The Last Jedi Is 2017’s Highest-Grossing Movie
With $533.1 million in ticket sales in just three weeks of release -- including an additional first place finish of $52.7 million over New Year's weekend -- Star Wars: The Last Jedi is now the No. 1 movie of 2017 at the domestic box office.
The Last Jedi dethroned another Disney release, Beauty and the Beast, which drops to second place with $504 million. As of January 1, 2018, however, Beauty and the Beast remains the No. 1 movie of 2017 worldwide with nearly $1.3 billion. (Here is a list of the top domestic box office releases of 2017.)
41 Big Games Coming in 2018
It's time to close the books on what was easily one of the best years of gaming in quite some time. So with 2017 behind us, join us in looking forward to what's in store. With everything from much-anticipated sequels to new takes on familiar genres just over the horizon, there are a ton of exciting games headed our way. Here are 41 big games coming in 2018, with the caveat being that some of these might be delayed.
Developer Josef Fares’ second game is a split screen co-op multiplayer action-adventure that focuses on two convicts who must break out of a prison together and avoid the authorities. Use stealth, solve puzzles, and stick to the plan as you try to make your way to freedom. – Christian Holt, Custom Content Editor
Exclusive Clip From Insidious: The Last Key – IGN First
All month long, IGN First is spotlighting the Films to Watch in 2018. Today, we take a look at Insidious: The Last Key, which is written by the franchise's co-creator Leigh Whannell. This Universal Pictures release and Blumhouse production hits theaters January 5th.
Fear comes home in Insidious: The Last Key. As the film's trailer revealed, this case finds parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) investigating the horrors within the house she grew up in. As she puts it to her colleagues Specs (Leigh Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson), Elise doesn't have memories from this place ...she has scars.
IGN UK Podcast: Big Fat 2018 Preview
Nursing a New Year hangover? Listen to us waffle about the things we're most looking forward to watched, playing, and doing in the New Year.
IGN UK Podcast: Big Fat 2018 Preview
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The Best Indie Games You Didn’t Play in 2017
Dozens of games come out every week on Steam, itch.io, Game Jolt, and other corners of the web. With so many awesome indie games and such little time in the day, it can be hard to sort through it all to find the perfect one for you.
This year, we rounded up some of the coolest new indie games each month to ensure you never missed one worth playing. Below, you'll find a compilation of some of the best games from the entire year.
Marvel’s Create Your Own Comic Platform Comes With Restrictions
Marvel's Create Your Own platform is set to let you take control of creating your own comics using Marvel superheroes, but some restrictions apply.
The website for the not-yet launched platform lists the restrictions, some of which are pretty straight-forward, while others seem odd. For example, the platform is region-specific, so only aspiring comic writers "physically located" in the US, Canada, Australia, and Singapore can use the service.
However, creators are also prohibited from using "obscenity, bad or offensive language," or even "proxies for bad or offensive language." That means your comics can't even use the classic '@#$%!' for curse words that have existed in comic-dom for ages.
Star Wars Veteran John Williams to Write a Theme for Solo
John Williams will write a theme for Solo: A Star Wars Story.
In an interview with Variety, Williams revealed he will be working on his ninth Star Wars film, with John Powell still staying on as Solo's primary composer.
"The present plan is that I’m writing a theme for Han Solo, and John Powell is going to write the score, which he’ll do brilliantly," Williams said.
Powell will be writing the rest of the themes for the movie, which Williams says he's excited to hear. Lucasfilm announced Powell as Solo's composer earlier this summer.
Mario Odyssey: How to Coin Farm for 999 Moons
If you plan on collecting every single thing in Super Mario Odyssey, you’re going to need a lot of coins. And by a lot, we mean 37,189 coins if you don’t use amiibo to get any outfits. It takes 11,900 coins just to get the final Power Moons, and one special outfit costs 9,999 coins alone.
Below are great coin farming spots that should help make getting coins for those final moons and outfits much easier. We’ve picked three spots that you can reach early, midway, and late into the game.
15 Games that were Delayed Out of 2017
An absurd number of incredible games came out this year, so it seems crazy to think that there were supposed to be even more.
As 2017 began, we were expecting to get games like Red Dead Redemption 2, Shenmue 3, and even a new Toejam and Earl. Frankly, I’m sort of glad we didn’t given how big my 2017 backlog is without them. But here are 15 of the biggest games that got pushed to 2018.
Original launch window: The second half of 2017
New launch window: Q2 2018
There’s no other way to start this list than with Red Dead Redemption 2. People have been waiting on bated breath for more info - and while we thought we’d get a release this year, we ended up only getting a brief gameplay trailer. It was originally supposed to come out in late 2017, but has been pushed to the second quarter of 2018.
Top 5 Switch Games of December 2017
There's no doubt that 2017 has been a fantastic year for Nintendo. With the new year just around the corner, it's time to look back and go over some of the best Switch games released this month.
There’s no point in dodging the fact that Brawlout bears a striking resemblance to the Super Smash Bros. series. It plays very similarly to Nintendo’s already massively popular fighting game franchise, but trust me, that’s a good thing. With a colorful mix of original and franchised characters from other indie games, Brawlout doesn’t hold back on fast-paced action. In fact, It removes the incentive for using defensive strategies by entirely ditching the ability to block and emphasizes on all-out attack.