Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, the upcoming four versus one game from Friday the 13th and Predator: Hunting Grounds developer IllFonic, will be released on October 18.

Preorders are also now live for all versions of Spirits Unleashed - PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via the Epic Games Store. Illfonic has teased that further information is coming next week at Gamescom. Preordering digitally will grant players advance access to Slimer, a custom Particle Thrower and Proton Pack, and special clothing colourways.

“The reaction from fans of Ghostbusters has blown us away,” said Charles Brungardt, CEO of IllFonic. “Putting a date on and opening up preorders for Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed feels like an out of body experience, and we cannot wait for everyone to feel the same sensation on Tuesday, October 18.”

Unlike previous IllFonic games where the goal is escaping, the human team in Spirits Unleashed wants to defeat and capture a player-controlled ghost while overcoming its shenanigans. The ghost can possess objects to hide in plain sight, fly and teleport between rifts, slow down the team with slime, and summon a number of minions.

Spirits Unleashed will be released with several maps including a museum, an abandoned prison, and more. Other iconic Ghostbusters locations including the Firehouse will also feature.

In our preview of Spirits Unleashed, IGN said: “Illfonic’s asymmetric multiplayer foray into Ghostbusters correctly understands that the essence of the original film is very, very silly.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, the upcoming four versus one game from Friday the 13th and Predator: Hunting Grounds developer IllFonic, will be released on October 18.

Preorders are also now live for all versions of Spirits Unleashed - PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via the Epic Games Store. Illfonic has teased that further information is coming next week at Gamescom. Preordering digitally will grant players advance access to Slimer, a custom Particle Thrower and Proton Pack, and special clothing colourways.

“The reaction from fans of Ghostbusters has blown us away,” said Charles Brungardt, CEO of IllFonic. “Putting a date on and opening up preorders for Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed feels like an out of body experience, and we cannot wait for everyone to feel the same sensation on Tuesday, October 18.”

Unlike previous IllFonic games where the goal is escaping, the human team in Spirits Unleashed wants to defeat and capture a player-controlled ghost while overcoming its shenanigans. The ghost can possess objects to hide in plain sight, fly and teleport between rifts, slow down the team with slime, and summon a number of minions.

Spirits Unleashed will be released with several maps including a museum, an abandoned prison, and more. Other iconic Ghostbusters locations including the Firehouse will also feature.

In our preview of Spirits Unleashed, IGN said: “Illfonic’s asymmetric multiplayer foray into Ghostbusters correctly understands that the essence of the original film is very, very silly.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Wednesday Addams and her deadpan personality and penchant for torture are on full display in the first full length trailer for the upcoming Netflix series , which features Wednesday as the titular character. In the new trailer, we get a glimpse at Wednesday’s trouble bouncing from school to school.

.@WednesdayAddams is the girl of your nightmares. The twisted new series from the mind of Tim Burton drops this fall. pic.twitter.com/7teUcCxgXt

— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) August 17, 2022

The trailer showcases some of her antics leading to her expulsion from a normal, everyday school and eventual enrollement at Nevermore Academy. Those antics include filling a pool with piranhas to attack her brother’s bullies as she tells them, “The only person who gets to torture my brother is me.”

Nevermore Academy, with its gothic-style school and students decked out in striped, purple and black uniforms, is seemingly a far better fit for the dressed-in-all-black Wednesday. It’s a stark contrast to the opening of the trailer that features her in a brighty, colored and cheerful school setting.

The reboot comes from the mind of Tim Burton who previously brought us classics like Beetlejuice and Edward Scisscorhands. The series will also mark his TV directorial debut. The trailer features plenty of his signature style as it focuses on the macabre lives of Wednesday, portrayed by Jenna Ortega, and her family.

Earlier this week we got a look at the whole Addams family. The rest of the cast includes Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the family’s matriarch, Morticia. Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in the 1990s films, will also feature in an undisclosed role.

Casey is a freelance writer for IGN. You can usually find him talking about JRPGs on Twitter at @caseydavidmt.

Wednesday Addams and her deadpan personality and penchant for torture are on full display in the first full length trailer for the upcoming Netflix series , which features Wednesday as the titular character. In the new trailer, we get a glimpse at Wednesday’s trouble bouncing from school to school.

.@WednesdayAddams is the girl of your nightmares. The twisted new series from the mind of Tim Burton drops this fall. pic.twitter.com/7teUcCxgXt

— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) August 17, 2022

The trailer showcases some of her antics leading to her expulsion from a normal, everyday school and eventual enrollement at Nevermore Academy. Those antics include filling a pool with piranhas to attack her brother’s bullies as she tells them, “The only person who gets to torture my brother is me.”

Nevermore Academy, with its gothic-style school and students decked out in striped, purple and black uniforms, is seemingly a far better fit for the dressed-in-all-black Wednesday. It’s a stark contrast to the opening of the trailer that features her in a brighty, colored and cheerful school setting.

The reboot comes from the mind of Tim Burton who previously brought us classics like Beetlejuice and Edward Scisscorhands. The series will also mark his TV directorial debut. The trailer features plenty of his signature style as it focuses on the macabre lives of Wednesday, portrayed by Jenna Ortega, and her family.

