Outlast 2 Will Come Out in Australia After All
Outlast II will be coming out in Australia after all; the game’s rating has been changed from RC to R18+.
Outlast II has been reclassified R18+ for “high impact horror themes, violence, blood, gore and sex.” ‘High’ is the highest impact level Australia’s ratings guidelines describe (following ‘very mild’, ‘mild’, ‘moderate’, and ‘strong.’)
Outlast II's new entry in the Australian Classification Board database.
Star Wars to Likely Continue Far Beyond Episode IX
While Disney's original plan was for a trilogy of new Star Wars films, the series will likely continue far beyond Star Wars: Episode IX, company CEO Bob Iger has revealed.
During a USC tech conference today (via Variety), Iger said the creative team is currently looking at "what could be another decade and a half of Star Wars stories."
Iger also discussed how Disney is handling Star Wars: The Last Jedi in the wake of Carrie Fisher's death. "We are not changing
to deal with her passing. Her performance remains as it was in
," he said.
Legion Stars on Filming This Week’s Wild Episode
Warning: Full spoilers for the most recent episode of Legion, "Chapter 7," follow.
This week’s Legion -- the penultimate episode of Season 1 -- was a crucial episode for the series, as the identity of the show's main villain was confirmed to be the Shadow King from Marvel comics, while It was made very clear that yes, David Haller’s father is indeed Professor Charles Xavier. Oh sure, Xavier’s name wasn’t said, but all the signs were there if you knew what to look for, starting with a certain wheelchair glimpsed in a flashback and extending into the history lesson David received about the Shadow King and his father.
Batman: Matt Reeves Wants Apes Producer to Join Movie
The Batman director Matt Reeves reportedly wants to bring his War for the Planet of the Apes producer into the project.
Deadline reports Dylan Clark, who worked with Reeves on the upcoming new Apes film, along with 2014's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, will likely team up with the filmmaker once again on The Batman. Clark is currently working on several movie projects for Universal, including the Scarface remake.
Ben Affleck was set to write and direct the solo Batman film before stepping down to focus solely on playing the DC superhero. But, Affleck is also still producing the movie.
X-Men 3 Director Says Rotten Tomatoes Hurt BvS
X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner believes Rotten Tomatoes is hurting the movie industry.
While speaking at the Sun Valley Film Festival last weekend (via Entertainment Weekly), Ratner called Rotten Tomatoes the "worst thing that we have in today’s movie culture." The filmmaker thinks having an aggregate score for films has diminished film criticism.
“It’s mind-blowing. It’s just insane, it’s hurting the business, it’s getting people to not see a movie," Ratner said.
Ratner's company RatPac Entertainment co-financed Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In Ratner's view, even though Batman v Superman went on to gross nearly $900 million at the box office, its low Rotten Tomatoes score ultimately "put a cloud over a movie that was incredibly successful.”
8 Best Power Rangers Pop Vinyls
The ridiculousness of the Power Rangers franchise is directly proportional to its incredible multimedia success. Those who cut their teeth on the series have now come of age, and their desire to surround themselves with the flames of youth grows warmer each day.
If you're a diehard Power Rangers fan, you no doubt have a few Funko Pop Vinyl figures standing guard on a display shelf or your desk. Of the many variations of Power Ranger Pops, these are definitely the best and most desirable.
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A Closer Look at Destiny’s Age of Triumph Gear
Yesterday, Bungie hosted a live stream showing off a ton of new and revised gear and weapons from Destiny's upcoming (and final) Age of Triumph update.
You can now get a closer look at some of the Raid armor, weapons, and more coming to Destiny in the gallery below.
Destiny's Age of Triumph update goes live on Tuesday, March 28 at 10am PT.
Chloi Rad is an Associate Editor for IGN. Follow her on Twitter at @_chloi.
Why You Need to Watch Death Note
Death Note is the kind of show where you try to watch one episode, but end up losing an entire weekend to its exhaustingly-tense cat-and-mouse chase, and you aren’t even mad about it. Despite some poorly-received plot choices in the middle, it’s an intelligently written, smartly paced and consistently engrossing series that’s being made into a live-action film on Netflix on August 25, but you should probably watch the anime first (it's streaming on Netflix and Hulu) anyway, even if you don’t tend to like anime.
For those who’ve never heard of it (minor story spoilers to follow), Death Note is a 2006 anime adaptation of a 2003 manga that follows the story of Light Yagami, a high school student who happens across a supernatural notebook that grants him the ability to kill anyone, any way he likes, just by writing their name in the book. Light, considering himself a vigilante, tries to use the book to ‘cleanse the world of evil’, and effectively plays God, which leads an incredibly skilled detective to try to hunt him down. It’s not easy to find someone who can kill someone with natural causes without even being near them, but the book does have some important rules and caveats, and so the cat-and-mouse chase begins.
EA Play Games Lineup Announced
Electronic Arts has announced its games lineup for its E3-adjacent event EA Play.
The upcoming Star Wars Battlefront sequel will be playable for fans attending EA Play this year, as will FIFA 18, NBA LIVE 18, Madden NFL 18, and the new entry in the Need for Speed series. New, unannounced games revealed during EA Play could also be playable at the event, though no such plans have been revealed.
Along with game demos, EA Play 2017, which EA announced earlier this year, will also include live broadcasts, community contests and more. Tickets go on sale on April 20, with the event taking place from June 10 to 12 at the Hollywood Palladium.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Character Posters Released
A set of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 character posters have been released, highlighting the new and returning members of the Marvel team.
The images, released by actors in the film and director James Gunn, provide great looks at most of the movie's protagonists, including Rocket Raccoon, Ego, Gamora, Mantis, and Ayesha. Check out all of the posters below.
There's also a new IMAX poster that contains a beautiful purple and blue color palette, with the Guardians crew featured, including Yondu looming large, new villain Ayesha, and a cassette player-carrying Star-Lord. Baby Groot can also be found holding the movie's title sign.