Brace yourselves: E3 2016 is nearly upon us. From June 12-16, the entire gaming industry will converge on Los Angeles to showcase the biggest games that we'll be playing for 2016 and beyond. We've been updating our Games of E3 List whenever news drops, but now we're going to go even deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we're going to highlight one of the biggest games that we hope to see more of at E3. Up today: For Honor!
When it comes to current games based on One Piece, there isn't much room on the Thousand Sunny pirate ship for neophytes. One Piece: Burning Blood reshapes one of the series' most important arcs into a 3D fighting game that'll confuse anyone outside of its fanbase. But as someone heavily invested in the pirate lifestyle of the long-running manga and anime series, I'm impressed with how just dense the crew is on this voyage, even as I wished for better combat and a broader story in Luffy's newest brawler.
Burning Blood's combat will be immediately familiar to anyone who played the underwhelming crossover J-Stars Victory Vs.+. Burning Blood is all about colorful, noisy, one-on-one 3D battles where you swap between fighters in teams of up to three different characters, and the combat is full of flashy action ripped straight from the source. That style makes the early rounds of battle a visual treat, particularly when Haki users enter the fray to pull off some badass dodges and combos. Unfortunately, Burning Blood needs that flash to compel you to learn its somewhat wonky and chaotic approach to combat.
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
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UPDATE: The Fable Fortune Kickstarter is now live, and will run for 28 days. Reward tiers range from £5 (including digital rewards, closed beta access and more) to a lofty £5,000, which, among many other things, grants the buyer a chance to be illustrated on a Fable Fortune card of their choosing.
The page also goes into huge detail about the current design of the game itself - if our coverage wasn't quite in-depth enough for you, it's well worth looking over.
PlayStation Plus subscribers will have access to NBA 2K16 and Gone Home: Console Edition on PlayStation 4 in June.
Echochrome and Siren: Blood Curse (episodes 1-12) will be available for free on PlayStation 3, with God of War: Chains of Olympus and Little Deviants for PlayStation Vita.
Sony partnered with publisher 2K to bring NBA 2K16 to the June lineup in celebration of the NBA Finals, which begin this week. In IGN's NBA 2K16 review, we praised the game for its "leap forward in defensive AI, online stability, and overall polish."
Science fiction books, TV shows, and movies have long challenged the boundaries of what's possible through the power of discovery. Generations of inventors have grown up inspired by the prophetic vision of filmmakers and writers, and today laboratories across the globe are bringing devices once regarded as futuristic fiction into the world of reality.
Blaster bolts, laser beams, and phasers are a sci-fi staple as old as H.G. Wells. But now the US military freely admits they've developed energy weapons so practical they'll soon be deployed on ships and aircraft, perhaps as soon as 2023.
Telltale Games has announced a June 7 release date for Episode 6 of Minecraft: Story Mode - titled 'A Portal to Mystery' - and revealed that six real-life Minecraft celebrities will appear during the episodic adventure in newly blocky form.
Telltale announced three extra episodes after the seeming season finale back in March, of which Episode 6 is the first.
'A Portal to Mystery' will feature hero Jesse and his friends thrust into a mystery story in a zombie-infested world, finding themselves trapped in a mansion with six new-but-familiar characters.
Just Cause 3's Mech Land Assault DLC pack will be available on June 3 for expansion pass holders, publisher Square Enix announced today.
Mech Land Assault will become available for $12 on June 10 for those who haven't purchased the expansion pass. The DLC, which is the second in Just Cause 3's Air, Land and Sea pass, introduces players to Lacrima—a new island with an "abandoned eDen research base" and a prison camp "run by the mysterious Black Hand."
Rico Rodriguez will gain access to two new, powerful Mechs and a "new energy weapon" called the Bavarium Power Core rifle.
"The new Mechs allow Rico to throw enemies, vehicles, and chaos objects around like tennis balls—increasing the scope for physics-based fun," Tobias Andersson, senior producer at Avalanche Studios said. "Whether you're juggling a small car or punching helicopters out of the sky, the Mechs give you the opportunity to mess with your surroundings in creative, explosive ways."
Mojang has updated its Commercial Usage Guidelines in a bid to stop companies from using Minecraft to sell a product.
In a post on the Mojang website, the Minecraft maker breaks down what brands can and can't do moving forwards. Specifically, companies can no longer create a Minecraft mod or server which is designed to sell a product. The example Mojang gives is of a restaurant chain making a Minecraft version of their building, then using that image to help sell the chain's food. 'Brand synergy' and all that.
Likewise, building a map or mod to market a TV show or movie is a no go area. From the Mojang post: "if you're a movie studio, you can't make a map that uses Minecraft blocks to build out the fictional world of the movie or its characters, and you can't make an official movie trailer out of gameplay footage from that map or mod."
A listing on the Xbox Store has outed the Resident Evil 5 Xbox One release date as June 28.
The $20 / £16 Xbox One version of Resident Evil 5 will be available in 1080p with an increased frame rate.
The game will also include all previously released DLC: Lost in Nightmares, Desperate Escape, Versus Mode, The Mercenaries United mode, and the previously PC-exclusive No Mercy Mode.
Capcom has not revealed this date officially yet, so we will update you if it changes, or if this is also revealed to be the PlayStation 4 date.
The Xbox One and PS4 version of Resident Evil 6 launched earlier this year, and the Resident Evil 4 port is also due out in a few months time. There are also plans for a Resident Evil 2 remake.
The third episode of Hitman releases today, and we'll soon be rowing our boats not-so-gently down the livestream to bring you all the action.
IGN UK's Rory "Shredder" Powers and Gav "Murderous" Murphy will slip back into Agent 47's shoes to play through the third episode, which takes place in the same kind of dusty, exotic metropolis that perfume adverts are filmed in.
Only, Dior usually omits the sound of pistol gun fire.
But that's what we're in Marrakech for, after all, so strap yourself in and ready your garrottes.
Bookmark this page and check back at 12PM BST / 4AM PST / 9PM AEST, on Wednesday June 1 to see the game in action.
In an effort to translate Pokémon games into traditional and simplified Chinese, Nintendo has essentially renamed Pokémon characters, including Pikachu.
The Pokémon Company recently announced Pokémon Sun and Moon for Nintendo 3DS. These are first Pokémon games to be translated into Mandarin, but in doing so, the efforts overlook Hong Kong's primary language, Cantonese.
According to QZ.com, in Greater China Pokémon will be officially called 精靈寶可夢 -- or "Jingling Baokemeng" in Mandarin (Jingling means "spirit" or "elf," and Baokemeng is a transliteration of Pokémon).
Stockholm-based studio Starbreeze has announced today it has struck a deal with publisher 505 Games to acquire the rights to the PayDay franchise. Following the agreement Starbreeze will be the sole rightsholder for the entire PayDay series.
