Saul Goodman always knew how to pull a crowd, and the Better Call Saul finale was no exception. According to Nielsen Live+3 Ratings, the series finale of Better Call Saul was the most watched episode of the show since 2017 with 2.7 million viewers on AMC.

In fact, the final episode was the most watched episode of the show since the Season 3 finale on June 19, 2017, which drew an impressive 1.8 million viewers.

“There has been so much said about this final season of Better Call Saul, so many accolades directed at this extraordinary piece of television – from viewers, critics and everyone else who knows what an accomplishment it is to deliver entertainment at this level,” said AMC president of entertainment Dan McDermott. “I just want to cap this final season by saying thank you.”

“Thanks to Peter and Vince and the entire creative team, including Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein. Thanks to Bob, Rhea, Jonathan, Giancarlo and the entire cast,” added McDermott. “Thanks to our partners at Sony and to every viewer who went along on this legendary ride. We are so proud to have been the home of Better Call Saul for all these years and unforgettable seasons. Now we put this series up on the mantel as a reminder of the excellence we all aspire to every day.”

Better Call Saul came full circle for its series finale which aired on August 15.

The beleaguered lawyer found his past catching up with him as he wound up back in the dock facing a moral dilemma. Face up to his crimes and be a better man, or work his magic and talk his way out of it?

Saul Goodman certainly worked his magic on viewers, as Better Call Saul became the third most-watched cable drama in key demographics for the current season.

The final season of Better Call Saul is also up for several Emmys with nominations including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series; Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series #; and additional nominations in sound, music, and writing.

Want to read more about Better Call Saul? Check out what the show gets right about prequels, as well as the great idea one of its stars has about what’s next for Jimmy and Kim.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

IGN is excited to reveal two new cards from Magic: The Gathering’s next set, Dominaria United. We’ve got the first look at a new rare merfolk creature with kicker called Vodalian Mindsinger, as well as the latest in a long and storied line of Lotus artifacts with a mythic rare called Timeless Lotus.

Both cards are visible in the gallery below, and you can flip through to see each one individually.

Timeless Lotus is a five-mana Legendary Artifact that enters the battlefield tapped and can tap to add five mana, one of each color. That’s a ton of mana to come from a single mana rock like this, though the high cost and tapped entry do slow it down significantly. The two closest comparisons that came to my mind were Gilded Lotus, which is another lotus that costs five and taps for three mana of a single color (without entering tapped), and Jegantha, the Wellspring, a five-mana creature that also taps for one of each color but with a restriction on how it can be spent.

The lotus has always been a symbol of raw power in Magic, tracing its lineage back to the game’s most iconic (and most expensive) card from the very first set: Black Lotus. I could go into its history, but if you’re interested in learning more I’d highly recommend this video from YouTuber Rhystic Studies expertly breaking down its significance, as well as this recent one from Magic designer Gavin Verhey digging into all the times the lotus has made its way back onto a card.

Our other preview card, Vodalian Mindsinger, is sure to make many a merfolk fan happy. It’s a 2/2 blue Merfolk Wizard for three-mana that lets you take control of a creature with power less than its own for as long as you control it. The kicker is that it literally has kicker, letting you pay one and a red, one and a green, or both to have it enter the battlefield with two or four +1/+1 counters on it, raising the cost but also growing its size to allow you to steal bigger things. It’s just a shame that the kicker’s red mana-pip means this won’t be playable in the vast majority of merfolk-themed commander decks.

Wizards of the Coast also previously announced that original cards from the 1994 set Legends will be hiding in Collector booster packs, which leaves an opportunity to open some extremely rare cards in you're lucky. And in unrelated Magic news, WOTC also revealed just last week that the card game would be getting a Doctor Who crossover late next year.

Tom Marks is IGN's Deputy Reviews Editor. He enjoys card games, puzzles, platformers, puzzle-platformers, and plenty more.

It’s a Wonderful Life star Virginia Patton has died, aged 97. The actress, who starred as Ruth Dakin Bailey in the iconic holiday classic, died on Thursday at an assisted living facility in Albany, Georgia.

“Virginia Ann Patton Moss passed peacefully of natural causes on August 18, 2022,” said a statement from Mathews Funeral Home. “Virginia touched so many lives with her gifts of kindness and grace. She will always be remembered for her warm hugs, her zest for life, her elegance, and her deep faith in God. Virginia’s presence made any gathering extra special, and her passion for family and friends was immeasurable.”

