SteelSeries is a jack of all trades these days, and it’s a master of many of them. One of our favorite gaming headsets, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4X Wireless, has seen a steep discount ahead of Prime Day 2025.
Last year, we gave the Arctis Nova 4X Wireless a stunning 9/10 in our full review, and our reviewer Dylan Horetski said “I firmly believe that the Nova 4X microphone is the best you’ll get in a wireless gaming headset in this price range, and the added customization with Sonar on the PC only makes it better.”
A ringing endorsement indeed, but now that it’s discounted in the pre-Prime Day deals at Amazon, it’s only getting stronger.
The retailer has knocked 46% off the list price, bringing its $125 price tag down to just $67.98.
Why Choose This SteelSeries Arctis Headset?
What makes this a headset worthy of your time? Where to begin. For starters, 15 minutes of USB-C charging gets you 6 hours of battery life, with a maximum battery life of 36 hours.
It’s also got some absolutely fantastic audio chops, including SteelSeries’ own Sonar EQ on PC. If you’re not playing on Windows, fear not because the Arctis Nova 4X Wireless also plays nicely with any other console, or your phone and tablet, and is able to connect via the included USB-C dongle.
"The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4X is the budget wireless headset to beat." - Dylan Horetski for IGN
If that all sounds good, here’s the real kicker: This is the lowest price the Arctis Nova 4X has ever been at Amazon according to our in house price tracker. Don't believe me? CamelCamelCamel is saying the same as well!
Still, with Prime Day just hours away, you might want to consider waiting. It's not uncommon for already discounted items to get even deeper sales when the event begins, and for the sake of 24 hours I'd recommend holding fire for now, just in case we see a better deal for Prime members.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.
"Celebrating 25 years of Final Fantasy 9 today," said a tweet posted to the game's official X/Twitter account yesterday, July 6. "When a theatre troupe set out for a royal kidnapping, Zidane and Princess Garnet are thrown into an emotional adventure that's never left the hearts of those who've played it. What does FFIX mean to you?"
Then, in a follow-up message posted today (July 7), Square Enix invited players aged 13 and up in selected countries to submit their FF9 fan art between now and the end of October. If selected, it will then be used on the Final Fantasy portal site, as well as official social network accounts.
The X/Twitter account of passion project Final Fantasy 9: Memoria Project further stoked speculation earlier today by quote-tweeting Square's post, adding: "When are we going to tell them, Square Enix?"
Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, the game's social media and Reddit communities have been full of shocked players commenting on the lack of news. "This CANNOT be it bro," said one. "The remake. Announce the remake," while another said: "At least confirm or deny the remake rumors plz."
"The 25th anniversary is a big milestone and announcing it would be the best right now. My hopes are gone," added another disappointed fan. Interestingly, though, some fans have taken this lack of announcement as a sign there may still be news to come.
"October is the month, boys," said this excited player, while another added: "Cutoff date is the end of October because y'all will reveal the FF9 Remake in November, right?"
In a Reddit thread entitled, "You've reached a checkpoint. How are you doing given the so far disappointment of no announcement?", one fan replied: "At this point I've played myself more than I've played the actual game. Just call me Zorn & Thorn 'cause I'm a certified resident of Clown Town."
Even Domino's Pizza can't believe we haven't had an announcement yet…
Final Fantasy 9 remake rumors have swirled around Square Enix ever since the unannounced game emerged as part of a 2021 Nvidia leak of upcoming titles. The list, confirmed legit by Nvidia but potentially outdated, includes a number of Square Enix games the company has either announced or released since, such as the Chrono Cross remaster, Kingdom Hearts 4, the Final Fantasy Tactics remake, and of course the Final Fantasy 7 remake for PC. However, Final Fantasy 9 remake has yet to materialize. Just a few months before the Nvidia leak, in June 2021, a Final Fantasy 9 animated series was reported to be in development, although we haven’t heard anything about it in the years since, either.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.
The James Gunn and Zack Snyder fandoms may be at war online, but the two DC figureheads joined forces for a surprise cameo on the latest episode of Rick and Morty to jokingly mock each others’ takes on Superman.
Warning! Spoilers for Rick and Morty Season 8, Episode 7, Ricker Than Fiction, which aired Sunday, July 6 on Adult Swim, follow.
In the episode, Gunn and a beefy Snyder meet in a Warner Bros. cafeteria and discuss the upcoming DC Universe reboot kickstarter Superman.
“Just saw your new cut of Superman,” Snyder begins. “And word of advice, he’s the ‘Man of Steel,’ not the ‘Man of Conversation.’ Do more shots of him punching!”
“And here’s a secret move," Snyder continues, "start the punch at regular speed and then you’re gonna ramp it down.”
“It’s not a f***ing secret!” Gunn responds, angrily, before he apologizes. “I’m sorry Zack Snyder, I shouldn’t be lashing out at you, your biceps are the size of my head.”
“Yes, but so is my heart.”
The pair then talk about a "fan" called Rick Sanchez, who used a portal to sneak under the lot. Gunn wonders if Hollywood is losing touch with the audience. Snyder then offers words of reassurance. “That’s the guy that sealed Nolan in the giant bookcase to quote unquote ‘punish’ him for Interstellar,” Snyder says. “He doesn’t represent real fans. He’s just the smartest man in the universe. Don’t sweat it. He can’t do what we do. Probably.”
Snyder’s gentle ribbing of Gunn’s Superman (“Man of Conversation”) is a nod to a 10-minute scene in which Clark and Lois talk about geopolitics and whether Superman should have stopped a war on foreign soil.
In a recent interview with The Times, Gunn admitted the scene “is definitely the most unusual thing that we put in the movie.”
“Yes, it’s about politics,” Gunn said. “But on another level it’s about morality. Do you never kill no matter what — which is what Superman believes — or do you have some balance, as Lois believes? It’s really about their relationship and the way different opinions on basic moral beliefs can tear two people apart.
“But, there is also a flying dog in the film who wears a cape. And come on, Clark has glasses and people don’t know who he is. He can hold up a building. He’s wearing a costume. If I flew around saving people I wouldn’t make myself a costume I had to change into every time. There’s something peculiar about a person who makes a costume. Clark is a peculiar guy.”
Meanwhile, Snyder’s Rick and Morty cameo sees him in a self-deprecating mood, highlighting his tendency to overdo it with dramatic slow-motion in his action sequences. Snyder was of course the steward of the DCEU, starring Henry Cavill as Superman, before Warner Bros. handed DC Studios over to Gunn and co-CEO Peter Safran to reboot the entire universe with David Corenswet in the leading role.
Gunn and Snyder's Rick and Morty cameo, which we now know was behind the viral photo of the pair from February, disarms the ongoing online war between the two sets of fandoms: those who support the ‘Snyderverse’ and want to see it return, and those who are happy to see Gunn’s rebooted DC Universe take shape.
Gunn had responded to the post, which issued a call to arms to “stand up and fight for SnyderVerse on July 11” (the release date of Superman). “Gunn fired the first shot and killed the Snyderverse and here is our chance to take the fight back to him,” the post said.
After a Threads user brought the post to Gunn’s attention, he replied to dismiss its impact on Superman’s potential success. “Lol I think we'll survive,” he said. “I'm not sure the eight people that listen to that guy (I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's a guy) are going to impact the course of events.”
Ayer, whose widely panned Suicide Squad movie formed a part of Snyder's now defunct DCEU, had initially taken to X/Twitter to ask fans not to launch the latest ‘Ayer Cut’ campaign at the same time as the Superman trailer release date. Ayer, clearly exacerbated by what he'd witnessed on social media as a result, announced he was taking a “step back” from the discourse.
Gunn touched briefly on the subject of some within the Snyderverse fandom rooting for Superman and his new DCU to fail in a recent interview with Rolling Stone.
“I don’t mind it,” he said. “I think it’s good. I think you don’t wanna have everybody root for you. And I have an actor who reads everything online. I won’t say who it is, but he’ll read this article, and he’ll know who it is. It’s one of the top five in Superman. And this actor gets so upset over things that people say. I said, ‘First of all, you realize that the trailer came out and [reaction] was 97, 98% positive. These people help us, because you don’t want everything to seem 100% positive.'
“It’s all right to have an opposing force every once in a while. Some of the things get ridiculous — I just know that every time something comes out, it doesn’t matter how positively received, there’s gonna be something that is of great controversy. It was great controversy that the sun caused Superman pain.”
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
Pokémon Go has teased the arrival of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's Paradox creatures within the hit smartphone game.
Paradox Pokémon are new versions of familiar creatures from alternate past and future realities, and debuted in the series' most recent mainline games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet for Nintendo Switch.
Artwork for Pokémon Go's 9th anniversary shows the primordial Great Tusk, which looks like it's wandered off the set of Jurassic World Rebirth, and the neon-coated Iron Treads, which could have rolled straight out of Cyberpunk 2077. Both are versions of the classic Pokémon Donphan — and now fans are debating how Paradox Pokémon will debut.
In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, players can encounter Paradox Pokémon in the wild — though in Pokémon Go, there's an expectation that these powerful creatures will likely pop up in raids, similar to how the Ultra Beasts from Pokémon Sun and Moon debuted.
Paradox Pokémon originally being spotted in Scarlet/Violet's "Area Zero" crater has meanwhile led some fans to suggest the species would be a good fit for this year's Pokémon Go Wild Area event, which is designed to feel like something of a safari.
22 Paradox Pokémon species exist, with a selection of more common and Legendary Pokémon remixed. Jigglypuff gets a billion-year-old variant named Scream Tail, for example, while the Legendary Terrakion gets a new variant, Iron Boulder, that looks like an anime robot. Regardless of how some of the Paradox species are introduced, these new versions of Legendary creatures seem most likely to be found in raids.
One note of caution about Pokémon Go's anniversary artwork is that the game has, on occasion, not always followed through with what these images have set up. Fans have been quick to point to past teases for Mega Mewtwo and fan-favorite Ghost critter Mimikyu in previous annual artworks, only to not materialise. But Pokémon Go's developer has seemingly become wiser to these expectations — and indeed Paradox Pokémon are the logical choice for the next big selection of creatures to join the game, after the recent debut of Gigantamax creatures, the fully-launched Ultra Beasts and almost all Mega Pokémon now being available.
Other teases in this year's artwork include Gigantamax Butterfree, which fans expect to debut soon, Mega Metagross, one of the game's last remaining Mega species yet to turn up, and a player avatar receiving a virtual thumbs up (which some fans are taking as a sign that remote communication or even remote trading might be arriving).
And then there's Zygarde, star of the upcoming Pokémon Legends Z-A for Switch and Switch 2. While already in Pokémon Go, fans are currently limited to having just one of the creature. Could we see more become available, and potentially through Mega Raids, if Zygarde does get a Mega in Z-A? As with the temporally-divergent Paradox Pokémon themselves, time will tell.
Hot on the heels of the layoffs that have swept through Xbox, the founder of Microsoft-owned Arkane Studios has hit out at Game Pass, whose subscription model he called “unsustainable.”
Raphael Colantonio, who founded the Dishonored and Prey developer and served as its president before leaving in 2017 to start Weird West maker WolfEye Studios, took to social media to ask: “Why is no-one talking about the elephant in the room? Cough cough (Gamepass).”
When asked to expand on his thoughts on Game Pass, which Weird West launched straight into as a day one title in March 2022, Colantonio said: “I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade, subsidized by MS’s ‘infinite money,’ but at some point reality has to hit. I don’t think GP can co-exist with other models, they’ll either kill everyone else, or give up.”
Colantonio’s comment sparked a vociferous debate about the pros and cons of Game Pass in industry terms as well as for the customer. Microsoft's subscription service has been called many things over the years: the death of the video game industry; the savior of smaller developers who benefit greatly from payments made by Microsoft to secure their games; and everything in between. During the great Xbox FTC trial to decide the fate of Microsoft's $69 billion aquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, then PlayStation boss Jim Ryan claimed that he had talked to "all the publishers" and that, unanimously, they all hated Game Pass "because it is value destructive." He also said Microsoft "appears to be losing a lot of money on it."
Back in 2021, Xbox boss Phil Spencer countered Game Pass doomsayers, saying: "I know there's a lot of people that like to write [that] we're burning cash right now for some future pot of gold at the end. No. Game Pass is very, very sustainable right now as it sits. And it continues to grow."
That was four years ago. What about now, in the wake of cuts that have seen Rare's Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and an unannounced MMO in the works at developer behind The Elder Scrolls Online all canceled?
Colantonio’s comments were backed by a number of industry peers, including the former VP of biz dev at Epic Games. Michael Douse, publishing director at Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian, said that the biggest concern right now revolves around what happens when all that money runs out. This, Douse added, is “one of the main economic reasons people I know haven't shifted to its business model. The infinite money thing never made any sense.”
(It’s worth noting that Baldur’s Gate 3 has so far not launched in Game Pass or PlayStation Plus.)
Colantonio then ridiculed Microsoft’s insistence that launching games into Game Pass did not impact sales, only to later admit the contrary.
Douse responded to to say he prefers the Sony way of doing things. Sony’s PlayStation Plus policy is to keep first-party games off the subscription service at launch, only adding them some time later. That’s why you won’t see this year’s Sony’s Ghost of Yotei launch straight into PS Plus, but you will see Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 as a day one Game Pass launch.
“The economics never made sense, but at the same time I do recognize that for smaller teams with new or riskier IPs it helped derisk,” Douse said. “Much prefer Sony's 'lifecycle management' strategy.”
"Yeah, the only way GP can co-exist without hurting everyone is for the back catalogue," Colantonio concluded.
He then went on to insist that “the maths don’t work for most publishers/devs nor for Xbox once they stop investing.”
Colantonio was also asked why Microsoft would continue to push Game Pass if it were unsustainable, even now, eight years after it launched. He responded to say that Game Pass isn’t profitable, Microsoft is still in the "customer acquisition phase", and the company hopes that one day, subscription revenue will make its significant investment pay off.
Colantonio explained that Game Pass on its own cannot be considered profitable because you need to factor in the billions of dollars Microsoft has spent acquiring content for the subscription service, and he includes Bethesda owner ZeniMax and Activision Blizzard in that equation. “It’s a spreadsheet trick where they don’t put that detail in a profit and loss section, but instead in the amortization over time,” he claimed.
Game Pass is of course an incredible deal for the gamer that lets subscribers dip in and out of a long list of games for a fraction of the cost of buying those games standalone. Game Pass is often said to be too good to be true because of how cheap it is relative to what it offers. When you throw in every game Microsoft has on its books as a day one Game Pass launch (Call of Duty included), the deal feels even better.
For Colantonio, though, the Game Pass deal is “too good.”
“What *might* happen once MS has won: the games will start to suck and your sub will go up,” he added. “Why? Because the current amazing deal you have is subsided by MS bleeding money into it with the hope they’ll kill the competition, but once they manage to do it, things will get real.”
He added: “... it’s a long game that involves throwing a tsunami at the entire ecosystem of the industry. Only the gamers like it because the offer is too good to be true, but eventually even gamers will hate it when they realize the effects on the games.”
Microsoft does not report on the success of Game Pass either way in financial terms. Indeed, its reporting on its gaming business is vague at best. In its last financial report (for the quarter ending March 31, 2025), Microsoft said Xbox content and services grew 8% year-over-year, which was in part due to growth in Xbox Game Pass. PC Game Pass revenue increased 45% year-over-year. But we don’t have an updated figure for how many subscribers Game Pass has, nor how much money it brings in.
In an April interview with Variety, Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer was asked how he views Game Pass’s ongoing role in the larger Xbox business. Spencer replied to say he thinks about Game Pass as “a healthy option for certain people,” but admitted “it’s not for everybody.”
“Our biggest areas of growth right now are PC and Cloud, which makes sense, since consoles, all up, are a good business, they’re an established business, but they’re not really a growing segment in gaming," he said.
"So we’ve got good growth on PC, we’ve got growth on Cloud, in terms of users and hours. And console continues to be a really healthy part of Game Pass. But there isn’t a unique need for Game Pass to be the only way for people to play. If everybody who’s a Game Pass subscriber instead decided to buy their games, that’s good for the business as well.
“For me, I look at Game Pass as a healthy option for certain people. It’s not for everybody. If you play one or two games a year, Game Pass probably isn’t the right business model for you, you should just buy those two games, and that would make total sense. But I want you to have the choice. So we remain focused on everything that’s on Game Pass is also available to buy. We’re making those games available to buy in more places.
“And I look at the overall hours of people who are playing on Xbox, playing our games, and that’s a number that continues to grow fairly substantially, and that’s really the metric I think about for success. And Game Pass has been an important part of that, but I don’t try to solve for Game Pass specifically on its own. It’s kind of part of the equation for Xbox finding new players.”
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
James Gunn has said he's well aware some people will take offense at his new Superman movie "just because it is about kindness."
Superman, which launches July 11 and kickstarts the rebooted DC Universe, is coming out "at a particular time when people are feeling a loss of hope in other people's goodness," Gunn told The Times in a new profile.
"I'm telling a story about a guy who is uniquely good, and that feels needed now because there is a meanness that has emerged due to cultural figures being mean online."
He added: "And I include myself in this. It is ad infinitum, millions of people having tantrums online. How are we supposed to get anywhere as a culture? We don't know what's real, and that is a really difficult place for the human brain to be. If I could press a button to make the internet disappear I'd consider it. And, no, I don't make films to change the world, but if a few people could be just a bit nicer after this it would make me happy."
The story of Superman the world famous superhero character is "the story of America," Gunn told the publication.
"An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost."
Gunn then admitted his new Superman movie "plays differently" in different parts of the United States (The Times interviewer wondered how different it will play in New York and Kansas, for example). Gunn then said he expects some people will find his new Superman offensive, but he dismissed that reaction.
"But it's about human kindness and obviously there will be jerks out there who are just not kind and will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness. But screw them."
Gunn went on to say he's already seen a degree of backlash against his take on Superman, played by David Corenswet.
"We posted footage of David with a bunch of kids who were extras on set," Gunn said. "Kids love Superman — it's like when they see Santa. And David is high-fiving them, it was so beautiful, such a cute video. And then I saw people saying, 'Oh, great, we've got a Superman who's a pussy.' Are you kidding me? That's something you're going to attack? That little kids like this guy and he's kind?"
In a Q&A session attended by IGN at the time, Gunn touched on the message Superman, with "the simplicity of the morals and goodness and love" the character embodies, can convey upon its release.
"Listen, I do think that things have become really polarizing, and my life is just not that," Gunn said. "I also think that the internet has become polarizing and it's much more polarizing than life is. I live in rural Georgia and I have friends of all different political persuasions. I'm not a person that believes in cutting someone out because their politics are different than mine. And I think at the end of the day, most of us are trying to do our best, and most of us are making the best choices we can for ourselves and trying to do things compassionately.
"I know that's hard to believe in this time when everything is so black and white on the internet in terms of what's good and what's bad, what choices are good and what choices are bad.
"But I would hope that Superman does unify us a little bit because he is just about those core values that I think everyone believes in. Not everyone, but almost everyone believes in. And so hopefully this is outside of that realm of political discourse in that respect.
"And yeah, I do think that if we can focus on our humanity, which is what Superman is about as a character and as a movie, and focus on doing the best we can day-to-day, then it's a little bit healing, but not a lot."
The debut Superman trailer revealed Superman lying prone, battered, bruised, and bleeding after a battle with an unknown foe. Superman calls out to Krypto the Superdog for help, and upon his arrival asks him to take him home.
This sequence, Gunn said in last December's Q&A, reflects his desire for the Superman movie to act as a place "we can all go home" to.
"At the beginning of this trailer, Superman wants Krypto to take him home," Gunn said. "And I think that this is a place where we can all go home, to a character that we love, to the simplicity of the morals and goodness and love that Superman embodies as a character, and that we can all go home this summer to Superman. I think it's something that could be a good thing for us."
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
These past couple of days, we’ve shared some cool new mods for Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced Edition. And here is another great mod for it. PureDark has just released a new mod that adds support for NVIDIA DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Gen. If you didn’t know, Title Update 1.71 for GTA 5 Enhanced Edition added … Continue reading GTA 5 Enhanced Edition DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Gen Mod Released→
Jurassic World Rebirth crossed the $300 million mark at the global box office with the close of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
The Gareth Edwards-directed summer blockbuster starring Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali, has a global tally of $318.318 million after five days on the market (it opened on Wednesday), with $147.3 million coming from North American theaters. That’s comfortably enough for Jurassic World Rebirth to be the number one film in the world right now, but its domestic box office is down compared to recent entries in the long-running franchise.
For example, 2015’s Jurassic World made a huge $258 million domestically during its first five days, 2018’s Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom did $181 million during the same period, and 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion took $172 million. However, putting a more positive spin on Jurassic World Rebirth, it enjoyed the second biggest international opening in the Jurassic franchise, behind only Jurassic World. The question is whether Rebirth will hit a billion dollars, as each film in the prior trilogy managed, and enjoys a big enough commercial success to convince Universal to power on with this intended new trilogy.
IGN’s Jurassic World Rebirth review returned a 5/10. We said: “For a movie that promises a “Rebirth,” the latest Jurassic World plays it frustratingly safe, falling back on the blueprint of the original film, but not shedding any of the problems with the more recent movies.”
