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Mick Gordon On How He Helped to Make Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2’s Climactic Boss Fight “Big and Bombastic”

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If you were making a sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and wanted to inject a bit of extra boom into the boomer shooter, then you probably wouldn’t look any further than Mick Gordon. The legendary Aussie composer has been soundtracking videogames for about two decades, but it was his face-melting work on 2016’s Doom and 2020’s Doom Eternal that really established his monster guitar riffs as the perfect way to fire up fans of first-person shooters. It seemed a no-brainer, then, that developer Auroch Digital would enlist Gordon to add his signature heavy touch to the climactic boss fight at the end of Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2. Ahead of the game’s release this week, IGN caught up with Gordon to get an insight into how his curtain-dropping contribution to the shooter sequel’s soundtrack came about. IGN: How did you come to be involved with Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2? Were you familiar with the first game? Mick Gordon: Yeah, definitely. So, I sent the team an email after the first Bol...
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GTA 6 Was Originally Meant to Release Much Sooner Than We Realized

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Rockstar Games has revealed that it originally intended to develop GTA 6 alongside Red Dead Redemption 2, meaning it probably would've come out much sooner than we ever realized. As told in a new article from Bloomberg , Rockstar Games initially planned to develop Red Dead 2 and GTA 6 at the same time, but that quickly became infeasible. Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson recognized that the ambition behind Red Dead Redemption 2 meant they would need to treat it as an all-hands-on-deck situation, which also meant putting GTA 6 on the back burner. However, GTA 6 would benefit from this, as Nelson noted to Bloomberg that everything they built for Red Dead would "pay off" in GTA 6. That appears to be true, as GTA 6 uses a lot of ideas and systems from Red Dead Redemption 2, including its NPC interaction system. It seems unlikely that GTA 6 would be what it is today if it had stayed the course and been developed in tandem with the western sequel. Unfortunately for fans...
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Ubisoft Cuts 70 Staff From Skull and Bones Dev, Shuts Down Trials Studio RedLynx

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The cuts and studio shutdowns continue at Ubisoft, this time with layoffs hitting the developer of Skull and Bones and the closure of Trials maker RedLynx. GamesIndustry.biz reported that Finnish studio RedLynx will close down, with up to 52 people losing their jobs. Meanwhile, Ubisoft Singapore, developer of pirate game Skull and Bones , will lose 70 staff. In a statement, Ubisoft insisted Ubisoft Singapore “remains an important part of Ubisoft’s global production organization.” GI said 70 staff represented around a fifth of Singapore’s total headcount, which suggests 280 staff are left. Skull & Bones suffered a notoriously choppy development that stretched out over years. After a series of delays, it eventually launched early 2024 with a $70 price tag that Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot justified by describing Skull & Bones as a "quadruple-A game." Year 3 Season 2, titled Crimson Waters, launched in August. RedLynx, meanwhile, was gobbled up by Ubisoft in 2011 having ...
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Peak Has Been Leaked for PS5 by the ESRB

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The beloved co-op adventure game, Peak , has been leaked for PS5 by the ESRB. Last year, an adorable, cheap co-op game known as Peak blew up on Steam . In the game, players unite with their friends to pass through a wide variety of deadly obstacles in order to climb absurdly tall mountains. They must use the power of friendship and a handful of tools to overcome the odds, often resulting in hilarious deaths, injuries, and hijinks. As of August 2025, Peak has sold over 10 million copies , partially thanks to the fact it only costs $8 and is an easy sell to a group of friends. It seems like the game will likely only continue to grow its audience, as the ESRB has rated Peak for PS5. Historically, ESRB leaks are incredibly accurate, so it seems like only a matter of time before an official announcement is made. As of right now, it's unclear if Peak will also come to Xbox and Nintendo Switch 2, but it would be surprising if this remained console exclusive to PS5. Unfortunately for new ...
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Will You Be Taking Time Off Work or School for GTA 6's Release Next Month?

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We are just a little over 30 days away from the release of GTA 6 , which begs the question: Will you be taking time off of work or school to play it? GTA 6 is one of the biggest pop culture events of the decade, if not in all of history, and as a result, it's expected to cause some disruption. In addition to fears that the game's highly-anticipated launch may create instability for ISPs and platform servers, many companies are also expected to have an irregular amount of employees calling out for the day. For months, fans on social media have been claiming they're putting in PTO requests well in advance of November to ensure they can have the game's release weekend available. So, will you be taking November 19 off? Let us know in the poll below, dear reader. Economists have estimated that there will be a $1 billion loss in productivity during launch week due to people being absent from their jobs. A car tuning company known as Burger Motorsports has even announced that...
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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Review

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Nearly two decades after the last mainline 2D Castlevania game,the team behind 2023’s Dead Cell’s Return to Castlevania DLC has been given the keys to Dracula’s Castle for real. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse aims to breathe fresh life into this 40-year-old series with a creative blend of old and new ideas. With a brand new Belmont wielding the family whip, familiar foes in your way, and modern conveniences that have become expected in the genre, developer Evil Empire has largely hit their mark – but if you are a longtime fan expecting Belmont’s Curse to be a completely faithful revival of the series we played back in the early 2000s, then you will want to think again. This is a different breed of monster you're hunting, both for good and for ill. Belmont’s Curse picks up in Paris about 23 years after the events of the NES/Famicom classic Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (the game Netflix’s original Castlevania series was based on). This time, the Belmont in charge of dishing out pa...
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Mick Gordon Plans to Take His Upcoming Doom Concert Performance On the Road

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Award-winning composer and skull-shattering guitar shredder Mick Gordon has given an update on the scheduled live performances of his Doom and Doom Eternal soundtracks, explaining in an interview with IGN at PAX Australia this past weekend that his appearance as headliner at the UK’s RADAR festival in 2027 isn’t merely intended as a one-off. “The two that we’ve announced are this headline show for RADAR, which is going to be on August 1, 2027,” said Gordon. “That’s going to be me with a band and a live orchestra playing music from Doom and Doom Eternal and some other stuff. Then a few days later I’m going to be in the Czech Republic playing the Brutal Assault Festival, which is in a medieval castle, which is so metal. That’s with bands like Children of Bodom, Knocked Loose, and Humanity's Last Breath. It's like a really, really incredible 25,000-people metal festival.” That all sounds great, but what if you happen to be one of the millions of Doom fans that can’t make it to the...
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