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The cutthroat competition, politics, and warfare in Frank Herbert's Dune novels are a natural fit for strategy games, and Northgard developers Shiro Games are looking to capitalize on that with their upcoming RTS/4X, Dune: Spice Wars. Releasing into early access next year, Spice Wars will have...

For years Remedy has been developing games on a proprietary game engine called Northlight. And Remedy creative director Sam Lake says that Alan Wake 2 will set a new bar for Remedy in terms of visual quality.“Alan Wake 2 will, by far, be the best-looking, most beautiful Remedy game ever,”...

At the opening of The Game Awards this evening, host Geoff Keighley kicked off the show by calling attention to the ongoing problems of abuse and harassment in the games industry."We gotta be real, and we can't ignore the headlines that are out there," he said. "Game creators need to be...

Amazon Web Services [AWS] has been suffering outages for much of the day, impacting many of the most popular multiplayer games.League of Legends, Valorant, and PUBG are some of the games impacted by the downtime today. New World's US East server is currently down. The issues are preventing...

Ubisoft has announced its first foray into the world of blockchain technology and NFTs. Called Ubisoft Quartz, it will offer limited-edition cosmetic items for Ubisoft games that can then be re-sold on third-party marketplaces for cryptocurrency. It will launch in beta on December 9, starting...

Fancy a drive through beautiful Mexico? Or how about a haunted European adventure? A pair of familiar heroes make their long-awaited return, and a couple of perfectly-planned assassinations were just some of the best games in 2021.Every year we look back and pick our favorite games of the...

What do you get when you cross WarioWare with skeletons? Spookware, obviously.But Spookware is more than just a WarioWare reskin. It’s a set of clever, film-themed micro games framed by a clever storytelling device of three skeleton bros who decide to leave their basement movie cave and go on...

On this week's episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Mark Medina and Jada Griffin to answer one very important question - what are the PS5's best games so far?In Podcast Beyond's episode 727, the trio comes up with their completely unofficial, and not...

PlayStation has announced the PS Plus lineup for December 2021, and the games included are Mortal Shell and LEGO DC Super-Villains for PS4, as well as Godfall for players on PS4 and PS5. The games will be available from next Tuesday, December 7, until Monday, January 3.Godfall was one of the...

Rockstar has delayed the physical release for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.As shared by the studio on Twitter (below), Rockstar has announced that is delaying the physical release for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy to multiple...

Valve has confirmed that it has no interest in publishing games that are exclusive to the Steam Deck.As confirmed on an FAQ page covering questions asked by developers and publishers at the company's Steamworks Steam Deck event, Valve has said that it isn't interested in developers creating...

Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers. To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on the subject.This year's regularly scheduled Call of Duty entry — Call of Duty: Vanguard —...

This one’s for the Xbox fans. Whether you’re rocking an Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One, you have an avalanche of deals to sort through. One way to do that is to visit our best Black Friday Xbox deals page. But if you don’t have time for all that and you just want to see the cream of the crop deals...

It’s difficult to find games that can be fun for the whole family. Board games can often lead to threats of violence. Quiz games might seem like an option until your quiet cousin spoils all the fun with their hidden trivia knowledge. And similarly, choosing the elusive crowd-pleasing video games...

If you grew up in the haze of Planet Hollywood and 00s MTV, there’s a chance you may have spent some time with the original Xbox. Microsoft’s first gaming console, it’s a monolithic beast that isn’t all that well-remembered compared to some of its peers, but still delivered some of the most...

NEO: The World Ends With You failed to meet sales expectations, according to Square Enix's latest financial briefing, The sequel to the breakout 2007 Nintendo DS game, The World Ends with You, it contributed to Square Enix's overall lower game sales this year than in the same period last year...

Epic Games has announced that it has acquired rhythm game maker Harmonix, best known for titles like Rock Band and Dance Central.In a press release, Epic announced that as it continues work on building the metaverse, it has enlisted Harmonix to “reimagine how music is experienced, created...

A rough launch for Battlefield 2042 has seen it become one of the worst-reviewed games on Steam in a little over a week. News of the game's poorly-received start to life comes despite it also being one of the platform's most-played titles since its launch.According to data published by Steam...

One of the most highly anticipated exclusive titles for Xbox One and PC was Scalebound, which unceremoniously got canceled in January 2017. Platinum Games director Hideki Kamiya is now apologizing for the game's development.In a new interview with the YouTube channel, Cutscenes, Kamiya shed...

Rockstar Games has announced that it will be taking steps to improve the quality of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition starting with the first Title Update which will be released in the coming days.In a new blog post, Rockstar says that "The updated versions of these...