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PC copies of Streets of Rage 4 purchased from GOG.com do not support online multiplayer, despite being priced the same as the Steam version that does feature online capabilities.

The GOG store page for Streets of Rage 4 has a disclaimer stating: “Please note that at this time, the DRM-Free version supports local co-op only with up to 4 players. The 2-player online mode is not available.”

Hello, unfortunately the GOG version of the game won’t be supporting online features.

— Lizardcube #SOR4DAY Out Now! (@lizardcube) April 29, 2020

While that note claims there is no online mode “at this time”, a tweet from developer Lizardcube suggests that online won’t be coming to the GOG version of the game. “Unfortunately the GOG version of the game won’t be supporting online features,” the studio said in response to a fan asking about cross-play with Steam users.

Both the Steam and GOG.com versions of the game are priced at $27.99/£22.49 (currently with a 10% discount), but the Steam version allows players to team up online for PvP Battle Mode fights or co-op play. Multiplayer is available in the GOG version, but only locally.

We’ve reached out to Lizardcube for further clarification.

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Streets of Rage 4 is also available on console without these issues, should you be looking for a more straightforward approach to multiplayer. Our Streets of Rage 4 review says it’s worth checking out, too, even if it prioritises nostalgia over modern advancements.

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Warning: Spoilers follow for various TV finales from years past…

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There have been many series finales that have split fandom over the years, whether they involved visits to the Iron Throne, the afterlife, or even Holsten’s (and maybe the afterlife too in that case?). It’s often clear when it comes to ending a favorite TV series that it’s hard to keep everyone happy, and frequently viewers are left steaming even if some others are satisfied.

So let’s take a look at some of the more outrageous, divisive series finales in TV history. These aren’t bad finales, just ones that made bold creative choices that didn’t sit right with a large portion of the audience. Read on for the full list…

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Game of Thrones: “The Iron Throne”

After the penultimate episode, “The Bells,” left so many fans furious, leading to an online petition to “remake” Season 8, “The Iron Throne” had one hell of an uphill climb. Not only to win people back, but also end the entire 10-year story.

In the end, many felt let down by the fates of most characters, along with the nice and neat epilogue that crowned a new ruler of the realm. Even those who didn’t hate the finale would readily admit it wasn’t exactly the best ending possible. Yes, this particular Song of Ice and Fire saga split the kingdoms and sent Westeros to war one final time.

Lost: “The End”

Lost chose to deliver an emotional finale – based more on the feelings, desires, and ultimate happiness of the characters – over one that answered lingering questions fans had stockpiled over the years. Many liked the focus on the heartstrings while others were frustrated with the lack of specifics.

And no, they weren’t “dead the whole time.” Well, except for those in the flash-sideways scenes during the final season. They were in a type of purgatory. But the others weren’t. Some lived on after the island and died from natural causes. It was then that they all joined up in the limbo church for a final farewell. The fact that none of this was abundantly clear though probably means the episode, and season, didn’t do a bang up job exactly.

Battlestar Galactica: “Daybreak”

BSG’s three-part mega close-out also wrapped things up with quiet emotion, as the notes from “All Along the Watchtower” created coordinates that led our heroes to a habitable planet filled with primitive humans. Our Earth.

Sure, the stripping away of all technology rubbed a few fans the wrong way, but it was the crazy 150,000-year time jump, and the “humanity is doomed to make machines too sentient again” messaging, that split the viewers. It’s always going to be risky to leap that far ahead, to the point where every character you cared about is a fossil, for a moral that many fans already understood.

The Sopranos: “Made in America”

Like the BSG closer, The Sopranos’ finale really lost people right at the very end. Right when the music stopped and the screen turned to black and a lot of fans thought their TVs went out.

The creative swerve got a ton of flak at the time, though now, years later, many fans and critics have come around on it as one of the more daring examples of “different” done right. And it certainly hasn’t hurt The Sopranos in the annals of TV history as it’s still considered one of the best series of all time.

Seinfeld: “The Finale”

Yes, it became abundantly clear over the years that Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer weren’t great people. In fact, once the show leaned into their shallowness, it hit its creative stride. But sending the guys to prison? Because they weren’t great people? It was just a bit too much for many Seinfeld loyalists.

None of this stopped the episode from being a ratings juggernaut though, or the series itself from going out as the number one show on TV. Like The Sopranos, the finale didn’t make a dent in the show’s legacy. What can we say? Sometimes it’s the journey and sometimes it’s the end.

St. Elsewhere: “The Last One”

What if there was a popular, long-running, acclaimed ’80s medical drama that, right at the very end, told the audience that nothing they’d seen for 137 episodes was even real. And then that weird ending became the show’s overall legacy, spoofed for decades by other shows.

