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Day of the Dead Show Will Premiere On SyFy this Fall

The Day of the Dead TV show will premiere in the fall. The series is based on George Romero’s classic 1985 zombie movie.

As reported by Variety, the show will form part of SyFy’s fall programming. Day of the Dead will be set in the first 24 hours of an undead apocalypse, and focus on six strangers who are brought together to survive. The showrunners are Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, who previously made the Netflix show Malibu Rescue and The Banana Splits Movie.

Several episodes are directed by Steven Kostanski, who helmed the recent comedy horror hit Psycho Goreman as well as 2017’s The Void. In an interview with Bloody Disgusting earlier this year, Kostanski stated that the series “does have ties to the original movie,” but didn’t reveal any further details.

Romero’s Day of the Dead was the third part of his zombie trilogy. It focused on the tensions between a scientific team and a squad of soldiers, as the two groups live together in an underground missile silo with zombie roaming the Earth above them. It was Romero’s last zombie movie for two decades, with Land of the Dead following in 2005.

Day of the Dead isn’t the only ’80s horror movie that has inspired an upcoming SyFy show. The long-awaited Child’s Play series Chucky also premieres in the fall, with franchise creator Don Mancini writing every episode and Brad Dourif returning to voice the killer doll.

Where to Watch UFC 262: Oliveira vs Chandler

UFC 262’s main event begins this Saturday, May 15th at 10 p.m. ET and will be streaming exclusively on ESPN+, while preliminary bouts begin two hours prior, at 8 p.m. ET. If you still don’t have ESPN+ and you’re interested in watching UFC 262, we’ve got a fantastic deal for you. Not only does this deal get you access to this weekend’s fight card, but it also includes a year of ESPN+ all for just $89.99!

How to Watch UFC 262

Since ESPN+ is currently the exclusive home of UFC PPV events in the United States, you’ll need to subscribe to the service in order to watch the upcoming fights. If you currently subscribe to ESPN+, you can purchase the UFC 262 PPV event a la carte for $59.99. If you’re looking to scoop up ESPN+ plus UFC 262, we’ve got a great deal that will save you nearly $40 and includes a year of ESPN+ as well!

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If this sounds like something you’re interested in (and come on, why wouldn’t you want to save some money?), head over to this page and click the “Get Now” button below the UFC 262 & ESPN+ section to sign up. Purchased separately, a year of ESPN+ and UFC 262 would cost you $129.98, so this deal is a great way to save 30% off the normal price. Hey, feel free to use that extra money to order some pizza and wings. Why not?

Keep in mind, your ESPN+ subscription will automatically renew at $59.99 per year unless canceled prior to renewal.

UFC 262: Full Event Details

Headlining this event is a Lightweight Title Bout between Charles Oliveira and Michael Chandler, one of which will take the vacant Lightweight title after former champion Khabib Nurmagomedov announced his retirement back in March. Oliveira looks untouchable at this point, entering the bout on an eight-match win streak with his last loss coming in 2017. Chandler, a three-time Bellator Lightweight Champion, is looking for his second win since joining UFC in 2020.

Another fight to look forward to is the Lightweight Bout between Tony Ferguson and Beneil Dariush. Ferguson, a former contestant on The Ultimate Fighter, is looking to turn it around after a loss to Charles Oliveira late last year, while Dariush looks to improve on his stellar 20-4 MMA record.

Here are all the planned matches for Saturday’s showdown (matches are subject to change, of course):

UFC 262 FIGHT CARD

  • Charles Oliveira vs. Michael Chandler (Lightweight Title Bout)
  • Tony Ferguson vs. Beneil Dariush (Lightweight Bout)
  • Katlyn Chookagian vs. Viviane Araujo (Women’s Flyweight Bout)
  • Shane Burgos vs. Edson Barboza (Featherweight Bout)
  • Matt Schnell vs. Rogerio Bontorin (Bantamweight Bout)
  • Jacare Souza vs. Andre Muniz (Middleweight Bout)
  • Lando Vannata vs. Mike Grundy (Featherweight Bout)
  • Andrea Lee vs. Antonina Shevchenko (Women’s Flyweight Bout)
  • Jordan Wright vs. Jamie Pickett (Middleweight Bout)

Get the ESPN+, Hulu, and Disney+ Bundle

Alternatively, you can purchase the Disney Bundle which includes ESPN+, Hulu (ad-supported), as well as Disney+ for $12.99/month. However, this bundle doesn’t include access to UFC 262, so you’ll still need to purchase the event separately for $59.99 to watch it.

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The Disney Bundle is a great way to watch all of your favorites including live sporting events, next-day TV shows, and the latest Disney movies and original series’ while saving roughly $6 per month.

