Category: Video Games

Respawn Teases the Return of Everyone’s Favourite Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Character

Respawn’s Jedi: Survivor included a ton of new and returning characters completely crucial to Star Wars Canon but perhaps none more important than Turgle.

The giant froggy menace grabbed the attention of Star Wars fans for his strangely charismatic shenanigans, and now Jedi: Survivor director Stig Asmussen has teased his return in the future.

Speaking to IGN for Podcast Beyond, Asmussen commented on the fan reaction to Turgle and gave his followers hope that they’ll get even more in the future.

“When you work on a game, you never know what people are going to latch onto and Turgle… the team love Turgle,” he said.

“I think Richard Horvitz, the actor, did a fine job with him, but once it goes live, once it’s out in the wild and seeing people’s reaction with that, it confirmed and validated a lot of the feelings that we had on the team.”

Finally, when asked if Turgle could return, perhaps in the third game that Asmussen hopes to make, Asmussen teased that he hopes so.

Turgle wasn’t the only thing that captured fans’ attention in the long-awaited sequel, however, as they also recreated Star Wars’ most famous lightsabers, winced at the return of Jedi: Fallen Order’s most infamous foe, and enjoyed watching Cal Kestis hang out with Luke Skywalker in a comical advert.

In our 9/10 review, IGN said: “If Respawn makes a third game like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Fallen Order, it’ll complete the best Star Wars trilogy in 30 years, hands down.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK news editor. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Vampire Survivors meets Diablo in Halls Of Torment

Itching to click on skeletons but not sure about Diablo 4? Have a gander at Halls Of Torment, a game I’ll broadly describe as ‘Vampire Survivors meets Diablo’. It lets you click on: so many skeletons. Halls Of Torment launched into early access last month and I’ve had a few hours of fun for a couple quid. The Diablo vibes are strong, it has some neat ideas for the genre, and it has a demo you can try for free. I only wish it drew a little more inspiration from Diablo and a little less from Survivors ’em up conventions.

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Pikmin 4 Will ‘Rise To The Occasion’ In Brand New Trailer

Character customisation is coming.

If you were getting worried about the silence surrounding Pikmin 4 since its February 2023 Direct release date reveal, then fear no longer.

Today, Nintendo has just shared a brand new trailer for the long-awaiting fourth entry in the Pikmin series. This new footage doesn’t show us much of the game at all, but it does set up what seems to be the premise for the game.

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Players’ Choice: Vote for May’s Best New Game

We guided humanity, hid from harmful humans, and saw what the world is like once people are gone. Which game gave you the best human experience in the month of May? 

How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation.Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. Soon thereafter, we’ll close the polls, tally your votes, and announce the winner at PlayStation.Blog. PlayStation Store will also showcase some top Players’ Choice winners throughout the year.

What is the voting criteria? That’s up to you! If you were only able to recommend one new release to a friend that month, which would it be? In keeping with our long tradition in the Game of the Year Awards, remastered or re-released games won’t qualify. Ambitious, larger-scale rebuilds and remakes like Shadow of the Colossus and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will.

How are nominees decided? The PlayStation.Blog and PlayStation Store editorial teams will gather a list of that month’s most noteworthy releases and use it to seed the poll. Write-in votes will be accepted.

Amnesia: The Bunker review: a grim yet refreshing horror bottle episode

More fool me for thinking the Amnesia story (a now-complex horror sci-fi epic about Cenobite-esque weirdos who gain immortality by drinking pain-milk extracted from people via torture at the hands of specially engineered torture-monsters) was done with Amnesia: Rebirth. Although, I suppose it actually is, because Rebirth is set in 1937, and Amnesia: The Bunker is effectively a bottle episode taking place during the First World War. And what a bottle episode! You’ll spend 4-6 hours being chased around the tunnels of a maze-like bunker, winding up a dim, rubbish torch and reading increasingly unhinged diary notes from the French soldiers who’ve all been eaten, and boy will you have a great time.

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Homestead Arcana’s Removed Achievement Was Never Meant to Be in the Game, Says Dev

An Xbox Achievement removed from Homestead Arcana was never meant to be in the game according to developer Serenity Forge, leading to the perhaps unprecedented decision to delete it.

Speaking to IGN, Serenity Forge founder and executive producer Zhenghua Yang apologised for the Achievement’s removal causing frustration and confusion.

