Sony Pictures has officially signed Ruben Fleischer to direct Uncharted, its long-in-development screen adaptation of the video game franchise. Antonio Banderas has also joined the cast, as well as Sophia Ali (Grey's Anatomy) and Tati Gabrielle (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina). The current draft of the screenplay has been handled by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the screenwiritng duo behind 2008's Iron Man. Variety broke the news, but it's not clear who Banderas, Ali or Gabrielle will play at this point. Sony Pictures subsequently confirmed the story to IGN. Fleischer’s name first surfaced in early January as a reported frontrunner to replace Bumblebee director Travis Knight, who bowed out of his Uncharted directing duties due to scheduling issues. In the weeks between initial reports of Fleischer being the studio’s top choice to today’s announcement, Sony shifted the release date of Uncharted from December 18, 2020, to March 5, 2021. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-strange-history-of-the-uncharted-movie&captions=true"] Fleischer is no stranger to making movies for Sony, having directed their blockbuster adaptation of Marvel Comics’ Venom as well as both Zombieland films. Uncharted also won’t be the first video game movie Fleischer has been linked to, as he was attached to direct the big-screen version of Spy Hunter several years ago. Fleischer called Spy Hunter his favorite video game in an interview IGN did with him back in 2013. Fleischer’s hiring caps a storied journey to the silver screen for Uncharted, which previously saw David O. Russell, Neil Burger, Seth Gordon, Shawn Levy, Dan Trachtenberg, and the aforementioned Travis Knight lined up to direct, only for them to part ways with the project for various reasons. Tom Holland recently revealed to IGN that principal photography is just weeks away. Uncharted will star Holland as a younger incarnation of adventurer Nathan Drake opposite Mark Wahlberg as his mentor, Sully. Ironically, Wahlberg had been attached to play Drake back when David O. Russell was going to direct. [ignvideo width=610 height=374 url=https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/14/tom-holland-says-uncharted-has-a-solution-to-the-video-game-movie-problem] Holland recently informed IGN at the world premiere of Pixar’s Onward that the Uncharted movie begins filming in roughly four weeks and that it will draw much of its inspiration from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. “There was definitely a lot of inspiration that came from the games, but it's a very young, fresh take on the character because, obviously, we didn't get to meet him all that much when he was younger," Holland told us. "But it's a pretty awesome movie, and it's global. We travel the world, we see some amazing places, and Mark Wahlberg and I are going to have a great summer together." Holland also recently explained to us how Uncharted can prove to be a successful video game movie where so many other screen adaptations have failed. “I think what Uncharted offers that most video games films don't is that it's an origin story to the games,” Holland said. “So if you played the games, you haven't seen what's going to happen in the film. And if you haven't played the games, you're going to enjoy the film because it's information that everyone else is getting at the same time. But I'm super excited to make that movie and it's been a long time coming.” [poilib element="accentDivider"]

Colin Farrell has officially been cast in Disney's Artemis Fowl as the titular character's father, who also goes by the name of Artemis Fowl. Disney recently released a new trailer and poster for the upcoming live-action movie, showcasing Farrell's role in the Kenneth Branagh adaptation, which is based on the beloved book by Eoin Colfer. Watch the new trailer for the fantastical, spellbinding adventure below: [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/02/artemis-fowl-official-trailer"] Up until now, Farrell's name had not been attached to the project, however, footage from the new trailer confirms that he will be playing the father of the lead character, who is a 12-year-old criminal mastermind that finds himself being pulled into a secret underground world of fairies, dwarves and trolls. The actor makes a further appearance on the new poster, also released on Monday. Check it out below:

Farrell joins the cast alongside Ferdia Shaw as Artemis Fowl Jnr, Lara McDonnell as Captain Holly Short, Josh Gad as Mulch Diggums, Tamara Smart as Juliet, Nonso Anozie as Butler, Josh McGuire as Briar Cudgeon, Nikesh Patel as Foaly, Adrian Scarborough as The Goblin Chief and Miranda Raison as Angeline Fowl, together with Judi Dench as Commander Root.

