Deals: 30% Off PS Plus, $39.99 DualShock Controllers, External Storage, and More

Today’s spotlight deals are a whole slew of PlayStation 4 related deals, including 30% off a 1 year PS Plus membership, 33% off PS4 DualShock controllers, a 5TB portable game drive, a board game  that’s based off a PS4 exclusive title, and a nendoroid of a PS4 exclusive video game character. Check them all out here.

30% Off 1 Year of PS Plus Membership, Now $42.74

psplusPS Plus membership discounts only happen a few times a year so grab this deal when you can. This membership lets you play games online (absolutely necessary for games like NBA 2K20, Madden NFL 20, FIFA 20, Overwatch, Rocket League, and more). You’ll also get PS Plus exclusive discounts at the PlayStation Store as well as new free games every month. For example, PS Plus members get the outstanding Titanfall 2 game FREE until tomorrow.

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What’s New To Hulu, Amazon, And Shudder This Week? Movies, TV Shows, And Originals

There are plenty of streaming services to choose from, and all of them offer up something a little bit different from the others. From Hulu to Amazon Prime Video to the horror-themed Shudder, each of these services releases new content every week. If you’re curious as to what’s headed to the aforementioned services, we have the full list of this week’s releases below for January 5-11, along with a few recommendations.

After it airs on ABC, you’ll be able to watch Jeopardy: The Greatest of All Time Special, starting on Tuesday on Hulu. The special has Jeopardy winners Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhauer all taking each other on to find out who is the best at the long-running trivia game show. This will take place over three nights in two-hour episodes. The contestant who makes the most money will get the title of Greatest of All Time and a $1 million cash prize.

There is one original movie headed to Shudder this week, The Marshes. In this Austalian horror movie, a doctor, her rival, and her assistants are trying to save a marshland about to go extinct. However they all find the marshes hold some terrifying secrets and an evil force that is picking them off, one by one. You can check out the trailer for The Marshes here. You can watch the movie for yourself on Shudder on Thursday.

Below, you’ll find everything headed to Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Shudder for the week. If you’re interested in more streaming news, check out what’s coming to Netflix this January.

What’s new to Hulu, Amazon, and Shudder this week?

Sunday, January 5

Amazon

  • 10 Minutes Gone

Hulu

  • Black Clover: Complete Season 1 (Dubbed) (Funimation)
  • Sex Guaranteed (2017)

Monday, January 6

Amazon

  • Conan the Barbarian

Hulu

  • The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards: Special (NBC)
  • Conan the Barbarian (2011)
  • The Art of Self Defense (2019)

Shudder

  • Demon
  • Patchwork

Tuesday, January 7

Hulu

  • America’s Got Talent: The Champions: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)
  • The Bachelor: Season 24 Premiere (ABC)
  • Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time: Special (ABC)
  • Manifest: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)

Wednesday, January 8

Amazon

  • American Dreamer
  • Midnight Sun

Hulu

  • Ellen’s Game of Games: Season 3 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)
  • Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back: Season 3 Premiere (FOX)
  • Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist: Season 1 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)

Thursday, January 9

Amazon

  • Meet Wally Sparks

Hulu

  • Meet Wally Sparks (1997)

Shudder

  • The Marshes

Friday, January 10

Amazon

  • The Wedding Year

Hulu

  • Homeland: Complete Seasons 6 & 7 (Showtime)
  • Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (2001)

Saturday, January 11

Hulu

  • Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector: Season 1 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)

Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Studio Shares New Details

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum isn’t slated to release until sometime in 2021, but developer Daedalic Entertainment has revealed more details on the game. The new revelations include how it treats the look of the iconic character, game mechanics, and even more characters from the deep bench of Middle-earth lore.

According to a profile in Edge Magazine (via US Gamer), Daedalic is going its own direction for the look of Gollum, saying it isn’t modeled after Andy Serkis’ depiction in the Peter Jackson trilogies. It will take place years before the events of the Lord of the Rings novels, which means pulling in new side-characters like Thranduil, the father of the Fellowship member Legolas.

