A projector for those ready to go all in.
When shopping around for a new TV, it’s easy enough to know what to look for and what questions to ask. What’s the picture size and resolution? How many HDMI inputs does it have? Does it come with any smart features built-in? Is it HDR-compatible? But what if you’re interested in a projector instead? What do you need to know then?
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The regular person with no unique or weird features, Xûr, is now live in Destiny 2 for the weekend until next week’s reset. If you’re looking to get your some shiny new Exotic armor or weapons for your Guardian, look no further.
Each week, Xûr has a random assortment of Exotic armor, one for each Guardian class, as well as a random Exotic Weapon and an Exotic Engram available for purchase. In addition to his Exotic wares, he’s got a random collection of Legendary weapons and armor to deck out your Guardians.
We’ve rounded up all the info on Xûr for the week including where to find Xûr, which Exotic weapons and armor are available, as well as which Legendary weapons you should pick up, either for PvE or PvP.
Xûr’s location can be found at Winding Cove in the EDZ on February 3 through February 4. To reach him, travel to the landing point at Winding Cove. When you arrive, make for the rock cliffs at the far end of the cove and look for a cave winding up to a platform next to some Fallen. There you’ll find the retail monster who inspires us all.
Exotic Engram
Lord of Wolves – Exotic Shotgun
Raiju’s Harness – Exotic Hunter Chest Armor
Doom Fang Pauldron – Exotic Titan Gauntlets
Felwinter’s Helm – Exotic Warlock Helmet
Sadly it’s another week of underwhelming exotic armor rolls, but you should grab Lord of Wolves if you don’t have it already — it’s quite good!
Hawkmoon – Exotic Hand Cannon
Dead Man’s Tale – Exotic Scout Rifle
Both rolls this week are fairly mid, but there’s not anything wrong with either of them if you need a roll in a pinch!
False Promises – Combat Bow
Chrysura Melo – Auto Rifle
Blast Battue – Grenade Launcher
Ignition Code – Grenade Launcher
Nature of the Beast – Hand Cannon
Fractesthyst – Shotgun
The Keening – Sidearm
Xûr’s got a few interesting weapons this week! I don’t have any experience with Blast Battue, but quite like the roll for it, so will be trying it out. My interest is also piqued by the rolls for Nature of the Beast and Ignition Code. Some interesting stuff to try out this week, y’all!
For Warlocks, Xûr is selling the Lightkin set which includes:
Lightkin Gauntlets
Lightkin Chest Armor
Lightkin Helmet
Lightkin Leg Armor
Lightkin Bond
Warlocks didn’t get any worthy rolls this week. Once again, the fault is with Lord Cognito.
For Titans, Xûr is selling the Lightkin set which includes:
Lightkin Gauntlets
Lightkin Chest Armor
Lightkin Helmet
Lightkin Leg Armor
Lightkin Mark
Titans follow in the unfortunate footsteps of Warlocks and don’t have a single piece of gear worth considering.
For Hunters, Xûr is selling the Lightkin set which includes:
Lightkin Gauntlets
Lightkin Chest Armor
Lightkin Helmet
Lightkin Leg Armor
Lightkin Cloak
And Hunters went ahead and made it a complete waste across the board this week. Xur, you have failed us.
That’s a wrap on Xûr for this week, Guardians! Predictions time: who will we face in the upcoming Lightfall raid? Let us know in the comments! For more on Destiny, check out some of the new weapons and gear you can find in The Witch Queen and read about how Sony’s purchase of Bungie fits into its larger plans.
Travis Northup is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @TieGuyTravis and read his games coverage here.
Duke Nukem 3D burst onto the FPS scene in the Nineties, young CJ was a bit confused. This Duke wasn’t the purple-shirted acrobat I’d known from Apogee Software’s pair of platformers earlier that decade. He was brash, crude, and and didn’t side-scroll anymore. It wasn’t for me, so I moved on to other games. I still occasionally loaded up those earlier platformers though, wistfully remembering a time when Duke presumably used actual toilets when he needed to answer a call of nature.Remedy Entertainment and Smilegate announced that they will be shutting down CrossfireX on May 18, 2023. This announcement comes right before the game’s one-year anniversary as it was released on Xbox Series and Xbox One back on February 10, 2022.
“Since the launch of the game, we have worked tirelessly to bring it to a point where we can all be proud, and throughout it all we have had the honor and pleasure of supporting our players,” CrossfireX’s development team said in a statement.
It continued: “Coming to this decision was not easy, however, we can proudly say that our players have been amazingly active, passionate, and enthusiastic in working with us to create a game that would be fun and enjoyable by all. We want to thank each and every one of our players for playing CrossfireX and being a part of this journey with us.
It is with deepest regret that we must inform you of our decision to terminate our service for CrossfireX. We want to thank each and every one of our players for playing and being a part of this journey with us. For full details, please visit: https://t.co/Kx03nYOmLA pic.twitter.com/Gl790Tn38T
— CrossfireX (@PlayCrossfireX) February 3, 2023
Sales for the game on the Xbox Store have already been disabled, and there will be no new content added to the game, including maps, modes, and camos. Additionally, purchases made within the last 14 days as of February 3, 2023, are eligible for a refund.
In the meantime, players can continue to enjoy the game until its shutdown in May. The in-game store will continue to be open, but the option to purchase premium currency will be disabled. Players can still spend their remaining currency.
CrossfireX is the latest live-service game to announce shutdowns this week—Rumbleverse and Knockout City, Crimesight, and Apex Legends Mobile are going offline later this year too.
In IGN’s CrossfireX single-player and multiplayer reviews, we said, “CrossfireX’s pair of single-player shooter campaigns are sloppy, soulless, and mercifully brief,” as well as “CrossfireX’s multiplayer modes aren’t worth the price you’ll pay…and it’s free-to-play.”
George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN. He’s been writing about the industry since 2019 and has worked with other publications such as Insider, Kotaku, NPR, and Variety.
When not writing about video games, George is playing video games. What a surprise! You can follow him on Twitter @Yinyangfooey
If you can dodge a ball, you can dodge a…lawnmower?
Game Swing’s OddBallers, a raucous top-down dodgeball party game, has been doing the rounds for quite some time now, having languished in various unreleased forms since it was first announced as “coming soon” a fair old while ago. Now it’s suddenly dropped onto Nintendo Switch and, far from the mess we had thought it might turn out to be, it’s actually a really fun little slice of multiplayer mayhem. However, it’s not without its issues.
Oddballers sees players jump into colourful top-down arenas in order to hurl dodgeballs, chickens, bombs, and lots of other goofy items at one another in order to emerge victorious. The action is then made even more chaotic by a multitude of environmental dangers; lawnmowers, acid bombs, electrical charges, and so on, that keep you on your toes as you charge around looking to wipe out your friends and/or a bunch of the game’s relatively capable bots.
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Update: 02/03/2022: It Takes Two has now sold more than ten million copies, doubling its five million record set this time last year.
Announced on developer Hazelight Studios’ Twitter (below), the team said “our minds are officially blown” as they celebrated the impressive number.
“Potentially twice as many players have enjoyed our game,” it added. “We never dared to dream of so many fans. Thank you for all the love.”
Our minds are officially blown.#ItTakesTwo has sold over 10 (TEN!) MILLION ??
Potentially twice as many players have enjoyed our game – we never dared to dream of so many fans!
Thank you for all the love. ? pic.twitter.com/GzF1UL7ZUn— Hazelight Studios (@HazelightGames) February 3, 2023
Original Story: 02/07/2022: It Takes Two has sold five million copies, including two million since October, developer Hazelight Studios has announced.
The developer tweeted (below) that “our team is absolutely stunned just thinking about how many players have now enjoyed our game.”
Hazelight previously announced on October 13 that the award-winning co-op game had passed three million units sold, showing that It Takes Two had a strong holiday period performance with at least two million sales.
5… that’s FIVE million copies of #ItTakesTwo sold! ???
Our team is absolutely stunned just thinking about how many players have now enjoyed our game! ?
— Hazelight Studios (@HazelightGames) February 4, 2022
It Takes Two won several categories at The Game Awards 2021 including overall game of the year, best multiplayer game, and best family game. It was among the nominees for IGN’s game of the year but in the end fell to Forza Horizon 5.
We called the game “amazing”, saying “It Takes Two is a spectacular co-op adventure that lays down a path of great gameplay ideas and uses it to play a giddy game of hopscotch.”
Several famous faces from the gaming industry have also praised the game. Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki said it was a standout of 2021 alongside executives at Naughty Dog who also said it was their game of the year.
It Takes Two’s success has led it beyond the gaming sphere, as Hazelight Studios has partnered with dj2 Entertainment to create adaptations for film and television.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale.
NZXT Source 340 compact mid-tower PC case with side window, product code CA-S340W-B1. Good gravy, did I love that case. Tightly proportioned without being too cramped for a full-size graphics card, maturely designed without looking dull, and hewn from some of most gorgeously textured matte steel I’ve seen on a piece of computing hardware. Don’t even get me started on the upgraded Source 340 Elite. It’s been years since these cases disappeared from sale and ascended to Component Heaven, and although it’s taken a few tries, there’s finally a new chassis that’s worthy of the legacy: the NZXT H5 Flow.Cardy, Dale, and Mat dream up what they think should be the next big video game TV show following The Last of Us as they pick the game, director, cast, and much more for their big-budget projects. Before that, though, there’s time for a little Dead Space catch-up, impressions of Knock at the Cabin, Knockout City sadness, and the bizarre thing that is Infinite Seinfeld.
Got a game for us to play or just want to tell us the weirdest thing you’ve eaten for breakfast? Why not email us: ign_ukfeedback@ign.com.
IGN UK Podcast 682: Creating the Next Best Video Game TV Show
Overwatch 2’s third season is right around the corner and, as always, that means we’re getting a new map. Blizzard have treated us to our first look at the Antarctic Peninsula, an icy-themed control map launching alongside Season 3 on February 7th. The Antarctic Peninsula is a big deal since it’ll delve into Mei’s backstory, it’s the first natural environment in an OW map, and it lets you fish. As in catching fish. At an ice hole. As in, you can catch fish at an ice hole in Overwatch 2.Welp. Nintendo won’t be on the floor at E3 2023. Neither will Xbox. Sony… well, we knew Sony and the ESA haven’t been hitching horses for a while now. So that means the “Big 3” are no-shows at what we had all hoped was going to be a triumphant, perhaps even jubilant, return of the most legendary gaming show of them all. I’m not going to write about “Is E3 even relevant?” or “do we still need a show like E3?” Those pieces have already been written, often by people much more talented and wise than I. Instead, I just want to say, as a fan of video gaming, how I am truly bummed out to see E3 once again falling to the wayside. Some of the greatest E3 moments of all time come from Nintendo, and while they stopped doing live conferences in 2012, their E3-timed Directs have been some of the most memorable parts of E3 without technically being part of E3.
While Nintendo wasn’t doing live press conferences, its presence on the showfloor was always massive and one of the places you absolutely, positively had to visit if you were among those lucky enough to attend E3. Usually Nintendo would have a Treehouse live event immediately following its Direct, and we’d be treated to several hours of live gameplay of games we only just learned about. It was all so exciting and fun, and this year it’s gone.
Will we get a Direct during the E3 window? I’m kind of thinking we won’t. I may be wrong, and I hope I am, but Nintendo’s biggest game in half a decade drops at the start of May and anything they’re holding for the holiday season wouldn’t really benefit from a June reveal. So not only is Nintendo not going to have a physical presence at the LA Convention center, but I don’t think we’re going to see a Direct during E3, either.
I do feel safe in saying Nintendo has had more memorable E3 moments than anyone else. It was a Nintendo E3 moment that birthed one of the most enduring online memes with the “Reaction Guys.” (related: it was a previous Nintendo E3 uh… moment… that spawned the first half of that meme).
While not quite as legendary as the previous year’s E3 presentation, 2005 saw the first, official reveal of the “Nintendo Revolution,” which would go on to become the Nintendo Wii. Watching Satoru Iwata casually reveal the prototype, which he was hiding in his jacket, is just one of those magical Nintendo moments. But the crowd really gets going when Iwata announces Virtual Console and the promise we’d have the opportunity to play games from every Nintendo console. “The idea of a single device transporting us back to the first Excitebike, Earthbound, or Punch-Out!! should make us all feel young again.”
Watching this presentation again is so weird. If I’d never seen it before, and someone were to describe it to me, I’d think they were making it up. It’s this beautiful, absurd fever dream put together by Robot Chicken and features a choreographed fight sequence between Satoru Iwata and Reggie Fils-Aime leading to the reveal of the new Super Smash Bros. I’d forgotten how awesome this was. Go and watch it again. You’ll see.
The presentation itself lacked the memorable moments between segments, and watching it again, this is a pretty by-the-books E3 Direct. It’s pretty much indistinguishable from any other Nintendo Direct. However, E3 2018 saw the announcement that every fighter ever to have appeared in Super Smash Bros was coming to Ultimate. It didn’t seem possible, and yet not only did they come through with the promise, they added EVEN MORE as the years went on. This E3 holds a special place in my heart, since it’s the one and only E3 I’ve been to, and I was within grabbing distance of Shigeru Miyamoto. Grabbing Mr. Miyamoto is frowned upon both by IGN and Nintendo, so I had to compose myself. I also feel like, while Nintendo had an incredible 2017 with the release of the Switch and Breath of the Wild, 2018 was the year the Switch absolutely cemented its place in popular culture, and I think Super Smash Bros. Ultimate had a lot to do with that.
Not technically Muppets, I know, but they were created by The Jim Henson company. The melding of two titans of creativity gave us one of the best and bittersweet Nintendo digital E3 presentations of them all, as it would be Satoru Iwata’s final showing as Nintendo’s president. It was also 2015, when things were looking pretty awful for Nintendo as a company. The Wii U never caught on, and is largely considered a failure as a console, and the first game featured, Star Fox Zero, is… well, it had some interesting ideas. But the whole presentation is just so full of heart, it captures the feeling we Nintendo fans hold inside of us better than any other presentation.
I mentioned it earlier, but the Reaction Guys meme was birthed at this Nintendo E3 press conference. The first photo in the meme was taken in 2003, when Nintendo announced Pacman vs. for GameCube. But I’ll get to that second photo in a bit, because, man. Where even to start? I guess at the beginning. Logical enough. The whole thing kicked off with someone most of us didn’t recognize, an imposing figure by the name of Reggie Fils-Aime. “My name is Reggie. I’m about kicking ass, I’m about taking names, and we’re about making games.” Legend! The reveal of the biggest President in gaming was a pretty interesting way to start things off, but then we got the reveal of the Nintendo DS during the same presentation. It wasn’t quite the Earth-shattering moment of other console reveals, but in hindsight, maybe everyone should have clapped a little louder.
The most incredible Nintendo E3 moment of all time happens at the end of the presentation. It’s important to point out, E3 2004 was still very much a business-focused event, and a fair portion of the presentation included sales figures and bar graphs. Iwata came out after the DS presentation and talked at length about Nintendo’s successes and how the DS was going to change things up, once again, but then he mentioned Nintendo’s next console. There’s an audible gasp from the crowd when he says “home console,” by the way. He goes on to confirm Nintendo is working on a new console, one that will “create a gaming revolution.” It was our first hint at the Nintendo Revolution, and man was it exciting.
At the very end, Reggie thanked the crowd and casually offered a look at just one more world players could soon visit. As the trailer rolled, it seemed both new and somehow familiar, but as the camera spun around a realistic Link riding Epona, all doubt was removed and the crowd went bananas. That was the source of the second part of the “Reaction Guys” meme, and you can feel it from watching footage taken with the crowd in place. The conference hall just explodes with joyous energy, with people screaming out in disbelief at what they’re seeing in front of their eyes. Seriously, if you’ve never watched video of the reveal taken from the crowd’s perspective, I highly recommend doing so. Even if you aren’t a fan of Zelda, or Twilight Princess, the energy is just so pure and real, it’s impossible not to smile. And then Miyamoto comes out with a Hylian shield and Master Sword!
Even if Nintendo does an E3-timed Direct this year, without the following excitement from those who get to experience Nintendo’s offerings on the show floor, I think we’re all worse off. It’s a huge blow for fans who’ve dreamed their whole lives, as I did, of getting their hands on games announced only hours before. I’m hoping the return of E3 as an in-person event is merely experiencing growing pains and the blowback from negative economic conditions. For Nintendo fans, I really hope Nintendo returns to E3, and I hope everyone gets to experience the magic in-person at least once.
Of course there are a lot more Nintendo moments to love and share. What are yours?
Seth Macy is Executive Editor, IGN Commerce, and just wants to be your friend. You can find him hosting the Nintendo Voice Chat podcast.
