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Late last month, mega publisher EA fired 300 workers , including around 100 at developer Respawn . The studio, founded by ex-Call of Duty developers, is responsible for Apex Legends and the Star Wars Jedi games, and was reportedly working on a third game in its beloved Titanfall series before its staff roster was cut. Now cancelled, the rumours suggest that this Titanfall project was an extraction shooter – a difficult-by-design PvPvE genre that currently only enjoys niche popularity. But an extraction shooter set in the world of Titanfall and Apex Legends could have been the genre’s ticket to the big leagues. So if not EA, who will take the “Tarkov-like” beyond its enthusiastic niche and into the mainstream? The answer may be just months away. "As part of our continued focus on our long-term strategic priorities, we’ve made select changes within our organization that more effectively aligns teams and allocates resources in service of driving future growth," an EA spokespe...

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When George R.R. Martin crafted the world of Westeros back in the 90s, he probably didn’t think his words would go on to spawn graphic novels, TV shows, action figures, video games, and more. Moreover, I doubt the author expected his works to be adapted into a mobile-friendly action-RPG built to prioritize predatory microtransactions over the rich lore he’d spent decades perfecting. Yet in 2025, we have Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, a visually striking open-world exploration game that looks compelling in motion, but hones in more on menus and currency than fantasy adventure. And, as you push deeper into its sizable campaign to uncover a plethora of in-game currencies and progress-halting hurdles, the neo-medieval jaunt starts to feel more like a lesson in asset management than a thoughtful RPG. Kingsroad takes place during season four of the HBO TV series , putting you in the fur-lined boots of a northern-born bastard of House Tyre. With your father sickly and your inheritance caught ...

Elden Ring Nightreign is upon us! Time to choose your Nightfarer and set out into Limveld in hopes of defeating the Nightlord before you’re lost to the rains. We’ve teamed up with Maxroll to bring you a variety of guides to help you get started, introduce you to each of the Nightfarers and help you navigate the dangers of Limveld. Getting Started in Nightreign Maxroll’s Nightreign beginner's guide goes over everything you need to get started: an introduction to each of the 8 playable characters, an explanation of the game's central hub, nagivating Limveld, the basics of combat, and how to handle the Nightlords, before wrapping everything up with a bit of information on Nightreign's metaprogression systems. For more help starting your adventures in Limveld, see IGN's Essential Nightreign Tips and Tricks and Things Elden Ring Nightreign Doesn't Tell You ! Maxroll Nightreign Character Guides Learn more about each of the game’s Nightfarers, how their skills w...

Atomic Heart has hit 10 million players, two years after its 2023 release. While this represents players, not sales, it is nonetheless an impressive achievement. Playable on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms, Atomic Heart developer Mundfish said it "took the world by surprise as a breakout AAA debut from an unknown studio," setting "a new bar for visual and cinematic quality in FPS games." It also earned over 60 best of the year accolades and subsequently released three story-driven DLCs, with one more "in the works." Atomic Heart released in February 2023. It's a first-person adventure shooter set in an alternative universe "during the high noon of the Soviet Union." We thought it was great, awarding it an 8 in our review , writing: "Atomic Heart is a highly imaginative, atompunk-inspired attempt at picking up where the likes of BioShock left off that makes missteps but definitely has the ticker to punch well above its weight....

Elden Ring Nightreign has enjoyed a massive launch on Steam, but the excitement was tarnished by a ‘mixed’ user review rating. FromSoftware’s co-op spin-off saw an incredible 313,593 peak concurrent users on Steam overnight, enough to make Elden Ring Nightreign one of the most-played games on Valve’s platform. But it also came with a number of negative reviews (67% of the reviews are positive so far), most of which point out Elden Ring Nightreign’s lack of duos, or two-player co-op, and voice chat. Elden Ring Nightreign drops players into the shifting lands of Limveld, exploring and fighting for survival either solo or in groups of three. There is no way to play two-player co-op. As explained in IGN's Elden Ring Nightreign review : "Let’s get the most important caveat out of the way first: if you are hoping to tackle Nightreign entirely solo, and are anything less than a hardcore Elden Ring player that actively seeks out ways to make that already difficult game even m...

