Monthly Archives: January 2018
My Hero Academia Season 3 Premiere Date Revealed
The upcoming third season of My Hero Academia will premiere on April 7.
As reported by Anime News Network, the Season 3 premiere date was revealed on the wraparound jacket band on the third volume of the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes spinoff manga. A photo of the cover was posted on Twitter by manga artist Betten Court.
The third season will air on Saturdays in Japan during the same 5:30pm timeslot Season 2 had last year. Funimation will stream the series.
Detective Pikachu Movie Adds Two More Cast Members
Detective Pikachu has added Bill Nighy and Chris Geere to its cast.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed Nighy and Geere are the latest to join Legendary's Detective Pikachu movie, which is being helmed by Goosebumps director Rob Letterman. However, there's no word yet on who Nighy and Geere will play in the film.
Nighy is most known for his role as Billy Mack in the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually, while Geere portrays Jimmy Shive-Overly in You're the Worst. The actors join a cast that includes Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Detective Pikachu, Ken Watanabe as Detective Yoshida, Justice Smith, and Kathryn Newton as Lucy.
14 Games Released for PlayStation Systems This Week
14 games are being released on PlayStation platforms this week, including Dissidia Final Fantasy NT and EA Sports UFC 3.
Check out the week's releases, including platforms and release dates, as well as official descriptions as provided by the PS Blog's The Drop, in the gallery below, and stay tuned to IGN for reviews of some of this week's titles.
- Briks 2 (Available on PS4 on Jan. 30)
- Cold Iron (Available on PSVR on Jan. 30)
The Purge 4 Gets a New Title And Controversial Movie Poster
The Purge 4 was announced almost a year ago as a prequel leading up to the events in the first Purge movie. And now the prequel has an official title and poster.
The First Purge's promo poster ties into modern day events with a riff on President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again red hat.
First promo poster for The First Purge
Live-Action Superman Prequel Series Announced
A live-action Superman prequel series will air exclusively on DC's forthcoming streaming service in 2019.
The series, titled Metropolis, received a direct-to-series order from Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment for a 13-episode first season. Metropolis takes place "before the arrival of Superman" and "follows Lois Lane and Lex Luthor as they investigate the world of fringe science and expose the city’s dark and bizarre secrets."
Metropolis comic art (via DC Entertainment)
Master Chief Comes to Switch, Wii U in Minecraft Skin Pack
Minecraft's Xbox characters are finally coming to the Switch and Wii U versions of the game. The popular skin pack will bring a plethora of Xbox exclusive character skins to the Nintendo platforms.
The latest update on Minecraft's official site details that the character skins include Master Chief, Banjo, Cole Train, 'Splosion Man, heroes from the Fable series, and more, all ready for their first trip to Nintendo consoles.
Killer Instinct Dev’s New Game Is Coming in April
Killer Instinct developer Iron Galaxy has confirmed that Extinction will be released on April 10.
Iron Galaxy announced their new title Extinction last year. Described as God of War meets Shadow of the Colossus (by us), the combat is fast-paced and oriented around combos, while the story will have you take down giant ogres that are menacing walled towns, much like Attack on Titan.
Ashes of Creation’s Dynamic World Allows Cities to Rise and Fall
In one moment, I see a field of empty grass; the next, I’m looking at a thriving elven village with blocks of cozy shops sprawling over a sea of cobblestones. Rome may not have been built in a day, but this joint went up in a fraction of a second.
Steven Sharif, creative director for the upcoming Kickstarter-funded MMORPG Ashes of Creation, warns me this kind of growth should normally take days. Through developer magic, he and lead designer Jeffrey Bard are showing me the way the game's various invisible “nodes” can transform into entire cities based on heavy player activity in the area, but we've skipped over previous stages that include tents and encampments to see this place in advanced form.
How Project Octopath Traveler Is Improving After Demo
Square Enix has made a number of improvements to Project Octopath Traveler following its September demo.
The company released a video, which you can watch below, detailing all of the changes made to the game in response to the feedback survey for the demo, which has been downloaded over a million times.
Square Enix has made changes to map traversal, the game's user interface, the battle system, and more.
Players can now run automatically by pushing the analog stick all the way, and you can run even faster by also holding down the B button on the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers. However, running faster will make the encounter rate go up. A fast travel option will also be added. And more prominent landmarks, as well as different coloring to the environments, have been included to make landscapes more readable to the player while exploring.
Out This Week – Nintendo Switch eShop Releases: Jan 30 – Feb 05
A new month of Switch games is upon us! So IGN has gathered a list of the latest eShop releases of the week for Nintendo Switch and 3DS in North America.
Steamworld Dig
SteamWorld Dig is a platform mining adventure with strong Metroidvanian influences. Take the role of Rusty, a lone mining steambot, as he arrives at an old mining town in great need. Dig your way through the old earth, gaining riches while uncovering the ancient threat that lurks below...
Night In The Woods
College dropout Mae Borowski returns home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs seeking to resume her aimless former life and reconnect with the friends she left behind. But things aren't the same. Home seems different now and her friends have grown and changed. Leaves are falling and the wind is growing colder. Strange things are happening as the light fades.