Blizzard has announced it is working on a new, AAA survival game for PC and console set in a brand new universe. And Blizzard is hiring to help make it happen.

In a new blog post announcing the job openings, Blizzard says its new survival game will be “A place full of heroes we have yet to meet, stories yet to be told, and adventures yet to be lived. A vast realm of possibility, waiting to be explored.”

Blizzard is hiring across multiple departments including art, design, and engineering. Among the open positions are jobs for Environment Artist, Senior Character Artist, Senior Concept Artist, Level Designer, and Software Engineers for Engine, Audio, Server, and Tools.

Alongside the job listings are two pieces of artwork, one of two people from what looks like the modern-day crossing over from modern civilization into a fantasy world, and the other of some kind of hunter dressed in a fur cap and armor. It’s unclear if these artworks are meant to illustrate the tone of the project, or are meant to portray potential themes.

Blizzard manager Mike Ybarra tweeted that he’s “played many hours of this project with the team” already, meaning the game could be further along in development.

I’ve played many hours of this project with the team and I’m incredibly excited about the teams vision and the brand-new world it presents for players to immerse themselves in together. Join us to help make it a reality! https://t.co/pLhijX2Li9

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) January 25, 2022

The blog specifically asks whether prospective employees enjoy survival games, which is a genre typically defined by foraging for resources to maintain your health constantly while building shelters, tools, and weapons to stay safe from a hostile environment.

Blizzard is known for not announcing projects before they’re ready to be shown off, but this job listing feels like a move away from that. After all, hiring for a new “unannounced” survival game is still practically announcing a new game and possibly series within Blizzard’s stables.

Overwatch was the last big franchise Blizzard launched and the studio is currently developing its sequel Overwatch 2, though the long development time has created frustration among the team.

Blizzard is also grappling with its ongoing sexual discrimination scandal that has shaken the company and the video game industry at large to its core. Add a looming acquisition by Microsoft alongside the rest of Activision Blizzard, and this is certainly an unusual announcement from Blizzard. But things have not been business as usual for Blizzard in some time.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Correction: An earlier version of this story said the unannounced survival game is coming to PC and consoles. The blog post uses the singular "console" and the story has been updated to reflect this.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wants to be bigger than Black Adam. During an interview with Men’s Journal, the 49-year-old former professional wrestler explained why he wants to buff up even more than his comic book counterpart.

"The training we did for this movie was the most arduous I’ve ever done in my life,” said Johnson. His goal was to surpass the comic book physiques drawn by Black Adam illustrators and bring a level of authenticity to his portrayal.

“I promise you this: The hierarchy of power in the DC universe is about to change.”

Of course, Johnson has been attached to the Black Adam movie for a long time. So long, in fact, that you might even call this a bit of a passion project.

"I started training for Black Adam when I came out of the womb," he said. "I believe I was born to play this character. But in all honesty, this project has been with me for 10 ten years now. The process began when we started to stand the material up and really developed it into what it is present day."

"Once the start date was agreed on by our Seven Bucks production company, the rest of my team, Warner Bros. Studio, and DC Comics, I started to build an exhaustive training program with my coach Dave Rienzi,” he added.

Black Adam is certainly going to need to be in good shape. After all, he’s going to be taking on the Justice Society of America.

And if Johnson has his way, he’ll take on Superman, too.

“Getting the greenlight for Black Adam was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to raise the bar yet again,” he explained. “I wanted to come into this in the best shape of my career.”

Aside from Black Adam, Johnson is going to be pretty busy over the next few years.

He recently revealed that he’s set to star in another video game movie, and is also voicing Krypto the Wonder Dog in the upcoming League of Super-Pets movie. Additionally, it looks as though Johnson will be back for Netflix’s upcoming Red Notice sequels.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is working on another video game movie. During an interview with Men’s Journal, the 49-year-old former professional wrestler revealed that he’s set to star in another video game adaptation.

"I can't tell you which game in particular we're doing, but there will be an announcement this year,” he said. "We're going to bring one of the biggest, most badass games to the screen — one that I've played for years."

Of course, Johnson is no stranger to video game movies. He previously starred in Doom – the 2005 big-screen adaptation of the classic FPS franchise. But Doom wasn’t exactly a huge hit. Far from it. Critically derided, it stands at just 18% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned a rubbish $58.7 million at the box office, failing to even earn back its budget.

Johnson has also starred in Rampage, the 2018 monster movie based on the classic Midway Games title. Not to mention the video game based Jumanji reboot and its subsequent sequel, Jumanji: The Next Level.

