Month: September 2020

Magic: The Gathering will get a new set based on Dungeons & Dragons during Q3 2021, titled Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.

Announced during Magic’s Zendikar Adventuring Party livestream, the set will be fully standard-legal and black-bordered, meaning the set can interact with other mainline Magic sets. Check out the logo below:

No other details have been offered, other than to say neither Magic or D&D players will want to miss what’s coming, and that D&D is coming to Magic’s multiverse (although it’s not clear how extensive that crossover will be).

It was far from the only new set announced today. Magic’s Q1 2021 set will be Kaldheim, a Viking-themed set, Q2 brings Strixhaven, based in a Wizard university (essentially it sounds like Magic-but-Hogwarts), and Q4 will bring two new, full-sized Innistrad sets, one centred on werewolves and the other on vampires (with a tease of a “vampire wedding” being involved).

We also saw a Walker token based on The Walking Dead, which will be coming to Magic’s limited edition Secret Lair store in future:

Finally, we also received word that Magic: The Gathering Arena will be coming to mobile “soon” – although no other specifics were given.

If you want more Magic, check back with IGN tomorrow, when we’ll be exclusively revealing new cards from the Zendikar Rising set arriving this month.

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While Magic: The Gathering’s next set–Zendikar Rising–will be hitting stores on September 25 and on MTG Arena on September 17, Wizards of the Coast has revealed the names of three upcoming Magic sets. However, you won’t be able to get your hands on these sets for a while, since most of these have release dates set for 2021.

The Zendikar Rising reveal showcased a bunch of new cards for the set, which you can check out here. Wizards of the Coast outlined the sets for the upcoming year, which includes more crossover with D&D and another set focusing on werewolves and vampires.

Upcoming 2021 Magic sets:

• Strixhaven – The most elite university in the Multiverse – Spring 2021
• Adventures in the Forgotten Realms – Dungeons & Dragons comes to Magic – Summer 2021
• Innistrad (two unnamed sets) – Werewolves and Vampires are back – Fall 2021
• Kaldheim – Magic’s Viking world – Winter 2021
• Time Spiral Remastered – Recapture of the fan-favorite block
• Modern Horizons 2 – A follow-up to the popular Modern Horizons set

While all these sets are months away from hitting stores, MTG did have an early look at a few of the Time Spiral Remastered cards that will be available soon, which you can check out below.

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Zendikar Rising

The next set for Magic: The Gathering is right around the corner. Zendikar Rising hits stores on September 25 and will be available for Arena on September 17. This latest set takes players back to this popular world, and there is adventure around every corner.

In the reveal for the September set, we got a look at plenty of new cards, and Zendikar Rising will consist of 280 cards. During a stream on Twitch, fans got a closer look at returning gameplay mechanics like Landfall and Kicker. Additionally, new mechanics like Party and Modal Double-Faced Cards were explored.

This isn’t the only big thing coming to MTG in the near future. Wizards of the Coast also revealed the titles for the 2021’s sets. Some of these sets include two Innistrad sets, focused around werewolves and vampires. MTG will also do another crossover with Wizards property Dungeons & Dragons next summer in the set titled Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.

However, that’s all happening in the new year. For now, check out the latest Zendikar Rising cards and what they do.

Lavaglide Pathway

Type: Land

Tap: Add 1 red mana

Lavaglide Pathway

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Type: Land

Tap: Add 1 red mana

Riverglide Pathway

Type: Land

Tap: Add 1 blue mana

Riverglide Pathway

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Type: Land

Tap: Add 1 blue mana

Jace, Mirror Mage

Type: Legendary Planeswalker

Casting cost: 2 blue, and 3 colorless mana

Kicker: 2

When Jace, Mirror Mage enters the battlefield, if Jace was kicked, create a token that’s a copy of Jace, Mirror Mage, except it’s not legendary, and it’s starting loyalty is 1.

+1: Scry 2

0: Draw a card and reveal it. Remove a number of loyalty counters equal to that card’s converted mana cost from Jace, Mirror Mage.

