DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Chronos Returns!
Things heat up in the penultimate Season 1 episode of DC's Legends of Tomorrow as Chronos - aka Mick Rory's villainous time hunter personality - returns with a vengeance.
Check out these new images from the episode "Destiny," which airs May 12th on The CW. You'll see Chronos is all his metallic fury along with Martin Donovan as scheming Time Master Druce as Rip is brought forth to face sentencing.
The description for "Destiny" reads: "Being in the vicinity of the Time Masters leaves Rip and Rory incredibly disturbed for very different reasons. Meanwhile, Sara takes over the Waverider, Kendra is reunited with Carter and Snart decides he might be a hero after all."
"Destiny" airs May 12th at 8/7c on The CW.
Nintendo Drops 2DS Price
Starting May 20, Nintendo will lower the retail price of its 2DS system to $80—down $20 from its previous price.
Some of Nintendo's "kid-friendly" 2DS systems also come preinstalled with Mario Kart 7, which retails for around $30 on its own.
Nintendo's new 2DS pricing
This isn't the first time Nintendo has cut the price of the 2DS system. In August of last year, the price dropped from $130 to $100. In 2013, IGN went hands-on with the Nintendo 2DS system. We found it an "affordable, smartly engineering tool for playing games," despite being pretty ugly.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 6 Coming in September
Capcom has announced the next installment in the Ace Attorney franchise will be called Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice.
It will be making its way to the Nintendo eShop in North America and Europe in September for $30 / £25 / 30.
Spirit of Justice will see Phoenix visiting the Kingdom of Khura'in, where he quickly discovers courts work slightly differently to how he's used to. Verdicts are decided through séance trials and visions conjured by the Royal Priestess.
At the same time, Apollo Justice is on top of a case with "massive implications" back at the Wright Anything Agency.
Keep it locked to IGN for more on Ace Attorney 6. If you're an Ace Attorney fan, you should be watching the anime.
Why Nick Fury Wasn’t in Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War's writers have explained why they didn't include Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury in the latest Marvel film.
"Primarily it felt like one too many possible opinions", said screenwriter Christopher Markus to the LA Times. "We didn't want him to take one side or the other, because that's not his place in the universe."
The issue seems to be that Fury's associations with the government - explored in previous Marvel films - would have complicated the already complex discussions between the movie's two sides of superheroes.
The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine Will Look Better Than the Main Game
The next and final expansion for The Witcher 3, Blood and Wine "is a graphics upgrade from the base game".
In an interview with Eurogamer, senior environment artist Len de Gracia explained that Blood and Wine uses new display methods and optimisations to look better than the core experience. "We just wanted to show that we can actually push it to the limit this time," he said.
It's partly because its setting, Toussaint is an entirely separate map. As de Gracia puts it, "it's like a fresh development. Blood and Wine we literally started from scratch."
Battleborn Sales ‘Tracking Just Ahead’ of Borderlands 1
Borderlands developer Gearbox Software is "cautiously optimistic" about newly released Battleborn's future, creative director Randy Varnell said.
The developer launched Battleborn on May 3 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC—and according to Varnell, it's "tracking just ahead" of the first Borderlands game.
"Ultimately, Borderlands
extremely successful new game for us," Varnell said during a Twitch livestream (as reported by Videogamer), "and even Borderlands 1 went on to sell, I think, almost 7, 8 million units in its lifetime."
Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 Announced
Civilization VI will be released on October 21 for PC, Firaxis Games announced today.
Civilization V—the last entry in the main series—launched in 2010 to huge success. While the core game will remain largely the same, Civilization VI will introduce "new ways to engage" with the world.
Cities are now able to "physically expand across the map," meaning they'll take up multiple tiles instead of just one. Location for cities is also more important in Civilization VI.
Active research for technology and culture will boost a civilization's "progress through history." Interactions with other civilizations will now be now dynamic, allowing for changes as the game progresses.
Sherlock Holmes Brings More Style, Substance With Devil’s Daughter
There are few characters as well-known across the world than Sherlock Holmes. When I was a child, I honestly thought that he was a real person. Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes at some point in their life, whether it be through film, TV show, book, video game, or something else. For a character like that, a character that’s so well known his name itself is synonymous with being smart, it can be hard to reinvent him or come up with truly unique ways to tell his story in a way that’s both fresh and engaging. That difficulty with innovation is no more clear than it is in the case of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter, the latest entry in the long-running investigation series from Frogwares.
The Scenes That Were Too Dark For Deadpool
As edgy and R-rated as Deadpool was, it seems there’s some material that was too dark to make it into the theatrical cut.
With the Blu-ray/DVD hitting US shelves this week, we sat down with the film’s director Tim Miller, producer Simon Kinberg, writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and star Ed Skrein to find out about the deleted and heavily cut scenes, plus a joke that was never even shot.
“There was a sequence in the movie when Wade gets cancer” explains Kinberg. “Where he and Vanessa go on what they jokingly, darkly call the cancer world tour, to try to find a cure for it. And they end up in sort of their darkest moment in this shitty clinic in Guadalajara with a doctor who is a charlatan. Wade realises that and ends up in a very brutal and dramatic and cool way killing him and he and Vanessa split up in that moment of Wade realising that he is in some ways a monster who can't be with this woman.”
Nintendo’s Next Two Mobile Games Are Free-to-Play
DeNA, the company behind Nintendo's first five smartphone games, has announced that the next two titles - iOS and Android games based on the Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem franchises - will be free-to-play.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, DeNA chief executive, Isao Moriyasu said "Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing are both free-to-start apps" (using Satoru Iwata's term for the pricing model). It's as good as a confirmation that both games will include micro-transactions.