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PUBG: DED.NET Developer Argues Making a Game for the Mass Market Where 'Nobody's Too Offended and Everybody Kind of Likes It' Has Become 'Box Office Poison' Dave Curd, kreativ direktør på Kraftons PUBG: DED.NET, mener at spil, der forsøger at appellere til alle, er blevet “box office poison”. DED.NET går i stedet efter en markant og splittende oplevelse med roguelite-elementer, 1990’er-inspireret grunge-æstetik og horrorpræg. Udvikleren håber, at spillet skaber stærke fans og kritikere frem for ligegyldighed.

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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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PUBG: DED.NET Developer Argues Making a Game for the Mass Market Where 'Nobody's Too Offended and Everybody Kind of Likes It' Has Become 'Box Office Poison'

Dave Curd, kreativ direktør på Kraftons PUBG: DED.NET, mener at spil, der forsøger at appellere til alle, er blevet “box office poison”. DED.NET går i stedet efter en markant og splittende oplevelse med roguelite-elementer, 1990’er-inspireret grunge-æstetik og horrorpræg. Udvikleren håber, at spillet skaber stærke fans og kritikere frem for ligegyldighed.

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PUBG — the battle royale that popularized the genre — already has a number of spinoffs. But none is as love it or hate it as DED.NET.

Like PUBG, DED.NET is a multiplayer first-person shooter that revolves around outlasting your enemies, but there are a number of key differences. Chief among them is roguelite progression that persists across runs, and a heavy-handed 1990s aesthetic dubbed “Grunge House.” But there’s more. Matches — even if you make it to the end — will come in at around the 25-30 minute mark, which makes it a digestible experience relative to PUBG’s more intense, longer-lasting battle royale. And while PUBG is available on console, DED.NET is built from the ground up for consoles.

Set in Cascadia in 1996, a world inspired by the Pacific Northwest of the 1990s, and with a reimagining of the PUBG formula beyond battle royale, DED.NET may prove divisive. That, creative director Dave Curd told IGN at gamescom, isn’t just okay — it’s exactly what the developers at Krafton want. In fact, Curd argued that making a game for everyone has become “box office poison.”

“Definitely PUBG was the one that brought the genre to prominence and then everyone was like, ‘What's my take? Is it destruction? Is it competitive play? Is it Twitch reactions?’ And you're picturing the games as I'm describing them,” Curd began.

“And ours is the rogue. This is the rogue version where you're always chasing a build, getting into hilarious shithousery along the way. You're telling hysterical stories, you're engaging in a world filled with Twin Peaks, X-Files, David Kronenberg, body horror. We're trying to make a real evocative, love it or hate it experience.

“I think the age of making something for the mass market... which, what is that anymore? I don't think that's safe. I don't think that's smart. I think making something that can really get a fandom, something where people feel seen and they connect with, and have just as many detractors, I think that's wiser than kind of, ‘Well, let's make sure nobody's too offended and everybody kind of likes it.’ So we're trying to be sexy, evocative, gory.”

Curd said the inspiration for DED.NET’s Grunge House aesthetic includes grunge band Nirvana, Italian zombie movies, Grindhouse, and Tarantino movies. And, he believes that if DED.NET proves “sticky,” he expects other battle royale developers to give the ‘rogue multi-match journey’ mechanic a try.

“But what they won't be able to do is replicate our world where you can chop your hands off and replace them with machetes and have a standoff in a cult mansion, underground cellar filled with bodies,” he insisted. “We're just trying to serve up something fresh for the kids.”

What Curd is desperate to avoid here is apathy. He wants DED.NET to provoke a reaction, whether that’s good or bad. If it’s good, then great. If it’s bad, well Curd can work to turn that feeling around. But apathy is a death sentence for any video game’s prospects.

“I think middle of the road is box office poison,” Curd said. “You want lovers and haters. Haters care enough to hate, which means maybe you can reach them one day. Maybe a lot of people will see this and naturally say, ‘Hey, I don't want a Ford Bronco. I want a Ford Mustang. Keep fixing the Ford Mustang.’ And that's a very valid point. And my job is not to convince you to like cheese if you're not a cheese guy. But I think there's a lot of guys that will try it and say, ‘Okay, I'm pleasantly surprised. I'm in. They're taking a swing.’

