Resident Evil 3 Remake's take on Nemesis is now available in Resident Evil Resistance, and Capcom has detailed its connection to Resident Evil 4. Posted as part of the announcement of Nemesis' inclusion in Resistance, a PlayStation blog post explains the newly-created connections between the Nemesis of Resident Evil 3 and Resistance with RE4. According to Capcom social media specialist Kellen Haney, the Nemesis' ability to infect zombies with parasites in Resistance was added to the game to tie into the Ganado enemies of RE4. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-best-resident-evil-bosses&captions=true"] "We inevitably decided on this final ability due to the presence of Ganado in Resident Evil 4," Haney said. "Ganado are humanoid enemies that are created through being infected with the Plagas parasite, the original basis for NE-α. When the Plagas activates, it spawns from the neck of its host in the form of a tentacle." Haney said NE-α was created to imitate this parasitic quality and Capcom wanted NE-α infected enemies to be "visually similar" to the Plagas-infected Ganados. This was done as a "means for fans to piece together how Nemesis fits within the whole Resident Evil franchise." As anyone who played RE3 knows, the Nemesis was able to infect zombies nearby using its parasitic arm. These newly-infected zombies would need to be taken down in a specific way different from the usual headshot to a standard zombie. The Nemesis' tentacle arm will return as an ability in Resistance that can be used to infect zombies. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/17/resident-evil-resistance-jill-valentine-gameplay"] This ability was also added in order to differentiate Nemesis from the Tyrant of Resident Evil 2. "We wanted Nemesis to come across as an even more formidable opponent, so we started considering alternate abilities aside from its heavy weapon artillery," Haney said. That's what led to the inclusion of Nemesis' infection ability. For more Resident Evil, check out this Dino Crisis mod for RE3 on PC. Read about this RE3 board game coming to Kickstarter too. We thought RE3 was amazing, giving the Resident Evil 3 remake a 9 out of 10. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/17/5-craziest-resident-evil-3-mods"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. He helped write the IGN guide for Resident Evil 3, which you can check out here. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Ubisoft's educational Discovery Tours for Assassin's Creed: Origins and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey are currently free to download and keep on PC. The educational expansions go beyond the mythological heights of the main games and let players explore the ancient history behind the worlds you may have explored as Alexios/Kassandra and Bayek. You can take part in guided tours curated by historians and learn more about Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece from the experts.

Take a historic journey from home with Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece & Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt FREE to download and keep  #PlayApartTogether

https://t.co/UVftq2CaBr — Ubisoft (@Ubisoft) May 14, 2020

Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt and Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece can be redeemed via this link, alongside a host of over Ubisoft games, including Rabbids Coding! and Might & Magic Chess Royale. This is part of Ubisoft's Play Your Part, Play at Home campaign, which is offering free games to fans in an effort to help keep people busy as they stay safe at home under quarantine. The promotion will run from today, May 15th until May 21, so head on over to Uplay to redeem it. We don't yet know if Assassin's Creed Valhalla will include a Discovery Tour mode, but we know 44 other details about the upcoming Viking-based entry in the series. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN who wishes Ubisoft would hire him to make a discovery tour for Black Flag. Ask him about pirate archaeology on Twitter.

Nintendo has announced that NES' Rygar and SNES' Wild Guns, Panel de Pon, and Operation Logic Bomb will be added to Nintendo Switch Online on May 20, 2020. These titles will bring the total NES and SNES titles on Nintendo Switch Online to 82, and are the first additions since Nintendo added Pop'n TwinBee, Smash Tennis, Shadow of the Ninja, and Eliminator Boat Duel in February. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/15/nintendo-switch-online-may-2020-game-updates"] Rygar was released on NES in 1986 and was originally an arcade game in Japan called Warrior of Argus. The official description from Nintendo is as follows;

An old legend proclaimed, “When the peaceful land is covered with evil spirits, a brave soldier will be brought to life from the dead.” Luckily, Rygar, the mythical hero from Argus, has arrived in order to defeat the evil king Ligar and his army of dangerous beasts. Join forces with Rygar for a hybrid action-adventure game with a distinct blend of platforming and role-playing elements!

