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Aether & Iron Devs Reveal Massive Vault of Cut Content: Two-Thirds of Game Abandoned in Design Crunch

The creative team behind Aether & Iron dropped a bombshell at IGN Live 2026, confirming that the game shipped at roughly one-third of its original scope. The 1930s Decopunk narrative RPG launched w...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Gears of War: E-Day Locked to Xbox, October Launch Confirmed

The Coalition's prequel to the Gears of War franchise will touch down this October exclusively on Xbox hardware. Microsoft announced the October 6, 2026 release date during its Games Showcase 2026 ...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Halo Campaign Evolved Locks July 2026 Launch with Stunning Space Combat Reveal

Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming to Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC on July 28, 2026, according to a newly released trailer that also showcased three original story missions built exclusivel...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Hot Wheels Infinite Rush Goes Full Open World: Massive Islands, New Art Style, and Destruction Mode

Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is not a sequel to Unleashed, it's a complete reinvention. Milestone's development team pulled back the curtain on the upcoming racer at Summer Game Fest and followed up wi...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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PlatinumGames Steps Up for TMNT's Darkest Story

The Last Ronin finally has a home. After THQ Nordic and Black Forest Games shelved their adaptation plans in 2023, PlatinumGames has taken the helm to bring the gritty TMNT comic to life as a video...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Japanese Skateboard Game Show Spawns Addictive Mobile Rhythm Game

A skateboarding obstacle course competition that debuted in Japan has found new life as a mobile game. KASSO GAIDEN: Escape from the Skaterverse just launched as a free-to-play title on iOS and And...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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PowerWash Simulator 2 gets Star Wars dirt: new DLC trailer reveals classic locations

PowerWash Simulator 2 is getting a Star Wars overhaul. The new Star Wars Pack DLC, revealed in a trailer at IGN Live this past Saturday, lets players take on the role of P0-W2, a class five labor d...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Gears of War PS5 Listing Sparks Exclusivity Firestorm Hours Before Xbox Showcase

A placeholder product page for Gears of War: E-Day on PlayStation 5 briefly surfaced on Walmart's website, igniting fresh speculation about Microsoft's stance on console exclusivity just hours befo...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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He-Man's Live-Action Stars Play Surprise Card Game Reaction at IGN Live

The cast of the new Masters of the Universe film got their first hands-on look at Masters of the Universe: Legends Unite, a cooperative card game that just hit shelves, during an exclusive reveal a...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Capcom Brings Monster Hunter Wilds to Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo Switch 2 owners will finally get their chance to hunt monsters. Capcom confirmed Monday that Monster Hunter Wilds is in active development for the Japanese company's next-generation consol...

Emily Chen June 7, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Star Trek Goes Dark: Michelle Forbes Returns as Ro Laren in Gritty New Game

Star Trek is venturing into shadowy territory with Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a mature psychological thriller unveiled at IGN Live 2026. The single-player action game from Bloober Team, the studio...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Remedy Faces Brutal September Showdown as Control Resonant Braces for Launch Chaos

Remedy Entertainment is not backing down from September 24, despite what amounts to a collision course with some of the year's biggest releases. The studio's upcoming sequel Control Resonant will h...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Control Sequel Goes Full RPG: Dylan Faden Trades Sister's Gun for Shape-Shifting Melee Weapon

Remedy Entertainment pulled back the curtain on Control: Resonant at IGN Live, revealing a major stylistic departure from the 2019 original. Where Jesse Faden relied on firearms in a third-person s...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Hitman's Deadly Past Gets New Life: Classic Trilogy Coming 2027

IO Interactive and Saber Interactive are teaming up to resurrect three landmark assassin games for modern hardware. Hitman Classic Trilogy Remastered will bring the original three entries in the fr...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Matt Ryan Dusts Off Pirate Boots for Black Flag Remaster, Teases Beefed-Up Edward Kenway

Matt Ryan is stepping back into Edward Kenway's boots for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, and the veteran voice actor is already warming up for the role that made him a gaming fixture over a...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Square Enix Stands Firm on Mini-Games Despite Player Outcry Over Final Fantasy 7 Revelation

