Pixar has announced a sequel to Inside Out which sees Amy Poehler and her fellow emotions return inside Riley's head.

During the D23 Studio Showcase, Pixar boss Pete Doctor was about to end the segment on Pixar before being interrupted by Amy Poehler who starred as Joy in the 2015 Pixar animated film, Inside Out. Poehler was there to announce a surprise sequel to the film, Inside Out 2.

Oh JOY! Amy Poehler is back to star in Inside Out 2. Directed by Kelsey Mann, produced by Mark Nielsen, and written by Meg LeFauve, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 releases Summer 2024. pic.twitter.com/HMHY391vN9

— Pixar (@Pixar) September 10, 2022

While Doctor says it's still early in production, Kelsey Mann will take over as director on the sequel and the movie will follow the original human, Riley, but as a teenager. Poehler teased that there will be new emotions this time around, though the creative team didn't reveal which.

Inside Out 2 will be coming out Summer 2024 and is the last announcement from Pixar at D23. The studio already announced its animated romance, Elemental, its first long-form series Win or Lose, and the new animated film Elio. You can catch up on everything else that was announced at D23's Disney and Pixar Studio Showcase with our roundup here.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Pixar has announced a sequel to Inside Out which sees Amy Poehler and her fellow emotions return inside Riley's head.

During the D23 Studio Showcase, Pixar boss Pete Doctor was about to end the segment on Pixar before being interrupted by Amy Poehler who starred as Joy in the 2015 Pixar animated film, Inside Out. Poehler was there to announce a surprise sequel to the film, Inside Out 2.

Oh JOY! Amy Poehler is back to star in Inside Out 2. Directed by Kelsey Mann, produced by Mark Nielsen, and written by Meg LeFauve, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 releases Summer 2024. pic.twitter.com/HMHY391vN9

— Pixar (@Pixar) September 10, 2022

While Doctor says it's still early in production, Kelsey Mann will take over as director on the sequel and the movie will follow the original human, Riley, but as a teenager. Poehler teased that there will be new emotions this time around, though the creative team didn't reveal which.

Inside Out 2 will be coming out Summer 2024 and is the last announcement from Pixar at D23. The studio already announced its animated romance, Elemental, its first long-form series Win or Lose, and the new animated film Elio. You can catch up on everything else that was announced at D23's Disney and Pixar Studio Showcase with our roundup here.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Paper Girls has been canceled by Amazon Prime after one season.

According to Deadline, the recent sci-fi series which debuted on Amazon Prime back in July has already been canned, despite a solid critical reception.

The show was produced by Amazon Studios and Legendary TV, the latter of which is reportedly shopping the series in an attempt to tap into the popularity of the likes of Euphoria and Sex Lives of College Girls by “offering another show with three-dimensional young female characters at the center.”

Paper Girls is based on the 2015 comic book series by Brian K. Vaughn and tells the story of Tiff, Erin, Mac, and KJ – four young girls who get caught in a war between different factions of time travelers.

IGN’s Paper Girls Season 1 review gave it 7/10 and said: “Paper Girls works best as a character study of four feisty, engaging 12-year-old girls who navigate a string of unimaginable adventures when they’re thrust into a future time war. The core four cast are what makes this series worth investing in, as their crazy circumstances give them the unique opportunity to determine who they are, and who they want to be for one another. The time story is less compelling with genre-familiar paradoxical themes, future tech, and good vs. evil factions that function more as placeholders rather than something tangible and meaningful to the characters. A second season that’s more aggressive about its overall storytelling would be very welcome.”

Nevertheless, the show’s strong opening wasn’t enough for Amazon Prime.

But then, Paper Girls came along at a tricky time, sitting in the shadow of Amazon’s Rings of Power – the high-concept, high-budget Lord of the Rings show that’s been at the center of a huge marketing push over the last few weeks and months.