But Johnson promises that this is one video game adaptation gamers are going to love.

“I'm really excited to bring it to fans around the world,” he added. “Of course, we're going to do right by our gamer friends — but really we're just going to make a great movie.”

If you’re wondering what games The Rock likes to play himself, it turns out he’s "always been a big Madden fan."

But don’t get your hopes up for a Madden movie. It’s far more likely that we’re talking a more traditional video game adaptation.

In the meantime, Johnson is keeping busy. He’ll star in his own DC superhero film, Black Adam, later this year, and has teased that his classic DC character may even get to fight Superman at some point. He’s also voicing Krypto the Wonder Dog in the upcoming League of Super-Pets movie and is expected to return in Netflix’s Red Notice sequels.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Frost Giant Studios, a debut developer formed by ex-Blizzard staff, has raised $25 million to help create a brand new real-time strategy game in Unreal Engine 5.

Frost Giant – which was founded by Tom Morten (production director on StarCraft 2) and Tim Campbell (lead campaign designer on WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne) – was founded in 2020 with the goal of creating an "epic" real-time strategy game. It's latest round of funding brought in $25 million from the likes of Korean publisher Kakao Games (PUBG), Riot Games (League of Legends), and more.

In total, Frost Giant has raised $34.7 million for its debut project, and the game is now set to be formally announced later this year.

Speaking to IGN, CEO Tim Morten explained the several ways that influx of money will be put to good use. First and foremost, it will help Frost Giant make the RTS it has always been aiming to create.

"This funding gives us the runway we need to ship the game we've envisioned," he explains. "As you know, creative vision isn’t always a straight line, so the ideas we have today may morph based on what we feel would make for the best player experience. For us, this funding is a testament that the appetite for RTS remains strong in the global gaming community, and we are encouraged to have leading companies like Kakao Gaming believe in what we’re building and supporting our journey."

Other benefits for the game include turning the 30-person team into 50 people, helping fund a new HQ to house them all, as well as adding extra technology to boost the game's looks and performance – which is being built in the impressive Unreal Engine 5. "We're always looking at ways to leverage the latest technologies to create a cutting-edge RTS game experience," Morten explained. "We're investigating and experimenting with new tools for animation, visual effects, and artificial intelligence. We’re also exploring innovative ways to fully integrate esports within our game and to support our future player community."

As for what that game will be, Frost Giant is staying a little more tight-lipped – although we've gotten some clues. As you'd expect, the team is drawing on its huge experience in the genre, having made some of the best-received RTS games of all time, but Morten makes clear that this doesn't mean his new project will simply be a throwback:

"We absolutely want to make the best RTS game possible, one that existing fans and new players alike will be excited to play on day one," he explains. "The Frost Giant team is fortunate to have the benefit of learning from our experiences on StarCraft and Warcraft, and those experiences suggest some clear new directions to explore. We're also setting out to make RTS more approachable to players who may have, in the past, felt intimidated, while still providing modes that can support world-class esports.

"We think we can do it and we're committed to our mission because of how much we love the genre and its players. We hope everyone who loves RTS as much as we do will be excited to learn more about what we're up to when we give players a first look at our game later this year."

The latest press release about the game adds that the game is aiming to support co-op play, be entertaining to watch as an esport, and will welcome mapmakers.

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A new version of Fight Club is now available online in China, and it has a very different ending. The new version, made available on the Tencent Video streaming platform over the weekend, alters the anarchist message of David Fincher’s cult classic, with the authorities foiling the plot at the last minute.

“The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding,” reads the new coda as the film fades to black. “After the trial, Tyler was sent to lunatic asylum receiving psychological treatment. He was discharged from the hospital in 2012.”

FIGHT CLUB’s ending for the Chinese release (on Tencent Video) was changed to this and now I’m waiting for someone to fanfic a sequel based on this censored ending. pic.twitter.com/zYB0bY3Dlp

— Courtney Howard @ #Sundance (@Lulamaybelle) January 24, 2022

The original ending was far more anti-capitalist.

In the film’s closing scenes, Edward Norton’s narrator kills off his dangerous alter ego, Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt), with a well-placed gunshot to his own head. Then, along with love interest Marla Singer (played by Helena Bonham Carter), he watches as Tyler’s plan to destroy the global economy comes to fruition.

As several skyscrapers explode and topple across the city, it’s suggested that Tyler’s anarchist group has wiped out all debt by literally toppling the banks.

Tencent Video has yet to comment on the changes made to the Chinese release.

Either way, it looks as though fans aren’t happy.

