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Netflix has announced the premiere date and released the first look images for Ryan Murphy’s Ratched series.

It’s time to schedule an appointment with Netflix, as the eight-episode series officially premieres on the streamer on Friday, September 18.

Ratched serves as a prequel series to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and tells the origin story of the nefarious nurse Mildred Ratched who arrives in Northern California in 1947 to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind.

The first batch of images, pictured in our gallery below, capture Ratched’s early journey in becoming a nurse before turning into a full-fledged monster.

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Per the official synopsis, Mildred sets out on a clandestine mission to present herself as “the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred’s stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born.”

The series stars Sarah Paulson as Mildred Ratched, Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs, Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket, Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood, Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover, Finn Wittrock as Edmund Tolleson, Charlie Carver as Huck, Alice Englert as Dolly, Amanda Plummer as Louise, Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright, Sophie Okonedo as Charlotte and Vincent D’Onofrio as Gov. George Wilburn.

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The suspenseful new drama series is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Sarah Paulson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Aleen Keshishian, Jacob Epstein, Jennifer Salt, Margaret Riley, Michael Douglas, Robert Mitas and Tim Minear. It is Murphy’s third Netflix series, as part of the uber-producer’s mega-deal with the streaming giant.

Ratched arrives on Netflix on Friday, September 18.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Console gamers are getting a new generation of hardware this year, but why should they have all the fun? If your gaming PC is starting to show its age, it might be time to pick up a new rig. Right now, Newegg has a number of powerful gaming PCs and laptops on sale for very reasonable prices. Note that many of these deals are only available today.

Or, if you just want to upgrade some of the parts in your PC, you can check out all of today’s Newegg deals. Either way, it’s a good time to save some cash on PCs or parts.

Gaming PC and Laptop Deals

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That does it for Newegg’s current gaming PC deals. Some of the PCs come with a free copy of Kojima’s latest wonderfully weird adventure, so check out our Death Stranding review for details on that. The laptop includes a bundle of digital goodies that includes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order as well. While we’re on the subject of freebies, you can pick up a few free PC games at various online stores right now as well.

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Chris Reed is IGN’s shopping and commerce editor. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed.

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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will be getting a new update on October 29, 2020, that will add a boss rush, new outfits, and a Remnants system that will allow players to send messages to help others on their journey.

As revealed on the Activision Games Blog, the first part of this update is the Reflections and Gauntlets of Strength, which can be accessed through the Sculptor’s Idols.

The Reflections of Strength allows for players to take on any previously defeated boss. The Gauntlets of Strength, on the other hand, has you facing off against Sekiro’s bosses in consecutive battles. If the Wolf (player character) were to die at any point, he would have to start from the beginning.

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The Sculptor’s Idols will also allow the Wolf to change into three new outfits, including Tengu and Old Ashina Shinobi. Two of these outfits can be unlocked via Gauntlets, while the third is unlocked by beating the game once. It should be noted that all outfits are purely cosmetic in nature.

Lastly, Remnants are recordings of player’s actions for up to 30 seconds at a time. After a player records one of these Remnants, it can be uploaded along with a message to help others making their way through Sekiro.

If a community member watches and rates a Remnant, the owner of it will have have their HP recover for free.

This will be especially helpful for those Sekiro players who are playing for the first time on Google Stadia, which will be released on the streaming service on October 29, 2020 as well.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was released in 2019 and, in our review, we said “Sekiro evolves From Software’s formula into a stylish stealth-action adventure that, naturally, emphasizes precision and skill in its combat. It walks the line between deliberate and patient stealth and breakneck melee combat against threats both earthly and otherworldly.”

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Netflix has released the opening scene from The Umbrella Academy Season 2 ahead of Friday’s premiere.

The streaming giant shared the “explosive surprise” scene on Wednesday, giving fans a chance to preview the opening moments of episode one, which will officially drop into everyone’s timelines (and Netflix watch lists) on July 31.

We have an explosive surprise for you Watch the opening scene of The Umbrella Academy season 2 before the rest drops into your timeline on Friday. pic.twitter.com/m4ntwXcbGx

— Umbrella Academy (@UmbrellaAcad) July 29, 2020

The clip opens with Five descending from a swirling time vortex and emerging from an alleyway in downtown Dallas to discover that he has seemingly landed in an alternate timeline for November 25, 1963, where the streets are commandeered by Soviet troops and battle tanks. He spots a newspaper amongst the rubble, with a headline that reads: “Soviets Attack U.S., JFK Declares War on Reds.”

Without hesitation, Five’s siblings step into the ensuing chaos and unleash their superpowers in a series of action-packed sequences detonated by the backing track of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” Hazel interrupts the chain reaction of explosions, bullets, and bangs as he zaps onto the scene to rescue Five from the impending nuclear apocalypse and give him a chance to save his family.

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An adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s comic book series of the same name, The Umbrella Academy follows the lives of a dysfunctional family of superheroes. It proved to be a huge hit for Netflix, which reported that 45 million households had watched the show, and quickly ordered a second season.

We awarded the first season an 8.5 review, calling it “hilariously twisted, subversively stylish, and surprisingly poignant.” We named it as one of the best new TV series of 2019, and one of the best comic book series – plus, it was IGN People’s Choice Winner in both of those categories.

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The Umbrella Academy Season 2 will be released on Netflix on July 31 with 10 hourlong episodes. If you have never watched The Umbrella Academy before, then you might want to read our explainer about the characters and team, and if you have, then you might need a refresher on Season 1’s ending.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Cloud Gardens has been announced for Steam Early Access, and its creator describes it as a “chill game about using plants to overgrow post-industrial wasteland dioramas”. To me, it looks like a game where you play as Mother Nature in The Last of Us.

Created by Kingdom: New Lands developer Noio, the core game takes place across tiny stetches of ground, across which the player needs to spread nature across as much of the environment as possible. However, to earn the energy to grow those plants, they first need to ‘decorate’ the area with the scuzzed-up, broken down remnants of industrial civilisation.

The result is a series of tiny, beautified slices of urban decay that look like voxel-ised versions of the landscapes in The Last of Us’ overgrown apocalypse. I think it looks wonderful, and you can check out a trailer below:

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The concept reminds me of my favourite element of last year’s Concrete Genie, which saw you tasked with covering the walls of a grim, post-recession town with living paintings. You could just paint a boring line of flowers on there and be done with it, but I never did, because it was so much more satisfying and relaxing to spend the time creating mini-masterpieces across the game world. I imagine I’ll have the same impulse here, prettying up my creations well after the game tells me I can move on.

For those less interested in the ‘campaign’ aspect, however, there will be a full sandbox mode with no goals, where players can create for the sake of creation (and lovely screenshots).

The game will come to Early Access later this year, and will stay in that state for around 3 months, allowing Noio to to modify the core loop using player feedback. “This might be an extensive rework, or a tuning modification,” continues the Steam description. “We will fix bugs and polish the UI. As we work on those things, we also continue work on the remaining chapters that we did not include in the EA launch, and will release that along with the updates.”

You can wishlist the game now. We have Noio’s breakout game, Kingdom, a 7.7 review, calling it “a gorgeous and addictive test of city management”.

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