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‘We’ve Got Nobody to Blame But Ourselves’ — Riot Games Co-Founder Explains the Death of 2XKO Riot Games' medstifter Marc Merrill siger, at kampspillet 2XKO skulle have haft flere hundrede tusinde eller måske millioner af månedlige aktive spillere for at kunne retfærdiggøre udviklingsbudgettet. Han peger blandt andet på manglende strategisk enighed og lanceringen af Street Fighter 6 som årsager til spillets problemer. Riot har stoppet videre indholdsudvikling efter december 2026, men onlinespillet forbliver tilgængeligt.

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How Jason and Lucia's Character Designs Have Evolved Since the 2023 GTA 6 Trailer GTA 6 har ifølge IGN fået markant mere detaljerede karaktermodeller siden den første trailer i 2023. En sammenligning viser især forbedringer i Jason og Lucias hud, hår, ansigtstræk, tøj og muligheder for tilpasning. Spillet er nu tæt på udgivelsen den 19. november 2026, og Rockstar Games er begyndt at intensivere markedsføringen efter den officielle aldersmærkning.

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Ahead of Metro 2039, Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light are Getting Next-Gen Updates That'll Hopefully Make Them More Playable on Modern Hardware 4A Games udgiver næste generations-opdateringer til Metro 2033 og Metro: Last Light før lanceringen af Metro 2039. På PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X tilbydes op til 4K og 120 billeder i sekundet, mens pc-versionen får DLSS samt flere kvalitetsforbedringer. Opdateringerne udkommer på pc 22. oktober og på konsoller 29. oktober.

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Save 44% Off the Officially Licensed The Legend of Zelda Mini Backpack En officielt licenseret The Legend of Zelda-miniryksæk sælges til 27,99 dollar hos eBay, hvilket svarer til 44 procent rabat på den normale pris. Tasken har blandt andet Hyrule- og Triforce-detaljer. Artiklen fremhæver også en forudbestilling af The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time til Nintendo Switch 2, som udkommer i oktober.

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Sony Announces QSSR, a Trimmed Down Version of PSSR That Finally Brings AI Upscaling to Base PS5 Sony introducerer Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), en ny AI-baseret opskaleringsteknologi til den almindelige PS5. Teknologien er lettere end PS5 Pro-modellen PSSR, men skal give skarpere og mere stabile billeder end traditionel temporal opskalering. QSSR lanceres først i Marvel’s Wolverine og Ghost of Yotei og bliver gjort tilgængelig for alle udviklere.

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Preorders Have Dropped for The Art of Metaphor: ReFantazio Book, Which Is Set To Be Released Next Year in March Hardcover-kunstbogen The Art of Metaphor: ReFantazio kan nu forudbestilles hos udvalgte forhandlere til 50 dollar. Bogen udkommer 9. marts 2027 og indeholder blandt andet koncepttegninger, karakterskitser samt baggrund om spillets udvikling, fortælling og gameplay-system. Udgivelsen er skrevet af Kelly Knox og er baseret på Studio Zeros rollespil fra 2024.

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007 First Light Extended Operation DLC is Out Today, For Free, and Lets You Drive the Valhalla Again IO Interactive har udgivet den gratis Extended Operations-DLC til 007 First Light. Opdateringen tilføjer fem missioner til TacSim, herunder kørselsudfordringer med Valhalla-bilen, samt New Game Plus med en ny, sværere 00-sværhedsgrad. Der kommer også nye outfits, fototilstand, forbedrede våbenanimationer og justeringer af fjendernes adfærd.

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'Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content' — GTA 6 Gets Official ESRB Rating and It's as Mature as You'd Expect GTA 6 har fået den amerikanske ESRB-vurdering M for Mature samt PEGI 18 i Storbritannien. Vurderingen nævner blandt andet vold, nøgenhed, seksuelt indhold, stoffer, alkohol og groft sprog. ESRB har endnu ikke offentliggjort sin detaljerede gennemgang, mens omtalen af køb i spillet skaber usikkerhed om kommende monetisering. Spillet ventes udgivet 19. november 2026.

