Today, The Game Awards announced it will return for a ninth year on Thursday, December 8, broadcast from LA's Microsoft Theater.

The show will be livestreamed across numerous digital platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok, and will also include live showings at select IMAX theaters as in past years. Public tickets for the in-person show are expected to be made available this year as well, pending CDC and LA health and safety guidelines. As before, Geoff Keighley remains executive producer of the show alongside Kimmie Kim.

In addition to the usual musical guests and past award categories, The Game Awards will introduce a new category: Best Adaptation. Best Adaptation will "recognize creative work that authentically adapts video game intellectual property to other popular media, including but not limited to theatrical movies, streaming shows, podcasts, novels, and comic books."

We're also likely to see the usual bevy of brand new game announcements and trailers at the show. Last year's announcements included Alan Wake 2, a Wonder Woman game, a new trailer for Elden Ring, the official announcement of Sonic Frontiers, and a lot more.

Last year, It Takes Two took Game of the Year, beating out fellow nominees Deathloop, Metroid Dread, Psychonauts 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Resident Evil Village. You can see the full list of winners here.

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Sony is being sued for £5 billion ($5.9 billion) over the price of its online PlayStation Store prices, which the plaintiff claiming Sony is over-charging consumers and abusing its position as the primary seller of PlayStation games digitally.

As reported by Sky News, consumer rights advocate Alex Neill - the ex-managing director of non-profit consumer advice organisation Which UK - is leading the legal action and said "the game is up for Sony PlayStation".

The lawsuit, filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal on August 19, states that consumers have been overcharged for digital purchases of games and DLC as Sony is charging a 30% commission.

"With this legal action I am standing up for the millions of UK people who have been unwittingly overcharged," said Neill. "We believe Sony has abused its position and ripped off its customers.

"Gaming is now the biggest entertainment industry in the UK, ahead of TV, video, and music, and many vulnerable people rely on gaming for community and connection. The actions of Sony is costing millions of people who can't afford it, particularly when we're in the midst of a cost of living crisis and the consumer purse is being squeezed like never before."

The crux of the lawsuit is that, as the primary (and dominant) seller of digital PlayStation products, Sony is in a position to overcharge for its items. The legal action claims it's doing exactly that, forcing consumers to overspend unfairly and, as a result, is in breach of competition law.

"Sony dominates the digital distribution of PlayStation games and in-game content," said Natasha Pearman, the legal partner leading the case. "It has deployed an anti-competitive strategy which has resulted in excessive prices to customers that are out of all proportion to the costs of Sony providing its services."

The estimated damages per individual over the last six years range from £67 (around $79) to £562 (around $664), excluding interest, which amasses to the £5 billion total, the lawsuit claims.

IGN has reached out to Sony for comment.

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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero secured a weekend box office victory in the US, surpassing Universal's survival thriller Beast and landing in first place with $20.1 million.

As Variety reports, the latest Dragon Ball Super installment almost doubled the amount of North American ticket sales that Beast, starring Idris Elba, collected at the US weekend box office. That film opened to a modest $11.5 million while Sony's action-thriller Bullet Train slipped to third place after hauling in another $8 million in its third weekend of release.

"We're absolutely thrilled that Dragon Ball fans could come together to experience and enjoy this amazing film in theaters," Mitchel Berger, Crunchyroll's senior VP of global commerce, said in a statement. "Crunchyroll thanks all of the fans, whether or not you are a 'super' fan or a newcomer, and we hope they come back again and again.

The new movie is a direct sequel to the Broly film that was released initially in 2018, and draws focus away from Goku and Vegeta in favor of Gohan and Piccolo. Broly debuted to $22.3 million over a 6-day holiday weekend in the US but experienced a steep revenue drop in its second weekend, which can be a common occurrence for anime features.

Super Hero's box office takings are tracking above or close to the performance of other recent anime titles. Jujutsu Kaisen 0, for instance, grossed $17.6 million during its opening weekend in the US, while Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train enjoyed the biggest foreign language debut in US box office history when it opened to $21.2 million.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is currently playing on 3,007 screens, including 327 IMAX screens, which garnered $3.4 million in US ticket sales alone during the opening weekend.

The second Dragon Ball Super movie places the characters we've come to know and love in an all-new aesthetic as the franchise's first-ever 3DCG-animated film. According to IGN's review of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the film "manages to successfully thread the needle between past and present, both showing love for the now codified personalities of its characters and finding a new path for them."

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2K has announced that the standard edition of PGA Tour 2K23 will be available on October 14, with the more expensive Deluxe and Tiger Woods editions available a few days earlier on October 11.