Earlier this week we got a look at the whole Addams family. The rest of the cast includes Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the family’s matriarch, Morticia. Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in the 1990s films, will also feature in an undisclosed role.

Casey is a freelance writer for IGN. You can usually find him talking about JRPGs on Twitter at @caseydavidmt.

AMC Studios has released the first official trailer for its upcoming sci-fi animated series, Pantheon, which will debut with a 2-episode premiere on AMC+ and HIDIVE on September 1, 2022.

Here's how AMC+ describes Pantheon: "Based on a collection of short stories by award-winning author Ken Liu, this animated, sci-fi series focuses on a bullied teen (Katie Chang) who receives mysterious help from someone online. The stranger is soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David (Daniel Dae Kim), whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being: an 'Uploaded Intelligence' or 'UI,' but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war."

IGN can exclusively debut the trailer for Pantheon in the video below or at the top of the page:

Joining Chang and Kim is an impressive ensemble of voice actors, including Paul Dano, Aaron Eckhart, Rosemarie DeWitt, Chris Diamantopoulos, Raza Jeffrey, Ron Livingston, Taylor Schilling, Scoot McNairy, Maude Apatow, William Hurt (in his last role), Corey Stoll, Anika Noni Rose, Michael Kelly, and more.

Pantheon is helmed by writer/creator Craig Silverstein (TURN: Washington’s Spies, Nikita), with animation by Titmouse (Love, Death & Robots).

We also have two exclusive posters from Pantheon, which you can check out in the gallery below:

What did you think of the trailer? Let us know in the comments below. And for more on the world of entertainment, check out our reviews for the series finale of Better Call Saul, Westworld Season 4, and the full release schedule for Seaon 1 of Amazon's Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

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Activision is releasing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's single-player campaign more than a week early to those who digitally preorder the game.

Announced on the Call of Duty website, the promotion offers unrestricted access to Modern Warfare 2's campaign from October 20, well ahead of the official October 28 release date.

The early access is available through any digital preoder of the game, meaning on PS4 and PS5 through the PlayStation Store, on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S through the Microsoft Store, and on PC through either Steam or Battle.net.

Preordering also grants PlayStation users access to two different beta weekends in September (and just one for other platforms) and a handful of skins to be used in last year's Call of Duty: Vanguard and Battle Royale game Call of Duty: Warzone.

The new campaign takes places in several countries around the world and follows on from 2019's Modern Warfare, featuring characters including Captain John Price, Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, Simon "Ghost" Riley, and John "Soap" MacTavish.

In our preview, IGN said: "Modern Warfare 2’s campaign is very promising from the brief preview footage [we were] able to see. It brings back the classic Modern Warfare gameplay, just modernized and with new mechanics and environments added to keep the franchise feeling fresh."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

It’s a topic that’s well overdue for a genuine conclusion. As the title of the upcoming Dragon Ball film is Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, we thought it was an appropriate time to put an important, decades-long and still ongoing debate to bed. Could Dragon Ball’s Goku beat DC Comics’ Superman?

Now that both characters appear in Fortnite, we gave Goku’s English voice actor, Sean Schemmel a platform to, once and for all, publicly settle the argument:

“Yes is the short answer,” said Schemmel. “The long answer is yes: Goku is a god. There's two scenarios where this would occur: if Earth is not in trouble, Goku would ask Superman to get close to the sun and get [as] charged up as possible, and then he'd fight him. But if Earth was in danger, he would fight him as long as he could but then, probably, if he wasn't having any success, he would probably just Instant Transmission Superman to a planet without a yellow sun – and then he would lose all his powers and Goku would win.”

Continuing, Sean adds “That's the short version. I can talk to you about how I read a scientific article about how Superman's only vulnerable to magic and kryptonite and that Goku's energy that comes out of his hands is technically plasma and Superman would be unaffected by plasma energy, which is probably true. So again, there's a much longer answer."

So even Goku himself, while positive about his chances, still accounts for the possibility of failure. We’ll likely never get a definitive answer within a piece of official work, but it's nice to know Schemmel's had some deep thoughts about it.

Goku vs. Superman has been a fan culture debate for decades at this point – likely because the pair seem so evenly matched in their abilities. They both possess the physical strength of gods, the ability to fly in mid-air and keep coming back from the dead. Despite both of their abilities making them capable of ruling the earth, they keep their identities hidden and almost always keep a positive attitude despite the intensity of the threat ahead of them.

Why does the debate still rage on? With both characters acting as their respective universes' greatest depiction of power, they’re so evenly matched that it’s tough to tell which would come out on top in any battle between the two – but Schemmel seemingly seems to have chosen his victor with a measure of logic, not just sentimental attachment.

The new Dragon Ball movie, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, sadly doesn't include a Superman battle but our review called it "a fun, low-stakes love letter to Gohan fans with exciting momentum as well as room for some moving sentimentality amidst earth-shattering fights." Ahead of it hitting western theaters on August 19 in the US and UK, and August 18 in Australia, we also spoke to the cast and got their opinion about another long-running fan discussion as to whether Piccolo is a true father to Gohan, rather than Goku.

