Star Wars Force Friday Kick Off: Watch Daisy Ridley, John Boyega on Livestream

Lucasfilm is holding a livestream from their Pinewood Studios in London – the shooting location for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – on Thursday, Sept 26 to reveal new products that will be hitting shelves for Triple Force Friday on October 4.

IGN will be streaming the event live on our site at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET/ 7:00 p.m. BST, which will feature Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Gina Carano, Kelly Marie Tran, Cameron Monaghan, and other actors from the upcoming projects.

The products are inspired by the upcoming Star Wars releases, including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which premieres in theaters on December 20; the live-action TV series The Mandalorian, which debuts on Disney+ on November 12; and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the new game from Respawn Entertainment, which will be available on November 15.

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Outfit Your Nintendo Switch with These Deals on Accessories

Nintendo’s been busy in the hardware department lately. Not only has the company released a new Switch with better battery life, but it also launched the handheld-only Switch Lite. Whether you picked up one of these new gadgets or not, you may be in the market for some accessories that can give you more storage, longer play time on the go, or other useful Switchy things. Let’s take a look at what’s available and what’s on sale.

Portable Battery for Switch

The only bad thing about playing Switch on the go is it’ll eventually run out of battery power. But if you pick up this Anker PowerCore+ while it’s on sale for its lowest price ever, you’ll be able to keep playing all day, literally. It holds enough juice to charge a dead Switch battery about six times. Wild.

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TV Deal: Get a 50-inch Vizio 4K HDR Smart TV for $398

Over the past several years, 4K content has become more and more available. What began as a tech demo in your local Best Buy is now quickly becoming the standard for streaming television shows, video games, and movies.

While 4K, like the vast majority of great technological advances, was once prohibitively expensive, now you can get a stellar 50-inch Vizio 4K TV with HDR for $398. That means you can get a bigscreen 4K TV and a 4K-compatible gaming console (PS4 Pro/Xbox One X) for less than $1,000.

TV Deal: Vizio 50-inch 4K UHD HDR Smart TV for $398

CD Projekt Co-founder Launches Kickstarter For Minimalist Phone

Michał Kiciński, the co-founder of the Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Mudita Pure, a minimalist mobile phone that “aims to improve your wellbeing.”

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How exactly does Kiciński’s minimalist phone improve your wellbeing? By ditching bright screens and the glut of features that most phones either come with or that we download for ourselves, like Twitter. Instead, the Pure phone has an E ink display that doesn’t strain the eyes and has no colorful logos vying for your attention, a global GSM module that allows you to make calls almost anywhere in the world, a battery life that lasts five days with normal use or 14 days on standby, and a SIM card slot that’ll hold two cards at once so you can switch it out if you’re traveling. There’s also a custom Mudita OS, a speaker and music player for said speaker or headphone jack.

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TV Deal: Save $800 on a 65-inch Vizio 4K HDR TV

There are plenty of TV manufacturers out there, but Vizio has made a name for itself by offering quality TVs for less than the competition, without sacrificing the functionality most users need. Right now you can grab a vibrant Vizio 65-inch Quantum X 4K UHD HDR Smart TV for $800 less than the usual price.

The PX65-G1 is a 2019 model, and the unit includes 5 UHD/HDR-compatible HDMI ports, meaning you won’t have to juggle inputs for all your consoles and hardware.

TV Deal: Vizio 65-inch 4K UHD HDR TV for $1,398

The PX65-G1 supports resolutions up to 2160P, has 5 HDMI ports, and has Quantum Color and UltraBright3000 tech, meaning colors will look more vibrant and you’ll be able to see more nuanced color differences than before. This TV normally sells for $2,198, but you can grab it now for $1,398, and Walmart offers free freight delivery.

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Here’s How Batwoman Will Deal With Batman’s Legacy

This September, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2019-2020 season. Today we’re sending up the Bat-Signal for The CW’s newest superhero series, Batwoman. Three years after the mysterious disappearance of Batman, Gotham is a city in despair. Without the Caped Crusader, the Gotham City Police Department was overrun and outgunned by criminal gangs, leading to the rise of Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and his military-grade Crows Private Security, which now protects the city with omnipresent firepower and militia. After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate Kane has no interest in being a hero, but when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father and his security firm by kidnapping his best Crow officer Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy), with whom Kate has a complicated history, Kate will have to become what her father loathes, a dark knight vigilante, soaring through the streets of Gotham as Batwoman. We spoke to showrunner Caroline Dries about bringing Batwoman to the small screen and helping Kate step out of her famous cousin’s shadow. 

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Box Art Revealed

PlayStation and Square Enix have revealed the North American and Euopean box art for Final Fantasy VII Remake alongside some brand new screenshots that show off Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Ifrit, Shiva, and the Equipment & Materia menu screen.

Senior product marketing manager of Square Enix Neal Pabon took to the PlayStation Blog to unveil the box art for the long-awaited remake of 1997’s Final Fantasy VII.

The artwork is fittingly an homage to the North American box art for the original PlayStation title and features Cloud Strife ready to take on the Shinra Corporation with his iconic Buster Sword that also features two Materia slotted into the base of it.

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20,000 Fallout 76 Power Armor Helmets Recalled For Mold Exposure

Concerns have been raised that a wearable helmet included with special copies of Fallout 76 is a breeding ground for mold bacteria, resulting in the recall of over 20,000 units.

As reported by DualShockers, the collectable model of Fallout’s T-51B helmet that came packaged with the $200 Power Armor edition is being recalled by The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. It warns the polyester and cotton fabric inserts inside the helmet provide a safe haven for bacteria to grow.

The recall listing reads, “Mold can be present on the fabric insert inside the helmet, posing a risk of respiratory or other infections in individuals with compromised immune systems, damaged lungs or an allergy to mold.”

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Indiana Jones 5 Update: “We’re Still Trying,” Writer Says

A fifth Indiana Jones movie starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg is on the way, but little has been heard about it for some time. From the sound of it, the movie appears to still be in the early stages. And now, writer David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible) has shared more insight on how it’s coming along.

Koepp told Den of Geek that he’s back on Indiana Jones 5, but what he had to say does not exactly inspire total confidence about the film. “I’m working on it again. We’re still trying. And I think we’ve got a good idea this time. We’ll see,” he said.

Koepp was originally attached to write Indiana Jones 5, before Solo: A Star Wars Story writer Jonathan Kasdan later came on to contribute. The movie was delayed to 2021 due to “story problems,” according to Collider, and now Koepp has returned to apparently help get the story right.

Spielberg, who directed all the previous Indiana Jones movies, is coming back to direct, with Ford returning as well to play the the iconic archaeologist. Indy’s son Mutt, played by Shia LaBeouf in 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, will not return in the new movie.

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull might not have enjoyed the best reviews, but it grossed more than $786 million worldwide to stand as the most successful Indiana Jones movie ever. Altogether, the series has brought in nearly $2 billion at the global box office across all four releases.