Sony has announced that The Last of Us Part 2, Fallout 76, Desperados III, Amnesia: Collection, FInal Fantasy VIII Remastered, Yet Another Zombie Defense, and Victor Vran: Overkill Edition are all joining PlayStation Now on October 5, 2021.

As revealed by PlayStation.Blog, all of these games will be available on PlayStation's streaming/game download subscription service for an indefinite amount of time except for The Last of Us Part 2, which will leave the service on January 3, 2022.

Speaking of The Last of Us Part 2, those who choose to download the game to their PS5 will be able to take advantage of the game's PS5 performance patch that offers an option to make the game run at 60 FPS.

In our The Last of Us Part 2 review, we said that it "is a masterpiece that evolves the gameplay, cinematic storytelling, and rich world design of the original in nearly every way."

Fallout 76, which is a multiplayer-focused take on the classic Bethesda franchise, is also joining PS Now and will give players an opportunity to check out its new sixth season and the Fallout Worlds update, which will be the game's testing ground for Bethesda's wildest ideas.

Amnesia: Collection puts three games - Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and Amnesia: Justine - on PS Now and arrives just in time for Halloween.

Desperados III is a real-time tactical adventure set in the Wild West that features a roughly 30-hour story with five playable characters that are the standouts of the experience. In our Desperados III review, we said that it "is a Western that’s as wily as it is wild, and well-suited to anyone after a serious stealth challenge."

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered is one of the many Final Fantasy titles headed to PS Now in the future and offers another way to play the adventure of Squall, Rinoa, Quistis, Selphie, and more.

Victor Vran: Overkill Edition is an isometric action-RPG that lets players battle demons, collect loot, and use a wide variety of weapons that include everything from a revolver to a guitar. This game also offers four-player online and two-player local co-op. The game was inspired by Motörhead and even features songs from the band.

Yet Another Zombie Defense HD is a top-down adventure that lets you and up to three friends survive waves and waves of zombies. Players will have to prepare their defenses before night falls and each wave will bring with it bigger and bigger threats.

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According to Capcom's COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto, the company behind Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, and many more is planning to "mainly focus on PC software" in the future.

As reported by VGC, Tsujimoto was speaking to Nikkei and shared that the success of its PC software has been "driving global sales" and that he thinks "PCs will be the next big thing after smartphones."

“PC is driving global sales,” Tsujimoto said. “We have recently stated that we will make the PC our main platform. At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, we focused on exhibiting the PC version of Monster Hunter Rise, and I think people will be able to experience the change in our approach.

“The pandemic is changing the way people look at PCs. Smartphones are convenient, but their screens are small, and their touch panels are difficult to operate, so they are not suitable for home working or school classes. I think PCs will be the next big thing after smartphones."

He also revealed that this shift of focus towards PC is in response to the increase in digital sales of legacy titles like Resident Evil 7, which "still sells over one million copies a year."

For now, Tsujimoto says game consoles are still the leading platform, but in the next couple years, he wants to see it more balanced.

"We will expand our business for dedicated game consoles, which has been the mainstream up to now, but PC will be the mainstream in the future," Tsujimoto said. "Next year or the year after, we want to equalize the ratio of sales to PCs and dedicated consoles.”

To see the success of Capcom's PC efforts, you can check out our story about how Resident Evil Village set a franchise record for Steam concurrent users earlier this year with over 100,000 players at a time.

Capcom's next big PC release will be Monster Hunter Rise on January 13, 2022, which was previously a Nintendo Switch-exclusive.

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According to Capcom's COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto, the company behind Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, and many more is planning to "mainly focus on PC software" in the future.

As reported by VGC, Tsujimoto was speaking to Nikkei and shared that the success of its PC software has been "driving global sales" and that he thinks "PCs will be the next big thing after smartphones."

“PC is driving global sales,” Tsujimoto said. “We have recently stated that we will make the PC our main platform. At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, we focused on exhibiting the PC version of Monster Hunter Rise, and I think people will be able to experience the change in our approach.

“The pandemic is changing the way people look at PCs. Smartphones are convenient, but their screens are small, and their touch panels are difficult to operate, so they are not suitable for home working or school classes. I think PCs will be the next big thing after smartphones."

He also revealed that this shift of focus towards PC is in response to the increase in digital sales of legacy titles like Resident Evil 7, which "still sells over one million copies a year."

For now, Tsujimoto says game consoles are still the leading platform, but in the next couple years, he wants to see it more balanced.

