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Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, a free online co-op mode, will be available in Fall 2020.

Legends is a new experience, and doesn’t feature Jin Sakai or his companions, but “instead focuses on four warriors who have been built up as legends in stories told by the people of Tsushima.

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While Ghost of Tsushima’s single-player campaign focuses on “an open world and exploring the natural beauty of the island,” this new co-op mode is “haunting and fantastical, with locations and enemies inspired by Japanese folk tales and mythology and an emphasis on cooperative combat and action.”

Legends will be exclusively co-op, and it can be played with friends or via online matchmaking in groups of 2-4 players. There will also be four different classes – the Samurai, Hunter, Ronin, or Assassin – and each one will have unique advantages and abilities that will be revealed in the future.

With two players, you will be able to play a series of co-op Story missions that will increase in difficulty, and will build on the foundation of Ghost of Tsushima’s gameplay with new magical twists that often need you to be in sync with your partner.

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With four players, you will be able to take on wave-based Survival missions, and you and your team will need to work together to take on the toughest enemies Tsushima has to offer, in addition to new Oni enemies with supernatural abilities.

Ghost of Tsushima: Legends will also feature a four-player Raid that will arrive shortly after the launch of this new mode, and it will send “you and your partners to an entirely new realm to challenge a brutal, terrifying enemy.”

For more on Ghost of Tsushima, which was July 2020’s best-selling game, check out our review, how the game’s weather will change based on your playstyle, and how Tsushima’s island itself changed during development.

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

Ghost of Tsushima launched as a single-player game, but Sucker Punch has announced an ambitious new feature for the action game: co-op multiplayer. The “Legends” co-op mode will be coming for free sometime later this year.

According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, Legends is an entirely new game mode that doesn’t follow the travails of Jin at all. Instead, it revolves around four warriors, legends in Tsushima, and the locations and enemies will be more fantastical and based on Japanese folk tales and mythology.

Legends will be exclusively reserved for co-op, with groups of 2-4. You can choose one of four character classes to play–Samurai, Hunter, Ronin, or Assassin–each with their own unique abilities. With two players you can take on co-op Story missions. With a full group of four, you can take on wave-based Survival missions. There will also be a super-difficult four-player Raid coming sometime after Legends launches.

Sucker Punch says it will be sharing more details like character classes and customization as the Legends mode gets closer to launch. An accompanying cinematic trailer (above) sets the mood and shows snippets of gameplay.

“Ghost of Tsushima is at its best when you’re riding your horse and taking in the beautiful world on your own terms, armed with a sword and a screenshot button, allowing the environmental cues and your own curiosity to guide you,” Edmond Tran wrote in GameSpot’s Ghost of Tsushima review. “It’s not quite a Criterion classic, but a lot of the time it sure looks like one.”

VR music game Beat Saber has a new Linkin Park music DLC pack on PSVR and PC and on PC, comprised of 11 of the band’s most popular songs from several of their albums, that is out right now. A celebration of Hybrid Theory’s 20th anniversary, the Linkin Park Music Pack also includes tracks from the Meteora and Minutes to Midnight albums. All 11 songs will be playable across all Beat Saber difficulty modes, making for 55 beatmaps in total.

The Music Pack also includes a new game area directly inspired by the tunnel scene in the “One Step Closer” music video. “With this music pack, we are releasing a brand new game environment – a fully enclosed game area inspired by the tunnel scene you might remember from the ‘One Step Closer’ music video,” Head of Marketing for Beat Games, Michaela Dvorak, said on the PS Blog.

“The environment is also accompanied by a new four-color lighting scheme. To pay our tribute to the iconic Hybrid Theory album, the whole environment is stylized into the album’s colors”.

The DLC pack listing isn’t up yet on the US PlayStation Network or Steam, but it is live on the South African store. You can see the full track list below:

Linkin Park Music Pack

• Bleed It Out
• Breaking the Habit
• Faint
• Given Up
• In The End
• New Divide
• Numb
• One Step Closer
• Papercut
• Somewhere I Belong
• What I’ve Done

Beat Saber recently added 46 new beatmaps across 18 songs, as well as new 360° maps for those players seeking a different challenge.

Linkin Park frontman Mike Shinoda also began writing an original theme song for the opening night of Gamescom, on Twitch last week.

Pokemon Masters is approaching its first anniversary at the end of August, and to mark the occasion DeNA has taken the unconventional step of changing the game’s name. To signify how much the game has evolved since its initial (somewhat anemic) release, the game has been changed to “Pokemon Masters EX.”

The update came alongside several other special events that are now available or coming soon. A new Sync Pair is available for purchase through the shop, featuring Sygna Suit Cynthia and the Dragon-type Pokemon Kommo-o. Sygna Suit trainers are generally stronger than their regular counterparts. The game is also hosting a Legendary Event with the Pokemon trainer Cyrus and Palkia, letting you earn the pair by completing the “New World Dilemma” event. Both Cynthia and the Legendary Event will be available until September 2 at 10:59 PM PT.

As part of the anniversary celebration, the Pokemon Center has gotten some special decorations, and you can claim login bonuses in the Run-Up To One Year Anniversary board. There’s also a new Mission Bingo to match, and completing it by August 27 will net you a whopping 3,000 gems, 225 Skip Tickets, and other goodies.

Finally, a Lance and Dragonite sync pair will be available in the Spotlight Scout starting August 19, and lasting through September 2. A currently running Rock-Type Egg event lets you hatch several rock-type Pokemon, including a shiny Aerodactyl and Kabuto, through August 24.

Despite a strong start in downloads, Pokemon Masters was criticized for having too little to do at launch, to the point that the producer apologized. It’s built up a lot of extra systems since then, like gear, a leveling-up Sync Grid system, an egg-hatching system, extra hard Battle Villa and Legendary challenges, and more. The game has since been criticized as too grind-heavy, prompting the recent addition of a stamina system and skip tickets alongside a revision of leveling items.

A very creative and committed Halo fan is recreating the Halo Infinite campaign demo inside Halo 5, and it’s looking really good so far. Twitter user Ducain23 is using Halo 5‘s Forge tools to re-make the Halo Infinite campaign demo, and he recently shared an update on his progress.

The images below show off the impressive-looking map, featuring imagery and objects that appear very similar to the Halo Infinite demo. We see a Warthog entering the map, with huge pillars in the background. There are Grunts in another shot, while another image shows off some of the trees and grass that was seen in the demo. In short, it all looks really good so far, and it will be intriguing to see the finished product when Ducain23 wraps it up. He says he has around 700 more objects to add, and hopefully he finds a way to work in Craig.

Ducain23 is chronicling his creation on Twitch. If you’ve ever dabbled with the Halo 5 Forge tools, you know how extensive they are regarding the level of depth and complexity of what can be created. Ducain23 is putting them to great use, and his behind-the-scenes videos of creating the demo in Halo 5 are educational and entertaining. You can watch them here on Twitch.

This isn’t the first time Halo Infinite’s demo is being remade inside another game. Someone else is using Halo 5’s Forge tools to re-make Halo Infinite’s campaign demo, and Microsoft has taken notice. People have used PlayStation’s game-making game, Dreams, to do the same thing, while someone else has imagined what Halo Infinite might look like as a Nintendo 64 game.

Halo Infinite developer 343 recently delayed the release of Halo Infinite until 2021 due in part to complications related to working from home during the pandemic. The developer has asked fans to “hold tight” for more news regarding the game and the future of the franchise.