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Star Trek Discovery Season 3’s premiere date has been announced and it’s coming in just a few months.

CBS announced Monday that the third season of the CBS All Access-exclusive Star Trek show will premiere on Thursday, October 15. The season will consist of 13 episodes released weekly on the streaming service in the United States. As for what to expect, the Discovery crew is heading, “into an unknown future far from the home they once knew,” as stated in a press release.

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If you’ve seen the Season 2 finale, you likely know what is being alluded to there. The cast sees the return of show mainstays like Sonequa Martin-Green in the role of Commander Michael Burnham, Doug Jones as Commander Saru, Anthony App as Lt. Commander Paul Stamets, Mary Wiseman as Ensign Sylvia Tilly, Wilson Cruz as Dr. Hugh Culber, David Ajala as Cleveland ‘Book’ Booker, and Michelle Yeoh as Phillipa Georgiou.

With Season 3 not starting for a few months, there’s plenty of time to catch up on Seasons 1 and 2. Both are available to stream in full on CBS All Access and it’s also available on Netflix in nearly 200 countries. There’s also Star Trek: Picard to check out on the service in the meantime as well. Read our thoughts on the first season’s final episode in our Star Trek: Picard Episode 10 review.

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If you’re clamoring for more Star Trek Discovery, check out the official Comic-Con 2020 Star Trek Universe panel which features a look back at the first season of Picard as well as a virtual table read of Discovery’s Season 2 finale. After watching that, check out everything to look forward to in the world of Star Trek including a new Enterprise-based show called Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, an animated series called Star Trek: Lower Decks premiering August 6, and the Nickelodeon animated show, Star Trek: Prodigy.

Lower Decks will be more of a comedy than its fellow Star Trek series’ and Prodigy will be a CG-animated show aimed at younger audiences.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Amazon is running a new promotion that can get you an Echo Dot and two months of Amazon Music Unlimited for as little as $16.97. That saves you a whopping $40 off the normal price. That price is for Prime members only, but even without Prime it only comes to $20.97, for a savings of 61%, which is still pretty phenomenal.

Note: this deal is for Amazon Music Unlimited new customers only.

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The Echo Dot is an adorably tiny Alexa device, about the size of a hockey puck. Despite its diminutive stature, it offers the full Echo experience. You can use it to set timers and reminders, keep your grocery list, tell you the news, listen to podcasts and radio station livestreams. It’s no stretch to say it’s the device I use the most every day aside from my phone and laptop.

And with the two months of Amazon Music Unlimited that come with it, the Echo Dot can also play virtually any song that pops into your head. Music Unlimited is Amazon’s answer to Spotify, and it has pretty much all the same songs. It also has curated playlists that are updated frequently, a weekly algorithmic playlist that’s based on what you listen to, and pretty much every other feature you’d expect in a music streaming service in the year 2020.

If you don’t have an Echo Dot, I highly recommend considering this deal. Whether you have Prime or not, it’s an excellent product at a great price.

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What do you do when your big plans for a music video shoot in London have to be canceled due to a global pandemic? If you’re singer Noah Cyrus, the answer was a no

“It completely blew my mind to see what people were creating in ‘Dreams,” so we decided to get together and make a video for my song ‘July” using PlayStation 4,” said the Sony Music Entertainment recording artist in between shooting mini hoops at home during quarantine with her dog Spike cheering her on.brainer.

Far from getting discouraged, Noah and the Sony creative team rallied to create a groundbreaking project that turns the art of music videos on its head — with the help of a DUALSHOCK®4 wireless controller, Sony RX0 II cameras, and some other amazing Sony technology. The centerpiece of the effort, the third in the Sony Collaboration Series, was ‘”Dreams,” a game creation system developed by Media Molecule and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 4 in February.

The Collaboration Series is an effort by Sony to bring together its artists from different disciplines to create new types of art using Sony technologies. A hub for community-created games, art, and music, ‘Dreams’ allows players from around the world to access tools to create and publish their own content.

“You are basically free to create pretty much anything you can imagine, and it’s completely crazy that this is possible on a PlayStation 4,” said Martin Nebelong, a freelance 3D artist who joined the official ‘July’ music video creative team.

The group also included Media Molecule co-founder and art director Kareem Ettouney and other Molecule developers. Their goal? Nothing less than defying “the laws of gravity and dimension,” said Cyrus.

No pressure, right? Working from their bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens, the team set to work, talking extensively with Noah over Zoom to flesh out the story and inspiration. Over the last few months, the developers, using the cloud-based ‘Dreams’ to collaborate, set to work sketching, painting, and animating the music video for “July.”

“The meaning behind the song, beyond just outlining a toxic relationship that I had been in for too long, is this uncertain path you get put on when you make certain decisions,” said Noah. “This ‘Dreams’ video took the lyrics and the visuality behind those lyrics to a new level involving pure nature and mankind. It became less about the actual story that I’m telling and more about what the symbols, messages, and themes from that story mean when they interact with mother nature and the universe.”

