IGN is excited to debut its new video series Next Big Game with a lowdown on all things Super Mario Odyssey. With Next Big Game, we take a look at the biggest and most exciting upcoming games, and break down all of the latest info and work with the studios to provide you with plenty of new content, including gameplay, and much more.

Seeing as how Mario’s next big adventure is right around the corner, the debut episode of Next Big Game is here to provide you with the lowdown on all things Super Mario Odyssey.

Episode 2 – Why Assassin’s Creed Origins is the Next Big Game In episode 2, IGN takes you inside Ubisoft’s next entry in their epic action series. Assassin’s Creed Origins, developed by the team behind Black Flag, promises to be a complete overhaul of the series, and we’ll tell you everything you need to know about it. Game Director Ash Ismail joins us to give us insight into his team’s process and reveals a few secrets about Assassin’s Creed Origins ahead of its release.

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It was another major week of comic book releases. DC reached the halfway mark in the epic Dark Nights: metal crossover and continued to explore the fallout of the Mr. Oz reveal in Action Comics and Detective Comics. Marvel inducted a number of ongoing books into the Marvel Legacy era, including Amazing Spider-Man, Deadpool, Defenders and All-New Wolverine. And IDW delivered the penultimate chapter of the First Strike crossover.

Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.

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It took over 75 years for Wonder Woman to make it all the way to the big screen, and then, just a few months later, her creators followed. But writer/director Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and The Wonder Women isn’t a typical love letter to a pop culture icon. It’s a frank and sensual love story about three people who tried to change the world, and succeeded… just not in the way they originally intended.

Luke Evans and Rebecca Hall play Professor William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Marston, two psychologists who are trying to invent the first lie detector test when they enlist a student, Olive Byrne, played by Bella Heathcote, to be their new assistant. They are all modern feminists, honest with their emotions and open to all possibilities, who challenge each other at every turn. But when William, Elizabeth and Olive all turn out to be equally attracted to one another, it gets a little complicated.

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After now having worked on two South Park role-playing games, series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker discussed what other genres they might like to explore.

“I would love to make a first-person shooter. I’m not even kidding,” Stone said in an interview with IGN. “Some sort of first-person, going through a 3D thing where you’re seeing characters.”

Stone went on to note how the role-playing genre is such a good fit for South Park, saying, “I love the way we do

and Stick of Truth where the whole conceit behind those is it looks like the show.” Parker also pointed out how “RPGs just play so well into… writing, and applying to characters,” which makes the genre such a good fit for South Park.

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Call of Duty: WWII’s release date isn’t far away, and developer Sledgehammer Games is ramping up the reveals of new content. The company has now unveiled a new multiplayer map and mode you’ll be able to play come November 3.

The new mode is called Gridiron, and it’s inspired by Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s Uplink mode. This time, however, you’ll be carrying and throwing an old leather football to suit WWII’s 1940s setting.

Gridiron will be playable on a new map set in wartime London. Although the map’s name was not revealed, a recent leak stemming from Call of Duty: WWII’s PC beta apparently stated the arena will be called London Docks. You can check out the newly revealed content in the images above (via CharlieIntel).

Another map was revealed just last week: Carentan, which first appeared in the original Call of Duty, is being remade for WWII, but it’s exclusive to season pass holders. For more on the upcoming shooter, check out our in-depth feature exploring the real-life inspirations behind Call of Duty: WWII.

The game launches for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 3. We don’t yet know what will follow it, but one analyst has already predicted Black Ops 4 will come out in 2018.

 

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Last-minute deadlines have never stopped South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker from getting things done, even when their own bodies won’t cooperate.

TV show executive producer Frank C. Agnone II told me the story of being nearly finished with The Fractured but Whole, the sequel to 2014’s outstanding South Park RPG The Stick of Truth, but the TV team’s usual last-second process left Parker with 10,000 lines of dialogue to record just one week ahead of a big deadline. As if that wasn’t a tall enough task on its own, Parker then got very sick and ended up having emergency surgery to remove his gallbladder. Following the operation, Parker somehow convinced his doctor to let him temporarily leave the hospital to go get the dialogue laid down, and on the way back to the hospital, an exhausted Parker said to Agnone, “I just want this game to be sweet.”

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Mario’s reptile mount Yoshi was initially supposed to be a horse.

The dinosaur’s origins were revealed in an interview with the developers of Super Mario World and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island.

The interview was conducted as part of the Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES developer series, looking behind the scenes at some of the classic titles available on the retro console.

Super Mario World director Takashi Tezuka disclosed the details surrounding his creation. “Shigeru Miyamoto said he wanted Mario to ride a horse! When we were making Super Mario Bros. 3, he had drawn a picture of Mario on a horse and hung it on a wall near where he used to sit. I would look at that and think, “I think he wants Mario to ride something.

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John Carpenter, the renowned film director behind Halloween, Escape From New York, and The Thing, is really into Destiny 2, apparently. A new interview with The Guardian opened with the interviewer asking Carpenter what’s new. He immediately went to Destiny 2.

“I’ve been playing the video game Destiny 2. It’s a sci-fi game. It’s fun,” Carpenter said when asked what’s he’s been up to lately. The director went on to say that he finds Destiny 2 to be a difficult game, which is the reason why he “dedicated [his] life” to learning the game’s ins and outs.

“Oh, it is hard. That’s why I’ve dedicated my life to learning how to play it. At my age why not? It keeps me out of trouble,” Carpenter said.

This isn’t the first time Carpenter, 69, has spoken about video games. In 2013, the director said he would be interested in making a Dead Space movie. Also at the time, he said he “stupidly” bought a copy of the disappointing Aliens: Colonial Marines.

You can read the full interview here at The Guardian.

In other news about Destiny 2, the game’s first Iron Banner event is now live. You can learn a lot more about it here in GameSpot’s in-depth coverage.

Meadow falls in love with Kai, Ally seeks out a friend and Ivy reveals why he betrayed her wife. Ryan and Greg are back breaking down American Horror Story: Cult Episode 6 “Mid-Western Assassin.”