This is the case of St. Elsewhere, which closed things out with the reveal that the entire hospital was inside the snow globe of an autistic boy named Tommy. Tommy had been dreaming that his father was the hospital’s medical director when, in fact, as revealed in the final scene, he worked in construction. I guess the title St. Elsewhere should have clued people in, right? Anyhow, this final beat left many fans bewildered and belligerent.

Star Trek Enterprise: “These Are the Voyages…”

Though Star Trek Enterprise isn’t really considered one of the top tier Trek series, it still had a ton of fans. Some of whom were left stunningly cold after the show’s finale jumped six years into the future and split the narrative between the regular cast and a holodeck adventure featuring TNG’s Will Riker and Deanna Troi.

This “valentine for the fans,” that was meant to connect Enterprise to TNG, fell flat for many as Captain Archer’s story wound up feeling like second-billing and under-rug-swept.

Felicity: “Back to the Future”

If you had to guess which TV show suddenly dove deep into time travel for its final installment, not many would have guessed “late ’90s college love triangle dramedy” Felicity. Unless you thought it was possible for all J.J. Abrams shows.

Actually, the time travel stuff started a few episodes earlier (after the show had planned out its final episode and the WB Network ordered five more) and viewers got to experience an alternate timeline in which Keri Russell’s Felicity got to go back (thanks to a spell from her goth roommate) and make different choices.

Regardless, many said the show just didn’t feel like the show anymore by the time it ended. Including the cast. And that might be a recurring element here when it comes to divisive finales — when, for whatever reason (pacing, tone, freakin’ impromptu time travel), the story no longer feels like the one you’ve been following for years.

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Which TV finales did you find to be the most outrageous and divisive? Discuss in the comments!

Note: This story originally ran in May of 2019.

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With digital comics platform ComiXology offering a 60-day free trial period for its ComiXology Unlimited monthly subscription service, we’re here to point out the best comics worth reading from the 25,000+ titles available. This article is focusing on DC’s very own Emerald Warrior, the Green Lantern, so we’ll be pointing out the best comics and graphic novels about the heroes of the Green Lantern Corps.

Most of the Green Lantern comics available on ComiXology Unlimited come from the long-running, critically acclaimed run by writer Geoff Johns. While the entire run isn’t available on the service, there are still some story arcs worth checking out, so we’ll give you the context you need to hop right in.

But if you’re looking for something a little different that falls outside of Johns’ run, then worry not, because there are some other excellent Green Lantern comics you should definitely read.

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You can view our list as a slideshow by flipping through the gallery below, or keep scrolling to read it as an article.

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Green Lantern: Secret Origin

If you are just getting into Green Lantern, then this is the comic for you. Secret Origin tells the definitive origin story for the modern Green Lantern franchise. It tells the familiar story of how Hal Jordan received the Green Lantern ring and his training with verteran Green Lantern Sinestro, but it also weaves in other characters and concepts that will become more important down the line.

This story can be found in Green Lantern #29-35.

Green Lantern: No Fear

So you already know the basics of Green Lantern and want to jump right into the adventure? Then No Fear is the place to start. It’s the proper beginning to Geoff John’s epic run, and it starts small by showing Hal Jordan returning to his home of Coast City and taking up the duties of the Green Lantern once more. Many Green Lantern stories take place among the stars, but this one grounds everything on Earth, giving you a look at Hal Jordan’s civilian life and pitting him against some rather brutal Earthbound foes.

This story can be read in Green Lantern: No Fear, which collects Green Lantern #1-6 and Green Lantern: Secret Files #1. If you like it, you can keep reading the next six issues (#7-12) on ComiXology Unlimited.

Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War

The Sinestro Corps War is like the Empire Strikes Back of Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern saga in that it’s the middle chapter of a grand cosmic epic and it’d widely considered to be the best story arc of the modern Green Lantern era. Hal Jordan’s mentor-turned-enemy Sinestro has started his own Corps of Yellow Lanterns and recruited some of the most fearsome and powerful baddies in the entire DC Universe to help him destroy the Green Lanterns and rule the galaxy through fear. It’s a thrilling cosmic war story that expands on the mythology of the rings while testing its large cast of heroes like never before.

This volume collects Green Lantern #21-25, Green Lantern Corps #14-19 and Sinestro Corps Special #1.

Green Lantern: War of the Green Lanterns

Green Lanterns sure do love to get into wars, don’t they? This story sees a mysterious force taint the power of the Green Lanterns and cause the Green Lanterns to turn on each other, sparking a war between a small squad of Earth-based Lanterns and the rest of the Corps. With the Green Lantern power no longer safe to use, this is the story where we finally get to see each Earth Lantern wear a new ring from a different color on the Emotional Spectrum, which shows a different side to Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, and John Stewart that we haven’t seen before.

