Persona 4 Arena is Ultimax headed to modern consoles. Atlus revealed during The Game Awards that the popular anime fighting game will be released on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC in 2022.

Developed by Arc System Works, Persona 4 Arena Ultimatax is a fighting game spinoff of Persona 4 featuring familiar characters such as Chie, Yukiko and Teddie. It's known for its heavily stylized graphics and fast-paced combat, both of which are typical of Arc System Works.

We praised Persona 4 Arena Ultimax for its accessibility in our original review, writing, "There are plenty of good things to say about Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. It looks and plays great, it’s easy to dive into for beginners, and rewarding to learn for veterans. It’s irresistible sense of style speaks for itself, but given how much I love its predecessor, the biggest compliment I can pay it is that it’s 100% the sequel that Persona 4 Arena deserved."

Mostly, though, it's exciting to have Persona 4 Arena Ultimax on console for that excellent remix of "Reach Out To The Truth."

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax releases on PS4, Steam, and PC on March 17. While you wait, you can play Persona 4 Golden, which is now available on Steam.

We've learned more about Monster Hunter Rise's major Sunbreak expansion, with a brand new hub town, new monster, and new NPC revealed at The Game Awards.

Shown off at The Game Awards 2021, we got a brief look at the new outpost for the expansion, called Elgado, as well as a royal new character with a fancy sword fighting against a new monster, Malzeno.

We also saw three new amiibo that are coming to the expansion: a special Palamute "Canyne Malzeno X," a Palico "Felyne Malzeno X," and Malzeno itself. Each one unlocks a special layered armor when used with Sunbreak.

Sunbreak has been described as a "massive expansion" to the base version of Rise, comparable to the Iceborne addition to Monster hunter World. Arriving in summer 2022, the expansion unlocks late into the original game, and includes a new Elder Dragon, a Master Rank for quests, and more.

We awarded Monster Hunter Rise on Switch an 8/10 review, saying it "mixes classic Monster Hunter ideas with some of World’s best improvements and a whole bunch of clever new mechanics of its own." The base game will come to PC in January, and Sunbreak will launch for both formats simultaneously.

Have A Nice Death is a new, hand-drawn roguelike 2D action game coming to Steam Early Access in March 2022.

Announced at The Game Awards 2021, the game has been consulted on by Dead Cells creator Sébastien Bénard, and gives across similar action vibes – albeit with an unexpected workplace comedy twist.

Starring as Death, players will travel through the headquarters of Death Incorporated, fighting against employees that have been reaping too many souls, with departmental heads as bosses. Each run through the procedurally generated underworld office will even end with a performance review of your skills.

The game will include 30 weapons and spells to use, as well as a number of upgrades that each come with pros and cons.

"If Death had the same routine as us, how would he or she live? This question is the driving force behindHave a Nice Death,” said Nicolas Léger, creative director and animation director at developer Magic Design Studios. “The game mixes our passion for 2D animation, fast and furious combat and compelling visual effects with a macabre universe that comes to life through dark but burlesque humor. The end game is our team’s point-of-view on the contemporary corporate world and a compelling look at what Death’s life would looklike if he were one us."

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Today, the creators of Falcon Age and publisher Annapurna revealed a brand new RPG called Thirsty Suitors, a story-driven adventure about navigating a messy past, balancing family expectations with a dating life, and looking very cool while skateboarding around town.

Thirsty Suitors follows Jala, a young woman who returns home for her sister's wedding and must confront her messy past, including breakups, her immigrant parents' lofty expectations of her, and her grandmother's determination to send suitor after suitor after her in hopes of making a match.

Aside from skateboarding around her hometown in a Jet Set Radio-esque vibe, Jala will also take on cooking challenges and fend off the suitors coming after her with turn-based combat that looks to involve a whole lot more flirting than throwing literal punches.

“Our mission at Outerloop Games is to create accessible games about underrepresented cultures, and Thirsty Suitors will give players a glimpse into our teams’ personal experiences growing up, which might be vastly different from what players have experienced themselves," said Outerloop Games co-founder and Thirsty Suitors game director Chandana Ekanayake.

