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Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Arc Raiders, Control Resonant, and More Confirmed to Receive QSSR AI Upscaling Updates Sony har annonceret, at seks nye PS5-spil får understøttelse af QSSR, virksomhedens AI-baserede opskaleringsteknologi. Listen omfatter blandt andre Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, ARC Raiders, The Finals, Control Resonant, No Man’s Sky og Hell Let Loose: Vietnam. Opdateringen til Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 er allerede udgivet, mens de øvrige spil får teknologien i kommende opdateringer.

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Barbie Rewind Review - IGN IGN giver Barbie Rewind karakteren 6 og vurderer, at spillet primært fungerer som et nostalgisk arkiv for voksne Barbie-fans. Samlingen indeholder 17 ældre Barbie-spil, men de simple minispil og skiftende kontrolsystemer har ikke ældet godt. Dreamhouse-funktionen med over 250 møbler er anmeldelsens stærkeste element, især for yngre spillere.

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GTA 6 Looks So Good That I'm Excited to Play it at 30 fps – While I Patiently Wait For the PC Version At Least Rockstar har bekræftet, at GTA 6 kører med 30 billeder i sekundet på alle konsoller, inklusive PS5 Pro. IGN vurderer, at nye, komprimerede videoklip stadig viser imponerende detaljer i teksturer, refleksioner og skygger, muligvis hjulpet af PS5 Pro’s PSSR-opskalering og raytracing. Artiklen peger samtidig på, at den høje grafiske kvalitet sandsynligvis udelukker 60 fps på den nuværende konsolgeneration.

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Magic: The Gathering’s New Star Trek Commander Decks Have Arrived, and One Card-Stealing Borg Precon Easily Outclasses Picard’s Federation Fleet IGN rangerer de fire Commander-forhåndskonstruerede decks fra Magic: The Gatherings Star Trek-udgivelse efter gameplay, værdi og genudgivelser. We Are the Borg indtager førstepladsen takket være stærke artefaktsynergier, kortassimilering og relevante genudgivelser som Unwinding Clock. Landing Party og Klingon Fury følger efter, mens Federation Fleet vurderes som det mindst interessante deck mekanisk.

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Try Unlimited Checklist Tracking on IGN’s GTA 5 Guides This November - IGN IGN tilbyder i en begrænset periode gratis, ubegrænset adgang til afkrydsningslister og interaktive kort til Grand Theft Auto 5. Spillere kan bruge værktøjerne til at følge historiemissioner, samleobjekter, trofæer og 100 procent-gennemførelse frem til 4. december 2026. Tilbuddet præsenteres som en måde at vende tilbage til GTA 5 på, mens udgivelsen af GTA 6 nærmer sig.

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Ubisoft Reportedly Greenlights New Rainbow Six: Vegas Game After 18 Years Without a Another Installment Ubisoft har ifølge en rapport givet grønt lys til et nyt spil i Rainbow Six: Vegas-serien, som udvikles af Ubisoft Montreal under kodenavnet “Spades”. Projektet skulle være en fortsættelse snarere end en genindspilning, men befinder sig stadig tidligt i udviklingen. Studiet arbejder angiveligt også på to andre projekter, hvoraf mindst ét muligvis foregår i Rainbow Six-universet.

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The Game Awards 2026 Is Heading to Roblox for Its First-Ever Virtual Watch Party Complete With Live Voting and Exclusive Merch The Game Awards 2026 bliver for første gang streamet live på Roblox den 10. december. Brugere på mindst 18 år kan se prisuddelingen, stemme, interagere med andre seere og gøre krav på virtuel merchandise i Roblox’ virtuelle eventområde The Block. Showet afholdes fortsat i Los Angeles og kan også streames via Disney+.

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Magic: The Gathering Is Taking Players Under the Sea for Its First Set of 2027, Preorders for Nauctis: The Sunken Realm Are Officially Live Forudbestillingerne på Magic: The Gatherings kommende sæt Nauctis: The Sunken Realm er åbnet hos Amazon. Sættet udkommer 5. februar 2027 og kan blandt andet købes som Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, bundles og Commander-decks. Wizards of the Coast introducerer også såkaldte “God Packs”, hvor alle kort i en pakke er rare eller mythic, men chancen for at finde en er meget lille.