This volume collects Green Lantern #63-67, Green Lantern Corps #58-60 and Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #8-10.

Learn About the Emotional Spectrum

If you want to read more of Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern run in order to learn all about the different colored powers of the Emotional Spectrum, there are even more story arcs that are available to read in single issue form. Note that these stories take place after the Sinestro Corps War and before the War of the Green Lanterns.

Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns

The fan-favorite Red Lanterns are consumed by hatred, making them one of the deadliest and most volatile threats in the Green Lantern mythos. So naturally we get to see what happens when Hal Jordan gets infected and transforms into one of them.

This story takes place across Green Lantern #36-38.

Green Lantern: Agent Orange

The new colors of the Emotional Spectrum keep popping up as we meet the one and only Orange Lantern known as Larfleeze. He is unique as he is powerful, and his personality proves to be one of the more interesting and silly in recent memory.

This story takes place across Green Lantern #39-42.

Green Lantern: Blackest Night

This is where everything concerning the different colored Lanterns comes to a head. These issues tie into the main Blackest Night event comic (not available on ComiXology Unlimited) and show what’s going on in between the big beats of the main story. Still, it’s full of revelatory character work and plenty of disgusting Black Lantern zombie action, so it’s definitely worth a read.

This story takes place across Green Lantern #43-52.

Green Lantern: Brightest Day

On the other side of Blackest Night is none other than Brightest Day. But don’t confuse this with the actual Brightest Day series by Geoff Johns that explores how the larger DC Universe reacts to the events of Blackest Night (also not available on ComiXology Unlimited). This story that takes place in the main Green Lantern series shows how the Lanterns respond to it. Whereas the different colored Lanterns were largely opposed to one another before, the leaders of each faction must now find a way to work together to bring about a better future for all of them.

This story takes place across Green Lantern #53-58.

Green Lanterns

Looking for something outside that Green Lantern run? You’re in luck. Green Lanterns is a fresh approach to the franchise that follows two rookie Green Lanterns, Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz, as they battle their personal demons while trying to figure out how to be interstellar space cops. It’s an incredibly heartfelt, human, and humorous run that nevertheless challenges its heroes with next-level threats they have no business dealing with.

Curiously, all five volumes of Green Lanterns are on ComiXology Unlimited except for Volume 2, for reasons we do not know.

Star Trek/Green Lantern

This charming Star Trek/Green Lantern story is a light-hearted piece of popcorn fun. The iconic heroes and villains from both franchises clash and we get to enjoy the show as the sparks fly. The best part about Star Trek/Green Lantern is how they explore each other’s sci-fi elements and bring them together in the most ridiculous-yet-fun ways possible.

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For info on how to use ComiXology, check out how to download ComiXology comics to every device. Want even more out of your ComiXology Unlimited subscription? Check out this list of the best bingeable comics available on the service:

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Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has reiterated that Xbox Series X isn’t currently looking at any kind of launch delay, saying it’s “in line with where we thought we would be”, but has said that production of games themselves is the “bigger unknown” amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Alley, Spencer made clear that Xbox hardware development was continuing at a somewhat expected pace: “The teams are doing a really good job on keeping our hardware on track. On the hardware side we feel good about our plans. There’s obviously some impact to schedules but, overall, I think we’re in line with where we thought we would be.”

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However, Spencer made clear that games production is less predictable because of its less centralised creation: “I’d say the bigger unknown is probably the game production, just being honest. Game production is a large-scale entertainment activity now; you have hundreds of people coming together, building assets, working through creative.”

It’s worth noting that Spencer isn’t saying that game delays are coming, just that they’re harder to predict. “We’re learning every day,” he continued, “I still feel good about it, but I also need to make sure that the security and safety of the teams is the more important thing and not unduly push when things just aren’t ready.”

Spencer’s spoken to IGN previously about this issue, and made clear that a game delay – even to a flagship launch title like Halo: Infinite – would be extremely unlikely to delay the launch of the Series X itself. Analysts have speculated to IGN that, while consoles may not see a delay, they could see launch shortages – recent reports suggested that would indeed be the case for PS5, which could see ‘limited’ availability in its first year.

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We’ve seen some major games delayed due to the current crisis – most notably The Last of Us Part 2, which was initially postponed indefinitely, before being announced for a new June 19 release.

We should be seeing some of the initial Series X games for the first time at next week’s May 7 Inside Xbox broadcast, which will focus on third-party games.

Xbox Series X is scheduled to be released during Holiday 2020. Right now we know the Xbox Series X specs, we have an educated guess on its price based on those specs, and a full comparison with PS5. What we know far less about is Xbox Series X games, but we have a list of confirmed and rumoured titles for the next-gen console.

Here’s how you can help and stay safe during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Update: This deal ends today, May 1, so grab it before it’s gone.

Now that concerts are canceled for the foreseeable future, having a music streaming subscription is all but mandatory for music fans. And while deals in this space are hard to come by, we’ve stumbled on a great one. Right now, for a limited time, you can get a four-month subscription to Tidal for just $4. That’s unlimited music for an entire third of the year for the price of, yes, a latte.

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Tidal has over 60 million tracks you can stream or download for offline listening. It also offers 250,000 videos. But really, all of the big music services have roughly the same library these days. To stand out from the competition, Tidal offers concert livestreams, exclusive events, behind-the-scenes access to musicians, artist-curated playlists, and more.

Another thing Tidal focuses on to stand out is on high-fidelity music. The HiFi plan offers lossless audio that’s aimed at consumers with high-end listening equipment.

But even if you don’t have a stereo worth more than a house, you can still take advantage of this deal and get four months of music streaming for pocket change.

When your four months are up, you can always cancel your membership and not pay another penny. If you like the service and want to keep going, it’s the same price as the other services: $9.99 per month for a single membership, $14.99 for family, and $4.99 for students. Double it for the HiFi membership.

That’s about all there is to it. If you’re looking for other digital deals and freebies, check out our complete list of free games, streaming trials, and online courses.

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has been announced, featuring a new story revolving around Vikings. The series is known for its accurate depictions of historical time periods, and an interview with historian Thierry Noel sheds more light on how the time period and Norse people will be depicted.

To start, Noel is careful to define the word “Vikings” outside its usual pop-cultural imagery of brutal plunderers. He said that Vikings actually refers to the elite Norse class, which includes traders, explorers, and seafarers as well as invaders. Some of the history of Vikings was written by monks or victims of Viking invaders, which helped shape a more brutal and negative perception. That said, he points out that this is taking place in the Dark Ages, a period where relatively little is known compared to the surrounding Roman Empire era and medieval era. What we do know about the Vikings was that the society was surprisingly forward-thinking.

“The gap between the reality of Norse society and the image we have of the reckless Viking was really interesting to me,” Noel told Ubisoft. “They were a fascinating society in terms of culture and pretty fair in the way they treated women, who had important rights at the time. It was certainly contradictory to the common image we have of Vikings.”

In Valhalla, your character Eivor (pronounced “Ay-vor”) can be a man or a woman. Noel said that there is no clear answer for whether women were warriors in Norse culture, but their mythology was full of formidable women and so they incorporated that into the story. Eivor starts by leaving their homeland to discover a new settlement, and in the actual historical record, the Vikings carved through a divided England.

“At that time, England was a multiethnic society. It was dominated by the Anglo-Saxons, but there were also Britons, descendants of Ancient Rome, and many others,” he said. “It was a wealthy land, but it was a divided land, especially between rival Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. This was all very appealing for the Vikings, who took advantage of the situation of a divided England.”

The one that didn’t fall, Noel said, was Wessex, ruled by Aelfred. Noel says he’s a “very important character.”

The first gameplay trailer for Valhalla is coming on May 7 as part of an Inside Xbox presentation centered on Xbox Series X games. It will also support Microsoft’s Smart Delivery feature, letting you buy the game on one platform and upgrade at no additional cost. While you wait to see the first footage of Valhalla in action, check out the first stunning screenshots and read our Assassin’s Creed Valhalla pre-order guide.

This week, Rockstar is placing massive discounts on futuristic weapons to celebrate Laser Tech in GTA Online. Select events across the map are also holding massive reward multipliers for the week.

A number of in-game events rewards have been increased, with all Business Battles earning triple rewards for a limited time. Southern San Andreas Super Sport Series’ prize purses are also currently being doubled through to Wednesday. Special Cargo Sell Missions will be worth twice the rewards until May 6.

There’s a new podium vehicle at the Diamond Casino to be won on the Lucky Wheel. Use your daily free spin for a chance at the Pegassi Reaper, or a chance to win cash, RP, clothing, and accessories. This limited hyper car will only be available until May 6.

Nightclubs are currently 40% off, so make sure to take this chance to invest in some San Andreas local business and start raking in the cash. The laser tech weaponry is also on sale this week, with the Up-N-Atomizer, Unholy Hellbringer, and Widowmaker all at 40% off.

Starting May 1, GTA players will earn $500,000 in-game currency just for playing. The GTA$ will be automatically sent to your Maze Bank Account within seven days of logging in.

Twitch Prime members will get a rebate on the Pixel Pete’s Arcade base property in Paleto Bay. They can also purchase the Pfister 811 hyper-car for 80% off and the Declasses Drift Yosemite pick-up truck for 60% off this week.

A portion of all online purchases this month will be going towards COVID-19 relief thanks to Rockstar and Take-Two. This includes purchases made in Red Dead Online and GTA Online.