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Dark Horse Comics has formed a games division named Dark Horse Games. The division is responsible for the games and digital division of Dark Horse, working to bring the company’s portfolio of comics and IPs to video games. The division will be headed up by Johnny B. Lee, who previously worked at Improbable.

On the company’s website, it states that Dark Horse Games will be looking to partner with video game developers in order to turn its IP into video games across “mobile, PC, console, and cloud.” Dark Horse Games is also looking to make internal games as well for its lesser-known IP, so it can roll out multimedia projects alongside the games.

“We have evergreen properties, like Hellboy, where there will always be interest in making games and doing collaborations,” Lee told GamesBeat in an interview. “We and our partners can really evaluate if a story IP and character universe would be a good fit for games that they’re internally designing and developing. I think most triple-A devs that I’ve talked to prefer their game dev team to build core gameplay and then fit an IP to it, versus shoving an IP down their throats. We’re sensitive to that.”

Lee also said that Dark Horse Games is very deep in talks with developers, both indie and AAA, and if everything goes well, people could start hearing about games based on its IP next year. He said that Dark Horse plans to take lessons from larger comic companies that have worked on games, like Marvel and DC, and plan multiple projects across different mediums together for synergy.

Video games based on comic books have been mostly successful, with games like Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Batman Arkham series having both critical and commercial success.

Sophie Turner is joining the cast of The Staircase, HBO Max’s adaptation of the 2004 docuseries The Staircase, according to a report from Variety.

Turner joins Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Parker Posey, and more; the Game of Thrones actor will play the role of main character Michael Peterson’s adopted daughter Margaret Ratliff in the eight-episode limited series.

The Staircase, like the docuseries before it, follows the case of author Michael Peterson (Firth), accused of murdering his wife Kathleen (Collette). Peterson claimed at the time that his wife had fallen down the titular staircase, but police suspected Peterson’s involvement and he was convicted in 2003.

Peterson was granted a new trial in 2011, but submitted an Alford plea–the defendant maintains their innocence but agrees that the evidence would likely convict them–for a reduced charge, allowing him to be sentenced to time served and then released.

The original documentary was updated in 2013 and 2018, and is available right now on Netflix.

While Sansa Stark won’t be appearing in any of them, HBO has a whole slate of Game of Thrones prequels on the way. House of the Dragon, following House Targaryen, is already in production. The Tales of Dunk and Egg, based on author George R.R. Martin’s novellas following Ser Duncan the Tall and Aegon V Targaryen, is also in the works. 10,000 ships, set a millennium prior to the Game of Thrones series, just picked up its writer, and an animated series is also reportedly in development.

Amazon Prime Day 2021 will bring a huge wave of gaming deals when it kicks off later this month (June 21-22, if reports are true), and there’s sure to be no shortage of Prime Day PlayStation deals. Now that we’re over six months out from the PS5’s launch, we’re starting to see more PS5 deals on games and even some accessories, and PS4 deals are already out in full force thanks to Sony’s Days of Play sale. In the days and weeks leading up to Prime Day 2021, we’ll be tracking all the best Prime Day PlayStation deals as we spot them, but for now, here’s an overview of what to expect from Prime Day’s PS4 and PS5 deals along with some great discounts to take advantage of now.

When more information on Amazon Prime Day 2021 is available, we’ll be updating this story so you can stay on top of the best PS4 and PS5 Prime Day deals. In the meantime, check out more of our Prime Day 2021 guides, including the best Prime Day deals to expect, how to get Amazon Prime for free, and tips for saving the most money on Prime Day. Plus, catch up on the best Prime Day tech deals and Prime Day TV deals.

Prime Day PS5 console deals

If you’re still looking to buy a PS5 console, the most you can hope for during Prime Day is a PS5 restock, either at Amazon or (more likely) other stores looking to steal some of Amazon’s thunder. Amazon restocks have been few and far between, but retailers like GameStop, Walmart, and Best Buy have been a bit more consistent with their restocks, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see a PS5 drop to pull people to their site during Prime Day.

Still, because of how few times Amazon has restocked the PS5 since launch, it’s also not unrealistic to think the retailer may be stockpiling consoles for Prime Day.

Prime Day PS5 headset deals

The official PS5 headset is easier to find in stock than it once was, but we haven’t seen a discount on it since launch. That doesn’t mean Prime Day headset deals won’t include the Pulse 3D wireless headset, but what we can count on is some great deals on third-party headsets. In fact, our pick for the best PS5 headset, the Razer BlackShark V2 Pro, is already on sale now. Fortunately, many PlayStation headsets are compatible with both PS4 and PS5, so you have a wide range of choices, and you can expect to see more headset deals closer to Prime Day.

