Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Your Piranha Plant DLC Code May Already Be in Your Inbox

For those who have purchased Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch, you may want to check your email as your DLC code for Piranha Plant may be there waiting.

Owners of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and those who purchase a copy by January 31, 2019, will be rewarded with an unexpected brand-new fighter, Piranha Plant, in February of next year.

However, you will need to redeem a code that Nintendo will send to the email linked to your Nintendo Account to receive the new character. The problem? The email’s subject line doesn’t indicate a code is inside and simply says “Thanks for your purchase of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game.”

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Christmas Is Soon: Don’t Miss Out on a Great Switch Deal

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In case you haven’t been paying attention, the biggest gift-giving day of the entire year is less than two weeks away. That means if you’ve been putting off shopping, you’re running out of time. Fast. Not to try to make you panic or anything, but I wouldn’t put it off much longer.

One of the hottest gifts this holiday season is the Nintendo Switch. That’s probably no surprise. Beloved television personality Ellen DeGeneres put the Nintendo Switch on her list of “15 must-haves” for the holidays, and she is an influencer. Her words rattle the retail world to its very core.

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Star Wars: The Mandalorian Cast Officially Confirmed

Lucasfilm has officially announced the cast of the live-action Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian.

Pedro Pascal, who was previously confirmed to be the lead in the series, will be in the role of the Mandalorian gunfighter. Joining him will be Gina Carano from Deadpool, Giancarlo Esposito from Breaking Bad, Emily Swallow from Supernatural, Carl Weathers from Predator, Omid Abtahi from American Gods, Werner Herzog from Grizzly Man, and Nick Nolte from Affliction, who was previously announced.

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Joel McHale Cast as Golden Age Starman in DC Universe’s Stargirl TV Series

Joel McHale, known for his work on Community, The Soup, The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale and more, has been cast in the upcoming Stargirl TV series as Starman.

Reported by Variety, McHale will be playing Sylvester Pemberton in a reoccurring role that is described as a “Golden Age Starman.” Pemberton’s role in the comics is actually that of The Star-Spangled Kid, whose suit a young Courtney Whitmore finds in her stepfather’s belongings and subsequently becomes Stargirl. Her stepfather, Pat Dugan, was once The Star-Spangled Kid’s sidekick, S.T.R.I.P.E., who is initially disliked by Courtney. In the show, Stargirl “inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past.”

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The Best Apple Deals of 2018: Lowest Prices on iPad, Watch, iTunes Gift Card, and Macbook

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Apple products are generally very price drop resistant throughout most of the year, but that changes during the holiday season. Right now, you could get 25% off the latest generation iPad,  For 2018, you can get 25% off an Apple iPad, 20% off a brand new Apple iPad Pro, an extra 20% off the already discounted Apple Watch Series 3, 15% off iTunes gift cards, and more.

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How the Arrowverse Elseworlds Crossover Sets Up a Batwoman Spinoff Series

This year’s Arrowverse crossover, “Elseworlds,” wasn’t just a precursor to next year’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths” (although that’s definitely a big deal) – it also finally introduced Batwoman and Gotham into the CW’s superhero universe.

And that probably won’t be the last we’ll see of Ruby Rose’s Batwoman, since The CW is currently developing a potential spinoff series for the Dark Knight’s cousin that’s under consideration for next season.

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Mary Poppins Returns Review

When a movie is practically perfect in every way, the prospect of any sequel — let alone one produced more than 50 years after the original — seems like a recipe for disaster. Luckily, with a dash of mischief, a dollop of whimsy, and, yes, a hearty spoonful of sugar, Mary Poppins Returns manages to feel less like a cynical cash-grab and more like a visit from an old friend — even if the reality of her reappearance doesn’t quite live up to your fuzzy memories of the good ol’ days.

Set 25 years after the events of Mary Poppins, the sequel finds the titular nanny (who has effortlessly transformed into Emily Blunt) dropping back in on the Banks children when they’re all grown up. Feisty Jane (Emily Mortimer) is following in her activist mother’s footsteps as a labor organizer with no time for romance, and nebbish Michael (Ben Whishaw) is reeling from the death of his wife, simultaneously trying to take care of their three children, Annabel (Pixie Davies), John (Nathanael Saleh), and Georgie (Joel Dawson), while struggling to solve a stressful financial situation.

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10 Most Wanted Guides from Smash Bros. Ultimate Players

Considering just how massive Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is, it’s not a surprise players already have dozens of burning questions. We’ve compiled the most common inquiries by looking through a combination of searches, comments, and our very own page traffic. Here are the most wanted answers to questions Smash Bros. Ultimate players are asking, complete with explanations and links to detailed guides. 

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gets First Weekly Event This Weekend

Nintendo has announced the first in-game event for its new Switch fighting game, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The three-day event is scheduled to kick off this Friday, December 14, and will make certain Spirits appear more frequently in the game’s Spirit Board mode.

The event is dubbed “A Spectacle to Behold,” and it focuses on Spirits who are wearing glasses. Throughout the weekend, bespectacled game characters such as Jeff from EarthBound, Brittany from Pikmin 3, and others will be featured on the Spirit Board. You’ll also receive extra Gold if you manage to defeat them.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate features more than 1,200 Spirits to unlock, making the upcoming event a good opportunity to add more to your collection. Nintendo says that there will be other new events in the game every week.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate isn’t the only Switch title holding an in-game event soon. The next Splatfest in Splatoon 2 is also set to take place this weekend. That event likewise kicks off on Friday, December 14, at 8 PM PT / 11 PM ET and will run for 24 hours. To celebrate the launch of Ultimate, this Splatfest is themed around Smash Bros.–specifically, it asks players if they’d rather side with Smash’s heroes or villains.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is available exclusively for Nintendo Switch. Everyone who purchases the game and registers it on My Nintendo by January 31 will receive Piranha Plant as a free DLC fighter. Nintendo will also release five other DLC characters for the game throughout the year, one of which we recently learned is Joker from Persona 5.

