Cobra Kai Season 3: What Johnny & Daniel’s Team Up Means For Season 4

The third season of Cobra Kai has arrived on Netflix and if you haven’t watched it yet, you’re wasting time. After all, viewers were left on that high school karate riot of a cliffhanger after Season 2. How could you not want to know what happens next?

If, somehow, you have yet to watch the new episodes, stop reading now. The rest of this story is going to be dealing with some pretty heavy spoilers for Season 3. Consider this your final warning.

The third season of the series includes quite a few bombshells, from the deep dive into Sensei Kreese’s (Martin Kove) origin story to the reappearance of Ali (Elisabeth Shue), the high school love interest of both Johnny (William Zabka) and Daniel (Ralph Macchio). Still, even with those moments–and so many more–there is likely no more satisfying plot development than Johnny and Daniel uniting for a common cause by the end of the season.

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Tell Us: What Is Your Biggest Nintendo Prediction for 2021?

Hey, listen! We love hearing your feedback on Nintendo Voice Chat, and for the first time this year, you have the chance to make your voice heard on NVC.

At the bottom of this article, you will find an option that lets you share a brief video with us and the IGN community, powered by audio and video commenting tool, Yappa.

We want as many NVC fans as we can get to answer this question for this week’s episode:

What is your biggest Nintendo prediction for 2021?

Do you think it’s the year for Breath of the Wild 2? How about the long-rumored Switch Pro? We want to hear your wildest theories, and we’ll pick the best ones to be part of this week’s NVC Prediction Spectacular.

Here’s how you can participate:

  • Create a Yappa account or sign in with a Facebook, Google, Disqus, or LinkedIn account.
  • Look for the video commenting box at the bottom of our articles on both desktop and mobile web. Note that the feature is currently not available on our mobile apps.
  • Hit the green bar with the speech bubble icon, allow access to your mic and camera if your permission settings require that step.
  • You can choose between audio and video recording. We’d prefer video to see your face (and only your face, please — although Samus and Master Chief helmets or God of War face paint, etc. are cool with us), but you can use the audio-only option if you’re having a bad hair day.
  • When you can see your face, hit record to start recording your video. Hit stop when you’re done. You can leave a message that’s up to 45 seconds long.
  • You can rewatch your video and then choose to cancel or post.
  • If you’d rather upload a video you recorded separately, you can use the Upload Media function to do so. This’ll be handy to show off your amiibo or classic games collections. But please, no copyrighted content.
  • You can watch and share videos from fellow commenters by clicking on their icons and you can follow contributors you like as well.

Still have questions? You can learn more details about the new commenting system. And, please remember to follow our guidelines for commenting.

Now go and Get the Thing!

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Logan Plant is the production assistant for Nintendo Voice Chat. Find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

The Best Persona Songs On Spotify You Can’t Overlook

There’s just nothing like a Persona soundtrack. Lead composer Shoji Meguro and others such as Atsushi Kitajoh from Atlus’ sound team have churned out so many hits that stand out as fantastic songs, but are also able to perfectly communicate the emotions that you feel in the moments they’re played. And with each entry, Atlus finds new ways to incorporate different music genres into their soundtracks, making each game carry a distinct vibe and sound. Now, a good chunk of that work is available on Spotify.

While many fans are familiar with the bangers and jams from the more popular mainline games (let’s say, Persona 5, Persona 4, and Persona 3), there is more to dig into beyond the big hits. For this particular article, I want to highlight a few standouts from other Persona entries that may not have the same spotlight, but absolutely deserve that level of recognition.

Keep in mind, there’s nothing wrong with not being familiar with every entry in the series. It’s okay! There’s no shame in that! I just want to spread the good word, and maybe let folks know about other songs that might become their new favorite Persona tracks. It’s also worth noting that music from Persona 5 Royal, Persona 3 and 5 Dancing, and the original Persona are not on Spotify at the moment. You can find a playlist at the bottom of this article that includes the songs mentioned here (and a few more).

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Deals: Corsair Vengeance AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core RTX 3080 Gaming PC

Yesterday we highlighted a super powerful Corsair Vengeance i7200 gaming PC with Intel Core i9 processor and RTX 3080 graphics, and it sold out pretty quickly. Fortunately, Corsair has another system that’s arguably better. The Corsair a7200 is the same PC but with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor instead of Intel for about the same price tag. The AMD Ryzen 9 processors are considered some of the very best CPUs you can buy, both for gaming and for intensive workstation applications. Currently you can’t order it anywhere except on Amazon. Other deals today include a Lenovo Legion gaming laptop with RTX 2070 SUPER graphics for $600 off, the 2.5-pound MSI Prestige laptop with Intel Iris Xe graphics for $300 off, and a great discount on Tenet in 4K if you’re an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber. These deals and more below.

