Amazon is currently offering unbelievably strong discounts on Apple AirTags in both the US and the UK as part of its New Year sales, making this one of the best times to buy a four-pack in either region.

In the US, Amazon has dropped the Apple AirTag four-pack to $64.99 shipped, working out at $16.25 per tracker. That is the best price since the Black Friday and Christmas sales, and one of the lowest prices seen so far this year. It is a solid saving if you are buying ahead of time or finally sorting out all the items you keep misplacing.

Marvel and Barbie star Simu Liu has insisted once again that a Shang-Chi sequel will happen — and given a first confirmation he'll return after Avengers: Doomsday for its sequel, Secret Wars.

It's now been five years since Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings launched to a warm reception back in 2021, and left fans keen to see more of the character. But despite enthusiasm from fans and Liu alike, no sequel has yet materialized, leaving the character's live-action return shelved until this December's Avengers: Doomsday.

Speaking to People, Liu has once again said that a Shang-Chi sequel will happen — despite no word from Marvel itself to make this official. On the upside, however, Liu's confirmation he's back for Avengers: Secret Wars seems to suggest he'll be one of the heroes to survive Doomsday's events.

"There's not a whole lot to tease right now, other than I think, I sound like a broken record at this point, but it is happening," Liu said of Shang-Chi 2. "But I think the more immediate tease is of course, is Doomsday... which I was lucky enough to be a part of and will be lucky enough to be a part of its successor in Secret Wars."

While Liu has returned to voice Shang-Chi in the animated Marvel series What If? and Marvel Zombies, fans have not even seen a cameo appearance of the character in live-action for nearly half a decade, through a phase of Marvel movies. It's something that has disappointed many following the ending to Shang-Chi, which saw him essentially called up to join the Avengers following a FaceTime call with Bruce Banner and Carol Danvers.

Back in 2021, Shang-Chi writer and director Destin Daniel Cretton told IGN he had already begun work on Shang-Chi 2, as well as a spin-off TV series that could potentially explore some of the plot threads left hanging by the first film. "There are some obvious doors that were opened by the end of Shang-Chi that may allow us to go into those worlds and explore them more," the director said. "And that would be a really cool one to explore because Ta Lo is way more vast than what we saw in Shang-Chi. So that's potentially one area that we may go, but I'm not sure."

But in 2023, Liu admitted the project had been delayed — with Marvel's priority now getting its new Avengers movies out the door first. After so long off-screen, Shang-Chi's appearance in Avengers may boost the success of his eventual sequel. But it's hard to shake the feeling that Shang-Chi 2 is still a long way away, if it ever happens.

Marvel is busy right now with Avengers: Doomsday, due this December, and then Avengers: Secret Wars, due December 2027. After that, the company has already confirmed it's working on an X-Men reboot and Black Panther 3, which are expected to launch in 2028 at the earliest.

Complicating matters further is the fact that Cretton was chosen to direct Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Principal filming on that project has now been completed, but some fans believe Marvel and Sony may be keen to keep the filmaker working on further Spider-Man sequels, after Tom Holland's first trilogy was helmed from start to finish by Jon Watts. When could we see Shang-Chi 2? It seems unlikely before the end of this decade, at the earliest.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

Michael B. Jordan has revealed he went to therapy after playing Killmonger in Marvel movie Black Panther.

Jordan’s Erik Killmonger is considered one of the best MCU villains, with his performance opposite the late Chadwick Boseman’s T'Challa / Black Panther winning plaudits from critics and fans alike. Killmonger is a Wakandan prince raised in Oakland, California, after his father, N'Jobu, was killed by King T'Chaka. A brilliant black-ops operative and former U.S. Navy SEAL, Killmonger seeks revenge on Wakanda for abandoning his father and aims to use its vibranium to arm oppressed people worldwide, eventually challenging T'Challa for the throne.

But it was a role that clearly took its toll on Jordan, who told CBS Sunday Morning that he needed therapy to help shake off the character after the movie came out in 2018.

