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Looking for a way to ring in the new year that involves little more than your couch and a TV? Luckily for you, the start of a new month means new movies and TV shows added to several streaming services–including Hulu.

In terms of movies, there are a number of standout titles being added to the streamer, but none quite as excellent as both films in the Bill & Ted series. Both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey arrive on January 1, along with movies like Zodiac, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Karate Kid 1-4, and Grizzly Man.

For TV, new seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Homeland all arrive. January will also see the addition of many cooking shows, with new episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, Cupcake Wars, and Great Food Truck Race among the titles arriving.

You can take a look at all of the Hulu additions for January below. You can also see everything Netflix is debuting during the first month of the new year.

Arriving on Hulu in January

January 1

• 10 to Midnight
• A League of Their Own
• All Is Lost
• American Ninja
• American Pickers: Season 14
• Ancient Impossible: Season 1
• Anger Management
• Art of the Prank
• Assassination
• Avenging Force
• Babel
• Baby Mama’s Club
• Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics: Seasons 8 & 9
• Beat Bobby Flay: Seasons 1 & 2
• Best of Man v. Food: Season 1
• Beyond the Sea
• Big Driver
• Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
• Black Rain
• Bloodsport
• Bolero
• Breaking Borders: Season 1
• Brothers
• Brother vs. Brother: Seasons 1 & 2
• Burning Blue
• But I’m A Cheerleader
• Capote
• Cold Case Files (Reboot): Season 1
• Cold Mountain
• Coming Soon
• Container Homes: Season 1
• Cool World
• Counting Cars: Season 6
• Cross Bronx
• Cube
• Cube 2: Hypercube
• Cube Zero
• Cupcake Wars: Season 8
• Cutthroat Kitchen: Season 7
• Daddy Day Care
• Dangerous Curves
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Season 22
• Down in the Delta
• Drop Dead Sexy
• Duck Dynasty: Seasons 10 & 11
• Evolution
• Excess Baggage
• Flawless
• Flea Market Flip: Season 3
• Flip or Flop: Season 5
• Food Network Star: Season 12
• Frailty
• Freedom Writers
• Ghost Adventures: Season 11
• Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go to College
• Great Food Truck Race: Season 7
• Green Street Hooligans Underground
• Grizzly Man
• Hamlet
• Hercules in New York
• Highway
• Horsemen
• Hot Rod
• Hustle & Flow
• I Spy
• Invaders from Mars
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Ironweed
• Kill the Irishman
• Liz & Dick
• Look Who’s Talking
• Look Who’s Talking Now
• Look Who’s Talking Too
• Love & Death
• Love Story
• Missing in Action II: The Beginning
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Mountain Men: Seasons 1-6
• Murphy’s Law
• My Boss’s Daughter
• Night of the Living Dead 3D
• Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection
• Ninja III: The Domination
• P2
• Paper Heart
• Platoon Leader
• Pretty Bird
• Primitive
• Punch Drunk Love
• Requiem for a Dream
• Reservoir Dogs
• Revenge of the Ninja
• Revolutionary Road
• Richard the Lionheart
• Saturday Night Fever
• Secretary
• Shirley Valentine
• Show of Force
• Six Degrees of Separation
• Sliding Doors
• Songcatcher
• Spaceballs
• Step into Liquid
• Street Smart
• Subspecies
• Subspecies 2
• Subspecies 3
• Subspecies 4
• Subspecies 5
• Sunshine Cleaning
• The Parent Trap (1961)
• The Parent Trap
• The Fourth War
• The Future
• The Karate Kid
• The Karate Kid: Part II
• The Karate Kid III
• The Next Karate Kid
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Pom Pom Girls
• The Presidio
• The Wraith
• Thelma & Louise
• Total Recall
• Two Family House
• Uncommon Valor
• War
• Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan: Seasons 1 & 2
• Witless Protection
• Words and Pictures
• Zodiac

