Monthly Archives: June 2019

New Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Gameplay Revealed at EA Play

During the first segment at EA Play on Saturday, Respawn Entertainment and EA revealed 15-minutes of full gameplay footage of the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game.

Hosting the segment was Kinda Funny's Greg Miller, featuring Respawn's Vince Zampella and Stig Asmussen.

During the gameplay reveal, viewers received a solid glimpse of new characters, locations and what fighting styles will be included. Skill points have also been confirmed to be in the game.

Saw Gerrera from Rogue One, played by Forest Whitaker, was shown in the footage to be assisting Cal, along with Kashyyk – the wookiee homeworld, being a starter location.

Additional droids will appear, including the previously revealed BD-1, the black Imperial R2 unit seen in The Last Jedi, and the returning KX-series security droid from Star Wars: Rogue One. Droids seem to be able to inject Cal in order to restore health, and can overcharge consoles and impact the environment.

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Apex Legends: Wattson Revealed as 10th Legend

Apex Legends' second season will be called Battle Charge and will be released on July 2, 2019. In addition, the tenth Legend, Wattson, has been revealed.

Wattson was introduced in Apex Legends' first cinematic for one of its characters. Her real name is Natalie Paquette and she's the daughter of the game's lead electrical engineer. Her Tactical Ability is called Perimeter Security and connects "nodes to create electrified fences that damage and slow enemies."

Wattson's Passive Ability is Spark of Genius. Ultimate Accelerants fully charge Wattson's Ultimate Ability and "standing near interception pylons boosts your Tactical Ability recharge."

Her Ultimate Ability is Interception Pylon, where Wattson can "place an electrified pylon that destroys incoming ordnance and repairs damaged shields as long as it stands. (Max: 3)"

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Dark Phoenix: Why Don’t the X-Men Ever Age?

Time is a funny thing in Fox's X-Men movie universe. X-Men: First Class takes place in 1962, and Dark Phoenix takes place in 1992, yet the X-Men barely seem to have aged in all that time. If these movies didn't make a point of anchoring themselves to specific events in world history, you'd never know the current series takes place over the course of three decades. And don't even get us started on the future timeline seen in Days of Future Past...

To highlight just how weird the aging process in the X-Men movies has become, we've put together a slideshow comparing the cast of Dark Phoenix to how they looked in their original appearances and how they're supposed to look in the era of the classic X-Men trilogy. Apparently Wolverine isn't the only mutant who never ages...

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Fox’s X-Men vs. Fantastic Four Movie Would’ve Included Daredevil and Deadpool

Update (1/2/21) - As reported by ComicBook.com, The Bourne Supremacy's Paul Greengrass has confirmed that he was in talks with Fox about a never-made X-Men vs. Fantastic Four film that would have featured Daredevil and Deadpool. Greengrass was speaking to the Happy Sad Confused podcast when he discussed that while he was approached for this project, it didn't go much farther than discussions. "They did talk to me about it. I wouldn't say I was attached. [We] talked, and I thought about it, and in the end… [nothing happened]." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvel-cinematic-universe-every-upcoming-movie-and-tv-show&captions=true"] As far as Daredevil and Deadpool appearing, this was actually confirmed in 2019 by Thor and X-Men: First Class screenwriter Zack Stentz on Fatman on Batman. "[Ashley Edward Miller] and I, when we were working at Fox and we were working on X-Men: First Class, we did a secret movie for them that — I can't tell you what the plot was — but I can tell you that it used all of the characters, all of the Marvel characters that Fox had at the time in 2011," Stentz revealed. "It used the X-Men. It used the Fantastic Four. It used Daredevil. It used Deadpool. Daredevil was still at Fox at the time." Even though this movie never happened, Marvel recently confirmed that a Fantastic 4 movie is in the works and is being helmed by Spider-Man: Homecoming and Far From Home director Jon Watts. Original story follows. [poilib element="accentDivider"] With the X-Men movie franchise singing its swan song with the release of Dark Phoenix, a report has come out from THR that back in 2010 Fox toyed with the idea of making an X-Men vs. Fantastic Four movie. According to THR’s “secret sources,” Fox considered a Civil War-esque superhero movie crossover that pitted the Children of the Atom against Marvel’s First Family. The battle was going to be ignited by Johnny Storm when he accidentally blew a hole in Manhattan after going supernova while trying to capture F4 villain Molecule Man, thus sparking the Superhero Registration Act in response to the devastation. The heroes would have then split into two sides and battled it out, with the matchup of Wolverine fighting Mister Fantastic ending in shocking fashion. As THR tells it, the hero vs. hero brawl ended with “Reed Richards pinning Wolverine down, extending his hands until they're one molecule wide, and using them as scissors to cut the mutant's arms off.” They'd grow back, right? [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-x-men-movie-rotten-tomatoes-score&captions=true"] The film would have ended with the heroes making peace and a post-credits scene teasing a Skrull invasion (yes, the shapeshifters featured in Captain Marvel). Fox apparently tapped X-Men: First Class screenwriters Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz to write the script, and Bourne filmmaker Paul Greengrass was “flirting with directing.” Obviously, the plans fizzled out and the movie never happened. First Class was deemed a success by Fox so they decided to continue in that direction and make Days of Future Past instead. There’s also mention that renowned comic writer Warren Ellis was commissioned for a story treatment on a different X-Men vs. Fantastic Four movie, but no details of that version were given. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/06/07/dark-phoenixs-biggest-wtf-questions-what-to-watch"] So would you have wanted to see Fox’s X-Men vs. Fantastic Four movie? Let us know in the comments. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joshua is Senior Features Editor at IGN. If Pokemon, Green Lantern, or Game of Thrones are frequently used words in your vocabulary, you’ll want to follow him on Twitter @JoshuaYehl and IGN.

