Ranking Every Resident Evil Spinoff
Capcom recently announced Project Resistance, a team-based Resident Evil spin-off game that pits a group of survivors against the zombies and big bads the franchise is famous for. Whilst this new game looks all kinds of fun, it’s true that past Resident Evil spin-offs have been fairly hit and miss in terms of quality.
More experimental than games in the core series, the spin-off games have a history stretching back to the turn of the century and have dabbled in a surprising number of different genres. Whether any of them are worth revisiting before Project Resistance hits beta testing in October is, of course, up to you - but to help you decide we’ve put together a list of every console Resident Evil spin-off released so far, and how it fared on our review scale.
Borderlands 3: SAG-AFTRA Responds to Gearbox’s Statement on Troy Baker
UPDATE (10/1/19) - SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) has sent IGN a response to Gearbox Software's statement from the story below.
"We are fully aware of the anti-labor, right-to-work-for-less laws that help explain why Texas has more minimum-wage workers than any state in the Union. Employers in Texas and other right-to-work-for-less states nevertheless routinely work under SAG-AFTRA agreements with no legal obstacle at all. To the extent that Gearbox’s statement reflects legitimate ignorance, Gearbox could easily have asked that question during their discussions with SAG-AFTRA, which they did not.
Destiny 2 Servers Going Down Until Shadowkeep’s Release
Bungie has taken the Destiny 1 and 2 servers offline until tomorrow's release of Destiny 2: Shadowkeep.
The scheduled maintenance, which began Monday at 9:45 a.m. PT, was announced by Bungie on Twitter. The servers will be brought back online for the launch of the expansion Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. UK / Wednesday, October 2, at 3 a.m. AEST, according to Bungie's website.
The developer added players may experience sign-in issues at that time, as "background maintenance is still ongoing." According to Bungie, those problems should cease when maintenance is "expected to complete" two hours later (12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. UK / Wednesday, October 2, at 5 a.m. AEST).
The Key to Kylo Ren’s Redemption Teased in Star Wars: Resistance Reborn
Will Ben Solo follow his grandfather's example and renounce the Dark Side in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? We won't find out until December, but an upcoming Star Wars novel shows how Kylo Ren's redemption is possible.
StarWars.com published an excerpt from author Rebecca Roanhorse's upcoming novel Star Wars: Resistance Reborn. Set shortly after the events of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Resistance Reborn explores how General Leia, Rey and the handful of surviving Resistance members begin the process of rebuilding. One particularly noteworthy passage shows Leia reflecting on her son and the possibility of redemption. As Leia explains, Ben can only be saved if he specifically chooses to be saved.
Stranger Things Season 4 Announced
Netflix has announced that Stranger Things has been renewed for a fourth season with a brand-new teaser that states "we're not in Hawkins anymore."
While no release date or window was given, Netflix did reveal that it signed Stranger Things series creators and showrunners The Duffer Brothers to a multi-year film and series overall deal.
Executive Producer/Director of Stranger Things Shawn Levy shared the teaser for season 4, which you can see below!
“The Duffer Brothers have captivated viewers around the world with Stranger Things and we’re thrilled to expand our relationship with them to bring their vivid imaginations to other film and series projects our members will love,” said Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, Netflix. “We can’t wait to see what The Duffer Brothers have in store when they step outside the world of The Upside Down.”
Microsoft Flight Simulator Preview: A Stunningly Detailed Aviation Simulation
I don't think I've ever been as impressed by any technology as much as I was by Microsoft's upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator (which is coming to Xbox One for the first time, in addition to its usual PC release). It's astonishing in its commitment to realism, and the implementation is clever, extraordinarily technical, and completely blew me away.
I was lucky enough to experience the sim at the Worldwide Flight Simulator Press Event, held at the offices of Rainier Air at the Renton Municipal Airport just outside Seattle. The city of Renton is an aviation city, home of the Boeing manufacturing plant responsible for the 737 airliner. Sitting on the edge of Lake Washington, the woodlands give way to massive hangars and aircraft in various states of completion. The airfield where I got to learn about and play Flight Simulator is the first strip of tarmac the 737's taste before they take to the sky to be delivered to customers around the globe.
TWD: Michonne and Aaron Clash in Season 10 Premiere Sneak Peek
All September long, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2019-2020 season. Today we're slicing and dicing with AMC's The Walking Dead, which is headed into its 10th season, premiering Sunday, October 6. After last season left us with harrowingly high body count, the war between our heroes and The Whisperers is just getting started. But how can you fight an enemy who can blend into the hordes of undead roaming the wasteland? For your viewing pleasure, we've got an exclusive sneak peek from the new season, featuring Danai Gurira's Michonne and Ross Marquand's metal-armed Aaron getting into a heated exchange after a startling discovery leads them into a dangerous encounter.
Frozen 2: Details on the Disney Sequel’s New Songs
Some spoilers ahead for Frozen 2!
Six years ago Disney Animation Studios gambled on Frozen, a computer-animated retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen. The female-focused princess story was risky because it countermined many of the tropes that Disney itself had so successfully established, yet it proved a cultural phenomenon and became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, scoring an Oscar for Best Song to boot.
How The King’s Man Launches an Ambitious New Kingsman Timeline
“I wanted to do something different,” explains Matthew Vaughn on the set of The King’s Man. “When I was a kid, films like Lawrence of Arabia filled the screen and were epic but not boring. And I was thinking that I want to bring back that genre."
It’s April 2019, and Vaughn is in an office at a soundstage on the outskirts of Turin, somewhat frazzled as it’s Day 67 of a 75-day shoot. But the writer-director is also excited to share details of the new direction in which the Kingsman franchise is going. Because where 2014’s Secret Service and 2017’s Golden Circle were contemporary stories – featuring cutting edge action and futuristic technology – this new installment journeys back more than a century, to detail the origins of the world’s first independent spy organization.
Bungie Will Release At Least One Non-Destiny Game by 2025
The next expansions for Destiny 2, “Shadowkeep” is out this week and IGN was able to speak with Bungie CEO Pete Parsons about the studio, and specifically on its plan to become one of the “best entertainment companies” in the world by the year 2025.
Destiny 2 Shadowkeep marks a turning point for the Destiny franchise. It is the first major expansion Bungie has released following its split with ex-partner Activision. “You think this is going to be a really big stressor, but it’s become a really bright shining spot on our ability to bring products to the marketplace and customers,” Parsons tells IGN in an interview.