This week in the IGN Store, we've got some great figures up for preorder from all of your favorite gaming franchises. First, check out the tall, imposing statue of Lady Dimistrescu, the Resident Evil Village character that took over the internet last year. Plus, take a look at the high-quality figures from Final Fantasy VII Remake, including Cloud and a handful of characters from the Shinra corporation. Gaming fans should also check out our selections of figures from Elden Ring, Kirby, and Halo Infinite. And, for those television fans out there, don't miss our preorder catalog of a ton of upcoming figures from Netflix's smash-hit Squid Game.

New Resident Evil 8 Lady Dimitrescu Statue

One of the Four Lords of the village, the Countess Alcina Dimitrescu ruled from her noble family’s estate, Castle Dimitrescu, and was feared by all… and loved by the internet. Lady Dimitrescu was a huge hit with the internet in 2021, and now you can take home this enormous statue of the Resident Evil Village character. Standing at nearly three feet tall, this statue will definitely make a statement in your home.

These Final Fantasy VII Remake Figures Are Stunning

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is coming next year, so if you're feeling nostalgic for 2020's Final Fantasy VII Remake, check out the new collection of statues we have in the IGN Store. With selections like Cloud, Shinra soldiers, and Roche, these high-quality figures are perfect for any Final Fantasy fan.

Figures from Iconic Video Games Like Elden Ring, Halo, and Kirby

Whether you're into hardcore games like Elden Ring and Monster Hunter, online shooters like Halo, or family-friendly games like the adorable Kirby, we've got something for you. Statues from these iconic video game franchises are available for preorder now, so you can grab your favorite character from your favorite games.

Squid Game Figures Up for Preorder

Last year, it was impossible to log onto social media without seeing someone talking about Netflix's Squid Game. Now, you can bring action figures from the iconic series into your home. This includes the Red Light, Green Light doll from the first episode, action figures of the masked workers, and figures of the show's three main contestants, Gi-hun, Sang-woo, and Kang Sae-byeok.

Assassin's Creed Statues Up for Preorder

PureArts has unveiled its incredibly detailed line of Assassin's Creed figures, available for preorder now at the IGN Store. Whether you're into the original, Black Flag, Valhalla, Odyssey, or Origins, there's a statue for you.

Developer Game Island has announced Serum, a first-person survival game for PC in which you must craft, hunt, adapt, and survive in a forest that's been posioned by the titular serum.

Game Island says there will be safe zones and shelters where you can craft weapons and traps and prepare to stave off the wilds. Meanwhile, you'll need to fight off the serum-infected mutant animals in the forest.

A hook, though, is that you have to inject the serum into your own system in order to stay alive; even though it will change you physically and mentally, you will die if you don't get more of it every few minutes. But every living thing is a potential serum source, as you can harvest the serum from enemies and other entities.

Serum does not yet have a release date, but it will be released on Steam when it's ready.

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Warning: The following contains full spoilers for the Westworld Season 4 episode "Zhuangzi," which aired on July 24 on HBO.

To read our review of last week's Westworld episode, "Generation Loss," click here.

It's almost a given that the episode following last week's "Generation Loss" would have a comedown quality, after all the big reveals we absorbed, but "Zhuangzi" kept the fires burning nicely, giving us a much closer look at the dystopian future — the flipped robot/human theme park — the world had become. Christina's realization of the truth (well, most of it) about her role in it all dragged a bit, but the story still pushed us into new, intriguing places.

After "Generation Loss," Christina was the one character seemingly left out in the cold, as an unwitting programmer of humans in this new playground of the gods. Christina is so singled out here, when compared to the other human-hosts, that she's almost certainly a remodeled/reworked version of Dolores — Dolores, who might now be getting punished by Hale (in a way only Hale can enjoy) as writer of these new human narratives that transforms all people into NPCs, toys to be used at the whims of the robots like the Greek deities of old.

We already knew what was happening, so all that was left was for her to learn about it. Teddy, who's still Teddy apparently (a small mystery in its own right — is he in her mind?), spelled it all out for her, but these parts of "Zhuangzi" sort of felt like they were fighting to catch up with the rest of the story.

A big interesting element here though, one born of Christina's new realization, is that her brain (as she's presumedly still a host) can sync up with the goo-virus in people and control them. Like Maeve with hosts, she can telepathically puppet humans. Since Christina, more or less, is the dark tower at the edge of town, she now uses this skill set to get out of jams. Once Christina and Maeve unite against Hale — no Maeve this week, as she's still being dug up — it'll most certainly be a very fun battle.

Due to Christina getting caught up on everything we'd figured out, there was a middling quality to "Zhuangzi," but that in itself was almost a trick because within this new sandbox came a brand new arc for the bots — which is that they now are fritzing out and experiencing existential dread because of the outliers. The entire world, as a globe, is sort of unclear still, geography/capacity-wise. Is everything a wasteland except for the "city"? Is humanity now just a couple million people? Or are there still cities like this one all over? The show still uses crowds when needed, to make everything feel appropriately populated, but an overall sparseness remains. A head count would be nice, regarding Earth.

