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AMD Adrenalin 25.9.1 Driver Released for Borderlands 4 & Hell is Us

AMD has just released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the red team, the AMD Adrenalin 25.9.1 driver offers optimal performance in Borderlands 4 and Hell is Us. So, if you are planning to play these two games, you should upgrade your driver. AMD claims that with this driver, AMD owners will … Continue reading AMD Adrenalin 25.9.1 Driver Released for Borderlands 4 & Hell is Us

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Woot Has Big Deals on 2025 Gaming Releases, Including Monster Hunter Wilds for Under $30

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

In our review of Wilds, Tom Marks said “Monster Hunter Wilds continues to smooth off the rougher corners of the series in smart ways, making for some extremely fun fights but also lacking any real challenge.”

While Monster Hunter has already sold out on Xbox, there are other deals, too.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge on PS4 is down to $9.99, a saving of 71%.

Reviewer Mitchell Saltzman gave the retro-styled adventure 8 out of 10 in his review, saying “Shredder's Revenge more than lives up to the legacy of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games that inspired it.”

“Its fun, yet simple gameplay, excellent coop for up to six players online, and charming pixel-based art style will surely have 90s kids riding the wave of nostalgia all the way to its end.”

Switch gamers can enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection at a 64% discount, which includes no fewer than FOURTEEN classic games from the series earliest, well, days. It’s just $17.99 now.

Finally, not only is Avowed discounted, but it’s the slick Premium Edition Steelbook version. So, not only do you get a fun fantasy RPG with flexible combat, but you also get a great-looking case, a map, additional skins, and digital versions of the soundtrack and artbook. It’s now $39.99.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.

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Save $250 Off the Bambu X1C Combo CoreXY 3D Printer with AMS Module at Best Buy

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

The Bambu X1C (X1 Carbon) is Bambu's most popular CoreXY printer. In a CoreXY printer, only the print head moves while the motors are permanently fixed. Since the motors are generally the heaviest component, this improves print speed and precision. The X1C is full assembled and factory calibrated, which means you can set it up and print your first piece in minutes. The chamber is fully enclosed, which allows for a more controlled environment (and thus a more consistent product) compared to an open chamber. It boasts an acceleration speed of up to 20,000 mm/s² and can print a benchy in about 16 minute and 30 seconds. A camera monitors the printing process and records timelapse photos. Other features include dual auto bed leveling, spaghetti failure detection, vibration compensation, and AI inspected first layer.

The X1C Combo includes the AMS module. The Automatic Material System (AMS) manages up to 16 different filament spools so you can change materials or colors on the fly. It normally retails for $350, so it's best to get it in this bundle especially if you plan on getting it anyway in the long run.

Need more options? Check out our other favorite 3D printers.

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.

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Star Trek Day Marks Launch of Khan Podcast Series and Franchise's First Preschool Animated Show

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.

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Lost Soul Aside Review

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.

Sound familiar? If it doesn’t you should play Final Fantasy 7 instead.

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.

Lost Soul Aside’s combat system is the star of the show.

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.

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Marvel Returns to Planet Hulk for the Story's 20th Anniversary

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!"

As eager as Pak was to revisit the Planet Hulk setting, he was also adamant that he wouldn't do so without his original collaborators on board. Luckily, Pagulayan and Paniccia were only too happy to return to Sakaar with him.

"This was key," Pak says. "Mark and I were thick as thieves throughout that entire run, and I couldn't conceive of doing something like this without him. And Carlo and Aaron Lopresti tag teamed on the art throughout the storyline. Carlo drew those first four issues and it feels so great to get him drawing this one shot that follows immediately after them. Watching those pages roll in was honestly surreal -- felt like we were all transported two decades back in time."

Naturally, the flashback premise allows Pak to reconnect with some of the key characters from the original Planet Hulk run. Don't expect major players like the Red King or Hulk's bride-to-be Caiera to show up, however. Given that this issue takes place fairly early in the Planet Hulk saga, it's not the right time for those characters to show up.

"The story we tackled didn't end up including Caiera or the Red King -- it's a bit early in the epic for them," Pak says. "But I can tease that we explore an entire community of creatures on Sakaar that we didn't have the chance to explore so deeply in the original storyline. That's a thrill and adds another nuance to how the Hulk is perceived on Sakaar and how he perceives himself."

