Netflix’s Mindhunter Season 2 Release Date Revealed

Mindhunter returns to Netflix next month. The show is produced by Gone Girl and Social Network director David Fincher, and focuses on the birth of criminal psychology and criminal profiling at the FBI during the 1970s.

Netflix confirmed that Mindhunter Season 2 will hit the service in its entirety on August 16. As is often the case with Netflix, the announcement is only a few weeks away from the the show being released, although we’ve known that Season 2 is on the way since shortly after Season 1 premiered in October 2017.

Mindhunter stars Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany as special agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench, while Anna Torv plays psychology professor Wendy Carr, who helps the FBI with its study of killers and psychopaths. Fincher will direct Season 2’s premiere and season finale, while Killing Them Softly director Andrew Dominik has helmed some of the other episodes.

In an interview on The Treatment podcast, Fincher revealed that the new season revolves around the real-life Atlanta Child Murders, which took place between 1979 and 1981. “You could probably do three seasons on the Atlanta Child Murders,” he said, via Indiewire. “It’s a huge and sweeping and tragic story. We couldn’t do it justice in the background of our nine hours.

“We had to choose to dramatize. [The FBI] are the last guys in, they’re trying to help out something that has its own momentum and politics. It’s a divided battlefield. They’re coming in to throw this federal umbrella over everything to make everyone feel OK about sharing information.”

Epic Issues Warning To Fortnite iOS Players

Fortnite developer Epic Games has warned fans who play the game on iPhone and iPad against installing the latest iOS update. Writing on Twitter, the developer cited “stability concerns.”

The company stated: “We’re aware of stability concerns on the iOS 13 beta for Fortnite Mobile. We recommend that players do not use the iOS 13 beta at this time.”

iOS 13 is currently in open beta before its public release later this year. It includes a new visual style and a much-requested dark mode, as well as new camera features and additional privacy measures. Apple is also preparing to launch its Apple TV+ streaming platform and Apple Arcade games subscription.

Fortnite, meanwhile, received its latest content update just recently. Update 9.30’s content update 3 added a new throwable named the Air Strike, which rains down missiles on your opponents. For more, check out the patch notes for Fortnite’s 9.30 update.

Get 512GB of Switch Storage for a New All-Time Low Price

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They say only sure things in life are death and taxes. Might I humbly submit a third: the price of storage will always go down. I bring this up because, for the first time in months, Amazon has dropped the price of Samsung’s super-speedy U3 MicroSD Evo Select 512GB microSD card. You can now get it for the new all-time low price of $88.80. Most of the smaller cards are also at their lowest price ever, but the 512GB just dropped this morning.

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Video Game Deals: What to Expect From Amazon Prime Day

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It’s almost here: Amazon Prime Day 2019 begins on Monday and runs for 48 hours. There will be lots of chances to save on lots of stuff, and the good news is, other retailers are forced to compete. That means the whole online retailer landscape will be offering savings to try and take a little of the Prime Day pie.

Take Walmart, for example. It quietly began offering a PS4 Pro deal a few weeks ago, dropping the price to $349 and tossing in free 2-day shipping. Amazon offers the PS4 Pro at $369 right now, but we could see that price lowered for Prime Day.

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How Stranger Things Is One Big Game of Dungeons & Dragons

It’s no secret that Dungeons & Dragons plays a huge role in Netflix’s Stranger Things. From the very first game we see the young friends playing together in Season 1, to Will’s efforts to keep the campaign going with his friends in the show’s third season, and even to an official tie-in Stranger Things D&D Starter Set, the game is an integral part of the show and its characters. But did you know beyond the shots of the famous red game box and obvious monster references, there’s a lot more D&D in Stranger Things than you probably realized?

As much as Will pleads with his friends to play D&D in Season 3, he never realizes that he actually is in a campaign—in real life. The friends’ heroics to defeat the monster and save the village goes far beyond the tabletop as references, parallels, and homages make this season a huge, terrifying game of D&D. Roll an arcana check as we dive into just some of them.

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Apex Legends: Season 2 – Gunplay Tips And Changes

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Player-Made XP Quests Are Now Banned

Ubisoft has made the decision to ban some user-created quests in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey after a surge in community created content designed for XP Farming.

Last month at E3, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey received an update that added Story Creator Mode. Released in Beta, this mode allows players to create and share their own massive map-spanning quests, complete with branching narratives and a surprising level of complexity. However, after noticing a surge in easy quests that are simply designed to let players farm experience points, Ubisoft took to their community page to talk about banning them.

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Fire Emblem Is Kind of a Persona Game Now

I went into Three Houses excited to see how its traditional tactical RPG battling had changed. Trailers have shown off seemingly tile-less battlefields, covered in armies of soldiers led by the series’ traditional permadeath-threatened heroes. Combat animations are more detailed than ever, and seem to involve more than just individuals facing off against one another. From some angles it looked more like Total War, or even the long-forgotten Kessen, than a Fire Emblem game. But after playing its first five chapters, the most striking comparison for Three Houses isn’t its fellow strategy games, but Persona. I was not expecting that.

In typical Fire Emblem fashion, Three Houses begins as a mercenary hero with a mysterious past begins to discover their destiny. In this case, that involves finding out that there seems to be a magical girl with time manipulation powers living in your head – you know the drill. Soon, for initially unexplained reasons, you’re drafted in to become a professor at Garreg Mach Monastery, an officer’s training school for the continent of Fódlan’s three (relatively) peaceful countries – the Adrestian Empire, the Kingdom of Faerghus and the Leicester Alliance. Each country has a house at the school, and each house comes with its own strengths and weaknesses – you’re asked to choose one and become its head professor, steering the students’ education in the art of war. Imagine a version of Harry Potter where he was chosen to come in and teach instead of learn, essentially.

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Enter for a Chance to Win NBA 2K Playgrounds 2

Welcome to Daily Win, our way of giving back to the IGN community. To thank our awesome audience, we’re giving away a new game each day to one lucky winner. Be sure to check IGN.com every day to enter in each new giveaway.

Today we’re giving away NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 for Xbox One. To enter into this sweepstake, fill out the form below. You must be at least 13 years old and a legal U.S. resident to enter. Today’s sweepstake will end at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Entries entered after this time will not be considered.

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses – First Battle Gameplay

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