German director Wolfgang Petersen has died at the age of 81.

The filmmaker, who directed classics such as Das Boot and Air Force One, died of pancreatic ancer at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

Over a career spanning five decades, he directed a slew of classics including The NeverEnding Story, The Perfect Storm, and Troy, working with the likes of Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, and Brad Pitt.

Glenn Close, who starred alongside Ford in Air Force One, told AFP News that working with Petersen remains a “special memory”.

“Even though the script was thrilling and incredibly intense, I remember a lot of laughs, especially in the scenes around the huge table in the War Room. My memory is of a man full of joie de vivre who was doing what he most loved to do.”

Petersen made his theatrical debut in 1974 with the psychological thriller, One or the Other of Us. However, his first big success came with the West German war movie, Das Boot, which earned him two Oscar nominations at the 55th Academy Awards in 1983.

His first English language film, The NeverEnding Story, debuted in 1984 to critical acclaim and is still a beloved children’s classic to this day, going down in history for that scene with the horse.

Petersen eventually made moves into Hollywood action thrillers, making In the Line of Fire with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich in 1993. He followed this up with Outbreak and Air Force One before a sidestep into disaster movies with The Perfect Storm and, later, Poseidon.

“My heart is sad today,” Diane Lane, who starred in The Perfect Storm, told Deadline. “Wolfgang was a big, loving soul. A natural leader via positive encouragement; dare I say, he was a spiritual channel for us, grounding truly big stories to move us all through heights and depths. Literally, just being near him made me a better actor. My sincere condolences and love to his family.”

Petersen was first married to German actress Ursula Sieg in 1970 until their divorce in 1978. He then married Maria-Antoinette Borgel, a German script supervisor and assistant director.

He is survived by his wife, son Daniel Petersen and two grandchildren.

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

Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida thinks revolutionary leaps in the video game industry are on the horizon.

Speaking to Insider, Yoshida said the next decade could see revolutionary gaming experiences due to the development of new devices, citing virtual reality chips as an example. In fact, Yoshida expected things to move a bit quicker than they have, but said the semiconductor shortage is likely to blame.

“This would dramatically increase server performance and elements that could be simulated," Yoshida said. "That could lead to the creation of a living world that resembles reality, or even new ideas that create an actual online world. There is the possibility that game development styles will drastically change and culminate in a major turning point not only for video games but everyday life itself.”

If the chip shortage is truly holding the industry back from advancement, we may not be out of the woods just yet. as Intel's CEO expects the chip shortage and other supply chain issues to last until at least 2024. So it may be a few years until we see if Yoshida's prediction for a bold new future comes true.

Yoshida is best known for his work as producer on Final Fantasy XIV, the MMORPG that's recieved several critically-acclaimed expansions over the last decade. Final Fantasy XIV fans will also be happy to hear that Yoshida would like to tackle another MMO at some point in his career.

“I am a game designer, so I always have several ideas for games. I can't talk about them here, but I think that goes for any game designer.” Yoshida said. “I am the kind of person who’s happy as long as they can make games, so while there isn’t anything in particular, I occasionally think that I would like to make one more MMORPG title, from scratch, before I die.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Yoshida shared his thougts on why the Final Fantasy series is struggling right now.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Xbox's official PC Game Pass Twitter account may be teasing the arrival of Death Stranding on PC Game Pass.

Earlier today, the account changed its profile picture to a foggy landscape featuring grassy hills and rocks. After changing the photo, the account posted, saying, "sometimes we just like a good landscape picture #NewProfilePic".

sometimes we just like a good landscape picture #NewProfilePic

— PC Game Pass (@XboxGamePassPC) August 16, 2022

This afternoon, some eagle-eyed fans believe they've already uncovered the location within Death Stranding that the new profile picture was taken from, with user @naven0m posting the area in a reply... along with an image from the game of Sam Bridges urinating.

Found it pic.twitter.com/xlHwrqz0qD

— NV (@naven0m) August 16, 2022

Most seem to agree that this is the correct location featured in the profile picture, meaning PC Game Pass is likely teasing a Death Stranding release on the service.

After originally launching exclusively on the PlayStation 4 in 2019, both the original Death Stranding and the Director's Cut have already come to PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. Sony Interactive Entertainment did publish the PS4 version, but the PC version was handled by 505 Games. Inclusion on PC Game Pass would mark the game's first appearance under the Xbox umbrella.

Death Stranding is the first project from Kojima Productions following Hideo Kojima's breakup with Konami. The game stars Norman Reedus' Sam Porter Bridges, who trudges across a post-apocalyptic America delivering packages. Reedus seemingly leaked the existence of Death Stranding 2 earlier this year, although it hasn't been officially announced yet.

While the true meaning behind Xbox's tease isn't officially confirmed, we do know that Kojima and Xbox are working together for a project separate from Death Stranding. Earlier this year, Kojima announced a partnership with Xbox to create "a game I have always wanted to make." We don't know much about the game yet, other than that it will include Microsoft's "cutting-edge technology".

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.