Monark, an RPG set in a supernatural school and developed by several ex-Shin Megami Tensei devs, will be heading to the west this February.

As announced in a new trailer, Monark will release to fans in the US on February 22, 2022, before coming out in Europe three days later on February 25. Upon its release, fans will be able to play the game across multiple different platforms including PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

As seen below, the game's new "Adversaries" trailer shows off various characters from Monark while NIS America's website delves into the game's premise and setting. Set in Shin Mikado Academy, a school campus surrounded by a barrier separating it from the rest of the outside world and linked to a mysterious realm known as the Otherworld, players in Monark must fight back to defy the daemons surrounding them.

The academy grounds at Shin Mikado are plunged into disarray as a madness-inducing Mist surrounds them. During gameplay, players will need to develop their skills and locate various cryptic phone calls around the academy. These phone calls link the campus to the Otherworld, and seven Pactbearers — each with their own Daemonic authority ruled by their egos — who need to be defeated.

Monark looks to mix up the RPG combat through the use of demonic powers called Authority or Vanity. Using either of these powers will increase the player's MAD gauge, which risks causing insanity in the player. This double-edged sword will add an extra layer of strategy to the tactical combat.

Outside of combat, players will need to navigate their desires which can change depending on the choices made by the player. And similar to Shin Megami Tensei, there will be Fiends that players can control and develop.

While players in the west will need to wait until February, Monark is set to release in Japan on October 14. For similar news, make sure to check out this article which explores why Japanese games are increasingly releasing at the same time across the globe.

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Hello IGN faithful, it’s your friendly neighborhood Community Lead once again with a few updates around our community plans. Since joining IGN I’ve had plenty of opportunities to join the conversations and chat with many of you and I’m looking forward to many more. One of the big things I discovered in the past few months while chatting with our audience and reading comments is that many people have been looking for an easier way to contact the moderators and staff. I am excited to announce a few new developments in those areas that I hope you all will use, particularly as they’ll be the groundwork for future plans.

Product updates

First, I wanted to highlight the work coming out of our Product and Community team based on your requests around various things like the app and website. We’ve made multiple improvements that I am sure some of you may have already noticed. Our most recent app update includes the ability to share your stories, as well as significant improvements to swipe-back behavior on both iOS and Android. As requested, platforms will display at the bottom of reviews, too. These are just a few of the improvements that made their way into Update v6.0.7. Check out the entire list here.

More Twitter Spaces

Next, I have a few announcements about our Twitter Spaces.

Lauren Gallaway — one of our very talented social coordinators — has been doing an incredible job hosting entertainment-themed Spaces for the past several months, covering Wandavision, Loki, What if?, and blockbuster films like Black Widow and Shang-Chi. Moving forward, I will be joining her each week as her co-host, so tune in on Wednesdays at 2 PM PT to hear us dive deep into the topics of the week with guests from around the web.

In addition to our entertainment Spaces, we are launching our second weekly Twitter Spaces that will focus on gaming. Another of our social coordinators, Colin Stevens, will be joining me Tuesdays at 2 PM PT as my co-host. This show will focus on the game releases of that week and more. We’ll be recruiting other IGN experts, including IGN’s reviewers to share some hands-on thoughts about the games around their launch. So set a weekly reminder to stop by and give us a listen! You’ll have a chance to ask us some of your questions about upcoming game releases, too.

Episode 1 airs Tuesday, October 12th and we will be joined by Managing Editor Samuel Claiborne to discuss Metroid Dread!

Office Hours and Outreach

On the subject of new things coming: direct audience interaction is a crucial tenet of our philosophy around building up our community, but we haven’t had a direct and easy avenue for our readers to proactively communicate with us. Now that I’ve settled into a regular rhythm around engaging with you all across all of our platforms, I'm excited to announce my office hours for anyone in the IGN audience that has questions for IGN or me. Starting next week, I’ll be available for 90 minutes every day, Monday through Friday, on a variety of our platforms. Currently, this will include IGN.com, IGN Boards, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and Discord, rotating in that order from Monday to Friday. See the Calendar below that has my designated handle for each platform.

(This will also be the best way to ask or suggest questions we should discuss on our Twitter Spaces each week.)

Though I will primarily be in one location each day, I’ll still be monitoring our other channels, too. I will also be doing my best to respond to messages as promptly as possible during downtime, so I thank you ahead of time for your patience as I respond to each of you. Depending on the specified platform of the day, tag me @Jadarina, @Jada_rina, or @IGN (for Facebook) to get my attention. I will be doing my best to respond personally to everyone that pings me, but I may designate others from the team of moderators or IGN staff to answer in my stead if they are an expert in the subject matter or if it's after hours and I’m eating some pizza on my lunch break 😉

Finally, I have one last thing to spotlight. We’ve also set up a google form for the community to contact the entire community team. Submissions to this form will be only seen by myself, our moderating team, and other IGN staff when appropriate. I hope that this will help our weekend warriors, users in other time zones, and others that happen to miss office hours get the feedback and assistance they need.

