GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:13 PM Making its debut during The Game Awards earlier today, Netmarble has released a new trailer for Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE that proudly showcases its signature combat system. The post Action RPG Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE The Game Awards 2025 Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:09 PM A wuxia action RPG from S-GAME, the latest trailer for Phantom Blade Zero made its debut during The Game Awards 2025 earlier today. The post Phantom Blade Zero The Game Awards 2025 Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:02 PM Carrying on the legacy of the storied Ace Combat series, Bandai Namco's Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve made its debut at The Game Awards 2025 earlier today. The post Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Revealed at The Game Awards 2025 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:51 PM During The Game Awards 2025, Arc Games and Thekla, Inc. revealed their new puzzle adventure Order of the Sinking Star. The post Order of the Sinking Star Revealed at The Game Awards 2025 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:32 PM Featuring award-winning actor Stellan Skarsgård, SOMA's spiritual successor ONTOS made its debut at The Game Awards 2025 earlier today. The post ONTOS Revealed at The Game Awards 2025 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:21 PM Making their debut during The Game Awards 2025 earlier today, both Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis have been revealed. The post Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Revealed at The Game Awards 2025 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:08 PM Making its debut during The Game Awards 2025 earlier today, Netmarble's The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin has received a new trailer. The post The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin The Game Awards 2025 Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:04 PM Making its debut during The Game Awards 2025 earlier today, Skybound Entertainment's in-house studio Quarter Up has released a new trailer for their three-on-three tag team fighter Invincible VS that focuses on Ella Mental. The post Invincible VS Ella Mental The Game Awards 2025 Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:36 PM Set within an open-world Gotham City, the latest trailer for TT Games and WB Games' Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight made its debut during The Game Awards 2025 earlier today. The post Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight The Game Awards 2025 Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:28 PM Making its debut during The Game Awards earlier today, gear up for a new era of survival horror with the latest trailer for Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem. The post Resident Evil Requiem The Game Awards 2025 Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
Kotaku Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:19 PM
Another December rolls around, and we get another round of World Premieres The post Everything We Saw At The 2025 Game Awards appeared first on Kotaku. |
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The Blue Bomber will return after a nearly decade-long hiatus The post <i>Mega Man</i> Is Finally Back In A New 2D Adventure appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Did Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sweep the show? Did Hades 2 pick up Game of the Year? Let's find out! The post Here Are All Of The 2025 Game Award Winners (And Losers) appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Grand strategy goes to space The post Yup, It's <i>Total War: Warhammer 40K</i> appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out in 2026 and will feature Sebulba from Phantom Menace The post Former <i>Burnout</i> Devs Are Making A <i>Star Wars</i> Racing Game appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Lord of Hatred will be the final showdown with Mephisto The post <i>Diablo 4</i>'s Second Expansion Adds New Classes And Big Changes appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Tomb Raider Catalyst is out in 2027 and a remake of the first game arrives in 2026 The post Here's Our First Look At Tomb Raider's New Lara Croft appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Lara Croft gets an Unreal Engine 5 makeover The post The Original <i>Tomb Raider</i> Looks Incredible All Over Again In Upcoming Remake appeared first on Kotaku. |
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We finally got a look at the whole cast in action The post The <i>Street Fighter</i> Movie Looks Surprisingly Good In Its First Trailer appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Remedy Entertainment is shaking things up with Control Resonant The post <i>Control 2</i> Is A Trippy Character Action Game Set In A Twisted NYC appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Leon will have his own campaign in the upcoming survival horror game The post Capcom Reveals Leon Kennedy Is Playable In <i>Resident Evil Requiem</i> appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:26 PM
Larian Studios teased a new game set in the Divinity franchise The post The Maker Of <i>Baldur's Gate 3</i> Reveals Its Next RPG And This One's 'Even Larger' appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:19 PM
Mass Effect's Casey Hudson is leading development on the new single-player RPG The post <i>Knights Of The Old Republic'</i>s Director Is Making A New <i>Star Wars</i> RPG appeared first on Kotaku. |
PCGamesN Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:30 PM Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred is the next chapter in Sanctuary's saga, and Blizzard has confirmed it adds the Paladin and another class. |
PCGamesN Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:00 PM Order of the Sinking Star is a Sokoban-style puzzle game ten years in the making, and Jonathan Blow tells us why it's worth playing. |
PCGamesN Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:14 PM Remedy has revealed Control Resonant at The Game Awards, putting the focus on Dylan Faden in a larger, more RPG-leaning experience. |
