• GTA 5 Shows Off Its PS5 Upgrade, Delayed to March 2022

    We've gotten our first look at Grand Theft Auto 5 as a PS5 game.

    Seen in action at today's PlayStation Showcase event, the PS5 remaster of Grand Theft Auto 5 will see Michael, Franklin, and Trevor back on the streets of Los Santos, and looking better than ever. The new trailer also points to a March 2022 release date, a delay from the previously-announced November 11, 2021 date.

    When it arrives with an upgrade for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, it will mark the third generation of consoles GTA 5 has been released on. The upgrade applies to both the single player game, and GTA Online. Before that, we're also expecting to see surprises related to the 20th anniversary of GTA 3 on October 22.

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    Forspoken Shows Off New Gameplay, Will Be Released in Spring 2022

    Update: Also revealed in the PlayStation Blog, Forspoken's writing team includes former Uncharted director Amy Hennig as well as Todd Stashwick. Hennig and Stashwick previously wrote a Star Wars game for EA and Visceral before the project was shut down.

    The writing team also includes Rogue: One: A Star Wars Story writer Gary Whitta as well as Allison Rymer, best known for her work on Shadowhunters.

    Original Story: Mysterious Square Enix and Luminous Productions action-RPG Forspoken has shown off a little more of its world and gameplay in a new trailer, and revealed that the game will release in Spring 2022.

    Revealed at today's PlayStation Showcase event, the new Forspoken trailer introduces us to lead character Frey as she enters the gorgeous (but dangerous) world of Athia.

    According to a PlayStation blog post, "Frey is a directionless, gritty yet street smart young woman who has persevered despite her rough upbringing in New York City. And her life hasn’t really gotten any easier now that she’s about to turn 21. Things take a turn for the unexpected when she’s magically transported to Athia, a land where fantasies and nightmares are suddenly very real."

    As Frey, who's voiced by Charlie's Angels star Ella Balinska, players will harness magical abilities to defeat monsters across the land, in addition to contending with the Tantas, the "destructive and twisted all-powerful matriarchs who have dominion over Athia."

    In addition to Balinska, Forspoken will also feature the voices of Jonathan Cake as Frey's companion Cuff, Janina Gavankar as Tanta Sila, Keala Settle as Johedy, and Monica Barbaro as Auden.

    Forspoken was announced as Project Athia in 2020, and was subsequently given a formal title in March. It's one Square Enix is hoping to make an impression with, its stated goal being to include the highest quality visuals in any open world game to date. Forspoken will also be a PS5 console exclusive for at least 2 years.

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    Borderlands Spin-Off Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Is Coming Next March

    Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is releasing on March 25, 2022.

    Announced with a new trailer at today's PlayStation Showcase event, the game will come to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and PC early next year.

    We also saw our first look at gameplay, giving us a taste of how the Borderlands spin-off will look in action. We saw lots of guns, new fantasy-based moves, unique enemies, and more.

    Wonderlands brings a fantasy-flavored twist to a Borderlands approach. First announced at E3 2021, we've so far had a breakdown of its weapons, loot, and enemies, but this marks our first taste of how it all fits together in the game itself.

    Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

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    Alan Wake Remastered Release Date Announced

    After being announced earlier this week, Alan Wake Remastered was officially shown off in a trailer during today's PlayStation Showcase, with a release date set for October 5, 2021. It will include both the base the game and its two story expansions, The Signal and The Writer.

    While revealed during a PlayStation show, it was previously confirmed that Alan Wake Remastered would come to PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC through the Epic Games Store. In fact, the Epic Games Store is where rumors of a remaster were kicked off this June.

    It was also confirmed today that the PS4 Pro version will offer both a Performance and Quality mode, the latter of which runs at 60fps while the former runs at 4K and 30fps. Meanwhile, the PS5 version will run at 4K and 60fps.

    This official date reveal comes days after leaked listings had already pointed toward an October 5 release, and a remaster is throwing more fuel on the speculative fire that Remedy is working on a full sequel.

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    First Spider-Man Comic Sells For Record-Breaking $3.6 Million

    Amazing Fantasy #15 — which features the first-ever appearance of Spider-Man — has sold for a record-breaking $3.6 million in a new auction, making it the most expensive comic book ever sold.

    As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the $3.6 million sale occurred during Heritage Auctions’ Signature Comics & Comics Art auction. The price tag has now beaten the record for the most expensive comic book sale which was previously held by Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman.

    An Action Comics #1 sold earlier this year took the record after selling privately for $3.25 million, but Amazing Fantasy #15's $3.6 million sale now takes the top spot.

    This $3.6 million comic is graded at CGC 9.6 and is one of four of these comics that exist at such a near-mint condition. THR's report states that no CGC 9.8 copies exist and considering that CGC 9.8 is the next condition grade above CGC 9.6, no better-condition copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 will ever be sold.

    Amazing Fantasy #15 was written by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who also penciled and inked the comic. Stan Goldberg was the colorist for the comic and Artie Simek was the letterer. If you're familiar at all with the origins of Spider-Man in movies, games, and the like, you're already basically familiar with the origin of Spider-Man in this comic.

    Peter Parker is bitten by a highly radioactive spider while visiting General Techtronics Laboratories East. This gives him the Spider-Man strength and agility seen in movies, games, and elsewhere. He fights a wrestler to win some money and then later creates a proper Spider-Man costume (the classic red and blue suit), his spider web fluid, and two web-slinger wrist attachments that he can use to sling around New York City.

    This record-breaking comic book sale comes at a time when another form of entertainment media, video games, is also breaking similar records. Just last month, a rare copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for $2 million, making it the most valuable video game collectible ever. That Super Mario Bros. sale occurred just months after a similar copy of the game sold for $660,000.

    In between that $660,000 sale and the $2 million sale, a copy of The Legend of Zelda sold for $870,000, briefly holding the record for the most expensive game ever sold. Less than a week after that, a sealed copy of Super Mario 64 sold for $1.56 million.

    It seems for now, though, that rare comics are more valuable than rare video games. Who knows though? A $4 million sale of SSX Tricky could be just around the corner in this day and age — ok, not really, but that game is really good.

    Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

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