Today is International Women's Day, and Sony is marking the occasion with a free PlayStation 4 theme celebrating their most iconic female characters. And that bear from Dreams.

The static theme is gorgeous, and drawn by Media Molecule's character and environment artist Maja-Lisa Kehlet Hansen. It features the Uncharted series' Chloe and Nadine, Horizon: Zero Dawn's Aloy, Detroit: Become Human's Kara, The Last of Us' Ellie, and Media Molecule's own miscellaneous pink lady bear from Dreams.

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DC Comics is celebrating the 1,000th issue of Action Comics with a free Superman short, and you'll definitely need a hanky to mop up your face juices after reading it.

The short, sweet, (and sad) story Of Tomorrow is presented by Eisner-winning writer Tom King, artist Clay Mann, colourist Jordie Bellaire, and letterer John Workman, and is taken from the 80-page anniversary issue.

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Jessica Jones Season 2 is now live on Netflix, and IGN will be binging and reviewing the new episodes right along with you. Bookmark this hub page and keep checking back for our take on each new installment of Marvel's superpowered crime thriller. We'll update this page with the full scored season review once we finish our binge. 

Jessica Jones Season 2: Episode 1 - "Start at the Beginning" Review (Spoiler Free) - COMPLETED

Jessica Jones Season 2: Episode 2 - "Freak Accident" Review - COMPLETED

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"This should not be an Olympic sport because it is not a sport," declared Shelly Horton on Channel 9's Weekend Today earlier this week. In the news ticker the title of the discussion said "Revenge of the Nerds?" in all caps. Peter Stefanovic put up a robust defense of competitive gaming, but it was moot. Shelly had a catchy way to dismiss the concept of esports as a sport.

"You need a little bit of huffy puffy," she said. "The only thing moving are thumbs, that is not a sport."

Should video games be an Olympic sport? Professional video gaming or "E-Sports" is already a $1.5 billion industry but it's predicted to grow by 50% in two years. What are your thoughts? #9Today pic.twitter.com/078r9I8DcM

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New details have emerged on the possible attendees of tomorrow's meeting at the White House between President Trump and members of the video game industry.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has invited CEO of ZeniMax (Bethesda's parent company) Robert Altman, Chief Executive of Take Two Interactive (Rockstar and 2K's parent company) Strauss Zelnick, and Michael Gallagher, the leader of the Entertainment Software Association. Trump's brother Robert Trump serves on the board of directors for Zenimax, and Kotaku recently reported that he too was expected to attend.

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PlayStation has opted not to release Super Seducer, a game designed to teach pickup artist techniques, on its online store.

Motherboard reports the choose your own adventure-style game was set to release today, however, PlayStation has confirmed to the publication that it won't be listing the title.

Star and creator of the game Richard La Ruina told Motherboard, “My comment is that I have no comment on this,” over email in regards to the change.

The game seems closer to an interactive movie and features live-action videos in which players can choose different ways of interacting with women. Richard La Ruina will act out the often ridiculous scenes and provide commentary on the player's choices.

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Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan has announced he will add an inclusion rider to all future projects produced by his company Outlier Society Productions.

Jordan made the announcement on Instagram, following Frances McDormand's call for inclusion riders during her acceptance speech for Best Actress at last weekend's Academy Awards.

"In support of the women & men who are leading this fight," Jordan wrote, "I will be adopting the Inclusion Rider for all projects produced by my company Outlier Society. I’ve been privileged to work with powerful woman & persons of color throughout my career & it’s Outlier’s mission to continue to create for talented individuals going forward."

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Superman and the Justice League declared war on Batman this week, and the fight took a pretty dark turn.

Warning: this issue contains spoilers for Batman #42!

This issue is hardly the first time the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel have come to blows, but the outcome of their latest battle was quite a bit different. Not only did Batman lose this confrontation, Superman literally punched him to death.

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Full spoilers ahead for Thor: Ragnarok!

Ragnarok, in Norse mythology, means the end of all things and, for as much goofy fun as the film is, Thor: Ragnarok indeed ended with the destruction of Asgard. I recently chatted with one of the film's executive producers, Marvel Studios' Victoria Alonso, about the decision to destroy Thor's homeland in an action-comedy rather than a drama.

"We don’t want to destroy any of the realms, but part of the game is that there is destruction," Alonso said. "And you can’t have Thor: Ragnarok if you don’t have the end of his place of birth. ... You have to be true to what you’re saying, right? If you’re saying Thor, the greatest party of all time, and you don’t have the party in your film, then why have that title?"

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Some Amazon Alexa devices have started randomly cackling unprompted, and are really freaking their owners out.

A number of freaked out Echo owners took to social media shared stories and videos of various Amazon Echo devices began randomly emitting "witch-like" laughter, sometimes while their owners were in a completely different part of the house.

Amazon confirmed to The Verge it is aware of the problem "and working to fix it."

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