Jace, Mirror Mage

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Type: Legendary Planeswalker

Casting cost: 2 blue, and 3 colorless mana

Kicker: 2

When Jace, Mirror Mage enters the battlefield, if Jace was kicked, create a token that’s a copy of Jace, Mirror Mage, except it’s not legendary, and it’s starting loyalty is 1.

+1: Scry 2

0: Draw a card and reveal it. Remove a number of loyalty counters equal to that card’s converted mana cost from Jace, Mirror Mage.

Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate

Type: Legendary Creature – Angel Wizard

Casting cost: 1 blue, 1 white, and 1 colorless mana

Flying

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you have a full party, choose a target nonland permanent an opponent controls. Until your next turn, it can’t attack or block, and its activated abilities can’t be activated.

Sacrifice Linvala: Choose hexproof or indestructible. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate

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Type: Legendary Creature – Angel Wizard

Casting cost: 1 blue, 1 white, and 1 colorless mana

Flying

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you have a full party, choose a target nonland permanent an opponent controls. Until your next turn, it can’t attack or block, and its activated abilities can’t be activated.

Sacrifice Linvala: Choose hexproof or indestructible. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

Lotus Cobra

Type: Creature – Snake

Casting cost: 1 green and 1 colorless mana

Landfall – Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, add one mana of any color.

Lotus Cobra

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Type: Creature – Snake

Casting cost: 1 green and 1 colorless mana

Landfall – Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, add one mana of any color.

Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients

Type: Legendary Planeswalker

Casting cost: 1 white, 1 red, and 2 colorless mana

+1: Create a 1/1 white Kor Warrior creature token. You may attach an Equipment you control to it.

-2: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a Warrior or Equipment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

-3: Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to twice the number of Equipment you control.

Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients

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Type: Legendary Planeswalker

Casting cost: 1 white, 1 red, and 2 colorless mana

+1: Create a 1/1 white Kor Warrior creature token. You may attach an Equipment you control to it.

-2: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a Warrior or Equipment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

-3: Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to twice the number of Equipment you control.

Omnath, Locus of Creation

Type: Legendary Creature – Elemental

Casting cost: 1 blue, 1 white, 1 green, and 1 red mana

When Omnath, Locus of Creation enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Landfall-Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it’s the second time, add 1 red, 1 green, 1 white, and 1 blue mana. If it’s the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don’t control.

Omnath, Locus of Creation

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Type: Legendary Creature – Elemental

Casting cost: 1 blue, 1 white, 1 green, and 1 red mana

When Omnath, Locus of Creation enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Landfall-Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it’s the second time, add 1 red, 1 green, 1 white, and 1 blue mana. If it’s the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don’t control.

Morphic Pool

Type: Land

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

Tap: Add 1 blue or 1 black mana.

Prismatic Vista

Type: Land

Tap: Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Scalding Tarn

Type: Land

Tap: Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Wasteland

Type: Land

Tap: Add 1 colorless mana.

Tap: Sacrifice Wasteland: Destory target nonbasic land.

Heading into election season, we’re bound to see some interesting campaign tactics. According to The Verge, Joe Biden is making his appeal to gaming constituents in Animal Crossing: New Horizons by giving them official Biden yard signs. It is part of the Biden campaign’s “broader initiative to organize voters online this fall.”

The Biden campaign yard signs are available September 1 and come in four different designs. One features the official Biden-Harris logo, while another has a set of aviators in red, white, and blue. You can get them by scanning the QR codes through Nintendo Switch Online app.

Christian Tom, director of digital partnerships for the Biden campaign, commented, “Animal Crossing is a dynamic, diverse, and powerful platform that brings communities together from across the world. It is an exciting new opportunity for our campaign to engage and connect Biden-Harris supporters as they build and decorate their islands. As we enter the final campaign stretch towards November, this is one way we are finding new creative and innovative ways to meet voters where they are and bring our supporters together.”