The game aims to celebrate the legacy of Tiger Woods, who hasn't featured on a video game cover since 2013's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, even bringing in the golfing legend as an executive director.

PGA Tour will be available for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, and PC via Steam. The Deluxe Edition includes "cross-generation dual-entitlement", meaning a copy of the game on both PS4 and PS5, or both Xbox One and Series, plus Michael Jordan DLC (yes, the basketball player) and 1,300 VC, equivalent to around $5. It also comes with a handful of cosmetics including a hockey stick putter, gold baseball cap, gold glove, and three rare consumable gold sleeves.

The Tiger Woods Edition is a digital-only version that includes everything from the Deluxe Edition plus further cosmetics including Woods' iconic red polo and black pants combo, a unique gold ball, belt, three Epic consumable gold sleeves, and more.

2K didn't reveal the cost of each edition, but did announce the Clubhouse Pass, which appears to follow a Battle Pass style progression system, that will be available in three tiers: the free standard tier, the $9.99 Premium tier, and the $19.99 Premium + tier. Those who preorder the standard edition of PGA Tour 2K23 will also gain access to the Michael Jordan DLC.

Woods is one of 14 male and female pro golfers available to play when PGA Tour 2K23 is released - including Justin Thomas, Lexi Thompson, Tony Finau, Lydia Ko, Collin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris, and Brooke Henderson - but 2K also announced that free DLC would add to this roster down the line.

The game also includes 20 licensed courses at launch including the South Course of Wilmington Country Club, The Renaissance Club, St. George’s Golf and Country Club and more. The custom course designer will also return, letting players make their own unique courses and access ones made by other players.

In our 7/10 review of the previous game, IGN said: "PGA Tour 2K21 delivers the most flexible and enjoyable game of golf since the Tiger Woods series was at its peak."

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George R.R. Martin has revealed that he urged Game of Thrones producers to keep the show running for "10 seasons at least."

The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones concluded in 2019, but more than three years later, it is still a point of contention amongst fans. In particular, many believe that the ending of the series felt rushed, curtailing story arcs and reaching abrupt resolutions for some of the series' major plots, including the battle with the Night King and the winner of the Iron Throne.

Author George R.R. Martin has assured fans that he didn't have much influence over the final stretch of the series. In fact, he advocated for the show to keep rolling for many more seasons. "I was saying it needs to be 10 seasons at least and maybe 12, 13. I lost that one," he told The Wall Street Journal, referring to conversations he had with series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

The outlet notes that Benioff and Weiss were adamant about ending Game of Thrones after eight seasons, as they planned to close out the series before the show had passed its prime. Ultimately, no one could change their minds about that — not even Martin, who admits that he was largely kept "out of the loop" in the later seasons of the hit HBO fantasy series.

Martin has, however, had much more input on the show's prequel series House of the Dragon, which made its hotly-anticipated debut on August 21. Millions of HBO Max subscribers flocked to the app on Sunday for the series premiere, but a sudden influx of users resulted in technical issues on Amazon devices for some prospective viewers. Those issues appear to have mostly been resolved now.

IGN's review of the debut episode called it "a strong, well-cast start to the Game of Thrones spin-off" that "feels very close to its predecessor in tone and content, but immediately establishes a struggle for power around an amiable, weak-willed king, and vivid new characters to fight those battles. We also have dragons, inbreeding, and resentment. It's good to be back in backstabbing Westeros."

Want to read more about House of the Dragon? Check out everything we know about House of the Dragon so far, and find out what we know about the Gold Cloaks.

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Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon has crashed HBO Max. Millions of subscribers flocked to the app on Sunday for the series premiere, but many were unable to view it due to technical issues that affected at least 3,500 users.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, it seems that certain Amazon devices couldn’t keep up with the influx of viewers. Meanwhile, HBO Max users turned to Twitter to vent their frustrations.

“House of the Dragon is being successfully viewed by millions of HBO Max subscribers this evening,” HBO said in a statement. “We’re aware of a small portion of users attempting to connect via Fire TV devices that are having issues and are in the process of resolving for those impacted users.”

The only thing that could tear down the House of the Dragon was itself. #HOTD

— HBO Max (@hbomax) August 22, 2022

Right now, it looks as though those issues have largely been resolved. Game of Thrones fans were left stranded and frustrated last night, however, when the debut episode was officially released, only to find that they simply couldn’t watch it.

HBO Max support advised users that: “To help with the crashing issues you're experiencing, please go to any other show/movie on HBO Max, turn off subtitles/captions, and then try streaming House of the Dragon again.” This reportedly worked for some users, but others remained unable to watch. Of course, it also didn’t help those who need closed captioning to view the episode at all.