Return to Planet Hulk #1 will be released on October 8, 2025. You can preorder a copy at your local comic shop.

In other Hulk news, Mark Ruffalo recently revealed he hasn't read a script for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, despite pervasive rumors that Hulk will appear in the sequel.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on BlueSky.

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Asus The Prime RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards Are Back Down to MSRP (The RTX 5070 Is Below MSRP)

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

Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU for $749.99

Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5080 GPU for $899.99

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.

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Upcoming 4K UHD and Blu-ray Release Dates

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

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

September 30

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

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

The LG G5 is currently our top pick for a gaming TV, but the price on those refelcts their quality. Which is to say they're really expensive. If you want a deal on a terrific TV in a more reasonable price range, you might want to consider picking an LG C3, which costs significantly less for the same size TV. Get the one that best fits your needs and your budget.

Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert at IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed.

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The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - September 8

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.

Why the climb? Well, as TCGPlayer points out, the card featured in a mono-red deck that won the Magic Spotlight Series: Planetary Rotation, and it’ll likely keep doing well until it’s rotated out of standard eventually.

That same deck also featured our second climber, the Razorkin Needlehead from Duskmourn, House of Horror (a set that doesn’t get enough live in my humble opinion).

This creepy customer has first strike on your turn and deals 1 damage when your opponent draws a card, meaning you’re constantly pinging them for damage with a card that costs two red to cast.

It’s now up to over $8, having been less than $3 not long ago.

Next up, a bit of an ‘odd couple’. Temur Battlecrier is, as we say in the UK, ‘cheap as chips’. It’s a three-cost card that lowers the cost of your spells if you have some big creatures out, but its value is on the up thanks to an appearance in an MTGO Standard Challenge.

It pairs with Outcaster Trailblazer, which is likely to see a spike as a result. This other half of the dynamic duo gives you mana when it enters, triggers the four power requirement of Temur Battlecrier to make spells cheaper, and as you bring in additional cards with four or more power, you get a card to draw, too.

If you want to put this combo together, Outcast Trailblazer will cost you under a dollar right now, but expect it to climb.

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.

The first one that’s worth mentioning is the Mythic rarity Ugin, Eye of the Storms from Tarkir: Dragonstorm.

This powerful colorless Planeswalker has a lot to like, and it’s dropping from over $30 to just over $20 at the time of writing.

Sticking with dragons, I wanted to point out Atarka, World Render. She’s a 6/4 dragon that was my first ever Commander, but she’s now just 35 cents.

Given there’s always some fun to be had with dragons, that’s a low cost to give them double strike.

Icetill Explorer from Edge of Eternities is finally dropping, having been over $20 in recent weeks, and you can grab it for just $12 right now.

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut was the talk of the town not long ago, but he’s down to just $5 now if you want the slick borderless art version.

Finally, he’s still causing carnage in standard, but at least Vivi Ornitier is now just under $35.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.

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LEGO SEGA Genesis Controller Is Now Available – But Only as a Gift With Purchase

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.

Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert for IGN. He also runs IGN's board game and LEGO coverage. You can follow him on Bluesky.

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The Acer Nitro 60 Gaming PC with GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU Drops to Just $1,799.99 at Walmart

Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards are dropping back down in price, and fortunately that means prebuilt gaming PCs are becoming more affordable as well. Currently, Walmart is offering the Acer Nitro 60 gaming PC, featuring an Intel Core i7 CPU and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, for just $1,799.99 with free delivery. This is one of the lowest prices I've seen for a well-equipped 5070 Ti prebuilt with a generous amount of RAM and SSD storage out of the box.

Acer Nitro 60 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming PC for $1,800

The Acer Nitro 60 gaming PC is equipped with an Intel Core i7-14700 processor, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSD. The Intel Core i7-14700 CPU has a max turbo frequency of 5.4GHz with 20 cores, 28 threads, and a 28MB L2 cache. Although one generation old, the i7-14700 is still an excellent relevant CPU for both gaming and producitivity use. It's cooled by a 120mm tower heatsink fan combo and three extra 120mm system fans.