[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-upcoming-disney-live-action-remake&captions=true"] Director Branagh previously told IGN that he saw parallels between the way in which he conceived the first Thor movie and the way in which he was now trying to create the world of Artemis Fowl, saying that "a very contemporary feeling -- still heightened world of science -- is right next door to a world of magic." For more on the creative process, read our full interview with Branagh who gave us an inside look into the world of his new fantasy film, which is due to hit theaters on May 29, 2020. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Scientists have discovered organic material within 75-million year old dinosaur fossils, including cartilage cells, proteins, chromosomes, and DNA. Paleontologist researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and North Carolina University published a paper on National Science Review detailing the discovery, which was found within skull fragments from a Hypacrosaurus. This duck-billed herbivore lived during the Cretaceous period and was a ‘nestling’, meaning it was still very young when it died. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2015/06/10/jurassic-world-video-review"] The fragments contain some preserved cartilage cells, which are host to structures that appear to be chromosomes. After detailed tests and comparing the results against samples from modern emu skulls, it appears that antibodies from a protein commonly found in animal cartilage can be detected in the fossils. Tests were also run for DNA. A staining substance that binds to DNA was applied to the Hypacrosaurus cells, and the result was similar to what would be expected of modern cells. This is surprising as modern day thinking suggests that DNA will only survive for about a million years, but the fossils date back 75 million years. “These new exciting results add to growing evidence that cells and some of their biomolecules can persist in deep-time,” says Alida Bailleul, who is one of the lead authors of the paper. “They suggest DNA can preserve for tens of millions of years, and we hope that this study will encourage scientists working on ancient DNA to push current limits and to use new methodology in order to reveal all the unknown molecular secrets that ancient tissues have.” [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-best-deaths-in-the-jurassic-park-movies&captions=true"] This isn’t the first time scientists have discovered elements like this in ancient fossils. A few years ago scientists at Imperial College London found blood cells in a fossilized dinosaur claw. In other discoveries, the oldest meat-eating dinosaur was recently discovered in Brazil. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter. 

Marvel's WandaVision has seemingly wrapped filming ahead of its release on Disney+ this coming December. Taking to Instagram over the weekend, crew member Taylor Grabowsky posted a huge group photo to celebrate the end of their lengthy production on the Marvel TV series, commending the extensive cast and crew for being the "best in the world." In the accompanying caption, Grabowsky wrote: "Guys, I may or may not have gone a little overboard on the photobooth, though how can you not with these beauts?! Thankful for the BEST crew in the world, and not only were they up to the challenge, every person here helped to make this show beyond special!" Alongside the message, Grabowsky tagged Marvel Studios together with a hashtag confirming that the photos were taken at the WandaVision wrap party in Atlanta, Georgia. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/08/27/wandavision-is-the-mcus-first-sitcom"] Marvel's WandaVision was initially slated to debut in 2021, but the release date was recently moved up to December 2020, edging closer towards the release of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in August. As it stands, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is still set to be the first MCU spinoff series on the Disney+ release calendar, though it appears that this highly-anticipated miniseries is still currently in production. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvels-wandavision-all-the-tv-sitcom-influences&captions=true"] While little is known about the plot of WandaVision, Paul Bettany has previously described it as "the oddest of all the Marvel endeavours so far." To find out more about the mysterious MCU spinoff series, discover how WandaVision might tie into Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, which is also set to feature Scarlet Witch, and check out our deep dive into the comic books that might have inspired the upcoming Marvel "sitcom." [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Get ready to enter a whole new action-packed science fiction world in the upcoming Paramount Pictures movie Infinite. IGN has the exclusive synopsis and logo reveal for the new Antoine Fuqua-directed Mark Wahlberg film, which hits theaters on August 7th, as well as the announcement of its first-of-its-kind SXSW activation, the Infinite ISM Hexadome Experience. Based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers, Infinite explores the idea of reincarnation and the implications that come with being reborn throughout the generations with all your memories intact through the eyes of Mark Wahlberg's character Evan McCauley. The official synopsis for Infinite reads: "For Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg), skills he has never learned and memories of places he has never visited haunt his daily life. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves 'Infinites' come to his rescue, revealing to him that his memories are real – but they are from multiple past lives. The Infinites bring Evan into their extraordinary world, where a gifted few are given the ability to be reborn with their memories and knowledge accumulated over centuries. With critical secrets buried in his past, Evan must work with the Infinites to unlock the answers in his memories in a race against time to save humanity from one of their own (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who seeks to destroy it." Check out the logo reveal for Infinite below: Infinite is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers franchise, The Meg) and written by Ian Shorr and James Coyne. In addition to Wahlberg, who also serves as producer, Infinite stars Sophie Cookson, Rupert Friend, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Jason Mantzoukas, Toby Jones, Dylan O’Brien and Liz Carr. Executive producers are Fuqua and Raphael Crohn. In addition to di Bonaventura, the producers include Mark Vahradian, Mark Huffam, John Zaozirny, Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson. To help introduce audiences to the movie's unique world, Paramount Pictures partnered up with Little Cinema, an award-winning art collective focused on reimagining film and creating multi-disciplinary live experiences, to develop an immersive reimagining of Infinite for the ISM Hexadome in Austin, Texas at SXSW 2020. The audiovisual installation will make attendees feel the visceral experience of being an Infinite and having your memories span many lifetimes by creating a unique piece of audiovisual content composed and designed for the ISM Hexadome from hundreds of hours of uncut material from Infinite, as well as found footage discovered inside the Paramount vaults. Designed by the Institute of Sound & Music in Berlin, the ISM Hexadome is comprised six giant screens, Epson advanced laser projection technology and a bespoke 52-channel Meyer Sound Labs spatial sound system, offering audiences complete, 360-degree cinematic immersion. [caption id="attachment_2311817" align="alignnone" width="1131"] The Infinite ISM Hexodome Experience[/caption] Demonstrating the power of shared direct experience through sound, art, film and technology, the ISM Hexadome exhibits exclusive commissioned works from artists such as Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Suzanne Ciani, Holly Herndon, Herman Kolgen and Ben Frost. Wahlberg shared the first photo from the set of Infinite back on September 18, 2019, showing him and Fuqua in a hanger, surrounded by a jet and a sleek Aston Martin. In the caption for the Instagram image, Wahlberg wrote, "Excited to be back with #AntoineFuqua who has an incredible vision for this high-concept, ORIGINAL action thriller…it’s a classic story of good vs. evil with an epic twist." Fuqua and Wahlberg previously worked together on 2007's Shooter, which di Bonaventura also produced. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Terri Schwartz is Editor-in-Chief of Entertainment at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.

Two professional FIFA 20 players had to decide who would be the winner of a qualifying match for a tournament with a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors over the weekend.

Red Bull's Shaun Galea and free agent Hasan Eker were competing against each other to qualify in the FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) Champions Cup Stage V on February 29, 2020. Unfortunately, EA's online services experienced many problems over the weekend (now apparently resolved), which meant that both players failed to connect to the servers and each other twice.

Statement on FUT Champions Cup Stage V Qualifier match between Brandsha56 and Hasoo. #FGS20 pic.twitter.com/g0Rt62iSQV

— EA SPORTS FIFA Competitive Gaming (@EAFIFAesports) March 2, 2020

As EA's statement on the matter says, "a double-failure to connect and compete in a qualifying tournament match results in a loss for both participants. This is to prevent connection issues from being exploited as a competitive advantage." However, rather than both automatically lose, the two pros took matters into their own hands and played Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide the winner.

I cannot believe it !! @EASPORTSFIFA @EAFIFADirect We literally had to play a rock paper scissors becauce we couldn’t find each other to invite in an EA LICENSED QUALIFIER . WTF !! I am done

— Shaun Galea (@brandsha56) February 29, 2020

Stehe 3-1, da ich mich im Rock Paper Scissors erfolgreich durchsetzen konnte! pic.twitter.com/PvBcQ8EXqx

— Hasan Eker (@eker_haso) February 29, 2020

Eker won with three rounds to one. However, EA let both players go on to play more qualifying matches afterwards, but neither of them advanced any further in the tournament. EA's statement says that it's "reviewing this really unique situation to understand what occurred and try to prevent this from happening again, especially as both competitors competed in subsequent matches with clean connections."

