The Boys creator Eric Kripke has announced that the show's upcoming fourth season has passed a major milestone ahead of its highly anticipated debut this June.

Kripke said on social media that Season 4 is now "completely, totally, absolutely DONE." The show is known for its extensive CG shots, so work no doubt continued on the newest season long after cameras stopped rolling. Kripke added, "I'm really grateful and so proud of this cast and crew." He went on to say that Season 4 could the show's "best yet."

"Can't wait to unleash it onto the world," Kripke said.

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Do you want to play a game of release date shuffling? Well, Lionsgate does, as the studio has shifted two notable upcoming films: Saw 11 and The Crow starring Bill Skarsgård. The former has been delayed almost a full year, while the former sees a smaller change.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Saw 11 will now premiere theatrically on September 26, 2025. In December, when the horror sequel was announced after Saw X's success, the film was slated to arrive September 27 of this year. So, "the game continues," just not when we originally thought. Saw X saw generally favorable reviews and actually went back in time, canonically taking place between the first and second installments in the series.

Meanwhile, The Crow will hit the silver screen on August 23, 2024 instead of June 7. That's a much shorter delay for the remake, which also features FKA twigs alongside Skarsgård. Last month, the first trailer for the new Crow showed Eric Draven seeking vengeance.

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Hitman developer IO Interactive is making a new James Bond game, and while many of the key details remain a mystery, we've now learned a little more about it.

IO has announced it has hired Rodrigo Santoro, a Ubisoft veteran who rose through the ranks to become overall World Director at The Division and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora studio Massive. At IO, Santoro will be the Missions Director on the new James Bond game, which is in the works under the working title Project 007.

Rodrigo Santoro has joined IO to work on the new James Bond game

IO's associate production director, Frederik Villumsen, said Rodrigo "stood out from the crowd" during the interview process. "As soon as we showed Project 007 to Rodrigo, he showed his excitement for the game and was already sharing ideas, thoughts, and asking many questions!" Villumsen said. "His critical thinking and enthusiasm are qualities we welcome, and we look forward to seeing him make an impact as Missions Director, where he will direct the balancing of story, art and gameplay to design the most amazing Bond missions."

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Ubisoft has dropped a new story trailer for its upcoming action-adventure game Star Wars Outlaws, after revealing that the game will release on August 30 this year. In an additional video, narrative director Navid Khavari breaks down what's shown in the trailer. Here's what we've learned.

The trailer opens with a meeting of some of the Star Wars universe's biggest criminal syndicates, confirming which ones will make an appearance in the game. As well as antagonist Sliro's Zerek Besh, the game will also feature the infamous Hutt Cartel, Crimson Dawn, which was introduced as Darth Maul's criminal enterprise in Solo: A Star Wars Story, the Pyke syndicate, which first appeared in the Clone Wars animated TV series, and the Ashiga Clan, which was created specifically for Star Wars Outlaws.

Throughout the game, the player will be able to make and break alliances with the various syndicates, with these choices impacting how the game plays out. If you're in a syndicate's good books they might put you up for lucrative jobs, while being at odds with them could result in you being targeted. Relationships with the syndicates can also affect what vendors and even territories you have access to throughout the game.

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Pre-orders for Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws opened this week, and a bunch of new details about the game's release have been revealed--including the fact that the single-player title will require an internet connection to download, even if you buy a physical copy of the game.

As picked up by Video Games Chronicle, the box art for Star Wars Outlaws includes the message "internet required to install the game." This practice isn't uncommon for physical games these days, with Ubisoft's previous title Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora also having a similar requirement, as well as major titles from other developers, such as Hogwarts Legacy.

It's most likely the required download will be a day one patch, as was the case with Frontiers of Pandora. It's also worth noting the warning doesn't mean an active internet connection will be required while playing the game.

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In 2022, Blizzard declined to renew a partnership with NetEase that brought PC titles to mainland China, resulting in most of Blizzard's games being taken offline in that market. Now, with Microsoft's involvement as Activision-Blizzard's new parent company, the deal with NetEase has been re-established, and Blizzard's games will be brought back to China.

The initial break between Blizzard and NetEase appeared messy on both sides, with statements from both companies laying blame on the other. The move was also a major contributor to Overwatch 2 being review bombed, with many of the negative reviews coming from annoyed Chinese players.

It was expected that Blizzard was looking for an alternative partner for distribution in the Chinese market, but it has now landed back with NetEase, with parent company Microsoft also signing the agreement.

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It's been five long years, but the first trailer for Joker 2 has arrived. Subtitled Folie à Deux (literal translation "madness for two", but medically speaking where two people share a delusion), the upcoming sequel continues the story from 2019's Oscar-winning Joker and introduces Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn into the fold.

