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PSN’s massive Golden Week sale has come to an end, but fortunately, another sale has taken its place in the PlayStation Store. Right now, you can find discounts on PS4 games from Ubisoft, including some of the publisher’s biggest series like Assassin’s Creed, The Division, and Far Cry. Take a look at some of the best deals below.

The Assassin’s Creed collection is marked down, including the latest game, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, for just $25.79. Assassin’s Creed Origins is selling for the same price. If you own neither Odyssey or Origins, consider picking up the Assassin’s Creed Antiquity Pack, which bundles both for just $45. Meanwhile, Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection is over $30 off, dropping from $50 to $17.49, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is just $15. Far Cry 5 is also discounted this week–you can get it for just $27–along with Far Cry 4 for $20 and Far Cry New Dawn for $24. Other notable deals include The Division 2, which released less than a month ago and is on sale for $48; The Crew 2, which is selling for $24; and Watch Dogs 2, available for $21.

Nearly all the best deals right now are from Ubisoft, but you can also snag Monster Hunter: World for $20 (the lowest price we’ve seen) as well as Anthem for $40.19.

While these sales generally last a week, the Ubisoft sale will extend until Tuesday, May 21, at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET, so you have some time to consider which games you actually want.

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See some of our picks below, and browse the full list of discounted games in the PlayStation Store. As usual, these prices will be even cheaper for PS Plus members.

Treyarch has rolled out a new update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Following its debut on PS4 last week, Operation Specter Rising has expanded to Xbox One and PC, while a double XP event for featured playlists and other changes are now live on all platforms.

First, Xbox One and PC players now have access to the new Operation Specter Rising content, which includes a new Specialist known as Specter, who can be unlocked in multiplayer and Blackout after completing tier 1 of the Black Market. The Black Market has also been updated with 50 tiers’ worth of new items to unlock, including weapons such as the Tigershark LMG and the Nifo’Oti.

Xbox One and PC players with a Black Ops Pass now have access to three new multiplayer maps as well: Masquerade, Artifact, and WMD. Bounty Hunter mode is also now live in Blackout on Xbox One and PC, while the mode’s Alcatraz map has returned on all platforms.

In addition to that, Treyarch is offering twice the normal amount of XP for featured playlists across all of Black Ops 4’s modes. Specifically, players will earn 2x XP for Map Pack Moshpit in multiplayer, 2x XP for Super Blood Wolf Moon in Zombies, and 2x Merits in Blackout’s Bounty Hunter. The double XP event is available on all platforms and runs through Friday, May 10.

Rounding out the update are an assortment of balance tweaks and bug fixes, including tuning changes to the aforementioned Specter. You can see the full rundown of everything that’s new on Reddit.

Activision still hasn’t announced what this year’s installment in the Call of Duty series will be, although some people have already played it. Back in April, a handful of American athletes posted pictures of themselves playing the new game at what appeared to be an official event. The title is presumed to be Modern Warfare 4; however, the only thing Activision has confirmed about the upcoming shooter is that it will include a single-player campaign, unlike Black Ops 4.

After its second weekend at No. 1 in the box office, *Avengers: Endgame has now made $2.227 billion* worldwide after just 13 days. Endgame has now surpassed James Cameron’s Titanic to become the No. 2 highest-grossing movie in history worldwide. It now only trails behind another Cameron movie, 2009’s Avatar, which has made $2.78 billion globally.

Although we still don’t have an exact launch date for the upcoming Need for Speed and Plants vs. Zombies games, EA has revealed a release window for both titles. In the company’s latest financial report, EA announces both games are expected to be released this year sometime between October and December.

In the report, EA lists new games for both Need for Speed and Plants vs. Zombies releasing during the same quarter as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, currently scheduled to launch on November 15 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. The Need for Speed and Plants vs. Zombies releases are listed as both console and PC games, so they too are probably launching on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

Little has been announced about these new Need for Speed and Plants vs. Zombies games. During a previous company financial report, EA COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen announced both games. “Looking forward, we’re delighted to launch Anthem, our new IP, to grow Apex Legends and related Titanfall experiences, to deliver new Plants vs. Zombies and Need for Speed titles, and to add Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to our sports titles in the fall,” Jorgensen said.

In a subsequent earnings call, EA confirmed the Plants vs. Zombies game would be a shooter. Though this is in no way a confirmation, this detail implies the upcoming game is another edition to the Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare series. The theory is further supported by a retail listing leaking the existence of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 3. However, EA hasn’t confirmed the leak’s authenticity.

The latest financial report also mentions Sea of Solitude, an EA Original indie game that was teased during EA Play 2018, will be releasing on consoles and PC next quarter (sometime between July 1 and September 30). An adventure game, Sea of Solitude has you play as Kay, a young woman lost in a half submerged city filled with red-eyed creatures. Kay herself has begun to change into one of the monsters that populate the city, so she’s searching for a way to become human again.

The MCU news just keeps on coming today with even more Phase 4 goodness. After announcing an official release schedule for all upcoming Marvel movies into 2022, yet another actor is joining the star-studded cast of The Eternals as reported by The Wrap.

Richard Madden, known for playing the late Robb Stark on HBO’s Game of Thrones, is reportedly in talks to join Angelina Jolie and Kumail Nanjiani in Marvel’s new cosmic superhero team. Details surrounding Madden’s potential role are unclear, but it seems likely that he’ll be taking on Ikaris, an immortal with the ability to harness and control cosmic and psionic energy.

Created by Jack Kirby back in the late 1970s, The Eternals are an “evolutionary offshoot” of humanity created by the god-like Celestials when the Earth was new. The experimentation gave the Eternals superpowers such as flight, enhanced durability, and incredible strength as well as functional immortality. Though the Eternals themselves have not been alluded to in the MCU, their progenitors have been with Guardians of the Galaxy featuring “Knowhere,” a city contained within the severed head of a Celestial avatar, and Vormir a planet referred to in Avengers: Endgame as the “center of Celestial existence.”

Similarly, Thanos, the villain of the MCU’s Infinity Saga, is known as a “Deviant” in the comics, an Eternal with a genetic mutation responsible for his purple skin and incredible strength; however, Thanos’ lineage and race was never addressed in the movies.

The Eternals will be directed by Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me, The Rider) and written by Matthew and Ryan Fripo. It is rumored to focus on the love story of Sersi (Jolie), an Eternal who spends her time immersed in human society, and Ikaris, an Eternal fueled by cosmic energy.