Night Manager Finale: Hiddlston and Laurie in a Tense Face Off
This week's episode of The Night Manager marks the end of AMC's six-part miniseries, based on the 1993 novel by John le Carré. IGN has an exclusive clip from the finale, which finds Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) and Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) in a tense conversation over morning coffee before Jonathan is formally introduced to Freddie Hamid (David Avery). Watch the clip below:
The Night Manager finale premieres tonight at 10/9c on AMC. Be sure to check out IGN's review of the miniseries.
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The Flash Finale Clip: ‘Who’s the Fastest Man Alive on Either World?’
Who will win in the race between Barry Allen and Zoom?
In this exclusive clip from the Season 2 finale of The Flash, Hunter Zolomon challenges Earth-1's Scarlet Speedster to a race to determine who is the fastest man alive. Check out the below video to see how Barry reacts.
Expect to see these two actually face off, considering the Season 2 finale is called "The Race of His Life." The synopsis reads: "After Zoom reveals his true plan, Barry vows to do whatever it takes to stop him." The CW recently released an extended trailer for the episode.
For more on The Flash, check out Grant Gustin's tease for the finale below, as well as his thoughts on Season 3.
Daily Deals: Overwatch, Xbox One With Amazon Gift Card, PS Plus
Save $11 on Overwatch, no Amazon Prime or GCU Required
Blizzard's new hero shooter just hit the market and wouldn't you know it? It's already discounted on Amazon, and you don't need to be a Prime member to get in on it. I was up late into the night digging into this game - if you like team based shooter action, this is not one to be missed. Console and PC copies are $49 on Amazon (if you're buying it on PC the best deal might still be to buy the standard version from Blizzard for $40, but if you're an Amazon Prime member, you can get the Origins Edition on PC for just $8 more and score some extra in-game content.
Everything You Need to Know About TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan
We all know at least a few things about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For example, Leonardo leads, while Donatello does machines. While that may be a fact, jack, the upcoming Platinum Games-developed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan has a lot more to show us than the turtles' individual roles on the team. The game is due May 24, which means now is the perfect time to get up to speed on everything you need to know regarding the upcoming game.
In November 2015, a listing on the Australian Classification Board's website gave us our first glimpse of details for the unannounced game. We learned Activision was publishing, Platinum Games was listed as the "author," and the sub-title of the game was Mutants in Manhattan. Aside from that, though, there wasn't much information to glean.
Games With Gold Free June Games Revealed
Next month’s Games with Gold have been revealed.
Here's the list, and when you'll be able to grab your free download:
- Goat Simulator - June 1-30, Xbox One
- The Crew - June 16-July 15, Xbox One
- Super Meat Boy - June 1-15, Xbox 360
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown - June 16-30, Xbox 360
In our reviews, we gave Goat Simulator an 8.0 - praising its ragdoll physics silliness - and The Crew a 6.0, saying it "deserves credit for the frankly staggering size of its open world", but was ultimately hamstrung by the resulting dated looks and glitches.
Rocket League Going Cross-platform on Xbox / PC Today
Xbox One and PC players of Rocket League will finally be able to play together in perfect harmony later today.
The update will go live at 11pm BST, and will mark the first time a game has been cross-platform between PC and Xbox One.
PC and PlayStation 4 players have been able to play together since launch, but the Xbox One version released later. Microsoft has said it will support cross-play between all platforms, but Sony remained cagey on the matter.
Overwatch Ranked Mode Coming in June
Overwatch's game director Jeff Kaplan has revealed the game's competitive mode will be coming in June.
Ranked mode was cut from the recent beta period, and hasn't made it back in time for launch. However, Kaplan said in a recent Facebook Q&A it will be coming soon.
"Competitive mode is the current focus of the Overwatch team, and it's the most important thing for us to add to the game right now," said Kaplan.
No exact date has been confirmed yet, but we should be seeing an update "sometime towards the end of June."
Sony Expects to Sell 20 Million PlayStation 4s in the Next Year
Sony has predicted that it will sell 20 million PlayStation 4 units by the end of the current financial year.
That number - revealed in a Sony earnings forecast released today - would bring the total number sold to an estimated 60 million units by March 31, 2017.
"We expect FY16 sales to increase 8%," said Sony CFO Kenichiro Yoshida, "and operating income to be 135 billion yen
due to the continued strong momentum of PlayStation 4."
Sony's biggest year for home console sales came in the financial year ending 2003, in which it sold 22.5 million PS2 units.
Sony recently announced that it had sold 18 million PS4s in the last financial year. By comparison, recent estimates put Xbox One sales at 18 million units, lifetime.
I Am Setsuna Is a Love Letter to the 16-bit Days of RPGs
I Am Setsuna takes the familiar pieces of Chrono Trigger – its classic active time battles and awesome tech-based attack system – and builds a much darker world around them. Tokyo RPG Factory’s one-hour demo presents environments full of muted colors, a quaint mountain village setting, and depressing consequences. The heroine Setsuna has a major role to play in this dire narrative, as she sets off on a perilous journey to sacrifice herself in order to save the world from the wrath of monsters. “Setsuna means a type of poignant sorrow in Japanese," director Atsushi Hashimoto told IGN at GDC 2016, as he hinted at the project's overall tone.
The development team have never shied away at name-dropping I Am Setsuna’s inspiration, but it’s difficult not to feel poignant sorrow whenever a spiritual follow-up to Chrono Trigger gets mentioned. Chrono Trigger, a one-of-a-kind product of the mid-‘90s RPG scene, has stood the test of time as one of the greatest video games ever made. The fabled Dream Project collaboration brought together the top-talent of the RPG genre to create an utterly fantastic singular work. But feelings of melancholy don’t come from the game itself per se, rather the sad reality that one of the greatest video games of all time never got a proper follow-up. While the sequel, called Chrono Cross, blazed its own trail on the PlayStation, dozens of the first game’s incredibly well-thought out ideas fell to the wayside over the course of 20 years.
Overwatch Microtransaction Prices Revealed
Now that Overwatch has been released, we know how much the game's loot boxes will cost.
Loot boxes are unlocked through leveling up in-game, and contain cosmetic items such as skins, sprays, and extra voice lines for the characters. However you can also purchase them for real money if you don't want to wait.
There are five options to choose from:
- 2 loot boxes - $2 / £1.69 / €2
- 5 loot boxes - $5 / £4 / €5
- 11 loot boxes - $10 / £8 / €10
- 24 loot boxes - $20 / £16 / €20
- 50 loot boxes - $40 / £33 / €40
In other news, last night a new Clueless Gamer segment aired, where Conan O'Brien played Overwatch with a number of Game of Thrones stars. Meanwhile, in preparation for yesterday's launch, giant Overwatch action figures were unveiled across the world.