Earlier today, Warner Bros. released a teaser to hype up the trailer showing Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck/the Joker laughing to himself in Arkham Asylum in the rain. You can check out the full trailer below now, full of music, mayhem, and the chaotic magnetism of the Joker and Harley.

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This week, Logitech revealed a new compact gaming keyboard, the Logitech G Pro X 60 Lightspeed. The keyboard will launch on April 16 for $180, and preorders are available now at Logitech's online store.

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The G Pro x 60 Lightspeed is Logitech's first wireless 60% keyboard, which means it does not have arrow keys, a num pad, or the F key row. This makes for a smaller footprint on your desk—the keyboard measures just 11.5 inches wide and four inches deep—while retaining all the keys you normally use for gaming or typing.

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Razer is updating its Blackshark V2 Pro headset with two new console-specific variants designed to support spatial audio on PS5 and Xbox. The new models are available now for $200 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Razer's online store.

The new PlayStation and Xbox Blackshark V2 Pro models are wireless headsets with 50mm audio drivers and a detachable unidirectional mic. They both support 2.4Gz wireless connection via the included USB-C dongle or Bluetooth 5.2, and feature up to 70 hours of battery life.

Razer Blackshark V2 Pro Xbox and PlayStation wireless headsets

While the core specs are the same, the models support different platforms. The PlayStation model works with PS5, PC, Mac, and mobile, and supports the PS4's 3D spatial audio.

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IDW Publishing's run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comic books has made for some gripping reading over the years, as the publisher's take on the pop-culture phenomenon has resulted in widely acclaimed stories. If you're looking to dive in and raise some shell with the iconic heroes, now is a good time to do so as Amazon's Buy Two, Get One Free sale is now on and several TMNT collections have received significant discounts.

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• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Compendium Vol. 1 -- $58.66 ($150) with coupon
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Compendium Vol. 2 -- $91 ($150)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection Volume 1 -- $32.75 ($60)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection Volume 2 -- $30 ($40)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin -- $16.80 ($30)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - Lost Years -- $30 ($50)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin Director's Cut -- $33.50 ($60)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection Volume 4 -- $17.30 ($30)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1 -- $10.40 ($15)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures, Vol. 1 -- $10.40 ($15)

The best place to get started is with the IDW Collection, meaty TMNT tomes that honor the past while adding new elements to the mix. You can pick up the first two books in this collection, which have over 400 pages of Turtle action contained within them. The first IDW Collection book contains the first 12 issues of the series and several one-shot stories, to give you an idea of just how big these graphic novels are.

If you'd prefer to go all the way back to the beginning, the two Turtles Compendiums on sale are reprints of the original comic books and come with insightful annotations from co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Only the second Compendium is eligible for the B2G1 deal, but the first compendium is only $58.66 when you click the bonus coupon box. You're saving over $90 off list price. Each hardcover compendium clocks in at around 800 pages, so you'll also get a workout while reading.

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The open-world Star Wars adventure, Star Wars Outlaws, launches on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Ubisoft+ on August 30. Preorders are now live for all platforms, with multiple preorder bonuses up for grabs. Let's just say you have quite the choice on your hands.

If you preorder Star Wars Outlaws from Target, you'll get an exclusive steelbook case. Amazon has an exclusive Limited Edition that comes with extra in-game content. GameStop, meanwhile, has an different exclusive version dubbed the Special Edition that also comes with exclusive in-game costumes. But even if you don't order from any of those retailers, you can earn some neat in-game bonuses. Big Star Wars fans will also want to consider the Gold Edition of Star Wars Outlaws, which comes with early access and multiple post-launch expansions. and even the ability to play the game a few days early. Like many Ubisoft-published games, there are a few versions (so far) of Star War Outlaws available, each with its own extra content, so we've rounded up all the versions of the game plus all the various preorder bonuses below.

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While all versions of Star Wars Outlaws include a few preorder rewards, the specific bonuses you get differ between editions. All versions include the Kessel Runner DLC pack, which includes the Trailblazer spaceship skin and a speeder skin.

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Amazon is running another one of its popular buy two, get one free sales, offering up thousands of items as part of the promotion. Books are heavily featured in the event, with novels from J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, Brandon Sanderson, and other popular fantasy and science fiction writers eligible for the B2G1 free deal.

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Cashing in on the deal is simple. After adding three eligible items to your cart, the price cut will automatically be applied. Best of all, many books up for the B2G1 free deal are also seeing price cuts--making this an especially good time to fill your bookcase with new adventures.

