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When Warner Bros announced plans to release their entire 2021 slate of films on HBO Max simultaneously with theaters, HBO Max skyrocketed out of relative obscurity to the very forefront of the streaming marketplace–with only one catch. The service was never made available for download on Roku devices, meaning Roku-users would be stuck watching these films on their computers, if at all. Not exactly ideal, especially when you’re trying to recreate a blockbuster experience in your living room.

Thankfully, a solution is on the way. HBO Max is being made available on Roku devices as of December 17. Users will be able to download the app from the Roku channel store and experience everything Max has to offer on their TVs or Roku-enabled devices.

The Roku app comes not a moment too soon as Wonder Woman 1984, the first of WB’s simultaneous theatrical/streaming release plans, is set to hit the service on December 25 at no additional cost to subscribers.

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WarnerMedia and Roku have finally reached an agreement that will bring HBO Max to Roku-enabled devices starting tomorrow, December 17.

In a statement, WarnerMedia announced that, after a drawn-out negotiation, Roku owners can download the HBO Max app and gain full access to its library, including upcoming movie releases like Wonder Woman 1984. HBO Max has been unavailable on Roku devices for nearly seven months.

WarnerMedia and Roku did not disclose the terms of their agreement but said the deal was “mutually beneficial” for both parties.

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“We believe that all entertainment will be streamed and we are thrilled to partner with HBO Max to bring their incredible library of iconic entertainment brands and blockbuster slate to direct to streaming theatrical releases to the Roku households,” said Roku senior vice president of platform business Scott Rosenberg.

Roku and WarnerMedia were engaged in drawn-out negotiations over a variety of issues, according to analysts, over revenue split and how much HBO content Roku could sell through the Roku Channel store.

With a 43% market share, Roku is one of the biggest platforms for streaming services, but HBO Max went ahead without Roku for months. However, with a big push in 2021 to gain new subscribers, by releasing new movies on the streamer the same day as theaters, a deal now makes sense for both Roku and WarnerMedia.

HBO Max is also arrived on PlayStation 5 today, as well as on Comcast platforms like Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex. HBO max is also available on Amazon Fire TV devices.

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For more, check out IGN’s breakdown on HBO Max’s recent moves, including the pros and cons of releasing movies the same day as on the streaming app. This move has been criticized by directors like Christopher Nolan.

Also, see IGN’s Wonder Woman 1984 review and HBO Max review for further insight.

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Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.

Blizzard has gone mostly quiet regarding Overwatch 2 this year, especially with the cancellation of BlizzCon. We know now when we’ll be hearing more from the team, though, as game director Jeff Kaplan outlined upcoming plans in a year-end developer update video.

Kaplan said that we’ll be hearing more details on Overwatch 2 in February at BlizzCon Online. That event was announced as a substitute for the in-person event that was canceled this year, and it only made sense that we’d hear more about Blizzard’s upcoming slate of games and big game updates there.

The developer update also detailed a new free-for-all map, Kanezaka, coming to the original Overwatch, and recapped the game’s updates throughout this year. Kaplan also mentioned that the team is mostly focused on Overwatch 2 right now.

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December continues to be a veritable jam-packed Advent calendar full of exciting new surprises for Star Wars fans. Tuesday saw the release of a new behind-the-scenes Empire Strikes Back reel, taking us back to when Star Wars wasn’t yet a sure thing. Earlier this month, at Disney Investor Day, 11 new projects set in the universe were announced. (This has been part of a bigger pattern stretching at least all the way back to November, when Baby Yoda and Mandalorian launched its own line of expensive jewelry.) Now, Disney has announced that on Christmas Day, Disney+ will be getting an hour long Mandalorian special titled Making of Season 2.

While the name pretty much gives it away, a release indicates that this special has “filmmakers and cast provide unprecedented access to the storytelling decisions and innovations that went into the second season.” The new special documentary is intended to “place viewers right in the middle of the filmmaking process… from early concept art through the groundbreaking technology introduced in the series.”

