Ahead of its January 28 release date, a number of leaked gameplay and story elements from Nintendo's upcoming Pokémon Legends: Arceus have begun cropping up online. For those of you looking to head into the game spoiler-free, you may want to stray away from social media - at least until the initial storm passes.

While Nintendo has been relatively quick in its attempts to take down images that contain copyrighted material from Pokémon Legends: Arceus, many screenshots from throughout the game are still currently doing the rounds online.

Unlike previous Pokémon leaks, this most recent wave of content appears to have come from boxed retail versions of the game as opposed to digital review copies. Photographs of a number of players holding copies of the game have begun popping up on social media over the last 24 hours alongside a number of screenshots of the game itself.

While we won't be sharing exact details pertaining to the content that has been leaked itself, Twitter user Stealth40k gave a rundown of what you should look to avoid. According to Stealth, that list of features includes the game's opening movie, new Pokémon, and, well, pretty much everything else that you wouldn't want to be ruined.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus has leaked... the opening movie, new Pokémon, pretty much everything is being spoiled, so definitely take precaution!

— Stealth (@Stealth40k) January 19, 2022

With a little over a week left before the official launch of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, mute words and a cautious approach to scrolling may help you to navigate any unsightly spoilers. In the meantime, to supplement the rebellious part of your brain that might be tempted to go hunting for Pokémon content, Nintendo recently shared thirteen additional minutes of gameplay from the game that was both intended for release and packed with a number of satisfying scenes.

The clip itself explores a number of new features that are set to be included in Arceus such as how Pokémon will be caught out in the wild, the game's overhauled combat system, and how Noble Pokémon boss battles will work.

For more from the world of Pokémon, make sure to check out this article detailing the fan-made Pokémon first-person shooter that is just as disturbing as it sounds.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Amazon Studios officially announced the title of its forthcoming Lord of the Rings television series: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series will premiere on September 2, 2022, on Prime Video.

The epic fantasy show is set during the Second Age of Middle-earth’s history, a relatively unexplored portion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s saga mostly chronicled in the appendices of his novel. The show takes place thousands of years before the events depicted in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies.

You can see a title reveal in the video below:

"This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien's other classics,” showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay said in a statement. “The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of Middle-earth's Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.”

They added: “Until now, audiences have only seen on-screen the story of the One Ring - but before there was one, there were many... and we're excited to share the epic story of them all."

In the title video, various shots of Middle-earth are seen as molten metal is poured into a forge and cooled to create the series’ title in silver, its lettering in Elven script. Over this, a female voiceover – a young Galadriel perhaps? – recites Tolkien’s epigraph to Lord of the Rings:

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

The voiceover omits the passage’s next lines – “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them” – which were famously heard in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, suggesting that’s a story we already know.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power cast includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.

In addition to Payne and McKay, the show’s executive producers include Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado, and producer Christopher Newman. Wayne Che Yip serves as co-executive producer and also directs episodes along with J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.

Check out how they made the Lord of the Rings title sequence as a practical effect:

Season One of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power wrapped filming in New Zealand in August 2021. Envisioned as a multi-season saga, Season 2 will film in the U.K. Amazon Studios previously announced that pre-production on Season 2 will begin in early 2022.

Amazon Studios officially announced the title of its forthcoming Lord of the Rings television series: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series will premiere on September 2, 2022, on Prime Video.

The epic fantasy show is set during the Second Age of Middle-earth’s history, a relatively unexplored portion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s saga mostly chronicled in the appendices of his novel. The show takes places thousands of years before the events depicted in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies.

You can see a title reveal in the video below:

"This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien's other classics,” showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay said in a statement. “The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of Middle-earth's Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.”

They added: “Until now, audiences have only seen on-screen the story of the One Ring - but before there was one, there were many... and we're excited to share the epic story of them all."

In the title video, various shots of Middle-earth are seen as molten metal is poured into a forge and cooled to create the series’ title in silver, its lettering in Elven script. Over this, a female voiceover – a young Galadriel perhaps? – recites Tolkien’s epigraph to Lord of the Rings:

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

The voiceover omits the passage’s next lines – “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them” – which were famously heard in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, suggesting that’s a story we already know.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power cast includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.

In addition to Payne and McKay, the show’s executive producers include Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado, and producer Christopher Newman. Wayne Che Yip serves as co-executive producer and also directs episodes along with J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.

Check out how they made the Lord of the Rings title sequence as a practical effect:

Season One of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power wrapped filming in New Zealand in August 2021. Envisioned as a multi-season saga, Season 2 will film in the U.K. Amazon Studios previously announced that pre-production on Season 2 will begin in early 2022.

