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The next major Marvel TV series is Loki, and it has now begun streaming on Disney Plus. Like Wandavision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki is a big-budget Marvel TV show that finds actors from the MCU films reprising their roles as it moves the overall story forward. So far, two episodes of Loki are now available on Disney Plus and if you’re wondering when to expect the next one, check out our handy watch guide below.

How to Watch Loki

There’s only one way to watch Loki, and that’s by subscribing to Disney Plus.

Subscribe to Disney Plus to Watch Loki

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You can subscribe to Disney Plus for $7.99 per month, or you can opt for a bundle containing Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN+ for $13.99 per month.

What Time Does Episode 3 of Loki Come Out?

Since the premiere, new episodes of Loki arrive on Disney Plus at 12:01am PT / 3:01am ET every Wednesday and will continue to come out at that time throughout the rest of its current season.

Moving forward, viewers can expect future Disney Plus original series to release on Wednesdays instead of Fridays, thanks to the success of Loki.

How Many Episodes Are There In Loki Season One?

Season one of Loki is six episodes long. The premiere released on Disney Plus on Wednesday, June 9, and episodes will continue to come out every Wednesday until the season finale on Wednesday, July 14.

Loki Episode Release Schedule

Here is when you can expect new episodes of Loki:

• Loki Episode 1: Wednesday, June 9 – Premiere
• Loki Episode 2: Wednesday, June 16
• Loki Episode 3: Wednesday, June 23
• Loki Episode 4: Wednesday, June 30
• Loki Episode 5: Wednesday, July 7
• Loki Episode 6: Wednesday, July 14 – Season Finale

Loki Trailer

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What Is Loki?

Loki is an upcoming Marvel show based on Thor’s trickster brother Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston. Now, you might be asking, “Didn’t Loki die in Avengers: Infinity War?” Indeed he did. However, this series is about an earlier version of Loki–a Loki variant, if you will–who stole the Tesseract during one of the time jumps in Avengers: Endgame.

Turns out that Loki messed some things up in the timeline of human events. That means he has run afoul of the Time Variance Authority (TVA), an organization in charge of making sure things like that don’t happen. And if they do happen? They want those disturbances fixed.

The show will feature Owen Wilson as the TVA’s Mobius, as well as characters played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, and Richard E. Grant. It will tie into the events of the upcoming movie Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. And although the first season has yet to air, we’ve already seen rumors that a second season of Loki is in the works.

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What Else Is on Disney Plus?

Loki isn’t the only thing you can watch on Disney Plus by a long shot. You’ll also find tons of other MCU movies and shows, as well as pretty much all things Star Wars, Pixar, The Simpsons, and, of course, Disney. There’s a ton to stream here, so you won’t likely run out of things to watch for a very long time. Sign up for Disney Plus here.

What’s With the Disney Plus Bundle?

The Disney Plus bundle includes Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN+. It costs $13.99 per month, and you can sign up for it here. If you’d prefer to have an ad-free Hulu experience, you can pick an ad-free version of the bundle that costs $19.99 per month.

Hulu has tons of past and current TV shows and movies, plus original series and original movies. ESPN+ offers a whole lot of sports content, and is required to watch UFC pay-per-views. The $13.99 monthly bundle of these three services is a seriously great deal, even if you only plan to dabble in one of the services.

Whether you go with a bundle or you just subscribe to Disney Plus, you’ll be able to watch Loki when it arrives.

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Nintendo’s latest E3 Direct is in the books, but the deals are just getting started. Besides the ongoing sale on dozens of Nintendo Switch games and accessories, you can also scoop up a great deal on a 12-Month family membership for Nintendo Switch Online while scoring a 128GB microSD card for free! Truly a killer deal that you won’t want to miss out on!

The Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership provides online access for up to eight family members (or friends, too) as well as access to a collection of NES and SNES games and limited-time games such as Pac-Man 99. Additionally, the included 128GB microSD card allows you to expand the Switch’s internal storage and store even more games, apps, captured videos, and screenshots.

Nintendo Switch Online 12-Month Family Membership w/Free 128GB microSD Card

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If you’re looking to catch up on all the big games and announcements from E3 2021, we’ve got you covered. Head over to our E3 2021 hub for everything you need to know.

Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner, running from June 21st to June 22nd this year, and we can likely expect even more great Prime Day video game deals. We don’t know what will be on sale, so if there’s something that catches your eye now, don’t wait!