January 2

• Cruel and Unusual

January 3

• The Game Changer

January 5

• The Devils Double

January 6

• Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

January 7

• Yakuza Apocalypse

January 8

• Frank

January 11

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 5
• These Final Hours

January 12

• False Flag: Season 1
• Homeland: Season 5

January 13

• XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

January 15

• 12 O’Clock Boys
• The Alchemist Cookbook
• Are We Done Yet?
• Are We There Yet?
• Advanced Style
• Afterimage
• Bending Steel
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• Coherence
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Dogs on the Inside
• Meek’s Cutoff
• Polina
• Polytechnique
• The Queen
• Sex Guaranteed
• Soul on a String
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Wendy & Lucy

January 18

• Barista

January 19

• My Best Friend

January 21

• School Life

January 22

• Espionage Tonight
• Ingrid Goes West

January 24

• Detroit

January 25

• Sword of Vengeance

January 27

• Crash Pad

January 29

• Beside Bowie
• Halloween Pussy Trap Kill Kill

January 30

• Fear the Walking Dead: Season 3
• Uncle Grandpa: Season 5

January 31

• All Dogs Go To Heaven
• All Dogs Go To Heaven 2

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Editor’s Note (5:39PM PST) Due to the bug associated with A Garden World Nightfall strike, which prevented some players from gaining certain rewards, Bungie has changed the mission to The Inverted Spire. We have updated the text below to reflect the new mission. But please enjoy the video of Erick Tay playing through the original Nightfall during our livestream.

It’s the first week of the new year, and we’ve now gotten the first Destiny 2 weekly reset of 2018. This brings with it a new Nightfall Strike for players to try their hand at, along with a new Flashpoint on Io and a lineup of Eververse items to consider purchasing before The Dawning ends. Here’s what to expect from this week’s Nightfall, The Inverted Spire, on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

In terms of Modifiers, we again see the return of Momentum. As a reminder, this particular modifier forces players to keep moving forward to restore health and and shields. Additionally, Timewarp: Rings is active, which means you’ll have to jump through several rings scattered around the Strike to gain more time.

That’s especially true if you’re hoping to finish the first of this week’s Challenges. Speed of Dark is enabled, as always, and requires you to finish the Strike with at least five minutes left on the timer. Unbroken tasks you with making it through with fewer than three deaths. And in addition to those, The Floor Is Lava tasks you and your fireteam to not get hit by Protheon’s fiery ground attack before defeating it.

As with any week, completing the Nightfall rewards you with Powerful Gear. The Nightfall is one of the only ways to obtain that level of gear, which is a reliable way to boost your Power level. This Nightfall will be available until the next weekly reset, which occurs at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM GMT on Tuesday, January 9 (4 AM AET on January 10).

The Nightfall is available now, but you’ll be unable to try it–or anything else–for a period of time on Wednesday, January 3. Bungie has announced Destiny 2 maintenance and a new update will be deployed on that day, which will result in downtime for several hours. Meanwhile, The Dawning event continues and will come to an end on the same day as this Nightfall, January 9.

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Platinum Games, the company behind action titles like Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and Nier: Automata, has a number of projects in the works right now. We already know the company is making Bayonetta 3 for Nintendo Switch and co-developing Lost Order and Granblue Fantasy Project Re: Link for mobile and PlayStation 4, respectively, but it seems there are even more projects on the way.

The company’s head of development, Atsushi Inaba, told Game Informer that Platinum is in the initial stages of planning a further two projects: “We’ve pretty much opened the company up to ‘Anybody can pitch a game,’ and so over the last year we’ve gotten about 70 design documents from different people,” Inaba said. “So [2017 was] about us basically diluting which stuff we wanted to focus on and not focus on, and drilling down to the point where we now have two designs that we’re genuinely focused on.”

He continued: “We can’t put together a AAA, $10 million-plus game, because we just don’t have that sort of cash as an independent developer. However, we don’t plan to go the indies route with just a few people on a team making a game, so it’ll be somewhere in the middle, looking at probably about 20 people on the staff making the game, so that’ll still be a healthy [size].”

