On this week’s episode of IGN’s weekly PlayStation Show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Jada Griffin and Mark Medina to talk about the latest and greatest in the world of PlayStation, and also why Mark has a grudge against his PS5.
But before that, the panel jumps into the new PS Plus update for the month of July, talking about the first big refresh for PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers. We break down the new releases like Stray coming to the service, alongside games like Final Fantasy VII Remake and Marvel’s Avengers, and how we feel about the value of the Extra and Premium tiers one month into the service. Plus, some hopes for where PS Plus goes from here.
Next we talk about some of the news of the week...
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Bandai Namco, publisher for games like Pac-Man, the Tales of series, and Elden Ring has confirmed its been hacked by a ransomware group called ALPHV. The confirmation follows a report earlier this week from VCG that a group had successfully infiltrated Bandai Namco based on a post from vx-underground.
“On July 3, 2022, Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. confirmed that it experienced an unauthorized access by third party to the internal systems of several Group companies in Asian regions (excluding Japan),” Bandai Namco said today in a statement to VCG. “After we confirmed the unauthorized access, we have taken measures such as blocking access to the servers to prevent the damage from spreading.”
Bandai Namco said there is also a chance...
Evil Dead: The Game has received an Army of Darkness update, featuring a new map, more weapons, premium cosmetics, and a single-player Exploration mode.
Evil Dead fans will have a lot of groovy fun with the Army of Darkness update, as it comes with an all-new map featuring several iconic locations from Sam Raimi's 1992 comedy-horror threequel. Those landmarks include the medieval setting of Castle Kandar, the Windmill, the Arthurian Outpost, Fort Gort, and the Castle Kandar Keep.
The trailer for the Army of Darkness update gives players a teaser of what they can expect when entering battle with the skeletal deadites lurking in these new hotspots. Players will be able to hone their slaying skills with two new weapons: the almighty...
Tainted Grail, the board game that burst onto the scene as 2018's biggest Kickstarter campaign, is now aiming even higher. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person, open-world RPG that aims to release into Steam Early Access in Q4 2022. Get a look at the tone and vibe of the game in the new cinematic trailer at the top of this page.
Polish fantasy writer Krzysztof Piskorski created Tainted Grail, which took its first stab at video game success with 2020's Tainted Grail: Conquest, a deck-building roguelike. The Awaken Realms development team describes the world of Tainted Grail as a "gritty, unique retelling of Arthurian legends — an epic dark fantasy setting in which humans arrived at the island of Avalon in search of...
The Red Dead Online community had started planning a funeral for the game, to coincide with the anniversary of the game’s last major update. They didn't know that it would be officially declared dead in advance.
On July 7, 2022, Rockstar Games pushed an update to its Newswire, confirming that Red Dead Online would not receive any more “major themed content updates,” as the studio shifts development resources onto Grand Theft Auto 6.
The news came less than a week before July 13, the one-year anniversary of Red Dead Online’s last major update, Blood Money, which brought a smattering of missions, a dubious in-game currency, and The Quick Draw Club, a rapid-fire monthly iteration of Red Dead Online’s existing battle pass. You could...
Few video game characters are as iconic as Sonic the Hedgehog. The speedy little blue blur has been around for over three decades, touching every corner of pop culture along the way, from games, to comics, to TV, to blockbuster movies. But we’re here specifically to celebrate the mainline Sonic game series and pick the best of them.
Before we start, let’s quickly touch upon our criteria. We tried to rank these games based on a combination of historical significance, innovation, and how well these games stand the test of time. Some games, like Sonic Adventure 1 and the original Sonic the Hedgehog, for instance, are obviously super important to the Sonic series and set the foundation for both 2D and 3D Sonic games to follow, but we felt...
Mass Effect developer BioWare never intended to make the now-beloved Garrus a romance option in the second game and was "blindsided" when fans asked for it.
In an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn was asked if the BioWare team always intended to bring Garrus and Tali back in the second game or if it was decided later as a response to players' positive reactions towards them.
"We always knew they'd come back as companions," Karpyshyn said. "I was a bit surprised fans wanted the romance options. Tali I could sort of see. You never saw her face, so it was easy to imagine something vaguely human (but she had those weird feet). Garrus blindsided me," he added. "But once we saw what fans wanted, we decided to...
As Doom continues to be played on just about every piece of technology available, things have finally gone full circle as someone has now made Doom playable in, well, Doom.
