SEGA Teases Sonic the Hedgehog’s next game, Sonic Runners
SEGA has teased that the next Sonic game will be Sonic Runners.
Though details are few, we know the game will be released as a free-to-play title supported by in-game premium items. The official website lists it as coming to iOS devices running iOS7.0 plus, and for Android users on OS2.3 or later.
As for when Sonic Runners will be released? The site says 2015 for Japan.
The news comes following recent plans for SEGA to downsize the company. Last week, SEGA said around 300 employees in Japan were being offered voluntary retirement as part of the company’s restructuring effort. In the US, SEGA of America laid out plans to move the company from its San Francisco base to Southern California.
First Daredevil Footage Debuts; Teaser Trailer Tomorrow
Except for a lucky group who were at the show's New York Comic Con panel, no one outside Marvel and Netflix have seen anything aside from photos from the upcoming Marvel's Daredevil series - until now.
Marvel have posted a quick teaser for the show, giving us a glimpse at Charlie Cox as the title character.
Want to see the full teaser trailer for Marvel's Daredevil? Then you'll want to check back at IGN on Wednesday, February 4th at 6:00am PT / 9:00am ET at this linked URL, when we'll have the exclusive debut of the highly-anticipated footage.
Marvel's Daredevil's 13-episode season debuts on Friday, April 10th on Netflix.
Bloodborne Hands-On: We Were Punished and We Liked It
Bloodborne’s dark tone and brutal difficulty are readily apparent in the spiritual Souls sequel’s opening hours. The brooding action-RPG is packed with the same barrier to entry, environmental storytelling, and bosses that seem to be ripped straight from the deepest depths of your nightmares that fans of the Souls series loved throughout the past console generation. But for all of the great things that Bloodborne shares with the iconic trilogy, it’s the ways it differed that really impressed me throughout my time with the first two hours of the PlayStation 4 exclusive.
As you can see from the opening 18 minutes, Bloodborne throws you right into the deep end, and immediately assaults with a barrage of narrative questions. Who am I? What is this plague that’s sweeping the dark, Victorian town of Yharnam? Why am I electing to get a blood transfusion in a nightmarishly-grim doctor’s office, and am I aware of the awful consequences of my actions?
Warhammer 40K: Regicide Collector’s Editions Revealed
Hammerfall and Games Workshop have revealed a number of limited edition game bundles for Warhammer 40,000: Regicide.
The cheapest costs £15/ $30 AU/ $23 US for a game key and either a 'Neophyte' or 'Slugga' t-shirt. £27/ $52 AU/ $41 US will nab you a poster, a certificate of authenticity, special forum access and a content season pass.
Spending £36/ $70 AU/ $55 US will get you a hoodie instead of the t-shirt, an extra poster, an exclusive forum honour, and your name will appear in the credits of the game. The 'Warboss' bundle costs £46/ $90 AU/ $69 US and you will receive all that plus the t-shirt.
The bundles are available to pre-order now from the Warhammer 40K: Regicide store page. All of the keys grant in-development access to the game when it goes live. The apparel is designed by Warhammer 40,000 artist Stefan Kopinski.
1.2 Million People Have Played Dying Light
1.2 million people have played Dying Light since its release last week.
News Flash: From the moment Dying Light got released right-up until yesterday we had over 1,200,000 unique players. pic.twitter.com/BUwucxKDRP
— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) February 2, 2015
Whilst console retail discs were delayed across the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Europe because "physical production has a longer lead time", the game released digitally across all territories and platforms, including PC, on January 27. Since then, more than a million unique players have played the survival horror title and battled to make it 'til daybreak.
Person of Interest Preview: Reese & Root In Pleasantville
In this Tuesday night's brand new Person of Interest episode, "M.I.A.," Reese and Root’s frantic search for Shaw takes them to Maple - a quaint upstate New York town - where it becomes apparent that not everything is as idyllic as it seems.
