Red Riding Hood Cuts Down Wolves in Gritty Retelling
My time with the puzzle platformer was short, but I enjoyed how Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries managed to make Red Riding Hood's sad story even darker.
Vengeful and trained to fight, an axe-wielding Red Riding Hood works to unravel the secrets behind her father’s death. Behind it all is her nemesis, the big bad wolf, or in this retelling, the human, corporate giant B.B. Woolfe. Under his reign, the city Red used to live in is slowly falling into ruin and is constantly under watch by Woolfe's evil Toy Soldiers.
The world developer GRIN has built for this twisted fairytale is beautiful; it still holds a cartoonish, storybook-like feel, but is dreary enough to reflect the tone of the story. Though I mostly did a lot of puzzle solving and sneaking around dark city, it was fun to slay Toy Soldiers and rats in a hack-and-slash fashion.
The Best of PAX East 2015: Day 1
Developers big and small are showing off their coolest new games at the Penny Arcade Expo in Boston, Mass. -- and this is where you can read about and watch the best of the best. We're organizing everything day by day, and wrap it all up with our absolute favorite game of the show.
Bookmark this, and check back daily, for all the latest coverage of your favorite upcoming games.
Overwatch: Kicking Ass With Zarya & McCree
Overwatch Beta Begins This Fall
Destiny: This is the Best Pistol
This week Jose is out again so Fran Mirabella III joins Destin Legarie and Alfredo Diaz as they discuss the best pistol in the game, what they thought of the new inferno gametype, read some fan letters, and discussed how they want the Nightfall to change. What did they think? Listen and find out.
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Neil Patrick Harris Doubts He’ll Host Oscars Again
After hosting the 87th Annual Academy Awards to mixed reviews, Neil Patrick Harris says he's doubtful he'll be returning to the Oscar hosting gig anytime soon.
"I don’t know that my family nor my soul could take it," said Harris in an interview with the Huffington Post. "It’s a beast. It was fun to check off the list, but for the amount of time spent and the understandable opinionated response, I don’t know that it's a delightful balance to do every year or even again."
While the How I Meet Your Mother star has successfully hosted the Tony Awards and Emmy Awards in the past, he faced some lackluster reviews for his stint as Oscar host. "
Next Destiny Update to Address Item Transfer Problems
Bungie's next Destiny update will address issues with the Destiny Companion app, as well as problems Xbox players are experiencing with their Bungie.net profiles.
After last week's update to the Destiny Companion app, players began reporting WEASEL errors when trying to transfer items while playing the game. Bungie said this issue has been addressed, and that fewer players should experience this problem when playing Destiny.
Additionally, players have reported losing items when transferring them using the Companion app. Bungie said it is looking into this problem –– in the meantime, the developer asks that players check each of their characters' inventories for missing items, and to use caution when transferring items during countdown timers and map load-ins.
PAX East 2015: See Xbox, Infinite Crisis, and Overwatch Dominate Boston’s Show Floor
Snow? Harsh winds? Freezing cold? The elements are no match for PAX East 2015. The Boston-based convention is six years old now, and is bigger and better than ever.
Staying true to PAX tradition, the con sold out incredibly quickly this year. So, we’re bringing the show floor straight to you! Check out the slideshow to see everything PAX East 2015 has to offer, from the biggest video games to squishy 12-sided dice.
It's only day one of PAX East 2015, and we still have plenty to see and do. Keep an eye on our trusty event hub page so you don't miss a single thing from Boston's best gaming convention. You can even consume all of our PAX East coverage on the brand-spanking new IGN Xbox One app.
Squidding Around and Making A Mess In Splatoon
I can't deny it: when I Splatoon was unveiled at E3 last year, I found it hard to match the enthusiasm shown by much of Nintendo's faithful. Without getting my hands on it, the concept sounded novel...perhaps a little too novel. But now that I've played it, and seen how immediately fun, and deceptively smart Platoon is, I can understand why people were so excited, and why there was a 2+ hour wait time to play it on the show floor.
The first thing that sets Splatoon immediately apart from other multiplayer arena shooters, is that kills and deaths don't really matter - at least not in the usual, immediate sense. It doesn't matter ow good your K/D is, or how long of a kill streak you're on if you aren't covering every surface in sight with your team's paint color. This one simple concept fundamentally changes your approach dramatically. You aren't looking for enemies to kill, you're scanning the mini-map to find areas that need painting, and wherever blue paint meets orange paint, you can almost always expect a firefight to happen. This is one of the ways that Splatoon keeps you moving, and in the action. There's no wandering around in search of an engagement; there's always someplace that needs a new coat of paint.
Game of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister’s Best Quotes
Spoilery things for the first four seasons of Game of Thrones...
With Game of Thrones: Season 5 just a little more than a month away from its April 12th premiere, it's time to start the countdown clock. And we thought we'd kick things off with some sneaky, snarky Tyrion Lannister action. And it's fitting now to look back at some of his best gold coins of wit and wisdom in Westeros considering that in the Season 4 finale we saw him get the hell out of dodge.
IGN Celebrates Take Your Action Figure to Work Day
Today is Take Your Action Figure to Work Day where people are encouraged to post a picture of their favorite toy at work using the #AFWD2015 hastag.
Never heard of it? Don't worry, it only started last year. It all began when Randall Hamm took his Variant New Teen Titans White Raven to work with him and photographed their day together -- "White Raven senses I need more coffee." -- and it wasn't long before the pictures and the hashtag went viral not just in the US but all over the world. It may be a new geeky holiday, but it's one we're proud to stand behind and spread to the masses.
School Boy in Trouble for 50 Shades Costume
An 11-year-old boy in Britain whipped school officials into a frenzy when he came to class dressed as Christian Grey from Fifty Shades of Grey, complete with, um, toys.
Liam Scholes has been barred from taking part in Sale High School's World Book Day Celebrations -- where students are encouraged to come to school that day dressed as their favorite literary character -- because he showed up dressed as the BDSM-loving billionaire protagonist of the erotic bestseller-turned-blockbuster movie.
School officials deemed Liam's outfit -- seen below in a photo tweeted by his mum -- "inappropriate," according to the BBC.