Solo: A Star Wars Story will give a brand new backstory to the iconic smuggler turned rebel, one that will no doubt depart from the Expanded Universe/Legends origin that is no longer considered canon. But with Solo now hitting theaters, let's take a look back at that original origin to get a sense of how much it is being changed for the new canon.

The Lucasfilm story group has very intentionally left Han’s backstory in the new canon (created in the wake of Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm) a relative mystery, giving the movie a blank slate on which to work. In contrast, however, the previous EU timeline spent dozens of novels, comics, and games fleshing out just about every little detail about his past. And while very little of this has remained in the new canon, it’s clear that at least a few important details are likely to survive the transition to film.

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Solo: A Star Wars Story -- the Han Solo origin movie -- will give a brand new backstory to the iconic smuggler turned rebel, one that will no doubt depart from the Expanded Universe/Legends origin that is no longer considered canon.

The Lucasfilm story group has very intentionally left Han’s backstory in the new canon a relative mystery, giving the movie a blank slate on which to work. In contrast, however, the previous EU timeline spent dozens of novels, comics, and games fleshing out just about every little detail about his past. And while very little of this has remained in the new canon, it’s clear from what we know of the film so far that at least a few important details are likely to survive the transition.

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Annihilation - the next movie from Ex Machina director, Alex Garlan -, has been released secret clips on a viral website. Paramount revealed the most recent clip, called "Nothing Comes Back", this week, which you can watch below.

ForThoseThatFollow.com launched last week and if you head over to the site and input the 'transmissions' from the Annihilation Twitter account, you'll be rewarded with short teasers for the film.

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Annihilation - the next movie from Ex Machina director, Alex Garlan -, has been released secret clips on a viral website. Paramount revealed the most recent clip, called "Nothing Comes Back", this week, which you can watch below.

ForThoseThatFollow.com launched last week and if you head over to the site and input the 'transmissions' from the Annihilation Twitter account, you'll be rewarded with short teasers for the film.

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Far Cry 5's Season Pass DLC contents have been announced. I guarantee you won't have expected it.

Three DLC packs will take players back in time to the Vietnam war, into the future to alien-infested Mars, and across reality to battle zombies. Here's the official description of each one:

• Hours of Darkness: Players will travel back in time to Vietnam to battle against Việt Cộng soldiers
• Dead Living Zombies: Players will face hordes of zombies in multiple b-movie scenarios
• Lost on Mars: Players will leave Earth behind to go toe-to-claws with Martian arachnids

Far Cry 5 Season Pass artwork.

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Far Cry 5's Season Pass DLC contents have been announced. I guarantee you won't have expected it.

Three DLC packs will take players back in time to the Vietnam war, into the future to alien-infested Mars, and across reality to battle zombies. Here's the official description of each one:

• Hours of Darkness: Players will travel back in time to Vietnam to battle against Việt Cộng soldiers
• Dead Living Zombies: Players will face hordes of zombies in multiple b-movie scenarios
• Lost on Mars: Players will leave Earth behind to go toe-to-claws with Martian arachnids

Alongside the DLC, all season pass players also receive a version of Far Cry 3. On Xbox One and PS4, it's Far Cry 3: Classic Edition, which includes the game's "single-player content". On PC, Season Pass holders or Far Cry 5 Gold Edition owners will receive the full version of Far Cry 3.

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PS4 hardware sales dropped year-on-year in Q3 2017, but software sales more than made up for the decline.

Announced in Sony's latest earnings report, the games division as a whole earned ¥718 billion ($6.5 billion USD), a 16.2% rise. That led to ¥85.4 billion ($778m) in profit - a 50% increase on last year.

Software made up ¥300.4 billion ($2.7 billion) of that number, making a 71% rise on last year. Hardware sales dropped from 9.7 million to 9 million, resulting in ¥270.6 billion ($2.5 billion) in revenue.

Sony as a whole has had a good quarter, earning ¥2.7 trillion ($25.5 billion) revenue - an 11.5% increase - but turning that into an enormous 1407% rise in net profit year-on-year.

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PS4 hardware sales dropped year-on-year in Q3 2017, but software sales more than made up for the decline.

Announced in Sony's latest earnings report, the games division as a whole earned ¥718 billion ($6.5 billion USD), a 16.2% rise. That led to ¥85.4 billion ($778m) in profit - a 50% increase on last year.

Software made up ¥300.4 billion ($2.7 billion) of that number, making a 71% rise on last year. Hardware sales dropped from 9.7 million to 9 million, resulting in ¥270.6 billion ($2.5 billion) in revenue.

Sony as a whole has had a good quarter, earning ¥2.7 trillion ($25.5 billion) revenue - an 11.5% increase - but turning that into an enormous 1407% rise in net profit year-on-year.

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