Halo: Reach Headed to Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One and PC
During Inside Xbox, it was confirmed that Halo: Reach will be headed to Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One and PC.
This reveal comes alongside the news that Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which originally released in 2014 for Xbox One, will finally make it way to PC.
On Xbox One, Halo: Reach's multiplayer will be included for all owners for The Master Chief Collection, while the campaign and Firefight mode will be available for purchase. For Xbox Games Pass subscribers, all of Halo Reach will be available for free.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection Is Coming to PC and Steam
Microsoft has confirmed Halo: The Master Chief Collection is officially coming to PC, and in addition, to Valve's Steam distribution platform.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is being touted as specifically built for the PC audience, including all the bells and whistles that come with a PC product.
"We're going to roll out each of the games in The MCC one by one," a 343 Industries representative said. "Steam for us is a new opportunity. We want to bring our games to players ... to the platforms of their choice."
In what's quickly becoming the Halo anthology, Microsoft announced Halo: The Master Chief Collection will also be getting Halo: Reach in the near future, bringing the total number of Halo games in the collection to six.
Minecraft Is Coming to Xbox Game Pass
Today on Inside Xbox, Microsoft announced that Minecraft is coming to Xbox Game Pass on April 4.
If you don't already own it on a half-dozen platforms, now you can play Minecraft to your heart's content as part of Microsoft's subscription-based game service.
Minecraft is still being expanded with new content like the upcoming Village and Pillage update coming later this month.
Brandin Tyrrel is IGN's Xbox Editor. You can find him on Unlocked, or chat over on Twitter at @BrandinTyrrel.
Everything You Love About the Switch, the Wii U Did First
You know when a plane in a movie falls into an irrecoverable dive, the rocks rising up to meet it, the collision inevitable, the pilot’s eyes locked wide open - but then, somehow, it pulls up at the last second? For you that image might call to mind Goldeneye; for me, a person so British as to make parody impossible, it’s Wallace and Gromit. The point is, it’s the same satisfying trajectory Nintendo fans have witnessed in the two years since the Switch came out.
The extraordinary success of the Switch has been all the more exhilarating for the downward momentum Nintendo had accrued during the Wii U years. For a single company to be responsible for both a console cycle’s most disastrous machinery failure and its soaring surprise recovery? It’s nothing less than the stuff of cinema, if movies were made about game company financials. And in a world where The Big Short wins an Oscar, maybe they will. But the truth is more complex. In fact, everything that has made the Switch the console of a generation was birthed, rather clumsily, by its predecessor.
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The Best Easter Eggs, Cameos and Secrets in Captain Marvel
Full spoilers follow for Captain Marvel!
Every MCU movie features numerous references pulled from Marvel's comic book universe, and Captain Marvel is no exception. This new superhero epic is packed to the brim with cameos, references and Easter eggs for eagle-eyed Marvel fans to find.
From Carol's mohawk to call-outs to heroes like Protector and Spectrum and right on down to Avengers: Endgame tie-ins, here are all the Easter eggs, references and cameos we found in Captain Marvel.
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New Aladdin Poster Features All the Main Characters
Disney has released a new poster for its upcoming live-action adaptation of Aladdin, and it features all the film’s major players.
In the poster below, you can see Mena Massoud's Aladdin in the center, with Will Smith’s Genie to his upper right and Naomi Scott's Princess Jasmine to his upper left. From the left inwards is Jasmine’s tiger Rajah, Navid Negahban’s Sultan and Aladdin’s monkey Abu, who will be voiced by Frank Welker. Bellow Aladdin is Marwan Kenzari’s Jafar and Iago the parrot, voiced by Alan Tudyk.
Credit: Walt Disney Pictures.
The Dark Knight Trilogy Returns to IMAX for Batman’s 80th Birthday
Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy of films will return to IMAX screens in a five-city, 70mm film special engagement in honor of Batman’s 80th birthday.
Announced by Warner Bros. Pictures, all three films in the trilogy - Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises - will be shown back-to-back on Saturday, March 30 at the Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood, California. Between the second and third movies, Nolan himself will join the audience for a moderated Q&A discussion about the films.
This will be followed by April 13 showings of the trilogy at AMC Lincoln Square in NYC and the AMC Metreon in San Francisco. Finally, April 20 showings at Cinesphere Ontario Palace, Toronto and the IMAX Theatre at the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis will wrap up the event. These will be accompanied by the footage of Nolan’s LA Q&A session.
Google Teases ‘Future of Gaming’ Vision
Google has unveiled a teaser hyping up the company's GDC 2019 keynote happening next week, at which the company promises to "unveil Google's vision for the future of gaming."
The teaser trailer doesn't show off much — it flips through a series of locations, from sci-fi spaceships, to a garage, to backstage of a concert stage — as the camera slowly zooms in at each location toward a white light.
Google doesn't offer many details beyond that teaser about what exactly its plans for the gaming future are. The teaser comes with the tagline to "gather around," with a link to a Google Store sign-up teasing "a new way to play." But the company has been recently making inroads into the gaming market, while rumors abound that the company is planning to unveil a potential console or streaming platform at GDC.
What Captain Marvel’s Supreme Intelligence Looks Like in the Comics
Warning: this article contains spoilers for the Captain Marvel movie!
Among many other new characters, Captain Marvel introduces the Supreme Intelligence. This powerful being is one of the smartest creatures in the entire Marvel Universe, which makes it perfectly suited to lead one of the most powerful cosmic empires around.
However, the movie never actually shows us what the Supreme Intelligence looks like. It only ever appears to Carol in her mind, taking the form of her mentor, Dr. Wendy Lawson, and preying upon her vulnerability. This is a far cry from the Supreme Intelligence of the comics, which is normally depicted as a monstrous, green, tentacled head with four yellow eyes. Not unlike MODOK, the Supreme Intelligence's bloated body is little more than a vessel for its oversized brain.