Monthly Archives: April 2015
Pre-order and Pre-download The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
CD Projekt’s third installment in its fantasy role-playing game series, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, is available to pre-install ahead of its release next month.
Players can pre-order The Witcher 3 from the Xbox Store or through either their consoles at a discounted price. For instance, the game is discounted to US$53.99 in the U.S. and AU$98.28 in Australia. Users can also pre-download the 25 GB-sized title so they can get into the action as soon as the game officially launches.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt went gold earlier this week a month ahead of its expected release on May 19 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
You Can Fly on This R2-D2 Dreamliner Aircraft This Year
Japan’s All Nippon Airways and Walt Disney partnering up to transform one of the airline’s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners into Star Wars’ R2-D2.
Revealed during the Star Wars Celebration event in California today, the R2-D2 aircraft will begin flying on international routes this northern hemisphere’s Autumn. ANA is yet to determine the flights and routes for the five-year “Star Wars Project,” so any of the 37 cities the airline caters to could hit the jackpot at this stage.
"We’re excited to be involved in this collaboration with ANA, one of the world's leading 5-star airlines,” Kayleen Walters, vice president of marketing for Lucasfilm Ltd, said in a statement. “We’re proud of the innovative R2-D2 design, and we look forward to witnessing the first-ever flight of a passenger aircraft featuring a Star Wars character. We’re confident that Star Wars fans around the world will absolutely love this design."
Spot All The Characters In Bethesda’s E3 Invite
The invitations to Bethesda's E3 conference went out today, and it's full of references that might hint at the content of the inaugural event. Maybe.
The invite features a bunch of Bethesda characters seated in the stalls of the Dolby theatre. From what we can ascertain so far, it features The Evil Within's Sebastian, Doom's Cyberdemon, Wolfenstein's B.J. Blazkowicz, a Tall Boy from Dishonored, a Panzerhund from Wolfenstein...and a bunch of characters from The Elder Scrolls Online. The image is low-res and we'll admit our eyesight isn't the greatest - can you help us fill in the gaps?
Somebody Just Finished Bloodborne With a Rock Band Guitar Controller
Bloodborne, like From Software’s Souls games before it, may be notorious for its difficulty but that hasn’t stopped one gamer from completing the entire thing with a Rock Band guitar peripheral.
Twitch streamer ‘bearzly’, who describes himself as “a huge fan of the Souls series” (and notes on his Twitch page he’s completed a number of challenge runs of Darks Souls in the past “using terrible controllers”), completed a full run of Bloodborne with the controls mapped to his Xbox 360 Rock Band 1 faux Fender Stratocaster.
How he never smashed it in frustration is admirable.
This Week in the Nintendo eShop
It's a weird week when the marquee title is a little appreciated Nintendo 64 game from 1999. That's right, you can now play Donkey Kong 64 on your Wii U, if you're so inclined. You can also download the pair of new StreetPass games on 3DS. If you want something a little more original, the 3DS puzzle game Dooors seems intriguing. Of course, you can't go wrong with the latest Sega 3D classic, which is a juiced-up version of Fantasy Zone II.
Donkey Kong 64 ($9.99)
So Donkey Kong 64 is finally here, performing for you. If you know the words, you can join in, too. Put your hands together (if you want to clap) as we take you through this 1999 Rare-developed adventure. D.K. Donkey Kong. He's the leader of the bunch, you know him well. He's finally back on the Virtual Console to kick some tail. His coconut gun can fire in spurts; if he shoots ya, it's gonna hurt. He's bigger, faster, and stronger, too. He's the first member of the DK Crew.
EA Sports Reveals When Madden NFL 16 Will Launch
Madden NFL 16 is development and will launch on August 25, EA Sports announced today.
Details are currently slim about the fresh instalment in EA’s long-running football sim but it plans on revealing more news, features and details beginning in May. Today’s announcement comes shortly before the 2015 NFL draft that is set to take off on April 30.
For more on the Madden NFL franchise, check out our review of the last title in the series, Madden NFL 2015. We thought it felt like a mostly fresh start for the series and its defence revamp went a long way toward reviving the excitement of football.
Star Wars: Is Finn a Jedi?
Concept art on the show floor at Star Wars Celebration appears to reveal a startling detail about Finn, a new character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. A lightsaber is clearly visible in a holder on his jacket.
Finn, (portrayed by John Boyega) has appeared in both Star Wars teaser trailers wearing stormtrooper armor. Earlier today, a panel at Celebration confirmed that Finn is a stormtrooper for at least some portion of the story. However, Finn is also depicted in the second trailer wearing civilian-style clothes alongside Daisy Ridley's character Rey and droid BB-8. His on-screen costume closely matches both the concept art and a costume on display at Celebration, which clearly includes the same saber holder straps.
Twilight Zone/Rod Serling Exhibit Opens
A Twilight Zone exhibit that houses original props from the classic anthology series has opened-up in the hometown of creator Rod Serling.
The exhibit, which opened Wednesday at the Bundy Museum of History and Art in Binghampton, New York, includes hundreds of Twilight Zone props/memorabilia that fans can personally handle -- including the original Cobra Phone.
All the Twilight Zone/Serling memorabilia was collected by volunteer curator Mike Pipher over the course of 40 years. Some items on display include signed photos, movie posters, scripts, film books and Serling letters.
You Have to See This New Star Wars Costumes Gallery
Star Wars Celebration kicked off this morning with a new teaser trailer that left no fan unteased, and costumes and models from the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens are on display.
Some of the name plates that accompany the costumes and models show off the alleged new names for the Star Wars forces. The Empire is now "First Order" while the Rebel Alliance is the "Resistance."
We've got boots on the ground for the entirety of this huge celebration of all things Star Wars, so make sure you keep it right here at IGN for all the Star Wars news you can shake a lightsaber at.
Star Wars: Then and Now
In addition to an on-stage appearance from Mark Hamill and a real-life look at BB-8, the second teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens dropped today during Star Wars Celebration's opening panel.
Director J.J. Abrams is a self-proclaimed fanboy of the film franchise, so you can expect plenty of nods to the older films. In fact, the new footage that was revealed today features a number of striking parallels to the earlier movies. As such, we've hand picked a number images from the teaser and put them up against the Star Wars of old.