Star Trek: Voyager's Kate Mulgrew will return as Captain Kathryn Janeway in Nickelodeon’s upcoming animated series Star Trek: Prodigy. The casting news was revealed today during the Star Trek Universe panel at NYCC, where the opening scene from Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 was also unveiled. For more on that virtual event, be sure to check out the NYCC 2020 panels we're most excited about. No word yet on who else will appear in the series, though it will likely be mostly new characters considering the premise of the show which is being developed by Emmy Award winners Kevin and Dan Hageman (Trollhunters, Ninjago). According to CBS, "Star Trek: Prodigy follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning, and salvation." The CG-animated series will debut exclusively on Nickelodeon in 2021. [caption id="attachment_241954" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway[/caption] On returning to the role, Kate Mulgrew said the following: “I have invested every scintilla of my being in Captain Janeway, and I can’t wait to endow her with nuance that I never did before in Star Trek: Prodigy. How thrilling to be able to introduce to these young minds an idea that has elevated the world for decades. To be at the helm again is going to be deeply gratifying in a new way for me.” Janeway is the second main cast member from Star Trek: Voyager to return in the CBS All Access era of Trek, following on the heels of Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine, who was a recurring player in Star Trek: Picard Season 1. Voyager ran for seven seasons from 1995 to 2001, with the series culminating with Captain Janeway successfully getting her ship and crew back to Earth after being lost in the far side of the galaxy. Mulgrew reprised her role in 2002 for a cameo in the final Next Generation movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, where she was now Captain Picard's boss, having been promoted to Vice Admiral! While the press release from CBS today regarding Star Trek: Prodigy refers to Janeway as a captain, we'll have to tune in next year to see if her promotion stuck or not. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=nycc-2020-13-panels-were-most-excited-about&captions=true"] It remains to be seen if Mulgrew will be a regular cast member on Prodigy or more of a mentor figure who pops in and out in episodes here or there. Whatever the case, it's clear that the current era of Star Trek has no qualms now about embracing the franchise's past.

Star Trek: Voyager's Kate Mulgrew will return as Captain Kathryn Janeway in Nickelodeon’s upcoming animated series Star Trek: Prodigy. The casting news was revealed today during the Star Trek Universe panel at NYCC, where the opening scene from Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 was also unveiled. For more on that virtual event, be sure to check out the NYCC 2020 panels we're most excited about. No word yet on who else will appear in the series, though it will likely be mostly new characters considering the premise of the show which is being developed by Emmy Award winners Kevin and Dan Hageman (Trollhunters, Ninjago). According to CBS, "Star Trek: Prodigy follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning, and salvation." The CG-animated series will debut exclusively on Nickelodeon in 2021. [caption id="attachment_241954" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway[/caption] On returning to the role, Kate Mulgrew said the following: “I have invested every scintilla of my being in Captain Janeway, and I can’t wait to endow her with nuance that I never did before in Star Trek: Prodigy. How thrilling to be able to introduce to these young minds an idea that has elevated the world for decades. To be at the helm again is going to be deeply gratifying in a new way for me.” Janeway is the second main cast member from Star Trek: Voyager to return in the CBS All Access era of Trek, following on the heels of Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine, who was a recurring player in Star Trek: Picard Season 1. Voyager ran for seven seasons from 1995 to 2001, with the series culminating with Captain Janeway successfully getting her ship and crew back to Earth after being lost in the far side of the galaxy. Mulgrew reprised her role in 2002 for a cameo in the final Next Generation movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, where she was now Captain Picard's boss, having been promoted to Vice Admiral! While the press release from CBS today regarding Star Trek: Prodigy refers to Janeway as a captain, we'll have to tune in next year to see if her promotion stuck or not. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=nycc-2020-13-panels-were-most-excited-about&captions=true"] It remains to be seen if Mulgrew will be a regular cast member on Prodigy or more of a mentor figure who pops in and out in episodes here or there. Whatever the case, it's clear that the current era of Star Trek has no qualms now about embracing the franchise's past.

During its CPU event today unveiling the Ryzen 5000-series processors, AMD teased out its upcoming Radeon RX 6000 graphics card, affectionately known as "Big Navi." The upcoming GPU, which will be officially unveiled on October 28 and is built on AMD's new RDNA 2 architecture, the same graphics architecture powering the PS5 and Xbox Series X. While we don't have any specs for the GPU just yet, AMD did show off some performance numbers for gaming benchmarks running at 4K. According to AMD's tests, Big Navi is capable of 61 fps in Borderlands 3, 88 fps in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and 73 fps in Gears of War 5 – all at 4K resolution using the Ultra (or in the case of Borderlands, "Badass") graphics preset. The RX 6000 series is AMD's answer to Nvidia's RTX 30-series GPUs, which launched last month with the impressive RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. We'll see how the RX 6000 stacks up when it's fully revealed at AMD's Radeon GPU event on October 28. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Bo Moore is IGN's executive editor of tech.