Square Enix has made adjustments to how mini-games function in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, but the studio is drawing a hard line on one thing: the sheer volume of them will not shrink, no matter ho...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Call of Duty Takes Another Shot at Extraction Mode With Revamped DMZ

Activision and Infinity Ward are banking on player feedback to make their second attempt at an extraction shooter stick. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will launch with a rebuilt DMZ mode designed ...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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IGN Live 2026 Drops Major Game Reveals, Avatar Behind-the-Scenes Footage

IGN Live 2026 kicked off this weekend in downtown Los Angeles with a packed two-day showcase of gaming announcements, celebrity panels, and exclusive footage that streamed live to viewers worldwide...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Classic Kaiju Fighter Gets Full Remake Treatment, Launching This November

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee is heading back to the arena with a complete overhaul. A fresh leak from reliable gaming insider billbil-kun at Dealabs indicates that publisher Atari and devel...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Stellar Blade Sequel Ditches Sony, Hints at Multiplatform Launch

Shift Up's upcoming action sequel Stellar Blade: Blood Rain arrived at Summer Game Fest 2026 with fresh visuals and a new protagonist, but one critical detail remains locked down: which platforms w...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Bond Game Smashes Records, IO Interactive Eyes Profit After 3M Sales in Two Weeks

IO Interactive has entered rare territory with 007 First Light, the studio's fastest-selling title ever. The James Bond adventure cracked 3 million copies sold in less than two weeks following its ...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Guild Wars 3 Lands at Summer Game Fest, Beta Test Set for Fall 2027

ArenaNet pulled back the curtain on Guild Wars 3 during Summer Game Fest, confirming the studio's next major MMORPG entry more than a decade after Guild Wars 2 launched. The reveal marked a signifi...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Sephiroth Gets New Voice for Final Fantasy 7 Finale

Square Enix has swapped out the English voice of one of gaming's most iconic villains as it barrels toward the conclusion of its Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy. Director Naoki Hamaguchi confirmed t...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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The Rock's Character Frozen in Shock, But the Real Twist? His Ally Was Fortnite's Biggest Villain All Along

Fortnite's latest live event delivered a one-two punch that left the community reeling. The Foundation, Dwayne Johnson's heroic character, fell to The Ice King in an epic showdown that concluded mo...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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RuneScape Spinoff Joins the September 2026 Game Crush

RuneScape: Dragonwilds is heading to consoles on September 15, 2026, arriving for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC. The open-world survival game marks the franchise's first full console d...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Bandai Namco Unleashes Gundam Rogue Orbit: New Mecha Action Game Coming 2027

Bandai Namco pulled back the curtain on Gundam Rogue Orbit at Summer Game Fest 2026, unveiling a fresh action title that puts players in the cockpit of custom mobile suits. The reveal included a hi...

Emily Chen June 6, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Stellar Blade Gets a Sequel, Breaking Free From Sony

Shift Up unveiled Stellar Blade Blood Rain at Summer Game Fest 2026, marking the studio's first major move as an independent publisher. The sequel to the 2024 action hit will expand beyond the Play...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Alien: Isolation 2 finally breaks cover, brings the xenomorph to new worlds

Sega and Creative Assembly pulled back the curtain on Alien: Isolation 2 at Summer Game Fest 2026, revealing the long-awaited sequel through a new trailer that confirms the survival horror franchis...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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The Wolf Among Us 2 finally arrives in 2027 as remaster launches this year

Telltale Games confirmed tonight that The Wolf Among Us 2 will release in 2027 across multiple platforms, marking a milestone for a sequel that has endured nearly a decade of production turmoil, st...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Gothic Remake Dusts Off A 25-Year-Old Cult Classic, But Can't Fix What Made It Broken

The original Gothic arrived in 2001 as something genuinely strange: a dense, unforgiving RPG that treated players like expendable prisoners rather than chosen heroes. A quarter century later, hardw...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 12 min read

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Hot Wheels Goes Big with Open World, Launches September 2026

Hot Wheels is ditching the linear track formula. Infinite Rush, the upcoming entry in the toy car racing franchise, will let players explore a full open world when it launches September 24, 2026. T...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Wolf Among Us 2 Finally Coming in 2027, But the Road Here Broke Everything

