Sega and Creative Assembly have announced Hyenas, a PvEvP shooter from the team behind Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2.

Set in a future where billionaires have colonized Mars and made Earth inhospitable, Hyenas is a fast-paced multiplayer FPS that casts players as anti-hero pirates stealing from the mega-rich. Each match hosts 15 players split up into five teams of three, and those teams compete to steal treasures from a spaceship and escape with the biggest pile of loot. It sounds a little like Hunt: Showdown, but with the slick and speedy sensibilities of Apex Legends.

Further complicating things are an AI-controlled security force that defends the vaults containing the treasures you seek; known as the MFPF (or ‘murphs’), these guards will fight anyone trying to steal from the billionaires.

“These ships aren’t defenseless,” explained creative director Charlie Bewsher in a chat with IGN. “They’re full of security, sensors, switches, interactive systems, and gadgets. It’s a great environment for this competitive game to take place in.”

Since the maps are set on freighter ships traveling between Earth and Mars, there’s also zero gravity to contend with. Certain segments of the maps will have no gravity whatsoever, allowing you to float around and use 3D space in new ways. Other locations, such as individual rooms and corridors, also have on/off switches for zero-g. Characters have maglock boots to help overcome any gravity issues, should zooming around freestyle not be your preferred method of travel.

With numerous corridors, vaults, rooms, and hangar spaces, each Hyena map is pretty large. Creative Assembly says to expect something larger than a regular PvP deathmatch map, but something that’s not quite as large as a battle royale map. Despite that, the team has been inspired by the kind of gameplay seen in games like Fortnite and Warzone.

“We didn’t want to make a battle royale, but we wanted to take that idea of creating this unpredictable, chaotic space where players would find this new gameplay, find new tactics, and ultimately find new player stories,” said Bewsher.

Each match is set aboard a freighter spaceship that ferries items from the remains of Earth up to Mars. But those items, now traded for massive cash by billionaires, are perhaps not what you’re expecting. In Hyenas' world, pop-culture artifacts from Earth’s past are the new diamonds, and so you’ll be stealing anything from Rubik's cubes and Sony Walkman tape decks to Sonic statues and green army men. Bewsher even says that you could end up looting the first album you ever bought, and promises you’ll see lots of different pop culture IPs represented in the game.

The cinematic reveal trailer shows off a freighter piled high with New York-themed memorabilia, including everything from subway cars to the Statue of Liberty itself. Hyenas definitely doesn’t take itself seriously, and its colorful comic book-style art reflects that.

Creative Assembly has not yet detailed all the playable characters, but notes that they each fall into one of three categories: engage, evade, and exploit. Engage characters are action-focused, while evade heroes are focused on nimble movement and occasionally stealth. Exploit characters, meanwhile, are the hackers and support characters.

As part of the announcement stream on IGN, Creative Assembly namechecked a few of Hyenas’ heroes. The Pro is a classic-style bank robber with a shotgun, deployable turret, and a President Nixon mask. Commander Wright is an astronaut with a foam gun that can quickly create barricades, cover, and climbing platforms. Doc Hotfix is a gamer who believes he’s a character in a game, and thus offers some fourth wall-breaking commentary. A few other characters can be seen in the trailer, but they have yet to be detailed.

No release date for Hyenas has been announced so far, but a playable alpha is planned and can be signed up for at playhyenas.com. When Hyenas does finally release, it will be available on Xbox and PlayStation consoles, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.

For more from IGN’s Summer of Gaming, check out our schedule which rounds up all the highlights from every gaming event held this June.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

Nintendo and Monolith Soft have announced an Expansion Pass for Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which will add a variety of new quests, characters, and storylines to the game over the course of 2022 and 2023.

Revealed as part of today’s Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Direct, the Expansion Pass will cost $29.99 / £26.99 and will be available alongside the main game when it launches on July 29.

The pass itself is broken down into four pieces, with the first release happening on the day Xenoblade Chronicles 3 launches, and the final piece dropping before the end of 2023.

