The first Please, Touch The Artwork was a stylish puzzler inspired by Piet Mondrian and De Styjl, the Dutch abstract art movement that reached its height around a century ago. We enjoyed Belgian dev Thomas Waterzooi’s cracking little curio immensely back in 2022, and this follow-up (which has been available elsewhere since February 2024) focuses on Belgian painter James Ensor. It’s a decidedly simpler composition, but one that carries through the first game’s humour and low-stakes, gallery vibes.
Described in the PR blurb as “‘Where’s Waldo’ meets Modern Art”, there’s a touch of Python in the animation and sound effects of this “cosy hidden-object adventure”. Split into six short chapters, you control a well-attired, genteel skeleton risen from the grave to wander Ensor’s paintings collecting items at the behest of the artist’s subjects.
Capcom’s Street Fighter 6 will be hadouken-ing its way into an anime this year. Kadokawa recently revealed a teaser trailer for Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, an anime adaptation of Eri Ejima’s manga of the same name.
The story is set in Kuromi Girls’ Academy, an exclusive school for rich kids which aims to produce refined young ladies. Gaining entry to the prestigious institution on a scholarship is main character Aya Mitsuki, who has played fighting games since elementary school. She soon becomes fascinated by beautiful and graceful fellow student Mio Yorue, nicknamed Shirayuri (white lily). However, appearances can be deceptive, as beneath her elegant exterior, Mio is a tough-talking button-mashing gamer! Will a mutual love of fighting games result in a deeper relationship between the girls?
📰(NEW) Seinen Anime ‘Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games’ Promotional Teaser featuring Street Fighter 6!pic.twitter.com/MAVLSBiWGW
In the original manga, the characters played a fictional fighting game, however, with Capcom’s sponsorship of the anime, it seems like they will be battling it out in Street Fighter 6. Interestingly, FAV Gaming (Kadokawa’s professional esports team) is credited in the trailer for collaborating on recording.
The anime of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is due out sometime in 2025. If you are interested in catching up with the story before then, Seven Seas have already released the manga in English.
Verity Townsend is a Japan-based freelance writer who previously served as editor, contributor and translator for the game news site Automaton West. She has also written about Japanese culture and movies for various publications.
Our regular PC game round-up column underwent further mysterious ructions during my absence last week, when substitute news chief Brendy introduced a list format with subheadings. I can only assume he had been driven mad by terror of being eaten by the Maw. Regardless, I will trust his instincts and follow in his footsteps. Here’s what’s coming down the pipe this week.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is packed with spooky stuff — skeletons, spirits, and even zombies — but no-one can remember seeing this ‘ghost horse’ in either the original 2006 game or this 2025 remaster.
“So I was crafting stupid spells in Frostcrag Spire, as it’s possibly my favourite way to have fun in this game, however this time when I left the Cosy Chaos Spire that has divided this community so very much I noticed something suuuuuuper strange in the distance,” TaricIsNotASupport began.
“I did as any of us of the right mind would do and B-lined it over there like a maniac. To my amazement was this spectral horse with no name.
“I have played thousands of hours of the original Oblivion — and have already sunken over a hundred hours into the Remaster — yet this is the first I have ever seen this horse.
“I don’t know if it’s something new that’s been added, or if I’ve just missed out on it before and never knew.”
TaricIsNotASupport then called on the community to help them work out what had happened here, which sparked something of a ghost hunt online, with players searching through the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages website for any word of a spectral mount in the original Oblivion. So far, nothing.
Could it be a mod? TaricIsNotASupport followed up their post to say they are playing on PlayStation 5, where mods are unavailable. TaricIsNotASupport also posted a clip of their character riding the horse. Despite its non-corporeal form, it appears this horse is very much present and correct, and works how any other horse would in Oblivion. “He fast travels and even gets stabled!” TaricIsNotASupport said. “By all accounts it’s now my steed!”
