Monthly Archives: September 2015
Out This Week: LEGO Dimensions, Tony Hawk 5
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Dota 2 Fall Major Tickets Are on Sale Now
Valve has opened up ticket orders for the Dota 2 Frankfort Major tournament.
The first five days — from November 16 to 20 — are free and open to the public, while the Frankfort Major finals on November 21 will cost €50. You can order your tickets on the Eventbrite website.
The Frankfort Major will see the 16 best teams in the world go against each other, with a $3 million prize pool. Valve plans to announce the squads competing in the tournament October 5, with qualifiers happening from October 6 to 13.
Avatar Producer Unveils Concept Art for Sequel
Film producer Jon Landau has revealed a new piece of Avatar 2 concept art, providing an early glimpse at the Na'vi in James Cameron's long-awaited sequel.
Landau shared the image in a post on Twitter. Give it a look below.
Avatar 2 pic.twitter.com/5QCBPv8efm
— Jon Landau (@teamJonLandau) September 27, 2015
Despite the fact that Cameron already has a script for Avatar 5, the second film isn't slated to hit theaters until sometime in 2017.
Vin Diesel Promises One Last Fast and Furious Trilogy
There will be one more Fast and the Furious trilogy, according to star Vin Diesel.
On Facebook, Diesel made the trilogy announcement while also discussing the current search for a director on The Fast and The Furious 8. "My producing partner Neal
would love for me to just sign off on a director, but this is too special a franchise, so these matters have to be very carefully handled," he said.
"To be clear, no one has been offered to helm Fast 8 yet ... let alone seen a script. Universal has been so good to me and so trusting of the vision ... they have been like family ... I promised the studio I would deliver one last trilogy to end the saga."
App Store Update: September 28
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
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"the Sequence is a unique puzzle game. Build a sequence using special modules to transfer binary cell. Find solutions to solve 72 levels with simple and complex structure.
iPhone 6S Sales Hit 13 Million in Three Days
Apple's latest smartphones, the iPhone 6S & iPhone 6S Plus, sold 13 million units during its launch weekend.
The hardware's performance just three days after its launch has resulted in a new sales record for the tech company as well, outdoing the iPhone 6's debut last year when it reached 10 million people within the same 3-day window. That said, the iPhone 6S launch included China for the very first time, while it wasn't part of the initial set of launch countries for the iPhone 6.
SHIELD’s Season 3 Premiere is This Week’s TV Highlight
Welcome to Fall TV: Round 2, as a second massive week of premieres lays into us with new seasons of Homeland and The Leftovers; season closers for Fear the Walking Dead and The Strain; the return Sleepy Hollow and The Blacklist; and series debuts from Grandfathered, The Grinder, Dr. Ken, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
In fact, the week's so busy that not everything's even listed here, as The Good Wife, Bones. Criminal Minds, CSI: Cyber, Madam Secretary, The Affair, and SNL (with Miley Cyrus as host/musical act) also all return to TV.
Our highlight for the week however is the Season 3 premiere of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, featuring Chloe Bennet's full transformation into the MCU's Daisy Johnson - AKA "Quake."
Daily Deals: Disney Infinity Star Wars Starter Pack, Mad Max 3D, Dishonored Definitive Edition
Save $15 On The Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Starter Pack
The Anakin and Ahsoka starter pack is normally $65, but you can get it for $50 on every console right now.
Uncharted 4 Is About Balancing Love and Passion
The next entry in Naughty Dog's cinematic action series will address the difficulty in balancing life's passions with the ones you love, according to Uncharted 4: A Thief's End writer and creative director Neil Druckmann.
"With Uncharted 4, as we were building it we were realizing more and more what the theme is: it's that balance between pursuing your passions and being with the ones you love, and what happens when you have to choose between those two things," Druckmann told OPM UK (via PSU).
"Is there a way to reconcile that? That's the message of this game, and everything is constructed around that very simple concept," he added.
Minority Report: The Life of a Future Cop
IGN has an exclusive clip for you from Monday's second episode of FOX's new sci-fi series, Minority Report. Set in 2065, the series centers on police Detective Lara Vega (Meagan Good), as she begins working alongside the precog Dash (Stark Sands).
In this clip, Vega takes on some notable threats with the assist of fellow cop Will Blake (Wilmer Valderrama) - as we learn more about what it's like being a cop in the future.
The second episode of Minority Report, "Mr. Nice Guy", airs Monday, September 28th on FOX. A new preview for The X-Files' return will be split into two halves, debuting with this week's new episodes of Gotham and Minority Report.