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Rainbow Six Siege fans have a new piece of hardware to add to their collection as Razer and Ubisoft have announced the Razer BlackShark V2 Pro Siege Special Edition, a redesigned headset themed around Ubisoft’s team-based shooter.

This $200 BlackShark V2 Pro features a Rainbow Six-themed visual redesign, with a white design featuring the Rainbow Six Siege logo on each earpiece and highlighted by orange foam and stitching on the inside. The internal features remain the same, including THX Spatial Audio and the removable microphone.

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The Razer BlackShark V2 Pro Siege Special Edition is a visually redesigned version of Razer’s wireless gaming headset, the result of a new collaboration between Ubisoft and Razer. The headset uses Razer’s Hyperspeed Wireless technology, Triforce Titanium 50mm Drivers inside the earpiece, and passive noise cancellation to provide the clearest audio possible.

The Razer BlackShark V2 Pro continues to be one of the top gaming headsets on the market, featuring on our lists of the best headsets for PS5 and best PC gaming headsets. A sleek design, impressive battery life, and a super comfortable fit on the ears are key reasons why this headset delivers an optimal audio experience.

Rainbow Six Siege is currently in its sixth year of content, with the latest character Thunderbird being added to the game this week. The game is included in Target’s buy 2, get 1 free sale happening now as well as Fanatical’s big E3 2021 sale.

Season 4 of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Warzone begins on June 17 and brings with it new maps, a Warzone map update, a new Gulag, the Ground Fall limited time event, a Zombies Outbreak region, and much more.

As detailed on Call of Duty’s blog, Season 4 will begin with the aforementioned Ground Fall event that will have you “find and secure SAT-Links” to earn global profile rewards for both Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. If you complete every challenge in this event, you will unlock an Epic Secondary Weapon Blueprint that “is truly out of this world.”

Season 4 in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will feature three new operators named Jackal, Salah, and Weaver and five new guns including the MG 82, C58, Nail Gun, OTs 9, and Mace.

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Black Ops Cold War’s new maps include two new ones – Collateral and Amsterdam – and two pulled straight from Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 – Hijacked and Rush. On these maps and more, players will be able to jump into the three new games modes – Multi-Team: Sat Link, One in the Chamber, and Capture the Flag.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Zombies mode will get a new Outbreak region set in a zoo deep within the Ural Mountains. In addition, the Dark Aether story will expand at the start of Season 4 with “Operation Excision,” which will set the stage for a new round-based map coming mid-season.

This new map is called Mauer der Toten and it takes place in war-torn East Berlin after a zombie invasion has overtaken the city.

Call of Duty: Warzone’s Verdansk ’84 will get new Points of Interest, including the Satellite Crash Sites, and mysterious red doors that allow you to “[[REDACTED]] around the [[REDACTED]]. What’s behind them? Explore and enter them to [[REDACTED]] across the [[REDACTED]]. Red Doors won’t [[REDACTED]] unless you ping them, and after you step through, there’s no telling [[REDACTED]] exiting out the other side… and stepping into a [[REDACTED]].”

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The Hijacked Gulag will also be a new feature in Season 4 and is a mock-up of the classic Hijacked map that will replace the Standoff Gulag when the newest season launches.

A Dirt Bike will be made available for players, which just so happens to be the first new vehicle to drop into Warzone.

Those looking for a change of pace in Warzone will be able to try out the Verdansk Resurgence Mini mode that mimics the Rebirth Island Resurgence – no Gulag, special Supply Boxes, lobby sizes of 44 to 45, a compact DZ, and much more.

Mid-season, Warzone will get a Payload mode that is the game’s first-ever objective-based game mode. You and 39 other Operators will “drop in to escort two caravans of vehicles through a series of checkpoints or sabotage the mission.”

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Other new additions in Season 4 include an expansion of Black Ops Cold War and Warzone’s Gifting System, a new High-Res Texture Pack, more Prestige levels, and more.

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Cyberpunk appears to be returning to the PlayStation Store. The game – which was removed from sale on the platform last year – can now be found by searching for its name, and appears with the tag ‘Just Announced’.

Currently, if you own the digital version of the game, it can be redownloaded. If you don’t already own the game, it can simply be wishlisted or followed.

We’ve contacted Sony and CD Projekt for comment.

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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is now also available for PS5 owners, and you can pick it up for just £59 now at Amazon, instead of the original list price of £70. This is a great deal, and definitely worth the wait for anyone who didn’t want to pay out for the launch pricing.

Prime Day is almost here (June 21-22), so make sure to check out all the free stuff you can currently get as a Prime member prior to the shopping event. This includes 3-months of Kindle Unlimited, a 4-months of Amazon Music. You can also get 3-Months of Audible for just 99p at the moment.

