It’s only a matter of time before the Nintendo Switch’s successor is finally revealed, but it seems like the official announcement is actually close. And the console’s release date may not be much later, either. There has been a deluge of Switch 2 rumors and speculation for several weeks now, including peripheral-makers showing off controllers and JoyCons for the unannounced Switch successor at CES this week. But the latest one is a rumor that comes from a source that’s gotten to two substantial announcements ahead of time recently. View the full article
Path of Exile 2 players grew increasingly desperate while developer Grinding Gear Games was away for the holidays, even resorting to apocryphal rites in hopes of summoning patches to address their early access woes. But for YouTuber Slipperyjim8, the interregnum provided just enough time to descend into a 16-day spite-fueled mania of data collection and monster killing to prove whether or not PoE 2's item rarity stat does, in fact, produce more loot... Read more.View the full article
Powering up skills in Path of Exile 2 is a crucial step towards endgame character builds, and to do this, you will need access to plenty of Greater Jeweller's Orbs. Path of Exile 2's skills are arguably one of the biggest changes from its predecessor, taking away lots of the limitations and replacing them with player freedom. The new Support Gem system has helped greatly in increasing skill power. View the full article
Full-motion video games, also known as FMVs, were popularized in the 1990s with games like Phantasmagoria and Night Trap. Instead of using renderings or computer-generated visuals, FMVs featured pre-recorded videos for cutscenes and character animations. This allowed developers of the time to create the most immersive experience they could, especially on PC, given the limitations of the era. View the full article
With the release of Season 1: Eternal Night Falls, Marvel Rivals has reached a new all-time concurrent player high on Steam. When Dracula traps Doctor Strange and takes over New York City, it's up to the Fantastic Four to lead the charge against the vampire and his evil army. In the hero shooter's newest season, players can step into the shoes of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman in the fight against Dracula. According to the developers, players can expect to see Human Torch and The Thing join Marvel Rivals' roster in a large mid-season update. View the full article
The popular and well-reviewed ****** Myth: Wukong game is on ***** at Amazon. Right now you can get it a physical PlayStation 5 copy for $56.99, a 13% off discount from its original $65 price. ****** Myth: Wukong was one of the few recently released games that didn't see any discount during ****** Friday. At this price, it's also less expensive than getting the digital only edition at the PlayStation Store. ****** Myth: Wukong (PS5) for $56.99 ****** Myth: Wukong was released on August 17 of 2024 and was an immediate success. This game from Game Science is built on Unreal Engine 5 and is easily one of the best looking PlayStation 5 games. The grand, sweeping story is inspired by the Monkey King lore with a main campaign that takes about 35 hours to complete according to howlongtobeat. It boasts punishingly difficult Souls-like gameplay (I personally found it harder than Elden Ring) and epic boss battles. It didn't make it into our list of best PS5 games of 2024, but only because it was too new (had to be out for 6 months or longer). ****** Myth Wukong review by Mitchell Saltzman "As GameScience’s debut action game, ****** Myth: Wukong is mostly a great success, despite some major technical ****** marks and localization issues that are likely to cause some frustrations at launch. Combat is fantastic thanks to a great balance of careful resource management and lightning-fast, twitch-reaction gameplay that tested my skills as much as Elden Ring ever has, despite being a more traditional action game than FromSoftware’s style. Not only that, but there are a ton of exciting boss battles, a great variety of enemies, and the world they inhabit is an absolute treat for the eyes and ears. Its story has its moments but relies a bit too much on having prior knowledge of the events of Journey to the West, and it really could have used a map to make its rewarding exploration measure up to the strength of its combat. That said, its strengths more than carry it through, making ****** Myth: Wukong a great action game that could be even greater if GameScience can squash the bugs." [/url] For more big tech news for this month, check out our CES 2025 hub for all of the latest updates. Why Should You Trust IGN's Deals Team? IGN's deals team has a combined 30+ years of experience finding the best discounts in gaming, tech, and just about every other category. We don't try to trick our readers into buying things they don't need at prices that aren't worth buying something at. Our ultimate goal is to surface the best possible deals from brands we trust and our editorial team has personal experience with. You can check out our deals standards here for more information on our process, or keep up with the latest deals we find on IGN's Deals account on Twitter. [/url] Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time. View the full article
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Square Enix has something of a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for the Final Fantasy 14 community in regards to mods. The use of third-party plugins is outlawed and against the MMO's terms of service, but modders still continue to create them for FF14 and their use is fairly well known. Now PlayerScope, a troubling new mod that was made public recently, is causing panic among the community and is being dubbed "a stalker's wet dream." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Returning FF14 players can get almost 100 hours of free game time right now The best anime games on PC 2025 FF14 composer Soken debuts a surprising new song, and it features a series icon View the full article
The next update to Zenless Zone Zero adds two new characters and a handful of limited-time events, alongside new features, events, reruns for Qingyi and Ellen, and new cosmetic skins. View the full article
The International Data Corporation said the PC market experienced modest growth in 2024, with hundreds of millions of systems shipped to distribution channels and end customers. Echoing predictions made by other analysts, the Blackstone-owned market research firm confirmed that 2025 is shaping up to be a turbulent year for the technology sector. Read Entire Article View the full article
Enad Global 7 has announced that 38 employees at its Piranha Games studio will be laid off after the most recent game in its Mechwarrior series, Mechwarrior 5: Clans, "performed below expectations." Separately, the company also announced that Toadman, whose most recent release is the 2024 shooter EvilVEvil, is being closed entirely... Read more.View the full article
Marvel Rivals has been doing so unbelievably well and has been bombarding players with so much new content already that the launch of its actual first season seems almost irrelevant. Of course, there's a lot to be excited about with Marvel Rivals Season 1 - The Fantastic Four are here, there's a new map, and there's a fresh battle pass to grind. However, there is one very big change brought about in the Season 1 update that's going to make a lot of you pretty sad - mods have been completely wiped out. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 26 best Marvel Rivals skins Marvel Rivals Season 1 release date and new content Marvel Rivals events - all current and upcoming events View the full article
Baldur's Gate 3 has six companions who can also be played as the main character, as well as two custom origins. One custom origin is a completely blank slate, whilst the other - The Dark Urge, is mostly customizable with some fixed links to the overarching story. The majority of players will be inclined to choose a custom origin, but they're really missing out by never giving the pre-made origin characters a chance. View the full article
Following its release late last year, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is reportedly enjoying some major success in terms of sales, recently breaking over 200,000 sales as fans flock to revisit the classic action game. Despite releasing to some technical issues and accusations of censorship, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is proving to be a hit, with sales numbers showing a clear demand for the game. View the full article
The latest Marvel Rivals update has reportedly eliminated the ability to utilize custom-made mods. Adding in bespoke character skins has been a popular activity among many Marvel Rivals fans since its launch, but with the release of Season 1, using these mods no longer appears possible. View the full article
New gameplay details have emerged by way of a new trailer for the first-person survival game from Rebellion Developments, Atomfall. Rebellion is known for its long-running Sniper Elite franchise, which really took off with 2012's Sniper Elite V2. Atomfall's status as a full-on survival game is somewhat new territory for Rebellion, which has mostly made third-person action games and a few real-time-strategy titles. View the full article
Marvel Rivals may have only launched last month, but after its giant debut player count exploded we didn’t know just ... Read more View the full article
First reported by IGN, it appears that Marvel Rivals' season one update has disabled mods in the game. Until now, there was actually a surprisingly lively scene of modders creating skins and other cosmetic additions for the NetEase hero shooter... Read more.View the full article
Season 1 of Marvel Rivals will see multiple balance adjustments being made to different characters, applying buffs to some and nerfs to others. This patch is meant to keep gameplay intricate without one hero or villain becoming too strong or too weak. As new strategies and team compositions are formed, more patches may come in the future, but Season 1 is the first time changes have been applied since launch. View the full article
Square Enix announced that the automatic housing demolition timers on all four Final Fantasy 14 North American data centers were paused one day after restarting. The company stated that the temporary moratorium on housing demolition in Final Fantasy 14 was due to the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires, and said it would monitor the situation before picking a time to restart it. View the full article
After seven years, the developer of The Outer Worlds, Grounded, and Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian Entertainment, is returning to the world of Eora, last seen in 2018’s Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. The studio's newest game, a fantasy RPG titled Avowed, comes with high expectations after it was first announced in 2020 and more recently delayed by a couple of months into 2025. Fantasy is currently a hot genre in gaming, with fantasy RPGs specifically winning Game of the Year with Elden Ring in 2022 and Baldur’s Gate 3 in 2023 at The Game Awards. View the full article
After showcasing his high placement on the Diablo 4 leaderboards last year, the world’s wealthiest man has moved on to greener pastures and is flexing his skills in arguably the best ARPG of all time, Path of Exile 2. However, recent streams cast doubt on his prowess and high-level hardcore ladder placements. As first reported by PC Gamer on Jan. 10, Elon Musk has previously shown himself playing what is supposedly one of his hardcore characters in PoE 2, standing at level 95 as of Jan. 7. For the uninitiated, hardcore mode in PoE 2 and other ARPGs is one containing permadeath—if your character dies, they die for good. Getting far with a hardcore character is an impressive feat of its own, but having one at level 95 requires such immense skill that only the rare few succeed. View the full article
Want to know how you can check to see if a game is compatible with Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck? Here's all you need to know in one handy guide. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Sid Meier's Civilization 7 is going to be packed with a ton of new changes and fresh gameplay mechanics that will give players an entirely different Civ experience than they've had in the past, and one change provides a new way to play shorter games. The new Ages system divides each campaign up into just three major stages: the Antiquity Age, Exploration Age, and Modern Age. Each Age has distinct Legacy Paths for four separate familiar categories: Military, Economic, Science, and Culture. View the full article
The Night of the Rabbit wasn't the only classic Daedalic Entertainment adventure game to add Linux / Steam Deck support as another, The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, also got the same treatment along with various upgrades. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
mere year after Team Fortress 2 players set a new record for a single hat trade, with an absurdly rare Crone's Dome going for approximately $18,000 worth of keys, those crazy cats are at it again. "Good start to 2025" says Team Fortress 2 player and hat aficionado Vytal."Biggest trade in TF2 history.".. Read more.View the full article
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It’s only a matter of time before the Nintendo Switch’s successor is finally revealed, but it seems like the official announcement is actually close. And the console’s release date may not be much later, either. There has been a deluge of Switch 2 rumors and speculation for several weeks now, including peripheral-makers showing off controllers and JoyCons for the unannounced Switch successor at CES this week. But the latest one is a rumor that comes from a source that’s gotten to two substantial announcements ahead of time recently. View the full article