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  1. After ABC lifted its nearly week-long suspension on Monday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! returns to airwaves Tuesday … sort of. Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group, two of the largest owners of ABC affiliate TV stations in the United States, will still indefinitely preempt the show. There are reportedly a total of 66 ABC stations in the U.S. that will not carry Kimmel’s show for the time being.
  2. Predator: Badlands is not a secret Alien Vs. Predator film, its director has insisted. There’s no Xenomorph in it either.
  3. The Pokémon Company's former chief legal officer has said he would not take action over an official Department of Homeland Security video that features footage of people being handcuffed and arrested set to the Pokémon theme tune — despite calls from fans for the corporation to sue.
  4. Larian may be done with major updates to its blockbuster role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3, but it’s still releasing hotfixes. The latest, Hotfix #34, is a juicy one. It adds a native Steam Deck build and should reduce framerate spikes in busy areas such as the Lower City in Act 3 across all platforms. Check out the patch notes.
  5. Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment have announced From the Ashes, a new story expansion for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the 2023 first-person shooter set in James Cameron's Avatar universe. From the Ashes will be available on December 19 – the same day as Cameron's upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash film.
  6. After a period of closed beta, Riot’s League of Legends fighting game 2XKO has an early access release date of October 7, 2025.
  7. We have exclusive first look at the opening credits sequence for Netflix’s new animated series Splinter Cell: Deathwatch and can also reveal the titles for the season’s eight episodes:
  8. Sony has announced a PlayStation State of Play livestream will take place tomorrow, September 24.
  9. One Piece, Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of the beloved manga, returns for Season 2 in 2026. IGN can exclusively reveal new artwork and photos of one of Season 2's most notorious new locations: Loguetown.
  10. Sony has announced Franchise Rewards, a new program that grants players the ability to buy physical PlayStation merchandise — if you unlock specific in-game trophies by a certain date.
  11. Borderlands 4 is rife with overpowered builds that use what developer Gearbox has described as “unintended interactions” to cause massive damage, even to the game’s toughest bosses on the hardest difficulties. The most infamous of these is the knife, which Gearbox has said it’s aware of but won’t nerf just yet. Now, there’s another new best boss melting build to add to the list.
  12. Harry Potter star Emma Watson has reflected on her current break from acting, and said that while she misses "the art" of film making, she does not miss promoting movies — a process of "selling things" she found "quite soul-destroying."
  13. Speaking in a new interview, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has revealed what it’s like dealing with the fan requests around Batman amid the wait for The Brave and the Bold, and whether we'll ever get a 'Blue Gray Batman.'
  14. Team Cherry’s post-launch support of massive indie hit Hollow Knight: Silksong continues, with Patch 2 now live. The developer has also offered initial details on Patch 3.
  15. Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has indicated that in the short-term, it plans to buff underperforming gear and skills rather than nerf overpowered builds. Indeed, those instakill builds you've seen online are safe, for now. But, Gearbox insisted, they will get nerfed eventually.