"We will expand our business for dedicated game consoles, which has been the mainstream up to now, but PC will be the mainstream in the future," Tsujimoto said. "Next year or the year after, we want to equalize the ratio of sales to PCs and dedicated consoles.”

To see the success of Capcom's PC efforts, you can check out our story about how Resident Evil Village set a franchise record for Steam concurrent users earlier this year with over 100,000 players at a time.

Capcom's next big PC release will be Monster Hunter Rise on January 13, 2022, which was previously a Nintendo Switch-exclusive.

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Here's one you probably didn't have on your 2021 bingo card: The Russo brothers have directed a brand new ad for Lexus that stars Kumail Nanjiani's Eternals character Kingo.

The two-minute marketing campaign, titled "Parking Spot," helmed by Joe and Anthony Russo, puts Kingo behind the wheel of a gleaming new Lexus IS 500 sports sedan as he attempts to solve a very human problem here on Earth — attempting to find a safe parking spot — before joining the epic Super Hero battle happening downtown. Check it out below:

Check out this new #Eternals x #Lexus promo ad featuring the one and only @kumailn! pic.twitter.com/9Lmyq77CyQ

— One Take News (@OneTakeNews) October 4, 2021

As he weaves in and out of the road to avoid falling debris, Kingo is contacted by Sersi who warns him that the Deviants have arrived at the scene. Sprite is the next to reach out to Kingo to check on his whereabouts and remind him that "the Avengers would never be late." She then threatens to inform Ikaris, which adds a little more pressure to the mix.

This isn't the last we've seen of the super-powered new vehicle either, as the flagship Lexus LS 500 sedan and the all-new NX luxury crossover will make further appearances in Marvel's Eternals when it arrives in theaters on November 5, though Kingo might face a few more distractions as the fight against the Deviants intensifies on the big screen.

"There's a natural synergy between Marvel Studios and Lexus. We both go all-in to deliver amazing experiences," said Vinay Shahani, Lexus Vice President of Marketing. "We're incredibly excited to team up with Marvel Studios' Eternals to showcase our very own superhero, the first-ever V8 IS 500, which ushers in a new Lexus F SPORT Performance Line."

"We're thrilled to partner with Lexus to give viewers an early look at one of our new heroes, Kumail Nanjiani's Kingo, in action. Lexus' creative campaign is appropriately epic, delivering the same combination of action, spectacle, and humor our fans will see in the film," added Mindy Hamilton, SVP, Global Partnership Marketing at Marvel Studios.

In addition to Nanjiani, Marvel's Eternals also stars the others mentioned in the ad, including Gemma Chan as the humankind-loving Sersi, Lia McHugh as the eternally young yet old-soul Sprite, and Richard Madden as the all-powerful Ikaris, together with Angelina Jolie, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, and Kit Harrington.

The film, directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao, is expected to have a "very big effect" on the MCU's future following its release next month. It's also believed that Eternals follow the same release model as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, with an exclusive run in theaters before moving on to streaming platforms at a later date.

Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Here's one you probably didn't have on your 2021 bingo card: The Russo brothers have directed a brand new ad for Lexus that stars Kumail Nanjiani's Eternals character Kingo.

The two-minute marketing campaign, titled "Parking Spot," helmed by Joe and Anthony Russo, puts Kingo behind the wheel of a gleaming new Lexus IS 500 sports sedan as he attempts to solve a very human problem here on Earth — attempting to find a safe parking spot — before joining the epic Super Hero battle happening downtown. Check it out below:

Check out this new #Eternals x #Lexus promo ad featuring the one and only @kumailn! pic.twitter.com/9Lmyq77CyQ

— One Take News (@OneTakeNews) October 4, 2021

As he weaves in and out of the road to avoid falling debris, Kingo is contacted by Sersi who warns him that the Deviants have arrived at the scene. Sprite is the next to reach out to Kingo to check on his whereabouts and remind him that "the Avengers would never be late." She then threatens to inform Ikaris, which adds a little more pressure to the mix.

This isn't the last we've seen of the super-powered new vehicle either, as the flagship Lexus LS 500 sedan and the all-new NX luxury crossover will make further appearances in Marvel's Eternals when it arrives in theaters on November 5, though Kingo might face a few more distractions as the fight against the Deviants intensifies on the big screen.

"There's a natural synergy between Marvel Studios and Lexus. We both go all-in to deliver amazing experiences," said Vinay Shahani, Lexus Vice President of Marketing. "We're incredibly excited to team up with Marvel Studios' Eternals to showcase our very own superhero, the first-ever V8 IS 500, which ushers in a new Lexus F SPORT Performance Line."

