Welcome to start of our IGN First for the month of May, all about Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint! Over the next few weeks we’ll be bringing you exclusive inside peeks at this survival-focused follow-up to Ghost Recon Wildlands. Up first, we’ve got details about a part of Breakpoint that hasn’t been revealed yet: the hideout.

Called Erewhon, this village in a hidden cave on the main island of the Auroa archipelago is the shelter of a group called the Homesteaders. This multipurpose hideout acts as your central hub for story progression, a place to evaluate your objectives around Auroa, and even an online social hub where you can coordinate and meet up with other players for co-op and PvP.

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IGN has the exclusive first trailer for Batman: Hush, the next feature-length DC Universe Original Movie from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. You can watch it in the player above or embedded below.

Coming to Blu-ray, DVD and Digital later this summer, Batman: Hush is inspired by the acclaimed 2002-2003 storyline written by Jeph Loeb, penciled by Jim Lee, inked by Scott Williams, and colored by Alex Sinclair.

Batman: Hush centers on a mysterious new villain known only as Hush, who uses a rogues' gallery of villains to destroy Batman’s crime-fighting career as well as Bruce Wayne’s personal life, which has been further complicated by a relationship with Selina Kyle/Catwoman.

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Disney has reached a deal with Comcast that will give the company majority control of Hulu for $5.8 billion.

Per Variety, Comcast's NBCUniversal will keep licensing content to Hulu through 2024, while retaining a 33% stake in the streaming provider. Over the next five years, NBCUniversal has the right to either cancel some of its existing content or offer it "on a nonexclusive basis for a reduced licensing fee." Disney can buy out NBCUniversal's remaining 33% share in 2024 for an evaluation price of $27.5 billion.

Bob Iger, Disney's chairman, and CEO said, "We are now able to completely integrate Hulu into our direct-to-consumer business and leverage the full power of The Walt Disney Company’s brands and creative engines to make the service even more compelling and a greater value for consumers."

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Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft Classic will be released for PC and Mac on August 27, 2019, and that a collector's edition with a statue of Ragnaros will be released that celebrates WoW's 15-year anniversary.

On August 27, players will be able to return to Azeroth as it was during the Drums of War update (patch 1.12) and all will have the honor of once again being able to "assemble a 40-player raid to take on the fiery hazards of Molten Core; fight for their faction in the ongoing world PvP struggle between Southshore and Tarren Mill; muster a realm-wide war effort to open the gates of Ahn’Qiraj; and much more."

Following its release, WoW Classic will receive updates over multiple phases that will be released in a similar fashion to the original's order and all of this and more will be included with existing World of Warcraft subscriptions at no additional cost.

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World of Warcraft Classic is launching on August 27th for anyone with a WoW subscription and closed beta testing begins for a select few on May 15th. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a prefabricated level 40 character at a preview event in Irvine, California. The ensuing hours of laughter and high jinks reassured me that WoW Classic has much more to offer than just nostalgia.

WoW Classic is a faithful recreation of the illustrious MMO as it existed in patch 1.12 circa 2006. There are a few modern amenities like a somewhat enhanced suite of graphics options, modern server architecture, and access to Battle.net social features but otherwise what’s here is as true as possible to the more-than-decade-old source material.

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Nintendo has announced a "roughly 15-minute" Super Mario Maker 2 Nintendo Direct for tomorrow, May 15, at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm BST.

No further information was given besides the announcement on Twitter, but with Super Mario Maker 2 releasing on June 28, we will undoubtedly know a lot more about the sequel to 2015's Super Mario Maker for the Wii U very soon.

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George R.R. Martin has shot down a suggestion that he has completed the final two books in the Song of Ice and Fire saga and has been withholding them until HBO’s Game of Thrones concludes.

According to Entertainment Weekly, several media reports have quoted actor Ian McElhinney, who played Ser Berristan Selmy in Game of Thrones up until season 5 in 2015, talking at a fan convention about the as-yet-unreleased books. “George has already written Books 6 and 7, and as far as he’s concerned there only are seven books,” he allegedly said. “But he struck an agreement with David and Dan, the showrunners on the series, that he would not publish the final two books until the series has completed.”

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Rockstar released today the largest update for Red Dead Online since the online component of Red Dead Redemption 2 launched in late November.

The announcement came in a post on their Newswire, along with a trailer and a handful of new screenshots.

The latest Red Dead Online update boasts a slew of new content, including:

• New Co-op missions in the "A Land of Opportunities" storyline
• New Free Roam Missions from new NPC Questgivers: Thomas the Skiff Captain in Bayou Nwa and/or the Aberdeen Pig Farmers northwest of Bluewater Marsh.

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Moss, the 2018 VR adventure game featuring a young mouse named Quill, will receive a free expansion that adds extra story, puzzles, combat and more.

This new content will be released alongside the launch of Oculus Quest on May 21, and will make its way to other VR platforms including PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift/S, HTC Vive and Windows MR via an update in June.

New content will be woven throughout the existing game as portals to the “strange and vibrant” Twilight Garden. Described as a new chapter of gameplay, the Twilight Garden exists as a complimentary experience to the main game that introduces additional environments, challenges and story. The Twilight Garden will test players in new ways as a “mysterious presence prepares you for the dangers ahead.” New content in the Twilight Garden includes vast chambers, unique weaponry, new puzzles and enemies.

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