Corsair Vengeance a7200 RTX 3080 Gaming PC for $2899.90

Liquid Cooled AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Unlocked 12-Core, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 2TB HDD

The highly rated Corsair Vengeance i7200 pre-built gaming PC is orderable again. Yes, it’s temporarily out of stock, but this is the only way to place an order (it’s sold out on Corsair’s website). This config is equipped with a RTX 3080 video card, which is more powerful than the RTX 2080 Ti. This is the card that I use to run games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Genshin Impact in 4K. It’s paired with a top-of-the-line 12-core unlocked AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor with a Corsair iCUE H100i RGB PRO XT liquid cooler, Corsair Vengeance RGB LED RAM, 3TB of total storage, and a Corsair 750W 80PLUS modular PSU.

The Best Daily Deals for January 5

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Destiny 2 Coup De Grâce Mission’s High Celebrant Rewards May Not Be Dropping

The latest weekly reset in Destiny 2 has brought a new quest, Coup de Grâce, where you kill High Celebrant, capping off an ongoing story thread in Season 12. However, Bungie has alerted players that rewards may not be dropping as they should.

“We are investigating an issue where some rewards are not dropping from completion of the High Celebrant mission,” Bungie said in a tweet. It didn’t offer any further specifics, but players on the Destiny subreddit have reported possibly related issues. That includes not receiving the promised Exotic ship, although that may be due to further, as-of-yet unavailable steps that still need to be completed.

Whatever the case, you may want to hold off on completing High Celebrant, though Bungie will hopefully be able to retroactively hand out the correct rewards to those who finish it in the meantime. If you want to try your hand at it anyway–and who can blame you, with Destiny 2’s story being in such an interesting place–you can talk to Crow on Tangled Shores to get started.

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Dexter Revival Reveals Villain Casting and Plot Details

Showtime’s Dexter series revival has its villain, and it’s none other than Mr. Krabs himself: Clancy Brown.

Variety reports that Brown will play Kurt Caldwell, the unofficial mayor of the town of Iron Lake. A former truck driver who now owns the local truckstop and several trucks, Caldwell is described as a classic figure you should never cross: Kind to his friends, but ruthless to those who wrong him.

Brown has had a strong career between film, television, and video game roles. IGN readers will recognize him as the voice of Spongebob Squarepant’s Mr. Krabs, Detroit: Become Human’s jaded detective Hank Anderson, as well as roles in The Shawshank Redemption, Highlander, and Starship Troopers. He’s more recently starred in ABC’s Emergence and Shudder’s The Mortuary Collection.

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Brown will be joining Dexter star Michael C. Hall, who is reprising his role as the vigilante serial killer Dexter Morgan. Hall has previously stated that he’s excited to return to the role after the original series’ “unsatisfying” ending.

The 10-episode revival will serve as a “second finale” for the show, which largely disappointed fans. Plot details are still scarce, but Showtime’s president of entertainment Gary Levine has praised Hall and showrunner Clyde Phillips for finding a narrative that’s “truly worthy of the brilliant, original series.”

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Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/serial filler for IGN.

Apex Legends Fight Night: Every New Legendary And Epic Skin

Fight Night, a new limited-time event, is now live in Apex Legends, adding a new town takeover and making welcome quality-of-life changes to the game. As a collection event, Fight Night also introduces a ton of new epic and legendary cosmetics to purchase from Apex Legends’ in-game store. We’ve compiled images of them below.

It’s a pretty excellent roundup of cosmetics this time around. In terms of legendary skins, the collection includes seven new character skins and five new weapon skins. In keeping in line with the theme of the event, everything is getting a shiny, Olympus-looking makeover.

Every item in the Fight Night collection can be bought with Apex Coins or crafted with Crafting Materials.
Every item in the Fight Night collection can be bought with Apex Coins or crafted with Crafting Materials.

For the most part, everyone looks fly as hell…again, for the most part. Respawn still can’t quite nail down a good legendary look for Bangalore–it’s honestly the hair, we don’t know why the team keeps trying to straighten Bangalore’s awesome curls. Those looks don’t work for her.

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