Nintendo Beats Profit Estimates Thanks To Switch Lite

Nintendo has beaten analyst profit estimations for the second quarter thanks to increased software sales provided by Nintendo Switch Lite users.

Boomberg reports that analysts predicted a 50.5 billion yen operating income for Nintendo, but the company has now revealed that it generated 66.8 billion yen ($615 million). Sales generated 271.9 billion yen, exceeding predictions of 250.8 billion.

Nintendo has set itself profit projections for the whole year, ending March 2020, that are notably below analyst estimates: 260 billion yen is forecast, despite analyst predictions of 308.1 billion yen and a series of strong upcoming games such as Pokemon Sword and Shield. The strong second quarter report has not caused Nintendo to increase that forecast.

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How to Play Co-Op in Luigi's Mansion 3

You can play (almost) the entire game co-op.

Nioh 2 Release Date, Beta Details Revealed

Nioh 2 is set for release on March 13, 2020 for PlayStation 4 and details on the sequel's upcoming beta have been revealed.

The news was announced in a PlayStation Blog post on Wednesday. The game's producer shared information about the beta's stage and the in-game reward players will achieve for completing it. A trailer for the game has also been released showcasing new gameplay.

Completing the beta will earn players "The Mark of the Demon Slayer" which will unlock the Kamaitachi Helmet in the full game when it's released. The post also says preorders are live on PlayStation Store and preordering will come with additional rewards. Those rewards weren't revealed in the blog.

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Will Death Stranding's PC Port Hurt Its PS4 Launch?

On this week's episode of IGN's PlayStation show Podcast Beyond, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Max Scoville to discuss Death Stranding's PC port confirmation and its lack of PS4 exclusivity, Sony's trademarks of the PS6, PS7, PS8, PS9, and PS10 and whether that means we'll be seeing a lot more PlayStation exclusives.

The duo talks about some more news, like the Fallout 76 Fallout 1st blunders, while Max offers his thoughts on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and The Outer Worlds and Jonathon discusses his Afterparty review.

Have questions, comments, or Memory Card stories? Send them to beyond@ign.com.

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Everything to Expect From Blizzcon 2019: Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, and Hong Kong Protests

Blizzcon 2019 is only a few days away and already Blizzard’s entire news cycles seem to have leaked. There are reports of a new World of Warcraft expansion, Diablo 4, and Overwatch 2 (or Chapter 2). With those in mind, here’s everything IGN expects to see at this year’s big Blizzard showcase. Not to mention the shadow of the Hong Kong protests looming over everything.

Overwatch 2

ESPN reported from sources familiar with Blizzard’s plans that the company will announce a sequel of sorts to Overwatch. Fans should expect something closer to the recent Fortnite Chapter 2 which is essentially a big new content update to the existing game.

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Norman Reedus Talks Kojima's Directorial Style on Death Stranding

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Death Stranding star Norman Reedus described Hideo Kojima as a “genius’ genius” while discussing the enigmatic game developer’s directorial style.

While discussing how Kojima directed Death Stranding’s cutscenes – with or without all the necessary actors in the same room at times – Reedus described how oftentimes it was just down to he and Kojima, leading to peculiar interactions.

“A lot of times it was just me and Hideo. He would have a plastic baby doll on the ground and want me to cradle it and act like it’s dead. Then act like it’s alive,” Reedus said, seemingly referencing Death Stranding’s first major teaser trailer. "Then freak out because there’s handprints everywhere. You stand up and he goes, imagine there’s a thousand dead whales in front of you, and you’re like, 'What?!' His mind is on another level. He’s a genius’ genius. He and I got into a shorthand where he would look at me and he would point and frown and make a face and I would just go, yep, I got it. We sort of transcended the language barrier after a while.”

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Nioh and Outlast 2 are Free on PlayStation Plus in November

Nioh and Outlast 2 have been announced as the free PlayStation Plus games for November.

The PlayStation Blog revealed the games will be available from November 5 to December 3. They will replace The Last of Us Remastered and MLB: The Show 19.

Nioh was developed by Team Ninja, the team behind the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden franchises. IGN's Nioh review awarded the game a 9.6 out of 10 upon the game's release in February 2017. We said "Nioh is an epic, unforgettable adventure carried by a fierce combat system." A sequel was announced at Sony's E3 2018 conference with an open beta coming November 1 to November 10 on PlayStation 4.

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PS4 Jumps Wii, PS1 on List of All-Time Best-Selling Consoles

PlayStation 2 has long reigned as the best-selling video game console of all time, with no imminent threat of losing that title. Despite the runaway success of PlayStation 4 over the last five-plus years, Sony would have to sell 10 million units a year for the next six years to overtake its own top spot — a massive improbability, if not an impossibility, given next-gen consoles may launch in 2020.

So while PlayStation 4 continues to secure its spot among the best-selling consoles of all time, we set out to discover how the rest of Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft's hardware stack up. To do so, we compiled a list of the 15 best-selling video game consoles of all time, with additional information on release dates, highest-rated games (according to Metacritic), and more.

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The 25 Scariest Games of This Generation

With Resident Evil back on track, Shinji Mikami returning to the world of survival horror he helped create, and surprise indie hits like Outlast, the current console generation has been a treat for fans of the dark and dreary. With Halloween approaching, we're looking back at the 25 scariest games of this generation (November 2013–present).

Click through the gallery below or continue scrolling for our full list.

25. Observer

Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team stepped away from its usual psychological horror for Observer, a mind-bender set in a cyberpunk dystopia. The result is a well-realized concoction of mind tricks that will have you slowly questioning the reality of the game world.

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Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter Free for November Games with Gold

Another month, another round of free games on Xbox Games With Gold. One of November’s big draws is Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter.

Released in 2002, Jedi Starfighter bridges the gap between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Set before and during the Battle of Geonosis, Jedi Starfighter tells the tale of Jedi Adi Gallia, who’s tasked with investigating Trade Federation activity in the Karthakk system, all from the seat of the recognizable Jedi starfighter ship.

We loved Jedi Starfighter back when it was released, giving it a 9 out of 10 in our review, despite some recycled gameplay tropes from the earlier Star Wars: Starfighter.

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Marvel's Avengers Gameplay Trailer Highlights Customization, Co-Op and More

Marvel's Avengers newest gameplay trailer is full of new details for Crystal Dynamics' latest game, including Hero Customization and Outfits, Co-Op, story details, and much more.

PlayStation.Blog also revealed information from its chat with Crystal Dynamics' Studio Creative Head, Noah Hughes, and we've broken down everything you need to know below.

Hero Customization and Outfits

As players level up their Super Heroes in Marvel's Avengers, they will be able to purchase new abilities via skill trees that will upgrade each hero's attack power, and the choices in each tree will support multiple different types of build that will suit each player's playstyle.

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Opinion: Why I Want an Overwatch Story Campaign More than Overwatch 2

Editor's Note: This piece was originally published in June, but we've repromoted it and updated sections of it in time for Blizzcon. 

For a game I still spend up to 20 hours a week playing, I’ll be the first to admit that Overwatch does have its problems. Yes, the inherent problems of balancing a 30-plus character hero-shooter roster plague it, the issues of its loot box culture are well documented, and not all are onboard with the new role lock system. None of these, however, affect my enjoyment of Overwatch enough; it’s still my favourite game.

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PS4 Lifetime Sales Rise Above 100 Million

Sony has officially sold and shipped 102.8 million PlayStation 4 units, making it the second best-selling home console of all time.

According to Sony's Q2 FY2019 financial report, the platform holder sold an additional 2.8 million consoles in the last quarter, which, combined with the 100 million sales announced in July, pushes the total up to 102.8 million worldwide.

With these figures, the PS4 has now surpassed Nintendo Wii's 101.6 million and the original PlayStation's 102.5 million totals, but has not yet managed to eclipse the PS2, which maintains its position in the top-selling spot with a staggering 155 million units sold in its lifetime. When adding handheld gaming devices, PlayStation 4 is in fourth spot, closing on the Game Boy/Game Boy Color's 118.69 million units and the Nintendo DS family at 154.02 million.