As spotted by PCGamesN, YouTube user kgsws uploaded a video of himself modding the game into itself, before showing actual gameplay of him playing Doom within Doom on PC.
The 'inner' Doom replaces a wall within regular Doom and mimics any movements the player makes. By walking right up to it, the inner Doom therefore takes up the full screen and can be played in its entirety before players return to playing the main game.
While there's obviously not much practical use for this, it's just another fun and ridiculous way players have found to play the classic 1993...
With an elaborate set of puzzles to solve and no shortage of jolting jump scares to shock you with, unraveling the morbid central mystery of Madison is a bit like trying to evacuate an escape room while simultaneously struggling to prevent the vacuation of your bowels. Taking clear inspiration from Hideo Kojima’s superb 2014 Silent Hill teaser demo, P.T., Madison layers on the clever use of a Polaroid camera for puzzle-solving and exploration with consistently compelling results. It might not be as expertly structured as the spiraling, psychological horror hallways of Kojima’s much revered concept, but Madison’s haunted house is certainly scary enough to be situated somewhere in the same neighborhood.
In Madison you play as Luca, a...
The Halo caretakers and developers at 343 Industries are making a major piece of lost Halo history playable: the infamous Halo 2 E3 2003 campaign demo that never made it into the final game. We react to this fantastic surprise and recall the Halo 2 hype from that time. Plus: a plea for proper, native Xbox Game Pass support on the Steam Deck, our thoughts on the potential Apex Legends Universe single-player game that Respawn might be making (aka Titanfall 3?), our reaction to the long-awaited gameplay reveal of Skull & Bones, and more!
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 Todd Howard, who...
Xbox Best in Show: Redfall, Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Starfield, & More - IGN Summer of Gaming
IGN's Ryan McCaffrey, Miranda Sanchez, Destin Legarie, and Cameron Hawkins give their Best in Show picks for the Xbox & Bethesda Games E3 2021 Showcase Best in Show.
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Marvel Comics games were a big part of the Square Enix Presents E3 2021 Livestream. IGN's Max Scoville, Mitchell Saltzman, Cameron Hawkins, and Zach Ryan talk about the Marvel's Avengers - Black Panther: War for Wakanda announcement and the character design of the new Guardians of the Galaxy game.
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Today on IGN The Fix: Games, Starfield gets its time in the sun with a beautiful new trailer, as well as a release date. The upcoming RPG from Bethesda Game Studios will land exclusively on Xbox Series X, Series S, and PC via Game Pass. Xbox fans were treated to an action-packed look at Halo Infinite and its free-to-play multiplayer. The first half of the campaign as well as the multiplayer mode are set to launch this holiday season. 343 Industries' upcoming title will also feature cross-play and cross-progression. And lastly, Stella has the latest on the protagonists of Scarlet Nexus! We've even got a chance for you to win a pair of Scarlet Nexus-themed Vans, all courtesy of Bandai Namco!
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The Xbox & Bethesda Games E3 2021 Showcase had some big reveals, including a multiplayer reveal for Halo Infinite, a Starfield cinematic trailer, a Forza Horizon 5 gameplay overview, and a ton of Xbox Game Pass announcements. IGN's Ryan McCaffrey, Miranda Sanchez, Destin Legarie, and Cameron Hawkins are here to talk about it all.
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Nearly a year after Relic Entertainment and Sega announced Company of Heroes 3, the next entry in the beloved World War II real-time strategy series finally has a release date. Today, Relic Entertainment revealed that CoH3 is set to release on November 17, 2022.
According to a press release, the game will have four playable factions and two separate campaigns at launch: the more open-ended Italian Dynamic Campaign and the focused, narrative-based North African Operation.
These campaigns will also introduce players to new mechanics, including "side armor, enemy vehicle recovery and vehicle-towing, which lets you reposition your hard-hitting artillery like the German Flak 36 and British 17-Pounder."
While the game won't be out until...
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. The fighters on the North African front in Company of Heroes 3 seem inclined to agree with me. A far cry from the breezy, blooming Italian beaches we saw in IGN’s last preview, the other side of the Mediterranean theater is parched, oppressive, and sparsely-settled. It takes a rugged army with the ability to keep the tank treads running in far less than ideal conditions to succeed here. And the new Deutsch Afrika Korps – who will also be playable in multiplayer as a separate roster from the already revealed German Wehrmacht – are up to the task.
