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Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X preorders begin at 11 AM ET/8 AM PT in the US. The Xbox Series X has an estimated retail price of $499, while the Xbox Series S has an ERP of $299. Both consoles release November 10. UK users, click here to find out about your preorders.

Here’s where to grab yours:

Where to Preorder Xbox

Preorder Xbox Series X

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Preorder Xbox Series S

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Preorder Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S Games

Xbox Games at Amazon

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Xbox Games at Best Buy

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Xbox Games at GameStop

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Preorder Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S Controllers and Accessories

Xbox Controllers and Accessories at Newegg

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Xbox Controllers and Accessories at Best Buy

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Xbox Controllers and Accessories at Target

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Sign Up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

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Xbox Series X and S Preorders for the UK

Keep an eye on this page and @IGNUKDeals for live stock updates. Check out all the live preorder pages below.

Xbox Series X Live Preorders

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Xbox Series S Live UK Preorders

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Best Xbox Series X/S Controller and Accessory Preorder Deals

The new Xbox consoles are actually compatible with your older Xbox One controllers, but if you’re looking for that slick next-gen feel to all your handsets, you may want to invest in a controller or two, alongside some new accessories. You can currently preorder the Xbox Series X/S Black, Robot White, and Blue controllers.

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Xbox All-Access in the UK

Xbox Series X/S are part of the Xbox All Access, in which you can pay a set fee a month and get a new console, alongside Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Both of these will be available from GAME in the UK, and cost as follows. For Xbox Series X you will be paying £28.99 per month, and for the Xbox Series S, you will be paying £20.99 per month. Both are available to sign up for now.

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Best Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Deal

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Preorder New Xbox Series X/S Games in the UK

Here are all the best preorder deals for Xbox games in the UK at the moment. You’ve got your console, and now you need your games.

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Xbox Series X Release Date

The Xbox Series X and its smaller sibling the Xbox Series S have a November 10 release date in the US.

Xbox Series X Price: How Much Does It Cost?

The Series X, the more powerful of the two consoles, has an “estimated retail price” of $499.99. The Xbox Series S, the smaller, less-powerful version, sells for $299.99. The Xbox Series X includes a 4K Blu-ray disc drive and 1TB of storage, while the lower-cost Series S comes with 512GB of storage and doesn’t have a disc drive.

The Series X plays games at 4K resolutions and frame rates up to 120fps. The Series S has a maximum resolution of 1440p, or “2K” as it’s sometimes known, and also plays games up to 120fps.

 

Xbox Series X and S preorders go live today at 8am PST, 11am EST. Make sure you cash in on your preorder. At the same time, Xbox Gift Cards are 10% off. That’s especially useful for prospective Xbox Series S buyers, since your library needs to be digital. For Nintendo Switch owners, you also get 10% off any game at the eShop if you pick up any one of the cards below. There’s also still time to score the best deal ever on Sony’s best active noise cancelling wireless headphones, and you even get freebies.

Check out our Xbox Series X and S Preorder Guide for more info on where and when to preorder the Xbox, accessories, and games.

Deals for September 22

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More Video Game Deals

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Bithell Games (Thomas Was Alone, John Wick Hex) has announced its third Bithell Short, The Solitaire Conspiracy, which arrives on Steam on October 6.

Announced on Twitter, The Solitaire Conspiracy will be a stylish take on the classic solo card game, complete with extra powers and effects, with time attack and skirmish modes and… a full story campaign. If you want it even more unique, that story campaign features full FMV cutscenes featuring IGN alum Greg Miller in the role of a spy agency analyst called Jim Ratio.

So… what if Solitaire, but extra, with powers and a full FMV storied campaign, time attack and skirmish modes!https://t.co/y2ajsbnNqL

The third Bithell Short: The Solitaire Conspiracy. Coming October 6th. Wishlist now, and help us make a splash on launch day. pic.twitter.com/P12191zW4I

— Mike Bithell (@mikeBithell) September 22, 2020

According to the game’s Steam page, you play games of solitaire to guide home the scattered agents of a compromised agency, Protego. “Guided by Protego’s only remaining analyst, Jim Ratio (Greg Miller),” reads the description, “you must master the unique powers of each crew in a game of tactical Solitaire like none you’ve ever played before. Guide your crews home in a tale of intrigue where nobody can be trusted. Keep your cool in a world of AI spies and cyber-enhanced operators.”