We are saddened to hear of Virginia Patton Moss’ passing. She played Ruth Dakin Bailey (Harry’s wife) in ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. Our thoughts are with her family and friends. pic.twitter.com/keDIGgMYTJ

— Jimmy Stewart Museum (@Jimmy_Dot_Org) August 21, 2022

Patton made her Hollywood debut in 1943 with a handful of uncredited roles but made her breakthrough the following year starring as Carrie Lou in the film, Janie.

Her most recognizable role came just two years later when she starred as Ruth Dakin Bailey in Frank Capra’s 1946 classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. Her character was married to Harry Bailey (Todd Karns) in the legendary holiday classic, and her big scene saw her meeting George (James Stewart) and Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) at the Bedford Falls train station.

“When you were on the set, you knew your lines, you knew your business,” she recalled in 2012. “It was a camaraderie, but it was a business. It was a wonderful atmosphere that some other directors didn’t produce.”

The young starlet went on to clinch a handful of other film roles, but ultimately left Hollywood in 1949 – her final film role as Millie Dale in The Lucky Stiff.

At the age of just 24, Patton retired from Hollywood and married Cruse W. Moss, moving to Ann Arbor to focus on raising a family. She was also the niece of General George S. Patton.

“I have a beautiful letter that [Capra] wrote me because I kept in touch with him,” she revealed. “And he said, ‘I just knew you’d be a wonderful mother with three little bambinos and a wonderful husband.’”

She later studied at the University of Michigan and became a well-known force for good in the Ann Arbor community, serving as a boy and girl scout leader for 10 years as well as joining the Boards of the University of Michigan Kelsey Museum and the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments.

She was a docent at the University of Michigan Museum of Art for over 25 years.

Patton also served on the Boards of the American Institute of Archeology, the Washtenaw County Mental Health Services Agency, and Cleary College’s Board of Trustees.

Patton is survived by her two children, Carol Moss Loop and Michael Cruse Moss, as well as her seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Today, The Game Awards announced it will return for a ninth year on Thursday, December 8, broadcast from LA's Microsoft Theater.

The show will be livestreamed across numerous digital platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok, and will also include live showings at select IMAX theaters as in past years. Public tickets for the in-person show are expected to be made available this year as well, pending CDC and LA health and safety guidelines. As before, Geoff Keighley remains executive producer of the show alongside Kimmie Kim.

In addition to the usual musical guests and past award categories, The Game Awards will introduce a new category: Best Adaptation. Best Adaptation will "recognize creative work that authentically adapts video game intellectual property to other popular media, including but not limited to theatrical movies, streaming shows, podcasts, novels, and comic books."

We're also likely to see the usual bevy of brand new game announcements and trailers at the show. Last year's announcements included Alan Wake 2, a Wonder Woman game, a new trailer for Elden Ring, the official announcement of Sonic Frontiers, and a lot more.

Last year, It Takes Two took Game of the Year, beating out fellow nominees Deathloop, Metroid Dread, Psychonauts 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Resident Evil Village. You can see the full list of winners here.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Sony is being sued for £5 billion ($5.9 billion) over the price of its online PlayStation Store prices, which the plaintiff claiming Sony is over-charging consumers and abusing its position as the primary seller of PlayStation games digitally.

As reported by Sky News, consumer rights advocate Alex Neill - the ex-managing director of non-profit consumer advice organisation Which UK - is leading the legal action and said "the game is up for Sony PlayStation".

The lawsuit, filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal on August 19, states that consumers have been overcharged for digital purchases of games and DLC as Sony is charging a 30% commission.

"With this legal action I am standing up for the millions of UK people who have been unwittingly overcharged," said Neill. "We believe Sony has abused its position and ripped off its customers.

"Gaming is now the biggest entertainment industry in the UK, ahead of TV, video, and music, and many vulnerable people rely on gaming for community and connection. The actions of Sony is costing millions of people who can't afford it, particularly when we're in the midst of a cost of living crisis and the consumer purse is being squeezed like never before."

The crux of the lawsuit is that, as the primary (and dominant) seller of digital PlayStation products, Sony is in a position to overcharge for its items. The legal action claims it's doing exactly that, forcing consumers to overspend unfairly and, as a result, is in breach of competition law.

"Sony dominates the digital distribution of PlayStation games and in-game content," said Natasha Pearman, the legal partner leading the case. "It has deployed an anti-competitive strategy which has resulted in excessive prices to customers that are out of all proportion to the costs of Sony providing its services."

The estimated damages per individual over the last six years range from £67 (around $79) to £562 (around $664), excluding interest, which amasses to the £5 billion total, the lawsuit claims.

IGN has reached out to Sony for comment.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero secured a weekend box office victory in the US, surpassing Universal's survival thriller Beast and landing in first place with $20.1 million.

