We did some treasure hunting for the best Uncharted gear a fan could ever want. Plus, Daemon as Drake and Naomi as Elena. 'Nuff said.
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Senin, 03 September 2012
Metal Gear mastermind Hideo Kojima has confirmed that the freshly announced Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is unrelated to his mysterious Project Ogre title.
Kojima tweeted earlier today that he was "sick & tired" of the constant speculation over whether the newly unveiled title was Project Ogre.
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While I am happy to know people liked "MGS Ground Zeroes", I'm sick & tired of people keep asking me like "is that project Ogre?" here in Seattle everyday.
"While I am happy to know people liked "MGS Ground Zeroes", I'm sick & tired of people keep asking me like "is that project Ogre?" here in Seattle everyday," he wrote.
"Project Ogre is what the project that Ogre appears. Ogre does not appear in "MGS Ground Zeroes" trailer."
So it would seem that Kojima Production is working on whatever Project Ogre is alongside Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Does this mean it's the much-rumoured Metal Gear Solid 5? Back in July some images surfaced that appeared to show the game's title screen with the words "Open Ground Reconnaissance Endeavour" above it, so that's still very much a possibility.
Speculation about the link between the two titles hasn't been helped by the fact that Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes runs using Kojima's new Fox Engine, which many people assumed would have its first outing with Project Ogre. So for now at least it looks like we'll have to make do with consuming all the info out there on Ground Zeroes, unless Kojima has a change of heart and decides to spill the beans on Project Ogre in the near future.
Metal Gear Solid: Project Zeroes is a new title in the Metal Gear Solid series focusing on Solid Snake's mentor, Big Boss. While no release date has been set, it's in development for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.
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Metal Gear mastermind Hideo Kojima has confirmed that the freshly announced Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is unrelated to his mysterious Project Ogre title.
Kojima tweeted earlier today that he was "sick & tired" of the constant speculation over whether the newly unveiled title was Project Ogre.
“
While I am happy to know people liked "MGS Ground Zeroes", I'm sick & tired of people keep asking me like "is that project Ogre?" here in Seattle everyday.
"While I am happy to know people liked "MGS Ground Zeroes", I'm sick & tired of people keep asking me like "is that project Ogre?" here in Seattle everyday," he wrote.
"Project Ogre is what the project that Ogre appears. Ogre does not appear in "MGS Ground Zeroes" trailer."
So it would seem that Kojima Production is working on whatever Project Ogre is alongside Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Does this mean it's the much-rumoured Metal Gear Solid 5? Back in July some images surfaced that appeared to show the game's title screen with the words "Open Ground Reconnaissance Endeavour" above it, so that's still very much a possibility.
Speculation about the link between the two titles hasn't been helped by the fact that Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes runs using Kojima's new Fox Engine, which many people assumed would have its first outing with Project Ogre. So for now at least it looks like we'll have to make do with consuming all the info out there on Ground Zeroes, unless Kojima has a change of heart and decides to spill the beans on Project Ogre in the near future.
Metal Gear Solid: Project Zeroes is a new title in the Metal Gear Solid series focusing on Solid Snake's mentor, Big Boss. While no release date has been set, it's in development for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.
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A shot of Halo 4's script in the latest trailer for the game has been deciphered, revealing a number of story spoilers about the upcoming game.
The blurry shot was analysed by NeoGaf, and offers insight into what awaits players of Halo 4, as well as those who were planning on reading the tie-in novel The Thursday War.
As you can probably guess, there's going to be a fair few spoilers below.
Before we start exploring the spoilers, it's worth noting that these are almost completely guaranteed to be accurate. Aside from the shots in the video, Amazon's listing for The Thursday War allows potential purchasers to look inside the book at some of the pages. As well as corroborating what the script suggests, it also offers a whole heap on additional info on Halo 4's plot. Oops.
The game will supposedly start with Master Chief awakening aboard the Forward Unto Dawn as it's being boarded by a bunch of Covenant, who are looking for something other than the Chief. This is apparently an ancient Forerunner weapons cache, as well as details about where they can find an ancient Forerunner called Didact, whom they believe to be a living god.
While Didact will be the game's Big Bad, Halo Reach's Dr. Halsey will also appear to aid Cortana, who is deteriorating and now has the ability to project multiple versions of herself.
The game is also set to feature a climactic battle between the Chief, Didact and Cortana, details of which are fleshed out in the script:
- Didact: "Compassion for mankind is misplaced."
- Chief: "I'm not doing this for mankind." Chief then charges at Didact.
- Cortana rushes towards Didact and jumps all over him (legs, arms, chest, back).
- Several takes of "Cortana" tackling and climbing on random objects at full speed.
- Didact is attacked by Cortana. He attempts to swat at Cortana as a means of self defence.
- Didact unclenches his fist and drops Chief.
Though that's all we've gleaned so far, more details about Didact and his role can be found in the pages viewable from The Thursday War. These include:
- "Don't you see it? Requiem. That's where the Didact was hidden. That's where they say he waits."
- "He tried to fight the flood. He tried to destroy the humans."
- "Didact sleeps and must never be woken."
There's been no word from 343 Industries on the leak as yet. You can check out the offending screenshot in the trailer below at around the 3.55 mark.
Halo 4 will release on Xbox 360 on November 6.
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.
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A shot of Halo 4's script in the latest trailer for the game has been deciphered, revealing a number of story spoilers about the upcoming game.
The blurry shot was analysed by NeoGaf, and offers insight into what awaits players of Halo 4, as well as those who were planning on reading the tie-in novel The Thursday War.
As you can probably guess, there's going to be a fair few spoilers below.
Before we start exploring the spoilers, it's worth noting that these are almost completely guaranteed to be accurate. Aside from the shots in the video, Amazon's listing for The Thursday War allows potential purchasers to look inside the book at some of the pages. As well as corroborating what the script suggests, it also offers a whole heap on additional info on Halo 4's plot. Oops.
The game will supposedly start with Master Chief awakening aboard the Forward Unto Dawn as it's being boarded by a bunch of Covenant, who are looking for something other than the Chief. This is apparently an ancient Forerunner weapons cache, as well as details about where they can find an ancient Forerunner called Didact, whom they believe to be a living god.
While Didact will be the game's Big Bad, Halo Reach's Dr. Halsey will also appear to aid Cortana, who is deteriorating and now has the ability to project multiple versions of herself.
The game is also set to feature a climactic battle between the Chief, Didact and Cortana, details of which are fleshed out in the script:
- Didact: "Compassion for mankind is misplaced."
- Chief: "I'm not doing this for mankind." Chief then charges at Didact.
- Cortana rushes towards Didact and jumps all over him (legs, arms, chest, back).
- Several takes of "Cortana" tackling and climbing on random objects at full speed.
- Didact is attacked by Cortana. He attempts to swat at Cortana as a means of self defence.
- Didact unclenches his fist and drops Chief.
Though that's all we've gleaned so far, more details about Didact and his role can be found in the pages viewable from The Thursday War. These include:
- "Don't you see it? Requiem. That's where the Didact was hidden. That's where they say he waits."
- "He tried to fight the flood. He tried to destroy the humans."
- "Didact sleeps and must never be woken."
There's been no word from 343 Industries on the leak as yet. You can check out the offending screenshot in the trailer below at around the 3.55 mark.
Halo 4 will release on Xbox 360 on November 6.
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.
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After years of false starts, that most movie-ish of video games is finally coming to the big screen.
An announcement at Konami's Metal Gear 25th Anniversary confirmed that Columbia Pictures are committed – with the help of superhero movie producer de jour Avi Arad - to bringing the adventures of Solid Snake and his cardboard box to life.
But with over 20 games, some truly bonkers plots, and creator Hideo Kojima's notoriously complex vision to choose from, it's going to be a tough job creating a coherent action flick that lives up to the bad-assery of its material.
Which is where we come in. This is how you make a Metal Gear Solid Movie….
Story
Think back to a time before girlyboy emo protagonists, homoerotic vampire sword fights, and the clunkiest dialogue this side of Darth Vader's "I don't like sand" chat-up line (see: Raiden's Metal Gear Solid 4 whineathon about how it rained on the day he was born), and the Metal Gear series was relatively straight-forward.
If you're attempting to introduce a whole new audience to the franchise (while still staying true to the original fans), you're going to have to strip all that back to focus on a solid, coherent and simple story - which is why Hollywood should use the original Metal Gear Solid as its key inspiration.
Even to this day, it stands strong as one of the best action games ever, and that's down to Kojima's then-uncluttered storytelling and artistic vision.
When a genetically enhanced renegade special forces unit, FOXHOUND, takes over a remote Alaskan island - with the nuke-wielding mech robot Metal Gear Rex hiding on it - it's down to cigar-smokin', box-lovin', grizzled secret soldier Solid Snake to save the day.
Not only is every hero and villain immediately iconic, but the character and stunt design lends itself to a series of set-pieces that would be just as ace on the big screen as they were originally - snow-covered sniper shootouts, tank fights, helicopter attacks, super-fast sword-wielding ninjas, and a blockbuster finale featuring giant mech attacks and a stunt-filled jeep chase.
Throw in plot twists galore, a pseudo love interest, and the whole brother vs brother/clone angle, and you've got a plot that straddles the line between Hollywood action blockbuster and loopy, sci-fi riddled ridiculousness with surprising panache.
Director
Much as we love him, even the most diehard of Metal Gear fans would admit that while his vision has made the video game series what it is today, handing creator Hideo Kojima the directorial keys would be a cinematic disaster.
Sure, everyone likes to joke about how each successive MGS is more an ever-lengthening interactive movie than a proper game, but just think about this; while he may be able to brainstorm (crazy) genius plot twists and stylish action sequences, it also takes him around 72 hours' worth of cutscenes to tell a story.
So where does that leave us? Kojima's expressed interest in Christopher Nolan taking the reigns, and considering that Christian Bale was once being lined up to play Solid Snake, that seems like an easy - if entirely improbable - win.
A more realistic, if potentially polarising choice, would be The Wachowskis. Erratic quality aside, they'd nail MGS' array of incredible action set-pieces, and they certainly enjoy tinkering in tales focusing on morally-bleak, sci-fi skewed worlds.
And if you want to go really left-field, then how about Clint Eastwood? This is a man who's more than a little familiar with grizzled, super-macho 'me against the world' heroes, and his increasing descent into grumpy old man OAP age could imbue Snake and his bleak future with a worldly, reflective and very dry sensibility.
Crazy as it sounds, he even makes more sense than your generic portents of directorial doom Paul W. S. Anderson and Michael Bay, as whoever steers the good ship MGS will have to appreciate that it's a genre more inherently focused on stealth than kabloomy SFX.
Cast
Fans of the series are already lobbying for long-term voice actor and screenwriter David Hayter for the role of Snake. Seeing as he's voiced the character for the last 14 years, and has already written an unconnected script for a MGS movie, it makes sense.
But it's one thing voicing and another thing physically embodying an action star. We're going to go ahead and ignore the nightmare of a possibility that Hollywood could opt for a young, muscled lunkhead to fill the title role, and hope instead that they focus on someone a little more battleworn.
Get rid of his Yorkshire accent, and Sean Bean would be a pretty good visual and actorly fit, while Liam Neeson also possesses just the right level of gnarled, weathered batteredness to fit the part.
If they do decide to go a little younger, then a bestubbled Michael Fassbender could pull if off (and would have had prior video game movie success - we hope - with Assassin's Creed). Then there's Josh Holloway - a man who can woo an audience with even the slimmest of screentime (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), and who could double as Solid's long, blond-haired cloney nemesis Liquid with ease.
Elsewhere, we'd love to see Sean Connery come out of retirement for a turn as gunslinging Revolver Ocelot, Karen Gillen flying the action ginger flag as Meryl Silverburgh, Scarlett Johansson as Sniper Wolf, and nerd-done-good Fran Kranz as Otacon.
Video Game Nods
While plot, character development and proper actorly types are all well, good and important to a MGS movie's success, there'd be uproar if some distinctly iconic, and fanboy pleasing odes to the video games weren't included.
If the finished product doesn't have Snake sneaking around in a cardboard box, giant mecha robots, some sneaking through airvents, infra-red goggles, the Alert Mode (!) sound, codec conversations galore and - of course - someone melodramatically screaming SNAAAAAAAAAKE whenever they can't get hold of him, then they're going to have a hard job winning the fans - and us - over.
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After years of false starts, that most movie-ish of video games is finally coming to the big screen.
An announcement at Konami's Metal Gear 25th Anniversary confirmed that Columbia Pictures are committed – with the help of superhero movie producer de jour Avi Arad - to bringing the adventures of Solid Snake and his cardboard box to life.
But with over 20 games, some truly bonkers plots, and creator Hideo Kojima's notoriously complex vision to choose from, it's going to be a tough job creating a coherent action flick that lives up to the bad-assery of its material.
Which is where we come in. This is how you make a Metal Gear Solid Movie….
Story
Think back to a time before girlyboy emo protagonists, homoerotic vampire sword fights, and the clunkiest dialogue this side of Darth Vader's "I don't like sand" chat-up line (see: Raiden's Metal Gear Solid 4 whineathon about how it rained on the day he was born), and the Metal Gear series was relatively straight-forward.
If you're attempting to introduce a whole new audience to the franchise (while still staying true to the original fans), you're going to have to strip all that back to focus on a solid, coherent and simple story - which is why Hollywood should use the original Metal Gear Solid as its key inspiration.
Even to this day, it stands strong as one of the best action games ever, and that's down to Kojima's then-uncluttered storytelling and artistic vision.
When a genetically enhanced renegade special forces unit, FOXHOUND, takes over a remote Alaskan island - with the nuke-wielding mech robot Metal Gear Rex hiding on it - it's down to cigar-smokin', box-lovin', grizzled secret soldier Solid Snake to save the day.
Not only is every hero and villain immediately iconic, but the character and stunt design lends itself to a series of set-pieces that would be just as ace on the big screen as they were originally - snow-covered sniper shootouts, tank fights, helicopter attacks, super-fast sword-wielding ninjas, and a blockbuster finale featuring giant mech attacks and a stunt-filled jeep chase.
Throw in plot twists galore, a pseudo love interest, and the whole brother vs brother/clone angle, and you've got a plot that straddles the line between Hollywood action blockbuster and loopy, sci-fi riddled ridiculousness with surprising panache.
Director
Much as we love him, even the most diehard of Metal Gear fans would admit that while his vision has made the video game series what it is today, handing creator Hideo Kojima the directorial keys would be a cinematic disaster.
Sure, everyone likes to joke about how each successive MGS is more an ever-lengthening interactive movie than a proper game, but just think about this; while he may be able to brainstorm (crazy) genius plot twists and stylish action sequences, it also takes him around 72 hours' worth of cutscenes to tell a story.
So where does that leave us? Kojima's expressed interest in Christopher Nolan taking the reigns, and considering that Christian Bale was once being lined up to play Solid Snake, that seems like an easy - if entirely improbable - win.
A more realistic, if potentially polarising choice, would be The Wachowskis. Erratic quality aside, they'd nail MGS' array of incredible action set-pieces, and they certainly enjoy tinkering in tales focusing on morally-bleak, sci-fi skewed worlds.
