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Update March 11, 2020: The Collector’s Edition is sold out everywhere except GameStop. All other editions are still widely available for preorder.

Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PS4 on June 26. The game is set in the 13th century, as the Mongol army is marching (and sailing) to conquer the East. Tsushima is an island off the coast of Japan, and the first to fall as the enemy fleet arrives and the invasion begins.

You play as Jin Sakai, one of the lone survivors of the first wave of the attack on the island. The story trailer shows some of the attack and introduces some key characters in the game. We meet Jin’s uncle Shimura, the lord of the island and a father figure to our hero. We also meet the leader of the Mongols, Khotun Khan, who quite rudely tries to kill Jin. See how it plays out in the trailer above.

As with many AAA titles, the game will be available in a number of special and collector’s editions, each one containing various extras. Below, we break down what comes in each edition, how much it costs, and where you can place your preorders right now.

Ghost of Tsushima Collector’s Edition

• Get it at GameStop – $169.99
• Get it at Amazon – $169.99 – SOLD OUT
• Get it at Walmart – $169.99 – SOLD OUT
• Get it at Best Buy – $169.99 – SOLD OUT

The collector’s edition of the game retails for $169.99 and comes with a heap of extras, both digital and physical. As for the physical items, you’ll get a Sakai mask and stand, Sashimono war banner, cloth map of Tsushima, Furoshiki wrapping cloth, 48-page mini art book, and a steelbook case. Digital extras include a director’s commentary, Samurai PS4 dynamic theme, Hero of Tsushima skin set, and one Technique Point to be used in-game.

Ghost of Tsushima Special Edition

• Get it at Amazon – $69.99
• Get it at Best Buy – $69.99
• Get it at Walmart – $69.99
• Get it at GameStop – $69.99

The special edition of Ghost of Tsushima includes a special Steelbook case, as well as the following digital items:

• Mini art book
• Director’s commentary
• Hero of Tsushima skin set (Golden Mask and Sword Kit)
• 1 Technique Point
• Charm of Hachiman’s Favor.

Ghost of Tsushima Digital Deluxe Edition

• Get it at PlayStation Store – $69.99

The digital deluxe edition comes with the following digital extras: mini art book, director’s commentary, Samurai PS4 dynamic theme, Hero of Tsushima skin set (Golden Mask, Body Armor, Sword Kit, Horse, Saddle), 1 Technique Point, and Charm of Hachiman’s Favor.

Ghost of Tsushima Standard Edition

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• Get it at Amazon – $59.99
• Get it at Best Buy – $59.99
• Get it at Walmart – $59.99
• Get it at GameStop – $59.99
• Get it at PlayStation Store (digital) – $59.99

Don’t care about extras? That’s cool too. You can grab the game for the standard $59.99.

Ghost of Tsushima Preorder Bonuses

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Preorder any edition of the game, and you’ll also receive a digital mini soundtrack, a Jin avatar, and a PS4 dynamic theme based on the game’s box art.

The Art of Ghost of Tsushima

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• See it at Amazon – $49.99

Coming June 30 is this gorgeous art book to accompany the game. Published by Dark Horse, this 208-page hardcover tome covers the game’s development from start to finish, with detailed images of the characters, landscapes, weapons, and even storyboards used to create the game.

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A satire about these extremely politically divided times that we live in — Red State vs. Blue State was reportedly the title of an early version of the screenplay, actually — Universal’s The Hunt is now finally here, almost six months after it was originally scheduled to be released. As it turns out, the film is a blast when it’s at its best, and even when it’s not at its best, it’s still not much to get worked up about in terms of its political message. The Hunt swings big, but it’s much more a critique of hyper-partisanship on both sides than a condemnation of the views of either end of the spectrum.

Produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions, written by Watchmen’s Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse, and directed by Craig Zobel, The Hunt takes the tried-and-true concept of “The Most Dangerous Game” and applies it to an exaggerated version of our fractured political landscape. This updated concept is the reason the movie was delayed half a year, shifted by the studio over concerns of its release being insensitive coming on the heels of the tragic, politically motivated mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso last August. In the conversation surrounding that shift, The Hunt was criticized in the media and, seemingly, by President Trump.

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But to take The Hunt on its premise alone is to miss the point, as it’s through-and-through a satire where hippie-dippy, woke, liberal caricatures compete with rhino-hunting, conspiracy-minded conservative distortions, and none of them are portrayed as being anything close to righteous. Where this war in our real world may have begun on the airwaves of cable news and has been fought largely from the relative safety of social media anonymity, The Hunt takes this splintered political dialogue to its ultimate, bloody, and ridiculous endpoint in the form of a human hunting expedition.

