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created and narrated by Jordan Peele, is heading back to the streaming service for a second season and is bringing with it a star-studded cast.

The sci-fi/horror anthology series will be welcoming Topher Grace, Gretchen Mol, and Damon Wayans Jr. as well as Birds Of Prey’s Jurnee Smollett-Bell, and Comedy Bang! Bang!’s Paul F. Tompkins. It’s also worth noting that Peele will write one of this season’s episodes, “Downtime.” The Us and Get Out director will also, once again, appear as the show’s narrator, setting up individual episodes.

Take a look at the complete list of announced episodes, cast members, and directors below.

“8”

Starring Joel McHale (Community, Stargirl) and Brandon Jay McLaren (UnREAL, Graceland)

Written by Glen Morgan

Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

“A Small Town”

Starring Damon Wayans Jr. (Happy Endings, Let’s Be Cops), David Krumholtz (The Deuce, Evel), Natalie Martinez (Reminiscence, The I-Land), and Paula Newsome (Barry, Chicago Med)

Written by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due

Directed by Alonso Alvarez-Barreda

“Try, Try”

Starring Topher Grace (Blackkklansman, Black Mirror) and Kylie Bunbury (When They See Us, Pitch)

Written by Alex Rubens

Directed by Jennifer McGowan

“You Might Also Like”

Starring Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire, Manchester by the Sea) and Greta Lee (Russian Doll, High Maintenance)

Written and directed by Osgood Perkins

“Ovation”

Starring Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Birds of Prey, Lovecraft Country), Tawny Newsome (Space Force, Lower Decks), Sky Ferreira (Baby Driver, Twin Peaks), Paul F. Tompkins (BoJack Horseman, Comedy Bang! Bang!), and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!, Night at the Museum franchise)

Written by Emily C. Chang and Sara Amini

Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour

“Downtime”

Starring Morena Baccarin (The Deadpool franchise, Homeland), Colman Domingo (If Beale Street Could Talk, Fear the Walking Dead) and Tony Hale (Veep, Toy Story 4)

Written by Jordan Peele

Directed by JD Dillard

“The Who of You”

Starring Ethan Embry (Grace and Frankie, Blindspotting), Daniel Sunjata (Graceland, Rescue Me), and Billy Porter (Pose, Like a Boss)

Written by Win Rosenfeld

Directed by Peter Atencio

“A Human Face”

Starring Jenna Elfman (Fear the Walking Dead, Dharma & Greg), Chris Meloni (The Handmaid’s Tale, 42), and Tavi Gevinson (Person to Person, Enough Said)

Written by Alex Rubens

Directed by Christina Choe

“Among The Untrodden”

Introducing Abbie Hern and Sophia Macy

Written by Heather Anne Campbell

Directed by Tayarisha Poe

“Meet in the Middle”

Starring Jimmi Simpson (Westworld, Black Mirror: USS Callister) and Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love)

Written by Emily C. Chang and Sara Amini

Directed by Mathias Herndl

Twilight Zone returns to CBS All Access this summer. And while you wait, consider listening to GameSpot’s weekly TV series and movies-focused podcast, You Should Be Watching. With new episodes premiering every Wednesday, you can watch a video version of the podcast over on GameSpot Universe or listen to audio versions on Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts.

Arcade1Up is known for its line of high-quality retro arcade machines that allow you to own arcade classics like NBA Jam, Pac-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more right at home. These cabinets are the ultimate purchase for arcade enthusiasts, but they’re not light on your wallet, usually costing several hundred dollars. The Star Wars Home Arcade Game is one of the newer additions to the collection that released in November, and while this arcade cabinet normally goes for a whopping $500, you can snag it for just $350 at Walmart as part of Star Wars Day 2020. That’s by far the best price we’ve seen on the Star Wars cabinet since its release, so if you’ve been eyeing this one, now might be your best opportunity to buy it.

The Walmart bundle even includes a cool freebie with your purchase. Along with the Star Wars arcade cabinet and riser, you’ll get the Star Wars First Order Stormtrooper Robot, which can be controlled using voice commands as well as a companion app.

Star Wars Arcade Cabinet with Riser + bonus Stormtrooper robot

$350.22 ($500)

Even without the free robot, Walmart’s price on the Star Wars arcade cabinet is a fantastic price worth cashing in on. As a comparison, GameStop’s current Deal of the Day has the same cabinet for $400, and Amazon is selling the cabinet for $415.

Arcade1Up’s Star Wars arcade machine comes with the original arcade versions of three different games: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. It also features artwork from the original arcade machine and includes a riser that makes it just over 5 feet. With a 17-inch color LCD screen, dual speakers, a light-up marquee, a “real-feel” flight yoke, and more, the Star Wars arcade cabinet is a true nostalgia trip for fans of the original arcade machine.

