The long-awaited next-generation entry in the skateboarding series Skate is finally here, and some of the best moments we’ve seen shared by players so far don’t even include a skateboard.

A cursory glance on social media will bring up a whole host of viral clips wherein players are rolling, spread-eagling, falling, and sliding across Skate’s maps. Or, as this player puts it: “Bro what am I even playing rn why is this faster than skating.”

Man you don’t even know pic.twitter.com/4XIlCEdKx4

— Konto (@KontoLetzPlay) September 16, 2025

Apparently, anyone can move like this, too. As KontoLetzPlay explains, you just need to hold forward and then move back and forth between a roll and a spread eagle as you go.

“The roll is quick and pushing off with a jump in the roll is good,” they said. “Meanwhile; the spread eagle gives you speed in the air, as well as a slight boost once you land on the ground, since it puts you into a slide. It’s extremely simple, but it does take some slight getting used to, considering the devs definitely didn’t build the movement to be used this way. But it’s just: Roll > Push off from roll > spread eagle > automatically land in a slide > slide into a roll > push off from roll > repeat.”

Flailing around the map hijinx aside, Steam reviews suggests not everyone’s having as good a time, though, as the 6,300+ user reviews left so far have put Skate on a ‘Mixed’ aggregate score, with PC players complaining of crashing, poor voice acting, and “missing” features like Hall of Meat and Pro Skaters.

not sure what the big deal is, skating is clearly way faster and more realistic 🙄 https://t.co/CQ51RlgETy pic.twitter.com/LQ12uVXz3j

— berd (@berdyaboi) September 17, 2025

“If you’re looking for a true successor to Skate 1, 2, and 3, this isn’t it,” wrote one reviewer. “Aside from the controls, every other gameplay element from the previous titles has been stripped away. No Hall of Meat, no Game of Skate, no missions or storylines with real-life pros. In their absence, we got a soulless cash-grab with a fully functional cash shop inside a 7GB beta. I can’t believe I waited years for this.”

“Online only slop with day one server issues, same challenges over and over for ripoff chips for a spin on the lootbox casino for frankly terrible cosmetics, none of the gamemodes that made the previous games fun, No S.k.a.t.e, deathraces, own the spot career or hall of meat, the art style is not what the devs promised in earlier playtest builds, character creation and customisation is abysmal,” opined one unhappy player.

It’s not all bad news, though. “I figured people would review bomb it when it came out,” said a less critical fan. “Listen, this game is great. It’s one of the best feeling skate games that we have out right now. I understand people are upset about no story mode and missing features but it’s in early access… what don’t people understand about that?”

Skate was originally announced by publisher EA way back in 2020, and development has continued slowly but surely ever since. The game has previously been playable by fans within closed community playtests that have even seen the introduction of microtransactions for cosmetic items, if you were wondering how EA plans to monetise the game.

“I can clearly see the direction developer Full Circle is taking the series, but I can also say that Skate is shaping up to be a game worthy of being the long-awaited sequel to 2010’s Skate 3,” IGN wrote in our Skate hands-on preview earlier this year. “The gameplay seems refined and lives up to its predecessors, the world is big and fun to explore, and the overall sandbox’s ‘do what you want’ vibe is really making me look forward to diving back in.”

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world’s biggest gaming sites and publications. She’s also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.

Are you playing Borderlands 4 on console and have noticed odd performance problems the longer you play? You’re not alone.

Players have reported their frames per second count fluctuating and gameplay stuttering on console, even on PS5 Pro. In fact, oddly, particularly on the more powerful PS5 Pro.

Some players think this might be the result of Borderlands 4 suffering from a memory leak, although that remains unconfirmed for now. It seems restarting the game does help (some players are recommending restarting every few hours, which isn’t ideal), but it’s hard to say exactly why because reloading can trigger changes that would perhaps improve performance anyway, such as time of day lighting.

What we do know is that Gearbox is looking into the issue. In a tweet, Gearbox development chief Randy Pitchford told one disgruntled PS5 Pro user that quitting the game and restarting is a workaround until the developer sorts the problem out properly.

“Known issue of perf dropping on PS5 pro after several hours of continuous play,” he said. “Workaround until we patch: Quit game and restart. Sorry for the friction!”

All eyes are on Gearbox right now amid an internet backlash to the performance of Borderlands 4 — which has come despite huge player numbers on Steam. The studio released an update for the game on PC — without patch notes — that hasn’t seemed to fix much of anything.