"We're thrilled to partner with Lexus to give viewers an early look at one of our new heroes, Kumail Nanjiani's Kingo, in action. Lexus' creative campaign is appropriately epic, delivering the same combination of action, spectacle, and humor our fans will see in the film," added Mindy Hamilton, SVP, Global Partnership Marketing at Marvel Studios.

In addition to Nanjiani, Marvel's Eternals also stars the others mentioned in the ad, including Gemma Chan as the humankind-loving Sersi, Lia McHugh as the eternally young yet old-soul Sprite, and Richard Madden as the all-powerful Ikaris, together with Angelina Jolie, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, and Kit Harrington.

The film, directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao, is expected to have a "very big effect" on the MCU's future following its release next month. It's also believed that Eternals follow the same release model as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, with an exclusive run in theaters before moving on to streaming platforms at a later date.

Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Epic Games has announced that a full achievements system is being added to the Epic Games Launcher next week.

Announced on the Epic Games website, the Epic Achievements system will be initially integrated into Rocket League, Hades, Pillars of Eternity, Humankind, Zombie Army 4, and Defense Grid, with more games to come.

Much like PlayStation's Trophy system, Epic's achievements will be assigned value based on metals. The lowest tier will be Bronze, moving up through Silver and Gold. Additionally, each tier has XP values. Bronze Achievements can be worth between 5 and 45 XP, Silver are 50-95 XP, and Gold are 100-200 XP. Earning 1,000 XP from Achievements in a game will net you a Platinum Achievement, which is always worth a solid 250 XP.

When the system launches, games supporting Achievements will have a new Achievement details page in the Epic Games Launcher, which will be accessed from their tile in your library. This page will outline all Achievements available in the game, as well as your progress towards each. It will also highlight Achievements you are close to unlocking.

Epic Games has supported achievements in the past, but not as a centralised system. Instead, it was a game-by-game system implemented by developers. These will be herby known as "developer achievements", and will translate into Epic Achievements when the new system goes live. This will automatically happen and award the relevant account XP.

Achievements has been a big request from PC gamers from the Epic Games Store, which positions itself as a rival to the more comprehensive Steam. That rivalry has caused Epic to lose hundred of millions of dollars as it battles to steal market share from Valve, and has seen the company pay millions for platform exclusivity. That apparently even included offering $200m to Sony for PlayStation games on PC.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

Epic Games has announced that a full achievements system is being added to the Epic Games Launcher next week.

Announced on the Epic Games website, the Epic Achievements system will be initially integrated into Rocket League, Hades, Pillars of Eternity, Humankind, Zombie Army 4, and Defense Grid, with more games to come.

Much like PlayStation's Trophy system, Epic's achievements will be assigned value based on metals. The lowest tier will be Bronze, moving up through Silver and Gold. Additionally, each tier has XP values. Bronze Achievements can be worth between 5 and 45 XP, Silver are 50-95 XP, and Gold are 100-200 XP. Earning 1,000 XP from Achievements in a game will net you a Platinum Achievement, which is always worth a solid 250 XP.

When the system launches, games supporting Achievements will have a new Achievement details page in the Epic Games Launcher, which will be accessed from their tile in your library. This page will outline all Achievements available in the game, as well as your progress towards each. It will also highlight Achievements you are close to unlocking.

Epic Games has supported achievements in the past, but not as a centralised system. Instead, it was a game-by-game system implemented by developers. These will be herby known as "developer achievements", and will translate into Epic Achievements when the new system goes live. This will automatically happen and award the relevant account XP.

Achievements has been a big request from PC gamers from the Epic Games Store, which positions itself as a rival to the more comprehensive Steam. That rivalry has caused Epic to lose hundred of millions of dollars as it battles to steal market share from Valve, and has seen the company pay millions for platform exclusivity. That apparently even included offering $200m to Sony for PlayStation games on PC.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

"Charles is a bloodthirsty train, and you need to destroy him."

That's the first line of the Steam description for Choo Choo Charles. It pretty much sums things up. Developer Two Star Games recently shared the first trailer for the game (below), during which a man is chased through across an island by a clown-faced nightmare train, and it seems to have gone down exceedingly well with fans across social media.

The premise of the game is relatively simple - if not a little absurd. You play as a character navigating an island terrorized by a sentient clown-faced spider-train named Charles whose favorite pastime is eating the flesh of puny humans. At your disposal, is a small yellow engine that comes equipped with its very own customisable stats, exterior, and mounted machine gun.