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Microsoft wants to make the Xbox App a more social experience than before, as an update arriving today adds official game stories so you can see the best clips from your favorite titles.

Though not yet live when we checked on our own Xbox App, the feature will let a game post related stories similar to what you’d see on Instagram or Twitter. Pictures showcasing the game or prompts about the game will be available to followers, who can then share, like, or comment on the posts. Given the limited social interactivity available on the Xbox app, this should encourage people to use it more frequently.

It remains to be seen if a similar stories feature will be available for players to post their own content or if it will be limited to official game channels forever. Right now, players can share screenshots or clips to a variety of social networks or their feed, but it’s not as easy to spot them right away.

There are still some features missing from the overhauled Xbox app, which replaced a previous version that had been in place for years. You can no longer redeem codes or claim Games With Gold directly within the iOS app and you can’t even use it to buy games anymore. Achievements, which had been removed for several months, did eventually return, however.

For more on Xbox, check out the announcements from E3 2021 and stay tuned for tomorrow’s extended Xbox showcase.

The Pokemon Company has announced that on Thursday, June 17, there will be news about Pokemon Unite, the Pokemon MOBA spin-off for Nintendo Switch and mobile. While the company provided no information about what the news will be, it described it as “important.”

Pokemon Unite is being developed by Tencent and Timi Studios, best known for developing Call of Duty Mobile and Arena of Valor. The MOBA was announced during a Pokemon Presents last June and news has been quiet since. The 5v5 multiplayer title has had limited regional betas in the past few months but has not received an official release date. Pokemon Unite was not present during the Pokemon Presents stream in February where Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and Pokemon Legends: Arceus were announced.

The main gameplay that has been shown for Pokemon Unite showed a streamlined MOBA experience, with two teams battling to capture control points so they could score points. Pokemon level up and evolve over the course of the match but it doesn’t have any type advantages. The game also includes Pokemon from multiple generations, with Pikachu, Lucario, and Talonflame among the confirmed playable Pokemon.

Marvel’s WandaVision TV show starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany reprising their MCU characters was very popular, but Olsen has said there won’t be a second season. Now, Marvel boss Kevin Feige has weighed in on the matter.

At the virtual PaleyFest today, Feige was asked about the future of WandaVision. He said fans can expect Wanda’s story to continue, though he stopped short of saying that will happen in a potential WandaVision season two.

“Yes to an evolution of storyline; probably and inevitably in many different capacities,” Feige said, according to Deadline.

Wanda will appear Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022, so fans are at least getting that in terms of more storytelling. But could there be more?

“That’s the first place where that story will continue,” Feige said of the Doctor Strange sequel, going on to tease, “But there will be other places.”

Asked recently about a potential WandaVision season two, Olsen said, “No. No. It’s definitely a limited series.” She said she would be “shocked” if there was a second season.

While we’ll have to wait a bit longer to know what’s next for Wanda, MCU fans can watch Loki right now on Disney+. For more on that show, check out GameSpot’s breakdown and analysis of what happened in Loki episode two.

In the more recent Fast and Furious movies, Dominic Toretto and his crew have inexplicable super strength and invulnerability. They quite literally can’t be hurt in any way–unless the story specifically calls for it–and they regularly and very casually perform stunts that totally abandon logic, physics, and common sense. We’re talking feats that would give the Avengers pause.

But this series had humble beginnings. Dom (Vin Diesel) and his “family” started out as amateur street racers and petty thieves who stole DVD players from the backs of trucks; Brian (Paul Walker) worked for the LAPD and was tasked with infiltrating the group to thwart their minor crime spree. In 2 Fast 2 Furious, Brian recruited his friend Roman (Tyrese Gibson) to help him infiltrate a different criminal group in Miami. The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift, released 15 years ago to the day, introduced a completely new set of characters with no relation at all to the Toretto crew–except for Dom’s post-credits appearance that revealed his connection to Han (Sung Kang). Instead, it followed Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) as he traveled to Japan and eventually took on the Yakuza in a street-racing duel.

And that was OK. With Tokyo Drift, the Fast franchise had continued on its established road: This was a series about relatable protagonists using their considerable, but still human, street racing skills to infiltrate or otherwise contend with criminal groups of thieves, drug lords, and gangsters.