Inaba also stated that Platinum is looking to self-publish more of its games going forward–every one of its games so far have been published by other companies. “One of the things Platinum is focused on is we’re looking into creating our own IP, creating our own game,” he said. “Up until now, obviously we’ve worked on original IPs for a wide variety of publishers. We’ve also worked on other Hollywood IPs for other publishers as well. But we’re becoming more and more interested in the idea of self-publishing and doing our own title.”

However, Inaba says this doesn’t mean the end of Platinum working on other companies’ franchises: “We will continue to do AAA games for other publishers and that’s because, again, we don’t have the cash flow to take on the risk to only do self-published games.”

Bayonetta 3 will be published by Nintendo, but we don’t yet know a release date. Until recently, Platinum was also working on a game for Xbox One. However, Microsoft canceled Scalebound, saying the move would be “better for Xbox gamers.”

Platinum’s most recent game was the PS4 and PC exclusive Nier: Automata, which we said was the #10 best game of the year in 2017. For more, check out our Nier: Automata review.

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Looking for a way to ring in the new year that involves little more than your couch and a TV? Luckily for you, the start of a new month means new movies and TV shows added to several streaming services–including Hulu.

In terms of movies, there are a number of standout titles being added to the streamer, but none quite as excellent as both films in the Bill & Ted series. Both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey arrive on January 1, along with movies like Zodiac, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Karate Kid 1-4, and Grizzly Man.

For TV, new seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Homeland all arrive. January will also see the addition of many cooking shows, with new episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, Cupcake Wars, and Great Food Truck Race among the titles arriving.

You can take a look at all of the Hulu additions for January below. You can also see everything Netflix is debuting during the first month of the new year.

Arriving on Hulu in January

January 1

• 10 to Midnight
• A League of Their Own
• All Is Lost
• American Ninja
• American Pickers: Season 14
• Ancient Impossible: Season 1
• Anger Management
• Art of the Prank
• Assassination
• Avenging Force
• Babel
• Baby Mama’s Club
• Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics: Seasons 8 & 9
• Beat Bobby Flay: Seasons 1 & 2
• Best of Man v. Food: Season 1
• Beyond the Sea
• Big Driver
• Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
• Black Rain
• Bloodsport
• Bolero
• Breaking Borders: Season 1
• Brothers
• Brother vs. Brother: Seasons 1 & 2
• Burning Blue
• But I’m A Cheerleader
• Capote
• Cold Case Files (Reboot): Season 1
• Cold Mountain
• Coming Soon
• Container Homes: Season 1
• Cool World
• Counting Cars: Season 6
• Cross Bronx
• Cube
• Cube 2: Hypercube
• Cube Zero
• Cupcake Wars: Season 8
• Cutthroat Kitchen: Season 7
• Daddy Day Care
• Dangerous Curves
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Season 22
• Down in the Delta
• Drop Dead Sexy
• Duck Dynasty: Seasons 10 & 11
• Evolution
• Excess Baggage
• Flawless
• Flea Market Flip: Season 3
• Flip or Flop: Season 5
• Food Network Star: Season 12
• Frailty
• Freedom Writers
• Ghost Adventures: Season 11
• Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go to College
• Great Food Truck Race: Season 7
• Green Street Hooligans Underground
• Grizzly Man
• Hamlet
• Hercules in New York
• Highway
• Horsemen
• Hot Rod
• Hustle & Flow
• I Spy
• Invaders from Mars
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Ironweed
• Kill the Irishman
• Liz & Dick
• Look Who’s Talking
• Look Who’s Talking Now
• Look Who’s Talking Too
• Love & Death
• Love Story
• Missing in Action II: The Beginning
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Mountain Men: Seasons 1-6
• Murphy’s Law
• My Boss’s Daughter
• Night of the Living Dead 3D
• Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection
• Ninja III: The Domination
• P2
• Paper Heart
• Platoon Leader
• Pretty Bird
• Primitive
• Punch Drunk Love
• Requiem for a Dream
• Reservoir Dogs
• Revenge of the Ninja
• Revolutionary Road
• Richard the Lionheart
• Saturday Night Fever
• Secretary
• Shirley Valentine
• Show of Force
• Six Degrees of Separation
• Sliding Doors
• Songcatcher
• Spaceballs
• Step into Liquid
• Street Smart
• Subspecies
• Subspecies 2
• Subspecies 3
• Subspecies 4
• Subspecies 5
• Sunshine Cleaning
• The Parent Trap (1961)
• The Parent Trap
• The Fourth War
• The Future
• The Karate Kid
• The Karate Kid: Part II
• The Karate Kid III
• The Next Karate Kid
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Pom Pom Girls
• The Presidio
• The Wraith
• Thelma & Louise
• Total Recall
• Two Family House
• Uncommon Valor
• War
• Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan: Seasons 1 & 2
• Witless Protection
• Words and Pictures
• Zodiac