AMD has introduced its Ryzen 4th Generation processors. The headlining processor of Ryzen 4th Generation is the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, a 12-core, 24-thread CPU with a 4.8GHz boost clock speed. This new chip comes with 64MB of L3 cache, and amazingly for all its power, it only has a TDP of 105W. For gaming, all of this translates into a 26% increase in gaming performance over the previous-generation Ryzen 9 3900XT, with gains such as a 22% improvement in Far Cry New Dawn and 50% better performance in League of Legends. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=amd-ryzen-4th-generation-event&captions=true"] AMD also announced two more processors in its stack with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 5 5600X. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is an 8-core, 16-thread chip with a 3.8GHz base clock, 4.7GHz boost clock and 105W TDP. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is a 6-core, 12-thread chip with a 3.7GHz Boost Clock, 4.6GHz and 65W TDP. AMD also announced its most powerful Ryzen 4th Generation processor to date, the Ryzen 9 5950X. This beast of a chip features 16-cores with a 4.9GHz boost clock speed and surprisingly still just a 105W TDP. All of AMD’s new Ryzen 4th Generation processors will be available on November 5th. The Ryzen 9 5950X costs $799, the Ryzen 9 5900X retails for $549, the Ryzen 7 5800X is priced at $449, and the Ryzen 5 5600X is the most affordable option at $299.

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This new series of Zen 3 processors brings the best single-threaded performance and gaming performance seen on AMD processors yet. Zen 3 sticks with a 7nm architecture, but AMD has been able to develop the first 8-core complexes, allowing eight CPU cores to work together on the same substrate rather than being separated into two distinct 4-core complexes connected together by an Infinity Fabric. Ryzen 4th Generation also brings some big improvements in power efficiency. AMD promises 20% improvement in efficiency and a 2.4 times higher performance per watt over the previous generation. Compared to an Intel Core i9-10900K, AMD claims Ryzen 4th Generation is 2.8 times more efficient. And if you’ve been champing at the bit for new graphics cards, AMD also teased its Radeon 6000 GPU – lovingly nicknamed Big Navi. AMD has a larger GPU event planned for October 28th that we’ll also be covering so stay tuned for more from IGN. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com Kevin Lee is IGN's Hardware and Roundups Editor. Follow him on Twitter @baggingspam

AMD has introduced its Ryzen 4th Generation processors. The headlining processor of Ryzen 4th Generation is the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, a 12-core, 24-thread CPU with a 4.8GHz boost clock speed. This new chip comes with 64MB of L3 cache, and amazingly for all its power, it only has a TDP of 105W. For gaming, all of this translates into a 26% increase in gaming performance over the previous-generation Ryzen 9 3900XT, with gains such as a 22% improvement in Far Cry New Dawn and 50% better performance in League of Legends. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=amd-ryzen-4th-generation-event&captions=true"] AMD also announced two more processors in its stack with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 5 5600X. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is an 8-core, 16-thread chip with a 3.8GHz base clock, 4.7GHz boost clock and 105W TDP. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is a 6-core, 12-thread chip with a 3.7GHz Boost Clock, 4.6GHz and 65W TDP. AMD also announced its most powerful Ryzen 4th Generation processor to date, the Ryzen 9 5950X. This beast of a chip features 16-cores with a 4.9GHz boost clock speed and surprisingly still just a 105W TDP. All of AMD’s new Ryzen 4th Generation processors will be available on November 5th. The Ryzen 9 5950X costs $799, the Ryzen 9 5900X retails for $549, the Ryzen 7 5800X is priced at $449, and the Ryzen 5 5600X is the most affordable option at $299.

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This new series of Zen 3 processors brings the best single-threaded performance and gaming performance seen on AMD processors yet. Zen 3 sticks with a 7nm architecture, but AMD has been able to develop the first 8-core complexes, allowing eight CPU cores to work together on the same substrate rather than being separated into two distinct 4-core complexes connected together by an Infinity Fabric. Ryzen 4th Generation also brings some big improvements in power efficiency. AMD promises 20% improvement in efficiency and a 2.4 times higher performance per watt over the previous generation. Compared to an Intel Core i9-10900K, AMD claims Ryzen 4th Generation is 2.8 times more efficient. And if you’ve been champing at the bit for new graphics cards, AMD also teased its Radeon 6000 GPU – lovingly nicknamed Big Navi. AMD has a larger GPU event planned for October 28th that we’ll also be covering so stay tuned for more from IGN. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com Kevin Lee is IGN's Hardware and Roundups Editor. Follow him on Twitter @baggingspam

Square Enix's Outriders has been delayed to February 2, 2021, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, and PC (Steam & Epic). However, it will support a complete cross-play experience and will offer free upgrades to next-gen. Outriders was originally set to be released in Holiday 2020, but complications due to the COVID-19 pandemic and "work-process-restructuring" lead to the delay. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/08/outriders-release-date-announce-trailer"] Fortunately, Square Enix has said that the core game is in a "largely complete state," but its testing operations ran into some issues with the switch from normal operations, and the team needs "a bit more time to get it right and ensure that the Outriders experience will be as smooth and issue-free as it possibly can be when we launch." As previously mentioned, the good news is this new game will support a complete cross-play experience. Additionally, there will be a free game upgrade from PS4 to PS5 and Smart Delivery will be supported for Xbox One to Xbox Series X/S. Outriders is a 1 to 3, drop-in-drop-out co-op shooter that we said, in our hands-on time, feels like what happens when Mass Effect meets Diablo. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=outriders-ign-first&captions=true"] Outriders was also featured as our IGN First for August 2020, where we looked at how mods change the gameplay, the Technomancer class, a full co-op mission, a monster hunt, and much more. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

