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Another (mostly) glorious day in the corps.

IGNIGN·September 10, 2026
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An incredible action game with an excellent story to match.

IGNIGN·August 31, 2026
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Hitting the track and chaining tricks together is a joy.

IGNIGN·July 15, 2026
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A smooth remake that doesn’t feel compromised by breaking free of its VR-exclusive origins.

IGNIGN·July 14, 2026
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A great fighting game wrapped up in a very bad package.

IGNIGN·June 26, 2026
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Before Crimson Desert, I’d never played a game I’d describe as maximalist. Crimson Desert is a maximalist video game, defined by its excess, straining against the confines of an open world video game and perhaps the medium itself. It is stunningly ambitious, and often worse for it. It invites you...

ShackNewsShackNews·March 18, 2026
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The dichotomy of the Metroidvania as a genre is an interesting one. Its world is always ruined, cruel, hostile, perhaps once beautiful, now broken, but the genre asks you to imagine that it wasn’t always that way. That it was beautiful, once, worthwhile, and that no matter how hostile it...

ShackNewsShackNews·January 19, 2026
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The stages and enemies aren’t going to blow you away, but Marvel Cosmic Invasion’s tag team action still has the juice.

IGNIGN·December 1, 2025
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Namako explodes into a fountain of blood for what feels like the eighth time, and I open the menu and select Restart Battle. I’m fighting a giant skull and a pair of hands that looks like what I imagine Ocarina of Time’s Bongo Bongo would be if he were a...

ShackNewsShackNews·November 18, 2025
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Painkiller is a game about nothing for no one, a mediocre resurrection of a classic trying to put a new cover on an old book and hoping it still has some relevance 21 years later.

IGNIGN·October 31, 2025
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Painkiller is a game about nothing for no one, a mediocre resurrection of a classic trying to put a new cover on an old book and hoping it still has some relevance 21 years later.

IGNIGN·October 31, 2025
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Bounty Star’s combination of mech combat and farming is equal parts compelling and tranquil, and Clem’s story is riveting. Sometimes, you have to get back in the robot and hope there’s a life on the other side.

IGNIGN·October 23, 2025
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