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Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis will launch June 9, publisher Sega announced. Rather than a new game, New Genesis is a Realm Reborn-style revamp of the existing game that overhauls nearly every aspect of it–though the original will still be available–complete with an entirely new progression system that is separate from the original game.

The company recently held a closed beta test for New Genesis back in May, and then another in June. Though New Genesis will change essentially every aspect of PSO2, the original version of the game will still be playable, with characters shared across both games. However, as mentioned above, all character progress will be independent across the two different versions.

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis will be available on both PC and Xbox One. The server maintenance that would’ve normally happened on June 9 will be moved forward a few days, though the exact timing of that is not clear. Additionally, an ongoing “road to New Genesis event” will give players login bonuses in celebration of the new content pack, so keep an eye out for that.

Seth Rogen is leading a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot movie in partnership with Nickelodeon and Paramount. Rogen himself confirmed on Twitter that he will produce a new TMNT movie that is scheduled to come to theaters on August 11, 2023.

The new TMNT film comes from Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures. Brendan O’Brien, who wrote the Rogen-starring comedy Neighbors and its sequel, is writing the new TMNT film, according to Variety.

Directing the new TMNT film is Jeff Rowe, whose latest movie, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, proved to be a big success on Netflix.

Rogen announced the new TMNT film by way of a document that appears to be hand-written by Leonardo, in which he references another TMNT characters like Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and April O’Neil.

The TMNT series has been spun into film before, most recently by action movie veteran Michael Bay. He produced 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 2016’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. TMNT movies have made more than $1 billion at the box office over the years, so it’s little surprise to see the franchise return once again.

It’s still early days for the new TMNT film, so we don’t know yet if it’ll be live-action or CG, or a hybrid. Also unknown is who may star in the film.

Rogen is known for his particular brand of comedy, and for smoking pot, so it’ll be interesting to see what he does with a franchise aimed particularly at younger people and the family audience.

E3 is fast approaching, and Guerrilla Collective will once again be putting on a digital games showcase full of announcements, gameplay, and trailers from a variety of publishers across the industry to coincide with the summer game season. The event will take place on the first two Saturdays of June.

Guerrilla Collective Day 1 Stream Start Time

Day 1 of the Guerrilla Collective digital event will be on June 5, with more than 28 games detailed on the event’s official site set to be featured in some capacity, with “lots exclusives” set to be revealed the day of the event. The stream starts at the times below:

• 8 AM PT
• 11 AM ET
• 4 PM BST
• 1 AM AEST

Guerrilla Collective Day 2 Stream Start Time

Day 2 of the Guerrilla Collective digital event will be on June 12, with even more games set to be featured and additional exclusive announcements. The stream starts at the times below:

• 8 AM
• 11 AM ET
• 4 PM BST
• 1 AM AEST

How To Watch Guerrilla Collective Stream

The Guerrilla Collective stream will be available for viewing on the event’s official Twitch channel.

What To Expect

On the June 5 stream, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is slated to make an appearance. It recently became known that the popular Metroidvania title may be getting a sequel, so it’s possible it could make its debut here. Much the same can be said about Ghostrunner, which is set to appear in some form on the June 12 stream. It was recently announced by publisher 505 Games that Ghostrunner sequel is currently in development for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC, so an announcement trailer premiering during the show would definitely make sense. As for what else Guerrilla Collective has in store, fans will just have to tune in and find out.

Here is a list of games confirmed to be featured:

Day 1:

• Aeon Drive
• AK-Xolotl
• Chernobylite
• Kung Fu Kickball
• Kraken Academy
• Omno
• Endling
• Industria
• Tinkertown
• Lamentum
• My Lovely Wife
• Moroi
• Fire Tonight
• Beasts of Maravilla Island
• El Paso, Elsewhere
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Onsen Master
• Rubi: The Wayward Mira
• Run Die Run Again
• Anno: Mutationem
• Super Space Club
• Eternal Cylinder
• The Light Bringer
• Trifox
• Ynglet
• Zodiac Legion
• The Legend of Tianding
• Tamarindo’s Freaking Dinner

Day 2:

• Akatori
• Archvale
• Behind The Frame
• Grime
• Happy’s Humble Burger Farm
• Hello Neighbor 2
• Trash Sailors
• Black Book
• Death Trash
• Demon’s Mirror
• Despot’s Game
• Loot River
• No Longer home
• Potion Craft
• Rawmen
• Serial Cleaners
• Slime Heroes
• Batora: Lost Haven
• Blooming Business: Casino
• Kitsune Tails
• Severed Steel
• The Light of the Darkness
• Unmetal
• Venice 2089
• White Shadows
• Wolfstride
• Ghostrunner
• Elderand
• Sable

Ubisoft has a lot of games in the works, some of which we know almost nothing about. However, we’ll most likely get some information at Ubisoft’s big E3 2021 event, which will take place on June 12. Check below for more information on when the stream will occur, how to watch it, and what it might feature.