This isn't the first time Game of Thrones has caused Amazon Fire crashes as similar issues were reported during the final episodes of the original show.

House of the Dragons keeps crashing the HBO MAX app on Fire TV. Other shows don't crash the app. What is going on? I cleared cache, restarted, deleted/reloaded the app. Nothing works.

— lgbeddow (@lgbeddow) August 22, 2022

House of the Dragon is the long-awaited Game of Thrones prequel that’s had fans on the edge of their seats since it was first announced.

IGN’s review of the debut episode called it “a strong, well-cast start to the Game of Thrones spin-off. This feels very close to its predecessor in tone and content, but immediately establishes a struggle for power around an amiable, weak-willed king, and vivid new characters to fight those battles. We also have dragons, inbreeding, and resentment. It’s good to be back in backstabbing Westeros.”

Want to read more about House of the Dragon? Check out everything we know about House of the Dragon so far, and find out what we know about the Gold Cloaks.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

HBO has revealed the first teaser for the upcoming TV series adaptation of The Last of Us and it features Pedro Pascal's Joel, Bella Ramsey's Ellie, and more.

You can check out the first look by skipping to 1:40 in the teaser below for HBO's upcoming shows. Alongside The Last of Us, you can see footage from The Idol, Succession, The White Lotus, The White House Plumbers, Industry, and more.

The Last of Us, The Idol, Succession, The White Lotus, The White House Plumbers, Industry, and so much more are coming soon to @hbomax.⁰

Now this is my kind of dream. pic.twitter.com/LDuJSiAFSv

— HBO (@HBO) August 21, 2022

Alongside Joel and Ellie, the short tease also gives us a glimpse at Joel's daughter Sarah (Nico Parker), Bill (Nick Offerman), a clicker stuck in a wall (or the remnants of one), and potentially Frank (Murray Bartlett).

The tease begins in winter as Ellie says, "Everybody I have cared for, has either died or left me." Joel responds by saying, "You have no idea what loss is." We get glimpses of other scenes, including a heartbreaking one from the beginning of the game we won't spoil, a bit of Joel training ellie to use a gun, and more. It's over quickly, but it gives us a great idea as to the tone they are setting with this series.

We still don't have an official release date for The Last of Us on HBO, but we know it will arrive in 2023.

It was revealed, however, that the first season will tell the story of the original game, but some of the stories in its 10 episodes will "deviate greatly" from what came before.

We recently helped reveal the casting for Henry and Sam, and they will join a cast that includes Merle Dandridge reprising her role as Marlene from the game, Anna Torv as Tess, Tommy voice actor Jeffrey Pierce as Perry, Gabriel Luna as Tommy, and more.

For more, check out all the details on The Last of Us Remake that is set to arrive on PS5 on September 2 and Pascal's comments on how this adaptation is "similar" to how Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni treat The Mandalorian and why he believes this show can "more than live up to" the original game.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

HBO has revealed the first teaser for the upcoming TV series adaptation of The Last of Us and it features Pedro Pascal's Joel, Bella Ramsey's Ellie, and more.

You can check out the first look by skipping to 1:40 in the teaser below for HBO's upcoming shows. Alongside The Last of Us, you can see footage from The Idol, Succession, The White Lotus, The White House Plumbers, Industry, and more.

The Last of Us, The Idol, Succession, The White Lotus, The White House Plumbers, Industry, and so much more are coming soon to @hbomax.⁰

Now this is my kind of dream. pic.twitter.com/LDuJSiAFSv

— HBO (@HBO) August 21, 2022

Alongside Joel and Ellie, the short tease also gives us a glimpse at Joel's daughter Sarah (Nico Parker), Bill (Nick Offerman), a clicker stuck in a wall (or the remnants of one), and potentially Frank (Murray Bartlett).

The tease begins in winter as Ellie says, "Everybody I have cared for, has either died or left me." Joel responds by saying, "You have no idea what loss is." We get glimpses of other scenes, including a heartbreaking one from the beginning of the game we won't spoil, a bit of Joel training ellie to use a gun, and more. It's over quickly, but it gives us a great idea as to the tone they are setting with this series.

We still don't have an official release date for The Last of Us on HBO, but we know it will arrive in 2023.

It was revealed, however, that the first season will tell the story of the original game, but some of the stories in its 10 episodes will "deviate greatly" from what came before.

We recently helped reveal the casting for Henry and Sam, and they will join a cast that includes Merle Dandridge reprising her role as Marlene from the game, Anna Torv as Tess, Tommy voice actor Jeffrey Pierce as Perry, Gabriel Luna as Tommy, and more.