Here's a scene showing Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Root (Amy Acker) surveying their surroundings, in the midst of a "friendly" Founder's Day Fair.
Person of Interest: "M.I.A." airs Tuesday, February 3rd at 10/9c on CBS.
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Dragon Ball Xenoverse: Fix History, 1 Battle at a Time
Vegeta and Nappa laugh triumphantly, their giant-ape forms towering over the crumpled bodies of Gohan and Krillin. Goku arrives too late to save them, and the transformed Saiyans smack him down without breaking a sweat. If you're a Dragon Ball Z fan, you know this scene is all wrong – and that's the point. In Dragon Ball Xenoverse, a pair of new villains are disrupting history itself, and as a warrior summoned by Trunks, it's your job to restore events to their canonical state.
In this case, my created fighter – a female Majin with round staring eyes who could have just as easily been a human, Namekian, Saiyan, or a member of Frieza's still-unnamed race – leapt back to the start of the scene I'd just witnessed, intervening in the battle between the invading Saiyans and the Z Fighters. My previous experience with DBZ games has involved short, relatively direct fights, so I was surprised to find that this battle – one of many story-driven missions in Xenoverse's single-player storyline – was actually a long, multi-stage affair that started with a fight in a narrow canyon against waves of small, gremlin-like Saibamen.
Titans Clash in Naruto Shippuden’s Next-Gen Debut
If there's a prize for anime games that look better than the animation they're based on, it should really go to the Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm series. Developed by the same minds that made Asura's Wrath, the games are characterized by beautiful visuals, breathtaking animation, and a frequently enormous sense of scale – all of which contrast sharply with their simple controls and uncomplicated fighting. Now that the series is making the jump to PS4 and Xbox One (and PC, although it's not the series' first time on that platform), it's poised to be prettier than it's ever been before, and my first taste of it did not disappoint.
My time with Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 consisted of a short, very heavily directed fight between two giants of the series, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, who were battling inside what looked like a forest clearing under the watchful eyes of the massive fox demon, Nine-Tails. Playing as Hashirama on PS4, the controls were instantly familiar; holding the thumbstick in different directions while hammering Circle let me bust out different combos, for example, while tapping L2 let me teleport out of the way of incoming attacks. It's not Street Fighter, but it's still a lot of fun. Super attacks, meanwhile, sometimes come with lots of dramatic close ups of highly expressive faces, as well as quick-time events – so it's a good idea to always be ready to mash some buttons.
Mortal Kombat X Kollector’s Editions Revealed
Warners Bros. has revealed a number of different special editions of Mortal Kombat X, all of which are available to pre-order now.
The Kollector's Edition by Coarse, Kollector's Edition and Limited Editions will only be available for PS4 and Xbox One, while the Premium Edition is available for all platforms.
First up, The Kollector's Edition by Coarse costs £100 / $150 and comes with a Scorpion figurine and accompanying Certificate of Authenticity signed by artists Sven Waschk and Mark Landwehr. An in-game skin for the ninja based on the figure will also be included. Finally, you'll get the Kombat Pack, which includes four additional unnamed fighters who will apparently be a mix of older Kombatants and guest characters.
WWE 2K15 DLC for 2K Showcase Available Today
The first addition to WWE 2K15's story-driven 2K Showcase mode, One More Match, is available today.
One More Match focuses on the classic rivalry between Christian and Randy Orton in 2011, letting players experience the highs and lows of Christian's journey to regain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship after losing it to Orton one night after his victory. Christian's quest will be played out in matches against Orton on SmackDown, Over the Limit, Capitol Punishment, Money in the Bank and SummerSlam.
The DLC will allow players to play as the 2011 versions of Christian, Randy, Edge, Mark Henry and Sheamus in the aforementioned arenas.
You can download the One More Match DLC today for an RRP of $9.99 US, or nab it as part of the WWE 2K15 Season Pass.