With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for the week of August 26 2013, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
PC ($29.99) / PS3 ($39.99) / PC Collector's Edition ($49.99)
From our preview: I couldn't help but ask why Square hadn't just scrapped the sad wreck of the original and released a new MMO entirely. There's certainly enough material here to justify it, and a new name might attract players who still recall the taint of the original's name but haven't followed A Realm's Reborn development enough to think of it as any more than an expansion. The answer I received, PR-oriented but honest, was that to let Final Fantasy XIV slip away untouched would have left an indelible stain on the Final Fantasy name. And it's true that the extent of the revision sometimes defies belief, making what I've seen of Final Fantasy XIV look like one of the most impressive apologies to a player base to date.
Blu-ray ($22.99) / 3D Blu-ray ($29.99) / Two-Disc Special Edition ($16.99)
From our review: This film, like Gatsby himself, visually embodies American excess; and Gatsby, like the culture he emerged from, has a false and fractured vision of himself. He is caught in a grasping, adolescent understanding of love and life and is frantic to capture an elusive, and ultimately false, end. And yet Gatsby, the character and the film, is stunning - a seductive thing of beauty. Like the mythic American dream, it offers an irresistible lure, begging us to return to it again, and refusing to release us from the spell of its illusion no matter how flawed and often unrealistic. And we the viewer, like Carroway, are both “within and without,” drawn to the exorbitance of this experience even as we are repelled by it. Perhaps, Lurhmann’s offering, again, like Gatsby himself, simply “wants too much,” and perhaps history will judge that to be the film’s brilliance.
PS3 ($59.96) / Xbox 360 ($59.96)
From our preview: Killer is Dead’s gameplay is nothing less than a glorious feast of violence. The combat is fast-paced and brimming with energy; limbs fly and blood arcs across the screen. Each episode – of which there are 13 - culminates in that staple of the Grasshopper Manufacture action game: the boss battle. Each boss is an underworld criminal, with a self-contained story within the wider narrative, and mystical powers. From a semi-naked megalomaniac that lives in a gilded palace on the moon, to a skeletal composer who has turned music into a weapon, you’d think there’d be no room for gravitas amongst such outlandish characters.
PS3 ($59.96) / Xbox 360 ($59.96)
From our hands on: All in all, Lost Planet 3's multiplayer component is a reasonable counterpart to its single player campaign, something that services its world and characters well. Seeing the weaponized mechs return, even just isolated to key maps in specific locations, was a treat as well. Still, there's nothing in here (so far) that really stands out as completely original or entirely different. It's a standard array of third-person action elements in an online setting. But for those of us looking to jump online with some friends and battle Akrid, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
PS3 ($59.99) / Xbox 360 ($59.99) / Anniversary Edition ($99.99)
Blu-ray ($17.99)
From our review: Its flaws aside, Pain & Gain is a kinetic and absorbing ride. Michael Bay deserves kudos for moving outside of his comfort zone -- this is about as close as he'll probably get to doing what a post-Top Gun Tony Scott did by making True Romance -- and the fact that Pain & Gain works as well as it does shows Bay is capable of making more than just glossy, pyrotechnic mindlessness if he so chooses.
- At Any Price (Blu-ray)
- Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F (PS3)
- Pawn Shop Chronicles (Blu-ray)
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Blu-ray)
- Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (DVD)
- Stranded (Blu-ray)
Be sure to check back each Monday for a round-up of the week's hottest game and movie releases.
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