Read More: The Fast And The Furious: 15 Things You Forgot About The Movie That Started It All

Rather famously, though, the franchise almost went straight-to-DVD after Fast 3, a death sentence in the age before streaming premieres. As Universal Pictures co-president of production Jeffrey Kirschenbaum told The Wrap in 2013, “The talk internally was that the franchise was played out…At that point we were weighing whether to go straight to video or not for future sequels. We weren’t sure what we were going to do.”

What happened instead was Vin Diesel’s return to the series, along with much of the original movie’s cast; and a major tonal shift that, starting with Fast 4 and continuing to this day, gradually turned these once-humble cops and robbers into superheroes who can be flung through the air at nitrous-infused speeds and land safely on car windshields, or survive an exploding nuclear submarine by taking cover inside a Dodge Charger. Oh, and the series has made more money than anyone could have ever imagined.

The Fast and Furious movies are undeniably fun popcorn blockbuster fodder. Fast 9‘s impending arrival will be a benchmark occasion for once-habitual moviegoers who have been held back from visiting theaters by the global pandemic. In it, John Cena will join the cast as Dom’s formidable brother, the gang will use giant magnets to cause havoc on city streets, and Roman and Tej will apparently fly a car into space. And that’s just what’s in the trailers.

For all the enjoyment these movies have given us, what’s been lost along the way? Any sense of realism, certainly, and the ability to suspend disbelief if you’re the type of moviegoer who prefers things to generally make sense. Beyond basic plausibility, though, the Fast franchise has lost the intimacy that characterized the first few films. For all that they contend to be about “family,” as each movie gets bigger and crazier, adding members like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jason Statham, Charlize Theron, Kurt Russell, and now John Cena, the series feels more and more like a rotating cast of superpowered movie stars locked in a never-ending struggle to somehow outdo the insanity of their previous outing.

There’s something to be said for the simplicity of the first few Fast movies, including the original, which turns 20 this month, and up through Tokyo Drift. They’re definitely tame in comparison with what the series became–remember when drifting cars up a spiral parking structure ramp seemed crazy? But they have a gritty charm that the franchise left behind when it started resurrecting dead characters through convoluted retcons, making its protagonists invulnerable to any harm, and shoehorning in more and more unbelievable stunts just for the sake of one-upping itself. Personally, I miss when the Fast and Furious movies were about scrappy street racers just living their lives a quarter mile at a time.

Starfield is an upcoming space-based RPG from Bethesda Game Studios. Positioned as the next big RPG to stand alongside Bethesda’s well-known series like Elder Scrolls and Fallout, it will be the first game out of that studio to center around a new universe in over 25 years. Bethesda first revealed Starfield in 2018, but fresh details finally surfaced after a new trailer was officially revealed at E3 2021. If you’re looking to get caught up on all the latest, take a look at everything we know about Starfield so far.

Starfield Gets A Release Date

At the Xbox and Bethesda Game Showcase at E3 2021, a trailer officially revealed the Starfield release date. It’s scheduled to arrive on November 11, 2022, and will be an Xbox console exclusive, launching solely on Xbox Series X/S and PC.

Bethesda’s Pete Hines addressed the Xbox console exclusivity in an interview with GameSpot, offering an apology and saying he gets it and totally understands if people are unhappy or pissed.

“Sorry, all I can really say is, ‘I apologize,’ because I’m certain that’s frustrating to folks, but there’s not a whole lot I can do about it.”

The Starfield Trailer at E3 2021

Bethesda showcased an in-engine trailer of Starfield at E3 2021. It centers around an astronaut, as they make their way through a ship and prepare for takeoff. After arriving in a room where they place down their gun, the trailer zooms in on a shelf labeled Stow 84S with a white case marked as Property of Constellation. The trailer then zooms in on an image taped to a wall. What’s in the image (that looks like a blueprint though Todd Howard claims it’s not) is unclear, but as the astronaut climbs into their seat, an individual from an organization called Constellation radios in and confirms the astronaut for their departure.
The narrator in the trailer says, “They say the wonder is not that the field of stars is so vast but that we have measured it. You’re part of Constellation now. Part of our family. What you found is the key to unlocking everything. This is all we’ve been working towards. We’ve come to the beginning of humanity’s final journey. That’s why we’re here – to discover what’s out there.”

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Is There An Elder Scrolls 6 Easter Egg in the Starfield Trailer?

