Kevin Costner recently released the first entry in his series of Western films dubbed Horizon: An American Saga. However, for the vast majority of Yellowstone fans, the only saga they want is the conclusion of the Dutton family’s story and a glimpse of what comes next. Costner reinvigorated his career by headlining Yellowstone as John Dutton, but his clashes with Paramount Network and showrunner Taylor Sheridan have led to Costner’s departure from the series.
Although we’re still several weeks away from the return of the series, we’re sharing everything we know about Yellowstone season 5, part 2. And we’ll keep updating this post when anything newsworthy comes up.
To celebrate the sixth anniversary of Yellowstone‘s premiere, Paramount Network has finally announced when the final episodes will release. Yellowstone season 5, part 2 will begin on Sunday, November 10 on Paramount Network. Viewers in Canada will be able to watch it on Paramount+ on the same day. In America, Peacock retains the streaming rights for Yellowstone, but it’s currently unknown how quickly those episodes will appear on the service.
Additionally, Paramount is attempting to bring in an even larger audience by sharing the midseason premiere with CBS. AT 10 p.m. on Sunday, November 10 — two hours after its premiere on Paramount Network — viewers will get a chance to see the encore presentation of the first episode from Yellowstone season 5, part 2. For now, only one episode from the new season will be on CBS.
Sure! You can try live TV streaming options like Sling, Hulu Plus Live, and YouTube TV. The cheapest and best possible, though, is Philo. Philo is a live television streaming service that offers more than 70 top-rated channels and the entire AMC+ library for just $28/month. Some of the channels include A&E, MTV, Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, MTV, BET, and the Paramount Network, which is the home of Yellowstone.
Philo also has over 90 free channels available to watch anytime without creating an account. In addition, the service has a library of over 75,000 content titles on-demand and an unlimited DVR that saves recordings for a year. Philo can be used on mobile phones, tablets, TVs, and desktops so you can watch the Dutton clan pretty much anywhere on any device.
No, but there is a teaser for the final episodes of Yellowstone. There’s not much in the way of new footage, yet it manages to find time to bring the conflict between Jamie and Beth to the surface.
Jamie seems to be desperate to get Beth to back down, and he suggests that their family legacy is at stake. For her part, Beth doesn’t care. She’ll burn it all to destroy Jamie.
With the new episodes now just a few months away, Paramount Network has released the first photos of Yellowstone season 5, part 2. And the first pic, seen above, doesn’t look very good for John Dutton. His estranged adoptive son, Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley), is appearing alongside Governor Perry (Wendy Moniz), which may be how the show chooses to acknowledge the death of the previous governor, John.
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The second pic features Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and Mo (Moses Brings Plenty) presumably making their own plans for Yellowstone ranch.
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Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) has a quiet moment with a resting Carter (Finn Little).
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It wouldn’t be Yellowstone without a porch side scene. In this case, Monica Long (Kelsey Asbille), Tate Dutton (Brecken Merrill), and Kacey Dutton (Luke Grimes).
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Chances are very good that the future of the show will revolve around Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly).
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Rip and Beth are seemingly joined at the hip, and their bond may determine whether the Duttons still have control of the ranch at the end of the season.
The cast of Yellowstone has been privy to the ending for months, but now Luke Grimes is sharing his thoughts about the series finale.
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“I couldn’t be happier,” Grimes told EW. “I think it’s a perfect ending for the show for every character. It’s just a testament to what a good writer Taylor [Sheridan] is, and it’s a very, very profound, beautiful ending. I can’t wait to sit down and watch it one day.”
Inevitably, some things had to have changed if the original plan was for Costner to finish out the series. But according to Kelly Reilly, John Dutton was already meant to be written out of the series by the final episode.
“The absence [of John Dutton] was part of the ending,” Reilly told EW. “That’s not something that we had to pivot, that was already written into the tapestry of the story. It was always going to happen, it just happened a little bit differently.”
Despite the hope that Costner and Paramount Network would work something out, the actor has definitively announced that he will not be back for the final episodes of Yellowstone.
In a video posted on his Instagram account, Costner said, “I just want to reach out and let you know that after this long year and a half of working on Horizon and doing all the things that that’s required… and thinking about Yellowstone, that beloved series that I love, that I know you love. I just realized that I’m not going to be able to continue, season 5 or into the future.”
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“I loved it and I know you loved it, and I just wanted to let you know that I won’t be returning,” Costner added. “I love the relationship we’ve been able to develop, and I’ll see you at the movies.”
Costner’s public attempts to restart a dialogue about his return began earlier this year. Matthew Belloni of Puck News reported in March 2024 that Costner was telling people he will return in some capacity, perhaps in a cameo.
