Spawn: Limited Edition 4K Blu-ray

$38 (was $50) | Releases October 7

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Back in the '90s, Todd McFarlane's Spawn was one of the hottest comic books on shelves. The flagship series for Image Comics, Spawn's popularity spilled into mainstream pop culture with its own line of toys, an animated HBO series, and --perhaps most notably--a feature film adaptation in 1997 starring Michael Jai White as the titular antihero. Now, almost 18 years later, the grim superhero film is getting a limited-edition 4K release from Arrow Video, which is on a roll with 4K restorations of cult classics.

Spawn Limited Edition includes theatrical and director's cuts as well as premium packaging, new artwork, and a few collectibles. Preorders opened last week for $50, but Amazon is now offering a nice discount that drops the price to $38. Spawn's 4K Limited Edition releases October 7.

Spawn: Limited Edition 4K Blu-ray $38 (was $50) | Releases October 7

Arrow Video restored the Theatrical and Director's Cuts in native 4K (2160p) resolution using the original camera negatives. Both versions support High Dynamic Range with Dolby Vision and HDR10. Audio options include DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and lossless stereo.

The Limited Edition is packaged in a reversible sleeve with new artwork. You'll also get an illustrated booklet with fresh commentary and a double-sided, fold-out poster.

The main difference between the Theatrical and Director's Cut is the tone, as a lot of the violence was removed to secure a PG-13 rating. Other than that, the Director's Cut is less than three minutes longer than the Theatrical Cut, but the extra violence pushes it into R-rated territory.

There's also a ton of bonus materials, such as a a brand-new audio commentary with comic book expert and podcast host Dave Baxter, and new interviews with the film's cast and crew. You can also explore archival content, including behind-the-scenes featurettes, promotional materials, and audio commentary tracks, many of which are from previous DVD and Blu-ray releases. You can check out the full list of features below.

Preorder at Amazon Spawn Limited Edition 4K Blu-ray Bonus Features

• Native 4K restorations of Theatrical and Director's Cuts
• HDR: Dolby Vision and HDR10
• Sound: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 / Lossless Stereo
• New reversible cover and sleeve art
• Double-sided poster
• Illustrated booklet with commentary by John Torrani

Disc 1: Director's Cut (Rated R)

• 4K resolution (2160p)
• HDR: Dolby Vision and HDR10
• Sound: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 / Lossless Stereo
• Audio commentary with comic book expert and podcast host Dave Baxter (new)
• Audio commentary with Todd McFarlane, Mark A.Z. Dippé, Clint Goldman, and Steve Williams
• Hell's Perfect Son: An interview with actor Michael Jai White (new)
• Spawn Support: An interview with actors Melinda Clarke and D.B. Sweeney (new)
• The Devil’s in the Details: An interview with animatronic creature and special makeup effects artists Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero (new)
• The Devil’s Music: An interview with music supervisor Happy Walters (new)
• Order Out of Chaos: An interview with editor Michael Knue (new)
• Todd McFarlane: Chapter & Verse featurette
• The Making of Spawn featurette
• Preview: Todd McFarlane’s Spawn – The Animated Movie
• Theatrical trailer
• Scene-to-storyboard comparisons
• Original Todd McFarlane sketches
• Spawn concept and sketch gallery
• English subtitles

Disc 2: Theatrical Cut (Rated PG-13)

• 4K resolution (2160p)
• HDR: Dolby Vision and HDR10
• Sound: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 / Lossless Stereo
• English subtitles

Spawn tells the story of ruthlessly efficient black ops soldier Al Simmons. Betrayed and murdered by his commanding officer, Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen), Simmons is sent to hell for his sins, but he is resurrected on Earth by the devil Malebolgia as part of a grand scheme to kickstart the apocalypse. Empowered with the might of Hell, Simmons finds himself torn between his quest for revenge, dark forces, and salvation.

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Evangelion Anime on Blu-ray

Rebuild of Evangelion Movies & Neon Genesis Evangelion Series

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The first two movies in the Rebuild of Evangelion series are finally getting new Blu-ray editions on October 14. Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone and Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance are up for preorder for $30 each at Amazon. Both films have been out of print for a long time in the US, as the most recent editions launched back in 2010-11.

Hopefully Evangelion: 3.33 gets a reprint next, because then fans can easily buy the entire Evangelion saga on Blu-ray. At the moment, only the DVD version of 3.33 is easily attainable. Meanwhile, the final film in the series, Evangelion: 3.0+1.11, received a new Blu-ray Steelbook Edition last summer, and it's available for only a couple bucks more than the standard edition thanks to a deal at Amazon. Evangelion 3.0+1.11 is also the only movie in the series on 4K Blu-ray in the US--though you're limited to a Collector's Edition for $55 (was $80).

Rebuild of Evangelion released in four parts from 2007-2021 as a retelling of the beloved '90s series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which is available on Blu-ray for $40 (was $60) at Amazon.

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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero standard edition (Switch 2 and Switch)

$60 | Releases November 14

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Bandai Namco confirmed Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is officially headed to the Switch 2 and Switch during Nintendo's July Partner Direct. These new Switch and Switch 2 versions will play just like the PS5, Xbox, and PC versions that launched last year, but will add support for motion controls for certain moves, such as Goku's Spirit Bomb ultimate attack. Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero will be available on Switch 2 and Switch in multiple versions, including a $60 physical standard edition and multiple digital editions that include tons of extra content, all of which are available to preorder now ahead of Sparking Zero's November 14 release date. Preordering any edition of the game on either of Nintendo's hybrid handhelds also unlocks several of the game's characters early.

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Preorder BonusDragon Ball: Sparking Zero Preorder Bonus

If you preorder Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero on either Switch 2 or Switch, you'll get Goku's child form from the most recent Dragon Ball anime, Dragon Ball Daima, as a bonus playable character. You'll also get early unlocks for six variations of Gogeta (the fused form of Goku and Vegeta) and Broly--but that's still a nice head start on unlocking the game's full 182-character roster. Here's a list of all the preorder bonus characters for the Switch 2 and Switch versions:

• Goku (Mini)
• Gogeta (Base form)
• Gogeta (Super Saiyan)
• Gogeta (Super Saiyan Blue)
• Broly (Base form)
• Broly (Super Saiyan)
• Broly (Legendary Super Saiyan)

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero standard edition (Switch 2 and Switch) $60 | Releases November 14

The Switch 2 and Switch editions of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero include the base game, plus the bonus and early character unlocks if you preorder ahead of launch. Physical preorders are available for $60 at multiple online retailers. Digital preorders are also available on the Switch eShop.

It's worth noting that the Switch 2 edition is a Game-Key Card release, meaning the cartridge does not include any of the game data, and instead works as physical DRM that allows you to download and play the digital version on your console. The original Switch version includes the full game data on the cart. It does not look like Bandai Namco is offering the option to upgrade from the Switch to Switch 2 edition. It's also uncertain how the game will perform on the original Switch, but Bandai Namco confirms that the more-powerful hardware of the Switch 2 will naturally offer better graphical power.

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Two years ago, Baldur's Gate 3 was released out of early and quickly became one of the most popular RPG games of this generation. Now, Larian Studios is sharing some of the rare choices and other stats that it has compiled from players' choices during the last two years.

Only 2.07% of all players managed to beat 20 opponents while drunk, and 1.82% of players earned 100 gold from performing music. Larian posted several infographics on the Steam page for Baldur's Gate 3, including the fact that 3.87% of players beat Gortash in Wyrm's Rock without activating any traps. And half a million players have completed the game in Honor mode, compared to 1.1 million players who beat the game in Tactician mode. Out of the Honor mode players, only 4,647 players beat it with a level 1 character.

If it's a popularity contest, Shadowheart has already won.

When it came time to pick the most-respecced companions, the outcome wasn't a surprise. Shadowheart led the way with 4,890,005 players, who were apparently evenly split between using her as a Life Cleric or a Death Cleric. Wyll was the second-most respecced companion with 1,417,506 players, while Gale finished in third with 684,454 players.

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Advancing through the Grounded 2 campaign will eventually task you with hacking two O.R.C. transmitters. These transmitters can be tricky to reach, especially if you don't have the right gear to tackle their locations. In this guide, we'll show you how to reach the O.R.C. transmitters you need to hack in the Signals and Stashes mission.

The transmitters are located at the Trash Can and Picnic Table points of interest, and you'll find the guide for both below. Each location has O.R.C. enemies (the bugs with purple glowing receiver devices) you might need to fight off, so you'll want to be prepared with your weapon of choice and some bandages. You'll also get an additional side objective for each O.R.C. transmitter you hack, and we'll discuss those locations as well.

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• How to reach the Picnic Table O.R.C. transmitter

How to reach the Picnic Table O.R.C. transmitterPicnic Table POI location

The Picnic Table POI is located just north of the Snackbar, as shown in the image above. This is the area of the map with the red and white-checkered tablecloth.

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Halo Infinite is bringing back a vehicle that was last seen in a Halo game 15 years ago, along with a new weapon and playlist updates.

Detailed in a Halo Waypoint blog post, the Halo Infinite Fall Update 2025, which launches on August 5, will add the Falcon to Halo Infinite multiplayer, making it the first time the series has seen the vehicle since Halo: Reach in 2010. The Falcon will be featured in a limited-time mode, Famished Famished Falcons, a play on Hungry Hungry Hippos, where four teams of three compete to capture a single-neutral flag using the Falcon. The vehicle, which features a machine gun on one side and a grenade launcher on the other, will also appear on certain Big Team Battle maps as well in the standard BTB playlists.

Four Spartans riding in a Falcon.

The new weapon is the Vestige Carbine, a semi-automatic rifle that fires radioactive green bolts. This is a brand-new weapon, although it seems to share some visual similarities to the Needle Rifle from Halo: Reach. The blog post doesn't mention if the Vestige Carbine will be added to normal playlist maps, but it will be featured in a Banished Slayer playlist, an asymmetrical slayer mode where one side wields UNSC weapons and the other uses Banished weapons, including the Vestige Carbine.

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It is no secret that 2021's Battlefield 2042 was not the success that EA and developer DICE hoped for. Although the game was the No. 5 best-selling title in the US during 2021, it was a disappointment commercially for EA and fans didn't have the best things to say about it either. With Battlefield 6 coming this October, producer Alexia Christofi said in an interview that the struggles of Battlefield 2042 helped shape Battlefield 6.

"We learned so much from 2042. We took so many learnings from that, and while it strayed from what people found core to Battlefield, it meant that it was very clear and easy for people to vocalize the things that 2042 was not, and what we need to make sure Battlefield 6 is," Christofi told Well-Played.

Another producer, David Sirland, said the studio spent a lot of time thinking about the core pillars of Battlefield--destruction, classes, and vehicles--and designing Battlefield 6 in service to those.

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It takes a lot for a new souls-like to distinguish itself these days. In the last year alone, we've seen Lies of P: Overture, The First Berserker: Khazan, Black Myth: Wukong, Enotria: The Last Song, Another Crab's Treasure, and two Elden Ring follow-ups--The Shadow of the Erdtree DLC and spin-off game Nightreign--all launch to varying degrees of success. Suffice to say, the once-niche genre is now significantly more mainstream, and the rapidly growing number of souls-likes available to play certainly reflects that. But while this might translate to an exciting amount of options for players, it's easy to see how this boon actually presents an intense challenge for developers.

Fortunately for Wuchang: Fallen Feathers developer Leenzee, finding and celebrating its own voice was something it was "tuned in to" since the beginning. In a recent interview with GameSpot, Leenzee co-founder and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers game and art director Xia Siyuan discussed how the studio went about developing a game in a highly saturated genre, and what he thought Wuchang was doing to help push souls-likes forward. The developer also opened up about how the team's Sichuan roots helped to establish the game's setting, and how some of its boss designs were inspired by archeological digs and museum trips.

The souls-like genre has become extremely saturated in recent years--was that a concern when developing Wuchang: Fallen Feathers? What about it sets the game apart from others within the genre, or helps push the genre forward?

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In the wake of the official Oblivion Remastered's release, the developers behind Skylivion are making clear that their ambitious mod over 10 years in the making is far more than just a graphics update: It "reimagines Oblivion from the ground up."

Skyblivion looks to recreate the 2006 open-world RPG in the engine of 2011's Skyrim, albeit with new content and gameplay changes. The mod is still slated to release in 2025, and in the latest development diary for the project, the TESRenewal mod team behind Skyblivion answers the question that has been top of mind since Oblivion Remastered released in April--what's the point of Skyblivion when the official remaster is already available?

"The answer is simple," the dev diary states. "Skyblivion is a full-scale remake that reimagines Oblivion from the ground up, bringing it in line with modern RPG standards. While the official remaster impressively upgrades textures and assets, Skyblivion introduces entirely newly designed areas, dungeons, cities, gameplay enhancements, and much more."

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Blizzard's dark fantasy ARPG series Diablo is getting the tabletop RPG treatment, and it promises to have players geared up and ready to hack and slash through armies of demons from "session zero."

