Newly Surfaced Stan Lee Video Shows How Much He Loved His Fans

In a recently surfaced video, Stan Lee expressed just how much his fans meant to him.

Posted through Stan Lee’s official Twitter account, the recording occurred while a crew was setting up for a more official video. Lee spontaneously responded to someone mentioning that fans loved his sense of humor.

Netflix Orders World War II Animated Series The Liberator

A new animated series about World War II is heading to Netflix.

The streaming service has ordered The Liberator, which tells the true story of U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks and his infantry unit’s journey from Italy to the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

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The Liberator will utilize Trioscope technology, which blends CGI and live-action elements. Jeb Stuart, who co-wrote films like Die Hard and The Fugitive, created the series and will serve as a writer and executive producer.

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Sony PlayStation Will Skip E3 in 2019

For the first time in 24 years, Sony and PlayStation will not appear at E3 in 2019.

As reported by Game Informer, Sony and PlayStation will instead be “exploring new and familiar ways to engage our community in 2019.”

“As the industry evolves, Sony Interactive Entertainment continues to look for inventive opportunities to engage the community,” Sony said in a statement to Game Informer. “PlayStation fans mean the world to us and we always want to innovate, think differently and experiment with new ways to delight gamers. As a result, we have decided not to participate in E3 in 2019. We are exploring new and familiar ways to engage our community in 2019 and can’t wait to share our plans with you.”

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Why BioShock’s Splicers Had to Seem Sympathetic

The first few times players encounter a splicer in BioShock, it’s one of the scariest and weirdest moments in modern gaming. For Joe Fielder, who helped design the high-flying world of BioShock Infinite, it wasn’t just a chance to create an intimidating enemy type, it was a chance to humanize one of gaming’s most iconic factions, and he learned how to do it at the hands of BioShock director Ken Levine himself.

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and another one of the writers, Drew Holmes, gave me feedback,” Fielder said on this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered. “Ken opened up his playbook on how he came about writing the Splicers and some of the influences: Requiem for a Dream, other things like that,

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Is Black Friday the Best Time to Buy a TV? Here Are the Best Deals so Far

Welcome to IGN’s Black Friday TV deals page, your source for all the best TV deals you can get in the UK this month. If you buy something through this post, IGN may get a share of the sale. For more, read our Terms of Use.

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I’ll be updating this page with the best deals as soon as they come out, so make sure to bookmark this page and check back more than once. For a more comprehensive guide to the best Black Friday deals check our main Black Friday 2018 deals page and our sister site BlackFriday.co.uk

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$48 Red Dead 2 Xbox One, $44 Black Ops 4 PS4 In Ebay’s “Better Than Black Friday” Sale

Ebay has announced another sales promotion revolving around Black Friday, but this one boasts that it’s better than Black Friday. The promotion centers on a full week of beating competitor prices for the retail holiday across several items. The promotion runs November 12-18, and the prices go into effect at 5 AM PT each day.

As of this writing (November 15), you’ll still find Red Dead Redemption 2 on Xbox One for $48, and it’s matching or beating Xbox One controller ($40) and Black Ops 4 for PS4 ($45) deals that will be available from other retailers. These deals continue to change, so stay tuned for more.

The deal for Monday was a Samsung 32″ Smart LED HD TV for $175, beating the advertised Target deal of $179. Tuesday offered an Xbox One wireless controller for $35, undercutting Walmart’s price of $39. The deals will also include NBA 2K19 for $27 (vs $30 at Target) and Apple AirPods for $149.

Naturally, these game and tech deals come alongside several other discounts on other items, from coffee makers to boots to watches. Ebay is also offering free shipping on these deals, and a “Best Price Guarantee” that will give 110% the price difference on competitors. You can check out the full line-up at the Ebay deal site.

Black Friday is traditionally the Friday immediately following the Thanksgiving holiday, but as retailers compete for customers the discounts have begun expanding to the weeks before and after as well. It’s a good time to grab cheap games and hardware, so check out our Black Friday deals roundups for all the best prices.

Amazon Black Friday Deals: All the Best Deals from Amazon’s ‘Countdown to Black Friday Sale’

Welcome to IGN’s roundup of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 Amazon deals’ page, your source for all the best offers in the UK. If you buy something through this post, IGN may get a share of the sale. For more, read our Terms of Use.

I’ll be updating this page with the best deals as soon as they come out, so make sure to bookmark this page and check back more than once.

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PS4 Celebrates 5th Anniversary With Stats And Devs’ Favorite Games

PlayStation 4 is celebrating its fifth anniversary today, November 15, and to mark the occasion Sony has shared some notable stats and thoughts from some game developers. Those include some new sales data among light-hearted points about popular controllers.

An infographic on the PlayStation Blog tells the story. The PS4 has sold 86.1 million hardware units, along with 777.9 million software units. The system has also received 11 major software updates amid countless smaller “stability updates.” The data also shares some popular games, but lists them alphabetically rather than ranking them against each other.

Best-Selling Games:

Most Popular Games:

Most Downloaded Games:

In terms of hardware, the top DualShock color schemes are flat black, blue, red, white, and camo. Finally, the rarest PS4 is the PS4 Pro 500 Million Units Edition, which was limited to just 50,000. Sony also announced a brand-new PS4 bundle, which includes Black Ops 4.

Sony also released a lengthy blog featuring favorite games of top developers from studios like Guerrilla, Insomniac, Sony Bend, and Naughty Dog. Lots of PlayStation 4 exclusives like God of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn were named as standouts from fellow developers, along with a healthy selection of third-party and indies like Red Dead Redemption 2, Bloodborne, and Inside.

Square Enix Begins Work on ‘AAA Title for PS5’

Square Enix’s Luminous Productions is apparently working on an unannounced “new AAA title for PS5”.

As spotted by ResetEra user nolifebr, a since-removed LinkedIn profile for 3D character model lead artist Tomohiro Tokoro included the next-generation game as part of his work at the studio, alongside a “new mobile title for China” and now-cancelled DLC for Final Fantasy XV.

Luminous is a new studio at Square Enix, originally set up by Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata specifically to develop AAA games.

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