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...
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The best rhythm games are Combo Mad. They let you express yourself, alter your play, match the beat to your tools and show off. They’re not all this way, of course. But the good ones – the ones that get that music isn’t just playing the right notes in the right order – have more in common with Devil May Cry and your favorite fighting game than you might think. Dead as Disco, a literal beat ‘em up from developer Brain Jar Games, is as comfortable in that space as a well-worn leather jacket. Even at its Early Access launch, it’s got the sick licks, fancy footwork, and consummate style to be a real contender. There are a couple parts of this album that I don’t love, but it’s about as close to being all killer no filler as an in-progress...
Microsoft has confirmed the Xbox Game Pass May 2026 Wave 1 lineup, and it’s full of big hitters.
As detailed in a post on Xbox Wire, May is headlined by Playground’s hotly anticipated Forza Horizon 6, which as a Microsoft title releases straight into Game Pass day one on May 19 across Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. But there are a number of other major games coming to Game Pass this month, including the day one release of Mixtape, the next game from the developer of The Artful Escape, and, on May 14, the troubled but still hotly anticipated Subnautica 2.
But the day one releases don't stop there. We also have Square Glade Games' cozy open-world exploration game Outbound on May 11, and Out of the Blue Games' Lovecraftian...
It pains me to say that it has been over a decade since Arkham Knight launched and we’re still waiting for another truly excellent Batman game to take up its mantle. After Bruce Wayne-adjacent disappointments in Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, it’s understable why so many have seen Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight’s counter-based combat and immediately pinned their hopes on the line drawn between it and Rocksteady’s phenomenal trilogy.
The comparison is not unfair. After playing two-and-a-half hours at a recent preview event, it’s clear that Legacy of the Dark Knight is something of a “Diet Arkham”. I say that very much as a compliment; it’s got a similarly detailed open world with dozens of...
To mark the launch of Wolf With Inn from indie developer Thundertale Studio, we got the chance to ask some questions to lead artist Alice, and narrative designer Arina, about where the inspiration for the game came from, how they balance cozy playstyle with the dark setting and the one feature they think players will be surprised about.
How would you describe Wolf With Inn to new players?
Arina: At first glance, Wolf With Inn seems like a meditative, dark cozy game about a werewolf innkeeper in the remote wilderness. And it is! But if you look a little deeper, it becomes clear that the game is about the shadow self. It’s about the duality of human nature that many refuse to accept, often choosing to live in one of two extremes.
Some...
Call of Duty fans can breathe a sigh of relief as this year's entry will not release on last-gen consoles, so developers don't have to hold back.
Earlier this week, a rumor began to spread that the next Call of Duty game, rumored to be Modern Warfare 4, was being playtested on PlayStation 4. This caused some panic among fans, as the PS4 will be turning 13 around the time of the next Call of Duty game's release, and rumors indicate the PS6 is only a year or two away. Some feel like games are being held back by last-gen consoles, but Activision appears to be moving on from them.
The official Call of Duty X account has confirmed that the next Call of Duty is not in development for PlayStation 4, which presumably means it's also not in...
Fallout Co-Creator Says Some Players Watch Influencers So They Can Be Told What to Think About Games
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has shared his fear that some gamers are watching influencers just so they can be "handed an opinion from the online channel they're watching."
The game developer behind classic RPGs like Fallout and The Outer Worlds offered his perspective on where the gaming industry is at and where it's heading in a video uploaded to his main channel (as spotted by VGC). When responding to a question from a fan, he explained his take on how social media has affected both game development and how players consume gaming content online.
"Now, we're in the 2020s," Cain said, "and many gamers don't even look to influencers for reviews – they look to influencers to be told how to think about the games. So, people don't form...
It’s May 4 — a date that happens to sound similar to “May the Force,” as in “May the Force be with you,” a common greeting in a galaxy far, far away. Therefore the internet has dubbed today Star Wars Day, and at some point Disney and retailers made it official. In celebration of this nascent holiday, Star Wars video games, LEGO sets, action figures, and gear of all sorts are on sale. Below, we’ve rounded up all the best deals in the universe.
Star Wars Day Sales at Major Retailers
Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop | LEGO Store | Target | Walmart
For a broad overview of the deals, you can visit the links to any of the retailers listed above. That’s where you’ll find all of the deals on Star Wars-related items all in one place.
Star Wars...
