Monthly Archives: December 2016
Akuma Comes to Street Fighter 5 This Month
During the opening ceremony of PSX 2016, Sony revealed Akuma will be coming to Street Fighter 5 December 20.
Akuma is available as part of an upcoming character pack for Street Fighter 5. The character pack includes 5 new characters.
During the event, Capcom revealed the next entry in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite.
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Knack 2 Announced
At PlayStation Experience today, Sony announced Knack 2.
Gameplay showed multiple Knacks running around together in co-op, and Sony's Shuhei Yoshida described the sequel as "a game for everyone," from casual to hardcore players. No other details were revealed.
The original Knack launched in November 2013 alongside PlayStation 4. A sequel has been rumored since earlier this year.
For more on Knack, read our review of the original, and stay tuned to IGN for all the news from PSX.
Wipeout Omega Collection to Be Released in 2017
A new Wipeout is coming to PlayStation 4, Sony announced at the 2016 Playstation Experience.
Wipeout Omega Collection collects three games: Wipeout HD, Wipeout Fury, and Wipeout 2048. The last Wipeout game was released for the PlayStation Vita back in 2012.
All previous Wipeout games were developed by Sony Liverpool, a studio that Sony closed in August 2012.
For all the news from the PlayStation Experience, be sure to check out IGN's PlayStation Experience 2016 event hub.
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Aquaman Release Date Announced
The solo Aquaman film in the DC extended universe will be released in theaters on October 5, 2018, Warner Bros. revealed today.
Originally set for a July 2018 release, Deadline reports that Aquaman will debut in theaters a few months later, with Jason Momoa returning in the title role after his cameo in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice this year and his role in Justice League next year.
Furious 7 and The Conjuring director James Wan is helming the project, with Willem Defoe set to play Vulko in both Aquaman and Justice League. IGN spoke to Wan earlier this year about the tone of the film in comparison to Batman v Superman.
This New Venom Figure Is Disgusting But Awesome
Several images of Kaiyodo's new Venom figure have been revealed ahead of its release next year.
Amiami Hobby News shared the new photos in a post on Twitter (via Marvelous News). Check out the incredibly detailed figure, sculpted by Yamaguchi Katsuhisa, below:
Kaiyodo's new Venom figure, courtesy of Amiami Hobby News
Death Stranding: Everything You Missed in the New Trailer
In the beginning of the new Death Stranding teaser, we get an opening very similar to its reveal trailer from E3 2016: a panning shot of dead sea creatures scattered around in the mud. This time, we get a much clearer shot of the strands of black wire running across the sand and directly into the abdomens of a number of dead crabs.
In an interview at E3 this year, game director Hideo Kojima told IGN that Death Stranding will be played not with “sticks” like in most games — guns or other weapons — but “ropes.” We’ll see this manifest quite literally later in the trailer, but for now the wired-up crustaceans act as cryptic foreshadowing. They also call to mind Gyo, Junji Ito’s sci-fi horror manga about an invasion of technobiologically reanimated sea creatures.
How Multiplayer Influences Mass Effect: Andromeda’s Campaign
According to Mass Effect: Andromeda Game Director Mac Walters, the new Mass Effect game's multiplayer and campaign are being developed as "a more cohesive experience."
"We knew that multiplayer would be a big part of Andromeda, and so early on we really coupled those two together: the single player and the multiplayer to make sure there's a more cohesive experience," Walters told IGN following the 2016 Game Awards. "From a pure minute-to-minute, second-to-second gameplay experience, the multiplayer really drives it. That's where you see a lot of the action. It's a lot more fast-paced."
It was a creative decision that has ties back to Mass Effect 3. Walters cites that game as an opportunity where Bioware "used the multiplayer as a means to improve the combat that we had." "Working on multiplayer in ME3 really helped sort of crystalize what our combat experience is like," he said, "so we started there and wanted to expand it."
Barbie: Amy Schumer May Star in Live-Action Movie
Sony's live-action Barbie movie may have found its leading lady in Amy Schumer.
According to Variety, Schumer is in "early talks" to star in the film, with both her and her sister, Kim Caramele, expected to rewrite the screenplay. The actress wrote and starred in last year's romantic comedy Trainwreck.
Amy Schumer in Trainwreck
Harry Potter Stage Show May Come to Broadway in 2018
The producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the stage play that tells the story of Harry, Ron, and Hermione's children, are in the "final stages" of talks to bring the show to Broadway beginning in the spring of 2018.
Announced on Pottermore, plans to bring Cursed Child to New York are currently underway, with talks already ongoing to bring the show to life in a "totally transformed" Lyric Theatre, which currently hosts the Cirque du Soleil Paramour show. The Cursed Child,
, opened in London's West End earlier this year.
The multi-million dollar renovation plans would alter the theater to accommodate 1,500 attendants rather than its current 1,900 in order to allow the show's producers to properly bring the stage show's intricate set design to life.