What Do Pro Players Think of Hearthstone’s Huge New Changes?

Hearthstone’s World Championship finished over the weekend (the VODs are here), and during the four day event I had the chance to catch up with justsaiyan, Bunnyhoppor, Ike and the winner of the whole thing – Hearthstone’s new World Champion: Hunterace. I’ve already published their thoughts on Rise of Shadows and any nerfs they’d like to see, but I also asked them about the new Specialist format, the transition away from HCT to Masters and Grandmasters and more. Enjoy! (And for more on Hearthstone’s esports plans for the rest of the year, check out my interview with Sam Braithwaite, the man heading it all up.)

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Red Dead Online Open Target Races Now Available for Xbox One

Xbox One users are now able to play Open Target Races in Red Dead Online, along with receiving exclusive bonuses for the week.

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Best PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro Deals and Bundles This Week

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If you're interested in buying a PS4 Slim or PS4 Pro, you've come to the right place. We've clicked through all the retailers that sell PlayStation consoles and compiled a list of the best deals available right now. And if you're new to the PS4 platform or would like some additional information about PlayStation services and accessories, we have you covered there too, along with other buying information you might find useful.

One thing to keep in mind: since the PS4 is the best-selling game console this generation, retailers don't have much incentive to offer discounts. So while the PS4 deals we've found can save you a few bucks, the savings usually aren't that big outside of Black Friday.

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The Latest Days Gone Update Addresses Audio Bugs, Save Issues, and More

Here are the full patch notes for Days Gone Update 1.05.

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Mortal Kombat 11: Don't Miss These Krypt Key Item Locations

Unlock even more areas of Mortal Kombat 11's Krypt with the locations of these Key Items.

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How to Get 2,150 Apex Legends Coins for 99p

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With the number of players jumping into Apex Legends sky-rocketing, it's only natural demand for new skins and unlockables to increase. It's possible to earn new cosmetics simply by playing, but purchasing Apex Legends coins is a fast-track way to getting extras (although you're not guaranteed to get what you want).

Apex Legends coins are only used to unlock cosmetics, characters and weapons - they do not provide any actual advantage in the game, so it's not 'pay-to-play' via the currency,

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Updated: Mortal Kombat 11 Cheats, Secrets, and Easter Eggs

All of the secrets of the Krypt, secret characters, and Easter eggs discovered in Mortal Kombat 11.

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Days Gone Update 1.05 Patch Notes

See what changes come with Days Gone version 1.05.

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Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMIND DLC Reportedly Announced

Shortly after the release of Kingdom Hearts 3's first free DLC, word of paid DLC has come from a recent Kingdom Hearts concert in Tokyo, Japan.

Twitter user YanilynGaming reportedly attended the concert and confirmed that Kingdom Hearts franchise director confirmed a bit of paid, and free DLC, on the way. The paid DLC is known as Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMIND. According to Yanilyn, the paid aspect will include an additional scenario known as ReMIND, as well as a "Limit Episode + Boss," a new Secret Episode plus a boss, and an English voiceover option for the Japanese version of the game.

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How to Complete the Avengers: Endgame Challenges in Fortnite

Get control of Thanos and deal damage using the mythical Avengers weapons in Fortnite's Endgame challenges.

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Mortal Kombat 11 Krypt: How to Unlock Everything

Our guide to the Krypt and its many secrets comes equipped with maps, secrets, and key items listed in every nook and cranny.

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Up at Noon: Avengers: Endgame Bathroom Hacks, DC Villain Movies and Mortal Kombat Klassic

Up at Noon is back with some relaxed, goofy, informative (?) weekend content on IGN as the second episode of our newly rebooted weekly comedy variety show is here to make your Saturdays suck less!

This week on the show!

• Avengers: Endgame is the biggest movie in the world and it's also one of the longest, so we're teaching you how to pee during the movie without having to get out of your seat. That's right: we've devised a plan to allow you to go #1 without missing a second of the #1 movie in the world.

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Mortal Kombat 11: How to Farm Soul Fragments

Find out how to best accumulate the Soul Fragment currency to get lots of treasures in Mortal Kombat 11's Krypt.

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Get Every SteamWorld Treasure Chest with These Maps

We've found every chest and marked them on maps for you to find.

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Days Gone Review

Days Gone kicks off relatively simply: you play as a biker riding through an open-world zombie post-apocalypse, seeking answers around his dead wife and smashing enemy faces in with crunchy, weighty melee weapons. Sometimes, there are spectacular hordes of them. So far, so straightforward. Yet through its 60-odd-hour ride, Days Gone loses its focus with repetitive missions, a meandering and thematically unsatisfying storyline, and an excess of bugs and busywork. When you slow down for a minute or two, these issues combine with a dreary, uninteresting open world and add up to an uneven and mostly toothless zombie experience.

For a gruff biker dude traveling through a zombie-infested (okay, they’re technically virus-infected humans called Freakers, but functionally the same thing) Oregon, Deacon St. John is an endearingly gentle and sweet-natured protagonist. His gruff charm and unassuming ‘I ain’t no leader’ demeanor is mostly well voiced by Sam Witwer (AKA Darth Maul on Star Wars: The Clone Wars), aside from moments where he inexplicably yells during stealth missions and an occasional tendency to over-act in more frantic sequences.

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Fortnite X Avengers: Endgame Event Goes Live Today

Epic Games has announced Fortnite: Endgame, the Avengers crossover event that launches today.

After days of teasing, a new trailer shows Thanos and his army of Chitauri walking across the Fortnite map, before a team of Fortnite characters turn up and take out one of the Titan’s troops with Captain America’s shield. The squad can be seen wielding Hawkeye’s bow, Thor’s Stormbreaker axe, and Iron Man’s repulsor gauntlets.

The update’s patch notes describes the event as a fight against Thanos and his army, who are tracking down the six Infinity Stones. Players are divided into two teams - Team Thanos and Team Heroes - and the mode supports respawning until specific conditions are met.

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The Next Call of Duty May Have Just Been Revealed in the Strangest Way

Several NFL and college football players attended a private Activision event to test out the new Call of Duty, and may have revealed the title of the 2019 game.

The event, which has been attached to the hashtag on social media as #CallofDutyPartner, shows various 2019 NFL draft prospects such as WR Riley Ridley and WR N'Keal Harry, along with NFL players from the Tennessee Titans, including WR Tajae Sharpe and CB Logan Ryan, attending the event.

A video was uploaded to Reddit from one of the players' Instagrams, and was slowed down with subtitles added, that may have shared the newest title while playing the upcoming game.

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Blizzard Announces New Workshop Mode for Overwatch

Blizzard Entertainment has announced the Workshop for Overwatch, a mode that expands customization features available to players in the game browser.

