Super Mario Maker for 3DS Announced
During a Nintendo Direct stream today, Nintendo revealed a new version of Super Mario Maker headed to Nintendo 3DS on December 2nd.
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS will feature 100 Nintendo-made courses in the box, and also allows players to connect to the internet to play courses built on the Wii U version released last year. Wii U puzzles won’t be searchable by their course ID, but will be playable in 100 Mario Challenge. Nintendo noted that not all Wii U courses will be compatible with the 3DS version.
On 3DS, the full Super Mario Maker feature set will be available for course building aside from Mystery Mushrooms. Players will be able to share courses they build via local multiplayer or via StreetPass. They’ll also be able to send partially finished courses to friends in order to collaborate.
Comic Book Reviews for August 31, 2016
The comics industry closed out August with a relatively smaller week, but there were still several notable releases this week. DC offered up a new wave of annual issues for books like DC Comics Bombshells, Earth 2: Society and Gotham Academy. Marvel had the usual array of Civil War II tie-ins and also featured the first team-up between the new Wolverine and Spider-Gwen in All-New Wolverine Annual #1. IDW kicked off a new ongoing Ninja Turtles comic called TMNT Universe. And it was a great week for indie comics, thanks to releases like Saga #37, East of West #29 and Jupiter's Legacy Vol. 2 #3.
Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
Daily Deals: Pre-Order Two A-List Games for £70, Xbox One S, Oculus Rift
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Use code TDX-KTRP to pre-order 2 games for £70: An amazing offer that Tesco have put together, even without using their discount code! However, 2 games for £70 effectively means you are pre-ordering an A-list game for just £35. Now that E3 and Gamescom 2016 have come and gone, you should have a clear indication of what games you want for the rest of the year. Currently, 62 games are included in this offer and they consist of A-list titles such as FIFA 17, Battlefield 1, Mafia III, The Last Guardian and many more highly anticipated upcoming games!
PS Move Twin Pack Coming Alongside PlayStation VR
Sony will begin selling a pack of two PlayStation Move controllers to be used with PlayStation VR from October 13.
Currently listed on EB Games (as spotted by GamesRadar+), the pack includes two motion controllers, two USB cables and two straps. It's likely that this will be a new version of the Move controller, featuring the same micro USB charging port used on the DualShock 4.
EB Games' image of the PS Move Twin Pack.
EA Servers Down for 10 Hours on Battlefield 1 Beta’s First Day
On the first full day of the Battlefield 1 open beta, EA's servers appeared to be down for 10 hours or more.
A hacking group has taken responsibility for a DDOS attack that seemed to bring down the entirety of EA's Origin service.
EA Support first acknowledged problems at 7:30pm BST yesterday, and announced that they had been resolved at 4:30am BST - however, IGN could not access the Battlefield 1 beta servers from 1pm, seeming to point to at least 15 hours of downtime.
3 Great Horror Movies Heading your Way
FrightFest scared up a storm in London over the weekend, with the UK’s premier horror movie festival screening five days' worth of freaky film at their new Vue venue in Shepherd’s Bush.
I went along for the ride on behalf of IGN - what follows are the three best flicks I managed to catch, along with a brief mention of a film that I really didn’t like, but you’ll probably want to hear about…
Release Date - US: December 2016, UK: February 2017
This was perhaps the festival’s biggest surprise, largely because the set-up isn’t particularly appealing. Dominic Monaghan (Lost, Lord of the Rings) plays Seth, a loner who works at an animal sanctuary and starts obsessing over a girl he went to school with. He tries to flirt, with little success, then goes down the stalker route, with predictably horrible results. Finally, Seth kidnaps his beloved and locks her in a cage. And that’s all I’m going to say about this one, as the twists and turns that follow make the film’s second half as unexpected as its first half is predictable. Monaghan is terrific as the obsessed loser in love, while Ksenia Solo gives as good as she gets as the object of his affections.
Mr. Robot’s New Twist is its Most Fight Club Moment Yet
Warning: Spoilers for the Mr. Robot episode "eps2.7_init_5.fve" and also, I suppose, David Fincher's Fight Club.
USA's Mr. Robot has never exactly been shy about aping its influences. And, to that effect, we never faulted the series for lovingly invoking the works of Kubrick, Scorsese, Fincher, Aronofsky, and more and texturizing it all with an electronic '80s vibe.
Fight Club however, the 1999 Fincher film based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel, was all over the place in Season 1, largely influencing the huge reveal that Christian Slater's Mr. Robot character was a figment of Elliot Alderson's imagination - one that he sometimes spoke to and one that sometimes took over his consciousness and acted on his behalf just like Brad Pitt's Tyler Durden persona in the movie.
Get Your Forza Horizon 3 Questions Answered
There are only a few more weeks until Forza Horizon 3 launches, unleashing revheads around the globe on the land down under in more than 350 of the world's coolest cars.
There's plenty we already know about Forza Horizon 3 but the IGN team will be catching up with an experienced member of the Playground Games team early next week so, if there are any questions you want us to ask on your behalf, let us know below.
Got a burning, last-minute query about the game itself? Want more insight into what goes on behind-the-scenes at Playground Games? Upset the Forza team still hasn't swung by to laser scan your trusty old 1983 Daihatsu Charade yet?
Submit your questions in the comments and we'll pick a broad selection of them to ask next week. Thanks all!
Stranger Things: 4 New Characters Coming in Season 2
Following the announcement earlier today that Netflix has renewed Stranger Things for a second season, additional details about Season 2 have been revealed.
Series co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the upcoming nine-episode season, confirming that the core cast will be back, including Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Joyce (Winona Ryder) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo).
That said, the return of Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is uncertain, with Ross Duffer saying, "we leave that up in the air."
Bill Nye Talk Show Coming to Netflix in 2017
After hosting the successful television series Bill Nye the Science Guy back in the 90s, Bill Nye is returning to TV with a new Netflix-exclusive talk show that will make its debut in 2017.
The series, titled Bill Nye Saves the World, will provide an in-depth look at the impact science has on our society, culture and politics. According to Variety, each episode of the show will explore a specific topic from a scientific perspective and debunk the myths that surround it.
"Since the start of the Science Guy show, I’ve been on a mission to change the world by getting people everywhere excited about the fundamental ideas in science," Nye said in a statement. "I'm excited to be working with Netflix on a new show, where we’ll discuss the complex scientific issues facing us today, with episodes on vaccinations, genetically modified foods and climate change."