The developers’ Zoom chats with Noah proved fruitful when it came to building upon the original concept, she said.

“Even talking to them about how I wrote the song in Bali was important because someone on their creative team was aware of The Ring Of Fire, which you’ll see inspired a scene in this new ‘Dreams’ video,” Noah added.

Ettouney, the Media Molecule co-founder and art director, said the philosophy behind the ‘Dreams’ user experience is based on “flow, expressivity, and playfulness.”

“Audio, music, logic and animations all co-exist in the same system, in real time, leading to very fast prototyping of ideas and trying different things out,” he said. “It really enabled our collaboration as a remote team.”

What makes the story behind the official “July” music video even more remarkable is that none of this would have been possible without ‘Dreams,” which was released only a month before the pandemic hit.

Though she acknowledged being skeptical about its capabilities at first, Noah said the final product blew her expectations out of the water, and the process as a whole has changed the way she thinks about the intersection of art, music, and technology.

“It definitely exceeded my initial vision,” Noah said. “It introduced me to new forms of technology that go beyond traditional forms of music video and content creation. I’ve been messing around with the game these last few weeks too, and I could see myself creating mood boards or live touring visuals with the system as well.”

There may be some confusion about Phantasy Star Online 2‘s future following New Genesis‘s reveal, which is slated to hit PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X in 2021. However, publisher Sega has shared a new video confirming that the two universes will coexist.

While New Genesis will serve as a “complete redesign” of the traditional Phantasy Star Online 2 experience, the expansion will not outright replace PSO2 in any way. In fact, the New Genesis expansion will operate as a compliment to Phantasy Star Online 2, allowing you to play both universes with the same character. Unfortunately, certain elements–like level, class skills, and Photon Arts–will not transfer between universes.

“You can continue to enjoy the original PSO2 even after PSO2: NGS has been released,” developer Online R&D said. “Accounts that have been playing PSO2 will be able to hop between PSO2: NGS and PSO2.”

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Valve appears to be trying out a new feature on Steam, which will streamline the process by which players gain access to beta tests for upcoming games. A dedicated Playtest widget lets fans request option with a single click.

The addition of a playtest function, currently available in the store listing for Total War: Elysium, should make the process easier on developers and players alike. So far Total War: Elysium appears to be the only store listing with the function, but in a marketplace as large as Steam there may be others that simply haven’t been noticed.

Total War: Elysium entered closed beta in May. The playtest widget on Steam shows a “Request Access” button, and says you’ll be notified when the studio is ready to invite more participants.

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The CW’s subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead will be back with more murder and mayhem

Underage bootlegging. Voyeuristic stalking. Tickle porn. And murder–lots of murder. It’s all par for the course on The CW’s Riverdale, a dark and bizarre adaptation of Archie Comics.

Season 4 ends on a cliffhanger. Betty and Jughead get their hands on a creepy video cassette–the latest in a season-long series of them, mailed to Riverdale’s prominent families. As they watch in horror, a gang of psychopaths stabs a man to death. The murderers are dressed in cartoon masks of the Riverdale teens, and the hapless victim is dressed as their principal, Mr. Honey. Is this latest snuff video real or staged? Who’s been sending these videotapes to everyone in town? And will this somehow factor into the upcoming senior prom?

We were supposed to already have the answers to these questions. But then, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down filming, and Riverdale was forced to cut its fourth season short. The Season 4 finale was actually Episode 19 of an original 22-episode order, which would have shown the prom and tied up all the loose ends.

Here is everything we know about the upcoming season of Riverdale, including how they’re going to resolve the current narrative problems.

1. Air Date

Riverdale is scheduled to return to TV in January 2021, per an announcement by CW.

2. Season 4 Followup

Due to the pandemic, there were three Season 4 episodes that were never completed. Riverdale will begin Season 5 with these three missing episodes, so we’ll finally get resolution to all of the dangling plot threads from the prior year. It’s been a long time coming, but the decision to wait was probably the best one. The writers only have one shot at this; it’s better that they tell the story they want to in the manner they wish to tell it, instead of forcing a conclusion that probably wouldn’t have held up to scrutiny.

3. Time Jump

Multiple sources have confirmed that after these three episodes air, Riverdale will do a time jump, which will bring the actors closer to the age proximity of their respective characters. In a recent Live Kelly and Ryan interview, Camila Mendes, who plays Veronica Lodge, confirmed the time jump, and said it will be five years into the future.

Since the characters are currently high school seniors, a time jump would pick up the story after they’ve attended and graduated college. It’ll be interesting to see how everyone’s life shakes out. Will Jughead fulfill his dream of being a writer? Will Betty follow her natural aptitude for crime and forensics? And how will everyone’s romantic entanglements shake out after some distance from one another?

4. Former Cast Members

Two cast members will not be returning full-time for Season 5: Skeeter Ulrich, who plays F.P. Jones, and Marisol Nichols, who plays Hermione Lodge. This will be disappointing to fans who wanted to see more of the budding relationship between F.P. and Alice, or loved watching the Lodge family drama unfold.

