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EA’s FIFA 17 doesn’t officially come out until Tuesday, September 27, but some Xbox One and PC owners can play it right now. The professional soccer game was added to EA/Origin Access today.

Everyone with a subscription ($5/month or $30/year) can now play the full game, though only for 10 hours. The clock runs while the game is open, so be sure to close it when you’re not playing. Additionally, all progress from the EA/Origin Access version carries forward to the full game when it comes out. On top of that, EA/Origin Access members save 10 percent, so they can get the game for $54 instead of $60.

You don’t need an EA Access membership to play FIFA 17 right now, however, as a demo for the game is available too across all platforms.

Check back soon for GameSpot’s FIFA 17 review.

In other news about the game, Iceland’s men’s national team won’t be in the game in the wake of a reported pay dispute with EA Sports. You may recall that Iceland had an incredible run at the Euro 2016 event, making it all the way to the quarterfinals.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens stands as the third biggest movie of all time, with a total worldwide gross of nearly $2.1 billion. With the next movie in the blockbuster franchise, Rogue One, set to be released in December, the head of Disney has now revealed that he doesn’t expect it to do as well.

As reported by Variety, Disney CEO Bob Iger attempted to lower expectations for the upcoming spinoff. “We never felt it would do the level that Force Awakens did,” Iger said during an investor conference.

Nevertheless, he did stress that audience anticipation for the movie was just as strong. “The level of interest [in Rogue One] is as high as it was for Force Awakens,” he said.

Iger went on to state that he was very happy with what he had seen of Rogue One so far. “It’s really interesting in terms of Star Wars storytelling,” he said. “Star Wars has only been told as a saga, and this is a moment in time… we love what we’ve seen.”

The Disney boss added that he and Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy had mapped out the plans for the franchise until 2020. This includes Episode VIII and IX, a Han Solo spinoff film, and a third spinoff for which a writer has been hired.

“We have movies in development for Star Wars ’til then, and we started talking about what we’re going to do in 2021 and beyond,” he said. “So, she’s not just making a Star Wars movie, she’s making a Star Wars universe.”

Two new trailers for Rogue One have appeared in the past couple of months. The first debuted during the Rio Olympics, while the second was an international teaser that contained footage not seen in the earlier trailer.

Rogue One stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, and Mads Mikkelsen. It hits theaters on December 16, 2016.

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Stephen King’s classic fantasy epic The Dark Tower isn’t just heading to the big screen, it is also to become a TV show. The movie is due out next year, and it has now been announced that a Dark Tower series is on the way too.

As reported by Entertainment Weekly, producers Sony have committed to a full 10-13 episode run of a Dark Tower show. It will be an adaptation of 1997’s Wizard and Glass, the fourth book in King’s epic series.

Idris Elba, who is starring in the movie, has signed on to the show, alongside his 15-year-old co-star Tom Taylor. The pair will form part of a framing device for the central story, which is set many years before the events of the film. It is set to start shooting in 2017 for an intended 2018 broadcast, although EW states that a distributor is yet to be found.

The film is set for release on February 23, 2017. Elba stars as gunslinger Roland Deschain, while Matthew McConaughey is playing demonic sorcerer Walter Padick, aka The Man in Black. The movie is directed by Nikolaj Arcel, who previously helmed the Oscar-nominated A Royal Affair. The first official images were release in July, and a trailer is expected soon.

The Dark Tower encompasses eight novels, which King published between 1982 and 2012. The books blend classic western themes with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.

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Marvel’s Netflix shows are easily the darkest in the studio’s cinematic and TV universe, and Jessica Jones was as much a disturbing psychological drama as it was a superhero adventure. With Season 2 due in 2018, showrunner Melissa Rosenberg has been speaking about what fans can expect from Jessica’s second outing.

In a new interview with Esquire, Rosenberg explained that her time on the acclaimed serial killer drama Dexter will influence her approach to Jessica Jones‘ second season. “I learned from working on Dexter that you can advance the character, but you never want to cure the character,” she said. “With Dexter, the moment he felt guilt or accepted that he was ‘bad,’ the show’s over. He’s no longer a sociopath.

“The equivalent for us would be if Jessica somehow recovered from the damage that had been done to her. People don’t just heal, you don’t go through that just to say, ‘Oh, he got arrested, he’s in jail, I’m OK now. That trauma is a huge part of who she is now.”

“She was kind of messed up even before [season one villain] Kilgrave came along, and so in Season 2 we can explore what’s possible for her moving forward.”

The character, played by Krysten Ritter, is also set to appear in Netflix’s The Defenders, which will team her up with Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. Rosenberg revealed that although she is not directly involved with The Defenders, the fact that it will be screened before Jessica Jones Season 2 was influencing what she writes for her show.

“I need to know what they’re doing in order to plan for Season 2 of Jessica, and they need to know what we’re planning on in turn,” she said. “Marvel is very smart and they enjoy collaboration, so there’s never one maniac trying to take ownership.”

The Defenders is set to hit the streaming service in 2017, with Jessica Jones season 2 due in 2018.

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With the release of Gears of War 4 coming up soon, Microsoft has now started to talk about important release topics such as a pre-loading and its file size on console.

Gears of War community director Adam Fletcher wrote on Twitter that Microsoft will talk specifics on pre-loading “soon.” Though we’ll have to wait, he did assure fans that they will have “plenty of time to pre-load,” suggesting this may start days before the game’s official release on October 11.

Part of this may have to do with the fact that Gears of War 4 will unlock four days early, on October 7, for people who buy the $100 Ultimate Edition.

As for the Gears of War 4 file size, Microsoft already said you’ll need a whopping 80 GB of free space on PC. But as for Xbox One, Fletcher said the console size may be smaller. “While large .. the PC size shouldn’t be the indicator for Xbox,” he explained.

You can see the full minimum, recommended, and ideal system specs for Gears of War 4’s PC version here; it also requires the Windows 10 Anniversary update. You can get a free copy of Gears of War 4 with the purchase of a newer Nvidia GPU.

In other Gears of War 4 news, Microsoft has released the game’s launch trailer and celebrated its “gold” status with cake, champagne, and a replica Lancer.

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Work continues to bring celebrated racing game Burnout Paradise to Xbox One through backwards compatibility, developer Criterion Games has announced.

Asked on Twitter for a status update on the game’s backwards compatibility support, the Criterion Twitter channel said (via VideoGamer.com), “Patience, Paradise fans! This work is continuing and we hope to have more BC news soon.”

It’s been more than a year since Criterion announced in July 2015 that it was working with Microsoft to bring Burnout Paradise to Xbox One, so fans understandly want some answers.

Interestingly, Xbox boss Phil Spencer teased this week that there are some games coming to the Xbox One backwards compatibility program soon that he is very excited about. Whether or not one of these is Burnout Paradise remains to be seen. Also, the word “soon” means different things to different people.

In other news about the Burnout franchise and backwards compatibility, Criterion has confirmed that Burnout Revenge will not be added to the catalog.

The newest Xbox 360 game added to the program was Word Puzzle, which arrived this week. There are now more than 250 games in the catalog–you can see them all here.

Criterion’s extreme sports game has been canceled. The studio is currently contributing to the Star Wars Battlefront VR game.

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