With the premiere of Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord just weeks away, we're starting to see the first collectibles and figures based on the new animated series. Hasbro has released images of its first wave of Star Wars: The Black Series figures inspired by the show, and they're looking pretty darned cool.
Check out the slideshow gallery below for a closer look at all four Maul: Shadow Lord figures:
This first wave of Shadow Lord figures includes Maul himself, along with his faithful Mandalorian minion Rook Kast, his new protege Devon Izara, and the Sith Inquisitor Eleventh Brother. Strangely, Maul's new enemies, Captain Brander Lawson and his droid Two-Boots, are missing from the lineup, but we assume they'll be included in a future wave.
Like the rest of the Black Series line, these figures are designed in 6-inch scale and include various weapons and accessories. Maul even includes a fabric cloak to differentiate him from previous Clone Wars-style figures.
These figures are priced at $27.99 each and will be released in stores in Spring 2026. You can find Amazon preorder links for all four figures below:
Lucasfilm recently released a new trailer for Maul: Shadow Lord, and we've broken down all the major Star Wars characters who appear in the series. You can also learn more about the prequel comic Star Wars: Shadow of Maul.
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One of the better regarded 3D printers with multi-color print capability is now priced well under $300. AliExpress is currently offering the FlashForge AD5X 3D Printer with integrated multi-filament printing system for just $265.23 with free delivery after you apply coupon code "35USAFFS". Make sure you're signed into your account to see the shipping options. The exact same printer sells for $340 on Amazon, but it retails for $499.
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You're buying it from FlashForge's official store on AliExpress. It ships free locally from the United States and arrives within 1 to 2 weeks. The AD5X is considered by many to be one of the best multi-color 3D printers priced below $300. It is easy to setup, it produces great 3D prints with minimal fiddling, and there are plenty of mods available including an official kit that fully encloses the chamber and another that adds a camera, all at an affordable price point.
The AD5X is the Flashforge CoreXY printer you want if you're looking for multi-filament (multi-color printing). Most printers in this price range do not have a CoreXY structure. In a CoreXY printer, only the print head moves while the motors are permanently fixed. Since the motors are generally the heaviest component, this improves print speed and precision.
The AD5X features an open bed design with a working space measuring approximately 8.7" cubed. For those of you who are looking to enclose the chamber in order to create a more stable environment for your prints, you can purchase the official kit for $49.99 that can turn it into a closed chamber setup. Alternatively, you can just build yourself a big box that you can place over the entire printer, probably for an even cheaper price.
The AD5X boasts a print speed of up to 600mm/s with 20,000mm/s² acceleration and can print a benchy in 12 minutes. Other features including solid build quality (all structural components are made of metal), a 4.3" color touchscreen with intuitive controls, auto leveling, and vibration compensation. Assembly is quick and easy and you should be able to make your first test print in a matter of minutes. No camera is included but, again, there's an official kit to add one.
The multi-filament module fleshes out the 3D printing capabilities and is one of the most important features for any mid to pro level enthusiast. With it you can print using up to four different colored filaments or filament materials simultaneously. It features an intelligent filament system that can identify and manage all four spools seamlessly and independently. Multi-filament add-ons in general cost $200-$300 by themselves, so having an integrated solution will save you a lot of money.
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Not everyone is the DIY type. If you're in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, Dell is one of the best brands we'd recommend. Alienware desktops and laptops feature solid build quality, top-of-the-line gaming performance, excellent cooling (further improved on the newer models), aggressive styling, and pricing that is very competitive with other pre-built options. Best of all, there are plenty of sales that happen throughout the year, so it's not difficult to grab one of these computers at considerably less than their retail price.
If you're seeking the absolute best of the best in PC gaming performance, look no further. Dell unveiled the new Alienware Area-51 gaming PC at CES 2025. The product photos don't give it due justice; this is a big chassis that towers over the Aurora R16 model with superior build quality and a redesigned cooling system with even greater airflow. This is the only model that can be configured with the hot and power hungry GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. The first wave of Area-51 systems featured Intel CPUs exclusively, with AMD X3D options only available since late November.
The Aurora R16 is Alienware's bread and butter gaming PC. It can be equipped with an Nvidia RTX 5060 graphics card all the way up to an RTX 5080 and the prices for Cyber Monday are extremely competitive with other brands. For example, currently Alienware has the least expensive prebuilt RTX 5080 gaming PC that I've found anywhere. Most of these systems are customizable, however it's not difficult to upgrade your own RAM and storage yourself.
Alienware's newest mainstream gaming laptop is dubbed the "Alienware Aurora" and it replaces the previous generation's x16 and m16 series of laptops. It comes in two models: the 16 and 16X. The 16 is the more economical model, but gamers should definitely opt for the higher-end 16X model. If you're looking for build quality and performance on par with the previous generation m16, then the 16X is its spiritual successor. It features an anodized aluminum lid and base, a higher quality display, a more powerful CPU, and a GPU that isn't throttled for maximum gaming performance.
