Monthly Archives: July 2019

TV Deals: What to Expect from Amazon Prime Day

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Welcome to IGN's Amazon Prime Day 2019 TV deals page, your source for all the best TV deals during the biggest retail event of 2019 so far.

If you are in the market for a new TV, Amazon Prime Day is a great time to upgrade. There are some great TV deals on Amazon right now, even though Prime Day isn’t for a few days. Currently there’s £195 off a Philips 55-inch 4K TV, and a Hisense 65-Inch 4K TV selling for £579.

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IGN UK Podcast #495: We’ve Played Loads of Control and Man of Medan

It's a bumper episode this week. Joe & Cardy have been travelling around Europe playing some hot upcoming games and want to tell you all about them. Not only have they spent extended time with Control, but they also played The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan on a boat in Hamburg where they got accosted by naughty zombies. Alex likes the sound of the Nintendo Switch Lite and new Modern Warfare mode "Gunfight", Joe has been playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Cardy is getting well into his deck building games.

The Endless Search also returns along with more crisp chat in the feedback section. Enjoy! :

IGN UK Podcast #495: We've Played Loads of Control and Man of Medan

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Mortal Kombat Movie Reboot is R-Rated And Has Fatalities

The upcoming Mortal Kombat movie reboot will be R-rated and feature the games' signature gory fatalities.

In a post on Twitter, Mortal Kombat's screenwriter Greg Russo announced the news, reinforcing what other members of the film's team have been discussing online. "MK WILL be R-Rated," Russo said, "and for the first time EVER, FATALITIES will FINALLY be on the big screen."

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Gaming Deals: What to Expect from Amazon Prime Day

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Welcome to IGN's Amazon Prime Day 2019 gaming deals page, your source for all the best gaming deals during the biggest retail event of 2019 so far.

Amazon Prime Day 2019 runs on July 15th - July 16th, and Amazon has already launched some great deals, such as a four month Amazon Music Unlimited subscription for 99p, three months of Kindle Unlimited for free, and more.

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Stranger Things Star Addresses Lingering Question About Will

MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD for Stranger Things Season 3

Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers, has addressed fan conversation around a scene that could suggest his character is gay.

The scene in question takes place in episode 3, and sees Will become upset that Mike and Lucas would rather discuss their relationships with Eleven and Max rather than play Dungeons & Dragons. In response, Mike says “It’s not my fault you don’t like girls,” resulting in a devastated Will riding off on his bike.

But what was meant by that comment? “It’s really up to interpretation,” Schnapp said in an interview with TheWrap. “While all the characters were out developing and growing up, Will was in the Upside Down and he was alone there, not interacting with or connected to his friends or the rest of the world. And when he got back, he expected everything to just go back to how it was before, how it was when he was normal and when he was a kid and he wanted to go back to the basement and play D&D.”

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A Key Change Was Made to the Lightsabers on the Star Wars Set

A significant change has been made to improve lightsabers in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Talking to Wired (via Comic Book), Rey actor Daisy Ridley talked about a key difference in the new lightsabers, explaining that they are notably lighter than ones used in previous films, allowing for more acrobatic fights.

"The interesting thing about this film is that we concentrate more on the fact that

are light," Ridley said. "Because the

lightsabers were so heavy, as Eunice said, who is our new stunt coordinator, that it was more like broadsword fighting, which isn't technically what it's supposed to be because lightsabers are supposed to be light, by nature. So they actually made the lightsabers lighter for us. We, in this film, have, perhaps one of the most epic fights in Star Wars."

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Netflix’s Point Blank Review

Point Blank is a Netflix Original movie, premiering Friday, July 12.

Netflix's latest in their line of "modestly okay" movies to doze off to is Point Blank, starring Winter Solider and Civil War combatants Anthony Mackie (who can also be seen in the new season of Black Mirror) and Frank Grillo (the Purge franchise). And before you think this might be a remodel of 1967's Point Blank -- which was based on Donald E. Westlake's The Hunter, which also spawned the Mel Gibson remake, Payback -- it's actually an American revamping of 2010's À Bout Portant, from France, about a nurse and his pregnant wife who get caught in a war between a career criminal and a cult of corrupt cops.

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