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Mega Man: Dual Override Developers Discuss a Mega Man Dating Sim and Lots More as 40th Anniversary Approaches Capcom fortæller om udviklingen af Mega Man: Dual Override, der skal markere seriens kommende 40-års jubilæum. Spillet er designet til både nye og erfarne spillere med gradvist sværere baner, over 50 chips til karaktertilpasning og den risikofyldte Override-mekanik. Spillere kan vælge mellem Mega Man og Proto Man i separate gennemspilninger, hvor historien grundlæggende er den samme, men dialog og karakterfokus varierer.

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March of Giants Might Actually Get You to Play a MOBA Besides Dota 2 and League | IGN Preview IGN har prøvespillet den kommende MOBA March of Giants, der kombinerer klassiske genreelementer som levels, itemisering og last hitting med et mere dynamisk slagmarkssystem. Spillerne kæmper i 4-mod-4-kampe, bygger forsvarsværker og styrer tropper, forsyninger og belejringsenheder. Kampene er designet til at vare omkring 20-30 minutter, mens figurerne tilbyder mange forskellige builds og strategier.

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Ghost of Yotei's DLC, Echoes of Sekigahara and Most Wanted, Are Worthy Additions for the PS5 Exclusive IGN anmelder udvidelsen Echoes of Sekigahara og den nye run-baserede spiltilstand Most Wanted til Ghost of Yotei. Udvidelsen giver Atsu en ny questlinje med flashbacks og en ny region, mens Most Wanted blandt andet gør Jin Sakai spilbar. Begge dele udkommer i Complete Edition eller som en opgradering til 15 dollar for ejere af grundspillet.

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Blizzard Cracks Down on Gold Selling in World of Warcraft Forever — and Streamers Are in the Firing Line Blizzard skærper indsatsen mod salg af guld og handel med rigtige penge i betaversionen af World of Warcraft: Forever. Flere streamere er blevet ramt, efter at deres konti blev undersøgt for køb eller promovering af guld; en fik guldet fjernet, mens en anden fik en konto bannet. Blizzard har også forbudt GDKP for at beskytte spillets økonomi før lanceringen 4. november.

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'Incredible Levels of Greed' — Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Locks Coveted Shield Behind $6 Twitch Sub Paywall and Fans Are Up in Arms En ny Twitch-belønning i Space Marine 2 kræver et abonnement til 6 dollar for at låse Victrix Guard Shield op. Det har udløst kritik fra spillere, som mener, at skjoldet ikke bør være gemt bag en betalingsmur, især efter køb af spillets sæsonindhold. Udvikleren Saber har bekræftet, at skjoldet senere bliver tilgængeligt i Accolades-butikken, men uden at angive en dato.

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Get an Exclusive Look at the New Cards Being Added to Disney Lorcana Disney Lorcana-udvidelsen Hyperia City får to nye kort med Héctor Rivera fra Coco og Tiana fra The Princess and the Frog. Begge kort fokuserer på at kassere kort, mens Tiana kan gøre det muligt at spille en dyr lokation gratis. Udvidelsen udkommer 23. oktober, og forudgivelsesarrangementer begynder 16. oktober.

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Destiny and Halo Co-Creator Jason Jones Announces New Transmedia Studio, Stone Kite, and First Project, One Zero One Jason Jones, medstifter af Bungie og medskaber af Halo og Destiny, har lanceret det nye studie Stone Kite sammen med Margaret Stohl. Studiet vil udvikle projekter på tværs af bøger, spil, tegneserier, film og tv. Den første udgivelse er One Zero One, en firedelt tegneserie om mennesker i konflikt med en hær af AI-drevne robotter.

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'This Is a Win for Gamers' — GTA 6 Lights Up the Kaseya Center in Miami Rockstar Games har lyst Kaseya Center i Miami op som en del af markedsføringen af GTA 6. Arenaen viser teksten “Welcome to Vice City” og romertallet “VI”, mens bygningen i spillet hedder Sahara Arena. Kampagnen skulle have kostet omkring 1 million dollar, og GTA 6 udkommer til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series den 19. november 2026.

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Escape from Playtime Puts an Extraction Looter Twist on Poppy Playtime | IGN Preview IGN har prøvespillet Escape from Playtime, et multiplayer-baseret extraction-spil i Poppy Playtime-universet. Spillerne skal samle værdifuldt bytte i en forladt legetøjsfabrik og bringe det tilbage, mens de undgår eller håndterer fjendtlige monstre. Spillet kan gennemføres alene, men previewet fremhæver samarbejde som den bedste oplevelse. En åben playtest begynder 1. oktober.

