Ryan McCaffrey

Like all good horror games, silence and loneliness are your worst enemies, and that's true in ROUTINE – except for the part where you discover a foe who thinks the primary threat is, in fact, you. Piece together the events that took place prior to your arrival, and try to survive. We'll have exclusive coverage all November long as part of IGN First!

Introducing Odds Chronicles, a new tactical roguelite RPG that features dice-roll battles set on diorama-like stages. You play in a fallen kingdom as Evryn, a former royal bodyguard in that kingdom in a tabletop-inspired fantasy story. It's in development for PC and due out in 2026.

Introducing The Florist, a new upcoming survival horror game from developer Unclear Games that's due out for PC and consoles in 2026. You play as Jessica Park, who arrives in the small town of Joycliffe just as it descends into madness, forcing you solve puzzles and survive against rapidly evolving monstrous enemies.

Developer Lost Lighthouse has announced is first game, the horror title The Day I Will Die, for PC. It takes place in Little Red Valley, a quaint mountain town where pop culture, urban legends, and horror stories of a certain age will come to life. No release date or window has been announced as of yet.

We played an early-in-development chunk of the classic Silent Cartographer mission in Halo: Campaign Evolved, the upcoming Unreal Engine 5 remake of Halo: Combat Evolved that's due out in 2026 for Xbox, PC, and yes, PlayStation 5. It's not quite a 1:1 remake though, so IGN's veteran of every Halo battle, Ryan McCaffrey, is here to give you his first impressions and tell you about what's new and what's been changed.

Here's everything we do and don’t yet know about Halo: Campaign Evolved, the Unreal Engine 5 remake of 2001's Halo: Combat Evolved – which will be the first Halo release since 2021’s Halo Infinite when it drops in 2026.

While speaking at a media summit, Xbox Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that Xbox does use AI, but probably not how you might think.

Sam Fisher’s return is to TV rather than video games, but it’s an engaging return for the sardonic super spy, and it’s over all too quickly. What will we get first: Season 2 of Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, or a new Splinter Cell game?

Get your first official look at Cult of Blood, an upcoming fantasy survival horror game with old-school-Resident-Evil-style controls where you play a police officer investigating vampires who ends up discovering a secret village of worshippers in a blood cult.

IGN Senior Executive Editor and Unlocked podcast host Ryan McCaffrey reacts to Microsoft's recent price increases on consoles, software, and Xbox Game Pass and how they fly in the face of the player-first decisions that Xbox had continually made since Phil Spencer took over the Xbox business.

Netflix's upcoming animated series, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, “follows the timeline and characters set by the mainline games.”

Thief has always been about stealth in its purest form, meaning: steal as much loot as possible and don't get spotted, because if you do, you aren't physically powerful enough to kill almost anyone. And based on what I've played so far, Legacy of Shadow seems to get and fully embrace this as well as the VR medium itself.

Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment have announced From the Ashes, a new story expansion for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the 2023 first-person shooter set in James Cameron's Avatar universe. From the Ashes will be available on December 19 – the same day as Cameron's upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash film.

Dispatch, the upcoming workplace superhero comedy adventure game with a strategy layer from a group of ex-Telltale developers, is coming to PC and PS5 on October 22. Dispatch stars Aaron Paul and Jeffrey Wright and is developed by AdHoc, a new studio comprised of a number of former Telltale developers. It will be released episodically over the course of four weeks, with two episodes dropping each week starting on October 22. It's priced at $30 for the full season, or $40 for deluxe version of the full season that includes a digital artbook and four digital comics.

LEGO Voyagers is a very different kind of LEGO game than the licensed stuff we already know and love, but it’s a good kind of different. If only this mandatory-two-player-co-op adventure weren’t over so quickly.

Warm up your old-school top-down twin-stick shooter skills with SunderBound, a two-player co-op shooter set in a crumbling mega-tower.

Drop into Eggspedition's unknown planets and try to successfully extract with the valuable eggs you seek in this first-person co-op shooter – but don't think for a second that the dinosaurs these eggs belong to won't come looking for you.

When you’ve played video games long enough, you eventually develop something of a “Spidey Sense” when you see a game that seems like it’s going to be extra special. You never know until the final product is on your hard drive, of course, but more often than not, that sixth sense is correct. Replaced, a 2.5D action-adventure game drenched in an absolutely stunning sci-fi cyberpunk pixel-art aesthetic – complete with incredible camera work and moody music – is making that Spidey Sense tingle.

Co-op is nothing new to LEGO games, certainly, but LEGO Voyagers removes the “optional” from the co-op, and strips any big-IP license away as well. We’re left with a game that combines puzzles and platforming and puts it in a compelling co-op package.

Get your first look at Gallipoli, the next game in the long-running realistic multiplayer WW1 game series that includes Verdun, Tannenberg, and Isonzo. WW1: Gallipoli takes place in the Middle Eastern Front theater of World War I, and you'll play as either Ottoman forces or the British Empire.