Month: June 2020

The Destroy All Humans! remake isn’t just attempting to polish up the original game, but adding to it to make it feel like a modern version of the 2005 destruction sandbox.

In an interview as part of IGN Expo today, Black Forest Games’ Dennis Schiefer and Stefan Schmitz covered what has been added along the way while showing off 12 minutes of new gameplay (which you can watch below). The overall philosophy from Schiefer is, “We’re not making a remake of the original game, we’re making remake of the memories players have of that game.”

While the core of the original game’s on-foot combat, psycic abilities and UFO combat all remain intact, Black Forest has added synergies between weapons and psychic powers meaning, for instance, you can throw a grenade and then propel it with telekinesis to fire it more like a rocket. Crypto’s flying saucer can now also shoot its death ray directly downwards, Independence Day-style, to indulge the UFO fantasy better.

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Controls were also a major focus for Black Forest Games, implementing fixes from the Destroy All Humans sequels and adding them to the first game – as well as adding a lock-on system, a new dash move, and the Skate ability, which lets you fly through the world at high speed.

Destroy All Humans! will be released for Xbox One, PS4, PC and Stadia on July 28.

There’s much, much more to see from today’s IGN Expo, and we’re running the Summer of Gaming throughout June – here’s the Summer of Gaming full schedule. All month, we’re supporting some incredibly important causes – the World Health Organisation and The Bail Project – if you are able, help us support them too at donate.ign.com.

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Joe Skrebels is IGN’s Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter.

If you’re into collecting video game figurines, you’re probably aware of Nendoroids, which offer chibi versions of popular characters. They’re higher quality (and thus more expensive) than the more mainstream Funko Pop figures, but Nendoroids are true collectibles that look pretty awesome lined up on a shelf. The latest video-game Nendoroid to catch our eye is this incredible figure portraying Sun Goddess (and Very Good Pup) Amaterasu, from the critically acclaimed 2006 game Okami. Pre-orders just opened for the new Amaterasu Nendoroid–which was created with character designer Kenichiro Yoshimura–with two purchase options available.

Okami Amaterasu Nendoroid | $53

The regular Amaterasu Nendoroid is available for $53, while the DX version is a bit pricier at $74. Both versions include optional parts so you can set up the adorable wolf with different facial expressions and poses. Buying the regular version gets you two different faceplates for Amaterasu: a “gallant” expression and a “charming, open-mouthed” expression. The figure also comes with Amaterasu’s traveling companion Issun and the Reflector Divine Retribution used for fighting demons.

Okami Amaterasu DX Ver. Nendoroid | $74

For about $20 more, you can get the DX version of the Okami Nendoroid, which comes with all of the above as well as an alternate set of legs, the Glaive Tsumugari, Devout Beads Rosary, and Oddly Shaped Turnip.

Good Smile, the Japanese company that creates Nendoroids, is also offering a bonus for purchasing directly from its site: a Praise Orb accessory to go with your figure. Pre-orders are open from now until August 6, 2020, so be sure to place your order before then if you want to own this adorable figurine. The Nendoroid is expected to ship to the US in December 2020. For more information, see the official product page at Good Smile.

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Following a patch that fixes minor issues, developers Infinity Ward and Raven Software have announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will get a familiar mode this week on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Seen in various other Call of Duty games like Black Ops 4 and Modern Warfare 3, One in the Chamber makes its debut in Modern Warfare this week. It plays just as fans remember, with each player competing in a free-for-all where everyone gets just a single bullet in their starting weapon.

Modern Warfare’s One in the Chamber, however, features a twist: the weapon in players’ hands is randomly selected at the start of the match. Alongside the randomness of weapons, players only have three lives to take the top spot and additional bullets are earned by getting kills.

Both Modern Warfare and Warzone recently received a patch that kicked off the games’ Season 4 update. Though Season 4 featured a massive download file on all platforms–something publisher Activision is currently investigating–there is now a way to delete bits and pieces of Call of Duty to preserve hard drive space.

Season 4 introduced a bunch of new content, such as multiplayer maps, modes, and more. While Modern Warfare now has One in the Chamber, Warzone will get a gigantic new 50v50 Team Deathmatch-style mode.

GameSpot has officially kicked off Play For All–a celebration of all things gaming. Join us as we bring you the summer’s hottest news, previews, interviews, features, and videos, as well as raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts and Black Lives Matter with the help of our friends from around the gaming world. Check out the Play For All schedule for more.

