Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Gets An Awesome New Trailer

During Star Wars: Triple Force Friday, a brand new Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order trailer was revealed that showed more of Cal Kestis' journey and the characters and aliens he will meet and have to fight along the way.

The trailer, which you can watch above, shows more of Kestis' trusty droid BD-1, the mysterious Jedi Knight Cere, the Second Sister and Ninth Sister from the Empire's Inquisitorial Squad, a glimpse of various planets that players will journey to, a battle with a new alien bat called Gorgarra the Chirodactyl, and even a tease of an iconic Star Wars villain.

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The Last of Us Part 2 Won’t Have Any Multiplayer at All

The Last of Us Part 2 returns to the world of Ellie and Joel, but not everything is coming back. Multiplayer for one, will not be a part of The Last of Us 2 experience.

In an interview with USG, Naughty Dog lead game designer Emilia Schatz explained the decision to not include a multiplayer mode in the highly-anticipated The Last of Us sequel. “We’re focusing on a single-player experience, so we’re just making a single-player game for this,” Schatz said.

 

 

The news comes as a bit of a surprise as The Last of Us 2 co-director Anthony Newman told Polygon in an interview from 2018 that there would be multiplayer in the sequel. Either Newman misspoke, or development plans changed between then and now. IGN has reached out to Sony for confirmation, but you can watch our video preview above.

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Ring Fit Adventure Hands-On Preview

Nintendo's newest innovation is a Joy-Con enabled Pilates ring that connects to an action-RPG - but you're performing the actions.

We sent Josh Du to test out not only the game itself, but whether it provides a good workout - you can check out the preview in the video above.

Along the way, we even find out some extra little details, from how the Joy-Con R is used as a heart rate monitor, to off-screen workout tracking, to machine washable grips for the sweaty-palmed among us.

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Ring Fit Adventure Hands-On Preview

Nintendo's newest innovation is a Joy-Con enabled Pilates ring that connects to an action-RPG - but you're performing the actions.

We sent Josh Du to test out not only the game itself, but whether it provides a good workout - you can check out the preview in the video above.

Along the way, we even find out some extra little details, from how the Joy-Con R is used as a heart rate monitor, to off-screen workout tracking, to machine washable grips for the sweaty-palmed among us.

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The OnePlus 7T Gives You High-End Smartphone Specs for $600

A few months ago, OnePlus introduced a whopper of an Android phone with the OnePlus 7 Pro, but we never got its smaller sibling, the regular OnePlus 7, here in the states. Well, now OnePlus is announcing we’re all getting a new OnePlus 7T complete with a 90Hz screen, triple camera setup, and a new processor.

The OnePlus 7T really is a better OnePlus 7 Pro squeezed into a smaller package. The phone has been upgraded with 90Hz Fluid AMOLED display that also hits a 1,000-nit peak brightness to meet the latest HDR10+ certification.

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The OnePlus 7T Gives You High-End Smartphone Specs for $600

A few months ago, OnePlus introduced a whopper of an Android phone with the OnePlus 7 Pro, but we never got its smaller sibling, the regular OnePlus 7, here in the states. Well, now OnePlus is announcing we’re all getting a new OnePlus 7T complete with a 90Hz screen, triple camera setup, and a new processor.

The OnePlus 7T really is a better OnePlus 7 Pro squeezed into a smaller package. The phone has been upgraded with 90Hz Fluid AMOLED display that also hits a 1,000-nit peak brightness to meet the latest HDR10+ certification.

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Why The Last of Us Part 2 Isn’t Open World

Naughty Dog didn’t intend to make its biggest game ever with The Last of Us Part II, but according to Creative Director (and co-writer) Neil Druckmann, the ambitions of the story necessitated it.

“We didn’t set out to make the biggest game we’ve ever done, we set out to tell this really ambitious story that became the biggest game we’ve ever done. And that’s why we took as long as we have,” Druckmann told me after my recent hands-on time with The Last of Us Part II.

“The story we laid out four years ago is really complex, has a large cast of characters. The core of it is simple, but where it goes and the twist and turns are complex,” he said. “We needed more time for cinematics, we needed more locations, we needed more types of enemies. So the scope of it kept growing.”

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Why The Last of Us Part 2 Isn’t Open World

Naughty Dog didn’t intend to make its biggest game ever with The Last of Us Part II, but according to Creative Director (and co-writer) Neil Druckmann, the ambitions of the story necessitated it.

“We didn’t set out to make the biggest game we’ve ever done, we set out to tell this really ambitious story that became the biggest game we’ve ever done. And that’s why we took as long as we have,” Druckmann told me after my recent hands-on time with The Last of Us Part II.

“The story we laid out four years ago is really complex, has a large cast of characters. The core of it is simple, but where it goes and the twist and turns are complex,” he said. “We needed more time for cinematics, we needed more locations, we needed more types of enemies. So the scope of it kept growing.”

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The Last of Us Part 2 Creative Director on Joel’s Role in the Sequel

The Last of Us Part II’s release date trailer gave us our first proper look at the first game’s protagonist, Joel, as he appears in the upcoming sequel. And given Joel’s relative absence in footage so far, as well as in the more than two hours I played of The Last of Us Part II, I was curious if that implied a downsized role or importance in the sequel.

So while speaking to Neil Druckmann, Naughty Dog Vice President and Creative Director of The Last of Us Part 2, I asked whether we should take Joel’s smaller role so far as indicative of his importance to Ellie in the sequel. Watch the video above to see his full response, plus some new gameplay from the sequel.

“Their relationship is strained. Some of it is because teenagers will be teenagers, and some of it is because of their history, which is why you haven’t seen them together a lot,” he said. “So much of The Last of Us is about this duo and their dynamic and how they are together, how they play together. I will say Joel plays a major part of this game.”

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The Last of Us Part 2 Creative Director on Joel’s Role in the Sequel

The Last of Us Part II’s release date trailer gave us our first proper look at the first game’s protagonist, Joel, as he appears in the upcoming sequel. And given Joel’s relative absence in footage so far, as well as in the more than two hours I played of The Last of Us Part II, I was curious if that implied a downsized role or importance in the sequel.

So while speaking to Neil Druckmann, Naughty Dog Vice President and Creative Director of The Last of Us Part 2, I asked whether we should take Joel’s smaller role so far as indicative of his importance to Ellie in the sequel. Watch the video above to see his full response, plus some new gameplay from the sequel.

“Their relationship is strained. Some of it is because teenagers will be teenagers, and some of it is because of their history, which is why you haven’t seen them together a lot,” he said. “So much of The Last of Us is about this duo and their dynamic and how they are together, how they play together. I will say Joel plays a major part of this game.”

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