For a very limited time, HP is offering its newest and most powerful gaming laptop at a pretty hefty discount. The Omen Max 16 GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Laptop drops to just $2,879.99 with free shipping when you apply 20% off coupon code "LEVELUP20". That's the best price for an RTX 5090 gaming laptop anywhere by at least $700. The RTX 5090 is currently the most powerful mobile GPU available with tons of VRAM and DLSS 4 support.
HP Omen Max 16" RTX 5090 Gaming Laptop for $2,880
This HP Omen Max 16 laptop is configured with a 16" 1920x1200 display, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, GeForce RTX 5090 graphics, 21GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. I would strongly recommend upgrading to the 16" 2560x1600 OLED display for an additional $190 (minus 20% off with code). The GPU can easily handle the increased resolution and the OLED panel makes for a much better looking display that complements the other premium hardware.
The Core Ultra 9 275HX boasts a max turbo frequency of 5.4GHz with 24 cores and 40MB total L2 cache. According to Passmark, this is one of the fastest laptop processor on the market, going toe to toe with the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is likewise the most powerful mobile graphics card on the market. In terms of raw performance, it's actually only about 10% more powerful than the RTX 4090 it replaces. However, the new RTX 5090 includes way more VRAM (32GB vs 24GB), newer and faster GDDR7 memory, and DLSS 4 compatiblity. The RTX 5090 is also a bit faster than the RTX 5080, but this deal also brings the price down to basically what a RTX 5080 gaming laptop would cost. If you're looking to get the most powerful laptop for under $3,000, this configuration is a winner.
The Omen Max is new for 2025
The Omen Max is essentially a "premium" Omen 16 with better materials - like an aluminum-magnesium alloy chassis and lid - and a beefier cooling system to accommodate current generation hardware.
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Friends, loved ones, and fellow actors have gathered to remember actor Jonathan Joss after he was fatally shot June 1, 2025.
Social media users were sent into shock when it was announced that Joss had been killed Sunday, June 1, following a violent altercation with a neighbor. TMZ reported at the time that a heated argument eventually resulted in the neighbor pulling out a gun and shooting the King of the Hill and True Grit actor several times, resulting in his death. He was 59.
Hermano im hurting bad right now…but to see how much you were loved is 🥲❤️ I’ll always cherish our memories together. I pray you’re at peace. You’ll forever be in my heart Jonathan. I love you man always. I’ll catch up to you on that side later 🫂 #JonathanJoss#JohnRedcornpic.twitter.com/QR2GMmwSRY
Cast members from NBC’s Parks and Recreation, a show Joss appeared in multiple episodes of throughout the 2010s, are among those mourning. Included are Chris Pratt and Nick Offerman, who both shared statements regarding the actor’s passing, with Pratt posting his message on Instagram.
“Damn. RIP Jonathan,” Pratt said. “Always such a kind dude. He played Ken Hotate in Parks and was also in [The Magnificent Seven]. Sad to see. Prayers up. Hug your loved ones.”
Offerman, meanwhile, touched on how the Parks and Recreation cast has reacted to the news with a statement sent to People. He says losing Joss was a topic on their minds all day yesterday, June 2.
“The cast has been texting together about it all day and we’re just heartbroken,” Offerman said in his statement. “Jonathan was such a sweet guy and we loved having him as our Chief Ken Hotate. A terrible tragedy.”
Joss’ husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, shared a statement on Facebook regarding the incident that led to the actor’s murder. He says he and Joss had been victims of homophobic harassment for two years and that these threats were followed by their former home being burned down. Gonzales says the threats were reported to law enforcement “multiple times and nothing was done.” He adds that the act was carried out by a man who was “yelling violent homophobic slurs” at the couple while they were checking the mail at their former home.
"To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply," Gonzales said. "He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together."
A suspect in the investigation, Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, was taken into custody and charged with murder following the altercation. The San Antonio Police Department X/Twitter account has since shared it “has found no evidence to indicate that the Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation.” An investigation is ongoing.
Tributes to Joss continue to fill social media feeds following his passing. While some share memories of brief interactions with the movie and TV star, others are telling stories of his kindness.
Jonathan Joss and I were mutuals (still are) back when he was active here, he was a very kind man! He sent me a signed sexy John Redcorn pic, and threw in a signed Ken Hotate pic just cause that's the kind of cool-loving, giving person he was. A true light in this dark world. 🕯 https://t.co/TfRhsOoGenpic.twitter.com/YX6abiU4wt
The murder of Jonathan Joss is so deeply sad and infuriating, such a wonderful actor cut down just because of who he was. Impossible to deny that the most hateful have been emboldened to do the very worst, terrible country we have built
Photo by Ben Cohen/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images.
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Warning: This article contains full spoilers for Doctor Who Season 15.
With the latest season of Doctor Who now complete, we can look back and examine the entirety of the Fifteenth Doctor’s era. You didn’t read that wrong, by the way. Ncuti Gatwa’s time as the Doctor is officially over. Despite earlier comments from Gatwa that indicated he was intending to continue on for a third season, the Season 15 finale, “The Reality War,” ended on Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor regenerating into none other than Billie Piper, best known to franchise fans as Rose Tyler, the first companion of the modern era. It was a shocking moment for longtime viewers, but perhaps not in the way the show’s production team intended.
While it’s not entirely clear yet if Piper is actually playing the Sixteenth Doctor–the fact that the end credits don’t refer to Piper as “The Doctor” in accordance with convention has raised many an eyebrow–the reveal has landed with a thud for critics and audiences. In his review of the finale, IGN’s Robert Anderson said Piper’s appearance is a “hastily thrown-together pause button while the future of Doctor Who gets quietly reshuffled.” But it also speaks to how the show ended Gatwa’s tenure far before his time, in what appears to be a knee-jerk response to fandom backlash. Let’s take a look at why Doctor Who gave up on the Fifteenth Doctor too soon.
Lost in Space and Time
To say the last several years of Doctor Who have been a roller coaster would be something of an understatement. Chris Chibnall taking over as the third modern-era showrunner (after Steven Moffat) followed up a divisive run with a total travesty, despite the best efforts of Thirteenth Doctor actress Jodie Whittaker. Russell T. Davies, who launched the modern era, was recruited to return to the role of showrunner after Chibnall, and Ncuti Gatwa was announced as Whittaker’s successor, only for Thirteen to regenerate into yet another incarnation played by David Tennant. Three specials and one lore-questionable bi-generation later, and we finally received the Fifteenth Doctor, only for his run to meet with mixed reception from fans, some of whom felt the new era didn’t live up to Davies’ first tenure.
