Bethesda has released a new patch for Fallout 4 that updates the Creation Kit and makes a number of crash and bug fixes.
The update, out now for the 11-year-old open-world post-apocalyptic role-playing game, increases the BA2 archive limit from 256 to 1024 to better accommodate larger collections of mods, Bethesda said in patch notes published on Steam. Meanwhile, Creations up to 2GB in size can now be uploaded for Xbox.
As for crash fixes, Bethesda said the update fixed a crash when the player opens the Virtual Keyboard on a Steam Deck device, which will help out players on Valve’s handheld.
Bethesda had warned Fallout 4 players to log into their game before today’s update to save their load order. Once your load order is saved...
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Control Resonant has been hit by a last-minute delay that will impact the launch of its physical editions.
While the Control sequel will still arrive digitally for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on September 24, fans wanting a boxed copy will now need to wait until October 15 to play.
"Get ready to unleash Dylan Faden's paranatural abilities in warped Manhattan on September 24," developer Remedy wrote today in a statement posted to social media. "We need just a little more time to deliver the physical version to you, but rest assured - nothing stays contained forever."
On the upside, if you are waiting until October to play Control Resonant, you'll have more time to play the absolute glut of other games also launching next...
Microsoft has announced the Xbox Game Pass August 2026 Wave 2 lineup, and it includes a number of day-one releases.
Available tomorrow, August 19, is Vapor World: Over the Mind as a day one launch on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Vapor World: Over The Mind is a narrative-driven souls-like platformer focused on deflection combat.
Blood Dungeon (Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, and PC) is another day one launch on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, this time on August 25. It’s a 2D platforming survival game from the creators of Nidhogg.
Here’s a big one: Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy launches on August 27 across Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass as a day one release. “Follow Sophia’s journey to the Minotaur’s Island, where she faces...
Sony held its planned Phantom Blade Zero State of Play livestream with — somewhat surprisingly — the comments turned on, and they went exactly how everyone thought they would.
The YouTube chat, for example, was dominated by “no disc no buy” comments, which drowned out comments about the promising looking action game itself. It was a similar situation on Twitch.
None of this should come as a surprise, given fans had called out this first State of Play since Sony’s announcement sent shockwaves through the video game industry as a likely battleground for the ongoing backlash to the impending end of PlayStation disc production from 2028.
“Will buy when it's available PHYSICALLY,” read one comment. “Wow! It may look great but it will...
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis will include an RPG-like skill tree, herb brewing and a new chargeable focus meter in its reimagining of the series' first game.
The remake, which is in development at Trek to Yomi studio Flying Wild Hog, in collaboration with the series' lead studio Crystal Dynamics, updates the franchise's iconic original adventure with snazzy new visuals and gameplay more familiar to modern audiences.
A new video detailing Legacy of Atlantis' combat and progression has now gone into detail on this gameplay, which includes elements inspired by the more recent Tomb Raider reboot trilogy. For example, a skill tree has been revealed that shows how players will redeem in-game artifacts for skill points, which unlock a web...
Video game developer legend Warren Spector has announced his retirement from video game development.
The 70-year-old founding father of the immersive sim genre announced his retirement in a post on LinkedIn, saying he felt he had done what he set out to do over the course of his glittering career. He now plans to write a book or two and do some lecturing or consulting.
Spector announced his retirement admitting there are still a few games he’d like to make, but said the video game business had changed and he doesn’t find it fun anymore. He also left the door open to a return to development at some point in the future.
Here’s Spector’s statement in full:
Let me cut right to the chase. I'm retiring from game development. At least I...
Some fans are expressing some confusion after seeing the latest gameplay footage from Eclipse Glow Games’ Tides of Annihilation, which features some distinct graphical changes that were made to its main character’s face.
Tides of Annihilation has experienced a few big changes over the last month. In mid-July, acclaimed voice actress Jennifer English announced she was abdicating the role of the game’s main character, Gwendolyn, citing concerns surrounding her mental and physical health.
And in mid-August, Eclipse Glow Games showed off 40 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay footage, giving us one of the most in-depth looks at the title we’ve seen thus far… but not everyone was happy with what they saw.
While impressions of the game’s...
A recent Star Citizen development stream went horribly wrong, resulting in some fans losing confidence in the long-awaited sci-fi game.
Earlier this month, the team at CIG decided to do a live stream showing off the current internal build of Star Citizen following player complaints over new content in the game. The developers heard players were having a bad time with this content and decided to do a stream of an internal build to paint a picture of the "intended" experience. Essentially, they were hoping it would show players that they're fixing issues and that this is a very temporary inconvenience... unfortunately, things went terribly wrong.
