Aliens might just be one of the greatest film sequels of all time, and if you're looking to revisit this landmark 1986 sci-fi action movie, Amazon and Walmart have the definitive edition of it in stock and on sale. Normally $40, you can get the ultimate collector's edition of Aliens for just $27.77 and enjoy the film in a sharp ultra high-definition format.

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It's worth mentioning that Amazon has a one- to two-month delivery window for Aliens. That said, you can also snag it at Walmart for the same price.

This was released last month, and like other 4K Blu-ray releases, you'll also get a copy of the film on standard Blu-ray and a digital streaming code. For special features, there's a lot on offer here. The film has additional commentary from director James Cameron, the cast, and the production crew to listen to, isolated scores to enjoy from Aliens composer James Horner, and additional scenes that didn't make the theatrical cut.

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Microsoft courted controversy earlier this year when it announced it would start bringing formerly Xbox console-exclusive titles to PlayStation, but if the current PSN charts are anything to go by, the strategy seems to be working.

A look at the PSN chart for the top 25 best-selling games on PlayStation 5 today revealed that seven of the 25 games were owned by Microsoft. Those games, unsurprisingly, include giants like Call of Duty and Minecraft, which have long been available on Sony platforms, but also two of the four games that Microsoft recently announced would make the jump to Sony's platforms: Grounded and Sea of Thieves. Grounded released earlier this week, while Sea of Thieves launches on PlayStation April 30.

The now-Microsoft-owned Overwatch 2, which recently released its 10th season, also made the cut. Rounding out Microsoft's heavy-hitters are Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, both of which are currently on sale and no doubt have seen a boost in interest thanks to Amazon Prime's Fallout TV show, which was just renewed for a second season.

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We're drawing closer to The Final Shape in Destiny 2, and if you're planning to hit the ground running when you take on the Witness, you'll want to make the weekly trek to see the Exotic gear Xur is offering for a limited time. Here's where Xur is this weekend and what he has for sale.

This week you can find Xur on Nessus, in The Watcher's Grave. For his weapon, Xur is offering Skyburner's Oath. Hunters can pick up Fr0st-EE5 leg armor; Titans can grab the Ursa Furiosa gauntlets; and Warlocks can buy the Starfire Protocol armor.

Xur LocationXur's location on Nessus

Head to Nessus and use the Watcher's Grave transmat zone to find Xur this week. When you arrive, hop on your sparrow and head north toward the exit of the area. Look for a big tree with pink moss on the right side of the area. Climb up onto its big, flat branch, where you can reach Xur.

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In the race to acquire Paramount, Skydance Media still has the inside track. But there may be more players pulling up in the rearview. According to The New York Times, an investment firm, Apollo Global Management, is in talks with Sony Pictures for a joint bid to take over Paramount, the storied studio behind Mission: Impossible and several other film and TV franchises.

Officially, neither Sony nor Apollo are currently in negotiations with Paramount itself, which is only talking with Skydance. However, the potential deal with Skydance has not been well-received by many of Paramount's investors. Via Bloomberg, Paramount investor William Riley has formally notified Paramount chairwoman Shari Redstone about his belief that the Spyglass deal is solely for her “personal gains.” Because Redstone has a controlling interest in Paramount's stock, she is currently pushing for a sale to Spyglass without asking the rest of the shareholders to vote on it.

During an earlier stage of negotiations, Apollo extended an offer for Paramount that would have been valued at $26 billion, which included Paramount's debt. Paramount seemingly ignored that offer because it is in the middle of an exclusivity deal for negotiations with Skydance. The New York Post recently reported that Paramount and Skydance may not close a deal before that exclusive period expires on May 3.

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Anna Gunn famously played Skyler White on Breaking Bad, and when the show aired, many people criticized her character, and Gunn felt that blowback and found it upsetting. But now, Gunn says attitudes have changed, and people better understand the position Skyler was in and how she was trying to get Walt (Bryan Cranston) to do the right thing on the show.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Gunn said she wasn't tuned into the controversy at the time over her character because she wasn't plugged into social media. People told her what others were saying, and she decided to read the comments--this was "probably a mistake," she said.

