Monthly Archives: October 2016
New Star Wars Comic Spins Out of Darth Vader
Marvel's Darth Vader comic series wraps today with Issue #25, but the story of one particular character will continue as writer Kieron Gillen is returning to pen a new series debuting later this year.
Warning: Star Wars: Darth Vader #25 spoilers ahead!
After surviving the Darth Vader series finale — read IGN's issue #25 review — Doctor Aphra is getting her own comic series, aptly titled Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, written by Gillen and illustrated by Kevin Walker.
Doctor Aphra #1 cover by Kamome Shirahama, StarWars.com
Spider-Man’s Clone Troubles Continue
Spider-Man was in for a few surprises as The Clone Conspiracy began this week.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Clone Conspiracy #1!
In this issue, Peter Parker finally learned that the biotech company New U is run by none other than his old, clone-happy enemy, the Jackal. After doing battle with both the Rhino and the new Electro, Peter discovered that his old girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, has been brought back to life by the Jackal.
Dishonored VR Is Being Considered by Arkane
A virtual reality Dishonored experience is being considered by Arkane, as revealed to Games Radar by Dishonored 2's level designer, Christophe Carrier.
"We're thinking about it," Carrier told Games Radar, even calling the idea a "level design dream." He does stress that if it were to happen, it wouldn't be a port of Dishonored 1 or 2, but rather an original experience tailored to virtual reality.
"Your only transportation or mobility would be Blink," Carrier explained, referring to one of the series' signature powers that allows for quick teleportation. "And you wouldn’t have all the fatalities because they are animated and you don’t want to do that because you’re going to throw up!"
First Trailer Revealed for Skylanders Academy TV Show
Activision Blizzard has released the first trailer for the Netflix original series Skylanders Academy.
Set to debut October 28, the show is the first creation of Activision Blizzard Studios, which is also working on a Call of Duty movie. And the Skylanders Academy trailer gives you a first look at Spyro (Justin Long), Stealth Elf (Ashley Tisdale) and Eruptor (Jonathan Banks) getting into hijinks together.
Skylanders Academy will see these characters from the video game series facing off against the villain Kaos. Norm MacDonald, Susan Sarandon, Daniel Wu, Bobcat Goldthwait and Parker Posey also are lending their voices to the animated series.
Amazon Will Have PSVR Available Tonight at Launch
The PlayStation VR launch bundle and core headset will be available for order in limited quantities on Amazon beginning tonight at 9 p.m. PT/12 a.m. ET.
The bundle includes the PSVR headset, its processor, all necessary cables, a pair of stereo headphones, the PSVR demo disc, a PlayStation Camera, two PlayStation Move motion controllers, and the PSVR Worlds disc.
The last wave of PSVR pre-orders was made available in June, at which point Sony announced there would be no new opportunities to purchase the company’s virtual reality headset until launch.
Fantastic Beasts Posters Include the Deathly Hallows
Warner Bros. has released nine new character posters for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, giving us an up-close look at the magical film's cast.
What's perhaps most striking, though, is the fact Colin Farrell's character Percival Graves is pictured with a Deathly Hallows necklace. Check out this tie directly into the main Harry Potter series and the other posters in the image gallery below.
So could this hint at Graves being a follower of the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who was a growing concern at the time of Fantastic Beasts for the Magical Congress of the United States of America? Is he searching for the Elder Wand, Invisibility Cloak and Resurrection Stone himself? Or something else?
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Telltale’s Batman: Episode 3 Release Date Announced
The third episode of Batman: The Telltale Series, titled New World Order, will be available digitally on October 25 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
The release dates for additional platforms — including last-gen consoles and mobile — have not yet been announced.
Spoilers for Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 2 follow.
New World Order finds Gotham in a struggling state following the Penguin's attack, which aired live on TV in the city. The attack will have significant repercussions on Harvey Dent, while in the aftermath Bruce Wayne continues to investigate the mysteries around the Children of Arkham, the namesake of the game's second episode.
Pokemon Sun and Moon: The Little Details No One’s Mentioning
There is an absurd amount of stuff in Pokemon Sun and Moon. Distractions, details, jokes, nostalgia-tinged callbacks, world-building, efficiency measures, start menu options - stuff!
In a hands-on with the game, I was set the task of beating the game’s first Island Challenge quest in around two hours of play - I failed miserably. Not because I am a poor trainer (I’m the best there ever was - you know that song? It’s about me), but because I kept getting distracted by that self-same stuff.
Crucially, a huge amount of it has almost nothing to do with the core collecting/RPG loop - something Pokemon’s always been good at, of course, since the days of berry growing and Secret Bases. It makes talking about it pretty difficult, because cramming every element of the game into one bit of writing means you’d end up talking about everything and nothing, the PokeParadox in full effect. So let’s not talk about the main game at all - we’ve done that elsewhere - let’s talk about all those little details people haven’t been able to mention. Things like...
How Pokémon Sun and Moon Are Improving the Pokemon Formula
We recently spent two hours with Pokemon Sun, and it feels like we barely scratched the surface.
Right away, Sun (and presumably Moon, though we didn't get to play it) targets Gen 1 nostalgia. You've traveled from the Kanto region to Alola with your mom and her Meowth, and even the decor in your room reflects where you came from — there are Pikachu and Ditto dolls but nothing connected to any other regions. There's also a Nintendo console, a Wii U, in your room, same as always.
But Sun and Moon also draw upon the original generation in more subtle ways. Before you even get your first Pokemon, there's a long cutscene featuring Tapu Koko, the guardian deity Pokemon of one of the four main islands of Alola. It reminded me a lot of the first episode of the anime, with that brief Ho-Oh sighting — you get very close to something rare and far more powerful than anything you're ready for, and it's a taste of what's to come. The camera work in this opening scene is more complicated than what we've seen in previous Pokemon games, too. It's cinematic, and though characters can look a little rough the closer the camera gets to them, it’s engaging. It brought back my familiar desire to explore and learn more about the region.