Thirsty Suitors is coming out "soon" and does not yet have a release date or platforms announced. We did get a few other details about it back at the Annapurna Showcase earlier this year, when it was revealed 80 Days writer Meg Jayanth was working on Thirsty Suitors alongside Ekanayake, lead programmer Justin Lalone, and animator Aung Zaw Oo. We reviewed Outer Loop's previous game, Falcon Age, back in 2019, finding it to be a charming adventure that made us care more for a virtual pet than we ever thought we could.

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

A Texas Chainsaw Massacre game is in the works from the folks behind the defunct Friday the 14th video game.

Gun Interactive, creators of Friday the 13th, is partnering with Sumo Nottingham for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The developers say this is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game, meaning it will likely adopt the popular survivors vs. murderer format seen in games like Friday the 13th and Dead by Daylight.

Gun previously developed a similar asymmetrical multiplayer horror game based on Friday the 13th, but a fight over the rights stopped Gun from developing content for the game further. But it appears Gun is back with a new iconic horror franchise.

Asymmetrical horror games are surprisingly common, but that is only a testament to how much people enjoy them. Typically in these games, one player takes the role of the killer and must capture and find the other players who are survivors. The remaining players can work together to try and survive the murderer, or die trying.

Speaking of which, there's also a new Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie in the works at Netflix. Talk about good timing.

Check out IGN's The Game Awards hub page for the latest news and reveals.

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

A brand new Babylon's Fall trailer just dropped at The Game Awards, showing off more gameplay, more of PlatinumGames' iconic sword-slashy combat, and most importantly, a release date of March 3, 2022.

For most people, that is. If you happen to pre-order the digital deluxe edition, you'll be able to start playing on February 28 -- three days early.

Bizarrely, though, you'll need to be online at all times to play it, as well as have a Square Enix account. IGN has confirmed with Square Enix that an internet connection is required to play the game generally, even if you're just climbing the tower solo.

Babylon's Fall is a combat-focused action title where players control a sentinel, a warrior bonded with special equipment called Gideon Coffins who must ascend and conquer the enemy-filled Tower of Babylon. Players can customize their characters with up to four weapons at once, allowing for different combinations and playstyles, and can either play alone or with up to three friends. New game modes, story, and weapons will be added to Babylon's Fall for free post-launch.

We took a look at Babylon's Fall last month during its closed beta test, but felt that it was in a rough state at the time with uninspired quests, unengaging hallways, obvious encounter areas, and a frustrating loot system. Hopefully, it's improved a bit since then. In the meantime, there's plenty more to come from The Game Awards in the way of announcements and trailers.

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

"Most" films from Universal, Illumination, and Dreamworks will premiere on Peacock "as early as 45 days" following their theatrical and PVOD releases, NBCUniversal announced Thursday.

Peacock's new release model will start with NBCUniversal's 2022 films while keeping existing deals with Universal Filmed Entertainment Group for PVOD content.

This new announcement presumably adds to Peacock's previous announcement that its 2022 film slate would debut on Peacock no later than four months after theatrical release dates, including Jurassic World: Dominion.

NBCUniversal cited several upcoming films as examples that would debut on Peacock after the 45-day window, including Halloween Ends (the third and final entry in the latest Halloween reboot), Michael Bay's Ambulance, Blumhouse's The Black Phone, new movies from Dreamworks Animation like The Bad Guys, and Downton Abbey: A New Era.

“Prioritizing the theatrical experience and eventizing our world class content remains the cornerstone of our business,” said UFEG vice chairman and chief distribution officer Peter Levinsohn.

Peacock follows in the footsteps of other streaming services like HBO Max, which previously announced plans to film around 10 movies exclusively for their own platform, in addition to shortening or outright axing the window between theatrical premieres and streaming premieres. Peacock has previously allowed some of its films to premiere simultaneously in theaters and its streaming service, like Halloween Kills, the second entry in the new horror reboot.

You can check out IGN's review of Peacock from 2020 to get our first impressions of the streaming service. Since launch, it's thankfully gotten a few more series and movies worth checking out, like SYFY's Chucky.

Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/feathery fellow for IGN.