PCGamesN Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:58 PM New action-adventure game Warlock Dungeons and Dragons digs into the trials and tribulations of making a pact with a demon. |
PCGamesN Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:54 PM New sci-fi RPG Exodus will force you into tough moral choices and make you reckon with the consequences thanks to its time dilation system. |
PCGamesN Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:00 PM Inspired by classic tabletop RPGs, Solasta 2 finally has a launch date, and an awfully familiar cast Solasta 2 is one of my most-anticipated games of 2025, and I caught up with BG3's Devora Wilde to chat about the upcoming D&D game. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:58 PM  That furious cyborg face in Geoff Keighley's bottom was telling the truth! Creative Assembly are making Total War: Warhammer 40,000, a new era for Twar that looks to take the Total War strategy map/battle map format and apply it to whole solar systems. They got David Harbour to announce the game at the Geoffies just now. There was a moment of pure, ecstatic terror when I thought they were making Total War: Stranger Things. Harbour wouldn't have left the stage alive. But no, don't worry, he's here because he's voicing some unit or other. Catch a cinematic intro and just a tiny bit of footage in the announcement trailer, below. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:15 PM  The "future of Tomb Raider" has been dutifully revealed at this year's Geoff Awards, and it turns out the future is half-future, half-past. Amazon Game Studios and Crystal Dynamics have announced a pair of Tomb Raider games - Tomb Raider: Catalyst, the next major new instalment in Lara Croft's adventures, and the previously leaked Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis, "a fully reimagined version" of Core Design's original Tomb Raider from 1996. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:45 PM  Amnesia developers Frictional have finally done the decent thing and confirmed their much-teased follow-up to Soma, the much-beloved/dreaded underwater sci-fi horror game from 2015. Revealed just now at the Geoffrey Awards, the new game is called Ontos, which appears to be the Greek word for "Being". It's set in some kind of creepy lunar mad science resort called Samsara, and it honestly reminds me more of Bioshock at a glance than Soma, even though it's set in outer space. That's partly because it has a noticeably chattier NPC cast. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:16 PM  In another victory for trademark paperwork diggers, weird fiction action-RPG sequel Control 2 is in fact Control Resonsant, as confirmed by an announcement and trailer at The Game Awards 2025. It's out in 2026 and swaps Control's telekinesis-aided shooting for melee thwacking. Said thwacking takes place across a Manhattan that's suffering from more than a dash of catastrophic reality breakdown, as teased - this time intentionally by developers Remedy - in Alan Wake 2 DLC The Lake House. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:14 PM  Capcom have confirmed the return of Leon Kennedy in a new trailer for Resident Evil Requiem at this year's Geoff Awards, ahead of the horror game's release on February 27th, 2026. The trailer in question gives us a quick look at his capabilities compared to Requiem's new protagonist Grace. Perhaps needless to say, he's of the shootier persuasion, versus what we've seen of Grace's skulking and cowering. Here you go, pop your head through the paragraph break and have a gander. I promise it won't get bitten off. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:01 PM  Larian have shown up at this year's Geoff Awards with a Divinity thing, so I assume that clanking we all heard in the run-up to the show was Swen Vincke going up a flight of stairs. Anyway, the folks behind Baldur's Gate 3 have revealed a new RPG called... Divinity. No, not Divinity: Original Sin 3. Just plain old Divinity, for the moment at least. Catch the trailer below. Beware that it contains footage of some drunk Orcs and one naked human guy in a crown getting roasted alive. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:50 PM  Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth's passion for that special number between three and five continues with 4:Loop, a new co-op sci-fi shooter he's working on in collaboration with Bad Robot Games, the studio founded by nu-Star Trek and nu-Star Wars director JJ Abrams. PlayStation are publishing this one. Strap as many shotguns to your shoulder blades as possible and watch the trailer. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:36 PM  An old witch and the strange feathered creature which keeps her company have an oath to keep in Coven of the Chicken Foot, the fantasy puzzle-platformer Wildflower Interactive have just revealed at the Geoff Awards. Wildflower are the new studio formed by ex-The Last of Us game director Bruce Straley, and they say their debut game's calling card is the relationship between its protagonist, Gertie, and her mate. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:29 PM  We're getting a new Star Wars game, ladies and gentledroids! It's Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. It's a single player action RPG created by a team led by Casey Hudson - the project director for Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, and a veteran of the Mass Effect series. They're calling it a "spiritual successor" to KOTOR. Here's the announcement trailer. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, December 11, 2025 7:36 PM  Earlier tonight, The Game Awards 2025 briefly ceased funnelling trophies into Sandfall Interactive's pockets on a heavily sponsored conveyor belt to reveal Decrepit: a horror-flavoured, dungeon-dwelling soulslike that's the debut project of solo dev outfit Jämmerdal Games. It's being published by Three Friends, they of Romestead and ex-Mojang/Ghost Ship Games note, and aims to be out in 2026. |
Siliconera Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:25 PM
The Game Awards is a time to celebrate games that came out over the past year and announce what new titles are coming up next, and TGA 2025 is no exception. Aside from new game reveals, we also learned that some titles previously revealed will appear on new platforms.