Now that Westworld has veered fully into A.I. apocalypse territory, it's also playing with the notion of immortality and the thought experiments involving the curse of a perfect, eternal existence. Hale is bored (and making people play Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" on piano until their fingers bleed and rot), much like tales of our own cosmic overlords using us as pawns because of ennui and weariness, but she's also set the hosts up to "transcend" in some manner, to undergo surgery and become something new. But the hosts are having too much fun using the human theme park and it confuses her. William is her watchdog, but he's starting to crack.

You see, the people who break free of the virus are hunted down as part of a game within a game. But they, either with their words or some other frequency that transmits from their shattered mind (Hale thinks there's a new virus), they can make the hosts goes nuts too (and take their own robot life), so they're a double-pronged danger. William makes the mistake of listening to an outlier and now he's losing it, talking to real, cold-storage William about the meaning of life. Of course, there could be an outlier virus but the point here is the humanizing of the hosts and the idea that all sentient life questions reality, even if they actually know, for a fact, who created them. After all, origin is one thing and purpose is another.

The endgame is starting to form; as the rebels free outliers and excavate Maeve, Caleb remains on the inside as the 247th version of himself, Christina secretly uncovers truths about the world and herself, and William is poised and ready up to splinter off from Hale in a way she didn't/couldn't anticipate. It would be nice, too, if Oscar winner Ariana DeBose had more to do as Maya, Christina's roommate. She's been having nightmares, so maybe an outlier breakdown is in her future.

If you're looking forward to playing The Last of Us Part 1 on PC, you may be able to get your hands on it sooner than you thought. According to one Naughty Dog dev, the studio's overhaul of the beloved post-apocalyptic game is expected to launch on PC "very soon" after the PS5 release.

Naughty Dog Senior Environment Texture Artist, Jonathan Benainous, responded to a fan on Twitter (below) to tell them that The Last of Us Part 1's PC version would be coming "very soon" after September's initial PS5 launch.

Glad to hear you're hyped man! PC version should come out a bit later, but very soon after the PS5 release!

— Jonathan BENAINOUS (@JonathanBenaino) July 23, 2022

While the PS5 version had been announced for a September 2 release, a PC version had only been listed as "in development". Given the long waits for PC releases for many PlayStation exclusives, some worried that this could be a similar situation – but Benainous may have helped ease that a little.

"Very soon" isn't much to go on, of course, but it sounds like those hoping to play the game on a computer shouldn't have to wait too long after PlayStation fans get to check it out.

Notable is the fact that The Last of Us Part 1 will mark the first time the two-part franchise has landed on a non-PlayStation platform, so the remake's launch on PC adds at least a little bit of credibility to long-standing rumors of The Last of Us Part 2 will eventually receive a port, too. Only time will tell if Naughty Dog has that one in the pipeline.

The Last of Us Part 1 will take advantage of the PS5's hardware with vastly updated character models, redesigned environments, haptic feedback, and more. However, reception to the remake has been understandably mixed given that the majority of the improvements are related to the game's visuals, leaving many frustrated by its high price-tag – especially considering 2014's PS4 remaster of the game still holds up remarkably well.

The Last of Us Part 1 launches September 2 on PS5. Stay tuned to IGN for more information regarding the release date of the PC port.

Billy Givens is a freelancer at IGN with over a decade of experience writing gaming, film, and tech content. His work can also be found on GameSpot, USA Today, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, and more. You'll find him blabbering on about video games and more on Twitter at @mektige.

Anker has a new line of chargers, which the company says are "faster, smarter, and greener" options for people looking for high-wattage charging accessories.

As part of its Series 7 lineup of charging products, six new accessories have been added to the lineup — each of the new products uses a new type of charging system, which Anker calls "GaNPrime." This new technology combines the latest gallium nitride (GaN) tech with some of Anker's proprietary features packaged into compact, travel-oriented designs.

Here's a full list of all the new Anker GaNPrime chargers, which are available now to purchase on Amazon:

• Anker 735 Charger (65W) — $59.99
• Anker 615 USB Power Strip (65W) — $69.99
• Anker 727 Charging Station (100W) — $94.99
• Anker 737 Charger (120W) — $94.99
• Anker 733 Power Bank (65W) — $99.99
• Anker 747 Charger (150W)— $109.99

The new GaNPrime chargers include Anker's new PowerIQ 4.0 technology, which the company says will allow these accessories to automatically adjust the power distribution in each USB-C port to prioritize which device needs to charge faster. The company says the GaNPrime chargers will dynamically adjust power distribution every three minutes and release extra power output to devices being charged concurrently. Anker claims that its GaNPrime chargers can reduce the charge time of two 67W 14-inch MacBook Pros by 62 minutes.

Anker sent me the GaNPrime 747 charger, and I could charge my MacBook Pro, iPhone 13 Pro, and Apple Watch Series 7 using the three USB-C ports. My iPhone 13 Pro was able to charge from 0% to 100% in less than two hours.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.