• Destiny 2: Where Is Xur Today? Location and Exotic Items for July 29-August 2

    The eldritch horror, Xur, is now live in Destiny 2 for the weekend until next week's reset. If you're looking to get your some shiny new Exotic armor or weapons for your Guardian, look no further.

    Each week, Xûr has a random assortment of Exotic armor, one for each Guardian class, as well as a random Exotic Weapon and an Exotic Engram available for purchase. In addition to his Exotic wares, he's got a random collection of Legendary weapons and armor to deck out your Guardians.

    We've rounded up all the info on Xûr for the week including where to find Xûr, which Exotic weapons and armor are available, as well as which Legendary weapons you should pick up, either for PvE or PvP.

    Where Is Xûr Today?

    Xûr's location can be found at The Tower on July 29 through August 2. To reach him, travel to the landing point at The Courtyard and make your way to the Hangar. You'll find ol' snake-face chilling near the stairs at the back of the Hangar area.

    What's Xûr Selling Today?

    Xûr has at least one good find this week. Check out this exotic gear!

    Exotic Engram

    The Colony – Exotic Grenade Launcher

    ST0MP-EE5 – Exotic Hunter Leg Armor

    • 4 Mobility
    • 22 Resilience
    • 10 Recovery
    • 9 Discipline
    • 17 Intellect
    • 2 Strength
    • Total: 64

    ACD/0 Feedback Fence – Exotic Titan Gauntlets

    • 10 Mobility
    • 8 Resilience
    • 14 Recovery
    • 12 Discipline
    • 10 Intellect
    • 6 Strength
    • Total: 60

    Karnstein Armlets – Exotic Warlock Gauntlets

    • 19 Mobility
    • 10 Resilience
    • 3 Recovery
    • 14 Discipline
    • 7 Intellect
    • 10 Strength
    • Total: 63

    Honestly, exotic armor strikes out this week with low stat rolls and not great stat distribution. Pick up the ST0MP-EE5 if you need them, or perhaps the grenade launcher on sale, but there's nothing you really need to have this week.

    Exotic Weapons

    Hawkmoon – Exotic Hand Cannon

    • Paracausal Shot
    • Arrowhead Brake
    • Alloy Magazine
    • Rangefinder
    • Heavy Grip

    Dead Man's Tale – Exotic Scout Rifle

    • Cranial Spike
    • Extended Barrel
    • High-Caliber Rounds
    • Vorpal Weapon
    • Hand-Laid Stock

    The roll for Dead Man's Tale this week is quite good! Vorpal weapon and High-Caliber Rounds make a great pair of perks for a weapon that's deadly in both PvE and PvP. I'd recommend picking this one up!

    Legendary Weapons

    Bad Omens – Rocket Launcher

    • Confined Launch/ Smart Drift Control
    • Alloy Casing/High-Velocity Rounds
    • Tracking Module
    • Cluster Bomb
    • Blast Radius Masterwork

    Toil and Trouble – Shotgun

    • Barrel Shroud/Corkscrew Rifling
    • Assault Mag/Extended Mag
    • Threat Detector
    • Snapshot Sights
    • Reload Speed Masterwork

    The Fool's Remedy – Sidearm

    • Tactic SAS/Target SAS
    • Armor-Piercing Rounds/Light Mag
    • Feeding Frenzy
    • Quickdraw
    • Stability Masterwork

    Whispering Slab – Combat Bow

    • Flexible String/Natural String
    • Natural Fletching/Straight Fletching
    • Hip-Fire Frip
    • Sympathetic Arsenal
    • Accuracy Masterwork

    Fraction Fire – Submachine Gun

    • Arrowhead Brake/Hammer-Forged Rifling
    • Accurized Rounds/Tactical Mag
    • Field Prep
    • Rampage
    • Handling Masterwork

    Empty Vessel – Grenade Launcher

    • Confined Launch/Countermass
    • Blinding Grenades/Implosion Rounds
    • Surplus
    • Swashbuckler
    • Vanguard's Vindication
    • Reload Speed Masterwork

    Survivor's Epitaph – Hand Cannon

    • Arrowhead Brake/Full Bore
    • Extended Mag/Flared Magwell
    • Surplus
    • Kill Clip
    • One Quiet Moment
    • Impact Masterwork

    This week's notable rolls include the Empty Vessel grenade launcher which comes with blinding grenades and the swashbuckler perk that could make it quite good, the Fraction Fire machinegun that has field prep and rampage that should make it deadly, and the Bad Omens rocket launcher which has got tracking module and cluster bombs that are always good for PvP and especially PvE.

