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Netflix has announced that it has ordered an Angry Birds: Summer Madness animated series which is set to premiere in 2021 on the streaming platform. The series will feature a teenage version of Red, Bomb, and Chuck as they head to summer camp.

Reported by Deadline, the beloved birds will be up to their regular antics and wild adventures, under the direction of their camp counselor, Mighty Eagle. Of course, the rather obnoxious Pigs won’t be far away and will be setting up camp across the river, because no summer camp experience would be complete without a rival camp causing chaos.

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While this is the first Angry Birds title to come to television, the franchise has already released two successful films, with the first title bringing in $107 million.

Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment has elected to continue its partnership with Cake Entertainment to bring the animated series to Netflix. “Angry Birds animated content plays a key role in our long-term franchise strategy,” said Rovio’s Ville Heijari. “After more than a decade in hit games, blockbuster movies, and licensed products, this is the Angry Birds’ first foray into a long-form series. We’re delighted to continue our partnership with Cake and can’t wait to unveil the world of Angry Birds: Summer Madness to viewers on Netflix.”

“Angry Birds are about to smash the small screen and we are thrilled to be making the journey with Netflix as our global partner,” said Cake Entertainment’s Ed Galton.

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While you’re waiting on Angry Birds: Summer Madness to release, be sure to check out our complete list of every video game movie currently in production. Additionally, be sure to check out every movie and show delayed by the coronavirus.

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Andrew Smith is a freelance contributor with IGN. Follow him on Twitter @_andrewtsmith.

Today you can score an Xbox One X with game for only $230. That means you’d be getting the fastest gaming console on the market for the same price as an entry level Xbox. It’s factory refurbished, but you still get a Microsoft warranty. Don’t forget to sign up for 2 free months of ComiXology and Kindle Unlimited while you’re at it. Dell also has a new crop of excellent deals on high-end LG OLED TVs and Vizio QLED TVs.

Xbox One X (Factory Refurbished) with Bonus Witcher 3 Game for $229.98 at Dell

This is the lowest price we’ve ever seen for an Xbox One X gaming console from a reputable vendor, plus you’re getting an outstanding game. Note that this is a Microsoft refurbished item, which means that it still comes with a 90-day warranty. Note that you do not need to be a Dell member or student to get this deal; simply use guest checkout.

• Get it at Dell for $229.98

Xbox One X (Factory Refurb) for $229.99 at Walmart

Walmart has matched the price on the refurbished Xbox One X, but without the game. The advantage of getting it from Walmart directly (and not a marketplace vendor) is that it’s easy to return it to your local brick and mortar store if you have any problems with the unit.

• Get it at Walmart for $229.99

ComiXology Free Trial Extended to 60 Days

Normally 30 Days

The 60-day extension (normally $30) has never, ever happened before. ComiXology is Amazon’s digital comic platform and is the largest digital retailer of American comics. The site hosts 20,000 digital comics, graphic novels, and manga from DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, and more. Here’s your chance to access all of it, totally free, for 30 60 days. If you’re an avid comic reader, you might want to consider continuing on afterwards, since it’s only $5.99/month. You can even sign in with your Amazon account.

• Get a 60-Day Free Trial to ComiXology

Get 2 Months of Kindle Unlimited for Free

Normally 30 Days

Make your life stuck at home (and for many of you, with kids) a lot easier. Kindle Unlimited is a great way to keep yourself at home and still get access to a virtual library of over 1 million Kindle eBooks and over 20,000 digital comics This deal is typically for new subscribers only, but there have been reports that it has worked for people who have previously subscribed for Kindle Unlimited but are not current members. Check out this very awesome Harry Potter “Kindle in Motion” book with animated art, free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription.

• Get 2 Months of Free Kindle Unlimited on Amazon

2019 55″ LG B9 OLED 4K Smart HDTV with Bonus $100 Dell eGift Card for $1299

The LG B9 might be the least expensive of any 2019 OLED TV, but it’s still absolutely stunning. Image quality is every bit as good as the more expensive TVs (the pricier modesls simply have more features). Compared to traditional TVs, there’s no contest; the ability to shut OLEDs off completely enables the TV to boast true blacks and incredibly high contrast ratios

• Get it at Dell for $1299.99

2019 65″ Vizio P-Series Quantum 4K HDR QLED Smart HDTV with Bonus $250 Dell eGift Card for $1099.99

The Vizio Quantum P-series is a higher end model over the M-series and a good choice for real image quality enthusiasts. Like the M-series Quantum it features full HDR support, a full-array LED backlight, and has SmartCast Smart TV functionality, but that’s where the similarities end. This TV boasts 200 local dimming zones, 1,100 nits of brightness, and a 240Hz refresh rate, perfect for sports, gaming, and anything else with fast movement.