And if you want to go really left-field, then how about Clint Eastwood? This is a man who's more than a little familiar with grizzled, super-macho 'me against the world' heroes, and his increasing descent into grumpy old man OAP age could imbue Snake and his bleak future with a worldly, reflective and very dry sensibility.
Crazy as it sounds, he even makes more sense than your generic portents of directorial doom Paul W. S. Anderson and Michael Bay, as whoever steers the good ship MGS will have to appreciate that it's a genre more inherently focused on stealth than kabloomy SFX.
Cast
Fans of the series are already lobbying for long-term voice actor and screenwriter David Hayter for the role of Snake. Seeing as he's voiced the character for the last 14 years, and has already written an unconnected script for a MGS movie, it makes sense.
But it's one thing voicing and another thing physically embodying an action star. We're going to go ahead and ignore the nightmare of a possibility that Hollywood could opt for a young, muscled lunkhead to fill the title role, and hope instead that they focus on someone a little more battleworn.
Get rid of his Yorkshire accent, and Sean Bean would be a pretty good visual and actorly fit, while Liam Neeson also possesses just the right level of gnarled, weathered batteredness to fit the part.
If they do decide to go a little younger, then a bestubbled Michael Fassbender could pull if off (and would have had prior video game movie success - we hope - with Assassin's Creed). Then there's Josh Holloway - a man who can woo an audience with even the slimmest of screentime (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), and who could double as Solid's long, blond-haired cloney nemesis Liquid with ease.
Elsewhere, we'd love to see Sean Connery come out of retirement for a turn as gunslinging Revolver Ocelot, Karen Gillen flying the action ginger flag as Meryl Silverburgh, Scarlett Johansson as Sniper Wolf, and nerd-done-good Fran Kranz as Otacon.
Video Game Nods
While plot, character development and proper actorly types are all well, good and important to a MGS movie's success, there'd be uproar if some distinctly iconic, and fanboy pleasing odes to the video games weren't included.
If the finished product doesn't have Snake sneaking around in a cardboard box, giant mecha robots, some sneaking through airvents, infra-red goggles, the Alert Mode (!) sound, codec conversations galore and - of course - someone melodramatically screaming SNAAAAAAAAAKE whenever they can't get hold of him, then they're going to have a hard job winning the fans - and us - over.
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Copies of Resident Evil 6 that appeared for sale in Poland last week were stolen, Capcom has confirmed.
As reported, the copies on sale were of the German PS3 version which were purchased from a store in the Polish city of Poznan.
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At this time, all we can add is that it would appear this unfortunate incident is limited to a small quantity of stolen copies of the German USK PlayStation 3 version of the game.
Capcom has released a statement addressing the incident, which reads, "Capcom is currently undertaking a thorough investigation into reports that Resident Evil 6 is being sold ahead of its official October 2 release date.
"At this time, all we can add is that it would appear this unfortunate incident is limited to a small quantity of stolen copies of the German USK PlayStation 3 version of the game."
It's not currently known how many copies of the title were sold, or what will happen to those that got out into the wild ahead of schedule. One copy has even turned up on eBay, with the seller claiming that he "bought the game legally".
While it's not known what action Capcom will decide to take at this time, it's usually a fairly risky move to decide to play a game ahead of launch, especially if you're one of a handful of people to do so. While Battlefield 3 was one of the more recent titles to suffer a massive leak after appearing early on torrent sites, most people who downloaded it got away without punishment due to the sheer volume of people involved.
When console games leak though, it tends to be easier for companies to track who's been playing them and then take action. Back in 2007, Halo 3 leaked online to Microsoft's intense chagrin. As a result, the Xbox Live accounts of any gamers found to have played the game were banned until the year 9999.
So despite the fact you may be able to get your hands on a copy of Resident Evil 6 a bit early, it's probably best to wait for the time being. To help quench your thirst, check out our countdown of 30 reasons you should be excited for the game's (legitimate) release.
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.
