See Aloy in action against a giant Anjanath in The Proving, a special event quest that will let you unlock the Horizon character.
Everything We Know About Death Stranding So Far
No gameplay or release date yet, but the details we have so far are enough to keep us captivated.
Star Wars Rebels Just Changed the Franchise Forever
Since its debut in the third season of The Clone Wars, Mortis has been one of the most unique and divisive elements in the Star Wars canon.
Combining strands of Force mysticism and ancient Jedi lore in ways never before seen in a Star Wars story, Mortis continues to be a much debated topic in the fandom; and this week on Star Wars Rebels, its presence was felt again.
A three episode story arc in The Clone Wars, the Mortis episodes find Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and Obi-Wan Kenobi responding to a Jedi distress code that appears to be thousands of years old. Upon arriving, they’re drawn into a strange, diamond-shaped monolith, and transported into what appears to be an entirely different dimension.
Oscars: IGN Reviews the Best Picture Nominees
With the winners of the 90th Academy Awards set to be revealed this Sunday, let’s take a look back at what our film critics thought of the nine movies the Academy has nominated for Best Picture.
Those nominees are Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
To find out the scores our reviewers gave the Best Picture nominees, scroll through the slideshow below or watch the video above! (The films are listed in alphabetical order.)
For more Oscars coverage, check out the full list of nominations, which movies and artists got snubbed, discover the 10 major milestones crossed by this year’s nominees, learn what our Movies Podcast crew thought about all of the above, and check out our rundown of the weirdest Oscar nominations ever!
Get Far Cry 5 Free On PC When You Buy An AMD GPU
AMD has announced a new promotion around Far Cry 5 where you can get the open-world action game for free on PC when you buy a new GPU. Starting today, everyone who picks up one of AMD’s select pre-built systems with Radeon RX Vega 64, Radeon RX Vega 56, or Radeon RX 580 graphics cards will receive a free copy of the upcoming game.
After buying one of the supported systems, you’ll receive a code for Far Cry 5 that you can redeem on Uplay. You must visit www.amdrewards.com to redeem this code. Of course, the game will not unlock until launch March 27.
The full terms and conditions, which you can see here [PDF], reveal that the promotion ends on May 20 or when AMD’s allotment of codes runs through. The promotion is available in markets around the world at brick-and-mortar retailers and online stores.
AMD also noted in its news release that Far Cry 5 takes advantage of a number of features specific to Radeon RX Vega cards, including “rapid packed math,” “shader instrinsics,” and FreeSync 2.
Far Cry 5 will be released on March 27 across Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Recently, Ubisoft announced what’s in the game’s Season Pass, and it will take players to places like Vietnam and Mars. Really.
The Flash: “Subject 9” Review
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
After a brief, Olympics-induced hiatus, The Flash returned tonight to chronicle the ongoing feud between Barry Allen and Clifford DeVoe. The previous episode offered a new ray of light in Barry’s world, as Ralph helped him beat the murder rap and return to active duty. But any hopes that this latest twist might have been the catalyst the DeVoe conflict needed were sahed this week as the show promptly fell back into old, repetitive habits. It’s enough to wonder what was actually accomplished by putting Barry in prison in the first place.
The only real, tangible fallout of Barry’s prison stint appears to be that his CCPD career is on shaky ground. It’s tough to muster too much sympathy for Barry when I’ve often found myself wondering why Barry maintains a day job in the first place. Given that he’s a metahuman and has access to all the resources and money left to him by the original Harrison Wells, aren’t there better ways he can be spending his time? I’ll grant I am mildly interested to see where the series is going with Barry’s newfound career as a private eye, but on the whole it just doesn’t feel like there’s enough fallout from the whole prison ordeal.
Here’s A Picture Of George R.R. Martin At A Grateful Dead Show In Mexico
George R.R. Martin, the wildly successful author of A Song of Ice and Fire, is still writing the sixth entry in the series, The Winds of Winter. But that’s not all that’s keeping him busy.
The novelist apparently attended a recent multi-day Dead and Company concert in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico earlier this month. Here’s a picture of Martin and ESPN Radio Miami host Stugotz at the “Playing in the Sand” concert, as shared by ESPN’s Pablo S. Torre:
I took a stroll with @Stugotz790 and then he showed me the picture of him and George RR Martin at a Dead show in Mexico pic.twitter.com/ja5NTpwPh8
— Pablo S. Torre (@PabloTorre) February 27, 2018
In 2014, Martin revealed that he and his wife are big fans of Grateful Dead. “I’m certainly a fan of the Grateful Dead. I’ve attended Grateful Dead concerts and my wife Paris is perhaps even more of a fan… and I do have Grateful Dead lyrics always coming around and rattling around in my head,” he said at the time in an interview with 92Y.
Dead and Company is the new version of Grateful Dead whose lineup includes classic Grateful Dead musicians including Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with John Mayer and others.
HBO adapted A Song of Ice and Fire into the award-winning and highly rated show Game of Thrones. The series continues in 2019 with its eighth and final season, though HBO is producing multiple spinoffs that could follow later.
As for the book series, Martin said last year that The Winds of Winter could be released in 2018, though no official announcements have come as of yet.
James Gunn Reminds us That Baby Groot is Groot’s Son
In case you missed it, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has confirmed that yes, the original Groot is totally dead. Sorry.
Though he’s said this before, Gunn recently clarified in a tweet that Baby Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is Groot’s son, not a baby version or a clone of Groot himself.
“First Groot is dead,” wrote Gunn. “Baby Groot is his son.”
Gunn’s tweet has sparked a lot of discussion over the nature of plants reproducing. Feel free to browse this (highly entertaining) thread at your leisure.
Ben Carson’s Office Spent More Than $31,000 On A Dining Set
The purchase comes amid proposals to slash HUD programs for the poor and elderly.
More Free Xbox One And Xbox 360 Games Available Now
It looks like March 2018’s free Games With Gold titles on Xbox One and Xbox 360 are rolling out early. On Xbox One, you can now download the motorcycle platforming game Trials of the Blood Dragon for the low, low price of $0.00. A physics-based motorcycle platforming game from Ubisoft, Trials of the Blood Dragon is a spinoff of sorts from the main Trials series that incorporates the aesthetic of another Ubisoft game, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
On Xbox 360, you can pick up Brave: The Video Game completely free. Based on the Pixar movie of the same name, the Brave video game puts you into the role of Merida in mythical Scotland. The game, which plays on Xbox One through backwards compatibility, also incorporates motion controls through the Kinect camera.
You can download Trials of the Blood Dragon and Brave: The Video Game now on your Xbox console or through the Xbox.com links here: Trials of the Blood Dragon; Brave.
Trials of the Blood Dragon is free on Xbox One throughout all of March, while Brave: The Video Game is free until March 15. Then on March 16, Xbox One owners can grab the first-person shooter Superhot for free, while the puzzle-platformer Quantum Conundrum will go free on Xbox 360 on that date. Also note that one of February’s free Xbox One Games With Gold titles, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India, will stay free until March 15.
Even though March 2018’s free Games With Gold titles are already out, February’s are still free. So be sure to act quickly to grab games like Shadow Warrior and Crazy Taxi now while you still can.