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Death Stranding: Here's What Comes in Each Edition

Death Stranding for PS4 is set to release November 8. It comes from Kojima Productions, a development house headed up by Metal Gear's Hideo Kojima. What we know about the game comes mostly from a series of bizarre trailers that have been released over the past few years, starring the likes of Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Lea Seydoux, and Guillermo del Toro.

You can't play Death Stranding yet, but you can preorder it from a number of retailers. Here's everything you need to know to lock down a copy for yourself.

Preorder Death Stranding Standard Edition

• Get it at Walmart - $59.99

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Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Reveals Monstrous New Image

Larian Studios, the developer behind the recently announced Baldur’s Gate 3, has revealed a new slice of fresh hell from the forthcoming roleplaying game, depicting one of the tentacle-faced, brain-eating psionicists from the race of interplanar slavers called Ilithids — more commonly known as mind flayers.

Though scant on details, the image below reveals an illithid psionically floating through the darkened hallway of a nautiloid ship.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Breaks Multiple Sales Records

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has earned more than $600 million worldwide and has broken multiple sales records in its first three days of release.

Announced by Activision, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's impressive first three days has earned it the following records;

• It has become the top-selling new premium game release of 2019
• It has now sold more units in its first three days than any other Call of Duty title this console generation
• It had the biggest selling digital opening in Activision history

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Death Stranding Launch Trailer Gives You the Best Look at the Story Yet

The launch trailer for Death Stranding has arrived, and it provides the best look at the mysterious game's story that we've had so far. So much so, in fact, it may be a bit spoiler-y.

The huge trailer - eight minutes in length - takes a deeper dive into the premise of Death Stranding, offering a better look at the game's broad cast of characters.

For the first time, we get to see Higgs and Die-Hardman without their masks, as well as get a better understanding of Sam's mission. There's also plenty of shots of some really, really strange things: anyone up for dealing with a flying whale monster? Or how about a hundred-foot tall woman? It's all here.

If you're hoping to go into Death Stranding completely clean and with no idea about any of the story, this is probably not the trailer to watch. So proceed with caution!

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Elon Musk Donated 1 Million Trees to Fortnite Players Raising Money

Elon Musk has donated $1 million to a tree-planting charity drive that has been organised by YouTubers and Fortnite streamers.

The TeamTrees charity drive was organised by YouTuber MrBeast, who aims to help the Arbor Day Foundation plant 20 million trees, with each tree funded by a dollar donation. Since the drive’s launch, many other online community members have joined in, including Fortnite streamers such a Loserfruit.

Ok, sounds legit, will donate 1M trees

— Treelon (@elonmusk) October 29, 2019

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Talking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare With One of its Stars

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Chad Michael Collins joins us in the second half of the show this week for an interview about acting in one of the biggest games of the year. That interview starts at 42:04 if you'd like to skip straight to it. In the first half of the show, we give our Modern Warfare campaign and multiplayer impressions, detail a fantastic new program from Microsoft that might help ease the sting out of Scarlett's next-gen launch price tag, discuss Fallout 76's new $100 per year service option, and more!

Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, or grab an MP3 download of this week's episode. For more awesome content, check out the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered from our new barcade set, featuring a career-spanning interview with Oxenfree and Afterparty creator Sean Krankel. It's an open bar; come and join us!

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EA Won't Release a Battlefield Game Next Year, Until At Least April 2021

In the company's earnings call Tuesday, EA announced that it will not release a new Battlefield game next year. This is the first time EA has broken the one-and-a-half to two-year cycle between Battlefield games since Battlefield: Bad Company.

Games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad of Niko Partners noted that EA confirmed it will release the next Battlefield game will ship in fiscal year 2022, which begins April 2021 and ends March 2022.

EA also confirmed that Apex Legends would be its primary focus (as far as shooter games) for 2020. EA confirmed Apex Legends had reached 70 million players, with season 3 performing better than previous seasons. EA is planning on porting Apex Legends to mobile and "other" platforms, as well as making inroads with China's video game industry and esports industry.

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EA Cancels NBA Live 20 as It Retools the Series for Next-Gen Consoles

EA has announced that NBA Live 20 will not ship this year after previously announcing the title would be delayed to late 2019. Now, EA is looking to retool the series for next-gen consoles before releasing NBA Live 20.

During EA’s quarterly financial earnings call for Q2 2020, EA executive vice president Blake Jorgensen revealed that the company will not release NBA Live 20. Instead, NBA Live will be redesigned for next-gen consoles.

EA Sports released the following statement on Twitter:

“We’re excited by our progress but remain hyper ambitious – so we’re not going to release NBA Live 20 this season.” Instead, EA says it has “sights set on creating something fresh for the next generation of players and platforms. We know we need to earn our future every step of the way, so we’re taking time to get it right for our players.”

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The $300 Spongebob Collectors Edition Is Up for Preorder

Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated is set to release for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC sometime in 2020. A remake of the 2003 original, the game is a 3D platformer that lets you play as Spongebob, Patrick, or Sandy as you fight robots in colorful locales. It features upgraded visuals, restored content that was cut from the original game, and a new horde multiplayer mode.

If you're ready to plunk down your money and preorder Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated (that's a mouthful), we have all the details you need about what comes in each edition, how much it costs, and where to find it.

Preorder the F.U.N. Edition

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GTFO: 8 New Minutes of Developer Gameplay

After being unveiled at The Game Awards last year, GTFO has been eagerly anticipated as an Aliens-ish, four-player player-versus-enemy first-person shooter.

Little had been heard about it for much of 2019, but that has started to change recently. First, we exclusively went hands-on with the latest build and posted a four-player video (see the bottom of this page). And now, the developers at 10 Chambers Collective are showing off eight new minutes of their own gameplay from GTFO, which is due out sometime in 2020. Check out the video at the top of the page.

And here's the aforementioned exclusive 15-minute gameplay video we made recently, showing off four-player gameplay:

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: RIP Suites Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide contains a walkthrough for your first official objectives. After installing the elevator tracker, you'll need to practice contacting Professor E.Gadd by opening up your menu and connecting to the Professor E.Gadd Hotline. Once that's done, you'll have your main objective: recover E. Gadd's Briefcase.

These objectives will take you through the Basement (B!), Grand Lobby (Floor 1), and part of the Mezzanine (Floor 2). Near the end of this mission, you'll have to defeat the Maid Boss who has swallowed Professor E.Gadd's briefcase. After returning to the lab, Professor E.Gadd will give you the gift (and curse) of being able to summon Gooigi.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Hotel Shops Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide includes a complete Hotel Shops walkthrough. It begins with a tutorial on how to use Gooigi, who will play a big role in this level. If you're playing co-op, this is one of the rare moments where you'll want the more experienced player to play as Gooigi.

On this page you'll find out how to get the card suit keys you need to explore the Hotel Shops, how to solve the club door puzzle to enter the barbershop, and how to defeat the security guard boss before moving to another floor of the hotel.

Below are the walkthrough sections and objectives. Please note we may have added a few objectives ourselves to indicate the steps you need to take to complete the main objective. Objectives that don't directly appear on your menu are italicized. 

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Luigi's Mansion 3: Paranormal Productions Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide includes the Paranormal Productions walkthrough and all Paranormal Productions gem locations. Here, you'll also find a step-by-step solution to the director's megaphone puzzle. Plus tips and tricks for taking on the Godzilla style boss at the end.

After beating the boss, you'll need to get the elevator button back from the ghost cat known as Polterkitty. This ghost is harder to capture than your average ectoplasm filled foe and you'll have to visit another floor. But, with some patience, you'll get that elevator button back.

Below are the walkthrough sections and objectives. Please note we may have added a few objectives ourselves to indicate the steps you need to take to complete the main objective. Objectives that don't directly appear on your menu are italicized. 

