Rock Band 4's 'Off The Charts' Pack Features 5 New Tracks

Harmonix has announced the next batch of DLC for Rock Band 4, which will be made available from December 1. The Off The Charts 01 pack features five new 2014/2015 tracks and includes Beck's first reappearance in the Rock Band library since 'E-Pro' was featured in Rock Band 2.

Tracks can be purchased individually for USD$1.99, or USD$8.49 for the whole bundle. The songs are 'Dreams' by Beck, 'Electric Love' by BØRNS, 'Cocoon' by Catfish And The Bottlemen, 'First' by Cold War Kids, and 'Renegades' by X Ambassadors.

Harmonix has been releasing new tracks for Rock Band 4 weekly since the game's release in early October, picking up where it left off last generation in April, 2013 (when the studio ended 281-week run of new DLC on the Rock Band Store). The eclectic assortment of DLC songs to date include six-track Aerosmith and Van Halen packs, plus a stack of cuts from a wide range of acts – including Audioslave, Iggy Pop, Linkin Park, Robert Palmer, INXS, Vance Joy, Depeche Mode, The Hollies, and more.

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Pokken Tournament Character Reveals Coming Next Week

New characters for Pokken Tournament will be unveiled next Thursday, December 10.

According to a post on the game's official Twitter account (via GoNintendo), another playable fighter and a new support character will be joining the fray in Bandai Namco's Pokémon-centric fighting game.

新たなバトルポケモンが参戦決定!!夏に行ったTwitterキャンペーンの サポートポケモンも12/10(木)に同時発表!! どんなポケモンが参戦するのか予想してみよう!!#ポッ拳 http://pic.twitter.com/wzuraFZyyn

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Fargo: "Loplop" Review

Fargo decided to step sideways and show viewers what happened to Peggy, Ed, Dodd and Hanzee during the events of last week's "Did You Do This? No, You Did It!" (an episode the four characters were -- mostly -- absent from).

Full spoilers for "Loplop" continue below.

Did you miss the Butcher of Luverne and his wife during their absence in last week's stellar Fargo episode? Were you itching to know why Hanzee killed those people in Sioux Falls? Then this week's episode was just for you, as it narrowed its focus immensely to follow the misadventures of its least likable characters (Dodd and the Blumquists) and the increasingly fascinating Hanzee.

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Star Trek Into Darkness' Writer Admits Khan Twist Was a 'Mistake'

Remember how before Star Trek Into Darkness came out everybody knew Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan but the filmmakers refused to admit it? The film's screenwriter Damon Lindelof does, and he regrets the secrecy.

"When we did Star Trek Into Darkness for example, we decided that we weren't going to tell people that Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan" Lindelof told Variety. "And that was a mistake, because the audience was like, "We know he's playing Khan." That was why it was a mistake. But J.J.

is telling us nothing about the new Star Wars movie and we love it. I've not come across a single person who's like, "I wish I knew a little bit more." We are like, 'Thank God he's protecting us from all the things that will be revealed in the movie theater."

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Abrams: Showing Disney Force Awakens Was 'Horrifying'

Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams has revealed what it was like screening his upcoming film for the executives at Disney, calling it a "horrifying" experience.

On the latest episode of The Howard Stern Show (via Entertainment Weekly), Abrams admitted he was "nervous beyond words" before showing the studio an early cut of the film.

"We showed the first cut — which was still incomplete, a complete version of the movie but not the finished version — and we showed it to Alan Horn and Bob Iger and Alan Bergman, the three people at Disney who sat with me in the theater, and we screened the movie. And it was horrifying," he said.

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Tank Girl's Lori Petty Joins Gotham Cast

Lori Petty will appear in episode 214 of Fox's Gotham.

Variety reports that the actress, who also stars in Orange is the New Black, will play Jeri—"the flamboyant and enigmatic hostess of an underground club where mass murder and art are celebrated in equal measure." Jeri helps Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) in his search for his parents' killer, but is "less helpful when Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) comes calling."

The isn't Lori Petty's first comic book role. She starred in the '90s comic book-inspired movie, Tank Girl—which we've written is a "faithful adaptation of the alt-comics that spawned it."

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Lightsaber Battle on Force Awakens Opening Night Hopes to Break Record

Star Wars fans are looking to set the Guinness World Record for the biggest lightsaber battle.

Come December 18, fans from around the world will face off in six different cities—Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orlando, and New York City. The battle is in celebration of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Participants that contribute $10 to the Lightsaber Academy will receive a 3' long lightsaber reserved for them. The San Francisco showdown's Facebook page notes that the lightsabers provided will have six changing colors, and participants will be able to pick them up at the event. The battle will begin after the troops have assembled—Jedi vs. Sith.

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Doctor Who Christmas Special Poster Revealed

A new poster for Doctor Who's upcoming Christmas special has been revealed, teasing the return of River Song.

BBC America shared the new promo art in a post on Twitter:

SURPRISE. It's the new poster from the upcoming Christmas special- 'The Husbands of River Song'! #DoctorWho http://pic.twitter.com/gfTl54bmRL

— Doctor Who BBCA (@DoctorWho_BBCA) December 1, 2015

Back in September, BBCA announced that River Song actress Alex Kingston would indeed be making a return as the time traveling archaeology professor on the upcoming special, which premieres on Christmas Day.

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Gotham: Midseason Finale Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

"Worse Than a Crime" wrapped up the entire Theo Galavan arc while also throwing in a few quick scenes at the end to set us up for both Hugo Strange and Mr. Freeze arriving on the scene in the second half of the season (which begins three months from now!).

As I brought up last week, or even before that perhaps, the whole "Brotherhood" monk plot is weak. And the monks themselves - who were supposedly so dangerous and imposing that they traveled from overseas just to bring about the endgame - were physically weak. As in, they weren't even a match for Selina by the end. So much for fans wondering if this storyline contained any League of Assassins startup seeds. These guys were about as capable as the Wet Bandits. Theo himself, who didn't even really get to put up a fight at the end, was way more of a fighter/solider than they were.

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Rose McIver's Advice for the New Power Rangers

These days she's eating brains on the CW's highly entertaining iZombie, but before her role on that series, and shows like Once Upon a Time and Masters of Sex, Rose McIver was fighting bad guys as the Yellow Ranger on Power Rangers RPM.

On a recent visit to the set of iZombie, I briefly asked McIver if she had any advice for the cast of the upcoming Power Rangers movie and spoke to her about the notably successful cast of RPM, which also starred Eka Darville (Jessica Jones) and Adelaide Kane (Reign).

Rose McIver in Power Rangers RPM.

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Top Comics to Buy This Week: December 2, 2015

We all want the best of the best, so let us point out the hottest comics released each week. We spotlight our favorite comics that we know are money-well-spent and new books that look cool and are backed by some top-tier talent.

Check out our picks, then take to the comments to let us know what looks good to you!

By writer Tom King & artist Khary Randolph | DC Comics

DC continues to go all-out with their celebration of Robin's 75th anniversary, giving us a story that brings the Robins together for an all-out brawl. Our favorite Robin, Damian Wayne, returns to Gotham to see that there's a gang of Robin's dressed up like him, and he's not happy about it, as we'd expect. It's his family legacy, after all.

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9 Fake Movie Restaurants We Love

There's nothing better than dinner and a movie… unless you're talking dinner in a movie. And really, there have been some great fake restaurants to pop up over the years on the big screen. Diners, cantinas, noodle bars, and strip joints (great apps there!) are just the tip of the cinematic culinary iceberg.

Read on for our list of our favorite fake movie restaurants. And then be sure to comment below and offer up your own picks…

If you've got to take the boss' wife out on the town, as John Travolta's Vincent Vega did in Pulp Fiction, then where better to go than this "wax museum with a pulse"? At Jack Rabbit Slim's, you can be served by Buddy Holly (ala Steve Buscemi), enjoy a bloody-as-hell Douglas Sirk steak and a vanilla coke -- or a five-dollar milkshake, if you prefer -- and then show off your moves as you win a Twist contest with the almost-star of Fox Force Five. Don't be a square; head over to Jack Rabbit Slim's!

