LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Details Revealed
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures will premiere June 20 on Disney XD.
The action-comedy series, with "all-new heroes and villains," is set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and follows a family of scavengers who "operate a salvage and repair shop in space." Familiar characters in the Star Wars universe will also appear on the show.
Disney XD will debut a new episode each day, starting on June 20 and running through June 23. The first episode of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures will become available for Video on Demand and on the Disney XD app on June 20 as well.
Game of Thrones: Maisie Williams on a Humbled Arya in Season 6
And when she started Season 6, she was blind.
Game of Thrones fans only got a small tease of Arya Stark’s storyline in the series’ Season 6 premiere. She’s still in Braavos, still blind and generally back to square one in terms of her helplessness, unable to protect herself in a fight with the Waif or do much of anything without someone else’s help.
For a character who has grown harder and more confident the stronger she’s gotten over the years, this is a humbling moment. In fact, actress Maisie Williams believes it might be one of the most important things to ever happen to her character.
“This year is a growing year for Arya, and it’s an important year,” she explained to me during a recent interview. “Though right now it’s not the Arya that we want to see and are used to, in the future we might look back and be like, ‘Hey, she needed that.’”
Nobody Has Beaten Doom’s Hardest Difficulty Level
Speaking with Doom Executive Producer Marty Stratton and Creative Director Hugo Martin, IGN has learned that no one at developer id Software has yet managed to complete Doom’s hardest difficulty mode.
The new Ultra-Nightmare setting is Doom’s punishing Nightmare mode with a permadeath twist. Screw up once, and you’re dead and back at the beginning of the game, leaving only your helmet as a marker of your progress.
Stratton and Martin told IGN that the mode has sparked something of a competition in the development offices, where coworkers compete to progress further than their friends. To date, however, no one has come close to beating the game at the highest difficulty.
Ori and the Blind Forest Soundtrack Coming to Vinyl
The award-winning soundtrack to the critically-acclaimed Ori and the Blind Forest is getting a special vinyl release courtesy of LA-based creative company iam8bit.
The special double-LP 180-gram soundtrack will go on sale at iam8bit.com/store at 9AM PDT April 29 (5PM BST, 2AM Saturday April 30 AEST). It will available in two versions: a blue/purple edition and a limited glow-in-the-dark edition. The latter will be restricted to just 500 copies. As usual, a redeemable code for the digital soundtrack will also be included.
Composer Gareth Coker’s Ori and the Blind Forest score has picked up several awards following the game’s release, including a gong for “Outstanding Original Music” at the 2016 D.I.C.E. Awards. It was also the people’s pick for “Best Original Music” in IGN’s Best of 2015 Awards.
No Man’s Sky Creator: VR ‘Would Be a Really Good Fit’
While VR support for No Man's Sky remains unconfirmed, Hello Games founder Sean Murray stopped by the IGN office and discussed the exciting potential the technology offers, acknowledging it "would be a really good fit" for his space exploration game.
"I think VR in general is incredibly exciting," Murray said on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, which airs tomorrow. "I would say I’m a believer. I have this optimism about it. I really hope everyone gets it right."
While Murray's already sold on VR and sees it as an "amazing opportunity," he believes it still needs to find a killer app. "I have definitely decided that I'm going to own a VR headset and I'm going to show my friends... and I'm going to try and convince them to buy one," he said, adding that he hopes "it finds that killer app" so that "everyone ends up needing one" and the technology "doesn’t become novelty or gimmicky."
The Mystery of Marvel’s Mosaic Storyline Deepens
Marvel's latest teaser campaign has asked readers "Who is Mosiac?" and "What is Mosaic?". Now, the latest teaser shifts the conversation again and asks "Where is Mosaic?". We have the exclusive debut of the fourth piece of this mysterious puzzle, which is once again drawn by Stuart Immonen.
While previous teasers featured glimpses of iconic Marvel characters like Spider-Man and Iron Man, it's tougher to identify any of the faces in this puzzle piece. The leftmost character with the pointy ears could be Namor, though thanks to the events of Squadron Supreme #1 he isn't currently among the land of the living.
Underworld Ascendant: An Early Look at the RPG
While at PAX East last weekend, we were able to sit down at the Underworld Ascendant booth to get our first look at the spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld. The first-person RPG reunites much of its original cast, including revered designers Warren Spector and Paul Neurath – both of whom you hear from in the video below.
The video above, meanwhile, includes a walkthrough of a test area with art director Nate Wells, who is best known for his work on the Uncharted series. We'll be keeping a close eye on this game as its development continues, but for now, enjoy this early look at it with its legendary creators!
Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s Executive Editor of Previews and Xbox Guru-in-Chief. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan, catch him on Podcast Unlocked, and drop-ship him Taylor Ham sandwiches from New Jersey whenever possible.
Fallout 4 PC Update Adds Survival Mode
Bethesda has released Fallout 4 update 1.5 for all Steam users.
The update—which also adds support for Fallout 4's upcoming Far Harbor DLC—features an overhauled Survival mode. Bethesda has been testing Survival mode for quite a while now, tweaking things like just how much food and drink is needed to stay alive.
Survival removes fast travel, allows saving only when a player sleeps, and increases lethality, diseases, and fatigue.
The update also fixes various bugs, and increases general stability of the game.
Bethesda expects the update to go live on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One next week. Fallout 4's Creation Kit and Bethesda.net Mods are currently in open beta on PC. Xbox One players will receive mod support, starting with a beta, in May. PlayStation 4 users will get it in June.
Fire Emblem Fates Getting New DLC Maps
Fire Emblem Fates will get new DLC maps that expand the game's "sprawling story," Nintendo announced today.
The maps will start rolling out on May 5, with Map I: Endless Dreams—wherein Kana, "lost and alone," is looking for her allies. It'll cost $0.50. The following maps will tell an ongoing story, and leveled-up units from the main game won't be able to lend support. Players will have to "devise a strategy using a fresh team" to succeed.
Map II: Realms Collide will release May 12 for $2 USD, when players must assist the youths of Nohr in helping a wild dragon. The Changing Tide, Map III, follows "Shiro's wounded band" as they attempt to "seize an opportunity." It releases May 19, for $2 USD.
IGN Presents the History of Awesome: 2007
Welcome back to IGN's History of Awesome - a year-long look back at all the coolest and most influential games, movies, TV shows, comic books, toys, and tech that have shaped pop culture, and shaped the lives of an entire generation. Up this week is 2007, a huge year for gaming. Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Mass Effect, The Witcher, and Uncharted all made their series debuts in 2007 alone.
Catch up on IGN's History of Awesome: