Monthly Archives: September 2018
How HBO’s Camping Lured Jennifer Garner Back to TV
Throughout September, IGN is spotlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2018-2019 season. Today, we've got an exclusive first look at HBO's Camping, starring Jennifer Garner and David Tennant, and based on the British series of the same name by Julia Davis. According to HBO, "Camping follows married couple Kathryn and Walt, who have planned a delightful weekend “back to nature” for Walt’s 45th birthday. But when the camping trip gathers Kathryn’s meek sister, holier-than-thou ex-best friend, and a free-spirited tagalong in one place, it becomes a weekend of tested marriages and woman-on-woman crime that won’t soon be forgotten." Camping premieres October 14.
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Catherine: Full Body Is More Than Just a Remaster
Catherine: Full Body is much more than just a remaster of 2011’s puzzle adventure with some tweaks and additional scenario pieces here and there. With the addition of a third heroine character, producer Katsura Hashino and his team at Studio Zero did not just add her part, but fleshed out the original story to make her fit in more naturally. That means that fans of the original have a lot of new content to look forward to. “The new edition has 1.5 the content of the original game,” Hashino tells me.
Protagonist Vincent is a 32-year-old systems engineer salaryman, and is facing what is best described as a midlife crisis. His girlfriend Katherine’s period is late, and she wants Vincent to be more serious about their relationship. Vincent himself is not exactly a family man, and he is not sure how to cope with his girlfriend’s news. After work, he goes drinking at Stray Sheep, his favorite bar, and the next morning he wakes up with a gorgeous blonde bombshell beside him by the name of Catherine. She becomes Vincent’s secret lover, but Catherine doesn’t know that Vincent already has a steady girlfriend. That means that he not only has to keep Catherine a secret to Katherine, but also the other way around. Eventually, Vincent (and therefore the player) has to choose which of the two is his true love.
Why We’re Surprisingly Excited for Assassin’s Creed 3 Remastered
Time hasn't been especially kind to Assassin's Creed III, the trilogy-ending capper to the first era of Assassin's Creed games. Though it received many favorable reviews at its launch, the issues players had with it —have lingered.
So it came as a surprise to many, including the crew of IGN's weekly PlayStation show Beyond, that Assassin's creed III would be remastered as part of the Assassin's Creed Odyssey season pass. But with the promise of "higher resolution textures, a new graphics engine, other graphical enhancements and improved gameplay mechanics," the Beyond crew in the clip above discusses why they're actually intrigued and interested in returning to AC3 and seeing what's changed.
Daredevil Season 3: First Look Photos Show Matt in Old Costume
Earlier this week, Marvel and Netflix debuted a teaser trailer for Season 3 of Daredevil, which is set to premiere on Friday, October 19. The trailer featured Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) wearing his signature black sweatsuit and mask from Season 1. Apparently, he's going old school this time around. No fancy red armor required.
While the trailer had some great reveals, like the return of Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio), aka Kingpin, the video was short, making it difficult to get a detailed look at Matt, especially with all of the frenzied action. Thankfully, Netflix and Marvel unveiled three new high-resolution images, so you can see The Devil of Hell's Kitchen in more detail. Check out the gallery below for a better look:
Black Lightning and Thunder Will Experience Some ‘Growing Pains’ in Season 2
This September, IGN is spotlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2018-2019 season. Today we've got an exclusive behind-the-scenes photo from Black Lightning Season 2, along with a preview from star Cress Williams, who plays the titular hero (aka high school principal Jefferson Pierce). In the sophomore season, Jefferson will be faced with new threats as the town of Freeland must reckon with the ASA's abduction of its children, who have been experimented on and held in stasis pods, some for decades. Closer to home, Jefferson and his wife Lynn (Christine Adams) are still coming to terms with the fact that both their daughters, Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (China Anne McClain), have inherited Jefferson's metahuman gene and are manifesting powers, while Jefferson's nemesis, Tobias Whale (Marvin "Krondon" Jones III) is still at large and plotting his adversary's demise. Black Lightning Season 2 premieres October 9 on The CW.
Devil May Cry 5: How a Motorbike Chainsaw Sword Holds the Key to Tradition
Here’s Devil May Cry 5’s in-game description of the Cavaliere, an actual weapon Dante is able to wield.
(I haven’t made this up.)
“Cavaliere – a motorcycle fused with a demon that splits in two to be wielded as twin swords.”
When equipped, Dante dons two motorbike chassis as if they were chrome boxing gloves. While the description above may say sword, chainsaw is far more accurate. As a combo escalates, the two halves fuse together to form a rideable bike, allowing Dante to power-slide his way through demons. It’s gloriously absurd, as you’d imagine, and stupidly fun to use.
But there’s more to the Cavaliere than you might think. Behind its ostentatious design lies the essence of how Capcom is navigating its return to the series (the last instalment was produced in 2013 by British studio Ninja Theory) and particularly the character of Dante.
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy Coming to Consoles and Steam
The original three Ace Attorney games are coming to the Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam in a single compilation.
The trilogy of Ace Attorney games was announced during the Ace Attorney panel during the Tokyo Game Show and will include updated HD visuals. The trilogy was originally released on 3DS back in 2014.
The compilation includes the original game, Justice for All, and Trials and Tribulations. Expect to see the trilogy launch in early 2019.
Capcom also previewed the second season of the Ace Attorney anime with stories focusing on cases from the third game. The Ace Attorney Orchestra was also confirmed to return in 2019.
Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice was released back in 2016 and in our review we thought it was a "less than essential entry in the Phoenix Wright saga."
Completely New, Un-Catchable Pokemon Begins to Appear in Pokemon Go
A brand new, never-before-seen Pokemon has started to appear in Pokemon Go but can't actually be registered to the Pokedex.
The mysterious new Pokemon, which was found by a dataminer yesterday, began to appear in the Asia Pacific region following the conclusion of Chikorita Community Day, a three-hour event that saw increased spawns of second generation Pokemon Chikorita.
After Chikorita spawns concluded, many players saw the mysterious new Pokemon appear on the “nearby” radar, but after encountering the Pokemon and attempting to catch it, the Pokemon immediately transformed into Ditto or Chikorita and did not actually register to the Pokedex as seen or caught.