Diablo 4 will be arriving in 2023, it was announced during today's Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. Blizzard also confirmed that the Necromancer will be reintroduced as the "fifth and final" class for Diablo 4.
Diablo 4 will also feature cross-play and cross-progression for all platforms. It will be available on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, as well as the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. Blizzard also showed off some new gameplay footage, which showcased Diablo 4's open world.
The Necromancer joins previously announces classes like The Barbarian, Sorceress, Druid, and Rogue as the next playable class.
As in previous games, the Necromancer utilizes bone and blood spells, along with undead minions they can summon into combat...
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After two years of development alongside the community, and over 10 million players on Xbox Game Pass, Obsidian’s backyard survival game Grounded is finally getting a 1.0 release this September.
1.0 brings Grounded out of early access, as well as adds a number of major updates, including the introduction of a new part of the backyard (the upper yard), new armor and weapon recipes, new secrets, and a new boss: the Mantis. By far the most impactful of these updates is the completion of Grounded’s story about a group of kids shrunk to insect-size and forced to survive in a backyard full of much larger insects and other hazards.
IGN spoke with game director Adam Brennecke, who’s been with Obsidian for 18 years now – almost since the...
After delving into dungeon crawling and narrative adventures, Minecraft is getting another unexpected spin-off - this time becoming an action strategy game. The new game is coming in 2023.
Revealed at today's Xbox-Bethesda showcase, Minecraft Legends is an action strategy game that combines real-time strategy elements into the world of Minecraft.
In a brief gameplay video, a character on a horse is seen leading an army of minions into battle with the ability to command the legion in real-time.
As one of the world's biggest ever games, Minecraft needs little introduction. It success has led to multiple spin-offs, from Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode – a narrative adventure starring Patton Oswalt – to Minecraft Dungeons, a...
After a number of rumors, the next project from Obsidian's Josh Sawyer has finally been revealed: it is indeed called Pentiment, and it's a narrative crime story of sorts set in 16th century Bavaria and styled like a medieval manuscript.
While we got a look at a visually fascinating trailer at Xbox's showcase today, IGN spoke with Sawyer ahead of the announcement about what exactly Pentiment is. As Sawyer explains it, Pentiment follows a medieval artist named Andreas Maler, an educated journeyman who's near to becoming a master artist. While visiting an abbey to make an illuminated manuscript, a monk who is also Andreas' friend and mentor is accused of a murder he claims he didn't commit. Since no one else steps in to solve the case...
As Dusk Falls, the first game from developer Interior/Night, has set a release date for July 19.
Shown at Xbox's showcase today, it's a branching story-driven game that can be played solo or in co-op with up to eight players at a time. The developer described it as being written with the style of a prestige televison show, but with a unique painterly art style.
As Dusk Falls was originally revealed by Microsoft in 2020, alongside the formation of Interior/Night as a new Xbox Game Studio led by Caroline Marchal, who was previously a lead game designer at Quantic Dream
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We got a new cinematic look at Ark 2 today, which will now be released in 2023.
At today's Xbox-Bethesda summer showcase, we got a fresh cinematic trailer for the game – which if you don't remember, stars Vin Diesel – and a new release window, 2023.
Ark 2 was first announced last year, and was subsequently dated for 2022, but it looks as though that date has slipped slightly. Not only does Vin Diesel star, but he's also a developer – the "President of Creative Convergence" to be exact.
Ark 2 is the sequel to Ark: Survival Evolved, a sci-fi/prehistoric survival game we gave a 7.7/10 review, saying it "has some great moments of battle with prehistoric beasts, but just as many of AI bugs and grind."
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Scorn, the upcoming "biopunk" survival horror adventure game inspired by H.R. Giger, has a release date. It will release on October 21, and will be available day One on Xbox Game Pass.
The new trailer shows a decrepit world, bloody skin, and an umbilical cord. It looks appropriately gory and horrifying, as befits a game that takes inspiration from Giger, who also provided the imagery for Alien.
The description suggests you will play as a skinless humanoid on a nightmare alien planet, with various biomechanical weapons that can be attached to your body.
One thing is for sure: This game does look a lot like Alien, making its release date, which is quite close to Halloween, pretty much perfect.
The Scorn announcement was part of the...
Forza Horizon 5 is returning to familiar, plasticky ground with a wild-looking Hot Wheels expansion.
Revealed at today's Xbox-Bethesda showcase, the DLC showed off the game's beautiful Mexican setting with added toy-like tracks, like a loop-the-loop through a volcano and into the sky. The DLC launches on July 19, 2022.
Forza Horizon 3 also got a very popular Hot Wheels expansion, which we awarded a 9/10 review, saying it was "a delightful, daring, and different expansion that reinforces Forza Horizon 3’s reputation as one of the best racing games ever made."
Given that we awarded the core Forza Horizon 5 a full 10/10, we can only hope its own Hot Wheels DLC similarly improves on its predecessor.
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Overwatch 2's long-awaited PvP mode will be released into early access on October 4 – and it will be going free-to-play.
As announced during the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase, Blizzard made a special appearance to give an update on Overwatch 2. After years of waiting, the PvP portion of Overwatch 2 will be released this October. But where the first Overwatch was a paid release, Overwatch 2 will be going free-to-play.
This will likely mean Overwatch 2 will undergo some serious business model changes, and likely incorporate some form of Season Pass for monetization. It's also unclear how this will affect the way new heroes can be acquired, which were previously released for free under the first Overwatch.
Blizzard also announced a...
Overwatch 2 will be adding a new Tank character, the Junker Queen, to the line-up.
As announced in today's Xbox and Bethesda showcase, the Junker Queen is the second new hero announced for Overwatch 2 after Sojourn. The character was referred to within the original Overwatch, but never made a formal onscreen appearance inside the game.
In a cinematic trailer, the Junker Queen is shown in a very Thunderdome-esque brawl for the throne of Junkertown. A full look of the character and her kit will be revealed later, but a brief look at the character's gameplay was in the Overwatch 2 release date trailer.
Fans of the series will know the Junker Queen from Junkrat's animated short, where she was briefly seen on a poster in Junkertown. As...
An aircraft from Halo -- specifically, the UNSC Pelican -- is coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator, it was announced during today's Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase.
The free add-on is available today, and a short glimpse at it during the showcase even showed the Pelican in space. The Pelican is the first licensed fictional aircraft to appear in Flight Simulator.
The Halo crossover was just one of a few Flight Simulator-related bits of news announced; it was also revealed that the 40th Anniversary Edition, which partnered with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, will release in November 2022 for consoles, PC, and Cloud, and will include classic airplanes, gliders, and helicopters. It will be free for those who also own Flight...
After being teased in 2020, we've finally seen true gameplay of Forza Motorsport, which will arrive in Spring 2023.
Revealed at today's Xbox-Bethesda showcae, we saw a montage of appropriately gorgeous cards racing around similarly lovely tracks. It was followed up by a longer, real-time gameplay demo that showed its upgraded visuals and physics up close.
Representatives from Xbox said it will have a "generational leap in immersion" driven by raytracing on tracks, improved physics and vehicle destruction, and a full day-night cycle.
Forza Motorsport was first announced at 2020's Xbox showcase, where we learned that it will run at 4K / 60FPS. An in-engine teaser showed what the game was aiming for, but we hadn't seen live gameplay...
League of Legends, Wild Rift, Runeterra, Valorant, and Other Riot Games Are Coming to Xbox Game Pass
Xbox is starting up a Riot. The company's biggest games including League of Legends, Wild Rift, Legends of Runeterra, Valorant, and TeamFight Tactics are coming to Xbox Game Pass.
League of Legends: Wild Rift is a streamlined version of Riot's popular MOBA, and a version with all champions unlocked is coming to Xbox Series X/S. Runeterra is Riot's competitive card game, Valorant is Riot's tactical shooter, and TeamFight is the studio's auto-battler.
Each Riot game will be coming with full unlocks or other extras, whether that's every Agent in Valorant, the Foundations Set in Runeterra, or select Little Champions in Teamfight Tactics.
While these games are already free-to-play, Agents, cards, and Champions are sometimes locked...
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...
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...
Freedom Games is a publisher founded in 2020 that was built on the very notion of partnership. Supporting indie developers and helping them get their games made. In partnership with Freedom Games, IGN is proud to present a showcase of all the upcoming games they've got in the works. In partnership with Freedom Games
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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
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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.
Where Is Xûr Today?
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
Get it at...