Though Prime Day just ended, the deals aren't slowing down as we head into July, and as the US prepares for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, retailers are kicking their annual Fourth of July sales into high gear. Whether you're planning for some outdoor fun or escaping the heat indoors, there are plenty of Fourth of July sales to take advantage of, from deals on tech and PC gear to furniture, mattresses, and even meal kits. The Fourth of July deals bonanza includes sales from major retailers like Best Buy and Walmart along with an eclectic mix of other stores, like eBay, Wayfair, and Newegg. For those shopping for Fourth of July laptop or computer deals, tech brands like HP and Lenovo are offering sales of their own, so it's worth shopping all the July 4th deals while you can. Most sales run through this weekend and end on Monday. Here's a quick look at some of the best Fourth of July deals and sales we're seeing this year.Fourth of July sales 2021Best Buy: Though its Fourth of July sale should kick off in full later this week, Best Buy is already discounting a range of appliances, from refrigerators to microwaves and more.Walmart: Walmart's Fourth of July sale has an eclectic range of products, including deals on 4K TVs, smartwatches, Apple AirPods, and Chromebooks.eBay: The resale site is going all out with steep discounts on tech from Bose, Lenovo, Sony, LG, and more.Newegg: The PC parts retailer has its semi-annual clearance sale running during Fourth of July weekend.HP: The computer brand is slashing up to 58% off desktop PCs, monitors, laptops, and other peripherals.Lenovo: "Black Friday in July" is the theme of Lenovo's holiday sale, with up to 62% off laptops for work and gaming, mice, and more.HyperX: Through July 4, HyperX gaming accessories, including keyboards and headsets, are on sale for up to 50% off.Casetify: From July 2-6, snag a new, customized iPhone case for 15% off with code 4JULY21.Whirlwind FX: From July 2-5, get an extra 20% off immersive RGB gaming keyboards and other PC peripherals with code FIREWORKS.Casper: Fourth of July mattress sales are a big thing. Right now, you can get up to 30% off mattress bundles; 15% off mattresses, pillows, and sheets; and 10% off everything else at Casper.Wayfair: The home and furniture store has a ton of items on deep discount. If you're in the need for a new couch, TV stand, or any other furniture, check it out.Home Chef: If you're not a big cook, meal kits making eating well a little easier. Until July 9, get $25 off your first four Home Chef boxes ($100 savings) with code FOURTH100.Home Depot: For all things home improvement, Home Depot has a massive Fourth of July sale on grills, tools, and more.Overstock: Furniture, mattresses, lamps, rugs--you name it, it's on sale at Overstock for the Fourth of July.Best Fourth of July game dealsSome of Prime Day's best game deals are actually hanging around as we head into Fourth of July weekend, including the steepest discounts yet on next-gen titles like Demon's Souls. Check out some of the best games on sale for PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox below. PC players should check out the Steam Summer Sale before it ends July 8, including the best Steam Summer Sale deals and cheap Steam games under $10.Assassin's Creed Valhalla (PS5) -- $30 ($60)Biomutant (PS4, Xbox) -- $50 ($60)Death Stranding (PS4) -- $20 ($40)Demon's Souls (PS5) -- $50 ($70)Ghost of Tsushima (PS4) -- $40 ($60)Immortals Fenyx Rising (Switch, PS5, PS4, Xbox) -- $25 ($60)It Takes Two (PS4, Xbox) -- $30 ($40)Judgment (PS4) -- $22 ($60)The Last of Us Part II (PS4) -- $29 ($40)Little Nightmares II (PS4) -- $25 ($30)Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (Switch) -- $20 ($60)Monster Hunter Rise (Switch) -- $50 ($60)Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate Edition (PS5, Xbox) -- $40 ($50)The Nioh Collection (PS5) -- $50 ($70)Outriders - Day One Edition (PS4) -- $40 ($60)Resident Evil Village (PS5, PS4, Xbox) -- $50 ($60)Sackboy: A Big Adventure (PS4) -- $40 ($60) Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster (Switch, PS4) -- $40 ($50)Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch) -- $50 ($60)Watch Dogs Legion (PS5, PS4, Xbox) -- $20 ($60)XCOM 2 Collection (Switch) -- $15 ($50)Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Switch) -- $38 ($60)Best Fourth of July tech dealsIf you're looking for a new laptop or TV, there are plenty of great deals to choose from during Fourth of July sales. HP and Lenovo are both hosting sales featuring some solid laptops. You can save close to $500 on the Lenovo Yoga Y540 gaming laptop or $200 on the Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop. HP's popular Pavilion line starts at $550 during the sale, and you can also save $100 on the HP Omen 27-inch gaming monitor. Walmart has a nice deal on a 65-inch LG 4K smart TV, dropping the price to only $697. Meanwhile, Best Buy has deals on Fire TVs, including a 50-inch Toshiba model that comes with a free Echo Dot. Check out the best tech deals for Fourth of July below. We'll be adding additional deals to this list as more sales go live.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

