There were a ton of new LEGO sets released last week, but some of the most popular ones available aren't meant to be built until the holiday season. A total of six LEGO Advent calendars for 2025 were just released on September 1, but both Amazon and Walmart are already offering pretty nice discounts. If you are looking for a fun alternative to the usual candy-filled Advent calendars you or your kids usually open in December, these LEGO versions are an absolute delight.

Only some of the new Advent calendars are currently getting a significant discount, however. Both the LEGO City and LEGO Friends options are getting pretty big price reductions well ahead of the holidays. These were already the least expensive of the bunch due to not being directly tied to an outside IP, so the price cut just makes them even more affordable. The other calendars are getting slight discounts at Walmart only, so you can save on those as well if you're willing to spend a bit more.

LEGO Advent Calendar Sale at Amazon

Oscar winner Michael Caine, age 92, will come out of retirement to make a sequel to a movie he did with Vin Diesel a decade ago.

According to Variety, The Last Witch Hunter 2 “is being fast-tracked through development at Lionsgate and Diesel’s production banner One Race Films.” Diesel will reprise his role as Kaulder and Caine as the 36th Dolan, although a deal with Caine isn’t final yet.

Caine was last seen on screen in 2023’s The Great Escaper. His storied career has seen him appear in several classics – The Man Who Would Be King, Get Carter, Alfie, Sleuth – and as a regular in the films of Christopher Nolan, including The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception.

Caine retired in 2023, saying at the time, "I keep saying I'm going to retire. Well, I am now. … I've figured, I've had a picture where I've played the lead and it's got incredible reviews. The only parts I’m likely to get now are old men...And I thought, well I might as well leave with all this — what have I got to do to beat this?"

Apparently, for Caine, The Last Witch Hunter 2 beats being retired.

If you're looking for an affordable high-capacity power bank that will fast charge your Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, or Apple iPhone 16, then check out today's deal. Amazon is offering an Iniu 20,000mAh 22.5W Power Bank for just $15.29 after you apply promo code "B642JBPO". Iniu power banks are well reviewed and are less expensive than Anker models.

Iniu 20,000mAh 22.5W USB Power Bank for $15.29

The Conjuring is one of the most popular horror franchises of all time and the latest film appears to be as popular as ever. The Conjuring: Last Rites had a huge opening weekend at the box office, raking in $187 million. The new film, marketed as the final entry in the Conjuring series, once again follows paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren as they take on one last case. For our take on the film, you can check out IGN's review for more details.

If the box office success and reviews aren't enough to coax you into a movie theater, the good news is that you can already preorder a physical copy of the film. Both The Conjuring: Last Rites limited edition steelbook and the standard 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD editions are all now available to buy. According to the Amazon listing, they will all be released on March 18, 2026—but the actual release date will likely be much earlier than that.

The Conjuring: Last Rites - Where to Preorder

Alienware's new mainstream gaming laptop for 2025 is dubbed the "Alienware Aurora" and comes in two 16" models: the 16 and 16X. The 16X is the superior of the two and is on sale right now. Dell is currently offering the Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU and GeForce RTX 5070 mobile GPU for $1,549.99 after a $350 instant discount. That's the lowest price I've seen so far for the Aurora 16X laptop and RTX 5070 GPU combo.

Alienware 16X Aurora RTX 5070 Gaming Laptop for $1,549.99

Amazon outlet Woot is offering a bunch of video games on sale right now, with some of 2025’s biggest releases on sale.

Arguably, the biggest is Monster Hunter Wilds, which sees more than half of its MSRP sliced off with an Insect Glaive, bringing Capcom’s creature-slaying title down to just $29.99 on Xbox Series X.

This Woot Deal Is Great for 2025 Game Releases

Bambu Lab is widely considered one of the better consumer 3D printer brands on the market. It offers a few different models that cater to a wide audience, from the fledgling first-timer testing out a new hobby to the seasoned professonal looking to produce en masse. One of their most popular models, the Bambu X1C Combo 3D Printer is currently on sale for $999.99 after a $250 off instant discount. Free delivery is included with as fast as next day arrival. This is Bambu's flagship CoreXY 3D printer and even includes the AMS module for multi-filament (multi-color) printing.