Disney+ is offering subscribers a free Marvel Rivals skin through its Disney+ Perks program. The Loki skin is an exclusive "Twilight Aurora" version of “The Avengers” costume that released in the hero shooter on May 1.
If you already own the skin, you’ll get the new chroma. If you don’t own the skin, you’ll officially have this Disney+-exclusive version, essentially getting you the costume for free.
How to Get the Disney+ Version of "The Avengers" Loki Costume
Go to my perks/disneyplus.com
Log in with the same email address you use for your Disney+ account
Select the Marvel Rivals perk
Hit “Claim Now” and receive your code
Launch and log into Marvel Rivals
Head to Settings and open the “Bundle Code” section
Type in the code you got...
There has been a ton of buzz around Dishonored's future, following a rather innocuous post on X.
Dishonored is easily one of the best stealth-action games out there. The Arkane-developed game made waves for its open-ended level design, allowing players to take down targets and complete objectives by combining their powers or using the world around them to their advantage. It also had an extremely unique setting with a steampunk-inspired aesthetic and a layered universe infested by a rat plague. There's not really anything else quite like it, which was recognized by fans and critics alike. IGN gave Dishonored a 9.2 back in 2012, and the game was showered in awards in addition to respectable sales.
A sequel followed in 2016 and was met...
Capcom wants players to know that old age won't keep Leon Kennedy out of games set after Resident Evil Requiem because he'll probably "still be a great character" even "when he's 70."
Fans were already worried that the 50-year-old survival horror hero may be getting too tired to show up for new entries in the series before his inclusion in the new game was revealed late last year. Following the events of Resident Evil Requiem, it's safe to say Leon was still in good enough shape to cut through more mutated villains, but Capcom has said that it's not afraid to bring him back for even more missions in the future.
Game director Koshi Nakanishi touched on the publisher's love for Leon during an all-encompassing interview with Eurogamer...
For the third year in a row, Xbox will be at IGN Live with a showcase watch party, deep dives into upcoming games, and more. On June 7, 2026, IGN Live attendees will be able to watch the Xbox Games Showcase and Gears of War: E-Day Direct with hundreds of fellow gamers and fans of all ages.
IGN Live is happening June 6-7 at the Magic Box at the Reef in downtown LA. Tickets are onsale now including VIP and single day passes. If you can’t make it in person, don’t worry. IGN Live will be streaming across all of IGN’s global platforms including IGN.com, YouTube, Facebook, twitch, and X.
In addition to Xbox, confirmed partners include Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced from Ubisoft, The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 from Critical Role...
Resident Evil Requiem producer Masato Kumazawa has said Capcom sees the drama surrounding the DLSS 5 AI version of Grace Ashcroft as "a positive" because it proved Capcom "got the design right" the first time around.
Kumazawa offered a deep dive into the development of the latest entry in the classic survival horror franchise during an interview with Eurogamer. When asked if the team took anything away from the conversation regarding the controversial Nvidia technology, he said the negative reaction only served as proof that fans preferred Grace's original design.
"The fact a lot of players commented they really liked the original design of Grace and didn't want to see it changed was a positive," Kumazawa said without commenting on...
Resident Evil Requiem players were sad to see the Merchant left out of Leon's latest mission, but there's a new mod that should help those who miss running into Capcom's beloved, gravelly voiced vendor.
Resident Evil 4 is one of the most celebrated video games of all time, but part of what made it special is its cast of unforgettable characters, the Merchant included. Despite being a fan-favorite amongst fans of the survival horror series, this purple-robe-wearing salesman was swapped for a less quotable supply box in the ninth mainline Resident Evil game – until now.
Thanks to the work of Nexus Mods user fanteeek, Resident Evil Requiem players can now replace the box with the Merchant during the Leon sections of the story. A clip of...
It looks like Marathon won’t be left behind anytime soon, as Bungie has confirmed it has plans to evolve its story over at least "the next few years."
Creative director Julia Nardin teased the next steps for the former Halo developer's shiny new extraction shooter during an interview with GamesRadar. Although the multiplayer reboot is just shy of two months old, she said the team is confident enough to have at least a loose idea of what direction to take its narrative in the coming years.
"We know where we want to take the story over the next few years," Nardin said, "but I don't want to say it’s completely 'locked in' because it's important to us that our players be able to help shape it."
Bungie plopped players into the world of...
A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties, Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, 86: Eighty-Six Blu-ray, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, May 3, below.
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties
Yakuza Kiwami 3 is on sale today for $39.99, marking the lowest we've seen this one yet. After years of fan demand for a remake, SEGA and RGG Studio delivered earlier this year with Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties. In our review, we wrote, "Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties is a largely successful makeover of Yakuza 3. It finds fun new ways for Kiryu to engage with the orphans in his care, which both livens up the original game’s most boring bits and also made me more deeply invested in the...
Developer Arc System Works has confirmed that Hulk and Black Panther have joined the roster of playable fighters in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls.
The studio confirmed the news at Evo Japan 2026, revealing a first look at the two new legendary comic book characters set to throw down when its Marvel fighting game launches this August. Appearing as Savage Hulk and Shuri's Black Panther, the two will fight as part of the group known as the Fighting Avengers, but they won't be coming alone.
As described in a follow-up PlayStation.Blog post, the Marvel Tokon trailer also highlighted Wakanda as a new stage, as well as the inclusion of the mysterious character known as The Champion. Described as a "cosmic conqueror," The Champion looms over...
Some of the Invincible VS DLC roster appears to have leaked online, pointing to the potential inclusion of fan-favorite characters and even an unexpected Spider-Man reference.
As players flocked to try out the Invincible fighting game upon its launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S April 30, 2026, others were more excited to dig into its files to see what might be coming next. Post-launch leaks following a release like this feels like par for the course for games like this, but the supposed leaks tied to Invincible VS might have revealed what developer Quarter Up has planned when it comes to DLC in the months ahead.
A post from X/Twitter user @multiversusie contains what appears to be uncovered files related to characters...
Night Street Games, the studio founded by Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds and his brother and band manager Mac Reynolds, has announced it is shifting its focus away from Last Flag less than one month after its launch.
The studio behind the struggling capture-the-flag multiplayer experience updated fans with a post shared on its Steam page. It confirms that, following a series of pre-planned content updates set to roll out in the coming months, post-launch support for Last Flag will come to an end following its April 14 launch for PC via the Epic Games Store and Steam.
"Making Last Flag has been a dream come true for our team," Night Street said in a statement. "Although our player count is not currently where we need it to be to...
One of key the reasons developer IO Interactive is an inspired choice for adapting Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond for a new video game is the team's work on the Hitman series. Focused on a variety of stealthy sandbox missions where you can use any method to take out targets hidden in lavish, exotic settings, Hitman's house gameplay style fits well with the conceit of a Bond adventure – especially as IO's flagship series already has plenty of 007 influence baked in.
But for 007 First Light, the developer wanted to offer a different spin on the open-ended gameplay it refined across earlier Hitman games. Along with familiar action set-pieces and slick gun battles, First Light's character-first approach to missions will let you use...
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has dropped another major patch for the game, this time adding brand new features designed for endgame players who had cleared out the world of combat.
As IGN has reported, some Crimson Desert players had started to complain that the vast open world of Pywel had become too peaceful because they’d killed everyone. This was because for the most part enemies do not respawn, and camps, which you can overtake, do not become repopulated with enemies once you’ve cleared them out.
Today’s patch changes all that by adding the boss Rematch and Re-blockade features. “We understand that as more regions of the continent were liberated, opportunities for combat naturally became less frequent,” Pearl Abyss said...
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, without a patch on PC since July 2025, still suffers from issues that plagued it at launch, including worsening performance the more you play.
In May last year, the tech experts at Digital Foundry said The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered suffered from significant performance problems, including hitches while roaming the open world, frame-rate problems, and even performance degrading slowly with more playing time, potentially due to a memory leak.
Now, a year after the game’s release, Digital Foundry has revisited Oblivion Remastered to check in on how it performs, and found many of the same issues.
“As you may have noticed, the game hasn't been patched on PC since its 1.2 update...
An intrepid Crimson Desert player has ventured far out of bounds and discovered a deserted but fully functional village. No-one knows what the village is for, but some are speculating it may be cut content, or even hint at a location for DLC.
Pearl Abyss’ smash hit single-player open world game has an enormous map to explore, and for some who have put hundreds of hours into it already, that journey is over. But for a Crimson Desert player known as Riskbreaker, that was not enough.
As shown in a clip on the Crimson Desert subreddit, below, Riskbreaker headed north on the back of a dragon and went out of bounds. Far north of Pailune, they found, is a fully functional, snow-drenched village.
Riskbreaker visited the village a few times...