Starbreeze notes that it will collect all net revenue from sales of PayDay 2 via Steam (starting retroactively from May 1, 2016), but 505 Games will continue to publish the console game PayDay 2: Crimewave Edition (and revenue will continue to be split between the companies).
Starbreeze also confirmed the existence of PayDay 3 within the announcement, explaining 505 Games will share in the net revenue of PayDay 3 (capped at USD $40 million).
For those unaware, The Witcher 3's latest (and final) expansion, Blood and Wine, not only boasts upwards of 25 new hours of gameplay, but also gives players a whole new kingdom - or, to be exact, a duchy - to roam and slay monsters in. We'd heard that it was large, but didn't truly know how big the map was until we got our hands on it. Once we'd roamed around a bit, we decided to work up a visual approximation of Toussaint versus the largest area in Wild Hunt.
A Game of the Year Edition for Batman: Arkham Knight may soon be on the way, as a premature listing by an online retailer has seemingly outed the title.
According to Amazon Germany, Batman: Arkham Knight - Game of the Year Edition will launch this July for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The listing does not indicate a release for PC.
Batman: Arkham Knight - Game of the Year Edition box art via Amazon Germany
Overwatch exists at an intersection between design and artistry, a crossroad at which pure tactile joy meets refined, intelligent design to create a rare spark of magic. As a 6v6 multiplayer, objective-based shooter, it finds accessibility not by lowering the skill ceiling, but by broadening the definition of skill. The person with deadshot aim is no more valuable than the person with the decision-making ability to know when a well-timed ability will turn an engagement, or the person with the map-sense to find the optimal locations to place sentry turrets. While it didn't exactly drown me in options, maps, and modes, it's blessed with a multitude of tactical layers, and none of them ever came between me and my enjoyment of its intense, swirling teamfights, and thrilling overtime comebacks.
UPDATE: Creator Sean Murray officially announced the delay via the PlayStation blog, writing:
The game really has come together, and it's such an incredible relief. As we sit an play it now, and as I watch playtesters every day, I can finally let myself get excited. We're actually doing this.However, as we approached our final deadlines, we realized that some key moments needed extra polish to bring them up to our standards. I have had to make the tough choice to delay the game for a few weeks to allow us to deliver something special.
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Brace yourselves: E3 2016 is nearly upon us. From June 12-16, the entire gaming industry will converge on Los Angeles to showcase the biggest games that we'll be playing for 2016 and beyond. We've been updating our Games of E3 List whenever news drops, but now we're going to go even deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we're going to highlight one of the biggest games that we hope to see more of at E3. Up today: Dishonored 2.
Overwatch only just came out, but based on reception, sales, and the undeniable amount of hype surrounding it, it's already in the running to be one of the most popular team-based shooters ever. But its popularity isn't owed just to its "incredible achievement
in multiplayer game design," as our Overwatch review puts it — the depth and charm of its wide cast of playable characters plays a big role too.
You can see the enthusiasm and love for Overwatch's roster of heroes in the amount of awesome fan art that's been pouring out of the community.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were first introduced to the world way back in 1984. The original, Mirage Studios comic, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, was a parody of several existing comic franchises. The success of the comic later spawned a syndicated cartoon program, and from there, Turtlemania swept the nation.
Suddenly the Turtles were everywhere, from video games to breakfast cereals, to an increasingly baffling line of action figures. The first live-action movie, way back in 1990, was a run-away success and spawned two follow-ups.
Here's a look at the Turtles' humble, surprisingly violent beginnings as comic book characters, all the way through to their upcoming appearance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan.
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Pre-orders for Good Smile's upcoming Link figure are now open.
The 1/7th scale figure is based on the character's design from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and is scheduled to release sometime this November. You can reserve up to three by heading over to Good Smile's official product page.
Get a detailed look at the carefully-crafted Link figure by checking out our gallery below.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda franchise, and while the series' next installment has been delayed to 2017, Nintendo has big plans for the title at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. In fact, the Zelda Wii U's E3 demos will reportedly take up to 90 minutes to complete.
It probably takes loads of work for Batman to custom-make all his Batarangs, Bat signals and other egotistically named Bat-aphernalia. Luckily, Samsung has done ol' Bruce a solid this time by making its own Batman-themed Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone.
Styled after (and released in honour of) the now three year-old Injustice: Gods Among Us, the manufacturer's flagship phone now comes in black and gold with Batman livery.
Most territories' versions will include the phone (pre-installed with Batman wallpapers and Injustice), a Batman-themed hardcase, a Samsung Gear VR headset and an actual gold Batarang, presumably for fending off nerdy muggers.
Here's an official, and almost Nolan-esque, unboxing:
Sega has announced Total War: Warhammer has broken franchise records during its first week.
Since its release on Tuesday, the game has sold over half a million copies, and has regularly been topping 100,000 concurrent players.
Studio Director Tim Heaton said "the team paid particular attention to stability and performance throughout the game's development." There were some early server issues, however these appear to have since been fixed.
If you haven't picked it up yet, you only have until May 31 to get the controversial Chaos Warriors race pack for free.
F1 2016 has been announced, the eighth installment in Code Masters' Formula One racing series. It will be available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC next season.
According to Lee Mather, principal games designer at Codemasters, F1 2016 "will have more features than any other year of the franchise."
At the heart of this, says Mather, is F1 2016's new career mode, which lets you pick an avatar, number, team, and earn contracts throughout a career that can last up to ten years in-game.
A new street circuit located in Baku, Azerbaijan is also making it into F1 2016, along with recreations of the Safety Car and Virtual Safety Car. There will also be a number of "off-track" features, like a Player Agent and Research and Development Engineer for tracking progress.
Bethesda will be showing off Fallout 4 mods on Xbox One later today.
The stream kicks off at 4pm ET / 1pm PT / 8pm BST. Meanwhile, Microsoft has released a sneak peek of Xbox mods in action. Shown in the video below is a mod to build more elaborate structures, a new alien rifle, different types of enemy-spotting goggles, and the ability to build a settlement anywhere in the wasteland.
Modding functionality is currently in beta on Xbox One at the moment. If you're a PlayStation owner looking to get in on the action, you can expect mods to arrive at some point next month.
Press are being told to set aside up to an hour and a half to complete the E3 hands-on of The Legend of Zelda on Wii U.
The new open-world Zelda game (which will also be released on the upcoming Nintendo NX console) will be Nintendo's only game on the E3 showfloor, and Finder reports that it will be represented by two "extended" demos.
Nintendo Everything, seeking confirmation of the story, was told that the two demos will let players "step into the wilds of Hyrule and explore some of the grasslands, forests and mountains that they've been given mere glimpses of to date."