Bambu X1C Combo 3D Printer for $999.99

In honor of today, September 8, being Star Trek Day, Paramount has launched two new Star Trek streaming projects and announced a slew of partnerships and content plans to promote the 60th anniversary of the original TV series next year.

The scripted podcast series Star Trek: Khan launched today on all major podcast platforms, as well as on the official Star Trek YouTube channel. New episodes will drop weekly on Mondays through November 3.

IGN previously revealed that Lost’s Naveen Andrews voices the iconic Khan Noonien Singh while For All Mankind’s Wrenn Schmidt voices his wife, Marla McGivers. Star Trek: Voyager’s Tim Russ voices Ensign Tuvok while The Original Series’ George Takei voices Captain Sulu. Sonya Cassidy voices Dr. Rosalind Lear.

The franchise’s first preschool project, Star Trek: Scouts, also premiered today. The original animated YouTube-first series was developed and produced by Nickelodeon Digital Studio in association with CBS Studios. The episodes run 3-4 minutes in length. The trailer can be seen here.

According to the official synopsis, “Star Trek: Scouts follows three 8-year-old friends, JR, Sprocket and Roo, as they train to become future Starfleet Explorers by going on epic, out-of-this-world missions that push them to ‘discover, grow and boldly go!’”

Two episodes are available now on Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines YouTube channel. The remainder of the 20-episode order will continue to roll out into 2026.

In other Star Trek Day news, the Lego Group and Paramount announced their first-ever collaboration via a first look teaser showing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in brick form.

Meanwhile, WEBTOON will publish Star Trek digital comics described as “original stories that touch on universal genres and themes based in the world of Star Trek.”

For more Trekkin’, discover why Star Trek: The Last Starship is the must-read sci-fi comic of 2025, get the skinny on the new VR game Star Trek: Infection, and boldly go find out what we know so far about the new show Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which premieres in early 2026.

The official online hub for Star Trek’s 60th anniversary can be found here.

Aside from a confused, misguided mish-mash of different and poorly executed ideas that take turns setting up rakes for itself to step on, Lost Soul Aside is an enjoyable character action game. I’ve had a blast in battles and boss fights, but too often in between them I had to slog through a repetitive story plagued with unmemorable characters, levels peppered with awkward platforming, and puzzles that would make the shape-matching challenges you’d give to a toddler look like rocket science, all disguised in a deceptively flashy package.

Originality is fleeting in games, a medium where ideas and innovations blur the line between craft, technology, business, and art. That’s especially true in the ever-wider tent of high-budget fantasy action games with flashy combos and light RPG elements. And normally, that’s not an issue; even a competent take on a character action game inspired by the likes of Bayonetta or Devil May Cry is probably going to provide some fluffy, inoffensive fun – and to its credit, Lost Soul Aside is more than competent as an action game. But in clearly borrowing and worsening ideas from multiple recent Final Fantasy games in particular, it’s not attempting an idea of its own that didn’t work out; it’s doing something badly that begs comparison to games that got the same ideas right, some of them nearly a decade ago.

That’s what drove me up the wall during my playthrough. I feel like I’ve been playing the product of boardroom meetings held a week after Final Fantasy XV or VII Remake came out where the discussion was on how to capitalize on their success, rather than a passion project made by a team paying homage to those games. From a we-have-Noctis-at-home main character (named Kaser), to the story’s setup feeling awfully familiar, to the structure and scale of each level resembling a pared-down Final Fantasy VII Remake, with all of it peppered with uninteresting extra puzzles and platforming challenges, I found something new to sigh at around every corner – and trust me, that’s not because I was swooning over the bad-boy protagonist.

Set in a sci-fi/fantasy world where a mysterious alien energy has been harnessed to fuel an all-powerful empire, Lost Soul Aside opens with a premonition that humanity is soon to face its darkest days and that a savior will rise to the occasion. Then, you’re thrust into an opening segment where you’re introduced to an underground resistance organization run from a poor neighborhood in the capital city as they carry out an open act of defiance against the empire – sound familiar? If it doesn’t you should play Final Fantasy 7 instead, because it’s done better there and this retelling doesn’t do anything interesting or original with it.

