Rise of the Tomb Raider’s DLC Detailed, Scheduled
We have our first details, not to mention release windows, for Rise of the Tomb Raider's upcoming slate of DLC.
The first bit of content is Endurance Mode. Available this year, December 29, the new difficulty setting will challenge players in unique ways. "Fire takes fuel, cold kills the unprepared, food restores health, but everything must be caught, collected, or crafted," says Microsoft.
Second is Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch. A Baba Yaga trailer was shown at The Game Awards last night, and sports an almost hallucinatory look and feel as Lara Croft tracks the folkloric phantom through a supposedly haunted forest. It will be "available in early 2016."
New Legends of Tomorrow Poster
With DC's Legends of Tomorrow set to premiere next month, the CW have released the official key art for the new superhero/time travel series.
The key art depicts the entire cast -- Victor Garber (" Professor Martin Stein / Firestorm", Brandon Routh ("Ray Palmer / The Atom"), Caity Lotz ("Sara Lance / White Canary"), Arthur Darvill ("Rip Hunter"), Ciara Renée ("Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl"), Franz Drameh (Jefferson 'Jax' Jackson / Firestorm"), Dominic Purcell ("Mick Rory / Heat Wave"), Wentworth Miller ("Leonard Snart / Captain Cold"), Falk Hentschel ("Carter Hall / Hawkman") -- ready for battle.
Mifune Almost Played Vader
Seven Samurai star Toshiro Mifune turned down offers to play Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.
Mika Mifune—the late actor's daughter—revealed this Star Wars trivia at an event in Tokyo today.
"I heard from my father that he was offered the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but he was concerned about how the film would look and that it would cheapen the image of samurai, on which George Lucas had based a lot of the character and fighting style," she said.
Mifune also had concerns about playing Darth Vader.
"At the time, sci-fi movies still looked quite cheap as the effects were not advanced and he had a lot of samurai pride," she continued. "So then, there was talk about him taking the Darth Vader role as his face would be covered, but in the end he turned that down too."
Dark Souls 3 Collector’s Editions Confirmed for US, UK
If you're a Dark Souls fan and you like collectible statues, then Bandai Namco might just have made your day. The publisher has announced several different collector's editions will be available when the game releases on April 12, 2016.
Gamers in the US can get either the Dark Souls III Day One Edition or the Dark Souls III Collector's Edition. The Day One SKU includes the Prima starter guide, official soundtrack, O-Sleeve packaging, and the game itself. The Collector's Edition also includes an artbook, cloth game map, 10-inch Red Knight Statue and collector’s box. The editions cost $60 and $130, respectively.
UK Dark Souls fans have more choices in which edition to buy, but each edition is limited to an exclusive retailer. The Apocalypse Edition needs to be pre-ordered from GAME UK and includes the game, official soundtrack, and comes in a metal case.
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