Month: September 2020

Fast & Furious 9 has been pushed back to April 2021. That’s a long wait to find out what’s next for Dom’s family, and to finally learn how Han survived Deckard Shaw’s assassination attempt. It’s also a long time to wait to see the next evolution of the franchise’s trademark outlandish set pieces… set pieces which will surely reach new (ahem) heights when the Fast franchise goes to outer space, which is sounding more and more likely lately.

This series began in relatively straightforward fashion with a simple Point Break style plot in The Fast & the Furious. There was some impressive stunt driving and a few grappling guns but otherwise the proceedings were mostly plausible. From there, however, every successive entry upped the ante, adding ever more improbable tech, stunts and plot twists. Just a few examples include Owen Shaw’s ridiculous flip car, Brian running up the side of a falling bus, and Letty’s soap opera amnesia.

At this point the gang that started as simple thieves and street racers has now engaged in high-speed battles with helicopters, a tank, a drone, a submarine and a cyborg. They’ve stolen hundreds of millions of dollars, become folk heroes wherever they went and been on both sides of covert government operations. One might say it’s been a wild ride. And again, outer space might be next.

To tide you over until the next installment drops in 2021, we’ve put together a gallery of the most ridiculous stunts, silliest plot threads, and inexplicable character choices from all nine movies so far, including the latest spinoff, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. We’ll just ignore Fast & Furious Crossroads…

Massive spoilers for all Fast & Furious movies…

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What are your favorite dumb moments from this bonkers franchise? Let us know in the comments!

And for even more dumb stuff, check out the dumbest Transformers movie moments!

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Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox Series S will not run Xbox One X Enhanced versions of backwards compatible games, and will instead run the Xbox One S versions of Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles with other beneficial features.

As reported by VGC, while the Xbox Series S won’t run the Xbox One X Enhanced versions of Xbox One and Xbox 360 games, it will still be a step above the Xbox One S with “improved texture filtering, higher and more consistent framr rates, faster load times, and Auto HDR.”

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“Xbox Series S was designed to be the most affordable next generation console and play next generation games at 1440P at 60fps,” A Microsoft spokesperson said. “To deliver the highest quality backwards compatible experience consistent with the developer’s original intent, the Xbox Series S runs the Xbox One S version of backward compatible games while applying improved texture filtering, higher and more consistent frame rates, faster load times and Auto HDR.”

When a game has been Xbox One X Enhanced, it means the developer has made improvements to a standard Xbox One game, including higher resolutions, faster framerates and/or improved textures.

This all shouldn’t be too surprising, as the Xbox One X can run games up to 4K, while the Xbox Series S can run games at 1440p at up to 120 FPS. However, the Xbox Series S does support 4K upscaling for games.

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Additionally, as first reported by Digital Foundry, the Xbox Series S also has less RAM than the Xbox One X – 10 GB vs 12 GB – but that doesn’t mean there aren’t upsides to this new next-gen system.

“It may be be running backwards compatible games in Xbox One [S] mode, but because the GPU is so much more capable, and knowing what we know about how backwards compatibility works, you should actually still be able to clean up performance issues,” Digital Foundry’s John Linneman said. “So games that maybe struggled on Xbox One S – either the dynamic resolution was overly-aggressive, with slowdown and things like that – conceivably they could actually run noticeably smoother on this machine.”

Furthermore, the Xbox Series S also boasts DirectX Raytracing, 4K streaming media playback, variable rate shading and refresh rate, and much more.

The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S will both be released on November 10, 2020, and will cost $499 and $299, respectively. Pre-orders for both consoles begin on September 22, 2020.

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For on the Xbox Series S, check out the leaked “virtual press briefing” that was part of the original reveal plan for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, the first gameplay footage shown on a Series S, and 56 comparison shots of Microsoft’s next-gen consoles.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.