Best Cable Modems for 2019

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Buying your own internet equipment is an easy way to make your cable bill shrink. Typically ISPs charges you between $6 and $11 to rent their modem or gateway, but you can find much better options that will cost you a lot less in the long-run, and modems aren’t super expensive either, as pricing typically starts at only $60. There are plenty of options to choose from, but I’ve done the research and narrowed the field down to my top picks from brands that have been in the game for ages. However, you’ll have to double check that a particular modem is compatible with your ISP before you buy any of the modems I’ve listed below.

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IGN UK Podcast #485: We’re Out of the Endgame Now

DO NOT WORRY, we won’t be spoiling Avengers: Endgame this week, but good lord if we don’t talk around it in excited tones. Once we finally tear ourselves away from that little chat, we’ve got lots to say about Days Gone (“Days Long”), Mortal Kombat 11 (“generous”) and Katana Zero (f**king wicked).

The Endless Search™ makes its inevitable appearance too, with a Rotten Tomatoes quiz that thrills and confuses us, in that order.

IGN UK Podcast #485: We’re Out of the Endgame Now

And remember, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, please do: [email protected]

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Exclusive Margot Robbie Photo From Tarantino’s New Movie

The release of Avengers: Endgame kicks off 2019’s summer movie season. This year, we’re foregoing a traditional summer movie preview — a single list-style film preview — in favor of a month-long series of IGN First summer movie spotlights, featuring exclusive video debuts, image reveals, interviews and more.

IGN First is IGN’s editorially-driven month-long spotlight of exclusives around upcoming film titles that both our audience — and our staff — are excited about. We’ll be rolling out exclusives on some of the most exciting new movies opening between the beginning of May until the end of August, so make sure to check back for even more exclusives throughout April.

Today, we have the exclusive new look at Margot Robbie in writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

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Arthur Morgan Breaks Fallout 3 – Dirty Arty: Chapter 23

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Avengers Endgame: Everyone Who Dies Or Stays Dead

Deal Alert: Save 25% Off an iPad Mini Right Now

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There’s a new iPad Mini in town, but the cheapest configuration costs $399. If you’d like the most adorable tablet in Apple’s lineup but don’t want to spend quite so much, we have some good news for you. Walmart is trying to clear out its inventory of the last-gen iPad Mini by dropping the price a full 25% while supplies last. That’s a great deal if you’re looking for an easy-to-hold tablet for yourself, or as a gift for Mother’s Day (which will be here before you know it, on May 12).

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Even More Confusing Death Stranding Details Revealed

Hideo Kojima has revealed some new details about Death Stranding at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. But, as with so many things Death Stranding related, the details are vague and leave us with more questions than answers.

“It’s an open-world action game, but it’s really something new,” said Kojima (via GamesRadar+). Part of that something new appears to be a focus on connections: “There are so many things happening in the real world – in America, in Europe – everything is actually connected by the internet, but in a way we’re not connected in the real world these days,” Kojima revealed.

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PlayStation 5 Still More Than A Year Away

Sony recently started to explain its plans for the next generation of PlayStation, suggesting it could be closer than we had previously thought. But it still isn’t too close, as the company has now ruled out seeing it anytime in the next year.

Sony Interactive Entertainment followed up with an earnings announcement, and Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki tweeted about the company’s comments (via Engadget). The company announced that the next PlayStation will not be coming in the next fiscal year, which rules out any new console on shelves by April 2020. The company also recommitted a heavy investment into developing the next PlayStation.

Last year we had heard that the next-generation PlayStation was still three years away, which would put it in 2021. Cerny taking the wraps off with first details suggested that Sony could have moved that timeline up, possibly for a 2020 launch. This revelation doesn’t rule out 2020 altogether, but it does mean the company would need to aim for a summer or fall launch instead of spring.

PS4 architect Mark Cerny began detailing plans for the next PlayStation–presumably to be named the PlayStation 5–in a recent interview. The upgrade sounds like a significant improvement that still relies on a lot of PS4 architecture, even down to allowing for backwards compatibility. Other features include a solid-state drive, and the potential to support 8K resolution. You can read up on all of the technical specs we know so far.

Cerny also specifically ruled out the PS5 being an all-digital device. Microsoft has taken the first step into offering an all-digital console with the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, but it remains to be seen if its next generation will be all-digital as well. This could tie into Microsoft’s plans to launch a streaming platform, code-named Project xCloud, which could reduce the need for physical media. Meanwhile, both of them will face a new competitor with the coming launch of Google Stadia, an all-streaming gaming platform.

Xbox Hardware Sales Slips As Software, Subscriptions Make Up Gap

Microsoft has released its Q3 earnings, and it suggests the current console generation is slowing down and ready for another refresh. Xbox console sales fell by 33% year-over-year, which the company attributes to a simple decrease in sales volume. In other words, people are simply buying fewer Xbox consoles.

However, the news wasn’t too grim for Microsoft. Overall game revenue actually increased by 5% year-over-year, thanks to strong third-party software sales and subscriptions. Xbox Live’s monthly active users hit 63 million, up 7% from last year. Altogether the games division raised $2.36 billion in revenue for the quarter, an YOY increase of $112 million.

The Xbox One is more than six years old now, so the decrease in console sales suggests Microsoft is hitting a saturation point. That’s when console manufacturers tend to eye a new generation, and Microsoft may start to explain its vision for the next Xbox at E3. In the meantime, it introduced the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, a new SKU of the console that lacks any disc drive and only plays downloaded games.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s competition has gotten first to the gate in starting to explain its plans for the coming generation. PS4 architect Mark Cerny began to outline some details on the next generation of PlayStation, including backwards compatibility, a solid-state drive, and other tech specs. It won’t be disc-less, which may set it apart from the next Xbox, but that remains to be seen. Microsoft is planning a streaming service that likely will integrate with its future console plans.

14 Big Things Coming From Marvel and DC in July 2019

Both Marvel and DC Comics have released their solicitations for July 2019. July promises to be another epic month for the comic book industry, with Batman dealing with Bane’s takeover of Gotham City and the return of the Joker and the Marvel Universe picking up the pieces in the aftermath of War of the Realms. July will also mark the return of some fan-favorite creators to the superhero genre, as Jonathan Hickman kicks off an epic X-Men relaunch and Matt Fraction launches a Jimmy Olsen comic at DC.

Scroll down to see all the big July releases from both publishers.

Bane Rules Gotham City

Batman #75 cover by Tony Daniel. (Image Credit: DC Comics) Batman #75 cover by Tony Daniel. (Image Credit: DC Comics)

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