Save on Amazon Devices Like the Touch-Enabled Echo Show Right Now

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Each day we grow closer to the futuristic, voice-controlled future promised to us in the movies. It’s almost fully realized at this point, with so many cool gadgets to control things in your home like lighting and environmental controls. Soon we’ll all be taking it for granted, but for now it’s still a pretty novel concept to walk into a room and say “Alexa, play ‘Ocean Man’ by Ween” and have it happen.

To help facilitate a smooth transition to our voice-controlled futures, Amazon and Walmart have Alexa-enabled devices on sale right now. But that’s not all: there are some excellent e-readers also discounted. Some of the Amazon deals are exclusive to Prime Members, so if you don’t have a Prime Membership, don’t worry. You can sign up for a free Amazon Prime trial and reap all the rewards of membership. It’s up to you to decide it it’s worth the $12.99 monthly membership price.

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Netflix Exploring Other Options for Stranger Things Game After Telltale Closure News

Although the Telltale Stranger Things project is one of the victims of the studio’s recent layoffs, Netflix has reportedly announced it is in the process of exploring other options for making a Stranger Things game.

Reported by Polygon, a “skeleton crew” of employees at Telltale will finish working on Minecraft: Story Mode, though the Stranger Things game will find a new life elsewhere. Minecraft: Story Mode has had two seasons, the second finishing in late 2017.

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Devil May Cry 5 Has Multiplayer and Microtransactions

A TGS demo and PlayStation Store listing have revealed Devil May Cry 5 will have both microtransactions and some form of online multiplayer.

Fans have been able to play DMC 5 at TGS 2018 this week, which led Gamespot to notice that players can pay real world money to purchase the series’ in-game currency, red orbs.

The orbs, which traditionally are never abundant enough to unlock absolutely everything, are used to purchase upgrades to weapons, new moves and one-off consumables.

When asked why these were being included, series director Hideaki Itsuno said it was all about player choice. “With giving people the ability to purchase Red Orbs, it’s something we want to give people as an option. If they want to save time and just want to get all the stuff at once, those people can do that.”

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Swiss Football Fans Protest eSports, Throw PS4 Controllers on Pitch

A Swiss Super League match between Young Boys and Basel was interrupted yesterday by fans protesting eSports.

Dexerto reports that yesterday’s match, which ended in the trouncing of Basel by Young Boys in a 7-1 victory, was halted 15 minutes in after the pitch was pelted with tennis balls and a PlayStation controller scrawled with obscenities directed towards eSports. Football fans also unfurled banners that displayed messages along the same theme.

The protests were apparently made in response to both clubs’ investment in eSports.

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How Doctor Who Can Change Your Life: An Essay by Jodie Whittaker

This September, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2018-2019 season. Today, we’re venturing into the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey world of Doctor Who, which is kicking off a new season with a brand new Doctor, played by Broadchurch alum Jodie Whittaker. Beyond knowing that this season will follow the adventures of the Doctor and her companions, details on the upcoming episodes are top-secret. Instead, this IGN First offers an inside look into the mind of Whittaker as she explains what being the Doctor means to her. 

It means everything.

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Out This Week: Valkyria Chronicles 4, Life is Strange 2, FIFA 19

With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.

Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.

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Star Wars: 37 Things We Learned From Solo’s Blu-Ray Special Features

Solo’s famously troubled production made for a slightly weird hodgepodge of a movie–although an enjoyable one, too. And it also makes for some fascinating special features, as director Ron Howard, writers Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan, and the rest of the cast and crew behind Solo take to the Blu-ray to reveal what it was like to work on this movie.

Did you know that George Lucas dropped by the set when production resumed after the hiatus following the original directors’ departure–on Ron Howard’s first day? What about the special mud they brought in to make Chewie’s filthy fur when we first meet him look just right? Or did you ever wonder how all these actors reacted when they found out they’d been cast in a Star Wars movie? Across multiple featurettes and a roundtable interview featuring the entire cast and Ron Howard, Solo’s special features answer these questions and more.

Solo may not have been the strongest Star Wars movie ever, and it wasn’t exactly a smash box office hit. But many Star Wars fans who flew into theaters to watch it found it to be an enjoyable, if somewhat safe, movie. There were even some surprises–like the way Solo addressed the “Han shot first” controversy head on, or how its most incredibly shocking cameo came to be. Elsewhere in the special features, we even learned why Han Solo was kicked out of the Imperial Navy.

Click through for the craziest things we learned from Solo’s special features. When you’re done, check out all the tidbits that co-writer Jonathan Kasdan posted on Twitter after not being asked to record an audio commentary track, plus 33 Star Wars Easter eggs and references you might have missed in Solo.