Poorly received action game Babylon’s Fall will be shut down early next year, less than a year after it was released.
The online hack-and-slash from Square Enix debuted to catastrophic reviews and has now effectively been canceled, with the game being shut down completely in February 2023.
“With the desire of delivering an exhilarating online multiplayer action RPG set in an elaborate high fantasy world, we launched the game’s official service on Thursday, 3 March 2022, and have continued to undertake additional development and operations,” said an official statement. “However, it is with deep regret to inform you that we will be terminating the game’s service on Tuesday, 28 February 2023.”
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The Coalition has pledged 1% of all future net revenue from Gears of War games and merchandise to suicide prevention charities, with Crisis Text Line announced as its first partner.
Studio head Mike Crump revealed the commitment on Xbox Wire, saying that Gears of War has always stood for belonging and The Coalition's message amid soaring suicide rates in the United States is to 'Never Fight Alone'.
"We are proud to announce that The Coalition will donate 1% of net revenue from all Gears of War games and merchandise to organizations working to prevent suicide and combat loneliness through mental health advocacy," Crump said. "This is a multi-year commitment our studio is making to give back to our community and create real-world...
Before making a decisive move, it pays to wait and watch. This is true for assassinations, considering video game preorders and swan-diving kidneys first into a haystack. (Seriously, there could be a pitchfork in there.) Whereas yesterday offered the deals thirsty no Assassin's Creed Mirage discounts, Amazon has now become a small oasis of savings in a vast, depressing desert of regular RRP.
It's also worth noting that it's covered under their Preorder Price Guarantee. Very basic gist: if the price inches even lower between now and release, you'll pay that instead. See website for extra rules way too verbose for here.
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EA has announced that its EA Originals label has entered a partnership with Koei Tecmo and Dynasty Warriors studio Omega Force for a new hunting game - that's like Monster Hunter hunting, not Big Buck Hunter hunting.
We don't know a ton of details yet about what this new hunting game will be, but EA did say it is a "AAA experience" and is based in fantasy feudal Japan. We're expected to get more details about it later this month, which could suggest a showing at Tokyo Game Show this week.
“The EA team fully embraces our creative independence and have become invaluable partners offering both development and publishing support," said Koei Tecmo executive VP Yosuke Hayashi. "Adding the global resources of EA with our own will help us...
343 Industries head and founder Bonnie Ross announced that she is leaving the studio.
“While I had hoped to stay with Halo until we released the Winter Update, I am letting you know I will be leaving 343 and attending to a family medical issue,” Ross says in a statement on Twitter.
She continues, “I am incredibly proud of the work everyone at 343 Industries has done with Halo Infinite, the Master Chief Collection, the Halo television series and so much more. It has been an honor to serve alongside the team for the last 15 years and to be a part of a universe that I love.”
In a statement to Windows Central, Microsoft says that effective immediately, head of production Pierre Hintze will take over as studio head in Ross’s place. He...
A new Assassin’s Creed game has been announced, and it’s starting to go up for preorder. Assassin’s Creed Mirage is set to release in 2023 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. Style-wise, it’s pitched as a throwback to the early Assassin’s Creed games, with a smaller map and a focus on stealth kills and parkour traversal. As such, Mirage is expected to be shorter than recent releases like Valhalla and Odyssey, and is priced accordingly: $49.99 for the standard edition. Read on for more info.
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Naughty Dog has seemingly included a big reference to hit sitcom The Office in its The Last of Us Part 1 remake.
As shared on the Naughty Dog Central Twitter fan account (below), a video from TikTok user rxelei shows an office layout featured in the game that looks remarkably similar to the Dunder Mifflin Scranton office from the show. It appears to have been newly added in the remake.
In the Pittsburgh section of the game, the player enters a smashed window into an office building that looks identical in areas to the sitcom location. As Joel moves towards the front of the room, we see (what appears to be) Pam's desk, Michael's office, and the Dunder Mifflin front door, complete with couch.
Jim and Dwight's desk block isn't quite...
Ubisoft has made clear that an Adults Only 18+ rating that was presented ahead of Assassin's Creed Mirage's reveal was a mistake. The game will definitely not feature gambling or lootboxes, which were suggested by the rating.
In a statement made to IGN, an Ubisoft spokesperson said the game hasn't yet been rated and that any reference to an Adults Only 18+ rating - which apparently meant the inclusion of intense violence, blood and gore, sexual themes, partial nudity, and real gambling - was a mistake.