“How would the studio allow this?” asked one fan via Twitter. “What about director David Fincher? Doesn't he have to sign off on this? I can't imagine him ever doing that unless he thought this was just so hilarious he had to do it.”

In the meantime, Fight Club has retained a strong cult following since its release in 1999, with IGN naming it as one of the most ‘90s movies of the 1990s.

Fight Club was directed by David Fincher, with a script by Jim Uhls, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt star in the movie, alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, and Jared Leto.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Batgirl has cast Tales of the City's Ivory Aquino as Alysia Yeoh, where she will represent the first transgender character in a DCEU film.

As reported by Variety, both Aquino and Yeoh are trans. In the comics, Alysia Yeof is a bartender who also happens to be the best friend and one-time roommate of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, and she first appeared in Batgirl Vol. 4 #1 in November 2011. Aquino will bring her to life on HBO Max alongside Leslie Grace, who will play Batgirl.

Aquino's casting was first teased by Grace's Instagram story in January when she posted a photo of her and Aquino on what may have been Batgirl's set. She tagged Aquino and included the caption "Barbara and Alysia."

Batgirl is set to be released on HBO Max in 2022 and will be directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. Joining Grace and Aquino in Batgirl will be Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman, J.K. Simmons as Commissioner James Gordon, Brendan Fraser as Garfield Lynns/Firefly, and Jacob Scipio in an unknown role.

Grace recently revealed an image of herself as Batgirl and the suit looks to be very inspired by Batgirl comics, especially the "Batgirl of Burnside" issue. Grace also shared a quote from Batgirl, Year One, giving us more of an idea of what to expect from the hero.

Aquino is another step towards greater LGBTQ+ representation in the superhero genre, and follows CW's Supergirl introducing the first trans superhero on TV in Nicole Maines' Dreamer, CW's Batwoman being a lesbian played by both Ruby Rose and Javicia Leslie, Loki revealing he is canonically bisexual, Marvel having Brian Tyree Henry play the first openly gay character in the MCU, and more.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Batgirl has cast Tales of the City's Ivory Aquino as Alysia Yeoh, where she will represent the first transgender character in a DCEU film.

As reported by Variety, both Aquino and Yeoh are trans. In the comics, Alysia Yeof is a bartender who also happens to be the best friend and one-time roommate of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, and she first appeared in Batgirl Vol. 4 #1 in November 2011. Aquino will bring her to life on HBO Max alongside Leslie Grace, who will play Batgirl.

Aquino's casting was first teased by Grace's Instagram story in January when she posted a photo of her and Aquino on what may have been Batgirl's set. She tagged Aquino and included the caption "Barbara and Alysia."

Batgirl is set to be released on HBO Max in 2022 and will be directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. Joining Grace and Aquino in Batgirl will be Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman, J.K. Simmons as Commissioner James Gordon, Brendan Fraser as Garfield Lynns/Firefly, and Jacob Scipio in an unknown role.

Grace recently revealed an image of herself as Batgirl and the suit looks to be very inspired by Batgirl comics, especially the "Batgirl of Burnside" issue. Grace also shared a quote from Batgirl, Year One, giving us more of an idea of what to expect from the hero.

Aquino is another step towards greater LGBTQ+ representation in the superhero genre, and follows CW's Supergirl introducing the first trans superhero on TV in Nicole Maines' Dreamer, CW's Batwoman being a lesbian played by both Ruby Rose and Javicia Leslie, Loki revealing he is canonically bisexual, Marvel having Brian Tyree Henry play the first openly gay character in the MCU, and more.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Mimas, a tiny moon orbiting Saturn, might be hiding an ocean under its frozen surface, according to new research published in the planetary science journal Icarus.

Mimas has a wobbly rotation that suggests it either has an elongated core or an internal ocean. Scientists have been skeptical about an ocean being the cause because Mimas is very small and, unlike other moons with oceans, it doesn’t have any markers on its surface indicating one.

Alyssa Rhoden, a specialist in the geophysics of icy satellites, was setting out to disprove the ocean hypothesis when she and her colleague Matthew Walker realized it might actually hold water. They used tidal heating models to find a plausible explanation for a liquid ocean beneath 14 to 20 miles of ice.

“I was saying Mimas can’t have an ocean, but what I was really saying was, for Mimas to have an ocean would really challenge our intuition about Mimas,” Rhoden told the New York Times. “And when I realized that, I thought, well, that’s not how scientists are supposed to work. We don’t come to a conclusion without actually testing the hypothesis.”

Mimas’ potential secret ocean could expand scientists’ conceptions of icy satellites. "If Mimas has an ocean, it represents a new class of small, ‘stealth’ ocean worlds with surfaces that do not betray the ocean’s existence," Rhoden said in a press release.

It will take further study to confirm if there really is an ocean lurking beneath the surface, rather than a stretched core. "Mimas is a compelling target for continued investigation," Rhoden said.

Mimas is also compelling for its pop culture resemblances. Thanks to a huge impact crater on its surface, Mimas has been compared to the Death Star from Star Wars. It was also revealed in 2010 to have a temperature map that looks strikingly similar to Pac-Man eating a dot.

For more about icy celestial bodies, check out our articles about why some astronomers think Pluto should be a planet again and about Pluto’s own possible under-ice ocean.

Kait Sanchez is a freelance writer for IGN. Find them on Twitter @crisp_red.

Main image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

A Super Nintendo classic was almost playable within Metroid Prime on Nintendo GameCube, until Nintendo stepped in and stopped it from happening.

In the latest episode of the Kiwi Talkz podcast, Metroid Prime developer David "Zoid" Kirsch shared insight into the development of Prime, including this retro easter egg. Zoid said he first played Super Metroid after he was assigned to work on development of Metroid Prime, but he completed the game twice in under a week because he loved it so much.

"I got assigned to Metroid, and I'm like, well I should probably play this Super Metroid since we're making kind of a sequel to it," Zoid said. "Holy crap, I missed [out on] this game! This game's incredible. I played through it twice in like three days, I just loved it."

This led Zoid to put Super Metroid into Prime itself through an unofficial SNES emulator. Nintendo ultimately rejected the idea because the emulator wasn't approved, but Zoid said this little side project led to the inclusion of the original Metroid from the NES.

"That started the idea churning, and Nintendo did have the NES emulation library that they had built for the GameCube, and so that turned into bringing the original Metroid to the game."

Super Metroid is still one of the greatest games ever made, coming in at #5 on our list of the top 100 games of all time. Metroid Prime itself came in at #42, so it would have been pretty wild to have to of the best games ever on the same disc back on the GameCube.

The Kiwi Talkz channel has been diving into the development of the Metroid Prime series over the past few months with developer interviews. A previous video revealed the extent of Retro Studios' crunch during the development of Metroid Prime.

Metroid fans are still anxiously awaiting Metroid Prime 4, the upcoming sequel announced way back in 2017. For now, players can enjoy Samus Aran's latest 2D adventure in Metroid Dread, which we awarded the best action-adventure game of 2021.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Suppose you are looking for a way to make the Nintendo Switch a lot more portable-friendly. In that case, this new Kickstarter campaign might have the answer: an all-in-one modular case that makes Nintendo's hybrid console more convenient as a companion gadget when traveling.

The G-Case by Plenbo is aimed to be the "all-in-one" solution for those that play their Switch primarily in handheld mode. Outside of adding additional protection to the back of the console, the G-Case includes a 5000mAh battery pack that provides up to 5 hours of additional battery life and the option to detach the battery pack and use it to charge other devices such as your smartphone or a tablet.

To minimize the number of items you are carrying, the G-Case also includes two cards slots: one on each side of the grip cases, allowing you to hold up to three Nintendo Switch games with the attachment.

The G-Case also allows you to detach the case and Joy-Cons themselves from the Switch. And the added option to connect the grips together is similar to Nintendo's official Joy-Con grip. The grips on the Joy-Cons are also replaceable with three grip sizes to fit most hands.

Some of the more interesting features on the G-Case include one model that offers Bluetooth connectivity. While the Switch already has built-in Bluetooth, there is an issue of latency; Plenbo claims that the G-Case's Bluetooth 5.0 will allow for a more seamless connection between the console and wireless headphones with audio latency down to 40 milliseconds. The G-Case also includes a kickstand, which might not be useful for OLED model owners, but is an added benefit for those that own the regular Nintendo Switch.

Case aside, Plenbo has also announced additional items that complement the G-Case, such as a carrying case and a wireless controller adapter designed for PC, an Android TV box, and the Switch compatible with other devices such as the PlayStation 5. This includes the OneDock, which includes one USB-C, USB-A, and HDMI 2.0 ports and allows players to connect the Switch to a TV without a docking station.

The project has already reached its funding goal, but if you are interested in preordering the device, you can pledge $79 to receive the case itself. Or $169 to receive the unit and additional accessories, such as the OneDock brick. Important to note, howver, if you decide to back the project, there may be some "unforseeable" issues as noted on the G-Case's "Risks and challenges" section of the Kickstarter page.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.