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It’s been close to three years since the January 2022 reveal of Showa American Story , whose B-movie style trailer depicting 1980s America as a colony of Japan became a viral hit. Updates have been few and far between since then, but IGN can now exclusively reveal a new trailer along with a 2025 release window on PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam). The game genre is described as an “end of the century romantic RPG fantasy ensemble period drama”. The dramatic trailer introduces new boss character named Shogun, a tough-looking villain who holds a shield like Captain America, a fluttering cape, and floats like Superman against the sunset. Elsewhere in the video, we see Shogun riding on the back of a pitch-black giraffe. Creative Director XY.Luo told IGN, “Shogun is a boss character who stands 6 meters tall. He uses the giraffe’s long neck to strike, and he can also fly, throwing his shield to attack the player.” Luo explained that the battle against such an oversized enemy who rides on t

Dragon Age: The Veilguard's launch has already made it EA's biggest ever single-player game on Steam, topping the charts and beating out the concurrents for 2023's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor . At the time of publication, Dragon Age: The Veilguard's peak was about 70,414 concurrents, putting it just outside the top 10 most played games on the platform with mostly positive reviews. It sits one spot ahead of Baldur's Gate 3 , which continues to enjoy ongoing success thanks to the introduction of mods and other new features. EA previous high watermark was Jedi Survivor, which managed an all-time peak of 67,855. EA CEO Andrew Wilson predicted success for Dragon Age during Tuesday's earnings call, saying that BioWare had "returned to its strengths," and that it would be benefit from limited competition thanks to Ubisoft's decision to delay Assassin's Creed Shadows . We wrote in our own review , "Dragon Age: The Veilguard refreshes and rein

To celebrate the partnership between EA SPORTS FC ™ 25 and Uber One, we are launching the Uber One Underdog Academy hub , a space where EA SPORTS FC ™ 25 players can access quick, insightful video guides to help improve their in-game skills and begin scoring goals like a pro. Kicking off the game help videos is a countdown of the top five tips EA SPORTS FC ™ 25 players need to know when beginning their in-game journey, including simplifying team formations, learning the best time to sprint and how to harness the power of the Finesse Shot Modifier. The Uber One Underdog Academy hub also hosts an epic giveaway exclusive to Uber One members, who have the chance to win an EA SPORTS FC ™ 25 prize pack that will help boost their gaming setup. Plus, every Uber One member that enters will be rewarded with an EA SPORTS FC ™ 25 Ultimate Team™ pack. In addition to being updated with more game help videos post-launch, the Uber One Underdog Academy hub will be the home for the exciting

Marvel’s Wolverine on PS5 has a new leadership arrangement, according to a new report by Game File . Game File’s sources indicate that creative director Brian Horton has not been part of the project since mid-year, and that Wolverine’s game director Cameron Christian has since taken on a different role at Insomniac. Wolverine’s new creative director is reportedly Marcus Smith, and its new game director is Mike Daly. Smith previously served as one of three creative directors on 2021’s Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Daly as one of its three game directors. For his part, Horton has since jumped the first-party fence to Xbox as the new creative director for Perfect Dark, which is being co-developed by The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics. Horton previously served as a game director on 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider at Crystal Dynamics, before a brief stint at Infinity Ward and subsequently joining Insomniac. There's been little official word on Marvel's Wolverine since i

Ahead of Black Friday , Amazon and Best Buy have dropped the price on the new-for-2024 85" Hisense QD7 4K Smart TV. Right now, you can get it for just $799.99 after a $400 instant discount. This is an excellent deal for a huge TV that can run games in 4K at up to 144Hz on your PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X console. It costs hundreds of dollars less than every TV in our roundup of the best TVs for PlayStation 5 . For those of you who plan on picking up a PS5 Pro when it becomes available on November 7, perhaps this will help alleviate the sting of spending, at minumum, $700 on a console. 85" Hisense QD7 4K 144Hz QLED Smart TV The QD7 is one of Hisense's newest TV releases and became available for purchase only a few months ago. It's a gaming-oriented TV that's a great option for anyone who owns a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X console and wants to be able to play games without compromise at a budget price point. This particular model of the 4K TV boasts

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the biggest Call of Duty release ever, with sales on PlayStation and Steam up 60 percent compared to 2023's Modern Warfare III . Game Pass also benefited from Call of Duty's release, setting a new record for amount of new subscribers in a single day. Nadella announced the results during today's Microsoft earnings, which as usual focused heavily on the company's AI and cloud-based initiatives. According to Microsoft, Activision Blizzard helped drive a 43 percent rise in gaming revenue while Xbox content and services grew 61 percent. Xbox hardware dropped 29 percent. Call of Duty Black Ops 6 launch last week saw strong concurrents on Steam that outperformed Modern Warfare II and III . You can read our review of Black Ops 6's multiplayer right here . Developing... Kat Bailey is IGN's News Director as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot. from IGN

Apex Legends is now five years old, and still going strong. The game is currently headed toward season 23 in early November, and while its player numbers aren't quite at the heights they used to be , the hero shooter still seems to be doing all right for itself. Some companies might be thinking right about now as to how they can refresh and replenish that playerbase with a sequel, but EA CEO Andrew Wilson doesn't seem interested. During today's Q2 earnings call, Wilson stated in answer to an investor question that large live service games such as Apex that reach massive audiences must continue to creatively innovate and update, or they risk losing that coveted top spot. For that reason, he continued, EA recognizes a "need for meaningful systematic innovation that fundamentally changes the way the game plays," and said that this is something the teams are actively working on. As a follow up, someone else asked him that as the teams are working on that "s