All Xbox 360 users will be able to bring their save data with them to the Xbox Series X and S. In a blog post detailing save data, performance, and more, Microsoft announced cloud saves will soon be free to all Xbox 360 users, allowing players to bring their old 360 saves with them to the next generation at no additional cost. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=xbox-series-s-and-series-x-comparison-photos&captions=true"] Previously, cloud saves on the 360 were locked behind an active Xbox Live subscription, but this new feature will allow all 360 owners to preserve their save data in the cloud. Microsoft reiterated that your digital library of Xbox games will appear upon signing into the Xbox Series X or S, and compatible discs from the Xbox One, Xbox 360, and original Xbox will work on the Xbox Series X. Additionally, if you have games installed on an external drive, you can plug it into your new Xbox to access those titles. Xbox once again said games will play best on the next-gen consoles, confirming that backward compatible games run with the full power of the CPU, GPU, and SSD of the Series X/S. Microsoft is also promising methods to double the framerate and provide 1440p resolution on select backwards compatible titles. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/12/dirt-5-xbox-series-x-hands-on-preview"] We've gone hands-on with the Xbox Series X, and you can read our impressions of quick resume, backwards compatibility, and load times on Xbox Series X. Or, if you're interested in the more budget-friendly Series S, read about how backwards compatibility will work on Xbox Series S. For more, check out IGN's full Xbox Series X launch guide. And, if you haven't secured a Series X or S yet, follow our Xbox preorder guide for the latest up-to-date retail links. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=confirmed-xbox-series-x-games&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Logan Plant is a news writer for IGN, and the Production Assistant for Nintendo Voice Chat, IGN's weekly Nintendo show. You can find him on Twitter at @LoganJPlant.

All Xbox 360 users will be able to bring their save data with them to the Xbox Series X and S. In a blog post detailing save data, performance, and more, Microsoft announced cloud saves will soon be free to all Xbox 360 users, allowing players to bring their old 360 saves with them to the next generation at no additional cost. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=xbox-series-s-and-series-x-comparison-photos&captions=true"] Previously, cloud saves on the 360 were locked behind an active Xbox Live subscription, but this new feature will allow all 360 owners to preserve their save data in the cloud. Microsoft reiterated that your digital library of Xbox games will appear upon signing into the Xbox Series X or S, and compatible discs from the Xbox One, Xbox 360, and original Xbox will work on the Xbox Series X. Additionally, if you have games installed on an external drive, you can plug it into your new Xbox to access those titles. Xbox once again said games will play best on the next-gen consoles, confirming that backward compatible games run with the full power of the CPU, GPU, and SSD of the Series X/S. Microsoft is also promising methods to double the framerate and provide 1440p resolution on select backwards compatible titles. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/12/dirt-5-xbox-series-x-hands-on-preview"] We've gone hands-on with the Xbox Series X, and you can read our impressions of quick resume, backwards compatibility, and load times on Xbox Series X. Or, if you're interested in the more budget-friendly Series S, read about how backwards compatibility will work on Xbox Series S. For more, check out IGN's full Xbox Series X launch guide. And, if you haven't secured a Series X or S yet, follow our Xbox preorder guide for the latest up-to-date retail links. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=confirmed-xbox-series-x-games&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Logan Plant is a news writer for IGN, and the Production Assistant for Nintendo Voice Chat, IGN's weekly Nintendo show. You can find him on Twitter at @LoganJPlant.

George Miller is moving ahead with his Mad Max: Fury Road spinoff starring Furiosa with Anya Taylor-Joy taking on the title role. Tayler-Joy will be the second actor to play Furiosa after Charlize Theron played the role in Fury Road. Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are also attached. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Miller revealed his cast for the aptly titled Furiosa movie. The standalone story will follow Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa in an origin story before she met Tom Hardy’s Max. Hemsworth and Abdul-Mateen II have also been cast in unknown roles. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2015/05/28/mad-max-fury-road-trailer-in-black-and-white"] Furiosa will be directed, co-written, and produced by George Miller. He’s also teaming up with some Fury Road collaborators including script co-writer Nico Lathouris, production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, who won an Oscar for Fury Road. Mad Max: Fury Road was a 2015 sequel/reboot of George Miller’s Mad Max series from the 80s which starred Mel Gibson in the title role. Fury Road recast Max with Tom Hardy and introduced Furiosa who was played by Charlize Theron. Fury Road was named one of the best films of 2015 and earned 10 Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. Fury Road ended up winning six awards. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2015/05/04/mad-max-fury-road-retaliate-trailer"] Anya Taylor-Joy is best known for her role in The Witch and recently appeared in The New Mutants as Magik. Hemsworth is famous for his portrayal of Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II famously played Doctor Manhattan in HBO’s Watchmen limited series. Read IGN’s Mad Max: Fury Road review here. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.

George Miller is moving ahead with his Mad Max: Fury Road spinoff starring Furiosa with Anya Taylor-Joy taking on the title role. Tayler-Joy will be the second actor to play Furiosa after Charlize Theron played the role in Fury Road. Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are also attached. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Miller revealed his cast for the aptly titled Furiosa movie. The standalone story will follow Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa in an origin story before she met Tom Hardy’s Max. Hemsworth and Abdul-Mateen II have also been cast in unknown roles. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2015/05/28/mad-max-fury-road-trailer-in-black-and-white"] Furiosa will be directed, co-written, and produced by George Miller. He’s also teaming up with some Fury Road collaborators including script co-writer Nico Lathouris, production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, who won an Oscar for Fury Road. Mad Max: Fury Road was a 2015 sequel/reboot of George Miller’s Mad Max series from the 80s which starred Mel Gibson in the title role. Fury Road recast Max with Tom Hardy and introduced Furiosa who was played by Charlize Theron. Fury Road was named one of the best films of 2015 and earned 10 Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. Fury Road ended up winning six awards. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2015/05/04/mad-max-fury-road-retaliate-trailer"] Anya Taylor-Joy is best known for her role in The Witch and recently appeared in The new Mutants as Magik. Hemsworth is famous for his portrayal of Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II famously played Doctor Manhattan in HBO’s Watchmen limited series. Read IGN’s Mad Max: Fury Road review here. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.

Apple's iPhone event might be a month later than usual this year, but it was a big spectacle worth waiting for. It was a big show for Apple with four new iPhones ranging in sizes from 5.4-inches to 6.7-inches. Apple also introduced a smaller HomePod mini speaker, and at $99 we can easily see homes filling up with more than one of these. In case you missed it, here are all the announcements Apple made today in one neat and tidy place.

Apple HomePod mini

Apple’s original HomePod speaker is a beefy unit that goes for a hearty $299 price, that might just be too chunky for everyone. That’s exactly why Apple announced the smaller Apple HomePod mini, a far smaller speaker. Inside the HomePod mini, you’ll find one driver, two passive radiators, and an "acoustic waveguide" on the bottom. Powering the whole thing is Apple’s S5 processor, which is the same chip that powers the recently announced Apple Watch SE. The HomePod mini uses this processor to dynamically tune itself using "computational audio." Using this feature the HomePod mini will adjust how loud it is, its dynamic range, and more by measuring how it sounds in your room 180 times a second. With its new spherical shape, this Bluetooth speaker might have been more aptly named the HomeSphere, but it definitely seems to be a direct competitor to the new Echo Dot that Amazon recently unveiled. Apple is definitely going for the Echo Dot crowd as its new mini speaker will retail for just $99 when it releases on November 16th.

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iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12