In case you needed to check - though you almost certainly didn't - an FPS where you hunt Pokémon is just as disturbing in reality as it is a concept.

At the best of times, scrolling through Twitter can be a rollercoaster experience, and the platform certainly has its fair share of 'things I wish I hadn't had the displeasure of seeing'. While game developer and Twitter user Dragon has certainly accomplished something unique by making a Pokémon First Person Shooter, it does run the risk of being entered into the aforementioned category.

You can see development footage below, if you're morbidly curious:

Last month I started working on developing a Pokémon First Person Shooter. #IndieGameDev #pokemon pic.twitter.com/dZZTuYWq22

— Dragon (@Dragon_GameDev2) January 17, 2022

During the trailer for Dragon's Pokémon-based FPS, a controllable player character can be seen roaming far and wide to claim numerous pocket monster trophies. The game appears to include a wide array of different Pokémon – seemingly all from the original 151 – that you can track down and fill with lead, as well as multiple different weapons to carry out the deed.

To give credit where it's due, each of the Pokémon in the trailer seems to come with their own signature style of attacks, and boss fights against legendary monsters seem to further vary the action. Across the clip, the hunter fights off a Zapdos, whose electric tornadoes and lightning-style bombing runs definitely provide more of a challenge, while Mewtwo's psychic blasts are also a sight to see.

However, as is often the case in the wild there are few beasts that stand much of a chance against someone armed to the teeth with projectile weaponry. There's just something haunting about watching a Pikachu take a shotgun shell square between the eyes before rolling limply to its death.

If you're made of stronger stuff than us, you can check out a full devlog explaining how Dragon made the project in Unreal Engine on YouTube. Dragon makes clear that the game won't be sold, but that doesn't necessarily mean Nintendo won't take notice of the project – we'll wait and aee on that one.

While we commend Dragon on the effort they've put into the indie project, for many fans, the next fix of Pokémon content will be Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Due for release on January 28, the game will take players to the Hisui Region, where they'll be able to catch, ride and train their chosen Pokémon, safe in the knowledge that there won't be an assault rifle round or shotgun cartridge anywhere in sight.

For more on Pokémon Legends Arceus, make sure to check out this article showing off thirteen minutes of gameplay from the upcoming release.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

In case you needed to check - though you almost certainly didn't - an FPS where you hunt Pokémon is just as disturbing in reality as it is a concept.

At the best of times, scrolling through Twitter can be a rollercoaster experience, and the platform certainly has its fair share of 'things I wish I hadn't had the displeasure of seeing'. While game developer and Twitter user Dragon has certainly accomplished something unique by making a Pokémon First Person Shooter, it does run the risk of being entered into the aforementioned category.

You can see development footage below, if you're morbidly curious:

Last month I started working on developing a Pokémon First Person Shooter. #IndieGameDev #pokemon pic.twitter.com/dZZTuYWq22

— Dragon (@Dragon_GameDev2) January 17, 2022

During the trailer for Dragon's Pokémon-based FPS, a controllable player character can be seen roaming far and wide to claim numerous pocket monster trophies. The game appears to include a wide array of different Pokémon – seemingly all from the original 151 – that you can track down and fill with lead, as well as multiple different weapons to carry out the deed.

To give credit where it's due, each of the Pokémon in the trailer seems to come with their own signature style of attacks, and boss fights against legendary monsters seem to further vary the action. Across the clip, the hunter fights off a Zapdos, whose electric tornadoes and lightning-style bombing runs definitely provide more of a challenge, while Mewtwo's psychic blasts are also a sight to see.

However, as is often the case in the wild there are few beasts that stand much of a chance against someone armed to the teeth with projectile weaponry. There's just something haunting about watching a Pikachu take a shotgun shell square between the eyes before rolling limply to its death.

If you're made of stronger stuff than us, you can check out a full devlog explaining how Dragon made the project in Unreal Engine on YouTube. Dragon makes clear that the game won't be sold, but that doesn't necessarily mean Nintendo won't take notice of the project – we'll wait and aee on that one.

While we commend Dragon on the effort they've put into the indie project, for many fans, the next fix of Pokémon content will be Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Due for release on January 28, the game will take players to the Hisui Region, where they'll be able to catch, ride and train their chosen Pokémon, safe in the knowledge that there won't be an assault rifle round or shotgun cartridge anywhere in sight.

For more on Pokémon Legends Arceus, make sure to check out this article showing off thirteen minutes of gameplay from the upcoming release.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

A Marvel Zombies board game surpassed $2.5 million dollars on Kickstarter just two hours after it launched on the crowdfunding platform.

Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game, which is being produced by CMON and Spin Master Games, launched on the platform yesterday and has already garnered a huge amount of backing from fans. After just two hours on the website, the game had eclipsed the $2.5 million mark and has continued to gain further support in the hours since.

Upon launch, Marvel Zombies will be a cooperative board game for 1 to 6 players based on the core mechanics of the Zombicide series, in which players have to fight (or eat) their way through New York City. Players will need to work together against a simple AI system that levels up as you do in order to complete objectives and various missions on maps using a modular tile system. According to the Kickstarter campaign, gameplay is suitable for players aged 14+, and a standard session should take roughly an hour.

Heroes, we have just reached our 2nd MILLION (wow!), and with that released our first Stretch Goals: Luke Cage joins the fray as both a zombie AND a hero! Let's see what we will unlock next: https://t.co/UDoTN0dz6A pic.twitter.com/VAS6hwTiXF

— CMON (@CMONGames) January 18, 2022

Having initially set out a crowdfunding goal of $500,000 dollars, at the time of writing the project has amassed almost seven times that value as it closes in on the $3.5 million mark with fifteen days of the campaign still left on the clock.

Throughout the Kickstarter, those funding the campaign have three main pledge options that they can buy into. The base option or Undead Pledge starts at $130, which is followed by the Resistance Pledge at $240, and finally a Galactus Pledge for those who want to purchase the game in its most complete form at $410.

Those buying into the game's Undead Pledge will gain access to zombie mode, where you'll play as a number of undead Marvel heroes (including the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Hulk, and Deadpool) and co-operate with other players to complete objectives, feed off innocent bystanders and fight off living superheroes.

Make way for this cold-blooded hero: the Winter Soldier joins the fight! https://t.co/KUzNrpUGvF pic.twitter.com/R5WSYxrwCc

— CMON (@CMONGames) January 19, 2022

The game's Resistance Pledge includes its original Zombies Mode as well as an X-Men Hero mode. Throughout this take on the game, you'll play as a number of living X-Men mutants (Storm, Mystique, Magneto, Colossus, Wolverine, and Rogue) as you look to save bystanders from harm and fight off waves of undead mutants and zombie heroes.

The two different versions of the game each bring with them a number of unique bystanders including but not limited to Aunt May, Pepper Potts, J. Jonah Jameson, and many more. Fans looking to get the absolute most out of their experience can also opt to fund the game's Galactus Pledge tier, which as well as including the two previously mentioned versions of the game also comes with a huge Galactus game piece and additional ways to play.

As Marvel Zombies continues to gather funding from fans on Kickstarter, the team has also released a number of additional heroes as stretch goals including Luke Cage, Beast, and The Winter Soldier. With plenty of time still remaining before the campaign concludes, it's almost certain that a range of additional heroes (and their undead counterparts) are still set to join the fight.

In other similar news, why not check out this article detailing how an Avatar Legends RPG tabletop game became the biggest ever tabletop RPG to launch on Kickstarter last August.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

A Marvel Zombies board game surpassed $2.5 million dollars on Kickstarter just two hours after it launched on the crowdfunding platform.

Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game, which is being produced by CMON and Spin Master Games, launched on the platform yesterday and has already garnered a huge amount of backing from fans. After just two hours on the website, the game had eclipsed the $2.5 million mark and has continued to gain further support in the hours since.

Upon launch, Marvel Zombies will be a cooperative board game for 1 to 6 players based on the core mechanics of the Zombicide series, in which players have to fight (or eat) their way through New York City. Players will need to work together against a simple AI system that levels up as you do in order to complete objectives and various missions on maps using a modular tile system. According to the Kickstarter campaign, gameplay is suitable for players aged 14+, and a standard session should take roughly an hour.

Heroes, we have just reached our 2nd MILLION (wow!), and with that released our first Stretch Goals: Luke Cage joins the fray as both a zombie AND a hero! Let's see what we will unlock next: https://t.co/UDoTN0dz6A pic.twitter.com/VAS6hwTiXF

— CMON (@CMONGames) January 18, 2022

Having initially set out a crowdfunding goal of $500,000 dollars, at the time of writing the project has amassed almost seven times that value as it closes in on the $3.5 million mark with fifteen days of the campaign still left on the clock.

Throughout the Kickstarter, those funding the campaign have three main pledge options that they can buy into. The base option or Undead Pledge starts at $130, which is followed by the Resistance Pledge at $240, and finally a Galactus Pledge for those who want to purchase the game in its most complete form at $410.

Those buying into the game's Undead Pledge will gain access to zombie mode, where you'll play as a number of undead Marvel heroes (including the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Hulk, and Deadpool) and co-operate with other players to complete objectives, feed off innocent bystanders and fight off living superheroes.

Make way for this cold-blooded hero: the Winter Soldier joins the fight! https://t.co/KUzNrpUGvF pic.twitter.com/R5WSYxrwCc

— CMON (@CMONGames) January 19, 2022

The game's Resistance Pledge includes its original Zombies Mode as well as an X-Men Hero mode. Throughout this take on the game, you'll play as a number of living X-Men mutants (Storm, Mystique, Magneto, Colossus, Wolverine, and Rogue) as you look to save bystanders from harm and fight off waves of undead mutants and zombie heroes.

The two different versions of the game each bring with them a number of unique bystanders including but not limited to Aunt May, Pepper Potts, J. Jonah Jameson, and many more. Fans looking to get the absolute most out of their experience can also opt to fund the game's Galactus Pledge tier, which as well as including the two previously mentioned versions of the game also comes with a huge Galactus game piece and additional ways to play.

As Marvel Zombies continues to gather funding from fans on Kickstarter, the team has also released a number of additional heroes as stretch goals including Luke Cage, Beast, and The Winter Soldier. With plenty of time still remaining before the campaign concludes, it's almost certain that a range of additional heroes (and their undead counterparts) are still set to join the fight.

In other similar news, why not check out this article detailing how an Avatar Legends RPG tabletop game became the biggest ever tabletop RPG to launch on Kickstarter last August.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

A group of Firaxis Games veterans has announced a brand new Maryland-based studio called Bit Reactor which will be focused on turn-based strategy games.

Bit Reactor will be headed up by former Firaxis art director Greg Foertsch, who worked with Firaxis for over 20 years on games including XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, Civilization 3, and Civilization 4. Other members of the studio include former lead developers and creatives who also worked on the XCOM franchise.

The studio will focus on turn-based strategy games, with Foertsch saying that the genre has been "greatly overlooked" amid the current new generation of technology and that tactics games have "an enormous amount of room for innovation." Multiple unannounced games are currently in the works.

Whatever Bit Reactor is working on, we can only hope it's as solid as XCOM 2, which we found to be a brilliant new spin on great tactical combat in our 2016 review. We were also pretty big fans of Civilization 6, with its impressively robust features right at launch as well as its new ideas establishing a separate identity from previous Civilization games.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

A group of Firaxis Games veterans has announced a brand new Maryland-based studio called Bit Reactor which will be focused on turn-based strategy games.

Bit Reactor will be headed up by former Firaxis art director Greg Foertsch, who worked with Firaxis for over 20 years on games including XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, Civilization 3, and Civilization 4. Other members of the studio include former lead developers and creatives who also worked on the XCOM franchise.

The studio will focus on turn-based strategy games, with Foertsch saying that the genre has been "greatly overlooked" amid the current new generation of technology and that tactics games have "an enormous amount of room for innovation." Multiple unannounced games are currently in the works.

Whatever Bit Reactor is working on, we can only hope it's as solid as XCOM 2, which we found to be a brilliant new spin on great tactical combat in our 2016 review. We were also pretty big fans of Civilization 6, with its impressively robust features right at launch as well as its new ideas establishing a separate identity from previous Civilization games.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

King of the Hill is set to make a comeback, 25 years after Fox launched the original animated sitcom and introduced us to Hank and the gang.

You may want to meet us in the alley because the word on the street is that King of the Hill is being revived. According to The Hollywood Reporter, original series creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge have reunited to form their own animation company called Bandera Entertainment that has more than a dozen animated series in various stages of development.

Daniels and Judge haven't shared any official details about the return of King of the Hill, other than to say that something is in the works. Other projects at Bandera include Netflix's newly ordered Bad Crimes, starring Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus, and Freeform's previously announced Praise Petey, headlined by Schitt's Creek vet Annie Murphy.

"We were very excited to go into different tones and different styles and try to expand the animation art form," Daniels said of Bandera's animation slate. "We're in a golden age for content, right? That's animation, too. That was one of the things we were talking about in founding the company: 'Let's push animation into all these different genres.'"

King of the Hill aired for 13 seasons on Fox between 1997 and 2009, making it one of the most successful animated sitcoms to debut in the wake of The Simpsons. The series follows the mundane day-to-day struggles of Hank Hill, his family, and the many other eccentric personalities in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, the heartland of America.

Writer Brent Forrester previously teased the possibility of a King of the Hill revival in March last year when he revealed that both Daniels and Judge were locked in "hot negotiations" to revive the popular Fox series, which would see Hank Hill and his family drawn back to life at a time when the "characters have all aged 15 years" following the events of the series finale.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.