Monthly Archives: January 2017
Watch Dogs 2 Gets Free 3-Hour Trial
Ubisoft has released a three-hour Watch Dogs 2 trial on PlayStation 4, with the demo hitting Xbox One on January 24.
The Watch Dogs 2 free trial offers up the entire open-world game to players, including multiplayer. Then, if you decide to buy, progress will carry over to the purchased version.
The move might be in response to weaker launch sales for Watch Dogs 2 compared to the original. At the time, Ubisoft expressed confidence in the long-term prospects for the open-world game, and this free trial should get more people to try it out.
Tom Hardy Explains the Supernatural Side of Taboo
The trailers for Taboo paint a mystical picture of main character James Keziah Delaney, played by Tom Hardy. From describing him as a "ghost," a man with "mother's madness" seen walking around in tribal garb, to flashes of images that hint at witchcraft and other taboo magic, it's understandable than some might have thought the new FX/BBC co-production was more Penny Dreadful than Peaky Blinders.
While Taboo, which airs its second episode tonight, certainly does have threads of supernatural storytelling woven through its plot, it's much more focused on exploring the traumatized mind of Delaney than revealing whether he's some sort of shaman. Tom Hardy told IGN that the parts of the story that might seem supernatural are more just a way for Taboo's storytellers to play around with the show's tone, explaining the first season is "more of a 'f--k you to the establishment' story."
Why EA Is Supporting Nintendo Switch At Launch
Last week, Nintendo finally showed off its new console, the Nintendo Switch. During the reveal event, Nintendo said more than 80 Switch games are currently in development from multiple publishers, both big and small.
Among those publishers is EA, which announced a new version of FIFA headed to Switch. In the wake of that reveal, IGN spoke to EA’s executive vice president Patrick Soderlund, a self-professed Nintendo fan whose son’s middle name is Luigi, about why EA is supporting Switch at launch.
Nintendo Switch: Questions We Still Don’t Have Answers To
Nintendo’s Switch conference answered a lot of important questions we had about the platform since it’s reveal trailer last year, but there are still some things we still really want to know.
Here are 10 of our biggest remaining questions:
Online services for the Nintendo Switch will let you invite friends to play games online, set “play appointments,” chat, and more. We know this will include a free trial and will be a paid service starting in Fall 2017, but we don’t know exactly what we’ll be paying for. We’ve heard about a dedicated smart device app that connects to the Nintendo Switch Console, but that really only raises more questions; is a mobile app really the only way we can have multiplayer voice chat, how much is it going to cost us, and how will friends lists work?
Mass Effect: Andromeda to Feature Weapon Naming and Crafting
Mass Effect: Andromeda will introduce a new feature to the series: weapon naming and crafting.
The game's lead designer Ian S. Frazier confirmed the feature on Twitter while also revealing melee weapons, like a Krogan-style hammer, can also be named and crafted. Melee Weapons will have a specific slot in your loadout similar to guns.
BioWare's other major RPG series, Dragon Age, has had weapon crafting including the latest entry, 2014's Dragon Age: Inquisition.
PRO TIP: In MEA, you can craft your own krogan-style hammer and name it GRABTHAR'S HAMMER.
That one's free, folks. #space
Netflix Reveals Santa Clarita Diet Trailer
Ahead of its debut next month, Netflix has released the first official trailer for its upcoming horror comedy series Santa Clarita Diet.
Timothy Olyphant and Drew Barrymore star as husband and wife realtors named Joel and Sheila Hammond, who live a normal life with their daughter Abby (Liv Hewson) in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita - until Sheila becomes one of the undead and she and Joel begin killing to keep her fed.
Warning: Trailer below contains language that is NSFW.
Santa Clarita Diet premieres on February 3, exclusively on Netflix.
For more on the upcoming cannibalism comedy series, check out this pair of promos that spotlight Joel and Sheila Hammond. While you're at it, take a look at our gallery below for a sneak peek at what's in story for the Hammond family.
Black Panther Will Feature a Flashback to the ’90s
The upcoming Black Panther solo film will reportedly feature a flashback to the 1990s.
According to East Bay Times, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's public transit systems, AC Transit, has approved the use of a 1990s-era logo for Black Panther. This will be part of a scene showing where and how T'Challa came to be. It will establish the character's origins, with T'Challa using the AC Transit to commute to school.
"In one scene, the film’s protagonist has a flashback to 1990, while he was a student at Saint Mary’s College High School in Berkeley," reads East Bay Times description. "And of course, he’s a daily AC Transit commuter. Cue the 1990s-era bus for the appropriate establishing shot."
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For Honor: Meet the Lawbringer and Valkyrie Heroes
For Honor is Ubisoft's upcoming team-based action game where a faction of knights, vikings, and samurai are locked in perpetual warfare because... that's what they do. Each faction is comprised of four different heroes (or classes) with their own strengths and weaknesses.
We've already revealed the Warlord, Peacekeeper, and Shugoki during our Hot Games of 2017 IGN First, but now you can sneak a peek at two of the last three unannounced hero classes coming to For Honor.
Top 10 Playable Resident Evil Characters
Begin a sentence with the phrase “iconic horror series,” and tradition dictates that the words “Resident” and “Evil” must follow shortly after.
Having coined the term 'survival horror' during its original Japanese 1996 release, the Resident Evil franchise has spent the years since spawning a slew of games packed with characters who have defined the genre. But out of all of those you can play throughout the main games, mini games and DLC, who are IGN’s favourites from the series? Here are our Top 10 Playable Resident Evil Characters.
