LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has received its launch trailer, and it features an iconic song from Batman's history. The new trailer highlights some of the action-packed gameplay, story beats, and many villains from the film, all while a very cinematic version of Seal's Kiss from a Rose plays in the background.
For those who don't know, Kiss from a Rose was released as a single during the early days of Seal's career. It was by no means a hit; in fact, Seal even felt embarrassed by it, but it caught the eye of Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher.
Schumacher requested the song to be used during a love scene between Batman and Nicole Kidman, but ultimately, it wasn't featured in the film itself. However, Schumacher did...
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The Adeptus Mechanicus, Warhammer 40,000’s tech priest faction who worship the Machine God while obsessing over data, data, and more data, are now fully unveiled in real-time strategy game Dawn of War IV via a new gameplay trailer.
The idea with the Adeptus Mechanicus is that they are a quick, ranged-focused faction who make use of advanced tech tricks to compete with stronger melee factions, such as the Orks. Based on the gameplay video, the AdMech look like one of the tricker Dawn of War IV factions to get to grips with, but perhaps one of the most rewarding.
They have access to the Void Shield, a huge structure that takes up almost the whole screen, but lets you shield loads of buildings and units. Enemies can’t shoot through the...
Developers Cold Iron Studios and Daybreak Game Company have announced Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, a sequel to the popular 2021 three-player, third-person PvE shooter. It's in development for PC (on Steam and Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S – and it's due out this summer.
The most obvious new change you'll see in the trailer above is the addition of a fourth player to the Xenomorph-blasting action. But there's plenty more to tell you about – and show you – as Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is our IGN First editorial "cover story" for the month of May. That means we'll have gameplay, hands-on impressions, as well as information on classes and enemies. All of that will roll out one exclusive at a time over the next couple of...
Steins;Gate Re:Boot finally has a release date in Japan. The new Steins;Gate remake is coming to PC and current-gen consoles, including Nintendo Switch 2, on August 20.
The release date was confirmed by studio MAGES through a new opening movie on YouTube. The studio also released a preview of the remake's new 'E-mote' system. It has not been confirmed whether the North American version of the game will release on the same day, but the official website indicates the remake will support subtitles in English and Chinese.
The game's website currently lists a number of both digital and physical editions. The standard digital edition will be 6,380 yen, while the most expensive limited edition is listed at 12,980 yen, up to 14,080 yen on...
Resident Evil fans are poring over a fresh cache of images that claim to show content cut from Resident Evil Requiem — including a weapon merchant, evidence of side missions, and more.
Requiem is known to have changed a great deal as it progressed through development — indeed, the game's director recently said a whole early chapter was cut as the game's story evolved. Now, images have surfaced showing more of the game's abandoned ideas.
The images come from Japanese Resident Evil streamer umesooooo, and have been shared more widely by noted Resident Evil leaker Dusk Golem, effectively rubber stamping their authenticity.
For fans, there's much to pore over here — including a weapon upgrade screen that shows an early version of the...
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has wowed players by making significant improvements and in some cases overhauling entire systems on an almost weekly basis. It’s a remarkable rate of updates for the huge, single-player open world action adventure. So how has Pearl Abyss managed it?
In a new interview, the developer said it’s able to act fast on player feedback not just because that’s what it’s used to doing with its previous game, but because it has a different outlook to other triple-A developers.
Speaking to the Washington Post, Pearl Abyss PR and marketing director Will Powers pointed to MMO Black Desert, which it has updated on a weekly basis for over a year, as informing its post-launch support for Crimson Desert. Crimson...
Mixtape is now out, but don’t be surprised if you don’t see many streams or VODs of it out in the wild. That’s because it doesn’t have a streamer mode, which means Twitch and YouTube playthroughs will struggle to gain any monetization due to licensing issues.
Developer Beethoven & Dinosaur has a very good reason for this, though, because simply put, Mixtape is nothing without its soundtrack full of pop songs.
In a statement released on social media, Beethoven & Dinosaur said: “We’ve got a few questions about why Mixtape has no streamer mode. It’s a fair question. Mixtape is about music. It’s about Devo. It’s about the Smashing Pumpkins, and Lush, and Alice Coltrane. It’s about how you feel when you listen to Iggy Pop.”
“The...
The world has ended. Nightmarish creatures have risen from the Dark Void, fueling an apocalypse that has wiped nearly everything out. What little remains of humanity has poured the last of their resources into constructing the Phantom Train, a celestial locomotive capable of leaping across universes in hopes of finding Elysium, the only safe haven that’s been spared the encroaching darkness.
