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Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny, the upcoming strategy JRPG, isn’t out for another month in the West, but the demo for the game is available on Nintendo Switch right now. Nintendo put up a blog post announcing the demo, stating that any progress made will transfer over to the full game when it releases.

The game follows Zed, a zombie that has risen up from the underworld and is on a quest to destroy a god threatening his way of life. Zed has the power of “super-reincarnation” which allows him to come back stronger every time he dies. Like the previous entries in the Disgaea series, Disgaea 6 will feature insane numbers, with the level cap being bumped up to level 99,999,999, with the ability to deal quadrillions of damage. The game also features a variety of systems for replaying the game, like the brand-new auto-repeat function, which will automatically replay the same level endlessly, for easy and simple grinding.

The game was announced for the West during New Game+ Expo in March, with Nippon Ichi Software president Shohei Niikkawa making the announcement in full costume. Anyone who purchases the game at launch will receive bonus characters Girl Laharl, Asagi, Adell, and Rozalin. The game will also feature a vast cast of characters to team up with, all drawn in the series’ signature chibi-style.

Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny is already available in Japan on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. It releases in the West on June 29 for Nintendo Switch, with no word on a PS4 release.

From Goku to Naruto to Monkey D. Luffy to Eren Jaeger, there have been some incredible Shonen protagonists that have inspired millions of anime fans across the world.

Each person has their favorite, and we thought we’d let you decide who the best Shonen protagonist of all time is. Is Deku your favorite? How about Giorno Giovanna or Gon Freecss? We’ve selected 149 incredible Shonen heroes to “Face-Off” against each other two at a time. Will you choose Inuyasha over Light Yagami? Or Lucy Heartfilia over Tanjiro Kamado? The choice is yours…

Click here to start voting in the Shonen Protagonist Face-Off!

What Is a Face-Off?

Like the name suggests, a Face-Off pits two things against one another and you decide which one is the superior of the two. In this case, you are voting to determine who the best Shonen protagonist is. It’s possible to see certain Shonen protagonists multiple times so you can keep voting for your favorites to ensure they get ranked higher than the rest. All these heroes get randomly paired up and each time you pick a winner, it’s tracked.

Where Are the Shonen Villains?

This Face-Off is focused on the heroes of our favorite Shonen anime, so you won’t find any of the best villains here. However, something tells us they may have their time to shine in the future…

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How Do You Determine a Winner?

When voting ends on June 1, we tally up the total number of “wins” and “losses” each Shonen protagonist has and create a ranked list based on your choices that will go live on June 2. The Shonen protagonist that won the most matchups will be crowned the “winner,” and in the event of a tied number of “wins,” the hero with the least “losses” will take the top spot. If you continue to keep voting for your favorite hero, they’ll have a better chance of ranking high on the list. You can vote as many times as you want until the Face-Off closes.

How Do I Know When I’ve Clicked Through Everything?

It’s difficult to know when you’ve seen every Shonen protagonist included because they are matched randomly and there are so many possible match-ups. Playing until you vote for all your favorite heroes or ensuring that certain heroes don’t get in the winner’s circle are different options you can take with a Face-Off. By deciding the winner throughout all these matchups, you’re ensuring that your picks for the best Shonen protagonist will have a fighting chance to reach the top of the list.

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Which Shonen Protagonists Have You Included?

The list of Shonen protagonist face-off competitors has been decided by IGN staff, and we’ve decided to include many of the favorite heroes from across a ton of anime. We’ve tried to limit the number of heroes per show and tried to include a wide variety of shows and heroes. As we mentioned previously, there are no villains in this list, although it does include a few heroes who have had a change of heart!

Click here to start voting in the Shonen Protagonist Face-Off!

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

The Xbox Series X fridge, the meme that keeps on giving, has found its way into Dirt 5 as part of the Power Your Memes Pack. The pack is available exclusively as a Game Pass Ultimate perk for Dirt 5 on Xbox and the Windows 10 version on PC. The pack contains the infamous Xbox Series X fridge as an item that can be placed in Dirt 5’s Playgrounds, its custom arena creator. Players who download the pack can also play on maps with the fridge that other players have created.

Based on the images posted by developer Codemasters, the in-game model of the fridge is opened slightly, with a variety of colorful drinks visible. The pack also includes three car skins to use in-game: one for the BMW M2 Competition, Sodicars Racing BV6, and Jimco Unlimited Class 1. It’s unclear why exactly the Xbox Series X fridge is being added to the game, but it will probably lead to some interesting player-created maps.

