Not only is Ubisoft delaying Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and another unannounced game, but it's also apparently flat-out canceling four whole titles in an attempt to cut costs and focus on its bigger names. Among those canceled games are both Ghost Recon Frontline and Splinter Cell VR.

Ghost Recon Frontline's cancellation is a bit surprising, given that the game wasn't even actually out yet. It was first announced back in October as a free-to-play battle royale spin-off with 102-player battles. Initial reception was fairly negative, though, and a planned closed test of the game was indefinitely postponed. Now it seems like we'll never see it again.

Splinter Cell VR is a bit less shocking. It was first announced way back in 2020 alongside an Assassin's Creed VR game, but hasn't been heard from since. The Assassin's Creed game still seems to exist, according to some leaked menu footage from this past April that indicated it would be called "Nexus" and was coming to the Quest 2.

Meanwhile, two other unannounced games have also been completely canceled according to CFO Frederick Duguet, who said that all four cancellations were part of the company's wider strategy of putting "even more focus on our biggest development opportunities."

For Splinter Cell fans, that just leaves the announced Splinter Cell remake in development at Ubisoft Toronto. Cancellations aside, Ubisoft has been a major culprit of game delays lately, including the Prince of Persia remake, Roller Champions (which did make it out earlier this year) and Skull & Bones (out this fall, hopefully). They aren't alone, though – 2022 has been a massive year for delays, in part due to the delayed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on production.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Harley Quinn Season 3 debuts on HBO Max with three episodes on July 28, 2022, followed by one episode weekly on Thursdays. Below is a spoiler-free review.

For two seasons, Harley Quinn, mirroring the delightfully chaotic energy of its title character, gleefully and hilariously skewered every self-serious corner of the DC universe with abandon, while also sneaking in some of the best character development available in superhero streaming. Season 3 is no different, refusing to lose any of its signature satirical bite even as its heart gets a little softer due to Harley and Ivy’s finally-canon romance. It may sag a little in its various subplots, but when its focus is on our new favorite Gotham couple, it, like Harley herself, is hard not to love.

The first episode of Season 3 ends with the typical title card, but with a twist, reading “Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy.” That doesn’t seem to be a permanent name change (the subsequent title cards go back to just name-checking Harley), but it sets the tone for the season: this installment is very much a co-starring effort. It already started to look this way in Season 2, but by this batch of episodes, it’s clear that Ivy is just as much a headliner for the series as Harley, and it’s all the better for it. Just as they’re compatible as a couple, they continue to make for a great duo on-screen, with Harley bringing the unpredictability with all her smishy-smashy impulses and Ivy in more of a straight-man role, albeit with a good bit of complexity.

And shippers, rejoice: we finally get a show where Harley and Ivy are unabashedly a loving, romantic couple, as Season 2 ended with them quite literally riding into the sunset and Season 3 picks up just a couple weeks into their honeymoon – er, rather, their “eat, bang, kill tour,” as Harley insists on calling it. But we quickly learn that it’s not all rainbows and butterflies (or maybe in Harlivy’s case, photosynthesis and baseball bats), as the two have plenty of new struggles to face that their previously platonic relationship didn’t.

That’s not surprising if you’ve been keeping up with these characters: Harley loves all the time in the world with her significant other, and Ivy’s a little more independent, to say the least. These may be predictable – some may even say mundane – issues, but the way they play out is incredibly relatable and realistic, with each character believably growing a lot throughout the season. The writers tackle this new challenge with aplomb, being true to what incompatibilities they may face while never losing sight of the loving bond we’ve seen grow between them, which is what holds Season 3 together.

It also achieves something very important with Harley and Ivy: it reminds us that, in case you forgot, they’re still supervillains, particularly the latter. Ivy may balk at being called an eco-terrorist, but Season 3 leans into that aspect of her character, giving us an incredibly intriguing good vs. evil play that makes the end of the season feel very high stakes, especially for such a gonzo half-hour comedy.

Before you start to worry that Season 3 is all couple’s therapy and morality struggles, rest assured: it’s just as cartoonishly violent, crass, and riotous as before. You still get your Suicide Squad parodies, bloody beat ‘em ups, and even a well-placed orgy (and I’ve got to point it out: between an episode in this show and The Boys’ recent Herogasm, this is a banner year for superhero orgies). Harley Quinn has always been, and continues to be, deft in balancing all of this.