First up, coming at launch on July 29, the Expansion Pass will grant a variety of unnamed “helpful items” and colour variants for your characters’ outfits.

The second drop will add a new Hero character and quests, a new Challenge Battle, and new outfits. This is promised to arrive sometime before the end of 2022, but Nintendo has yet to provide a release window. A third drop, once again adding a new Hero character and quests, Challenge Battle, and new outfits, will be released before April 30, 2023.

The final drop, which will arrive no later than December 31, 2023, will add a brand new story scenario to the game. That’s a full storyline, rather than the odd few quests, and so will presumably add a big chunk of new narrative to the game.

These individual waves of DLC will not be available separately, so players will need to buy the entire Expansion Pass should they wish to get any of the additions.

For more, check out everything we learned from the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Direct, including the story’s main characters, the cool Interlink mechanic, and how battle works.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

Nintendo and Monolith Soft have announced an Expansion Pass for Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which will add a variety of new quests, characters, and storylines to the game over the course of 2022 and 2023.

Revealed as part of today’s Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Direct, the Expansion Pass will cost $29.99 / £26.99 and will be available alongside the main game when it launches on July 29.

The pass itself is broken down into four pieces, with the first release happening on the day Xenoblade Chronicles 3 launches, and the final piece dropping before the end of 2023.

First up, coming at launch on July 29, the Expansion Pass will grant a variety of unnamed “helpful items” and colour variants for your characters’ outfits.

The second drop will add a new Hero character and quests, a new Challenge Battle, and new outfits. This is promised to arrive sometime before the end of 2022, but Nintendo has yet to provide a release window. A third drop, once again adding a new Hero character and quests, Challenge Battle, and new outfits, will be released before April 30, 2023.

The final drop, which will arrive no later than December 31, 2023, will add a brand new story scenario to the game. That’s a full storyline, rather than the odd few quests, and so will presumably add a big chunk of new narrative to the game.

These individual waves of DLC will not be available separately, so players will need to buy the entire Expansion Pass should they wish to get any of the additions.

For more, check out everything we learned from the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Direct, including the story’s main characters, the cool Interlink mechanic, and how battle works.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

Magic Design Studios and Gearbox Publishing have announced Fast Food, the new content update for their stylish roguelike action sidescroller. Have a Nice Death is available now on Steam, and Fast Food will be released on July 7.

As the name implies (and you can see in the trailer above as well as screenshots in the gallery below), Fast Food will add a culinary theme to HAND. It also adds a new world: the Toxic Food-Processing Department, which includes a new boss fight, two new mini-bosses, new side worlds and difficulty modes, new spells and weapons, new enemies (described by Magic Design as "hamburger monsters, take-out containers and deadly sweets"), and more.

Naturally, the update also rolls in fixes and upgrades based on player feedback as HAND moves through the Early Access process. If you're curious how the base game plays, check out our first preview, in which we said Have a Nice Death "is primed to be our next roguelike obsession."

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

Magic Design Studios and Gearbox Publishing have announced Fast Food, the new content update for their stylish roguelike action sidescroller. Have a Nice Death is available now on Steam, and Fast Food will be released on July 7.

As the name implies (and you can see in the trailer above as well as screenshots in the gallery below), Fast Food will add a culinary theme to HAND. It also adds a new world: the Toxic Food-Processing Department, which includes a new boss fight, two new mini-bosses, new side worlds and difficulty modes, new spells and weapons, new enemies (described by Magic Design as "hamburger monsters, take-out containers and deadly sweets"), and more.

Naturally, the update also rolls in fixes and upgrades based on player feedback as HAND moves through the Early Access process. If you're curious how the base game plays, check out our first preview, in which we said Have a Nice Death "is primed to be our next roguelike obsession."

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

If you like your crime thrillers with a dash of high-concept sci-fi, then Jason Starr's upcoming novel The Next Time I Die might be up your alley. The book has already been optioned by Gil Adler Productions Group ahead of its June 28 release, and IGN can now debut an exclusive excerpt from the story.

