Battlefield Hardline Director Joins Tomb Raider Dev
Ian Milham has joined Crystal Dynamics as Game Director on the Tomb Raider franchise.
Milham previously worked at EA’s Visceral Games, where he was creative director on Battlefield Hardline and art director on the Dead Space series.
“Adventure games have always been my first love,” Milham said in a statement. "When the opportunity came to join Crystal Dynamics, I had to jump on it. This is the home of Lara Croft, who is a legend in action-adventure gaming and a pillar of the industry. I’ve admired Crystal’s work for a while now, as they continue to deliver top notch narrative and spectacle, coupled with deep systems and player choice. I’m very excited about where the studio is headed and I’m eager to be a part of it.”
8 Anime to Watch if You Love Video Games
A lot of anime fans are also video game fans, so it’s a lot of fun when the two worlds overlap. Here are eight awesome anime to watch if you love video games.
And for more anime goodness, be sure to check out IGN Anime Club!
Supernatural Deleted Scene: Minecraft Payoff
Supernatural: Season 11 is coming to Blu-ray and DVD soon and IGN has the exclusive debut of a deleted scene you'll find on the set.
In this scene from the wrestling-themed episode, "Beyond the Mat," Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) need to get a potentially important glove away from a kid. Dean, not sure how to best speak to the boy, does some inquiring, which leads to some confused Minecraft discussion... and Dean realizing sometimes the simplest ways are best.
Supernatural: The Complete Eleventh Season is available September 6th on Blu-ray and DVD.
Nintendo Boss: ‘We Have to Do Better’ Launching the NX
Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has acknowledged Nintendo must "do better" launching the NX than its predecessor, the Wii U.
List (via Eurogamer), Fils-Aime said: "One of the things that we have to do better when we launch the NX—we have to do a better job communicating the positioning for the product."
"We have to do a better job helping people to understand its uniqueness and what that means for the game playing experience," he said.
Opinion: Marvel Needs a New Iron Man
It's funny how much can change in a year. With 2015's All-New, All-Different Marvel relaunch, Tony Stark was one of the few A-List heroes not to pass his mantle to a new hero or undergo a similarly drastic status quo change. But with the upcoming Marvel NOW relaunch, there will be not one, but two new Iron Men. On one hand, Invincible Iron Man is being relaunched with a new African-American, teen female protagonist named Riri Williams taking over for Tony. On the other, International Iron Man is making way for Infamous Iron Man, a series about Victor Von Doom taking up the mantle of his frenemy. After a rocky few years, maybe the best thing for Iron Man is for Tony Stark to step out of the spotlight for a while.
EA Changes Battlefield 4 UI in Preparation for Battlefield 1
A new user interface is now in place on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of Battlefield 4.
EA says the new interface will "provide a more intuitive and centralized experience for Battlefield games." It will be a unified UI across all games, and will be also coming to Battlefield 1 when it launches on October 21.
It looks completely different, and there are functional changes too. EA says the process of spawning on your friends will be "much smoother."
There's also a new recommendation engine which suggests maps, modes, and more. Battlelog is now a thing of the past.
Free-to-Play Halo Online Shuts Down
Microsoft has closed down free-to-play Halo Online just a year after launch.
The experimental PC-only game launched as an alpha test in Russia last year. Although the servers were initially taken down last December, it was thought the cessation was temporary.
According to Russian social media site VK (via Gamasutra), the developers point to Microsoft as the reason why the project has shut down, with developer Fogeyman stating Microsoft colleagues had "failed to take decisions on the future of the project", which consequently brought about the game's demise.
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IGN UK Podcast #346: Hackers and Horrors
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How Dark Souls and Silent Hill Influenced Stranger Things
If you watched and loved Stranger Things, you probably spotted some of the 1980s movie homages peppered throughout – many of which we listed here. But what of the games that influenced the Netflix smash?
We recently spoke to the show’s creators Matt and Ross Duffer, and as well as quizzing them about what might happen in Season 2, we also asked what video games influenced Season 1.
“Silent Hill is the one most people have picked up on,” came the response from Ross. “Because that's the least subtle one with the look of the Upside Down and with all the fog and the forest dripping. Obviously we were really looking at that game for visualising this other world, so that's a big one.”