Tencent has announced today that it has acquired California-based developer Turtle Rock Studios, the developer of Back 4 Blood and the Left 4 Dead series.
A press release sent out today notes that Turtle Rock will become part of Tencent, though the studio will retain its independent operations in Lake Forest, California, with the existing team continuing to "run all studio operations." The press release also confirms that Turtle Rock co-founders Phil Robb and Chris Ashton will continue to lead the studio following the acquisition. Additionally, a spokesperson told IGN in an email confirming that Turtle Rock's "partnership with Warner Bros. to publish Back 4 Blood is not affected" by the recent acquisition.
“We are all looking forward...
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In celebration of NARAKA: BLADEPOINT's newest crossover that brings themed items based on the legendary martial artist Bruce Lee into its world, IGN is proud to partner with 24 Entertainment to host a let's play that will dive deep into all the best parts of this new update.
IGN will be carrying the stream and, as usual, this watch guide will provide you with everything you need to know to watch the let's play, including when it starts, a list of places you join us, and what you can expect to see.
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Bruce Lee Crossover Let's Play Start Time
The NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Bruce Lee Crossover Let's Play takes place on Saturday, December 18, and will start at 7:30pm PT/10:30pm ET. If you’re tuning in from the UK or Australia...
We often think about a quality gaming experience in terms of resolution, frame rates, and how high we're able to dial our graphics settings. While visuals on your gaming monitors are important so is what we hear through our headphones. Few things can ruin an experience as deeply as bad audio. An overly compressed video might still be watchable if the audio is clear, but try watching a clear video with audio that's clipping or out of sync is far worse. Matters are only worse in games, where a bad audio experience can hurt your ears with sounds that take a sudden turn toward explosive or enemies that you can't hear until it's too late.
A quality gaming headset can help ensure these audio issues won't be a concern of yours. The best...
Red Candle Games, the Taiwanese studio behind critically acclaimed horror adventure game Detention, has announced that its next project will feature a change in genre as the studio looks to bring to life an action game inspired by From Software's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
As announced on Twitter, Red Candle Games' next project is Nine Sols - "a lore rich hand-drawn 2D action platformer with Sekiro-inspired deflection-focused combat." While very few details have been revealed about the game, the studio has teased the game's premise with a short statement alongside some art.
According to the tweet, players entering Nine Sols will "Embark on a journey of Asian fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race & follow a...
This story contains minor spoilers for GTA Online's The Contract storyline.
A new update to GTA Online has seemingly confirmed which of the Grand Theft Auto 5's three original endings is canon.
As reported by Kotaku, GTA Online's latest update, The Contract, features dialogue that seems to confirm what happens to Michael following the end of GTA 5. As part of the new missions, you help iconic rapper Dr. Dre in a bid to locate and recover the musician's lost phone and a range of unreleased material that resides on the device.
As part of the hunt for the missing phone, Franklin ends up in a golf cart chase through a movie set. In a bid to catch up with a man who has angered the rapper, Franklin's erratic driving forces the character...
If you’ve been playing Halo Infinite over the past week, then you’re going to want to check this incredible PC and Xbox gear out. Razer has recently launched its beautiful set of Halo Infinite gaming accessories in the UK, and I’m not kidding, it’s all spectacular.
From headsets to keyboards, mice, and even mousemats, you can now full-deck out your gaming set-up with these incredible Halo Infinite themed accessories from Razer. But, some of the new items are also retailer exclusive, so we've created a quick and handy guide to help alleviate the stress of locating everything.
Editor's Note: This article is brought to you in association with Currys.
Where to Buy Halo Infinite Gaming Accessories
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It’s been quite a few years since Franklin Clinton and his unlikely friends successfully pulled off the most audacious heist Los Santos had ever seen, but after the events of GTAV’s story mode it’s been unclear what became of Franklin.
With the arrival of this week’s new update to GTA Online – The Contract – we now know what he’s been up to: setting up a high-end “celebrity solutions agency” for rich folk with rich folk problems.
Of course, bringing back Franklin Clinton naturally meant reenlisting Shawn Fonteno, the man who helped bring him to life in the first place. IGN spoke with Fonteno about his unexpected return, Franklin’s new attitude, and his thoughts on working alongside Dr. Dre.
IGN: Did the plan to bring Franklin back...
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack has added five new SEGA Genesis games to its service, including Altered Beast, ToeJam & Earl, Dynamite Headdy, Sword of Vermilion, and Thunder Force II.
Nintendo announced the news on Twitter alongside sharing a quick video of each of the five games in action. As a reminder, these games are available to all who have subscribed to the higher-priced Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service.
After today's additions, the full list of SEGA Genesis games includes Castlevania: Bloodlines, Contra: Hard Corps, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe, Gunstar Heroes, M.U.S.H.A., Phantasy Star 4: The End of the Millennium, Ristar, Shining Force, Shinobi 3, Sonic the Hedgehog...
Thank your own personal God—possibly Palutena—it's Friday! More importantly, it's time to Save/Quit on the school year. Go on and swap your books and pencils for controllers and mice. Your new six-week curriculum: losing yourself in (or outright conquering) far more exciting worlds than this one. The discounted games below are all good places to begin that process. Stay safe, save often and see you Monday!
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Update 3:23 pm PT: A little under an hour after posting and deleting a tweet justifying the decision to incorporate NFT technology into the upcoming STALKER 2, GSC Game World has published a follow-up statement announcing it is backing away from the use of NFTs.
"We hear you," GSC Game World writes in a new statement. "Based on the feedback we received, we've made a decision to cancel anything NFT-related in STALKER 2," the developer writes.
GSC Game World had come under intense scrutiny for announcing the use of NFT technology in its upcoming shooter. Critics say NFT in games offers nothing tangible to players while feeding a highly speculative market. There are also environmental concerns related to NFT's energy consumption.
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Bandai Namco announced that it has paused preorders on the Elden Ring Premium Collector's Edition due to overwhelming demand. The company will announce when these limited editions will be available for preorder again.
Elden Ring is one of the most anticipated games coming in 2022, so it's normal to expect demand for its Premium Collector's Edition to be high. The Collector's Edition is the most limited edition of the game up for sale. For $260, it includes an official scale replica of a helmet from Elden Ring, along with a statue, collector's box, art book, steelbook, digital soundtrack, and a copy of the game.
However, Bandai Namco also relaunched its store with a new look at the same time preorders for the Collector's Edition went...
Dying Light 2's PC specs have been officially released. If you're looking forward to parkouring over the scalps of the undead, here's the hardware you'll need to either just get by or fly high.
The big kicker here will be the requirements to run Dying Light 2 with ray tracing, which should go a long way to upping the beauty of the "City." At a minimum, you'll need 16GB of RAM, and an RTX 2060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB.
That will still only get you 1080p and 30fps. If you want ray tracing on and running at 60fps, you'll need one of those elusive Nvidia RTX 3080 GPUs, plus an Intel i5-8600K or AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X.
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Minimum System Requirements (Ray Tracing Off)*:
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If the past is any indication, Grand Theft Auto Online's Winter Update - usually known as Festive Surprise - should be just around the corner. While Rockstar has yet to confirm the arrival of snow and holiday-themed goodies to San Andreas, we're here to break down everything we know about the much-anticipated event.
GTA Online Winter Update: Festive Surprise 2021 Start Date
Rockstar has yet to reveal when/if Festive Surprise 2021 will begin, but it has held this wintry event every year since 2014. In the past, the event has begun as early as December 18 and as late as December 20, and it lasts until the first week of January.
What Is Festive Surprise and What Rewards Does It Offer?
Festive Surprise is a limited-time free event for...
Rainbow Six Siege is gearing up for the first Rainbow International Snowball Fight with its upcoming Snow Brawl event. This holiday-themed celebration will put players on either the Orange Blizzards or the Blue Blades to compete for victory in a snow-filled capture the flag game mode. Furthermore, the event will bring with it the Snow Brawl Collection, which features 45 Winter/Holiday-themed uniforms, headgear, weapon skins, and operator card portraits.
Rainbow Six Siege’s Snow Brawl event will run from December 14 - January 4 and, while there will be high wintry stakes, it is meant to be fun, casual game mode that all can enjoy. Each match will start at the exterior of the Chalet map with flags at the home base of each team, and the...
Fortnite’s Chapter 3, Season 1 Winterfest event is here. Ushering in a ton of activities and treats, including Spider-Man: No Way Home outfits, fans will be able to celebrate this festive occasion in style.
Fortnite Winterfest 2021
Past Fortnite Winterfest events always came bearing gifts. This year is no different. Starting today and running through Jan. 6th, 2022 (ending at 9 AM ET), Winterfest will offer 14 free presents from Sgt. Winter. These include two outfits – Krisabelle and Polar Peely. All players have to do is visit the Winterfest Lodge over the next 14 days to snag each item. Missed a day or two? No worries. Just head to the lodge before the event is over on Jan. 6th to unlock all the presents.
