Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgard discusses what he’d like to see in IT: Chapter 2.

The X-Files panel at NYCC showed off a new trailer and the show creator and actors dropped some hints at what to expect.

Here comes the Spider-Man… exclusive New York City Comic Con statue from Kotobukiya.

There’s plenty of reason to be excited about the return of Arrow this week. The series is coming off its best episode ever, a dramatic season finale that wrapped up Oliver Queen’s five-year journey and left the majority of the show’s cast in imminent mortal danger. And even though it’s apparent now that the majority of Team Arrow will survive Prometheus’ final attack, the stage is set for a drastically different sixth season. But if the series is going to take advantage of that clean slate, it’s going to need to prioritize one character in particular – Black Canary.

Black Canary has always been a particular sore spot for Arrow. The series has never given us a true, direct adaptation of the Black Canary of the comics. Instead, the Arrow writers have essentially fractured the character into pieces and spawned a number of different offshoots. There’s Laurel Lance, crusading lawyer-turned-costumed vigilante. There’s her sister Sara, a party-loving college girl molded into an elite assassin. There’s Dinah Drake, a a completely unrelated character who just happens to have the right background and metahuman power to take up the Black Canary mantle. And that’s not even counting Laurel’s Earth-2 doppelganger, Black Siren, or Evelyn Sharp’s brief tenure as Black Canary.

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IGN can exclusively reveal that Hunt: Showdown – Crytek’s unique monster-hunting survival-shooter – will have an Early Access release on Steam.

“You want to create an experience that goes from the game into the player,” says Creative Director Magnus Larbrant. “These guys are really into your world and they’re having fun right? And that’s what I want, too. I think Early Access for our game is the best thing that could ever happen.”

It’s clear from watching the Developer Diary up above that the team sees the game as an open-ended, collaborative project between the development team based in Frankfurt and its future players.

“We really have to engage the players, man,” continues Larbrant. “I’m completely open-minded. I know the designers are open-minded… Not over-promise things. Just tell this is where we are and this is where we’re going to get to.”

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“Living dangerously?” asked the developer as my skier held his grab to the very last second, barely sticking the landing. Still, the judges at Pyeongchang were impressed, awarding my run with a top score in the Slopestyle competition. One more run like that, and the gold was mine.

But in my next run, I got a bit ambitious on my double backflip and landed on my head, the ragdoll physics splaying my poor skier across the snow. The commentators were aghast. The crowd went silent. With such realism, I half-expected an ambulance to wheel onto the snow. I not only ended up knocking my skier out cold, but out of medal contention. Ouch. Such is the duality of going for glory in Steep: in attempts to reach new heights, you’ll either achieve Olympic glory or gloriously fail.

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First announced at E3 2017, a new Olympics-themed expansion is coming to Steep. Called Road to the Olympics, the expansion adds a number of new sports and modes.

In the video above, you can watch the first gameplay from Road to the Olympics. It includes ski slalom, snowboard slopestyle, and more. It also adds two new environments: Japan and South Korea.

Highlighting the expansion is the addition of downhill skiing. Currently, Steep only includes freestyle skiing; ski races are open-mountain affairs that send skiers careening down big cliffs and over huge jumps. Downhill is more technical, requiring skiers to ski on a set track.

Road to the Olympics will release on December 5 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

IGN is excited to debut its new video series Next Big Game with a lowdown on all things Super Mario Odyssey. With Next Big Game, we take a look at the biggest and most exciting upcoming games, and break down all of the latest info and work with the studios to provide you with plenty of new content, including gameplay, and much more.

Seeing as how Mario’s next big adventure is right around the corner, the debut episode of Next Big Game is here to provide you with the lowdown on all things Super Mario Odyssey.

Episode 2 – Why Assassin’s Creed Origins is the Next Big Game In episode 2, IGN takes you inside Ubisoft’s next entry in their epic action series. Assassin’s Creed Origins, developed by the team behind Black Flag, promises to be a complete overhaul of the series, and we’ll tell you everything you need to know about it. Game Director Ash Ismail joins us to give us insight into his team’s process and reveals a few secrets about Assassin’s Creed Origins ahead of its release.

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It was another major week of comic book releases. DC reached the halfway mark in the epic Dark Nights: metal crossover and continued to explore the fallout of the Mr. Oz reveal in Action Comics and Detective Comics. Marvel inducted a number of ongoing books into the Marvel Legacy era, including Amazing Spider-Man, Deadpool, Defenders and All-New Wolverine. And IDW delivered the penultimate chapter of the First Strike crossover.

Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.

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It took over 75 years for Wonder Woman to make it all the way to the big screen, and then, just a few months later, her creators followed. But writer/director Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and The Wonder Women isn’t a typical love letter to a pop culture icon. It’s a frank and sensual love story about three people who tried to change the world, and succeeded… just not in the way they originally intended.

Luke Evans and Rebecca Hall play Professor William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Marston, two psychologists who are trying to invent the first lie detector test when they enlist a student, Olive Byrne, played by Bella Heathcote, to be their new assistant. They are all modern feminists, honest with their emotions and open to all possibilities, who challenge each other at every turn. But when William, Elizabeth and Olive all turn out to be equally attracted to one another, it gets a little complicated.

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