Ubisoft Forward E3 2021 Stream Start Time

Ubisoft’s event will kick off on Saturday, June 12, at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET/8 PM BST. This is the first day of E3 2021, which is fully remote this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chances are good that it’ll be similar to previous Ubisoft Forward events, which included game announcements, gameplay reveals, and some developer commentary.

How To Watch Ubisoft Forward E3 2021 Stream

The company has yet to specify where it’ll stream the event. Past Ubisoft Forwards were streamed through the company’s YouTube channel and Twitch channel, as well as on GameSpot. As soon as Ubisoft announces more details, we will update this story and include an embedded stream.

What To Expect

Ubisoft has already announced a handful of games that are currently in the works at its studios, and chances are we’ll get updates on each of them. Far Cry 6 is coming on October 7, and Ubisoft just recently revealed gameplay for the title. In addition, the extreme sports game Riders Republic and the roller derby game Roller Champions are scheduled for launch later this year, as is Rainbow Six Quarantine. We could conceivably get updates for some long-in-development titles like Skull and Bones and Beyond Good and Evil 2, although these are less likely.

Ubisoft is just one of many companies holding events during E3 2021. For more information about the rest of E3, be sure to check out our roundup of all the E3 2021 livestreams that are currently scheduled.

The new media company spinning off from the merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery will imaginatively be called–wait for it: Warner Bros. Discovery. According to The Wall Street Journal, the merger between the two companies won’t be finalized and fully integrated until sometime in 2022.

Discovery CEO David Zaslav will be in charge of the merged group, which will marry WarnerMedia’s formidable roster of iconic characters and properties with Discovery’s sizable archive of unscripted shows and growing businesses sports business in Europe and also news. AT&T shareholders will own 71% of the new company. Zaslav announced the new name Tuesday from a town hall with WarnerMedia employees from the Warner Bros. studio’s Burbank lot, alongside WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar.

“Warner Bros. Discovery will aspire to be the most innovative, exciting and fun place to tell stories in the world–that is what the company will be about,” Zaslav said in a statement. “We love the new company’s name because it represents the combination of Warner Bros.’ fabled hundred year legacy of creative, authentic storytelling and taking bold risks to bring the most amazing stories to life, with Discovery’s global brand that has always stood brightly for integrity, innovation and inspiration.”

Zaslav added that the hope for the Warner Bros. Discovery family will be to make it “the best and most exciting place in the world to tell big, important, and impactful stories across any genre–and across any platform: film, television, and streaming.”

The company’s tagline will be, “the stuff that dreams are made of,” which is a nod to the 1941 Warner Bros. film, The Maltese Falcon.

Ben 10 and Minecraft have finally crossed over, and the results are now live on the Minecraft Marketplace. Based on a blog post announcing the move, the DLC pack includes both bespoke story content as well as additions to the game’s Free Roam mode.

In the new Story Mode, Ben, Gwen, and Grandpa Max need to recover lost alien DNA from the Omnitrix. Apparently, it’s pretty easy to lose some alien DNA when you can turn into hundreds of different forms. Ben can transform into many different alien heroes across the adventure to defeat foes such as Vilgax, Zombozo, and Kevin 11, who is 10% more powerful than Ben according to our calculations.

If you’re just looking to check out all of Ben’s alien forms, you can jump into the Free Roam mode to give them a test drive. It seems that Ben’s various outfits will give him interesting powers, such as the ability to fly, or to move quickly. Additionally, you can grab Ben’s shirt as a free character creator item.

In other Minecraft news, the game recently received new content through its Caves and Cliffs Part 1 update, which added a new goat mob to the game, among other things. It also got another high-profile crossover in the form of How To Train Your Dragon content.

AMD has announced that it plans to release FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) on June 22. The new supersampling technology serves as competition to Nvidia’s DLSS technology, boosting performance and image quality for games that support the technology.

Unlike Nvidia’s DLSS – an image upscaling technology using AI to upscale lower resolution images and make them appear at a higher resolution without a significant amount of extra performance – AMD says FidelityFX Super Resolution does not require machine learning.

FidelityFX Super Resolution is open-source, according to AMD, meaning the technology will also run on Nvidia’s graphics cards, including the GTX 10-series, which currently does not support Nvidia’s DLSS technology.

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Discussed during AMD’s presentation at Computex 2021, FidelityFX Super Resolution will include four different image upscaling modes: Ultra Quality, Quality, Balanced, and Performance. Ultra quality and Quality will focus on achieving a higher image quality, while Balanced and Performance modes will focus on increasing the frame rate in games.

AMD also demonstrated a test with FidelityFX Super Resolution, running Gearbox Software’s Godfall using an RX 6800 XT graphics card. During the test, Godfall was running at 150FPS while in FidelityFX Super Resolution’s Performance preset, while the other presets ran the game at 124FPS (Balanced), 99FPS (Quality), and 78FPS (Ultra Quality). During each test, the game was set to the ‘epic’ graphical setting with ray tracing enabled, which normally runs at 49FPS natively.