5. Silver Linings

But there is good news as well. Firstly, creator and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa stated to Variety that Ulrich and Nichols are “always welcome back in Riverdale,” which means their characters won’t be killed off. It leaves the door open for possible reunions down the line.

Secondly, Aguirre-Sacasa confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that both actors had agreed to wrap up their storylines from Season 4 before leaving for good. Nichols confirmed on Instagram that she would be appearing in Season 5 in a more limited capacity. So expect to see both characters for at least the first three episodes of Season 5. And once the time jump happens, it’ll be easier to write them off the show or cut back their involvement.

6. Breakups

A CW schedule announcement this past May included a synopsis for Season 5, which tells us that some couples will be breaking up in their senior year. We’re betting that Archie/Veronica and Betty/Jughead will split, especially since Archie and Betty are secretly falling for each other. The press release further states that after the time jump, the teens will return to Riverdale “to escape their troubled pasts,” which is especially interesting. One would think that leaving Riverdale would be escaping the past. What event would compel them all to reunite?

7. Katy Keene Information

Katy Keene, the Riverdale spin-off that debuted in February 2020, was canceled in July 2020. But before it went off the air, we got some interesting tidbits about Riverdale Season 5. That’s because Katy Keene Season 1 takes place five years after Season 4 of Riverdale (the same as the planned time jump), which gives us a sneak peek into some, but not all, of the characters’ lives.

Assuming Riverdale sticks to its own canon, we know that Kevin Keller will become the drama teacher at Riverdale High. We know that Archie is still in Riverdale and keeps in touch with Josie (maybe he never left in the first place, much like Fred?).

We know Hiram Lodge is still alive and up to no good; he appeared in Katy Keene’s series finale to shake things up. If he has time to wheel and deal in real estate, he’s probably not mayor of Riverdale anymore. It also means that his potentially fatal neuromuscular disorder in Season 4 was either cured in the past five years or was a bald-faced lie from the start.

It’s hard to believe, but it’s nearly August, and the holidays will be here before we know it. Major retailers are already anticipating the busy holiday shopping season and making changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One major change: Stores that would normally stay open on Thanksgiving Day will be closing their doors. Walmart confirmed as much last week; now, Target is the second major retailer to announce all of its locations will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.

Additionally, Target confirmed that its “biggest holiday deals” (read: Black Friday) will be available starting in October, much earlier than usual, to help avoid the huge crowds that flood stores near the end of November. Plus, all of its best holiday deals will be available online as well as in stores so that you don’t even have to shop in person at all. This is a major change from previous years, when some of the best doorbuster discounts have been in-store only. Walmart’s press release didn’t mention its deals strategy for this holiday shopping season, but we do expect (and hope) that more stores will follow Target’s lead and offer all of their Black Friday deals online.

Target is also offering pickup and same-day delivery services for an additional 20,000 products, which will be a great option for those looking to avoid the crowds while also picking up that new game or console day of.

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The screen went dark for a moment at the end of Grounded’s reveal trailer. A rumbling growl could be heard before a gigantic spider popped on screen. It was a jump scare that was more effective than Obsidian intended it to be.

“We watched through a bunch of reactions there was huge number of people that was not ‘oh gosh, that’s scary,’ it was ‘oh gosh, I can’t play this,'” Obsidian technical game designer Jerrick Flores tells GameSpot. “That was a big red flag.”

It was at that point that Flores and others on the Grounded team decided to build and arachnophobia mode so that players who were sensitive to spiders could still play. It wouldn’t be like the arachnophobia modes other games (Satisfactory by Swedish studio Coffee Stain replaces spiders with a picture of a cats face) or the Insect Begone mod created by the Skyrim community that removes spiders from the game altogether. Obsidian wanted the accessibility option to be client side since Grounded is a cooperative game—it needed to only affect players who chose the option.

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In celebration of its 35th anniversary, Back to the Future is getting a brand-new Blu-ray box set later this year. For the first time, you’ll be able to watch the adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown in 4K UHD. Back to the Future: The 35th Anniversary Trilogy arrives October 20, with Amazon, Best Buy, and Target each having exclusive editions to pre-order.

If you pre-order from Amazon, you’ll get a replica hoverboard collectible, while Best Buy’s edition comes with three steelbook cases instead. When placed beside one another, they create an image of the famous DeLorean time machine. Each set comes with 4K UHD Blu-ray discs, standard Blu-ray, and digital copies of each film. Amazon and Best Buy are both selling the box set for $70.

Back to the Future has received multiple box sets in the past, but along with the 35th Anniversary set being in 4K for the first time, you’ll also get more than an hour of new special features on the bonus disc. The 35th Anniversary set contains the hours of bonus features included in previous releases, too, such as original shorts, commentaries, deleted scenes, interviews with the cast and crew, and more.

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