How to Watch ESPN+

You can stream ESPN+ just about anywhere you currently stream videos: on iOS and Android, as well as most major smart TVs. You can also find it on Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, Google TV, as well as consoles such as PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and more.

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Matthew Adler is a Commerce, Features, News, Previews, Reviews, and Wikis writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @MatthewAdler and watch him stream on Twitch.

EA’s Knockout City Is Free For The First 10 Days

EA’s “dodgebrawl” game Knockout City launches on May 21, and you can play the full game at no cost for the first 10 days as part of what the publisher is calling a “Block Party” trial.

The event runs May 21-30 and the free Block Party trial is available on all platforms. “This isn’t some level-capped, red-tape teaser with gated access, either. You’ll have the full game at your disposal,” EA said in a blog post.

This is separate from the previous announcement that Knockout City will be available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (via EA Play) on day one.

Anyone who buys Knockout City outright during the Block Party event will get a set of extras that won’t be available again after the free trial wraps up. This includes a variety of cosmetics, which are listed below and can also be seen in the image.

Knockout City Block Party Bundle

  • Epic Outfit: Cyber Spike
  • Epic Hairstyle: Locked Horns
  • Epic Glasses: LED the Way
  • Epic Glider: Mach 1
  • Epic Intro Pose: Calling In Reinforcements
  • Epic KO Effect: By the Horns
  • THREE Player Icons: Bomb Ball, Pixel-Dillo, and Noodles Gone Bad
  • 500 Holobux!
All of this is yours if you buy Knockout City during the free trial period
All of this is yours if you buy Knockout City during the free trial period

EA also announced that Knockout City’s Season 1 will go live on May 25. The season is called “Welcome to Knockout City” and it introduces a new location and a variety of challenges to complete to earn more rewards. The free week also includes “Dodge the Devs” events where players can take on developers from Velan Studios at their own game. You can see more of what’s planned for Knockout City during the free Block Party event below.

The Knockout City Block Party schedule
The Knockout City Block Party schedule

Inspired by dodgeball, Knockout City is a multiplayer game where players try to knock out other players using a ball, which can have all different types of special properties. The game is developed by Velan Studios, which is the team that made Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit.

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21 MORE Things You STILL Didn’t Know In Zelda Breath Of The Wild

In the video above, we cover 21 tips and tricks that aren’t quite as well known, ranging from secrets to glitches, some that are pretty simple and others that are fairly complex. Breath of the Wild has been out for four years at this point, and players have found some amazing things, intended or not, that keep the game and its sense of discovery feeling fresh.

We point out some secrets about the weird properties of Link’s house lawn, as well as finally getting access years later to treasure chests which were previously thought to be impossible to get. With Breath of the Wild’s highly anticipated sequel still nowhere to be found, these tricks should help you continue to push what you’re able to do in the original game.

Xbox Series X and S Insiders Getting Dolby Vision HDR Soon

Microsoft is starting to roll out Dolby Vision gaming to Xbox Series X and S consoles registered to users that are a part of the Xbox Insider’s program.

Microsoft’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb announced the news in a tweet today. According to Microsoft, the new feature means “brighter highlights, sharper contrast, and more vibrant colors” in games, as long as your next-gen console is connected to a TV that supports Dolby Vision.

Dolby announced in September, ahead of both Xbox Series consoles’ launch, that X and S would be “the first consoles to support the Dolby Vision HDR format with dynamic metadata for gaming” sometime in 2021. Both consoles already support HDR, but it’s HDR10 – a less advanced standard for HDR video.

Users enrolled in the Xbox Insider program will want to check the specs to make sure their TV supports the Dolby Vision HDR format, in addition to making sure their TV has installed the latest firmware update to take advantage of the features.

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This is not the first time members of the Xbox Insider Alpha ring have received access to test out the feature. In March, Forbes reported that Xbox Insiders noticed all HDR games were outputting Dolby Vision instead of only a select handful of games that were supposed to support the feature, with testers noticing improvements to various things brightness and color saturation in HDR games.

Still, the feature was limited to a refresh rate of 60Hz, but the publication noted that TV manufacturers are working with Dolby to enable the standard to work at 120Hz. But it’s unknown which games will currently support the feature during the initial alpha testing, and Microsoft has yet to say when the Dolby Vision standard will be available to all users.

As with most Insider updates, the feature will be rolled out to select users first, with a general release likely to come a little way down the line after mass testing. We’ve recently seen Xbox roll out new Quick Resume features, as well as dropping certain Xbox Games With Gold requirements for Insiders before committing to the idea wholesale.

