Pikmin 3 Deluxe $30 (was $60) See at Target Paper Mario: The Origami King $30 (was $60) See at Target Demon's Souls $49.94 (was $70) See at Amazon Watch Dogs Legion $17 (was $60) See at Amazon The Nioh Collection $49.94 (was $70) See at Amazon Assassin's Creed Valhalla $23 (was $60) See at Amazon Resident Evil Village $49.94 (was $60) See at Amazon Final Fantasy VII Remake $40 (was $60) See at Amazon Monster Hunter Rise $50 (was $60) See at Amazon Fire Emblem: Three Houses $39.88 (was $60) See at Amazon Luigi's Mansion 3 $39.88 (was $60) See at Amazon The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening $39.88 (was $60) See at Amazon Amazon Prime Day 2021 is this Monday and Tuesday (June 21-22), and Prime Day game deals are already heating up as competitors like Best Buy and Target kick off their own sales. Right now, you can find some great discounts on games for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox (don't worry, PC players, the Steam Summer Sale reportedly kicks off later this week). To get you primed for Amazon Prime Day, we've rounded up some of the best game deals available now below.Best Nintendo Switch game dealsTarget is leading the way with Prime Day Nintendo Switch deals at the moment, offering record-low prices on a pair of games: Pikmin 3 Deluxe and Paper Mario: The Origami King. As of our last update, no other stores were price-matching this offer yet. You'll find some other first-party Switch games for $40, including the excellent Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Super Mario Odyssey.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hisense 60" 4K Smart Android TV $380 (was $490) See at Best Buy Insignia 2.1 Channel Soundbar and Subwoofer $80 (was $150) See at Best Buy Core Innovations 150" Home Theater Projector $70 (was $140) See at Best Buy Arlo Pro 3 Security Camera System $370 (was $700) See at Best Buy Logitech Ultimate Ears Boom 2 Portable Wireless Speaker $100 (was $150) See at Best Buy Amazon Prime Day is sure to dominate the conversation around deals when it kicks off this coming Monday, June 21, but it's far from the only retailer launching its biggest sale of the summer right now. The size and popularity of Prime Day has driven Amazon's biggest competitors to launch their own competing sales at the same time, and Best Buy is always one of the biggest players in the anti-Prime Day space. Right on schedule, Best Buy has kicked off a major sale just ahead of Prime Day, called "The Bigger Deal" savings event--which feels like a playful jab at Walmart's "Deals for Days" and Target's "Deal Days" sales.Best Buy's The Bigger Deal savings event is a series of 24-hour flash deals that end at 10 PM PT / 1 AM ET each night through June 22. Saturday's main deals focus on "Health and Home" products, including 4K TVs, soundbars, and projectors. There aren't many gaming deals, but you can find big discounts on select games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Hitman 3.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Destiny 2's Season of the Splicer story continues to fire away on all cylinders. The season is quickly wearing on, which means Grandmaster Nightfall Strikes are about to join the list of high-level activities you can take on. That makes it a great time to get some new Exotics from Xur in preparation. Here's where you can find Xur and what he's offering.Head to Nessus, to the Watcher's Grave area, to find Xur this week. For his weapon, Xur is offering Jade Rabbit. Hunters can pick up the Mechaneer's Tricksleeves gauntlets; for Titans, there's the Synthoceps gauntlets; and for Warlocks, Xur has the Transversive Steps leg armor.Xur LocationSpawn in on Nessus's Watcher's Grave transmat zone, then hop on your sparrow and head north. You want to head to the far northern end of the area, past Caiatl's land tank. This section is dominated by a huge tree with pink moss growing on it. Climb up the tree and look for Xur standing on its big flat branch overlooking the area.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

We're on the verge of Grandmaster Nightfall Strikes launching in Destiny 2, and with them, new Adept weapon rewards players can earn. But Grandmasters aren't the only places you can get Adept weapons--the Trials of Osiris are back, and they carry some of the best weapon rewards in the game. Here's what you can win in the Trials this week and where you'll be playing.Each week, the Trials of Osiris map and rewards are randomized when the event launches with Destiny 2's daily reset at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET on Friday.Trials of Osiris Map And Rewards (June 4-8)Map: Altar of Flame3 wins -- Hunter, Titan, and Warlock Leg Armor - Pyrrhic Ascent Strikes, Greaves, and Boots5 wins -- Exile's Curse, Arc fusion rifle7 wins -- Hunter, Titan, and Warlock Chest Armor - Pyrrhic Ascent Vest, Plate, and VestmentFlawless run -- Eye of Sol (Adept), Kinetic sniper rifleThe Trials of Osiris offers some of the toughest PvP challenges in Destiny 2. It runs from Friday to Tuesday, and the goal in each competition is to assemble your team of three--there's no matchmaking in the mode--and win as many matches as possible before you suffer three total losses. Once you've got three L's to your name, you're forced to reset your Trials run, or Passage, and try again. You'll earn loot at certain points as you rack up victories, so minimizing your losses is key to grabbing new gear. But the best rewards in the event come when you go on a winning streak of seven matches in a row--a "Flawless" run.