Bungie has confirmed that Curse of Osiris is indeed the name of Destiny 2's upcoming expansion.

"Curse of Osiris is not a leak. It's real!" Bungie marketing director Eric Osborne said in a post on Twitter.

Reports of Curse of Osiris surfaced last month, claiming the DLC pack, will center around Osiris and feature a new patrol zone. While Bungie has yet to announce a release date, Curse of Osiris will reportedly launch sometime in December.

Just last week, an Xbox Store listing corroborated the aforementioned report. According to the store description, Curse of Osiris will feature "all-new story missions and adventures set in a new destination, Mercury." The content will allegedly feature new weapons and armor, as well as new co-op activities and new multiplayer arenas for competitive play.

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Carrie Fisher's hand annotated Star Wars scripts are going up for auction.

Profiles in History have announced that the Fisher's scripts for A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi will be going up for auction during a three day Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds personal property action on Oct. 7-9.

The most notable of these is Fisher's Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back shooting script, which has Fisher's own notes to help her play with the context around Leia's lines. As Mashable points out, there are also lines in there that Fisher has written herself; she was famously not allowed to play around with her dialogue as opposed to her co-star Harrison Ford. She later went on to become one of Hollywood's most talented script doctors.

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Call of Duty: WW2's PC beta will kick off in just a few weeks.

Developer Sledghammer Games revealed that the beta begins on September 29, and will run through October 2nd on Steam for all PC players.

The minimum PC specs for the beta are as follows:

• OS: Windows 7 64-Bit or later
• CPU: Intel® Core™ i3 3225 or equivalent
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• HDD: 25 GB HD space
• Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 @ 2 GB / AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 @ 2GB or better

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Lionsgate has set a release date for John Wick: Chapter Three.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the third film in the Keanu Reeves-led action series will hit theaters on May 17, 2019.

This will be the first entry to be released during the summer movie season. The first John Wick film opened in October while this year's John Wick: Chapter Two hit theaters in February.

Derek Kolstad, who wrote John Wick 1 and 2, is confirmed to return to pen the upcoming third installment. No word yet on who'll direct.

For more on John Wick, check out the 9 things IGN wants to see in Chapter 3 and be sure to read our review of Chapter 2, which we think "expands on the original’s lore while not giving away too many underworld secrets."

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According to results published by The NPD Group, Nintendo Switch once again came out on top of console sales in the U.S.

Switch has been the top console in 4 of the 6 months of its availability.

The top-selling game for August 2017 was Madden NFL 18, followed by Grand Theft Auto 5, the game that seemingly cannot be stopped when it comes to generating revenue for Take-Two Interactive.

Both hardware and software spending fell off over the same period last year. According to NPD, growth from Nintendo Switch was offset by the decline of Xbox One and "legacy platform" sales. However, overall, "hardware spending has grown 17 percent versus 2016 to $1.7 billion" since the year began.

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Dragon's Crown may soon be heading to PlayStation 4.

As first spotted by Hachima, the Niconico page for Atlus' upcoming Tokyo Game Show 2017 livestream on September 24 reportedly featured a banner to preorder a PS4 version of Dragon's Crown, titled Dragon's Crown Pro.

Leaked Dragon's Crown Pro banner, via Hachima

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Every year the Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios Hollywood gets bigger and better as the park is able to entice more and more studios and networks to let the theme park play their franchises to create haunted mazes. The 2017 installment of the annual celebration of horror continues the trend, mixing some first-time horror property appearances with a few returning favorites to create an all-new experience.

In all, Halloween Horror Nights boasts seven mazes (eight if you include the permanent The Walking Dead attraction) and a brand-new Terror Tram to terrify visitors. IGN was able to preview each of seven new mazes with Universal Studios Hollywood Creative Director John Murdy for an inside look at what the park's scares look like this year.

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For many, a decent coming-of-age story isn't complete without a memorable school authoritarian figure to either help guide the hero through tough choices or confront them with obstacles to overcome.

These high school head honchos, from both movies and TV shows, can provide either support or character-building antagonism for teens looking make a little mischief, survive a time travel experiment gone sideways, or - you know - save the world as we know it from dark sorcery. Hungry for knowledge? Fill your mind with these twelve iconic high school principals.

Please note: Both "Deans" and "Assistant Principals" included... 

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Sega has teamed up with art exhibitor Nucleus to launch a Yakuza-themed gallery set to launch in Los Angeles on March 17, 2018. The gallery will run through April 1, 2018. More details are to come.

Submissions are open to fans who want to submit their own Yakuza 6 fan art based on the theme "How Far Would You Go For Family?" That means your own original Yakuza art could be featured in the gallery for all to see. The deadline to submit is October 2.

Some artists may even get the chance to have their name and art included in the official Yakuza 6: The Song of Life art book.

You can find out more about the official Yakuza art contest and upcoming exhibition on its official website.

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