An impressive amount of images from the upcoming Resident Evil 3 remake appear to have leaked online. The images show off plenty of new looks at Nemesis, the iconic Resident Evil monster bred to hunt down S.T.A.R.S. members, plus a look at some different environments and at least one other major enemy. Check it out in the gallery below.
Posted to an ongoing Resident Evil 3 Resetera thread by a moderator known as Dusk Golem, the images show off Nemesis looming over Jill Valentine, much like Mr. X in the Resident Evil 2 remake. Nemesis also appears to be holding a massive flamethrower, brandishing it in front of Jill’s face at one point. Obviously, Capcom hasn’t confirmed any of these screenshots, so take it all with a grain of salt. The images themselves all have a watermark from the French gaming site, gamergen.com.
Source: Resetera/Dusk Golem.
Another couple of images show two enemies: One that that could most likely be the amphibious Gamma Hunter, and another that might be the worm-like Grave Digger. Either way, they’re both definitely terrifying at close range.
Source: Resetera/Dusk Golem.
The images also show off new looks at other playable characters from Resident Evil Resistance, the multiplayer component to the RE3 remake. We see Carlos Olivera and Becca Woolett traipsing around a casino club environment rife with zombies.
Today’s spotlight deals are on the awesome Mandalorian LEGO set and the awesome RTX 2060. The former is up for preorder while the latter is discounted by $50, a great amount of savings for a new GPU. A wide array of games have also been put on sale, and can be found towards the bottom of our daily article.
Amazon Exclusive: Preorder the LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian The Razor Crest 1,023-Piece Set
Amazon has exclusive rights to sell this impressive The Mandalorian’s Razor Crest ship. It boasts 1,023 bricks, measures 15″ long and 11″ wide, and includes five mini-figures: The Mandalorian, Greef Karga, IG-11, Scout Trooper, and (tiny) Baby Yoda.
Grab the RTX 2060 XC Black Edition for $300 at Amazon
Graphics cards are rarely on sale for more than a few dollars, so this hefty $50 cut to the 2060 is a great buy. The 2060 is a solid card for 1080 and 1440p gaming, and will serve you well in the years to come should you buy it today.
Get the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Companion Guide Book for $18 on Amazon
One of the biggest releases of March, now has it’s own personal companion book. If you want to make the most out of your world, this is the ideal item for you.
Grab a pair of the Anker Soundcore Life Q10 Bluetooth Headphones for $28 on Amazon
Anker has become a respected brand in the affordable audio market and this deal continues that trend. Their Soundcore line is well liked, and when they offer them at such a great discount, it’s hard to argue against them.
The newest color in the Nintendo Switch Lite lineup is available for preorder. It’s out on April 3. The Switch Lite is $100 less than the Switch and can play almost all of the same games.
20% Off SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless Headset (First Truly Wireless Headset for the Switch), Now $79.99
If you’re a Nintendo Switch gamer who’s been aching for a wireless audio solution for your gaming system, salvation is here. The Arctis 1 is compatible with practically any system, from your PS4 and Xbox One to your Switch and smartphone. We reviewed the Arctis 1 and called it out as the best wireless headphones under $100. Starting today it’s 20% off at Amazon.
Pick Up the Roku + Streaming Device for $40 at Amazon
If you’re looking for a handy way to view content on a TV or device that’s not internet connected, look no further. The Roku + supports a wide array of formats, including 4K and HDR, and is now coming in at a very reasonable price.
Preorder the Star Wars Baby Yoda Animatronic Edition at Walmart
This toy launched yesterday and has been insanely popular. It’s already sold out at many places including Amazon. This cute mascot from The Mandalorian features over 25 sound and motion combinations, including happy and excited, giggles and babbles, tired and sleeping, and Force effects sounds. Motorized movement includes a head that moves up and down, ears that move back and forth, eyes that open and close, and more.
Grab the JBL Flip 4 Waterproof Portable Bluetooth Speaker for $60 on Amazon
Whether it’s for the beach or just for inside your bathroom, this handy speaker connects to virtually any Bluetooth device and is waterproof, ensuring no matter what chaos might occur, the speaker will keep on playing your favorite songs.
If you’re in the mood to learn something new, this is the perfect opportunity. PCMag Shop currently has a wide array of Udemy courses on sale for only $10. This includes stuff like Unreal Engine Developer Courses, Advanced Excel courses and much, much more.
Xbox One X Bundles with 1 Free Month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for Only $299 (or 3 Months for $309)
This deal is $50 cheaper than the one we saw on Black Friday plus you can get 1 month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for free or 3 months for $10. All three bundled games are highly rated on Amazon and deserve a spot in your Xbox library. The Gears 5 bundle actually includes every Gears game. Game Pass Ultimate is basically Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass combined into one membership.
Note that you can get a very similar deal on Amazon. Amazon has the same Xbox One X bundles for $299 but without the free month of Game Pass Ultimate. However, you can get 1 month of Game Pass Ultimate directly from Microsoft for only $1.
Get 2 Free Months of Kindle Unlimited Membership (Was $9.99 Per Month)
You must be logged into your Amazon Prime membership account to see this deal. If you’re a regular digital ebook reader, this membership is highly recommended. Kindle Unlimited gives you access to over 1 million Kindle eBooks and over 20,000 digital comics. This deal is typically for new subscribers only, but there have been reports that it has worked for people who have previously subscribed but are not current members.
Anker PowerCore Essential 20,000mAh USB PD Power Bank for the Nintendo Switch for $34.99
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This 20,000mAh power bank will work well with your Switch for these reasons:
It supports USB-PD (Power Delivery) charging up to 18W, equal to the official charger
Thanks to the full 18W of charging output, it can fully recharge a dead Switch in 3.5 hours
The Switch has a battery capacity of about 4500mAh, so you could fully charge it 6 times
USB-PD power banks can charge the Switch even while you’re playing a game
Anker also makes the only official power bank for the Nintendo Switch. This model is very similar to that power bank minus the Switch logo and only 1/3 the price.
This portable hard drive is compatible as external storage for your PC, PS4, or Xbox One. Portable drives are physically much smaller than their desktop hard drive siblings. However, they are just as fast and require no additional power other than the USB port. The only tradeoff is the higher cost per GB, but that point is moot with today’s deal.
Preorder Marvel’s Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Edition (Both PS4 and Xbox One Now on Amazon)
One of the most anticipated games of 2020 now has it’s most special edition up for preorder. Earth’s Mightiest Edition includes Marvel’s Avengers: Deluxe Edition with steelbook case, a full color 12” statue of Captain America, Hulk bobblehead, Mjolnir keychain, Black Widow’s belt buckle, Iron Man’s prototype armor blueprints, Kamala Khan’s honorary Avenger pin, and commemorative Avengers group photo. Pre-order to get 72-hour early access.
Preorder Star Wars The Skywalker Saga 9-Movie 18-Disc Blu-ray or 27-Disc 4K Collection
The 18-disc Blu-ray edition is up for preorder at Walmart and the 27-disc 4K edition is available at Best Buy. These are the first official sets that contain all nine of the Saga movies.
This one has been out of stock from nearly the beginning and bound to go out of stock again well before the September release date. This is easily one of the most anticipated games of 2019. The studio CD Projekt Red are the masterminds behind the incredible Witcher games and if you’re a huge fan like I am then you will most definitely be getting this game. The Collector’s Edition includes the game with steelbook case, 10″ statue of V in action, hardcover art book, metal pin set, metal keychain, patches, postcards, sticker set, DLC, and more.
It’s been less than a week since PlayStation announced it won’t be attending PAX East in Boston due to “increasing concerns” over COVID-19, otherwise known as the novel coronavirus. Now, the mayor of Boston has reached out to Sony to appeal to the company, urging them to make a decision based on “facts, not fear,” and urging PlayStation to not play into “harmful stereotypes” about Chinese people.
According to WCVB (via Eurogamer), Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has sent a letter to PlayStation CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, saying to the gaming company president that the risk of individuals contracting the COVID-19 in Boston and Massachusetts remains extremely low. Walsh also stated in the letter that anti-Chinese and anti-Asian sentiment and misinformation have played a role in the increasing fear of the COVID-19 in the United States.
“These fears reinforce harmful stereotypes that generations of Asians have worked hard to dismantle,” reads Walsh’s letter. “They trigger our worst impulses: to view entire groups of people with suspicion, to close ourselves off, and to miss out on the opportunities and connections our global city provides. Boston is united in our efforts to dispel these harmful and misguided fears.”
Walsh specifically urged PlayStation to play a role in pushing back against these fears.
“As a large, international company, you have an opportunity to set a good example,” Walsh wrote. “As a leader in technology, you can show that you are motivated by facts, not fear. As a leader in gaming and culture, you can show that you believe in connection, not isolation.”
So far, only one Boston resident has been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19. That resident, a man in his 20s who attends the University of Massachusetts and returned from recent trip to Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak, has since been kept in isolation in his home where he is currently recovering.
Since COVID-19 appeared in Boston, Walsh has started a social media campaign focused on easing the fears of the city’s Chinatown’s business.
PlayStation has yet to publicly respond to Walsh’s letter.
An increase in racist comments and attacks has been linked to increasing fear over COVID-19. A viral video recorded recently shows a man on an LA subway train ranting at an Asian woman, saying “every disease has ever came from China.” Similarly, another video recorded at a Super 8 in Plymouth, Indiana shows a man denying a room to two Hmong men over a similar fear. Other video footage shows a man attacking an Asian woman seemingly for wearing a face mask, a common accessory in Asian communities long before COVID-19 arose.
As of February 23, COVID-19 has killed approximately 2,442 people in China’s mainland, with a total of 76,936 reported infections, according to Aljazeera. According to CNN, United States health officials have confirmed 35 cases of COVID-19 in the country. The highest concentration of individuals with COVID-19 appears to be in California, with a confirmed eight cases.
PlayStation and Facebook (which owns the Oculus VR brand) similarly also pulled out of the 2020 Game Developers Conference, which is hosted in San Francisco’s downtown district from March 16 to March 20, citing the same concerns over the coronavirus.
“We have made the difficult decision to cancel our participation in Game Developers Conference due to increasing concerns related to COVID-19… We felt this was the best option as the situation related to the virus and global travel restrictions are changing daily,” Sony said in a statement. “We are disappointed to cancel our participation, but the health and safety of our global workforce is our highest concern. We look forward to participating in GDC in the future.”
WB Montreal’s upcoming Batman game has become the talk of the town following its recent social media campaign and (accidental) hints from The New 52 writer Scott Snyder. So, between the lack of major releases, and a slew of delays, Mike Mahardy and Tamoor Hussain decided to return to the studio’s previous Batman game: Arkham Origins.
In the video above, Mike and Tamoor (aka Batman and Robin) recount their recent replays of the seven-year-old game. Their experiences vary wildly, as do their vats of Batman knowledge, so expect an argument or two, as well as a couple of dirty, dirty burns.
GameSpot will be covering WB Montreal’s upcoming announcements, whether they arrive anytime soon, or during this year’s E3 showcase.
Warning: The following contains FULL SPOILERS for all of Hunters, which is now streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video platform…
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Now that you’ve (hopefully) finished Hunters, and absorbed the diabolically absurd (yet also hugely telegraphed) twist involving Al Pacino’s Meyer Offerman, it’s time to dig into what exactly happened and how the story sets things up for a possible second season.
In our review of Hunters, it’s noted that the show bounces back and forth, rather freely, between awesome and outlandish – between grounded and goofy. The hard left turn in the Season 1 finale, titled “Eilu v’ Eilu,” is sort of a glorious representation of that tonal clash in that it makes sense (and is easy to predict, especially after Episode 5, “At Night, All Birds are Black,” when Meyer kills the Leni Riefenstahl-syle Nazi who starts to give him away) and yet also feels utterly ridiculous and unnecessary.
Let’s examine the twist a tiny bit and see where it leaves us, and the story, in general…
The Wolf Revealed
Okay, so “The Wolf” was Meyer Offerman’s white whale. He was the cruel concentration camp Nazi who was in love with Ruth and took out all his anger over her rejection on Meyer, whom he sadistically tortured (and forced to commit heinous murders in order to spare Ruth’s life). For half of the season, we were all aware Meyer wasn’t who he said he was. That much was clear after he quickly killed Barbara Sukowa’s Tilda because she called him the “biggest charlatan of them all,” as well as a “great pretender” (in German).
“You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.”
But the finale still made an earnest effort to try and force us forget all that by casting William Sadler in the role of Dr. Friedrich Mann – the plastic surgeon Jonah thinks is “The Wolf.” Sadler here is a red herring, though he works to throw us off the trail because the series, over the course of Season 1, has already used notable guest stars for bad guy pop-ins – like Sukowa, Fringe’s John Noble, and even freakin’ Keir Dullea (in a bedridden role reminiscent of the end of 2001). So Sadler could be The Wolf, right? He even looks like an older version of the actor playing the young part.
