Monthly Archives: September 2019
Civilization 6 Announced For PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles on November 22. With this, Civilization 6 will be available on every major home console.
Civilization 6 will be available for $59.99, but if you want all the expansions, you’ll have to purchase a separate Civilization 6 Expansion Bundle for $49.99. This bundle includes the Civilization 6 Rise and Fall expansion, Gathering Storm expansion, and 18 additional leaders.
The Civilization 6 Expansion Bundle will also be coming to the Nintendo Switch as well. The expansion bundle will be the same price on the Nintendo Switch.
Civilization 6 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will also include four additional content packs for Poland, Vikings, Australia, and Persia and Macedonia. PlayStation 4 users will also the the Nubia and Khmer and Indonesia scenario pack with the purchase of Civilization 6 on consoles. These packs will be available separately on Xbox One.
Wattam Release Window Set for Later This Year
Wattam, the next game from the creator of Katamari Damacy has finally set a release window for December of this year.
The tentative date was announced in a brand new trailer during today's PlayStation State of Play livestream.
The new trailer is on its way, but here's a trailer from last month in the meantime!
Rather predictably given the wild history of its developer, Wattam is a colorful and weird-looking game about a green square man with a bomb under his hat. It will feature both solo and co-op play as you work to reconnect the adorable people of its various worlds.
Initially revealed back in 2015, creator Keita Takahashi spoke to IGN about the insane initial concept for Wattam earlier this year.
Wattam Release Window Set for Later This Year
Wattam, the next game from the creator of Katamari Damacy has finally set a release window for December of this year.
The tentative date was announced in a brand new trailer during today's PlayStation State of Play livestream.
The new trailer is on its way, but here's a trailer from last month in the meantime!
Rather predictably given the wild history of its developer, Wattam is a colorful and weird-looking game about a green square man with a bomb under his hat. It will feature both solo and co-op play as you work to reconnect the adorable people of its various worlds.
Initially revealed back in 2015, creator Keita Takahashi spoke to IGN about the insane initial concept for Wattam earlier this year.
Why George Lucas Was Disappointed With Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger has revealed in his autobiographical memoir the disappointment that Star Wars creator George Lucas felt in regards to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and how there "weren't enough visual or technical leaps forward."
As reported by CNET, Iger's memoir is titled The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Obviously, It went into the $4 billion deal from 2012 in which Disney purchased Lucasfilm Ltd. and Iger also shared how Lucas reacted to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, in which he said there was "'nothing new' about the J.J. Abrams directed sequel."
Star Wars Force Friday Kick Off: Watch Daisy Ridley, John Boyega on Livestream
Lucasfilm is holding a livestream from their Pinewood Studios in London – the shooting location for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – on Thursday, Sept 26 to reveal new products that will be hitting shelves for Triple Force Friday on October 4.
IGN will be streaming the event live on our site at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET/ 7:00 p.m. BST, which will feature Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Gina Carano, Kelly Marie Tran, Cameron Monaghan, and other actors from the upcoming projects.
The products are inspired by the upcoming Star Wars releases, including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which premieres in theaters on December 20; the live-action TV series The Mandalorian, which debuts on Disney+ on November 12; and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the new game from Respawn Entertainment, which will be available on November 15.
CD Projekt Co-founder Launches Kickstarter For Minimalist Phone
Michał Kiciński, the co-founder of the Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Mudita Pure, a minimalist mobile phone that “aims to improve your wellbeing.”
How exactly does Kiciński’s minimalist phone improve your wellbeing? By ditching bright screens and the glut of features that most phones either come with or that we download for ourselves, like Twitter. Instead, the Pure phone has an E ink display that doesn’t strain the eyes and has no colorful logos vying for your attention, a global GSM module that allows you to make calls almost anywhere in the world, a battery life that lasts five days with normal use or 14 days on standby, and a SIM card slot that’ll hold two cards at once so you can switch it out if you’re traveling. There’s also a custom Mudita OS, a speaker and music player for said speaker or headphone jack.
Canaries: Arrow Spinoff in Development at The CW
Arrow may be airing its final season soon, but some of the characters may continue on in a spin-off featuring the crime-fighting team The Canaries, according to Variety.
An episode of Arrow’s 10-episode Season 8 will serve as a backdoor pilot for the spin-off. The show is currently in development and would feature Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak’s daughter Mia Smoak (Katherine McNamara) teaming up with Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) and Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy). Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz is writing alongside Marc Guggenheim, Jill Blankenship and Oscar Balderrama.
Win $20,000 in this Voice-Controlled LEGO Robot Design Contest
The LEGO Mindstorms toy line features more robotic and mechanical versions of your favorite LEGO figures, and now they’re evolving in a pretty significant way thanks to a new partnership between LEGO and Amazon’s Alexa.
LEGO announced the “LEGO Mindstorms Voice Challenge: Powered by Alexa” on Tuesday. The contest challenges participants to use the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit to connect Alexa to the LEGO Mindstorms’ EV3 software. That in turn will allow the Mindstorm LEGO-bots to use voice commands to perform the basic animations that their software already allows them to perform. Imagine a one-foot-tall battle robot shooting a tiny toy rocket when its owner tells Alexa to “fire cannon.”
Here’s How Batwoman Will Deal With Batman’s Legacy
This September, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2019-2020 season. Today we're sending up the Bat-Signal for The CW's newest superhero series, Batwoman. Three years after the mysterious disappearance of Batman, Gotham is a city in despair. Without the Caped Crusader, the Gotham City Police Department was overrun and outgunned by criminal gangs, leading to the rise of Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and his military-grade Crows Private Security, which now protects the city with omnipresent firepower and militia. After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate Kane has no interest in being a hero, but when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father and his security firm by kidnapping his best Crow officer Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy), with whom Kate has a complicated history, Kate will have to become what her father loathes, a dark knight vigilante, soaring through the streets of Gotham as Batwoman. We spoke to showrunner Caroline Dries about bringing Batwoman to the small screen and helping Kate step out of her famous cousin's shadow.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Box Art Revealed
PlayStation and Square Enix have revealed the North American and Euopean box art for Final Fantasy VII Remake alongside some brand new screenshots that show off Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Ifrit, Shiva, and the Equipment & Materia menu screen.
Senior product marketing manager of Square Enix Neal Pabon took to the PlayStation Blog to unveil the box art for the long-awaited remake of 1997's Final Fantasy VII.
The artwork is fittingly an homage to the North American box art for the original PlayStation title and features Cloud Strife ready to take on the Shinra Corporation with his iconic Buster Sword that also features two Materia slotted into the base of it.