Amnesia: The Bunker, taking their signature scares back to the first World War. We now know that the game is releasing on May 16th for PC and consoles.Hey! Look! Listen!
The Zelda timeline is a difficult beast to get your head around. There are various different threads with Link at a different stage in his heroism, things that are canon and non-canon and always the promise that the next game could come along and shift everything about (we’re looking at you, Tears of the Kingdom).
For the most part, the timeline excludes most of the Zelda spin-off sources (TV shows, manga, graphic novels and the like), though this isn’t to say that there are no interesting facts to be gained from these formats. Take the following images from ‘The Perfect Zelda Fan Book’, a Japanese guide for A Link to the Past which also contains a short manga for the first three games in the series.
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Season 3 of Gundam Evolution, dubbed ‘Defencer’, is arriving today, February 1, where new and veteran Mobile Suit Pilots can join the fray. This season is bringing all-new add-on content to enjoy: a new Mobile Suit, regional servers, and a whole lot more!
Hyperion Gundam hails from the ‘Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X Astray’ manga and marks the newest addition to the Gundam Evolution roster. Pilots will be able to attain this Mobile Suit through the store or via the Hyperion Gundam Item Pack. It’s perfect for Gundam SEED fans!
Hyperion Gundam excels in holding the frontlines as well as being able to break through enemy forces. Let’s go over what makes this unit so special!
Unlock Hyperion Gundam by purchasing Evo Coins or completing challenges to earn Capital in-game.
Gundam Evolution is an immersive, fast-paced 6v6 team shooter where you’re able to pilot iconic Mobile Suits from the smash hit ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’ anime series. Jump into combat as Hyperion Gundam, Unicorn Gundam, and more from this expanding roster.
Gundam Evolution also has three different game modes that allow you to show off your teamwork and tactical skills: Point Capture, Domination, and Destruction. Coordinate with your team and align your G-Maneuvers to come out on top!
Can’t wait to start piloting your own Mobile Suit? Play Gundam Evolution now and experience these exciting Mobile Suit battles first-hand. We’ll see you in the Hangar, Pilots!
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Many fan-favorite items related to Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack are also available.
In addition, a new MAP Colony CargoBay has been added and new elements have been implemented to make GUNDAM EVOLUTION even more powerful, so experience it now!
GUNDAM EVOLUTION is an online FPS title in which players take control of mobile suits from the hit Gundam anime and fight other online players in six-versus-six battles. Features fast-paced action and immersive controls. Switch between mobile suits with their own unique characteristics and cooperate with teammates to win matches.
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Today we’re happy to reveal the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for February. Take on demonic Deadites in asymmetrical multiplayer Evil Dead: The Game, grind and trick your way through the vibrant world of Radlandia in OlliOlliWorld and live the life of a Prohibition-era gangster with Mafia: The Definitive Edition. In addition to these titles, Destiny 2: Beyond Light joins the lineup as a bonus game this month.
All four titles will be available to PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra and Premium members from Tuesday, February 7 until Monday March 6. The PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium lineups for February will be announced soon.
Let’s take a closer look at the Monthly Games.
Step into the shoes of Ash Williams or his friends from the iconic Evil Dead franchise and work together in a game loaded with over-the-top co-op and PvP multiplayer action. Play as a team of four survivors, exploring, looting, managing your fear, and finding key items to seal the breach between worlds in a game inspired by all three original Evil Dead films as well as the Ash vs Evil Dead television series. Fight for the forces of good or take control of the Kandarian Demon to hunt Ash & others while possessing Deadites, the environmental objects & more as you seek to swallow their souls!
Grind, trick and air your way to discover the mystical skate gods on your quest for Gnarvana in this bold skateboarding action-platformer that’s bursting with personality. Traverse a delightful and weird world as you take on missions, challenges and make new friends along the way. Experience the accessibility, depth and player freedom as you dive into the signature flow state gameplay. OlliOlli World marks the third entry in the critically-acclaimed OlliOlli series from Roll7, the BAFTA and multi-award-winning independent studio.
Embark on a new journey through the incredible sci-fi fantasy universe of Destiny 2 with this expansion* to the multiplayer action shooter. Guardians will explore Europa, master the new elemental power of Stasis and collect powerful Exotic gear as they battle the Fallen Kell of Darkness, Eramis.
