Nintendo fans are unhappy about a $30 Metroid Prime 4: Beyond amiibo figurine that lets you turn on your motorbike's radio.

As previously announced, the Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Samus amiibo unlocks a range of in-game features, including an energy shield that blocks 99 damage — limited to one use per day. But fan discussion has now centered on the fact this amiibo also unlocks a jukebox feature for Samus' Vi-O-La motorbike, which allows you to hear other themes from the game.

Amazon has revealed fresh details about the upcoming Prime Video Spider-Man spinoff series, Spider-Noir, and released new posters for the show.

Spider-Noir is a live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir. It tells the story of Ben Reilly, played by Nicolas Cage, who is described as “an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.”

This is our first official confirmation that Cage is playing Ben Reilly as opposed to Peter Parker. In the Marvel comics, Ben Reilly, also known as Scarlet Spider, is a clone of Peter Parker/Spider-Man initially tasked with fighting him, but he eventually becomes an ally. Created by writer Gerry Conway, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #149 (October 1975). Ben Reilly as the Scarlet Spider appears in 2023 animated movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, voiced by Andy Samberg.

Amazon said Spider-Noir will be available in both black and white and color, and released new posters, below, reflecting the difference in look audiences can expect.

Expect a release at some point in 2026, debuting domestically in the U.S. on MGM+’s linear channel, then globally on Prime Video the next day in more than 240 countries and territories thereafter.

The cast includes Nicolas Cage, Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson. Guest star cast includes Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, Amanda Schull, Andrew Caldwell, Amy Aquino, Andrew Robinson, and Kai Caster.

Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag, Killing Eve) directed and executive produced the first two episodes. Oren Uziel (The Lost City, 22 Jump Street) and Steve Lightfoot (Marvel’s The Punisher, Shantaram) serve as co-showrunners and executive producers. Uziel and Lightfoot developed the series with the team behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal.

Speaking of Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third film in the animated trilogy, is currently set for release on June 18, 2027. Daniel Kaluuya, who played Hobart "Hobie" Brown / Spider-Punk in Across the Spider-Verse, is set to play the same character in Beyond the Spider-Verse (he’s also reportedly set to reprise the role in a Spider-Punk animated spinoff).

Marvin Jones III, who voices supervillain Tombstone in Into the Spider-Verse, is also set to reprise his role for Beyond the Spider-Verse. (He’ll play a live-action version of the character in next year’s MCU movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day, too.)

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Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played Shang Tsung in the original Mortal Kombat movie as well as video game Mortal Kombat 11, has died aged 75.

The star of The Last Emperor, Memoirs of a Geisha, and The Man in the High Castle, died Thursday in Santa Barbara due to complications from a stroke, Deadline reported.

Tagawa famously played evil sorcerer Shang Tsung in the 1995 adaptation of the Mortal Kombat video game, becoming an instantly recognizable face for an army of fans. In the movie, Shang Tsung points to a helpless Liu Kang while holding his brother, Chan hostage, and declares: "your brother's soul is mine!" Tagawa would go on to make his 'Your soul is mine!' line an iconic part of Shang Tsung lore, and it has endured in the 30 years since. After the original Mortal Kombat movie, Tagawa went on to play Shang Tsung multiple times, including in 2019’s Mortal Kombat 11, where his voice and physical likeness was used — much to the delight of fans.

As Nintendo finally looks set to acknowledge a certain secret character's presence in Donkey Kong: Bananza, fans are taking the moment as further evidence of upcoming, unannounced Mario Kart World DLC.

As everyone who has completed Donkey Kong: Bananza will know, the game's final boss is King K. Rool (and if you haven't played the game yet, you should, it's great). While he's hinted at numerous times during the game, King K. Rool's reveal is kept as a late surprise — and Nintendo has hidden the crowned reptile from all of its marketing around the game. That is, until now.

Dataminers who have peered into the files of the Nintendo Today smartphone app have spotted that Rool will finally be acknowledged on December 15, when the scaled royal figure is set to star in the software's daily intro animation (as recorded and already visible via the Mario Wiki). And now, fans are putting Rool's reveal together with a certain other event happening in the very near future, along with some previous hints, to suggest we'll be seeing much more of the character very shortly.

Because, of course, next week is The Game Awards on December 11, and Nintendo has used the show to reveal some more minor announcements in the past — though, it has to be said, not for the past few years.

