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How To Watch Mulan On Disney Plus This Week
The Mulan live-action remake releases this Friday, September 4 on Disney+, but this isn’t a traditional release like we’ve seen with other movies on the service like Onward, Hamilton, and Frozen 2. Instead, simply having a Disney+ subscription won’t get you access–at least not immediately. If you’re interested in watching Mulan this weekend on the couch with your loved ones, here’s what you need to know.
Mulan has a $30 Premier Access price at release
The only way to watch Mulan at release is to pay $30 for “Premier Access” on Disney+. You can watch Mulan in UHD, HDR, and with Dolby Audio enabled. Mulan is the first movie to fall into this category on Disney+, and Disney has said that it doesn’t have plans to lock future movies behind a paywall at this time.
Of course, this price is on top of the price of your Disney+ subscription ($7 per month). Disney+ doesn’t currently have a free trial, so you will have to pay for at least a month to watch Mulan if you aren’t already a subscriber. This would essentially raise your cost to $37 if you’re only interested in Disney+ due to Mulan.
Walmart Plus, A New Amazon Prime Competitor, Launches This Month
Amazon has been a leading player in the e-commerce space for many years, but one of its biggest competitors is taking an even bigger step to gain the loyalty and patronage of online shoppers. On Monday, Walmart announced Walmart+, a new annual membership shoppers can sign up for to receive exclusive perks, such as unlimited free delivery and same-day shipping on select items. This is a rebranding and expansion of the existing Delivery Unlimited program, which launched last year and only focused on groceries. Walmart+ includes items across all of the retailer’s categories, from tech and gaming to toys and household essentials.
Walmart+ costs $98 a year or $12.95 a month, the same price as the previous Delivery Unlimited program. A 15-day free trial period is available. The primary benefits are unlimited free delivery from stores and same-day delivery on more than 160,000 items. This includes in-store prices and discounts, which could be a huge draw to gamers if this program includes brand-new games. Walmart regularly offers new AAA games for $49.94 instead of $60 on release day in stores, and it sounds like Walmart+ could allow you to take advantage of this discount online and receive same-day shipping as well, if new games are eligible. We’ve reached out to Walmart for clarification.
Non-members can already take advantage of free two-day and next-day shipping on select items for orders of $35 or more. In this way, Walmart’s already been competing with Amazon Prime on the fast delivery front, offering the same perks with an order minimum instead of a yearly membership fee.
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Path of Exile: Heist is the Ocean’s 11 of Action-RPGs
Action RPGs have always been based on a fairly simple foundation: Click the monsters until they die, collect some sweet new gear, repeat. Grinding Gear Games has spent the last several years looking for new ways to change this loop up and keep it fresh with their seasonal content in Path of Exile, and Heist is looking to be the most novel and unique crack at it yet. In the new hub town of Rogue Harbour, you’re going to be putting a team together to plan out and execute some daring break-ins that will encourage research, stealth, and careful planning.
Heists are instanced areas that differ from your average Path of Exile map due to an alert level that measures how… unsubtle you’re being. Alerting enemies to your presence or going out of your way to ransack optional loot rooms will raise the alert. If it reaches maximum, the whole place goes on red alert and you’ll find yourself swarmed with powerful enemies and your best bet is to make a run for it. This will also happen once you grab the artifact – the big prize you came here for, which will be some kind of potent rare item. Then, you have to get back out. Any loot you picked up in a heist will be lost forever if you die before reaching the exit.
Smash and Grab
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This doesn’t mean they’re trying to turn Path of Exile into Splinter Cell. You’ll still do a fair bit of bashing, blasting, and zapping. But you’ll be making decisions throughout a heist about when to go in fireballs blazing and when to pursue a more subtle approach. And new avenues to overcome obstacles without simply slicing your way through them will be available thanks to your NPC crew.
Rogues bring AI-controlled companions to Path of Exile for the first time, though you’ll only be able to bring them along on Heists for now. There are 13 of them available, each with their own personalities, backstories, and abilities. Some are good at picking locks. Some can scoff at the very concept of locks and just ram straight through a bit of loose masonry to make an opening. You’ll also coordinate with these characters in the planning phase of a heist to arrange things like transportation and scouting out the joint.
One of the best things about the Heist system is that you can start messing with it from the very start of the new league. Maps are usually relegated to the endgame, but Contracts and Blueprints that unlock Heists and larger, sprawling Grand Heists will now be available as you level as well. These items are also tradeable, so if you’re not as interested in the smash and grab, you can at least profit off of the ones you nab along the way.
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Grand Heists differ from the garden variety ones by spanning multiple wings, each of which has its own alert level, so tipping off the guards in one won’t put the whole facility on lockdown. At the end of each is a treasure room that will allow you to pick one very potent reward from a small selection of different ones, forcing you to leave the others behind. Base blueprints can be improved by revealing extra wings, opening up new escape routes, and discovering bonus, optional treasure rooms. So you can head in as soon as you have one ready to go, or spend resources to turn it into a more elaborate, well-planned job.
