Game of Thrones Reveals Super Brief Season 8 First Look

HBO has shared a first brief look at Game of Thrones’ upcoming final season.

The network released a trailer, via EW, showing what’s coming to HBO in 2019, which includes the return of Game of Thrones. While almost all of the Game of Thrones footage featured in the trailer is from Season 7, there is one new shot of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner).

The two characters can be seen reuniting in Winterfell, embracing each other.

Fans will have to wait a bit longer for Game of Thrones’ return, as Season 8 is set to premiere in the first half of 2019.

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Melissa McCarthy Just Had the Worst Opening of Her Career

Actress Melissa McCarthy returned to theaters this weekend with her outlandish R-rated puppet comedy The Happytime Murders, although it managed to underperform with just over $10 million in third place. The opening is actually the worst of McCarthy’s career, for a movie opening in wide release, and when you take a closer look at the movie’s she’s opened, they often aren’t very consistent. With that in mind, we’re taking a deep dive through McCarthy’s previous films, and how they debuted at the box office.

There are movies McCarthy has appeared in that have opened worse than The Happytime Murders, but these are movies where she only had a minor role, like The Life of David Gale ($7.1 million), Drowning Mona ($5.8 million), White Oleander ($5.6 million) and Go ($4.7 million). There are also others which had worse debuts, since they were only given a limited debut such as St. Vincent ($109,878 from four theaters), The Nines ($23,617 from two theaters) and Pretty Ugly People ($2,522 from three theaters). Still, with those movies aside, The Happytime Murders marked a new career low for McCarthy.

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‘Netflix for Comics’ App Coming to Nintendo Switch

InkyPen, a new comic subscription service, will be brought to the Nintendo Switch this November, making it possible for users to read comics on the handheld device. It will also be the first international non-game app to come to the eShop on the Switch, according to Variety.

The app will let comics be read in either the handheld or TV mode and will be launching at $8 per month. InkyPen will have a library of over 10,000 graphic novels, manga, and European comics.

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Venom Flashes Back to Vietnam This Week

With dozens of comic books to choose from, let us show you which are the best coming out this week. Take a look at this list spotlighting our favorite comics that we know are money-well-spent and new books that look cool and are backed by some top-tier talent.

Once you check out our picks, head to the comments to let us know what you’ll be buying this week!

Web of Venom: Ve’Nam #1 – $4.99

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Disney’s Streaming Service Is Called Disney Play

It looks like Disney’s upcoming streaming service has a name.

Per Variety, Disney CEO Bob Iger has referred to the service as Disney Play. However, it’s currently unclear if this will indeed be the final name for the video platform, which is launching sometime in 2019.

Disney will reportedly be losing an estimated $300 million in annual revenue when Disney Play launches next year, as the company will no longer be gaining revenue from Netflix for pay-TV rights.

Starting with 2019’s Captain Marvel, every Disney film released in theaters will only come to Disney Play instead of Netflix. Ant-Man and the Wasp will also now be the last Marvel movie to come to Netflix.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Dev’s Twitch Is Streaming Something Weird Right Now

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is hosting a livestream on its Twitch page, hinting that something new may be revealed about its open-world RPG imminently. The stream currently shows lines of code being typed out on a screen, and there doesn’t seem to be any obvious indications of when something else will be shown or what it’ll be. Of course, we’ll stay glued to our screens and keep you updated on developments as they happen.

Cyberpunk 2077 was shown to press at GamesCom behind closed doors and GameSpot was in attendance. During GamesCom, CD Projekt Red also released new Cyberpunk 2077 screenshots, showing characters and environments from the game. These images were taken from the GamesCom 2018 and E3 2018 demos. Furthermore, concept art for Cyberpunk 2077 was also released and, hidden within them, was a link to another image that displays the phrase “more than meets the eye.” It could be that the image tease and the stream are linked somehow.

During GamesCom we also got to chat to producer Richard Borzymowski, who talked about how CD Projekt Red switched gears from the fantasy universe of The Witcher to the sci-fi world of Cyberpunk 2077. He also discussed making the jump from the third-person perspective used in The Witcher series to a first-person for Cyberpunk 2077. You can watch the interview above.

In another interview, Borzymowski said Cyberpunk 2077 is playable from start to finish, but noted that is doesn’t have all its assets, and bugs that have been discovered during playtesting haven’t been addressed yet. Despite this, the studio is confident in the experience. “[Playing through the game] gives you the answers to all of your doubts,” he said. “It just feels great.”

Cyberpunk 2077 is set for launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. However, it doesn’t have a release date yet. At the close of GamesCom, we discussed some of the best games that we saw during the show and Cyberpunk 2077 was included, you can see us discuss the game, along with a few others, in our Best of GamesCom 2018 feature.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Begins Mysterious Stream

The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red has initiated a mysterious stream on its Twitch channel.

The stream is currently titled “Data Transmission in Progress_,” with lines of white code streaming by on a black background. It’s unclear exactly what the stream’s purpose is, though. As of press time, the stream is currently connected to the Twitch game category “Cyberpunk 2077.”

This vague stream follows Cyberpunk’s latest showing at Gamescom 2018. During the gaming convention, IGN broke down differences from E3 to Gamescom that we saw in the behind-closed-doors Cyberpunk demo.

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