Wild Guns arrived on the SNES in 1994 and infuses the Wild, Wild West with Sci-Fi for a unique shooting gallery experience. The official description from Nintendo is as follows;

The Kid gang and their army of robots have taken over! Blast your way through villainous outlaws,diabolical robots and towering, screen-filling bosses. Fortunately, you’ve got plenty of moves to help you survive the firepower headed your way. You’ll need a sharp eye and quick-on-the-draw reflexes to survive on your own. Or team up with a friend and go out blazing in two-player co-op.

[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=top-25-nintendo-switch-games&captions=true"] Panel de Pon was only ever released in Japan, but those in other regions of the world may know it as Tetris Attack. It was released in 1995 on the SNES and came to Game Boy a year later. The Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon legacy was continued with such titles as Pokemon Puzzle League for the N64. The official description from Nintendo is as follows:

As the stack of puzzle pieces rises, think fast to match panels and set off cascading chain reactions and combos. You’ll have to make strategic choices quickly to counteract the relentless competitor attacks from above. A selection of single-player and two-player modes and options provides escalating action and zippy fun. This title originally launched for the Super Famicom in 1995, but this is the first time this version of the game will be available in the U.S. Though this title was never translated into English, it may seem familiar!

Operation Logic Bomb: The Ultimate Search & Destroy was originally released on the SNES in 1993 and is an overhead action game that was a sequel to the Game Boy's Fortified Zone. The official description from Nintendo is as follows;

Agent Logan has been fitted with bioelectronic implants that grant him superior strength, reflexes and analytical abilities. He’s been charged with a mission to save the Subspace Particle Transfer Project. Now it’s up to him to infiltrate, neutralize the intruders and rescue the scientists in a top-down shooter with giant bosses and frenzied action that doesn’t let up.

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/14/paper-mario-the-origami-king-announcement-trailer"] This news follows Nintendo's reveal of Paper Mario: The Origami King from earlier today, which arrives on the Switch on July 17, 2020. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron revealed in a new interview that the 2002 video game adaptation Resident Evil is among his favorite "guilty pleasure" movies. Chatting with Empire, the Terminator and Aliens director said he's rewatched the Paul W.S. Anderson movie during the coronavirus quarantine. "One of my guilty-pleasure films that I actually think is quite beautifully made is Resident Evil,” the director of two of the highest-grossing movies of all time declared. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=cinemascore-what-audiences-think-of-video-game-movies&captions=true"] Cameron went on to hail the performance of one Resident Evil actress in particular, someone who later co-starred in Cameron's Avatar: "Watching Michelle Rodriguez in that film, moving like this feral creature, is joyful.” Cameron was in the midst of making his billion-dollar Avatar sequels when the pandemic shut down production in New Zealand. So far, the Avatar sequels remain on track to hit their respective release dates through 2027.

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Luca Guadagnino, the director of Call Me By Your Name and the Suspiria remake, has reportedly been hired to direct Universal's reboot of the gangster classic Scarface. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest draft of the remake was penned by Joel and Ethan Coen. Guadagnino is the latest director attached to the project, following Training Day's Antoine Fuqua, Suicide Squad's David Ayer, Harry Potter's David Yates, and Jackie's Pablo Larrain. This would be the third film incarnation of Scarface, following the original 1932 classic and the 1983 remake starring Al Pacino. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2011/08/31/scarface-al-pacino-on-say-hello-to-my-little-friend"] This latest Scarface has been in development since 2011, and had Rogue One's Gabriel Luna reportedly in the mix to star back in 2017. The movie has been described in the past as a reboot, which will see a Mexican immigrant in L.A. rising to the top of the underworld.  

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NBCUniversal's upcoming Peacock streaming service has announced which original shows will be available to stream on July 15, 2020, when the service launches in the US. Peacock subscribers will be able to binge all the episodes of Brave New World, The Capture, Intelligence, Lost Speedways, In Deep with Ryan Lochte, and the entire full-length film Psych 2: Lassie Come Home on July 15. In addition to these originals, Peacock will have popular movie and TV titles like the Jurassic Park franchise, E.T., Parks and Recreation, and Saturday Night Live, with The Office joining the lineup in 2021. Looking ahead, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail is executive producing a reboot of Battlestar Galactica for the streamer and Saved By the Bell is getting a revival, but no release dates have been revealed. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/16/saved-by-the-bell-reboot-official-teaser-trailer"] Here's the full list of the Peacock streaming service shows available at launch on July 15:

• Brave New World
• The Capture
• Intelligence
• Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
• In Deep With Ryan Lochte
• Lost Speedways
• Curious George
• Dreamworks' Cleopatra in Space
• Dreamworks' Where's Waldo

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Brave New World

Based on Aldous Huxley’s groundbreaking novel, Brave New World imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself. As citizens of New London, Bernard Marx (Harry Lloyd, Game of Thrones, The Theory of Everything) and Lenina Crowne (Jessica Brown Findlay, Winter’s Tale, Downton Abbey) embark on a vacation to the Savage Lands, where they become embroiled in a harrowing and violent rebellion. Bernard and Lenina are rescued by John the Savage (Alden Ehrenreich, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Hail, Caesar!), who escapes with them back to New London. John’s arrival in the New World soon threatens to disrupt its utopian harmony, leaving Bernard and Lenina to grapple with the repercussions.

The Capture

The Capture is a conspiracy thriller that looks at a troubling world of fake news and the extraordinary capabilities of the intelligence services. When soldier Shaun Emery’s (Callum Turner, War & Peace, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun’s life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again. Detective Inspector Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger, Strike, Patrick Melrose) is drafted to investigate Shaun’s case, but she quickly learns that the truth can sometimes be a matter of perspective. The Capture also stars Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Hand of God), Famke Janssen (X-Men, Taken), Ben Miles (The Crown, Coupling), Laura Haddock (Transformers: The Last Knight, Guardians of the Galaxy), Lia Williams (The Crown, Kiri), Sophia Brown (Clique, Marcella) and Paul Ritter (Chernobyl, Friday Night Dinner).

Intelligence

Intelligence is a workplace comedy set in the UK's Government Communications Headquarters - a kind of weedier, geekier, more bureaucratic version of MI5 and MI6, where they tackle international and domestic Cyber Crime from a desktop. When a pompous maverick NSA agent Jerry Bernstein (David Schwimmer, American Crime Story, Friends, Band of Brothers) comes over from the U.S. to join the team, he enlists an inept and tactless computer analyst Joseph (Nick Mohammed, The Martian, Ted Lasso, Christopher Robin) in a power grab that threatens to disrupt the team's ability to combat cyber terrorism.

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson, This Is Us, American Housewife) is ambushed on the job and left for dead. In a vintage Psych-style Hitchcockian nod, he begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn (James Roday, A Million Little Things, Psych) and Gus (Dulé Hill, Suits, Psych) return to Lassie’s side in Santa Barbara and are forced to navigate the personal, the professional, and possibly the supernatural. Separated from their new lives in San Francisco, our heroes find themselves unwelcome in their old stomping grounds as they secretly untangle a twisted case without the benefit of the police, their loved ones, or the quality sourdough bakeries of the Bay Area. What they uncover will change the course of their relationships forever. Psych 2 is a full-length film.

In Deep with Ryan Lochte

At the 2016 Rio Olympics Ryan Lochte (Celebrity Big Brother, Dancing with the Stars) was at the center of a scandal that has since overshadowed a decorated swimming career that includes 12 Olympic medals. Now a 35-year-old husband and father of two young children, Lochte is hoping for one more chance to make Team USA and prove he's not the same man he was four years ago.

