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How to Watch Space Jam: A New Legacy

Space Jam: A New Legacy is the next Warner Bros. movie to be released in theaters and on HBO Max on the same day. The movie is directed by Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip) and stars LeBron James alongside Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny, and the rest of the Looney Tunes crew.

If you’re wondering how to watch Space Jam: A New Legacy or have any other questions about the movie, we have you covered below.

Watch Space Jam: A New Legacy on HBO Max

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If you want to watch Space Jam: A New Legacy at home, you’ll need the ad-free HBO Max subscription. It costs $14.99 per month, and you can cancel any time.  (The original Space Jam movie is also available on the service).

Unlike the Premier Access movies arriving on Disney+ (including Black Widow), Space Jam: A New Legacy doesn’t cost any additional money to watch on HBO Max. It’s included with your subscription, as are the rest of the 2021 Warner Bros. movie lineup. You can see the rest of the year’s theatrical/HBO Max release dates below.

When Does Space Jam: A New Legacy Come Out?

Space Jam: A New Legacy is out now in theaters and on HBO Max. It came out on Friday, July 16.

How Long will Space Jam: A New Legacy Be on HBO Max?

Like the rest of the 2021 Warner Bros. theatrical releases, Space Jam: A New Legacy will remain on HBO Max for 30 days. That means you have between July 16 and August 15 to watch it.

Space Jam: A New Legacy Trailers

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What is Space Jam: A New Legacy?

A sequel to the 1996 movie starring Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes crew, Space Jam: A New Legacy takes place in modern times. It kicks off when an artificial intelligence kidnaps the star basketball player LeBron James and his son Dom into a digital metaverse. 

To escape, LeBron must help Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes crew defeat a team of the AI’s digitized NBA and WNBA players. It’s the Tune Squad versus the Goon Squad.

Space Jam: A New Legacy Reviews

So is this movie any good? If you want to check out IGN’s Space Jam: A New Legacy review, you can get our critic’s full take on it, including why it scored a 7 out of 10. Compared to most other outlets, we were on the high side, so you can google around for alternate takes on the movie’s quality.

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Space Jam: A New Legacy Cast

Who’s in this movie? It has LeBron James as himself, Cedric Joe as Dom James, and Sonequa Martin-Green as Kamiyah James. Don Cheadle plays the evil AI G. Rhythm. It also features the voices of Damian Lillard, Anthony Davis, Nneka Ogwumike, Diana Taurasi, and Anthony Davis. Jeff Bergman handles voice acting for characters ranging from Bugs Bunny to Fred Flintstone, while Zendaya voices Lola Bunny.

Other Theatrical Releases Coming to HBO Max

  • Space Jam: A New Legacy – July 16, 2021
  • The Suicide Squad – August 6, 2021
  • Reminiscence – September 3, 2021
  • Malignant – September 10, 2021
  • The Many Saints of Newark – October 1, 2021
  • Dune – October 22, 2021
  • King Richard – November 19, 2021
  • Matrix 4 – December 22, 2021

Here’s the rest of the Warner Bros. movies landing for no additional cost on HBO Max the same day they hit theaters. Quite a few big-name movies are on the list, including The Suicide Squad, Matrix 4, Dune, and the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark.

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Loki Director Kate Herron Won’t Be Back For Season 2

Loki director and executive producer, Kate Herron, has revealed that she won’t be returning to direct the second season of the show.

Herron announced this news today in an interview with Deadline, stating that she always planned to do just this single season. She even hinted that a second season for Loki might not have always been in the cards.

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“I’m not returning,” Herron said. “I always planned to be just on for this, and to be honest, Season 2 wasn’t in the — that’s something that just came out, and I’m so excited.”

It seems like Herron is saying the decision to create a second season of Loki happened later in the process of making the show. Regardless, she said she’s excited to watch the next season as just a fan.

“I’m proud of what we did here and I’ve given it my all,” Herron said. “I’m working on some other stuff yet to be announced.”

