Yearly Archives: 2018
Out This Week: Fallout 76, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Out This Week: Fallout 76, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Netflix’s Korean Horror Series Looks Insane!
Early 2019 is already shaping up to be a terrifyingly-good year for Netflix, with its latest action-thriller series, titled Kingdom, set to release on January 25.
According to a synopsis from Netflix, "The eight-episode series, produced by a prominent Korean Drama production company, Astory, is set in Korea’s medieval Joseon period where a crown prince is sent on a suicide mission to investigate a mysterious outbreak that leads him to a brutal truth that threatens the kingdom."
For a better look at Kingdom, check out the exciting new teaser trailer below:
The streaming provider says that Kingdom "breaks new ground by combining two popular genres in one series: historical period drama and zombie action-thriller. The show is a collaboration between two of Korea’s strongest storytellers - director Kim Seong-hun whose latest success Tunnel was a top five movie in the Korean box office last year; and writer Kim Eun-hee whose series Signal was one of the top K-dramas in 2016."
Netflix’s Korean Horror Series Looks Insane!
Early 2019 is already shaping up to be a terrifyingly-good year for Netflix, with its latest action-thriller series, titled Kingdom, set to release on January 25.
According to a synopsis from Netflix, "The eight-episode series, produced by a prominent Korean Drama production company, Astory, is set in Korea’s medieval Joseon period where a crown prince is sent on a suicide mission to investigate a mysterious outbreak that leads him to a brutal truth that threatens the kingdom."
For a better look at Kingdom, check out the exciting new teaser trailer below:
The streaming provider says that Kingdom "breaks new ground by combining two popular genres in one series: historical period drama and zombie action-thriller. The show is a collaboration between two of Korea’s strongest storytellers - director Kim Seong-hun whose latest success Tunnel was a top five movie in the Korean box office last year; and writer Kim Eun-hee whose series Signal was one of the top K-dramas in 2016."
Best Xbox Gifts of 2018
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The Xbox One has come into its own over the last few years. With 4K Blu-ray and HDR support on both the Xbox One S and the Xbox One X, as well as gorgeous native 4K on the Xbox One X, it's the best possible way to enjoy 4K movies and games right now. But Microsoft's console also plays Xbox 360 and even some original Xbox games, making it great gift for anyone who still has a stack of great, older games on the shelf.
If you want to give the best Xbox gifts this holiday season, we've put together this guide to help you out.
Best Xbox Gifts of 2018
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The Xbox One has come into its own over the last few years. With 4K Blu-ray and HDR support on both the Xbox One S and the Xbox One X, as well as gorgeous native 4K on the Xbox One X, it's the best possible way to enjoy 4K movies and games right now. But Microsoft's console also plays Xbox 360 and even some original Xbox games, making it great gift for anyone who still has a stack of great, older games on the shelf.
If you want to give the best Xbox gifts this holiday season, we've put together this guide to help you out.
Take Your PC Gaming on the Road With These Powerful Gaming Laptops
Gaming laptops aren't the neutered boat anchors from the days of yore. Thanks to CPU and GPU advancements, modern-day gaming notebooks can be as capable as their gaming PC counterparts. Some even can overclock their components, feature desktop-grade gaming keyboards, and employ unique form factors to make them even more effective.
These days the best gaming laptops are thin and powerful, thanks to some of the most powerful mobile processors from Intel's Core and AMD's Ryzen series. Don't think mobile GPUs are a joke either, Nvidia's Turing line has enabled gaming laptops to play games at 4K with a respectable frame rate for the first time.
The Best Gaming Laptop
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Updated: November 2018
Gaming laptops are no longer the neutered boat anchors from the days of yore thanks to advancements in CPU and GPU technology, along with the addition of solid state drives. These days the best gaming laptops are thin and powerful, whereas not too long ago you could have one or the other, but not both. And although a laptop still can't hold a candle to a full blown gaming PC, they're a darn fine alternative in a much more portable package. Though we haven't seen any new mobile GPUs in some time, Intel recently released its six-core Coffee Lake CPUs for mobile, so they've added two more cores to the recipe, and could be a boon for anyone who uses their laptop for video encoding, rendering, and other CPU intensive tasks.
Crackdown 3’s Cloud-Powered Multiplayer Is Real and We Finally Played It
Dropping an entire building on my enemies while leaping up in the skies and going through the windows of a building has never been so colorful until I did it in the multiplayer mode of Crackdown 3. At this past weekend’s X018 event, Microsoft gave a new, earlier release date for their next big first-party exclusive (February 15) and formally presented its multiplayer mode. It’s called Wrecking Zone, it puts the “power of the cloud” to work, in real time, and we got to play it.
The mode we tried is called Agent Hunter. This is a 5v5 match where both teams have to face each other in a 10-minute round. The objective is to kill and obtain the greatest number of Badges that the enemies drop when they die. The twist in this mode is that what counts is not the kills, but the Badges obtained. These disappear after 10 seconds, so you must be fast or have been close to the enemy to get them, otherwise your effort will have been in vain. Considering that enemies can be over or below you, you have to think twice when and where you make that final shot.
Crackdown 3’s Cloud-Powered Multiplayer Is Real and We Finally Played It
Dropping an entire building on my enemies while leaping up in the skies and going through the windows of a building has never been so colorful until I did it in the multiplayer mode of Crackdown 3. At this past weekend’s X018 event, Microsoft gave a new, earlier release date for their next big first-party exclusive (February 15) and formally presented its multiplayer mode. It’s called Wrecking Zone, it puts the “power of the cloud” to work, in real time, and we got to play it.
The mode we tried is called Agent Hunter. This is a 5v5 match where both teams have to face each other in a 10-minute round. The objective is to kill and obtain the greatest number of Badges that the enemies drop when they die. The twist in this mode is that what counts is not the kills, but the Badges obtained. These disappear after 10 seconds, so you must be fast or have been close to the enemy to get them, otherwise your effort will have been in vain. Considering that enemies can be over or below you, you have to think twice when and where you make that final shot.