The RTX 5070 Ti GPU Has Excellent 4K Gaming Performance

Of all the Blackwell cards released thus far, the RTX 5070 Ti offers the best bang for your buck, especially when pitted against the previous generation GPUs. It performs neck-and-neck with the RTX 4080 Super and marginalizes the RTX 5080, which is only about 10%-15% faster but costs 33% more. Like all Blackwell cards, the RTX 5070 Ti supports DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation. This GPU is capable of high framerates in nearly all games, even at 4K resolution. If you plan on using this card for AI, the RTX 5070 Ti may be a better value since it has the same amount of VRAM as the RTX 5080.

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.

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The Best MicroSD Express Cards for Nintendo Switch 2

The Nintendo Switch 2 is here! If you've grabbed one, keep in mind that it only has 256GB of storage built-in. If you want to load up on games without having to deal with uninstalling and reinstalling over and over, you’re going to want to expand that storage. Unlike the original Nintendo Switch, the new console requires a MicroSD Express card – which are faster, but more expensive than other UHS-based SD cards.

The Best MicroSD Express Cards for Switch 2 Right Now

MicroSD Express cards have been around for a while, but there are only a few on the market right now as creative professionals haven’t really found much of a use for them. However, with the Switch 2 launch, there's been a deluge of Express cards to fill that gap.

My colleagues and I are in the process of testing these cards – including that super cheap Walmart-brand one, which is fine – but if we were to recommend any based on experience, these are the MicroSD Express cards (an essential Switch 2 accessory!) we'd say to buy right now. These come from reputable manufacturers that have a track record of making excellent storage expansion cards. We'll be updating this as we play around with the Switch 2 and SD cards.

Why MicroSD Express?

Unlike many devices, the Nintendo Switch 2 is mandating a MicroSD Express card for storage expansion. Nintendo hasn’t really explained its reasoning behind the decision, but it’s not hard to see why it might want to require faster storage.

For one, the flash storage built into the system is the same kind of UFS flash that powers most smartphones. This storage is much faster than the eMMC drive in the original Switch, and it’s likely Nintendo wanted its developers to be able to count on that kind of storage speed, no matter if the game is being stored internally or on an expansion card.

The only thing you can use a regular old MicroSD card for is loading screenshots and videos you took on your first-gen Switch. That means unlike something like the PS5, which allows you to store last-generation games on slower external drives, Nintendo isn’t allowing for any wiggle room here. If you want to expand the Nintendo Switch 2 storage, you’re going to need a MicroSD Express card.

1. Lexar Play Pro

The Best MicroSD Express Card

The Lexar Play Pro is the fastest and most capacious card available. Supporting read times up to 900MB/s and storage space up to 1TB, this is handily the best MicroSD Express card out there right now. After a couple months of stock issues, you can now more reliably find this card out in the wild at the typical retailers, with some still on backorder through the end of September. Unfortunately, it is quite expensive. But if you do want the best SD card for your Switch, it’s worth investing in the Lexar Play Pro for a fast card that won't degrade quickly.

2. SanDisk MicroSD Express

Best 256GB MicroSD Express Card

I have so many SanDisk SD cards lying around, and that shouldn’t be super surprising. Over the years, SanDisk has become one of the most prolific SD card manufacturers, and now it has a MicroSD Express card. Unlike the Lexar version, SanDisk doesn’t have a fancy name for its card, and it also only goes up to 256GB, which would simply mirror the internal storage of the Nintendo Switch 2.

Still, doubling your storage isn’t a bad deal, especially if you can find this card at a lower price. It’s also not quite as fast as the Lexar Play Pro, coming in with a read speed of up to 880MB/s. That’s a minor enough disparity that you’re not going to notice any difference when you’re loading up Mario Kart World, but 20MB/s is still 20MB/s.

3. Samsung MicroSD Express for Switch 2

The Best (and Only) Official MicroSD Express Card

Samsung’s MicroSD Express card is the one that’s being sold directly by Nintendo, which definitely gives it some weight. Since it came out back in May, Samsung has released its actual speeds and feeds. This MicroSD card gets 800MB/s of read speeds, which doesn't make it the fastest SD card here, but it'll still load games plenty fast. Plus, it has Mario on the retail packaging, so that's a bonus, right?

