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Is it Finally Time for 3D Mario? 14 Predictions for the September 2026 Nintendo Direct and Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct IGN-journalisten Logan Plant fremsætter 14 forudsigelser for Nintendos kommende Direct-præsentationer den 8. og 9. september 2026. Han forventer blandt andet en større afsløring af en genindspilning af The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, muligvis med udgivelsesdato, nye amiibo og en Zelda-tematiseret Switch 2. Artiklen omtaler også mulige nyheder om Zelda-filmen, Nintendo Switch Online og Twilight Princess.

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'No One Puts Double Fine Out of Business Except for Me' — Tim Schafer Explains Double Fine's 'Creative Awakening' After Leaving Xbox Double Fine er blevet selvstændigt, efter at Xbox solgte studiet fra som led i en større omstrukturering. Studiet beholdt sine intellektuelle rettigheder, men måtte afskedige omkring en fjerdedel af medarbejderne. Tim Schafer siger, at holdet fortsat arbejder på nye spil, blandt andet et Kickstarter-projekt, der potentielt kan føre til udviklingen af Brutal Legend 2.

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gamescom Apologizes for Its Response to Theft of Indie Developers' Equipment and Promises Improved Security Measures gamescom undskylder sin første reaktion på tyverier af udvikleres udstyr under årets messe. Den oprindelige udmelding blev kritiseret for at lægge ansvaret på de berørte udstillere. Arrangøren vil nu gennemføre en særskilt sikkerhedsgennemgang og invitere arrangører af indie-stande til et møde om konkrete forbedringer. Flere i spilbranchen har desuden tilbudt de berørte udviklere hjælp.

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Halloween: The Game Review So Far - IGN IGNs foreløbige anmeldelse af Halloween: The Game beskriver et asymmetrisk horrorspil med gode idéer, men også alvorlige tekniske problemer. Spillet lider blandt andet af nedbrud, fejlbehæftede animationer, ustabil kamp, dårlig NPC-kunstig intelligens og problemer med lyd og interaktioner. Michael Myers er underholdende at spille, men spillet fremstår ifølge anmeldelsen langt fra færdigpoleret.

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The Fury of Dracula Board Game Is a Supernatural Horror Game of Cat and Mouse All the Right Ways IGN anmelder femte udgave af brætspillet Fury of Dracula, hvor én spiller skjuler Dracula, mens op til fire jægere forsøger at opspore ham. Udgaven tilføjer Jonathan Harker som valgfri jæger og en hurtigere spilvariant, men anmelderen er usikker på balancen. Spillets intense jagt og taktiske kampe roses, mens den nye sort-hvide kunstneriske stil vurderes som et tilbageskridt. Spillet får karakteren 8 ud af 10.

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'We Take Copyright Infringement Very Seriously' — Tetris Responds After the White House Launches 'Build the Wall' on Arcade Website Tetris Company reagerer på Det Hvide Hus’ nye spilside Arcade.Gov, hvor klonen “Build the Wall” indgår blandt flere politiske spil. Virksomheden understreger, at Tetris ikke har forbindelse til spillet, og kritiserer budskabet for at skabe splittelse. Samtidig oplyser selskabet, at det tager mulig krænkelse af ophavsretten alvorligt og undersøger sagen.

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9 Video Game and Movie Trailers You Might Have Missed From This Past Week IGN samler ni trailere fra ugens spil- og filmnyheder. Blandt højdepunkterne er nye kig på filmen Street Fighter og spillene Stranger Than Heaven, Until Dawn 2 og Rhapsody in Scarlet. Også Danny Boyles mediefilm Ink, Netflix-filmen La Bola Negra samt indieplatformspillet Rebounder omtales.

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macOS 26.7 Code Hints at Two Unreleased Apple Game Controllers Kode i en macOS 26.7-releasekandidat henviser til to hidtil ukendte Apple-enheder med profiler for spilcontrollere. De har blandt andet D-pad, analogsticks, knapper og haptik, mens den ene også har accelerometer og gyroskop. Referencerne kan være tegn på controllere under udvikling, men kan også vedrøre internt testudstyr, og Apple fjernede koden i den efterfølgende releasekandidat.