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: How to Get Rank S

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide explains how to get s-rank at the end of the game. Like every other Luigi's Mansion game, you're given a grade at the end. In Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon you were graded on each level. But Luigi's Mansion 3 works similarly to the first Luigi's Mansion game. You're not graded until the very end. While these results haven't been thoroughly tested yet, here's what we know so far.

Rank S: TBD

Rank A: TBD

Rank B: $62,000 — confirmed amount but the range is still unknown

Rank C: Under $30,000 — confirmed amount but the range is still unknown

Rank D: TBD

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Tomb Suites Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide contains the Tomb Suites Walkthrough featuring every Tomb Suites gem location and puzzle solution. Plus tips and tricks on how to beat the pharaoh boss.

Each room in the pyramid will have its own puzzle to solve, causing the sand to build-up until it's high enough for you to exit the area entirely. At the top of the pyramid, the ghost that knocked you down in the first place will be waiting for you.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Tips and Tricks

Luigi's Mansion 3 Review

I'm looking forward to the new Ghostbusters movie coming in 2020, but I'll be surprised if it's as much fun as Luigi's Mansion 3. The anxiety-riddled brother straps the vacuum pack back on for the first time since 2013’s Dark Moon for 3DS and headlines one of the funniest and most charming Nintendo games on the Switch yet.

Setting aside the nitpicking fact that Luigi and his friends are checking in at a hotel this time rather than an actual mansion, Luigi’s Mansion 3 had me smiling and laughing at its adorable sense of humor right off the bat. From Mario and Luigi’s goofy half-English, half-gibberish conversations to communicating with ghost-sucking vacuum backpack inventor Professor E. Gadd through a Virtual Boy (complete with a red-tinted interface and a joke about how “it’ll sell millions”), among other examples, Luigi’s latest adventure is downright funny.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: The Great Stage Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide contains The Great Stage walkthrough, all Great Stage gem locations (which cannot be completed until later in the game), and tips and tricks to defeat the piano playing boss at the end so you can rescue the trapped toad.

While The Great Stage is one of the smaller hotel floors, it has one of the harder boss battles in the game. Unlike the last few bosses, this piano player can't be approached directly or immediately. Still, there are some attack patterns to learn and methods to try out that will have this classical musician switching to the blues in no time.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: How to Find Boos and All Boo Locations

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide indicates all the boo locations and provides tips on how to actually find where they're hiding once you're in the correct room.

How to Find Boos

Note: the game will introduce you to the concept of hidden boos but a boo will never appear on the floor during a main objective. For example, if it's your first time on floor 13 there will be no boo on floor 13. BUT if you've been to floor 13 before and return, the boo will be there somewhere.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Castle MacFrights Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide includes the Castle MacFrights walkthrough complete with each puzzle solution, castle macfrights gem locations, and how to beat knight macfright. Notable puzzles include how to cross the spikes, how to burn the web next to the dragon, how to use the wooden elevator and get into the cages, how to cross the wooden bridge, and how to get past the crossbowers with the carts.

You'll also find some tips and tricks for dealing with knight macfright so you can get the next elevator button.

Below are the walkthrough sections and objectives. Please note we may have added a few objectives ourselves to indicate the steps you need to take to complete the main objective. Objectives that don't directly appear on your menu are italicized. 

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Unnatural History Museum Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide includes the Unnatural History Museum Walkthrough and all the Unnatural History Museum gem locations. Here, you'll also find tips and tricks for how to beat the dinosaur skeleton boss waiting for you in the main exhibit.

Below are the walkthrough sections and objectives. Please note we may have added a few objectives ourselves to indicate the steps you need to take to complete the main objective. Objectives that don't directly appear on your menu are italicized. 

All gem locations will be written in a blue box so scroll through for them to see what you're missing or scroll past them if you'd rather discover the answer to those puzzles yourself. Once again, you will need to come back for the final gem.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Gem Locations

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide includes all the gem locations for each floor, in the order the floors appear. Please note that a few of these gems cannot be gotten on your first visit to the floor. If this is the case it will be indicated at the top of the section.

Note: Gem locations will be added when the game comes out on October 31, 2019. 

Every Gem Location

• Basement Gem Locations
• Grand Lobby Gem Lobby Gem Locations
• Hotel Shops Gem Locations
• Mezzanine Gem Locations
• The Great Stage Gem Locations
• Castle MacFright Gem Locations

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Recover E.Gadd Briefcase Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide contains a walkthrough for your first official objectives. After installing the elevator tracker, you'll need to practice contacting Professor E.Gadd by opening up your menu and connecting to the Professor E.Gadd Hotline. Once that's done, you'll have your main objective: recover E. Gadd's Briefcase.

These objectives will take you through the Basement (B!), Grand Lobby (Floor 1), and part of the Mezzanine (Floor 2). Near the end of this mission, you'll have to defeat the Maid Boss who has swallowed Professor E.Gadd's briefcase. After returning to the lab, Professor E.Gadd will give you the gift (and curse) of being able to summon Gooigi.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Mezzanine Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide includes the Mezzanine walkthrough, specifically for the restaurant side you'll be exploring. You've been to the second floor before but now that you have the suction shot, you'll be able to enter a never before seen area.

Get ready to defeat the Chef Boss who lurks in the kitchen and retrieve the elevator button, several times, from a pesky mouse who will have you running through several rooms.

Remember, you can use your dark light to follow footprints from creatures you're chasing or the pawprints of polterpup, who is always pointing you in the right direction.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide and Walkthrough

IGN's Luigi's Mansion 3 guide and walkthrough is complete with puzzle solutions, boss guides, every gem location, all boo locations, tips and tricks, secrets, easter eggs and references, and much more.

Unlike previous Luigi's Mansion games, Luigi's Mansion 3's campaign can be played in co-op with one person controlling Luigi and the other controlling Gooigi. However, you have to complete a few missions before being able to do this. For how to play co-op, click here. Remember, the game can be played single-player too with one person switching between Luigi and Gooigi as needed.

Here you'll find the following sections:

• Luigi's Mansion 3 Walkthrough featuring boss guides, puzzle solutions, gem locations, and boo locations

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Dance Hall Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide includes the Dance Hall Walkthrough featuring every dance hall gem location. More importantly, it explains how to get the elevator button from the dancing ghosts and how to defeat the DJ ghost boss that appears after the dancers leave.

Once all of that is taken care of, the final area of the Dance Hall can be explored (which is where you'll find the final gem). Note: there is more to do after this section so check back when the full walkthrough is revealed on the game's release date for the final section(s) of Luigi's Mansion 3.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Intro Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 walkthrough covers the very beginning of the game. It includes how to check into this haunted hotel, searching the first few rooms, and how to find the Poltergust G-00.

Once you have your trusty vacuum and flashlight you'll be able to further explore the hotel and eventually find E.Gadd. Before that, you need to learn how to open the door to the first floor, fight your first ghosts, and head to the second floor. Getting through the door will require using a gold key which you can find behind the check-in desk.

When you get up there, you'll need one more key to get to a very important safe. Here, you'll get the Dark Light which you'll use to get Professor E.Gadd back. Once you have him alongside you, escort him back to the garage and fight the first boss of the game: an enraged bellhop.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Fitness Center Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide covers the Fitness Center walkthrough including all the fitness center gems and how to beat the swimmer boss who keeps tossing volleyballs at you. Here, you'll also find answers to the yoga mat puzzle, the shower puzzle, the exercise machines puzzle, and more.

In general, the Fitness Center is brimming with secrets so be sure to shine your Dark Light on everything and ignore the broken drinking fountains. They won't yield anything no matter how many times you flash your light.

Below are the walkthrough sections and objectives. Please note we may have added a few objectives ourselves to indicate the steps you need to take to complete the main objective. Objectives that don't directly appear on your menu are italicized. 

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: Garden Suites Walkthrough

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide features the Garden Suites Walkthrough and the Garden Suites gem locations. It ends with tips and tricks for how to beat the gardener boss at the end of the area. Puzzle solutions for using the spinning blade, getting past the large watermelon, dealing with the purple mushroom room, and more are included.