It’s the subplots of Season 3 that lead to more mixed results. Let’s start off with the positive: just about everything done with the Bat family is a welcome addition, since Harley Quinn is especially skilled at poking fun at DC’s most serious characters. Its kinda pathetic take on Batman/Bruce Wayne isn’t only funny, particularly in his relationship this season with Selina Kyle, but it also somehow manages to tread some new ground in this character’s incredibly well-worn trauma. There are some nice Batman/Harley scenes too, harkening to some of the two's best moments in Batman: The Animated Series. And Nightwing, though a tad underutilized, is always funny is his desperate quest for Batman’s approval.

The other secondary characters don’t fare as well. The Joker standalone episode is a low point of the season; it has its moments, but the “hey, Joker goes to PTA meetings now” bit gets tiresome when stretched across even a short 22 minutes. The same goes for James Gordon’s storyline about running for mayor. Like the aforementioned Joker bit, his is one that works in small doses, but doesn’t earn nearly as much screentime as it gets, especially since Gordon has shown far less growth than other characters in the series (and maybe that’s the joke, but it’s not one worth dwelling on). And Clayface’s acting subplot earns a few chuckles – it is fun to watch James Gunn mock himself – but the many inside-baseball jokes will probably mostly be funny only to those entrenched in the entertainment industry.

There are some other sidequest highlights, though: Kite Man’s appearance this season is brief (and probably mostly just there to tee up his spinoff series), but it gives us some closure on what he went through at the end of Season 2, and Harley Quinn’s take on the Court of Owls is appropriately ridiculous in the best way. But let’s face it: we’re here for Harlivy, and Season 3 ultimately does them justice. And hey, as a lifelong fan of the character of Harley Quinn, it’s just kinda nice to see the gal happy.

Primal premieres with two episodes on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on July 21, 2022.

Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal is back and it is as violent and engrossing as ever. The show continues to be in a unique position in American animation: an adult-oriented animated show that is not a comedy, is devoid of dialogue, and has a penchant for bloody carnage, with exquisite animation and sound design, all while bringing us drama that pulls at the heartstrings as hard as anything This Is Us does. New this season is an overarching story that has Tartakovsky playing with serialized storytelling and the result is unlike anything else currently on TV.

Like Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack, Primal is set in an anachronistic prehistoric Earth where cavemen not only coexist with dinosaurs and monsters, but also early civilizations, witches, and the Picts. The show focuses on the relationship between Spear and Fang, a caveman and a female T-Rex that bonded over their tragic losses and set out to explore a world of cruelty and savagery.

Where the first season focused on telling standalone stories exploring different facets and monsters that inhabit this world, Season 2 has bigger ambitions. If you haven't rewatched the Season 1 finale since it aired two years ago, you should rectify that. This season's opener, Sea of Despair, picks up right where we left off, with Spear and Fang shouting out in anger and, well, despair over their friend Mira being kidnapped and taken away by slavers on a ship. That being said, even if there is an overarching story connecting the first two episodes, so far this is not like a Netflix show meant to be binged at once. Tartakovsky understands that serialization doesn't have to come at the loss of good standalone episodes, and the first two episodes of the season can be enjoyed separately.

This is in no small part due to the focus remaining solely on Fang and Spear, and their relationship is as bonkers and entertaining to watch as ever. They have an “old married couple” dynamic that leads to hilarious moments of bickering and roaring. Even if Primal toes with “a boy and his dog” tropes with its two leads, it never turns Fang into Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon. Yes, Fang acts like a dog at times, playful and loyal to Spear, but she is very much still a dinosaur that can eat him alive, and she behaves like it. Spear, meanwhile, remains careful not to cross a line that would cause his companion to tear him apart.

There are few things on TV right now as satisfying as the sight of a caveman riding a T-Rex into battle, and watching the two fight together to shred their enemies to pieces continues to be a delight in Season 2. Tartakovsky and his team at studio La Cachette continue to push the boundaries of what 2D animation can do in exciting ways. Tartakovsky storyboards the two-episode premiere himself, and you can tell that he has a clear and concise vision for action choreography and timing that channels not only the bizarre pulpy imagery of Ralph Bakshi cartoons but also the aptitude for rhythm and timing of golden age Chuck Jones and Tex Avery.

These aren’t just your run-of-the-mill action sequences, but bone-crunching, flesh-tearing, eye-gorging, teeth-breaking carnage, where bodies of everyone from small fish to men to giant sharks are ripped apart, smashed to bits, and otherwise beat to unrecognizable pulps in poetic bursts of bright red blood.