New announcements made at TGA 2025 are:
More information about many of the games will come out in the future. You can watch the archive of TGA 2025 at the show's official YouTube channel.
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Siliconera Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:58 PM
At The Game Awards 2025, Capcom revealed a new game in the Mega Man series called Mega Man: Dual Override. It will come out in 2027. We'll see it on the Switch, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. A very brief teaser trailer also showed what we can expect from this entry.
This latest entry will be a 2.5D game. We got to see Mega Man going through a few different levels. However, we don't get to see any Robot Masters or possible abilities he might get and use just yet.
Here's the full teaser:
The last mainline entry was Mega Man 11. That showed up back in 2018. That also featured a 2.5D type of presentation and traditional types of level design. While no new ports of it appeared since, there have been an array of different kinds of merchandise like model kits released based on its designs and Robot Masters.
You can watch the full TGA 2025 stream below, with the announcement for this game appearing at the end of the showcase:
Mega Man: Dual Override is in development for the Switch, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, and the new game will appear in 2027.
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Siliconera Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:50 PM
As part of The Game Awards 2025, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios revealed that they are working on a new Divinity game. The developers have confirmed that the game will be a new standalone entry in the series. The team also said that it will be even bigger than Baldur's Gate 3.
The announcement appeared with a cinematic trailer for the new Divinity game, which is still unnamed. Additionally, the trailer confirmed that the mysterious Mojave statue that Geoff Keighley was teasing a few weeks back was a teaser for the new Divinity announcement. Larian Studios also confirmed that players that have no previous experience with Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin 2 will still be able to experience the new game.
Check out the cinematic trailer for the new Divinity here:
Furthermore, while Larian Studios' Publishing Director Michael Douse recently shared on social media that they were not working on a new Divinity: Original Sin 3, this statement is not entirely untrue, as the full title of the newly announced Divinity hasn't been revealed yet.
A new Divinity game is currently under development by Larian Studios. No information on the target platforms and release date has been given yet.
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Siliconera Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:33 PM
Amazon and Crystal Dynamics teased a new Tomb Raider game and Lara Croft's return ahead of The Game Awards 2025, and now we saw a proper reveal of two games via a TGA advertisement and announcement. Now we know for sure what is on the way. In 2027, there will be a new mainline entry called Tomb Raider: Catalyst on the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. Before that, a remake and reimaging of the 1996 title called Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis appears in 2026 for the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.
First, here's the Tomb Raider: Catalyst trailer:
And here's the trailer for the reimagining:
You can see the full TGA 2025 showcase, complete with the Tomb Raider reveals, below:
This isn't the only new Tomb Raider tidbit, as we saw another older game return again in 2025. Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition original reboot showed up on the Switch and Switch 2. It was a shadowdrop out of nowhere, and digital copies appeared on the eShops for both consoles in the middle of November 2025.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is in development, and we'll eventually see the new game on the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC in 2026. Tomb Raider: Catalyst will follow on all three platforms in 2027.