Announced through the official Overwatch website, the Workshop is a "simplified game scripting system that expands the customization features available in the Game Browser.” The Workshop is available through Overwatch’s public test region (PTR) server.

On top of already established Overwatch game modes, players can create a script and add rules and unique play conditions to their games. These rules can be applied to movement speed, abilities, damage and healing mechanics, displaying text under certain conditions and more. One specific theoretical mode described was Molten Floor, where a hero will catch fire if they’re on the ground, necessitating players to frequently jump and look for objects to move across.

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Days Gone Free DLC Confirmed, New Difficulty Mode Coming in June

With Days Gone only being a couple days away, Bend Studio has begun talking about the free DLC that will give players a new difficulty mode, new challenges, and much more this June.

Announced on the PlayStation Blog, game director Jeff Ross explains that this DLC will include the 'Survival' difficulty mode that will challenge Days Gone players with "increased difficulty settings, no fast travel or Survival Vision, and an immersive HUD that removes maps and indicators from the gameplay screen."

The goal of this new mode was to immerse players even further and really "ratchet up the tension to make this the definitive survival experience."

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World War Z Review

Some of my favorite gaming moments stem from co-op sessions with friends, and the chaos that can ensue when all your careful plans start to go awry. World War Z is a competent but basic shooter that seems designed to foster those sorts of memorable moments, and that is surely its greatest strength. It’s a good venue for a group of four friends to get together, topple massive zombie hordes, maybe save a few survivors here and there, and laugh about it when the results roll in. There’s nothing revolutionary or even that remarkable about World War Z, but the formula it follows is proven to be fun.

Comparisons between World War Z and the Left 4 Dead series are more than justified – unavoidable, even, as Valve’s decade-old series is still revered today for its fast-paced action and ability to throw dozens of raving zombies at you at once. Ever since, there’s been a certain set of guidelines one looks for when dealing with co-op zombie shooters. World War Z neatly checks every box on that list while upping the amount of zombies that can be on screen at a time considerably.

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Someone Beat Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Using Donkey Kong Bongos

While most have a hard enough time getting through Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice with a standard controller, one daring individual managed to beat the game using Donkey Kong Bongos.

ATwerkinYoshi, known for using bizarre controllers in his gaming runs, posted a video of him beating Sekiro's final boss using two sets of DK Bongos on Reddit. His DK Bongo run reportedly took 10 hours, with 131 total resurrections and 31 deaths at the hands of the game’s final boss.

At the beginning of this rhythmic run, ATWerkinYoshi posted a series of images on Imgur showing his DK Bongo Sekiro setup. He modified the bongos to work with the game, with one pair largely acting as his directional inputs and the other mostly used for attacks and parrying. He had to sacrifice camera controls in order to make the setup work, which he claims made seeing above or below him difficult. Considering he managed to beat the entire game this way, it appears to have paid off.

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Starlink: Battle for Atlas Coming to PC next Week

Ubisoft announced today that Starlink: Battle for Atlas’ anticipated Crimson Moon update will go live on April 30, alongside a surprise PC release on the same day and previously announced paid DLC for new Star Fox content on the Nintendo Switch version.

The Crimson Moon update will add new pilots, ships, weapons, and story missions to Starlink. It will also include a new coliseum combat mode with rankings and leaderboards, and as well new one and two-player racing tracks. More information can be found here, including details on paint jobs for your ships.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Thinblood Disciplines Revealed

Paradox Interactive has revealed more information about the background and disciplines for Thinbloods in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, which the player will begin the game as.

Thinbloods are a second-class group of vampires who have abilities that are weaker than the "great clans." Though players will begin as a newly embraced Thinblood, they will eventually have the choice to join one of these five "full-blooded Kindred clans."

Paradox has released an animated trailer that you can see below that gives a glimpse of some of the lore and powers the Thinbloods possess, with further clans being revealed in the coming weeks.

Thinbloods may be a recent and weaker strain of vampires, but Seattle's leadership has been "uncharacteristically tolerant" of them. Seattle recently became under Camarilla control, and while Thinbloods still have the opportunity to "navigate their way into the higher circles of vampire society," they are rarely shown the same level of respect as the full-blood clan members.

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Cheaper Nintendo Switch to Launch by June, According to Report

Update 4/24: A new report indicates that Nintendo will launch a new, cheaper version of Nintendo Switch by the end of June, with a “modest” upgrade to the existing model allegedly coming later this year.

In a financial report by Bloomberg, a small excerpt suggests the cheaper Switch model is coming very soon. An outright "more powerful version” is allegedly not in the works, though details on this claim are sparse. Whether this alludes to a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X-like hardware boost, or simply a series of hardware redesigns akin to the DS Lite remains to be seen. The report is based on claims from two unnamed sources.

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Fortnite Devs Working 70-Hours Weeks According to New Report

Staff at Epic Games are working in a state of constant crunch in order to maintain Fortnite and its games-as-a-service structure, according to a new report.

A lengthy feature from Polygon, based on interviews with several sources from within the company, explains how all departments - from production to customer service - have been trapped in a seemingly endless work cycle since the battle royale become the world’s most popular game.

“I work an average 70 hours a week,” one source revealed. “There’s probably at least 50 or even 100 other people at Epic working those hours. I know people who pull 100-hour weeks.”

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How Healthy is Hearthstone Right Now According to Blizzard?

On the eve of Hearthstone’s World Championship – and a mere two weeks after the release of Rise of Shadows and the Standard rotation – I caught up with Lead Final Designer Dean Ayala to chat about how the current meta looks from Team 5’s perspective, the discussion around Elysiana, the rise of Nomi Priest and whether Darkest Hour is a problem in Wild.

IGN: Let’s start off focusing on Standard. How has the launch been from your perspective? Are things as expected? How’s the meta looking?

Dean Ayala: In terms of the decks that people are playing, I’d say that we’re very happy. I mean, rotation always carries with it a lot of change; there are very few decks that aren’t affected by three expansions going away and another one coming in. So there’s very few decks that didn’t change very much. Hunter has a deck that’s maybe the closest to what it was, but even that, there’s ten cards missing.

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Mortal Kombat 11: Improvements 'Koming' to Towers of Time and Krypt Rewards

Following complaints of the "super hard Towers of Time" and "rewards/economy" issues of the Krypt in Mortal Kombat 11, Ed Boon and NetherRealm Studios have reassured its fans that fixes will be arriving in the near future.

Ed Boon took to Twitter with a "MK11 PSA" to let fans of Mortal Kombat 11 know that NetherRealm has heard their complaints regarding the Krypt and Towers of Time and is "hoping/expecting" that fixes to these game modes will be arriving in a time frame that is "more like HOURS than days."

In our review of Mortal Kombat 11, we praised the game but said that the Towers of Time are where MK11's "biggest problems lie," with some fights being "actively un-fun to play" due to certain modifiers that make challenges more frustrating than fun.