The developers kept running into bugs that showed the game is indeed broken. The developers...
Kingdom Hearts is having a big moment on Steam, becoming the platform’s second best-selling game in the United States following the Kingdom Hearts IV gameplay trailer that was shown at D23 over the weekend.
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 Remix, a hefty compilation of games in the series, is soaring on Steam’s Top Sellers list, reaching second place as the most-purchased title within the U.S. on August 17, 2026. Data from SteamsCharts shows it accrued a peak player count of 10,139 players over the last 24 hours, with just over 8,000 players actively playing the game as of two hours prior to writing this article.
It helps that Steam is currently having a massive sale for the franchise, with collections of the games listed at 70% off until...
TikTok streamer Jay Lucarelli tried for nearly 2,000 attempts over the course of a week to throw a perfect game with now-retired Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt in MVP Baseball 2005, the classic pro baseball sim – and last one ever made by EA. On attempt number 1,993, Lucraelli finally did it.
The final out came on a line-drive comebacker to Oswalt, retiring then-Red Sox catcher Doug Mirabelli after he threw a down-and-in slider that Mirabelli hit hard but hit it right at the central figure in Lucarelli's weeklong quest.
"That's it. That's it! That's the no-hitter!" the streamer exclaimed after finally achieving his goal. It didn't come easy in the ninth, with Lucarelli falling behind the leadoff batter 3-0 before getting him on a lineout...
Former PlayStation lead Shuhei Yoshida warned the developers behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 about calling it a "turn-based RPG" because "that alone might cause players to overlook it."
Yoshida, who served as PlayStation's head of indies and president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios before stepping down in 2024, spoke about some key advice he gave the award-winning team during a recent lecture for indie game developers. Portions of that lecture were then reported by 4Gamer and subsequently translated by Automaton, including one piece of advice he gave to publisher Kepler Interactive while advising the team ahead of its April 2025 launch.
"It’s incredibly well-made, but it would be better not to call it a...
A compact power bank that is perfect for your Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, or Apple iPhone 17 has dropped in price for a limited time. Amazon is currently offering the Iniu 10,000mAh 45W Power Bank for just $13.76 after you clip the 49% off coupon on the product page. This is an excellent price for a power bank that had double the capacity of the built-in Switch battery and can fast charge it as well so you can play and charge simultaneously. Note that these Iniu power bank coupons expire notoriously quickly.
Iniu 10,000mAh 45W Power Bank for $13.76
This Iniu power bank features a 10,000mAh (37Wh) battery capacity. If you factor in 80% power efficiency, here are the approximate number of times you can fully recharge some of the...
Fortnite has shown off its character roster for Overdrive, the battle royale's upcoming season themed around legendary video games.
Players will have already seen numerous franchises confirmed to be getting crossovers, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot, Kingdom Hearts, Persona, Tetris, Pac-Man, Mega Man and 99 Nights in the Forest. Indeed, teases for many of these popped up briefly in the game's latest live event this past weekend (more on that later).
Today, Fortnite maker Epic Games has highlighted the skins set to be available in the Overdrive battle pass, which feature a string of legally distinct video game parodies (plus the actual Sonic the Hedgehog, sort of).
There's been plenty of discussion over the weekend...
Key Preview Takeaways:
Nails the look, feel, and sound of Aliens.
You’re never really comfortable, in a good way.
The Specialist class that lets you custom-assemble your own class is the way to go.
James Cameron has described the Director’s Cut of Aliens as “forty miles of bad road.” It’s an apt comparison for an intense and groundbreaking sci-fi action film that damn near everything since owes something to. What’s crazy is that so much of what would become iconic about Aliens isn’t in the theatrical release: Ripley’s daughter, the entire sequence with the turrets, Hudson’s monologue about being the ultimate badass… none of it is there. But it’s impossible to imagine Aliens, and the world it built, without those things – and...
Fortnite now has an exclusive Star Wars skin available only to those who visit two Disneyland parks.
The skin, named the Forsworn Trooper, is an exclusive in-game reward available to visitors at the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run experience at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, or Disney's Hollywood Studios near Orlando, Florida.
If you're headed to either of these locations in the near future, then you're in luck! The skin will be yours, thanks to Disney's increasingly close relationship with Epic Games (and also the linking of your Epic account and Disney Experiences data).
If you're not headed to either of these locations in the near future... well, you're kind of unstuck. If it makes you feel better, though, the Forsworn...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first quarter-century.