The aim of the game is to collect scrap, help out settlers and ultimately upgrade your train to the point at which you're ready to take on Charles and end his tyranny. Doing so sounds no easy matter though. Unlike standard locomotives we put our faith in on a day-by-day basis, Charles isn't bound by the limitations of train tracks. His spider-like legs leave few safe havens across the land and, with a hankering for human flesh, you could be next on the menu.

The trailer itself is sure to induce a mixture of intrigue and concern, but that hasn't stopped people from declaring their love for the concept even before the game's release. One Twitter user congratulated the internet on managing to convince someone to make a fully-fledged game out of the inevitable Thomas the Tank Engine horror mods that pop up multiple times a year. Others were already beginning to declare it 2022's game of the year.

Well done, internet - your countless mods replacing horror monsters with Thomas the Tank Engine have merged into a full-fledged game. AND YOU GAVE HIM SPIDER LEGS. https://t.co/i87J87Gehb

— The Chimpy Man (@TheChimpyMan) October 2, 2021

Hey kids. Game of the Year just dropped #ChooChooCharles https://t.co/6dEFoF3HpS

— Scary-son Eng-scream (@HarrisonVevo) October 2, 2021

While fans on Twitter clamor over the game's release, the folks over on Reddit already think they've got Choo Choo Charles' endgame worked out:

Choo Choo Charles is set to release sometime early next year. If you're looking to be one of the first to play the game when it comes out, then make sure to add it to your wishlist on Steam.

For those of you looking for more conventional horror games as you make your way into 2022, check out the latest trailer for The Outlast Trials. Red Barrels' latest upcoming venture into the survival horror series is set to bring with it plenty more scares and co-op mode for the first time.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

"Charles is a bloodthirsty train, and you need to destroy him."

That's the first line of the Steam description for Choo Choo Charles. It pretty much sums things up. Developer Two Star Games recently shared the first trailer for the game (below), during which a man is chased through across an island by a clown-faced nightmare train, and it seems to have gone down exceedingly well with fans across social media.

The premise of the game is relatively simple - if not a little absurd. You play as a character navigating an island terrorized by a sentient clown-faced spider-train named Charles whose favorite pastime is eating the flesh of puny humans. At your disposal, is a small yellow engine that comes equipped with its very own customisable stats, exterior, and mounted machine gun.

The aim of the game is to collect scrap, help out settlers and ultimately upgrade your train to the point at which you're ready to take on Charles and end his tyranny. Doing so sounds no easy matter though. Unlike standard locomotives we put our faith in on a day-by-day basis, Charles isn't bound by the limitations of train tracks. His spider-like legs leave few safe havens across the land and, with a hankering for human flesh, you could be next on the menu.

The trailer itself is sure to induce a mixture of intrigue and concern, but that hasn't stopped people from declaring their love for the concept even before the game's release. One Twitter user congratulated the internet on managing to convince someone to make a fully-fledged game out of the inevitable Thomas the Tank Engine horror mods that pop up multiple times a year. Others were already beginning to declare it 2022's game of the year.

Well done, internet - your countless mods replacing horror monsters with Thomas the Tank Engine have merged into a full-fledged game. AND YOU GAVE HIM SPIDER LEGS. https://t.co/i87J87Gehb

— The Chimpy Man (@TheChimpyMan) October 2, 2021

Hey kids. Game of the Year just dropped #ChooChooCharles https://t.co/6dEFoF3HpS

— Scary-son Eng-scream (@HarrisonVevo) October 2, 2021

While fans on Twitter clamor over the game's release, the folks over on Reddit already think they've got Choo Choo Charles' endgame worked out:

Choo Choo Charles is set to release sometime early next year. If you're looking to be one of the first to play the game when it comes out, then make sure to add it to your wishlist on Steam.

For those of you looking for more conventional horror games as you make your way into 2022, check out the latest trailer for The Outlast Trials. Red Barrels' latest upcoming venture into the survival horror series is set to bring with it plenty more scares and co-op mode for the first time.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Ten years ago, EA unwisely attempted to reboot its NBA Live basketball franchise, which was then coming off one of its most successful entries to date. The result was NBA Elite, an entry so bad that it effectively killed the franchise while wholly ceding the video game basketball market to NBA 2K.

At the time, NBA 2K was a critically acclaimed basketball sim — NBA 2K11 is often called one of the finest sports games ever made — but it didn't take long for the lack of competition to have an effect on the franchise. These days, NBA 2K22's positives are buried beneath an avalanche of product placements and microtransactions. With no competition, 2K has little incentive to change its ways, even as fans take to sites like Metacritic to voice their displeasure.