Explore a recreated 1930’s cityscape, filled with interwar architecture, cars and culture… and a crime-riddled underbelly in this full remake of the 2002 original. Rise up through the ranks of the Mafia during the Prohibition era of organized crime. After a run-in with the mob, cab driver Tommy Angelo is thrust into a deadly underworld. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri crime family, Tommy soon finds that the rewards are too big to ignore.
PlayStation Plus members have until Monday February 6 to add Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Fallout 76 and Axiom Verge 2 to their game library.
Also, check out our PlayStation Plus monthly games-inspired playlist on Spotify, which will be refreshed with new songs every month.
We also wanted to provide an update on the PlayStation Plus Collection that has been offered as a benefit to PlayStation Plus members on PS5 since 2020. On May 9 the PlayStation Plus Collection will no longer be offered. If you haven’t redeemed the titles in this collection yet, you can still do so until May 9, which will enable you to access those titles even after this date for as long as you remain a PlayStation Plus member.
We will continue to add to our growing PlayStation Plus library of Monthly Games and Games Catalog, so be sure to check monthly for new titles to redeem.
We thank you all for your support of PlayStation Plus and we hope you enjoy this month’s lineup.
*Destiny 2 is required to play Destiny 2: Beyond Light. Destiny 2 is available for download at no extra cost on PlayStation Store.
IGN Fan Fest will officially return the week of Feb. 13, with exclusive trailers, clips, news, reveals, interviews, and more surprises for upcoming games, movies, and shows rolling out all week.
The main event will be a live-stream on Feb. 17 and 18, starting 10am and streaming across all IGN platforms. It’ll feature the likes of Redfall, John Wick: Chapter 4, HBO’s The Last of Us, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Hogwarts Legacy, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Creed III, and a whole lot more.
See below just a taste of what’ll be featured:
This marks the third year of IGN Fan Fest, following two reveal-packed shows in 2022 and 2021. Last year’s event featured exclusive panels with the likes of Halo, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, while the inaugural show had a conversation with Zack Snyder about his Justice League cut and a whole lot more.
Stay tuned right here on IGN for more details and reveals from 2023’s big show.
Alex Stedman is a News Editor for IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she’s not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams because I’ve only completed two puzzles in it. I’ve been doing the third one for about a year, because it’s, I think, six thousand pieces. I say “i think” because it’s been long enough that I can’t remember if I told the game to generate it as five or six thousand. But it’s a lot of thousand.I really like jigsaws (I am in the middle of doing a real life one that is a big copy of the London Underground map) but, even though I have one of those special mats to do puzzles on so you can fold them away, they’re quite inconvenient. At the same time, though, there are very few digi-jigsaws that capture the kind of tactile experience of sifting and sorting through pieces. Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams really does, though.
As part of James Gunn’s big reveal for the newly launched DCU, he shared that video games will tie into the movies, TV, and animation projects that will make up Warner Bros. Discovery’s big reboot of the DC universe. While Hollywood has spent the last century perfecting the production process of movies and TV shows, paving the way for grand, interconnected universes, adding video games into the mix could be a bold direction that not even DC’s rivals at Marvel are trying to do.
During a press conference Gunn revealed, “And what we’re doing with the DCU is we are having animation tied directly into live-action television and movies and games all intertwined within the same universe. We’re going to cast actors that are going to be able to play the characters in this as well as in other things.” This sets up a possible future where an actor cast in the DCU could potentially voice the same character in a video game. But incorporating video games into a cinematic universe is much easier said than done, considering not even Marvel and its Disney-backed power have attempted something similar.
So what games should we expect from the new DC Studios? So far, the details are not as concrete as the movie, TV, and animation projects that were announced. But it sounds like direct tie-in games are out, meaning whatever video game plan DC has will be for original stories, much like the already-announced movies and shows.
“I think what’s very different about it for us, for DC is it’s not like we’re going to have Superman come out and then have the Superman game come out,” Gunn said. “It’s more like we have the Superman [movie] come out and then two years later we have Supergirl coming out. So what’s the story in between there? Is there a [Superman’s dog] Krypto game that we can play that comes in between that’s still set in the world with these characters, but that is its own thing?”
Consider what we now know about modern, AAA game development and just look at the number of video game delays in the past five years. We know it takes years of pre-production before a major video game project even gets started, so with the five to six years it takes to finish a game, James Gunn and DC will want to begin planning for their first game now if they want to release it in 2026-2027, between the Superman and Supergirl movies.