It's never good when your PS4 breaks, but one Brazilian at least had a good story to tell afterwards.
According to CNET, In December last year, an electrician was given the task of fixing a broken PS4, which apparently was giving off a "strong smell" after it turned off.
Instead of a normal electrical problem, when he opened it up, he found a dead snake had essentially been burned into the circuit board in two different places.
That's why you should always leave repairs to the professionals.
In other snake news, Battleborn is getting a new snake hero called Pendles.
Rockstar has announced Further Adventures in Finance and Felony, GTA Online's biggest ever expansion, which will arrive on June 7th.
Further Adventures in Finance and Felony is the biggest expansion to GTA Online to date, and will feature all-new gameplay and a range of special new vehicles, such as the Pegassi Reaper.
The expansion allows players to become CEO of their own criminal enterprise. This will entail buying and selling a range of contraband across the great city of Los Santos, while also having to fight off fierce competition from the rest of the criminal underworld and, of course, avoid attention from the LSPD.
Dragon Quest Builders, the block-building sandbox RPG that launched in Japan early this year, is coming to North America. It will be available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita this October.
The goal of Dragon Quest Builders is to rebuild the world of Alefgard after it's destroyed by the Dragonlord. Minecraft-style resource-gathering and construction merges with more traditional RPG-style combat, featuring iconic Dragon Quest enemies and characters.
Check out the original Japanese trailer below or watch 18 minutes of Dragon Quest Builders gameplay from last year's TGS 2015.
A new experimental map is coming to Rocket League in June, and it's bringing a couple more walls to proceedings.
The map is called Pillars, and - as you might guess - two large pillars create additional walls in the middle of the map. They effectively separate the pitch into three lanes, and the goals are on either side of the middle lane.
Rocket League - Pillars
Psyonix says there will be an "emphasis on using multiple walls to your advantage." You'll be bouncing shots off the pillars and driving up them to gain extra height over your opponents.
The following is an excerpt from You Died: The Dark Souls Companion, a book about Dark Souls and the delightfully mad people who play it by Keza MacDonald and Jason Killingsworth. You can buy it here in paperback (worldwide shipping), or on Amazon or iBooks as an eBook.
Good Grief: Trolls, Invaders & The Shadow Self by Jason Killingsworth
2012's Gravity Rush was a pleasant surprise on Vita; a stylish action game built around a very unique central hook: players could change gravity at will, literally dropping in any direction through the world.
The sequel is shaping up to build on this blueprint nicely, while taking advantage of the PS4's significant grunt and the fact that it's now a big screen experience. I've popped in to see an early build of the E3 demo while at Japan Studio to play The Last Guardian, and I'm glad I did.
The world design makes an immediate impression. Set in an entirely new city, it's reminiscent of a Western European-inspired take on BioShock Infinite's Columbia; island blocks bob about, high up in the sky, while barge-like platforms move between them. Once again the visuals are heavily influenced by comic books and anime, with a wonderfully cel-shaded world and comic book panel cutscenes.
Developer Big Ant Studios has today confirmed Don Bradman Cricket 17 will launch this December on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, smack bang in the midst of Australia's annual summer of cricket.
The successor to the well-received Don Bradman Cricket 14, Big Ant explains DBC17 will feature a new lighting system, "photo realistic skin tones", and also promises to add more control depth to what's already an admirably nuanced cricket simulation. Those who make the upgrade from the previous Don Bradman Cricket will be able to import their players from the last game.
We'll be able to get a glimpse of DBC17 from today with the launch of the new Don Bradman Cricket Academy, available free on Steam.
Devolver Digital has teamed up with Paris-based developer Sloclap to bring you Absolver, an online combat RPG coming to PC and consoles.
Absolver is the first game from Sloclap, an independent studio founded in 2015 by developers who worked together at Ubisoft on Watch Dogs and the Ghost Recon series. It puts players in the shoes of a 'Prospect' who joins an "elite corps of combatants" called Absolvers to maintain stability in the world. Players will wander through Absolver's world and pick up new combat styles, attacks, powers and weaponry, while fighting other warriors in "an intense real-time flow of attacks, dodges, feints and counters, with all aspects of gameplay customizable, including combat styles, weapons and even individual attack sequences in the player's Combat Deck."
Uncharted 4 is the "fastest-selling PlayStation 4 first party title to-date", as part of a historically well-loved franchise.
With that awesome reception comes awesome cosplay, so we rounded up some of the best Nathan Drake cosplayers - men and women - for one giant Uncharted cosplay gallery.
Click right to see all the images:
In order, the cosplayers featured are Heise Cosplay, Leo Camacho, Jessica Nigri, Stephen Lunsford, and Shannon Liara, all of whom can be found on Facebook.
Brace yourselves: E3 2016 is nearly upon us. From June 12-16, the entire gaming industry will converge on Los Angeles to showcase the biggest games that we'll be playing for 2016 and beyond. We've been updating our Games of E3 List whenever news drops, but now we're going to go even deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we're going to highlight one of the biggest games that we hope to see more of at E3. Up today: Mafia 3!
Legendary game designer Cliff Bleszinski joins us for over an hour to share Gears of War stories, how he developed his first game as a teenager, more about his new game Lawbreakers, and much more!
If you'd rather listen than watch, here's an audio-only download link.
Here are a couple of clips, first of Bleszinski choosing his favorite Gears of War game:
And here's Bleszinski explaining how multiplayer almost got cut from Gears 1:
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No matter how you slice it, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan isn't a fulfilling adventure. For as cool as the turtles and the bosses look, and despite hitting a pretty nice balance between classic cartoon nostalgia and entertaining new fans, the most important part of this ninja's arsenal – the combat itself – is too chaotic to enjoy, even over its blink-and-you'll-miss-it length.
Mutants in Manhattan's story is as by-the-comic-book as can be: Shredder and Krang are attempting to take over the world and have dispatched and/or brainwashed rival mutants like Bebop, Rocksteady, Wingnut, and Slash. Whether you've checked out of the TMNT universe since the early 90s cartoon or are an avid watcher of the modern Nickelodeon version, it's pretty easy to jump into Mutants in Manhattan's world. The constants are nice: Donatello is the archetypical tech wizard, Leonardo leads, Michelangelo worships pizza over all else (except maybe nunchucks), and Raphael is pretty salty. While the turtles themselves are as entertaining as ever, April and Splinter are reduced to a static face on comms popups and inventory manager, respectively. I know the turtles are the stars of the show, but they could've used a better supporting cast.
Mario has appeared in many games throughout his career as a princess-saving plumber. We isolated the key games that truly make Mario stand out among the hundreds of others he's taken part in. From his first appearance in Donkey Kong in 1981 to the more recent Super Mario Maker in 2015, here is every Super Mario game ever in 360 degrees.