"But it's a mistake that led to a great deal of soul searching and me thinking, 'Well, is it me?' And I think the writers went through the same thing: 'Is it the way we've written her?' [Series creator Vince Gilligant] would sometimes say, 'My gosh, no matter what we do with Walt, no matter how bad he breaks, people are still going, 'Yay!' They're still in his corner and they're still behind him," she said.

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The jail simulator game, Prison Architect 2, has been delayed once again. It was initially due out in March, then delayed to May. Now, it's coming out on September 3.

Despite being less than a month away from release, publisher Paradox Interactive has revealed that Prison Architect 2 has been running into problems. "Recently, we ran some stability tests on our latest version of the game and noticed unexpected issues occurring too often, especially on low specs configurations," Paradox Interactive explained in a statement to Eurogamer.

"Once we identified the issue, we started working on improving Prison Architect 2's memory usage to mitigate the situation. Overall, the work has been successful, and we have seen improvements on lower-spec machines and consoles."

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Call of Duty: Mobile is apparently getting a new weapon that has the most cinematic weapon inspection animation we've ever seen. A leak has revealed a new mythic weapon for Call of Duty: Mobile that has players staring down the barrel of the gun to see a WW2 sequence that looks like it could be from Saving Private Ryan. Soldiers take cover and shield themselves from incoming machine gun fire on a battlefield complete with a tank and planes flying overhead.

A solider collapses on the battlefield and is helped up by another infantryman who says, "Don't worry, soldier, I'm with you every step of the way. We stand together. We fight for the generations to come." Again, all of this is happening on top of the weapon, an MG42.

Normally, Call of Duty weapon inspections amount to the player looking down the barrel and around the sides of their gun to get a better look at it. This is something entirely different and far more impressive.

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From My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away to Howl's Moving Castle and Kiki's Delivery Service, Studio Ghibli is responsible for some of the most beloved animated films of the past fifty years. Plenty of merch has been released for the iconic movies, but few are as adorable as these papercraft decorations--which are both affordable and will make for great display pieces in your home theater or office.

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If you're unfamiliar with papercraft, they're essentially a buildable kit that lets you piece together a scene using nothing more than premium art paper. You typically don't need any fancy tools to complete their construction other than some tweezers, scissors or blade, and glue, and each kit comes with all the paper you'll need to build your masterpiece.

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New images from The Wolf Among Us 2 have been released, confirming that Telltale Games is still working on the game, despite it being announced back in 2019.

On the Telltale community forums, the developer showed off four new screenshots from The Wolf Among Us 2, saying, "We’ve been quiet because we’ve been heads down, focusing on the promise of TWAU2. While we can't give a big update yet, here’s a little something for you: In-progress shots from the current build. The work continues. The Fabletown gang will be back."

One is a shot of a snowy city with a person standing on a rooftop, presumably the protagonist, Bigby Wolf. A second screenshot shows Bigby's face as he's seemingly talking to someone, and a third screenshot shows two character sitting down to have a conversation. The fourth screenshot simply shows Bigby walking around in a kitchen. You can see them, as rounded up by Geoff Keighley, below.

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The Simpsons may kill off a character on this weekend's episode of the long-running animated series. Matt Selman, who has written for The Simpsons since 1997, posted a cryptic message on social media this week, portending the death of a character.

He said, "WHO WILL DIE THIS SUNDAY ON THE SIMPSONS?" Attached to the post were images of Simpsons family members Homer, Bart, and Marge, as well as Larry the Moe's Tavern barfly. It's pretty safe to assume that it's going to be Larry that dies, but who knows. Also unknown is if the death of the character, should it actually happen, will be permanent.

