Fargo: Season 3 Could Bring Back Season 1 Characters
Season 3 of Fargo will once again shift time periods, this time back to a more modern setting after its trip to 1976 for Season 2.
According to Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Noah Hawley says that Season 3 is "set a couple years after Season 1."
When asked whether this means that we'll be seeing some of the characters from the first season, the reply was a cryptic "potentially."
Hawley was also asked whether there would be hints about Season 3 in the current season. "There are going to be connections, the way the first year was connected to the movie and the second year was connected to the first, but I think part of the fun is figuring that stuff out and I wouldn’t want to take that away from anybody...There will be definitely things that connect to something in our story.”
See Rock Band 4’s Punishing New ‘Brutal Mode’ – IGN First
Though not technically a game of 2016, Rock Band 4 and its new Brutal Mode belong in our "Hot Games of 2016" because you'll be playing it (and being driven insane by it) well into the New Year. Join me and Harmonix community manager Josh Harrison in the video above as we talk over our attempt to triumph when barely being able to see the note highway.
And in the video below, we take a look at another new addition to the music platform: variable Breakneck Speed. See as we speed the note highway up in 0.25x increments, all the way up to 2.5 times as fast!
Both Brutal Mode and the 2.5x Breakneck Speed feature are included in Rock Band 4's first big free update, hitting on December 8. For more on Rock Band 4, check out our review.
Dark Souls 3 Release Date Confirmed
Dark Souls III will release for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on April 12, 2016.
Bandai Namco announced the launch date in a new trailer, dubbed "Darkness Has Spread." In addition to featuring new gameplay footage, the trailer unveils a Day One Edition, which includes the official soundtrack, a starter guide and exclusive O-Sleeve packaging.
Back in September, the publisher announced Dark Souls III would be coming to the west in April, and just last month, a pair of collectible versions leaked online, prematurely outing its April 12 release date.
IGN UK Podcast #308: Our Favourite Trailers of 2015
Love it or hate it, the Batman Vs Superman trailer that hit this week is certainly spectacular. But does it rank among the year's best? Gav, Tilly and Rory discuss their personal faves, not only from films but also games and TV. The Boy Powers also talks about how he dominated a certain YouTube 'superstar' when recently playing the new Jakku level in Star Wars Battlefront, plus Chris gets all excited for a new Gremlins movie after meeting Zach Galligan.
So sit back and relax, because this is one show you don't want to miss!
Turning Mario Into a 360-Degree 8-Player Game
ETH Game Technology Centre has figured out how to turn the likes of Super Mario Bros and Castlevania into 360-degree multiplayer games.
According to Ars Technica, Disney Research's Bob Sumner founded the ETH Game Technology Centre earlier this year, and was tasked with coming up with a "cool concept" for the Eurographics 2015 conference.
Using an actual NES console with real game cartridges, they connected eight controllers using an "Arduino-based multiplexer." The video feed was upscaled and fed into a PC which ran custom software "that takes incoming video frames and copies them into a new, much wider output buffer."
Far Cry Primal Collector’s Edition Revealed
Ubisoft has unveiled the Collector's Edition, as well as the Digital Edition with SteelBook, for Far Cry Primal. The contents of both versions vary slightly, and are exclusive to their respective territories.
The Collector's Edition is available exclusively for customers in Europe, which includes:
- A physical copy of Far Cry Primal
- Exclusive sabertooth skull opening collector box.
- A SteelBook
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SEGA Adjusts Financial Forecast for the Year
SEGA has adjusted its fiscal predictions for the year ending March, 2016.
The company’s net sales target has now been lowered by ¥65 billion from ¥420 billion to ¥355 billion.
In a letter to investors, SEGA points to its Pachislot and Pachinko machines, and Entertainment Contents as the main reasons for the changes. Of the ¥65 billion reduction, SEGA’s Pachislot and Pachinko Machine business takes up the largest chunk at ¥34 billion, while the Entertainment side makes up ¥29.5 billion.
On the video game front, SEGA says the reduction is, in part, due to a delayed release schedule and the commitment to create “higher-quality content.”
Rise of the Tomb Raider’s First DLC Coming Next Month
During The Game Awards tonight, Microsoft revealed that the first downloadable content for Rise of the Tomb Raider, Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch, will launch in January 2016 on Xbox One and Xbox 360.
As posted on Xbox Wire, the content takes place in Siberia, where "there is a forbidden forest that no man will enter, where a Soviet expedition vanished without a trace. Lara enters the Wicked Vale in search of a missing man, but what she finds is a nightmare that she cannot explain. Is the witch, Baba Yaga, truly haunting the forbidden forest? Or is there more to the legend?"
Konami Bans Metal Gear Solid 5 Creator Kojima From Game Awards
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was instructed he was not permitted to attend The Game Awards 2015 ceremony to accept any awards for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, host Geoff Keighley has revealed.
“As you noticed Hideo Kojima is not here with us tonight and I want to tell you a little bit about that,” explained Keighley. “Mr. Kojima had every intention of being with us tonight but unfortunately he was informed by a lawyer representing Konami just recently that he would not be allowed to travel to tonight’s awards ceremony to accept any awards.”
“He’s still under an employment contract and it’s disappointing, and it’s inconceivable to me that an artist like Hideo would not be allowed to come here and celebrate with his peers and his fellow teammates.”