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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Players Discover Secret Weapon That References Iconic Fighting Game Characters Demoen til Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse gemmer på våbnet Cestus, hvis angreb får hovedpersonen Rose Belmont til at indtage positurer inspireret af figurer fra klassiske kampspil. Fans har blandt andet genkendt referencer til Ryu, Chun-Li, Oro, Sagat, Mai Shiranui og Akuma samt Spider-Mans positur fra Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Spillet udkommer 15. oktober 2026.

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Here's How to Get Marathon on Steam for Under $20 Bungies multiplayer-skydespil Marathon kan i øjeblikket købes som Steam-kode hos Fanatical for 19,39 dollar, hvilket er billigere end Steams aktuelle pris på 23,99 dollar. Prisen er ifølge prisovervågning den laveste, spillet har haft på den amerikanske Steam-platform. Spillet har haft en vanskelig lancering, men udviklerne arbejder blandt andet på at gøre det mere tilgængeligt med kommende opdateringer og en PvE-spiltilstand.

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Star Wars Tabletop Games Are Discounted For Prime Day, Including Unlimited - IGN Flere Star Wars-bræt- og kortspil er sat ned hos Amazon i forbindelse med oktober måneds Prime Day. Tilbuddene omfatter blandt andet Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game, Star Wars: Unlimited – Shadows of the Galaxy og Star Wars: Outer Rim. Rabatterne varierer fra 15 til 49 procent, men priserne gælder kun i en begrænset periode.

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Call of Duty e-Sports Commentator Reveals He's Dating Co-Commentator's Ex-Wife, Resigns from CDL Call of Duty League-kommentatoren Clint "Maven" Evans har trukket sig fra ligaen på ubestemt tid efter at have indledt et forhold til sin tidligere medkommentator Joseph "MerK" DeLucas ekskone. Evans beskriver selv situationen som utraditionel og håber at kunne vende tilbage en dag. Nyheden har udløst kraftige reaktioner i e-sportsmiljøet.

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Gears of War E-Day is a 'Natural Choice to Be an Exclusive' – Studio Head Mike Crump Claims Series Carries The Banner For Xbox The Coalition-chef Mike Crump forsvarer beslutningen om at gøre Gears of War: E-Day eksklusivt til Xbox. Han siger, at serien er tæt knyttet til Xbox-brandet og skal vise, hvad platformens hardware kan præstere, selv om en PlayStation 5-udgivelse sandsynligvis ville have givet højere salgstal. Spillet har fået stærke anmeldelser, men Microsofts igangværende omstrukturering kan stadig gøre salget vigtigt.

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TOEM 2 Is Charming Sequel That Once Again Uses Its Novel In-game Camera As a Lens to Solve Neat Puzzles and Explore Its Monochrome World - Review IGN giver TOEM 2 karakteren 8 og fremhæver spillets charmerende, sort-hvide verden, miljøgåder og kreative brug af et kamera som central spilmekanik. Efterfølgeren bygger tæt videre på originalen og byder på omkring fire til fem timers udforskning fordelt på tre byer. Anmeldelsen roser den afslappede oplevelse, men mener samtidig, at gåderne og den visuelle stil ikke i samme grad overgår det første spil.

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Capcom Said It Will Use AI to Improve the RE Engine — We Asked for Clarification Capcom har præciseret, hvordan virksomheden vil bruge AI i den videre udvikling af RE Engine gennem programmet REX. AI skal blandt andet effektivisere værktøjer, kodekontrol og dataanalyse, men Capcom siger, at generativ AI ikke skal bruges til at skabe grafik, lyd, programmer eller andre spilaktiver. Målet er at gøre udviklingen af kommende spil hurtigere og mere effektiv.

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FBI Arrests 29-Year-Old Alabama Man After Epic Reported Fortnite Voice Chat Threats FBI har anholdt en 29-årig Fortnite-spiller fra Alabama efter trusler fremsat over spillets stemmechat. Epic Games indberettede spilleren og udleverede en lydoptagelse samt en afskrift til myndighederne gennem en nødprocedure. Manden er tiltalt for mellemstatslige trusler, nægter sig skyldig og venter på retssagen. Fortnite kan gemme og gennemgå rapporteret stemmechat ved alvorlige overtrædelser.