• Get it at Dell for $1099.99

2019 65″ Vizio P-Series Quantum X 4K HDR QLED Smart HDTV with Bonus $250 Dell eGift Card for $1499.99

This is Vizio’s absolute best 4K TV of 2019 and it’s designed to compete with much more expensive models like LG’s 2019 OLED TVs, Samsung’s highest end QLED TVs, and Sony’s best XBR TVs. It’s normally priced at $2200 but at $1398 this kind of picture quality is pretty astonishing. Compared to the already impressive P-Series Quantum, the Quantum X boasts nearly double the LED dimming zones (398) and 3 times the brightness (up to 3000 nits).

• Get it at Dell for $1499.99

Child of Light for PC is Free

Ubisoft is offering this excellent indie game totally free for PC gamers. We gave this game an “Amazing” 9.3/10 when it was released back in 2014. The beautiful painted-on watercolor art style withstands that test of time, and the RPG gameplay is still as fun as ever.

• Get it at Ubisoft for FREE

Control for PS4 for $23.99

Control is an outstanding PS4 exclusive title that deservedly earns its spot as IGN’s 2019 Game of the Year. Before this price drop, the game has never gone below $29.99.

• Get it at the PlayStation Store for $23.99

Watch All Episodes of Picard and Star Trek: Discovery with a CBS All-Access 30-Day Free Trial

Normally 7 Days

This is really simple to pull off. Simply apply code “GIFT” at checkout. With 30 days, you’ll have plenty of time to binge exclusive CBS All Access shows like Picard, Star Trek: Discovery, The Good Fight, and more. Afterwards, you can renew for only $5.99/mo (or $9.99/mo for the ad-free option), or just cancel before your trial ends. The trial normally is for 7 days, and this 1 month extension usually only happens two to three times a year.

• Use code “GIFT” to get a 1 Month Trial to CBS All-Access

2017 Apple MacBook Pro 13.3″ Retina Intel Core i5 8GB Laptop (Refurbished) with 2 Year Accidental Damage Warranty for $999.99

This laptop might be a few generations older but it’s still a very capable workstation. This is a 3-pound laptop that boasts an Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost to 3.6GHz, 8GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, and Intel Iris Plus graphics. There’s no Apple warranty but you do get a 2 year accidental damage warranty provided by CPS.

• Get it at PCMag Shop for $999.99

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Our Xbox crew discusses the recently revealed Xbox Series X tech specs in more detail after some added context arrives in our inbox from a software developer. Plus: Bleeding Edge is another new first-party release this week, we try to decode Konami’s denial of the Silent Hill reboot rumor, and more!

Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, 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 Valve’s Robin Walker and Chris Remo about the past, present, and future of Half-Life:

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It’s already an incredibly fun year of Xbox coverage, and the best is yet to come. Join us!

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Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s Executive Editor of Previews. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan, catch him on Unlocked, and drop-ship him Taylor Ham sandwiches from New Jersey whenever possible.

Cyberpunk 2077’s updated female protagonist is getting a new figurine from Pure Arts. The figure reflects the female protagonist’s updated look that CD Projekt Red shared earlier this month.

The figure, which is set to release in September, includes a light up jacket and high platform shoes. Preorders are open now, and the figure will run you $229.00 USD.

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The new feminine version of V has brighter red hair, pierced ears, and some minor changes to her face. CD Projekt Red also confirmed that the new-look V will be on the flipside of the reversible box art.

Pure Arts is also offering a figure of the male version of V, which features Mantis Blades, a light up jacket, and an extremely detailed pair of light up shoes.

Check out images of the figures below:

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Cyberpunk 2077 is set to release on September 17, 2020. CD Projekt Red recently confirmed that the development is still on track to hit that release date, even as developers work from home due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Cyberpunk isn’t even out yet, but we’ve already learned that CD Projekt Red plans to develop a new game set in the world of the Witcher after Cyberpunk 2077 releases.

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Logan Plant is a news writer for IGN, and the Production Assistant for Nintendo Voice Chat, IGN’s weekly Nintendo show. You can find him on Twitter at @LoganJPlant.

With a rich history in gaming, Sega is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a new timeline website that chronicles its journey as a company and its history in the gaming industry. For its 60th anniversary, Sega also introduced a new website and ambassador called Sega Shiro (Segata Sanshiro) who’s played by the actor Hiroshi Fujioka.

