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The Last Of Us Part 2 Review (Spoilers)

Editor's note: You may have seen our spoiler-free The Last of Us Part II review, originally published on June 12, 2020. Due to a strict embargo, we were limited in what aspects of the game we could touch on in that review. While I critiqued the game in full for that embargo, there may be some parts of the review that could use more explanation. Now that the embargo has lifted, I've expanded on my thoughts here; this review has the same arguments and score as the first one and is simply more detailed in my analysis. Note that this review contains spoilers, including one major character death.

The Last of Us Part II begins with serious tonal whiplash. One moment, Ellie and her close friend Dina are becoming more than friends in a basement filled with weed plants and Naughty Dog porn puns; the next, Joel is being savagely beaten to death with a golf club. It's the first of many, many gruesome deaths. Some happen whether you want them to or not, in intimate cutscenes that are hard to watch, while others happen just because an NPC got in between you and your objective and killing them was the easiest thing to do. Either way, that brief glimpse of happiness at the beginning is left very much in the dust.

But while the scale and severity of death and loss in this game is incredibly high, The Last of Us Part II is more a character study than a musing on the nature of violence. On that front, the story of Ellie, her playable foil Abby, and their quests for revenge and redemption is a gripping and harrowing one, and I found myself deeply emotionally entangled with each woman and her strengths and flaws. The bloodshed is very much a part of that story, but it's far from the most effective one, and it's where the game stumbles a bit.

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Bugsnax Developer Explains What the Game Actually Is

An interview has revealed more about Bugsnax, the adorable anthropomorphic snack gathering game from Young Horses that was revealed during Sony's PS5 conference last week. In an interview with USGamer, Young Horses president Philip Tibitoski revealed the premise behind the game, and spoke about what you'll actually get up to in the game when you go hands on. "Bugsnax is a first-person adventure game where you play as a journalist who is sent a mysterious film from an adventurer named Elizabert Megafig," Tibitoski told USGamer. "She says she's found these things called Bugsnax, these half-snack half-bug creatures, and she wants you to come and document her discovery with her group of misfit followers. You go to the island, you find that she is nowhere to be found, and instead run into some of her followers." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/11/bugsnax-announcement-trailer-ps5-reveal-event"] Players will then be asked to figure out what makes these mysterious Bugsnax tick by studying their behaviour and... "seeing what happens when they're eaten." It looks like we're going to have to eat these adorable little friends. According to Tibitoski, characters in the game will change as they eat Bugsnax, "with their limbs and bodies turning into foods like curly fries, strawberries, or weenies." According to USGamer's interview, the game has been inspired by Ape Escape, and you'll also be able to hear the cry of each particular Bugsnak through the Dualsense controller. What a sauce-pot french fry crab sounds like is still anyone's guess, mind you. In other PS5 news, check out our list of every game confirmed for the next-gen console. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=confirmed-playstation-5-games&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN who couldn't be more excited for this game. Put the KKB theme tune on Spotify, and follow him on Twitter.
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Bugsnax Developer Explains What the Game Actually Is

An interview has revealed more about Bugsnax, the adorable anthropomorphic snack gathering game from Young Horses that was revealed during Sony's PS5 conference last week. In an interview with USGamer, Young Horses president Philip Tibitoski revealed the premise behind the game, and spoke about what you'll actually get up to in the game when you go hands on. "Bugsnax is a first-person adventure game where you play as a journalist who is sent a mysterious film from an adventurer named Elizabert Megafig," Tibitoski told USGamer. "She says she's found these things called Bugsnax, these half-snack half-bug creatures, and she wants you to come and document her discovery with her group of misfit followers. You go to the island, you find that she is nowhere to be found, and instead run into some of her followers." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/11/bugsnax-announcement-trailer-ps5-reveal-event"] Players will then be asked to figure out what makes these mysterious Bugsnax tick by studying their behaviour and... "seeing what happens when they're eaten." It looks like we're going to have to eat these adorable little friends. According to Tibitoski, characters in the game will change as they eat Bugsnax, "with their limbs and bodies turning into foods like curly fries, strawberries, or weenies." According to USGamer's interview, the game has been inspired by Ape Escape, and you'll also be able to hear the cry of each particular Bugsnak through the Dualsense controller. What a sauce-pot french fry crab sounds like is still anyone's guess, mind you. In other PS5 news, check out our list of every game confirmed for the next-gen console. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=confirmed-playstation-5-games&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN who couldn't be more excited for this game. Put the KKB theme tune on Spotify, and follow him on Twitter.
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Bugsnax Developer Explains What the Game Actually Is

