Monthly Archives: September 2018
IGN Happy Hour: Forza Horizon 4 Special
IGN's Tristan Ogilvie and Luke Reilly sat down with Ben Penrose, Studio Art Director at Playground Games, to get his insight into the making of the studio's most ambitious open world racing game yet, Forza Horizon 4. Over an hour long chat, Ben opened up about his team's microscopic attention to detail, the pressures of setting a game in his own British backyard, crafting the special Halo racing event and why Playground Games is like the Traveling Wilburys of games development. Sort of. Grab it at the link below!
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Why Marvel’s Spider-Man’s PS4 Photo Mode Is So Great
Photo Modes have become a staple of the PlayStation 4’s exclusives library — and with a built in Share button on the controller, a staple of the console itself. None has been so bespoke — and creative — as the photo mode for Marvel’s Spider-Man.
Available Day 1 as part of a new patch, the photo mode has the standard customization options we’ve come to expect — focus changes, lighting adjustments, and filters. But Insomniac Games has taken the mode to a delightful new level, as seen in the gameplay of it above and the gallery below.
(Warning: There are some suit spoilers toward the end of the gallery — don't click through the last three or four photos if you don't want some of the suits before you play.)
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Fortnite Nerf Blasters Are Coming in 2019
As part of a partnership between Epic Games and Hasbro that will also see the release of a Monopoly Fornite board, Hasbro will release a line of officially licensed Nerf Fortnite blasters in spring 2019.
A Hasbro representative told IGN the blasters "will immerse fans into the player-versus-player action of the game, letting them play out the Battle Royale in real-world settings with blasters and accessories that emulate the onscreen battles Fortnite is known for." That's not all, as a full reveal of the Epic Games and Hasbro partnership is planned for Sept. 11.
Hasbro also confirmed to IGN the earlier report about a Fortnite Monopoly board game. Monopoly Fortnite will be sold at most major retailers starting on Oct. 1, sooner than the Nov. 26 release date that was initially reported. That original story has been updated to reflect this new information.
Every IGN Spider-Man Game Review
Suiting up to play the latest – and arguably the greatest – Spider-Man game on PlayStation 4 tomorrow? Once you're done reading our review, take a swing through 18 years of gaming history with our gallery of every game starring our friendly neighborhood webslinger. From dizzying highs of Spider-Man 2 to terrifying lows of Spider-Man 3, Peter Parker's had a wild ride. What are your favorite – or least-favorite – moments from these games?
Dan Stapleton is IGN's Reviews Editor. You can follow him on Twitter to hear gaming rants and lots of random Simpsons references.
Actor Burt Reynolds Dies at 82
Burt Reynolds, the star of films such as Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance, and The Longest Yard has died at the age of 82, according to THR.
Confirmed by his manager, Erik Kritzer to THR, Reynolds died Thursday morning at Jupiter Medical Center in Florida. Multiple reports are stating that Reynolds died following a heart attack.
Reynolds began his acting career in television on multiple westerns and police shows before jumping into action movies in the 1970s and 1980s. He was known for choosing his roles based on how fun they seemed to be, and later regretted not taking on challenging roles, as he wrote in his memoir, But Enough About Me.
Every Important Dragon Ball Transformation, Power-Up, and Fusion So Far
Wild power-ups and intense transformations have been a staple of the Dragon Ball series for a long time, and their development shows no signs of stopping. Just before Super came to a close, the most powerful upgrade of them all was revealed: Ultra Instinct.
With that in mind, we wanted to take a look back and go over the many forms and power-ups that have appeared, talking about what made them interesting, or in some cases, pointless. For brevity sake, this feature only delves into the forms used by Goku and a few other primary cast members and villains. View the slideshow below for a summary of each form. These form descriptions are based on the anime run of the Dragon Ball franchise.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout Mode Has Consumables That Grant Timed Perks
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode will have consumables on the map that will enable, for a limited time, "Black Ops' signature perk power-ups."
Speaking to Game Informer, Treyarch studio design director David Vonderhaar explained that "in Blackout, the perks are consumables, you collect them, you use them, they have a timer."
These perks take up inventory slots so deciding between them and other options will be a tough one.
Game Informer also revealed a few of the perks players can look forward to finding on the map when Blackout launches, and they are as follows:
Oscars Won’t Present Best Popular Film Category Next Year After All
In a press release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the previously announced Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film category won’t be coming to the 91st Oscars ceremony after all.
The Academy said that adding the new Oscars category merits further study, stating "The Academy recognized that implementing any new award nine months into the year creates challenges for films that have already been released. The Board of Governors continues to be actively engaged in discussions, and will examine and seek additional input regarding this category."
Starforce: Who Are Captain Marvel’s Teammates?
Update: The Captain Marvel trailer has now arrived.
Watch it here:
Original story follows...
Now that we've gotten our first official look at the cast of next year's Captain Marvel movie, including Brie Larson's Carol Danvers, returning MCU favorites like Nick Fury and Ronan the Accuser, and a whole new lineup of Kree and Skrull characters, it's time to delve into an aspect of the film that we hadn't heard about before.