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With the smashing success of the John Wick franchise, and with a fourth installment slated for a May 2021 release, action badboy Keanu Reeves (47 Ronin, The Matrix) is back in full force. Everyone’s loving him, from developer CD Projekt Red to the whole of the Internet. Even Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige admits to looking for “the right way” to include the Canadian-American actor in the MCU.

Feige was interviewed by Comic Book, who asked if the studio was in talks with Reeves. Feige said Marvel talks to Reeves for every movie the company makes. This led to Feige confirming that he wants Reeves in the MCU. “I don’t know when, if, or ever he’ll join the MCU, but we very much want to figure out the right way to do it.” Feige believes the situation with Reeves could play out similarly to Jake Gyllenhaal (Source Code, Southpaw), who has been approached “multiple times” until “the right way” appeared. Gyllenhaal plays Quentin Beck/Mysterio in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home, which is scheduled to debut on July 2.

Reeves is everywhere these days. The prolific action star plays himself in Netflix romcom Always Be My Maybe and lends his voice to Toy Story 4. Reeves also returns to Ted “Theodore” Logan in Bill & Ted Face the Music and plays “key” character and “legendary rockerboy” Johnny Silverhand in the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077.

During E3 2019 we learned that CD Projekt Red approached Reeves about a year ago or so and called the meeting a “match made in heaven.” Cyberpunk 2077 will launch on April 16, 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Microsoft announced the next few weeks of Xbox game Pass games coming to PC and console, but a few are rotating out as well. You have just over a week to play the games slated for rotation.

On June 27, Next Up Hero will retire from the service. Then on June 30, Game Pass will sunset Dead Island Definitive Edition, Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition, Shadow Complex Remastered, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Zombie Army Trilogy.

If you want to keep any of these games in your library permanently, your Game Pass subscription grants you a 20% discount on game purchases, as long as you make those purchases while the games are still part of the Game Pass service. Otherwise, just get your time in while you can.

Game Pass costs $10 per month for a standard subscription on PC or Xbox One, but Microsoft recently introduced a new Game Pass Ultimate that bundles both along with Xbox Live Gold for $15 per month. You can try the Ultimate version of the service for $1 for your first month, or take advantage of a little loophole to upgrade your current Gold or Game Pass time on the cheap.

The announcement came alongside new games that are rotating into Game Pass as well. Those include Resident Evil: Revelations, Rare Replay, Torment: Tides of Numenera, and Goat Simulator to close out the month of June.

The month of July is a huge one for Netflix. Aside from the streaming service dropping its usual slew of movies and TV series, some of Netflix’s most popular shows return this month for brand-new seasons. Make sure to plan out your month now because it’s going to be packed.

On July 4, the most anticipated streaming series returns for a third season. That’s right, the kids from Stranger Things are back and probably dealing with some more horrible monsters from the Upside Down. Hitting on more ’80s nostalgia, this season heads to a mall, the place where all the cool kids hung out and worked during the summer. While we don’t know too much about the plot, the latest posters for the new season did reveal some new characters and some behind-the-scenes photos gave us some clues to this season’s story.

The two other returning series to keep your eye on are Season 4 of Queer Eye, coming on July 19. Like previous seasons, the cast remakes someone’s life in order to better themselves through cleaning up their house, giving the target a makeover, and giving them the confidence to move forward in their lives. If you need something uplifting that will bring a tear to your eye, this is a must watch for you. On July 26, Orange is the New Black returns for Season 7. This will be the final season of the prison dramedy, so maybe we’ll see some of the cast finally get released–or shived. This is prison, after all. If you’re wondering about Netflix’s other big series, Glow, that isn’t releasing until August. Be patient.

As far as non-Netflix originals go, there are plenty of movies coming, mainly on July 1. The classic Martin Scorsese movie, Taxi Driver, arrives that day, following Robert DeNiro’s character, a war veteran on the verge of a breakdown as he works as a New York City cab driver at night. On the comedic side of things, the sports comedy Caddyshack arrives. The movie follows an elite golf club which has a gopher problem. It’s one of the few times golf is fun in a movie.

While there are plenty of things arriving in July, Netflix has also announced many things are leaving as well. On the first of the month, all the Mummy movies are saying goodbye to the streaming service. Also, Wedding Crashers and the first two Austin Powers movies are leaving as well, so watch them all before the first of the month hits.

Below, you’ll find everything coming to Netflix in July. If you’re interested in more steaming news, check out what Hulu has planned for July.

Coming To Netflix In July

July 1

• Designated Survivor: 60 days — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
• Astro Boy
• Caddyshack
• Caddyshack 2
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke
• Cloverfield
• Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain
• Frozen River
• Inkheart
• Kill the Irishman
• Lady in the Water
• Little Monsters
• Mean Dreams
• Mean Streets
• Megamind
• Nights in Rodanthe
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop
• Philadelphia
• Rain Man
• Road House
• Room on the Broom
• Scream 3
• Starsky & Hutch
• Swiped
• Swordfish
• Taxi Driver
• The Accountant of Auschwitz
• The American
• The Book of Eli
• The Brothers Grimm
• The Hangover
• The Pink Panther
• The Pink Panther 2
• War Against Women
• Who’s That Knocking at My Door?