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GTA 6 Extended Look Looks Very Different After Rockstar Reveals Heavily Censored Trailer for China Rockstar Games har udgivet en kraftigt censureret version af den 27 minutter lange GTA 6-trailer på den kinesiske platform Bilibili. Scener med dans, narkotika, seksualitet, rygning og blodige lig er blevet sløret eller fjernet. Ændringerne skulle være foretaget omkring 31. august, og Rockstar samt Take-Two har angiveligt fået genudgivelser af den ucensurerede video fjernet.

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'This Move Reflects the Team’s Evolving Workplace Needs' — Bungie Confirms Plans to Sublease Parts of Its Enormous Bellevue Headquarters Following Mass Layoffs Bungie undersøger muligheden for at fremleje 210.984 kvadratmeter af virksomhedens hovedkvarter i Bellevue i Washington. Spilstudiet oplyser, at beslutningen hænger sammen med en digital-first-model og øget brug af fjernarbejde, men at der fortsat vil være et fysisk kontor. Meldingen kommer efter, at 292 medarbejdere blev afskediget i juni, og efter flere års nedskæringer.

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Every Nintendo Switch 2 Game Confirmed for 2026 IGN har samlet kommende spil til Nintendo Switch 2 med bekræftede udgivelsesdatoer fra september 2026 og frem. Listen omfatter både eksklusive titler, tredjepartsspil og nye udgaver af eksisterende spil, blandt andet Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Kingdom Hearts Collection og 007 First Light. Flere af spillene udkommer også på andre platforme.

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Today Only, This Simple Trick Can Save You $10 on GTA 6 for Xbox Xbox-ejere kan i dag spare effektivt 10 dollar på Ultimate Edition af Grand Theft Auto 6 ved at købe to Xbox-gavekort hos Newegg med kampagnekoden LDSF373. Tilbuddet gælder kun frem til midnat, mens spillet kan forudbestilles for 99,99 dollar og forhåndsinstalleres fra 12. november. GTA 6 udkommer efter planen 19. november 2026.

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Nvidia Will Eventually Bring DLSS 5 to Older RTX 4000 Graphics Cards, But It'll Probably Run Horribly Nvidia planlægger ifølge en medarbejder at udvide understøttelsen af DLSS 5 til GeForce RTX 40-serien, når optimeringen til RTX 50-serien er længere fremme. Teknologien er foreløbig kun lanceret til RTX 50-kort og kan give markante forbedringer i billedkvalitet, men også et stort ydelsesfald. I en test på et RTX 5090 faldt billedfrekvensen med omkring 43 procent.

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'Let's Make It Happen' — Hideki Kamiya Tells Xbox CEO He's Ready to Make Scalebound When She Is Hideki Kamiya siger, at han fortsat er klar til at genoptage arbejdet på det annullerede action-rollespil Scalebound, hvis Xbox ønsker at gøre projektet til virkelighed. Spillet blev officielt lukket i 2017 efter flere års udvikling hos PlatinumGames. Kamiya leder nu Clovers, som arbejder på Okami 2, men håber, at der en dag opstår en mulighed for at vende tilbage til Scalebound.

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword, IGN's Latest 10/10 Game, Is Out Today — Here's How to Get 18% Off the Steam Version Capcoms actionspil Onimusha: Way of the Sword er udkommet til pc den 4. september 2026. Fanatical sælger i øjeblikket en Steam-nøgle med 18 procent rabat, så prisen er reduceret fra 69,99 til 57,39 dollar. Spillet har fået en positiv modtagelse hos IGN og skulle også køre fornuftigt på Steam Deck.

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30 Open World Game Masterpieces You Need to Play - IGN30 IGN gennemgår 30 markante open world-spil, der har været med til at forme moderne spildesign. Artiklen ser blandt andet på Grand Theft Auto-serien, Shenmue, Mafia 2 og Red Dead Redemption og opdeler spillene efter forskellige typer åbne verdener. Fokus er på, hvordan spillene har udviklet fortælleteknik, miljøer og følelsen af at leve i en vedvarende digital verden.

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Capcom Has Been on a 10-Year Winning Streak, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s Design Is the Perfect Demonstration of Why the Publisher Keeps Winning Onimusha: Way of the Sword viser, hvordan Capcom kombinerer seriens historiske særpræg med idéer fra moderne actionspil. Spillet henter blandt andet inspiration fra God of War i niveauer og tone samt fra Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice i sværdkampens parader og rytme. Artiklen fremhæver denne tilgang som en del af forklaringen på Capcoms stærke resultater det seneste årti.

