If you're looking for another cerebral sci-fi drama to binge, Amazon's upcoming series should make it onto your watchlist. IGN can reveal the release date and first look at Tales From the Loop, based on the art of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag which inspired the tabletop RPG of the same name. Tales From the Loop will premiere April 3 on Amazon Prime Video worldwide, created by Nathaniel Halpern and executive produced by The Batman's Matt Reeves. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/27/tales-from-the-loop-official-trailer"] According to Amazon, Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above “The Loop” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical mysterious town poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling. The show stars Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town), Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation), Daniel Zolghadri (Eighth Grade), Duncan Joiner (Waco) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Game of Thrones) We've also got a look at the key art for the series, designed by Stålenhag, which you can see in the slideshow below. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=amazons-tales-from-the-loop&captions=true"]

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Josh Hutcherson, Eliza Coupe, and Derek Wilson are back for more time-travel shenanigans in the third and final season of Hulu's Future Man, and you won't have to wait too long to see how their timeline-hopping saga ends. IGN can exclusively reveal that Future Man's Season 3 release date is set for April 3, and we've got the first teaser trailer for Josh, Tiger, and Wolf's last hurrah, which you can watch above or embedded in the player below. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/27/future-man-season-3-exclusive-teaser-trailer"] In the final season of Future Man, convicted of time crimes and sentenced to death by entertainment, Josh (Hutcherson), Tiger (Coupe), and Wolf (Wilson) become fugitives, on the run through time, trying desperately to evade capture while attempting to clear their names and fix the big mess of history they've made along the way. As shown in the teaser trailer, their unlikely journey will take them to new time periods, where they'll cross paths with some of history's most famous figures, including Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi, in addition to executive producer Seth Rogen, reprising his Season 2 role as the deliciously sadistic Susan. What do you think of the teaser trailer for Future Man Season 3? Share your thoughts in the comments, and for more from Hulu, check out our review of High Fidelity, plus learn how to add an ad-free Hulu subscription to a Disney+ bundle. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=abraham-lincolns-craziest-movie-and-tv-show-appearances&captions=true"]

PlatinumGames has announced a new Tokyo studio that will develop live service games, unlike its usual single-player experiences. This news arrives as the third of four planned announcements from the developer. The studio launch was teased in Wednesday's Project G.G. announcement without much information until today. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/26/project-gg-teaser-trailer"] Executive Vice President and Studio Head of PlatinumGames, Atsushi Inaba, explained the developer's goal is to develop games that continue to evolve past a released version: "So far, the name PlatinumGames has been nearly synonymous with single-player action games. But going forward, we’re looking to expand into new genres and styles of play. One of these new challenges for us is console live ops game development. These aren’t games we’d work on until they were done, and that’s all – rather, we’d continue working on them to provide new content long after release. We want to explore this ongoing development pattern in the home console space. "Our new Tokyo office will play a major role as we expand into live ops game development. The starting core members of our future live ops team who’ll be working there are already a part of PlatinumGames." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=project-gg-new-platinum-game-first-images&captions=true"] Platinum's first announced game out of the Tokyo studio will be Hideki Kamiya's Project G.G, which was announced yesterday. While that game has no genre formally announced, it feels unlikely that it would be a live service game, given it's a spiritual follow-up to Viewtiful Joe and The Wonderful 101 – both of which are self-contained single player action games. The website revealing the studio also dives into four interviews with PlatinumGames Tokyo developers. Game designer, Takahisa Sugiyama, spoke about the immediate feedback you get from live service games: "Right after you release a content update, you can immediately jump over to social media and start reviewing user reactions. When the reactions are negative, that’s obviously not so much fun, but when they’re positive, it can really motivate your work." It's unknown what the fourth and final announcement will be for Platinum's slate of reveals. The first was a release date for The Wonderful 101: Remastered and the second was Project G.G. At this time, The Wonderful 101: Remastered Kickstarter is up to $1,782,457 with eight days remaining. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-wonderful-101-remastered-kickstarter&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"]

Having insufficient storage can be a maddening issue, especially if all you want is to download a new game without having to delete your old favorites. Luckily, truly expansive storage options are getting cheaper all the time, so right now you can alleviate your storage space woes with deals on external hard drives and MicroSDXC cards to ensure that your Xbox, Switch, or PC always has enough room for something new.