Netflix is reportedly just days away from buying Harry Potter, DC Universe, and HBO Max owner Warner Bros., after entering exclusive deal talks for the company’s studio and streaming assets.

TheWrap said Netflix offered $30 a share as part of the deal, which includes a $5 billion break-up fee. Despite Paramount being Donald Trump’s pick for the acquisition, it seems Warner Bros. has gone with the gargantuan streamer instead. Neither party has commented.

Assuming the deal goes through, Netflix would own everything from rival streamer HBO Max to Warner Bros.’ video games, and spark questions around the future of the DC Universe, its co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran, and Warner Bros.’ commitment to theatrical releases for its movies.

Netflix remains steadfast in its streamer-first strategy, which means theatrical releases for its films are few and far between. Guillermo del Toro’s latest, Frankenstein, had a short theatrical run nationwide in October ahead of its November 7 premiere on the streaming platform, and global phenomenon KPop Demon Hunters hit theaters after its explosive launch on Netflix. The final episode of Stranger Things Season 5 will drop in theaters simultaneously with its Netflix premiere.

Netflix has indicated it won't change its long-standing view on theaters versus streaming. “There’s no change in the strategy," CEO Ted Sarandos explained of the company’s policy on theatrical distribution during a recent earnings conference. "Our strategy is to give our members exclusive first-run movies on Netflix.” In fact, Sarandos went on to assert that KPop Demon Hunters only became a sensation “because it was released on Netflix first.”

Avatar director James Cameron recently warned against Netflix buying Warner Bros., expressing concern about the fate of theatrical releases if such a deal were to go through. While appearing on the The Town podcast, Cameron said: “Netflix would be a disaster. Sorry, Ted [Sarandos], but geez. Sarandos has gone on the record saying theatrical films are dead. ‘Theatrical is dead. Quote, unquote.’”

Cameron, at least, remains unconvinced that Netflix would truly commit to any meaningful theatrical distribution if it expanded. “It’s sucker bait," he said. "‘We’ll put the movie out for a week or 10 days. We’ll qualify for Oscar consideration.’ See, I think that’s fundamentally rotten to the core.

“A movie should be made as a movie for theatrical, and the Academy Awards mean nothing to me if they don’t mean theatrical. I think they’ve been co-opted, and I think it’s horrific.”

If Netflix does buy Warner Bros., it would potentially see HBO Max absorbed into the streamer, bringing upcoming shows such as House of the Dragon and the new Harry Potter TV series onto Netflix itself.

And what of Warner Bros.’ video games? It has Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm, Batman: Arkham maker Rocksteady, and Hogwarts Legacy studio Avalanche on its books. Next year, Warner Bros. is set to release Traveller's Tales’ Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.

Whatever the future holds, a dramatic change in the entertainment landscape is coming for Warner Bros. and all its IP. What will Netflix do with the DC Universe? Will the big decade-long plan for Superman and friends fall by the wayside as part of a pivot to streaming? Will James Gunn stick around to find out?

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Full spoilers follow for Pluribus Episode 6, “HDP,” which is available now on Apple TV.

HDP is people!

OK, most of us figured this out last week in “Got Milk” when Carol (Rhea Seehorn) was investigating what the Joined’s favorite drink actually was made of, culminating in that episode’s closing moment as she gasped like only someone who had just found a stockpile of frozen dead bodies could.

Yeah, a lot of us were off a bit in that it’s actually a stockpile of frozen dead body pieces that Carol unearthed, but all the same, the Joined are definitely pulling a Soylent Green and eating us. Only, because this is Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus, it’s not quite that simple. But it is darkly funny.

Of course – of course – instead of playing this revelation in a protracted, thriller-esque way, Gilligan and his team (this episode was written by Vera Blasi and directed by Gandja Monteiro) pull the rug out from under the viewer pretty quickly and squash their own big twist. “Yeah, no duh, HDP is people,” the show basically says. “You think we haven’t also watched the past 50 years of sci-fi movies!?”

And so enters John Cena. Not just John Cena, but a Joined John Cena. And he’s everything you could hope for. Charming, reasonable, informative… all while explaining the intricacies of why the Joined need “human derived protein,” or HDP – aka human flesh – for sustenance. And Koumba (Samba Schutte) cutting Carol off before she can even reveal her big news about the frozen bodies with a resigned “Is this about them eating people?” isn’t just funny; it’s also our first hint at how out of the loop Carol has been.

