Borderlands is being adapted into a live-action movie, and director Eli Roth wants to pay tribute to hardcore cosplayers by killing them. No, not literally. Roth briefly appeared onstage at Gearbox's PAX East panel to voice his excitement for the project and for the fan community, calling it "a mad, insane family." Roth then noted a desire to honor the community by selecting a handful of cosplayers to appear as extras in the film, where their characters can then be killed off in suitably Borderlands-esque ways. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/20/borderlands-movie-in-production-directed-by-eli-roth-ign-news"] It's not clear how exactly these cosplayers will be chosen. Gearbox or Lionsgate may announce some sort of formal contest, or the filmmakers may simply reach out to individual cosplayers on a case-by-case basis. Either way, it sounds like fans interested in appearing the movie would do well to start prepping their costumes before major conventions like E3 and Comic-Con and getting their Instagram accounts up to date. As revealed earlier in February, Gearbox is partnering with Lionsgate for a live-action Borderlands movie, with Roth directing, Avi and Ari Arad producing and Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin penning the screenplay. No cast or release date have been revealed yet, and based on Roth's comments at the PAX East panel, it sounds like the project is still very much in the early stages. Gearbox co-founder Randy Pitchford did note that the recently released Sonic the Hedgehog is a sign video game adaptations may finally be living up to their potential after years of critical and commercial misfires. Find put what IGN's staff thought of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-video-game-movie-in-development-almost&captions=true"] For on what to expect from the Borderlands movie and other high profile projects, here's a breakdown of every video game movie currently in development. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Borderlands 3's second DLC expansion will be called Guns, Love, and Tentacles: The Marriage of Wainwright & Hammerlock, and it'll arrive on March 26. Shortly before that, the game will be released for Steam on March 13. March 26 will see Guns, Love, and Tentacles arrive, which Gearbox describes as the story of "a surprisingly dangerous engagement party" for Sir Alistair Hammerlock and Wainwright Jakobs on the ice planet of Xylourgos. The expansion will take you to an eerie town, Cursehaven, situated under the carcass of Vault Monster, have you fighting occultists, and see the return of Borderlands 2's Gaige (and her robot, Deathtrap) as an NPC. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/27/borderlands-3-dlc-guns-love-and-tentacles-official-reveal-trailer"] The expansion will also add new legendary items, Class Mods and cosmetic items. Apparently, it's going to "put the love back in Lovecraft", which will either be delightful, or disgusting, or an eldritch, unknowable combination of both. Gearbox also shared a sneak peek of the third DLC expansion, coming this summer, with just two words serving as hints: "outlaws" and "dinosaurs" - you can see a piece of concept art in the slideshow at the bottom of this story. It seems there's some connection to Borderlands 3's Saurians, but there's not much more we know than that right now. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=borderlands-3-guns-love-and-tentacles-dlc-screenshots&captions=true"] We also saw a content roadmap of free updates and events coming soon. in April, we'll get Mayhem 2.0, described as an overhaul to Borderlands 3's endgame by changing how Mayhem modifiers work. According to Nicholson, we'll also be getting a Big head mode as part of that, which is always exciting. After that, there's a new event, Revenge of the Cartels, in which you track down tracking and killing cartel operatives for event-specific rewards. Anthony Nicholson, senior project producer at Gearbox, told us Revenger of the Cartels would be closest in style to the Bloody Harvest Halloween event, adding a new map, new missions, and event-specific weapons, all themed along a Borderlands take on an '80s Miami Vice-type style. In May, we'll get a follow-up to Takedown at the Maliwan Blacksite, this time called Guardian Takedown. Described as the most challenging content in the game, this endgame mission will be set around the mysterious Eridians, and offer new bosses, gear, and cosmetics. It will scale in difficulty based on your party, but features a True Takedown Mode, which allows a single player to take on the mission at the hardest possible difficulty. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=borderlands-3-2020-content-images&captions=true"] Making the announcement onstage at PAX East, Gearbox announced that the Steam version would feature crossplay with the Epic Games Store release, with additional features - such as being able to mail weapons between versions - will be added in the weeks after launch. Nicholson confirmed to IGN that there are no plans for PC-console crossplay at the moment. It's been a busy time for Borderlands recently - alongside all of these announcements, we also learned that horror director Eli Roth is helming a Borderlands move. We awarded Borderlands 3 a 9/10 review, saying it "sticks to its guns and outdoes itself with an amazing arsenal of weapons, humor, and missions." We weren't quite as impressed by its first expansion, Moxxi's Heist of the Handsom Jackpot, giving it a 7/10 and explaining that it "starts off a little bumpy, but when it goes all-in, it hits the jackpot." [poilib element="accentDivider"]

