The beloved co-op adventure game, Peak, has been leaked for PS5 by the ESRB.
Last year, an adorable, cheap co-op game known as Peak blew up on Steam. In the game, players unite with their friends to pass through a wide variety of deadly obstacles in order to climb absurdly tall mountains. They must use the power of friendship and a handful of tools to overcome the odds, often resulting in hilarious deaths, injuries, and hijinks. As of August 2025, Peak has sold over 10 million copies, partially thanks to the fact it only costs $8 and is an easy sell to a group of friends.
It seems like the game will likely only continue to grow its audience, as the ESRB has rated Peak for PS5. Historically, ESRB leaks are incredibly accurate, so it...
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As part of IGN Fan Fest 2026: Fall Edition, we can reveal a new gameplay trailer for Send in the Clown, the upcoming one-hour comedy RPG where players become history's least-appreciated clown as he tries to save a 12-year-old's birthday from her brat brother.
Co-directors Nick Park and Jacques Mouledoux walk us through the latest look at Send in the Clown, focusing squarely on the game's climactic, one-and-only turn-based RPG battle.
Yes, the team built a whole battle system for just one fight, and all the roads that lead to it are pretty hilarious.
Players will step into the oversized shoes of Pockets as he tries to save Miranda's party from her brother Tad. To do so, he'll need to recruit characters and gather items, which will in...
K/DA Reactivates Social Accounts, Fueling Rumors of the Virtual K-pop Group’s Comeback After 6 Years
Official K/DA accounts have been updated for the first time in six years. New profile and banner images continue to show the existing promotional art from the All Out era, now with the addition of hot pink flames. The reactivated accounts have also wiped existing posts, fueling rumors that the virtual girl group is gearing up for a comeback.
K/DA, which debuted at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship, consists of four League champions (Ahri, Akali, Evelynn, and Kai'Sa) voiced by international pop-stars. The group’s first single, aptly called POP/STARS, was the first K-pop song by a girl group to receive RIAA Platinum certification in 2022. The early success of the girl group prompted the release of a full EP, All Out, in...
The Fallout series is one of the most popular video game franchises of all time. Naturally, that means there's a ton of Fallout merch.
Like any product tied to a specific IP, you can always expect some sort of markup on officially licensed products. However, these recently announced Fallout bookends are taking that to a whole new level with a price tag of $325 at Sideshow.
While $325 isn't unheard of for a hand-painted collectible figure, it does seem like an excessive price to pay for a set of bookends. Just to put it in perspective, you can currently get a semi-functional Pip-Boy replica from the IGN Store for only $300. Dark Horse also recently launched, in my opinion, a much cooler set of Fallout bookends for only $179.99.
So...
Xbox has announced Xbox Labs, a new initiative aimed at getting games to more people in more places — with a particular emphasis on web browsers.
No doubt seeing the growing community of games getting improved versions ported into web browsers (like the 94fps browser version of Halo: Combat Evolved), Microsoft itself is keen to get in on the action in support of new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's goal of reaching 1 billion players per day.
Xbox has been tinkering with running Xbox and Xbox 360 games in browsers, and the Xbox Labs initiative is a formalization of those efforts that will see a small team of engineers playing with emerging technologies in order to find new ways for games new and old to be distributed and even created. And IGN...
Developers working on EA Sports' College Football franchise reportedly fear that the series may not live to see the end of the decade.
The report comes from Insider Gaming's Mike Straw, who spoke to senior-level sources working on or around the football series. He noted that, although the series is performing well, sales have gradually declined entry to entry since its highly-anticipated debut in 2024. While this isn't inherently a bad thing (or unexpected, given the extreme hype around the 2024 title), costs associated with the game have been rising.
Per the report, in 2024, EA paid each player featured in the game $600, amounting to roughly $7 million total. Those costs have tripled, with NIL (name, image, likeness) rights for...
Metro 2039 is set to release for PS5, Xbox, and PC on February 4. It’s a single-player first-person shooter set in the apocalyptic Moscow of its predecessors. The game will be available in two editions (you can preorder it at Best Buy here). Read on to see what comes in each edition, what preorder bonuses are available, and more.
Metro 2039 - Standard Edition
PS5
Get it at Best Buy - $69.99
Get it at GameStop - $69.99
Get it at PS Store (digital) - $69.99
Xbox
Get it at Best Buy - $69.99
Get it at GameStop - $69.99
Get it at Xbox Store (digital) - $69.99
PC
Get it at Steam - $69.99
Get it at Epic - $69.99
The standard edition just comes with the game itself, plus the preorder bonus you can find detailed below.
Metro 2039...
About a month after it debuted in NBA 2K27, DLSS 5 is now being added to Hogwarts Legacy, with a newer, faster model.