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Mysterious Underwater Structures in Fallout 4's Briny Deep

Is something hiding off the coast of the Commonwealth in Fallout 4?

One curious Redditor, discovered by VG247, decided to explore the area after accidentally falling into the ocean depths when fighting raiders at Libertalia. The user decided to upload an Imgur gallery to document the adventure.

So what did they find? Beautifully detailed environments, an underwater structure with working lights, but no door, and even a piece of loot: a pot.

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Platinum Games Developing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game

Independent Japanese developer Platinum Games (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, the Bayonetta series) is readying a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, according to a new entry in the Australian Classification Board's ratings database.

Based on the limited information contained in the entry the game is called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan and the publisher is noted as Activision. The game is rated M due to moderate impact violence. The M category in Australia is not a legally restricted category but is applied to games and films recommended for persons 15 and over.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Long as Phantom Menace

Star Wars: The Force Awakens' runtime has been revealed, with the series' seventh installment clocking in at 136 minutes.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film's final length is one minute longer than prior rumors suggested, giving it the exact same runtime as The Phantom Menace.

The Force Awakens will fit right in the middle of the prior six films, with all three entries in the originally trilogy clocking in at under 135 minutes. The original was 121 minutes, while The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were 124 minutes and 134 minutes, respectively.

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New Report Puts Nintendo NX at 10-12 Million Units in 2016

Taiwan-based news outlet Digitimes is reporting Nintendo wants to ship 20 million NX units by the end of 2016.

However, component suppliers for the new device will only be able to meet the demand for between 10 and 12 million units, the report states.

Upstream component manufacturers, meaning the companies that supply the raw materials that will go into the final, assembled product, will be unable to reach the company's reported 20 million unit order. Foxconn will reportedly be putting together the final product.

The Nintendo NX dev kits reportedly went out to game developers earlier this year, and the device has "industry-leading chips" to put it in the same league as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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Concussion Review

Written and directed by Peter Landesman (Parkland), Concussion tells the true story of Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), the Nigerian forensic pathologist who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players, and the National Football League's attempts to deny the research and ruin Dr. Omalu's career. While not as hard-hitting as 2013's Head Games (which explores the CTE in the documentary format), Concussion sees Smith at his finest and effectively conveys the NFL's duplicity, even as the game itself is still revered.

Structurally, though, Concussion has problems. While the main focus is on Omalu and his campaign for truth, the film also introduces a generic romance subplot featuring Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Jupiter Ascending) as Omalu's love interest Prema. Basically, the character's only purpose is to reaffirm Omalu's conviction while contributing nothing of her own. As a result there is little clashing between them, and when there is it's pushed aside because, inexplicably, they "love each other."

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Just Cause 3 PC Review

Awesome explosions: Just Cause 3's got 'em! The story would have you believe all of this spectacular demolition is about liberating the picturesque island nation of Medici from a mustache-twirling dictator. But considering it doesn't even care how many civilians you blow up in the process, we all know what it's really about: ridiculous over-the-top action, physics-based comedy, and impressive destruction in a vast sandbox world. In those areas, Just Cause 3 is at the top of its game.

Watch the first full hour of Just Cause 3 above.

The map is absolutely huge (reportedly its three islands span 400 square kilometers, but I didn't have a tape measure on me to confirm), and how you choose to get from its sunny beaches and forests to its snowy peaks is a big part of the joy of it. There's fast travel if you're into the whole brevity thing, plus arcadey-feeling cars, planes, boats, and more, but learning to use Rico Rodriguez's unique combination of grappling hook, parachuting, and wingsuit to gracefully zip around is the most challenging and rewarding. There's a real skill to it, and mastering techniques such as the no-parachute, no-wingsuit Spider-Man-style swinging takes some practice.

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Tap My Katamari Trademark Filed by Bandai Namco

Bandai Namco Entertainment has filed a trademark for Tap My Katamari in Europe.

The trademark (via NeoGAF), was as filed today, November 30, through the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). The application was filed under goods and services, with mention of computer game programs, video game machines, amusement park services, and several others.

Additionally, Bandai Namco registered the domain http://ift.tt/1Nm5SgL on November 12, which currently serves as a placeholder site.

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Surface Pro 4 Review

Tablet computers are just easier...or at least they look it. Big screens, no keyboard in the way, usually a better price than a laptop, and yeah, they're slick. Then someone asks you to do a little more than an app from the app store can do. That slick tablet goes gently on the couch and you grab your laptop. Alone, tablets are never enough, especially if you've been using a laptop.

That doesn't mean tablets are useless, far from it. They're perfect for things like streaming a full season of Jessica Jones from the couch after a particularly long week. Or when you want to watch someone else edit that document in the office. Or those times when just need an internet-connected screen that won't crap out after a few hours.

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The Best Laptops for Anyone

As technology continues to progress in line with Moore's Law, laptops have become more and more powerful and compact. Whereas a laptop once meant significant trade-offs in power and functionality for the convenience of portability, modern laptops are powerful, sleek machines with great displays that in some cases, weigh practically nothing. Here are the best laptops for any situation.

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Batman: Arkham Knight - Catwoman's Revenge DLC Review

For Catwoman, revenge is swift. Very swift - this Batman: Arkham Knight DLC took me only a half hour to complete. Catwoman's Revenge is a mostly fun, self-contained story set in a toy store that The Riddler has converted into a robot factory, and the dark, moody Arkham take on 'toys' - if you can call these monstrous figures that - is a genuine delight. It is however, a very slight experience that brings nothing new to Arkham's world.

If you've played Arkham Knight and its predecessors, you'll know Catwoman's set of skills by now. She can crawl along designated parts of the ceiling, use a whip, and generally move a little faster than Batman in combat. Catwoman's Revenge makes good use of each, though I wish I'd been able to let her loose in a less confining environment.

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Chef Creates Splatoon-Inspired Squid Dishes

Food Network's Justin Warner recently turned to Nintendo's Splatoon as inspiration in the kitchen.

On the show Foodie Call (via Kotaku), Warner sat down with Nintendo's David Young to talk about the food in-jokes of Splatoon and Nintendo's attempts to cross-pollinate culturally.

Later, the two retired to Warner's kitchen to create two dishes inspired by Splatoon hosts Callie and Marie.

Using the color schemes of these sisters, Warner created both an okonomiyaki and calamari dish, all while giving tips on preparing and eating squid. Check it out in the video below.

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Mortal Kombat X Annoucement Teased for The Game Awards

We'll be getting a look at the next fighter to join the Mortal Kombat X roster at The Game Awards.

Creative Director Ed Boon tweeted out the tease, promising an "exclusive reveal" for the game.

Really looking forward to attending @thegameawards on Thursday with the exclusive reveal of "Who's Next" in MKX !! http://pic.twitter.com/BFpIGTK0Er

— Ed Boon (@noobde) November 30, 2015

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Sony Santa Monica Teases New Project

Sony Santa Monica is gearing up to make a new announcement, and it may involve dancing feet in some capacity.

The development studio released a .gif of what appears to be dancing feet on Twitter, along with the hashtag "#takeastep" and an accompanying message linking straight to a NeoGAF forum post.

See the next fragment https://t.co/b4jE2cpIsf #takeastep http://pic.twitter.com/5E9WPwRNAQ

— Santa Monica Studio (@SonySantaMonica) November 30, 2015

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Patton Oswalt Joins MST3K Reboot

The MST3K Kickstarter has far exceeded its goal, and so new cast member announcements continue to trickle out of the Satellite of Love. On the show's Kickstarter page, co-creator Joel Hodgson announced Patton Oswalt will be joining the cast.

Oswalt, who is a self-professed fan of the show, will play the son of TV's Frank, TV's Son of TV's Frank.