The new website will take fans through the past six decades of Sega history, including the story of its founding, the launch of various consoles and IPs, and much more.

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The Sega timeline starts in the 1960s with the founding of Nihon Goraku Bussan Co., Ltd, which would later become Sega. According to the timeline, Sega first got started in the gaming industry in 1964, when it began producing commercial arcade equipment.

In 1983, Sega released its first home gaming console, the SG-1000. Costing ¥15,000 ($134 USD). the console released in Japan the same day as Nintendo’s Famicom, and ended up selling 160,000 units in its first year, far exceeding Sega’s expectations and officially marking its interest in the home console market.

In 1988, Sega released the Mega Drive in Japan, better known as the Sega Genesis in the United States. The Genesis saw the first release of Sega’s most iconic character, Sonic the Hedgehog, and solidified the companies name in the gaming industry, selling over 15 million units in North America alone.

In what most consider to be the peak of Sega, the 1990s saw the release of multiple Sonic games and two new consoles, the Sega Saturn (1994) and the Dreamcast (1998). While the Dreamcast turned out to be Sega’s final home game console, the company had quite the battle with Nintendo in the ’90s, which has since been dubbed “the console wars.”

In the 2000’s Sega’s story mostly revolved around new IPs like Phantasy Star Online (2000), Yakuza (2005), and much more. Additionally, Sega also manufactured a variety of tech products like HomeStar, the world’s first optical projection home planetarium

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Recently, Sega oversaw the release of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, which came to theaters earlier this year. The film was received quite well in the box offices, becoming the best showing of all time for a video game movie. Be sure to check out our official Sonic movie review as well as reviews from various IGN staff members.

If you’re interested in learning more about Sega, be sure to check out our deep dive into the history of Sega.

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Andrew Smith is a freelance contributor with IGN. Follow him on Twitter @_andrewtsmith.

For years, X-Men fans accused Marvel Comics of attempting to downplay the merry mutants in favor of the Inhumans. Now former Marvel writer Rick Remender has lent fuel to that fire, revealing he abandoned plans to write Marvel’s flagship X-Men title back in 2014 because of a “mandated Inhumans story.”

Remender has been very active on Twitter in recent days, posting glimpses of various Marvel and DC pitches that never came to be. Among those is a “story bible” he put together for Extraordinary X-Men, a 2015 comic that ultimately wound up in the hands of writer Jeff Lemire and artist Humberto Ramos instead. Remender reveals he had crafted a two-year plan for the franchise, one which would have hinged on psychic mutants Fantomex, Professor Xavier, Jean Grey and Mastermind.

Just found my entire 2 year X-bible plans from when I was going to take over the X books. Haven’t opened it since I quit in 2014. Was very Fantomex, Jean, and Professor X-orn centric. Big bad was Mastermind. Just couldn’t make myself do the mandated Inhumans story. c’est la vie pic.twitter.com/q122dxV8Yg

— Rick Remender (@Remender) March 24, 2020

Remender writes, “Just found my entire 2 year X-bible plans from when I was going to take over the X books. Haven’t opened it since I quit in 2014. Was very Fantomex, Jean, and Professor X-orn centric. Big bad was Mastermind. Just couldn’t make myself do the mandated Inhumans story. c’est la vie.”

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Remender’s tweet is a rare, open acknowledgement of creative tensions behind the scenes as Marvel worked to elevate the Inhumans franchise in the wake of 2013’s Infinity, a story which culminated with the creation of a Terrigen cloud that simultaneously created new Inhumans and poisoned mutants, radically altering the course of both franchises. That story eventually led to 2017’s Inhumans vs. X-Men crossover.

Understandably, Marvel has never outright admitted to downplaying the X-Men in favor of the Inhumans, but it’s been widely assumed the company was prioritizing a franchise to which it fully owned the multimedia rights, as opposed to one whose rights were still in the hands of 21st Century Fox at the time. Marvel’s Executive Editor Tom Brevoort effectively said as much when he wrote in 2014, “If you had two things, and on one you earned 100% of the revenues from the efforts that you put into making it, and the other you earned a much smaller percentage for the same amount of time and effort, you’d be more likely to concentrate more heavily on the first, wouldn’t you?”

Coupled with an established pattern of Marvel downplaying the X-Men and Fantastic Four in its merchandising, many readers were unhappy with the way the X-Men seemed to be sidelined in favor of the Inhumans. Remender’s tweet suggests at least some Marvel creators felt the same way.