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To showcase that the FidelityFX Super Resolution will also run on Nvidia GPUs, AMD also tested the technology using a GTX 1060 with the same game running in 1440p at 38FPS when enabling FSR’s quality mode.

Nevertheless, this is AMD’s own in-house testing and should be taken with a grain of salt, but with the technology launching later this month, we will not have to wait much longer to see how it stacks up with DLSS.

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Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

One of WWE’s most popular tag teams, The New Day, debuted some glitzy Power Rangers-themed gear on Raw.

Main Event Gear, a leading supplier of in-ring and entrance gear to professional wrestlers, shared a snap on Instagram of New Day’s Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston wearing Power Rangers tailored threads designed by Jonathan Davenport. Woods donned an outfit inspired by the White Ranger, while Kingston unleashed the Green Ranger into the ring. Check out the glitzy gear below:

The Instagram post contains a carousel of images revealing the design process and pop culture inspiration behind the duo’s new gear. The designs incorporate similar features to the costumes worn by the fist-pumping, multicolored superheroes, with shiny striped embellishments all over the outfits, winged shoulders, and a Rangers-style belt paired with matching boots and gloves.

Over the years, Woods and Kingston have delivered some entertaining entrances on the way to the ring. In particular, Woods is known for pumping up the crowd by breaking out his trademark trombone Francesca as a prelude to The New Day’s chant, so it’s only right that the iconic instrument would also receive the makeover treatment, with a design similar to the White Ranger’s enchanted Saba.

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The New Day has displayed their love of video games and pop culture inside and outside of the ring. In fact, it was announced last year that Woods and Kingston, along with Big E would be coming to Gears 5 as playable DLC characters, with a promo image showing the group decked out in Cog armor ready to take on Locust. The WWE tag team also brought a Final Fantasy 14 collaboration to Wrestlemania 32.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

If you’ve been paying attention over the last few years, you know Sony kicks off a pretty massive sales event every year in the lead-up to E3, and this year is no exception. The annual Days of Play savings even is live right now, and you can save big on PlayStation games to add to your backlog.

The Sony Days of Play sale runs from now until June 9, and features really awesome deals on PS4 and PS5 games alike. You can also save on accessories like the PS5 HD camera, and get PlayStation Classics for just $9.99.

Given how massive these sales are, we’ve linked to the Days of Play event pages below, with all the sales, and pulled out a few highlights from each retailer. For those in the UK, check out the best Days of Play deals in the UK.

PlayStation Plus 12-Month Deal

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Best Buy Sony Days of Play Deals

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Amazon Sony Days of Play Deals

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Walmart Sony Days of Play Deals

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GameStop Sony Days of Play Deals

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PlayStation Direct Days of Play Deals

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Perhaps it comes as no surprise, but this year there isn’t a special-edition Days of Play PlayStation 5. Given the fact you probably still can’t get a PS5, with shortages predicted into next year, it’s understandable. We’re watching out for PS5 restocks and sharing them on the IGN Deals Twitter account, but even the most vigilant of PS5 watchers are having a hard time getting one. They come and go quickly.

Maybe next year we’ll get our first special edition Days of Play PS5. We can certainly hope. I wouldn’t mind if it’s just a variation of the new DualSense controller colors, to be perfectly honest.

We’re updating this page as more retailers go online with their Days of Play deals, so keep checking back.

Crytek has announced that remasters of Crysis 1, 2, and 3 will be bundled together as the Crysis Remastered Trilogy and as standalone purchases in Fall 2021.

Crytek shared the details of this new and enhanced collection that is being optimized in partnership with Saber Interactive, revealing that it will be available on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC. All three Crysis games will play “even smoother” on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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Crysis Remastered was released in 2020 after a delay due to mixed fan reaction to leaked footage of the game. Many reacted positively to the improved visuals, and it’s safe to assume these new remasters will benefit from the troubles of the first.

In addition to a number of visual improvements, the first Crysis also included “high-quality textures up to 8K, HDR support, temporal anti-aliasing, Screen Space Directional Occlusion (SSDO), Global Illumination (SVOGI), state-of-the-art depth fields, new light settings, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping, Screen Space Reflections and Shadows (SSR & SSS) as well as new and updated particle effects and more.” Furthermore, Crysis Remastered featured ray tracing on PCs with Nvidia RTX GPUs, Xbox One X, and PS4 Pro.

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In our review of Crysis, we said in 2007 that was “one of, if not the, most stunningly beautiful games we’ve ever seen. But even beyond that, it’s a pretty fantastic shooter.”

In our review of Crysis 2, we said that “It plays well, encourages creative problem-solving, and confidently delivers a series of escalating and changing encounters and scenarios that will push you to think in a way few shooters have in an era of increasingly funneled experiences.”

In our review of Crysis 3, we said that it is “a highly polished shooter experience that doesn’t so much reinvent the FPS wheel as give it a slicker set of tyres.”

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.