Monthly Archives: April 2019
Gotham’s Joker: Cameron Monaghan Reveals 2 New Photos
Respawn Was Working on Another Game Before Jedi: Fallen Order
Respawn Entertainment was working on a different game when EA approached to discuss creating a Star Wars game. The in-production project was dropped in order for the studio to start work on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
Talking to Press Start, game director Stig Asmussen said: “I think it started with EA approaching us at Respawn, and asking. I had a team, we were working on a game, and they said, “What do you guys think about Star Wars?”
Unsurprisingly, everyone at Respawn was keen. “Unanimously, my team hands down, everybody was interested in working on a Star Wars, even though we were really interested in the other game that we were working on, we saw this as an opportunity,” Asmussen said. “It’s like, “Hey, when are you ever going to get a chance to work on a Star Wars game?”
Director of Cancelled Star Wars Game Reacts to Jedi: Fallen Order
Amy Hennig, creative director behind the cancelled single-player Star Wars game known as Project Ragtag, has some thoughts on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its status as a single-player game without microtransactions.
Speaking with Eurogamer, Hennig said "
odd! I have to be candid with you. I mean,
coming from the EA Star Wars Twitter handle, so it's certainly part of the plan, but I don't know whether it's implicitly referencing previous comments they made after our project was killed?"
First Look at Magic: The Gathering’s Powerful New Dragon God
IGN is excited to officially reveal three new cards from Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming War of the Spark set, all centered around the imposing and notorious Nicol Bolas.
Watch the exclusive video from Wizards of the Coast at the top of the page to get a first glimpse at “Deliver Unto Evil, “The Elderspell,” and the planeswalker “Nicol Bolas, Dragon God” himself, hosted by The Command Zone’s Jimmy Wong and Josh Lee Kwai as well as Kyle Hill from Because Science.
I also spoke to Dave Humpherys, MTG’s Principal Game Designer, about why they decided to go with this card design for War of the Spark’s Nicol Bolas. Humpherys said they liked this iteration because it “felt true to Bolas and the story here.”
Final Fantasy 15 Director is Working on First Ever Paralympic RPG
Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata and his studio JP Games will be creating the first ever official Paralympic video game, The Pegasus Dream Tour.
Announced by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), The Pegasus Dream Tour will be part of a bigger initiative to "increase the engagement of the youth market in the Paralympic Games, an event that is now widely regarded as the world’s third biggest sport event after the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup."
The Pegasus Dream Tour will release worldwide in 2020 and will help celebrate the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, which will take place from August 25 - September 6 of next year.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 Would’ve Focused on Ancient Sith
Obsidian had big plans for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3, and although the game never saw the light of day, one of its writers has given us a look into what could have been for this planned next entry in the beloved KOTOR series.
At Reboot Develop, VG247 spoke to lead writer and designer for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and asked him if Obsidian had ever started work on a story for Knights of the Old Republic 3.
Avellone confirmed that work was underway, as the team always envisioned the KOTOR story to be a trilogy.
"When we finished the second one we were all trying to restore our lives back to sanity,” Avellone remembers. “We did start working on the third game pitch, because we always imagined the trilogy. Even when working on the second game, we
Take a Look Behind the Scenes of Hobbs & Shaw
The release of Avengers: Endgame, now just weeks away, kicks off 2019’s summer movie season. This year, we’re foregoing a traditional summer movie preview -- a single list-style film preview -- in favor of a month-long series of IGN First summer movie spotlights, featuring exclusive video debuts, image reveals, interviews and more.
IGN First is IGN's editorially-driven month-long spotlight of exclusives around upcoming film titles that both our audience -- and our staff! -- are excited about. We'll be rolling out exclusives on some of the most exciting new movies opening between the beginning of May until the end of August, so make sure to check back for even more exclusives throughout April.
Killing Eve Developer to Work on Bond 25 Script
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the developer of Killing Eve and voice of Solo: A Star Wars Story's L3-37, has been brought in to work on the script for the next James Bond film.
The request for Waller-Bridge to improve the script for Bond 25 was reportedly made by Daniel Craig himself, according to the Observer. The 007 actor is a fan of Killing Eve as well as Fleabag, the BBC comedy that Waller-Bridge created, wrote, and starred in.
The Observer reports that Craig felt that the Bond 25 script required some “polishing”, and would be improved by the humour and offbeat style that Waller-Bridge has become famed for.
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Yes, You Did See That Celebrity Cameo in the Game of Thrones Premiere
This post contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones Season 8 premiere, "Winterfell."
Game of Thrones has featured a number of celebrity cameos over the years, so it's no surprise to see a couple of familiar faces pop up in the Season 8 premiere.
Eagle-eyed viewers might have spotted It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator-star Rob McElhenney and Silicon Valley's Martin Starr during the scene in which Theon rescues Yara from their uncle Euron's ship. Sadly, it looks like neither actor will be making a repeat appearance...