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Star Wars fans still have to wait until December 20 to see the conclusion of the Skywalker saga in The Rise of Skywalker, but the iconic cast members and Hollywood celebrities got to see the movie a little early at the world premiere in Los Angeles, California. The cast and crew behind the movies were able to interact with fans and dress up for a night to celebrate everything Star Wars, and were even joined by a squad of white stormtroopers and the new red Sith Troopers.

If you want to see photos from the world premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and see who was lucky enough to watch it early, click through the gallery below.

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Three images from Bill and Ted Face the Music have been revealed, giving us our first looks at Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in the franchise’s long-awaited third film.

Also seen in the new stills are William Sadler, reprising his role as Death; Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving, playing Billie and Thea, Ted and Bill’s respective daughters; and Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi).

Here’s an official synopsis for Bill & Ted 3, courtesy of Orion Pictures:

The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan as the now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe, helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends.

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The Walking Dead has seen quite a few video game adaptations over the past decade, and now it’s coming to VR. The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners is coming to pretty much every virtual reality headset available on the market today–however, not all at once.

The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners hits Steam and the Oculus Store on January 23. On that day, it’ll only be compatible with the Valve Index, HTC Vive, HTC Cosmos, Oculus Rift and Rift S, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Of course, you’ll also be able to play it on the Oculus Quest with the recently released Link beta, but a proper port for the all-in-one headset is scheduled for Q3 2020 (July-September). PlayStation VR will see the game hit its storefront a little earlier in Q1 2020 (January-March).

There are three different editions for The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners. The standard edition comes with the game and “The Sheriff” revolver pre-order bonus for $40 USD. The Tourist edition, on the other hand, comes with even more digital bonuses, including more weapons and the soundtrack. And lastly, the physical Tower edition comes with some physical goodies like a reversible backpack that doubles as a VR headset carrying case. You can see more on all of these additions below.

Pre-order The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners standard edition

The $40 standard edition of the game comes with the game itself and a single pre-order item: “The Sheriff” revolver. Pre-orders are currently only available on Steam, but we’ll update this story when more platforms become available.

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Pre-order The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Tourist Edition

The $50 Tourist edition comes with the game and an assortment of digital pre-order bonuses. In addition to “The Sheriff” revolver, you also get “The National” knife, “The Judge” bat, in-game crafting recipes, and “Bustomization” New Orleans voodoo dolls. On top of that, you also get some additional bonuses, such as podcasts, the trailer song, and the full game soundtrack. PlayStation VR pre-orders also get a dynamic theme, though that version isn’t currently available for pre-order.

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Pre-order The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Tower Edition

The $150 Tower edition is the only physical package for The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners. In addition to the digital Steam code, it comes with a collection of physical items.

• Reversible backpack tailored to be a VR headset carrying case
• Magnetic camping lantern
• Collector’s Challenge coin
• Concept art
• Buttons and pins
• Postcards
• 16 GB thumb drive that looks like a severed thumb

Of course, it also comes with the Tourist edition’s pre-order items and bonuses, including the various weapons, game soundtrack, and more. The Tourist edition is currently only available through Saints And Sinners’ website, though we will keep our eyes out and update this article if it shows up anywhere else.

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For 2019, Bungie has brought back Destiny 2‘s annual holiday event: The Dawning. Those wanting immediate gratification are in luck, as you can head to Eververse and buy a ton of items right away or complete a simple quest to get the new submachine gun. But the core of the event revolves around Eva’s Holiday Oven 2.0, a revamped version of the oven from last year that allows you to combine special items to bake various treats. But with three slots to insert items into and a lot of different possible outcomes, you’re likely wondering what The Dawning’s baking recipes are–so we’ve put together a list of all of the ones we’re aware of so far, who to deliver them to as a gift, and how to collect ingredients.

Ingredients are obtained in a variety of ways, largely just by playing the game and killing enemies–on the latter front, certain enemy types yield specific materials (eg, kill Vex to get Vex Milk). Essence of Dawning is a recurring item you’ll need for all recipes–15 is required for each thing you bake–and while that can be gotten from completing activities, another reliable source of this is the weekly bounties that Eva offers. Here’s how to specifically gather up ingredients.

Gathering Dawning Ingredients

Special

• Delicious Explosion: Explosive kills
• Sharp Flavor: Sword kills
• Impossible Heat: Solar kills
• Electric Taste: Arc kills
• Null Taste: Void kills
• Flash of Inspiration: Create Orbs of Light
• Personal Touch: Melee kills
• Perfect Taste: Precision kills
• Bullet Spray: SMG and Machine Gun kills
• Essence of Dawning: Complete activities in the solar system

Enemy Faction Specific

• Ether Cane: Fallen kills
• Cabal Oil: Cabal kills
• Vex Milk: Vex kills
• Chitin Powder: Hive kills
• Taken Butter: Taken kills
• Dark Ether Cane: Scorn kills

Many recipes return from last year, but there are new ones as well, so expect us to continue updating this as we’re able to confirm more. For now, we’ve assembled all the ones we know–including Vanilla Blades for Shaxx, Chocolate Ship Cookies for Amanda, and Eliksni Birdseed for Hawthorne, all part of the Cheer Up quest. We’ve also got some of the new recipes–such as Fractal Rolls–courtesy of Reddit, and we’re working to confirm more. For more, check out our guide to the A Matter of Time quest.