“Kevin Costner has been telling people he’s planning to return for at least a cameo and possibly more, but there are currently no discussions for him to do that,” Belloni wrote. “Even if Costner significantly lowers his financial and time commitment demands, Sheridan may not want to bother reopening his finished scripts to accommodate a send-off for John Dutton.”
Costner teased a possible return to the show
Despite the fact that the show appears to be moving on without him, Costner reiterated his interest in coming back, via Variety in mid-June.
“I’ve supported that thing and I’ve loved it,” Costner said during a June 2024 appearance on Today. “It’s been really important to me. I would love to go back under the right circumstances I think that all of us want. For me, it really needs to be the right circumstances.”
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Even now, Costner refuses to fully give up on the possibility of his return.
“Saying there’s a chance, there’s always a chance,” added Costner. “I love the thing. You’ve got to be really clear about that.”
After almost a year of silence on the issue, Costner finally made some public comments about his potential return to Yellowstone for the final episodes. The good news is that he does want to return, but even Costner doesn’t know whether it’s going to happen.
“I’d like to be able to do it but we haven’t been able to … I thought I was going to make seven [seasons] but right now we’re at five,” Costner told Entertainment Tonight. “So how it works out — I hope it does — but they’ve got a lot of different shows going on. Maybe it will. Maybe this will circle back to me. If it does and I feel really comfortable with [it], I’d love to do it.”
Costner also appeared to indicate that he wants a say in the fate of his character.
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“[Dutton] needs to be proactive in what happens, and I’ve kind of had my own fantasy how [the character’s final arc] might be,” Costner said. “But that’s Taylor’s thing. I said as much to him a while back. I had thoughts how it could happen, but we just have to see.”
Costner struck a more conciliatory note during an interview at the beginning of May.
“No, [Sheridan and I] haven’t [talked],” Costner said. “He’s doing special work in a lot of different ways. He’s very prolific about the things he does, and if he sees me in something that he wants to do, I’ll look at it just the way I did Yellowstone and maybe we will end up doing something together. He likes a lot of the things that I like, and the idea of us working together is not out of the question for me. The subjects he chooses are very interesting to me. I like a lot of that stuff. Yellowstone stands as something that could continue. But that is a Taylor question. But other things that he’s doing I think are really, really good. He likes the same subjects that I do.”
While Costner was feeling more hopeful about the future earlier in May, he came out with a more combative tone during his interview with Deadline on May 13, and he provided his side of the story for the first time.
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“Well, I haven’t felt good about it the last year, what with the way they’ve talked about it,” Costner said. “It wasn’t truthful. So now I’m talking about a little bit about what the real truth of it was. I made a contract for seasons five, six and seven. In February, after a two- or three-month negotiation, they made another contract. They wanted to redo that one, and instead of seasons six and seven, it was 5A and 5B, and maybe we’ll do six. They weren’t able to make those. Horizon was set in the middle, but Yellowstone was first position. I fit [Horizon] into the gaps. They just kept moving their gaps.”
“I don’t want to get down in the gutter with the Yellowstone thing but what I’m telling you is straight up,” Costner said. “I have taken a beating from those f***ing guys and I know a lot of times where it’s coming from. I just elected not to get into that. But if you know me well enough, I made Yellowstone the first priority, and to insinuate anything else would be wrong. I did not initiate any of those things. They did. They were doing a tap dance and this poor guy was also having to write so much. And I don’t know why they didn’t stick up for me.”
“I could say ‘no comment’ all the way through,” Costner continued. “I won’t say my life is fair game or that any questions are fair game, but this is a realistic question. I will address it. They should have known that there was going to be an opportunity for me to say something. I didn’t have to answer the slings and arrows over the last year and a half, because I’ve just been busy working. They’ve been pretty slick about keeping their hands off; nobody was ever on the record.”
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Costner also forcefully pushed back at the rumor that his commitments on Horizon kept him from shooting Yellowstone.
“That’s not true,” Costner said. “There were blocks of time that we didn’t get 10 episodes done. Basically, we were starting in April and May, and we’d usually go through August. We’d do 10. We didn’t even get 10 done during that time. I only worked 43 days. So that’s bulls***. That’s a lie. That’s not correct. They sent me away for seven days to go to London, to go to England during Covid, to do [promotion]. They made the contract and they picked the days.”
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Costner also explained the origin of the report that he was only willing to film a week of Yellowstone season 5, part 2.
“They didn’t have the scripts for anything else,” Costner said. “So, what you read in the end was that I said, ‘Well, look, I’m doing my movie. If you want me to work a week because you want to kill me or whatever else, I can give you a week.’ I really didn’t have that week to give them, but I said, I’ll do that. And then they [spun that] into, I only wanted to work a week.”
