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Digital & Physical E3 2022 Event Officially Canceled: So What's Next? - IGN Now

After previously canceling the in-person E3 2022 event, the ESA has now confirmed that there won't be a digital equivalent, similar to what was held for last year's #E3. According to sources connected to #E32022 planning, discussions about a digital equivalent were ongoing, but lost momentum. And now, those plans have completely halted, with E3 2022 no longer a thing. We're awaiting comment on what the next steps might be from the ESA, but until then fans can hold out hope for an E3 in-person event in 2023. Continue reading...

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Why Roberta Williams Is Re-embarking on a Colossal Cave Adventure in 2022

Even after she retired from making adventure games, Sierra On-Line co-founder Roberta Williams never stopped having adventures. After a legendary career as a pioneer of the adventure genre, creating games like King's Quest, Mystery House, Phantasmagoria, and many more, Williams has spent her retirement sailing all over the world with her husband and Sierra co-founder Ken Williams. And she's still creating, too, having just published her first novel last year - a historical fiction entitled Farewell to Tara. "I do adventure games and I live my life as an adventure," she tells me in an interview at GDC last week. "I love adventure! I'll go and get it wherever I can get it." But when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted lockdowns that...

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Someone Has Modded a Clever Recreation of Elden Ring's Missing 'Age of Absolute' Ending

A video is circulating purporting to show off a datamined secret seventh ending to Elden Ring that hasn't been seen before — but as cool as the video is, it's sadly fake. Spoilers for the ending of Elden Ring follow — read at your own risk! The video, posted by Elden Ring YouTuber Garden of Eyes conveniently around April Fool's Day, shows off the supposed "Age Absolute" ending. The first half of the video is the same as other endings, where the Tarnished restores Marika's severed head to her body. The differences begin as a five-fingered hand begins to appear in the background behind them as they do. The scene then cuts to the throne room shown in other endings, but instead of the Tarnished sitting on the Elden Throne, the...

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Hyper Light Breaker, a 3D, Co-op Sequel to Hyper Light Drifter, Announced

Heart Machine has revealed Hyper Light Breaker, a 3D, co-op focused sequel to cult classic Hyper Light Drifter, coming to Steam Early Access in Spring 2023. The announcement marks the sixth birthday of Hyper Light Drifter, the studio’s seminal action/adventure game that took players on a beautiful but melancholic journey through a ruined world. That first game was built around challenging combat and a wealth of secrets that offered brief glimpses into the game’s otherwise opaque narrative. However, where Drifter offered a 2D single-player experience (albeit with a local co-op mode that was added post-release), Heart Machine is now looking at creating Breaker in 3D, with online co-op as the focus. The announcement trailer (below)...

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Neon White Preview: Hands-On With a High-Speed FPS

At a glance, Neon White might look like a first-person shooter, but it’s not really — or not entirely. It plays like a shooter, but the focus is more on speedrunning through levels. It also pulls elements from the visual novel genre to tell a rather in-depth story. During a recent demo, director Ben Esposito explained how these pieces fit together. I have to say, I’m intrigued. Neon White does have you running, jumping, and shooting from a first-person perspective, but the levels are short. Most can be completed in under a minute. The idea is to play and replay each level, earning rewards as you chart an optimal path to the end, trimming your completion time as you go. Between levels, the story plays out like a visual novel as you...

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Superfuse Preview: Homebrew Your Superpowers in This Diablo-Inspired ARPG

What if there was a Diablo-like ARPG where instead of selecting from a handful of preset abilities, you could handcraft your very own heroic persona down to the finest detail? That’s precisely what comic book-inspired superhero adventure game Superfuse hopes to deliver, and so far developer Stitch Heads Entertainment’s ambitious undertaking shows a lot of potential. The plethora of combat options feature dozens of combinations of abilities, modifiers, and status effects that pile on submenus within submenus to create one of the most disgustingly customizable hero-builders I’ve ever seen. It’s a stat-consumed nerd’s dream, and if Stitch Heads can pull it off I could easily see it becoming my next obsession. Superfuse is a dungeon...