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Nintendo's line of Amiibo toys have been a consistent fixture for a decade, but many of the older figures are no longer in print. If you've been searching for a few of the more elusive Zelda figures out there, Target will be getting a fresh restock soon. Two Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Amiibo--Ganondorf and Princess Zelda--will begin shipping out starting April 26. They're available to preorder now and are priced at $16 each.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Zelda and Ganondorf.

• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Ganondorf -- $16
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Princess Zelda -- $16

Like other Amiibo, you're not just getting a cool figure for your shelf but a boost for the game that they're linked to. Just tap an Amiibo accessory to the NFC touchpoint and you'll get some extra content in compatible games. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Ganondorf Amiibo can spawn Demon King Fabric, the Dusk Claymore, and the Gerudo Claymore. In the same game, Zelda will spawn the Princess of Twilight Fabric, Dusk Bow, soldier's bow, and knight's bow.

These Amiibo are now a decade old, and they have become sought-after over the years, so if you're looking for a mint-in-box version and you don't want to pay exorbitant fees on the reseller market, this is a good chance to get them at retail price. Meanwhile, you can also check out dozens of deals during Target Circle Week, as the retail chain is offering some impressive discounts.

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Loki Season 2 may have been the end of the road for Marvel's fan-favorite trickster god, but Tom Hiddleston is still willing to reprise his iconic comic book role. Via Variety, Hiddleston attended the launch party of Hulu on Disney+, where he reiterated his desire to keep playing Loki. Hiddleston also revealed which Marvel characters that he wants to share the screen with.

"The X-Men are back in there, right? Wolverine’s in them," said Hiddleston. "My friend Charlie Cox plays Daredevil…I love Charlie to bits."

Hiddleston and Cox previously co-starred in the Broadway play Betrayal. And on Halloween in 2019, the pair appeared outside of Betrayal's theater to meet fans with Cox in costume as Loki and Hiddleston wearing Daredevil's signature outfit.

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A gigantic buy two, get one free sale is going on at Amazon right now, giving you a chance to scoop up books, toys, and other items for cheap. Movies and TV shows are heavily featured in the catalog, with a wide variety of DVDs and Blu-rays up for grabs--covering everything from Oppenheimer and Goodfellas to My Neighbor Totoro and The Office.

Amazon will automatically apply the B2G1 free discount to your order after adding three eligible items to your cart, making it easy to cash in on the deal. Keep in mind that you can mix and match items from different categories, so if you don't see three movies that catch your eye, you can always bundle in books or toys.

Oppenheimer (4K UHD) is one of the newest films included in the B2G1 free catalog, and it's also on sale for $23 (down from $25). Other notable movies eligible for the savings include Goodfellas (4K UHD), Jurassic Park (4K UHD), and Parasite (4K UHD).

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14 years ago, Disney's Epic Mickey was released exclusive to the Nintendo Wii, which is the only place it's been playable since. It is, at the moment, shackled to the Wii--480p resolution, motion controls, and all. If you want to legally play the game today, you'd have to get your hands on a Wii (or a WiiU, for you select few), get a hard copy of the game, and pop it in. That would have remained the case, however, if it weren't for its upcoming remake Epic Mickey Rebrushed which aims to bring the original game's experience to modern consoles, with updated visuals and controls. And thank goodness, because otherwise, the game could have risked becoming a part of its own meta-commentary.

Epic Mickey follows Mickey Mouse on his discovery of a bizarro Disneyland, dour and gray in tone, where forgotten characters of Disney's past like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (and many more) all live. Haphazardly, Mickey procures a magic brush that holds the power to erase the world with paint thinner, or bring it to life with painted color. With this responsibility, Mickey is not only burdened with the knowledge of a past completely forgotten, but the power to restore or even change it.

Disney Epic Mickey Rebrushed

At its core, the game is about what happens when the present is faced with having to amend its past. A past that hasn't only been forgotten, but casted in a shadow so opaque, that it practically vanished altogether. Its narrative is a direct commentary on Mickey's own success, which started all the way back in 1928, where he became the undisputed mascot of the Disney brand, despite many characters like Oswald having existed prior. In tackling this story, the original game, in turn, manifested its own narrative into reality, by repopularizing once forgotten Disney characters like Oswald, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow (just to name a few), and brought them back into the mainstream Disney ethos.

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Announced just last year, Star Wars Outlaws already has a release date: August 30. Ubisoft did say that the game would be coming out in late 2024, but it still feels wild to see. Perhaps Skull and Bones just made me jaded.

The release date was revealed in a new trailer, which teased additional story elements of the upcoming open-world action-adventure game. In the trailer, we see protagonist Kay Vess accidentally cross the head of a rising criminal syndicate in the Star Wars underworld, leading to her need to stay one step ahead of the law and outlaws alike to earn herself a better life.

