The Angry Birds Movie Looks Hilarious
In case you missed it, Angry Birds – one of the most successful video games in history – is being turned into a movie. And based on the footage IGN viewed today, that movie is going to look gorgeous, and be very, very funny.
Clips were screened from throughout the film in London this morning, so we’ll try to avoid spoilers, but the animated film is basically an origin story, explaining how the conflict between the flightless birds and green pigs began, and why those birds are so damn angry.
Chuck (Josh Gad) and Red (Jason sudeikis).
Nintendo Assigns New Roles for Miyamoto, Takeda
Nintendo's Board of Director's meeting today has given new roles and titles to several key players within the company. Most notably, Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto have been given the new titles of "Technology Fellow" and "Creative Fellow," respectively.
Both Takeda and Miyamoto were previously Senior Managing Directors, acting in the company's lead role after the untimely death of Satoru Iwata. Nintendo has appointed a new president, Tatsumi Kimishima.
Takeda is perhaps best know as the creator of Punch-Out!! and the StarTropics franchise, while Miyamoto is arguably the most recognizable game designer of all time.
Inside Out Beats Furious 7 at the Box Office
Inside Out has now grossed $351.5 million at the domestic box office, replacing Furious 7 as the third highest domestic grossing film of 2015.
According to Box Office Mojo, Furious 7 grossed $351 million domestically.
Inside Out is still behind the top two earners though, with Avengers: Age of Ultron making $458.4 million at the domestic box office, and Jurassic World grossing $648.9 million.
Pixar's fifteenth feature stars the likes of Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, and Bill Hader, and follows the story of a young girl named Riley and her conflicting emotions after her big move to San Francisco.
Here Are the Latest Rock Band 4 Song Additions
Harmonix has announced some additional tracks to be included on the Rock Band 4 soundtrack.
There are only a few weeks to go until the October 6 release date, and these songs have been added to an ever-growing list.
The full list of newly announced songs is below:
- Brad Paisley ft. Keith Urban - "Star A Band"
- Brandi Carlie - "Mainstream Kid"
- Dark Wheels - "V Bomb"
5 Comics Have Been Cancelled by DC
Five DC comics are about to come to an end over the coming months.
According to CBR, Justice League United, Gotham By Midnight, The Omega Men, Lobo, and Doomed will all be reaching their final issues by the end of the year. It is thought that issue #6 of Doomed in November will be the last installment, while the others will end in December.
Justice League United from writer Jeff Parker and artist Travel Foreman will end on issue #16. Ray Fawkes and Julio Ferreira's Gotham By Midnight will end on issue #12. The Omega Men, from Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda, will end on issue #7, and Cullen Bunn and Frank Barbiere's Lobo will end on issue #13.
3 Ways Movement Has Improved in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Ever since we first ran around Jerusalem as Altair back in the original Assassin’s Creed, the series has always made us feel like we were controlling a superhero. Climbing up the side of a building with ease, hopping from rooftop to rooftop, and making death-defying leaps into wisely-placed bales of hay gave us a degree of movement freedom that few games beforehand had been able to match.
Cut to an entire console generation later, and the world is different. It seems like you can’t throw a stone without hitting an open-world game with some interesting and unique form of traversal. While 2014’s Unity made some strides forward with the inclusion of downward parkour, it got rid of the ships that we fell in love with in III and Black Flag. This year for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, the team at Ubisoft decided that in its mission to provide the players with freedom and fun, the Animus needed to be populated with some new, innovative, and interesting ways for us to get around the city of London.
What to Expect From Tokyo Game Show
This year's Tokyo Game Show runs from September 17-20, and IGN will be covering all the latest in Japanese gaming the entire time -- keep up to date on IGN's Tokyo Game Show 2015 Hub. With Sony, Square Enix, Capcom, Atlus, and more in attendance, here's what we expect to see, hope to play, and want to learn more about from TGS 2015.
For the full list of what's to come, check out IGN's Games of TGS 2015 list.
Atlus' flagship RPG sequel is still set to release in 2015 -- and in case you hadn't noticed, 2015 is rapidly running out. A Persona 5 release date is almost a given for Tokyo Game Show (especially given there's a major Persona-themed event during TGS). This is a Japanese-centric show, and giving a launch date for one of the most renowned JRPGs around makes a lot of sense for this event. It's unlikely we'll spend any time playing it, but a new trailer ahead of this year's release also seems likely. Here's hoping there's also a simultaneous Western release in there as well.
Need for Speed Delayed on PC to Next Year
Ghost Games has announced the next installment in the Need for Speed franchise has been delayed on PC.
A blog post explains the PC version of the game, which was originally expected to launch on November 3 in North America and November 5 in Europe will now be coming sometime in "Spring 2016". Other platforms will still release in November.
"At Ghost, we’re united by one common passion... to deliver the best Need for Speed experience possible," reads the post. "And at every step of the development process we're guided by our community.
Plague Inc: Evolved Gets an Xbox One Release Date
Ndemic Creations’ Plague Inc: Evolved comes to Xbox One on September 18.
Features coming to the Xbox One version are said to include nine different disease types, 20 unique scenarios, and speed run and super-difficult game modes. There are also going to be free updates, and DLC - the latter of which includes the Simian Flu disease type, and custom scenarios created via the community.
The game itself is best described as a virus simulator, whereby the player is tasked with infecting as many of the world’s population as possible while also stopping humanity in its futile attempts to defend itself. Imagine you’re Wesker in Resident Evil planning out how to destroy the world. It’s kind of like that.
One Upon Light Release Date Announced
Rising Star Games has announced that One Upon Light will be coming to PlayStation 4 on September 29.
We first thought it was coming in October, but the release date has now been brought up. It'll cost you £9 on the PlayStation Store when it's released.
The top-down puzzler is set in a world where darkness is your new best friend, and there's only one rule: don't step into the light.
One Upon Light was first announced last year, and we got a very brief look at it at TGS.