If you loved the iPhone 4, you’re going to love the iPhone 12. The iPhone 12 harkens back to the iPhone 4's straight-edged and squared-off design that's not only nostalgic, but it also helps shrink the size of the iPhone 12. According to Apple, the iPhone 12 is 11% thinner, 15% smaller, and 16% lighter. The new iPhone 12 also comes rocking the Super Retina XDR display, Apple custom OLED display, which we originally saw on the iPhone 11 Pro. This screen brings a lot of improvements to Apple's mid-range handset including up to 1200-nits of brightness, plus Dolby Vision, HLG, and HDR 10 support. The screen is also made of a new Ceramic shield glass that claims to be the strongest smartphone screen ever developed with 4x better drop performance. The resolution of the display has also been bumped up to 2,532 x 1,170 pixels. Apple's new A14 Bionic powers the iPhone 12 and it promises to be 40% more performant than the A13 that powered the iPhone 11. The GPU on the iPhone 12 is so powerful it can run League of Legends: Wild Rift, a new MoBA game made specifically for mobile, without a sweat. As for cameras, the iPhone 12 features the same 12MP wide-angle and Ultrawide cameras as last year's model, but Apple has improved the lens on the main wide-angle camera with a new seven-element lens that will apparently drive a 27% improvement in low-light shooting. Apple has also introduced Smart HDR 3, as well as Night Mode selfies and timelapses. Lastly, Apple has introduced magnets to the iPhone 12's wireless charging technology and rechristened it MagSafe. There's a whole new line of MagSafe accessories including magnetically attachable batteries, wireless chargers, and even battery wallets. The iPhone 12 will come in two sizes with the 5.4-inch iPhone Mini and the 6.1-inch iPhone. The iPhone 12 Mini will start at $699 and the iPhone 12 is priced at $799.

iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone

While the new iPhone 12 Mini might be Apple's smallest smartphone yet, the iPhone 12 Pro takes an opposite tactic and take everything to the max. The signature design feature on the new iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max are their extremely shiny sides and it's all thanks to Apple's new magnetron coating process. The phones are available in four colors including black, white, gold, and a new blue color replacing the Midnight Green hue from last year's iPhone 11 Pro. Both iPhone 12 Pro models feature Super Retina XDR displays with a 6.1-inch screen on the Pro and a 6.7-inch display on the Pro Max. Internally, the iPhone is also powered by Apple's new A14 Bionic processor. The iPhone 12 Pro series is getting Apple's first optical zoom lenses and you'll be able to zoom up to 4x optically on the iPhone 12 Pro. The iPhone 12 Pro Max is getting a few extra camera features over its smaller brother with a 65mm equivalent focal length telephoto lens for up to 5x optical zoom, plus the wide-angle camera features a 47% larger sensor with Optical Image Stabilization. The new sensor-shift OIS system on the iPhone 12 Pro Max will enable users to take up to two-second stabilized exposures on a phone. What's more, Apple's new Pro-series iPhones will be able to shoot in a RAW format called Apple ProRAW. There are also new capabilities to shoot multi-frame smartHDR and shoot movies in either 10-bit HDR or Dolby Vision HDR. For all of their new capabilities, Apple is surprisingly keeping the prices for its iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max the same as last year. The iPhone 12 Pro will stay at a starting price of $999 while also double the standard storage to 128GB. The iPhone 12 Pro Max, meanwhile, has a starting price of $1,099. The iPhone 12 Pro is available to preorder on October 16th and will ship on October 23rd. The iPhone 12 Pro Max will be coming at a later date with preorders on November 6th and a November 13th release date. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=apple-hi-speed-event&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com Kevin Lee is IGN's Hardware and Roundups Editor. Follow him on Twitter @baggingspam

Apple's iPhone event might be a month later than usual this year, but we're expecting a big show of at least four iPhones. We're also hoping to see a few other announcements like a smaller HomePod Mini speaker and Apple's AirTag Bluetooth enabled trackers. Stick with us and we'll keep you apprised of all the announcements and new products Apple introduces at its Hi Speed Event today.

Apple HomePod mini

Apple’s original HomePod speaker is a beefy unit that goes for a hearty $299 price, that might just be too chunky for everyone. That’s exactly why Apple announced the smaller Apple HomePod mini, a far more smaller speaker measuring just 3.3-inches in circumference. Inside the HomePod mini you’ll find one driver, two passive radiators, and an "acoustic waveguide" on the bottom. Powering the whole thing is Apple’s S5 processor, which is the same chip that powers the recently announced Apple Watch SE. The HomePod mini uses this processor to dynamically tune how it sounds using "computational audio." Using this feature the HomePod mini will adjust how loud it is, its dynamic range, and more by measuring how it sounds in your room 180 times a second. With its new spherical shape this Bluetooth speaker might have been more aptly named the HomeSphere, but it definitely seems to be a direct competitor to the new Echo Dot that Amazon recently unveiled. Apple is definitely going for the Echo Dot crowd as its new mini speaker will retail for just $99 when it releases on November 16th.

iPhone 12

If you loved the iPhone 4, you’re going to love the iPhone 12. The iPhone 12 Mini harken back to the iPhone 4 straight-edged and squared-off design that's not only nostalgic, but it also helps shrink the size of the iPhone 12. According to Apple, the iPhone 12 is 11% thinner, 15% smaller, and 16% lighter. The new iPhone 12 also comes rocking the Super Retina XDR display, Apple custom OLED display, that we originally saw on the iPhone 11 Pro, which means you'll see up to 1200 nits of brightness, plus Dolby Vision, HLG, and HDR 10 are all supported. The screen is also made of a new Ceramic shield that claims to be the strongest smartphone screen ever developed with 4 times better drop performance. The resolution of the display has also been bumped up to 2,532 x 1,170 pixels. Apple's new A14 Bionic powers the iPhone 12 and it promises to be 40% more performant than the A13 that powered the iPhone 11. The GPU on the iPhone 12 is League of Legends: Wild Rift, a new MoBA game made specifically for mobile. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=apple-hi-speed-event&captions=true"] more to develop...

Martial arts, alien invaders -- and Nicolas Cage?! Yes, you get all three of those in one new action movie, Jiu Jitsu, which is written, produced and directed by Dimitri Logothetis (Kickboxer: Retaliation). We have the exclusive first trailer and new poster for Jiu Jitsu, both of which you can see below. In addition to Cage, the cast also includes Alain Moussi, Frank Grillo, Rick Yune, Marie Avgeropoulos, Juju Chan, and Tony Jaa. You can see them all in action in the exclusive trailer below: [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/13/jiu-jitsu-exclusive-official-trailer"] Jiu Jitsu is actually based on a comic book of the same name, which Logothetis also penned along with Jim McGrath. Here's the official plot synopsis to shed further light on the story:

"When Jake Barnes, a master Jiu Jitsu fighter, refuses to face Brax, an indomitable alien creature, the future of humanity hangs in the balance. Injured and suffering from severe amnesia, Jake is captured by a military squad unequipped to fight the merciless intruder who has descended upon the planet.

Jake is rescued by Wylie, and an ancient order of Jiu Jitsu fighters who must help him recover his memory and regain his strength in order to band together and defeat Brax in an epic battle that will determine the fate of mankind."

And here's the new one-sheet for the film: Jiu Jitsu is scheduled for a theatrical and Digital release on November 20, 2020.

Nintendo has taken legal action against a TikTok user with 1.9 million followers, forcing them to change their name and pay back all money earned through use of the Pokemon brand. TikTok influencer Digitalprincxss - formerly known as Pokeprincxss - was contacted by Nintendo after attempting to trademark her Pokemon-inspired username. The company issued a cease-and-desist order, informing Pokeprincxss that her username and merchandise - which features Pokemon imagery - infringed Nintendo’s copyright. She has since been forced to change her username and pay back all money earned via sales of the Pokemon-featuring merch to Nintendo. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/03/05/10-best-legendary-pokemon"] Digitalprincxss also runs a successful OnlyFans account, which she believes contributes to Nintendo’s action against her. “Nintendo doesn’t want people to think that I’m in any way, shape or form affiliated with them, or that I have a partnership with them, and it all comes back to me being an adult entertainer,” she said in a video explaining her name change. Talking to Kotaku, Digitalprincxss said: “I want to make it clear that I’m not trying to play the victim in the situation, and only hope to be somebody people can learn from and not make the same mistakes I did.” “It’s kind of a cool thing to say, that...the ones who made my childhood so cool, they finally noticed me! All it took was for me to infringe on everything about them,” she added, which seems to show that she’s taking the situation in good spirits. For Nintendo merch that doesn't infringe copyright, why not check out the IGN store? And for more Pokemon, check out the release date for Pokemon Sword and Shield's Crown Tundra DLC. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

