Lords of the Fallen II publisher CI Games has shown gameplay footage of its Soulslike sequel during The Game Awards 2025, featuring new character Omeuras and enemy limbs flying everywhere.
Ahead of tonight's showing, IGN asked CI Games for more detail on what we'd just seen, keen for more detail ahead of the game's launch at some point in 2026.
Most prominent in the trailer is Omeuras, who CI Games creative strategist Ryan Hill told IGN is one of the sequel's central characters. She's brought to life by Hannah Melbourne, who previously played Agrias Oaks in Final Fantasy Tactics, and The Sorceress in Path of Exile 2.
"With the sequel, we wanted to craft a narrative that's more accessible and character-driven, while still honouring...
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Blizzard has fully unveiled Diablo 4 expansion Lord of Hatred, confirming that it includes not one but two new classes, including the Paladin.
At The Game Awards 2025, Blizzard announced an April 28, 2026 release date for Lord of Hatred, which will see the Age of Hatred Saga, as Blizzard calls it, reach its climax. Campaign wise, players go up against eternal evil, Mephisto, but there’s a surprise return for Diablo 4 antagonist Lilith, who is back from the dead — shock horror! — after the events of the Diablo 4 campaign. Lord of Hatred adds the new region of Skovos, and there are significant gameplay changes, too.
The big news here is a pre-purchase of Lord of Hatred grants immediate access to the Paladin class, which is a...
Invincible VS has a character never before seen in Robert Kirkman’s superhero universe: Ella Mental.
Revealed at The Game Awards 2025 with gameplay footage, Ella Mental — voiced by Tierra Whack — joins established characters such as Omni-Man and Invincible to flesh out the roster of playable characters in the 3v3 tag fighter.
Ahead of her reveal, we got a chance to chat with not only Invincible series creator Robert Kirkman, but also several members of the development team at Quarter Up to find out some extra details about Ella Mental’s design, her playstyle, and some of the lessons that Quarter Up took away from their recent closed beta.
IGN: So to start, Robert, what can you tell us about this new character?
Robert Kirkman: Ella...
The next-gen, Unreal Engine 5-built Tomb Raider that developer Crystal Dynamics announced three years ago now has an official name and release window. Lara Croft’s new adventure for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S is titled Tomb Raider: Catalyst, and it will be released in 2027 and published by Amazon Game Studios.
The first trailer was showcased at the 2025 Game Awards. In it, we see the legendary adventurer (voiced by Alex Wilton Regan, who has appeared in Cyberpunk 2077, Mass Effect 3, and Dragon Age: Inquisition) wield her signature dual pistols as well as a new gadget: a wrist-mounted grappling hook of sorts that looks like it’ll be used in both traversal and combat.
Crystal Dynamics also gave us our first description of Catalyst’s...
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight emerged from the shadows this evening at The Game Awards with a new trailer, revealing the anticipated adventure's release date.
As announced tonight, TT Games' open world Gotham game will arrive for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on May 29, 2026. The footage also showed a fresh look at the Bat Cave and some of the many, many heroes and villains you'll meet around the city.
Batman will be assisted by Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl and Catwoman, as the heroes take on supervillains such as Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Firefly, Mr. Freeze, The Joker, The Penguin, Ra’s al Ghul, and Bane. Oh, and you'll also get to go behind the wheel of the Batmobile from Batman: The...
Bruce Straley, game director of The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, has announced a new project, Coven of the Chicken Foot.
Revealed tonight at The Game Awards 2025, the creature-filled puzzle platforming adventure will be the first project to launch from Straley's indie studio Wildflower Interactive, following his departure from Naughty Dog back in 2022.
You play as Gertie, an elderly witch in a world inspired by traditional fantasy adventures. Described as an emotionally-rich, charming-yet-dark adventure with puzzle-platforming elements, the game will feature dungeons, forests and bogs to explore as Gertie collaborates with an odd familiar.
"The dungeons have been plundered and the monsters long slain," reads an official blurb for the...
Remedy Entertainment has announced Control: Resonant, the follow-up to IGN’s 2019 Game of the Year, Control at the 2025 Game Awards. It’s due out in 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S, and it aims to be anything but a straightforward sequel.
For starters, you’re not playing as Jesse Faden anymore. Instead, it’s seven years later and you’ll take control of her younger brother, Dylan. He was taken by the Federal Bureau of Control at age 10, ending up in a coma after being inflicted by The Hiss. And speaking of The Hiss, it’s escaped The Oldest House where the first Control was set, spilling out onto the streets of Manhattan and turning it into a very bizarre place (as you can see in the trailer), overrun and literally twisted and...
