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PC gaming is more popular than ever. You have traditional desktop PCs, handheld PCs like ROG Ally or Steam Deck, and the best of both worlds, gaming laptops. Out of all gaming laptop brands, Alienware is one of the most recognizable. If you're someone who has thought about purchasing a gaming laptop before but never ended up doing so, the latest IGN Rewards giveaway could be your chance to take one home. IGN has teamed up with Delta Force and Alienware to offer one lucky reader a Delta Force x Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming Laptop. Win a Custom Delta Force x Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming Laptop Valued at $1549.99, this custom Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming Laptop has everything you need to play the latest PC games wherever you are. One of the biggest free-to-play games out there is Delta Force, which just recently released on console. Developed by Team Jade, Delta Force is a tactical shooter that offers two huge multiplayer modes and a single-player campaign. Alongside these modes, th...

We've rounded up the best deals for Saturday, August 30, below, so don't miss out on these limited-time offers. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 for $34.99 As part of Amazon's extensive Labor Day deals, you can score Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 for its lowest price ever. In our 8/10 review of the game , we wrote, "Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 proves yet again the series’ over-the-top skateboarding formula is totally timeless, even if some of the changes to THPS4 miss the mark and the soundtrack has been fumbled." Save on the Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy Commander Deck Bundle This Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy Commander Deck Bundle packs in all 4 decks available, and you can save over $100 this weekend at Amazon. The Final Fantasy collaboration was the biggest in history for MTG, with sets sold out everywhere around launch. If you've held out on starting your MTG journey, this is the perfect set to jump in with. LEGO Harry Potter H...

If you’ve played more than a few role-playing games, you’ll know how your hero's journey typically plays out. In the prologue, a terrible thing will happen – an event that demands you move quickly to prevent an apocalypse or defeat an all-encompassing evil. In the following hours, you’ll spend 90% of your time completely ignoring that impending threat, instead helping randomers you met in the pub and collecting loot from dungeons. That’s okay, though, because the big bad will always wait for you. The world perpetually teeters on the brink of extinction until you’re ready to fix it. Not so in The Blood of Dawnwalker , the first RPG from Rebel Wolves, a new studio founded by former CD Projekt Red staff. Its campaign puts you on a clock: you have 30 days and 30 nights to save your family from evil vampires. That hold-on-while-I-do-a-thousand-side-quests meme “was definitely one of the reasons” for this interesting approach, creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz says with a smile...

In the world of Kaiju No. 8, titanic, otherworldly beasts are a constant threat in Japan: to the extent that not only is there a military organisation – the Japan Anti-Kaiju Defense Force (JAKDF) – set up to deal with them, but there are also regimented clean-up crews whose jobs are to come in and cut up then cart away the often skyscraper-sized foes once they’ve been felled. Lead character Kafka Hibino dreams of being a JAKDF officer, but at the start of the series is working in clean-up, and hoping that when there’s work to be done he doesn’t get assigned the intestines… for obvious reasons. It’s not long, however, before he’s – season one spoiler alert here – both a member of the JAKDF and dealing with the fact that he’s somehow been gifted/cursed with the powers of a kaiju himself, designated by the powers that be as Kaiju No. 8. Stylish action, goofy humour and bad-ass characters all come together to make what follows a whole heap of fun, and frankly, excellent fodder for a v...

It is the driving force behind many of your favorite video games released in the last few years, but it largely flies under the radar. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered , Cyberpunk 2077 , and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater are just a few of the many games that were and continue to be supported by Virtuos, one of the largest independent video game companies in the world with over 20 studios globally employing about 4,000 staff. Still, the average gamer probably doesn’t know Virtuos exists. That’s starting to change though, with Virtuos’ profile rising with each new release. Oblivion Remastered is perhaps Virtuos’ biggest project yet, and its heavy involvement with its development was made a key part of the game’s announcement by Bethesda. Meanwhile, CD Projekt livestreams feature members of the Virtuos development team. Looking ahead, Ken Levine’s BioShock follow-up, Judas , and Riot’s League of Legends fighting game 2XKO , will both come out with Virtuos’ help. But it...

Nearly a year on from the launch of MachineGames' brilliant Indiana Jones and the Great Circle , the studio is back with an additional chapter, The Order of the Giants , which arrives on September 4. For those who enjoyed the base game's blend of puzzle-solving and fisticuffs, this fresh DLC adds more of what you love — and takes a novel approach to tuning its difficulty, based on your experience with the Great Circle so far. Speaking to IGN last week at Gamescom, creative director Axel Torvenius and lead game designer Zeke Virant explained how The Order of the Giants will smartly adapt its combat to suit both new and veteran players, due to the DLC's addition within the base game's narrative, branching off of its Rome location. And while the pair remained tight-lipped on word of an Indiana Jones sequel, discussion was still had about MachineGames' intention for the overall narrative of the game — and how it's sometimes best to leave players keen for more. ...

