If you’ve never played Magic: The Gathering (MTG), the prospect of getting into it can seem pretty daunting. This is a game, after all, with 30+ years of history. That’s more than three decades of cards and mechanics, worldbuilding and lore. If you’ve ever lived and breathed a live service video game you’ll know just how much energy and time it can take simply to keep up. Constant new releases and updates that drive an ever-evolving meta mean it can be tricky to be even a casual fan… let alone finding your feet as a completely new player.
Magic: The Gathering definitely has many of the same challenges, but it also has more ways to interact with its cards and its history and its gameplay on your own terms. The fact that it’s mostly...
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Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has spoken out against the Electronic Software Association for claiming that the game's private servers are "illegal."
Earlier this month, the California State Senate held a hearing regarding Stop Killing Games-backed bill known as the Protect Our Games Act. The bill aims to obligate publishers to find ways to make games playable, even after ending support for them. That would mean that live-service games would need to have some kind of functionality after servers are shut down. The subject of private servers was brought up as a feasible solution and cited Minecraft as a prominent example, to which ESA’s VP of State Government Affairs, Jennifer Gibbons, countered with a head-scratching argument...
Preparing to return to the high seas when Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced releases on July 9, 2026? Why wait? If you’ve got the itch to dive back into the world of Assassin’s Creed, this is the perfect time to get started or finish some of the Ubisoft franchise’s latest entries. IGN Guides has all the walkthroughs and collectible guides you could need to get platinum.
Plus, this July, use our Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Valhalla, and Mirage checklists for free! Until July 31, access unlimited checks across some of our best Assassin’s Creed guides, no subscription required. Here’s just a taste of what IGN’s guides and checklists have to offer:
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Ready your silver blades and holy water because July’s IGN First is The Blood of Dawnwalker. This upcoming RPG from developer Rebel Wolves casts you as Coen, a cursed man who must live as a human by day and a vampire by night. Mastering both sides of his existence is the key to saving his family from a court of evil bloodsuckers.
To kick off our month of exclusive content, we bring you brand new gameplay from one of The Blood of Dawnwalker’s prologue quests. In Deep Down, a young Coen - not yet afflicted by the vampirism curse - explores an underground ruin in search of Lazar, a local man who’s gone missing. In the depths of the caves he finds much more than just a lost man. By examining an ancient mural, Coen learns of old heroes and...
Resident Evil Requiem was among our favorite video game deals during the Prime Day sale. If you happened to miss out on it then, though, it's actually your lucky day. As part of Best Buy's 4th of July Sale, the game has returned to its Prime Day price of $56 across PS5, Xbox Series X, and Switch 2 at the retailer.
That's a $14 discount off its original price, and likely won't be around for very long. If you haven't picked it up yet, or missed out on the Prime Day deal, now is an excellent time to grab it. We may not see this deal pop up for quite a while again, either.
While Best Buy's PS5 and Xbox copies match the price that Amazon had, the Switch 2 copy is actually just a couple dollars higher. Amazon Prime Members could scoop up...
Sony has confirmed the PlayStation Plus monthly games lineup for July 2026 — and it includes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
This is, of course, the Modern Warfare that launched in 2023 (not the one from back in 2011) that received a rough reception from fans and critics, with particular criticism for its story campaign. It launched just a year after 2022's Modern Warfare 2, an annual release strategy that publisher Activision has said it will no longer continue.
IGN's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign review returned a 4/10 score, and branded the game as "underbaked, rehashed, and cobbled together from multiplayer parts." Still, its inclusion here is timely — allowing you to zip through its story in preparation for this year's...
The entire staff of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds will get their bonuses after parent company Krafton reached a settlement with studio leadership.
Bloomberg reported that as part of the settlement, Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill had stepped down, leaving the company to look for a new boss.
In a statement provided to IGN, Krafton confirmed the settlement, insisting its focus now was on the future of Subnautica 2, which Unknown Worlds will continue to develop,
"Krafton, Inc., Unknown Worlds Entertainment and Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire have reached a mutual settlement and agreed to dismiss all pending legal proceedings," Krafton said. "Unknown Worlds and Krafton are focused on supporting Subnautica 2, its Early...
This is an IGN opinion piece from writer Jeremy Peel, who has followed Fable since the Lionhead days, and is forever midway through playthroughs of Oblivion and Fallout: New Vegas.
