Ben Affleck Confirms Solo Batman Movie Title

Ben Affleck has revealed the title for his upcoming solo Batman movie. Or, at least, its title for now.

As spotted by The Hollywood Reporter writes, during his interview with the Associated Press about The Accountant, Affleck confirmed he plans on calling his movie simply, The Batman.

 

"At least, that's what we're going with now," Affleck said after revealing the title. "I might change it," he added.

"We're working on the script, the script is going well. I'm really excited about it," Affleck continued, refraining from offering more details. The Batman is also the title of one of the dark knight's various animated series.

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More Games Should Take Mafia 3-Style Risks

From its very first trailer, I knew Mafia 3 was a game I had to keep on my radar. Not even because it’s the latest in the renowned Mafia series, though that definitely plays a role — the main reason I became enthralled with the direction of Hangar 13’s open-world, action-adventure is its reimagined vision of 1968 New Orleans, and all the very real human elements that could accompany it.

I want more games set in real places, or at least fictionalized versions of real places. Games set in fantasy worlds aren’t inferior by any means — Dark Souls is among my favorite games — but for a medium that’s several decades old, video games often seem unusually afraid of reality.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Requires Infinite Warfare Disc to Play

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered will not be playable without the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare disc inserted into your console according to Activision.

Alongside a new FAQ posted to the official Call of Duty website for Modern Warfare Remastered, a blurb on the website reads: "Modern Warfare Remastered is a full game download (game disc must be inserted to play Modern Warfare Remastered)."

The website does not detail how PS4 players who have purchased the Legacy or Legacy Pro physical editions of Infinite Warfare will access Modern Warfare Remastered early, as players on that console are supposed to be able to play the downloadable game's campaign 30 days ahead of release, starting October 5. IGN has reached out for further comment on what this means for those PS4 players and will update this post when they respond.

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DC’s New Justice League of America Team Revealed

Update: We've added details for Justice League of America: Killer Frost #1.

DC will be launching a new Justice League of America comic in February 2017. The series will spin out of the upcoming Justice League vs. Suicide Squad crossover and feature a new team that will co-exist with the current Justice League.

The new series will be written by Steve Orlando (Supergirl) and drawn by Ivan Reis (Blackest Night). The book will feature a diverse lineup of heroes, with DC promising that, "This is a Justice League that looks like America, that proves Heroism can look like ANYTHING and ANYONE."

To celebrate this launch, DC will also be releasing a series of four one-shot comics in January that will spotlight individual members of the new JLA. Scroll down to find out which DC heroes will be serving on this new team and which creators will be tackling these one-shots. We'll keep updating this article as more reveals are made.

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A Pokemon Go TV Set Tour

Set visits sound like one of the most glamorous things you can do as an entertainment reporter. You get to interview the people starring in and making a TV show or movie, visit the locations that play a key role in that finished product and see that the saying "it takes a village" actually is pretty accurate when you meet the many, many, many people responsible for making that project become a reality.

But as incredible as set visits are, they also tend to be very long days. Oftentimes you're visiting a working production, which means actors are busy filming and directors are busy directing, and can only come talk when scenes are being reset or when they wrap for a day. That means there's often a lot of downtime -- which could be spent reflecting on what you're observing, but I decided to mix things up a bit on my recent trip to Vancouver.

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Out This Week: Mafia III, Paper Mario: Color Splash, X-Men: Apocalypse

With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.

Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.

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Don’t Worry About Xbox Scorpio’s Price, Says Phil Spencer

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has come forward to address the price of its upcoming console, codenamed Project Scorpio, assuaging fears that it will be priced far above that of a typical console.

In an interview with NZ Gamer (via WinBeta), Spencer said Microsoft designed the Xbox One S and Scorpio in "parallel" and "thought about the price performance of what we wanted to hit with the Scorpio, relative to what we were going to be able to do with the S." As such, Microsoft aims to offer the consumer "a good price continuum, so people wouldn’t look at these two things as so disconnected because of the price delta."

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Batman: Arkham VR’s Core Story is an Hour Long

Batman: Arkham VR aims to tell a "highly focused" murder-mystery story, with players taking their place behind the famous cowl - and we now know just how long that focus will last.

According to Rocksteady brand marketing producer, Dax Ginn, a single regular runthrough of the game's story will take around an hour - but there's slightly more to it than that:

“The core narrative is about 60 minutes in duration," Ginn tells PressStart, "however additional content is unlocked that provides about another 90 minutes of gameplay on top of that."

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