Monthly Archives: January 2018
DK: Tropical Freeze, Hyrule Warriors Coming to Switch
Nintendo has announced that two Wii U games will find new life on Nintendo Switch.
First, Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition will come to Switch in Spring 2018 includes all characters, maps, missions, and DLC from both the Wii U and 3DS versions of the game.
Hyrule Warriors will include 29 characters in all, and will also add new Breath of the Wild-inspired outfits for Link and Zelda.
Next, Nintendo announced that Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will come to Switch on May 4.
This new version will include the full original game as well as a new mode featuring Funky Kong, who has the ability to use a double jump, hover, infinite rolls, and infinite underwater corkscrew moves.
Venom: First Look at Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock – IGN First
All month long, IGN First is spotlighting the Films to Watch in 2018. Today, we take a look at Sony's Venom, a much-anticipated upcoming film starring Tom Hardy as the lethal protector and directed by Zombieland's Ruben Fleischer.
With Sony's upcoming Venom, the studio is branching out from the Spider-Man universe with a darker take on the iconic Marvel anti-hero.
Details about the movie have been kept top secret, with a closed set and only a few behind-the-scenes images. That's why IGN is thrilled to offer this exclusive first look at Tom Hardy as main character Eddie Brock in the upcoming film. Check out the photo below, and click through to get a closer look at the full-sized image.
Dark Souls Remastered Announced for Nintendo Switch
Dark Souls Remastered is coming to Nintendo Switch on May 25.
The new version will include the Artorias of the Abyss DLC as well as improved framerate and resolution.
Dark Souls originally launched on Xbox 360 and PS3 back in 2011, followed by a PC version a year later with upgraded visuals.
For much more, find everything about Dark Souls in our Dark Souls wiki guide, plus watch a full and hilarious playthrough in our Dark Souls let’s play series Prepare to Try.
Origin of Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy Revealed
Darth Vader #10 by writer Charles Soule and artist Giuseppe Camuncoli reveals where Luke Skywalker got what he needed to start his Jedi Academy after the events of Return of the Jedi.
Warning: full spoilers for Darth Vader #10 ahead!
Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli. (Marvel Comics)
Taking place shortly after the events of Revenge of the Sith, the story arc “The Dying Light” that began in Darth Vader #7 saw Jocasta Nu, Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives, hidden away on an unknown planet with her assistant Gar. There, she spent her days recording everything she could remember about the Jedi Order onto holocrons, filling up an entire bookshelf full of them.
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The Magicians Stars Tease Season 3 Changes From the Books
This interview contains spoilers for The Magicians Season 3 premiere, titled "The Tales of the Seven Keys."
Thanks to the help of a bunch of message-delivering bunnies, all of the magicians are finally on the same page, despite being separated by the loss of magic on Earth and Fillory on The Magicians. The Season 3 premiere brought everyone up to speed -- both the characters and the audience -- as everyone adjusted to life without magic. Everyone, that is, except for Julia (Stella Maeve), who shared her spark of mysterious, lingering magic with Quentin (Jason Ralph) and Josh (Trevor Einhorn) as a source of hope for the otherwise hopeless and depressed magicians.
The lack of information surrounding Julia's continued use of magic led her and Quentin to a minor god, although the only real answer he could provide through his hard-partying, drunken state was that there might be a secret backdoor to magic… somewhere. What was actually helpful was Eliot's (Hale Appleman) attempt to track down the White Lady (Emma Dumont) to grant his wish to rid Fillory of the Fairy Queen (Candis Cayne) and all her terrifying subjects, only to accidentally find and petition the majestic Great Cock of the Darkling Woods (Faran Tahir) instead. The Great Cock promised to help Eliot with his fairy problem … only after Eliot embarked on a season-long epic quest to save all of magic. No big deal, right? Eliot's resigned expression while accepting his obligatory life-or-death mission said it all.
Nvidia Shows Off Ridiculous 65-inch Gaming Displays, Cloud Gaming
Nvidia took to CES to show off its huge new line of Big Format Gaming Displays, or BFGDs. It also showed off its cloud gaming service GeForce NOW, which is now in free beta.
The BFGD is a 65-inch 4K HDR display with G-SYNC and a 120Hz refresh rate. The BFGD also comes with a built-in Nvidia Shield. The displays were created with "hardware partners Acer, ASUS and HP." In addition to providing an excellent PC gaming experience, Nvidia also touts its benefits as a movie watching and console gaming display.
The BFGD won't come cheap, and neither will a PC capable of taking advantage of its full range of features. Right off the bat, you're going to need a 1080Ti, currently the top of the line graphics cards and coming in over $700 in most cases.
In a World of Robots and Monsters, Mech Cadet Yu Focuses On the Underdog Kid
There’s seemingly no shortage of properties featuring big robots fighting even bigger monsters - no doubt Voltron, Evangelion, or Power Rangers just sprang to your mind - but Mech Cadet Yu from comic publisher BOOM! Studios aims to focus the story not on the titans trading blows strong enough to make buildings shake but on the squishy little human pilots inside. More specifically, Stanford Yu, a young boy working as a janitor at an elite military academy who inexplicably bonds with a robot. Despite his meager beginnings, he’s enlisted into pilot training and struggles to get by thanks to his elitist classmate doing everything in her power to make him feel like he doesn’t belong.
With today’s release of Mech Cadet Yu, Vol. 1, which collects Issues #1-4, we conducted an email interview with series writer Greg Pak (Planet Hulk, Superman) about how he built this larger-than-life world while still maintaining a personal core with Standford. His artistic collaborator and Mech Cadet Yu co-creator is Takeshi Miyazawa (Runaways, Ms. Marvel), whom he also co-created Marvel character Amadeus Cho with.
This First Order Stormtrooper Robot Is Pretty Cute
There's plenty of robots to see at CES, and there's plenty of Star Wars licensed stuff, too. So it's nice to see the two come together, especially in an adorable little package like this.
The First Order Stormtrooper from Ubtech Robotics is app controlled, because everything cool has an app. It has things like facial recognition, voice command, and augmented reality features.
It's also very cute. Check out the photos from the floor at CES 2018.
Seth Macy is a supporter of the First Order and its leadership. Follow him on Twitter @sethmacy.
Lenovo Reveals Standalone Google Daydream VR Headset
Lenovo has revealed at CES the first standalone VR headset for the Google Daydream platform.
Called the Lenovo Mirage Solo, the VR headset doesn't need any type of connection to work, such as a PC or smartphone. The device offers a 110-degree field of view, sports 4 gigabytes of RAM and is based off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 VR platform.
The Mirage Solo also has motion-tracking technology named WorldSense. That means jumping and dodging are possible with the headset.
Lenovo is packaging the VR headset with a wireless Daydream controller. The small remote features a clickable trackpad and volume rocker, plus can work as a baseball bat and more.
The Lenovo Mirage Solo is set to release in the second quarter of this year.