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.
Guillermo del Toro on Turning His Movie into a Theme Park Maze
Guillermo del Toro is an acclaimed, extremely successful director who’s brought the world many memorable films – but spend a few minutes chatting with him and what you feel first and foremost is del Toro’s own passionate fandom. This is a man who loves movies and the art of making them, and what it’s like to have an audience reacting to the story being told. Del Toro’s a big theme park fan as well, and hearing he was collaborating with Universal Studios to bring his new movie, Crimson Peak, to the annual Halloween Horror Nights event, the biggest question was, “What took so long?”
As a matter of fact, the Creative Director of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, John Murdy, told me he’d long hoped to work with Del Toro – and nearly did for last year’s Horror Nights on a different maze, until the production of Crimson Peak being moved up put that on pause… only for everyone involved to realize Crimson Peak, a Universal film (which stars Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam) would make for a great Horror Nights maze itself.
The Incredibles 2 Release Now Moved Ahead of Cars 3
Brad Bird, writer and director of upcoming Pixar movie The Incredibles 2, says that it will now be released ahead of Cars 3.
In an interview with Collider, Bird said that originally "Incredibles was supposed to happen after Cars, and our wheels just happened to click a little earlier so they moved us up. Release dates are a little fluid when you're making films so far in advance."
Bird says that he is "probably three-quarters through the script," and also talked about the difficulties of making a new superhero movie in 2015. "...what's changed is there were only two other superhero franchises at the time Incredibles came out
All Dragon Quest Heroes DLC Coming West for Free
Square Enix has announced that all of the DLC for Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below will be included free in the game's western release.
When the game releases in North America and Europe next month, all of the Japanese DLC episodes will become available after you've completed the main story up to a certain point. Most will be available after beating the king hydra.
Dragon Quest Heroes, which has sold a million copies in Asia, is scheduled for a western release in Europe on October 16, and North America on October 13.
Pokemon Z: More Evidence Surfaces Ahead of Announcement
Images from the latest issue of Japan's CoroCoro magazine have leaked online, revealing the existence of new versions of familiar Pokemon.
The new monsters will all feature in the upcoming Pokemon XY & Z anime, with the first revealed to be a new colour variation of Ash's Greninja, "Ash-Greninja," one that's described as "the form that Greninja takes when the bond between it and Ash is raised to the limit." The Ash-Greninja is dressed similarly to its trainer.
Far more interesting, however, is the new detail on the third legendary from Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, Zygarde. He has five different forms, including a blob, a cell, a dog, the snake-like creature we're already familiar with and a new Mega Evolution. These versions are called Core, Cell, 10%, 50% and Perfect Formes, respectively.
Release Date for Grand Ages: Medieval on PS4 Changed
Kalypso Media has announced that the release date for the PS4 version of Grand Ages: Medieval has changed to October 9 in Europe, and October 13 in North America.
The release date for the Limited Special Edition retail boxed version and the digital release of the PC version remains on September 25 as originally scheduled. Kalypso has apologized for the new PS4 date, blaming "manufacturing problems beyond its control."
Grand Ages: Medieval was first announced at last year's Gamescom. The strategy game takes place around 1050 AD, and has an area of Europe spanning 30 million square kilometres.
The Japanese Tearaway Trailer Is the Happiest Thing Ever
The Japanese launch trailer for Tearaway is all kinds of brilliance.
The trailer – for some reason – features a safari-garbed lady using the PlayStation 4 controller. After using the touchpad, she turns into some sort of holy spirit. Plus if you’d like to sing along at home, the trailer does have English subtitles.
Sing it with us, “Tearaway, Tearaway, it’s all new! (New!)”
In our review of Tearaway Unfolded, we said it “successfully translates so many aspects of the original,” and that it “remains a distinctive experience which celebrates creativity and fun with undimmed enthusiasm and invention, and along the way asks you to do things very few games do – whether that’s designing a snowflake or christening a baby wendigo.”