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CES 2021 officially starts on Monday, and this year the trade show is going completely digital. While many of its sessions are reserved for registered attendees, there are plenty of exhibitors that are making their presentations available to the public. Here’s everything you need to know to stay up to date on the biggest announcements at CES 2021 and tune into the upcoming streams.

CES 2021 Dates and Schedule

CES 2021 takes place between Monday, January 11, and Thursday, January 14. The first day of the show is limited to media and a Verizon Keynote. The second and third days include a variety of conferences and an exhibitor showcase running from 7am to 8pm. The last day is reserved for CES partner programming. For a complete breakdown of the events planned, we suggest checking out the official CES 2021 schedule.

What to Expect During CES 2021

CES 2021 will be completely digital. This means if you’re a registered participant, you’ll be viewing everything at home via a video conference or stream. There are a variety of sessions people can attend, all of which you can explore in the official CES 2021 schedule. We’ve put together a list of exhibitors we recommend keeping an eye on during CES 2021:

• AMD
• Asus
• HP
• HyperX
• iBUYPOWER
• Intel
• Lenovo
• LG
• Microsoft
• Nvidia
• Panasonic
• Philips
• Razer
• Samsung
• Unity

If you’re not attending the virtual tradeshow, you can still check back here for the latest announcements and also tune in to the streams some of the exhibitors are making available to the public.

How to Watch CES 2021

As we mentioned earlier, there are exhibitors hosting events you can watch that aren’t exclusive to CES attendees. This includes the likes of AMD, Nvidia, Samsung, and more. IGN plans to host the Nvidia GeForce event and possibly more of these streams. We’ll be sure to update this guide with more information on that soon. Until then, check out the dates and times of some of the more notable CES 2021 livestreams:

Intel News Conference

• Date: January 11, 2021
• Start time: 1pm PT / 4pm ET
• Run time: 30 minutes
• Watch it

AMD Keynote

• Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
• Start time: 8am PT/11am ET
• Run time: 1 hour
• Watch it

Nvidia GeForce RTX: Game On Event

• Date: January 12, 2021
• Start time: 9am PT/ 12pm ET
• Run time: 1 hour
• Watch it here, IGN.com, IGN’s Youtube Channel, and on IGN’s Twitch Channel

Razer CES 2021 Livestream

• Date: January 12, 2021
• Start time: 10am PT/ 1pm ET
• Watch it

Acer Virtual Event

While Acer isn’t hosting a stream, it will have a virtual event that spans 2 days where people can explore “product experience zones” and participate in immersive tours. To attend, you’ll need to register for a general pass.

• Dates: January 12-14

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked

• Date: January 14, 2021
• Start time: 7am PT/ 10am ET
• Run time: 30 minutes
• Watch it

Check back as we’ll have more updates soon.

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This is a spoiler-free review of HBO’s new horror series 30 Coins. The first two episodes are currently available on HBO and HBO Max, with subsequent episodes airing Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and available on HBO Max under its new “International Genre” collection.

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It’s often said that exorcism horror has been done to death. But every so often a new project comes along that reinvigorates the classic subgenre and expands on the years of terror it has instilled. Recently, Shudder’s The Cleansing Hour brought a modern twist to the trope, and HBO Europe’s new series 30 Coins continues this mini-resurgence with a sterling supernatural fantasy centered on dark religious secrets and the redemption of a disgraced and haunted priest. Horror director Álex de la Iglesia (The Day Of The Beast, The Last Circus) helms the series and achieves with it a career-best outing. 30 Coins often feels more like a big-budget horror movie than a TV show in terms of both aesthetic and production values. And it doesn’t just look great; Iglesia and co-writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría craft an X-Files-esque offering of weekly supernatural shenanigans that deftly weave into something far bigger and darker as the show unfurls.

The horror begins when Paco (Miguel Ángel Silvestre), the mayor of a small Spanish town named Pedraza, is called away from his own inauguration. What could be that important? Well, that would be veering into spoiler territory, but let’s just say it’s something supernatural. It’s here we meet Elena (Megan Montaner), the town’s kindly veterinarian who is witness to the first horror of Pedraza. Due to Paco’s worries about the town going viral for all the wrong reasons (and the questionable veracity of the strange event), we’re introduced to the surly new local priest, Manuel Vergara (Eduard Fernández). This is just the beginning of a series of awful events that plague Pedraza and are connected to Vergara’s mysterious and dangerous past.

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Much of the strength of 30 Coins comes from this trio of leads. Fernández does a brilliant job at balancing the pulpy archetype he’s given with a level of gravitas and grit to ground him. Silvestre is utterly believable as the ambitious politician more concerned with being electable than saving the world. But 30 Coins’ beating heart is Montaner. Elena is the embodiment of grief and loss, moored by the determination and resilience that come with it. Her struggles with her own faith, her burgeoning horror at what she faces, and her fight to be believed form the emotional core of the show. Despite such a powerhouse set of leads, 30 Coins also works as an ensemble piece and is peppered with impressive performances from the supporting cast.

