In 2003 two of Japan’s most prolific video game publishers, Square and Enix, joined forces, bringing classic RPG series Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest under the same roof. Nearly two decades later, those franchises remain two pillars of Square Enix — pillars on which it has built a diverse, ever-expanding portfolio of games.
Between new releases and unexpected announcements, 2022 has already been a memorable year for Square: Triangle Strategy and Stranger of Paradise are two of the year's best-reviewed games at IGN, while Kingdom Hearts 4 is arguably the year’s most surprising game announcement (so far).
With even more promising projects on the horizon, we’re exploring Square’s development pipeline to give you a complete picture of...
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Maybe I’m supposed to hate Postal 4: No Regerts. Maybe that’s sort of the point. Developer Running With Scissors describes it as a sequel to “the worst game ever,” Postal 2, renowned for its vulgarity and rough edges. If the goal was to make one that’s even worse then that’s certainly been achieved, but that gag doesn’t mean it’s ever fun to actually play. Even for the novelty of a guilty pleasure, like watching a really bad movie for a laugh, Postal 4 only ever disappoints – if I could somehow forgive the corny writing, bad graphics, awful gunplay, and constant bugs, it would still be incredibly difficult to enjoy any game that hard crashes every hour or so. Whether you’re in on the joke or not, there’s nothing on offer here except...
Activision Blizzard has stated that its CEO Bobby Kotick and Microsoft have not yet discussed what his employment status will be following Microsoft's acquisition of the company.
As spotted by Axios' Stephen Totilo, Activision added a line to its United States Securities and Exchange Commission filing about the planned sale to Microsoft that made clear these talks have not happened yet.
"No discussions or negotiations regarding post-closing employment arrangements with Microsoft occurred between Microsoft and Mr. Kotick prior to the approval and execution of the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, or have occurred subsequent to such approval and execution, through the date hereof," the filing reads.
A big...
Portal 1 & 2 co-writer Erik Wolpaw has shared his desire to begin work on Portal 3, but warns it may be tough to actually get it started at Valve.
As reported by VGC, Wolpaw appeared on the Kiwi Talkz podcast and ended his appearance by saying, "we've gotta start Portal 3. That's my message to... to whoever."
He continued to say that he isn't getting younger and that, if Valve wanted to do a Portal 3 with any of the original team members, it should greenlight the project sooner rather than later.
"I am not getting any younger," Wolpaw said. "We are reaching the point where it’s crazy to think [that we’re] literally going to be too old to work on Portal 3, so we should just do it.”
Alongside working on the Portal franchise, Wolpaw...
A Half-Life 2 mod is in the works that not only swaps Alyx Vance for Star Fox Adventures' Krystal, but it will also have all of Alyx's dialogue replaced by Krystal's original voice actress Estelle Ellis.
As reported by Polygon, Gagnetar created this mod four years ago when he replaced Alyx for Krystal, but he has now taken it one step further by bringing Ellis out of retirement to record brand-new lines for the project.
Gagnetar shared an early look at the mod with Krystal and Ellis' voice in Kleiner's Lab of Half-Life 2 and it shows how the character created for GameCube's Star Fox Adventures fits into this new universe.
On a Krystal fan site, Gagnetar said he is planning on releasing the full mod on September 23, 2022, which just...
In the grim, unforgiving world of Elden Ring, there are no characters that can truly be considered heroes — not even the protagonist. But one community member has risen to fame in the last week: a naked man wearing nothing but a jar on his head who waits outside the door to the game's hardest boss under the polite request of a name: 'Let me solo her'.
Let Me Solo Her (who asked in an email to go by either his Elden Ring moniker or LMSH for short) is an unassuming, altruistic player who has been dropping his summon sign outside the boss fight door of Malenia, for the last week or more. Malenia, while not a mandatory fight for finishing Elden Ring, is the culmination of multiple sidequests and has become notorious in the community as...
Everyone's favorite Lovecraftian Santa, 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.
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Xûr can be found...
Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Tina Amini, Sam Claiborn, and Justin Davis -- are discussing Breath of the Wild 2, one game's "devastating" experience with PlayStation Plus, The Witcher, and more. And, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions.
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Club Penguin's fan-made recreation has been shut down and seized by police over copyright issues.
Three individuals were arrested following action taken by Disney, who owned the original site and shut it down in 2017, but they have since been released. As reported by TechCrunch, Club Penguin Rewritten was set up later that year but as of April 2022 has ceased to exist.