After months of speculation and a revealing leak earlier this week, Capcom has finally, officially confirmed what we all knew: Leon S. Kennedy is in Resident Evil Requiem, and he's here to kick butt.
Tonight, at The Game Awards 2025, a fresh trailer for Resident Evil Requiem saw Leon fully revealed, swinging into action as the now-grizzled veteran zombie fighter we all know and love.
We learned what many of us had expected, that Leon will feature as one of two playable characters, alongside the previously announced Grace Ashcroft. While Grace's campaign focuses on survival horror, Leon's separate antics will focus on action.
Earlier this week, the reveal of new Resident Evil: Requiem cover art featuring Leon finally put to bed one...
The Dungeons & Dragons franchise has been steadily making more attempts to expand into video games, and we're seeing that next effort with Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, a new open-world single-player action-RPG that's all about wielding dark magic to battle foes.
Just revealed at The Game Awards 2025, Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons is the next project from developer Invoke Studios, the creators of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance. Set in the D&D universe, Warlock focuses on the adventures of the warrior Kaatri, who embraces newfound dark powers to unleash some otherworldly magic in her fight against the forces invading the land.
"Warlock is a third-person action-adventure game built around immersive, expressive magic where you use...
J.J. Abrams and Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth took to The Game Awards 2025 to announce that their mysterious new co-op video game is a sci-fi third-person shooter called 4:Loop.
A video for Bad Robot Games' PlayStation 5 and PC project was unveiled during today’s show, revealing a twisted new version of Earth filled with deadly creatures (and a lot of purple lights). The first 4:Loop trailer teases gameplay that requires players to form a world-saving team that will live and die by how it learns from its failures.
For all of tonight’s biggest highlights, you can check out everything announced at The Game Awards 2025. You can also keep up with our running list of all of the winners.
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After some unusual teases and a trademark inadvertently showing Larian Studios' hand, the Baldur's Gate 3 developer's next game has been officially revealed at The Game Awards with one heck of a disturbing trailer. It's Divinity. Just Divinity.
We don't have any details on the game itself, but we can glean some from the very cinematic trailer. We saw a medieval-looking festival with all sorts of revelry, and a giant wicker man ready for burning. Inside the man, an actual man is chained and tortured as they burn the effigy down. But as he melts away (it's gross, okay?), his blood (?) drips into the soil, weird screaming plants come up, the wicker man goes nuts, there's a lot of screaming, and then we see the statue that's had everyone...
The Game Awards 2025 kicked off with a huge announcement: Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is led by Casey Hudson, former director of the much-loved Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy. The development studio is Edmonton, Alberta-based Arcanaut Studios.
It's described as a narrative-driven, single-player RPG and spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic. Lucasfilm insisted Fate of the Old Republic is not a direct sequel or continuation of KOTOR, and will introduce new characters for an all-new story. It's said to be in the early stages of development. The teaser trailer is below.
Here's the official blurb:
“Working on Star Wars: Knights of the Old...
Capcom's upcoming space adventure Pragmata was back at The Game Awards today with some pretty significant news after years of delays. It has a release date at last: April 24, 2026.
In addition, we learned today that a gameplay demo is now available today on Steam. And in addition to previously-announced platforms PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, it's also coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in a pretty significant get for the new console.
Pragmata follows an astronaut named Hugh stranded in space, aided by a friendly artificial intelligence named DI0367, who he refers to as Diana. She takes the form of a little girl who rides on Hugh's back as he fights his way through hostile space alien-robot things, and hacks them so that they're vulnerable to...
The Game Awards don't start for another half hour, but video game announcements are still finding a way to sneak in anyway. Compulsion Games just revealed that South of Midnight is coming to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 in spring of 2026.
This comes from a pair of tweets/X posts from the official Compulsion Games account, announcing each platform release respectively.
Depending on what the final release date ends up being, this will likely time out to be roughly one year from South of Midnight's initial release, which was on April 8, 2025 of this year. This puts South of Midnight in good company with a number of other Xbox Game Studios games that have gone onto rival platforms, including Pentiment, Grounded, Sea of Thieves...
Roguelite FPS Deadzone: Rogue just got a release date for its newest free DLC, Zone 4 - Apophis. It will add new missions and story to the game, along with new enemies and encounters, more weapons, as well as adding extra systems, elements, perks, and augments. The Zone 4: Apophis Content Update for Deadzone: Rogue is launching on December 17, and as an added bonus that date also marks the start of a free-to-play access period if you haven't had a chance to jump in yet.
