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Hero Collector is gearing up for a new line of collectible figurines called Marvel VS. As the name suggests, this series immortalizes some of the greatest rivalries in the Marvel Universe, from Spider-Man’s eternal feud with Green Goblin to Captain America’s dysfunctional relationship with Iron Man.

IGN can exclusively debut new images of all six figurines in the Marvel VS line. Check them out in the slideshow gallery below:

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Each of these figurines is designed at 1:16 scale, meaning they clock in between six and eight inches tall. Each of the six characters is inspired by Marvel’s comic book universe as opposed to the MCU, though the line looks to feature a mix of classic costumes (Spider-Man, Green Goblin, Captain America) and more modern looks (Thor, Loki, Iron Man).

The Marvel VS figurines are priced at $39.95 each and are expected to go on sale in September 2021. The Marvel VS series is part of a larger effort by Hero Collector and parent company Eaglemoss to pivot to mainstream retailers, so you can expect to find these figurines in a wide variety of stores rather than just comic book shops and specialty retailers.

Hero Collector also recently kicked off its Marvel Museum Collection line, which features scale-model replicas of various MCU weapons like Iron Man’s helmet and Thor’s hammer Mjolnir. The first wave recently hit WalMart shelves, and a wider release will follow later in the year.

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Hero Collector also recently teased the Star Trek Universe Starship Collection, which features replicas of various starships from Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming Captain Pike series.

Comedian and late night TV host Conan O’Brien has shared his thoughts on Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis. In a new segment with his podcast co-hosts Sonia Movsesian and Matt Gurley, along with members of the off-shot Good Game Nice Try podcast, O’Brien ripped into the Sega game with his trademark humor and wit.

His first observation? “First of all, the title is waaaaay too long,” O’Brien says, further joking that no game should have the word “colon” in it.

Upon seeing footage of Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis itself, O’Brien remarks that the world is a fantastical place where “birds and robots and Pokemons live together.”

O’Brien described the animation style as “groovy,” which is something Sega probably did not expect. The comedian also enjoyed how you can create and customize your own character. “I want tiny hands and just massive sausagey thighs,” he said.

For what it’s worth, Sega paid for this segment to promote New Genesis, which releases June 9 on PC and Xbox in the US. O’Brien also hosts the Clueless Gamer segment in which he plays games and makes fun of them. His latest Clueless Gamer video focused on Biomutant, which he said was way too long and had no point.

The Clueless Gamer segment has been running for years, and it has covered numerous big games like The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, and numerous others. It was reported in 2017 that the Clueless Gamer show would be spun off into its own series, but that never happened.

O’Brien is ending his late night show in June before moving to HBO Max for something new, and fans are hoping to see Clueless Gamer also make the jump and continue in some way.

Amazon Prime Day’s best deal is already available. This “free money” deal usually happens once a year right before either Amazon Prime Day or Black Friday. It’s not much, but free is free! Of course you’ll need an Amazon Prime membership to take advantage of this deal as well as many more on Prime Day.

Buy a $40 Amazon Gift Card, Get Free $10 Amazon Credit

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If you buy a $40 Amazon gift card (for yourself, let’s say), you’ll get $10 of free Amazon credit deposited into your account. If you shop regularly at Amazon, that basically amounts to free money. Really, if you have $40 lying around, there’s no reason not to do it. The only catch is that the credit expires if you don’t use it by August 7. I’d recommend you spend it on Prime Day. Note that you can select an eGift Card delivered instantly instead of a physical gift card.

Amazon Prime Day Confirmed for June 21-22

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Amazon Prime Day has been officially announced; it will run from June 21 to June 22 this year. That’s a little earlier than expected (Prime Day has traditionally happened in July), but we aren’t complaining over here. Historically, Prime Day is Amazon’s biggest sale day of the year outside of Black Friday and covers everything from electronics to sports and fitness. Make sure you’ve signed up for an Amazon Prime membership to take advantage of all the best deals Prime Day has to offer.

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PS3 owners will have to do something they haven’t done in a while the next time they boot up the console: Update it. And before you get worried, no, this update doesn’t take down the console’s PlayStation Store.

According to the extremely short list of patch notes posted on PlayStation’s website, update 4.88 for the PS3 simply “improves system performance.” It’s not clear how the PS3’s performance could be improved after all this time, but it’s nice that Sony clearly intends to continue supporting the console.

Today’s update for the PS3 comes after Sony reversed course on its plans for the console. According to the company’s original plan, today would have marked the start of the last month that the PS3’s online store would be up. However, Sony decided to leave the PS3 PlayStation Store up following outcries from PlayStation fans.

“Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here,” wrote Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan on the PlayStation Blog. “So today I’m happy to say that we will be keeping the PlayStation Store operational on PS3 and PS Vita devices.”