Prime Day PS5 controller deals

If you own a PS5, you might be looking to pick an extra controller this Prime Day–maybe you’re eyeing one of the two new DualSense shades released recently, Cosmic Red and Midnight Black. PS5 controllers cost $70 (and Cosmic Red is $5 more), so picking up a second or third one will cost you a decent chunk of change, but there’s a chance we’ll see PS5 Prime Day controller deals this year.

Prime Day external hard drive deals

Most PS5 and PS4 owners have to pick up an external drive to expand their console’s storage at some point, so it’s never a bad idea to pick one up if it’s on sale and you haven’t taken the plunge yet. Prime Day hard drive deals are sure to feature the top brands, including Western Digital and Seagate, and there are already great discounts on some of our picks for the best external hard drives and SSDs. These external drives can store PS5 and PS4 games, and you can play PS4 games off them directly, but you’ll have to move any PS5 games back over to your internal SSD in order to play them. Still, having an external hard drive or SSD on hand helps free up space on your internal SSD for downloading new next-gen games.

Prime Day PS5 accessory deals

Days of Play has brought a rare discount on one official PS5 accessory: the PlayStation HD camera, which is down to $50 ahead of Prime Day. It’s an excellent pick-up for those looking to stream their gameplay, offering 1080p capture with background removal tools and the ability to add yourself to gameplay videos while broadcasting in picture-in-picture mode. Unfortunately, discounts on other first-party PS5 accessories, like the DualSense Charging Station, haven’t yet popped up, but we’ll be keeping a close eye on them come Prime Day. However, if you don’t want to wait on Sony’s first-party peripherals to drop in price, there are similar, highly rated alternatives from third-party sellers on Amazon, like the NexiGo Dobe PS5 controller charging station that’s on sale for under $14 right now. These are worth considering if you’re looking to save money as you expand your PS5 setup.

Prime Day PlayStation Plus deals

We have a pretty good idea of what to expect around Prime Day PS Plus deals–usually, Sony’s online gaming membership drops to around $40 for Prime Day. That’s a nice 20 bucks off the usual $60 list price, but you can usually find 12-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions for even cheaper if you’re willing to shop sites like eBay and CDKeys. Thanks to Days of Play, there are some great PS Plus deals available right now, so you can snag a digital code on sale and start playing online (and claim June’s free PS Plus games) right away.

Prime Day PlayStation Now deals

You can try out PlayStation’s cloud gaming service for less in June. Ahead of Prime Day, PlayStation Now is on sale at multiple retailers, with 12-month memberships going for as low as $42.74 and 3-month memberships dropping to just under $20. PlayStation Now gives you access to more than 800 PS4, PS3, and PS2 games on demand, with new games cycling in every month and playable on PS4, PS5, or PC.

Prime Day PS5 and PS4 game deals

Sony’s Days of Play sale ends June 9, a couple of weeks before Prime Day, but we’d expect to see those same PS5 game deals resurface, hopefully with an even steeper discount. Right now, $70 games like Demon’s Souls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Launch Edition, MLB The Show 21, and The Nioh Collection are $10 off, dropping them to $60. We wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon bumped them down by another $5 to $10 come Prime Day, but since this is the first year where PS5 games will be on sale during Prime Day, it’s hard to say just how hard Amazon will push PS5 game deals.

Prime Day PS4 deals will offer a great opportunity to snag any last-gen games you may have missed out on for cheap, and the best part is that both PS4 and PS5 owners can take advantage of them. Those who haven’t managed to get their hands on a PS5 yet can take advantage of any PS4 game deals knowing those physical games can be played on PS5 in the future too (at least, if you get the disc drive version of the console).

PS4’s PlayStation Hits are currently down to $10 each as part of Days of Play, and this is usually the case during Prime Day as well–so if you’re considering picking up older PS4 games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Bloodborne, or Uncharted 4, there’s really no need to wait until Prime Day when they’re currently on sale. More recent PS4 releases like The Last of Us Part II ($30), Ghost of Tsushima ($40), and Death Stranding ($20) are already back down to their Black Friday prices as well.

Realistically, we’d expect Prime Day 2021 to recycle a lot of Days of Play’s first-party PlayStation deals. What’ll be more interesting to see is how low third-party PS4 and PS5 games go, including Ubisoft titles like Watch Dogs Legion and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

The pandemic has been tough on just about everyone, but as far as businesses go, movie theaters suffered quite a bit, having to shut down all but entirely. After filing for bankruptcy earlier this year, theater chain Alamo Drafthouse is now emerging with plans to open new theaters, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The independent theater chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year, a move that begins a reorganization process for a struggling business. The company sold assets to pre-existing investor Altamont Capital and newcomer to the chain, Fortress Investment Group, to keep the business afloat as theaters stayed closed, pushing studios to delay upcoming movies.