As Variety reports, the latest Dragon Ball Super installment almost doubled the amount of North American ticket sales that Beast, starring Idris Elba, collected at the US weekend box office. That film opened to a modest $11.5 million while Sony's action-thriller Bullet Train slipped to third place after hauling in another $8 million in its third weekend of release.

"We're absolutely thrilled that Dragon Ball fans could come together to experience and enjoy this amazing film in theaters," Mitchel Berger, Crunchyroll's senior VP of global commerce, said in a statement. "Crunchyroll thanks all of the fans, whether or not you are a 'super' fan or a newcomer, and we hope they come back again and again.

The new movie is a direct sequel to the Broly film that was released initially in 2018, and draws focus away from Goku and Vegeta in favor of Gohan and Piccolo. Broly debuted to $22.3 million over a 6-day holiday weekend in the US but experienced a steep revenue drop in its second weekend, which can be a common occurrence for anime features.

Super Hero's box office takings are tracking above or close to the performance of other recent anime titles. Jujutsu Kaisen 0, for instance, grossed $17.6 million during its opening weekend in the US, while Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train enjoyed the biggest foreign language debut in US box office history when it opened to $21.2 million.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is currently playing on 3,007 screens, including 327 IMAX screens, which garnered $3.4 million in US ticket sales alone during the opening weekend.

The second Dragon Ball Super movie places the characters we've come to know and love in an all-new aesthetic as the franchise's first-ever 3DCG-animated film. According to IGN's review of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the film "manages to successfully thread the needle between past and present, both showing love for the now codified personalities of its characters and finding a new path for them."

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

2K has announced that the standard edition of PGA Tour 2K23 will be available on October 14, with the more expensive Deluxe and Tiger Woods editions available a few days earlier on October 11.

The game aims to celebrate the legacy of Tiger Woods, who hasn't featured on a video game cover since 2013's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, even bringing in the golfing legend as an executive director.

PGA Tour will be available for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, and PC via Steam. The Deluxe Edition includes "cross-generation dual-entitlement", meaning a copy of the game on both PS4 and PS5, or both Xbox One and Series, plus Michael Jordan DLC (yes, the basketball player) and 1,300 VC, equivalent to around $5. It also comes with a handful of cosmetics including a hockey stick putter, gold baseball cap, gold glove, and three rare consumable gold sleeves.

The Tiger Woods Edition is a digital-only version that includes everything from the Deluxe Edition plus further cosmetics including Woods' iconic red polo and black pants combo, a unique gold ball, belt, three Epic consumable gold sleeves, and more.

2K didn't reveal the cost of each edition, but did announce the Clubhouse Pass, which appears to follow a Battle Pass style progression system, that will be available in three tiers: the free standard tier, the $9.99 Premium tier, and the $19.99 Premium + tier. Those who preorder the standard edition of PGA Tour 2K23 will also gain access to the Michael Jordan DLC.

Woods is one of 14 male and female pro golfers available to play when PGA Tour 2K23 is released - including Justin Thomas, Lexi Thompson, Tony Finau, Lydia Ko, Collin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris, and Brooke Henderson - but 2K also announced that free DLC would add to this roster down the line.

The game also includes 20 licensed courses at launch including the South Course of Wilmington Country Club, The Renaissance Club, St. George’s Golf and Country Club and more. The custom course designer will also return, letting players make their own unique courses and access ones made by other players.

In our 7/10 review of the previous game, IGN said: "PGA Tour 2K21 delivers the most flexible and enjoyable game of golf since the Tiger Woods series was at its peak."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

George R.R. Martin has revealed that he urged Game of Thrones producers to keep the show running for "10 seasons at least."

The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones concluded in 2019, but more than three years later, it is still a point of contention amongst fans. In particular, many believe that the ending of the series felt rushed, curtailing story arcs and reaching abrupt resolutions for some of the series' major plots, including the battle with the Night King and the winner of the Iron Throne.

Author George R.R. Martin has assured fans that he didn't have much influence over the final stretch of the series. In fact, he advocated for the show to keep rolling for many more seasons. "I was saying it needs to be 10 seasons at least and maybe 12, 13. I lost that one," he told The Wall Street Journal, referring to conversations he had with series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

The outlet notes that Benioff and Weiss were adamant about ending Game of Thrones after eight seasons, as they planned to close out the series before the show had passed its prime. Ultimately, no one could change their minds about that — not even Martin, who admits that he was largely kept "out of the loop" in the later seasons of the hit HBO fantasy series.

Martin has, however, had much more input on the show's prequel series House of the Dragon, which made its hotly-anticipated debut on August 21. Millions of HBO Max subscribers flocked to the app on Sunday for the series premiere, but a sudden influx of users resulted in technical issues on Amazon devices for some prospective viewers. Those issues appear to have mostly been resolved now.