Easily the best thing about the show is that, aside from the horror, it also works as an Indiana Jones-style artifact quest. Instead of giant boulders and Nazis, the heroes are in a race against monsters, ghouls, and ghosts to find the titular coins, which might be the very ones for which Judas betrayed Jesus. That theological and historical enigma adds complex and lore-filled layers to the dark horror, reframing it as an adult adventure series that also happens to feature a lot of death, blood, and brutal torture. That combination is key to what kept this reviewer hooked as Elena, Vergara, and Paco fall deeper down a dangerous rabbit hole in search of the coins.

It helps that Iglesia and Guerricaechevarría have a great handle on their world and its rules, no matter how fantastical. Their deft delivery of the more outlandish parts of the story makes it far easier to sink into what could’ve otherwise become a melodramatic or bloated exploration of religious fervor and the horrors of fanaticism. Instead, the pair create a streamlined and scary story that is just as interested in the culpability and evil of humans as it is with macabre monsters. Walking that tightrope between the real and imagined is often what separates a good horror story from a great one, and luckily 30 Coins definitely falls into the latter category. Even in the rare episode where the monster of the week aspect might lose you, there’s the greater mystery to solve. Drawing you into the larger conspiracy and supernatural spectrum of the coins means that there’s always more to be invested in than the often inspired and creepy creatures that our heroes come up against. Speaking of those, we get some truly great on-screen creations here, with the feature-length pilot episode featuring some especially horrifying beasts straight out of a Francis Bacon painting that’ll surely haunt your nightmares long after the credits roll.

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Hitman 3, the stylish assassination game, features Agent 47 trekking and executing missions all over the world. Ahead of the game’s launch, IO Interactive took to Twitter to announce all six of the locations Agent 47 will visit.

In addition to the previously revealed Chongqing, Dubai, and Dartmoor locations, Hitman 3 will take players to Berlin in Germany, Mendoza in Argentina, and the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. Mendoza will host Agent 47’s penultimate mission, and the game’s epilogue will take place in the Carpathian Mountains.

GameSpot editor Phil Hornshaw was able to play Hitman 3’s first two levels set in Dubai and Dartmoor. Hornshaw praised the gameplay and commented, “For its third game, Hitman 3 isn’t changing the formula that made the first two titles so much fun. Each of its missions is a huge, clockwork-like contraption of various characters wandering here and there, which can be disrupted through often-weird, novel killing methods.”

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Monster Hunter Rise launches for Nintendo Switch this March, and alongside the game, Capcom is releasing three new Amiibo figures. The publisher had previously teased that these figures will unlock special layered armor sets in the game, and now it has revealed what those sets look like.

All three figures net you gear based on the Magnamalo, Rise’s new flagship monster. The Magnamalo Amiibo unlocks the Sinister Seal armor set for your hunter, while the Palamute and Palico Amiibo unlock similar sets of armor for your Palamute and Palico companion, respectively. You can take a look at each of the armor sets below.

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The standalone Amiibo figures will be sold exclusively at GameStop in the US and EB Games in Canada. The Magnamalo figure also comes packaged with the Monster Hunter Rise Collector’s edition, which features other digital and physical extras like an enamel pin and a sticker pack. You can learn more in our Monster Hunter Rise preorder guide.

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Spanish streamer and EU Heretics team owner David “TheGrefg” Martinez has beaten the record for most concurrent viewers for any gaming-related stream on Twitch. The content creator’s stream revealing he’s a new skin in Fortnite managed to reach 2.5 million viewers, which is far above the previous record holders.

For context of how big this is, the runner-ups to this record include channels like Twitch eLeague and YouTuber Rubiu5. The former has managed to reach 1.1 million viewers and the latter surpassed 1.06 million–both of which are much lower than 2.5 million, so Martinez has utterly smashed the record by a significant margin.

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Though not as big, other runner-ups include streamer Ninja, who also has a Fortnite skin styled after him, and has had as many as 667,000 concurrent viewers and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had over 400,000 concurrent viewers when she streamed Among Us.

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Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Pi) has set The Whale, his next movie, with independent studio and film distributor A24. Deadline first reported the partnership, which is the first collaboration between Aronofsky and A24. Given A24’s track record with movies like VVitch, Hereditary, and The Light House, this should prove to be a good fit for Aronofsky.

Given Aronofsky’s tendency to work on heavier–or at least pretty dark–film, it’s no shock to learn that The Whale is not exactly going to be a pick-me-up. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter (Greater Clements) will write a script adapting his critically acclaimed 2012 play of the same name into a movie–the story is being described as being about a 600-pound recluse who hides away from the world to eat himself to death. Aronofsky will direct, and Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) is set to star.

“Adapting my play into a screenplay has been a real labor of love for me,” said Hunter, via Deadline. “This story is deeply personal and I’m very thankful it will have the chance to reach a wider audience. I’ve been a fan of Darren’s ever since I saw Requiem for a Dream when I was a college freshman writing my first plays, and I’m so grateful that he’s bringing his singular talent and vision to this film.”

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