Some are suggesting this ghost horse is the result of a glitch, perhaps caused by a spell gone horribly wrong. Bethesda games are known for their bugs (in fact one is making the camera break the longer you play the game), and maybe this ghost horse is another to add to the list.
“Very weird, the wiki says there’s only 2 unique horses, Shadowmere and unicorns,” ClaymoreBeatz commented. “And there’s no horse mods that I can see that do this so I highly doubt your [sic] lying about not being on PC, this is probably some sort of glitch that the new Remastered has or glitched magical effect. Armored horses names change to Armored horse I think so maybe it’s an Armored horse that got hit by a spell and now its name and spell effect is glitched.”
Others are wondering whether the developers at Bethesda and Virtuos might have added this ghost horse to the game as a spooky secret for players to discover in Oblivion Remastered. This seems less likely, although it is a fun thought because if it’s true, then what other secrets might be hidden within the ramaster?
There are plenty of players who want to work out how to replicate the steed so they can have a ghost horse for themselves. Again, there doesn’t appear to be any particular process TaricIsNotASupport used to spawn it, at least none so far discovered.
In lieu of an in-game name, TaricIsNotASupport has called their Oblivion ghost horse ‘Spookmane,’ which I think is a wonderful effort. TaricIsNotASupport has pledged to continue their adventure with Spookmane by their side. Perhaps this is a one-off, perhaps it’s a secret, perhaps it’s a bug. Either way, Spookmane has captured the attention — and maybe even a few hearts — of the Oblivion community and its fans.
“This creature might be my favourite new friend I’ve made,” TaricIsNotASupport said. “Spookmane, you’re glorious and I love you.”
Oblivion Remastered, developed by remake specialist Virtuos using Unreal Engine 5, has a long list of visual and feature improvements. It runs at 4K resolution and 60 frames per second, as you’d expect, but other changes are more meaningful. Everything from the leveling systems to character creation, and combat animations to in-game menus have been improved. Meanwhile, there’s lots of new dialogue, a proper third-person view, and new lip sync technology. The changes are going down well with fans, some of whom believe Oblivion Remastered would be more accurately described as a remake. Bethesda, however, has explained why it went down the remaster route.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
Among the first terrain fixtures you discover on Dune: Awakening‘s Arrakis are moisture seals: puffy wads of fabric that fill cave entrances to create makeshift microclimates, where travellers can escape the constant threat of dehydration. Awakening’s moisture seal are, in practice, the paper lid on a tube of wilderness Pringles: poke through with your dagger to find resources and the occasional hostile NPC. But what if you could place your own moisture seals, rather than just tearing open the ones left by NPCs? I’d love to play a game in which you are constantly reading the barren landscape for the shallowest of shady depressions that can be plugged and converted into shelters. Think of the attentiveness it might teach, the sensitivity to the geometry of a world that can drain your O2 bar dry in moments.
The following article contains spoilers for The Last of Us season 2, episode 5.
Ellie’s descent into violence truly kicks off in this week’s episode of The Last of Us. The show’s fifth chapter sees her brutally assault Nora in the spore-infested basement of the WLF’s hospital base. It’s one of the game’s most recognisable scenes and remains similarly harrowing in HBO’s adaptation.
This and three other key sequences from the original game were adapted for this episode. Here we’ve compared them against the original source material, analysing what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. You can see both versions in the video above, or read on below for our written explanations.
Seattle Day 2
In both the game and the show Dina listens in on WLF radio chatter to work out the group’s location and patrol patterns. In the game, we see Dina explain all this to Ellie – in part because it helps establish the objectives of the upcoming level. In the show, Dina takes notes but there is no like-for-like conversation about what the WLF codes mean.
Elsewhere in the theater, Ellie explores the auditorium and finds a guitar. It’s one of the more memorable scenes from the game – Ellie takes a seat in the front row and begins to play. In the show, Ellie instead sits on a stool up on the stage. Both versions play the opening of Pearl Jam’s Future Days, although Ellie in the game sings the first two lines – show Ellie sings just the first.
