Yearly Archives: 2018
Fortnite: Live Cube Event Scheduled for Today
Another one-time Fortnite event is set to begin today at 10 am PT/1 pm ET where players can watch the almighty cube make its next big move.
Epic announced the in-game event earlier this morning with a simple tease of the cube's "overwhelming" power. Players expecting to watch the event through the Playground mode will be left disappointed as it appears Epic has disabled both the Disco Domination and Playground playlists. Epic also suggests players log onto Fortnite early to avoid queue times.
According to Fortnite Intel, datamined code for the event suggests players won't be able to use weapons or defeat other players. Regardless, we suggest staying cautious throughout the event. During a previous event, one player managed to break the solo kill record with 33 kills by destroying a ramp holding a group of players.
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Forget About WWE Crown Jewel, But Don’t Forgive
Right up front, I didn't watch WWE Crown Jewel. I may someday but, most likely, probably not. So sharpen all your "you can't complain about something you didn't watch" swords. Lunge at me all you'd like.
Now that the dust has settled from WWE's second, and far more controversial of the two, Saudi Arabian PPV event, it's time to take some serious freakin' stock. While also acknowledging that Saudi Arabia isn't the only country WWE's recently rented out its services to, as Australia's Super Show-Down PPV was just a little over a month ago.
Red Dead 2 Might Be Rockstar’s Best Story Ever
Red Dead Redemption 2's story has captivated many of us here at IGN, including the cast of our weekly PlayStation show, Beyond!
Watch the video above to see host Jonathon Dornbush speak with Brian Altano, Barrett Courtney, and Max Scoville discuss what they've enjoyed about Arthur Morgan's story as they dive into Rockstar Games' latest, and why they think it may have surpassed all of the studio's previous narratives.
If you enjoy that conversation, be sure to check out Beyond's discussion about whether the PlayStation Classic is worth $100, and this week's full episode of Beyond, as the cast discusses whether Red Dead Redemption 2 tries to be too realistic.
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How the Final Fantasy Card Game Was Created
The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game is releasing its 7th set in the series this weekend after initial releasing in 2016.
The trading card game has added many characters from the Final Fantasy series such as Crystal Chronicles, Dissidia, and Tactics Advance. With the 2018 World Championships just around the corner on November 24th in London, we interviewed FFTCG and Hobby Japan Producer, Tarou Kageyama, about the game and how it was created.
IGN: For those not familiar with the game, could you give our audience a brief rundown on Final Fantasy TCG?
FFTCG is a one-on-one competitive trading card game based on characters from the FINAL FANTASY series where players utilize familiar characters and monsters to inflict damage on their opponents. It features many characters from both mainline and spin-off games from the series.
How the Final Fantasy Card Game Was Created
The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game is releasing its 7th set in the series this weekend after initial releasing in 2016.
The trading card game has added many characters from the Final Fantasy series such as Crystal Chronicles, Dissidia, and Tactics Advance. With the 2018 World Championships just around the corner on November 24th in London, we interviewed FFTCG and Hobby Japan Producer, Tarou Kageyama, about the game and how it was created.
IGN: For those not familiar with the game, could you give our audience a brief rundown on Final Fantasy TCG?
FFTCG is a one-on-one competitive trading card game based on characters from the FINAL FANTASY series where players utilize familiar characters and monsters to inflict damage on their opponents. It features many characters from both mainline and spin-off games from the series.
Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson Wants to Play Samus in a Metroid Movie
Brie Larson will hit theaters next year as Captain Marvel, and she wouldn't mind jumping into the pilot's seat of another space-faring heroine's franchise.
Larson dressed up as Zero Suit Samus — one of the many, many confirmed characters for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — for Halloween this year. A fan then tweeted at the Captain Marvel star, asking if this costume would be the closest we'll ever get to a true Metroid movie.
"I hope not," Larson tweeted back. "I want to make that movie."
Diablo: Immortal Met with Negative Response by Fans, Blizzard Responds
UPDATE 11/2: Speaking with IGN at BlizzCon, Blizzard’s Wyatt Cheng responded to the community reaction to Diablo: Immortal’s announcement, as well as the accusations that it’s just a reskin of a previous NetEase mobile game.
“I don’t think mobile should be a dirty word,” Cheng said, explaining that the developers at Blizzard play and enjoy games on all platforms. “When it came to looking at making a new Diablo game, and this opportunity to partner with NetEase to make this – the technology is there, where our mobile phones are more powerful than ever, and they’re capable of top tier gaming experiences.”
Cheng responded to claims that Diablo: Immortal may be a reskin by saying the following: “We’ve been working with NetEase Games from the beginning as a partnership to create everything in Diablo: Immortal. We have artists on our side, they have artists on their side, and we work together as a team, as a partnership to create everything about Diablo: Immortal. The environments, the characters, the skills, the story.”
Pokemon’s Biggest TCG Set Ever Changes Everything
Pokemon just released its biggest Trading Card Game set ever with Sun & Moon: Lost Thunder. At 236 cards, it beats out the previous record holder from 2003, Aquapolis with 186 cards. Lost Thunder is such a big set because instead of combining two Japanese sets into one to be sold in the US, as per usual, it’s combining three -- Explosive Impact, Fairy Rise, and Thunderclap Spark. The result is a gargantuan set, the first to ever break 200 cards in the history of the Pokemon TCG, that includes seven Prism Star cards and 13 Pokemon-GX, plus a handful of Secret Rares.
Lost Thunder is poised to make a huge impact (an explosive impact, even) on the competitive scene. Typically, a set will introduce a couple new deck archetypes, and maybe one of them will be competitively viable, but the sheer size of this set means there are numerous powerful decks all hitting at once. The Standard metagame was just starting to stabilize with the likes of Malamar, Zoroark/Lycanroc, Buzzwole/Lycanroc, Buzzwole/Shrine, and Vikavolt/Rayquaza forming the top tier, but this set shakes everything up with a high number of new cards that are instantly viable. Suddenly we’re in a wild west metagame where the old power structure has been thrown out the window and anything goes.