It's possible someone could die and come back to life, or it's possible "die" takes on a different meaning altogether. In any event, the only thing that's clear here is that Selman is trying to drum up interest in this weekend's episode of The Simpsons. The episode is titled "Cremains of the Day" and it follows Homer and the guys from Moe's going on a roadtrip to scatter the ashes of someone. That person is probably Larry.

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Capcom plans to scale back the infection rate of Dragonsplague in Dragon's Dogma 2 later this month. In addition, it will become more obvious when Pawns have fallen ill with the disease.

On X (formerly known as Twitter), the official Dragon's Dogma account revealed the upcoming update that focuses on Dragonsplague and Pawn behavior. "Glowing eyes will be more noticeable" to affected Pawns, the notes state, and players will now be able inspect them up close in the status screen. In addition, your Pawns should navigate cliffsides better, meaning they shouldn't tumble over them as much.

Dragonsplague has been a real plague for Dragon's Dogma 2 players. In fact, modders have even removed the disease from the action-RPG because it had become so bothersome. On top of that, players had come up with a rotten gimmick to warn others in Dragon's Dogma 2 about infected Pawns.

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Bungie has revealed when its new raid activity will go live in The Final Shape, and surprisingly, players will be able to dive into this event much sooner than anticipated. Here's a look at everything we know so far about the pinnacle PvE activity.

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• Destiny 2: The Final Shape Raid release date and time
• Destiny 2: The Final Shape Raid story details

Destiny 2: The Final Shape Raid release date and time

The Final Shape raid will officially launch on June 7, 2024 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. This is a lot earlier when compared to previous raid release dates, as Bungie typically launches one of these activities a full week and a half after an expansion is released. This date will give you just three days to get ready, a challenging prospect as The Final Shape will introduce the Prism subclass and a new faction to battle inside of the Traveler, the Dread.

Destiny 2: The Final Shape Raid story details

Beyond the release date confirmation, Bungie is remaining tight-lipped on the story for its new raid. Raids usually introduce new threats to Destiny 2 in the aftermath of the campaign, and with The Final Shape teasing a final showdown with The Witness, it'll be interesting to see which antagonist is waiting for players at the end of the storyline to the Light and Darkness saga. There are several possibilities here, as this raid could take a page out of The Taken King expansion and pit players against The Witness in its ultimate form, similar to how Oryx was defeated in the Ascendant Realm when he was at the height of his power.

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Rabbit & Bear Studios has revealed it will work on a sequel to Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes despite the death of its creator, Yoshitaka Murayama, back in February.

In a Reddit AMA thread, the developer confirmed that it is moving forward with a sequel, saying, "It is very sad that Murayama is not with us anymore, but we have discussed many things with him. [We] hope we will be able to carry on Murayama's legacy, and [we] always want to treasure his last work. [We] hope many people will support this game."

Murayama was also the scenario writer for Eiyuden Chronicle, and was battling an ongoing illness that ended with his death on February 6. He joined the games industry back in 1992 starting with Konami as a quality assurance tester. He eventually became producer, writer, and director of the first three games in the Suikoden series.

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In the lead-up to The Final Shape, Bungie has detailed which parts of Into The Light will remain after June 3 and which parts of it will be going away.

First up, the new raid boss gauntlet Pantheon will be exiting Destiny 2 in June. This mode will be available starting April 30 and allows players to earn a variety of rare emblems that were previously only available in Contest Raids. Bungie says Pantheon was always intended to be a time-limited event, and this means players will only have a month to earn the Brave title and other rewards from this mode.

As previously mentioned by Bungie in a livestream, the limited-edition variants of the Brave arsenal weapons will only be available to earn until June 3. If you're looking to take on that challenge, here's how you can unlock The Mountaintop and The Recluse. Other parts of Into The Light you can wave goodbye to include the Hall of Champions social space, the Arcite 99-40 quests, armor chests, and weapon attunement.