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Unfortunately for MCU fans, the other stuff that has not yet been announced isn’t Marvel-related. Herron told Deadline she’s currently “focused on my own stuff at the moment,” but that she loves Marvel and would love to work with them again.

Perhaps she’s biding her time and seeing what offers pop up now that Loki has seemingly launched her to new heights. Fellow MCU Disney Plus series alumnus Matt Shakman, who directed WandaVision, fielded several offers following his WandaVision success before signing on to direct the next Star Trek movie, after all.

As of yet, there’s no real info on what the second season of Loki could entail and Herron said she isn’t privy to any details. Considering there’s not even a release window for this second season, it’s possible the loose strings left at the end of the Loki Season 1 finale could be tied up in a movie in between now and Season 2. Or, those loose strings might remain loose until said Season 2.

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Only time will tell. Regardless, Herron confirmed that the season finale of Loki represents a “major shift” for the MCU. Check out our thoughts on the finale in IGN’s Loki Episode 6 review, and then read our thoughts on the show as a whole in IGN’s Loki Season 1 review.

For more about what to expect in Season 2, check out the latest episode of IGN’s Marvel Cannon Fodder show and then read our breakdown of all the questions left unanswered in Season 1. Read our Loki Season 1 finale explainer after that.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Dan Harmon Reveals His Biggest Challenge in Developing a Community Movie

Dan Harmon has said that the Community movie has presented a few creative challenges, but that hasn’t stopped him from continuing to think about the project.

According to Syfy Wire, Harmon got onto the topic of the long-discussed Community movie when he recently appeared as a guest on an episode of Vulture’s Good One podcast. He revealed he’s still actively thinking about the project, but admitted that he’s faced a bit of a storytelling dilemma when considering the audience it should be aimed at.

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“Here’s the biggest philosophical question: Are you supposed to service a mythical new viewer?” he pondered. “The obvious, dogmatic, practical, off-the-street answer is like, no, you don’t. It’s fan service. Why would there be a Community movie? Who do you think is going to walk in off the street and buy popcorn and sit and watch a Community movie like that?”

“Saying that that person doesn’t exist is a lot different from asking yourself structurally if you’re supposed to design the movie for them, because there’s a new viewer inside of all of us,” he explained, likening it to a Marvel movie starting with “inside references to all 90 other Marvel movies” but losing part of the audience because it ends up “speaking in gibberish.”

“Formalistically, you owe a movie that I think the fans can not only enjoy, but they can stand back and go, ‘you know, the crazy thing about this Community movie is that if you didn’t know there was a show, this is an insanely good movie,” he added. “There’s a reason to watch it and then definitely watch the series.”

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Harmon added that it’s not only a challenge to create a story for the audience but also for the original cast, who starred in the series as a bunch of mismatched community college students. If they were on board with the idea, they would now be reuniting on-screen more than six years later, and Harmon recognized the difficulty in finding a story to suit them.

“Do you want to see these people play dress-up in their old outfits and come in and go, ‘Look at me. Meep meep, moop moop. Look what I used to do’? Yes, to some degree; no, to some degree,” he contemplated. “Contrary to that, do you want to see these people not doing that and coming in in pantsuits and going, ‘I’m an adult now… Remember when we did this?'”

Despite these creative challenges and dilemmas, Harmon remained positive about the possibility of a Community movie happening in the future. He assured fans that “the gears are turning” and “the locks are coming away” because he’s been actively thinking about the project “at least once a week” and that has kept the conversation flowing.

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All six seasons of the quick-witted, meta-riffic comedy series — including the one season without Harmon and the final season that aired on the now-defunct Yahoo Screen — became available on Netflix last year, causing fans to shout from the virtual rooftops for a follow-up movie, especially since most of the cast have expressed a desire to enrol in the project.

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Black Widow Actor Says He Plays the MCU’s First Mutant

Actor Olivier Richters says that his cameo appearance in Marvel’s Black Widow saw him playing the MCU’s first confirmed mutant – Ursa Major.

Speaking on Instagram, Richter said, “Marvel Black Widow is out! After two years I can finally tell who my character is: Ursa Major: the first mutant (X-Men) to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.”

“When production on set told me who I really was in Black Widow I let some tears in my hotel room,” he continued, “because my movie dream became true: being a official comic super Hero [sic]. I can only hope Marvel will bring back Ursa in full form.”

If confirmed, it marks a watershed moment for the MCU – mutants are associated with the X-Men series, which Marvel Studios couldn’t use until Disney acquired Fox in 2019. While comic book characters deemed mutants, such as Wanda Maximoff, have appeared in MCU movies before, their backstories have been rewritten. Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige has previously hinted at the addition of mutants to the MCU, but we so far haven’t seen them appear. Well, until now, I guess.

As for who Ursa Major is, I’ll let Richter explain: “Ursa is part of the Winter Guard, noted for being ‘Russia’s answer to the Avengers’. His power transforms him into an incredible bear, transcending The Hulk in size. Ursa appears many times in the comics [fighting] Wolverine and The Hulk.”

Ursa appears in a short scene in Black Widow, arm wrestling David Harbour’s Red Guardian. While he doesn’t take on the anthropomorphic bear form he can in the comics, Red Guardian does call him a “big bear” as he walks away.

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This could be a simple Easter Egg for fans, but it could mark the beginning of the wider X-Men universe coming to the MCU – we took a few guesses at how Phase 4 could set the stage for mutants last year. We actually thought we might have seen our first X-Men crossover in WandaVision earlier this year, but it actually turned out to be… quite a dumb joke.

If this is the start of Marvel movie mutants, it would probably still be the smaller of two major changes to the cinematic universe, after the finale of Loki introduced a major shift to the MCU.

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A Happy Gilmore Hybrid Fighting And Golf Game Was Actually Pitched

A Happy Gilmore video game that combined golf and fighting was pitched years ago for Xbox, but it never came to be. Developer Mike Mika of Digital Eclipse revealed on Twitter that the studio was, at one point, pitching a “hybrid fighting and golf game” to Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison team.

“Good times,” Mika reflected. “It should have been greenlit because it was a good idea.”

We don’t know why Happy Madison rejected the pitch, if that’s even how it played out. But the concept does sound intriguing, and at the very least, thematically appropriate. After all, Sandler’s Happy Gilmore character is a hot-headed former pugnacious ice hockey player who fights Bob Barker and cracks people with his golf clubs in the movie. One can also imagine playing as the late Richard Kiel’s hulking character, too, as he’s known for his size, strength, and his t-shirt that says, “Guns Don’t Kill People … I Kill People.”

Mika added that, with the news that Netflix is getting into gaming, now might be a good time to resurrect the game and make it with Unreal Engine 5. “Get the band back together and finally ship this beast,” Mika said.

Happy Gilmore celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, Sandler performed his character’s iconic and unconventional swing in real life, and he’s still got it.

After Happy Gilmore, Sandler’s hot streak continued with The Wedding Singer (1998), The Waterboy (1998), Big Daddy (1999), Little Nicky (2000), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Mr. Deeds (2002), Anger Management (2003), 50 First Dates (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), and Click (2006), just to name a few. Sandler now has a rich deal with Netflix that covers numerous films, the latest of which was 2020’s spooky movie Hubie Halloween.

PSA: The Cheapest Steam Deck Has Much Slower Storage Than You Might Expect

Valve made the surprising announcement of its Steam Deck this week: a portable, Nintendo Switch-like device with the flexibility of being a PC. Unlike Nintendo’s Switch, the Steam Deck is being sold in three different variations, all with more storage than the last. But if you’re looking at the cheapest of the lot, you should understand what corners were cut to hit that $400 price point.

At a glance, the only differences between all three versions are the amount of internal storage you get. Starting at 64GB and going all the way up to 512GB, the difference is stark already. But what isn’t clear without going into the Steam Deck’s technical specifications is just how different the type of storage is that you’re getting. Two models, the 256GB and 512GB versions, are both using NVMe drives (the more expensive one having a faster drive, too), which is pretty much still ahead of the curve when it comes to traditional PC gaming.