More impressively, however, is the fact that the action always has weight to it. A problem in many animated action shows, but especially computer-generated ones, is that the action can feel weightless and devoid of impact. That is definitely not the case with Primal, which grants heft to every punch, and earns a visceral reaction from every broken bone and torn muscle. The storyboards give extra attention to making sure every muscle in the characters' bodies moves in a way that supports their weight, and the creatures on the receiving end of the punches and bites move with the impact of a bite from a 15,000-pound T-Rex. This is aided by exquisite, crunching sound design that makes the pained grunts, the bone breaks, the ripped flesh, and ground-shaking roars engross you in a way no movie featuring dinosaurs has managed to do since the T-Rex tore through the original Jurassic Park.

Plus, the action is not there for action's sake, but to further explore the savagery of the world and the toll it takes on Spear and Fang. They would rather do literally anything other than fight, but this is what the world pushes them to, and the show makes it a point to showcase the sadness in their eyes at having lost any semblance of a normal life. Primal manages to accomplish this without any lines of dialogue. That isn’t new for this series, but what is new this season is a sense of being out of time, with Spear and Fang encountering more advanced civilizations than they could have dreamt of, which expands the Conan the Barbarian-inspired pulpy world in fascinating ways. Most importantly, it uses these encounters with more advanced creatures to illustrate Fang and Spear’s realization that there is no place for them in a world that is slowly outgrowing savagery. They can't find peaceful happiness or achieve a sedentary life, and that dawning truth is devastating.

Tartakovsky has tested the limitations of what 2D TV animation can do for over 20 years, but Primal shows that he is not done yet, pushing boundaries of genre, of animation, and of storytelling. The director and animator still has plenty of tricks up his sleeve, and our TVs are much better for it.

It’s time to set your parental controls – Deadpool, and Logan are heading to Disney Plus.

Although not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe just yet, Deadpool and Wolverine are making their Disney Plus debut as Marvel puts all its eggs in one basket.

After Disney purchased 20th Century Fox back in 2019, it was only a matter of time… now, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan will appear on Disney Plus in the US on July 22, 2022.

Deadpool tells the story of Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) – a former special ops soldier who becomes a mercenary after being subjected to a rogue experiment… the same one that created Wolverine.

Brought to the big screen thanks to Reynolds himself, it was a major hit for Fox. Deadpool 2 follows the story with a time-traveling tale that introduces some of the coolest X-Men characters to the big screen.

Meanwhile, Logan brings a stirring end to Hugh Jackman’s run as Wolverine – the tale of an older, grizzled Wolverine who comes out of hiding to help a girl with extraordinary powers. The addition of these 18-rated films to Disney Plus is a bold move… but not unexpected.

The films have long been available on other streaming services, but now Marvel’s dedicated brand page on the Disney Plus service will be the home to one of the biggest Marvel collections online. It remains to be seen which other Fox/Marvel movies will head to the service.

Hilariously, Disney is even offering free chimichangas to celebrate.

“Fans heading to San Diego Comic-Con can pick up a free mini chimichanga, a.k.a. Deadpool’s favorite word to say, while supplies last,” read the official announcement. “Disney+’s Deadpool chimichanga truck will be available at Seaport Village at the corner of Kettner and S Embarcadero in San Diego from 12-5pm PT on Friday, July 22, and Saturday, July 23.”

Want to find out more about Deadpool and Logan? Check out our guide on how to watch the X-Men movies in order, not to mention our full rundown of the X-Men timeline.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Today Dell is coming hot out the game with three excellent gaming PC deals. The Alienwa Alienware gaming PC has both RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 models at big discounts. The Dell XPS gaming PC has an Intel Core i7 Alder Lake with RTX 3080 model also on sale. All three configs get an additional $100 off with a stackable coupon code as well.