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This Legend of Zelda Hylian Shield Backpack is Both Stylish and Functional, Now 20% Off at Amazon for Prime Big Deal Days En Zelda-rygsæk udformet som Hylian Shield er sat 20 procent ned hos Amazon under Prime Big Deal Days. Prisen er dermed 55,99 dollar, hvilket matcher den hidtidige laveste pris. Rygsækken har blandt andet laptoprum og flere mindre lommer og kan bruges til skole, arbejde eller som del af et cosplay.

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Amazon Has Restocked Pokémon TCG Phantasmal Flames Booster Bundles, but at This Price Is Chasing a $600+ Charizard Even Worth It? En Pokémon TCG: Phantasmal Flames Booster Bundle er igen på lager hos Amazon til 89,99 dollar under Prime Day. Prisen svarer omtrent til markedsprisen for seks boosterpakker, selv om den fortsat ligger langt over normal udsalgspris. Sættet er eftertragtet på grund af værdifulde kort som Mega Charizard X ex, og flere andre Pokémon-produkter er også kommet på lager.

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Has Hit a New Low Price of $40 at Amazon During Its Prime Big Deal Days Sale Pokémon Legends: Z-A er sat ned til 39,88 dollar hos Amazon under Prime Big Deal Days. Prisen er den laveste, spillet hidtil har haft, både til Nintendo Switch og Nintendo Switch 2, og tilbuddet gælder også for kunder uden Prime-abonnement. Kampagnen slutter samme dag, så rabatten kan forsvinde kort efter.

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Gears of War: E-Day Studio Boss Insists 'The Next Game Will Not Take Nearly as Long' to Make, Responds to Layoff Concern The Coalition-chef Mike Crump siger, at det næste Gears of War-spil ikke vil tage nær så lang tid at udvikle som E-Day. Udmeldingen kommer efter rapporter om, at medarbejdere frygter fyringer som følge af Microsofts omfattende nedskæringer i Xbox-organisationen. Crump garanterer ikke, at studiet undgår flere nedskæringer, men beskriver E-Day som et fundament for seriens fremtid.

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Amazon Just Restocked the Rare Pokémon TCG Destined Rivals Elite Trainer Box for Under Market Price in the Prime Day Sale — Here Is Why Collectors Are Grabbing It Fast Amazon har genopfyldt lageret af Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Destined Rivals Elite Trainer Box i forbindelse med Prime Day. Produktet sælges og leveres direkte af Amazon til 124,55 dollar, hvilket er under den aktuelle medianpris på TCGplayer, men stadig over den oprindelige vejledende pris. Lageret er begrænset, og sættet indeholder blandt andet ni boosterpakker, kortlommer og samleræske.

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Mafia 2 and Mafia 3 Could Be Set for PS5 and Xbox Series Upgrades After Definitive Editions Leak Online En ESRB-registrering antyder, at Mafia II og Mafia III får opgraderede Definitive Editions til PS5 og Xbox Series. Spillene findes allerede i Definitive Edition til den forrige konsolgeneration, så der forventes primært forbedret grafik og muligvis 60 billeder i sekundet frem for komplette remakes. 2K har endnu ikke annonceret udgaverne officielt, men en afsløring kan være nært forestående.

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Racing Games Have Been Stuck Using the Same Career Mode Formula for Decades, but Star Wars: Galactic Racer Shows There’s a Better, More Dangerous Way IGN analyserer, hvordan Star Wars: Galactic Racer forsøger at forny racerspillets traditionelle karrierestruktur. Spillet bruger en run-baseret kampagne, hvor nederlag, skader og dårlige valg har mærkbare konsekvenser, mens belønninger og opgraderinger kan kombineres på uforudsigelige måder. Artiklen fremhæver især balancen mellem risiko og belønning samt spillets roguelite-inspirerede eksperimenter med builds.

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Despite Previous Denials, Forza Horizon 6 is Reportedly Coming to PS5 in January on Disc Forza Horizon 6 ventes ifølge et nyt rygte at udkomme til PS5 den 26. januar 2027, efter den oprindelige Xbox- og pc-lancering i maj 2026. Lækeren billbil-kun hævder, at både en digital og fysisk udgave bliver tilgængelig, og at prisen vil svare til Xbox-versionens cirka 69,99 dollar. Playground Games har endnu ikke kommenteret oplysningerne.

