It’s been over a month since Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls released, and its early sales figures and player counts on PC are sparking concern within the fighting game community about its longevity.
Arc System Works’ latest tag fighting game has suffered no end of discourse within the FGC; some players love it, while others are severely dissatisfied with its tag system and online matchmaking, and it’s almost impossible to avoid this debate if you’re on fighting game Twitter right now. Most everyone was excited for a new, fast-paced Marvel fighting game from the developers of the highly-lauded Guilty Gear series and Dragon Ball FighterZ — but after launch, that excitement seems to have dwindled into a spiral of frustration.
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Madison Beer is the latest music icon to join the world of Fortnite, after previously issuing a public call to Epic Games for her to become a skin.
The Selfish and Make You Mine singer has long been a fan of Epic Games' battle royale, and has helped promote some of its LEGO-focused modes. Now, Beer is pulling up her socks to join the core Fortnite experience, following her callout to be included — made during an episode of the Hot Ones podcast earlier this year.
Beer follows in the footsteps of other pop icons such as Sabrina Carpenter, Ariana Grande, and Olivia Rodrigo, as well as a swathe of other musical artists including Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Eminem and Snoop Dogg, all of whom have multiple in-game skins.
This latest...
Grand Theft Auto 5's story DLC was seemingly going to take players to Paris, if leaked footage is anything to go by.
Last week, a slew of files and assets from GTA 5 surfaced online. This leak showed off variety of cut content, prompting Rockstar to take action and issue takedowns to creators who were showing it in their videos. One of the most interesting parts of this leak has been seeing all of the scrapped DLC, which includes a Liberty City map expansion.
Fans have also uncovered new information about the game's fabled story DLC, which was formally announced by Rockstar in 2013 with a 2014 release window in mind. Unfortunately, none of it ever saw the light of day, as Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA Online became higher priorities...
New York Comic Con is less than a month away, and now one major streamer’s plans for the event are coming into focus.
IGN can exclusively reveal that fan-favorite series Dexter: Resurrection, Avatar: Seven Havens, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be part of the Paramount+ lineup when New York Comic Con returns October 8-11. At the event, con-goers can catch first looks, cast conversations, and exclusive reveals from all three series.
Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 Panel
Thursday, October 8, 12:30-2:00pm ET
Main Stage
The cast and creative team behind Dexter: Resurrection will be on hand to celebrate the franchise’s landmark 20th anniversary and give an exclusive look at the upcoming second season. The panel will include...
The Witcher 3 fans have reacted to an official comparison clip featuring a snippet of side-by-side gameplay from the original game and the upcoming remaster, with some saying the new version actually looks worse.
In the clip, you can see Geralt casting Igni on a group of drowners in the swamp, with a side-by-side comparison with the original game and the remaster. And while the new version of the game has much greater detail on Geralt's armor, along with much more defined water, the reflections seem to be divisive.
In the original game, you can see some of the fire reflected in the brackish water underneath the drowners, even if it results in an orange-ish blur. That'd be a pretty low bar to clear with the ray tracing on offer in the...
Silent Hill was once famously known as a masterclass in using fog and dark corners to mask PS1 rendering limitations. But for many of us, it’s also the game where an adorable Shiba Inu turns out to be the mastermind behind everything.
All dog endings aside, Konami’s iconic horror franchise is one of the most deeply unsettling series in gaming history. But if you’re looking to brave the fog for the first time, or revisit its terrifying past, which games are actually worth your time?
To keep things fair, we’re sticking to mainline standalone entries (excluding the remakes, great as they are). Here is our definitive ranking of the best Silent Hill games.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Shattered Memories holds a unique place in horror...
Key Preview Takeaways:
Boost Drivers are a major new feature of this expansion.
The new monsters present challenging battles, just as I’d wanted.
Ascendance could be the endgame I’ve been wishing for after Wilds’s endgame was a bit too easy.
I liked Monster Hunter Wilds quite a bit at launch. The big open areas, the great visuals on the newest generation of consoles, and the cast of characters all made for an engaging adventure in the Forbidden Lands. But, like Tom so perfectly captured in his review, I felt let down by the challenge. The engaging loop of fighting tougher monsters to get better gear to fight tougher monsters, and so on, was missing that aspirational push that comes from difficult hunters demanding practice and...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Carlos Morales, who is a massive fan of Marvel whether it’s comics, movies, or video games. He’s sunk well over 1,000 hours into Marvel Rivals.
