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CBS All Access has announced a series order for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a series featuring Star Trek: Discovery’s Captain Pike, Number One and Spock.

Strange New Worlds will be based on the years that Captain Christopher Pike commanded the U.S.S. Enterprise, and will feature the returning Anson Mount as Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. These actors portrayed these same characters in CBS All Access’ Discovery too.

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“The series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise as they explore new worlds around the galaxy,” according to CBS.

The series premiere was written by Akira Goldsman with a story by Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. These three will serve as executive producers for the series in addition to Henry Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth. Aaron Baiers, Akela Cooper and Davy Perez will serve as co-executive producers. Goldsman will remain an executive producer on Star Trek: Picard as well.

“Fans fell in love with Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck’s portrayals of these iconic characters when they were first introduced on Star Trek: Discovery last season,” CBS All Access Executive Vice President and Head of Programming Julie McNamara said. “This new series will be a perfect complement to the franchise, bringing a whole new perspective and series of adventures to Star Trek.”

Only last year, we asked Anson Mount what he wanted from a Captain Pike show, given the huge fan response to his work in the role – here’s hoping he gets at least some of what he wanted.

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Strange New Worlds will join Discovery and Picard on CBS All Access when it launches on the streaming service. The franchise will get its first-ever animated series with Star Trek: Lower Decks on the service as well. A CG-animated Star Trek series for younger audiences is also in the works at Nickelodeon.

No release date was announced for Strange New Worlds. For more Star Trek, read about how we thought the season finale of Picard was good, giving it a 7 out of 10. For Season 2 of Picard, Star Trek actor Jonathan Frakes will return to the director’s chair. Elsewhere in the Star Trek universe, William Shatner said not to expect a Kirk series after Picard.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Scorn was one of the surprise hits of last week’s Inside Xbox showcase, its blank storytelling and H.R. Giger-inspired aesthetic standing out from the rest of Series X’s third-party slate. We’ve known about the game, as a PC title, for several years at this point, and it turns out the lure of Series X for developer Ebb Software was the fact that a console version could now match the vision it has always had for its PC project.

“It was about bringing it in line with the PC version”, says game director Ljubomir Peklar when I ask what the thinking was behind releasing Scorn for the new Xbox. “We don’t want to make any compromises and Series X certainly enables us to do just that.”

I ask what, specifically, Series X offers the team that current-gen consoles couldn’t: “It’s mostly evolutionary improvements that are going to make the biggest difference. The most important one is elimination of the CPU bottleneck that exists in the current-gen consoles and much faster loading of assets thanks to the SSD. It’s all about responsiveness and not having to wait on things.”

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For Scorn’s developers, compromise seems to be out of the question, and Series X’s power is a draw. Scorn is being built in Unreal Engine 4, and appears to be an exercise in pushing those tools as far as they’ll go – Peklar doesn’t say it outright, but Ebb appears to be aiming for high resolution and framerates as much as it is shiny (or should that be slimy?) new looks: “If developers decided to opt for lower resolutions and 30fps they could get more spectacular results, like in the new Unreal 5 showcase few days ago. What you have to remember is that responsiveness and motion clarity are also part of the overall presentation, so you would still be losing detail in a sense.”

The last direct gameplay we saw from Scorn came in 2017, and Peklar assures me that the game has changed significantly since then: “That pre-alpha level we showed is about 80% different right now. That demo was created to show backers we can develop a proper game and an overall potential of what the game could be. It wasn’t supposed to be a final representation of the game.”

What remains less clear is whether Series X is the only console platform on which Scorn will arrive. When I ask if this is a Series X exclusive, or if it could hit PS5 sometime after launch, Peklar says he can’t discuss that information. We still don’t know if the game will come to Steam and Windows Store simultaneously with Xbox Series X, either.

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A slightly more interesting mystery is what story Scorn actually aims to tell. Ebb has been purposely mysterious about what Scorn is about, to the point where, when I innocently ask what the initial pitch for the game was (intending to mean the look and gameplay ideas), Peklar says it feels like I’m trying to be “clever” and get him to tell me what the story’s about, and refuses to answer directly. “The initial pitch hasn’t changed that much,” he tells me, “but we will never disclose it.”