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Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Bring It On, the Cheerleading Movie Series, Is Getting a Horror Spin-Off

The Bring It On franchise is getting its own horror movie with Bring It On: Halloween set for next year.

SYFY dished out an abundance of tricks and treats when it unveiled its 2021/2022 slate of movies and shows this week, including a slasher spinoff called Bring It On: Halloween, which will premiere sometime in 2022. The movie will center around a cheerleading squad practicing a killer routine ahead of an upcoming competition, only to find out that their performance might not be the only thing that kills.

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“Held down by restrictive rules, an embattled cheerleading squad seeks the freedom of a creepy, closed school gym to practice for regionals, but when members of the squad start to disappear, the cheerleaders must unmask their assailant to save themselves,” reads the official synopsis for the spooky new installment of the cheerleading comedy movie series.

It will be the seventh installment of the Bring It On franchise and the first of another genre, marking a departure from all other entries in the series. The first movie, released in 2000, worked its way into the fabric of pop culture and spawned five additional sequels, starting with Bring It On Again in 2004 right the way through to 2017’s Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack.

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Other projects coming from SYFY include Don Mancini’s Chucky series, which will share continuity with the film series, plus a 10-episode Day of the Dead series, and a modern retelling of Slumber Party Massacre — a series that not only inspired at least one spin-off franchise (Cheerleader Massacre), but dozens of other “massacre” knock-offs (many either produced or distributed by Roger Corman).

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Move Over Lady Dimitrescu, the Resident Evil Community Loves the Duke Now

Lady Dimitrescu has held an unassailable position as the Resident Evil community’s favourite new character since months before the game arrived. But with Resident Evil Village now in players’ hands, a new fan-favourite character could be on the way to take her crown – The Duke.

Resident Evil Village’s unusually friendly merchant was shown a little in trailers for the game, but becomes more or less Ethan Winters’ only friend throughout the game – and that’s led to a huge surge in fan appreciation for him.

To go some way towards showing that love, check out a Reddit post from Naillian603, titled, “I didn’t think The Duke would live up to the RE4 merchant but he proved me long. I’d go as far to say I love The Duke”. In a single day, it’s gone on to earn over 5,500 upvotes, becoming the 12th-most upvoted post of all time on the r/ResidentEvil subreddit.

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The comments below that post are similarly appreciative, singling out the Duke’s voice (and English-language voice actor, Aaron LaPlante), his bizarre habit of appearing in just the right places at just the right times, and his callbacks to previous Resident Evil games.

“Hands down, best character.” wrote CaptainAlabama91. “Mostly [because] he is the only person who is genuinely pleased to see you. And you know, doesn’t try to end you.”

It’s far from the only post pointing to The Duke as a favourite character. There’s fan art, speculation about his potentially supernatural origins, and even self-referential posts about how much the community loves The Duke.

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In an interview with Dan Allen on YouTube, Duke voice actor Aaron LaPlante was asked if he’d expected the huge reaction to the character. “No, absolutely not. Not even for a second,” he replied. “I’m so thrilled that people are into it. I think one of the most thrilling aspects is that I’m a fan too – I’m a huge fan of a lot of this stuff […] It’s kind of nice to contribute to that excitement for someone else.” He also explained that The Duke was originally directed to have a gravelly-voiced Russian accent, but LaPlante eventually found his more English-inflected style.

It remains to be seen if The Duke will hit the same cultural impact as Lady Dimitrescu, but it’s more than clear that this character – who could so easily have been a run-of-the-mill merchant – will be remembered beyond this game. And he’s far from the only memorable thing about Village – we awarded the game an 8/10 review, pointing out that it’s “like visiting a disturbing and deadly Disneyland, where every attraction is a house of horrors.”

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Joe Skrebels is IGN’s Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to [email protected].

Army Of The Dead Could Lead To More Netflix/Streaming Movies In Theaters

Netflix and US movie theater chain Cinemark have teamed up to bring Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead to cinemas across the US one week before the movie comes to Netflix. If this is successful, it could lead to more deals of this nature in the future, according to Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi.

“We’re gonna see, how does it do in that week? How does it do the week that it goes into Netflix? We’re going to learn a lot,” Zoradi said during the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit, according to Deadline.

A startling scene from Army of the Dead
A startling scene from Army of the Dead

Zoradi said he’s already feeling confident that there will be “several” additional releases from Netflix coming to theaters down the track.

“We don’t believe it’s going to be a large quantity, but a limited number of their high-profile movies where they want to spend the marketing expenditure, they want theatrical exhibition and what comes along with that, we think that there will be future movies to come,” Zoradi explained. “Those might be 14 days, they might be 21 days. I would characterize it as a very progressive and positive relationship with Netflix.”

