The Original Diablo is Now Playable on Your Web Browser

The original 1996 Diablo is playable now right on your computer's web browser.

The browser port of the original Diablo was developed by Rivsoft, a team of developers who work on several Blizzard-related projects. However, the port would not be possible were it not for the work of a development team who in 2018 reconstructed the original source code for Diablo.

GalaXyHaXz and the Devilution team reverse-engineered the source code for the original Diablo last year in 2018. The project was meant to be archival, so the source code was reconstructed with all the bugs and bad code from the original 1996 version.

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Poison, Lucia, and E. Honda are Coming to Street Fighter 5 According to Steam Leak

Capcom's next set of DLC fighters may have just leaked on Steam ahead of their EVO 2019 reveal. A new trailer published on Street Fighter 5's Steam page shows off three new characters not yet in the game: E. Honda, Lucia, and Poison.

A DLC trailer (since removed) briefly went live on Street Fighter 5's Steam page, and it's unclear if it was intentional or not. The trailer shows three new characters joining the roster, as well as a release date for August 4, the last day of EVO 2019.

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Papa Roach Concert Reportedly Used Stolen Video Game Artwork for a Poster

Papa Roach, the nu-metal band known for their hit song "Last Resort," is accused of using stolen art from a video game for one of its tour posters without the permission from the developers.

Papa Roach's official Facebook page posted a picture of a tour poster used to promote the band's recent performance at the South Side Ballroom in Dallas, Texas. The poster features a reddish fish monster looking at her phone with Papa roach and opener Asking Alexandria's name on the front. The name of the venue is also printed along the bottom.

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What the Game Boy Means to Me, 30 Years Later

In 1992, my grandmother, my cousin and I were in a mall someplace in Bromley, Kent, England. At eight years old I was developing a burgeoning appreciation for visiting the mall with my grandmother; as a New Zealander who visited her in the UK once a year, she had a tendency to spoil me. During this particular mall visit, my cousin told her he wanted a Game Boy, Nintendo's handheld console that had been released in Europe a couple of years prior. I didn't know what a "Game Boy" was at that time, but I knew that if my cousin wanted one, then I wanted one too.

The Game Boy, an innocuous purchase for a kid who only really wanted one out of FOMO, changed my life.

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Rabbids Nintendo Switch Party Game Announced in China

A new Ubisoft Rabbids party game is due to be shown at ChinaJoy this week according to a new trailer.

As highlighted by noted games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, the new Rabbids game is a 4-player party game developed by Ubisoft Chengdu. It has a Journey to the West theme, with the Rabbids dressed in a variety of Chinese-influenced costumes. Ahmad's tweet includes the game's trailer, which can be seen in the embed below.

New Rabbids Party game coming to Nintendo Switch.

Will be shown at ChinaJoy this week.

Rabbids meets Journey to the West. 4 Players. Developed by Ubisoft Chengdu. pic.twitter.com/E9AAV1g3N5

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Preorder Watch Dogs: Legion for $49.94 (PS4, Xbox One)

Watch Dogs: Legion is set to release on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on March 6, 2020. The third installment in the futuristic tech-focused franchise is headed up by Clint Hocking, the creative director of Far Cry 2, and is set in an open-world version of London. When you need a specialist in your fight against the overbearing government, you can recruit (and play as) any NPC in the world, from hardened criminals to... (checks notes)... grannies?

If you're ready to lock in your preorder for Watch Dogs: Legion, you're going to want to know what comes in each edition, how much it costs, and where you can get it. Let's get to it, shall we?

Watch Dogs: Legion Standard Edition

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How to Play D&D For Free

Tabletop roleplaying games are enjoying quite the renaissance right now, none more so than Dungeons & Dragons. We've already shown you how to start playing D&D, but if you're not ready to invest in your own set of books and tabletop gaming accouterments, you still can get into the latest edition of the granddaddy of all RPGs for free.

Even though free sources are somewhat limited in scope, there are more than enough to allow you and your friends to run an ongoing campaign from level one to 20 using nothing but what's freely (and legally!) available online.

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Madden NFL 20 Review

With every new Madden comes a new set of upgrades and disappointments, but Madden NFL 20's balance is a bit more favorable than usual. Among the new features are a couple of key changes that underscore the difference between a typical player and a true NFL superstar in meaningful and exciting ways, making the moment-to-moment gameplay as strong as it's been since the switch to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. On the other hand, it leaves Franchise mode without significant new features and microtransactions continue to be an issue with Madden Ultimate Team. So EA's ongoing quest to satisfy the entire spectrum of casual, competitive, and sim fans is only partially successful, though more so than usual.

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First WWE 2K20 Screenshots Released Ahead of Next Week's Cover Reveal

WWE will reveal the official cover for WWE 2K20 on August 5. To help fans with the wait, WWE released two official screenshots for the next WWE game coming later this year.

WWE 2K20 is the next entry in the long-running WWE wrestling game series. The first two screenshots WWE released today features current WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar and WWE SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley.

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Watch the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Multiplayer Reveal on IGN

Join us tomorrow (Thursday, August 1) at 10am PT/1pm ET as Infinity Ward and Activision present the multiplayer reveal livestream for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Watch on IGN.com, the IGN mobile app, YouTube.com/IGN, Twitch.tv/IGN, Mixer.com/IGN, or our Xbox One or PS4 apps.

Our own Call of Duty experts Miranda Sanchez and Bobby Amos were at a press event to check everything out yesterday, so we'll have hands-on impressions, gameplay videos, and more in addition to the livestream itself.

In the meantime, check out our reaction to the news that killstreaks are back, replacing scorestreaks, in the video above. See you tomorrow!

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's Executive Editor of Previews. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan, catch him on Unlocked, and drop-ship him Taylor Ham sandwiches from New Jersey whenever possible.

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PlayStation Plus Games for August 2019 Announced

Sony's free games for PlayStation Plus in August have been revealed and if you like sci-fi racing games and snipers, you're in luck. Wipeout Omega Collection and Sniper Elite 4 are both coming to PlayStation Plus next month.

Weipeout Omega Collection includes Wipeout 2048, Wipeout HD and Wipeout HD Fury and rolls them into a single package. Wipeout is an anti-gravity racing game developed by Sony Studio Liverpool. Players race around high-speed tracks in levitating pods they can customize.

The Wipeout Omega Collection was released in 2017 and added PlayStation VR support for every game and track included in the collection.

The second game in August's PlayStation Plus lineup is Sniper Elite 4, the most recent game in Rebellion Developments' Sniper Elite series. Sniper Elite 4 is a tactical shooter where players scout vast environments in the third-person perspective before taking out targets in a single shot.

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Control: Your Questions Answered by the Developers

After a month of exclusive new stuff, our IGN First with Control is coming to an end. But before it does, we thought we'd ask one more favour of Remedy Entertainment - getting them to answer your questions.

Sam Lake, Mikael Kasurinen and Thomas Puha assembled to answer some of the IGN community's queries about the game - you can see what they had to say below. And if you missed any of our Control coverage, it's all in one handy spot for you to check back on. Onto the next month!

Dangatv asks: Control looks like the natural progression from your last 3 games, what game play aspect are you most proud of and can't wait for the public to experience?

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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne - New Monster Impressions and Gameplay

Subspecies aren't totally new to Monster Hunter World, but they're making a comeback to the series in a big way in the upcoming Iceborne expansion. We recently got to play the beginning of Iceborne, and some of the first few monsters we faced were three brand-new monsters: Nightshade Paolumu, Coral Pukei-Pukei, and Viper Tobi-Kadachi! They may look familiar, but these subspecies are more than just a reskin.

We also noticed at least nine exciting quality-of-life improvements in Iceborne, but continue on to see gameplay of each new monster with hands-on impressions and comparisons to each of their parent species.

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9 Exciting Improvements in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Monster Hunter World's upcoming Iceborne expansion brings some big changes and bigger monsters. But while cool new tools like the Clutch Claw have likely already caught your eye, there are tons of less flashy tweaks that will probably make seasoned hunters yell "YES FINALLY" with the same level of enthusiasm.

We got to play through the first few hours of Iceborne last week, and while you can watch us take on three of its new subspecies monsters here, these little quality-of-life improvements really stuck out. There are surely plenty more, but here of nine of the most exciting tweaks we've seen saw so far - be sure to watch the video at the top of the page to see them in action!

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EA Explains Why It Offers Limited Nintendo Switch Support

EA CEO Andrew Wilson has opened up on why the publisher offers limited support for Nintendo Switch, saying it's because people prefer to play EA games on other platforms.

During EA's first quarter earnings call this week an analyst floated the idea for The Sims on Switch, but EA's head honcho disagreed.

"Any time we're evaluating platform conversations we're really looking at a couple of things," said Wilson. "One, does the game really fit the profile of that platform in terms of the control or the community ecosystem? Two, do we think the community playing on that platform would appreciate the game and go there, or would they prefer to play it somewhere else?

"We have a lot of data that would suggest a great many Switch owners also own a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One or a PC and very often choose to play the games that we make on those platforms, even though they have a Switch and they enjoy a lot of great content on the Switch."

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FIFA 20: The FUT Changes That Actually Matter

Unsurprisingly, Ultimate Team is back for another year in FIFA 20, complete with its familiar addictive squad building, plethora of game modes and microtransactions - or "surprise mechanics" as they are now known. These aspects aren't changing, for better or worse, but what actually IS new this year? Here are what we think are the biggest changes to FUT in FIFA 20.

Season Objectives

"A new sense of progression" is apparently crucial to FUT this year and key to that are the new Season Objectives. EA hope that these will have the same impact on the game mode that Squad Building challenges did when introduced in FIFA 17. Essentially these work similar to a battle pass system - you earn XP for completing challenges, which will move you up into higher levels, thus earning better rewards.

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Enter for a Chance to Win Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Welcome to Daily Win, our way of giving back to the IGN community. To thank our awesome audience, we're giving away a new game each day to one lucky winner. Be sure to check IGN.com every day to enter in each new giveaway.

Today we're giving away Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown for Xbox One. To enter into this sweepstake, fill out the form below. You must be at least 13 years old and a legal U.S. resident to enter. Today's sweepstake will end at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Entries entered after this time will not be considered.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Why Killstreaks Are the Right Move

Announced in a lead-up to a full multiplayer premiere this Thursday, killstreaks are officially back in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. I, for one, relish their return. It's a controversial topic, one with supporters on either side defending the validity of playing an objective versus rewarding raw shooter skill. But killstreaks inherently speak to the spirit of the Call of Duty series: a fast-paced arena where personal performance is the primary metric to judge a player's success.

Scorestreaks, introduced in Black Ops II, rewarded players for completing objectives, destroying enemy equipment, and resupplying allies. Killstreaks, as the name would suggest, only rewarded you for getting kills. Playing the objective may be the law of the land in Battlefield but Call of Duty, to me, has always felt more like a vain expression of my own shooter skill than it has a game about teamwork... and that's totally fine.

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The First Halo Infinite Easter Egg Has Been Found

On this week's Xbox podcast, a keen-eyed Halo fan discovered an interesting audio Easter egg hiding in the Halo Infinite E3 trailer. We play it for you and speculate about what it means. Plus: the Xbox Dashboard is getting another refresh, the Blair Witch game finally shows itself, classic Doom games get re-released on Xbox - but things don't go super smoothly for Bethesda, and more!

Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, or grab an MP3 download of this week's episode. For more awesome content, check out this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered, featuring a career-spanning interview with longtime Remedy writer Sam Lake – he of Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control fame. Watch it below:

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NES Classic Just Came Back In Stock

The NES Classic has just come back in stock for its original $59.99 MSRP at Walmart. If you're lucky, you can grab it in the two seconds it's likely to be available.

• Get NES Classic at Walmart - $59.99
• Get it at Amazon - $81.88

Nintendo announced last year that it would stop production on the NES Classic and SNES Classic in 2019. We're well into 2019 now, and listings for the retro systems have been disappearing from all the major retailers. As of right now, you can still get an NES Classic from Walmart at the MSRP of $59.99, but the price is higher (or it's sold out entirely) elsewhere. As for the SNES Classic, it's already gotten steep mark-ups everywhere it's still available, though GameStop has refurbished units for $74.99. Here's where you can still get the NES Classic and SNES Classic right now.

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Yellow Is the Least Popular Switch Lite Color Among IGN Readers

Since Nintendo revealed the Switch Lite a few weeks back, there's been a lot of discussion surrounding the updated, but simplified, version of the Nintendo Switch.

Whether or not to get one if you already own a Switch (check out the results of our poll), the reason why there isn't there a Switch Pro, and most recently the issue of  "JoyCon drift" have all been hot-button issues. Of course, the biggest question is, if you are going to pick up a Switch Lite, which one are you going to get?

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Marvel's Avengers "One of the Most Stunning" Games Nolan North's Ever Seen

Square Enix is planning to release the first gameplay demo for Marvel's Avengers after Gamescom in Germany. But Tony Stark voice actor Nolan North says fans should expect to be as "blown away" as he was when it's finally out.

"It absolutely is one of the most stunning things… you can't tell where in-game cinematics and gameplay

… It's so seamless," North said during a Q&A at Manchester Comic Con. North even went on to say that, visually, it's one of the best things he's seen in games. And that's saying a lot considering some of the games North has worked on.