He will, at least, divulge what the gameplay will be made up of. The 2017 demo showed off exploration and puzzle-solving around one of Scorn’s several promised nightmarish areas, and a touch of gunplay as the local, disgusting wildlife subsequently turned hostile. That mix will seemingly remain the case in the final product: “It’s pretty much 50/50 when it comes to gunplay and puzzles,” says Peklar, “all wrapped up in an atmosphere that will elevate it much further than the sum of its parts.”

Despite that early gameplay, most people watching Inside Xbox won’t have seen Scorn before, and its sheer blankness of vision, and the team’s unwillingness to give too much away, must have made this very public showing slightly nerve-wracking. Thankfully, Peklar and his team emerged pleased with the experience: “We were interested in seeing if people were reacting to the specific beats we expected them to. Failing to adequately realize and present the mood is always our biggest worry. Thankfully it all went as expected. The overall reaction was pretty good too.”

Scorn will be released for Xbox Series X during the console’s “launch period”. Windows Store and Steam versions are also planned, with no release date specified.

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Joe Skrebels is IGN’s Executive Editor of News, and Scorn makes him feel deliciously grim. Follow him on Twitter.

Control’s next DLC expansion, AWE, will further explore the game’s link to Alan Wake, and provide answers for players who “didn’t quite understand what happened”.

Talking to Game Informer, Remedy’s creative director and writer Sam Lake has said that we can expect to learn much more about the Federal Bureau of Control’s research into the Bright Falls incident when playing through AWE.

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“We have this opportunity of looking back at what happened in Alan Wake and how does the Bureau see it,” said Lake. “Well, there was this otherworldly event that took place in Bright Falls and they suddenly have this terminology. We have people that say, ‘I loved Alan Wake but I didn’t quite understand what happened, and now I played Control and I understand what happened in Alan Wake!’”

Lake confirmed that AWE will definitely explore the events of Alan Wake. “I can say that you will find out more about the Bureau’s research on what happened in Alan Wake and where they are with it today,” he added.

Alan Wake, which released ten years ago, famously has an obscure conclusion. The two-part DLC story line – The Signal and The Writer – later helped clarify and extend certain plot elements, but to this day many players remain confused as to exactly what happened. Now that Remedy has built a shared universe for its games, the AWE expansion provides a new opportunity to clear up what happened in the strange town of Bright Falls.

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AWE will be the second expansion to Control, following The Foundation, which our review explains is a wonderful return to the weird world of the Federal Bureau of Control. After that, Remedy is embarking on two more next-gen games set in the same franchise.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter. 

During the first quarter of 2020, United States consumer spending on video game products reached the highest total in U.S. history, according to The NPD Group.

The NPD Group calls this year’s first quarter a record, driven by digital content spending across console, mobile and PC platforms – reaching $10.86 billion in total from January to March. This is an increase of 9% compared to the same period of time for last year, according to the report.

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“Sales of video game content reached $9.58 billion in the first quarter, up 11% when compared to a year ago,” The NPD Group reports. “Gains were seen across digital console and PC content, mobile and subscription spending, as well as across hardware and accessories categories.”

Games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which recently broke its own record after becoming the fastest-selling Switch game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, DOOM Eternal, and Grand Theft Auto V helped consumer spending break this record as they were all among the best-performing titles of this year’s first quarter. Other notable titles on that list include Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Fortnite, Minecraft, MLB The Show 20, and NBA 2K20.

“Video games have brought comfort and connection to millions during this challenging time,” NPD Group video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella said. “As people have stayed home more, they’ve utilized gaming not only as a diversion and an escape, but also as a means of staying connected with family and friends. Whether it was on console or mobile, PC or virtual reality, gaming experienced play and sales growth during the first quarter.”

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The challenging time Piscatella is referring to is, of course, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some ways to help and stay safe during the pandemic.

The NPD Group reports that a strong growth in sales of Nintendo Switch hardware and software helped to offset the declines across other hardware platforms, “leading the overall video game hardware market to increase 2% in the quarter to $773 million.” Video game accessories like gamepads, headsets, and cases also saw an increase in sales during this quarter with an increase of 1% in the first quarter. Those sales reached $503 million.

You can read more about how March of this year was a record-breaking month for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo is attempting to boost Switch output to meed its growing demand after months like March too.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

The Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths featured the vast majority of heroes–and a few villains–from all across The CW’s DC programming. While the Arrowverse crossover event has become an annual staple for these series, there are a few changes coming to the next one.

CW’s next DC crossover won’t be as ambitious as last year’s Crisis on Infinite Earths, and it won’t happen in December, like the annual event normally does, according to Variety.

