Nintendo closed its E3 2021 presentation with a fresh look at one of the most anticipated games in a long time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s sequel. The new trailer showed off more of the game’s setting, gameplay, and tone, and it also confirmed a release window for the game: 2022. Though a specific date hasn’t been revealed, retailers clearly thought that was good enough for them to push their listings live, which means you can finally preorder Breath of the Wild’s sequel right now.

As thrilling as it is to see the sequel pop up at stores as a real, physical thing you can actually buy, it’s worth keeping in mind this game is still very far out–we don’t even know if it’s called Breath of the Wild 2. Right now, retailers have opened preorders for the game’s standard edition, which is priced at $60 USD. The Breath of the Wild sequel is sure to have some kind of collector’s edition, so if you’re the type to hold out for a special edition like that, it’s probably not worth snagging the standard edition just yet. But if the base game is all you want, you can secure your order today, if you’d like.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s sequel is finally up for preorder if you’re content with owning the standard edition–or just want to feel the thrill of preordering it this far out. Both Amazon and Best Buy have listings up, but no box art is available yet.

The new Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 gameplay trailer includes shots of Link up in the sky, reminiscent of Skyward Sword. And speaking of that game, Skyward Sword HD is out on Switch on July 16, so if you need something to tide you over while you wait for Breath of the Wild 2, you can go ahead and preorder Skyward Sword HD now.

In Fortnite Week 2, you’ll want to interact with a dead drop in Weeping Woods to earn 45,000 XP. This Week 2 challenge is another of those that is only visible while the Legendary Quest is active and is meant to relay more story details in the backdrop of the ever-popular battle royale game. Here’s where to find all three dead drop locations in Fortnite.

Fortnite Dead Drop Locations In Weeping Woods

For this challenge, you’ll of course need to head to Weeping Woods, either fresh off the Battle Bus or during your travels across Apollo. There are three different dead drops available in Week 2, but interacting with any one of them will complete your challenge. You’ll find dead drops in the following spots:

• near the north side of the bridge in the northeast section of Weeping Woods
• near the south side of the same bridge
• at the base of a tree near the river northwest of the largest cabin in the locale

Each week brings with it one challenge worth more than the rest. It’s always the first Legendary Quest, and in Season 7, it’s always worth 45,000 XP. The dead drop challenge is that special Quest this week, but you can catch up on all the Week 2 challenges for the full run of XP. As always, the Legendary Quests disappear each week when a new list of challenges drops, so you’ll want to be quick about those. The Epic Quests, meanwhile, can be completed at any time during the season, so you’ve got until mid-September to finish those off.

However, you may want to get them done sooner so you can level up, earn some Battle Stars, and be ready to unlock Superman when he arrives in the game later this summer. While you wait for him, you can also unlock other Battle Pass characters like Kymera, a customizable alien, Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty, and Sunny, the ska-dancing rocker who actually welcomes this season’s alien overlords. Speaking of those aliens, don’t forget to grab the Week 2 Alien Artifacts.

Another day, another chance to spend not too many rupees on something cool! We’ve got a little bit of everything for you: a Game & Watch preorder that’ll be gone in the blink of an eye, some great co-op on Xbox, and the most coveted Elden Ring since Sauron got his Etsy on.

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Even with E3 2021 and all other video game showcases taking place largely online, folks can still get their hands on demos for 40 upcoming Xbox games.

ID@Xbox, the company’s indie game promotional and self-publishing program, has released its list of game demos that folks can download and play anytime between June 15 through June 21.

Highlights include:

• Tunic, the Zelda-inspired adventure starring a cute sword-wielding fox.

• Lake, where you play a woman escaping city life by taking over her dad’s old mail route and learns about how her hometown has changed.

• Sable, a gorgeous adventure game with an art style inspired by colorful Mobius art.

• Echo Generation, a voxel-style turn-based RPG with big Stranger Things vibes.

