Daily Deals: Steam Sale Day 2, Game of Thrones Four Season Pack, $15 Off GTA V and Fallout 4 PC
Some great indies and a few AAA titles are on sale on Steam. Wolfenstein: The New Order $15, Hitman games starting at $1.79 This War of Mine $8, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut $1.50, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition $3, Child of Light $3.74, and a LEGO Games Sale.
Supergirl Cast on the Pressure to Deliver
Easily one of the most talked about new TV series coming this fall, CBS’ Supergirl -- from The Flash and Arrow executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg -- arrives with a lot of excitement and a lot of pressure, given the familiarity and built in fandom that comes with that title.
Last month, moments after the show’s trailer made its debut at CBS’s Upfront event, I had a quick chat with Supergirl herself, Melissa Benoist, and her costars Chyler Leigh (“Alex Danvers”) and Mehcad Brooks (“James Olsen”) about jumping into this DC Comics-based world and what to expect from the show and their characters.
IGN: Obviously getting a TV show picked up to series is exciting, no matter what. But a project like this means there’s so much more attention from the get go. What’s it like feeling the anticipation and hype?
Torchlight Mobile to Release on iOS, Android
Perfect World has announced Torchlight Mobile, an all-new game in the Torchlight series for iOS and Android.
Featuring online play, Torchlight Mobile has been created using the same visual style and core design elements of Runic Games' Torchlight and Torchlight II. No official release date has been announced, but it is expected to launch sometime this year. It will be featured at E3 2015. Those interested in learning more are invited to visit the official Torchlight Mobile website.
An RPG using a Diablo - style combat system, Torchlight first released for the PC in 2009 and later was ported to Mac, Linux, and the Xbox 360. Torchlight II later released in 2012 on PC and has since sold millions of copies. Read IGN's Torchlight II review to learn more.
FTC Orders Kickstarter Project Creator to Issue Refunds
A Kicksarter campaign creator has been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to issue refunds after it was discovered he was using crowdfunded money for personal expenses.
In an attempt to create the Lovecraftian board game project The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, Erik Chevalier turned to a Kickstarter campaign under the name The Forking Path, Co. to raise development funding. After raising more than $122,000 - well over its initial $35,000 goal - the campaign was deemed a success, and many of the campaign's 1,000 plus backers were promised perks for contributing certain amounts of money.
About 14 months later, however, Chevalier updated the page to announce the project was canceled, citing his lack of experience as the root cause.
App Store Update: June 12
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.
Extra Note: The App Store Update's going to be taking a break all next week, as IGN heads to Los Angeles to cover this year's E3. We'll be back on Monday, June 22!
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Breaks Kickstarter Record
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is now officially the most successful video game Kickstarter, having amassed a whopping $4.9 million in funding with eight hours of the campaign still left to go.
There are only two other game-related projects on Kickstarter that eclipse Koji Igarashi's spiritual successor to Castlevania, GamesIndustry reports, with Ouya raising $8.59 million and Exploding Kittens raking in $8.78 million. Seeing as how the former is a piece of hardware and the latter is a card game, Bloodstained now holds the crown as the most successful campaign in terms of game software.
The Leftovers: Season 2 Teaser
HBO has released a new promo for the second season of Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta's excellent, ethereal series The Leftovers.
We learned back in December that the show was undergoing some cast changes and a location change for Season 2 and this new teaser seems to reveal the new setting. Here we see a mass exodus and sign for a small Texas town with an intriguing trait. Check it out...
The Hateful Eight Getting Two Week 70mm Run
Quentin Tarantino's highly anticipated The Hateful Eight blows into theaters Christmas Day, with a limited two week 70mm run, followed by a nationwide digital release beginning January 8th.
The nationwide release will not be limited to 70mm, so don't fret if you don't have a giant screen near you.
Deadline reports that this will be widest 70mm release in 20 years, with Tarantino's enthusiasm for the format resurrecting Kodak's 70mm film stock division.
In The Hateful Eight, Tarantino revisits the Old West (last seen in 2012's Django), following the adventures of eight gunslingers trapped in a frontier weigh station during a snowstorm. Considering this is a Quentin Tarantino film, it's a safe bet that these folks end up besieged with a most violent case of cabin fever ever.
Spidey Rumor: Asa Butterfield No Longer in the Running
It sounds like one of the frontrunners for the role of Spider-Man is no longer under consideration to star in the MCU reboot.
TheWrap's film reporter Jeff Sneider appeared on the Meet the Movie Press podcast this week during which time he claimed that Ender's Game star Asa Butterfield -- once thought to be the contender to beat -- is not one of the three finalists for the title role.
Invader Zim Is Back From the Dead
The animated series Invader ZIM first debuted on Nicekodeon back in 2001. While the show never found a Spongebob Squarepants-level audience, its unique style and sense of humor attracted a cult following that remains even ten years after the final episodes aired. Now those fans can take heart that ZIM and friends are returning. Not in another animated series, but in a new ongoing comic book from Oni Press.
Oni Press Teases Invader Zim Comic
ZIM creator Jhonen Vasquez is involved with that new comic, steering its development and even writing the first two issues. We recently had the chance to speak to Vasquez via email. He discussed the joys and challenges of returning to this oddball universe after so long, how closely he and other Invader ZIM veterans are involved and in what page of the first issue GIR will die. Wait, what?