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A JRPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, Fantasian Neo Dimension plays like a modern throw-back to the Final Fantasy VII era of role-playing games. It has pre-rendered environments for your polygonal characters to explore, and the combat is turn-based. The music is even done by Final Fantasy legend Nobuo Uematsu. You can even check out a demo if you want to try it before you buy it.

There are quite a few more gaming deals floating around right now that are worth a look. In our Daily Deals roundup, you can see some of our favorite offers available at the moment alongside this discount on Fantasian Neo Dimension. This includes Donkey Kong Country Returns HD for $44.99 at Woot, Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Collection for $39.99 at Woot, and a few more. This roundup even features tech deals, if you want to see what’s caught our eye there.

To see even more gaming deals, it’s also worth having a look at our individual roundups of the best PlayStation deals, the best Xbox deals, and the best Nintendo Switch deals. In each of these we’ve found the best offers available right now across video games, hardware, and accessories so you can save a little extra cash on items for your favorite platform.

If you would prefer an overall look at the deals that stand out to us the most from each of those roundups, check out our breakdown of the best video game deals. In this we’ve highlighted our favorite discounts from each console alongside some excellent PC gaming deals, allowing you to save on a little bit of everything if you use more than one platform.

Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.

With streaming prices going up and movies and TV shows hopping from one service to another without warning, it’s a good time to own your favorites on physical media. Whether it’s to ensure you can always watch them regardless of what streaming services you subscribe to, or you just enjoy the act of collecting, it’s good to know when the newest releases are coming out on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. You know, as long as you have a good way to play them (see our list of the best Blu-ray players for help on that front). Below, you’ll find a full rundown of release dates and buy links for all the upcoming home releases you’re likely to care about.

Biggest New and Upcoming 4K UHD and Blu-ray Releases

If you want a TL;DR of the biggest upcoming home movie and TV show releases, look no further than the list above. We keep it updated and change out the featured items regularly. Below, you’ll find all the notable upcoming release sorted by release date.

February 2025: 4K and Blu-ray Release Dates

February has some home release gems, especially if you’re into new 4K releases of classics. In terms of those, we’re looking at some great David Fincher movies with Panic Room and The Social Network. Uncle Buck is getting a 4K release for all the John Hughes (and John Candy, and Macaulay Culken) fans. The Nice Guys is one of my favorite Shane Black flicks, and it’s out in 4K as well.

The new releases are just as good, though, with the subtle joys of A Real Pain (with Mac’s brother Kieran), as well as Conclave and LotR: The War of the Rohirrim. Plus Nosferatu for the artsy horror kids. Speaking of artsy horror, that new release of Twin Peaks includes the entire package, including the first two seasons, the movie Fire Walk With Me, and the return. That’s the whole thing, all in one release. Noice.

February 3

• Twin Peaks: From Z to A – Buy It

February 4

• A Real Pain – Buy It
• Quantum Leap: The Complete Series (2022) – Buy It

February 11

• Bubblegum Crisis – Buy It
• Conclave – Buy It
• Dante’s Peak (4K) – Buy It
• Judas and the Black Messiah (4K) – Buy It
• The Nice Guys (4K) – Buy It

February 18

• Constantine (4K) – Buy It
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – Steelbook | Standard
• Nosferatu – Steelbook | Standard
• Panic Room (4K Steelbook) – Buy It
• The Social Network (4K Steelbook) – Buy It
• Uncle Buck (4K) – Buy It

February 25

• Cruising (4K) – Buy It
• Documentary Now!: Complete Series – Buy It
• Graveyard Shift (4K) – Buy It
• My Girl (4K) – Buy It

March 2025: 4K and Blu-ray Release Dates

March 4

• Akira (4K Steelbook) – Buy It
• The Count of Monte Cristo (2025) – Buy It
• Den of Thieves 2: Pantera – Buy It
• Kraven the Hunter – Steelbook | Standard
• Red One – Buy It

March 11

• Thief (4K Criterion) – Buy It

March 18

• Deep Blue Sea (4K) – Buy It
• The Last of Us: Season 1 Limited-Edition (4K Steelbook) – Buy It
• Middle-Earth 6-Film Collection (Extended & Theatrical) (4K Ultra HD + Digital) – Buy It
• Moana 2 – Buy It
• The Penguin: Season 1 – Buy It
• Wolf Man – Buy It