Meanwhile, F1: The Movie brought home another $82.4 million for a global total to date of $293.6 million. That makes it Apple’s highest-grossing movie ever after just two weekends, speeding ahead of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, which managed $221.3 million in 2023.
If you’re wondering how Apple’s other movies have fared at the box office, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon made $158 million, Argylle settled on a disappointing $96 million, and Fly Me to the Moon hit $42 million.
How To Train Your Dragon crossed $500 million at the global box office this weekend to hit $516.94 million. Disney’s Lilo & Stitch has inched closer to the one billion dollar mark with, and is now up to $972.7 million globally ($408.5 million domestic and $564.2 million international) after seven weekends in theaters. Pixar’s Elio, however, has grossed just $96.8 million globally after three weekends, cementing its launch disaster status.
On the other side of the horror spectrum, 28 Years Later now has a global total of $125.8 million. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning hit $576.184 million after seven weeks, and Final Destination Bloodlines has a global tally of $284.8 million.
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
Modder polvovoss has released the last part of his “Permanent POIs” mod series for Starfield. This mod, called Permanent POIs – Rogue Science, adds 16 new places to explore, 5 new weapons, new enemies, and some cool new lore to the game. Going into more details, the modder made sure the 16 new POIs always … Continue reading New Starfield mods add 76 locations, 10+ weapons & new enemies→
We've rounded up the best deals for Saturday, July 5, below, so don't miss out on these limited-time offers.
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Even almost eight years later, Super Mario Odyssey is still one of the best games available on Nintendo Switch. Mario games rarely go on sale, but you can score this legendary game from Walmart for $39 this weekend. Join Mario and Cappy on an adventure that spans the globe as the two attempt to stop Bowser's wedding plans!
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Steam Summer Sale - The Best Deals Today
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Celebrated TV series composer Mark Snow has died aged 78.
Snow, who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, is best-known for composing the iconic The X-Files theme tune, which became the soundtrack to the conspiracy theory-obsessed Nineties. With its spooky whistle that played alongside a title sequence that contained a number of creepy images, such as a stretchy face series creator Chris Carter specifically requested, Snow’s The X-Files is among the most recognisable in TV theme history.
But Snow also composed the entire series’ initial nine-season run from 1993 to 2001, returning for the revival in 2015. Six of Snow's 15 Emmy nominations were for the The X-Files episodes he scored.
Away from The X-Files, Snow composed for the likes of Smallville, Blue Bloods, The Twilight Zone, and Carter’s The X-Files follow-up Millennium. Snow returned to The X-Files for the revival in 2015. He passed away on Friday, July 4, at his home in Connecticut, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Snow also worked on a number of video games, including 1998’s Urban Assault and The X-Files Game, and Sony Bend’s 2004 PlayStation 2 exclusive Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain. His final project was the 2020 X-Men film The New Mutants.
The instrumental The X Files was a hit single in the United Kingdom and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in 1996. According to Variety, this amused Snow, who said: "Nothing really big happens in the song. It stays in A-minor, there’s no singing, drums or guitars, and it was a smash hit. That’s pretty wild."
Fellow TV and video game composer Bear McCreary (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, God of War) said Snow’s legacy “will forever be connected to his iconic work on The X-Files, but he also crafted memorable music for many other series.
“I chatted with him at length several times about our approaches to work and life. He was always charming and friendly.”
Mark Snow didn’t just score this scene—he scored the soul of The X-Files. Without his music, there’s no tension, no atmosphere, no catharsis. This near-kiss only works because of him. https://t.co/tzQSBqfZULpic.twitter.com/CWJRN34KsY
Lance Henriksen, who starred in Millennium, took to social media to say: “I've lost an incredible friend. Rest well Mark and thank you.”
Composer Sean Callery said on Facebook: "Mark Snow, and one of the most wonderful and talented people I’ve ever known, has passed away. 33 years ago he began mentoring me as an artist. Who knew that I was also at the beginning of a deep friendship that would only grow and evolve over three decades along with our graying hair and tighter deadlines.
"I am so grateful to him for his sage counsel and his laugh-out-loud biting wit. My career got started by an act of generosity on his part 33 years ago – period, full stop. I love you my friend. There will never ever be another like you. I send love to Glynnis and all his children and grandchildren during this time."
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