They want to avoid a "negative use experience" Uncle Microsoft's efforts to keep inventing the Torment Nexus proceed apace with a patent application for an in-game advertising system that might use machine learning to read your activities, and work out when you'll be least apoplectic about being…
Courtesy of South Park Studios / Rockstar Games South Park has returned for a new season now airing with Comedy Central, and with it has already made the perfect shout out to Grand Theft Auto VI‘s upcoming release. South Park made waves with its return to form last year with two new seasons that…
To use a sports analogy, Hideo Kojima is like a superstar athlete whose previous team (PlayStation) dropped him for, reportedly, salary-cap reasons. Xbox was all too happy to sign him, and unsurprisingly, they trotted him out at the Tokyo Game Show as the new face of the franchise. As they should.…
Remedy Entertainment is a studio that, despite widespread acclaim, still manages to be a somewhat underappreciated developer. Its games release to critical acclaim, as does its DLC, but that never seems to translate into immediate sales. Instead, word of mouth reclaims that money over time. From…
I swore I'd never become this evil Oh, no. I never thought I'd be here. Unfortunately, deep in my "we shouldn't min-max the fun out of everything" soul is a greebly little goblin that doesn't want to throw away thousands of EXP in a beta that means nothing. They've got me. I swore I'd never become…
LucasfilmStar Wars is a global phenomenon, but it has always been undeniably American. Maybe it’s the story of rebellion and hope, maybe it’s the influence taken from Westerns, maybe it’s just the homegrown accents of Luke, Han, and Leia. But behind those elements is a story that is classic no…
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire footage shared by the official Japanese Pokémon account has sparked fresh speculation that the titles will be re-released for Nintendo Switch. The Game Boy Advance classics can be seen again in the following video shared to social media by The Pokémon Company. On the…
After previously scrapping PlayStation Stars, it looks as if PlayStation may now be preparing to launch a new rewards scheme with one user claiming to have received free credit. In February of this year, a Wallet Credits app was spotted on the PlayStation Store. Officially issued by PlayStation,…
We're just a few weeks away from the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, the explosive next entry in the blockbuster shooter series. The Call of Duty franchise has been around for more than two decades, with almost constant annual releases, including multiple Modern Warfare games. There's the…
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It's a game "about family, traditions, and being a misfit" I dug The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. It's a game about a fortune-telling witch on an asteroid who designs tarot cards and eventually gets sucked into politics. It also has its own special dildo. The devs behind it, Deconstructeam, are set to…
Earlier this summer, a brand new The Walking Dead game was announced, alongside a playable Steam demo, without a whole lot of fanfare. Now, the full title – dubbed The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival – has been released in a similarly under-the-radar fashion. Available right now for PlayStation…
It’s been 17 years since UK studio Rocksteady Studios, combined with Eidos Interactive and WB Games, released Batman: Arkham Asylum, the origin of the Batman: Arkham series, which itself is one of the best series of its time and which is comprised of some of the best superhero games of all time. In…
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…
"We have deployed a new hotfix (v1.001.005) for Marvel’s Wolverine. This hotfix addresses some common crashes experienced by a small percentage of players since launch. Additionally, this hotfix adjusts the presentation of the Scent Trails and Audio Sense indicators, including reduced opacity to…
Planescape torment I loved 2024's Lorn's Lure, the megastructure exploration game with the handsome climbing axes, but it took me a while to get the better of the whole "repeatedly falling and dying" element. I imagine a few megastructure lovers were deterred by this. Fine, says developer Rubeki,…
The Witcher author and creator Andrzej Sapkowski has confirmed that he is already hard at work on Geralt's next adventure, and hinted to IGN that "the sky is the limit" for future prequels. Sapkowski has confirmed that his next novel in The Witcher universe is already underway, with the Polish…
One of the best Bethesda games is now available for free for some. In this case, “some” refers to hundreds of millions, because the free giveaway comes courtesy of Amazon Prime. Anyone with an Amazon Prime subscription can claim the Bethesda game for free between now and October 21. Those without…
A new season, a new game and a whole new list of incredible FC 27 wonderkids for you to sign in Career Mode. Whether you're after a star for the future or someone to slot right into your starting 11, the best young players in this year's game cannot be ignored. That's why we've put together a full…
The latest Witcher novel, Crossroads of Ravens, finally arrived in English last September, giving fans their first proper look at Geralt of Rivia's earliest days as a monster hunter. I personally loved it, which probably won't come as much of a surprise given I've been eager to badger Andrzej…
"I'm not fighting with Sony. We're not in a dispute" Hideo Koijima and his studio Kojima Productions have offered a more in-depth version of their side of the story after action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox earlier this month. Kojima claimed PlayStation had…
Back in 2010, Nintendo’s motion-controlled Wii was still a very popular console, so landing an exclusive game on the platform was a pretty big deal. Enter Disney’s Epic Mickey, an ambitious 3D platformer with an impressive pedigree behind it. On top of starring one of pop culture’s most iconic…
Fancy a top-up? Having launched though the same system of reservations and waitlists as the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame is still navigating that inscrutable void betixt "on sale" and "actually out." Nevertheless, it’s had its first software update, SteamOS 0.3.0, which brings – among other…