Doled out through occasionally dazzling, action-packed cutscenes but mostly in significantly less impressive, awkward dialogue sequences, the story is highly repetitive. Every opportunity for a twist or tonal shift is squandered in favor of a straightforward, black-and-white tale that doesn’t feel like it’s about anything other than wanting to be like other RPGs. Lost Soul Aside doesn’t use its roughly 16-hour runtime efficiently enough for any characters to grow. Instead, it flings proper noun after proper noun at you, hoping that one of its many side characters will make an impression. But this story’s rhythm moves too quickly for anybody to exist beyond cartoonish caricature at best. Being generous, maybe their memorable characteristics were lost in the English translation, but maybe they were never there to begin with.

Its individual story moments come in a similarly offbeat meter, with awkward animations and mostly flat voice acting filling in its hours’ worth of basic, over-the-shoulder dialogue segments. All of it is delivered by characters who often fall into unflattering RPG cliches (like a scantily clad woman who looks and acts like a teenager but is actually hundreds of years old or a gruff, emo protagonist who’d fit in with a boyband and has a mysterious backstory and a penchant for kicking ass) without playing with or evolving these ideas in any discernible way.

With a better localization, more lively voice direction, or a stronger commitment to the bit, Lost Soul Aside could perhaps have nailed the same B-movie-like campy charm worn so well by the action games that so clearly inspired its better parts. Instead, it’s somehow both half-hearted and overserious. Kaser and his dragon-like sidekick Lord Arena eventually share a few moments that bent the edges of my lips into a smirk, but it takes so long for the pair to hit their stride that I was mostly checked out from the story and there only for the action by the time their dynamic clicked.

Combat in Lost Soul Aside acts as a palette cleanser for the uninteresting story. Kaser hacks and slashes through enemies with stylish flair, using the genre-standard light and heavy attack buttons. Mixing the two together with different timing and order will open up new combos, and you can unlock even more using skill points to fill out branches on a skill tree. With a choice between four different weapons – sword, greatsword, poleblade, and scythe – each has its own skill path and playstyle. And switching them on the fly mid-combo opens up an expressive, varied tree of attacks catered to a range of playstyles. The polearm, for example, works well at long range, where the greatsword is best for dealing satisfying, heavy blows. My favorite was the standard sword, though; an all-around, quick, agile weapon with solid ranged and melee attacks, it’s remained my go-to for cutting up legions of invading Voidrax beings during the duration of my playthrough.

Supplemented by additional mechanics like the combo-extending Burst Pursuit that allows you to throw out big finishers after a combo or the Witch Time-like perfect dodge that nets you a different, powerful attack for each weapon, requisite – though cleverly restrained – parry, and the Arena powers that let you throw out big, area-of-effect attacks that work well for resetting the battlefield, Lost Soul Aside’s combat system is the star of the show. Even against largely unmemorable enemies, I’m really enjoying experimenting with new combinations and powers as Kaser and Arena’s flashy animations dazzled during longer sequences.

The boss fights that cap off parts of each level make for even more stylish encounters. While bigger opponents play with scale, throwing out massive, arena-sweeping attacks, others are more nimble duels to the finish against human-sized opponents. Nearly every fight culminates in an exciting finale. Dosed with just the right amount of toothy challenge, each battle provided the right kind of brain-tickling, thrilling showdown as I dodged and weaved between attacks before wailing on their stagger meter to deal a special Sync Finisher on my dazed opponent.

I did find an odd pain point in some of these fights, though: There’s not enough feedback when Kaser takes damage from some smaller swings. So as I’m wailing away at a bad guy seemingly doing well, I’ll glance down at my health bar and it’s significantly lower than I thought it would be because I didn’t know that I’d taken any damage in the first place. Thankfully, Kaser and Arena are talky enough that you'll hear about it once your health is really low, and those barks stand out against the otherwise-repetitive battle chatter.