An interview has revealed more about Bugsnax, the adorable anthropomorphic snack gathering game from Young Horses that was revealed during Sony's PS5 conference last week. In an interview with USGamer, Young Horses president Philip Tibitoski revealed the premise behind the game, and spoke about what you'll actually get up to in the game when you go hands on. "Bugsnax is a first-person adventure game where you play as a journalist who is sent a mysterious film from an adventurer named Elizabert Megafig," Tibitoski told USGamer. "She says she's found these things called Bugsnax, these half-snack half-bug creatures, and she wants you to come and document her discovery with her group of misfit followers. You go to the island, you find that she is nowhere to be found, and instead run into some of her followers." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/11/bugsnax-announcement-trailer-ps5-reveal-event"] Players will then be asked to figure out what makes these mysterious Bugsnax tick by studying their behaviour and... "seeing what happens when they're eaten." It looks like we're going to have to eat these adorable little friends. According to Tibitoski, characters in the game will change as they eat Bugsnax, "with their limbs and bodies turning into foods like curly fries, strawberries, or weenies." According to USGamer's interview, the game has been inspired by Ape Escape, and you'll also be able to hear the cry of each particular Bugsnak through the Dualsense controller. What a sauce-pot french fry crab sounds like is still anyone's guess, mind you. In other PS5 news, check out our list of every game confirmed for the next-gen console. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=confirmed-playstation-5-games&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN who couldn't be more excited for this game. Put the KKB theme tune on Spotify, and follow him on Twitter.
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PS5 and Xbox Series X: We Now Seem to Know Both Consoles’ Boot Up Sounds

The Xbox Series X startup sound has been been revealed, and we may already have heard the PS5 equivalent. Earlier today, the Xbox Twitter account used the platform's new voice clip functionality to reveal what the Xbox Series X sounds like when it boots up. The 15-second-long clip sounds a bit like a hub world from Spyro with its soothing tones - it's very zen! Replying to another tweet below the clip, the Xbox Twitter account responded by saying that it sounds like "a choir of gaming angels singing in your ears," which, I mean, as long as they're not from a Modern Warfare 2 lobby, that's fine by me. During Sony's PS5 conference, many speculated that the PS5 startup sound might have been snuck into the showcase. It was quite a short clip, but fans managed to catch the alleged boot-up sound (and accompanying console UI animation), posting it to Twitter last week. The PS5's supposed startup tune sounds similarly mellow, albeit with a shorter jingle to accent your entrance to the system's UI when you tap the PS Button. With that, it appears that we've got both of our next-gen startup sounds. Which one is your favourite? Let us know in the poll below. [poilib element="poll" parameters="id=b792b676-9783-4daf-9e85-31e3a59daa8b"] For more on the PS5, check out our list of every game confirmed for Sony's forthcoming console. You can check out a similar list of confirmed titles for the Xbox Series X here.   [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
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PS5 and Xbox Series X: We Now Seem to Know Both Consoles’ Boot Up Sounds