Enter Konami's eFootball 2022, the latest attempt to reboot Pro Evolution Soccer, née Winning Eleven, this time as a free-to-play soccer sim. The results, to put it mildly, have not been good. With its strange glitches, poor character models, and zombie-like crowds, Konami eFootball 2022 is effectively a pre-alpha release masquerading as a finished product. Adding insult to injury is that last year's release was treated as a placeholder game, with fans asked to sit tight for an even better release down the road. The backlash has been intense — Konami eFootball 2021 is one of the worst-reviewed Steam games of all time.

But while it's easy to laugh at Konami eFootball's horrifying versions of Messi and Ronaldo, it's also hard not to feel sad. Barring a monumental comeback on the level of No Man's Sky, or Barcelona against PSG, Konami's soccer franchise is more or less dead on arrival. This gives FIFA a clear field, depriving it of even the semblance of competition.

"Final nail in the coffin for PES, a sad day for us all since now EA genuinely has zero competition with FIFA and it's [sic] Ultimate Team [b*llshit]," a Reddit commenter wrote on the day that Konami eFootball was released.

Another wrote, "Yeah this is [f*cking] gutting, PES was back to being a legitimate competitor to FIFA and I had high hopes this next version was going to be the crossover once more to PES being the better game... and then I heard about the free-to-play cross platform with phones thing, and it's as bad as I'd feared..."

To be fair, PES was poor competition even before the Konami eFootball debacle. The last truly great PES game was arguably 2006's Pro Evolution Soccer 6, which saw release a few years before FIFA introduced Ultimate Team and became the juggernaut that it is today. Since then, PES and FIFA have largely gone in opposite directions, with FIFA becoming a true global mega franchise while PES has regressed into more of a regional competitor. In a separate thread, one Reddit commenter opined that FIFA's real competitor is Fortnite.

"FUT shot FIFA into a new market and it now competes with other major entertainment IPs built around sustained services. I'm sure the dev team still keeps an eye on PES for ideas and inspiration but EA couldn't care less now about what PES does, aside from annoyingly grabbing a license here or there," they wrote.

Still, PES has had its moments. In recent years, PES has enjoyed a mini-renaissance, buoyed by arguably superior gameplay and the wider backlash against FIFA Ultimate Team. Its lack of licenses was offset by a robust user community that made it easy to download kits and logos that would replace the generic placeholders within the game. It was hardly enough to overtake FIFA, which raked in somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars last year, but for those tired of EA's sweaty pace and loot box mechanics, it wasn't a bad alternative.

With Konami eFootball 2022, though, it appears that Konami has squandered all of its hard-won momentum, as what might have been a big release has instead devolved into scores of derisive memes. Even if it doesn't end up being a death knell for the series, it's certainly a missed opportunity to generate some much-needed excitement.

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— Monster Flair (@MonsterFlair) September 30, 2021

eFootball 2022 Zombie Edition. pic.twitter.com/La4uXOn0e0

— ASATOR (@asatorfury) September 30, 2021

In the short-term, at least, this means that virtually none of the major sports sims have any competitor of note. MLB: The Show, NBA 2K, Madden, NHL, and FIFA all dominate their respective sports — a far cry from the days when the sports market was filled with robust competitors like NFL 2K and MVP Baseball. Classic arcade sports games like NBA Jam and NFL Blitz are long gone, effectively replaced by microtransaction-driven mobile sports titles. It's a grim landscape if you're a sports fan; a wasteland of incremental updates, glitchy gameplay, and heavily-monetized game modes. The tragedy of Konami eFootball isn't necessarily that it had a chance to supplant FIFA but failed; it's that it's so emblematic of the state of sports games in general.

With no alternatives in the sports game space to push it in a positive direction, FIFA is apt to continue as it has over the past generation, happy to put out updates with little overt pressure to genuinely improve. It need only focus on maximizing revenue, which it can accomplish by squeezing FIFA Ultimate Team players even more, aware that they have nowhere else to go for their soccer fix. In such an environment, the only real alternative is Football Manager.

Some fans remain hopeful that Konami can turn things around, putting out suggested lists of fixes and other constructive feedback. Konami has apologized for the state of eFootball at launch and promised fixes.

Important info for #eFootball fans pic.twitter.com/Tp9RFhmXp9

— eFootball (@play_eFootball) October 1, 2021

If it can at least achieve parity with the earlier games, eFootball's status as a free-to-play soccer sim might be enough to garner it a real audience and start pushing FIFA. But for now, EA's soccer juggernaut has no competition, and that's bad for everyone but EA.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN.