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The Walking Dead Season 10 First Images Released

The Walking Dead is about to hit double-figures, with the premiere of Season 10 less than two months away. AMC’s long-running zombie drama might not be the record-breaking ratings smash it once was, but it’s still one of the most popular shows on TV. The first images from the new season have now been released.

The images show most of the characters that survived the shocking events at the end of Season 9. There’s Michonne (Danai Gurira), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Carol (Melissa McBride), Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), Aaron (Ross Marquand), and Ezekiel (Khary Payton). And of course, there are some zombies in there too. Check the images out below:

The Walking Dead Season 10 will continue the conflict between the show’s survivors and the villainous Whisperers, who wear the faces of the dead. It premieres on October 6. AMC has released an official synopsis for the new season. It states: “The Whisperers are a threat unlike any they have ever faced. Backed by a massive horde of the dead it is seemingly a fight they cannot win. The question of what to do and the fear it breeds will infect the communities and give rise to paranoia, propaganda, secret agendas, and infighting that will test them as individuals and as a society.”

Season 10 will also be the final one for Gurira, who has played Michonne since Season 3. It was announced that the star will be leaving the show in February, and that she will only appear in “handful of episodes” in the new season. She is the third high-profile departure from the series in the last couple of years, following the exits of Andrew Lincoln (Rick) and Lauren Cohen (Maggie).

However, while Lincoln has left the main show, he will reprise his role in a series of Walking Dead movies, the first of which was teased at San Diego Comic-Con last month. In addition, a new Walking Dead spin-off show is set to arrive in 2020. It does not yet have a title, but a mysterious first teaser was released last week.

Power Rangers Lightning Collection Recreates Your Favorite Rangers

Power Rangers Lightning Collection

What’s better than people in spandex, kicking bad guys’ butts with martial arts, then jumping into giant robots that all combine into one super-gigantic robot? The answer is nothing, and that’s why Power Rangers has been a continuous force in pop culture since 1993. That’s right, believe it or not, this franchise has been going strong for more than a quarter of a century. Season 26 is currently airing under the title Power Rangers Beast Morphers.

Currently, Hasbr o is pumping out toys, action figures, and more based around the hit series, and the latest line–dubbed the Lightning Collection–celebrates the characters from the series, both past and present. Much like Hasbro’s Marvel Legends or Star Wars Black series, the Lightning Collection aims its sights on older collectors who want extra accessories, a plethora of points of articulation, and characters from all eras of the long-running series.

During San Diego Comic-Con, GameSpot spoke to Hasbro’s global brand strategy and marketing of Power Rangers Beth Bamrick and product designer Sondra Weiner to learn more about the Lightning Collection and what’s coming down the road. We also got a closer look at some of the new toys during the convention.

The 15-Film Godzilla Showa Era Blu-ray Collection Is on Sale

UPDATE: Amazon has lowered the preorder price of the Godzilla Showa Criterion Collection to $169.99

Anyone fan of Godzilla will want to take a look at this. Criterion, known for releasing high-quality, feature-packed editions of noteworthy movies, is gearing up to release a gorgeous Blu-ray collection of all 15 Godzilla films from Japan’s Showa era, which came out between 1954 and 1975. The collection comes out on October 29, but you can preorder it now from Amazon or Criterion.

Preorder the collection at Amazon – $169.99

Update: Injured Fast and Furious 9 Stuntman Leaves Intensive Care

Update: Stuntman Joe Watts has now left intensive care after suffering head injuries on the set of Fast and Furious 9. Per Variety, The Watts family and girlfriend Tilly Powell released the following statement:

“While Joe remains in hospital and there is still a long road ahead, he has been moved out of the ICU and doctors are pleased with his progress. We’d especially like to send an enormous thank-you to the air ambulance crew, all the fantastic doctors, nurses and staff at the Royal London Hospital who have provided amazing care to Joe. We have been overwhelmed by the incredible support from friends, family and the stunt community, as well as the ‘Fast & Furious 9’ cast, crew and Universal Pictures.”

This Stunning New X-Men Power Can Seamlessly Introduce MCU Mutants

While we know new X-Men movies are eventually coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we don’t know exactly how Marvel’s Merry Mutants will be introduced to the MCU. Given that it’d be strange for mutants to suddenly appear when there had been no trace of them before, it’s become a fun fan guessing game to theorize exactly how Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige will explain it. The going theory is that we’ll learn Professor X used Cerebro to make the world forget about mutants, but a new X-Men comic mini-series titled House of X offers a more intriguing idea.