January 2

• Cruel and Unusual

January 3

• The Game Changer

January 5

• The Devils Double

January 6

• Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

January 7

• Yakuza Apocalypse

January 8

• Frank

January 11

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 5
• These Final Hours

January 12

• False Flag: Season 1
• Homeland: Season 5

January 13

• XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

January 15

• 12 O’Clock Boys
• The Alchemist Cookbook
• Are We Done Yet?
• Are We There Yet?
• Advanced Style
• Afterimage
• Bending Steel
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• Coherence
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Dogs on the Inside
• Meek’s Cutoff
• Polina
• Polytechnique
• The Queen
• Sex Guaranteed
• Soul on a String
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Wendy & Lucy

January 18

• Barista

January 19

• My Best Friend

January 21

• School Life

January 22

• Espionage Tonight
• Ingrid Goes West

January 24

• Detroit

January 25

• Sword of Vengeance

January 27

• Crash Pad

January 29

• Beside Bowie
• Halloween Pussy Trap Kill Kill

January 30

• Fear the Walking Dead: Season 3
• Uncle Grandpa: Season 5

January 31

• All Dogs Go To Heaven
• All Dogs Go To Heaven 2

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We’re in the last week of Sony’s big holiday sale, and the PS Store is also releasing its first set of new weekly PSN deals for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation 3. Most of the sales start today and go until the middle of the month (you should check each specific offer to be sure of its end date).

There are deals on a duo of expanded editions for PS4 players: the Diablo III Eternal Collection is half off, available now for $30, and the deluxe edition of Tekken 7 is $46.74. Dark Souls III, also for PS4, is a good deal at $21, Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance is $16, Dragon Ball Xenoverse is $10, and you can pick up Firewatch for just $8. If you have a PSVR, Batman: Arkham VR is on sale for $12.

There are also a bunch of Resident Evil games on sale for PS4. Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and Resident Evil 0 are all on special right now. Meanwhile, Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is on sale for all systems: you can get it for $24 on PS4, $16 on Vita, and $20 on PS3.

PS3 players can also pick up the Digital Pro Edition of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for $36, with the Gold Edition being available for just $20. There are other Call of Duty deals, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for $35 and the Gold Edition of Call of Duty: Ghosts for $20. Meanwhile for PS Vita, you can get Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified for $13.59. You can find the full list of deals available now on the PlayStation Store.

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It’s the first week of the new year, and we’ve now gotten the first Destiny 2 weekly reset of 2018. This brings with it a new Nightfall Strike for players to try their hand at, along with a new Flashpoint on Io and a lineup of Eververse items to consider purchasing before The Dawning ends. Here’s what to expect from this week’s Nightfall, A Garden World, on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

In terms of Modifiers, we again see the return of Torrent. While fans of variety may be disappointed, this is a particularly fun one, as it causes your abilities to recharge much faster than usual. Additionally, Timewarp: Zero Hour is active, which means you’re unable to extend the Strike’s time limit. You’ll need to be fast and efficient to make it to the end.