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Save 33% On This Disney Lorcana Starter Set for Prime Day - IGN Amazon sælger i forbindelse med Prime Day et Disney Lorcana-startsæt til 19,99 dollar, hvilket er 33 procent under normalprisen. Sættet indeholder to balancerede kortbunker med blandt andre Buzz Lightyear og Mrs. Incredible samt skadesmarkører, kortæske og regelbog. Det er målrettet nye spillere eller dem, der vil lære spillet sammen med en anden, men lagerbeholdningen er angiveligt lav.

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As $170 Scalper Prices Cripple the Market, Pokémon Center Launches an Invite-Only Lottery System to Stop Bot Farms From Hoarding Elite Trainer Boxes Pokémon Center indfører en invitationbaseret kø til nye leverancer af den eftertragtede Mega Evolution—Ascended Heroes Elite Trainer Box. Udvalgte nyhedsbrevsabonnenter i USA, Canada og Storbritannien kan få adgang via et personligt engangslink, men en invitation garanterer hverken køb eller lagerstatus. Tiltaget skal begrænse bots og scalpers efter store prisstigninger på samlerproduktet.

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Inside the Making of GTA 6: Rockstar North Reveals How a Decade of Innovation and New Systems Are Shaping the Most Anticipated Game in History IGN offentliggør hele interviewet med Rockstar Norths Rob Nelson efter en 30 minutters demonstration af GTA 6. Samtalen handler blandt andet om spillets mere interaktive safehouses, forholdet mellem Jason og Lucia, udviklede NPC-interaktioner og større variation i figurernes udseende. Nelson fortæller også om de tekniske muligheder på den nuværende konsolgeneration og spillets 13 år lange udvikling.

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We Played Hyperia City, the New Expansion for the Disney Lorcana TCG IGN har prøvespillet Disney Lorcanas kommende udvidelse Hyperia City, der bliver spillets 14. sæt. Udvidelsen introducerer blandt andet en ny mekanik med midlertidige ink drops samt kort fra Coco, Big Hero 6 og The Sword in the Stone. Forpremiereevents begynder 16. oktober, mens den brede lancering følger 23. oktober 2026.

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Someone Used AI to Make Minecraft Playable Inside Twitter With Working Multiplayer, and Immediately Sold Sponsorships via Crypto En udvikler har brugt AI til at skabe en browserbaseret Minecraft-lignende klon, Tweetcraft, som kan spilles med multiplayer via links på X. Spillet tilbyder også kryptobaserede sponsorater i de virtuelle verdener. Projektet er ikke godkendt af Mojang eller Microsoft og bruger ifølge udvikleren ingen originale aktiver, men ligheden med Minecraft kan føre til juridiske krav.

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Pragmata Just Hit Its Lowest Price Ever on Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox, but the $20 Prime Day Discount Ends Today Capcoms sci-fi-actionspil Pragmata kan under Amazons Prime Big Deal Days købes til 39,99 dollar på Nintendo Switch 2 og Xbox, hvilket er 20 dollar under normalprisen. Tilbuddet gælder frem til udgangen af 7. oktober og kræver et Amazon Prime-medlemskab. IGN fremhæver spillets kombination af tredjepersonsskydning, realtidshacking og puslespil og gav det karakteren 8 ud af 10.

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New Ape Escape Reportedly in Development at Sonic Mania Team Et nyt Ape Escape-spil er angiveligt under udvikling hos Evening Star, studiet bag Sonic Mania og Penny’s Big Breakaway. Oplysningerne kommer fra journalisten Jeff Gerstmann og er blevet underbygget af kilder hos VGC, men projektet skulle stadig være på et tidligt stadie. Sony har endnu ikke bekræftet spillet eller en strategi om at genoplive ældre serier gennem eksterne udviklere.

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'I Probably Shouldn’t Say That' — Resident Evil Requiem Writer Teases DLC Plans Manuskriptforfatter Haris Orkin har afsløret, at Capcom arbejder på DLC til Resident Evil Requiem. Udvidelsen vil efter alt at dømme udforske Oswell E. Spencers baggrund og hans forvandling fra skurkagtig mastermind til en mere angrende figur. Orkin antydede også, at der allerede findes en større historieudvidelse, men Capcom har endnu ikke offentliggjort detaljer.