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These Are the 10 Most Valuable Cards in Magic: The Gathering's Star Trek Set: Captain Jean-Luc Picard Commands a $300 Price Tag After Launch Day IGN har opgjort de ti mest værdifulde kort fra det nye Magic: The Gathering-sæt med Star Trek-tema. Et Showcase-kort med Captain Jean-Luc Picard topper listen med en foreløbig pris på omkring 300 dollar, efterfulgt af en særlig Mr. Spock-udgave til cirka 200 dollar og Captain James T. Kirk til omkring 170 dollar. Priserne ventes at ændre sig efter udgivelsen.

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The Legend of Zelda Triforce Brain Teaser Puzzle Is on Sale for $13 Ahead of Black Friday Et metalpuslespil fra Hanayama med Zelda-seriens Triforce-symbol kan lige nu købes for 12,88 dollar hos Amazon. Det er den laveste registrerede pris på modellen, som består af fire sammenlåste dele, der skal skilles ad og samles igen. Puslespillet har sværhedsgrad 5 ud af 6 og er målrettet personer fra 12 år.

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MagicCon Atlanta Preview Panel Liveblog – Check Out the Sets Coming in 2027 Wizards of the Coast viste under MagicCon Atlanta flere nyheder om Magic: The Gathering i 2027, herunder de første kort fra sættet Nauctis: The Sunken Realm. Panelet afslørede også den animerede serie Magic: The Gathering – Planeswalker, som får premiere i 2027, samt en kommende Planeswalker-encyklopædi. Der blev ikke delt nye oplysninger om de to endnu ukendte Universes Beyond-sæt.

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Crazy Taxi: World Tour Goes to India for Final International Map Sega har afsløret Indien som det femte og sidste område i Crazy Taxi: World Tour. Banen består af tre zoner med blandt andet markeder, templer, industriområder og et Bollywood-filmset. Spillet får både historiemode og multiplayer med op til seks spillere og udkommer i begyndelsen af 2027 til Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 og pc.

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25 Years Ago, Kojima Made the Perfect Metal Gear Solid for the 2020s. This Is Why MGS2 Was So Ahead of Its Time. En IGN-klumme ser tilbage på Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, der fylder 25 år. Ifølge artiklen fremstår spillets skildring af digital misinformation, social manipulation, automatiseret krigsførelse og en virkelighed præget af usikker information mere aktuel end ved udgivelsen. Klummen fremhæver også spillets metatekstuelle fortælling om, hvordan spildesign kan forme spillerens handlinger.

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WoW Forever Has a Weekly Quest That Can Reward Up to 100 Gold, and Players Don't Love It Blizzard har tilføjet en ugentlig quest i World of Warcraft: Forever, hvor spillere kan få en tilfældig belønning på mellem 10 og 100 gold efter en dungeon-opgave. Mange spillere kritiserer systemet, fordi det minder om moderne WoW’s daglige og ugentlige aktiviteter og kan skabe frygt for at gå glip af belønninger. Andre mener, at ordningen kan begrænse botters fordel i spiløkonomien.

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Sony Confirms God of War's Action Platformer Prequel Sons of Sparta Is Bringing 2 New Modes to PS4 and PS5 Next Week Sony udgiver God of War: Sons of Sparta til PS4 den 16. november, efter at spillet tidligere i år blev lanceret til PS5. Opdateringen indeholder to nye spiltyper på begge konsoller: Hermes Mode med fokus på speedrunning og Erebus Mode, hvor både Kratos og fjender dør ved ét slag. Spiltilstand vælges ved oprettelse af et nyt spil.

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GTA 6 Has a Whole Animated TV Series You Can Watch In-Game GTA 6 får sin egen animerede tv-serie, Macca & Friends, som kan ses på spillets fiktive Weazel-netværk. Serien følger alligatoren Macca og hans venner i Leonida og har blandt andre en talende sol og en krabbe som udlejer. Rockstar har offentliggjort en første teaser, og serien får premiere i spillet den 19. november sammen med lanceringen af GTA 6.

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Experts Warn Almost One Million UK Gamers Could Face Delays to Play Grand Theft Auto 6 at Launch Because of Sub-Par Download Speeds, Averaging Just 2.8Mbps En undersøgelse fra Broadband Genie vurderer, at omkring 870.000 britiske gamere kan bruge en uge eller mere på at hente GTA 6’s pre-load på 212 GB. Ved hastigheder på højst 2,8 Mbps tager downloadet omtrent en uge, mens 9,8 Mbps stadig kræver omkring to dage. Spillere anbefales blandt andet at bruge kabel, 5 GHz Wi-Fi og konsollens dvaletilstand.