In the game, Day 2 sees Ellie head out to Hillcrest. That section of the game is pretty much cut entirely from the show – there’s no hiding from dogs in overgrown houses – but we do get a version of the Seraphite mural that is seen shortly after Ellie leaves the theater. In the game, the “Feel Her Love” graffiti is on the back of a truck. In the show, a similar image is painted on a wall. The WLF have left dead Seraphites below it as some kind of ironic gesture.
Stalkers
Later in the episode, Ellie and Dina have a tense encounter with a group of Stalkers. While Ellie does come across Stalkers on Day 2 in the game, this scene isn’t a direct translation of that moment. For one, Dina is now with Ellie – in the game, Dina stays at the cinema. The location has also changed; Ellie was attacked in an office building in the game, where the show’s Stalker showdown takes place in a warehouse.
More significantly, though, the show’s Stalkers behave in a very different manner to their game counterparts. In the game, Stalkers are cautious, almost skittish predators, and so this encounter is a tense game of cat-and-mouse as you try to spot where they are hiding. While the show has made suggestion that Stalkers are more intelligent than the more animalistic Runner variants, in this scene there’s little evidence of that. The Stalkers pretty much just charge – or, indeed, run – at Ellie and Dina, and attempt to break into the cage the duo have barricaded themselves inside of.
Another change comes with the reintroduction of Jesse into this section of the story. In the game, towards the end of the Hillcrest section, Jesse emerges from the shadows to catch Ellie before she walks into a WLF patrol. In the show, Jesse turns up to help Ellie and Dina escape from the Stalkers.
The Seraphites
While much of what players will remember of Hillcrest has been removed for the show’s version of events, memories of the game will very much be evoked by the group’s encounter with the Seraphites. The forest and foliage is very similar to Part 2’s environment, and the sequence in which a hanging man is killed by his Seraphite captors is very close to the events of the game.
The key difference here is in the people present. In the game, Ellie explores this area on her own, whereas in the show she is accompanied by Dina and Jesse. This directly impacts a key moment when a Seraphite fires a bow and arrow; in the game, the arrow strikes Ellie and she is forced to wrench it from her shoulder. In the show, it is Dina who is shot, the arrow hitting her leg. This forces the group to move on, carrying Dina to safety.
St. Mary’s Hospital
This episode’s big, climactic event takes place in St. Mary’s Hospital. It’s the sequence that most closely resembles the video game – a near 1:1 recreation of Nora’s final minutes. Like the game, Ellie finds Nora in the WLF-occupied hospital and holds her at gunpoint, demanding to know where Abby is. Their exchange culminates in Nora saying that Joel got what he deserves, her wording in the show closely resembling the script of the game. She then makes a run for it, throwing a container of liquid at Ellie to momentarily stun her. That last detail is slightly different to the game, in which Nora just throws a steel tray that only catches Ellie off guard for a second.
The chase through the hospital is similar to that in the game, although notably shorter and less game-y. Nora shouts for her allies to shoot and they do so from a balcony, replicating the gunfire that sparks around Ellie as you push her forward in the game.
The chase finally ends in the same spore-filled corridor bathed in red light that we saw in the game. Nora, collapsed and breathing in fatal spores, finally realises who Ellie is. “You’re her,” she says in both versions of the story. In the show, Ellie then takes a single swing with a metal pipe and the show cuts to black. In the game, Nora’s death is much, much more violent – with the camera lingering on Ellie’s twisted face, she strikes Nora three times. While this shot isn’t used for the show, HBO does somewhat replicate it a minute earlier by holding the camera on Ellie’s face as she holds Nora at gunpoint. It’s not as viscerally powerful as the shot from the game, but you can see where the inspiration comes from.
