Month: February 2020

How will the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X affect the sales of the Nintendo Switch when they launch in Holiday 2020? According to Nintendo, not that much, actually.

This is what Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said during the Japanese Q&A section (translated by VGC) of the investors meeting the company held last week.

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“We will explain the specific figures for the next fiscal year in our next fiscal year announcement, but I think there will certainly be a change in the environment as new products of our competitors appear,” Furukawa said.

He then explained the reason for this thinking is that there isn’t much audience crossover between those two next-gen consoles and the Nintendo Switch, saying “we do not believe that the business trends of other companies will have a significant impact on our business.”

In another response, Furukawa said that the Nintendo Switch is about halfway through its life cycle. As the Switch was released in March 2017, what Furukawa says here could indicate that Nintendo don’t plan on releasing a new console until 2023.

Considering that the Switch has now reached over 50 million sales, surpassing the Super Nintendo’s lifetime sales, there’s plenty of reason for Nintendo to be confident in its latest console.

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Plus, Nintendo has just revealed a new Animal Crossing: New Horizons special edition Nintendo Switch, which is due out on March 13, 2020 and will probably sell like mad. Previously, there had been rumours of a Nintendo Switch Pro model due out this year, but Nintendo has now squashed those rumours.

What Nintendo has in store for the rest of 2020 is a bit of a mystery. But we know that the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Metroid Prime 4, and Bayonetta 3 are still on the way – though not necessarily in 2020.

Hopefully our list of Nintendo Switch games coming out in 2020 expands soon.

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Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

The winners of the 2020 British Academy of Film and Television Awards have been announced, with 1917 coming out on top with seven wins.

1917, a World War I epic chronicling the harrowing journey of two young British soldiers sent on a high-stakes mission, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay and Daniel Mays, won Outstanding British Film, along with Best Film, Director, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects.

Meanwhile, Joker picked up three awards including Best Original Score, Casting and Leading Actor for Joaquin Phoenix, while Renée Zellweger picked up the Leading Actress gong for her portrayal as Judy Garland in the namesake biopic. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite won two prizes in total, one for Original Screenplay and another for Film not in the English Language.

A full list of the BAFTA Film Award 2020 winners can be found below…

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Best film

• 1917 – WINNER
• The Irishman
• Joker
• Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
• Parasite

Outstanding British film

• 1917 – WINNER
• Bait
• For Sama
• Rocketman
• Sorry We Missed You
• The Two Popes

Leading actress

• Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose
• Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
• Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
• Charlize Theron, Bombshell
• Renée Zellweger, Judy – WINNER

Leading actor

• Leonardo Dicaprio, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
• Adam Driver, Marriage Story
• Taron Egerton, Rocketman
• Joaquin Phoenix, Joker – WINNER
• Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

Supporting actress

• Laura Dern, Marriage Story – WINNER
• Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
• Florence Pugh, Little Women
• Margot Robbie, Bombshell
• Margot Robbie, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

Supporting actor

• Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
• Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
• Al Pacino, The Irishman
• Joe Pesci, The Irishman
• Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood – WINNER

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Director

• Sam Mendes, 1917 – WINNER
• Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
• Todd Phillips, Joker
• Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
• Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

• Awkwafina
• Jack Lowden
• Kaitlyn Dever
• Kelvin Harrison Jr.
• Micheal Ward – WINNER

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

• Bait, Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers) – WINNER
• For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
• Maiden, Alex Holmes (Director)
• Only You, Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
• Retablo, Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)

Film not in the English language

• The Farewell
• For Sama
• Pain And Glory
• Parasite – WINNER
• Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

Documentary

• American Factory
• Apollo 11
• Diego Maradona
• For Sama – WINNER
• The Great Hack

Animated film

• Frozen 2
• Klaus – WINNER
• A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
• Toy Story 4

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Original screenplay

• Booksmart
• Knives Out
• Marriage Story
• Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
• Parasite – WINNER

Adapted screenplay

• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit – WINNER
• Joker
• Little Women
• The Two Popes

Original score

• 1917
• Jojo Rabbit
• Joker – WINNER
• Little Women
• Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

Cinematography

• 1917 – WINNER
• The Irishman
• Joker
• Le Mans ’66
• The Lighthouse

Costume design

• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit
• Judy
• Little Women – WINNER
• Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

Editing

• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit
• Joker
• Le Mans ’66 – WINNER
• Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

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Production design

• 1917 – WINNER
• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit
• Joker
• Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

Make-up and hair

• 1917
• Bombshell – WINNER
• Joker
• Judy
• Rocketman

Sound

• 1917 – WINNER
• Joker
• Le Mans ’66
• Rocketman
• Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

Special visual effects

• 1917 – WINNER
• Avengers: Endgame
• The Irishman
• The Lion King
• Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

British short film

• Azaar
• Goldfish
• Kamali
• Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl) – WINNER
• The Trap

British short animation

• Grandad Was A Romantic – WINNER
• In Her Boots
• The Magic Boat

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter. 

Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has explained why he wanted to make another movie based on Nintendo’s most famous mascot. He also revealed that he wants Nintendo to turn more of its games into movies.

Nintendo held an investor’s meeting last week, in which it confirmed that the Super Mario Bros. movie being made in collaboration with animation studio Illumination, is still on track to be released in 2022.

However, the Japanese version of Nintendo’s Q&A session during the investor’s meeting has now been released. Siliconera translated Miyamoto’s response to a question asking about how Nintendo approaches bringing the Mario IP to different mediums, such as smartphones, theme parks, and movies.

