Amazon is officially increasing the cost of Prime memberships in Europe, including the UK, for the first time since 2014.

In the UK the cost of membership is increasing from £7.99 per month to £8.99 per month, and for those paying annually, £79 per year, to £95 per year. The change will take place from September 15.

Amazon is attributing the rising price of its Prime delivery and streaming service to "increased inflation and operation costs."

This comes only months after Amazon increased the cost of its Prime membership in the US as well, increasing yearly memberships from $119 to $139 per year.

These increases have also hit other streaming services with Netflix also adding extra fees to its service, with the cost of its standard plan increased by £1 and its premium plan stretched by an extra £2.

Digital Commerce 360 estimates Amazon’s sales on Prime Day hit somewhere around $12.09 billion globally during the retail event that spanned July 12 and 13.

That's an increase of 8.1% year over year from the same shopping spree in 2021, which ran from June 21 through 22.

Amazon has been dumping heaps of cash into new projects, spending around £750 million in rights and filming costs for the release of The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power series on Prime Video this September.

Robert Anderson is a deals expert and Commerce Editor for IGN. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter.

Amazon is officially increasing the cost of Prime memberships in Europe, including the UK, for the first time since 2014.

In the UK the cost of membership is increasing from £7.99 per month to £8.99 per month, and for those paying annually, £79 per year, to £95 per year. The change will take place from September 15.

Amazon is attributing the rising price of its Prime delivery and streaming service to "increased inflation and operation costs."

This comes only months after Amazon increased the cost of its Prime membership in the US as well, increasing yearly memberships from $119 to $139 per year.

These increases have also hit other streaming services with Netflix also adding extra fees to its service, with the cost of its standard plan increased by £1 and its premium plan stretched by an extra £2.

Digital Commerce 360 estimates Amazon’s sales on Prime Day hit somewhere around $12.09 billion globally during the retail event that spanned July 12 and 13.

That's an increase of 8.1% year over year from the same shopping spree in 2021, which ran from June 21 through 22.

Amazon has been dumping heaps of cash into new projects, spending around £750 million in rights and filming costs for the release of The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power series on Prime Video this September.

Robert Anderson is a deals expert and Commerce Editor for IGN. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter.

The Italian football club, Juventus, is coming back to EA starting with FIFA 23 which will be released on September 30.

In a press release, EA announced it has agreed to a multi-year partnership with Juventus that will welcome the Italian club back to EA Sports starting with the next FIFA game and continuing when EA rebrands as EA Sports FC.

Juventus previously had an exclusive relationship with Konami for its Pro Evolution Soccer series for the past three years.

The new deal means Juventus’ players, stadium, and jerseys will appear in the next EA soccer game, but the two brands will also “work across a number of lifestyle and cultural initiatives bringing new opportunities outside of football.”

EA announced earlier this year that it would not renew its license with FIFA, choosing instead to remain in the soccer sim space under the name EA Sports FC. Despite the name change, Along with Juventus EA has secured other teams from Europe’s top leagues who announced they are sticking with EA.

Meanwhile FIFA says it will work with other developers to create authentic football games and carry on the FIFA series with FIFA 23, FIFA 24, and so on.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Ubisoft says that Roller Champions isn't going to be canceled and that it will continue to support the game with more content and fixes.

"Let's clear it out of the way first, Roller Champions isn't getting canceled, and Ubisoft fully supports it. What the Roller Champions dev team is doing is making sure we focus on what our players have told us needs improvements, and that supersedes all other priorities," Ubisoft said in a statement on Twitter.

The game's first and current season, Disco Fever, will be extended and an upcoming patch will include cross-invites, which allows players to bring in friends who play Roller Champions on other platforms. Additionally, the team is trying to fix issues and address player feedback before moving on to the game’s next season.

Ubisoft’s statement is seemingly a response to rumors that began circulating saying that Roller Champions would be canceled after its third season.

Hello Champions! Let’s clear it out of the way first, Roller Champions isn’t getting cancelled, and Ubisoft fully supports it.

You can rest assured we’ll keep you updated as we roll forward.

