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Tamashii: Chronicle of Ascend is a cooperative cyberpunk board game with roguelike elements. Its rich setting and detailed systems form an incredibly compelling adventure....

Today's Nintendo Indie World features 20 minutes of new indie game reveals and updates to anticipated titles. If you missed the event, we've gathered each announcement here for a cursory glance at what showed up.  Little Kitty, Big City - May 9  As the title suggests, you control a small cat in a mini-open world set within a bustling, Japanese-inspired metropolis. Your goal is to find a way home, but plenty of distractions and opportunities to help fellow animal friends or cause chaos will likely delay your departure.  Yars Rising - Late 2024 Wayforward and Atari are teaming up for a 2D Metroidvania spin-off of the 1982 classic Yars’ Revenge. This side-scrolling platformer stars Emi Kimura, a young hacker (using the handle of Yar) who gets embroiled in an intergalactic conspiracy centered around a corrupt corporation. Yar can...

Here's everything Nintendo announced during the first Indie World Showcase of 2024....

April’s second batch of new Xbox Game Pass titles has been revealed. The headliner is the long-awaited Suikoden-inspired Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes, which hits the library on launch day. Other anticipated indies include the Soulslike Another Crab’s Treasure and the hotly anticipated strategy city-builder Manor Lords, which enters Xbox Game Preview. Check out what’s joining and leaving Xbox Game Pass as well as our reviews for applicable titles. You can also see the games that arrived during the first half of April here.  What’s Coming  Harold Halibut (Xbox Series X|S, PC, Cloud) - Today Orcs Must Die! 3 (Console, PC) - April 17 EA Sports NHL 24 via EA Play (Console) - April 18 Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (Console, PC, Cloud) - April 23 Another Crab’s Treasure (Cloud, Console, and PC) - April 25 Manor Lords (Game Preview) (PC) -...

As part of our IGN First coverage of Eternal Strands, today we're talking about how Zelda-like magical abilities let you manipulate physics to fight your opponents in some seriously creative ways....

With huge winter game releases behind us and huge summer announcements right around the corner, the games industry is set for a relatively quiet month or two. Luckily, Nintendo plans to briefly step in to fill that void. Today, it announced the next Indie World Showcase, a live stream event focused on the latest indie titles to come to the Switch, for tomorrow, April 17. The showcase will air at 7 AM PT/10 AM ET and last for around 20 minutes. New #IndieWorld Showcase incoming! 💡 Tune in tomorrow, 4/17 at 7am PT for roughly 20 minutes of announcements and updates on indie games headed to #NintendoSwitch in 2024. Watch live here: https://t.co/jGiccyBhME pic.twitter.com/V31Dfuxs0N — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 16, 2024 It's in the name so it might be obvious to some, but don't expect any first-party games or hardware announcements out...

Keanu Reeves is joining the cast of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter (and first broken by The John Campea Show). The outlet’s sources report that the John Wick and Matrix star is voicing Shadow the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is set to premiere on December 20 and will pit Shadow alongside a returning Dr. Robotnik (played by Jim Carrey) against Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. The returning cast includes Ben Schwartz, Idris Elba, James Marsden, and Colleen O'Shaughnessey. The film's first trailer premiered in front of a select audience at Cinemacon in Las Vegas last week and it provided the first real look at Shadow. Unfortunately, the trailer has yet to be publically released.  Paramount has yet to officially confirm Reeves' casting, but if this is true, he will join fellow new cast members,...

With the full release of the Fallout show on Prime Video, revisit why Fallout: New Vegas is some of the series' best ever writing, especially with its possible connections to a potential Season 2....

Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion, Dawntrail, arrives this summer alongside the game’s first graphical update. As such, Square Enix has released a new benchmark software to let PC players test how well their machines will handle these new bells and whistles while getting a small head start on Dawntrail. Available as a free download for Windows, the benchmark software uses playable characters and actual maps to assign a performance score to your PC. This will provide a peek at the new graphical update, which spruces up the game with enhanced textures, shadows, material qualities, and other elements. You can download the benchmark here.  The benchmark includes a character creator for players to craft a fresh hero ahead of Dawntrail’s launch. It also includes access to the new female Hrothgar race. Existing characters can also be imported into the benchmark, and...

An iconic Dragon Ball Z area hidden in Sand Land's musical Sandstorm trailer hints at another secret connection between the two franchises developed by the famed artist Akira Toriyama....