This game of Rock, Paper, Scissors is far from the only issue that FUT Champions Cup qualifiers experienced over the weekend. Giuseppe Guastella, a pro FIFA player for LA Galaxy, failed to qualify for the North American qualifiers after a last penalty kick wasn't registered as a goal despite it clearly being one.

Guastella provided video proof and released a statement that asked, "how can anyone take the game seriously when EA can't take the game seriously and fix these elementary school issues?"

This is unbelievable from ⁦@EASPORTSFIFA⁩. I’m out of the North American qualifiers because of this. pic.twitter.com/RQtSx3hQ98

— Giuseppe Guastella (@Guastella11) March 1, 2020

FIFA pro and head coach for AS Roma Esports, Nathan Horton, also released a statement that expressed his disappointment over the state of FIFA 20 esports. He says that some of the issues with the game have simple fixes and that "blatant cheating needs to be eradicated" from FIFA 20.

Please read: Some thoughts on the recent qualifiers. To any pros struggling and feeling in a bad place with how their season is going, make sure you look for help if you need it ❤️ pic.twitter.com/BXRjjHFJyG

— Zel (@Zelonius) March 1, 2020

Due to the server issues, EA did extend the Weekend League for 24 hours to give players a chance to qualify for the tournament.

In further FIFA 20 controversy, last week EA permanently banned pro player Kurt Fenech from all of its games and online services. EA says that Fenech crossed “a line of decency into very personal attacks and breach our Terms of Service.” A number of EA FIFA staff Twitter accounts were hacked in retaliation to Fenech's ban.

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Dead or Alive 6 recently added the option to change a character's hair colour on PS4, but it costs money each time to do so. Players must purchase a Premium Ticket in order to pick a new hair colour for their fighter. However, purchasing a new hair colour doesn't unlock it forever, as it also costs a Premium Ticket to revert hair back to a previous colour.

The Premium Tickets can only be purchased at a minimum of two, which costs $1.99. They can also be bought as a bundle of 10 at $9.99, or you can get a discount if you purchase them in larger quantities - specifically 20 at $19.99, or 50 at $44.99. That means to change a character's hair even once it costs at least $1.99.

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The new hair colours were added to the PS4 version of Dead or Alive 6 on February 25 with the v1.20 update. Part of this update removed the limit on the maximum number of Premium Tickets that can be purchased - previously it was set at the number of Tickets needed to purchase all the game's costumes.

The FAQ also reveals that "hair color change data is stored in the save data and any hair color changes you have purchased will be reset if you clear your save data." So if you lose your Dead or Alive 6 save then your characters' hair colours will return to their defaults and you'll have to buy each hair colour again.

The price of changing a Dead or Alive 6 character's hair colour has not gone down well with some of the game's fans.

Dead Or Alive 6. Long story short the new hair colours are one dollar each, you can revert them back to the original hair colour for 10,000 in game currency; But if you do that then you have to re-spend a dollar to buy the same hair colour because you did not own it. Bullshit!

— LionHeart100 (@Androktasai) February 25, 2020

Dead or alive 6 is just in a terrible place atm with all the micro transactions

— #IMtrash@COD (@CombatxxWombat) March 1, 2020

Thought about buying Dead Or Alive 6 since I used to love playing the games back on the Xbox and PS2 era of consoles. But seeing Ninja Theory charge just to change a characters hair color in the game is shameful. I can change the hair color of my character in most AC games. Lol

— Josh Bieker (@BiekerJosh) March 2, 2020

Some fans thought that the being charged each time to change hair colour may have been a mistake on the developer's part. But Dead or Alive community forum Free Step Dodge reached out to developer Team Ninja and reports that a representative got back to confirm that it's intentional design.