The Garden Suites is one of the most mysterious floors yet. It's covered in leaves, many of which can be vacuumed to reveal entryways and doors. A spinning saw blade will come in handy for literally cutting through obstacles. And remember, if you're in trouble, Gooigi can help you out.

Below are the walkthrough sections and objectives. Please note we may have added a few objectives ourselves to indicate the steps you need to take to complete the main objective. Objectives that don't directly appear on your menu are italicized. 

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Guide: How to Play 2 Player Co-Op and Unlock Gooigi

This portion of the Luigi's Mansion 3 guide explains how to play 2 player co-op which you can only do after you unlock Gooigi. And so, this page also explains how to unlock Gooigi. Please note that the main campaign can only be played via local co-op.

If you want to play online multiplayer, you can only do that in Scarescraper mode. This is a separate game mode in which players queue up online with random players (or with friends) and try to take on up to 10 floors of the hotel, accomplishing various challenges along the way.

How to Play 2 Player Co-Op (Unlock Gooigi)

You can play (almost) the entire Luigi's Mansion 3 campaign co-op but first you need to unlock Gooigi. He's unlocked at the end of your first official set of objectives. This means after the Intro Walkthrough and after you retrieve E.Gadd's briefcase and bring it back to his lab.

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Telstra Is Now Slinging Xbox One Hardware Subscriptions in Australia

Xbox Australia has partnered with Telstra for a new subscription-based gaming package.

The ‘Xbox All Access’ gaming package bundles an Xbox One S or Xbox One X and two years of Xbox Games Pass Ultimate. The bundles also come with a download voucher for the fabulous Forza Horizon 4 (with the LEGO Speed Champions add-on DLC included).

The Xbox One S pack will be $27 per month for 24 months and the Xbox One X version will be $38 per month for 24 months. The bundles are only available to Telstra customers and the monthly cost is on top of any existing plan charges. That’s a minimum cost of $648 or $912 depending on the bundle. It’s not exactly the most cost-effective way to get an Xbox into your house (an Xbox One X can already be picked up at several local retailers for well under $500 and, at $15.95 a month, two years of Game Pass Ultimate will set you back a maximum $382.80) but there are no up-front fees.

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Death Stranding Is Coming To PC In 2020

Hideo Kojima has revealed that Death Stranding will be coming to PC in early summer 2020.

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DEATH STRANDING release on PS4 is November 8, 2019!!

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Diablo 4 Art Book Leak Suggests Lilith Will Return

The Diablo 4 art book that was revealed in some pre-BlizzCon marketing has been leaked again, this time seemingly showing a page from within the book.

And #DiabloIV pic.twitter.com/yocnkQa5vy

— WeakAuras (@WeakAuras) October 26, 2019

The page, posted on Twitter by World of Warcraft UI account WeakAuras, is focused on Lilith, the Succubus Queen who featured in Diablo 2’s Pandemonium Event. A highlighted quote references that Lilith in Diablo 4 is a reimagining of the character, with a significantly different appearance to the one used for her in Diablo 2. The pose does little to contextualize Lilith's role in the Diablo 4, and so it's unknown if she will act as the game's primary antagonist, or just another boss on the path to (presumably) Diablo himself. If, indeed, Diablo 4 exists, of course.

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Modern Warfare: How to Beat Spec Ops Operation Paladin

The Paladin mission can be especially tough. Here's a guide for how to beat the Juggernaut fight in the department store and more.

This New Borderlands 3 SHiFT Code Expires Tomorrow

Another day, another Borderlands 3 SHiFT Code. Use this one before it expires Monday morning.

All New Pokemon Revealed for Sword and Shield so Far

See every new gen 8 Pokemon revealed for Sword and Shield so far!

Deals: Save $100 or More on a Serta Recliner Chair

If you’re reading IGN, odds are you spend a fair amount of time on your butt. Maybe it’s at your desk, maybe it’s on your couch, but without a doubt, you need to take care of that posterior. Good news for those of us with rear ends, Walmart has some solid deals on recliner chairs, for when you want the comfort of a cushy couch, but need to maintain your strong, independent lifestyle. Check out the savings belows.

Walnew Recliner Chair with Power Lift

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Overwatch 2 Details Leaked, Features New PvE Missions, New Mode

Blizzard will reveal new details about the next iteration of Overwatch at BlizzCon next week, according to a report from ESPN. “Overwatch 2” will feature a new logo for the franchise, new game modes, maps, heroes, PvE features, and seemingly revised hero abilities for that PvE experience. ESPN obtained the information via a source at BlizzCon as well as a training document for the event.

The new logo sports the same circular design as the original Overwatch logo, but with an orange “2” added to its right side.

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Get These Bandai Namco, Atari, or Activision Retro Consoles for Only $5

Those fancy retro mini consoles, like the SNES Classic, are pretty great, but they still cost a fair amount. Good news for us deal hunters, Walmart has a big sale on AtGames’ Flashback mini-consoles, which each come packed with up to 20 officially licensed retro games like Pitfall, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and more. Even better, you can play them on your HDMI TV with a free included dongle. Check the deals out below.

Bandai Namco Flashback Blast

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Pokemon Developers Don't Have Plans For More Let's Go Games

During a press tour ahead of the release of Pokemon Sword and Shield Game Freak producer and director Junichi Masuda revealed that there may not be more Pokemon Let’s Go games in the series, but that might be because the studio prefers to work on new projects and games.

In an interview with Eurogamer, Masuda was asked that despite criticism regarding its easy difficulty reception to Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee was high. Despite this, Masuda revealed that there are currently no plans for more games in that particular Pokemon series.

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Devolver's Carrion Gets Free Demo

Carrion, the "reverse horror" game from Phobia Studios and Devolver Digital, has just released a free demo.

Revealed by Devolver as "a Halloween treat," the demo is available on Steam (Windows only, sorry Mac/Linux users) and gives you a good taste of what it's like to play as Carrion's horrible tentacle monster. It's not as large as the demo we played at GamesCom, but it's an excellent introduction to this violent take on the MetroidVania.

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How The Last of Us 2's Delay Could Affect Ghost of Tsushima

The Last of Us Part 2 has been delayed from February to May 2020, and while that means a few more months for all of us to wait until we can play Ellie and Joel’s new story, it does raise an interesting question — what does this mean, if anything, for the release of Sony’s other announced major first-party PS4 exclusive, Ghost of Tsushima?

Ghost of Tsushima has never gotten a firm release date, but it has been reconfirmed that it is a PS4 release (PS5 support has never been mentioned). Given the recent release date announcement (and subsequent re-announcement) for The Last of Us Part 2, it seems as if Sony planned to release it first and then follow up with Ghost of Tsushima later on (unless they were going to surprise us all in the next few months). But with The Last of Us now coming out in May and the PS5 set to come in the holiday season, that puts Sucker Punch’s new, mysterious game into an interesting position. Here are a few of our guesses for what could happen:

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How Smash Bros. Pros Remap Their Controller Layouts

The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World Challenge Cup just recently concluded in Kyoto, Japan during Nintendo Live. While attending the event, IGN had the opportunity to speak with both The Dream Team and Team Europe, who discussed their favorite characters, patch updates, and more – including their preferred controller button layouts. Watch the video above to hear straight from the best Smash player in the World, MKLeo, and his teammates Nairo and Mr. R; along with Team Europe’s Lancelot, Light, Marc, and Sirjon.

Read more about the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World Challenge Cup here. 

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The Top 25 Games That Still Deserve A Sequel

Some of gaming's most iconic franchises really hit their stride with a sequel. Games like Halo 2, Portal 2, Uncharted II, Assassin’s Creed II, and Mass Effect 2 (just to name a few) that refined the mechanics and offered bigger, more ambitious experiences than their predecessors. But, so many games never got that opportunity to shine again, or did but still deserve another round. These games are gone, but not forgotten — here are the top 25 games that should have received a sequel but never did.

Click through the gallery below, or scroll down the page for the full list!

25. The Legend of Dragoon (2000)

Released in the same year as Final Fantasy IX, Vagrant Story, and Chrono Cross (and just four months before the launch of the PlayStation 2 in North America), The Legend of Dragoon is often overlooked when we discuss the “definitive” JRPGs of that era. However, this cult classic remains popular amongst fans for its unique take on the traditional turn-based battle system with the addition of, well…“Additions.”

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The 'Fallout First' Web Domain Has Been Taken Over By a Hilarious Fan

Bethesda recently announced that Fallout 76 would be getting a $100-a-year subscription service called Fallout 1st. Unfortunately for Bethesda, the company neglected to claim the web domain, and it was instead taken over by a hilarious, and mildly irate, fan.

FalloutFirst.com (fair warning, some of the language used in this website would make a ghoul blush) lampoons the developer for charging a subscription fee to turn a multiplayer game (which many fans didn't want) into a single-player experience, after having already bought the game. The website ostensively parodies Bethesda's blog post announcing Fallout 1st, right down to its layout and included graphics.

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Modern Warfare Looks Absolutely Incredible

I spent a few dozen hours playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at a review event last week, and walked away with a lot of positive impressions. Perhaps the most superficial and obvious of which is that Modern Warfare looks absolutely phenomenal. As a PC gamer in 2019, “next-generation graphics” is kind of a murky term -- but I think it applies here. Modern Warfare is running on a "new game engine" which is to say that major sections of Infinity Ward’s IW engine have been rewritten and now support features like 4K and ray tracing. This new-found fidelity was certainly noticeable when I played gunfight at Gamescom 2019, but it wasn’t until I sat down last week to play Modern Warfare’s single-player campaign in its entirety that the full effects of the visuals really sunk in.

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The Last of Us Part 2, Metroid Prime 4, and Every Game Delayed in 2019

With today's delays of The Last of Us Part 2, Watch_Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Gods & Monsters, we've decided to take a look at every big game that received a new released date after a delay this year.

From Metroid Prime 4 restarting development to Destiny 2: Shadowkeep's two-week delay, there have been many high-profile release date changes this year, and we've detailed every game's delay (and release date) below so you have something to read while you wait for these games.

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Why The Last of Us Part 2 Delay Doesn't Worry Us

BEYOND!

On this week's SECOND episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond! host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano, Max Scoville, Lucy O'Brien, and Peppers Scoville for an emergency meeting to discuss The Last of Us Part 2's delay to May 2020 from its original February 2020 release date. The cast breaks down the delay, how we feel about it (we're happy it's getting more time), and what this means for the rest of Sony's 2020, namely Ghost of Tsushima and the PS5.

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Fallout 76: Why Fallout First Fails As a Subscription Service

Fallout: 76’s has had a tough run since it was released in late 2018. It reviewed poorly, launched with plenty of bizarre bugs (no, not your typical Rad Roaches), and endured a couple of PR nightmares right out of the gate, including leaking customer information via their support site and infamously shipping low-quality imitations of their promised collectors editions.

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Obscenely Rare Pokemon Card Sells for Record-breaking $195,000

The rarest of rare Pokemon cards has just sold for a whopping $195,000 at auction. The card is none other than the Japanese “Pikachu Illustrator” card, one of only 39 in the world.

“What makes it so rare is that it was not sold, but awarded as a prize in an illustration contest through CoroCoro Comic,” the auction description explains. “This unique card was created specifically for the contest. In the January 1998 issue, three 1st Place winners won a copy of the card, as did another 20 2nd Place winners. With cards awarded in two more contests that year, there were a maximum of 39 copies released.”

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Rainbow Six Siege's Game Designers Rate IGN's Operator Ideas

Rainbow Six Siege aims to one day have 100 operators. At current Ubisoft is only at the halfway mark, and so have plenty more special ops soldiers to design before it hits that goal. So, with the idea of ‘helping’ Ubisoft out, we pitched the design team six new operators. We’re absolutely positive each one is a brilliant, flawless character that will neatly fit into the game’s tactical environment. However, no one on the IGN team is an actual professional games designer, and so the Rainbow Six Siege team has a few ... different ideas about our designs. Here is the feedback we received on all six of our operators from Rainbow Six Siege game designers Jean-Baptiste Hallé and Emilien Lomet.

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Death Stranding Features a Conan O'Brien Cameo

US talk show host Conan O’Brien has revealed that he has a cameo in Death Stranding.

In a clip uploaded to the Conan YouTube channel, O’Brien can be seen visiting the Kojima Productions offices during a trip to Tokyo. After a brief profile of Death Stranding, Kojima is seen asking O’Brien if he’d like to be in the game. Presumably this was all arranged in advanced in order to make a joke out of it all, so naturally O’Brien agrees. And so commences a bizarre facial capture session.

While the clip is humorous in tone, O’Brien really is in the game. He’s… strange, too. As revealed by Kojima in a tweet, O’Brien’s character - The Wondering MC - will gift you a Sea Otter Suit when you connect with him. Yes, you can dress Sam up as a sea otter, and make him swim in a river like an otter. Just when you though Death Stranding couldn’t get any weirder.

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Spin Rhythm XD Is a Rhythm Game That Makes Me Want to Buy a Musical Instrument

There’s a beautiful little touch in Spin Rhythm XD. Occasionally, you’ll be asked to just wildly spin the game’s onscreen controller - a two-tone disc responsible for playing almost all of the game’s notes. It’s a moment of exuberant action amidst a game all about small-scale perfection, the same feeling you used to get from Rock Band’s drum fills.

But what I love in particular is that, when you stop that spin and get ready to keep playing your chosen electronic cut, the game always leaves the disc in the perfect position to play the next note. It’s a miniature masterstroke of design, a way to simultaneously make the game feel fair, and keep you perfectly in the flow (not to mention feeling amazingly good at a game that gets pretty punishing pretty quickly).

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Fallout 76 Now Has a $100-a-Year Subscription Service

Fallout 76 has revealed a new subscription service, Fallout 1st, which allows players to play alone in private worlds, among other things.

Launching today, and priced at $12.99 a month, or $99.99 a year (that's £11.99 / £99.99 in the UK, Australian prices not available at time of writing), Bethesda explains that a Fallout 1st membership gets you:

• Private worlds for yourself and up to seven friends.
• A Scrapbox with unlimited storage for crafting materials.
• A Survival Tent that acts as a placeable fast travel point.

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MediEvil Review

It’s downright impressive that, even after more than 20 years, the bulk of MediEvil’s DNA hasn’t lost an ounce of its charm. That’s due in part to the fact that the original hack-and-slash adventure was ahead of the times for 1998 in many ways, and it’s deserving of its cult classic status. A lot of credit, though, has to go to the incredible work developer Other Ocean has done in recreating it for this new, ground-up remake, which stays true to its roots – although to a fault in a lot of ways. MediEvil walks a fine line between reinventing itself and being the same game that people remember from the PS1, and too often places nostalgia over modernizing itself to be palatable for an audience in 2019.

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The Outer Worlds Is Out Friday; Here's Where to Preorder

It's nearly here: The Outer Worlds is set to launch for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on Friday, October 25. It's a first-person shooter RPG made by the developers behind Fallout: New Vegas. The game kicks off as you wake from cryogenic sleep to find that it's decades later than planned, and the rest of your crew is still frozen on the other side of the colony. Before you can get back to them, you're swept up in a war between various factions vying for power. Read our Outer Worlds review to see what we thought of it.

If this "spiritual successor" to New Vegas has you ready to pull the trigger, you might want to know what your preorder options are. We have you covered below.

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BlizzCon 2019: 6 Mystery Panels Announced

Blizzard has revealed the schedule for BlizzCon 2019, and it includes 6 panels with as-yet unannounced subjects on its main stage.

On Friday November 1, the BlizzCon opening ceremony will be followed by 4 back-to-back panels, marked only as "Coming Soon!". On Saturday November 2, two more "Coming Soon!" panels are sandwiched between updates for World of Warcraft and Overwatch.

Find out a little more about the still somewhat mysterious Warcraft 3: Reforged in the video below:

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Borderlands 3: All Eridian Writing Locations

Locate all the mysterious Eridian Writings in Borderlands 3 to earn rare currency and unlock more rewards.

The One About The Outer Worlds, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and the Elite Series 2 Controller

#ad #TacoBellPartner First we show off Taco Bell's new Eclipse Xbox One X giveaway bundle (with the new Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller!), and then we discuss Obsidian's new RPG The Outer Worlds with reviewer Dan Stapleton. Plus: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order impressions & more!

Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, or grab an MP3 download of this week's episode. For more awesome content, check out the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered from our new barcade set, featuring a career-spanning interview with Oxenfree and Afterparty creator Sean Krankel. It's an open bar; come and join us!

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The Outer Worlds Review

The Outer Worlds is the “you got chocolate in my peanut butter” of RPGs. Obsidian, a developer that’s made sequels to both BioWare’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Bethesda’s Fallout 3, has merged those two distinctive flavors, and they taste great together. I wouldn’t quite call this space-frontier themed adventure the best of both, but it’s a creative and well-made take that’s both familiar and new all at once.

The Outer Worlds takes place in a solar system-wide colony ruled by corporate feudalism and filled with dark humor. Everywhere you look there’s a satirical slogan or crazy-eyed mascot, a worker being treated as hilariously disposable, and oppressive propaganda and policies keeping everybody in line. And, as a big fan of the short-lived sci-fi western show Firefly, I spotted its influences everywhere. From the on-the-nose “Firefly” branding on the energy weapon ammo to the fact that your junky transport’s young naive engineer lady talks pretty much exactly like Kaylee, it’s layered on thick in a way I appreciated. It isn’t hard to picture Captain Malcolm Reynolds reading off some of the more sarcastic dialogue options, either.

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Luigi's Mansion 3 Is Out Next Week--Here Are the Preorder Bonuses

Those pulled toward the morbid side of things will be pleased to hear that Luigi's Mansion 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch on a very appropriate day: October 31. The game finds the green-clad bundle of nerves once again trapped in a haunted building and having the daylights scared out of him as he tries to vacuum up the spectral embodiments of the dead.

New to Luigi's ghost-busting arsenal this go-round is Gooigi, a gelatinous double of the nail-biting hero, who can slip through grates and is impervious to spikes. Gooigi's only weakness? Water. If you're ready to lock in your Luigi's Mansion 3 preorder, we have all the info you need below. Let's get to it.

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Why Kamala Khan Was Chosen For Marvel's Avengers' Protagonist

Crystal Dynamics has offered a little more insight into why it chose Ms. Marvel as the protagonist for Marvel’s Avengers over other, more well-known superheroes.

Talking to IGN at EGX 2019 in London, where Virgin Media held the UK’s first play of Marvel’s Avengers, senior producer Rose Hunt explained that Kamala Khan was chosen because her personality is very relatable for people playing, and that her lack of history allows the studio more freedom when crafting her story for the game.

Check out the reveal of Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel below.

“When Marvel brought

up as a possibility for us, we were super excited about her,” says Hunt. “Because she's a fan girl like us. She's a fan of the Avengers like the whole world is, so we thought that she would be a super relatable character to be our protagonist.”

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Gears 6 Could Get Inspiration From an Unlikely Source

Considering the critical success of Gears 5, it’s not too difficult to imagine Gears 6 is already in the works. But according to The Coalition’s own art director, a potential Gears 6 may get visual inspiration from an interesting source.

Iran-based video game composer Hamidreza Nikoofar has a podcast series called Wassup Conversations where Nikoofar speaks with various developers. A recent episode featured a conversation with Gears 5 art director Aryan Hanbeck, who revealed a surprising inspiration for a possible Gears 6.

“One thing – the guys here will probably laugh if they see this – but I’ve been telling all the artists nonstop to go watch Handmaid’s Tale… The composition, the color, and just the cinematography and symbolism, actually, is just off the charts,” Hanbeck says. “So, I watched that and I’m like, ‘Wow we gotta find a way to get more of this stuff in Gears 6.’”

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Opinion: Video Games Have (Happily) Outgrown Their Genre Labels

Video games conjure entire worlds from polygons and code that we spend days exploring, so it’s no surprise we talk about them constantly - like sailors peeling off our stiff, salty clothes to tell tales of adventure around a table. Our stories usually begin in a similar way. Your friend might ask, “have you heard of

? It’s a 2D puzzle platformer.” Or think of the podcast host who describes a game they played recently as “a team-based multiplayer first-person-shooter.”

But what do they actually mean? The podcast host was describing Counter-Strike, but “team-based multiplayer first-person-shooter” could equally apply to Apex Legends or Team Fortress 2. The “2D puzzle platformer” label outlined Little Nightmares (a game about guiding a tiny, yellow-coated child to escape a hide-and-seek horror gauntlet) but could just as easily have described Celeste (a meditative platformer about a woman climbing a mountain that’s a metaphor for her anxiety).

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Borderlands 3 'Bloody Harvest' Trailer and Release Date Revealed

Gearbox has finally revealed the release date for the upcoming Borderlands 3 limited-time event, Bloody Harvest. The Halloween-themed event will go live on October 24, and there’s a new trailer to celebrate the announcement.

Gearbox previously detailed the Bloody Harvest event back in September but didn’t announce a release date at the time. The Bloody Harvest event will be a free update for anyone who owns a copy of Borderlands 3.

Vault Hunters will start to find “Haunted” enemies appearing in various locations. These new baddies are equipped with a new “Terror” debuff that will affect your character’s vision, gun handling, accuracy, and spread. Defeating these enemies will earn you a new limited-time currency called “Heckotplasm” that you can trade-in to gain access to the Bloody Harvest map.

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Every IGN WWE Game Review

Do you smell what IGN is cookin'?

It's actually our review for WWE 2K20, the code for which we received late this year. I'm hard at work going through the game's plethora of modes while dropping elbows, legs, heads, and all sorts of other body parts in the name of sports entertainment. I'll have the review up as soon as I'm humanly able, but in the meantime, check out what IGN critics have thought of all of the WWE games throughout the years, from the storied Smackdown vs Raw series, to the current WWE 2K series, and everything before and in between.

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The First 9 Minutes of The Long Dark: Episode 3

The Long Dark is an atmospheric first-person survival game, available for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. Today we have your first look at the opening minutes of episode 3 of Wintermute, which, as you'll see in the video above, is impressively moody.

For more background on The Long Dark, take a look at the Wintermute story mode announcement trailer below.

Learn more about the Wintermute story mode in the trailer above.

Episode 3 of Wintermute will be released tomorrow, October 22.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s Executive Editor of Previews. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan, catch him on Unlocked, and drop-ship him Taylor Ham sandwiches from New Jersey whenever possible.

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Original Assassin’s Creed Director Apologizes for Towers

Patrice Désilet, the director of the first two Assassin’s Creed games, has jokingly apologized for introducing the much-mocked tower climbing mechanic to video games.

Talking at EGLX in Toronto, Désilet answered a question that asked if he was happy with being known as the “Assassin’s Creed guy”.

“A little bit! If you’re going to spend years on something I hope that happens,” he answered, reports Destructoid. “Breath of the Wild, wow! That was a game where you could do anything, once you finished the first half hour or so. Now, you’re going to just climb towers and unfog the rest of the map. Sorry – it’s my fault!”

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How Marvel's Avengers' Gear Works

A big part of Marvel’s Avengers will be gear; it is a game with several Destiny vibes, afterall. So far, though, developer Crystal Dynamics has been coy with the details. Eager to learn a little more, IGN attended EGX 2019 in London, where Virgin Media held the UK’s first play of Marvel’s Avengers. There we were able to chat with Crystal Dynamics co-studio head Scot Amos about gear and character appearances.

Take a look at how Ms. Marvel works in the latest Avengers trailer.

“Gear comes in all kinds of rarities, from common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary, and even beyond,” Amos explains (We're placing bets now that ‘beyond’ is Excelsior rarity).

