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Medion's June Sale on Laptops Includes the High Performance Medion Erazer
Medion have started their January Sales and below are the 3 offers which really stood out to us, in particular the ever-famous Medion Erazer Gaming Laptop which sees you saving over £700! Alternatively, browse through all Medion Laptops on sale here.
Overwatch and Hearthstone to Reduce Duplicate Loot Items
In separate videos, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan, and Hearthstone game director Ben Brode have revealed changes that both development teams are making to improve their respective in-game loot reward systems.
"We are going to make significant improvements to the loot box experience," Kaplan explains, stating that the team is going to "drastically reduce the rate of duplicates that you'll get out of any loot box."
The game director also addresses the potential issue this could cause: duplicates are a major source of in-game currency, used to buy specific loot items. To compensate for this, Overwatch players will earn an increased amount of credits out of loot boxes, which Kaplan has promised will mean that "...credits will be the same if not more without duplicates."
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Sells 4 Million Copies
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was released into Early Access 3 months ago today - and it just hit 4 million copies sold.
Announced by PlayerUnknown himself, Brendan Green, the battle royale game continues to gain players, well before its finished version:
3 months... 4 million copies of @PUBATTLEGROUNDS sold... Thank you all again for your continuing support <3
— PLAYERUNKNOWN (@BattleRoyaleMod) June 22, 2017
At the beginning of May, Battlegrounds hit the 2 million copies mark, meaning its rate of sales has stayed almost as fast since then - something only likely to be helped by the fact that the game will arrive on Xbox One later this year.
Game of Thrones Trailer Confirms 5 Major Season 7 Events
Welcome to summer 2017, Game of Thrones fans, a time where winter is on the horizon and we couldn’t be more excited. The “Winter Is Here” trailer offered up some huge new reveals about what we’ll see in Season 7.
Make sure to watch our full trailer rewind (above) and continue reading below for our breakdown of some of the biggest confirmations we got about the new season.
We expected Jon Snow to be leading the charge against the Night King and White Walkers north of the Wall, but we didn’t expect he’d have this help. The trailer very clearly shows Beric Dondarrion -- complete with his flaming sword -- will be fighting an army of wights and maybe even Wildlings alongside Jon and Tormund Giantsbane in this great showdown.
Netflix Introduces Choose Your Own Adventure-Style Movies
Netflix is introducing interactive movies that allow viewers to dictate how the narrative unfolds.
The first of these "narrative episodes" is called Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale. This interactive video, which serves as a standalone episode separate from The Adventures of Puss in Boots TV series, is available on the streaming service right now.
In Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale, viewers decide how the story plays out.
Valve Shows Off New ‘Knuckles’ VR Controller
Valve has given us a better look at its virtual reality controller on its Steam Community page. Dev kits for the controller, called Knuckles, are being sent out to developers directly from Valve.
The Steam page is a guide for devs, helping them sync and set up the drivers for the Knuckles dev kits, but it also shows off some of the features of the controller, including finger tracking.
For devs getting their hands on the controllers, Valve warns "finger tracking initializes to an uncalibrated state and will be very poor," requiring a calibration process, but the uncalibrated state fresh out of the box is "considered a temporary measure," and won't affect production units.
Pokemon Go Re-Opens Gyms with New Features
After being taken offline for a few days, Pokemon Go gyms have re-opened, developer Niantic Labs announced on Twitter today.
Niantic has added a few new updates that completely redesign gyms in the game. Instead of being based on Prestige, gyms will now only allow a maximum of six Pokemon, and only one of each type. You can also now earn items at gyms by spinning a photo disc like you do at PokeStops, plus earn a variety of gym badges.
The way you battle Pokemon at gyms has also changed, as you'll no longer go up against the weakest Pokemon first. Instead, you will battle Pokemon in the order they were placed in the gym. Other Pokemon Go updates include raid battles and plenty of new items. You can read all about them here.
Marvel’s Legacy Relaunch to be Revealed Tomorrow
If you're eager to learn what new comics will be a part of Marvel's upcoming Legacy relaunch, you won't have to wait much longer. A new press release reveals that Marvel will be pulling back the curtain on Legacy tomorrow, June 23.
Marvel's press release teases the reveal of "Every Hero! Every Title! Every Story!" while promising "a new dawn" for the Marvel Universe. The press release was also accompanied by a newly revealed cover for August's Marvel Legacy #1:
Marvel Legacy #1 variant cover by Mark Brooks. (Marvel Comics)
How to Catch Up on Preacher
Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy are back - hitting the road in Preacher: Season 2, looking for answers, looking for God. And Hell's coming with them. Or, you know, Hell's coming after them. In the form of the raised-from-the-grave Saint of Killers.
If you still need to watch Season 1, or wondering how to catch Preacher: Season 2 when it premieres on Sunday, June 25th, check out our handy guide below.
If you're all caught up on Preacher's first season, then Season 2 kicks off on Sunday, June 25th at 10/9c on AMC, with the next episode airing Monday, June 26th at 9/8c - with Mondays being Preacher's regular day and time slot from there on out.
What Ron Howard’s Hiring Says About Star Wars Spinoffs
Today’s official announcement that Oscar winner Ron Howard will replace Phil Lord and Chris Miller as the director of the Han Solo movie indicates that Lucasfilm is not looking to significantly shake things up when it comes to their burgeoning Star Wars anthology films.
The initial hiring of comedic directors Lord and Miller, the helmers behind the irreverent Jump Street flicks and The LEGO Movie, suggested an acerbic, but still loving take on the beloved franchise was in store. But according to reports, Lucasfilm and Han Solo co-writer Lawrence Kasdan ultimately balked at the duo’s going off-script and their more comedic take on the Corellian smuggler and his origin story. Now, with Howard coming aboard to finish shooting and reshape the film throughout post-production, it would appear that Lucasfilm will get the Han Solo movie it wanted, and that film would seem to be one more in line with what the company deems a Star Wars movie should look, feel, and behave like.