The Next Time I Die revolves around an attorney named Steven Blitz, who is stabbed to death in the act of stopping a violent crime. But instead of the afterlife, Steven wakes up in a parallel reality where his financial woes and crumbling marriage are wiped away. There's just one problem - in this life Steven is anything but a good man, and he'll have to uncover the truth about his alternate self even as he tries to understand the nature of his new reality.

ScreenRant previously previewed the first two chapters of The Next Time I Die, and now IGN can debut Chapter 3. Check out the slideshow gallery below to read all three chapters [note - beware of some NSFW language ahead!]

The Next Time I Die is being published through Hard Case Crime. Adler, whose producer credits include DC movies like Superman Returns and Constantine, hints that the novel could form the basis of a new streaming film or series in the near future.

“Once my team and I started reading, we couldn’t stop,” said Adler in a press release. “We usually can tell where a plot is heading, but this book has genuine surprises and twists you just don’t see coming! Move over Harlan Coben, this sci-fi thriller will be the next ‘big deal’ on a streaming service.”

IGN also recently debuted a new excerpt from Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith, a novel that offers new insight into Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian's exploits 20 years after Return of the Jedi.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

If you like your crime thrillers with a dash of high-concept sci-fi, then Jason Starr's upcoming novel The Next Time I Die might be up your alley. The book has already been optioned by Gil Adler Productions Group ahead of its June 28 release, and IGN can now debut an exclusive excerpt from the story.

The Next Time I Die revolves around an attorney named Steven Blitz, who is stabbed to death in the act of stopping a violent crime. But instead of the afterlife, Steven wakes up in a parallel reality where his financial woes and crumbling marriage are wiped away. There's just one problem - in this life Steven is anything but a good man, and he'll have to uncover the truth about his alternate self even as he tries to understand the nature of his new reality.

ScreenRant previously previewed the first two chapters of The Next Time I Die, and now IGN can debut Chapter 3. Check out the slideshow gallery below to read all three chapters [note - beware of some NSFW language ahead!]

The Next Time I Die is being published through Hard Case Crime. Adler, whose producer credits include DC movies like Superman Returns and Constantine, hints that the novel could form the basis of a new streaming film or series in the near future.

“Once my team and I started reading, we couldn’t stop,” said Adler in a press release. “We usually can tell where a plot is heading, but this book has genuine surprises and twists you just don’t see coming! Move over Harlan Coben, this sci-fi thriller will be the next ‘big deal’ on a streaming service.”

IGN also recently debuted a new excerpt from Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith, a novel that offers new insight into Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian's exploits 20 years after Return of the Jedi.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi stars Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen are open to the idea of continuing their characters' stories for a second season of the Disney+ Star Wars series.

Speaking with British GQ, McGregor reflected on returning to his Star Wars role for the first time in 17 years on the set of Obi-Wan Kenobi alongside Christensen. He also indicated that he would don the Jedi robes again if the opportunity arose. "I really hope we do another," he said. "If I could do one of these every now and again — I'd just be happy about it."

McGregor also mentioned what it was like to reunite with his Star Wars prequel trilogy co-star after all of this time, and how he felt in his first scene with Christensen suited up as Sith Lord Darth Vader. "I got a jolt of fear that made me six years old again," he admitted. "I've never experienced that before. I just about crapped my pants."

It seems that Christensen isn't quite ready to hang up his helmet either. Speaking to RadioTimes, the actor expressed his desire to reprise his Star Wars role for a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi or another project that involves his character, noting that Lucasfilm billed Obi-Wan as a six-part limited series but there may be more stories to tell yet.

"Well, it was definitely conceived as a standalone story. But I would love to continue with this character. You know, I think there's certainly more there to explore and I would be so excited to get to do so," he told the outlet, adding that if there was a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi, he "would certainly be open to" returning for more episodes.

The sixth and final part of Obi-Wan Kenobi dropped on Disney+ on June 22, and it featured a major Star Wars cameo that is sure to get viewers talking. IGN scored the episode a 9 out of 10, calling it "a near-essential piece of Star Wars viewing" that "elegantly ties a bow on the stories it began, while enhancing the ones that are yet to come."

