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Riot Games and Epic Games have officially confirmed that Fortnite's fan favorite Arcane skins will be returning to the popular battle royale's Item Shop on November 29, giving players a chance to purchase the cosmetics for the first time in 1,393 days. Fortnite is currently preparing to release its major Zero Hour live event, which will bring back a wide variety of collaborations to celebrate the finale of Chapter 6. View the full article

Amazon has dropped its new LEGO deals for ****** Friday, which includes the intricately-designed 2,651-piece Pac-Man Arcade set, currently down to $188.99 (30% off), its lowest price ever according to camelcamelcamel. If you've had your eye on other sets, make sure to check out other retailers like Target or go directly LEGO to see its specific ****** Friday deals. LEGO Icons Pac-Man Arcade On ***** For ****** Friday Licensed LEGO gaming builds are plentiful these days, and the more than 12-inch high, 10-inch wide Pac-Man Arcade set is one of the most detailed and impressive we've ever assembled, and filled with a ton of Easter eggs. By turning the crank on the side, the Pac-Man and Ghosts on the screen will actually move, and the figures on top will rotate. It even has a light-up coin slot – an awesome detail that recreates that old-school arcade feel. More LEGO ****** Friday Deals at Amazon Amazon's LEGO ****** Friday ***** also has a few other great licensed sets, like the Star Wars Battle Droid buildable figure and the Disney Cruella De Vil car. And there's a tidy 30% discount on a LEGO build of NASA's Mars Perseverence rover. LEGO Sets Retiring Soon That Are On ***** Amazon also is also discounting a handful of LEGO sets that are retiring soon, so now's the perfect time to get in on those. I may finally pull the trigger on the LEGO Star Wars Droideka, myself. Follow IGN's ****** Friday Coverage The IGN Deals team has over 30 years of combined experience finding the best discounts and preorders available online. If you want the latest updates from our trusted team, here’s how to follow our coverage: Sign up for our IGN Deals NewsletterSet IGN as a preferred source in GoogleFollow us on social mediaIGN Deals on XIGN Deals on InstagramIGN Deals on FacebookIGN Deals on Tiktok[/url] Myles Obenza is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social. View the full article

Warframe's next major update, The Old Peace, is a doozy. When it releases on Wednesday, December 10, it'll be the first time Warframe players get a firsthand look at the Tau system that's been mythologized by more than a decade of in-game storytelling, witnessed as their characters relive induced war flashbacks from a forgotten, failed ceasefire in the interstellar conflict that defined Warframe's past, present, and future... Read more.View the full article

It's that time of the year again, and the Pokémon Trading Card Game secret rare leaks are back in full force. Hype over the upcoming release of Pokémon TCG's "MEGA Dream ex" set has reached an all-time high with its official Japanese launch today. View the full article

One of ARC Raiders' standout qualities is its sense of immersion, which it builds through a variety of elements including its visuals, atmosphere, and audio design. Throughout its development, however, Embark Studios ensured it wouldn't only be passively immersive but that players would also experience active immersion through its gameplay. One of the primary ways it achieved this was by building into ARC Raiders a physics-based system of visual feedback that would eliminate the need for a traditional UI and therefore more fully immerse players in the world. View the full article

Technically, Megabonk dropped out of TGA, but there are plenty of other awards to winView the full article

Red Dead Redemption has become the most iconic western franchise in video game history, with two incredible games that are now considered the genre's benchmark. Though nothing has officially been announced for the next Red Dead Redemption game, players feel it's only a matter of time before we see RDR3. View the full article

"We're excited to reintroduce Sharpe," Ari Gibson saysView the full article

Hollow Knight: Silksongis a dizzyingly expansive game, but by the sounds of it, developer Team Cherry isn't done yet. After spending seven years on Silksong's development, it's hard to imagine what could still be left for the game. While there are no concrete details yet, a new interview offers a tantalizing tease. View the full article

Valve has recently made a few moves delisting games for various reasons, which has, once again, sparked accusations of censorship. However, a peep at the Steam storefront reveals a different picture, one completely incompatible with Valve's recent decisions. Valve has always been a rather liberal company when it comes to what it allows to be hosted on its store. Just taking a look at what's new and trending on Steam is proof enough. There, you can find both serious titles, indie outputs, various attempts at greatness, but also borderline ************, hentai games alongside stuff featuring full, uncensored nudity and sex as core "gameplay" mechanics. As I'm writing this, I have the tab open, and the likes of Fetish Locator: S&M Studio or Girls, I just want to get paid! are there, in plain view of anyone old enough to use the platform. Opening their respective store pages does prompt you to select your age (which you're more than likely to answer untruthfully), and voila: you're given complete, unrestricted access to very mature content and "games." The stuff I've described here is so openly pornographic that I can't share it here, so use your imagination. Image via Steam And these aren't the only examples. There is a literal "franchise" of games called Sex With Hitler, with several installments all readily available on Valve's storefront, with not a single modicum of censorship to be found, even if most European countries would, I wager, take offense at these titles and their content (and especially their name). So, one could gather that Valve is by no means a restrictive company, nor that Steam is prone to censorship and "artistic" limitations. But that appears to be far from the truth. Recently, Valve has blocked an indie arthouse horror game called Horses, where players on a farm ride naked human horses. It's much deeper and more disturbing than that (which is by no means a bad thing), but that's about the gist of it. And Valve seems not to have liked that concept one bit. One scene supposedly involves a child riding a naked "horse" woman, which Valve took offense at. It blocked the game from appearing on Steam. Per PC Gamer, this decision was made all the way back in 2023, when Valve told the developers that it does not allow "content that appears, in our judgment, to depict ******* conduct involving a minor." The developers claimed the scene in question, which may have triggered Valve's response, had "since been changed," and that it wasn't even "*******" in nature to begin with, but Steam remains by its stance and will not ship the game. Valve's own judgment here seems to be the only thing that matters, which, in my opinion, does not always result in the most accurate assessment of any given game. Horses' art style is captivating, even if grim and dark. Image via Santa Ragione Sure, Horses is rather disturbing, but that is not grounds for removal. A lot of games, movies, books, and so on, great ones in fact, deal with disturbing, uncomfortable, and borderline disgusting themes and subjects. Dealing with these topics must be done, and art is probably our only means of doing so. The fact that games I've mentioned above (alongside countless others, especially the hentai ones that sometimes have rather dubious characters whose age is indeterminate) are allowed to sell thousands of copies and rake in a ton of cash, providing little more than pornographic gratification, feels wrong to me. At least it does because games, whose subject matter is grim and disturbing, are banned, even if they're trying to artistically (and critically) approach their content. Whereas earlier we had Valve banning games when pressured by payment processors (which does constitute actual censorship), this time around it's Valve itself making value judgments. And that'd be fine, if it weren't for games that are far and beyond more "harmful" flooding the platform day in and day out. One of them literally lets you own a ************ studio, i.e., to be part of an industry that has hurt and ruined too many lives to count. How does that, on any moral compass, point in the right direction? It gives the sense that Steam is a dice roll: you can publish almost anything, but if a review board gets wind of it, anything can also happen. You can get published, get rejected, get censored, because your artistic vision could be taken the wrong way. And that just doesn't sit right with me. The post Valve’s storefront policies are so random I can’t wrap my head around them appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Hollow Knight: Silksong launched on September 4, 2025, but Team Cherry is far from finished with it. In a new interview with Bloomberg, co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen offered a look into the game's future, disclosing details on how Silksong's post-launch updates will continue and hinting at larger expansions that could resemble some of the first game's biggest additions. View the full article

The Honkai: Star Rail 3.8 is inbound soon, and the special presentation will likely reveal all the details about the patch, including the new playable character Dahlia, the rerun banners, and the story updates that will be introduced. Version 3.8 is expected to be the final content update this year, before the arrival of Version 4.0 and the Astral Express’s journey to a new destination, which may serve as a stage for the introduction of a new Himeko form in Honkai: Star Rail. View the full article

Such "hype" results in titles that "tend to live on for longer"View the full article

I didn't know Captain Wayne – Vacation Desperation existed before this week, but I'm already rethinking my top games of 2025View the full article

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Steam's ever-expanding storefront is arguably the most competitive place in the gaming industry, with an endless deluge of interesting games all competing for attention. Picking up a following of any kind is an achievement, and plenty of interesting titles never make it to the big leagues. Rising to the very top, meanwhile, is nearly impossible, but something has to. View the full article

****** Friday has officially arrived, which means deals on just about everything you can imagine — including games and gaming hardware. Every virtual storefront, from game marketplaces like Steam and the PlayStation Store to retail sites like Amazon, has something in store for the gamer in your life this holiday season. View the full article