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Roku claims that record numbers of viewers have watched the shows it picked up from failed short-form streaming platform Quibi. The first batch of shows, rebranded as Roku Originals, were released last month.As reported by Variety, Roku states that more active accounts have streamed a Quibi show in the first two week of release than Quibi itself managed in its entire lifetime. Like all streaming services, Roku hasn't actually released any hard numbers, but given Quibi's dismal subscription numbers caused the service to close within nine months, it seems likely. Roku Channel is available with ads for free to anyone with a Roku device, whereas Quibi cost $5 for the ad-supported version.Nevertheless, Roku is clearly happy with the result, having already greenlit a second season of one of its Quibi pickups, the Kevin Hart action-comedy Die Hart. The company states that the series scored its most watched first weekend of any show.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Final Fantasy VII Remake and a remaster of Alan Wake could be coming to the Epic Games Store, as site tracker EpicData tracker spotted listings for the games on the Epic Games Store database.For Final Fantasy VII Remake, it was found on the database listed under the codename "Pineapple" in the cloud saves sub-folder. Originally a PlayStation-only game, Final Fantasy VII Remake's 12-month exclusivity period ended in April this year, although publisher Square Enix made no mention of what was next for the game.What was mentioned was that the new Intergrade content from the PlayStation 5 upgrade for Final Fantasy VII would remain a timed exclusive, but it's worth noting that Square Enix's relationship with Epic Games saw the Kingdom Hearts series made available on PC for the first time as an Epic Games Store exclusive back in March.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

When Thanos came to Fortnite in 2018, it became the first major crossover event of the game's now storied history in that regard. Whether players missed him before or just hoped he'd return someday, Thanos is coming back to Fortnite for the first-ever Thanos Cup, where top qualifiers will have a chance to unlock the Thanos skin in Fortnite for free and ahead of his Item Shop debut.Thanos will hit the Item Shop next week on June 26 at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET. He'll come bundled with the Infinity Gauntlet Back Bling including all six Infinity Stones properly placed and ready to wipe out half of the island--okay, that part's on you, actually. It seems entirely likely that Epic will once again sell the Snap Emote too, so players can complete the look.Maybe Thanos will someday be available for half off.Fortnite Thanos CupBefore his Item Shop release, Thanos can be won in the Thanos Cup. In the game's Competitive tab on June 21, players will find the Thanos Cup, an open tournament for all Fortnite players willing to vie for The Mad Titan's new cosmetics. In Duos mode and across up to 10 matches during the tournament's three-hour time limit, players will need to survive the Storm, outlast and eliminate other opponents, and score cumulative points, following a similar scoring system to other Fortnite Cups of this nature, whereby players get more points the longer they survive and for every elimination they record.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you've been looking to play one of Sega's more classic games without having to shell out cash for a retro console, the good news is that you can return to 1988 in Lost Judgment. New footage from the game has revealed that a playable Sega Master System is in protagonist Takayuki Yagami's pinball office.You can see the retro games played, at around the four-minute mark in the video below:It's not clear how many games will be playable on it, but at least two of them were shown off: 1986's Alex Kidd in Miracle World and 1988's Penguin Land. The first Judgment game had a pinball machine in Yagami's office, which was then replaced by an OutRun arcade machine in the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game. Yagami clearly has a mercurial taste in gaming hardware.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Granzella is taking a very bizarre step with its shoot-'em-up revival game R-Type Final 2. Via a free update later this year, the game is getting turned into R-Type Final 3. Yes, the game is turning into its own sequel, in one form or another.In a post on the game's Kickstarter page (it initially received crowdfunding before its release earlier this year) Granzella outlined a development roadmap for the rest of 2021. R-Type Final 2 will be getting more DLC stages and player ships in either June or early July, and over the course of the summer, there will be improvements to the PC version, more player ships, more data, and additional stages. But the real kicker is what is promised by the year's end: R-Type Final 3.This will be a free upgrade for those who already own R-Type Final 2, and a video explaining the roadmap was shared on June 18. Unfortunately, it's only in Japanese right now, with English subtitles promised at a later time. Releasing the sequel to a game so quickly is pretty rare these days, and, at least to our knowledge, no other major game has become its own sequel through an update like this. We've reached out to publisher NIS America for more information on what R-Type Final 3 will actually be.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amazon Prime Day kicks off this coming Monday, June 21, and with it loads of deals across every category on the website. If you're looking for a new, powerful gaming laptop you'll be well treated during the event, but you might struggle to find a deal better than this one on the Razer Blade 15 Base. Razer has announced the Razer Blade 15 Base will drop to $1,000, down from its usual price of $1,500, during Prime Day 2021. This is the first time a Blade laptop has been available at this price, making it a hot ticket item during this year's Prime Day. Razer Blade 15 Base $1,000 (was $1,500) | Available Monday This is the Base model of the 2020 Blade 15, which means you shouldn't expect the latest Intel CPU or RTX 30-series GPU. But that doesn't mean you aren't getting a lot of power in a sleek, black aluminum chassis. The Blade 15 Base comes with a 10th-generation Intel Core i7-10750H, a Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti GPU, 16GB of RAM (which is user-upgradable), and a 256GB SSD. Along with access to the RAM, there is a spare M.2 slot for an additional SSD drive should you want to expand storage in the future, too. See at Amazon The design is like all other Razer Blade laptops, albeit slightly thicker than the pricier Advanced Model in the same range. That does, however, let the Base model ship with an Ethernet port, which joins two USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, and a single HDMI 2.0 output. The 15.6-inch display is 1080p and 120Hz, which will definitely shine with less graphically-demanding games.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, whose book series was turned into HBO's Game of Thrones, also helped to build the world of Elden Ring and create some of its characters. However, during an interview with Chicago news network WTTW, Martin seems to misrepresent the game as a sequel to Dark Souls. It seems even the people who make From Software's games don't completely understand them. After being asked how working on a video game was different for him, Martin said, "Well, it actually is considerably different. I've played some video games. I'm not a big video gamer. But the game is called The Elden Ring, and it's a sequel to a video game that came out a few years ago called Dark Souls, and it came out of Japan."While it would be interesting if Elden Ring were a sequel to Dark Souls, that is likely not the case. Later on in the same interview, Martin spoke about his work on the game specifically, saying that he was brought in to build the game's world. "My work on it [Elden Ring] was actually done years ago," said Martin. "These games, they're like movies, they take a long time to develop. Basically they wanted a world created to set the game in, they wanted worldbuilding."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Regular interviews with celebrities are boring, but interviews where the rich and the famous have to endure the scorching heat of a chicken wing smothered in a hot sauce? Now that's entertainment and the culinary torture that WandaVision actress Elizabeth Olsen endured during the latest Hot Ones episode.Back to an in-person setup and with socially distanced tables between Olsen and host Sean Evans, the actress spoke about her work in theater, indies like Wind River and Ingrid Goes West, and the definition of "Stan". How did Olsen cope with chicken wings that were coated with everything from a mild classic hot sauce through to the infamous celebrity-breaker Da Bomb?You can see for yourself in the video below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With its breakout success, it shouldn't be a surprise that we're starting to see Knockout City begin to cross over with other popular titles. For a limited time, Apex Legends players will be able to represent their love for the gym sport with a twist with a dodgeball charm.According to a tweet from the official Apex Legends account, the dodgeball charm will be available from now until June 30. However, not all Apex Legends players will be able to receive the trinket. Only people that have subscribed to EA Play, EA's paid gaming service, will be eligible to get a dodgeball for their favorite weapon in Apex Legends.If you're really dead set on getting a Knockout City-themed charm in Apex Legends but aren't subscribed to EA Play, it's not too expensive to get into. Players can subscribe to the service for a single month for $5, and get a charm, along with some games to play for a month as well.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Knockout City fans have noticed that there's a narrative-driven conflict in the background of the dodgebrawl game. It's an element of the game that will become more prominent going forward, as developer Velan Studios plans to innovate on Knockout City's storytelling in future seasons."The fan base is asking for more lore and there are already really fun fan theories about the DJ on the moon and Malcolm Magpie," Velan Studios CEO and co-founder Karthik Bala told me. "We always intended Knockout City to be 'action in the foreground and narrative in the background.'"Similar to other online multiplayer games with prominent narrative elements like Apex Legends and Hood: Outlaws & Legends, Knockout City's narrative supports its world building. According to Bala, it brings some internal consistency to everything.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Bayonetta 3 was announced back in 2017, and with no news on the game--like, at all--since then, one might assume that something is wrong with development or it has stopped entirely. However, Nintendo has assured us this is not the case, though it didn't actually provide any estimate on when we'll see the game for the first time. During an interview with GameSpot's Tamoor Hussain, Nintendo Treehouse employees Nate Bihldorff and Bill Trinen confirmed Bayonetta 3 is still in the works, with Trinen even going so far as to say the game is "progressing well."In terms of what that means for us as eager players, it doesn't actually tell us much. "Progressing well" could mean it's in the early stages and the team is hitting its targets, or that it's nearing completion. Given the massive amount of time since it was announced, we're hoping it's the latter.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com