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The Dungeon Crawler Carl series has blown up this year in many ways, but it's the incredibly fast expansion into merchandise has been truly impressive for the franchise. There are T-shirts, graphic novels, action figures, tabletop games, and even a halloween costume available to buy already, but now you can add jigsaw puzzles to that list. Spotted on Reddit yesterday , there is a new 500-piece DCC puzzle now available at Barnes & Noble Stores. It's called "Meet the Crawlers" and features a full cast of familiar characters from the books, including Carl and Donut. Surprisingly, this isn't even the first official Dungeon Crawler Carl jigsaw puzzle. There's a 250-piece that was spotted at Barnes & Noble about eight months ago from the same brand, Kingdom of Threads. So if you've been wanting to combine your love of puzzling with your love of Dungeon Crawler Carl, you've apparently got options now. With the popularity of the upcoming tabletop ada...

Mass Effect fans are calling for a boycott of all EA products and services in protest of the company closing down BioWare and canceling the next Mass Effect game. It’s a rough time for Mass Effect fans. On October 21, EA announced its plans to shut down BioWare , a 30-year-old studio that spearheaded RPGs in the West with titles like Dragon Age, Jade Empire, Baldur’s Gate, and of course, Mass Effect . Players were eagerly awaiting news of the next game in BioWare’s beloved sci-fi franchise — but EA shut that down, too, revealing in a statement that the project was officially canceled. In the two days since then, fans of BioWare and the Mass Effect series have gathered together to call for action, begging EA to at least sell off BioWare’s IP to other studios rather than letting them languish. In fact, tensions have become so strained that players are now calling for an outright boycott of EA’s products and services until something is done. On Reddit, several threads are rallying Mass Ef...

Valve has released a list of the 20 most-played Steam Next Fest demos so far, with the event running through this weekend and concluding through Monday, October 26 at 10am PT/1pm ET. The top-20 list includes quite the eclectic mix of games, from comedic co-op adventures to more mechanically-deep action and survival affairs. Check out the list below, and be sure to try the demos out for the ones you like as soon as possible before this edition of Steam Next Fest ends. In no particular order, the top 20 are: Worst Class Ever Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim ArcheAge Chronicles Find the Needle Fart Together Character House - Desktop Companion Frostrail Loftia just volleyball Abyssal Lapidary Mortuus Dumpster Gang HANDS OVER Haunted Paws Emberville No Body No Problem! Deadzone Rogue 2 Wyldheart Grr Grr Gnomes Never Be Alone Some of these you might be familiar with, and some you might not, and that's part of the fun of Steam Next Fest! IGN readers might have ...

Key Preview Takeaways: Visually, Wo Long 2 is a beautiful game. No stamina gauge means faster action. I love that the combat system encouraged me to be aggressive and chase perfection. I have a confession to make, friends: I’ve never played the original Wo Long. I know, I know. Dust off your pitchforks, light your torches. I have it coming in the same way that we all do. “How could you, Will? You’re an action game guy!” Listen, I’m of the opinion that Team Ninja is one of the best to ever do it. Maybe even the best . But everybody’s got blind spots. That’s what I told myself as a giant spider thing with weird arms named Wugu who I’m sure would have been easier if I’d played the original smashed me into the ground for the umpteenth time. I was also coming into the fight cold. My demo had been split by an interview with producer Mazakazu Hirayama and development producer Masaaki Yamagiwa. Great for this preview. Bad for me. But the beauty of Team Ninja’s games has always been that they a...

Has Magic: The Gathering ever been as popular as it is right now? It feels like the long-running card game is having a bit of a moment in terms of bringing fresh players in via its ever-growing roster of Universes Beyond crossover properties. Rightly or wrongly, that means there are more people looking to build collections, whether they’re playing or collecting the cards, and it just so happens that Amazon has rolled out some price cuts on Play Booster Boxes - including the Star Trek one at 26% off just weeks before it even launches . It’s worth reminding you that these are Play Booster Boxes, as opposed to Collector Booster ones. Aside from a massive difference in price, Collector Boosters are where you’ll find the most valuable cards in each set. With that caveat out of the way, here are the best Play Booster Box deals we’ve found so far. Save On Magic: The Gathering Play Booster Boxes Sure, that Star Trek deal is great, but it’s not the only Universes Beyond property seeing a price ...

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival has been a smash hit, says Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch in a post on LinkedIn, and it’s the first of a “series” of releases from the studio that will improve how it makes games in the future. Hellraiser: Revival has proven to be a smashing success, in spite of — or, perhaps because of — its super-spicy content. The game doesn’t skirt around the sex, blood, and gore that defined the source material, causing some content creators to get permanently banned despite taking pains to censor their playthroughs. In an October 19 LinkedIn post, Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch praised the Hellraiser development team, revealing the title has been performing “extremely well on PC and console” since its October 8 release. He also speculated that AAA titles with massive budgets and lengthy development timelines won’t be sustainable in the industry for much longer (if, indeed, they are right now), instead positing that AA games based on established IPs w...