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Former Nintendo Marketing Leads Argue Breath of the Wild Saved the Legend of Zelda Franchise From a Dwindling Playerbase and Low Sales Tidligere Nintendo-marketingchefer siger, at The Legend of Zelda-serien var i alvorlige problemer før Breath of the Wild udkom i 2017. De beskriver en svindende fanbase, lave salgstal og vanskeligheder med at tiltrække nye spillere. Ifølge dem reddede den åbne verden-formel serien fra at miste relevans, selv om nogle fans fortsat foretrækker de klassiske dungeon-baserede spil.

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What Is “Nazitraz” in Wolfenstein 3, and What Could It Mean for the Sequel’s Story? Wolfenstein 3 er officielt under udvikling hos MachineGames, men annonceringen afslørede kun få konkrete detaljer. Et udsnit af spillets manuskript antyder, at første kapitel foregår i et fængsel kaldet “Nazitraz”, hvor B.J. Blazkowicz afhører en nazist. Artiklen spekulerer også i, at Fergus, Wyatt-valget og seriens alternative tidslinjer vender tilbage.

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Fearing a Dragon Age Keep Shutdown Now BioWare Is Dead, Modders Take Matters Into Their Own Hands Dragon Age-fans har udviklet værktøjer, der gør det muligt at importere tidligere valg i Dragon Age: Inquisition, selv hvis EA lukker Dragon Age Keep. Modifikationerne giver PC-spillere en offline måde at genskabe verdensstatusser og aktivere overførsel af genstande. Løsningerne er særligt relevante efter EA’s lukning af BioWare, som har skabt usikkerhed om tjenestens fremtid.

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Spilanmeldelse: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 - recordere.dk Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 får ros for sin barske og følelsesmæssigt stærke singleplayerkampagne, der foregår med udgangspunkt i konflikten på den koreanske halvø. Anmeldelsen fremhæver især spillets menneskelige skildring af krig og undertrykkelse samt den flotte grafik på PS5 Pro. Multiplayer bygger videre på seriens velkendte formel, og spillet får 4,5 ud af 5 stjerner.

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After Giving Away Thousands of Dollars in Cosmetics, Fortnite is Teasing a Big Reveal For Captain X, Its Mysterious Masked Treasure Man — With Fan Guesses Ranging From Mr Beast to Obama Epic Games har teaset en afsløring af identiteten bag den maskerede Fortnite-figur Captain X ved spillets liveevent den 5. december. Figuren blev introduceret i den aktuelle skattejagt-sæson og har blandt andet uddelt værdifulde præmier. Fans spekulerer på, om en kendt person som MrBeast står bag, men Epic Games har endnu ikke bekræftet nogen navne.

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TEST: Corsairs økosystem viser endelig lovende potentiale med Galleon 100 SD - recordere.dk En test af Corsairs Galleon 100 SD viser et mekanisk gamingtastatur med indbyggede skærmtaster, der fungerer som kontrolpanel for spil, streaming, lyd og kreative apps. Tastaturet integrerer med Elgato Stream Deck-økosystemet og kan tilpasses omfattende med profiler, plugins og genveje. Anmeldelsen fremhæver komfort, byggekvalitet og mulighederne, men også behovet for tre forskellige apps og en høj pris på omkring 2.600 kroner.

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Florida Residents Can Eat at GTA 6's Burger Shot Across the State Starting This Week Thanks to a Collaboration With Skinny Louie Burger Shot, den fiktive fastfoodkæde fra GTA 6, udvides til flere Skinny Louie-restauranter i Florida. Fra 13. november til 31. december kan gæster købe en temamenu med blandt andet burgere og milkshakes inspireret af spillet. Samarbejdet følger en tidligere lancering på Kaseya Center i Miami, mens GTA 6 efter planen udkommer 19. november.

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Xbox Confirms Wolfenstein 3 Is in Development at MachineGames, Continuing "a Franchise with an Important Place in Gaming History" MachineGames har officielt bekræftet, at Wolfenstein 3 er i produktion. Spillet udvikles igen af det svenske studie, som også står bag Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, og skuespillerne Brian Bloom og Debra Wilson vender tilbage i deres roller. Tredje kapitel forventes at fortsætte B.J. Blazkowicz’ historie, mens serien samtidig udvikles til en tv-serie hos Amazon.

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25 Years Ago, Kojima Made the Perfect Metal Gear Solid for the 2020s. This Is Why MGS2 Was So Ahead of Its Time.

En IGN-klumme ser tilbage på Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, der fylder 25 år. Ifølge artiklen fremstår spillets skildring af digital misinformation, social manipulation, automatiseret krigsførelse og en virkelighed præget af usikker information mere aktuel end ved udgivelsen. Klummen fremhæver også spillets metatekstuelle fortælling om, hvordan spildesign kan forme spillerens handlinger.

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This is an IGN opinion piece from Carlos Morales. He’s a long-time fan of the Metal Gear franchise and is an advocate for video games as an artform.

Metal Gear Solid may not be the biggest franchise nowadays, but it was one of the pillars of the first three PlayStation console generations. The adventures of the legendary Solid Snake and his counterparts were not just some of the most critically acclaimed and financially successful games on their respective platforms – they also stand as fantastic and emotional works of art. And what a game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is, marking its 25th anniversary this year as somehow having become only more relevant and timely now than it was upon its original release on November 13th, 2001.

Series creator Hideo Kojima may have since moved on to new IPs like Death Stranding and his upcoming espionage action game Physint, but the iconic game director’s narrative idiosyncrasies and uncanny ability to predict how society will develop have rarely felt as fully formed as they do in Metal Gear Solid’s first PlayStation 2 entry. Let’s take a look at why MGS2 was so ahead of its time.

Raiden High

To understand MGS2’s place in contemporary culture, we first have to look at it in a historical context. It may be hard to remember now after so many years of reappraisal, but MGS2 proved somewhat divisive on its initial release. The game received excellent reviews and sold more than seven million copies, but it also attracted controversy for its choice of protagonist and its convoluted storyline. Many fans were upset that most of the game was spent playing as new hero Raiden instead of Snake, and that the game was full of long cutscenes and Codec calls where characters spoke at length about philosophical and sociological issues. In a world that was still getting used to constant internet access becoming more prevalent and was uncertain about what social changes the digital age would bring, MGS2 was a complex game that many in the gaming space, both consumer and professional, didn’t know how to process.

Even IGN’s Ed Lewis said as much in his review of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater back in 2004, writing that MGS2’s story was of little interest “unless you really want to spend a couple of late, smoky nights going over the details and putting all the pieces together, and they do fit together. While that's kind of interesting if you want a pleasant mind rutting, it was far from fun to watch a game eat itself.”

But time has been kind to MGS2, because many of the topics Kojima explored in the game would become more relevant in the years that followed. The ways social media, the proliferation of digital misinformation for political purposes, and the normalization of automated warfare, deep fakes, and generative AI would turn rifts between demographics into chasms and create a society where many have a tenuous grasp on what reality even is, were all predicted years in advance by Kojima’s landmark title.

Many of the topics Kojima explored in the game would become more relevant in the years that followed.

MGS2 is a dense text, and such works can need time to digest. Raiden may have irritated some players in 2001, but he’s now generally accepted as a worthwhile protagonist in his own right by series fans, although it probably doesn’t hurt that Metal Gear Solid 4 turned him into a badass cyborg ninja. People interested in video games as an artform have often pointed to MGS2’s thematic depth, with the game’s story exploring ideas like social engineering, digital censorship, cyberwarfare, and post-truth society. If you just want a tactical espionage adventure with big twists, stealth gameplay, and epic boss fights, the game delivers on those expectations. Yet players embracing MGS2’s more cerebral attributes has made the game an enduring phenomenon even a quarter century later.

One attribute in particular, its metatextual use of game design elements as part of its storytelling, is a big part of why it’s such an impressive artistic achievement.

Game Plays You

MGS2 opens with a prologue featuring series protagonist Solid Snake infiltrating a tanker in the Hudson River to gather evidence of a new Metal Gear prototype named Ray. His ill-fated mission results in the ship sinking, Metal Gear Ray being stolen by recurring villain Revolver Ocelot, and Snake assumed dead. Fast forward two years to a facility called the Big Shell having been built where the tanker sank, which has been taken over by terrorists called Dead Cell and an army of Russian mercenaries under the command of Solidus Snake, one of Snake’s evil clones. They have the President hostage and are seeking to launch a nuclear strike. Raiden, a new agent of FOXHOUND (the same outfit Snake used to work for), is ordered to rescue the hostages and stop the terrorists. Sounds like a standard setup, but it’s not too long into Raiden’s mission that it becomes obvious something is amiss.

Raiden’s mission to the Big Shell has numerous parallels to Snake’s infiltration of Shadow Moses in Metal Gear Solid 1, with repeated plot events, scripted sequences, and character appearances. As the game goes on, the player learns that the entire incident has been orchestrated by a shadow group known as the Patriots, who have covertly controlled the United States government for decades. They’ve also controlled Raiden’s life for years, with his girlfriend Rosemary (who also saves the game for you) being a Patriot agent. The allusions to Shadow Moses are intentional, part of an artificial intelligence simulation system designed to control human behavior and generate desired outcomes. Kojima explicitly makes this plot twist a metaphor for how video game players are conditioned to perform certain actions by subconsciously responding to design choices, with most linear, narrative driven games like the MGS series giving players little to no choice but to do exactly what the developers intend.

Kojima’s metatextual take on the mechanics of game design predates games like BioShock or Spec Ops: The Line.

Kojima’s metatextual take on the mechanics of game design predates similar attempts to tie player agency (or lack thereof) into the storytelling of games like BioShock or Spec Ops: The Line. Later levels draw attention to simulational and constructed aspects of video game structure, such as the reveal that the Colonel who Raiden has been taking orders from all game long is one of the Patriots’ AIs, or a big fight on an elevator trying to trick players with a fake Mission Failed screen. Even the environments themselves become less “real” inside the cavernous halls of Arsenal Gear, the flying fortress the terrorists seek to use. The levels have a similar design and color scheme to the VR training missions from the first game, and the room where Raiden battles a fleet of Metal Gear Rays is a surreal space that seems to go on for eternity.

These and other parts of Metal Gear Solid 2 are as interesting to experience now as they were on release. Yet the area where the game is most relevant in 2026 is how it reflects the distorted reality of the mid-2020s.

He Tried To Tell Us

It’s strange to play a video game from 2001 and see it predict the last decade of social upheaval. The gears of late-stage capitalism in the digital age have seen information control and cultural mythology become the most important weapons of the ruling class. In much the same way that the Patriots seek to restrict the free flow of information using the AI system known as GW, so too have the real world military industrial complex and ruling government bodies weaponized social media, digital news distribution, and automated misinformation infrastructure to make it harder to tell what is real or not to suit the interests of the powers that be. The rise of generative AI has done untold damage to the social contract and our ability to believe literally anything we see online, which is not a great development in a world where not using the internet is no longer really an option.

The anonymous nature of the Patriots, who are nameless entities powerful enough to select the President and set the terms of what becomes human history, speaks to how powerless the average person can feel in the face of endless catastrophe. Sure, there are public punching bags among the billionaires, but the movers and shakers of politics and industry are often faceless corporations and private donors who are difficult to directly assign blame to. More than individuals, the system itself is essentially self-perpetuating to the point that it’s daunting to imagine what the world would look like if it were removed. That’s the rationale for President Johnson’s insistence that Raiden continues to battle Solidus even once the Patriots’ deception is exposed, because Solidus’ plan to destroy the Patriots could tip the world into chaos.

Even more distressing is how much of the Patriots’ rhetoric makes sense from a logical standpoint. In a famous speech near the end of the game, the AI Colonel claims that the Patriots don’t censor information for power’s sake, but for the greater good of a society that is becoming directionless under an overwhelming amount of data in the digital era. In the Patriots’ view, “all this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate” has fractured our grip on collective reality, making it impossible for people to determine what is “true” because the internet rewards polarization and insular thinking with positive reinforcement over objectivity or context. As the Colonel says, “the different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right.” Check any social media feed or comment section in 2026 and it’s hard to disagree with him.

But MGS2 doesn’t end with the Patriots. It ends with Raiden, a man who has learned everything he’s been programmed to think was a lie, asking what he’s supposed to believe in. Snake tells him to “find the meaning behind the words, then decide. You can find your own name, and your own future.” It’s what makes Raiden’s choice to accept Rosemary back into his life and believe her when she says that she truly did fall in love with him despite being a spy for the Patriots such a fitting resolution. No matter how much the rich and powerful try to determine society’s direction, everyone has the ability to make their own choices and decide what is meaningful to them. It’s a beautiful message that resonates even more today when we’re all trying to survive the turbulent reality we find ourselves in. That Kojima ends a military action game about existentialism by basically telling the player to go touch grass is just another example of why he’s one of the best to ever do it.

Carlos Morales has been writing about sci-fi, superhero movies, and video games since 2019, and has read 10,000 comic books. You can follow his fixations on Twitter.

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