Watch Dogs Legion is a great open-world stealth action-adventure for both current and next-gen consoles. So how do you freshen it up, let alone improve upon it? We’re not quite sure about the verdict on the improving it part yet (we’ve only just started to play the new DLC), but there’s no doubt that adding zombies into the mix will at least freshen up the action. Enter Watch Dogs: Legion of the Dead, the biggest and certainly most surprising part of Title Update 4.5. It will be available tomorrow, June 1.

As you can see in the 22-minute gameplay video above, it turns Watch Dogs into an undead-fighting PvE roguelite for up to four players. The development team wants to make it clear that this new mode is in alpha, and as such it will continue to be tweaked and evolved based on community feedback. We caught up with Watch Dogs Legion online director Jean-Pascal Cambiotti to find out more about Legion of the Dead.

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IGN: Zombie modes in non-zombie games seem to be popular nowadays (arguably started by Call of Duty). What is it about zombies that make them so much fun in practically any game?

Jean-Pascal: I think there’s something inherently fun about playing with zombies, beyond the instant gratification of destroying them. We were inspired by the multiple portrayals of zombies across popular culture, and in the game, we made the decision to make zombies slower but lethal. They can be used as a gameplay tool to create chaos by luring them into fortified Albion layouts while you sneak in and save your precious ammo for another fight.

IGN: Could Legion of the Dead ever spin out into its own game if it proves popular enough?

Jean-Pascal: The design strategy on Watch Dogs: Legion of the Dead was to expand on existing systems and flip them on its head – like creating a rogue-lite approach with Watch Dogs: Legion’s unique gadgets. We want to keep an open line of communication with the community and see where they want to take the game mode next.

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IGN: Similarly, what is the metric of success internally for this content? What will the team be watching for?

Jean-Pascal: We want players to have fun using different strategies and feel like there’s always something different to try. That’s why we’re starting small, and plan to update the game frequently so we can react to things like adjusting the difficulty level based on the feedback we get.

IGN: Are there any Easter eggs in here that players should watch out for? Either about Watch Dogs stuff or larger pop-culture stuff?

Jean-Pascal: You’ll have to play to find out!

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IGN: At any point did you ever consider calling this “Watch Dogs Lesion”? Because in a mode about zombies that seems like a missed opportunity…

Jean-Pascal: Where were you when we were deciding on the title?! But folks who are pretty good at that sort of thing helped make that call 🙂.

Welcome to our Sunday deals page, where the games are cheap and the headphones are also cheap! The Beats Solo Pro Wireless have hit their lowest price ever over at Amazon, making them a stellar pick up for anyone looking for headphones. Tons of games are still on sale thanks to Memorial Day as well, including Demon’s Souls and Spider-Man Miles Morales, two must have titles for PS5 owners.

Let’s not forget that it’s also Memorial Day Weekend, and we’ve done up a few extra articles to help you sift through the special events and promotions going on there. We’ve added a few of those deals here, but you can find out more by checking our Best Memorial Day Sales page!

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Biomutant developer Experiment 101 has shared details on the game’s first big patch, revealing it will address the pacing of dialogues, narrator settings, combat, and much more.

Announced on Biomutant’s Twitter, this update will “most likely” be delivered to PC platforms first and then to consoles.

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As for what is in the update, it looks to include “bug fixes and changes based on community feedback.”

“We are working on the pacing of dialogues, narrator settings, difficulty settings, video settings like depth of field and motion blur, loot and enemy tuning as well as sound and combat,” Biomutant’s Tweet reads.

In our review of Biomutant, we discussed some of the above issues, including that, while the narrator is “initially kind of quaint,” we “found it a bit wearisome over time.”

“It’s not so much the narrator’s random interjections; it’s more that his regular attempts at profundity write a lot of cheques that a game that’s really just about hamsters bashing the crap out of each other with toilet brushes struggles to cash. Biomutant seems to have a lot it wants to say about the past, the future – and possibly forgiveness – but its fortune cookie wisdom feels a fraction too earnest,” IGN’s Luke Reilly wrote.

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For more on Biomutant, check out nine things you should do first and our performance review that details the problems on PS5, PS4, and Xbox consoles.

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The Mighty Ducks franchise creator Steve Brill has shared his ideas for a potential season 2 for Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, how many seasons the show may last, and his dream of The Mighty Ducks: The Musical.