Should the Army of the Dead deal work for Cinemark, it could lead the theater chain into discussions with other streaming services, Zoradi said.

“As studios make decisions to take things to their own unique platform, perhaps we’re going to find a way to get some things from the streaming services that we otherwise would not have gotten and give them an important theatrical window,” he said.

Cinemark has booked Army of the Dead for 200 of its locations. The movie will also be available to watch at smaller theater chains such as Alamo Drafthouse, Harkins, Cinepolis, and iPic. AMC and Regal, two massive chains in the US, won’t have Army of the Dead.

Army of the Dead is out now in US theaters at Cinemark and it will release on Netflix a week later, beginning May 21. The first 15 minutes of the movie are now online, while you can check out a roundup of review scores for Army of the Dead to find out if you might be interested.

Army of the Dead stars Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Tig Notaro.

As another example of the shifting landscape for movies, Disney. just announced that the Ryan Reynolds movie Free Guy and Shang-Chi will have a 45-day theatrical window.

Cobra Kai Creators Want To Keep Delivering The Good Feelings To Fans

Netflix’s Cobra Kai recently wrapped production on Season 4, and the upcoming batch of episodes will keep the good times going, according to the show’s creators. Warning, there are spoilers for Season 3 below.

Talking to Collider, co-creator Josh Heald said that they will keep delivering those “good feelings” fans had on the journey so far. “It was really important for us to end Season 3 the way we did with a kind of like ‘yah’ as a feeling as opposed to [‘aw’] where Season 2 went,” he explained. “And we want to deliver on that feeling. We want to keep providing the dopamine that generates that good feeling. We want to make sure we’re delivering on goosebumps, on tears, on belly laughs, and fist bumps.

“It’s the same recipe with different tastes and everything else,” Heald continued. “But it’s even bigger so we’re really, really proud of what we’re making so far. I can’t wait for you to see what everybody’s doing.”

Cobra Kai Season 4 will also introduce new students and finally upgrade characters into featured roles.

Earlier this year, it was reported that both Vanessa Rubio and Peyton List have been promoted to series regulars for this season. Rubio plays Carmen Diaz, the mother of Cobra Kai’s standout student, Miguel, played by Xolo Maridueña. While List portrays the aggressive Cobra Kai pupil Tory, who first joined the show in the second season as a foil to Daniel’s daughter, Sam (Mary Mouser). Meanwhile, Dallas Dupree Young and Oona O’Brien have joined the cast as brand new characters.

Last season already saw a fe, so who knows could make an appearance for the new season as well.

Season 4 of Cobra Kai does not have a release date announced but expected to premiere sometime this fall.

Xbox Series X|S Dolby Vision HDR Testing Will Expand To Xbox Insider’s Alpha Ring

Microsoft is expanding testing for a feature that should make games look better, at least on compatible TVs. Dolby Vision HDR, a feature that should, in the simplest terms, make bright colors brighter and dark areas darker, is arriving for Xbox Series X|S users that are part of Xbox Insider’s alpha ring.

Precisely, Dolby Vision HDR is a proprietary HDR format that promises boosted performance over other HDR options. According to Dolby, the format offers “brightness, contrast, color, and depth that goes beyond even traditional HDR games.”

The Xbox Series X|S will also be the only consoles with this tech available when it launches for Xbox Insiders. Dolby announced last year that, along with bringing its audio format Dolby Atmos to next-gen Xbox consoles, Dolby Vision would be arriving sometime in 2021.

Before you get too excited though, you’ll want to make sure your TV supports Dolby Vision HDR. It’s an increasingly common feature to find in TVs, but not one that’s widely supported just yet. For instance, none of Samsung’s TVs support Dolby’s HDR format.

To check if your TV can handle Dolby Vision HDR, first make sure that your Xbox Series X|S is updated to the latest firmware version. Then, head over to the console’s 4K TV Settings menu. From there, you should see a set of checkmarks or red crosses showing your TV’s compatibility with Dolby Vision at either 4K/60Hz, 4K/120Hz, or both.

Anyone that wants to try out Dolby Vision HDR on their Xbox Series X but isn’t part of the Xbox Insider program can fix that quickly. Simply download the Xbox Insider Bundle App from the Xbox Store, open it up, and hit “Join.” This won’t guarantee access to Dolby Vision HDR, but it’s a step closer to having the feature.

It’s not clear when Dolby Vision HDR will roll out for the bulk of Xbox Series X|S users. That being said, the feature’s addition to the Xbox Insider alpha ring program is a clear indication that Microsoft is looking to roll it out for more players.

For other Xbox Series X|S users, the console’s latest update has improved quick resume, making the feature more stable, reliable, and best of all, faster.