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What isn’t is the cheapest model, which uses eMMC storage. Worse yet, this storage is only PCIe Gen2 compatible, with only a single lane dedicated to the storage. The NVMe versions run across PCIe Gen3, with four lanes associated for storage alone. That has a dramatically different effect on the speed at which the Steam Deck’s CPU can access assets on your drive, which can hinder the performance of games where those matters.

For context, the maximum theoretical throughput of the eMMC 64GB model is 500MB/s, according to the official PCIe specifications. By comparison, the other two models have a theoretical throughput of 4GB/s, or around eight times faster. For modern games that are being developed with the assumption of faster memory will become common soon (spurred on by the move to new consoles, with both the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 having extremely fast SSDs) the cheapest Steam Deck might be quickly hindered by its storage if you’re playing any games that are either large sandboxes or graphically demanding.

This isn’t a new problem to portable devices, either. Microsoft’s Surface Go, its cheaper alternative to the Surface Pro, also features eMMC storage for its cheapest models. These were notoriously slow for even simple computing tasks, which lead some reviewers, such as WindowsCentral, to suggest spending more for the faster memory. It’s not clear that the speed of the memory used in the Steam Deck is the same, but given its limits based on its PCIe support alone the picture doesn’t look great.

The Steam Deck can have its storage expanded with MicroSD cards, which are also used with the Nintendo Switch. These come with their own speed compromises, and thus that option isn’t going to make up for the lack of an NVMe drive in the $400 system. The Steam Deck and its native operating system, SteamOS, will still need to run off the internal storage, so choosing its cheapest option will lock you to the eMMC internal drive in one way or another.

Valve’s Steam Deck is available for preorder today in select regions, with a release in December later this year. If you’re planning to secure one, just make sure your use case matches up with the performance you’re purchasing.

Netflix Datamine Could Suggest a Partnership With PlayStation

Netflix has not been shy about its desire to jump into the video games space, recently announcing that the streaming giant will be expanding to make game content as well as movies and TV for its platform. But a recent datamine suggests that a partnership could also be forming with PlayStation to bring some of the biggest PlayStation brands to Netflix in some form.

Reported by VGC, dataminer Steve Moser appears to have uncovered PlayStation brand imagery and content in the Netflix app code. Moser shared the information via a tweet, including images of both the Ghost of Tsushima box art and some PS5 controllers. It’s unclear exactly what this means for Netflix, but if there is a burgeoning partnership between Netflix and PlayStation, it could see Ghost of Tsushima content come to the streaming service in some form.

Moser suggests that the gaming section of Netflix currently has the codename ‘Shark’, and the placement of PlayStation IP within that suggests a collaborative approach. This wouldn’t be the first major deal between Sony and Netflix, as the two companies agreed a deal earlier this year that means movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment will come to Netflix first after their theatrical run.

Netflix has been aiming to jump more into the gaming space for a while now. It was reported earlier this year that the company was looking to hire an expert in gaming content to lead a gaming division, and it recently appointed ex-EA and Facebook Gaming Executive Mike Verdu to do just that.

The company has also previously experimented with interactive stories through productions such as Black Mirror: Bandersnatch which adopted a sort of chooses your own adventure approach in its storytelling. However, the company has yet to release any full video game content, and it is still unknown exactly what Verdu will be doing at the company, as Netflix has yet to comment further about the role.

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Sony has also been very vocal about wanting to do more with its franchises outside of gaming. We already know that a The Last of Us TV show starring Pedro Pascal is in development with HBO, and a Ghost of Tsushima movie has been greenlit. Given that many first-party PlayStation games are narrative-driven adventure games with a focus on cinematic stories, it makes sense to try and adopt games like Ghost of Tsushima and the last of us into movies and TV. Whilst PlayStation already has a games streaming service, PlayStation Now, it could also potentially be looking to push gaming content beyond the PlayStation console ecosystem, as Microsoft has done with Xbox Game Pass.

