13 Awesome Games You Missed at E3 2017
E3 2017 has come and gone, leaving us with a lot of awesome games to look forward to for the next year — well, realistically, for the next few years. But not all of those games got time on the big stage during press conferences or even a spot on the show floor.
Here are the 13 coolest games you might've missed at this year's E3.
Absolver continues to impress with its sleek mix of smart, customizable fighting game mechanisms and social role-playing elements. Being able to fine-tune your brawler’s approach to combat, from individual kicks and punches to versatile blocks, dodges, and parries creates an action RPG experience like no other. — Chloi Rad
RAM Kits for Your Next PC Build
When building a gaming PC, it can be a difficult choice when selecting which RAM kit to go with. Should you go for the cheapest? The fastest? It largely depends on your budget, your overclocking intentions, and what your CPU cooler allows. To help you decide here are a few popular RAM kits for those that are on a budget, and those who are building a rig powerful enough to cool a nuclear silo. It is crucial to remember that in order for your PC to fully utilize faster RAM, you need to ensure that both your motherboard AND your CPU can fully take advantage of memory with higher clock speeds. Spending some extra money on 3200Mhz RAM is completely pointless if your motherboard only supports 2400Mhz.
Knack 2: Meet the Team Making Sony’s Sequel
This month's IGN First is a bit different than usual. Rather than highlighting a single game -- we'll get back to that next month -- we're highlighting the Japanese game industry as a whole. We visited some of the biggest studios in Japan to focus on their games and creative processes. Check back all month for interviews, gameplay reveals, and more!
Find a list of everything we've published so far in our IGN First: Games of Japan hub!
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds May Eventually Come to PS4
There's a chance PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds may still eventually come to PlayStation 4.
After the Daily Express published an article claiming that the battle royal game will remain an Xbox One console exclusive, developer Bluehole Studios issued a statement to GameInformer that refutes the claim.
The statement reads the following: "We're excited to announce that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is coming to Xbox One. We're always looking at various platforms to potentially introduce our game, but have nothing further to announce at this time."
GLOW: Season 1 Spoiler Discussion Page
If you haven't finished Season 1 of Netflix's GLOW, then head back. You can read my non-spoilery full season review here, but the following piece is me talking about the ending, and perhaps other story elements, that you won't want to know about yet. SPOILERS, yo.
GLOW is great. I loved GLOW. That's no secret. It's all in the advance review I dropped at the beginning of the week. Here though I'll get into why I loved Season 1's ending so much.
I mentioned in my review that one of the elements I loved about the first season of this series was how it was about, for the most part, a group of performers and creatives, from various fields and middling success, discovering the value of wrestling as not just entertainment, but as art. Well, to the extent that there were elements within the storytelling aspects of feuds and matches that could be explored and stretched to provide maximum drama.
Marvel’s Legacy Relaunch Comics Revealed
Update: We've added even more animated covers to the roundup, including Uncanny Avengers, Iron Fist and Thanos.
After months of teases, Marvel Comics is finally revealing the titles that will make up their Legacy relaunch this fall. Legacy will include a mix of current, relaunched and entirely new comics, all of which seek to embrace Marvel's core heroes and ideals while looking ahead to a brighter future for the Marvel Universe.
Han Solo: Re-shoots Reportedly Planned Before Howard Hired
It's clear by this point that all was not well on the Star Wars: Han Solo set, but five weeks of re-shoots were reportedly already planned before Ron Howard was hired as a replacement director.
As reported by Variety, Howard has already begun work on the Anthology movie, but Disney seemingly already had plans to alter what had been filmed.
It's not uncommon for a near-finished film project to include re-shoots, although it does raise the specter of Rogue One, which underwent extensive reshoots after reported disagreements between producers and directors.
Moss Is My Most Pleasantly Surprising Game of E3
I love the idea of VR gaming, but in practice, the last 15 or so months of it have yielded mostly underwhelming results. Maybe that’s why my hands-on session with PSVR’s Moss was so refreshing – because it actually feels like a well-thought-out, complete game that takes advantage of VR without using it as a gimmicky crutch.
Moss places you in the world of Quill, an adorable mouse who’s got some platforming and combat to do. It’s played from the third-person, which is used intelligently in VR; you are in the world in that you can look around and peek down into any of the mouse-sized set pieces – heck, you can even brush your head or hand up against the foliage in Moss’s jungly world. But you’re never moving, so you won’t have to worry about motion sickness. And not unlike fellow third-person VR platformer Lucky’s Tale on Oculus Rift, the camera perspective lends a wonderful sense of scale and place to your VR experience.
IGN UK Podcast #389: The Highs and Lows of E3 2017
We finally get around to tackling E3 2017.
What? Last week's show?
Nah, that was more of an experiential, informal affair. This is the real one. Seriously... delete last week's episode.
Please.
IGN UK Podcast #389: The Highs and Lows of E3 2017
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Preacher: Season 2 Will More Closely Resemble the Comic
This past spring, I visited New Orleans to pay a visit to the set of Preacher: Season 2. And what a set it was, as the show was filming at a huge and opulent mansion that day. I have to be vague about what exactly was occurring, but it did involve Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) once more using his “word of God” abilities to make others do his bidding – and Tulip (Ruth Negga) responding with her trademark deadpan “Really, Jesse?” vibe, in another fun and funny sequence. But as another scene I watched cast members film later in the day proved, things would get much more dramatic and intense during Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy’s stay at this place.
I spoke to Preacher’s central trio about what’s to come in Season 2, as the show more closely resembles the comic book source material than it did in its first year, the characters travel to New Orleans, and new foes surface.