Following his debut at Wrestlemania, Logan Paul has officially signed a deal with WWE.

The WWE and Paul announced the news on their respective social media channels. Along with pictures of Paul signing his WWE contract, the YouTube-turned-wrestler also issued a challenge to The Miz, his tag team partner who later betrayed him.

Just signed with the @WWE pic.twitter.com/7lYdxIKivF

— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) June 30, 2022

According to ESPN, Paul signed a multi-event deal that includes appearances in several WWE premium live events (formerly known as pay-per-views) as well as appearances on the weekly TV shows as needed.

Paul and The Miz faced Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio at Wrestelmania 38. Paul's wrestling gear included the most expensive Pokemon card worn around his neck. Following Paul and Miz's victory, The Miz betrayed Paul with a Skull-Crushing Finale.

Paul and his brother Jake began their careers as content creators for video platforms like YouTube. In recent years the pair have transitioned to other performances, with Jake Paul entering the world of boxing and now Logan Paul to the WWE. Paul is also an avid Pokemon card collector to varying levels of success.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Blogroll credit: WWE

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It’s possible you may not have noticed but, uh… there are so many things to watch. Whether it’s streaming, on cable (dozens of us still have it. DOZENS!), or in theaters, there is an absolute waterfall of art being dropped on us all at any given second. It can feel pretty impossible to navigate that sometimes, but the IGN team is here to help make sense of it all.

…Ok, so the IGN team is here to talk about our favorite stuff! But maybe you like the same stuff we like. That’s helping, right?

This isn’t a roundup of the website’s top rated film and television, or any other kind of aggregate. We just love entertainment, and we want to chill out and chat about the art we loved this month. Some of it will be mainstream! Other times? Maybe you haven’t even heard of it! The world is our oyster. Also? Sometimes we get to shows and movies late, too! So you may even catch a couple older favorites on the list as you dig in!

Songs That Would Help the IGN Staff Escape Vecna

We wanted to add in a little bonus round this month. Since Vecna was such a fun, creepy new addition to Stranger Things we figured he would be the perfect place to start.

• Scott Collura: "Girlfriend in a Coma" — The Smiths
• Clint Gage: "I'll Believe in Anything" — Wolf Parade
• Amelia Emberwing: "Hands Held High" — Linkin Park
• Jacob Kienlen: "Somewhere Only We Know" — Keane
• Jesse Schedeen: "In Bloom" — Sturgill Simpson
• Tom Jorgensen: "Everlong" — Foo Fighters
• Bob Marshall: "Don't Change" — INXS
• Lindsey Salzer: "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" — Radiohead
• John Davison: "Enter Sandman" — Metallica
• Colin Stevens: "Heroes" — David Bowie

The Orville

Where to Watch: Hulu
Scott Collura, Executive Editor, Entertainment Features

Hey, I admit it – I’m super late to the Orville party. I watched the first couple of episodes back when it debuted in 2017 on Fox, but I didn’t quite gel with it. The earliest stories were a little too uneasy a mix of creator/star Seth MacFarlane’s trademark comedy approach and Next Generation-style sci-fi. But with a third season of the show finally debuting (now on Hulu as The Orville: New Horizons), I decided to dive back in where I left off. It turns out I had stopped at exactly the wrong spot, as Season 1’s third episode, “About a Girl,” is a terrific and sad story that is not only good, theme-driven sci-fi, but also quite affecting on an emotional level. From there the show continued to find the balance between its comedy and genre approach, and at this point I’m deep into Season 2 and can’t wait to see what New Horizons is all about…

Check out our series premiere review for The Orville

The Rental

Where to Watch: Netflix
Lindsey Salzer, Audience Development Manager

I was browsing Netflix the other night, (taking a break from watching Seinfeld) and Allison Brie’s lovely face showed up next to a title called The Rental. I thought to myself, “wait, what is she up to these days? Is this a rom-com or something?” When I watched the preview, I quickly realized it was no rom-com, but was a thriller. I didn’t know if it was going to be one of those cheesy movies with predictable jump scares and bad acting, but figured I’d be entertained either way, so let’s give it a watch. To my surprise, Dave Franco’s directorial debut, The Rental is now on my list as one of the best thrillers I’ve ever seen. It had a perfect balance of raw, realistic drama surrounding complicated relationships (with a prime cast including Jeremy Allen White from Shameless), and classic horror moments that had me truly spooked and questioning characters’ next moves. Set at a beach rental on the Oregon coast, the setting was dark and moody, and provided a solid ramp-up of chilly suspense and axe-murderer vibes to keep your attention throughout. My only personal letdown was an unexplained theme and unanswered question surrounding the ending, (what is up with that, Dave Franco?) In case you haven’t seen it, I won’t spoil it, but just know I had to shut my blinds after it was over, so it was a great thrill.