Destiny 2’s The Dawning 2019 items

The Dawning 2019 Cookie Recipes

Gjallardoodles (Zavala)

• Ether Cane
• Delicious Explosion
• Essence of Dawning

Traveler Donut Holes (Ikora Rey)

• Cabal Oil
• Flash of Inspiration
• Essence of Dawning

Chocolate Ship Cookies (Amanda Holliday)

• Cabal Oil
• Null Taste
• Essence of Dawning

Telemetry Tapioca (Banshee-44)

• Vex Milk
• Bullet Spray
• Essence of Dawning

Eliksni Birdseed (Hawthorne)

• Ether Cane
• Personal Touch
• Essence of Dawning

Gentleman’s Shortbread (Devrim Kay)

• Ether Cane
• Perfect Taste
• Essence of Dawning

Alkane Dragee Cookies (Sloane)

• Chitin Powder
• Bullet Spray
• Essence of Dawning

Infinite Forest Cake (Failsafe)

• Vex Milk
• Impossible Heat
• Essence of Dawning

Radiolarian Pudding (Asher Mir)

• Vex Milk
• Electric Flavor
• Essence of Dawning

Vanilla Blades (Shaxx)

• Cabal Oil
• Sharp Flavor
• Essence of Dawning

Javelin Mooncake (Ana Bray)

• Chitin Powder
• Sharp Flavor
• Essence of Dawning

Dark Chocolate Motes (Drifter)

• Taken Butter
• Null Taste
• Essence of Dawning

Candy Dead Ghosts (Spider)

• Dark Ether Cane
• Flash of Inspiration
• Essence of Dawning

Ill-Fortune Cookies (Petra Venj)

• Dark Ether Cane
• Impossible Heat
• Essence of Dawning

Strange Cookies (Xur)

• Taken Butter
• Electric Flavor
• Essence of Dawning

Fractal Rolls (Brother Vance)

• Vex Milk
• Pinch of Light
• Essence of Dawning

Thousand-Layer Cookie (Riven)

• Taken Butter
• Delicious Explosion
• Essence of Dawning

Lavender Ribbon Cookies (Saint-14)

• Vex Milk
• Personal Touch
• Essence of Dawning

Fried Sha-Dough (Emperor Calus)

Hot Crossfire Buns (Ada-1)

• Ether Cane
• Balance Flavors
• Essence of Dawning

Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Eris Morn)

• Chitin Powder
• Finishing Touch
• Essence of Dawning

Hackberry Tart (Benedict 99-40)

• Cabal Oil
• Multifaceted Flavors
• Essence of Dawning

The Dawning 2019 Rewards

As noted above, when you turn in your first baked treat to Zavala and return to Eva, she’ll give you a rewards package. The most item inside is the new submachine gun, but it isn’t the only thing that awaits you.

Eva gives you the Spreading Cheer quest. One of the steps to that involves baking a total of 50 gifts, and this thankfully includes progress you made during 2018’s event. Complete all three steps and you’ll earn the Alpine Dash Sparrow.

We’ll be continuing to dig into 2019’s Dawning and will report back with any other rewards that you can earn.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launched its Season One content on PC, PS4, and Xbox One recently, but part of that live game plan includes regular content drops throughout the season as well. That will be the case with this week’s “Season One Refresh,” which will include a new game mode, operator, maps, and Spec Ops missions. Plus you can claim a little bonus for logging in.

The refresh includes the Cranked game mode, a Deathmatch variant that has you racing to get kills. You can also try the new Spec Ops missions Operation Strong Box, Classic Special Ops Disinform, and Classic Special Ops Bomb Squad. The new operator Nikto will be available in a new operator bundle that includes the character along with a watch, weapon blueprints, and customization items. The Docks map will also get a holiday-themed reskin called Over Winter.

Finally, if you log in on December 18 after 10 AM PT, you can get a free gift pack in the “Just For You” section of the store. From December 20 at 10 AM PT to December 23 at 10 AM PT, you can score double weapon XP.

Other content drops are still planned for throughout the rest of the season. This is part of Infinity War’s live game plan for Modern Warfare, having announced before release that it would no longer use map packs that splinter the player base. The seasons do come with Battle Passes that earn you some cosmetic items, but all maps and game-changing additions like new weapons or equipment are free for all players.

2020 is already looking like a packed year, and Nintendo’s line-up is no exception. Here are the biggest games slated to come out in 2020 for the Switch (as well as a few we think could come in 2020 that don’t have any official release window yet.)

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore

Release Date: January 17 | Platform: Switch

This wild combination of Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem originally came to Wii U back in 2016, but a suped-up edition will be making its way to Switch in early 2020. This new version will be mostly the same, but include a few new songs, characters, and story beats.

