Clint Hocking Leaves Amazon Game Studios
Clint Hocking, Creative Director of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Far Cry 2, has left Amazon Game Studios.
Hocking also spent time at Valve and at LucasArts following his time at Ubisoft before joining Amazon in 2014 alongside Portal's Kim Swift. Hocking has not announced any new career moves. Swift will host the keynote speech at PAX Prime 2015 later this month.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Is Coming to Blu-ray
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced it's bringing the classic comedy to Blu-ray.
Both a standard version of the Blu-ray and a Limited Edition Gift Set will be available starting October 27. Both versions will include brand-new artwork from Terry Gilliam, as well as 30 minutes of Q&A footage from the Monty Python and the Holy Grail event at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Those who opt for the Limited Edition Gift Set will also receive a collectible castle packaging that features "real catapult action and rubber farm animals." In addition, this collector-minded version includes exclusive intro letters from both Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.
Hearthstone ‘Grand Tournament’ Expansion Getting Previewed This Week
You can sample some of the Hearthstone cards coming in the next expansion in this week's Tavern Brawl.
The Hearthstone blog announced today that the next Tavern Brawl is called "The Grand Tournament Match." It will pit the mage character Medivh against the hunter Alleria. Both decks will be pre-built to highlight different aspects of the upcoming Grand Tournament expansion. Medivh will rely on Inspire cards, while Alleria will use the new Joust mechanic to her advantage.
While Blizzard hasn't given an official date for the Grand Tournament, the Tavern Brawl is ending on August 24. That's the same date that eagle-eyed fans noticed the wrappings came off pre-purchased packs if they set their PC clocks forward, so it looks likely for the release.
Everything New We Learned About Star Wars at D23
Although there was no new footage from either Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Rogue One screened at this weekend's D23 Expo, Disney and Lucasfilm nevertheless gave Star Wars fans plenty to enjoy and talk about. Here's a rundown of all the biggest Star Wars items that came out of the biennial Disney fan convention.
Last week yielded a veritable treasure trove of new details about Episode VII thanks to Entertainment Weekly's cover story. While D23 Expo didn't reveal anything new from The Force Awakens in either news or footage, it did give fans the D23 exclusive variant poster painted by classic Star Wars artist Drew Struzan seen below:
Tracy Morgan Is Set to Host SNL This Season
Saturday Night Live alumnus Tracy Morgan will return to host the show October 17.
Not only will this mark Morgan's second time hosting SNL, but it also will serve as the 30 Rock actor's first TV performance since a tragic car accident last year, according to Deadline. Morgan had a life-threatening brain injury as a result of the crash, and there were concerns he would never perform again.
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Out This Week: Frozen Fever, Volume, LBX
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
There Is No Suspend Feature for Steam Machines
While PlayStation 4 and Xbox One let users suspend their games in rest mode, that apparently won't be the case for Steam machines.
According to Ars Technica, a Valve engineer admitted on a GitHub bug report thread that "suspend is no longer supported" on Steam machines. The reasoning behind the decision boiled down to reliability.
"Given the state of hardware and software support throughout the graphics stack on Linux, we didn't think we could make
reliable," said the Valve engineer, who goes by johnv-valve on the forum.
Fear the Walking Dead is This Week’s TV Highlight
As we pass the mid-point of August nowadays, we really start getting into "early fall" TV, as more and more shows have begun to premiere at this point to get a jump start on the September madness.
And this week, we have a big one. AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, the official spinoff to TV's hottest series, kicks off on Sunday, talking us back to the very start of the zombie outbreak in Los Angeles.
Starring Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Frank Dillane, and Lorenzo James Henrie, Fear the Walking Dead centers on a dysfunctional family in the midst of an undead uprising. Whereas The Walking Dead skipped over the initial chaos and chose to pick things up after Rick Grimes woke up from his coma, FTWD will settle into a "slow burn" approach and really dig into how civilization fell apart. This first spinoff season acts as a Walking Dead prequel of sorts, and it's not yet known if, or when, FTWD will "catch up" with the wasteland world that the survivors on The Walking Dead live in.
Halo 5 Dev Responds to Complaints Over No Split-Screen
Halo 5: Guardians developer 343 Industries has responded to the outcry from fans in response to the news that its upcoming Xbox One-exclusive shooter won't feature split-screen support.
In reply to a fan on Twitter, 343i franchise development director Frank O'Connor explained that adding in the feature simply isn't possible. "If we could do it, we would do it. But it is what they call 'nontrivial,'" he said.
@GreenAssassin24 If we could do it, we would do it. But it is what they call "nontrivial."
Daily Deals: Shadow of Mordor GOTY, Jurassic World, Cheap Bluetooth Speaker
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY For The Price Of The Standard Version
If you held off on playing Shadow of Mordor, today is your lucky day. It's a great game (we gave it a 9.3) and the GOTY edition (which packs in all the DLC campaigns and challenge modes) is only $30 right now. That's the same price as the standard, no extra DLC edition.