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Memorial Day weekend is nearly here, which means if you’re anything like me you’re eager for the sales. Anyone in the market for video games or consoles can look no further. Each year plenty of Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One games and gear gets big price drops for the holiday weekend. We’re tracking all of the best deals at all the major retailers below. This article will be kept up to date all weekend, so check back for all the latest Memorial Day weekend deals.

If you’re in the market for a new gaming PC or accessories, you’ll want to head over to our Dell Memorial Day deals page, because that sale is huge and it’s already live.

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Dell is offering a 10% discount on Xbox digital gift cards when you enter promo code GAME10 at checkout.

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You can expect to find a batch of gaming deals at each of the above retailers. This year’s sale will look a bit different than last year’s, back when scoring a Nintendo Switch with a free bundled item was possible. In recent months, inventory problems have made Switches nearly impossible to find in stock. That said, you’ll find plenty of game discounts and deals on controllers and other accessories for Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

For more sales and deals, stay tuned for our coverage of Memorial Day sales on TVs, PCs and laptops, and Dell computers and accessories. Or, for a veritable firehose spray of deals, we’ll also have a mega-post that features all the best deals on all the categories you’re likely to care about.

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Chris Reed is IGN’s shopping and commerce editor. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed.

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LEGO’s Adventures with Mario Starter Course is now available to preorder at a variety of retailers. The set costs $59.99 and is scheduled to release August 1. The Starter Course is a 231-piece rearrangeable set that lets you build a Mario level, complete with a pipe, question block, and rotating platforms, as well as Mario and Bowser Junior figures.

Preorder LEGO Adventures with Mario Starter Course

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The Mario figure is outfitted with an accelerometer and a speaker that emits sounds and music at relevant times during play. It also has LCD screens in his eyes, mouth, and belly that let him react to what’s happening.

LEGO has announced several other Mario-related expansion sets you’ll be able to use along with this one (the Starter Course is required for them to function properly). There’s a Piranha Plant Power Slide, Monty Mole & Super Mushroom, and Bowser’s Castle Boss Battle. No release date has been announced for these yet.

The company will also release several Power-Up Packs that give the plumber new outfits and abilities. These will also arrive on August 1, but they’re not yet up for preorder.

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Chris Reed is IGN’s shopping and commerce editor. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed.

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If you’ve been waiting on the sidelines to pick up a new TV, now is a great time to finally commit. There are plenty of great opportunities to save big on big TVs right now, and if you’re looking to make the jump from HD to UHD, there’s no time like the present.

This article is being updated as more deals come online, so keep checking back through the weekend.

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The long Memorial Day weekend is widely considered the unofficial kick-off of summer, but retailers also use it as a platform for staging deals. This Memorial Day weekend, in spite of everything else happening in the world, still has some top-notch deals to be had on gaming PCs and laptops, as well as PC gaming accessories like gamer chairs, monitors, keyboards and more.

This article is being updated constantly as new deals come online and old ones go off, so make sure to keep checking back if you’re looking to snag a new PC or laptop on sale for Memorial Day.

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Dragon Ball FighterZ has been a huge success for developer Arc System Works, and it’s just been announced on the game’s official site (in Japanese) that the game has achieved 5 million lifetime sales between shipped copies and digital purchases. To celebrate, everyone who logs into the game within the next week will score some free stuff.

From now until May 28, players who jump into the game will be awarded a massive 5 million Zeni, along with three lobby characters: Android 21 SPECIAL 01, Goku (SSGSS) SPECIAL 01, and Vegeta (SSGSS) SPECIAL 01. You’ll be able to walk around the menus with any of these avatars.

Incidentally, two of the game’s unlockable characters–the Super Saiyan Blue variants of Goku and Vegeta–can be unlocked by earning zeni, and 5 million is comfortably enough to unlock both of them. I can verify that I loaded up the game without these characters unlocked, and once I connected to an online lobby, I was immediately granted both fighters, alongside two trophies.

Dragon Ball FighterZ has continued to release new characters since launch via DLC, and although an awful lot of them are Goku variants, the latest one–Ultra Instinct Goku–is still pretty special. The game will also feature in the upcoming online version of EVO 2020.

Interestingly, Dragon Ball FighterZ is not the best-selling Dragon Ball fighter this generation–Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 has sold a million more, with 6 million units sold.

After being valued at $8.13 billion, Polish company CD Projekt have overtaken France’s Ubisoft to become the most valuable game company in Europe, Video Games Chronicle reports. While the company’s gaming branch, CD Projeckt Red, has only three titles under its belt (not including a handful of spin-off Witcher titles), CD Projekt also runs the GOG distribution platform. This year, a resurgence of interest in The Witcher spurred by the Netflix show, as well as hype for the studio’s upcoming game Cyberpunk 2077, have helped push the company’s value even higher.

While the numbers are still relatively small compared to gaming behemoths in North America and Japan, with Nintendo valued at $53.73 billion and Activision Blizzard at $56.27 billion, it’s still an impressive result for the Witcher developers.

After a number of delays, CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 is on track for its planned September release date, despite the studio’s switch to remote working due to the COVID-19 crisis. CDPR has also confirmed it will be returning to the Witcher universe in the future, though its current focus is entirely on Cyberpunk 2077.

CD Projekt Red’s most recent game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, recently celebrated its 5 year anniversary, and still holds an enduring appeal for many gamers.

On May 19, 2015, Polish studio CD Projekt Red released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the final entry in its trilogy continuing author Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher saga. With a huge open world, the game was a big departure from the style of the previous two games, but the risky move resulted in a game that still holds up five years later.

In an interview with Polygon, the CDPR developers have talked about how The Witcher 3 was such a big departure from other games in the series, and what went into making that change.

“Our quest director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, said that the main goal [of The Witcher 3] was to combine the design philosophy of previous Witcher games, which was to create a complex and mature story that has choices and consequences, with an open world,” senior quest designer Philipp Weber told Polygon. “There used to be this preconceived notion you would hear a lot that open world games can’t tell interesting or deep stories. So that was something we took up as a challenge.”

As quest designers, the challenge for the team at CDPR was to design quests that would still work if a player chose to take a different path through the open world.

“At first, changing our design [to fit an open world] seemed difficult, but in the end it actually improved quests a lot,” Weber said. “With the open world, our quest structure also became much more open, and we could give players many more opportunities to experience our stories in the way they wanted. If I can solve different parts of a quest out of order, then maybe this will have different consequences later on. Since we were always big fans of nonlinear choice and consequence, this was a huge bonus.”

Weber also mentions some of the systems the Witcher 3 team used to make the world feel more alive, such as a feature where wolves will be able to smell when a monster or animal is killed, causing them to head towards the new food source. For many players, the level of depth and life in the world was what kept them coming back again and again.

“One of the things that people mention a lot when it comes to The Witcher 3 is how long they actually played the game and enjoyed it, which was at first very surprising and funny for us, because during development we always thought it would be too short and were trying to add more into the game,” Weber said. “So seeing that kind of feedback was actually a great relief, made even better knowing that people still play the game now.”

The full Polygon interview has more, including diving into the details of some of the specific quests that handled this so well.

CD Projekt Red is currently working towards the September release of Cyberpunk 2077, but reports say that at least one more Witcher game is in the works for the studio.