Meet the Ex-Calibre Knights, elite pilots in state-of-the-art exo-mechs, defending peace, justice and hope across the world! The Exo-Tech corporation is dedicated to developing advanced weapons and defenses to aid humanity, but when AI drones go haywire and start attacking the populous, it’s up to you to take control of the Ex-Calibre Knights and restore order by any means necessary! Take flight as one of 3 pilots, each with unique shot types and melee weapons, and engage in vertical scrolling shoot’em up combat against swarms of automaton enemies. Take down screen-filling bosses and chase high scores, earning bonuses for maintaining high health and not losing lives along the way. Challenge player rankings in leaderboards for each of 4 unique play modes!

28 Years Later Steelbook Collector's Edition (4K Blu-ray)

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More than two decades after the release of 28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have teamed up again for a new film beloved post-apocalyptic zombie franchise. 28 Years Later hit theaters on June 20, earning strong reviews from critics and fans. It's the third entry in the series, though Boyle/Garland didn't work on 28 Weeks Later, the 2007 standalone sequel. Fans may want to consider locking in a preorder for the 28 Years Later Steelbook Collector's Edition, which is available for $45 and comes with 4K and 1080p Blu-ray discs as well as a digital copy.

At the time of writing, the Steelbook Collector's Edition is the No. 1 best-selling movie on Amazon. It's not uncommon for steelbook preorders that top Amazon's charts to sell out. The 4K Blu-ray release date for 28 Years Later hasn't been announced, but you won't be charged until your order ships (likely two to three months from now).

If you need to refresh your memory before watching 28 Years Later, Prime Video has deals on the first two movies. You can buy 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later for $15 total.

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Megan Limited Edition Steelbook (4K Blu-ray)

$27 (was $35) | Released on June 24

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Amazon and Walmart are offering nice discounts on the newly released Megan Limited Edition Steelbook, dropping the price to only $27. If you're an Amazon Prime or Walmart+ member, you can get the 4K Blu-ray--and a collectible case featuring an AI doll who will stare at you from your display shelf--as soon as tomorrow. This means you'll have time to rewatch the 2023 sci-fi horror hit before Megan 2.0 debuts in theaters this Friday, June 27.

Megan Limited Edition Steelbook (4K Blu-ray) $27 (was $35) | Released on June 24

Megan's Limited Edition Steelbook includes the unrated and theatrical cuts on 4K Blu-ray, standard Blu-ray, and digital. You'll also get a few behind-the-scenes bonus features:

Megan Steelbook Edition Special Features

• A New Vision of Horror
• Bringing Life to Megan
• Getting Hacked

The back of the steelbook case has a diagram with Megan's tech specs. The interior artwork is designed to look like the front cover of Megan's user manual. It shows the scene where Megan reads to Cady. The right side recommends alternative outfits for the doll, and reminds customers that each outfit is sold separately.

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Megan tells the story of a lifelike doll equipped with highly advanced artificial intelligence. It’s supposed to serve as a friend to children and an assistant to parents--but when Megan begins going to extreme lengths to protect Cady, things get quite gruesome. It's a science fiction horror film, but it's also an effective dark comedy.

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EA has been revealing a ton of detail about the changes and additions it's bringing to College Football 26, and today it revealed its stadium rankings. Taking into account crowds, noise, and "hostile atmosphere," EA has produced a list of the toughest stadiums in college football for visiting teams.

Part of EA's focus on improving its representation of the traditions, spirit, and overall vibes of particular campuses, this list of tough stadiums is probably not going to be too surprising to most college football fans. LSU's infamously loud and hostile Tiger Stadium, for instance, comes in at the top spot, and most of the rest of the SEC is not too far behind. Aligned with college football stereotypes and memes, you're not going to find any California schools on the list. However, college football fans are nothing if not ferociously loyal, so I'm sure this list will still find a way to spark heated debate. You can see the full list below.

Among EA's changes to the CFB formula designed to up school spirit include more rivalry trophies, school-specific events like marching band formations and run-outs, and a much bigger roster of mascots.

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Bandai Namco has announced that Little Nightmares III will launch on October 10, and a Switch 2 version is in the works. In addition, the publisher is giving away the remastered original game as a bonus for preordering.

Alongside the release date, the publisher also released a new trailer, which you can see in the embed below. The trailer shows what you can expect from the adventure game, including the characteristic tilt-shift style, dark and atmospheric environments, and cartoonishly spooky enemies.

Preordering the game comes with an in-game costume set as well as Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition, a remaster of the original game. The Enhanced Edition has improved graphics and performance, allowing the game to run at 4K/60fps and boasting features like ray-tracing and volumetric lighting. The remaster is unlocked as soon as you place your preorder. If you already own the original game, you'll get a free upgrade to the Enhanced Edition on October 10.

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After some delays, 7 Days To Die is finally launching the big 2.0 Storm's Brewing update on June 30. Storm's Brewing adds deadly elemental effects and completely changes how biomes work on the map. The experimental beta build is currently available to play on PC, and here we'll guide you through how to earn biome badges and unlock all areas of the map.

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• New biome progression change

New biome progression change

In the 1.0 build of 7 Days to Die, you could traverse each biome without weather or elemental effects, but 2.0 adds new conditions to survive for each one. You'll need to complete challenges and craft consumables and remedies for surviving damage from smoke, heat, cold, and radiation.