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Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming animated adventure series, Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous. Set during the events of Jurassic World, according to the official synopsis, the series follows “six teens invited to attend a state-of-the-art adventure camp in Isla Nublar [who] must band together to survive when the dinosaurs break out of captivity.” As the series progresses, the campers will go from total strangers to a family-like tribe that must depend on each other for everyone’s survival. Check out the trailer below.

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The Tokyo Games Show 2020 begins on September 24, and much like other games industry events such as Gamescom, the event will take place entirely online through video channels due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The official schedule for TGS is now live, and while the first day is light on content, it does feature a 50-minute long Xbox Tokyo Games Show Showcase at 5 AM PT.

Microsoft has struggled to establish a foothold in the Japanese market, something which Xbox head Phil Spencer wants to remedy when the Xbox Series X launches globally in the 2020 holiday season.

You can see the full schedule in the image below. Please note, the times listed are in Japanese Standard Time.

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As we inch closer and closer to the holiday season that has both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 waiting in the wings, it’s probably about time we start hearing about some of each console’s defining features. In the case of the PS5, Sony has let developers explain why the inclusion of its super-fast SSD and implementation of 3D audio are potential game-changers.

The speed and architecture of the SSD allows for games to access data both more efficiently and quickly, as Sony’s Mark Cerny explained in detail earlier this year. What that means for game’s in practice is little to no load times, faster movement speeds through larger worlds, or potentially new game experiences that haven’t been envisioned yet.

As Neil Hill, lead programmer on Far Cry 6, explains in the latest PlayStation Blog post: “The SSD is a gamechanger, I think as this generation matures we will see some amazing innovation in streaming and open-world game design.”

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On Twitter, Capcom confirmed that Resident Evil Village will be part of Tokyo Game Show. The company’s live show will be held on two days, September 26-27, through Capcom’s Twitch Channel.

On both days, the livestream will run from 5 AM – 8 AM PDT. If you’re looking to just catch Resident Evil Village news, it will be part of September 27’s stream. The broadcast will be in Japanese, but simultaneous English and Chinese interpretations will be available. Capcom has also announced that it will be showing Street Fighter V Champion Edition during the September 26 livestream.

An announcement trailer for Resident Evil Village was released back in June. Producers Tsuyoshi Kanda and Pete Fabiano’s interview with Famitsu, translated by Alex Aniel, also revealed more about this new addition to Capcom’s popular horror franchise. Resident Evil Village will conclude Ethan’s story that started in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. They also commented that the title underscores village because there is “another protagonist” in the game and don’t want the game to be known as Resident Evil 8.

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Few successful horror franchises ever truly die, and Scream is the latest series to be rebooted. The fifth Scream movie has now been given a confirmed release date, and the first teaser has been released.

Scream 5 will hit theaters on January 14, 2022. The film has been steadily adding cast members over the last few months, but it is yet to start production. As a result the teaser is very basic–literally just the movies’ iconic Ghostface mask emerging out of darkness. Nevertheless, it’s exciting to see it again–check the teaser out below:

Scream 5 hasn’t got an official title–although given every movie so far has just been a numerical sequel, it might just stay that way. It’ll be directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who helmed last year’s highly entertaining horror comedy Ready or Not.

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Xbox Game Pass is getting a whopping 10 new games over the next few weeks, across Xbox One and PC. One high-profile new release is available right now, and the others will be coming within the first two weeks of September.

Starting today you can download Crusader Kings 3 for PC, an intricate strategy game that’s just released today. It scored an 8/10 in GameSpot’s Crusader Kings 3 review. Starting on September 3, you can get Jackbox Party Pack 4 on Xbox One, World War Z on PC, and Resident Evil 7, Tell Me Why Chapter 2, and Luna Nights on both Xbox One and PC.

Then next week, you can grab Star Renegades and Disgaea 4 Complete on PC, Hotshot Racing on Xbox One, and Tell Me Why Chapter 3 on both Xbox One and PC. The announcement also mentions that Destiny 2: Shadowkeep and Forsaken will be available on Xbox One “soon,” but doesn’t give a specific release date. The Beyond Light expansion was also planned for September, but was pushed to November. It will also be available through Game Pass. You can check below for the full schedule of releases.

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