Lost Speedways

Created and hosted by Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Dale Jr. Download), this series is an exploratory look at great racing cathedrals of the past. Dale Jr. and co-host Matthew Dillner (Dale Jr. Download) tell the stories of speedways that have been forgotten, abandoned, and overtaken by nature. Racing legends join as guests throughout the series.

Curious George

First introduced to the world of children’s literacy over 75 years ago, Curious George was created by Margret and H.A. Rey in 1941 and remains one of the most beloved children’s classics of all-time. The animated series targets preschool viewers and follows the adventures of everyone’s favorite monkey and his insatiable curiosity to bring delightful antics, gentle humor, and heartfelt emotion to each fun-filled episode. With a focus on education, the Emmy award-winning program incorporates early concepts in math, science, technology, and engineering and encourages children to use their imagination and expand their own investigations of the world.

Dreamworks' Cleopatra in Space

Cleopatra in Space​ is a comedic adventure focusing on the untold story of Cleopatra’s teenage years. Viewers can follow Cleo (Lilimar Hernandez, Bella and the Bulldogs, Knight Squad) as she is transported 30,000 years into the future, to an Egyptian-themed planet that is ruled by talking cats and where she discovers she is the prophesied savior of the future world. In order to prepare for her role and mission, Cleo is sent to an elite academy where she has to train to take on the bad guys, figure out how to eventually get herself back home to Egypt, as well as tackling the highs and lows of being a teenager in high school.

Dreamworks' Where's Waldo

Twelve-year-old Waldo (Joshua Rush, The Lion Guard, Andi Mack) and his best friend Wenda (Haley Tju, Bella and the Bulldogs) are members of the Worldwide Wanderer Society—the international order of curious travelers who circle the globe celebrating cultures and solving problems through observation. Their mentor—Wizard Whitebeard (Thomas Lennon, The State; Reno 911: The Odd Couple), a seasoned wanderer—sends these inquisitive young adventurers on international travel missions so they can earn their stripes and someday become wizard-level wanderers too. But standing in Waldo and Wenda’s way is their rival Odlulu (Eva Carlton, Little), who can’t help but cause trouble wherever she goes. For more from the world of streaming, check out every HBO Max Original you can watch in the streaming platform's first three months. [poilib element="accentDivider"] David Griffin still watches DuckTales in his pajamas with a cereal bowl in hand. He's also the TV Editor for IGN. Say hi on Twitter.

Sony and Sucker Punch have finally revealed more about Ghost of Tsushima, the upcoming PS4 exclusive, which tells the story of Jin Sakai (voiced by actor Daisuke Tsuji) during the first Mongol invasion. Thanks to a new Tsushima-focused State of Play, we now know a lot more about the next game from the Infamous and Sly Cooper developers. Read on for all the latest we've learned about Ghost of Tsushima's story, world, and gameplay. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=ghost-of-tsushima-gameplay-screenshots-state-of-play&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/14/18-minutes-of-ghosts-of-tsushima-gameplay-full-4k-60fps-presentation"]

Exploring Tsushima

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• Use the "Guiding Wind" to navigate the open world - picking spots on Ghost of Tsushima's menu map will lead to an in-game wind appearing as you play. Players can then follow those winds to that location, a
• Players have a horse they can call as needed. It is unclear when this is unlocked in the game.
• Bamboo and Yew-Wood can be picked as a resource in the environment.
• Locations include: Kashine Hills, Yagata Forest and Farmstead
• A Mongol controlled farm is shown with objectives, like rescuing hostages.
• In the new Tsushima demo, the protagonist Jin Sakai comes across a person by a campfire who warns him of spirits in the forest.
• Jin can stop and investigate points of interest, like abandoned homes.
• Foxes will guide Jin to shrines around the island of Tsushima, at which Jin can honor those shrines. Doing so earns Jin upgrades, like a new Minor Charm slot.
• Once discovering a key spot, players can fast travel.