TV's Frank, played by Frank Conniff, joined the cast in season 2 after the unexpected departure of show founder Josh "J. Elvis" Weinstein. However, Coniff will not be joining the reboot as a major character, nor will former Mad and voice of Crow T. Robot Trace Beaulieu.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Millenium Falcon vs. Starship Enterprise

Neil deGrasse Tyson was quick to answer when asked whether he'd choose Star Wars's Millennium Falcon or Star Trek's Starship Enterprise.

A fan submitted this question to Tyson's National Geographic show, Star Talk, and Tyson answered with what he knows best—science. "The Enterprise," the astrophysicist answered. "There's no question." Watch for yourself in the video below.

The Enterprise, he says, is much more real than Han Solo's Millennium Falcon. The Millennium Falcon is part of Star Wars's "fantasy storytelling," he says, and the fact that the Enterprise has a staff—folks to man the "warp drives and photon torpedoes" makes the ship "fake-real," while the Millennium Falcon is just "fake-fake."

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McQuarrie Confirms He's Back to Direct M:I 6

Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie is set to become the first director to helm two installments in the spy film series.

McQuarrie confirmed on Twitter today that he's returning for Mission: Impossible 6. There were previously reports earlier this month that McQuarrie was talking with Paramount about writing and directing the next installment.

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Star Wars: Rebels Renewed for Season 3

Star Wars: Rebels, Disney's animated addition to the planet-hopping sci-fi franchise, has been renewed for a third season.

Set between the first and second film trilogies, Rebels settles on a cast of characters kicking off the Rebel Alliance first seen in A New Hope.

"The show continues to tell fun, heartfelt, exciting new Star Wars stories week after week, and it's beloved by fans of all ages," wrote Lucasfilm Senior VP of Development, Kiri Hart in a press release.

Hart's statement is backed up by the show's viewing numbers. Rebels is the second most-watched show on Disney's child-oriented cable channel, Disney XD. It's also the station's number one series among adults, with more than 48 million viewers worldwide.

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Out This Week: Xenoblade Chronicles X, Rainbow Six Siege

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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Why Han Solo Doesn't Shoot First in Star Wars

Star Wars creator George Lucas is defending his decision to change up Han Solo's encounter with Greedo in Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope.

Originally, Han shot Greedo first in the Star Wars film, but Lucas altered the scene with the Special Edition release of the movie in 1997. As such, Han blasts Greedo after the Rodian bounty hunter takes a shot at him first.

Lucas told the Washington Post that he revised the scene because Han isn't a murderer. He explained: "Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, 'Should he be a cold-blooded killer?'

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Slimmer MacBook Air May Be Announced at WWDC 2016

Apple will reportedly be unveiling a new line of MacBook Air models at its Worldwide Developers Conference next year.

According to Taiwan's Economic Daily News (via MacRumors), Apple's new MacBook Air will release in 13 and 15-inch size options and offer a slimmer design. No mention of an 11-inch version was made, however.

The report also claims the new laptop will be "fully redesigned" inside, equipped with completely new internal components.

Earlier this year, Apple released a super-light MacBook, leading many to believe the company would be phasing out the MacBook Air. If this new report proves true, however, Apple may be looking to position its 12-inch MacBook as its most portable option, with the 13 and 15-inch MacBook Air models serving as a slightly larger alternative.

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New to Hulu for December 2015

To get you in the holiday spirit, Hulu's December listings feature a ton of...Friday the 13th movies?

Seriously. Yeah, all the Paramount Friday the 13th movies will be available, as well as Dr. No, Interstellar, Good Morning Vietnam, Young Sherlock Holmes, The Crying Game, and more. Also, remember that Hulu is now available with a commercial-free option.

Note: Titles with an "*" are available with a subscription to the Showtime premium add-on.

December 1st

IGN SPOTLIGHT

• Dr. No (1962)

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4 Times Hunger Games Merch Totally Missed the Point

The Hunger Games is a series about a futuristic dystopia in which a dozen impoverished city-states are enslaved by a totalitarian government whose sole purpose is perpetuating their own lavish and superficial lifestyles.

The Capitol maintains control over the twelve districts by holding a yearly televised event called The Hunger Games, in which two tributes (children between the ages of 12 and 18) from each district must battle to the death. This barbaric contest serves as entertainment for the citizens of the Capitol as well as a grisly reminder of the terrifying power the central government has over the twelve districts.

The story is essentially an allegory for the way America relies on cheap labor from countries like China and India, and how we glorify violence in our games, movies, and television while turning a blind eye to the very real warfare and famine that is often a direct result of our own greed.

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Mario Kart 8 Is Coming to Disney XD

Nintendo's Wii U-exclusive kart racer is making its way to Disney XD in a new show called Clash of Karts: Mario Kart 8.

The show features "eight of America's best young gamers" who will compete alongside various YouTube personalities, including Andre of Black Nerd Comedy, AtomicMari, Strawburry 17 and SethBling, in a one-hour Mario Kart 8 competition.

Clash of Karts: Mario Kart 8 will air this coming Saturday, December 5, at 8pm PT/ET on Disney XD.

Earlier this year, Nintendo announced it was pursing licensing deals with other companies, both within the realm of video games and through external partnerships. It appears this new television deal with Disney XD is a result of the company's new efforts.

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Reports Claim Major Performance Problems for Just Cause 3

Unfavorable reports about the performance of the upcoming Just Cause 3 are beginning to surface. According to sources, framerate and load-time issues plague the open-world game.

According to a report on videogamer.com, itself citing a YouTube video from NX Gamer, framerates sometimes drop to as low as 17 fps, and loading sometimes came in at over 15 minutes. NX Gamer attributes this to "memory leakages," when the Xbox One is clearing out RAM.

NX Gamer also reported slow-down, a problem most commonly seen on NES and Super NES-era games, when the on-screen action happened faster than the processor could compute.

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The Force Awakens Unleashes New TV Spots

Disney and Lucasfilm have released two new TV spots for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as a pair of promotional videos highlighting the film's two leading stars.

Check out TV spot #12 below, which provides an extended look at Rey (Daisy Ridley) and her loyal droid companion BB-8:

Next up, we have the film's thirteenth TV spot, which centers heavily on Adam Driver's Kylo Ren, including a peek at his epic lightsaber showdown against Finn (John Boyega):

Disney Channel conducted interviews with Ridley and Boyega about their roles in the film. Find out what Ridley had to say about her experience playing Rey below:

And here are Boyega's thoughts on starring as Finn:

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Peter Jackson Is Directing an Episode of Doctor Who

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit director Peter Jackson has announced he will be helming an upcoming episode of Doctor Who.

Jackson revealed his involvement in the hit BBC television series in a video on Facebook. In it, the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) pays an unexpected visit to the director's home while Jackson chats with his daughter and polishes his Oscar trophies. And yes, that is a bookmarked copy of the Silmarillion sitting in front of him -- let the speculation commence!

The clip, which is done in the spirit of the show, also pokes a bit of fun at Jackson and his prior directorial work. See it by clicking the image below.

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Homeland: "The Litvinov Ruse" Review

Warning: Full spoilers below.

Homeland kicked things into gear with "The Litvinov Ruse" after a couple of weeks of slow burns, finally bringing Carrie and Saul together as the old colleagues worked to ensnare another old friend, Allison, in their sticky trap of satellite surveillance and bugged cell phones.

But first, about that Carrie/Saul reunion: Make fun of Claire Danes' crying face all you want, but how gratifying was it to see her starting to tear up as Saul gestured for her to come in for the hug? And ain't nothing like a hug from Saul "The Bear" Berenson, that much is certain. It's been an interesting exercise separating them all season, but I'm glad to see them back in full Batman and Robin form (and no, I'm not sure which one is Batman and which is Robin). Saul clearly regrets the hard stance he took with Carrie earlier in the season when she told him her life was in danger, even if the original reason for their estrangement remains (and is referenced once again here by Saul's old Israeli friend Etai).