“I’m usually working six or seven days per each, whatever they are,” Costner said. “And they took that and a source on their side spun that into, well, he only wants to work a week for a whole season. Do you think that’s who I am? I’ve never missed a day of work. I’ve never left before fulfilling my contractual obligations. A lot of times, I stay as much as I can. In fact, I worked the nine-day stretch just to try to help them in July, when I was starting [Horizon] on August 1. I worked a Saturday and Sunday for them, and they still needed four more days. I gave it to them, when I thought we were going to do this so-called B, but there was no B thing. I was just going to give ‘em those extra four days.”
Even during this interview, Costner left the door open for his return. But it certainly seems a lot less likely now.
Sheridan had a very revealing quote on the subject when speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in June 2023. He said that Costner’s exit “truncates the closure of his character. It doesn’t alter it, but it truncates it.” This implies that John Dutton won’t survive the end of Yellowstone even if Costner does reappear.
Via ScreenRant, one of the theories regarding Dutton’s fate is that he will meet his demise from colon cancer. During the first season, Dutton survived his first bout with that illness. If that’s the way John Dutton dies, then it would bring his fate full circle.
Luke Grimes, who plays John Dutton’s youngest son, Kayce Dutton, recently shared his thoughts about Kevin Costner’s apparent departure from the show. And he sounds largely supportive of Costner’s decision.
“Whatever happened there is unfortunate if it’s changed anything about how the show was going to unfold,” said Grimes during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I know, [Costner] got busy with his movies that were like passion projects. At a certain point, you gotta do what you gotta do, man; you gotta do what you love.”
While speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Yellowstone co-star Ian Bohen revealed that he hasn’t seen any of the scripts from the final episodes yet, but he is aware of where the story is going. He also dropped a very bold prediction about the series finale.
“[The fans] are going to get the [best] conclusion that could possibly be written,” Bohen said. “Everything will land in a way that is perfectly set. A lot of shows just kind of finish… and they don’t satisfy you. This will be completed in a way that it will make sense.”
“I don’t know that any show has finished this strongly ever,” Bohen added. “We’re expecting to have the best series finale in history. Overconfident maybe, but I think that’s what it’s going to be. We thank everyone for their patience… It’ll be worth the wait, I promise.”
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Bohen also indicated that he expects Yellowstone‘s final season to resume production in May, but it could also be pushed to later in the summer.
That is the general idea that Paramount Network sold to fans when the end of Yellowstone was announced. However, a report on Puck states that three of the show’s principal cast members, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, and Luke Grimes, are in a pay dispute with Paramount Network because they want significant raises to reprise their respective roles as Beth Dutton, Rip Wheeler, and Kayce Dutton.
The report also indicates that those cast members have to be paid for Yellowstone season 6 even though it won’t be produced. That was a provision in their contracts for the previous series. There’s no indication yet whether the actors and Paramount Network have come to terms. If they don’t re-sign with the new show, then the spinoff series will lose key characters who could have been the bridge to the future of the franchise.
Yellowstone season 5, part 2, may not be the last time fans see Rip and Beth. In an April 2024 interview with Country Living, Hauser explained his focus is on finishing the final episodes of the series. Hauser then hinted that there could be a future for Rip and Beth in future Yellowstone iterations.
“I’m so focused on finishing Yellowstone the way it needs to be finished right now — well, just the show itself,” Hauser said. “We’ll see where that leads, but I know that there’s some stuff on the horizon when it comes to Taylor’s ideas for Kelly Reilly, myself, and some of the other cast. I’m excited to see where he goes creatively with that, but right now it’s just, let’s finish strong; let’s do the best we can.”
Reilly shared a similar viewpoint about the spinoff in a March 2024 interview with Collider. Once again, the goal for Reilly is to finish Yellowstone on a high note. However, Reilly did not close the door on appearing in the spinoff.
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“I just care about finishing [the main show] with as much care, as much passion, and as much love as I can muster to put into it,” Reilly said. “That’s what I care about. I’m sort of prepping for that now, [and] that’s my tunnel vision thing that I care about most. And what goes on beyond that? There are discussions, you know. Don’t believe everything you read. It’s just nonsense. But we’re gonna, you know, let’s wait and see. I don’t have an answer right now. But we’ll see.”
The first half of Yellowstone season 5 featured the complete deterioration of the relationship between Beth and her adoptive brother – who doubles as the black sheep of the family – Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley). Beth and Jamie even openly contemplated murdering each other in a struggle that may destroy the Duttons. That is one of the big unresolved plotlines heading into the second half of the season.