For more, check out all the details on The Last of Us Remake that is set to arrive on PS5 on September 2 and Pascal's comments on how this adaptation is "similar" to how Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni treat The Mandalorian and why he believes this show can "more than live up to" the original game.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

HBO has revealed the first teaser for the upcoming TV series adaptation of The Last of Us and it features Pedro Pascal's Joel, Bella Ramsey's Ellie, and more.

You can check out the first look by skipping to 1:40 in the teaser below for HBO's upcoming shows. Alongside The Last of Us, you can see footage from The Idol, Succession, The White Lotus, The White House Plumbers, Industry, and more.

The Last of Us, The Idol, Succession, The White Lotus, The White House Plumbers, Industry, and so much more are coming soon to @hbomax.⁰

Now this is my kind of dream. pic.twitter.com/LDuJSiAFSv

— HBO (@HBO) August 21, 2022

Alongside Joel and Ellie, the short tease also gives us a glimpse at Joel's daughter Sarah (Nico Parker), Bill (Nick Offerman), a clicker stuck in a wall (or the remnants of one), and potentially Frank (Murray Bartlett).

The tease begins in winter as Ellie says, "Everybody I have cared for, has either died or left me." Joel responds by saying, "You have no idea what loss is." We get glimpses of other scenes, including a heartbreaking one from the beginning of the game we won't spoil, a bit of Joel training ellie to use a gun, and more. It's over quickly, but it gives us a great idea as to the tone they are setting with this series.

We still don't have an official release date for The Last of Us on HBO, but we know it will arrive in 2023.

It was revealed, however, that the first season will tell the story of the original game, but some of the stories in its 10 episodes will "deviate greatly" from what came before.

We recently helped reveal the casting for Henry and Sam, and they will join a cast that includes Merle Dandridge reprising her role as Marlene from the game, Anna Torv as Tess, Tommy voice actor Jeffrey Pierce as Perry, Gabriel Luna as Tommy, and more.

For more, check out all the details on The Last of Us Remake that is set to arrive on PS5 on September 2 and Pascal's comments on how this adaptation is "similar" to how Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni treat The Mandalorian and why he believes this show can "more than live up to" the original game.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

A new competitive play trailer for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet was released and it revealed new moves, new items, and Cyclizar, a Dragon and Normal type Pokemon that very well may be the pre-evolution of these new games' legendary Pokemon Miraidon and Koraidon.

The trailer was revealed during the 2022 Pokemon World Championships and gave us another look at battles in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Cyclizar was one of the main focuses of the new footage and, as you can see below, the new Pokemon not only resembles the previously mentioned legendaries in look, but it can be used as a mount in-game like Miraidon and Koraidon. Their connection hasn't been confirmed one way or another, but the clues are there to lead to the possibility.

On Pokemon.com, it is reaveled that Cyclizar "has lived in many households in the Paldea region since ancient times. It has a mild disposition, and people riding Cyclizar are a very common sight. It appears Cyclizar don't mind being ridden because the warmth of a rider helps stave off the cold.​"

It can also sprint over 70 MPH while carrying a human, and it comes with a new move called Shed Tail that "creates a substitute for [Cyclizar] using its own HP before switching places with a party Pokémon in waiting."

We were also shown a few items in the trailer and on Pokemon.com, and they are as follows;

• Mirror Herb: This herb will allow the holder to mirror an opponent’s stat increases and boost its own stats–but only once.
• Covert Cloak: This hooded cloak conceals the holder, protecting it from the additional effects of moves.
• Loaded Dice: If a Pokémon holding this item uses a multistrike move, that move will be more likely to hit more times.

Lastly, Terastallizing was showcased and teased the phenomenon in the Paldea region that makes Pokemon "shine and glimmer like gems." Alongside looking extra sparkly, Terastallizing in battle changes the type of your Pokemon to its Tera Type.

There is also a TM that can teach Pokemon the Normal-type move Tera Blast which will become a move of the same type as the Pokemon's Tera Type.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will be released on Nintendo Switch on November 18, 2022. For more, check out how these new games will have three story campaigns that you can tackle in any order, our wiki page that has gathered all the new Pokemon revealed so far, and what it was like for IGN's Joshua Yehl to compete in the Pokemon TCG World Championships for the first time.

We were also given a glimpse of Koraidon and Miraidon in the Pokemon Trading Card Game, and they will obviously be two of the cards featured in the upcoming Scarlet and Violet sets.

(ex)pect the unexpected, #PokemonTCG: Scarlet & Violet! pic.twitter.com/xg5bcpKMPN

— Pokémon TCG (@PokemonTCG) August 21, 2022

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