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Nintendo Switch Enters Top 15 Best-Selling Consoles of All Time

PlayStation 2 has long reigned as the best-selling video game console of all time, with no imminent threat of losing that title. Despite the runaway success of PlayStation 4 over the last five-plus years, Sony would have to sell over 10 million units a year for the next six years to overtake its own top spot — a massive improbability, if not an impossibility, given next-gen consoles may launch in 2020.

So while PlayStation 4 continues to secure its spot among the best-selling consoles of all time, we set out to discover how the rest of Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft's hardware stack up. To do so, we compiled a list of the 15 best-selling video game consoles of all time, with additional information on release dates, highest-rated games (according to Metacritic), and more.

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Xbox Games With Gold August 2019 Free Games Revealed

Xbox has released their free August 2019 Games With Gold lineup for all Xbox Live Gold members or those with an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Subscription.

The two main games for Xbox One members include Gears of War 4 beginning on August 1 until August 31, and Forza Motorsport 6, which will be available from August 16 through September 15.

Xbox 360 owners will get Torchlight from August 1 through August 15, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow from August 16 to the 31. These games are also able to be played on Xbox One through backwards compatibility, and the full lineup is valued at over $94 in games and 6200 in gamerscore.

In IGN's review of Gears of War 4, we gave it a score of 9.2 and said the game, "plays it fairly safe but brilliantly executes on a variety-packed campaign and meaty multiplayer suite."

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Fire Emblem Three Houses: List of Class Mastery Unlocks

Check out the bonus abilities and combat moves you can unlock by mastering each of the classes in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

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Red Dead Online: Extra Elimination Series Rewards This Week

This week in RDO, earn bonus rewards for participating in Elimination Series events, get bonus XP from Ability Cards, and more.

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The Outer Worlds Will Be Released On the Nintendo Switch

The Outer Worlds, the upcoming RPG from Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian, is coming to Nintendo Switch.

A new announcement made today by Nintendo on Twitter revealed the news. The Outer Worlds' Senior Producer, Matthew Singh, explained that the game is being ported to Switch by Virtuos, and will come to the console "following" the game's main launch on other systems.

The Outer Worlds will first launch on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on October 25. It's a first-person RPG in the mould of the Bethesda-era Fallout games, and thus has to potential to be another 'big' console game finding its way onto Nintendo's portable machine.

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Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled Grand Prix 2 Starts This Week

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled's second Grand Prix, Back N. Time, will begin this week on August 2 for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch players, introducing the new track Prehistoric Playground, as well as a host of other new items for players to earn for free.

Following in the footsteps of the first Grand Prix, CTR's post-launch content seasons that add new drivers, courses, karts, and more, Back N. Time will launch across all consoles, and you can watch the video above for a first look at the Prehistoric Playground track.

In addition to the track, and as previously revealed in Activision's CTR Grand Prix announcement, this second season of content will see the introduction of Baby Crash and Baby Coco as playable drivers, as well as Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped's Baby T.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Dragon Quest's Hero and Version 4.0.0 Available Today

Nintendo has announced that The Hero from the Dragon Quest series, as part of Challenger Pack 2, will be available today, July 30, in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate alongside the Version 4.0.0 update.

This release date was accompanied by a 22-minute video with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game director Masahiro Sakurai that dives deep into this newest character added to the massive roster of fighters.

The Hero from Dragon Quest was revealed at E3 2019 alongside Banjo-Kazooie, and joins Piranha Plant and Persona 5's Joker as DLC fighters added since Ultimate's launch in 2018.

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Enter for a Chance to Win Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Welcome to Daily Win, our way of giving back to the IGN community. To thank our awesome audience, we're giving away a new game each day to one lucky winner. Be sure to check IGN.com every day to enter in each new giveaway.

Today we're giving away Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown for PS4. To enter into this sweepstake, fill out the form below. You must be at least 13 years old and a legal U.S. resident to enter. Today's sweepstake will end at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Entries entered after this time will not be considered.

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Nintendo Switch Lite Now Available for Preorder in the UK

UK preorders for the Nintendo Switch Lite have gone live, with the brand new console releasing September 20 2019. Plenty of sites have rolled out listings for the latest console from Nintendo, including Amazon, GAME, and Argos.

The Nintendo Switch Lite is a cheaper, handheld-only model of the Nintendo Switch that's compatible with any Nintendo Switch game you can play in handheld mode. It comes in three colours (yellow, grey and turquoise) and is available for preorder at the standard list price of £199.99. The Lite isn't to be confused with the newly announced Switch model with a longer battery life.

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Concrete Genie Gets an October Release Date

Sony's next PS4 exclusive, Concrete Genie, following its delay from the spring, now has a release date, setting it for an October release.

Developer PixelOpus, part of Sony's Worldwide Studios, announced Concrete Genie will be released for the PS4 on Oct. 8 for $29.99, or $39.99 for the Digital Deluxe edition. Both versions include two PSVR modes alongside the main game, and the Digital Deluxe version includes a digital art book, a soundtrack, a Pond Design Pack that expands your in-game toolset, and a Dynamic Theme.

In addition to the price and date, PixelOpus also confirmed Concrete Genie, like most Sony first-party games, will have an included Photo Mode. But given that players' artistic expression, painting scenery and genies on the buildings of the fictional town of Denska, Pixelopus' Photo Mode has a twist.

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Concrete Genie: Time to Put This PS4 Exclusive on Your Radar

Concrete Genie may not be on your radar like The Last of Us Part II and Death Stranding, but after an hour-and-a-half with Pixelopus's upcoming first-party PS4 exclusive, its charming world, sincere messaging, and serene gameplay is shaping up to be an experience that absolutely should be.

I jumped into the very start of Concrete Genie's adventure, taking on the role of the young, bullied kid Ash in the dilapidated seaside town of Denska, and was immediately taken by the charming though intentionally drab world. That's in part thanks to Pixelopus' animation, which employs Coraline-esque stop-motion facial expressions for its characters, the A Series of Unfortunate Events-like world, and the sincerity with which the developers have written this story.

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Mutant Year Zero: Seed of Evil DLC Review

Mutant Year Zero: Seed of Evil, the downloadable expansion to last year's surprisingly challenging XCOM-esque tactics RPG Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, is an expansion in its simplest, most direct form: there's simply more of it. While Seed of Evil makes tweaks and changes to the original formula, they feel very safe and don't do as much to evolve the gameplay as one might have hoped.

Picking up where Road to Eden left off, Seed of Evil advances the overarching Mutant Year Zero story but quickly pulls a bait-and-switch by diverting to a new, self-contained mystery where your party of mutant stalkers fights an army of plant-based clones threatening the last vestiges of humanity. While I got a bit of proverbial whiplash from the quick, jerky nature Seed of Evil wrestles out of Road to Eden's cliffhanger ending, the story ultimately does a good job creating some new mystique in a world you've already explored.

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Fallout 76's First 'Very Challenging' Raid Arrives Next Month

Fallout 76 is continuing to beef up its live-service gaming options with the introduction of its first four-player raid next month.

