This September, IGN is spotlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2018-2019 season. Today we have an exclusive interview with Family Guy showrunners Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin about the long-running animated sitcom’s upcoming 17th season. It promises to be a big year for Family Guy; the show’s 20th anniversary is coming up in January 2019. The new season will also introduce several key new characters, including Brian’s new wife Jess (voiced by Casey Wilson), and Peter’s new bosses (played by Bryan Cranston & Niecy Nash). All this, plus Brian and Stewie go on another wacky adventure as the series parodies Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Family Guy Season 17 premieres Sunday, September 30 on Fox.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Wildlife Details And PS4 Pro Bundle Announced – GS News Update
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s New Massive Conquest Battle Gameplay
Marvel’s Daredevil – ‘Fisk Is Back’ Season 3 Official Teaser (2018)
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PS4 Cross-Play Is Happening, Fortnite Beta Starts Today
Sony has announced that cross-play between PlayStation 4 and other platforms is coming to Fortnite. In a statement posted on the PlayStation Blog, Sony Interactive Entertainment said it has “identified a path towards supporting cross-platform features for select third-party content.” The first of these third-party titles is Fortnite and, starting today, an open beta for Fortnite will allow for “gameplay, progression, and commerce” across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, Mac, Android, iOS.
“We recognize that PS4 players have been eagerly awaiting an update, and we appreciate the community’s continued patience as we have navigated through this issue to find a solution,” said John Kodera, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment. “We see the beta as an opportunity to conduct thorough testing that ensures cross-platform play is best on PlayStation, while being mindful about the user experience from both a technical and social perspective.”
As previously mentioned, in addition to enabling players across the various platforms Fortnite is available on to play together, progress will be preserved over the different platforms and, more importantly, any purchases and unlocks will also be shared, which is good news for dedicated Fortnite players.
“For 24 years, we have strived to deliver the best gaming experience to our fans by providing a uniquely PlayStation perspective,” Sony’s statement continues. “Today, the communities around some games have evolved to the point where cross-platform experiences add significant value to players. In recognition of this, we have completed a thorough analysis of the business mechanics required to ensure that the PlayStation experience for our users remains intact today, and in the future, as we look to open up the platform.”
It also notes that this “represents a major policy change” and Sony has said it is “now in the planning process across the organization to support this change.” Further details will be provided on specifics regarding the beta timeframe, and what this means for other titles in the future.
The subject of cross-play on PlayStation 4 has been a sore issue for the last few months, especially as the popularity of Fortnite has skyrocketed and other platforms have enabled the functionality. In the past, Sony remained bullish on maintaining a closed online environment. Sony’s CEO, Kenichiro Yoshida, for example said the PlayStation 4 was simply the best place to play, suggesting that there was no need for PS4 owners to connect with players on other platforms.
This stance drew criticism from other high-profile people in the video game industry, most notably from Xbox boss Phil Spencer and corporate vice president of Xbox, Mike Ybarra, who said Sony “still isn’t listening to gamers” about the cross-play situation.
Tim Sweeney, the head of Fortnite developer Epic Games, later said that he believes it is in the industry’s best interest to allow gamers on competing platforms to play together, and added that he believes cross-play is “inevitable.” With Sony now on board, Sweeney has been proven right.
The cross-play beta arrives on PS4 in time for the start of Fortnite Season 6, which begins on September 27. In the lead up, Epic has released out a Fortnite Season 6 teaser for Fortnite which features a purple color scheme, much like the strange cube that appeared in the game recently. The start of Season 6 means there’s very little time left to wrap up Season 5 challenges. Check out our Season 5 challenges roundup for help chasing down any that you may have left over.
Third and Likely Final Fortnite Season 6 Teaser Unveiled
A third and what’s likely the final Fortnite Season 6 teaser image has been revealed with less than one day before the new season kicks off.
Coming directly from the official Fortnite Twitter account, the third image features some kind of feral wolf character. If previous season teasers are to be followed, this wolf could very well be a new skin in the upcoming battle pass and could even be the Tier 100 reward.
Season 6… tomorrow.
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Life is Strange 2 – Episode 1 Review
Life is Strange 2 features none of the characters or settings of its predecessor. Its new hero, a 17-year-old Mexican-American boy named Sean Diaz, does not have a decision-reversing time-travel ability like Max Caulfield. But the moment an acoustic guitar begins delicately strumming over the sun-kissed title screen, it is unmistakable what you are playing. This may be an unfamiliar story among fresh faces and unknown locales, but in every other way this is Life is Strange.
This four-hour episode — the first of five — introduces us to a bigger, more complex story than was told by either the original Life is Strange or its prequel Before the Storm. That coming-of-age story concerns the fraught relationship of a pair of high school girls against a backdrop of an impending natural disaster — but its action is confined to the classrooms and bedrooms of small-town Arcadia Bay, Oregon. Life is Strange 2 is in every way a more elaborate affair: its action sprawls out from Seattle to the woods of Oregon and still farther afield, giving it the feel of a road movie in game form. It aspires to realize nothing less than an unsparingly critical portrait of the United States in the era of Donald Trump.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 New Season Gets a Premiere Date on Netflix
The second season of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return – and the 12th season overall of the show – will debut on Thursday, Nov. 22nd on Netflix with a six episode run.
Netflix had confirmed the show’s renewal last November, but a premiere date hadn’t been released.
The date marks the 30th anniversary of the cult classic, which originally aired on Thanksgiving Day in 1988 on KTMA in Minneapolis, MN.
Creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Joel Hodgson returned once again for the newest season as an executive producer and co-director to oversee all production.
DC’s Heroes in Crisis Is a Brutal Read
Sometimes there’s a huge difference between a story that’s well-executed and a story that’s actually enjoyable to read. Heroes in Crisis #1 illustrates that gulf about as well as any comic in recent memory. This is a series featuring some of the best creators currently working at DC telling a very intimate, emotionally charged tale of tragedy striking the superhero community. The first issue is also unpleasant and even somewhat off-putting in its impact on the DCU. But no doubt that was the intention. Given the subject matter and the real-world events fueling Heroes in Crisis, fun doesn’t really enter into the equation.
Heroes in Crisis introduces Sanctuary, a refuge built by Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman to serve as a safe haven for heroes weighed down by the physical and psychological pressures of the job. Unfortunately, as the series opens, Sanctuary has been rocked by a mass murder, transforming a place of healing into one of bloodshed.
Here’s Everything Leaving Netflix in October
It’s time for Netflix’s official Last Call list for October, as we wave goodbye to Stanley Kubrick films Eyes Wide shut and Full Metal Jacket, along with the first (and only) season of Freaks and Geeks.
Also leaving: Bad Boys, The Lost Boys, The Babadook, Donnie Darko, all of USA’s White Collar, all of the (new) 90210, Spielberg’s The BFG, Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, Red Dragon, Let Me In (American remake of Let the Right One In), Sin City, Kubo and the Two Strings, and more.
