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Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser believes that, if players want their games released on physical media, then "companies should provide it." The former Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption developer opened up about the state of physical media in the gaming space during a conversation with IGN at San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2026. He didn't have a strong opinion when asked if he personally cares about physical versus digital releases, but when it comes to others, his thoughts were pretty cut and dry. "I don't know that I care, but if people want that, I think companies should provide it," Houser said. "But I don't know that I personally care. "I also think that, as critical as people are of digital releases, the ability to update and fix problems in games has been really useful for the quality of games." The question arrives as gamers of every background take to social media to sound off about recent changes in the physical and digi...

Games Workshop has finally given Warhammer 40,000 fans the news they’ve craved for years: a release date for animated series Astartes 2. In a post on Warhammer Community , Games Workshop said Astartes 2 is set to drop this December. Via a new promo video, we also have two new shots of Astartes 2, which you can see in the slideshow below. Don't expect a huge amount from the images though, they don't give away much. And there's still much we don't know about Astartes 2 itself. How many episodes will it be? How long will the episodes be? Will it even be divided up into episodes this time? For the uninitiated, the original Astartes was created by superfan Syama Pedersen, who was subsequently brought into the fold to make the official sequel. In November last year, Games Workshop revealed animation work on a monitor screen via the promo video below, showing a squad of Terminators appearing to protect an unnamed human soldier. This is the Inquisition-led Deathwatch Terminato...

A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save on Assassin's Creed Shadows, the DJI Mini 4K drone, Apple AirPods 4, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, and more. Check out our top picks for Saturday, July 25, below. Assassin's Creed Shadows for $29.99 Assassin's Creed Shadows is on sale this weekend for $29.99 at Amazon. As the first game in the series set in feudal Japan, this is one many fans waited years for, and it mostly delivered. In our 8/10 review , we wrote, "By sharpening the edges of its existing systems, Assassin’s Creed Shadows creates one of the best versions of the open-world style it’s been honing for the last decade." DJI Mini 4K for $229 This weekend, you can save 23% off the DJI Mini 4K drone, which is normally priced at $300. This drone is small enough not to require FAA registration, but it's powerful enough to fly for 31 minutes, with support for 10km video transmission and auto return. The DJI Mini is equipped with a 4K camera on a 3-axis...

IGN’s live reporting of San Diego Comic-Con 2026 continues, this time from the front row of the God of War Laufey panel. The action kicks off on Friday, July 24, at 5.30pm PT / 8.30pm ET / July 25 1.30am UK time, and we’ll be there delivering you all the news via updates below. We’re expecting God of War Laufey game director Ariel Lawrence and Santa Monica Studio head of creative Cory Barlog to lead an in-depth conversation with the cast, including Deborah Ann Woll (Laufey), Chris Judge (Kratos), Jack Quaid (Phranque), and Perlina Lau (Rue). Sony has said the panelists will share new details about the heroes of God of War Laufey, including behind-the-scenes insights from development and the performance capture that brings each character to life. While you wait, check out all IGN’s exclusive coverage of God of War Laufey from its reveal in June. We have Lawrence and Barlog discussing why the developer went with Faye as the main character this time instead of Kratos, and we’ve got an e...

San Diego Comic-Con 2026 has arrived, and we here at IGN will not only be covering all the big news coming out of this weekend, but we are also hosting our own live show that will be filled with exclusive reveals, interviews, and much more from your favorite shows, movies, comics, games, anime, and collectibles. To ensure you don't miss a thing, we'll be rounding up all the biggest moments right here for you, including Marvel Studios' big return to Hall H ahead of Avengers: Doomsday! Be sure to keep checking back as we'll be updating this roundup as the weekend goes on, and you can also head over to our SDCC watch guide and most anticipated movies and TV shows article to know what to expect! Lanterns: Here's Why the Series Downplays the Green Lantern Corps Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy and the cast of Lanterns — Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, Garret Dillahunt, and Poorna Jagannathan — joined us at SDCC to share why a murder investigation was the perfect way to mor...

Halo: Campaign Evolved is basically already here if you pay the early access tax, and while it does look incredible on high-end gaming PCs and current-generation consoles, it struggles hard on lower-end hardware, particularly handheld gaming PCs. I spent a little bit of time playing the remake on the Xbox Ally, and, well, the original Halo campaign looks a whole lot better in the Master Chief Collection . It shouldn't be too surprising that Campaign Evolved doesn't run super well on low-end handhelds like the Steam Deck . The game calls for a minimum of an Intel Core i7-10700K and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super , both of which are more powerful than the equivalents found in the base Xbox Ally and the Steam Deck. But, for some reason, the Steam page for the game says the game is Steam Deck Verified. In order to run the game on the Xbox Ally, I set the resolution to 1280x720 and set it to the Very Low preset, with FSR set to Low. With those settings, I'm getting a pretty...