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Tetris Effect: Connected has been announced for the Nintendo Switch, and it will be released on October 8, 2021, the same day as the Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) and Metroid Dread.

This exciting bit of news was revealed at today’s Indie World Showcase, and new players and fans of the game that was first released in 2018 will soon be able to take this special take on Tetris wherever they go.

The version that is coming to switch is Tetris Effect: Connected, which first released in 2020 on Xbox platforms and PC, and adds new 1-3 player co-op and 1-2 player competitive multiplayer modes that are playable online and locally.

The Switch version also supports cross-platform multiplayer, meaning Switch players can play with or against others on Xbox, PC, and PlayStations players.

In our Tetris Effect review, we said that “the merging of time-tested gameplay with the synesthesia-inducing sound and visual design of Tetsuya Mizuguchi creates something you’ve likely never experienced.”

Tetris Effect: Connected will join a system that has had a unique Tetris experience of its own in Tetris 99. For those who need a bit of Tetris until Tetris Effect: Connected is released, they can check out the most recent theme that is inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

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Nintendo held its latest Indie World Showcase today, and it highlighted a wide selection of indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch, and seven that were launching today, including the much-anticipated Axiom Verge 2.

Other exciting games featured in the show include the innovative card-based RPG Loop Hero, Tetris Effect: Connected, Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon, and many more. To help ensure you don’t miss a single announcement, we’ve gathered each and every game in the roundup below.

Axiom Verge 2 Is Available Later Today

The much-anticipated follow-up to 2015’s Axiom Verge will be available on Nintendo Switch later today and tells a prequel story of a new hero who is not only fighting for her life, but is also empowered by the same microscopic machines that gradually consume her humanity.

Tetris Effect: Connected Arrives on Switch This October

Tetris Effect: Connected will be released on Nintendo Switch on October 8, 2021, and brings with it the single-player Journey mode, the competitive Zone Battle mode, and the cooperative Connected mode. Furthermore, it supports cross-platform play to make playing with friends even easier. Oh, and it will be released on the same day as the Switch (OLED Model) and Metroid Dread.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Is a ‘Graffiti-Action-Adventure’ That Tasks You With Becoming the All City King

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a “graffiti-action-adventure” game that will have players grinding, painting, and comboing their way to becoming an All City King, one of the best graffiti artists in a sprawling metropolis. This new game will be released as a timed console exclusive in 2022.

Loop Hero Jumps From PC to Nintendo Switch This Winter

Loop Hero, the innovative card-based RPG from Four Quarters and Devolver Digital, will arrive on Nintendo Switch this Winter after being exclusive to PC. Using an expanding decks of cards, you have to craft the world that the hero travels through, and it’s up to you to ensure they survive each loop as long as they can before returning to safety or succumbing to a horrible fate.

Eastward Is a Post-Apocalyptic Action-Adventure RPG That Arrives Next Month

Eastward is an action-adventure RPG that is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features both puzzle-solving and dungeon elements. You play a hardworking miner named John who discovered a young girl named Sam in a secret underground facility. Explore bustling towns, curious campsites, and shady forests when Eastward arrives on Nintendo Switch as a timed console exclusive on September 16.

Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon Is a Puzzle-Adventure Starring Our Favorite Shoveled Knight

Launching this winter, Shovel Knight: Pocket Adventure is an action-packed puzzle-adventure mashup that will see Puzzle Knight guiding you on a new adventure to fight foes, recover relics, and battle bosses both old and new. Over 10 heroes will be available with their own special power and play style, and this puzzle game will let you take on a friend head-to-head in local multiplayer. The Nintendo Switch version will also feature amiibo support to let you “call on a familiar fairy friend.”

Metal Slug Tactics Is a Tactical Take on a Classic Franchise

Metal Slug Tactics is a fresh take on the classic Metal Slug franchise that adds tactical combat mechanics and roguelike elements to the mix. Players will control familiar characters like Marco, Tarma, Fio, and Eri, but this game is all about positioning and striking at the right moment. Metal Slug Tacts launched for Nintendo Switch in 2022.

Use Your Photographic Eye In TOEM Later This Fall

TOEM is a laid-back, hand-drawn adventure game from Something We Made where you set off on a expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the eponymous TOEM. Talk to quirky characters, solve their problems by taking photos, and explore the Scandinavian countryside when TOEM launches later this fall.

Take a Post-Apocalyptic Journey in FAR: Changing Tides in Early 2022

While FAR: Changing Tides is a new atmospheric vehicle adventure set in the same post-apocalyptic universe that was first introduced in FAR: Lone Sails, players will not need to know anything that came before to enjoy this new story. Captain your own seafaring vessel and explore a vast flooded landscape when FAR: Changing Tides launches on Switch in early 2022.