Unfortunately, Lost Soul Aside isn’t a pure boss-rush combat gauntlet, and the rest of the gameplay between each fight isn’t nearly as compelling. Most of the levels are made up of a linear, boring series of corridors with occasional “open” areas that add an extra platforming “challenge” or two to the mix. Sure, there might be a basic puzzle or treasure chest around a corner (though I used almost none of the crafting materials accumulated during my playthrough because the rewards didn’t improve my stats enough to bother with), but nothing I’ve seen so far has really come close to justifying its existence beyond drab padding between battles. Its high-fidelity, visually detailed spaces mask simple, homogenous non-combat challenges and empty chambers that toss a few unrewarding pickups your way, seemingly just to break things up.

That makes sense, considering most of the level progression and exploration is marked by boring and simple paths where you mostly just walk forward until the next fight, broken up with a simple puzzle here or there. It was nothing offensive.... until the platforming reared its ugly head. At multiple points during Lost Soul Aside I found myself jumping through platforming segments that could make even the Plinko and Chuckster levels that make up the dregs of Super Mario Sunshine look like a blast. Plagued with imprecise running and walking, floaty jumps with laggy-feeling animations, poor feedback, a claustrophobic field of view, and a barely visible shadow, I am truly shocked at the low-quality platforming I endured to get from fight to fight. Some of it was optional, but I still had to do a lot to complete any given level. Thankfully, I could find ways to cheese certain annoying segments, but don’t expect to see anyone at GDQ showing off Lost Soul Aside speedrunning techniques; these are tourniquets used to slow fatal bleeding, not expressive tools indicative of a mechanically deep platformer.

It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since Marvel published the original Planet Hulk storyline. This hugely influential tale saw Hulk dragged across space to battle for his life on the wartorn world of Sakaar, eventually rising from gladiator to king. That journey has had a profound influence on Marvel's comic book line, including paving the way for 2007's World War Hulk crossover, and its influence can be felt in the MCU even now.

To celebrate Planet Hulk's 20th birthday, Marvel has reassembled some of the original creative team - including writer Greg Pak, artist Carlo Pagulayan, and editor Mark Paniccia - to craft a new adventure set on Sakaar. Return to Planet Hulk #1 is a one-shot special that takes place during the original storyline. It promises to add even greater depth to a modern Marvel classic.

To learn more about how this special connects to the original run, IGN spoke with Pak via email. Check out an exclusive preview of Return to Planet Hulk #1 in the slideshow gallery below, then read on to learn more:

20 years ago, Pak couldn't have known just how big an impact Planet Hulk would have on the Marvel Universe. We asked him why he thinks Planet Hulk has resonated so strongly over the years.

"It's always a little presumptuous for a writer to talk about what makes their own work popular, ha ha!" Pak tells IGN. "But, of course, we wouldn't be anywhere without the incredible art, coloring, and lettering of Carlo Pagulayan, Aaron Lopresti, Ladronn, Chris Sotomayor, Randy Gentile, Joe Caramagna, and everyone else who worked on the book."

Pak continues, "I think there's also always juice in a story in which the strongest hero is somehow the biggest outcast and underdog. And there's a tremendous feeling when a character thought of as a monster has the chance to step up for others and become a true hero. So Planet Hulk delivers on all that vicarious glory. But it's also a Hulk story, which means it's about the price of anger, no matter how righteous that anger is. So it's also a tragedy, and I think that's honestly a huge part of its attraction. It's emotionally raw and honest and I think folks have appreciated that. I'm also enormously grateful to all the Hulk writers and artists who preceded us and laid the groundwork for this kind of story and all the readers who embraced it so wholeheartedly. You never really know how a book will be received, and when everything really hits, and it's overwhelming in the best of ways to know how much the story has meant to so many people. THANK YOU!"

Pak reveals that he was the catalyst behind Return to Planet Hulk, as he reached out to Marvel after realizing the 20th anniversary was approaching and developing the nugget of an idea for a way to revisit the original book.