Bithell Shorts are smaller, experimental games released between Bithell’s bigger projects. Bithell makes clear that this isn’t connected to the last two Shorts, Subsurface Circular and Quarantine Circular. It’s a brand new storyline, meaning no prior knowledge is required. Except maybe knowledge of playing endless Solitaire on Windows 95, that probably helps.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is set to release for PS4 and PS5 on November 12, making it a PS5 launch title (see it on Amazon). The game takes place a year after the events of the original Spider-Man, with Miles Morales getting caught up in a war between the evil energy corporation Roxxon and the Underground, a criminal army led by the supervillain The Tinkerer.

The fighting mechanics and gameplay look fairly similar to the 2018 original, with lots of swinging through the city and agile pounding on bad guys. And while it’s not quite a full sequel, it is a stand-alone game that’s bigger than you’d expect from an expansion. That explains the $49.99 price for the standard edition.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales comes in two editions and is up for preorder right now at a number of retailers. Here’s everything you need to know to lock in your preorder.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Standard Edition

PS4 (includes free PS5 upgrade)

• Get it at Amazon – $49.99
• Get it at Best Buy – $49.99
• Get it at GameStop – $49.99

PS5

• Get it at Amazon – $49.99
• Get it at Best Buy – $49.99
• Get it at GameStop – $49.99
• Get it at Target – $49.99

The standard edition just comes with the new Miles Morales game. Note that anyone who buys the PS4 version of Spider-Man: Miles Morales will get a free PS5 upgrade if you buy a PS5 console in the future. So if you’re not planning to pick up a PS5 at launch, this is the version to get.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition

PS5

• Get it at Amazon – $69.99
• Get it at Best Buy – $69.99
• Get it at GameStop – $69.99
• Get it at Target – $69.99

The only difference between this and the standard edition is that the ultimate edition also includes Spider-Man Remastered. That’s the entire original game, updated for PS5.

Note that the game will require at least 50GB of hard drive space for the standard edition, or 105GB for the ultimate edition. For more information, check out our in-depth look at the story of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and check out the gameplay trailer below.

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We have a lot more preorder guides for you below. Anyone with a PS5 preorder may want to take a look at Cyberpunk 2077, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and other games with free PS5 upgrades.

Other Preorder Guides

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If you purchase the Ultimate Edition of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales to get Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on the PS5, you won’t be able to transfer a save from the PS4 version of the game.

Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games revealed the news on Twitter, as well as providing more details about how the remastered version of the 2018 game will work in a series of replies to fan queries.

If you plan to continue from where you left off on the PS4, you’re out of luck, as it looks like the two games will be separate entities, meaning your current-gen save won’t be compatible. However, this does mean that Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered will offer a separate trophy list, which is great news if you’re a Platinum hunter keen to replay the game on PS5.

Saves won’t transfer from the original game to the Remaster

— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) September 20, 2020

Insomniac also confirmed that Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered won’t receive a physical release, and will only be available as a download voucher or a digital download, depending on which version of the Ultimate Edition of Spider-Man: Miles Morales you purchase.

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a PS5 launch game, swinging into action on November 12 in the US, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea and November 19 everywhere else. The game is also coming to PS4 with a ‘next-gen upgrade path’ for players who make the jump to next-gen later down the line.

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Age Of Empires III: Definitive Edition is releasing on October 15, and the game’s development blog has been sharing more about what fans can expect from the re-release. One of these blogs included an interview with Anthony Brave, who worked on the game as a consultant and writer to fix AOE3’s often problematic depictions of Native American civilizations in its WarChiefs expansion.

“A key focus of our work at World’s Edge is to authentically represent the cultures and peoples that we depict in our games,” the blog explains. “In creating Age III: DE, we realized that we weren’t upholding that value as well as we could regarding the Indigenous North American cultures represented. So we set out to fix that: working directly with tribal consultants to respectfully and accurately capture the uniqueness of their peoples, history, and cultures.”

The changes made for the Definitive Edition extend to the very names of the First Nations civilizations, but also involve changes to how they play and progress through the game, as well as a full re-write of the Shadow storyline. “Before we started working on the DE with our Native American and First Nations consultants, we didn’t know that the names Sioux and Iroquois were given to them by European settlers,” developer World’s Edge explained. “So we have changed those civ names in the DE to their Indigenous names–Lakota (Sioux) and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois).”

“To be honest: there were times playing [Age of Empires 3] as a Lakota guy that felt pretty cringey,” Brave says of the original game. “For example, the Fire Pit is pretty bad—not to mention the skulls on spikes at, like, all Indigenous villages in the main game. The mining was just nonsensical for Native people, too.”