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Amazon Prime Day isn’t too far away (June 21-22), but there’s already a decent selection of deals to check out right now. Right now, Prime members can pick up 4-months of Amazon Music Unlimited, 3-months of Kindle Unlimited, and Battlefield 4, for free. That’s an outstanding start to the summer deal season. Not only that but you can also now get free £10 in Amazon credit when you spend £10 with small businesses. This is basically a free purchase, and an outstanding way to support any small business.

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The Lego Batman 2 movie is apparently dead following a rights issue. But original director Chris McKay revealed details for what Lego Batman 2 would have been like had WB retained access to the Lego license.

In an interview with Collider for his upcoming movie The Tomorrow War, McKay shared details about the Lego sequel starting with the writing team which included Rick and Morty’s Dan Harmon and Loki creator Michael Waldron.

“Dan and Waldron had done a first draft of the script that was really great,” McKay says. “It was truly epic… both from an action standpoint and from a story standpoint.”

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The structure for the sequel was apparently similar to Godfather Part 2 (because, of course) and charted how Batman’s relationship with the Justice League and Superman began, and how it evolved over the years.

Whereas the first Lego Batman movie was about Batman’s relationship with Robin and touched on themes like parenthood, the sequel was more about “Friendship. And change. It was about how hard it is to change. To commit to change. To stay on the new road you’ve carved for yourself. Especially when maybe you weren’t such a good guy to your friends.”

WB previously produced the Lego Batman Movie and the other Lego movie films, which in turn gave Lego access to WB’s characters (like Batman). However, Universal snatched the rights to the Lego franchise with an exclusive deal, making it so that Lego can no longer work with WB characters from the DC universe.

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IGN gave Lego batman Movie an 8.5 out of 10 in our review, calling it not only a good Lego movie but also a great Batman movie.

McKay is currently working on The Tomorrow War, a sci-fi film starring Chris Pratt as the leader of a group of time-traveling soldiers. It is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on July 2. McKay is also signed on to direct a Nightwing movie for DC.

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Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor.

Gaming peripheral company Razer had a surprise announcement as part of its E3 2021 keynote livestream. Where the developer announced new details on Project Hazel, its N95 smart mask that was unveiled at CES 2021, as a concept, before announcing it would actually make the mask in March.

Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan confirmed that Project Hazel would release this year, with the first “supply drop” slated for early Q4. Due to the high demand for the RGB smart mask, Tan confirmed that the company would have limited quantities of Project Hazel “from the getgo.”

While no release date was confirmed, Tan did confirm that Project Hazel will be sold exclusively on its website.

Once Razer begins manufacturing the masks, the company will implement a “sales by drops,” meaning that it will have a database of all the people interested in purchasing a Project Hazel mask and will inform those people when units are available for purchase.

Razer claims that Project Hazel is the world’s smartest mask. It is a reusable N95 respirator that includes disc-type ventilators, Chroma RGB lighting, anti-fog coating, and voice projection.

Despite the release date a few months away, if you are interested in seeing how the mask would look on you, Razer has released a filter on Instagram, allowing you to use augmented reality to “try on” the mask.

If you want to be notified when Project Hazel is in stock, you can sign up on Razer’s website right now.

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In addition to Project Hazel updates, Razer also announced three new products during its keynote, including a Razer Blade 14 powered by AMD processors, the first THX-certified monitor, and a 130W GaN charger.

We’ve rounded up every event announced so far for the all-digital E3 2021, and you can watch it all with us on IGN as part of our Summer of Gaming.

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

Netflix is enlisting a screenwriter familiar with skyscraper action for its upcoming live-action Assassin’s Creed series. The streamer has tapped Jeb Stuart, the writer behind Die Hard, to pen the television adaptation of the Ubisoft franchise, per Variety.

Stuart already has a relationship with Netflix, having most recently created the streamer’s upcoming series Vikings: Valhalla, a continuation of the History Channel series Vikings. Stuart’s other notable screenwriting credits include Another 48 Hrs., The Fugitive, and the miniseries The Liberator.

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Netflix announced it was developing a live-action Assassin’s Creed series last October as part of a partnership between the streamer and Ubisoft to develop content based on the game studio’s properties. The agreement will cover several more adaptations, including live-action, animated, and anime projects.

Assassin’s Creed was previously adapted into a film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. The 2016 release grossed $240.9 million worldwide against a reported $125 million budget, a modest box office performance that did not have the magnitude of a franchise starter. In our review, IGN gave the film a 6.5, saying that it “got the style of the series so right, yet its heart so wrong.”

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The Assassin’s Creed live-action series is one of several adaptations of Ubisoft games in the works at Netflix. The streamer is developing an animated Splinter Cell series written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad and an anime series based on Far Cry. Additionally, a film version of The Division starring Jake Gylenhaal and Jessica Chastain is still on the way. For more, read about why we think Netflix is the best home for video game adaptations.

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J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer.

During the Limited Run Games presentation today, WayForward arrived on the scene to announce a sequel to River City Girls, its 2019 brawler spin-off of the Kunio-kun games. It is dubbed, aptly, River City Girls 2.

