Monthly Archives: July 2016
South Park: The Fractured But Whole Gets An Absolutely Crazy Special Edition
South Park: The Fractured But Whole is getting a special edition, and it includes a remote-controlled big wheel bike.
The $190 South Park: The Fractured But Whole remote-control Coon Mobile bundle was discovered on Amazon by Twitter user Wario64. Along with the remote-controlled Coon Mobile—which features Cartman's alter-ego The Coon on a big wheel bike—the bundle will include the South Park: The Fractured But Whole gold edition game with a steelbook and season pass subscription.
South Park's Coon Mobile
Fans Uncover More Clues About Overwatch Hero Sombra
Blizzard is still subtly dropping clues about the mysterious Overwatch character Sombra.
Kotaku reports that a late night of digging on the Overwatch subreddit revealed more hints. It started when a user, Colonelcactus, discovered that a developer update video for the new character Ana ends with the screen going black and static. This was unusual for dev videos, so fans kept digging.
After combing through the last few frames, cutting out the vertical barcodes, running them through a barcode reader, then converting a hex code into binary, it could be converted into a QR code. Once read, the QR code gave a Spanish line that translates to: "Was that easy? Now that I have your attention, let's make things more difficult."
Wrestling Wrap Up: Let’s Talk About the WWE Draft
Yes, it's the first ever Wednesday Wrestling Wrap Up -- the QuaDubya, if you weee-yill -- all courtesy of the SmackDown's big shift to Tuesday and the hot and fresh straight outta the oven WWE Draft. So, until further notice, the Wrap is officially a mid-week thing, to be written post-SmackDown, but before NXT and Lucha Underground (which wraps up its season this week anyhow).
Even without the WWE Draft it was a busy, bustling week. Battleground is this Sunday, so there was a ton of prep and hype for that. Sin Cara and Simon Gotch reportedly got into some backstage scuffle in catering, Matt Hardy named his precious dilapidated boat Skarsgard as Moose debuted in TNA, and WWE aired the first episode of its Cruiserweight Classic. Oh, and Sexy Star became Lucha Underground's first ever female singles champion after she won the Gift of the Gods belt at Ultima Lucha Dos night... dos.
4 Game of Thrones Spinoffs We Would Definitely Watch
UPDATE: News of a Game of Thrones prequel from creator George R. R. Martin and writer Jane Goldman (Stardust, Kingsman, X-Men: First Class) just broke, with the show expected to takes place thousands of years before the events of the current series during the Age of Heroes. But there are reportedly still other ideas floating around at HBO as well for the land of Westeros, so we figured it was a good time to look once again at some of the spinoffs we'd like to see based on Martin's world.
The possibilities really are endless within the world of Game of Thrones. We're only looking through a small window into the worlds of Westeros and Essos, but there are plenty of interesting plotlines that have only been touched upon. With that in mind, we broke down the stories we'd love to see explored more and the characters who would deserve to ground their own series. It was hard to pick only four!
DuckTales Return: First Image and Creative Team Revealed
In anticipation of San Diego Comic-Con, Disney has revealed new artwork for its upcoming DuckTales series and announced the creative team spearheading the production.
The new teaser art will appear on the back of a new comic called "DuckTales Cinestory Volume 1" and recount the events of the first five episodes of the original TV series. The comic will be available starting today, July 20, at the convention and go on sale in stores across the country on September 27.
DuckTales teaser art, created by art team led by Matt Youngberg and Sean Jimenez
Daily Deals: X-Files, Pokemon Go Battery, Pebble Time
Get The Complete X-Files Series for the Lowest Price Out There
Here are all nine seasons of the adventures of Mulder and Scully, plus the new Season X Event Series, and over 25 hours of extras. This mammoth box set normally retails for a whopping $300, (the box set without season 10 is currently $170) and the current price is easily the lowest I've seen. This is an Amazon Gold Box sale, which means this deal will only be out there today, or until it sells out.
Destiny: Rise of Iron Multiplayer Reveal Stream Announced
During a livestream today, Bungie revealed a new Sparrow pre-order bonus for Destiny: Rise of Iron alongside plans for an online demonstration of what’s new in the game’s competitive multiplayer suite at Gamescom 2016.
Players who pre-order Destiny: Rise of Iron will get the Iron Gjallarwing, a tricked out Sparrow themed after the popular Gjallarhorn rocket launcher, from at select retailers and digital storefronts on PS4 and Xbox One. REMINDER: Anyone who pre-order's the game will also get the Iron Gjallarhorn, which was announced previously.
Pokemon Go: It Could Take You a Year to Rank up at Higher Levels
The high level grind in Pokemon Go may prove to be a tougher experience than some people realize, especially if you're not willing to fork over some cash.
That's according to Reddit user Riggnaros, one of the first Pokemon Go players to hit level 30, who took issue with the game's scaling and the number of Poke balls needed at a high level.
"Scaling is WAY off in every area and needs to be adjusted," Riggnaros writes. "Pokemon that you capture do not need to give the same xp at level 30 as they do at level 1, especially rare/evolved/high CP Pokemon. It makes no sense that a 10cp Pidgey should be giving the same xp as an 1600cp Scyther."
Serenity Returns to Comics This Fall
If you've been pining for more adventures set in the Firefly universe, Dark Horse Comics has you covered. Today the publisher announced (via Entertainment Weekly) that they'll be debuting a new Serenity mini-series this fall.
Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse is a six-issue mini-series written by Chris Roberson and drawn by Georges Jeanty (who also drew the previous series, Serenity: Leaves on the Wind).
Which Jason Bourne Movie Is Your Favorite?
With a new Jason Bourne movie on the way, we thought it was the perfect time to look back on the action-packed spy thriller film franchise and see which one IGN readers love the most.
Take our poll below and vote on which Jason Bourne film is your favorite.
Feel free to tell us why in the comments, and you may be featured in our round-up.