Hunt: Showdown developer Crytek has announced the end of support for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game as it readies the release of a significant free next-gen upgrade. Hunt: Showdown is a tense multiplayer first-person shooter in which players work to survive with and against each other as they hunt mythical monsters before reaching an extraction point. Crytek is treating August 15 as a “significant relaunch” of Hunt: Showdown, which launched first on Steam in Early Access form in February before a release on Xbox in 2019. The full release followed later in 2019, before a launch on PS4 in 2020. The free PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S update goes live on August 15, and brings with it a new map, an upgrade to CryEngine version 5.11, performance improvements for the PC and console versions, as well as a new UI/UX design. After the update goes live on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S, you will no longer be able to play Hunt on the last generation of consoles, Crytek warned. Crytek said player accounts, entitlements, and all DLCs carry forward to the new version for free “when you’re ready to make the hardware transition.” Crytek said it will reveal details in the months leading up to the next-gen update. Here's what to expect from the developer: Community surveys, lessons learned, and how this data will affect future eventsA sneak peek into the new UX/UI designTechnological upgrades and performance improvements coming to Hunt via CRYENGINE 5.11 and what that means for playersAn update on the Fair Play Task Force and the steps being taken to address cheating, exploitive play, and toxic interactionsThe evolution of Hunter recruitment/ Prestige systems, as well as changes being made to the progression systemOverall design vision for game mechanics and the decisions being made around Hunter revival, Health Chunks, restorations, burning downed Hunters, and more Crytek is also working on first-person shooter sequel Crysis 4, announced in 2022 but without a release window. 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
The System Shock remake from Nightdive Studios was originally funded on Kickstarter, and after delays it was eventually released on May 30th, 2023 but two platforms have been missing - Linux and macOS. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
If you forgot a new Street Fighter movie was happening, don't worry, me too, but the film's logo is here to remind us it exists. Last year, Legendary Entertainment gave the honestly not that surprising announcement that a Street Fighter movie was in the works. Video game movies are all the rage these days, after all, and the same production company also made Detective Pikachu and found a lot of success there, so why not a franchise like Street Fighter? We still haven't actually seen anything of the movie itself, nor has any talent been attached to it just yet, but thanks to Collider there is a small update on the project: we now know what the film's logo will look like. And as you can see below, it… well, it looks like a Street Fighter logo! Not necessarily from any one particular game, more just a distillation of all of them (except for Street Fighter 6's very boring one), but it's certainly easily recognisable. While we might not know who will star as classic characters like Ryu or Chun Li, we do at least know who'll be directing. It was announced shortly after the film was revealed to be in the works that *********** twin filmmaker duo Danny and Michael Philippou will be helming the film as directors. The brothers are probably now best known for their directorial debut, the 2022 supernatural horror film Talk To Me, which ended up doing very well at the box office compared to its small budget of $4.5 million. Prior to that, the two found a lot of success with their YouTube channel RackaRacka, which uh, we won't discuss the quality of. Read more View the full article
We just got a new Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree story trailer yesterday. As is their druthers, FromSoft have at once made the events it depicts feel of earth-shattering importance while providing basically no concrete information. A lot of people will be putting out gargantuan theory posts right now, rambling on about Miquella, the Crucible, the Golden Order blah blah. This is all a distraction. Anyone with eyes can tell you that the primary movers and shakers of this final chapter in the Lands Between are a secret faction of hitherto secret spear people. You're likely confused, and that's understandable. As the foremost authority on ephemeral nonsense in Elden Ring, I’m the only one who has your back here. Read more View the full article
The new monetisation and Battle Pass structure for MultiVersus has been revealed ahead of the game’s return next week. In a new blog post detailing the changes in full, developer Player First Games explained that returning players will earn new in-game rewards. Any one who played the game during its Open Beta ******* (between July 2022 and its closure in June 2023) will receive the Premium Battle Pass for free for Season 1, which includes the Jason Voorhees character, if they log into the game before June 11. Read More... View the full article
League of Legends has over 160 champions, but not all of them see action on Summoner’s Rift. One champ released in 2023 is suffering a terrible fate, recording a worryingly low pick rate in Patch 14.10. Upon seeing Naafiri’s pick rate in Patch 14.10, players concluded in a May 21 post on League‘s subreddit that her design completely missed the mark. Currently, Naafiri is the second least-picked champion in League, right behind Ziggs. Even though it’s completely normal for a champion’s pick rate to fall drastically after release, Naafiri’s popularity plummeted far more than normal. View the full article
Kickstarter, the popular platform for crowdfunding all sorts of things including video games and board games, is expanding with some new tools. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Ok, so it's been less than 24 hours since CD Projekt let folks get their hands on The Witcher 3's new REDkit modding tools. Naturally, someone's already had a go at porting the bunch of areas that make up the city of Vizima in The first Witcher game into 3. If you're out of the loop, REDKIT is designed to give folks modding CDPR's masterpiece more power than ever before, with access to a lot of the same tools the studio orginally used to create the game itself. That includes the ability to do stuff like create new quests, or as is key in this case, add in entire new territories. So, the latter's exactly what modder AngryCatster's tried with some of the maps from the first Witcher game, porting them across into TW3 just to see how things look. While they admit that this is "fairly low-effort attempt" at bringing these areas to the newer game, what they've ended up with is essentially an empty version of Vizima that Geralt can explore. Read more View the full article
It's not only game publishers that have been consolidating their power buying up lots of developers and other publishers, it's also happening in gaming media with IGN buying up the Gamer Network. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
VALORANT is getting a map pool update soon, but it doesn’t address one of the community’s most popular requests: Rotate out Ascent. As annoying as the devs choosing to ignore the player base sounds, Riot Games says it had actually considered the plea—but “decided against it” for the time being. Under a Reddit post calling out Riot for not taking out Ascent this time, altrombe, product manager at VALORANT, confirmed the map will go out at some point—just not now. “It’s not a permanent fixture in our rotation structure,” they said. View the full article
Destiny 2 is only two weeks away from the release of its biggest expansion, The Final Shape. With the new expansion, some content added with the Into the Light update is leaving for good, including shiny BRAVE ******* rolls. Luckily, with the Destiny 2 weekly reset on May 21, Bungie increased drop rates for BRAVE weapons and Trophies of Bravery. More BRAVE weapons and Trophies mean more chances of getting a shiny variant of a BRAVE *******, so now is the best time ever to jump back into Onslaught and farm them. View the full article
Genshin Impact has revealed several quality-of-life changes that will be available in version 4.7. In every version, Genshin Impact usually adds small quality-of-life changes to improve the overall experience without altering core mechanics. These improvements are aimed toward both newcomers and veterans, making it easier to perform specific actions, such as upgrading artifacts, creating custom loadouts, and claiming expedition rewards. View the full article
Genshin Impact has officially confirmed the release date and time for the upcoming 4.7 Special Program. HoYoverse always hosts a livestream event approximately 10 days before an update arrives, revealing most of the upcoming content like new regions, quest lines, and characters. View the full article
The X-Men have been teased in the MCU for a little while now, but it's sounding like a film of their own is finally in the works. In films like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and series like Ms. Marvel, the MCU has slowly been sowing the seeds of the X-Men, with the former having an alternate universe of Patrick Stewart's Charles Xavier slightly unceremoniously ******* off, and the latter retconning Ms. Marvel to be a mutant as opposed to an Inhuman. Now, as reported by Deadline, it sounds like Marvel is getting its **** in gear with the X-Men. According to Deadline's report, Michael Lesslie, the original writer behind the *********'s Creed movie, as well as last year's The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, is currently in negotiations to write the screenplay for an X-Men film. Deadline also writes that the film is still in early development, with no talent or director currently attached, and no release date currently planned. You probably also won't be surprised to hear that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is attached to produce, but then when isn't he? Both Marvel and Disney have recently found success in the nostalgic throwback/ comeback series X-Men '97, which is set to get a second season, though Marvel's streaming boss would like you to remember that animation takes quite a while, so don't expect it any time soon. Read more View the full article
You can never tell which games will take off on Steam, and Banana is a great example. It has a simple premise—repeatedly click a banana to raise your score—and somehow, it has over 16,000 players on Steam. Banana is free, which is a big pull, and offers DLC banana skins to shake things up a bit. But there isn’t any interesting gameplay here, and there isn’t a secret waiting for you after you click enough times. You’re simply clicking a banana to make your score go up, and that’s all there is to it. View the full article
XQC defended fellow streamer Adin Ross for a homophobic rant against a viewer, claiming his response was “justified.” Ross’ fellow Kick streamer TrainwrecksTV got into a heater argument with a viewer who accused him of promoting gambling to susceptible people, with Ross then jumping into the debate with comments that have been heavily criticized. View the full article
What are the XDefiant system requirements? Ubisoft's competitive shooter is finally here, and you're not going to need an expensive new gaming PC to start playing. Ubisoft has provided four detailed tiers of system requirements for XDefiant, giving us a look at what you'll need inside your gaming PC depending on what resolution you're aiming for. Even though there's no mention of the best graphics card that money can buy, you'll still need some powerful hardware to achieve 4K gameplay. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Meta Quest 3 lite specs have leaked, and they're not good Save a massive 23% on an AMD Ryzen 7800X3D in this CPU deal This Hellblade 2 driver is essential for Nvidia GPUs View the full article
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Over the years, many talented players have competed in FPS games. But when a discussion about who’s the greatest FPS player in history emerged, the community agreed on one renowned individual. On May 21, players rallied on X to discuss the “best FPS gamer to ever touch a mouse.” Those who participated mentioned how difficult it is to choose just one, and many commenters listed several names. Among the replies, one name that was mentioned by almost everyone was the former CS:GO and VALORANT pro, shroud. View the full article
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered's physical release will be getting a Standard and Collector's Edition. While Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered was released on multiple platforms in February 2024, it has only been available for purchase via digital stores. The collection was a semi-faithful recreation of the original games, albeit with some minor quality-of-life changes, as well as a fresh coat of graphical paint. As such, some collectors and ****-hard fans wished for the existence of a physical copy to own. View the full article
The Dota 2 community has been waiting for the MOBA’s next update with bated breath, and on the eve of its launch, Valve has treated fans with a small preview of what’s to come—as long as they could work together. Well, they did, and the results are shocking. As part of the second chapter of Crownfall, The Deserts of Druud, Valve is also bringing a multitude of changes to Dota in the now-confirmed May 22 update later today. Players who had completed chapter one were allowed a glimpse at an ancient tablet spoiling a few of the upcoming patch notes similar to the Frostivus patch—each player held a candle to the tablet in a specific spot, and by combining every player’s candlelit tablet, text was formed containing a few of the changes. View the full article
Valve’s in-development hero shooter Deadlock has had gameplay footage leaked today with many of the rumored features and characters, including the much-discussed monorail-like transport system, revealed for the first time. The clip, posted by insider PlayerIGN on X (formerly Twitter) on May 22, shows a small preview of Deadlock in its current early alpha. The player is seen using a zipline that runs around the ceiling of the map, which looks to be a fantasy-steampunk-like version of New York. The footage was recorded in a “Hero Training” mode without ****** players or AI bots. View the full article
Get ready for boss rage: Akuma is now playable in Street Fighter 6. Along with the new character, Capcom has also launched a fresh limited-time mode that turns the debutant fighter into a raid boss in the Battle Hub. From May 22, players can enter the Street Fighter 6 Battle Hub on any platform and will be greeted by a new look—highlighted by a giant, hologram Akuma on the center platform. This is part of the new Giant ******* event, which will have players working together for a limited time online to take on a special boss version of Akuma together. View the full article
Valve’s rumored hero shooter Deadlock ******** shrouded in mystery ever since it was first leaked to the world last week, but further digging has revealed what could be a crucial piece of information—the game’s entire character roster. A full list of every character in Deadlock was reportedly sent to online coverage site Insider Gaming, with its May 21 report delving into the list and other gameplay mechanics. There are 19 characters in total, including a “gargoyle-******-like character” named Abrams, a monkey-and-pig duo named Mo and Krill, and Grey Talon, a Native ********* hero we saw as part of the Gabe Follower leaks on May 17. View the full article
Helldivers 2 community manager Thomas Petersson announced that the developers will make changes to the release of patches to maintain the quality standard of the game. Since its launch in February 2024, Helldivers 2 has seen significant success, becoming Sonys fastest-selling PlayStation game ever. The co-op shooter has enjoyed a steady stream of updates and content releases aimed at keeping the player base engaged. View the full article
Relic Entertainment has officially gone independent. Relic Entertainment, developer of games like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, Company of Heroes, and Age of Empires 4, has been around for nearly 30 years. The studio was quickly recognized as a bearer of quality in 2006, when IGN awarded Relic as the year's best developer, receiving high praise for its takes on the real-time strategy genre. View the full article
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Hunt: Showdown developer Crytek has announced the end of support for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game as it readies the release of a significant free next-gen upgrade. Hunt: Showdown is a tense multiplayer first-person shooter in which players work to survive with and against each other as they hunt mythical monsters before reaching an extraction point. Crytek is treating August 15 as a “significant relaunch” of Hunt: Showdown, which launched first on Steam in Early Access form in February before a release on Xbox in 2019. The full release followed later in 2019, before a launch on PS4 in 2020. The free PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S update goes live on August 15, and brings with it a new map, an upgrade to CryEngine version 5.11, performance improvements for the PC and console versions, as well as a new UI/UX design. After the update goes live on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S, you will no longer be able to play Hunt on the last generation of consoles, Crytek warned. Crytek said player accounts, entitlements, and all DLCs carry forward to the new version for free “when you’re ready to make the hardware transition.” Crytek said it will reveal details in the months leading up to the next-gen update. Here's what to expect from the developer: Community surveys, lessons learned, and how this data will affect future eventsA sneak peek into the new UX/UI designTechnological upgrades and performance improvements coming to Hunt via CRYENGINE 5.11 and what that means for playersAn update on the Fair Play Task Force and the steps being taken to address cheating, exploitive play, and toxic interactionsThe evolution of Hunter recruitment/ Prestige systems, as well as changes being made to the progression systemOverall design vision for game mechanics and the decisions being made around Hunter revival, Health Chunks, restorations, burning downed Hunters, and more Crytek is also working on first-person shooter sequel Crysis 4, announced in 2022 but without a release window. 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