Month: September 2020

Life is Strange developer Dontnod Entertainment has announced that it has opened a new Montréal-based studio to, according to a press release, “work on a brand-new IP.” The new studio will be led by executive producer Luc Baghadoust and creative director Michel Koch.

“With the formation of a new team on another continent, we are writing a new page of Dontnod’s history,” Koch said. “It’s also a new beginning for new characters and original stories that we hope will touch and inspire many players around the world.”

In collaboration with Investissement Québec, Montréal International assisted Dontnod in opening its new studio. “Montréal is recognized as one of the five largest video game production centers in the world,” Montréal International president and CEO Stéphane Paquet said. “We are convinced that the creativity of Montréal talent combined with that of the Dontnod team will result in remarkable projects.”

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Among Us is a popular party game that supports 4-10 players in both local and online multiplayer. Its massive spike in popularity was driven in part by streamers, but also its relative accessibility (with easy crossplay support) and social elements. You’ve no doubt had friends or family asking you to pick up a copy and play with them in the past few months. If the $5 price tag on its PC version has been holding you back, there’s a way to play it for free: just pick it up on mobile. However, there are some extra things to be aware of.

Is Among Us Free to Play?

At the moment, Among Us costs $5 to play on PC via Steam or itch.io, but you can play it for free if you have an iOS or Android device. That’s right–Among Us is free on mobile! You can download it from either the App Store or Google Play.

• iOS (App Store)
• Android (Google Play)

The free version of Among Us is currently supported by ads, so you must take that into account if you’re playing on mobile.

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Taissa Farmiga has appeared in four seasons of American Horror Story, playing memorable roles like Violet Harmon in Murder House and Zoe Benson in Coven. Ryan and Greg break down each of her AHS roles.

Fortnite Week 5 challenges are here and that means another Wolverine task is available to complete. This week’s challenges ask you to locate a Trask Transport Truck. It’s easy enough to find, but isn’t near a named location. This guide will show you where to find the truck so you can land there and collect the reward with ease.

The Wolverine challenges are separate from the rest of the Season 4 battle pass. You still need to purchase it to participate, but the rewards won’t come as you level up. They’ll come with one-off challenges like this one similar to how Aquaman worked last season.

Where Is The Trask Transport Truck Located?

The Trask Transport Truck is located in the C1 tile of the map. It’s on top of another chunk of earth, like the Black Panther Statue, surrounded by a house and several trees. All you need to do is walk up to it to complete the challenge. There is a gold XP coin located in the truck’s cargo haul, as well. Be sure to collect that when you visit.

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This week on Wrestle Buddies, GameSpot’s professional wrestling podcast, Chris E. Hayner and Mat Elfring have a new video game to obsess over. WWE 2K Battlegrounds is trying to make us forget about the debacle that was WWE 2K20. We also welcome one half of the NXT Tag Team Champions to the show for a wide-ranging discussion.

After spending a few days playing the new WWE 2K Battlegrounds game, Mat and Chris have some thoughts to share about the latest title from 2K. It’s far from a perfect game but is the closest WWE has come to its own version of Super Smash Bros. However, we have many thoughts on how it should be improved with post-release content.

Then, Tyler Breeze, otherwise known as one half of NXT Tag Team Champions Breezango–and the reigning Left Right Left Right Champion–joins us to talk wrestling, winning his first championship, the ridiculous costumes he and Fandango wear, and getting to be part of Xavier Woods’ Up Up Down Down gaming channel. It just so happens that Breeze is one of Chris and Mat’s favorite wrestlers on any current roster, so this ended up being an interview you’re not going to want to miss.

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GigaBash, the B-movie styled 4-player arena brawler in which giant kaiju, monsters and ranger heroes cause merry mayhem as they battle for supremacy, revealed a new character ahead of Tokyo Game Show 2020: Gigaman. A new stage, Siberia, was also unveiled.

Now, IGN has an exclusive 17-minute gameplay video showing the new character in action in five matches, along with recently unveiled new monster Skorak and stages including Sibera, Hawaii and Tokyo. Check it out below:

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Power-suited hero Gigaman is a homage to Japan’s tokusatsu effects series, firing laser-based projectile attacks with his Giga Beam that ricochet around corners and aerial boost attacks in addition to fighting with his fists. As a limited special move, he can target and fire a powerful volley of lasers that burns a “G”-shaped emblem into the ground, for an extra adorable touch of collateral damage. His suit is blue by default but several color skins are available, as shown in the gameplay video.

According to the character’s profile, he is a once-mighty hero who has emerged from retirement to kick kaiju keister. Although he has seen better days, he has managed to retain his acrobatic skills, pulling off cartwheels, flying kicks, dive kicks, somersaults and tornado kicks.

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The press release accompanying his unveiling says “Gigaman is ideal for players looking for a high mobility type, fast-paced, combo-oriented character. His core mechanics require mastery in spacing and precise timing in each attack. In the right hands, Gigaman can overwhelm his foes in an unending string of air juggles and combos, perfect for players who prefer to beat their opponents with style points.”

The Siberia map is a snow-covered industrial complex of factory buildings, most of which are destructible. The gigantic statue of a pickaxe-wielding worker at its center can be toppled during play, to launch a missile from the silo hidden within and damage your foes.

Developed by Malaysia’s Passion Republic Game, GigaBash will feature 1-vs-all battles as well as team battles among other modes when it is released on PlayStation 4 and PC in 2021. For more information, check out GigaBash’s website, Twitter account or Discord server.

Tokyo Game Show 2020 is taking place 24-27 September as an online-only event. IGN will be covering the show in collaboration with our Tokyo-based team at IGN Japan, so stay tuned for much more.

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IGN is happy to exclusively show off a new trailer for The Medium, which reveals a little more about the upcoming next-gen horror game’s story, and helps introduce two of its key characters, the mysterious Sadness, and Troy Baker’s antagonist, The Maw.

Revealed as part of Tokyo Game Show, the trailer shows us lead character Marianne across both of the realities she can perceive, introducing The Maw, and talking about the stalking entity with Sadness, “a mysterious masked girl who resides at the abandoned Niwa Hotel.”

Check out the trailer below:

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We also have some brand new concept art to exclusively show off (click to enlarge), showing Marianne, “as she readies her psychic energy against the backdrop of the material world and the spirit world”:

The Medium – which arrives for Xbox Series X & S, and PC via Steam this holiday – comes from Bloober Team, the horror-focused studio behind Layers of Fear, Observer, and Blair Witch.

It will use next-gen power to render two separate worlds simultaneously, with players forced to solve puzzles and overcome challenges in both to proceed – all while avoiding The Maw. Storied voice actor Troy Baker has described his villain as “something I’ve never done before”, and even gave a brief demonstration of how he performs The Maw’s voice for us during Gamescom 2020.

The Medium is just one of two Bloober Team games coming to next-gen this year, with Observer: System Redux also arriving on launch day.

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The developers of Among Us have cancelled a planned sequel to the game to focus on updating the original, with all content designed for the sequel to be added to the original.

Innersloth co-founder PuffballsUnited broke the news on the game’s Itch.Io Devlog, revealing that – despite only announcing the sequel last month – the team has decided to cancel Among Us 2 and fold planned features for the sequel into Among Us.

Innersloth held “several long discussions” about the future of the game in the wake of its viral success. Initially, Innersloth had been focusing on the sequel due to the outdated nature of the Among Us codebase, which is “not built to support adding so much content.” However, given how many people have flocked to the game recently, the studio decided that they wanted to focus on supporting the original instead.

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“All of the content we had planned for Among Us 2 will instead go into Among Us 1,” PuffballsUnited explains. “This is probably the more difficult choice because it means going deep into the core code of the game and reworking several parts of it. We have lots of things planned and we’re excited to bring new content to everyone as you continue to enjoy playing!”

The blog also gave us a glimpse at what features will be headed to Among Us in the near future. The team is “working very hard” to figure out server issues at the moment, but will be bringing new features such as colourblind support, a new, Henry Stickmin-themed stage and a friends/account system, something Innersloth has been wanting to implement for a while now.

Among Us is an online social game in which a crew of players prep a spaceship for takeoff, but are faced with impostors trying to murder them. It’s become a viral success two years after its initial release, thanks in large part to streaming influencers beginning to play the game in front of huge audiences. In the last month, it peaked with the third-highest concurrent players on Steam, with 388,000 people playing simultaneously.

If you want to figure out how to play Among Us, check out our handy guide to help you understand the game’s mechanics.

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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.