Monthly Archives: June 2017
5 Teases for Fear the Walking Dead: Season 3
With the arrival of summer comes the return of Fear the Walking Dead, the sister series to AMC's The Walking Dead. With a story that straddles the border between the United States and Mexico, Fear couldn't be any more relevant in 2017 America -- and the show realizes it.
IGN joined a small group of reporters in venturing to Mexico's Baja California to visit the set of Fear the Walking Dead. While the cast and showrunner Dave Erickson were tight-lipped when it came to revealing too many spoilers, as is customary when dealing with the universe of The Walking Dead, they were very open about what fans should expect in the new season.
The importance of the ranch the group will be moving onto cannot be overstated enough. Visiting the actual set of the ranch -- built in a Baja valley -- feels like you've stepped into the actual apocalypse. With a giant ranch house at the front that looks over what is essentially a tent city, it's immediately clear that AMC has spared no expense when it comes to the enormity of this particular set.
Why the World Needs a Wonder Woman
In the worst of times, just as in the best of times, we look to heroes to guide us. Sometimes they stand before us a symbol of hope, or simply a reminder that things aren't as bad as we perceive them to be. Other times, they have the ability to pull us out of the depths of despair with just a kind word of encouragement. A hero can even take you back to a simpler, more optimistic time; a time devoid of shades of grey and moral complexity. A time when good could decisively triumph over evil. Today, more than ever, we need a hero that can raise our spirits and remind us that love and compassion are all humanity needs in order to find peace. That hero is Wonder Woman.
Something to consider when thinking of many comics heroes is how they were created to empower the most vulnerable and powerless among us: children. Each of us who gravitated towards superheroes as a child did so, whether we realized it or not, because they had the power to make things better. They didn't need permission, and they weren't at the mercy of anyone else. They were powerful, fearless, and courageous in the face of unspeakable evil.
NBA Playgrounds: Switch Owners Get New Shaq Fu Free
Nintendo Switch owners who purchase, or have already purchased, NBA Playgrounds before online play is added will receive Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn for free when it's released this fall.
Developer Saber Interactive revealed the offer ahead of an impending update to the game, with more details to come about how players can acquire Shaq Fu for free.
Challenge Mode, which allows players to compete online, has already been added to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC versions of the arcade basketball game. Developer Saber Interactive also recently released the game's first title update on PlayStation 4 and PC, adjusting the "entire shooting system" and adding 15 new players, including Shaq. The update is expected to hit Xbox One and Switch "within days."
7 Horror TV Shows You Should Binge Watch
Looking for a ghastly and ghoulish good time? Let us help you sort through the streaming world of Horror TV with this list of seven sinister series that are definitely worth your binge.
From the long-running (and still going) Supernatural to awesome adaptations like Hannibal and Bates Motel, here are some shows that are easy to access, fun to watch, and a nightmare to forget.
Attack on Titan 2: Future Coordinates Announced for 3DS
Attack on Titan 2: Future Coordinates has been announced for Nintendo 3DS.
According to Spike Chunsoft's teaser site (translation via Gematsu), the game is a followup to Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains and will launch in Japan later this year.
Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains is an action RPG that released for 3DS in North America in 2015. The game puts players in the roles of characters from the popular Attack on Titan anime and manga series, and sports a single-player story mode as well as local and online multiplayer.
Wonder Woman Takes in $11 Million in Previews
Wonder Woman is off to a good start at the domestic box office.
According to Box Office Mojo, the Gal Gadot-led DC motion picture picked up an impressive $11 million in the box office on Thursday night. That makes Wonder Woman 2017's third-highest-grossing film in terms of North American preview numbers. It only trails Beauty and the Beast ($16.3 million) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($17 million).
The box office projections say that Wonder Woman is expected to bring in $100 million this weekend, which would certainly put the film, directed by Patty Jenkins, on track to be a major commercial success. The film's also off to a strong start internationally, having made an an estimated $18.7 million in its foreign debut.
Lost Sphear Story, Characters, Battle System Detailed
New details about Tokyo RPG Factory's upcoming game Lost Sphear have been revealed.
Following the announcement of Lost Sphear earlier this week, Square Enix has launched a teaser site for the title that contains new information about the game's story and its cast of characters, as well as its battle system.
According to the site (translation via Gematsu) the game world is formed by Memories, which are intrinsically tied to the people that inhabit the planet. When the Memories of something are lost, it's wiped from existence and described as "Lost." While the "Lost" can't be restored by humans, that changes when a sixteen year old boy named Kanata
Need for Speed Payback Looks Faster, More Furious
Ghost Games and EA have today announced Need for Speed Payback, coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on November 10. Set in and around a desert casino town dubbed Fortune Valley, players will race and pull off heists as three separate characters united against a local criminal cartel that runs the city. Ghost has added off-road driving to the mix and is promising the deepest customisation in the series to date.
IGN spoke to creative director William Ho to learn more about Need for Speed Payback.
IGN: For over a decade Need for Speed was on a cadence of yearly releases; now it’s stretched out a bit more. Do you think the extra time between releases changes the way people look at the finished product? If so, how?
How Marvel Comics Solves the Problem of Adapting a Choose-Your-Own-Path Video Game
Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series has its first episode out and a new Marvel comic book series along with it. The problem with adapting a choose-your-own-path video game into a comic book is that it can't cover every possibility and must decide on one thread to follow (unless it's a choose-your-own-path comic of course, which this one is not).
Injustice: Ground Zero over at DC Comics is a comic book adaption of the Injustice: Gods Among Us game, and there they chose Harley Quinn to be the point-of-view character. That way, the reader can see the events of the game play out through her eyes and as she helps Batman take down a tyrannical, grief-stricken Superman. With this comic solidifying Injustice canon it did, however, wind up ruling out some characters' plot threads presented in the game's story mode. But given that the game came out in 2013 and gamers are already diving into Injustice 2, it's probably okay that the folks at DC and NetherRealm decided to use this comic to say "this is how it really happened."
EA Unveils Need for Speed Payback
Ghost Games and EA have today confirmed the 2017 instalment of its juggernaut racing series will be called Need for Speed Payback and it will release on Xbox One, PS4, and PC on November 10.
Need for Speed Payback will be set in Fortune Valley and players will drive and race as three separate characters united against The House – a local criminal cartel that rules the city’s casinos, crooks, and cops.
Ghost is promising the deepest customisation in the series to date, plus the ability to seek out and discover abandoned cars in the world to repair and tune. The driving will be both on- and off-road, with events across the city as well as through the mountains, canyons, and desert. Players will also be able to gamble on their performances in-game (and multiply their winnings or risk losing the lot).