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Gears of War: E-day Is a Prequel That Returns to the Heart of This Series, With a Campaign That Stands Toe-to-toe With Any of the Others IGN giver kampagnen i Gears of War: E-Day ros for dens følelsesmæssige fokus, stærke action og uddybning af forholdet mellem Marcus Fenix og Dominic Santiago. Forhistorien foregår under Locust-invasionens begyndelse og tager cirka 15-18 timer at gennemføre. Anmeldelsen fremhæver dog problemer med allieredes kunstige intelligens, mens multiplayerindtrykkene endnu ikke er medtaget.

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Get an Exclusive Look at the New Legend Joining the Riftbound TCG IGN har eksklusivt afsløret den nye Legend Mordekaiser samt en overnumbered-variant til Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game. Figuren tilhører farverne Fury og Order og kan genbruge ekstra kraft til forskellige runer eller farver, hvis kort fjernes fra kirkegården. Udvidelsen Radiance udkommer på engelsk 23. oktober, mens prerelease-arrangementer begynder 16. oktober.

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After 'Crunching Hard' Through Their Final Months, Gears of War: E-Day Developers Are Reportedly Now Expecting Layoffs Udviklere hos The Coalition frygter angiveligt nye fyringer efter flere måneders overarbejde på Gears of War: E-Day, der står foran sin udgivelse. Microsoft har allerede gennemført flere afskedigelsesrunder i Xbox-divisionen, og studiets medarbejdere beskriver stemningen som anspændt. Bekymringen blev yderligere forstærket af, at spillets historiedirektør Juan Vaca blev afskediget få uger før lanceringen.

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'We Started E-Day With an Empty Hard Drive' — Meat Shields, Chainsaw Duels and More Are Missing From Gears of War: E-Day at Launch Gears of War: E-Day lanceres uden flere klassiske funktioner fra serien, herunder muligheden for at tage fjender som menneskelige skjolde og kæmpe med Lancer-riflernes motorsave. Udvikleren The Coalition forklarer, at spillet er bygget fra bunden, og at funktionerne derfor først kan komme efter lanceringen eller i et senere spil. Private lobbies og leaderboards er også planlagt til senere.

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"Extraction is Still a Major Part of Marathon" – Marathon Game Director Reassures Fans Main Game Mode Isn't Going Anywhere Bungie fastholder, at extraction-modellen fortsat vil være en central del af Marathon, selv om udvikleren planlægger at tilføje PvE- og deathmatch-indhold i den kommende Symbiosis-opdatering. Spildirektør Del Chafe efterspørger samtidig feedback på problemer som spawn-rushes og hårde nederlagsspiraler. Udvikleren vil bruge tilbagemeldingerne til at videreudvikle spillets eksisterende hovedtilstand.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered Is Its Most Surprising Overhaul yet, and the Best This Amazing RPG Has Ever Been - IGN Review IGN opdaterer sin anmeldelse af The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered efter omkring 10 timers spil. Den gratis opdatering forbedrer blandt andet kamp, kamera, bevægelse, hesten Roach og færdighedstræerne, mens grafikken er blevet moderniseret markant. Anmelderen vurderer foreløbigt, at dette er den bedste version af det populære rollespil, selv om fjendernes adfærd stadig viser spillets alder.

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Amazon's Legend of Zelda T-Shirt Sale Includes More Than 40 Shirts Discounted for Prime Members Only Amazon sænker i denne uge prisen på over 40 officielt licenserede The Legend of Zelda-T-shirts til 16,99 dollar for Prime-medlemmer. Udvalget omfatter motiver fra både de tidlige NES-spil, Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker og Tears of the Kingdom. Tilbuddet kommer samtidig med seriens 40-års jubilæum og en række kommende Zelda-produkter til Nintendo Switch 2.

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You Probably Shouldn't Expect a Disney World Parody in GTA 6 Rockstar Games antyder, at GTA 6 muligvis ikke kommer til at indeholde ikoniske Florida-attraktioner som Disney World, SeaWorld og Universal Studios. Udvikleren forklarer, at holdet har måttet udvælge landemærker og miljøer, der bedst understøtter spillets fortælling og design. Spillet vil dog indeholde en zoologisk have og over 170 forskellige dyrearter i den fiktive delstat Leonida.