"Each character kind of lives with you. They don’t go anywhere. They’re there," Jordan said. "Some piece of that character… it’s a blurred line between yourself and the character, for me, anyway. With Killmonger, Erik, it was a complex, layered antagonist. I don’t look at him as a villain. I look at him as an antagonist, because you understood him a bit. He was the other side of a conversation. Him and T'Challa were a lot alike, they both cared about their people, deeply, and would do anything to protect them. They just had two different approaches and strategies and mentalities around it all, shaped by their childhood trauma.

"And Erik didn’t really know a lot of love. Erik didn’t experience that. He had a lot of betrayal. He had a lot of failed systems around him that shaped him, and his anger and his frustration, and looking at history and how it seemed to always repeat itself, and how was he going to break that cycle?

“So for a while in preparation for that role, I didn’t really speak to my family that much. I was kind of isolated a bit. I went to my hole and tried to live like he would have lived for a bit, whatever that process was. After the movie, it kind of stuck with me for a bit. Went to therapy, talked about it, found a way to kind of just decompress. I think at that point, I was still learning that I needed to decompress from a character.

“Again, there’s no blueprint to this. There wasn’t a lot of people that… acting is a solo journey a lot of times. There’s a lot of auditioning by yourself, practicing by yourself. There’s a lot of preparation and the experience, the journey. So learning as I went, I [realized] that, ‘Oh man, I still got a little something on me that I need to get off.’ You know, talking is really important.”

Jordan went on to say that seeking therapy is “necessary for people, especially men.” “I think it’s good for them to go and talk and get that off,” he added. “That’s something I’m not ashamed of at all and very proud of. It definitely helped me throughout the years and to this day, of trying to be a good communicator and well-rounded person inside and out.”

Jordan went on to reprise his role as Donnie Creed in Creed III, which he also directed, and play twin brothers Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore in 2025’s hit horror movie, Sinners.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Marvel actress Evangeline Lilly has announced that she's suffered brain damage due to an accident last year, and is now "functioning at a decreased capacity."

The star, best known for her Marvel role as Hope van Dyne, AKA the Wasp, gave an update on her condition via a video posted to Instagram over the weekend, in which she told fans she had "bad news" to share following a recent brain scan.

"Almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity," Lilly said, as a result of an accident in May 2025 where she hit her head on a boulder after blacking out. The damage has now resulted in "cognitive decline", she continued.

"So I do have brain damage from the TBI [traumatic brain injury] and possibly other factors going on," Lilly explained. "But now my job is to get to the bottom of that with doctors and then embark on the hard work of fixing it, which I don't look forward to because I feel like hard work is all I do."

"But that's OK," she continued. "My cognitive decline since I smashed my face open has helped me to slow down and helped me to have a more restful finish to my 2025." Indeed, Lilly went on to describe her final months of last year as the "calmest and most restful" since she had children 14 years ago, something she said was "good thing."

Also known for her starring role in Lost, as well as a turn in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, Lilly's last role was in 2023's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, where she once again reprised her role as Hope van Dyne. Her appearance followed a series of comments from the actress on the deployment of Covid vaccines which raised eyebrows during the early stages of the global pandemic. Following the release of Quantumania, Lilly indicated that her acting career was now on hiatus while she focused on charity work.

Last year, the actress reported that she had lost consciousness while at the beach and fallen "face first into a boulder", and noted that she had suffered from "fainting spells" since her youth.

Responses to her new post included wishes of goodwill from Lilly's Marvel co-star Michel Pfeiffer and Lost actress Rebecca Mader. "You are a warrior," Pfeiffer wrote. "Nothing — not even this will defeat you my friend." Said Mader: "Sending you all my love and a massive hug."

Image credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

Mickey Rourke, star of Sin City and Iron Man 2, has launched a fundraiser to pay $60,000 in rent after a threat of eviction.

The Hollywood Reporter revealed that 73-year-old Rourke is using GoFundMe to raise money to pay $59,100 in owed rent after receiving an eviction notice from his Los Angeles rental home.