There’s a moment in Fable’s latest gameplay demo, right after the hero saves a talking pig from being butchered and turned into chops for the Silver Trowel Feast, when the disposition of the locals perceptibly changes. You can see it on the faces of the people of Silverbrook: the slight upward turn at the corners of their mouths, signifying that somewhere behind the scenes, a number has changed in response to the player’s actions. Jack the Beggar, a hardworking commoner down on his luck, likes the hero because they’re virtuous. Megan the Merchant...
When Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations, the upcoming campaign DLC for last year’s excellent modern-Doom prequel, was first announced at the Xbox Showcase last month, one thing jumped out at me: the classic Doom 2 map visible for a few seconds in the trailer. As a huge fan of the legendary original pair of Doom first-person shooters long before I fell in love with the more recent trilogy, my interest in this DLC suddenly skyrocketed. So when I got a presentation showing more Revelations gameplay from Doom director Hugo Martin and got to ask him questions afterward, I immediately asked about that moment in the trailer.
“[Revelations] is a celebration of the Doom games,” Martin said. “We've always treated all of the Doom games as canon. We...
Blood Bowl is saved! The video game adaptation of Games Workshop’s Warhammer fantasy football tabletop game is now in the hands of Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector publisher Slitherine, which obtained the licence, publishing rights, and back catalog from the collapsing Nacon. Better yet, Slitherine said it will move forward with the next Warhammer Blood Bowl game previously announced by Nacon, and that it will work with long-time series developer Cyanide Studio to produce it.
Back in February, AA publisher and developer Nacon filed for insolvency, raising questions over the future of games such as GreedFall 2, Hell is Us, RoboCop, and Test Drive Unlimited. Nacon, which was home to 16 development studios as well as a publishing arm at the...
Escape from Tarkov is the original first-person extraction shooter. While previous games had modes that extraction shooter fans would now find familiar, there can be no argument that the unashamedly hardcore Escape from Tarkov introduced the extraction mechanic to the wider gaming public — and Nikita Buyanov was at the heart of it.
The boss of Battlestate Games is widely credited with establishing the extraction mechanics that we see in so many other games now. Arc Raiders is a more accessible take on Escape from Tarkov. Even Call of Duty is getting in on the act with Modern Warfare 4's upcoming extraction mode, DMZ. So, with well over a decade of Escape from Tarkov development behind him, and the extraction shooter genre now firmly in...
New Xbox boss Asha Sharma is reportedly speeding up development on new The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games as she prepares to hit the “reset” button on Microsoft’s gaming business. Now, Fallout fans are wondering what this means for new games in the post-apocalyptic franchise, while one former Fallout developer has cautioned against pumping out more big new Fallout games faster.
The last mainline Fallout video game was 2018’s Fallout 76, which added multiplayer elements to the traditionally single-player open world role-playing series. It is now over a decade since Fallout 4 came out. The promised Fallout 5, which will not arrive until after The Elder Scrolls 6, seems a long way away indeed.
Could Bethesda follow The Elder...
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Microsoft is sending notifications out to Xbox Game Pass members reminding them that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 won’t be in the subscription service this year, so if they want to play the game at launch, they’ll have to buy it.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches globally on Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, PC via Battle.net, Xbox on PC, and Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2 on Friday, October 23, 2026. Microsoft has decided to stick with $70 as the standard edition price point for Call of Duty this year, resisting the temptation to go to $80 or beyond. The Vault Edition costs $100.
With Modern Warfare 4, Call of Duty is certainly changing tactics. For one, Activision has a Switch 2 version ready. Two, it’s finally leaving the...
After a long hiatus from Civilization 7 following my original review – after which I wasn't exactly in love with it – I decided to give it another go with the big 1.4 Test of Time update, and more specifically the 1.4.1 patch that came out in late June 2026. Firaxis has made pretty big changes across the board, including some much-needed quality-of-life improvements here. But I don't know if I agree with the overall philosophy of making it more like older, existing Civ games.
In May, Take-Two' Strauss Zelnick told Game File that Civilization 7 had been a "bridge too far" for existing fans of the series. That's definitely the guiding star the Test of Time update was based on. And man, from my perspective, that was completely the wrong...
Daigo Says 'Random' State of Street Fighter 6 Is Good for Casuals, but Makes It Hard to Crown a GOAT
While Daigo Umehara isn’t dissatisfied with the current state of Street Fighter 6, he says the game’s “random” style makes it difficult to determine the best player in modern tournament settings.
Evo 2026 is in the books, with Saul ‘MenaRD’ Mena once again claiming victory on the biggest stage in all of fighting games. It’s hard to argue against his current status as the most dominant Street Fighter 6 player, with two Capcom Cup championships and four Evo victories to his name… but Daigo Umehara isn’t sure a true ‘GOAT’ of the game has yet been crowned.