"Following the announcement of Assassin's Creed Mirage during Ubisoft Forward, some store pages mistakenly displayed the game for preorders with an Adults Only ESRB rating," said the Ubisoft spokesperson.
"While Assassin's Creed...
The Secret of Monkey Island is one of the seminal releases of its era; a comedic adventure game with heart, humour, and problem solving rubber chickens. Created by Ron Gilbert and with a team that included a fresh-faced Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer, this inventive take on both adventure games and the swashbuckling life of a pirate debuted in 1990 and was followed by a sequel the very next year.
So. Instant, genre-defining classics, right? “It was very much a surprise for me,” says Ron Gilbert, of the enduring popularity of those first Guybrush Threepwood adventures. “It's hard sometimes for people to look back and think that Monkey Island wasn’t this giant franchise, and it confuses them that I left the company right after Monkey...
Despite the many issues Cyberpunk 2077 has seen (and fixed!) since its launch, CD Projekt has said that it is "totally, fully committed" to developing the Cyberpunk IP further.
Michał Nowakowski, CD Projekt's vice president of business development, confirmed the company's commitment to the Cyberpunk IP during the CD Projekt Group H1 2022 earnings call, saying that the foundation the studio built for this particular universe is not simply going to be thrown away.
"We decided to develop one major expansion for Cyberpunk, which is going to take advantage of all the capabilities of the new-gen consoles," Nowakowski said. "Having said that, we’re totally, fully committed to developing the Cyberpunk IP further, beyond this particular...
Disney Dreamlight Valley will expand its roster with The Lion King and Toy Story content later this year, bringing more characters, realms and stories to the life-sim adventure game.
Gameloft has unveiled an Early Access roadmap for Disney Dreamlight Valley, confirming two free content updates before the end of the year. The first update will center around The Lion King and is expected to arrive sometime this fall. Players will be able to unleash Scar as a new villainous character while also continuing the main story and encountering "more surprises."
After that, there will be a Toy Story in late fall that will come with new characters to interact with, a new realm to visit, and even "more surprises." The Toy Story update was...
With the demon-rousing riffs of Eddie Munson’s Master of Puppets performance in Stranger Things still fresh in our social feeds, the timing could not be more ideal for Metal: Hellsinger to strut out onto the main stage and adopt an imposing power stance. Taking the love affair between Doom and heavy metal music and melding it into an official marriage, Metal: Hellsinger’s rhythm-based rampage through the fiery depths of Hell had me gleefully headbanging along to every heathen-seeking headshot. I couldn’t help but be disappointed, though, that much like the ethos of the musical genre that powers it, Metal: Hellsinger is here for a good time rather than a long time. When I rolled credits after roughly four hours of play I was left with...
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2's Open Beta is kicking off this weekend with the first wave of players. This wave starts on Friday, September 16, and will include PS5 and PS4 owners who have preordered already. This runs until Sept 17, with the Beta opening up for everyone on PlayStation from Sept 18-20. The next beta dates will then proceed from Sept 22-26 (we've got all the precise details below).
Remember, you're getting early access to the Open Beta with your preorder, and you don't have to pay anything until the game ships in late October. So you could absolutely preorder, get a beta code, and then cancel your order after the beta finalises if you don't like the game, at no cost. But, if you don't want to preorder, don't worry, as...
Forspoken is a lot more fun than I expected. It’s arguable its marketing campaign so far has actually done Forspoken a disservice by focusing on campy dialogue instead of what it’s doing best. Forspoken is actually an RPG lite with a very heavy emphasis on big, bombastic combat sequences that have an optional bonus challenge for try-hards like myself in a Devil May Cry-like combat rating system. Because of this misdirection, Forspoken surprised me with this focus on combat, roaming bosses to challenge, and a map filled with objectives to complete. I finished my demo excited to get better ratings in fights, and to see how this all ties into lead character Frey’s experiences in her fish out of water story.
The majority of this demo was...
Ubisoft has said that its current approach to game development is to approach projects with “focus” to ensure each game is honed to its target audience, rather than attempting to cater to a very broad, non-specific crowd.
At a recent Ubisoft press briefing, vice president of editorial, Fawzi Mesmar, spoke as part of a presentation about how focus, rather than broad ideas, was an important part of the editorial board's current development process. In a subsequent interview with IGN he expanded on that idea, saying that the company doesn’t “want one game to do everything.”
“We want to be okay with making a decision around the one game and go, ‘We're going to go for that, and we're going to commit, and we're going to be okay [that it]...
