Issue #212

NEWS Link to heading

Platinum Games Co-Founder Hideki Kamiya Reveals Why He Left The Studio

Baldur’s Gate 3 Won’t Be On Game Pass, Dev Says There Is A “Fair Price” To Pay

Twitch Allows ‘Artistic Nudity,’ Immediately Regrets It

Motoring MMO The Crew is going offline in March, making it impossible to play

Activision To Settle Discrimination Suit For $54 Million

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima explains why he’ll never retire

We basically just got a new SimCity game, in the classic ‘90s style

Max Payne, Alan Wake 2, and Control legend James McCaffrey has died

Diablo 2 player seethes for 8 months after hardcore betrayal, befriends one of the gankers before obliterating their character out of nowhere: ‘Now we’re even’

Amazon And Games Workshop Finalize Deal For Warhammer 40,000 Adaptations

Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games victim of horrendous leak, as hackers steal a decade’s worth of plans for the studio’s future

Blizzard shares World of Warcraft roadmap for updates through 2024

PlayStation 5 hits 50m consoles sold

Microsoft Announces Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is Leaving December 29th

Bethesda plans to update Starfield “roughly every six weeks starting in February”

REVIEWS Link to heading

House Flipper 2

Cookie Cutter

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising

Disney Dreamlight Valley

Against The Storm

Lenovo Legion Go

Fortnite Rocket Racing

FEATURES Link to heading

In less than a year, Blizzard transformed Diablo 4 into an action RPG worth grinding for

PC gaming’s biggest disappointments of 2023

Playlist: IGN Staff Members Share Their Personal Picks for the Top 10 Games of 2023

The Finals Interview – Embark Talks Balancing, Destruction and More

Sean Murray is risking another No Man’s Sky launch disaster, but he knows exactly what he’s doing and it’s kinda genius marketing

25 Years Later, Blade Is Still Marvel’s Secret Weapon

The Best RPGs of 2023 According To Metacritic

2023 showed us the cost of pushing singleplayer developers to make multiplayer games

RoboCop: Rogue City interview – ‘There’s no special secret, it’s just hard work’

How Massive created the world of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora | interview

IGN Awards 2023: Every Winner Announced

An Interview with Cities: Skylines 2 developer’s CEO, Mariina Hallikainen

What is the games industry looking forward to in 2024?

E3 Is Officially Gone, And It Leaves Behind A Legacy Hard To Fill

Co-op survival games are great, but don’t forget the intense joys of surviving solo

The Biggest E3 Announcements of All Time

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Has A Game Ever Been Too “Kiddy” For You?

Old games that you still enjoy playing without getting bored.

What game made you fall in love with gaming?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Path of Exile 2 - PC Gaming Show documentary

RIP E3

PIONER GAMEPLAY TRAILER

Resident Evil 4 Remake VR

Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown | New Gameplay Today

FUNNY Link to heading

Where were you?

I shall compensate by introducing child labour.

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

Designing games that gamers can play for thousands of hours | Alex Nichiporchik