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From February 21, Pokémon TCG can grab three unique promo cards when they shop for Pokémon goodies. These cards won the Pokémon TCG Illustration contest in 2024, and each interprets the theme of 'Magical Pokémon Moments' in vastly different ways. Up for grabs are a sickeningly cute yawning Pikachu, a vibrant swimming Feraligatr, and a shockingly dynamic Toxtricity EX. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Is this the Pokémon TCG's most underrated set? This exquisite Charizard ex Pokémon card is shockingly cheap right now This Pokémon Pocket deck is crushing tournaments without a single Ex card View the full article

It's a great strategy from Grinding Gear Games, keeping both Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2 alive and fresh at the same time. If you love the original ARPG and don't want to jump ship for the sequel, that's fine. If you want to throw all your weight behind the new PoE, that's fine, too - you can even play both. Originally, Path of Exile 1 was scheduled to go quiet for a while so GGG could focus on PoE 2. But the opposite has happened. Thanks to an emergency, 'experimental' event, Legacy of Phrecia, Path of Exile 1 has just overtaken its younger sibling on Steam. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: As Path of Exile 2 rolls on, PoE 1's lead dev may have left Grinding Gear Games Path of Exile reveals 19 new subclasses for its wild, month-long event Path of Exile's Legacy of Phrecia event changes the ARPG's endgame completely View the full article

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Verified on Steam Deck following the release of PC patch three. The announcement was made on X (formerly Twitter) and it's causing controversy as Deck owners report that performance hasn't improved enough to earn a Verified rating, and I have to agree. Some of the best Steam Deck games don't start out perfect, and in the case of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, all it took was a few performance and optimization patches for verification to be secured. The problem, however, is that the game still doesn't run all that well on the default settings, and while Valve has never disclosed what the performance target is for verification, Spider-Man 2 still barely achieves a stable 30fps, raising questions about why it's been given the green tick for Steam Deck. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Spider-Man 2 patch 1 tackles struggling PC port's biggest woes Spider-Man 2 Steam launch is a new low for Sony as players face performance woes Spider-Man 2 system requirements View the full article

The Fortnite story continues with drama and subterfuge as you join heists, blow up armored vehicles, and make dodgy deals with criminals. Every week the Story quests will help you understand the latest plot unfolding in Fortnite’s complicated lore. Make sure to check in every week to complete all Outlaws Story quests in Fortnite Chapter Six, season two. Table of contentsHow to complete all Outlaws Story quests in FortniteWanted: Skillet questsWanted: Joss questsWanted: Midas questsWanted: Keisha Cross questsWanted: Baron quests How to complete all Outlaws Story quests in Fortnite Fortnite’s Story quests are a fun way to learn about what drama is happening to the island next, and how many more twists there are in the Fortnite lore. This season is all about cracking safes and uncovering secrets. Take on Fletcher Kane, the wolfish crime boss, and come out richer than ever before. Every quest you complete gives you XP, so they are worth exploring if you need help levelling up this season’s Battle Pass. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Epic Games has announced that Fortnite will be crossing over with the hit anime Cowboy Bebop, beginning on February 28. Cowboy Bebop was originally released in Japan in 1998 and aired for 26 episodes before making its way to the United States in 2001. Many fans have been clamoring to see the show's classic characters come to Fortnite for quite some time. View the full article

Everything old is new again, at least if you're a fan of the beige box PCs of yesteryear. If you are, then you'll be pleased to learn that the Silverstone FLP01 PC case is already starting to appear in stores in the U.S. and Japan, ready for your next retro gaming PC build. However, initial stock appears to be limited, at least for the time being. Horizontal, beige PC cases like this Silverstone design haven't been seen in the best gaming PCs for decades, and we're not expecting a huge resurgence with this launch. That said, for gamers of a certain vintage, there's a charm to building a top-spec PC in a case like this one. It throws into the trash the modern aesthetics and RGB found in most of the latest best PC cases, instead opting for a much more traditional design. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Clair Obscur Expedition 33 system requirements demand RTX 3070 to hit 60fps Both Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 and 5060 launches delayed, new rumor suggests AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D gaming CPUs arriving next month, leak suggests View the full article

