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As well as introducing a host of upcoming young stars, the hit Netflix show Stranger Things has given a series of famous names from the ’80s and ’90s some of their biggest roles in years. Winona Ryder is, of course, one of the main stars, but there has also been roles for the likes of Matthew Modine, Paul Reiser, and Sean Astin. Now two more names can be added to the list–Cary Elwes and Jake Busey.

According to Empire, Elwes and Busey are set to join the cast of Stranger Things 3. The news was revealed by Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos, who described the actors as “guest performers.” Empire also reveal some extra information about their characters; Busey will play Bruce, who is a “corrupt and sexist news reporter,” while Elwes is Mayor Kline, a “slick and self-serving politician.”

Elwes is best known for his lead role in the much-loved 1987 fantasy comedy The Princess Bride, as well as Robin Hood: Men in Tights and the first Saw movie. Busey meanwhile starred in the sci-fi classic Starship Troopers and will be seen later this year in the much-anticipated The Predator.

Although the third season of Stranger Things does not yet have a release date, production is set to begin next month. Producer Shawn Levy recently revealed that Season 3 will be set in the summer of 1985, following the convention of the last two seasons, which were set a year apart in ’83 and ’84 respectively.

In January, Levy gave a few more hints as to the direction of the next season. He suggested that the story emphasis might shift, with Will no longer the center of the show’s supernatural scares. “We’re going to give Will a break,” he said. “We’re not going to put Will through hell for a third season in a row. He’ll be dealing with stuff, but he won’t be at rock bottom the way we forced the amazing Noah [Schnapp] to play.”

Stranger Things 3 was confirmed in December. Netflix renewed the series on the heels of Stranger Things 2’s debut just before Halloween, when it was watched by a third of the the streamer’s US subscribers. Click here to see GameSpot’s theories about Season 3.

If you have a PS4 and you’re dying to put it to good use playing excellent games, Best Buy could be your best friend this week. It has tons of PS4 and PlayStation VR games on sale, including most of the recent exclusives.

As always, the deals are even better for members of Best Buy’s Gamers Club Unlocked program. A two-year membership costs $30 and gets you 20% off of pre-orders and new (non-used) games. The links below go to the games’ Best Buy pages, and the GCU prices are listed in parentheses.

PS4-exclusive deals

If you’re looking to take advantage of your PS4 to play games you can’t get on any other system, these are the deals you’ll want to check out. Some of the best PS4 exclusives of the past few years are on sale. For starters, there’s Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition for $40 ($32 for GCU members). It comes with the core game and the Frozen Wilds expansion.

Next up is the well-received cinematic spinoff Uncharted: Lost Legacy, on sale for $30 ($24). If you’re into ultra-challenging but tight-controlling action, Nioh is the game for you–it’s on sale for $20 ($16). And if you’d rather befriend a giant bird-dog, you can’t do that anywhere but in The Last Guardian, on sale for $20 ($16). Speaking of giant creatures, you can kill over a dozen of them in Shadow of the Colossus for $30 ($24).

Here are some of the other PS4 exclusives on sale at Best Buy:

Multi-platform PS4 game deals

Exclusives are great and all, but some of the best games come out on PC, Xbox One, and Switch as well. Here are some of Best Buy’s best deals on PS4 games that happen to be available on other platforms.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is on sale for $50 ($40). It’s a deep action-RPG set setting during the Middle Ages. Don’t expect to find dragons and magic here, but do expect to defend your village against invading armies. That can be fun too, right?

If you prefer fantastical elements in your medieval games Middle-earth: Shadow of War might be what you’re after; it’s available for $30 ($24). Or maybe you’d prefer the MMO The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind for $20 ($16). For fictional twists on real-life history, try Assassin’s Creed Origins, on sale for $30 ($24), or Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, down to $40 ($32).

Feel like playing online? You can team up with friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, on sale for $20 ($16). Grand Theft Auto V, available for $30 ($24), has a persistent online world that keeps getting new content, years after its initial release. And people with a competitive bent should try Overwatch: Game of the Year Edition, on sale for $40 ($32).

Here are some other highlights:

PlayStation VR game deals

Finally, if you have a PSVR headset, there’s a good chance you’re looking for new game worlds to jump into. If so, Best Buy has lots of deals that are worth a look.

Wipeout Omega Collection, on sale for $20 ($16), recently got a major PSVR update, making the full game playable in the headset. It’s a lightning-fast racer that feels just right in VR–definitely worth a try for any PSVR owner.

Starblood Arena, available for $15 ($12), and RIGS Mechanized Combat League, down to $20 ($16), are both thrilling online shooters you can only play in PSVR. If you’re looking for a scare, try The Inpatient for $20 ($16), Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul for $15 ($12), or Until Dawn: Rush of Blood for $15 ($12). They ought to get your heart pumping.

Other PSVR highlights on sale include:

Those are the best deals Best Buy is running now on PS4 games. If anything changes, we’ll keep you posted.

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The new trailer for Jurassic World: Forbidden Kingdom is here. The sequel to 2015’s hugely successful Jurassic World hits theaters in June, and this latest promo follows the first teaser that was revealed back in February. There is also a new poster which you can see at the end of this story. The new trailer, which you can view above, lays out much of the storyline, so beware of potential spoilers!