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Pricing details for Night School Studio's lauded supernatural thriller Oxenfree have been revealed, plus details on a limited edition vinyl soundtrack.
Oxenfree will be available on launch for $14.99 USD for PlayStation Plus members as part of a special launch-month sale, and $19.99 at retail from May 31. Night School Studio has also announced its collaboration with iam8bit to produce a limited edition vinyl soundtrack for the game, which is on sale now through the iam8bit online store for $35 USD. The 180-gram vinyl 2xLP features a "holographic portal" on the front cover and a "die-cut portal" on the back, with interpretative album art by Austin James.
The biggest game show on the planet is right around the corner and IGN has partnered with our friends at 2K and Hangar 13 to give you an exclusive first look at Mafia III during E3 2016.
We'll be bringing you the exclusive first look at the Mafia III E3 demo! In addition to this all-new Mafia III gameplay, get an extended peek behind the scenes with the Hangar 13 development team to answer your burning questions about the next entry in the Mafia franchise!
Keep reading for all the info you need regarding when and where you can catch the Mafia III E3 World Premiere!
Ubisoft has announced a range of collector's editions for the upcoming Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
All editions are available for pre-order now, alongside the standard edition of the game. All pre-orders also come with "The Peruvian Connection" bonus mission.
The various editions include:
New gameplay details have emerged for The Last Guardian, Sony's hotly anticipated action-adventure game.
Issue 294 of Edge Magazine has early impressions and an interview with designer Fumito Ueda.
The main character will have a "mirrored shield," which can shine a beam of light that acts as a marker for the creature, Trico, to fire a red lightning beam from his tail. Edge's demo used this mechanic to solve environmental puzzles such as removing wooden walls and destroying rock faces.
According to Edge, Trico will apparently be a "free-spirited creature that fragrantly disregards your attempts to tame it." This lack of complete control of the creature is important to Ueda "because there are a lot out there where you can do that. I think I've had enough of them."
There are currently seven known issues in The Division which are being looked at by Ubisoft, and 18 more possible problems are under investigation.
This isn't counting the problem affecting PC players since patch 1.2 which has been deleting characters, much like how Xbox One players saw their characters disappear after patch 1.1.
Ubisoft has released the list of known issues on its forums. Here's the list of what users have been reporting:
Capcom has announced Monster Hunter Stories will be releasing in Japan for 3DS on October 8.
This news comes from Gematsu, who also say it will cost 5,800 yen (~$53) at retail and 5,546 yen (~$51) to download.
There will also be three amiibo figures launching alongside the game, that will unlock special in-game monsters. "One-Eyed Rathalos and Rider (Female)" and "One-Eyed Rathalos and Rider (Male)" each cost 1,800 yen (~$16), and "Nabiru" costs 1,200 yen (~$11). A second set of amiibo will launch after release.
If you already have a Monster Hunter Generations save on your 3DS, you'll get an additional Dinovaldo costume for Nabiru.
Square Enix and Io Interactive have released a bunch of new screenshots showing off Hitman's next location—Marrakesh.
Taking to the Moroccan streets, Agent 47 will encounter a "maze of alleys" filled with plenty of "opportunities and challenges" to take on. Marrakesh will come with 20 levels of mastery when it launches on May 31.
New weapons, gear, starting locations, and agency pickups will be awarded for good work.
Hitman's new mission, which was detailed with the episode's release date announcement, offers two targets—a private banker called Claus Strandberg, and army General Reza Zaydan. Marrakesh will also feature new elusive targets and escalation contracts.
The PS4 Neo was introduced because running VR on original launch PS4 tech was "truly awful," an anonymous chief technical officer (CTO) has claimed.
"PSVR was going to be terrible on a
PS4," the source told Edge Magazine. "It was going to be truly awful. Something a bit more powerful starts to bring VR into range. If you want to deal with crazy requirements for performance in VR, you absolutely have to
."
For clarity, the above quote says "was." As in past-tense. It's possible the source was referencing the state of launch PS4 consoles prior to the introduction of a VR external processing unit, or even launch PS4s prior to Sony unlocking further internal core access.
Microsoft is adding new game modes to Minecraft: Console Editions, based on popular activities the Minecraft community are already orchestrating themselves. The first of these 'mini games' is 'Battle', a Hunger Games-inspired game mode that focuses on fast-paced multiplayer, with up to eight players per battle.
You're spawned in a rotation of three different maps, facing towards a little mountain of chests, with a countdown timer letting you know when to run straight for them. Charge ahead as soon as that timer hits zero and open the chests before the other players do, and you'll be greeted with a bunch of randomized loot that will either help you take out other players, or defend yourself against them.
Gearbox has whipped the cloak off a second post-launch hero for its first-person shooter Battleborn, and it's a two legged snake called Pendles.
A description on Gearbox's Battleborn blog reads: "Hailing from the water world of Akopos, and pals with Alani, Pendles is a cold-blooded killer. No, literally. This anthropomorphized reptile will ssssneak up on you, poison you, perforate you with dual kamas then – poof – disappear without leaving a trace."
Dishonored is getting the comic book treatment in the form of a four-issue miniseries, plus a new prose novel series by Titan Comics.
According to Newsarama, the miniseries will continue the story of Corvo in a "throwback industrial setting," taking place between the first Dishonored and this year's upcoming sequel. Gordon Rennie is writing the series, with illustrations by Andrea Olimpieri and Marcelo Maiolo.
Dishonored comic book miniseries. Photo credit: Titan Comics.
The ambitious space exploration game No Man's Sky has reportedly been pushed back from its expected June release date.
Sources close to Kotaku have reported that No Man's Sky has been pushed to "at least" July or August. It was originally expected to launch on the PlayStation 4 and Steam on June 21.
Kotaku had an initial "reliable" source who reported the delay, while a second source working at retailer GameStop said their store was instructed to cover up any mention of June 21 on No Man's Sky marketing materials with a "Coming Soon" label. Photographic proof was provided.
We've reached out to Sony for comment.
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Brace yourselves: E3 2016 is nearly upon us. From June 12-16, the entire gaming industry will converge on Los Angeles to showcase the biggest games that we'll be playing for 2016 and beyond. We've been updating our Games of E3 List whenever news drops, but now we're going to go even deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we're going to highlight one of the biggest games that we hope to see more of at E3. Up today: Battlefield 1!
Mirror's Edge is the latest in a long line of video game series to receive a television adaptation.
As reported by Deadline, Endemol Shine Studios has acquired the rights to adapt EA DICE's first-person series onto the small screen. This news comes shortly prior to the release of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, which releases June 7 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
"We clearly see Mirror's Edge as a franchise for the global TV audience," said Sharon Hall, President of Endemol Shine Studios. "It has a strong female protagonist, a wildly rabid fan base and a worldwide brand that Electronic Arts and EA DICE have done an amazing job establishing."
