Author: Game Infliction

Indiana Jones’ Iconic Hat Just Sold for $630,000

The iconic hat worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has just sold at auction for a whopping $630,000.

As reported by the BBC, the hat came from the collection of Ford’s stunt double Dean Ferrandini, who died in 2023.

The hat wasn’t worn by Indy in the first film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, but was made specifically for Temple of Doom. It featured in early scenes such as when Indy, Willie Scott, and Short Round jumped from a crashing plane.

Not to be confused with any other brown felt fedora, and evidence of the attention to detail literally stitched into the film, the inside lining of the hat features the gold monogrammed initials IJ.

The auction sold plenty of other film memorabilia alongside the Indiana Jones prop, including a Scout Trooper helmet from Star Wars: Episode 6 – Return of the Jedi for $315,000, a wand used by Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for $53,550, and a suit worn by Daniel Craig in Skyfall for $35,000.

Indiana Jones is still going strong in 2024 despite the original trilogy having been released in the 1980s. A fifth film called Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was released in 2023, while a major video game adaptation called Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is launching soon too.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Monster-Catching Roguelike ‘Dicefolk’ Rolls Out First DLC Pack On Switch This Fall

Plus a free update.

Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment and developer LEAP Studios have today unveiled the first DLC pack for the dice-based monster-catching roguelike Dicefolk, set to roll onto Switch this Fall.

The ‘Will Chimeras Pack’ adds 21 brand new ‘Chimera’ creatures into the game and a bonus ‘Will Talisman’ — a modifier which influences which Chimera you will encounter and recruit throughout a run — to mix up your strategy. There’s also a batch of new enchanted equipment for even more mid-run customisation.

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Geoff Keighley Teases ‘The Beast’ for Opening Night Live, Fans Tie It to Mystery Dying Light Game

Geoff Keighley has teased the reveal of a brand new game some fans believe is a new entry in the Dying Light series.

Keighley tweeted a live action video called The Beast, which depicts a woman desperately trying to escape from a terrifying beast in a wooded area. Alongside the tease is the promise of more information at ONL, which kicks off at 11am PT / 2pm ET tomorrow, August 20.

But what is The Beast? Fans have already linked it to a recent trademark for a new Dying Light game called Dying Light: The Beast, which popped up on the United States Patent and Trademark Office last week. Dying Light developer Techland is listed as the owner of the trademark.

The question now is whether Dying Light: The Beast is DLC for Dying Light 2, a standalone expansion, a smaller-scale entry or spin-off, or what should be considered a fully-fledged sequel in the Dying Light series.

Dying Light 2 launched two-and-a-half years ago, in February 2022, as a sequel to the hugely popular zombie kill ‘em-up Dying Light. It sold five million copies in its first month on sale. In July 2023, Chinese mega corp Tencent bought Techland for an undisclosed fee.

So, it looks like we’re going to see a new Dying Light game at ONL, but we won’t see the hotly anticipated Hollow Knight: Silksong, which Geoff Keighley has already ruled out. Confirmed games set to appear during the two-hour show include Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Civilization 7, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

After three hours of Bloober’s Silent Hill 2, it’s unclear who is remaking who

Silent Hill has a messy, up-is-down relationship with time and history, so let’s go about this hands-on with the Silent Hill 2 Remake in a messy, up-is-down way. Developed well over two decades ago, the original Silent Hill 2 is the magnum opus of Polish horror stalwarts Bloober Team. Running on then-innovative “Unreal Engine 5” technology created by Jazz Jackrabbit publishers Epic MegaGames, it’s a wonderful abyss of a game that remains perfectly playable today, given a certain amount of tolerance for the quirks of the era.

It begins with your character, James Sunderland, descending from the road towards the eponymous Midwestern nowhere-town. Like many games of the period, Silent Hill 2 uses a third-person, over-the-shoulder manual camera, which allows you to glance fearfully up at the monstrous pine trees that fringe the path – each rising from a bulging tide of fog that menaces with the suggestion of approaching figures. There is moisture everywhere, gushing from drain pipes and dribbling down concrete barriers. As you amble into the murk, deathly chords and groaning, unmechanical motifs reverberate from somewhere deep underground.

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Until Dawn on PS5’s $60 Pricetag Reignites Remake Price Debate

The PlayStation 5 and PC version of Until Dawn reportedly costs $59.99 and fans are once again debating what a good price for remakes is.

The $60 price tag hasn’t been confirmed officially but comes from Dealabs’ billbil-kun, one of the most reputable leakers who for the past several years has announced each month’s PlayStation Plus games before PlayStation itself. This price is therefore likely.

Its reveal has been met with mixed reactions from PlayStation fans, with some saying the level of remaster or remake going on here justifies the near full price product. Others, who point out Until Dawn turns a decade old in 2025, are less enthused.

“I’m not paying full price for a game that’s been about $10 for the past decade,” said noelle-silva on Reddit. “It was free with the PS Plus Collection that came with the PS5,” said another. “Damn, that’s greedy as hell,” said LovelyOrangeJuice.

Others, meanwhile, argued the opposite. “How hard is it for people to understand that it’s not a remaster,” said No_Caregiver8718 on another Reddit post. “You can still go to your local game store and buy a copy of the original for PS4,” said TechSmith62626 on another.

And the case for Until Dawn is a touch more complex as it’s not just a graphical upgrade. It features a revamped opening with new scenes, revised cinematography throughout that uses a combination of fixed and over-the-shoulder camera views, myriad accessibility and usability changes including an alternative to its somewhat infamous “Don’t Move” mechanic, and the wealth of graphical upgrades such as updated character models and environments, visual effects, animations, and more.

Many fans point out that playing the PlayStation 4 game on PS5 already runs it at 60 frames per second, but the full PS5 and PC version obviously provides much more than that. Whether or not it’s worth it to each individual player remains to be seen, and Sony is yet to announce whether any form of discount will be available to those who already own it on PS4.

This option isn’t available for PC players, of course, who must pay $60 to play Until Dawn regardless of whether or not they care about the upgrades. Some have pointed to this as a sore spot after seeing the PS4 version priced at under $20 for the last several years.

Until Dawn for PS5 and PC was announced in January 2024 as the latest in a long line of ports and remasters that includes this year’s The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Warhammer 40,000 Animation Starring Space Marine 2’s Titus Reportedly Part of Amazon’s Secret Level Anthology Series

Amazon’s recently revealed Prime Video animated anthology series reportedly includes a Warhammer 40,000 episode.

Last week, Deadline reported that Amazon was working with the team behind Netflix’s much-loved series, Love, Death & Robots, for an adult-focused animated anthology of its own called Secret Level.

Secret Level is made up of original short stories set in the worlds of video games. Deadline reported that Amazon Games’ New World, Spelunky, and PlayStation titles were “rumored to be among the games and IP featured on the series,” with a reveal potentially set for gamescom’s Opening Night Live this Tuesday, August 20.

Now, Redanian Intelligence has followed up with a report that claims that Clive Standen (Vikings) will reprise his role as Lieutenant Titus from the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2 in Secret Level on an episode called Chaos. Chaos is the blanket term for factions associated with Warhammer 40,000’s ruinous powers, and revolves around demons and traitor Space Marines.

Redanian Intelligence adds that Max Rinehart (Unforgotten, Noah Hawley’s Alien) is set to play a character called Julius, speculated to be another Ultramarine alongside Titus.

Other Secret Level episodes reportedly in the works include one called The Outer Worlds, which is perhaps based on Obsidian’s sci-fi RPG of the same name. Brenock O’Connor, who played Olly in Game of Thrones, is set to play a character called Amos in that episode. An episode based on id Software’s Doom is also reportedly on the list. Sequels to both The Outer Worlds and Doom are in the works.

News of a potential Prime Video Warhammer 40,000 animation comes amid ongoing discussion between Games Workshop, which owns the hugely popular tabletop game, and Amazon for Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 film and TV series. As IGN reported last month, Games Workshop and Amazon have until December 2024 to agree on “creative guidelines” or the film and TV series won’t happen.

