Zack Snyder has revealed that his Army of the Dead sequel is officially titled Planet of the Dead — and that one character may make an unexpected return in the film.

Army of the Dead ended with very few main characters having survived the Las Vegas mission, however, Snyder recently spoke to Inverse about the sequel, now titled Planet of the Dead, and hinted that one character might have some life left in him yet as he teased the potential return of Matthias Schweighöfer's Ludwig Dieter.

"The real adventure would be to see what happened to [Dieter] when that safe door closed. Did he get killed by Zeus or not? What happened?" Snyder quizzed. "We don't see him die on camera, and there's still some time left. I won't tell you what happens in Army of the Dead 2 — aka Planet of the Dead — but let's just say that there's a chance Dieter survives. And there's a chance that brush with death would have caused him to want to find a jailed Gwendoline."

Before the sequel arrives, Schweighöfer's character is set to appear in Netflix's Army of Thieves, a prequel that will see him joining a misfit crew of aspiring thieves as they attempt to crack three legendary safes across Europe. The movie will no doubt give audiences plenty to chew on and spit out in terms of theories, similar to Army of the Dead's time loop debate.

"I'm a huge fan of this mythological understory," Snyder recently told GamesRadar, touching on whether the time loop may come up again in the sequel. "All your time loop fun that you can have, there's a lot of cool enhancements that are baked in now. I can't wait to make the sequel to Army of the Dead, so that we can see how then all of those things manifest."

Army of Thieves will breakout onto Netflix this October 29. The movie may not have any zombies in sight but there will be plenty of stealing. Check out this exclusive heist scene from the zombie-less prequel before reading our review of the movie, which we called a treat for anyone looking for "a piece of disposable entertainment" in the multi-pronged franchise.

Apple Music has officially launched for the PlayStation 5, making it the first console to feature the music streaming service since Apple launched it.

As announced in an article on the PlayStation Blog, starting today PlayStation users with an Apple Music subscription will be able to stream music directly from their PlayStation 5.

Through the Apple Music app, players will be able to listen to music both in the PlayStation 5 menus and during gameplay. According to the blog post, in addition to being able to listen to their own playlists and over 90 million different songs, Apple Music subscribers will also be able to find recommendations for playlists that match the games they're currently playing as well as a range of music videos that can be streamed in 4k.

The addition of Apple Music to the PlayStation 5 only helps to bolster the current roster of media apps on the console and strengthen its ability to act as an all-in-one home entertainment system. The music streaming service joins a host of third-party apps including the likes of Twitch, YouTube, Apple TV+ and Netflix.

Despite Apple Music's arrival on PlayStation, some users may feel that the tech giant has turned up a little late to the party. Music streaming provider Spotify - arguably Apple's largest rival in the music streaming industry - launched its app on PlayStation consoles in 2017 where it was available to both PS3 and PS4 users on release. While Spotify remains available on those devices as well as PS5, it is currently unclear as to whether Apple Music will expand to older console generations in the future.

For more on PlayStation 5, make sure to check out this article detailing how you can watch this week's State of Play. The Sony announced event will focus on upcoming third-party games for PS4 and PS5 and will be hosted here on IGN.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Apple Music has officially launched for the PlayStation 5, making it the first console to feature the music streaming service since Apple launched it.

As announced in an article on the PlayStation Blog, starting today PlayStation users with an Apple Music subscription will be able to stream music directly from their PlayStation 5.

Through the Apple Music app, players will be able to listen to music both in the PlayStation 5 menus and during gameplay. According to the blog post, in addition to being able to listen to their own playlists and over 90 million different songs, Apple Music subscribers will also be able to find recommendations for playlists that match the games they're currently playing as well as a range of music videos that can be streamed in 4k.

The addition of Apple Music to the PlayStation 5 only helps to bolster the current roster of media apps on the console and strengthen its ability to act as an all-in-one home entertainment system. The music streaming service joins a host of third-party apps including the likes of Twitch, YouTube, Apple TV+ and Netflix.