How does Far Harbor stack up to Fallout 4's main quest? Jared, Miranda, and Brendan talk about the open structure and moral ambiguity of the new DLC, plus fog, monsters, and of course a little Undertale. Enjoy your apocalypse!
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Welcome back to IGN's History of Awesome - a year-long look back at all the coolest and most influential games, movies, TV shows, comic books, toys, and tech that have shaped pop culture, and shaped the lives of an entire generation. Up this week is 2009, the year of great video game sequels: Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and Left 4 Dead 2. It was an awesome year for other games, too, like Batman: Arkham Asylum and Minecraft.
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Earlier this week, Bungie issued its latest emergency patch for Destiny, fixing an exploit in which players could receive unlimited heavy weapon ammo.
The developer cancelled its scheduled Trials of Osiris event and put its weekly Iron Banner on hold until the issue could be resolved. With Destiny all patched up, Bungie has granted Lord Saladin clearance in the Tower. Destiny's Iron Banner event is live now and will run until the next weekly reset, which typically happens every Tuesday morning at 2am PT.
Players who participate in the event's playlist—which, this week, is Control—can earn a bunch of new weapons and armor pieces. Gauntlets, chest pieces, sidearms, and fusion rifles are available from Lord Saladin and as post-match drops. Exclusive armor is available for PlayStation 4 users.
As Pokemon GO's early testing begins in the United States, The Pokemon Company and developer Niantic revealed new information about the upcoming mobile game.
The augmented reality game will allow players to find and capture over 100 different Pokemon. Players use Poke Balls to catch Pokemon; players will throw them at Pokemon, and hope it stays shut. Poke Balls and other "special" items are available at PokeStops—which are located at "interesting" public spots like art installations and historical monuments.
Pokemon GO players can engage in gym battles as part of one of three teams. Gyms, like PokeStops, are located in real-world locations.
Gyms are up for grabs in Pokemon GO. Players use their captured Pokemon to battle with other Pokemon assigned to other's gyms, and have the chance to claim it for their own once the gym's prestige level reaches zero. The claimant must then assign their own Pokemon to the gym and battle others to restore its prestige.
Boss Key Productions co-founder Cliff Bleszinski has shed light on why he left Epic Games, discussing his frustration with the company, as many thought Gears of War was "kind of a fluke."
"It's simple: a big Chinese company comes along and I had a chunk of ownership at Epic and they buy out 40 percent of it without any strings attached," Bleszinski said on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered when asked why he retired.
"Epic at the time, and I say this very carefully because they've really kind of changed into their own entity.... But at the time there was this whole like 'Gears was kind of a fluke,' you know, and I could pitch any idea to the company and inevitably I'd have somebody in my office going 'I don't buy it.'"
We're told that The Blood and Wine expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt marks the last great ride of Geralt of Rivia, so far as developer CD Projekt Red is concerned. I like to think there are signs that this isn't the case, as much of its storyline revolves around the return of a friend long thought permanently lost. But even if it is, it's about as good as a sendoff as we could ask for. The sun may shine brighter here than it ever has for the Butcher of Blaviken, and there's a undercurrent of hope that's been lost in the flood of despair in previous entries, but fittingly enough, above all this is a tale of the pain of letting go.
Most of the expansion's strength comes from the way it makes a clean break with the rest of The Witcher 3, shuttling us far from the corpse piles of Velen and the gray gloom of Skellige mere moments after accepting the relevant quest from a message board. The destination is Toussaint, a lovely place of rolling hills carpeted with vineyards and bathed in a warm light that seems to chase away the blues. It's a smart shift, as it avoids any guilt that Geralt should be busying himself with the bigger issues of the region (as was sometimes the case in Hearts of Stone). In sunny Toussaint, Geralt is just a famous witcher with no urgent need to save the world hanging over his head, and in the context of an expansion the tale is all the better for it.
When The Division's 1.1 patch arrived, a not insignificant number of Xbox One players saw their characters disappear. With the arrival of 1.2, the same problem now appears to be affecting PC players.
As spotted by GamesRadar, PC players on The Division forums and Reddit have been reporting seeing their agents vanishing from character select screens.
A supposed leak of Titanfall 2 information indicates that the shooter sequel will introduce grappling hooks and larger multiplayer maps, and also included concept art that will apparently be adapted as the game's cover art.
Posted (and subsequently deleted) on the Titanfall subreddit, but preserved on NeoGAF, user ilovegoogleglass said that the game will release in October (putting it alongside fellow EA shooter, Battlefield 1).
The seemingly leaked Titanfall 2 poster.
Nintendo is offering 500 fans the chance to play The Legend of Zelda on Wii U before anyone else.
The event will take place at the Nintendo store in New York, with sign-ups for the event taking place on June 11. All you've got to do is turn up on the day with photo ID (kids must be present with a parent or guardian) and if you're one of the first 500 people in line, you'll receive a wristband which can then be traded in for a ticket to the demo event.
The six-day event kicks off at noon ET on June 14. The House of N says it will be streaming to the NY store's 15-foot TV directly from the Nintendo E3 booth in case you wanted to pop down and have a gander at the new Zelda in action. There'll also be some trivia and prizes going on.
Konami has officially announced PES 2017, and it's coming later this year for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.
Konami is inviting players to "control reality," and the official PES 2017 website has plenty of information regarding areas that will be improved upon in this year's game.
PES 2017.
"Real touch" will have players controlling the ball in different ways depending on where they are, and this will also extend to passing, where timing and situation combine to create the best pass.
Perhaps you saw the story the other day about an adorable Overwatch fan having her fan drawing brought close to reality by a Blizzard artist. "So," thought IGN's UK team, "if a child can do it, why can't a bunch of adults actually employed to think about games?"
And so I found myself trembling in front of Overwatch senior game designer Michael Chu, gauging his thoughts on some incredibly questionable drawings. Here's each of our characters, and Michael's thoughts thereon. Sorry mate.
Key Skills: Jacked arms for no recoil, is a massive gun.
Hitman Episode 3 will see Agent 47 travelling to Marrakesh on May 31.
After Paris and Sapienza, now players will be exploring Moroccan streets. According to the PS Blog, you'll encounter a "maze of alleys, a range of souks that line the medina walls," and you'll also be able to check out Marrakesh's rooftop terraces.
In addition, you can hang out in a shisha bar, or you can find the Swedish consulate building beyond the busy marketplace.
One of the major, persistent narrative threads engulfing the games industry since the turn of the century concerns the Japanese game industry's attempts to appeal to Western audiences. From Metal Gear Solid to Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry to Ninja Gaiden, Japanese developers have sought to combat the idea that they fail to see games from a global perspective.
