Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Getting Jack the Ripper DLC
During the Tokyo Game Show today, Ubisoft announced a DLC campaign for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate featuring Jack the Ripper.
The add-on campaign takes place 20 years after the events of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s story and will be set in 1888 during the Autumn of Terror in Whitechapel. According to Ubisoft, players “will join forces with Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard to hunt down Jack the Ripper in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the infamous serial killer.”
The Jack the Ripper campaign will be available on its own, or is included in a Season Pass, which also includes “The Last Maharaja” pack with 10 new missions, A Long Night mission in which Jacob will “track down an endangered fellow gang member and bring him back to the hideout,” a Streets of London gameplay pack with an extra hour of missions, new gear and weapons, and an XP boost.
Pre-Order Devon’s New Luxury Star Wars Watch
Luxury watchmaker Devon has introduced a hand-crafted, individually numbered Star Wars watch that is probably a lot more than you ever knew you'd want to spend on a watch.
The Star Wars watch costs an astonishing $28,500 USD, and to score your own, you need to put down a $2500 deposit for a pre-order. From there, the watch will be built and then tested for quality before being sent to you.
The run on this watch is limited to just 500, and it includes features like a scratch-resistant polycarbonate lens with "bullet-proof durability," and it comes with a pair of TIE fighter cufflinks so you can really geek out in the board room.
New League of Legends Champion Teased
A cryptic video has been posted to the official League of Legends Facebook page teasing a new champion.
The video shows little, but it does have a voice-over conversation between "Wolf and Lamb," and the video ends with two halves of a mask being shown.
From the video's comments, the transcript of the video:
- Wolf: Lamb, tell me a story!
- Lamb: There was once a pale man with dark hair who was very lonely.
- Wolf: Why was it lonely?
- Lamb: All things must meet this man. So, they shunned him.
- Wolf: Did he chase them all?
There’s One Hidden Easter Egg Left in Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, says there's one more Easter Egg left in the film that nobody has found.
On Facebook (via Slashfilm), a film fan asked whether all the hidden secrets in Guardians have been revealed. Gunn responded that they have not all been found; the "big one" still remains.
Last of Us Writer Jokes About Making Half-Life 3
Naughty Dog creative director and writer Neil Druckmann has jokingly suggested that Valve allow the Uncharted developer to work on the next entry in the Half-Life franchise.
In a message on Twitter, Druckmann posted the following response to a photo tweeted out by Merle Dandridge, the voice actress who played Alyx Vance in the prior Half-Life games.
Look, Valve, all I'm saying is you give us the Half Life license and we'll take care of the rest. https://t.co/XkrWjtfXyJ
IGN Editors’ Proudest Gaming Accomplishments
We asked IGN Editors a simple question: "What is your proudest gaming accomplishment of all time?" Their answers are likely to impress, horrify, and thrill you, all in equal measure.
Read on for our stories, and be sure to share your proudest gaming moments in the comments below.
A wild Fran... in his natural habitat.
NFL Blitz has this big, blinking leaderboard screen that runs constantly for “Champions” who have finished the game. So I figured I could use our office arcade machine to send messages to and about IGN’s own Fran “7.9” Mirabella. But it wasn't as easy as just winning a lot of games to wipe out other players' scores. I had to win a lot of games and incorporate other people's leaderboard entries, because I wasn't the only one playing.
Stan Doesn’t Want Bucky to Become Cap
Sebastian Stan, who plays Bucky Barnes (a.k.a. the Winter Soldier) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, says he doesn't want to see the character take up Captain America's shield.
We Got This Covered asked Stan if he'd like to see Bucky take Cap's job someday, as has happened in the comics. He started by saying he "really wouldn't," but then moved on to explain why it's not really his decision anyway.
"It's so not up to me, to be honest," he said. "I really enjoy my job over there. I'm really happy going to work and doing what I do. I love the character that I have. It's up to a lot of different things and whatever Marvel decides, I'm game."
GameStop Is Opening a New Collectibles Store
GameStop and ThinkGeek are opening a new brand of retail store that exclusively sells geeky collectibles.
The store name wasn't revealed, but it will sell nerdy "collectibles, gadgets, apparel and other unique licensed products from some of the most admired pop culture brands like Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Nintendo, Marvel, Minecraft and many others," according to GameStop.
The first location will open in Orlando, FL on September 25.
“We are combining the power of the ThinkGeek brand with the retail expertise of GameStop to deliver a new store concept that will amaze and appeal to a broad range of customers from collectors to pop culture fans," said Mike Buskey, EVP and President at GameStop.
How Halo 5 Will Run at 60 FPS
Josh Holmes, the Studio Head for Halo 5: Guardians, explained on Xbox Wire how the game will consistently run at 60 frames per second.
"From the beginning, we set ourselves the goal of delivering consistent 60 FPS gameplay across all modes of play," Holmes said. "Delivering on this goal meant re-engineering the gameplay systems at the core of our engine."
Halo 5 uses a "progressive resolution system" that scales the games resolution (up to 1080p) based on what's on screen at the time. For example, large outdoor scenes with tons of vehicles and characters are more difficult to render than a few characters in a hallway.
Disney Developing Mary Poppins Sequel
Disney is working on a sequel to its classic Mary Poppins musical, with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall at the helm.
The new Mary Poppins won't be a reboot of the original 1964 Disney movie, but instead will be set 20 years after the events of that film. The new movie will take storylines from the P.L. Travers’ books "focusing on the magical nanny’s continued adventures with the Banks family."
According to Entertainment Weekly, John DeLuca and Marc Platt will produce the film. DeLuca and Platt worked with Marshall on Into the Woods.
Marshall previously adapted the Broadway hit Chicago to the big screen. Chicago went on to take home that year's Best Picture award at the Academy Awards and had a box office take of $306 million worldwide.