Out This Week: Rare Replay, Splatoon Version 2.0
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.
Get a Rainbow 6 Siege Beta Code
Ubisoft and IGN have partnered up for Gamescom to give our fans the opportunity to get into the Rainbow Six Siege beta, which starts September 24th! We got our hands on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 codes and wanted to make sure to share them with you.
Sign Up to Get a Rainbow 6 Siege Beta Key
We've made it very simple for you and your friends to get a Rainbow Six Siege beta code. Just head on over to the beta key page and sign up by entering your name, email, and age. You can even enlist up to four of your friends to join you in the fight!
New Dungeons & Dragons Film Moving Forward
Warner Bros., Hasbro and Sweetpea Entertainment have announced a new Dungeons & Dragons film is in the works, now that the companies have settled a years-long legal dispute over who held the screen rights.
Back in 2013, Hasbro was working with Universal on a new Dungeons & Dragons movie, while Warner Bros. and Sweetpea developed their own film. Hasbro then sued Sweetpea over rights to make a new film, but the companies have now compromised in an undisclosed arrangement and are proceeding forward with this project.
Developers Getting HoloLens ‘Within the Next Year’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that the "V1" developer version of its HoloLens VR headset will be released "within the next year."
In an interview with BBC, Nadella said V1 will cater "more around developers and enterprises." Though no timeline was given for when a consumer version will be available, this timeline indicates it could be quite some time.
We've been lucky enough to get our hands on the device a few times. Check out our first preview, which explains what it's like to use HoloLens. At MineCon 2015, we tried the Minecraft HoloLens demo as well.
Gears of War Ultimate Edition: See Xbox One vs. Xbox 360
The Xbox One Gears of War remake not only features redone graphics, but completely redone cutscenes too. Dig our Xbox One vs. 360 graphics comparison and cutscene comparison so you can see the changes. First, the graphics comparison:
And here's the cutscene comparison, which shows how the newly re-motion captured cutscenes look and sound on Xbox One:
And, as a bonus, here's some multiplayer gameplay footage from Ultimate Edition on Xbox One:
Finally, find out how you can get all four Xbox 360 Gears of War games for free on Xbox One.
EA Teases New Star Wars: Battlefront News for Gamescom
A new mode for Star Wars Battlefront may feature a squadron of X-Wing fighters.
Electronic Arts has released a brief trailer for their large-scale multiplayer battle game, during which they teased the new mode with a squadron of X-Wing fighters taking to the skies in the last few seconds of the video.
This news was teased on Saturday via the official EA Star Wars Facebook page, with a photo of an X-Wing fighter and the words "Prepare for Take Off."
Ex-Blizzard CCO: ‘MMO’ Has Become a Dirty Term
Ex-Blizzard CCO Rob Pardo has noticed a lot of persistent world online games avoid using the descriptive term "MMO," and he has a theory as to why.
According to Pardo, use of the term "MMO" or "massively multiplayer online game" is a loaded description that ultimately leads games to be compared with traditional MMOs like World of Warcraft.
“What you’re starting to see now is people are creating persistent world games with lots of players,” he told Develop. “But different types of games and different types of gameplay, rather than trying to create the same type of game as World of Warcraft.
Invincible Iron Man ‘Sister Title’ Confirmed
Marvel Comic Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso has confirmed a Brian Michael Bendis-written sister title to the upcoming Invincible Iron Man.
"Brian and David
are playing the long game with Invincible Iron Man," Alonso told Comic Book Resources. "When Brian pitched us, he said there was an idea for a sister-title that would spin out of the first germinating in his brain."
Originally teased by Bendis last week on Twitter, the writer alluded that the project would involve Tony Stark. Alonso didn't reveal a central character, but he did note that the ending of of Invincible Iron Man #1 will help fill in some gaps.
Our IGN First Game for August Is…Scalebound
Scalebound, an Xbox One exclusive from renowned action game developer Platinum Games (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Vanquish, etc.), was revealed at E3 2014. Absolutely nothing has been seen or heard from it since. That all changes this month with IGN First, where we'll be covering the game in-depth throughout August. Our team went to Platinum in Japan and will be bringing you approximately a dozen exclusive features and videos over the next four weeks.
We'll be kicking things off tomorrow morning at approximately 8am PT/11am ET, or as soon as the Microsoft press briefing ends. At that point, we will post our first piece of IGN First content for Scalebound: an extended gameplay demo that's much longer than the one you'll see during the Xbox briefing. You can also expect:
Vega Revealed for Street Fighter 5
Capcom has revealed Vega is the latest character for Street Fighter V.
This will be unsurprising to many, since Vega has been a mainstay in the series since Street Fighter II. However he is returning with a "brand new look and new tricks up his frilly sleeves" according to the post on the PS Blog.
He now has two fighting modes, with claw and without claw. After sheathing his claw during battle, Vega gains new moves and new attack properties. The ability to change between the two modes creates new combo possibilities as well.