Necrobarista: Final Pour Is an Anime-Style Visual Novel About Coffee and Death

Necrobarista: Final Pour is another game that is available today and brings and anime-style visual novel to Switch that is all about coffee and death. Navigate a “fantasy Melbourne’s coffee culture, the questionable ethics or necromancy, and the process of letting go.” This is also the Director’s Cut version of the game and includes new story content and remastered visuals.

Boyfriend Dungeon Lets You Take Your Weapons On Dates And It’s Available Today

Boyfriend Dungeon is a heartfelt dungeon-crawling dating sim that lets your date your weapons. From dancing swords to heart-piercing daggers, this unique mash-up will be available to try soon as it’s available on Switch later today.

Garden Story Is Available Today and Lets You Become the Guardian of the Grove

Become the Guardian of the Grove in Garden Story when it launches on Switch later today. Explore a vibrant island, fend off the invasive Rot, and rebuild your home in this timed console exclusive that tasks you with restoring a community.

ISLANDERS: Console Edition Lets You Create The City of Your Dreams Over and Over Again

ISLANDERS is a relaxing, procedurally generated strategy game that has you developing an island by placing buildings from your inventory. When you can’t build anymore, you can just start from scratch and do it all over on another island. ISLANDERS: Console Edition launches later today on Nintendo Switch.

Alongside these games, there was also an indie montage for two games launching on Nintendo Switch today – Slime Rancher: Plortable Edition and Curious Expedition – and other upcoming games like Hundred Days – Winemaking Simulator (Winter 2021), Gang Beasts (Winter 2021), ASTRONEER (January 2022), and LumbearJack (2022).

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

Free Guy, the upcoming comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, won’t hit theatres until August 13, but that hasn’t stopped director Shawn Levy from coming up with plans for the movie’s sequel, which he hopes could include Minecraft and Call of Duty.

Speaking to Gamespot, Levy spoke about the potential future storylines that Reynolds’ NPC lead character could step into following his first outing. The Canadian director had a few different ideas in mind for Guy (that’s Reynolds’ character) if he were to return for Free Guy 2.

“I’d love to see him in Call of Duty,” said Levy. “I feel like the possibilities, comedic and otherwise, both in terms of comedy and action, are kind of endless. It’s very juicy to think about.” He also admitted he’d be keen to see the NPC lead feature in a Minecraft crossover. “I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that we have started brainstorming about some of those possibilities,” he said.

Whilst the thought of Reynolds’ character dropping into the warzone certainly sounds like it could be amusing, we don’t think he’d stand much of a chance if Captain Price got his hands on him. In actuality, perhaps Minecraft would be a better fit for the bank-teller-turned hero… that is, if he is able to survive the first night!

Elsewhere in the interview, Levy delved further into his hopes for a potential sequel, explaining that it would be exciting to see the character experience the different world-building aspects so prevalent in video games culture.

“You and I know the range of world creation, it runs the gamut in the world of video games and video game culture. So I would love to see him, maybe even jump from one to the next to the next.” Levy said. With world-hopping in mind, maybe the director should check out Insomniac’s latest entry into the Ratchet and Clank universe for inspiration – though a Gadgetron Rift Inducer could be a recipe for disaster in naïve hands.

With the future of Free Guy still uncertain, Levy was quick to reign in his future plot fantasies, “I’m not counting any chickens yet. We need people to show up and we need people to actually make Free Guy a hit,” he said.

In other recent Free Guy news, Ryan Reynolds’ recently shared a trailer for Free Guy which features a nod to another of his beloved characters, Deadpool. In true Deadpool style, the trailer breaks the blurs the lines between acting and marketing as it features a very swole Reynolds discussing his ‘life’ as an actor, the role of DUDE in the film, and how he can’t fit into the Deadpool suit anymore – spoiler alert, it’s all a bit weird. Make sure to check out our review of Free Guy for our thoughts on the film.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead is getting the animated remake treatment with Night of the Animated Dead, and IGN can exclusively reveal the first trailer for this star-studded recreation. The Warner Bros. Home Entertainment film will be released digitally on September 21, 2021, and on Blu-Ray Combo Pack & DVD on October 5, 2021.

Check out the video player above or the embed below to get a taste of what’s in store for this new take on Night of the Living Dead that features never-before-seen, exclusive animated scenes not found in the original live-action film.

Night of the Animated Dead tells the story of siblings Babara and Johnny who are visiting their father’s grave in a remote cemetery in Pennsylvania when they are unexpectedly attacked by zombies. Barbara flees and finds herself in an abandoned farmhouse alongside motorist Ben and four local survivors hiding in the cellar. They must work together and fight to stay alive against the oncoming horde of zombies while also confronting their own fears and prejudices.