IGN's review of the debut episode called it "a strong, well-cast start to the Game of Thrones spin-off" that "feels very close to its predecessor in tone and content, but immediately establishes a struggle for power around an amiable, weak-willed king, and vivid new characters to fight those battles. We also have dragons, inbreeding, and resentment. It's good to be back in backstabbing Westeros."

Want to read more about House of the Dragon? Check out everything we know about House of the Dragon so far, and find out what we know about the Gold Cloaks.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon has crashed HBO Max. Millions of subscribers flocked to the app on Sunday for the series premiere, but many were unable to view it due to technical issues that affected at least 3,500 users.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, it seems that certain Amazon devices couldn’t keep up with the influx of viewers. Meanwhile, HBO Max users turned to Twitter to vent their frustrations.

“House of the Dragon is being successfully viewed by millions of HBO Max subscribers this evening,” HBO said in a statement. “We’re aware of a small portion of users attempting to connect via Fire TV devices that are having issues and are in the process of resolving for those impacted users.”

The only thing that could tear down the House of the Dragon was itself. #HOTD

— HBO Max (@hbomax) August 22, 2022

Right now, it looks as though those issues have largely been resolved. Game of Thrones fans were left stranded and frustrated last night, however, when the debut episode was officially released, only to find that they simply couldn’t watch it.

HBO Max support advised users that: “To help with the crashing issues you're experiencing, please go to any other show/movie on HBO Max, turn off subtitles/captions, and then try streaming House of the Dragon again.” This reportedly worked for some users, but others remained unable to watch. Of course, it also didn’t help those who need closed captioning to view the episode at all.

This isn't the first time Game of Thrones has caused Amazon Fire crashes as similar issues were reported during the final episodes of the original show.

House of the Dragons keeps crashing the HBO MAX app on Fire TV. Other shows don't crash the app. What is going on? I cleared cache, restarted, deleted/reloaded the app. Nothing works.

— lgbeddow (@lgbeddow) August 22, 2022

House of the Dragon is the long-awaited Game of Thrones prequel that’s had fans on the edge of their seats since it was first announced.

IGN’s review of the debut episode called it “a strong, well-cast start to the Game of Thrones spin-off. This feels very close to its predecessor in tone and content, but immediately establishes a struggle for power around an amiable, weak-willed king, and vivid new characters to fight those battles. We also have dragons, inbreeding, and resentment. It’s good to be back in backstabbing Westeros.”

Want to read more about House of the Dragon? Check out everything we know about House of the Dragon so far, and find out what we know about the Gold Cloaks.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

HBO has revealed the first teaser for the upcoming TV series adaptation of The Last of Us and it features Pedro Pascal's Joel, Bella Ramsey's Ellie, and more.

You can check out the first look by skipping to 1:40 in the teaser below for HBO's upcoming shows. Alongside The Last of Us, you can see footage from The Idol, Succession, The White Lotus, The White House Plumbers, Industry, and more.

The Last of Us, The Idol, Succession, The White Lotus, The White House Plumbers, Industry, and so much more are coming soon to @hbomax.⁰

Now this is my kind of dream. pic.twitter.com/LDuJSiAFSv

— HBO (@HBO) August 21, 2022

Alongside Joel and Ellie, the short tease also gives us a glimpse at Joel's daughter Sarah (Nico Parker), Bill (Nick Offerman), a clicker stuck in a wall (or the remnants of one), and potentially Frank (Murray Bartlett).

The tease begins in winter as Ellie says, "Everybody I have cared for, has either died or left me." Joel responds by saying, "You have no idea what loss is." We get glimpses of other scenes, including a heartbreaking one from the beginning of the game we won't spoil, a bit of Joel training ellie to use a gun, and more. It's over quickly, but it gives us a great idea as to the tone they are setting with this series.

We still don't have an official release date for The Last of Us on HBO, but we know it will arrive in 2023.

It was revealed, however, that the first season will tell the story of the original game, but some of the stories in its 10 episodes will "deviate greatly" from what came before.

We recently helped reveal the casting for Henry and Sam, and they will join a cast that includes Merle Dandridge reprising her role as Marlene from the game, Anna Torv as Tess, Tommy voice actor Jeffrey Pierce as Perry, Gabriel Luna as Tommy, and more.

For more, check out all the details on The Last of Us Remake that is set to arrive on PS5 on September 2 and Pascal's comments on how this adaptation is "similar" to how Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni treat The Mandalorian and why he believes this show can "more than live up to" the original game.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.