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Blasphemous is a gothic pixel-art action-platformer that’s coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC on September 10. Before then, however, PC players can sample the nightmarish world of Cvstodia early, courtesy of a demo that’s out on Steam right now. Be quick about it, though, because this early taste is only available until this Sunday, September 1.

In it, you play as The Pertinent One, the sole survivor of the massacre of the “Silent Sorrow.” Armed with a sword called the Mea Culpa and a pointy helmet filled with someone else’s blood, you’ll descend into a dangerous world only you can free from its twisted fate, discovering the “origin of your torment” in the process.

Developed by The Game Kitchen–whose only previous game is the psychological point-and-click horror game The Last Door–and published by Team17, Blasphemous promises “fast-paced, skilled combat” that combines with “a deep and evocative narrative core.” You’ll be able to explore a non-linear world, face off against gigantic bosses, acquire devastating new combos and special moves as part of its brutal combat, and customise your build with various combinations of Relics, Rosary Beads, Prayers, and Sword Hearts.

The demo showcases the starting areas of the game and its first boss. You can grab it now until September 1, or wishlist the game on Steam ahead of its September 10 release on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC for $24.99 // €24.99 // £19.99.

Our IGN First game for August 2019 is Borderlands 3, and as the month draws to an end, we’re giving you one more look at the awesomeness of Borderlands 3 with an unboxing of its amazing Diamond Loot Chest Super Deluxe Edition.

To see all the real-life loot included inside, check out the video above.

The month of August brought us an onslaught of exciting Borderlands 3 first looks, including the first 14 minutes of Borderlands 3, a look at how Gearbox made true on its promise of Borderlands’ 1 billion guns, and plenty more.

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As the title suggests, Something Is Killing the Children is graphic and horrifying. When it was first announced, the comic seemed like it could be a Stranger Things riff, an adventure story about kids fighting a terrible monster. While it does have some of those elements, the first issue makes it abundantly clear that this story is going to take things to a much, much darker place.

“There are battles with monsters and whatnot, but this book is coming from the darkest possible emotions and those are the emotions I want to explore in the series,” writer and series creator James Tynion IV told IGN.

Tynion has been carrying the title of this series around for a long time. He originally attached it to a short story in college, but that story faded away while the title continued to rattle around in his brain. Even as Tynion moved to the big leagues, writing everything from Justice League Dark, Constantine: The Hellblazer and Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ideas for Something Is Killing the Children would still come to him. It wasn’t until he brought these pieces to publisher Boom! Studios that he finally came up with the story that title was meant to tell.

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The GPU market is in a pretty interesting place right now. Nvidia introduced a 1.5 version of Turing with Super versions of its high-end RTX GPUs and some of its most affordable GTX graphics cards yet. Meanwhile, AMD introduced its Radeon VII and its first Navi graphics card are shaking things up a bit by giving gamers a 7nm GPU alternative to Nvidia’s fully-fleshed out Turing line-up.

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The Nintendo Switch has loads of fantastic local multiplayer games. But the exorbitant prices Nintendo charges for first-party controllers means you basically have to take out another mortgage to stock up on extras. Thankfully, Power A offers a number of high quality options at affordable prices. Its upcoming set of Switch controllers cost $49.99 each and they sport beautiful officially licensed Nintendo-themed designs. Some of them will ship on September 15, while others are slated for September 30. Let’s check ’em out.

Satin Blue Chrome Zelda Nintendo Switch Controller

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Post-apocalyptic turn-based tactics game Overland–think XCOM crossed with The Oregon Trail–launches for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC on September 19, a new trailer has revealed.

Indie developer Finji’s latest game puts you in control of a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic America. You’ll travel across the country in a vehicle, stopping to scavenge for supplies, rescue fellow travellers, and fend off the game’s peculiar rock monsters. There are also dogs you can pet, and they even wear backpacks. Good doggos.

Each level and character you meet on your journey is randomly generated, making each road trip different from the last. There’s an emphasis on grabbing what you can and escaping back to your car before being overrun, and you’ll have to make some tough choices about who to save and where to travel to next as you continue the fight to survive.

