6 Reasons Starlink: Battle for Atlas Could Be Space-Based Fun for Everyone
Starlink: Battle for Atlas raised more than a few eyebrows when it was announced at E3 2017, at a time when the toys-to-life genre was winding down and the conceptually similar No Man’s Sky still hadn’t completely course corrected after its underwhelming launch the year before. Yet after spending some recent hands on time with the game and its fantastic suite of plastic accessories, and chatting to key members of the Ubisoft Toronto team, I feel optimistic that Starlink: Battle for Atlas could be a spectacular space saga. Here are six reasons why it could be a success.
Starlink is much smaller in scale than No Man’s Sky. Whereas Hello Games’ interstellar survival game features more planets than any one player could possibly explore in a lifetime, Starlink features just seven planets for players to touch down on. Yet while Starlink might not have nearly as many places to visit, it seems to do a better job of giving each world a sense of place and unique characteristics, making exploration of them a more interesting and dynamic affair.
Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition Released for PS4 and Xbox One
Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD is coming to consoles, with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions available to download now.
Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD is live on PS4 and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version "scheduled for release soon." Players can pick up the title for 40% off for the next week.
The game launched on iOS and Android earlier this year, with Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata saying that there was "certainly a chance" it could come to Nintendo Switch.
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Mega Man 11 Demo Available Now For Switch
A demo for Mega Man 11 has just dropped for the Nintendo Switch, and is coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One tomorrow, September 7.
Announced through the official Mega Man Twitter account, a new trailer was released to coincide with the demo, introducing a new robot master for the game: Bounce Man. His stage is filled with balloon-like surfaces that the Blue Bomber can bounce off of and is generally filled with odd, colorful contraptions.
Ryan Reynolds Goes After Paddington on Twitter
Ryan Reynolds has started a war with what some might consider too great a foe. He went after Paddington Bear, and the bear himself, those involved in the making of the Paddington films, and his fans, didn't back down.
This all began when Ryan Reynolds, star of Deadpool 2, which has been nominated Best Movie and Best Action Movie at the 2018 E! People's Choice Awards, said how he was "honored by all the @peoplschioce noms." It then took a dark turn when he asked his fans to vote Deadpool 2 in for best family film, and then proceeded to go after the lovable bear.
IGN Happy Hour: Forza Horizon 4 Special
IGN's Tristan Ogilvie and Luke Reilly sat down with Ben Penrose, Studio Art Director at Playground Games, to get his insight into the making of the studio's most ambitious open world racing game yet, Forza Horizon 4. Over an hour long chat, Ben opened up about his team's microscopic attention to detail, the pressures of setting a game in his own British backyard, crafting the special Halo racing event and why Playground Games is like the Traveling Wilburys of games development. Sort of. Grab it at the link below!
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Why Marvel’s Spider-Man’s PS4 Photo Mode Is So Great
Photo Modes have become a staple of the PlayStation 4’s exclusives library — and with a built in Share button on the controller, a staple of the console itself. None has been so bespoke — and creative — as the photo mode for Marvel’s Spider-Man.
Available Day 1 as part of a new patch, the photo mode has the standard customization options we’ve come to expect — focus changes, lighting adjustments, and filters. But Insomniac Games has taken the mode to a delightful new level, as seen in the gameplay of it above and the gallery below.
(Warning: There are some suit spoilers toward the end of the gallery — don't click through the last three or four photos if you don't want some of the suits before you play.)
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Fortnite Nerf Blasters Are Coming in 2019
As part of a partnership between Epic Games and Hasbro that will also see the release of a Monopoly Fornite board, Hasbro will release a line of officially licensed Nerf Fortnite blasters in spring 2019.
A Hasbro representative told IGN the blasters "will immerse fans into the player-versus-player action of the game, letting them play out the Battle Royale in real-world settings with blasters and accessories that emulate the onscreen battles Fortnite is known for." That's not all, as a full reveal of the Epic Games and Hasbro partnership is planned for Sept. 11.
Hasbro also confirmed to IGN the earlier report about a Fortnite Monopoly board game. Monopoly Fortnite will be sold at most major retailers starting on Oct. 1, sooner than the Nov. 26 release date that was initially reported. That original story has been updated to reflect this new information.
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