In a blog post, Nvidia announced that it is launching a new model for DLSS 5 that's — according to Team Green — twice as fast as the model that debuted in NBA 2K27 last month. While the basketball game will be getting an update that adds this new model, and thus improves performance, Nvidia is also bringing the neural rendering tech to Hogwarts Legacy and Where Winds Meet in November.
Nvidia has been hard at work getting DLSS 5 to run well enough that people will actually turn it on when they're playing games. It's not hard to see why that's a major focus; when I first tested the tech back in September, I found that it...
IGN and Xbox are teaming up once again to bring you a brand-new edition of the ID@Xbox showcase. On October 20, we’ll be presenting exclusive reveals from tons of new and upcoming games that are headed to Xbox and PC.
This year’s livestream will include trailers, gameplay, and more from 18 incredible games, including:
The Wolf Among Us Remastered
Critical Reflex Games
Plus tons of world premieres you won’t want to miss!
These are only a few of the games that will appear in a showcase that will be jam-packed with exclusives, first looks, and new games you’ll definitely want to check out.
How to Watch the ID@Xbox October 2026 Showcase
The October edition of the ID@Xbox Showcase Presented by IGN will kick off on Tuesday, October...
IGN Fan Fest: Fall Edition is rolling out all week with a ton of first-looks, exclusive reveals, and deep dives into some of the biggest games for PC, consoles, and mobile.
As part of the event, we want to take an in-depth look at what’s next: some games that you haven’t heard of yet but are sure to shoot to the top of your Steam Wishlist.
From co-op survival adventures, brand-new horror games, relaxing survival games, mysteries and even a chess-based shooter, here’s a look at 9 newly announced games that we think are worth a look.
Akiiwan: Relaxing Survival
Fall into a chill survival adventure with a talking campfire as your guide. Explore, craft, fish and hunt during the day, and ask your fire three questions each night. Choose...
It's no secret that World of Warcraft Forever has been incredibly popular since entering its beta last month, but now, over 1 million characters have been made.
According to classicplus.io, a community website that snapshots data from WoW Forever, 1,003,125 characters have been made in the Classic Plus mode so far. That's a lot, considering that to even make a character you need to have access to the beta, which is primarily done by buying the $60 Skyborne pack.
But even though most people will have to buy access to the Skyborne race to play in the beta, the Skyborne aren't the most popular race on either faction. For both Alliance and Horde players, the fancy blue elves only represent 18.7% of characters created. Instead, for...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Mat Jones. He loves weird little guys in video games.
If your social feed is anything like mine, it’s been overtaken by a weird little crocodile man that’s knee-high to a Tauntaun and has an unresolved rage twelve times his size. His name is Biddy Blas, he’s one of Galactic Racer’s supporting cast, and he’s the best new thing to happen to Star Wars since Andor.
Give an AI as long a time as it needs: it couldn’t have made Biddy Blas.
With every new day, the ground underneath video games as a medium, one where professional creatives are valued and capable of negotiating an honest living, feels more and more unstable. Perfectly good studios are shutting in the name of brand restructuring. Electronic...
Max Payne and its sequel, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, are two of the most genre-defining third-person shooters ever made. They propelled Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment into the spotlight as one of the most exciting studios making games. So, it was also going to be a challenge for another developer to pick up the third part of that trilogy. If you have the likes of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption under your belt, though, you might just fancy your chances.
That’s what former Rockstar VP and writer of Max Payne 3, Dan Houser, thought, and while enjoying the process of making it, he now admits that it didn’t quite hit the mark. Despite being well-received critically, the 2012 game underperformed commercially, and...
Rockstar is gearing up for the launch of GTA 6, but, of course, Grand Theft Auto isn’t the only series the developer is known for. Alongside the likes of the beloved Red Dead Redemption games, there are many fans of another open-world adventure from the studio: Bully.
Released in 2006 and originally known in Europe as Canis Canem Edit, Bully tells the story of unruly student Jimmy Hopkins getting in and out of trouble during a year at Bullworth Academy. A smaller-scale, less X-rated version of GTA, it launched to critical acclaim. But the road towards launch was far from easy.
“The development was hard,” former Rockstar VP and writer of Bully, Dan Houser, said in a new interview as part of our IGN30 Icons Series. “The game was in...
There’s arguably no more recognisable style of cover art than that of the Grand Theft Auto series. The panelled collection of images featuring characters and locations from each open world that has adorned each game box from 2001’s GTA 3 to the upcoming GTA 6 is etched into each of our minds. It all nearly looked completely different, though.
We spoke to Dan Houser, former VP at Rockstar and writer of almost all of the studio’s games from 1999 until 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2, as part of our IGN30 Icons Series. When reminiscing about the developer’s most famous series, Grand Theft Auto, Houser shared how it felt to see elements of his creation permeate into the real world.
