The remastered Grand Theft Auto: Trilogy appears to be leaving the Confederate flag behind based on its recent trailer. Revealed last week, the footage offers a brief glimpse of arms dealer Phil Cassidy, but this time without the symbol of Southern slavery on his shirt.
New leaks from Oculus appear to show a first look at the rumored Oculus Pro VR headset, The Verge reports.
Videos and images from the servers of Facebook, which owns Oculus, first leaked to Reddit before being downloaded by The Verge. The videos show CG characters interacting with a new, darker VR headset and participating in activities like meetings, character customization, and games like Beat Saber.
Though the videos are CG, they show off what appears to be full body motion tracking, new Oculus Touch-style controllers (without the ring that goes around your hands), a charging dock, and the Horizon Workrooms app, where users will host meetings and use presentation tools like a 3D image of a building blueprint.
Supremo scare-'em-up Phasmophobia is pulling a bunch of spooky new treats out of its ghostbustin' bag for Halloween, with today's massive new Nightmare update adding a haunted campsite map, four new ghosts, weather effects, and more.
Maple Lodge Campsite is Phasmophobia's first outdoor map and packs in everything you could possibly hope for in a spooky holiday retreat, including picnic areas, tents, a log cabin, and even a haunted lake. Developer Kinetic Games says the new map features "more unique objects, higher object density and more visual detail", and that players can expect other maps to receive a similar boost in detail, plus more unique objects, at a later date.
343 Industries has revealed the date when the online multiplayer servers for several Halo games on Xbox 360 will close down: January 13, 2022. Back on December 18, 2020, the studio announced these servers would shut down no earlier than one year after it had posted the notice, but now a definitive date has been decided.
"To date, we’ve juggled future-facing work and priorities with continued upkeep of Halo’s Xbox 360 legacy services. Maintaining these legacy services today requires significant time and resources which directly impacts the studio’s ability to support current and future projects like Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Halo Infinite," wrote 343 Industries in a statement.
As the player base of these games on Xbox 360 dwindle more and more, the imbalance between maintaining the Xbox 360 servers and working on recent projects increases. Additionally, the digital sales of the Xbox 360 Halo games have greatly slowed down and new physical sales of them were halted back in 2018.
The following games are affected: Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo 4, Halo Wars, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and Spartan Assault. While the multiplayer functions of these games will be limited following the server closures in January, the games will remain playable offline. Along with finally deciding on a date for sunsetting the servers, 343 Industries also showed off some footage of Halo Infinite's campaign this morning.
Sony announced a State of Play broadcast for this week and this time, the focus will be on updates and announcements for upcoming third-party PS4 and PS5 games. If you don’t want to miss out on all the PlayStation news, here’s everything you need to know to watch.
The next State of Play is scheduled to air on Wednesday, October 27 at 2:00 PM PT, 5:00 PM ET, and 10:00 PM BST. If you’re watching from Australia, that will be on Thursday, October 28 at 7:00 AM AEST. Sony revealed the broadcast will last for about 20 minutes.
We’ll be hosting the next State of Play here on IGN.com and all of our platforms, so you can watch it wherever you enjoy watching streams the most. We'll also be covering the event so make sure to check back here to catch up on all the latest news. Here is the full list of places you can watch the upcoming State of Play:
Kadokawa Games revealed new artwork and details about the upcoming mecha strategy JRPG Relayer.
This time around, we get to see two of the playable robot (named Stella Gear) that will be included in the game.
The first is Astraia, piloted by the protagonist Terra. Its name means “Shining like a star”
Activision - which remains mired in a messy legal battle following the state of California's lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination, harassment and a "frat boy" culture at Blizzard - has shared a handful of new Call of Duty: Vanguard details ahead of the WW2 shooter's launch next week.
All the new information comes via the PlayStation Blog, in which Vanguard developer Sledgehammer offers details on the game's PS5 DualSense wireless controller support alongside a look at four Operators, complete with introductory trailers for each.
In the late ’90s, a certain kind of title came to dominate board gaming. Typified by classics like Catan and Carcassonne they were easy to learn and offered with a great balance of strategy, randomness, and player interaction. As time went on, the former came to dominate the latter two and games were heavier and dryer.
Furnace is very much a return to that older paradigm, and for many players it’s a welcome return. Casting players as businessmen during the industrial revolution, you’ll need to buy businesses that create a supply chain from which you can make the most profit. And like a lot of games of this ilk, it’s a whole lot more fun than it might sound.