Marvel Rivals Season 10 is now available, and it’s coming at a time of crisis for NetEase’s premiere hero shooter. What was once a smash hit success on launch back in December of 2024 has now become a confused mess of developer priorities as more and more players drop off in favor of games with a clearer sense of direction. Making a live-service game work long term is a feat only a handful of dev teams have managed to achieve, and during its first year it seemed like Rivals was set to join that club. But between consistent balancing problems and a lack of...
Between Nintendo's Customer Appreciation Sale and Amazon's upcoming Prime Big Deal Days event, it's a perfect time to shop around and save on some physical games. The latter even has some great deals live right now that are well worth looking at. One that's caught our eye is on Game Freak's latest release, Beast of Reincarnation, which has just hit a new low price at the retailer on PS5 (see it here).
Usually this copy is priced at $59.99, but those interested in jumping into this new action RPG can pick it up for $51.30 right now from Amazon. That saves you just over $8. It's not a huge discount, but it's a welcome one considering the game only just released early last month.
Save 14% on Beast of Reincarnation for PS5
While its...
Star Wars Zero Company is estimated to have sold 1 million copies, with the majority of those sales coming from Steam.
Alinea Analytics' Rhys Elliott took to social media to discuss the performance of Bit Reactor’s Star Wars strategy game, which was developed by former developers of XCOM at Firaxis.
69.9% of those 1 million sales came from Steam, with 19.9% on PlayStation, and 10.2% on Xbox / Xbox PC. Clearly, Steam is where it’s at for Zero Company, which Elliott estimates has generated around $50 million since last month’s launch.
This performance, Elliott said, is “respectable for this genre and during such a crowded period (even with the Star Wars brand attached).”
But does it meet publisher EA’s expectations? The company has...
Gears of War: E-Day's story director has been laid off, just one week before the game's early access launch.
Earlier today, Microsoft continued its ongoing reset of the Xbox brand, resulting in 268 staff members losing their jobs across a number of studios. Many of these employees seemed to be veteran or senior talent, one of the most prominent examples being Juan Vaca, a story director at Gears of War developer The Coalition. Vaca confirmed he was part of the latest round of Xbox layoffs after being with the company for four years.
The news comes at a pretty brutal time, as Vaca just publicly celebrated the game going gold last week, and the title will enter early access next week, five days before its global launch. It's unclear...
As part of its annual GeForce Week sale event that ends of September 28, Walmart has dropped the price on the second generation (2026) Alienware 16X Aurora GeForce RTX 5060 gaming laptop to $1,699.99 with free shipping after a $1,051 off instant discount. The 16X Aurora is a higher-end gaming laptop featuring an all-aluminum body, gorgeous OLED display, and an excellent cooling system that allows for discrete graphics will maximum allowable TGP.
Alienware 16X Aurora RTX 5060 Gaming Laptop for $1,699.99
This particular Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop is a second generation model that was released earlier this year. The 2026 model has been upgraded with a 16" 2560x1600 240Hz OLED display (the previous generation was IPS) and the new...
Update: Undead Labs Studio Head, Philip Holt, provided the following statement to IGN, confirming that the game's release won't suffer any setbacks as a result of these layoffs.
"State of Decay 3 remains in active development, and these changes will not impact the game's launch," said Holt. "The team is continuing its work on schedule, and we remain committed to delivering the experience our community has been waiting for. We're grateful to everyone who has contributed to the game."
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State of Decay 3 developer Undead Labs has confirmed that it underwent "significant" layoffs following its independence from Xbox.
The studio announced on LinkedIn that it is parting ways with a "significant" number...
Halo Studios cinematic director Josh Daniels has confirmed that he was promoted and laid off within the same week amid news that Activision has now taken over development of the next Halo game.
Xbox’s big restructuring continues this week, with Chief Content Officer Matt Booty announcing 268 layoffs "across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer.”
One of the employees impacted by these layoffs was Josh Daniels, the now-former cinematic director of Halo Studios. He confirmed the news in a post on LinkedIn, where he revealed that he’d just gotten promoted that same week in a brutal turn of events.
“Promoted and laid off in the same week is pretty wild. I'm one of the many hit by the...
If there are two things to know about Garfield, it’s that he loves lasagne and he hates Mondays. So, it should come as no surprise that developer OSome Studio’s rendition of Jim Davis’s beloved cartoon series, Garfield - Escape from Monday, is heavily bound to those two themes. Set across a series of foodie nightmare worlds, this 3D platformer sees the famous tabby kicking veggies and chomping processed snacks to awaken from a fibre-fuelled fugue state. Sadly, like other disappointing cartoon adaptations (such as SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game), this exploration of the food-obsessed feline’s psyche is actually rather dull. Its overly familiar platforming and excessively camera-winking writing make it little more than a...