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You can find the full of available ID@Xbox game demos in the list below:

•     A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube)

•     Antipole DX (Saturnine Games)

•     Arietta of Spirits (Third Spirit Games)

•     BattleCakes (Volcano Bean)

•     Black Book (Morteshka)

•     Button City (Subliminal)

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•     Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four (Elder Games)

•     Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (Manekoware)

•     Clone Drone in the Danger Zone (Doborog)

•     Clouzy! (Tinymoon)

•     ConnecTank (YummyYummyTummy)

•     Death Trash (Crafting Legends)

•     Deathtrap Dungeon: The Golden Room (Good Gate Media)

•     Dreamers (PlaySys)

•     Echo Generation (Cococucumber)

•     Faraday Protocol (Red Koi Box)

•     Fractal Space (Haze Games)

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•     Get Packed: Fully Loaded (Coatsink)

•     Godstrike (Overpowered)

•     Justice Sucks: Recharged (Samurai Punk)

•     Lake (Gamious)

•     Lawn Mowing Simulator (Skyhook Games)

•     Mad Streets (Craftshop)

•     Mayhem Brawler (Hero Concept)

•     Paint the Town Red (South East Games)

•     Princess Farmer (Samobee Games)

•     Sable (Shedworks)

•     Sail Forth (David Evans Games)

•     Strings Theory (BeautifulBee)

•     Tanknarok (Polyblock Studio)

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•     Teacup (Smarto Club)

•     The Eternal Cylinder (ACE Team)

•     The Riftbreaker (EXOR Studios)

•     The Strange Story Of Brian Fisher: Chapter 2 (Intetic)

•     The Tale of Bistun (Black Cube Games)

•     Trigger Witch (Rainbite)

•     Tunic (Isometricorp)

•     Wreck Out (Four5Six)

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There are some great deals ahead of Amazon Prime Day! Score the excellent The Lord of the Rings 4K Blu-ray box set for 33% off or a Nintendo Switch Online Membership and Memory Card Bundle for 50% off. Xbox Series X gamers can get a nice discount on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which can potentially give you access to every Xbox exclusive game announced at E3. For a limited time you can also save on the Nintendo Game & Watch handheld and Breath of the Wild for the Switch.

The Lord of the Rings Extended & Theatrical 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

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This long-awaited Lord of the Rings 4K box set came out in December of 2020 at a hefty $99.99. It subsequently dropped to $89.99 in a relatively short amount of time and stayed at that price until this month. Last week, the price dropped once again to $70 and I thought that was a pretty solid deal. Today, though, it finally reaches that sweet spot of $59.99. This is probably an early Amazon Prime Day deal but you best jump on it now since the best Prime Day deals don’t last. This set includes 4K Ultra HD and digital versions of the LotR trilogy, including both theatrical and extended editions.

Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership and 128GB Memory Card

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Amazon is offering a free official Nintendo Switch (SanDisk) 128Gb Micro SDXC Memory Card when you pick up a 12 month Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership. Nintendo Switch Online is required for online play in games like Super Mario Kart or Splatoon, downloading custom maps in Super Mario Maker 2, playing free retro SNES games, saving your game data to the cloud, and much more. The “Family” membership allows for up to 8 different account holders, not necessarily in the same household. The 128GB memory card will increase your storage capacity by quadruple the stock amount.

Save on 3 Months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

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The sheer amount of value you get with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is impressive. This membership gives you both Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass for PC. Xbox Live Gold is required for online gaming. Xbox Game Pass gives you access to a huge library of games that is free as long as you maintain your membership. The list includes AAA games that you can play as early as launch day. These include MLB The Show 21, FIFA 21, The Medium, and every Bethesda game ever. If you’ve also got a great gaming PC, Xbox Game Pass for PC offers stellar games like Crusader Kings 3, Forza Horizon 4, Nier Automata, and more. If you watched the Xbox/Bethesda E3 2021 presentation, you’ll notice that the vast majority of upcoming Xbox exclusive titles will also be on Xbox Game Pass. Additional perks include exclusive discounts at the Microsoft Store and a free 30-day Disney+ trial.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Switch

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Legend of Zelda: BotW was one of the first games released for the Nintendo Switch and still it is one of the best adventure games you’ll play on any of the modern day consoles. Starting today it has dropped to $39.99, a hefty 33% off it’s original price.

Nintendo Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros

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The popular little Game & Watch handheld gaming system is normally $49.99, but it has dropped today to $39.99, the lowest price we’ve seen. The Super Mario Bros version includes 3 games: the original Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, and Mario Version Game & Watch: Ball.

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GameStop has announced that it will refresh its stock of Xbox Series S and X consoles tomorrow, June 16, for customers to purchase in-store.