We got the chance to sit down with ‘The Beast’ of fighting games during Sunday finals, who revealed his surprising take on the divisive nature of Street Fighter 6’s balance as it...
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey now has an official Roblox tie-in game, which you can play right now.
If you want to experience Odysseus' journey yourself, fire up Roblox right now. The new free-to-play game, known as The Odyssey: Defy the Gods, allows you to sail across the ocean with friends while scavenging for supplies and solving puzzles. The game claims to have a "new ocean" with every voyage, suggesting it may be procedrually generated or have dynamic elements to it. There are storms and whirpools that will make your journey more challenging, as well.
The Roblox companion game is for ages 18 or older, due to violence and "fear," according to the game's official rating. This likely won't come as a major surprise given The...
With all of the excitement surrounding the new upcoming fighting games like Marvel Tokon, Avatar Legends, and Virtua Fighter Crossroads, as well as all of the buzz surrounding Tifa and Yujiro Hanma joining Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 respectively, it's easy to feel like Guilty Gear Strive has fallen a bit into the background. But the reality is that Strive is still going strong after six years, especially after the Guilty Gear Strive 2.0 patch completely revitalized the meta with the removal of a core system mechanic and a roster wide rebalancing patch.
At Evo this year, I got to do my yearly catch up with Guilty Gear Strive Producer Ken Miyauchi, to chat about what's still to come in the world of Strive, how he feels about the...
007 First Light and Hitman developer IO Interactive has announced layoffs after an unexpected setback revolving around its upcoming fantasy game, which was reportedly set to be published by Xbox.
The Danish developer took to social media to confirm that a relationship with an "external partner" that was working on the studio's upcoming fantasy game had ended. As a result, IO Interactive is laying off an unconfirmed number of staff, but it insisted it remained committed to supporting those who are impacted.
It is believed that these layoffs are unrelated to the successful release of 007 First Light, which IOI celebrated in the same post.
Here's IO's statement in full:
Although IO Interactive did not explicitly name the external...
The ESA has made the head-scratching claim that private Minecraft servers are "illegal," arguing that they're considered a form of "piracy" in a recent hearing.
During a California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (a Stop Killing Games bill that would force game publishers to ensure games remain playable if servers are shut down), Assemblyman Chris Ward was questioned by the committee about how feasible it would be to keep games running on private servers if official support concluded. Ward noted that both Minecraft and Call of Duty utilize community servers, meaning it's a solution that already exists in some cases.
However, ESA’s VP of State Government Affairs, Jennifer Gibbons, objected to his claim and stated...
Bethesda will launch The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for Nintendo Switch 2 on August 11, digitally via the eShop and in a physical edition that includes the full base game on a cartridge.
Boxed copies will include a proper cartridge (not a Game-Key Card) which also grants access to the Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine story expansions (Bethesda is less clear about whether these are also on the card) and additional content you'll have to download. Still, this isn't a GTA 6 situation, with only a code in the game's box.
This includes the Fighter's Stronghold, Spell Tomes, Vile Lair, Mehrune's Razor, The Thieves Den, Wizard's Tower, The Orrery and the infamous Horse Armor Pack DLC. Finally, you'll get a code that grants...
Previewing a fighting game is tricky. It’s a notoriously dense genre and every game speaks its own language, has new things you need to learn, and rewires some part of your brain. Getting good at one fighter will help you be good at others, but true mastery requires the grind. So when I sat down with Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game for a brief 30-minute appointment, I was both excited to finally get my hands on it (I’ve missed the previous playable tests) and deeply aware of the passing of every minute of my half-hour demo.
Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first: Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is absolutely gorgeous. It looks like the anime, as you’d hope and want it to, animations are stunning, and it feels smooth in...
The world lies in ruins. The Great Relic has been destroyed, plunging the land of Arsilutus into the Void. Men and monsters alike roam, butchering and cursing the survivors. As the First Guardian, you must put the pieces back together, reform the Great Relic, and pull the world back from the brink. No pressure.
It's a somewhat familiar setup, but The Relic: First Guardian is honest about its inspiration, and clear about where it seeks to carve an identity of its own. I had a chance to see this for myself in our recent hands-on demo. After several hours exploring Arsilutus, I’ve plundered ruins, slain monsters, and grown my power. It’s a dark and dangerous world, with many stories to tell, starting with fire…and screams.
Dead Men do...