The game still starts you in the forest biome. There are no elemental hazards in the forest, but in order to venture beyond this starting area, you'll need to complete a series of challenges and earn a biome badge for each. The biome badge will grant you the ability to survive the deadly element for each.

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Fan-made video games based on popular franchises always run the risk of having the official rights-holder step in and shut things down, but that's not happening with Spartan Survivors.

The community-developed game, which has players fighting hordes of Covenant and Flood enemies as Master Chief or the Arbiter, has been given an official blessing from Microsoft. The developers said Microsoft reached out to them to say they "really love to see the passion" from the team. People at Microsoft apparently played the game as well. "It really is fun and we look forward to getting further in our playthrough and unlocking more stuff," the Halo representative said.

Microsoft, did, however, have one specific request for the developers. Microsoft reportedly asked the team to add language to the legal disclaimer in the game's credits and on store pages to make it ultra-clear that the project is not an official Halo game or made in partnership with Halo Studios.

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The latest update for Assassin's Creed Shadows comes out tomorrow, and it adds free new content alongside numerous tweaks and improvements. Title Update 1.0.6 is headlined by a quest developed in collaboration with Critical Role, as well as a new, more challenging difficulty setting.

The update's new questline is called A Critical Encounter, and its narrative centers around Rufino, a character first created during Critical Role's one-off Assassin's Creed-themed series. Rufino is voice-acted by Critical Role's Robbie Daymond, and completion of the quest unlocks Rufino as an Ally. In addition to this quest, Ubisoft is also adding a Critical Role-themed weapon pack that can be purchased in the in-game store.

The update also adds a new Nightmare difficulty setting, designed to significantly increase the challenge that players face. Nightmare increases enemy skill and decreases the effectiveness of player abilities; enemies are not only stronger, but also faster and smarter, according to the patch notes. Players will also have to be more careful about noise; on this setting, Naoe will make a sound even while crouching.

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Switch 2 Version Update: With the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have received a much-needed performance boost. The free update adds 4K visuals while docked and a rock-solid 60 frames per second for both docked and handheld play. After several hours of testing, both Scarlet and Violet run and play significantly better. A stormy Casseroya Lake in the northwestern part of Paldea was particularly taxing on the original Switch and, even after a handful of updates, I dreaded going to that lake to collect items or shiny hunt. Now, on the Switch 2, it runs flawlessly regardless of where you are in the world. Additionally, the lengthy loading times have been reduced to a few seconds.

Despite these improvements, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet still isn't the most visually appealing Pokemon game to date. The world feels bland and barren, and character models--outside of the wonderfully detailed and expressive Pokemon--are simplistic and wooden. Despite the 4k resolution, there are still plenty of low-quality textures and visual bugs can occur during battle. It's a shame given how strong the visual identity is for something like Pokemon Let's Go! Pikachu and Eevee or even Pokemon: Legends Arceus, which received a fair bit of criticism for its visuals as well.

Though, oddly enough, the number of Pokemon that can appear on-screen has increased significantly, making Paldea feel slightly more lively. This is especially good news for shiny-hunting sickos like me as it's much easier to spawn and spot a rare Pokemon.

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One of Diablo 4's main endgame activities, Nightmare dungeons, will be permanently changed come Season 9, as Blizzard looks to make them both more challenging and surprising going forward.

As detailed in a new blog post, when Season 9 launches July 1, Nightmare dungeons will receive some major updates. Most notably, there will be a new activity within them called Horadric Strongrooms. Described as a "potent micro-dungeon," strongrooms will be found more frequently on higher Torment difficulties and can also be reliably found by using a Nightmare dungeon sigil that guarantees the appearance of a strongroom.

Once players are inside the dungeon, players can discover a portal that will take them to the strongroom. In a system somewhat similar to Diablo 4's Infernal Hordes activity, players will be able to select from a number of statues that add modifiers to the strongroom, increasing the challenge but also the rewards.

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2K and Firaxis released Update 1.2.2 for Sid Meier's Civilization 7 today. It's one of the most substantial updates for Civilization 7 since launch, adding Steam Workshop support, bigger maps, new Advanced Game options, and a lot more.

Civilization games always have healthy modding communities, and Update 1.2.2 strengthens official support for mods. From the player perspective, it'll now be possible to find and install mods right from Steam now that there's official Steam Workshop integration. Modders can also use Steam Workshop to promote their mod and use the official Civilization 7 Modding SDK to help speed up the process of creating and uploading them. This is an important addition to Civilization 7, although it's one that mainly benefits PC players.

Update 1.2.2 thankfully contains a lot of other improvements that equally apply to all platforms Civilization 7 is on. There are a lot of new Advanced Game Options for players to adjust for custom games. All map types now have Huge and Large versions, players can toggle certain Legacy Paths, Score Victories, and Crises on and off, and can now turn on the ability to turn on whatever new Civilization they want after an age transition.

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A decade after Dying Light came out in 2015, developer Techland is revisiting the zombie game with a major new update to refresh the game's visuals and other elements--just don't call it a remaster.

The "Retouched" update, as it's called, launches on June 26. This update is focused on "squeezing out even more" from Dying Light, the studio said. "It's not a complete overhaul or remaster," the developer clarified, adding that the team has found new ways to "squeeze more from the tech we already have."

"One day, someone just started applying those learnings to some old assets--and it just clicked that we could do that across the whole game," technical game director Grzegorz Świstowski said.

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