Anyone old enough to remember the Xbox 360’s earliest days, the ones before Mass Effect finally came out in November of 2007, will recall that BioWare’s epic space opera didn’t just come out of nowhere. It had been hugely anticipated and hyped up a whole lot… and I’m part of the reason why.
I worked at Official Xbox Magazine at the time, and to say we were excited for this RPG would be an understatement. This was a big, big...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on Nintendo Switch 2 has just dropped to a new low price of $34.99 at Amazon. If that's piqued your interest, particularly if you're looking to replay it ahead of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, now is the time to grab it and save $15. Plus, it comes with an exclusive Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy card of Zack Fair, which is a fantastic bonus alongside the deal.
This card features variant art of Zack by Tetsuya Nomura, the original game's lead character designer and creative director of the remake trilogy. According to the store page, this version of the card has identical abilities to the Zack Fair card in the MTG Final Fantasy set. The photo below can provide you with a closer look at it so you can know what...
After a couple of delays, Pax Autocratica is finally out in the wild, spreading its influence across alien planets. It can be difficult to pin down exactly what the game is from its trailers, largely because it combines two very different styles of play.
On one side, there’s the action: shooting enemies, completing objectives and gathering resources to strengthen your cause and spread the good word of authoritarianism. On the other, there’s a base-building colony sim. Rather than managing everything from above like an all-seeing god, however, you’re down on the ground as a supposed person of the people.
Developing your colony means running around to find suitable locations for new facilities, interacting with your citizens and...
As a fan of Mortal Shell’s scaled-down approach to the soulslike back in 2020, I was very skeptical of Mortal Shell 2’s enthusiasm for making everything about it way larger, because bigger is not always better. If you felt the same, then allow me to assuage those fears from the top here: besides being bigger, Mortal Shell 2 is also better in almost every way. It still has its rough edges, mostly weird technical things and some balance issues, especially towards the end of this 25-30 hour quest. But its world, the occasionally daunting act of exploring it, and the gritty skirmishes you’ll have while doing so are all greatly improved.
As you did in the first game, you play as a creature whose shiny, sinewy body places it somewhere...
10 years ago, a game almost broke me. A wide-eyed 24-year-old, as yet undecayed by nearly a decade in games media, I found myself enraptured by The Witness. Eager to eat up every one of the maze-like puzzles hidden around its island setting, I simply couldn’t get enough. That’s until I hit its final challenge. It was optional, but not for me. This brick wall of a bastard drained brainpower out of me each time I smashed my head against it. But the moment I finally broke through was a rush like little else — the kind hardened soulslike players get when finally striking down a boss after several hours of trying. It’s still the single most difficult trophy I’ve ever earned, and as such, my most prized PlayStation platinum. But while that...
The Mafia video game franchise is often compared to the Grand Theft Auto games. The rivalry began when the first Mafia game came out in 2002, just a year after GTA 3. Fast forward nearly a quarter of a century and, in the run up to the release of last year’s Mafia: The Old Country, GTA reared its head once again. For a time, it looked like The Old Country might end up coming out within the vicinity of the behemoth that is GTA 6. The Old Country’s developers had to explain the point of difference, why those comparisons were unfair, and manage expectations. In the end, Mafia dodged a bullet with GTA 6’s name on it; to have been a fly on the wall when Hangar 13 president Nick Baynes found out Rockstar's game had been pushed from fall 2025...
McDonald's is partnering with Xbox to offer in-game rewards for the console brand's six most recognizable gaming franchises, including Halo, Fallout, Forza and World of Warcraft.
Whether you play Candy Crush Saga or Overwatch, McDonald's is offering digital items to customers in the UK and Ireland as part of a new set of Side Missions, which will feature menu items inspired the foods and flavors of Xbox gaming.
Thankfully there's no red hot cooking rings of death here. Instead, you'll be able to unlock delicious additions such as the Sugar Bomb Bundle for Fallout 76, or World of Warcraft's fan-favorite Red Hot Portable Bakery.
"Gaming is all about imagination and the worlds we love to get lost in," said Tim Kenward, SVP, chief...
In the wake of Halloween: The Game being refused classification in Australia last week, and the subsequent confirmation that the game would not be available in Australia and New Zealand as a result, IGN reached out to IllFonic to clarify why the New Zealand release was affected. For example, Hotline Miami 2 is a game that was refused classification in Australia (and has remained so, unlike most high-profile RC cases, where developers typically make small changes to skirt the country’s classification guidelines). However, while Hotline Miami 2 is not available on storefronts in Australia, it is still very much available digitally in New Zealand. So the news of Halloween: The Game needing to be unavailable in New Zealand didn’t quite add...