Despite Apple Music's arrival on PlayStation, some users may feel that the tech giant has turned up a little late to the party. Music streaming provider Spotify - arguably Apple's largest rival in the music streaming industry - launched its app on PlayStation consoles in 2017 where it was available to both PS3 and PS4 users on release. While Spotify remains available on those devices as well as PS5, it is currently unclear as to whether Apple Music will expand to older console generations in the future.

For more on PlayStation 5, make sure to check out this article detailing how you can watch this week's State of Play. The Sony announced event will focus on upcoming third-party games for PS4 and PS5 and will be hosted here on IGN.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

After months of rumors, Intel has finally announced its 12th Gen Alder Lake desktop processors.

The Alder Lake line features six processors that debut Intel’s new hybrid architecture, which mixes performance and efficiency x86 cores. Intel says the Performance (P-cores) are optimized for single and lightly-threaded performance while the Efficiency (E-cores) are optimized for highly-threaded workloads with the company’s Thread Director designed to keep track and analyze performance data in real-time and place the right application you have opened up on the proper core.

The Alder Lake desktop CPUs also introduce support for DDR5 RAM, PCIe Gen 5, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 6E on the new Z690 chipset. Unfortunately, these new processors won’t work with Z590 or older motherboards as the new chips use an LGA 1700 socket unlike the LGA 1200 socket found on the 11th gen (Rocket Lake) and 10th gen (Comet Lake) Intel Core processors.

Leading the 12th Gen line is the $589 Core i9-12900K, which features 16 cores (8 P-cores and 8 E-cores), 24 processor threads, and boosted clock speeds up to 5.2GHz. The flagship Alder Lake processor has more cores than the flagship Rocket Lake which had 8 cores and 16 threads, but slightly higher boost clock speeds (5.3GHz).

Other processors in the Alder Lake line include the $564 Core i9-12900KF, which includes the same processor cores and threads as the i9-12900K. The $409 i7-12700K, the $384 i7-12700KF, the $289 i5-12600K, and the $264 i5-12600KF. All the specs for each desktop CPU can be viewed in the image below.

Intel is touting its flagship Alder Lake processor as the best for gaming, with its own in-house benchmark testing. Intel demonstrated a test with the Core i9-12900K by testing several games, such as Age of Empires IV, Crysis: Remastered, and Hitman 3, and stacking them up to the last-gen Intel Core i9-11900K and AMD’s Ryzen 5950x CPU. The benchmark showed that Core i9-12900K had a higher FPS count in most games, but it also noted that the flagship Alder Lake and Rocket Lake CPUs were on par in FPS performance for Crysis: Remastered.

Nevertheless, these are Intel’s in-house benchmarks and should be taken with a grain of salt. It’s also important to note all these tests were running on Windows 11 Pro with a resolution of 1080p and not 4K.

The new 12th Gen Intel desktop processors are available starting November 4.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

After months of rumors, Intel has finally announced its 12th Gen Alder Lake desktop processors.

The Alder Lake line features six processors that debut Intel’s new hybrid architecture, which mixes performance and efficiency x86 cores. Intel says the Performance (P-cores) are optimized for single and lightly-threaded performance while the Efficiency (E-cores) are optimized for highly-threaded workloads with the company’s Thread Director designed to keep track and analyze performance data in real-time and place the right application you have opened up on the proper core.

The Alder Lake desktop CPUs also introduce support for DDR5 RAM, PCIe Gen 5, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 6E on the new Z690 chipset. Unfortunately, these new processors won’t work with Z590 or older motherboards as the new chips use an LGA 1700 socket unlike the LGA 1200 socket found on the 11th gen (Rocket Lake) and 10th gen (Comet Lake) Intel Core processors.

Leading the 12th Gen line is the $589 Core i9-12900K, which features 16 cores (8 P-cores and 8 E-cores), 24 processor threads, and boosted clock speeds up to 5.2GHz. The flagship Alder Lake processor has more cores than the flagship Rocket Lake which had 8 cores and 16 threads, but slightly higher boost clock speeds (5.3GHz).

