Who Should Be On the Video Game Mt. Rushmore?
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Max Payne Writer Used Game’s Script as College Application
Sam Lake, the writer known for penning the worlds of Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and the upcoming Control, shared an interesting bit of personal history on this month’s IGN Unfiltered. While other students in Finland were applying to colleges with research papers and resumes, Lake was required to send in a 75-page screenplay. So he submitted a draft of his video game script.
“The drama teacher had just returned to
from Los Angeles,” Lake told IGN. “He'd been here for years studying and doing script doctoring, things like that. He came back to Finland and started to teach screenwriting. In the setup for that, he was saying 'You can choose: you write in Finnish or you write in English.' That felt, to me, that's perfect. You needed to send 75 pages of screenplay as a sample, so I just sent Max Payne.”
Control: The Books, TV Shows and Movies to Check Out Before You Play – IGN First
When it comes to games, we’re pretty familiar with the trappings of fantasy, sci-fi or war narratives, but you might be a little less up to date with New Weird. Coined by author M. John Harrison to describe the work of (among others) China Miéville, it’s a form of speculative fiction that revels in inexplicability - it’s often a bit horror, a bit sci-fi, a bit fantasy, but if you put it up against any of the canon texts in those genres, it wouldn’t look like any of them. It’s telling that many authors who get told they’re part of the New Weird immediately reject it, because they think being defined at all is too limiting.
Control might well be the first mainstream New Weird game. New Weird fiction is often about a place, not people, and The Oldest House - Remedy Entertainment’s unknowable new setting - very much fits the bill. New Weird also reflects the underlying weirdness of the modern world, and Control’s fiction regularly weaves in real-life events, recontextualising them for a world in which there’s a government bureau to combat paranatural occurrences. Most of all, New Weird is really f**king odd. And yes, Control is that too.
Lucifer Adds Six Additional Episodes to the Final Season
The upcoming fifth and final season of Lucifer has been significantly expanded to include six additional episodes, taking the total count now up to 16.
Netflix shared the announcement on Friday, revealing that the season's original proposed run of 10 episodes had been extended. Tweeting from their See What's Next account, the streaming company said: "Lucifer Season 5 just got a HELL of a lot better – and bigger! We've added six hours, for a grand total of 16 episodes!"
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FIFA 20 Cover Stars Unveiled
The cover stars for FIFA 20 have been unveiled, with Eden Hazard and Virgil Van Dijk taking the top spot.
Eden Hazard will front the Standard Edition, fresh from his £88.5 million move to Real Madrid this summer. Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk is the cover star of the Champions Edition.
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Standard Edition: @hazardeden10
Champions Edition: @VirgilvDijk
New Jurassic Park Pinball Machine Revealed: Images and Video
Update: We've confirmed with Stern that there are no movie clips and everything on the screen will be custom animation. Stern also added, "Sounds
speech from Nedry's character are in the game (Wayne Knight)." Original story follows...
A Jurassic Park pinball machine, based on the 1993 film, will be Stern Pinball Inc.’s next game. Stern’s Jurassic Park pinball will be the third machine with a Jurassic Park theme after Data East’s Jurassic Park in 1993 and SEGA’s The Lost World Jurassic Park in 1997. What sets the new machine apart from the previous games is full color, HD monitor (although it doesn’t seem to display movie scenes but custom graphics instead), and an animatronic T-Rex that barfs pinballs (at least in the Premium and LE versions). You can check that out in slow motion in the video above.
Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 Now Available on Nintendo Switch
The original three Doom games are now available on Nintendo Switch, marking the 25th anniversary of the influential first-person shooter classic.
The 1993 original, which went on to practically define the FPS genre, is available on Switch and comes with the Thy Flesh Consumed expansion, as well as local 4 player co-op and deathmatch modes.
Doom II is also available, once again featuring 4 player multiplayer and co-op, along with The Master Levels; 20 additional levels created by the community under supervision from the original developers.
Finally, you can also pick up 2004’s Doom 3, which offers a survival horror-ish take on the original Doom story. It includes both the Resurrection of Evil and The Lost Missions expansion packs.
The Mandalorian: George Lucas Advised That Kids Are The Real Audience
Jon Favreau has revealed that he turned to George Lucas for a bit of guidance on the galaxy far, far away while shooting The Mandalorian TV series.
Showrunner Favreau has expressed his strong desire to return to the heart of the franchise, utilising the same storytelling principles established in the original saga, so he turned to the legendary Star Wars creator for some valuable advice on the best ways to move forward with this vision.
"We had a long talk with each other," Favreau told GQ Middle East. "One thing
IGN UK Podcast #497: Our Big MCU Phase 4 Breakdown
Tonnes of Marvel announcements took place in San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H last weekend so Joe, Matt & Cardy are here to take a closer look at all the new movies and TV shows announced and discussed what they're most excited for. We've also been playing some games, half of which are Marvel related. They're doing alright for themselves, aren't they?
PG Tips is this week's Endless Search offering and of course, there's plenty of Crisp Correspondence to get through.
IGN UK Podcast #497: Our Big MCU Phase 4 Breakdown
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