Rourke enjoyed superstardom in the '80s before leaving acting to pursue professional boxing. He made a comeback to mainstream Hollywood with the lead role in 2005 neo-noir action thriller Sin City, then starred in 2008's critically acclaimed The Wrestler, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe, and 2010 MCU sequel Iron Man 2 as main villain Whiplash.

Resident Evil 4's helpless companion character Ashley was once planned to star in a newly-designed intro made for Capcom's acclaimed remake.

Everyone knows by now how Resident Evil 4 opens: with fan-favorite character Leon S. Kennedy thrown into the action as he investigates the abduction of Ashley Graham, the U.S. president's daughter. And in the final version of the brilliant Resident Evil 4 Remake, this is again how the game begins.

But Capcom planned — and at least partially built — a new introduction sequence dubbed Chapter 0 which would have seen players sneak around as Ashley, before she's finally dragged off by brainwashed ganados. And now, a fresh video showing some of the mission has been put together.

Ashley's Chapter 0 would have taken place in an expanded version of the forested area outside the game's main village, close to where Leon is ultimately seen creeping along at the beginning of the remake. A snippet of this survived in a trailer for the remake, where Ashley witnesses a grisly ritual sacrifice prior to getting captured.

The non-combat mission sees Ashley sneak along, hiding from a patrolling ganado, and spotting another who is carrying Luis — presumably to the basement where Leon finds him later. But, ultimately, we all know Ashley is going to get captured — something that, after a brief chase sequence, we then see play out.

If you're keen to see the remains of this mission in action, modder Michael "Thekempy" Kemp has a video of its surviving elements — though it seems like much of the mission was unfinished, or removed from the game's final version.

While Resident Evil 4 remake features plenty of extra sequences not found in the original Resi 4, it's easy to see why this one fell by the wayside. It's hard to imagine anyone being surprised by Ashley's capture, since that sets up the whole game, and the character already has her own short sections of gameplay later on.

And then there's the fact that Ashley is, well, not loved by some Resident Evil fans. The Resi 4 remake goes some way to making her less of a damsel in distress, but it's perhaps unsurprising that Capcom ultimately chose not to open the game with her, rather than simply letting players jump straight in to Leon's mission.

"The Resident Evil 4 remake is the series' most relentlessly exciting adventure rebuilt, refined, and realised to the full extent of its enormous potential," IGN wrote in our Resident Evil 4 Remake review, scoring it 10/10.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

The biggest talking point coming out of the Stranger Things finale relates to the fate of its central character, Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown. While Season 5, Episode 8, dubbed The Rightside Up, leaves her fate ambiguous, creators the Duffer Brothers know the truth — and the only cast member also in the know is Millie Bobby Brown herself. But don’t expect either the Duffer Brothers or Millie Bobby Brown to spill the beans — they’ve sworn her to secrecy.

Stranger Things ends with a definitive wave goodbye to all the central characters except Eleven, who appears to sacrifice herself to ensure she cannot be used to create super weapons, another Vecna / Henry, or another bridge between our world and The Abyss.

18 months after that traumatic event, we see the central characters meet up for graduation and say their goodbyes. It’s at this point that Mike Wheeler, played by Finn Wolfhard, has a thought: what if Kali Prasad, also known as Eight (Linnea Berthelsen), used her dying breath to create the illusion of Eleven’s death, leaving her free to escape unseen?

Mike teases this revelation to the Dungeons & Dragons group as their final campaign comes to an end, suggesting Eleven cooked up a plan with Kali to fake her own death, then traveled to a far away small village — bordered by three waterfalls — to live out her days in peace. But this ending is unconfirmed. Mike and the others choose to believe it, and it’s left up to the audience to decide what they choose to believe as Stranger Things finally comes to an end.

Matt and Ross Duffer have explained the Stranger Things ending already, but in an interview with Josh Horowitz, they confirmed they wrote the story knowing the truth of Eleven's fate, and they’ve told only one cast member: Millie Bobby Brown herself.

“You're writing from a point of view of understanding what the truth is, right? And the reality is?” explained Matt Duffer. “So yeah, Ross and I know. And we were just talking to Millie about it. But I think it takes away the power of the ending if you tell people what you were thinking as you were writing it.”

