How Tacoma Totally Changed Halfway Through Development
Fullbright's latest game, Tacoma, underwent some major changes during development, and studio founder Steve Gaynor recently explained why they decided to pivot away from the game's original aesthetic and design.
"As much as we were trying to move away or to make the experience we were building feel legitimately different from Gone Home, we had still stuck with too many of our assumptions about it—like kind of the shape of how you moved through the game was still very much based on Gone Home," Gaynor said on the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered.
He noted how they had AR figures in the game, which were "much more isolated" and ultimately not all that different than the audio diaries in Gone Home. "We just realized that we were not going as far as we needed to, and that the game that we were making contained ideas that were kind of being pointed towards—like the idea was there but we needed to do more with it," he said.
Battlefront 2’s Campaign Feels Just Like a Star Wars Movie
Spoiler warning and editor’s note: This preview contains plot details for the first three missions of Star Wars: Battlefront 2’s campaign, roughly the first two hours of the game. Additionally, one of Battlefront 2’s writers is former IGN editor Mitch Dyer. The author of this preview was hired after Dyer left IGN and has no relationship of any kind with him.
There’s an old Star Wars joke (best known from Kevin Smith’s Clerks) about all the janitors and construction workers who were innocently working on the second Death Star when it blew up. Sure, the Emperor was finally defeated, but what about the little people? Was working a day job for the Empire really deserving of such a grisly fate?
Switch Was the Top-Selling US Console in September
Nintendo took the top spot for September hardware sales, with strong showings from both Switch and the 3DS line.
Switch has surpassed 2 million units sold in the US since launch, and when combined with sales from the 3DS product family, as well as the recently released Super NES Classic, Nintendo hardware accounted for "two-thirds of the month’s total" hardware sold.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle debuted at number 7 on the top 10 best-selling games for the month, followed by Metroid: Samus Returns for 3DS at number 8 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at the number 10 position.
Switch was also the best selling console for August 2017, and has been the top selling console for five of the seven months since its release.
Marvel’s The Punisher Finally Reveals Its Netflix Debut Date
Netflix has revealed the premiere date for Marvel's The Punisher, and it's less than a month away.
The series will debut on Netflix on November 17. The streaming giant announced the news via a new trailer (below), which proves a few more story details about Frank Castle's upcoming quest for revenge.
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Following the recent tragic events in Las Vegas, Netflix reportedly postponed its premiere of The Punisher. It has taken Netflix quite some time to unveil the debut date, despite prior speculation it would premiere in November. Netflix and Marvel have previously obscured the release date on posters and advertising.
Comic Book Reviews for October 18, 2017
It was another big week of comic book releases. Marvel welcomed several more series into the Marvel Legacy fold, including Invincible Iron Man, Cable, Incredible Hulk and The Mighty Thor. DC delved deeper into Batman's surprise engagement to Catwoman in Batman #33 and spotlighted another twisted Dark Knight in Batman: The Drowned #1. Elsewhere, IDW finally kicked off their new Black Crown imprint with Kid Lobotomy #1, and Dark Horse launched the Black Hammer spinoff Sherlock Frankenstein & The Legion of Evil.
Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
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IGN’s Next Big Game Looks at Call of Duty: WW2
IGN's weekly video series Next Big Game returns with an inside look at Activision and Sledgehammer Games' upcoming first-person shooter Call of Duty: WWII.
With Next Big Game, we take a look at the biggest and most exciting upcoming games, and break down all of the latest info and work with the studios to provide you with plenty of new content, including gameplay, and much more.
For this week's episode, we went behind the scenes at Sledgehammer and spoke with the Call of Duty: WWII creators about the game's new modes and why the franchise needed to return to its roots.
Pokemon Go: Generation 3 Pokemon, Halloween Event Confirmed
After multiple leaks earlier this week, Niantic has now officially confirmed that Pokemon from Ruby and Sapphire are coming to Pokemon Go, plus a special new Pikachu.
In a blog post on Pokemon Go’s official site, Niantic announced that this year’s Halloween event will begin on October 20. To celebrate, Sableye, Banette, and “a few other Ghost-type Pokemon originally discovered in the Hoenn region” will be the first generation three Pokemon to come to the game.
Dusclops, Duskull, and Shuppet are also shown in a trailer for the event, and Niantic confirms that more new generation three Pokemon will start to “gradually arrive” beginning in December.
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon: Suspected Red and Blue Location Is Actually a New Area
An image that led some fans to believe that Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon would include a trip to Kanto isn't what they'd hoped - although the game's director would not rule out a connection to the setting of Pokemon Red and Blue.
IGN asked about the image from the game's story trailer (shown in the tweet below) - which looked like a new take on Lt. Surge's gym from the original games - and, after some discussion, Ultra Sun and Moon director Kazumasa Iwao came up with a slightly hazy reply:
"What you’ve seen in that particular image is a new place to visit in
Ultra Sun and Moon Will Be the Last Pokemon RPGs for 3DS
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon will be the "culmination" of series developer Game Freak's work on 3DS, presumably before the core Pokemon RPG series moves to a new home on Nintendo Switch.
Speaking to IGN, Game Freak director Shigeru Ohmori explained that the company has seen each of its 3DS games as the full extent of what could be achieved on the handheld console:
"When we were making Pokemon X and Y, we really were trying to push the 3DS system to its absolute limits - which is what we thought we’d done. But when Sun and Moon came around, we completely redesigned the system, and actually ended up pushing the 3DS even further to what we thought was the most we could draw out of it."
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