Gearbox kicked off its PAX East panel by announcing the Steam release date for Borderlands 3 and it’s only a few weeks away. Borderlands 3 will hit Steam on March 13, 2020, and what’s more, it will feature cross-play between Steam and Epic Games Store. Borderlands 3 was released last year exclusively on the Epic Games Store for PC. Although it was only a limited-time exclusivity, it was one of the first major titles to launch first on the Epic Games Store. But now Gearbox’s latest Borderlands game is coming to Steam. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/08/14/borderlands-3-the-borderlands-are-yours-trailer"] Thanks to cross-play, there’s no need to worry about online co-op if your friends ended up waiting for the six months to get Borderlands 3 on Steam. An updated SHiFT system will let you manage your friend list regardless of the platform. Not every cross-play feature will be available on March 13. According to Gearbox, weapon mailing won’t be available on day one and will instead be rolling out over the following weeks. With today’s release date announcement, Borderlands 3 will be available on both major PC digital platforms soon. Check out IGN’s Borderlands 3 review here, our Borderlands 3 wiki for walkthroughs and tips, and our livestream of the Gearbox Panel live from PAX East. Also, check back on IGN for all the latest news from PAX East. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.

Microsoft Game Stack has also announced that due to concerns over COVID-19, better known as the novel coronavirus, it will be dropping out of the 2020 Game Developers Conference (GDC). “After a close review of guidance by global health authorities and out of an abundance of caution, we’ve made the difficult decision to withdraw from participating at Game Developers Conference 2020 in San Francisco,” the company wrote in an official blog post. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=all-the-big-games-coming-in-2020&captions=true"] Instead, Microsoft Game Stack will host a series of digital-only events from March 16th to 18th which will cover a majority of the planned GDC sessions it was originally set to host. This includes panels on the cloud, the evolution of game development, and a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Microsoft titles like Minecraft and Gears of War. Other than panels Microsoft announced other events that have been thrown into uncertainty including the annual ID @ Xbox event showcasing indie games, and a Games Showcase. IGN has reached out to Microsoft to find out whether these events will still be hosted at GDC. Update: Microsoft confirmed that both the Games Showcase and ID@Xbox events have been canceled as well. Microsoft Game Stack is the latest developer to drop out of GDC following companies like PlayStation, Facebook Oculus, Kojima Productions, EA, Unity, and Epic Games which also made the announcement today. Meanwhile, GDC organizers say that they “are confident that Game Developers Conference will follow int he footsteps of other large and successful international events taking place at the Moscone Center,” and have not announced plans to cancel the event. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.

If you're looking for another cerebral sci-fi drama to binge, Amazon's upcoming series should make it onto your watchlist. IGN can reveal the release date and first look at Tales From the Loop, based on the art of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag which inspired the tabletop RPG of the same name. Tales From the Loop will premiere April 3 on Amazon Prime Video worldwide, created by Nathaniel Halpern and executive produced by The Batman's Matt Reeves. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/27/tales-from-the-loop-official-trailer"] According to Amazon, Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above “The Loop” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical mysterious town poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling. The show stars Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town), Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation), Daniel Zolghadri (Eighth Grade), Duncan Joiner (Waco) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Game of Thrones) We've also got a look at the key art for the series, designed by Stålenhag, which you can see in the slideshow below. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=amazons-tales-from-the-loop&captions=true"]

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Josh Hutcherson, Eliza Coupe, and Derek Wilson are back for more time-travel shenanigans in the third and final season of Hulu's Future Man, and you won't have to wait too long to see how their timeline-hopping saga ends. IGN can exclusively reveal that Future Man's Season 3 release date is set for April 3, and we've got the first teaser trailer for Josh, Tiger, and Wolf's last hurrah, which you can watch above or embedded in the player below. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/27/future-man-season-3-exclusive-teaser-trailer"] In the final season of Future Man, convicted of time crimes and sentenced to death by entertainment, Josh (Hutcherson), Tiger (Coupe), and Wolf (Wilson) become fugitives, on the run through time, trying desperately to evade capture while attempting to clear their names and fix the big mess of history they've made along the way. As shown in the teaser trailer, their unlikely journey will take them to new time periods, where they'll cross paths with some of history's most famous figures, including Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi, in addition to executive producer Seth Rogen, reprising his Season 2 role as the deliciously sadistic Susan. What do you think of the teaser trailer for Future Man Season 3? Share your thoughts in the comments, and for more from Hulu, check out our review of High Fidelity, plus learn how to add an ad-free Hulu subscription to a Disney+ bundle. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=abraham-lincolns-craziest-movie-and-tv-show-appearances&captions=true"]