To put it one way, I’d probably feel safer betting on a movie or TV show hitting its announced release date than a video game, making the prospect of including video games a part of the overall DCU plan incredibly risky. If even one of the gaming projects hits a roadblock, it could be delayed by years and come out way after whatever planned movie or TV show it was meant to follow, or even canceled altogether.
There’s a reason why even with Marvel synergizing across movies, TV, and animation, the one exception is video games. Marvel games like Insomniac’s Spider-Man, and Crystal Dynamics’ Avengers are allowed to live (and in Avengers’ case, die) independently from the goings-on in the MCU. The Spider-Man in Insomniac’s game is unrelated to Tom Holland’s character in the MCU, and whatever reboot plans Marvel has for the X-Men, it likely won’t include Insomniac’s Wolverine game.
But if James Gunn and DC Studios can pull it off, that means they’ll have succeeded at a potentially transformative addition to the shared universe concept, and have a leg-up over their Marvel rivals.
Imagine for a moment watching the new Superman: Legacy in theaters in 2025 and a year later playing a game that isn’t just a licensed version of that movie, but a continuation or side-adventure that adds to the film. And one that features the same actors and creative talent reprising their roles. It could genuinely make the DCU a cross-medium endeavor, the first of its kind.
It’s not like Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have the resources to at least attempt this undertaking. While Rocksteady will likely be tied up with The Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League for the next several years (and who even knows how that will fit into the DCU, if at all), WB Games boasts talent like Avalanche Software, Monolith Productions, NetherRealm Studios, TT Games, and several WB Games offices across North America.
One solution would be to scale down the kinds of games that will be a part of the DCU. While we might not get nor should we expect a AAA DC game to follow every major film or TV release, a compelling but small title that’s lighter on developmental resources but replete with creative ideas and canonical attachment to the DCU could be enticing enough for fans who can’t wait two years between Superman or Batman movies.
I think it says a lot that the example Gunn shared about games mentions a possible Krypto story. You know, Superman’s superpowered dog. It suggests that whatever games we should expect from the DCU won’t be reliant on Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman headlining. Perhaps one of Gunn’s Suicide Squad villains like King Shark gets a TMNT-style brawler game? Or we’ll get a city management sim starring The Penguin overseeing his criminal enterprise? A 2D platformer starring Damien Wayne given his new importance in the DCU, or even just a Marvel Snap competitor for DC. And these smaller titles could themselves just fill the gap between major gaming releases. Monolith Productions is still developing its open-world Wonder Woman action game which could stand in for the missing Wonder Woman in the DCU’s Chapter One programming.
It’s the kind of “can he do that?” idea that’s defined Gunn’s career so far. And if the DCU can successfully add video games to its plans, it will be another “I guess he can” response that Gunn can send back to his critics.
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s Senior Features Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.
report from yesterday has revealed new details on the state of the Halo franchise and the turmoil at developer 343 Industries. This news comes after 95 employees lost their jobs, following mass layoffs across Microsoft. The layoffs affected long-time 343 devs, as well as contractors who only had a few days’ notice. Halo Infinite has been trying to find its footing after a rocky first year, but this report doesn’t inspire much hope from fans, at least for the series’ short-term future. The report delves into the studio’s switch to a different engine, an upcoming battle royale game, and most importantly, the lack of any single-player content in development.It’s a thumbs up from us.
Developer DevM Games has announced that the wacky 3D platformer Super Adventure Hand will be making its way to the Switch later this year, sometime in Q3 2023.
In Super Adventure Hand, you play as a, um… hand, and you need to find the rest of your body and reattach yourself, because that just makes sense, right? What follows is perhaps one of the most insane platformers you’ll have likely seen in quite some time; one in which you’ll need to avoid deadly obstacles like chains and sawblades all while customising your hand with fabulous nailpaint. What more could you want?
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Microsoft has announced that 46 games will be removed from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on February 7, including Dark Souls, The Witcher 2, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, and more.
As reported by Game Informer, Xbox shared the list of disappearing games on its official support website, though it varies slightly between regions.
Disc versions of these games will remain playable, and previously downloaded copies can also still be played. Gematsu also confirmed that the versions of these games available to download on Xbox One or Xbox Series consoles will also remain on those respective stores.
The Xbox 360 games being removed varies from region to region, but the list affecting customers in the United States is as follows:
Microsoft has made dozens of Xbox 360 games available on its later consoles, though confirmed that no more titles will be made backwards compatible going forward. Those still holding onto an Xbox 360, however, should use the next few days to make sure they’ve purchased any games from this list, as it will be the last chance to do so digitally.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK news editor. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