Update: GAME has quickly updated its Assassin's Creed Mirage listing this morning, and now when you go to purchase the Deluxe Edition, its price will increase at checkout to £49.99 instead of £34.99. Thanks to Twitter user @JustAMoogle for informing us on the change. The original story continues below.
Assassin's Creed Mirage is now available to preorder in the UK, listed at £44.99 for the Standard Edition on the Ubisoft Store, £49.99 for the Deluxe Edition, and £129.99 for the Collector's Edition. But, preorders are also now available at UK retailer GAME, which has both the Standard and Deluxe Editions listed at just £34.99 at the time of writing.
This is either a temporary error or simply an amazing deal. Either way, GAME will not...
Welcome to another week of savings! I had hoped to incorporate the phrase "on Assassin's Creed Mirage, Ubi's new shank-a-thon" there, but I can't. Yet. Any bargain on this OG-lookin' AC is an actual mirage. Even my eagle vision can only spot standard RRPs at present. While we're watching that space and hoping for change, maybe take a stab at some seriously amazing Humble Bundles, legacy AC adventures or some cheap PS5 AAAs.
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A brand-new Ubisoft Forward has finally arrived and, alongside reveals from Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Skull and Bones, it gave us a glimpse into the future of Assassin's Creed.
From Assassin's Creed Infinity and its first game that will take us to feudal Japan to the official reveal of Assassin's Creed Mirage to the news that Trackmania will be headed to consoles, we've gathered all the biggest news from the latest Ubisoft Forward for you here.
Assassin’s Creed Infinity Officially Revealed with Two New Games, and One Is Set in Feudal Japan
Ubisoft has officially revealed Assassin’s Creed Infinity, a new platform and hub that will serve as the future of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Furthermore, Ubisoft shared that the...
Future games in the Assassin’s Creed series will vary in length, and not all will follow the open-world RPG template that has defined the series since 2017’s Assassin’s Creed Origins.
As part of today’s Assassin’s Creed Showcase, it was announced that Assassin’s Creed Mirage - an action/adventure game similar to the first game in the series - will retail at $50 for the standard edition. In an interview with IGN, vice president executive producer of Assassin's Creed, Marc-Alexis Côté, explained that the price reflects the scale of the project.
“It is a smaller Assassin's Creed project,” said Côté. “This was conceived [and] built to celebrate the 15th anniversary. So that's why we're using our modern Valhalla engine to build a smaller...
Ubisoft's Trackmania is on its way to consoles at last in early 2023, and it will include cross-play and cross-progression with its existing PC rendition.
Announced at Ubisoft Forward 2022, we learned that Trackmania will be coming to Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Google Stadia, and Amazon Luna early next year. It'll be day one on Ubisoft+.
It's still the same Trackmania we've been playing on PC for a few years now, shiny cars and all. It's free to play without microtransactions, but it does have, well, macrotransactions in that there are two major premium purchases that gate large quantities of the game.
We reviewed Trackmania on PC back in 2020, saying that its "mechanically nuanced time trials are as tense and...
Ubisoft has fully revealed Assassin's Creed Mirage, a new action-adventure game in the series focused on stealth and parkour.
Revealed as part of Ubisoft Forward's Assassin's Creed Showcase, Assassin's Creed Mirage casts you as Basim Ibn Ishaq and is set in the city of Baghdad, twenty years before the events of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It is designed to be a modern take on the original gameplay template for the earlier Assassin's Creed games, with developer Ubisoft Bordeaux using the same three design pillars as the original game: stealth, parkour, and assassinations.
No gameplay was shown, but a CGI cinematic trailer focused on the rise of Basim from a simple street thief to a master assassin. He does so under the tutelage of...
The Division Heartland is still on track for release sometime in 2022 or 2023 for PC, consoles, and cloud, Ubisoft has confirmed.
Announced at Ubisoft Forward 2022, we learned that Heartland will also have another testing phase that interested players can sign up for now.
Creative director Keith Evans appeared on the stream to explain "the fresh and distinct" take of Heartland while still staying true to the universe's established lore.
Evans also said that Heartland will feature brand new stories and characters that tie into the first two Division games.
The Division Heartland is a free-to-play game set in the universe of Ubisoft Massive's Tom Clancy series. It was announced in 2021, but was quietly delayed later that year.
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Skull and Bones got a new trailer today that showed off a number of features, including ship customization and its pirate lairs, where you smuggle your treasure and sell to the highest bidder.
Revealed at Ubisoft Forward 2022, we got a look at the ship customization systems, including cannons, ship armor that counters different damage types, and visual customizations like paint, sails, and other decor. We also saw a glimpse of pirate lairs, where you collect your stores of loot.