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Siliconera Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:59 PM
At The Game Awards 2025, Capcom confirmed that Leon S Kennedy will also be playable in Resident Evil Requiem. Parts of the new game with newcomer Grace Ashcroft will be a more traditional Resident Evil survival horror experience. Ones with Leon will be an action-based horror experience. There's also a new trailer highlighting story segments with both of them.
The TGA 2025 Resident Evil Requiem trailer looks at Grace before going over Leon segments. We see her confronted by a doctor individual who has been searching for her for a while. He claims she is "special" and he wants to use her to set "set Elpis free." Then, we see Leon in more active situations and hearing about a Victor Gideon, who is the individual going after Grace and has ties to Umbrella.
Here's the full trailer for the game from TGA 2025:
And you can see the full TGA 2025 stream below:
Resident Evil Requiem will come to the Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC via Steam and Epic Game Store on February 27, 2026. Resident Evil Generation Pack, with the seventh, eighth, and ninth games, will be available for the Switch 2 from February 27, 2026 to March 31, 2026.
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Siliconera Thursday, December 11, 2025 7:55 PM
During The Game Awards 2025 pre-show, Capcom made Pragmata 2 Switch 2, PC demo, and release date announcements. First, there will be a PC demo available on Steam on December 11, 2025. Second, it will also be on the Switch 2 in addition to PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. Finally, the 2026 release window is pinned down to April 24, 2026.
In the case of the demo, this is the first in a multi-stage rollout. It is called Pragmata Sketchbook. The PC version will be out today. However, the trial will show up on consoles too. There's just no exact release date for its release yet. Capcom will share more details later.
A new trailer also appeared that showed the characters Hugh and Diana, the world, and some of the enemies we'll face. In one situation, a massive opponent is chasing the player down, destroying platforms in the process. We also get to see our avatar connect with the android and talk about her possible future after their adventure is over.
Here is the full TGA 2025 live stream:
Pragmata will come to the Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC on April 24, 2026, and the PC demo is out today.
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Destructoid Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:55 PM
Just revealed at The Game Awards, WARLOCK: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS is a new title set for release in a couple of years, but I think it's already given reason to be excited.
I got a chance to sit in on a Q&A session with devs very early at a press event last week ahead of tonight's reveal, and the Montreal-based team at Invoke Studios is looking to build "an immersive, single-player open-world experience" that's inspired by the universe of D&D.
Invoke is a newer team made up of developers who have worked on titles such as Far Cry, Watch_Dogs, Deus Ex, and Guardians of the Galaxy, including the Q&A participants studio founder Jeff Hattem and general manager Dominic Guay. And while they couldn't go into much detail because development is still early and ongoing, the team did have a lot of passion on display.
WARLOCK stars the titular character, whose name is Kaatri, and she is on a quest that's both "personal and urgent," according to the devs. The heroine will be voiced by Tricia Helfer, known in the nerd and gaming communities as Sarah Kerrigan in StarCraft II, EDI in Mass Effect, and Number Six in Battlestar Galactica.
"Working with our colleagues at Wizards of the Coast on a brand as rich as D&D has given the team the creative freedom and support to build a new ambitious open-world experience for players," said Guay in a press release. "We're excited to finally announce WARLOCK and looking forward to sharing gameplay details in the future."
Players will "use clever spellcraft across all axes of the game, whether it's exploring the world, solving challenges, taking down monsters, and you do it all in your own creative way with all spells in all facets of the game," Hattem teased in the Q&A session.
While it's shrouded in secrecy for now, Invoke says the game "empowers players to use magic to overcome a wide range of challenges," such as in exploration where "every spell is a key unlocking new paths and possibilities in a beautiful yet unsettling world." Gameplay-wise, battling enemies features "magic and melee" that "combine for a combat experience that is both tactical and visceral."
Invoke said you don't need extensive D&D knowledge (or dice) to play WARLOCK since it's an open-world action game, but those who are familiar with the lore and the Warlock class will likely find even more excitement within. As for the game itself, it's not a choose-your-own-adventure, although you will have "agency" in what you do, as Kaatri and the game are based on a written story that also sports "a dynamic world that reacts to you."
The debut trailer is all there is to go off of by now, but Invoke promised a gameplay debut coming in the summer of 2026 before the full game launches in the following year. Judging by the teaser and experienced team on board behind the scenes, I think it's safe to look forward to hearing more about this one ahead of when it drops on PC, PS5, and Xbox.