This is an IGN opinion piece from writer Jeremy Peel. He’s an FPS fan who's played 200 hours of Marathon and is currently blitzing a Heroic playthrough of Halo: Combat Evolved ahead of the remake.
Destiny 2 is dead. That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that Destiny 2 has finally solidified, after almost 10 years in flux. At times, the mercurial FPS was expanding with new stories and dungeons; at others shrinking as Bungie battled with the associated bloat of a live-service shooter. With one hand, the developer rewarded players with new activities, subclasses and exotic weapons to chase down; with the other, it took away, diminishing the power of the gear that Guardians had fought so hard for with each seasonal reset.
Now, with...
After Baldur’s Gate 3’s enormous success, Baldur’s Gate 4 feels like an inevitability. That’s how the entertainment industry normally works: if a product everyone loves makes hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s guaranteed a sequel. But I’m not sure that established thinking works when it comes to Baldur’s Gate 4.
First off, Larian itself moved on from Dungeons & Dragons to make Divinity. In an interview with IGN at GDC 2024, CEO Swen Vincke revealed Larian began work on Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC and even gave some thought to a potential Baldur's Gate 4 before pivoting away to other projects because the team was "going through the motions." "You could see the team was doing it because everyone felt like we had to do it, but it wasn’t really...
Legendary game director Hideki Kamiya has described his vision for a cosy Resident Evil sequel starring Leon S. Kennedy in his retirement, in what would be a bold new direction for the survival horror franchise.
Kamiya, who directed Leon's introduction to the series in Resident Evil 2, recently made headlines when he was filmed jokingly suggesting that there should be a "non-scary mode" for Resident Evil Requiem, where he could just enjoy the series' puzzles.
Now, Kamiya appears to have thought more about this idea — as he has pitched a distinctly non-scary sounding Resident Evil sequel on social media. Responding to a fan who asked if Kamiya could one day develop a new Resident Evil game that tied up the storylines of Leon and Claire...
There is fresh concern for State of Decay 3 and its developer Undead Labs this morning, after reports overnight suggested both are under threat of closure as part of impending layoffs at Xbox.
Gamesbeat reported on work being done behind the scenes to find a buyer for Undead Labs, which is based in Seattle, Washington — a report that was backed up by Windows Central. If a buyer can't be found, the reports indicate, Microsoft may cancel State of Decay 3.
Undead Labs is one of a number of Microsoft-owned studios reportedly fighting to prevent a closure order. Psychonauts developer Double Fine, South of Midnight developer Compulsion, and Hellblade developer Ninja Theory are also said to be in talks with Microsoft over potentially buying...
On the back of Bandai Namco’s announcement that Tekken’s much-loved, martial arts marsupial Roger Jr. will be coming to Tekken 8 as part of a salvo of ‘Season 3’ DLC characters, former Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada has confirmed that he had a hand in the kangaroo’s clever reveal.
Debuted at EVO 2026, Bandai Namco aired a brief teaser for Roger Jr.’s upcoming arrival that was clear homage to a 10-year-old viral video out of Australia of a man punching an aggressive kangaroo right in the snout. For context, it was in the process of rescuing a dog – which the kangaroo had in a headlock at the time.
“Back in September of last year, when we decided to bring Roger back, I sent the team a YouTube link to ‘that famous video’ because I...
A live-action Persona TV show is reportedly in development at Netflix.
The streamer has begun work on a series adaptation of Sega and Atlus' critically acclaimed RPG franchise, according to Variety. Star Trek: Picard and 9-1-1 alum Christopher Monfette is attached to write the show while also serving as its executive producer and showrunner.
21 Laps' Shawn Levy and Robert Atwood are also attached to executive produce, as are Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson of Story Kitchen. Sega producer Toru Nakahara will also aid as an executive producer. Netflix declined Variety's request for comment.
It's unclear if its plot will pull directly from any particular entry or tell a new story entirely. Five...
The first Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 teaser is here, and fans have already found some of the locations the new season pulled from Cyberpunk 2077.
Netflix, CD Projekt Red, and Studio Trigger returned with a minute-and-a-half teaser for Season 2 of its anime adaptation today. As if there was ever any doubt, it's a brutal trailer, using Rico Nasty's "You Can't Run From Me" to show how characters like Weak Kingsley, D, Roman Carax, and Talia Yang will tear back into Night City.
Despite offering such a small slice of the 10 episodes set to premiere this fall, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has already given fans a lot to sink their teeth into. Watchers have been so starved for updates that some Cyberpunk 2077 players have already loaded back into...