The Xbox Series X startup sound has been been revealed, and we may already have heard the PS5 equivalent. Earlier today, the Xbox Twitter account used the platform's new voice clip functionality to reveal what the Xbox Series X sounds like when it boots up. The 15-second-long clip sounds a bit like a hub world from Spyro with its soothing tones - it's very zen! Replying to another tweet below the clip, the Xbox Twitter account responded by saying that it sounds like "a choir of gaming angels singing in your ears," which, I mean, as long as they're not from a Modern Warfare 2 lobby, that's fine by me. During Sony's PS5 conference, many speculated that the PS5 startup sound might have been snuck into the showcase. It was quite a short clip, but fans managed to catch the alleged boot-up sound (and accompanying console UI animation), posting it to Twitter last week. The PS5's supposed startup tune sounds similarly mellow, albeit with a shorter jingle to accent your entrance to the system's UI when you tap the PS Button. With that, it appears that we've got both of our next-gen startup sounds. Which one is your favourite? Let us know in the poll below. [poilib element="poll" parameters="id=b792b676-9783-4daf-9e85-31e3a59daa8b"] For more on the PS5, check out our list of every game confirmed for Sony's forthcoming console. You can check out a similar list of confirmed titles for the Xbox Series X here.   [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
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PS5 and Xbox Series X: We Now Seem to Know Both Consoles’ Boot Up Sounds

The Xbox Series X startup sound has been been revealed, and we may already have heard the PS5 equivalent. Earlier today, the Xbox Twitter account used the platform's new voice clip functionality to reveal what the Xbox Series X sounds like when it boots up. The 15-second-long clip sounds a bit like a hub world from Spyro with its soothing tones - it's very zen! Replying to another tweet below the clip, the Xbox Twitter account responded by saying that it sounds like "a choir of gaming angels singing in your ears," which, I mean, as long as they're not from a Modern Warfare 2 lobby, that's fine by me. During Sony's PS5 conference, many speculated that the PS5 startup sound might have been snuck into the showcase. It was quite a short clip, but fans managed to catch the alleged boot-up sound (and accompanying console UI animation), posting it to Twitter last week. The PS5's supposed startup tune sounds similarly mellow, albeit with a shorter jingle to accent your entrance to the system's UI when you tap the PS Button. With that, it appears that we've got both of our next-gen startup sounds. Which one is your favourite? Let us know in the poll below. [poilib element="poll" parameters="id=b792b676-9783-4daf-9e85-31e3a59daa8b"] For more on the PS5, check out our list of every game confirmed for Sony's forthcoming console. You can check out a similar list of confirmed titles for the Xbox Series X here.   [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
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James Cameron Was Responsible for This One Big Change to Spider-Man