Full statement: pic.twitter.com/U8mfQRZRoH

— Roller Champions (@RollerChampions) July 25, 2022

“As far as content is concerned, we can tell you that we’ve got exciting stuff planned for the net seasons,” explains the development team. “We strongly believe, however, that before we release new content, we’ve got to do right by our players, hence why we are taking the time needed before we do.”

Roller Champions is a free-to-play game that launched on May 25, 2022, for PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One. In our Roller Champions first impressions, we said, “Though it’s a solid start to what could be my next team-based competitive addiction, it also feels in danger of becoming repetitive rather quickly.”

George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @yinyangfooey

Stray is an adorable new game about a cat exploring a post-apocalyptic future full of robots, and now, you can play through the whole thing as the laziest, chillest cat of them all: Garfield.

A new mod by modder Chris Rubino replaces the cat in Stray with a surprisingly believable rendition of Garfield of comics fame, right down to the lazy expression and chubby cheeks. That's it, that's all it does - no lasagna or Odie or Lorenzo Music voice, just the good old Garfield wandering around a robot city, fending off Zurks, and probably getting into more trouble than Garfield himself ever could at Jon Arbuckle's house.

For me, the best part of this mod is the deep expression of total ennui on his face:

It's no surprise that Garfield has entered Stray given that the original kitty is an orange tabby just like him, but other modders have taken it even farther already. There's a weird mod you can add that replaces Stray's meowing action with the sound of Heavy Rain protagonist Ethan Mars calling for his lost son. And delightfully, a number of modders are jumping on a new trend of making the cat in Stray look like their own cats at home.

Even though we reviewed a version of Stray sans Garfield, we still found it to be a "delightful cat-based adventure in a cyberpunk world worth exploring." If you're picking it up for the first time, there are a number of wonderfully cat-like things you can do in Stray's world, and IGN has a full wiki guide to help you through from start to finish.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Breath of the Wild is one of the greatest games of all time, but wouldn't it be better if you could play it together? And no, we're not talking about Linked Together, we're talking actual split-screen multiplayer.

Well, thanks to one modder, the dream to play Breath of the Wild with a friend is now a reality.

First spotted by Eurogamer, a new mod developed by Kirbymimi introduces split-screen gameplay to the world of Breath of the Wild. The mod will release in beta form this Friday, July 29.

You can watch over 8 minutes of split-screen Breath of the Wild gameplay on YouTube, which shows the pair of Links exploring Hyrule Castle, battling enemies, and eventually taking on the final boss. The two Links can even harm each other! Of course, this version of Breath of the Wild isn't running on Nintendo's official hardware, so don't expect to romp around Hyrule with a friend on Switch.

In late 2021, the content creator PointCrow offered a $10,000 reward for the first person to create a working Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod. However, the reward had a number of stiff requirements, including granting PointCrow 1 to 2 weeks of exclusive access to the mod, which has not happened with Kirbymimi's mod.

The modding community for Breath of the Wild has been active basically since the game launched back in 2017. Some of our favorite mods include one that turns the game into a NieR: Automata hybrid starring 2B, or a mod that swaps Link with the fan-favorite Waluigi.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Sorry, Tolkien fans – Daedalic has announced that its upcoming stealth title The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has been delayed "by a few months" so that the team can “deliver the best possible experience.”

The studio shared the news via Twitter, where it thanked fans for their ongoing patience regarding the release of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. The statement, which says that the game has been pushed back by a few months, promises that the team is dedicated to "uncovering the untold story of Gollum in a way that honors the vision of J. R. R. Tolkien."

An important message. pic.twitter.com/s2UvhPfILF

— The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (@GollumGame) July 25, 2022

While no updated release date was given, the statement promises an update on the exact timing in the "near future." The game was initially planned for release on September 1, so with only a handful of months before the end of the year, it's now feasible that it could join the growing list of games to be delayed into 2023.

That may be for the best, though, based on what we've seen of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum already.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum casts players as the titular creature in a tale set before the events pertaining to the mainline books and movies. As a stealth title, combat will be very limited, instead asking players to sneak through perilous locations within Middle-earth and assassinate enemies in creative ways.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is set to release on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

Billy Givens is a freelancer at IGN with over a decade of experience writing gaming, film, and tech content. His work can also be found on GameSpot, USA Today, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, and more. You'll find him blabbering on about video games and more on Twitter at @mektige.

