A Guide to Stranger Things: Season 2
Warning: Spoilers for Stranger Things: Season 1 follow...
Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas and - yes - Eleven are all back for a second helping of Stranger Things as the scary and sinister forces of the Upside Down seek to invade Hawkins, Indiana when Season 2 hits Netflix on Friday, October 27th.
If you didn't have time to re-binge this modern gem of 1980s sci-fi goodness from The Duffer Brothers, here's a rundown of where the show left off and all we currently know about what's to come in Season 2. It seems as though, with the "Demogorgon" monster gone, a new alt-dimension terror is trying to push its way through into our reality and use Hawkins as its first stomping ground. Let's get down to it...
AMC Calls Out Hulu in The Walking Dead Ad
AMC has launched a campaign imploring fans to help make The Walking: Season 8 available on Hulu's live TV service.
AMC has been sending emails containing an ad, which you can view below, stating fans can watch the Season 8 premiere this Sunday everywhere except on Hulu's streaming service.
The Walking Dead ad.
The message came with a link to a site containing a form that Hulu customers can fill out to "ensure you don’t miss the new season of the biggest show on TV" and to "let Hulu know you want The Walking Dead!”
New PlayStation Collectible Cards Will Be Available at PSX 2017
Sony has announced that its PlayStation collectible cards will be returning at PlayStation Experience 2017.
This year's series, Series Three, will begin with card #77 and contain about three dozen all new cards. The Bronze Trophy card will be included in the gift bag for every attendee, while other cards must be obtained by visiting various locations around the venue.
The foil embossed cards, which were first introduced at the 2015 PlayStation Experience, feature pictures of various video game characters, gaming cover art, and PlayStation Trophies.
To assist in your card collecting, PlayStation will be providing hints and info via the Experience PlayStation app. Some cards will be obtained by visiting a booth, while others will require you to play a demo. More details will be revealed once the show starts, but you can read the Series Three announcement over on the PlayStation Blog.
IGN UK Podcast #405: Mindhunting Avon Barksdale
This week we smashed Netflix's latest, Mindhunter, played South Park: The Fractured But Whole, and seen The Death of Stalin. If you want to know more about those said things, give this week's podcast a listen below or subscribe on iTunes.
If you're not that fussed about them, you should still give it a listen for Keyword Countdown as Gav oversees a bout of Leviathan-size proportions as Krupa faces Cardy for the first time.
IGN UK Podcast #405: Mindhunting Avon Barksdale
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God of War Meets Shadow of the Colossus In Extinction
At a glance, it’s easy to draw connections to Extinction from things like Shadow of the Colossus and Attack on Titan. You climb and kill giant ogres that are sieging cities hiding behind high but ineffective walls. But when I actually got my hands on its first few missions, Extinction played closer to games like God of War, with lightning fast, combo-filled combat that’s surprisingly deep.
Each mission in Extinction puts you in charge of protecting a city from waves of demons, trying to save as many people and buildings as you can. While ogres may be the main course, there are also hordes of smaller enemies terrorizing citizens on a more personal level.
IGN’s Every Ever Runs Down Every Mario Game Ever
Want to learn more about some of your favorite games, hardware, and the history behind them? With our encyclopedic series Every Ever, we take a deep dive into the most iconic games, characters, and franchises in all of gaming, and break them down with expert analysis.
Each episode of the show will air first exclusively on Facebook's new "Watch" platform, so be sure to follow Every Ever on Facebook if you want to see it before it airs in the weeks following on IGN, our apps, and places like YouTube.
The launch of Super Mario Odyssey is right around the corner, so for this episode we're taking a comprehensive look at the incredible history of the beloved Nintendo mascot who's appeared in over two hundred different games.
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Destiny 2 Bug Sends Trials of the Nine Offline for 2 Weeks
Destiny 2's most popular competitive multiplayer mode, Trials of the Nine, will be postponed due to a glitch.
In a post on Bungie.net, Bungie said that the next two instances of Trials - held on weekends - will be postponed because of "emote glitching" in The Crucible. The team is currently working on a fix that they plan to deploy at the beginning of November.
In other Destiny 2 news, its first prestige raid is now live and the specs for the Destiny 2 PC version have been revealed. We also have some suggestions on how to make Destiny 2 even better, including expanding the farm, adding north to the mini-map, and adding more depth to public events.
Arrow: How Long Will Diggle’s New Role Last?
Warning: this article contains spoilers for the latest episode of Arrow!
While this week's Arrow shocked fans with confirmation that Bruce Wayne and Gotham City exist in the Arrowverse, that wasn't actually the biggest development in "Tribute." After five years in hell and five more saving his city, Oliver Queen finally seems ready to hang up the hood and pass the Green Arrow mantle to another. Now it falls on John Diggle to keep the legacy going.
LEGO Dimensions Reportedly Ending a Year Early
LEGO Dimensions has reportedly ended a year earlier than planned.
Though Warner Bros. has yet to officially confirm or deny the news, sources close to Eurogamer say that the TT Games-developed series has been cancelled. The publication cites multiple reasons for the cancellation, including the cost of using real LEGO, flagging sales, and the toys-to-life genre falling out of fashion.
If LEGO Dimensions is over, it's ended during its Year Two cycle, which included '80s characters like Beetlejuice, Gizmo, and ET. A third year was planned, and reportedly would have featured fan-favourite villain Lord Vortech, a Minecraft expansion, and The Flash, among other characters. Eurogamer also reports that work was being done on a camera that could scan real life LEGO bricks and see them replicated in game, though it was never green-lit for production.