For more from The Last of Us, check out our spoiler-free season two review and our spoiler-filled review of the fifth episode.
We are rapidly approaching the 11th July release date for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 on Switch (and its as-yet undated Switch 2 version), but that won’t stop us all from looking to what’s next for the Bird Man as far as remasters are concerned. While nothing is confirmed for the time being, a recent interview with Hawk himself has us wondering whether the Underground games might be the next titles in the (half)pipeline.
This comes from a new Screen Rant interview, where the outlet asked Hawk if he has any hopes to keep the series going with a future remaster for Tony Hawk’s Underground. “I always have aspirations,” the skater responded, ” it’s not up to me generally. I’ll campaign all I can, but I’m working with a much bigger company that’s a lot smarter than me”.
Amazon also decided to keep their Keyboard and Mouse sale after the countdown finished, while also holding a solid book sale that includes some of the best Legend of Zelda hardcovers.
TL;DR: Deals For Today
There are some classics up for grabs in the Xbox Game Studios Bundle, whilst IGN Store has some stunning Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 art prints.
We’ve also got some best sellers from over the weekend, including a LEGO Technic set, Jason X 4K Blu Ray, and a cracking deal on a Nintendo Switch 2 carry case that includes screen protectors. Let’s get into it:
While the $239.99 price reflects the early hype, it’s significantly over MSRP, so collectors looking for specific hits may be better off buying singles instead of ripping packs.
More Pokémon Restocks
It’s the same across the board with predatory pricing right now. Regardless of this being at a distributor or retailer level, it’s getting harder to find a good deal on sealed product.
At the moment, it’s a bargain finding something at MRSP. I’d seriously reccomend looking into the single Pokémon Cards below.
My Top Crashing and Climbing Pokémon Cards
Pokémon single prices are seeing big swings as trainers gear up for Destined Rivals. Greninja ex 214/167 has nearly halved in value this year, with Alakazam ex from 151 also down over 30%. Bulbasaur IR has dropped a massive 52%, making it a great pickup under $30.
Obsidian Flames fans can grab the Ninetales IR for around $18 after a 40% dip. On the flip side, Dragonite V Alt Art from Evolving Skies has nearly doubled since January, now around $225, and
Rayquaza VMAX alt art continues to climb past $649. With prices this volatile, picking up singles instead of sealed boxes can be the smarter move for most collectors right now.
GravaStar Wireless Mercury M1 Pro
GravaStar Mercury M1 Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse combines a lightweight magnesium alloy body with a 26,000 DPI PAW3395 sensor for ultra-precise tracking. It supports tri-mode connectivity across 2.4GHz, Bluetooth, and wired options, with up to 200 hours of battery life.
Fully programmable buttons, 4K polling support, and customizable RGB lighting round out a premium package for under $80 right now with stacked discounts. I’ve been using this for a couple of weeks now and it’s become my favorite for work and getting a bit of Fortnite in.
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Xbox Game Studios Game Bundle
The Xbox Game Studios Game Bundle offers eight PC games for just $10, including highly rated hits like Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Quantum Break, Wasteland 3, and Sunset Overdrive.
All titles redeem on Steam with no Xbox console required. With a total value of $214, it’s one of the best bundles running, and your purchase helps support the nonprofit Gameheads.
Corsair K70 RGB Pro Cherry MX Red
Corsair K70 RGB PRO Mechanical Gaming Keyboard features fast, linear Cherry MX Red switches, an 8,000Hz hyper-polling rate for ultra-low latency, and durable double-shot PBT keycaps. It also includes a soft-touch palm rest and a tournament mode switch for competitive play. Down to $99.37 from $169.99, it’s a strong pickup for serious gamers.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Art Prints
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 12×16 Print brings striking artwork from one of 2025’s most anticipated games to your wall. Printed on premium hot press fine art paper or stretched canvas, each piece features vivid, fade-resistant colors on bright white, ultra-smooth stock or a durable solid wood frame. Officially licensed and exclusive to the IGN Store, it’s a perfect addition for fans prepping for the surreal world of Expedition 33.
Buy 2 Books, Save 50% on 1
Amazon is running a major Buy 2, Save 50% on 1 Book Sale across thousands of titles. Add any two eligible books to your cart and you’ll automatically save half off the lower-priced item at checkout. Popular picks include Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, and The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.
It’s a great chance to stock up on bestsellers, new releases, or even collectible editions at a serious discount. Just make sure to check for the “Qualifying Item” label before adding to cart. Oh, and don’t miss the below Legend of Zelda books.
My Favorite Books In This Sale
Apple AirPods Pro 2
Apple AirPods Pro 2 are down to $169 at Amazon, their lowest price in months. These premium earbuds feature powerful Active Noise Cancellation that removes twice as much background noise as before, Adaptive Audio for seamless switching between noise canceling and transparency modes, and personalized Spatial Audio for a more immersive soundstage.
Powered by Apple’s H2 chip, they deliver clearer calls, richer bass, and better battery life, with a dust-, sweat-, and water-resistant design. The addition of hearing health features and a customizable fit makes these a smart upgrade for iPhone users.
LEGO Technic Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit
LEGO Technic Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit Building Set is currently on sale for $59.95, down from $74.99 at Amazon. Designed for kids aged 10 and up, this 526-piece model lets young builders create a moving representation of the Earth and Moon orbiting the Sun.
It features printed months, moon phases, and an interactive crank mechanism to show how the orbits affect seasons. Whether used for learning or as cool space-themed room décor, it’s an imaginative way to bring the solar system to life.
Jason X 4K UHD Blu Ray
Jason X 4K UHD Limited Edition is now $28.99 at Amazon, down from its $49.95 list price. This cult sci-fi slasher flings Jason Voorhees into deep space, where he unleashes carnage on an unsuspecting spaceship crew.
The Arrow Video release comes packed with extras, including new and archival commentaries, documentaries, and a double-sided poster. Featuring Kane Hodder back in the mask and an upgraded 4K Dolby Vision transfer, this is a must for horror collectors.
Nintendo Switch 2 Travel Carrying Case
Keep your gear safe with the TZGZT Travel Carrying Case for Nintendo Switch 2, now just $12.84 at Amazon (down from $27.73). Designed for the new Switch 2, this lightweight EVA hard case holds your console, accessories, and up to 24 game cards securely. It also comes bundled with two 9H tempered glass screen protectors for added protection. Tough, waterproof, and shock-resistant, it’s perfect for travel or everyday carry.
Christian Wait is a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything collectable and deals. Christian has over 7 years of experience in the Gaming and Tech industry with bylines at Mashable and Pocket-Tactics. Christian also makes hand-painted collectibles for Saber Miniatures. Christian is also the author of “Pokemon Ultimate Unofficial Gaming Guide by GamesWarrior”. Find Christian on X @ChrisReggieWait.
I want Grand Theft Auto 6 to be good, and if I had to bet money on it, I’d guess it likely will be. The world is weird right now, and I want both you and me to enjoy driving a car into a man. It very much sounds like it’s got Stephen Root from Barry in it! I love Stephen Root from Barry!
But, god, am I feeling some kind of way about it constantly sucking all the air out of the room. It feels less like we’re looking forward to a game, more that we’re in thrall to a captor that knows it can command attention whether it earns it or not. ( I do not believe Red Dead Redemption 2‘s excellence earns uncritical hype for all future projects, lest we forget Cyberpunk). There’s plenty that can be said about the recent trailer, but if I had to sum up my own misgivings with it, it’s that it has an air less of “look at this cool thing we made, we can’t wait to share it with you”, more dick-swinging swagger, a cocksure sense of, well, you’re going to buy this anyway, here’s some absurdly good-looking beer to tide you piggies over.