The Area-51 is Alienware's new flagship gaming laptop for 2025. It features an anodized aluminum shell for both the lid and bottom chassis with a gorgeous iridescent finish. The frame is made of a durable and lightweight magnesium alloy. Cooling has been upgraded with generous amounts of copper and a new thermal interface material to better transfer heat away from your hottest components as well as more fans and bigger cutouts for greater airflow. Dell claims that the laptop can handle a higher power ceiling of up to 240W TDP without raising acoustics.
Design-wise, the Area 51 has a sleeker, more contoured shape compared to previous models, with rounded edges and soft corners replacing the traditional squared off design. The hinges are internally positioned so that they're near invisible. There's a transparent window on the undercarriage to show off the internal components. As befits an Alienware laptop, there's plenty of RGB illunimation, although most of it can be turned off if you want your laptop to be a bit more subtle.
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The second Magic: The Gathering set of 2026 is here, and it’s Turtle Time! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have emerged from the shadows in cardboard form, but despite coming from the sewer, there’s treasure to be found.
Below, you’ll find the priciest cards from the set so far, thanks to our friends at TCGplayer, with the caveat that these are pre-launch prices and subject to move around more than a backflipping reptile.
Some values with rise, some will fall, and there's every chance that this list looks completely different by this time next week - we'll update it in the coming days in any case.
Kicking our list off, Turtles In Time is a seven-cost Sorcery that returns creatures to hands, then lets players shuffle their hand and graveyard into their library and draw seven cards.
This Fracture Foil variant is fetching around $160 right now.
A four-cost 1/5, April O’Neil, Hactivist lets you draw extra cards for each card type among spells cast that turn in your end step.
This version is in Fracture Foil and will set you back around $190.
The first Turtle creature on our list, Donatello, Gadget Master, is a 3/2 with the Sneak keyword. When he deals damage, create a token that’s a copy of a target artifact you control.
The Showcase Fracture Foil treatment is up to $226 already.
Popular character Casey Jones, Vigilante costs just three mana for a 4/3, and gives you card draw at the cost of having to discard next turn.
The Showcase Fracture Foil is up to $280, making it one of the most desirable cards to find.
Raph is the muscle, and he’s looking particularly strong in this Showcase Fracture Foil variant of Raphael, the Nightwatcher.
He’s a four-cost 2/3 that gives your attacking creatures double strike, and it’ll set you back around $280. Ideal for aggro Red decks, or anyone that just loves to turn cards sideways to attack
Talk about an odd couple: Dark Leo and Shredder is a two-cost 1/3 that creates ninja tokens when it deals damage, gives those ninjas deathtouch when you attack, and then slices a player’s life total in half when you have five or more ninjas.
This full-art, Showcase Fracture Foil is selling for just shy of $300.
This awesome-looking Fracture Foil of Leonardo, Cutting Edge, is a two-cost 1/1 with Lifelink that grows in power as you gain life, and has the Sneak keyword.
It’s up to $340 right now ahead of launch.
The Turtles’ nemesis, this version of Super Shredder is a 1/1 with Menace that grows in power as other creatures leave the battlefield.
It’s selling for around $350 if you can find the Showcase Fracture Foil version.
Surely the cutest card on this list, Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11, shows adorable versions of our heroes gathered around Mikey’s bizarre choice of meal.
This two-cost, 1/1 gives you a Mutagen token when it enters, then doubles +1/+1 counters. It’s sitting around $440 right now.
Donatello’s having all the fun, and this Borderless, Gold-Stamped Signature variant is selling for around $3000.
Donatello, Mutant Mechanic is a four-cost 3/5 with the tap ability to put counters on an artifact to make it a creature. When it dies, those counters keep moving. That’s tough to read with Kevin Eastman’s signature on it, though.
Expect the other Turtles' signature cards to pop up here once they're unwrapped, too, but Donatello, Mutant Mechanic could cause carnage when paired with cards from the Final Fantasy X Commander precon, Counter Blitz.
While you have a slim (and we mean slim) chance of finding them in Play Boosters, you're infinitely more likely to find these desirable (read: valuable) cards in Collector Boosters.
These packs are $37.99 each, but include all foil and alternate art treatments so you've got a much better chance of finding expensive cards in them.
The trouble is that scalpers are aware of this - so Collector Boosters are tough to track down.
Including: UK, EU, Australia, and more.
If you are looking to buy cards from the US, that's easily remedied with TCGplayer's huge catalog, but it's now even easier to buy cards from the site without being in the US yourself.
"International package forwarding services give you a local shipping address in the U.S, receive purchases for you, and then consolidate and forward them to your home address at competitive global shipping rate," the retailer says, and many locations can receive a 15% discount on their first shipment.