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Diablo 4 Seemingly Leaked by Art Book Advert

A Blizzard advertisement in the latest issue of German magazine GameStar has seemingly leaked the existence of Diablo 4.

A full-page advert on page 27 of the latest issue of GameStar features a segment for the upcoming The Art of Diablo hardback book, which is due for release in November. The description of the book reads: “Featuring over 500 artworks from Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo III and Diablo IV, this book features many noteworthy artworks created for Blizzard Entertainment’s iconic action RPG.”

A picture of the page has been circulating on Twitter, but GameStar itself has reported on the advert on its website. The article explains that the magazine will be available to purchase from October 23. As of writing, Diablo IV has not been officially announced, and it seems unlikely it will within the next two days.

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Link's Awakening: Eagle's Tower Complete Walkthrough

See how to destroy every pillar in Eagle's Tower in Link's Awakening.

Save Big on these Gunnar Optiks Gaming Glasses and More

Have you noticed your eyes straining lately when you’re playing your games? Maybe a migraine or two on that 12th Apex Legends game? That harsh blue light coming from your TV or Switch screen is almost definitely responsible. Instead of futzing with your TV settings (and making everything else look worse), try out a pair of Gunnar glasses. These things are basically the big name brand in tinted glasses designed for gaming, getting rid of that blue light and filtering it into more of a soft yellow so your eyes aren’t screaming at you by 10 p.m. Gunnar has some great deals on two pairs right now.

Intercept/Onyx by Gunnar

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Resident Evil 2 Mod Turns Untitled Goose Game Into a Honking Nightmare

Geese are scary, but you knew that going into Untitled Goose Game, as you chased around innocent children and grumpy gardeners. Well now a Resident Evil 2 modder has made the survival horror remake all the more terrifying by adding an oversized Goose in place of Mr. X.

The modder, known as Alister/ZombiAli, is also responsible for that ridiculous Thomas the Tank Engine mod that similarly replaced the towering Mr. X with the children’s show character. Take a gander at the GIF below and you’ll see Alister’s newest work, showing the Untitled Goose lifting the crashed helicopter out of the way to pursue Claire Redfield.

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Man Claims to Have Early Copies of Modern Warfare, Selling for $250 Each

A man claims he has multiple copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare well before its October 25 public street date, and that he intends to sell them for $250 a piece. He's one of at least two individuals on social media who claim to have acquired copies of the game, according to Eurogamer.

The man, known as VonGarcon on Twitter and Twitch, shared a photo on his personal Instagram showing seven copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. In the caption, VonGarcon asks for $250 per copy.

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Borderlands 3: Find Red Chests, Claptraps and More With Our Interactive Maps

Don't miss Crew Challenge collectibles and other points of interests with maps of every planet in Borderlands 3.

Snag a Great Deal on the Xbox Wireless Controller

Even as devout a PlayStation fanboy I am, I can’t deny that the Xbox One controller is basically the perfect peripheral. That’s why today’s deal is so great, since the basic black Xbox One wireless controller is now at its lowest price in at least couple months. Take a look below to see how much you can save.

Xbox Wireless Controller - Black

• Xbox Wireless Controller on Amazon - $39.99 (save $20)

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Call of Duty League 2020: First Details Announced

Call of Duty League has revealed the first details of its 2020 competition, with 12 teams competing in "home-vs-away 5-versus-5 professional match play".

Teams from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Florida, London, Minnesota, New York, Paris, Seattle, Toronto and two Los Angeles outfits will each host two 'Home Series' events, one each in spring and summer. Each Home Series will feature multiple pro teams taking on best-of-five matches in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on PS4.

Teams with the best win-loss records will head to postseason championship, featuring double elimination playoffs, with a season champion crowned at the Call of Duty League Championship Weekend event.

Check out what multiplayer has in store for pros and amateurs alike in the modern Warfare multiplayer trailer:

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Pokemon Center London: Here's the Exclusive Merch

London's limited-time Pokemon Center has opened today, and will keep its doors open until November 18. We got to have an early look around the pop-up and, more importantly, check out all the exclusive British-themed PokeMerch on sale there.

For those of you wondering, yes, you can buy a plushie of that Pikachu in a bowler hat. Check out the merch below:

The store itself is set over two levels. The ground floor is dedicated to merchandise, with a full section set aside for the London exclusives, as well as a Switch area, a Detective Pikachu section and most of the regular themed merch we've seen in Pokemon Centers around the world.

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Ghost Recon’s Military Advisor Talks Storytelling in the Tom Clancy Universe

While 2017’s Ghost Recon Wildlands represented a pivot away from the overtly futuristic backdrops of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and its rapid fire sequel, the newly-released Ghost Recon Breakpoint rolls some of those high-tech shenanigans back into proceedings. Breakpoint explores the ramifications of advanced automated technology growing into a very real and very dangerous threat.

IGN recently spoke to Ghost Recon Breakpoint military advisor and writer Emil Daubon. As a Green Beret with three combat tours – two in Afghanistan – Daubon has lived a good deal of what the Ghost Recon fantasy attempts to represent. Enthusiastic about people diving into the game, Daubon chatted to IGN about storytelling in the Tom Clancy universe, the strengths and limitations of military shooters, and what The Punisher’s Jon Bernthal brought to the table as Breakpoint’s bruising big bad.

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Ring Fit Adventure for Nintendo Switch Review

Nintendo’s latest weird game-fitness-thing, Ring Fit Adventure, has been a lot more difficult than I expected. Not because its attempt at integrating fitness into an RPG is too complicated or obtuse, but because its honest-to-goodness workout is kicking my butt. For the past two weeks I’ve spent a daily session not much longer than my regular gym time with it, and it almost always leaves me sweating. But it’s a challenge I’m excited to face every day, even when I’m not feeling its simple adventure elements as much as that burn.

The ring itself is basically a fancier pilates ring with a slot to attach a Joy-Con, allowing you to use it as a more traditional fitness device with custom workout routines and quickplay challenges built into Ring Fit Adventure. There’s even a neat feature to do exercise reps with the ring that count toward your daily experience while the actual Switch is still in sleep mode. But it’s the surprisingly lengthy adventure mode campaign that serves as the main attraction. It actually does a decent job of adapting fitness ideas into an RPG adventure, ideally played about 30 minutes to an hour at a time. That said, Ring Fit Adventure clearly attempts to be an accessible RPG that can still be played by people who have never even heard of Final Fantasy, so don’t expect a lot of depth to its mechanics.

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Google Stadia's Controller Won't Be Fully Wireless At Launch

The Stadia's "wireless" controller will only be wireless when played on a TV via a Chromecast at launch. For everything else, you'll have to plug it in using a USB-C cable.

One of the selling points of Google's controller when it was unveiled in March was its seamless connectivity. Its own Wi-Fi connection stays constantly connected to Stadia's data centres, meaning you don't have to re-sync the controller to, say, your phone (if you needed to start playing the game on something portable after being kicked off the TV. Again.)

But it turns out that this system no longer the case, at least for the near future. A new explainer video for Google about how Stadia works contains contains a small-print disclaimer saying, "at launch, wireless play is only available on TV using a Chromecast Ultra."

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Disco Elysium Is a D&D Experience for Your Inner Detective

For decades, one of the major goals for many video game RPG studios has been to capture the freedom of tabletop role playing games. Without the walls of developer-created player spaces, pre-written dialogue, and inflexible rules, tabletop adventuring is so freeform that it’s practically expressive art. Within a tabletop RPG’s imaginary world, you can be whoever you want to be.

The latest milestone in this pursuit has been laid by the most unlikely of studios: a tiny team called ZA/UM. It has just released the critically acclaimed Disco Elysium, a murder mystery detective game that beautifully captures the freedom of roleplay by presenting a world that feels as if it has few rules.

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Preorder Pokemon Sword/Shield and Get $10 Reward Credit

The wait is nearly over: Nintendo Switch is finally getting a pair of mainline Pokemon games of its own. Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield are slated for release on November 15, 2019. They come with a slate of new Pokemon and are set in a new region called Galar, which bears more than a little resemblance to Great Britain. If you're ready to lock in your preorder, you've come to the right place. Here's everything you need to know to make your preorder (and potentially save some cash).

