Bungie Reveals Vault Space Fix for Destiny Year 2
Bungie has revealed that vault space in Destiny will be increased to 72 slots for both weapons and armor, effectively doubling the vault space available to Guardians.
This announcement, made during Destiny's Year 2 Reveal live stream by community manager Deej, aims to address one of the major, long running concerns of the Destiny community who have struggled for some time to find ways to filter, organize, and store the weapons, armor, materials, and cosmetics they've accumulated in the game.
Yo-Kai Watch Release Date Revealed
Nintendo of America has announced Yo-Kai Watch will come out November 6.
The handheld RPG features over 200 different Yo-kai to discover and is created by Professor Layton developer Level-5. Nintendo is publishing Yo-Kai Watch and partnering with other companies, like Disney XD and Hasbro, with the show and toys based off the franchise.
Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, talked to IGN about the importance of Yo-Kai Watch earlier this year, believing the game could drive 3DS hardware sales. "We think the pairing of this game, especially with our 2DS business, can be quite strong," he said at E3 2015. "And we’re very excited about it coming this holiday."
$1 Million Up for Grabs in Japanese Splatoon Tournament
The best Splatoon players in Japan will soon be able to compete for a respectable amount of prize money.
The Kadokawa Dwango corporation is hosting the Splatoon Koshien eSports series, during which 40 events will take place across eight cities across Japan. The tournament begins on September 17 in Fukuoka, and the Grand Finals are scheduled for January 30-31, 2016.
In addition to Splatoon, tournament contestants have the chance to claim some of the prize winnings in games of competitive Puzzle & Dragons.
Tokaigi (the Nico venue) just announced a huge tournament series for Splatoon and Puzzle&Dragons. Over $1 million in prize money,>40 events.
All the Games, Movies, and TV that Made 1990 Awesome
Welcome back to IGN's History of Awesome - a year-long look back at all the coolest and most influential games, movies, TV shows, comic books, toys, and tech that have shaped pop culture, and shaped the lives of an entire generation. Up this week is 1990 - the year that brought us Super Mario Bros. 3, Final Fantasy, and the Secret of Monkey Island.
1990 is also the year that classic films like Home Alone, Goodfellas, Total Recall, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were also unleashed onto the world.
Catch up on IGN's History of Awesome:
How DC Made the New ‘Negative’ Superman Design
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Justice League #43!
Today's Justice League #43 gave us the third chapter of the Darkseid War where the team of heroes gets caught between the clashing forces of Darkseid and his nemesis the Anti-Monitor. The League has been split up, with Superman traveling to Apokolips with Lex Luthor, Batman diving into the Multiverse with Green Lantern using his new godly powers, and Wonder Woman leading the rest into a massive battle between the two titans.
We talked to writer Geoff Johns and artist Jason Fabok about the big events in this week's issue, the most noteworthy being Superman absorbing the energies of an Apokolips fire pit in a bid to restore his powers, only to be negatively super-charged and be transformed into an angry, color-reversed Superman. Take a look:
PlayStation Accepting Beta Testers for PS4 System Updates
Sony is now accepting applications to beta test future PlayStation 4 firmware updates.
According to PS Blog, PS4 owners can sign up on the PlayStation website to test the functionality of the next incoming major system update. The number of beta testers will be limited.
The beta program is expected to begin in early September.
PS4 beta testers will have the ability to roll back to the previous version of the PS4 system software, currently v2.57, at any time.
App Store Update: August 19
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Pac-Man 256 – (Freemium)
How long can you survive? This all-new sequel in the now 35-year-old Pac-Man series takes the infamous "Level 256" glitch from the original arcade game and personifies it as a monstrous wave of encroaching doom, constantly chasing Pac-Man through an endless maze. Keep munching dots to live!
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Over 85 Million Vaults Have Been Created in Fallout Shelter
Bethesda has announced that over 85 million vaults have been created in Fallout Shelter.
In a new infographic for the mobile game, Bethesda has provided nine numerical facts about Fallout Shelter. For example, over 81 million babies have been born in the management sim, and players have dealt with almost 120 million radroach infestations.
Not only that, Bethesda says there have been over 1 billion game sessions of Fallout Shelter played — equaling just a bit more than 29 million hours — since the mobile game launched in mid-June on the App Store. In fact, the management sim just came out on Android last week.
Two More Key Devs Have Left Amazon Game Studios
Two more key members of Amazon Game Studios have left the company.
Following Clint Hocking’s departure, director of narrative design Eric Nylund and principal game designer Jonathan Hamel are no longer with Amazon Game Studios. Both Nylund and Hamel updated their LinkedIn profiles to reflect their end dates as July 2015.
Nylund’s duties at Amazon involved “leading effort to create and manage the story of multiple game titles” and creating “new intellectual properties.”