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If the excitement of a new Spider-Man movie coming out this year has you itching to check out collectibles and gear, Amazon is the place to look. At the moment, the retailer is offering a great limited time deal on the Marvel Legends Series Spider-Man: Homecoming Mask, which has dropped from $139.99 to $87.99 (see it here).
According to price tracker camelcamelcamel, this even marks a brand new low for this electronic Spider-Man mask, which is a sweet bonus. Whether you want it for cosplay or just as a fun piece to display or wear on its own, this is an excellent time to swing in and add it to your digital shopping cart.
Inspired by Tom Holland's mask from Spider-Man: Homecoming, this 1:1 scale mask certainly looks worth the money. The standout element is that it features very expressive electronic eyes that can be controlled - either independently or together - by using a remote. They feature eight different eye movements in Manual Mode or five pre-programmed eye movements in Automatic Mode, including a surprised look or even suspicious.
It's incredibly cool to see in action, and sure to impress any Spider-Man fans you run into while wearing it. Or, if you'd prefer to have it set up for people to see, it also comes with a display stand that you can put it up on.
However, this deal may not last for long, since Amazon has it marked as a limited-time deal right now. So, if it's caught your eye and you can't wait to put it on and feel like the friendly neighborhood hero himself, you'll want to act fast. Plus, what better time to grab it with Spider-Man: Brand New Day just a few months away?
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Warning: This article includes spoilers and details about Ted Season 2.
Ted is back on Peacock, and for Season 2 it's bringing a little bit of magic along for the ride. In Episode 3, "Dealers & Dragons", Ted and John are drawn into a game of Dungeons & Dragons. Prepare to see a very different setting for the show, a cameo from the world of tabletop gaming and a truly incredible scene involving Ted and a reference to the movie Philadelphia.
The Ted and fantasy universes might not make for the most obvious crossover, but as IGN discovered when it visited the set of the Dungeons & Dragons episode, a huge amount of work went into making sure this was a true tribute to the iconic tabletop game. (Look for our full video report from the set of "Dealers & Dragons" this Monday, March 9th.)
Don't worry, this isn't about to get Stranger Things traumatic; Ted is still very much the foul-mouthed fluffball we know and love, even when he's transported to a world of wizards and spells. The plotline behind this little jaunt into the magical realm is powered by a need for weed, rather than saving the world from the Abyss.
In order to win their prize, John and Ted have to complete a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Ted is the bard, John is a mage (or wizard, in modern Dungeons & Dragons speak), mom Susan is a fighter, dad Matty is a cleric and Blaire is a thief. As anyone who has ever LARPed will tell you, fantasy is nothing without some decent drip. Doing D&D right means dressing the part, and the cast explained their new looks for this very special episode.
"Something I learned, wizard robes are fucking hot. Like, warm, like physically very warm," said Max Burkholder, who plays John. He's a legitimate Dungeons & Dragons fan and helped the rest of the cast understand the game's world and storytelling. Having gotten into it while watching games online during the quarantine, Burkholder even tried to set up a one-off Dungeons & Dragons campaign with the cast, creating characters for them.
He talked about the process of working with the costume department on his outfit. "My one note that I gave to Heather [Pain], our costume designer, about it was I want to have so many pockets. I want to have pockets in the sleeves. I want to have pockets here with little bullshit and little trinkets I've got on my belt. A leather pouch that in it has another leather pouch. I've got keys, a spell book.
"Everything about mine looks exactly like you would think a wizard should look. Except not as many stars and moons on the cape like Fantasia. And no giant conical hat. But I've got the hood, I've got the robes, I've got the staff. It's pretty incredible."
Meanwhile, dad Matty, played by Scott Grimes, had the cleric costume with a more unusual focal point, apparently entirely Ted mastermind Seth MacFarlane's idea. "I wear a Friar Tuck wig, which is just a bald spot in the middle with a rim of hair around it," said Grimes. "We did six tests because I didn't realize I'm a redhead, and my skin is very, very pink and lots of different colors. So the bald spot in the middle took 16 people to make it. They bring it to me and they put it up against my face and I'm like, 'that's not what I look like'. But it is. It's freckled and speck[s] and little skin cancer here and stuff like that. Oh, it's humbling."
Alanna Ubach, who plays mom Susan Bennett, got arguably the coolest makeover, with a full set of armor. "I wanted to translate Susan into what she would imagine she would wear," said costume designer Heather Pain. "She wears a lot of sweater vests and turtlenecks. What if we made her armor a little bit like her sweater vest? The line of it with a turtleneck, but then bring in, like, this weird kind of disco chainmail that feels more ’70s."
