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Matt has seen the film about the quick, blue hedgehog and lets us know what he thinks of it. Cardy has been lost in Dreams but has kindly woken up to tells us all about it. Alex has been playing a game that hits just a tad too close to home. There’s also a smattering of discussion about Rainbow Six Siege and whether Anthem has a chance of replicating its successful turnaround.

There’s also a nail-biter of a quiz that goes down to the wire.

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Bringing Dreams to PlayStation 5 would be on the cards next for developer Media Molecule if the game is successful on PlayStation 4.

This is what Dreams creative director Mark Healey said to VGC at a launch event for the game in London on February 13, 2020.

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“Obviously at the moment we’re focused on PS4 and I would actually hope that it extends the life of the PS4 to be honest with you, then maybe when other companies start making games for it, the community will carry on making games for it, but if it’s as successful as we hope it is then it’s an obvious progression,” he said about bringing Dreams to PS5.

VGC suggested that the backwards compatibility of the PS5 should make the PS4 version of Dreams automatically playable on Sony’s next-gen console. “Well yeah, so I mean it works by default then, doesn’t it, that’s the thing,” Healey said. “I mean, we want to support it going forward, so we want to be there for the full story really.”

Healey added that as he considers Dreams a platform itself, “ideally in the future we’ll migrate to whatever is relevant.” But don’t hold out for a PC version just yet, as while Healey said “that would be cool,” he added “that’s not something that’s happening right now.”

That’s not to say a PC version of Dreams would never happen. “I think a lot of that depends on where the games industry goes in general, I suppose,” Healey remarked. It’s also worth noting that there are rumours that Sony has recently changed tack when it comes to publishing its exclusives on other platforms, with a PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn apparently on the way.

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Dreams allows you to tap into your imagination and create music, cooked breakfast art, and even whole games using its tools. But it also comes with a proper story mode that’s worth playing through too.

It’s actually out today on PlayStation 4. We have it a 9 in our Dreams review, saying that it’s “a highly ambitious concept, and one that has been magically brought to life.”

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Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

SPOILERS AHEAD for Stranger Things Season 3 & 4.

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Netflix has released a surprise teaser trailer for Stranger Things season four, confirming the return of one familiar character.

 

From Russia with love… pic.twitter.com/ZWEMgy63Et

— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) February 14, 2020

The 50-second clip, titled ‘From Russia with Love,’ opens in the sprawling frozen fields of what appears to be a Russian facility, as a group of people perform manual labour on a snow-covered railway track. The camera focuses on one specific individual who is quickly identified to be a shaven-headed Jim Hopper, played by David Harbour.

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“We’re excited to officially confirm that production on Stranger Things 4 is now underway — and even more excited to announce the return of Hopper!” the Duffer Brothers said in a statement. “Although it’s not all good news for our ‘American’; he is imprisoned far from home in the snowy wasteland of Kamchatka, where he will face dangers both human… and other.

“Meanwhile, back in the states, a new horror is beginning to surface, something long-buried, something that connects everything. Season 4 is shaping up to be the biggest and most frightening season yet, and we cannot wait for everyone to see more. In the meantime — pray for the American.”

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The new teaser helps to clear up one of the biggest mysteries from Season 3. The post-credits scene originally sparked tons of theories about Hopper’s fate as it hinted that the fan-favourite character may be trapped inside a Russian prison, despite being supposedly killed by a blast caused by the Russians in their attempt to reopen the gate to the Upside Down.

However, if you still want to continue your curiosity voyage towards Stranger Things 4, then take a look at the working title and what it could mean, discover the title of the first episode of the next season, and read the latest details about the prospective new characters joining the hit Netflix show.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition on Nintendo Switch will have a completely new and exclusive co-op mode.

Capcom has spent the past few weeks announcing the three new features it’s added to the Switch version of Devil May Cry 3. Now the third one has been revealed and it’s local co-op for the game’s Bloody Palace mode.

The time has come… for the reveal of the final addition to #DevilMayCry 3 Special Edition for #NintendoSwitch! Here’s producer Matt Walker (@retrootoko) again with the news: pic.twitter.com/Qj16uVW1oO

— Devil May Cry (@DevilMayCry) February 13, 2020

 

The co-op will work with Joy-Cons as well as the Switch Pro Controller, and any combo of them both. You’ll have to beat the intro mission before being able to start a co-op session of Bloody Palace. One player is Dante while the other is Vergil, and you’ll have separate save files for each, and can also have different controller setups for each character.

Bloody Palace is survival mode in which you have just one life as you try to climb up 9999 floors of a demon-filled tower. When you beat a floor, you get the choice of three portals to go through, letting up ascend one floor, 10 floors, or 100 floors.

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The other two exclusive features that the Switch version of Devil May Cry 3 has are on-the-fly combat style switching, and on-the-fly weapon switching. In the original game, you had to switch weapons before starting a mission, or could do it mid-mission at a Divinity Statue. In the Switch version, you can switch styles and weapons wherever you want, and whenever you want.

