Revisiting the Early Days of LucasArts With David Fox
Cast your mind back to 1982. It was a time of rapid technological progress – the Commodore 64 was introduced, Microsoft’s first Flight Simulator was released, Silicon Graphics and Adobe were founded, Sony debuted the 3.5inch floppy and Tron transported audiences inside the machine. Such was the promise and impact of home computers that - at the year’s end - Time magazine hailed the home computer as the ‘machine of the year,’ in place of its annual ‘man of the year’ cover story. (Yes, man of the year. That didn’t change until 1999.)
Take that, feeble humans!
This Week’s Deals With Gold Includes Skyrim, Sunset Overdrive
This week’s Deals With Gold offers a selection of discounted Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles and downloadable content, featuring Capcom Vancouver’s survival horror Dead Rising 3, Insomniac Games’ third-person shooter Sunset Overdrive and Frima Studio’s couch co-op platformer Chariot.
Five downloadable Xbox One games and DLC have been reduced by up to 50 percent off, such as Dead Rising 3: Apocalypse Edition, Sunset Overdrive and Chariot. Discounted titles marked with an asterisk are only available for Xbox Live Gold members:
Simon Pegg Will Co-Write Star Trek 3
Scotty actor Simon Pegg will be givin' her all she's got, cap'n, behind the camera as well as in front of it on Star Trek 3.
Deadline reports that Pegg, who plays the USS Enterprise's chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the rebooted film series, will co-write the script with Doug Jung, the creator of the TNT series Dark Blue. The original Trek 3 script had been worked on by Roberto Orci, who dropped out of both directing and writing the film. (Patrick McKay and John D. Payne were also writers on Trek 3.)
No Suicide Squad for Jake Gyllenhaal
Warner Bros.' Suicide Squad still needs to find their team leader.
Variety reports that Jake Gyllenhaal has passed on the role of Rick Flag, the field commander of the DC Comics supervillain team. The studio and director David Ayer, who had worked with Gyllenhaal on End of Watch, will continue their hunt for a replacement.
Tom Hardy had initially been cast as Flag, but recently dropped out of the movie (reportedly over either scheduling issues or script concerns, depending on who you ask).
Podcast Unlocked: Is HoloLens the Xbox’s Future?
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Packed show! We distill the Windows 10 event down to what it means for Xbox, including the HoloLens AR glasses that may sound familiar if you remember "Fortaleza" from the big Xbox One leak in 2012. Plus: we reflect on the Halo 5 beta, the Xbox One goes back to $349...again, and Undead Labs CEO Jeff Strain sits in for an epic 50-minute interview that covers his fascinating past working at Blizzard, his present-day State of Decay success, and his online future.
Tune In to Our Advanced Warfare DLC Live Stream Next Week
Next Monday, IGN is bringing you an exclusive first look at Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Havoc DLC.
Tune in on January 26 at 11am PT (2pm ET, 7pm GMT, and January 27 at 6am AET) for live gameplay of each new Havoc multiplayer map, followed by a few rounds of the new Exo-Zombies mode.
IGN's Alfredo Diaz and Brian Albert will host the show, alongside members of the Sledgehammer Games development team, and professional NFL players.
Activision recently showed off the characters of its upcoming Exo-Zombies mode in the Havoc trailer above. Let us know if you want us to play as Bill Paxton, Rose McGowan, John Malkovich, or Jon Bernthal in the comments below.
Monster Hunter 4 Demo Codes: Did You Get One?
Nintendo has been sending out Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate codes to lucky 3DS owners in North America. The codes arrive via email, so if you haven't checked your email yet, we'll wait.
Now that you're back, the demo, which Nintendo first announced during last week's Nintendo Direct, has a tutorial mode to help ease gamers into what fans of the series insist is a fun and rewarding, if not a little obtuse, game.
The Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate launch date is February 13, which coincides with the release of the New 3DSXL. It also coincides with the release of a special edition Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate 3DSXL, which carries a suggested retail price of $230.
TV Podcast: 24 Without Jack, No Hannibal Until Summer, More
After two jam-packed weeks at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, Eric and Roth return to look back on all we learned in Pasadena, CA.
After sharing stories of what happened at TCA, both happy and uncomfortable, we move onto all the news that came out of press tour, including the CW giving early renewals to almost its entire current line-up -- including Arrow, The Flash, The 100, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Reign and Jane the Virgin -- and a lot of conflicting messaging on whether CBS’s Supergirl can do crossovers with The Flash and Arrow. We also talk about FOX revealing X-Files may be coming back, 24 could continue without Jack Bauer and Sleepy Hollow dialing back from serialization – as the network renewed Gotham, Empire and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Plus, Zachary Levi was cast in Heroes: Reborn and Hannibal won’t be back until summer.
Destiny’s Crota’s End Hard Mode Beaten in Under 30 Minutes
The best-of-the-best Destiny players rushed to claim the title of first to beat game's new Crota's End Hard Mode, with fire team One and Done completing the raid in just 27 minutes. The new mode went live a 9:30 PT this morning.
Bungie confirmed One and Done as the first to complete the new mode on its Twitter account. The official top 5 teams will be posted in the next Bungie weekly update.
IGN had its own fire team assembled to take down Crota. Alfredo Diaz, aka AlfredoPlays, said that raid, which is part of the Dark Below expansion, is more or less the same. Right up until the final encounter, that is.
Davies Would Be Up for a Doctor Who Movie
Former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies isn't done with the Whoniverse just yet.
Radio Times reports that while on Radio 2, Davies told host Graham Norton that a Doctor Who movie would be "glorious," adding, "Imagine queuing up at the cinema to go and see a Doctor Who film." And yes, Davies would be up for writing the feature as well.
“Yes please! If we could get the lawyers and contracts flying now… You know I would do that because I think there’s a big leap to be made on to the screen," Davies said. "Oh, I can hear the Doctor Who office with their head in their hands now going, 'shut up, Davies, shut up.' I have literally just realised where I am – broadcasting to the nation. I'm in trouble now… They'll kill me for that!"