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Destructoid Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:52 PM
The latest reveal from The Game Awards this evening is looking a whole lot more than alright, alright, alright, if you ask me.
Last week, I was invited to be part of a preview event for Exodus, a new sci-fi IP from Archetype Entertainment, and the game is both looking and sounding like it could be what sci-fi RPG gamers have been looking for. And it's not just because the cast includes Matthew McConaughey in his first video game role.
The group presentation event featured Archetype vice president and general manager Chad Robertson, game director Chris King, and narrative director Drew Karpyshyn in a presentation and discussion about the single-player, third-person action-adventure that just debuted a new trailer during The Game Awards.
Archetype's workforce is comprised of many former BioWare devs, including Karpyshyn, who was the lead writer of the first two Mass Effect games (and its book series), along with a senior writer on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. King, meanwhile, served as lead gameplay designer for games like Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda, while also working previously at 343 Industries as lead sandbox designer for Halo 5.
And judging by what I was shown and told, Archetype and its roster of experienced developers is on course for its goal of making this franchise a "science fiction RPG that stands the test of time with players."
Running out of time
The custom player character in Exodus is named Jun Aslan (they can be male or female), and they are a lowly scavenger who is then chosen as the "Traveler" thanks to their "hidden lineage" and must lead a crew and embark on missions to recover Celestial Remnants that could be key to humanity's survival in the 23rd century.
Jun's homeworld of Lidon is dealing with "a very powerful technological virus" called the Rot, which is destroying technology that the character's people need to survive, and thus the journey begins as they must find a way to save everyone and everything.
Exodus features "quirky and fun" sidekicks and companions, like an octopus in a mech suit named Salt (seen below) and others with unique abilities to help out in combat. True to the RPG genre, the game also offers choices that will "influence how factions, companions, and society at-large perceive you over time."
And "time" is where Exodus differs (aside from McConaughey, who plays Jun's "mentor and voice of wisdom" C.C. Orlev) from other RPGs like it. Exodus features a narrative system where your choices make an impact "across generations" as you travel through lightspeed, and you can eventually see the effects of your actions years later thanks to time dilation.
"When you leave the world, a few days will pass for you, but years will pass for everyone back home," Karpyshyn teased. And so, similarly to McConaughey's movie Interstellar, every time Jun leaves Lidon and goes on missions, time dilates and returning home will reflect myriad changes over that passage of time while you're away.
"Early on, we decided on this notion of Indiana Jones meets Interstellar," King said of the game's core concept. "And it was this notion of, 'I'm gonna explore space and recover this ancient celestial tech which we call Remnants and I sort of choose what to do with the technology,' and that's sort of what impacts how the world changes."
Since time passes so differently while you're gone, the devs said the characters you meet and the world you shape will change differently for every player depending on the decisions made, and it's something that Archetype is quite excited about.
A worthy fight
The Game Awards trailer teased some of Exodus's third-person combat, including unique skills that Jun can wield to do things like create cover or traverse and explore areas. Karpyshyn highlighted the "classic hero story" of the lead who begins as a basic nobody and ends up having to save humanity, so it's all about that progression and choosing how to build your character and team as the story unfolds.
"We tried to give players tons of agency in everything they do," King said. "Our goal is almost to make players sort of feel like co-authors of the experience. We don't want them to feel like they're passengers along for the ride."
Gameplay-wise, King said Archetype is embracing a "play your way philosophy," where all combat encounters support stealth or run-and-gun, supported by RPG systems and companion abilities where you can customize and build synergies depending on how you want to play.
"We try to sort of treat the philosophy as your team is actually your loadouts, not just what you have on hand, but it's who you bring to battle with you," King said, highlighting that your weaponry is just the beginning when it comes to crafting the gameplay experience, as customizing and upgrading companion abilities will be crucial.
Jun's weapon, the Recycler, is what King referred as "a Swiss army knife of guns," and "a major upgrade component" while progressing through the game. You can acquire new blueprints that can change how the weapon transforms, including six base fire modes that can be collected and then individually modified to help customize the experience further.
While we weren't shown any gameplay footage specifically, King hyped up the game's boss fights by saying the team uses the "Nintendo philosophy" for battles with "multiple phases" where you're taught the ropes of the mechanics and the final phase of the fight feels like a "final exam" of player mastery with your skill set to help win the battle.