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In the streaming realm, Netflix is still the king of the mountain by a wide margin. But even Netflix didn't predict that it would hit 270 million subscribers this financial quarter. Via Variety, Netflix has released its report for the first quarter of 2024, which reveals that the streamer added 9.33 million subscribers through March 31 to reach approximately 269.60. That's well above the 3.93 million subscribers that Netflix was predicted to add in the same period.

How did Netflix so wildly exceed those expectations? Cracking down on accounts sharing passwords likely helped. Netflix's early 2024 lineup also had some new breakout hits, including Avatar: The Last Airbender, 3 Body Problem, The Gentlemen, Fool Me Once, Griselda, and Damsel. Netflix's consistent flow of original movies and TV series, as well as content on loan from other studios, is another one of the primary reasons why no other streamer has managed to catch up.

Additionally, Netflix revealed that it intends to stop reporting its quarterly subscription totals starting in 2025. This caught some industry observers by surprise, because the company's subscriber numbers have been used to push Netflix's stock prices even higher. However, Netflix has also seen its stock prices fall during quarters when its subscriber numbers have gone down. The decision to withhold those numbers suggests that Netflix anticipates another dip in subscribers at some point in the future, and the company wants to avoid another concurrent drop in its stock price.

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Between Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Mandalorian, and even the short-lived Revolution, Giancarlo Esposito has positioned himself as an in-demand actor who excels at playing villains. However, he didn't always enjoy such good fortune in his career. During a recent appearance on SiriusXM's Jim & Sam, Esposito recalled a time in 2008 when he was near bankruptcy and so desperate for a way out that he considered placing a hit on himself to provide for his family with the insurance money.

"My way out in my brain was: 'Hey, do you get life insurance if someone commits suicide? Do they get the bread?' My wife had no idea why I was asking this stuff," recalled Esposito via Variety. "I started scheming. If I got somebody to knock me off, death by misadventure, [my kids] would get the insurance. I had four kids. I wanted them to have a life. It was a hard moment in time. I literally thought of self-annihilation so they could survive. That’s how low I was."

"That was the first inkling that there was a way out, but I wouldn’t be here to be available to my kids," continued Esposito. "Then I started to think that’s not viable because the pain I would cause them would be lifelong, and there'd be lifelong trauma that would just extend the generational trauma I’m trying to move away from. The light at the end of the tunnel was Breaking Bad."

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Xbox Insiders can now try to survive the zombie apocalypse with a mouse and keyboard for State of Decay 2 on Xbox Cloud Gaming. The open-world survival title is one of 14 games getting the additional input support on the service.

Spotted by Windows Central, other notable games also receiving mouse and keyboard support on Xbox Cloud include Quake 2, Terraria, and Slime Rancher 2. Keep in mind that so far this added functionality is only "for users enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview," per the Xbox Support page.

It was almost two years ago when Microsoft officially announced mouse and keyboard support was on the way for Xbox Cloud Gaming. This is the second wave of titles, as last month introduced the feature to games like Sea of Thieves, Halo Infinite, and Fortnite. Eventually, the idea is that mouse and keyboard can be used while playing these titles on the cloud on devices like your smartphone or TV, if desired.

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Ahead of the series premiere of Fallout last week, some fans of the franchise worried that dropping all of the Season 1 episodes on a single day might hurt its chances for renewal. Fortunately, that didn't turn out to be the case. Amazon Prime Video has officially renewed the series, and Fallout Season 2 is on the way just eight days after the show's debut.

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"Praise be to our insanely brilliant showrunners, Geneva [Robertson-Dworet] and Graham [Wagner], to our kick-ass cast, to Todd and James and all the legends at Bethesda, and to Jen, Vernon and the amazing team at Amazon for their incredible support of this show. We can’t wait to blow up the world all over again,” said executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy in a press release.