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

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season finale of Obi-Wan Kenobi!

The season finale of Obi-Wan Kenobi just featured the return of a major Star Wars figure.

It’s no surprise that Disney’s latest Star Wars spin-off has featured plenty of nods and winks to characters from across the franchise. We’ve seen the return of Darth Vader, among others. There’s even an interesting Easter egg for fans of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

But now, it looks as though a legendary character from the galaxy far, far away is back.

That’s right – Qui-Gon Jinn is back, played by Liam Neeson.

Of course, the last we saw of poor Qui-Gon was in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, in which the Jedi master was slain by Darth Maul in the lightsaber duel to end all duels. His body was later cremated on a funeral pyre… and this is where it gets interesting.

Qui-Gon trained to retain an eternal consciousness – much the same as Master Yoda, Obi-Wan, and even Luke Skywalker. But this usually means that the Jedi’s body disappears upon death, in the same way that Obi-Wan disappears when he’s struck down by Vader in A New Hope.

However, Qui-Gon’s training was incomplete.

Qui-Gon’s body remained when he was struck down by Darth Maul, leaving many fans to assume that he had not achieved eternal consciousness, and thus could not return as a Force Ghost like the other Jedi.

Now, it looks as though that’s not the case.

I can’t help thinking that Star Wars fans will be divided on whether or not this is a good thing. After all, it kinda breaks the logic behind the mystery of the disappearing Jedi bodies.

Still, it’s great to see Liam Neeson back as Qui-Gon Jinn, and fans of the prequel series (yes, there really are some) will no doubt love this little cameo. To see what we thought of the episode, check out our Obi-Wan Kenobi season finale review.

Obi-Wan Kenobi stars Ewan McGregor as the titular Jedi alongside Benny Safdie, Joel Edgerton, Rupert Friend, Moses Ingram, Sung Kang, and Hayden Christensen.

Deborah Chow directed the series based on scripts by Joby Harold, Andrew Stanton, Hannah Friedman, Hossein Amini, and Stuart Beattie.

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

Léa Seydoux will be perfecting her sand walk for Dune: Part Two. According to Variety, the 36-year-old No Time to Die star has been cast in the second part of director Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic, Dune.

She’ll be playing Lady Margot – the Bene Gesserit wife of Count Hasimir Fenring, both of which have a prominent role in Frank Herbert’s original 1965 novel. However, neither of them appeared in David Lynch’s 1984 film adaptation.

The original novel sees Lady Margot leave a coded message to Jessica which is found when House Atreides arrives on Arrakis.

The message warns of a plot by the Harkonnens to depose Atreides and take back the planet, warning that both Leto and Paul are in grave danger. Later, she becomes involved with Feyd-Rautha and uses her Bene Gesserit skills to plant a command in Feyd’s mind to enable Paul to defeat him in battle… but Paul is able to overcome him without it.

Lady Margot is described in the novel as "golden-haired and willowy, her perfection of figure clothed in a flowing gown of ecru—simple fitness of form without ornament. Gray-green eyes stared back at him. She had that Bene Gesserit serene repose about her that the young man found subtly disturbing.”

A good fit for Seydoux, then, who sprung to prominence following her role in Blue is the Warmest Color, and is perhaps best known for joining the Bond franchise with Spectre.

Other recent additions to Dune: Part Two include the legendary Christopher Walken as Emperor Shaddam IV as well as Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan. Notably, Villeneuve finally found his very own Feyd-Rautha in the form of Elvis star Austin Butler.

Elsewhere, Josh Brolin recently confirmed that his character Gurney Halleck will be getting a lot more action scenes in the upcoming sequel, which will also feature “much more Harkonnen stuff”.

Dune: Part Two stars Timothée Chalamet, Austin Butler, Rebecca Fergusson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Zendaya, Léa Syedoux, and Christopher Walken.

Denis Villeneuve will direct the film based on a script he co-wrote with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth.

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