Spider-Man had a very long, tortuous path to the big screen before director Sam Raimi and screenwriter David Koepp finally brought the Marvel icon to cinematic life in 2002. After Cannon Films failed to make a Spidey movie in the 1980s, James Cameron became attached to write and direct it for Carolco Pictures. Cameron's project eventually fell apart and years of legal battles over the screen rights ensued. The legal battle over Spidey finally ended when Columbia Pictures won the screen rights. But the studio's 2002 Spider-Man film shares a lot of influences and elements from Cameron's unproduced version, which screenwriter Koepp readily admitted to in a new interview with IGN. "I never saw any previous versions from development because it had just come out of litigation as I recall," Koepp explained over a Zoom interview this week. "And so if there were other versions, they were like Cannon in the '80s or early '90s, but (Cameron's) treatment was very influential." [ignvideo width=610 height=374 url=https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/06/28/ranking-the-spider-man-movies-2019-edition] James Cameron's Spider-Man scriptment -- which has made the rounds online for years (check out our full breakdown of it from way back in 2000!) -- left Koepp moved by how much the Aliens and Terminator filmmaker treated its protagonist seriously, something many superhero movies of that era hadn't done. "I had a lot of my own specific thoughts about what the movie ought to be, because I had been a Spider-Man fan as a kid and young adult," Koepp said. "But his treatment, it just took it seriously. It took Peter seriously as a character and it took a superhero movie seriously as a genre. And you hadn't seen that before." Koepp continued, "This was 2000 and 2001 when I was writing (Spider-Man) and there hadn't been a good superhero movie since probably the second Batman. X-Men was still yet to come. That came out, I think, while we were shooting." That Cameron's scriptment demanded a studio take Spider-Man seriously --and to commit large scale resources to such an endeavor -- was bold and new at the time, Koepp argued. "The fact that he had written this 85 or whatever it was pages treatment, that in itself was really meaningful and said, no, no, take this seriously. This is a real movie with real people in it." Cameron's version included one particularly dramatic alteration to the wall-crawler that Koepp retained for his own screenplay: "He had some very good ideas in it. I like the organic web-shooters, which some people liked and some people didn't, but that was his idea and I was happy to use it." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-spider-man-movies-rotten-tomatoes-score&captions=true"] The organic web-shooters of Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker were indeed hugely divisive at the time, with both subsequent screen versions of the character -- Andrew Garfield's in The Amazing Spider-Man films and Tom Holland's in the MCU -- jettisoning them in favor of the more comics-accurate mechanical web-shooters. For more on Sam Raimi's Spidey, watch Tobey Maguire's R-rated Peter Parker screen test, find out why Raimi is still haunted by his unmade Spider-Man 4, and discover how Raimi could bring Tobey Maguire's Spidey into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. David Koepp's latest film, the supernatural thriller You Should Have Left, premieres On Demand on June 19.
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Sting and Kevin Smith Will Guest Star on Animal Talking Season Two Premiere

Sting will premiere a new version of one of his songs on the season premiere of Animal Talking. Filmmaker Kevin Smith, podcast host Marc Bernardin, and musician ThatViolinChick will also appear in the episode. Host Gary Whitta announced the news on Twitter on Wednesday. The episode will premiere Wednesday, June 24 at 9pm PT on Gary Whitta's Twitch. "ANIMAL TALKING Season Two premieres Wednesday June 24 @ 9am PT with our biggest guests ever," Whitta wrote on Twitter. "@OfficialSting headlines, performing a previously-unheard version of one of his all-time classics! Plus @ThatKevinSmith @marcbernardin and @TVCTwitch!" gary whitta Animal Talking is a talk show webseries hosted by Whitta that takes place entirely in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Whitta invites celebrities onto the show for an interview inside an Animal Crossing home decked out to look like a late-night talk show stage. Danny Trejo, Elijah Wood, and T-Pain are some of the guests who have appeared on the show. Whitta previously announced Sting as an Animal Talking guest for an episode previously set to air on June 9. Instead, a special six-hour episode of Animal Talking was uploaded on June 10 as a fundraiser for Color of Change. The episode before that served as the first season's finale and was uploaded on May 22. It featured TV producer David Mandel and journalist Rebekah Valentine as guests. Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released in March to critical acclaim and the third greatest launch month in physical dollar and unit sales of any Nintendo published game behind Smash Bros. Ultimate and Smash Bros. Brawl. The first month of New Horizons exceeded the lifetime sales of every other game in the series. The game is still dominating sales as the third best-selling game of May 2020 behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in first and Grand Theft Auto V in second (and that didn't include digital sales of Animal Crossing, whereas digital sales benefited Call of Duty and GTA, according to an NPD analyst on Twitter). [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/15/video-game-spending-for-the-first-quarter-of-2020-was-the-highest-in-us-history-ign-news"] Visit IGN's Animal Crossing wiki for tips on the game including a virtual checklist of K.K. Slider song requests and details on this month's Wedding Season. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN who needs to sell some turnips ASAP.
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Everything Coming to Disney+ in July 2020

