Out This Week: Snowden, The Underworld Series Re-Released

The new releases of 2016 come an end with one of the year's best films hitting Blu-ray.

By Lucas M. Thomas

With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.

Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero – Wii U Retail Version

Release Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2016

• See it on Amazon for $24 with Prime (Wii U); $30 Without

Shantae's all-new adventure arrived on most of its platforms last week, including the Wii U eShop. If you're wanting to own it on a physical Wii U disc, though, that version's dropping this week.

From our Review: Developer WayForward is pretty well dialed-in when it comes to the secret science of making a strong 2D platformer, and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero benefits greatly from that understanding.

Release Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2016

• See it on Amazon for $19.96 (Blu-ray)

From our Review: You need to see Snowden. It’s a powerful, surprisingly personal film driven by an extraordinary performance by the lead actor and captured with remarkable discipline by a skilled director.

The Underworld Series

Release Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2016

• See Underworld on Amazon for $24.99 (4K)
• See Underworld on Amazon for $9.99 (Blu-ray)
• See Underworld: Evolution on Amazon for $9.39 (Blu-ray)
• See Underworld: Rise of the Lycans on Amazon for $9.99 (Blu-ray)
• See Underworld: Awakening on Amazon for $9.39 (Blu-ray)

To coincide with next week's theatrical release of the fifth installment, Underworld: Blood Wars, the first four Underworld films have been re-released on Blu-ray in new packaging – and the original 2003 film has been given the 4K treatment!

American Honey

Release Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2016

• See it on Amazon for $21.56 (Blu-ray)

Star (Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American mid-west selling Magazine subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard partying, law-bending and young love.

Lucas M. Thomas assembles Out This Week every week, and when he's not doing that, he's assembling magazine pages as the Editor-in-Chief of Nintendo Force Magazine. New subscriptions available now through Patreon! You can follow him on Twitter, @NintendoForce.

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