Gollum is described as a stealth-action game, letting you sneak around Middle-earth locations like Barad-Dur, the dark fortress in the heart of Mordor. Ringwraiths will feature prominently, so presumably you’ll need to evade them as they chase the ring. Art director Mathias Fischer curiously said Daedalic’s versions are “less cool” than the movie depiction, but indicated he’s looking to offer a new take on the creatures.

Daedalic hasn’t indicated platforms for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, but with a 2021 release date we know it will be coming after the launch of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. That means it could end up being a cross-generation game.

Save Up to $250 on a MacBook Pro Right Now

A new year calls for a new laptop, right? Even if that logic is somewhat flawed, you might be in the market for a new notebook computer. If so, you’ll want to take a look at this deal on Amazon. The online retailer has knocked $99 off the MSRP of a 13-inch MacBook Pro from mid-2019, but you’ll save an additional $150 at checkout. That means you’re saving about $250 on a brand-new Apple MacBook. It’s a good deal on a fantastic laptop, but stock is limited.

Save $250 on 13-Inch Apple MacBook Pro

This MacBook Pro comes equipped with a Retina display that packs True Tone technology to make it easier on the eyes. It has the versatile Touch Bar, complete with a Touch ID fingerprint sensor that can save you a ton of time you’d otherwise spend entering passwords like a sucker. It has a football field-sized Force touch trackpad, and two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports for charging, data transfer, and video output.

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X-Men Horror Movie New Mutants Finally Gets Creepy Second Trailer

The X-Men movie The New Mutants has become one of the most notoriously troubled productions of recent years. It was originally shot back in 2017 and set for an April 2018 release, but rumors of extensive reshoots and repeated delays have caused some to wonder when we’ll actually see it–including the film’s own exasperated cast members. But a new trailer has finally arrived, and providing it’s not pushed back again, the movie will hit theaters in April.

The new trailer certainly delivers the horror edge that director Josh Boone has spoken about numerous times before. The film stars Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), Blu Hunt (Another Life), Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why), and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) as a group of young mutants who are being held in a sinister facility, where lots of weird things are happening. It looks really creepy and very different to last year’s X-Men flop Dark Phoenix–which, let’s face it, is not a bad thing. Check it out below.

The New Mutants releases on April 3 and also stars Alice Braga (Elysium), Antonio Banderas (Spy Kids), and Happy Anderson (Mindhunter). Boone previously made the hit teen drama The Fault in our Stars and is the co-writer and director of the upcoming TV adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand. The first New Mutants trailer was released way back in October 2017.

Boone previously spoke about what would set The New Mutants apart from other superhero movies. He told EW: “We are making a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe. There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different.”

Although the failure of Dark Phoenix and last year’s Disney/Fox deal suggest that The New Mutants will be the final film in the current X-Men franchise, this might not be the case. Ryan Reynolds recently confirmed that Deadpool 3 is in the works under the Marvel Studios banner, which could potentially merge the wildly confusing X-Men timeline with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Demo Leaked, So Be Wary Of Spoilers

The Final Fantasy VII Remake demo recently leaked, revealing a nicely nostalgic opening cinematic. Fans digging into the game’s PS4 code have found lots of other details, including some Square Enix didn’t intend to make public quite yet.

Ars Technica reports that the demo is similar but slightly longer than the one available at E3 2019, but the most interesting nuggets of information came from those exporting its files to PC and picking them apart. Storyboards and renders have revealed some characters and outfits, which serve as potential story spoilers. None of this necessarily means these will be in the final game, but if you’re spoiler-phobic be aware that details are floating about.

The leaks come from a demo that appears to be made for public use, since it ends with directing the player to pre-purchase the game through the PlayStation Store. No plans have been announced to release the demo, however, so we’re not sure when it will be publicly available.

The Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming on March 3 on PS4. This is the first part of a planned series, and Square Enix has indicated this first part will essentially cover the story through the exit of Midgar. No release plans have been announced for the subsequent chapters. Check out GameSpot’s FF7 Remake pre-order guide for more details.