DC's feature-length animated Injustice movie officially has a release date of October 19, 2021. It will launch on Blu-ray and Digital formats.

The movie is based on the fighting video game series of the same name, which includes 2013's Injustice: Gods Among Us and 2017's Injustice 2. Developed by Mortal Kombat studio NetherRealm, the series is set in an alternate universe where Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane, sending him down a dark path.

The movie is set to be based on the first game, as well as the best-selling graphic novel based on the series, titled Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year One.

The Injustice movie cast features Justin Hartley as Superman, who is no stranger to the DC universe. Hartley is known for playing Green Arrow in Smallville. Anson Mount, who plays Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Discovery, will star alongside Hartley as Batman. Other members of the cast include Laura Bailey, Yuri Lowenthal, and Steven Universe's Zach Callison.

The film features a script by the writer of Batman: Hush, Ernie Altbacker, and is directed by Matt Peters, who directed Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.

While you're waiting for the Injustice movie, check out IGN's review of Batman: The Long Halloween Part One and Part Two. And, if you need to get caught up on the Injustice hype, take a look at IGN's Injustice: Gods Among Us explainer.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has announced a set of changes and future intentions following the community’s outcry to its handling of COVID-19 related alterations.

Following the announcement that the interaction radius for PokéStops and Gyms would be kept at 80 meters instead of the previously proposed 40 meters, Niantic has also said that it intends to roll out seasonal bonuses on a global level, rather than country-by-country. It has also set out plans to keep in closer contact with players via regular developer diaries and conversations with community leaders.

Starting in October, Niantic will publish a developer diary every other month that explains the company’s current priorities, events, and planned features for the game. Additionally, the Known Issues page on the Pokémon Go website will be updated to allow greater visibility of the status of bugs.

Following the outcry about PokéStops and Gyms having their interaction radius reduced, Niantic spoke with 30 community leaders from around the world. The developer intends to continue these conversations on a regular basis.

In a statement released by Niantic, executive producer Steve Wang said “The lack of communication regarding the PokéStop and Gym interaction radius was not handled well on our part, and it was a great learning experience on how to better engage with our players moving forward.”

While the distances for PokéStops and Gyms will stay at 80 meters, Wang still hopes to encourage people to head out into the world. “We still believe in the importance of discovering interesting places and things in the real world, and we don’t want to lose sight of that,” he said. “The team and I are eager to develop new ways that motivate and reward Trainers for exploring and exercising in the real world. As a result of the taskforce, we have new ideas to explore and we look forward to sharing more in the coming months.”

Additionally, the developer’s experience with adjusting settings for New Zealand in response to the country’s lockdown has encouraged it to abandon a country-by-country approach and opt for global changes. Starting with the Season of Mischief, all bonuses will be set at a global level and be tied directly to the seasons in the game.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niantic made several changes to Pokémon Go to make it easier to play during lockdown conditions. These changes were enthusiastically received by the community as it not only permitted play during quarantine, but also opened up the game to disabled players and other groups who previously struggled to play. The roll back of these changes sparked community backlash, online fury, and an eventual back and forth between Niantic and fans in search of a solution.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

PlayStation has announced that the PS Plus lineup for September 2021 includes Overcooked: All You Can Eat, Hitman 2, and Predator: Hunting Grounds. Overcooked is for PlayStation 5 owners, and the other two titles will be available on PS4. The new games arrive next week, on September 7.

Overcooked: All You Can Eat includes remastered versions of all the content from Overcooked and Overcooked 2, as well as every piece of DLC. The crazy cooking game touts local and online multiplayer, so you can get together with your friends and family to play with too many cooks in the kitchen.

Hitman 2 takes Agent 47's assassination shenanigans to new sandbox locations around the globe. Hitman 2 introduced new features to the series, including a Sniper Assassin mode and co-op play for the first time in the franchise. Earlier this year, IO Interactive continued the series with Hitman 3, which we called 'Amazing' in our Hitman 3 review.

Finally, Predator: Hunting Grounds is an asymmetrical multiplayer shooter that finds humans facing off against the Predator. In IGN's review, we said, "There’s a consistently enjoyable experience buried somewhere in the janky jungle of Predator: Hunting Grounds, but it’s just not that easy to find yet." However, if you're a fan of the original Predator movie, you can find Arnold Schwarzenegger's Dutch as DLC in the game.

The games will be available from September 7 to October 4. August's PS Plus games, which include Hunter's Arena: Legends, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, and Tennis World Tour 2, are still available for download until September 6.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Aside from the occasional piece of concept art surfacing online, news about Neill Blomkamp's Alien sequel is mostly a thing of the past with the film's fate having been sealed many years ago. However, the director recently opened up further on his attachment to Alien 5, the status of the film, and the support he had from Sigourney Weaver on the project.

