A torrent of water from a burst irrigation dam forced more than 63,000 people to flee their homes.
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate Key Quests
Every mandatory quest you need to complete in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate.
Bioware Says Anthem Is a ‘Continued Evolution’ from Its Past RPGs
Anthem’s Game Director, Jon Warner said that despite what fans have speculated about Anthem being a departure from past BioWare games, the upcoming game is actually an evolution of their craft.
Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Warner called Anthem an “amalgamation” of everything BioWare has done to date. An MMO looter shooter seems on the surface to be a change of course from the single-player RPGs BioWare is beloved for, but Warner insisted the changes are evolutionary.
“If you look at BioWare games on a spectrum, from Baldur’s Gate to Neverwinter, and Jade Empire to Knights of the Old Republic, to Mass Effect and Dragon Age,” Warner said, “you’ll see that the games have always been about evolving our technique and storytelling… so the way that we look at it, Anthem is not a departure, it’s the continued evolution of our craft and our technique.”
Spider-Man’s Review Embargo Is Next Week; Here’s What We Can Talk About Until Then
The next major exclusive for the PlayStation 4 is almost here. Spider-Man launches on September 7, and plenty of people are excited to get their hands on Peter Parker’s latest adventure. A few of us have been playing early copies of the game for the past week and compiling our impressions, but you’ll have to wait a little longer before you can read them.
The embargo date for Spider-Man reviews is Tuesday, September 4 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET / 3 PM BST (that’s midnight in Sydney). You’ll have to wait until then for our final thoughts on the game. That gives you three days to quickly change your mind over whether or not you want to pre-order the game if you were waiting on our review. Insomniac Games has already let a few details about Spider-Man slip prior to the embargo date, such as the game taking 20 hours to beat and the first DLC expansion launching on October 23.
For more information, you can read up on everything we’ve covered concerning Spider-Man from previous trailers, gameplay demos, interviews, and stage presentations. Kallie flew to Los Angeles to get a hands-on demo playing as Mary Jane Watson, whose levels are something you should be looking forward to, as well as interview Spider-Man’s creative director Bryan Intihar. Edmond played a demo of the opening hours and found a lot of mechanics that players will like about Spider-Man, while also noticing a few annoying details.
At this past E3, we all agreed that Spider-Man gets the feel of our favorite wall-crawler just right. We also got our first look at Spidey’s new Sinister Six–which is composed of Electro, Scorpion, Vulture, Shocker, Rhino and (probably) Doctor Octopus–in a new gameplay trailer. At Comic-Con, Spider-Man’s enemies were expanded to include a task force led by Silver Sable that’s been ordered to hunt him down.
RPG Wasteland 2 Is Coming To Switch This September
InXile Entertainment has partnered with Nintendo to release Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut on Switch. Originally releasing in 2014, Wasteland 2 is a post apocalyptic RPG available for PC. Director’s Cut–already available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC–adds a visual upgrade and numerous gameplay features.
“When I first showed a screenshot of Wasteland 2 running on the Nintendo Switch, it erupted into one of the largest social media reactions I have ever seen,” said InXile Entertainment CEO Brian Fargo. “RPG fans are looking for new ways to experience old favorites, and Nintendo fans are looking for big, meaningful RPG experiences they can play anywhere they go. The game received a huge reaction last week at Gamescom, and it feels great to be this close to getting the game in fans’ hands.”
Although the Wasteland franchise takes place in a similar setting to the Fallout series–the original Wasteland went on to inspire the first Fallout–there are noticeable gameplay differences between Wasteland 2 and modern day Fallout titles. Wasteland 2 plays like early Fallout games, with a larger focus on squad building and tactical, turn-based combat.
Instead of creating one character, you’ll start Wasteland 2 customizing four different party members. This allows you to have more than one specialization at the start. For example, you might make one character into a sniper, another into a medic, the third into a smooth-talking thief, and the final party member a soldier. Like Fallout, there are dozens of different skills, and you’ll have to carefully balance them all amongst your team to ensure they survive their quest to discover the identity of a mysterious killer.
Back in 2014, we gave the game an 8/10. In our Wasteland 2 review, Daniel Starkey wrote, “In many ways … Wasteland 2 represents everything about classic computer role-playing games that the modern iterations of Fallout aren’t. Where Fallout 3 gives you an extreme amount of general latitude, Wasteland 2 focuses on the narrative minutiae and tangible consequences of your individual actions. Where Fallout 3 tries to craft a broad world that feels whole, Wasteland 2 loosely strings together several locations with hidden connections, with secrets waiting to be discovered and picked over. And where Fallout masterfully uses comedy to lambast the ludicrous tone of paranoia surrounding Cold War America, Wasteland 2 attacks the natural arrogance of the individual. It forces us to confront the painful truth of our own blind self-righteousness, and shows us how childish our own grand plans truly are.”
Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut comes to Switch on September 13. The game is now available to add to your Nintendo Eshop wishlist if you want a notification for when you can purchase it.
Chris Hemsworth Teams with Russo Bros. for Action Thriller
Chris Hemsworth is teaming up with the Russo Brothers for a new film.
According to THR, Hemsworth will star in Dhaka, an action thriller from first-time director Sam Hargrave. The Russo Brothers wrote the film and will serve as producers on the project.
The movie tells the story of a mercenary, played by Hemsworth, who takes a job to save the son of a businessman. Dhaka is a Netflix production, and filming starts in November.
Hargrave is a stunt coordinator who works as Chris Evans’ stunt double.
Hemsworth most recently appeared in the Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Infinity War, playing Thor. Hemsworth will reprise the role in the next Avengers film coming out in May. Hemsworth was also slated to appear in Star Trek 4, but negotiations have reportedly stalled.
Bobi Wine: Uganda’s pop star MP ‘re-arrested at airport’
A young MP facing treason charges is allegedly detained while attempting to board a plane.
What is Ray Tracing, and Should You Care?
Be sure to visit IGN Tech for all the latest comprehensive hands-on reviews and best-of roundups.
Nvidia’s new RTX line of graphics cards is coming soon, and this time around they’re offering more than just the typical performance boost over the previous generation. The RTX series GPUs are the first consumer GPUs that are capable of performing real-time ray tracing, which is a pretty awesome advancement in 3D graphics as it will, in theory, allow games to look more realistic than ever before. Let’s take a look at what this technology actually is, why you should care, and why it’s still pretty hard to for even this new hardware to pull it off.
Every TV Show Coming to Apple
Apple may be late to the digital streaming game, with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu already dominating most of the online entertainment conversation, but with a market value of over $1 trillion, the tech giant is more than capable of making its own mark in the highly competitive “original programming war.”
Currently, Apple has 26 shows in production or development, featuring a wide range of programs, from reality TV series, like James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke, all the way to ambitious science fiction projects, like David S. Goyer’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s seminal sci-fi epic, Foundation.
Game of Thrones: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Shares “Emotional” Goodbye to Jaime Lannister
In an interview with Huffington Post, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau expressed that it was an emotional goodbye to his longtime Game of Thrones character.
Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister in the HBO series said there were many teary goodbyes and farewell dinners throughout the season, so there was so much build-up at the end.
“When my turn came around, I really didn’t think it was going to phase me,” Coster-Waldau said. “But I have to admit that right when they said, “This is a series wrap for Nikolaj,” there might have been a tiny bit of moisture in the air, just around my eyes.