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In 2018, All In was the biggest independent wrestling show of all time. Selling out a 10,000+ arena is no easy task, and the wrestlers/promoters of The Elite did it in under 30 minutes. From this success spung the new promotion All Elite Wrestling, and AEW is ready to present its first branded PPV on Saturday, May 25.

Taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada, AEW’s first major event is Double or Nothing. The show will feature a mix of new and familiar faces to wrestling fans, featuring talent from all around the world. As of this writing, there are 10 matches on the Double or Nothing card with two taking place on the pre-show, titled The Buy-In.

How To Watch:

WarnerMedia announced that AEW will have a weekly show on TNT, once the home to WCW, but the Double or Nothing PPV will appear on multiple streaming services, depending on your location.

If you live in the United States, you’ll have to watch Double or Nothing on WarnerMedia’s B/R Live. The show will cost $50. If you live in the UK, Double or Nothing will air on the ITV Box Office channel at 1 AM BST on Sunday, May 26. For everyone outside of the US, you can watch the PPV on Fite.tv, which aired All In last year, and it will cost $50 as well.

There is a pre-show which starts one hour prior, which you can watch on B/R Live or on AEW’s YouTube.The Casino Battle Royale and Kip Sabian vs. Sammy Guervara will air for free through those services.

Main Card Time:

• 4 PM PT
• 7 PM ET
• 12 AM BST (May 26)
• 9 AM AET (May 26)

While there are reportedly some surprises still coming in the final days before the show, you’ll find the match carded for Double or Nothing that has been booked thus far. All of these matches have been built up on the YouTube series Being the Elite and Road to Double or Nothing.

Sadly, Hangman Page vs. Pac will not be happening at Double or Nothing now. The two did have a match recently in England, which was featured on All Elite Wrestling’s YouTube channel. However, there are still plenty of great matches on the card, including Kenny Omega vs. Jericho for the #1 Contender spot for the AEW Championship, which has not been revealed yet. The winner of Omega vs. Jericho will face the winner of the Casino (Battle) Royale at a later date.

Below, you’ll find the full match card and everyone that’s been revealed for the Casino Battle Royale on AEW’s Double or Nothing PPV.

Match Card:

• Casino (Battle) Royale (Buy-In Pre-Show… #! Contender Match)
• Kip Sabian vs. Sammy Guervara (Buy-In Pre-Show)
• Aja Kong, Yuka Sakazaki, & Emi Sakura vs. Hikaru Shida, Riho, & Ryo Mizunami
• The Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta) vs. Angelico & Jack Evans
• SCU (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) vs. Strong Hearts (Cima, T-Hawk, and Lindaman from China’s OWE)
• Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho (#1 Contender Match)
• Dr. Britt Baker vs. Nyla Rose vs. Kylie Rae
• Cody vs. Dustin Rhodes
• The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) vs. The Lucha Bros (Pentagon Jr. & Fenix) For The AAA Tag Team Championships

Casino Battle Royale Competitors:

• Shawn Spears (Formerly Tye Dillinger in WWE)
• Sonny Kiss
• Glacier
• Brian Pillman Jr
• Brandon Cutler
• Kip Sabian
• Ace Romero
• MJF
• Sunny Daze
• Dustin Thomas
• Marq Quen
• Isiah Kassidy

Make sure to come back to GameSpot on Saturday, May 25 for live coverage and review of the show.

Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week, and the first reviews are incredibly positive.

The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an actor falling out of prominence and his stunt double who is played by Brad Pitt. This is all happening in Hollywood during the summer of 1969. DiCaprio’s character lives next door to the actress Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie in the film), who would be murdered by the Charles Manson family that same year.

Reviewers are calling the movie one of Tarantino’s most personal films, and a love letter to the Hollywood industry. The movie also features other huge-name actors such as Al Pacino, James Marsden, Timothy Olyphant, Dakota Fanning, and Kurt Russell, while Luke Perry appears in his final role before his death.

We’re breaking out some review excerpts here, but the movie isn’t coming out until July in the US, so only a small handful of press were able to see the film at the famous French movie festival. You can also check out a 30-minute Q&A with Tarantino, DiCaprio, Pitt, and Robbie in the video above.

The Guardians’ Peter Bradshaw said about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, “Quite simply, I just defy anyone with red blood in their veins not to respond to the crazy bravura of Tarantino’s film-making, not to be bounced around the auditorium at the moment-by-moment enjoyment that this movie delivers–and conversely, of course, to shudder at the horror and cruelty and its hallucinatory aftermath.”

Writing for Time, Stephanie Zacharek said, “This is a tender, rapturous film, both joyous and melancholy, a reverie for a lost past and a door that opens to myriad imagined possibilities.”

David Rooney for The Hollywood Reporter summed up his thoughts thusly: “Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodis uneven, unwieldy in its structure and not without its flat patches. But it’s also a disarming and characteristically subversive love letter to its inspiration, in which Tarantino rebuilds the Dream Factory as it existed during the time of his childhood, while rewriting the traumatic episode often identified as the end of that era.”

Below are some other thoughts and opinions about the film that were posted on Twitter:

Go to GameSpot sister site Metacritic to see a further breakdown of the critical reaction to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood opens July 26 in the US, August 14 in the UK, and August 15 in Australia.

A new report from Australia’s Interactive Games & Entertainment Association shows that that Australian game industry is growing. The organisation announced today that consumer spending on video games reached $4.029 billion in 2018; that’s up by 25 percent over 2017’s spending.

By comparison, the United States video game industry generated $43.4 billion in 2018.

Digital sales stood at $2.851 billion with physical retail sales amounting to $1.179 billion. Digital sales specifically jumped by a very healthy 39 percent, which is reflective of the industry’s overall trending toward digital games. Physical retail sales jumped by only 0.2 percent. This is all further evidence that digital sales are taking up more and more of the pie.

Here are some further insights from the IGEA’s report:

• In-game digital purchases jumped by 190 percent year-over-year.
• Digital full game sales rose 71 percent year-over-year.
• Mobile gaming remains huge, with 11 percent year-over-year growth in revenue.
• Console accessory sales jumped 18.7 percent and helped improve overall retail sales.
• Of the $2.851 billion in digital sales, in-game microtransactions, season passes, and expansions–this category jumped by 190 percent year-over-year.
  • Fortnite‘s massive success contributed to this uptick in revenue.
• Full-game digital sales revenue rose by 71 percent year-over-year.
• Subscription revenue rose by 31 percent compared to last year.

“The excitement for video games is continuing to grow, with phenomenal consumer sales in 2018,” IGEA CEO Ron Curry said in a statement. “Australia continues to experience video games sales growth, in line with trends similarly experienced by other countries, including the USA and the UK.”

Curry went on to say that he hopes the Federal Government will recognise that the Australian gaming industry is an “integral part of the overall screen industry, thereby allowing the sector to access screen support programs available such as refundable tax offsets.

Curry added: “It is imperative that these innovative and creative Australian-based tech companies can compete on a level playing field globally with many other jurisdictions offering support. Australian games developers should be able to take advantage, culturally and economically, of the global growth of this wildly popular entertainment medium.”

The video game industry’s next major worldwide event is E3 2019 in June. We are expecting a lot of big news from the show, so keep checking back with GameSpot soon for lots more.