“GTA has become part of the wider cultural fabric,” he...
Spoilers for Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2 follow.
The ending of 2010’s Red Dead Redemption is an all-timer. For dozens of hours, we’re placed in control of protagonist, John Marston, as he wanders across the American West in search of revenge against his former gang leader, Dutch Van der Linde. He, of course, gets it in a snowy showdown in one of its final missions. But John doesn’t get to live out his life in peace. That would be far too tidy an ending. Instead, the outlaw is gunned down by members of the army at his family farm’s barn.
It was a novel twist at the time. Open-world games, and games in general, didn’t do this. It initially split opinion, but has since gone down as a masterstroke in narrative design...
Running my dream menagerie in Planet Zoo is always going to feel a little different than the entertainment-focused spectacles of Planet Coaster or fantastical dino parks of Jurassic World Evolution. All of these gorgeous beasts and birds are real species we share the planet with and, in some cases, have put on the endangered list. So I was glad to see that Frontier's sequel put an even deeper emphasis on conservation as a main goal this time around, even if certain pieces of that – like wildlife reserves – feel a bit less fleshed-out than they could be.
When it comes to the daily tasks of building enclosures, hiring staff, and caring for animals, there isn't a ton that has changed since the original Planet Zoo. In that way, it feels...
Nearly two decades after the last mainline 2D Castlevania game,the team behind 2023’s Dead Cell’s Return to Castlevania DLC has been given the keys to Dracula’s Castle for real. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse aims to breathe fresh life into this 40-year-old series with a creative blend of old and new ideas. With a brand new Belmont wielding the family whip, familiar foes in your way, and modern conveniences that have become expected in the genre, developer Evil Empire has largely hit their mark – but if you are a longtime fan expecting Belmont’s Curse to be a completely faithful revival of the series we played back in the early 2000s, then you will want to think again. This is a different breed of monster you're hunting, both for good and...
Award-winning composer and skull-shattering guitar shredder Mick Gordon has given an update on the scheduled live performances of his Doom and Doom Eternal soundtracks, explaining in an interview with IGN at PAX Australia this past weekend that his appearance as headliner at the UK’s RADAR festival in 2027 isn’t merely intended as a one-off.
“The two that we’ve announced are this headline show for RADAR, which is going to be on August 1, 2027,” said Gordon. “That’s going to be me with a band and a live orchestra playing music from Doom and Doom Eternal and some other stuff. Then a few days later I’m going to be in the Czech Republic playing the Brutal Assault Festival, which is in a medieval castle, which is so metal. That’s with bands...
Automation and factory-building games have become pretty popular over the past few years, with Coffee Stain Studios' Satisfactory being one of the stars of the genre. I have always admired the sprawling conveyor belts and mega structures of the factory-building powerhouse from a comfortable distance, dipping my toe into the waters with messy (but kind of functional) factories of my own. Soon, factory builders will have a whole new way to build out their process, as Mood Publishing, the same publisher behind Hitman: The Board Game, is looking to bring the beloved factory sim to your tabletop with Satisfactory: The Board Game and the launch of their latest crowdfunding campaign over on Gamefound. We were sent an early prototype copy to...
As part of IGN Fan Fest 2026: Fall Edition, we are proud to reveal five brand-new screenshots of For the Stars, Snail Games USA's upcoming space sandbox survival game that will have you exploring and settling planets, uncovering the secrets of alien civilizations, and much more.
The images, which you can see below, show off some of For The Stars' different biomes, weapons, flora and fauna, vehicles, spaceships, and more. They also offer a glimpse into the multiplayer experience that allows friends to explore this universe together.
Players will be traveling from planet to planet and establishing outposts to upgrade their tech, studying alien artifacts and natural phenomena, and surviving any challenges that come their way in an...
Forza Horizon 6 is set to release for PS5 on January 26. Preorders are live now at all the usual retailers (see it at Amazon). This new installment brings the racing action to Japan, in the series’ largest map to date, with all sorts of biomes to explore, ranging from mountaintops to Tokyo streets, and over 550 vehicles to do it in. We gave this game a 10/10 in our review, and the PS5 version promises to be just as good. Read on for details.
Forza Horizon 6 (PS5)
Get it at Amazon - $69.99
Get it at Best Buy - $69.99
Get it at GameStop - $69.99
Get it at Target - $69.99
Get it at PS Store (digital) - $69.99
If you want a physical version (pour one out for PS5 discs after 2028), or a digital copy of the standard edition, you can buy...
Epic Games has reportedly delayed its secret Star Wars and Marvel crossover shooter as it pushes its developers to shift to an "AI first" production model.