Deadzone: Rogue was officially released in August this year on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and is currently rocking a Very Positive ranking on Steam. You can play solo or with co-op team of up to 3 players, and puts you on board the colony ship ISS-X, which...
The Game Awards is back again to end this year with a celebration of the best games of 2025 and an exciting look into the future. While we may not know all the surprises in store for us this year, we do know we will be covering everything live and gathering it right here for you.
This article will be the place to catch all the biggest reveals, trailers, gameplay, shocking moments, and more, and we'll be updating it as it happens, so be sure to keep checking back! You can also check how how you can watch the show with us and what to expect as well!
How to Watch The Game Awards 2025
You can watch The Game Awards 2025 with us at any of the links below. The show will begin with a special pre-show, which will start at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm...
Traditionally, the great holiday shopping deals would end after Cyber Monday. That is apparently no longer true. Case in point: today only, Best Buy is offering the console versions of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 for under $40 each. Specifically, you can get the PS5 or Xbox version of AC Shadows for $34.99, and Black Ops 7 for $39.99. Both deals go away at midnight, so grab them fast if you want them.
Today's Best Game Deals
The Black Ops 7 deal is particularly good, because it’s on the steelbook cross-gen bundle editions of the game. That means you get a free steelbook case for the game with your purchase. And regardless of whether you buy the PS4 or PS5 version, it’ll work on both systems natively. The...
EA and Battlefield Studios have issued a lengthy statement after the Battlefield 6 Winter Offensive 1.1.3.0 update saw players reporting widespread issues related to the main menu UI, gameplay stuttering, Breakthrough, and much, much more.
The message, posted both to Battlefield social media accounts and the FPS franchise’s website, functions both as an explanation and a game plan. BF Studios says hotfixes and updates will now roll out in the coming days as it attempts to iron out the numerous kinks that started making waves in the Battlefield 6 community earlier this week.
Surprise Attack
Winter Offensive was originally positioned to bring wintery new content hand-in-hand with audio fixes, more reliable hit registration, and...
Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games has just announced and released a surprise final update to its 2023 game — mere hours ahead of its sequel getting a fresh airing at tonight's Game Awards.
Today's new Version 2.5 release caps off a lengthy journey for the action role-player, which launched to mixed reviews but has since turned around its player sentiment via a series of major post-launch patches.
Lords of the Fallen's previous major 2.0 update was once believed to be its last — as was its 1.5 update before that. But, based on further fan feedback, CI Games has put together one final offering that reworks enemy and boss behavior and adds a new Veteran Mode for those seeking the game's toughest challenge.
"We've prided ourselves...
To celebrate the season of video game awards, Humble has put together a special Award Nomination bundle of games where players can get 9 award-nominated games for only $14, regularly $205.
Proceeds of the bundle will go to the charity, Take This, supporting mental health in the gaming community.
The games included in the bundle are:
Bright Memory Infinite: Nominated for Art Direction, Game, and Use of Sound, NAVGTR
A Space for the Unbound: Nominated for Games for Impact, The Game Awards 2023
Cobalt Core: Nominate for Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year, 27th D.I.C.E. Awards
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Nominated for Games for Impact, The Game Awards 2022
Ghostrunner 2: Nominated for Best Action Game, The Game Awards 2023...
As part of our ongoing month-long exclusive coverage of High on Life 2, the upcoming first-person shooter, I sat down with Squanch Games Chief Creative Officer Mikey Spano and Chief Design Officer Erich Meyr to discuss the art of making a comedy game sequel. Is it any easier to pull off than the comedy movie sequel, which doesn't have a great overall track record. All that and more are covered in the interview you can watch in the video above or read in the transcript below.
High on Life 2 will be released on February 13, 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S – including launching on day one into Xbox Game Pass.
IGN: I've got a hundred questions here, not literally 100, but there's a lot I want to ask you guys. And I thought I'd kind...
World of Warcraft's new housing feature has been available for those who pre-purchased the upcoming Midnight expansion for over a week now, which naturally means folks have had plenty of time to get really, really creative with their new library of decor. One of the wildest player discoveries early on was finding a trick that would make houses float in the air, which a number of people have used to make wild flying creations. Better yet, instead of patching it out, Blizzard has surprisingly given its blessing for airborne abodes.
Lofting one's house was discovered almost immediately after the housing feature dropped, with players initially using it simply to raise their homes in the air as a fun gimmick.
Apparently, flying houses...
Anyone looking to add some pizazz to their gaming setup doesn’t have to look far to find ways to do so. One of the best ways is to pick up a special edition controller. And fans of Genshin Impact can now preorder the great-looking PS5 DualSense Wireless Controller – Genshin Impact Limited Edition (see it on Amazon). It costs $84.99 and is set to release on February 25 in the U.S.