The v1.20 update also came with new DLC costumes that are available on the PC and Xbox versions of the game too. Some of those costumes are mashups with the characters of Gust, one of Tecmo Koei's game developer studios, mostly known for its Atelier and Ar tonelico series.

Those new DLC costumes are sold separately or as a pack that costs $39.99 / £32.99. The costumes are also included in the Season 4 pass, along with other DLC released between January and March 2020, and that costs $89.99 / £73.99.

This new DLC adds to the long list of DLC that is now available to purchase for Dead or Alive 6, which at its smallest cost when bought on Steam as season passes totals to about $343 / £280. If you were to buy each DLC individually, and therefore at the highest cost, you're looking at a grand total of around $900 / £776. It's worth noting that the Dead or Alive 6 base game costs $59.99 / £54.99.

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In comparison, Tekken 7 offers season passes at $24.99 / £19.99 while all of its DLC sold individually costs about $94 / £77. Street Fighter V sells character passes at $9.99 / £7.99 except its fourth and most recent one which costs $19.99 / £15.99. Mortal Kombat 11 offers a Kombat Pack with new characters and extras for $39.99 / £32.99, and sells individual characters for $5.99 / £4.99, with a max cost of $78 / £65.

We gave Dead or Alive 6 a 7.7 in our review when it came out a year ago, saying that it "proves there's plenty of depth to this fighter beneath its skimpy outfits, but its story mode is disjointed and its multiplayer features are currently bare." Team Ninja is currently getting ready to launch its next game, Nioh 2, on March 13, 2020.

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake features Red XIII, but the beloved character will not be playable in the first game in the remake series. Talking to VG247, Final Fantasy 7 Remake co-director Naoki Hamaguchi said "We felt the point at which Red XIII joins the party in the story is very late on so we thought okay, if we’re gonna have him as a full character and try and get the player to enjoy his character development arc and growth as a character through that, it’s not really enough time to do that." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/02/final-fantasy-7-remake-full-chapter-1-gameplay"] Instead of being a playable character, Red XIII will instead be an AI-controlled 'guest' party member, fighting alongside your playable team. "We thought that the best way to have him involved was as a guest character," Hamaguchi explained. "Normally throughout the game you’ll be playing as a three-man party, but you will have him as a guest character that fights alongside you during the the last part of the story.” Hamaguchi reassures that the talking wolf/dog/flame-tailed canine will still be equipped with all his "nostalgic" moves, so it seems sensible to expect a bit of Sled Fang action in the Shinra building towards the end of the game. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=final-fantasy-7-remake-over-100-screenshots&captions=true"] Not explained in the interview is if Red XIII is confirmed to be playable in the second game in the remake series. Square Enix is not talking about the next game in general, though, so this isn't necessarily a sign of anything. For more from Final Fantasy 7 Remake, check out our latest hands-on preview, as well as a close look at one of the biggest changes revealed so far, and our discussion with producer Yoshinori Kitase about Sephiroth's expanded role in Midgar. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter. 

