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Ahead of Red Dead Redemption's Nintendo Switch 2 update next month, Amazon is offering a discount on the recently rereleased physical edition for Switch. Rockstar Games distributed a new budget-friendly $30 edition in September, and now you can grab a copy of Red Dead Redemption for $25 during Amazon's early Black Friday video game sale. Red Dead Redemption's physical edition for Switch includes the full game and Undead Nightmare expansion on the cartridge. The Switch 2 update will be...
As part of Amazon's Black Friday deals this year, you can get multiple physical versions of Hello Kitty Island Adventure at new discounted prices. Both the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch versions of the game are currently down to $25, saving you $15 off the original price of $40. Then there's the Nintendo Switch-exclusive Hello Kitty Island Adventure Gift Box, now available for $50 (was $16), a welcome deal considering it was just released earlier this month. This version includes the...
Amazon's Black Friday deals continue to drop early. Physical versions of EA Sports FC 26 are available at a nice discount after only having just launched a few months ago. The PS4, PS5, Switch, and Switch 2 versions of the game are all currently down to $35. The Switch version is usually listed for $60, while the other three are typically $70. You'll notice that Xbox versions of the game are absent from this list, as they aren't included in the Black Friday sales for the time being. While...
Two of the coolest things in life are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the critically acclaimed video game Hades. So what happens when you merge the two? You get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, a fun Hades-like game that also happens to be on sale for Black Friday this year. Normally $40 for this Deluxe Edition, you can get this for $25 and raise some shell with your friends as you take on the Foot Clan and Shredder across the sewers of New York City. "It’s easy to reduce...
You can get Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Day One Edition for a small discount thanks to this early Black Friday deal at Amazon. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions are both currently $40, saving you $10 off the game's original $50 price. This is the lowest price we've seen for the game, making it a good deal for a title that's only a few months old. After you've checked out the Wuchang deal below, be sure to hit up GameSpot's Black Friday hub for even more savings on video games, toys...
As part of Amazon's Black Friday deals, you can get all 6 of the original Tomb Raider Remastered games at steep discounts thanks to deals on the recent Tomb Raider Remastered collections. The series is divided into two separate collections, each offered in impressive Deluxe Editions and standard editions. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Deluxe Edition for PS5 is currently $30 (was $40), while Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered Deluxe Edition is available on both PS5 and Switch for $30 (was $50). You...
Earlier this week, Embark Studios debuted Arc Raiders' first major update, North Line. It includes a new map called Stella Montis, which was locked behind a community event that had to be finished first. However, Arc Raiders players didn't waste any time and unlocked Stella Montis in under 38 hours. To reach Stella Montis--a map located in the "cold pristine" part of the Rust Belt, players had to donate a sizable amount of resources to tunnel through to that location. On Discord, Embark...
Arc Raiders occasionally sends you topside to fix something and expects you to bring your own items to do so. One such quest is After Rain Comes, which tasks you with repairing some solar panels in Buried City. The last thing you'll want to do is show up to fix them and not have what you need, so we're here to help. You will need 2 Batteries and 5 Wires to complete After Rain Comes. You'll want to place these items in safe pockets if at all possible, as you wouldn't want to lose them due to...
The Unexpected Initiative quest in Arc Raiders sends you to the Buried City map in search of Fertilizer and a Water Pump. You'll need to visit two separate--though thankfully close by--locations to interact with and loot these items, so you may be here wanting to know precisely where. You're in luck because we're going to fill you in. Note that the game will provide both Fertilizer and a Water Pump to you as part of this quest, but you can also find these in other places and turn them in...
I've been an Arknights: Endfield fan since the first global technical test in January 2024. Its art style that blended anime with realism and similarities with RPGs I enjoyed like Genshin Impact convinced me to try it. In the process, I found an intriguing world with a layered combat system and building mechanics that set it apart from competitors. Now, with the game's latest build, developer Hypergryph has reforged and polished those systems to feel even snappier and more accessible than...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is live now, and the game is packaged with a cooperative story and a new Endgame mode, which serves as an open-world epilogue to the campaign. Activision gave GameSpot a very brief teaser of Season 1 content coming to Black Ops 7's campaign endgame. This includes a limited-time mode for Endgame, and while we don't have any major details, we can say some very massive fights will be taking place across the campaign's Avalon map. We weren't able to capture the footage...
