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Sony’s US PlayStation Store summer sale went live just recently, and now the company’s European and Australian divisions have followed suit. There’s up to 60% off some big PS4 games in the sale, which is called the Summer Sale in Europe and the Winter Sale in Australia.

Spider-Man, for example, is currently down to £25 / $40 AU, which is convenient timing given the recent release of the new Spider-Man film, Far from Home. God of War‘s deluxe edition is the same price, while another PS4 exclusive, Days Gone, is down to £40 / $63 AU.

Rockstar’s big hitters have also seen their prices slashed. You can grab Red Dead Redemption 2 for £35 / $55 AU or Grand Theft Auto V‘s premium edition for £13 / $18 AU. And if you’re a sports fan, there are a few bargains to be found, like FIFA 19 at £16.79 / $28 AU or NBA 2K19 for £16 / $31 AU.

You can take a look at the full list of games on sale on the PlayStation Store. The promotion ends August 21, though Sony warns some titles will leave the sale before that date. On the other hand, new titles will be added on August 7.

There’s not too long left to grab July’s free PS Plus games on PS4, meanwhile. Detroit: Become Human and Horizon Chase Turbo are available through August 5.

At their Comic Con 2019 panel, Marvel Studios announced Phase Four of their Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including the cast members who will be bringing these new heroes to life.

Here are the new faces of the MCU’s Phase Four.

Marvel Phase 4 Comic Con Panel

First up on the docket was the cast of Marvel’s Eternals, including Angelina Jolie (as Thena), Game of Thrones’ Richard Madden (Ikaris), Salma Hayek (Ajak), Kumail Nanjiani (Kingo), Brian Tyree Henry (Phastos), Lia McHugh (Sprite), Laruen Ridloff (Makkari), and Don Lee (Gilgamesh).

Next up was Simu Liu, who will be playing Shang-Chi in a new film focused on the Asian superhero. Liu will be joined in the film by Tony Leung (who will play the real Mandarin) and Awkwafina.

Joining Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange: The Multiverse of Madness is Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch.

Jeffrey Wright will voice The Watcher, a wildly powerful extraterrestrial being, in the Disney+ animated series What If…?, which will see a slew of MCU vets reprise their roles in animated form.

Perhaps one of the biggest cast announcements, even though it’s a returning role, is Natalie Portman’s return to the Thor franchise as Jane Foster’s female version of Thor.

She joins returning stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder.

For the upcoming Black Widow movie, Scarlett Johansson is being joined by David Harbour (as Red Guardian) and actress Florence Pugh (as Yelena), O.T. Fagbenle, and Rachel Weisz (as Melina).

Rounding out the evening was Oscar-winning actor (and former Luke Cage villain) Mahershala Ali, who will be playing Blade in an upcoming movie that Marvel has confirmed will not be a part of Phase Four (but, hey, Blade’s joining the MCU so he makes this list!).

Jeremy Renner will reprise his role as Hawkeye in a new Disney+ series of the same name, which will introduce Kate Bishop.

Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan will reprise their roles as Falcon and the Winter Soldier respectively for a similarly titled Disney+ series. Daniel Bruhl will also reprise his Civil War bd guy role as Zemo, who will wear a mask this time around.

Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olson are returning for a new series titled WandaVision, where they will be joined by Teyonah Parris in the role of the adult Monica Rambeau.

Tom Hiddleston will reprise his role as Loki on a new Disney+ series, which will see the God of Mischief back in his fully villainous days.

Make sure to check out everything we saw at Marvel’s panel at Comic Con 2019, as well as our interview with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. Plus, read why Marvel chose to go with Mahershala Ali as their new Blade.

Marvel Phase 4: Official Lineup

A little more than a decade ago, the Max Payne

universe was adapted into a live-action film starring the likes of Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and rapper Ludacris. It was, to put it mildly, received by fans with as much warmth as one of Max Payne’s many headshot victims. IGN called it “humdrum,” with not one memorable action sequence. Don’t blame anyone working at game studio Remedy Entertainment, though. On this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered, famed Max Payne 1 and 2 writer Sam Lake, who says Remedy wasn’t “involved in any way,” says he felt “detached” from the making of the film.“I was quite detached,” Lake told IGN. “[But] I was happy that there was a movie at that point. I think that was worth celebrating.”

Lake cited the differences between video game and film storytelling as one of the primary reasons he believes the Max Payne film flopped. He noted that the Max Payne games are themselves a video game tribute to noir films, creating a sort of twisted cycle to films influencing a game that then influence a film.

“The interesting thing to me is: What’s there because it’s a game and needed for the game?” Lake said. “What is the heart of this thing that should be carried over? But then how do we make it in this different medium to stand out on its own? That is an interesting question, and maybe that thought process didn’t go into making the Payne movie.”

You can hear Lake discuss more of the impact of Max Payne on Remedy and the video game industry, his desire to return to the Alan Wake franchise, and his own history as a legendary video game writer on this month’s full episode of IGN Unfiltered. Lake also discusses what it’s been like to write for Remedy’s upcoming game, Control.

Control E3 2019 Screenshots

IGN Unfiltered is a monthly interview show that focuses on exploring the lives and careers of video games’ biggest developers, actors, and leaders. Recent guests include Bethesda director Todd Howard, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, and Uncharted series writer and co-director Amy Hennig. You can find every episode here.

Joseph Knoop is a writer and producer for IGN, and he can’t believe that movie is only a decade old. Fly through the air with him on Twitter.

Netflix is closing out the summer strong with the return of some truly excellent Originals along with a new Dark Crystal prequel series called Age of Resistance.Mindhunter, GLOW, Dear White People, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power all drop new episodes in August – plus you’ll get new installments of Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim and Rocko’s Modern Life.

There’s also the first four Rocky films, an Original movie starring Marlon Wayans as sextuplets, and the latest seasons of The CW’s Jane the Virgin, iZombie, and The 100.

Before we unveil the full list of what’s coming however, here’s everything LEAVING Netflix in August.

Check out the slideshow gallery below for a spotlight of some of the most notable August Netflix offerings, followed by the full list (U.S. Netflix only)…

Netflix Spotlight: August 2019

August TBA

Sacred Games: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/1/19

Are We Done Yet?

Boyka: Undisputed

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Groundhog Day

Horns

Jackie Brown

Jupiter Ascending

Now and Then

Panic Room

Rocky

Rocky II

Rocky III

Rocky IV

Rocky V

Sex and the City: The Movie

Something’s Gotta Give

The Bank Job

The House Bunny

The Sinner: Julian

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Why Do Fools Fall in Love

Available 8/2/19

Ask the StoryBots: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY

Basketball or Nothing — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Dear White People: Volume 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Derry Girls: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Otherhood — NETFLIX FILM

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY

Available 8/4/19

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj: Volume 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/5/19

Enter the Anime — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

No Good Nick: Part 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY

Available 8/6/19

Screwball

Sebastian Maniscalco: Why Would You Do That

Available 8/8/19

Dollar — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Jane The Virgin: Season 5

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

The Naked Director — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Wu Assassins — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/9/19

Cable Girls: Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

The Family — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

GLOW: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

The InBESTigators — NETFLIX FAMILY

iZombie: Season 5

Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling — NETFLIX FAMILY

Sintonia — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Spirit Riding Free: Pony Tales — NETFLIX FAMILY

Tiny House Nation: Volume 1

Available 8/13/19

Knightfall: Season 2

Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/14/19

The 100: Season 6

Available 8/15/19

Cannon Busters — NETFLIX ANIME

Available 8/16/19

45 rpm — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Apache: La vida de Carlos Tevez — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Better Than Us — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Diagnosis — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Frontera verde — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus — NETFLIX FAMILY

The Little Switzerland– NETFLIX FILM.

MINDHUNTER: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

QB1: Beyond the Lights: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Selfless

Sextuplets — NETFLIX FILM

Super Monsters Back to School — NETFLIX FAMILY

Victim Number 8 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/17/19

The Punisher (2004)

Available 8/20/19

Gangs of New York

Simon Amstell: Set Free — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/21/19

American Factory — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Hyperdrive — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/22/19

Love Alarm — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/23/19

El Pepe: Una vida suprema — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

HERO MASK: Part II — NETFLIX ANIME

Rust Valley Restorers — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/27/19

Million Pound Menu: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 7 — NETFLIX FAMILY

Available 8/29/19

Falling Inn Love — NETFLIX FILM

Kardec — NETFLIX FILM

Workin’ Moms: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/30/19

The A List — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

CAROLE & TUESDAY — NETFLIX ANIME

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Droppin’ Cash: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

La Grande Classe — NETFLIX FILM

Locked Up: Season 3

Mighty Little Bheem: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY

Styling Hollywood — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

True and the Rainbow Kingdom: Wild Wild Yetis — NETFLIX FAMILY

Un bandido honrado — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 8/31/19

Luo Bao Bei: Season 1

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

In need of a new phone or tablet? Amazon is offering some top-notch deals on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 tablet and Samsung Galaxy S10e smartphone. These devices pack a lot of computing power, plus some of the highest-end screens and speakers on the market. Let’s quit jabbering and take a look at the deals.

Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 128GB is $80 Off

Click the coupon button on the page, and this 10.1-inch tablet drops to $249.99, the lowest price it’s ever been on Amazon. That’s a fantastic deal on a terrific tablet.

What makes this piece of tech so great? It has a crystal clear 10.1-inch display with thin bezels, giving it a nearly edge-to-edge picture. The speakers are also much better than you’d imagine, offering Dolby Atmos surround sound to make your Netflix and HBO videos even more immersive. Expanding the memory is a cinch with a microSD card, and the battery lasts up to 13 hours between charges. All that at a price like this: what’s not to love?

Samsung Galaxy S10e (Unlocked) is $200 Off

Not everyone likes a massive phone. Not only can big phones poke out of your pocket and be difficult to use one-handed, but they also cost a lot more. With a 5.8-inch screen, the Samsung Galaxy S10e is the sleekest model of the company’s flagship smartphone, and the 128GB model is on sale for $200 off retail price right now at Amazon.

It has a professional-grade camera and a gorgeous AMOLED “infinity display” that gently curves at the edges. It’s also easy to expand the onboard memory by inserting up to a 512GB microSD card. Still not convinced? Check out our 8.8/10 Samsung Galaxy S10 review for more details.

Chris Reed is IGN’s shopping and commerce editor. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed.

PC gamers are beginning to lose their patience with juggling multiple clients when they just want to find and launch their games. Trying to figure out which EA games were shifted from Steam to Origin, tackling Uplay, and remembering which games are now Epic Store exclusives has been a cause of frustration for PC players, but there may be a solution. Enter GOG Galaxy 2.0, which promises to unify all of your PC games in one very pretty client.

I began using GOG Galaxy when The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt first came out and while I loved the DRM-free capabilities, the platform itself was buggy and generally not a great user experience. But GOG Galaxy 2.0 looks to be a vastly improved edition, and as the beta isn’t open to everybody yet, you can get an inside look in our feature video above.

The first thing which is really apparent is that GOG Galaxy 2.0 is gorgeous. The visual and functional overhaul is impressive and heavily customisable. Importing your games creates an insightful and intuitive overview of your collective PC gaming library, and your PlayStation and Xbox libraries for that matter. Currently it’s not possible to import any Nintendo games, but for games on every other platform you’re able to view your achievements, hours played, and friend’s stats. You can also explore your entire gaming library using filters and search parameters.