7 Things You (Probably) Missed in the Pokemon Sword and Shield Direct

The new trailer for Pokemon Sword and Shield shown during the Pokemon Direct has some details that you just might have missed.

First, check out the trailer if you already haven't:

Now check out all the cool stuff we found and others on the internet have pointed out.

You can view this piece as a slideshow by flipping through the gallery below or just keep scrolling to read it as an article.

A New Chipmunk Pokemon

An extra secret Pokemon?! While we got our first official look at seven new Pokemon, it looks like an extra one was snuck in. A little boy in the crowd is sporting a shirt with a creature resembling a chipmunk...

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Screenshots Reveal Cancelled Spider-Man Game That Became Prototype 2

Wayne Dalton, who was previously a senior environment artist at Radical Entertainment, has shared some screenshots and details of a cancelled Spider-Man 4 that ended up becoming Prototype 2.

On ArtStation, Dalton shared some screenshots of what was once Spider-Man 4, with different scenes featuring our favorite Web Slinger, as well as office furniture and newspaper articles from the Daily Bugle.

Alongside these images, Dalton said "the studio ended up massaging this into what became Prototype 2. Programmers did an amazing job on Spider mans locomotion & wed physics. shame there's no footage."

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FromSoft and George R.R. Martin’s Game Reportedly Leaked

After rumors suggesting A Song of Ice & Fire author George R.R. Martin and Bloodborne developers were working on a game together, new details suggest that title, Elden Ring, may reportedly be revealed at E3 2019, alongside several other alleged Bandai Namco games.

As posted by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad (ZhugeEx on Twitter) and posted on 4chan, as reported by Game Informer, FromSoftware is allegedly set to reveal Elden Ring, a new RPG world from Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R.R. Martin.

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Fans React to Alleged Ninja Theory New Game Leak

This morning, an alleged leak of Ninja Theory’s upcoming multiplayer game, purportedly called Bleeding Edge, made its way across the internet - and fan reactions are decidedly mixed.

Revealed on the Slovak site xboxer.sk, the leak is comprised of a short trailer covered by a “Confidential” watermark. It begins with the Xbox logo, making way for the words “Ninja Theory” followed by a colorful cast of characters wielding various weapons, walking in groups of four towards each other. The words “Combat,” “Action” and “4 vs 4” then appear on screen, followed by “Online” and “Melee.”

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Game of Thrones: Sophie Turner Reveals the Real Coffee Cup Culprit

Sophie Turner, who played Sansa Stark on HBO's Game of Thrones, may have revealed who the real culprit was behind the infamous coffee cup that made it into an episode of Game of Thrones Season 8.

As reported by People, Turner appears on Conan this past Wednesday and defended herself against those who blamed her for the coffee cup that appeared in the fourth episode of the final season of Game of Thrones - "The Last of the Starks."

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