Opinions on Season 14 vary, but at least for me, I found it to be the return to form the series had desperately needed for years. Gatwa’s take on the Doctor and his dynamic with companion Ruby Sunday led to a mostly solid string of episodes, culminating in climactic fashion with the return of Sutekh, one of the Doctor’s all-time greatest enemies. Sadly, the series’ renewed creative spark rapidly drained away in Season 15, which is largely a collection of ill-conceived adventures missing a sense of focus. This is rather strange since the season has two main throughlines: the Doctor trying to get new companion Belinda Chandra back to an Earth he doesn’t know is destroyed, and the mystery identity of the recurring character Mrs. Flood.
Sadly, the series’ renewed creative spark rapidly drained away in Season 15.
The two wind up being connected, with Mrs. Flood being an incarnation of Classic Who villain The Rani, who is behind the destruction of Earth. Yet although these subplots are threaded through the whole season, the payoff still doesn’t feel like it has enough foundation. The Rani is poorly defined in her appearances here, and is defeated so quickly as to come off utterly ineffectual. Tying in another Classic Who antagonist in Omega also falls flat because he has so little screentime and doesn’t look anything like his old self. Everything about the two-part final story is just off, with every element somehow rushed or shortchanged, adding up to a confused mess of ideas with no fixed point of reference. That goes double for the regeneration, which lacks the gravity such a supposedly giant moment deserves.
A Rushed Regeneration
As it stands, “The Reality War” doesn’t feel like a regeneration story. Although the stakes are appropriately high with the Rani threatening the entire planet, the episode shifts focus in the back half to the Doctor trying to save Poppy, the child of the Doctor and Belinda who was wished into existence as a side effect of the Rani’s plan. Setting aside the weirdness of a familial connection between the Doctor and Belinda (even if it turned out to be fake), setting so much narrative weight on Poppy fails because the audience hasn’t spent enough time with her to be invested in her fate. Poppy is an abstraction, something the story assumes we care about because she’s a kid. So the Doctor shifts reality to save her, at the cost of his own life.
This change in what the episode is about makes the finale feel like two episodes in one. The villains are defeated ridiculously quickly to make room for an excuse for the Doctor to regenerate. Given Gatwa’s previously mentioned comments hinting at a third season, it appears parts of “The Reality War” were reshot to accommodate the regeneration. There’s simply not enough build-up to it, and what felt like the story of the Doctor trying to set Belinda’s life right across the season by getting her home was swept away at the last second for the Doctor trying to rescue Poppy. Belinda barely registers in the finale, with her entire motivation and personality changing into an all-consuming devotion to Poppy, to the point of the Doctor altering reality with his regeneration energy to make Poppy her biological daughter.
The regeneration doesn’t feel motivated either in-universe or out. It’s contrived as a story device, but it also feels unpleasant as a production one. Ncuti Gatwa, the first actor of color to play the Doctor as the show’s lead, is also the first one since Christopher Eccleston to not receive at least three seasons. These are shorter seasons on top of it, with eight episodes and one special apiece, meaning Gatwa’s entire tenure is a mere 18 episodes. Him being rushed out the door so quickly and being replaced by a blonde white woman who has already been extensively featured on the show would come across as comical if the optics weren’t also so cynical. If Billie Piper is indeed our Sixteenth Doctor, then not only is the show engaging in Disney Star Wars-level nostalgia bait, it’s also one foot into some rather murky ethical waters.
Paying the Piper
I say this with nothing but love for Billie Piper and her work as Rose Tyler: her time as part of Doctor Who should have stayed in the past. Rose is a great character, but she had a fairly definitive ending in the Season 2 finale, “Doomsday.” Her forced separation from the Doctor and arrival in an alternate reality where her father is alive but she can’t be with her true love was tragic and emotional in all the right ways. It’s still one of the best season finales the show has ever done. Yet Rose has slipped back into the show several times, from recurring guest appearances in Season 4 that led to her getting a consolation prize in the Meta-Crisis Doctor, her playing The Moment in “The Day of the Doctor,” and now potentially being the Sixteenth Doctor.
Quite frankly, it’s too much. Every subsequent Rose appearance after “Doomsday” dilutes that episode’s power, all for the sake of trying to please fans. And at a moment in time where the fandom is incredibly divided on Davies’ second era as showrunner, having Piper return feels like hitting an emergency button. Davies was already entering questionable territory with the return of David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, although that was largely smoothed over by finally giving his Doctor and Donna Noble the happy ending they deserved in “The Giggle” after the unsatisfying conclusion to their relationship in “Journey’s End.” Bringing back Piper is a clear attempt to recapture the love the audience had for Davies’ first tenure, rather than building something new audiences could love about his current one.
Bringing back Piper is a clear attempt to recapture the love the audience had for Davies’ first tenure, rather than building something new audiences could love about his current one.
Ncuti Gatwa was an excellent Doctor. He and Jodie Whittaker both gave great performances that elevated some of the shaky scripts they were handed, which is what made their scene together in “The Reality War” such a joy to watch. It’s also a reminder that there was no good reason to not try to rally and give Gatwa a solid third season so he could go out on a high note. Even with all the missed opportunities this season like the dropped idea of Belinda as a hesitant companion, the return of the Rani and Omega, the underuse of Ruby Sunday, and the Fifteenth Doctor never battling the Daleks, Davies and company should have stuck to their guns.
Instead, our next Doctor (barring a massive swerve) looks to be a hollow echo of a great character from decades ago. It’s a crystallization of the existential crisis the show has been in since the Moffat era, which felt like the last time Doctor Who knew what it wanted to be. The future of Doctor Who should always be an exciting new path. Instead, this feels far more like a surrender.
Carlos Morales writes novels, articles and Mass Effect essays. You can follow his fixations on Twitter.
The newest Apple Watch has dropped down to the lowest price we've seen. Well ahead of Father's Day, which lands on June 15 this year, you can pick up a 42mm Apple Watch Series 10 for only $299 - 25% off its $399 list price - or the bigger 46mm model for $329 - 23% off its $429 list price. If you own an iPhone, the Apple Watch is indisputably the best smartwatch for you. It's stylish, boasts excellent build quality, excels as both a fitness tracker and smartwatch, and seamlessly integrates with your iPhone.
