Forza Horizon 4’s Halo Showcase Event Is Real, Amazing

The leaked Halo event in Forza Horizon 4 is definitely real, and it's a hilarious race through the series' tropes.

In a behind-closed-doors presentation at Gamescom today, creative director Ralph Fulton showed off the in-game event.

If you want to go into the game's Halo Showcase totally fresh, don't read beyond this point.

Following the template of the Horizon series' over-the-top Showcase events, and riffing on the original Halo game, the event will appear on your map and, once activated, kicks off a cutscene that sees Master Chief walk up to a Warthog, stare down a Pelican and then appear on a Northumberland beach overlooked by Bamburgh Castle. This is particularly weird if you're British.

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Release Date for Luigi’s Mansion on Nintendo 3DS Announced

Nintendo has announced that the Nintendo 3DS remake of Luigi's Mansion will be released on October 12, 2018 in North America and October 19, 2018 in Europe for $39.99.

A remake of 2001's Luigi's Mansion, this remake of the Gamecube version includes everything from the original with the addition of using the touch screen for the map and an exclusive Gallery Battle Mode.

The Gallery Battle Mode will allow Luigi to re-challenge any of the "boss ghosts" that he has defeated throughout the story.

Luigi's Mansion for the Nintendo 3DS was announced during a Nintendo Direct back in March, which was the same Direct that announced Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch.

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American Gods Is Coming to NYCC For the First Time Ever

It's official: American Gods is heading to New York Comic Con! IGN can exclusively reveal that the Starz series will be attending NYCC for the first time ever to promote Season 2 -- and bringing with it a very special guest.

As part of American Gods making its NYCC debut, author and executive producer Neil Gaiman will be returning to New York Comic Con for the first time in many years. He'll be joining the cast on a panel which will take place on Friday, October 5 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. ET at the Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center.

See the announcement image below:

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LEGO Star Wars Betrayal at Cloud City Set Revealed

LEGO has announced its newest Star Wars set, Betrayal at Cloud City, with four sections that allow builders to relive iconic scenes from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.

The Betrayal at Cloud City set comes in at 2,812 pieces, with 18 LEGO minifigures including Han Solo, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and more.

As for the sections, the first is a Cloud City landing platform with a sliding entrance door where you can land Boba Fett's Slave I, which is included and has an opening cockpit and space below deck to hold Han Solo in carbonite.

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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden Release Date Announced

Funcom has announced that Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden will be released for Xbox One, PS4, and PC on December 4.

Mutant Year Zero comes from Swedish developer The Bearded Ladies, and earlier this year we described it as “real-time exploration and XCOM-inspired combat.” Funcom describes one of Mutant Year Zero’s heroes as a “crossbow-wielding, bipedal, and unusually sassy duck,” which is surely a first for video game protagonists.

You can see more of Mutant Year Zero later this week on IGN Live from Gamescom 2018, which will be stream beginning today (August 21) at 3:00PM CEST / 6:00AM PT, and keep up with everything in our Gamescom 2018 hub.

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Ubisoft Announces New Settlers Game

Ubisoft Blue Byte has announced the eighth game in the Settlers series, simply titled 'The Settlers'.

Made with Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine, the game will be released in Fall 2019. Barring a cinematic trailer, nothing is known of the game's features.

Ubisoft also announced The Settlers: History Collection, a compilation of all 7 games in the Settlers series, modernised for today's PCs.

The Settlers 1 is available on the Uplay store today, with the entire Settlers: History Collection will be released for PC on November 15.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he was so bad at one of the Settlers games when he was young that he never played the series again. Follow him on Twitter.

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Supermassive Games Announces Horror Series The Dark Pictures Anthology

Supermassive Games announced a new horror series, The Dark Pictures Anthology, at Gamescom's opening ceremony today.

Supermassive CEO Pete Samuels announced that the "intense standalone horror games" are being published by Bandai Namco. Like Supermassive's horror hit Until Dawn, "your decisions, your reactions to horror thrown at you, will determine who will and who won’t survive’.

Each game in the anthology will feature a new cast of characters, kicking off with The Man of Medan, due for release sometime in 2019. The Man of Medan appears to be about a group of divers who discover horrors buried in a plane wreck at the bottom of the ocean - check out the trailer below.

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