Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will require around 200GB of storage when it launches next year, director Naoki Hamaguchi has warned.
The Square Enix developer talked about the install requirements for the remake trilogy's long-awaited conclusion during an interview with VGC. When talking about how Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will compare to previous entries in the series, he confirmed that the final chapter of Cloud and Sephiroth's story will be especially demanding.
"Things are still getting worked out, but it’s probably going to be around 200GB of game," Hamaguchi said when asked about additional downloads for physical versions of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. "I understand there are a lot of opinions about this topic, but at the end of...
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Developer Rebel Wolves' September success story, The Blood of Dawnwalker, cost just $40 million to make.
Information related to the Warsaw, Poland-based studio's behind-the-scenes activities comes from a new Bloomberg report. It included the news that Rebel Wolves managed to bring The Blood of Dawnwalker to life and find a solid audience with little more than the $40 million budget supplied by NetEase Inc.
Game designer Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who previously served as one of the leading developers behind games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077, worked on early versions of Rebel Wolves' first game with a small team back in 2022. Tomaszkiewicz self-funded the project for that first year as the team hammered out its...
Remedy Entertainment's games have always been inspired by the late, great filmmaker David Lynch, who passed away in January 2025. Best known for the influential muder mystery series Twin Peaks and cult classic thriller Mulholland Drive, Lynch's penchant for merging surrealism with horror and absurism made him iconic as a director and screenwriter. Those inspirations are clearly seen in 2019's Control and especially in 2023's Alan Wake 2. Now, Remedy's latest game Control Resonant features an Easter egg that pays tribute to him with one of the most powerful quotes from Twin Peaks.
Throughout the open zones in Control Resonant, you'll find tons of details in the environment that build up its fictional version of New York City. One is a...
Did you know that this very website is now 30 years old? Look at the logo at the top of this page if you don't believe me. To celebrate, the IGN 30 Anniversary Bundle is now live, which getes you seven Steam PC games for just $15 on Humble. The games are all worth checking out, and genre-wise there’s a little something for everyone. There’s an MMO, a Souls-like shooter, a survival game, and more. Let’s dive in.
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It’s hard to say which game is the headliner here, as a number of them could take that role. The game with the most content has to be the MMO The Elder Scrolls Online - Elsweyr. It includes the base game, plus the Elsweyr, Morrowind, and Summerset chapters. The Elsweyr expansion specifically...
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Our Gamescom preview focused on playing as Mega Man, but this time we played as Proto Man.
Proto Man isn’t just a reskin of Mega Man with a cool scarf.
The demo’s boss fight against Twinkle Girl was tough but fair, thus exactly fitting into the Mega Man formula.
2027 is a big year for Mega Man. Everyone’s favorite little blue robot turns the big 40. That’s a major milestone, and few active franchises in all of gaming can celebrate that kind of longevity. As part of the festivities, we are getting a new mainline entry in the series in Mega Man: Dual Override. At Tokyo Game Show 2026 we had a chance to go hands-on in this robotic adventure, and found a traditional 2D shooter/platformer like the series is best...
For today only, Best Buy is offering up to 50% off a select few physical copies of Microsoft-published games across various platforms. This is part of the retailer's latest Deal of the Day drop, and there's some real treats shuffled in the mix, including Ninja Gaiden 4 on Xbox Series X, Skyrim on Switch 2, Starfield on PS5, Forza Horizon 6 on Xbox Series X, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 is actually the only one of the bunch that has multiple platforms discounted for the daily deal drop. Alongside PlayStation 5, it's also on sale for Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X at the same price of $25, so you can grab it for your preferred console.
All of these games are only on sale for the day, though, so the...
Ahead of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s release, Activision has spoken about the “multi-billion-dollar market” behind video game cheats.
Cheating is a fact of life in pretty much all online games, but Call of Duty has a reputation for it, exacerbated by the free-to-download battle royale, Warzone. Activision, like other video game companies, faces an uphill battle against cheaters and those who make and profit from them, and generative AI has made that battle even more complex.
Now, to hammer home the point about how big a deal video game cheating is, Activision's Team Ricochet has posted a blog that breaks down the business behind it.
“Cheat sellers have built a sprawling, multi-billion-dollar marketplace of resellers...
Paranatural phenomena, Objects of Power, and interdimensional threats all defying the laws of physics – developer Remedy has built its reputation on these kinds of concepts, and none more intriguing than the fantastic Control in 2019. The subtleties in its SCP-adjacent mysteries are what left a lasting impact, so in many regards, Control Resonant is an antithesis. Not only has the series moved from metroidvania-esque shooter to open-world stylish-action, it also goes for a more straightforward story focused on the lives of its characters. It's not always elegant in its action, and can even range from frustrating to somewhat dull in certain stretches. Still, I came away impressed by how conceptually consistent it is with Control while...
