The XIII Remake Has Been Delayed Into 2020

The XIII remake, originally announced for a 2019 release back in April, has been delayed into next year.

The cult classic shooter was originally released for the PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC in 2003, and the remake is set to update the game for a modern audience. It’s now coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2020.

François Coulon, Head of Production at publisher Microïds, announced in a press release that while they are “thrilled” with the work developer PlayMagic has put into the game, “additional development time is needed to reach the level of polish we’re aiming for.”

No specific time frame within 2020 has been set for the game’s release.

The original XIII was published by Ubisoft and developed by Ubisoft Paris and Southend Interactive. It cast players as Thirteen, an amnesiac enigma accused of assassinating the president, who must discover who is he is and untangle the wider conspiracy he’s caught up in. The concept art posted on the PlayStation Blog alongside the remake’s announcement suggests that the game will be receiving a dramatic visual overhaul. We’re yet to see any footage from the remake, so it’s unclear just how extensive a remake it will be.

While our original review of XIII (published all the way back in 2003) was less-than-glowing, arguing that “the total package isn’t one that will hold the interest of most first-person shooter players”, the game built up a fanbase after its release because of its ambitious narrative and stellar art design.

Decay of Logos, An Action-RPG With Breath Of The Wild Vibes, Is Out Later This Month

Decay of Logos, an ambitious RPG that reminds us of both Breath of the Wild and Princess Mononoke, is releasing towards the end of August.

The game is a story of revenge about a girl and her elk, who set out to find the truth and take down the culprits after the girl’s village is destroyed. Getting revenge will involve battling a lot of enemies, searching through numerous dungeons, and exploring a world influenced by high fantasy tales and European folklore.

The game has been in development since at least 2014, when game designer André Constantino built a prototype that would become fleshed out further when he joined with Amplify Creations in 2015. The creation process has been covered in an extensive DevLog on the game’s official site.

Decay of Logos is the first game from Amplify Creations, and because the company specialises in middleware, it was made mostly using in-house tech.

The developers don’t want the game, which will involve open-world exploration and combat that mixes swordplay with magic abilities (plus your elk, who can run in and headbutt enemies), to hold player’s hands too much, so expect to have to find your own way forward.

Decay of Logos will hit PS4 first on August 27, before coming to Switch on August 29. Xbox One and Steam players will have to wait until August 30. It’s being published by Rising Star Games.

Daily Deals: Elgato Stream Deck for $60, Akira Collection for $130, LG 4K UHD TV for as Low as $797

Welcome to IGN’s Daily Deals, your source for the best deals on the stuff you actually want to buy. You can also follow us at Twitter @igndeals.

We bring you the best deals we’ve found today on video games, hardware, electronics, and a bunch of random stuff too. Updated 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

$1100 Off the 70″ Sony BRAVIA XBR-70X830F 4K Smart HDTV, Now $898

sonyxbrx830fThe Sony XBR X830 series is a premium end TV from Sony. Sony’s XBR TVs are their cream of the crop with excellent picture quality and quality construction. It normally retails for $2000 but today you can get a huge discount on it. In fact, this is the first time I’ve seen a massive 70″ XBR-series TV priced under $1K. On top of that you get free home delivery.

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‘Plants Vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville’ Trademark Filed by EA

Electronic Arts has trademarked ‘Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville’ in Europe, according to Gematsu.

EA has yet to make any official announcement of the game, but the company has recently begun a closed testing period of the already-confirmed Plants vs. Zombies shooter “Codename Picnic” on PS4 and Xbox One.

Neighborville is the name of the series’ setting, where the titular plants and undead tend to do all their battling. A leak on Reddit last month suggested that there won’t be any story element, and that the game will instead focus on more traditional games-as-a-service trappings, including 20 customizable character classes, a social hub region, three free-roam regions, nine PvP modes (including a 4v4 arena mode), and more.

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WWE SummerSlam: Live Blog and Match Results

It’s WWE’s Largest Shindig of the Sun Season!

A hobbled, injured Seth Rollins will collide with Brock Lesnar; “Queen of Queens” Trish Stratus will face down “Queen of Any Era” Charlotte Flair; Kofi Kingston will look across from Randy Orton, hopefully achieving a measure of revenge for Orton’s wayback backstage politics BS; and Becky Lynch will defend her strap against Natalya, who may arrive with the support of all of Canada behind her.

Pretty exciting but…doesn’t this SummerSlam still feel a bit slight to you? Right up front, on paper? Isn’t this supposed to be a seven-hour monstrosity like WrestleMania? Right now there are fewer matches on the docket than listed for Extreme Rules and it’s supposed to run longer.

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Ninja Says Twitch Promoted a ‘Porn Account’ on His Old Twitch Page

Ninja, the streamer who recently shook the streaming industry with his decision to leave Twitch and work exclusively with Microsoft’s Mixer, has accused Twitch of promoting a “porn account” on his old page.

Ninja took to Twitter to air his grievances in a video posted on Sunday, with the text “Disgusted and so sorry.”

WWE Summerslam: Live Updates And Results For The 2019 PPV

Today is the day. It’s the biggest event of the summer for WWE. Summerslam is kicking off at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario as we speak. Over the course of the evening, WWE’s biggest superstars will face each other in the ring in what should be a fantastic evening of wrestling.

There are a couple ways to watch this event. You can order the PPV through your local cable or satellite provider. Or you can head over to the WWE Network, and if you’re a new subscriber, you can get one month for free and cancel at any time. If you’d like to continue using the network, it’ll cost you $10 a month.

Depending on where you live in the world, Summerslam either airs at a normal time or in the middle of the night–sorry, England. Check out the start times for a few time zones below. Why is the Central Time Zone listed? Because I live there, and Chicagoland needs more representation.

Summerslam Start Times:

  • 4PM PT
  • 6 PM C
  • 7 PM ET
  • 12 AM BST (August 12)
  • 9 AM AEST (August 12)

There are 10 matches on the card for the evening, and not every single match is a for a championship, which is very refreshing. There are a couple of storylines that didn’t make it onto the Summerslam card, primarily the conclusion to Roman Reigns’ trying to find out who attacked him. Rowan was revealed as the potential attacker, so expect a followup to that development. Below, you can check out the full card for yourself, but don’t expect these matches to take place in this order.

Summerslam Match Card:

  • Drew Gulak (c) vs. Oney Lorcan (Cruiserweight Championship)
  • Goldberg vs. Dolph Ziggler
  • Trish Stratus vs. Charlotte Flair
  • AJ Styles (c) vs. Ricochet (United States Championship)
  • Finn Bálor vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt
  • Kevin Owens vs. Shane McMahon (If Owens loses, he quits)
  • Bayley (c) vs. Ember Moon (Smackdown Women’s Championship)
  • Kofi Kingston (c) vs. Randy Orton (WWE Championship)
  • Becky Lynch (c) vs. Natalya (Submission Match for the Raw Women’s Championship)
  • Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Seth Rollins (Universal Championship)

Steam Workshop Submissions Now Require Moderator Approval

With little warning or fanfare, Valve has implemented a new policy on Steam Workshop, the platform’s hub for user-made mods, that requires any new submission must first be approved by a moderator.

First sighted by Reddit user r/TanookiSuit3 on the CS:GO subreddit, and reported by PCGamesN, an image captured by TanookiSuit3 shows a new banner on Steam Workshop over a new submission.

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Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling Review

This review contains plot details for Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, now streaming on Netflix.

It was hard to know what to expect from a Rocko’s Modern Life revival special at Netflix, but it definitely wasn’t a sharp commentary on reboot culture and fan entitlement that miraculously captures the core essence of the Nickelodeon cartoon as if two decades haven’t passed.

In an era where Buzzfeed quizzes try to determine how much of a ’90s kid you are, no matter what year you were born, the return of a beloved property is less a matter of “if,” and more of a “when.” As if summoned from our collective subconscious as pop culture revivals become ever more prevalent (and fans become more demanding), the 45-minute Static Cling devotes itself to the very nature of its return.

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Splatterhouse, 7 More Games Announced for TurboGrafx-16 Mini

Konami announced it’s sweetening the TurboGrafx-16 Mini even further, adding an additional seven games to the retro-mini console, including fan-favorite Splatterhouse.

  • Preorder the TurboGrafx-16 Mini – at Amazon

The remaining six, non-Splatterhouse games are the Japanese-language Galaga ‘88, Dragon Spirit, The Legend of Valkyrie, The Genji and the Heike Clans, Seirei Senshi Spriggan and Spriggan Mark 2. The full list of games now includes 25 English-language games and 32 Japanese-language.

Full List of TurboGrafx-16 Mini Games

English-Language TurboGrafx-16 Mini Games

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