We also learned that Skull & Bones will feature cross-platform play at launch, and while there is obviously a lot of PvP at the heart of it, you can switch off PvP at any time so that others don't bother you.
PC players can sign up today for a chance to...
Where other life sims can sometimes struggle to make interesting use of the characters that occupy their towns, developer Gameloft bursts onto the scene shirtless and flexing its muscles like Maui with Disney Dreamlight Valley. Even in its unfinished early access state, this is an irresistible blend of city planning from the likes of Animal Crossing with quests and a progression system more commonly seen in RPGs. All of that is wrapped inside a Disney theme with an all-star cast of adored characters that make it ridiculously hard to put down. Some tedious quests, copious bugs, and an incomplete final act mean it certainly warrants the early access label at the moment, but it’s already all too easy to lose dozens of hours in this magical...
There have been a lot of conversations recently over the future of the Call of Duty franchise, and for good reason, as it's regularly one of the best-selling games every year. With Microsoft's acquisition of Activision and the recent discussions of possible exclusivity for Call of Duty in the future, we thought it would be a good time to ask -- what should Playstation do after Call of Duty is gone?
Are you a fan of Call of Duty who primarily plays it on Playstation? If so, how do you feel about the possibility of needing to swap consoles to continue playing it? Do you think Playstation and Xbox will reach some compromise to keep Call of Duty on both consoles? Do you think Call of Duty has a chance at still being as profitable if it...
The Ubisoft Forward showcase is returning for another exciting event that promises to give fans a glimpse at not only Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Skull and Bones, but also a "peek at the future" of the Assassin's Creed franchise.
IGN is carrying the stream and, as usual, this watch guide will provide you with everything you need to know to watch the latest Ubisoft Forward, including when it starts, a list of places you can watch it with us, and what you can expect to see at the show.
Ubisoft Forward (September 2022) Start Time
The upcoming Ubisoft Forward takes place on Saturday, September 10 at 12pm PT/3pm ET/8pm BST. If you live in Australia, that translates to Sunday, September 11 at 5am AEST. There will also be a pre-show...
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves collection finally has a PC release date.
The long-awaited Uncharted collection includes Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and will finally make its way to PC on October 19.
The collection was leaked on the Epic Games Store earlier in the year, with a similar listing now confirming the release date as well as what we can expect from its pre-order bonuses.
“The Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, remastered and optimized for PC, hits Epic Games Store on Oct. 19, and if you pre-purchase it, you’ll get a snazzy new Fortnite glider in the shape of Sully’s seaplane.”
That’s right – you could be gliding your way into King’s Canyon via Sully’s seaplane… but whether or not you’ll...
Following today's announcement of upcoming new Tron game Tron Identity, Bithell Games head Mike Bithell and Disney producer Heidi Vargas have shared a handful of details on what to expect from it, including its genre and setting: it's a detective game set years after Tron: Legacy.
Sitting down with IGN for an exclusive interview, Bithell explained that Identity takes place so far in the future that characters from the other Tron stories are legends that have shaped the history of Identity's setting, and are loved and hated for their contributions.
It takes place in a secondary Grid created by Flynn for the ISOs to inhabit after promising he'd return, though as we know, he never did. We get a look at what society and culture has...
Gaming is having some serious whiplash on everything web3, blockchain, and NFT-related lately, with a number of companies jumping on the bandwagon (some to massive backlash) and others playing more cautiously. Now, we can go ahead and add Disney’s gaming arm into the column of “currently not interested.”
In an interview with Disney VP of Disney, Pixar, and 20th Century Games Luigi Priore, he told IGN that while Disney is currently watching the industry closely and observing the changes and trends to see what will ultimately stick, it doesn’t have anything to announce regarding blockchain projects for now.
“It’s a whole new area,” Priore says. “We’re always paying attention to what happens there. We’re looking for those successes to...
Six years ago, Disney announced it was shutting down its games publishing and development arms, seemingly exiting games for good.
Today, with a showcase stuffed with Disney and Marvel licensed titles, it’s like it never left.
Alongside new trailers and updates for known games like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Marvel Snap, and Disney Speedstorm, we just saw brand new reveals of games including Tron Identity from Bithell Games, Disney Illusion Island from Dlala, and Amy Hennig’s mysterious project with Skydance Media: a Captain America and Black Panther game set in World War II. Disney-loving gamers are eating well today.
But if you told any of us back in 2016 that this smorgasbord...