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1 vs. 100 Live Was the Kind of Incredible Creative Risk I'd Like to See Xbox Get Back To IGN-journalisten Ryan McCaffrey ser tilbage på 1 vs. 100, et livebaseret quizspil til Xbox 360, hvor spillere konkurrerede om Microsoft Points og andre præmier. Han fremhæver spillet som et modigt kreativt eksperiment, der fungerede, men blev lukket på grund af blandt andet værter, teknik og serveromkostninger. McCaffrey efterlyser mere af den slags nytænkning fra Xbox i dag.

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Is The Ascent 2 in the Works? The Developers Say 'We're Moving The Ascent From a Game to a Franchise' Neon Giant har bekræftet, at studiet har langsigtede planer om at gøre The Ascent til en franchise, men uden at afsløre konkrete detaljer om en efterfølger. Studiet arbejder aktuelt på det cyberpunk-inspirerede førstepersonsspil No Law, der udkommer i 2027. En opdatering til The Ascent med forbedringer til blandt andet co-op og gemte spil er planlagt til november 2026.

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Nintendo Confirms 2 Nintendo Direct Broadcasts for Next Week, Including a Dedicated Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Broadcast Nintendo har annonceret to Nintendo Direct-udsendelser i næste uge. Den første finder sted 8. september og fokuserer på The Legend of Zelda i anledning af seriens 40-års jubilæum, mens den almindelige Direct følger 9. september med efterfølgende Nintendo Treehouse-stream. Ocarina of Time-genindspilningen til Switch 2 ventes at være blandt højdepunkterne, men Nintendo har endnu ikke offentliggjort det fulde program.

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'Sometimes It'll Go Well, Sometimes It Won't' — Exodus Romance Options Are Not Gender-Locked for Both Male and Female Leads Det kommende science fiction-rollespil Exodus får romantiksystemer, der ikke er låst til spillerens valg af mandlig eller kvindelig hovedperson. Spillere kan indlede forhold til flere figurer, men deres valg og alliancer kan påvirke relationerne og tvinge dem til at vælge mellem forskellige personer. Spillet udkommer 7. april 2027 til PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S og pc.

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Lego Skylines Focuses on the Macro Rather Than the Micro of Lego- and City-Building | IGN Preview IGN har prøvet Lego Skylines, et kommende city-builder-spil fra Iceflake Studios. Spillet fokuserer på en mere afslappet og tilgængelig byopbygning, hvor spilleren bygger med præfabrikerede bygninger baseret på rigtige Lego-klodser. Der er stadig systemer som trafik, arbejdspladser, kriminalitet og brande, men problemerne udvikler sig langsommere og giver bedre tid til at reagere. Udgivelsesdatoen er endnu ikke fastlagt.

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Exodus Narrative Director Explains Romance, Relationships, and Mass Effect Comparisons in New Sci-fi RPG Narrative director Drew Karpyshyn fortæller om rollespillet Exodus og sammenligningerne med Mass Effect, som han tidligere arbejdede på. Spillets valg skal påvirke historien, ledsagernes forhold, romancer og gameplay gennem både mindre dialogvalg og store afgørende beslutninger. Paladin-Immortal-systemet handler samtidig om, hvorvidt spilleren vil bevare sin menneskelighed eller omfavne Celestial-teknologi og større magt.

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How Explicit Are the Sex Scenes in Exodus? It Sounds Like Mass Effect Fans Will Find Them Familiar — and No, You Can't Have Sex With the Octopus Udviklerne bag sci-fi-rollespillet Exodus fortæller, at spillets romantiske scener bliver tydelige, men afdæmpede og smagfuldt udført i stil med Mass Effect. Spillerne kan indlede romancer med flere menneskelige ledsagere, men den intelligente blæksprutte Salt kan ikke romanceres. Romancer kræver aktive valg og kan skabe konflikter mellem ledsagerne. Exodus udkommer til pc, PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X/S den 7. april 2027.

