Fortnite Xbox One S Bundle Announced

During the Inside Xbox live stream, a new Xbox One S Fortnite bundle was announced.

The bundle comes with 2,000 V-bucks, which is enough to get a season 6 battle pass, along with other in-game items.

Also included is a legendary Eon character outfit, Epic Aurora glider, and the rare Resonator pickup.

The release date is yet to be announced, but the bundle will include a 1TB Xbox One S and is the first Xbox exclusive Fortnite content.

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October Xbox Games with Gold Lineup

Inside Xbox announced during their stream Tuesday, the Xbox Live Games with Gold lineup for Oct. 2018.

The following titles will be available for Gold members next month.

  • Hitman Blood Money – Oct. 16 (Xbox 360)

  • Overcooked! Oct. 1 (Xbox One)

  • Victor Vran Oct. 16 (Xbox One)

  • Stuntman: Ignition Oct. 1 (Xbox 360)

Hitman Blood Money is a stealth game from 2006 and is the fourth installment in the Hitman series. The game follows Agent 47 around as he overcomes obstacles and completes missions.

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FLCL: Alternative Episode 3 Review

Spoilers for the episode follow.

The slow burn stylings of FLCL: Alternative continue with “Freestyle Collection.” Following the blueprint laid out by the previous episode, Freestyle Collection takes a closer look at Mossan through the lens of Kana’s constant struggle with her future prospects.

The episode kicks off when Kana, having not turned in her college planning sheet, inquires about what Mossan wrote down for hers. Mossan tells her friends about her dream of being a fashion designer and reveals she has made it through the first round of a fashion design contest. Unlike Hijiri’s fling from the last episode, which felt a little par for her character, Mossan’s reveal was actually a surprise to me and had me interested from the start. Mossan’s reveal also provided a great opportunity to add to Kana’s maturity crisis which has become one of the show’s main threads.

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Bill Cosby Sentenced to 3-10 Years in Prison

Bill Cosby was sentenced three to 10 years in a state prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004, reported by Variety.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill from Montgomery Country denied Cosby’s request for bail pending his appeal.

Cosby will need to serve the minimum time of three years under Pennsylvania law before he can be up for parole. The maximum sentence is five to 10 years in prison.

“This is a serious crime,” said O’Neill, who rejected the defense request for house arrest, partial confinement, and even a chance to serve the sentence in the county jail as opposed to state prison.

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Marvel Exec Says Spider-Man ‘Kicks off a New Era for Marvel Console Games’

Bill Roseman, Marvel Games’ executive director of Spider-Man, tweeted that the success of the PS4 exclusive “kicks off a new era for Marvel console games.”

Referencing a GameSpot video that features a Kinda Funny Games interview with with Insomniac Games’ creative director, Bryan Intihar, Roseman tweeted, “One of my fave parts of this video is when

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Pokemon Go’s Weird New Pokemon Is Meltan; Here’s What We Know

Many Pokemon fans were confounded this past weekend when a strange, unidentified Pokemon began appearing in Pokemon Go immediately following the game’s latest Community Day event. The monster could only be found in the wild for 30 minutes (though it has since been sporadically sighted in the game), and when captured, it would reveal itself to be a Ditto or another Pokemon, furthering the mystery of whether or not it was a deliberate tease on Niantic’s part. It turns out it was, and the unusual Pokemon now has a name.

The Pokemon Company has confirmed that the strange, Ditto-like monster is a brand-new species of Pokemon called Meltan. In a new trailer the company shared, Professor Willow from Pokemon Go calls Professor Oak, the most prominent researcher from the main series, with news that Ditto masquerading as an unidentified Pokemon had been sighted recently. Oak says he recalls seeing the monster in ancient texts and that it’s a Mythical Pokemon known as Meltan.

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Meltan is classified as the Hex Nut Pokemon. It is a pure Steel-type with a fluid, amorphous body made of liquid metal. According to the official Pokemon website, Meltan can use its arms and legs to corrode and absorb metal. It can also generate electricity, which it uses both in battle and as a source of energy. You can take a look at some images of it in the gallery above.

It’s unclear how players will be able to obtain Meltan, but as The Pokemon Company previously teased, you will need to connect Pokemon Go to the upcoming Let’s Go, Pikachu and Let’s Go, Eevee in order to obtain it in the Switch games. More details will undoubtedly be revealed closer to those games’ release.

Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Let’s Go, Eevee launch for Switch on November 16. As noted, the games feature connectivity with Pokemon Go. On top of being able to obtain Meltan, players will be able to transfer Gen 1 Pokemon they caught in the mobile game (plus their Alolan variants) over to the Switch RPGs. Nintendo is also releasing a Poke Ball-shaped controller called the Poke Ball Plus alongside the games on November 16; everyone who purchases one will receive the Mythical Pokemon Mew.

You’ve Never Met a Hitman Quite Like FX’s Mr Inbetween

This September, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2018-2019 season. Today, we’re delving into the Australian criminal underworld with FX’s Mr Inbetween, a dark comedy created by writer-star Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton. Here’s how FX describes it: “Juggling a new relationship, parental responsibilities, friendship, and a sick brother while earning a living would be difficult for anyone, but it’s particularly difficult when you’re a hitman. Ray Shoesmith ‘takes care of people’ — often on a permanent basis. Ray demands respect and does not tolerate anyone who doesn’t live up to his very strong and very clear code of ethics. The few he trusts — daughter Brittany (Chika Yasumura), brother Bruce (Nicholas Cassim), and best friend Gary (Justin Rosniak) — he’ll do anything for, so when Gary is set up by his own brother-in-law, Ray rips the lid off a Pandora’s box of inter-gang conflict and personal retributions. As a series of very unfortunate, very bloody, and darkly funny events play out, the bodies pile up, and Ray must avoid being one of them.”

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Making a Murderer Season 2 Finally Gets a Netflix Release Date

Netflix’s wildly popular Making a Murderer documentary series is returning for a second season on Oct. 19.

Filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, who won multiple Emmy Awards for the show’s first season, went back to the Midwest to interview Steven Avery and co-defendant and nephew Brendan Dassey, the supposed crimes and ensuing prosecutions and convictions of whom were the focal points of Season 1.

Season 2 will spend 10 episodes showing audiences the postconviction process and its effects on those involved.

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