In response to Brave’s feedback, mining has been swapped out for those civilizations for a Tribal Marketplace, giving First Nations civilizations an alternative way to gather Coin. The Fire Pit was another feature that needed to be completely re-worked, according to Brave.

“The Fire Pit works magically in that having people dance around a fire somehow gives warriors on the battlefield more power,” Brave explains. “On the other hand, the Western people get power through logical means: like the development of technology or increasing their capacity for war by developing their forts. This perpetuates the old, tired ‘savage vs civilized’ dichotomy.”

The Fire Pit will now be replaced by the Community Plaza, a building where villagers can work together to create upgrades for the civilization. World’s Edge also removed the Nature Friendship ability, which is based on a trope that Brave says “seems particularly prevalent in video games to the point where it seems like if there is a Native character in a video game, that character must have animal powers.”

Brave also rewrote the Shadow plotline, which he talks about in detail in the full interview on World’s Edge’s website. More studios are now turning to cultural consultants when including Indigenous people in their games, though Brave also recommends curious players to check out wholly Indigenous-made games such as When Rivers Were Trails, Thunderbird Strike, Umurangi Generation, Terra Nova, and Never Alone.

Umurangi Generation, one of 2020’s slightly under-the-radar gems, is coming to Switch. What’s more, owners of the game on PC will be able to expand their experience with a new DLC pack, titled Macro.

Umurangi Generation is a cyberpunk photography game, set in a low-fi world that glows red and is rife with corruption. It was inspired, in part, by Australian bushfires and numerous current world events. It’ll come to Switch before the end of the year.

A first-look trailer for the DLC was shown during a stream by indie publisher Playism. There will be new equipment to unlock, and you can now glide about with rollerblades, taking photos of new targets.

The trailer also features a nod to GameSpot’s review: the game received a 9/10.

The DLC will release on November 7 for PC, and cost $10. A Switch release date has not been announced.

Monster Hunter Rise has been revealed as the next Monster Hunter game for Switch, and unlike Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate it’s been built from the ground up for Nintendo’s hybrid portable. The initial announcement trailer (below) gave us a look at the new game, but now more information has come to light.

YouTube Monster Hunter superfan Arekkz has spoken to Capcom community manager “Socks” about the upcoming game, and he’s dug up some new details on the Switch exclusive. Socks talks about what fans can expect, including information about post-launch content and some information about its engine and performance.

You can watch a summary of Arekkz’s Q&A below–it seems that the actual interview was not recorded or usable, though, so it’s a recitation of the information he received.

From his interview, Arekkz learned that Rise won’t be an open world game, but it will build on the exploration mechanics in Monster Hunter World, meaning that monsters and hunters can travel between different regions during gameplay without any loading screens. As the game’s name suggests, there will be a greater element of verticality in the level design here than in previous Monster Hunter games.

The game will also, Socks confirmed, receive post-launch support, meaning that there will be new content added after launch. There are no details available yet, as the developer is focused on getting the game complete, but the aim is to keep players coming back for a long time.

Arekkz was also able to confirm that the game is running on the RE Engine–the same engine as Resident Evil 7–and that it is targeting a 30fps frame rate. This is the same frame rate players experienced in the console versions of Monster Hunter World.

Monster Hunter Rise will release on March 26, 2021. Check out GameSpot’s preorder guide to see all the different editions and bonuses.

A new update for Madden NFL 21 is coming very soon, and it sounds like a big one. The Madden Ultimate Team database Muthead recently discovered the patch notes for the latest update through Good Morning Madden, and it promises updates across gameplay, Ultimate Team, Franchise, the Yard, and more.

Perhaps one of the more notable fixes in the update focuses on the kick meter. As many players have discovered, including GameSpot’s own reviewer, the kick meter tends to glitch out during field goal kicks, leading to a frustrating experience. This new patch should address this by some means. You can see a synopsis of the patch notes in the images below, while the changelog should be available when the update hits.

Muthead reported that the patch should launch at around 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET on Tuesday, September 22. This will be Madden 21’s fourth major title update.

Madden NFL 21 has proven to be a big sales success so far, becoming the No. 1 overall best-selling game in the US for August 2020. In fact, this was the 21st year in a row that a Madden NFL game has been the best-seller in its release month.

Madden NFL 21 is coming to the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X/S, and people can get a free upgrade to the next-gen edition via EA’s Dual Entitlement program.