“It will not happen in December but it will happen sometime hopefully first or second quarter of 2021,” CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz said. “It’ll be a smaller event than usual. We’re already planning a two-hour event. We are talking about doing Superman and Batwoman together at this point, with a lot of characters coming from other shows. But again, timing is impacted across the board, but we are planning for sometime middle, late first quarter, early second quarter, for that to happen.”

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A new Star Trek TV show focusing on the characters of Captain Christopher Pike, Mr. Spock, and Number One is on the way. It has been reported that Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn will reprise their roles from Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 for the new series, which is titled Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

The show has been given a full season order by the streaming service CBS All Access. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be set a decade before the original Star Trek series and will follow Pike, Spock, and Number One on adventures around the galaxy in the Enterprise. In a statement, CBS All Access head of programming Julie McNamara said, “Fans fell in love with Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck’s portrayals of these iconic characters when they were first introduced on Star Trek: Discovery last season. This new series will be a perfect complement to the franchise, bringing a whole new perspective and series of adventures to Star Trek.”

There has been much demand for Mount to reprise his role of Pike, ever since Discovery Season 2 finished its run in April 2019. There was a fan petition for him to be given his own show, and in an interview with SyFy Wire last December, Mount suggested that he would love to return to the role. Mount is the fourth actor to play Pike, following Jeffrey Hunter in the original Star Trek pilot, Sean Kenney in the ’60s series, and Bruce Greenwood in JJ Abram’s 2009 reboot movie.

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Resident Evil 3 Remake’s take on Nemesis is now available in Resident Evil Resistance, and Capcom has detailed its connection to Resident Evil 4.

Posted as part of the announcement of Nemesis’ inclusion in Resistance, a PlayStation blog post explains the newly-created connections between the Nemesis of Resident Evil 3 and Resistance with RE4. According to Capcom social media specialist Kellen Haney, the Nemesis’ ability to infect zombies with parasites in Resistance was added to the game to tie into the Ganado enemies of RE4.

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“We inevitably decided on this final ability due to the presence of Ganado in Resident Evil 4,” Haney said. “Ganado are humanoid enemies that are created through being infected with the Plagas parasite, the original basis for NE-α. When the Plagas activates, it spawns from the neck of its host in the form of a tentacle.”

Haney said NE-α was created to imitate this parasitic quality and Capcom wanted NE-α infected enemies to be “visually similar” to the Plagas-infected Ganados. This was done as a “means for fans to piece together how Nemesis fits within the whole Resident Evil franchise.”

As anyone who played RE3 knows, the Nemesis was able to infect zombies nearby using its parasitic arm. These newly-infected zombies would need to be taken down in a specific way different from the usual headshot to a standard zombie. The Nemesis’ tentacle arm will return as an ability in Resistance that can be used to infect zombies.

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This ability was also added in order to differentiate Nemesis from the Tyrant of Resident Evil 2. “We wanted Nemesis to come across as an even more formidable opponent, so we started considering alternate abilities aside from its heavy weapon artillery,” Haney said.

That’s what led to the inclusion of Nemesis’ infection ability. For more Resident Evil, check out this Dino Crisis mod for RE3 on PC. Read about this RE3 board game coming to Kickstarter too. We thought RE3 was amazing, giving the Resident Evil 3 remake a 9 out of 10.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. He helped write the IGN guide for Resident Evil 3, which you can check out here. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

One of my personal favorite pieces of tech is the 32GB iPad I bought on Black Friday. I use it all the time, way more than I expected I would when I got it. Right now, Best Buy has the same iPad with the same specs (the latest generation, no less) for the same price: just $249.99. Pair it with a free ComiXology Unlimited 60-day trial and it becomes a massive library tens of thousands of awesome comics.

Latest-Generation 32GB Apple iPad Deal

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Best Buy’s deal also includes a free year of Apple TV+ and 4 free months of Apple Music. Now, I don’t have Apple TV+ (although I really want to see that Beastie Boys documentary), but I do have Apple Music and I love it.

Basically, if you get this iPad deal, you can turn it into a portable media machine in just a few minutes after you unpack it and finish setting it up, and it won’t cost you anything extra.

Outside of the free trial, ComiXology also has free Marvel collections from the likes of Spider-Man, Venom, Captain America and more available right now.

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Seth Macy is IGN’s tech and commerce editor and just wants to be your friend. Find him on Twitter @sethmacy.