Out This Week: Shadow of the Tomb Raider, NBA 2K19, Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit
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.
Watch the New Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Trailer Now with English Subtitles
A new Japanese-language trailer for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has been released ahead of Tokyo Game Show next week.
You can watch the new trailer (with English subtitles) up above right now, which contains lots of new footage including a glimpse at new mechanics, bosses, and environments than we've seen previously.
I've gathered some of the main highlights in the gallery below and added my own observations as well as a moderate dose of speculation based on playing the game, recent interviews, and speaking to the developers at Gamescom.
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Spider-Man Is the Fastest-Selling Game of the Year in the UK
Insomniac's Spider-Man has swung its way to the top of the UK sales charts. Not only was Spider-Man the best-selling game of last week – despite only being out for two days – but it's the fastest-selling game of the year in the UK, reports GamesIndustry.biz.
Far Cry 5 previously held the distinction of being 2018's fastest-selling game, making Spider-Man's accomplishment all the more impressive considering Far Cry 5 launched on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Spider-Man is a PlayStation 4 exclusive, and it blew away the year's previous best-selling exclusive, the PlayStation 4's God of War, by nearly twice as many units sold.
WWE: Renee Young Officially Joins RAW Announce Team
WWE has announced that Renee Young, who filled in for Jonathan Coachman as part of the RAW commentary team on two recent occasions, has been named as the first woman to join the Monday Night RAW broadcast booth full time.
As for Jonathan Coachman, he's been announced as the new host of WWE’s pay-per-view kickoff shows - which was Young's old gig.
Starting tonight, Renee Young will join Michael Cole and Corey Graves each week on RAW.
Nintendo Switch Getting a Pokemon Eevee and Pikachu Special Edition
Nintendo has announced it will release Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! limited edition Switch hardware bundles on November 16, the same day the new Pokemon games are released.
Buyers can choose to have either Let's Go, Pikachu! or Let's Go, Eevee! pre-installed in their bundle. Regardless of which version is chosen, the Switch console itself will have both Pikachu and Eevee etched on it and brown and yellow Joy-Cons.
The Switch dock also comes with images of both Pokemon on the front. Also included in each bundle will be a Poke Ball Plus controller. Check it out in the trailer below:
The Nintendo Switch Pokemon Go bundle is priced at $399 in the US.
Hidetaka Miyazaki’s VR Game, Déraciné Gets a Release Date
Déraciné, the Hidetaka Miyazaki-directed VR game from From Software and Sony Japan Studio, will be released in the west on November 6.
Placing you in the role of a time-stopping faerie, and having you solve puzzles along the hallways and classrooms of a Victorian-like boarding school, it's something of a departure in tone for the Dark Souls mastermind.
The game is now available for pre-order, and doing so will get you a PS4 Dynamic theme and six avatars for your PSN profile.
We played a slice of the game at E3, and called it "a beautiful and cryptic experience".
The X-Files Had a Sneaky Trick to Handle Mulder and Scully’s Height Difference
September 10, 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of The X-Files series premiere, and in celebration, IGN is exclusively debuting a behind-the-scenes clip from a new documentary on the show's legacy.
The 40-minute documentary special, "Implanted Memories: 25 Years of The X-Files," will be available exclusively on The X-Files Season 11 Blu-ray release, in stores beginning Tuesday, September 18.
In our sneak peek, Second Unit Key Grip Tom Kaczmarski gives us some insight into how the show dealt with the major height difference between stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny throughout the show's run, with an invention that came to be affectionately known as the "Gilly Board."
Amazon May Have Outed Halo 5: Guardians PC Port
Halo 5: Guardians could be coming to PC, if the updated box art on Amazon is anything to go by.
The Amazon listing for Halo 5: Guardians has had a bit of a makeover on Amazon, hinting at the possibility of an upcoming PC release. AllGamesDelta shared images of the old and new box art, side-by-side, in a tweet, going on to say that "Quantum Break, a game that came out on both Xbox One and PC has the same 'Xbox One Console Exclusive' banner."
Destiny 2 Players Have Glitched Their Way to New Raid Gear a Week Early
Destiny 2 players are sporting some fancy new gear ahead of this week's raid, thanks to a glitch in the game.
The Forsken's raid, Last Wish, doesn't go live until the end of this week, but players have accessed the new area already and gotten themselves the raid gear for their troubles. You can too, for as long as Bungie lets the glitch slide.
Reddit user ozberk shared the details over on Reddit (via Eurogamer) saying that they and their clanmates found a raid chest containing a hand cannon and raid chest armour.
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Insomniac Offers to Remove the World’s ‘Saddest Easter Egg’
Insomniac Games has offered to remove a marriage proposal Easter egg for a player after finding out that his relationship ended just weeks before Spider-Man launched.
Back in May, Tyler Schultz tweeted Insomniac Games asking the developer to help him out with his marriage proposal to his girlfriend of five years. The devs agreed and on release, players found Schultz' Easter egg proposal emblazoned on a movie theatre marquee in-game. The only hiccup in all of this is that Tyler is now single, and upon hearing the news, Insomniac art director, Jacinda Chew, offered to remove the Easter egg by changing the sign to something else.