Devil May Cry 3 comes to Nintendo Switch on February 20, 2020. Our Devil May Cry 3 review of the original 2005 game gave it a 9.6, so you know, it’s certainly worth checking out if you haven’t played it before.

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Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot was the best-selling game in the U.S. for the month of January, according to NPD.

Kakarot brought in the third-highest first month sales total for a Dragon Ball video game, coming in behind 2018’s Dragon Ball FighterZ and 2002’s Dragon Ball Z: Budokai.

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Grand Theft Auto V notably returned to the top five for the first time since August. As noted by NPD, it remains the best-selling video game of all time in the U.S.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the best-selling game of 2019, finished second in January’s U.S. sales totals, dropping slightly from its spot atop the list in December.

For the fifteenth consecutive month, Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console. As of December 31, 2019, Nintendo has sold over 52 million Switch units.

January’s Best-Selling Games

• Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019
• Madden NFL 20
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• Grand Theft Auto V
• NBA 2K20
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Mario Kart 8
• Ring Fit Adventure
• Red Dead Redemption II

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According to Harrison Ford himself, Indiana Jones 5 is set to start shooting in “about two months,” which would see Ford back on set as Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones Jr. around April 2020.

Speaking to CBS Sunday Morning, Ford was asked by correspondent Lee Cowan what the challenges are when returning to roles such as Han Solo and Indiana Jones after such a long period of time.

“Trying not to look silly… you know… hang around in tight pants and high boots,” Ford joked. “I’ll give you a more appropriate answer, considering I’m going to start doing Indiana Jones in about two months.”

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Assuming all goes according to plan, Ford will return as Indiana Jones this April for the first time since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

In February 2020, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said the team is still hard at work “getting the script where want it to be” and that this newest entry will “not be a reboot, but a continuation.”

With Ford’s confirmed return to the iconic role and this not being a reboot, it tracks with his earlier comments regarding Indiana Jones once he hangs up the whip and hat, stating “When I’m gone, he’s gone. It’s easy.”

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As it stands, the currently untitled Indiana Jones 5 has a theatrical release date of July 9, 2021.

Ford will next be seen in 20th Century Studios’ remake of The Call of the Wild, a film that made our list of 59 movies we can’t wait for in 2020.

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Square Enix has released the opening cinematic of Final Fantasy VII Remake way ahead of its April 10 release date.

The five-minute movie blends some very familiar elements with plenty of brand new ones. It opens with a highly detailed look at the eclectic city of Midgar, taking the viewer on a journey through the bustling streets that are filled with construction workers and kids speeding around on bicycles.

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The establishing shots are supported by newly orchestrated, breath-taking music, which swells to a peak as Aerith gazes up towards the starlit night sky. The camera pans out to reveal more breathtaking views of the vibrant metropolis before Cloud Strife makes his highly-anticipated entrance atop a high-speed train.

This clip comes shortly after Square Enix released a batch of new screenshots from the highly-anticipated game, showcasing Tifa’s moves in battle, as well as a look at the game’s side quests, and, most importantly, some adorable and oddly proportioned summons.

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The Final Fantasy VII Remake will invite players to jump into a hybrid battle system that merges real-time action with strategic, command-based combat, as they enter a world where the Shinra Electric Power Company – a shadowy corporation – controls the planet’s very life force.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake is now due to launch on April 10, 2020 for PS4 after its delay last month.

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For more on Final Fantasy 7 Remake, read about how its PS4 exclusivity was shifted to April 10, 2021, discover all of the major reveals and surprises in the latest trailer, and take a look at our complete Final Fantasy 7 Remake preorder guide.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is a remake of the very first Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games (and the demo has been out for a while now) but of course there’s more to it than what we’ve seen so far. Though we didn’t get to check out the just-announced Mega Evolutions in action, we did go hands-on with a different story dungeon and some new features not shown in the demo or available in the originals.

Watch the video above for short break downs and gameplay clips of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX’s Rescue Team Camp system, new Rare Qualities, the Pokemon recruiting mechanic, a short boss battle, and more—some of which is completely new to the remake.

Rescue Team Camps 

The path to the left of your home base in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (as seen in the video above) leads to the Rescue Team Camps! You can purchase these camps from Wigglytuff, and each camp can be inhabited by certain species of Pokemon. You won’t be able to permanently recruit Pokemon unless you have the Camp where they’d reside, and there’s a limited number of Pokemon you can “store” this way. The higher your Rescue Team rank, the higher this limit.

Rare Qualities 

The Rescue Team Camps menu is also where you can manage your Pokemon and feed them Gummis  to raise stats or unlock a Rare Quality. Rare Qualities are new to Rescue Team DX and grant Pokemon abilities that affect the entire team – like Brawl, which increases your team’s damage with more enemies in the room.

