Yearly Archives: 2018
My Hero Academia Cosplay at Anime Expo
Anime Expo 2018 is currently underway and a number of fans showed up to the event sporting some incredible My Hero Academia cosplay.
IGN is on location in Los Angeles and attended the My Hero Academia meetup to take some photos of the super talented cosplayers. Check out the gallery below to see cosplay of Deku, Bakugo, Todoroki, Toga, and many more characters from the hit anime series.
Anime Expo attendees had to opportunity to see the world premiere screening of My Hero Academia: Two Heroes. While you wait for our forthcoming review of the film, watch the video below to see our initial reactions.
For more from Anime Expo 2018, check out the latest details about the upcoming Kill la Kill game and our interview with Trigger, Arc System Works, and APLUS to find out how they're striving to make Kill la Kill the Game: If feel like the anime.
Meet the Fans Resurrecting a Legendary Cancelled LEGO Bionicle Game
When Bionicle: Tales of the Tohunga was released for the GameBoy Advance back in 2001, it was poorly received, to say the least. A licensed game themed around LEGO’s hugely popular Bionicles figures, IGN gave it a 4.5, saying “I've had more fun watching my grandmother play bingo.” It even immediately faced legal trouble, having to be renamed post-launch after Maori tribes from New Zealand complained about LEGO’s blatant cultural appropriation.
But Bionicles fans still found something to like in it, and those who managed to beat it were rewarded with a glimpse at what was next. The GBA game ended with a special cutscene showing the mythical Toa arriving on the island of Mata Nui, an exciting tease for a planned PC-exclusive sequel called Bionicle: The Legend of Mata Nui -- but 17 years later that sequel has still never materialised.
5 References to the ‘PlayStation5′ and ‘Xbox Two’ Next-Gen Consoles
While we’re constantly speculating on what the future of video games has in store, E3 2018 marked the beginning of folks in the industry directly referencing the next generation of consoles. Not mid-generation improvements like the Pro and the X, but, for lack of official names, the PlayStation 5 and the “Xbox Two,” which seems to be codenamed Scarlet. More on that later.
From rumors to speculation to concrete details, here are are 5 references to the next generation of consoles that came out of E3 2018.
Next-gen talk kicked into gear during the final moments of Bethesda’s E3 2018 conference. After showing off extended demos Rage 2 and Fallout 76, both of which should be in our hands in less than a year, Todd Howard capped off the show with two brief, but important announcements. Starfield, the long-rumored “third open-world pillar” for Bethesda, and The Elder Scrolls 6.
Guild Wars 2 Writers Fired After Twitter Dispute With Streamer
Writers Jessica Price and Peter Fries were let go by developer ArenaNet after a contentious Twitter exchange with a partnered YouTuber Thursday.
It began Tuesday when Price tweeted out a thread that expanded on a recent Reddit AMA regarding how to develop personable characters in an MMO. She outlined the difficulty in crafting a unique character, which is also supposed to act as a cypher for a multitude of diverse players.
"The dirty secret is I'm not sure if it's possible to make an MMORPG (or CRPG) character compelling, because people have different expectations about what that character will be, as opposed to a pre-designed character in a single-player game," she tweeted.
The 15 Best Comic-Con 2018 Panels to Be Excited For
Comic-Con 2018 is going to be a weird one compared to usual years, at least in regard to its panels. Marvel won’t have its traditionally enormous movie panel that usual gives us a glimpse at upcoming movies, and HBO won’t be bringing a hard hitter like Game of Thrones.
But that doesn’t mean this year’s panel line-up isn’t still a busy one! There will be tons of talks with footage from new movies, TV shows, comics, and games, all of which are sure to be loaded with surprises. Here are 15 panels we're most excited about.
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Makes $1 Billion at the Worldwide Box Office
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, becoming the 35th movie to do so, not adjusted for inflation.
According to THR, the sequel reached the milestone on Thursday, with a domestic haul of $304.8 million and an additional $700.7 million from overseas, with $245.2 million coming from China alone. In the slideshow below, you can see the 34 other movies that have already joined the box office billionaire's club.
While it's unlikely that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will reach the financial heights of its predecessor back in 2015 ($1.671 billion), the sequel is still considered a success, and is now the third movie in 2018 to cross $1 billion, behind Black Panther ($1.346 billion) and Avengers: Infinity War ($2.037).
The First Purge: How We Got Here
It’s no secret that The Purge films are as heavy with political commentary as they are with “the humans are the real monsters” cliches and buckets of gore. Like any good horror flick worth its salt, these films carry important messages regarding the current state of affairs in our American society. Such commentary is, after all, a horror tradition. (Consider the bleak stance on racism in the Civil Rights era offered by George A. Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead, or the Reagan-era class warfare and conformity of 1988’s They Live.)
The Purge films take place in a future where a far-right political faction called the New Founding Fathers of America has risen to power and ratified a 28th Amendment to the Constitution, sanctioning an annual night of uncontrolled violence and crime. While the given reason for the Purge is to curb violence for the rest of the year, subsequent films reveal it’s actually an excuse for eliminating poor and marginalized communities.
10 Upcoming Apocalypse Games
The apocalypse is a topic and setting that countless games have explored throughout the years, but we can’t quite put our finger on why. Maybe it’s because we find some source of solace in their cautionary tales of a bleak future that’s yet to come. Maybe it’s because in these darkest of times, true heroes arise. Or maybe it’s just because we like roaming the wastelands in search of mutated ghouls to fight.
No matter the reason, here are 10 games that will help prepare you for when the world ends.
Fallout 76
It’s fitting that a list about the apocalypse starts with Fallout, a series synonymous with the topic. Through the Fallout games have always had us roaming the wastelands by ourselves, November’s Fallout 76 is making the whole thing more social. The idea of scavenging with pals, crafting a makeshift shelter, and launching a couple of nukes at our enemies seems downright awesome. But only time will tell if this drastic shift to the series will alienate some longtime fans.
Black Panther vs. Deadpool Coming From Marvel Comics
Wakanda and pure insanity are going to collide in Black Panther vs. Deadpool, a new limited series officially announced by Marvel.
As reported by AIPT!, Black Panther vs. Deadpool will feature writer Daniel Kibblesmith and artist Ricardo Lopez Ortiz. Kibblesmith is known from his work on Lockjaw and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Ortiz has worked on Hit-Girl and Civil War II: Kingpin.
The five-issue run of Black Panther vs. Deadpool is set to debut on October 3.
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X-Force’s Shatterstar Gets ‘Noir’ Solo Series
Shatterstar, the mutant superhero known for his time in the X-Men offshoot X-Force, is getting his own "hardboiled noir" solo series.
Announced by Marvel, writer Tim Seeley and artist Carlos Villa are set to debut a limited five-issue series of Shatterstar comics on October 3 starting with Shatterstar #1.
The upcoming series is described as "part John Wick, a dash of Will Eisner’s A Contract with God, and infused with lots of lots of interdimensional X-Men Super Hero mythos.”
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