    Warlock Legendary Armor

    For Warlocks, Xûr is selling the Lightkin set which includes:

    Lightkin Gauntlets

    • 24 Mobility
    • 2 Resilience
    • 2 Recovery
    • 20 Discipline
    • 2 Intellect
    • 10 Strength
    • Total: 60

    Lightkin Chest Armor

    • 12 Mobility
    • 2 Resilience
    • 17 Recovery
    • 10 Discipline
    • 2 Intellect
    • 14 Strength
    • Total: 57

    Lightkin Helmet

    • 2 Mobility
    • 11 Resilience
    • 17 Recovery
    • 2 Discipline
    • 16 Intellect
    • 15 Strength
    • Total: 63

    Lightkin Leg Armor

    • 2 Mobility
    • 9 Resilience
    • 16 Recovery
    • 17 Discipline
    • 9 Intellect
    • 2 Strength
    • Total: 55

    Lightkin Bond

    The Warlock armor this week is pretty rubbish! The gauntlets are very spikey in places, but even that is hardly worth buying.

    Titan Legendary Armor

    For Titans, Xûr is selling the Lightkin set which includes:

    Lightkin Gauntlets

    • 7 Mobility
    • 19 Resilience
    • 6 Recovery
    • 11 Discipline
    • 14 Intellect
    • 2 Strength
    • Total: 59

    Lightkin Chest Armor

    • 2 Mobility
    • 2 Resilience
    • 30 Recovery
    • 24 Discipline
    • 2 Intellect
    • 2 Strength
    • Total: 62

    Lightkin Helmet

    • 10 Mobility
    • 2 Resilience
    • 16 Recovery
    • 14 Discipline
    • 2 Intellect
    • 14 Strength
    • Total: 58

    Lightkin Leg Armor

    • 9 Mobility
    • 2 Resilience
    • 17 Recovery
    • 13 Discipline
    • 14 Intellect
    • 2 Strength
    • Total: 57

    Lightkin Mark

    Again, Titan armor is also underwhelming. The chest piece is extremely lopsided that could be good for buildcrafting, but with only 62 stats overall I doubt it's worth the trouble.

    Hunter Legendary Armor

    For Hunters, Xûr is selling the Lightkin set which includes:

    Lightkin Gauntlets

    • 7 Mobility
    • 10 Resilience
    • 15 Recovery
    • 14 Discipline
    • 6 Intellect
    • 7 Strength
    • Total: 59

    Lightkin Chest Armor

    • 16 Mobility
    • 2 Resilience
    • 12 Recovery
    • 20 Discipline
    • 8 Intellect
    • 2 Strength
    • Total: 60

    Lightkin Helmet

    • 2 Mobility
    • 2 Resilience
    • 26 Recovery
    • 10 Discipline
    • 14 Intellect
    • 6 Strength
    • Total: 60

    Lightkin Leg Armor

    • 8 Mobility
    • 16 Resilience
    • 8 Recovery
    • 11 Discipline
    • 2 Intellect
    • 13 Strength
    • Total: 58

    Lightkin Cloak

    Somehow Hunters have managed to do even worse than the other classes with zero interesting rolls — seems legendary armor is a wash this week!

    That's a wrap on Xûr for this week, Guardians! What are you thoughts on Bungie's recent comments on implementing skill-based matchmaking in PvP? Let me know your thoughts in the comments! For more on Destiny, check out some of the new weapons and gear you can find in The Witch Queen and read about how Sony's purchase of Bungie fits into its larger plans.

    Travis Northup is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @TieGuyTravis and read his games coverage here.

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    New to Netflix in August 2022: The Sandman, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and More

    August is a big month for Netflix that is not only filled with some great choices on the animation front, but it will also see the arrival of the live-action adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. After being imprisoned for many years, Morpheus, the King of Dreams, awakens to take a journey "across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power."

    If you'd like to learn more about Netflix's The Sandman, be sure to check out our exclusive look at Dream, Death, and the Demon Lords in our most recent cover story.

    Speaking of animation, Netflix will soon be home to Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie alongside the third season of both He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and DOTA: Dragon's Blood. Video game fans will also be happy to know The Cuphead Show! Part 2 and Tekken: Bloodlines will also join Netflix's library in August.

    Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy will kick of the month on August 1, and other star-filled projects will join later on like Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart's Me Time and Jamie Foxx's Day Shift. August 10 will see the return of Locke & Key and 13: The Musical and Season 3 of Never Have I Ever will become available two days later.

    Check out the slideshow gallery below for highlights of what's new to Netflix in August followed by the full list (U.S. Netflix only):

    August 1

    • Big Tree City 🇬🇧– NETFLIX FAMILY
    • 28 Days
    • 8 Mile
    • Above the Rim
    • The Age of Adaline
    • Battle: Los Angeles
    • Bridget Jones's Baby
    • Bridget Jones's Diary
    • Constantine
    • Dinner for Schmucks
    • Eyes Wide Shut
    • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    • Footloose (2011)
    • Hardcore Henry
    • Legends of the Fall
    • Love & Basketball
    • Made of Honor
    • Men in Black
    • Men in Black 3
    • Men in Black II
    • Miss Congeniality
    • Monster-in-Law
    • No Strings Attached
    • Pawn Stars: Season 13
    • Polly Pocket: Season 4: Part 2: Tiny Taste Adventure
    • She's Funny That Way
    • Space Jam (1996)
    • Spider-Man
    • Spider-Man 2
    • Spider-Man 3
    • Top Gear: Season 29-30
    • The Town
    • Woman in Gold

    August 2

    • Flight
    • Ricardo Quevedo: Tomorrow Will Be Worse 🇨🇴– NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

    August 3

    • Buba 🇩🇪– NETFLIX FILM
    • Clusterf**k: Woodstock '99 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
    • Don’t Blame Karma! 🇲🇽– NETFLIX FILM
    • Good Morning, Verônica: Season 2 🇧🇷– NETFLIX SERIES

    August 4

    • Lady Tamara 🇪🇸– NETFLIX SERIES
    • KAKEGURUI TWIN 🇯🇵– NETFLIX ANIME
    • Super Giant Robot Brothers — NETFLIX FAMILY
    • Wedding Season — NETFLIX FILM

    August 5

    • Carter 🇰🇷– NETFLIX FILM
    • Darlings 🇮🇳– NETFLIX FILM
    • The Informer
    • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie — NETFLIX FILM
    • The Sandman — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Skyfall

    August 6

    • Reclaim 🇹🇼– NETFLIX FILM

    August 7

    • Riverdale: Season 6

    August 8

    • Code Name: Emperor 🇪🇸– NETFLIX FILM
    • Team Zenko Go: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY

    August 9

    • I Just Killed My Dad — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
    • The Nice Guys

    August 10

    • Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist 🇦🇷– NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
    • Heartsong 🇹🇷– NETFLIX FILM
    • Indian Matchmaking: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Instant Dream Home — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Iron Chef Brazil 🇧🇷– NETFLIX SERIES
    • Locke & Key: Season 3 — NETFLIX SERIES
    • School Tales The Series 🇹🇭– NETFLIX SERIES

    August 11

    • Dope
    • DOTA: Dragon's Blood: Book 3 — NETFLIX ANIME
    • Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

    August 12

    • 13: The Musical — NETFLIX FILM
    • A Model Family 🇰🇷– NETFLIX SERIES
    • Day Shift — NETFLIX FILM
    • Never Have I Ever: Season 3 — NETFLIX SERIES

    August 15

    • Ancient Aliens: Season 4
    • Deepa & Anoop — NETFLIX FAMILY
    • Learn to Swim

    August 16

    • Untold: Volume 2 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY (New episodes weekly)
    • UNTOLD: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist (2 Parts)

    August 17

    • High Heat 🇲🇽– NETFLIX SERIES
    • Junior Baking Show: Season 6 🇬🇧– NETFLIX SERIES
    • Look Both Ways — NETFLIX FILM
    • Royalteen 🇳🇴– NETFLIX FILM
    • Unsuspicious 🇧🇷– NETFLIX SERIES

    August 18

    • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
    • Inside the Mind of a Cat — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
    • Tekken: Bloodline — NETFLIX ANIME

    August 19

    • The Cuphead Show!: Part 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
    • Echoes — NETFLIX SERIES
    • The Girl in the Mirror (Alma) 🇪🇸– NETFLIX SERIES
    • Glow Up: Season 4 🇬🇧– NETFLIX SERIES
    • Kleo 🇩🇪– NETFLIX SERIES
    • The Next 365 Days — NETFLIX FILM