The Xbox Series X fridge first came around after Microsoft officially announced that the console is, in fact, not the size of a refrigerator in response to memes about the two items having a similar shape. Microsoft took the meme one step further by creating actual, full-sized refrigerators modeled after the Xbox Series X. Later, Microsoft created mini versions of the refrigerator, as part of a marketing deal with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and eventually promised to manufacture some for sale after beating Skittles in a Twitter battle.

Codemasters was recently acquired by EA after the company stepped in with a higher offer than Take-Two, which was also trying to acquire the racing game developer. Dirt 5 is available on Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC. It is also currently available as part of Xbox Game Pass on PC and console.

Nvidia’s RTX 30-series graphics cards are among some of the more desirable products difficult to buy due to a number of reasons, including a global chip shortage. If you are looking to get your hands on an RTX 30-series GPU easily, you are probably going to have to wait until later this year.

During its Q1 2022 earnings call, Nvidia announced that shortages regarding the RTX 30-series are expected “to remain supply-constrained into the second half of the year.” Despite the short supply and high demand, Nvidia announced that it made $5.66 billion in revenue last quarter, with gaming revenue up by 106%.

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Last year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang anticipated supply shortages to last until 2021. In January, Nvidia’s chief financial officer, Colette Kress, anticipated that supply for the RTX 30 series would “likely remain lean throughout Q1.”

The issue is likely to impact any future cards coming to the RTX 30-series, which Nvidia may announce at least one new card on May 31st.

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

Despite supply issues for its highly desirable RTX 30-series graphics cards, Nvidia made $5.66 billion in revenue during the first quarter of the 2022 fiscal year; the company announced in its earnings report today.

Of course, this is no surprise as the company anticipated another profitable quarter after it announced it made $5 billion in revenue in Q4 2021 despite the supply issues for the RTX 30-series graphics cards.

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Since the release of the RTX 30-series last year, the company has not been able to meet the unprecedented demand. However, it is not the only company impacted by the short supply and high demand due to an ongoing chip shortage — numerous other highly desirable gadgets, including the AMD Radeon RX 6000-series of graphics cards, as well as the ninth-generation gaming consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S have felt the effects of the shortage.

To try and combat the shortage issues, Nvidia announced last week that newly manufactured RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti graphics cards will receive a reduced ETH hash rate to make these cards less useful to people that plan to use the GPUs to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency.

Nvidia may also be planning to unveil or possibly release a new RTX 30-series graphics card on May 31st. The company plans to hold an Executive Keynote as part of Computex 2021, an annual computer trade show held in Taiwan.

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

Riot Games is making an MMORPG set in the League of Legends universe, and according to the game’s executive producer Greg Street, it’s not going to please everyone.

While technically announced, Riot’s MMO is in its incredibly early stages, with the announcement of the project largely serving as a way to attract more talent to the project. As such, almost any information shared about the game is new information, and Street seemed open to answering fan questions in an ongoing Twitter thread about the project. He started off the thread setting some expectations for players, namely, that there is no way the game will appeal to all players and that some many not like the game at all.

Street goes on to state that the game will “almost certainly” have systems like stats, gear, and dungeons, though the team isn’t “ready to yet talk about how much it is or is not like other games out there.” Street himself says he’s a big fan of traditional style MMO dungeons and raids, saying he would specifically be “crushed” if the game didn’t deliver on an enjoyable raiding experience.

Further in the thread Street writes he will be looking to gather player feedback in the coming years on exactly how much time players want to invest in any particular game on a per day and per week basis, and that he thinks it’s “cruel for any game to try to be the only game you’ll ever play when there are so many great games out there.” When asked whether or not the game will be beginner friendly, Street replied that “it has to be” because there are plenty of players who have never played a MMO before.

The full thread is worth a read, as Street goes on to touch on subjects like the leveling experience in MMOs, the role of influencers and streamers, and whether or not players will be able to pet the dog.

Street is a veteran MMORPG designer who was for many years lead system designer on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. He’s been at Riot for more than seven years and has worn many hats there, including lead gameplay designer on League of Legends and vice president of IP and Entertainment.