The dynamic between these two uninfected is interesting in that we can look at them as polar opposites, obviously: Carol the constant skeptic versus Koumba the willing dupe. But is it that simple? After all, it turns out that Koumba figured out the HDP thing before Carol did, and not just that but he and the other infected (sans Manousos in Paraguay of course) have been talking regularly about the situation, and in particular are concerned about the sudden, unexpected plight that the Joined are in (they’re going to starve eventually). It’s so easy to assume that the other uninfected are suckers just because they haven’t lashed out the way Carol has and because they’re so willing to go with the flow, but then it turns out that Carol in all her obstinance hasn’t really made any significant headway herself in any of this.

And then there’s the fact that the uninfected have purposely kept Carol out of the loop, voting (if not unanimously!) to not include her in their meetings. Koumba has been getting her videos, as presumably all of the others have as well – “they were very dramatic” – but nobody’s responded to them or even acknowledged them before now. It’s hurtful, so much so that Carol needs to take a powder in the bathroom before apparently getting blitzed on champagne and passing out for the night. But the truly sad part comes the next morning when she tells Koumba that she’s going to grab a suite in the hotel, only to register the look on his face: He doesn’t want her there. He’s a nice guy, but he has a life to live with his “lovelies” and there’s no room for Carol at all. “How you say? Check in now and then.”

Meanwhile, what kind of survival instinct do the Joined have if they’re willing to starve rather than eat, like, corn? Their mandate to not even eat plant life is limiting, to say the least. But then again, perhaps it’s the ultimate method of population control. As the human race dies off from hunger, eventually the planet would hit some kind of equalization point where enough, well, fallen apples or what have you could feed the relatively small amount of people left. I guess?

And then there’s Carlos-Manuel Vesga’s Manousos, who – wouldn’t you know it – doesn’t just watch Carol’s first video, but is so moved by it as to finally leave his Omega Man bunker and head out to, presumably, find her. He doesn’t even know that there are 12 other uninfected until he watches the video. This leads to one of the creepiest scenes in Pluribus to date, as Manousos encounters his mother on the street as she emerges from the shadows in the dead of night. It’s not something Carol has had to deal with yet, encountering people she knew in the Before Times, let alone family members. We’ve already established that she’s estranged from her own mother. But then again, that might be something Manousos and Carol have in common as he tells the woman, “You’re not my mother. My mother’s a bitch” before driving into the night.

Disney has been releasing more and more of its classic animated movies in 4K over the past few years. Some of these releases are timed with new live-action versions of the films, like what we saw with Lilo & Stitch this year, and other remastered favorites are now arriving in glorious Ultra HD simply because audiences are asking for them. If you're looking to add a few 4K Disney movies to your personal collection (or buy them as a gift for someone this year), I've rounded up every one you can buy right now.

Animated Disney Movies Available in 4K

Everything that has gotten the live-action treatment has received a 4K re-release. That includes The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Lilo & Stitch, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Snow White, and Aladdin. Pretty much everything after The Princess and the Frog has also gotten a 4K release as well, so it's mostly the classics that are missing here. There's also the latest 4K release, The Emperor's New Groove, which is getting the treatment for its 25th anniversary.

The most notable exclusion of a 4K re-release, in my opinion, is Tarzan. I still listen to the soundtrack to that movie from time to time and it is just as good as the first time I heard it. Hercules is another suspicious omission, but since a live-action film is on its way in 2027, I'm willing to bet a 4K animated release will follow.

Pixar Movies Available in 4K

A lot more Pixar films are available in 4K than classic Disney movies. Pixar has released 29 movies and 26 of them are available to buy in 4K right now. The three missing films from this list are Toy Story 3, Cars 2 – although you can still technically buy these sequels for a massively marked-up price on Amazon – and Elemental. But Elemental was a Disney Club exclusive and sold out relatively quickly.

If you're hoping to buy a complete Toy Story collection, the good news is that a new movie is coming out and, most likely, a new box set will be released along with it. Toy Story 5 is set to arrive in theaters in June 2026.

What Is the Best Place to Buy 4K Disney Movies?

The overall best place to buy 4K movies is on Amazon. This is simply because it tends to have the largest selection available at any given time. In some cases, new releases, like Inside Out 2, will sell out at Amazon and only be available at other retailers like Walmart and Target.

Can you stream Disney movies in 4K?

If you have a Disney+ Premium subscription, you can stream some Disney movies in 4K on the platform. Not every animated movie is available in 4K on Disney+, but if it has been remastered digitally then there's a good chance you can stream it at that same quality.

