UK Daily Deals: PlayStation Plus 15 Month Membership for the Price of 12
Help us get to 5000 likes! Like our pages on Facebook and Twitter to get the latest deals straight to your news feed and also to find exclusive codes that we provide for our readers.
PlayStation Plus Membership 15 Months for the Price of 12
The PlayStation store have released a promo whereby users can get 15 months worth of PS Plus for the price of 12 (£39.99). Read more about PlayStation Store's 15 Months PS Plus for the price of 12 promo, where it also explains that PlayStation Plus prices are changing. From 00:01 BST on 31 August 2017, PlayStation will amend the price of PlayStation Plus memberships to £49.99 per annum.
League of Legends Developer Loses Lawsuit to Soccer Player
Riot Games has been unsuccessful in defending itself against claims the studio knowingly used the likeness of an ex-professional soccer player without permission for a League of Legends character.
As reported by Het Parool (via PC Gamer), footballer Edgar Davids - who played for Juventus, Barcelona and UK premier-league side, Tottenham Hotspur during his career - contacted Riot in 2015 to request it stopped using League of Legends character skin Striker Lucian, as he believed it was based upon him.
Paris Games Week: PlayStation Media Showcase Dated
Sony has announced the time and date of their official Media Showcase event at Paris Games Week.
Scheduled for the 30th October at 5pm local time (4pm BST/12pm ET/9am PT/31st October 1 am AEST), not much is currently known about the event, but Sony has a history of treating Parisian gamers to big announcements.
2015's conference featured the reveal of both Gran Turismo Sport and Quantic Dream's Detroit: Become Human, as well as providing a release window for No Man's Sky and a bevy of other information about upcoming games. Last year featured no conference appearance from PlayStation but they did feature 40 playable demos over 300 booths, in addition to using the event for the finals of the PlayStation Plus League eSports tournaments.
Game of Thrones Brought Back a Fan Favorite in a Significant Way
Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 "Eastwatch" continue below.
"Thought you might still be rowing."
With the most fan-service line of the night, Davos Seaworth helped Game of Thrones fans welcome Gendry, the long-missing, still-rowing bastard son of Robert Baratheon, back into the fold. While he's here to be the hammer-wielding part of the dream team Jon Snow is taking ranging north of the Wall, his returned presence back to the show is of marked importance.
First, as was underlined multiple times in "Eastwatch," Jon and Gendry are in many ways the new versions of Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon. Game of Thrones: Season 7 has done nothing if not call back to just how much has changed over the past seven seasons, and seeing these two characters meet in the flesh -- one leaner, and one shorter than the men that came before them -- is very much reminiscent of the close bond between Ned and Robert. It's even more moving when you think about the fact these men are both bastards, which they surely will find kinship over (even if Jon might not really be a bastard after all).
GoT: Gilly Revealed a Game-Changing Targaryen Secret
Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 episode "Eastwatch" continue below. This post also includes key speculation and book spoilers about the parentage of Jon Snow. Read on at your own risk.
If only Samwell Tarly could not have cut Gilly off right then. Thank goodness he and Shireen taught her to read, though, because she just half-revealed one of the most game-changing, mic drop bits of information Game of Thrones has ever seen.
For context, Gilly was reading from Maester Maynard's book in Oldtown when she comes across a line that reads: "Maynard says here that he issued an annulment for Prince Rhaegar and re-married him to someone else at the same time in a secret ceremony in Dorne."
Game of Thrones Assembles Its Avengers in New Promo
Full spoilers for Game of Thrones' "Eastwatch" continue below.
The Fellowship of the Wall. The Magnificent Seven. The Westeros Avengers. Whatever you want to call them, Game of Thrones has assembled quite the dream team to go North and... well, not defeat the Night King, but take one of his wights captive and try to bring him to Cersei Lannister and try to convince her to stop fighting in Westeros and instead defeat the army of the dead.
It's not the most concise plan (or the most likely), but it is set up for one of the coolest moments on Game of Thrones, and all seven of them are front and center in the promo for next week's episode. With increasingly few fan-favorite characters still alive, the showrunners decided to band them all together in R'hllor's great quest and send them out into the wilds of the north of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. If they couldn't do it alone, one can hope they can accomplish it together.
Game of Thrones: What Littlefinger’s Mystery Letter Says
Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 "Eastwatch" continue below.
The seeds of dissent are suitably sowed between Arya Stark and her sister Sansa, and Littlefinger took one very low blow to make them all the more realized.
In Game of Thrones' latest episode, "Eastwatch," Sansa and Arya find themselves taking opposite life approaches that set themselves in conflict to one another. In a mysterious moment, Arya follows Littlefinger back to his room, where she sees Maester Kressen give Petyr Baelish a letter from Maester Lewin's archives that supposedly only has one copy. Arya finds it, reads it and sees it's signed by Sansa, and what she reads definitely rubs her the wrong way.
Annabelle: Creation Tops Weekend Box Office
Annabelle: Creation debuted atop the North American box office this weekend with an estimated $35 million, ahead of earlier projections in the $25 million range but still the lowest debut yet in the Conjuring shared universe.
In 2013, The Conjuring opened with $41.9 million, 2014's Annabelle bowed with $37.1 million, and 2016's The Conjuring 2 earned $40.4 million in its opening weekend. As you can see, both sequels made just a bit less in their debuts than their respective predecessors. Annabelle: Creation reportedly only cost $15 million to produce so it's still going to end up a win for Warner Bros.
In addition to their Annabelle followup opening at No. 1, Warners also held second place at the weekend's box office with Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk earning an additional $11.4 million. The World War II film has now cracked the $150 million mark domestically.
Rainbow Six Siege’s Next Update Gets Release Date
Rainbow Six Siege's latest update, Operation Blood Orchid, will be released on August 29 for PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One.
According to Ubisoft, Operation Blood Orchid features a new map set in Hong Kong, several new customization items, and three new Operators. While the map will be free to all players as of August 29, the three new operators will be available only to season pass holders on that date. Everyone else will be able to purchase the Operators on September 5.
Ubisoft will share more details about Operation Blood Orchid during its livestream at Gamescom on August 26.
Zelda: BotW’s Ending Is Slightly Different in Japanese
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the ending of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
The English dialogue during the final encounter with Breath of the Wild's Beast Ganon implies that defeating him will destroy Ganon once and for all, but in Japanese the line tells a different story.
The line in question, spoken by Zelda as Ganon assumes his beast form, goes like this in English: "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form." That final line makes the encounter sound final, but the Japanese text seems to say the opposite.