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IGN Live is coming up on June 6–7, and it’s going to be full of announcements, interviews, in-person events, and more from across the gaming industry. And one of the featured games will be Bellwright, a medieval survival game and base builder from developer Donkey Crew and publisher Snail Games.It’s sold more than 1 million copies in Steam Early Access and is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Donkey Crew studio lead Florian Hofreither and lead gameplay developer Sergii Greben will be on stage with us on June 6 to discuss Bellwright’s gameplay, central narrative, multiplayer, and the

Marathon Season 2 begins June 2, and developer Bungie has now detailed all the ways its new Night Marsh map will have players jumping at shadows. For those who have been Marathon-curious but afraid to make the leap, the game will also be free to try June 2-9. Playing Marathon, particularly solo, can be an intense game of cat and mouse--one that often feels like a survival-horror game as you scavenge for supplies and attempt to avoid hostile runners looking to end your run prematurely. In a lengthy blog post diving into what all is coming as part of Season 2, Bungie detailed how the game's Nigh

EVE Frontier remains a dream with two parallel stories running through it, unavoidably. There's the gloomy, spectacular, horror-laden PvE world of fallen temples and Feral drones, of keeping your clone alive in the unforgiving environments of space. And there's the desire to hand control over to the players, for better or worse, using blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, which have both become so closely associated in my mind at this point with scams and techbro nonsense that I can't fully place my trust in this MMO just yet. It's going to remain a wait-and-see for a long time yet, I susp

It's not the only 2020s sci-fi wondering whether being "inhuman" is really so bad.