Alienware Auroa Core i7 RTX 3070 Ti PC for $1399

This is currently the best deal you'll find for a gaming PC for $1400 or less. The RTX 3070 Ti is a 2nd generation RTX 30 series GPU and it sits right in between the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080. This card is about as good as it gets for high refresh rate 1080p or 1440p gaming. It's not a huge upgrade from the RTX 3070 (non-Ti), but considering the fact that you probably won't find an RTX 3070 (non-Ti) equipped gaming PC for any cheaper, this is a no brainer. It's paired with a liquid cooled 11th gen Intel Core i7 unlocked processor, 16GB of DDR4-3200MHz RAM, and a 1TB M.2 SSD,

Alienware Aurora Ryzen 7 RTX 3080 PC for $1539.99

The RTX 3080 is the card of choice for high refresh rate 4k gaming. It's a powerful card that's about 25% faster than the 3070 Ti and can easily handle any current gen game out at the moment. There are a few cards there are a bit faster, like the RTX 3080 Ti RTX 3090, and RTX 3090 Ti, but those cards don't offer serious performance gains worth the much, much higher price point. It's paired with the excellent AMD Ryzen 7 5800 processor and 16GB of RAM. Note that the storage drive included is a 1TB HDD; you should upgrade your boot drive to an SSD, whether it be through Dell or just picking up a cheap one yourself.

New 2022 Dell XPS Intel Core i7-12700 Alder Lake RTX 3080 Gaming PC for $1699.99

Dell is offering a big price drop on the new 2022 Dell XPS 8950 gaming PC with Intel Core i7 Alder Lake CPU and GeForce RTX 3080 GPU. The Alder Lake CPU is currently the king of gaming processors; it is significantly more powerful than any of the previous Intel CPUs before it and it eclipses all similarly priced AMD processors in gaming and (in most cases) workstation performance. Additionally, the new Dell XPS boasts an Intel Z960 chipset motherboard that supports the Alder Lake CPU, DDR5 RAM, and a PCI-E 5.0 bus for your RTX 30 series video card.

Newest Apple TV 4K for $129

This isn't exactly as cheap as Amazon Prime Day of $109, but it's still $50 cheaper than MSRP and the best price you'll probably see for a while. The newest Apple TV features two major upgrades. It boasts an A12 Bionic processor that boosts graphics performance, video decoding, and audio processing and delivers high frame rate HDR with Dolby Vision. It also includes a new Apple TV remote. The overall build quality is better than before, but the biggest enhancements are a 5-way clickpad, mute button, and dedicated power button that works for your TV, receiver, and Apple TV.

ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 GPU From $799.99

The GeForce RTX 3080 GPU really doesn't need any introduction. This is the de facto card to get if you plan to run current generation games at 4K, since it's up to 50% faster than the previous generation RTX 2080 SUPER and doesn't command the exorbitant price of the RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3090 (both of which are a mere 3%-5% faster in real world performance). It has an HDMI 2.1 port for passing through 4K @ 120Hz, which it has the power to drive even in resource hungry games like Elden Ring, Battlefield 2042 or Cyberpunk 2077.

The ASUS ROG STRIX model is considered by many to be the very best RTX 3080 variant on the market. It's usually hundreds of dollars more than the 3080 FE price. That's in large part because of the incredible cooling potential of the massive 3-slot heatsink combined with the quietest triple fan cooling you'll find on any RTX 3080. Despite the low noise levels, the ROG STRIX offers a significantly OC'ed 1890MHz boost clock compared o the stock 1710MHz boost on the 3080 FE. This model also comes with 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM instead of the 10GB of VRAM that comes standard and most other RTX 3080 GPUs.

The ASUS TUF model is nearly as good! It also boasts a very large 3-slot heatsink with triple fan cooling and a protective metal backplate. It has a generous 1815MHz boost clock and comes with 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM much like the ROG Strix model.

EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU Starting at $749.99

EVGA's XC3 Ultra model is a "smaller" dual slot heatsink with triple fan cooling and a protective metal backplate. It has approximately similar dimensions as the 3080 FE, so it can fit in smaller or more restrictive cases. It boasts a modest 1755Hz Boost overclock compared ot the stock 1710MHz Boost on the 3080 FE.

EVGA's FTW3 Ultra model comes equipped with a ridiculously large triple slot heatsink with triple fan cooling and a protective metal backplate. This amount of dissipation allows the card to run cooler and quieter than the reference model RTX 3080 FE. This also enables the FTW3 Ultra model to have a bit more aggressive 1800MHz Boost overclock. Lastly and certainly the least important detail, let's not forget about the RGB lighting. There's enough there to make this card stand out in both traditional and vertical orientations.