March 25

• Black Sheep (4K) – Buy It
• Delicatessen (4K) – Buy It
• Desperado (4K) – Buy It
• Star Trek: The Lower Decks – Complete Series – Buy It
• Tommy Boy (4K) – Steelbook | Standard

April 2025: 4K and Blu-ray Release Dates

April 1

• Renfield: Collector’s Edition – Buy It
• Summer Wars: Limited Edition Steelbook – Buy It
• Superman & Lois: The Complete Series – Buy It
• Superman & Lois Lane: Season 4 – Buy It

April 8

• The Long Kiss Goodnight (4K) – Buy It
• Sorority House Massacre (4K) – Buy It

April 15

• Dune Prophecy: Season 1 – Buy It
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – Steelbook | Standard

April 22

• The Hunt (4K) – Buy It

April 29

• Timecop (4K) – Buy It

TBA 4K and Blu-Ray Releases

• Companion – Buy It
• Dirty Harry – Limited Edition Steelbook (4K) – Buy It
• Flight Risk – Buy It
• Star Trek: Section 31 – Buy It
• Wolf Children Steelbook – Buy It

Want more release dates? Check out our mega-post of all the biggest video game release dates to see what’s coming to consoles and PC this year and beyond.

Best 4K TVs

If you’re looking to buy a new TV that will make your 4K movies shine, you’ll definitely want to take a look at our favorites. Our tech editors have selected the best 4K TVs for gaming, which will also work great for movie-watching. And since both the PS5 and Xbox Series X have 4K Blu-ray play-back built in, you’ll probably be doing plenty of gaming on them as well.

LG C3 OLED Smart Gaming TV

The LG C4 is currently our top pick for a gaming TV, but since they’re brand new in 2024, you might want to consider picking up last year’s model, the LG C3, which costs significantly less for the same size TV. There aren’t any real must-have new features on the C4, so you’re not missing much. Get the one that best fits your needs and your budget.

Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert at IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed.

Sony has said the 24-hour outage that knocked out PlayStation Network over the weekend was due to an “operational issue.”

In a tweet confirming the recovery of its network services, Sony apologized for the downtime and thanked the PlayStation community for its patience. As a make-good, it’s giving all PlayStation Plus members an additional five days of service.

However, some PlayStation customers are demanding more information on the cause of the downtime beyond the vague “operational issue,” and have pointed to the high-profile PSN data breach of 2011 that saw personal details from approximately 77 million accounts compromised.

“Given what happened in 2011 we need to know if we need to call our banks for new credit cards and need identity protection services,” one social media user said in response to Sony’s statement.

“Sweet, but can you also tell us what happened and how you’ll be working to avoid it in the future?” another asked.

“Your lack of transparency is disturbing,” said another.

Some are also calling on Sony to outline the measures it’s taking to prevent similar “operational issues” from knocking out PSN in the future.

PSN going offline not only affected online gaming but single-player games that require either authentication with a server or a constant internet connection. Embattled U.S. retailer GameStop tweeted a joke at Sony’s expense while PSN was offline, saying “bet y’all want physical copies now.” But this joke was met with ridicule across social media, as users pointed out the declining shop chain’s penchant for selling products other than video games these days.

Yeah let me go to my local GameStop and grab some physical ga- https://t.co/zpCn71rF5t pic.twitter.com/W1J9ECChUE

— 「WOKEN ELMA SIMP」 (@WOKENJJT) February 8, 2025

Some third-party publishers whose games were affected have announced extensions to in-game events or limited-time modes. Capcom just announced an extension to the next Monster Hunter Wilds beta test after last weekend’s was cut short by the PSN issue. EA was forced to extend FC 25’s most hardcore multiplayer event, too.

Sony is yet to expand on the PSN downtime beyond two single tweets: one to acknoledge PSN was offline, another to say it was back up with the vague explanation and compensation. Clearly, some customers want further communication from the company.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Captain America: Brave New World is the fourth entry in that long-running Marvel franchise, as well as being the first to star Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson in the lead role rather than Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers. But as much as this new movie is devoted to continuing the story of Captain America in the MCU, it’s also picking up a lot of loose ends from one of the very first MCU movies. Brave New World is practically The Incredible Hulk 2.

