Monster Hunter Wilds is fast approaching its first anniversary, meaning if it were a real human baby it would be legally unable to do anything really because have you met a one year old? Still, ahead of that anniversary, Capcom has outlined the game’s next big update which, shock horror, includes a new monster to hunt, a new weapon to hunt with, a collab with basically itself, and more coming on February 18th. Oh, and there’s DLC coming! But once again, the horror, the shock.
If you like your board games a little less physical, and a little more not technically a board game any more if we’re being honest but that’s fine because it’s a neat looking, strategy RPG now, then boooooy howdy do I have the game for you! Those familiar with the dungeon crawling tabletop game Descent will be interested to learn that it’s getting a video game adaptation in the form of Terrinoth: Heroes of Descent.
Magic: The Gathering just had its most financially successful year yet, Hasbro has announced. And it’s largely thanks to its collaborations with other brands, via its Universes Beyond and Secret Lair releases.
In its earnings call today, Hasbro revealed that MTG revenue was up 59% year-over-year, in no small part thanks to the Avatar: The Last Airbender set last year, which is now the third highest-selling set in Magic history after Final Fantasy and Lord of the Rings. Other Universes Beyond sets, as well as Secret Lair, also had a hand in the success.
That 59% is a huge increase, and one that is responsible for Hasbro’s overall numbers looking good. The company overall was up 14% year-over-year, almost entirely driven by 45% growth in the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming segment (Monopoly Go! also helped a little). Its other segments, Consumer Products and Entertainment, both saw declines of 4% each.
The revenue-raising capabilities of Universes Beyond and Secret Lair are a helpful look for Hasbro’s C-suite, which has found itself the target of a shareholder lawsuit on the very subject recently. The lawsuit alleges that Hasbro has mismanaged Magic: The Gathering by overprinting sets of cards, specifically Universes Beyond and Secret Lair, thereby devaluing existing cards. The complaint itself contains some pretty sharp accusations that the company’s top brass have been holding such sets in reserve to deploy whenever the rest of the company is struggling.
In response, Hasbro has stated that such claims have “no merit,” and has recently moved to dismiss a similar lawsuit with very similar accusations filed in 2024 by the West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund and City of Miami General Employees & Sanitation Employees’ Retirement Trust, on the basis that the complaint has been amended so significantly since it was originally filed that it is no longer related to the original issue.
Hasbro reached out to share the following updated statement on these lawsuits as pertains to its earnings today:
As we shared when you covered the matter in January, these claims have no merit. Our strategic plan for Magic was implemented, and the results underscore the strength of that strategy. As further reflected in our earnings results released this morning, Magic: The Gathering just completed its most successful year ever.
Magic: The Gathering’s next set will be a Universes Beyond set for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, complete with commander deck, and will release on March 6.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
Instead, there may be “a new series on a different line”.
Alongside continuing the stories of Kazuma Kiryu and introducing the world to Ichiban Kasuga, Sega and RGG Studio has spent about a decade bringing back some of the older Yakuza / Like A Dragon games for modern audiences. Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties, out on 12th February, is the latest of those remakes, following on (naturally) from Kiwami and Kiwami 2. But it sounds like, rather than moving onto the fourth game, the end of the Kiwami series is here (thanks, Push Square!).
In a Ryusta TV livestream broadcast earlier today, RGG Studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama said that “I think ‘Yakuza Kiwami 3’ will be the last one, and the ‘Kiwami line will come to an end.” (translation from u/Dastanovich on Reddit.)
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Mewgenics, the cat-breeding tactics roguelike from the developer of The Binding of Isaac, has hit the ground running to say the least. It’s already made back the cost of its roughly seven-year development, blew past internal sales expectations, and is currently approaching the highest peak concurrent player count of Isaac itself – and it only launched today at 6am PT.
“So far this is beating expectations by quite a lot,” developer Tyler Glaiel tells IGN, saying it likely took less than three hours for development costs to be fully recouped. “Its a bigger launch than any of the Isaac expansions already, and its only been a few hours.”
His partner Edmund McMillen, best known for games like Isaac and Super Meat Boy, put just how wide of a gap that is into a perspective: “I think the highest sales day for any game of mine, release-wise, was [The Binding of Isaac:] Rebirth, and it sold 40,000 units I think day one.” By comparison, McMillen says Mewgenics sold around 152,000 copies in its first five-and-a-half hours. “Isn’t that kind of insane?”
Mewgenics is also sitting at more than 63,000 concurrent players on Steam at time of writing, creeping steadily towards Rebirth’s all-time peak of 70,701. “We knew the game was good and would do good,” Glaiel says, “but Isaac is *HUGE* so we thought it was unlikely to beat that.” There are also almost 85k people watching it on Twitch – one of which is McMillen himself, who says he’s enjoying watching Northernlion be so immediately good at it.
The critical reception for Mewgenics has been glowing as well, currently sitting at an 89 on sites like Metacritic and 96% positive user reviews on Steam (with roughly 1,700 in at the moment). IGN’s own Mewgenics review gave it a 9/10, saying it’s “a fantastic tactical RPG that’s good for more than a hundred hours of roguelike runs. Just when you think you have it figured out it’ll throw something completely unexpected and hilariously gross at you – and probably a catchy new original song, too.”
