Monthly Archives: May 2017
Deadpool 2 Villain Cast, Rumored to Be Black Tom
Deadpool 2 has cast The Strain's Jack Kesy to play a major villain in the film.
Deadline reports that while it's not entirely clear who he'll play, sources suggest it will be Black Tom Cassidy, an Irish villain whose powers include the ability to control and bond with plant life, and issue concussive blasts with a wooden object.
Kesy as Gabriel Bolivar in The Strain
Kesy is best known for playing a creepy goth rock star named Gabriel Bolivar on The Strain. Kesy can also be seen in the upcoming Baywatch movie, where he plays a character named Leon.
Judge Dredd TV Series: 9 Things We Want
Although Judge Dredd has been dealing out his own brand of justice for the last 40 years, there have only been two live-action adaptations to date: the 1995 Judge Dredd film starring Sylvester Stallone, and the 2012 reboot movie, Dredd, which placed Karl Urban in the iconic role. Although there were grand plans to make sequels for both films, neither movie managed to become a full-fledged franchise. But Dredd’s fortunes may be about to change.
Earlier this month, 2000 AD announced that it is collaborating with IM Global Television and Rebellion on a Judge Dredd television series. The new show will be called Judge Dredd: Mega-City One, and it will feature the title character alongside a team of younger judges as they take on the futuristic world where most of the major cities on the east coast of the United States have become a single “megalopolis” known as Mega-City One.
HBO Debuts New Game of Thrones Season 7 Trailer
After previous teases, HBO has debuted the first official trailer for Game of Thrones' upcoming seventh season.
Watch the trailer by clicking the image below:
HBO has previously released teaser trailers for season 7, though this latest look includes the first full footage from the penultimate season, with brief glimpses at what's to come for the show's ensemble cast.
Xbox’s Netflix-Like Game Pass Launches Next Month
Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft's Netflix-like subscription service, is now available for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. The service will launch for non-Gold members on June 1.
Announced earlier this year, Xbox Game Pass provides subscribers access to a library of over 100 games for $10 USD / £8 per month. Notable games available at the service's launch include Halo 5: Guardians, NBA 2K16, Mad Max, Borderlands, the BioShock franchise, and Gears of War 1-3. All Xbox One owners can begin their subscription with a 14-day free trial.
Each month, games will be cycled in and out of the service, according to Microsoft. Additionally, as long as a game is currently part of the Game Pass catalog, it will be available to purchase at a 20 percent discount.
Red Dead Redemption 2: Road to E3 2017
It's that time of year again: E3 2017 is just on the horizon. From June 10-15, we'll be covering the biggest games and hardware announcements of 2017 and beyond. While you can check out our continually-updated Games of E3 List, we're now going to start diving deeper.
Every day leading up to the show, we'll be highlight the stuff we want to see and play at E3 2017. Today's game: Red Dead Redemption 2.
Red Dead Redemption 2 was officially announced last October with a big reveal trailer. Just recently, it was delayed until spring 2018.
Final Fantasy XV Survey Asks What DLC You Want Next
The latest update for Final Fantasy XV includes a survey asking players what they would like to see from future updates.
The in-game survey (courtesy of All Games Delta) allows only one selection per player. The list of potential future content includes story DLC covering Arden's past, the World of Ruin and Lunafreya's activities, as well as new playable characters like Gentiana, Iris and Cor. An additional hard mode and new upgrades are listed as well.
Final Fantasy XV survey, via All Games Delta
Far Cry 5 Key Art, Characters Revealed
Ubisoft has revealed the first piece of Far Cry 5 art. After announcing the title of the game and showcasing a series of teasers that highlighted the game's setting of Hope County, Montana, Ubisoft took a slightly more sinister turn with this piece.
The art, very much a sendup on da Vinci's Last Supper, focuses on what we assume to be FC5's villains. Much like the ominous art where 3 showcased Vaas Montenegro and 4 highlighted Pagan Min, this group of folks are surrounded by weapons, religion, and a nice pup.
1st Look: Benicio del Toro, Laura Dern in Last Jedi
The first in-costume shots of Benicio del Toro and Laura Dern's characters in Star Wars: The Last Jedi have been shown.
Warning: the following contains small plot details and in-costume images of until-now unrevealed characters. You may consider these mild spoilers.
Annie Leibowitz - shooting for Vanity Fair - revealed the looks of the two most high-profile actors yet to be shown.
Benicio del Toro will play an unnamed character, but referred to as "DJ" by the filmmakers, and is described only as a "shady character". Laura Dern will play Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, a Resistance officer.
Ken Jeong on Justice League Action and COD
Actor, comedian and licensed physician, Ken Jeong seems to be tackling as many forms of media as possible, film, TV, animation and now video games. We recently talked to the Community and Hangover star about his work on Justice League Action, the upcoming animated film Amusement Park, his recent work on Call of Duty, and why the film adaptation of the novel, Crazy Rich Asians is kind of like The Avengers.
IGN: What can you tell us about your new animated film, Amusement Park? Have you wrapped yet?
Ken Jeong: We’re close. I’ve been working on that for the last two years. It’s amazing. It’s been so much fun because it’s a very personal project project for him (director, and former Pixar animator, Dylan Brown), and what I love about that movie is that it lends itself to more drama. The part I’m involved in is the escapism that the protagonist goes through. Even though I’m comic relief in that one, I just love the script and the story.
24 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know about Overwatch’s Heroes
Happy birthday, Overwatch.
To mark the game's one year anniversary, we got Jeff Kaplan – one of the game's key developers – to give us a little fact about each of the 24 heroes.
You can read them by swiping through the gallery below...
Or check out videos below to hear from Jeff himself and see previously-unseen concept art and footage of the game in development.
There you go. 24 little-known facts about Overwatch's heroes. While we had Jeff in the office, we also had him respond to some of our favourite IGN Overwatch comments...
...and critique our general Overwatch play.
Daniel is IGN's UK Managing Editor, and he wouldn't have believe a year ago that dressing up a Chinese climatologist as a futuristic beekeeper would make him so happy.