Netflix has a slate of upcoming video game content, with the recent release of Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, and shows such as The Witcher: Season 2, an Assassin’s Creed adaptation, and Sonic Prime. Would you like to see PlayStation content join that line up? And would you want to see actual games join the service, or just new content based on existing PlayStation IP? Let us know in the comments below.

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Liam Wiseman is a Freelance News Writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @liamthewiseman

What’s New On Disney+ In August 2021? Marvel’s What If And Other Movies, TV Shows, And Originals

In August, Disney+ is offering up plenty of reasons to stay at home with fresh content arriving throughout the month. This includes new movies, series, and classic catalog titles.

There’s only a few truly bright spots in the new batch of content hitting the streaming service, and Marvel’s What If…? definitely leads the pack on August 11. The animated series dives into various Marvel multiverses and the many possibilities for its character beyond what went down in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the studio’s first animated series, though it will feel familiar–it features a voice cast that includes many actors from the MCU, including Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Josh Brolin as Thanos, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, Michael B. Jordan as Killmonger, and Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster. And that’s just to name a few. Check out the trailer below.

If the notion of alternate histories in the Marvel universe sounds daunting, August 4 brings about Marvel Studios Legends, which “serves as an exciting refresher for the various heroes and villains making their way to the highly anticipated streaming shows premiering on Disney+.” The show is intended to “set the stage for upcoming adventures.” The most immediate upcoming episodes will feature Peggy Carter, The Avengers Initiative, and The Ravagers.

Finally, Cruella finally hits Disney+ on August 28. Disney, already very pleased with the film’s performance, has indicated that a sequel to the Cruella de Vil origin story is already in “early development.”

New to Disney+ in August 2021

August 4

  • America’s Funniest Home Videos: Animal Edition (S1)
  • Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (S1) Ep. Fit For Service
  • Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (S1) Ep. One Brick At A Time
  • Disney Junior Fancy Nancy (S2)
  • Short Circuit (Shorts)
  • Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life
  • Marvel Studios Legends
  • Monsters at Work
  • Turner & Hooch

August 6

  • Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
  • Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta!
  • Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (S3) Ep. Finland’s Midnight Sun
  • Killer Shark Vs. Killer Whale
  • Mrs. Doubtfire
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society
  • Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Episode 115

August 11

  • Breaking Bobby Bones (S1), 8 episodes
  • Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (S1) Ep. Front Of The Pack
  • Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (S1) Ep. Canine Quarantine
  • Disney Gabby Duran & The Unsittables (S2), 10 episodes
  • Disney Junior Chicken Squad (S1), 7 episodes
  • What If…?
  • Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life: Episode 103
  • Monsters at Work: Episode 107
  • Turner & Hooch: Episode 104

August 13

  • Aquamarine
  • Shark Attack Files (S1) Ep. Sharks Gone Rogue
  • Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Episode 116

August 18

  • Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (S1) Ep. Pack Attack
  • Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (S1) Ep. Blind Faith
  • Disney The Owl House (S2), 5 episodes
  • Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet (S9)
  • Life Below Zero: Next Generation (S1)
  • Life Below Zero: Next Generation (S2)
  • Diary of a Future President: Season 2 Premiere
  • Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life: Episode 104
  • Monsters at Work: Episode 108 “Little Monsters”
  • Turner & Hooch: Episode 105 “Road To Smell Dorado”
  • What If…?: Episode 102

August 20

August 25

  • Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (S1) Ep. Twin Trouble
  • Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (S1) Ep. Dogs V Cats
  • Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER (S9)
  • Gigantosaurus (S2)
  • Wicked Tuna (S10), 12 episodes
  • Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian
  • Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life: Episode 105 “Dog In The House / Cone Alone / Highway To Hugs”
  • Monsters at Work: Episode 109 “Bad Hair Day”
  • Turner & Hooch: Episode 106 “The Fur-gitive”
  • What If…?: Episode 103

August 27

  • Cruella
  • Dan in Real Life
  • Disney Princess Remixed: An Ultimate Princess Celebration
  • Underdog

Reebok’s Jurassic Park Sneakers Proves That Life Finds A Way To Stay Fashionable

Shoe scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could engineer Jurassic Park sneakers, that they never bothered to check if they should create them. That tinkering has resulted in a collaboration between Reebok and Amblin Entertainment that celebrates the 1993 film by proving that life finds a way to don some fashionable kicks.

There’ll be quite a few of these sneakers available with various price points. At the top of the shoe chain there’s the $200 Instapump Fury OG which looks like it was built out of a Jurassic Park touring vehicle and has some tasteful battle damage.

The Jurassic Stomper also costs $200, but it has a more tasteful design inspired by the infield InGen staff uniforms. Then there’s the $200 Pump Omni Zone 2 that features a Dilophosaurus theme, complete with carnivorous aesthetics. Sadly, the shoes lack any other flair that can be used to terrify would-be theme park saboteurs.

You crazy son of a biscuit, you did it.
You crazy son of a biscuit, you did it.

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At $140, the Zig Devil Kinetica also resembles a Jurassic Park SUV, specifically the one used to go much faster than a Tyrannosaurus Rex. If you’re into chaos theory and Jeff Goldblum, there’s a classic leather option available for $120 and features a “chaotic lateral side” to its design. Finally, $110 and the magic word gets you a Denis Nedry-inspired Club C 85 shoe that features the same floral pattern on it as the first shirt that he wore in the film.

Some of the footwear will be released in packaging that resembles the toy packaging from 1993, while the rest of the shoes will arrive in their own themed boxes when they go on sale on July 30. If shoes aren’t your thing, there’s plenty of other Jurassic Park-related activities on the horizon. Jurassic World Dominion–the third movie in the Jurassic World franchise–is in development, while park management simulator Jurassic World Evolution 2 will be released later this year on PC and console.

All that and the new VelociCoaster attraction at Universal Studios Orlando’s Islands of Adventure theme park that allows you to outrun some very clever girls.

Xbox Series Just Broke Its US Dollar Sales Record

While the Nintendo Switch has extended its streak in June 2021 as the leading hardware platform in terms of unit sales to 31, Xbox Series X/S took the top spot as the best-selling hardware platform in dollar sales for the month alongside setting a new dollar sales record in the U.S. for the Xbox Platform.

As shared by The NPD Group’s Mat Piscatella, Xbox’s June 2021 is the best for the Xbox Platform since June 2011. Its performance helped June video game hardware dollar sales jump 112% when compared to June 2020 to $401 million.

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Despite the PS5 not securing the top spot in hardware unit or dollar sales in June, it remains the fastest unit selling console hardware platform in U.S. history through its eight months on the market.

PS5 was also home to the best-selling game of June 2021 – Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Ratchet and Clank’s latest adventure also achieved the highest launch month dollar sales in franchise history, and more than doubled that of the previous record holder – 2016’s Ratchet & Clank.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War jumped up two spots from last month to second place, while Mario Golf: Super Rush took third. Launch month dollar sales for the latest entry in the Mario Golf series were the highest ever and surpassed the previous record set by GameCube’s Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour in 2003. MLB the Show 21 and Scarlet Nexus rounded out the top 5.

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 jumped from #51 in May to #17 in June thanks to the release of the Nintendo Switch version, and Sea of Thieves’ Pirates of the Caribbean update known as A Pirate’s Life shot it up from #36 last month to #20.

The full list of June 2021’s top 20 best-selling games is as follows;

  1. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  2. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
  3. Mario Golf: Super Rush
  4. MLB: The Show 21
  5. Scarlet Nexus
  6. Resident Evil Village
  7. Mario Kart 8
  8. Minecraft
  9. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
  10. Mortal Kombat 11
  11. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  12. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
  13. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
  14. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
  15. Super Mario 3D World
  16. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
  17. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+ 2
  18. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  19. Pokemon Sword/Shield
  20. Sea of Thieves

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On the accessory front, PS5’s DualSense Wireless Controller Midnight Black was the best-selling one of them all, while three of the top four best-selling accessories of June were DualSense controllers.

All in all, June 2021 consumer spending across video game hardware, content, and accessories grew 5% when compared to June 2021, reaching $4.9 billion.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.