Square Enix Announces New RPG, Oninaki
Square Enix’s development team behind I Am Setsuna and Lost Sphear, Tokyo RPG Factory, has revealed its latest game, Oninaki, in Nintendo’s February 13 Direct.
The action-RPG is scheduled for a summer 2019 launch, and takes place in a world where, according to its trailer, people are forced to lead repressed lives, never properly being able to grieve the dead.
Players will control a protagonist who can cross between worlds, from the land of the living to a world beyond, where they’ll encounter lost souls. Players can save those lost souls, taking them on to use in combat for specific abilities. Saving them will also prevent them from becoming the very monsters players will be fighting in Oninaki.
Starlink Gets New Star Fox Characters and Missions
During today’s Direct, Nintendo revealed that the Switch version of Starlink: Battle for Atlas will get an update in April that adds even more Star Fox content, including new playable characters and new missions.
Most excitingly, Star Fox’s trusty wingmen Peppy, Slippy, and Falco will be added as playable characters. Each will have their own unique pilot abilities and skill trees to go along with them.
Those three characters will also be playable in both the Star Fox missions from the base game and the new Star Fox missions that are coming alongside them. Those missions will be centered around taking on Star Wolf’s lieutenants.
This new content is planned for sometime in April and will be part of an update that also includes starship races and special faction missions, though these weren’t detailed further during the Direct.
Save on iPads, Anthem, and More During Walmart’s Presidents’ Day Sale
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The holidays are piling up, with both Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day vying for your attention. But since it's getting late to order a romantic gift for your partner, it's nice that there's still plenty of time to take advantage of Walmart's Presidents' Day sale on electronics. From iPads to cameras and tax software, you can save cash on all kinds of useful items this weekend. Let's take a look at some of the standout deals.
Preorder This Awesome Stranger Things D&D Starter Set Right Now
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The intersect of Stranger Things fans and Dungeons and Dragons players has physically manifested itself in an all-new, upcoming Dungeons and Dragons starter set from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast.
The Stranger Things D&D starter set comes out May 1, and includes a scenario based on "The Hunt for the Thessalhydra" campaign played by the characters in the first season of the show. It's in this campaign we're first introduced to the Demogorgon, the creature the kids would later encounter outside the realm of their imaginations.
Nice Discounts on Red Dead Redemption 2 and Spider-Man
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Here's some good news for anyone who held off on buying a pair of last year's biggest games: Red Dead Redemption 2 is on sale for $39.99 on PS4 and Xbox One - its lowest price ever - and PS4's Spider-Man is back on sale for $39.99. Those are remarkable deals on some of the most beloved games of the generation.
Breaking Bad Movie Will Premiere on Netflix
The Breaking Bad movie sequel will reportedly air on AMC and Netflix, premiering first on Netflix.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the feature-length film will star Aaron Paul, who portrayed Jesse Pinkman in all five seasons of Breaking Bad. The film, codenamed Greenbrier, will reportedly be written and directed by series creator Vince Gilligan, who will executive produce alongside Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein.
THQ Nordic Buys Kingdom Come: Deliverance Studio
THQ Nordic has bought yet another studio, this time it's Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s Warhorse Studios.
Announced by THQ Nordic and THQ Nordic AB subsidiary Koch Media, THQ Nordic has acquired the Prague-based Warhorse Studios on the one-year anniversary of Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s release. Along with the acquisition, it was revealed that Kingdom Come: Deliverance sold over 2 million copies across PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
The acquisition includes the development studio and all intellectual property rights of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which is Warhorse’s sole release since it was established in 2011. Koch Media and Warhorse already have an established relationship, as Koch Media’s game publishing division Deep Silver helped publish Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Frozen 2 Teaser Poster, First Look Photos Revealed
Disney has released a couple of official first look photos of Frozen 2, along with high quality images of its teaser poster and logo.
In the gallery below, you can view two images seen in the teaser trailer released this morning. They feature the characters Elsa (Idina Menzel), Anna (Kristen Bell), Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), Olaf (Josh Gad) and Sven the reindeer.
Frozen 2 is being directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, produced by Peter Del Vecho, and includes the music of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez - all of whom worked on 2013’s Frozen.
For more on Frozen 2, check out how Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown have been cast in the film, and see Gad back at work in the studio for this sequel. Frozen 2 is opening in U.S. and U.K. theaters on November 22, 2019 and Australian theaters on December 26, 2019.
Devs, Publishers Upset Over Lack of PS4 Cross-Play Support
Developers and publishers are speaking out against Sony's lack of cross-platform support, despite what Sony has publicly stated about the process.
Earlier this month, War Thunder and the new CEO of Hi-Rez, Stewart Chisam, asked Sony publicly to include cross-play support in their games through posts on Twitter.
Shortly after, in an interview with Game Informer, Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios chairman and former SIE president and CEO, Shawn Layden, said that Sony was open to cross-play but that publishers and developers just needed to take the necessary steps to get there.
Attention Procrastinators: It’s Not Too Late to Order Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Flower
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This is obviously not something you expect to see on IGN, but my goal here is to help people, and if you've been dragging your feet on ordering flowers for Valentine's Day, you need all the help you can get.
The following sites still have orders available that can arrive in time to save the day, but you should 100% absolutely check the website delivery options to make completely sure you can get them in time. The huge downside to waiting until the last possible day is you're probably going to be paying more in shipping to get them delivered. Bummer all around.