In an interview with the Independent, Blomkamp was asked about whether there he had any interest in the discontinued Alien project. Blomkamp answered, "I don't know, to be honest. I'm not sure that I would do that project. My assumption is that it's completely dead."

The director went on to reaffirm that whilst Alien star Sigourney Weaver had shown support for the project, it had broken down on Fox's end. "Sigourney was unbelievably supportive and amazing. I have nothing but the best things to say about Sigourney," said Blomkamp. "I’m such a fan of hers on every level. She was always into the project, but Fox just clearly doesn’t want it. I haven’t had anything to do with that for years."

Weaver's interest in creating a fifth Alien movie spans back long before Blomkamp's Alien 5 was suggested to be in the works. In 2004, IGN reported that Weaver had suggested to Fox that she "thought it would be interesting to do a small, spooky movie" in the form of a psychological thriller that could "take Ripley to whatever the next stage may be."

Despite confirmation that Blomkamp isn't currently interested in revisiting Alien 5, he didn't completely rule out one day looping back to the concept. "I wonder if it’s possible to do an entire loop, where you're really into it up until the point it gets shut down, then you lose interest and years go by and you loop all the way back around to being really into it again. Maybe that’s hypothetically possible," he concluded with the Independent.

Currently, the only Alien project in the works is Noah Hawley's TV series for FX. The Alien series is not a Ripley story but will be heavily steeped in the Alien universe established in the movies.

Whilst no new news surrounding Alien 5 looks set to come out anytime soon, the recent release of Aliens: Fireteam Elite has stolen a few headlines. You can read our review of the Cold Iron Studios developed co-op shooter where we gave it a 7/10. We praised the game for its wild shootouts but thought that awkward pacing and repetitive level design held it back from becoming a classic.

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

Tokyo Game Show's organizers have announced the schedule for this year's show, detailing what fans can expect from the four-day event. Unexpectedly, this includes a VR version that will be available on select virtual reality headsets.

The show's organizers have yet to elaborate on exactly how Tokyo Game Show VR 2021 will deliver in terms of a unique experience, but the official website teases that VR users will be able to "visit booths as if you were wandering around inside the gaming world." Organizers of the event said that the VR version of the show is a "grand experiment" and that they are "taking on the challenge of building the game show of [the] future."

Tokyo Game Show VR 2021 will be available when the show begins on September 30 and will support the following VR headsets: Oculus Quest 1 & Quest 2, Oculus Rift, and the HTC Vive. Oculus Quest owners will have the option to stream the VR version natively through their headset in addition to PC.

The website also details the specifications required to run the VR version of the showcase. This includes Quest owners having an internet connection of 20Mbps or higher if you plan to run the show natively on those VR headsets. If you are using a different headset, the website also details the PC requirements needed.

Tokyo Game Show, like E3 and Gamescom, is among the biggest of the annual gaming events – but it's the firt to try and transplant its physical edition into a VR world to allow fans to experience the showcase. Tokyo Game Show 2021, like E3 2021 and Gamescom 2021, will be online-only due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A VR version could provide gamers another way to experience the event without watching live streams on their mobile device or computer.

Tokyo Game Show 2021 is not the only event this year to try out VR, however. In August, Virtual Market 6 held an online convention and marketplace through VR Chat.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

The full Tokyo Game Show 2021 schedule has been revealed and, among other panels, the team at Xbox has teased that it will be sharing some exclusive news and content during its showcase.

Starting on September 30, the Tokyo Game Show is set to see out the month with a weekend packed full of content and showcases which will carry fans into October. In anticipation, TGS has announced its full schedule for this year's conference including an Xbox panel that is slated to share some exclusive news during its exhibit.

"Jump in and join Xbox as we bring our gaming ecosystem gaming to the world," reads Microsoft's entry on the TGS website. “We have some exclusive news and content to share and... Tokyo Game Show 2021 is our stage.” While it isn't clear what exclusive announcement the Xbox team is set to make at TGS, the schedule says Xbox's stream will be set to last 50 minutes.

Other exhibitors at the event include Konami, Capcom, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, and Genshin Impact's miHoYo. While a number of companies have kept their cards close to their chest in regard to content announcements, some exhibitors have begun to share their plans for this year's online event. Konami has announced that it will reveal new information for Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel alongside updates across other key titles, while Ubisoft says it will be showing a special program in celebration of Ubiday 2021.

Square Enix has said that its exhibit will show off “the latest news about our upcoming titles, along with pre-announced information.” Last month, IGN reported that Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida said that he'd like to show off something for the upcoming game at TGS but admitted that he was unsure whether the team would meet the deadline. With Square Enix not weighing in either way on its scheduling information, it seems that some hope remains for FF16 fans ahead of the conference.

As was the case for this year's E3 and Gamescom, the Tokyo Game Show will once again return as an online-only event. TGS says that this year, all 44 programs at the event will be distributed across various video platforms with an "English simultaneous interpretation version" also being distributed for all TGS Official Programs. To find more information out about TGS 2021, you can check out the FAQs section of their website. Alternatively, in anticipation of this year's event, why not relive the biggest news, trailers, and gameplay announcements that came out of TGS 2020.

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

The full Tokyo Game Show 2021 schedule has been revealed and, among other panels, the team at Xbox has teased that it will be sharing some exclusive news and content during its showcase.

Starting on September 30, the Tokyo Game Show is set to see out the month with a weekend packed full of content and showcases which will carry fans into October. In anticipation, TGS has announced its full schedule for this year's conference including an Xbox panel that is slated to share some exclusive news during its exhibit.

"Jump in and join Xbox as we bring our gaming ecosystem gaming to the world," reads Microsoft's entry on the TGS website. “We have some exclusive news and content to share and... Tokyo Game Show 2021 is our stage.” While it isn't clear what exclusive announcement the Xbox team is set to make at TGS, the schedule says Xbox's stream will be set to last 50 minutes.

Other exhibitors at the event include Konami, Capcom, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, and Genshin Impact's miHoYo. While a number of companies have kept their cards close to their chest in regard to content announcements, some exhibitors have begun to share their plans for this year's online event. Konami has announced that it will reveal new information for Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel alongside updates across other key titles, while Ubisoft says it will be showing a special program in celebration of Ubiday 2021.

Square Enix has said that its exhibit will show off “the latest news about our upcoming titles, along with pre-announced information.” Last month, IGN reported that Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida said that he'd like to show off something for the upcoming game at TGS but admitted that he was unsure whether the team would meet the deadline. With Square Enix not weighing in either way on its scheduling information, it seems that some hope remains for FF16 fans ahead of the conference.

As was the case for this year's E3 and Gamescom, the Tokyo Game Show will once again return as an online-only event. TGS says that this year, all 44 programs at the event will be distributed across various video platforms with an "English simultaneous interpretation version" also being distributed for all TGS Official Programs. To find more information out about TGS 2021, you can check out the FAQs section of their website. Alternatively, in anticipation of this year's event, why not relive the biggest news, trailers, and gameplay announcements that came out of TGS 2020.

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

Two new South Park movies will premiere on Paramount+ before the end of 2021.

According to ComicBook.com, Chief Programming Officer ViacomCBS Streaming Tanya Giles touched on the news during the Paramount+ panel at the Television Critics Association. Giles confirmed that the first two movies of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 14-movie deal will be released this year, with two more movies coming every year right the way through to 2027.

It was announced in August that Parker and Stone had signed a huge new deal with ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Studios that will see them develop 14 original South Park movies for Paramount+ as well as six more seasons of their flagship series at Comedy Central, plus a new video game that is being made by an in-house team at South Park Studios.

The entire South Park library is currently streaming on HBO Max, except for five of the show's most controversial episodes. The 23rd season of South Park aired in 2019 but the show has been on hiatus ever since due to the COVID-19 pandemic, apart from two hourlong specials — last October's Pandemic Special and March's South ParQ Vaccination Special.

The plots of the two new movies have been kept under wraps along with the actual release dates, but it's possible that they might end up being similar in scope and scale to the two recent specials rather than 1999's South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (which was produced on a budget of around $20 million), given they are coming out before the end of the year.

In addition to their expansive new deal, Parker and Stone have also reportedly now reached a tentative agreement to buy Casa Bonita, aka the iconic restaurant that famously featured on their hit show, after the company that owned the Colorado eatery filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April, having been shuttered for more than a year due to the pandemic.

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

Two new South Park movies will premiere on Paramount+ before the end of 2021.

According to ComicBook.com, Chief Programming Officer ViacomCBS Streaming Tanya Giles touched on the news during the Paramount+ panel at the Television Critics Association. Giles confirmed that the first two movies of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 14-movie deal will be released this year, with two more movies coming every year right the way through to 2027.

It was announced in August that Parker and Stone had signed a huge new deal with ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Studios that will see them develop 14 original South Park movies for Paramount+ as well as six more seasons of their flagship series at Comedy Central, plus a new video game that is being made by an in-house team at South Park Studios.

The entire South Park library is currently streaming on HBO Max, except for five of the show's most controversial episodes. The 23rd season of South Park aired in 2019 but the show has been on hiatus ever since due to the COVID-19 pandemic, apart from two hourlong specials — last October's Pandemic Special and March's South ParQ Vaccination Special.