PlatinumGames has announced a new Tokyo studio that will develop live service games, unlike its usual single-player experiences. This news arrives as the third of four planned announcements from the developer. The studio launch was teased in Wednesday's Project G.G. announcement without much information until today. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/26/project-gg-teaser-trailer"] Executive Vice President and Studio Head of PlatinumGames, Atsushi Inaba, explained the developer's goal is to develop games that continue to evolve past a released version: "So far, the name PlatinumGames has been nearly synonymous with single-player action games. But going forward, we’re looking to expand into new genres and styles of play. One of these new challenges for us is console live ops game development. These aren’t games we’d work on until they were done, and that’s all – rather, we’d continue working on them to provide new content long after release. We want to explore this ongoing development pattern in the home console space. "Our new Tokyo office will play a major role as we expand into live ops game development. The starting core members of our future live ops team who’ll be working there are already a part of PlatinumGames." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=project-gg-new-platinum-game-first-images&captions=true"] Platinum's first announced game out of the Tokyo studio will be Hideki Kamiya's Project G.G, which was announced yesterday. While that game has no genre formally announced, it feels unlikely that it would be a live service game, given it's a spiritual follow-up to Viewtiful Joe and The Wonderful 101 – both of which are self-contained single player action games. The website revealing the studio also dives into four interviews with PlatinumGames Tokyo developers. Game designer, Takahisa Sugiyama, spoke about the immediate feedback you get from live service games: "Right after you release a content update, you can immediately jump over to social media and start reviewing user reactions. When the reactions are negative, that’s obviously not so much fun, but when they’re positive, it can really motivate your work." It's unknown what the fourth and final announcement will be for Platinum's slate of reveals. The first was a release date for The Wonderful 101: Remastered and the second was Project G.G. At this time, The Wonderful 101: Remastered Kickstarter is up to $1,782,457 with eight days remaining. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-wonderful-101-remastered-kickstarter&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"]

Having insufficient storage can be a maddening issue, especially if all you want is to download a new game without having to delete your old favorites. Luckily, truly expansive storage options are getting cheaper all the time, so right now you can alleviate your storage space woes with deals on external hard drives and MicroSDXC cards to ensure that your Xbox, Switch, or PC always has enough room for something new.

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A generation of Star Wars fans were traumatized by seeing Han Solo frozen in carbonite and carted away by that bounty hunting jerkwad Boba Fett. But now we know Han wasn't the only Original Trilogy favorite to suffer that ignominious fate. Read on to find out what other iconic Star Wars hero met the wrong end of a carbonite freezing chamber, but beware of spoilers for Marvel's Star Wars #3 ahead! [poilib element="accentDivider"] [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=top-10-best-star-wars-movie-moments&captions=true"] The latest issue of Marvel's flagship Star Wars series (which was recently relaunched with a new post-Empire Strikes Back setting) shows what happens when Luke, Leia and Lando make the very questionable decision to return to Cloud City in the wake of the Empire's takeover. The previous issue showed Luke having a vision of a mysterious, hooded figure catching his lightsaber. Luke wants to reclaim his lost weapon and make sense of that strange vision. Lando has his own reasons for returning home. After sweet-talking his way through Cloud City's security, Lando journeys to the depths of the city in search of his old friend Lobot. Lobot was captured during the Empire's invasion of Cloud City and is now plugged directly into the city's computer systems. Fortunately, that gives Lando just the opening he needs to turn the tables on the city's Imperial occupiers. He unleashes a cloud of toxic Tibanna gas waste, hoping to distract the Empire long enough for him to free Lobot, rally his other friends, and escape. The plan works, for a few minutes anyway. [caption id="attachment_2309922" align="aligncenter" width="1859"] Art by Jesus Saiz. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)[/caption] Luke's return to Cloud City is less successful. Still haunted by memories of battling Darth Vader, Luke makes his way to the bottom of the shaft where his lightsaber fell, only to discover a massive pile of debris and a group of pesky Ugnaughts. Tracking down his lightsaber is clearly going to be the Star Wars equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. However, Leia definitely fares the worst on this particular mission. She makes her way to the chamber where Han was frozen, hoping to figure out how to activate the decarbonization process that can revive him. Before she can finish her reconnaissance, Leia is spotted and stun-blasted by patrolling Stormtroopers. Following Darth Vader's strict orders, they freeze their new captive in carbonite in preparation to deliver her to an Imperial prison. [caption id="attachment_2309921" align="aligncenter" width="925"] Art by Jesus Saiz. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)[/caption] In a cruel twist of fate, Leia now finds herself in the exact same predicament as Han. We're assuming Leia won't stay frozen nearly as long. But then again, with how little we actually know about this lost period between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, we can't take anything for granted. In other big Star Wars news, Lucasfilm recently revealed The High Republic, a new publishing initiative aimed at exploring an era 200 years before the events of The Phantom Menace. Here's a full breakdown of The High Republic's story and a look at why some fans think it's introducing the next Baby Yoda. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/25/star-wars-the-high-republic-reveal-trailer"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.