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New to HBO NOW for December 2015

Coming to HBO NOW - HBO's over-the-top stand alone VOD service - in December are movies like Get Hard, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Spaceballs, all three pre-reboot RoboCop films, Brokeback Mountain, and more. Plus, a U2's live makeup concert from Paris (rescheduled due to the recent terror attacks) and The Leftovers' Season 2 finale.

Expiring from HBO NOW are movies like X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Rock, The Fault in Our Stars, The Devil Wears Prada, and more.

December 1st

• Vice Special Report: Countdown to Zero

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Kit Harington Talks MI-5 and How Game of Thrones Affects His Life

Kit Harington is best known for his work as Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, but the 28-year-old actor branched out to another well-known TV franchise when he signed on to play Will Holloway in Spooks: The Greater Good, released as MI-5 in the United States.

The movie picks up several years after the series finale of the British spy show Spooks, and stars a handful of actors from it, including Peter Firth, Tim McInnerny and Lara Pulver. Though Spooks: The Greater Good was released in May in the UK (read our review), Harington hopped on the phone to promote the upcoming US release of the project.

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Flash/Arrow Crossover Event is This Week's TV Highlight

An eclectic week here at the end of November as FOX's Gotham, Empire, Rosewood, and more are airing midseason finales and then vanishing for months while NBC's running a new live musical special and both Netflix and Amazon premiere new full seasons of original programming (not at the same time this week though).

But our big callout is the Flash/Arrow crossover event. This time the heroes of Starling City and Central City unite to take on the nefarious Vandal Savage (Casper Crump), who we know will play a big antagonistic role on The CW's upcoming spinoff series DC's Legends of Tomorrow. And with LoT premiering on January 21st, it's clear that this two-episode team up is meant to kickstart that series, building up the danger so as to set the stage for our new super-team.

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WB Games Montreal Hiring for Two New DC Universe Games

Warner Bros. Games Montreal has two new DC Comics universe titles on the docket—and they're hiring for both.

The studio who developed Batman: Arkham Origins posted an official call for applicants on its website, announcing the development of two AAA projects "focused on expanding the DC Comics universe in the interactive space." The jobs available range from software developers and programmers to artists and designers.

We reported in June on rumors of a new open-world game for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Still, no word yet on what the games might actually be. Another Batman game? Superman? Perhaps a tie-in with the Suicide Squad movie? Your guess is as good as ours.

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PS4 Processor Unlocked to Provide More Power to Devs

Sony has unlocked more of PlayStation 4's CPU, providing additional power for game developers to work with.

According to the latest changelog notes for the system's FMOD audio middleware, which were posted on the Beyond3D forums, the seventh processing core of Sony's home console has been unlocked. "PS4 - Added FMOD_THREAD_CORE6 to allow access to the newly unlocked 7th core," the notes read.

Eurogamer has confirmed with its contacts that more processing power has indeed been unlocked and is now available for use by game developers. That said, the outlet was careful to note existing games won't take advantage of the extra power unless the title is updated with a patch to add support.

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Superstore: Series Premiere Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow.

Debuting Monday night, NBC's new midseason comedy Superstore (created by The Office alum Justin Spitzer) is the kind of show that would have fit right in with the network's lineup circa 2009. In the final months of 2015, the show feels a little generic and outdated, but it's not without its charms thanks to stars America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) and Ben Feldman (Mad Men), as well as a mostly talented ensemble.

The series is basically like every other workplace comedy on the planet, just set in a megastore. There's the happy-go-lucky new guy, Jonah (Feldman), and the antisocial pro, Amy (Ferrera), who are obviously into each other but would never admit it out loud. Then there's the dorky boss (Mark McKinney), the pregnant space case (Nichole Bloom), the by-the-books stickler (Lauren Ash), the sassy overachiever (Nico Santos) and the wild card (Colton Dunn).

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Canceled First-Person Avengers Game Footage Surfaces

Several years ago, THQ was working a big-budget superhero game tied to Marvel's The Avengers movie. It was canceled in the wake of THQ Australia's closing, and now new footage of the title has surfaced.

Check out the video below, courtesy of Unseen 64 and DidYouKnowGaming (via VG247) , which not only contains gameplay footage, but also assets and details on the game's development.

The title was in development for both both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 at Studio Australia, with Blue Tongue joining the project to help with a PC version. There were also apparently plans to port the game to Wii U a bit later on in development.

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Fallout 4 Now Has a Buzz Lightyear Mod

Have you been playing Fallout 4 and wondering if there's a way to get Paladin Danse looking like Buzz Lightyear? Well then this is the mod for you.

The Buzz Lightyear Paladin Danse mod is now available to download on Nexusmods, but you'll need to do a bit of extra work to get him wearing his new armor.

First you'll need Paladin Danse as a follower, then you have to take a set of Buzz Lightyear power armor from one of the Prydwen stations. Next, trade the armor with Danse so he has it in his inventory, and then press T to equip it on him. If he's not already wearing the hood, then you'll have to type 'player.additem e1a39' to get it, and then equip it on him the same way as before.

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The Americans Actress on Her New Movie and Her X-Files Role

Known for her role as Nina on FX's fantastic spy drama, The Americans, Annet Mahendru is starring in the new independent film, Sally Pacholok, playing the title character – a real life nurse who made a medical discovery with life-saving consequences. The next few months are notable for Mahendru, who also has an important guest role in the revival of The X-Files on FOX in January, along with returning for The Americans' fourth season, debuting in March.

While the film hasn't yet opened to general audiences, this Wednesday night, Mahendru will be appearing at a screening of Sally Pacholok in Los Angeles – tickets can be purchased here – and I spoke to the actress about her new movie, what we should expect from her X-Files character and the ever-evolving situation for Nina on The Americans.

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Supergirl Gets Full-Season Order

Supergirl has been ordered for a full season, CBS has announced.

With seven additional episodes ordered on top of the initial 13, the new superhero series will produce 20 episodes in Season 1, rather than a typical 22 episodes. Supergirl was one of the last of the fall series to premiere this year, and recently, shorter season orders are becoming more common across many networks, including ABC's 16-episode order for The Muppets and The CW's order for 19 episodes of iZombie.

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How to Unlock Metal Gear Solid 5's Nuclear Disarmament Secret

Konami has confirmed how to unlock the secret nuclear disarmament ending for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Although the secret ending apparently leaked back in September (you can see the video on IGN's Metal Gear Solid V Easter Egg page), Konami has now released the instructions on how to unlock the event for real, and it's not going to be easy.

One of the original theories was true. All nuclear weapons at the FOBs of everyone in your console's region have to be dismantled. The full instructions are as follows:

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Star Wants Godzilla-Sized Gremlin in Part 3

Billy Peltzer himself – Zach Galligan – stopped by IGN's London office to talk all things Gremlins and Gremlins: The New Batch last week, and to also speculate about Gremlins 3.

There's no real news, with the last proper update happening in April when Chris Columbus – writer of the original – said the film will be a sequel that also functions as a reboot of sorts, but one that connects the audience emotionally to the past.

Galligan told us that he'd actually written his own treatment for the movie some years back however, so we asked him to pitch his four best ideas, which you can watch in the above video or read below…

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Rainbow Six Siege Review in Progress

Rainbow Six Siege pulls me in opposite directions at the same time. On the one hand, the moment-to-moment gameplay experience is fantastic. Every second of the short rounds matter, walls and floors won't protect you, and sound tactics win matches. But, like other 2015 multiplayer-focused shooters such as Evolve and Star Wars Battlefront, there's not a lot of there there. My time with Siege so far leaves me feeling like this Rainbow Six revival is a skeleton with not a lot of meat on its bones.

Siege reboots the long-running Rainbow Six series as a five-on-five, attack-and-defend competitive shooter that's as much about blowing holes in the world around you as in your opponents. Destruction is no gimmick; shooting through walls, blasting through floors and ceilings, and keeping as much of your corporeal Special Forces husk behind fragile cover during firefights is key to extending your life in each of the respawn-free modes. Using a gadget to detect the presence of an enemy and fragging them through what would, in most other first-person shooters, be an indestructible hunk of drywall isn't just satisfying; it's thrilling. And while Siege isn't the best-looking shooter out there in terms of environmental detail or character models, it includes memorable touches like the arterial blood spray that coats the wall behind your target when you off them. It looks like something truly terrible happened in that spot.