July 2

• Bangkok Love Stories: Objects of Affection — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Bangkok Love Stories: Plead — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Good Witch: Season 4

July 3

• The Last Czars — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Yummy Mummies: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 4

• Kakegurui: Season 2
• Stranger Things 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 5

• In The Dark: Season 1

July 6

• Free Rein: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• The Iron Lady
• Sicilian Ghost Story

July 9

• Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns
• Kinky

July 10

• Family Reunion — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Grand Designs: Season 10
• Grand Designs: Season 15
• Parchís: El documental — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 11

• Cities of Last Things — NETFLIX FILM

July 12

• 3Below: Tales of Arcadia: Part 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• 4 latas — NETFLIX FILM
• Blown Away — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Bonus Family: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Extreme Engagement — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Kidnapping Stella — NETFLIX FILM
• Luis Miguel – The Series: Season 1
• Point Blank — NETFLIX FILM
• Smart People
• Taco Chronicles — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• True Tunes: Songs — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 13

• Sorry Angel

July 16

• The Break-Up
• Disney’s The Princess and the Frog
• Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Wynonna Earp: Season 3

July 17

• Pinky Malinky: Part 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 18

• Secret Obsession — NETFLIX FILM

July 19

• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: New 2019: Freshly Brewed — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• La casa de papel: Part 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Last Chance U: INDY: Part 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Queer Eye: Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac — NETFLIX ANIME
• Typewriter — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 22

• Inglourious Basterds

July 24

• The Great Hack — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 25

• Another Life — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Workin’ Moms: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 26

• Boi — NETFLIX FILM
• The Exception
• Girls With Balls — NETFLIX FILM
• My First First Love: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Orange Is the New Black: Season 7 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Son — NETFLIX FILM
• Sugar Rush: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Worst Witch: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 29

• The Croods

July 30

• Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It? — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 31

• Kengan Ashura: Part l — NETFLIX ANIME
• The Letdown: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Red Sea Diving Resort — NETFLIX FILM
• Wentworth: Season 7

Leaving Netflix In July

July 1

• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
• Blood Diamond
• Body of Lies
• Bull Durham
• Chasing Amy
• Cool Hand Luke
• Definitely, Maybe
• Did You Hear About the Morgans?
• Doctor Zhivago
• Dolphin Tale
• Dumb and Dumber
• East of Eden
• Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Season 1
• It Takes Two
• Malibu’s Most Wanted
• Monster-in-Law
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Silence of the Lambs
• The Boondock Saints
• The Interview
• The Matrix
• The Matrix Reloaded
• The Matrix Revolutions
• The Mummy
• The Mummy Returns
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
• The Terminator
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
• The Wild Bunch
• Turner and Hooch
• Valkyrie
• Wedding Crashers

July 2

• Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

July 4

• The Indian in the Cupboard

July 9

July 10

• Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

July 12

• Gone Baby Gone

July 14

• The Immigrant

July 16

• American Gangster

July 27

• Pretty Little Liars: Seasons 1-7

July 30

• Staten Island Summer

After a long wait due to several delays, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has finally released for PC, PS4, and Xbox One (with its Nintendo Switch version dropping on June 25). If you’re planning to grab the Metroidvania-style game on PC, here’s a deal to put on your radar (or send to any friends who haven’t bought the game yet). Bloodstained is $40 at full price, but Fanatical is currently offering the game for 21% off, which drops the price to $31.59. Plus, new Fanatical customers can save even more with GameSpot-exclusive promo code GAMESPOT25, which slashes an additional 5% off the price. If you’ve never shopped at Fanatical before, that means you’ll get Bloodstained for $29.98–not bad for a new and highly anticipated game.

To claim the deal, just add Bloodstained to your cart, and during checkout, you’ll see a place to “redeem a coupon code” in the righthand sidebar. Enter GAMESPOT25, and you’ll see the price drop to $29.98. But even if you’re a Fanatical regular, it’s worth noting $31.59 is still a great price (Steam is currently offering the game for $36). After completing checkout, you’ll receive an officially licensed Steam key for Bloodstained that you can redeem right away.

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Both the on-site deal and promo code discount will be valid until June 27 at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET (and 1 AM BST on June 28).

Created by former Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has been marketed as a spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night in terms of gameplay. The 2.5D, side-scrolling RPG follows the story of Miriam, an orphan who must fight her way out of a demon-filled castle using powers derived from cursed crystals on her body. Aside from Miriam, you’ll also be able to play as Zangetsu from Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon at launch. A recent launch trailer also revealed Bloodstained will receive 13 free DLC updates post-launch, adding features such as local and online multiplayer, three new playable characters (including Shovel Knight), “nightmare” difficulty, speed run mode, character customizations, and more.