The closed beta doesn’t contain every planned feature and as it’s receiving constant updates, there are certain things that don’t work as intended. There are general bugs, some missing trophies and progress, and Galaxy can occasionally lose its connection to certain clients–but these problems don’t outweigh the advantages of the platform, especially how it enables the integration of all your clients into one. This requires some setup as you need to log into each of your clients to connect them to Galaxy, but if you don’t consider Captcha software to be your arch nemesis like I do, it’s pretty painless.

Finishing the process rewards you with a comprehensive gold mine of your own data and a client that will never have you scratching your head trying to remember what platform Mass Effect 2 is on ever again. Once you link your platforms your library auto-populates with art, playtime stats, and achievements. There are gaps where art is missing, but icon and background art can be imported straight from your computer.

You can boot games from GOG Galaxy 2.0 but you do still need to wait for the original client to get running in the background. My wait times varied by platform, with Steam proving to be the fastest and least intrusive third-party platform to integrate. Some clients like Origin and Uplay still insist on popping up on your desktop when you try to launch a game from either platform, but a feature is in the works which will automatically close clients when exiting an associated game. Galaxy does let you install games straight from the launcher, but of course if you want to buy the latest Epic Store exclusive, for instance, you’ll still need to take yourself over to its specific store to buy it.

The only time you’ll really run into a problem is if you haven’t enabled your clients and games to auto-update. I don’t auto-update my platforms or games because I still remember getting yelled at for using up all our family’s data when I was a teenager living at home so booting a game like The Division 2 can mean waiting for Uplay to update and run and then waiting for the game itself to update and run. Bonus points if Galaxy also required an update at launch. Fortunately, sifting through the piles of data in GOG Galaxy 2.0 to find out which game I’ve logged the most time in–145 hours in Divinity: Original Sin II apparently–is a perfectly good time waster while waiting on those progress bars. Generally, you’ll want to make sure you are auto-updating so you don’t run into this problem, in which case you should sail right into the game with far less waiting around. I did most of my gaming offline and away from distribution platforms until the 2000s so while GOG can’t paint me a perfect data-riffic picture of all the weekends I spent playing Heroes of Might & Magic III or Age of Empires II from dawn until dusk, there is still plenty of stats to check out.

It’s worth noting that GOG Galaxy 2.0 isn’t the first all-in-one launcher. Playnite is an open source library manager that imports games from all of your platforms into one and while by all accounts it does the trick, GOG Galaxy 2.0 has some special additions under its pretty hood. Galaxy includes a bookmark function that lets you pin games, genres, or custom tagged groups to your sidebar. Custom tags can be created instantly and you can group together whatever strange amalgamation of games you choose. There are also plenty of UI options like filtering by platform, operating system, tags, or whether or not the game is installed. The platform is also open-source allowing for community-made plug-ins which should enable clever users to expand the breadth of what GOG Galaxy 2.0 is capable of.

Overall the process is as streamlined and well-executed as you’d expect from a beta. You can hide games in your library, which I did for trials, and if you own a game on multiple platforms it’ll combine the stats under one page for you. As a space to hold your half a dozen gaming libraries it’s entirely sufficient and missing trophies or sluggish boot times from certain platforms don’t take away from how much easier it makes modern PC gaming. Galaxy is also intending to integrate your friends from other platforms into the client which CD Project says could extend to sending a message to a friend on PS4 who receives it instantly, but this functionality is yet to be implemented.

A handful of years ago I couldn’t imagine GOG Galaxy working for me as a replacement for Steam, despite how much I loved the DRM-free and offline play options, but Galaxy 2.0 is a vastly different beast. It may not have the library to replace your existing platforms, but the relative ease with which it unifies all your clients means that, at least for me, playing my PC games through GOG Galaxy 2.0 from now on is looking to be a no brainer.

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Fortnite Battle Royale is preparing to launch Season 10, and has been setting the stage for the changes to come. That will mean a new Battle Pass, changes to the map, and new gameplay mechanics. It’s a lot to keep up with all at once, so we’ve compiled everything we know so far.

