Month: April 2020

It took several decades, but all nine films in the Star Wars Skywalker Saga are now available to own. And right now you can pick up the entire collection, in digital 4K UHD format, on sale for $79.99–just make sure to choose the UHD version. The deal is available at the retailers below, but you can watch them on Apple, Amazon Prime Video, or most other popular platforms thanks to Movies Anywhere. Details below.

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• Get it at Vudu
• Get it at FandangoNow

The Skywalker Saga consists of Star Wars episodes I – IX. The first six parts chart the childhood, adolescence, heel-turn, redemption, and death of Anakin Skywalker. The final trilogy stars the next generation of Force users, rascals, and aliens as they try to stamp out a new wave of villains. It’s a monumental collection of films that began in 1977 and ended just a few months ago. That’s a lot of years.

Movies Anywhere is a free service–or agreement, or something–between all the major digital movie sellers. It lets you watch any movie you bought on any of the services, on every service. Vudu, FandangoNow, Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are all part of the agreement. So if you buy Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga from either of the retailers above, you can watch it on Amazon, Apple, Google, or… you get the idea.

Alternatively, if you’re cool with streaming (not owning) the Skywalker Saga, you can sign up for a free trial of Disney+. All the movies, plus a ton of other Star Wars content, are either available now or will be by May 4, a.k.a. Star Wars Day. That’s when Rise of the Skywalker arrives on Disney+, along with the finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and a making-of documentary series for The Mandalorian. In other words, it’s a big day for Star Wars fans.

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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Contents

In case you don’t have them memorized, here are the nine films that comprise the Skywalker Saga.

• Star Wars: A New Hope
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker

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Chris Reed is IGN’s shopping and commerce editor. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed.

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This article will serve as a news hub that will be updated as more Watch Dogs: Legion news comes out.

Watch Dogs: Legion is the third and upcoming entry to Ubisoft’s hacking-filled series. Set in the near future in a fictional version of London where the UK has withdrawn from the EU, the authoritarian government is now using ctOS and a private security company to spy on its citizens and violently enforce the law. Players are tasked with recruiting DedSec members to form a resistance against the corrupt regime using a new mechanic introduced in Watch Dogs: Legion that allows players to assume control and play as anyone in the game. Watch Dogs: Legion is an ambitious game, to say the least, so we’ve put together everything we know so far, including more about the gameplay.

Release Date

Initially announced for a March 2020 launch at E3 2019, the Watch Dogs: Legion release date has been pushed back to late 2020 to early 2021.

Ubisoft co-founder Yves Guillemot told investors the Watch Dogs: Legion delay allows the teams “more development time to ensure that their respective innovations are perfectly implemented so as to deliver optimal experiences for players.”

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Ubisoft announced it has plans to release five AAA games in 2020-21, three of which are coming by the end of 2020. However, at the time of writing Ubisoft hasn’t announced which games it plans to release in this timeframe.

Additionally, it has been confirmed by Ubisoft that Watch Dogs: Legion will be a cross-generation game, meaning it’ll be released on the Xbox Series X, PS5, Xbox One, and PS4.

Gameplay

Watch Dogs: Legion is an open world action-adventure game that takes place in a fictional post-Brexit version of London. The city has been taken over by a private security group called Albion, who have used the Blume Corporation’s central operating system, or ctOS, to turn London into a surveillance state. It’ll be up to you to recruit a group of hackers to join DedSec and regain control of the city.

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IGN’s Matt Purslow visited Ubisoft Toronto to meet with the team behind Legion and watch the game being played for 45 minutes. In his preview, he said, “At first glance, Legion is what you’d expect from the third game in the Watch Dogs series; there’s an open-world where you can drive cars, hack CCTV cameras, and play havoc with people’s lives and smartphones. But there’s so much more to Watch Dogs: Legion. Underpinning the entire game is an interconnected network of systems that allow for an astonishing set of possibilities.”

One unique feature about Watch Dogs: Legion is that there isn’t a main character per se. Players will be able to play as any character they want and work to recruit that character to join DedSec. Each random character will have a unique set of skills and their own backstory that will play into how they contribute to the resistance.

Any decision you make can impact a character’s support of DedSec. For example, if you complete missions to help that character, they are more likely to join the resistance. Alternatively, if a member of DedSec accidentally (or purposely) kills a character’s family member, they are more likely to oppose the hacktivist group.