The Capcom community is getting misty-eyed after one fan shared how Pragmata reminded him of his late daughter.
The subreddit for Capcom's new third-person sci-fi action game has been home to hundreds of messages from fans since it was announced in 2020. However, it's 55-year-old gamer TheRealDuke777's post from just five days ago that has rocketed to the top of its all-time list, and it's easy to see why.
The post introduces readers to McKenzie Erin, his daughter who passed away at 8 years old in 2009. Placed atop side-by-side images comparing her to Pragmata's Diana is a simple title: "Missing My Little Girl."
"She’s forever eight," TheRealDuke777 said. "This is her in the picture above."
In a separate post, he explained that...
Battlefield 6 fans are divided after they noticed that publisher EA and developer Battlefield Studios added an option to pre-order the Season 3 battle pass almost two weeks before its launch.
Confusion began when one player shared a screenshot of their findings on Reddit. The clear-cut image shared shows an in-game "Next Season Preorder" page, offering two pre-purchase options: one for the standard battle pass and one for the Battlefield Pro version.
IGN can confirm the in-game addition, with Battlefield 6 players now able to purchase the Season 3 pass by simply following the button prompt on the bottom-left side of the battle pass screen. The original Reddit post, however, seems to be a bit out of date, as an updated version of the...
Creative Assembly has revealed more on its hotly anticipated strategy game, Total War: Warhammer 40,000, touching on the sheer scale of its battle maps and planets.
In a livestream, David Petry, battle product owner, and Kevin McDowell, art director on Total War: Warhammer 40,000, ran through the region scale and visuals of planets, before showing off new battle maps.
The Warhammer 40,000 section of the livestream began with a first look at what a planet is going to look and feel like via a hive waste world. In the Warhammer 40,000 universe, hive planets are jam packed with the people of the Imperium, most of whom eke out an existence that amounts to little more than war effort support and blind devotion to the Emperor. These are...
Everyone has their own expectations for Grand Theft Auto 6. While many hope it will live up to the dizzying standards set by GTA 5 and Read Dead Redemption 2, I’d actually like the next installment in the franchise to be less like recent hits and more like GTA 4, San Andreas, and the original Read Dead – games that had more restraint and, as a result, more focus. Above all, though, I wish the upcoming game would take a page from the textbook of one of the Rockstar’s most overlooked titles: Bully.
Developed by Rockstar Vancouver and released in 2006, Bully is often described as “GTA with kids”. Instead of a career criminal, you play as unruly teenager Jimmy Hopkins. The setting isn’t some big modern metropolis ruled by rival gangs, but...
With Subnautica 2 finally getting its May 14 early access release date, it seems Steam's most-wishlisted game has joined the ranks of hits like Hollow Knight: Silksong and Slay the Spire 2 by sending some games with the same launch date scrambling to update their plans.
Despite a painfully public falling out between developer Unknown Worlds and publisher Krafton, during which the entire management team was fired (Krafton has since been court-ordered to reinstate CEO Ted Gill), the hugely anticipated sequel Subnautica 2 will finally emerge from stasis later this month. Giving just two weeks' notice, however, has caused quite the kerfuffle; as PC Gamer reports, some games have already tweaked their release schedules, with some, like...
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is set to release for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on October 6. A new racing game set in a galaxy far, far away, Galactic Racer puts you in a variety of flying vehicles and sends you around dangerous courses, pitted against even more dangerous opponents. It’s available to preorder now (see it at Amazon) in three editions. You can find details about what comes in each, plus the preorder bonus and more, below.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer - Collector’s Edition
PS5
Get it at Amazon - $159.99
Xbox
Get it at Amazon - $159.99
The collector’s edition comes with the preorder bonus (see below), the game, and the following extras:
Physical Items
Landspeeder model
Physical art book
Pilot patches
Kestar banner...
Surprise! Seven years after it launched — and almost six months after its sequel was released — The Outer Worlds is getting grenades.
Developer Obsidian confirmed it would "be pushing a couple of updates to The Outer Worlds" in a detailed post on Steam — the first since June 2023 — before introducing the explosive throwables, which are already a staple in The Outer Worlds 2, later this month.
As well as some tweaks to the Store pages — more on that in a bit — the studio has pushed out this first modest update merely to test the pipeline and "fix a few issues that are in the game," with a larger patch bringing performance fixes, lighting changes, a "host of other quest and gameplay fixes," and the grenades rolling out a little later...