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'You Don't Need This' — The Last of Us Director Apologizes to God of War Laufey Devs After Calling Recent AAA Gaming Trends 'Boring' The Last of Us-instruktøren Bruce Straley har undskyldt over for udviklerne af God of War: Laufey, efter at han kaldte moderne AAA-spil kedelige og nævnte spillet som eksempel. Straley siger, at hans bemærkninger om manglende innovation blev taget ud af kontekst og skabte unødig negativ opmærksomhed. Han fastholder dog sin kritik af branchens fokus på gentagelser og spil som tjenester.

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Marvel's Wolverine Has 'No AI-Generated Assets,' Insomniac Confirms After Suspicious Signs Go Viral Online Insomniac Games afviser, at Marvel’s Wolverine indeholder generativ AI, efter spillere opdagede mærkeligt udformede badeværelsesskilte i spillet. Studiet forklarer, at problemet skyldes en fejl i spillets UV-mapping, og at en rettelse er på vej. Episoden føjer sig til en række diskussioner om spillets visuelle fejl og øvrige kontroverser efter lanceringen på PlayStation 5.

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From a $66,000 Vintage Classic to Rare Japanese Trophy Promos: Here Are the 10 Best Eevee Pokémon TCG Cards Every Serious Collector Needs to See IGN rangerer de ti bedste Eevee-kort i Pokémon TCG-historien. Listen spænder fra sjældne japanske fanclub-promokort og klassiske Jungle- og Skyridge-kort til nyere kort fra Prismatic Evolutions, Crown Zenith og 30th Celebration. Rangeringen fokuserer udelukkende på Eevee og udelader Pokémonens udviklinger, herunder de populære Eeveelutions.

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I Don’t Think That Modding the Blood of Dawnwalker’s Restrictive Time System Isn’t Missing the Point – It’s an Act of Love IGN argumenterer for, at moddere, der fjerner eller forlænger den 30 dage lange tidsgrænse i The Blood of Dawnwalker, ikke nødvendigvis misforstår spillets design. Modifikationerne kan i stedet ses som en måde at tilpasse oplevelsen på, især fordi mange spillere ikke ønsker at gennemføre spillet flere gange for at se alle questlinjer og slutninger. Artiklen diskuterer samtidig spændingen mellem udviklernes intentioner og spillernes frihed.

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As Fans Flood the World of Warcraft: Forever Beta, Dev Says It's Putting Up 'The Craziest Numbers I've Seen in 17 Years Working at Blizzard' World of Warcraft: Forever-betaen blev overvældet af spillere kort efter åbningen, hvilket medførte køer, forbindelsesproblemer og kraftig forsinkelse. Blizzard oplyser, at interessen er blandt de højeste, udvikleren har oplevet i sine 17 år hos virksomheden. Problemerne skyldtes blandt andet, at betaen kørte på en mindre kraftig testinfrastruktur, men serverne blev efterfølgende stabiliseret.

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Marvel's Wolverine Developer Insomniac Actually Nerfed the 'Fart Gas' — and May Let Players Turn It Off Completely Insomniac har udsendt en hotfix til Marvel’s Wolverine, der blandt andet gør spillets såkaldte scent trails og Audio Sense-indikatorer mindre intense ved at reducere deres opacitet. Opdateringen kommer efter kritik af de synlige spor, som nogle spillere sammenlignede med “pruttegasser”. Studiet undersøger samtidig muligheden for at tilføje kontroller, så sporene helt kan slås fra i en fremtidig opdatering.

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Dragami Games Announces R-Rated Live-Action Lollipop Chainsaw Movie Dragami Games har annonceret en live-action-film baseret på spillet Lollipop Chainsaw. Filmen bliver en forhistorie til det originale spil og er planlagt som en R-rated actionkomedie med Juliet Starling i hovedrollen under et zombieudbrud. Projektet udvikles af et internationalt hold, men der er endnu ikke offentliggjort skuespillere eller en premieredato.