Ubisoft was working on a new Splinter Cell game that was going to embrace games-as-a-service before it shifted to become XDefiant, a game that the publisher shut down not long after release. This is according to Nick Herman, a developer who worked on the game before leaving to start AdHoc Studios, the team that just launched the episodic game Dispatch to great success. "I was so excited to be a part of this and help revitalize it, because it's been dormant for a while," Herman said told...
The story of Concord is a cautionary tale in the age of live-service games. Years of development and millions of dollars went into the game, only for it to fail at launch and get canceled by Sony weeks later. However, Conord had some fans, and a trio of them worked very hard to bring the game back to life on a server. As reported by The Game Post, Concord's partial resurrection is due to reverse engineering by a user called Red, a rebuild of the game's backend API by open_wizard, and an...
Epic Games is gearing up for its biggest shake-up to Fortnite Creative since the introduction of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite. Soon, Epic will allow developers who use UEFN to make Fortnite Creative modes, or "islands," to sell in-game items using V-Bucks, the game's real-money currency. The news, which Epic announced during the Veteran's Day holiday in the US, was not met with much excitement from fans. The way the Fortnite Creative ecosystem is currently crammed with clones of tycoon...
While the latest firmware update for Switch and Switch 2 included several quality-of-life improvements, one consequence appears to be that many third-party docks have been rendered useless. According to Nintendo itself, such a consequence was unintentional. In a statement, Nintendo spelled out the obvious, saying: "Nintendo Switch 2 outputs audiovisuals once it detects that it is docked into a Nintendo Switch 2 Dock. Nintendo Switch does the same, outputting audiovisuals once it detects...
Activision has once again confirmed that AI tools were used in the development of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which is in keeping with tradition for the franchise, as Black Ops 6 utilized AI tools as well. In a statement, Activision said the creative process is handled by humans, with AI tools helping out. Back in August, Activision explained that developers working on Black Ops 7 used generative AI, but "none of that goes in-game." "Like so many around the world, we use a variety of digital...
Anyone who plays through The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt is invited to make a choice between the two great loves of Geralt of Rivia: Yennefer of Vengerberg or Triss Merigold. That decision even informs the game's farewell to Geralt. However, CD Projekt Red has recently disclosed that players didn't always get to choose between Geralt's lovers. CD Projekt Red co-CEO Adam Badowski told PC Gamer that the option to romance Triss was added late in the game. Until then, the team had been focusing on...
If you're exploring Arc Raiders' first post-launch map, Stella Montis, you may also be working on a quest called Cold Case. This quest asks you to head into Stella Montis to search for a J Kozma storage container to loot. This may sound like a tough thing to round up, but in reality, there's an extremely convenient way to get this quest knocked out and return to Speranza with minimal effort. Let's look into it. Keep in mind that you need to extract with an item you'll receive by looting a J...
A few weeks before it was slated to hit early access, the Sims-like life sim Paralives has been delayed to May 2026 so that the developer can address some "impactful bugs" and add more activities to the game. Developed by Alex Massé over the course of six years, Paralives is a life sim about building homes, lives, and bonds. You get to create a character, design a house, customize the furniture, and more as you interact with citizens and live out a cozy life in an open-world town. Not...
If you've ever wanted to publish a game on an Xbox console, Microsoft is providing a way to make that a lot easier. The company is now publicly sharing the Xbox Game Publishing Guide for all developers and publishers who want to bring their titles to the Xbox ecosystem. The Xbox Game Publishing Guide is already online, and even ordinary players can take a look at the document for added insight into the development process. This move appears to be geared towards attracting independent game...