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With the latest weekly reset in Destiny 2, Bungie has released the new 2.7.0.1 hotfix update that coincides with the launch of this year’s holiday-themed event, The Dawning. That means you can get a bunch of wintry items and cosmetics–including a new gun that requires very little effort–while also diving into core new Season of Dawn content, namely the EDZ and Nessus Sundial obelisks and their corresponding rewards and activities. Here’s what’s new and a look at the patch notes.

Of the most immediate concern is The Dawning, the time-limited event that runs from now until January 14. Much like last year, Eva Levante has returned to the Tower with a set of bounties and a revamped version of her oven: Eva’s Holiday Oven 2.0. This is used to craft treats for various bounties and quests. When Eva gives it to you, she’ll give you the necessary materials to craft an item for Zavala–quickly take it over to him and return to Eva to receive a package that will net you The Dawning’s new weapon for this year, Cold Front, a submachine gun. There’s plenty more to do once you’ve finished that, so check out our guide to The Dawning recipes to learn how to bake all of the cookies.

Eververse also has a ton of new cosmetics, including a finisher, shader, ghost shells, sparrow, emotes, and more. You can buy them all now for Silver, but Bungie shared on Twitter that everything–except for one item, the Perfect Ten finisher–will be sold for Bright Dust through Eververse during the event, which is certainly welcome news.

Outside of The Dawning, Season of Dawn’s other content continues to roll out. That includes the EDZ and Nessus obelisks, which can now be connected to the Sundial, allowing you to take on new bosses and earn a pair of new weapons from each. Additionally, there’s another Saint-14 mission.

Finally, in terms of the update, there are an assortment of fixes, including those related to Escalation Protocol chests and Resonate Stems not working properly. But I think we can all agree the best part of the patch notes concerns a fix for an issue where, and I quote, “finishers could yeet bosses off the map and cause other shenanigans.” So that’s sorted.

You can see the full patch notes below.

Destiny 2 Hotfix Update 2.7.0.1 Patch Notes

Combat Systems

• Fixed an issue where Dynamo mods were granting more Super energy than expected
• Fixed an issue where swapping between Hand Cannons with Explosive Rounds could result in higher damage than intended
• The fixed-roll of Pyroclastic Flow no longer has Tap the Trigger as a perk
• Fixed an issue where Symmetry’s arc seekers would unintentionally stagger Unstoppable Champions
• Note: this perk is meant for an Exotic weapon that is coming out later in the Season
• Fixed an issue where finishers could yeet bosses off the map and cause other shenanigans

Activities

• Fixed an issue where attempting to launch Forsaken Baron adventures would cause a Honeydew error

Rewards

• Resonate Stems, Escalation Protocol chests, and other impacted rewards will now be granted properly
• Fixed and issue where some Sundial rewards could be infused without dismantling the item

Eververse

• Fixed an issue where the Sunbreaker Titan armor ornament bundle could still be purchased at full price even if some items where owned

PC

• PC video settings now save correctly and do not get reset when launching the game

Atari is still working on its new console the Atari VCS. What’s clear by now is that this new console is not a retro console like the SNES Mini, but a new fully-fledged system with a dedicated Atari app store. And developers who agree to make exclusive games for the store will receive the same revenue cut as on the Epic Games Store.

In a new blog post, Atari has outlined its plans for how developers can begin making games for the upcoming Atari VCS. According to the company, there will be a digital app store for the console. Developers can submit their games or apps directly through the store for certification.

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What better gift could you give someone than hours of enjoyment watching something they love? This year has seen the release of tons of great Blu-ray boxed sets for shows ranging from Batman Beyond to Godzilla. Better yet, many of them are on sale for the lowest-ever prices. If you or someone on your list loves binging great stuff, check out the deals below. Unless otherwise indicated, they’ll arrive in time for Christmas — as long as you place your order soon.

Spider-Man and Venom Bundle is $14 Off

• See it on Amazon – $36.51

This collection comes with Blu-ray copies of Spider-Man: Far from Home, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, and Venom, all packaged in a limited edition steelbook case. Good stuff.

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Dead or Alive 6‘s free-to-play version, Core Fighters, has a sweet little treat for those who download the free bundle package. The Core Fighters bundle comes with series mainstay and Ninja Gaiden protagonist, Ryu Hayabusa, for no extra charge.

The Core Fighters bundle is downloadable for free on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. You only need an active PS Plus or Xbox Live Gold membership to install the game. Doing so nets you Ryu Hayabusa’s character license for free, a DLC add-on that typically ranges from $3 USD to $8 USD depending on the character.

Dead or Alive 6: Core Fighters is the instant-access version of the game. With Core Fighters, you can play as familiar combatants like Hitomi and Kasumi, get access to most of the stages and game modes, and more. Other features, like story mode and additional characters, can be purchased separately on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One.

We gave the fighting game a 7/10 in our Dead or Alive 6 review, saying, “Despite some missteps, DoA6 is a fun, engaging fighter with great-feeling, easy-to-pick-up combat, a strong sense of visual style, and a lot of personality. If you’re looking for a new fighting game to learn the ins and outs of–or perhaps a nice entry into the 3D side of fighting games–DoA6 is a fighter of choice.”