By way of a fix there has been a trend for Japanese games to mimic many of the more cemented and popular ideas typically associated with Western design. Metal Gear Solid's move towards an open-world setting and Final Fantasy's ever more obvious move towards photo-realistic representations of characters, for instance, are two of the more high-profile examples.
Amy Hennig—former writer and creative director behind the Uncharted series—will receive a "special award" from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
The award will be presented in Los Angeles on June 12, just days before E3 2016 begins. The event is part of BAFTA's "renewed commitment" to celebrating the video game industry.
Amy Hennig, lead writer and creative director at EA
"Amy is one of the industry's most successful and respected creative leaders," Harvey Elliott, BAFTA Games Committee chairman said. "Her work in the games industry spans nearly three decades, and throughout this illustrious career she has championed the importance of a game's script, with this creative vision pervading all her work."
An Overwatch fan with cerebral palsy has written a heartfelt thank you to Blizzard, the game's developer, as the new game's remappable controls mean he can comfortably play with every character.
"I was born with Cerebral Palsy," says Zak on Reddit. "I can't walk and have very limited use of my hands. I love video games of all shapes and sizes and have been playing since I was 3 years old. I play them when I'm happy, I play them when I'm sad, and I've started and strengthened some of my best friendships because of them."
Zak explains how certain games can be tough to play due to only being able to use one action per hand at a time. Imagine playing an FPS. You know how you use your thumb to control the camera and your index finger to pull the trigger? That's not possible for Zak normally, but thanks to Blizzard's control options…
Following reports from a Japanese firm that Nintendo is developing a new handheld codenamed MH, Kantan Games CEO Dr. Serkan Toto has taken to social media to shed light on the rumor, saying it's not confirmation that a handheld development, but rather a hypothetical "scenario" made by Morgan Stanley Japan.
"That Morgan Stanley Japan note on Nintendo does NOT mean a portable console or the name 'MH' is confirmed. They are picturing a scenario," Toto explained on Twitter, noting in a followup post that "such 'rich' forward-looking analysis and also the wording is standard in investor notes."
Overwatch released today on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, and along with putting giant character action figures around the globe, Blizzard has also been getting involved in the cosplay community.
Here are some of the coolest Overwatch cosplayers, as seen at PAX East 2016 - click right to see them all:
The photographer featured is Robert Paul Esports Photography.
Evidently, Blizzard's PAX East booth attracted a whole lot of Overwatch cosplayers, but they have their own official Overwatch Cosplay album, too.
Brace yourselves: E3 2016 is nearly upon us. From June 12-16, the entire gaming industry will converge on Los Angeles to showcase the biggest games that we'll be playing for 2016 and beyond. We've been updating our Games of E3 List whenever news drops, but now we're going to go even deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we're going to be highlight one of the biggest games that we hope to see more of at E3. Up today: Borderlands 3!
Overwatch exists at an intersection between design and artistry, a crossroad at which pure tactile joy meets refined, intelligent design to create a rare spark of magic. It's blessed with a multitude of tactical layers, but none of them ever come between me and my enjoyment of the frenetic, minute-to-minute action. As a 6v6 multiplayer, objective-based shooter, it finds accessibility not by lowering the skill ceiling, but by broadening the definition of skills. The person with deadshot aim is no more valuable than the person with the decision-making ability to know when a well-timed ability will turn an engagement, or the person with the map-sense to find the optimal locations to place sentry turrets. It bobs and weaves almost perfectly between being the quick-fix adrenaline hit you might want after a long day of work, and the thoughtful, strategic multiplayer experience that becomes the center of evening-long binges with friends.
We all know at least a few things about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For example, Leonardo leads, while Donatello does machines. While that may be a fact, jack, the upcoming Platinum Games-developed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan has a lot more to show us than the turtles' individual roles on the team. The game is due May 24, which means now is the perfect time to get up to speed on everything you need to know regarding the upcoming game.
In November 2015, a listing on the Australian Classification Board's website gave us our first glimpse of details for the unannounced game. We learned Activision was publishing, Platinum Games was listed as the "author," and the sub-title of the game was Mutants in Manhattan. Aside from that, though, there wasn't much information to glean.
Next month's Games with Gold have been revealed.
Here's the list, and when you'll be able to grab your free download:
In our reviews, we gave Goat Simulator an 8.0 - praising its ragdoll physics silliness - and The Crew a 6.0, saying it "deserves credit for the frankly staggering size of its open world", but was ultimately hamstrung by the resulting dated looks and glitches.
Xbox One and PC players of Rocket League will finally be able to play together in perfect harmony later today.
The update will go live at 11pm BST, and will mark the first time a game has been cross-platform between PC and Xbox One.
PC and PlayStation 4 players have been able to play together since launch, but the Xbox One version released later. Microsoft has said it will support cross-play between all platforms, but Sony remained cagey on the matter.
Overwatch's game director Jeff Kaplan has revealed the game's competitive mode will be coming in June.
Ranked mode was cut from the recent beta period, and hasn't made it back in time for launch. However, Kaplan said in a recent Facebook Q&A it will be coming soon.
"Competitive mode is the current focus of the Overwatch team, and it's the most important thing for us to add to the game right now," said Kaplan.
No exact date has been confirmed yet, but we should be seeing an update "sometime towards the end of June."
I Am Setsuna takes the familiar pieces of Chrono Trigger – its classic active time battles and awesome tech-based attack system – and builds a much darker world around them. Tokyo RPG Factory's one-hour demo presents environments full of muted colors, a quaint mountain village setting, and depressing consequences. The heroine Setsuna has a major role to play in this dire narrative, as she sets off on a perilous journey to sacrifice herself in order to save the world from the wrath of monsters. "Setsuna means a type of poignant sorrow in Japanese," director Atsushi Hashimoto told IGN at GDC 2016, as he hinted at the project's overall tone.
The development team have never shied away at name-dropping I Am Setsuna's inspiration, but it's difficult not to feel poignant sorrow whenever a spiritual follow-up to Chrono Trigger gets mentioned. Chrono Trigger, a one-of-a-kind product of the mid-'90s RPG scene, has stood the test of time as one of the greatest video games ever made. The fabled Dream Project collaboration brought together the top-talent of the RPG genre to create an utterly fantastic singular work. But feelings of melancholy don't come from the game itself per se, rather the sad reality that one of the greatest video games of all time never got a proper follow-up. While the sequel, called Chrono Cross, blazed its own trail on the PlayStation, dozens of the first game's incredibly well-thought out ideas fell to the wayside over the course of 20 years.
Now that Overwatch has been released, we know how much the game's loot boxes will cost.
Loot boxes are unlocked through leveling up in-game, and contain cosmetic items such as skins, sprays, and extra voice lines for the characters. However you can also purchase them for real money if you don't want to wait.