Although we reviewed The Rental back in 2020, I’m just now getting around to seeing it in 2022 and am thankful it showed up in my Netflix feed, or else I could’ve missed it altogether!

Fun Fact: IGN’s own Jacob Kienlen met the cute dog that often steals the spotlight in this movie, and his name is Chunk! (Lucky…)

Ms. Marvel

Where to Watch: Disney+
Amelia Emberwing, Streaming Editor

What an absolute joy Ms. Marvel has been. Iman Vellani is the best casting for a Marvel superhero since Robert Downey Jr. took on the mantle of Tony Stark. She just is Kamala Khan, and her love for this franchise is constantly overflowing from her character on screen. The series is endlessly vibrant and relentlessly heartwarming. There hasn't been a single episode that didn't have a moment that made me grin so hard my face hurt, and they're not skimping on the emotional impact, either. Pakistani-American culture is proudly on display here, all while showcasing an action-packed origin story that I am so thrilled exists. I feel like I would have been unstoppable if I'd seen this series when I was younger.

Here's Unzela Khan talking about watching Ms. Marvel as a Muslim woman.

Prehistoric Planet

Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Jacob Kienlen, SEO Specialist

I am a huge sucker for a good nature documentary and would literally watch grass grow in real time if it was narrated by David Attenborough. So naturally, the concept of a Dinosaur doc narrated by Attenborough was something I was excited about before it even came out. Prehistoric Planet is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years, with some excellent CGI work that brings the whole experience to life. Although the series takes a look at life that hasn’t existed for millions of years, it truly feels like you’re getting a window into what planet earth was like in the distant past. It’s alien and yet somehow familiar.

The only downside of the documentary is that we can’t be sure exactly what dinosaurs looked like back then or even how they behaved – so many things are based on scientific guesswork. But as long as you don’t read too much into that and just enjoy the dramatization, it’s 100% worth watching.

Barry, Season 3

Where to Watch: HBO Max
Alex Stedman, Entertainment Reviews Editor

Barry has always walked a delicate tonal balance – always treading the line between dark comedy and, well, just straight-up violent darkness – but it’s never more noticeable than in the long-awaited third season, which is both the darkest and funniest season of the serial-killer series to date. The eight half-hour episodes make up a pretty slow burn as each character reaches their own new level of desperation, in both comedic and depressing fashion. There are a few incredible action scenes, more than a couple of inside-baseball Hollywood gags, and some white-knuckle moments of tension, but once again, the highlight of this hit is the acting. Bill Hader, of course, is once again in fine form, still managing to be charming as his character’s murderous tendecies constantly simmer under the surface, but don’t count out Sarah Goldberg as Sally, who walks a delicate line as both a domestic abuse survivor and a new showrunner who isn’t adjusting to her new clout quite as gracefully as you’d hope. It all culminates in a finale that’s really got me hoping we don’t have to wait for Season 4 as long as we waited for this installment.

Check out our Barry Season 3 Review!

Westworld: Season 1

Where to Watch: HBO Max
Jesse Schedeen, Senior Staff Writer

With Westworld finally back for Season 4, I made the somewhat belated decision to start rewatching the entire series. For all the shows that have tried to mimic Lost’s mystery box formula over the last two decades, there’s an argument to be made that Westworld: Season 1 did it best. This is such a tight, intricately crafted season of television. It takes the basic premise of the original Michael Crichton and pushes it into some truly mind-bending territory. The show cleverly plays with time and perception and doles out a steady stream of plot twists over the course of ten episodes. In a way, the show became a victim of its own success. The series struggles to build on that formula in Season 2, and it makes an imperfect transition to the outside world in Season 3. But even if Westworld has yet t oreally recapture the magic of its first season, it never fails to be a fascinating and rewarding experience.

Here's our review for Westworld Season 1.

Shoresy

Where to Watch: Hulu
Tom Jorgensen, Senior Video Producer

I’ve just been made aware that Amelia wrote about Shoresy last month… but any chance we here at IGN can take to convince you that Shoresy (and by extension, Letterkenny) are required viewing, we take. Letterkenny’s resident king of chirping struck out on his own at the end of last season, and for a character who always worked best in small doses, I’ve been consistently impressed at how winning a lead character Shoresy has become only a few short episodes into his solo series. As Shoresy struggles to keep his promise to never lose another game of hockey with his new team, we get to know the character better through his interactions with his adopted family and the youth hockey players he mentors… all while he absolutely shreds them with his signature, creative barbs.