Meanwhile, Games Workshop publishes Warhammer animations of its own via its Warhammer+ subscription service. However, Warhammer+ has had a tough 2024 on the animation front, with fans expressing disappointment at the number of series released so far. A hotly anticipated sequel to the fan-favorite Astartes series is currently AWOL, with Games Workshop yet to comment on a release window.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

A lovely, not-at-all culty seaside day out awaits in “Story generator” sim Marry a Deep One: Innsmouth Simulator

I’ve likely mentioned hitting Lovecraft fatigue so often that it’s now evolved into a second phase of Lovecraft-fatigue fatigue. This is not the same as Lovecraft refreshment, no matter how much I might want to return to the days before old one plushies and Cthulhu children’s books terrorised the internet en masse. There’s not quite enough information about “story generator” sim Marry a Deep One: Innsmouth Simulator for me to confidently say it’ll cut through my exhaustion with all things tentacular and horrifically be-gilled. But it is beguiling, isn’t it? There’s all sorts of little widgets and details shown off that remind me of everything from Sid Meier’s Pirates to classic adventure games, and maybe even a little Rimworld? It’s a heady soup, although one I’d recommend against quaffing, given where the water comes from.

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Skies Of Arcadia-Inspired JRPG ‘Sky Oceans’ Bags A Release Date

Launching this October.

PQube & Octeto Studios have revealed the release date for Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire, an intriguing Skies of Arcadia-inspired RPG in which players partake in aerial combat controlled via classic turn-based gameplay.

Launching for the Nintendo Switch on 10th October 2024, there’s a demo available via Steam right now if you want to get a taste of the action ahead of its release. The general gist of the story, however, is that you take control of captain Glenn Windwalker who must recruit and manage a group of rag-tag pirates. You’ll be able to explore various locations on foot, but the real meat of the gameplay takes place in the skies.

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Activision shut down Modern Warfare multiplayer mod H2M to stop it “interfering” with Black Ops 6 sales, says mod maker

Last week, the Xitter account for H2M – a mod aiming to recreate the heyday of classic Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer inside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered – announced that they had received a cease and desist from Activision Blizzard, and would shut down the project. The 2022 version of Modern Warfare 2 lacked the original’s multiplayer, and H2M was so highly-anticipated that Steam sales of the 2016 FPS balooned in the lead-up to the mod’s planned release date. It didn’t hurt that Activision had it on sale, of course, but the timing lined up so well that some fans speculated the discount was a deliberate bait-and-switch on the publisher’s part to profit from excitement over a mod they were already planning to shut down.

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Black Myth: Wukong Marketing Team Offers Content Creators a Steam Key — but Bans ‘Feminist Propaganda’ and All Talk of Covid

An email sent from the Black Myth: Wukong marketing team tells content creators they must not include “feminist propaganda” or use what are called “trigger words” such as COVID-19.

The email, which hit social media after it was sent to a number of content creators by a representative of Chinese games company Hero Games, was verified by IGN over the weekend via a source who asked not to be named. It includes a Steam key to pre-download the game on PC ahead of the Black Myth: Wukong release date of August 20, and a link to a Google document that outlines the “Do’s and Don’ts” for content creators who intend to cover Black Myth: Wukong during its August launch period.

There is just one entry in the “Do’s” category: “enjoy the game!” However, there are five entries in the “Don’ts category,” reproduced below:

  • Do NOT insult other influencers or players.
  • Do NOT use any offensive language/humor.
  • Do NOT include politics, violence, nudity, feminist propaganda, fetishization, and other content that instigates negative discourse.
  • Do NOT use trigger words such as ‘quarantine’ or ‘isolation’ or ‘COVID-19’.
  • Do NOT discuss content related to China’s game industry policies, opinions, news, etc.

While some of these entries, such as the request not to insult other creators or players, or use offensive language, are standard across many content creator agreements, some are not. Asking content creators not to include “feminist propaganda,” mention Covid, or discuss China’s game industry policies, for example, are unusual requests and have already been criticized by some on social media in the context of previous reporting on Shenzhen, China-based developer Game Science. IGN has asked Hero Games for comment.

IGN understands this email is intended for content creators who plan to cover Black Myth: Wukong at launch, as opposed to pre-launch reviewers. There is no non-disclosure agreement (NDA) tied to the provision of the Steam key.

Beijing-based Hero Games claims to be the largest external investor in Game Science, which has yet to respond to IGN’s previous report compiling numerous sexist comments made by the studio’s founders and other developers spanning the last decade.

IGN has asked Hero Games if the Black Myth: Wukong guidelines are standard for all games it promotes, or if they are a directive from Game Science. Game Science itself has yet to respond.

IGN’s Black Myth: Wukong review returned an 8/10. We said: “Despite some frustrating technical issues, Black Myth: Wukong is a great action game with fantastic combat, exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beautiful world.”

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.