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The Time Variance Authority, more commonly known to as the TVA, is in charge of making sure people stay in their lane and don’t create multiple universes with their decisions. However, during Episode 3, Sylvie revealed to Loki where the TVA agents really come from, and it’s a bit of a trip.

Warning: There are spoilers for Episode 3 of Disney+’s Loki below. If you don’t want to be spoiled, turn away now.

While Loki and Sylvie were trying to escape a planet doomed to be destroyed by its orbiting moon, Sylvie revealed some interesting information about where the TVA agents come from. To this point, the audience was to believe the agents were created by the Time-Keepers. That’s not the case. TVA agents are actually captured variants. We saw some flashbacks with Sylvie and Hunter C-20, as Sylvie was trying to find out more about the Time Keepers, and this is when Sylvie dropped the news that all TVA agents are variants.

That does bring up doubts about the reptilian Time Keepers now. If they didn’t create the TVA agents, do they even exist at all? What’s behind those gold elevators? Anyone else want to place bets that this has something to do with The Watchers–or more specifically Uatu–and because The Watchers don’t interfere, they’ve simply plucked some variants from existence to right the timeline? We saw The Watchers very briefly in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, so they’re already established.

Anyway, that’s not all Episode 3 of Loki revealed. During another conversation between Sylvie and Loki, we learned that Loki is bisexual. The series is halfway over believe it or not, and new episodes air on Disney+ on Wednesdays.

Event organizers Penny Arcade and Reed Exhibitions confirmed that PAX West will return as a physical in-person event from September 3-6.

The organizers said in a press release that PAX West 2021 will “adhere to detailed health and safety guidelines,” which are said to be revealed before the September show takes place. Meanwhile, event coordinators are “working with venue officials, local governments, and health authorities to determine [total] capacity, which will be reduced, and ensure a safe setting.”

PAX West 2021 will be held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Tickets will go on sale this weekend, the organizers said, with individual passes costing $60 and four-day permits running for $230.

PAX West 2020 was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis impacted several industries and led to the cancelation or postponement of tons of events, including E3, GDC, and EVO 2020. PAX West 2021 marks the first major in-person gaming event since the pandemic began, which has claimed over 600,000 US lives, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Still, the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the doors to virtual events. Most cancelled or postponed conventions were replaced with digital showcases, and PAX is no different, with an online event taking place from July 15-18. Registration is free for everyone, but a $15 badge comes with early access.

Fans of symphonies and spin-dashes alike have a good reason to be excited today. It’s Sonic’s 30th birthday, and to celebrate Sega of America is hosting a symphonic concert as part of Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. You can watch it right now to see how the songs translate to a whole bunch of string instruments.

How To Watch Sonic 30th Anniversary Concert

The concert is currently being streamed on the Sonic YouTube channel and Sonic Twitch channel. A trailer for the concert shown during the Summer Game Fest presentation included tracks from 2008’s Sonic Unleashed, although songs from other titles are sure to be included.

What To Expect At The Sonic Symphony Orchestra Stream

The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing for the majority of the show, offering up renditions of iconic songs from across the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Along with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sonic 30th Anniversary Symphony will include performances by mid-2000s Sonic composer Tomoya Ohtani and Crush 40, the band behind a few of the rock and roll tracks in Sonic games, including Open Your Heart, Live and Learn, and of course, Sonic Heroes.

Besides a live symphonic concert of Sonic music, the blue blur had a couple of other announcements recently. During a Sonic central stream from Sega, a remaster for Sonic Colors titled Sonic Colors Ultimate was revealed, along with an upcoming, unnamed Sonic title set to release in 2022. Preorders for Sonic Colors Ultimate are currently open, with the game releasing on September 7 for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

Scarlett Johansson is re-teaming with Disney to produce and star in a movie adaptation of the Tower of Terror amusement park ride. 

According to Collider, Johansson is working with Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley — who is writing the script based on the famous drop ride in Disneyland.