Apple Watch Series 10 From $299
The Apple Watch Series 10 is the newest generation mainstream model (the Watch Series 11 isn't expected until September of this year). Improvements over the Apple Watch Series 9 include a bigger OLED Retina display, a new S10 processor (that isn't faster but it's thinner, which allows the watch itself to have a slimmer profile), a slightly larger base model size (42mm vs. 41mm), and some admittedly trivial features like a water depth gauge. If you do already own an Apple Watch Series 9, there's probably not enough reason here to upgrade. But if this is your first time purchasing an Apple Watch, the Series 10 is definitely the best Apple Watch for most people.
Compared to the Apple Watch SE, the Apple Watch Series 10 boasts a larger size (42mm vs. 40mm), a bigger display with Always-On functionality, a 30% more powerful processor, double the storage, more advanced fitness tracking and body monitoring sensors, double-tap gesture support, and faster charging. The Apple Watch SE is substantially more affordable at $169 currently on Amazon, but I think the upgrades are more than worth it for most people.
Can you use an Apple Watch with Android phones?
Although it's technically possible to use an Apple Watch with an Android phone, we wouldn't recommend it. Apple made it so that a lot of the functionality of the Apple Watch requires a smartphone with an iOS operating system. There are some workarounds to implement some of the features, but for the average person, the hassle isn't worth it. If you're absolutely intent on getting an Apple Watch, then getting an iPhone first would be the best option.
More of the best smartwatches of 2025?
For those of you quite happy with your Android smartphone, there are plenty of Android smartwatches that would be a better fit than the Apple Watch. We've listed our favorites in our smartwatch 2025 guide.
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PlayStation is gearing up for an over 40-minute State of Play tomorrow, June 4, and it promises to give a glimpse of the future of PS5.
We here at IGN will be carrying the stream, and this guide will fill you in on everything you need to know about the State of Play and what to expect to ensure you don't miss a thing.
PlayStation State of Play June 2025 Start Time
This new State of Play will take place on June 4 at 2pm PT/5pm ET/11pm CEST and will run for over 40 minutes.
We here at IGN will be hosting both a pre-show 30 minutes before the State of Play (1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET/10:30pm CEST) and a post-show following the presentation to recap all the big news, trailers, reveals, and more.
Where to Watch the PlayStation State of Play June 2025
If you’re interested in watching the upcoming PlayStation State of Play, we’ll host the stream here and across our many channels like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Here’s the full list of places you can watch the show with us:
What to Expect from the PlayStation State of Play 2025
Beyond saying we'll be getting "news and updates on must-play games coming to PS5" from "creators across the globe," Sony has given us no hint as to which titles will be featured in this State of Play. If we look at the upcoming schedule for PS5, however, we can guess as to what big names just may show up.
In 2025, PS5 owners have plenty of games to look forward to, including Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, ARC Raiders, Ghost of Yōtei, Hell Is Us, Lost Soul Aside, Ninja Gaiden 4, Little Nightmares III, Where Winds Meet, Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater, Borderlands 4, Directive 8020, Forever Skies, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, MindsEye, Mafia: The Old Country, and many more.
There are also plenty of chances for new games to surprise us or little-known about games to reappear, including Insomniac's Wolverine game, what's next from God of War's Sony Santa Monica, Days Gone's Bend studio, Horizon Forbidden West's Guerrilla Games, and maybe even the third part of Final Fantasy VII Remake.
Anything is possible, but it's also important to keep expectations in check. While you wait, you can also check out our recap of February's State of Play to potentially get an idea of what to expect, as that show featured the big reveal of Housemarq's Saros, release dates for Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater and Borderlands 4, a look at Onimusha: Way of the Sword's protagonist, and more.
For the past two years, LEGO has been furthering its most ambitious project to date: a minifigure-scaled depiction of Hogwarts Castle, made famous by the Harry Potter franchise. The castle is still a work in progress, and will be made up of a bunch of other stand-alone sets that are sold separately. The first major set, the Great Hall, came out in Fall 2024.
The Main Tower, out now, is the second major set in this interlocking system, which also includes an assortment of ancillary buildings and classrooms sold separately, such as Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class (Set #76431), Hogwarts Castle Owlery (Set #76430), Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lessons (Set #76447), and Hogwarts Castle Boathouse (Set #76426).
But the Main Tower also works as an independent playset, especially if you're a fan of the first book and its movie adaptation,Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
The Main Tower, like the Great Hall before it, opens in the back to reveal a number of rooms and dioramas that depict the movies' events. The bottom-most rooms, which you build first, are underground chambers that lead to the Sorcerer's Stone. From left to right, you have the Devil's Snare room, then the Flying Keys room, and then the massive Chess Set room.
Each room has interactive, movable elements. The Devil's Snare flips up or down from the room's ceiling via a cleverly disguised switch that's built into the rock facade. The Flying Keys rotate on a pedestal to create the impression of flight. And the giant pieces on the Chess Set are independent and movable.
You get LEGO minifigures for Harry, Hermione, and Ron, which is good – these rooms look their best when the trio is directly interacting with them. LEGO did not design this part of the castle with functionality and facility in mind; each room depicts a specific book scene, rather than functioning as a neutral roleplay area for new scenarios. In addition to the trio, the set contains nine more LEGO minifigures for a total of 12: Neville Longbottom, Dean Thomas, Marcus Flint, Percy Weasley, Ernie Macmillan, Lisa Turpin, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Kettleburn, and Nearly Headless Nick.
Directly above the Devil's Snare room is Fluffy, Hagrid's three-headed dog. He's lying on top of a trap door, which opens to reveal the underground chambers. In the back-right corner of Fluffy's room is a harp, which Professor Quirrel plays to put Fluffy to sleep. The harp's design is especially creative; two separate builds come together on hinges to create the instrument's signature shape. A door opens on the right-hand side, which leads into a narrow hallway, which in turn leads to a balcony/vista on the building's exterior.
Above Fluffy's room is the Gryffindor common room, decked out in its signature red and gold trimmings. It includes a bedroom with two beds, and to the right of it, two easy chairs and a fireplace. The floor is uneven, so that the living room appears sunken into a well in the floor, which gives the room a more intimate, cozy feeling.