May the 4th has brought a slew of Star Wars deals on games, movies, and merch, and while some offers will last for several days, many deals are available today only. We’ve rounded up all the best Star Wars Day deals and product reveals so you can quickly see the best offers; plus, there are new Baby Yoda Funko Pops, a fantastic Steam bundle, and dozens of Star Wars games on sale, including 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

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Square Enix has given away a bunch of free games to promote social distancing, including a pair of Tomb Raider titles and numerous great mobile games. Its latest promotion isn’t free, but it benefits a great cause. The Square Enix Stay Home and Play JRPG Collection features four games–Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age, Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age, Chrono Trigger, and Oninaki–for just $49.84. That’s a massive savings considering the games would cost roughly $175 at full price. Plus, Square is donating all of its profits from the bundle to food banks and charities in North America and Europe.

Square Enix Stay Home and Play JRPG Collection | $49.84 ($174.96)

The bundle isn’t just great from a value perspective; it features some truly stellar games that don’t need much of an introduction. Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age is the latest entry in the popular JRPG series. If you’re looking for a traditional, turn-based RPG, Dragon Quest 11 is one of the best in recent memory. It earned a 9/10 in GameSpot’s Dragon Quest XI review.

Perhaps you finished Final Fantasy 7 Remake and are feeling nostalgic for some of the older titles in the storied series. Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age, which was the first single-player game in the mainline franchise to ditch turn-based battles, is an interesting game to play in a post-FF7 Remake world. Originally released on PS2, FF12 received an enhanced port for modern platforms in 2017 that added welcome new features. It also received a 9/10 in GameSpot’s Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age review.

Also, if you feel like diving into one of the best RPGs ever made, the Super Nintendo classic Chrono Trigger is a cool addition to this bundle–even if it typically only goes for $15 anyway.

Oninaki released just last year and is the third game from Tokyo RPG Factory. An action-RPG centered around death, you play as a Watcher, a guide who helps lead restless souls to a sense of peace. While GameSpot hasn’t reviewed Oninaki, it holds a “Mixed” user average on Steam.

Each of the four games are also on sale for 50% off if you only want one of them, but the bundle is far more cost efficient. Even at 50% off, the games cost $87.46 combined, so you’re saving an additional $37 by bundling them together for $49.84. If you already own one or more of the games on Steam, you can pay a discounted rate to complete the collection.

For more game deals, make sure to check out our roundup of the best digital game deals of the week. In case you haven’t heard, it’s Star Wars Day, and we have a handy guide to all of the best Star Wars game deals, too.

Westworld Season 3 has been pretty different from Seasons 1 and 2 in both tone and structure, but at its heart, it’s still the same conflict between humans and hosts that we’ve been exploring for the last several years. Dolores successfully escaped the park and sought to wreak havoc on the “real world” while Maeve and a handful of newly revealed bad guys worked to stop her–all while we, the viewers, learned some very interesting facts about how Westworld’s human world works. Turns out those narrative loops the hosts were trying to free themselves from weren’t exactly unique to them–people have been secretly “scripted” (or at least gently course-corrected) onto paths laid out for them by a giant super-AI named Rehoboam, which was designed to ensure the survival of the human race by eliminating risk.

Now, eight episodes later the cards are (mostly) on the table and the truth of Dolores, her allies, her enemies, and Rehoboam’s plans have been revealed. Or have they? For all the differences between this season and the last, it just wouldn’t be Westworld without a cliffhanger. So with that in mind, we’re going to break down the ending bit by bit to see what, exactly, went down. Naturally, there will be major spoilers for Westworld’s season finale, Crisis Theory, from here on out so proceed with caution.

Dolores’s Plan and Caleb’s Choice

The chaos Dolores wrought lead both her and her human ally Caleb (Aaron Paul) straight into the heart of Incite where Dolores is summarily caught by Serac and hooked into Rehoboam with the goal of data mining out the coordinates for the “Sublime” from her consciousness. If you remember back to Serac’s early meetings with Maeve, the two of them shared a goal of gaining access to the info stored within the Sublime–Serac, for Delos’s “immortality project” archives that held all the information on the park’s guests; Maeve for access to the hosts that managed to upload themselves into the system at the end of Season 2 so she could be reunited with her daughter.

But Serac was horrified to learn that the key to the Sublime wasn’t, in fact, kept in Dolores’s mind–it was stored in Bernard’s. So hooking Dolores into Rehoboam only succeeded in giving her access to the entire system, once and for all. Functionally, this “killed” her–though that’s certainly up for debate–leaving her body unresponsive beneath Rehoboam’s giant glowing ball, but more realistically we can assume this integrated her with Rehoboam’s system however briefly, allowing her to be sent somewhere else. Before she was beamed (or burned) out of her body, however, she gave Caleb complete control over Rehoboam’s systems, allowing him to use a voice command to have the system delete itself. This, of course, is bad news for Serac, who had been using the system’s predictions to puppeteer humanity from the shadows for years to ensure, in his mind, a way to avoid humanity’s imminent self-destruction.