A few familiar faces from the seedier side of Star Wars make their appearance in the trailer. Jabba is the notable standout, a prominent member of the Hutt clan and a recurring character in the original Star Wars trilogy and The Clone Wars animated TV series. But there are other fun nods too, like the Pykes and Crimson Dawn--both are major crime syndicates that operated under or were allied with Maul in the final year of The Clone Wars.

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AMC created a special popcorn bucket for Dune: Part II, and it generated quite a stir online. AMC chief content officer Elizabeth Frank now says the response to the bucket, which was so popular that it inspired a Saturday Night Live skit, surprised her.

"We would have never imagined the Dune thing. We would have never created it knowing it would be celebrated or mocked," Frank told Variety.

Frank went on to say that Saturday Night Live's spoof of the popcorn bucket was "absolutely" a seal of approval for the Dune popcorn bucket. "You couldn't make it happen if you wanted to. It wouldn't be fair to pull our creative talent aside to say, 'We hope it makes SNL," Frank said.

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Ever dreamed of having your very own manga library? Thanks to this B2G1 promotion on Amazon, you can easily grab several collections of popular manga series at a very affordable price. Amazon's buy two, get one free sale--that's running concurrently with Target Circle Week--has a pretty good selection to choose from, ranging from select volumes of Berserk to pirate adventure One Piece and more.

Amazon B2G1 Free Manga Box Set Deals

• Tokyo Ghoul: Complete box set -- $86 ($185)
• Chainsaw Man Volumes 1-11 Box Set -- $60 ($100)
• My Hero Academia Box Set Volumes 1-20 -- $96 ($180)
• One Piece: Thriller Bark to New World -- $140 ($255)
• One Piece: Dressrosa to Reverie -- $103 ($186)
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 1: Part 1 -- $42.70 ($78)
• Fairy Tail Manga Box Set 3 (Volumes 23-33) -- $83 ($121)
• Warriors Manga Three-Book Full-Color Box Set -- $29.50 ($39)
• Berserk: Deluxe Edition Volume 9 -- $30 ($50)
• Berserk: Deluxe Edition Volume 11 -- $31 ($50)
• Berserk: Deluxe Edition Volume 12 -- $30 ($50)
• Berserk: Deluxe Edition Volume 13 -- $29 ($50)
• Berserk: Deluxe Edition Volume 14 -- $30.50 ($50)
• Hellsing: Deluxe Edition Volume 1 -- $28 ($50)
• Hellsing: Deluxe Edition Volume 3 -- $41 ($50)

One of the standout deals here is for the complete first arc of Chainsaw Man. The recent anime series only covered a few volumes of the Public Safety Saga, and with this box set, you can get a head start on the next season by reading through the Bomb Girl, International Assassins, Gun Devil, and Control Devil storylines. On its own, this box set has been discounted by 40% to $60 and includes all 11 Chainsaw Man paperback volumes in a colorful slipcase, as well as an exclusive double-sided full-color poster.

The Tokyo Ghoul box set is another great offer here, if you have the stomach for it. Set in a world where flesh-eating Ghouls attempt to coexist alongside humans, this is a dark series with some haunting art. A gripping story of factionalism, turf wars, and a protagonist trapped between two worlds, this complete box set of 14 volumes is available for $86 at Amazon.

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Like most things in life, video games have become more expensive as the traditional $60 price-tag has given way to a new $70 entry fee to play new games. Sony's first-party PS5 games have transitioned to this price increase, big studios have followed in its footsteps, and even Nintendo has experimented with that MSRP as last year's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was its first $70 game release. But can that MSRP last? Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch has voiced his opinion on the subject, and according to him, charging $70 for a new game won't be sustainable for long as studios look to cut development costs.

"I think that as games become more expensive to make, the $70 title is going to go the way of the dodo," Karch said to IGN. "I just don't think it's sustainable. Look, you remember the hype for Cyberpunk, which I think actually ultimately performed okay, but when the expectations are so high and so much money is put into one title, it's hugely risky for the company that's doing it. I think the market is going to shift to development which is not necessarily lower quality, but there's going to be an emphasis on trying to find ways to reduce costs."

It's worth noting that Saber Interactive's Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 will be a $70 game on release, but Karch explained that he doesn't want to sell the game at that price. For now, the challenge lies in persuading consumers that a lower launch price isn't a sign of poor quality, something that Karch says Helldivers 2 has excelled at. The CEO cited Helldivers 2 as a prime example of a "middle market" game that has performed well and is an example of the direction that he wants Saber Interactive to follow.

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