This animated film featured the voice talent of Transformers’ Josh Duhamel as Harry Cooper, The West Wing’s Dule Hill as Ben, Ginger Snaps’ Katharine Isabelle as Barbara, A Million Little Things’ James Roday Rodriguez as Tom, The Mandalorian’s Katee Sackhoff as Judy, MadTV’s Will Sasso as Sheriff McClelland, Westworld’s Jimmi Simpson as Johnny, and Last Man Standing’s Nancy Travis as Helen Cooper.

Presented by The Long Game in association with Hemisphere Entertainment, Night of the Animated Dead is directed by To Your Last Death’s Jason Axinn and is executive produced by Richard Potter, Thomas DeFeo, and Jamie Elliott.

The film’s producers include Ralph E. Portillo, p.g.a., Robert Feldman, p.g.a., and Kevin Kasha. Animation services were provided by Demente Animation Studio.

The Blu-Ray and DVD special features include the Making of the Animated Dead, which features director Jason Axinn and producer Michael Luisi sharing a bit of behind-the-scenes info and how they handled the “careful process of honoring the iconic classic with their vision for an animated remake, including screen breakdowns and booth recordings with the cast.”

George A. Romero, who died in 2017 at the age of 77, was responsible for originating the now-universal depiction of zombies as shambling, flesh-eating hordes. Alongside Night of the Living Dead – which we ranked fourth on our list of the Top 25 Monster Movies – Romero also directed Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead, and many more.

For more, check out Night of the Animated Dead’s box art and the news about how Romero’s widow Suzanne is developing Twilight of the Dead, a new movie based on a project the late director was working on before his death.

Since Disney announced that Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi would be directing a new Star Wars film, word on the New Zealander’s vision of a galaxy far, far away has been pretty quiet. Rest easy, however, as Waititi tells Wired that he’s “got a story” locked down.

To be clear, the director says the script is still in the very early stages of drafting, but the bones of the plot have been laid out.

“It’s still in the ‘EXT. SPACE’ stage,” Waititi told Wired, referring to how scripts are formatted to describe an opening scene. “But we’ve got a story. I’m really excited by it because it feels very me.”

Waititi’s directorial style has often been defined by humorous, nonsensical contrasts to more serious stories. Jojo Rabbit explored the life of a young German boy in the waning days of World War II, featuring Waititi as Jojo’s imaginary friend, a clownish Adolf Hitler. Thor: Ragnarok launched Waititi to larger renown, injecting a practically slapstick comedy sensibility to the previously darker, Shakespearean franchise.

“I tend to go down that little sincerity alleyway in my films,” Waititi said, regarding how his style would gel with Star Wars. “I like to fool the viewer into thinking ‘ha it’s this and then them going, ‘Damn it, you made me feel something!’”

It’ll likely be a while before we hear any more about Waititi’s Star Wars film, and rest assured that anything could change once the script starts to take more shape and get feedback. The director’s upcoming projects include a What We Do in the Shadows sequel, a Flash Gordon animated remake, Netflix projects, and even a live-action Akira remake, though that one is a little up in the air.

Waititi is co-writing alongside Krysty Wilson-Cairns, co-writer of 1917, Penny Dreadful, and Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho.

While we’re waiting, check out the latest casting news for the Ahsoka Tano series and when Bad Batch season two is coming. We’ll have to see if Waititi’s Star Wars movie can beat out Thor: Love and Thunder for the “craziest thing I’ve ever done.”

Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/quarter-portion for IGN.

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Today, the US Senate introduced a new bill protecting developers’ rights and challenging Apple and Google’s current app store policies.

As spotted first by CNBC, the Open App Markets Act would ban app stores from mandating that developers use their own store’s payment systems. This means developers would have the freedom to use their own payment systems. The proposed legislation would also forbid companies from reprimanding developers that offer more competitive pricing on a different app store or through a developer’s own payment system.

If it sounds familiar, both Apple and Google are currently in a lawsuit with Fortnite developer Epic Games, which challenged both tech giant’s app store models. Last August, Apple and Google removed the popular battle royale game from its digital storefronts after Epic added a direct payment mechanism into Fortnite.

If the bill was to be passed, it would allow developers like Fortnite to offer more affordable items to purchase via microtransactions. This is something Epic Games tried to do in August when it made its virtual currency, V-Bucks more affordable if you purchased it directly through the Fortnite app.

The Epic Games vs. Apple case was argued in May, and a federal judge is currently reviewing the case to determine whether Apple’s app store policies violated antitrust law. Similar legal action was taken against Google in July when 36 states plus the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit regarding the company’s app store model.

This is not the first time the Senate has come after Apple and Google’s app store policies; in April, the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights asked representatives from companies including Spotify and Tile to elaborate on how both Apple and Google’s app store impact its businesses.

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