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Out Tomorrow: Get FIFA 19 on Xbox One, PC and PS4

One of the most anticipated games this year, FIFA 19 is being released tomorrow on Xbox OnePC and PS4. See below for the cheapest way to get a digital copy on all platforms.

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Fortnite Season 6 Patch Notes Reveal ‘Darkness Rises’ Theme, Invisibility, and Pets

Season 5 has come to an end and Epic has revealed what's new with the Fortnite Season 6 patch notes.

"Darkness Rises" is the theme for Season 6 and follows the events of the purple cube and its subsequent dissolving into Loot Lake. The theme brings a number of map changes including a floating island where Loot Lake was originally located, a haunted castle, and new corrupted areas where the runes were placed.

Shadow Stones grant players a special shadow form for 45 seconds when consumed.  Your ability to use weapons is removed but you can go invisible when standing still. Phase is a new ability that propels you forward and lets you pass through objects. You also receive increased movement speed and you're free of any fall damage. These new items are typically found near corrupted zones.

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Sansa Stark Actress Thinks GoT Series Finale Will Divide Fans

Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on the HBO show, thinks the series finale will split fans down the middle.

During a phone interview today to promote the first trailer for Dark Phoenix, wherein she reprises her role as X-Men member Jean Grey, Turner revealed her reaction to reading the script for the series finale.

"A lot of tears. I think, you know, as an actor it was really satisfying -- I think for everyone, everyone’s storylines -- to be able to act out the way that it all ends. It was really satisfying for us," Turner said. "Who knows if it will be satisfying for the fans. I think a lot of fans will be disappointed and a lot of fans will be over the moon, I think. I think it will be really interesting to see people’s reactions, but for me reading the script it was just like heartbreaking to read at the very final page of the script it just says, ‘End of Game of Thrones’. That was really emotional."

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Dark Phoenix: Exclusive First Look at 2 New X-Men Characters

In addition to the first trailer for Dark Phoenix, IGN also has two exclusive photos from the long-awaited next X-Men movie to share with you. I also had the chance to chat separately today with director-writer Simon Kinberg and Jean Grey actress Sophie Turner about the film, which offers a new interpretation of the Dark Phoenix saga previously adapted for X-Men: The Last Stand. One of our exclusive photos is the first look at new mutant characters played by Andrew Stehlin and Kota Eberhardt.

Dark Phoenix marks the first time the X-Men movies have embraced the cosmic elements that were a part of the original Marvel Comics, particularly the Dark Phoenix saga. The filmmaker did confirm that the movie's antagonist, played by Jessica Chastain, is an alien. He also confirmed that her character is not named "Smith" as had been reported, while opting to "plead the fifth" when pressed on earlier reports that the avian alien civilization known as the Shi'ar Empire was in the movie. (Chastain's role was originally reported to be Lilandra, empress of the Shi'ar Empire.)

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Hearthstone: Team 5 on Designing The Boomsday Project’s Legendaries

Hearthstone’s newest expansion – The Boomsday Project – is absolutely brimming with memorable legendary cards. From the introduction of legendary spells like Luna's Pocket Galaxy, Floop's Glorious Gloop and Myra’s Unstable Element, through to wild designs like Mecha’thun, Dr. Boom, Mad Genius and Whizbang the Wonderful, this set has been a lot of fun to experiment with.

To find out about the design process behind the cards, I caught up with Team 5's Lead Initial Designer Peter Whalen and Lead Final Designer Dean Ayala for a chat. (The first part was published a couple of weeks ago.) They even gave IGN some exclusive work-in-progress (WIP) card art to illustrate earlier designs that didn’t make the cut. Enjoy!

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American Horror Story: “Forbidden Fruit” Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...

Hah. There's the tie-in we've been waiting for!

No more allusions to connective Coven tissue or whiffs of Murder House collusion, but actual Coven witches arriving on the scene. Just as Sarah Paulson's Apocalypse character fell, her Coven role, "Supreme" Cordelia, showed up to - hopefully - answer a question or twelve.

So, yes, business picked up at the end of "Forbidden Fruit." Things got interesting. Ah, but does interesting mean good? Not necessarily. See, one of the greatest tricks American Horror Story has pulled over the years is becoming a show so utterly overflowing with massive "WTF?" moments that it gaslights us into thinking good things are happening. Well, things are happening, surely. But that's all. It's just plot movement. For every one question answered, three more get raised. Miriam Mead actually being a robot is so bizarre and arbitrary that it feels like a small weird part of a fridge magnet poem where someone keeps switching the words around.

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What This Year’s Elseworlds Crossover Tells Us About the Future of the Arrowverse

Today brought even more reason to look forward to this year's Arrowverse crossover. We now know that the crossover will be titled "Elseworlds," and that it'll be introducing the Monitor (played by LaMonica Garrett).

Both reveals offer a much better idea of what this year's big DC crossover will be about. But even more intriguingly, it hints at the larger direction the Arrowverse could be heading in the years to come. Here's why the Monitor news is significant and why we think the Arrowverse is building towards a full-fledged adaptation of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Who Is the Monitor?

The Monitor is a character first introduced in DC's comics in 1982. Essentially, he's DC's answer to Marvel's The Watcher - an omniscient being who observes the universe from afar. The Monitor's duties extend to the whole of the DC multiverse, however. The Monitor became a central figure in 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths. There he rallied a group of heroes against his dark opposite, the Anti-Monitor. This villain sought to devour all life and destroy the multiverse entirely, a goal it nearly succeeded in.

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How Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan Corrupted the DC Universe

Doctor Manhattan made his first significant appearance in DC's Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock today, and in the process readers learned more about how he altered the timeline of the DC Universe.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Doomsday Clock #7!

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One of the central mysteries of Doomsday Clock involves the question of what Doctor Manhattan is trying to accomplish. Why did he alter the history of the DC Universe and remove a decade's worth of time? Is he merely tinkering with time out of idle, scientific curiosity, or is there something more at play?

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Your Lingering PlayStation Classic Questions Answered

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On this week's episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Beyond, host Jonathon Dornbush, Brian Altano, and Max Scoville address some of your lingering PlayStation Classic questions, including the lack of an AC adaptor, whether there will be post-launch support and if the PlayStation Classic has online functionality.

Additionally, they dive into the unfortunate mass layoffs at Telltale Games, as well as Death Stranding's new TGS trailer, and Jonathon dives in for one more minute of Kingdom Hearts 3 talk.

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Marvel’s Strongest Symbiotes (And Venom Isn’t #1)

Venom may be one of Spider-Man's stronger foes, but he's not the only symbiote character on the block. This villain's breakout popularity in the late '80s and early '90s inspired a new wave of symbiote characters, from villains like Carnage to heroes like Scorn and Toxin. And some of these characters have proven to be stronger and more capable than Venom himself.

If you want to know how the major symbiote characters in the Marvel Universe measure up, we've put together a helpful guide. Read on -- or watch the video above -- to see where characters like Peter Parker and Eddie Brock fall on the list of the most powerful symbiotes.

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