IGN Premiere is rolling out a full week of exclusive Monster Hunter movie content, starting today with this brand new image from the video game adaptation. Tune in all this week for more first-look content at Monster Hunter -- including the domestic trailer debut at 6am PT on Wednesday, October 14, exclusively here on IGN! [poilib element="accentDivider"] Fans got their first glimpse at the Monster Hunter movie's Rathalos right here on IGN this past weekend, and now we have another exclusive new look at the film adaptation's "King of the Skies" for you! This large flying wyvern has been a flagship creature in the Monster Hunter franchise since the beginning. Commonly found in the Ancient Forest, the Rathalos breathes fire and boasts vicious claws. Woe unto those who fall prey to it! Feast your eyes on this exclusive new look at the Monster Hunter movie’s Rathalos: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=monster-hunter-movie-images&captions=true"] "I love the Rathalos, because the Rathalos is pretty much the rock star of the Monster Hunter video games," director Paul W.S. Anderson said at this month’s New York Comic Con. "It's been in nearly all of the games. It's probably one of the hardest creatures to kill. It's just badass. So I'm very excited that that's in our movie." Check out how the movie's Rathalos compares to the video game's incarnation by watching the video below: [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/monster-hunter-exclusive-official-game-to-movie-creature-comparison"] Along with the frightening likes of Rathalos and Diablos, the Monster Hunter movie will also include less threatening-looking creatures like the brawny Felyne called Meowscular Chef, the old partner of the Admiral (played by Hellboy’s Ron Perlman). We’ll see more of what creatures are in the Monster Hunter movie when the first domestic trailer premieres on IGN this Wednesday, October 14, at 6am PT! For more on the film, learn why Monster Hunter’s hero comes from Earth and discover 12 details about the Monster Hunter movie that fans will want to know about.

No Time To Die director Cary Fukunaga has revealed how he is breaking tradition with his opening sequence for Bond 25. According to IndieWire, new details about No Time To Die's pre-title sequence emerged in a recent article published by The Wall Street Journal. The outlet interviewed Fukunaga who discussed the newest installment of James Bond, which has now been pushed back to 2021. The conversation became shaken and stirred when he shared some rather large teasers about his version of the opening scene. Warning: The text below contains SPOILERS for No Time To Die. [poilib element="accentDivider"] [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/03/no-time-to-die-official-trailer-2"] Typically, the Bond films have action-packed opening sequences packed with gratuitous chases, violence, and sex, however, Fukunaga is reportedly bucking that trend with an opening scene that pulls more from horror movies than action films. "It's slow-paced, visually arresting, subtitled with dialogue in French, and entirely Bond-free," the outlet notes. Instead of checking in with Daniel Craig's 007 at the start of his final mission, Fukunaga's opening scene will reportedly center on Lea Seydoux's Madeleine Swan who will recount a tragic childhood memory in which Rami Malek's Safin, "wearing a Japanese Noh mask, kills her mother, pursues Madeleine through the home, and hunts her down on a frozen lake." The acclaimed director joked about his contrasting approach to Bond 25's opening scene, as he acknowledged that it might sound similar to another franchise that he was once involved with. "Some clown chasing a child around the house," he said. "It's like I brought back [Stephen King's] IT in the first five minutes of Bond." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=james-bond-no-time-to-die-character-posters&captions=true"] Unfortunately, we'll have to wait a little while longer to watch Fukunaga's opening scene, as the release date for the 25th Bond film has been pushed back for the second time due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. No Time To Die will now be released in April 2021, a year after it was originally set to hit the big screen so that it can hopefully be watched by a worldwide theatrical audience. In the meantime, have a browse through IGN's 007 files and find out why the internet thinks Rami Malek is playing a rebooted version of Dr. No, read Daniel Craig's sage advice for the next actor who takes on the iconic Bond role, and catch up with the first episode of The Official James Bond Podcast, which is available on Apple, Spotify, Acast, and all major podcast providers. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.