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March of Giants Might Actually Get You to Play a MOBA Besides Dota 2 and League | IGN Preview

IGN har prøvespillet den kommende MOBA March of Giants, der kombinerer klassiske genreelementer som levels, itemisering og last hitting med et mere dynamisk slagmarkssystem. Spillerne kæmper i 4-mod-4-kampe, bygger forsvarsværker og styrer tropper, forsyninger og belejringsenheder. Kampene er designet til at vare omkring 20-30 minutter, mens figurerne tilbyder mange forskellige builds og strategier.

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Key Preview Takeaways:

March of Giants shakes up the somewhat-rigid MOBA genre in a compelling way.
Matches aim to take 30 minutes or less.
Strategies aplenty here; you’ve got plenty of options for how to achieve victory.

Two opposing armies seek to lay low their enemies' lines of fortifications, outlying outposts, and supply depots. They rely on coordinated pushes, often suicidal assaults for the many troops involved, to break their enemies' will. They seek to develop or acquire new strategies and technologies to break the stalemate of fighting over an ever-growing no man's land. I'm either describing Trench Warfare or the very popular MOBA genre, or, in the case of the upcoming March of Giants, both at the same time.

It's a MOBA that in the words of its lead designer wants to turn the arena into a battlefield. Players in the 4v4 matches are towering giants infused with mythical power who serve as champions and commanders for their side, shaping their three traditional lanes into a warfront with bastions of defense built up by the players—even pulling soldiers and supplies away to meet needs on another front.

I got to spend a day playing its current in-development build, and I think that it's looking surprisingly promising. I say surprising because the genre has historically been pretty set in stone. It's wild to challenge the titans of it like League of Legends and Dota 2. However, key developers on March of Giants also worked on another game you'd think was challenging immovable competition—Rainbow Six Siege, which in many ways went up against tactical shooter titan Counter-Strike and has survived and thrived to this day.

From what I saw, March of Giants is playing some of the same cards as Siege did, including one key decision: While it plans to incorporate the accessibility you expect from a game made in this decade, March of Giants doesn't dilute the genre. It has the hardcore things that have survived and thrived in the MOBA for years—from big stuff like separate skill leveling and complex itemization to the littler things like last hitting.

But it didn't feel tired. The big change is how the developers want the players to change and manipulate the battlefield. Commanding your retinue of soldiers is another ability in your arsenal as a player, as is placing battleworks that fortify positions and inevitably become ruins that shape the conflict's future.

In a typical match you can expect to contest a lane against one or more enemy heroes, all while trying to get experience points by taking out enemies and snatching up requisition points and supplies from the ruined city sections outside the attack lanes. The requisition is your money—used to upgrade your giant's own body. The supplies become battleworks, which can buy you an advantage in a pushed-forward lane or help your team hold on to a struggling one—a lot of which is down to what kind of hero you're playing and playing against. More on that later.

Battleworks aren't just defenses, either, but ironclad tanks, cavalry charges, and airship soldier drops. There's no RTS-style micro and basecraft going on here, but March of Giants is closer to the MOBA genre's RTS roots than I've felt a game has been in years. It reminds of the glory days of Warcraft 3 custom maps, where all kinds of wild ideas for what a MOBA could be were thought up and discarded.

As the match progresses you start to try and contest your enemy's supply depots and shop points, destroying them to empower your own team's abilities and deny enemies safe harbor. You also fight the opposing team over neutral objectives, like siege dozers that plow into enemy bunkers and towers like little else in the game. They're a perfect catalyst for a teamfight to kick off over, or for a lone sneaky hero to snap away from a distracted opposition. There's also bigger bosses to knock down—a vicious automated defense system and a rogue airship—that reward your team with big boosts to make strong pushes against the enemy, like a siege cannon that can reduce even end-game defenses to rubble.

To win, you just take out two of your enemy's three final citadels. It sounds easy, but the size of the March of Giants map is smaller than the map in other big-name MOBAs. You have breathing room, but once the match hits that 10- or 15-minute mark things start to get very claustrophobic—and any big game-winning push can have the entire enemy team there to defend it posthaste. And then it'll be over. March of Giants is designed to have its matches take roughly 20 to 30 minutes. I saw nothing longer than 25. I think you'll be able to get at least two, maybe three rounds played in an hour. It's a very appealing concept if you're fitting in gaming between other things. Of course, with the build freedom the developers are emphasizing, I could see a match that takes an extreme of 45 minutes or more.