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Spider-Man PS4 Had to Unmake Its Manhattan Open-World to Keep Running

In the opening sequence of Marvel’s Spider-Man for PlayStation 4, Insomniac Games had to come up with some creative solutions to make Fiske Tower bigger on the inside than it was on the outside.

Revealed during Insomniac’s GDC 2019 tech postmortem and subsequently posted on Twitter, Insomniac senior engine programmer Elan Ruskin shared a video showing how the developer managed to fit a larger interior inside of a smaller exterior while keeping all of Manhattan intact.

As it turns out, they didn’t.

Also from our #GDC19 tech postmortem: the transition into Fisk Tower in #SpiderManPS4's intro mission. The interior space is much larger than the exterior envelope, and too big to hold in memory at the same time as Manhattan. So we use some careful camerawork to hide the swap! pic.twitter.com/Ur53ZSVGr8

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Anthem Update 1.1.0 Finally Lets You Change Gear Mid-Mission

Anthem Update 1.1.0 is now live, bringing with it the ability to change gear mid-mission, select contracts from the start of an expedition screen and more.

Revealed through official BioWare patch notes, Anthem players can now access the Forge during missions, strongholds and freeplay, meaning you no longer have to return to Fort Tarsis or the Launch Bay to change gear. Additionally, players no longer need to return to Fort Tarsis or the Launch Bay to select contracts or launch a new mission: these can now be done from the start and end of the expedition screen, respectively.

The Sunken Cell stronghold is now available to all players who have completed the main story, and three new universal masterwork components have been added: the extended sniper magazine for additional specialized storage for enhanced sniper rifle ammunition, rapid hollow points for additional specialized ammo storage for machine pistols and autocannons, and the extended special arms magazine adds specialized ammo storage for heavy pistols and grenade launchers. All of these increase damage by 30 percent.

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Square Enix Announces Its E3 2019 Press Conference Date, Time

Square Enix has announced its plans for E3 2019 and has revealed that it will be hosting a "special broadcast" on Monday, June 10 at 6pm PT/9pm ET to showcase an "exciting line up of titles."

Square Enix took to Twitter to share the news of how they will be kicking off E3 2019 this year, but didn't give any indication of what exactly they would be showing.

An interesting note, however, is that it is taking the time slot that has been previously held by PlayStation, which follows the news that Sony would not be appearing at E3 this year.

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Rage 2's Killer New Vehicles, Abilities, and Upgrades

April continues to charge forward, which means we’ve got another exclusive look at Rage 2 as part of this month’s IGN First! This time, I sat down with id Software Studio Director Tim Willits as he goes deep into how its skill trees and upgrade systems work. Watch the video above for a first look at all the customization it offers.

If you’re hungry for even more, we’ve got loads of coverage from this month, including 11 minutes of Rage 2 gameplay, a breakdown of the enemy factions you’ll be fighting, and a look at how Rage has evolved since the original. We’ve also got a full Rage 2 preview after spending a few hours in its wasteland that you can watch below.

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SteamWorld Quest Review

Despite being full of cards, SteamWorld Quest doesn’t feel like a card game. As the first RPG in the SteamWorld series (the excellent SteamWorld Dig 2 being the previous entry), it bears far more resemblance to a game like Final Fantasy than Hearthstone or Gwent. Instead of letting its deck-building mechanics take over entirely, they instead give SteamWorld Quest one of the most flexible and fun turn-based RPG combat systems I’ve played with in a long time.

Steam World Quest tells the charming tale of a group of ragtag fantasy robots out to save the world from an evil army, rising to the threat before them despite their inexperience. It’s not exactly a unique premise (except for the robot part, I suppose), but the twists and turns it takes along the way make it stand out in interesting ways, and the big bad behind it all is a compelling one to fight. The story digs into larger themes about heroism and growing up with some nicely written dialogue that’s never long enough to drag the action down, and can even be genuinely funny or touching at times.

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How to Get 2,150 Apex Legends Coins for 99p

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With the number of players jumping into Apex Legends sky-rocketing, it's only natural demand for new skins and unlockables to increase. It's possible to earn new cosmetics simply by playing, but purchasing Apex Legends coins is a fast-track way to getting extras (although you're not guaranteed to get what you want).

Apex Legends coins are only used to unlock cosmetics, characters and weapons - they do not provide any actual advantage in the game, so it's not 'pay-to-play' via the currency,

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Mortal Kombat 11: How Loot Boxes Work in the Krypt

Don't spend your hard-earned Koins, Hearts, and Soul Fragments without learning how the Krypt works in Mortal Kombat 11.

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Mortal Kombat 11: List of Fatalities and How to Perform Them

See our list of all the Fatalities you can perform in Mortal Kombat 11 to score maximum carnage.

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Rage 2: All of Our Exclusive Gameplay, Impressions, and More!

April's IGN First game is Rage 2! We're gearing up for the first-person shooter sequel's launch by diving deep into a number of the game's systems and facets ahead of its May 14 release date.

This page will serve as a continually updated hub of everything we're doing all month long. Take a look at the list below and catch up on anything you've missed!

The BFG 9000 Headlines 11 Minutes of New Rage 2 Gameplay

The Hilarious New 'Everything vs. Me' Trailer

Breaking Down Rage 2's Deadly Factions

How Rage Has Evolved

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It's Not Too Late to Preorder Mortal Kombat 11 and Lock In Shao Kahn

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Mortal Kombat 11 was officially revealed during the 2018 Game Awards with a gore-filled trailer, followed by a gameplay reveal January 17. The release date for Mortal Kombat 11 is tomorrow, April 23, 2019, which means you can still take advantage of preorder perks.

Preordering Mortal Kombat 11 gets you access to Shao Kahn, and all the different versions of Mortal Kombat 11 are available for preorder.  You have just one more day to lock in Shao Kahn, so don't delay!

Mortal Kombat 11 Standard Edition

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Kingdom Hearts 3 Update Adds Critical Mode Tomorrow

Square Enix released Kingdom Hearts 3 with a notable omission earlier this year — the more challenging Critical Mode difficulty that longtime fans have loved playing. But now, Kingdom Hearts 3 players will get the chance to do just that this week.

Kingdom Hearts 3 franchise director Tetsuya Nomura announced via a tweet that Kingdom Hearts 3's Critical Mode will arrive on April 23 (PT). Nomura nor Square Enix offered an exact timeframe tomorrow for the Critical Mode update, as well as whether anything additional will be included in the update.

"Greetings, it’s been a while since I last posted," the tweet read. "Spring is here, and I hope everyone is doing well. #KingdomHearts III's long-awaited Critical Mode is available as a free update tomorrow (PT). We’ve changed things up from the previous games, so I hope you enjoy - Nomura"

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Fortnite Teases Another Avengers Crossover

Epic Games is teasing yet another Fortnite and Avengers crossover, scheduled to drop just before Endgame is released later this week.

