Nintendo Offering Kirby Rewards For 25th Anniversary
As part of the 25th Anniversary celebrations for the beloved pink hero Kirby, Nintendo is offering fans digital discounts and My Nintendo rewards.
3DS and Wii U owners can find discounts of up to 25% on twelve Kirby titles available for download on the American Nintendo eShop.
The games on offer feature virtual console titles such as the original Kirby's Dreamland on 3DS and Kirby's Adventure on Wii U as well as some newer titles including last year's Kirby: Planet Robobot on 3DS.
Fans can also redeem their My Nintendo Points for Kirby specific rewards in the form of a 25th-anniversary menu theme and 3D video for 3DS as well as an Anniversary wallpaper optimised for PC, smart phones, and tablets.
Overwatch Summer Games Return August 8th
Overwatch's seasonal Summer Games will return Tuesday, August 8th-29th.
Though not a major overhaul of last year's format, the Overwatch Summer Games 2017 will feature new skins, the return of the Summer Games 2016 skins, and a new Sydney map for the Summer Games' exclusive brawl, Lucioball.
New 2017 Summer Games cosmetics will cost the following:
- Legendary Skins = 3,000 credits
- Epic Skins = 750 credits
- Rare tier = 225 credits
- Common tier = 75 credits
For those who missed out on certain 2016 Summer Games cosmetics, they will be available at a reduced cost:
- Legendary Skins = 1,000 credits
Marvel Wants to Teach You How to Draw
Marvel Comics aims to teach its readers the art of drawing with a new series of variant covers. Today Marvel revealed a new variant cover promotion called "How to Draw," which features humorous, educational covers by Chip Zdarsky (Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man).
So far Marvel has revealed five of the 20 covers included in this promotion. Check them out below:
“I don’t really know how to draw so this whole thing feels quite irresponsible,” said Zdarsky in Marvel's press release.
“I don’t know about everybody out there in Mighty Marveldom, but when I first started collecting comics, one of my hobbies was trying to draw my favorite Marvel heroes and villains,” said editor Devin Lewis (making a somewhat stronger case for these covers). “Carrying on the grand tradition of the classic HOW TO DRAW COMICS THE MARVEL is this series of HOW-TO Variants by Chip Zdarsky, one of the most… unique?... voices in comics today. In addition to giving REALLY ACCURATE instructions about how to draw each of these characters, Chip’s bringing his brand of humor to each and every piece, and we can promise that whether you’re a Marvel fan old or new, at least ONE of these ‘em will give you a chuckle!”
Star Wars: Boyega on Finn Going Undercover in Last Jedi
Finn spent most of Star Wars: The Force Awakens running like hell away from the First Order, who had raised him since childhood to be one of their followers and ultimately a Stormtrooper. Actor John Boyega told IGN today that Finn's next encounter with the First Order in this December's Star Wars: The Last Jedi "doesn't come without a fight" for his character.
As was revealed during Star Wars Celebration, at one point during The Last Jedi Finn is joined by new character Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), a Resistance worker, on a mission that takes them undercover in The First Order. I asked Boyega during a phone interview today how Finn must feel returning to the very organization he so desperately tried to escape from in the previous film.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Monthly Update Adds Xbox Controller Support, FPS-Only Servers
The latest monthly update for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is out and sports a list of new features and tweaks.
Among the August update for the most played non-Valve title on Steam will see players have the opportunity to utilize Xbox controllers and adds dedicated first-person servers.
The support for Xbox controllers note in the patch list also mentions that there will be continued efforts to make improvements for the peripheral so players who choose to use this feature should expect some level of continued support.
Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire Expansion Revealed
The second expansion for the popular MMORPG Guild Wars 2 has been revealed.
ArenaNet has announced that Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire will be released on September 22 this year and feature a new story, as well as areas and further character customization.
Path of Fire comes nearly a year after the first Guild Wars 2 Expansion Heart of Thorns and will grant players five new open-world zones. These include the chance to revisit the Crystal Desert from the first Guild Wars, and the northern region of Elona from Guild Wars: Nightfall 250 years later.
Overcooked Dev Working on Fix for Switch Issues
Developer Ghost Town Games is aware of technical issues players have faced on the Nintendo Switch version of Overcooked and are working to resolve those issues.
"We're currently working on an update to improve the frame rate issues folks have been seeing and hoping to roll out any changes as soon as we're able to," the studio confirmed to IGN.
Players have reported running into frame rate and rumble issues in Overcooked: Special Edition, which launched on the Switch several days ago.
IGN encountered these same problems in our review of the Switch port, as we said "it has some framerate and rumble issues that keep it from matching the best versions available."
Is Nintendo Taking Amiibo Exclusives Too Far?
Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game talk show. This week we're discussing Xbox One X, Nintendo Switch, the SNES Classic, and more. Watch the video above or download the podcast below.
Download Game Scoop! Episode 447
Or subscribe in iTunes and never miss an episode.
Subscribe to the Game Scoop! YouTube channel and never miss a video.
Will GoT’s Catspaw Dagger Resolve a Big Unanswered Question?
Few things on Game of Thrones happen without a purpose, which is why many eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a certain Valyrian steel dagger has been referenced over (and over, and over) this season.
In light of the events of "The Queen's Justice" and with the dagger appearing yet again in the promo for next week's "The Spoils of War," we decided to take a deeper dive on why the catspaw dagger is absolutely very, very important. Spoilers lie ahead.
First, a brief refresher on what the catspaw dagger is. Back in Season 1's episode "The Kingsroad," a mysterious assassin tried to kill Bran Stark while he was in a coma.
Furious Director Gives Bourne Legacy 2 Status Update
It's been nearly four years since the news that Fast & Furious director Justin Lin was attached to helm a sequel to 2012's The Bourne Legacy, Universal's franchise spin-off starring Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross. And judging from what Lin had to tell IGN's Terri Schwartz today, that's about as far as his involvement with the proposed film went.
IGN asked Lin about the status of The Bourne Legacy 2 at the Television Critics Association summer press tour today, where he was there to promote S.W.A.T., the new CBS series he's exec producing. "I talk to Jeremy all the time and, technically, it's still in-development but look ...," Lin replied, citing the actor -- who currently plays Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- as the reason why he was interested in a Bourne film to begin with.