Zelda: Link’s Awakening Is Included In The Latest Amazon Deal (US)

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Games are expensive, and a lot of good ones have released recently, including The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Control. On top of that, we’ve seen quite a few great titles this year that you may have missed out on. If you’re finally ready to throw down on some games, then Amazon has a pretty decent deal: spend $100, save $10. It’s not mind-blowing, but hey, $10 is $10. You could buy a whole sandwich with that.

We’ve gathered a selection of the best games, but the promotion also includes an assortment of controllers and accessories. If you’ve been in the market for some Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons or a DualShock 4, then this might be a good opportunity to grab one and save a little extra money. We’ve tested a lot of the available options, so be sure to look below for our recommendations.

You can check out all of the deals at Amazon. The promotion is for a limited time, and there’s no word on when it will end, so be sure to take advantage of it soon if you’re interested.

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Do Demons Exist? CBS’ Evil Will Keep You Guessing

All September long, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2019-2020 season. Today we’re focusing on CBS’ new psychological thriller Evil, created by The Good Wife’s Robert and Michelle King, and starring Luke Cage’s Mike Colter, Westworld’s Katja Herbers, and Person of Interest’s Michael Emerson. The series explores the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion, centering on a skeptical female psychologist, Kristen Bouchard (Herbers), who joins a priest-in-training (Colter) and a carpenter (Aasif Mandvi) as they investigate the Church’s backlog of unexplained mysteries, including supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and hauntings. Their job is to assess if there is a logical explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work. Get an exclusive first look behind the scenes of Evil with the cast, and watch a clip from the series premiere in which Emerson’s chilling Leland Townsend reveals that he knows far too much about Kristen’s personal life.

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Ryan Reynolds And Will Ferrell Are Remaking A Classic Christmas Movie

Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds are making a new version of the classic Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol. Ferrell and Reynolds will star in the movie, which is to be a “musical reimagining” of the iconic story, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Daddy’s Home veterans Sean Anders and John Morris are writing and directing the untitled movie. There is no word yet on the characters Ferrell and Reynolds will play, but presumably one of them will play Ebenezer Scrooge.

THR states that the film is being pitched around Hollywood right now. “Multiple studios” are said to be in the bidding process, but none were named in the report.

The classic story sees the miserly Scrooge visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future to help Scrooge finally see the light and change his ways. Given Ferrell and Reynolds are known for subverting norms, you can bet the new movie will deviate in some silly ways.

This will be just the latest adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Bill Murray starred in 1988’s Scrooged, which offered a silly take on the story; Jim Carrey voiced Scrooge in the 2009 animated film A Christmas Carol from Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis. Kelsey Grammer, meanwhile, starred as Scrooge in the Hallmark TV movie A Christmas Carol in 2004.

It sounds like it’s still relatively early days for the new Christmas Carol movie with Ferrell and Reynolds, so there are no hard details on the script yet or other cast. Keep checking back with GameSpot for the latest.

Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington Talk About Controversial Game Of Thrones Season 8 And Finale

The final season of Game of Thrones was its most-watched ever and the fantasy drama took home the Outstanding Drama Series award at the Emmys and set other records. At the same time, the reaction to the final season was mixed to say the least. Actress Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys on the HBO show, has now responded to the controversy surrounding Season 8.

At the Emmys, she told Variety that the mixed response to Season 8 was “flattering.” People passionately sharing their thoughts and opinions about Game of Thrones–whatever they might be–shows that people care, and that’s a good thing, Clarke says.

“It was profoundly flattering,” she said of the response to Season 8. “Because when someone cares that much, that they’re ready to make such a noise about how they believe how the characters should have been finished, and how the story should have gone, that’s just enormously flattering. That just shows how much everybody loved it.”

SPOILERS FOR GAME OF THRONES SEASON 8 FOLLOW:

In the final season of Game of Thrones, Daenerys becomes the Mad Queen, attacking King’s Landing and killing thousands of innocent people. Jon Snow then kills her.

When Clarke initially read the script and learned the fate of Daenerys, she was taken aback. “What, what, what, WHAT!?” she told Entertainment Weekly about her thoughts upon learning the story. “Because it comes out of f**king nowhere. I’m flabbergasted. Absolutely never saw that coming.”

Kit Harington, meanwhile, said at the Emmys that he hasn’t seen any of Season 8. However, he said he’s proud of the show’s final season, which was incredibly ambitious. He also spoke about how he believed in the final season’s story arc and what happened to the characters.

“I know what it took to shoot it, and it was hard; everyone put all of their love and effort into it,” he said. “Controversy, I think for us, we knew what we were doing was right story-wise. And we knew it was right for the characters because we lived with them for 10 years. Controversy didn’t really affect us.”

Game of Thrones won a record-tying 12 Emmy Awards this year, including Outstanding Drama Series. Tyrion Lannister actor Peter Dinklage won his fourth Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor, surpassing Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul for a new record.

PlayStation 5 Will Include Power Saving Feature to Tackle Climate Change

The PlayStation 5 will have an optional setting to slash the amount of power the next-generation console consumes in standby mode.

In a blog post, Sony announced it’s working with the United Nations as part of its “Playing For The Planet” initiative, which aims to mobilise gamers to take an active role in combating climate change. Part of this effort involves partnered companies like PlayStation examining ways they can reduce their carbon footprint, and Sony is committing to working sustainable features into its new console’s design.

“The next generation PlayStation console will include the possibility to suspend gameplay with much lower power consumption than PS4 (which we estimate can be achieved at around 0.5 W),” writes Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment. “If just one million users enable this feature, it would save equivalent to the average electricity use of 1,000 US homes.”

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These Will Be The Top 10 Best-Selling Games Of 2019, According To Prediction

The NPD Group has released its projections for the best-selling games of 2019, and the predicted top-seller should be no surprise. NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella said he expects Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to be the best-selling game of 2019 in the US.

If that happens, it would mark the 9th time in 11 years that a Call of Duty game was the year’s top-seller. The only two times in the past 11 years that a Call of Duty game was not No. 1 for the year in the US was 2013 when it was Grand Theft Auto V and 2018 when it was Red Dead Redemption 2.

The NPD report goes on to predict that NBA 2K20 will be No. 2 in 2019, improving the franchise’s No. 3 place from 2018. Madden NFL 20 will finish as the No. 3 best-seller for 2019, according to Piscatella. Borderlands 3 and Mortal Kombat 11 will round out the top five, according to the prediction.

The full Top 10 list of predictions for 2019 best-sellers can be seen below.

In terms of consoles, Piscatella says he thinks the Nintendo Switch will end 2019 as the year’s best-selling console. The Switch was the first half of 2019’s best-selling console. Not only that, but it’s the only system in the US that’s growing in sales year over year. With the recent launch of the Switch Lite and the forthcoming release of Pokemon Sword and Shield, the Switch is expected to reach the highest annual unit sales number in the US since the Xbox 360 in 2011.

Across games and consoles, total spending on video games in the US for 2019 is expected to reach $44.6 billion in 2019; that would be up modestly from $42.2 billion in 2018.

2019 Best-Selling Video Game Predictions (US Only)

  1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  2. NBA 2K20
  3. Madden NFL 20
  4. Borderlands 3
  5. Mortal Kombat 11
  6. Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order
  7. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint
  8. Kingdom Hearts III
  9. The Division 2
  10. Pokemon Sword (digital sales not included)