Batman and Superman battled it out on the big screen, Pokemon started appearing around every corner of the real world, the first Disney-released Star Wars spinoff debuted, and much more dominated the entertainment landscape of 2016. IGN was there to cover all of it — the biggest games, movies, TV, and comics reveals, surprises, successes, and failures — but what were the biggest stories that captivated you, our readers and viewers, throughout this year?
Read on to find out what you were most intrigued by this year (hint: the DC cinematic universe will appear more than a couple of times) with IGN’s 10 biggest news stories of the year:
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice started with a strong opening weekend, but broke a record after its first full week in theaters.
Unfortunately, that record was not positive. Batman v Superman pulled in $15.35 million on its second Friday in theaters, a far cry from its better $81.5 million opening day. The 81.2 percent drop between Friday’s is the biggest percentile drop for a comic book-inspired film.
Batman v Superman went on to pull in over $873 million worldwide, and it is the seventh highest grossing movie domestically this year. However, it failed to cross the billion-dollar mark that several of the recent years’ biggest blockbusters, including several superhero films have.
To help depict how trying Bruce Wayne’s career as Batman has been in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, one of the many items he held onto was the suit of his deceased sidekick, Robin.
Of course, Batman in the comics has had several Robin’s, but Batman v Superman kept this one’s identity a mystery. That is, until a Warner Bros. studio tour revealed this particular Robin was in fact Jason Todd. In the comics, Todd is killed by the Joker, a storyline alluded to by the Joker scrawls across the suit.
Todd later returns in the comics as the Red Hood, however that facet of the character’s story has not yet been introduced in the DC cinematic universe.
EA decided to set the Battlefield series apart from other first-person shooters, and even the history of the franchise itself, this year with Battlefield 1. Officially revealed following a leak, the EA shooter series was set in World War I, with the promise of levels spread throughout the warfronts of France, Italy, and the Arabian Desert.
So how did EA’s gamble on tackling a less-explored chapter of history in games? Find out with IGN’s Battlefield 1 review.
Though Niantic Labs recently released new Pokemon into the wilds of Pokemon Go, for months the biggest question has remained when the legendary Pokemon from the original 151 would appear in the game. So it’s hardly a surprise that the reported appearance of legendary bird Articuno in the game drew the attention of IGN readers this year. And though some of the claims seemed legitimate, Niantic “revoked” those Pokemon from users accounts.
“We recently noticed that a few Legendary Pokemon got into a few accounts when they shouldn’t have, To preserve the game’s integrity and as a measure of fairness, we have rectified the situation and revoked the legendary Pokemon from the Trainers’ accounts," a statement from Niantic said at the time, suggesting the appearance of these rare Pokemon was likely nothing more than a glitch and, sadly, not the first official release of them in-game.
As for the official release of Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres? Well, Pokemon Go players are still waiting.
Coming off the critical and commercial success of X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse was not met with such a positive response. But even before the film’s debut, backlash from fans came in the form of ire over the movie’s depiction of its titular mutant, Apocalypse.
Singer addressed the concerns of the mutant’s stature, voice, and more during an edit bay visit IGN attended with other press before the film was completed. Among the issues Singer addressed was that the first look at Apocalypse simply used actor Oscar Isaac’s normal voice, which the director noted “was never the intention” for the final film. “It ebbs and flows and moves through the movie, and changes, so he doesn't just have one single voice,” Singer explained.
Singer also spoke to the initial concerns that the film’s first photos made him appear pink or purple rather than his traditional blue shading. Though for all of the work done to assuage concerns about the iconic X-Men villain, IGN’s review of Apocalypse noted that “he fails to develop into a meaningful antagonist in his own right.”
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