Thanks to new financing from the sale, Alamo Drafthouse is now looking to open a 14-screen theater in Manhattan alongside its planned Staten Island theater. The chain is also planning 9-screen theaters in Washington D.C. and Arlington, Virginia, as well as a theater in St. Louis, Missouri. Meanwhile, two Texas theaters and one in Kansas City, Missouri will close; the chain is also ceasing development of a planned Orlando, Florida location.

“We’re so thrilled to be reopening theaters across the country and welcoming back audiences for an unparalleled moviegoing experience with films we’ve been eagerly awaiting for over a year now,” said Alamo Drafthouse CEO Shelli Taylor in an official statement. The Wrap notes that Alamo founder Tim League and some of the other original investors are listed among minority partners for the organization following the restructure.

The Austin, Texas chain currently has 41 theaters in operation.

Pokemon Go is kicking off its new Season of Discovery with a Slowpoke-themed event from June 8-13. The event is called A Very Slow Discovery, and it introduces Galarian Slowpoke and Galarian Slowbro to the mobile game, as well as standard Slowbro’s Mega-Evolved form.

The event marks the first chance you’ll be able to encounter and catch Galarian Slowpoke in Pokemon Go. Unlike standard Slowpoke, this form is a pure Psychic type, and to evolve it into Galarian Slowbro, you’ll need to catch 30 Poison Pokemon while it’s set as your Buddy. The following Pokemon will also be appearing in the wild more frequently during the event:

• Slowpoke
• Slowbro
• Slakoth
• Vigoroth
• Gulpin
• Spoink

In addition to the wild Pokemon spawns, Mega Slowbro will debut in Mega Raids, while the following monsters will be appearing in lower-tier Raids during the event:

One-star Raids

• Galarian Slowpoke
• Alolan Grimer
• Shellder
• Shinx
• Timburr

Three-star Raids

• Snorlax
• Slowking
• Slaking
• Toxicroak

Beyond that, Niantic will offer a batch of event-exclusive Field Research tasks to complete, as well as a new Collection Challenge. If you’re able to clear the latter, you’ll receive a Slowpoke Forever shirt for your avatar along with 30 Ultra Balls and 3,000 XP. Niantic will also give away a free event box in Pokemon Go’s in-game shop, and there will be other new Slowpoke-themed cosmetics. You can read more about the event on the official Pokemon Go blog.

In the meantime, Pokemon Go’s June Community Day takes place this Sunday, June 6. This month’s featured Pokemon is Gible, and it will be able to learn the Ground-type Charged Attack Earth Power if you can evolve it into its final form, Garchomp, either during the event or up to two hours afterward. Niantic has also rolled out a short new Limited Research task line that will give another chance to catch Galarian Ponyta.

Dark Horse Comics has opened a new gaming and digital division and is already speaking with AAA developers to potentially collaborate on games based on its biggest titles.

As reported by VentureBeat, Dark Horse has opened a new Dark Horse Games division out of Oregon and Shanghai with the intent of bringing its books — which includes properties like Hellboy, Sin City, 300, Umbrella Academy, and more — to games.

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According to Dark Horse Games general manager Johnny Lee, the plan currently is to work with top developers on games based on Dark Horse’s most famous books, presumably titles like Hellboy.

All the while, Dark Horse will build an internal studio to create games based on either newer books and properties or older books that are less well-known.

“We have evergreen properties, like Hellboy, where there will always be interest in making games and doing collaborations,” says Lee. “We and our partners can really evaluate if a story IP and character universe would be a good fit for games that they’re internally designing and developing.”

Lee says Dark Horse is already in “late-stage discussions” with several AAA game developers and says if deals go well fans will start seeing its characters in major video games “no later than the end of Q1 next year.”

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Dark Horse has found great success in letting creatives take their books for a spin. Titles like Hellboy and 300 have been adapted into some great movies directed by filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro and Zack Snyder, respectively. While other titles like Umbrella Academy have been successfully adapted for Netflix.

It might not be long before we start seeing a similar occurrence in the video game industry.

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Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor.

Game of Thrones aired its series finale two years ago, but many of its actors finished working on the show long before it concluded. Though Sean Bean’s Ned Stark is one of the series’ most well-remembered characters, the English actor was only a main cast member in the show’s first season in 2011, with his role in the story wrapping up in an early, much-memed exit.

Since leaving Game of Thrones, Bean had apparently checked out on what was happening in Westeros over the next seven seasons. In a recent profile in The Times of London, the actor learned how the series ended for the first time and expressed a muted approval of how things shook out.

Warning: Spoilers for Game of Thrones’ ending are below

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In the piece, the interviewer described how the series concluded with Ned’s son, Bran, being crowned the king of Westeros and his daughter, Sansa, becoming queen of the North.

“So did Winterfell stay separate?” Bean asked. “Oh, good for them.”

The exchange began as a question the interviewer had about Bean’s thoughts on the parallels between the Starks’ kingdom’s secession from the rest of Westeros and Brexit, the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

Bean admitted he had not kept up with Game of Thrones since leaving the show. When asked if he would want to avoid spoilers in case he eventually did get around to watching the rest of the series, Bean said “I’ll have forgotten by then, go on.”

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Though Game of Thrones has concluded, HBO is plotting several returns to George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world. The prequel series House of the Dragon revealed its first look last month, showcasing the design of key characters. Additionally, the network is developing three other spin-offs as well as an animated series.

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J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer.

As E3 2021 looms, the big games are starting to show their hand. We discuss the recent gameplay reveals for Far Cry 6 and Dying Light 2 – both of which also got firm Fall release dates. Plus: Bungie’s next project, Microsoft Flight Simulator does some housekeeping to maybe get ready for its Xbox Series X release, and more!

Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, to our new YouTube channel, or grab an MP3 download of this week’s episode. For more awesome content, check out the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, featuring an interview with Shadow Warrior 3 game director Kuba Opon on how they resurrected Shadow Warrior, his career path from programming to game directing, and much more:

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For more next-gen coverage, make sure to check out our Xbox Series X review, our Xbox Series S review, and our PS5 review.

After days of teases and weeks of leaks, UFOs have finally begun abducting people in Fortnite. Tuesdays are typically update days for Epic’s huge game, but today seemed to come and go without any fanfare, patch notes, or other major milestones to note. That was the case until this evening, at least. Players have begun sharing clips of the first-ever alien abductions in Fortnite.

As you can see below, the aliens seem to appear at random and choose one person to abduct. A brilliant beam of greenlight then focuses on that player for a few seconds before they’re lifted into the air and eventually dematerialized in front of any onlookers nearby. If, like Fox Mulder, you want to believe, here’s your proof.

This in-game event was leaked earlier this season but was not announced to be coming at any particular time. As is often the case, dataminers were able to tip off the community before Epic could really surprise everyone, but the arrival of UFOs still feels sudden given the lack of any official advance notice.

According to leaks, the UFOs will abduct someone during a round, heal them fully with 100 health and shields, then drop them somewhere else on the island to resume playing. This additional clip confirms the leaks, as it shows the event from the perspective of an abductee. With this all happening so suddenly, there’s still more to learn, but it seems like the next week will be eventful.

Those who study alien abduction reports are likely familiar with the concept of lost time, where alleged abductees claim to have minutes or even hours of their experiences wiped from their memories and unaccounted for. Could it be that players who get abducted by Fortnite aliens will later learn they’ve been used in some grander scheme as part of the Season 7 storyline? Such a twist sounds in line with the same lore guardians currently obfuscating the apparent truth that Fortnite’s masked man, The Foundation, is secretly played by The Rock.

This is all building up to Fortnite Season 7, which kicks off on June 8 and by all accounts will be themed around aliens, perhaps even starring Marvel’s Loki as a Battle Pass character. The aliens have appeared before all five Foreshadowing Quests have gone live in the game–we’re still waiting on two more. You can also catch up with the cryptic teasers for Season 7, as well as peek at the upcoming Week 12 challenges, the final weekly challenges of Season 6.

Thor: Love and Thunder’s Chris Hemsworth has shared the exciting news that the upcoming MCU movie has finished filming alongside an image of him looking absolutely ripped.

Hemsworth took to Instagram to post an image of himself and Taika Waititi, who plays Korg, and his arms look worthy of the God of Thunder, even on “national don’t flex day.”

“That’s a wrap on Thor Love and Thunder,” Hemsworth wrote. “It’s also national don’t flex day so I thought this super relaxed photo was appropriate. The film is gonna be batshit crazy off the wall funny and might also pull a heart string or two. Lots of love, lots of thunder! Thank you to all the cast and crew who made this another incredible Marvel journey. Buckle in, get ready and see ya in cinemas!!”

Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder will be released in theaters on May 6, 2022, and will star Hemsworth and Waititi alongside Natalie Portman, Chris Pratt, Tessa Thompson, and Christian Bale as the villain, Gorr the God Butcher.

Portman has been confirmed as The Mighty Thor in in Love and Thunder, and you can check out our in-depth history lesson on Jane Foster and Thor: Goddess of the Thunder in Marvel Comics.

Russell Crowe will also be joining the film in a cameo-sized role and will be playing Zeus, although it is unclear if he will be a dramatized version of the actual Zues in the MCU.

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Thor: Love and Thunder will arrive after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and The Marvels.

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