Called "Vault 94", the first raid can also be played solo, in pairs, or groups of three - but the difficulty will be much harder.

During a panel at QuakeCon 2019 panel, Fallout 76 development director Chris Mayer said, "It's a pretty expansive Vault. We do think it will be very challenging. I, myself, have been challenged in the playtest - many times - trying to get to the end of it".

Mayer also went into further detail on what actually happens once you enter Vault 94.

"When you go in, you get to choose one of three different difficulty levels", he said. "The first one is called Novice, and when you go in, it's still very difficult - don't get me wrong - but it's probably a good way to get used to the Vault and the puzzles and how to handle it.

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Need For Speed Heat Leaked By Austrian Retailer

An Austrian retailer has prematurely fired the starting gun on the next installment in EA's racing series, revealing the new game name to be Need For Speed Heat.

Gameware's website briefly showed the full title, as well as placeholder box art based on a past promotion for an update to Need for Speed No Limits. The listing doesn't show any further information, nor a a release date, but does offer a 2019 release window, suggesting the game could release this year.

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Super Mario Maker 2 Sold Over 2.4 Million Units in 3 Days

Nintendo Switch, as of June 30, 2019, has sold 36.87 million units worldwide, with Super Mario Maker 2 additionally selling 2.42 million units in just three days.

Revealed during Nintendo's financial briefing for April-June of this year (FY3/Q1 2020), the Nintendo Switch sold 2.13 million units this past quarter, which is a 13.2% increase on a year-on-year basis.

Software sales also saw a rise with 22.62 million units being sold in the same period, which is a 25.9% increase from the same time frame last year.

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PlayStation 4 Has Sold 100 Million Units Worldwide

PlayStation 4 has officially sold 100 million units worldwide as of the three-month quarter that ended on June 30, 2019.

In Sony's Q1 FY2019 consolidated financial results, it announced that 3.2 million PlayStation 4 units had been sold, which would bring the grand total of 96.8 million units back in April to 100 million as of the end of last month.

The 3.2 million units sold is up from the 2.6 million units of last quarter (Q4 FY2018) and identical to the 3.2 million earned in the same quarter last year.

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Cyberpunk Red's Jumpstart Kit Is the Best Way to Get Into the Game

With tabletop games making a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, it's great to see not just more TRPG representation in pop culture, but also that tabletop developers are working to make their games more accessible to a wider audience than ever before. With the renewed interest in its world thanks to Cyberpunk 2077, it's especially good to see the team at R. Talsorian Games (the creators of the tabletop side of the franchise) follow suit with the Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit, the "starter set" for the latest edition of the classic TRPG.

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The Best PS4 Deals on Consoles and Games Right Now

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11 Best Ports for Nintendo Switch, Ranked

Consumer choice, specifically as it relates to how we play games, has become increasingly prevalent in a technological landscape loaded with options. The concept has undoubtedly played a role in the success of Nintendo Switch, which lets players choose between traditional and on-the-go gaming.

That choice has given new life to old games, paving the way for a Switch catalogue filled with high-quality ports. Sure, you may have played Skyrim twice on Xbox and once on PC, but with the Switch version, you can play it anywhere. It's a novelty you may have expected to wear off, but the market for these ports has proven durable, and the games listed below show why.

As publishers continue to bring their games to Switch — Doom 1-3 and Pillars of Eternity were announced last week — we wanted to pause and rank the 11 best examples of these ports done right.

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Control: All of Our Exclusive New Gameplay, Info, and Details

Our IGN First game for July is Control (out August 28 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC), which means we're exclusively covering it all month long. Think of it like a magazine's monthly cover story, except it's online and it rolls out all month long.

We're almost done, so take a look below to catch up on what you might've missed! We've had new gameplay, an IGN Unfiltered interview with Remedy's Sam Lake, and much more!

The First 13 Minutes of Control

Final Preview: Control Is Smart, Savage, and Batsh*t Crazy

8 Minutes of New Story Mission Gameplay

Watch a Full Side Mission

Every Weapon Form in Action

IGN Unfiltered: Sam Lake

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Halo Infinite E3 2019 Trailer Has a Secret Message From Cortana

A secret message hidden inside the Halo Infinite E3 2019 trailer has finally been uncovered, and it sounds like there was more Cortana in the trailer than previously believed.

343 Industries unveiled a new trailer for Halo Infinite at E3 2019 this year that showed Master Chief being awakened by a marine outside the wreckage of a destroyed Halo installation. The trailer mostly focused on these two characters, with a small teaser for Cortana at the very end. But hidden in plain sight there was a mysterious message that teased even more mysteries related to the A.I.

Twitter user @xepyal tweeted at 343 Industries narrative experience director Dan Chosich with a URL link they found hidden in the Discover Hope trailer. The link directs anyone who clicks on it to a 40 second audio clip that begins with the sound of footsteps before a voice, which sounds like Cortana, says "This…this is a part of me. I don't know why. I don't how. But it is me."

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If You Can't Wait for Cyberpunk 2077, Check Out Killjoys

Cyberpunk 2077 is dropping in April 2020, but it already boasts the pedigree and promise to capture the imaginations of gamers worldwide. The wait may feel excruciating, but in the meantime, there's a TV show airing now that could scratch your itch for cool, cyberpunk-infused storytelling: Killjoys, created by Michelle Lovretta - purveyor of sleek, sexy, speculative narratives like the series Lost Girl (which followed the life of a succubus straddling the human and fae worlds).

Killjoys began its fifth and final season on Friday, July 19. The stylish show has strong cyberpunk elements recognizable to many sci-fi fans, like a looming Company that needs no other name because its authoritarian rule is absolute, and the regular use of cybernetics to augment human bodies.

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Play as Woody from Toy Story in this Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Mod

While Toy Story might not be the first thing that would come to mind when you think of movies or games that would fit in the world of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, modder huckpie on NexusMods has done a pretty phenomenal job modding everyone's favorite toy sheriff into this violent world of swords and samurai.

Check out 10 minutes of gameplay from the mod above, or if you're looking for a chuckle, check out the video below to see what happens when Sekiro's voice is replaced by some pullstring Woody lines.

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Hitman 3 Is Currently in Development and Might Be Episodic Again

IO Interactive, the Danish video game developer behind the Hitman series, is already looking towards making Hitman 3. But before that, IO Interactive may release a completely new IP first.

In a new episode of the NoClip video game documentary, host Danny O'Dwyer visited IO Interactive's office in Copenhagen to find out how the studio was able to survive a dramatic 2017 where parent company Square Enix tried to sell the studio.

Instead of finding a buyer, IO Interactive underwent a management buyout to become an independent studio and the owners of the Hitman IP.

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Blair Witch Gameplay Trailer Revealed

The first gameplay trailer for the upcoming Blair Witch game has been revealed. You can watch it in the video above.