"The world of Planet Hulk is always kicking around somewhere in the back of my head," Pak says. "So when I realized that the 20th anniversary was coming up, I shot a note off to Marvel and after a while Mark Paniccia, the brilliant editor of the original Planet Hulk run, reached out and said they had this one-shot approved. The big challenge was figuring out a spot in the storyline where an untold story could actually work. The original story is very tight, and we didn't want to add something that didn't provide additional resonance."

Pak continues, "Eventually we realized there was a sweet spot shortly after the end of issue #95, the fourth chapter in the saga, where the Hulk has freed the enslaved gladiators but hasn't quite settled into his role as an actual leader. This felt like a great place to explore the Hulk's conflicted ideas -- the possibility that he might refuse this call to adventure, this demand to be a hero -- in the deepest wasteland of the Twisted Wood. It's pretty darn great -- dontcha dare miss it!"

Select Asus Prime RTX 50 series graphics cards have dropped back down to original launch pricing on Amazon. In fact, one of the models - the RTX 5070 - is actually discounted below MSRP. If you have an RTX 30 series card or even older, now would be a good time to upgrade. We don't know whether or not inventory or pricing will stay stable forever, especially with tariffs raising prices on everything else. Also, older RTX 40 series cards are not as readily available nor are they cheap, so trying to save money on a prior generation card isn't as viable an alternative as it used to be.

The Asus Prime is Asus' budget lineup of GPUs. It's easily the best bang for your buck because it offers the same performance of higher end models but without flashy RGB LED effects, oversized space-constraining heatsinks, or negligible overclocks. The 2.5-slot design is slimmer than your average triple-fan cooler (so it can fit in small form factor PCs), but it's still superior to the dual-fan designs on budget models from other brands. A triple-fan cooler doesn't have to work as hard as a dual-fan cooler to keep temps down, and so they can run at a slower and quieter fan speed.

Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 GPU for $523.79

With streaming prices going up and movies and TV shows hopping from one service to another without warning, it's a good time to own your favorites on physical media. Whether it's to ensure you can always watch them regardless of what streaming services you subscribe to, or you just enjoy the act of collecting, it's good to know when the newest releases are coming out on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. You know, as long as you have a good way to play them (see our list of the best Blu-ray players for help on that front). Below, you'll find a full rundown of release dates and buy links for all the upcoming home releases you're likely to care about.

Biggest New and Upcoming 4K UHD and Blu-ray Releases

If you want a TL;DR of the biggest upcoming home movie and TV show releases, look no further than the list above. We keep it updated and change out the featured items regularly. Below, you'll find all the notable upcoming release sorted by release date.

September 2025 4K and Blu-ray Releases

September 9

• Ballerina: From the World of John Wick - Standard | Steelbook
• Elio - Buy It
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - Buy It
• Jurassic World Rebirth - Steelbook | Standard
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (4K) - Buy It
• Little House on the Prairie: Complete Series - Buy It
• Materialists - Buy It
• Ouija: Limited Edition 4K Steelbook - Buy It
• Uzumaki Limited Edition - Buy It
• Elio - Steelbook (or watch it on digital)

September 16

• Cinderella Man (4K) - Buy It
• Halloween: Limited-Edition Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Halloween II: Limited-Edition Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Hotel Rwanda - Buy It
• Krull (4K) - Buy It
• This Is Spinal Tap (Criterion) - Buy It
• Tron - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Tron: Legacy - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It

September 23

• 007 - Diamonds are Forever (4K) - Buy It
• 007 - Dr. No (4K) - Buy It
• 007 - From Russia With Love (4K) - Buy It
• 007 - Goldfinger (4K) - Buy It
• 007 - Thunderball (4K) - Buy It
• 007 - You Only Live Twice (4K) - Buy It
• 28 Years Later - Steelbook | Standard
• Airplane II: The Sequel 4K (4K) - Buy It
• Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires - Buy It
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Buy It
• Chucky: The Complete Series - Buy It
• Corpse Bride: Limited-Edition Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Flow (Criterion) - Buy It
• The Last of Us: Complete Second Season - Steelbook | Standard
• Megan 2.0 - Steelbook | Standard
• Megan 2-Movie Collection - Buy It
• Night of the Living Dead (1990) - Steelbook - Buy It
• Superman (2025) - Buy It (see preorder guide)