Cause and Effect
The Mass Effect influence on Exodus cannot be denied, as BioWare's DNA can be felt throughout in just about every facet of the space-faring, open-world RPG, judging by what we were shown, how they explained the game, and the people who are working on it. Studio VP and GM Chad Robertson spent about 10 years at BioWare and is acutely aware of its inspirations on Exodus, but is confident the new IP will be able to stand on its own as well.
"We would be honored to be compared to a game like Mass Effect," Robertson said. "It's certainly one of the hallmarks of space opera science fiction trilogies. With Exodus, if we can achieve that ourselves, we'd be thrilled to be in that space, and certainly that's our goal: to be a standout science fiction RPG that fans love for many decades to come."
But it's not all BioWare, Robertson said, highlighting that "it's much more than just" the Mass Effect studio that has devs working at Archetype. He mentioned "some other marquee studios in the industry that I think have helped shape Exodus into its own form and its own game that we hope stands out even above and beyond some things that you'd experience in a traditional BioWare game."
Karpyshyn made sure to mention "the depth of the universe we've created" when compared to Mass Effect, finding them similar in scope. And to me, that sure means something from someone who helped create some legendary characters like Saren, Garrus Vakarian, Liara T'Soni, and more.
And so outside of battles and saving the universe, there's plenty of heat to look forward to there, too. Outside of Salt, King couldn't give much away but mentioned some more "super diverse" companions from across the universe that you can add to your team. And time dilation will affect these characters, too, with King saying the characters you meet may be vastly different than who they become in the end.
But what's a good sci-fi RPG if you can't wine and dine these comrades? Karpyshyn teased several romance options when it comes to companions in your squad, even saying that you'll be allowed to "play the field a little bit," and "you do have to work for it a little bit, but they can be pretty thirsty." Time dilation is felt here, too, as characters who aren't with you on your journey will age differently as you're gone, and changes like this could have an adverse effect on your relationships.
I know what you're thinking, and so was Karpyshyn, who felt compelled to confirm (without being asked) that the octopus is not available as one of your potential romantic suitors. Damn.
As a big Mass Effect and RPG fan, it's hard not to be excited for this game after hearing and seeing more about it, and I'm now greatly looking forward to its launch. My next course of action while waiting for the game to come out is to read the 928-page book Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by David Hamilton, which is setting the stage for the world Archetype is looking to build out. A second book is on the way next year, too.
Exodus is currently scheduled for release in early 2027 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
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Destructoid Thursday, December 11, 2025 8:48 PM
Ignia is one of the several new resources introduced to Warframe as part of The Old Peace update, and it has plenty of importance.
While Ignia isn't particularly hard to come by, you'll need plenty of it. Additionally, obtaining this resource is locked behind completing one of the new modes added via the update. This guide will provide you with all the information you need first to find Ignia, and then use it in Warframe.
Table of contents
How to find Ignia in Warframe
The Old Peace Update has two new game modes: Descendia and Perita Rebellion. To find Ignia, you'll need to play the former and clear multiple floors. The Descendia mode has 21 floors of various challenges and difficulty, with the final one pitting you against Roathe.
Certain levels of the Descendia mode will offer you Ignia, depending on whether you have successfully managed to clear them. There are bonus levels that reward you with Ignia as well if you're playing on Steel Path difficulty.
While all of these sound sweet, there's a catch about how much Ignia you can earn at any given time. You can collect the rewards once a week, and hitting the cap means that you'll have to wait for the Sunday refresh. However, this also gives you plenty of time to hit the weekly cap and more so if you're playing on the Steel Path difficulty.
How to use Ignia in Warframe
Once you reach Floor 21 of the Descendia mode, you'll find Roathe as the boss. Defeat Roathe, and he will then be available at La Cathedrale. You can browse different wares, and some of them will cost Ignia to purchase.
There are plenty of different items that you can purchase from Roathe, which also includes parts of the new frame, Uriel. Hence, try to maximize your weekly cap and farm as much Ignia as possible. If you're a new/returning player, you'll need to first clear many quests to gain access to The Old Peace missions, and then access Descendia and its floors.
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