Monthly Archives: January 2017
Scalebound Reportedly In Trouble, Could Be Canceled
Scalebound is reportedly in trouble and may be canceled.
Kotaku has heard from "several sources" that the action title from developer PlatinumGames has been in development trouble for quite a while and may ultimately be scrapped. The outlet also noticed that Microsoft has pulled the official page for Scalebound from the Xbox website.
An official announcement regarding the game's status is expected to be made in the near future, as Microsoft provided Kotaku with the following statement: "We'll have more to share on Scalebound soon."
Scalebound was announced at E3 2014 as an Xbox One exclusive. During Microsoft's press conference at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, it was revealed that Scalebound would also release on PC as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere initiative.
How Agents of SHIELD’s L.M.D.s Will Differ from Ultron
Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD returns from winter break Tuesday with a new episode called “Broken Promises” and kicks off the next big arc subtitled “L.M.D.” With the Ghost Rider arc completed (or at least brought to somewhat of a conclusion for now), Aida will step up as the new main threat of the show.
Warning: this article contains full spoilers for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD!
To recap, the last episode ended with the revelation that May has been replaced with an L.M.D. The real May is imprisoned in Radcliffe’s lab. When a SHIELD agent discovered her there while on an errand, Aida snapped his neck in order to keep the May switcheroo a secret. Meanwhile, L.M.D. May was seen in SHIELD HQ having a drink with Coulson, an unusually warm act for the notoriously cold May.
Rogue One Now Ranks Among Top 10 Highest Grossing Domestic Movies
While Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was unseated as the No. 1 movie at the box office this weekend, the Star Wars movie continues to be a major success as it has now become one of the top 10 domestic highest grossing films of all time.
Rogue One is now the eighth most successful film at the domestic box office, having made an estimated $477,273,354 as of January 8. Unadjusted for inflation, that places it above both the original Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, according to Box Office Mojo. (Adjusted for inflation, Rogue One would be the 72nd highest grossing domestic film of all time, while A New Hope is the second highest.)
Netflix Infinite Runner Game Features Stranger Things, More
Netflix has released a browser-based infinite runner game that spotlights various characters from its array of original shows.
You can play the game, titled Netflix Infinite Runner, right here. Check out the character select screen below, which features Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) from Narcos, Marco Polo (Lorenzo Richelmy) from Marco Polo, Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) from Orange is the New Black, and Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) from Stranger Things.
Netflix Infinite Runner character select screen
Out This Week: Rise and Shine, The Birth of a Nation, Deepwater Horizon
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.
The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! Trailer
In previous crossover animated adventures, WWE Superstars teamed up with the likes of The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo. Now it's The Jetsons turn to join forces with WWE's elite in The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! - available on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 on Digital HD and on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 on DVD.
We witnessed how the WWE was able to mingle with the citizens of Bedrock, centuries in the past, but how will they co-exist with the futuristic Orbit City? Well, time-travel's involved and you'll learn all about it in the official trailer, which shows a manaical Big Show being awoken from a frozen stasis and running roughshod over George Jetson and the unprepared populous with a robo-army. Yes, really! Take a look at the trailer below.
Steam Breaks Huge Record for Concurrent Players
Steam broke a record for concurrent players this weekend with exactly 14,370,167 users.
The record was set around 1pm on January 8, according to Steam's stats page. Dota 2 is the most played game on the platform with 849,970 peak concurrent players today, followed by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (661,144), Grand Theft Auto V (109,138), Team Fortress 2 (73,690), and ARK: Survival Evolved (74,413).
The figure broke a record of 12.3 million, which was set at this time last year on January 3, 2016. At that time, the top played games were Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fallout 4, Grand Theft Auto V, and Football Manager 2016. Steam hit the milestone of 10 million concurrent users on June 14, 2015.
Mass Effect: Andromeda Won’t Have a Season Pass
Mass Effect: Andromeda will buck the AAA trend by not including a DLC season pass.
Bioware general manager and confirmed enjoyer of the letter Y in his name, Aaryn Flynn was was asked whether the new game would adopt the sometimes controversial DLC pre-order model on Twitter. His response was to-the-point:
@coldboy33 @masseffect Nope
— Aaryn Flynn (@AarynFlynn) January 7, 2017
It's not a huge surprise - the Mass Effect series has never previously used season passes. It's not clear if this means future DLC will be free, paid for individually or use a different model.
There Was Going to Be a Halo Mega Bloks Game
Back in 2013, now-defunct video game developer N-Space was working on a Mega Bloks game set in the Halo universe.
According to a recent video from PtoPOnline (thanks Polygon), the game, codenamed "Haggar" would've been a third-person action game for the Xbox 360 along the same lines as the popular LEGO games.
Footage from a leaked build of "Haggar" shows lengthy levels in which you're fighting enemies using familiar weapons, building structures, driving in vehicle sections, and solving simple platforming puzzles. A co-op mode was also in development, along with "Besiege Mode," where players would build up their base to defend it from waves on enemies.
Unsheathe the Master Sword to Open This Zelda Art Book
The upcoming hardcover artbook The Legend of Zelda: Art and Artifacts will have a limited edition version featuring a life-size Master Sword on the cover that you can unsheathe.
The book is a followup to last year’s Hyrule Historia, a collaboration between Nintendo and Dark Horse that chronicles the history of the land that Link has to save over and over again throughout time.
The book comes with a plastic slipcase with the Master Sword scabbard on it. Pull it off to reveal the 3D embossed Master Sword on the book’s cover.
Check it out in the video below:
The standard edition cover is red with regular paper stock, whereas the limited edition is purple with a design of the Lost Woods and gilded pages. The inside content is identical in both books, which features over 400 pages of artwork from every Zelda game, exclusive interviews with the artists, and pixel art from the early games. There’s also a few pages of artwork from the upcoming game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.