Wardogs Season 2 has a release date, and the new content update will add weather effects, including rain.
Wardogs Season 2 will arrive on October 15, and although we don't know much about it yet, we do know that it will add weather to the game. The first teaser showcases heavy rainfall over a battlefield, suggesting players will have to deal with the elements going forward.
Whether this will add any changes to the gameplay, such as making it harder to drive or creating visibility issues, remains to be seen. If handled right, it could really shake up the Wardogs experience, especially if weather comes and goes dynamically rather than being enabled in specific matches.
Season 2 will also feature a progress wipe, resetting everyone's...
Call of Duty developer Activision is now taking over creation of the next Halo game, and fans are understandably divided about it.
Xbox’s latest shakeup saw a few big developments, most notably the mass layoffs at Halo Studios and the handover of Halo's next title to Activision.
This came as a wildly unexpected move from the company, and one that has sparked no end of debate across social media as fans discuss the future of the Halo franchise and what its next game could look like. Many comments are humorously envisioning a Halo game with absurd amounts of monetization, with wild celebrity skin crossovers a la Nicki Minaj.
“I remember in 2009, the Halo and COD communities were vastly different. We treated each other like different...
Sea of Thieves fans are concerned for Rare's future, as the studio has been consolidated under Activision as part of Xbox's latest reset.
Earlier today, Microsoft announced drastic changes for Xbox's first-party studios, including layoffs and consolidation. Activision is taking over a lot of different responsibilities at Xbox going forward, including leading the charge on the next Halo game. Sea of Thieves developer Rare has also been put under Activision's umbrella, leading many to wonder what the future of that team will look like. In the past, Activision has swallowed up beloved teams like Neversoft and put them on Call of Duty to make maps and support the development of the FPS franchise.
"Well, if the years of watching how...
As Manhattan continues to experience supernatural unexplained incidents, IGN has been sent a video secretly leaked by an anonymous source at the FBC, the Federal Bureau of Control.
Kept hidden from the public for decades, the FBC’s main charter is to investigate so-called "paranatural phenomena." Knowledge of their existence only came to light when the formerly secret government department released a public information campaign on how to stay safe from paranatural forces.
The subject line of the leaked video’s accompanying email reads: “Ignore the FBC. We are doomed.” Shot on a mobile phone on Thomas Street, the footage appears to show a number of figures levitating and surrounded by a red light emanating from various skyscraper...
Minecraft is no stranger to simulations, but it turns out that under the right conditions, the game can beat itself... if given billions of years.
This was discovered by YouTuber RedLogic, who built a custom Minecraft simulation to see if the game could ever beat itself without a player ever joining. Two billion years is a bit too long to watch this play out in real time, of course, so he used a Monte Carlo simulation to "compress billions of ticks into explicitly sampled waiting times, while explicitly tracking rare events and the physical resources that can advance or destroy the chain."
But it wasn't just a case of time, either. RedLogic needed a Minecraft seed with the right amount of resources and a naturally-occuring ender...
Undead Labs has confirmed that State of Decay 3 is still in development after the studio separated from Xbox, becoming an independent, employee-owned developer.
Undead Labs shared this information in a September 22 blog post, where they revealed that State of Decay 3 is currently in alpha, with plans to enter a closed beta by the end of 2026. The game is scheduled to launch in 2027 on Xbox, Game Pass, PC, and PlayStation.
“Independence brings us closer to our community and lets us focus on what matters most: making the best games we can and earning the continued support of the people who choose to spend their time with us. State of Decay exists because millions of players have made that choice over the years, and we’re dedicated to...
Ubisoft has discussed how it is bracing for the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, and plans to reward Rainbow Six Siege players who stick around "like kings and queens."
Despite still being several months away, the impact of GTA 6's launch this November is already being felt throughout the video game industry, with other game publishers crowding their own releases into September and early October in order to steer well clear.
Currently, no other publisher (apart from Nintendo and its The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake) seems ready to brave November with a big-budget launch of their own. But what about live-service games which have to keep going during the peak of GTA 6's interest? Well, it's expected that they will likely see...
Key Preview Takeaways:
The remake looks good, but not necessarily better than the 2D original it updates.
It's got new content to add on to what's already here, along with an entire other Rayman game bundled with it.
It still plays really well as a pure platformer.