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From a $4,500 Ultra-Rare Torchic to Iconic Charizard Classics: Here Are the 10 Best First Partner Pokémon TCG Cards Every Collector Needs to See IGN rangerer de 10 bedste Pokémon TCG-kort med seriens første partner-Pokémon gennem tiden. Listen fremhæver både ikoniske kort som Base Set Charizard og nyere illustrationer med blandt andre Primarina, Scorbunny og Pikachu. Rangeringen tager højde for kortenes kunst, pris og betydning, mens Pokémon-seriens 30-års jubilæum og nye genoptryk giver samlere flere muligheder for at få fat i klassikerne.

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EA Sports FC 27 Review So Far – The Grounds Seems Shaky, But the Tactics System Shows Promise IGNs foreløbige anmeldelse af EA Sports FC 27 fremhæver det nye taktiske system som spillets stærkeste tilføjelse. Systemet giver større kontrol over formationer, spillerroller og holdets adfærd i forskellige faser af kampen. Anmeldelsen er mere kritisk over for den nye åbne onlinehub The Grounds, som beskrives som unødvendig og teknisk ujævn med svage animationer, billedhastighedsproblemer og stive dialogscener.

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'A Larger File Size May Not Necessarily Mean a Better Game' — Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Warns of 200GB Install Size for Remake Trilogy's Final Chapter Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, det kommende afsluttende kapitel i Square Enix’ remake-trilogi, kan kræve omkring 200 GB lagerplads ved lanceringen. Spilinstruktør Naoki Hamaguchi siger, at størrelsen fortsat kan ændre sig, og at den fysiske udgave ikke vil indeholde hele spillet på disken. Spillet udkommer 8. april 2027 til pc, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S og Nintendo Switch 2.

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The Blood of Dawnwalker Dev Confirms Budget Was Just $40 Million as Rebel Wolves Rides Success to Sequels Rebel Wolves’ rollespil The Blood of Dawnwalker kostede angiveligt omkring 40 millioner dollar at udvikle, hvilket placerer det i AA-segmentet frem for den dyrere AAA-klasse. Spillet har ifølge studiet solgt mere end én million eksemplarer få dage efter lanceringen den 3. september. Det polske studie arbejder allerede på efterfølgere og planlægger samtidig nyt indhold som New Game Plus.

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Control Resonant Features a Powerful Twin Peaks Quote, Paying Tribute to the Late David Lynch Who Inspired Remedy's Games Remedy Entertainment hylder den afdøde filmskaber David Lynch i det kommende spil Control Resonant. Et biografskilt i spillets åbne områder viser teksten "Fix Your Heart or Die", som henviser til en markant replik fra Twin Peaks: The Return. Citatet forbindes både med Lynchs figur Gordon Cole og med transrettighedsaktivisme.

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Astartes II, the Most Anticipated Warhammer 40,000 Animation Ever, Has a New Trailer and Confirmation of Key Details Games Workshop har offentliggjort en ny trailer for Astartes II, som får premiere på Warhammer+ i december. Traileren bekræfter, at animationen følger en Deathwatch-enhed, der undersøger et Space Hulk, og viser både Terminators og flere Space Marine-detaljer. Studiet oplyser desuden, at efterfølgeren bliver markant længere end den originale Astartes-animation.

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After Fan Backlash Over Typos and Bad Reprints Forced a Delay, What's Happened to Magic: The Gathering’s Monster Hunter Secret Lair? Wizards of the Coast udskød og vil gentænke Secret Lair-samarbejdet mellem Magic: The Gathering og Monster Hunter efter massiv kritik af de oprindelige kort, herunder fejl og genoptryk af billige kort. Selskabet lovede en opdatering i 2026 og har oplyst, at Capcom støtter en ny version, men der er endnu ikke kommet flere detaljer. IGN har derfor bedt Wizards om en status.