Fans on Reddit speculate there may be an easter egg in the Starfield trailer shown at E3 2021 that may reveal the location of Elder Scrolls 6. If you look closely at the side of the console, there’s a small etching that coincidentally resembles the shape of Hammerfell and High Rock, regions found in the continent of Elder Scrolls’ Tamriel.

Elder Scrolls VI easter egg in the Starfield trailer pic.twitter.com/AoBfrYLfNj

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Starfield’s Story Is Still A Mystery

Not much other than bits and pieces have been revealed about Starfield’s mysterious protagonist and their story. We know it takes place about 300 years into the future and involves a space organization called Constellation, which feels very reminiscent of NASA. Howard calls them the “last group of space explorers.”

In a Telegraph interview, Howard confirmed that, while Constellation is the primary group players will be part of in Starfield, it is one of many groups players will encounter and can join throughout their journey.

Howard has called Starfield an “epic” and said it will “ask big questions” like, are we alone in the universe? Why are we here? What are the origins of space and time? And what role does religion play in all of it?

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Starfield Gameplay Features

Starfield gameplay hasn’t been shown yet, but there are a few features that have been confirmed. The official Starfield site says you’ll be able to “create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom.” 

In a recent interview with Launcher, Todd Howard said you’ll also be able to choose your character’s background and revealed customizations can affect how your character’s story unfolds.

Howard described Starfield as “Skyrim in space” and Bethesda Managing Director Ashley Cheng called it akin to a “Han Solo simulator” where you’ll be able to “get in a ship, explore the galaxy,” and “do fun stuff.”

In the same Telegraph interview we mentioned earlier, Howard confirmed Starfield will be playable in first and third-person perspectives.

“We like that style of gameplay,” he said. “First-person for us is still our prime way of playing. So you can see the world and touch all those things.”

Keeping in theme with previous Bethesda games, players can expect to encounter NPCs, and this will include humans, aliens, and even robots. A nod to this can be found in the Starfield trailer shown at the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase during E3 2021. If you look closely, you can spot a note on a blackboard to a robot named Vasco asking them to pick up some “Tranquilitea”, with specific instructions not to get decaf.

Howard said Starfield will have a world that invites players to explore, interact, and test the boundaries of the game.

“We like to put you in a world where we’re not dragging you by the nose and saying you must do x, y, and z, and that it’s okay for you want to test the [game’s boundaries],” he explained.

“You know, can I read this book? Can I pick this up? Can I do this? What if I do this?.. And the game is saying ‘yes’ a lot.”

We’re still a year and some change away from the launch of Starfield so we’re guaranteed to hear and see some more about it as we get closer. Make sure to check back as we’ll be updating this hub as more details about Starfield come out.

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During our Play For All livestream, we debuted a new trailer for RFM, an upcoming grid-based strategy action game. The game has a few roguelite elements as well.

As seen in the trailer, RFM is a colorful game with a cel-shaded art style and retro-futurist atmosphere. The soundtrack is pretty bangin’ too.

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In RFM, you play as Morgan, a mercenary traveling through The Bast in search of a loved one. If you happen to make a little money along the way, all the better. On your journey, you’ll encounter a unique cast of characters, who you can befriend.

In combat, RFM uses a tactical battle system that features real-time action and time-freezing strategy elements. As a roguelite, each run into The Bast will have an element of randomness, and you’ll have to decide what upgrades to work towards every time. For example, do you want to work towards improving your health or find a cool attachment for your revolver that adds an explosive AOE attack to your arsenal? The choice is yours.

RFM is scheduled to launch for consoles (to be announced) and PC in 2022.

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The first trailer for Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard has arrived, giving fans the early look at what to expect for the show’s return to the Paramount+ streaming service in 2022. And for Star Trek: The Next Generation fans, it includes a very exciting reunion.

Kicking off the trailer is the return of Q (John de Lancie), a foil of Picard’s from The Next Generation who also appeared on Star Trek: Voyager. “Oh captain, how I’ve missed you,” he tells Picard (Patrick Stewart). “Welcome, my friend, to the very end of the road not taken.

The trailer then explains that time has been broken and it’s up to Picard and his crew to fix it. “We can save the future,” he says. “And I will get us home together.”

The final reveal of the trailer sees the Borg Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) awaken in a bed. However, she quickly notices one massive change: the ocular implant that’s been a trademark of the character since its inception is gone. What’s more, there’s what looks to be a variation of a Borg badge in her room. It should be pretty interesting to find out what all of that means.

Picard returns to Paramount+ in 2022.