Marvel’s What If…?: Every Returning MCU Actor

One of the most exciting announcements during Marvel's Comic-Con Phase 4 presentation was the confirmation of an official MCU-based What If...? animated series featuring actual MCU actors voicing their iconic movie characters.

Airing Summer 2021 on Disney+, What If...? is a new animated series based on Marvel's classic series of "alternative history" comics that started in the '70s and explored how things might have played out if key moments in the Marvel timeline never happened. Some famous stories/examples were "What if Wolverine Had Killed The Hulk?," "What if Spider-Man Had Never Become a Crimefighter?," and -- notably -- "What if Jane Foster Had Found the Hammer of Thor?"

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Tool’s Tech-Filled ‘Fear Inoculum’ Special Edition CD Is Back In Stock

UPDATE 11/21/2019: The CD is back in stock at Amazon ahead of Black Friday.

While "Tool news" isn't generally associated with IGN, the limited edition of Tool's highly-anticipated Fear Inoculum is a bizarre and, ultimately really cool, mash up of technology and packaging.

Fear Inoculum releases with a limited-edition package featuring a "tri-fold Soft Pack Video Brochure," which includes a built-in, 4-inch HD screen you charge via USB. The screen plays "exclusive video footage," and also includes a 2-watt speaker.

When the special edition originally went up for preorder, it sold out within a matter of days, so if you missed it the first time around, now's your chance to grab this really interesting fusion of technology and art.

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Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony Working on Loot Box Probability System

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced that Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony are working on new loot box policies for their platforms that would disclose a range of odds for a player's purchase.

ESA Chief Counsel of Tech Policy, Michael Warnecke, shared details Wednesday morning at the FTC's Inside the Game Workshop surrounding loot boxes, as reported by GamesIndustry.

Warnecke explained what has been done prior to address loot box issues, and followed with the announcement of a new probability system with Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.

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Wonder Woman: Bloodlines Exclusive Movie Trailer

IGN has the exclusive first trailer for Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, the next feature-length DC Universe Original Movie. You can watch it in the player above.

Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Wonder Woman: Bloodlines is coming to Digital. 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack and Blu-ray Combo Pack later this year.

The official plot synopsis follows:

"In Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, Amazon princess Diana of Themyscira chooses to save fighter pilot Steve Trevor and return him to his home in America – setting in motion one of Wonder Woman’s most captivating chapters. Fulfilling the role of both ambassador as well as protector, Diana soon earns the name Wonder Woman from the gracious people of Earth.

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Jordan Peele’s Us Inspires Terrifying Maze at Halloween Horror Nights

If you're a fan of Jordan Peele's horror movie Us and have ever wondered what it would be like to experience the terrifying events of the Tethered uprising firsthand, you're in luck. Us has inspired a new interactive maze at Universal Studios' "Halloween Horror Nights" event.

This new maze will be featured at Universal's Hollywood and Orlando theme parks. Check out the teaser trailer for an early look at how Peele's latest horror project is being adapted to scare you in reality as well as on-screen.

Fans will be treated to a full-fledged story as they navigate the Us maze. The maze begins in 1986 as young Adelaide Wilson travels into a mirror funhouse and first encounters her tethered doppelganger. From there, the maze drags fans into a twisted present as The Tethered begin a mass uprising against their doubles.

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Take a Walking Tour of Sanctuary 3 in Borderlands 3

Our IGN First game for August 2019 is Borderlands 3, which means a full month of coverage, roughly three features a week, right through the end of this month. Our first video showed off the first 14 minutes of Borderlands 3, and our newest look at Borderlands 3 takes us on a tour of Sanctuary III, the hub for all your vault-hunting needs.

Lead Mission Designer Keith Schuler and Lead Systems Designer Matt Berner are our guides as we get our first look inside, including major and minor differences from the Sanctuary of Borderlands 2. Watch the video above to learn about all the new and exciting things you'll find in Borderlands 3's Sanctuary.

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Exclusive: Here’s 25-Minutes of Riftbreaker Gameplay Video

EXOR Studios is developing a new sci-fi hack ‘n’ slash game called The Riftbreaker, and we have the exclusive first look at the gameplay right here on IGN.

Players take control of Captain Ashley S. Nowak, an elite scientist and “Riftbreaker” who travels to the distant planet of Galtea 37 in her specialized Mecha-suit. Once there, she must build a home base and establish a "rift" that connects Galatea 37 back to Earth.

Although The Riftbreaker is described as a sci-fi hack ‘n’ slash, there’s a lot more to it than that. Players must explore the unknown planet, collect materials, and build a base that will eventually connect Earth and Galatea 37. That’s why along with the hack ‘n’ slash combat, The Riftbreaker also features strategy and survival elements.

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FIFA 20: Career Mode Changes Announced

One of the most consistent questions asked about each instalment of FIFA is whether Career Mode will be changing. In FIFA 20, we won't be getting an overhaul, but there are some big changes coming along.

In a Pitch Notes update today, EA Sports announced a series of changes to the offline mode, including more customisable managers (including the ability to play as a female manager), game impacting team talks, and changes to effects on players based on performance.

In a press release, EA highlighted five key changes:

  • Customisable managers: Gender, body type, skin tone, clothing, and hairstyles can all be managed.
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Pokemon Sword and Shield: New Pokemon, Forms and Team Yell Announced

Nintendo has dropped a new trailer for Pokémon Sword and Shield, revealing brand new Pokémon, evolutions, new Galarian forms and a new antagonistic group, Team Yell.

The trailer unveiled new Galarian forms, including a Galarian Weezing sporting two top hats in the shape of industrial chimneys. Meanwhile, Galarian Zigzagoon and Linoone are Dark / Normal type and come equipped with the Abilities Gluttony and Pickup. Galarian Linoone will be able to evolve into the brand new, two-legged Obstagoon, who sports the Abilities Guts and Reckless.

Galar will also play host to a new (although very Pikachu-like) form-changing Pokémon called Morpeko who in "full belly mode" is a delightful Electric / Dark Pokémon, but when "Hangry" becomes a full Dark type. And purple.

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One X-Men Character Just Completely Changed Marvel History

Marvel Comics only recently debuted House of X and Powers of X, two interconnected miniseries aimed at radically reshaping the X-Men line. And already the these books are having a huge impact on the past, present and future of the mutant race. House of X #2 introduces one of the biggest X-Men plot twists in years, as Dr. Moira MacTaggert's deepest secrets are finally revealed.

Read on for a full breakdown of this issue and the new revelations about Moira and Charles Xavier. But beware of major spoilers ahead!

Who Is Moira X?

This issue builds on an encounter between Moira and Professor X in last week's Powers of X #1, the same encounter Marvel previously teased as being "the most important scene in X-Men history." Only now do readers learn what Xavier saw when he read Moira's mind. It turns out that Moira - long depicted as being one of the few humans completely loyal to the X-Men - is actually a mutant. Because of her odd, unnatural state of existence, her mutant status has never been detected before. Whenever she dies, Moira is reincarnated in utero, forced to relive her life all over again.

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