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Which video game character is most suited to having their face on a mug? The answer, of course, is Cuphead and his brother Mugman. Both of them literally have mugs for heads. As part of Barnes and Noble’s post-holiday sale, you can pick up the brothers in drinking mug form for 50% off, dropping the price of the two-pack from $34.95 to $17.47.

Cuphead and Mugman mugs

Cuphead and Mugman mugs | $17.47 ($34.95)

Along with their smiling faces, each mug comes with an oversized molded stirrer matching the straws that come out of their heads in the StudioMDHR game. If you’re a Cuphead fan, these will be perfect for your morning coffee. This is an excellent deal, as each mug costs around $20 at Amazon and other major retailers.

The Cuphead franchise figures to have a big 2020. The run-and-gun platformer’s DLC, The Delicious Last Course, is set to launch sometime this year. An art book showing off concept art and frame-by-frame animation will release March 17. The Art of Cuphead is available to pre-order now, and the limited edition is quite stunning.

StudioMDHR’s breakout 2017 hit will also move beyond video games. Volume one of a new Cuphead graphic novel series, subtitled Comic Capers & Curios, is slated to release June 30. A separate middle grade series will begin on March 3 with Cuphead in Carnival Chaos. There’s also the Netflix cartoon adaptation to look forward to, though a release window for the show has not been announced.

Nintendo has announced a Pokemon-focused Direct presentation for this week. The broadcast will air on Thursday, January 9, at 6:30 AM PT / 9:30 AM ET and will cover “roughly 20 minutes of new Pokemon information.”

Nintendo will stream the Pokemon Direct on its website, YouTube, and Twitch channels. As for what will be discussed during the broadcast, the official Pokemon Twitter account teases there will be “some exciting updates coming to the world of Pokemon this year.”

Now that Pokemon Sword and Shield are out, it’s hard to predict just what this week’s Direct will cover. We already know that Pokemon Home, a new Pokemon Bank-like cloud service for Nintendo Switch and smartphones, is slated to launch sometime in “early 2020,” so we may finally get more details on that during the presentation.

We also know there’s a new Detective Pikachu game for Switch on the way. The Pokemon Company announced the title last June during a press conference ahead of E3, although it shared no other details about it at the time. There’s also the mysterious Pokemon Sleep, a new app that will launch this year and “turn sleep into entertainment.”

As for Pokemon Sword and Shield, the games’ current batch of Max Raid events ends on January 9, which means it’ll be much harder to find Gigantamax Snorlax, Butterfree, and a few other Pokemon after that date. Time is also running out to claim some of the games’ freebies, including Gigantamax Meowth, which will only be available until January 15. You can see all the freebies available in Sword and Shield right now and how to get them in our roundup.

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When Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hit theaters, a great debate began. Social media has been back and forth on who is cuter; Baby Yoda (yes, The Child, we know) or Babu Frik. The Anzellan droidsmith plays a pivotal role in The Rise of Skywalker. So, how did the littlest member of Zorii Bliss’ Kijimi crew come to life on the big screen? IGN got a chance to speak to the VFX team including creature effect supervisor Neal Scanlan and special effects supervisors Roger Guyett about what it took to make this tiny guy a reality.

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BAFTA’s 2020 nominations for film have been announced, and Joker leads the pack with 11 nominations.

In the nominations announced by Asa Butterfield and Ella Balinska, Joker was nominated for Best Film along with 1917, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, and Parasite.

Todd Phillips’ Joker is the most-nominated film at this year’s BAFTAs with 11 nods, closely followed by Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time with 10 nominations each.

Meanwhile, Sam Mendes’ 1917 has scored a total of 9 nominations across the board, after recently taking home the Best Director award for his World War I epic at the Golden Globes.

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Magic: The Gathering will introduce the new Theros: Beyond Death set this month and we’ve got an exclusive look at one of its new rares: Taranika, Akroan Veteran.

A three-mana white legendary, Taranika offers some hefty early game defence. You can check out the card below (and apologies for the small size of the image – Wizards of the Coast was unable to provide a larger one):

Taranika and the rest of Theros: Beyond Death will arrive in Magic: The Gathering Arena and Magic: The Gathering Online from January 16, as a tabletop pre-release from January 17, and get a full physical release on January 24.

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It looks like legendary composer Hans Zimmer may score the upcoming James Bond film.

According to Variety, multiple sources have come forward claiming that Zimmer is the composer for No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond movie. This comes after Dan Romer was dismissed only last month over what were said to be creative differences.

Variety also reached out to previous Bond film composer David Arnold who confirmed he had not been contacted regarding the role, giving more weight to Zimmer’s likely position.

This latest and final addition to Daniel Craig’s Bond is reportedly already in post-production so Zimmer, who’s best known for his work on films like Inception, Gladiator, and Interstellar, won’t have much time and may even need to bring others in to help with the project.

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