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A monitor might not always seem like the most necessary thing. If you're working on a laptop, you might already feel like you've got a good enough display. You might spend most of your time gaming on a 4K TV. With those two displays already available, a monitor can come across as pointless, but there's actually a fair bit of value to get out of a decent monitor, and you won't have to spend too much.
There's a wide variety of affordable monitors, and our top picks all offer at least a Full HD picture to ensure clarity for your work or games. The big perk is that most also deliver much more screen real estate than a laptop display to spread out multiple windows without shrinking text to illegible levels. They also can have an edge over...
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has reportedly reached a settlement with a number of unhappy investors who had issued complaints after the game's disastrous launch last year.
Earlier this year, it was reported that the developer was facing four lawsuits from investors following the turbulent launch of Cyberpunk 2077. As reported by The Verge, CD Projekt Red has now moved to settle the lawsuits, which have rolled into one larger suit, and in doing so appears set to pay out around $1.85 million dollars to resolve the issue.
As per a document shared by The Verge, details surrounding the negotiations have now been outlined - though these will likely still need to be looked over by a court. “Members of the class (including the...
Hanging on the wall of the afterlife's corporate break room is a different kind of motivational poster: an encouraging "Hang In There" written cheerfully above a skeleton giving a thumbs up while dangling from a noose. It’s a perfect encapsulation of the grim charm of Have a Nice Death, a side-scrolling hack-n-slasher where you play as the charming grim reaper himself. It’s up to this overworked CEO to literally kick his undead employees into shape – and even in the early demo build I got to play, it’s a roguelike I’m already excited to lose hours in.
I had the chance to fight through Have a Nice Death’s first two levels ahead of its Early Access launch in March. Its slick combat and clever theme make for a compelling and surprisingly...
According to results published by IGN's sister site HowLongToBeat, Resident Evil Village has managed to beat out its competition to become the most completed game of 2021.
As per metrics published by the site for 2021 (which is based on data submitted by users, and so potentially not representative of the world at large), Capcom's latest entry into the survival horror series was completed more than any other game this year.
Despite finishing at the top of the list, Village had some fierce competition. The game narrowly managed to edge out Nintendo's Metroid Dread, which marked a popular return for the Samus-led franchise. Other notable entries to the list included Insomniac's Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart (third) and Hazelight...
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl will soon add crossplay during an upcoming update. Additionally, it has bean teased that voice acting is coming to the game .
During a recent Hungrybox stream, art director Diego Hernández spoke about a number of announcements and requested features that are set to be added into All-Star Brawl across the coming months.
While a specific date has not yet been confirmed, Hernández explained that crossplay will be entering the game in Q1 2022. The feature will allow All-Star Brawl players who own the game across any of its available platforms- PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S - to jump into battle against their friends regardless of whether or not they are both playing on the same type of...
Worldwalker Games, the studio behind the procedurally-generated RPG hit Wildermyth, has confirmed that the game will be making its way to Nintendo Switch in the future.
News of the port was announced by Worldwalker Games founder Nate Austin during an appearance on Fanbyte's Thanks for the Knowledge podcast. While the episode won't officially be released until December 19, the outlet confirmed the announcement in a recent article.
Despite the reveal, fans should note that there may still be some wait before they see Wildermyth arrive on the Switch. In its current state, the game is built in Java - a coding base that isn't supported by Nintendo's handheld in any way. Due to this, Fanbyte reports that Austin has said that the porting...
Contrary to what the state of my real-world home might imply, I find something oh-so-satisfying about cleaning up in video games. That makes The Gunk particularly appealing to me, as its linear campaign is packed full of opportunities to methodically transform a muck-covered alien planet back into a pristine and beautiful landscape. As the first 3D game from Image & Form Games (best known for its excellent SteamWorld series), The Gunk’s fairly brief journey doesn’t do a whole lot to expand on its shallow but consistently amusing concept, but it’s still a lot of fun to clear away the goop blanketing its world and uncover the grounded sci-fi story told there.
An action-adventure game at its heart, The Gunk puts you in control of the...
Fortnite Winterfest 2021 is kicking off with some gifts for everyone, including two skins from Spider-Man: No Way Home.