The plots of the two new movies have been kept under wraps along with the actual release dates, but it's possible that they might end up being similar in scope and scale to the two recent specials rather than 1999's South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (which was produced on a budget of around $20 million), given they are coming out before the end of the year.

In addition to their expansive new deal, Parker and Stone have also reportedly now reached a tentative agreement to buy Casa Bonita, aka the iconic restaurant that famously featured on their hit show, after the company that owned the Colorado eatery filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April, having been shuttered for more than a year due to the pandemic.

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

Frontiers, the next major update for No Man's Sky, adds another layer of content to the game as it populates its procedural universe with bustling towns brimming with NPCs for players to interact with, explore, and even run – not to mention nebulas, expanded base building, improved combat, and more.

Hello Games has announced a range of details surrounding its free Frontiers expansion in a press release. The company says that since its launch, it has always wanted players to let players "step into the cover of a science fiction book" and that the release of the game's new expansion brings another aspect of that into reality. Amongst other notable additions, Frontiers will allow players to find 'living, breathing Mos Eisley type settlements' on once-barren alien planets.

Following the update, new life will spring into the game's procedurally generated landscape through NPC-populated settlements. Players embarking across galaxies will be able to interact with settlements and grant assistance to their residents many of whom will be harbored with their own problems.

In addition to providing citizen assistance, the Frontiers expansion will allow budding adventurers across the game to become the Overseer of a settlement. In addition to the new swanky title, becoming a Settlement Overseer will allow players a range of new in-game options.

First and foremost, settlement leaders will be able to grow their towns by constructing new buildings and accepting new inhabitants. According to Hello Games, newly formed settlements will start off as little more than a sparsely populated cluster of buildings inhabited by a small collection of NPCs. It will be the job of the town's newly found Overseer to govern and manage the resources necessary to allow the population of the settlement to grow and become a flourishing town.

In line with the rest of the game, each settlement will be procedurally generated. This means that each community that players should happen across should be unique not only in terms of its inhabitants but also its buildings, neighborhood layout, color schemes, and both interior and exterior decorations. With the sheer size of the universe in No Man's Sky, we're willing to bet there will be some choice color combinations out there. Yellow and green anyone?

In addition to adding buildings to their new-found settlements, Overseers will also be able to make important policy decisions for their townsfolk going forward. Starting out as newly appointed galactic politicians, players will be able to grapple with a range of issues ranging from treasury management to town planning and conflict resolution. In the case of the latter, Hello Games says that when called upon to help resolve disagreements between settlers, "fair and compassionate judgments will result in happier citizens". Whilst it isn't yet clear exactly how happiness will be measured or what ramifications could result from unhappy citizens, it would certainly be an interesting twist to see a group of intergalactic NPCs surmount a revolution.

In addition to the new settlement mechanics that will feature in the Frontiers update, No Man's Sky will feature a number of other noteworthy additions in the expansion. According to Hello Games, the studio will be making a number of improvements to base building. On top of adding new structural sets of timber, stone, and alloy pieces that will allow for a greater range of building shapes, Frontiers will also add more than a hundred new decorative parts for prospective builders. The expansion will also introduce a new HUD for placing building parts and incorporate a new free place mode which will allow players to pick up, duplicate and move parts that they've already placed onto the environment.

If, instead of building bases and settling down as an intergalactic Overseer, you'd rather be flying through the vast expanse of deep space causing trouble and fighting your way through anything that stands before you, Frontiers has you covered for content there too. Interstellar clouds gathering in deep space will add vivid nebulas to No Man's Sky whilst Hello Games also notes that almost all of the game's visual effects have been improved. In terms of combat, Frontiers should make weapons and explosions feel more powerful and add "a new visceral element to combat".

Frontiers also brings the game's third Expedition, called Cartographers. "The event starts all players in the same place and, as the name suggests, focuses on planetary mapping and exploration," reads the press release. "With unique new challenges and rewards, players will need to thoroughly explore their starting world to escape the toxic atmosphere of planet Gisto Major." One of the previous expeditions added Mass Effect's Normandy ship into the game - here's hoping for similar surprises here too.

Finally, the studio has also announced that it will be running another Twitch campaign for the game soon. This means that No Man's Sky rewards will be available for players to earn by watching streamers play the game online. Despite the announcement, Hello Games hasn't shared further specifics about its upcoming Twitch campaign at the time of writing. You an read the full Frontiers patch notes right now.

If you'd like to find out more about No Man's Sky then why not check out our dedicated page for the game where you can read about the game's previous expansions and more.

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