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“We do not do something like separating our IP development strategy depending on the touchpoint,” Miyamoto said. “For example, regarding IP development into movies, I was originally against Nintendo expanding into video-making, but am currently involved personally in using our company’s IP in film production; and the background behind this change is because Nintendo has re-released many games via Virtual Console.”

Virtual Console is a service Nintendo provides for the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS that makes older games playable on newer hardware. It was not brought across to the Nintendo Switch but some NES and SNES games are still playable with a Switch Online subscription.

Miyamoto goes on to explain that Nintendo’s games are its biggest assets, so it’s important to port older games to newer hardware, hence it’s something he’s still actively involved in. But after doing this process several times, he thought it’d be a good idea to give those games more longevity by turning them into movies.

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“Basically, it’s not that ‘I want to make a Mario movie’, but that I began to consider that ‘we should bring more Nintendo content into the field of video-making’,” he explained. “With films, the amount of people who would contact our IP would widen, and increase the amount of people engaging with our IP. Then, we’d be able to further increase the spread of our media via video.”

Hopefully this new Mario movie will be much better than the poorly received live-action Super Mario Bros. film released back in 1993. It will have to be good if it wants to compete with the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, which is predicted to have a big opening week when it comes out later this month.

There’s many more games being turned into films at the moment, too. Don’t forget about the Monster Hunter movie, the troubled Uncharted movie, the Mortal Kombat movie, and loads more. There’s got to be at least a couple of good ones in there, surely.

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Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

DICE recently gave an overview of the new Battlefield 5 update, Into the Jungle. Now as the day approaches, the studio has given more detailed patch notes. The 6.0 update will be available to download starting on February 4 (exact times for PS4, Xbox One, and PC below), but the new content will go live on Thursday, February 6. It adds a new map, several new weapons, and a new elite commander.

As previously detailed, the new map is the jungle of Solomon Islands. It’s full of choke points, connected by a river that runs the entire length of the map. It will also add the Type-11 LMB, Model 37 Shotgun, and M2 Carbine, along with the M1A1 Bazooka and Lunge Mine. Those will unlock through the Chapter Rank rewards, and if you hit Rank 40 you’ll also get the Elite commander Misaki Yamashiro.

Two more elites, Steve Fisher and Akira Sakamoto, are coming later in the chapter. The studio teased that “many more” changes and fixes are coming in update 6.2, which will include a big change to weapon balance. We also know that tank customization, a long-requested feature, is finally on the way.

Battlefield 5 – 6.0 Update Availability

• PC: 1 AM PT / 4 AM ET / 9 AM GMT / 10 AM CET
• PS4: 2 AM PT / 5 AM ET / 10 AM GMT / 11 AM CET
• Xbox: 3 AM PT / 6 AM ET / 11 AM GMT / 12 PM CET

You can check out the patch notes below, but take note that these are not yet fully comprehensive.

Battlefield 5 – 6.0 Patch Notes

What’s New?

• New Map: Solomon Islands, available on Conquest, Breakthrough, Squad Conquest, and Team Deathmatch

• New Weapons: Type 11 LMG, Model 37, M2 Carbine (available via Chapter Rank Rewards)

• New Gadgets: Lunge Mine, M1A1 Bazooka, (available via Chapter Rank Rewards)

‏‏‎Vehicles

• Removed the impact of track disable on initial acceleration. This allows for tanks with disabled tracks to escape; however, medium and high speed performance are still heavily impacted.

• Increased the critical angle from 10 to 20 degrees to better match the visual feedback of having a good angle on an opponent. It was too difficult to tell if you were going to get a critical hit, this increases the margin.

• Increased the range of the AA and AT HMGs to match the coax.

• Fixed Panzer 4 AT round only having 4 shells.

‏‏‎ ‎Maps and modes

• Mercury – Players spawning on tanks will no longer unintentionally end up on foot.

• Operation Underground – Fixed a rare bug that could stop the attacking team from spawning on Breakthrough.

• Outpost – The player no longer remains stuck if the tower is destroyed while the player plants it.

• Wake Island – Decreased the number of tanks to improve map balance on Breakthrough.

• Wake Island – Players will now be able to deploy even if their squad gets wiped during the last sector on Breakthrough, while playing as the US.

‏‏‎ Weapons & Gadgets

• Grease gun – We’ve made some subtle tweaks to the Suppressor audio to better separate it from the experience when firing the weapon unsuppressed.

• AP Mine – Fixed an issue that was causing the AP mine to not do damage to infantry in Firestorm.

‏‏‎ Weapon Balance

The following changes have been applied to the bolt action rifles muzzle velocity on the Recon class:

• Ross Rifle: From 600 to 750

• Type 99: From 600 to 750

We’ll be performing a more substantive pass on our Weapon Balance in our next update for Assault, Medic, and Support. Thank you for all of your feedback on this topic.

‏‏‎ ‎UI & Others

• Spotted enemies are no longer represented as arrows on the minimap and do not show the direction (they’re now back to diamond shapes).

• An option to modify the strength of snap zoom has been added for players on Console.

• Fixed a bug that was causing the “Vehicle Buster” combat role to not unlock for some players.

• Fixed a bug that would show the Deploy screen visible on squad screen after leaving pre-round.

• Fixed the incorrect wording in the Type 2A Mastery IV assignment.

‏‏‎ Stability

• Online server connectivity improvements that in some rare cases could drop a player from a server 30 seconds after joining it.