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Remender also revealed he was again offered the keys to the X-Men kingdom as recently as 2019, indicating Marvel may have been exploring other options besides Jonathan Hickman’s Dawn of X relaunch. But Remender reiterated his disinterest in returning to Marvel, tweeting, “Was offered the X books again last year but declined. Don’t imagine there’s a world where I’ll put myself through that again.”

Remender’s Twitter feed is currently a treasure trove of concept art and other unused story pitches. He also posted a rejected pitch for a Spider-Man story called Pandora’s Box, which would have dealt with a new group of insect-themed villains created through the same process that gave Peter Parker his powers. Remender even revealed he and American Vampire artist Rafael Albuquerque once pitched a DC series called Justice League of Tomorrow, built around a futuristic team that includes Superman, Sandman, Firestorm, Poison Ivy, Negative Man, Hawkgirl, Captain Blackhawk and the Atom.

What do you think of Remender’s abandoned X-Men pitch? Let us know in the comments below.

For more on the current state of the X-Men franchise, find out how Dawn of X has radically changed the X-Men status quo and what to expect from the next big X-Men crossover, X of Swords.

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The BBC has shared an “emergency transmission” from Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The short video, posted to the official Doctor Who Twitter account on Wednesday, sees Whittaker transform into the Time Lord to offer five tips on ways to cope with “any worrying situation,” as her beloved TV character reveals she is “self-isolating” while “hiding from an army of Sontarans.”

Incoming transmission. #MessageFromTheDoctor #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/WRTROxWRQy

— Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) March 25, 2020

“One: Remember, you will get through this and things will be alright, even if they look uncertain. Even if you’re worried, darkness never prevails,” she reassures viewers. “Two: Tell jokes – even bad ones. Especially bad ones. I am brilliant at bad ones. Three: Be kind. Even kinder than you were yesterday. And I know you were super kind yesterday.

“Look out for each other. You won’t be the only one worried. Talking will help, sharing will help. Look out for your friends, your neighbours, people you hardly know. And family. Because in the end we’re all family. Four: Listen to science. And listen to doctors, right? They’ve got your back. Five: Stay strong, stay positive. You’ve got this. And I will see you very soon.”

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This special message comes as more cities join the USA in following the lead of many in Europe with mandatory lockdowns. San Francisco and Los Angeles, California both announced lockdowns that include mandatory work-from-home policies and shutting down high-risk gathering spaces.

Doctor Who costume designer Ray Holman tweeted shortly after the video was posted online to confirm that Whittaker had access to her costume at home “for personal appearances or publicity purposes,” as he assured fans that the clip was recorded “in isolation” and had been organised by the actress, showrunner Chris Chibnall and executive producer Matt Strevens.

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Doctor Who Season 12 premiered in January of this year and concluded in the opening days of March with the history-shattering season finale, “The Timeless Children.” According to reports, Season 13 is planned to start filming in September, though this date could yet change in light of ongoing developments resulting from the coronavirus outbreak.

For a list of recommendations on how best to help, and stay safe, during the Coronavirus pandemic, please read our resource guide.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

PC game bundles are a great way to get a collection of awesome games in one nice and easy package. Most bundles usually come from sites like Humble Bundle, but this week, Steam has two of the best collections we’ve seen in quite some time. The Polish Spring Festival and Dark Cult bundles collect some excellent games from recent years, which span genres from strategy and survival to action and horror, and if you’re looking for some games to keep you occupied while you’re stuck inside, it doesn’t get much better than this.

The Polish Spring Festival bundle is $60.32, down from $109.95, and contains nine Polish-developed games, many of which have received great reviews from GameSpot. Frostpunk, This War of Mine, Darkwood, Superhot, Get Even, and Observer were all praised in GameSpot’s reviews of said games, while Wanderlust Travel Stories, My Memory of Us, and We. The Revolution all boast positive user ratings on Steam. If you already own any of these games, then the price of the bundle decreases.

The Dark Cult bundle, on the other hand, contains games that involve–you guessed it–dark cults, some of which were reviewed positively in our reviews. Many of the games also involve survival-horror themes. The games you get are Blasphemous, Darkest Dungeon, Outlast 2, The Shrouded Isle, and The Church in the Darkness. The Dark Cult bundle is $36.29, down from $109.95. Just like the previous bundle, the price decreases if you already own some of these games.

Thankfully, if you’re just interested in a couple of the included games, then you can pick them up individually at a discount and save a bit of money. Be sure to double-check that buying the individual games you want is actually cheaper than the bundle though.

If you’re looking for more games for passing the time, then be sure to check out all of the free games you can claim right now.

Polish Spring Festival bundle

$60.32 ($109.95)

The Dark Cult bundle

$60.32 ($202.91)