Month: January 2019

Marvel Comics Presents made its big return to the comic book stands this week, and the first issue has added dramatic new details to the histories of two major heroes.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Marvel Comics Presents #1!

Following the example of the original Marvel Comics Presents from the ’90s, this new series features a serialized Wolverine story called “The Vigil” that aims to reveals new details about the mutant hero’s life throughout the decades. This chapter unfolds during the heart of World War II, as Logan teams up with Dum Dum Dugan to rescue a French woman and her daughter from the Nazis. As it turns out, these Nazis want the woman, Marie, to use her magical abilities to summon a demon and provide Hitler with a new weapon in which to end the war.

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Disney is pushing ahead with yet another live-action version of one of its classic films. The movie giant’s latest live-action remake will be for The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The movie is said to be based on the 1831 Victor Hugo book and Disney’s 1996 animated film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new movie is being written by playwright David Henry Hwang, while the music is coming from Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. They picked up Oscar nominations for the music they wrote for the 1996 film.

Actor Josh Gad is producing the new Hunchback movie. According to THR, the Hunchback film is “not currently a priority” for Disney, but it’s unclear why that is. It might be that Disney’s live-action slate is already quite stuffed. In 2019, Disney will release live-action versions of Aladdin, The Lion King, and Dumbo. After that, the company will put out live-action takes on Mulan and Lady and the Tramp.

In other Disney live-action movie news, the Pinocchio movie recently suffered a setback with director Paul King dropping out.

Travis Strikes Again succeeds as a simple hack-n-slash with seamless co-op, but doesn’t do enough to avoid repetition or challenge you in meaningful ways.

The developers of the PlayStation 4 exclusive God of War originally had many more boss fights planned. Game director Cory Barlog told Noclip that “a lot” of boss fights ended up on the cutting room floor, in part because it was too much work.

“We cut a lot of bosses. A lot. We had so many more,” he said. “It was a much more ambitious, crazier game. And as you go through development, you start realising, ‘No, it’s too big, we can’t do this.'”

Barlog said a single boss battle took 18 months of work from a team of 30 developers, so as such, the number of boss fights had to be scaled back to make sure the game actually came out this decade. “One boss takes like 30 developers a year and a half. It’s an absolutely massive scale when you really consider it, and you measure it against other games in which we finished the game in a year and a half,” he said.

The developer also pointed out that the “boss team” had other tasks as well, which took up even more of their time. At the end of the day, Barlog said, “It became a reality that some of these things will have to be cut.”

Also in the interview, Barlog talked about how the troll fights were never intended to be boss battles. He shares many more interesting anecdotes from his time working on one of 2018’s most celebrated games; check out the full video below.

In other news, Barlog said he had an idea for a “really fun” expansion for God of War. However, it was “too ambitious,” and Sony eventually decided to scrap it.

Find tips, tier lists, walkthroughs, unlock guides and more inside our Smash Ultimate guide.

There are nearly 100 cheat codes for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – here are our favorites (along with all the others, too!).

Beyond and hello, everyone!

On this week’s episode of IGN’s weekly PlayStation show, Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush, Max Scoville, and Lucy O’Brien follow-up on last week’s discussion about when we’ll see the PS5 to take a look at PS4’s upcoming major exclusives. The trio discusses when we think we’ll see The Last of Us Part II, Death Stranding, and Ghost of Tsushima, and whether they could also become PS5 games.

And while those titles remain unconfirmed for release this year, we also run down our excitement for the confirmed PS4 exclusives of 2019. Plus, Jonathon offers an exclusive Kingdom Hearts 3 preview and becomes a real gamer before ending the episode in a Resident Evil trophy test.

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