The Hunt is a difficult film to discuss without giving away some of its best surprises, but suffice to say the first act is a hilarious, gory humdinger that jerks the viewer around, pulling the rug out from under you just when you think you’re gaining your bearings. The filmmakers are playing with our expectations here, introducing familiar tropes — the square-jawed hero! The beautiful girl! The meet-cute amid the carnage! — but their very placement is meant as a diversionary tactic, not unlike the bait the hunters lay out for their intended victims. Meanwhile, the hunters quickly settle in as our antagonists as they hunt our identifying characters.

The set-up is simple: A “bunch of normal folks” (quote via the film’s trailer), all apparently of the Red State variety, are spirited against their will to a remote location where they are to be hunted down by a group of “liberal elites” (again, via the trailer), of course of the Blue State type. Familiar faces abound: Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), Justin Hartley (This Is Us), Betty Gilpin (GLOW), Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project), and so on. It doesn’t take long for the shooting to start and the aforementioned zig-zags to get underway, but eventually, things settle into a more normal narrative routine. And by then characters like Gilpin’s Crystal have proven compelling enough that you find you have a stake in this contest, despite how outrageous things can get.

Hilary Swank is also here, a corporate high-flyer who — again, in true social-media-age fashion — typed the wrong thing at the wrong time and hit send and has been paying for it ever since. Of course, that’s what The Hunt is really about: the way that the Internet and modern media, social and otherwise, have helped to create a bifurcated society of Us and Them, and one where the slightest misstep can lead to disaster. The Hunt, in many ways, is the ultimate example of how such a scenario — a stray tweet, a dredged-up aspect of one’s past, an inopportune joke gone wrong — can escalate to the point where it ruins a person’s life, or the lives of others. Were you an awful person before everyone online decided you were? Or did that arbitrary judgment become a self-fulfilling prophecy? It’s a chicken-or-egg nightmare that’s insane, zany, and horrific, as told here; but like any good genre film, is also deftly reflected back on us just enough to give one pause.

This could all very easily turn into just dumb caricatures and mindless splatter jokes, but The Hunt makes it work, in no small part due to the subdued yet kick-ass performance of Gilpin in particular. Her character’s quiet exhaustion and simmering anger not just at her involvement in the hunt, but also at her lot in life, is genuinely moving. The filmmakers know how to balance the inane fun of The Hunt’s crazy premise with a smart, stinging commentary about the world we live in.

The film does lose its step a bit in the final showdown, a problem which feels like it may hail from the realm of tacked-on reshoots. There, we learn that perhaps not everyone is what they at first seemed in this story, but the revelation only muddles the message. Is The Hunt telling us that we can transcend our petty and extreme viewpoints? Maybe it’s saying there’s more to us than just our online personas, and that there’s something to that whole “Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged” thing. Or maybe it’s just taking the easy way out by letting one of its characters off scot-free, separating them from the pack of irredeemable caricatures? It’s almost as if the filmmakers know that in the end someone has to win this most dangerous game, and they feel obligated to give us that person in as baggage-free a state as possible. But in pulling its punches like this, the film loses its edge. And if the point is that not everyone is Red or Blue and there are plenty of people just caught in the middle, The Hunt just doesn’t do enough to set that up.

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Doom Eternal won’t support true 4K on Google Stadia as was promised when it was announced for the platform a year ago.

Bethesda, the game’s publisher, released new technical specifications for each platform that Doom Eternal is coming to (after leaking them earlier this week). Revealed is that the Google Stadia version of Doom Eternal “will run at 1080p @60 FPS on HD displays and up-sample to 2160p from 1800p @60 FPS on 4K displays.”

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For it to be true 4K the game would have to run with a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels, usually 3840 x 2160. Instead, it will run at 3200 x 1800, which means it doesn’t have true 4K.

Upsampling the 1800p display resolution simply means that extra pixels are calculated to make it up to around 4K. However, this is an artificial means of hitting 4K and is sometimes criticised for not having as sharp an image as true 4K.

DOOM Eternal is coming to #Stadia.