Strictly speaking, Furnace is a card game because it has no board. Instead, the box contains some cardboard tokens, wood pieces to represent oil, coal and iron, four wooden discs for each player, and some decks of cards. The art is great across all the components, echoing the technical illustrations of the era in which it is set. It also has a novel turn tracker that mimics a turning gear.
What’s not so great is the card quality. They’re of very thin stock which will wear quickly, with an annoying texture that makes them stick to each other but not the table or your fingers. They’re a pain to handle but the issue is easily solved with some cheap card sleeves.
Does the original Xbox inspire a spark of warm nostalgia in your heart? If so, you may be pleased to hear you can preorder a new set of wired controllers modeled after the classic Duke controller. Made by the accessory maker Hyperkin, these controllers are coming out in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Xbox. There's a black one and a white one, plus a translucent purple one celebrating Cortana, the AI assistant from the Halo series. The controllers will ship December 15 and carry an MSRP of $89.99.
Note that these are wired controllers, so they can't be played wirelessly. That said, the USB-C cable is removable for storage purposes. For the white and black models, the original Xbox startup animation plays right on the controller's Xbox button. For the purple one, you'll see a Cortana montage play in the same spot.
The bumper buttons mirror the black and white buttons. It has a 3.5mm headphone jack, so you can play using a wired headset. The controllers feature vibration and have precision analog triggers.
Given the price and the form factor, these controllers won't appeal to everyone. But if you're an Xbox fan of a certain age, there's an undeniable appeal to these throwback designs.
World Heroes Mission, the third movie to spring from the exceedingly popular shonen anime series My Hero Academia, is about to arrive in theaters. Ahead of the theatrical release, I spoke to the film’s voice actors about the evolution of their characters and how they’ve adjusted to working from home during the…
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The latest SMT V trailers deal with Norn, the goddesses of fate, and Aquans, a water elemental demon.
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Blizzard recently announced that Overwatch players will be able to change their battletags for free through next Friday, November 5.
Esports and gaming organization FaZe Clan has announced its plans to go public through a merger that will value the company as a whole at around $1 billion.
The merger is with a blank check company called B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp — essentially a company that is founded and raises money specifically for the purpose of merging with or being acquired by another company. As a part of the merger, BRPM will pay an estimated $291 million to FaZe, which will be used to fund its ongoing global growth efforts —including potential future acquisitions. BRPM will change its name to FaZe Holdings Inc, and the combined company will trade under the ticker symbol FAZE.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022 and will see FaZe CEO Lee Trink remain in his role in addition to becoming chairman of the board.
FaZe Clan, begun in 2010 as a Call of Duty team, now purports to have a combined social media reach of over 350 million across both its own channels as well as its network of content creators. Its esports teams span games such as Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, PUBG, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, FIFA, Valorant, Fortnite, and Rocket League, and its brand has expanded across online gaming, lifestyle products, sport merchandise, and other various digital content offerings.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.
This article was amended after publication with the correct abbreviation for B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp.
If you’ve read our review, then you know I think Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a damn good time. If you’re not convinced, here’s 15 minutes of spoiler-free gameplay featuring Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot making a daring escape from the fortress of Lady Hellbender, the Monster Queen.
DF Direct Weekly returns once again, with myself, John and Alex taking a time-out from our various individual projects to discuss the latest gaming and tech news. Our chat kicks off with the arrival of new Apple Silicon found with the brand new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros. M1 Pro and M1 Max look absolutely monstrous and from a GPU perspective alone, we're looking at a doubling then a quadrupling of the already impressive M1. In the new Direct, we share our thoughts on strategy but ask the fundamental question beyond some truly impressive tech: will this extremely capable, super-efficient technology ever really be put through its paces in gaming? Is a profound commitment to gaming beyond the iOS ecosystem even worth considering for Apple, when its mobile ecosystem is likely to be so much more profitable?
Beyond that, discussion moves on to last week's announcement of God of War for PC, complete with select new graphical features, unlocked frame-rates, ultrawide support and the pleasantly surprising inclusion of Nvidia DLSS. It's not clear just how much of an improvement the new features add, but it'll be interesting to see if DLSS and other upscaling features are added to other Sony titles, such as the forthcoming Uncharted collection. We also discuss Sony's global vision: in a recent gamesindustry.biz video interview, Jim Ryan talked about addressing addressing millions more users with Sony titles, which inevitably leads to discussions about the cloud and therefore the concept of PC ports happening as a matter of course. Unless, of course, Sony is intent on packing out datacentres with PS5 hardware - which seems unlikely, especially in light of the mooted deal with Microsoft.