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Tekken Modder Adds Elden Ring Characters and the Director Says 'Plz Stop It'

A new mod for Tekken 7 has added Elden Ring fan favorites to the roster, but Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada has mixed feelings about it. Created by Ultraboy, the Elden Ring Modpack replaces several standard Tekken fighters with a variety of Elden Ring characters – including Melina, Ranni, and our favorite Pot Boy, Alexander. A video of the impressive mod has already gone viral, showcasing just how detailed the characters appear in the game. Honestly, it’s impressive stuff. But Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada isn’t quite so impressed. “Um... Sure, Elden is a Bandai Namco-funded title, and I was the production general manager in charge of Elden, so it's not irrelevant ... it's ridiculously well-made mod but plz stop it lol,” he...

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Call of Duty Player Tries to Prove He's Not Hacking... and Accidentally Proves He's Hacking

Call of Duty: Vanguard semi-pro Kenji has been caught using hacks live on stream, thanks to his own monitor cam… which he was using to try and prove he wasn’t hacking. According to Dexerto, the player was caught out during a 2v2 tournament where he faced iLuhvly and Sasuke who became suspicious of his actions. Attempting to clear his name after being accused of using wallhacks, Kenji used a monitor cam to showcase his ‘legitimate’ gameplay – but accidentally exposed himself as a cheater in the process. A wallhack allows players to see enemy players’ positions through walls. As you can see in the video above, Kenji’s screen shows boxes highlighting other players' positions, which he had presumably forgotten to turn off when he began...

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Weird West Review

In this alternate universe, the West was won by trying a bunch of ideas so crazy they just might work… and if they don’t, hitting the quick-load button to revert to an earlier save and trying something even crazier until you pull it off. Thanks to that freedom to experiment with its world as you explore, Weird West is one of those games that feels like a stealth and combat playground even as it tells five mostly serious, well-written stories with interesting decisions throughout and a thoughtful conclusion. And with so much ground to cover and replayability to investigate, it’s well worth putting up with some quirks and underwhelming loot. What ties Weird West’s plot together is a group of shadowy figures using a magical brand to...

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There's a Marvel's Avengers Bug and The Only Fix Right Now Is to Delete Your Progress

It looks as though Marvel’s Avengers has a game-breaking bug on PS5… and the only way to fix it right now is by deleting all your campaign progress. According to player reports, the bug causes the game to crash every time you load it up, with many players claiming the game is currently unplayable as a result. The only fix, for now, is seemingly to reset campaign progress entirely: “Our team is continuing to investigate the issue causing a crash for some PS5 players,” developers announced via Twitter. “We think we've identified a fix that is currently being implemented/tested. We hope to have more news by tomorrow morning and will continue to keep you updated.” “In the meantime, here's a workaround that is resolving the issue for...

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Best Battery Case 2022

Having a portable charger may be an effective way to ensure you've always got enough juice available for your smartphone and other devices, but it can be a bit clunky to carry around a second gadget if all you need is a few extra hours of battery life. A battery case for your smartphone is a slightly more elegant solution that's tailored to your phone and skips the cable management that comes with power banks. A quality battery case should do a few things. For one, it should provide plenty of extra juice for your phone. Fortunately, many have a few thousand milliamp-hours worth of energy. Since they're also cases, they should protect your phone as well. And, if you want something really phone-friendly, they shouldn't interfere with...

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The New PlayStation Plus Revealed: Is It Worth It? - Beyond 743

On this week's episode of IGN's PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, and Mark Medina to dig into the latest PlayStation news of the week. And of course, the biggest topic on our minds is the new PlayStation Plus subscription tiers, how Sony is altering PS Plus, and whether we have enough details yet to know if it's worth subscribing to the higher tiers. The panel breaks down their initial reactions to the new PS Plus three-tiered system, how it integrates PlayStation Now, and where it stands as an offering for PlayStation fans. We dig into the pricing structure, the availability of older libraries, the lack of PS3 downloads and PlayStation Vita as a whole, and whether...