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'If You're a Single-Player Fan, This Is Really a Game for You' — Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 Dev Says the Campaign Is Absolutely Massive Udvikleren King Art Games oplyser, at Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 lanceres med fire omfattende singleplayer-kampagner for Space Marines, Orks, Necrons og Adeptus Mechanicus. Tilsammen indeholder de over 70 missioner, og hver kampagne beskrives som større end hele kampagnen i det første Dawn of War. Spillet udkommer i december 2026, mens yderligere indhold er planlagt efter lanceringen.

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Racing Games Have Been Stuck Using the Same Career Mode Formula for Decades, but Star Wars: Galactic Racer Shows There’s a Better, More Dangerous Way

IGN analyserer, hvordan Star Wars: Galactic Racer forsøger at forny racerspillets traditionelle karrierestruktur. Spillet bruger en run-baseret kampagne, hvor nederlag, skader og dårlige valg har mærkbare konsekvenser, mens belønninger og opgraderinger kan kombineres på uforudsigelige måder. Artiklen fremhæver især balancen mellem risiko og belønning samt spillets roguelite-inspirerede eksperimenter med builds.

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This is an IGN opinion piece from Phil Iwaniuk, decorated winner of many Gran Turismo Sunday Cups who learned to feel, not think in 1999's Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer. It's a philosophy that may impair his opinions, but yields many a purple sector.

How many times have you bought a cheap banger, entered it in a series of races called something like the ‘Rookies Cup’, and used the proceeds to unlock new events? Since Gran Turismo arrived in 1997 and pioneered that vehicular rags-to-riches structure, it feels like we’ve repeated that identical racing game campaign mode grind countless times.

In fact, when you pause and look back at the great and good of racing games, it seems like all of them, from Need For Speed to Dirt Rally, were about putting you at the bottom of a big pile of events and having you gradually climb your way up to the faster races in the best cars. The genre’s been laser-focussed on innovating when it comes to visuals, physics models, tire simulation and the like, but it’s been stuck on the same solo gameplay structure for way too long.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer flies its speeders against the grain in many ways. More than just a game that gets both the cinematic IP and the feeling of racing right, it’s an experience that seems to be visiting from a parallel universe. One where the familiar hand-holding game design philosophy didn’t take root, and the Gran Turismo career mode didn’t become ubiquitous.

“Why hasn’t someone thought about that before?” Fuse Games co-founder and CEO, Matt Webster, reflected on the game’s unique run-based career mode when IGN spoke to him back in May. It’s so obvious that it would make for a fantastic racer when you see it implemented like this: instead of working through a to-do list of championships, you pick from a selection of different sequences of events, each with their own risks and rewards, and if you lose too many times along the way you’re booted out of the whole championship. It’s back to the start for you, and no excuses. Even before you get familiar with the nuances of the mode, there’s something about knowing losing actually matters that feels refreshing.

“Gaming is risk-reward”, says Webster, “but the risk has to have a consequence.” In Webster’s previous racing hits like Burnout, that consequence looked like a spectacular wreck, your car resetting on the track, and you having some catching up to do.

“But we've lost consequence because, in many racing games, we don't really spend the time on crashing,” he adds. “It’s been eroded away. So [we] looked at different genres that you could steal from, because genres have done that in contemporary gaming. We see lots of hybrid mechanics going in, and actually racing is a bit of an outlier that hasn't done that.”

We've lost consequence because, in many racing games, we don't really spend the time on crashing.

Instead, racing has gone in one of two directions recently. The post-covid sim racing boom seemed to convince developers of the more hardcore titles that the PvP-focused iRacing model is king. Why spend such a lot of effort on a career mode built around PvE racing when your player base is queuing up in lobbies, waiting to provide more intelligent and unpredictable competition than even the smartest AI drivers? The success of Assetto Corsa Competizione and Le Mans Ultimate has only strengthened that argument.

At the other end of the spectrum lies the Forza Horizon model. Friendly, malleable, and totally player-directed, its structure is basically failure-proof. Forza Horizon 6 set a new standard for open-world racing in 2026, capturing the crystallised essence of Japanese car culture and giving you many ways to explore them. But does losing a race really carry much weight at the Horizon festival?

Like an encouraging parent, Horizon treats everything you do as a victory. Oh, you drove through another mascot, great job! it cooes. Wow, and that’s 25% of all the roads explored now – someone deserves a cheeky wheelspin. So when you do actually take on something difficult and prevail, the payoff is dulled not because the game doesn’t recognise it, but because it treats you like its favourite special little driver, no matter whether you win or lose.