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Heist is also adding a new equipment slot for the first time in Path of Exile’s history. Trinkets don’t actually buff your character’s combat abilities, but rather allow you to customize the kinds of rewards you get from running Heists. One example will turn a certain number of common Regal Orbs that drop from chests into the much more sought-after Exalted Orbs. Others will increase the chances of certain modifiers like Corrupted appearing on items dropped by monsters. You’ll also finally be able to find enchanted weapons and body armor, though Grand Heists. These items are being designed to be a potent upgrade immediately, without much rerolling of slots or other crafty fiddling needed, to give you the sense that you can play with your new toy immediately.
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Funding Heists will require a new currency called markers, which can be gained by fencing the stolen Artifacts you get at the end of each one. You’ll also spend them paying rogues, and you’ll need a certain amount as a buy-in to prepare beforehand. Spending more marks before you go in can make your time a little easier, but it also cuts into the overall profit you’ll take home. And a failed heist doesn’t just mean you lose any loot you swiped – you’ll also be out all the markers you sent getting ready. It’s almost like adding a business management layer on top of everything.
There are a ton of other, smaller additions and improvements coming, like changes to Curse skills, new Unique items, and Mac support. You’ll be able to get your hands dirty on September 18.
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Leana Hafer is an avid PC gamer. Talk action-RPGs, strategy games, and more with her on Twitter at @AsaTJ.
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AT&T No Longer Looking to Sell Warner Bros. Interactive Gaming Division
After reports stating that AT&T was looking to sell Warner Bros. Interactive, which includes studios like Rocksteady, NetherRealm, and WB Montreal, it has now removed its gaming division from the list of noncore assets up for sale.
As reported by Bloomberg, AT&T has decided “it was too valuable to unload during its effort to pay down debt and streamline, according to people familiar with the situation.”
In June, CNBC reported that Warner Bros. Interactive had attracted interest from many companies, a list that includes Microsoft, EA, Activision, and Take-Two, and that this potential sale could have “reaped $4 billion” for AT&T. However, it now sees the “business’s growth potential.”
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AT&T had been working with LionTree Advisors earlier in the year to explore a potential sale of this gaming division, and the decision to ultimately abandon the sale, which could always change in the future, “came amid a turnover in senior leadership at AT&T.”
Bloomberg notes that a few factors may have influenced this retreat, including the upcoming release of the yet-unannounced Harry Potter game and the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has kept people at home with more opportunities to play games.
Additionally, Warner Bros. Interactive works with a ton of licensed properties, which would make a sale complicated as it would “come with a set of long-term strings attached.”
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While there is no mention of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and WB Montreal’s Gotham Knights, these recently revealed games will also most likely be two big titles for the gaming division, and AT&T as a whole.
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AMC Is Reopening Most US Theaters In Time For Tenet’s Release
While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced movies theaters to close down since March for most places in the United States, AMC Theatres has announced plans to open up 70% of its locations by Friday, September 4, Labor Day weekend.
Approximately 420 locations will be opened across the US, with the majority of these reopenings happening on Thursday, September 3. On Friday, AMC expects to see its first locations in California reopen, with seven returning to operation in and around San Diego, according to a press release. The chain is “closely monitoring all local directives and will follow guidelines on auditorium capacity.”
In the near future, the company plans to announce additional openings in California, New Jersey, and other markets, after they are authorized to reopen by local and state officials.
AT&T Plans To Keep WB Games, Apparently Refusing To Sell The Gaming Unit
AT&T, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s (WB Games) parent company, has changed its mind. Instead of selling its high-valued gaming unit, AT&T plans to hold onto WB Games for the foreseeable future.
According to sources who spoke to Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity because the information is still private, AT&T has removed WB Games from its list of non-core assets to sell off. The sale was initially sparked by AT&T looking to streamline its subsidiaries and pay off mounting debt, but the company has since realized WB Games’ potential, shrugging off the prices the division was attracting.
WB Games consist of studios like Avalanche Software (Cars 3: Driven to Win), NetherRealm Studios (Mortal Kombat 11), Rocksteady Studios (Batman: Arkham Knight), WB Games San Francisco (Harry Potter: Wizards Unite), and a few others. The newest titles attached to WB Games are Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, which are launching in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
Red Dead Online’s Latest Weekly Update Adds The Legendary White Coyote
Following last week’s Legendary Banded Gator, Red Dead Redemption 2 added another Legendary animal in this week’s Red Dead Online update. The Milk Coyote has been sighted in Blackwater and is prone to traveling in vicious packs.
Like last week, completing the mission can get you discounts. You will receive 40% off any Novice or Promising Naturalist Item, and if you sample the coyote’s blood, you can get 40% off any Distinguished Role Item. If players decide to kill the coyote, Gus’ Trapper Store will create a wearable coat out of the pelt. Visit Harriet at her store to initiate the mission.
Aside from perks associated with hunting the Milk Coyote, players can also receive double the normal cash, gold, and XP if they play any of this week’s featured modes in Hardcore Shootout Series. All players that are rank 15 and below and that log in this week will also receive a free shirt of their choosing.