Gaming

Epic Games and Microsoft are partnering to bring Fortnite to Xbox Cloud Gaming. The megahit battle royale is now available to play on PC and even iOS and iPad devices through streaming. Anyone interested in playing Epic’s battle royale just needs a Microsoft account and an iOS device or Windows…

Developers, including Totally Accurate Battle Simulator’s Landfall have begun signing an environment-focused anti-NFT pledge. The pledge was set up by Climate Replay – a gaming-centred group made up of various developers raising awareness of the climate emergency – and six studios have signed it so far. Alongside Landfall, KO_OP has…

Mafia 3 developer Hanger 13’s studio head and founder Haden Blackman is stepping down from the company and 2K after seven years. Blackman will be replaced by Nick Baynes, who has 30 years of industry leadership experience and joined Hanger 13 in 2018 to start Hanger 13 Brighton. He was…

The summer gaming events season is starting to come into focus, but we still don’t know what PlayStation is up to! That’s why on this week’s episode of IGN’s PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Jada Griffin and Mark Medina to speculate about what our hopes…

Call of Duty: Vanguard and Activision Blizzard just can’t catch a break. Despite being the best-selling game in 2021, Activision is still unhappy with how the game has performed. Who have they identified as the culprit? World War II. The company recognizes that the franchise is still one of the…

Dexterity games have a place in the wider canon of tabletop games because, well hey, they’re played on a tabletop. But in other respects, they’re odd fish. While most board games want to flex a combination of chance and strategic skill (see our list of the best strategy board games),…

Arkane Studios might have canceled Ravenholm, the working title for its Half-Life 2 spinoff, over ten years ago, but that won’t stop video game historians from digging up footage of the game. Today, the video game documentary channel Noclip shared a video with nearly an hour of unfiltered footage from…

Update 11:53am PT: Activision Blizzard has issued a statement in response to the New York lawsuit, which it has shared with IGN: “We disagree with the allegations made in this complaint and look forward to presenting our arguments to the Court.” Original story: Multiple New York City funds have banded…

Blizzard has shared early impressions of the Overwatch 2 beta and outlined what changes are coming as a result of player feedback. The biggest change is coming to support heroes, with Blizzard accepting feedback that there’s much more interesting new content for tank and damage players to explore. “We believe…

It’s not the biggest discount in the world, but if you were waiting for Elden Ring to go on sale before buying it, now is your chance. Elden Ring has finally dropped in price and can now be purchased for $49.94 from Amazon, Walmart, or GameStop. That’s over $10 off…