What the Game Boy Means to Me, 30 Years Later
In 1992, my grandmother, my cousin and I were in a mall someplace in Bromley, Kent, England. At eight years old I was developing a burgeoning appreciation for visiting the mall with my grandmother; as a New Zealander who visited her in the UK once a year, she had a tendency to spoil me. During this particular mall visit, my cousin told her he wanted a Game Boy, Nintendo’s handheld console that had been released in Europe a couple of years prior. I didn’t know what a “Game Boy” was at that time, but I knew that if my cousin wanted one, then I wanted one too.
The Game Boy, an innocuous purchase for a kid who only really wanted one out of FOMO, changed my life.
Decepticon Titan Trypticon Coming to Transformers: TCG Wave 4
The next wave of Transformers: The Card Game brings Trypticon, the Decepticon Titan, to the fight, in both bot and city modes.
In addition to the massive "Titan-sized" Trypticon, Brunt, Full-Tilt, and Wipe-Out are also coming to wave 4. Check them out in the slideshow below:
Every sealed, 30-pack booster display box of War for Cybertron: Seige II includes one Trypticon pack, inside of which you'll find the enormous Trypitcon card and the "three large Character Cards" for Brunt, Full-Tilt and Wipe-Out. The booster packs come with one large and one small character card, as well as 6 battle cards.
In the Transformers Universe, Trypticon is the Decepticon answer to Metroplex, the gigantic Autobot city with his own, stand-alone oversized character card and set.
Does Hobbs & Shaw Have a Post-Credits Scene?
While end credits scenes may be common these days that doesn’t mean every franchise has them. The Fast and the Furious series, from which Hobbs & Shaw hails, has had them.
Fast & Furious 6 ended with a stinger introducing Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw, who went on to co-star in the next two Furious films and now stars opposite Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs in this first spin-off in the Fast & Furious franchise.
So given that knowledge, should you expect to stick around for any in Hobbs & Shaw or can you just leave once the credits begin to roll?
In short, yes, you should stay all the way through the closing credits!
There are three end credits scenes in total. Two are mid-credits scenes while the final one is a post-credits scene.
How to Play D&D For Free
Tabletop roleplaying games are enjoying quite the renaissance right now, none more so than Dungeons & Dragons. We’ve already shown you how to start playing D&D, but if you’re not ready to invest in your own set of books and tabletop gaming accouterments, you still can get into the latest edition of the granddaddy of all RPGs for free.
Even though free sources are somewhat limited in scope, there are more than enough to allow you and your friends to run an ongoing campaign from level one to 20 using nothing but what’s freely (and legally!) available online.
Ben Affleck’s Batman Movie Would Have Explored Insanity, Arkham Asylum
Ben Affleck's tenure as Batman seems to have come to a close, but we now have some idea of the tone and content of his abandoned Batman movie. According to cinematographer Robert Richardson, Affleck's version of The Batman would have explored Batman's grip on sanity and focused on Arkham Asylum.
Richardson was previously attached to The Batman when Affleck was still slated to direct and star, and he shed more light on that version of the film on an episode of Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Batman News).
Vinland Saga Is a Classic Anime in the Making
Vinland Saga is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video in the US.
Vinland Saga is a manga series by Makoto Yukimura which has been ongoing for fourteen years. It’s a mature fan-favorite that’s about as far from Japanese culture as you can get. Set a thousand years ago in Viking-occupied England, Vinland Saga is a grand epic of historical fiction that has defied adaptation, until now. Thanks to Amazon Prime Video, the anime of Vinland Saga has finally hit our screens, and it is spectacular. Here’s why it should be your anime of choice for this summer season.
The first thing you’ll notice after watching episode one of Vinland Saga is also the first thing to praise about the show: it’s a slow burn. And that remains true through episodes two and three as well. But Vinland Saga isn’t a frustrating watch; it’s perfectly-paced, carried along by just the right amount of tension and intrigue. Director Shuhei Yabuta and the team at Wit Studio understand with pinpoint accuracy, the tone that must be set for a show about discovery, both personal and global. Vinland Saga is visually stunning, allowing you to drink in its art, music, sound, and story.
Nintendo Fans Celebrate Game Boy’s 30th Anniversary
Nintendo’s Game Boy was released in North America on July 31, 1989 making today this beloved handheld’s 30th birthday!
Fans across the internet have been reminiscing about its impact on the industry, its unforgettable games, and its absolute indestructibility, and we want to spread that nostalgia even further. Naturally, Nintendo of America has already started celebrating the anniversary, and even the National Museum of American History joined in on the fun!
First WWE 2K20 Screenshots Released Ahead of Next Week’s Cover Reveal
WWE will reveal the official cover for WWE 2K20 on August 5. To help fans with the wait, WWE released two official screenshots for the next WWE game coming later this year.
WWE 2K20 is the next entry in the long-running WWE wrestling game series. The first two screenshots WWE released today features current WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar and WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley.
PlayStation Plus Games for August 2019 Announced
Sony’s free games for PlayStation Plus in August have been revealed and if you like sci-fi racing games and snipers, you’re in luck. Wipeout Omega Collection and Sniper Elite 4 are both coming to PlayStation Plus next month.
Weipeout Omega Collection includes Wipeout 2048, Wipeout HD and Wipeout HD Fury and rolls them into a single package. Wipeout is an anti-gravity racing game developed by Sony Studio Liverpool. Players race around high-speed tracks in levitating pods they can customize.
The Wipeout Omega Collection was released in 2017 and added PlayStation VR support for every game and track included in the collection.
The second game in August’s PlayStation Plus lineup is Sniper Elite 4, the most recent game in Rebellion Developments’ Sniper Elite series. Sniper Elite 4 is a tactical shooter where players scout vast environments in the third-person perspective before taking out targets in a single shot.
Control: Your Questions Answered by the Developers
After a month of exclusive new stuff, our IGN First with Control is coming to an end. But before it does, we thought we'd ask one more favour of Remedy Entertainment - getting them to answer your questions.
Sam Lake, Mikael Kasurinen and Thomas Puha assembled to answer some of the IGN community's queries about the game - you can see what they had to say below. And if you missed any of our Control coverage, it's all in one handy spot for you to check back on. Onto the next month!
Dangatv asks: Control looks like the natural progression from your last 3 games, what game play aspect are you most proud of and can't wait for the public to experience?