Watch Dogs: Legion will have both a single-player mode and an online co-op mode where players can play online with up to three friends to “take on entirely new co-op missions and challenging end-game content.”

For more on Legion’s focus on personal privacy, take a look at our feature on how social media has shaped the Watch Dogs series. Additionally, make sure to check out the full list of traits and perks available to recruitable Operatives in the game.

Oh, and unlike Watch Dogs 2, Legion will not actually have any dogs.

Editions

There are currently four different Watch Dogs: Legion editions available for preorder — the Standard Edition, Gold Steelbook Edition, Ultimate Edition, Collector’s Edition.

The Standard Edition is available for $60 and includes the base game and the Golden King Pack, which is a set of three skins. On the other hand, the Gold Steel Book Edition will cost $109 and comes with a steelbook case, the Golden King Pack, a season pass, and three days of early access before launch.

Players can also preorder the Ultimate Edition which comes with everything the Gold Steelbook edition has, plus an Urban Jungle Pack and four weeks of VIP Status.

The Watch Dogs: Legion Collector’s Edition can be purchased for $189 and includes everything from the other editions, plus an in-game mask and some cool physical items like an exclusive steelbook, a double-sided propaganda poster, a mask, stickers, and a special Collector’s Edition box.

Check out our Watch Dogs: Legion preorder guide for more on the different editions and where you can get them.

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Andrew Smith is a freelance contributor with IGN. Follow him on Twitter @_andrewtsmith.

Developer Infinity Ward confirmed that an upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone update across all three platforms will give players yet another tool to report cheaters.

Now when you get killed unfairly in a Modern Warfare or Warzone match, you can use your killcam to report that player. Similarly, if you just joined a match or are fine-tuning your loadout, you can use the spectate function to report players who may be racking up seemingly impossible kills. This new anti-cheat update will arrive in both Call of Duty games on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One sometime this week.

The anti-cheat update isn’t the only way Infinity Ward has been dealing with problem players. The studio has opted to put cheaters in matches together as a way to combat the rampant issue. This is in addition to the “additional dedicated security updates” Infinity Ward promised to prevent cheaters. Not including Modern Warfare, Infinity Ward has already banned more than 70,000 cheaters from Warzone.

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R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps is once again headed to television; all it just needs is a network. TV Guide reports that the iconic children’s horror series is returning by way of a partnership with Sony TV and Scholastic as well as Neal H. Mortitz, one of the producers of the film adaptations.

This would be the second series to share the Goosebumps name as Fox Kids ran the original show from 1995-1998. The Canadian-produced Goosebumps TV show can be streamed on Netflix right now as well.

No details or specifics were given from TV Guide except that Mortiz was enthusiastic about the upcoming series. “I loved making the Goosebumps movies and can’t wait to bring even more of R. L. Stine’s incredible stories to life through a high-end television series that speaks to both adults and kids alike.”

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Despite the widespread disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the BBC has just announced the production of a new television series set to debut soon. Talking Heads–a partial remake of a set of televised monologues originally aired in 1988 and 1998–will get around the challenges posed by quarantines and social distancing by allowing its actors to film without ever needing to share the same space.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new version of Talking Heads will air in 12 parts and features an impressive ensemble cast that includes actors like Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer The Hobbit’s Martin Freeman, Episodes’ Tamsin Greig, The English Patient’s Kristen Scott Thomas, and many more. As in the original ’80s and ’90s series, the 2020 edition of Talking Heads will consist of dramatic monologues, each delivered by a single actor.

Alan Bennett, the writer and actor behind Talking Heads’ first two runs, has returned to the series, working with director and producer Nicholas Hytner’s London Theatre Company to remake 10 episodes and create two entirely new entries. Hytner calls the production, which has had to find novel ways to work while observing public health guidelines, a “challenge” that has required the cast and crew to “[rethink] ways of filmmaking that until a few weeks ago seemed routine.”

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Riot Games has released a new patch for Valorant. The update addresses several aspects of the competitive shooter, including map changes and the implementation of new features.

In terms of gameplay, the patch mostly makes adjustments to Omen. Phoenix and Viper don’t get any balance changes, but bug fixes have been issued to address problems with a few of their abilities. Both Omen and Breach also now have updated visuals when it comes to their respective character model and abilities.

Most exciting, however, is the mention of a competitive mode in the patch notes, though Riot says that competitive mode and ranked matchmaking isn’t live yet–it’s scheduled to be available in the “near future.” You can read the full patch notes below.

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