    August 20

    • Fullmetal Alchemist The Revenge of Scar 🇯🇵– NETFLIX FILM

    August 21

    • A Cowgirl's Song

    August 23

    • Chad and JT Go Deep — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Untold: The Rise and Fall of AND1 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY (New episodes weekly)

    August 24

    • Lost Ollie — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Mo — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Queer Eye: Brazil 🇧🇷– NETFLIX SERIES
    • Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee 🇬🇧– NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
    • Selling The OC — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Under Fire — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Watch Out, We're Mad 🇮🇹– NETFLIX FILM

    August 25

    • Angry Birds: Summer Madness: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
    • History 101: Season 2 🇬🇧– NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
    • Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure 🇯🇵– NETFLIX ANIME
    • That's Amor — NETFLIX FILM

    August 26

    • Disobedience
    • Drive Hard: The Maloof Way — NETFLIX SERIES
    • Loving Adults 🇩🇰– NETFLIX FILM
    • Ludik 🇿🇦– NETFLIX SERIES
    • Me Time — NETFLIX FILM
    • Seoul Vibe 🇰🇷– NETFLIX FILM

    August 29

    • Under Her Control 🇪🇸– NETFLIX FILM
    • Mighty Express: Season 7 🇨🇦– NETFLIX FAMILY
    • I AM A KILLER: Season 3 🇬🇧– NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
    • Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY (New episodes weekly)

    August 31

    • Club América vs Club América 🇲🇽– NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
    • Family Secrets 🇵🇱– NETFLIX SERIES
    • I Came By 🇬🇧– NETFLIX FILM

    Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

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    Metallica Played Master of Puppets Alongside Footage of Eddie Munson in Stranger Things

    During Stranger Things' fourth season, the beloved Eddie Munson quickly became a fan favorite in no small part thanks to his passionate performance of Metallica's "Master of Puppets." And now, Metallica has honored the show by giving fans the closest possible thing to a live Eddie Munson concert.

    Last night, during Metallica’s headlining performance at Lollapalooza, the band gave a shoutout to Stranger Things by playing a clip of Munson shredding along as they played "Master of Puppets."

    Metallica also praised the show’s use of their song on Instagram, saying, “It’s an incredible honour to be such a big part of Eddie’s journey and to once again be keeping company with all of the other amazing artists featured in the show.”

    Since the premiere of Stranger Things' fourth season, the music from the show has become relatively iconic. Kate Bush, whose song "Running Up That Hill" also appeared in the season, thanked fans after her song returned to charts nearly 40 years after its initial release. The season itself has also become wildly successful, recently surpassing 1 billion hours streamed.

    We gave Season 4, Part 2 a 9 in our review, saying the lengthy finale packs in "just about everything a Stranger Things fan could ask for."

    Amelia Zollner is a freelance writer at IGN who loves all things indie and Nintendo. Outside of IGN, they've contributed to sites like Polygon and Rock Paper Shotgun. Find them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.

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    The Sento Showdown: How a Mortal Kombat Tournament Seeks to Raise Accessibility Awareness

    Fighting games are communal by nature, and the broader Fighting Game Community (FGC) and the many pockets of it that pop up around different games regularly create and participate in events based on their favorite games. From Super Smash Bros. to Mortal Kombat to Street Fighter, players of varying skill levels gather to compete, occasionally teach, and celebrate their favorite fighting games. The FGC fosters growth and support to both professional and casual members of all walks of life, so it’s only natural that events catering toward disabled players would form, too.

    Fighting game popularity amongst disabled players has evolved with the broader accessibility movement. Control remapping, difficulty settings, and even the upcoming Street Fighter 6’s different control modes to allow for easier moves and combos are all tools that can alleviate or even remove barriers preventing disabled people from properly playing. These inclusive design practices and accessible features were directly responsible for the creation of The Sento Showdown, a Mortal Kombat tournament exclusive to blind/low vision players. Speaking with IGN, Showdown founder Carlos Vasquez dove back into the tournament’s origins, reminisced on its evolution and continued prominence within the FGC, and explained his hopes for the future of fighting game accessibility and disabled inclusion.

    The Beginning of the Sento Showdown

    Vasquez is no stranger to the competitive scene. In 2013, he competed in the Evolution Championship Series, and in 2019 participated in Combo Breaker, a collection of community-based shows and events. After his 2013 performance, he had the opportunity to share accessibility concerns with several developers from NetherRealm Studios, and these exchanges directly led to a key accessibility feature being added to Injustice. Blind/low vision players have the capability to enable audio cues based on their position within stages, particularly as they near interactive objects. Since 2013, this option continues to appear in every NetherRealm Studios game.