Two brand airports have been released for Microsoft Flight Simulator, contributing to enriching the sim’s growing world.
JustSim released Linz Airport (LOWL) in Austria. It’s currently available on SimMarket for approximately $21 plus applicable VAT.
Below you can check out a gallery of screenshots and see what it looks like.
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Are you ready to brave ill-lit winding roads and take on misshapen aberrations? Of course you are. So come join us on a caravan ride through an apocalypse in Darkest Dungeon II! Darkest Dungeon II contains some of the same characters and combat from the original title, but it’s an entirely new experience.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits was released in September to largely positive reviews (including a 9 out of 10 from us) and has performed well in sales. So much so that, according to developer Ember Labs, the game has already broken even on its development cost.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Ember Lab heads Josh and Mike Grier discussed Kena's road from development to release. To their surprise, the game has apparently sold well, and while they don't divulge specific sale numbers, they say it's already recouped its initial development costs. It's unclear how much money Kena had behind it, but this is great news for the small studio.
"It's hard to tell what's a huge success," said Josh in the article. "Sony's happy."
A new Persona 5 Royal Becky figure will be out in 2023. She'll come with extra face, hair, and arm parts to change her pose.
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I can’t count the number of times I’ve been in the thick of a Pokémon Unite match, feeling good about my team’s chances of winning, only for the timer to countdown to zero and reveal that we actually got wrecked. According to makers TiMi Studio Group, that’s by design.
After nearly a year-long delay, Beat Saber’s multiplayer mode is now live on PSVR.
Live today, this mode brings five-player multiplayer to the critically acclaimed rhythm game, which has players slice through colored blocks to the beat of a given song. Players can hop into public matches with players from all over the world, or they can face off against their friends in private matches.
Click here to watch embedded mediaAny song from the PSVR version of Beat Saber’s soundtrack can be selected, as can DLC music packs from artists like Linkin Park and more. With this update, you’ll also be able to create and customize your very own multiplayer avatar. This avatar is what your opponents will see in the new Beat Saber lobby and multiplayer arena.
Launching with this update today, Multiplayer Badges have been added to the game, and these let opponents see who’s best at what. For example, one player might earn a badge for “most precise slicer" after a match, while another might receive a badge for being the slowest slicer. With up to five players in a match, too, new customizable color options have been implemented. If you don’t want to slice the game’s standard red and blue blocks, you can switch it up to yellow and purple, teal and pink, or something else entirely.
Activision Blizzard's attempt to pause California's ongoing lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and a "frat boy" culture at the company has been rejected by an LA County Court judge.
Activision Blizzard moved to pause legal proceedings following a messy tussle between California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), which had launched the original lawsuit against the publisher, and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - which had previously announced an $18m settlement deal with Activision as part of its own investigation into the company.
We now know what it’s going to take to run Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition on PC, thanks to the system requirements page on Rockstar Games’ website.
As you might expect for a remaster of three decades-old games, it won’t require the beefiest PC on the market to play. Here’s what you’ll need to play the game on its minimum settings on PC:
Here’s what you’ll need to play the game on its recommended settings on PC:
If any single character is a visual shorthand for Halo Infinite—more than Master Chief, more than Cortana, more than...that other AI—it’s Craig the Brute. A screenshot of his character model served as evidence for the game’s supposed graphical shortcomings last year. He showed up again during this morning’s re-reveal,…
One of the biggest indie darlings of the year has to be Digixart’s hitchhiking narrative adventure, Road 96, and while it came out back in August, it’s likely to come up in conversations when Game of the Year talks roll around at the end of 2021.
Capitalizing on the positive buzz surrounding the project, the Montpellier-based indie studio has teased a behind the scenes documentary in a short, new clip. Go ahead and check out the new footage down below:
Clocking in at one minute and 48 seconds, the video gives fans a sneak peek into the development process of Road 96. Not only did the team face financial challenges, but they also had to contend with developing a game during a worldwide pandemic, too. Not an easy task, eh?
