Are you the kind of person who, playing DayZ, thought that maybe it was a little too easy? Maybe you just want a change of scenery. That's where this zombie MMO's new expansion, Badlands, comes in. Dropping next year, it'll transport you to an all-desert region, where heat stroke and dehydration are just as likely to kill you as the undead. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best DayZ servers 2025 Legendary survival game DayZ hits new highs following second expansion launch After 11 years, DayZ is suddenly harder and more brutal than ever before View the full article
Bohemia Interactive has officially revealed DayZ’s upcoming expansion: DayZ: Badlands. The expansion will bring a whole new region to DayZ in 2026, and will also add new challenges that will keep the experience fresh for longtime players. View the full article
Riot Games are going to let their top League Of Legends and Valorant esports teams receive sponsorship from gambling companies, in a bid to snaffle up some of the billion dollar unofficial sports betting scene that surrounds both games. Read more View the full article
For a little while now, a group of Baldur's Gate 3 modders have been working on adding a custom adventure to the RPG that'll see you travel to Minthara's hometown via some locations you'll remember from previous Baldur’s Gate games. It's called Path to Menzoberranzan, and its devs have now gotten thir first build working, with demo-related news seemingly just around the corner. I interviewed Lotrich and Tomobamba, the mod's project lead and lead writer, about their creation earlier this year, around the time they'd set their sights on releasing a demo in mid 2025, with a full release to follow at some point down the line depending on how that went. Since then they've been hard at work building and fleshing out the likes of custom locations, bosses, and a whole cast of new companions. Read more View the full article
Capcom has just released new information about Sagat, the towering Muay Thai master who will be Street Fighter 6’s next DLC combatant. Since its initial launch back in June 2023, Street Fighter 6has been expanding its roster with a mix of returning World Warriors and special guest characters, with the most recent DLC addition being the Capoeira battler Elena earlier this month. View the full article
Itching to ditch the big city and take on farm life instead? A virtual opportunity awaits you in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, which is now available to preorder if you're a Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 owner (see here at Amazon). There's a Standard Edition and Premium Edition of the game available for each console that are all set to release on August 27 this year. Alongside the game and its various preorder prices, the Premium Edition also comes with some extra goodies, which we've broken down below. Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Premium Edition Premium EditionSwitch 2 - $79.99 Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop | Target | Walmart Switch - $69.99 Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop | Target | Walmart For only $20 more than the Standard Edition, you can pick up the Premium Edition of Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, which comes with quite a few bonus items for fans to enjoy. These include an original soundtrack CD, an art book with over 100 pages to look through, a cloth poster, and a sheep pocket plush toy that are all stored in an adorable outer box alongside the game itself. Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar - Standard Edition Standard EditionSwitch 2 - $59.99 Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop | Target | Walmart Switch - $49.99 Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop | Target | Walmart The standard edition only comes with the game itself, but that's all you really need, isn't it? What Is Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar? Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is a remake of Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar. It's set in Zephyr Town, which is home to a bazaar that's seen better days. You turn up as a brand new resident who's tasked with breathing new life into the town's once-famous bazaar. As a farmer, you'll grow and harvest a variety of crops, then sell them at the weekly bazaar from your own customizable stall. Per the Story of Seasons website, it also features a "rich story, enhanced with voice acting for the first time in the series." More Preorder Guides Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN. View the full article
Elden Ring Nightreign is filled with excellent loot for Nightfarers to wield, on your expedition to take down the Nightlords. But how excellent can it get? Well, one player who found a rare weapon and decided to find out has gone viral for building their blade up into the ultimate Nightlord-slaying machine — only to see it also then ultimately tumble back down to nothing. All of this centers on Japanese YouTuber mintius (via Automaton Media), who acquired the Marais Executioner Sword, a weapon that raises attack power upon defeating enemies — but usually only by a certain amount. Given that Nightreign usually has time limits, thanks to its encroaching storm, this sword's power wouldn't normally have the chance to snowball too far out of control, despite being a strong weapon. But Mintius managed to get the right combination of enemy and encounter spawns to scale it as far as it can go, and then even further. Per Automaton's translation, Mintius hunted mobs in the Wormface encounter for "about an hour" with the Marais Executioner Sword, to see what would happen. Their attack power hit a damage cap at 9,999 after defeating 725 enemies, with the last damage value he saw as 63,375. After defeating the 727th enemy, though, Mintius was "suddenly unable to deal any damage at all," and got killed. 「マレー家の執行剣」で1時間ほどミミズ顔の雑魚を狩り続けて検証 727体の敵を撃破して攻撃力は9999で余裕のカンスト 最後にステータスから確認したマレー家の執行剣の表示攻撃力は63375 725体目を撃破したところで、突如として全ての敵へ一切ダメージを与えられない状態になり死亡した [Hidden Content] — 負けミン mintius (@amabamamabam1) June 24, 2025 The going theory is that Mintius hit an "overflow," and suddenly went from hitting the damage ceiling to scraping the damage floor. Much like the internet tall-tale about Gandhi in Civilization, hitting the upper-limit may have caused Mintius to wrap back around to the lower. Mintius is apparently going to continue testing the Marais Executioner Sword, to see what kind of limits and bounds exist on it, as well as the incredible damage potential behind it. They apparently want to try doing a plunging attack on a Flame Chariot, just to see what kind of damage numbers it can put up. It will probably get wild. For the average Elden Ring Nightreign player, maybe take this as a sign to not get too greedy in farming up that Marais Executioner Sword when you find it. Or at least, don't spend an hour doing so. It certainly seems like a good weapon, but it looks like there's some hubris to be found in trying to take it to its highest heights. We’ve got plenty of Nightreign tips and tricks to help you take down all the eight Nightlord Bosses, and if you’re wondering how to unlock the two locked Nightfarer Classes, check out How to Unlock the Revenant and How to Unlock the Duchess, plus How to Change Characters. Eric is a freelance writer for IGN. View the full article
Last night in a showcase livestream, Capcom provided details about the next Monster Hunter Wilds title update, arriving next week. The update features reprise appearances from fan-favorite monsters, new cosmetic additions, balance updates, and purported performance improvements that could make or break Wilds' ability to win back player sentiment that's recently taken a sharp downturn... Read more.View the full article
Sloclap has come to players, hat in hand, a grim expression on its face, and stated that—despite trying as hard as it could—it could not keep dolphin-flopping or levitating football players in its game. Alright, maybe I'm being overdramatic here—but I do find it funny that in the latest hotfix for Rematch, the studio's gone to great lengths to explain its reasoning behind patching up some very obvious exploits... Read more.View the full article
If you're a die-hard Silent Hill fan and looking for something to keep you busy until the new installment comes out, Visage is one of the best games for you to add to your must-play list. If you've been following the franchise's evolution, you're likely familiar with the canceled Silent Hills project, which was released as a demo version called P.T. and subsequently canceled due to a falling out between Hideo Kojima and Konami Digital Entertainment. Developed by SadSquare Studio, Visage is an independently created project directly inspired by P.T. that has attracted a strong reception of its own. View the full article
Alongside the likes of Rust, Valheim, and Subnautica, Ark has established itself as one of the biggest players in the survival game space. Ark Survival Evolved is now ten years old, and still boasts healthy player counts to this day. The same can be said for its Unreal Engine 5 remaster, Ark Survival Ascended, which is busy enhancing ASE's vast library of content expansions and creating original ones in the process. An ambitious sequel, Ark 2, is also in the works. There's even a star-studded Ark animated series. While that all sounds remarkably positive, it's safe to say that there have been trying times too. In an exclusive interview with PCGamesN, two of the co-founders of Studio Wildcard - Jesse Rapczak and Jeremey Stieglitz - reflect on the last decade of Ark, the reasons why swathes of players are yet to shift over to Survival Ascended, and their favorite Ark expansion of the last ten years. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ark Survival Ascended forces AMD Radeon gaming GPUs to use FSR frame gen Ark Survival Ascended gets a performance boost and a big map expansion The 14 best Ark Survival Ascended mods View the full article
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess will add the “Yashichi Waves” Mazo Talisman to remix select tracks from the game’s music into 8-bit versions as an anniversary present for all players. View the full article
Dead by Daylight has gone from strength to strength, bucking the ongoing trend of live-service games getting ignominiously shut down. This asymmetrical multiplayer slashers vs survivors game has just launched its fourth and final Twisted Masquerade online event, and its Steam player count has soared to new heights. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: DBD Twisted Masquerade 2025 event, rewards, and more DBD codes June 2025 DBD Twitch drops and how to claim View the full article
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has released its long-awaited 'Review Bomb' cape as a free gift for all players, commemorating last year's brief backlash when Sony tried to force PC players to link their PSN accounts. Sony eventually U-turned on its snafu after provoking a firestorm of fan fury, as well a number of pointed comments from Arrowhead's own boss, Johan Pilestedt. The result was seen as a win by Helldivers 2's community, who got to work designing their own versions of the game's commemorative capes sporting the game's then-plummeting Steam review score graph. Now, a year later, Arrowhead has finally released an official version for all players — with the graph-like design now dubbed the "Pillars of Freedom". "In honor of their unquestioning commitment to the defense of Managed Democracy, the Helldivers have been awarded a commemorative cape," Arrowhead wrote via a new, in-universe update posted on social media. "The new uniform piece will be available in all Super Destroyer Armories as soon as the rollout is complete. "This cape will be awarded to all existing players. As with our previous item rollouts, please allow some time for the item to arrive in your inbox." COMMEMORATIVE CAPE ISSUED In honor of their unquestioning commitment to the defense of Managed Democracy, the Helldivers have been awarded a commemorative cape. The new uniform piece will be available in all Super Destroyer Armories as soon as the rollout is complete. This… [Hidden Content] — HELLDIVERS™ 2 (@helldivers2) June 27, 2025 While initially a moment of real frustration for the game's fans and developer, the incident is now just another part of Helldivers 2 lore — and initial reactions among the game's community to the cape's release have all been positive. "Not only is it a special event, it looks great too," one fan wrote. "I'll be wearing this one for a while. For a game with no story there's quite a lot of stories." "Another day, another example of Arrowhead being the best devs," wrote another fan. "The madlads actually did it," said a third. Last month, Helldivers 2’s ongoing Galactic War appeared to have reached another turning point, with the Federation declaring victory over the Illuminate. But, as ever, some in the game's vocal community were once again aggreived as players fought to hold the various Mega Cities of Super Earth. Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social View the full article
It's here. No, not the end of the world as we know it, but Helldivers 2's long-awaited review bomb cape. Arrowhead had been teasing adding said cape, dubbed "Pillars of Freedom", to the game as an inside joke since that whole PSN controversy last year, when HD2 got so many negative reviews from folks angry at account linking being made mandatory that its Steam graph's red lines were long enough inspire amateur fashion designers. The developers and Sony have since restored access to the game in a bunch of countries the PSN change rendered it unpurchasable in, paving the way for this gear gag. Read more View the full article
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Falcom's newest character trailer for Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter showcases Olivier Lenheim. View the full article