    Yet, it wasn’t Mortal Kombat’s accessibility nor popularity that became the defining factors for the creation of the Showdown, but rather a desire to connect with members of the community spurred its inception.

    “We were pretty much stuck when the pandemic started and [The Sento Showdown] was a way to keep the competitive spirit at the time,” Vasquez said. “The way it officially started was one of the [general FGC] community members put out a tweet from an idea that was discussed privately, from what I was told, and that tweet came out and was like “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a tournament for blind players?” That tweet blew up, essentially, and I commented, and I was like “Hey, we can do something about that.”’

    Despite competing in professional and local offline tournaments, Vasquez never hosted or organized his own event. Thankfully, with the help of several friends and a willingness and interest from the blind/low vision FGC, the Showdown slowly took form. Of those early hurdles, Vasquez notes that initially he and several others needed to research how to properly set up tournament structure, as well as casting the matches.

    “We started learning how to organize brackets, how to run the tournament, how to conduct the streams live as it’s going on, and it was quite an experience learning all of these new things and getting to know how much effort it takes to just organize something that looks very simple online,” he said. “Behind the scenes, we had some people that offered some prizes, and so we took on that opportunity and the ball just kept on rolling.”

    "…It was quite an experience learning all of these new things and getting to know how much effort it takes to just organize something that looks very simple online."

    Along with the logistics of creating and hosting an online tournament, Vasquez needed to determine which platform would be the most accessible for competitors. Prior to the release of the current generation of consoles, Xbox’s systemwide accessibility was more conducive to the needs of blind/low vision players. Magnification, narration, and text to speech are just some of the features that visually disabled players use to game without sighted assistance. And with this level of independence afforded by Xbox’s platforms, players could participate without requiring extra accommodations.

    The Showdown in Action

    The general sense of camaraderie within the FGC meant that Vasquez immediately received support from able-bodied and disabled players alike. Since he and several other Showdown organizers were longtime competitors, members of the Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and Tekken fanbases actively encouraged establishing a tournament of this type. With such a wide system of support from so many playerbases, Vasquez and others within the FGC chose Mortal Kombat to show newcomers that not all fighting games required complex inputs or a mastery of in-depth mechanics.

    “Whereas with Mortal Kombat, it’s more about the combinations of special moves, even combo execution,” he said. “It’s very simple in comparison to other fighting games. Now, of course, the more you get into the competitive setting, the more difficult it gets. Mortal Kombat, for example, has specific mechanics to the game, such as flawless blocking or wave dashing – that allows you to move fast around the screen – little things like that are what people started to really get into at the time, and that’s what made it easier to run a tournament.”

    The Sento Showdown prides itself on bringing intense competitive action, not only for able-bodied viewers but also for disabled participants. And the overall quality of matches attracted the attention of prominent FGC members, as well as developers themselves. But even before any matches took place, Vasquez explained that interest in the Showdown was already there.

    “The first year when we hosted it, [NetherRealm Studios] actually went live when we ran top eight,” he said. “So, they were watching, and before we went live, they went live on their own Twitch stream and were casually playing the game and talking to the fans. When I went live on my stream, they pretty much [raided] our stream after that.”

    The FGC showed support not only through views, but also through the donation of impressive prizes like copies of MK11, an Xbox One, and fight stick for that first year. And NetherRealm Studios was not the only major company to promote the event in its early days. During its second year, Xbox connected with Vasquez to broadcast the tournament to hundreds of followers. Not only was Xbox the console of choice due to its systemwide accessibility, but they also supported disabled players by highlighting their competitive skills.

    The Sento Showdown prides itself on bringing intense competitive action, not only for able-bodied viewers but also for disabled participants.

    “The second year was a very special one because we were able to get in contact with Xbox, and our top eight was streamed on the official Xbox Twitch,” he said. “They were impressed by the gameplay and just the hype overall that we brought, and even some of the producers talked about how they enjoyed watching the grand finals because it went down to the wire.”

    This year’s Showdown, which aired on Vasquez’ Twitch channel several weeks ago, featured prizes like a statue of Kitana from Mortal Kombat 11, a custom hitbox fightstick with The Sento Showdown logo embossed in braille, a PS5, and a prize pool of $530. Every prize was donated through varying organizations or members of the FGC that wanted to support the Showdown during its third year. While Vasquez is excited for next year's competition, he is still concerned about continuous community support, and what that might mean for the Showdown’s continuation.

