Nordic stealth game Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream crept out from behind some barrels during last night’s Future Games Show and hit audiences over the back of the head with a release date. Some of the developers also showed up to share their enthusiasm for the game’s lighting effects, which to be fair are quite nice.
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! No cool industry person this week. Instead, fantastic news: thanks to a new device that identifies trace levels of the arsenic once used to make book covers green, you can go back to laying fat St. Bernards on every sour lime flavoured tome you see, safe in the knowledge that the ones liable to give you the rare nosebleeding condition known as the ‘hungry librarian’ have been safely quarantined. Huzzah.
T-blocks keep fallin’ on my head.
We’re making this a trend now, huh? It’s never long before Puyo Puyo Tetris makes its way onto the scene. Such was the case back in 2017 with the launch of the original Switch, when a worldwide release of 2014’s Puyo Puyo Tetris (which released on Wii U and 3DS in Japan) served as one of the very first games available for Nintendo’s then-fledgling hybrid.
It was arguably a ‘right place, right time’ moment for the crossover franchise, appealing to casual Tetris fans, puzzle game die-hards, and the massive influx of players just looking for more things to play on their shiny new system. Crucially, it helped reintroduce Puyo Puyo to the wider global market after a lengthy hiatus from localising the franchise.
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Miyamoto doesn’t even get a “special thanks”.
Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most famous video game designers the world has ever seen and is responsible for giving us classic franchises such as Super Mario, Zelda, Pikmin and Star Fox.
One of his most critically and commercially successful creations is Mario Kart, a series that has sold in excess of 189 million copies worldwide since its inception in 1992 with Super Mario Kart.
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IGN Live 2025 has officially begun, and the first day of our celebration of video games and entertainment was filled with exclusive reveals, trailers, interviews, clips, stars, and so much more.
To help ensure you don’t miss a thing, we will be gathering the biggest moments from IGN Live right here, so be sure to keep checking back to see what surprises we have in store!
Day 2 of IGN Live is almost here, and you can check out the full schedule and what to expect right here!
The third and final season of Squid Game is almost here, and we were not only given a sneak peek at the first episode, but we also chatted with creator/director/writer Hwang Dong-hyuk and actors Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Park Sung-hoon, and Kang Ae-sim to find out what we can expect from the last episodes of the series.
Still reeling after the murder of his best friend Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) and the seeming squashing of his rebellion movement, Gi-hun is despondent and alone in the barracks. Alone without resources, it begs the question, what do the orchestrators of the game want with Gi-hun as the series heads into its end game?
MCU fans can check out the very first clip from Ironheart that we debuted today at IGN Live. The footage shows young genius Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) meeting with the enigmatic Parker Robbins aka “The Hood” (Anthony Ramos), who offers Riri a Faustian bargain in her quest to create an “iconic” iron suit.
IGN exclusively debuted the new trailer for the upcoming third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at IGN Live today.
“In season three, when we reconnect with the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, still under the command of Captain Pike, they face the conclusion of season two’s harrowing encounter with the Gorn,” according to the official synopsis.
“But new life and civilizations await, including a villain that will test our characters’ grit and resolve. An exciting twist on classic Star Trek, season three takes characters both new and beloved to new heights, and dives into thrilling adventures of faith, duty, romance, comedy and mystery, with varying genres never before seen on any other Star Trek.”
IGN can exclusively reveal that Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in both Orlando and Hollywood will be getting a new haunted house based on Prime Video’s Fallout series and that HHN’s Five Night’s at Freddy’s experience will be based on the movie, the latter of which will be brought to life with the help of the legendary Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, who also did the animatronics for the film.
The cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stopped by IGN Live to not only discuss the beloved new game from Sandfall Interactive, but also to exclusively premiere an over 10-minute look at the game’s making-of documentary.
M3GAN 2.0 writer and director Gerard Johnstone talked with us about the upcoming sequel to the 2023 hit and how it evolves M3GAN, gives her a Terminator 2-inspired upgrade, and takes the franchise into a wild new territory. He also shared a new clip that shows M3GAN in a towel after a fight training session.
Critical Role is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O’Brien, Laura Bailey and Matthew Mercer gathered together to look back at the path that got them to today and teasing what the future may hold.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are back for another run at their docuseries that follows the friends on another motocycle journey together, and we were able to speak to them about these new episodes and share a new clip.
McGregor described the entire Long Way series as “a very, very important part of my life. The four trips we’ve done, we couldn’t have imagined when we started doing Long Way Round that it would lead to all of the places we’ve seen and all the people we’ve met and all of the experiences we’ve gone through together. I don’t think we could have imagined it, but now it’s a large part of my life. The Long Way trips have become something really special to me.”
Alongside debuting new gameplay, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka joined us at IGN Live to share more about Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and why this is one big crossover kart racer you need to play.
We chatted about the exciting guest racers coming to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds like Hatsune Miku, Like a Dragon’s Ichiban Kasuga, Persona 5’s Joker, and Minecraft’s Steve, Alex, and Creeper, how they fit into the game’s three lap structure that’s filled with the world-jumping Travel Rings, and more.
MindsEye is set to be released on June 10, and the game’s director, Leslie Benzies, sat down and discussed the new third-person action-adventure game with us. We discussed how MindsEye isn’t a traditional open world game, how easy it is to add user-generated content to the game, how the story is part of a much larger tale in the making, and more.
To celebrate its 20th year and its 18th season, Criminal Minds: Evolution’s showrunner Erica Messer and castmembers Joe Mantegna, Aisha Tyler, and Zach Gilford stopped by IGN Live to discuss what’s to come this season on the rechristened Criminal Minds: Evolution and the enduring popularity of the series.
As part of IGN Live, we can exclusively reveal the initial two terrifying yet adorable minutes of the first episode of Crunchyroll’s Nyaight of the Living Cat anime and announce that the show will be getting its very own Dead by Daylight in-game collection collaboration.
IGN Live was able to exclusively reveal the first five minutes of SYFY’s upcoming adaptation of Revival, and we also had the chance to speak to the series’ co-creator and showrunner, Aaron B. Koontz, about why this show about the dead coming back to life in surprising way will be well worth a watch.
Adam Bankhurst is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and listen to his show, Talking Disney Magic.
It’s aliiiiive!
With the Switch 2 now available, Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pass owners now have access to GameCube games – rejoice! Alas, it’s only three for the time being, but they’re absolute bangers, and more will come.
For those particularly nostalgic for Nintendo’s adorable little box from the early ’00s, you might have been disappointed to learn that there’s no iconic startup screen when booting up the app on Switch 2. Fear not, however, because there’s a small trick you can do to view the enduring animation.
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It’s one of many video apps currently not available.
Switch 2 supports existing apps and games, but out of the gate you might experience some issues. If you’ve been trying to access YouTube on your new Nintendo system you’ll receive a notice about how the software is unable to start.
In case you’re wondering if it will make a return, Nintendo has already flagged this in its backward compatibility tests, noting how the issue with YouTube is “being investigated”. In an update, a user of this app has reached out to YouTube via social media and received the following response.
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Alongside debuting new gameplay, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka joined us at IGN Live to share more about Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and why this is one big crossover kart racer you need to play.
We are just one day removed from Sonic Racing: CrossWorld’s big reveal at Summer Game Fest that Hatsune Miku, Like a Dragon’s Ichiban Kasuga, Persona 5’s Joker, and Minecraft’s Steve, Alex, and Creeper will all be guest characters, and Iizuka reflected on what the process was like in choosing who gets to join in on all the fun.
“We wanted to make sure the second lap around was going to be full of surprises as you’re going to a different world that you didn’t even think was possible,” Iizuka said. “So, when brainstorming what we could do to make that really fun and exciting, we knew it would be great to go to some of the Sega IP worlds, but we also wanted to go to other IP worlds and really surprise people with that second lap. As we got to thinking about what worlds be fun to explore, we really thought Minecraft and its characters could be very fun.”
For those unfamiliar, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has a very interesting three-lap formula thats starts with a pretty standard first lap. However, the racer in first place will then get to pick a new world everyone will race through via Travel Rings.
“The three Lap formula is really good for racers,” Iizuka said. “It’s really easy to understand, and we wanted to make things new and fresh so you’re not just racing around the same place over and over again. And that was where the idea of the Travel Ring formed, which is to bring you somewhere new and unknown in that second lap. That’s not all, as we wanted to keep the surprise and the racing really fresh and fun, so we added in some surprises for the third lap too.”
We then shifted our conversation to items, and Iizuka shared that he loved that Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is paying homage to Sonic Racing games with the addition of the Rocket Punch item and Team Sonic Racing with Wisp items, but he did admit that his favorite item in this new game is the Monster Truck power-up that “lets you turn your vehicle into a monster truck and just run over everyone in front of you.”
There’s a lot more to look forward to in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds when it is released on September 25, 2025, including the return of Sonic Riders’ hoverboards, the ability for any character to ride in any vehicle, racing up to 12 players online, and even the most-welcome of features in cross-play.
Speaking of different platforms, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will be released on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch. And yes, even though it may arrive a bit after, Switch 2 players will also soon be able to hit the road with the over 23 racers featured in this game.
For more, check out our Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds preview and everything else you need to know about IGN Live.
Adam Bankhurst is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and listen to his show, Talking Disney Magic.
“Mario Kart World is going to move a lot of Switch 2”.
Mario Kart World has the most graphical horsepower we’ve ever seen in the history of the Mario Kart series, and if you’re eager to know the exact details about how this game is performing on the Switch 2, Digital Foundry has now delivered its tech review.
In the Switch 2’s portable and tabletop mode, racers can expect a resolution of 1080p in handheld and 1440p in docked play:
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With the release of MindsEye just days away, the game’s director, Leslie Benzies, paid a visit to IGN Live today to discuss the new third-person action-adventure game.
MindsEye is not an open world game and Benzies said he felt, “It’s often hard in an open world to keep the story clean,” before joking that “It might be strange to go and bowl for two days when you need to save the world.” However, he added, the game does include “an open world system through the Build MindsEye system.”
Benzies elaborated that a crucial component of the game for he and his collaborators was the ability it includes to add user-generated content, explaining “As you’re playing any mission, if you like a spot on the map, you can immediately start to create anything you want [right there].”
He said they’d purposely made it an uncomplicated system. “We want to keep this as simple as possible… So you can have something half-decent within a minute and a half. It’s putting the power of building into the hands of players.” He said that a general thought for the approach to MindsEye included “pushing it towards people who want to make games.”
Asked how they will curate these builds for other players to best find them, he explained “At launch, we will curate and pick the cream of the crop on a featured menu.” However, he added, “Eventually, we want players to choose what they want. We don’t want to dictate eventually how you earn money in the game or how you decide to play the game.”
The building tool that will be used by players was also used by those making the game, with Benzies saying “A lot of what you see now was built within the tool. A lot of the ambience… Anything we could build using the tool we would.” He also noted, “Our next game, we’ll use it more.” At the same time, he promised “Every tool we use to build the game we’ll give to players so they can use.”
Benzies indicated they had grand plans for MindsEye follow ups, stating “The MindsEye story, it’s a small part of a very big story that we intend to tell over however many years it takes.” He compared the larger world they were formulating to something like Star Wars, in that “We have many stories that take place over different time periods in the same universe.”
The game director also noted that “multiplayer will come at the end of this year and then we have a huge multiplayer world add on that will come next year.”
Circling back to the user generated content, Benzies said he was excited to see what becomes of it because he thinks when you give the tools to the public, they’ll often find “More interesting ways to use the tools and almost hack the tools.”