Join us for a doomed caravan ride through the most tenebrous of places. Darkest Dungeon II is a lot different from the original title but retains tons of signature style. Come check out how the game's new structure works as we dive into Early Access on PC. There will be many epic battles and massive meltdowns along the road as we attempt to carry hope to the end of the world. It all begins at 2 PM CST!
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Orphans and Ultras join the fight in December.
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Supermassive Games' next entry in its Dark Pictures Anthology is called The Devil in Me, which will serve as the season finale for the series. Those who finished House of Ashes, the third installment in the series that launched last Thursday (here's our review), we're treated to a teaser trailer for the next horrific adventure.
If you're asking, "wait, season finale?" Supermassive announced the Anthology as an eight-game series. This label signifies that the franchise is divided into two seasons of four games, with The Devil in Me evidently wrapping up the first half. The trailer sets the stage for a story revolving around some sort of serial killer and doesn't appear overtly supernatural at first glance, but we should hopefully learn more soon. While Supermassive hasn't released the trailer itself, players have already shared it online. Check it out in the tweet below.
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After years of waiting, Payday fans finally have some new info on Payday 3. Publisher Starbreeze Studios and developer Overkill Software revealed some new details during the Payday 10th Anniversary livestream event.
Payday 3 will take place in a "living, enormous representation" of New York City, director Erik Wonnevi said. Payday 2 was primarily set in the boroughs of Washington, DC, while the original Payday was set in a fictional "Newport City" as well as Miami
Payday 3 will also take place several years after the events of Payday 2, bringing back characters like Dallas, Hoxton, Chains, and Wolf as they leave retirement and return to their criminal ways.
Technology has come a long way since Payday 2 released in 2013, and Starbreeze looks to be capitalizing on that fact for gameplay purposes. Software giants, cryptocurrency, mass surveillance, and even the dark web will all play some sort of role for the gang, such as updated gadgetry.
The new line sold out in minutes, including jackets costing over $7,000.
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Everything in the seaside town of Moonglow Bay has seen better days. That includes you, a middle-aged accountant who’s moved out of the big city for a fresh start. But things never go quite to plan, do they? The moment-to-moment of Moonglow Bay is a chilled-out experience of getting out onto the waves, exploring various biomes, catching fish, and cooking them up to sell or gift to the townspeople. But within that is an exploration of things going awry, and letting go of old dreams in order to build new ones.
Have you ever picked up a FromSoftware game, played it for a while, got your ass whooped repeatedly, and wondered how you’re ever supposed to beat the game? It’s probably a question every Dark Souls 3 player has asked at least once. However, you probably haven’t asked yourself how you’re supposed to beat it using just…
Today Activision and Sony Interactive Entertainment released not one, but four trailers of the upcoming FPS Call of Duty: Vanguard.
The trailers focus on introducing the operators playable in the game, Arthur Kingsley, Padmavati Balan, Daniel Take Yatsu, and Polina Petrova.
You can check them all out below.
Apex Legends' 11th season gets underway next Tuesday, 2nd November, and ahead of its launch, developer Respawn has released a fresh gameplay trailer revealing, among other things, the free-to-play battle royale shooter's brand-new tropical island map, Storm Point.
Storm Point, a beautiful island paradise located on the planet Gaea, stretches from its tropical shoreline up to the peaks of its towering mountains, making for Apex Legends' biggest map yet - said to be around 15% larger than previous record holder World's Edge.
A new Tales of Arise mod changes up how Rinwell looks, instead giving her Mona's costume from Genshin Impact to wear.
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God, the feeling of playing Grand Theft Auto III upon release. Were you there for it? Do you remember it? You could actually sense, in the moment, that you were experiencing a cultural shift, a game that was going to change things forever. But why? How? What defines the influence and impact of GTA III? There’s no…
It started a few months ago: we got an email about shoes designed using 'blockchain technology', and had a good laugh about it as a concept. But in retrospect, this email was merely the ripple on a glass of water that go ahead of a T-Rex's mighty tread. Except in this analogy the T-Rex is one of 10,001 unique dinosaurs programatically generated from different traits. And it's wearing wacky sunglasses and smoking a pipe.
Destiny 2 has an easy to pull-off trick called the min/max glitch on PC that gives players infinite orbs and a host of other advantages that break a lot of the game’s big activities. Bungie confirmed over the weekend that it’s working on a fix, but in the meantime the developer is warning players will be “met with…