I’m going to get my most subjective opinion out of the way here first, before I tell you about my experience actually playing Rayman Legends Retold, the just-delayed remake of 2013’s absolutely stellar 2D platformer. Here goes: despite being 13 years newer, I don’t think this 2.5D remake looks any better than the gorgeous 2D original…which seems like something that, if you ask me, shouldn’t be up for debate if you’re going to remake a game. And as such, I’m not sure how...
Key Preview Takeaways:
It's a much darker art style and tone than we've been used to from Hoyoverse.
Nodusfall doesn't have Devil May Cry-type combat, but it does make you feel cool while in combat.
It's definitely not a soulslike (in a good way).
They told us that the Maldrake, the last of the three bosses my team squadded up against in Nodusfall, would be the one that would really try us. But it was the Qiongqi that really tested our group, wiping out our entire party the first time we attempted him. “Okay,” I said to our team. “Let’s do that again, but good this time.” Someone else pointed out that we hadn’t really been using our potions (I for the record, had, but I was just being judicious). We took a second to regroup and...
Ever since Blizzard revealed World of Warcraft: Forever at Blizzcon 2026, the company has been laser-focused on maintaining its Classic+ identity, even if that means not implementing some quality-of-life features the game's retail version has had for years.
In a reply to GingiTV and Nobbel87, two of the biggest WoW personalities on X/Twitter (albeit from complete opposite ends of the community), Blizzard developer Josh Greenfield confirmed that not implementing shared drops and tagging was "one of those things that we simply must hold the line on." He continued, saying "It’s hard to see the value in something like this when you are frustrated in the moment but it is extremely important to our social pillar to maintain some of this...
Microsoft has signalled its intention to close down Hellblade developer Ninja Theory after two deals to save the Xbox studio fell through.
In-line with UK employment law, a consultation with the staff at the Cambridge-based studio has begun. While Microsoft has said it is now working to close the studio, it remains open to an agreement to rescue the company.
"Unfortunately, two separate agreements for Ninja Theory fell through," Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty said in a blog post issued today. "We will now begin consultation with employees on a proposed closure while continuing to explore other paths forward."
In June, at an Xbox Games Showcase event, Microsoft announced Senua, the third game in the Hellblade series. At the...
Microsoft has today confirmed that the next mainline Halo game will be developed by Call of Duty maker Activision, with mass layoffs hitting Halo Studios amid a significant restructure of its Xbox studios setup.
Xbox announced 268 layoffs today "across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer" as part of the ongoing cuts first announced in July. The layoffs, the majority of which are at Halo Studios, come as part of new Xbox boss Asha Sharma’s “reset” of Microsoft's gaming business that had already seen 1,600 staff lose their jobs in the summer.
"The actions completed since July, inclusive of the studio divestitures, bring us roughly three-quarters of the way through previously...
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” and has reviewed several Halo games, including the Master Chief Collection and Halo Infinite.
I’ll give Asha Sharma this: she is not afraid to shake things up. Whether you love or hate how she’s run the Xbox business in her first six months as CEO so far, there are no sacred cows with her. Whether it’s slashing Xbox Game Pass prices, nuking an unpopular marketing campaign, restoring console exclusives, telling Obsidian to make a damn Fallout game already, or signing Hideo Kojima after PlayStation cancelled Physint, she is more than willing...
Konami's latest game in the nu-Silent Hill era has arrived, and as is the case with previous entries in the series, Townfall boasts a handful of endings to unlock and an even bigger handful of scares. But how long does it all take? We got five different members of the IGN team, who all played Silent Hill: Townfall very differently, to share their time. So whether you’re a completionist, or just someone who’s only interested in the story, you’ll learn just how long you’ll be spending in St. Amelia depending on your playstyle.
How Long is Silent Hill: Townfall?
Our fastest player finished Silent Hill: Townfall in 12 hours and 37 minutes.
Our “slowest” player spent 15 hours and 15 minutes before credits rolled.
Everyone plays games...
Handheld gaming PCs grant you access to a nearly limitless library of PC games that you can play anytime and anywhere. There are plenty of brands and models available nowadays, but the Legion Go S is still one of our favorite - and one of the most affordable - gaming handhelds. For a limited time, Best Buy is offering a used "excellent condition" Legion Go S AMD Ryzen Z2 Go Edition handheld gaming PC for just $494.99 with free shipping.
Lenovo Legion Go S Handheld Gaming PC for $494.99
Used "like new"
The Lenovo Legion Go S is a recent model (late 2025) featuring the AMD Ryzen Z2 Go CPU, 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and 512GB SSD. IGN's Jackie Thomas wrote up a great piece on why the Steam Deck no longer gets her recommendation. In the...