John Cena is using his pull as co-host of TBS game show Wipeout to have the cast and writer-director of The Suicide Squad appear on the obstacle-course series compete on August 1. Or, as writer-director James Gunn jokes about his upcoming Wipeout appearance in a newly released promo, "Well, John, we need that [Peacemaker] uniform back before you get slime on it or whatever it is you guys do here."For fans who have been psyched about the upcoming film adaptation of DC's Suicide Squad hitting theaters and HBO Max on August 6, this surprise appearance will just be a nice splash of light-hearted fun a few days before. Of course, once The Suicide Squad is out, we can all go back to looking forward to Gunn's work on a Peacemaker spin-off from that movie (expected on HBO Max in January 2022), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (releasing May 2023), and a Guardians Holiday Special (landing on Disney+ in late 2022).Wipeout was a hit game show that originally aired on ABC from 2008 to 2014, with its claim to fame being that it put contestants through the "world's largest" obstacle course. Recently rebooted back in April of this year, the show was quickly renewed for Season 2 in May. Cena co-hosts the series with Nicole Byer (Netflix's Nailed It!) and model Camille Kostek.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Spike Chunsoft has announced that 2019's AI: The Somnium Files is getting a sequel called AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative. The game will release in Spring 2022 for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.The story follows newly-appointed Special Agent Mizuki and her AI partner Aiba. Six years ago, the right half of a corpse was mysteriously discovered. But the left half was never found until six years later, when it appeared as a fresh corpse with no signs of decay. That implied that the victim had still been alive until recently. Mizuki and Aiba are now on the case to solve what are called the Half Body serial killings.A collector's edition was revealed as well, which includes the full game, a Good Smile POP UP Parade figure of Aiba standing at around 170mm, an artbook featuring art from series character designer Yusuke Kozaki, and an official soundtrack by returning composer Keisuke Ito, dubbed HARMOniOUS DISCORD. This edition will cost $119.95.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The NCAA has approved legislation allowing college athletes to earn profits from their name, image, and likeness, according to an NPR report.Previously, college athletes had limited compensation packages for things like scholarships or other forms of educational payments. Under new laws, however, college athletes can now make money performing activities professional athletes engage in. This includes things like endorsement deals, signing autographs, and social media content. This may also include college sports games, like EA's college football title possibly launching in 2023.We've reached out to EA for comment and will update should we hear back.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Thor: Ragnarok didn't just break the mold for its stoic hero, it shattered it like Hela did Mjolnir. Director Taika Waititi is set to do the same with his second go-round in Thor: Love & Thunder, and Karen Gillan's Nebula will be part of that "bonkers" atmosphere, the actress said in a new interview with Collider."Taika really brought out the bonkers side [of Nebula]," Gillan said. "I think everyone is just really, really funny and bonkers and wild."Nebula joined the MCU in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy. As Gamora's sister and Thanos' daughter, she was a major antagonist for the Guardians and later the greater MCU as she struggled between loyalty to Thanos and then to Gamora, finally breaking out of that mold in Avengers: Endgame. While the Guardians movies are undeniably funny, Gillan has always had to play it straight as the dour cyborg. While the overall atmosphere of Thor: Love & Thunder is wild, Nebula probably won't be the one making the jokes.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Crunchyroll Games--Crunchyroll's game publishing arm that mostly focuses on mobile games--is launching the English version of Mitrasphere today, on June 29. Developed by Bank of Innovation, Mitrasphere is a mobile JRPG game with gacha mechanics. It is available on both Android and iOS devices.Mitrasphere was originally released in 2017, but only in Japan. It's very reminiscent of Granblue Fantasy, another JRPG gacha game, and SinoAlice, a JRPG game directed by Nier creator Yoko Taro. So if you like RPGs coupled with the whims of merciless RNG, Mitrasphere could be up your alley. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for The Many Saints of Newark, the upcoming prequel to HBO's acclaimed drama series The Sopranos.The movie focuses on a young Anthony Soprano, who is played by Michael Gandolfini, the son of Tony Soprano actor James Gandolfini from the HBO series. The show takes place in Newark, New Jersey. Young Tony idolizes his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), and this relationship sends them both to some violent places.Here is the full description for The Many Saints of Newark:Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you don't count the release of the canceled-at-the-last-minute Star Fox 2, which debuted on the Super NES Classic Edition in 2017, Nintendo's Star Fox series has been dormant since the release of Star Fox Zero on the Wii U in 2016. Now, the original Star Fox's co-programmer, Giles Goddard, is offering insight on what he would do were he to ever work on a new entry in the series."I think I would just dial it back a lot and not put in gimmicks like, you know, the stuff Star Fox Zero had, and maybe not even put in the free roaming aspects and stuff like that," Goddard says in a new interview with GameXplain. "I would just bring it back, pull it back into what made the original Star Fox fun, and just make one based on that. I don't know how popular it would be, but it would be cool to try."Star Fox Zero, co-developed by Platinum Games, released to mediocre reviews, with critics and players criticizing the game's Wii U GamePad functionality, which required them to aim weapons using the GamePad's gyroscopic controls. The game was bundled at launch with Star Fox Guard, a tower-defense-esque game also co-developed by Platinum Games in which players monitored security cameras in an effort to defend a base from robotic enemies.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Subscribers to Google Stadia's premiere Pro membership will get to download four free games starting July 1, including Re-Logic's Terraria.Alongside the action-adventure sandbox game, three other titles will hit Stadia Pro next month as a free download for subscribers: The Darkside Detective, Moonlighter, and Street Power Football. These games join a list of titles available with Stadia Pro, which includes Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.With games being added to the service, some are preparing to leave it before the start of July. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is one scheduled to leave Stadia Pro on June 30, along with Ary and the Secret of Seasons, Pikuniku, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, and SteamWorld Dig.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

You'll need to search the farm for clues as part of the Fortnite Week 4 challenges, but as is the case with most Legendary Quests this season, the game is happy to not tell you much about how and exactly where to do that. That's why we're going to do it for you. Follow our guide to find all Fortnite clue locations for this Week 4 Legendary Quest and you may just unravel the disappearance of Farmer Steel.Fortnite: Search The Farm For CluesThere are three clues scattered across Farmer Steel's farm, which is a Place of Interest just northeast and across the river from Corny Complex. You'll likely recognize it for its plentiful corn stalks. Currently, Hayseed resides there as a stand-in for the MIA Farmer Steel, but you'll need to find two of the three clues nearby to start to piece together the original Fortnite farmer. You can find all clues:North of the farm and sitting near the other side of the riverBack on the farm side of the river, but still just north of the house by some treesNear the red tractor at the eastern edge of the corn stalksWhere to search for clues in Fortnite Week 4Remember, interacting with any two of these clues will unlock both the seasonal XP as well as the relevant story-related dialogue for those seeking more lore. Fornite in general has a greater focus on its story in Season 7, with each week's Legendary Quests telling a new plot in the overarching alien invasion story.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Minecraft alpha version 1.1.1, an extremely rare build of the game that was only available for a few hours back in 2010, has finally been recovered thanks to some digital sleuthing. Back in the early days of Minecraft--before it was the gaming behemoth that we know today--the game was often updated at a weekly or even daily clip, which could sometimes confuse players.As a result of this, alpha version 1.1.1 was only available for three hours and 25 minutes before it was replaced with 1.1.2. This is because 1.1.1 introduced a nasty bug that could lead to the game becoming unresponsive, and Mojang stomped out the bug very quickly. Since it was known as a bugged version, most Minecraft players who downloaded the build quickly deleted it once they downloaded 1.1.2.So let's talk about video game preservation, data hoarding, and Minecraft.(🧵 thread) — Luna 🏳️‍🌈 (@lunasorcery) June 26, 2021As a result, many in the community thought that it was lost forever, including those at the Omniarchive, which is a group dedicated to dredging up old versions of Minecraft. However, that changed when a digital archivist noticed that Twitter user @LunaSorcery had tweeted that she downloaded the new build on the day it came out. Luna dug around in an old external hard drive and managed to find the lost version of the game, which caused many hardcore Minecraft fans to jump for joy.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Niantic is capping off Pokemon Go's Bidoof Breakout event with a Bidoof Day on July 1. The event will feature increased Bidoof spawns and a number of other bonuses, including a free Special Research story, extra catch XP, and more.Throughout Bidoof Day, Niantic says that Bidoof will appear in the wild at "an incredibly high rate." Additionally, Bidoof will be the only Pokemon you can encounter in one-, three-, and five-star Raids, and you'll have a chance to catch Shiny Bidoof.On top of the increased spawns, any Bidoof that you capture during the event will know the Fighting-type move Superpower, and you'll be able to teach them Ice Beam, Shadow Ball, or Thunderbolt via Charged TMs. Team Go Rocket grunts will also have Shadow Bidoof in their parties, giving you a chance to catch the Shadow variant as well.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The remasters of Final Fantasy V and VI available on PC will be delisted from storefronts on July 27, according to the Steam store description of both items. Twitter user RobotBrush was one of the first to spot the notice, while also commenting that these remastered versions are generally considered to be a bad way to play the game.Final Fantasy V and VI are widely-regarded as two of the best entries in the storied series. However, the remasters available on Steam are ports of the mobile versions of the game, which redrew all of the game's sprites in order to give it a less pixelated look. Fans complained that these new sprites were blurry and uninspired, and several of the top Steam reviews for each game cite major bugs such as save corruption.squeenix will be nuking the old "remakes" of FFV and FFVI ... so if, for some reason, you wanted to grab those - you have just under a month to do so https://t.co/Dco5G3xUnshttps://t.co/l26zGaCagL pic.twitter.com/5BSCMQUZh3 — lashman (@RobotBrush) June 29, 2021Given that Square Enix recently announced that it will fully remaster the first six Final Fantasy games and release them in one package on PC and mobile, it makes sense that the company would want to distance themselves from these less-than-popular remasters. These new remasters are trying to recreate what pixels looked like on a CRT television rather than just simply recreating the original raw pixels. As Chris Kohler of Digital Eclipse notes, the raw pixels were never meant to be seen by the player.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

World of Warcraft players have patiently waited more than seven months for the first major content drop for Shadowlands, and at long last it's finally here, with the game's full patch notes detailing all the new content and big changes players will be able to sink their teeth into with the Chains of Domination update.A new raid, new mega-dungeon, and new zone are the highlights of the content update. In the new raid, the Sanctum of Domination, players will finally be able to confront Sylvanas Windrunner, who has been serving the game's new big bad, the Jailer, for multiple expansions now. That will have big implications for the story moving forward, as will the fact that Anduin Wrynn, the leader of the Alliance, looks to have been brainwashed by the Jailer for his own nefarious purposes.In the new Korthia zone, players will team up with the various covenants of the Shadowlands to fight back against the Jailer's forces in new story-campaign quests, while in Tazavesh, a new mythic-only difficulty eight-boss dungeon, players will discover more about the mysterious group known as the Brokers. Players will be able to unlock the use of ground mounts in the Maw after completing the introductory quest in Korthia, while earning renown and completing covenant campaign quests will unlock the use of flying mounts in the other Shadowlands zones.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pre-registration for Marvel Future Revolution is live across iOS and Android, developer Netmarble has announced. Having previously worked on Marvel Future Fight, Marvel Future Revolution follows in the footsteps of that game with open-world and action-RPG elements featuring Marvel's mightiest heroes.Set in a reality stitched together from multiple dimensions that have all collapsed into each other to form Primary Earth--Think the more recent Secret Wars comic book event--it'll be up to you to lead Omega Flight in the fight against numerous supervillains and earn some fashionable new clothing in the process.Costumes will be a major part of Marvel Future Revolution, with each hero having four-piece sets that can be mixed and matched to create a unique look or an actual fashion crime. As for modes, the game appears to have plenty on offer: PvE content will include a dedicated campaign that can be played either solo or with friends, as well as Blitz, Special Operations, and Raid modes to try out online.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com