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The Story, and Enduring Legacy, of Resident Evil's Original Live-Action Opening

Greg Smith may look a little bit older now, but the resemblance is still uncanny. There’s the reddish hair, the bushy beard, and the stocky physique. All these years later, the Australian is still the spitting image of S.T.A.R.S (Special Tactics and Rescue Service) Alpha team member Barry Burton, a role he played almost thirty years ago for the original Resident Evil. In 1995, Smith, along with five other foreigners living in Japan at the time took an acting gig for an upcoming game called, Biohazard. With development already underway, Capcom’s eventual horror classic already had character models and voice actors in place. But Biohazard’s director Shinji Mikami wanted to shoot some additional live-action scenes to bookend the...

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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Gets April Release Date

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will come to Steam, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One on April 27. Described as a "significant expansion" to the 2013 original, Ultra Deluxe brings the cult classic to console for the first time, with the new content's script being longer than the original game. The Stanley Parable is an experimental, narrative-driven first person game about choice, or lack thereof, and freedom. As described by developer Crows Crows Crows, "the rules of how games should work are broken" as "The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you". Ultra Deluxe was revealed at The Game Awards in 2018 and was originally expected to launch in 2019, but following three separate delays across three years...

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Russian Loop Hero Developer Four Quarters Encourages People to Pirate Its Game Due to Sanctions

Editor's Note: The war in Ukraine is an ongoing, painful and emotive topic. IGN urges community members to be respectful when engaging in conversation around this subject and does not endorse harassment of any kind. Russian Loop Hero developer Four Quarters has encouraged those who are unable to purchase the game due to sanctions placed on Russia after its military invasion of Ukraine to pirate it instead. As reported by Kotaku, these sanctions have made it difficult for people in Russia to purchase the game on online storefronts like Steam. Some of these potential buyers took to a Russian social media site called VK to ask how they can purchase the game while still supporting the developers in the process. Four Quarters responded...

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PlayStation Plus Games for April 2022 Announced

Sony has revealed that the PlayStation Plus games for April 2022 are Hood: Outlaws & Legends (PS5 & PS4), SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated (PS4), and Slay the Spire (PS4). As detailed on PlayStation.Blog, all three of these games will be made available at no extra cost to all PlayStation Plus subscribers on Tuesday, April 5. This news follows Sony's "all-new PlayStation Plus" that is set to launch in June with three separate tiers and, depending on what tier you choose, access to PS5, PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, and PSP games. Unlike Xbox Game Pass, however, no tier will give you access to PlayStation first-party exclusives at launch. Hood: Outlaws & Legends is an online multiplayer title that is, as our review...

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Matcho – a Match-3 FPS – Announced

Genre-blending is nothing new for video games, but we think it's safe to say that the following two genres have never been blended together before: first-person shooters and match-3 games. Yes, you read that right: Matcho is a match-3 FPS that also bills itself as an action-adventure game with an actual story. It sounds nuts but the trailer (which you can watch at the top of this page) is worth taking a look at. In Matcho, you play as the twentysomething Max, whose mysterious illness has kept him confined to the Triagon laboratories in search of a cure. The plot involves aliens, a kidnapping, and Max's malady, and if it's anywhere as intriguing as Matcho's gameplay appears to be, then we might all be in for something very unique...

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Star Trek: Resurgence - The First Preview (IGN First)

Certain franchises lend themselves better to one genre or another. For example, you wouldn’t look for a Fast and the Furious strategy game just as much as you would expect a combat-oriented Star Wars Jedi game like Fallen Order. Star Trek is, bizarrely, a world that has been painted onto numerous genres rather well, from the excellent 2000 first-person shooter Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force to the still-running MMORPG, Star Trek Online. The latest core-gamer-aimed effort from The Next Generation’s 24th century era is Star Trek: Resurgence, which seems to be a perfect fit for Trek as a narrative adventure game, made by a group of ex-Telltale developers at Dramatic Labs who have proven themselves quite good at what they do. Dramatic...

