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The new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker footage that debuted at D23 this past weekend is now available online (watch it below!), and not surprisingly it has fans speculating about what exactly is going on with Daisy Ridley’s Rey, who wears a dark cloak and wields a double bladed lightsaber at the end of the preview. Has she really turned to the Dark Side of the Force?!

Of course, we really won’t know what’s going on until the film is released on December 20, but we do have some theories about what could be at work here. Let’s dig in!

This Is a Rey Clone

Cloning certainly is a thing in the Star Wars universe. Not only did Palpatine use a clone army to fight in the Clone Wars, but the Expanded Universe (now known as Legends) of books and comics established that he also had a habit of cloning bodies for himself in order to achieve a sort of immortality.

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Good news, Xbox One owners: right now Microsoft is offering a two-month subscription to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for for just $2. But before you go throwing cash at the screen, you’ll want to consider banking up to three years of Xbox Live Gold in your account first. That’s because, the moment you subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate, all your pre-paid months of Gold get converted to Game Pass Ultimate. And since Ultimate costs a lot more than Gold, you can save you a heap of money this way (while getting access to many excellent games at no additional cost).

First, check your Microsoft account page to see when your Gold and/or regular Game Pass subscriptions expire. Then add however many months of Gold you want (up to three years).

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Much has changed since World of Warcraft debuted in 2004: Azeroth’s map has quadrupled in size; Deathwing twisted the landscape in Cataclysm; Arthas perished in Wrath of the Lich King; and Illidan has been introduced, killed, resurrected, and exiled again. But for players that have stuck it out for all 14 years, there is no better measurement of the passage of time than the memories of all the people you used to know. 2004 was pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter, and pre-Discord, which meant that a whole generation of internet friendships lived and died on World of Warcraft. We would only learn later how fraught that was, that those connections could be severed completely. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Ask any Warcraft veteran: We’ve all lost people. If only we had the foresight to ask for their full names during those endless Dire Maul runs. You know, just in case the unthinkable happened.

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Welcome to IGN’s Daily Deals, your source for the best deals on the stuff you actually want to buy. You can also follow us at Twitter @igndeals.

The air is beginning to cool, children have already started school in many places, and there’s a solemness to the air as the care-free days of summer transition to the cooler, shorter days of fall. Hopefully these deals will help stave off any ennui you might currently be trapped beneath. If not, you can take some solace in the fact you’re saving money or preordering something to enjoy at a future time. Things are looking up already!

Here’s a quick look at today’s best deals and preorder opportunities. Scroll down the page to get a better look at today’s best deals.

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Disney has released a new look at Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker that has whipped fans into a frenzy over the reveal, seemingly, of Dark Side Rey.

Like with all the new Star Wars movies, there’s a lot more than initially meets the eye hidden in these trailers — and a lot of truly gorgeous cinematography. With that in mind, we captured a number of screengrabs from the new trailer for you to peruse through below at your own enjoyment. Maybe you’ll notice something you didn’t catch the first (second, or fifth) trailer viewing. Check it out below:

Then, if that just made you want to rewatch the Rise of Skywalker D23 Footage all over again, we’ve got you covered. You can watch the newly released video below:

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I wish Remedy could make even more games, because Control reminded me of this studio’s knack for crafting engrossing, oddball worlds with an incredible sense of place. Control is perhaps Remedy’s weirdest yet, with the talking upside pyramid who’s also your boss being about the sixth-strangest part. But thanks to sharp writing, a set of awesome and varied psychic combat abilities, and an impressively thought-out world, it was easy to wrap my head around what made this adventure tick.

Infiltrating the Federal Bureau of Control as Jesse Faden and her blue wavy spirit buddy, I found myself fascinated. The Bureau’s headquarters seem like a drab, nondescript office building at first, and Jesse’s search for answers to events in her past were equally mundane. But Control quickly reveals what lies behind those concrete walls: within the first chapter I became both the janitor’s assistant and the new acting director of the Bureau.

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PlatinumGames has a reputation for making action games that are both incredibly stylish and delightfully weird. Its latest, the Switch-exclusive Astral Chain, wholeheartedly embraces this tradition and pushes each aspect to the max. This is Platinum at its finest – its innovative combat system cleverly manages to make controlling two characters at once feel intuitive and deeply rewarding. Equally as impressive, the non-combat sequences charmingly bring this peculiar world and the characters who inhabit it to life.

The setup is a fairly typical one: after Earth became uninhabitable due to alien pollution, humanity migrated to the Ark, a futuristic metropolis filled with neon lights and, surprise(!), an alien invasion problem of its own.You know, the usual. You play as one of the two Howard twins – male or female – who is a part of an anti-alien task force that fights using robot allies called Legions. That’s where the eponymous Astral Chain comes in – it’s the tether between you and your Legion and lets you see the aliens, which are called Chimeras.

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When our distant ape ancestors got together and decided one day, roughly 10 million years ago, that they should evolve into humans, did they have an instruction manual that told them which two things to rub together to get there? No! They had to put pretty much everything they encountered into their mouths, one at a time, to figure out which was tasty and which was deadly poison. There was a lot of hard work, repetition, and death that turned out to be completely unnecessary in hindsight. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey does its very best to recreate much of that maddening blindness and futility and some of the associated sense of discovery in a beautiful prehistoric world, becoming an apt metaphor in the process.

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Before the Nintendo Switch and its unique servicing of both the home console and portable markets, products marketed specifically for mobile gaming were somewhat uncommon. Now, though, there’s a whole slew of gaming earbuds with “try it with the Switch” plastered on the box. Unlike other Switch accessories, these earbuds tend to be affordable. Turtle Beach has thrown its hat into the Switch audio ring with its $29.95 Battle Buds (See them on Amazon). Are the Battle Buds any good, or is this another case of a peripheral manufacturing prioritizing a profitable trend before solid product quality?

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The latest Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker footage from Disney’s D23 event has been released online, featuring Dark Side Rey’s red double bladed lightsaber and more!

Watch it below:

In fact, let’s just replay that scene a few more times for good measure to figure out WTF is going on:

There’s been a ton of Star Wars news the past few days thanks to D23. You can watch highlights from the Star Wars panel here. Or check out the new poster for Rise of Skywalker below:

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