Unfortunately, audiences didn’t find the show despite the strong critical reception… and Paper Girls failed to break into the Nielsen ratings.

Paper Girls starred Sofia Rosinksy, Camryn Jones, Riley Lai Nelet, and Fina Strazza in its leading roles.

The show was created for TV by Stephany Folsom, who also worked on The Rings of Power. Folsom originally acted as co-showrunner alongside Christopher C. Roger before exiting during Season 1.

Executive producers included Rogers, Folsom, Christopher Cantwell, Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Steven Prinz, and Plan B.

Want to read more about Paper Girls? Check out the show’s official trailer as well as how Paper Girls stacks up against Stranger Things.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Amy Hennig’s untitled Marvel game is being described as a team-up between Captain America and heroes from Wakanda, most prominently Black Panther. But if you’re thinking of teaming up with a friend to fight the Nazis, you’ll have to choose another game as this title will not be co-op.

When IGN asked Hennig in an interview for the untitled Marvel game if this was a co-op title, the director responded, “Narratively yes, gameplay mechanics-wise no.”

While the title will indeed see Captain America and Black Panther (Azzuri, T’challa’s grandfather), gameplay wise don’t expect to team up with your friend in local or online.

“We experienced something partly intentionally partly by happy accident on Uncharted that for people playing our game it was a shared living room experience… even if their hand wasn’t on the controller,” Hennig responded. The goal for this title is to capture that same kind of shared living room experience even if players aren’t actively playing together.

Given that details remain light, what we do know is that the untitled Marvel game will focus on four characters, Captain America, Black Panther, Howling Commandos member Gabe Jones, and a Dora Milaje warrior.

While each character will be distinct, and potentially playable, the game itself will not support co-op.

There are however several superhero games that will feature co-op as a key gameplay mechanic including Gotham Knights and the upcoming Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League.

For more from Hennig, check out IGN’s interview with her and writer Marc Bernadin. And for everything else announced at D23 check out IGN’s full round-up.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Following today's announcement of upcoming new Tron game Tron Identity, Bithell Games head Mike Bithell and Disney producer Heidi Vargas have shared a handful of details on what to expect from it, including its genre and setting: it's a detective game set years after Tron: Legacy.

Sitting down with IGN for an exclusive interview, Bithell explained that Identity takes place so far in the future that characters from the other Tron stories are legends that have shaped the history of Identity's setting, and are loved and hated for their contributions.

It takes place in a secondary Grid created by Flynn for the ISOs to inhabit after promising he'd return, though as we know, he never did. We get a look at what society and culture has evolved since then, through the eyes of a detective named Query assigned to solve a robbery and the mystery that surrounds it.

We also got a look at a few other characters, including Proxy, who is a program that has started to live outside the established hierarchy. She's a rebel who arrives on the scene of the theft, looking to see if she can benefit from the events that follow.

Bithell says that Identity will have "hybrid" gameplay, featuring puzzles interspersed with conversational elements, similar to a visual novel. The story will focus on the nature of Identity Discs, and will use them as a device through which the detective can uncover the mystery at the heart of the plot.

According to Bithell and Vargus, we can expect to see more "very soon." In the meantime, Tron Identity was just one of a number of Disney games that were announced or shown off at today's Disney and Marvel Games Showcase. You can see our full roundup of everything we saw right here.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves collection finally has a PC release date.

The long-awaited Uncharted collection includes Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and will finally make its way to PC on October 19.

The collection was leaked on the Epic Games Store earlier in the year, with a similar listing now confirming the release date as well as what we can expect from its pre-order bonuses.

“The Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, remastered and optimized for PC, hits Epic Games Store on Oct. 19, and if you pre-purchase it, you’ll get a snazzy new Fortnite glider in the shape of Sully’s seaplane.”

UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection will release on PC on Oct 19th according to EGS. Preorders on EGS will get a Fortnite glider in the shape of Sully's seaplane https://t.co/O1JRMM1MhE

The game is slated for Steam as well pic.twitter.com/1IVwTa1Yyo

— Wario64 (@Wario64) September 9, 2022

That’s right – you could be gliding your way into King’s Canyon via Sully’s seaplane… but whether or not you’ll be able to brandish his signature mustache is unknown.

Additionally, the seaplane glider will be heading to the Fortnite Item Shop on November 19.

It will presumable be accompanied by the Nathan Drake and Chloe Fraser skins (and harvesting tools) that appeared in Fortnite earlier in the year.

As for the collection itself, expect numerous improvements compared to the PS4 originals… after all, it was also released for PS5 and sported improved graphics that will no doubt be even better on PC.

IGN’s Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves PS4 review said: “Uncharted 4 is The Last Crusade for Nate in more ways than one. Here it is refined, smoother, faster, and sharper, but not to a level I am sure many hoped… Improved textures and resolution are the only minor visual boosts, with level of detail, ambient occlusion, and others all remaining the same.”

It remains to be seen what the PC version brings to the table, but it’s still good news to see the Uncharted collection heading to PC. Whether or not it’s any good I another matter entirely.

Want to read more about Uncharted? Check out where Legacy of Thieves sits among the most anticipated PC games of 2022, and find out what the game devs think of making another sequel.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Gaming is having some serious whiplash on everything web3, blockchain, and NFT-related lately, with a number of companies jumping on the bandwagon (some to massive backlash) and others playing more cautiously. Now, we can go ahead and add Disney’s gaming arm into the column of “currently not interested.”

In an interview with Disney VP of Disney, Pixar, and 20th Century Games Luigi Priore, he told IGN that while Disney is currently watching the industry closely and observing the changes and trends to see what will ultimately stick, it doesn’t have anything to announce regarding blockchain projects for now.

“It’s a whole new area,” Priore says. “We’re always paying attention to what happens there. We’re looking for those successes to say: where is that gonna go? Because there have been a lot of very high profile failures, and there haven’t been a lot of high profile successes. Are we looking at that and paying close attention to it? We are. We’re not announcing anything, we don’t have anything to talk about right now, but as the industry changes we’ll be right there with it.”

In a follow-up statement to IGN, a Disney games representative clarified that the company has no plans for NFT or blockchain games.

Blockchain technology, including assets such as NFTs, have been controversial topics in gaming over the last few years for numerous reasons, including concerns about potential scams as well as worries about environmental impact. Proponents claim the technology can be used to create unique items within games that are truly and wholly owned by individuals and can then be bought and sold. Opponents have noted that there have been few if any blockchain use cases in gaming thus far that couldn’t be replicated with other, existing tech, and games that have implemented them tend to focus aggressively on monetization – and don’t actually benefit most of their players. In a survey at the Game Developers Conference this year, only 28% of game developers were interested in implementing NFTs, while 27% were interested in cryptocurrency as a payment tool.

While a number of companies (including Square Enix, Ubisoft, and Epic Games) have jumped on blockchain and NFTs in various capacities ranging from turning a Cloud Strife figurine into an NFT to simply being open to or investing in blockchain games, others (including Valve, Take-Two, and Xbox) have been far more cautious or outright against the idea. Some companies, such as Stalker 2 developer GSC Game World and Worms developer Team17 have announced NFT projects to significant backlash, and have since retracted their plans as a result.

You can check out everything announced today during the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase right here.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

In 2016, when Disney shut down its internal games development and publishing arms, one major casualty was an unreleased project made by indie studio Dlala. But now it looks like at least some form of the game canceled back then is finally seeing the light of day.

Dlala’s original collaborative project with Disney was never officially announced. We know it involved a reboot of one of Disney’s biggest IPs, and would have been a four-player couch co-op platformer, “an episodic Metroidvania-style affair” with hand-drawn characters. And we know that Dlala had signed a $3.5 million deal to get it made. But when Disney exited publishing, Dlala’s game went with it after a year and a half of work.