Of course, sometimes you have to make sacrifices for fashion. "Susan is happy to be Susan the destroyer. And she's in this sort of Joan of Arc-esque armor," said Ubach. "The armor is so heavy and so constricting that I need help going to the bathroom, and I'll leave it at that. Wardrobe had to follow me to the bathroom so that I can take off my skirt and my sword and my 700 belts and my tampon [a key prop from the episode] and hand it to them, and then I can go pee."
One of the biggest changes for viewers and the people working behind the scenes is that most of the action doesn't take place in a bedroom or a school hall – instead, it takes place in a fantasy land. One the set designers built. In fact, the creation of the classic fantasy landscape required 25,000 pounds of dirt to be flown in.
"They triple refined it. They like sieved through three things. They had like an environmental pathogen breakdown report for all the dirt," said Burkholder. Unfortunately that dirt did include a stowaway cricket, and a noisy one at that.
"We had to redo that scene about three or four times. I was like, where's the damn cricket?" said Ubach.
Expect forests, ominous chambers full of spikes, and of course a tavern, which I'm pretty sure has to be included in any fantasy story by law. One scene sees the band of adventurers solving a riddle while surrounded by four statues. If you think the statues look lifelike, it's because they're actually dancers brought in to play the parts. The dancers wore stiff, plastered costumes and couldn't move, hear or see what was going on around them.
"Everytime we walked into the room I just thought that there were four statues in there, and then they would start moving and I'd be like, 'oh, I guess they got moving statues.' And then I would remember that they were four dancers doing an incredible job for me," said Burkholder.
The writers made the very smart choice not to spend the episode dealing with the D&D algebra that is creating a character sheet, or endless dice rolls. It skips the mechanics to get straight to the fantasy, without sacrificing authenticity. One of the people making that happen was writer Chelsea Davison, who played the game in high school and brought her full nerd powers to recreating the game for the show.
"As a high school student, I played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons, and that was a huge part of my adolescence. That was something that Seth had never played, but he knew how passionate fans of D&D are," explained Davison. "He was like, 'okay, well, it doesn't make sense, in that Ted and John were a little too cool. They wouldn't just be playing this. They don't have a campaign going. They can't commit to anything. But what if there's a way to get them hooked into a game for one episode?'"
MacFarlane actually had Davison lead a game of Dungeons & Dragons for the writers room. "Which was crazy because I've only ever played with, like, five players, when I've been a DM, a dungeon master, and this was a room of 12 people," said Davison.
"It was just chaos. Mostly people who had never played before in their lives. And we created characters, played the whole game. I mean, it was dark by the time we finished, but so many of those things, like the riddle from the episode, is the riddle I used in the room with them that I wrote for that campaign."
If there's still lingering doubt, Dungeons & Dragons nerds will know they're in good hands the minute they see a familiar face - Brennan Lee Mulligan - playing the role of dungeon master. He's best known for his work on Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor) and created the popular Dimension 20 series show, where he and a team play through different campaigns.
"Brennan and I are friends from UCB, in New York," said Davison. "And I'd watched his meteoric rise through Dimension 20 and, when we were writing this script and I was writing this character of the Dungeon Master, this was something that I said to Aimee [Carlson, executive producer] and others, that in a perfect world it would be Brennan. He would be so great. Luckily, the stars aligned and it worked out."
You'll be able to see the episode for yourself from today, but the set visit and an early preview of the episode shows that all the effort the cast and crew put into making this special episode happen was worth it.
"It is so big," said Davison. "It is a huge undertaking. And, you know, I think Seth was really passionate that if we're going to do it, let's do it 100 percent. We don't want to have them be playing some knockoff fairies and whatever. We want this to be really authentic to this fan base, so we ended up saving this episode for Season 2. I'm so glad Season 2 happened so that we got to bring this all to life."
All episodes of Ted Season 2, including "Dealers & Dragons," are available on Peacock now. Be sure to read our Ted Season 2 review.
It seems that a group has been able to bypass Denuvo in Resident Evil Requiem in record time. And, as they have showcased, the game uses five different DRMs on PC right now. The bypass method I’m talking about is the one from HyperVisor. The group behind it was able to bypass all of the … Continue reading Resident Evil Requiem uses five different DRMs on PC →
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Nintendo has announced a Nintendo Direct revealing the final trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. It is set for Monday, March 9, at 2pm PT / 11am ET / 9pm UK time.
To manage expectations, Nintendo said no game information will be included in the presentation.
Recent trailers for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, due to hit theaters April 1, have sparked all sorts of questions about unannounced Nintendo characters who may pop up in the film. Some fans even believe the movie will revolve around time travel. Last month, a familiar but unannounced name popped up in a theater chain's description of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Along with Mario and Luigi, the upcoming animated sequel will also see Bowser Jr, Yoshi, Birdo, a T-Rex, and Rosalina, the latter of whom is voiced by Marvel star and Nintendo fan Brie Larson. All of the same major cast members are back from the first movie, too, including Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, and Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek.
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