Tricia Helfer Guest Starring on Community

Abed’s about to kind a kindred spirit via a Cylon. Which kind of sounds right, no? TVLine's Meg Masters reports that Tricia Helfer is guest starring in an episode of Community this coming season. She’ll play Lauren, described as a "drop-dead gorgeous superfan" of Community’s oft-mentioned Doctor Who parody/substitute,...

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Announced

Square Enix has announced Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Set to arrive in 2013, Lightning Returns will incorporate “a brand-new story, world, characters and an enhanced gameplay system,” according to Square Enix. The game will feature Lightning as a solo playable character and allow her to freely...

God of War: Ascension Bosses Revealed

At the conclusion of the God of War: Ascension panel at PAX this weekend, key members of the development team treated the audience to a world exclusive: the video reveal of the "big bosses" to appear in Kratos' next (bloody) quest. The iconic antihero will face three powerful beings known as the "Furies."...

Command Prompt 10: DayZ Standalone Version Details

In an attempt to make sense of the chaos we call PC gaming, IGN's Anthony Gallegos and Charles Onyett put together a video show called Command Prompt. Barring any disastrous events or prolonged spells of acute laziness, new episodes will appear every week showing off three PC games. This week we had DayZ...

Halo 4: New Capture the Flag Tweaks Send Wargames Into Exile

Popcorn and soda, French fries and ketchup, binge drinking and chain smoking – Capture the Flag (CTF) and Halo multiplayer go as inseparably together as Master Chief and Cortana, and we just played 343 Industries' new take on the series' beloved objective-based War Games variant at Penny Arcade Expo (PAX)....

Check out Razer's BlackShark, Minus Battlefield 3 Logo

We liked the Battlefield 3 Collector's Edition of Razer's BlackShark headset for its solid construction, solid sound performance and badass design. (Check out the full review.) But not everybody wants the name of a shooter that came out last year embossed on headphones that will likely outlast whatever...

Is Revolution Coming to Your City?

Following its voting contest on Facebook, NBC has just announced that J.J. Abrams, Jon Favreau and Eric Kripke's new series Revolution will be coming to ten cities this September. Screenings will be absolutely free; all you need to do is enter your corresponding city code on www.Gofobo.com/RSVP and...

Sony Goes Biblical for Will Smith's Cain

Sony Pictures is moving forward with Will Smith's The Redemption of Cain, an epic interpretation of the Cain and Abel story. The Wrap reports that the project has been green-lit and will begin production in July 2013. The film will shoot in London and Jordan, with exteriors shot in Morocco. The story, which...

Ranking the Movies of Summer 2012

Was the Summer of Awesome as awesome as we had hoped? Check out our scorecard for the movies released this past season. They're ranked by our critics' review ratings, from the worst to the best. Chime in on the Comments with your picks for the best and worst movies of Summer 2012. ...

FX's Terriers to Return as a TV Movie?

Omg omg omg! I know it's dangerous to get our hopes up when it comes to extensions/renewals of beloved gone-too-soon TV shows, but look what happened to Arrested Development! The times, they are a changin'. And TBIvision.com is reporting that Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield and one of our favorite short-lived...

Dota 2 One Million Dollar Tournament Begins

Valve has kicked off its 2012 Dota 2 tournament The International, where teams of highly skilled Dota players will compete for a one million dollar grand prize. If you're interested in watching the tournament as it runs between August 31 and September 2, it can be viewed for free online or though a dedicated...

Nook Simple Touch Hacked to Emulate Playstation

The Nook Simple Touch by Barnes and Noble is famously easy to root, and hackers have put it to all sorts of inventive uses, but this one may take the cake: a Hack a Day reader sent in a video of him playing the Playstation titles Crash Team Racing, Monster Rancher 2 and Spyro 2 on his Nook's black and white...

Square Reveals Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Collection

Final Fantasy’s 25th anniversary celebration is in full effect over in Japan, and a rather interesting tidbit was revealed leading up to the main event. Andriasang reports that Square Enix will be releasing something called the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box, which includes the 13 core Final...

Insomniac Reveals New Game Title: Fuse

At today’s PAX keynote address, Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price revealed a new IP. It’s called Fuse, and we literally know nothing else about it other than the image shown while discussing the game: a man fighting some sort of robot. Interestingly, a website for the game may already exist. If you head to...

Is this the Next Flagship Nokia Phone?

Two images of Nokia's Lumia 920 have surfaced today, featuring a touch interface with 3 soft buttons, what appears to be a PureView camera, and (allegedly) a 4.5 inch screen. While the image is pretty clearly computer-generated, it's not unlikely what we're seeing is an incomplete press rendering. In...

Louie: "Late Show: Part 1" Review

Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow. It was amusing this week to see that Jay Leno and NBC were cool with imagery (and the actual Tonight Show set) being seen on Louie in the manner they were used, but CBS clearly did not sign off on anything – hence, the fake posters for series like Lethal Renegade...

IGN UK Podcast #151: Metal Gear Me

New Metal Gear Solid! New Metal Gear Solid! Listen all about it. On this week's podcast we talk about all the news that came out of the exciting 25th Anniversary event held by Konami this week, from Ground Zeroes to the movie adaptation to, erm, the social game. On this week's podcast, we also get...

Guild Wars 2 Suspends Digital Sales

ArenaNet is suspending digital sales of its recently released MMO Guild Wars 2 in a bid to protect server stability. Due to the high number of players accessing the game at any one time, the company has decided to try and throttle how many new people are entering Tyria while it expands its infrastructure....

Dead Island Riptide Details and Screens

Back at E3 2012, publisher Deep Silver announced Dead Island Riptide, a sequel to developer Techland's 2011 hit Dead Island. And that's pretty much all the companies said. Later, Deep Silver said the game would only cost you $50, but said nothing about the game. Nothing until today. "Having survived the...

Gotham City Impostors Goes Free-To-Play

Warner Bros. has announced that the PC version of Gotham City Impostors is now free-to-play. And to make that proposition even more attractive, if you download Gotham City Impostors free-to-play via Steam, you'll also get access to the DLC packs, too, including maps, weapons, and mascots. Gotham City...

Doctor Who Webseries Ends On A Cliffhanger

For the past five days the BBC has released five mini-webisodes as a prelude to this Saturday's Doctor Who series 7 premiere The Asylum of the Daleks. Entitled Pond Life, the mini-series has offered a glimpse into what The Doctor and the Ponds have been up to since the end of series 6, as well as featuring...

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition Review

Praise the sun! A Souls game has arrived on PC. It is surely weary. We'll let it rest, and get to the new edition's bonus content and the quality of the port in a moment. On the off chance you've been off collecting beetles for the last three years and missed Dark Souls entirely, here's a recap of why to...

Torchlight 2 Gets a Release Date

Runic Games has announced that Torchlight II will release on Thursday September 20, 2012. Company president Travis Baldree made the announcement on the official Torchlight II blog, meaning there's less than a month to go until the dungeon-crawling rival to Diablo III is available. “ ...

Report: Killzone Trilogy Incoming for Playstation 3

A listing on Amazon France suggests that Sony will release the Killzone games as a boxed trilogy this October. The posting, which you can see below, claims that all three of Sony's shooters will be released on October 24 for €59.99, which works out as roughly £47 or $75. While nothing has been...

Karl Urban IGNUK Twitter Takeover

Karl Urban, the star of the upcoming action smash Dredd 3D, doesn't do Twitter. There are people out there claiming to be him, but the Kiwi star of Lord Of The Rings, Star Trek, Chronicles of Riddick and many more, isn't on the social networking site. All this will change though at 18:30pm BST (or 10:30am...

The A-Z of Judge Dredd

Maintaining order on the chaotic streets of futuristic Mega-City One, Judge Dredd is the ultimate lawman. Authorized to convinct and sentence perps on the spot, he not only enforces the law, he is the law! And he also happens to have a movie coming out later this month that...