Preparing for a Dungeon

The ability to manage your team, items, and money from the dungeon departure screen appears to be a new feature of the remake, and a handy one at that. You always want to make sure to store money and items you don’t need, or else risk losing them if you suffer a full party wipe inside the dungeon.

Recruiting Pokemon

Sometimes, there will be fainted Pokemon in a dungeon. Find it and give it an apple – there’s a chance it will want to tag along. Rarely, a Pokemon you defeat in a dungeon will ask to join you too. Once you leave the dungeon, you can let these Pokemon join your Rescue Team as long as you have the right camp.

You’ll get a notice if you don’t have a camp a Pokemon can reside in. In which case, you can use a Wigglytuff Orb to summon Wigglytuff and purchase the camp you need to recruit said Pokemon, another new feature!

Unlike the original Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team, you can have up to eight Pokemon with you at a dungeon at a time, increasing the number from a sad four before, so recruiting Pokemon in Rescue Team DX will be much more efficient. Speaking of efficiency, the new Auto Mode substantially increases the pace you can explore a dungeon, but automatically switches off when an enemy is encountered, so it doesn’t do everything for you.

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Watch the video at the top of this page for the boss fight and an extra minute of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX gameplay within the Sinister Woods. Otherwise, that’s about all the new stuff we saw so far. For more on Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, check out the first 15 minutes of it in the video above.
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With news that director Scott Derrickson has parted ways with Marvel Studios over creative differences on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Sam Raimi will reportedly take his place, the door to a very special opportunity can now be opened. While Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy has long since gone and passed, the nature of the Marvel multiverse would allow for the fan-favorite director to revisit the Wall-Crawler one last time to provide closure on the story he never got to finish telling.

The multiverse was first mentioned in the original Doctor Strange movie when Tilda Swinton’s Ancient One schools Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange. She explains how our universe is only one in an infinite number. “Who are you in this vast Multiverse, Mr. Strange?” she asks him. It looks like the sequel will answer that question. And while the film’s main plot has something to do with Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch teaming up to combat some threat spawned from the multiverse, Raimi could use it for the ultimate fan service: bringing back Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man.

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The parallel realities of the multiverse reflect our own world but with various differences. One world might be overrun by a zombie plague while another one is populated by cartoon animals. The world of the Raimi Spider-Man films could be one of these alternate universes, meaning that Doctor Strange could cross paths with Maguire’s Spidey during his journey through the multiverse. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse already showed various Marvel characters from different realities meeting one another, so Doctor Strange 2 would just be making that happen in live-action.

In 2004’s Spider-Man 2, Raimi even included a reference to the good doctor when J. Jonah Jameson’s assistant, Hoffman, pitched “Doctor Strange” as a name for the escaped Doctor Octavius. “That’s pretty good, but it’s taken,” Jameson says. While played for laughs, that moment seemingly confirms a Doctor Strange exists in the Raimi-verse, so it wouldn’t be a stretch for the MCU Strange to cross paths with that version of himself and bump into Maguire’s Peter Parker along the way.

Speaking of Jameson, the credits stinger for Spider-Man: Far From Home featured JK Simmons reprising his role in order to curse the name of Spider-Man. While this was technically the MCU’s version of the character and not the Jameson from Raimi-verse, it shows that Sony and Marvel Studios are certainly open to the idea of utilizing actors and characters from the Raimi trilogy.

Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy ended on a sour note thanks to Spider-Man 3, and Raimi’s plans for a fourth Spider-Man movie never saw the light of day because Sony decided to reboot the franchise instead, so revisiting that world via this Doctor Strange sequel would give him the chance to properly tie up loose ends.

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Raimi himself isn’t a very big fan of Spider-Man 3. In a 2015 interview with Collider he got out his feelings, saying, “It’s a movie that just didn’t work very well. I tried to make it work, but I didn’t really believe in all the characters, so that couldn’t be hidden from people who loved Spider-Man. If the director doesn’t love something, it’s wrong of them to make it when so many other people love it. I think [raising the stakes after Spider-Man 2] was the thinking going into it, and I think that’s what doomed us. I should’ve just stuck with the characters and the relationships and progressed them to the next step and not tried to top the bar.”

Obviously Doctor Strange going on a full-fledged side-adventure with Maguire’s Spidey would detract from the main story, but a lot could be done even with a small cameo. Even if we just get a short scene that shows that everything turned out alright for Peter and Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson, it would mean a lot to fans who were left unsatisfied with what went down in Spider-Man 3. Raimi could finally give us a taste of how he would have progressed those character relationships after all these years. His take on Spider-Man is beloved by millions of fans and is remembered for helping kick off the modern superhero movie craze, so if he doesn’t use Doctor Strange’s jaunt through the multiverse as an opportunity to give that world a proper send-off, then that would just be, well, madness.

For more on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, check out our video primer below:

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Joshua is Senior Features Editor at IGN. If Pokemon, Green Lantern, or Game of Thrones are frequently used words in your vocabulary, you’ll want to follow him on Twitter @JoshuaYehl and IGN.