All of these individual rooms are separate builds with separate instruction booklets, which means that if you want to build with a partner, or a friend, or as one half of a father-son team (as I did), you can easily merge and stack your seperate elements together after they're complete. The rooms are mounted on one another via a handful of connection points, which means they are easily separable from one another. If you need more room to pose scenes or individually play with the set's different components, this gives you easier access. Typically, sets of this complexity and magnitude are 18+ in age range. But the Main Tower and all the other Hogwarts Castle sets are 10+, which means they straddle the line between play and display a bit more evenly.
You build a roof over these elements, and then you build the actual Main Tower. It stacks five rooms. one on top of the other. The first three rooms contain the iconic Hogwarts moving staircases, designed by Rowena Ravenclaw herself. Two of them are mounted onto rotating platforms, allowing them to pivot. Portraits hang on the walls. On the third floor is a gargoyle, which guards the secret entryway to Professor Dumbledore's office.
The aforementioned office is on the fourth floor. It's covered with portraits of former Headmasters, and it's stuffed with the various magical knick knacks that make it so interesting to read about and watch on screen. To the right of Dumbledore's desk is the sword of Godric Gryffindor and the Pensieve. To the left of the desk is the Sorting Hat, complete with a mouth near its brim. Dumbledore's office is probably my favorite part of the set. It's furnished beautifully and it provides an excellent place for Harry and Dumbledore to have their evening lessons together.
Lastly, you build the massive spire that caps the tower, and inside the spire is the fifth and final room containing the Mirror of Erised. The mirror mounts on a rotating platform, which allows you to swap two different images. On one side is Harry with his mother and father. On the other side is Harry holding the Sorcerer's Stone.
The Main Tower's size is impressive; it's over two feet in height, from the bottom of the rock facade to the peak of the tower itself. And when you merge it with the Great Hall, it's even more impressive; the two sets combine to form a seamless exterior facade. The interiors, taken together, are even more impressive – it's a sensory overload to see all these iconic Hogwarts scenes in such a small amount of space.
There's not much more to say, other than this: I want to see more. The last time LEGO created a massive Hogwarts Castle, it felt a bit cobbled together after the fact. There was no "official" way to put it all together, and fans resorted to squinting at promotional materials to figure out the best way to assemble all the sets together.
But this go-around? It feels like there's a master plan; I strongly suspect there's a "complete" Hogwarts Castle somewhere in LEGO headquarters, whether in physical form or on a hard drive. The designers are not 'winging it' – they have a final result, however rough, that they're working towards.
It's going to take them years to get there. But if the LEGO designers maintain this level of detail and see it all the way through? It's going to be an unparalleled achievement. To be continued.
LEGO Hogwarts Castle: The Main Tower, Set #76454, retails for $259.99, and it is composed of 2135 pieces. It is available now.
Interested in more LEGO? Check out our roundup of the best Harry Potter sets. And stay tuned – we'll be publishing a completist's buying guide for the modular LEGO Hogwarts Castle later this week.
Kevin Wong is a contributing freelancer for IGN, specializing in LEGO. He's also been published in Complex, Engadget, Gamespot, Kotaku, and more. Follow him on Twitter at @kevinjameswong.
Ryan Coogler just doesn’t miss. As Eric Goldman’s review for IGN explains: “After proving he’s one of the best there is at directing a boxing film and a superhero movie, Coogler tries his hand at horror with the vampire period piece Sinners. And guess what? It turns out he’s great at that genre too.” Sinners released in theaters on April 18, and has since achieved the killer combination of box-office success and critical acclaim.
While I highly recommend watching Sinners on the largest screen you can find – let Coogler himself explain why – a full trip to the theaters isn’t always in the cards. For those who’ve been waiting to watch the vampire movie in the comfort of their own home, Sinners is now available to rent or buy on digital.
Sinners Arrives on Digital
The move to digital comes about six weeks after the film’s initial release. Warfare recently became available to rent less than four weeks after releasing in theaters, while Snow White took about two months. These shorter theatrical windows are part of a general industry trend and should by no means dampen the film’s success. I'd argue that six weeks of theater-exclusivity for a wholly original movie is a pretty solid achievement in 2025.
Of course, the Ws don't stop there. Sinners reportedly had a budget of $90 million, particularly high for a horror movie, and yet it was able to break even with ease. Box Office Mojo has Sinners grossing over $350 million so far, making it the eighth highest grossing movie of 2025 at this moment. This box-office success is all the more significant in the context of an original R-rated horror movie that’s still showing in theaters.
Streaming Release Date
Sinners will eventually stream on HBO Max as the film is being distributed by the streaming service’s parent company, Warner Bros. Recent Warner Bros. releases like Mickey 17 hit streaming a little less than three months after releasing in theaters. By that logic, Sinners would arrive on HBO Max in mid-July. If the movie continues to stay as popular in theaters, however, I could see the streaming release getting pushed back a bit further.
What About the Physical Release?
You can preorder Sinners in 4K UHD and Blu-ray for surprisingly reasonable prices, set to release on July 8. Bluray.com recently unveiled the full description of bonus features, which include:
Dancing with the Devil: The Making of "Sinners"
Thicker than Blood: Becoming the Smokestack Twins
Blues in the Night: The Music of "Sinners"
Spirits in the Deep South
The Wages of Sin: The Creature FX of "Sinners"
Deleted Scenes
Sinners Cast
Sinners was written and directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed, Black Panther). Long-time collaborators Autumn Durald Arkapaw and Ludwig Göransson returned to lead cinematography and compose the score. The movie stars the following cast, including Michael B. Jordan in two roles:
Michael B. Jordan as Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore
Hailee Steinfeld as Mary
Miles Caton as Sammie "Preacher Boy" Moore
Jack O'Connell as Remmick
Wunmi Mosaku as Annie
Jayme Lawson as Pearline
Omar Miller as Cornbread
Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim
Peter Dreimanis as Bert
Lola Kirke as Joan
Li Jun Li as Grace Chow
Saul Williams as Jedidiah Moore
Yao as Bo Chow
David Maldonado as Hogwood
Helena Hu as Lisa Chow
Andrene Ward-Hammond as Ruthie
Nathaniel Arcand as Chayton
Emonie Ellison as Therise
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If you've got a Switch 2 preorder coming in hot and you want to expand the storage capacity right off the bat, then Walmart has a deal that you don't want to miss. For a very limited time, the Onn 256GB Micro SDXC Express Card is back in stock at a rock bottom price of $35.99. This listing went up in May, but I haven't seen it in stock for shipping until today. As a comparison, the official Samsung 256GB MicroSDXC Express card is currently listed for $59.99 at Target.
