Rainbow Six Siege Tops Highest Player Count
With Rainbow Six Siege's third season of add-on content now out, the game's player count has reached an all-time high on Steam.
As detailed on SteamCharts, Ubisoft's first-person shooter recorded a peak 176,208 players, up from last year's player count of 47,000. This number is especially impressive considering Rainbow Six Siege launched back in 2015.
Additionally, the game's Year 3 DLC pass is currently the third best-selling product on Steam.
Season 3 adds two new playable characters, Frenchman Lion and Russian Finka, who can be used in competitive and co-op modes. Also included are new skins and equipment, as well as the Outbreak co-op mode and the new Team Rainbow mission Operation Chimera.
6 Things to Expect From the Next Star Wars Animated Series
It's a bittersweet week for fans of the animated series Star Wars Rebels. The action-packed show just aired its series finale, bringing an end to the story of Ezra Bridger and his fellow rebel freedom fighters. The good news is that we know Dave Filoni and others at Lucasfilm Animation are hard at work crafting their next big Star Wars epic.
We don't know much about that new project other than the fact that it exists. But based on the way Rebels wrapped up this week, we have a few ideas on where the animated Star Wars saga is heading next. Scroll down to see our predictions for the next animated series, including when it'll take place and what characters it'll feature.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Star Wars Rebels!
Princess Leia Manga to Debut in Japan on Star Wars Day
Princess Leia will soon be headlining her own manga webcomic later this year.
Per Newsarama, Haruichi is adapting Claudia Gray's Leia, Princess of Alderaan novel into a manga serial, which will make its debut in Japan on Star Wars day, May 4. It'll be released on the LINE app, with a print edition planned for release later this year after the final installment.
For now, the manga is only expected to come out in Japan, with no word yet on a possible English translation. Check out some of the art for the manga below.
Princess Leia manga, image via Newsarama.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Could Be Coming to Xbox One
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice reportedly has been rated for Xbox One by Taiwan's Game Software Ratings board.
The listing (first spotted by Reddit user kokokko416) shows an "unlisted" release date for the unconfirmed port, as well as its potential box art.
Hellblade's Xbox One rating (via Taiwan's Game Software Ratings board)
The Most Shameless Pokemon Go Rip Offs So Far
Pokemon Go was an undeniable mega hit when it launched in 2016, passing 650 million downloads in its first eight months and becoming Apple’s most downloaded app of 2016.
After such success, it was inevitable that clones would begin pouring in, borrowing elements ranging from Pokemon Go’s augmented reality to its integration of real-world locations.
With yet another new game announced this week, we decided to round up a few of the most high-profile or most shameless copycats revealed so far.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 2 Trailer Released
Netflix has released a new trailer and poster for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 2, and things aren't getting any better for the Baudelaires.
The trailer features Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny (Presley Smith), and of course Neil Patrick Harris' Count Olaf. You can spot several new characters, the new locations the Baudelaires will be heading to, and how Season 2 will further dig into the mystery of VFD.
The Best City Building Board Games
There's little more inspiring than a blank canvas to fill with your own creativity. That's the core appeal of city building games: an empty field, a bunch of bricks and you the architect. Only a few rules (and some annoying opponents) stand between you and your grand vision of utopia.
The visual of seeing your city come together in front of your eyes is just so satisfying. Mapping out a metropolis gives you the chance to combine spatial skills with strategic play in a manner few other genres can manage. That's what most of our picks are all about, but there's a few more artisanal abstracts to play as well.
Let's start with the most popular and archetypical example of city building. Your city begins with a feeble three hexes, one park, one suburb and one factory. Adding to it means picking a hex from an agonizing conveyor of options, with closer choices costing fewer resources. Where to put it pushes further problems onto your plate, since the effects of most tiles change depending on their neighbors. Throw in an economic model that punishes rapid growth and you've got a seething stew of architectural agony and one brilliant board game. Best of all are the bizarre urban dreamscapes these competing demands create, where skyscrapers sit side by side with slaughterhouses.
How Netflix’s Lost in Space Compares to the Other Lost in Spaces
March 6th was the 50th anniversary of the final episode of the initial run of Lost in Space, which originally aired from 1965 to 1968. This is also the date when Netflix, in a coup of marketing timing, elected to release the trailer for their new rebooted version of Lost in Space, which will drop on April 13th. This trailer is, of course, all that general audiences currently know about the new Lost in Space, but it certainly contains enough substance to offer sci-fi fans and old-school TV geeks fodder for endless speculation and conjecture. So let’s take a look at how this new Lost in Space looks when compared to the older versions?
The original Lost in Space, in case you're unfamiliar, followed the future adventures of the Robinson family, as they quested to find a home after their spacecraft was thrown off course by a creepy stowaway. The cast included Guy Williams, June Lockhart from Lassie, future member of Barnes & Barnes Bill Mumy, Marta Kristen, Angela Cartwright, Mark Goddard, and the indelible Jonathan Harris as the menacing and over-the-top stowaway Dr. Smith. Bob May suited up as the show's boxy robot friend (who was voiced by Dick Tufeld).
State of Decay 2: 25 Minutes of 4-Player Co-op Multiplayer – IGN First
State of Decay 2 is coming soon and bringing with it a number of shiny new features and improvements over the original. Chief among those big changes in the sequel is the addition of up to four-player cooperative multiplayer so you and your friends can finally live out your zombie-apocalypse survival fantasy together.
We're very excited to be revealing a big ole chunk of said co-op gameplay today from a work-in-progress build of the game as part of our ongoing IGN First coverage. The video is lightly commentated for context, and shows some great weapons and items Undead Labs was kind enough to give us. Enjoy!
And if you missed the news, we revealed the State of Decay 2 release date and price, with much more to come as the month unfolds.
Star Trek Cruises Are a Thing, and Jason Isaacs Is in Charge
First there were the TV shows. Then the conventions. Then the movies. Then more TV shows. Then mega-conventions. And now, Star Trek is taking over the world of cruising.
That's right. In recent years, setting sail on completely immersive Star Trek cruises has become the ultimate expression of fandom for the diehard Trekkies/Trekkers who have the means. Cast and crew of the many Star Trek series mix with the fans on these annual Trek-themed cruises, with previous years' voyages featuring first William Shatner and then George Takei as the headliner act -- the honorary captain, if you will.
And now we have the word on who will headline the 2019 cruise: Star Trek: Discovery's Captain Lorca himself, Jason Isaacs.