Dlala was able to keep some of the payout, but had to very quickly pivot its plans to keep the studio alive long-term. And it succeeded, through contributions to games like Team17’s The Escapists, Modus’ Lost Words: Beyond the Page, and its own recent project: Battletoads.

But now, Dlala is back in partnership with Disney for a game that has at least some of the DNA of that canceled 2016 game. Announced today at the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase, we got a look at Disney Illusion Island: a four-player co-op platformer featuring Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and Donald Duck.

Speaking to IGN, Disney VP of Disney, Pixar, and 20th Century Games Luigi Priore says that while Illusion Island is not the same game as the one Dlala had to cancel years ago, “a lot of foundational elements” remain the same. The original game, he says, didn’t have a name or a story yet, and was mostly focused on the characters. But both games share the Dlala DNA of multiplayer co-op, which was also present in Battletoads.

“Disney’s in a different place now,” Priore says. “Is it exactly the same game? It’s not. Is it Dlala? Yes. Are they bringing their creativity to it? Yes. Is it the same characters? Yes. It didn’t work then, but the environment changed with Sean Shoptaw [Senior VP, Walt Disney Games] taking over, with us bringing in people like John Drake on the business development side…we already knew [Dlala CEO] AJ [Grand-Scrutton] and the team at Dlala and we knew they could do great work, so we wanted to start a project and work with them to create this new game.”

Disney Illusion Island is coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch later this year. You can read more about it and all the other announcements from today’s showcase in our news roundup.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Niantic is turning the Marvel Universe into reality, augmented reality that is, with the new mobile game World of Heroes coming in 2023.

Niantic specializes in augmented reality games like Pokemon Go where players use their phones to interact with the real world. While gameplay details are sparse, it looks like players will be able to collect various Marvel superpowers like Doctor Strange's magic, Cyclops' laser eyes, and Thor's Mjolnir.

Check out the trailer below.

According to the press release, Marvel World of Heroes will let players create their own super hero identity and team up with Marvel characters in the real world.

World of Heroes will be coming next year and players can pre-register now. There will also likely be some kind of social co-op element as the trailer ends with a park full of players blasting abilities at each other.

Niantic is still chasing the success of Pokemon Go, collaborating with various IPs to bring to its AR ecosystem. Aside from Pokemon, Niantic has developed games around Harry Potter, Pikmin, and Transformers with the latest partnership being with Marvel.

For everything else announced during today's D23 presentation check out our round-up of the Disney and Marvel games showcase.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

The new Marvel game from Amy Hennig's Skydance New Media division is taking a different approach to the Marvel Universe, teasing a game set in World War 2-era Paris starring Captain America and Black Panther.

In a moody, cinematic trailer set to Vera Lynn's 'We'll Meet Again' it's not until the end we see Captain America's iconic shield and a brief glimpse of Cap and Black Panther facing off. The words 'King,' 'Captain,' 'Soldier,' 'Spy,' then flash across the screen before the trailer ends with a shadowy look of our heroes.

Check out the trailer below.

The teaser implies the game will take place across two locations, likely Paris and Wakanda, and star four heroes. While two of them will be Captain America and Black Panther, we also get a look at Howling Commandos member Gabriel Jones and Nanali, the leader of the Wakandan Spy Network.

Other than a few easter eggs (Hydra notebook?) Skydance Media looks to be keeping plot details under wraps. IGN's Ryan McCaffrey interviewed Hennig and learned a few new details about the project:

Skydance New Media was founded in 2019 as Skydance's video game development studio. Under Hennig, Skydance New Media has already announced a Star Wars game in partnership with Lucasfilm Games, but it appears the team is now ready to add a Marvel title to the lineup.

You can check out interview with Hennig after the show and for more from today's D23 presentation, check out all the new games and announcements here. You can also take a look at the full D23 schedule for more.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.