Preorder Pokemon Sword

If attacking sounds better to you than defending, here's where you can preorder Pokemon Sword.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield Trailer Unveils Chonky Gigantamax Pikachu

A new trailer for Pokemon Sword and Shield has given us our first look at iconic 90s Pokémon - Pikachu, Charizard, Eevee, Meowth, and Butterfree - in their supersized Gigantamax forms.

One of the new features coming to Pokemon's eighth generation of games is the ability to "Dynamax."  Pokemon who do this will transform to huge sizes and buff their stats. Gigantamax is a specialised version of this that goes one step further by also altering the Pokemon's appearance and introducing new moves to use in battle.

Only certain Pokemon have been announced as being able to pull it off. This latest trailer reveals smol mouse Pikachu will be able to transform into the heftier 90s version of itself and gaining the G-Max move, Volt Crash, which damages and paralyses puny enemies. Meanwhile, Meowth supersizes from 0.4m to 33m tall when it Gigantamaxes - creating something that looks a lot like the old longcat meme - and learns the G-Max move Gold Rush.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Delayed By Months

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed from its original Q1 2020 launch window. It will now release sometime later in the year.

Announced by developer Hardsuit Labs’ CEO Andy Kipling and Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 1 and 2 scribe Brian Mitsoda, the delay was detailed in a blog post on the Vampire website. “Today, we have to tell you that we need some more time to get you the game you’ve been waiting for,” the post says. “Although Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will still launch in 2020, we have decided to value quality over making the Q1 launch window.”

The post notes that the extra time will ensure that the game lives up to the legacy of the original Bloodlines game. That includes branching storylines and both character and world building. There’s also a nod to the original’s games infamous buggy state - “there’s the responsibility to avoid some of the issues that plagued the first game, which was famously launched too early,” explains the post.

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The Outer Worlds Will Be Enhanced on Xbox One X But Not PS4 Pro

The Outer Worlds, Obsidian's upcoming sci-fi RPG, will only feature 4K enhancements on the Xbox One X. The PS4 Pro version of the game won't get any extra licks of paint.

Given that most games available on both Sony and Microsoft's beefed-up consoles get some sort of enhancement, this is a surprising move. The PS4 Pro will be capped at 1080p resolution, while the Xbox One X will be able to play Outer Worlds in 4K.

Publisher Private Division confirmed the news in a short statement to Windows Central, saying there'd be "no enhancements for PS4 Pro." No official reasoning has been given for the imbalance, but it may be worth noting that Obsidian is now a Microsoft-owned company following an acquisition last year.

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Disco Elysium Review

Like all good detective stories, what appears simple at first becomes so much more than that in Disco Elysium – and here it gets so, so much weirder, too. It takes the age-old mechanics of tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons and twists them in strange ways around a macabre tale of violence, poverty, and a society on the brink of collapse. Through sharply written dialogue and an expertly crafted world, it uses some unique game mechanics - such as debating against 24 different sections of your own brain - to create an experience that will stay with me for a long time. And, somehow, it manages to make all of this fun and, surprisingly often, funny.

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Here's When You Can Read Our Death Stranding Review

We can now officially confirm that we are playing Death Stranding and you will be able to read/watch the resulting review at 12AM Pacific time on Friday, November 1. If you're keeping track, that's a whole week before the release date of November 8. And that's... literally everything Sony will allow us to say about it right now. Check back in a couple of weeks and we'll give you an in-depth opinion of Kojima's first non-Metal Gear game in forever, all while keeping it as spoiler-free as can reasonably be expected in a review where the whole idea is to tell you what we liked and what we didn't.

So, to kill the time between now and then, why not flip through this massive list of info we've gleaned from all of the pre-release trailers and interviews?

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Little Town Hero Review

The first brand-new non-Pokemon RPG from developer Game Freak in more than 20 years is an exciting prospect, and Little Town Hero proves the venerated developer still knows how to get weird. The entire adventure takes place in a single town, with turn-based fights in its snaking streets as local villagers throw food, ideas, and chickens at you to help take down the intimidating monsters that threaten their peace. While overly slow pacing and some occasionally aggravating randomization had me questioning whether I’d made a huge mistake in picking it up initially, Little Town Hero soon recovered thanks to a charming story and one of the cleverest and quirkiest JRPG combat systems I’ve used in years.

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League of Legends: Wild Rift Brings the MOBA to Mobile and Consoles

League of Legends is finally coming to mobile as League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot Games is adamant, however, that League of Legends: Wild Rift is not simply a port of the PC MOBA. Check out the trailer for Wild Rift in the video above.

Like the PC version, LoL: Wild Rift is a 5v5 MOBA, but it’s been adapted for mobile and console play. Unlike the click-to-move controls, Wild Rift features a new twin-stick mechanic. Similarly, Wild Rift is being designed specifically for 15 to 18-minute games.

Riot didn’t reveal the full extent of the overhauls, but there appear to be significant enough changes between the PC and mobile/console version of League of Legends for Riot games to warrant the new subhead.

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Everything Announced at Riot's League of Legends 10th Anniversary Celebration

Riot Games celebrated 10 years of League of Legends today with a big blowout livestream. The big anniversary show featured several new announcements from Riot Games, including a new champion in League of Legends and multiple new video game announcements.

Some of the announcements Riot Games made today were expected, like Riot’s long-rumored fighting game. Other projects were newly announced today. Here’s everything Riot Games announced during today’s 10th-anniversary livestream.

New League of Legends Champion, Senna

League of Legends will have a new champion for the Rift next month. Fans rightfully guessed online that the new champion would be Senna, and they are correct. Senna was originally trapped in Thresh’s lantern as revealed in Lucian’s story, but she’s ready to join the fray.

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Riot Announces League of Legends Fighting Game

Riot Games celebrated League of Legends' 10th anniversary in a major way with its anniversary livestream, highlighting the future of the ever-expanding LoL universe. And that includes a brief glimpse of its new fighting game, the existence of which was first confirmed on the first day of EVO 2019 back in August.

Riot has now confirmed that this fighting game is set in the League of Legends universe and remains in the early stages of development. Codenamed Project L, there are currently no additional details, like a release date or window, character roster, or gameplay info, at this time.

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League of Legends Esports Manager Announced, For Real

Riot Games is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of new game announcements, but one of the more left-field announcements from today is the League of Legends Esports Manager. Similar to other sports management sims, the Esports Manager will put players in charge of building and managing a League of Legends pro team.

Just as in games like Football Manager, LoL Esports manager is a team management game currently in development. Players will take the role of an esports team manager and sign players to contracts, build a team, and eventually take a squad to the LoL World Championships.

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Riot Games Announces a Competitive PC Shooter Codenamed 'Project A'

League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced it is working on a new, character-based shooter for PC. Based on the description, it sounds like Riot’s version of competitive shooters like Overwatch or Rainbow Six Siege.

Riot’s hero shooter doesn’t have an official title yet, so it’s currently codenamed Project A. However, Riot did reveal that the Project A shooter will take place on a near-future Earth and will boast a “lethal cast of characters.” During the livestream, Riot says that it's focusing hard on combatting PC and network-related issues like picker's choice, low ping, and cheaters.

Like in Overwatch and Rainbow Six, each character will have a unique ability that players will need to use strategically to win matches. While details are sparse, Riot says more information is coming in 2020.

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Lady Gaga Asked What Fortnite Is and the Internet Answered Perfectly

Lady Gaga, the musician, actress, performance artist, Oscar/Emmy/Grammy-winner and woman responsible for getting Bad Romance stuck in your head since 2009 has asked Twitter what Fortnite is, and the Internet responded beautifully.

On October 15, not long after Fortnite Chapter 2 went live following the black hole event that destroyed the old island map and set social media alight, Gaga simply tweeted, "What’s fortnight."

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