The Mandalorian, Disney+’s Star Wars space western created by Jon Favreau (The Wolf of Wall Street, 2019’s The Lion King) debuted on Disney+ in 2019. Season 2 began on October 30 of this year, and will be airing its season finale on December 18–a week before the newly announced special.

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Rocket League is getting official NFL decals of all 32 teams starting tomorrow, December 17. Psyonix announced the news on its official Twitter account.

The decals place the logo on the hood of each car, alongside a special color palette that matches each team. You can even get the logo for the Washington Football Team, the temporary team name for Washington DC’s club. The team changed their name from the Washington Redskins before the 2020 season due to backlash from fans.

“The NFL Fan Pack comes with slick new Octane Decals for all 32 NFL teams,” the studio wrote on its official site. “Check them out in the slideshow below! The Pack will be available for purchase in-game until December 28 for 800 Credits. Look out for the pack as its own tab within the Item Shop.”

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If you’ve enjoyed having your brain teased by a video game in the last 20 years, or enjoyed the layered mechanical riddles of an IRL escape room, you have Myst to thank. Wildly popular when it launched in 1993, the narrative adventure was a pivotal moment for puzzle-solving in games. Now, 27 years later, the classic is reborn in virtual reality–rebuilt, but almost completely unchanged. Myst is and will always be a treasure. Even after all these years, its puzzles will still test, and maybe even stump, you. For returning fans, seeing it in VR for the first time is a powerful nostalgia trip. Being inside a world you’ve only seen through a screen before feels like diving into your own memory. When you get over that initial sense of wonder–or if you don’t have the nostalgia that conjures it–Myst can’t hide its age, and its VR makeover exacerbates its blemishes.

Myst is a small uninhabited island dotted with odd buildings and unintuitive, free-standing switches. When you arrive, you have no idea why you’re there or what you should be doing. As you poke around–opening every door, pressing all the switches, reading the books and notes you find–your situation starts to take shape. Trapped on Myst, you will need to unravel its puzzles to uncover its secrets and escape.

The content of Myst’s places and puzzles do not follow any kind of unifying aesthetic–they are united in service of creating perplexing challenges that require you to be mindful of your surroundings and think creatively. At a glance, each puzzle seems completely obtuse, a hodge-podge of interactive puzzle pieces that don’t easily fit together. More often than not, you’ll need to take a good long look at your surroundings and figure out how the puzzle works before you can solve it.

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Call of Duty: Warzone players have been anticipating the big update that would bring the battle royale together with Treyarch’s Black Ops Cold War. However, many players were disappointed to find that the XP tokens they saved have been removed from Warzone completely.

“Did you guys notice that they took all our XP tokens from MW?” said Redditor IzNotorious. “I’ve been stacking them for a long time and I thought I could use them to level up my weapons in Cold War, only to notice that they took them all? Do you guys have the same problem?”

XP tokens help players level up faster by giving them double or triple the experience for a short period of time. Many players were saving them to level up the Black Ops Cold War weapons that were just added to Warzone. Now they’re finding that they can only be used in Modern Warfare’s multiplayer.

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Wonder Woman 1984 is coming to theaters and HBO Max December 25. Mike Rougeau tells you why Wonder Woman 1984 it’s an improvement and more nuanced than the first one.

Sephiroth became the second Final Fantasy character to come to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate when he was announced at The Game Awards. Players can get a deeper look at him with game director Masahiro Sakurai’s special presentation on December 17.

The presentation will be on December 17 at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET. Players can watch the 35-minute stream on Nintendo’s YouTube and Twitch pages. Nintendo’s Facebook and Twitter feeds will be updated regularly with info from the stream if you’re unable to watch it live.

The stream will go into detail about Sephiroth’s mechanics and how they work in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Sakurai will show live gameplay and will also reveal the One-Winged Angel’s release date. DLC characters regularly come with a dedicated stage and music, so we can expect that with Sephiroth once he is released.

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