new announcement on The Witcher 3's Steam page made me think "oh that's nice" before my fingers suddenly started aching, the sky grew dark, and this wizened form crumbled into dust o'er the keyboard. As of May this year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the finest PC action-RPGs there is, will be a decade old... Read more.View the full article
Assassin's Creed Shadows, like most games in its franchise, comes down to the details. Set in Japan's Sengoku *******, the upcoming title is taking the typical broad strokes of the Assassin's Creed franchise and layering on a generous dose of new systems. While some of its ideas are big — dual protagonists that lean heavily into different playstyles are an obvious selling point — others shake up the series in subtler ways. View the full article
Ever since the enormous success of Hogwarts Legacy in early 2023, there haven't been many other reasons to celebrate at Warner Bros. Games. While Mortal Kombat 1 has done alright and offers some gorgeous, gory fighting game action, the company has had to face the disappointing relaunch of Multiversus and, most notoriously, the complete flop that was Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League. Now, WB Games' top dog, president David Haddad, is on the way out. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League confirms Season 4 will be its last Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League's $100 edition is $5, but be fast Suicide Squad Season 2 saw just 600 players show up to the party View the full article
Bay 12 Games and Kitfox Games have announced today that Adventure Mode for Dwarf Fortress is now officially out for everyone. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
The enchanting world of Disney Lorcana continues to surprise and delight us, with plenty of expansions arriving since launch to add more cards for your binders. Recent set Ursula's Return, arguably one of the best so far, unsurprisingly sees the comeback of the Sea Witch herself - and if you've yet to grab some of its Enchanted cards, this Ursula's Return booster box at a major discount is a bewitching offer. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best card games 2025 King's Cup rules for the drinking card game The best drinking card games 2024 View the full article
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The outfits feature has officially arrived in Wuthering Waves which means you can now unlock new looks for your favorite characters. One of the first ones you can add to your collection is a free skin for Sanhua. This outfit is free to commemorate the launch of the new feature, but it won’t always be which means you need to act fast if you want to ensure you’re able to earn it. Luckily, the process for claiming it is fairly straightforward once you know about it, so here’s how to get the free Sanhua skin in Wuthering Waves. View the full article
A new video game review aggregator CriticDB is set to launch on January 30. The new site’s stated goal is to connect users with diverse outlets without weighting mainstream sources, giving independent outlets a chance to thrive and share their thoughts with the wider gaming community. CriticDB describes its mission statement on the site’s new […] Source View the full article
Elden Ring: Nightreign’s network test is a few short weeks away, but there is some bad news to deliver to some of you out there. From Software confirmed today that the network test for the Elden Ring spinoff will take place from Feb. 14 to Feb. 17, meaning anyone who has some romantic plans for Valentine’s Day weekend will have to either cancel them or miss out on the co-op Soulslike adventure before it releases later this year. View the full article
The arrival of a new Assassin's Creed might be one of the most routinely expected events in the gaming sphere, but when it comes to Assassin's Creed Shadows, things feel a little different. Even when it was only known by the project title Codename Red, the announcement of an Assassin's Creed set in Japan fulfilled a request that's been around for as long as the series has. As the game has inched closer to release, however, it's come to bear a greater weight, with delays and changing launch plans highlighting how important it is for Ubisoft to land a hit. View the full article
Longdue Games Studio has officially announced Hopetown, its spiritual successor to the hit RPG Disco Elysium. Developed by ZA/UM Studios and released in 2019, Disco Elysium was widely praised for its groundbreaking twist on the detective RPG genre, featuring innovative, thought-provoking mechanics and an irresistibly engaging story. After it took home four Game Awards and a BAFTA, all eyes were on Disco Elysium's creators as rumors of a sequel-successor reached a fever pitch. But conflicts at ZA/UM instead led to legal struggles and multiple different splinter studios. One of those, Longdue, has just announced its first game. View the full article
Last year, a bunch of studios that revealed themselves to be developing not quite Disco Elysium successors, and soon we learned that they'd all brushed shoulders with each other in a bunch of ways - some of which were controversial or bizarre - prior to making those announcements. Read more View the full article
Where were you on October 11th last year? If you were Edwin, Brendy, or myself - which, statistically, you are not - you were writing news articles about one of three aspirant spiritual successors to detective RPG Disco Elysium. It was an "I'm Spartacus"-**** day of press releases, culminating in the announcement of a project from former ZA/UM writers Argo Tuulik and Olga Moskvina. Before that came sci-fi RPG XXX Nightshift, and before that was an unnamed "psychogeographic RPG" from newly formed Longdue. We now know that it's called Hopetown, and Longdue are set to launch a crowdfunding campaign which you can "pre-register" for here, should you wish. Here's the sell: Read more View the full article
Disco Elysium is a flashpoint in adventure games that will be talked about for years while to come. Bold and unapologetic, it carved its way into the videogaming psyche with a distinctive blend of RPG, mystery, and adventure game that's simply overflowing with dialogue choices and character development possibilities. In the wake of a studio fallout at developer ZA/UM, numerous spiritual successors have sprung up, several with ties to the original. Now, one of those, Hopetown, has a new crowdfunding pre-launch campaign. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
If you only read social media over the past few months, you would think that Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 was an unmitigated disaster. But as far as selling copies goes, it took the crown. BO6 was the best-selling premium game in the United States for all of 2024, despite the fact that it only released at the end of October, according to Circana’s Mat Piscatella. This means that CoD’s streak of being the best-selling game in the US as far as dollar sales go continued for an unprecedented 16th straight year. View the full article
The Epic Games Store free game for Thursday, January 30 is Undying. Epic Games Store users have been able to claim a variety of free games in 2025 already, with new titles added every Thursday at 10:00am CT. View the full article
