Why Halo Infinite Needs the New Slipspace Engine
343 has revealed the reason behind the switch to Halo Infinite's new Slipspace engine. In this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered, Ryan McCaffrey sat down with Bonnie Ross, head of 343 Industries, and discussed the development of Halo Infinite, as well as many other topics (watch the full interview below).
According to Ross, the studio took a step back from the typical three-year development cycle of Halo in order to create the Slipspace engine and fulfill a promise to the development team.
"The Halo engine is a very technical, engineering-focused engine. It's super hard for creatives to work in," Ross said, "It's super hard for a lot of creatives to work in, at one time. We did a ton of work, on Halo 4, on the engine, to get it to look... I think it looked amazing for being on the last generation on the last year of the platform.
Apex Legends Leaked a Year Ago, But No One Noticed
Apex Legends, specifically its map, was leaked last year...but no one noticed.
As reported by PC Gamer, a Reddit user by the name of hiticonic posted a thread titled "Alleged Minimap for Rumored Titanfall Battle Royale Game" 11 months ago and it only garnered 14 comments - some excited about the idea of a Titanfall battle royale game and others calling the map a fake.
Well, as it turns out, that was in-fact the map of Apex Legends from Titanfall developers Respawn Entertainment, albeit changed slightly.
IGN UK Podcast #477: Meeting Jesse
Say hello to young, young, tiny Jesse Gomez. God he's young. He recently joined IGN UK and, as such, is contractually obligated to put up with our bulls**t on the podcast.
For Jesse's inaugural episode, Joe and Alex joined in to talk lots of new games, wrestling cheese-flick Fighting With My Family, and we returned to one of our favourite Endless Search entries so far. Kisses!
IGN UK Podcast #477: Meeting Jesse
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James Bond 25: Rami Malek Nears Deal to Play Villain
Rami Malek is "closing his deal" to play the villain in James Bond 25.
As reported by Deadline, while it looks as though Daniel Craig's James Bond may soon be facing off again Rami Malek, sources also claimed that Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o was "being courted to join the Bond film." However, it now appears that she will not join the cast, with her team saying that "it won't work out with her."
Malek, who recently won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, has been one of the top choices for the film's producers, but the decision was up-in-the-air as Malek is also shooting the final season of Mr. Robot.
New Pokemon the First Movie Remake Trailers Reveal Ash, Pikachu in CG
Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back, which was originally released in Japan in 1998, is getting a CG remake and we now have our first look at Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu.
A short and long version of a new Japanese trailer for the upcoming film give us our best look yet at the world of Pokémon and our heroes in a film that that is, for the first time in franchise history, in full CG.
The trailers give Pokémon fans a glimpse of some of their favorites, including Mew, Mewtwo, Meowth, Blastoise, Venusaur, and Charizard.
Some Pokémon Sword And Shield Fans Are Skeptical
The veil has finally been lifted on the eighth generation of Pokémon games, dubbed Pokémon Sword and Shield. The reveal was a big moment for the series, as it marks the first time a mainline Pokémon title has appeared on the Switch. The promise of a new region to explore, new Pokémon to find, and new mysteries to unravel is more than enough to get us excited, even this early on. Fans are already pouring over the new starter characters and deciding what allegiances they’ll be making, designing fan art, and coming up with memes and jokes as they indulge in all the new details the trailer revealed to us.
As the Nintendo Direct showed us the games in action, they were clearly every bit the Pokémon we know and love. But are they too familiar? While it’s too early to tell just how unique a mainline Pokémon experience Sword and Shield will be on a current generation Nintendo console, especially after just one short trailer, some of the more critical sentiments online bring up a few good points.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix Director Spoils Which Major Character Dies in It
MAJOR SPOILERS ahead for X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
A new trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix was recently released and hinted at the death of a major character and the director of the film, Simon Kinberg, confirmed the shocking move.
In an interview with EW, Kinberg discussed the reveal that Mystique, played by Jennifer Lawrence, dies at the hand of Sophie Turner's Jean Grey while Grey is "struggling with the emerging Phoenix inside her."
When asked about why Kinberg and the team decided to reveal Lawrence's fate in this trailer, he responded that it was "to primarily show that this is a movie that is unlike other X-Men movies."
Opinion: Video Games Still Have a Way to Go with Black Avatars
I’ve been a gamer for almost three decades, but I’ve been black my entire life. When I started gaming on my first Atari 2600 in 1982, the thought of having characters who looked like me -- in stories relevant to my background or culture -- was the furthest thing from my mind.
In ‘82, I was obsessed with roping pixelated cattle on Stampede and dodging crocodiles with Pitfall Harry in Pitfall. In 2019, I find myself confused as to why there hasn’t been a huge amount of progress in black representation in video games. From the lack of black protagonists in triple A titles to the uneasy fact that black avatars always play second fiddle to white ones -- I have to pay almost $10 just to have a black avatar represent me in a free-to-play game like Guns of Glory -- the slow progress is puzzling.
Jordan Peele’s New Sci-Fi Show on YouTube Is Weird
Weird City is a new YouTube Premium sci-fi anthology series set in the futuristic metropolis of "Weird." Created by Charlie Sanders and Jordan Peele, this six-episode dark comedy has some serious star power, featuring household names like Ed O’Neill (Modern Family), Rosario Dawson (Luke Cage), and Michael Cera (Arrested Development). Sanders spoke with IGN about the series' humble beginnings.
"It all started in 2011," Sanders told IGN. Back in those days, before Sanders had his own show, he was a writer for Comedy Central on Key & Peele. For five seasons, Sanders worked alongside one of television's funniest duos and wrote some crazy sci-fi sketches that his boss was fond of. "I was writing a bunch of weird sci-fi sketches for the show that Jordan really liked," Sanders explained. "And so we just started talking about, if Key & Peele blew up, maybe we’d take some of the sci-fi ideas and blow them out into bigger episodes and make our own show out of it."