Monthly Archives: April 2018
PUBG’s Next Full-Size Map Coming Later This Year
The Banner Saga 3 Release Date Announced
The release date for The Banner Saga 3 has been announced, and we'll see the final instalment of developer Stoic's trilogy come to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on July 24.
The release date was shared in a tweet from the game's official account, and while the listed platforms didn't include the Switch, the developer confirmed in a reply that the Switch release will also be on July 24, and that The Banner Saga 1 and 2 will release on the platform before then.
A Way Out Passes 1 Million Copies Sold
Hazelight Studios’ co-op adventure A Way Out has sold over one million copies.
"We just found out that #AWayOut has sold over 1 million copies, in just over two weeks!" the studio wrote on Twitter. "Words cannot describe how much this means to us. Thank you to all of you for your support!"
"HOLY S**T, this means that 2 million players have played the game," added A Way Out writer-director Josef Fares. "Thank you so much."
Roger Ebert Was ‘Absolutely Wrong’ About Games, Says A Way Out Creator
Josef Fares, the filmmaker-turned-game-developer who created Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and the recently released A Way Out, weighed in on the "games are not art" debate, saying Roger Ebert was wrong about the medium not being a valid art form.
"Yes, he was absolutely wrong," Fares said on the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered (see below for the full interview) when asked about the "video games can never be art" statement made by Ebert back in 2010. "Nothing personally against him, but that was—I don't even talk to people who say games are not art. It doesn't even make sense. It's so insanely stupid."
Fear the Walking Dead: Can Morgan Kick All of Fear’s Characters’ Butts?
This Sunday, April 15th, following the Season 8 finale of The Walking Dead on AMC, spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead begins its fourth season with a very familiar face.
Not only is Fear the Walking Dead, which has always existed, canonically, a few years behind The Walking Dead story-wise, hitting viewers with a time jump that will catch everything up to the present zompocalypse landscape of Walking Dead, but Lennie James' Morgan will crossover and join the series.
Fear's ensemble still includes Kim Dickens, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Frank Dillane, and Colman Domingo, but it will now bring in additions Lennie James, Maggie Grace, Jenna Elfman, and Garret Dillahunt (creating the show's second Deadwood reunion).
Microtransactions Return to Star Wars Battlefront 2
Microtransactions are returning to Star Wars Battlefront II alongside the Endor Update on April 18.
The revamped microtransaction system brings back Crystals as the sole item that can be purchased with real-world money. Crystals will strictly be used to unlock cosmetic skins, such as Endor Leia and Endor Han, which are two of the 50 new personalization items being introduced in this latest update. For those who don’t want to spend money, these items can also be purchased with in-game credits.
Ewok art from Battlefront II's new Ewok Hunt mode
IGN UK Podcast 430: God of War After Dark
This week Krupa's been playing that new God of War, but to be honest that bit mainly ends up being about the canonical status of what happened in Hollyoaks Afer Dark. If you don't know what that is, it's like naughty Hollyoaks. If you don't know what Hollyoaks is – well, there's no helping you.
We've seen a little bit of Infinity War, but can't talk about it, so enjoy that. And enjoy the really, really hard Keyword Countdown.
IGN UK Podcast 430: God of War After Dark
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Opinion: Thanos and Captain America Are Redeeming Marvel Comics
Few would argue that Marvel Comics didn't have a rough go in 2017. The ambitious Secret Empire crossover courted plenty of controversy but failed to translate that into steady sales. And while the Marvel Legacy relaunch promised a nostalgic return to the Marvel of old, it's been pretty much a case of business as usual for the company in recent months. Despite this, there's reason to be optimistic for Marvel's future. And it's all thanks to the most unlikely of alliances - Captain America and Thanos.
Legacy underwhelmed largely because so little about Marvel's comic book lineup seemed to truly change. Beneath the renumbered covers, most Legacy books featured the same creative teams working with the same characters as before. The ongoing Captain America and Thanos titles are two notable exceptions. With Captain America, writer Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee came on board to give readers a "back to basics" story about Cap getting back in touch with the people of America following the events of Secret Empire. With Thanos, God Country creative team Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw took the reins of the series to tell a story about the Mad Titan confronting his own future self.
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