said. "We try to reward players for their...
Horizon 3 remains years away from release, with a “tiny team” said to be working on planning it out at developer Guerrilla Games.
A new report into the fate of multiplayer spinoff Horizon Hunters Gathering from Bloomberg also contains a brief update on the next single-player Horizon game, which is set to continue Aloy’s story from 2017’s Zero Dawn and 2022’s Forbidden West.
"A tiny team has been plotting out the next single-player Horizon game but it remains years away from completion, according to the people familiar with the studio’s plans,” Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported.
Rather than jump straight into Horizon 3 after Forbidden West, Guerrilla Games focused on Horizon Hunters Gathering, which is now being rebooted. The wait...
Sony has reportedly rebooted PlayStation live-service game Horizon Hunters Gathering after negative feedback from playtests.
Horizon Hunters Gathering is a multiplayer, cartoony spinoff from Guerrilla’s mainline, single-player Horizon series, which is known for its photorealistic visuals. Upon its announcement in February, Horizon Hunters Gathering was compared to Capcom’s Monster Hunter series, although many questioned whether it would find an audience.
Closed playtests followed earlier this year, with a launch across PlayStation 5 and PC expected to follow. However, according to Bloomberg, Sony has ordered a reboot of the game amid negative feedback from the playtests. Apparently, Guerrilla has been working to reboot the game since...
Key Preview Takeaways:
This Arthurian-legend action-RPG leans into its King Arthur inspirations in a really impressive way.
The two boss fights in my demo were extremely satisfying combat encounters.
Despite the combat being fun, Gwendolyn's movement controls still need some fine-tuning.
In Tides of Annihilation it isn’t just London Bridge that’s falling down, it’s the entire city that’s been razed to ruins by an unknown presence invading from a mysterious otherworld, and you’re the only human survivor left to stop it. This action adventure heavily inspired by Arthurian legend made a serious splash when it was announced early last year, but I was initially concerned that the fast-paced slash ‘em up from first-time developer Eclipse...
Subnautica 2 gets its Buddy system update today, August 19. It adds a number of new features revolving around multiplayer in the underwater survival and crafting game.
In a new video, creative director Anthony Gallegos ran through everything players can expect from the co-op focused 1.2 update, which adds Proximity Chat, Player Trading and Revives, and an all-new Tracking Tag.
Gallegos said 1.2 includes developer Unknown Worlds’ first iteration of Subnautica 2 proximity chat. It includes an in-game voice chat option that you can use with your friends to talk locally with each other. As you get farther away it will switch to a radio-sounding voice that will progressively break up to a point where you can almost not hear your friend. “I...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first quarter-century.
Those of you who’ve been reading my stuff long enough may remember that when I reviewed Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, the third game in Ubisoft’s stellar Tom Clancy stealth series, for Official Xbox Magazine, I awarded it 9.9 out of 10 (interestingly enough, IGN wrote the shortest news story ever about it back then). It was, at the time, the highest score the magazine had ever given. And it wasn’t even as high as I wanted to go...
Eight months after the Switch 2 edition of Stardew Valley was released digitally, a physical edition of the upgrade has popped up at Fangamer.
The physical Switch 2 edition, which is listed at $39, might not be the most worthwhile purchase for anyone who already owns the OG. It technically includes the original Switch version of the game, which is almost always under $35 on Amazon, and the otherwise free Switch 2 upgrade pack.
As someone who doesn’t have a physical edition of the game, however, I'm feeling very inclined. What you’re really paying those $5 extra for is a beautiful cartridge and the new Switch 2 packaging. Five years ago I would have said that’s a pretty silly thing to cough up a couple extra bucks for, but in 2026, I...
The Call of Duty socials team accidentally posted an internal marketing image for Modern Warfare 4, and fans suspect it may be AI-generated.
Earlier today, the Call of Duty Twitter account posted a render of a soldier walking toward the camera while promoting the game's appearance at Gamescom. Eagle-eyed fans examined the image and noticed that the soldier's gun appeared to be warped in an odd way, possibly suggesting the image was AI-generated. The graphic was eventually taken down, and the Call of Duty team stated that it was posted by mistake.
"Earlier today, an image was mistakenly posted to one of the Call of Duty accounts," said a Call of Duty rep on social media. "It included a temporary render from a marketing style guide...
Keep those mobile electronics - including your handheld gaming PCs - charged up with a portable power bank. As part of its ongoing Back to School Sale, Amazon is offering the Baseus 20,000mAh 45W Power Bank for an affordable $20.99 after coupon code "OJAGXRO6". Better yet, you don't need to be an Amazon Prime member to get this deal.
Baseus 20,000mAh 45W USB Power Bank for $21
This Baseus power bank boasts a generous 20,000mAh, or 74Whr battery capacity. If you factor in 80% power efficiency, here are the approximate number of times you can fully recharge each gaming handheld:
Nintendo Switch (16Whr) about 3.7 times
Nintendo Switch 2 (19Whr) about 3.1 times
Steam Deck (40Whr) about 1.5 times
Apple iPhone 17 (14.3Whr) about 4.1 times...