Two veteran developers with leading roles on Diablo 2 are working on an original game at a newly formed studio, Moon Beast Productions.
Diablo 2's lead artist and lore writer, Phil Shenk, has teamed up with the classic action-RPG's lead designer, Peter Hu, to use their years of experience to develop a brand new title.
Moon Beast Productions didn't say what its inaugural game would be, but promises genuine innovation and "all the creativity and deep system design" the developers are known for.
Hu said: "Fans of our previous work will be hoping we stay true to our ARPG roots, and I don’t think they’ll be disappointed, but we are also working on a few big innovations with incredible potential."
Shenk added that the combination of...
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No, what we watched at the opening of Sony's State of Play was sadly not a new Dino Crisis game. But it was a brand new IP about fighting dinosaurs from Capcom, called Exoprimal.
The trailer gave us a look at a futuristic city where portals keep dumping massive piles of dinosaurs into the metro area, and groups of futuristic soldiers called Exofighters in high-tech armor must take them down. A disclaimer at the bottom of one section of the trailer notes that there's online multiplayer involved, so you'll be able to team up with your friends and fire a bunch of futuristic guns at hundreds of dinosaurs.
In a closer look in the PlayStation Blog explains that Exoprimal takes place in 2043, when mysterious vortexes have been opening up...
On this week's episode of Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Mark Medina (and later Jada Griffin) to dig into the PlayStation State of Play of March 2022 on Beyond episode 740.
While Jada joins us later in the show to discuss her excitement over what was shown, Mark and Jonathon kick off the podcast by discussing the surprise announcement of Returnal's 3.0 update coming later this month, and why we're excited to revisit Atropos with Returnal co-op. We also dig into some of the Square Enix games included in the show, like Forspoken, Valkyrie Elysium, and The DioField Chronicle. Plus, Jada joins us to discuss her excitement for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R, the TMNT collection called Teenage Mutant Ninja...
Some of you regulars might be wondering why I'm mentioning Returnal again after doing so yesterday. Well, this returnalling of Returnal owes to an overnight announcement of a two-player co-op mode. Now you can be tormented by one of the most groin-kickingly difficult campaigns of this gen with a pal! There will also be a new 'endless' mode, a new boss and more.
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When Xbox purchased Activision Blizzard and Sony acquired Bungie to kick off 2022, it kicked off a frenzy of speculation among industry observers. Suddenly, it seemed as if no acquisition was off the table.
In such an environment, Iron Galaxy would seem to be an ideal target for a major platform holder. Aside from being a noted work-for-hire studio, Iron Galaxy has worked on popular franchises such as Uncharted and Killer Instinct, and CEO Adam Boyes has a direct connection to PlayStation.
For now, though, Iron Galaxy seems happy to be independent.
"o many doors are open and I love that," Boyes tells IGN. "And because we're independent, we have the ability to continue that freedom journey and check it all out and see what leans into...
A new Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin demo is available now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 ahead of the game's release on March 18.
This new demo will take players through the first three stages of the opening of the game. In addition, players can also carry over their save data from the demo to the main game, which means players will not have to necessarily replay these levels when the full game is released.
Stranger of Paradise is a reimagining of the very first Final Fantasy game with an action-RPG twist. The gameplay feels very similar to Dark Souls where players must fight through enemies that reset if the player is killed.
However, Final Fantasy hallmarks like the job system and familiar locales and characters...
Shown in today's Sony State of Play livestream, the 6v6 online shooter Gundam Evolution received a new gameplay trailer, as well as apparent confirmation that it will be getting a Western release. A network test was also announced for the US and Japan coming sometime this spring.
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The upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series isn't the first Star Wars project to shed light on Obi-Wan's time as a desert hermit, but it's certainly the most ambitious. Past stories like Marvel's Star Wars comics and the Star Wars: Kenobi novel never gave any indication Obi-Wan left Tatooine during that 19 year period. But with the release of the first teaser trailer for the series, we now have confirmation Obi-Wan will venture back out into the wider galaxy.
Why is Obi-Wan emerging from hiding now, and how does this series tie into his ongoing mission to protect a young Luke Skywalker? The answer seems to lay with one crucial scene featured in the teaser.
