Monthly Archives: October 2016
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Requires Infinite Warfare Disc to Play
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered will not be playable without the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare disc inserted into your console according to Activision.
Alongside a new FAQ posted to the official Call of Duty website for Modern Warfare Remastered, a blurb on the website reads: "Modern Warfare Remastered is a full game download (game disc must be inserted to play Modern Warfare Remastered)."
The website does not detail how PS4 players who have purchased the Legacy or Legacy Pro physical editions of Infinite Warfare will access Modern Warfare Remastered early, as players on that console are supposed to be able to play the downloadable game's campaign 30 days ahead of release, starting October 5. IGN has reached out for further comment on what this means for those PS4 players and will update this post when they respond.
Introducing IGN Spoken Editions
Have you ever wanted to listen to latest IGN news stories, game and movie reviews on the go? We hear you! And we’re excited to announce a new partnership with a company called Spokenlayer to create IGN Spoken Editions on iTunes.
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DC’s New Justice League of America Team Revealed
Update: We've added details for Justice League of America: Killer Frost #1.
DC will be launching a new Justice League of America comic in February 2017. The series will spin out of the upcoming Justice League vs. Suicide Squad crossover and feature a new team that will co-exist with the current Justice League.
The new series will be written by Steve Orlando (Supergirl) and drawn by Ivan Reis (Blackest Night). The book will feature a diverse lineup of heroes, with DC promising that, "This is a Justice League that looks like America, that proves Heroism can look like ANYTHING and ANYONE."
To celebrate this launch, DC will also be releasing a series of four one-shot comics in January that will spotlight individual members of the new JLA. Scroll down to find out which DC heroes will be serving on this new team and which creators will be tackling these one-shots. We'll keep updating this article as more reveals are made.
A Pokemon Go TV Set Tour
Set visits sound like one of the most glamorous things you can do as an entertainment reporter. You get to interview the people starring in and making a TV show or movie, visit the locations that play a key role in that finished product and see that the saying "it takes a village" actually is pretty accurate when you meet the many, many, many people responsible for making that project become a reality.
But as incredible as set visits are, they also tend to be very long days. Oftentimes you're visiting a working production, which means actors are busy filming and directors are busy directing, and can only come talk when scenes are being reset or when they wrap for a day. That means there's often a lot of downtime -- which could be spent reflecting on what you're observing, but I decided to mix things up a bit on my recent trip to Vancouver.
Out This Week: Mafia III, Paper Mario: Color Splash, X-Men: Apocalypse
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.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Don’t Worry About Xbox Scorpio’s Price, Says Phil Spencer
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has come forward to address the price of its upcoming console, codenamed Project Scorpio, assuaging fears that it will be priced far above that of a typical console.
In an interview with NZ Gamer (via WinBeta), Spencer said Microsoft designed the Xbox One S and Scorpio in "parallel" and "thought about the price performance of what we wanted to hit with the Scorpio, relative to what we were going to be able to do with the S." As such, Microsoft aims to offer the consumer "a good price continuum, so people wouldn’t look at these two things as so disconnected because of the price delta."
Batman: Arkham VR’s Core Story is an Hour Long
Batman: Arkham VR aims to tell a "highly focused" murder-mystery story, with players taking their place behind the famous cowl - and we now know just how long that focus will last.
According to Rocksteady brand marketing producer, Dax Ginn, a single regular runthrough of the game's story will take around an hour - but there's slightly more to it than that:
“The core narrative is about 60 minutes in duration," Ginn tells PressStart, "however additional content is unlocked that provides about another 90 minutes of gameplay on top of that."
7 Toy Franchises That Deserve a Movie Before Hot Wheels
With all the money raked in by the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises over the last 10 years, it's not surprising that studios are always searching for more classic toy properties to turn into the next big Hollywood franchise. But sometimes their choices leaves us scratching our heads. Case in point, the recent announcement that Fast & Furious director Justin Lin will direct an adaptation of Hot Wheels. It's the most curious news in this arena since the announcement of a Tetris movie trilogy.
New Mass Effect, Dragon Age Comics to Be Released in 2017
Dark Horse will debut new comics in the worlds of both Mass Effect and Dragon Age, as well as several other projects related to the BioWare franchises, the publisher revealed today.
Ahead of New York Comic-Con 2016, Dark Horse has announced the comic book series Mass Effect: Discovery, the first issue of which will be available in spring 2017. Discovery's story is by Mass Effect Andromeda creative director Mac Walters, lead writer John Dombrow, and Jeremy Barlow, a writer on the Mass Effect: Foundation comic series/ Barlow will write Discovery while Gabriel Guzmán is on board as artist for the series.
Dark Horse will also release Dragon Age: Knight Errant in 2017. with the first issue going on sale on May 10 of next year. Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir will write Knight Errant, which will have art by Fernando Heinz Furukawa and covers by Sachin Teng Dragon Age Adult Coloring Book will go on sale February 8, 2017.
Create Your Own Skylander Figure Soon With Skylanders Creator
Skylanders Creator, a new free app coming in October, will let users create and order different merchandise featuring their custom characters.
Users can order a 3D printed figure of their character that is fully playable in the Skylanders Imaginators game for $50 USD, a t-shirt with their character on it for $25 USD, and a card featuring their character for $15 USD. You can see samples of these products in the slideshow below.
The app features the same character creator from Skylanders Imaginators, and users can import their characters from the game to Skylanders Creator.
Creation parts can be unlocked for free daily with Skylanders Creator's Timed Chests and Sensei Chests. Time Chests give users parts at certain times throughout the day, and Sensei Chests give a special part once a day.