September 30

• American Pie (4K) - Standard | Steelbook
• Becoming Led Zeppelin - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Bride of Frankenstein (4K) - Buy It
• Castlevania: Complete Series - Buy It (see preorder guide)
• Dracula: Complete Legacy Collection (4K) - Buy It
• The French Dispatch - Criterion - Buy It
• Isle of Dogs - Criterion - Buy It
• The Life of Chuck - Buy It
• A Nightmare on Elm Street: 7-Film Collection (4K) - Steelbook | Standard
• The Wes Anderson Archive: 10 Films, 25 Years (Criterion, 4K) - Buy It

October 2025 4K and Blu-ray Releases

October 7

• Aeon Flux - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• The Bad Guys 2 - Buy It
• Child's Play (1988): Limited Edition Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Clue - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• The Dark Crystal - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• End Of Days: 25th Anniversary Edition (4K) - Buy It
• Five Nights at Freddy's – Ultimate Collector's Edition SteelBook (4K) - Buy It
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) - Steelbook
• Labyrinth - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Mortal Kombat - Buy It
• Nobody 2 - Buy It
• Peanuts: 75th Anniversary Ultimate TV Specials Collection - Buy It
• The Quick and the Dead (4K) - Buy It
• Rocky Horror Picture Show - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Scarface – Ultimate Collector's Edition SteelBook (4K) - Buy It
• Spawn (4K) - Buy It
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Criterion) - Buy It

October 14

• Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection - Buy It
• Back to the Future Trilogy (4K) - Buy It
• Back to the Future - Steelbook - Buy It
• Back to the Future II - Steelbook - Buy It
• Back to the Future III - Steelbook - Buy It
• The Bone Collector (4K) - Buy It
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Steelbook) - Buy It
• Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning - Standard | Steelbook
• Weapons - Buy It

October 21

• Altered States - Criterion Collection - Buy It
• EVANGELION: 1.11 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE - Buy It
• EVANGELION: 2.22 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE - Buy It
• The Place Beyond the Pines (4K) - Buy It
• Savages (4K) - Buy It
• Superman 5-Film Collection (4K) - Buy It

October 28

• Arcane League Of Legends: Season 2 - Steelbook - Buy It
• Catch-22 - Buy It
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Hush - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Mega Man: The Complete Series - Buy It
• Nightmare Alley - Criterion (4K) - Buy It
• Shin Godzilla (4K) - Standard | Steelbook
• Smurfs - Buy It
• Trick R Treat - Steelbook (4K) - Buy It

November 2025 4K and Blu-ray Releases

November 4

• The Breakfast Club - Criterion Collection (4K) - Buy It
• Hard Boiled (4K) - Buy It
• John Carpenter's Vampires Steelbook (4K) - Buy It
• Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (4K) - Buy It

November 11

• Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection (4K) - Buy It
• Creepshow: Complete Series - Buy It
• Goodbye, Columbus - Buy It
• House Party - Criterion Collection (4K) - Buy It
• The Mask - Limited Edition (4K) - Buy It
• The Naked Gun (2025) - Buy It
• Renfield (4K) Steelbook - Buy It
• Rick and Morty: Season Eight - Buy It
• Snowden (4K) - Buy It
• Spotlight (4K) - Buy It
• Together - Buy It

November 18

• A Better Tomorrow Trilogy (4K) - Buy It
• Red Planet (4K) - Buy It
• Yellowstone: The Complete Series - Buy It

November 25

• Attack on Titan - Final Season Complete - Steelbook - Buy It
• The Beastmaster - Collector's Edition (4K) - Buy It
• Eyes Wide Shut - Criterion Collection (4K) - Buy It

December 2025 4K and Blu-ray Releases

December 16

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy - Limited Edition (4K) - Buy It

TBA 4K and Blu-Ray Releases

• Caught Stealing - Buy It
• The Conjuring: Last Rites - Standard | Steelbook
• The Toxic Avenger - Standard | Steelbook

Want more release dates? Check out our mega-post of all the biggest video game release dates to see what's coming to consoles and PC this year and beyond.