The website's Discord was emptied except for one message from an admin that said "we have voluntarily given control over the website to the police for them to continue their copyright investigation."
A statement was also published on the Club Penguin Rewritten website from DC Daryl Fryatt of the City of London Police's IP crime unit (PIPCU) that said a complaint was...
Since Elden Ring’s release, there’s been no shortage of critical praise for its intricately crafted yet expansive open world, its complex combat, and the level of detail found in every corner. But Elden Ring isn't just a superb video game in the many obvious ways to analyze it. It's also an entire social media platform unto itself.
FromSoftware has been including a messaging system akin to a social media platform within its games for years now, as anyone who's been Soulsing since the dawn of Demon’s Souls can tell you. Every game since has included the option for players connected online to leave messages on the ground anywhere in the world. Players can't just write anything they want, though. They compose messages out of pre-existing...
343 Industries has not only shared more details on Catalyst and Breaker - Halo Infinite's newest maps arriving in Season 2 "Lone Wolves" - but it has also provided fans with a video flythrough of each one.
The info and flythrough were both shared on Halo Waypoint, and the map previews you can see below show more about "the ancient and weathered ruins of Catalyst and the expansive, sand-blasted scrapyard site of Breaker."
Halo Infinite's multiplayer level designer Tyler Ensrude also stopped by to talk about the process of creating these new maps and tease some of what Spartans can expect when Catalyst and Breaker launch alongside Season 2 "Lone Wolves" on May 3, 2022.
To begin, Ensrude revealed a bit about how the team builds a...
Blizzard has shown gameplay and broken down the abilities of Overwatch 2's new hero, Sojourn.
Revealed in a blog post on the Overwatch website, Sojourn's arsenal is headlined by a massive railgun that makes her an ideal mid-range character.
It fires rapid projectiles that generate energy upon hitting enemies, which is then used to power a much stronger blast that acts as Sojourn's secondary. The railgun, though a fairly simple weapon, therefore scales with player skill as accuracy directly affects secondary damage.
"We wanted to make a mid-range hero that rewards accuracy, but still make it fun for varying levels of skill and gameplay," said senior hero designer Josh Noh.
Another ability is the Disruptor Shot, an AOE attack that...
Zero-G sandbox game Hardspace: Shipbreaker is about to head out of early access.
A new announcement has revealed that the unique FPS is getting its full official launch on May 24, 2022 – two years after it first became available on Steam Early Access.
“Dust off your mag-gloves and charge your split-saw, we’ve got some great news!” reads the announcement. “The date for Hardspace: Shipbreaker’s 1.0 Update, and its full release from Early Access, is set. Your first shift in the full version will begin on May 24, 2022.”
Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a unique spin on the FPS genre as you’re given cutting-edge salvaging tech and tasked with carving up derelict spaceships to recover valuable materials - and it's all in the name of paying off...
Hideo Kojima mysteriously posted a photo of PlayStation Studios before clarifying that his studio will remain independent.
Around 1 pm in the afternoon Japan time, Kojima posted a picture of the PlayStation Studios banner with games from all of Sony's first-party studios and also Death Stranding. This cryptic tweet immediately kicked off speculation that Kojima Productions officially joined PlayStation Studios.
Kojima followed up 10 minutes later by clarifying Kojima Productions is still an independent company.
In a follow-up tweet, independently translated by IGN, Kojima writes, "I seem to have invited misinterpretation, but KojiPro has been and will continue to be an independent production studio."
IGN has reached out to Kojima...
Roblox is getting an official Sonic the Hedgehog game backed by Sega called Sonic Speed Simulator. It's available for purchase for now but will go free-to-play this weekend on April 16 at 10 AM EST.
According to Eurogamer, the publisher and developer for Sonic Speed Simulator is Gamefam, a studio completely dedicated to creating content for the Roblox platform.
Sonic Speed Simulator will receive weekly updates and players can run through multiple unique worlds, including the iconic Emerald Hills. By racing against friends, players can earn rewards such as pets and Sonic character skins. If Sonic Speed Simulator reaches 10,000 "likes" from players in Roblox, then the players in the Roblox community can receive an exclusive Sonic the...
The next-gen update for Witcher 3 was recently pushed to 2023, but CD Projekt Red wants fans to know that it's not in "development hell." Speaking during the developer's latest financial earnings call, a CD Projekt Red representative addressed questions about the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series version being postponed.
"When it comes to next-gen launch of Witcher 3, there's one comment I wanted to make. I've been looking at headlines around the internet and one drew my attention: 'Witcher 3 next-gen delayed indefinitely.' "[This] sounds like the game is in sort of development hell. I want to say it's not a fact. There have been a lot of insinuations that we're going to launch June of next year. That's completely not the case," the...
Fortnite is partnering with the Coachella music festival in yet another instance of the popular battle royale encroaching on the real world. The sound and fashion of the annual show are coming to Fortnite, an Epic Games blog post revealed, as a ton of Coachella themed items are being added to the store.
Players can also listen to a selection of songs from the upcoming festival in-game, which includes artists such as Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, and Doja Cat, by tuning in to Icon Radio while driving around the map.
The collaboration comes just days after Sony and LEGO's parent company KIRKBI invested $2 billion in Epic Games' metaverse and the partnership with Coachella certainly leans into the idea of bringing "the real world" into...
Cyberpunk 2077's first expansion is slated to be released in 2023, CD Projekt Red President Adam Kicinski announced during today's earnings call. It offers a window into the ongoing development of the expansion, and Cyberpunk 2077 at large, which CDPR has pledged to continue supporting.
According to Kicinski, the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion is being developed by multiple "agile teams," which were implemented as part of the "transformation process" that began after Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous development. He didn't elaborate on what the expansion would entail, but did say that it will be developed in the same framework with the Witcher franchise.
"We're fully committed to the Cyberpunk franchise and intend to develop it further,"...
Cyberpunk 2077 has sold more than 18 million copies while The Witcher 3 has now surpassed more than 40 million and 65 million as a franchise overall.
CD Projekt Red's latest financial earnings report revealed the latest figures for the studio's two cornerstone franchises. The developer also confirmed these numbers were for copies of the games sold through to customers and not just to retailers.
Cyberpunk suffered a pretty catastrophic launch as console versions of the game were riddled with bugs, but CD Projekt Red has slowly built the game to a better standard and it finally launched the next-gen versions in February.
The financial report also revealed that CD Projekt Red plans to continue supporting the game throughout 2022 and...
Blizzard has revealed the origin story for Overwatch 2's new hero, Sojourn.
A new trailer (below) shared how the series' first Black female hero came to be involved with Overwatch, with her story being directly linked to Soldier: 76 (aka Jack Morrison).
"My unit of the Canadian Special Forces teamed up with Overwatch during the Omnic crisis," Sojourn says in the trailer. "Jack Morrison and I worked well together and after the war he reached out."
While it doesn't show any actual gameplay, Sojourn can be seen holding a large gun reminiscent of Soldier: 76's weapon, and the trailer description said she's equipped with cybernetic abilities.
Sojourn seemingly served with Overwatch sometime between the original and second game, saying...
If you want to take in the full scope of the Halo cross-media universe, you need to be reading dark Horse's Halo comics. Fortunately, that task is about to get much easier thanks to the release of a softcover omnibus collection called Halo: Initiation and Escalation Compendium.
This hefty graphic novel collects the entirety of Halo: Initiation and Halo: Escalation, totaling 27 issues and 650 pages. Both series greatly expand on the story of Spartan-IV Sarah Palmer, with Initiation serving as a prequel to 2012's Halo 4 and Escalation picking up where the game leaves off.
Check out the cover to Halo: Initiation and Escalation Compendium below:
Here's the official description for the compendium:
In the dark years following the war...
The full version of eFootball has finally been released but it's still missing some of the PES series' major modes.
Master League, Team Play, Co-Op, Match Lobby, and Edit are all missing from the 1.0 update that promised to turn the game from what Konami called "basically a demo" into the fully-fledged version of its new soccer series.
These modes "will unfortunately not be included in v1.0.0", the game's official Twitter account tweeted (below). "We ask for your kind patience until they are ready," it said.
The missing Master League is the manager mode from PES where players start with a basic team and build it up to brilliance. It's something of a signature mode for the PES series, but it seems Konami is placing less importance...
I’m hardly alone in describing Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters as ‘XCOM with Space Marines.’ But now that I've gotten my hands on it, it's much clearer how that actually changes up the tactical formula. Enemy Unknown can feel like a horror game sometimes, as you're hunted by Chrysalids and Mutons through eerie crash sites and warehouses. But in Chaos Gate, there's no mistaking it: the Daemons are the prey, and you are the hunters.