This news was revealed though the official Fortnite Twitter account with the caption "Whatever it takes. 4.25.19.” Though it’s unclear exactly what the Avengers content is, the tweet is accompanied by the image of a character holding Captain America’s classic vibranium shield. Whatever it is, expect something big to happen on April 25, the day before Endgame comes to theaters in America.

Whatever it takes.

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Mortal Kombat 11 Review

When it was first introduced a staggering 27 years ago, Mortal Kombat always had that reputation of being “That fighting game where you rip people’s heads off.” Known more for its gore and violence than its gameplay. Things have changed since then with MK9 and MKX bringing the quality of gameplay up to meet the quality of violence. That upward trend continues with Mortal Kombat 11, which is not only the best Mortal Kombat has ever been, it’s also arguably Netherrealm’s best game yet. This is one of the most fully featured fighting games you can buy, with both single- and multiplayer modes that will last both casual and hardcore audiences a long, long time.

Mortal Kombat’s defining quality among 2D fighters is that its combat centers around two punch buttons, two kick buttons, and a block button. This is actually more unique than it sounds. While other 2D fighters typically have some combination of light, medium, and/or heavy attacks, with weaker attacks linking into stronger attacks, Mortal Kombat has no such concept. Instead, MK employs a “dial-a-combo” system that requires knowledge of very specific button combinations in order to build a combo. It’s definitely not a super-accessible combat system for newcomers, but fortunately, Mortal Kombat 11 comes with one of the best fighting game tutorials I’ve ever played. It covers everything from basic fundamentals all the way to the most advanced techniques such as frame traps, jailing, and block strings, all while highlighting key concepts and clear instructions on how to implement these techniques.

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How to Defeat Every Cuphead Boss and Master Every Level

Here's how to take on every level and boss Cuphead throws your way.

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Riding With Red Dead Online Role Players Was My Best Ever Multiplayer Experience

The last time I rode into Valentine in Red Dead Online I was shot, tied up, stabbed, and shot again. Some days that’s life in Rockstar’s Wild West wonderland, where the atmosphere’s magnificent but the murder indiscriminate.

I tend to spend most of my time in Red Dead Online alone against the world; hunting, fishing, and simply surviving inside the simulation. Sometimes I can saunter into towns solo without incident but, unfortunately, things regularly go south faster than a stork strapped to a scramjet. That’s the risk you run riding alone.

Today, however, is different. Today, I’m not alone.

“We tend to ride in two-by-two formation just because it makes a bigger impression when we ride into town,” explains DirtyWorka, president of the PS4 charter of the Reaper Lords, a GTA Online MC club that has since mostly migrated to Red Dead Online. “We won’t shoot at anybody unless they raise a weapon in our direction.”

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God of War Documentary, Raising Kratos Announced by Sony

On the one-year anniversary of 2018's Game of the Year – God of War – Sony announced an upcoming documentary that follows the creation of the game.

The documentary titled, Raising Kratos, was announced in a trailer featuring game director for God of War, Cory Barlog; the team at Santa Monica Studio; along with the actors who portrayed the main characters in the game, such as Kratos, Atreus, and Freya.

"It’s only fitting on the one-year Anniversary, we’re excited to share this peak behind the curtain of God of War’s very own Santa Monica Studio with a trailer for our upcoming film, Raising Kratos," a post on the PlayStation blog said. "This full-length feature documentary, coming very soon to PlayStation YouTube, is an exploration into the massive undertaking it took to change the course of the God of War franchise."

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Joker's Final Smash Crashing Some Switches

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's latest DLC character, Joker from Persona 5, is freezing player's Nintendo Switches when they use his Final Smash to end a Classic Mode match.

This issue was confirmed by IGN's own Zachary Ryan, as his Switch froze three times when finishing a Classic Mode match with Joker's Final Smash. There are also many other examples, including a Reddit thread posted by CubingVainGlory, that show the freeze happening.

It appears this glitch is only occurring in Classic Mode and only with Joker, and does not appear to impact any other aspect of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as of this writing.

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Up At Noon: Bad N64 Games On Switch, Suda51's Airplane Poops, and Our Crash Bandicoot Theory

Hey! Here's the very first episode of the all-new, fully-rebooted, flavor-blasted, industrial strength Up At Noon! In case you missed the announcement here along with our totally insane teaser trailer, we've taken some time to retool the show after tons of demand to bring it back. From celebrity and game developer interviews to lists, unboxings, and nonsense, Up at Noon has long been a cornerstone of IGN and we're ecstatic to have it return.

How have we retooled it? Well, this time around we're taking over weekends on IGN, which is probably the best time of the week to actually wake up at noon. We've upped the production value a bunch, too! It's also no longer live, and now exists primarily as a bunch of silly bite-sized segments that will be going up every weekend all across the internet, which we'll also be stitching them together into a proper variety show exclusively on IGN, which is what this is! You'll also be able to watch break-out clips from the show on IGN's YouTube channel every weekend! So grab a huge bowl of sugary cereal (or a healthier breakfast or whatever) and think of it as adult Nickelodeon or a live-action Saturday morning cartoon.

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Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster Walkthrough

A complete guide to get through Final Fantasy X-2, now out for the Nintendo Switch!

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Hearthstone: Why Next Week’s World Championship Will Be One of a Kind

Next week, 16 of the best Hearthstone players in the world are heading to Taipei for the Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) Finals. Running from April 25 - 28 (local time), the tournament is the culmination of a full year (and then some) of fierce competition, but it’s going to be so much more than that. This year will be the most unique competition Hearthstone has ever seen, and I absolutely can’t wait.

For a big chunk of the player base, the most exciting part of this year’s World Championship is probably the fact that it’s taking place after the Standard rotation. What does that mean? Well, when the first set of cards in a new calendar year hits the game, three old sets rotate out. This means 135 new cards come in and 400+ old cards go out. It’s a huge shake-up because a lot of the existing strategies rely heavily on those 400+ cards, so are lost altogether or drastically re-worked, while a whole lot of new archetypes emerge. It also means that the new set has a big impact, because it’s a larger percentage of the overall card pool than the expansions later in the year.

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Top 10 Best-Selling Video Games of All Time

Games have always existed in a numbers-obsessed industry. Sega vs. Nintendo defined a generation in the '90s, while today's more mild console wars and monthly NPD reports keep sales figures at the forefront of games-related discussion. With such a persistent emphasis on performance, one of the industry's biggest questions has always been, What are the best-selling video games of all time?

To answer this question, we set out to compile the most accurate list possible, digging through financial reports, news stories, interviews, and more. The result is the following list of the ten best-selling video games of all time, as of March 2019.