The addition of The Thing and Human Torch expanded Marvel Rivals’ roster to 37 heroes, but players believe there’s plenty of room for more. Recently, they agreed one of Marvel’s strongest villains should be a part of it soon. On Feb. 20, a player asked whether Dr. Doom would ever be added to Marvel Rivals as a playable character. He’s already in the game as the story’s main villain (or rather two villains), which recruits heroes to fight in six-vs-six skirmishes. Regardless, Marvel Rivals fans agreed that Doom should eventually appear as a playable character. View the full article

The community made and supported OpenRazer driver has a new v3.10 release available now, further expanding Razer hardware capabilities on Linux. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Helldivers 2 studio is seemingly working on a mysterious fresh crossover, and judging by how the latest major order to battle some spooky foes in the space fog looks to be going, players could probably do with extra firepower for their fights in the Gloom. Read more View the full article

George R. R. Martin has issued the strongest tease yet that an Elden Ring movie may come to pass, but has acknowledged a significant blocker to his potential involvement with it. The Game of Thrones creator famously dreamed up the world and history of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring, which went on to become one of the best-selling games of 2022. FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco leaned heavily on Martin’s involvement in promotional material, and the game credits begin by saying the Elden Ring world was created by FromSoftware chief Hidetaki Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin. So, would George R. R. Martin be interested in coming back for a sequel to Elden Ring, if he’s asked? That’s the question IGN put to the man himself as part of IGN Fan Fest 2025. In his response, Martin sidestepped Elden Ring 2, but did drop a big hint that an Elden Ring movie could be in the works. “Well, I can't say too much about it, but there is some talk about making a movie out of Elden Ring,” Martin said. This isn’t the first time he’s teased an Elden Ring movie. And indeed, FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has said he’d be open to an adaptation of Elden Ring, but only if a “very strong partner” were to come into play. “I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example,” explained Miyazaki in an interview with The Guardian. “But I don’t think myself, or FromSoftware, have the knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium.” “So that’s where a very strong partner would come into play,” continued Miyazaki. “We’d have to build a lot of trust and agreement on whatever it is we’re trying to achieve, but there’s interest, for sure.” However, speaking to IGN, George R. R. Martin acknowledged that there may be a significant blocker to any heavy involvement he may have with the Elden Ring movie: he’s still working on The Winds of Winter. “We'll see if that [the Elden Ring movie] comes to pass and what the extent of my involvement was, I don't know,” he said. “I'm a few years behind with my latest book, so that also limits the amount of things that I can do.” Fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels have long, long, long, awaited the planned sixth entry in the series, The Winds of Winter. But after more than a decade of delays, even Martin is acknowledging the possibility that it may never come to be. In December, Martin said: “Unfortunately, I am 13 years late. Every time I say that, I’m [like], ‘How could I be 13 years late?’ I don’t know, it happens a day at a time.” “But that’s still a priority," he continued. "A lot of people are already writing obituaries for me. [They’re saying] ‘Oh, he’ll never be finished.’ Maybe they’re right. I don’t know. I’m alive right now! I seem pretty vital!” It's only the latest in what's been an increasingly bleak wait for The Winds of Winter, with the most recent entry in the series, A Dance With Dragons, publishing in 2011. That's the same year that HBO premiered the insanely popular TV series Game of Thrones, which is based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series and drew a lot more eyes to the world of Westeros. As for Elden Ring, Martin explained his work on the game, telling IGN how he helped FromSoftware on worldbuilding. “... when they came to me, FromSoftware, they wanted the world. They knew the action of Elden Ring that the players would get into would be in the ‘present.’ But something had created that present, had created that world. So where did that world come from? And I've done a lot of world building, most notably on Westeros and the backgrounds of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. And I like doing world building. So what had happened 5,000, 10,000 years before the current day action in Elden Ring that led them to that place? And I had some ideas about the magic and the runes. There was a lot about runes. And I worked it all out. “It was interesting that the team flew in and we had a number of sessions and they would fly back and do their magic, and then they would come back here a couple months later and show me what they had, which was always amazing to see what they came up with.” Was everything Martin wrote used in the game, or is there more material that could be used in future installments? “Yeah, I think especially when you're world building, there's always more that you actually see on the screen,” Martin replied. “And that's true of any of these big epic fantasies. I mean, you look at Tolkien and there are hundreds of pages of past history before you get to even the era of the Hobbit and dozens of kings and wars and things like that.” Photo by Amanda Edwards/WireImage. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 developer Treyarch Studios has confirmed that a new playlist update is set to go live on February 21 that will add Bullet 24/7, allowing fans to play nothing but the new Season 2 Reloaded map. The highly anticipated mid-season update went live for both Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6and Warzone on February 20, adding a plethora of new weapons, maps, modes, and more. View the full article