As for when players can expect to learn more about Riot’s MMO, Street writes the game won’t be shown in 2021 and that the team “won’t show much” for a long time.” However, Street goes on to write that the team will need to show the game early so that there is time to incorporate feedback “before it’s too late.”

League of Legend served as Riot’s sole game for years, but the developer now has a number of projects both ongoing and upcoming under its roof. Valorant, Riot’s hero-shooter, released last summer and is currently combating a toxicity problem, while a mobile version of League of Legends, called Wild Rift, launched in open beta earlier this year. Riot is also working on a fighting game codenamed Project L, a project that may still have a ways to go according to one developer.

A new Fortnite challenge this week will have players putting on their hiking boots. Among the Week 11 challenges is an Epic Quest to place a spirit crystal at the tallest mountain. If you’re wondering what a spirit crystal is or where to find the tallest mountain in Fortnite, don’t sweat it. This guide will show you what to do. Remember that the Fortnite Week 11 challenges are set to go live on Thursday, May 27 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET.

Tallest Mountain In Fortnite Location

First, what’s a spirit crystal you ask? Don’t worry, you’re not overlooking a new item. Like a lot of Fortnite challenges, a spirit crystal isn’t something you can find around the map. Rather, it will appear as an interaction when the challenges are live and you’re in the right place. That means you won’t find one to use anywhere but atop the summit of the tallest mountain in the game, which leads to the next question: what’s the tallest mountain in Fortnite?

If you’ve completed past challenges related to scaling the tallest mountain, you’ll remember the peak of the Chapter 2 map is Mount Kay, just off from Catty Corner. You’ll want to head there to find the contextual button to place a spirit crystal, but with either one or no chests spawning atop that mountain, it may be best to do it in Team Rumble when your team’s Battle Bus charts a path nearby, meaning the other team will be landing far away and can’t sabotage your attempt. You can see the peak on the map marking below.

Once the challenge is live, you’ll want to find the prompt to place a spirit crystal and you’ll be all set. While this isn’t a Foreshadowing Quest, it may still relate to the aliens on their way for Fortnite Season 7. Perhaps the spirit crystal is some sort of offering to keep you safe from the alien mothership on its way, or if you’re a true believer, maybe it’s a way to get picked up. Time will tell, but in the meantime, catch up on the game’s complicated ARG surrounding the phrase “They’re Coming.”

You can also find the complete list of Fortnite Week 11 challenges, including another to visit Ghost and Shadow Ruins.

Zack Snyder says he’s turning a failed Star Wars pitch into a sci-fi, samurai movie of its own.

Better late than never, Snyder clarified his plans on a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast as reported by Slash Film. Snyder said he pitched Lucasfilm on a movie set after Return of the Jedi about a new cast of Jedi warriors on a mission, but was turned down.

Lucasfilm may have said no to the project, but Snyder is still developing the movie as its own IP.

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“Yeah, [Lucasfilm] talked about it, but it never…I’ve been working on it, just away from the Star Wars universe, just on my own as a sci-fi thing,” Snyder said on the podcast. “It’s still a sci-fi thing, it’s the same story, it’s just kind of – let Star Wars be Star Wars. And the 11-year-old me still wants to make that. Now I just know how to, so maybe we’ll see that someday.”

Snyder says he pitched the project after the Star Wars prequel trilogy wrapped up in 2005 but before the Disney buyout in 2012.

“My idea was just: give me the keys and I’ll take her for a spin…it was that sort of middle Star Wars time after they had done the prequels and before the sale,” Snyder said. “I was just like, ‘You know what? I can fix that.'”

The news didn’t reach the press until early 2013. At the time, representatives for Snyder denied the report by saying, “While he is super flattered because he is a huge fan, Zack is not involved in any way with the new Star Wars.”

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Snyder went on to work with Warner Bros. for years to craft a DC Comics movie universe. Snyder is no longer involved with DC movies and is now over at Netflix working on a franchise based on his new movie Army of the Dead. IGN rounded up a list of all of the times Snyder was rejected at Warner Bros. One of those Warner Bros. rejections was Army of the Dead.

IGN’s review of Army of the Dead said the movie, “has some fascinating ideas but doesn’t hit the jackpot.” If Army of the Dead didn’t do it for you, check out the best action movies on Netflix right now.

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Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN who truly thinks that Snyder has been doing press for over a year at this point. He doesn’t stop.