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IGN 30 Anniversary Bundle Is Live at Humble: $15 for 7 PC Games, Including Subnautica and Remnant 2 IGN fejrer sit 30-års jubilæum med en spilpakke i samarbejde med Humble. For mindst 15 dollar får købere syv PC-spil til Steam, herunder The Elder Scrolls Online – Elsweyr, Remnant II, Subnautica og Sonic Adventure 2. Pakken indeholder spil til en samlet oplyst værdi på 214 dollar og kan købes frem til 9. oktober.

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Mega Man: Dual Override Adds Some Nice New-School Touches to the Beloved Old-School Formula | IGN Preview IGN har prøvespillet Mega Man: Dual Override som Proto Man under Tokyo Game Show 2026. Figuren adskiller sig fra Mega Man med kortere rækkevidde, overophedning af våbnet, skjold og særlige nærkampsangreb, mens spillet fortsat bygger på klassisk 2D-platformaction. Spillet lanceres efter planen i foråret 2027 og bliver en del af Mega Mans 40-årsfejring.

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Here Are the 10 Coolest Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Cards Every Collector Needs to See — From Jirachi ex's Galactic Artwork to Cute Budget Finds IGN fremhæver ti af de mest kunstnerisk interessante kort fra Pokémon TCG-udvidelsen 30th Celebration. Udvælgelsen fokuserer især på illustrationernes kreativitet, originalitet og visuelle udtryk frem for spilbarhed. Listen rummer blandt andre Pikachu ex, Hisuian Zoroark, Mew ex, Lapras, Meowth og Sylveon ex, med både billige samlekort og dyrere jagtkort blandt favoritterne.

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Forza Horizon 6, Skyrim, and More Microsoft-Published Games Are Getting Big Discounts in Best Buy’s Deal of the Day Best Buy tilbyder i dag rabatter på udvalgte fysisk udgivne Microsoft-spil til flere konsoller. Blandt tilbuddene er Forza Horizon 6, Skyrim til Nintendo Switch 2, Starfield, Ninja Gaiden 4 og Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4, hvor rabatterne når op på 50 procent. Tilbuddene gælder kun i én dag og kan variere efter platform.

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'Wolverine Will Keep Selling, Just Not at Spider-Man Heights' — Analyst Estimates Marvel's Wolverine's Early Sales Performance Tidlige, uofficielle estimater fra analysefirmaet Alinea Analytics peger på, at Marvel’s Wolverine har solgt omkring 1,9 millioner eksemplarer siden lanceringen 15. september. Det svarer angiveligt til en omsætning på cirka 130 millioner dollar, men Sony har endnu ikke offentliggjort officielle salgstal. Spillet klarer sig dermed godt, men ventes ikke at nå samme niveau som Spider-Man 2 på grund af en mere blandet modtagelse.

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'Cheat Sellers Have Built a Sprawling, Multi-Billion-Dollar Marketplace' — Activision Reveals Eye-Watering Amounts of Money Behind Video Game Cheats Activision vurderer, at den globale økonomi omkring snyd i computerspil omsætter for cirka 8,5 milliarder dollar om året, når blandt andet snydeprogrammer, kontosalg og spoofing-tjenester tælles med. Selskabet oplyser, at Team Ricochet har forstyrret mere end 375 videresælgernetværk og lukket 31 større snydeudbydere. Modern Warfare 4 udkommer 22. oktober, og Activision vil intensivere indsatsen mod snyd.

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Control Resonant's Has Remedy's Signature Touch, Uplifting Its Sharp Combat That Eventually Dulls IGN anmelder Control Resonant, Remedys opfølger til Control fra 2019. Spillet skifter den oprindelige metroidvania-inspirerede shooter ud med åben verden, nærkamp og en mere karakterdrevet fortælling centreret om Dylan Faden. Anmeldelsen roser det hurtige og fleksible kampsystem samt den modige videreudvikling, men peger også på ujævn sværhedsgrad, gentagelser og et RPG-system, der ikke altid føles dybt.

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Plays Like the Third Act of a JRPG in the Best of Ways | IGN Preview En to timer lang forhåndsvisning af Final Fantasy VII Revelation viser et stort og frit spil, hvor spilleren kan udforske verden fra luftskibet Highwind og genbesøge områder fra Rebirth. Yuffies hjemegn Wutai spiller også en central rolle i previewet. IGN fremhæver friheden og Vincent, men er samtidig bekymret for, om spillets mange sideaktiviteter vil føles lige så oppustede som i forgængeren.