From Harrison Ford’s Thunderbolt Ross to Tim Blake Nelson’s The Leader to Liv Tyler’s Betty Ross, let’s break down the history of these MCU characters and why Brave New World is really an Incredible Hulk sequel in all but name.

Tim Blake Nelson’s The Leader

The Incredible Hulk teed up the next big villain in Hulk’s world with the introduction of Tim Blake Nelson’s Samuel Sterns, a tease that is only just now finally paying off in Brave New World. In The Incredible Hulk, Sterns is revealed to be an ally to Norton’s Bruce Banner, working with Banner from afar to help find a cure for the Hulk.

Banner and Sterns finally meet face-to-face in the film, where Banner discovers that Sterns has been a bit overzealous in his experiments with Banner’s gamma-irradiated blood. Sterns is captivated by the idea of their gamma research bringing them scientific acclaim, suggesting that he doesn’t quite have Banner’s sense of ethics. That’s some definite foreshadowing there.

After Banner is taken into custody, Blonsky strongarms Sterns into transforming him into another Hulk. Sterns is injured during Blonsky’s transformation, at which point a sample of Banner’s blood seeps into an open wound on his forehead. Sterns’ head immediately begins to swell and transform.

Comic book fans know that this is where Sterns evolves from ordinary man into The Leader, a gamma-powered villain who is as smart as Hulk is strong. But again, it’s only now in Brave New World that the MCU is finally following up on this twist.

Where has Sterns been all these years? The answer is in a comic book called The Avengers Prelude: Fury’s Big Week, one of the few comics that’s actually canon to the MCU. It shows Black Widow bringing Sterns into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, where he’s presumably remained ever since.

But at some point, Sterns escaped and is now at the center of the conspiracy involving Captain America and President Ross. We don’t know much about his role in the film, as Nelson has been all but absent from the marketing so far. We can probably assume that Sterns had something to do with Ross’ transformation into Red Hulk, though, since that was the case in the comics.

Sterns could also have his sights set on adamantium. We know Brave New World will be introducing that iconic, unbreakable metal to the MCU, likely sparking a new arms race as the global powers clash over possession of this invaluable resource. The Leader may see an opportunity to play that conflict to his advantage. Whatever his plans, as The Leader, Sterns is now superhumanly intelligent, making him a very dangerous foe for Captain America and Falcon (Danny Ramirez) to contend with.

Liv Tyler’s Betty Ross

Nelson’s Samuel Sterns isn’t the only The Incredible Hulk character making a long overdue return appearance in Brave New World. This is also the first time we’ll see Liv Tyler reprise the role of Ross’ daughter Betty in the MCU.

As established in The Incredible Hulk, Betty and Bruce Banner originally met and fell in love in college. She later joined Banner as a researcher in Project Gamma Pulse, where she created the primer that allowed Banner to survive his exposure to gamma radiation and become the Hulk. Betty was among those injured during Banner’s transformation, sparking her father’s obsessive, Ahab-like hatred of Banner. That obsession has done nothing to help Betty’s already dysfunctional relationship with her father.

By the present-day events of The Incredible Hulk, Betty has mostly moved on and started dating Dr. Leonard Samson (Ty Burrell), though she doesn’t hesitate to rush to Banner’s aid when he resurfaces. Betty does her best to aid her ex-boyfriend in his quest to cure himself of his condition, even as that pits her directly against her father.

Ultimately, fate doesn’t allow Betty and Banner to reconnect for long. He resumes his life as a fugitive and Betty fades out of the MCU spotlight. We don’t know much about her story since then, apart from the fact that Betty is among the many temporarily snapped out of existence by Thanos in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War.

Tyler is finally reprising her role for Brave New World. But as for what role Betty is meant to play in this story, we have no idea. Like The Leader, Betty has been absent from the film’s marketing so far. Will we discover she’s patched things up with her father? She is the daughter of the president now, after all. Will she be called upon for her expertise in gamma research and all things Hulk? Let’s also not forget that Betty herself becomes Red She-Hulk in the comics. Will Brave New World follow suit? We can only hope.