Castle Crashers Remastered, the classic side-scrolling beat-’em-up from developer The Behemoth, is launching on September 17 for Nintendo Switch. A PlayStation 4 version is set to follow shortly after, but no specific date has been announced yet.

The Switch and PS4 version will be similar to the remastered edition that made its way to the Xbox One back in 2015, which is, of course, an upgraded version of the Xbox 360’s original 2008 release. It will contain the Back Off Barbarian mini-game, all previously released DLC, and various gameplay improvements and performance updates, such as 60 frames per second gameplay and improved textures. The Switch version also utilizes the system’s HD Rumble feature and four-player local Joy-Con support.

The original Castle Crashers was one of the first games to establish Xbox Live as a viable marketplace for indie games and smaller-scale projects. As for why it’s coming to Switch and PS4 11 years after launching on the 360, The Behemoth co-founder Dan Paladin says it mostly boils down to game preservation. “With Alien Hominid not being ported often, we’ve seen it slowly become unavailable in most places,” he said in a recent blog post. “When we make games we want them to stick around. Taking advantage of the updated hardware of each generation is also very satisfying. Higher resolutions, higher framerates, chances to make tweaks, and better overall quality. Our debut title (Alien Hominid) was available on both Gameboy Advance and Nintendo Gamecube.”

GameSpot’s review praised the original game, saying, “The main storyline offers hours of bad-guy beating and princess-rescuing fun that it is sure to please. The ability to play with friends should make the experience richer, even if it is limited to a more local experience. As a testament to its entertainment, feature losses and some disappointing online play hardly slow this juggernaut of amusement down. This is an absurdly hilarious romp you won’t soon forget.”

Castle Crashers is launching on September 17 for Nintendo Switch, with a PS4 version to follow.

Yakuza 7 was unveiled just yesterday during a press conference with series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi. Titled Yakuza: Like A Dragon in the West, it aims to be a “watershed” moment for the long-running series, introducing a major change to its usual action as combat switches to a turn-based system akin to JRPG games such as Dragon Quest–which new protagonist Ichiban Kasuga is a big fan of. It’s a surprising and drastic change straight out of left field… except we’ve all been here before.

Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio released an April Fools video earlier this year that joked that the Yakuza combat would change to a turn-based system. We already knew that Kasuga was taking over protagonist duties after Kazuma Kiryu bowed out of the series in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, so his appearance in the April Fools video wasn’t anything noteworthy. In truth, the prank-filled day is a bit of a nightmare, with hoax after hoax guaranteeing that you can’t believe anything you read or watch. Occasionally a company will put out something funny, but that’s usually as far as it ever goes. The Yakuza video was one of the better examples, elaborately reshaping the series as a turn-based JRPG complete with a four-person party, character levels, and skill moves that drink from a pool of SP. It still had that outlandish Yakuza charm, but framed it in a different way where over-the-top attacks are picked from a menu as opposed to being something you activate with Heat and a weapon in-hand.

Now we know why it was elaborate enough to look like an honest-to-goodness video game: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio was showing us Yakuza 7 the whole time. It’s a bold move, sticking a four-minute video for your next, series-altering game up on YouTube five months before officially announcing it. But it worked. No one suspected a thing and now it comes across as an act of sly genius.

Conan Chop Chop, a hack-and-slash action-roguelike with couch co-op, was also announced as an April Fools joke before developer Funcom turned the joke on us and revealed that it’s actually a real game. The roguelike, starring a cute little Conan the Barbarian, was due out in September but has since been delayed into 2020 while the team expands the game’s scope by adding online multiplayer.

Who knows, maybe Yakuza 7 and Conan Chop Chop aren’t the last games to get the April-Fools-but-actually-it’s-a-real-game treatment. What was once a throwaway day of obvious pranks is now something worth paying attention to. Maybe the next Sniper Elite game is really a visual novel dating sim about love blooming on the battlefield. That Sonic the Hedgehog battle royale game is starting to sound real right about now, right? And we certainly wouldn’t put it past Nintendo turning Kirby square. The possibilities are endless.

Yakuza 7 will release on January 16, 2020 in Japan for PlayStation 4. The game will be released in the West later in 2020.