“Jonah, Lisa, Geneva, and Graham have captivated the world with this ground-breaking, wild ride of a show," added Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke. "The bar was high for lovers of this iconic video game and so far we seem to have exceeded their expectations, while bringing in millions of new fans to the franchise. The cast led by Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan have knocked it out of the park. We’d like to thank Jonah and Lisa and our friends at Bethesda for bringing the show to us, as well as Geneva and Graham for coming aboard as showrunners. We are thrilled to announce season two after only one week out and take viewers even farther into the surreal world of Fallout."

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After nearly 50 years, the Rocky franchise is now nine movies deep. While almost all of them have gotten the 4K treatment over the years, there are still a couple of these films--1990's Rocky 5 and 2006's Rocky Balboa--that don't yet have 4K Blu-rays for you to put on your shelf. But that won't be the case for much longer, because you can preorder the 4K Blu-ray sets for both Rocky 5 and Rocky Balboa right now.

These new Rocky Blu-rays include each movie in 4K, standard Blu-ray, and digital download formats, and package it all in collectible steelbook cases featuring iconic shots from the movies on the cover and interior. The Rocky Balboa 4K Blu-ray set includes separate discs for the original theatrical release and the extended director's cut.

Preorder Rocky 5 4K UHD Blu-ray $40

In the fifth movie, Rocky finds himself a working class man once again after Paulie's accountant wastes all their money on bad real estate deals, and the washed-up fighter tries to find a new lease on life by training and mentoring a young fighter named Tommy Gunn. But after Tommy dumps Rocky for a competitor, Rocky ends up having to fight his own protege in an unsanctioned street fight. While not a particularly beloved entry in the franchise, Rocky 5 does its own thing in a way that's gotten easier to appreciate the longer this series goes on.

You can preorder the Rocky 5 4K USH Blu-ray for $40 at Amazon and Walmart.

Preorder Rocky 5 on 4K Blu-ray at Amazon Preorder Rocky 5 on 4K Blu-ray at Walmart Rocky Balboa 4K UHD Blu-ray $29 (was $65)

16 years after Rocky 5, Sylvester Stallone returned for this revival, which sees a 60-year-old Rocky take on the current heavyweight title-holder--played by real boxer Antonio Tarver--in a charity bout. This one has aged surprisingly well, thanks to stunt matches like this becoming more common and prominent in the streaming age.

While the set is normally priced at $65, you can preorder it for just $29 at both Amazon and Walmart.

Preorder Rocky Balboa on 4K Blu-ray at Amazon Preorder Rocky Balboa on 4K Blu-ray at Walmart The Rest Of The Rocky Film Franchise On 4K Blu-ray

As mentioned above, the entire rest of the Rocky franchise, including the recent Creed films, are already available on 4K, and you'll find Amazon links for those below.

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Two decades after it first launched on GameCube, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is getting a second life with a remake on Nintendo Switch. The remake doesn't release until May 23, but you can snag a physical preorder for just $50 (down from $60) at Geek Alliance. That's one of the best preorders we've seen for the popular upcoming title, and if you've yet to reserve a copy, this deal is definitely worth a closer look.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door $50 (was $60)

This deal is offered by GeekAlliance and includes free shipping along with worldwide delivery. Less than 500 copies are available at this price, so you'll need to move fast if you want to snag The Thousand-Year Door for just $50.

Note that the game will ship on May 23--so while you won't be playing it on May 23, you'll save a few bucks if you're willing to wait a couple extra days.

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features enhanced graphics and what Nintendo is calling "a suite of additional changes," though the company has yet to elaborate on those updates. Regardless, it's shaping up to be a great remake that'll be popular among nostalgic players and RPG fans alike.

GeekAlliance has a few other great deals available right now, including another preorder discount for Luigi's Mansion 2 HD on Nintendo Switch. The game is an HD Switch port of the 3DS classic that launches on June 27, but preorders are discounted to just $50. Like Paper Mario, this one has less than 500 copies available at the price point and comes with free shipping.

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