4K with HDR
60fps #GoogleGDC19 https://t.co/6YBdOhHhNV

— DOOM (@DOOM) March 19, 2019

When Google Stadia was announced at GDC on March 19, 2019, one of the big selling points that was pushed was that it would run Doom Eternal at 4K. Doom Eternal’s co-director Marty Stratton even took to the stage at the time to say the game would run “true 4K.” That’s now been confirmed to not be the case, at least not at launch.

It’s worth pointing out that the Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro versions of Doom Eternal will run also be upsampled to 4K as the Stadia version is. However, the PC version’s “Ultra-Nightmare” specs, the highest setting, will support true 4K.

When IGN went hands-on with Doom Eternal on Stadia back in June 2019, id Software said it hadn’t tried demoing the first-person shooter with 4K at that point, but that it would be soon, and would announce details about the 4K support at a later date.

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With this latest news it seems that id Software hasn’t been able to get a true 4K version of Doom Eternal working with Stadia yet. It’s not the first developer that has run into this issue.

When Stadia launched in November 2019, controversy arose around Destiny 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2 for not supporting true 4K on the game streaming platform, despite Google saying its launch games would. In response, Google said that it’s down to developers to get their games running true 4K on Stadia.

Doom Eternal comes out for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia on March 20, 2020. A Nintendo Switch version will be released later in 2020. If you pre-order Doom Eternal then you’ll get Doom 64 as a free bonus.

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Best Buy has Bluetooth speakers from JBL and Bose on sale for its deal of the day, and if you don’t have a Bluetooth speaker in your life, I am here to recommend you remedy that situation. I’m a big Bluetooth speaker fan and own a couple. They sound surprisingly great for being so little, and being able to easily toss them into a bag to take out, or just carry them from room to room, is awesome.

Wireless Bluetooth Speaker Deals

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Disney has reportedly tapped Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson to star as Peter and Wendy in their upcoming live-action adaptation of Peter Pan, directed by David Lowery.

Variety reports that Molony will be adding a feather to his cap, both literally and figuratively, starring as the eternally youthful Lost Boys leader while newcomer Anderson will also be embarking on the fantastical adventure, as she portrays the eldest of the Darling children.

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Molony and Anderson are expected to soar on to the big screen in their respective roles, as Variety’s sources have also claimed that the studio has now set its sights on a theatrical release, rather than a debut on Disney+ alongside 2019’s Lady and the Tramp remake.

The two young stars are both early on in their careers, with only a handful of acting credits attached to their names. Molony is best known for his recurring roles on TV shows The Reluctant Landlord and Claude, while Anderson, the daughter of Milla Jovovich, previously played the Red Queen in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, though she is also set to appear as a young Natasha Romanoff in Disney’s Black Widow, released on May 1, 2020.

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Peter Pan & Wendy will be directed by David Lowery and produced by Jim Whitaker, with a script co-written by Lowery and Toby Halbrooks. Lowery and Halbrooks previously worked together on Disney’s live-action remake of Pete’s Dragon.

The Peter Pan adaptation is another new addition to Disney’s growing list of revamped renditions of titles from its classic animated portfolio, with the studio’s latest live-action endeavour, Mulan, projected to have a domestic debut of $85 million.

Disney’s live-action rendition of the beloved fable has received early praise for its action, maturity, and beauty, with some members of the press even claiming that it is the best live-action adaptation of a Disney classic yet.

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Ori And The Will Of The Wisps is available to play for only one dollar! How you might ask? With Xbox Game Pass of course.

Thanks to Microsoft, Windows 10 and Xbox One users can get access to Ori And The Will Of The Wisps for a whole month for only $1.

Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can play it on both Windows 10 and Xbox One right now, as the Ultimate Pass covers both platforms.

It’s not the first time Microsoft has released a new game on Game Pass alongside its release date–The Outer Worlds launched alongside a similar $1 deal, and all first-party Microsoft titles are available on Game Pass from day one. It seems like Microsoft may be running these deals alongside the release of anticipated releases, which is a great way for people to to experience these games for a low price.

This is a pretty great deal if you have the time to finish the whole game in only a month. If you manage to finish the game before the end of the month, you may want to check out the range of games you also have access to. Just remember that if you don’t unsubscribe, the price will increase for next month.

Ori And The Will Of The Wisps is out now on PC and Xbox One. For more on our thoughts on Ori And The Will Of The Wisps, head over to our review and find out why it scored so highly.