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Playing Exodus Fills the Mass Effect-Sized Hole in My Heart | IGN Preview IGN har prøvespillet Exodus, et science fiction-rollespil fra Archetype Entertainment, og fremhæver de tydelige paralleller til Mass Effect. Spillet kombinerer tredjepersonsskydning med taktisk styring af gruppemedlemmers evner, udforskning og valg, der påvirker relationer og historien. Forhåndsvisningen roser kampens tyngde og ambitioner, men peger også på et mindre overbevisende dækningssystem og enkelte bosskampe, der føles langtrukne.

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Capcom Has Been on a 10-Year Winning Streak, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s Design Is the Perfect Demonstration of Why the Publisher Keeps Winning

Onimusha: Way of the Sword viser, hvordan Capcom kombinerer seriens historiske særpræg med idéer fra moderne actionspil. Spillet henter blandt andet inspiration fra God of War i niveauer og tone samt fra Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice i sværdkampens parader og rytme. Artiklen fremhæver denne tilgang som en del af forklaringen på Capcoms stærke resultater det seneste årti.

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There are very few publishers who can claim to have had quite as prosperous a decade as Capcom. The company’s 10 best-selling games all launched within the past 10 years, a chain of good fortune that began with 2017’s Resident Evil 7. Capcom’s reimagining of gaming’s most important survival horror series became something of a formula for its wider success, and that template can be seen in action once again with this year’s Onimusha: Way of the Sword.

Aside from a couple of remasters and spin-off projects, Onimusha has lain dormant for 20 years. The entire original four-part series was released during the PS2 era, and so there have been nearly three whole console generations of progress since the last entry, 2006’s Dawn of Dreams. That project introduced what was, until Way of the Sword, Onimusha’s most “modern” idea: a fully 3D camera. For its earlier entries, Onimusha used fixed camera perspectives and pre-rendered backdrops, much like the original Resident Evils.

There's a good reason for that: Onimusha basically was Resident Evil. Set predominantly within the grounds of a single castle, 2001’s Onimusha: Warlords is a game of solving puzzles, unlocking doors, and eating herbs to stay alive. Shinji Mikami, co-creator of Resident Evil, even advised on the project. The series shed more of that survival horror blood with each successive entry, but when it comes to a brand new Onimusha for the 2020s, it would not have been surprising to see Capcom return to those roots and essentially clone its Resident Evil 2 remake but fill it with samurai and demons. Afterall, much of Resident Evil 7’s success is thanks to revitalising the past, the Baker Estate being a Southern Gothic variant of the Spencer Mansion.

But Onimusha: Way of the Sword is not Resident Evil with samurai. If anything, it’s Capcom’s answer to Sony Santa Monica Studio’s modern God of War games. It features furious melee combat with an array of flashy abilities. You face monstrous bosses, some of which repeat multiple times. Treasures are hidden behind knotty environmental puzzles. Your protagonist, Miyamoto Musashi, squeezes through gaps, and is accompanied by a disembodied advisor who is much too talkative.

This is still Capcom’s formula in action, though, just a different side of it. Resident Evil 7’s success is as much about wider influences as it is refocusing on roots. To put Resident Evil back on track after the much-too-bombastic RE6, Capcom studied the horror landscape. It saw the success of projects like Frictional Games’ utterly terrifying Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and how the limited vision enforced by a first-person perspective could create an oppressive atmosphere – an approach that turned the simple corridors of Hideo Kojima’s PT into a looping nightmare. Combined with the labyrinthine level design the company had perfected back in the 1990s, it would make for the ideal series reboot. Resident Evil 7 was born. A similar approach can be seen in Capcom's other landmark game of the decade – by adopting the open world format so popular in the West, Monster Hunter: World transformed a niche concern into Capcom’s best-selling game by over 10 million copies.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is not Resident Evil with samurai. If anything, it’s Capcom’s answer to the modern God of War games.

In Way of the Sword, you can see how Capcom has studied the success of God of War and similar modern action-adventure games in order to find a new identity for Onimusha. Those learnings are not just echoed in level design and individual features, but also in tone: Way of the Sword is surprisingly funny. Like Nathan Drake, Musashi adventures through Kyoto armed with a thousand one-liners. His face, modelled on legendary actor and Kurosawa collaborator, Toshiro Mifune, is incredibly expressive, often for comedic effect.

