Monthly Archives: April 2016
Daily Deals: Bravely Second, Rocket League, Xbox One Controller, $16 Bluetooth Speaker
Last Chance for 20% Bravely Second: End Layer from Amazon
Today is the last day to get Bravely Second, the sequel to new JRPG classic Bravely Default, for 20% off, if you're an Amazon Prime member. If you're not, you can always start a free trial and then cancel it before you're billed.
The Flash: Man in the Mask Reveal Will Resolve Zoom Mysteries
Who is the man behind the mask in Zoom's lair? That is the big question hanging over The Flash as the series heads toward its Season 2 finale, and star Carlos Valdes promises the reveal will be satisfying.
"I think all the curtains will be drawn and all mysteries will be revealed in terms of Zoom origin, the lair, the Man in the Mask, the identities," he told IGN of how Season 2 will be resolved. "There's an element that's missing that people don't know about yet in which people won't find out about until the Man in the Iron Mask is unmasked."
When asked if he found the reveal to be satisfying or whether this storyline would continue into Season 3, Valdes explained that the identity of the Man in the Mask won't make sense until you get his whole story.
Heroes Rise and Fall in The Dark Knight 3
Major drama unfolded in the newest issue of The Dark Knight III: The Master Race this week.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Dark Knight III: The Master Race #4!
Superman returned from his self-imposed exile in the Fortress of Solitude, but even he wasn't able to stop the rise of the fanatical Kandorian leader known as Quar. Faced with the prospect of fighting his own daughter, Lara, Superman instead allowed his enemies to beat him mercilessly.
Nintendo’s New RPG: The Perfect Way to Wait for Persona 5?
I sat down to play Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE without fully understanding what it was. We’ve known a Shin Megami Tensei / Fire Emblem crossover was coming for years, but it took putting my hands on the controller to actually comprehend the extent of it, and to realize why this mix is such a good fit.
In case you’re as out of the loop as I was, here are the basics: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is essentially a Shin Megami Tensei game in terms of mechanics. Instead of demons (or, for spinoff fans like myself, Personas), your characters are joined by Mirages, which, in keeping with this crossover’s nature, are Fire Emblem characters. The protagonist, Itsuki, is joined by Fire Emblem Awakening’s Chrom, for example.
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Details Revealed
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures will premiere June 20 on Disney XD.
The action-comedy series, with "all-new heroes and villains," is set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and follows a family of scavengers who "operate a salvage and repair shop in space." Familiar characters in the Star Wars universe will also appear on the show.
Disney XD will debut a new episode each day, starting on June 20 and running through June 23. The first episode of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures will become available for Video on Demand and on the Disney XD app on June 20 as well.
Game of Thrones: Maisie Williams on a Humbled Arya in Season 6
And when she started Season 6, she was blind.
Game of Thrones fans only got a small tease of Arya Stark’s storyline in the series’ Season 6 premiere. She’s still in Braavos, still blind and generally back to square one in terms of her helplessness, unable to protect herself in a fight with the Waif or do much of anything without someone else’s help.
For a character who has grown harder and more confident the stronger she’s gotten over the years, this is a humbling moment. In fact, actress Maisie Williams believes it might be one of the most important things to ever happen to her character.
“This year is a growing year for Arya, and it’s an important year,” she explained to me during a recent interview. “Though right now it’s not the Arya that we want to see and are used to, in the future we might look back and be like, ‘Hey, she needed that.’”
Nobody Has Beaten Doom’s Hardest Difficulty Level
Speaking with Doom Executive Producer Marty Stratton and Creative Director Hugo Martin, IGN has learned that no one at developer id Software has yet managed to complete Doom’s hardest difficulty mode.
The new Ultra-Nightmare setting is Doom’s punishing Nightmare mode with a permadeath twist. Screw up once, and you’re dead and back at the beginning of the game, leaving only your helmet as a marker of your progress.
Stratton and Martin told IGN that the mode has sparked something of a competition in the development offices, where coworkers compete to progress further than their friends. To date, however, no one has come close to beating the game at the highest difficulty.
Ori and the Blind Forest Soundtrack Coming to Vinyl
The award-winning soundtrack to the critically-acclaimed Ori and the Blind Forest is getting a special vinyl release courtesy of LA-based creative company iam8bit.
The special double-LP 180-gram soundtrack will go on sale at iam8bit.com/store at 9AM PDT April 29 (5PM BST, 2AM Saturday April 30 AEST). It will available in two versions: a blue/purple edition and a limited glow-in-the-dark edition. The latter will be restricted to just 500 copies. As usual, a redeemable code for the digital soundtrack will also be included.
Composer Gareth Coker’s Ori and the Blind Forest score has picked up several awards following the game’s release, including a gong for “Outstanding Original Music” at the 2016 D.I.C.E. Awards. It was also the people’s pick for “Best Original Music” in IGN’s Best of 2015 Awards.
No Man’s Sky Creator: VR ‘Would Be a Really Good Fit’
While VR support for No Man's Sky remains unconfirmed, Hello Games founder Sean Murray stopped by the IGN office and discussed the exciting potential the technology offers, acknowledging it "would be a really good fit" for his space exploration game.
"I think VR in general is incredibly exciting," Murray said on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, which airs tomorrow. "I would say I’m a believer. I have this optimism about it. I really hope everyone gets it right."
While Murray's already sold on VR and sees it as an "amazing opportunity," he believes it still needs to find a killer app. "I have definitely decided that I'm going to own a VR headset and I'm going to show my friends... and I'm going to try and convince them to buy one," he said, adding that he hopes "it finds that killer app" so that "everyone ends up needing one" and the technology "doesn’t become novelty or gimmicky."
The Mystery of Marvel’s Mosaic Storyline Deepens
Marvel's latest teaser campaign has asked readers "Who is Mosiac?" and "What is Mosaic?". Now, the latest teaser shifts the conversation again and asks "Where is Mosaic?". We have the exclusive debut of the fourth piece of this mysterious puzzle, which is once again drawn by Stuart Immonen.
While previous teasers featured glimpses of iconic Marvel characters like Spider-Man and Iron Man, it's tougher to identify any of the faces in this puzzle piece. The leftmost character with the pointy ears could be Namor, though thanks to the events of Squadron Supreme #1 he isn't currently among the land of the living.