Takaya Imamura, the now-retired Nintendo artist and designer who helped create The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and characters like Captain Falcon and Fox McCloud, has said that while F-Zero isn't dead, it is a series that is "hard to bring back" without a "grand idea." Imamura spoke to IGN about his 30-year career at Nintendo, and he revealed that he considers F-Zero GX to be "the ultimate F-Zero." However, 2003's F-Zero GX is 18 years old and is the last console F-Zero game to be released. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2011/04/14/f-zero-gx-gameplay"] While many Nintendo franchises have lived on with new entries, F-Zero has been quiet for nearly two decades, although it wasn't for lack of trying. “Of course, I’ve thought about it many times, but without a grand new idea, it’s hard to bring it back,” Imamura says. Despite that, Imamura reassures us that the F-Zero series isn't dead, even with him no longer being at Nintendo. Imamura also delved deep into the development of F-Zero GX, which took inspiration from Daytona USA and was developed by SEGA's Amusement Vision alongside Nintendo. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-top-25-switch-games-fall-2020-update&captions=true"] “I think it started with [Amusement Vision's] Toshihiro Nagoshi proposing the project to Miyamoto,” says Imamura. “I really liked Daytona USA (which Nagoshi produced), so I was honored to work with him. We had an arcade system board called Triforce which was based on the GameCube’s architecture, so when Nagoshi proposed doing an arcade version of F-Zero, I was really happy, as I had always been a fan of arcade games. “Back then, Nagoshi was the top of Amusement Vision, a subsidiary studio of Sega. I don’t think many people outside the company were ever allowed inside the actual development offices. Companies don’t usually let people inside their development offices, but they showed me the arcade cabinets they were working on, which has become a special memory for me,” recalls Imamura. “Nagoshi had a professional darts machine in his office, which I thought was very stylish. In those days, Nagoshi still had long hair, but he was already quite imposing.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2014/08/22/f-zero-ign-plays"] While he discussed F-Zero, our interview with Imamura also touches upon his work on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Star Fox 64, how he got into the video game industry, and much more. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Takaya Imamura, the now-retired Nintendo artist and designer who helped create The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and characters like Captain Falcon and Fox McCloud, has said that while F-Zero isn't dead, it is a series that is "hard to bring back" without a "grand idea." Imamura spoke to IGN about his 30-year career at Nintendo, and he revealed that he considers F-Zero GX to be "the ultimate F-Zero." However, 2003's F-Zero GX is 18 years old and is the last console F-Zero game to be released. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2011/04/14/f-zero-gx-gameplay"] While many Nintendo franchises have lived on with new entries, F-Zero has been quiet for nearly two decades, although it wasn't for lack of trying. “Of course, I’ve thought about it many times, but without a grand new idea, it’s hard to bring it back,” Imamura says. Despite that, Imamura reassures us that the F-Zero series isn't dead, even with him no longer being at Nintendo. Imamura also delved deep into the development of F-Zero GX, which took inspiration from Daytona USA and was developed by SEGA's Amusement Vision alongside Nintendo. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-top-25-switch-games-fall-2020-update&captions=true"] “I think it started with [Amusement Vision's] Toshihiro Nagoshi proposing the project to Miyamoto,” says Imamura. “I really liked Daytona USA (which Nagoshi produced), so I was honored to work with him. We had an arcade system board called Triforce which was based on the GameCube’s architecture, so when Nagoshi proposed doing an arcade version of F-Zero, I was really happy, as I had always been a fan of arcade games. “Back then, Nagoshi was the top of Amusement Vision, a subsidiary studio of Sega. I don’t think many people outside the company were ever allowed inside the actual development offices. Companies don’t usually let people inside their development offices, but they showed me the arcade cabinets they were working on, which has become a special memory for me,” recalls Imamura. “Nagoshi had a professional darts machine in his office, which I thought was very stylish. In those days, Nagoshi still had long hair, but he was already quite imposing.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2014/08/22/f-zero-ign-plays"] While he discussed F-Zero, our interview with Imamura also touches upon his work on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Star Fox 64, how he got into the video game industry, and much more. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Update (4/15/21) - As reported by Deadline, Disney has responded to the lawsuit filed by Jim and John Thomas by filing their own, claiming the brothers are attempting to prematurely terminate 20th Century's rights to the Hunters screenplay at the time the studio is working on developing another entry in the franchise. “Defendants’ notices fail to comply with these statutory requirements and are invalid as a matter of law,” states Disney’s own jury-trial seeking complaint, also filed today in federal court. “20th Century seeks a declaration pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201 that defendants’ notices of termination are invalid. This action is necessary because defendants are improperly attempting to prematurely terminate 20th Century’s rights to the Hunters Screenplay, at the very time that 20th Century is investing substantial time, money, and effort in developing another installment in its successful Predator franchise.” Original story follows. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jim and John Thomas, the writers of 1987's Predator, have filed a lawsuit against Disney in their attempt to reclaim the rights to the franchise. As reported by THR, the Thomas brothers filed the lawsuit in California and claim that Disney, the company that now owns 20th Century Fox, is getting in their way. Copyright law's termination provision states that, after roughly 35 years for newer works, the original authors of a property may cancel transfers and end a studio's hold on a franchise. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/09/09/the-predator-series-in-5-minutes"] In 2019, this same issue arose over rights of popular '80s movie franchises like Terminator and Die Hard, which are also coming up on their 35th anniversaries. Disney had been planning a Predator reboot with 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg, but this termination notice, which the Thomas brothers first filed in 2016, may alter those plans. The Thomas brothers' script, which was originally titled Hunters, was written in 1986, making 2021 the 35th anniversary of its creation. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-10-best-80s-action-movies&captions=true"] The brothers are seeking declaratory relief and are represented by Marc Toberoff, who won a similar case with the writer of Friday the 13th in 2018. The original Predator starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was followed up by three sequels, a spin-off movie series in Alien vs. Predator, multiple video games, and much more. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Capcom has revealed the output resolution and expected framerate for Resident Evil Village on consoles, confirming that PS5 and Xbox Series X will be able to run the game at 4K/60 FPS with Ray Tracing turned off. As spotted by Wario64 on Twitter, the official Resident Evil Village page shared a breakdown of each platform, and they are as follows; [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/15/resident-evil-village-story-trailer-2"]

• PlayStation 5 - 4K HDR/60 FPS
• PlayStation 5 (With Ray Tracing) - 4K HDR/45 FPS
• Xbox Series X - 4K HDR/60 FPS
• Xbox Series X (With Ray Tracing) - 4K HDR/45 FPS
• Xbox Series S - 1440p HDR/45 FPS
• Xbox Series S (With Ray Tracing) - 1440p HDR/30 FPS
• PlayStation 4 Pro - 1080p/60 FPS
• PlayStation 4 Pro (In High Resolution) - 4K HDR/30 FPS
• PlayStation 4 - 900p/45 FPS
• Xbox One X - 1080p/60 FPS
• Xbox One X (In High Resolution) - 4K HDR/30 FPS
• Xbox One - 900p/30 FPS
• Stadia - 1080p/60 FPS or 4K 60 FPS (4K is upscaled using dynamic resolution)

Resident Evil Village will also be released on PC, but it was not part of this list. This news follows the Resident Evil Showcase that revealed Resident Evil 4 VR for the Oculus Quest 2, a multiplatform demo for Resident Evil Village, a trailer for Netflix's Resident Evil Infinite Darkness, and much more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/15/resident-evil-village-demo-trailer"] Resident Evil Village is set to be released on May 7, 2021 and we featured the upcoming horror game for this month's IGN First. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Capcom has revealed the output resolution and expected framerate for Resident Evil Village on consoles, confirming that PS5 and Xbox Series X will be able to run the game at 4K/60 FPS with Ray Tracing turned off. As spotted by Wario64 on Twitter, the official Resident Evil Village page shared a breakdown of each platform, and they are as follows; [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/15/resident-evil-village-story-trailer-2"]

• PlayStation 5 - 4K HDR/60 FPS
• PlayStation 5 (With Ray Tracing) - 4K HDR/45 FPS
• Xbox Series X - 4K HDR/60 FPS
• Xbox Series X (With Ray Tracing) - 4K HDR/45 FPS
• Xbox Series S - 1440p HDR/45 FPS
• Xbox Series S (With Ray Tracing) - 1440p HDR/30 FPS
• PlayStation 4 Pro - 1080p/60 FPS
• PlayStation 4 Pro (In High Resolution) - 4K HDR/30 FPS
• PlayStation 4 - 900p/45 FPS
• Xbox One X - 1080p/60 FPS
• Xbox One X (In High Resolution) - 4K HDR/30 FPS
• Xbox One - 900p/30 FPS
• Stadia - 1080p/60 FPS or 4K 60 FPS (4K is upscaled using dynamic resolution)