Despite being slightly overshadowed by its colossal rival Fortnite, PUBG is still alive and healthy. Just a couple of weeks ago the series' latest spinoff finally got a proper name, PUBG: Blindspot. While PUBG: Battlegrounds is obviously the de facto founder of the battle royale genre, Blindspot borrows from titles like Counter-Strike 2, opting for more of a tactical shooter vibe, albeit with an isometric camera as opposed to classic third or first-person shooting. Ahead of Steam Next Fest kicking off next week, you can now download and try out the demo for the game yourself. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: PUBG Blindspot reinvents tactical shooters, combining CS2 and classic Helldivers View the full article

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle just got a major update with some fancy new features, but it seems like it's now broken on Linux with AMD GPUs using Mesa like Steam Deck. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

One of the most exciting things about a new Fortnite season is finding your new favorite weapon. Fortnite Chapter Six, season two has added not only a bunch of great weapons but other exciting new items to help you blow up vaults and vehicles, and generally cause mayhem. Table of contentsAll weapons and items in Fortnite Chapter 6, season 2New weapons in Fortnite Chapter 6, season 2New items in Fortnite Chapter 6, season 2 All weapons and items in Fortnite Chapter 6, season 2 This season’s loadout is going to be one of the most explosive we have seen to date! Fortnite Chapter Six, season two has added new ways to take out the enemy, open vaults and get into armored vehicles. Let’s see what you can get your hands on when you jump into Fortnite Lawless. View the full article

Project Zomboid modder Michael Shtudiner, known among the survival game's community as 'Stendo Clip,' has reportedly died at the age of 26. Shtudiner was one of the co-creators of 'Vanilla Firearms Expansion,' a widely used and beloved mod that adds extra weapons to Project Zomboid. According to a fundraising page published by Shtudiner's family, Shtudiner died on Monday February 17. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The new Project Zomboid update has overhauled crafting, combat, and sandbox mode Project Zomboid is the greatest survival game on PC, and now is the time to play Amazing new Project Zomboid mod makes the survival game feel way more realistic View the full article

A new season has begun in Fortnite with the arrival of Chapter Six, season two, bringing a battle pass to the mix. You will need huge amounts of XP from Weekly Quests to earn all the rewards. Fortnite’s new season, Lawless, brings the criminal underworld to the island alongside the remaining Japanese-inspired locations from season one. Expect plenty of chaos, from storming bank vaults to breaking into armored trains, alongside the standard battle to be the last one standing. View the full article

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Airship library, Innersloth and Schell Games have announced a 3D version of popular social stealth sim Among Us. Or at least, they have taken the existing VR version and made it non-VR. It's a stab in the back for the Meta Questers, perhaps, but it's great news for me, a person who has only ever owned the launch model of the PS4's VR headset, and is currently using its box as a draft excluder. Read more View the full article