While the PS3 store lives on, not all members of the PlayStation family were so lucky. The online store for the PSP will still be shutting down on July 2 as planned.

With the PS3 and PS Vita stores staying online, players have a wealth of games to check out before they eventually are made unavailable. If you’re looking for suggestions, we wrote up a list of games you should check out on both platforms as soon as you can.

Business is booming for Nintendo around the globe, but in its home territory of Japan, the console has reached an impressive milestone of 20 million sales since it was first launched in March 2017.

As reported by Famitsu and translated by Nintendo Life, the official sales number were recorded on June 2 and the list of the top five best-selling Switch games in Japan was also updated. Unsurprisingly, Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to be the top-selling game on the system.

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 6.78 million units sold
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4.29 million units sold
• Pokémon Sword and Shield – 4.05 million units sold
• Splatoon 2 – 3.87 million units sold
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 3.84 million units sold

Nintendo recorded 84.59 million Switch console sales in its global figures that were released last month, and by now that number will have climbed even higher. That almost a quarter of all Switch sales originated from Japan shows the strength of the brand in that country, while current international sales forecasts predict that the Switch will soon overtake the Wii’s lifetime sales.

Upcoming high-profile releases such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl remakes, and Splatoon 3 will likely see sales continue to steadily increase as the console has entered the midway point of its life-cycle.

More details on what to expect for the Switch will be revealed in a 40-minute E3 2021 Nintendo Direct on Tuesday, June 15. Just don’t ask about the rumored Switch Pro, because the company isn’t ready to confirm the existence of that device just yet.

Nintendo has announced that it will be hosting a roughly 40-minute E3 2021 Nintendo Direct on June 15, 2021, at 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm BST.

Revealed on Twitter, the Nintendo Direct will be followed by 3 hours of gameplay in the Nintendo Tree House Live show.

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As with most Nintendo Direct announcements, Nintendo gave no further details as to what fans can expect from its E3 2021 show, but many will undoubtedly be hoping for updates on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, Metroid Prime 4, a possible new Mario game, a potential celebration of The Legend of Zelda’s 35th anniversary, Bayonetta 3, and much more. It did say that the Direct will be “focused exclusively on #NintendoSwitch software, mostly releasing in 2021.”

Furthermore, there have been reports that Nintendo is planning to announce an upgraded Switch – which many have come to call the Switch Pro – before E3 2021 so the company and other publishers can talk about games coming to this new hardware that is said to feature a 7-inch OLED display and the ability to output in 4K when docked to a TV. Nintendo has allegedly been planning to launch this new system in September or October of this year.

In February 2021, The Legend of Zelda’s Eiji Aounuma promised we’d be getting more news regarding the much-anticipated sequel to 2017’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and many believe it would be the perfect launch game to be released alongside this new Nintendo Switch.

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As for The Legend of Zelda’s 35th anniversary, Nintendo was noticeably quiet on the actual 35th anniversary day of the release of The Legend of Zelda while fans around the world celebrated the franchise and expected a similar treatment to Super Mario Bros.’ 35th anniversary.

We haven’t heard much from Metroid Prime 4 since the announcement in 2019 that its development would be restarting with Retro Studios.

Super Mario Odyssey was also released in 2017, and it could be time to see a potenital sequel or a tease of the next mainline Mario game.

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Lastly, Bayonetta 3’s game director Hideki Kamiya said it was “safe to expect” news on the Switch exclusive, and E3 2021 could be the perfect time to reveal more.

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This week’s release of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown will decide the future of Sega’s fighting game franchise, as Sega’s chief producer Seiji Aoki commented on the game and what its release means for a potential Virtua Fighter 6.

“Nothing has been decided yet regarding Virtua Fighter 6, so I cannot make any statement,” Aoki said in an interview with Famitsu Magazine that was translated by SiliconEra. “But if you ask me whether I want to create it or not, I do want to create it. This title [Ultimate Showdown] will let us know whether there are demands and potentials for Virtua Fighter. We want to hype it up so it can connect to the next one.”

The upcoming PS4 release has been completely remastered using Yakuza studio Ryu ga Gotoku’s Dragon Engine and features high-definition upgrades for all 19 fighters, arenas, and cinematics. There’s even a downgrade option available if you’d prefer to play the game with 1990s graphics instead.

Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown released on June 1 for PS4 and PS5 through backwards compatibility, and is available as a June PS Plus game alongside spy adventure Operation Tango and space combat game Star Wars: Squadrons.

For more insight into the game, you can check out our Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown interview with Aoki, in which he talks about the enduring legacy of the fighting game franchise.

Nintendo has confirmed its plans for E3 2021. The company will host an E3 2021 Nintendo Direct on Tuesday, June 15, the final day of E3 2021.

The showcase begins that day at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. It’s expected to run for about 40 minutes, and it will feature information focused exclusively on Nintendo Switch games for 2021 and beyond, though most of the titles discussed will be 2021 games.

After the event, there will be a Nintendo Treehouse Live showcase that will include about three hours of gameplay footage, presumably from the games shown off during the Direct.

This is all standard stuff for Nintendo, as the company historically hosts its own E3 briefing on the final day of E3 after Microsoft, Ubisoft, and others. The Treehouse series is also something that Nintendo has been operating for years. It normally features developers and hosts talking about the latest Nintendo games and showing off gameplay.

The announcement specifically says the Nintendo Direct at E3 2021 will focus on software–the teaser text makes no mention of hardware. Normally, this wouldn’t be noteworthy, but there are ongoing rumors that Nintendo will announce a Switch Pro model before E3. That could still be the case, or it might not be; we’ll just have to wait and see.

Nintendo has a number of exciting upcoming games, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, Splatoon 3, Metroid Prime 4, and more. Whether or not those games show up at the event remains to be seen. Nintendo is also known to surprise, so fans should expect the unexpected.

E3 2021 runs June 12-15. The schedule so far includes Geoff Keighley’s Kick Off event on June 10, followed by Ubisoft Forward on June 12. The Xbox/Bethesda briefing is slated for June 13, with Razer’s event following on June 14. Sony is not expected to show up at all. An E3 2021 awards show will cap things off on June 15.

For more on E3 2021, check out GameSpot’s full rundown of E3 2021, how to watch, and what to expect.

You’ve got the gaming rig of your dreams: a processor like lightning, an overclocked GPU, and even a clear case with those custom water cooling and RGB that lights up like something out of an 80s science fiction movie. There’s just one thing missing: a chair and desk to go with your setup.

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When it comes to crime solving, Sherlock Holmes Chapter One does not mess around. Whether I was investigating a crime scene, interviewing a person of interest, or drawing conclusions that would determine someone’s guilt or innocence, Chapter One absolutely never held my hand. If I missed some critical pieces of evidence and accused the wrong person? Oh, well! An innocent man goes to prison and I get to walk around thinking I’ve delivered justice. If I found someone committed murder but decided to let them go free anyway? That was totally my prerogative. This complete lack of any kind of safety net or morality system to nudge me in one direction or another was a breath of fresh air that made my short time with Chapter One far more interesting than a straightforward adventure game.

It makes sense! After all, I’m supposed to be the world’s most brilliant mind and a masterful detective: why shouldn’t I be expected to put the pieces together myself or fail in the effort? Even though Chapter One takes place during Holmes’ early days as a 21-year-old upstart, Sherlock seems ever-confident in his knack for observation and reasoning in the section I played, and the short introductory quest immediately required me to put those skills to the test.

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With my childhood friend Jon at my side, I dove into a murder mystery involving a mystifying seance and characters with secret pasts and hidden motives. In one section I used my enhanced talent for observation to discover which person in a crowd had a military background, and in another I eavesdropped on some gossip to learn about a scandalous affair. Many steps and clues in the investigation were missable if I didn’t notice a detail or made an error in logic, which could lead me down a path to unknowingly identifying the wrong killer. And unless I made a habit out of saving and reloading as often as possible, Chapter One did nothing to nudge me in the right direction. And I appreciate that about it.

That said, sometimes Chapter One’s odd way of presenting information and somewhat clunky menus led to errors that felt unearned, while others happened organically as I missed a beat somewhere along the way. Either way, I was expected to figure it out or suffer the consequences. And that’s the beauty of Chapter One. Nailing a puzzle and feeling like an erudite sleuth is awesome precisely because it feels so well-earned. On the other hand, making a mistake often left me in disbelief at just how little the game cared if I was successful or not. All the while, Jon followed me around making notes in his diary as his opinion of me shifted based on my performance.

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The fact that Sherlock is young and perhaps a little more cocky than he should be serves Chapter One well, because either he’s young and still brilliant as ever or he’s overconfident and has a lot to learn. With my own success or failure, I got to decide which Sherlock I was. In a world where lots of games make you feel like you’re bowling with bumpers on, this level of freedom was incredibly refreshing, even when it felt a bit harsh.

The small glimpse I got of Chapter One’s open-world island of Cordona felt equally unrestrictive. With optional side quests, locations, and events I can take in at my own pace, the prospect of a brutally darwinistic open-world crime solving game is incredibly appealing. But because my time in the open-world aspect of Chapter One was so limited, it remains to be seen if something so ambitious can even work. I’m sure a lot of learnings from the developers’ previous game, The Sinking City, will be applied. Either way, it’s piqued my curiosity quite a bit and I’m excited to see if they can pull it off.