Netflix’s New Movies, TV Shows, Originals, And More For January 2019 (US)

Happy new year! Well, we’re still a few weeks away from 2019 arriving, but Netflix has already revealed what is coming and leaving the service in January. There are plenty of movies and Netflix originals coming to the streaming service you’ll want to watch.

The most releases from Netflix comes on New Year’s Day, Tuesday, January 1. The Netflix original A Series of Unfortunate Events drops its final season. Pulp Fiction lands on the service that day, and so does does The Dark Knight. However, the best thing about January 1 is that every Indiana Jones movie lands on Netflix. Watch Dr. Jones run from a giant boulder, ride in a mine cart, drink from a really old cup, and… see an alien.

Later in the month, on January 29, Ant-Man and the Wasp heads to Netflix, which was one of the most fun movies of 2018. Then, one day later, Incredibles 2 arrives. If that’s not enough superhero awesomeness for you, don’t worry. Season 2 of Punisher arrives sometime during the month, and more than likely, it will be cancelled right afterwards, as Netflix has been parting ways with all the Marvel series recently.

However, there are plenty of movies leaving the service you’ll want to check out before they are gone forever. On January 1, all the Godfather and Sharknado movies will be gone. And Rogue One: A Star Wars Story leaves on January 18. If you need a Star Wars fix though, Solo arrives on January 9, so it seems like there will always be something from the Star Wars universe available on the service, at least until Disney+ launches in 2019.

Check out the complete list of everything headed to Netflix–and leaving–in January. If you’re interested in what’s still headed your way soon, check out what’s coming in December.

Everything coming to Netflix in January 2019

Avail. 1/1/19

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 3– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Across the Universe
  • Babel
  • Black Hawk Down
  • City of God
  • COMEDIANS of the world– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Definitely, Maybe
  • Godzilla
  • Happy Feet
  • Hell or High Water
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  • It Takes Two
  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
  • Jersey Boys
  • Mona Lisa Smile
  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday
  • Pan’s Labyrinth
  • Pinky Malinky– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Swingers
  • Tears of the Sun
  • The Addams Family
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Departed
  • The Mummy
  • The Mummy Returns
  • The Strangers
  • Tidying Up with Marie Kondo– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Watchmen
  • xXx
  • XXX: State of the Union

Avail. 1/2/19

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Avail. 1/4/19

  • And Breathe Normally– NETFLIX FILM
  • Call My Agent!: Season 3– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • El Potro: Unstoppable– NETFLIX FILM
  • Lionheart– NETFLIX FILM

Avail. 1/9/19

  • GODZILLA The Planet Eater– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story

Avail. 1/10/19

  • When Heroes Fly– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 1/11/19

  • Friends from College: Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Sex Education– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Solo– NETFLIX FILM
  • The Last Laugh– NETFLIX FILM

Avail. 1/15/19

  • Revenger– NETFLIX FILM
  • Sebastian Maniscalco: Stay Hungry– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 1/16/19

  • American Gangster

Avail. 1/17/19

  • American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Avail. 1/18/19

  • Carmen Sandiego– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Close– NETFLIX FILM
  • FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • GIRL– NETFLIX FILM
  • Grace and Frankie: Season 5– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • IO– NETFLIX FILM
  • Soni– NETFLIX FILM
  • The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes: Season 2 Part B– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Trigger Warning with Killer Mike– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 5– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 1/21/19

  • Justice– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 1/24/19

  • Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

Avail. 1/25/19

  • Animas– NETFLIX FILM
  • Black Earth Rising– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Club de Cuervos: Season 4– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Kingdom– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Medici: The Magnificent– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Polar– NETFLIX FILM
  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 4 Part 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 1/27/19

  • Z Nation: Season 5

Avail. 1/29/19

  • Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias: One Show Fits All– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp

Avail. 1/30/19

  • Disney Pixar’s The Incredibles 2

Coming Soon

Leaving Netflix in January

Leaving 1/1/19

  • Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure
  • Blade
  • Blade II
  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  • Catwoman
  • Face/Off
  • Finding Neverland
  • Friday Night Lights
  • How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
  • I Am Ali
  • Interview with the Vampire
  • Into the Wild
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Kung Fu Panda
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Fifteenth Year
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Seventeenth Year
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Sixteenth Year
  • Like Water for Chocolate
  • Love Actually
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Meet the Fockers
  • Meet the Parents
  • Million Dollar Baby
  • Monsters vs. Aliens
  • Mortal Kombat
  • Rent
  • Sharknado
  • Sharknado 2: The Second One
  • Sharknado 3
  • Sharknado 5
  • Sharknado: The 4th Awakens
  • The 6th Day
  • The Godfather
  • The Godfather: Part II
  • The Godfather: Part III
  • The Green Mile
  • The Iron Giant
  • The Princess Diaries
  • The Queen of the Damned
  • The Reaping
  • The Shining

Leaving 1/4/19

  • Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World

Leaving 1/13/19

  • It Follows

Leaving 1/14/19

  • Armageddon

Leaving 1/18/19

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Leaving 1/19/19

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring