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Metal Gear Creator Hideo Kojima Issues Official Statement Distancing Himself From Italian Cartoonist After Now-Deleted Photo Sparked a Backlash

November 14, 2025
Death Stranding and Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has issued a statement distancing himself from an Italian cartoonist after deleting a photo of the pair meeting at the Lucca Comics And Games 2025 convention earlier in November. In the now-deleted image, below, Kojima posed alongside Michele “Zerocalcare” Rech, author of the graphic novels Kobane Calling (2015) and No Sleep Till…
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NCSoft Partners with Sony for New Horizon Game

November 14, 2025
NCSoft and Sony have announced Horizon Steel Frontiers, a new MMORPG set in Guerrilla’s Horizon universe designed specifically for mobile. South Korean video game company NCSoft, best known for MMOs such as Guild Wars and Lineage, has finally confirmed its long-rumored…
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Battlefield 6 Devs Respond to REDSEC Review-Bombing: ‘This Is Just the Beginning of the Experience’

November 13, 2025
The Battlefield Studios team says REDSEC has plenty of time to regain lost ground with fans after the free-to-play offshoot was hit with a review-bombing campaign by Battlefield 6 players at launch. IGN spoke with design director Justin Wiebe and creative director Thomas Andersson earlier this week to learn more about REDSEC, how it got started, and what its future holds. We also asked about the…
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Sony Says Bungie Hasn’t Brought in as Much Money as It Thought It Would When It Bought the Developer, as Destiny 2 Falls Off a Cliff

November 12, 2025
It’s a tough time for Bungie and Destiny 2, with parent company Sony saying the studio has failed to meet its sales and user engagement expectations. In its latest financial report, Sony said it had recorded a 31.5 billion yen (approx. $204.2 million) impairment charge as a result of Destiny 2’s underperformance. That was significant enough to drag down profits at Sony’s Game & Network…
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IGN AU Retrospective: PlayStation Turns 30 in Australia

November 12, 2025
Incredibly, almost unfathomably, the humble original PlayStation, our little grey slab of joy, is turning 30. It’s got grey hairs, now old enough to have a couple of kids, a few different careers, a car in the garage. You could say it’s accomplished all those…
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The New Hyrule Warriors' English Translation Defines Link and Zelda's Relationship As Just Friends, But Fans Say The Game is 'Not Fooling Anybody'

November 11, 2025
Nintendo fans are rejecting a new description found within Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment that describes Link and Princess Zelda as just friends. An in-game journal entry from Zelda’s ally Lenalia claims that the princesses’ sword training was inspired by “a knight — and friend — from her own time.” But while this description seems clear-cut, fans have compared it…
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