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Sony Isn’t Making It, So These Guys Are

When it comes to futuristic racers, Psygnosis' WipEout series is the big wheel down at the cracker factory. Sony's Studio Liverpool née Psygnosis was shuttered in 2012 and the series itself has since slipped from the limelight, but WipEout's legacy still looms large. Instrumental to the very success of the original PlayStation, WipEout is arguably Psygnosis' chef-d'oeuvre.

But WipEout wasn't the only futuristic racing series Psygnosis put its stamp on back in the late '90s. There was another, with one key difference. This one actually had wheels.

Big ones.

Chris Mallinson renovates homes and, up until recently, he had no actual games industry experience. But he really, really loves Rollcage.

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Amazon Releases New Prime Air Teaser

The development of Prime Air was revealed in 2013, but Amazon is now giving customers another look at its progress.

A prototype is being teased in a video posted on Amazon's FAQ page. The new drone is much more polished than the previous iteration and will weigh 55 pounds. Flying at under 400 feet, the drones will deliver your cargo—up to five pounds—in 30 minutes or less, says the online retailer.

Amazon notes that safety is the biggest priority for them, and so, there is no official release date. Prime Air will only be deployed when Amazon has the "regulatory support needed to safely realize

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Into the Badlands: "White Stork Spreads Wings" Review

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This week's Into the Badlands got off to a rousing start, as Quinn and his men stormed the Widow's estate. So far, every episode of the show has kicked off with a fight sequence, but this one felt especially dynamic since it was Baron vs. Baron -- literally in the case of Quinn and the Widow, who actually went toe to toe at one point. It was also a nice change of pace to see two experienced opponents go at it, as opposed to just one guy or gal wiping the floor with nameless enemies.

But while "White Stork Spreads Wings" was a very solid episode overall, parts of it languished -- specifically (and not surprisingly) Ryder's recovery subplot. As I've mentioned before, we still have no reason to care about Quinn's family; they're either too dull (Lydia, Jade), too annoying (Ryder) or too evil for evil's sake (Quinn) to invest in any of them -- and their long, drawn-out storyline made little actual progress here. On the bright side, Veil had more to do this week than in previous episodes, which at least made her character seem a bit more relevant.

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Can Overwatch Convert a Call of Duty and Battlefield Player?

I've been a fan of first-person shooters since my three brothers and I huddled around a CRT computer monitor to play the granddaddy of the genre, Wolfenstein 3D. When offline body counts begat online fragging, I fell in love with the competitive multiplayer of Quake, Counter-Strike, Call of Duty and Battlefield.

Nowadays, there's a new kind of shooter muscling its way into existence. It comes in many different descriptions, depending on which company is spruiking its specific take on the sub-genre, but I like to call it the MOBA-shooter: a splicing of classic shooting tropes with iconic hero characters, special abilities and a progression system.

Overwatch is Blizzard's take on the MOBA-shooter sub-genre and, considering I've never really dabbled in MOBAs, it's captured the attention of this diehard competitive-shooter fan. Here's why.

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What Did You Think of The Walking Dead Midseason Finale?

AMC didn't send out advance press screeners for The Walking Dead midseason finale (they usually don't for finales) so I'm busily typing away at the review right now. In the meanwhile, check out these video interviews with some of the Walking Dead cast from New York Comic-Con and then let us know what you thought of the episode down below.

 

 

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The Leftovers: "Ten Thirteen" Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

Of course The Leftovers introduced us to a wild new danger just one chapter away from the finale. On a season filled with brilliant, haunting left turns, Meg's new band of militant domestic terrorists - set to blow up the bridge leading into Jarden - is the perfect way to draw all our remaining players down to Texas while also showcasing the fact that the the world has only gotten more dangerous. That time has not worked to heal here.

The Guilty Remnant stand to remind everyone that the world ended years ago, and live a harsh life in order to constantly remind themselves, but Meg's new methods go way beyond reminding. She means to inflict pain. For the sake of pain, in fact. She'd rather be the aggressor (by putting her cigarette out in someone's eye) than stand there take others' abuse as a passive totem. Which lets you know, right off the bat, that she cares about herself too much to be in the GR. She's just an angry psycho wearing white.

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What Did You Think of This Week's Once Upon a Time?

Hey everyone, our review for this week's Once Upon a Time is coming later at this same URL, but in the meantime, let us know what you thought of "Broken Heart" in the comments below.

Colin O'Donoghue in Once Upon a Time

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Final Fantasy 7 PS4 Trophy List Surfaces Online

The trophy list for Square Enix's upcoming Final Fantasy VII port for PlayStation 4 has been leaked online.

The list of in-game achievements, courtesy of Exophase, is quite similar to that of the Steam version, which shouldn't be particularly surprising since Square is porting the PC version of its classic RPG to Sony's platform. It's important to note, however, that neither Sony nor Square Enix have officially confirmed the validity of the list.

That said, the leak could very well be an indication that Final Fantasy VII's release on PlayStation 4 isn't too far off. Plus, with PlayStation Experience mere days away, there's a good chance the publisher is planning to announce a release date during Sony's keynote this weekend.

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Far Cry Primal, Quantum Break Teased for The Game Awards

The Game Awards 2015 will feature a number of world premieres, and according to show producer Geoff Keighley, both Quantum Break and Far Cry Primal will be getting some time in the spotlight.

In a post on Twitter, Keighley announced X-Men actor and Quantum Break star Shawn Ashmore will be making an appearance to unveil new footage of Remedy's upcoming Xbox One exclusive.

Thursday, @ShawnRAshmore joins us to world premiere new QUANTUM BREAK content at @thegameawards http://pic.twitter.com/g4Og4sUh5W

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These 3 Oscar Winners Turned Down Phantom Menace

While Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace was ultimately directed by George Lucas, the film was first offered to three other top-tier directors: Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Robert Zemeckis.

On the latest episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via The Hollywood Reporter), Howard revealed that Lucas "didn't necessarily want to direct" the prequel films, saying, "he had talked to 

Zemeckis, he talked to me, he talked to Steven Spielberg. I was the third one he spoke to."

However, all three directors turned him down. "They all said the same thing: 'George, you should just do it.' This is your baby," Howard added. "Nobody wanted to follow that act I don't think at that point. That was an honor, but it would've been just too daunting."

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Good Dinosaur, Creed Strong But Can't Topple Mockingjay

Katniss Everdeen's last stand staved off strong competition from Pixar Animation and the return of Rocky Balboa this weekend.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 remained the No. 1 movie at the North American box office over Thanksgiving weekend, grossing an estimated $75.8 million for the Wednesday-Sunday holiday frame, $51.6 million of that from the three-day weekend alone.

Mockingjay, Part 2's domestic total stands at $198.3 million for a worldwide total of $440.7 million.

Pixar Animation's long-delayed The Good Dinosaur debuted in second place just below expectations with an estimated $39.2 million for the three-day weekend and a total of $55.6 million since opening Wednesday.

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PlayStation Wins Black Friday, According to Marketing Study

Sony's gaming platform was the preferred console during Black Friday, according to a marketing study conducted by InfoScout.

The study, which tracked the purchases of over 250,000 receipts captured on mobile devices during Thanksgiving night and into Black Friday, reports that Millennial consumers (those between the ages of 18 to 35) preferred PlayStation to Xbox and Nintendo.

According to InfoScout's research via Polygon, Black Friday resulted in an 8 percent spike for interest in PlayStation among Millennials, and it came at the cost of a significant portion of Xbox's consumer mindshare. Meanwhile, middle-aged consumers were slightly more partial to Xbox; though, interest in PlayStation did see a 3 percent spike during the holiday shopping weekend.