(Notes: We've counted pack-in games toward sales totals, considering all ten games on this list were, at one point, bundled with a console. Free downloads are not counted as sales, therefore excluding games like Fortnite and League of Legends.)

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Every IGN Mortal Kombat Review

Mortal Kombat has been gruesomely dismembering fighters since 1992 – four years before IGN was around. With the impending launch of Mortal Kombat 11 (which, shockingly, is not actually the 11th Mortal Kombat game) we're looking back over all 30 reviews IGN has published. Interestingly, the series contains such a wide range of games that it's one of the few that's earned almost every score in the book, except the very highest and lowest available.

Which MK games stand out to you as the best and worst?

Dan Stapleton is IGN's Reviews Editor. You can follow him on Twitter to hear gaming rants and lots of random old-school Simpsons references.

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Katana Zero Review

Taking more than a few cues from Hotline Miami, Katana Zero is a blisteringly fast slash-em-up with action that’s an absolute adrenaline rush. Which is appropriate because it’s largely about a neo-noir-inspired samurai who sticks a bunch of needles in his body.

It wears its inspirations on the sleeves of its kimono, but Katana Zero refines the tried and true one-hit-kill formula in a manner that makes it feels fresh, exciting, and innovative in surprising ways.

Katana Zero puts you in control of a nameless samurai assassin with the power to manipulate time and see into the future. In an extremely clever and fun framing of the action, every level is contextualized as being the planning of an assassination. So, instead of your character dying, you’re told “No… That won’t work,” as your precognition rewinds to the start (complete with old-timey VCR effect), giving you a chance to find a solution that doesn’t end in your death. Every level even ends with a security camera recording of what “actually” happened, which serves not only as a way to see your moment of triumph played back, but also to subvert expectations in interesting ways later on.

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Fortnite: World Cup Creative Announced by Epic Games

Epic Games has added a new event to the $100 million prize pool Fortnite World Cup event – Fortnite: World Cup Creative, which will run specifically from April 29 to June 7.

The World Cup Creative will consist of five showcase events and five different trials – all from community creators. Each event will focus on a new Creative game, with fifteen participants then being selected to compete in the Creative competition at the Fortnite World Cup Finals.

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Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Coming to Genesis Mini

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Sega is joining the retro mini-console wars with its own Sega Genesis Mini, with a September 19 release date and a $79.99 price tag. The good news is you can preorder the Sega Genesis Mini right now, and it looks like this will be closer to Nintendo's offerings with the NES and Super NES Classics than Sony's misstep with the PlayStation Classic.

Where to Preorder Sega Genesis Mini

Sega Genesis Mini preorders are $79.99 with a September 19, 2019 release date:

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Fortnite Week 8 Challenges: Telephone and Treasure Map Location

The eighth week of Season 8 is here and we the locations of the telephones and treasure map.

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Overwatch: New Event Seems to Tease Next Hero

Overwatch's new Storm Rising PvE event begins with a fantastic cutscene, but ends with a more enigmatic one, which may be teasing the game's next playable character.

Warning: If you haven't played Overwatch's Storm Rising event and want to save the surprise for yourself, go no further.

After finishing the Storm Rising mode, you'll be treated to a small clip of Mercy, Tracer, Winston and Genji capturing their target, Maximilien. After Maximilien asks what Overwatch wants from him, Mercy answers with "an introduction".

The scene changes to the game's Temple of Anubis setting, and we're shown Doomfist as he attempts to ask someone to join forces with the Talon organisation.

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PS5 Price Will Be 'Appealing to Gamers in Light of its Advanced Features'

PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny has addressed the price of the upcoming console, while not actually saying what it will be.

Wired writer Peter Rubin dropped a quote from Cerny, which wasn't used in the magazine's reveal feature yesterday, on Twitter.

Rubin asked Cerny whether the PS5 would be set around the launch price range of recent consoles. Cerny's answer was a little enigmatic: "I believe that we will be able to release it at an SRP

that will be appealing to gamers in light of its advanced feature set."

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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Release Date Announced

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Marvel has announced that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order will release on July 19, 2019, exclusively on the Nintendo Switch.

We heard about a summer 2019 release window for The Black Order in February's Nintendo Direct, but the date is now confirmed.

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Rage 2: How Rage Has Evolved

Rage 2 can sometimes look like an entirely different game from its predecessor on the surface, but so much of this sequel’s gameplay, world, and structure is grounded in the original Rage – just improved and transformed into something new. We spoke to id Software’s Tim Willits about how Rage has evolved in the last eight years, watch the video above to hear him talk about its improved tech, lighter attitude, and how everything go so dang pink.

In case you didn’t notice, Rage 2 is our IGN First for April, which means we’re taking a deep look at it all month long. You can watch 11 minutes of Rage 2 gameplay we exclusively debuted last week below, as well as a breakdown of the factions shown in its latest trailer here. You can find all of our IGN First coverage of Rage 2 on this page, and be sure to check back for even more over the coming weeks!

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Cancelled Aliens RPG Was Like a "Terrifying" Mass Effect

Chris Avellone shares the details on Obsidian's cancelled RPG, Aliens: Crucible, which got as far as a "really cool" prototype.

Speaking to VG24/7 about his time at Obsidian and the cancelled Aliens RPG, Avellone said a "rough comparison" of the gameplay would be "basically Mass Effect but more terrifying."

He added that the studio's relationship with Sega deteriorated to the point that eventually the title was cancelled.

“We wanted to make it. But by that point Sega, I think, was… the publisher/management relations had gotten to a point where they were just tired of dealing with

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Opinion: PS5 Sounds Like a PS4 Deluxe, Because That's What People Actually Want

Indulge me with a thought experiment. You are a very successful orange salesman. You spent several harvests picking the best elements of different oranges, cross-breeding them and discovering an orange that almost everyone loves, while not breaking the bank on your end. Let’s say you end up selling, I don’t know, 90 million oranges. Impressive!

Now to the hard part: when it comes to the next generation of oranges after this success, are you going to: a) sell an orange that iterates slightly on the success of your last orange, but keeps its core appeal (I promise I didn’t start this analogy to get to this pun, it’s an accident, I’m so sorry) or, b) decide you sell aeroplanes now, and hope all your happy orange punters want to become pilots all of a sudden, for absolutely no reason.

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Xbox Announces E3 2019 Briefing Date and Time

Microsoft has announced the date and time for its Xbox E3 2019 Briefing.

The conference will once again be held at the Microsoft Theatre in LA in the traditional slot of the Sunday before the main E3 event. You’ll be able to watch online on June 9 at 1pm PDT (9pm UK, 6am AEST) via YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, and Mixer.

Hub’s up, briefing’s set, and E3 is officially on the way!