Saber Interactive has an early holiday treat for us, courtesy of a first proper look at the Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 Techmarine. The new class is scheduled to arrive early in 2026, further bolstering the roster of one of the best Warhammer 40k games on the market. As the highly trained technicians of the Space Marines, they're an ideal option if you like to supplement your own battle proficiency with tools and support weapons. They also sit at the perfect intersection of all my years spent playing Engineer in TF2 and my affinity for the Adeptus Mechanicus. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2's Reclamation update finally gives Chaos the respect it deserves The biggest Warhammer 40k game ever just got a free demo, and it's 55% off if you like what you see Space Marine 2 developer already knows you'll hate the new Blood Angels skin View the full article

Hollow Knight: Silksong developer Team Cherry has confirmed it’s working on DLC — but it doesn’t know when it will come out. In an interview with Bloomberg, Team Cherry co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen said that while the developers do not plan to take “an excessive amount of time” building this new content for Silksong, “we still are pursuing the same development philosophy, which sometimes can expand our timeframe.” It took seven years for Silksong to come out, so who knows when this mystery DLC will be released? But Team Cherry did tease it will feature the Steel Assassin, a character shown in a prior trailer but who has yet to show up in Silksong itself. Here’s the relevant exchange with Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier: Do you want to do a mix of smaller updates like Lifeblood, or are you thinking ******* stuff like Godmaster and Grimm Troupe? Is there a cadence you have in mind? Gibson: In simple terms yes, we’d be thinking about different things arriving at different scales. That might mean larger things like Godmaster. Certainly, we’ve noticed that people would like an expansion in that way, being able to enter pantheon spaces and refight bosses. And there is already a huge number of them. Pellen: We were talking about the next project in general. We’re not thinking about the size. We just started making new stuff and working on bits and pieces. We’re still in this world, thinking about stuff to present to people. Gibson: It is interesting working out how you expand an already huge game, to make sure you don’t completely overwhelm new players, because obviously new players will be experiencing the new stuff, very naturally integrated. It’ll just seem like the base experience. Some of that might mean finding ways to hide away the access, because otherwise potentially by the end of the our expansions and developments it would just be gargantuan. Silksong remains one of the most-played games on Steam following its huge September 4 release. Here are some essential guides for your journey upwards: the Silksong Interactive Map, how to grind for Rosary Beads, our ever-expanding Walkthrough with boss videos and guides, how to get your first life bar upgrade (first four mask shards), and a great guide to the Simple Keys and the doors they open. If you're hunting for the best offers this week, we're actively rounding up the strongest ****** Friday deals on video games, tech, and more. You can find all our top picks and price drops in our full ****** Friday hub, or check out our relevant pages for PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox deals. Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

The worst part is nobody's going to crack it open to get that Founder's Pack codeView the full article

You can pre-order Santa Ragione's next game on the storefrontView the full article

Action flight sim G-Rebels will get day one PC VR support in early access, and it's launching early next year. Developed by Reakktor Studios and published by Senatis, G-Rebels is a spiritual successor to 1997's PS1 combat flight sim G-Police by Psygnosis. Originally announced last year as a flatscreen game, the studio exclusively revealed to UploadVR that it's receiving official PC VR support straight away with its upcoming early access launch. Set in the year 2684, this dystopian open-world combat game takes place across floating megacities covering 12,000 square kilometers, as these cities compete for natural resources. You play as an elite unit in the most powerful city-state, helping to ensure law and order before a secret mission leaves you questioning your loyalties. In early access, G-Rebels promises 10 main missions that range between collecting bounties, police chases, handling new contractors, and races, also featuring combat missions, outpost battles, mining, and more. Multiple regions will be available to explore and you can customize your ship, while Reakktor Studios also promises dynamic weather and a day-night cycle. VR mode has a full cockpit view and first-person flight controls, and PC VR support will get further optimizations across early access. A content disclosure also confirms “some of the intercom dialogs are using AI generated/modified voice overs.” The studio also mentions “experimental support” for HOTAS (hands-on throttle-and-stick) and HOSAS (hands-on stick and stick) controllers. G-Rebels is coming to Steam Early Access in early 2026. View the full article

It's obvious why Palworld's publishing arm has so many small gamesView the full article

After being cancelled by Riot Games and revived as an indie game again, Hytale is now set for an Early Access launch in January 2026. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Call of Duty: ****** Ops 7 developer Treyarch Studios has responded to a recent report that claimed the latest entry in the series could still be prioritizing player skill over connection in its matchmaking system, despite the studio switching to an open matchmaking model during its beta test earlier this year. With Call of Duty: ****** Ops 7players convinced the shooter has a stronger skill-based matchmaking system than Treyarch states, a trusted YouTuber ran tests to verify these claims. After posting the results online, the studio has responded by explaining why things may feel different now that the game is fully released. View the full article