Monthly Archives: February 2019
32 Images from the Pokemon Sword and Shield Reveal Trailer (Slideshow)
PS Plus March Games Include Modern Warfare Remastered, The Witness
Sony has revealed the March 2019 games coming to PlayStation Plus members, featuring Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witness.
Announced on the PlayStation Blog, the updated first-person shooter Modern Warfare Remastered can be played in 4K on PS4 Pro. The Witness, a first-person puzzle game set on a mysterious island, was made by Braid creator Jonathan Blow. Both games will be available to download from March 5 - April 1, 2019.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witness are your free PlayStation Plus games for March! New lineup arrives Tuesday, March 5: https://t.co/6M4yBfi3xo pic.twitter.com/0ViM6bMnfT
Halo 4 Originally Pitched As Xbox One Launch Title
Halo 4, which launched on Xbox 360 in November 2012, was originally pitched as a launch title for Xbox One. In this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered (see the full episode below), Ryan McCaffrey sat down with Bonnie Ross, head of 343 Industries, and discussed the history (and alternate histories) of the Halo franchise.
When Ross originally pitched Halo 4, it was set to be a launch title for Xbox One, but when it was decided the game would launch as an "end of life-cycle" Xbox 360 title, a new plan was formed. Halo games take a minimum of three years to build, according to Ross, and moving Halo 4 away from the Xbox One release window created a gap in the launch portfolio of the new console.
SteamWorld Quest Is a Card Game RPG as Fiendish as It Is Lovely
There’s something inherently likeable about the SteamWorld series. Its hand-drawn sprites, or sheer commitment to cheeriness or unerring focus on a single, tight, mechanical design stretched to game length – one or all of these will tug a smile from players’ cold hearts eventually, no matter the game. The side-effect is that the whole SteamWorld brand has given developer Image & Form the enviable opportunity to consistently try new things, while still attracting a captive audience.
2013’s breakout Steamworld Dig, don’t forget, was the second game to bear the moniker, swapping the DSiWare original’s Tower Defence for procedurally generated platforming. Then we got Heist, which somehow wrestled the XCOM model into two dimensions, and added a weird fascination with collectible hats. Even Dig 2, the series’ first full sequel, made major changes, swapping those procedural maps for a meticulously designed experience, now prizing skilled play over the original’s material grinding.
Exclusive: Alien: Isolation Digital Series to Debut on IGN
It’s been fifteen years since Amanda Ripley’s mother disappeared aboard the deep space towing ship Nostromo. And for fifteen years, Amanda has suspected there was more to her mother’s story than meets the eye.
That's the story of Alien: Isolation, and for those who didn't play the 2014 game, 20th Century Fox is expanding the tale of Amanda Ripley in an exciting new way. As you can see in our exclusive trailer debut, IGN will be exclusively debuting Fox's first-of-its-kind digital series of Alien: Isolation on Thursday, February 28th -- and you can binge all seven episodes of it when the series drops on IGN.com at 9 a.m. PT.
This new digital series takes the cutscenes from Alien: Isolation and not so much as expands on them but creates a new animation experience to add additionally layers to the story of Ellen Ripley's daughter. The goal was to offer new depth to a story that many gamers would have already experienced in 2014's release, and also tell the story in a newly accessible way for those who haven't.
A Plague Tale Makes Death Matter in a World With Thousands of Rats
A Plague Tale: Innocence is a game chock full of death. Half-eaten corpses on the ground, bodies burning at the stake, and cities driven mad by disease. But it wasn't the overabundance of death that struck me most as I played through its first three chapters, but instead how developer Asobo Studio could still make death impactful in the midst of it all.
The horrifying hordes of plague rats are what we’ve seen most from A Plague Tale so far, but its opening hours make something else abundantly clear: Hell is truly other people. Amicia and Hugo, the sister-brother duo you control, are on the run not just from rats, but from an unexpected Inquisition that destroyed their home and is seemingly trying to cleanse disease by any means necessary.
March Xbox Games With Gold Includes Metal Gear Rising, Garden Warfare 2
Microsoft has announced the March 2019 lineup of Xbox Games With Gold, which includes Metal Gear, Star Wars, Garden Warfare and Adventure Time games.
The specific games hitting the service are the RPG Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion, the third-person shooter Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, the Xbox classic and tactical first-person shooter Star Wars: Republic Commando and the action-packed Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Here’s when you can download each game starting next month:
- Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion - March 1-31 (Xbox One)
- Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 - March 16-April 15 (Xbox One)
Deal Alert: Get a Star Wars Quadcopter Drone for $35
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Star Wars has appeared in toy lines of all kinds, from LEGO to Funko Pops. And those can look great and be fun to play with, but they all share one limitation: they can't fly. If you want miniature Star Wars vehicles that can lift off the ground, hover, and zip through the air, you're going to need a drone. And thanks to a deal at Massdrop, you can get a Star Wars Quadcopter from Propel for just $34.99, marked down from $129.99. That's a huge savings on awesome tech you can use for play or display.
Lowest Price Ever on Switch-Compatible 400GB Micro SD Card
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Amazon's Deal of the Day today brings big savings on lots of storage options, including a SanDisk 400GB Micro SD card at its lowest price, ever. Seriously, this is better than its Black Friday price. There's plenty of other chances to save big and expand your storage on your Nintendo Switch, PC, or whatever.
SanDisk 400GB Micro SD Card for $62.30
EVO 2019 Lineup Drops Smash Bros. Melee in Favor of Ultimate
The Evolution Championship Series has unveiled the lineup for this year, and tournament regular Super Smash Bros. Melee didn't make the cut.
The GameCube title has been a part of the event for over 10 years, but won't be making an appearance at EVO 2019 when it kicks off in Las Vegas this August 2 - 4.
The longtime tournament favourite (which outlasted both Brawl and the 3DS/Wii U sequel) has been replaced by the most recent Smash Bros. game, Ultimate.
Melee got a send-off in the form of a thank you video during the reveal livestream yesterday, suggesting that we may not see the brawler show up in the competition again.