When Will Fortnite Season 10 Start?

Typically a Fortnite season lasts 10 weeks, which would have put the start date for Season 10 within the week of July 15. This season is instead planned to last until August 1, which may be due to the timing of the Fortnite World Cup. Epic may have wanted to reserve any large map changes until after the competition had ended.

This will also allow the game to launch its Season 10 during or just after its planned Birthday Event, which will offer special rewards and challenges. Items like birthday cakes and presents will also be scattered around the map, offering health/shield regen and special loot drops.

How Much Will the Fortnite Season 10 Battle Pass Cost?

As usual, the Season 10 Battle Pass will most likely cost the usual price of 950 V-Bucks. You can buy a bundle of 1,000 V-Bucks for $10/£8, making that roughly the price point for a Battle Pass that will last over the next few months during Season 10. The Battle Pass entitles you to challenges and their associated cosmetic rewards.

What’s in the Fortnite Season 10 Battle Pass?

Season 9 is ongoing, and as usual a big world event has started to set the stage for things to come. This time it was a giant battle pitting a mechanized bear against a huge monster that took place on Saturday, July 20. The robot was apparently built to fend off the monster, and when it showed up the mech automatically activated. The mech powered up by breaking into the Loot Lake vault and taking a powerful orb, then drew a giant sword to defeat the monster and left the monster’s body and the sword behind.

What all this could mean for Season 10 is still mysterious, however. The themes for the seasonal changeovers are often surprising, so the next season could have nothing to do with mechs, monsters, or giant swords at all. Based on past seasonal events, this stage-setting probably created conditions for some unexpected consequences that will factor into the next big map change

EA Access, the subscription service from publishing giant Electronic Arts, launches today, July 24, for PlayStation 4. It’s been a long time coming, as the service premiered all the way back in 2014 on Xbox One. A countdown clock on EA’s website reveals exactly when EA Access go lives–5 PM PT on July 24.

Sony initially blocked EA from launching the service on PlayStation, but the company eventually came around (thought it never really explained its change of heart). A version of EA Access called Origin Access is available on PC, though it runs independently of the Xbox One and PS4 versions.

EA Access on PS4 will be available for $5 USD/month or $30 USD/year. Included with your membership is access to a growing catalog of games, known as the Vault. The library includes a number of big, popular, and well-received games such as Titanfall 2, Madden NFL 19, and Battlefield V, among many others.

Additionally, members get 10 percent off all digital EA games and content. For full-priced games, this brings the price down from $60 USD to $54 USD. Finally, members get access to the Play First trials, which normally provide 10 hours of early access to new EA titles prior to their official release.

EA Access launches for PS4 just in time for the Play First trial for Madden NFL 20, which releases on July 25.

Do you plan to subscribe to EA Access on PS4? Let us know in the comments below!

Comedian Chris Rock is rebooting/re-imagining the horror movie franchise Saw, and now it’s been confirmed that the film is coming sooner than expected. According to Deadline, Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have moved the release ahead multiple months. The movie is now expected to hit theatres on May 15, 2020 instead of its previously announced October 23, 2020 release date.

This is a change for the Saw franchise, as the eight previous movies were all released in October to capitalize on the spooky vibe of the Halloween season.

The movie is described as “Saw on steroids,” but it’s not clear what that means. The idea came from Rock, who will play a police detective investigating horrible murders. Samuel L. Jackson will also star in the movie as the father of Rock’s character. Max Minghella plays Rock’s police partner, while Marisol Nichols is playing the police captain boss of Rock’s character.

Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell are executive producers on the new Saw, which is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II). Pete Goldfinder and Josh Stolberg, who wrote the script for the 2017 Saw movie Jigsaw, return to write the script for the new Saw.

The first Saw premiered in 2004, and seven sequels followed in seven consecutive years, with Jigsaw rounding out the bunch in 2017.