In Dark Light: Survivor, you take on the role of one of these multiverse-crossing humans. Your job is simple: survive against innumerable enemies, and fight your way to Elysium. It’s just you, your weapons, and an ever growing horde of snarling monstrosities. After several hours of slicing, shooting, and launching screen-clearing, element-infused...
True nostalgia isn't the replication of a specific place or time, but of a feeling. It’s those flashes of emotion that transport us back into memories that have long sat dormant. I was born too late to be a teenager in the '90s. I grew up thousands of miles away from the schools of Northern California. I've barely stepped onto a skateboard outside of a couple scraped knees in the summer of 2003. But none of that matters, and Mixtape knows it. Australian developer Beethoven & Dinosaur fills each and every moment of its coming-of-age tale with incredible music, perfectly hand-picked to set the tone for its free-flowing chapters in a way only nostalgia can. As original as it is reverential, it's a masterfully constructed dose of new...
150 bug fixes and new features are on the way to The Sims 4 later this month.
With "an incredible range of content and experiences" released since The Sims 4 launched way back in 2014, the team said it is now committed to "making that content even better by delivering improvements to the gameplay that matters most to Simmers."
To help achieve this, the team has outlined a "Laundry List" of just some of the changes coming in a huge base game update on May 12, including a number of fan-requested improvements such as optimizations for Infants, Toddlers, Sleep, and "general Sim autonomy." The community has also helped shape the priority order by voting for their top issues.
One of the biggest changes will be an increase in the frequency...
Civilization VII is set for a major update that finally let players stay as one civ through all Ages, as the boss of parent company Take-Two has admitted: “we got it wrong.”
Civilization VII is over a year old now, and has fewer players on Steam than both Civilization VI and the 15-year-old Civilization V. When Civilization VII launched, players highlighted issues with the user interface, a lack of map variety, and a lack of features they’d come to expect from the franchise. But some veteran Civ fans also didn’t get on well with the dramatic changes developer Firaxis made to the game.
At launch, a full campaign in Civilization VII was one that went through all three Ages: Antiquity, Exploration, and Modern. Once the Age is completed...
Just a few weeks after revealing that action adventure game Pragmata had sold 1 million copies in just two days, Capcom is back with another sales update: it's now sold over 2 million copies in just 16 days.
In the announcement, Capcom attributed the success to marketing initiatives such as the playable demo, plus an aggressive campaign to boost visibility of the all-new IP.
That's not all, though; the developer also believes the emotional, narrative-driven story on top of its "unique" gameplay has solidified its position in Capcom's storied portfolio, alongside juggernaut franchises like Resident Evil and Devil May Cry.
Capcom USA's chief operating officer, Rob Dyer, recently teased that Pragmata could be spun out into a...
RGG Studio has lifted the lid on its next big game, Stranger Than Heaven. Announced back at The Game Awards in 2024 with the codename Project Century, Stranger Than Heaven was re-revealed last summer with its final name. In partnership with Xbox, the Yakuza developer released a 30-minute presentation where it dove deep into everythign you'd want to know about Stranger Than Heaven with heaps of new gameplay footage. It’s immediately clear that this is quite different from the Yakuza games, as it will take place over the course of half a century.
The story begins in 1915 with protagonist Makoto Daito sneaking onto a ship to escape from his life in San Francisco after the passing of his parents. He heads for Japan, but aboard the ship he...
Ever since Nvidia revealed frame generation with the RTX 4080, I have been dreading the day that a game developer uses it as a requirement to get to an acceptable frame rate. And while we’ve gone almost four years without that happening, it seems like Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is going to cross that line.
This past weekend, developer TT Games released the system requirements for the new Lego Batman game, and while at first glance they seem kind of reasonable for a Unreal Engine 5-based game, a closer look reveals that the company wants you to turn on frame generation just to hit 30 fps with the minimum settings. That’s not really how frame generation should work.
If this isn’t just an error, it suggests that the minimum...
Borderlands 4 was released in September of last year for the price of $69.99. As someone who has played all of the Borderlands games throughout the years, I decided well before launch that I'd wait for a better price before I play this one. Even the positive IGN review of the game wasn't enough to sway me into thinking I needed to pay $70.
So here we are, almost seven months later, and I still haven't purchased the game, but the discounts are starting to be good enough that I'm considering it. While Amazon still has it at full price for digital codes, the physical PS5 editions of the game have dropped to a new all-time low.
While I don't have direct experience playing this game, I have heard nothing but rave reviews from my Dad about...
Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon has revealed his wishlist for future guest characters in the fighting game series.
In a new interview with Collider while promoting the Mortal Kombat 2 movie, Boon confirmed another Mortal Kombat game is being planned at NetherRealm, but failed to share details. However, when asked which guest characters he wanted to see in the future, he mentioned Street Fighter, which, if it were to actually happen, would finally provide fighting game fans with the crossover they've been waiting 30 years for.
“I would love to see a Street Fighter character in Mortal Kombat. I’m a huge fan of Street Fighter,” Boon said. "We’ve had Joker as a really dark character, but DC and Marvel, it would be a lot of fun to see...
The long-awaited Mortal Kombat 2 movie is finally upon us, and with it, our first introduction to Karl Urban’s version of beloved character, Johnny Cage. But what convinced him to take the part?
IGN recently spoke to Urban, star of The Boys and The Lord of the Rings, and asked him exactly that. His answer was somewhat surprising, considering all the previous versions of the cocky, Hollywood character Cage that we’ve come to know and love/hate.
“I think what made this project an easy yes for me [was] when I read the script and saw that Jeremy [Slater, MK2’s writer] had quite wisely steered away from making the character that classic ego-driven Johnny Cage that we just know from all the plethora of games and movies,” Urban explained...
I’ve long been of the opinion that PC gamers get the best deals overall. Obviously, console games go on sale, but PC games can drop to wildly low prices that PlayStation, Xbox – and certainly Nintendo – games never reach.
As if to prove my theory correct, May’s Humble Choice bundle is now live, with eight PC games worth $282 available in a bundle for just $14.99. The games in this month’s offering include Diablo IV, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, and more. It’s a terrific lineup of games, available for way less than you’d ever be able to get them otherwise. Let’s dive in.
Humble Choice May 2026
Diablo IV (Battle.net)
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (Steam)
Crysis 3 Remastered (Steam)
Heroes of Hammerwatch II (Steam)
Nordhold...
Ubisoft has announced Heredis, a "spectacular new stage experience" set within the world of Assassin's Creed, that's set to debut later this year.
The two-hour show will feature circus artists, acrobats and dancers from Les 7 Doights (The 7 Fingers) company in a "high-energy" performance that features "urban parkour, choreographed combat and physical feats within large-scale immersive environments drawn from Assassin's Creed games," Ubisoft stated in a press release today.
Details on the show's plot and how it will actually link to the Assassin's Creed games is thin on the ground, though artwork for the show features a character who looks a lot like Desmond, leaping through the air against an Ancient Greek backdrop from Assassin's...
Ubisoft has criticized the posting of a leaked screenshot from its under-wraps multiplayer Assassin's Creed game, which had been altered using AI.
Last night, Assassin's Creed leaker j0nathan posted an image that supposedly revealed Assassin's Creed Invictus, the franchise's multiplayer spinoff announced by Ubisoft back in 2022 that we've seen nothing of since.
The screenshot shows a character in historical clothing, standing in what looks to be an arena. However, the environment is clearly far from finished — it's obvious this version of the game is still very much in development.
"Alright, here's a little gift: here's a first image of Assassin's Creed Invictus!" j0nathon wrote. "A big part of the game isn't textured yet, so don't...
NetherRealm development chief Ed Boon has confirmed another Mortal Kombat video game is in the works, as rumors continue to point to Injustice 3 being the studio’s next game.
The fighting game developer is heavily rumored to be preparing an announcement for Injustice 3, which would be another sequel in NetherRealm’s DC fighting game franchise. In September 2024, Boon, who is currently on the road promoting the release of Mortal Kombat 2 in theaters, revealed that the studio had decided its next game back in 2021. At the time, Boon said NetherRealm was “still fully committed to supporting Mortal Kombat 1 for a long time to come.” But just eight months later, Warner Bros. Games confirmed no new DLC characters or story chapters would be...
Beleaguered MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy has reportedly been rocked by another round of redundancies at the studio, according to Kotaku. This marks the third time the studio has been struck with layoffs in the past year.
While Build a Rocket Boy is yet to publicly comment on the layoffs, Kotaku reports that sources have indicated that around 170 staff have been impacted, and that the studio is now hovering at approximately 80 remaining employees.
A number of Build a Rocket Boy staff have subsequently been spotted referencing “the latest redundancies” at the studio in LinkedIn posts announcing they’ve been unfortunately laid off, including senior game designer James Tyler, audio designer Tom Cross, and more. Several members of...
Playground Games has officially clarified the graphics and performance modes that will be available in Forza Horizon 6’s Xbox Series X|S version when it drops at the end of next week. The information arrived in a larger post also containing details of the game’s radio stations, as well as several accessibility features.
Both the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S will feature two different rendering modes – Quality and Performance – which you’ll be able to toggle between depending on your preference for either graphical quality or a higher framerate.
On Xbox Series X, Quality mode will run Forza Horizon 6 in native 4K resolution at 30fps, while Performance mode targets 4K, but will scale resolution dynamically in order to remain...
IO Interactive has assured fans that there will be more Hitman adventures, and the team is eager to return to the franchise.
IO Interactive's entire history is built on the back of Agent 47 and the Hitman franchise. The studio has explored other games like Freedom Fighters and Kane and Lynch, but Hitman has been ol' reliable for the Danish developer. By the end of this month, IO Interactive will have developed and released 13 games over the course of 26 years, with 007 First Light being the latest. Hitman makes up more than half of the studio's released games. Many have wondered whether or not the studio's newfound fascination with James Bond will lead to Hitman's demise, but that's not the case.
IO Interactive has noted many times...
Diablo 4 fans have finally discovered the game's secret cow level, though some fans are a bit underwhelmed by it.
If you're not a Diablo fan, you may be thinking to yourself, "What the heck is the secret cow level?" The lore runs pretty deep here, but in short, players of the original Diablo game created a rumor about a secret level that featured demonic cows. While this was nothing more than a hoax, Blizzard found it amusing and eventually made it a reality. Subsequent Diablo installments included secret cow levels, which prompted players to complete elaborate Easter eggs to unlock dungeons that featured killer bovines. If players defeated them, they'd get a bunch of loot.
For years, players have been searching for Diablo 4's secret...
Just this week, Valve launched the Steam Controller on its own, despite it initially being planned for launch at the same time as the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame. But, it looks like Valve has been getting a lot of shipments of 'game consoles'. Could this mean an imminent Steam Machine launch?
This all comes via Twitter user Brad Lynch, or @SadlyitsBradley, who noticed the uptick in Valve's imports on NBD Data, a shipping analysis platform. It appears that over the last couple of weeks, Valve has received multiple shipments of mysterious 'game consoles' from China, which suggests the company is building up for a release sometime in the near future.
It is entirely possible that these shipments are just a giant Steam Deck...
Beastlink just got announced, and it looks like pure monster madness. You get to play as both the monster hunters and the kaiju, laying waste to the sandbox environments, which have all been built with developer Grove Street’s proprietary SuperDestruction physics-based system. The multiplayer game will launch with four different kaiju, the Horned Lizard, the Bull Shark, the Vampire Bat, and the Mandrill.
There's vehicular combat, urban maps to wreck - with 250,000 destructible objects, no less - where the ultimate aim is to collect enough resources to support fuel an experimental procedure to Link with sleeping kaiju. According to the developer "once the BeastLink is established, the perspective shifts from tactical survival to...
If you’re in the market for a new game console, you’ll definitely want to consider this deal. Best Buy has a new bundle that comes with an Xbox Series X, as well as Forza Horizon 6 and the limited-edition Forza Horizon 6 Xbox Wireless Controller, all for $659.97. That saves you $150 off MSRP. Considering the across-the-board console price hikes in recent years, that’s a killer discount, and the best Xbox deal we’ve seen in a while.
Get the Xbox Series X Forza Horizon 6 Bundle
Here’s a breakdown of the pricing for the individual items in the bundle:
Xbox Series X: $649.99
Forza Horizon 6: $69.99
Forza Xbox Controller: $89.99
Total: $809.07
So, effectively, you’re getting all three items for just $10 more than you’d normally pay...
Ubisoft has released a deep dive look at the parkour, stealth and combat features found in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced — and most importantly, given fans a look at the game with its blood effects enabled.
Last month, Ubisoft offered fans a tantalizing look at Black Flag Resynced, its ground-up remake of the franchise's beloved pirate entry. While much of what was shown went down very well with viewers, questions were asked of why the footage lacked any blood.
Regardless of the reason, Ubisoft's new blog post that goes into more granular detail on several of Black Flag Resynced's systems has plenty of bloody gushes, spurts and sprays as pirate hero Edward Kenway stabs, slices and skewers his foes.
One other notable reveal...
If I’m being honest, I must say that I didn’t exactly love the way that the last run of Bond films wrapped up. To be clear, I’m not down on Daniel Craig. In fact, like many fans, I’m of the opinion that he's the best to ever take the role – but there’s no question that his five-film run as 007 had more ups and downs than an Aston Martin’s ejector seat. Casino Royale and Skyfall are surely two of the very best entries in the entire 60-year canon, but Quantum of Solace was undercooked, Spectre was one Fat Bastard away from being an Austin Powers-style parody, and although No Time to Die course-corrected to some extent, its bloated length and bleak tone has meant that I haven’t felt the need to return to it since its 2021 release. No Time...