Join us June 9 at 1PM PT / 4PM ET for an #XboxE3 Briefing for all gamers: https://t.co/g1XSsnBUiU pic.twitter.com/j2TIthd5R6

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Judgment: Sega Reveals Replacement Character Model After Drugs Scandal

Sega has revealed the new model for Judgment character Kyohei Hamura after the game's original Hamura actor, Pierre Taki, was indicted for cocaine use.

The change is a fairly subtle one. The new Hamura is an original model, not based on a scan of an actor, and the character's movements and lip-sync remain the same.

You can see both versions in our comparison video below:

Yakuza Studio head Toshihiro Nagoshi previously explained how much had to be altered to remove Taki's likeness from the game:

“First of all we had to replace the character model and re-record all of the dialogue. But replacing the character model is only the start: We had to change all of the pre-rendered cut scenes Hamura appeared in; also, his face appears on some of the evidence that you present on your smartphone, so we had to replace those textures; and some trophies had to be changed too.”

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Sony Reveals Next-Gen PlayStation Details

PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny has shown off some of the internal components of the next-generation PlayStation - which he is technically not currently calling PlayStation 5 -  which will include a high-spec solid state drive, a GPU capable of supporting ray tracing, will support PS4 backwards compatibility, and won't be download-only.

In a meeting with Wired, Cerny also explained that the console would definitely not be released in 2019, and demonstrated why this is a true next-generation machine, rather than a PS4 upgrade in the vein of the PS4 Pro.

Cerny explained that the console's CPU is a variant of the AMD Ryzen third generation, and that its GPU is a custom version of Radeon's Navi line. That GPU is capable of ray tracing, a high-performance graphical technique with some incredible results. As you'd expect, the console will also support 8K displays.

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Here's How Zelda: Breath of the Wild Works in VR

Following the reveal that Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be getting Nintendo Labo VR support, Nintendo has detailed exactly how BOTW will work when the free VR update arrives on April 26, 2019.

Breath of the Wild's technical director Takuhiro Dohta posted a blog post that details exactly what fans can expect when they put their Nintendo Switch into the Labo Toy-Con VR googles and jump into our game of the year for 2017.

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12 Tips and Tricks to Succeed in The Elder Scrolls: Blades

Looking to change your character, upgrade your town, and survive the dungeons in The Elder Scrolls: Blades? We've got tips to get you started.

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Nintendo Labo VR Kit Review

It’s easy to scoff at the Labo VR Kit’s simple cardboard headset and collection of ridiculous add-ons as little more than Google’s Cardboard with Nintendo branding, but this kit is a surprisingly solid and in-depth introduction to the world of VR. While the display resolution and framerate fall far below the average dedicated VR headset and many of the associated games are extremely simple novelties, there are enough weird and whimsical games and tools included to provide a unique and (mostly) enjoyable experience when used in short bursts. The Virtual Boy 2, this isn’t.

Like Nintendo’s previous Labo kits, the initial focus of Labo VR is on cardboard construction and customization. And while interlocking large cardboard sections or putting the finishing touches on a project can be highly satisfying, the sluggishly paced instruction videos and countless steps involved can quickly turn the building aspect of Labo VR into a chore. The Labo accessories you’re prompted to build are sturdy and well engineered, but you’ll likely never come away from putting one together with the hope that your build time had last longer.

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How Palpatine, Darth Maul and Vader Dominated Star Wars Celebration

As much as fans love their noble Jedi and plucky rebels, Star Wars Celebration 2019 showcased how much power the Dark Side still holds over fans and filmmakers alike, as it was the bad guys who stole the show this year.

When fans finally got their first look at Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, there was genuine surprise and excitement when the trailer ended with the familiar cackle of the (presumably) long dead Emperor Palpatine.

This revelation, in turn, triggered a deluge of speculation and theories about how Palpatine could return. We won’t know what the truth of it all is, of course, until Episode IX opens in December, but the apparent return of Darth Sidious will surely remain a hotly anticipated and ravenously searched topic until then.

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Jared Leto's Spider-Man Movie Morbius Explained

Update: Jared Leto has shared the first on-set photo from his Marvel/Sony movie Morbius. Read on for a breakdown of the Spider-Man spin-off character!

Most of the time, vampires are the villains in Hollywood movies. They're portrayed as soulless bloodsuckers who pose an existential threat to all humanity. But sometimes even a vampire can be a hero. That's the case with Morbius, a Marvel hero who's set to be portrayed by Jared Leto in Sony's upcoming Spider-Man spin-off movie.

To help prep for this new addition to Sony's growing Spider-Man cinematic universe, here's everything you need to know about the man they call "The Living Vampire."

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Twitch Temporarily Bans White Streamer After Apex Legends Cosplay

Lithuanian streamer Karina "Karupups" Martsinkevich has been temporarily banned from Twitch following cosplaying as Apex Legend's Lifeline and using blackface makeup.

As reported by Kotaku, Martsinkevich was streaming herself preparing her Lifeline cosplay in Twitch's "Just Chatting" section when, after she dyed her hair and dressed to mimic the Apex Legends character, she applied a dark foundation to her face that caused Twitch to take the stream down even before she could finish her cosplay prep.

Martsinkevich took to YouTube to announce her 30-day suspension and explain that she was banned for "engaging in hateful conduct against a person or group of people.” However, she claims she "just wanted to be similar to Lifeline from Apex...it wasn’t meant to have

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Disc-less Xbox One S Info Leaked

New images have surfaced following the reports of the Maverick – a disc-less Xbox One S – that has been rumored to be releasing this spring from Microsoft.

As reported by Thurrott and found by Winfuture.de, alleged images of the new, all-digital console have surfaced online, showing a near-identical console to the Xbox One S, but with no disc-loading slot on the front.

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A Mortal Kombat Remaster Was Reportedly in Development

Blind Squirrel Games – who are known for remasters of games such as Borderlands and BioShock – were reportedly working on a remastered collection of the first three Mortal Kombat games, as reported by DSOGaming.

Sources shared in December 2018 that Blind Squirrel's pitches were loved by Ed Boon – co-creator of Mortal Kombat and Creative Director at Warner Bros.' NeatherRealm Studios – and that he advocated for WB to partner with Blind Squirrel on the remastered versions of the first three games.

However, one week after being told, "Your project is heading toward a green light," Blind Squirrel said they received a phone call stating that WB wanted to go in a different direction and that they couldn't, "trust development of such an important project to a team without any completed game titles."

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New LEGO Star Wars Game Reportedly in Development

According to Skywalker Sound's supervising sound editor and sound designer Matt Wood, a new LEGO Star Wars game is reportedly in development.

As reported by Eurogamer, Wood was speaking on the Star Wars Live Show at Star Wars Celebration this weekend and passingly mentioned that a new LEGO Star Wars game was currently being worked on.

