Month: December 2020

From Cobra Kai Season 3 to The Book of Boba Fett, here are the 10 best TV series to look forward to in 2021.

Monster Hunter World may have skipped out on the Switch, but Nintendo’s hybrid console is receiving its own new Monster Hunter game next year: Monster Hunter Rise. Developed on Capcom’s RE Engine, Rise is a sprawling new entry in the action-RPG series, featuring seamless environments and a handful of brand-new mechanics that give the game a more fluid, action-packed feel than previous installments.

We’re still a few months out from Monster Hunter Rise’s release, but Capcom has already revealed various details about the game. We’ve rounded up everything we know about Switch’s new Monster Hunter title below. For more on next year’s biggest releases, be sure to check out our most anticipated games of 2021, as well as our lists of the biggest Switch games to play in 2021 and beyond and 50 games you should have on your radar next year.

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The Far Cry series has been one of Ubisoft’s most defining open-world action-adventure franchises, focusing on exploration and fighting hostile forces in exotic locales. In Far Cry 6, the franchise heads to a new location known as Yara, loosely based on the island and history of Cuba. Set during a political and social revolution, Yara’s citizens begin their campaign to overthrow the cruel dictator Presidente Castillo. Here’s everything we know about Far Cry 6 so far.

For more on other upcoming new games, check out our most anticipated games of 2021.

The Story So Far

Though previous entries in the Far Cry series have had some loose connections, Far Cry 6 is an entirely standalone game that doesn’t have many ties to the previous games. This is likely for the best, considering Far Cry 5 and its spin-off New Dawn unexpectedly brought the series into the post-apocalyptic setting. Far Cry 6 takes place in the present, with the modern world still intact. However, this game’s setting is on the island of Yara, a country isolated from the rest of the world due to economic sanctions, as the developers explained in a talk with GameSpot shortly after the reveal Playing as a native of Yara who joins the rebel forces, you’ll make your way through the island dismantling the country’s systems of power before facing off against Presidente Anton Castillo, who’s played by Breaking Bad and The Mandalorian actor Giancarlo Esposito.

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Does being paid to build with legos full-time sound like a dream? Japanese artist Jumpei Mitsui is one of the 21 people in the world who get to do this, and he’s recently recreated a three-dimensional version of Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” entirely in LEGO form.

The project, now displayed permanently in the Hanyu Brick Museum in Osaka, Japan, took over 400 hours. It was built with more than 50,000 different LEGO blocks, and details the waves, boats and Mt. Fuji, spanning just over five feet.

富嶽三十六景 神奈川沖浪裏 をレゴで立体化しました。
長年作りたいテーマで頭の中でイメージはできていたのですが、今回ついに具現化することができました。立体なので色んなアングルから楽しめる作品になっています。

今日から大阪の阪急三番街・HANKYU BRICK MUSEUMで常設展示しています！ pic.twitter.com/fHEXvxfYDT

— 三井淳平 / Jumpei Mitsui (@Jumpei_Mitsui) December 11, 2020

Mitsui described on his Twitter the process of recreating the art in sculpture form, noting he had made one sketch, mostly to determine balance over being a “blueprint.” He said he also read several papers and watched hours of YouTube videos on waves to make sure he was getting the shapes and forms of them correct.

The piece is of course inspired by the original Japanese artwork, created sometime in the 1820’s and often considered one of the most recognizable pieces of Japanese art.

Though the gift-giving holidays may have come and gone, if you’re still looking to pick yourself up a LEGO set or two, be sure to check out our holiday 2020 LEGO guide. You can also check out IGN’s experience building the LEGO Roman Colosseum, the biggest LEGO set ever (that you can purchase). And if you’re looking for what’s next in the world of LEGO games, check out our latest coverage of 2021’s LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

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Call Of Duty history is littered with hated perks and we’re here to remember what was so uniquely frustrating about some of the worst offenders.