There are five options to choose from:
In other news, last night a new Clueless Gamer segment aired, where Conan O'Brien played Overwatch with a number of Game of Thrones stars. Meanwhile, in preparation for yesterday's launch, giant Overwatch action figures were unveiled across the world.
We're a few hours into the launch of Total War: Warhammer, but its servers are apparently experiencing some teething problems.
"Due to server load the multiplayer server is having trouble keeping up. If you click around it will crash - please have patience and wait," reads a statement from the official Total War Twitter account.
A post on the game's Steam forum also has a possible fix if you're having issues with crashing. You're advised to let the game load for up to 10 minutes the first time you launch the game. If it's still not working, you should take the following steps:
Set Steam to Offline and try running again. If that fails then verify your Steam Cache, and if that fails try updating your graphics drivers.
A Japanese financial report seems to point to a new Nintendo handheld console codenamed the MH.
Pointed out on NeoGAF, a Yahoo Japan finance story on Nintendo's current business practices seems to out the existence of the new hardware. Our translation reads:
"The driving force up until now has been new business from "health services, theme parks and mobile games etc", but will switch over to the next generation game system (NX) and next-gen handheld game device (MH (temporary name))."
The MH has not been mentioned previously, but one of the many rumours about NX has been that it will launch as a portable and home console.
Ron Gilbert, co-creator of the Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion series, has called for Disney to sell him back the games' IP.
Disney recently ceased self-publishing games after the perceived failure of Disney Infinity, and had already closed LucasArts - the studio behind Gilbert's early games - in 2013.
Dear @Disney, now that you're not making games, please sell me my Monkey Island and Mansion Mansion IP. I'll pay real actual money for them.
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Brace yourselves: E3 2016 is nearly upon us. From June 12-16, the entire gaming industry will converge on Los Angeles to showcase the biggest games that we'll be playing for 2016 and beyond. We've been updating our Games of E3 List whenever news drops, but now we're going to go even deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we're going to be highlight one of the biggest games that we hope to see more of at E3. Up today: Mass Effect: Andromeda.
UPDATE: According to NECA Toys, each set is priced at $100 and pre-orders can only be picked up at SDCC by the person who ordered them.
Toymaker NECA is releasing two San Diego Comic Con–exclusive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figure box sets, based off the classic four-player arcade game.
NECA's Turtles Box Set includes Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael, all with new figure sculpts. The Turtles stand around 6 inches tall and have over 30 points of articulation, including double knee joints to "fully showcase their mastery of the martial arts."
Bethesda debuted its Far Harbor DLC for Fallout 4 last week, and some players have experienced serious performance issues.
The developer is assuring players it's "actively working" on more improvements. Bethesda reportedly "made optimizations" based on Far Harbor beta feedback, though some are still experiencing issues. Bethesda has not commented on which issues it's working to fix.
Players on the Fallout 4 sub-reddit suggest that Far Harbor's dense fog is the culprit for the game's frame rate problems. In IGN's Far Harbor review, we found the fog more annoying than threatening.
Forget about mages and warriors—in an RPG with a name like Salt and Sanctuary, I figured it was only appropriate to save the world as a chef. It's one of the eight starting classes, after all, and thus, clad in apron and armed with a three-foot iron pot and a handful of potatoes, I left the sanctuary of my galley to slay the pirates stealing our princess from our ship and murdering my crewmen. Larry never brained Curly with such vigor. Gordon Ramsay never unleashed such spite.
At last I made it to the deck, where I faced off with what looked like Cthulhu himself. I tossed a potato at him. He killed me in two hits. At last, I awoke on a far shore. Sound a little like Dark Souls? It's no accident. Salt and Sanctuary pulls liberally from From Software's series for this 2D adventure. In less capable hands, it might have devolved into parody, but instead Salt and Sanctuary establishes itself as a lovingly crafted reimagining that usually succeeds in capturing the spirit of From Software's adventures in a format that initially seems incompatible with it.
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
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Conan O'Brien will take on Game of Thrones actors Lena Headey and Peter Dinklage in Overwatch on the next Clueless Gamer.
Clueless Gamer—a segment on O'Brien's late-night talk show—will air tonight at 11/10c on TBS. No word on whether Headey, who stars as Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones, or Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister, had been practicing during Overwatch's successful open beta.
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Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski stopped by the IGN office to discuss his history at Epic Games and shared with us why his favorite entry in Microsoft's beloved cover-based shooter series is Gears of War 3.
In the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, the Boss Key Productions co-founder said that while many still believe Gears 1 is the series' best installment, the third entry tops his list because "that's where we really honed things and had dedicated servers and everything. We had multiple game types, different characters, women in the battle.... It was cool."
For Bleszinski, Gears of War 3 was "kind of the culmination of everything," with the game's conclusion serving as a metaphor for his experience relaxing on the Carolina coast, and the character Anya Stroud (and her relationship with Marcus Fenix) drawing inspiration from his wife Lauren.
If you're excited to command a cavalcade of spectral riders, or to fire a goblin from a giant catapult but are totally clueless about Total War, we have you covered, thanks to these six handy hints for Total War newbies.
The Troop Deployment phase of each skirmish can be considered the calm before the storm. Use this time to scope out the lay of the land and deploy your troops in a starting formation, placing your units in tactical locations in order to maximise their potential.
Dwarves are one of the many factions available to players.
An Oculus Rift security update seen by many to be a response to Revive - the mod that allows players to play Oculus-exclusive games on the HTC Vive VR headset - has backfired, allowing for full-scale game piracy.
Talking to Motherboard, Revive's secretive developer, Libre VR explained that the update - which now includes a pre-game launch check to see if an Oculus is being used to play - actually allows for the entire security check to be bypassed.
Fallout 4 expansion Far Harbor released last week, and became Bethesda's largest ever piece of DLC. However, an upcoming fan project will be even bigger.
According to VG24/7, Fallout Cascadia will be a mod which takes players to Seattle a few decades after the events of the main game. It has been in production for six months, and is being made by a team of 18.
More information about the project can be found on the mod's Tumblr page. "The scale of this project is a land area that is just a bit smaller than Fallout 3, but more quests and locations than Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC," reads the description.
A trial of Mirror's Edge Catalyst is coming to subscribers of EA Access and Origin Access.
Catalyst is due for release on June 7, however you can play a six hour trial early from June 2 if you're signed up to one of EA's subscription services.
EA trials have often been 10 hours long before, so it can be assumed this shorter trial is to prevent you from finishing the game before it's out.
Mirror's Edge Catalyst has been delayed a couple of times now, with the original release date being February 23.
Croteam has announced a sequel to The Talos Principle.
Rather than an official press release on a blog or website, Croteam's Alen Ladavac confirmed the news to attendees at the recent Nordic Game Conference.
