The latest episode of VGC: The Video Game Podcast is available now. This week, Jordan, Chris, and Andy are all together for a year-end special. They chat about the biggest news of the week, and Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, VGC’s Game of the Year. An extended version of this podcast is available on [Hidden Content] Read More... View the full article
Marathon is losing a key developer, as art director Joseph Cross appears to have parted ways with Bungie. After a rocky year filled with controversy, Marathon is back in the spotlight, as Bungie has revealed a new release date and confirmed a price, but Cross won't be with the team when the game launches in early 2026. View the full article
The future of PC gaming looks a little bleak right now, as chipmaker Micron has claimed the RAM crisis could last beyond 2026. Rising game and hardware costs have been a consistent theme throughout 2025, but for the most part, most of these price hikes have hit consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. More recently, though, PC gaming has taken numerous blows as AI-driven demand has led to skyrocketing RAM prices. View the full article
NIS America has released multiple The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon demos for PS5, PS4, Switch, and Steam but not Switch 2 yet. View the full article
Call of Duty: ****** Ops 7 launched last month to become the best-selling game of November in the U.S. by dollar sales. That's a pretty good showing, right? If you're still looking to pick up the new game, it's down to $35 at Best Buy for one day only, and around $40 at most other retailers right now. That's up to 50% off the game, only a month after release, on PS5, PS4, and Xbox consoles. So what's up, and why is one of the best-selling games of the year already so heavily discounted? Well, it doesn't take a genius to realise that ****** Ops 7 doesn't seem to be doing as well as last year's ****** Ops 6. That's reflected in everything from the critical review scores to fan response to European sales figures, and even Activision's own admissions. Normally, the newest Call of Duty topping the yearly charts is basically a given. This year, though, the surprise is that Battlefield 6 looks set to claim the top spot in the US instead. That is not entirely unprecedented. In 2023, Hogwarts Legacy outsold Modern Warfare 3, and it managed that without MW3 launching into Game Pass. Still, Call of Duty bounced straight back in 2024, and before that only Rockstar heavyweights like GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 had managed to knock it off the annual top spot, stretching all the way back to Rock Band in 2008. Viewed in that context, it is hardly shocking that Activision is reportedly rethinking how it plans and releases Call of Duty year to year, or that it is already leaning on aggressive discounts not long after one of its biggest games hit shelves. Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's resident deals expert on games, collectibles, trading card games, and more. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter/X or Bluesky. View the full article
Few things are better than free Steamgames, especially when they come with no strings attached. With the dawn of the Steam Winter *****, a few titles have gone 100% off, including Rat Quest and Toy Tinker Simulator. The standout, however, is a multiplayer hit that's been drawing in players since 2013. View the full article
The Epic Games Store free game for December 19 is Eternights. Epic Games Store is in the midst of its annual free mystery game promotion. Every December, EGS users are treated to daily free games as a countdown to the new year. The latest Epic Games Store free mystery game started off with a bang, and it's kept its momentum going strong. View the full article
The Grand Theft Auto 6 delays in 2025 were both a huge shock to players, dashing many fans' dreams of the game even hitting its new release date in November 2026. For now, it appears Rockstar is still on track to hit the updated launch date, and the year-long wait (at least) is likely going to be filled with loads of speculation about potential delays beyond 2026. View the full article
Zenless Zone Zero’s latest Special Program has delivered the good news on Version 2.5, To Be Fuel for the Night. This chapter is a big deal for a few reasons, not least of which because it brings an end to Season 2. Read more View the full article
Battlefield's Bad Company spin-offs were probably the last time I properly got into a Battlefield game. But given a choice between a tongue-in-cheek shooter that sold worse than the main series and a surer bet like more mainline Battlefields, unsurprisingly EA keeps going for the latter... Read more.View the full article
The Locked Gate event has returned to ARC Raiders as part of the Cold Snap update, and you can get some fantastic rewards by gaining access to the secret room. To gain access, you'll have to find four Security Code keys that are spread all over the Blue Gate map. Finding the keys will be your main task since the rest of the steps are pretty straightforward. If you're confused about how to find them, this guide will make your life easier. How to find all Locked Gate Security Codes in ARC Raiders There are four Locked Gate Security Codes to find. The four keys, along with the Locked Gate room, are all situated in the Blue Gate map. You can find the Security Code keys in any order of your liking. You don't need to find them all on the same raid, either, given that you manage to return with them (or place them in a Safe Pocket). Screenshot and remix by Destructoid The screenshot above has the locations of all four Security Code keys. The Ancient Fort location has a lot of containers, and the code key will be in any one of them.Raider's Refuge is an easier area to search as the containers are fewer in number.The same also applies to Reinforced Reception.Pilgrim's Peak has plenty of searchable containers. While the Security Code keys are all available in containers, finding them will be dependent on your luck. What you'll want to do is to patiently go through every container that you can find at the locations. If you're lucky, you could find the key from the very first container. If you go through all the containers, it's impossible to miss the Security Code keys. Once you have all four, head to the Checkpoint POI, and you'll come across a room requiring all four keys. Enter them to unlock the room and loot everything that you can find inside. We have a detailed guide on how to open the room and what to expect. As always, be careful of other players who might try to ambush and steal your loot. The post All ARC Raiders Locked Gate Security Code key locations appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
Bruce Straley says, "they're making football fields and draining water supplies to try to replicate something that a human can already do"View the full article
Merry Christmas, Manor Lords players - a huge new update has just arrived, packed with fixes, improvements, new content, and more options for building and growing your ultimate medieval city. If you've been snooping around Manor Lords' beta branch for the last couple of months, you'll have potentially seen or even tested some of today's new additions already. But this colossal update brings everything together and drops it into the main build of the game, giving one of the best strategy games a welcome refresh. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Manor Lords update leaves players "seriously impressed" as beloved city builder drops to lowest-ever price on Steam Medieval city-building sim Manor Lords has a solution for better communication, and its next update is "very close" Manor Lords releases first update in nine months as Steam reviews turn sour View the full article
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will launch with four factions: Space Marines; Orks; Astra Militarum; and the Aeldari. But based on comments from developer Creative Assembly, it will eventually come to include pretty much every faction in the setting, added over the course of years. Creative Assembly announced Total War: Warhammer 40,000 at The Game Awards with a flashy trailer that combined CG and in-engine gameplay, showing off the scale of the hotly anticipated strategy game. We saw the Space Marines faction fighting against the Orks in a classic boots on the ground matchup, before the camera pulled back to reveal the galactic strategy layer you’ll be able to manage campaigns on. But the *****-owned developer, which is based in Horsham in the ***, has a grand plan to add many more factions to Total War: Warhammer 40,000 as part of a vision that may take a decade to realize. In a year-ending thank you post to the developer’s fans, Roger Collum, VP of Total War, said Creative Assembly’s goal is to create “the ultimate game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe,” one that will see “all your favorites from the setting eventually coexist with a vast galactic sandbox.” “Some of you have already pointed out that this is what the next 10 years looks like for CA,” Collum continued. “It’s going to take quite a bit of time to get everything in the massive 40k catalogue that deserves a place in the galaxy.” That’s an exciting proposition of fans of Warhammer 40,000, which is packed with factions to choose from. Some of the more high-profile factions currently not announced to be in Total War: Warhammer 40,000 include the Necrons, the Tyranids, the Adeptus Mechanicus (tech-priests of Mars), and Chaos Space Marines (come on Death Guard!). But there are many more on top of those to consider, such as the Tau, Genestealer Cults, the Drukhari (Dark Eldar), and Adepta Sororitas (Sisters of Battle). The list goes on. Total War: Warhammer 40,000 doesn’t yet have a release date, so putting a year on when these factions may turn up in-game is impossible. But it sounds like Creative Assembly is here for the long run, as it has been with its Total War: Warhammer games, which began in 2016 and is still seeing updates for Total War: Warhammer 3. It stands to reason that Creative Assembly will look to employ a similar model for Total War: Warhammer 40,000, which means fans can reasonably expect most of the setting’s factions to get some time in the sun, perhaps via the release of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 2 and 3 (that’s a lot of numbers, though!). There are few Total War: Warhammer 40,000 details that have emerged in the wake of the game’s announcement worth pointing out here. In a follow-up developer roundtable video, Creative Assembly confirmed you’ll be able to blow up a planet in the game, although described this as a last resort. In-universe, this is called Exterminatus, and can only be done with the go-ahead from the highest authorities within the Imperium of Man. Sometimes, there really isn’t any other option in the grim darkness of the far future. And the level of faction customization really does look impressive. Clearly, this isn’t a game about forcing players down the Ultramarines route, or any other Space Marine chapter for that matter. The hope is you’ll be able to not only realize that faction you’ve always dreamt about in aesthetic terms, but gameplay terms. 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 amount of amazing RPGs to release over the past year is a bit overwhelming, with the meteoric success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Obsidian's Avowed, the highly slept-on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and plenty others. It's easy to lose track of what's coming next in the genre as well considering numerous anticipated 2026 releases. View the full article
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Warhorse Studios had a guiding light while making its historical sequelView the full article