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Amazon Just Slashed the Price on the New Magic: The Gathering The Hobbit Booster Bundle to an All-Time Low Ahead of Its Prime Day Sale Magic: The Gathering-bundlen med fokus på The Hobbit kan i en tidsbegrænset Amazon-kampagne købes for 59,99 dollar, hvilket er 10 dollar under normalprisen. Pakken indeholder ni Play Boosters, 34 landkort, et alternativt foil-kort, en stor spindown-terning, opbevaringsæske og referencekort. Det er den laveste pris, IGN hidtil har registreret for standardudgaven.

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Control Resonant Is Nearly a Picture Perfect PC Port, With Gorgeous Visuals and Stellar Performance on Almost Every PC I've Tested it On En teknisk test fra IGN vurderer, at Control: Resonant er en særdeles veloptimeret PC-port med flotte lys- og ray tracing-effekter. Spillet leverer høj billedfrekvens på moderne grafikkort og kan også køre acceptabelt på Xbox Ally X, mens Steam Deck har sværere ved at følge med. Anmelderen fremhæver portens gode skalering på tværs af hardware.

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Marvel's Wolverine Player Glitches Out of Bounds to Discover Floating NPCs, Cars That Phase Through Walls, and the Edges of the Map En spiller har fundet fejl i Marvel's Wolverine, som gør det muligt at bevæge sig uden for de normale missionområder. Videoer viser blandt andet flydende figurer, biler der kører gennem vægge, bygninger uden interiør og dele af banernes yderkanter. Fundene kan tyde på, at nogle områder oprindeligt var mere omfattende, og Insomniac forventes at lukke fejlene i en kommende opdatering.

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I Don’t Think That Modding the Blood of Dawnwalker’s Restrictive Time System Isn’t Missing the Point – It’s an Act of Love

IGN argumenterer for, at moddere, der fjerner eller forlænger den 30 dage lange tidsgrænse i The Blood of Dawnwalker, ikke nødvendigvis misforstår spillets design. Modifikationerne kan i stedet ses som en måde at tilpasse oplevelsen på, især fordi mange spillere ikke ønsker at gennemføre spillet flere gange for at se alle questlinjer og slutninger. Artiklen diskuterer samtidig spændingen mellem udviklernes intentioner og spillernes frihed.

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This is an IGN opinion piece from Mat Jones, who thinks everyone’s made too big a deal out of experience-altering mods, and wouldn’t replay a video game ever, even if he were forced to do so by vampires holding his family hostage.

I’ve spent the weeks since The Blood of Dawnwalker’s release nodding at headlines about how the time-pressured quest to rescue lead character Coen’s family – which is on a controversial 30-day timer – is the heart of the design, and that anyone looking to extend that clock with a mod wouldn’t be having the intended experience.

But, after reading that the developers themselves aren’t so bothered about the timer that they’d definitely want to add it in again – that a Dawnwalker sequel could strip out this mechanic and still inexorably be a Dawnwalker game – I’ve interrogated my own assumptions. I wonder if we’ve been giving anyone who’d roll back a couple of 0s on the odometer too hard a ride. Is the example of the “irresponsible modder”, someone incapable of understanding that developer intent should supersede any possible alteration, a fantasy?

The threat of a ticking clock is one of the first things you learn in screen writing classes: that a scene is more tense if there’s an outside force driving it forward, that a conversation which would otherwise just be two people in a room is twice as interesting if one of them really needs to get out of there. In a movie it's contrivance; obviously the timer can’t end until it’s dramatically interesting. A game, meanwhile, has to account for your character learning they’re about to explode and then just doing their idle animation for their remaining twenty minutes of life. The idea of a long-tail timer achieves the same aim as the movie version, though. Every decision matters if you can only make so many of them, and everything has more weight if there’s a cost.