Pitchford himself has set his sights on winning angry Borderlands 4 players over on social media. Since Borderlands 4’s huge Steam launch last week, Pitchford has issued confusing comments on why the console version of Borderlands 4 lacks a field of view (FOV) slider, promised that it would have been impossible to break the Borderlands 4 servers through sheer weight of player numbers alone, told people to “code your own engine and show us how it’s done, please,” and declared Borderlands 4 “a premium game made for premium gamers.” He’s even started telling Borderlands 4 players to refund the game on Steam if they’re that upset.

So, what’s the truth of the matter? Borderlands 4 is currently on a mixed Steam review rating, with most of the negative comments revolving around performance. The tech experts at Digital Foundry have said their initial analysis of Borderlands 4 on PC shows significant stutter problems, and have advised against running the game on its ‘Badass’ graphics setting, which suggests there are indeed problems with the Unreal Engine 5 title.

Gearbox has posted a Borderlands 4 Nvidia Optimization guide on Steam, advising players how to optimize their graphics settings for “better performance and framerates” on PC with the Nvidia app, although users report mixed results.

Gearbox has also issued a piece of advice to PC gamers that to me reads like an effort to prevent players from making knee-jerk reactions to the game’s performance as soon as they’ve changed their settings: “Please note that any time you change any of your graphics settings, your shaders will need to recompile. Please keep playing for at least 15 minutes to see how your PC’s performance has changed.”

If you are delving into Borderlands 4, don’t go without updated hourly SHiFT codes list. We’ve also got a huge interactive map ready to go and a badass Borderlands 4 planner tool courtesy of our buds at Maxroll. Plus check out our expert players’ choices for which character to choose (no one agreed).

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds has dropped a new vlog.

Offering a behind-the-scenes look at the all-new deep-sea predator, and “how the team has used Unreal Engine 5 AI for lifelike behavior, real-time reactions and tense encounters for players,” the 10-minute vlog is one of the first development updates we’ve had since the studio’s entire leadership was fired amid a messy public falling out over a $250 million bonus from parent company, Krafton.

The update claims new giant squid-like predator Collector Leviathan represents “the next step in the franchise’s evolution with a creature that is both visually striking and powered by advanced AI to create tense, dynamic encounters.” The video shows off the “aggressive” first encounter players will endure when they meet the enemy in Subnautica 2.

Here’s the official blurb on the Collector Leviathan from Unknown Worlds:

The latest developer vlog provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Collector Leviathan, from early concept art by Visual Development Lead Cory Strader to insights from the Unknown Worlds development team. This creature was designed to push boundaries of immersion and threat in Subnautica 2.

• Aggressive First Encounter: The Collector Leviathan is the first hostile leviathan players will meet in Subnautica 2.
• Responsive AI: Powered by Unreal Engine 5 behavior trees and stimulus systems, it reacts to light, sound, and player actions in real time.
• Lifelike Movement: Fully simulated tentacle animation creates more natural and unpredictable interactions.
• Immersive Combat Design: A terrifying roar and powerful shockwave attacks amplify the sense of danger.

Antonio Muñoz Gallego, AI designer for the creature, said: “The Collector Leviathan is not just a monster that blindly attacks players. It is an intelligent and highly threatening deep-sea lifeform that actively reacts to player behavior and pursues them.” He added: “Our main goal with our creatures was to make them feel reactive, so the Leviathan is constantly re-evaluating the situation in real time. To achieve that, we use Unreal Engine 5 behavior trees and our AI stimulus system.”

The vlog will be a welcome update for Subnautica fans. For months now, most coverage about the game has concerned the painful breakdown between Unknown Worlds’ founders and Krafton, which acquired Unknown Worlds in October 2021. Over the summer, reports came to light that Subnautica 2’s early access release was delayed to 2026 just months before Krafton was due to pay a $250 million bonus to the development team “against the wishes of the studio’s former leadership.”

Most recently, Krafton issued a response to the lawsuit filed by former leads of Subnautica 2, Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, offering rebuttals to the developers’ claims and alleging they “resorted to litigation to demand a multimillion-dollar payout they haven’t earned.”

Then, last month, Unknown Worlds itself sued Cleveland, former CEO Ted Gill, and studio co-founder Max McGuire for allegedly stealing game design files shortly before they were fired.

It’s worth noting that now Hollow Knight: Silksong has come out, Subnautica 2 is the most wishlisted game on Steam, which suggests that despite all the legal drama surrounding the game, there’s huge interest in it. That’s perhaps little surprise given how big a hit Subnautica was, but it will be interesting to see how fan reception evolves as the sequel gets closer to launch.

Subnautica 2’s Early Access release was recently delayed to 2026.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world’s biggest gaming sites and publications. She’s also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.