A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Resident Evil Requiem, Project Hail Mary, Civilization VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, select LEGO sets, AirPods Pro 3, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, August 16, below.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth with MTG Card for $34.99
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for Nintendo Switch 2 is on sale today for $34.99 at Amazon. This physical version of the game includes an exclusive Zack Fair Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy card, which is perfect for fans and collectors alike. If you've yet to experience this massive RPG, take a chance and pick up a copy this weekend at a discount. It's pretty great exploring beyond Midgar on the Switch 2, just...
Marvel star Simu Liu has offered a positive update on his long-in-development Sleeping Dogs movie adaptation, saying the film has "a REAL path forward" as discussions with game publisher Square Enix continue.
The Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings actor offered a treat to patient fans when asked about the project's status on X/Twitter. It's been some time since we heard where Sleeping Dogs was at, but don't worry, Liu said it is still very much in the works.
"Okay, here it is," he replied to a fan asking for an update. "We’re moving along really well, we have a director, and a production company, and a REAL path forward."
Liu quickly stepped in to announce he had taken the reins to develop a movie based on Square Enix and...
Kingdom Hearts 4 co-director Tai Yasue and series creator Tetsuya Nomura have assured fans that it is a "100% thing" the game will not be delayed past its late 2027 launch window.
While the team behind the new Kingdom Hearts game stopped short of sharing a final release date during its big D23 2026 presence, they feel pretty confident the current schedule will stick. Yasue, Nomura, and director of product development at Disney and Pixar games Nana Gadd doubled down on Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts 4 launch plans during a panel at this year's show.
"One last thing I wanted to share: We announced the game will come late 2027," Nomura said. "Online, some people were saying the release date may get pushed back. I want to set the record...
Disney and Square Enix showed up for the Deep Dive into Kingdom Hearts panel at D23 2026 to show off an extended gameplay trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4 that features a first look at a playable King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.
No one expected Sora to show up in the world of Pixar's Coco, Keyblade in hand, when the legendary crossover franchise made a surprise appearance during yesterday's Disney Entertainment Showcase. That only made Mickey, Donald, and Goofy showing up as playable characters in today's new four-minute trailer even more of a shock.
Gameplay for Goofy and Donald seems to mostly fall in line with what we've come to expect from Sora. Outside of one segment that saw the two Disney icons sledding through the Underworld, they...
D23, Disney's biggest fan convention, continues with a special panel all about Kingdom Hearts. IGN is on the ground bringing you the biggest news, reveals, and updates from the presentation as it kicks off today, August 15.
Titled ‘DEEP DIVE into KINGDOM HEARTS,’ this panel will stream live starting 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET / August 16 at 12:30 AM UK Time. You can watch it on IGN's own YouTube channel, which we will embed in this article for your convenience once the show gets started.
Disney said the panel will give fans a "behind-the-scenes look at the making of the games,” with insights from the "creative minds, character voices, and more behind the magic."
Guests on the panel include Nana Gadd, director of games at the Walt...
A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save on Resident Evil Requiem, Project Hail Mary, Civilization VII, select LEGO sets, AirPods Pro 3, and more. Check out our top picks for Saturday, August 15, below.
Resident Evil Requiem for $53.99
Target has Resident Evil Requiem on sale this weekend for $53.99. If you've yet to play the latest RE game, this is a great time to do so. Grace Ashcroft and Leon S. Kennedy join forces to defeat a sinister new threat in a game that combines tense horror with brutal action combat. DLC is planned to be released in the future, so you can catch up now before the next story is out.
Project Hail Mary 4K Blu-ray for $24.95
Project Hail Mary was one of my favorite movies of the year, and today, you...
Itching to replay your favorite Marvel’s Spider-Man game after watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day in theaters? Now’s the perfect time to leap back into the web-slinging action. From now until September 15, 2026, you can use IGN’s Guides checklists with unlimited access to checks across all our best Spider-Man guides - no strings attached!
There’s no better way to track down every Spider-Man 2 Spider Bot or the new Suits added in honor of Brand New Day and Marvel Tokon. IGN’s fully integrated interactive maps and checklists makes tracking your in-game progress a breeze. If you’re curious how it works, here’s a taste of what IGN’s guides and checklists have to offer:
Marvel’s Spider-Man Checklists and Map
Is there anything cooler than...