Month: April 2021

Save On Storage Expansion For Xbox Series X With This Newegg Deal

Next-gen game sizes can be truly enormous, and if you’ve already run out of space on your Xbox Series X but don’t want to delete anything, Newegg has a deal for you. The Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S is currently on sale via a promo code for 10% off, amounting to about $22 in savings.

To get the Seagate Storage Expansion Card for that price, you need to put it in your cart and use the promo code 93XQS68. That will bring the price down to $198, and you can also click a button to automatically apply the code when you get to the checkout page.

Both the Xbox Series X|S and the PS5 make use of ultra-fast NVMe SSDs instead of traditional SSDs or hard drives. This lets them load games extremely quickly and enables features on Xbox like Quick Resume. However, it’s also extremely new, hence the price of the expansion card, and it makes other external options incompatible.

The good news is all you had to do to use the Seagate drive is plug it into a port on the back of your system. For PS5 users, they’ll eventually be able to install approved NVMe drives into an internal slot, but the feature is currently disabled. On Xbox Series X|S, you can also store games on another drive and move them internally when you’re ready to play., and we can help you with the best Xbox Series X storage solutions.

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Developer Cancels PlayStation Vita Game, Was Surprised By Store Closure News

News that the PlayStation Store was going offline for the PS3, PSP, and PlayStation Vita caught us by surprise, but a game developer that had been planning on releasing a Vita game found itself in a trickier situation. Now, the game is canceled, and the developer said it was not told in advance about the closure.

Speaking to IGN, Lillymo Games founder Barry Johnson said it didn’t receive any notice from Sony about the Vita store’s planned closure prior to the public news. Because of this, its next, unannounced game will have its Vita version canceled, and the studio’s requests for information from Sony were met with silence.

The PS Vita was discontinued in 2019
The PS Vita was discontinued in 2019

Others, like Miguel Sternberg at Spooky Squid games, are still rushing to get their games out prior to game submissions being closed. Lightwood Games developer Katherine Gordon even offered her studio’s assistance in order to bug-test the game so it can release before the deadline.

The Vita is a somewhat unique case in that Sony stopped supporting it with its own games relatively quickly, but it has remained an indie gaming favorite–and to a degree, this even continued after the Switch release and offered a similar handheld experience. The Vita got briefly marketed as a companion device of sorts for the PS4, but the system itself has already been out of production for more than two years.

You’ll still be able to buy games on PlayStation Vita until August 27. The PS3 and PSP stores, meanwhile, are closing on July 2, so make any purchases you want before that date. You will still be able to download them later.

The Star Wars Vintage Collection Arrives on Disney+

The Mandalorian and the Book of Boba Fett are both a ways off, but if you’re looking to get a Star Wars fix right now, Disney+ has you covered with the new Star Wars Vintage Collection, which arrives on the service today.

The collection includes a bunch of old, out-of-print movies and series. That includes projects like the 1984 television movie, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, a live-action movie in which Ewoks help a pair of siblings find and rescue their parents. There’s also Ewoks: The Battle for Endor. Also a television movie, this 1985 movie is a sequel to the Caravan of Courage and stars the character Cindel from the first movie; her parents and brother are killed by marauders in the opening moments. Maybe you’re interested in the 1985-1986 Ewoks animated series, developed by beloved Batman: The Animated Series writer Paul Dini. Lucasfilm went really hard on Ewoks for a little bit there. The Story of the Faithful Wookiee, from the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, features the first instance of that tuning-fork-shaped Pulse Gun used by Din Djarin in The Mandalorian.

There are a few other titles as well, so here’s the whole list:

  • The Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
  • Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
  • The Story of the Faithful Wookiee
  • Ewoks
  • Clone Wars 2D Micro-Series Volumes 1 & 2
  • Droids (coming later this year)

The Star Wars Vintage Collection is a weird bit of Star Wars history, featuring old, forgotten stories that often shift the focus away from Jedi but with very mixed results. But then, it’s not like it costs anything to watch, and it’s available on Disney+ right now.

Destiny 2 Trials Of Osiris Map And Rewards This Week (April 2-6)

The Trials of Osiris are back for the weekend–alongside Exotics vendor Xur–in Destiny 2, giving you a few days to try to get some of the best weapons in the game. This week, you can snag the powerful shotgun Astral Horizon just for putting in some time. Here’s what map you have to deal with and what rewards you can earn this week.

There’s also a whole lot of new gear in Trials this season, including new armor and cosmetics. This weekend’s Trials event actually continues to the Tuesday weekly reset on April 6, so you’ve got a little extra time to earn rewards and spend tokens with Saint-14.

Trials of Osiris Map And Rewards (April 2-6)

  • Map: Javelin-4
  • 3 wins — Astral Horizon, Kinetic shotgun
  • 5 wins — Hunter, Warlock, or Titan Chest Armor: Pyrrhic Ascent Vest, Vestment, or Plate
  • 7 wins — Hunter, Warlock, or Titan Gauntlets: Pyrrhic Ascent Grasps, Gloves, or Gauntlets
  • Flawless run — Astral Horizon (Adept), Kinetic shotgun

If you’ve been hesitant about Trials in the past, it’s still worth playing in the mode to earn new gear. You don’t even have to get wins, because the End Game bounty from Saint-14 will give you the three-win reward just for playing Trials in general. You can also snag another weapon drop for completing a new Seasonal Challenge if you can win a total of seven rounds (as opposed to complete matches).

The Trials of Osiris is Destiny 2’s super-tough weekend competitive multiplayer event, which takes place from Friday to Tuesday every week, and it represents some of the highest-level challenges and rewards in the game. Your goal is to rack up as many victories as you can before you suffer three total losses, which forces you to reset your Trials run, or Passage. You’ll earn loot along the way as you rack up more and more wins, but the best rewards in the event come when you go on a winning streak of seven matches in a row–a “Flawless” run.

If you can manage to go Flawless, you’ll visit the Lighthouse, which is only available to Flawless players, where you’ll get some exclusive rewards. Opening the chest in the Lighthouse now gets you an “Adept” weapon, which has extra stat boosts you can’t get almost anywhere else.

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