We didn’t get too many details during the showcase about what River City Girls 2 would entail, but we do know that protagonists Kyoko and Misako will return alongside some new friends and will once again kick the crud out of bad guys on the streets.

Kunio and Riki (the kidnapped boyfriends of the first game, who are also unlockable to be played) also make a return. New to the sequel, River City Girls 2 will feature two-player co-op play online, unlike its predecessor.

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River City Girls 2 is planned for release on PC and consoles next year, and will also be getting a physical edition on PS4, PS5, and Switch thanks to Limited Run Games. And Limited Run is also bringing out a physical release for the original River City Girls on PS5.

Furthermore, the 1994 Super Famicom classic Shin Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-tachi no Banka is being brought to the Nintendo Switch late this year as River City Girls Zero. It’ll include a new anime opening and manga cutscenes. Kunio-tachi no Banka was a game in the original Kunio-kun series in which Kyoko and Misako were playable for the very first time, alongside their main character boyfriends Kunio and Riki.

Recently, we had the joy of watching WayForward developers Adam Tierney and Bannon Rudis react to a 29-minute speedrun of River City Girls, including chatting about some of the game’s intricacies of development.

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Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter with IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Jordana Brewster doesn’t look back too fondly on 2009’s Fast & Furious because of how her character was used for the movie. 

Brewster, who plays Mia Toretto in the series, recently spoke to Collider about her feelings on the Fast and Furious franchise and what her thoughts are on some of the movies, as reported by IndieWire. While she’s rewatched the first movie and the fifth, she’s only watched the fourth just once and she doesn’t seem to be a fan of it.

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“I haven’t rewatched 4, but to me it’s very grey,” Brewster told Collider. “It’s set in LA, Paul’s [Paul Walker] in a suit, I’m in this red dress and I have bangs and I’m just very sad and pissed off at him. I just feel like I don’t remember that one super fondly.”

Brewster went on to explain that Fast Five sticks out to her in a good way amongst the first eight movies and that the new Fast 9, which hits theaters on June 25, is going to stick out as well because “it’s really, really good” and she gets “a little more action.”

“I love being part of the action,” she continued. “I just don’t like being a talking head, talking with the boys. It’s fun to get in there and get dirty.”

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During her recent rewatch of the first Fast and Furious movie, Brewster said she was actually quite proud of her portrayal of Mia because of how she came off a bit tougher and very gronded. However, as the movies went on, she said she lost that toughtness and grounding in favor of a more “prissy” Mia in 2009’s Fast & Furious.

“And then I think I lost that as the franchise evolved, and I was kind of prissy in 4 and then back to really knowing what I want in 5 and I tried to retain that in 9 because it’s really important to me that Mia’s very centered and grounded, and I lost sight of that in 4,” Brewster said.

She told Collider that Fast Five was about building a family — the Fast and Furious family — and that she feels Fast 9 is “getting back to that.”

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Regardless of what awaits fans in the latest installment of the series, Brewster certainly seems to be a fan of it. You can read our thoughts on the movie in IGN’s official F9 review and then check out this official “Truck Flip” stunt featurette. Watch the latest trailer for F9 after that.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

With Oscar Isaac being cast as Solid Snake last December, Sony Pictures’ long-gestating film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid got a strong push forward towards an official production. Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has been attached to direct the project since at least 2017, shepherding the project for several years.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the director discussed his enthusiasm for the Hideo Kojima-created franchise and highlighted his interest in finding a way to adapt “the active experience of playing a game” into “the passive experience of watching a film.”

“[I want to] create a new type of action on screen that also is based in the quietness of the stealth, knowing that every step you take as you go further into the belly of the beast [is] further away from safety,” Vogt-Roberts said.

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Vogt-Roberts also commented on his years-long attachment to the project, reaffirming his passion for the property.

“Metal Gear is something I’ve been trying to Sisyphus push up the hill for seven-plus years,” Vogt-Roberts said. “That game and Kojima-san’s world mean the world to me, and that’s something that I’m very proud of what we’re doing. I think it’s very Kojima, punk rock, twisty.”

The director went on to recall a moment from 1998’s Metal Gear Solid following a boss fight against Sniper Wolf. Vogt-Roberts explained how that aftermath is emblematic of the unique tone of Metal Gear Solid.

“Up until that point, killing a boss [in a video game] was always viewed as a victory. That was, ‘Hell yeah! I’m passed it!'” Vogt-Roberts said. “Instead you’re met with this moment of somberness and regret.”

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The conversation also touched on how Oscar Isaac wound up being cast as Solid Snake. The actor fan cast himself during an interview in 2019, a statement that eventually culminated in Vogt-Roberts and Isaac’s agents meeting. Vogt-Roberts had wanted Isaac for the role since the project’s conception.

No release date or production start date have been announced for the Metal Gear Solid movie. Vogt-Roberts is uncertain whether he will direct the game adaptation or Netflix’s live-action Gundam movie first, though both are still in active development.

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J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer.