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Leaks happen–that’s just a fact of Hollywood. And one of those leaks is the script for the highly anticipated upcoming Joker movie. The script has been floating around on the internet for some time, and although it’s not exactly readily available, it’s not impossible to find, either.

No, we won’t tell you where to get it. But what we will tell you is how the movie’s director, Todd Phillips, feels about the leak–and his reaction might surprise you.

“I don’t care that you read it–I like that it’s out there,” Phillips told GameSpot after a recent Joker screening in Los Angeles. He explained that as a filmmaker, he’s simply pleased with the idea that there are still people who are interested in reading scripts at all.

Phillips also said the version of the script that’s available on the internet is outdated.

“The leaked script got leaked six months after we started writing, six months before we started shooting,” he explained. “Somebody else asked me about it, and I go, ‘I like that it’s out there. Throw ’em off. Go that way.’

“Literally, that script that went out was an April draft. We started shooting the movie in September. That’s six months of writing–that’s half the writing process.”

Although there is a legitimate leaked script, there are also several fake versions floating around, so don’t believe everything you read about this movie. And even the real leak is significantly different from the final film. The premise is consistent–Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck is discarded by society and gradually becomes the Joker. But many changes occurred before shooting, from major plot events to small things, like the fact that Phoenix’s character is referred to as “Joker” in the leaked script, but only as Arthur in the final one.

“In the real draft, it’s Arthur the whole time,” Phillips said–adding that the change took place before he and co-writer Scott Silver even showed the script to Warner Bros.

Speaking of the studio, Phillips said he rejected Warner Bros.’ offer to try and quash the script’s spread through legal means. (Warner Bros., for its part, has no official comment on the leak, according to a representative.)

“Warner said to me, ‘Well, we can get lawyers involved, but it becomes whack-a-mole,'” the director said. “And I go, ‘You know what? It’s six months old. Who gives a s***?'”

Who gives a s*** indeed? The reviews for Joker so far have been largely positive, and the movie has scored a 70 on Metacritic as of the time of writing.

In GameSpot’s Joker review, we said that “Joker succeeds, without equivocation, because it transforms the villain into the populist antihero we need him to be now. Joker wears its influences on its maroon sleeves, but it also carves its own gashes through the blood-soaked landscape of contemporary comic book movies, offering something that, despite teetering on the shoulders of 80 years of history, is wonderfully fresh, dangerously exciting, undeniably entertaining, and rock-solid in its artistry. It might make you uncomfortable, and it will no doubt stay with you long after the curtains close; great movies often do.”

We also chatted with Phillips about whether he has plans for a Joker sequel, and whether the movie has any comic book connections.

Joker hits theaters October 4. In semi-related news, The Suicide Squad director James Gunn recently revealed the cast list for his Suicide Squad sequel, and it’s a doozy.

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Steam’s library update is here, and you can check out the new features for free by joining the platform’s beta program now.

Steam outlined some of the features implemented in the new library update. These include giving the store a complete visual facelift, altering the UI and streamlining navigation, providing more tools to stay connected to your friends and a game’s community, and more. Steam applied these changes because it wants the platform’s library to represent “a fun place to explore and find whatever it is that you’re looking for.” Check below for some screens of Steam’s library overhaul.

The library overhaul update also introduces folders, or collections, that allow you to organize your games by filters and tags. You can display these collections in Steam’s new library shelves, which can be customized to suit your needs. Further, Steam will give you a better sense of how games are changing by highlighting when developers implement events or updates in their titles. And you can more easily pick up where you left off in a game you played most recently with a new UI button.

Steam provided a helpful guide for opting into the platform’s beta program, where you can try out the new features.

• Select “Steam” in the upper lefthand corner of the application and choose “Settings” (or “Preferences” on Mac).
• On the “Account” tab, click on the “Change…” drop-down menu to the right of “Beta Participation.”
• Select “Steam Beta Update,” click “OK,” and press the “Restart Steam” button when prompted. This will reboot the application, implementing the Steam library update.

Alongside its library overhaul, Steam announced a store update earlier this month. This update will allegedly change how it presents games on the platform, recommending already-popular titles to you less often. There’s no confirmation on when this store update will be made public.

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The PlayStation Store’s “Big in Japan” sale with 500+ deals launched last week, but there’s another PS4 sale worth checking out before the month is over: PSN’s September Savings event. With over 300 discounts on PS4 games, bundles, and DLC, the September Savings sale includes some great games at ridiculously low prices. The following deals are available now until October 1 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET.

If you’ve missed out on Persona 5 over the past few years, now’s your best chance to see what all the hype is about, as the acclaimed JRPG is on sale for just $12 USD. Considering the game has well over 100 hours worth of content, it’s an absolute steal at this price. Also on sale is Spyro Reignited Trilogy, an HD remaster of the original three Spyro games–you can grab it for $24 this month. Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is just $4.49 and comes with all previously released DLC. You can also get the fantastic multiplayer cooking strategy game, Overcooked, for only $5.09.

If you buy a single game from this sale, I’d recommend A Plague Tale: Innocence, which released in May. It’s on sale for $30, down from $50. That’s an excellent deal on what might be one of the most underrated releases of 2019. The stealth action-adventure game follows a young woman named Amicia and her little brother Hugo as they make their way through plague-infested 14th-century France, dodging ravenous rats and avoiding Inquisition soldiers who are out to kill them for mysterious reasons.

Check out more of our picks from the September Savings sale below, and be sure to catch up on the best deals in PSN’s Big in Japan sale, too. You can browse the full offering of game deals at the PlayStation Store below. And for more deals on PS4-related items like consoles, games, accessories, and PS Plus membership, see our roundup of the best PS4 deals for September 2019.

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PSN’s September Savings sale: The best deals

• A Plague Tale: Innocence — $30
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc — $10*
• Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — $10*
• Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony — $20*
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut — $5.09
• The Escapists 2 — $8
• Grand Theft Auto V — $10
• Hitman: Game of the Year Edition — $15
• Kero Blaster — $5
• Layers of Fear — $5
• Life is Strange – Complete Season — $4
• Max Payne — $9
• Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden — $21
• Observer — $9
• Overcooked — $5.09
• Persona 4 Golden — $10*
• Persona 5 — $12
• The Sinking City — $45
• Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition — $4.49
• Slime Rancher — $12
• Sniper Elite 4: Deluxe Edition — $27
• SNK 40th Anniversary Collection — $28
• Spyro Reignited Trilogy — $24
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2 — $15
• Yooka-Laylee — $10

*PS Vita only

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