Update: This deal might not be available for delivery for all zip codes. You can still choose in-store pickup.
Onn 256GB MicroSDXC Express Memory Card for $35.99
Nintendo Switch 2 Compatible
Onn is Walmart's privately owned house brand, so you won't find this memory card sold anywhere else. MicroSDXC Express cards are much faster than standard MicroSDXC cards and the Onn model is no different, with speeds of up to 800MB/s write and 600MB/s read. More importantly for gamers, the Switch 2 is compatible with and can take full advantage of the capabilities of the MicroSDXC Express format.
Check out these other Switch 2 accessories ahead of release
I'd strongly suggest you pick up, at the very least, a screen protector and case to protect that $450 investment. These amFilm screen protectors and cases from Techmatte are guaranteed to fit your Switch 2 console. They're pretty inexpensive to start with, but some coupon codes sweeten the deal all the same. Especially for screen protectors, you want something affordable so that you can cheaply replace it if it every gets cracked under use. AmFilm (TechMatte) is one of the best selling screen protectors on Amazon; I've used several myself over the years on various electronics and they work just as well as any other screen protector on Amazon.
These amFilm screen protectors and cases from Techmatte are guaranteed to fit your Switch 2 console. They're pretty inexpensive to start with, but some coupon codes sweeten the deal all the same. Especially for screen protectors, you want something affordable so that you can cheaply replace it if it every gets cracked under use. AmFilm (TechMatte) is one of the best selling screen protectors on Amazon; I've used several myself over the years on various electronics and they work just as well as any other screen protector on Amazon.
The Nintendo Switch 2 Is Out on June 5
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are shipping out on June 5. If you weren't able to secure yourself one of these early units, select retailers have mentioned that there will be more available on launch day. Follow our Nintendo Switch 2 preorder guide for stock updates as soon as they go live. If you were able to secure a preorder, then check out the list of officially licensed Switch 2 accessories that are already up for preorder, including the all-new Switch 2 Pro controller.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
Resolution Games has revealed a debut gameplay trailer for Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, and confirmed a late 2025 release window and launch platforms.
Resolution Games, best known for digital fantasy tabletop adventure Demeo, is working with Wizards of the Coast on the first virtual reality game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, called Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. It’s due out on PC via Steam, and PlayStation 5, with a VR version available on PlayStation VR2, Steam VR, and Meta Quest 3.
Battlemarked adapts D&D classes, actions, and lore to Resolution Games’ Demeo action role-playing system, which is DM-less and focuses on social strategy rather than social roleplay. This, Resolution Games said, encourages group tabletalk focused on tactics and decision-making.
“While the world of Demeo is rich with lore, our previous titles focus primarily on tactical action over motivation and narrative,” said Tommy Palm, founder and CEO of Resolution Games.
Resolution Games is working with story designer Matt Sernett as the project’s narrative lead. Sernett previously worked as a designer of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game and contributed to Dungeons & Dragons video games including Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate 2, and Icewind Dale.
“When Dungeons & Dragons launched fifth edition back in 2014, the first adventure that many players went on ventured into Neverwinter Wood, and I can think of no place better for Battlemarked players to begin their journey,” said Sernett.
“The first adventure in Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked will take players to familiar locations including Cragmaw Castle and Mount Hotenow. The world of D&D is just as much a part of the story as its characters, and we can’t wait for players to immerse themselves in its dangers and delights.”
Battlemarked’s second adventure, which will be included at launch, will be revealed later this year.
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.
IGN can exclusively reveal that WOW - Women of Wrestling is gearing up to release its first-ever collectible card game, and it will feature such fan-favorite WOW Superheroes as Chainsaw, The Beast, Penelope Pink, Kandi Krush, Gloria Glitter, Tormenta, Ariel Sky, Americana, Princess Aussie, Jessie Jones, and Abilene Maverick.
WOW: The Card Game, which can be pre-ordered now, promises to bring “strategic gameplay, character customization, and head-to-head competition to the tabletop for those who love mind games, big combos, and bold personalities.”
WOW: The Card Game will initially feature over 141 unique cards, which will all be brought to life with custom art and “action-packed scenarios.” Alongside the 11 WOW Superheroes mentioned above, there will also be cards that will serve as Power-Ups, Finishing Moves, and Signature Taunts.
As for the game itself, it is designed for 2-4 players and is intended for players over the age of nine. It aims to recreate the feeling of WOW with “dynamic gameplay mechanics that mirror the drama of the ring - from high-flying comebacks to stunning upsets.”
“Now, fans can feel the thrill of the ring and build their own rivalries right at home,” said David McLane, co-founder of WOW. “This card game celebrates the strength, spirit, and spectacle that our Superheroes bring to the ring every week.”
WOW - Women of Wrestling was started in 2000 and is owned by McLane and Los Angeles Lakers owner/president Jeanie Buss. WOW has live events and is in weekly syndication across the U.S. and on VICE TV. Pluto TV has a dedicated channel with all episodes from the first three seasons. The mission of WOW is “centered 24/7 around empowering and uplifting women and fans around the world.”
Also, If you're a fan of WOW - Women of Wrestling, see some of your favorite wrestlers in person at IGN Live June 7-8 in Los Angeles.
Elden Ring Nightreign shares quite a bit with its predecessor Elden Ring, from its gameplay to its lore and history. It also seems to carry some of its technical nuances, according to a new breakdown from the tech experts at Digital Foundry.
Digital Foundry published an analysis of the tech details behind FromSoftware's latest, and while Nightreign remixes a lot of what Elden Ring was into something new, it sounds like the state of Nightreign's technology is fairly reminiscent of Elden Ring's.
"This is really nothing new to those familiar with FromSoftware's Elden Ring engine, and how it operates on consoles," wrote Digital Foundry's Thomas Morgan.
Digital Foundry characterized the optimization for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles as "disappointing," as Nightreign continues to "often fall short of a target 60 frames per second while exploring." Additionally, the tech analyst noted there's no listed support for PlayStation 5 Pro, which bore out in tests, meaning the PS5 Pro is just running the base PS5 code with no additional modes or optimizations.
I recommend visiting Digital Foundry for the full numbers breakdown, as there's quite a bit to go through, but all of it is best summed-up by Morgan here: "Ultimately, using the quality mode makes no practical sense on any console." The base PS5 typically hovers in a lower 30-45 frames per second range in this mode, compared to a 40-60 range on the framerate mode, and the Xbox consoles mirroring similar gaps.
While the PS5 Pro seems to benefit from having a little extra horsepower to run Nightreign, there are still "lurches" while exploring the world that stuck out to Digital Foundry. The article concludes by saying there's "so much left to be desired on the technical front" when it comes to Elden Ring Nightreign, as 60 frames per second performance on consoles is "all too often out of reach."
Marvel had no choice but to spoil the appearance of Red Hulk in trailers for Captain America: Brave New World, the film's director has insisted — despite many fans believing the villain should have been kept under wraps.
Red Hulk, the angry alter ego of Harrison Ford's character President Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross, only appears late in the film's final act, following a lengthy build-up and moments where it feels like Ross will keep his gamma radiation-fueled temper under control.
Among plenty of other criticsm for Brave New World — widely-considered a pretty bland MCU entry — fans have said Red Hulk's inclusion within trailers not only spoiled the surprise of his appearance, but also oversold the character's presence in the film.
Now, however, Brave New World director Julius Onah said Marvel had to show Red Hulk ahead of the film's release, as the villain's appearance would have leaked regardless.
"When you're making a movie like this, an announcement goes out that Harrison Ford is going to play Thaddeus Ross, and you have a fandom as massive and as passionate as the MCU fandom is, you're toast at that point, you know?" Onah told Empire.
"In a perfect-case scenario, it would have been awesome [if ] that [had been] an in-theatre surprise, but I think it would have been very difficult," he continued. "Somewhere along the way, a toy would have been found, or somebody would have leaked a trailer. It's just so hard to keep anything secret in today’s day and age."
While it's true that Marvel film productions face constant pressure around leaks, and merchandise such as toys have been the source of story spoilers in the past, the reasoning here around the decision to show Red Hulk doesn't necessarily tally with how other Marvel movies have teased villains in the past.
Take, for instance, the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps. We know from trailers that giant-sized baddie Galactus will appear in the film at some point, but Marvel has been cautious to only show a glimpse at the villain, teasing his appearance while keeping the full reveal back for the film itself.
There's a definite sense among Marvel fans that too much of Red Hulk was shown, perhaps to ramp up excitement around a film that otherwise felt underwhelming.
Next up for Captain America will be an appearance in Avengers: Doomsday, after Thunderbolts*/New Avengers confirmed Sam Wilson had begun rebuilding his own version of Marvel's big team.
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Amid excitement and disbelief at the quality of The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 tech demo, developer CD Projekt has issued a statement insisting it is not a gameplay showcase and therefore does not represent actual The Witcher 4 gameplay footage.
The tech demo, captured on a PlayStation 5 and running at 60 frames per second, follows Ciri as she explores the never-before-seen region of Kovir in the midst of a monster contract (CD Projekt confirmed Kovir is a playable area in The Witcher 4).
There is a stunning amount of detail in the tech demo, with incredibly fluid animations on a level we have yet to see on the current generation of consoles. Ciri and her horse Kelpie have particularly impressive movement and interactions with each other, NPCs, and the game world as they make their way through the mountains of Kovir to the bustling port town of Valdrest. At one point in the demo, CD Projekt upped the NPC count in the market scene to 300 individually animated characters. The showcase ended with a first look at Lan Exeter, the winter capital and a major port city in Kovir.
The “standalone” tech demo was built to showcase Unreal Engine 5 features, CD Projekt said, and tools it’s using to develop the game’s open world. It is not gameplay footage, the developer stressed.
So, does the tech demo reflect what players can expect from The Witcher 4? CD Projekt said the visuals “reflect the direction we’re taking with The Witcher 4 — but it doesn’t fully represent the final game.”
CD Projekt continued: “Production is still underway, and we have a great deal of work ahead. That said, our goal is ambitious: to create one of the most visually advanced role-playing games to date.”
The developer also explained why it chose PS5 over a high-end PC for the tech demo: “Because optimizing for consoles early helps us future-proof performance across all platforms. Consoles come with tighter constraints, and meeting them pushes us to make smarter, more efficient tech choices — the kind that benefit every version of the game.”
One of the big questions about The Witcher 4 is target launch platforms. With this tech demo on PS5, the suggestion is it will be a cross-gen game that also runs on the next-gen consoles (PS6 and the next-gen Xbox). But if it’s due out on current-gen, does that also mean it will be available on the underpowered Xbox Series S?
It’s worth remembring that Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto VI is, as it stands, also due out on current-gen consoles including the Xbox Series S. So if GTA 6 is possible on Microsoft’s cheaper console, perhaps The Witcher 4 is, too.
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.
If you've been hoping to add them to your physical media collection, all six The Karate Kid films are releasing in a massive 4K collection set, complete with collectibles. The Karate Kid Ultimate Six-Movie Collection is available exclusively at Amazon for $219.99 and includes each film on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and as a digital copy, including the latest release, Karate Kid: Legends.
The release date is still to be announced, but if you want it, it's worth preordering now just in case it sells out. Head to the link below to get your preorders in for this awesome collection.
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Alongside the movies, there's plenty for Karate Kid fans to enjoy from this collection. The box itself has a great design, opening up to reveal a pop-up display from the first film with the movies slotted on each side of it.
You'll also get a collection of character cards, three patches, and a Miyagi-Do headband. Bonus features are yet to be announced for it, but we'll be sure to add them in once they're revealed.
Movies Included in the Box Set
Here's a breakdown of what films are included in the set as well:
Walt Disney World's upcoming Cars land will be called Piston Peak National Park and will be part of the "largest expansion in the history of Magic Kingdom," Disney has announced.
As detailed by the Disney Parks Blog, work on Piston Peak National Park begins this summer, which means the Rivers of America, Tom Sawyer Island, and the Liberty Square Riverboat will close beginning July 7.
As for what will be in this new part of Magic Kingdom's Frontierland, Disney has shared more of its vision and what fans can expect.
"Imagine an awe-inspiring wilderness filled with towering trees, snowcapped mountains, breathtaking waterfalls, roaring rivers and impressive geysers," Disney said. "While fictional, Piston Peak is inspired by the Rocky Mountain area and the history and iconic sights of the American Frontier and its national parks."