However, when Jonah presents Mann to Meyer, Meyer does that suspicious thing again of killing a person quickly before they can give him up. Mann is stabbed dead and Meyer thinks he’s in the clear. But Jonah realizes, in that moment, that Meyer went against his own protocols for killing The Wolf – which included the reciting of a prayer. Meyer confesses to Jonah that – yup – he is The Wolf. Whaaaaaat?
“Hoo – and I cannot stress this enough – ah!”
Yes, Meyer Offerman is/was Jonah’s real grandfather, but Pacino’s character is not Meyer Offerman (and maybe a reason for the casting of a non-Jewish person in the role). The real Wolf, soon after the camps were liberated by Allied Forces in 1945, escaped his captors and killed Meyer out in the woods. He then wrote Ruth a “Dear John” letter, as Meyer, and took Meyer’s full identity. Eventually, to blend in even more, he paid Mann to give him facial surgery in order to look more like Meyer.
Then, after 30 years of living as a Jewish person, fully indoctrinated in the culture and faith, the fake Meyer saw the error of his evil ways and decided to hunt down his fellow Nazis. Was he a double agent? No. He really did want to stop the Nazis and their new plot for a Fourth Reich. But he was also a monster through and through. He’d robbed many of their lives and unleashed unparalleled cruelty.
It’s also highly likely he had Ruth killed after she came to him, 30 years later, and told him she’d found a few Nazis. She’d made an appointment to see Mann and that would have gotten her close to the truth about fake Meyer. After all, she was the “verifier” for the group. She would have known Mann wasn’t The Wolf eventually. So fake Mayer may have put Kenneth Tigar’s “chess Nazi” onto Ruth to silence her, so he could bring in Jonah as his possible successor.
Anyhow, Jonah kills fake Meyer (with bullets, and the golden dagger) after reciting the Kaddish prayer Meyer always said he’d say aloud before he killed The Wolf.
Season 2 Set Up
The team learning that Meyer wasn’t Meyer basically disintegrates their bond. It’s such a shock to the system that the members reel from the news in various ways. Mindy straight up leaves, to go live with her family. Joe also takes off (though he’s quickly kidnapped – more on that later!). The rest just stick around to ty and do some good in the wake of Meyer’s crazy betrayal. With Jonah seemingly at the helm, and Harriet presenting them with a new mission in Europe, Roxy and Lonny say they’re in.
“We still have enough people for D&D soooo…”
Normally, for a story, a twist like the one involving Meyer could be a game-ender. It would work as a nice bookend to wrap up the adventure. But Hunters used quite a bit of its finale setting up a Season 2. Not only is there a partial team still around, but we also checked in with Jerrika Hinton’s Agent Morris, who will now have secret funding to go after Nazis from the right side of the law (Jonah even says that Millie will try to stop them while they try to stop Nazis), as well as Greg Austin’s Travis, who kills his Jewish lawyer in order to gain more respect behind bars as a Nazi gang leader.
“There, I’ve successfully made you look like the BTK killer.”
Even Dylan Baker’s “Biff Simpson” made it out alive, escaping to the Soviet Union with false papers (and very little knowledge of the Russian language).
So as you can see, most every character from Season 1, save for Meyer and Murray, are still around for the show’s sophomore season.
Eva and Adolf, Argentina Style
Okay, so if the twist of Meyer not being the real Meyer wasn’t outrageous enough for you, Joe’s abduction down to Argentina revealed that – well – a certain Führer was still alive and kicking!
And not only that, but Lena Olin’s character, who’d only been referred to as “The Colonel,” was Hitler’s wife Eva Braun…
“Am I about to get Midsommer’d?”
Yes, this “gotcha” moment, right at the end of the finale, plays off the history of Nazis successfully fleeing to South America (hell, Erik Lehnsherr even kills a few in Argentina in X-Men: First Class) – presuming that Hitler himself even made it out alive and went there.
All we needed here, with Pacino now officially off the series, was for the camera to pan up and reveal it was De Niro as Hitler.
Where’s Bionic Commando when you need him?
What did you all think of the ending to Hunters: Season 1? Are you excited for more or were the twists and reveals too ludicrous to believe? Let us know below…
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
SPOILERS for Westworld seasons 1, 2, and promo material for season 3 below. Read with caution if you want to go into season 3 absolutely blind.
While we’ve all been waiting patiently for Westworld season 3, a group of diehard fans has managed to dig through a fake website tied to an ARG (augmented reality game) for the show. In the process, three new trailers for Westworld season 3 have been discovered.
According to a report from Westworld Watchers (via io9), Westworld fans dug through the real website for the very much fake Incite Inc, a shadowy company that appears to play a role in Westworld season 3. Specifically, Reddit user MTC_Chickpea found a total of three trailers hidden in various spots on the website, which looks pretty much exactly like the vaguely west coast-ish media/tech firm you’d see in any sinister sci-fi future tale.
Despite being posted to YouTube on February 19, the three videos were unlisted, hence why it took a bit of internet sleuthing from fans to discover them.
None of the trailers are terribly long, but they do provide a ton of new peeks at characters old and new, plus what tensions there might be between certain characters.
The first trailer, titled “Free Will Is Not Free,” shows off characters like Aaron Paul’s character Caleb, plus Dolores, Ed Harris’ Man in Black, and Jeffrey Wright’s Bernard in various states of turmoil. It’s all intermittently broken up by various bits of text reading things like “escape is not freedom,” and “disruption is not change.”
Trailer two, which clocks in at a heftier two minutes and forty seconds, follows Dolores far more closely as she describes to Aaron Paul how the two are alike, and alludes to what they’re going to do about each other’s seemingly connected plots in life. We also see Maeve get introduced to a new, very corporate-looking gentlemen who tasks her with finding and killing Dolores. Spread out throughout the trailer are a couple more shots from what appears to be a car chase through the streets of a city.
The third trailer, “When Caleb Meets Dolores,” is definitely the weirdest of them all, and is clearly a sort of dark parody of meet-cute romantic comedy movies like When Harry Met Sally. Set to some jaunty music, Aaron Paul and Dolores meet up, Dolores teases him with a few key hints about her plans to start a revolution, and Paul remarks on how Dolores is the first real thing to happen to him in a long time. If it weren’t for the shadowy lighting, creepy parties with masked violinists, and, you know, the murder, it would definitely pass for a trailer at your local showing of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
It’s unclear if this mysterious Incite Inc ARG has any other clues left to give, but rest assured that the internet will most likely find out.
As production on The Batman kicks off (and set photos circulate of a fully batsuit-ed Robert Pattison riding a batcycle), actor Jeffrey Wright has shared some of the reading he’s doing to prep for his role as Jim Gordon.
“Background reads for the culture,” Wright writes. “In the beginning…”
Batman: The Golden Age Vol. 1 contains Detective Comics #27-45, Batman #1-3, and New York World’s Fair Comics #2 – so it really hones in on the Caped Crusader’s first published outings as Gotham’s go-to vigilante. Director Matt Reeves has said that The Batman will focus on Batman’s detective abilities, emphasizing a rogues gallery and offering a more mystery, Noir-influenced take on Gotham City.
Though no one knows yet if Wright’s Jim Gordon will hold the title of “commissioner” in The Batman, or if the story will have him start out as a detective or lieutenant, Gordon was police commissioner in his first appearance in Detective Comics #27.
The Batman — which releases June 25, 2021 — stars Pattison as Bruce Wayne / Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Selina Kyle / Catwoman, Colin Farrel as Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin, Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, Paul Dano as Edward Nashton / The Riddler, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, and John Turturro as Gotham City mobster Carmine Falcone.
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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
Court documents reveal that Activision is attempting to subpoena Reddit in order to uncover the identity of the user who recently leaked key art for Modern Warfare’s battle royale game mode, Warzone.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Activision is filing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoena against Reddit in an effort to reveal the identity of the user who leaked “infringing Activision content.”
The now-deleted Reddit post seemingly revealed some key art from the upcoming Modern Warfare: Warzone game mode. This is not the first Warzone leak, as there have been a handful of leaks over the past couple of months, which have all but confirmed the unannounced battle royale game mode.
IGN has reached out to Activision for a comment, but did not immediately receive a reply. A DMCA subpoena allows a company to notify another company that copyright-protected materials have been posted in some form on their own service, ostensibly compelling that company to respond and take down the infringing material. The DMCA protects companies like Reddit, YouTube, or other internet-based companies from legal damages if a user posts another company’s content on their site, so long as they agree to comply to the subpoena.
At the time of writing, it is unclear if Activision will be successful in subpoenaing Reddit to court, and if Reddit will comply with releasing the user’s identity. We will update this story in the coming days as more news unfolds.
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Andrew Smith is a freelance contributor with IGN. Follow him on Twitter @_andrewtsmith.