Dig into our Season 1 Review of Shoresy.

Evil

Where to Watch: Paramount+
Bob Marshall, Social Media Director

The X-Files, but for demons! If that sounds interesting, may I introduce you to Evil, now in its third season from The Good Wife’s Robert and Michelle King. Once the most batshit insane show on CBS, it’s since moved to Paramount+ where it continues its tightrope walk balancing gruesome horror, deep Catholic mythology, psycho-sexual tension, and slapstick comedy, but now gets to include swear words. So, watch as a forensic psychologist mother of four who is definitely a murderer (Katja Herbers), a former-sex-addict-turned-priest prone to hallucinations (Mike Colter), and a tech guy who thinks this is all stupid (Aasif Mandvi) investigate possessions, hauntings, and other paranormal activity all on the Catholic church’s payroll. You’ll laugh, you’ll scream, you’ll gasp, and you’ll most definitely laugh again.

Check out our review for Season 1 of Evil.

For All Mankind

Where to Watch: Apple TV+
John Davison, Publisher

Of the many reasons to sign up for Apple TV+ if you haven’t already, alt-history sci-fi drama For All Mankind from former Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore is firmly establishing itself as the strongest and most consistent offering from the service. If you’ve bought an Apple device in the past year, chances are you’re sitting on something that will give you at least a free week, and you should absolutely use it to binge your way through the first two seasons before jumping into season three, which is currently dropping new episodes every Friday. While the first two seasons focused on the tense rivalries between the USA and the Soviet Union establishing a presence on the moon in the 1970s and 1980s, season three explores something much more like current events with a story that sees private companies joining the space race and competing with government agencies in their quest to colonize Mars. Part of the thrill of the show is seeing how with each new season its vision of technology diverges more and more from our reality, and by season three’s 1990s, we’re seeing 21st century flatscreens and mobile tech enabling vast space craft and space stations that are inching their way closer and closer towards more Star Trek-like tech. In-between all the beautiful CG spaceship porn it’s also a tense political and family drama that weaves real-world historical events into its larger story. If you really want to get sucked in, don’t sleep on the fake news reports that serve as clever world-building by filling the gaps between seasons using real historical news footage to tell alternate versions of world history.

Here's our Season 3 review of For All Mankind.

Dark Winds

Where to Watch: AMC+
Michael Calabro, Director of Video Programming

Out of the gate, AMC+’s new crime drama Dark Winds opens up on a deadly armored truck heist that culminates with the robbers fleeing in a helicopter toward a nearby Navajo reservation. This ‘70s-based Psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee as they hunt down the thieves and try to solve a couple of murders with a supernatural bend that might be related to the heist.

It stars Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn, but you might remember him from other roles like Westworld, Doctor Sleep, and his best role (in my opinion) Fargo season 2 as Native American tracker/hitman “Hanzee” Dent. Seriously, that McClarnon kills in that show. Like literally, when a character had a scene with him in Fargo, odds are it was their very memorable and horribly violent last scene.

Anyway, Dark Winds slaps and you should definitely check out McClarnon, who is just as captivating as a white hat sheriff as he was as a Vietnam vet hitman. Oh, and one last reason to check out Dark Winds, it’s executive produced by Robert Redford and George R. R. Martin.

Honorable mentions go to the wonderful Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy, Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1 and Obi-Wan Kenobi for its strong first season. But what were your favorites this month? We want to hear! Sound off in the comments about what you loved! And don't forget to sound off on what song would save you from Vecna!

Dell has just marked down the price of two of its new Alienware Aurora R13 gaming desktop PC configs. Dell's new flagship gaming PC sports a number of aesthetic, quality of life, and performance improvements over its predecessors. In terms of future proofing, the Alienware Aurora R13 is the first Alienware PC to come equipped with the newest 12th gen Intel Alder Lake processors. The Alder Lake processors are currently the best gaming CPUs on the market, better than the AMD Ryzen offerings. That's paired with a Z690 based motherboard that accepts DDR5 RAM and an RTX 30 series GPU.