Keep an eye out for my next blog post. I plan on releasing new updates around our Terms of Service, Moderation, and possibly more…

Jada Griffin is IGN's Community Lead. If she's not engaging with users here, chances are she's developing her own games, maxing the Luck stat in her favorite games, or challenging her D&D players with Intense combat or masterful puzzles. You can follow her on Twitter @Jada_Rina.

IGN has the exclusive new trailer and poster for Zeros and Ones, an upcoming thriller starring Ethan Hawke and written and directed by Abel Ferrara. You can watch the trailer in either the player above or via the embed below.

The film is described in its official plot synopsis as a “gritty tense political thriller set in one deadly night in Rome.” Here’s the full synopsis for more story details:

“Called to the city to stop an imminent terrorist bombing soldier JJ (Hawke) desperately seeks news of his imprisoned rebel brother Justin (also Hawke) who holds knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital’s darkened streets JJ races to a series of ominous encounters hoping to keep the Vatican from being blown to bits.”

In addition to Ethan Hawke, the cast of the R-rated film also includes Cristina Chiriac, Salvatore Ruocco, and Valerio Mastandrea.

Bronx native Ferrara is an indie filmmaker known for such edgy Noir-ish crime films as The Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, and The Funeral. He’s directed several documentaries and has collaborated several times over the years with actors Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, and Christopher Walken.

When asked for a statement on what appealed to him about making Zeros and Ones, Ferrara issued the following statement to IGN:

"Films of my childhood, soldiers and spies, night, rain, danger, mystery, revolution, powerful exotic women, a war raging, and I knew it was now or never for this movie and me. Thankfully, Ethan understood all this."

We also have the first look at the movie's poster, which you can see below:

Zeros and Ones is available in select theaters, on Apple TV, and everywhere you rent movies on November 19 and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on January 4, 2022.

On October 19, The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe book will give fans the first-ever, fully authorized, all-access history of the creation of the MCU that includes over 200 interviews from the stars of the films and the people behind the camera who made it all possible.

Written by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry, this new book chronicles the entire production history of The Infinity War Saga’s 23 movies, meaning fans will be treated to a complete story that includes every film from 2008’s Iron Man through 2019’s Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home.

You can check out an exclusive image of Iron Man's cave escape and a slideshow of various pages from the book below!

Bennett and Terry were given “unprecedented access to Marvel Studios,” and they’ve included conversations with “every Marvel Studios producer; MCU writers and directors; the stars of The Infinity Saga; concept artists, costume designers, composers, and the talents behind the MCU’s dazzling visual effects,” and more. It also contains over 500 production photos, including “previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photography and archival production material, as well as personal photos and memorabilia from cast and crew.”

The 512-page Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a two-volume set hardcover with a slipcase, and it can be pre-ordered now on AbaramsBooks.com for $150 USD.

The foreword is written by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and the afterword is from Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr., with exclusive cover art from Marvel Studios head of visual development Ryan Meinerding. The slipcase’s MCU concept art montage features art from Adi Granov, Ryan Meinerding, Andy Park, and Charlie Wen.

While you wait for the book’s release, be sure to check out our ranking and thoughts on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Infinity Saga, how Eternals – the next MCU film – will have a “very big effect on the future of the franchise, and every upcoming Marvel film and TV show in 2021 and beyond.

The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be released on October 19, 2021, for $150 and it can be preordered now at AbramsBooks.com.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Raw Fury and production company Dj2 Entertainment have officially partnered up to adapt the video games Sable, Night Call, and Mosaic for film and television.

As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, this "first look partnership" will also include the option to adapt Out of the Blue's Call of the Sea, Long Hat House's Dandara, laymestudio's The Signifier, and Geography of Robot's Norco.

Dj2 Entertainment has previously worked on 2020's Sonic the Hedgehog film, and is currently working on a few other TV adaptations, including Life is Strange, Disco Elysium, My Friend Pedro, and Tomb Raider.

"There's so much to love about working with the Raw Fury team, including the team's incredible taste for some of the most unique, beautiful, and innovative games today," Dj2's founder and CEO Dmitri M. Johnson said. "Having access to Raw Fury's incredible slate allows Dj2 to begin developing adaptations even before a game is released, getting a jump on the market as well as allowing for more synergy between the different media."

Sable is a coming-of-age story that is told as players explore an open-world desert on an alien planet. In one of our previews, we said that it is an "unlikely companion to Breath of the Wild."

In our review of Shedworks' Sable, we said that its "unique art style, memorable characters and quests, and engaging open-ended formula are going to stick with me for a long time. But the numerous technical issues, wonky camera, and bland puzzles all make this otherwise compelling odyssey a lot rockier."

BlackMuffin's Night Call is an investigative Noire game that tasks players with not only solving a murder mystery, but also with making enough money to pay their bills.

Krillbite Studio's Mosaic focuses on a person who is "living a bleak and repetitive life in a cold systematic city." Every day of this person's life is the same and feels as though it has no meaning, but that all changes when strange things start to occur.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.