"So many things we're doing right now, we've got Resistance going, Clone Wars going, we've got Mandalorian happening, of course Episode IX happening, there's a LEGO Star Wars game we're working on..." Wood said, as captured by Twitter user @WillHaddad8.

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Don't Miss IGN's Mortal Kombat 11 Live Esports Showdown

In anticipation for the impending launch of Mortal Kombat 11, we're hosting a special Esports Showdown event, presented by WB Games, that you can watch live on Monday, April 22, right here on IGN.

The event will feature WWE Superstars Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, Aleister Black, and Zelina Vega as they test their might in NetherRealm's bloody and brutal new fighting game. Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller and The Titan Games' Alex 'Goldenboy' Mendez will be your hosts for the evening as you enter the ring, see the game in all its glory, and meet your favorite WWE Superstars.

Kofi Kingston may be the reigning IGN Esports Champion, but will he be able to retain the title with new contenders entering the arena? On top of that, legendary pro fighting gamers HoneyBee and SonicFox will square up for a revenge match you won’t want to miss, so read on for a complete guide on when and where to watch the event.

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Best PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro Deals and Bundles This Week

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If you're interested in buying a PS4 Slim or PS4 Pro, you've come to the right place. We've clicked through all the retailers that sell PlayStation consoles and compiled a list of the best deals available right now. And if you're new to the PS4 platform or would like some additional information about PlayStation services and accessories, we have you covered there too, along with other buying information you might find useful.

One thing to keep in mind: since the PS4 is the best-selling game console this generation, retailers don't have much incentive to offer discounts. So while the PS4 deals we've found can save you a few bucks, the savings usually aren't that big outside of Black Friday.

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No God of War DLC Planned, but More Anniversary Content to Come

God of War director Cory Barlog has reiterated that there’s no DLC planned for God of War, but there is anniversary content on the way.

In response to news that God of War is getting one-year anniversary content in the form of themes and avatars, Barlog tweeted "That's not all...”

Naturally, fans suspected this meant even bigger announcements were coming for the anniversary, specifically news of DLC for God of War. To quell those expectations, Barlog quickly tweeted "Just so no one gets the wrong idea - there is no DLC coming for the game. Sorry."

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Analysts Report Apple Arcade Will Spend Over Half a Billion Dollars

Analysts from Financial Times reported that Apple may end up spending over half a billion dollars on their upcoming games subscription service, Apple Arcade, according to Gizmodo.

If true, Apple Arcade's budget would be half of Apple's current TV and films streaming budget, which is reportedly $1 billion. Multiple sources told Financial Times that the majority of games planned for the service have million dollar budgets.

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/15/analysts-report-apples-games-subscription-service-will-spend-over-half-a-billion
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Respawn Was Working on Another Game Before Jedi: Fallen Order

Respawn Entertainment was working on a different game when EA approached to discuss creating a Star Wars game. The in-production project was dropped in order for the studio to start work on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

Talking to Press Start, game director Stig Asmussen said: “I think it started with EA approaching us at Respawn, and asking. I had a team, we were working on a game, and they said, “What do you guys think about Star Wars?”

Unsurprisingly, everyone at Respawn was keen. “Unanimously, my team hands down, everybody was interested in working on a Star Wars, even though we were really interested in the other game that we were working on, we saw this as an opportunity,” Asmussen said. “It’s like, “Hey, when are you ever going to get a chance to work on a Star Wars game?”

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/15/respawn-halted-development-on-another-game-to-make-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order
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Director of Cancelled Star Wars Game Reacts to Jedi: Fallen Order

Amy Hennig, creative director behind the cancelled single-player Star Wars game known as Project Ragtag, has some thoughts on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its status as a single-player game without microtransactions.

Speaking with Eurogamer, Hennig said "

odd! I have to be candid with you. I mean,

coming from the EA Star Wars Twitter handle, so it's certainly part of the plan, but I don't know whether it's implicitly referencing previous comments they made after our project was killed?"

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/15/director-of-cancelled-star-wars-single-player-game-reacts-to-jedi-fallen-order
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First Look at Magic: The Gathering’s Powerful New Dragon God

IGN is excited to officially reveal three new cards from Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming War of the Spark set, all centered around the imposing and notorious Nicol Bolas.

Watch the exclusive video from Wizards of the Coast at the top of the page to get a first glimpse at “Deliver Unto Evil, “The Elderspell,” and the planeswalker “Nicol Bolas, Dragon God” himself, hosted by The Command Zone’s Jimmy Wong and Josh Lee Kwai as well as Kyle Hill from Because Science.

I also spoke to Dave Humpherys, MTG’s Principal Game Designer, about why they decided to go with this card design for War of the Spark’s Nicol Bolas. Humpherys said they liked this iteration because it “felt true to Bolas and the story here.”

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/15/magic-the-gathering-nicol-bolas-and-more-cards-revealed-for-war-of-the-spark
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Final Fantasy 15 Director is Working on First Ever Paralympic RPG

Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata and his studio JP Games will be creating the first ever official Paralympic video game, The Pegasus Dream Tour.

Announced by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), The Pegasus Dream Tour will be part of a bigger initiative to "increase the engagement of the youth market in the Paralympic Games, an event that is now widely regarded as the world’s third biggest sport event after the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup."

The Pegasus Dream Tour will release worldwide in 2020 and will help celebrate the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, which will take place from August 25 - September 6 of next year.

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/15/final-fantasy-15-director-is-working-on-first-ever-paralympic-rpg
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 Would’ve Focused on Ancient Sith

Obsidian had big plans for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3, and although the game never saw the light of day, one of its writers has given us a look into what could have been for this planned next entry in the beloved KOTOR series.

At Reboot Develop, VG247 spoke to lead writer and designer for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and asked him if Obsidian had ever started work on a story for Knights of the Old Republic 3.

Avellone confirmed that work was underway, as the team always envisioned the KOTOR story to be a trilogy.

"When we finished the second one we were all trying to restore our lives back to sanity,” Avellone remembers. “We did start working on the third game pitch, because we always imagined the trilogy. Even when working on the second game, we

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/15/obsidians-plan-for-star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-3-featured-monstrous-sith-lords
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How to Get All 12 Hunter Masks in The Division 2

Here's how to get all 12 Hunter Masks in Tom Clancy's The Division 2.

from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/14/how-to-get-all-12-hunter-masks-in-the-division-2
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Sekiro: Fountainhead Palace Walkthrough and Guide

Don't miss every secret and how to defeat all the tough enemies waiting for you in the Fountainhead Palace in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice with our guide.

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Star Wars: Explaining Jedi: Fallen Order's Villain

The upcoming video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will introduce Star Wars fans to a brand new hero named Cal Kestis, one of the few Jedi to survive the events of Revenge of the Sith. But it turns out the game's main villain is someone we've met before. Fallen Order will pit players against Second Sister, a member of the Jedi-slaying order known as the Inquisitorius.

If you're not familiar with Second Sister and her fellow Inquisitors, here's everything you need to know about this branch of the Star Wars mythos before playing Fallen Order.

Warning: this article contains some spoilers for the first two seasons of Star Wars Rebels!

The Inquisitors: The Basics

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/14/second-sister-and-the-inquisitors-explained-who-is-the-main-villain-of-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order
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How to Get 2,150 Apex Legends Coins for 99p

Find out how to get 2,150 Apex Legends Coins for 99p, 4,350 for £17.99, 6700 for £34.99 and 11,500 for £64.99.

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Every IGN Star Wars Game Review

Star Wars isn't just one of the most famous movie franchises of all time, it's also inspired some of the best video games ever made -- and also a bunch of pretty bad ones. Like the eternal battle between good and evil space wizards, for every Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic there's a Masters of Teras Kasi; for every Jedi Knight II there's a Kinect Star Wars; and for every Star Wars: Battlefront II there's a Star Wars Battlefront II. So, as we get our first look at the new hope for gaming that is Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, let's witness the power of the fully armed and operational video game-reviewing station that is IGN and look back at every time we've weighed in on a Star Wars game. Once you've refreshed your memory, let us know which game stands out as your all-time favorite.

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/13/every-ign-star-wars-game-review
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Sekiro: How to Beat the Final Boss

Stuck at the very end of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice? We've got the strategy to help you beat the final boss.

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Facebook Mistakenly Hid 'Easter Egg' Phrases in Oculus Touch Controllers

Facebook accidentally added some "easter egg" labels on tens of thousands of Oculus Touch controllers, including such phrases as "Big Brother is Watching" and "This Space For Rent."

Nate Mitchell, co-founder of Oculus and head of VR product at Facebook, took to Twitter to explain this issue and said that while he does "appreciate easter eggs, these were inappropriate and should have been removed."

These labels made it onto the internal hardware of the Oculus Touch VR controllers, with final production hardware saying "This Space For Rent" and "The Masons Were Here." Some dev kits were sent out, which were non-consumer units, and included the phrases "Big Brother is Watching" and "Hi iFixit! We See You!"

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/12/facebook-accidentally-hid-phrases-like-big-brother-is-watching-in-oculus-touch-vr-controllers
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Horizon Zero Dawn Actress Says Sequel Is in Development

Janina Gavankar, who voiced Tatai in The Frozen Wilds DLC, may have spilled the beans on a potential sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn.

Via a Reddit post from user ninjyte, Gavankar, who portrayed Iden Versio in Star Wars Battlefront II, was speaking with fans at Star Wars Celebration Chicago when she made the potential slip. A fan thanked Gavankar for introducing her to Horizon Zero Dawn, to which Gavankar replied “Just wait until you see the sequel, you’re gonna die. I know some secrets, you’re gonna die."

Though her character Tatai was only present in the game’s DLC, she did have an open narrative thread where she was headed to Sundom to learn how to harvest machines. Because of this continuation, Tatai could return in a sequel, meaning Gavankar may have some knowledge of its development. IGN has reached out to PlayStation for comment.

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/12/horizon-zero-dawn-actress-says-sequel-is-in-development
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Blizzard Doesn't Let Fan Negativity Affect Storytelling

While Blizzard has had some controversial news as of late, it says it doesn't allow any negative feedback to influence any facet of the stories it tells through its games.

As reported by VG247, Blizzard's Director of story and franchise development George Krstic spoke at Reboot Develop and discussed how Blizzard's "story rooms are dojos. They're sacred places."

“Specifically with World of Warcraft, our creative director Alex

said a wonderful thing," Krstic said. "He said our story rooms are dojos. They’re sacred places. And we try to tell a story as best we can and to make our players as happy as we can. But we try not to let the negativity enter the dojo,"

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Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Won't Have Multiplayer, Microtransactions

Head of Respawn Entertainment Vince Zampella confirmed today that Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order will be a single-player story game with no multiplayer and no microtransactions.

He made the announcement at Star Wars Celebration in an interview with IGN’s own Max Scoville, saying with no uncertainty “No multiplayer, no microtransactions, it’s a story game,” which was met with cheers from the audience. You can watch the exact moment here.

After Zampella’s reveal, multiple other developers from EA took to Twitter to confirm what he had said and express their excitement, including Respawn Producer Blair Brown and DICE’s Ben Walke.

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/12/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-wont-have-multiplayer-or-microtransactions
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Star Wars Vader Immortal VR Series Trailer Reveals Story, Gameplay

A new trailer for Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series - Episode I reveals new aspects of the game’s story and gameplay: lightsaber wielding and all.

The trailer begins with the player being interrogated by an imperial officer, who says “You’ve caused us considerable inconvenience. In a moment, the lord of this monolith will give you a task. A word of advice: do not anger Vader."

Now that Darth Vader has found the player character, he’s “in reach of enormous power,” and the character must escape his fortress on Mustafar. The trailer shows a droid companion ZOE3 (voiced by SNL’s Maya Rudolph) traveling with and helping the player.

A female character then says “It appears Vader has finally found his candidate, and our future is in your hands.” After this, Darth Vader says “You are the one I’ve been searching for. Do as I command."

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/12/star-wars-vader-immortal-vr-series-trailer-reveals-story-gameplay
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Rage 2: Breaking Down the Deadly Factions

Yesterday's new Rage 2 trailer, titled "Everything vs. Me," was as funny as it was informative about id Software and Avalanche's upcoming first-person shooter sequel (it's out May 14). There's plenty to be learned from the trailer, too, so we stole some detailed notes from id Software (and by that we mean, we kindly asked for more information and they graciously provided it!) and put all of the information together in the breakdown trailer above.

Check it out, and since Rage 2 happens to be our IGN First game for April, that means we're spotlighting it all month long. Take a look below for the new 11-minute gameplay video we exclusively debuted earlier this week. It shows off a boss fight, an open-world activity, vehicle combat, the new Grav-Dart Launcher weapon, and the coup de grace, the introduction of Doom's legendary BFG 9000 into Rage 2. Check it out if you missed it, and stay tuned for plenty more Rage 2 on IGN!

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/12/rage-2-breaking-down-the-deadly-factions-a-ign-first
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Everything We Know About Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order might not be in a galaxy so far away anymore, as Respawn Entertainment's highly-anticipated Star Wars action-adventure title's debut is just over the horizon. After rumors of the game's cancellation, and years of waiting for another single-player Star Wars video game, fans are eagerly awaiting Jedi: The Fallen Order's expected holiday 2019 release.

We've collected everything we know about the game so far for your viewing pleasure. From its announcement at E3 2018 to speculation surrounding potentially leaked artwork. Make sure to keep coming back as more news drops.

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from IGN Video Games http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/12/everything-we-know-about-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-so-far
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