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Cardy and Matt are joined by fresh voice to the podcast, Jen Rothery, who is simply a delight. Together they tackle all of the biggest games, films, and TV shows coming in 2023 and pick out some of their most anticipated ones. With the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Starfield, Final Fantasy 16, Dune: Part Two, Indiana Jones, and Succession to name just a few, we're set for a very fun year. Got a game for us to play or some feedback you'd like read out on the show? Why not email us: ign_ukfeedback@ign.com. IGN UK Podcast #677: The Big 2023 Preview IGN UK Podcast 676: Alternative Game Awards 2022 IGN UK Podcast 675: Alternative Movie & TV Awards 2022 IGN UK Podcast 674: Birdwatching with Blade IGN UK Podcast 673: The Live Episode 673 Spectacular IGN UK Podcast: God of War Ragnarok Special source https://www.ign.com/articles/ign-uk-podcast-677-the-big-2023-preview

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Games with Gold for January 2023 are Iris Fall and Autonauts. As detailed on Xbox Wire, all Xbox Live Gold members and those subscribed to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will get access to these two games when they arrive next month. Iris Fall will become available on January 1 and will stick around until January 31, and Autonauts will come a bit later on January 16 but will stay until February 15. Iris Fall was released in 2018 and features a "dreamlike, stunningly designed world of puzzles and adventure." In Iris Fall, you will step into the shoes of Iris as she follows a black cat into a "labyrinthian world of light and dark." Shortly after, she begins to discover that everything in this strange world somehow connects to her. Autonauts came out a year later in 2019 and drops you onto strange, empty planets and tasks you with building them up as you see fit. Utilize the planet's resources, build bots and teach them to he...

Looking to stock up your board game cabinet? Now is a good time to do so, because Amazon is offering a Buy One, Get One 50% Off promotion on select board games. The quality of the deal varies; some board games are priced lower than on Black Friday after the discount, and others are markedly higher. Below, we've picked the best board games that we think are worth getting. Wingspan Wingspan from Stonemeier Games is an incredibly good board game. So good in fact that we deemed it the best board game of 2019 . Wingspan looks like a deceptively simple game; the endgame goal is to attract as many birds as you can to your wildlife preserve and help them proliferate. There are only four actions you can perform: draw a bird card, play a bird card, get food, and lay eggs. Sounds simple enough, right? Well let's just say these four actions mask an incredibly complex (albeit very newbie-friendly) engine-building game with which you will have to juggle between bringing new birds into ...

The success of 2022 roguelike shoot-em-up Vampire Survivors took everyone by surprise, but no one so much as its creator, Luca ‘poncle’ Galante. Galante began development of Vampire Survivors while unemployed in 2020, deriving inspiration from mobile game Magic Survival and Galante’s past experience developing flashy graphics for slot machines. He never intended Vampire Survivors to make it big — he just wanted to make something fun and manage a little community around it. Vampire Survivors launched in early access in December of 2021. Now, almost exactly a year later, it’s seen a huge Steam concurrent player takeover , a full release, DLC, a mobile release that netted it over one million downloads in a week , critical praise , and a Game Awards nomination for Best Debut Indie Game. Galante has been interviewed before about Vampire Survivors’ unexpected success at launch, and months later, he tells IGN that its continued acclaim is “just as unexpected throughout all these months...

Your new favorite sci-fi strategy game, Infinite Lagrange , is officially coming to PC Infinite Lagrange is a massive, online sci-fi space simulation game that has been one of the best-rated titles in the strategy category since it debuted. It’s been ranked at the top of the download & recommendation list in the Apple app store and currently sits at 4.7 out of 5 stars with several thousand reviews. Now, developer NetEase, one of China’s top game studios, is bringing their beautiful and ambitious sci-fi strategy game to PC this holiday season with various visual and technical upgrades. Specular reflection, collision monitoring, and frame rate increases are just a few of the enhancements in the PC update. Comparing before and after screenshots, you can see the ships dynamically reflecting light sources around them. The visual differences are evident at a glance. The collision monitoring minimizes model penetration while also impacting players’ war strategy. To infinity, and b...

The PlayStation Plus games for January 2023 have been officially confirmed to be Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Fallout 76, and Axiom Verge 2. As detailed by PlayStation.Blog, all three of these titles will be available on Tuesday, January 3, for all PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra, and Premium members. Your PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for January 2023 are: ➕ Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order ➕ Fallout 76 ➕ Axiom Verge 2 Full details: https://t.co/lOZ5M3yj0R pic.twitter.com/N0febIYr3m — PlayStation (@PlayStation) December 28, 2022 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order for PS4 and PS5 is the first game featured for January 2023's PlayStation Plus games, and it comes at a perfect time to get fans ready for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's release date of March 17, 2023. Fans who have yet to play this Star Wars adventure will be able to learn the beginnings of Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis' story before the sequel picks up five years later. In our Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order rev...

We’ve known for years that online gaming can be a minefield of toxicity and bullying especially for women. And while moderation tools generally have been a thing for almost as long, it hasn’t been until recent years that we’ve started to see major gaming companies really acknowledge their responsibility and power not just to stop this behavior, but to proactively create positive spaces. Just last month, we saw Riot Games and Ubisoft partner on such a project , and Xbox has recently begun offering data on moderation topics as well. But one company that’s been publicly promoting this strategy for a few years now is EA, via its Positive Play program. The Positive Play program is spearheaded by Chris Bruzzo, EA’s chief experience officer. He’s been at the company for eight and a half years, and stepped into this newly-created role after six years as EA’s chief marketing officer. It was while he was still in that old role that he and current CMO David Tinson began the conversations tha...