After its cinematic reveal trailer during E3, this latest trailer gives us our first real look at how you'll actually play Blair Witch, which developer Bloober Team describes as a "first-person psychological horror game."

Included in the trailer is your trusty dog companion, Bullet, who will help you along the way as you issue commands for him like digging or seeking things out. Also featured are some far less adorable monsters in the woods, a particularly terrifying cabin, and lots of home video recordings that evoke the original film.

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Updated: Essential Tips for Training, Battling, and More in Fire Emblem Three Houses

Don't pass up this study guide on how to succeed in Fire Emblem: Three Houses with our list of essential tips for everything on and off the battlefield.

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Control: 8 Minutes of New Story Mission Gameplay

We're nearing the end of our month of exclusive Control coverage, but we're not going out without a bang. Today, we've got 8 minutes of never-before-seen gameplay for you to look at.

Join Jesse Faden as she visits the Black Rock Processing department of the Federal Bureau of Control. That might sound like a trip down Bureaucracy Lane, but it actually involves entering a quarry that shouldn't be there, lit by the light of stars that can't exist, and stuffed full of haunted ex-employees to bounce off of walls. Lovely.

Along the way, you'll see a lot of combat, featuring multiple weapon forms and powers (being able to chuck the bodies of downed enemies at other enemies never gets old). What you won't see are any story spoilers, so don't worry about taking a peek unless you want to stay 100% fresh.

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Fortnite: Where to Score a Goal on an Indoor Soccer Pitch

A complete guide to scoring a goal on an indoor soccer pitch in Fortnite!

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Doom 64 Has Been Rated for PS4 and PC

Doom 64 may be coming to PS4 and PC, as revealed by a posting from the European rating board, PEGI.

The PEGI classification for Doom 64 - 16 for violence - was spotted by Gematsu. It has since been pulled from the PEGI website, but screenshots show that the game has been rated for PlayStation 4 and PC, and was allegedly due to release on July 26; the same day when Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 were all launched on modern consoles.

PEGI has rated DOOM 64 for PS4 and PC. This was in addition to ratings of DOOM (1993) and DOOM II (Classic). There's no DOOM 3 rating. pic.twitter.com/5CtEBtV61X

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Enter for a Chance to Win Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Croft Edition

Welcome to Daily Win, our way of giving back to the IGN community. To thank our awesome audience, we're giving away a new game each day to one lucky winner. Be sure to check IGN.com every day to enter in each new giveaway.

Today we're giving away a digital copy of Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Croft Edition for PC/Steam. To enter into this sweepstake, fill out the form below. You must be at least 18 years old and a legal U.S. resident to enter. Today's sweepstake will end at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Entries entered after this time will not be considered.

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Super Smash Bros Ultimate v4.0.0 Incompatible With Old Replays

Super Smash Bros Ultimate will be upgrading to version 4.0.0 this week, but replays recorded before version 3.1.0 won't be compatible with the new update.

Nintendo of Europe announced the news on Twitter, posting "#SmashBrosUltimate replays created in versions before 3.1.0 are not compatible with 4.0.0, which releases within 7 days.

"If you have replays you want to keep, you'll need to convert them by going to Vault -> Replays -> Replay Data -> Convert to Video before updating the software."

#SmashBrosUltimate replays created in versions before 3.1.0 are not compatible with 4.0.0, which releases within 7 days. If you have replays you want to keep, you'll need to convert them by going to Vault -> Replays -> Replay Data -> Convert to Video before updating the software.

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Google Stadia, Australia and the Impending Game-Streaming War

The future may well prove that OnLive was ahead of its time. Like Timothy Dalton's serious Bond take before Daniel Craig, or Boss before House of Cards, OnLive may have been that necessary sacrificial trailblazer whose death leads to the next down-the-track leap.

For those unaware, OnLive was the first game-streaming service of note. It's now gone the way of the dodo, but the idea was as straightforward then as it is today for surviving services: instant on. No need to physically own a game. No need for a high-end PC or the latest console. Just a compatible device and a high-speed internet connection.

The catch is that game-streaming services require adequate, stable bandwidth to be playable.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Dragon Quest Hero Video Presentation Announced

Nintendo has announced that a 22-minute Super Smash Bros. Ultimate video presentation for the Hero from the Dragon Quest series on July 30 at 6am PT/9am ET/11am BST that will showcase the upcoming DLC fighter and reveal when he will be released.

Announced by Nintendo Versus, the presentation will be led by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Mashiro Sakurai and will give us our best look at the collection of heroes from Dragon Quest's rich history that will soon be joining the fight in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Nintendo Versus also announced that Version 4.0 will be arriving soon and will include fighter adjustments, but no further details were revealed.

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Here's How Microtransactions Work in Wolfenstein: Youngblood

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Fortnite World Cup Champion, a 16-Year-Old, Takes Home $3 Million

The grand champion of the Fortnite World Cup finals has been crowned. Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, a 16-year-old American boy, took home the trophy and a $3 million prize.

Congratulations @bugha! pic.twitter.com/nchRlL3wUC

— Fortnite Competitive (@FNCompetitive) July 28, 2019

Giersdorf is a player for the Sentinels group, and managed to careen past his 99 other opponents by a wide margin, earning a total of 59 points. The runner up, Psalm, scored 33 points by comparison over the finals' six matches. The World Cup used a point-scoring system that encouraged players to not only place higher up in the ranking, but also eliminate opponents, as to discourage players from simply hiding until the end game.

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Did the IGN Community Experience Switch Joy-Con Drift Issues?

Nintendo has had a rough week, ever since a class action lawsuit was filed over issues with the Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con controllers experiencing drifting. Controller drift is when a joystick registers input when there is none. In the case of a shooter game, it might move the reticle when you're trying to aim precisely. At first, Nintendo was fine with putting out a corporate-speak non-response, but things grew heated enough that Nintendo has finally agreed to repair any Joy-Cons for free and refund past repairs. So exactly how widespread was this Joy-Con drift issue? We asked the lovely IGN community to chime in with whether or not their Switch Joy-Cons experienced drift, and a whopping 26,000 of you responded.

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Enter for a Chance to Win One Piece: World Seeker

Welcome to Daily Win, our way of giving back to the IGN community. To thank our awesome audience, we're giving away a new game each day to one lucky winner. Be sure to check IGN.com every day to enter in each new giveaway.

Today we're giving away One Piece: World Seeker for Xbox One. To enter into this sweepstake, fill out the form below. You must be at least 13 years old and a legal U.S. resident to enter. Today's sweepstake will end at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Entries entered after this time will not be considered.

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Doom Eternal Will Have Some Sort of Hub Where Doomguy Hangs Out

At the Doom Eternal panel at this year's QuakeCon, executive producer Marty Stratton let slip that the original Doomguy space marine may have some sort of hub area where he hangs out, and presumably takes a break from ripping the intestines out of Mancubuses.