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Copies of Resident Evil 6 that appeared for sale in Poland last week were stolen, Capcom has confirmed.
As reported, the copies on sale were of the German PS3 version which were purchased from a store in the Polish city of Poznan.
“
At this time, all we can add is that it would appear this unfortunate incident is limited to a small quantity of stolen copies of the German USK PlayStation 3 version of the game.
Capcom has released a statement addressing the incident, which reads, "Capcom is currently undertaking a thorough investigation into reports that Resident Evil 6 is being sold ahead of its official October 2 release date.
"At this time, all we can add is that it would appear this unfortunate incident is limited to a small quantity of stolen copies of the German USK PlayStation 3 version of the game."
It's not currently known how many copies of the title were sold, or what will happen to those that got out into the wild ahead of schedule. One copy has even turned up on eBay, with the seller claiming that he "bought the game legally".
While it's not known what action Capcom will decide to take at this time, it's usually a fairly risky move to decide to play a game ahead of launch, especially if you're one of a handful of people to do so. While Battlefield 3 was one of the more recent titles to suffer a massive leak after appearing early on torrent sites, most people who downloaded it got away without punishment due to the sheer volume of people involved.
When console games leak though, it tends to be easier for companies to track who's been playing them and then take action. Back in 2007, Halo 3 leaked online to Microsoft's intense chagrin. As a result, the Xbox Live accounts of any gamers found to have played the game were banned until the year 9999.
So despite the fact you may be able to get your hands on a copy of Resident Evil 6 a bit early, it's probably best to wait for the time being. To help quench your thirst, check out our countdown of 30 reasons you should be excited for the game's (legitimate) release.
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.
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Following Saturday's triumphant return of Doctor Who (read the IGN review of Asylum of the Daleks here), a mini-prequel written by Steven Moffat and previously unaired in the UK, has appeared online. According the YouTube channel, the video was "available only by subscription on iTunes in the US, or by US Amazon InstantVideo," but you can watch it in all its glory below.
The next episode of Doctor Who, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, is on BBC One and BBC America this Saturday.
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Following Saturday's triumphant return of Doctor Who (read the IGN review of Asylum of the Daleks here), a mini-prequel written by Steven Moffat and previously unaired in the UK, has appeared online. According the YouTube channel, the video was "available only by subscription on iTunes in the US, or by US Amazon InstantVideo," but you can watch it in all its glory below.
The next episode of Doctor Who, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, is on BBC One and BBC America this Saturday.
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The Dark Knight Rises reached a series of box office landmarks over the weekend, outgrossing its predecessor The Dark Knight while at the same time becoming only the 13th film in history to pass the $1bn mark.
The Dark Knight grossed $1.003bn worldwide, and as of Sunday, The Dark Knight Rises has made 1.005bn.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, however, TDK did bigger business domestically than internationally, whereas TDKR made more money internationally. The Reporter suggests that may be down to the Aurora theatre shootings.
Whatever the case, The Dark Knight Rises now has Alice in Wonderland in its sites in the all-time box office list, while it will have to surpass The Phantom Menace to make the top 10.
Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN and still can't quite believe that many people went to see Alice in Wonderland. His idle chit-chat can be found on both Twitter and MyIGN.
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The Dark Knight Rises reached a series of box office landmarks over the weekend, outgrossing its predecessor The Dark Knight while at the same time becoming only the 13th film in history to pass the $1bn mark.
The Dark Knight grossed $1.003bn worldwide, and as of Sunday, The Dark Knight Rises has made 1.005bn.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, however, TDK did bigger business domestically than internationally, whereas TDKR made more money internationally. The Reporter suggests that may be down to the Aurora theatre shootings.
Whatever the case, The Dark Knight Rises now has Alice in Wonderland in its sites in the all-time box office list, while it will have to surpass The Phantom Menace to make the top 10.
Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN and still can't quite believe that many people went to see Alice in Wonderland. His idle chit-chat can be found on both Twitter and MyIGN.
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