Final Fantasy 7 Remake producer, Yoshinori Kitase, has explained why Sephiroth features in the game, despite the character not being present in the section of the original game that the new project recreates. Remake only covers the Midgar section of the original story. The opening hours of the 1997 original holds back the reveal of the game’s big bad, Sephiroth, instead opting to just hint at his existence with snippets of dialogue. But for Remake, Square Enix did not feel the need to be so cryptic. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=final-fantasy-7-remake-over-100-screenshots&captions=true"] Talking to IGN at a Final Fantasy 7 Remake hands-on event, Kitase - who also directed the original game - said: “In the original players had no prior knowledge of that world or many of its characters, so I really wanted to build Sephiroth up as this really major threat. You don't see him, you see the after effects of what he's done. You hear rumors about him to build up the fear of this massive evil presence without actually seeing it. “Obviously nowadays, of course, everyone knows who Sephiroth is, so I thought we didn't really need to go quite as far to hold him back and to hide so much,” he explained. “Looking at the the remake overall, it's clear that Sephiroth is going to be this massive presence overarching throughout the whole of the story, and this rival of Cloud’s throughout the whole story,” he added. “So I really felt I want to include that in this first game in the project, to really have that feeling of him as a really clear presence right from the start.” Sephiroth can be seen in many of the Remake’s trailers, sometimes even clashing blades with Cloud. It’s unclear from this footage if Sephiroth is actually present in these sequences, or if it’s just a figment of Cloud’s imagination, but no doubt veterans of the original game will be able to come to their own conclusions about this. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/31/final-fantasy-7-remake-theme-song-trailer"] In regards to “everyone” knowing who Sephiroth is, this is actually one of the reasons Square Enix opted to remake Final Fantasy 7. “There's a lot of people who may not have played the original Final Fantasy 7, but who know the characters,” Kitase said. “They have come to love the lore and the story of the characters, but never really saw their origins. And when these people will come to say ‘Okay, I want to play, I want to see what the start of story was’, the only game available to them was the original Final Fantasy 7 with PlayStation 1 generation graphics. So I felt that I really wanted these people to be able to experience that story with this more modern, more realistic style of Cloud and Sephiroth.” More graphically advanced titles such as Crisis Core, Kingdom Hearts, and the Final Fantasy 7 movie Advent Children helped more realistic depictions of characters such as Sephiroth permeate pop culture. It’s easy to understand how after seeing those interpretations, for some the blocky polygons of the 1997 original may have been a difficult sell. For more, check out our latest preview of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, as well as our breakdown of one of the new game’s biggest changes from the 1997 original we’ve seen so far. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter. 

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a faithful retelling of the original story, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t big changes. In a new hands-on preview, it has been revealed that the Sector 5 Reactor - the second target of the Avalanche freedom fighters group - has been substantially reworked in a couple of key ways. As you’d expect of the remake, the area is notably larger and more detailed, with wider spaces to allow for the action-focused combat to unfold. The core journey through the reactor remains the same as in the 1997 original game; Cloud, Tifa, and Barret must place the bomb, use a simultaneous button switch to unlock the gates, and then fight the Airbuster boss battle. But the route through the reactor to this techno soldier fight involves a new mechanic unseen in the original game. Spoiler warning: the following paragraphs reveal in detail how the contents of Sector 5 Reactor have changed. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=final-fantasy-7-remake-over-100-screenshots&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] As the party enters the reactor, they discover that this is not just an electric power plant. It is also an assembly line for anti-armour robots known as Airbusters. Pretty much the first thing you see is a powered-down shell of one held in a docking clamp. After placing the bomb and setting a remote trigger, the party is confronted by huge holographic representations of both President Shinra and Heidegger, Shinra’s head of Public Safety. They threaten the team with the Airbuster, but cannot immediately deploy it due to the robot not yet having been assembled. Subsequent rooms contain the production line being used to manufacture the Airbuster, which introduces a new mechanic for the reactor. Components can be removed from the production line, which prevents them from being installed into the robot and thus allowing for a slightly easier fight. Removing components is done by plugging a keycard into a console. After defeating a room’s enemies, the card is easily found, but there is a catch: there are not enough keycards to deactivate every console. After the first room, which has one card and one station that can deactivate one of the Airbuster's three ‘M Units’ that provide Mako-fuelled attacks, the further two rooms each have one keycard, but two and three consoles each respectively. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/14/final-fantasy-7-opening-movie-comparison"] This setup forces players to make a decision about which element is removed. Available to deactivate are 3x M Units, 3x Big Bomber Shells (hugely damaging explosives), and 4x AI Programming Cores (which enable a stunlock ability). The options provided in each room means you’re unable to completely deactivate any one of these attacks, but allows you to focus on reducing abilities you know you struggle with. For instance, if you know you’re often tripped up by stuns, then you can spend the keycards on removing two of the AI Programming Cores. For more Final Fantasy 7 Remake, check out our big hands-on preview for extra details on the Airbuster fight, the party’s abilities, and summons. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.