Monthly Archives: October 2019
Before You Watch El Camino, Here’s a Jesse Pinkman Refresher
This is a story recap for Breaking Bad intended to serve as a refresher for what happened to Jesse Pinkman before El Camino, the new Breaking Bad movie that just dropped on Netflix. As that would suggest, this article does contain spoilers for Breaking Bad.
Check out IGN’s review of El Camino below:
With El Camino: A Breaking Bad movie premiering Friday, October 11 on Netflix, and acting as Breaking Bad's new finale of sorts (if you don't count the present-day scenes on Better Call Saul), we thought we'd recap a bit of honorable nogoodnik Jesse Pinkman's history on the show.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PC Specs Announced
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be releasing on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on October 25, 2019, and Activision has revealed the Minimum, Recommended, Recommended (Ray Tracing), Competitive, and Ultra RTX PC specifications for the latest entry in the long-running Call of Duty franchise.
Revealed on Activision's Games Blog, Activision also discusses how even though the HDD references Hard Drive space of 175GB, this is the storage space recommended for players to keep available to be able to download the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's post-launch content.
Blizzard’s Weibo Account Isn’t Helping
Blizzard is under fire for punishing a professional Hearthstone player from Hong Kong over his support for the current Hong Kong protests. While Blizzard’s English-language blog post on the matter took a neutral tone on the decision, but an official Chinese language response to the incident appears much more biased.
Earlier this week Blizzard announced it would take punitive action against Ng Wai “Blitzchung” Chung for speaking in support of the Hong Kong protests during an official Hearthstone livestream. Blizzard explained its decision as a punishment for violating official Blizzard esports rules. But on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, an official Blizzard account run by the company's Chinese publishing partner Netease took a tougher stance.
Comparing PS5 and Xbox Scarlett Specs, Features, and More
While the current generation of consoles still has some heavy hitters left to come, Microsoft and Sony have slowly eked out information about their respective next-gen systems, the Xbox Scarlett and the PS5.
While there's still plenty we don't know, there's enough that we do understand about next-gen to start sizing up how the systems stack up to each other. Read on for a breakdown of what we do and don't know so far about the PS5 and Scarlett, and be sure to check out our next-gen features comparison chart throughout the coming months as we learn more.
Watchmen: Everything You Need to Know About the Classic Graphic Novel
As HBO and Damon Lindelof (The Leftovers, Lost) prepare to enter the world of Watchmen with their follow-up series, which debuts on October 20, this seems like a good time to catch up on the events of the original 12-issue graphic novel by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins.
That seminal book was of course turned into a movie directed by Zack Snyder in 2009, though by its very nature the film had to drop or alter several elements from the comic. Additionally, the HBO Watchmen TV series is a continuation of the book, not the movie, set some 34 years after that story. (The movie, of course, had a different ending than the comic.) Read our first impressions of the Watchmen pilot.
Pixar’s Onward Trailer: Tom Holland & Chris Pratt Go on Magical Quest
Disney-Pixar has released a new trailer for their upcoming film Onward, an animated tale set in a suburban fantasy world where elves, trolls and unicorns are commonplace.
The latest trailer transforms Tom Holland and Chris Pratt into two teenage elf brothers, Ian Lightfoot and Barley Lightfoot, who set out on a rambunctious road trip to discover whether there is enough magic still left in the world for them to conjure up a special enchantment.
The clips show Ian and Barley being gifted a magical staff by their mother (voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus), along with a set of instructions for a "visitation" spell that will allow them to bring their late father back into the mortal realm for just 24 hours.
Ubisoft TV Plans Include Tween-Friendly Revamp of Watch Dogs
Ubisoft is developing new cartoon shows based on its video games, including Watch Dogs and Far Cry: Blood Dragon.
While the games are M-rated, the show adaptations will be aimed at younger viewers, and so will carry tamer themes. Watch Dogs will be developed into a “cybermystery” aimed at tweens, reports THR, while Blood Dragon will become Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Vibe, a show for young adults.
Disney Junior’s The Rocketeer to Premiere This November
IGN can exclusively reveal that Disney Junior's The Rocketeer, an animated series inspired by Dave Stevens' comic book and the 1991 Disney film of the same name, will premiere on Friday, November 8, 2019, on Disney Channel, Disney Junior, and DisneyNOW.
Disney Junior's The Rocketeer features "a young girl named Kit Secord, who takes to the skies to protect her community after becoming the surprise recipient of a rocket-pack that gives her the ability to fly."
The Rocketeer stars A Series of Unfortunate Events' Kitana Turnbull as Kit Secord, with Billy Campbell and Kathy Najimy voicing her parents, Dave and Sareena Secord. Rocketeer fans will know that Campbell previously played Cliff Secord, the protagonist of 1991's The Rocketeer.
How Afterparty Was Born From Bar Crawling and Cemetery Walks
When you look at Afterparty, Night School Studio’s newest game due out later this October, one has to wonder how a fledgling indie studio goes from a game about teenagers on a mysterious island to a game about drinking your way out of Hell. As developer Sean Krankel puts it on this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered, the idea for Afterparty definitely involved a bit of drinking and cemetery exploration.
“There's a cemetery called Forest Lawn across from our studio,” Krankel explains. “It's massive. Anyone who's been to LA knows, it's like three miles across. So everybody is buried there. We'll walk over there and brainstorm sometimes.
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New Doctor Sleep Posters Include Major Shining References
Two new Doctor Sleep posters have been released, teasing Danny Torrance's return to the haunted halls of the Overlook Hotel, as he dares to "go back" to the place where his nightmare began 40 years prior.
Hot on the heels of the final trailer, the first poster for the horror sequel promotes the "next chapter in The Shining story" by dropping an adult Danny Torrance (played by Ewan McGregor) against a blood-red backdrop, walking down an eerily familiar hallway within the foreboding building.
The text on the one-sheet dares him to "go back"; as Danny paces towards his younger self in a mirror-like image that positions him directly opposite his six-year-old character from The Shining, who sits atop a tricycle trundling through the empty corridors of the hotel.