Details on the yet-to-be-announced Disney video game were shared by Bloomberg today. The site's report stated the untitled crossover experience was slated for release in March, but has since been pushed back to accommodate a new internal release plan that has yet to be shared.
Epic developers attached to the project have reportedly been encouraged to use tools such as Anthropic's AI assistant, Claude, with humans expected to oversee that work. Bloomberg also obtained an internal message shared by one of the Star Wars/Marvel game's directors.
"No more hand-written code,” an...
Resident Evil has always been huge with gamers, but Resident Evil Requiem is the biggest-selling installment yet. For Fall Fan Fest 2026, IGN spoke to the actors behind Grace Ashcroft and Leon S. Kennedy, Angela Sant'Albano and Nick Apostolides, about their experiences creating their characters and what they've made of the enthusiastic, and sometimes feral, fan reaction since launch.
"Nick has been wonderful. He's been like a big brother in a way, kind of guiding me through it all," says Sant'Albano of taking her first step into the world of Resident Evil.
"It was hard to sum up what those guys were about to get into," said Apostolides of his role as a series veteran, having starred in the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 4 and...
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is an exciting prospect for any horror fan. The franchise doesn’t traditionally lend itself easily to games given how one-sided and brutal the films are, but that is precisely what makes this adaptation such an intriguing concept. If you’re looking to find out all there is to know about this survival horror title, you’re in the right place. Let’s dive into everything you need to know about Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival.
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival Release Date and Platforms
Good news for horror fans: Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is available on Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and the Nintendo Switch 2. The Switch 2 port feels like a particularly big milestone given how...
Chandler Riggs, best known for playing Carl in The Walking Dead, made his own fan film adapting an iconic moment from Resident Evil 7 — and he’d love to collaborate with Zach Cregger on another movie in the RE universe, if he’s up for it.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil adaptation hit theaters in September to rave reviews, becoming the most financially successful film in the entire franchise. Just a month later, Riggs is releasing his own Resident Evil short film further along in the games’ timeline in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
Riggs adapted the iconic garage fight between Ethan Winters and Jack Baker in a high-octane 20-minute journey, not for fame and acclaim, but merely for the love of the game. Riggs told us that he simply wanted...
The new Street Fighter movie is just days away, and to celebrate, Capcom is releasing a slew of new Street Fighter 6 costumes tied to the film’s release.
IGN can exclusively reveal collab costumes for Dhalsim, E. Honda, and Zangief as part of IGN Fan Fest: Fall Edition 2026.
The reveals are part of an online scavenger hunt, where a series of movie-related costumes are being unveiled in various places. Guile and M. Bison costumes have already been revealed, and more costumes will be revealed throughout the month
First up is Dhalsim, who will be played in the new movie by Vidyut Jammwal.
Next, we have a look at E. Honda, portrayed in the film by Hirooki Goto.
Finally, we can reveal the costume for Zangief, played in the movie by...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction has a release date: February 4, 2027.
Bitmap Bureau, the developer behind Terminator 2D: No Fate, worked with Mattel and the retro team at Clear River Games on the old-school brawler, which launches digitally and physically on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Two physical versions of the game will be available via Limited Run Games. The standard physical release costs $29.99, and the Collector’s Edition costs $99.99.
Dragon Pearl of Destruction is inspired by the much-loved ‘80s animated series, and you can see that come through in pixel-art and 2D gameplay. The playable characters are He-Man, She-Ra, Man-At-Arms, and Teela, and you can play...
I’ve gotta hand it to the people at developer One More Level: after well over a decade of countless variations on the soulslike formula, I’ll admit that going first-person with BioShock-like magical abilities shooting out of your hand in an alternate history of the Napoleonic era is… a pretty darn original idea, actually. Valor Mortis is a punishing action game that tries a whole lot of compelling stuff, from combat that mixes sword fighting, spell slinging, and firearms, to the platforming sections that have you wall-running around like you’re in Titanfall, to the bizarre 19th-century setting that kept me guessing. These experiments work out for the most part, and I have many fond memories of dying again and again as I fought my way...
Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, has briefly discussed the difference between his all-conquering indie game Stardew Valley and his hotly anticipated follow-up, Haunted Chocolatier.
Barone announced Haunted Chocolatier back in 2021, but amid ongoing work on his phenomenally successful Stardew Valley, progress on the follow-up has been slow going. Indeed, in June, Barone admitted to feeling somewhat embarrassed to have to keep on saying he was still working away on the game. “Feels kinda dumb posting this same thing over and over, but that’s the reality,” he said at the time.
In a new interview with GQ (thanks, Eurogamer), Barone touched on what to expect from Haunted Chocolatier when it eventually comes out, and it sounds more different...