Disney+ in July features the debut of the X-Men franchise on the streamer, with X-Men: Days of Future Past dropping on July 10 and X-Men: Apocalypse on July 17. More titles set in the imaginative X-Men universe will be released in the coming months, including the original X-Men film on August 7, and The Wolverine on September 4. Other upcoming Marvel titles coming to Disney+ include Ant-Man and the Wasp on August 14 and 2005's Fantastic Four on August 28. Also premiering in July is the award-winning Broadway hit Hamilton on July 3. Subscribers will be able to stream the original Broadway production, which stars Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, and Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton. Other notable titles coming to Disney+ in July include Ice Age: Collision Course on July 3, and Solo: A Star Wars Story on July 10. In our Solo: A Star Wars Story review, we say that the film "commits to being a charming and fun exercise in repackaging nostalgia and pre-owned protagonists." Read on to see the full list of shows and movies coming to Disney+ in July. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/05/15/solo-a-star-wars-story-review"] [poilib element="accentDivider"]

New on Disney Plus - Friday, July 3

  • Animal ER (Seasons 1-2)
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
  • Ice Age: Collision Course
  • Ice Road Rescue (Seasons 1-4)
  • Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
  • The Big Green
  • The Mighty Ducks
  • Hamilton
  • Pixar in Real Life - Episode 109 "UP: Balloon Cart Away"
  • Disney Family Sundays - Episode 135 "Peter Pan: Shadow Box Theater"
  • One Day At Disney - Episode 131 "Zama Magudulela: The Lion King Madrid, Spain"
  • It's a Dog's Life with Bill Farmer - Episode 108 "Movie Star Dogs & Hounds and Horses"

New on Disney Plus - Friday, July 10

  • X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Critter Fixers: Country Vets (Season 1)
  • Gigantosaurus (Season 1)
  • Secrets of the Zoo (Season 3)
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story
  • Disney Family Sundays - Episode 136 "Lilo and Stitch: Family Tree"
  • One Day At Disney - Episode 132 “Marc Smith: Story Artist”
  • It's a Dog's Life with Bill Farmer - Episode 109 "Movie Star Dogs & Hounds and Horses"

New on Disney Plus - Friday, July 17

  • X-Men: Apocalypse
  • A Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
  • Disney Junior Music Lullabies
  • Lost City of Machu Picchu
  • Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (S1-2)
  • The Mouseketeers at Walt Disney World
  • Wild Chile (Season 1)
  • Disney Family Sundays - Episode 137 "Moana: Tomato Photo Holder"
  • One Day At Disney - Episode 133 "Mike Davie: Imagineering Project Manager"
  • It's a Dog's Life with Bill Farmer - Episode 110 "Snake Search Dogs & Hawaiian Conservation Dogs"

New on Disney Plus - Friday, July 24

  • Wild Congo (Season 1)
  • Wild Sri Lanka (Season 1)
  • Disney Family Sundays - Episode 138 "The Jungle Book: Finger Puppet"
  • One Day At Disney - Episode 134 "Chris Cristi: Helicopter Reporter"

New on Disney Plus - Friday, July 31

  • Alaska Animal Rescue (Season 1)
  • Animal Showdown (Season 1)
  • Best Job Ever (Season 1)
  • Big Cat Games
  • Cradle of the Gods
  • Destination World (Season 1)
  • Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet (Season 8)
  • Fearless Adventures with Jack Randall (Season 1)
  • Hidden Kingdoms of China
  • Hunt for the Abominable Snowman
  • India’s Wild Leopards
  • Jungle Animal Rescue (Season 1)
  • King Fishers (Season 1)
  • Lost Temple of the Inca
  • Marvel Funko (Seasons 1-2)
  • Surviving the Mount St. Helens Disaster
  • Weirdest, Bestest, Truest (Season 1)
  • What Sam Sees (Season 1)
  • Muppets Now - Episode 101 - “Due Date”
  • Disney Family Sundays - Episode 139 "Mickey and Minnie: Pillows"
[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-top-25-star-wars-the-clone-wars-episodes-and-story-arcs&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] David Griffin still watches DuckTales in his pajamas with a cereal bowl in hand. He's also the TV Editor for IGN. Say hi on Twitter.
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