Prior to its recent release of Halo Infinite, Microsoft filed a US trademark application for 'Halo: The Endless'.

As spotted by Aggiornamenti Lumia on Twitter, Microsoft initially filed its application for Halo: The Endless on December 3 before it was then updated on December 7.

HALO: THE ENDLESS - Trademark Detailshttps://t.co/gMuFQPDM9S

— Aggiornamenti Lumia (@ALumia_Italia) December 9, 2021

Currently, very little is known about the trademark. A listing on trademark website Justia merely suggests that the trademark is tied to goods and services in the realm of video game software, which doesn't give much away. Further links within the trademark also appear to suggest ties between Halo: The Endless and other forms of entertainment media such as film, TV, and radio. Despite references to a number of formats within the trademark, this is far from a guarantee that Halo: The Endless will actually ever materialize into a product from within one of those categories.

While fans will have to see whether or not Microsoft has any solid plans for Halo: The Endless, the recent release of Halo: Infinite should offer plenty of content in the meantime. Halo Infinite's long-awaited launch took place yesterday. If you're one of the many fans currently heading into Infinite's campaign, make sure to check out our Halo wiki guide, which comes with its very own campaign walkthrough as well as a section fully dedicated to collectibles and other neat things from the game.

In other Halo news, Geoff Keighley recently revealed that that the first trailer for the long-awaited Halo TV series will be shown off tonight (December 9) during The Game Awards. The show is set to debut on Paramount Plus next year and will star Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief, with Danny Sapani and Olive Grey set to play Jacob and Miranda Keyes, respectively.

For more on Halo Infinite, make sure to check out this piece detailing how the game's original open world was reportedly cut down from a Zelda-like size to what it is today.

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A new image of Master Chief from the Halo TV series shows that Paramount has certainly got one thing right: that's game-accurate Mjolnir armor he's wearing.

The photo, revealed by Entertainment Weekly, shows actor Pablo Schreiber suited up as John-117 in a sandy environment.

Talking to EW, Schreiber said that the show promises to "crack the veneer" of Master Chief. "It takes place very much in the universe that the video games created, but it's a it's a TV show," he said. "We get to expand that universe and create stories in it. There's going to be some new characters that are introduced, there's going to be a lot of familiar characters that everyone will know from the game."

A new trailer for Halo will premiere at The Game Awards later today. The show itself will debut on Paramount+ next year. While Pablo Schreiber replaces the game's Steve Downes as the Chief, Jen Taylor will reprise her role as Cortana in the show.

As for games, Halo Infinite has finally arrived in (almost) full, now that both multiplayer and campaign segments are available. The reception so far is very positive; our Halo Infinite campaign review says it "has absolutely brought Halo’s single-player campaign back into contention as one of the finest out there."

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

Update: With The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet #1 due out on March 2, IGN can debut an exclusive preview of this wacky superhero mashup.

Check out the slideshow gallery below to see what to expect from writer Gail Simone and artists Bill Morrison, Walter Geovani and Rob Lean as they tackle a bizarre, Archie Comics-inspired parody:

"If you’ve ever read Gail, I don’t have to tell you how funny she is, or how true her characters are," The Wrong Earth co-creator Tom Peyer tells IGN. "A Wrong Earth story needs both. It’s where we take one of comics’ familiar heroic archetypes, campy or gritty or otherwise, and transport it to a place where it doesn’t fit in. Gail took to this like she’d been writing it always."

"Ahoy Comics is run by people who genuinely love comics," says Simone. "It shows in everything they do. It's a refreshing change from some companies that have adopted the whole 'it's just content to get optioned someday' mentality. The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet was fun to do from day one."

Morrison adds, "Years ago when Gail Simone’s career as a comic book writer was in its infancy, I had the sublime pleasure of working with her as editor on some very funny Simpsons stories at Bongo Comics. In addition to the comics, Gail wrote Bongo's weekly Simpsons newspaper strip, and some of her scripts were drawn by Dan DeCarlo. For The Wrong Earth: Trapped On Teen Planet I got to work with Gail again, this time drawing a big chunk of her brilliant script that required me to replicate Dan DeCarlo’s style. Full circle! I had so much fun I’m starting a letter writing campaign to demand a regular Teen Planet series, and I have no doubt that WETOTP readers will join me!"