The Star Trek franchise kicked off New York Comic Con's virtual event on Thursday with the Star Trek Universe panel, featuring the casts and producers from Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Read on for the details of what happened at the panel, get all the info on the news that Star Trek: Voyager's Kate Mulgrew will be returning as Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Prodigy, and be sure to also check out our preview of the NYCC 2020 panels we're most excited about. Disco stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson Cruz were joined by new cast members David Ajala, Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander as well as co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise in advance of the show's third season, which debuts on Thursday, October 15, on CBS All Access. The team unveiled a scene from Season 3, which you can watch right here: The scene opens with an unfamiliar, alien ship navigating some kind of debris field, with another strange, spinning vessel in hot pursuit. This is Trek's future, 930 years after the era of Discovery's first two seasons. Onboard the first ship we meet David Ajala's new regular cast member Booker, who is working a control panel that looks like it came from Krypton in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel with its ever-changing, metallic-crystal grid. An alien pops onto the (3D) viewscreen of Book's ship, calling him, in an alien tongue, "a son of a bitch" and complaining that "you stole what I stole!" "It doesn't belong to you," responds Book. "It belongs to its own self. Open your damned mind." Suddenly a wormhole opens outside Book's ship, and something comes hurtling out of it... something red. Yep, it's Michael Burnham (Martin-Green) in her Red Angel time-travel suit. She collides with Book and both parties lose control, hurtling towards a nearby planet. Burnham has to restart the malfunctioning suit as she plummets towards the surface of the alien world. And man, you know how long it can take to do a computer reboot... [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-trek-discovery-season-3-photos&captions=true"] On the Lower Decks front, creator Mike McMahan was joined by voice actors Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Eugene Cordero, Noël Wells, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman for a special episode of CBS All Access' Star Trek after-show The Ready Room, hosted by Wil Wheaton. It was perfect timing too, as Lower Deck's first season ended on Thursday. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/star-trek-lower-decks-team-on-canon-costumes-cameos-and-more"] The discussion was very spoiler-heavy based on the big events of the season finale, so we'll avoid getting into those here for now. (It also amazingly featured a reunion between Wil Wheaton and Jerry O'Connell, who first met while making Stand By Me as kids!) You can watch the full panel here, though, complete with a surprise guest appearance. But Season 2 of the series has already been written and is in production with a (hopeful) release date of 2021. Warp me!

The Star Trek franchise kicked off New York Comic Con's virtual event on Thursday with the Star Trek Universe panel, featuring the casts and producers from Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Read on for the details of what happened at the panel, get all the info on the news that Star Trek: Voyager's Kate Mulgrew will be returning as Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Prodigy, and be sure to also check out our preview of the NYCC 2020 panels we're most excited about. Disco stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson Cruz were joined by new cast members David Ajala, Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander as well as co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise in advance of the show's third season, which debuts on Thursday, October 15, on CBS All Access. The team unveiled a scene from Season 3, which you can watch right here: The scene opens with an unfamiliar, alien ship navigating some kind of debris field, with another strange, spinning vessel in hot pursuit. This is Trek's future, 930 years after the era of Discovery's first two seasons. Onboard the first ship we meet David Ajala's new regular cast member Booker, who is working a control panel that looks like it came from Krypton in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel with its ever-changing, metallic-crystal grid. An alien pops onto the (3D) viewscreen of Book's ship, calling him, in an alien tongue, "a son of a bitch" and complaining that "you stole what I stole!" "It doesn't belong to you," responds Book. "It belongs to its own self. Open your damned mind." Suddenly a wormhole opens outside Book's ship, and something comes hurtling out of it... something red. Yep, it's Michael Burnham (Martin-Green) in her Red Angel time-travel suit. She collides with Book and both parties lose control, hurtling towards a nearby planet. Burnham has to restart the malfunctioning suit as she plummets towards the surface of the alien world. And man, you know how long it can take to do a computer reboot... [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-trek-discovery-season-3-photos&captions=true"] On the Lower Decks front, creator Mike McMahan was joined by voice actors Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Eugene Cordero, Noël Wells, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman for a special episode of CBS All Access' Star Trek after-show The Ready Room, hosted by Wil Wheaton. It was perfect timing too, as Lower Deck's first season ended on Thursday. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/star-trek-lower-decks-team-on-canon-costumes-cameos-and-more"] The discussion was very spoiler-heavy based on the big events of the season finale, so we'll avoid getting into those here for now. (It also amazingly featured a reunion between Wil Wheaton and Jerry O'Connell, who first met while making Stand By Me as kids!) You can watch the full panel here, though, complete with a surprise guest appearance. But Season 2 of the series has already been written and is in production with a (hopeful) release date of 2021. Warp me!

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