Zotac GeForce RTX 3090 GPU for $999.99

If you were to purchase this 3090 graphics card purely for gaming, even at this discounted price, I'd say your money would be better spent on one of the RTX 3080 deals above. You'd be saving at least $200 and losing only about 5%-10% in terms of performance. Although the RTX 3090 is indeed a best-in-class gaming card, it's not really intended for gamers; it's catered towards professional graphic artists, animators, modelers, software engineers, or data scientists who run render farms, intensive workstation applications like Maya or 3ds Max, or machine learning. The RTX 3090 is the workstation GPU of choice not because of its processing power (which it has in spades), but the amount of VRAM. The RTX 3090 comes with a massive 24GB of GDDRX RAM compared to the RTX 3080's "paltry" 10GB-12GB. Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of games will not benefit from the increased VRAM, and that's why it's not the best purchase for the end gamer.

XPG S70 1TB M.2 SSD with Heatsink for $109.99

The XPG Gammix S70 Blade is the least expensive 1TB PS5 compatible SSD available right now. Just because it's the cheapest doesn't mean it's the slowest. In fact, the S70 is actually one of the fastest SSDs available with transfer rates up to 7,400 MB/s. It's on par with the likes of the WD Black SN850, the Samsung 980 Pro, or the Seagate Firecude 530. This is a PCIe Gen4 SSD that was pretty much released specifically for PS5 gamers in order to double or triple the storage capacity of their PS5 without limiting the speed. To make this deal even sweeter, it already comes with a very low-profile heatsink.

Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16" Intel Core i7-12700H Alder Lake RTX 3070 Gaming Laptop for $1599

Walmart is offering an outstanding deal on the new Lenovo Legion 5 Pro laptop that is also equipped with the 12th generation Intel Core i7 Alder Lake CPU and RTX 3070 GPU. The RTX 3070 GPU in this gaming laptop also has a TGP rating of 140W, and it performs as well as the MSI Crosshair on paper. In real world benchmarks, the Legion 5 Pro is one of the best performing gaming laptops on the market. It also looks more like a standard laptop, so you might want to pick this over the Crosshair if you're not into the gamer aesthetic.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Free 12-Month Nintendo Switch Online Membership for $49.99

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Best Buy is offering a free Nintendo Switch Online 12-month individual membership when you purchase Super Mario Kart Deluxe 8 for $49.99. Nintendo Switch Online is required for online play in games like Super Mario Kart or Splatoon, downloading custom maps in Super Mario Maker 2, playing free retro SNES games, saving your game data to the cloud, and much more.

ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1660 Ti Gaming PC

Walmart is offering this AMD Ryzen 5 3600X GTX 1660 Ti equipped gaming PC for only $799. The GTX 1660 Ti is still a very capable video card that can handle just about any game at 1080p resolution. You certainly won't find a more powerful video card for this price.

New Apple AirPods Pro for $179.99

The current generation Apple AirPods Pro is one of the best sounding "truly wireless" earbuds you'll find, especially at this price point. "Truly wireless" earbuds have no wires whatsoever; even the earbuds aren't hardwired to each other. In addition to the excellent sound quality, the AirPods Pro is the only AirPods with active noise cancelling technology. That, combined with the inherent nature of in-ear earbuds, means that the AirPods Pro will provide better noise isolation than over-ear headphones like the Bose QuietComfort or the Sony WH1000XM5. If you're thinking of getting a pair of new AirPods, we highly recommend jumping on this particular model.

PowerBlock Adjustable Dumbbells From $129.99

Currently Woot, which is owned by Amazon, is offering up to 40% off PowerBlock Sport adjustable dumbbells. The 25lb (per dumbbell) set is only $129.99 and the 50lb (per dumbbell) set is $239.99. They are as well built as the Bowflex and the specs are similar. The 25lb set can be adjusted in 3lb increments and the 50lb set can be adjusted in 5lb increments.. These sell out very quickly at Woot so if you've been eyeing a pair, you better not hesitate. Woot is owned by Amazon, so you can sign in with your Amazon Prime account to get free shipping.

Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda

Score a rare 20% off this popular little Zelda collectible. The Game & Watch is a miniature retro handheld game system that comes preloaded with The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. It's very well designed with a vibrant full color 2.36" LCD screen and intuitive control buttons, all in a tiny footprint that can even fit in your pocket.

Dell S2721DGF 27" 1440p GSYNC Gaming Monitor

This excellent monitor has hit a new price low for Black Friday. It's one of the best 27" gaming monitors you can buy for under $500. The S2721DGF boasts a high quality IPS panel (better than the VA panel found on the popular S3220DGF model). It features wide viewing angles and excellent color rendition including 98% DCI-P3 color coverage, a super fast 1ms response time and up to 165Hz refresh rate through the DisplayPort. It's also FreeSync Premium Pro and G-SYNC compatible.