It’s unlikely that Dawnwalker’s modders, or any modders who’d take the time limit out of any game, are unaware of this. I’m cynical about trends, I’m not cynical about individual people. I can imagine someone who has reckoned with this decision has thought about why these systems are implemented, but eventually accepts their “vandalism” of the art as a small price to pay to overcome problems inherent to this scale of game design.

Many games don’t benefit from a second playthrough. I’ve been playing games almost daily for over thirty years. I’m more than aware of how much gristle and sinew there is among the meat. I’ve chosen not to go back to a lot of things that I’ve loved in the past because I haven’t wanted to do the same stuff over and over. For every great bit of combat design in the best open world games, for every narrative twist and turn, there’s a lot of looking around in cupboards for bullets or pissing around in menus trying on new shoelaces that give you an extra 3% poison damage. Dawnwalker is no different; the equipment variety that will help in the quest to defeat the story’s vampiric villain, Brencis, is as incremental in scale as any other game. I’m fine doing this sort of stuff the first go through, but when I’ve absorbed the majority of the experience, it’s a challenge to get myself to care again.

For every great bit of design in the best open world games, there’s a lot of looking around in cupboards for bullets or pissing around in menus.

If there’s, say, enough unique stuff in Dawnwalker for a player to only see 70 or 80% of everything in a playthrough, maybe just enough to miss a chunk if you were busy making other choices, but not enough to have a radically different experience the second time around, then playing it twice would just be pushing through a lot of the same things you’ve already done. Micro changes in context, but macro similarities in activity. If someone wants to see everything in there and they still want the goodie gumdrops school prefect ending, they’re being more generous to their own time and patience than they’re limiting their appreciation of art.

I respect people’s intelligence enough to believe they can be placed in a scene where the cost will be having to spend a lot of time they don’t want to spare, and empathise how much that would weigh on a person who doesn’t have it, without themselves actually having to carry that burden in their own game.

Personally, I don’t have any desire to mod the game to give Coen’s family a bit more breathing room, because I’m happy to accept whatever narrative conclusion I’m given as the result of my actions. I like the idea that my one playthrough would be informed wholly from my decisions, good or bad, and presumably expertly paced around the amount of time the devs think a person can play the game without it overstaying its welcome. Anything I miss, well, it wasn’t meant to be.

I am, however, willing to admit that my stance here comes with some baggage: I don’t really care that much about finishing games at all, at least when I’m not playing for review. I’ll often get very close to the end of a game and decide that I’ve seen enough of it. Star Wars: Zero Company has a very interesting take on the tactics genre and a few excellent surprises; I still can’t help but feel like I’ve experienced every possible combination of abilities it has available and I’m not really driven to repeat them. I’m a mechanics guy, not a story guy. If there were 100 possible endings, I’m never going to see 100 of them. Given that I will pay upwards of £60 for one weekend of a game I’ll get over without completing, I think anyone who would care to mod their ability to achieve a particular endings, or see more of a game’s story, inherently cares more about the experience than I do, rather than less.

This is beside my point, but it’s fun to think about: Why is narrative intent considered more sacred than aesthetic design? I’ll regularly watch clips of people playing Deadlock where characters have been modded to look like Lebron James in the Space Jam sequel. I couldn’t imagine anyone writing an op-ed to deride anyone doing it as straying outside of the game designer's artistic necessity.

I’ve entertained the argument for being against modding difficulty, that games in the Souls series are easier than they get credit for and they’re more about the determination to continue, which you’d be robbing yourself of by not giving it your all. Dawnwalker initially feels like we’re having the same conversation, but the alteration made by modders isn’t necessarily making the game easier so much as it’s making the game less restrictive.

The time limit might be the point of the game, but really the point of the game, like all the rest of them, is to have something to do while your mates are out of town and your partner is at a work thing. I just don’t think it’s that deep, and if it were that deep, I think it’s as deep as doing a YouTube search for an ending you didn’t get, but you get to play a few extra hours of a video game you really like first.

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