The card does come with a 3-year warranty, but Samsung only offers it in a 256GB size. That basically doubles the initial storage of the Switch 2, but it would still be nice to see a 512GB or 1TB option for true game archival – especially as it's the official option.

At the end of the day, it being the "official" MicroSD Express card for the Switch 2 doesn't mean much. It might have received Nintendo's seal of approval, but this MicroSD card isn't going to be much different than any other card on this list, at least beyond the red paint job.

4. Onn MicroSD Express Card

Best Budget MicroSD Express Card

While it would be nice to be able to say something like "a MicroSD Express card is a MicroSD Express card," they're not all created equal. More premium cards will be able to transmit data more efficiently, while cheaper cards are obviously going to slow down a bit. But when we're talking about a 512GB SD card that is 40% cheaper than the same size option from Lexar, a slower speed might just be worth it.

Onn is Walmart's budget tech brand, and that should set some expectations right out of the gate. In fact, when we reviewed the Onn 512GB MicroSD Express card, we found that while the Nintendo Switch 2 worked with no issues, it had data transfer speeds that were a bit slower than the console's native storage. That sounds bad, and it's not great, but at the end of the day that's only going to result in maybe another second added to transfer times here and there. Definitely not the end of the world.

But what was surprising about this Onn card was that it was reliable, which is where I typically expect budget storage devices to fall flat. Throughout our testing process, performance stayed steady rather than running into the same issues that the PNY 128GB MicroSD Express card ran into. Of course, like any SD card, it'll likely degrade over time, but as long as you're not looking for long-term game archival, it'll get the job done.

MicroSD Express FAQ

How fast is MicroSD Express?

SD Express is theoretically much faster than older SD cards, and that largely comes down to how it interfaces with the device. Rather than connecting to a bespoke SD card interface, SD Express uses PCI Express 3.1, which is what SSDs use on PC.

Don’t go expecting a MicroSD Express card to be as fast as the NVMe SSDs in handheld gaming PCs, though. While the full-sized SD Express cards can come close, with read speeds up to 3,940MB/s, the MicroSD Express cards can only hit a maximum of 985MB/s. Still, that’s much faster than the older MicroSD cards used by the original Nintendo Switch.

How long will a MicroSD Express card last?

Just like any SD card, MicroSD Express cards aren’t meant to be used for long-term data storage, and so they have a shelf life. How long they’ll last depends largely on the environment it's being used in and whether or not you’re dropping it. I wouldn’t expect a MicroSD Express card to last more than 5-10 years before it needs to be replaced, so be sure to keep anything important backed up.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. You can follow her @Jackiecobra

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After Avengers: Doomsday Filming Rumors, Fans Are Tracking How Jacked Chris Evans Looks in New Pictures and Reckon He's in Captain America Shape

Marvel fans are discussing whether Chris Evans will appear in Avengers: Doomsday after seeing the actor's physique in new photos, which have prompted speculation he's set to return once again as Captain America.

Evans hung up his shield in the finale of 2019's Avengers: Endgame to live a quiet life in the 1950s with his sweetheart Peggy Carter, played by Hayley Atwell. But set reports have potentially pointed to Evans and Atwell returning in Avengers: Doomsday, with the couple's happy ever after coming under threat.

Now, fans have taken to analysing Evans' body in photos taken this weekend at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival, where the actor attended the premiere of his action adventure comedy film Sacrifice that also stars Anya Taylor-Joy, fellow MCU star Salma Hayek and almost-MCU-star John Malkovich.

"Since everyone is talking about it, and as someone who was very close to him sitting in the front row, yeah, Chris Evans is back for Doomsday/Secret Wars," surmised one Toronto Film Festival attendee, critic Brandon Lewis, in a post on social media. "He was jacked in real life, like, shockingly so. People around me in the audience were gagged."

"WE'RE GETTING HIM BACK," wrote one Marvel fan, inkakolakate, followed by 18 crying emojis.

"NO BEARD! STEVE ROGERS IS BACK," noted a third Chris Evans devotee, CR71654410.

Chris Evans or should I say Steve Rogers 🫢 pic.twitter.com/BBaMhk0QEk

— Mari🌟 (@st4rstucky) September 7, 2025

Back in 2021, Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo hinted that he and his brother Anthony had a clear idea for what had happened with Steve Rogers, suggesting there was more story to tell about what happened when Captain America went back in time to return the Infinity Stones. Fans had even hoped for a spin-off film or Disney+ series to show the character's adventures in the interim.