    The Future of the Showdown

    Despite the viewership and community-gifted rewards toward the Sento Showdown, and its clear success thus far, Vasquez is ultimately unsure of its longevity. Unlike larger tournaments like Evo and Combo Breaker, the Showdown is still a grassroots event that highlights blind/low vision disabled players, and the cost of supporting the tournament each year currently outweighs the support and exposure. Sento only survives thanks to the donations from the community that allow for worthy prizes to be awarded, but there’s no guarantee of those year to year. Without that help, there would be no appropriate rewards for the high level of competition. And the irony is not lost on Vasquez that the tournament currently requires the help of sighted allies to actually be run because of the use of bracketing websites like Start.gg and Challonge.com, though he hopes events like the Showdown can improve that space as well.

    “I feel like the more we do these things, the more awareness it will start generating, like ‘Hey your website needs to be more accessible with screen readers.’ So, the solutions that we made right now are that we have sighted allies that are part of our volunteer team that will use the official website to run the bracket behind the scenes, but we also created an accessible Word document that has the layout of what the bracket would look like as you progress.”

    This level of accessibility awareness is also key in dismantling negative stereotypes regarding disabled players. Despite needing extra accommodations to create the Showdown or even participate, Vasquez wants the FGC to not only respect disabled players but remember that they also compete in tournaments alongside able-bodied peers. And that’s ultimately the Showdown’s greatest mission – to demonstrate the need and desire for accessible tournaments, as well as showcase that disabled players can and deserve to compete alongside their able-bodied peers.

    “The main thing that we also want to do is note that just because there’s a disability doesn’t mean you have to tone it down,” he said. “Some of us do play against sighted players outside the blind FGC, you know, we play against top level players, and we go toe to toe with them a lot of the time. I think it’s because they either get surprised the first time, and are like ‘Whoa, how is this happening right now,’ but once we continue playing with them, that mentality of ‘You have a disability and I don’t’ kind of goes away, because now we’re just worried about if my character is better than yours.”

    And that’s ultimately the Showdown’s greatest mission – to demonstrate the need and desire for accessible tournaments, and showcase that disabled players can and deserve to compete alongside their able-bodied peers.

    What started as a response to a tweet has since evolved into an FGC event that promotes inclusivity and accessibility. Not only does The Sento Showdown bring high-level action, it also demonstrates that it’s entirely possible for events to not only be accessible to spectators, but also to competitors. While the Showdown’s future may be in flux, Vasquez hopes the work already done with it can help continue to push the industry, and the FGC at large, toward elevating disabled players alongside their able-bodied peers.

    “My hope is that it remains in the history of video games as a platform that did its best to promote accessibility and also to promote a community-based setting where people can come in and not necessarily know about fighting games. I just hope that it’s remembered in that manner.”

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    She-Hulk Includes a Ghost Rider Reference

    The latest featurette for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law included a small nod to Johnny Blaze aka Ghost Rider, igniting speculation over when the character might make his official MCU debut.

    Entertainment Tonight shared an exclusive clip of the upcoming Disney+ series, teasing more of what fans can expect from the show. One clip, around the 1:50 mark, shows Wong on a stage where he appears to be fighting off a few unknown winged creatures, but fans have had their attention diverted away from the action after a Ghost Rider reference was spotted in the scene.

    In the corner of the frame, there appears to be a blurry poster that references the original Ghost Rider from the comics, Johnny Blaze, with the character's surname easily legible. The first name is less clear but the number of letters indicates that it doesn't spell out the name "Johnny," but perhaps "Donny" as a combination of Johnny and Danny Ketch, the third Ghost Rider.

    Ghost Rider wasn't one of the several new Marvel films or TV shows announced during Comic-Con and Marvel hasn't explicitly mentioned the character appearing in the MCU before, but seeing how far and wide the universe is expanding it wouldn't really be a surprise to see it eventually — and Ryan Gosling has already thrown his hat in the ring for the role.

    Of course, Ghost Rider previously appeared in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, but there's some debate over whether that show could be considered MCU canon.

    A new trailer for She-Hulk debuted at Comic-Con, teasing more of the series ahead of its premiere on August 17 and confirming the rumored appearance of Charlie Cox's Daredevil.

    Marvel also delved deeper into their plans for the next few years, announcing that She-Hulk would be the penultimate Phase 4 entry and that more Avengers films are on the way.

    Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

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