Harrison Ford’s President Ross/Red Hulk

The most obvious sign that Brave New World is actually an Incredible Hulk sequel is that it revolves heavily around Harrison Ford’s Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. Ford is taking over the role from the late William Hurt, who played Ross in a number of MCU movies dating back to 2008.

Ross originally debuted in The Incredible Hulk, serving as one of the main antagonists to Edward Norton’s Bruce Banner. A stoic military man, General Ross oversees Project Gamma Pulse. Banner is led to believe the project revolves around radiation resistance. What he doesn’t know is that Ross is trying to create a modern and more powerful alternative to the WWII-era Super Soldier Serum. When Banner tests his experimental formula on himself, the Hulk is born.

Since that day, Ross has devoted himself to bringing the Hulk under government control by any means necessary, even at the cost of his relationship with his daughter Betty. Ross turns to elite soldier Emil Blonsky (Eli Roth) to help capture the fugitive Banner. Unfortunately, this alliance ends up creating a monster worse than the Hulk.

Ross injects Blonsky with a version of the Super Soldier Serum, transforming him into a Captain America-esque super-soldier. However, Blonsky finds that power addicting, and it’s not long before he forces Sterns to expose him to gamma radiation, becoming the Abomination. After a violent battle in Harlem, Hulk subdues the Abomination. Ross reluctantly allows his nemesis to escape the battlefield, postponing their next showdown for another day.

The final scene in The Incredible Hulk shows a dejected Ross drowning his sorrows at a bar, only to be approached by Robert Downey, Jr.’s Tony Stark. Stark attempts to recruit Ross into the Avengers Initiative, just as Nick Fury approached him in the post-credits scene in 2008’s Iron Man, which had been released just a month before this film.

For the full story on that encounter, though, we have to turn to the 2011 Marvel One-Shot short film “The Consultant.” There, it’s revealed that the World Security Council wants to recruit the Abomination to join the fledgling Avengers, much to the chagrin of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and Jasper Sitwell (Maximiliano Hernández). Coulson handpicks Stark to meet with Ross specifically because he knows the egotistical Stark will botch the job and Blonsky will remain in prison. Mission un-accomplished.

From there, Ross didn’t reappear in the MCU for years, finally resurfacing in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. By this point, Ross has become the Secretary of Defense and is instrumental in drafting the Sokovia Accords. He hopes to rein in the Avengers and make them accountable to a higher authority.

The ratification of the Sokovia Accords creates a schism in the Avengers, and Ross winds up throwing Captain America’s anti-registration faction in the superhuman prison known as The Raft. It’s not long before Cap breaks his friends out and they become fugitives from the law.

Chronologically speaking, Ross’ next appearance is in 2021’s Black Widow, where he’s seen hunting down Scarlett Johansson’s rogue agent. However, Natasha remains one step ahead of Ross and his troops, leaving him to clean up the wreckage of the Red Room’s floating fortress while she disappears into the wind.

Ross makes a small appearance in Infinity War, where he’s seen trying to maintain order as Thanos’ forces invade Earth and arguing with Don Cheadle’s War Machine. Ross doesn’t have much time to react to Rhodey’s defiance before he and trillions of others are snapped out of existence by Thanos.

Ross, along with the rest of those trillions, is restored to life when the Avengers manage to undo Thanos’ act in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. Ross can be seen at Tony Stark’s funeral, paying tribute to a man he butted heads with in life.

Now Ross is returning to play a major role in Captain America: Brave New World, with Ford taking over the role. As the movie opens, Ross has recently been elected President of the United States. Given how 2023’s Secret Invasion ended, we can infer that the American public, fearful of the possibility of more alien invaders lurking among them, turned to Ross as a figure with a decorated military record and a strong history of dealing with superhuman and alien threats.

“The Ross that we knew historically, going back to incredible Hulk in 2008, and certainly versions of him that we saw across the years in the MCU, his nickname was Thunderbolt. He had a thunderous temper. He was a guy who hunted Hulks. He was a guy who had this real legacy that could maybe be defined by his anger,” director Julius Onah told IGN in a recent interview. “But the man that we’re meeting now is a man who is an elder statesman, who’s a diplomat, who’s turning a new leaf, who sees and understands the errors of his past and wants to do better. And in doing that, initiating the Avengers is because they could be a benefit to the world. So this is a guy who also is looking to reconnect with his estranged daughter. And there was something really great about putting him on this journey of redefining himself as he’s also interfacing with the Captain America who’s defining himself too.”

We’ll see Ross attempt to make peace with Mackie’s Sam Wilson in the film, hoping to usher in a new era of cooperation between the Avengers and the US government. However, Sam will soon find himself drawn into a deep conspiracy after Ross survives an assassination attempt and transforms into the Red Hulk. That’s right – somehow, Ross has turned himself into the very thing he always hated most.

As in the comics, we assume Ross is seeking to protect his country by creating a version of Hulk with more tactical experience and battlefield prowess, even if that means making a Faustian bargain with The Leader. Unlike the comics, however, Ross doesn’t seem overly concerned with hiding the fact that he’s Red Hulk.

But for Ross, protecting his country also means gaining control of adamantium, the newly discovered super-metal that every global power is attempting to weaponize.

“There’s so many implications to a new technology like this emerging, and in some ways it ties into why this movie’s called Brave New World, a technology that could have both incredibly positive implications and also potentially destructive or negative implications,” Onah said. “So it was really exciting for me to be able to be directing and writing a movie where we introduce adamantium to the MCU, and obviously that teases a lot of things that fans are super eager about and it’s going to be great. And it’s also great to also see the geopolitical implications of it in this story because as a technology, it could have incredibly powerful application for different countries around the world. And then you think about it in a world where vibranium also exists, it’s just a very, very rich terrain to play with.”

Does the new Captain America have what it takes to unravel this conspiracy and take down a Hulked-out President Ross in the process? But maybe there’s a better question we should be asking…

Where Is The Hulk in Brave New World?

At this point, the only thing stopping Captain America: Brave New World from being called The Incredible Hulk 2 is the fact that Hulk himself is MIA. There’s no indication that Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner has a part to play in this sequel, though we wouldn’t rule out a secret, last-minute cameo appearance. Cap could certainly use the extra muscle when he takes on Red Hulk.

It would certainly make sense to include Banner in some capacity, given how the character’s story has unfolded in the MCU so far. Banner and his alter ego have come up in the world since the events of The Incredible Hulk. Hulk joined the Avengers and gained an aura of respectability, After his self-imposed exile on Sakaar in Thor: Ragnarok and his near-death battle with Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, Banner has gained a newfound control over his gamma side. Banner and Hulk have essentially merged into a single being with all of Hulk’s strength and all of Banner’s intelligence.

Including Hulk in Brave New World makes even more sense when you consider that he’s one of the only heroes keeping the torch of the Avengers alive right now. If we’ve learned anything from Phases 4 and 5 of the MCU, it’s that Banner and Benedict Wong’s Wong have become the planet’s first line of defense against all threats superhuman and magical. They’re minding the shop at a time when the Avengers have yet to be reformed.

We have to assume that Banner would be interested to know that his old nemesis has suddenly become a Hulk, too, and that Sterns has resurfaced with gamma powers of his own. We’d also like to know what the current state of Banner’s relationship with Betty is these days. Have the two reconnected now that Hulk is a respectable superhero in control of his powers?

For better or worse, it doesn’t appear that Hulk does have a big part to play in Brave New World. Any Banner appearance may be relegated to a post-credits scene, if even that. But it is worth remembering that Banner has his hands full with other matters these days. He’s now a member of a full-fledged family of Hulks. We saw his cousin Jen Walters (Tatiana Maslany) become a superhero lawyer in the She-Hulk series. That show also ended with the reveal that Banner has a gamma-powered son, Skaar, from his time on Sakaar. Banner may be off-world bonding with Skaar, explaining why he isn’t around to help Cap deal with Red Hulk and The Leader.

In that case, we’ll just have to wait until 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday to see Earth’s Mightiest Heroes officially back in action.

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For more on the future of the Marvel Universe, find out what to expect from Marvel in 2025 and see every Marvel movie and series in development.

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Civilization 7 dataminers have unearthed evidence to suggest the game is set to receive a fourth, unannounced Age — and developer Firaxis has teased its plans in an interview with IGN.

A full campaign in Civilization 7 is one that goes through all three Ages: Antiquity, Exploration, and Modern. Once the Age is completed, all players (and any AI opponents) experience an Age Transition simultaneously. During an Age Transition, three things happen: you select a new civilization from the new Age to represent your empire, you choose which Legacies you want to retain in the new Age, and the game world evolves. The Civilization games have never had such a system.

Based on the unit types and victory conditions currently in-game, the Modern Age ends before the Cold War. In an interview with IGN, Civilization 7 lead designer Ed Beach confirmed this timeline, explaining how Firaxis settled on ending the current version of the game at the conclusion of World War 2.

“We spent a lot of time looking at the ebbs and flows of history,” Beach said. “Once we knew that our game would benefit by breaking it up into chapters, obviously the first thing we ask ourselves is, ‘well, when does a chapter start and when does a chapter end?’ And our senior historian on the project, Andrew Johnson, was working very closely with me, comes from a study of Southeast Asian history. My tendencies are way too focused on Western history, but he’s very good at making sure that we’re looking at the whole picture worldwide. But we did notice that all the big empires of antiquity, it wasn’t just the Roman Empire, but even the big empires over in China and India crumbled under outside pressure in the rough same time period, the 300 to 500 common era time period that Rome was being challenged. Those big empires face challenges across the world.

“So we’re like, okay, that’s a great ending chapter for the first block of our game or what we’re going to call the Age. So that’s where Antiquity ends. And so we started looking for other places where the other chapters should end. The transition from Exploration to Modern is all about those big monarchies that were established, especially in places like Europe being challenged by people’s revolutions, like the French Revolution or the American Revolution. There were a lot of revolutions in Europe in the 1840s as well. So that felt like a good grounding point. And then the nations emerging from it, the Americas and the French and so forth, could be in the Modern Age that follows.

“Then we looked for where’s the next big shakeup worldwide in history, and it was the World Wars. We had to feel like there was a big pivot in history in 1945 essentially after the World Wars. Especially because we have new gameplay systems that can be unique for each Age, so we can change the rules of diplomacy or the rules of warfare, which commanders you have access to, whenever we change Ages, we need to make sure that those breaks have enough conformity to what happened in real life that they make sense to us.

“So yeah, we very deliberately did not push into the Cold War time period because that is one that just felt very different than the rest of the Modern Age. It just sort of dips its toes in the Cold War, like you’ve identified with the thermonuclear device being the one that ends the military victory path there.”

The inevitable follow-up question is, of course, whether Firaxis plans to expand Civilization 7 down the line with the addition of a fourth Age where players may, perhaps, go to space, land on the moon, and get to play with up to day units.

Executive producer Dennis Shirk wouldn’t confirm this outright, but did tease the developer’s future plans.

“You can imagine the possibilities with this, honestly,” Shirk said. “The way that the design team set it up so that each age is chockfull of systems, visuals, units, Civs, all specific to that age, and what you could do with that and where you could take it… we can’t talk about the specifics. We can just talk about it in generalities. We’re excited for where this is going to go.”

Hot on the heels of this tease, Civilization 7 players have already datamined the game, which is available in advanced access to those who paid more, and found reference to the Atomic Age.

Redditor ManByTheRiver11 revealed mention of unannounced leaders, civilizations, and word of the Atomic Age. New leaders and civs are of course expected, given Firaxis’ DLC strategy for previous games in the series. And this Atomic Age would certainly fit the bill with where Civ 7 currently ends and Shirk’s tease in our interview.

In the shorter term, Firaxis is working on addressing various community complaints that have led to a ‘mixed’ user review rating on Steam. In an interview with IGN ahead of the release of its third quarter financial results, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick acknowledged that Civilization 7 had received some negative reviews from press and players, but insisted that the “legacy Civ audience” will come around the more they play, and called Civilization 7’s early performance “very encouraging.”

Looking for tips to help you take over the world? Check out our guide to completing every Civ 7 victory, our run down of the biggest Civ 7 changes for Civ 6 players, and the 14 crucial Civ 7 mistakes to avoid. We’ve also got explanations on all the Civ 7 map types and difficulty settings so you know what you’re getting into.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.