Few canceled games have maintained the same level of fascination as Scalebound. Announced by Microsoft and PlatinumGames as an ambitious Xbox One and Windows 10 action game, it promised enormous battles, an open world, and a partnership between player and dragon like few games have attempted in the…
If you’re looking for a new release to enjoy this weekend that doesn’t set you back quite as much as new AAAs The Blood of Dawnwalker and Onimusha: Way of the Sword, you might find what you’re looking for in Isle of Reveries. Developed by the indie team desertcucco, this charming action-adventure…
Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering tech officially debuted yesterday in NBA 2K27, and it's only supported on current-generation RTX 5000 graphics cards. But it seems like that'll change over time. On Nvidia's forums, an employee claimed that the company will be expanding DLSS 5 support to RTX 40…
Everyone has a price. Maybe it's $100, maybe it's $1,000, maybe it's for someone to see your innate value as a human being, or maybe it's $1,000,000. Popular streamer TimTheTatman recently revealed what it would take to get him to go back to Arc Raiders, and spoilers, it's not the third option.…
Back in 2009, Ars wrote about what was being reported as a leaked trailer for the then-upcoming Left 4 Dead 2, saying the footage “looks like it’s straight from a high-gloss action movie.” Today, we need to offer an important update to this crucial, 17-year-old story: The trailer “leak” was…
"15-42 hours" and 110 monster types is, what 2.62 new monsters an hour minimum? Withering Rooms was an unexpectedly devious and absorbing slice of dollhouse action-RPG horror. As such, I've been looking forward to Withering Realms, the standalone sort-of-sequel, which launches in early access…
Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has a message for Xbox CEO Asha Sharma: When she's ready to make Scalebound, he'll be waiting. The action-game mastermind and Clovers studio head spoke about his desire to return to his canceled dragon IP during a recent interview with VGC. It's been a little more…
Paramount+In 1976, when Kerry O’Quinn launched the magazine Starlog, he knew it could be a success. Not only was he confident that Star Trek — and its connected sci-fi fandoms — represented a large, untapped readership, but he also understood the business of magazines focused on news about TV…
Palworld, the popular Pokémon rival and open-world RPG, is free to try on PS5 right now for some PlayStation Plus subscribers. If you’ve been tempted to see what the hugely popular monster-collecting game is all about, there’s never been a better time to jump into Palworld and experience it for…
If you've been counting down the days to Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the wait is over. Capcom's latest is out today, and earned an enthusiastic 10/10 review score from us, to boot. For those looking to play on PC, there's even more good news: Fanatical is offering a discount on it right now of 18%…
Open-world games. Arguably, no other genre has defined modern gaming more than the expansive, experimental, and exciting places this one has taken us to. Over the past 30 years, we’ve gone from grey, empty streets begging to be torn up in a blocky muscle car to glorious, colourful fantasy lands…
Courtesy of Evil Empire The excitement behind Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is only growing ahead of its October 2026 release date, with new gameplay details revealing more of the title’s content. According to a recent trailer at Sony’s State of Play, and some previews from different sources,…
Afterworld is the first Paradox grand strategy game with an original fantasy setting in a decade Director Dan Lind says this brings a level of "design freedom" that would be possible in few real-world settings He also wanted "to do something different" after working on historical games for so long…
Sony’s September State of Play was packed with fan-pleasing updates and announcements, from the reveal of Until Dawn 2‘s release date to a peek at Ghost of Yotei‘s upcoming story expansion. But one of the broadcast’s biggest surprises was news that 2020’s cult-favorite hungry-shark…
There are very few publishers who can claim to have had quite as prosperous a decade as Capcom. The company’s 10 best-selling games all launched within the past 10 years, a chain of good fortune that began with 2017’s Resident Evil 7. Capcom’s reimagining of gaming’s most important survival horror…
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first…
The Ascent 2 is a game I’ve hoped developer Neon Giant would make ever since I finished the wonderful The Ascent back in 2021 — and after speaking to the studio at gamescom, I’m convinced it’s now in the works. Neon Giant is currently hard at work on No Law, a first-person Cyberpunk-style game with…
Nintendo has announced not one, but two new Direct presentations that will be taking place in September 2026. On virtually an annual basis, Nintendo holds a new Direct in September to highlight the games that it will be releasing in the final months of the year. As such, it was widely anticipated…
We expected a new Nintendo Direct to be announced soon, but very few people saw TWO coming at once. Nintendo shocked everyone by revealing that we’ll see two Nintendo Direct presentations in the space of 24 hours, and one of them is dedicated to The Legend of Zelda’s 40th Anniversary. A Nintendo…
Grasshopper FilmsChronovisor is the kind of work that has you asking, “what is a movie, anyway?” It’s shot and edited as a film, full of exquisitely grainy 16mm visuals of star Anne-Laure Sellier (a real-life academic and researcher) settling in to Gothic reading rooms and walking the chilly…
The weekend is upon us, with Xbox’s Free Play Days having made its grand return. It’s actually living up to its name on this occasion, as this time around, you don’t need a Game Pass subscription to enjoy three of the four included titles; they’re available to all. If you’re not familiar with Free…
Courtesy of Bandai Namco The PlayStation September 2026 State of Play showed off more gameplay for Gundam Rogue Orbit, a third-person action RPG only teased earlier this year. This surprise title in collaboration with one of the biggest sci-fi anime series of all time seems to promise exciting…
Nintendo has announced a pair of Nintendo Direct broadcasts for next week, including a dedicated Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary showcase. The Zelda Direct will air on Tuesday, September 8 at 7am Pacific / 10am Eastern / 3pm UK time, and last 30 minutes. Expect updates on the Zelda franchise,…
Ananta is shaping up to be a huge free-to-play, open-world adventure when it launches next year, and while it will feature its own narrative, the game is also being built around a live-service model. With that in mind, it seems NetEase and developer Naked Rain are already thinking well beyond…