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How Doctor Who Can Change Your Life: An Essay by Jodie Whittaker
This September, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2018-2019 season. Today, we’re venturing into the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey world of Doctor Who, which is kicking off a new season with a brand new Doctor, played by Broadchurch alum Jodie Whittaker. Beyond knowing that this season will follow the adventures of the Doctor and her companions, details on the upcoming episodes are top-secret. Instead, this IGN First offers an inside look into the mind of Whittaker as she explains what being the Doctor means to her.
It means everything.
Out This Week: Valkyria Chronicles 4, Life is Strange 2, FIFA 19
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
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Star Wars: 37 Things We Learned From Solo’s Blu-Ray Special Features
Solo’s famously troubled production made for a slightly weird hodgepodge of a movie–although an enjoyable one, too. And it also makes for some fascinating special features, as director Ron Howard, writers Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan, and the rest of the cast and crew behind Solo take to the Blu-ray to reveal what it was like to work on this movie.
Did you know that George Lucas dropped by the set when production resumed after the hiatus following the original directors’ departure–on Ron Howard’s first day? What about the special mud they brought in to make Chewie’s filthy fur when we first meet him look just right? Or did you ever wonder how all these actors reacted when they found out they’d been cast in a Star Wars movie? Across multiple featurettes and a roundtable interview featuring the entire cast and Ron Howard, Solo’s special features answer these questions and more.
Solo may not have been the strongest Star Wars movie ever, and it wasn’t exactly a smash box office hit. But many Star Wars fans who flew into theaters to watch it found it to be an enjoyable, if somewhat safe, movie. There were even some surprises–like the way Solo addressed the “Han shot first” controversy head on, or how its most incredibly shocking cameo came to be. Elsewhere in the special features, we even learned why Han Solo was kicked out of the Imperial Navy.
Click through for the craziest things we learned from Solo’s special features. When you’re done, check out all the tidbits that co-writer Jonathan Kasdan posted on Twitter after not being asked to record an audio commentary track, plus 33 Star Wars Easter eggs and references you might have missed in Solo.
The Gifted Premiere Sneak Peek: Polaris’ Baby Will Change Everything
When The Gifted Season 2 premieres on Sept. 25, we’ll be catching up with our splintered band of mutants six months after the events of last season’s finale, which means that Polaris (Emma Dumont) will be on the verge of giving birth.
And as our exclusive sneak peek at the premiere demonstrates, the metal-manipulating mutant won’t be able to show up at a regular hospital when she goes into labor – so her new allies in the Hellfire Club, Reeva Payge (Grace Byers) and the Frost sisters (Skyler Samuels), are forced to improvise – and judging by what happens when the baby kicks, it’s not likely to be an easy birth for Polaris (or anyone in her vicinity). Even worse, she won’t have the baby’s father, Eclipse (Sean Teale) by her side, since Polaris chose to align herself with the Inner Circle and take a more aggressive approach to fighting for mutant rights at the end of last season, leaving the Mutant Underground and her partner behind.
Hands-On With Super Mario Party’s Dual Switch Mode
One of the best parts of being a Nintendo Switch owner is how often you find yourself saying “Whoa! I didn’t know my Switch could do that!” This was certainly the most predominant exclamation in our war room after the reveal of Super Mario Party at E3 2018. Now, having seen the dual-screen mode, dubbed Toad’s Rec Room, in action, it’s safe to say our shouting was justified.
Toad’s Rec Room a set of four fun little diversions from the Mario Party we’ve all come to know and (mostly) love. This mode lets players pop off their joy-con and utilize the Switch’s hidden screen sharing ability. This isn’t screen sharing in a “traditional” sense, this function basically turns your Switch into a giant Nintendo DS, creating one larger image across both screens and spreading the touch-screen functionality seamlessly across the larger play area. Rec Room challenges include matching sets of bananas, pummeling each other while piloting tiny tanks, playing three innings of baseball, and fourth mini-game that has yet to be shown off.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season Episode 2 Review
Halfway through the second episode of The Walking Dead’s final season, I found myself frustrated. I had been playing for about an hour but still struggled to care about any character other than Clementine or AJ, any actions I took, or any dialogue choice I was presented with. It all felt hollow and lifeless, a formulaic Mad Libs-esque construction in which story elements were strung together in a repetitive, predictable sequence. If anything can be said for Episode Two, it’s this: the seams of this series are showing, and they’re beginning to wear thin.
As in previous episodes and seasons of The Walking Dead, Clementine and her relationship with AJ continues to be the strongest and most compelling part of the story. After dealing with a particularly traumatic incident at the end of the previous episode, Clementine is left to put the pieces back together and teach AJ more difficult lessons about the subtleties and nuances of life from a time when manners and niceties were socially relevant.
ESRB Rates Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood for PS4
An ESRB rating seems to confirm that Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood are indeed coming to PS4 in the West.
Last week we reported that Castlevania Requiem: Symphony Of The Night and Rondo Of Blood had been rated for PS4 in Korea and now, thanks to the ESRB, it appears Westerners will be getting the classic games bundle too.
Many thought Symphony of the Night, a game we utterly adore, would be the perfect game for the recently announced PlayStation Classic. With the announcement of this and the recent remaster of the Crash Bandicoot Trilogy, many people are wondering what games will end up on Sony’s first foray into mini retro consoles.
Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Bundles Announced
Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Pro Bundles have been announced for Europe and North America, with those in Europe also getting a pair of standard PS4 options.
First up is the PS4 Pro bundle that’s coming to both the EU and the UK complete with a Jet Black 1TB PS4 Pro, a Dual Shock 4 Wireless Controller and a physical copy of Red Dead Redemption 2. Pre-orders start today for $399.99 / $499.99 CAD. There is no official EU/UK price at the time of writing.
Also available exclusively in the EU are bundles with either a 500GB or 1TB Jet Black PS4 Slim, a Dual Shock 4 Wireless Controller and a physical copy of Red Dead Redemption 2. Again, at the time of writing there is no official EU or UK price.