Monthly Archives: June 2018
Disney to Reportedly Increase Its Fox Bid Following Comcast Offer
Disney is reportedly set to increase its $52.4 billion bid for 21st Century Fox to fend off Comcast.
CNBC reports Disney is prepared to add cash to its all-stock offer to win the bidding, however, the exact amount is not known. Last week, Comcast made an estimated $65 billion bid for Fox's assets after its offer last year was rejected due to antitrust concerns.
Fox will be holding a shareholders meeting this Wednesday, according to CNBC, to determine the Disney deal and discuss Comcast's offer. If the board decide Comcast's bid is superior, Disney would then have five days to match the $65 billion offer.
Preorder the Smash Bros. Ultimate GameCube Controller
If you want to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the old-fashioned way, now's your chance to preorder.
Less than a week after Nintendo announced the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate would support GameCube controllers, the devices are now up for preorder on Amazon.
Complete with an updated Super Smash Bros. logo, the Smash GameCube controller will set you back $29.99. The GameCube controller adapter, which will support four controllers and appears to be the same one Nintendo sold with the Wii U, will cost $19.99. Both items' descriptions say they will release on Dec. 31, though this could just be a placeholder date, as Ultimate is set for a Dec. 7 release.
Fortnite’s in-Game TVs Broadcasting Mysterious Red Skull
Another Fortnite mystery is afoot, with red skulls being broadcast on the in-game TVs.
Fortnite looks like it's ushering in another in-game event, with a red skull being broadcast on the in-game TVs at Snobby Shores.
Epic Games used a similar approach with the meteor event, with the emergency broadcast being displayed on the in-game screens before it finally hit the map.
Warriors Orochi 4 Release Date Revealed
KOEI Tecmo has announced the release date and platforms for Warriors Orochi 4.
The publisher revealed the newest entry in the action franchise will come out on October 16 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
KOEI Tecmo also shared a brief gameplay trailer featuring Zeus using his lightning attack during battle.
Warriors Orochi 4 was announced earlier this year during the Omega Force 20th Anniversary event in Japan. The series features characters from both Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors franchises.
Destiny 2’s Cayde-6 Is Really, Truly Dead, Says Bungie
Bungie has some bad news for Destiny 2 fans who were holding out hope that fan-favorite character Cayde-6 wasn't truly dead in the Forsaken DLC trailer.
"He's dead. His ghost is dead," Bungie Principal Producer Scott Taylor told GamesRadar during E3. Continuing, Taylor explained that there were several reasons for the move.
"We wanted to establish the tone of the game and show that we're serious about it," he explained. "We also want people to process it. You'll play a mission with him, and you're not really sure when this is going to happen, or how, so the emotional experience of that would be very different if you just turned on the game, you saw it and it was all just a shock. It's actually a little more rich and interesting if you have time to sit with it and reflect."
Dwayne Johnson Officially Announces Jumanji Sequel
Dwayne Johnson has officially announced the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel is in the works.
Johnson revealed the news on Instagram while also confirming the original core cast of Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillian, and Johnson himself are coming back.
Welcome to the Jungle writers Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner will return to pen the sequel, with Jake Kasdan directing once again as well. Johnson will produce alongside Matt Tolmach, Dany Garcia, and Hiram Garcia.
The film is set to open in theaters in December 2019, right around the same time as Star Wars: Episode IX.
Kellogg’s Releases Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Limited-Edition Cereal Boxes
Universal Studios has teamed up with Kellogg Co. to release two limited-edition collector's boxes of Frosted Flakes and Keebler Fudge Stripes cookies. The boxes include over five minutes of exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which hits theaters this Friday, June 22.
The footage takes the viewer onto the set of the newest Jurassic World installment to watch the actors and creators of the film bring the dinosaurs to life. The boxes have been released today and can be found on Amazon for $25 each.
Making the McLaren Senna in Forza Horizon 4
From the outside, the McLaren Technology Centre looks like a Bond villain’s lair. A narrow, paved path skirts the edge of a semi-circular lake before tracing a thin bridge over the water. The main building itself is also basically a semi-circle, although its curved glass façade splits the building and the lake into what I imagine would appear somewhat like a yin-yang symbol when viewed from above.
Inside things aren’t any less impressive. The entrance hall is wide, vast, and lined with millions upon millions of dollars’ worth of McLaren’s finest metal. McLaren Racing founder Bruce McLaren’s first ever racing car, a 1929 Austin 7, sits silently beside a special McLaren F1, the company’s famous road-going rocket which spent most of the ’90s to the early 2000s as the fastest production car on the planet. Indeed, the green F1 sitting in McLaren’s lobby is the very car Le Mans winner Andy Wallace reset the record with back in 1998. It’s still the fastest naturally-aspirated production car ever built.
Ant-Man and the Wasp More About Civil War Than Infinity War
I was among the members of the press invited last September to the Atlanta set of Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp. During our set visit, we interviewed director Peyton Reed and stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, and Michael Douglas -- as well as key production personnel -- about making the the Marvel sequel.
While they were understandably guarded about discussing certain aspects of the film, they did shed some light on the plot and characters. We found out interesting new details about the heroes' mission in the movie, the Quantum Realm (and the challenges of revisiting it, visually, this time), the new vehicle our heroes use in their journey into the Quantum Realm, the rivalry between two key characters, and more.
Out This Week: Mario Tennis Aces, Minecraft and SteamWorld Dig 2 Physical Versions on Switch
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.