So yes, it feels like an oddly radical move that Star Wars: Galactic Racer implements a narrative-led championship mode and gives you real consequences for wrecking your vehicle and losing races. But it goes so much further than that. Turning career mode into a series of runs makes it a playground for experimenting with different builds in, and that’s something racing games just don’t do.

Along each run in Galactic Racer you earn credits, parts, abilities, and upgrades. Some of those rewards are pretty orthodox and can be used for straightforward buffs like a better cornering stat or a higher top speed, as we’ve been accustomed to in the genre for decades.

But many rewards come with an RNG-ified twist. Say during one run, you see an upgrade card that makes your ramjet booster 20% more powerful while you’re overheated. You remember that the next planet you’re racing on is Jakku, a scorched desert where your speeder overheats almost instantly. So you start to design your whole build around overheating quickly and staying overheated, to give your ram jet godlike power. Get it wrong and you blow up, incurring damage that must be repaired so that it doesn’t impair your stats and abilities. Get it right, and you feel like you’re on that unstoppable Balatro run.

In an open world racer, you can do everything. In Galactic Racer, you've got to make the choice.

Better still, the run structure has a way of turning all the game’s other brilliant little flourishes into important roguelite variables. Most obvious are the status effects you’ll encounter on each planet’s widely differing climate and conditions. The aforementioned Jakku brings the risk of overheating, while Ando Prime presents the opposite problem: its glacial plains will freeze your engines unless you find warmer pockets. Your interplanetary championship hop might include several status effects to be wary of.

On its own, this addition gets you thinking about taking different lines through tracks, to find shade on hot planets or look for ramps over corrosive pools. And that’s great in itself, but when combined with the parts and upgrades available in each run, it becomes the inspiration for specific vehicle builds. You can turn ostensibly negative status effects to your advantage.

And it goes deeper. Little touches like the pre-race checks – essentially QTEs that make you feel like you’re arming various aspects of your vehicle – on their own are just a nice touch that makes you feel somehow more physically in control and planted in your vehicle. But as you go through a run, you pick up backers who fund your racing and provide tokens. On one run, a particular backer might reward you for completing a certain number of pre-race checks, and you might really need those reward credits to repair your ramjet. Suddenly a nice touch becomes an important part of the story of this run.

The potential for that structure to shake up other racing games is just so juicy. EA F1’s driver career mode is no slouch, but imagine how it’d be elevated if, when you crashed your car, it gave you real and lasting consequences to deal with. What if being busted by the cops in Need For Speed didn’t just lose you credits, but your car and your career mode progress too?

Hardcore racing simulators shouldn’t turn a blind eye, either. If you’re willing to brave unranked public lobbies and scrutinise toe-in angles, it’s not a leap to imagine that a solo career where failure carries consequences might appeal.

Maybe it’s the open world racing game that can crib most effectively from Star Wars: Galactic Racer, though. Forza Horizon 6’s no-fail, maximalist approach is tremendous fun, but the sense of progress and accomplishment is hurt by the pace it throws cars and credits at you, win or lose. What if each entry to Horizon Festival told a different story, and making it onto Legend Island wasn’t a given?

“In an open world racer, you can decide [what] you're going to get after” says Fuse creative director Kieran Crimmins. “You can essentially do everything. Whereas in this, you've got to make the choice. Those choices really matter and they may be your ultimate demise or the path to victory.”

Like Half-Life’s Gravity Gun, the Crysis Nanosuit, and Shadow of Mordor’s (egregiously copyrighted) Nemesis System, what Fuse Games has created here is the sort of system you actively miss in other games. The sort of idea that could level up a genre if it proliferates. And there’s signs that it will. Galactic Racer is not the only roguelite motorsport game to have launched this year – we’ve also seen Carmageddon: Rogue Shift and Driving Rogue, both of which were developed in parallel with Fuse’s work. Clearly it’s not just Webster and his team that have recognised how this formula can be fitted into the genre’s engine bay. At long last, racing games have found a way to tell emergent stories and to reward replayability with build experimentation, and that finally lets go of the Rookies Cup.

Phil Iwaniuk is a veteran hardware smasher and game botherer who has written for the likes of PC Format, Official PlayStation Magazine, PCGamesN, The Guardian, Eurogamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and IGN. He won an award once, but he doesn't like to go on about it.

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