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Intel's Arc A-Series Officially Brings the CPU Maker into the GPU Fight

Intel has officially entered the graphics card market by launching its Arc series of graphics cards for gaming laptops, with desktop GPUs slated to follow sometime this summer. The first generation of Arc A-Series mobile graphics cards debut with three different products: Intel Arc 3, Arc 5, and Arc 7. Arc 3 is available starting now, while Arc 5 and Arc 7 will be available in "early summer." Intel says the Arc 3 graphics aim to deliver "enhanced" 1080p gaming with Arc A370M-based laptops targeting high-FPS and 1080p gaming. Laptops with the Intel Arc 5 or Arc 7, on the other hand, aim to increase the graphics and computing performance by offering more GDDR6 memory, more Xe-cores, and more ray tracing units. You can see a comparison...

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Fast & Furious: Crossroads Is Being Delisted Less Than Two Years After Release

It looks as though Fast & Furious: Crossroads is being pulled from sale less than two years after it launched in August 2020. An update from Bandai Namco has confirmed that Fast & Furious: Crossroads will be delisted by the end of the month, will all sales ending on April 29, 2022, at 4am CEST. “If you bought the game digitally it will remain in your library and can be redownloaded in the future,” says an update on the game’s official website. “Any DLCs purchased before April 29, 2022, will still be available to use after this date.” Additionally, the game’s online modes will also remain active for the time being. How long before that goes offline is anyone’s guess, however. The critically panned game from Bandai Namco didn’t...

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Aussie Deals: Low Preorder Prices on LEGO Skywalker and Hogwarts Legacy, $20 Off Fancy DualSenses

Warning: The lure of more chromatically impressive controllers is strong today. Almost as strong as The Force compelling you to put galactic credits down on a bargain priced Skywalker Saga. Personally, though, I reckon the deal of the day is the opportunity to own Skate 3 forever for less than a box of Smarties. What a stone cold classic. Notable Sales for Nintendo Switch Purchase Cheaply for PC Exciting Offers for XO/XS Product Savings for PS4/PS5 Adam’s our Aussie deals wrangler. You can watch him game on YouTube. Continue reading...

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Will GTA+ Be Worth It? – Unlocked 537

Grand Theft Auto Online is now offering an optional new subscription service called GTA+. We dig into what it is, who it's for, and whether or not it's worth it. Plus: Xbox leaders discuss the future of cloud gaming and the present-day success of Xbox Game Pass at the Game Developers Conference, 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 latest IGN Unfiltered interview, where Joseph Staten – one of Halo's original creators and now the head of creative on Halo Infinite – discusses his fascinating career: Oh, and you can be featured on Unlocked by tweeting us a video Loot Box question! Tweet your question and...

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Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Will Feature the Series' First Female Protagonist

For the first time since its debut in 1979, a Mobile Suit Gundam series will feature a female main character. The still-unnamed protagonist was revealed in a new teaser for Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, where she was shown alongside her new Mobile Suit — the Gundam Aerial. The anime was announced in September of last year and is now scheduled to air this October. Bandai Namco released a new teaser trailer for The Witch From Mercury showing the protagonist's short red hair blowing in the wind, and Gundam Aerial booting up towards the end. The series looks to have a modern art style and inspirational music if the trailer is anything to go by. Produced by studio Sunrise, this is the first Gundam TV show since 2015's Mobile Suit...

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Street Fighter 5 Definitive Update Features Cel-Shaded Graphics And 79 Pages Of Patch Notes

Capcom has unveiled everything players can expect out of the Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition's final update – including a staggering 79 pages worth of patch notes. Dubbed the "Definitive Update", today's substantial patch has no shortage of fresh content. The pixel filter pays homage to the series' past by bathing the game in a classic arcade aesthetic that really hammers home the nostalgia, but it’s the cel-shaded filter that truly offers something special. The crisp new visuals of the filter add depth and vibrancy to the game's 45 characters and their various attack animations, and could become a new fan-favorite way to play. Meanwhile, the 2022 Premier Pass will provide players with costumes for Seth, M. Bison, and Akira...

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Rainbow Six Siege Creative Director on Permanent Arcade Mode, Cross-Play, and More

Boots On the Ground We conducted some exclusive recon on all the new updates for Year 7 of Rainbow Six Siege. Here are top takeaways from our debriefing session with Alex Karpazis, Creative Director of the franchise, with insight on what you can expect to excite in Year 7. Living for Deathmatch A big addition that should make jumping into Siege a smoother experience for beginners is the new game mode, Team Deathmatch. It features five-on-five gameplay and no special abilities. “We’ve been asked about this kind of game mode for a while and we’re super happy to ship it in Season 1,” Karpazis revealed. “Team Deathmatch is a lot more approachable for new players to understand how our gun handling reacts and how destruction works in the...

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Xbox Games With Gold for April 2022 Revealed

Microsoft has announced that March 2022's Games with Gold are Another Sight, Hue, Outpost Kaloki X, and MX vs ATV Alive. As revealed on Xbox Wire, the four Games with Gold will be available to anyone with Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, with Another Sight and Outpost Kaloki X available on April 1. Another Sight is a side-scrolling fantasy adventure where players take control of a girl and her cat in a journey beyond reality. It was released in 2019 and takes around five or six hours to complete. Also available on April 1, but only until April 15, is Outpost Kaloki X, a light-hearted space-station tycoon game with ridiculous characters and stories that released almost two decades ago in 2004. In our 7/10 review, IGN said...

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Fortnite Zero Build Is a No-Build Battle Royale Mode That Is Here to Stay

Fortnite Zero Build is a new no-build battle royale mode that is here to stay following the beginning of Chapter 3, Season 2: Resistance that saw building temporarily removed from the main game for a short time. As detailed by The Fortnite Team, Zero Build arrives as building returns to the main battle royale mode and can be found in the Discover page as Solo, Duos, Trios, and Squads playlists. As the team notes, "You can access the Discover page by clicking on the "CHANGE" button above "PLAY!" in the Lobby." Much like it was in the main game, all players will have access to a recharging Overshield that will help make up for the lack of cover that building would usually provide. Without building, you will need to "show off your...

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Bungie Sues Those Behind Fake YouTube Copyright Claims - Before It Knows Who They Are

Bungie is suing those behind a series of fake copyright claims that plagued Destiny content creators (and Bungie itself) last week. It just needs to find out who they were first. As reported by TorrentFreak, the developer is targeting ten anonymous individuals, and while Bungie doesn't yet know their identities, the lawsuit claims "it will discover them soon, via subpoena or otherwise." Several channels, including Bungie's own, had DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) strikes filed against them, causing YouTube to take a number of videos down. Bungie has criticised the site for not identifying the claims as fraudulent. The developer said in the lawsuit: "Given the ease with which malicious actors can exploit YouTube’s flawed...

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Nvidia's Long-Awaited RTX 3090 Ti Gets Release Date and Price

After announcing the card at CES 2022 and remaining silent in the weeks following, Nvidia has finally shared pricing and release date information for its new flagship graphics card, the RTX 3090 Ti, which is available starting today. Designed to be the new flagship in the RTX 30 series, the RTX 3090 Ti features 24Gb of 21Gbps GDDR6X memory. Like the RTX 3090 announced a few years ago, Nvidia touts its new high-end GPU as a capable graphics card for gaming in 8K resolution. It claims that the RTX 3090 Ti will let you play, capture, and watch games in 8K HDR with DLSS Ultra performance mode enabled. It will also support HDMI 2.1. The RTX 3090 Ti includes 10,752 CUDA cores, 78 RT-TFLOPs, 40 Shader-TFLOPS, 320 Tensor TFLOPs, and like...

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Apex Legends Finally Gets Native PS5 and Xbox Series X/S Versions Today

The native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions of Apex Legends are now available. As part of the Warriors Collection event, developers Respawn Entertainment and Panic Button temporarily brought back Control mode, added an arena map, released limited-time items, and quietly launched the next-gen versions. Apex Legends runs in native 4K resolution on the new consoles, with 60hz gameplay and full HDR. Next-gen players will also have improved draw distances and more detailed models. The developers also outlined a number of updates coming in the future, including 120hz gameplay, adaptive triggers and haptic feedback on PS5, and other general visual and audio improvements across both consoles. While the new version of Apex Legends...

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