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Virtual reality is, well, a reality, and the easiest way to lose yourself in a virtual world is with a PlayStation VR bundle. There's an extremely good chance you already have a PS4, so you're halfway there. All you need is the headset and camera and you're off to the races.

Of course, that's the barest minimum. Throw in a pair of Move controllers and a game (or two) and you're really ready to rock. There are quite a few ways to get yourself set up with a PSVR of your own, and if you're looking for a relatively low-cost way to experience some of this year's best games, Tetris Effect and Astro Bot Rescue, you really owe it to yourself to pick up one of these bundles.

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It's tough not to look back at the past several years' worth of X-Men comics and not feel despondent about the state of the franchise. There are too many books fighting for attention and rarely a clear, engaging direction for the X-Men line as a whole. The problems are many, but there's one thing that's become apparent over the decades. The quality of the X-Men's costumes is often a direct indicator of the quality of the comics themselves. The clothes really do make the mutant.

As it turns out, pretty much every beloved X-Men era is marked by great costume designs. That's certainly true of Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men run, which kicked off with some truly classic designs by artists like Dave Cockrum and John Romita, Sr. These are some of the most iconic costumes in all of superhero comics, to the point where most of these characters are still wearing variations of the same basic designs even 40 years later.

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This week we settle the debate which has plagued pop culture nerds for years...

Which film series is better: Star Wars or Rocky?

By the end of this podcast not only will you have a definitive answer to that question but you will have also heard awesome interviewed from Creed 2 director Steven Caple Jr. and the fantastic Tessa Thompson.

Krupa, Dale and Gav also give you their predictions on where they think the Rocky series will go in Creed 3.

There's still time to buy tickets to our Prestige screening and live podcast so get yours now.

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Rocksteady Studios, makers of the Batman: Arkham trilogy, has confirmed it isn’t making a Superman game, and the studio won’t be making an announcement about its upcoming project at The Game Awards next week.

Revealed on Twitter, Rocksteady co-founder and game director Sefton Hill decided to let fans know ahead of time that the much-rumored Superman game isn’t what the studio has in production.

Looking forward to #TheGameAwards this year! We’re still hard at work in our development bunker so don’t expect an announcement from @Rocksteadygames. When it’s ready to show, you’ll be the first to know. Spoiler: it’s not Superman

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A new Walking Dead novel is expanding the series’ universe into China.

Announced by Skybound Books, The Walking Dead: Typhoon, written by Wesley Chu (The Lives of Tao, Time Salvager), follows a group of survivors that work together to face a “wave of walkers in the most populous country in the world.” Skybound says Chu will bring a fresh perspective on societal decay and decomposing flesh established in Robert Kirkman’s comic series.

“Our goal at Skybound Books has been to give novelists the same creative platform and freedom to tell engaging genre stories that we already have in place across comics, film, television, and games,” said Skybound SVP Sean Mackiewicz. “Plus, after 15 years, we’re about to answer one of the biggest questions The Walking Dead fans have had since the beginning: what’s happening to the rest of the world? That we can expand The Walking Dead universe with talented authors like Wesley Chu will allow walkers to truly become an even greater global phenomenon than ever before!”

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Nick Nolte has joined the cast of Jon Favreau's The Mandalorian, the new Star Wars series headed to Disney's streaming platform, Disney+.

Reported by THR, Nick Nolte joins Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano in a story that takes place in-between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens and follows "the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic."

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The news rolled in this past Thursday night: Netflix has canceled Daredevil.

Iron Fist was the first Marvel series that Netflix axed, and the news came not long before Daredevil: Season 3 premiered in October. Luke Cage was canceled a week later, the same day as Daredevil's premiere. Fans, however, were optimistic about Daredevil's future after showrunner Eric Oleson tweeted on November 16 that he had pitched Netflix on a potential Season 4 of the show.

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Printers connected to the Internet across the world have been hacked to print a message urging people to subscribe to PewDiePie’s YouTube channel.

Reported by The Verge, this attack appears to be the work of @HackerGiraffe (a Twitter account that was just opened yesterday) who claims the relatively harmless act was carried out in order to raise awareness about a major hole in printer security.

The message sent to an alleged 50,000 printers calls for recipients to unsubscribe from T-Series, an Indian YouTube channel that is close to becoming the most subscribed channel on the platform, and subscribe to the current frontrunner PewDiePie’s channel instead. It also suggests reciepents subscribe to two other channels, "delete TikTok,” smile, and to fix the exposed printer.

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