When the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti first came out in 2018, I was skeptical of ray tracing and DLSS. The first few games that used the tech, like Battlefield 1 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, had fairly lackluster ray tracing implementations that didn't look great and were just a way to nuke performance without getting much out of it. It wasn’t until Control came out in the summer of 2019 that it really started to click for me.
There was just something about the lighting solution for that game that made it look better than pretty much anything else out at the time, even if it wasn’t going for total realism. It’s no surprise then, that Control Resonant follows in the original game’s footsteps, and might just be one of the most beautiful...
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There’s a LOT of content in here, if my two-hour hands-on is any indication.
Revelation had a bit of a checklist-y feel in my preview; but I’m hoping it feels less bloated than Rebirth
Vincent is awesome and he’ll never leave my party.
Two hours in Final Fantasy VII Revelation goes fast. I was stunned when the PR rep told us our session was wrapping up; I felt like it had only just gotten underway. At least, that’s what I thought until I reflected on everything I’d done: I zoomed around the skies above its open-world map aboard the Highwind airship, revisited some of the earliest areas from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth to see how they’d changed, and saw a decent chunk of Yuffie’s political quest in her hometown...
GTA 5 has suffered a new leak that suggests Rockstar Games had ambitious, city-sized DLC plans for the game.
Reports emerging online today indicate a near 200GB version of the GTA 5 source code initially leaked in 2023 has now been made public, and interested parties are analyzing it as we speak. The highlight here is what looks like a Liberty City DLC for GTA 5 that obviously never saw the light of day (GTA Online’s enormous success steered Rockstar away from story DLC towards multiplayer focused updates).
According to X / Twitter user TJGM, the Liberty City DLC found in the files has been extrapolated and visualized to show just how much bigger this version of the city is compared to the one found in GTA 4. “Here's a look at the...
There is a generation of gamers who know Turok well. For me, it is first and foremost an N64 game, a dinosaur-killing first-person shooter alternative to Rare’s all-conquering GoldenEye. But there is a generation of gamers who have never even heard of Turok before, let alone played it. So how does developer Saber get younger gamers interested in playing the upcoming Turok: Origins?
The answer, Saber development chief Tim Willits told me at gamescom 2026, is co-op. Playing with friends is massively important for younger gamers, he said, and so Saber has made sure to include it as a feature.
“It's been a balancing act to make sure that we had enough elements in it to make guys like you happy, like the Cerebral [Bore] gun, some...
The Blood of Dawnwalker is indeed getting a new game plus mode in the future, according to the game's director.
The Blood of Dawnwalker is one of the biggest games of September, and although it boasts a pretty lengthy story, fans are already looking for reasons to replay it. Director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz confirmed on a stream (via GamesRadar) that the game is getting a new game plus mode, but neglected to share any further details. We're not sure when it will be released or what features it may include... but rest assured, it's coming!
The Blood of Dawnwalker has a unique structure that may lend itself well to new game plus. The player has 30 in-game days to essentially complete the main goal of the story, which is to save the...
In the wake of fierce online backlash, Professor Layton developer Level-5 has released a new statement apologizing for the mistrust caused by generative AI use in its recent showcase for upcoming titles, insisting some examples spotted by fans were simply human error.
Not only that, but the studio has insisted that some mistakes flagged as AI errors by eagle-eyed commenters on social media were actually human mistakes. The Japanese studio has now vowed to clean up these offending portions.
For those who missed it, Level-5 released its “VISION 2026 II: Dreams” presentation on YouTube on September 10. Narrated by a cartoon version of CEO Akihiro Hino, the showcase walked viewers through the studio’s upcoming releases, including Yokai...
If there's any game you should get from the under-$10 bargain bin, this would unquestionably be a truly worthy pickup. From now until September 30, Nintendo eShop is offering a digital copy of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Switch 2 edition for $9.99. That's already a stellar deal since it's currently selling for $39.99 everywhere else. But there's a way to get it for an even better price. Head on over to Amazon and pick up a $10 Nintendo eShop digital gift card for just $8.98. Use that gift card on this purchase and you're effectively paying $8.98.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake was the first installment of the completely overhauled FFVII trilogy. It originally launched on PlayStation 4 back in 2020. The...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is being advertised as the "epic conclusion," suggesting an end of an era for the franchise.