Note that Bently’s name was not mentioned in Puck’s report about Yellowstone cast members seeking a raise for the spinoff series. If there’s any veracity to that story, it may mean that Jamie isn’t going to make it out of Yellowstone season 5, part 2. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Jamie will die, it could also mean incarceration or exile from his family. For now, we can only speculate.
If Sheridan wanted to follow the established model for TV spinoffs, Matthew McConaughey’s new character from the upcoming spinoff would be introduced in Yellowstone season 5, part 2. The only problem with that idea is that there’s no official report that McConaughey has even signed on for the spinoff.
McConaughey’s name has been mentioned in conjunction with the spinoff since February 2023. Since that time, all of the Hollywood trades have simply said that McConaughey is in talks to lead the spinoff. So it’s just talk until McConaughey actually signs on the dotted line. For now, there’s no indication that he has.
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Originally, only six episodes were planned to conclude the series. But Sheridan told THR in 2023 that he has the leeway to change that, if he chooses to. “If I think it takes 10 episodes to wrap it up, they’ll give me 10,” said Sheridan. “It’ll be as long as it needs to be.”
Via The Wrap, Yellowstone season 5, part 2 has officially begun filming after a nearly two-year hiatus. As with the previous seasons, production is on-location in Montana. Notably absent from the news was any word about Kevin Costner returning to the show. Now that cameras are rolling again, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that Costner will return, barring some last minute deal.
The current production schedule means that Yellowstone season 5, part 2 will be able to make its premiere window later this year.
While it’s still unknown whether or not Kevin Costner will return, John Dutton will be popping up in season 5, part 2. Josh Lucas, the actor who plays a younger version of Costner’s character, told Deadline on March 14 that he will return as the character for the final season of the show.
The actor revealed that part 2 will be “10 episodes or so,” which, while still vague, does narrow it down a bit in terms of how many times we’ll see the Dutton clan this season.
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ChatGPT’s Canvas feature allows users to edit the chatbot’s responses on the app rather than copying and pasting them to a separate document.
However, when Canvas launched in early October for its paid tiers, it didn’t let people see what changes GPT-4o made to its responses. OpenAI’s latest update to the feature corrects that.
The show changes button will show the most recent changes to either the generated text or code on Canvas. It will highlight added information in green and deleted sections in red.
Tracking changes has always been a good feature of any editing platform; Google Docs and Word documents offer a toggle for users to check what’s been changed. But OpenAI had been planning to roll out updates to Canvas slowly as ChatGPT subscribers get used to it.
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Canvas already offers familiar features like comments, where users can add suggestions or give more instructions for the AI model to follow when editing responses.
Canvas is still only available on the web version of ChatGPT for ChatGPT Plus, Teams, Enterprise and Edu users. Mac app users and anyone downloading the recently released Windows version of ChatGPT will have to wait until Canvas is rolled out to these standalone apps.
Currently, people can access Canvas on the regular ChatGPT window rather than in any custom GPTs.
A much requested feature
OpenAI’s developer X account acknowledged that developer customers have requested a track or show change feature since Canvas launched.
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But while many developers said this was a step in the right direction, Canvas still doesn’t immediately connect to code repositories like GitHub or let users visually see how the edited code works.
This is one area where ChatGPT competitor Claude from Anthropic and its Artifacts feature excels. Artifacts function much like Canvas; users can begin a prompt on the Claude chat interface.
When users launch Artifacts, a dedicated window opens where they can manipulate the model’s responses. Artifacts let users replicate websites using the code Claude just generated and edited, so developers can see not only which lines of code have changed but also whether it worked. Artifacts are now available to all Claude users, including those on mobile devices.
Canvas and Artifacts represent what could be the next phase in the evolution of AI chat platforms and assistants. The Interface War could see other platforms begin to explore how to keep users in the platform instead of opening other dedicated windows for different tasks.
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Along with giving New York Comic Con attendees a chance to see Lazarus’ first episode, Adult Swim revealed today that Koichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara — the Japanese actors who voiced Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine — are part of the show’s cast. Yamadera and Hayashibara are joined by Mamoru Miyano (Death Note), Maaya Uchida (Chainsaw Man), Yuma Uchida (Jujutsu Kaisen), Makoto Furukawa (Kaiju No. 8), Manaka Iwami (Phantom of the Idol), and Akio Otsuka (Spy x Family).
Adult Swim also posted a short clip from Lazarus introducing Axel Gilberto (Miyano) a young fugitive who’s knack for breaking out of prison and evading police makes him the perfect candidate to join team Lazarus. With the entire world plunged into panic about a popular wonder drug that’s about to start killing people, Axel and Lazarus’ other operatives are the only people who might be able to find a solution.