A Kickstarter campaign page for Diablo: The Roleplaying Game recently went live, and while the campaign won't officially begin until this fall, it does provide some details on what players can expect from the TTRPG adaptation. The game comes from Glass Cannon, which has made board game versions of plenty of video games in the past, including Apex Legends.

As for how the TTRPG will try to capture the spirit of the Diablo video games, Glass Cannon name drops a few Diablo classes players will be able to play as, including Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue, and Sorcerer (the same classes available at launch in Diablo 4). More importantly, it gives a glimpse of how it is looking to adapt Diablo's fast-and-frenetic ARPG action into a tabletop format.

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Fall Guys is celebrating its 5-year anniversary today, August 4, 2025. Below, we look back at how its creative mode was ripe for potential that has failed to flourish.

It felt obvious. Fall Guys--a quirky, over-the-top game show battle royale platformer--would be perfect for player-created levels. Mario and Banjo-Kazooie fans could create whimsical deathtraps that dozens of little beans would run through headfirst.

"I know the chances are extremely low that this will happen, but man, a level editor would be extremely awesome," wrote Redditor2033 in a post a year into Fall Guys' lifespan. "With that, this game could easily survive A LOT [of] years."

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The Battlefield 6 open beta begins on August 7, and ahead of that, it's available to preload right now on all platforms. Preloading is a good option to have to help guaranteed yourself the ability to play the game the moment the servers go live. Thankfully, it's simple and straightforward to grab the game client--and you don't have to have a code to download it.

How to preload Battlefield 6 open beta and file size

To preload the Battlefield 6 open beta client, you can follow the links below on your preferred platform. The file size varies by platform. For example, the Steam client shows a download of around 39.24 GB, while the Xbox Series X version is listed at 37.56 GB.

• EA App
• Steam
• PS5
• Xbox Series X|S

Battlefield 6 open beta trailer

Battlefield Studios released a Battlefield 6 open beta trailer alongside the announcement that pre-loading is now available. The trailer teases out some of the content in the beta, which includes a selection of maps and modes from the full game.

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Shift Up Corporation has released a new Stellar Blade patch for PC and PS5, delivering additional improvements and bug fixes, but some PC players are experiencing launch issues after downloading the update.

Version 1.3.0 for PC is now available, along with the patch notes, and while many players are pleased with the continued quality-of-life updates, some are reporting that the latest patch is preventing them from launching the game on Steam.

"Game wont load now," said one player on the game's Steam forum. "Maybe it's just me, but I was playing 20 minutes before the update and now it wont launch."

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Epic has revealed a new Halo-inspired Fortnite collaboration. Only this time, the focus isn’t centered solely on Master Chief but on UNSC Spartans as a whole; players will be able to gain access to these colorful skins via Fortnite’s upcoming battle pass when Season 4 goes live on August 7.

Epic broke the news through the Fortnite X/Twitter page. There, the company informed fans of the upcoming battle pass as well as hint at a possible Power Ranger sighting; a fan asked if the rangers were making their debut, to which the account responded with a few promising emojis.

Yeah, we called the experts in for this one… pic.twitter.com/YYg0kSelxx

— Fortnite (@Fortnite) August 2, 2025

Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Halo x Fortnite event. Master Chief joined Fortnite’s legacy series back in 2020--he was added to the shop during Chapter 2, Season 5 as a standalone or bundled purchase. Players could don his armor in two different colors, wield his gravity hammer pickaxe, float with the UNSC Pelican Glider, and even ride a mini warthog via a special emote.

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[UPDATE] Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney pushed back against the WSJ report, saying the "anonymous quote is BS" about reported frustrations between Epic and Disney regarding the pace of development on the upcoming Fortnite project. He added that Disney and Epic are actually working around 10x beyond the "ordinary speed of media company dealings in this business." Sweeney said he provided WSJ with a statement about this but the publication chose not to include it.

The anonymous quote is BS. The speed of Disney and Epic collaborations like Darth Vader has been awesome and is around 10x the ordinary speed of media company dealings in this business. We even provided a statement to the writer of this article saying so, but they chose not to…

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) August 4, 2025

BTW did @WSJ become a content mill without editorial fact checking? Saw it happen to Forbes, Newsweek, and others, but this is coming as a surprise.

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) August 4, 2025

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Disney's big Fortnite project--whatever it might be--is still in the works and is said to be targeting a Fall 2026 release. That's according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which also claimed some Epic executives have complained about Disney's reportedly slow sign-off and approval process. At the same time, the report said some Disney executives have expressed concerns about the project.

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