 According to PC Gamer, Doom Eternal creative director Hugo Martin was joined onstage by Stratton to demo more footage from the game. Afterwards, members of Doom's Slayers fan club were able to ask questions, which prompted a humorous exchange about what Doomguy does in his spare time, specifically what kind of workout routine and protein diet he must have.

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How Modern Games Still Draw From Their Tabletop DNA

Update: It's #FoundersAndLegends day! Today we celebrate the auspicious history of tabletop gaming, and how it's success paved the way for our favorite games of the modern era. The D&D community is celebrating over on Twitch, and donating money to ExtraLife to raise money for children's hospitals across the country - consider giving if you can.

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Lost Item Locations and Owners Guide

Leave no lost item unreturned in Fire Emblem: Three Houses with our guide to all the locations and owners to boost team bonds and motivation.

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Death Stranding Character Trailer and Box Art Revealed

Update: PlayStation has just released the Heartman character trailer that debuted at SDCC, showing Heartman speaking with Sam, Norman Reedus' character. Heartman explains how his strange medical condition works, while pontificating on the things he can do with each 21-minute cycle. Check out the trailer above.

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Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Too Old to Die Young) took the stage at Comic Con 2019 to talk Death Stranding, storytelling, and more.

Among the anecdotes shared was some new information on Refn's character Heartman, first revealed in Death Stranding's release date trailer which debuted during PlayStation's pre-E3 2019 State of Play presentation.

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Bethesda Says It Will Make Doom Port Login Requirement Optional

On Friday at QuakeCon, Bethesda and id Software treated fans to a surprise announcement that all three original Doom games are now available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. Unfortunately, the positive reception to the new ports was dampened a little bit when it became apparent that players were required to create and login into a Bethesda.net account to play them. After a day's worth of outcry, Bethesda has confirmed it is working on a way to make the login optional for all players.

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Enter for a Chance to Win One Piece: World Seeker

Welcome to Daily Win, our way of giving back to the IGN community. To thank our awesome audience, we're giving away a new game each day to one lucky winner. Be sure to check IGN.com every day to enter in each new giveaway.

Today we're giving away One Piece: World Seeker for PS4. To enter into this sweepstake, fill out the form below. You must be at least 13 years old and a legal U.S. resident to enter. Today's sweepstake will end at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Entries entered after this time will not be considered.

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Now Streaming Monster Hunter World Live

After a long hiatus, we're back with another live Monster Hunter World Boot Camp stream in preparation for Iceborne! If you've got questions, hop into the Twitch live chat, because we probably have answers.

Casey DeFreitas, our Monster Hunter World wiki guide lead, started this series to answer any questions you might have about Monster Hunter World, so get involved in the chat and have some fun.

Today we're going through some of the best Event Quests to do leading up to Iceborne's launch, and since almost every Event Quest is available, there are quite a few!

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses' Voice Actor Replaced in Fire Emblem Heroes

Chris Niosi, the voice actor of the male protagonist Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Heroes, has been replaced in Heroes following allegations of abuse that have recently surfaced.

As reported by USgamer, Niosi still remains the voice of Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses for the Nintendo Switch as of this writing, but Zach Aguilar has replaced him in Fire Emblem: Heroes.

We have reached out to Nintendo as it has yet to comment or confirm that this was the cause of the change, but this move does follow a Twitter thread and Tumblr post that allege that Niosi has, among other things, been abusive and has broken many Non-disclosure agreements in the past.

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Bethesda Is Fixing That Unintentional Doom Re-Release Xbox Glitch

Some owners of the digital versions of Doom and Doom II originally released on Xbox 360 and currently backward compatible on Xbox One, were surprised today to find that, with the release of Doom, Doom II, and Doom III on modern consoles, those versions of their purchases were unavailable to re-download. This games' disappearances, were not, however, an intentional move to force you to buy the new Doom versions, and Bethesda is working to make sure anyone who has purchased those games can continue to redownload them despite the error.

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The Most Batsh*t Insane Moments in The Wolfenstein Series

Now that Wolfenstein: Youngblood is out in the wild, we decided it would be a good time to round up the most batsh*t insane moments in MachineGames' Wolfenstein series so far, which was a hard task considering the series is known for being, well, batsh*t insane in general.

Spoilers ahead. 

Hitler's Appearance in the Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus

I'm not sure there's ever been a more repulsive character in the rebooted Wolfenstein series than Hitler, which is fitting of course, as he was an incredibly repulsive man in real life. Nonetheless, that didn't make his pissing, puking, murdering actions in the New Colossus any less disturbing. - Lucy O'Brien

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Wolfenstein: Youngblood Ending Explained

The end of Wolfenstein: Youngblood takes the series in what is potentially a very exciting new direction. Spoiler warning...

Now, let's dig in.

Twin sisters Jessica and Sophia Blazkowicz, daughter of the series' iconic protagonist B.J. Blazkowitz, spend most of their time in Youngblood looking for their missing father. At the same time, they help the French Resistance in a Nazi-occupied Paris to get rid of the Nazis who have still occupied the country since World War 2.

Two of these French Resistance members are Juju and Jacques, who act as your comrades throughout most of the game. However, once you've hacked all the main computers in several nazi towers - your initial goal in Youngblood - their true nature is revealed.

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Vote For Your Favorite Fire Emblem Game

Fire Emblem's long and storied history has seen the fantasy tactics/dating sim series evolve from its quiet beginnings exclusively in Japan to its eventual journey to the West, spanning handheld and console games, mobile iterations, and even some more drastic spin-offs. With Fire Emblem: Three Houses joining the ranks with a stellar review score as the first in the mainline series to hit the Switch, it's a great time to take a look at all of IGN's Fire Emblem reviews, starting with the first Fire Emblem to make its way to the US in 2003.

Now that your memory's been jogged, which one deserves your vote for the top spot?

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Fortnite: Where to Dance at a Monster Skeleton

Here is where to Dance at a Monster Skeleton to complete the Fortnite Overtime Challenge!

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How to Play Co-Op in Wolfenstein: Youngblood (Even With Friends Who Don't Own It)

How to play co-op in Wolfenstein: Youngblood.

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How to Watch the Fortnite World Cup

Fortnite's World Cup finals weekend is finally here. This weekend's penultimate tournament is bringing together 200 of the title's best players from around the world to have them compete for a piece of the $30 million dollar prize pool.

Creative Finals will take today's stage from 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, with Creative Pro-Am following at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET. The Pro-Am tournament is a pairing of 50 celebrities and 50 pro-Fortnite players competing for a $3 million dollar charity prize. The tournament's two main competitions will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Duos taking the limelight on Saturday, and Solo on Sunday. The full schedule for the tournament is below.

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Max Payne Writer Used Game's Script as College Application

Sam Lake, the writer known for penning the worlds of Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and the upcoming Control, shared an interesting bit of personal history on this month's IGN Unfiltered. While other students in Finland were applying to colleges with research papers and resumes, Lake was required to send in a 75-page screenplay. So he submitted a draft of his video game script.

"The drama teacher had just returned to

from Los Angeles," Lake told IGN. "He'd been here for years studying and doing script doctoring, things like that. He came back to Finland and started to teach screenwriting. In the setup for that, he was saying 'You can choose: you write in Finnish or you write in English.' That felt, to me, that's perfect. You needed to send 75 pages of screenplay as a sample, so I just sent Max Payne."

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Control: The Books, TV Shows and Movies to Check Out Before You Play - IGN First

When it comes to games, we're pretty familiar with the trappings of fantasy, sci-fi or war narratives, but you might be a little less up to date with New Weird. Coined by author M. John Harrison to describe the work of (among others) China Miéville, it's a form of speculative fiction that revels in inexplicability - it's often a bit horror, a bit sci-fi, a bit fantasy, but if you put it up against any of the canon texts in those genres, it wouldn't look like any of them. It's telling that many authors who get told they're part of the New Weird immediately reject it, because they think being defined at all is too limiting.

Control might well be the first mainstream New Weird game. New Weird fiction is often about a place, not people, and The Oldest House - Remedy Entertainment's unknowable new setting - very much fits the bill. New Weird also reflects the underlying weirdness of the modern world, and Control's fiction regularly weaves in real-life events, recontextualising them for a world in which there's a government bureau to combat paranatural occurrences. Most of all, New Weird is really f**king odd. And yes, Control is that too.

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Fortnite: How to Complete Every Overtime Challenge

A complete guide to completing every Overtime Challenge in Fortnite!

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FIFA 20 Cover Stars Unveiled

The cover stars for FIFA 20 have been unveiled, with Eden Hazard and Virgil Van Dijk taking the top spot.

Eden Hazard will front the Standard Edition, fresh from his £88.5 million move to Real Madrid this summer. Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk is the cover star of the Champions Edition.

#FIFA20 Cover Stars revealed!

Standard Edition: @hazardeden10

Champions Edition: @VirgilvDijk

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Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 Now Available on Nintendo Switch

The original three Doom games are now available on Nintendo Switch, marking the 25th anniversary of the influential first-person shooter classic.

The 1993 original, which went on to practically define the FPS genre, is available on Switch and comes with the Thy Flesh Consumed expansion, as well as local 4 player co-op and deathmatch modes.

Doom II is also available, once again featuring 4 player multiplayer and co-op, along with The Master Levels; 20 additional levels created by the community under supervision from the original developers.

Finally, you can also pick up 2004's Doom 3, which offers a survival horror-ish take on the original Doom story. It includes both the Resurrection of Evil and The Lost Missions expansion packs.

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Death Stranding: Here's What Comes in Each Edition

Death Stranding is a PS4 exclusive set to release November 8. It comes from Kojima Productions, a development house headed up by Metal Gear's Hideo Kojima. What we know about the game comes mostly from a series of bizarre trailers that have been released over the past few years, starring the likes of Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Lea Seydoux, and Guillermo del Toro. The most recent Death Stranding trailer gave us a better understanding of some of the gameplay mechanics, but ultimately the game is still a classic Kojima head-scratcher. You can't play Death Stranding yet, but you can preorder it from a number of retailers. Here's everything you need to know to lock down a copy for yourself.

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IGN UK Podcast #497: Our Big MCU Phase 4 Breakdown

Tonnes of Marvel announcements took place in San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H last weekend so Joe, Matt & Cardy are here to take a closer look at all the new movies and TV shows announced and discussed what they're most excited for. We've also been playing some games, half of which are Marvel related. They're doing alright for themselves, aren't they?

PG Tips is this week's Endless Search offering and of course, there's plenty of Crisp Correspondence to get through.

IGN UK Podcast #497: Our Big MCU Phase 4 Breakdown

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Kill la Kill The Game: IF Review

At first glance, Kill la Kill The Game: IF passes the fighting game smell test. With sharp cel-shaded cutscenes, including loving recreations of critical moments from the beloved Hiroyuki Imaishi anime series and the endorsement of its animation studio Trigger, developer APlus and publisher Arc System Works want you to see and get excited about the prospect of an authentic, official Kill la Kill game. Unfortunately, authenticity isn't everything. Kill la Kill The Game: IF feels like a stripped-down version of the prototypical 3D anime fighter. Its loose, mashy fighting fails to create the opportunities for strategic depth I've come to expect in great fighting games. Meanwhile, its story and single-player modes feel less than substantial.

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Enter for a Chance to Win Just Cause 4

Welcome to Daily Win, our way of giving back to the IGN community. To thank our awesome audience, we're giving away a new game each day to one lucky winner. Be sure to check IGN.com every day to enter in each new giveaway.

Today we're giving away Just Cause 4 with its season pass for Xbox One. To enter into this sweepstake, fill out the form below. You must be at least 18 years old and a legal U.S. resident to enter. Today's sweepstake will end at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Entries entered after this time will not be considered.

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Which House Should You Choose?

If you're having trouble deciding on which house to join in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, way lay down all the strengths of each character and lord and compare them for you.

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Our Favorite Dumb (But Awesome) Games

At some point in the past few weeks, some of us at the office were spitballing about when we thought the ludicrous new crustacean-themed battle game Fight Crab might come out.

While we don't know for sure (though their website alleges it will be some time by the end of the month), it got us thinking: this game, while undeniably awesome, is also undeniably silly and sort of dumb. But that's not a bad thing - in fact, it reminded us that some of our favorite games aren't much smarter.

Check out the slideshow above for some of our favorite dumb-but-awesome games, or scroll through the entire list below.

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Here's Who You Can Romance in Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Find out who you can build support with and even marry in Fire Emblem: Three Houses with our expansive support list.

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How to Fix Joy-Con Drift

Here's how to fix Joy-Con drift.

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GTA Online: Everything You Can Win (and Buy) in the Diamond Casino

Want to know what you can win or buy at the brand new Diamond Casino and Resort in GTA Online? Look no further.

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Opinion: Breath of the Wild 2 Can't Just Give Us More of the Same

How do you follow up a masterpiece? It's a question many artists face, and it's what Nintendo must ask while developing the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Breath of the Wild was a revolutionary title for the Zelda series and the open-world genre. The, "go anywhere, climb anything" approach was the breath of fresh air (pun intended) the franchise needed, and it is widely regarded as one of the greatest Zelda games of all time (and the best game on Nintendo Switch.) The reveal of Breath of the Wild 2 was Nintendo's big announcement to cap off its Nintendo Direct for E3 2019, but the trailer told us very little about what to expect from our next trip to Hyrule.