That's not to say deploying into literal Hell is completely without tension. It's definitely possible to get into some bad situations if you aren't careful. But when you send your point man to kick down the doors of a massive space cathedral and send various creepy cultists scattering for cover...
Let's turn tomorrow's Good Friday into Great Friday with some gaming discounts. A number of top deals have leapt out at me this morning, including crowd-pleasing LEGO titles and a Steam sale where everything seems to mill around 56% off (or more). I'd also pay particular attention to that Witcher 3 GOTY bargain—CDPR has just delayed their intended upgrade of it. Acquire cheaply now, before said next-gen patch arrives.
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Just in case you didn’t think Call of Duty could get any crazier, season 3 seems to hint that Godzilla himself will show up to wreak havoc.
Call of Duty released Season 3’s “Classified Arms” trailer that has the team uncovering a mysterious device while searching for the released Nebula gas released by the Nazis.
The device is broadcasting an audio signal that’s heard at the end of the cinematic. The audio itself is somewhat broken up but sounds suspiciously like Godzilla’s signature roar.
YouTuber PrestigeIsKey posted a screenshot on his Twitter account of the audio ran through a spectrograph and found the words “Monsters Are Real.” And another Twitter user replied with a looping sound of Godzilla’s orca-like sound that matches...
You’re not supposed to connect an external GPU to the Steam Deck, but someone did it anyway.
YouTuber ETA Prime not only managed to get it working, but was able to play games like Elden Ring at 4K with maxed out settings. Valve has repeatedly said that external graphics cards aren’t compatible, but ETA Prime was able to make it happen anyway.
They managed it by utilizing the Steam Deck’s M.2 PCIe x4 socket, which is normally meant for storage. ETA Prime used an external graphics card M.2 dock that plugs into the storage socket at one end and the graphics card at the other end. While that only allows the Steam Deck to use four lanes of PCIe, it still worked regardless. To complete the “build”, ETA Prime connected both the M.2 dock...
EA Motive has shared new information regarding the team's progress regarding how some weapons sound in its upcoming remake of Dead Space.
In a recent tweet shared on the official Dead Space Twitter account, EA Motive showed off the updated sound designs for the Plasma Cutter and Pulse Rifle. To compare how much the improvements have been made, EA Motive compared the sound of both weapons using the sound from the original Dead Space, the build shown off during its developer update live stream last March, and how both weapons currently sound when you fire them.
Of course, Dead Space Remake is still in development, with Motive Studios noting that the current sound of both weapons does not represent how either may sound when the final...
Final Fantasy XIV players are already having fun with the MMO’s new Adventurer Plate feature. The player card system might've just been introduced in patch 6.1 earlier this week, but it’s already bringing out both the weird and wonderful of this gargantuan player base.
Adventurer Plates show off player information, like a Calling Card in Call of Duty, or a Hunter Card in Monster Hunter. You’ll see Adventurer Cards at the beginning of PvP activities in Final Fantasy XIV, including the new Crystalline Conflict activity, for example, to show you the players you’re matched up alongside on your team.
Players can customize these cards by posing their characters, adding effects, and more. And while it's easy enough to set a simple pose for...
CD Projekt Red announced it is delaying the next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt indefinitely, and will no longer be releasing the upgrade in Q2.
Part of the delay may have to do with the change in the developer. Previously, the update was being developed externally by Saber Interactive, but CD Projekt Red has elected to bring the remainder of the game's development in-house
“We have decided to have our in-house development team conduct the remaining work on the next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,” a recent Tweet on The Witcher’s account reads. “We are currently evaluating the scope of work to be done and thus have to postpone Q2 release until further notice. We'll update you as soon as we can. Thank you for your...
Destiny developer Bungie has said that it is committed to remote working for "most current and future roles".
Announcing its intentions on Twitter (below), and spotted by Kotaku, Bungie said it would be adopting a "digital-first" approach for future job positions. California, Florida, Illinois, Oregon, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington are the "approved" states that are fully remote eligible.
It's currently unconfirmed why fully remote roles are only available in these seven states, or if Bungie plans on extending the offerings to other parts of the U.S., but IGN has reached out for comment regarding these matters.
Bungie has become the first major AAA video game company to declare a near-fully remote approach indefinitely...