Ryan McCaffrey

With Sniper Elite: Resistance, developer Rebellion continues Sniper Elite 5's open-ended approach to sneaking into enemy territory and smashing Nazis in gory, schlocky fashion, and this time it gives the series' secondary protagonist their time in the spotlight. Just ahead of its January launch, we played over an hour of a mission focusing on destroying a German super train and sneaking through a hotel in search of valuable intel – all of which showcased what Sniper Elite does best.

All December long, we'll be exclusively covering the upcoming first-person medieval role-playing game sequel Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as part of our IGN First "cover story" program.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a direct sequel to a notoriously unforgiving medieval RPG.

Developer Last Keep, a studio comprised of ex-Ensemble Studios talent who worked on renowned strategy games like Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, and Halo Wars, have announced Project Citadel, the codename for what the team describes as "an RTS for a new generation of gamers." It's in development for PC and will be released on Steam Early Access in 2025.

Developer Last Keep, a studio comprised of ex-Ensemble Studios talent who worked on renowned strategy games like Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, and Halo Wars, have announced Project Citadel, the codename for what the team describes as "an RTS for a new generation of gamers." It's in development for PC and will be released on Steam Early Access in 2025.

An industry legend takes his first crack at multiplayer. Game design legend Warren Spector is known for pioneering the “immersive

Split Fiction is a sci-fi, future-set game in which aspiring writers Mio and Zoe – named, Fares tells me, after his two daughters – visit Rader Publishing, a company that can bring a writer’s story to life in a sort of Star Trek holodeck kind of way. The women don’t know each other, and through a tech glitch suffered on account of the publisher trying to steal their ideas, their stories end up literally overlapping each other. That means Zoe gets thrown into Mio’s dark and gritty sci-fi world, and the pair are involuntarily thrown back and forth between that place and Zoe’s spells-and-sorcery woodland fantasy realm.

The industry's kings of co-op look to keep their crown by mixing themes in a new way.

It was looking like another slow year for Xbox, but Microsoft shipped a few bangers right at the end.

If I die before I wake... Introducing Dream Cage, a new horror game inspired by the V/H/S films that puts you in the shoes of Robert, a