The Fortnite Chapter Six, season two battle pass is full of original outfits and cosmetics inspired by this season’s heist theme. Each of the pass’s nine pages is unlocked as you level up, so all you need to do is jump into a game and see if you can come out victorious. Table of contentsFortnite Chapter 6, season 2 battle passPage onePage twoPage threePage fourPage fivePage sixPage sevenPage eightPage ninePage 10Page 11Page 12Page 13Page 14Bonus rewards page oneBonus rewards page twoBonus rewards page threeBonus rewards page fourBonus rewards page fiveBonus rewards page sixBonus rewards page sevenBonus rewards page eightBonus rewards page nine Fortnite Chapter 6, season 2 battle pass Don’t forget to enable auto-claim so that each reward is unlocked automatically as you level up. To help you grind that all-important XP, check out some of our favorite Creative mode maps perfect for helping you level up before the season ends. View the full article

Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 is officially live as Epic Games releases a brand new patch update filled with new content, bug fixes, and gameplay improvements. The latest Fortniteupdate can be downloaded and installed right now on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PC, and supported mobile devices, with a whole host of heist-related content for players to check out. View the full article

There's now been another sick trick added to the combo of stuff which seems to be hinting at a new gaming-related Tony Hawk thing being in the works. A teaser that looks very much to be for something potentially Pro Skatery has popped up in one of ****** Ops 6's maps, and it's even caught the attention of a certain Mr Anthony Birdman. Read more View the full article

Things have been a little quiet in the realm of Diablo 4 of late. Blizzard continued releasing updates after the launch of Season of Witchcraft, but they mostly revolved around fixing bugs - some of which were introduced with the new season. Read more View the full article

With the release of Destiny 2 Episode Heresy, players noticed that Exotic class glaives—Edge of Concurrence, Edge of Action, and Edge of Intent—as well as class-specific swords, are available across all classes. What started out as a bug has now transformed into a permanent in-game feature. In the weekly This Week in Destiny blog post on Feb. 20, Bungie announced that it will “let this ride,” allowing you to equip previously class-specific weapons on other classes in Destiny 2. This includes class-based swords and Exotic glaives. From now on, Hunters can run around with the Edge of Action, spawning small bubbles, Titans can run like ninjas, and everything in between. View the full article

GTA Online has been going strong for over a decade, cementing its reputation as one of the most popular pieces of media in the entertainment industry. While GTA Online and its single-player mode have received immense praise from players and critics, the game has suffered from its share of bugs and errors. Some of these errors can be solved easily, but others may take time and require you to experiment with many fixes to get your game running again. If you’re experiencing the “Failed to host a GTA Online session” error, read on to find some fixes. View the full article

Hades 2 developer Supergiant Games says it has no plans to replace any of its voice cast, after one actor said they were concerned strike action may affect their role. Marin M Miller, who voiced such Hades characters as Athena, Tisiphone and Alecto, posted a message on Bluesky saying there was a chance they may be replaced in the sequel because of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, which started last July after the actors union it had failed to negotiate acceptable protections around the use of AI for its members. “It’s possible you may hear me get recast in a particular game that is very popular,” Miller wrote. “If I am, it was not because I stepped away from the character willingly. It’s because the employer refused to flip to an interim.” Read More... View the full article

Cardy, Matt, and Mat are back for some February Friday fun and frolicking as a range of delights are explored, including first impressions of the multiplayer spin-off Elden Ring Nightreign. There's also time for a look at awards contender The Brutalist, new Adult Swin animation Common Side Effects, and visual novel dice-roller Citizen Sleeper 2. Remember to send us your thoughts about all the new games, TV shows, and films you're enjoying or looking forward to: [email protected]. IGN *** Podcast 788: Singing in the Nightreign IGN *** Podcast 787: Are We Wowed by Avowed?IGN *** Podcast 786: A History of ViolenceIGN *** Podcast 785: Our Xbox Games Series Tier ListsIGN *** Podcast 784: Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, I Want You in My RoomIGN *** Podcast 783: The Switch 2 is Finally a Real Thing View the full article