Yes, "Talos Principle 2 is going to happen" confirmed by @AlenL @Croteam on stage @NordicGame 2016! http://pic.twitter.com/lAMXaMJk4s
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In one of the classier moves in recent gaming history, Blizzard artist Roman Kenney has taken a young Overwatch fan's character drawing and given it the full concept art treatment. As spotted by Kotaku, Shane Hickey wrote to the Overwatch Twitter account about his daughter's home-made character, Birst, asking for the Blizzard team's thoughts.
@PlayOverwatch hi team! my daughter created a new character.Her name is birst. She'd love to know your thoughts http://pic.twitter.com/b31YWUPqSs
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Halo 5: Guardians' Warzone Firefight is scheduled to release at the end of June, 343 Industries announced.
The game's next update—Hog Wild—is expected to drop at the end of this month, but the developer recently decided to hold much of its "bigger items" until the Warzone Firefight release.
Along with the PvE mode, 343 Industries will include new game updates, features, REQs, and "plenty more" in the June update. It'll be Halo 5: Guardians' "largest release to date," and the developer will be unveiling more about it in the "coming weeks."
Players can expect the Hog Wild REQs at the end of this month. Halo 5: Guardians' Memories of Reach update launched earlier in May, bringing with it Halo: Reach Noble Team–inspired REQs and fan-favorite Infection mode.
Halfbrick Studios' popular mobile game Fruit Ninja is getting a live-action film adaptation.
According The Hollywood Reporter, the movie will be a family-friendly comedy that "centers on ninjas with an inexplicable vendetta against produce."
Tripp Vinson of Vinson Films is producing the film in partnership with developer Halfbrick Studios. Tara Farney and Sam White will executive produce, with J.P. Lavin and Chad Damiani—the writing duo behind the in-development film adaptation of How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack—penning the script.
This isn't the first mobile franchise to receive a film adaptation, as a movie based on Rovio's super successful Angry Birds franchise opens in theaters today. For our thoughts on Sony Pictures' animated flick, check out IGN's review of The Angry Birds Movie.
Overwatch made a big promotional splash today, emphasis on big, when three giant action figures of characters from the game were unveiled in Los Angeles, California (Tracer), Paris, France (Genji), and Busan, South Korea (Pharah).
Each figure, standing about 15 feet tall, was housed in action-figure packaging complete with accessories, stats on the back, and a "Try Me!" button that, when pushed, made a part of the figure light up.
I went down to Hollywood Blvd to check out the Tracer figure, which was planted right on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (in front of the star belonging to Britney Spears, no less). Being in the middle of a busy tourist area, tons of people were taking pictures, although none seemed to know what it was, save for one teenage girl who ran up, excited as can be, talking about how much she couldn't wait to play as Tracer, her favorite character.
Far Harbor may be perpetually gloomy, but it's big: this expansion presents a whole island's worth of some of the strongest quest content we've seen in Fallout 4 yet. It's packed with interesting characters who present tough, morally gray decisions, and their outcome had me feeling like I'd left a real mark on this self-contained region.
Much in the same way that Fallout 4's main quest begins as a simple search for a missing child before blooming into a region-shaping battle, Far Harbor lures you to its island in the course of a missing persons' investigation taken on by the Valentine Detective Agency (which means you must have gotten far enough to meet Nick Valentine, around level 20) and then introduces you to the far more intriguing and mysterious real reason you're here. Each of the three factions competing for survival and control of the island – the Far Harbor townspeople, the Children of Atom cultists, and the synth refugees – is well developed, with internal conflicts as well as external, and each has interesting characters that are strongly voice acted. Most notably, synth leader DiMA's calm but intense performance as he raises some big questions about synths who don't know they're synths.
Brace yourselves: E3 2016 is nearly upon us. From June 12-16, the entire gaming industry will converge on Los Angeles to showcase the biggest games that we'll be playing for 2016 and beyond. We've been updating our Games of E3 List whenever news drops, but now we're going to go even deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we're going to be highlight one of the biggest games that we hope to see more of at E3. Up today: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided!
Those who backed Yooka-Laylee can expect a playable slice of the game soon.
Developer Playtonic Games has announced a demo of sorts in the form of "The Toybox." The experience is described as "a self-contained, spoiler-free sandbox" meant to give players a look at the game to come.
It will only be available to those Kickstarter backers that paid into the Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor at a high enough level. Those that did can expect this slice of Yooka-Layle sometime in July.
Besides the demo Playtonic also revealed a few details about the game's setting and plot. The full breakdown can be found on the company's website, but the major reveal is the game's antagonist.
EA has released the Mirror's Edge Catalyst map as a 3D interactive browser tool.
Available on the Mirror's Edge website, the huge map will be gradually updated with labels that expand on the locations and backstory featured in the upcoming game.
So far, the only district annotated is Anchor, one of the first areas you'll travel through as Faith.
Catalyst was recently delayed once again, this time marking the release as June 7 in North America and June 9 in Europe.
Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he wants some of Faith's weird shoes. Parkour towards him on Twitter.
Despite becoming one of Xbox 360's most popular and influential multiplayer games, the original Gears of War nearly launched without a competitive multiplayer component.
In the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered (airing next Tuesday), series creator Cliff Bleszinski explained why, noting they "were under intense pressure from Microsoft to get the game out for holiday" and the company "didn't really think the cover-based gameplay would be any fun."
The team initially created "maps that felt like a lot like Counter-Strike," but discovered the game's "slow clunkiness and slow turning speed" made for an experience that "was kind of frustrating" when other players managed to get behind you. It wasn't until the map Gridlock was created that things began to fall into place, as the "half-donut" design fostered the "hide and go kill" gameplay that fans have come to love.
Rumours are swirling that a new Overwatch animated short could see the reveal of an upcoming new playable character for Blizzard's shooter.
A French cinema chain - which will be screening Overwatch's next animated short on Monday, May 23 - included a reference to the "discovery of new heroes". It has since said that this was a typo.
The French cinema advert in question.
NeoGAF user Nirolak subsequently put together an intriguing set of pointers towards an unannounced character seemingly called Sombra, who could be the new hero in question.
Homefront: The Revolution developer Dambuster Studios is working to fix performance problems, community manager Craig Turner wrote on the game's forum.
"It has been a long road for us," Turner wrote, "and we're only getting started." The team is working to address frame rate issues and "more." Patch notes will be available on the community forums and on Steam when they do go live. An expected date has not been announced.
While working on the fix, Dambuster Studios is releasing Homefront: The Revolution's first free content from its "post-launch Resistance Mode road map." The new DLC should be unlocked today for all players. New customization pieces—including "two new punk and anarchist outfits"—can be found in the gear and clothing menus.
