With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
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It's officially September and that means *drumroll* new fall shows!
But it'll still be a few more weeks before we get hit with the brunt of the new season, so there are only a few debuts this week. And - wouldn't ya know it? - a few finales as well. Yes, summer shows are still hanging in there. So while the excellent Boardwalk Empire debuts on Sunday, the equally mesmerizing The Leftovers closes out its first season.
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On the comedy front, Comedy Central's Drunk History wraps up its inebriated reenactments while The League premieres on FXX. And if you're craving championship-level cheese, Lifetime's got The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story set to dish out some dirt about the early 90s teen series.
We're big fans of Person of Interest here at IGN, as the CBS series has becoming increasingly cool and complex through the years, with a ton of twists and turns.
Recently, we've written about why you should be watching Person of Interest if you haven't been, along with giving potential viewers a list of essential episodes to view as the show goes into Season 4.
In the meantime, for those already addicted to the show, Person of Interest: The Complete Third Season comes out on DVD/Blu-ray on Tuesday and we've got an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip.
Life in Grand Theft Auto 5 is never dull. The vast state of San Andreas plays host to midair collisions, savage gunfights, and talking animals in dozens of outrageous missions. We’ve created a list of the nine GTA 5 missions that represent the best excitement, humor, and spectacular escapism you can find in Los Santos.
A wonderful exercise in absurdity, Risk Assessment is memorable for a single, marvelous bit of writing. Franklin meets a barking dog, and inexplicably strikes up a conversation with the animal. The dog tells Franklin that a skydiver is trapped in a tree nearby, and engages in a complex ethical discussion as they jog to the tree. Once they reach the skydiver, Franklin comments “That’s a cool ass dog you got.”
A new Everybody’s Golf, called Hot Shots Golf in North America, title is coming to the PlayStation 4, Sony announced during its pre-TGS press conference in Japan.
Codenamed New Minigol Project, the title will offer "open-world entertainment focusing on golf" and will leverage the power of the new console and its social features. Footage of the game shown alongside the announcement teases the ability for players to develop their own golf resort. Gameplay details, launch window and regions were not announced for the Clap Hanz-developed title but more information will be shared early next year.
Hints that a new Everybody’s Golf title was in development first appeared in July when the developer promoted new jobs accompanied by Hot Shots Golf images and Sony Computer Entertainment branding.
The Death of Wolverine is pretty much everything I want out of an event comic. It's short and self-contained. All the tie-ins are reserved for after the after the core story wraps. It's shipping on a weekly schedule, meaning it'll be over and done with in a month. And it features two of Marvel's most talented creators tackling the swan song of one of their most popular heroes. Unless you hate the idea of reading a story that telegraphs its ending in its title, there's a lot to love in the first issue of this mini-series.
The title tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the series, but even beyond that, Death of Wolverine #1 makes itself very open and accessible to new readers. It doesn't really dwell on any of the particulars of Paul Cornell's Wolverine run other than the basic idea that Wolverine's healing factor is broken and he's more vulnerable than he's ever been. And truth be told, the continuity between Charles Soule's Death of Wolverine and Cornell's Wolverine is pretty shoddy. This issue reads as if it were taking place shortly after Cornell's first story arc, with Logan still dealing with the concept of being mortal and the villains of the Marvel U. beginning to circle him like hungry sharks. It's almost as if the events of last year's "Killable" storyline and the entirety of Wolverine Vol. 6 never unfolded. That's probably a side effect of this book being in the works for so long. Steve McNiven needs time to do his thing, after all. And at the end of the day, I'd rather have a comic that tells a complete and satisfying story in and of itself rather than one that perfectly aligns with the 3000 other comics Wolverine has appeared in over the last year. But the discrepancies do stand out at times.
Most superhero comic book fans would agree that the genre has really grown up over the past 15 years. On average, the audience is older and more savvy about seeking out good stories rather than buying 50 copies of whatever issue has the most chromium-plated shoulder pads on the cover. But for all the progress superhero comics have made in recent years, there are always reminders of how far we have yet to go. One of the hardest struggles we’ve been seeing is the industry’s sometimes awkward attempts to revamp how it presents female characters and how it targets female readers. There’s a large and growing female readership in comics, but you wouldn’t always know it from looking at the books themselves.
Are you bored looking at your PlayStation 4's blue background? Well, you're in luck. When firmware 2.0 launches for PlayStation 4, you'll be able to download and utilize custom themes on your machine.
This news was revealed at Sony's pre-TGS press conference, and interestingly, similar news was also revealed for Vita, which will also be getting custom themes once Vita firmare 3.30 launches. Custom themes for both PS4 and Vita are largely modeled after the theme system that has been in use on PlayStation 3 for years. Themes let you alter your background image, as well as the appearance of various icons.
A new Ys game is coming to both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. Word comes by way of Sony's pre-TGS press conference, held today in Japan. A trailer was shown for the game, and it looked a great deal like Ys does, though with prettier, HD graphics.
Little else is known about the game, including what its actual name and/or sub-title will be, and whether it will be released as an entry in the core series (it was revealed simply as "Ys"). The series, which began in 1987, saw its most recent release in the west in 2013, when Ys: Memories of Celceta came to PlayStation Vita. We liked it quite a bit. However, Ys is split into two groups as a series: the core franchise and various spin-offs. Celceta was considered a core game; perhaps this one will be, too.
Today, Sony and Atlus revealed what many gamers were already hoping: Persona 5 isn't a PlayStation 3-exclusive anymore. Now, it's coming to both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.
Persona 5, which was originally announced as a PlayStation 3-exclusive game in November of last year, was confirmed for western release several months later.
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Today, Capcom took the stage at Sony's pre-TGS PlayStation press conference in Japan and confirmed a rumor that's been circulating for some time: Resident Evil Revelations 2 is real, and it's launching in 2015.
Resident Evil Revelations 2 was originally leaked last week, with Xbox 360 box art emerging, as well as some early imagery. Capcom refused to give us comment at the time, including confirming the game's existence or its platforms, and unfortunately, we still don't have word on the latter. However, considering the leak of the Xbox 360 art, we can assume that, at the very least, it'll be available on last-gen consoles like Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Last Thursday’s significant new amendment to the classification system in Australia, which now allows for automated, cost-effective classification for digital and mobile games, represents the long-awaited arrival of some of the 43 classification system fixes proposed by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) almost three years ago.
Technically every game released in Australia is required to be classified by the Australian Classification Board (ACB), but until now an overwhelming number of small, digitally-distributed games are not. The ACB rates an average of below 800 games per year, but there are many hundreds of games released every day on the iOS app store alone. The system very literally could not keep up, and it hasn’t been able to for many years.
At Sony’s pre-TGS press conference today, Disgaea 5 was revealed. It will be coming to PlayStation 4 in 2015.
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PT, the PlayStation 4’s demo for the upcoming Silent Hill game first revealed at Gamescom, has been downloaded over a million times, Sony revealed at its pre-TGS press conference.
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Colin Moriarty is IGN’s Senior Editor. You can follow him on Twitter.
Today at Sony’s pre-TGS press conference in Japan, Bloodborne’s release date was revealed. It will launch on February 5th, 2015. This release date has only been confirmed for the Japanese market.
Bloodborne, which is under development at From Software with assistance from Sony-owned Japan Studio, is a game crafted from the same mold as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, and was initially revealed as a PlayStation 4-exclusive title back at E3. We've played the game multiple times; you can follow our preview coverage right here.