Nearly a decade after Telltale Games first teased The Wolf Among Us 2, the studio has locked in a 2027 release date. A remastered version of the original game arrives later this year. It's a milest...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 11 min read

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007 First Light Stacks Year of Content, Lenny Kravitz DLC in Works

IO Interactive pulled back the curtain on its post-launch plans for 007 First Light at Summer Game Fest, unveiling a year one roadmap packed with story expansions, gameplay features, and tools that...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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God of War Director Pushes Back on Faye Casting Backlash, Defends Vision

The director of the newly announced God of War Laufey is wading into fan pushback over a central creative choice: making Faye, Kratos' wife, the protagonist instead of the legendary warrior himself...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Maverick Games' Clutch Takes You to a Supersized Monaco and the French Riviera

A British racing studio has unveiled its ambitious debut title, Clutch, an open-world action-driving game that reimagines Monaco and the French Riviera as a sprawling playground for high-speed purs...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Control Resonant Ditches Guns for Blades, and It Works

Control Resonant swaps the franchise's signature gunplay for something far more primal: melee combat. After spending two hours with an early build, it's clear that Remedy has found something genuin...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Final Fantasy VII Revelation arrives spring 2027 on all major platforms

Square Enix has officially unveiled the final chapter of its Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy, titled Revelation, launching simultaneously across Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Palworld Exits Early Access This July After Years in the Wild

Pocket Pair announced at Summer Game Fest that Palworld will hit its full 1.0 launch on July 10. The creature-collecting adventure has been available in early access since its breakout debut, but t...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Raw Power's Medieval Combat Game Blends Brutal Sword Work With Tactical Army Command

Raw Power Games is building Chronicles: Medieval as something of a hybrid beast, letting players toggle between commanding hundreds of troops on a sprawling battlefield and wading into close-quarte...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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AION 2 Launches This September, 36 Times Bigger Than the Original

Sixteen years after AION: The Tower of Eternity captivated millions with its emphasis on aerial combat and magical landscapes, the long-awaited sequel finally has a release window. NC has confirmed...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Avatar RPG Project Quietly Shelved After Paramount Overhaul

The ambitious Avatar: The Last Airbender role-playing game announced in 2024 will not move forward, Paramount Games Studio confirmed this week. The project, which had been in development at Saber I...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Assassin's Creed Creator Resurrects Forgotten 1666 Amsterdam After 15-Year Silence

Patrice Désilets dusted off one of gaming's longest-shelved projects at Summer Game Fest, bringing 1666 Amsterdam back from the dead with a playable demo now available for free. The dark third-pers...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Mafia: The Old Country's Surprise DLC Brings Back the Crime Boss Origins

Hangar 13 is keeping players invested in Mafia: The Old Country with a story expansion arriving next month. The studio announced Man of Honor, a DLC chapter that digs into the past of Don Salieri, ...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Horizon Steel Frontiers MMORPG Arriving Next Year, NCSoft Confirms

PlayStation's expanding Horizon universe is about to welcome an unconventional new entry. NCSoft has revealed that Horizon Steel Frontiers, a mobile-first massively multiplayer online game set in t...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Studio MDHR Drops Two Cuphead Projects at Summer Game Fest

Studio MDHR surprised audiences at Summer Game Fest 2026 with announcements of two new Cuphead games in active development, marking a significant expansion of the beloved franchise. Host Geoff Keig...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Backrooms Director Eyes Portal Film as His Dream Project

Kane Parsons, the filmmaker behind the breakout horror series Backrooms, is actively pursuing a Portal adaptation. In recent interviews, including one with The New York Times, Parsons identified th...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Nine PC Games Worth $261 Selling for Just $10 This Weekend

Humble Bundle is running a limited-time promotion tied to this weekend's IGN Live event, offering a nine-game collection for $10 or more. The total retail value of the bundle sits at $261, making i...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Magic's Alternate Universe Set Already Dropping in Price

Magic: The Gathering's upcoming Reality Fracture set is showing early signs of the discount cycle, with Play Booster Boxes already marked down at Amazon ahead of release. The set's standard retail ...

Emily Chen June 5, 2026 0 comments 6 min read