Daily Deals: Big Xbox One Bundle, Discounted PS4, Xbox Live
Xbox One With Three Great Games and $30 Amazon Gift Card
Here's the best Xbox One bundle I've seen in a while: you're getting Gears, Forza, and AC: Syndicate, plus $30 in Amazon money you can put towards anything Amazon sells, not just games.
The 100’s Ricky Whittle Starring in American Gods
Ricky Whittle, who plays Lincoln in The CW drama The 100, has joined the cast of American Gods, Starz has announced.
Whittle will play the central character Shadow Moon in the upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman's beloved fantasy novel.
Ricky Whittle
"I'm thrilled that Ricky has been cast as Shadow. His auditions were remarkable," Gaiman said in a statement. The acclaimed author went on to confirm "the process of taking a world out of the pages of a book, and putting it onto the screen has begun."
Conan Exiles Is a Barbarous Open-World Survival Game
Funcom is taking another, presumably violent, stab at a Conan game with Conan Exiles.
The name of the game is "to survive, build, and dominate," hinting at Exiles' nature as an open-world survival game.
The game's website promises that players will be able to play in single-player, or fight and forage with other players on private and public servers. Being an MMO, the last last, major Conan related project from Funcom was Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures back in 2008.
New to Amazon Prime for February
Coming to Amazon this February is the Spike Lee joint Chi-raq, the third seasons of The Americans and The Newsroom, the second season of Girls, a documentary about a Nintendo enthusiast, and the original '80s Batman and Karate Kid. All free for Prime members on the Instant Video platform.
And for purchase, there's Steve Jobs, The Leftovers: Season 2, Broad City: Season 2, and more!
IGN Spotlight
- Nintendo Quest
In this documentary on Nintendo, gaming enthusiast Jay Bartlett hits the open road with best friend Rob McCallum in hopes of buying the 678 official retail-licensed Nintendo games for the '85 Nintendo Entertainment System in 30 days with no online purchases.
NASA Day of Remembrance for Challenger Astronauts
On this day in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart less than two minutes after it launched, resulting in the deaths of all 7 crew members.
"Every year at this time, we take a moment to reflect as the NASA Family on the very broad shoulders on which we stand: the shoulders of those women and men of NASA who gave their lives so that you and I could continue to reach new heights for the benefit of all mankind," said NASA administrator, Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy, as well as the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of 2003, NASA has established a memorial exhibit called "Forever Remembered" at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando. The exhibit is almost 2,000 square feet and contains mementos of both flight crews donated by their families as well as pieces of the shuttles.
Sophie Skelton Cast as Brianna in Outlander
Outlander: Season 2 has found its Brianna in actress Sophie Skelton, Starz has announced.
Some spoilers follow for those who have not read the books.
Skelton will play the daughter of Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). Starz describes Brianna as "a striking, redheaded young lady" who's "strong-minded and intelligent beyond her years." Like her parents, she possesses a "distinctly scholastic mind-set" as well as a "healthy dose of Fraser stubbornness."
Sophie Skelton
Microsoft Exec Offers Sea of Thieves Gameplay Hints
Ahead of Sea of Thieves' release later this year, Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg stopped by the IGN office to discuss Rare's pirate-centric shared-world experience.
Speaking on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, the Xbox Games Marketing head shared his experience with an early prototype version of the game, noting that while the scale and visuals still need work, the core mechanic of "meet a bunch of people on a ship and we're going to an island" is there.
Greenberg described one particular experience he had when playing with Head of Xbox Phil Spencer and Microsoft CVP Kudo Tsunoda, highlighting the freedom and collaborative fun Sea of Thieves provides the player. "So we were playing with Kudo and Phil, and Kudo just jumps in the water and jumps onto another ship," he said. "He goes AWOL and then you don't see him for a while and then he comes back around and starts blasting cannons at their ship."
Become Dwarven Astronauts in New Action-RPG
“Why hasn’t anyone else done something like this?” That’s the first question that came to mind when I heard about We Are the Dwarves. It merges the traditional high-fantasy elements of the dwarf race with interstellar adventure – except space has a twist. The universe in We Are the Dwarves is literally made of stone and planets and stars exist in caves and hollows within the stone space. It’s like if you took a Drizzt Do’Urden Forgotten Realms book and mashed it together with Lost in Space.
In We Are the Dwarves, the stars are dying, leaving the dwarven race on the brink of extinction. Three kingdoms come together to form an expedition, sending three dwarven astronauts on a mission to find a new home. Smashfist, Forcer, and Shadow, from the Red, Yellow, and Blue Kingdoms, respectively, are put in a ship and fired off into deep space. The expedition hits a snag and the astronauts crash land, ending up stranded in uncharted territory.
Joseph Fiennes on Playing Michael Jackson, ‘Lighthearted’ Intent
There has been some controversy about the casting of Joseph Fiennes, a white actor, as Michael Jackson in the upcoming short film Elizabeth, Michael and Marlon. Fiennes has now spoken out in defense of the decision.
Speaking to TheWrap, the American Horror Story actor said that initially he had doubts. "I was like, 'Wait a minute, I think someone’s got this wrong. I mean, really?,'" Fiennes recalls saying after he was approached.
GameStop Is Publishing Insomniac’s New Game
The release of Insomniac Games' new title Song of the Deep (more details here) is going to be an experiment for the developer. Instead of being released through a traditional publisher, Insomniac has teamed with GameStop for what Ted Price, the company's founder, calls a "non-traditional developer-publisher relationship."
Song of the Deep is a passion project Insomniac has been working on for about a year. The underwater side-scrolling exploration game follows the adventure of Merryn, a 12-year-old girl who builds herself a small submarine to search for her missing father and along the way discovers a new world and lost civilization.