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GoT's The Mountain Breaks His Own World Record

Game of Thrones star Hafthor Bjornsson has set a new world record, surpassing his own previous keg-tossing high.

According to Giants Live, the actor who plays Ser Gregor Clegane (aka "The Mountain") on the popular HBO series was able to toss a 33-pound keg over 23 feet in the air.

"It was easy!" Bjornsson said of the feat. "I could have broken the roof. It was amazing to do this in front of the great crowd. Bring on Europe's Strongest Man."

That's not the only record the Game of Thrones actor has managed to shatter this year, having tossed a 56-pound kettlebell over 19 feet in the air with a single arm at the Arnold Sports Festival back in March. If that weren't enough, Bjornsson also broke a 1000-year-old weightlifting record the month prior.

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Ash vs Evil Dead: "The Host" Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

While I'm certainly more than ready for Ruby to catch up with Ash (seriously, let's get this done), "The Host" nicely tied up the Elegos story that began a few episodes back in "Books from Beyond." No, Elegos didn't have any master plan other than just wanting to mess with, and kill, our heroes - and we haven't really seen many Deadites since his arc began - but it still was supremely satisfying to watch Ash blast that demon's head apart. Sometimes you just want the ol' Boomstick to go "BOOM!"

That being said, there are only ten of these half-hour chapters (this season) and we just spent three of them tangling with a "lesser" demon who apparently didn't have all that much to do with the bigger picture. Of course, the bloody (toothy, leechy, pukey) battle did cost Pablo his uncle (while also helping re-set Pablo on the "Brujo" path) so maybe it wasn't a total loss. There were consequences here. And the shot of those totems all catching on fire as the uncle burned on the pyre was pretty sweet. It was the heaviest moment of the series so far for sure, as the death of Kelly's parents wasn't even treated all that seriously.

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Doctor Who: "Heaven Sent" Review

Warning: Full spoilers below.

And so the underlying themes of this season come to the forefront in the excellent penultimate episode of Season 9, "Heaven Sent," as the Doctor finds himself being stalked by Death itself. His opening narration says as much, that one day we all will notice a second shadow next to our own... And that is exactly what happens to the Doctor here. Over and over and over again.

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Portal Items Coming to Rocket League

Officially-licensed Portal items are coming to Rocket League next month.

Nine new items have been added, developer Psyonix has announced. Conversion, Propulsion, and Repulsion gels have all been converted to rocket trails. The Aperture Laboratories logo, a cake sticker, companion cube, personality core, and PotatOS have all been made into antennas. Cake is also making an appearance as a topper.

The items will be available for free, starting December 1.

Portal isn't the only famous IP to get Rocket League items, Back to the Future DLC was released back in October. Since then, a slew of DLC has come to the sports game, including free mutators, which added settings like low gravity, time warp, and the ability to change the ball size.

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Z Nation: "Party with the Zeros" Review

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It was great to finally get an episode that made the Zeros into interesting antagonists. They've been teased throughout the season but their previous appearances hardly made them seem like a threat at all. "Party with the Zeros" takes the group across the border into Mexico and shows us the heart of the Zeros organization lead by their queen La Reina played by Gina Gershon. This is a beautifully shot and framed episode that goes for that filmic experience while still delivering the usual camp that Z Nation is exceptional at.

With the season winding down we're finally dealing with some of the pressing issues that were established earlier in the year. Dr. Kurian returns and it is revealed that he has been working for the Zeros on a cure, at least that's what he's led everyone to believe. It seems Dr. Kurian is still intent on establishing his new Murphy World Order with zombie-human hybrids ruling the Earth. As far as mad doctors go, Kurian certainly delivers.

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Force Awakens Writer: 'Star Wars Is Its Own Genre'

According to Star Wars: The Force Awakens writer Lawrence Kasdan, Lucasfilm's beloved film franchise can't be categorized as either sci-fi or fantasy.

"Star Wars is its own genre," Kasdan told Wired in a recent interview. "It's not really science fiction. It's really something on its own, fantasy and myth and science fiction and Flash Gordon and Akira Kurosawa all mixed up together.... It can be anything you want it to be."

In addition to co-writing the screenplay for The Force Awakens, Kasdan also penned The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He's also co-writer on the upcoming Han Solo standalone movie that will explore the wise-cracking smuggler's younger days.

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BvS: Dawn of Justice Gets 2 New Companion Books

New Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice images have surfaced online by way of two new Scholastic companion books tied to the upcoming DC Comics film.

The first, spotted by Batman-News, can be found on the cover of an original companion novel, titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Cross Fire, which tells a tie-in story set before the events of the movie. See it below, courtesy of Amazon.

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6 Mobile Games with Incredible Touch Controls

Touch controls can be terrible. They are more often than they're not, really, which has made plenty of console-bred gamers gun-shy about taking the plunge into playing on platforms that lack the buttons their fingers have grown so accustomed to pressing. There are some mobile games that soar thanks to their mastery of this seemingly crippling restriction, though – games with touch controls so solid you forget you're holding a device at all, and it seems impossible to imagine the games played any other way.

We've selected half a dozen stellar examples for your consideration. These are 6 Mobile Games with Incredible Touch Controls.

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Destiny: The Taken King Adds 'Harder' Mode

Bungie is introducing an even "harder" mode to Destiny: The Taken King's King's Fall raid. Though the company has yet to release much of the details, it did post a preview on its official blog.

Lead raid designer Gavin Irby announced the game's newest feature—challenge modes. In challenge mode, a King's Fall boss will issue players a weekly challenge. You can take on the challenges in both normal and hard modes, and, as Irby notes, rewards will match the chosen difficulty level.

Players can't just go in with any strategy, however. Bungie reminds us that "each boss's challenge requires that you defeat them in a very specific manner." We'll find out what the means when the challenges are released.

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Walking Dead: What We Want from the Midseason Finale

AMC's The Walking Dead may have hit a few snags during the first half of its Season 6 run, though with the show's annual midseason finale - the last new episode until February - comes the opportunity for a "reset." Usually through mass bloodshed. Yes, the series hasn't met a problem yet that it couldn't fix with a copious amounts of corpses and a change of setting.

But should that happen here? Do we need half the cast to die? Do we want to see Alexandria fall into ruin? Sunday's upcoming fall finale, "Start to Finish," wasn't released early to the press so when it comes to that ferocious herd of walkers set to invade town, your guess is as good as ours. But here's what we'd like to see happen. Here are a few points and items we'd like to see get addressed before the show hibernates for winter.

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 Gets New 7.8 GB Patch

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 has received a new 7.8 GB patch on PlayStation 4 that adds new levels, character campaigns, and a few gameplay tweaks.

The two new levels included in the 1.03 patch are titled Underground and Wild West, while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Tyler the Creator are the two new character campaigns. Although no bug fixes are specifically mentioned, the notes do include adjustments to gameplay and character textures.

Check out a full list of the patch notes below, provided by Eurogamer:

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Star Wars Rebels: "Stealth Strike" Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

First off, apologies for this review going up a couple of days late due to the holiday. Now on to it!

This week's Rebels had some huge visual connections to the original Star Wars (or Episode IV or A New Hope), as a rescue mission onboard an imperial ship had a lot of echoes of the Death Star sequences in that film. The familiar Imperial corridors, the gunners, the torture droid, our heroes dressed as Stormtroopers… There was a lot of nostalgia on hand here. And yeah, it was pretty on the nose, but it mostly worked.

What was cool was that it was a big visual tie-in to that first movie, while also being a big episode for two characters from completely different parts of Star Wars – the Rebels-created Kanan and The Clone Wars' Captain Rex. Because the dramatic crux of the episode was the strained relationship between these two reluctant allies and how Kanan would finally make a big decision during a moment of truth, risking himself to go back and rescue Rex. And yeah, maybe he didn't need to call him "friend" just yet (that felt a bit much), but the decision itself spoke volumes.

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Batman v Superman Sneak During Gotham Fall Finale

A new sneak peek for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will be unveiled during the fall finale of Gotham, FOX has announced.