“The achievement was the result of some miscommunication between our development team and Skybound’s production team and it was never supposed to be in the game to begin with,” he said.

“The achievement was the result of some miscommunication between our development team and Skybound’s production team.”

“We at Serenity Forge care very deeply about our Xbox fans as well as the amazing folks on the Xbox team and we’re really sorry that this caused so much trouble and confusion.”

The response follows a Eurogamer report that flagged the removed Achievement. Homestead Arcana players on Xbox noticed their Gamerscore jump up to 1,000 of 1,000 despite them not unlocking the final Achievement in the game.

Reporting the anomaly on Achievement tracking website TrueAchievements, fans soon realised that a deliberate move had been made to remove the You Can’t Be Too Prepared Achievement altogether. This was a near-impossible unlock for players as it required the crafting of hundreds of items, with some reporting a glitch that stopped it being achieved altogether.

It was unclear at the time who called for the Achievement to be ruled, if it was the developer or Microsoft, but it appears to be the former based on Yang’s comments to IGN.

Removing Achievements is practically unheard of otherwise, and unless Microsoft has done so for a game that’s gone unnoticed, hasn’t happened before Homestead Arcana.

Announced at the ID@Xbox Showcase last September, Homestead Arcana promised to blend an exploration-based farming sim with a magic-based RPG, letting players plough fields and cast spells side by side.

Luis Joshua Gutierrez is a freelance writer who loves games. You can reach him at @ImLuisGutierrez on Twitter.

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

Editor’s Note: This article previously claimed Microsoft removed the Achievement while that information was not clear. IGN regrets the error and has updated the article with a statement from the developer.

More Diablo 4 Log-In Issues Emerge as Launch Players Flood Servers

Diablo 4 is experiencing further log-in issues as new players flood the servers.

Diablo 4: Ultimate Edition owners enjoyed four days of relatively smooth-sailing early access. Now Diablo 4 is available to all and launch players are flooding Blizzard’s servers, further log-in issues are beginning to emerge.

“Game servers are down again,” said one Reddit user. “I was teleporting and got stuck on a loading screen. Now I can’t load into the game, getting error 30000. Oh well.”

Unfortunately, some were hit harder than others. When Hardcore mode characters die, they’re gone forever, which makes disconnections even more stressful.

“I literally just lost my [Hardcore] character 95% through the campaign cause the game [disconnected] me during one of the final boss fights,” said a Reddit user.

“Bro when it went down earlier, I was just creating my character,” said another Reddit user. “I said whatever, I’ll go play something else. I LITERALLY just logged back to try it again and this happened.”

Even old-school LAN parties are affected. Diablo 4 is an always-online game, meaning local LANs can be struck with dreaded log-in server issues. “We were stuck queued for hours and ended up playing the Monster Hunter board game to pass the time,” they said.

According to Blizzard Customer Service, the company is working on log-in problems.

“We’re currently investigating an issue affecting our authentication servers, which may result in failed or slow login attempts,” it confirmed on Twitter.

Diablo’s global community development director Adam Fletcher also chimed in on Twitter. “We see the login/server issues. Team is on it,” he said. “Seeing some improvement but team is still continue to work through the night on the issues.”

eanwhile, Diablo 4’s mounts are causing problems too. It seems if you’re not getting kicked off your server, it’s likely you’ll end up kicked off your mount.

Want to read more about Diablo 4? Check out the player who managed to hit level 100 already and find out all about the game’s first big balance update.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Random: It Turns Out That Bowser Is A Fair Bit Older Than Mario, After All

According to an official Nintendo ‘How-To’ video.

The question of Mario’s age bubbled back up to the surface with the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie earlier this year, but one topic that has never caused quite as much of a stir is for how long Bowser has been around.

On the one hand, the King of the Koopas appeared as a baby alongside Mario in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, so we wouldn’t bat an eyelid to discover that the pair were the same age (around the mid-20s mark); that being said, he has always appeared to be that bit older, right?

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Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture Teases 25th Anniversary Announcement

“Something’s gonna happen” next week.

Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture is apparently teasing something on its official website. It’s all part of the company’s 25th anniversary celebrations currently taking place.

The webpage in the link below shows a countdown timer, and attached to it is the message “Something’s gonna happen”. Suda himself has also retweeted this post, but what exactly could be revealed remains a mystery.

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