The mission I got to play involves breaking through British lines and capturing a nearby town in order to cut...
Developer Atomic Wolf and publisher Games Operators (the publisher of Rustler [aka Grand Theft Horse], the medieval top-down parody of GTA 1 & 2), are developing another send-up of a familiar genre. Yet Another Fantasy Title is, as the name implies, a fantasy-themed game. It's a top-down-view open-world action-RPG. Watch the announcement trailer above and check out the first screenshots in the gallery below.
You play an outlaw who'd "normally be prey for the protagonist in some sidequest," as the Atomic Wolf team describes it. Instead, you've killed the kingdom's savior and stolen his unicorn. An adventure ensues. Yet Another Fantasy Title promises parodied versions of all of the usual open-world action-RPG fantasy genre tropes, such...
Blasphemous developer The Game Kitchen has announced a virtual reality board game platform called All on Board!, alongside a Kickstarter campaign to help fund it.
All On Board! is similar in approach to the popular Tabletop Simulator, offering licensed board games as mods, but with a suite of creation tools to allow players to create and test their own games. Unlike Tabletop Simulator, All On Board! has been built specifically for VR, and is aiming to offer a more true-to-life virtual version of playing board games with friends.
The platform is focused on creating authentic social interactions in a virtual space, with users actually seeing their friends’ avatars and hand movements as they reach out to move their pieces, roll dice...
Here's a Prime Deal that's almost too good to pass up: Far Cry 6 is down to $12.99 on consoles (see it on Amazon). That's a phenomenal deal on a truly massive open-world shooter. The deal is only available for Prime members, but you can sign up here if you're not a current member -- you might even be eligible for a one-month free trial. The discount will only last throughout Prime Day, which runs July 12 - 13, although it may go out of stock sooner.
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Far Cry 6 follows the same template as all the recent games in the series, meaning...
Supermassive Games, the developer behind Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology, and The Quarry, has been acquired by Nordisk Games.
Part of the larger Nordisk Film brand, the Denmark-based entertainment company owns a handful of other game developers including Avalanche Studios, the creator of Just Cause.
As reported by gamesindustry.biz, Nordisk Games acquired a 30.7% in Supermassive in March last year but announced in a blog post that it now wholly owns the studio.
"Having had such a positive experience over the past year it wasn’t a difficult decision when Nordisk Games wanted to explore increasing their investment," said Supermassive CEO Pete Samuels.
"We have an exciting and ambitious growth strategy for Supermassive Games...
Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode recently introduced one of the most memorable Spartan armors in the franchise's history, and now that armor is being immortalized as a statue from Dark Horse Direct.
Check out the slideshow gallery below for an exclusive first look at the Halo Infinite Spartan Chonmage PVC statue:
This statue is based on the Fracture: Tenrai multiplayer event. In the Halo universe, the Chonmage helmet symbolizes ancient samurai generals who harmonized with their fellow warriors, while the Yokai helmet represents those who were consumed by bloodlust and the thrill of battle. This statue includes an alternate Yokai helmet piece for those who prefer that look.
The Spartan Chonmage statue measures 10 inches tall. This...
Halo Infinite's campaign co-op beta still hasn't kicked off as developer 343 Industries is currently unable to get the mode working.
In a series of tweets (below) spotted by PC Gamer, 343's community director Brian Jarrard said the team is "still targeting this week but it's day by day as work continues". Despite announcing it would begin the week of July 11, "the team is still working on our upcoming Halo Infinite network co-op insider flight build," Jarrard said, with "flight" essentially meaning "beta".
He continued: "Flighting is fluid as the process entails discovering issues in initial rings and resolving them before expanding to a larger audience. A few issues were discovered in our current flight ring and the team is working...
Calling all Spartans - we've got a brand new officially licensed piece of Halo merchandise available to pre-order in the IGN Store. This PVC statue features a Spartan donning the legendary samurai-themed Yoroi armor set obtainable during the limited-time Fracture: Tenrai event in Halo Infinite.
Halo Infinite Spartan Yoroi Statue
Standing at just over 10" tall, this collectible statue features the Scarlett Empress coating, the traditional Kabuto helmet, Gatekeeper shoulder pads, and the Shadow Raven knee pads, and is the perfect way to show off your love of the Halo franchise.
Thankfully, you don't have to grind an obscene amount of time in-game to acquire this collectible item.
Check out the gallery below to see some...