Though it’s a bit awkward now considering Disneyland remodeled the Tower of Terror attraction ride in 2017 into the Marvel-themed Guardians of the Galaxy — Mission: Breakout!

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Sources say no director is attached yet, but Johansson’s team is looking for a high-profile name to helm the project following her Oscar nominations in films like Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story.

As previously mentioned, Tower of Terror is technically no more (there is still a version of the ride at Tokyo DisneySea, Disney World, and Paris Disney). The original Tower of Terror ride opened in 1994 and was inspired by The Twilight Zone series. A proper Disneyland iteration of the ride was opened in 2004.

The “story” of the ride is structured like a Twilight Zone episode where park-goers become guests of a famous Hollywood Hotel. As they board the elevator to their suites, the Tower of Terror becomes haunted, and riders are dropped several stories to their demise.

In 1997 Walt Disney Television produced a TV film based on Tower of Terror starring Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst. It was Disney’s first film based on its theme park locations. Since then, however, Disney has produced films based on attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean, Tomorrowland, and Haunted Mansion.

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Disney also previously flirted with a movie adaptation of Tower of Terror back in 2015, though this planned project never materialized.

Johansson will next be seen in the long-awaited Black Widow movie, which will premie in both theaters and will be available on Disney Plus Premier Access. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has said that more Marvel prequel movies are possible after Black Widow.

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Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor.

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There’s surely no red jacket more iconic in pop culture than the one worn by Michael Jackson in the Thriller music video. But if any 1980’s outfit can give the Thriller jacket a run for its money, it’s definitely the one worn by Kaneda in 1988’s Akira. And now you can finally add that legendary attire to your personal wardrobe.

IGN can exclusively reveal Funimation’s Kaneda Jacket. Check out some footage of the jacket in the video player above or embedded below:

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The Kaneda jacket is directly modeled on the design by Akira manga creator/film director Katsuhiro Otomo. The piece was brought to life by Carlo Levy (Managing Director of DYBEX S.A), Alessandro Trombetta (Designer) and Stefan Henzgen (MD of Van Doornum GmbH & Co.).

“I have been a fan of AKIRA since 1989 when Epic Comics first released it, and imports arrived in Europe,” said Levy in a statement. “I always dreamed of having a replica of the iconic jacket and was surprised it hadn’t been created by anyone outside of Japan yet, so I did what any super fan would do…I went after the license and had our team design it!”

The Kaneda Jacket is being sold exclusively through the Funimation Shop. The jacket is priced at $450 and limited to just 300 pieces in the US. It’ll go on sale on Tuesday, July 13. Given the ever-growing cosplay scene, we suspect it won’t remain in stock for very long.

The Kaneda Jacket proves that at least some piece of the Akira franchise can exist in then live-action, even if the long-awaited live-action movie continues to stall out. Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi was attached to direct the live-action remake, but in February 2020 Waititi told Variety, “I think eventually it will happen. I’m just not sure if I’ll be doing it.”

However, it does appear Akira is getting a new anime series, one that will adapt the original manga in greater depth. Otomo himself is even attached to produce.

Will you be forking over $450 to dress like Kaneda? let us know in the comments below?

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More than half of young Americans want to become influencers full-time. It’s no surprise given that the lifestyle can be an incredible creative outlet, can allow you to be your own boss, and potentially making huge amounts of cash (the top-earning Youtubers alone earn tens of millions of dollars). 

But, there’s more to becoming a successful influencer than just snapping a few Instagram photos. It’s a full-time business, with many entrepreneurial aspects most people don’t think about when they’re scrolling their feeds. Being a social media pro means understanding all of these – and you can learn them, with The Complete 2021 Social Media Influencer Bundle of 15 different courses, which is on sale today for just $19.99 (regular price $2985). That’s less than $1.50 a course. 

With more than 40 hours of content covering invaluable training in Instagram marketing, photography, blogging, and more, this massive course bundle will teach you everything you know to become a social media master.

Particularly if you want to dominate Instagram, courses like How to Become an Instagram Influencer, which will walk you through detailed steps on how to grow and monetize your accounts from someone who has done exactly that, while the 4.5/5 rated A Complete Guide to Instagram Marketing 2021 & Beyond will equip you with easy to follow yet powerful proven Instagram marketing techniques, which promise to connect you with over 500 targeted users every day and grow your account to have more than 10,000 followers. 

Each course in this bundle is created by SkillSuccess, a leading online learning hub that has carefully curated thousands of online video courses and has been featured on CNN, Entrepreneur, Mashable, and more. Your tutors for this bundle are experts in their fields, such as Marguerite Conradie, an influencer marketing expert who has worked in marketing and strategy for many years and has an impressive 4.4/5 instructor rating, and Sean Dalton, a 4.5/5 rated professional travel and lifestyle photographer who has traveled the world telling stories through his camera. 

Take the first step to becoming a successful influencer today with The Complete 2021 Social Media Influencer Bundle, on sale right now for $19.99 (reg. $2985). 

Amazon FBA is the online business platform everyone is talking about right now. And with good reason: by using Amazon’s world-leading services, you can build and scale your own business from home – and earn a serious full-time income while doing it. In fact, the average Amazon FBA seller earns a respectable side hustle of $1000 a month, while some make upwards of $250,000 each month in sales. 

So how do you do it? Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), means that you store your products in Amazon’s fulfillment centers – the most advanced in the world – and then, when you list and sell your product on Amazon, it’s Amazon’s staff who pick, pack, ship, and provide all the customer service. It’ll open you up to an unbeatable amount of customers if you know the strategies for success on the platform – and you can learn exactly that with The 2021 Amazon FBA Master Class Bundle of five courses, covering everything you need to know. Today, we’ve found it on sale for just $19.99 – that’s less than $4 a course (regular price $995). 

One of the highlights of this bundle is the 4.6/5 star rated Amazon Limitless Course, the #1 Amazon FBA course, designed to teach anyone how to sell on Amazon successfully – even if you have zero experience. Guiding you through the first steps of setting up your store, through to rising through the ranks as an Amazon seller, this is your complete guide to setting up a scalable online business. 

Then, in the 4.5/5 star rated course Product Research Challenge: Find Your 1st Amazon Product, you’ll learn the little-known tips, tricks, and tools that insiders use to consistently find profitable products. 

Each course in this masterclass is taught by Ryan Ford, who is a 7-figure Amazon FBA seller himself, as well as an online entrepreneur and experienced tutor specialized in equipping people around the world with the skills they need to stop working for a corporation and start making money for themselves – earning him a high 4.3/5 rating from his previous students. 

Take the first step to becoming a high-earning Amazon FBA seller The 2021 Amazon FBA Master Class Bundle, on sale for $19.99 today (regular price $995). 

Want to learn programming and robotics, but don’t know where to start? Forget expensive colleges and dull textbooks and pick up a Raspberry Pi, the super affordable credit card-sized computer, which makes for the perfect, practical way to learn computing. 

Once you have your own little Raspberry Pi to tinker with, you’ll need a great course to show you the ropes – and right now, the five-course The 2021 Raspberry Pi & Arduino Bootcamp Bundle is on sale for just $19.99 – which works out to less than $4 a course (regular price $995). 

Even if you have no robotics experience, the 4.6/5 star rated course ROS2 for Beginners will walk you through how to get started and master Robot Operating System (ROS) basics, writing, building, and running code so that you can create powerful and scalable robot applications. 

Then, you’ll apply those skills in the 4.7/5 rated Raspberry Pi For Beginners: Complete Course will guide you through practical lessons to build amazing projects with the latest Raspberry Pi 4 using Python 3, GPIOs, Flask, and more. 

