Respawn and EA just released Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the first amazing Star Wars game in quite a while. But the iconic franchise has had plenty of hits and beloved classics throughout its life in gaming, so, IGN’s new show Power Ranking asked IGN’s audience across social media platforms — what is the best Star Wars game?
Here’s how the Power Ranking process works: we gauge our IGN YouTube community’s selections and whittle those down to a top five. Then, we poll audiences across IGN.com, YouTube, Twitter, and Snapchat to find out the results, and in this case to figure out which Star Wars games you consider to be the best. (This poll was conducted before Jedi: Fallen Order was released.) Watch the video above to see how the ranking worked out in the latest episode of Power Ranking.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is nearly upon us, and director J.J. Abrams and his cast has revealed intriguing new tidbits about the final film in the Skywalker Saga. A new Entertainment Weekly feature teases major new revelations about the age-old war between the Jedi and Sith and how Emperor Palpatine’s surprise return is the culmination of that war.
“This has been a very long chess match that’s been played between the Jedi and the Sith — all the way back to the very beginning,” Oscar Issac said. “It’s an amazing thing to see that really come to the forefront.”
As EW notes, the return of Palpatine and the continued importance of Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker (who presumably appears in Force Ghost form in Episode IX) raises new questions about the nature of death in the Star Wars universe. What happens when Jedi and Sith die? How do they return as Force Ghosts, and what can they do to affect the world of the living? Abrams himself is remaining purposely mum, only telling EW “That’s probably best answered by not answering it.”
After weeks of retailers releasing Black Friday ads to build anticipation for the event, GameStop has finally revealed its hand. With less than a week until Black Friday sales officially begin, GameStop has released a flyer for its “early deals,” which will be available for a full week.
Nintendo Switch offers are noticeably missing from GameStop’s first round of Black Friday deals. While we do expect to see Switch deals at GameStop during Black Friday, don’t anticipate any significant discounts on the new improved Switch model or the Switch Lite. Instead, most retailers are offering Nintendo’s official Black Friday 2019 bundle: the launch-model Switch (without improved battery life) with a digital copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for $300. According to Nintendo, GameStop should also have some first-party Switch games for $40 each and discounts on Switch accessories like the Poke Ball Plus.
Keep in mind GameStop has more deals going live next Wednesday, plus limited-time deals that will likely launch on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We probably won’t know what those later deals are until they go live, but in the meantime, you’ll have access to some of GameStop’s best console deals starting this Sunday, November 24. Check out GameStop’s full Black Friday schedule below, and read on for the best Black Friday deals we know about so far.
GameStop Black Friday 2019 schedule
Online
November 24-December 2: Early deals, including PS4 and Xbox One console bundles, available online
November 27: Black Friday online deals go live on GameStop.com beginning at 8 PM PT / 11 PM ET
GameStop’s early deals largely include the official deals from PlayStation and Xbox, such as the PS4 Slim holiday bundle with three console-exclusive games and the Xbox One X bundle for $350. Note that the following deals will be available at nearly all major retailers, so if something sells out at GameStop, you should check Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Best Buy. The below prices will be available from November 24 to December 2 (or while supplies last). Please note that not all products shown below have listings yet, and we’ll include links when they’re live. As more of GameStop’s Black Friday deals are revealed, we’ll include those here.
Games
PS4:
Days Gone — $20
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Game of the Year Edition — $20
MediEvil — $20
Concrete Genie — $20
God of War — $10
Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition — $10
The Last of Us Remastered — $10
Gran Turismo Sport — $10
Little Big Planet 3 — $10
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection — $10
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy — $10
Bloodborne — $10
Nioh — $10
Xbox One:
Gears 5 — $30
Forza Horizon 4 — $25
Sea of Thieves — $25
Crackdown 3 — $15
Consoles and accessories
PS4 Slim bundle with God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and The Last of Us Remastered – $200
PS4 Slim holiday bundle | $200 ($300)
This official PlayStation bundle includes three excellent, PS4-exclusive games–God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition, and The Last of Us Remastered–along with the base console for $200, an excellent deal for anyone buying a PS4 for the first time.
PS4 Pro (Glacier White Edition) – $300
PS4 Pro Glacier White | $300 ($400)
The powerful PS4 Pro is on sale for an excellent price during Black Friday, selling for $300 rather than $400. GameStop’s offer includes the stunning Glacier White model, which comes with a matching controller.
DualShock 4 wireless controllers – $39
DualShock 4 Wireless Controllers (various colors) | $39 each ($60-$65)
PS4 controllers will be $39 each at GameStop during Black Friday, the same price as at Walmart. Other stores will have them for $40 during Black Friday week, but colors available may vary between retailers. GameStop’s flyer includes the new Fall 2019 colors shown above, which normally go for $65 each.
PS Plus one-year membership – $45
PlayStation Plus 12-month membership | $45 ($60)
The official PlayStation Black Friday offer for PS Plus is $45 for a yearly membership. That’s not quite as low as we’d hoped, but if you need to renew your membership (remember PS Plus subscriptions do stack), this is still a nice deal to snag.
PSVR bundle with five games – $200
PlayStation VR Mega Pack | $200 ($300)
This is the best PSVR deal we’ve seen in a long time. For $200, you’ll get the PSVR headset and PlayStation Camera along with five of the system’s best games.
PSVR bundle with Blood & Truth and Everbody’s Golf – $250
PlayStation VR bundle with Blood & Truth, Everybody’s Golf VR | $250 ($350)
This bundle is slightly pricier than other PSVR bundles during Black Friday, but that’s because it comes with two PlayStation Move motion controllers (which can cost as much as $100 a pack).
PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset with Fortnite content – $70
Fortnite Neo Versa Bundle With PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset | $70 ($100)
The discount on this PlayStation Gold wireless headset isn’t exceptional on its own, but if you’re a Fortnite fan, the included Neo Versa bundle is a nice perk that comes with the Epic Neo Versa Outfit, Epic Neo Phrenzy Back Bling, and 2,000 V-Bucks.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Xbox One X bundle – $200
Xbox One S bundle with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Deluxe Edition | $200 ($300)
Get the newest Star Wars adventure on Xbox One with this Xbox One S bundle for only $200, available at many retailers including GameStop.
NBA 2K20 Xbox One X special-edition bundle – $350
Xbox One X special-edition bundle with NBA 2K20 | $350 ($500)
Quite a few Xbox One X bundles will be on sale for Black Friday, but this GameStop-exclusive, special-edition Xbox One X with NBA 2K20 has to be the prettiest with its paint splash design.
Xbox One S All-Digital Edition – $150
Xbox One S All-Digital Edition | $150 ($250)
Not a fan of buying physical games? Then the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition was made for you, but please be aware there’s no disc drive, removing the option entirely to play physical games or Blu-ray discs. The bundle comes with three games: Sea of Thieves, Minecraft, and bonus content for Fortnite: Battle Royale–2,000 V-Bucks and the Legendary Rogue Spider Knight outfit. At just $150, the All-Digital Edition is a much more appealing offer for primarily digital gamers.
Xbox One wireless controllers – $10 off
Xbox Wireless Controllers (various colors) | $10 off
Multiple Xbox controllers will be on sale for $10 off during Black Friday, including the special-edition Gears 5 controller for $65 (previously $75) and other colors for $60 (previously $70 each). It’s worth noting Microsoft’s official Black Friday sale is advertising Xbox controllers for “up to $20 off,” so you may want to compare prices before grabbing one of these from GameStop.
GameStop in-store offer on collectibles and apparel
In-store deal: Get 25% everything you can stuff in this bag
This is fairly self-explanatory, but from November 24-27, GameStop stores will let you fill a bag with as many collectibles and apparel as you can and get 25% off the entire bag (which you have to buy on its own for $5). Games and hardware are excluded as well as clearance items.
There’s a lot to like about Disney+’s first streaming Star Wars show The Mandalorian. It’s got all the cool, spaghetti western vibes you could ever ask for, a great soundtrack, an interesting cast of characters, and a budget that keeps the entire thing looking slick. But all of that is just a dim second to the single most important addition The Mandalorian has made to Star Wars canon: Baby Yoda. And it’s our lucky day because showrunner Jon Favreau has just shared a look at the original concept art of the world’s cutest and best bundle of Muppet-y green joy, proving undoubtedly that Baby Yoda really has been the best since birth–or, at least since the show’s pre-production.
Not much is known about Baby Yoda just yet, but that’s not too surprising. Only two episodes of The Mandalorian have been released with a third on the way this Friday. We can only hope that the show will continue to give us the goods–sure, bounty hunting may be a complicated profession, but intergalactic babysitting is definitely more complicated, and honestly, we’d be down to watch an entire season of Pedro Pascal being a cool masked gunslinger while toting around a tiny green puppet. That alone is worth Disney+’s monthly subscription fee.
A new Star Wars and Roblox partnership is encouraging players to build their own spaceship to earn special in-game rewards, ahead of the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker this December. The ‘Galactic Speedway Creator Challenge’ is available to everyone, and aims to help teach coding and game design to young players.
If you’re interested, signing up is as simple as going to the Roblox Creator Challenge page and following along with lessons that will teach you how to design, code, and create your very own driftspeeder — which you can use to race against other players in-game. The Star Wars-Roblox partnership began today (November 19, 2019) and will run through January 6, 2020.
On this blazin’ episode of our Xbox show, we look back at Xbox’s past this week as the original Xbox turns 18, sharing our favorite (not best, although they’re often one and the same!) games from Microsoft’s first console. And then we look ahead into the future, recapping X019’s Inside Xbox livestream and discussing everything we liked and everything we didn’t that Microsoft is cooking up now.
Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, or grab an MP3 download of this week’s episode. For more awesome content, check out the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered from our new barcade set, featuring an interview with former PlayStation and Xbox executive Phil Harrison. It’s an open bar; come and join us!
History’s popular Vikings saga is headed to Netflix with a 24-episode straight-to-series order for a new series, titled Vikings: Valhalla.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, “Valhalla picks up 100 years after the Hirst’s History series and dramatizes the adventures of the most famous Vikings who ever lived — Leif Erikson, Freydis, Harald Harada and the Norman King William the Conqueror (also a Viking descendant). These men and women will blaze new paths as they fight for survival in an ever-changing and evolving Europe.”
It’s no surprise that Marvel’s streaming TV show, Runaways, is ending considering Disney+ is primed and ready to dominate the superhero streaming market next year with shows like The Falcon And The Winter Soldier and WandaVision. The news of the show’s imminent finale was confirmed yesterday via Variety. But that doesn’t mean Runaways is going to go down quietly–quite the contrary, it would seem. Judging by the brand-new trailer released for the show’s third and final season, Runaways plans to go down swinging.
The final season will also feature a major crossover with Freeform’s Cloak And Dagger, another of Marvel’s streaming TV shows that is wrapping things up in the shadow of Disney+. Tandy and Tyrone will be joining the ragtag Runaways crew as they take on Morgan Le Fay (Elizabeth Hurley) and, by the sound of it, deal with a potential traitor in their midst. It looks like the merging of teams may not go entirely smoothly, also–at least if Nico (Lyrica Okano) and Tandy’s (Olivia Holt) reaction to one another is any indication.
The final season of Runaways premieres on Hulu on December 13.