Guy "Dr. DisRespect" Beahm, the banned Twitch streamer, has revealed more details about his studio's AAA FPS blockchain game, including a name: Project Moon.
Today, his newly founded studio Midnight Society revealed details about the upcoming game. According to the studio's website, the game is a "vertical extraction shooter" with PvPvE gameplay. "Our high-level gameplay goals are to capture the essence of arena shooter level design with the scale and scope of battle royale player counts, and the session-to-session gameplay mechanics of extraction-based shooters," the website reads.
As development continues, small glimpses into the game will be released through Snapshots, which the site describes as "playable experiences focused...
The canceled Doom 4 was apparently going to be wildly different than its predecessors, and a new video of unedited footage shows off just how big of a departure the game could have been.
Released on YouTube by video game documentary channel Noclip, the footage shows off a much different vibe for the franchise. It shows the player being chased in the sewers by demons crawling on the wall and ceiling, as horror music swells in the background. It gives off more of a survival-horror vibe than the high-octane action of the Doom games. Some of the early prototype footage also evokes memories of Rage, another series developed by id Software.
Doom 4 was officially announced back in 2008. After disappearing from the news cycle for a number...
Battlefield 3 Reality Mod Will Overhaul Everything From Dynamic Weather To Realtime Day-Night Cycles
After seven years of work from more than 80 contributors, the anticipated Battlefield 3 Reality Mod will finally launch next week, adding features like a day-night cycle and a revamped health and medic system to the base game.
Today, the massive team behind the mod shared a trailer for v0.1, which is now set to launch on July 17.
"BF3: Reality Mod is a BF3 modification that focuses on communication and teamwork," the developers said. "It draws inspiration from the successful BF2 "Project Reality" mod. It offers a complete gameplay and UI overhaul that creates a more tactical and meaningful experience."
According to the mod's roadmap, the upcoming release will introduce the following features:
Custom spawn system (FOBs & Rally...
Action Square, a South Korean game studio is bringing the hit Netflix zombie series to PC and mobile with Kingdom: The Blood. You can check out the game in action now in the first gameplay trailer.
Kingdom: The Blood is an adaptation of the Netflix series Kingdom which is about a zombie apocalypse but set in medieval Korea. The story follows Crown Prince Lee Chang who gets caught up in the zombie invasion while investigating the mysterious circumstances around his father's disappearance.
The game will allow players to create their own characters and cut through zombies while traversing through historic locales. According to Action Square, a professional Korean sword dancer was motion captured for the combat and historical details...
As our deals soaked hub page suggests, Amazon Prime Day is now in full swing. Are there some amazing discounts in there? Absolutely. There's also a fantastic opportunity if you've been planning to make a trip into the mind-blowing medium that is VR.
For a limited time you can score a great deal on the Meta Quest 2 (once known as the Oculus Quest 2). Back when this unit debuted, we loved it to the tune of a 9 out of ten. Later on, we also rated it as the number one VR headset available in 2022—beating out stiff competition like PSVR, HTC Vive Cosmos and the Valve Index. Basically, the TL;DR is this: Meta Quest 2 improved upon an already amazing VR headset, thanks to better resolution, refresh rate, and a lower price tag.
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Skyrim Together Reborn, a mod that adds co-op to Bethesda's beloved RPG, has been downloaded more than 80,000 times in three days.
Despite its success, however, the development team behind the mod are officially moving on to other projects, telling the community that it's now up to them to improve it.
The team shared an update on reddit following Skyrim Together Reborn's release on July 8, saying it was happy with the launch as, while there were some technical difficulties, these were expected and most players were seemingly able to play as intended. The only major issue was that some servers didn't work, but a hotfix for this will be released soon.
"We are excited about the future of Reborn," the post read. "With thousands of man...
Marauders, the upcoming PvPvE loot-and-raid sci-fi first-person shooter that combines on-foot FPS gameplay and spaceship dogfighting, is heading into a closed beta session next week.
From July 20-25, anyone who preorders Marauders will be able to participate in the closed beta on Steam. Developer Small Impact Games and publisher Team17 say that the closed beta will add two new Raid locations since the closed alpha a couple months ago: Merchant Ship, which they describe as "an expansive, breach-able frigate perfect for intimate and long-range firefights" and Terraformer, a "newly abandoned agricultural hub built on top of an asteroid shard."
We previewed Marauders during the closed alpha recently and came away impressed with the core...