You’ll also learn Arduino in the 4.7/5 rated Arduino for Beginners: Complete Course, which will take you from start to finish through complete Arduino projects, leaving you with a strong enough knowledge that you’ll be able to start any custom Arduino project you want.

Each course in this bootcamp is taught by Edouard Renard, an experienced software engineer and robotics entrepreneur with an impressive 4.2/5 instructor rating from previous students. Specializing in teaching complex programming in a simple, step-by-step way, Edouard is a Raspberry Pi and Arduino pro who knows exactly how to help you progress your skills faster.

Take your programming skills to the next level today with The 2021 Raspberry Pi & Arduino Bootcamp Bundle, on sale with 97% off right now for $19.99 (regular price $995). 

With all of us living our lives more online than ever before, the way you store your most personal files has also never been more important. That’s especially true of irreplaceable family photos and videos, which can easily be lost if not backed up. 

The way to keep them safe forever? By keeping them backed up to a cloud storage service you can rely on. Now’s the time to ensure you never lose an important file again, as we’ve found an awesome deal on Polar Backup Unlimited Cloud Backup Storage, which is on sale for just $44.99 today – that’s a 62% discount off the regular price of $120. 

This complete cloud storage solution will give you unlimited, secure cloud backup for all your data from laptops, PCs, Mac devices, external hard drives, and more, all in one place and easy for you to find – whether its treasured memories, important documents or private banking information. 

What makes this solution so robust? Polar Backup uses the latest Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology, with P256-Bit AES encryption to protect your data, GDPR-compliance, and unlimited storage so that your backups are smooth with super fast service times, too. 

It comes with a ton of useful features, too. Designed with ease of use in mind, Polar Backup makes it easy for you to manage, sort, locate, and preview files with just a click – making lost files a thing of the past. 

Thanks to its wealth of features, this complete cloud solution has even been featured in some of the world’s biggest tech publications, including Mashable, TNW, while TechRadar gave the service a 4/5 star review, particularly praising its easy-to-use interface. 

Protect all your personal files today with Polar Backup Unlimited Cloud Backup Storage, on sale with 62% off now for $44.99 (regular price $120).

Whether you regularly write blog posts, work reports, or academic notes, we could all become more productive by spending less of our day typing. In fact, the average worker in the US spends 2.6 hours every day on emails. Imagine what you could get done if you could get that typing done in record speed? 

Thankfully, there’s a revolutionary new tech that changes the game when it comes to manual typing. Lightkey Pro is the latest version of the world’s only real-time text prediction software, which uses super-smart AI to compose your content faster, and with confidence. Today, we’ve found a lifetime subscription to the service on sale for just $49.99 – that’s a huge 70% discount off the regular price of $169. 

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This new and updated version of the game-changing software comes with an improved UI, a ton of new features, even more accuracy in its AI-powered text predictor – and a lower price tag.

It works by using AI to learn your typing patterns and gradually predict up to 12 words at a time, including punctuation marks – which ultimately allows you to compose your writing four times faster than before. With AI revolutionizing the way we type, both Microsoft Word and Google Docs have experimented with its uses for text prediction – but LightKey Pro has been shown to be more effective and accurate than both programs for predicting text in blog and academic content. 

Not only will LightKey predict your upcoming words, but it will also review your writing and give you real-time suggestions for spelling and grammatical errors – making your writing faster and better. 

Trusted in 160 countries, Lightkey Pro comes incredibly highly reviewed, too. Zapier named LightKey Pro one of “The 20 Best Productivity Apps for Windows,” while the software experts at TheWindowsClub praised LightKey’s deep learning capabilities, writing that it learned their preferences as they used it and that it was “one of the most futuristic and innovative typing tools that I have come across.” Meanwhile, on trusted review marketplace G2, LightKey also earned an impressive 5/5 stars. 

Start writing faster and smarter today with a Lightkey Pro Text Prediction Software: Lifetime Subscription, on sale right now with 70% off, for $49.99 (regular price $169).