Speaking to Collider, Brill shed some light on his and the team’s long-term plan for the series, which unfortunately has been altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“Yeah, we have a plan. We have many plans,” Brill said. “As we’ve learned from this last year, you can’t make plans. I would have loved for the second season to be in Europe, playing an international tournament, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. But there are many plans. All of the characters would be back and Lauren Graham would fully be a lead figure.

“To explore her character would be endlessly fun, and her with Gordon Bombay, and then each individual kid and the story of the team and what the next step would be. We’ve got it all laid out. And then, we’d also bring back people, and wrap up storylines and re-explore storylines from the movies, like I talked about with Josh and Kenan. So, we have a lot to do.”

As for how many seasons Brill thinks it would take to tell the story he is wanting to tell, he says that it’s up to those who know TV better than he does.

“Josh [Goldsmith] and Cathy [Yuspaalso] come from television, so they understand what a season is. I look at it like a movie. This first season feels like Ducks 1. To me, the next season instinctively should feel like Ducks 2, which took the kids to a new environment. You have to move the characters along, as a group, into some new things, so that’s what I’m thinking about and that’s what we’re thinking of about,” Brill said.

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As for the previously mentioned musical, Brill explained that, since he couldn’t “crack any stories in the 2000s’ for a fourth Mighty Ducks film, he turned his focus to Broadway.
“I thought about doing a Broadway musical,” Brill revealed. “That was my big thought, about how fun it would be to do The Mighty Ducks: The Musical, and do a Disney Beauty and the Beast type of production with kids on ice on Broadway and with songs. If they can do Spider-Man, then you can do The Mighty Ducks, so I was thinking about that.

“I’m not off of this idea. Back in the ‘80s, there was a musical called Starlight Express, that Andrew Lloyd Weber did, where it was people on roller skates in the round. I remember going, ‘We could have kids skate, or use roller blades that look like skates, and it could be really cool to watch visually, like a dance. Like West Side Story, we could do Sharks and Jets types of showdowns and songs. Why not?'”

In our review of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ series premiere, we said that it is “is a charming, if not predictable, return to cinema’s most iconic youth hockey team. “

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Amazon’s Mid-Year Sale continues to shower us with discounts. Some of those are on slightly older titles that shouldn’t have passed you by, others are for forthcoming AAAs you dare not miss. Why even risk that dreaded “out of stock” notification? Go stake your claim on Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Far Cry 6 and Pokémon Legends: Arceus

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Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Update 1.16.2.0 not only brings with it a ton of fixes, but it also cuts its base game size of 170 GB in half to 83 GB.

The new update is available now, and the reduction in file size was made possible thanks to to the team performing “some optimization for the initial full download” of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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This is another example of developers working to make their games take up less space, and follows Fortnite’s patch that made it 60GB smaller on PC and Call of Duty: Warzone’s patch that reduced the file size between 10.9 GB and 14.2 GB.

File size has been a big issue for some, especially those who wish to have both Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Modern Warfare/Warzone installed on one system. Activision even said that 500GB PS4 owners may need to “make room” if they wanted these games installed with all the modes and packs available.

We recently took a look at why these video games have such huge install sizes, and it is due to a combination of factors including games getting bigger in scope, problems with hardware inefficiencies, and more.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator is the game that keeps on giving, even after its release when we gave it a 10/10 and called it a masterpiece. In our review, we said, “Unparalleled realism and an entire planet to explore makes Microsoft Flight Simulator a simulation like no other.”

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Two Point Campus, the follow up to Two Point Hospital, has seemingly leaked on the Microsoft Store ahead of its official reveal.

The Microsoft Store page was spotted by @_h0x0d_, and it reveals that Two Point Campus is another “management sim with a twist” that tasks players with building their own university, exploring students’ personality and fulfilling their needs, hiring staff, and much more.

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The aforementioned twist is seen in the courses, which range from “Knight School (hey, we all have to learn jousting at some point in our lives), to the salivatory Gastronomy, where your students will build mouth-watering concoctions like giant pizzas and enormous pies.”

Players will be able to lay down pathways with new easy-to-use tools, plant outdoor fauna, place benches, sculptures, hedgerows, picket fences, and much more.

Two Point Hospital was in the news last week, as a crossover with Sonic was confirmed during the Sonic Central 30th Anniversary stream that will bring with it free items and staff outfits themed after everyone’s favorite hedgehog.

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In our review of Two Point Hospital, we said that it is a “is healthy revival of the business management game with surprising depth and humor.”

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