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Pokémon Pokopia will soon get an update that addresses an array of issues and improvements, Nintendo has confirmed. Launched last week to huge success, Pokopia players are already creating blocky Pokémon paradises full of incredible creations — though a few users have gotten snagged by bugs along the way. Now, Nintendo has said it is aware of several issues — and listed a string of bugs and upcoming additions it has planned for Pokopia in the near future. Happily, Nintendo expects that its planned update will several progression blockers that are currently occurring in players' worlds, even if players have encountered them already (so no, hopefully you don't now need to start over). Other than bug fixes, there's no mention here of actual new content also coming to Pokémon Pokopia in future — but it is still early days. And it's worth remembering that the first in-game event " More Spores for Hoppip " is already now live, and set to run until March 25. ...

Blight: Survival has reemerged with a new gameplay trailer — and its developers are promising big news in 2026 after a whopping 1.5 million Steam wishlists. In a new development update, publisher Behaviour Interactive, of Dead by Daylight fame, and developer Haenir Studio, announced small scape playtests to help shape the game’s future. Blight: Survival is a medieval co-op action horror game whose 2022 announcement trailer — an early look at gameplay — has seen 3.9 million views on IGN’s YouTube channel alone. The new trailer, below, shows new in-engine footage showcasing combat finishers. After the trailer went viral and those Steam Wishlists piled up, Ulrik Langvandsbråten, creative director and cofounder at Haenir Studio, partnered with Behaviour and set about rebuilding Blight’s core systems from the ground up. In an interview with IGN, Ashley Pannell, senior creative director on Blight: Survival at Behaviour Interactive, acknowledged the pressure the team is now under fol...

There’s something endlessly endearing about a good-natured dummy. Just a happy, optimistic doofus that can barely scrape two brain cells together to form a thought. You can take your dark and brooding Kratos, or your wisecracking Spider-Man. Give me Dunk from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , or Guybrush Threepwood from The Secret of Monkey Island , heck, even the dog from Up, any day of the week. And soon, give me Davy, the undead nobody, from Stupid Never Dies, the upcoming action-RPG and debut release from the Devil May Cry and Resident Evil veterans at GPTRACK50. IGN recently met with the team behind Stupid Never Dies for a first look at Davy’s wild adventure. With blazing-fast action, a slick approach to changing combat styles, and a naive goofball of a hero that might just be in over his head, this has the makings of a damned good time. And, like many of the best, most foolish adventures, it starts with a bit of romance. Romance is (un)dead Davy is dead. Not figuratively, or ...

Magic: The Gathering’s second set of the year gives us cardboard versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , their allies, and their foes, and the Collector Boosters are still in stock at Amazon - and at a discount no less. After dropping to just over $400 a week or two ago, they're now down to $394 . That's a 14% drop from the MSRP of $455, and it's by far the best way to try your arm at picking up some of the set's most desirable (and valuable) cards . It is a hefty buy-in, no question, but this is the product designed for people chasing the flashiest pulls in the set. If you are new to Magic, Collector Boosters are where the premium treatments live. Extended art, textured foils, alternate frames, the kind of cards that turn heads and, in many cases, hold stronger resale value. They do not guarantee more powerful gameplay staples, but they dramatically increase your odds of pulling the most desirable versions of those cards. That is why they sit at a $37.99...

Pokémon Pokopia has launched big on Nintendo Switch 2, and sold 2.2 million copies over its release weekend. Across four days, the new Pokémon life simulation game shifted 1 million copies in Japan alone, despite supply constraints for its physical version being reported in several countries. Indeed, such has been the game's popularity that Amazon recently raised the price of its boxed copy by $10, up to $80 . Nintendo shareholders have also reacted positively to the game's performance, sending the company's stock price shooting upwards . While 2.2 million copies is less than the 5 million already sold by Resident Evil Requiem, it's important to remember that this game is an exclusive for Switch 2 — a console which still has a relatively modest userbase. Just over 17 million Switch 2 consoles have been sold so far, meaning just shy of one in every eight owners also now has a copy of Pokémon Pokopia. The game has already beaten the sales to date of Kirby Air Ride...

Nintendo says it believes in the idea that “it is more fun to destroy that which is beautiful,” which is why it stuffed hundreds of millions of voxels into at least one of the layers in Donkey Kong Bananza . Nintendo producer Kenta Motokura and programmer Tatsuya Kurihara peeled back the layers of last year’s Nintendo Switch 2 Donkey Kong game during a GDC panel attended by IGN earlier today. The hour-long session offered a deep dive into the crust of what made the game special, including information about its ties to Super Mario Odyssey and, of course, its destruction mechanics. Outside of his love for bananas, Motokura says one of the first things that comes to mind when many others think about DK is that “his arms are big and strong” and allow him to do things most humans are incapable of. The Nintendo team kept this in mind when challenging themselves to deliver a unique experience with Donkey Kong Bananza, which eventually led to its core feature: destructable environments. ...