Other processors in the Alder Lake line include the $564 Core i9-12900KF, which includes the same processor cores and threads as the i9-12900K. The $409 i7-12700K, the $384 i7-12700KF, the $289 i5-12600K, and the $264 i5-12600KF. All the specs for each desktop CPU can be viewed in the image below.

Intel is touting its flagship Alder Lake processor as the best for gaming, with its own in-house benchmark testing. Intel demonstrated a test with the Core i9-12900K by testing several games, such as Age of Empires IV, Crysis: Remastered, and Hitman 3, and stacking them up to the last-gen Intel Core i9-11900K and AMD’s Ryzen 5950x CPU. The benchmark showed that Core i9-12900K had a higher FPS count in most games, but it also noted that the flagship Alder Lake and Rocket Lake CPUs were on par in FPS performance for Crysis: Remastered.

Nevertheless, these are Intel’s in-house benchmarks and should be taken with a grain of salt. It’s also important to note all these tests were running on Windows 11 Pro with a resolution of 1080p and not 4K.

The new 12th Gen Intel desktop processors are available starting November 4.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Shoji Meguro, the Japanese composer best known for his work on the Persona series, has resigned from his position after a 25-year tenure at Atlas. He now plans to develop his own indie games.

“I know this is quite sudden, but I, Shoji Meguro, resigned from Atlus Co., Ltd. at the end of September 2021,” announced Meguro in a short statement posted to his Twitter account. According to the composer, the decision to leave the company has come so that he can focus on his dream of developing indie games.

インディーゲーム作家に俺はなる！
ということで（株）アトラスを退社してインディーゲーム作家の道に進むことになりました！
とは言え（株）アトラスとは今後も良好な関係を続けていきます。
今後とも目黒将司とともにアトラスサウンドチームにもご期待ください。
詳しくはhttps://t.co/0RpRn3n5Td pic.twitter.com/iaiPEQSMIp

— 目黒将司(Shoji Meguro)@MegaRock (@s_megarock) October 27, 2021

“I’ve been creating role-playing games by myself during my spare time for the past five years now," said Meguro elsewhere in the statement. "I applied for a Round 1 Kodansha Game Creators Lab recruitment and was selected as one of the finalists. Then staff from Kodansha was assigned to work with me.”

Despite leaving the company last month, Meguro says that he has maintained a "good" relationship with Atlus. With that in mind, the composer eased fans' concerns in regards to the future of music in Atlas-made games. "I will continue to work with Atlus on game music," Meguro said. "So I hope that those of you who were concerned about the sudden announcement will feel relieved."

Meguro joined Atlus in 1995, helping to craft the soundtrack to the company's 1996 release of Revelations: Persona. Since then, the composer has worked alongside a wealth of other composers to create music for the company. While his work on subsequent entries into the Persona series is likely his most recognized, particularly in the west, Meguro is also known for his work on the Shin Megami Tensei franchise.

In a separate tweet published to Twitter, Meguro delved a little further into the game that he's currently been developing. As per the screenshots below, the game appears to include stealth mechanics and a sci-fi theme. Meguro has said that fans will be able to see more from the game on November 6 when it will be officially revealed at the Indie Live Expo.

11/6（土）16時からのインディーライブエキスポ（https://t.co/VkRESGcQB9）にて開発中のゲームの紹介をしていただけることになりました。（楽曲も提供しました！）
はじめの方で紹介していただけるようなので、ぜひ！アタマっから見てみてください！ pic.twitter.com/TIjI9657g2

— 目黒将司(Shoji Meguro)@MegaRock (@s_megarock) October 27, 2021

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Shoji Meguro, the Japanese composer best known for his work on the Persona series, has resigned from his position after a 25-year tenure at Atlas. He now plans to develop his own indie games.

“I know this is quite sudden, but I, Shoji Meguro, resigned from Atlus Co., Ltd. at the end of September 2021,” announced Meguro in a short statement posted to his Twitter account. According to the composer, the decision to leave the company has come so that he can focus on his dream of developing indie games.

