Here’s What You See When You Load FarmVille 2 For the First Time

FarmVille 2 is out now! We've played the first 30-40 minutes, so you don't have to. Check it out: 1 You’re just a city guy (or gal), fixing up the old family farm. 2 A short tutorial teaches you how to harvest, sow...

Champagne Supernovas Are Real, Says Science

And all this time we thought Noel Gallagher was just tripping... A team of astronomers from CalTech, the University of Toronto and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory observed a Type Ia supernova 4 billion light years from Earth, which originated from a "white dwarf" star. The mass of this supernova exceeds...

Star Trek: TNG - Second Season Blu-ray Announced

Just in time for the holidays, Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment will bring Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season Two to Blu-ray December 4, 2012! From the official press release, "Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release of "Star Trek: The Next Generation,"" Ken Ross, Executive...

The Five-Year Engagement Blu-ray Review

As with most filmmakers and producers who drop into the mainstream consciousness, there comes a time where an audience grows tired of their cliches, plot conventions and hangups. With Judd Apatow, the gripes boil down to one big complaint – pacing. And like many of Apatow's other productions, this issue is...

IPTL Amateur -- Will Scarlett help push Acer over the top?

Acer as a company has been around in eSports for many years long before their decision to create and manage a team. They have been supporting and donating money to wide range of tournaments in all kinds of games, whether it was League of Legends or Starcraft 2. However, it was their decision to create their...

Emily Rose Director Will Beware the Night

Filmmaker Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister) has signed on to direct Beware the Night from a script he co-wrote with Paul Boardman. Screen Gems will produce the film and is currently in negotiations with Disney for the rights. TheWrap describes the story which follows a New York...

App Store Update: September 5

Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention. Game Debuts Pocket Trucks – ($0.99) In the tradition of titles...

FarmVille 2 Now Available

After many months in development, Zynga announced today that FarmVille 2, perhaps the company’s biggest title to date, is now out of closed beta and available to players on Facebook and Zynga.com. The sequel includes a variety of improvements and changes to the social farming formula Zynga helped popularize...

Nokia Officially Announces Lumia 920

At today's event with Microsoft in New York, Nokia announced its new top-of-the-line Windows Phone 8 device, the Lumia 920. A cut above the Lumia 900 (Nokia's current top-end Windows phone) in just about every way, the 920 looks to be competitive with the rest of the US smartphone market, not just other...

RoboCop Director Denies Production Struggles

Last week, we heard from Fernando Meireilles that his close friend and fellow filmmaker Jose Padilha was going through "hell" on the set of his upcoming RoboCop reboot. However, Padilha plays down these claims in a recent interview with Brazilian newspaper Cinema em Cinema. "I have a script I’m happy with...

New Dates for Zelda: Symphony of the Goddess Tour

New tour dates have been added to The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses tour. The show features live orchestral performances of classic Zelda tunes, as well as a new four-movement symphony recounting the storylines from Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and A Link to the Past. The concert...

Tobey Maguire Cut From Ang Lee's Life of Pi

Sometimes you can be too famous. Actor Tobey Maguire has been cut from the final edit of director Ang Lee's upcoming Life of Pi, where he had a small role as a writer interviewing the other characters. According to sources for The Hollywood Reporter, "the actor's performance wasn't working -- he may have...

Valve Will Charge $100 for Steam Greenlight Submissions

Valve has announced that submitting a game to Steam Greenlight will now cost $100. Steam Greenlight was announced in July and allows users to vote on which games they believe should be available for sale on Steam, but in an announcement posted on the Steam Community, Valve says there is “unfortunately a significant...

Remote Play God of War, Ico and Shadow on Vita

Remote Play -- the ability to tether your PlayStation Vita to a PlayStation 3 and access content on that PS3 from anywhere via wifi -- hasn't gotten much use since Sony's handheld debuted. However, PlayStation is looking to change that today with patches for the God of War Collection and The Ico and Shadow...

Assassin's Creed III Dev: "Triple-A Games Dying Out"

Assassin's Creed III creative director Alex Hutchinson has described the game as being one of the last of the big triple-A "dinosaurs". In the latest issue of Edge (via CVG), Hutchinson claims that massive production teams the likes of which made Assassin's Creed III are becoming a thing of the past. ...

Capcom President: New Strategy Ahead

Capcom's annual financial report has been released, and it contains some interesting information concerning how the company will make games going forward. In the report, Capcom president and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto said: "We launch sales of popular series titles held by the Company approximately every...

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Encourages Multiple Playthroughs

New details have surfaced about the design mantras behind Square Enix's recently announced Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns. An interview in the latest issue of Famitsu, translated by Andriasang, reveals that the game will come with just one ending and that it'll be a happy one. Despite this,...

Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition – Extra Content Breakdown

The real problem with DLC, quite apart from the fact it costs money, is that most developers don't give it enough TLC. Instead of feeling like extra content, it can feel like superfluous content. Dark Souls has always followed its own path. And with its new content, which comes as part of the PC's Prepare...

Win A 46" 3DTV And PlayStation 3 With Medal Of Honor: Warfighter

Ahead of Medal Of Honor: Warfighter's October 26th release, we're launching a new competition to give you the chance to win some incredible hardware. For the last few weeks IGN readers were given the opportunity to choose your ultimate gaming prize and the voting has now closed. We're...

Ubisoft Officially Ditches Always-On PC DRM

Ubisoft has abandoned its controversial always-on DRM for PC games following sustained consumer criticism. The company revealed its decision to RPS, with its worldwide director for online games Stephanie Perotti explaining that the decision was actually implemented some time ago. ...

Chef-Robot Is "Better than a Man"

The term "iron chef" just took on scary new connotations. Chef Cui, invented by Beijing restauranteur Cui Runguan, is a $2000 robot for Asian noodle bars. A motorized arm modeled after windshield wipers cuts fresh noodles faster and more evenly than most human workers can. Robot labor is also cheaper...

The Amazing Spider-Man Swings to BD, DVD

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will bring The Amazing Spider-Man to Blu-ray, DVD and Blu-ray 3D November 9, 2012. While the film was the lowest grossing entry in the popular franchise, the reboot, directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans, still managed to gross...

Wrestling Wrap Up: Punk Teams Up With Paul Heyman!

It may have been overly obvious how much the writers and producers were really stretching out the three hours on last night’s RAW, but not only did we get another wonderful leaf pile of Daniel Bryan/Kane shtick to leap into, but they managed to take the CM Punk story and...well... Man, and just when...