Monthly Archives: June 2016
Daily Deals: DualShock 4, Far Cry Primal, Steam and PSN Sales
The lowest Amazon price I've ever seen for a new PS4 controller is $39, so the chance to snap one up at $36 should not be ignored. If you've been meaning to get a spare or two, now is the time.
Introducing the Limited Edition IGN Nerd Block
You've heard of Loot Crate but do you know Nerd Block? It's not a subscription, just $100 worth of gear for just $39.99. This Limited Edition IGN Block contains 9 amazing collectibles across several fan-favorite gaming and entertainment brands, including 6 EXCLUSIVES specially made just for this block PLUS an officially-licensed Marvel T-shirt designed by ShirtPunch! That's over $100 of value, for only $39.99! This is our biggest and heaviest block yet!
BioShock The Collection Appears on 2K Games Site
Thanks to a leak on 2K's official site, it appears an official announcement for BioShock The Collection is only a matter of time.
The page has since been taken down, but not before we managed snap a screenshot and save several images that were hosted on 2K's site, which showcase the game's cover and accompanying art.
2K's page for BioShock The Collection, which has since been taken down
Final Fantasy 7 Will Get Its Own Monopoly Game
Final Fantasy VII Monopoly will be released in April 2017, video game merchandiser Merchoid has revealed.
Modeled after the original "fast dealing property trading" board game, Final Fantasy VII Monopoly will include characters, locations, and lore from the classic 1997 video game. The game will place players in the city of Midgar, where plenty of property business opportunities await.
Final Fantasy VII Monopoly is available for pre-order for $50 USD on the Merchoid site.
Cloud, Aeris, and Sephiroth will be featured in-game, along with more Final Fantasy VII fan favorites. "Whether your plans are to buy housing for the people or build a Mako reactor plant, you'll soon discover the real nature of Sephiroth's evil is the extortionate amount of rent he charges," a press release for the game on All Games Delta reads.
IGN Presents the History of Awesome: 2013
Welcome back to IGN's History of Awesome - a year-long look back at all the coolest and most influential games, movies, TV shows, comic books, toys, and tech that have shaped pop culture, and shaped the lives of an entire generation. Up this week is 2013, the year the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One launched, bringing a host of fantastic games along with it: Grand Theft Auto 5, The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, and more.
Catch up on IGN's History of Awesome:
SDCC 2016: HBO Bringing Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley
Three HBO series and one Cinemax show will have panels at San Diego Comic-Con 2016, HBO announced today.
Game of Thrones will return for a Hall H panel on Friday, July 22 at 2:15 pm PT. Moderated by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, the panel will feature David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, director of the final two episodes of season 6 Miguel Sapochnik, and cast members including Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), and Kristian Nairn (Hodor). (For more from Sapochnik, read IGN's interview with him about the making of season 6's penultimate episode, "The Battle of the Bastards.")
Thumper Release Date Announced
Thumper will launch alongside the release of PlayStation VR on October 13, a post on the PlayStation Blog announced.
Additionally, developer Drool and iam8bit have announced a very on-brand collector's edition for Drool's “Rhythm Violence Game," Thumper.
The picture disc vinyl edition will include a game code for PS4/Steam, feature music by Lightning Bolt's Brian Gibson, and art by album artist Robert Beatty (Tampe Impala, Neon Indian.)
The music was composed by Gibson under a “gameplay first” mantra, with the levels and mechanics being developed before the music. You can listen to a preview of the soundtrack on Soundcloud.
PlayStation Plus Free Games for July Revealed
Sony has revealed the lineup of free games coming to PlayStation Plus subscribers in July, with Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell leading the charge on PlayStation 4.
In addition to Volition's open-world action game, PS4 owners can download Furi, the latest title from indie developer The Game Bakers. According to PlayStation Blog's official announcement, Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines and Prince of Persia: Revelation will be free on PS Vita throughout the month as well.
Meanwhile, those who still have their PlayStation 3 hooked up will be able to pick up Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood and Fat Princess free of charge.
Original Xbox Pitched as a PC in Disguise
Before Microsoft stepped into the console market with Xbox, the original pitch at the company was to create a PC gaming machine that looked like a console.
Xbox co-creator Ed Fries shared the story behind the original Xbox's inception on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, noting it was "people like Seamus
and Otto
" who approached him about making a game console. Fries said that because they were "DirectX evangelists" who'd been heavily invested in "the part of Windows that games use," their original idea was "to make a console that was really a PC."
According to the Xbox co-creator, their pitch was as follows: "It's gonna look like a game console—you'll stick a CD in and it'll install it quietly in the background but it'll really be just a PC CD, and then it'll play like a console but it'll really just be a PC game."
How Captain America Steve Rogers Became Hydra
The release of Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 by Nick Spencer and Jesus Saiz caused quite the uproar with the reveal that Steve Rogers is actually a secret agent of Hydra. This quickly spread onto social media, spurring headlines and reaction pieces from both readers and the general public about how Marvel turned an American icon into a Nazi... even though that's not what happened.
With today's release of Captain America: Steve Rogers #2, we got a concrete explanation to just how Cap became Hydra, so we hopped on the phone with Spencer to discuss the big revelation.
Warning: this article contains full spoilers for Captain America: Steve Rogers #2!
Fallout 4 Mods Beta for PlayStation 4 Delayed
Bethesda has delayed its PlayStation 4 mod beta.
Earlier in June, Bethesda reported having issues with mod support on PlayStation 4, but despite the problems Bethesda said the closed
beta was "close to release." However, the developer tweeted a statement this morning confirming the delay.
Bethesda did not provide a revised release date for Fallout 4 mod support on PlayStation 4.
Three known issues were outlined earlier in June in regards to the mod beta—limited mod storage on PlayStation 4, memory and performance problems, and issues with sound files. Bethesda has not commented on whether these problems still plague Fallout 4's PlayStation 4 mod support.