Resident Evil Village will also be released on PC, but it was not part of this list. This news follows the Resident Evil Showcase that revealed Resident Evil 4 VR for the Oculus Quest 2, a multiplatform demo for Resident Evil Village, a trailer for Netflix's Resident Evil Infinite Darkness, and much more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/15/resident-evil-village-demo-trailer"] Resident Evil Village is set to be released on May 7, 2021 and we featured the upcoming horror game for this month's IGN First. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Six months after its debut on Prime Video, Amazon has released a trailer announcing that it will release never-before-seen footage from the making of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm on the streamer in the form of a multi-part special. Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved From Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine will feature glimpses behind-the-scenes of the comedy sequel, as new and extended sequences. The special has no official release date yet.

The great nation of Kazakhstan see Snydercut and present the US and A with longest name for special: Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved from Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine. Coming soon, chenqui! pic.twitter.com/zxhTU5Waui

— Borat (@BoratSagdiyev) April 15, 2021

Baron Cohen breaks character near the ending of the trailer, urging his production team to make a fast getaway as a group of protestors heard outside of their van. "Go, go, go. Go! Just keep going. If you stop, you're going to be in a violent situation," he says to the van's driver. Back in January, Sacha Baron Cohen stated that he has no plans to make another Borat movie. "I brought Borat out because of Trump," Baron Cohen said. "There was a purpose to this movie, and I don't really see the purpose to doing it again. So yeah, he's locked away in the cupboard." Since Supplemental Reportings takes the form of a multi-part special, Baron Cohen has kept his word on there being no new films about Kazakhstan's man abroad. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm was one of the most popular streaming releases of last year, with Amazon touting "tens of millions" of viewers after its October debut. The film has since gone on to have a successful awards run, garnering two Oscar nominations in Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for breakout star Maria Bakalova. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=igns-best-reviewed-movies-of-2020&captions=true"] In our review of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, IGN gave the film a 9, calling the comedy sequel "a savagely great, and gross, time." For more on Amazon Prime Video, check out everything that's coming to the streamer this month. [poilib element="accentDivider"] J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer.

Six months after its debut on Prime Video, Amazon has released a trailer announcing that it will release never-before-seen footage from the making of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm on the streamer in the form of a multi-part special. Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved From Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine will feature glimpses behind-the-scenes of the comedy sequel, as new and extended sequences. The special has no official release date yet.

The great nation of Kazakhstan see Snydercut and present the US and A with longest name for special: Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved from Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine. Coming soon, chenqui! pic.twitter.com/zxhTU5Waui

— Borat (@BoratSagdiyev) April 15, 2021

Baron Cohen breaks character near the ending of the trailer, urging his production team to make a fast getaway as a group of protestors heard outside of their van. "Go, go, go. Go! Just keep going. If you stop, you're going to be in a violent situation," he says to the van's driver. Back in January, Sacha Baron Cohen stated that he has no plans to make another Borat movie. "I brought Borat out because of Trump," Baron Cohen said. "There was a purpose to this movie, and I don't really see the purpose to doing it again. So yeah, he's locked away in the cupboard." Since Supplemental Reportings takes the form of a multi-part special, Baron Cohen has kept his word on there being no new films about Kazakhstan's man abroad. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm was one of the most popular streaming releases of last year, with Amazon touting "tens of millions" of viewers after its October debut. The film has since gone on to have a successful awards run, garnering two Oscar nominations in Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for breakout star Maria Bakalova. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=igns-best-reviewed-movies-of-2020&captions=true"] In our review of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, IGN gave the film a 9, calling the comedy sequel "a savagely great, and gross, time." For more on Amazon Prime Video, check out everything that's coming to the streamer this month. [poilib element="accentDivider"] J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer.