The original games were campy, but more so because that was simply the way games were written at the time – like the original Resident Evil, there’s a lot of unintentional comedy in Warlords’ script. But, as with the modern era of Resident Evil, Capcom made a deliberate choice. With Resi, it pushed aside the camp and doubled down on the horror. The remakes are much grimier than their parent games, while RE7 has the kind of filthy fears that’ll give you tetanus, and RE8 contains the series’ most terrifying scares in House Beneviento. For Onimusha, Capcom has pushed the other way, turning the Power Rangers camp of the original games into a deliberate flavour. While many will understandably opt for the Japanese VO for a more “authentic” experience, I think the bizarre Britishness of Way of the Sword’s English dub is intentional – not just in making Musashi more amusing, but turning his Genma adversaries into the Kyoto equivalent of London-accented orcs (a “Looks like samurai’s back on the menu, boys!” would fit in perfectly). While Way of the Sword does have its fair share of darkness and terror to reflect the survival horror leanings of the original games, there’s plenty to laugh at here, and Capcom wants you to chuckle.

But Capcom also wants you to sweat, and that’s where Way of the Sword’s greatest achievement comes in. As fun as the original games are, Onimusha has never offered any significant depth in its swordplay. If it were to live up to its new subtitle, the latest entry absolutely needed a new approach. It took that approach from FromSoftware’s masterpiece, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and it smartly did so without turning Onimusha into a soulslike.

There’s already some debate as to how Souls-y Way of the Sword is, and for the most part the answer is “not at all.” But when it comes to Onimusha’s bosses, the Sekiro similarity is undeniable. The parry is your greatest weapon, and matching the rhythmic patterns of your enemy’s blade is the primary way of opening up attack windows. Like Sekiro, this is a game of wearing down an enemy’s stamina before inflicting massive bursts of damage, and then resetting the deadly dance to do it all over again. A delicate balance of offence and defence is demanded, as giving your enemy space allows them to regain stamina, the very thing you need to erode away to inflict the most severe punishment. You can’t simply spam attacks to burn through the enemy’s healthbar, or chug consumables to allow a barrage of your flashiest damage dealers – you must fight using a very precise set of tools, picked in response to a very particular set of attack patterns. Alongside limited heals, multi-phase fights, and the combat’s frenetic flow, it’s hard to deny that Onimusha’s new approach to bosses isn’t following in FromSoftware’s shinobi footsteps.

But Capcom wouldn’t have enjoyed its decade of success if it just pilfered from popular games with little care for how those ideas were implemented. Again, Way of the Sword is not a soulslike, and you can see that in its wider design. Genre rules like bonfires, world resets, and loss of XP resources are absent. Regular enemies are, if anything, too easy. And there’s not a poison swamp in sight. While all this does contribute to the feeling of the bosses being substantial difficulty spikes along the campaign’s route, it also ensures that Onimusha is not a grueling experience in the way that FromSoftware’s games can be – even when you’re on your sixth attempt at a boss, there’s no infuriating run-back to contend with, and that goes a long way to ensuring you don’t lose your patience when faced with a particularly tricky roadblock.

It’s this elegant adaptation of ideas from beyond Capcom’s walls that ensured both Monster Hunter and Resident Evil became the modern juggernauts they are. While MH: World expanded its literal horizons to allow for a more expansive environment, it was careful not to take on the bloat of contemporary open world games. It was still focused on the hunt. Resident Evil 7 may have adopted the perspective of Amnesia, PT, and Alien: Isolation, but it rejected their combatless approaches and put a gun in your hand – exactly as Resident Evil should be. In all these examples, it’s clear that Capcom understands both each trend’s mass appeal and how to reinterpret that trend in a way that’s appropriate to the IP in question.

While it remains to be seen if Capcom’s resurrection of its long-dormant samurai game will be quite as financially successful as its Resident Evil and Monster Hunter revitalisations, it’s clear that the Capcom formula has worked beautifully for Onimusha: Way of the Sword. It has launched to near-universal critical adoration, and its impressive pre-release demo quickly earned it a legion of eager fans. With any luck, Onimusha is back, and its next game will feature whatever the swordplay equivalent to House Beneviento is.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Executive Editor of Features.

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