Beautiful New Zelda Art Book Coming In February
The Legend of Zelda: Art and Artifacts, a forthcoming hardcover art book featuring The Legend of Zelda, will become available on February 21, 2017, and is available for pre-order on Amazon right now.
This marks the second time that publisher Dark Horse Comics has partnered with Nintendo to produce a premium-quality art book of this kind, the first being the well-received Hyrule Historia.
The 400-page beast sounds like it's packed with more than just mere concept art too. According to the post on Dark Horse's official blog, the book will include "exclusive interviews with the design team behind the beloved video game franchise, the official pixel art of the early series, and rare promotional art" in addition to "art from the newest game in the series, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild."
How to Watch the Call of Duty XP Key Note
Activision is set to unveil a host of new information about this year's Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and much more at the Call of Duty XP 2016 fan event — and IGN has you covered if you can't attend.
Call of Duty XP runs from September 2 - 4, with a keynote on Friday, September 2 at 10 a.m. PT kicking off the event. The full event will also feature panels about the Call of Duty universe, the Call of Duty World League Championship, the world premiere of Infinite Warfare multiplayer, and more.
The event has sold out for those seeking to attend in person, and Activision provided the following statement to IGN:
"COD XP, the biggest Call of Duty fan event of the year, has sold out. All three tiers of tickets, including Veteran, Prestige and Enlisted, are no longer available. Activision wants to thank fans for their incredible support, and looks forward to celebrating the franchise alongside its players this weekend."
A New Villain Emerges in Amazing Spider-Man #17
Life is growing more difficult for Peter Parker as the march towards The Clone Conspiracy continues.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man #17!
As you can see from the cover above, Amazing Spider-Man #17 marks the debut of the new, female Electro. This issue saw the Jackal attempt to recruit Max Dillon into his growing army of supervillain minions. As incentive, Jackal resurrected Francine, a woman whom Electro accidentally killed when his powers raged out of control. But when Jackal tried to restore Electro's powers, he accidentally empowered Francine instead. Thus, the new Electro was born.
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The Witcher 3: Complete Edition Is the Best Deal in Gaming Right Now
The Witcher 3: CE is a magnificent game of mammoth proportions. This is IGN's GOTY for 2015, packed to the gills with all of its DLC, including the fantastic Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, and it's yours to be had for just $40, if you have Amazon Prime (without Prime it's still only $50). That's a total steal for a game that can give you at least 100 hours of monster slaying, open-world exploration, Gwent-playing, and moments of surprisingly gripping story-telling. Prime users: add it your cart, you'll see the discount at checkout!
Naomi Plays Battlefield 1 Open Beta
Naomi here, I'm actually not going to play because I'm terrible at it. However, our in-house viking king Kyle O'Connor will be joining me to scope it out. So hopefully when I actually play, I'll have learned a thing or two.
Just so you know, we're going to be livestreaming every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1PM - 3PM PT. We'll focus on new releases and DLC drops, but let us know in the comments what games you'd like to see!
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Uncharted 4’s New Multiplayer Map Is Free
Uncharted 4's new multiplayer map, New Devon, will be available today for free, as part of title update version 1.12.
Naughty Dog announced this on a livestream earlier this morning, before showing off the new map in action.
When asked by one stream-viewer when the update would be available, Naughty Dog's Scott Lowe said it should be available "by the end of the stream," which means that, depending on when you are reading this, it may already be live. No word yet on any single-player DLC of any kind, but if any hints get dropped before the end of the stream, we'll be sure to report on it.
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You’re the Worst Is Deconstructing TV’s Idea of ‘Family’
As the synopsis for You're the Worst: Season 3 proclaims, the "f-word" is "family."
It's an inevitable subject that all TV comedies must deal with. Showrunner Stephen Falk is aware that most TV shows are built on the common theme of a group of disparate people forming "an unlikely family," and his FXX comedy is no different. But for all that it's a familiar refrain to return to, Falk is striving to offer a different take on the concept in the critically acclaimed show's third season.
"The whole season is a riff on family and what family means and, sort of in a meta way, how family is overused as a theme for a lot of TV shows," Falk told IGN during a visit to the show's set. "
Wrestling Wrap Up: Kevin Owens is the Perfect Universal Champion
This wasn't supposed to be RAW's time to shine, right? I mean, SmackDown Live has the next PPV all to itself and that brand's about to crown itself new champions. But with Finn Balor's unfortunate injury comes the chance to reset and remodel the current storyline...
...and put the Universal title on another ex-NXT champ. Yes, the brilliantly mouthy and marvelous Kevin Owens is now CHAMPION OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!
The Witcher 3 and DLC Expansion Reviews
With the Game of the Year Edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt now out, it seems like a good idea to remind folks who didn't already know what we know: The Witcher 3 is freaking amazing. Not only is the base game a beautifully layered, open-world Action-RPG, but its two sizeable expansions are also cut of similarly high-quality cloth.
In case you missed them, here are our reviews for all three, and our Game of the Year video for The Witcher 3, just in case you were on the fence about diving head-long into Geralt's supple, manly bosom.
We gave The Witcher 3 our highest honor last year, and we certainly weren't the only ones.
Feel free to read our full review of The Witcher 3, but this is the gist of what we thought:
PlayStation Plus Free Games for September Revealed
Sony has revealed September's lineup of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers,
PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 subscribers will be able to download Journey, which originally debuted on the PS3 in 2012 and came to the PS4 in 2015. The Thatgamecompany won IGN's Game of the Year 2012 honor for its initial release, noting that its "concept is an inevitably emotional one, one that sparks happiness, glee, sorrow, sadness and just about everything in between in a brief two hour experience."
PS4 players will also be able to download Lords of the Fallen, which received a 7.4 from IGN upon its initial release, and Badland.