Jacob Kienlen is a Senior Audience Development Strategist and Writer for IGN. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he has considered the Northwest his home for his entire life. With a bachelor's degree in communication and over 8 years of professional writing experience, his expertise is spread across a variety of different pop culture topics -- from TV series to indie games and books.

The stars of HBO's new Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms were on hand at the CCXP convention in São Paulo, Brazil, today to promote the upcoming series. And during the chat, the show's star Peter Claffey, who plays Ser Duncan the Tall, aka Dunk, seemed to let loose an interesting bit of George R.R. Martin trivia.

When asked by the panel moderators if he or his young co-star Dexter Sol Ansell (who plays Prince Aegon Targaryen, aka Egg) have gotten to meet the famed author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Claffey explained that Martin visited the set during filming, and when he did he told the actor what his favorite story is that he's written.

"It was awesome," said Claffey. "He came in to set that week and we got to talk to him and different things, and he told us that The Hedge Knight is his favorite thing he's ever written."

CCXP25 in Brazil is underway and the first major panel featured a brand-new look at HBO Max’s Game of Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Aside from dropping a new trailer, several of the new show’s actors were on hand to break down what fans can expect when the series debuts next year.

A journey far from the throne. #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms, a new #GOT series from George R.R. Martin, premieres January 18, only on HBO Max. pic.twitter.com/eJf3gBPuOR

— HBO Max (@hbomax) December 4, 2025

Peter Claffey, who plays Ser Duncan the Tall (also known as Dunk) said that his performance was inspired by Brienne of Tarth, played by Gwendoline Christie in the original series. Dunk was revealed recently by author George R.R. Martin to be Brienne’s ancestor.

When asked whether his performance was inspired by Christie’s portrayal of Brienne, Claffey confirmed that was the case. “I think so, yeah,” Claffey said. “I was a huge fan of the original series and I loved Gwendoline Christie as Brienne. She was amazing and there are a lot of aspects to Dunk's character that she shares.

“She's very chivalrous. She wants to do what's right. She just wants to be a knight, and she has the added complication of trying to be a knight who was a lady in Westeros. So she has a much harder job than Dunk did. But there is definite likeness.”

Is Ser Duncan the Tall Brienne of Tarth's grandfather?

Claffey then turned to his A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms co-star Dexter Sol Ansell - who plays Prince Aeogn Targaryen, also known as “Egg” - and dropped what could either be considered a Westeros family tree bombshell, or maybe just a sarcastic aside.

“Dexter actually got to work with Christie as well,” Claffey said - most likely referring to Ansell and Christie's appearances in 2024's Robin and the Hoods. “You got work with my granddaughter!”

Martin hasn’t specifically said that Brienne of Tarth is Ser Duncan the Tall’s granddaughter. But perhaps we’ll get that answer sooner rather than later when A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms premieres on HBO Max January 18, 2026.

When you're done here, check out how Claffey just revealed George R.R. Martin's favorite A Song of Ice and Fire story.

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment at IGN, leading entertainment content and coverage of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years working in the games and entertainment industry, and his adventures have taken him everywhere from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him on Bluesky @MichaelPeyton

World of Warcraft's housing feature launched this week for everyone who purchased the upcoming Midnight expansion early. Though the feature is still in its early stages, players (including yours truly) are already losing hours upon hours creating elaborate homes with the decor available. But Horde players in particular are really struggling to contend with one major issue: their house exteriors are ugly.

Okay, that's a little mean. If you play an orc, or are into the orc aesthetics of spikes, flames, haphazard metal plates, and slapdash wooden boards nailed on, the Horde exteriors are fine. The issue is that a lot of the Horde - namely, everyone who doesn't play an orc - generally prefers a less...grungey aesthetic. Alliance players also only get one exterior housing option, but their homes are fairly standard, inoffensive cottages that most people will find tolerable at worst.

Unfortunately for anyone unhappy with what's on offer, until Midnight fully launches, this is it. You can customize your exterior in various ways by changing up roof colors and chimney styles, but it's all in your faction's default aesthetic. Blizzard has promised that Night Elf and Blood Elf exteriors will arrive on Midnight's release, with more options planned for later on. But for now you're stuck with either a cottage or a spike shack one way or another.

Some players, like myself, are just trying to make the best of it with outdoor decorations. Here's my modest hut. You'd never know that inside is a cozy Shaman retreat, complete with a small magical library, a snug kitchen, and a stone altar dedicated in honor of the elements.