Seemingly born of a drunken night between Animal Crossing and The Legend of Zelda , Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is the latest take on blending easygoing life simulation and deep dungeon-delving. With its dangerously bingeable RPG mechanics and seemingly endless supply of charm, this cozy adventure stole plenty of my own time almost without me even noticing. The characters and story are both wonderfully goofy and much more substantial than I’m used to seeing in this genre, the process of leveling up your various individual jobs is really easy to get lost in, and it absolutely nails the balance between slice-of-life cozy activities, village building, and its more action-packed tasks, so I never found myself bored by any of them. After more than 50 hours chopping trees and slaying bosses, this has quickly become one of my favorite games of the year. Fantasy Life i starts out as a pretty straightforward life sim: You’re introduced to the Life system in the first few hours,...

Capcom has quietly updated Lost Planet 2 to remove Games for Windows Live (GFWL), essentially eliminating online functionality and previous save data. It's come as quite a shock to Lost Planet fans on the subreddit , not least because Lost Planet 2 is a multiplayer game. As we wrote in our 2010 review : "At its core it's a potentially great action game and it's very good-looking, but it explains itself so incredibly poorly and has such an awkward structure and poor checkpointing that a lot of the fun is ruined by interminable frustration — not to mention the fact that it's basically unplayable as a single-player game. It has a few genuine standout moments, especially on the rare occasions that everything works in co-op, but they don't balance out the faults." While losing save data is bad enough, it's that bit at the end — "it's basically unplayable as a single-player game" — that's particularly interesting here, as without GFWL,...

Funcom asked us to " let them cook ," and going on last night's Dune: Awakening showcase, the developers did. With just a few days to go before early access players get their "head start," Funcom put on a livestream showing off Dune: Awakening's mid-to-endgame, and a wide tour of the Hagga Basin "to emphasize the size and variety players can expect," including the "lush O’odham, the forbidding Hagga Rift, the tall spires and imposing rock formations of Jabal Eifrit, to name just a few." Inspired by Denis Villeneuve and Legendary Entertainment’s blockbuster films, Dune: Awakening lets players explore Arrakis in an open-world game for the first time ever. Up until now, even beta players have only seen around 25% of Hagga Basin, so the stream showcased "these huge and diverse landscapes" in all their glory. "Before even considering the vast dunes and dangers of the Deep Desert, players will experience a full-scale survi...

FromSoftware games have always had a very distinct visual style, So much so, that it's usually pretty easy to predict when that iconic "FromSoftware" logo is about to pop up after a sudden fade to black, even in an announced game trailer for an upcoming FromSoft game. This is thanks to the many talented artists at the studio, and during my time at their office, I got a chance to sit down with one of them, Concept and Environmental Artist Saori Mizuno, to talk about her inspirations, the art direction she was given for Elden Ring Nightreign, and how it differed from her work on previous FromSoft games. IGN: So generally, what was different about working on Nightreign versus the base Elden Ring game, or and anything prior that you have worked on with FromSoftware? Saori Mizuno - Concept Artist on Elden Ring: Nightreign: In general, for Nightreign, we would receive an order for a design and then if it was myself in charge of that particular concept, then I would iterate...

Surprise! Nintendo has just released Animal Crossing: New Horizons ' first update in almost three years. It's not a particularly exciting update — the patch notes only tell us that May 27's update "improved the compatibility for multiplayer sessions between Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch" — but it marks the first time the relaxing sim game has had an any kind of backend refresh since November 2022. What "improved compatibility" means, we're not completely sure, but it's likely a small tweak to make sure players jumping onto Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch 2 can still visit the islands of their friends without incident and vice-versa. Animal Crossing: New Horizons will be playable on Switch 2, but unlike games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom or Kirby and the Forgotten Land , it's not getting its own bespoke Switch 2 Edition . It should be compatible for players getting a Switch 2 next week, however — unli...

Nintendo has confirmed that Nintendo 64 games available via the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription are getting three new features, but two of them are exclusive to the Switch 2. The three new features coming to Nintendo 64 games are customizable controls, rewind, and a CRT screen filter. However, only the view/change controls feature is available on the Switch, with all three available on the Switch 2 from the console’s launch on June 5. Switch users are already bemoaning the fact the CRT screen filter and rewind features are exclusive to Switch 2. “The power of Switch 2,” one post on Nintendo’s video showing off the features reads. “Being able to apply a CRT filter. Truly, this is the power of next gen hardware.” “Weird how a simple filter is locked behind Switch 2,” added another. CRT Screen Filter only for the Switch 2? Rewind only for the Switch 2? Nintendo, why are you doing this? pic.twitter.com/LzOwbz0LUO — Yorch Torch Games (@YorchTorchGames) Ma...