“I've always said audiences will forgive anything but being bored. I think even if they hate us, they may respect us for taking a big swing, especially when a lot of the other big players circle their wagons, they focus on one mega product. PUBG and Krafton are out here trying to serve the fans and take big swings and try new stuff.”

Curd isn't alone in making this argument. Arrowhead, the developer of smash hit co-op shooter Helldivers 2, have long argued much the same. Indeed, Arrowhead's studio tagline is, "A game for everyone is a game for no one." This, Arrowhead has said, is why mechanics like friendly fire are always enabled in Helldivers 2. Yes, it makes the game more punishing, but it also helps it stand out.

Curd said that DED.NET betas and playtests have already shown evidence of a positive response to the game, and the initial spark of a fandom revolving around its characters.

“The initial nine roster of characters have relationships with each other, with the map. They have quests outside of Win the Chicken Dinner. They have allies and rivals on the roster that you would kind of learn about,” Curd explained.

“If I ping an ally or I revive a rival, you'll kind of get that in the VO and start to understand those relationships. We're talking two or three days into our last play test, we're getting fan art depicting these love triangles. And I wasn't expecting people to get it so soon. And that shows me some people are hyper engaging with the world and becoming actual fans and not product speak audience fans. Like real people that love the world. And that's been incredibly validating for myself and the team.”

Curd, who has worked on PUBG for nine-and-a-half-years as a creative director, said that DED.NET began life as a response to a task he was set by his boss of “spreading the gospel of PUBG to the non-believers.”

“We got a lot of fans,” he said. “We got a lot of people that love our thoughtful, cerebral, tactical gameplay. See a guy 500 feet away, do you take the fight? Do you get in the car? Do you retreat? But it's not for everybody. But we think the theme of PUBG, of survival of the fittest or dog eat dog or desperate survival, it's a good juicy theme. I think you could make a PUBG Match-3! And that might be what I pitch next!

“Can we find a different audience that would still engage with that vibe and engage with that world and engage with that IP? So I think, ‘Okay, so don't make more PUBG, but find more PUBG fans. Where do you begin?

“So it sounds kind of maybe stupidly obvious, but I just made a list. It's like, what is cool shit that PUBG does well? Number one, it's an infinite story engine. One match, survival of the fittest, one winner, 99 losers. And I think it's endured for 10 years because anyone I talk to can tell me usually in high detail about their first Chicken Dinner. So that's the first thing you think, well, what's the opposite of that? Could that infinite story engine persist over multiple matches? And so that was the first idea that's like, that sounds good and that would not work in PUBG because it breaks that promise of perfectly fair, perfectly balanced, single shot adventure.

“Could it be a multi-match journey? What does that mean? Originally our cheesy internal lingo was body persistence. And it was, if you swim, you'll get hypothermia and you'll be coughing. And if you get shot in the head, your ears will ring for a long time. And as we stood it up and tried it, we found that it changed the way that fans would play. They were not playing to win. They were playing to not get hurt. They're like, ‘This sucks. We don't like this.’ And it's like, Oh, what if the injuries were more interesting and told better stories, like just sneezing in the smoke or it hurts when you swim, or you occasionally fumble your weapon on weapon swap and you swear, or maybe you have a tick where you constantly spam taunts and give away your position? Or I guess my favorite one, Stuntman, where when you slide or dive, occasionally there's an explosion behind you because it looks cool, but it might hurt you. It might frag your teammates.

“The genesis was I love hero shooters, but I never find exactly my favorite one. I always end up settling for the one I hate least, if that makes sense. It's never the right combination of look and abilities for what I'm after. So we though, could we challenge the player to go on a multi-match adventure where they're kind of picking and choosing and making interesting decisions about who they want to be when they grow up while managing these kind of hilarious and weird injuries and kind of racing against a clock of a diminishing career HP of you can only play so many before you're overwhelmed by injuries and you have to retire. And yeah, that's kind of the genesis of the product.”

Players can now also register for the upcoming closed beta. There’s no release window yet, but PUBG: DED.NET is due out on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].

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