Outside of the MCU's lore, there's also the fact that a return for Evans would provide not only a strong narrative hook for audiences who loved Endgame (and who may not have watched everything Marvel's released since) as well as one final opportunity to see Evans' Cap square up to Robert Downey Jr. — albeit this time as Doctor Doom, rather than Iron Man.

Despite already confirming a long list of Marvel film stars past and present as appearing in Avengers: Doomsday, fans now believe there's still more to come, as shooting continues on the mammoth production into its sixth month.

Barring any further delays, Avengers: Doomsday is set to launch in theaters on December 18, 2026 — here's hoping we hear more of Evans' involvement before then.

Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images

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

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Creative Arts Emmy Winners 2025: The Full List

It’s Emmys season once again — and before the big night comes the Creative Arts Emmys, which celebrate the artisans of the industry and much of their behind-the-scenes brilliance, as well as the expertise of other smaller categories that may have otherwise been relegated to the main ceremony’s commercial break.

The top winning shows are, in a word, stacked. The new Apple TV+ show The Studio racked up the most wins at the ceremony with a whopping nine accolades, while HBO’s drama The Penguin secured the second most honors with a solid eight awards. Rounding out the top three shows was Saturday Night Live’s 50th Anniversary Special with seven awards — but if you take reality and variety programming out of the equation, the beloved drama Severance pulls up in the No. 3 spot with six incredible accolades.

Us superhero diehards will be pleased to know that The Penguin ended up snagging many of the awards fans hoped it would win, including Best Prosthetic Makeup, Best Contemporary Makeup, and Best Contemporary Hairstyling — undoubtedly for the show’s awe-inspiring physical transformation of its lead, Colin Farrell, who plays the titular Penguin himself.

But The Penguin and the other top earners weren’t the only noteworthy programs taking home awards this year. Netflix’s animated hit Arcane took home the coveted title for Best Outstanding Animated Series for its second and final season in a year absolutely brimming with competition. Amazon Prime’s hilarious satire The Boys also went home with some cool recognition. The show was awarded Best Music and Lyrics for the song “Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas.”

You can check out the full list of winners from the 77th Creative Arts Emmy Awards below.

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

  • Jon Bernthal (The Bear)
  • Bryan Cranston (The Studio) — WINNER
  • Dave Franco (The Studio) Ron Howard (The Studio)
  • Anthony Mackie (The Studio)
  • Martin Scorsese (The Studio)

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

  • Olivia Colman (The Bear)
  • Jamie Lee Curtis (The Bear)
  • Cynthia Erivo (Poker Face)
  • Robby Hoffman (Hacks)
  • Zoë Kravitz (The Studio)
  • Julianne Nicholson (Hacks) — WINNER

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

  • Giancarlo Esposito (The Boys)
  • Scott Glenn (The White Lotus)
  • Shawn Hatosy (The Pitt) — WINNER
  • Joe Pantoliano (The Last of Us)
  • Forest Whitaker (Andor)
  • Jeffrey Wright (The Last of Us)

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

  • Jane Alexander (Severance)
  • Gwendoline Christie (Severance)
  • Kaitlyn Dever (The Last of Us)
  • Cherry Jones (The Handmaid’s Tale)
  • Catherine O’Hara (The Last of Us)
  • Merritt Wever (Severance) — WINNER

OUTSTANDING CHARACTER VOICEOVER PERFORMANCE

  • Julie Andrews (Bridgerton) — WINNER
  • Hank Azaria (The Simpsons)
  • Maya Rudolph (Big Mouth)
  • Alan Tudyk (Andor)
  • Jeffrey Wright (What If…?)
  • Steven Yeun (Invincible)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER IN A SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES

  • Nathalie Emmanuel (Die Hart: Hart to Kill)
  • Kevin Hart (Die Hart: Hart to Kill)
  • Desi Lydic (The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains) — WINNER
  • Tom Segura (Bad Thoughts)
  • J. K. Simmons (Die Hart: Hart to Kill)