It reveals that the rescue mission featured in the first trailer is merely a ruse to get the dinosaurs off the island and into the hands of some villainous corporate types, who plan to exploit them. But of course, the dinosaurs get loose and mayhem ensues. The movie stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Toby Jones, and BD Wong, with Jeff Goldblum reprising his role from the original Jurassic Park.

Jurassic World: Forbidden Kingdom is directed by Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona, and co-written by Colin Trevorrow, who helmed the first movie. Last year, Trevorrow spoke about working with Bayona. “It is by far my favorite creative collaboration that I’ve ever been involved in,” he said. “Bayona is a completely different kind of filmmaker and thinker than I am, yet we do have a lot of things in common. I was able to craft something specifically for another filmmaker that I admire. I built a Spanish horror thriller with dinosaurs in it that I probably wouldn’t have built for myself.”

Even though Forbidden Kingdom doesn’t hit theaters until June 22, the release date for the third movie has already been announced. In February, it was confirmed that it will arrive on June 11, 2021. It has also been announced that Trevorrow will return to direct it. This is Trevorrow’s first movie since he was fired from Star Wars Episode IX last year.

As you might imagine, Gamefly ends up with a lot of used games. Periodically it puts on sales to unload its inventory and make room for new games. One such sale is going on now. So if you don’t mind your PS4, Xbox One, and 3DS games having a little wear-and-tear on them, check out these deals. It’s worth noting that the games are guaranteed to work, shipping is free, and they come with new cases and manuals. You can find all the deals here, but below we’ll zero in on the standouts.

In terms of PS4 and Xbox One games, you can grab Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, a standalone follow-up to Dishonored 2, for $13. Also $13 is Batman: The Telltale Series. Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package will run you $25, and South Park: The Fractured But Whole is $18. If you want to try out the modern take on the CRPG Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition, it’ll run you $25.

As for exclusives, Gamefly has a few PS4 games on the list. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy can be yours for $28, while Nioh, the Dark Souls-style game set in ancient Japan, costs $30. And everyone’s favorite, Knack 2, is also $30. Xbox One owners can pick up Gears of War 4 for $20 and the strategy game Halo Wars 2 for $17.

No Switch games are included in the sale, but a handful of 3DS games are. On the gradually sunsetting handheld, you can get a number of fine games for $25, including Pokemon Sun/Moon, the dungeon-crawler Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, and Metroid: Samus Returns.

Gamefly also deals in movies–who knew? If you want some hands-off entertainment in your life, you can pick up Blu-rays like the spooky-doll movie Annabelle: Creation for $12, The Mummy for $9, The Fate of the Furious for $7, and Alien: Covenant for $5. The store also has a similar selection of movies on DVD, most of which fall in the $5 – $7 range. Check out the full list of sale items right here.

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Update: In a statement to GameSpot, Sony confirmed that it is not attempting to collect any new data from users with the latest PS4 update. “We are not collecting any new data,” the company said, “We are being more transparent and offering consumers choice.”

The statement continues: “In line with GDPR requirements, we make every effort to be transparent with our users about how we collect, use and manage their data; we will not be collecting any new or additional information from our users. service data would encompass data necessary to provide users with the service they request (e.g. if a user clicks on a link to a new page, downloading the page to the device). On the other hand, additional data is information that does not need to be collected to provide users with the service they request, most analytics / usage, settings & navigation data would fall into this category; this leads to improved user experiences. Please see our Privacy Policy.”

The company also confirmed there is no way to opt out of supplying service data unless you choose not to play online. You can, of course, opt out of supplying additional data. Original story follows.

Sony recently released a new PS4 update that appeared to be another small, incremental patch to improve stability. However, once the optional update is installed, a message appears informing European PS4 users that Sony “may collect data about this PS4 and how it is used.” While it is not clear if Sony is collecting additional data from before, the requirement to agree to such data collection does appear to be new.

The message states that two sets of data can be collected from your PS4. The first of these is service data, which Sony defines as “data necessary to provide online services.” The second–“additional data”–includes “navigation, usage, and settings data.”

A separate “about device data” screen states Sony needs to send, receive, and log data about which apps you use and content you consume. For example, it may need to know which shows you watch in a video app in order to pay licensors for that content, while some online games will need to know your characters’ movements in order to communicate that to other players online. Other service data includes your network configuration, devices you have connected to your PS4 (such as controllers and PSVR headsets), error data, legal data, and load time data.

Additional data, meanwhile, can include detailed information like “when and how you use the game’s user interface, which parts of the game level you visit, which weapons you use, and which characters you interact with.” It can also include which sections of the PlayStation Store you visit and which system settings you alter. You can decline to provide your additional data, but once you’ve installed the update there is no way to proceed without agreeing to the collection of service data.

Sony says it uses device data to produce anonymous statistics, understand and improve performance of new products, detect and minimize fraudulent or unauthorized behaviour, and, if you agree to the collection of the additional data, deliver you personalized ads.

GameSpot staff in the US did not receive the above messages. It’s not clear if Sony is accessing more data from European users than before the update or if it is simply disclosing its data collection more clearly now due to impending changes to data collection regulations in the European Union. The regulations, dubbed GDPR, come into force in May 2018, so Sony may simply be preparing for the upcoming change in law. GameSpot has contacted Sony for clarification.