Need for Speed Payback Looks Faster, More Furious
Ghost Games and EA have today announced Need for Speed Payback, coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on November 10. Set in and around a desert casino town dubbed Fortune Valley, players will race and pull off heists as three separate characters united against a local criminal cartel that runs the city. Ghost has added off-road driving to the mix and is promising the deepest customisation in the series to date.
IGN spoke to creative director William Ho to learn more about Need for Speed Payback.
IGN: For over a decade Need for Speed was on a cadence of yearly releases; now it’s stretched out a bit more. Do you think the extra time between releases changes the way people look at the finished product? If so, how?
How Marvel Comics Solves the Problem of Adapting a Choose-Your-Own-Path Video Game
Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series has its first episode out and a new Marvel comic book series along with it. The problem with adapting a choose-your-own-path video game into a comic book is that it can't cover every possibility and must decide on one thread to follow (unless it's a choose-your-own-path comic of course, which this one is not).
Injustice: Ground Zero over at DC Comics is a comic book adaption of the Injustice: Gods Among Us game, and there they chose Harley Quinn to be the point-of-view character. That way, the reader can see the events of the game play out through her eyes and as she helps Batman take down a tyrannical, grief-stricken Superman. With this comic solidifying Injustice canon it did, however, wind up ruling out some characters' plot threads presented in the game's story mode. But given that the game came out in 2013 and gamers are already diving into Injustice 2, it's probably okay that the folks at DC and NetherRealm decided to use this comic to say "this is how it really happened."
EA Unveils Need for Speed Payback
Ghost Games and EA have today confirmed the 2017 instalment of its juggernaut racing series will be called Need for Speed Payback and it will release on Xbox One, PS4, and PC on November 10.
Need for Speed Payback will be set in Fortune Valley and players will drive and race as three separate characters united against The House – a local criminal cartel that rules the city’s casinos, crooks, and cops.
Ghost is promising the deepest customisation in the series to date, plus the ability to seek out and discover abandoned cars in the world to repair and tune. The driving will be both on- and off-road, with events across the city as well as through the mountains, canyons, and desert. Players will also be able to gamble on their performances in-game (and multiply their winnings or risk losing the lot).
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Wonder Woman Sequel Will Be Set in Contemporary Times
In the event that Warner Bros. greenlights a sequel to Wonder Woman, the film will reportedly have a contemporary setting.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Patty Jenkins is prepared to helm a followup film that takes Gal Gadot's Diana Prince to modern day.
It's important to note that while a second Wonder Woman movie has not yet officially been greenlit by Warner Bros., Gadot and Jenkins are contractually committed to making another movie.
Wonder Woman will be released in theaters tomorrow, June 2. Read IGN's Wonder Woman review to find out why the movie is "leaps and bounds above the other three entries in the DCEU" and why its World War I era setting is a "surprisingly perfect fit."
Nintendo Switch Online Service Delayed to 2018
Nintendo has delayed the launch of its paid online service for Switch to 2018, and the company provided the first new details regarding the new service since it was first unveiled back in January.
In a post on the company's website, Nintendo outlined the details. The service will cost $3.99 USD for a one-month membership, $7.99 USD for a 3-month membership, or 12-months for $19.99 USD. The service includes access to a compilation of Classic Game Selections with added online play, including games like Super Mario Bros. 3, Balloon Fight and Dr. Mario, but the company did not specify if it would be limited to NES games.
New Mutants: Every Character Confirmed so Far
Fox is expanding the X-Men movie franchise in new directions. The New Mutants is one of three new X-Men movies hitting theaters in 2018. This spinoff will place the spotlight on a younger generation of mutant heroes including Magik, Wolfsbane and Cannonball.
New casting announcements are arriving all the time now as New Mutants moves closer to production. So we've put together a slideshow breaking down every character and actor who's been confirmed so far. We'll continue to update the slideshow as more announcements are made. Check them all out here:
The cast isn't the only thing that promises to set The New Mutants apart from the rest of the X-Men movie-verse. The film will also be more horror than superhero-focused. "We are making a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe," director Josh Boone told Entertainment Weekly. "There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different."
Cameron on the “Dream” of Avatar’s Disney Theme Park
James Cameron has big, big plans for Avatar, as he gets ready to begin shooting four sequels that will follow up the story told in the 2009 film - which is still the highest-grossing movie ever released. But that's hardly all that's going on for Avatar, as this past weekend saw the opening of Pandora: The World of Avatar, an entire themed land at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom that is based around the film.
At the opening event for Pandora, I spoke to Cameron about this massive undertaking, which includes an incredibly impressive ride, Flight of Passage. We also discussed how the theme park can help his cast, as they prepare to film the sequels, and whether he's concerned over how long it will take for the first follow-up to open.
They Built a Real Orient Express Train for Branagh’s Movie
20th Century Fox held a promotional tour in Europe in early May for their star-studded retelling of Agatha Christie's classic whodunit Murder on the Orient Express, which opens in November. IGN was among the select media outlets invited to ride aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express with cast member Josh Gad (see my interview with him aboard it below) from Venice to Paris before venturing on to London to watch roughly 15 minutes of unfinished footage from the Kenneth Branagh-directed film.
Branagh also stars as Christie's iconic detective Hercule Poirot. He leads a stellar ensemble that includes: Johnny Depp as Edward Ratchett, a shady American dilettante dealer in art/antiques; Daisy Ridley as Mary Debenham, an English governess; Michelle Pfeiffer as Mrs. Hubbard, an American widow; Penélope Cruz as Spanish missionary Pilar Estravados (changed from Greta Ohlsson in the book); Josh Gad as Ratchett’s secretary, Hector MacQueen; Willem Dafoe as Austrian professor Gerhard Hardman (changed from the book's private eye Cyrus Hardman); Judi Dench as the Russian royal Princess Natalia Dragomiroff; Leslie Odom Jr. as Doctor Arbuthnot (he was Colonel Arbuthnot in the book); Derek Jacobi as Ratchett’s butler, Masterman; Tom Bateman as Bouc, the Orient Express Director; Olivia Colman as Hildegarde Schmidt, Princess Dragomiroff’s maid; Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as auto dealer Biniamino Marquez (changed from the book's Antonio Foscarelli); Marwan Kenzari as coach conductor Pierre Michel; and Sergei Polunin as world famous ballet dancer Count Andrenyi and Lucy Boynton as his wife, Countess Andrenyi. (Have a look at this cast of characters in the slideshow below.)
Netflix’s The Punisher Reportedly Premiering in November
Marvel's The Punisher series will reportedly premiere on Netflix in November.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Dearbhla Walsh (Fargo), who directed and edited one of the episodes from The Punisher, seemingly let slip when the series will debut on the streaming service.
When asked if her recent shoot in Canada for Fargo was her first time directing a TV episode in North America, Walsh replied, "One other time that hasn't been aired yet, which was an episode for the new Marvel series The Punisher, which I did just before Christmas, but it's not airing until November. I directed that in New York and edited in L.A., but this was my first directing experience in lovely Canada."