OUTSTANDING HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM

  • RuPaul Charles (RuPaul’s Drag Race)
  • Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John, and Daniel Lubetzky (Shark Tank)
  • Alan Cumming (The Traitors) — WINNER
  • Kristen Kish (Top Chef)
  • Jeff Probst (Survivor)

OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW HOST

  • Elizabeth Banks (Press Your Luck)
  • Steve Harvey (Celebrity Family Feud)
  • Ken Jennings (Jeopardy!)
  • Colin Jost (Pop Culture Jeopardy!)
  • Jimmy Kimmel (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire) — WINNER

OUTSTANDING NARRATOR

  • Sir David Attenborough (Planet Earth: Asia)
  • Idris Elba (Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color)
  • Tom Hanks (The Americas)
  • Barack Obama (Our Oceans) — WINNER
  • Phoebe Waller Bridge (Octopus!)

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM

  • Arcane — WINNER
  • Bob’s Burgers
  • Common Side Effects
  • Love, Death & Robots
  • The Simpsons

OUTSTANDING STRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM

  • Antiques Roadshow
  • Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
  • Love Is Blind
  • Queer Eye — WINNER
  • Shark Tank

OUTSTANDING UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM

  • America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
  • Love on the Spectrum — WINNER
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked
  • The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
  • Welcome to Wrexham

OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW

  • Celebrity Family Feud
  • Jeopardy! — WINNER
  • The Price is Right
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE

  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
  • The Gorge
  • Mountainhead
  • Nonnas
  • Rebel Ridge — WINNER

OUTSTANDING VARIETY SPECIAL (PRE-RECORDED)

  • Adam Sandler: Love You
  • Ali Wong: Single LadyBill Burr: Drop Dead Years
  • Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — WINNER
  • Sarah Silverman: PostMortem
  • Your Friend, Nate Bargatze

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY OR NON-FICTION SERIES

  • Chef’s Table
  • 100 Foot Wave — WINNER
  • Simone Biles Rising
  • SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
  • Social Studies

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY OR NONFICTION SPECIAL

  • Deaf President Now!Martha
  • Pee-wee as Himself — WINNER
  • Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
  • Will & Harper

OUTSTANDING HOSTED NONFICTION SERIES OR SPECIAL

  • Conan O’Brien Must Go — WINNER
  • The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: MAGA: The Next Generation
  • Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
  • Tucci in Italy

EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

  • I Am: Celine Dion
  • Patrice: The Movie — WINNER
  • The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM COMEDY, DRAMA OR VARIETY SERIES

  • The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains — WINNER
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Corrections
  • The Rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel
  • The Tonight Show: During Commercial Break

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM NONFICTION OR REALITY SERIES

  • Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence — WINNER
  • Hacks: Bit by Bit Making of The Last of Us
  • Only Murders in the Building: Unlocking the Mystery
  • The White Lotus: Unpacking the Episode

OUTSTANDING EMERGING MEDIA PROGRAM

  • Impulse: Playing with Reality
  • Shawn Mendes: Red Rocks Live in VR
  • SNL 50th: The Anniversary Special: Immersive Experience — WINNER

Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More)
Severance
— WINNER

Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More)
Andor — WINNER

Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour)
The Studio — WINNER

Outstanding Production Design for a Variety or Reality Series
Saturday Night Live — WINNER

Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special
The 97th Academy Awards — WINNER

Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series
The Studio — WINNER

Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
The Pitt — WINNER

Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Adolescence — WINNER

Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program
Love on the Spectrum — WINNER

Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming
The 67th Annual Grammy Awards — WINNER

Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming
Etoile — WINNER

Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour)
The Studio — WINNER

Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)
Severance — WINNER

Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Adolescence — WINNER

Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program
100 Foot Wave — WINNER

Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program
The Traitors — WINNER

Outstanding Commercial
“Brian Cox Goes To College” — WINNER

Outstanding Period Costumes
Bridgerton — WINNER

Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes
Andor — WINNER

Outstanding Contemporary Costumes for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
The Penguin — WINNER

Outstanding Contemporary Costumes for a Series
The Studio — WINNER

Outstanding Costumes for Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming
Beyoncé Bowl — WINNER

Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — WINNER

Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special — WINNER

Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program
Pee-wee as Himself — WINNER

Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program
The Traitors — WINNER

Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling
The Penguin — WINNER

Outstanding Period or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hairstyling
Bridgerton — WINNER

Outstanding Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special — WINNER

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Series
Saturday Night Live — WINNER

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Special
67th Grammy Awards — WINNER

Outstanding Title Design
Severance — WINNER

Outstanding Motion Design
Octopus! — WINNER

Outstanding Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic)
The Penguin — WINNER

Outstanding Period or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Makeup (Non-Prosthetic)
House of the Dragon — WINNER

Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special — WINNER

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup
The Penguin — WINNER

Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)
Severance — WINNER

Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
The Penguin — WINNER

Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
Chef’s Table — WINNER

Outstanding Music Direction
The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar — WINNER

Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
The Boys — WINNER

Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
The White Lotus — WINNER

Outstanding Music Supervision
The Studio — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Drama Series
Andor — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Multi-Camera Comedy Series
Frasier — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series
The Studio — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming
Cunk on Life — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming (Segment)
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program
Pee-wee as Himself — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program
The Traitors — WINNER

Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program
Welcome to Wrexham — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour)
The Last of Us — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour)
The Studio — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Editing for an Animated Program
Arcane — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special
The Penguin — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program
Music by John Williams — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour)
Severance — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
The Penguin — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation
The Studio — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program
Beatles ’64 — WINNER

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Reality Program
Welcome to Wrexham — WINNER

Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie
Andor — WINNER

Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode
The Penguin — WINNER

Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Comedy Programming
The Righteous Gemstones — WINNER

Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Drama Programming
The Boys — WINNER

Outstanding Stunt Performance
The Boys — WINNER

Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork for a Series
Saturday Night Live — WINNER

Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork for a Special
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special — WINNER

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special — WINNER

Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program
The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse — WINNER

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.

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Absolutely Everything Explores the Perils of Middle School and ADHD

Life is hard enough for preteen girls without adding an ADHD diagnosis into the mix. That's the struggle at the heart of Absolutely Everything, a heartfelt new graphic novel from writer/artist Damian Alexander and publisher Graphic Universe.

With Absolutely Everything hitting stores on Tuesday, September 9, IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of the book. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:

Here's the official description for Absolutely Everything:

Lately, life feels like a lot for Marcella. Sixth grade seems complicated on purpose. Marcella keeps forgetting her homework or getting distracted while she’s doing it. Plus, her bestie has new friends, and her parents even want to move apartments. She’s trying to keep track of the changes—but absolutely everything is stressing her out! Does Marcella just need to force herself to “be better”—or is there another way for her to create a path to the life she wants?

"Marcella’s favorite teacher tasks her class with writing their first long-form personal essays featuring a topic of their choosing," Alexander says of the excerpt above. "Marcella enjoyed journaling in this class all year and loves to write… but her anxieties get her brain tangled up in choices. What if she picks the wrong topic? What if her essay is bad and she lets her teacher down? Is she even able to write an essay that long? As the rest of her class excitedly chats about their first chance to brainstorm a topic of their choosing, Marcella begins to spiral."

Absolutely Everything will be released on September 9. You can preorder a copy on Amazon.

In other comic book news, we break down which DC Compact Comics are essential to read, and find out what Star Wars: Legacy of Vader reveals about the enigmatic Knights of Ren.

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Andor Creator Driven 'Crazy' Seeing its Success Used to 'Draw Controversy' With Other Star Wars Shows

Andor creator Tony Gilroy has said that he and the show's creative team have been driven "crazy" seeing the positive response to the Star Wars prequel series being used to create "controversy" with the franchise's other Disney+ series.

Across its two seasons, Andor has been warmly received by both TV critics and hardcore Star Wars fans alike, with particular praise for its complex characters and political themes.

Now, Gilroy has addressed some of the debate surrounding Lucasfilm's other output set in a galaxy far, far away — some of which, it has to be said, has not had as warm a welcome — which simultaneously suggesting that other Star Wars series would be wrong to try and simply clone Andor's success.

"It's driven us crazy on the show, every time people, the clickbait, trying to draw controversy between us and the other shows," Gilroy told podcast The Ringer-Verse, via GamesRadar. "By the same token, it would be very wrong to come in and try to slavishly reproduce [Andor]. There has to be a hook, a reason why you want to bring your game there."

Many fans have criticised Lucasfilm's continued reliance on the Skywalker Saga for the series' storytelling, with only one Disney+ project, The Acolyte, set outside of its timespan.

"There's how many billions of beings in that galaxy? How many corners of it are unexplored?" Gilroy continued. "There's some things that [Lucasfilm] is building that are really unusual I think, and I think that lesson is being taken to heart.

"Let your freak flag fly," he added, encouraging other creators to come up with their own unique Star Wars pitches, "and do what you do best."

For the moment, Lucasfilm looks to be playing it safe with a big-screen outing for popular Disney+ duo The Mandalorian & Grogu, due in theaters next year. Beyond that, Ryan Gosling will appear in Star Wars: Starfighter, about which we know remarkably little. Back on Disney+, we do know Lucasfilm is working on a second season of Ahsoka — though beyond that, Star Wars' TV future feels rather unclear.

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Get Hunted By Dinosaurs in Co-Op Extraction Shooter 'Eggspedition'

Drop into Eggspedition's unknown planets and try to successfully extract with the valuable eggs you seek in this first-person co-op shooter – but don't think for a second that the dinosaurs these eggs belong to won't come looking for you.

Eggspedition puts you into the boots of a member of Vector Unit 9, a second-to-none task force pushing the boundaries of space and taking on mysterious missions. Your latest mission drops you onto – you guessed it – a dinosaur planet, but there's no turning back now. The only rule is "No egg, no evac."

You'll explore a variety of planets, face everything from velociraptors to T-rexes, use your earned-in-game credits to upgrade your weapons and gear from match to match, and, as developer Wildflame Studio notes, "Before you even step out of the drop pod, all you see is the difficulty level. The rest? A complete unknown. One mission might have you extracting rare minerals from an active crater, another — tracking down a lost egg, or securing a zone crawling with predators."

Wishlist Eggspedition on Steam if you're interested.

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Pokémon TCG: Black Bolt & White Flare Booster Bundles Are Now Cheapest at Amazon

Fans of the Pokémon Trading Card Game once again have a new reason to keep an eye on Amazon and Walmart, with it being the best place to score packs of White Flare and Black Bolt.

The Booster Bundles have been trending slightly downward in price, likely with attention being turned to the upcoming Mega Evolution set & the recently announced Phantasml Flames, offering collectors and players an opportunity to pick them up for less than at most other retailers.

Right now, at Amazon, the Black Bolt Booster Bundle is available for $48.90, "down" from its Amazon list price of $58.95, while the White Flare Booster Bundle has dropped to $45.01, a notable "discount" from $59.95.

Each bundle includes six booster packs from its respective expansion, with the chance to pull cards like Zekrom ex among Black Bolt’s most valuable cards, or Reshiram ex in as one of White Flare’s most high-priced chase cards, plus the exclusive Black White Rare Victini that appears across both sets.

Of course, the official MSRP for these bundles is only $26.94, though finding them at that price is nearly impossible now that they’ve officially hit shelves. Best Buy is technically the only retailer still listing at MSRP, but availability has been restricted to in-store purchases and tends to vanish quickly.

At the moment, Amazon has the edge with the White Flare Booster Bundle priced at $45.01 and the Black Bolt Booster Bundle at $48.90. Over on TCGplayer, while both bundles are hovering in the $40-$48 range (which could make them the cheapest, depending on the listing), sellers for the current listings have added shipping costs, which you’ll have to cover.

Walmart sits in a similar bracket, with listings ranging between $47.85 and $48.87 depending on which bundle you’re after, with limited units left at the time of writing.

The reason demand is so high comes down to the sets themselves. Black Bolt and White Flare together feature all 156 Pokémon from the Unova Pokédex, a callback to the beloved fifth generation of games, Pokémon Black and White. Filled with alternate art cards and multiple foil variants, these expansions have been must-haves for completionists.

Even as more fans are looking ahead to the late September Mega Evolution set and the fall release of Phantasmal Flames, the allure of all there is to collect in White Flare & Black Bolt still has plenty to keep your decks and collectable binders buzzing.

For those who missed out at MSRP, Amazon’ & Walmart's current discounts still represent the most affordable way to secure these Unova-themed packs before demand pushes prices even higher. These are sure to sell quickly once more keen collectors hear about these, so be sure to grab them whilst you can if you want them.

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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