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Last month’s NPD (National Purchase Diary) report was released today, highlighting the top-selling games of March 2019 and the year so far.
Topping the charts this past March was Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 as the best-selling game across all platforms, and the sixth largest launch month for a Ubisoft release. The runner-up for the top spot went to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, with MLB ’19: The Show and Devil May Cry 5 trailing behind it in third and fourth place.
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Super Mario Maker 2 is heading to Nintendo Switch on an undisclosed date in June 2019. We don’t have a ton of information about this follow-up to the Wii U original, but it doesn’t look like a major departure for the series. It lets you create, upload, and download side-scrolling levels made in the art style of games like Super Mario Bros., Super Mario World, and New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo hasn’t announced many new features, but the trailer includes new things like a night theme, the moving sun enemy from Super Mario Bros. 3, and the ability to create slopes.
Our Xbox crew gives our impressions of the just-released Mortal Kombat 11, discusses Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and why we’re optimistic about it, speculates on the motive behind the return of a Call of Duty co-creator after a six-year retirement, and more! Plus: how much next-gen will Microsoft talk at E3?
Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, or click here to grab an MP3 download of this week’s episode. For more awesome content, check out this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered, featuring a rare, in-depth interview with Ubisoft CEO and co-founder Yves Guillemot as he discusses the company’s past, present, and next-gen future (yes, including Splinter Cell and its Xbox-centric history!).
Avengers: Endgame will be released in theaters in just a couple days on April 26, and just today the embargo lifted on reviews for the much-anticipated follow-up to the tragic events of Avengers: Infinity War.
While we know it’s dangerous to go alone out there with spoilers, we’ve decided to do a spoiler-free reviews roundup that takes a look at the larger critical reception Avengers: Endgame is receiving until you are able to see and judge it for yourself.
IGN’s own 9.5-score review of Avengers: Endgame says that this film “is easily the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most ambitious, emotional, and affecting film to date, somehow managing to tie up more than a decade of storytelling in a confident (and mostly coherent) climax.” To read more from our review, as well as other outlets around the internet, read on and be assured that we will warn you if anything gets too spoilery.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu was just screened to members of the press in Tokyo, ahead of the film’s release early next month. Their initial reactions are arriving on social media now.
The response has been positive so far, with those in attendance praising the film as cute, accessible, and a must-see for Pokémon devotees.
Here’s a roundup of Twitter’s first reactions:
IGN’s Terri Schwartz gave the film a rousing endorsement stating it completely nailed the world of Pokemon.
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Quite possibly the most annoying thing about The Flash this season (aside from Barry’s hideous costume) is that the writers can’t seem to separate the wheat from the chaff. “Snow Pack” is a perfect example. The series has plenty of great material to mine in this episode in terms of the falling-out between Barry and Nora and the question of how Eobard Thawne fits into everything. But this episode devotes just as much time to the agonizingly dull Killer Frost/Icicle storyline. Then, for good measure, Cicada stumbles back into the picture out of nowhere. This is easily one of the most uneven and frustrating installments of the show in a very long time.
Ben Affleck is set to direct and star in Universal Pictures’ Ghost Army, based on the book, The Ghost Army of World War II, by Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles, according to Variety.
The film will also follow the documentary of the same name, with Affleck reworking the script that was most recently written by True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto, and a prior draft by Shazam!’s Henry Gayden.
Ghost Army is based on a true story of a squadron of recruits from the creative realm of art schools and ad agencies, who had to trick Nazi’s into thinking the U.S. had more troops than they did by using methods such as sound-effects records and inflatable tanks to deceit them.
Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star in Guillermo del Toro’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning hit, The Shape of Water.
According to Variety, DiCaprio is in negotiations to star in del Toro’s adaptation of Nightmare Alley. In addition to directing, del Toro co-wrote the screenplay with Kim Morgan.
Fox Searchlight, which handled distribution for The Shape of Water, will also distribute Nightmare Alley.
The film is based on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, which tells the story of a sleazy con-man and a mentalist who work at a carnival. A 1947 adaptation of the film starred Tyrone Power, but Variety reports the del Toro adaptation will be rooted more in the novel than the prior movie adaptation.
Cuphead just arrived on switch and besides, the free content update that includes character selection, fully animated cinematics and brand new animation, the developers of Cuphead decided to gift us with three secret bosses! You can find one secret boss in each of the three isles. Cuphead is now playable for PC, Mac, Xbox and Switch.
Minecraft’s biggest update, Village & Pillage, is now available and brings with it Pillagers and their Beasts, over 10 new Villagers, and even a Crossbow.
Available on PC, Xbox One, iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch with the Bedrock Edition and on PC with the Java Edition, the list of additions is substantial and includes everything from a new Wandering Trader to Raids with these new Pillagers to to Villager Trading to bug fixes and so much more.
Another bit of exciting news for those playing the Java Edition is that Pandas are finally available after being only available on the Bedrock Edition since last December.