Ryan McCaffrey

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

I'm starting to feel like Charlie Brown from The Peanuts comics, and Microsoft is the Lucy who keeps pulling the football away right as I go to kick it.

This year’s first IGN First “cover story” belongs to Monster Hunter Wilds, and we’re kicking off our exclusive coverage with two brand new videos featuring gameplay of Ajarakan and Rompopolo on the Oilwell Basin map.

Netmarble has released a new gameplay trailer for Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, the upcoming action-adventure RPG for iOS, Android, and Windows PC (via Windows Launcher). A closed beta test will also be happening from January 16-22 in the U.S., Canada, and select parts of Europe.

The gameplay loop that hunters imagine when they hear about Monster Hunter has remained the same throughout the series even after 20 years. Hunt gigantic monsters, strip them of materials, create equipment, then head back into the next hunt. At the same time, though, it seems rare for the game design of a series to so directly reflect the benefits brought about by advances in hardware. Monster Hunter: World, released in 2018, did away with the segmented maps that players were used to seeing in the series, instead allowing them to roam about a single stage without loading times. It also made many other changes, both big and small, but veteran players remained as passionate as ever, helping it to gain global popularity.

Hyper Light Breaker, the upcoming roguelike prequel to Hyper Light Drifter, tasks you with trekking into the Overgrowth alone or with a friend in order to restore peace by defeating the Abyss King.

Nature has reclaimed the City of Light. VG Entertainment Studio has announced Forest Reigns, a new story-driven first-person shooter for PC.