Invisible, Inc., the turn-based stealth game about tactical espionage, is out today on Nintendo Switch, developer Klei announced in a tweet.

The Nintendo Switch edition includes the full game plus the Contingency Plan DLC for $20 USD. This edition also features adjusted text size to ensure readability whether you’re playing docked or in handheld mode.

In GameSpot’s Invisible, Inc. Console Edition review, Kevin VanOrd gave the game an 8/10, writing, “It’s tense and challenging, yes, but Invisible Inc. is also simple, elegant, and always logical. It introduces new concepts in a slow drip, giving you plenty of time to work out the details. The titular spy agency is violently infiltrated, initiating a time-sensitive series of global heists and sneakabouts, each of which you control from an isometric perspective in the style of strategy games like XCOM.”

GameSpot has officially kicked off Play For All–a celebration of all things gaming. Join us as we bring you the summer’s hottest news, previews, interviews, features, and videos, as well as raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts and Black Lives Matter with the help of our friends from around the gaming world. Check out the Play For All schedule for more.

Scarlet Nexus – the anime-infused next-gen action RPG – has got a new trailer and showed off gameplay at IGN Expo, primarily showing off the game’s psychokinetic combat.

Revealed at today’s IGN Expo, the trailer shows the game’s mixture of swordplay and psychic ablities against a variety of groteque enemies from the game’s ‘brainpunk’ setting. Those telekinetic abilities can get pretty wild – we see telephone poles used like floating clubs, and even a full train being thrown down the tracks at a target.

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In an interview with IGN, game director Kenji Anabuki and producer Keita Iizuka confirmed that there wouldn’t be fundamental gameplay differences between current-gen and next-gen versions of the game, but talked up the level of detail next-gen has allowed them to add, alongside seamless loading times to allow for a more immersive experience.

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Scarlet Nexus is coming to Xbox Series X, PS5, Xbox One, PS4 and PC, with no release date currently set.

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There’s much, much more to see from today’s IGN Expo, and we’re running the Summer of Gaming throughout June – here’s the Summer of Gaming full schedule. All month, we’re supporting some incredibly important causes – the World Health Organisation and The Bail Project – if you are able, help us support them too at donate.ign.com.

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Joe Skrebels is IGN’s Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter.

Fortnite: Battle Royale’s special in-game event, The Device, has finally happened. Midas activated his special weapon causing a storm that destroyed The Agency and submerged most of the map under a giant wall of water. That’s all we know until Season 3 kicks off on June 17.

Those moments in Fortnite’s latest live event were great, but they aren’t as important as what happened in between them. As the map was getting decimated by the huge wall of water, players were given quick glimpses of an office somewhere else in the game. These short bits gave us more info about the world of Fortnite than any previous event.

Players got to walk around the office, which appears to belong to Fortnite’s trademark blonde guy Jonesy, with the camera in first person (if you looked down you could see whichever skin you have equipped). The walls were decorated with pictures of Jonesy and what appear to be other characters from Fortnite: Save the World’s cast, although it’s not exactly clear who they are. Files labeled “top secret” with images of Midas and other characters were laying on the desk.

These scenes seem to give credence to the idea that Fortnite: Battle Royale is one big simulation: players are just avatars fighting on a digital island. This is the reason why a drone scans the player when they get eliminated and there is no blood when someone dies. Players believe the “loop” Jonesy mentioned during The Device event refers to players dying and then starting a new game.

This idea is widespread in the Fortnite community, with many players saying these cut scenes prove the idea that the battle royale mode is a simulation and Jonesy is a much bigger character in the game’s universe.

“Jonesy may be the CEO of the simulation (battle royale mode) or the head of the Seven? He was amazed that we appeared in his office as we are not real,” wrote one redditor in a post on r/FortniteBR. “So this, and a glitched screen (that apparently only appeared for some players), confirms that the battle royale is just a simulation that was made by Vindermann.”

This is the point where fan theories start to diverge. Some players think that every major event in Fortnite: Battle Royale has been about trying to break out of the simulation, while others believe Jonesy’s company is training heroes for an upcoming event. The biggest question that remains is how all this ties together. If this is all a simulation then why is Midas setting off a mysterious device? Why was Jonesey asking if we could hear him? What’s the purpose of the two organizations, Shadow and Ghost?

We’ll get more information in the coming days as Fortnite: Season 3 begins. Epic Games posted a cryptic image of some sort of object in front of the water which players believe to be some sort of trident.