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A generation of Star Wars fans were traumatized by seeing Han Solo frozen in carbonite and carted away by that bounty hunting jerkwad Boba Fett. But now we know Han wasn't the only Original Trilogy favorite to suffer that ignominious fate. Read on to find out what other iconic Star Wars hero met the wrong end of a carbonite freezing chamber, but beware of spoilers for Marvel's Star Wars #3 ahead! [poilib element="accentDivider"] [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=top-10-best-star-wars-movie-moments&captions=true"] The latest issue of Marvel's flagship Star Wars series (which was recently relaunched with a new post-Empire Strikes Back setting) shows what happens when Luke, Leia and Lando make the very questionable decision to return to Cloud City in the wake of the Empire's takeover. The previous issue showed Luke having a vision of a mysterious, hooded figure catching his lightsaber. Luke wants to reclaim his lost weapon and make sense of that strange vision. Lando has his own reasons for returning home. After sweet-talking his way through Cloud City's security, Lando journeys to the depths of the city in search of his old friend Lobot. Lobot was captured during the Empire's invasion of Cloud City and is now plugged directly into the city's computer systems. Fortunately, that gives Lando just the opening he needs to turn the tables on the city's Imperial occupiers. He unleashes a cloud of toxic Tibanna gas waste, hoping to distract the Empire long enough for him to free Lobot, rally his other friends, and escape. The plan works, for a few minutes anyway. [caption id="attachment_2309922" align="aligncenter" width="1859"] Art by Jesus Saiz. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)[/caption] Luke's return to Cloud City is less successful. Still haunted by memories of battling Darth Vader, Luke makes his way to the bottom of the shaft where his lightsaber fell, only to discover a massive pile of debris and a group of pesky Ugnaughts. Tracking down his lightsaber is clearly going to be the Star Wars equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. However, Leia definitely fares the worst on this particular mission. She makes her way to the chamber where Han was frozen, hoping to figure out how to activate the decarbonization process that can revive him. Before she can finish her reconnaissance, Leia is spotted and stun-blasted by patrolling Stormtroopers. Following Darth Vader's strict orders, they freeze their new captive in carbonite in preparation to deliver her to an Imperial prison. [caption id="attachment_2309921" align="aligncenter" width="925"] Art by Jesus Saiz. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)[/caption] In a cruel twist of fate, Leia now finds herself in the exact same predicament as Han. We're assuming Leia won't stay frozen nearly as long. But then again, with how little we actually know about this lost period between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, we can't take anything for granted. In other big Star Wars news, Lucasfilm recently revealed The High Republic, a new publishing initiative aimed at exploring an era 200 years before the events of The Phantom Menace. Here's a full breakdown of The High Republic's story and a look at why some fans think it's introducing the next Baby Yoda. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/25/star-wars-the-high-republic-reveal-trailer"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Details of Supermassive Games' next game in the Dark Pictures Anthology, Little Hope, have been revealed alongside a release window. The first Dark Pictures Anthology game, Man of Medan, came out in August last year, and players that made it to the end were treated to a small teaser of Little Hope. That teaser ended with the release year of 2020 and that was the last we heard of this next game in the anthology series. Supermassive Games has now released more info about the upcoming title, and it seems players can expect to traverse an abandoned town this summer. "Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, four college students and their professor must escape the nightmarish visions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog," Supermassive Games CEO Pete Samuels said in an update. "As they journey through the town looking for a means of escape, they must understand the meaning of these events, the root of evil, and how it is directly connected to them." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/27/the-dark-pictures-anthology-from-man-of-medan-to-little-hope-trailer"] As you can see in the trailer, Little Hope appears to lean more toward Until Dawn than it does Man of Medan. Little Hope will launch Summer 2020 as the second entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology, which Supermassive Games describes as a series of "intense, standalone, branching cinematic horror games" that combine "atmospheric environments with powerful storytelling to create a terrifying new gaming experience." Little Hope will feature the same two multiplayer modes that Man of Medan did: Shared Story and Movie Night. In Shared Story, players can share their story with friends online while in Movie Night, a group of five players can pass the controller in an offline mode. As we've come to expect with Supermassive Games, characters in Little Hope can live or die and your choices will depend on the story that plays out for each. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=little-hope&captions=true"] "We've been delighted by the reaction from players and the success of Man of Medan as the first installment of The Dark Pictures Anthology," Samuels said. "We really appreciate the feedback from the community and the team remains committed to the goal of making each new installment deliver further thrilling horror experiences, with the next chapter, Little Hope, bringing an all new and disturbing horror story to the anthology." We thought Man of Medan was a good start for the anthology series, giving it a 7 out of 10. When Until Dawn released back in 2015, we gave it a 7.5 out of 10. If you're looking for what you might have missed in Man of Medan before jumping into Little Hope this summer, we've got a video with every character death in the game you should check out. Little Hope will come out on PS4, Xbox One and PC this summer. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news and guide maker for IGN who gets far too scared playing horror games. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Plague Inc. has been removed from sale in China at the instructions of the Chinese government, just weeks after the game skyrocketed in popularity in the country following the outbreak of COVID-19 (a.k.a. Coronavirus). In a statement on developer Ndemic's website, a spokesperson wrote: "We have some very sad news to share with our China based players. We've just been informed that Plague Inc. “includes content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China” and has been removed from the China App Store. This situation is completely out of our control." It's unclear whether this move has been taken in response to the game's success following the coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China. Ndemic has said it's working to reverse the decision by contacting the Cyberspace Administration of China to understand its reasoning. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/25/how-coronavirus-is-impacting-the-games-industry"] Previously, Ndemic had released a statement asking players not to rely on the game for information about the spread of coronavirus – although the developer does tout the game's educational value, with the US Centre for Disease Control publicly recognising it. Nothing will change for the game outside of China, but it's a puzzling situation. China is notably restrictive around video games - between 2000 and 2015 there was a ban on the production, import and sale of consoles and arcade machines and, as recently as last year, the country legally banned children from playing games after 10pm, among other provisions. [poilib element="accentDivider"]

Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have revealed Zarude the rogue monkey, a new mythical Pokemon coming to Pokemon Sword and Shield. A short trailer has shown Zarude in action. This new mythical is a dark/grass type Pokemon, who can use the Leaf Guard ability. The video description on YouTube claims that “When fighting, it swings around using trees and their branches, attacking relentlessly with its sharp claws or any other means it has. Its quick wit helps it excel in battles.” [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=pokemon-home-price-and-features&captions=true"] Zarude lives up to its dark type by looking a little less like a monkey and more like a gremlin, with red markings around his eyes, fang-like teeth and pointed fur making him appear particularly aggressive. The trailer demonstrates him dealing a great amount of damage to a Rillaboom and a Drednaw. In other news, you can now get access to Pokemon Home and transfer monsters from Pokemon Bank to the new system. Also, why not watch this adorable little girl win a major Pokemon championship. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.