Developer Game Island has announced Serum, a first-person survival game for PC in which you must craft, hunt, adapt, and survive in a forest that's been posioned by the titular serum.

Game Island says there will be safe zones and shelters where you can craft weapons and traps and prepare to stave off the wilds. Meanwhile, you'll need to fight off the serum-infected mutant animals in the forest.

A hook, though, is that you have to inject the serum into your own system in order to stay alive; even though it will change you physically and mentally, you will die if you don't get more of it every few minutes. But every living thing is a potential serum source, as you can harvest the serum from enemies and other entities.

Serum does not yet have a release date, but it will be released on Steam when it's ready.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's executive editor of previews and host of both IGN's weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, as well as our monthly(-ish) interview show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, so it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.

If you're looking forward to playing The Last of Us Part 1 on PC, you may be able to get your hands on it sooner than you thought. According to one Naughty Dog dev, the studio's overhaul of the beloved post-apocalyptic game is expected to launch on PC "very soon" after the PS5 release.

Naughty Dog Senior Environment Texture Artist, Jonathan Benainous, responded to a fan on Twitter (below) to tell them that The Last of Us Part 1's PC version would be coming "very soon" after September's initial PS5 launch.

Glad to hear you're hyped man! PC version should come out a bit later, but very soon after the PS5 release!

— Jonathan BENAINOUS (@JonathanBenaino) July 23, 2022

While the PS5 version had been announced for a September 2 release, a PC version had only been listed as "in development". Given the long waits for PC releases for many PlayStation exclusives, some worried that this could be a similar situation – but Benainous may have helped ease that a little.

"Very soon" isn't much to go on, of course, but it sounds like those hoping to play the game on a computer shouldn't have to wait too long after PlayStation fans get to check it out.

Notable is the fact that The Last of Us Part 1 will mark the first time the two-part franchise has landed on a non-PlayStation platform, so the remake's launch on PC adds at least a little bit of credibility to long-standing rumors of The Last of Us Part 2 will eventually receive a port, too. Only time will tell if Naughty Dog has that one in the pipeline.

The Last of Us Part 1 will take advantage of the PS5's hardware with vastly updated character models, redesigned environments, haptic feedback, and more. However, reception to the remake has been understandably mixed given that the majority of the improvements are related to the game's visuals, leaving many frustrated by its high price-tag – especially considering 2014's PS4 remaster of the game still holds up remarkably well.

The Last of Us Part 1 launches September 2 on PS5. Stay tuned to IGN for more information regarding the release date of the PC port.

Billy Givens is a freelancer at IGN with over a decade of experience writing gaming, film, and tech content. His work can also be found on GameSpot, USA Today, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, and more. You'll find him blabbering on about video games and more on Twitter at @mektige.

Anker has a new line of chargers, which the company says are "faster, smarter, and greener" options for people looking for high-wattage charging accessories.

As part of its Series 7 lineup of charging products, six new accessories have been added to the lineup — each of the new products uses a new type of charging system, which Anker calls "GaNPrime." This new technology combines the latest gallium nitride (GaN) tech with some of Anker's proprietary features packaged into compact, travel-oriented designs.

Here's a full list of all the new Anker GaNPrime chargers, which are available now to purchase on Amazon:

• Anker 735 Charger (65W) — $59.99
• Anker 615 USB Power Strip (65W) — $69.99
• Anker 727 Charging Station (100W) — $94.99
• Anker 737 Charger (120W) — $94.99
• Anker 733 Power Bank (65W) — $99.99
• Anker 747 Charger (150W)— $109.99

The new GaNPrime chargers include Anker's new PowerIQ 4.0 technology, which the company says will allow these accessories to automatically adjust the power distribution in each USB-C port to prioritize which device needs to charge faster. The company says the GaNPrime chargers will dynamically adjust power distribution every three minutes and release extra power output to devices being charged concurrently. Anker claims that its GaNPrime chargers can reduce the charge time of two 67W 14-inch MacBook Pros by 62 minutes.

Anker sent me the GaNPrime 747 charger, and I could charge my MacBook Pro, iPhone 13 Pro, and Apple Watch Series 7 using the three USB-C ports. My iPhone 13 Pro was able to charge from 0% to 100% in less than two hours.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.