The original story is below:

The Wrong Earth has always been a great choice for comic book fans who love big, wacky superhero crossovers. Now the series is returning for its most outlandish multiverse romp yet, and a number of guest star creators are coming along for the ride.

Previous volumes of The Wrong Earth focused on the Batman-esque hero Dragonfly, a hero who exists on Earth-Alpha as a campy, Batman '66-style superhero and on Earth-Omega as a grim, Dark Knight Returns-inspired vigilante. This time around, the series is expanding its scope to explore other words in this bizarre multiverse.

This new series consists of five standalone specials, each set on a different Earth in this multiverse. First up is The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet #1, which lampoons Archie and the entire Riverdale crew. Fittingly, Archie Comics mainstay Dan Parent is even drawing one of the covers. If you thought 2014's Archie vs. Predator was weird, this parody might just outdo it.

Trapped on Teen Planet is written by Gail Simone (Red Sonja, Secret Six), drawn by Bill Morrison (The Simpsons), Walter Geovani (Red Sonja/ Tarzan) and Rob Lean (Smallville: Alien), colored by Andy Troy and lettered by Rob Steen.

Here's a breakdown of the remaining four Wrong Earth specials, including the creators involved:

THE WRONG EARTH: FAME & FORTUNE #1 from writer Mark Russell, artist Michael Montenat, colorist Andy Troy, and letterer Rob Steen. On sale in April, this comic from the writer of Billionaire Island provides a satirical look at two different versions of Richard Fame and how, despite the best and worst intentions, huge gobs of money determine their own results.

THE WRONG EARTH: PURPLE #1 from writer Stuart Moore, artist by Fred Harper, and letterer by Rob Steen. On sale in May, this one-shot introduces Earth-Kappa, a dark but glossy world of big hair, shoulder pads, Wall Street traders, rubber super-suits, and funk music. Get the funk up!

THE WRONG EARTH: CONFIDENCE MEN #1 by writer Mark Waid, artist Leonard Kirk, and letterer Rob Steen. On sale in June, it’s the tale of two sidekicks! On campy Earth-Alpha, circumstances force kid sidekick Stinger to become Dragonflyman's mentor! On gritty Earth-Omega, Dragonfly and Stinger go to war—against each other!

THE WRONG EARTH: MEAT #1 from writer Tom Peyer, artist Greg Scott, and letterer Rob Steen, on sale in July. On campy Earth-Alpha, Dragonflyman and Stinger follow clues to foil the beef-themed crimes of Dr. Meat. On gritty Earth Omega, a tragedy compels Dragonfly to imprison a criminal in an abandoned slaughterhouse—just to have someone to talk to.

"THE WRONG EARTH, by the killer team of creators TOM PEYER and JAMAL IGLE, is my favorite new comic concept: the wrong hero in the wrong place at the wrong time," Simone tells IGN. "So it is simply gleeful fun to take the dark, gritty DRAGONFLY and send him to one of the most famously innocent small towns in comics…a place that may seem weirdly familiar, a place where the dog plays drums and no one gets laid, ever. Ever, ever. Like, abstinence for DECADES. You should read it because we had a blast. A very chaste blast!”

“THE WRONG EARTH: PURPLE is a tribute to all things ’80s, including big hair, shoulder pads, Wall Street traders, and ESPECIALLY: rubber super-people costumes," says Moore. "So put on some funk music, pick up a copy of “Sly Magazine,” and get ready for financial magnate Richard Fame—alias THE DRAGON-FLY—to face the biggest challenge of his dual life. With spectacular art and color by Fred Harper."

Russell adds, "Tom and Jamal created what I think is one of the most interesting comic book premises I’ve ever encountered, so I really wanted to write a story about them dealing with some social issue (in this case, building a stadium) which is problematic regardless of which universe you live in."

The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet #1 will hit stores on March 2, 2022. If you want to sample the franchise for yourself beforehand, IGN has a preview of the entire first issue of The Wrong Earth: Night & Day:

In other news, we just revealed our nominees for the best comic book series or original graphic novel of 2021.

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