Obi-Wan vs. the Sith Inquisitorius
The trailer focuses a great deal on the...
Our IGN First "cover story" for this month is Star Trek: Resurgence, the upcoming post-TNG adventure from longtime Telltale developer (and longtime LucasArts adventure game maker too!) Kevin Bruner and his new team at Dramatic Labs, which is comprised of many former Telltale developers.
Star Trek: Resurgence is a narrative adventure game in which you'll be able to freely explore sections of both your ship and, yes, strange new worlds, making dialogue choices along the way as one of two playable characters whose perspectives alternate as the game – which isn't episodic, by the way – progresses.
In the new four-minute gameplay clip at the top of this page, Carter Diaz explores the ship before getting his assignment from his...very...
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands four-part season pass will bring new bosses, levels, and a new class.
Each instalment of the post-launch content will take players to a new illusionary world, each with five levels and a final boss fight to cap things off.
Developer Gearbox made the announcement today but didn't say when each of the four content drops will be coming, though the game itself launches on March 25.
Upon release of the final DLC, players with the season pass will also receive a new, seventh class that comes with its own unique class feat, action skills, and skill tree. No details have been announced as to what this class is, so their abilities remain a mystery for now.
The content can be accessed through the season pass, or each...
A datamine has discovered multiple references in the files of Aperture Desk Job to four different unannounced Valve games.
As reported by Tyler McVicker, a journalist with a specialism in Valve’s work, the recently released Aperture Desk Job (a small game designed for the Steam Deck) contains folders with multiple detailed references to four different games: Citadel, a Source 2 port of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a follow-up to Half-Life: Alyx, and a recreation of a previously cancelled Portal game. None of these projects have been formally announced by Valve.
The datamine, which runs over 70 pages long, contains data related to Citadel. “Citadel appears to be a Combine vs rebels, team-based, squad-based, class-based RTS/FPS...
Saints Row is coming back. A reboot, simply called Saints Row, is set to release for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on August 23, 2022. It's available now for preorder at various retailers (see it at Amazon) and in several editions. Below, you'll find full details about where you can find it, how much it costs, and what comes in each edition. Read on for the goods.
Saints Row Legacy Edition
Get it for PS5 - $89.99
Get it for PS4 - $89.99
Get it for Xbox - $89.99
Saints Row Legacy Edition is available at Best Buy. It comes with the core game, the preorder bonus (see details on that below), plus the following:
Expansion Pass
Saints Row The Third Remastered
Saints Row Standard Edition
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What if Tenochtitlán, the island city at the heart of the Aztec empire, had never been sacked by European conquerors? In the alternate timeline of Aztech Forgotten Gods, we get to see what that might have looked like: a thriving, technologically advanced metropolis that blends Mesoamerican-inspired design with a Tron-like aesthetic. Described by Mexico-based developer Lienzo as a “cyber-stone action-adventure,” Aztech’s memorable setting can be delightful to explore — that is, when the wonky camera and frustrating boss fights aren’t getting in the way.
Aztech Forgotten Gods is a fairly linear, eight-hour adventure about Achtli, a young woman so haunted by her past that she can’t move forward in life. After uncovering an ancient...
It turns out that Elden Ring can be paused after all, but only on one specific menu.
The Souls-like game by FromSoftware follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, forcing gamers to find a quiet corner of the map to get out of harm's way whenever they need a bit of downtime.
But now, YouTuber IronPineapple has found a way to pause the game for real. The best part? You don’t need a mod to do it – the hidden pause functionality is actually part of one specific menu in the game.
Essentially, this means that PC gamers no longer have to disable online play in order to pause their game… and console players can do it, too.
The feature is activated by heading into your inventory, then the ‘Help’ screen, then selecting “Menu...
WB Games Montréal has finally announced a release date for Gotham Knights.
The co-op DC heroes game, which features Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, and Red Hood, will release on October 25, 2022.
The release date, which has been long awaited, was announced on Twitter by the official Gotham Knights account.
We last saw Gotham Knights in October 2021, where its new story trailer left fans without a date they could put in their calendar.
Gotham Knights was originally planned to release in 2021, but was pushed back into 2022. While it’s definitely coming late in the year, it’s still a 2022 release.
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The original Dying Light just received a next-gen upgrade to improve the game's visuals on PlayStation 5.
Developer Techland has also released a patch for PS4 Pro. It also promised that an Xbox upgrade is coming soon in a Twitter post (below).
The free PS5 upgrade is "bringing quality improvements and enhancing your gameplay experience" but more specifically lets players choose between Performance mode (60 frames per second with Full HD), Balanced mode (targeting 60 FPS IN QHD), and Quality mode (30 FPS with 4K resolution).
The PS4 Pro improves the 30 FPS cap and introduces new networking utilizing Epic Online services.
Dying Light was released more than seven years ago in 2015 and its next-gen upgrade appears quite out of the...
I really wanted to love Dawn of Ragnarok. On paper its premise of delving into Norse mythology is a promise to truly investigate one of the most interesting loose ends left by Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s story that would give Eivor the power of the gods. In disappointing reality, it's a mostly unchanged stretch of gameplay dressed up like a magical romp through the Nine Realms. Replacing European kings with giants and dwarves doesn’t change the fact that all of the moment-to-moment adventuring, looting, and combat is exactly the same as it has been in the roughly 150 hours of Valhalla that preceded it. How do you add a whole new set of supernatural abilities and without making anything feel new or different? Like the two DLC expansions...
EVO has unveiled the lineup of games coming to the popular fighting game tournament this August. EVO staples such as Street Fighter V and Tekken 7 will return as expected, but some titles will also feature for the first time.
The full lineup is as follows:
Street Fighter V: Champion Edition - PS4 (Capcom)
Guilty Gear -Strive- PS4 (Arc System Works)
Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate - PS4 (Warner Bros. Games)
TEKKEN 7 - PS4 (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV - PS4 (SNK)
MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA - PS4 (Project Lumina)
DRAGON BALL FighterZ - PS4 (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Granblue Fantasy: Versus - PS4 (Cygames and XSEED)
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore - PS4 (Autumn Games)
General manager Rick Thiher said: "We are thrilled to...
Today you can cheaply purchase one of the most impressive third-person shooters of this gen. And if you somehow don't like it, er, maybe just returnal it. Failing that, I'd recommend Gang Beasts and the classic Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance for single-screen multi shenanigans. Alternatively, show a bit of local dev support by buying a heavily discounted Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles.
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It is difficult for a game to be truly uninteresting. It requires an unlikely convergence of events to perfectly thread the needle between good and terrible to create something remarkably unremarkable; functional and largely inoffensive, but also joyless and flat. Babylon’s Fall is one such convergence: The generic dark fantasy storyline is pointless, and the worst-in-class textures and character models suck any visual appeal out of what could have been an interesting painted-canvas art style. Combat and level design are both competent but plain in single-player or co-op, with just enough good ideas sprinkled in to keep things from immediately growing stale… though it inevitably does. So no, it didn’t exactly keep me glued to my seat...
Halo Infinite multiplayer's season 2, Lone Wolves, has been announced, and we've got a lot to say about the state of the game so far and how hyped (or not?) we are for season 2. Plus: GTA 5's next-gen graphics modes are revealed. Also: Microsoft, Xbox, and the war in Ukraine.
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Amazon Games will slowly but surely open up Lost Ark's gender-locked classes.
Classes are currently locked to specific genders, meaning only men can be warriors, only women can be mages, and so on, but franchise lead Soomin Park told Eurogamer that this will change over time.
He said: "Classes are tied pretty closely to their character models in terms of function and animation, so bringing opposite gender characters to a class takes more work than just making a differently gendered model available."
When the North American version was released last month, Park said developer Smilegate RPG made an effort to include classes that currently have a male and female version in the further along Korean version. Players will therefore...
Our IGN First "cover story" for this month is Star Trek: Resurgence, the upcoming post-TNG adventure from longtime Telltale developer (and longtime LucasArts adventure game maker too!) Kevin Bruner and his new team at Dramatic Labs, which is comprised of many former Telltale developers.
Star Trek: Resurgence is a narrative adventure game in which you'll be able to freely explore sections of both your ship and, yes, strange new worlds, making dialogue choices along the way as one of two playable characters whose perspectives alternate as the game – which isn't episodic, by the way – progresses.
The first-ever uncut chunk of gameplay, which you can see in the video at the top of this page (you can also see the reveal trailer from The...
Rockstar has offered more details about GTA Online's new Career Builder tool, which will let new players jump more smoothly into the game on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Revealed alongside pre-loading for the new console versions going live, Career Builder effectively allows players to start a new Online account with a number of perks that might otherwise have taken considerable time (or some real-life money) to unlock, keeping them on something of a par with existing players. It is available only on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of the game.
Career Builder gives players a choice of business properties, vehicles, weapons, and extra in-game cash from the start of the game. Your first choice will be to choose one of four career paths in...
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Indie game marketplace Itch.io has released a $10 bundle with 600 games and almost 1,000 items overall to raise money for Ukraine aid.
Worth more than $6,500 if every item was bought separately, the bundle of 991 items is available until March 18. The minimum price is $10, though Itch is urging people to pay above the minimum price if possible. It has already raised $800,000, which will be split between International Medical Corps and Voices of Children.
The pack includes Celeste, Towerfall Ascension, Superhot and...
The new-gen versions of GTA 5 and GTA Online are coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on March 15, and you can pre-load the game right now if you preorder digitally through either the PlayStation 5 console store or Microsoft Store.
Those on PS5 will be able to get GTA 5+GTA Online for $9.99 USD / £8.75 / $14.99 AUD for the first three months after launch. But for those on Xbox, it will cost $19.99 USD / £17.49 / $29.97 AUD instead. There are no free upgrades available, and the game will revert to cost $39.99 USD from June 15 onwards. So, here's everything else you need to know about preorders, and how to download the next-gen version of GTA 5 right now.
How to Upgrade and Pre-Load GTA 5 on Next-Gen Consoles
Technically, there isn't an...
Lost Ark has now amassed more than 20 million players, with half coming from its western release last month.
Western publisher Amazon Games and developer Smilegate RPG announced that more than 4.7 million new players joined within three days of Lost Ark's release in North and South America, Europe, and Australia, and that number has now grown to more than 10 million. The game launched in South Korea back in 2019, where it amassed a huge following well before its western release.
But Amazon Games VP Christoph Hartmann said the action-RPG-MMO is just getting started: "The excitement surrounding Lost Ark from around the world is quickly gaining steam, as evidenced by the growing number of global players.
"Together with Smilegate, we...
Rockstar has revealed the pricing for GTA 5 and GTA Online on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. We now know for sure that the games won't be offered as free upgrades to existing owners, but they will be at least 50% off on all new-gen platforms for the first three months of launch.
Ahead of pre-loading starting today, the pricing for all the new versions of GTA 5 and GTA Online is now live on the PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store, and confirms that there will be no free upgrades available for those who bought the games on previous console generations.
However, there are significant discounts on all platforms within the first three months of release. You can see the pricing for all the new versions of GTA 5 and GTA Online below:
PS5 - GTA...
Blizzard is gearing up for a series of new Warcraft reveals in the coming months, including a new expansion for World of Warcraft and a Warcraft mobile game announcement.
On March 15, details for the new Hearthstone expansion will be revealed. About a month later on April 19, details for the new WoW expansion will be revealed. The last World of Warcraft expansion, Shadowlands, was released in 2020, meaning it’s about time for a new adventure in WoW.
The potentially biggest surprise comes in May when the long-rumored Warcraft mobile game is set to be revealed.
Blizzard has long been rumored to be working on a mobile game related to Warcraft. Blizzard confirmed that the mobile game would be released in 2022 back in February after...
In the wake of Steam Deck's release last week, many fans are waiting anxiously for the email giving them the greenlight to order a unit of their own. Meanwhile, some further down the line are finding that they will have to wait still longer for Valve's new handheld unit.
Over on the Steam Deck subreddit, some users are reporting that their order availability has been pushed from "Q3 2022" to "After Q3 2022." Others report that their previously nebulous "After Q2 2022" is now a firmer "Q3 2022," while some say they went from "After Q2" to "After Q3." It seems that some customers are getting pushed back as other users further ahead of them are locked into a release window.
These reports are corroborated by the experiences of the IGN...