Piston Peak also includes places to visit inspired by Disney and Pixar's Cars, including a visitor lodge, Ranger HQ, and trails. In keeping with the theme of being a National Park, Imagineers uses a style of architecture called "Parkitecture," which was actually developed by the National Park Service to "create structures that harmonize with the natural environment."
There are also plenty of trees that provide a natural cover between Piston Peak and the rest of Frontierland and Liberty Square, and "rugged mountains with dramatic peaks will be nestled along a calming waterway across from Grizzly Hall and soaring geysers from the famed Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will stretch into the trails of our off-road rally."
This Cars-themed area was first announced at D23 2024, where it was also revealed it would feature two new attractions. The first is a rally race through the mountains. As Disney puts it: "take on wild terrain as you race across the landscape climbing mountain trails, dodging geysers, and — Mater's favorite — splashing through mudholes." The second ride is geared more towards kids, but it is meant to be "fun for the whole family."
At SXSW 2025, Disney Parks shared a look at the new type of ride vehicle being made for the rally race attraction, noting it needed to invent something new as these cars are meant to convey a "feeling when you ride in it." In line with Cars, each vehicle comes with its own personality, name, and number.
Warner Bros. reportedly wanted Transformers director Michael Bay to make a Man of Steel sequel starring Henry Cavill before the DC Universe was overhauled and James Gunn set about rebooting Superman.
According to TheWrap, execs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy attempted to pull together a "standalone Henry Cavill-led Superman film going in 2022, with Michael Bay eyed to possibly direct.” This effort was made prior to bringing James Gunn and Peter Safran in as the new co-heads of DC Studios, which was announced in October of the same year Warner Bros.' reported attempt to give Cavill back the cape.
That said, those attempts clearly fell through, which gave way to bringing Gunn and Safran in to reimagine the DCU — which, in turn, quickly led to Cavill’s exit from the Superman franchise in December 2022, just two months after the co-heads were instated.
Obviously, since then, Superman has gone in a completely different direction from the days of Cavill past. David Corenswet, who is perhaps best known at this point for his roles in Ti West’s Pearl and the Ryan Murphy Netflix series Hollywood, is taking over the coveted role in James Gunn’s reinvention of the franchise, with Marvelous Mrs. Masel star Rachel Brosnahan starring as Lois Lane alongside him. Plus, Nicholas Hoult rounds out the core three as Lex Luthor. That said: it’s hard not to imagine what Bay and Cavill would’ve done with one more shot into the sky.
For their parts, though, those two are plenty busy. Cavill is set to appear in several upcoming projects, including a live-action Voltron movie and a live-action reboot of Highlander, while Bay recently put out a parkour documentary called We Are Storror. He’s also said to be doing the Skibidi Toilet movie that we’re all trying to forget was announced, but he took to social media to deny directing that, uh, thing last month.
James Gunn’s Superman arrives in theaters on July 11, 2025.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has praised Nintendo Switch 2, and said the upcoming console realises the vision of the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who worked on the concept for the original Switch platform before he passed away in 2015.
Speaking as part of a Nintendo-published Creator's Voice video, Huang said he had worked personally with Iwata on Nintendo's then-audacious plans for a hybrid console capable of playing home console-quality games while on the go.
Now, after working with Nintendo again on the chip that powers Switch 2, Huang said the new console boasted the "most advanced graphics ever in a mobile device", and offered "a new chapter worthy of Iwata-san's vision."
"We've worked with Nintendo for more than a decade, drawn together by a shared belief — that technology should serve creativity, and that joy is worth engineering for," Huang began.
"I still remember the day Iwata-san shared his dream with us. He wanted to create something no-one had seen before: a console powerful enough for big cinematic games, but small enough to take anywhere. It sounded impossible, but that vision became the original Nintendo Switch.
"We lost Iwata-san before the launch, but his clarity, his purpose, it still inspires our work everyday," Huang continued. "Together, we poured everything into that system. The Nintendo Switch took over 500 engineer years at Nvidia. We rethought the entire stack, chip architecture, OS, APIs, game engines, so the magic could travel with you. The results speak for themselves: over 150 million consoles sold."
With Switch 2, Huang added, Nvidia and Nintendo not only offered the best visuals ever found in a portable gaming device, but hardware that also enabled support for ray tracing and HDR, while maintaining backwards compatibility for most Switch 1 games.
Nintendo is yet to reveal the Switch 2's final technical specifications itself, though our friends at Digital Foundry recently did the job for them. One particular point of interest remains the impact to Switch 2's hardware capability gobbled up by GameChat, which Digital Foundry reported had a "significant impact" on system resources to the point where some developers are said to be concerned.
"Switch 2 is more than a new console," Huang concluded. "It's a new chapter worthy of Iwata-san's vision. To our friends at Nintendo, congratulations. We're honoured to be on this journey with you."
The challenge of playing Elden Ring Nightreign solo has been a hot-button issue since the game's launch, but director Junya Ishizaki has confirmed solo clears are quite doable. He knows, because he's cleared every boss in Nightreign already, by himself.
Speaking to CNET in a recent interview, Ishizaki was asked whether he has beaten every boss, including the final one, himself.
"Yes. I can hopefully give you reassurance to know that I have beaten all of the game's bosses," said Ishizaki. "I've seen everything it has to offer, both in multiplayer and as a solo player. So I want you and players to know that this is very possible, and I want you to have the confidence to give it a try yourself."
CNET followed to clarify that Ishizaki was saying he had soloed every boss in the game. "Yes," Ishizaki confirmed. "And without relics."
While that's a pretty dang impressive accomplishment in and of itself, I do like the notion that Ishizaki's clears are also meant to be encouraging for other players. If he can do it, essentially, then you might be able to as well. I don't know about the "without relics" part, though. You can give yourself a little bit of leeway on that.
There have been other players who have been clearing both individual bosses and the full roster of Nightlords solo as well. Still, the solo experience of Nightreign has been under scrutiny, and not just for its difficulty, but also for how some mechanics (like revival) feel more oriented around teamplay than solo.
Even if the difficulty is getting tuned down, though, Ishizaki's clears can still be inspiring for those struggling against the Nightlords in their own runs. When the rains pick up and the storm closes in, you can know someone else has already done it, and so can you.
Epic Games has just released Unreal Engine 5.6 to all developers and creators, and detailed its major new features. So, let’s see what this new version of UE5 brings to the table. According to Epic Games, Unreal Engine 5.6 brings big improvements to how it handles Hardware Ray Tracing (HWRT). These changes help make Lumen … Continue reading Unreal Engine 5.6 Released, Packing Major New Features→
Following the release of AI Darth Vader into Fortnite, Epic has announced plans to let people create their own AI NPCs in the all-encompassing battle royale.
AI Darth Vader hit Fortnite last month. He can serenade you, join and leave squads at will, respond intelligently to the player, issue impromptu dialogue, summarize gameplay events, and warn the player if something's about to go down.
Darth Vader is voiced by the inimitable James Earl Jones, who died in September 2024 at the age of 93. This AI version of his voice, powered by Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model and ElevenLabs' Flash v2.5, is used with the Jones family's permission.
AI Darth Vader, it seems, was just the beginning. During State of Unreal 2025, Epic unveiled plans to release new tools for creators to build their own AI-powered NPCs in Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). As demonstrated on-stage, creators will be able to use the new Persona Device to create characters with personalities that players can talk to. You can select the type of voice and delivery you want for your NPC, as well as their characteristics.
“We’re taking what we learned from Darth Vader and sharing the underlying technology with the creator community,” Epic said.
Meanwhile, well-known IP is coming to UEFN, including Squid Game on June 27, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and official Star Wars features, templates, and assets. Lego brick-by-brick building is also coming to UEFN on June 17, as well as the new LEGO Bloom Tycoon template.
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.
If you were sad that Squid Game is finally coming to a close, dry those eyes — because we just might be getting a spin-off series of the Netflix hit. That is, if creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has anything to say about it. The series boss recently opened up about what he would do if he was able to make a spin-off show, and honestly, we’re into it.
“If I make [a] spin off, it will be a story happening between Season 1 and 2,” Hwang revealed to Indiewire on the Gotham Awards red carpet recently. “There [was] a three years gap between Season 1 and 2. So, I want to show what they did for those times.”
We also want to know. Hwang also noted that his brain was processing the story as a whole while writing Season 2, so he couldn’t help but come up with Season 3 as well. “After I finished the whole season, the first season,” he explained to the outlet. “... I tried to come up with the idea of Season 2 and 3 at the same time.” In that way, it makes complete sense that he’s already coming up with ideas for a spin-off.
That said, Season 3 is about to be so scary that we’re not even going to be able to focus on the idea that we might be getting a spin-off series.
“In Season 1, we had lots of games like Tug of War that really utilized height and the fear that this height gives, but in the case of Season 2, we didn’t have that element,” Hwang told Entertainment Weekly in a recent interview. “That is why in Season 3, I decided to introduce games that could really infuse fear in people with sheer height.”
He also explained to the outlet that he wanted the characters of Season 3 to have to do things no human being would ever want to do — which certainly ups the stakes for the final season. “In the case of Season 3, I wanted to introduce games that could really show the lowest bottom of human beings, because the series itself is reaching its climax,” he said. “I wanted very intense games to bring out the bottom parts of human nature.”
Squid Game Season 3, which Hwang has confirmed is the last entry for the show, returns to Netflix on June 27, 2025.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
Sony's PlayStation Days of Play sale is in full swing, offering big discounts on PS5 consoles, PS VR2s, PlayStation games, DualSense controllers, accessories, and more.
Running from now until the 11th of June, there are not only bargains to be found at PlayStation Direct, but among plenty of retailers getting in on the offers as well:
While a lot of the products getting price cuts are quite similar across these online stores, some have trimmed off more than others, presumably to undercut the competition. On the other hand, there are some particular gems to find at certain outlets as well.
Although you can click any of the store links above to browse through their full selections yourself, we've scoured them all on your behalf and listed the best deals below.
DualSense Controllers as Low as £44
While a DualSense controller comes with every PS5 console, you usually need around £60 for another to either add a player #2 or add one of the new colourful designs to your set-up.
Every retailer has taken at least £10 off all their DualSense listings, but EE is the big winner here by selling their White and Black controllers for only £44.
Added Discounts on the DualSense Edge
The pro-grade DualSense Edge controller for the PS5 has had at least £10 taken off across listings at multiple retailers, too. In this case, though, Currys and Smyths give you the best value for money, with around £40 taken off to now only be £159.99 each.
Price Drops on PS5 & PS5 Pro
While Xbox has been boosting Series X prices, the PS5 Pro has had 45-£60 taken off its original £699.99 price off at retailers like HMV, ShopTo, Smyths, Argos, and PS Direct.
Smyths currently has the best price at £639.99, but HMV and Currys is your next best bet if it sell out there. If you need a disc drive, many retailers have finally lowered their prices to £69.99, following Sony's announcement earlier this year.
Meanwhile, EE will give you the best price on a standard PS5 Slim (with disc drive) at only £379.99, a whole £100 off.
Deals on the PSVR2
After having already dropped by £130 in March 2025, Days of Play is cutting the price on the PSVR2 even further to now go for as low as £349 at almost all of our mentioned retailers (except EE), with Amazon and Currys giving the best price on the individual system.
PS Direct, however, gives you the best deal overall at £354.99, since it you can buy the bundle including Horizon Call of the Mountain for just over an extra fiver.
The Best Deals on PS5 & PS4 Games
Participating Days of Play retailers have added a lot of deals on PS5 & PS4 games, but the biggest slash is currently almost 50% off The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. Well-timed for season 2 of the HBO adaptation just ending, this is the perfect opportunity to dive into what's arguably Naughty Dog's best game in recent years.
Like in the US Days of Play sale, a good number of pounds have been taken off premium accessories like the PS5 Pulse Earbuds, the accessiblity controller, and console covers.
Money Off a 12-Month PS Plus Membership & Gift Cards
Normally £119.99, PS Direct has taken 33% off its year-long PS Plus Memberships to now only £80.39.
What's more, ShopTo has reduced prices on PlayStation Store gift cards. So, for example, you could buy the £100 gift card for £87.85, buy your 12-month membership, then save the remaining £20.61 to spend on a game in the PS Store's Days of Play digital game sale.
Ben Williams – IGN freelance contributor with over 10 years of experience covering gaming, tech, film, TV, and anime. Follow him on Twitter/X @BenLevelTen.
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