The Fortnite Winterfest 2021 will run from December 16 to January 6. To celebrate, there will be 14 presents, including two skins, players can earn throughout the event. To kick things off, players can head to the Item Shop and pick up Spider-Man and MJ from No Way Home.
Take off Spidey’s mask and surprise, it’s Tom Holland. Hence why the No Way Home version is unique to the classic Spider-Man outfit that was released as part of the Chapter 3 Season 1 Battle Pass. Check out the skins below.
With Spider-Man out of the way, Fortnite players will have several other rewards to try and earn during the Winterfest. When...
Square Enix has had to temporarily suspend sales of Final Fantasy XIV because of the tremendous success of its latest expansion, Endwalker.
Writing on the Final Fantasy XIV website, producer and director Naoki Yoshida explained that the sheer amount of people playing Endwalker has far exceeded Square’s server capacity. In order to try and alleviate the long wait times for players logging in, the company has decided to stop selling Final Fantasy XIV to new players to temporarily stem the tide of incoming server traffic.
“Players are currently experiencing extremely long wait times due to the dense concentration of play hours which far exceed our server capacity, especially during the peak times, and so we have decided to temporarily...
Passion Republic Games has revealed Kongkrete, a sentient office building that will be a playable character in the studio’s upcoming multiplayer brawler game, GigaBash.
Here at IGN we’re able to bring you the first look at gameplay of Kongkrete in the new official GigaBash trailer. Take a look at the chaos in action below.
Kongkrete has one advantage over its adversaries in GigaBash’s monster roster; as a building, it can blend in with other structures on the map when standing completely still. This allows the multi-storey terror to gain the element of surprise, which is not something we’d ever expect of a tower block.
Enemies that get too close to Kongkrete can be damaged by a burst of Giga Energy that reverses their movement...
Bungie head of HR Gayle d'Hondt is stepping down from her role at the company after more than 14 years effective today, IGN has learned.
In an email circulated to employees today which IGN has seen in full, d'Hondt reflected on her time at the company, saying she wants to do "everything in my power to make sure everyone who works here has a safe, welcoming, and supportive environment." She then cited the need for the company's people team to "move forward" with membership "largely comprised of people new to Bungie."
"I know that they need to be trusted to be your advocates – not labeled as 'enablers' or seen as company resources who provide bad actors with safe harbor," she wrote.
D'Hondt is officially stepping out of her official...
As an ardent Assassin's Creed fan, I'm going to turn on Eagle Vision and highlight something particularly cool. Ubisoft has just announced that ACs Valhalla and Odyssey now both feature (free) Crossover Stories content. I've therefore found deals on these two epics for anybody keen to setup a digital playdate between Eivor and Kassandra.
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Nintendo is finishing off the year with one last Indie World Showcase with a look forward to 2022. Check out all the delightful, charming indie games coming to the Switch including a JRPG throwback, gorgeous puzzle games, and a critically-acclaimed RPG from a popular designer.
Check below for everything announced at the Nintendo Indie World Showcase for December 2021.
Sea of Stars
A JRPG-inspired prequel to The Messenger. Sea of Stars follows a Lunar Monk and a Solar Blade Dancer as they work together to stop an evil force. Developer Sabotage Studio is promising a deep classic RPG story and a freely traversable world. Plus music from Chrono Trigger composer Yasunori Mitsuda. Coming holiday 2022.
River City Girls 2
A sequel to...
Now that Netflix’s The Witcher has arrived, this wild world of wonder and weirdness is being introduced to a whole new audience. However, executive producer and showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich’s adaptation of this beloved fantasy world isn’t tied to the massively successful Witcher game franchise developed by CD Projekt Red and which established its significance in the zeitgeist. Instead, the Netflix show is based on the books by author Andrzej Sapkowski. And maybe, just maybe, fans of the show are interested in giving the books a try as well now. Well, let us help you with that!
Sapkowski has published eight Witcher books since he started writing the series back in the mid-’80s when the illustrious Polish author first submitted...
Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers. To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on the subject.
Diablo II’s last meaningful balance-focused patch arrived on March 23, 2010. That was to be the evermore version of the classic action-RPG. And yet, more than 21 years after Diablo II first launched, that’s not the end of the story. That version of the game - 1.13c to be precise - was the foundation upon which Diablo II: Resurrected was built. That game took the underlying game logic of the original and laid a 3D engine laid over the top, and the goal was to keep the gameplay (almost) exactly as it once was.
Now, however...