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Ends Tomorrow: Buy a $15 Game, Get a $15 Credit at Amazon

Amazon is giving Twitch Prime members a $15 credit with purchase of select games. But here's what's interesting: three of the games are on sale for $15 at checkout for Prime members anyway, making them essentially free. The Last of Us Remastered, however, has an on-page coupon that makes it $12.07, which means Amazon will basically pay you $3 in addition to the game. Wild.

The deal ends tomorrow, July 26, so hurry and take advantage of it.

The $15 credit will arrive in your account 7 days after the purchase goes through. You can read more of the small print on the deal's page. Twitch Prime is free, with no catch, if you're already an Amazon Prime member (Amazon owns Twitch, if you didn't know).

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Two Classic Star Wars Games Are Getting Re-Released

Two classic Star Wars games will be getting re-released: 1991's The Empire Strikes Back for NES and Game Boy, and 1997's Shadows of the Empire for N64.

The classic games, which come in either a "Classic" or "Premium" edition, are being brought back by Limited Run Games and are available for pre-orders starting on July 26, 2019. The Classic editions cost $40-45 USD and come with the game cartridge for the original hardware (sorry, no digital versions - you'll need to dust off your N64 or pick up a Retron 5), in a package based on the era the action figure for the game would have released in.

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List of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 Characters with Stats and Team Bonuses

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Sam Lake: Writing Control Has Given Me Max Payne Flashbacks

Sam Lake wants you to know that he loves when stories get super meta – what you could describe as getting really self-aware and irreverent of their own world. The Max Payne franchise was infamous for this, throwing its titular hero into a hallucination sequence, with Payne commenting that it feels like he's in a video game. With Remedy and Lake's next game, Control, out on August 28, the writer says that he's had many a flashback to writing Max Payne.

"It's fascinating, especially when you are studying

," Lake told IGN on this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered. "It almost feels like it's a literary genre made for analyzing it, almost like you're playing a game. Like you are coming up with interpretations and investing into it and gaining more out of it by investing into it. So playing the game almost with the writer has also been in my mind when writing for games in some ways. That's where it started. It's all post-modern and playing around with point-of-view and what's real and what's not real ...I've had many kinds of flashbacks to working on Max Payne."

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Nintendo Reveals Cute Japan-Only Disney Switch

Japan is getting a Disney Tsum-Tsum Festival Nintendo Switch bundle this October that includes pink and purple Joy-Cons that are decorated with patterns and feature a home button adorned with Mickey Mouse ears.

As reported by The Verge, Nintendo Japan unveiled this new bundle that will arrive alongside Disney's Tsum-Tsum Festival on October 10 for 36,080 yen ($333 USD). This new game includes Switch-exclusive minigames and the ability to play a version of the popular mobile Tsum-Tsum game by holding the Switch vertically.

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Xbox Home Screen Redesign Removes Cortana

Microsoft has redesigned the Xbox One Home user interface with a variety of features designed to provide a faster experience. Among the changes, support for the Cortana voice assistant has been dropped.

Announced on the Xbox Wire blog, Microsoft explained that the company intends to shift voice assistant elements away from on-console and into the cloud. This means that, while you can still use voice commands to control your console, you'll talk to Cortana via a smart device such as an Alexa product with the Cortana skill or a mobile device with an app, rather that via your Xbox headset.

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Fire Emblem Director Explains How Marriage Has Changed in Three Houses

One of the goals for Intelligent Systems with Fire Emblem: Three Houses was to give players a more personal experience with the world and setting. That's why the support system was revamped to focus more on the player character, who is more of an avatar for the player than a unique hero with their own story.

Speaking with Intelligent Systems ahead of the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, director Toshiyuki Kusaskihara explained to IGN why only the player can unlock S-Rank support levels:

"The reason that we have S-Rank endings for only the protagonist has a lot to do with the fact that you're using an avatar for the game," Kusakihara says. "We really want the player to feel like they get some kind of satisfaction out of getting to know a certain character the best through gameplay."

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Fortnite: How to Complete the Birthday Challenges

A complete guide to completing the Fortnite Birthday Challenges (2019)!

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Fire Emblem Devs on If They've Thought About an Advance Wars Sequel

Intelligent Systems, co-developers of this week's Fire Emblem: Three Houses, are of course also known for another renowned Nintendo strategy franchise — Advance Wars. But for fans of the more modern military aesthetic of that series, Intelligent Systems' work on the lengthy Three Houses campaign, and plans for post-launch DLC, hasn't left much room for the developers to consider an Advance Wars follow-up in the near future.

Speaking to IGN ahead of Three Houses launch, Intelligent Systems Director Toshiyuki Kusakihara told IGN the developers "don't even have the time to think about" what they're doing after Three Houses."

"While we can say that we're working on the DLC and there's going to be a lot of content

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses Review

Before its resurgence in popularity on the 3DS handhelds, there was a time where the Fire Emblem series once lived on home consoles. Twelve years after Radiant Dawn on Wii, Fire Emblem: Three Houses has finally returned to the living room on the Switch, and it's better than ever. With a vast and open base hub to explore, new ways to turn the tide of battle with your chosen band of colorful characters, and a story that's as brutal as the choices you'll have to make on the battlefield, Three Houses is everything I've ever wanted in a turn-based strategy game. Its grand adventure is filled with drama and intrigue across whichever of the titular three houses you choose to join, and each brings its own unique perspective. Following just one of these paths from humble beginnings to a full-blown war for dominance took me over 70 hours, and left me hungry for more.

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EA Details FIFA 20's Biggest Pro Clubs Changes

FIFA 20 is gearing up to make a ton of improvements to Pro Clubs, including increased customization for Virtual Pros, better broadcast presentation, new match types, more kits, and much more.

Pro Clubs allow FIFA players to create a Virtual Pro player and play a specific position online with real teammates. FIFA 20 is all about making that experience more immersive and giving players more options to personalize their star.

FIFA 20 implements a new Avatar system that will replace player creation across the entire game, and will allow players to utilize an improved 4 quadrant axis morphing tool to truly customize each detail of each created player.

Looks aren't all, as players can now choose to play as LF/RF, LM/RM, RWB/LWB positions. These and all other positions will take advantage of the revitalized progression system which will allow you to improve your Pro from his base overall rating of 80.

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Darksiders Genesis Nephilim Edition Is Up for Preorder (Only 5,000 Made)

Darksiders Genesis is a top-down action-RPG that's set to release for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, and Stadia sometime in 2019. It's a prequel to the original Darksiders series, and it focuses on Strife, the gunslinging fourth (and final) Horseman of the Apocalypse. You'll also be able to take control of War, and play through the game in two-player co-op mode.

If you're interested in preordering Darksiders Genesis, you'll probably want to know what comes in each edition of the game. We have all the information below.

Preorder Darksiders Genesis: Nephilim Edition

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