インディーゲーム作家に俺はなる！
ということで（株）アトラスを退社してインディーゲーム作家の道に進むことになりました！
とは言え（株）アトラスとは今後も良好な関係を続けていきます。
今後とも目黒将司とともにアトラスサウンドチームにもご期待ください。
詳しくはhttps://t.co/0RpRn3n5Td pic.twitter.com/iaiPEQSMIp

— 目黒将司(Shoji Meguro)@MegaRock (@s_megarock) October 27, 2021

“I’ve been creating role-playing games by myself during my spare time for the past five years now," said Meguro elsewhere in the statement. "I applied for a Round 1 Kodansha Game Creators Lab recruitment and was selected as one of the finalists. Then staff from Kodansha was assigned to work with me.”

Despite leaving the company last month, Meguro says that he has maintained a "good" relationship with Atlus. With that in mind, the composer eased fans' concerns in regards to the future of music in Atlas-made games. "I will continue to work with Atlus on game music," Meguro said. "So I hope that those of you who were concerned about the sudden announcement will feel relieved."

Meguro joined Atlus in 1995, helping to craft the soundtrack to the company's 1996 release of Revelations: Persona. Since then, the composer has worked alongside a wealth of other composers to create music for the company. While his work on subsequent entries into the Persona series is likely his most recognized, particularly in the west, Meguro is also known for his work on the Shin Megami Tensei franchise.

In a separate tweet published to Twitter, Meguro delved a little further into the game that he's currently been developing. As per the screenshots below, the game appears to include stealth mechanics and a sci-fi theme. Meguro has said that fans will be able to see more from the game on November 6 when it will be officially revealed at the Indie Live Expo.

11/6（土）16時からのインディーライブエキスポ（https://t.co/VkRESGcQB9）にて開発中のゲームの紹介をしていただけることになりました。（楽曲も提供しました！）
はじめの方で紹介していただけるようなので、ぜひ！アタマっから見てみてください！ pic.twitter.com/TIjI9657g2

— 目黒将司(Shoji Meguro)@MegaRock (@s_megarock) October 27, 2021

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

A team of scientists have discovered what appears to be DNA in a dinosaur fossil dating back 125 million years, though some experts have advised caution when reviewing the findings.

Palaeontologist researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper on Communications Biology detailing the DNA discovery, which was found within a portion of cartilage from a Caudipteryx specimen. This peacock-sized theropod dinosaur inhabited the Jehol Biota – in what is now Liaoning in northeast China – during the Early Cretaceous period.

The team extracted a piece of cartilage from the right femur of the specimen, then, under a microscope, they treated the cells with chemicals called hematoxylin and eosin, which are used to stain and light up different tissue structures. The same staining method was applied to cartilage cells from a chicken to compare results between the two samples.

Both specimens reacted to the dyes in the exact same way, with one dinosaur chondrocyte revealing a nucleus with fossilized threads of chromatin — a complex of DNA and protein. However, Chemistry World says some experts think the staining technique is "not precise enough to indicate whether certain compounds are present."

"We are obviously interested in fossilized cell nuclei because this is where most of the DNA should be if DNA was preserved," Alida Bailleul, corresponding author of the study, said in a press release. "So, we have good preliminary data, very exciting data, but we are just starting to understand cellular biochemistry in very old fossils. At this point, we need to work more."

Bailleul recognizes that the data from this most recent study is just a "starting" point to strengthen their understanding of DNA preservation, with further research needed to support their findings. Whatever comes from any future research, Bailleul says dinosaur cloning will always remain a fantasy, even if they end up having "their entire genome sequenced."

This isn't the first time that scientists have recorded finding biomolecules in ancient dino fossils. Last year, a group from the same academy discovered organic material within 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossils, including cartilage cells, proteins, chromosomes, and DNA. A few years before that, Imperial College London found blood cells in a fossilized dinosaur claw.

Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

A team of scientists have discovered what appears to be DNA in a dinosaur fossil dating back 125 million years, though some experts have advised caution when reviewing the findings.

Palaeontologist researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper on Communications Biology detailing the DNA discovery, which was found within a portion of cartilage from a Caudipteryx specimen. This peacock-sized theropod dinosaur inhabited the Jehol Biota – in what is now Liaoning in northeast China – during the Early Cretaceous period.

The team extracted a piece of cartilage from the right femur of the specimen, then, under a microscope, they treated the cells with chemicals called hematoxylin and eosin, which are used to stain and light up different tissue structures. The same staining method was applied to cartilage cells from a chicken to compare results between the two samples.

Both specimens reacted to the dyes in the exact same way, with one dinosaur chondrocyte revealing a nucleus with fossilized threads of chromatin — a complex of DNA and protein. However, Chemistry World says some experts think the staining technique is "not precise enough to indicate whether certain compounds are present."

"We are obviously interested in fossilized cell nuclei because this is where most of the DNA should be if DNA was preserved," Alida Bailleul, corresponding author of the study, said in a press release. "So, we have good preliminary data, very exciting data, but we are just starting to understand cellular biochemistry in very old fossils. At this point, we need to work more."

Bailleul recognizes that the data from this most recent study is just a "starting" point to strengthen their understanding of DNA preservation, with further research needed to support their findings. Whatever comes from any future research, Bailleul says dinosaur cloning will always remain a fantasy, even if they end up having "their entire genome sequenced."

This isn't the first time that scientists have recorded finding biomolecules in ancient dino fossils. Last year, a group from the same academy discovered organic material within 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossils, including cartilage cells, proteins, chromosomes, and DNA. A few years before that, Imperial College London found blood cells in a fossilized dinosaur claw.

Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

An officially licensed Resident Evil board game has crowdfunded over $900,000 after a highly successful start on Kickstarter.

Having launched on October 26, the game's campaign quickly smashed through its initial funding goal of £100,000 - that's around $137,000. With 15 days left of its crowdfunding drive still to go, that target now seems a distant memory. At the time of writing, the co-op horror game has just eclipsed $900,000 and it doesn't look to be slowing down.

Brace yourselves for terror — Resident Evil: The Board Game is live NOW on Kickstarter!https://t.co/rhjCrBwDWq

— Steamforged Games (@SteamforgedLtd) October 26, 2021

Resident Evil: The Board Game is being created by veteran tabletop company Steamforged Games in partnership with Capcom. Steamforged is certainly no stranger to the franchise, having previously worked on board games for Resident Evil 2 & 3. It has also made other tabletop games linked to different video game franchises including Horizon: Zero Dawn and Dark Souls, so it looks like the project is in pretty safe hands.

In its latest pursuit into Capcom's esteemed franchise, the tabletop creator will take players back to where the series began, with the upcoming board game based upon the 2002 remake of the original Resident Evil.

Steamforged says that players will "step into the boots of a S.T.A.R.S member and enter the sinister Spencer Mansion to uncover the horrifying truths within." While exploring the area, players will need to "search for secrets and survivors," navigate an open world "crawling with enemies" and ensure their survival all while the game's danger level rises around them.

When checking out the Kickstarter, fans currently have two different pledge options that they can pay for in order to receive a copy of the game at launch. Starting at £72 (around $100) the game's Bravo Pledge guarantees players a copy of the core Resident Evil board game as well as all of its unlocked goals. A more pricey option also exists in the campaigns Alpha Pledge, which not only guarantees fans access to the core game and unlock goals but also a number of additional expansions and exclusive add-ons.

In other related news, this isn't the first time of late that members of the S.T.A.R.S team have made it back into the public spotlight. Epic Games' Fortnite recently added Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine into the game as part of a collaboration with Capcom to celebrate all things spooky. For more on Resident Evil make sure to check out this article detailing how Resident Evil 7 has become the first game in the series to ship 10 million copies.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter