Author: Game Infliction

Arkane Co-Founder Says Dishonored and Prey Fans ‘Will Be Happy’ With His Next Game

WolfEye Studios president and co-founder of Arkane Studios Raphaël Colantonio has said Dishonored and Prey fans “will be happy” with his new studio’s next game.

Colantonio, who left Arkane in 2017 after co-creating Dishonored and directing Prey, teased WolfEye Studios’ next game on X/Twitter by saying “fans of the previous first person games I was involved with (Dishonored and Prey) will be happy” with it. “We’ll reveal a bit more about our next game in a few days,” he added.

Colantonio’s WolfEye Studios was formed in 2019 following his departure from Arkane Austin. The studio’s first game, a third person dark fantasy adventure called Weird West, got a positive reception following its 2022 release on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.

In IGN’s 8/10 review we said Weird West “more than lives up to its name in all the right ways,” while boasting some of the immersive sim elements that Arkane Studios was known for.

The studio appears set to lean even more heavily on its Arkane heritage for the next game, which seems to be shaping up as a retro, first person, sci-fi role-playing game. “We’re showing to the industry partners (publishers, etc), but not to the press or the public yet. Can’t wait though,” wrote Colantonio in a subsequent post.

A continuation of actual Dishonored could make an appearance in the coming years too, as Dishonored 3 appeared on an outdated list of upcoming Bethesda titles that surfaced during Microsoft’s protracted legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission in 2023. It’s unclear how concrete those plans still are, however, following the mass lay-offs at Xbox which included the complete shutting down of Arkane Austin.

Anthony is a freelance contributor covering science and video gaming news for IGN. He has over eight years experience of covering breaking developments in multiple scientific fields and absolutely no time for your shenanigans. Follow him on Twitter @BeardConGamer

I spent a week using supermarket own-brand gaming peripherals, and suggest that you don’t

What if the company that sold your cheese also sold your PC gaming hardware? This is not the murmuring of some poor sod on a nineteen-hour Dota 2 binge who’s started thinking that the crumbs in his keyboard resemble a viable snack, but a bold new reality, one I recently found myself staring down during a trip to Asda. The supermarket chain – third biggest in the UK by turnover and purveyors of ill-fitting clothes and surprisingly good doughnuts alike – has added light-up gaming mice, keyboards, and headsets to its mountain of own-brand wares.

Asda being what it is (Americans, if you’re unfamiliar, think Walmart with less gun violence), it’s all dirt cheap as well. £17 for a full-size keyboard. £16 for an FPS mouse. Overwhelmed with curiosity, I ended up taking home a complete starter set (keeb, different mouse, headset, and mousemat) for £45, or about a third of the price of the Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL that I’d shortly kick off my desk. Could this be a new frontier in affordable PC hardware, bringing tech to the masses in a way no specialist retailer ever could, or should supermarkets stick to cereal and meal deals? Surely the Asda Tech (real name) 4-in-1 Gaming Kit would have the answers.

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Warner Bros. Is Reportedly Looking To Sell A Stake In Its Games Business

In an effort to reverse tumbling share price.

Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly looking to sell a stake in its video game business.

As relayed by VGC, sources speaking to Financial Times claim that the media conglomerate is considering offloading smaller assets of its business in an effort to reverse its falling share price since the merger of Warner Media and Discovery in 2022.

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PlayStation 5 Sales Down From Last Year, Sony Reveals

PlayStation 5 sales are down compared to this time last year but the console has still reached 61.7 million units sold overall since its launch in 2020.

Sony’s latest financial results revealed a decline year over year from 3.3 million units sold in the first quarter of the 2024 financial year to 2.4 million units sold in the first quarter of the 2025 financial year, meaning from April to June 2024.

The decline was somewhat expected, however, as Sony lowered its overall PS5 sales target for this financial year to 18 million units from the 21 million units it targeted last year. This itself was down from an initial target of 25 million units sold, but Sony ultimately failed to accomplish either as it ended the year on 20.8 million. This was still a PS5 sales record though.

Despite the hardware dip, Sony did reveal its monthly active users, a key performance indicator for assessing how engaged its audience is (and therefore how likely to spend more money on subscriptions, software, and so on it is), was up compared to last year.

Sony registered 116 million monthly active users in this period, down from the fourth quarter of last financial year (118 million) but up compared to a year ago, when it sat at 108 million.

Many will point to the lack of PS5 exclusives as a potential reason for hardware sales declining, and Sony has already indicated no new games from its major franchises will be released this financial year. That means no Spider-Man, God of War, The Last of Us, Ratchet and Clank, Horizon, Ghost of Tsushima, or whatever else.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Nvidia have added a Final Fantasy XVI driver profile, fuelling PC release hopes

Hmmm… it could be nothing, but the technomancers at Nvidia have just updated their graphics drivers, and among the list of game profiles now listed in their control panel tool is Final Fantasy XVI. The blockbuster JRPG isn’t out on PC yet, and developers Square Enix have not given a concrete release date for it, but this does seem to be prep work for the inevitable. And with Squeenix in attendance at Gamescom, it’s possible we’ll know more soon.

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Total War Warhammer 3 teases new content this month, and a hotfix ensures goblins will now get dismembered correctly

Back in June, strategy bods Creative Assembly put out a chunky, chatty video discussing the next expansion for Total War: Warhammer 3. Aside from a not-so-subtle hint that the orcs, ogres, and Khorne pack would feature at least one colossal squig, it also ended with a tease at smaller bits of new content coming alongside regular patches. As of the game’s latest hotfix blog, we’ve now got a better idea when we’ll start seeing some of these “smaller bits and pieces.” Bits and pieces? In this economy? Yes, and this month in fact. “Late August” to be precise by quoting a vague statement precisely.

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Retro Re-Release Studio Digital Eclipse Says It’s Up For A Collab With Nintendo

“We’ll see what the future will bring”.

Digital Eclipse might not necessarily be a household name like certain other game studios but the retro specialist has made a name for itself in more recent years with compilations like the Mega Man Legacy Collection, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration and TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection.

The company has teamed up with iconic Japanese companies previously, so could we see it work on something related to Nintendo’s first-party releases in the future? According to Digital Eclipse’s Chris Kohler, the door on a possible partnership hasn’t closed, and historically speaking there are already some links. Here’s what he had to say during a chat with VGC:

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Video: Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Channels Breath Of The Wild And Tears Of The Kingdom

Wilds of Wisdom.

Did you enjoy that fabulous The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer yesterday? Yep, we did too. So of course we’re going to do a bit of a deep dive.

Beyond the landscape of Hyrule, the horse riding, the smoothie-making, and the Waypoints, we’ve spotted a lot of similarities in Zelda’s adventure with both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

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