Tom Marks is IGN’s Associate Reviews Director. He loves puzzles, platformers, puzzle-platformers, and lots more.
It’s another day, another Subnautica 2 dev vlog, this time one with a big focus on multiplayer. This ability to play with, heaven forbid, other people is one that developer Unknown Worlds very much understands is not for everyone, given the first game’s big focus on isolation and ruffing it yourself. So, this vlog is all about explaining why you don’t need to worry if you like to go solo. And also to show off a dive elevator.
The newly-rebranded Overwatch just benefited from its best weekend player count “in over a year” across all platforms, developer Blizzard has said, as the game’s new Season 1 officially goes live today.
Players have flocked back to Overwatch following last week’s big Spotlight reveal event that confirmed the sequel was ditching its “2”, adding a host of new heroes, and telling a fresh interconnected narrative over the next year.
An early access launch for new hero Anran also helped draw players in, while the company has quickly addressed calls from fans and the game’s English-language voice actress for tweaks to the character’s design.
As reported earlier this week, Overwatch had a particularly strong weekend on Steam — where the game recorded its best player count since launch. Last week’s announcements continued with confirmation of an upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 port of the game, scheduled for release sometime within its new Season 2.
Here’s everything that’s live today, alongside the launch of Season 1:
● Five New Heroes at Launch: Jump in to experience five new heroes right now, with five more coming throughout 2026 (one per season).
○ Domina (Tank), a long-range, zone-control Stalwart Tank hero and vice president of the Vishkar Corporation.
○ Emre (Damage), a fast-paced, run-and-gun Specialist Damage hero with cybernetic upgrades.
○ Mizuki (Support), a versatile Survivor Support hero aligned with the Hashimoto clan.
○ Anran (Damage), a fire-wielding Flanker Damage hero, Overwatch recruit, and Wuyang’s older sister.
○ Jetpack Cat (Support), a permanently flying feline, acting as a Tactician Support hero with quick reflexes and Hero towing abilities
● The Reign of Talon: For the first time, Overwatch is telling a fully connected narrative across an entire year, following Talon’s rise under new leadership. Follow along on this new story with our latest cinematic, as well as ongoing motion comics, animated Hero trailers, short stories, and more.
● Conquest Meta Event: Conquest is a five-week faction-based event where players align with Overwatch or Talon, completing missions and earning rewards along the way.
● Gameplay, Competitive, and Systems Updates: Season 1 includes new role sub-roles and passives for all Heroes, a competitive year reset with rewards and rarity titles, Stadium updates, a full UI/UX refresh, and new systems like Praise.
● The Overwatch x Hello Kitty and Friends collaboration is available now, introducing colorful, Hello Kitty and Friends-inspired skins plus themed extras like name cards, sprays, emotes, and more. Available now through February 24, the crossover introduces skins for…
○ Juno as Hello Kitty
○ Widowmaker as Kuromi
○ Mercy as Pompompurrin
○ Lucio as Keroppi
○ D.Va as My Melody
○ Kiriko as Cinnamoroll
● Skins and Cosmetics: Season 1 includes faction-themed skins, new themed bundles, a Mercy Celestial Guardian Mythic, Juno’s Star Shooter Mythic Weapon, and a Lootbox pool refresh including skins from the past six seasons.
After all that, Overwatch’s new Season 2 will introduce a fresh hero, mythics and a celebration of the game’s 10-year anniversary later this spring. Another hero joins in Season 3, due this summer, alongside the Japan Night map and more mythics. Later this summer, Season 4 drops yet another new hero and includes activity tied to BlizzCon and the Overwatch World Cup.
Catch up with everything else announced last week at Blizzard’s Overwatch Spotlight event right here.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
More like space the final funtier am I right (cue canned laughter that goes on a touch too long)? Besiege, the physics building game about building all manner of medieval machinery to destroy your enemy, has taken you to all kinds of lands and with its 2024 expansion, The Splintered Sea, a few oceans too. But with its newly revealed follow-up expansion, there’s nowhere to go but up (because it’s set in space, hence my absolutely hilarious opening line).
Cosmetic invasion.
Well, that didn’t take too long! After launching on the Switch eShop back in December, Dotemu and Tribute Games have today updated Marvel Cosmic Invasion to ver. 1.0.5, bundling in a fresh batch of hero colour palettes to boot.
The ‘Cosmic Collabs’ update includes a new wardrobe option for 12 of the 15-hero roster, each inspired by a different Marvel game. Spider-Man and Venom each get a crossover fit from Marvel Rivals, Black Panther and Rocket Racoon take theirs from Marvel Snap art, She-Hulk and Wolverine’s new looks come from Marvel Strike Force, Captain America and Nova take inspiration from Marvel Future Fight, Phyla-Vell and Beta Ray Bill’s palettes are all about Marvel Contest of Champions, and even Marvel Puzzle Quest gets a nod in Storm and Iron Man’s fresh threads.
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