What's the Difference Between 4K and Blu-ray?

The distinction between 4K and Blu-ray is mostly about resolution. A standard Blu-ray disc will usually offer 1080p resolution whereas a 4K disc will offer 2160p resolution. And while all Blu-ray players will be able to play those 1080p discs, not every machine is equipped for 4K.

Best 4K TVs

If you're looking to buy a new TV that will make your 4K movies shine, you'll definitely want to take a look at our favorites. Our tech editors have selected the best 4K TVs for gaming, which will also work great for movie-watching. And since both the PS5 and Xbox Series X have 4K Blu-ray play-back built in, you'll probably be doing plenty of gaming on them as well.

LG C5 OLED Smart Gaming TV

It’s another week, and that means it’s time to take a look at the Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers as we close in on the release of Spider-Man less than two months since Edge of Eternities.

This time around, our climbers are a nice eclectic mix of cards from sets from 2024 and 2025, as well as a rapidly climbing space dragon. Intrigued? You should be. Let’s go!

Climbing

Let’s start with the space dragon, then, with Nova Hellkite available for just a few cents the other day and now reaching almost $3 in market value in climbing.

Finally, for our climbers this week, Seize the Spotlight is seeing what could be described as a meteoric rise.

The sorcery, which can allow you to take control of opponents’ cards or draw and create treasure, was $4 not long ago but is now around $9 and could climb further.

Crashing

As we approach the end of Edge of Eternities, cards from this year’s sets are starting to drop in value.

I have some good news and some bad news for retro gamers. The good news is that LEGO has released an awesome set that re-creates the classic SEGA Genesis controller (see it at LEGO Store). It even houses an incredibly cool Sonic the Hedgehog easter egg. That’s the good news. The bad news is, it’s only available between now and September 17, and to get this set, you have to spend $130+ at the LEGO Store.

That’s because the LEGO SEGA Genesis Controller set is a Gift With Purchase. GWP sets are generally smaller sets that are not available to purchase separately. They’re only available by buying a particular set or reaching a certain price threshold at the LEGO Store. The threshold here is $130, but I tested it and thankfully a $129.99 set also works. However, it doesn’t apply to preorders, only to in-stock sets. It’s also worth highlighting that this set is also only available while supplies last. I’ve seen many GWP sets sell out well before their end date.

Here are some set ideas to rack up your LEGO Store total:

The LEGO SEGA Genesis Controller set (say that five times fast) is comprised of 260 pieces and aimed at the 18+ age category, making it a LEGO set for adults. It’s meant for display rather than play (hence the 18+ age designation). It comes with a buildable stand and looks pretty much just like the controller you remember playing Genesis on.

On the back of the controller is a microscale scene from Sonic the Hedgehog. It’s a cleverly designed 2D view of Sonic rolling through a loop in the Green Hill Zone. It also comes with regional stickers to decorate the face of the controller.

To get this Genesis GWP, you can spend $130 on a single set, or on multiple sets that add up to that amount. Above, I’ve gone ahead and highlighted some sets you may be interested in if you’re a SEGA Genesis fan. If you want more options, feel free to peruse the LEGO Store’s full catalog here.

Some of the best retro gaming sets are based on Nintendo. There’s an awesome Mairo & Yoshi set that I put together for a We Build article that costs $129.99, exactly enough to get you the free GWP. It’s my favorite LEGO set that I own, and I have it sitting right here on my desk.

There are also some cool Sonic-themed sets you can pick up to get the controller. For instance, buying the Shadow the Hedgehog bust, plus the Sonic Command Truck, puts you over the $130 mark.

Unfortunately, preorders don't count toward the $130, so the LEGO Game Boy is a no-go for it. Neither is the LEGO Willy Wonka set, which comes out the day after the Genesis controller GWP goes away. However, if the controller stays in stock, you will be able to get it with LEGO Jack Sparrow's Pirate Ship, if that's a set you've had an eye (patch) on. Basically, as with all things, do whatever makes sense for you.

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