New Alienware Aurora R13 Intel Core i7-12700 Alder Lake RTX 3060 Ti Gaming PC for $1599.99

This model features the new 12th gen Intel Core i7-12700F Alder-Lake 12-core processor, 16GB of DDR5-4400MHz RAM, a generously sized 1TB SSD, and the new RTX 3060 Ti GPU. The RTX 3060 Ti is on par with the previous generation's RTX 2080 SUPER. It's will easily handle all of your games at up to 1440p.

New Alienware Aurora R13 Intel Core i9-12900KF Alder Lake RTX 3080 Gaming PC for $2999.99

Get this rig if you want to outperform 99% of gaming PCs out there. This model features a liquid-cooled unlocked Intel Core i9-12900KF 16-core processor, 64GB of DDR5-4400MHz RAM, and a 1TB SSD. It has also been upgraded with a 750W power supply and a windowed side panel to show off the internals. The RTX 3080 is the most powerful GPU on the market that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. The RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Ti are technically slightly more powerful (about 3%), but they're also hundreds of dollars more expensive. This is the rig to get if you want to absolutely dominate games in 4K.

Since Skate 3’s release over 12 years ago, fans and newcomers alike have eagerly awaited the release of Skate 4 (also known as skate.). Though it’s been almost a year since Full Circle's last update, the newly-formed team wants players to know that they're “still working on it.”

Today, the team released a trailer for the game showing footage of the game’s various prototypes (or, as the trailer puts it, “pre-pre-pre-alpha” versions).

The trailer is noticeably transparent about the game development process, giving players a glimpse of various processes like character rigging and dealing with bugs, though there are a few segments of gameplay with more polished graphics to show players what the game's future might have in store

It also seems that player feedback is a big component of Skate 4 — the trailer shows a variety of comments that the development team took into account, supposedly confirming features like nonbinary player customization options, the ability to climb up to skate spots, and cross-platform play.

EA is also recruiting playtesters for the game here. However, it is a closed playtest, so only certain players will be selected (and those who are won’t be able to share any content from the game).

While not much else is known about what the final game might look like, EA previously released a trailer for the game teasing an open-world design. It’ll also be available on PC (a franchise first) and will likely include opportunities for user-generated content.

Amelia Zollner is a freelance writer at IGN. Find them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.

The below review of Season 2 of Superman & Lois discusses some important plot points, but no major spoilers. Season 2 is now streaming on CWTV.com and The CW's app.

Every so often, fans of superhero media clamor for stories about civilians living in these fantastical worlds (the movie or TV equivalent of Marvels by Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek). Season 2 of Superman & Lois scratches that particular itch, partially on purpose — its focus on one Smallville family is the series’ highlight — and partially because its title characters and their world-ending entanglements aren’t as interesting this time. It’s more scattershot than Season 1, featuring unimaginatively conceived villains with hodgepodge plans, and heroes going mostly through the motions, but on a human level, the way these events radiate outward leads to some fantastically written and acted drama.

The season begins in an interesting place. The Gregory Smith-directed premiere, “What Lies Beneath,” picks up a few months after last season’s cliffhanger, which saw Natalie (Tayler Buck), the teenage daughter of John Henry Irons (Wolé Parks) and Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch), on an alternate Earth, arriving on this one to rescue her father. She finds out her mother isn’t quite her mother, but what’s more, she discovers that “our” Lois is married to the Kryptonian Ubermensch that killed her back in their own universe. It’s an awkward adjustment period, to say the least. Clark (Tyler Hoechlin) and his teenage sons, football player Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) and awkward romantic Jordan (Alex Garfin), mostly watch from the sidelines, as the pseudo mother-daughter duo approach each other with caution. Lest we forget, the Lois we know had a miscarriage many years ago, and she would’ve named her daughter Natalie. There’s unprocessed grief and anger on both sides, and it finally grants Lois narrative centricity (narrative agency is another issue; perhaps it’s too much to ask in a show driven by supernatural beings).

However, this premise dissipates rather quickly to make room for the season’s central premise. Someone, or something, keeps trying to bust its way through the Smallville mines — this creature is later revealed to be a warped, alternate-universe version of Superman, based on the comics’ Bizarro — and in order to deal with it, our Superman must liaise with the new head of the D.O.D., Lt. Anderson (Ian Bohen), a driven and intriguing antagonist, if only for his quiet mistrust of the Man of Steel. This Bizarro Clark Kent is eventually tied to events unfolding elsewhere: self-help leader Ally Allston (Rya Kihlstedt) keeps amassing followers by preaching about some phantom “other world” in which people can merge with their doppelgangers in order to become whole — platitudes that work to drive the plot, but aren’t nearly as disquieting as a tale of predatory cult tactics should be. Lois is involved in this subplot too, since her sister Lucy (Jenna Dewan, who plays a version of the character on Supergirl) is drawn in by Ally’s promises, but as usual, the ace reporter is along for the ride, responding to events and bouncing between other people’s drama (even though Tulloch imbues each beat with urgency).

The real meat of the season, however, is the Cushing/Cortez/Lang family, the Kents’ neighbors, comprising Clark’s childhood sweetheart Lana (Emmanuelle Chriqui), her rough-around-the-edges firefighter husband Kyle (Erik Valdez), and their teenage daughter Sarah, played by the incredible Inde Navarrette (they also have a second daughter, Joselyn Picard’s Sophie, but she’s always at ballet practice or a grandmother’s house; the show’s disinterest in her plays like a strange running joke). See, Sarah is Jordan’s girlfriend, and she’s being kept in the dark about his superhuman abilities (not to mention, his family’s other super-secrets) and while Jordan is technically a lead character — and Garfin is undoubtedly a treat to watch — he functions mainly as a bridge for the Cushings’ involvement in Season 2. It’s primarily their story, and they tell it boldly from start to finish.

Kyle and Lana’s troubled marriage is finally on the mend, only his dishonest past comes back to bite them at the worst possible moment: Sarah’s quinceañera. As it is, Sarah herself is caught between Jordan’s growing aloofness and her own burgeoning (bi)sexuality, and what Navarrette does in response to this story is marvelous to behold. Last season, we were given hints about Sarah’s past depression and her suicide attempt; she doesn’t quite crumble to that degree this time, but over the course of 15 episodes, Navarrette takes us through a quiet journey of why (and more precisely, how) a teenager ends up turning inward and growing distant from their family. Her demeanor changes in subtle ways, but Navarrette externalizes — often through glances, and by staring off into nothingness — the ways she’s being pulled and pushed internally, even as she sits still. Her relationship doesn’t make sense. Her parents’ marriage is on the rocks once more — since Smallville is hurting financially, Lana chooses a career in local politics, rather than forgiving Kyle’s repeated screw-ups — so she has nowhere to turn but inward.

The Kent family drama, meanwhile, isn’t inert by any means. Tal-Rho (Adam Rayner), Clark’s biological brother and last season’s big villain, enters the fray as a friendly Hannibal Lecter type, a prisoner with vital information, but someone who genuinely wants to change — if only to be finally accepted by family. It’s a touching arc, even though it’s often sidelined in favor of the world-threatening plot. Jordan, as usual, deals with keeping secrets while trying to live a normal teenage life, but the Kent MVP this season is Jonathan, whose jealousies over his brother’s powers lead not only to some self-destructive decisions, but to subsequent ethical dilemmas that challenge Clark and Lois’ parental instincts. It’s a brief but dense family saga that forms the backbone of several episodes, before Superman has to fly off to save the day once more.

Ironically, the show is at its best when Superman isn’t present at all. At one point, he escapes into the dimension from which Bizarro hails, and where another version of Ally is attempting to achieve the same world-merging goals. In the process, the ninth episode (the Ian Samoil-directed “30 Days and 30 Nights”) is allowed to slow down and focus entirely on the Smallville drama in Superman’s absence, but soon after, we’re yanked into the aforementioned alternate reality for some mind-numbing antics. Human villain Anderson skips about 15 dramatic beats in order to transform into a major threat, while the Bizarro planet — cube-shaped though it may be, like in the comics — is revealed to be pretty much like our own, only slightly red-tinted and with more Goth-inspired fashion. It’s a dour and deeply uninspired rendition of a quirky comic book concept — people whose physiology and morality are the “inverse” of ours in every way — leading, here, to the main cast playing versions of themselves who only differ because they have a bit more of a temper.

Despite this overarching premise flailing and eventually flatlining, the final few episodes bring together the season’s drama in satisfying fashion. The question of whether the Kents should be keeping their identities secret becomes a key point of dramatic tension — especially since it challenges the character’s central premise since 1938 — and it’s given enough room to unfold in the season’s back half, though it mainly works because Sarah and Lana are eventually roped up in this dilemma.

Season 2 may not be nearly as coherent as its predecessor, nor does it take the time to let many of the Kents’ emotional challenges breathe. However, its supporting cast — Navarrette, Chriqui, and Valdez — practically warp the series around themselves via their characters’ touching, complicated drama, until Superman & Lois becomes less a show about its title characters, and more about the regular, everyday people caught up in their orbits.