Update (4/15/21) - As reported by Deadline, Disney has responded to the lawsuit filed by Jim and John Thomas by filing their own, claiming the brothers are attempting to prematurely terminate 20th Century's rights to the Hunters screenplay at the time the studio is working on developing another entry in the franchise. “Defendants’ notices fail to comply with these statutory requirements and are invalid as a matter of law,” states Disney’s own jury-trial seeking complaint, also filed today in federal court. “20th Century seeks a declaration pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201 that defendants’ notices of termination are invalid. This action is necessary because defendants are improperly attempting to prematurely terminate 20th Century’s rights to the Hunters Screenplay, at the very time that 20th Century is investing substantial time, money, and effort in developing another installment in its successful Predator franchise.” Original story follows. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jim and John Thomas, the writers of 1987's Predator, have filed a lawsuit against Disney in their attempt to reclaim the rights to the franchise. As reported by THR, the Thomas brothers filed the lawsuit in California and claim that Disney, the company that now owns 20th Century Fox, is getting in their way. Copyright law's termination provision states that, after roughly 35 years for newer works, the original authors of a property may cancel transfers and end a studio's hold on a franchise. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/09/09/the-predator-series-in-5-minutes"] In 2019, this same issue arose over rights of popular '80s movie franchises like Terminator and Die Hard, which are also coming up on their 35th anniversaries. Disney had been planning a Predator reboot with 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg, but this termination notice, which the Thomas brothers first filed in 2016, may alter those plans. The Thomas brothers' script, which was originally titled Hunters, was written in 1986, making 2021 the 35th anniversary of its creation. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-10-best-80s-action-movies&captions=true"] The brothers are seeking declaratory relief and are represented by Marc Toberoff, who won a similar case with the writer of Friday the 13th in 2018. The original Predator starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was followed up by three sequels, a spin-off movie series in Alien vs. Predator, multiple video games, and much more. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

HBO's series adaptation of The Last of Us continues to build out its ensemble with Agents of SHIELD alum Gabriel Luna joining the project, per Variety. Luna joins a cast that already includes Game of Thrones' Bella Ramsey and The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal, who will play Ellie and Joel respectively. Luna will play Joel's brother Tommy, a former soldier holding onto his idealism in the post-apocalyptic landscape. Tommy was featured in both The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/03/20/the-last-of-us-hbo-series-will-cover-the-first-game"] Luna is perhaps most well-known for his role as Robbie Reyes aka Ghost Rider in Marvel's ABC Series Agents of SHIELD. He also recently starred as the Rev-9, the antagonist of 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate. The Last of Us will mark Luna's return to HBO after playing a recurring role on Season 2 of True Detective. The Last of Us is set to begin filming in Calgary this summer. Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin is set to write and executive produce the series alongside Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann. Druckmann has stated that the series will retell the events of the PlayStation franchise's first entry, though some episodes will "deviate greatly" from the source material. In addition to The Last of Us, Sony is also working on an Uncharted movie starring Tom Holland as Nathan Drake. The film is set to hit theaters on February 18, 2022. PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has stated that these two Naughty Dog adaptations are "just the beginning" of PlayStation's efforts to expand into other mediums. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-video-game-movie-in-development-almost&captions=true"] Meanwhile, Sony is reportedly working on a remake of the original The Last of Us for the PlayStation 5. For more, watch IGN's take on why we don't need another remake of The Last of Us. [poilib element="accentDivider"] J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

HBO's series adaptation of The Last of Us continues to build out its ensemble with Agents of SHIELD alum Gabriel Luna joining the project, per Variety. Luna joins a cast that already includes Game of Thrones' Bella Ramsey and The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal, who will play Ellie and Joel respectively. Luna will play Joel's brother Tommy, a former soldier holding onto his idealism in the post-apocalyptic landscape. Tommy was featured in both The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/03/20/the-last-of-us-hbo-series-will-cover-the-first-game"] Luna is perhaps most well-known for his role as Robbie Reyes aka Ghost Rider in Marvel's ABC Series Agents of SHIELD. He also recently starred as the Rev-9, the antagonist of 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate. The Last of Us will mark Luna's return to HBO after playing a recurring role on Season 2 of True Detective. The Last of Us is set to begin filming in Calgary this summer. Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin is set to write and executive produce the series alongside Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann. Druckmann has stated that the series will retell the events of the PlayStation franchise's first entry, though some episodes will "deviate greatly" from the source material. In addition to The Last of Us, Sony is also working on an Uncharted movie starring Tom Holland as Nathan Drake. The film is set to hit theaters on February 18, 2022. PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has stated that these two Naughty Dog adaptations are "just the beginning" of PlayStation's efforts to expand into other mediums. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-video-game-movie-in-development-almost&captions=true"] Meanwhile, Sony is reportedly working on a remake of the original The Last of Us for the PlayStation 5. For more, watch IGN's take on why we don't need another remake of The Last of Us. [poilib element="accentDivider"] J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)