X-Men Editor Jordan White even said as much himself when he told IGN at Comic Con that House of X #2 in particular had something perfect for an MCU X-Men movie. Catch his comments at 5:17 in the video below:

Testing Will Soon Begin On An Unannounced Resident Evil Game

Capcom has seemingly issued invites to US-based members of its RE Ambassadors program to test a new game currently in development.

“Hi Resident Evil Ambassadors,” reads the email, via Biohaze. “Today we’re reaching out to recruit potential testers from our loyal RE Ambassador community to try out a new game in early development.”

Applicants must live in Los Angeles and be available on September 20 or 21, or be based in New York and free on September 23 or 24. The email notes that participants won’t be compensated for their time or travel.

The only requirement – aside from RE Ambassador membership – is that each player “has played a Resident Evil title in the past.” The email follows a similar one sent out last week to Japanese program members to take part in tests happening on the 8 and 9 of September.

Walmart Reportedly Removing Violent Video Game Signage Following Shootings

Following a pair of mass shootings in the United States, the public eye has turned toward violent video games as a possible contributor. Seemingly in response, the retail giant Walmart has reportedly begun removing signage promoting violent video games from its stores.

Vice reports that a company memo titled “Immediate Action: Remove Signing and Displays Referencing Violence” was distributed to Walmart stores. The notice tells store managers to find any displays that “contain violent images or aggressive behavior” and remove them from the sales floor. It specifically mentions demos of violent games on PlayStation or Xbox, “combat style or third-person shooter games,” violent movies, and hunting videos in the sporting goods section. The policy does not appear to restrict the sale of violent games or other media, just their promotion.

Walmart is an especially symbolic location for this to take place. One of the two mass shootings from the weekend, in El Paso, Texas, took place inside a Walmart store. Plus, as critics have pointed out, Walmart itself sells actual guns in its stores, and despite pressure from gun control activists, the company has announced no change in its policy.

Following the two tragedies in El Paso on August 3 and Dayton, Ohio on August 4, President Donald Trump gave a brief address in which he suggested, in part, that violent video games contribute to a culture of violence.

“We must stop the glorification of violence in our society,” Trump said. “This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. We must stop or substantially reduce this, and it has to begin immediately.”

One of the shooters did reportedly reference the Call of Duty series in his manifesto, which largely centered on targeting Latinx people. Critics say the president and others are attempting to shift the conversation toward video games and away from gun control, which has had renewed calls from across the political spectrum following the shootings.

In response to the president’s statement, the ESA told GameSpot, “Numerous scientific studies have established that there is no causal connection between video games and violence. More than 165 million Americans enjoy video games, and billions of people play video games worldwide. Yet other societies, where video games are played as avidly, do not contend with the tragic levels of violence that occur in the US.”

Sean Murray Experimenting on New Ideas Alongside No Man’s Sky

Hello Games founder Sean Murray has revealed that he’s begun experimenting with new ideas aside from No Man’s Sky in his spare time.

In an interview with IGN about the upcoming Beyond update for No Man’s Sky, Murray explained, “we’re actually now a little bit in that transition period where I’m secretly doing stuff in my spare time as well.”

However, he’s clear about his priority: “But No Man’s Sky is the main thing we’re doing.”

It’s not clear if Murray’s referring to work on The Last Campfire, the ‘Hello Games Short’ adventure game announced last year – although the Shorts idea was announced as a way to strengthen new voices in the studio, meaning Murray’s involvement may be limited.

Samsung CRG90 49-inch Ultrawide Gaming Monitor Review

Last year, Samsung turned the market upside-down with their super-ultra-wide, 49” CHG90 gaming monitor (review), and it provided a uniquely awesome experience—despite a somewhat low 1080p vertical resolution. This year, they’re one-upping themselves with the CRG90 (See it at Amazon), which—for a $1499 list price—brings the same super wide form factor at a much higher 1440p resolution. Samsung lent us a model to try out so we could see how it performs.

No Man’s Sky Beyond: Everything in the New Mega-Update

When I spoke to Sean Murray last year, he had decided that he was done with huge updates to No Man’s Sky. The last major addition, titled Next, had added so much in one go that it had left him a little exhausted, and he wanted to switch to smaller, more regular patches. For a while, he kept that promise to himself. “We kept things more as a live game, like a normal studio would,” he tells me. “We were doing really well, like a proper game!”

“And then we just went mad.”

13 months after Next’s release, we’re sat in the same office, and Murray is showing me a new mega-update called Beyond. It’s considerably bigger than Next, rolling three planned sets of changes into one package. The free update will be out on August 14, and is built with the kind of altruistic optimism we’ve come to expect from Hello Games, designed to simultaneously offer meaningful changes to existing players, tempt lapsed players back, and offer brand new experiences for those who haven’t yet been converted.