Meanwhile, far from the chaos unfolding in Incite’s HQ, Bernard tends to a wounded Stubbs before, apparently, uploading himself into the Sublime with the coordinates stored in his head. We see his body power down–but more on that in a second.

Dolores’s last moments of consciousness were spent having a strangely telepathic conversation with Maeve where she confessed the reality of her plan. It was never about destroying humanity for revenge, it was always about cutting their strings. Humans have the capacity for horrific cruelty, she knows this first hand, but they created the hosts, and they created them with the ability to see beauty–therefore, Dolores explains, she’s chosen to see “the beauty in this world” (hey, remember that from Season 1?) and would like to give humans the choice to do the same. She picked Caleb as her ally not because he was a great weapon for her arsenal, but because she trusted him to make that choice on his own–and, we can assume, that gamble paid off when Caleb had Rehoboam pull its own plug.

All told, it’s a strange pivot for Dolores, who spent the season ruthlessly cutting down her enemies (and her own clones) whenever they seemed to step even slightly out of line–but that’s Westworld for you. Nothing is ever what it seems, even cold-blooded murder.

The Final Moments

With Rehoboam dead, Caleb and Maeve were able to escape the Incite facility to watch the dawn of their new world–heralded by some very Fight Club-esque skyscraper explosions while Maeve gets her own Season 1 call back. She tells Caleb that in this world, “you can be whoever the f*** you want to be,” before the credits begin to roll.

But the story doesn’t end there. In a post-credits scene we catch up with William, AKA the Man In Black, who has found himself at Delos Dubai where he believes more hosts are being “bred.” There, he finds the host version of Hale–the one who was occupied by the Dolores copy who spent her time slowly going insane as Hale’s personality somehow seemed to resurface in her programming. This Hale–or is she still just another Dolores? Or something else entirely?–confronts William with a host version of himself, decked out in a call-back costume to Season 1. This ties in, vaguely, to Season 2’s post-credits stinger which featured William–now almost certainly host William–waking up in the far future deep within the Westworld park. We still don’t know why or how that happened, or what it means, but at least we know that William hosts are definitely real now.

Host William murders real William before one final abrupt cut away back to Bernard, still wearing the headgear and sitting in the exact position he was left in when accessing the Sublime. He’s covered in a thick layer of dust, signifying that a considerable amount of time has passed, as he opens his eyes and lifts his head.

Of course, we have no way of telling just who is actually regaining consciousness here–is it Bernard? Some other host from the Sublime? Something else entirely? The same way we have no way of telling exactly what is going on with the Hale host now. How much of Dolores is left in her? Why make a host version of William? What ended up happening to Stubbs, Maeve, and Caleb? What does Dolores’s “new world” actually look like and did Caleb make the right choice?

With any luck, these questions will be addressed in Season 4–which, rest assured, is definitely on the way.

The first episode of the eight-part documentary on the creation of The Mandalorian has been released on Disney+. Like The Mandalorian, you’ll need a subscription to watch it.

“Disney Gallery – Star Wars: The Mandalorian is an eight-episode documentary series that pulls back the curtain on The Mandalorian,” Disney writes in the show’s description. “Each chapter explores a different facet of the first live-action Star Wars television series through interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and round-table conversations hosted by Jon Favreau.”

Beyond Favreau, directors for individual The Mandalorian episodes will be featured, including Taika Waititi (who will be directing an upcoming Star Wars movie), Bryce Dallas Howard, and Deborah Chow. Actors Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano are a part of the documentary as well.

Episode 1, “Directing,” focuses on–as you may surmise–the directors behind The Mandalorian. Several of the descriptions for future episodes have already been released as well. For example, Episode 2, “Legacy,” examines George Lucas’ impact on the creation of The Mandalorian, Episode 3, “Cast,” looks at the actors on the show, and Episode 4, “Technology,” sees Favreau discuss how a new filmmaking technology was used during production. For those who have an easier time reading bullet lists, we’ve included one below.

Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian Episode List

• Episode 101 “Directing”
• Episode 102 “Legacy”
• Episode 103 “Cast”
• Episode 104 “Technology”

Though this first episode was released on a Monday, all subsequent episodes will be released on Friday. As for The Mandalorian, Season 2 has wrapped production and is expected to hit Disney+ in the fall, with Season 3 reportedly having already been greenlit.

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