The core of that flexibility is the characters. While many of them look like just another big dude, I'd encourage you to look deeper than the obvious ones on the art. There's also a skeleton. A werewolf. A tree. A cthulhu. A… whatever a Trench Maw is. Each character has a variety of builds: What order you get your skills while leveling, which items you buy, and eventually where you put the scarce augment points that boost your skills by making them longer ranged, able to shoot more projectiles, and a host of other stuff.

Iron Sister, for example, is a threatening mobile support character that can lay down some real damage, slow enemies, and anchor a defense. You could build that character into a strong support, laying out ability damage and team buffs and heals. You could also very easily build her skillset into an obnoxiously tanky menace that does her supporting from the middle of the enemy team. I didn't feel like the match or two I played as or against any given character even began to scratch the surface of what they could be built for.

I love this because it's playing into one of the best parts of a strong MOBA. Less is not more when it comes to character design, no: More is more. No single character is balanced against every other character: The ecosystem of characters as a whole is balanced. The game doesn't start when you spawn, it starts when you pick and counter-pick against the enemy team during the draft phase. That lets the developers embrace wackier out-there character designs like Trench Maw, who burrows around and spawns extra soldiers from the armored bunker on his back, or Dreadnought, whose entire toolkit revolves around locking down lanes with anti-titan bunkers that boost his skills.

While I must emphasize that March of Giants is definitely its own thing, it's a philosophy that reminds me more of Dota 2 than League of Legends, and that, I think, is a promising sign. From the way they spoke, the developers aren't going to put their foot on the scale and limit the freedom of what you can build a character into—but if you discover a wild new combo they're more likely to find out how to buff its counterplays than nerf it.

The new thing in March of Giants—and the thing I expect to see some insane community strategies come out of—are of course the systems for commanding soldiers and building battleworks. Your squad of soldiers is commanded with just two keys. One to send them out in a straight line or redirect their path mid-charge, another to recall them. With that simple system you can use your soldiers to do all manner of stuff. You can send them to gather supplies or money for you. You can break off small parties of them to serve as scouts, checking a spot of woods or ruined buildings for concealed enemies. You need soldiers to break open the defensive shields that allow enemy towers and bunkers to be damaged, and a charge of soldiers is also the most fearsome damage source against enemy giants! Indeed, swarming soldiers deal their own entire, unresistable damage type separate from attacks and ability damage.

Of course, Giants aren't defenseless. You can autoattack larger targets like guns and armored cars. But soldiers are too small to be targeted. Instead, you just left click to stomp. And watching the hundreds of soldiers dance around the screen didn't get old during the time I had to play. In fact, I felt like I was barely scratching the surface of an unexplored, complex new game system. Props to the March of Giants team for that.

That's not even to mention the Giants that change how their soldiers behave or give them buffs. Wolfgang's soldiers turn into a horde of ravenous werewolves, while Voidmaster turns them into tentacular cultists, and Ossuary turns his into a horde of ghosts who can pass through walls—hilarious for stealing supplies out from under the enemy's nose!

The real counter to soldiers is… your own side's soldiers and your battlework defenses. Laying out trenches stops charges cold, or at least slows them down. Anti-giant bunkers mean your enemy can't get close to follow up on a charge they sent in. And both of those are countered by hard pushes with ironclad tanks or cavalry charges. Like real trench warfare, however, you can't fight over the same ground forever. The ruins of buildings prevent things from being built in the same spot later on—a devastated no man's land that emerges naturally as the teams push back and forth through each others' lines of defense.

It keeps the matches snappy and prevents them from becoming stalemates.It's a nice parallel to March of Giants themes as a whole. You're at the peak of this industrial fantasy world's trench warfare—and the Giants are here to break it all down. More is more, baby.

While you're here, check out these recent previews of other big upcoming games we've checked out recently!

Jon Bolding is a regular contributor to IGN who does most of his gaming on PC. Talk PC gaming with him on X/Twitter at @JonBolds.

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