The clip does’t really clue you into just what Axel will bring to the team when Lazarus premieres some time in 2025, but it does show off how useful his parkour skills will be as he sets out to save the world.
Yes! You can finally buy 26TB hard disk drives, two years after launch, but only in packs of 20 for $9100, and you will probably need a data center to run them
Back in May 2022, Western Digital unveiled its 22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR hard disk drives, the latter of which achieved its high capacity through the use of large block encoding and an advanced error correction algorithm to increase track-per-inch (TPI) density.
The 26TB Ultrastar DC HC670 UltraSMR HDD is a 3.5-inch hard drive featuring a SATA or SAS interface with a transfer rate of up to 261MB/s. It operates at 7200 RPM using SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology and includes a 512MB cache for improved performance. Built with Western Digital’s EAMR, TSA, and HelioSeal technologies, it’s optimized for sequential write applications and is ideal for use in data centers.
We initially reported the 26TB drive was set to begin shipping to select customers in the summer, but by October 2022, it became clear why customers wouldn’t be able to buy the 26TB drive any time soon.
Packs of 20
When we spoke to Western Digital, the company explained these were host-managed drives that “require host software and stack modification with sequentialized data streams and error handling for random writes.” As a result, WD said it would only be offering them to strategic hyperscale and OEM customers. Fast forward to now, and the drive is finally available for anyone to buy – with some caveats.
Bottom Line Telecommunications is selling the 26TB 512 7200RPM SATA ULTRA 512E SE P3 DC HC (as it’s called on the site), but doesn’t have them in stock. Instead they will be ordered directly from the manufacturer as required, meaning there’s a 15-business-day wait between the site ordering the product and having it ready to ship. No returns or exchanges are offered either.
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You also have to order a pack of 20, which will set you back $9,142.68, with free ground shipping in the US. Even though you can now purchase the HC670 UltraSMR HDD, it remains a host-managed drive, and the same restrictions that kept it out of most people’s hands remain. Still, if you have access to a data center and $10,000 to spare, this high-capacity storage solution could be yours to deploy in a little over a fortnight.
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GeForce NOW is one of several subscription services that revolve around gaming that you can throw your money at every month, and it’s because NVIDIA adds games like Assassin’s Creed Mirage that make that worth doing. This week is sort of a big one for the service as there are two or three big games that are being added. In total, there are ten new games joining the lineup, some of them new, some of them not.
Although if you really think about it, any game is new if it’s new to you, right? Whether you’re a new subscriber or you’ve been around a while, there’s nothing quite like picking up a new game and falling in love with it. You can do just that this week with a multitude of options across a handful of genres. Do you like mech games? Good news. GeForce NOW has a new mech game for you to play in the cloud this week.
Are action-adventure titles more your speed? Well, you have options there too. Whatever you like when it comes to games, GeForce NOW has something for you.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage is now playable via GeForce NOW
Assassin’s Creed Mirage is probably one of the best games in the franchise in a while. Taking some of the elements of its recent predecessors and mixing them with the gameplay mechanics from the beloved older titles in the franchise. It’s also considerably shorter than say, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. So if you want a more condensed experience with an AC game, you should definitely give Mirage a shot.
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And now you can do that more easily than ever because you can stream it in the cloud on GeForce NOW. This is for the Steam version of the game, as it was already available to stream if you owned it on Ubisoft Connect. So the good thing about this week’s addition of Mirage is that Steam loyalists who prefer not to stray from Gabe Newel’s digital game haven can play the game in the cloud now too.
Alongside Assassin’s Creed Mirage, GeForce NOW subscribers can also now stream Neva, MechWarrior 5: Clans, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, Artisan TD, ASKA, Dungeon Tycoon, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, and Star Truck.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be streamable on October 31
Dragon Age fans can look forward to streaming the latest game in the series when it launches later this month. It officially releases on October 31 so there are only a couple more weeks before you can dive into it.
If you haven’t already pre-ordered the game, NVIDIA is offering a pretty sweet deal for members. If you subscribe to GeForce NOW’s Ultimate membership for a six-month subscription, you’ll be given a free copy of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Now, a six-month Ultimate membership will set you back $99.99. That being said, the standard version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard will cost you $70. So another $30 and you’ll get six months of the best option GeForce NOW offers, and you get the game for free.
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This is an even better value for anyone who is planning to pick up the Deluxe Edition or above.
Day trips to the Moon, living on Mars, space elevators… when it comes to the future of space exploration, some possibilities might be closer than we think!
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