We’re coming up on Labor Day weekend, which closes out the summer and, for whatever reason, tends to be a popular occasion to drop prices. Labor Day sales have already gone live at most major retailers, with deals worth checking out on everything from LEGO sets to gaming PCs . Of course, the first thing I’m looking for in any of these sales is discounts on physical games. Surprisingly enough, Amazon's Labor Day sale has listed first-time discounts on some of the latest and greatest PS5 games, while the PlayStation Store has launched its own sale on digital editions. Amazon Drops Prices on the Latest PS5 Games The physical games I’ve listed above are all at or close to their lowest-ever price. The discounts aren’t mind-blowing, I know, but they are the first price drops we’ve seen on recent releases like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 and College Football 26, both of which just came out in July. The Tony Hawk remake has been especially popular here at IGN, with Luke Reilly’s ...

Gamescom’s Opening Night Live is, by its very nature, a show that thrives on big surprises, but few would have tuned in expecting to see Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 . After all, a remaster of the original game had only just arrived days prior, and developer Relic Entertainment – now independent after a decade-plus of being owned by Sega – didn’t seem ready to deliver a massive new Warhammer RTS anytime soon. Not that it needed to be ready, of course. This was a double-hit surprise: not only is Dawn of War 4 real, but it is being developed by a completely different studio from the rest of the series, King Art Games. How did this happen? And why, in the lavish new CGI trailer, is there no sign of Gabriel Angelos, the Space Marine poster child of the Dawn of War series? Oh, and where are all the Chaos Marines? And why are the Blood Ravens back on Kronus? These are all the questions I had for Jan Theysen, the co-founder of King Art Games and Dawn of War 4’s creative director, when...

Much like all-you-can-eat Pizza Huts, reasonably-priced concert tickets, and The Secret World of Alex Mack, Screamer is something I enjoyed in the 1990s but essentially disappeared from our lives decades ago. The original Screamer, released in 1995, was one of a trio of games developed by Italian studio Graffiti before it quickly rebranded itself as Milestone a year later. An over-the-top arcade racing game exclusively for PC, it arrived rapidly in the slipstream of pioneering 3D racers like The Need for Speed, Ridge Racer, and Destruction Derby (and was followed by a sequel and two one-and-done spin-offs) but has faded into relative obscurity since. However, over a quarter of a century since Milestone’s final Screamer game, the series is howling back to the track with a wild new look and an interestingly nuanced suite of controls and power-ups that shake up the slamming, the shifting, and even the steering. According to game director Federico Cardini, Screamer is a game Milestone ...

It's hard to believe it's been four years since I first set sail and fell in love with Valheim. As a fan of survival crafting and all things Norse, it's one of the best experiences out there in both regards. And while it still feels fairly familiar at the outset – and somehow it’s still calling itself “early access,” whatever that means anymore – it's gotten a mountain of patches since launch, with a list of changes that would take longer to read than the rambling tangent about some side character's great-grandfather in a viking saga. From new biomes and new bosses to crafting and combat improvements, the version of Valheim you can download today cuts like a blade that developer Iron Gate has been sharpening winter in and winter out. First, let’s look back at what I said about Valheim way back in early 2021: Whether I'm fighting for my life, plundering forgotten barrows, or just watching the sun play across the water in a calm moment of respite, Valheim ha...

During my 30 minute interview with Saber Interactive development chief Tim Willits at gamescom 2025, he wouldn’t say much at all about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 , despite my repeated efforts. I’m not surprised, really. With Games Workshop and publisher Focus Entertainment watching his every word like the Inquisition on the hunt for heresy, Willits must be careful to keep his cards close to his chest or else risk being declared a heretic. But I was able to get something out of him on the hotly anticipated sequel, namely that Games Workshop is throwing all sorts of ideas at Saber right now, and some of them are apparently "amazing." I began my foray into Space Marine 3 territory by asking Willits why the game was announced relatively soon after the release of Space Marine 2 . Willits dodged the question, saying: “It's just how we work with Focus… Again, it was massively successful for us, Space Marine 2, and Focus.” That it was indeed. Space Marine 2 may well ...

The backlash to Paradox’s decision to lock two clans behind DLC for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 appears to have prompted a rethink. The furore began with the confirmation that Bloodlines 2 would feature four clans: Brujah; Tremere; Banu Haqim; and Ventrue. While this selection provides four different starting options for how you build your protagonist, it’s a more limited offering compared to the cult classic original Bloodlines, which featured seven clans. Developer The Chinese Room has added a further two clans to Bloodlines 2 (Lasombra and Toreador), but these are currently only available as part of the Shadows and Silk add-on pack, which costs $21.99 as DLC, or included as part of the $89.99 Premium Edition. The standard edition costs $59.99. This DLC is available from day one, which has created the impression that the “full” roster has been carved up, with only those paying extra getting the complete launch experience. As you’d expect, fans were quick to express t...