Supernatural: Season 11 Trailer
The CW has released the trailer for Season 11 of Supernatural.
Season 11 is changing the tone, and will feature the Winchester brothers coming back together to fight against the Darkness. Check out the trailer below.
IGN caught up with actors Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester) and Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) at Comic-Con this year. You can watch our interviews below to see what they think of superheroes, and what's in store for Season 11.
Supernatural returns to The CW on Wednesday, October 7.
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Bradley Cooper Talks Limitless TV Show
IGN has an exclusive behind-the-scenes video for CBS's new Limitless series, based on the 2011 movie starring Bradley Cooper. The featurette includes new footage from the series, as well as on-set interviews with stars Jake McDorman and Jennifer Carpenter and executive producers Cooper and Alex Kurtzman, among other cast and creators. Cooper not only is an executive producer, but reprises his role from the film as well. Check it out:
As a continuation of the film, Limitless follows Brian Finch (McDorman), who discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT and is coerced by the FBI into using his extraordinary cognitive abilities to solve complex cases for them. The series also stars Carpenter as Special Agent Rebecca Harris, a formidable investigator with a dark past. Meanwhile, Cooper will return as Edward Mora, both in the pilot episode and on a recurring basis throughout Season 1.
This Week in the Nintendo eShop
Tomorrow, the fall season more or less officially kicks off for Nintendo as Super Mario Maker launches on Wii U. But before then, there is a lone 3DS game in the rhythmic Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX and a good lineup of Wii U eShop games out today. Most notably, there's The Swindle and Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut, two games that have been well received in their prior releases on other platforms. For football fans, Tecmo Bowl hits the Wii U Virtual Console.
Super Mario Maker ($59.99, Available September 11th)
It's here! Finally. Super Mario Maker is finally here. What else is there to say? Well, I guess we could talk about how you can now create your own 2D Mario levels using a variety of items and tools across four different art styles. You can also hop online and play what everyone else is making through a variety of different means. It's magical. If you don't believe us, read our review.
FIFA 16 Soundtrack Revealed
EA Sports has revealed the songs that will be on the FIFA 16 soundtrack.
This year's game features tracks from 42 artists, the full list of which can be found on EA Sports.
Here's a selection from the track list:
- Atlas Genius - Stockholm
- Bastille - Hangin'
- Beck - Dreams
- Foals - Mountain At My Gates
- John Newman - Tiring Game feat. Charlie Wilson
- Louis The Child - It's Strange feat K. Flay
- Slaptop - Walls
- The Royal Concept - Smile
- Years & Years - Gold (FIFA Edit)
Jotun: Introducing the New Terrifying, Flaming Boss
Jotun comes to PC later this month, and so far it seems really promising. The 2D action game is all about spectacular boss battles with enormous enemies. We loved the icy enemy we fought earlier this year, and the newest boss, Kaunan, is a completely different, much more on-fire affair.
Jotun is all about recognizing and exploiting enemy patterns while surviving against massively damaging attacks. It's a difficult series of fights made somewhat easier by healing, damage-boosting, and speed-improving spells your tiny Viking heroine can cast mid-battle. Those need to be used efficiently, effectively, and often in conjunction if you're going to survive. Check out our first look at Kaunan above as we try to impress the gods, and a gallery of Jotun's gorgeous art below.
Deadpool Star Discusses The Twisted Psychology of Ajax
Ed Skrein is currently and rather effectively Stath-ing it up as Frank Martin in action-movie reboot The Transporter Refueled. He recently stopped by IGN’s London office to discuss the film – the video from which can be viewed below – while at the same time giving us the skinny on forthcoming superhero movie Deadpool, in which he plays Ajax…
IGN: What can you tell us about Ajax?
Ed Skrein: He’s very different from The Transporter, I’ll tell you that. He’s a sociopath in the truest sense. He’s had all of his nerve endings removed so he no longer feels pain. No longer feels anything. And that was such an interesting entry point – to enter into the psyche of a character and to try and portray Ajax. He’s a fun character. He’s pretty dark. He was a fun character to play.
How GTA Online Has Changed Rockstar North
Today GTA Online is very different than when it launched.
The great city of Los Santos, bequeathed to players by Grand Theft Auto V, was always meant to evolve over time. Although initially blighted by server problems, it has grown through a succession of free updates, including the excellent multiplayer heists, and consequently so has the player base. Currently, 8 million people log-in each week.
Freemode events are the next major addition, a suite of new and varied challenges only possible on next-gen and PC versions of the game. You can read much more about those modes in our hands-on preview and learn how they reinvigorate GTA Online.
Freemode Events Are GTA Online’s Biggest Change Since Heists
Like all brilliant Grand Theft Auto moments, the one that sticks out while recently playing the upcoming Freemode events coming to Online wasn’t scripted, it was just a perfect coincidence.
We were playing Hunt the Beast, a new mode in which players team up to track and kill ‘the beast’, a randomly-selected player who is blessed with super strength and speed for the duration of the round. (They also look a whole lot like Michael J. Fox in Teen Wolf, covered in fur and wearing a red varsity jacket.) The beast’s aim is to get to 10 checkpoints scattered around Los Santos within a specified time limit. However, because the beast is invisible to other players, on the mini-map at least, trying to track down a single person among thousands is no easy feat, and so the hunt begins.
GTA Online Gets More Immersive with Open World Events
Rockstar has announced Freemode Events are coming to GTA Online, a new feature that'll see structured events pop up in the open world for you to tackle without needing to enter a lobby first.
Set to debut in the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions of GTA Online on September 15, the aim is to blend the freeform gameplay of the open world with structured events that offer lucrative rewards.
Every 12 minutes in the open world, a new Freemode Event will start, with a countdown clock on the HUD alerting players how much longer they have until it starts. If you miss the start or opt not to participate, you'll still be able to spectate those who chose to get involved.
Over 200 variants of Freemode Events will be available at launch, including cooperative battles, individual live stunt challenges, free-for-all King of the Hill modes, and challenges tasking you to break speed limits and deal as much damage as possible within a time limit. Successfully completing any of them will net players huge cash and RP rewards, which scale based on how well you performed.
Flame Over Comes to PS4 This Month
Indie squirt-‘em-up Flame Over is coming to PlayStation 4 on September 15 in North America, and September 16 for Europe.
Price-wise you’ll be able to pick the game up for £8.99 / €11.99 / $11.99.
Flame Over first released for PS Vita back in March of this year. For those who haven’t played it, the game is described as a ‘pyroguelike’ twin-stick shooter that fuses single-life gameplay with randomly generated levels. You play as a firefighter doing their best to save as many lives as possible without getting burned alive.
There’s also some news for Vita owners. Flame Over will see a patch in the coming weeks that will “bring it in line (as closely as possible) with the forthcoming PS4 version and fix some pesky bugs and balancing issues,” according to a post on the official website.