Quantities will be limited to one per person, with each customer able to trade-in their used games and accessories for “a huge trade offer” to offset the consoles’ price. GameStop’s official Twitter published a cheeky tweet referencing the availability of the Xbox Series S and X systems. The retailer also confirmed that it has refreshed its stock on Nintendo Switch consoles. It’s worth calling your local GameStop before heading down there to ensure either console is still available.

If you miss your chance to grab an Xbox Series X|S from GameStop, we have an inventory tracker that we update regularly as more consoles become available. We also track PS5 restocks, which continue to sell out quickly.

All three consoles–the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S–have been hard to come by, due to the global semiconductor shortage affecting every industry. President Biden announced plans to investigate the issue earlier this year, and recently, a bill that was passed by the Senate to improve the semiconductor shortage is now on its way to the House.

You’ll need to find spray cans this week in Fortnite as part of the Fortnite Week 2 challenges. Spray cans are an item that will only appear on the map so long as your related Epic Quest is active, and though there are eight to be found across Pleasant Park and Dirty Docks, you’ll ultimately only need to know two Fortnite spray can locations to complete the challenge and earn 30,000 XP. Here’s where to collect spray cans from warehouses in Dirty Docks or garages in Pleasant Park.

Fortnite Spray Cans In Pleasant Park

The convenient thing about this challenge is that there are eight spray cans available on the map, but you’ll finish it off much sooner after just two spray cans are collected. Not only that, but the cans are evenly split across Pleasant Park and Dirty Docks, with four in each location, so you actually won’t even need to venture to the second locale once you’ve found two at the spot of your choosing.

Because every match is different and the best drops are often based on where the Battle Bus is heading, we’ll still show you all eight spots anyway, beginning in Pleasant Park.

• in the garage of the northeastern house
• outside the garage on the southwest house with the basement bulkhead doors.
• near the washing machine in the three-story house just south of the one mentioned above
• in the biggest house along the western road of Pleasant Park

Fortnite Spray Cans In Dirty Docks

If instead, you drop into Dirty Docks, there await four more spray cans for you to find and quickly finish one of many Week 2 challenges. Here’s where to look in Dirty Docks.

• in the west-of-center warehouse near some orange shelves
• in the centermost warehouse, once more near some orange shelves
• in the large, eastside warehouse near yellow shelves
• in the southern warehouse and under the bottom-floor stairs

Remember, don’t overdo it. You only need any two of these spray cans, so it’s likely you won’t even have to leave whichever place you visit first–unless an IO guard or another player spoils your XP-chasing. While you’re on such a quest, be sure to check out the full range of Week 2 challenges, which also include guides for things like how to enter a UFO and where to find IO tech weapons so you can do damage with them this week. There’s also a new collection of Alien Artifacts to aid you in further customizing Kymera from the Season 7 Battle Pass.

Deviation Games says its upcoming PlayStation exclusive will be “big in scope.” The brand new studio, set up by former Treyarch developers Dave Anthony and Jason Blundell, made its first appearance during last week’s Summer Game Fest kickoff event by announcing that it’s working on a “groundbreaking” new IP for Sony.

“Make no mistake: This game is gonna be big in scope,” CEO Anthony said in a recent interview with Eurogamer. Deviation has already been working on the game for over a year at this point and has over 100 people on staff. The game’s still a ways out, though, and Anthony is keen to hire more developers to continue building up the studio with the right people and the right culture.

With the game being this far out, Deviation and Sony are keeping tight-lipped on any specifics, even when it comes to platforms. With that said, PlayStation Studios’ Hermen Hulst is clearly excited to talk about the potential of the new partnership. “Together we’re bringing a new IP that’s bold, that stands on the shoulders of what these guys have learned over their careers that speak for themselves,” Hulst said. “We’re always looking to offer fresh new experiences to the audience, to the PlayStation community. It’s also an honour for me as the head of PlayStation Studios to find a group like Jason, Dave, and their team to work with us.”

Even if it’s too early to go into any details, Anthony and Blundell’s pedigree with first-person shooters does make it easy to speculate that this new IP would follow a similar path. Factor in the first-person shooter-sized gap in PlayStation’s portfolio, and it would make sense for Deviation to fill it.