Dishonored 2—one of the best immersive sims ever made—did not sell as well as a game of its pedigree or impressiveness really deserved. And if it wasn't for the reputation of the series, which offered it a "seal-of-quality protection", and Arkane's history of arguably making Bethesda's "most refined games", the studio might not be around today... Read more.View the full article
Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 was the best-selling game of 2024, according to a new report from Circana. While many in the gaming sphere won't be too shocked to hear that Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 was the top seller last year, some titles appearing in the top 20 are a tad more surprising. View the full article
Few games place me so betwixt the yin and yang of frustration and flow state as Snow Riders. Here is a compact selection of ski slopes, each one yodeling the promise of my smooth and exhilarating descent over fresh powder. But wait, someone has littered this Ski Sunday with obstacles, forcing me to run a gauntlet of trees, rocks and rivers. I am thrust headlong into each of these obstacles a dozen times before my withered synapses and tired bones internalise these arboreal teachings and I make it safely to the bottom. As in life, there is joy to be found in this journey precisely because it is hard. Unlike in life, the camera is often facing backwards while you do it. Read more View the full article
Warner Bros. Games boss David Haddad is set to leave the company, according to a new report. Variety said Haddad will leave his role as president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment after 12 years of leading Warner Bros. Games. The company has had a troubled 12 months, first with the catastrophic release of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, then the disappointing release of Smash Bros.-style brawler MultiVersus. Warner Bros. Discovery has said Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s failure contributed to a $200 million hit to its business, and MultiVersus added another $100 million on top. Warner Bros. Games' only new game release during the third quarter of 2024 was Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, which failed to make an impression. Speaking in a financial call, Warner Bros. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav said: "We recognise [the games business] is substantially underperforming its potential right now.” Since then, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League post-launch content has come to an end with the delivery of its year one roadmap. Warner Bros. has yet to announce Rocksteady’s next game, but it is reportedly helping out on a director’s cut of Hogwarts Legacy. The legendary British studio has suffered a number of layoffs in recent months. There are also question marks over Mortal Kombat 1’s financial performance, although NetherRealm chief Ed Boon recently announced over five million sales and teased future DLC following the release of the T-1000 Terminator guest character. During the same financial call, Zaslav said Warner Bros. was doubling down on four games: Hogwarts Legacy (a sequel is already in the works), Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and DC, "in particular Batman." Warner Bros. recently published VR game Batman: Arkham Shadow exclusively on the Meta Quest 3, and has a Wonder Woman game in the works at Monolith Productions. "We are focusing our development efforts on those core franchises, with proven studios to improve our success ratio," Zaslav added. According to Variety, Haddad will stay on with Warner Bros. discovery for the next three months as the company looks for his replacement during an apparent quieter release schedule. 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
An imaginative Marvel Rivals player recently shared their idea of what the classic X-Men anti-hero Emma Frost would look like in the game. Marvel Rivals already has a packed roster of heroes and villains from across the Marvel universe, with many of them being tied to the X-Men franchise. Major team members Wolverine, Storm, and Psylocke are among Marvel Rivals’ 35-player line-up, as is their on-again-off-again nemesis/mentor Magneto. View the full article
Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 was the best-selling video game in the US last year, marking the series’ 16th successive annual number 1. According to new data published by Circana for December 2024 and the entire year, ****** Ops 6 was the best-selling game in the US in terms of dollar sales. As such, according to Circana, “Call of Duty remains the best-selling video game franchise in US full game dollar sales for a record 16th consecutive year”. Read More... View the full article
With the usual level of high quality, some really fantastic artwork, and several very valuable chase cards, Pokémon Prismatic Evolutions is almost perfect - except for the fact that you can't get it at a good price. It's the latest target for collectors and scalpers alike, causing boxes to sell for huge costs on the likes of eBay - but if you're eager to collect the Eeveelutions regardless of language, perhaps you should opt for the Japanese version Terastal Festival instead, as it's just announced imminent reprints! Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: McDonald's has a sneaky Pokémon Pocket promotion you didn't know about 15 cutest Pokémon of all time All official Pokémon TCG formats explained for 2025 View the full article
Diablo 4 just started the Season of Witchcraft on January 21, and it has brought some changes to the game’s six classes. Five of the game’s classes - Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue, and Sorcerer - are available in the base version of Diablo 4. The DLC expansion, Vessel of Hatred, introduced the powerful Spiritborn class which, in its original form, blew all other classes out of the water in terms of damage. Since it was introduced in Season 6, this new season is the first time changes are being made to the class. View the full article
Dwarf Fortress's Adventure mode - a procedurally generated campaign that lets you approach the famously dense colony sim like a more traditional roguelite - is now out as a free update on Steam. The game represents perhaps the most cavernous, yawping blind spot in my entire pile of shame. I do own it, but I'm yet to play. I've already read a great deal of extended wordery on its merits - please, sell it to me in the comments in seven words or less. Here's a trailer: Read more View the full article
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Valve has released a new client update for Steam, adding a highly requested quality-of-life improvement to the platform's download and install UI. Prior to the January 22 Steam update, the interface shown to users when downloading an update for a game combined the download and install progress bars, making it incredibly confusing for users. These two bars have now been separated, allowing users to see exactly what stage the download is at. View the full article
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new announcement on The Witcher 3's Steam page made me think "oh that's nice" before my fingers suddenly started aching, the sky grew dark, and this wizened form crumbled into dust o'er the keyboard. As of May this year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the finest PC action-RPGs there is, will be a decade old... Read more.View the full article