During the interview, Matt revealed the Duffers had just texted Millie Bobby Brown about this exact subject — and she promised not to spill the beans. “She's not going to tell you either!” Matt Duffer said. “Don’t waste your time! Millie swore herself to secrecy.”

It then occurred to the creators that Millie Bobby Brown is very close to Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers in Stranger Things, so she might end up telling him. That prompted a text during the interview from Matt to Millie, warning her against doing so. “I’m not even joking,” Matt Duffer said, “I’m literally going to text her right now!”

In the same interview, the Duffers revealed that they did explore the possibility of Eleven having a “full happy ending” where she ends up married to Mike, living a happy life with the government off their backs and the lab experiments ended for good, “and we just couldn't figure out a way for that to work.”

In a Netflix Q&A published as the finale aired, Ross Duffer went into more detail on the thinking behind the Stranger Things ending: “there was never a version of the story where Eleven was hanging out with the gang at the end. For us and our writers, we didn’t want to take her powers away. She represents magic in a lot of ways and the magic of childhood. For our characters to move on and for the story of Hawkins and the Upside Down to come to a close, Eleven had to go away. We thought it would be beautiful if our characters continued to believe in that happier ending even if we didn’t give them a clear answer to whether that’s true or not. The fact that they’re believing in it, we just thought it was such a better way to end the story and a better way to represent the closure of this journey and their journey from children to adults.”

“And the reality is, if Eleven is out there, the most that they could hope for is a belief that it’s true because they can’t be in contact with her,” Matt concluded. “Everything falls apart if that were the case. So if that’s the narrative, this is really the best way to keep her alive. And it’s about Mike and everyone finding a way to move past what’s happened.”

We've got plenty more on Stranger Things, including the Duffer Brothers explaining why the demogorgons didn’t help Vecna out in the final battle, and first details on the live-action spinoff.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

I have spent more hours than I care to admit bouncing between wishlists, review builds, and half finished save files, so when a sale lineup actually stops me mid scroll, I pay attention. This batch does exactly that, mixing genuine classics with a few pleasant surprises that feel underpriced on purpose. I have played most of these on release or close to it, and several of them still live rent free in my head.

Contents

• Retro
• Nintendo
• Xbox
• PlayStation
• PC
• PC Gear
• LEGO

This Day in Gaming 🎂

In retro news I'm using a Bob-omb to light a 26-candle cake baked for Super Smash Bros., the N64 brawler that stole all my heart containers at launch. I have vivid memories of introducing this multi-fest to my rotating crew of a dozen or so buddies who were already well addicted to the 4P chaos of Mario Kart, GoldenEye, and the WCW vs. nWo series. Needless to say, this hooked us quicker than a point blank chainshot grab from Link.

How could you not? It had the simple concept of making iconic Ninty characters beat the absolute snot out of one another via an easy-to-pick-up yet deceptively deep fighting system. This OG laid strong franchise foundations with percentage damage, directional attacks, shields, grabs, and table-turning support weapons. Hell, I still think thwacking idiots into orbit with a Homerun Bat remains one of the most satisfying sensations in all of video gaming.

Aussie birthdays for notable games.

- X-Men: Children of the Atom (ARC) 1995. Redux

- Super Smash Bros. (N64) 2000. eBay

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Nice Savings for Nintendo Switch

• Sonic Frontiers (-40%) A$59.90 Sonic finally figured out what to do with all that speed, wide open spaces, crunchy combat, and a soundtrack that goes weirdly hard at 2am.
• Persona 5 Royal (-70%) A$29.90 Turn based combat, high school drama, and jazz menus so stylish they should be illegal. Say goodbye to your free time and most of your sleep.
• The Talos Principle Del. (-87%) A$5.90 A puzzle game that traps you in a robot garden and starts asking uncomfortable questions about consciousness between laser puzzles.
• Doom Eternal (-75%) A$13.70 Doom as a cardio workout. You shoot, dash, juggle ammo, and panic constantly, all while heavy metal screams encouragement.
• Burnout Paradise Rem. (-83%) A$6.70 Still the best game about driving very fast and immediately ruining it with a spectacular crash.

Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card.

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Exciting Bargains for Xbox

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (-63%) A$40.30 Bigger, tougher, and more confident than Fallen Order, with lightsaber combat that finally makes you feel mildly unstoppable.
• Seagate 1TB Expansion (-28%) A$223.70 Not a game, but absolutely required unless you enjoy deleting things every second week like a digital minimalist.
• Middle Earth: Shadow Of War (-71%) A$15.80 Orcs remember you, hate you, and come back stronger just to ruin your day. Still one of the coolest systems in modern games.
• Darksiders III (-67%) A$18.10 Less hack and slash, more careful footwork, with boss fights that absolutely will not let you button mash your way through.
• Immortals Of Aveum (-71%) A$31.50 A magic shooter where spells replace guns and subtlety is politely shown the door.

Xbox One

• Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove (-53%) A$27.00 Pixel perfect platforming with more charm, polish, and post launch support than most modern releases.
• Wild Hearts (-77%) A$25.20 Monster hunting that lets you build nonsense mid fight. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes messy, always interesting.
• Like A Dragon: Ishin! (-58%) A$41.90 Samurai drama one minute, deeply silly side quests the next. Somehow it all works, as usual.

Or just invest in an Xbox Card.

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Pure Scores for PlayStation

• The Last Of Us Part I (-36%) A$79 Still devastating, still brilliant, now prettier and smoother, just do not play it if you need cheering up.
• Elden Ring (-49%) A$43 A game that explains almost nothing, kills you constantly, and somehow becomes impossible to stop playing. Essential.
• SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7P Headset (-48%) A$205 Comfortable, clean sounding, and wireless enough that you will forget you are still wearing it hours later.
• NFS Unbound Ult. Col. (-85%) A$19.40 Loud colours, louder music, and arcade racing that finally remembers how fun this series can be.
• Final Fantasy XVI (-47%) A$45 Big swords, bigger emotions, and boss fights that feel like playable anime finales.
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (-57%) A$49 Medieval life sim energy where reading matters, armour is heavy, and every fight feels personal.

PS4

• Metro Saga Bndl (-90%) A$9 Grim, tense shooters that make every bullet feel precious and every tunnel deeply unpleasant.
• Mafia: Trilogy (-40%) A$59.90 Three crime stories, plenty of sharp suits, and a reminder that being a gangster rarely ends well.
• Untitled Goose Game (-50%) A$14.90 You are a goose. Your job is to ruin lives. Honk accordingly.

Or purchase a PS Store Card.

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Purchase Cheap for PC

• Indiana Jones And The Great Circle (-38%) A$74.30 Proper globe trotting adventure energy, complete with puzzles, on brand archaeological chaos, and punching fascists right in their stupid faces.
• Cleared Hot (-10%) A$19.70 Straightforward air combat that skips the homework and gets right to the Desert Strike vibes.
• Crysis Rem. Trilogy (-59%) A$29.90 Still a flex, still melts hardware a bit, and still lets you solve problems however you want.
• Pavlov (-40%) A$21.50 VR chaos powered by mods, memes, and people taking things far less seriously than they should.
• It Takes Two (-80%) A$9.90 Co-op perfection that constantly changes the rules and never lets a good idea overstay its welcome. Probably could save your relationship. Or doom it.

Or just get a Steam Wallet Card

Legit LEGO Deals

• Super Mario Yoshis Egg-cellent Forest (-63%) A$29.80 Bright, playful, and pure serotonin, this one looks great on a shelf without demanding your sanity.
• Mario Kart - Bowsers Castle (-47%) A$79 Lava, curves, and Bowser energy everywhere. Big build, big presence, big nostalgia hit.
• Star Wars AT-ST Walker (-34%) A$199 Awkward, menacing, and unmistakably Star Wars. Somehow still looks like it might fall over.
• Harry Potter Chomping Monster Book (-29%) A$77 Equal parts creepy and clever, this one absolutely looks like it might bite you if left unattended.

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We've rounded up the best deals for Sunday, January 4, below. Don't miss your chance to save on these deals!

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II for $29.99