From what I can gather, there are folks out there wishing for a solo or duos mode in the latest free-to-play battle royale game Call of Duty: Warzone. Both modes, Warzone and Plunder, are built around three-player squads and can have up to 150 players in each match as of the game’s launch. But if you select “Don’t Fill” in the Squad Fill option on the bottom left corner of your lobby screen before going into matchmaking, you can drop in solo or with one partner. So while, yes, you can go into matches alone or with one other friend, we wouldn’t recommend it.

Of course, going solo or as a duo against full squads of three is going to be tougher, because that’s how math works–you won’t have anyone watching your back or providing extra firepower in combat. But it’s also because this isn’t just Modern Warfare with more players and on a huge map, there are some fundamental changes to mechanics that make it harder for the lone wolves out there.

Namely time-to-kill has changed drastically because of the armor system, which has a big effect on how even the sharpest of shooters will fare in firefights. Sometimes it’s not enough to catch an enemy off guard–if they’re armored up, they’ll probably have time to escape death and find cover. Even then, you can expect their teammates to be on the lookout or fire back, unless they’re really bad teammates.

This isn’t to say it’s impossible to win all by your lonesome in a squad-centric battle royale game. The in-match currency system can give you an upper hand with killstreaks and gear that’ll help you survive, and getting kitted with perks and your best weapons/attachments set up through loadouts certainly helps. The Gulag respawn system may also alleviate the woes of solo players–if you die in an early stage of a match, you can enter a phase where you battle one other dead player in a 1v1 Gunfight-style battle to earn a respawn in that particular match.

Just don’t expect to run wild and rack up kills in Warzone like you could do in Modern Warfare or any other Call of Duty game. If you’re wishing for solos or duos in Warzone, this is your only option right now. Good luck, I guess?

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate continues to expand the reach of its Spirit Board, this time with the heroes–and the villain–of Ring Fit Adventure. With Nintendo’s fitness RPG flying off shelves, it makes sense to see it represented in Smash Bros. While none of the game’s characters are being added as fighters anytime soon, you’ll be able to level up their Spirits if you grab them in the next event.

The Spirit Board event “Spirits Fit for a Fight” will run from March 13 to 18, adding three new spirits to the board. Both of the Ring Fit Trainees, Ring, and Dragaux are all pictured–it’s not clear if the two Trainees will constitute one spirit, or if one of these three characters will not make the cut.

If we had to guess, we imagine you’ll have to fight the Wii Fit Trainer to get your hands on those Trainees. It might be your best chance to meet these characters until stock of Ring Fit Adventure settles.

Super Smash Bros Ultimate has added a great many Spirits since its launch, many of them a great surprise, like Lotus from Warframe. There are six more DLC characters coming to the game as well, although there are no plans for further characters beyond that.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players on PlayStation 4 have lucked out today, with Activision releasing a free Combat Pack for Playstation Plus users. This free DLC Pack is for the new battle royale mode, Call of Duty: Warzone, which launched today.

The DLC Pack includes the Yegor Operator Skin ‘Trackstar’, the Shotgun Blueprint for ‘Showstopper’, the ‘Skilltrack 56’ Watch, the ‘Covert Operation’ Calling Card, a ‘Shredded’ Weapon Charm, and a 60-Minute Double XP Token.

Most of these are just cosmetic and accessory unlocks that don’t affect the gameplay whatsoever, aside from the 60-minute double XP token. The Operator Skin unlocks the playable Allegiance character Yegor as an option to play as in the new battle royale mode, the first of what seems like many optional character skins to unlock.

The shotgun blueprint unlocks the Model 60 shotgun, a full black camo shotgun that has blue tape on the grip. This is purely cosmetic and only seen when holding the shotgun in the game.

While the gold and blue Skilltrack 56 watch in this pack is pretty cool, nothing will beat the tomogunchi watch–the virtual pet that grows with your in-game kills.

The Combat Pack isn’t the only free content Playstation users can enjoy, with Call of Duty: Warzone not requiring a Playstation Plus subscription to play online. Usually a subscription is necessary to play any online content on the PS4, but some games like Fortnite and Apex legends do not require an PS Plus account either; Call of Duty: Warzone is just the latest exception. Xbox users will still need a current Xbox Live Gold subscription to play Warzone online.

This is not the first timed exclusive Call of Duty content. Modern Warfare’s Season 2 update included some PS4-exclusive DLC, while the Survival mode for Spec-Ops is also exclusive to PS4 until October 1, 2020.

Call of Duty: Warfare is available to play on PC, PS4 and Xbox One to those who own Modern Warfare. The Call of Duty: Warzone Combat Pack is exclusive until October 1, 2020