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Magic: The Gathering’s Marvel Super Heroes crossover set is right around the corner, and with it comes a brand new edition of Jumpstart with 51 different theme packs to mash together. We’ve got an exclusive first look at every single one of those themes, as well as over 180 brand new cards that will be available in their packs and over 60 reprints only available in this Jumpstart release. We’ve got a lot to get through, so let’s start with a look at all of the totally new cards, which you can flip through in the image gallery below: Jumpstart has always been one of the easiest and most accessible ways to dip a toe into Magic, letting you shuffle two themed packs together to instantly make a 40 card deck that will match up nicely against an opponent who does the same. You don’t know which themes you’ll get from a given booster, which means you could be mixing a Fantastic Four pack with Dr. Doom himself, or the Agents of Shield with the Young Avengers. Marvel Super Heroes Jumpstart has 5...

At IGN Live today, THQ Nordic's Reinhard Pollice was on hand to discuss the newly released remake of Gothic . The original Gothic , or Gothic Classic as Pollice said they now referred to it, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Even before the remake, the original had been remastered, and Pollice said he felt the reason for Gothic's longevity was "even by today's standards, it's still a very unique game with a lot of game mechanics that really hold up." He also said he felt "It's not the biggest open world, but I think it's the most immersive and the most alive." As for what it's like having the remake now available to the public, Pollice said "It's super cool. We're obviously watching the reception. It's a big RPG, right? So we're only seeing the first third of the game content and we're seeing every house gamers discovering something cool or something we've hidden new ways of solving quest, cool ways o...

Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Wilds is in development for Nintendo Switch 2. The publisher behind the popular action-RPG promised a new version of its 2025 installment just hours after Summer Game Fest 2026 came to a close yesterday. It's the kind of announcement most players would have expected to see show up at a bigger summer showcase, or maybe even a Nintendo Direct, but instead, Capcom made its announcement with a simple two-sentence post on X/Twitter . "Monster Hunter Wilds is currently in development for Nintendo Switch 2!" Capcom said. "We'll have more info to share, including the release date, in the future." Monster Hunter Wilds skipped out on Switch when it launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S in February 2025. It made sense considering that release date fell so late into the life cycle of the Nintendo's original hybrid device but months before its sequel . Still, Nintendo consoles have been home to many Monster Hu...

IGN Live saw the exciting reveal of the upcoming game Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a mature, story-driven, action-adventure game that offers a different and darker side of Star Trek than is usually the norm. As shown in the reveal trailer, the game also has a notable main character in the form of former Lieutenant Ro Laren, the popular Star Trek: The Next Generation character played by Michelle Forbes. And yes, that's Forbes voicing Ro. At IGN Live, Shawn Kittelsen (SVP, Head of Creative & Production, Paramount Games Studio) and Michał Gembicki (Head of Publishing, Bloober Team) discussed the genesis of the game, with Kittelsen describing Shadow Frontier as "A new single-player third person action game from Bloober, the same team behind Silent High remake, starring Ro Laren." Added Kittelsen, "I would describe the genre as a psychological thriller. If you like a really thrilling survival adventure, this is the game for you. If you're a Star Trek fan who wants...

September is one of the most packed months for video game releases in recent memory — and everyone knows why. The delayed GTA 6 is coming out in November, and pretty much the entire rest of the video game industry is running scared . Publishers and developers are either making sure to get their games out at least two months ahead of GTA 6 or well after the launch, more in hope than expectation that the wider gaming public will have decided it's time to think about other video games again. Control Resonant , the sequel to 2019's Control, is just one of a number of big games that have gone with September. It's a growing list that includes Marvel’s Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4, Halloween: The Game, and the console version of Dune: Awakening. Perhaps more troublesome for Control Resonant is the fact it launches on September 24, the same day as Silent Hill townfall, and a day before Onimusha: Way of the Sword. That’s a lot to contend with....

We got more insight into Control Resonant today at IGN Live, as Creative Director Mikael Kasurinen showed off some of the game while explaining the approach to the sequel to 2019's Control. Unlike the first game, which was a third-person shooter, Control: Resonant is making the jump to an action role-playing game. In Control you played as Jesse Faden, and this time you're playing as her brother, Dylan. Kasurinen said the switch in how you play really began "with the protagonist first. I aways knew I wanted to first do a game about Jesse and then the second is about Dylan. Control is always about these siblings." He said the idea was to really spotlight how "both siblings have their own personality and approach and ways of doing things. If Jesse uses a gun, then of course Dylan uses a melee weapon." That weapon is called the Aberrant, which shape shifts throughout the game in order to face different kinds of threats, with Kasurinen explaining how Control...