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The new controller is coming in part to promote the recent release of Genshin Impact Version Luna III, “which features the new playable character Durin and fresh updates to the story in Nod-Krai.” Click the above link for...
As the wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 goes on, some fans believe developer Bethesda teased its release year in a live-action Skyrim trailer.
Earlier this week, Bethesda shadow-dropped Skyrim on Nintendo Switch 2, and in doing so released a live-action comedy trailer that saw a bad Santa enlist the help of two of his elves.
The trailer, below, shows one of the elves raising their speech level to 27 after suggesting Skyrim launch on Switch 2, with their overall character level progress working towards 20. Why pick 20 and 27 specifically? Because The Elder Scrolls 6 is coming out in 2027, some fans are now saying.
“This honestly might be the best piece of evidence we have for a release date,” one fan said. “Those are very specific...
Kim Kardashian is joining Fortnite, and you'll be able to play as the TV and fashion icon beginning this weekend.
Two Kim Kardashian skins will become available in Fortnite this Saturday, December 13, cementing the star as one of the game's highest-profile public figures to date.
Leaning into the Kardashian's fashionable status, Kim's skins have been designed to be highly customisable. The Iconic Kim Kardashian skin features her in skin-tight attire with alterable colors, necklines and hairstyles. The regular Kim Kardashian skin, meanwhile, comes with a jacket you can toggle on and off.
Accompanying these are a pair of emotes, including one where Kim shakes up a bottle of Slurp juice and uncorks it over her head, catching it in a...
The culprit behind the recent viral but very much fake Shenmue 4 trailer has apologized for creating false AI footage of the franchise's fictional fourth game.
In a post on fan forum ShenmueDojo, the creator, under the alias "JustAFan1," issued an apology for misleading the internet — just days after Shenmue developer Ys Net released its own statement that slammed the video for raising fan hopes and revealed it was now exploring legal action.
In their statement, JustAFan1 explained that they had made the video not "out of malice, but love for Shenmue." Indeed, their statement ends with the suggestion that "all the media attention this has received will do something to convince investors" that Shenmue 4 should be made.
"I just wanted...
Delta Force is kicking off its year-end festivities with a major splash. With the 2025 Delta Force Invitational: Warfare (DFIW) on the horizon and a jam-packed month of limited-time holiday content, players can dive into a slew of events. From pro-level missions to prediction brackets, exclusive cosmetic items, and chaotic game modes, there is a whole lot to explore this holiday season.
2025 Delta Force Invitational: Warfare Event Roadmap
To coincide with the DFIW, which will see the world’s first 20 vs 20 Warfare World Championship, Delta Force is rolling out a roadmap of four interconnected events.
Fans can tune into the 2025 DFIW starting December 11th at 05:00 UTC across X, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok.
1. Pick’em...
Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4, which addresses a number of stability and performance issues, arrives on December 16, Capcom has announced.
As part of this, Capcom has "committed" to improving stability and performance, detailing what changes are coming and when, including CPU/GPU improvements, load reduction, and the optimization of "PC-specific processes and addition of options and presets to reduce processing load."
The commitment comes as Monster Hunter Wilds' impressive sales, especially on PC, were offset by its 'Mixed' Steam reviews at launch. Despite director Yuya Tokuda's commitment to stability and improvements, dissatisfaction persists, and even with new content and seasons, fans remain unhappy with the state of the...
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead is working on a roguelite mode, the studio’s boss has revealed, although there's no guarantee it will actually come out.
Arrowhead CCO and Helldivers 2 creative director, Johan Pilestedt, responded to a fan on social media to say “we have a prototype of a roguelite mode — it changes the game fundamentally!”
That casual reveal has already set fans of the explosive co-op action shooter into overdrive imagining how a roguelite mode would work in the game, which revolves around open and shut missions restricted by time limits.
“Going to be us defending the Evac from endless patrols but the bird never shows up,” suggested one fan. “Wave complete. Choose a booster to add: Reinforcement budget, flexible...
Just a day after Bethesda announced and launched The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Nintendo Switch 2, the publisher has acknowledged the game has performance issues.
In a lengthy thread on reddit that brands the port as a "disaster," there are widespread complaints about input lag and the game's locked 30 frames per second visuals. "There's like a whole second between me flicking the stick and my character moving its head," the post's author wrote, describing the experience as worse than "online Smash Bros."
Many have compared Skyrim's Switch 2 port with that of the far more recent Cyberpunk 2077, which offers 40 frames per second on Nintendo's new hardware while rendering considerably more detailed environments. And there has been...