That’s especially true if you’re hoping to finish the first of this week’s Challenges. Speed of Dark is enabled, as always, and requires you to finish the Strike with at least five minutes left on the timer. Unbroken tasks you with making it through with fewer than three deaths. And the Shielded Minotaur Challenge asks you to take out the titular shielded minotaurs in less than 90 seconds during that encounter.

As with any week, completing the Nightfall rewards you with Powerful Gear. The Nightfall is one of the only ways to obtain that level of gear, which is a reliable way to boost your Power level. This Nightfall will be available until the next weekly reset, which occurs at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM GMT on Tuesday, January 9 (4 AM AET on January 10).

The Nightfall is available now, but you’ll be unable to try it–or anything else–for a period of time on Wednesday, January 3. Bungie has announced Destiny 2 maintenance and a new update will be deployed on that day, which will result in downtime for several hours. Meanwhile, The Dawning event continues and will come to an end on the same day as this Nightfall, January 9.

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The Last Jedi has only been in theaters a couple of weeks, but another Star Wars movie is also due soon. Solo: A Star Wars Story is the second Star Wars spin-off, following 2016’s Rogue One, and it arrives in May. The film is set to focus on the adventures of young Han Solo, and although we are yet to see any footage, director Ron Howard has released an intriguing new image.

The picture was tweeted by Howard as a New Year greeting. As with most of images that the director has released it doesn’t reveal much, but it does suggest that Han might pilot a new vehicle–possibly some form of speeder. Check it out below:

Solo: A Star Wars Story stars Alden Ehrenreich as Han and Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, with Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian. Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Emilia Clarke also star. It hits theaters on May 25, 2018.

Solo was originally being directed by Chris Lord and Phil Miller, who also helmed The Lego Movie and the Jump Street films, but they were replaced by Howard in June. There were rumors that they were fired due to clashes with Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy and co-writer and Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan.

Although Howard joined the production only a few weeks before the end of the principle photography, reshoots continued for several months. In November it was rumored that he had reshot up to 80% of the film. The scale of the reshoots meant that at least one role had to be recast, with Paul Bettany replacing Michael K. Williams. A recent comment from Bettany confirmed that they were indeed more extensive than initially expected.

The subject of the third Star Wars spin-off has not yet been officially announced yet, but it is thought that it will focus on Obi-Wan Kenobi. Last month it was reported that the Obi-Wan film will start shooting in 2019, with Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry helming. It’s not known if Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan in the Star Wars prequels, has been in discussion with Lucasfilm to reprise the role, but he has previously expressed an interest in doing so.

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PUBG is one of the biggest games on the planet and it continues to grow. On December 30, the Hunger Games-like shooter passed 3 million concurrent players on Steam. That’s up from 2 million at the start of October and 1 million peak concurrent users in September.

Playerunknown himself, Brendan Greene, has said he thinks the game could reach 100 million players to achieve League of Legends-like success. Three million is more than four times the number of the second-most popular game on Steam, Dota 2, which had around 705,000 concurrent users on December 30. It’s down today, January 2, as the game had around 2.79 million concurrent players, according to Steam’s own public stats.

The new player milestone comes on the heels of PUBG’s 1.0 release in December. Some might have been waiting for PUBG to leave Early Access before jumping in.

PUBG came to Xbox One through the Game Preview program on December 12. It was a quick hit there, selling 1 million copies in its first 48 hours. The game has sold an astonishing 30 million copies; it sells for $30, so that’s around $900 million in revenue.

In other PUBG news, developer PUBG Corp. recently said it wants to bring the game to “every platform” so a PlayStation 4 release could be in the cards. Additionally, the developer said it has spoken with Netflix and people in Hollywood about extending the game to new mediums.

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