The finale is set to air this coming Monday, November 30, at 8/7c. FOX has released a brief promo teasing the sneak peek. See it below.

Additionally, the cast of Gotham has weighed in with their thoughts on the great Batman versus Superman debate. Find out who Robin Lord Taylor, Erin Richards, and several other Gotham stars ultimately side with in the clip below.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens March 25, 2016. According to Dark Knight actor Ben Affleck, there's a lot of riding on Zack Snyder's new superhero flick.

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X-Men: Anna Paquin Is Game to Come Back for More

The X-Men franchise is bigger in Hollywood than ever, expanding from the big screen to TV as it also gears up for the film X-Men: Apocalypse and several spinoff films. The series already mashed up its new and old casts in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past, and is looking to jump around eras again between the '60s-set Hellfire, '80s-set Apocalypse and the likely-'80s-set Legion. There's also a new, untitled Wolverine movie and standalone films about Gambit and Deadpool on the horizon.

That leaves many, many opportunities to weave back in old, familiar X-Men characters in these new projects. Though she's said she won't appear in the Channing Tatum-starring Gambit, Anna Paquin does say she's game to pick up the Rogue mantle and appear in future X-Men properties.

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Wii U Drives Target's Biggest Online Shopping Day Ever

Target.com enjoyed record-breaking sales on Thanksgiving, with Wii U leading the charge as the retailer's top-selling item online for Black Friday.

"Gaming consoles were popular in stores and online, including Nintendo Wii U, which was the top selling item on Target.com," the retailer announced.

Additionally, Apple's iPad was a popular item both online and in stores. In fact, the Target said it "sold an iPad every second throughout the day on Thanksgiving." Apple Watch also sold well for the retailer, especially in stores.

Televisions were also a very popular in-store item, as well as movies, of which over 3 million were sold on Thanksgiving day alone. With regard to toys, LEGO, Barbie, Disney Princess, and Star Wars-themed products have proven to be the most popular.

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Coca-Cola Has Re-Registered Ecto-Cooler Trademark

Perhaps the most fondly-remembered of all Hi-C flavors, Ecto-Cooler could be ready for a comeback.

According to the keen-eyed Ghostbusters fans at Planet Ghostbusters, the Coca-Cola corporation filed to re-register its trademark for the citrus beverage back in September.

It could be Coca-Cola is simply renewing the trademark so it doesn't lose the rights to the name, but it could also be that the green beverage will see a return to store shelves. After all, the new Ghostbusters movie is coming out in July, so it would make sense to reintroduce everyone's favorite drink that's inspired by a lovable, but ultimately spooky, ghost.

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Force Awakens Debut: Check Out 3 New Retro Posters

We have three brand new, old school-style posters for Star Wars: The Force Awakens to share with you today.

These exclusive retro one-sheets are a throwback to the promotional posters used to herald the arrival of Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope back in 1977.

Click on the images below for higher-res versions:

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The 9 Best Gifts for Book and Game Lovers

Books are like video games in that you need to do a little work to enjoy them, but the pay-off is totally worth it. If you're looking for books this holiday that will excite the gamer in your life, we've assembled this list of greats for your consideration.

You don't need to be a true 90s kid to remember the knock-down, drag-out days of SEGA versus Nintendo. Console Wars by Blake J. Harris looks at the inside story of how SEGA positioned itself to take on what was the most powerful gaming company in the world at the time.

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The Expanse: Series Premiere Review

Note: The Expanse debuts December 14th on Syfy, but the premiere episode can be seen now online, including here at IGN right below. However, our premiere review doesn't delve into major spoilers.

The Expanse might just be the show we've been waiting for that will finally fill a void that has existed in the science fiction genre, on TV, for some time now. We've seen some space-based science fiction shows crop up in recent years that have shown potential. The quality of programming on Syfy is starting to ramp up again with shows like Dark Matter and Killjoys but while both show promise they don't deliver anything groundbreaking. After a single episode, The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey, already feels like it's delivered a rich and interesting world that is bursting with plenty of potential.

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The Bastard Executioner: Series Review

Warning: full spoilers follow below. 

When you're coming off a show as big as Sons of Anarchy, you're either going to hit it out of the park or stumble out of the gate. Unfortunately for most showrunners, magic doesn't often happen twice in a row – especially with such a small timeframe between projects.

Sadly, this was the case for Kurt Sutter's The Bastard Executioner. While the series featured a stellar cast and the acting did what it could, the project felt jarred and sewn together from the first episode, when it tried to be everything all at once. It was gory (to varying degrees of success, depending on your ability to swallow scenes like a baby being stabbed in its mother's womb or crows picking organs from dead bodies), featured Sutter's wife Katey Sagal in a vastly different -- but not altogether sellable -- role in Annora of the Alders, and unrolled so many plot points and characters in the first two-hour installment that it was somewhat difficult to keep track of who was who.

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PlayStation Network Currently Experiencing Issues

UPDATE: With the exception of PlayStation Music, all services have now been restored.

PlayStation Network is currently experiencing issues across a number of its services, Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed.

According to the network's status page, everything from Account Management to Gaming and Social have been affected. As such, PSN users may have difficulty signing in, launching games or accessing other online applications.

Additionally, PlayStation Store, as well as PlayStation Vue, Video and Music are all experiencing issues. PlayStation Now appears to be the only service unaffected.

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Thoughts on Jessica Jones, Man in the High Castle, Master of None

Hey guys, on this week's Channel Surfing there's several new streaming series to discuss, as Netflix and Amazon have launched a lot of new content of late.

There's also a very awkward edit in the middle of the podcast due to a weird technical issue. Listen to hear the magic for yourself!

Topics include:

-Mystery Science Theater 3000 returning

-Jeffrey Dean Morgan cast as Negan on The Walking Dead

-Lost in Space coming back as a Netflix series

-FX canceling The Bastard Executioner

-FOX no longer reporting overnight ratings

-The Soup ending

-Reaction to W/ Bob & David

-Reaction to Master of None

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Sony to Close PSP Online Store in Japan

Sony will shutter the PlayStation Store on PSP in Japan on March 31, 2016.

According to Sony's announcement (via Gematsu), PSP content will no longer be available for purchase through the handheld's online store. Anything you've purchased previously will still be available for download, though.

For clarity, the closure only affects those on PSP. If you have access to a PlayStation 3 or PS Vita, you'll be able to purchase PSP content on those platforms.

Sony also announced it's closing its UMD Passport Service in Japan on March 31. For those who don't know, the service enables UMD owners to purchase a digital version of their content for a small fee.

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What's the Best Director-Actor Combo?

There's been some greats. Hitchcock-Stewart, Scorsese-De Niro, Scorsese-DiCaprio, Spielberg-Hanks, but what's the most successful collaboration in cinema?

We also have plenty of time to talk about Battlefront one week on, Netflix's Jessica Jones, and which is the best Goosebumps book.

Come on, that's a variety show. Watch the video above, or listen to the audio below!

IGN UK Podcast #307: What's the Best Director-Actor Combo?

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NES Remix Event Comes to Super Mario Maker

A NES Remix event has come to Super Mario Maker.

Owners can now head over to the events tab and download a NES Remix-inspired level. Upon completion of said level, users unlock a new costume for Mario – the Frog Suit.

"Become the world's greatest NES master!" reads the in-game description, via NintendoLife.

"In the NES Remix series, a variety of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games are given a new lease on life. This course gives you a taste of the Remix Stages from that series, where you can play old games with a new twist! Enjoy rushing ahead with a Super Star or experiencing a course in reverse!"

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PS4 Remote Play Is Coming to PC and Mac

PlayStation 4 Remote Play is coming to PC and Mac at some point in the future.

Speaking via Twitter, president of Sony's worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida spoke briefly about the possibility of one day seeing Remote Play on PC or Mac.

"Some people asked if we plan to provide Remote Play function to PC," says Yoshida-san, "and yes, we are indeed working on an official application for PC/Mac."

Bringing Remote Play to computers would bring the PlayStation 4 in line with Microsoft's Xbox App, which also allows users to stream gameplay from an Xbox One to a remote PC.

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces Five Dollar Computer

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the release of its newest Raspberry Pi computer—the Pi Zero.

The Pi Zero is smaller and cheaper than ever, coming in at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm, and priced at just $5.

As the Raspberry Pi Foundation notes in a post on the company's website, owning a programmable computer is still a luxury. "Of all the things we do at Raspberry Pi," writes Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton, "driving down the cost of computer hardware remains one of the most important."

Pi Zero is equipped with a Broadcom BCM2835 application processor with a 1GHz ARM11 core—which should be noted, is "40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1"—, 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM, a micro-SC card slot, mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output, micro-USB sockets for data and power, and an unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header—the same pinout as the Model A+/B+/2B.

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Hitman 2 Free for a Limited Time to Celebrate 15 Years of Hitman

For the Black Friday weekend, you can download Hitman 2: Silent Assassin for free off Square Enix's online store to celebrate the series' fifteenth anniversary. Just make an account and use the promo code "FreeSilentAssassin" at the check out.

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin came out in 2002 for the PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC to largely positive reviews including an 8.7 from IGN. Reviewer Steve Butts wrote "while the title has significant improvements over the earlier version, it's a phenomenal game in its own right and one that's sure to have broad appeal, particularly among those gamers who like to put a little more thought in to their carnage."

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IGN AU Pubcast: Surprise Statham!

Much like Peter Gabriel's 1992 hit, Tristan has been singing the praises of Steam lately - with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, not unlike Peter Gabriel's 1986 classic, Sledgehammer. Tristan's actually-not-that-interesting tale about setting up a Steam Link kicks off this episode of the Pubcast, but fortunately things pick up from there - so Don't Give Up (another Peter Gabriel joint from 1985 ).

"But enough about Peter Gabriel. Do you like, Phil Collins by any chance?"

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Discovering Minecraft in 2015

Minecraft's incredible popularity is well documented, and utterly fascinating. This primitive-looking but hugely versatile experience is the best-selling PC game in history, as well as one of the best-selling games of all time. It has sold over 70 million copies between various platforms and now has its own convention.

This is no small feat: Mojang is holding onto something extraordinary to say the least. Yet for some reason or another, Minecraft had always eluded me. Rarely a PC gamer, I initially watched Markus "Notch" Persson's baby skyrocket from afar, a cultural phenomenon unlike anything I had ever seen.

So when Minecraft eventually made its way to PS4, with its popularity showing no signs of dropping, curiosity eventually got the better of me. Running out of things to play and a sale appearing on PSN made it seem like fate, and I decided one afternoon in July to finally see what all the block-filled fuss was about. Initially I started up Minecraft simply to occupy vacant gaming time between releases, what it turned into however, proved to be much more than a basic time-filler.

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Codemasters to ‘Double-Down’ on Racing From Now On

Veteran UK-based studio Codemasters has shut down its small, Malta-based team and has made clear its plan to focus purely on the racing genre from this point on.

"While it's been great to explore projects outside of racing, we know that our hearts belong to racing in all its many glorious forms," a Codemasters spokesperson told Eurogamer. "The success of Dirt Rally's Early Access programme has been incredible, F1 2015 was very successful reaching number one in many territories, we've recently announced that Micro Machines will come to mobile and we have a strong road map ahead of us that keeps racing as its razor focus."

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Momentum Makes Just £46 at UK Box Office

In the wake of overwhelmingly negative reviews, Momentum flopped hard in the UK, making a mere £46 ($69 USD) during its opening weekend.

The Stephen Campanelli-directed heist film, starring both Morgan Freeman and Quantum of Solace star Olga Kurylenko, had a budget of £20 million and opened across just handful of British theaters. According to The Telegraph, two of the 10 cinemas that screened the movie didn't sell a single ticket.

Momentum is the first film from Campanelli, with Freeman starring in the project as a favor to the new director. Campanelli previously worked with Clint Eastwood as a camera operator on several movies, including Gran Torino and Mystic River.

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Developer Reveals New Monument Valley Merchandise

Developer Ustwo and iam8bit are partnering to release new Monument Valley merchandise in time for the holidays.

Starting this week, fans of the hit mobile game can purchase t-shirts, pins, hats, and plushies directly from the iam8bit store.

Each item depicts characters and designs from Monument Valley, including t-shirts created by the game's own Ken Wong and pins and plushies of Princess Ida, Crow, and Totem. From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, the store will be running a promotion offering all three character plushies for $70.

Monument Valley is a unique puzzle game on touch devices featuring Escher-like geometric structures. Since its release, developer Ustwo has announced a new VR adventure game called Land's End.

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Persona Snow Festival Brings Winter-Themed Merch to Japan

Atlus has announced a winter promotion that will bring new Persona-themed art, merchandise, and more to Japan.

Persona Snow Festival 2016 (translated via Persona Central) will bring special Persona-themed celebrations to Japanese ski parks, and Atlus has released some new art featuring Persona 3 and 4's protagonists to celebrate.

The Atlus D shop will also sell limited edition skis and snowboards in Japan. A set of skis based on Persona 3's Thanatos will be sold for 64,800 yen (roughly $527) and a snowboard based on Persona 4's Izanagi will run 54,000 yen (roughly $439). Both items will be extremely limited and will be engraved with a unique serial number, and there will be limited rentals at Japanese ski parks.

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Will Smith on Why I Am Legend Is His Most Successful Role

Will Smith is most proud of his work in I Am Legend, he told the Awards Chatter podcast.

Smith places his movies in two categories—"popcorn" and "gourmet popcorn." I Am Legend, he says, is gourmet popcorn.

I Am Legend is the kind of movie that Smith himself enjoys watching—"a small character-drama." In the film, Smith plays an army virologist who ends up as one of the last humans in New York City. With his dog Sam, Smith's character—Robert Neville—tries to find a cure for the virus that made it all happen, all while fighting off loads of mutant vampire-zombies.

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A Black and White Image That Can Make You See Color

They say seeing is believing and a short video, featured in the BBC Four series: Colour: The Spectrum of Science, helps to support that adage.

Check out the video below to see how a black and white image of Dunstanburgh Castle can turn into color:

Pretty cool, right? Here's how it works courtesy of IFLScience. Our cone cells, a type of photoreceptor within our eye's retina, are responsible for color vision. The cone cells are sensitive to blue, red, or green wavelengths of light. If we're exposed to a lot of one of these colors, the cone in our eye sensitive to that color becomes overstimulated and unresponsive.

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Rainbow Six Siege Open Beta Begins

Ubisoft has announced that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege open beta is officially live.

The Rainbow Six Siege open beta was delayed due to "issues with matchmaking times and disconnection on all platforms." The game went into a closed beta period while the team fixed the problem. In an update posted to the Ubisoft forums this morning, Ubisoft confirmed that the open beta would start at 12pm EST.

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10 Coolest Jessica Jones Easter Eggs and References

Marvel's Jessica Jones has hit Netflix, giving us a story about a PI with superpowers and lot of emotional baggage. So put on your leather jackets and think up some mean one-liners, because we're going to do a little private investigating of our own to find the 10 coolest Jessica Jones Easter eggs and references.

Jessica Jones begins the same way in the show as it did in the comic book, with an angry client attacking Jessica.

Bad move on his part, as she sends him crashing headfirst through her door, creating an image identical to that page of the comic.

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9 Awesome T-Shirts for Game, Comic, and Movie Fans

T-shirts are wearable expressions of your passions, which is why they make great gifts for just about anyone.

Pretty much every interest, hobby, and pop-culture reference point is on a t-shirt somewhere, and we've put together a list of best t-shirts to give out this holiday season.

Clothe the Metal Gear fan in your life in this Metal Gear Solid Fox Hound tee. The Fox Hound emblem is emblazoned on the front and is just as awesome as the series from which it originated.

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