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New to Netflix for August
As summer starts to wind down in August, Netflix heats up with the Marvel's Defenders team-up miniseries, a live-action Death Note movie, a new Wet Hot American Summer series, a third season of Voltron Legendary Defender, and much more.
The Matrix Trilogy, Wild Wild West, Holes, Gold, I Am Sam, Cloud Atlas, Bad Santa, Beautiful Creatures, along with the sixth season of Once Upon a Time and the first season of The Good Place, all land in August, giving you ample opportunities to binge your days away indoors, safe from the scorching sun.
Check out the gallery below for our spotlight on some of the most notable debuts of the month, followed by the full list below...
A Cinderella Story
Here’s What’s Leaving Netflix in August
It's time once again to check in with Netflix and see what TV shows and movies will be expiring from the site in the next few weeks. The beginning of August will signal the end for both Babe movies, To Kill a Mockingbird, Superbad, and all seasons of Young Justice, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
And speaking of leagues, all seven seasons of FX's The League are leaving along with all four seasons of ABC's Revenge and the first four seasons of American Dad!
Xbox One S Madden 18 Bundle Announced
An Xbox One S Madden NFL 18 bundle has been announced.
According to Microsoft, the $279 USD bundle will launch in U.S., Canada, and Mexico the same day as the game, on August 25. You can pre-order the bundle starting today.
The bundles comes with a 500GB Xbox One S, a standard edition of Madden 18, a two week Xbox Live Gold trial, a 20 percent discount code for NFLShop.com, and a one month subscription for Xbox Game Pass.
GoT: The Size of Dragon Balerion Compared to Drogon
Warning: Game of Thrones: Season 7 spoilers below. Check out our review of "Stormborn."
During last night's episode of Game of Thrones, we see Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) standing in front of the skull of Balerion the Black Dread, providing a glimpse at just how large the dragon of Aegon the Conqueror actually was, and how it compares in size to Daenerys Targaryen's (Emilia Clarke) dragon Drogon.
The comparison, first made by reddit user Banana11crazy, can be seen below. Here are two screenshots taken from "Stormborn" that show Cersei standing beside Balerion:
Dunkirk Compared to All of Nolan’s Box Office Openings
Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk debuted at the top of the box office this weekend, earning an estimated $50.5 million. Surpassing the debut of Nolan's last film, Interstellar, Dunkirk is one of the director's strongest debuts ever, but how exactly does it compare to the rest of his filmography?
Take a look at the chart below to see how Dunkirk's opening weekend stacks up to the debuts of Nolan's three Batman films, which the director is remastering in 4K, as well as all of his original movies, including Inception, Memento, and more. Numbers via Box Office Mojo.
Out This Week: Fortnite, Hey! Pikmin, The New Nintendo 2DS XL
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Sonic Mania’s Secret Areas Are Based on Sonic CD
Sonic Mania's drawing huge inspiration from Sonic's 2D past - including its faux-3D sections.
Revealed in a panel at San Diego Comic-Con (as reported by The Sonic Stadium), Sega's retro homage game will include the Mode 7-like extra stages included in Sonic CD:
Introducing: #SonicMania’s Special Stages, inspired by Saturn and CD! Prep those Chaos Emerald-hunting skills… #SDCC17 pic.twitter.com/tGMvmtbTZe
Overcooked Priced and Dated for Nintendo Switch
Overcooked: Special Edition is coming to Nintendo Switch this Thursday, July 27 via the Nintendo eShop.
The special edition will cost $19.99/£15.99. It comes with the base game plus The Lost Morsel and Festive Seasoning add-on content.
Overcooked: Special Edition also contains nine versus levels that you can play head to head locally with either 2 or 4 players, 22 chefs to plays as, including a raccoon and French bulldog, and a total of 44 campaign levels that can be completed solo or via couch co-op with up to four players.
Overcooked recently took away two awards at this year's British Academy Games Awards, including Best Family Game.
Dying Light to Receive 10 Free DLC Drops in the Next Year
Techland has announced Dying Light will be getting 10 pieces of original new content during the next 12 months.
All the DLC will be free across all platforms, and will include new enemies, new events, new mysteries, "and more."
A new enemy content drop will be coming soon, "as a tiny taste" of what's to come.
Dying Light released in early 2015, but the developer says the game still has 500,000 average weekly players. Techland previously said it would be supporting the game until the end of 2016, but that has clearly been extended even further.