Combat, Stealth Gameplay

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• Jin can challenge enemies to a standoff in the environment.
• Combat shown near a shipyard shows Jin using only a single slice to fell each enemy.
• "Every strike must count,"
• Players can parry enemies, and doing so at the last possible moment will open them up to attacks.
• Change combat stances to inflict the most damage on enemies.
• The same shipyard combat sequence is shown as a stealthy option. Jin uses distractions to silently sneak up on enemies as the titular Ghost.
• Distractions include firecrackers, which Jin can use to lure enemies out of hiding and assassinate them. If quickly enough, Jin can assassinate multiple enemies before being spotted.
• Smoke bombs can be used to avoid attacks and evade enemies who spot Jin.
• Kunai can be used for quick kills.
• The Mongols will "learn to fear the Ghost" and may even attempt flee Jin's stealthier actions, which players can use to their advantage.
• Jin's grappling hook can be used to swing across gaps or climb up ledges.
• An environmental attack is shown, as Jin uses the Mongol's own weapons as an explosive, destroying their cache and eventually decimating the shipyard.

Character Customization

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• Jin can be customized with various armor, which gives different mechanical advantages. It is not just cosmetic.
• Players will discover charms that give Jin different benefits.
• Players can choose the techniques with skill points they wish to give Jin and customize his attack strategy depending on their playstyle.

Photo Mode

• Ghost of Tsushima's photo mode allows players to control the wind and its spend in a photo or video.
• Songs from the score can also be chosen.
• And particle effects can be changed out to let players choose different scenes.
• Players can collect flowers to change the color of armor.

Voice Track, Visual Settings

• A Japanese voice track can be chosen before players even begin the adventure.
• A black-and-white, film grain mode can be turned on from the beginning of the game to emulate classic samurai films.

Ghost of Tsushima Platforms and Release Date

Ghost of Tsushima has a release date of July 17, 2020. As for platforms it will be playable on, Ghost of Tsushima is a PlayStation Exclusive and will only be available on the PS4 at launch. [poilib element="accentDivider"]

The CW has shed light on its next major Arrowverse crossover, but it's shaping up to be much smaller in scale than 2019's Crisis on Infinite Earths. According to The CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz, the next crossover will likely revolve around only two Arrowverse series - Batwoman and the recently greenlit Superman & Lois. As reported by Deadline, the news came during a press call detailing the network's upcoming schedule for the 2020-2021 TV season. Pedowitz confirmed the Batwoman/Superman & Lois crossover will only comprise of two episodes and won't be happening in the traditional December window, as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to play havoc on the network's schedule. He pointed to either Q1 or Q2 2021 as a more likely timeframe. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=crisis-on-infinite-earths-crossover-photos&captions=true"] “We’re still working on it. It will be a smaller event than usual, we’re only planning a two-hour event. We are talking about doing Superman and Batwoman together. There’s a lot of characters coming from our other shows,” Pedowitz said. While this may be disappointing for fans hoping for a larger-scale event, we already knew the next Arrowverse crossover will be much smaller in scope than Crisis. Arrow's executive producer Marc Guggenheim confirmed as much back in December 2019, saying "Last year we sort of took a step back and... took a breath and then took the giant bite out of the cake. [Next year] we're going to take a step back again. We're going to take several." This pairing of Batwoman and Superman does make sense given the Batwoman/Supergirl friendship established in Crisis and recent developments in Batwoman: Season 1. Kate Kane has already wrestled with her reluctance to trust her new metahuman comrades and a fear of becoming like the corrupt Bruce Wayne of Earth-96, and we imagine the Batwoman/Superman & Lois crossover will build on those plot points. Perhaps the crossover will even elaborate on Batwoman's recent Joker-related bombshell. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/the-jokers-arrowverse-fate-revealed-ign-now"] Batwoman and Supergirl will end their current seasons on Sunday, May 17. None of the current Arrowverse series are scheduled to return until January 2021. The good news, at least, is that the current lineup will be one show larger come January. Now we're just waiting to learn the fate of Green Arrow and the Canaries. Let us know what you think about the prospect of a Batwoman/Supergirl crossover in the comments below. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.