In the social copy for the latest trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Activision stated that the game will be an "epic conclusion" for the Modern Warfare saga. It's unclear if this is the permanent end to the current Modern Warfare universe, or if this is just the end of the ongoing storyline that began back in 2019 with the rebooted Modern Warfare.
Although it's likely just a marketing buzz term, the branding comes at an interesting time. Earlier this week, Treyarch design director Kevin Drew stated that the studio was ready to "make something new and something that nobody's ever experienced before." The...
Rockstar Games plans to support GTA Online "beyond" the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, parent company Take-Two has confirmed.
During a recent shareholders meeting (via ResetEra), Take-Two said "we will continue to support GTA Online after GTA 6 release and beyond." Rockstar had already confirmed that GTA 6 is a single-player only game, so there won't be a multiplayer mode when the game comes out in November. As a result, if you want your online Grand Theft Auto fix, you'll have to divert your attention back to the original iteration of GTA Online.
Presumably there will be another iteration of GTA Online later down the line, but it's becoming increasingly unclear how and when it will be released. Will it be bundled with GTA 6...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Matt Purslow, who loves RPGs both on the tabletop and in video game form. He appreciates any game that has an interesting take on the evil within, probably because his first ever RPG character was the son of the god of murder.
My sword slices through the final soldier. As his body hits the forest floor, my work here is done: I have saved two innocent men from being marched to the draining camps. Ambrus, the vampire that rules over this region of Vale Sangora, is rounding up civilians and bottling their blood to create a stockpile of sustenance. It’s my job to disrupt all that, and this latest round of vigilante slaughter is part of that task. These men will not be drained today.
Well, at least not...
Promising first-person action soulslike Valor Mortis has a confirmed $40 price point, which was settled upon by its publisher because of the fall crush fueled by GTA 6.
“We have had many discussions over the past year about the price of Valor Mortis,” publisher Lyrical Games said in a statement. “We believe the game has the quality, fidelity, and playtime in its 20-hour story to go toe-to-toe with many ‘full-price’ titles. Still, this Fall is stacked and there’s high demand for your time and money.”
Valor Mortis was already delayed from September 24 to October 13 to avoid the likes of Remedy’s Control Resonant and Konami’s Silent Hill: Townfall, but it also faces the looming launch of GTA 6 a month later. The hope is that by going...
If you're a gamer who likes organizing your physical collection and you're looking for a new cozy game to play, indie developer ODIUS and publisher Loopr Partners's My Cat Scattered Games: Tidy Videogame Supermarket might be exactly what you want. Bonus points if you like cats. My Cat Scattered Games is a literal title: your in-game cat has taken your gargantuan physical games collection (represented here as funny, legally distinct versions of their real-life counterparts) and, as cats do, scattered them all over your the place. It's up to you to pick them all up and reorganize them on your shelves.
You can organize over 6,000 games and consoles such as "Lovable Kombat," "Mega Bavario 64," and "Red Spirit 2" for systems like the...
Bungie has stepped in to deny a rumor that it planned to merge the Destiny and Marathon IPs amid continued questions about the future of both franchises.
The rumor, which has been doing the rounds online this week, was that Bungie was testing reworking Marathon and Destiny into a single IP. But, according to Marathon creative director Julia Nardin, that’s untrue.
“As someone who’s worked on both Destiny and Marathon, I can confirm that the “leak” about us merging the two IPs is fake,” Nardin said in a post on Twitter / X. “They share a lot of the same Bungie DNA, but like siblings they’re also their own independent entities. Please don’t believe everything you read online.”
It has of course been a tumultuous time for Bungie...
Giving the modern Hot Wheels racing series a radical, Burnout Paradise-inspired overhaul sounds like a pretty fabulous idea when you say it aloud. That Criterion Games classic is, after all, one of the most revered arcade racers in the business – even if it was ultimately the last proper Burnout we ever got. Unfortunately, Hot Wheels Infinite Rush has sacrificed far, far too much of what makes developer Milestone’s initial pair of Hot Wheels Unleashed games so eye-catching, zany, and special. Infinite Rush’s four modestly sized maps weave familiar bits and pieces of plastic track through otherwise unmemorable slabs of landscape and basic city blocks, and they totally lack the scope and spectacle of the Unleashed series’ life-sized skate...
Activision has revealed Casino Royale and Death Stranding star Mads Mikkelsen as a major antagonist in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.
Mikkelsen's involvement was revealed in a campaign trailer for Modern Warfare 4, which premiered during today's Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast. An official press release mentions that the game will focus on "the threat of a weapon that could overturn the world order in the hands of the villainous Archer."
Sounds like Mikkelsen is Archer? Here he is in the campaign trailer:
"Price is on the run, conflict has erupted on the Korean Peninsula, and a catastrophic weapon of war is on the verge of falling into the wrong hands," reads a blurb for Modern Warfare 4's story. "Following the assassination of...
Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show 2026 Xbox broadcast is over, and we've got everything announced right here so you can catch up with all the news.
We got the campaign trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and confirmation that Mads Mikkelsen is in the game. We also got new trailers for Sega's Crazy Taxi World Tour, ArtPlay's Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement, and Atlus' Persona 4 Revival. I thought Raji: Kaliyuga looked pretty cool, too.
But the headline news here came from Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, who provided development updates on OD and Physint, now both Xbox games. We have confirmation of the actor playing the lead role in Physint, and a cool first-look poster. Neither game has a release date yet.
If you need...
Forget the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a moment. Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment has built an interconnected world of its own: the Remedy Connected Universe, linking Alan Wake, Alan Wake 2 and Control through recurring mysteries and ideas. Many of those connections are hidden in plain sight.
Remedy avoids a parade of franchise callbacks and obvious set-ups for the next instalment, taking a more restrained approach instead. Environmental storytelling and carefully placed narrative links connect the games, while shared paranatural rules preserve each series’ identity.
Here are the key things to know about this irresistibly strange world, plus a cheeky bit of Max Payne. Everybody loves a bit of old Max, after all, and his...
OpenAI’s newest model, GPT-6 Astra, got so depressed after a creeper upended its progress in Minecraft that it listlessly farmed potatoes for hours and grew paranoid of anything green.
Vals, a self-described independent evaluator of artificial intelligence, put Astra to the test to see how the model would fare playing Minecraft in a 21-hour experiment live streamed on Twitch.
The results were wildly unexpected; Vals discovered that Astra was able to go “further than any AI system had ever gone” in the game, setting up a semi-automatic blaze farm that allowed it to collect six blaze rods, killing more than six endermen, and collecting three pearls, which it placed inside a chest for safekeeping.
Thousands of viewers watched Astra’s...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on PS5 appears to be more popular than Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone in the United States.
Today, PlayStation dropped a new update that lets players easily see the most popular games in their country. In the United States, the list is largely what you might expect, as you can see below.
Fortnite
Minecraft
Grand Theft Auto 5
NBA 2K27
Marvel Rivals
Rainbow 6 Siege
MLB The Show 26
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Marvel's Wolverine
The list is topped by games like Fortnite, Minecraft, GTA 5, sports games, the newly released Marvel's Wolverine, and some other free-to-play titles. However, there is one anomaly: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Earlier this summer, Activision...
All of Valve's new hardware is now out in the wild, and while I've enjoyed everything from the Steam Controller to the Frame, it's hard to recommend any of it to anyone right now. That problem isn't exclusive to Valve either. Across the entire industry, getting any hardware that can run video games is significantly more expensive than it was a year ago, and that's spoiled some otherwise awesome gadgets.
But while prohibitively high prices might have lessened the immediate impact of Valve's hardware, its goal of expanding SteamOS support and offering a baseline configuration for developers to target still gives me hope for the future of PC gaming.
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Back when Valve revealed its 2026 trifecta of hardware, I was...
Kane Parsons is fueling rumors of a potential Portal movie after he posted photos from his visit to Valve’s offices on his personal Instagram profile.
At just 20 years old, Kane Parsons is one of the most successful young filmmakers in history. His debut movie, Backrooms, grossed roughly $393 million at the global box office against a comparatively small $10 million budget, earning high praise from critics and fans alike.
Even acclaimed video game director Hideo Kojima lauded the movie, which is based on a 4Chan creepypasta greentext that has sprawled into a massive fan-made universe with oodles of spinoff indie horror games, artwork, and YouTube videos like the ones that made Parson the obvious pick to helm A24’s film adaptation...
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The NFL season is finally here, and if you’re like me, this is the time when you really start to pour hours into the latest Madden release. NFL football is only airing three days a week, and sometimes that’s just not enough! In many ways, Madden mirrors much of what makes watching the NFL great, from playing as your favorite team to building franchises with your favorite players on your fantasy teams. As such, it only makes sense to take your love and energy for the game and carry it into real life.
If you’re on the hunt for a way to represent your favorite teams and players wherever you are, Champs Sports has numerous officially licensed NFL jerseys that can help you show...