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NetherRealm is ringing in the holidays with seasonal events in Mortal Kombat 11, including special player skins and konsumables and even a winter-themed tower. The pair of events are Winter Wonderland, from December 22-27, and Ring in the New Year, from December 28-January 2. You can find the events across PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and Stadia.

First, the Winter Wonderlanad Tower event will feature three special towers with themed modifiers. Those include Killer Kanes, Sledding Tarkatans, Parachuting Ginger Deadmen, Exploding Snowmen, Christmas Trees, Menorahs, Dreidels, and Shooting Stars. The Ring in the New Tower will have similar modifiers: a disco ball, champagne bottles, party poppers, fireworks, and a digital countdown clock.

Those towers are free for all players, and you can play them to earn character skins, module pieces, and konsumables. This also comes alongside the seasonal ranked Kombat League, currently in its sixth season. That season will close on January 7, and the next will begin on January 14.

Meanwhile, NetherRealm is testing cross-play for MK11, including the ability to challenge those on the opposing platform to fulfill your console war bloodlust. The studio also showed off its next DLC character, The Joker of DC Comics fame, at The Game Awards. The Clown Prince is coming January 28 for Kombat Pack owners, and will join the Terminator, Sindel, Nightwolf, and Shang Tsung. One more Kombat Pack character remains after Joker, and that will be Spawn on March 17.

Microsoft, Nintendo, and Steam have launched their winter sales, and now Sony is getting in on the holiday fun. Sony is offering up to huge discounts on more than 1,500 games during its holiday sale, which will be broken up into two waves. The first round of deals, which is live now, runs until January 5 before the second set of deals takes its place until January 16.

The sale features a number of 2019’s biggest games, including Death Stranding and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, both of which are discounted to $40. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which was recently named GameSpot’s best game of 2019, is available for $39. You can also snag Control for $39, Remedy Entertainment’s wonderful action game that also appeared on our best games of 2019 list.

Sports fans can pick up Madden NFL 20 for $36, FIFA 20 for $30, NBA 2K20 for $30, NHL 20 for $30, and MLB The Show 19 for $18.

The massive sale also brings excellent deals on PSVR games. Borderlands 2 VR is down from $50 to $25. Blood & Truth is also 50% off, dropping from $40 to $20. Meanwhile, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR has been slashed from $60 to $18.

We’ve rounded up some of the best deals in Sony’s holiday sale below. If you want to check out the full list of discounted games, head on over to the PlayStation Store.

Best PS4 game deals

• A Way Out — $15 ($30)
• Arizona Sunshine (PSVR) — $14 ($40)
• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey — $15 ($60)
• Battlefield V — $16 ($40)
• Blasphemous — $16.74 ($25)
• Blood & Truth — $20 ($40)
• Borderlands 2 VR — $25 ($50)
• Borderlands 3 — $39 ($60)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare — $39.59 ($60)
• Castlevania Anniversary Collection — $10 ($20)
• Catherine: Full Body — $30 ($60)
• Children of Morta — $14.73 ($22)
• Cities: Skylines — $10 ($40)
• Code Vein — $36 ($60)
• Control — $39 ($60)
• Dark Souls III — $21.24 ($60)
• Days Gone — $20 ($40)
• Death Stranding — $40.19 ($60)
• Devil May Cry 5 — $19.79 ($60)
• The Division 2 — $12 ($60)
• Doom — $6 ($20)
• Dragon Quest XI — $30 ($60)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR — $18 ($60)
• Enter the Gungeon — $7.49 ($15)
• Far Cry New Dawn — $16 ($40)
• FIFA 20 — $30 ($60)
• Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster — $12.49 ($25)
• Ghost Recon Breakpoint — $19.79 ($60)
• God of War — $15 ($20)
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice — $15 ($30)
• Hitman – Game of the Year Edition — $12 ($60)
• Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition — $15 ($20)
• Kingdom Hearts Collection — $33 ($100)
• Kingdom Hearts 3 — $19.79 ($60)
• Life is Strange 2: Complete Season — $20 ($40)
• Little Nightmares Complete Edition — $7.49 ($30)
• Madden NFL 20 — $36 ($60)
• MLB The Show 19 — $18 ($30)
• Mortal Kombat 11 — $24 ($60)
• Moss (PSVR) — $19.79 ($30)
• NBA 2K20 — $30 ($60)
• Need for Speed Heat — $40.19 ($60)
• NHL 20 — $30 ($60)
• Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom — $20.39 ($60)
• The Outer Worlds — $45 ($60)
• Persona Dancing: Endless Night Bundle — $30 ($60)
• Rage 2 — $19.79 ($60)
• Rainbow Six Siege Deluxe Edition — $10 ($40)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 — $30 ($60)
• Resident Evil 2 Remake — $19.79 ($60)
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice — $39 ($60)
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order — $49.79 ($60)
• Superhot — $10 ($25)
• The Surge 2 — $30 ($60)
• Watchdogs 2 — $12.49 ($50)

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Warning: Full spoilers follow for The Rise of Skywalker. Obviously.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the last movie in The Skywalker Saga, which means this ending explained isn’t just for one movie… but for the entire nine-film trilogy which began over 40 years ago!

So how did the original Star Wars saga finish up? Let’s break it all down.

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Entering the Unknown Regions and Exogol

After much gallivanting around a galaxy far, far away, The Rise of Skywalker spends its finale in the mysterious Unknown Regions, the unexplored area of space beyond the Outer Rim. Yeah, it turns out there’s a lot of worlds out there beyond just the area controlled at various times by the Republic, Empire and First Order.

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This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian Season 1 through episode 7.

What Is Force Healing?

The Rise of Skywalker introduces a lot of new Force abilities into the Star Wars franchise, but perhaps the most vital is the one utilized by Rey (and later Ben Solo) at several points – the ability to use the Force to heal an injury; even a seemingly fatal one.

When Rey encounters a wounded sand serpent in the caves of Pasaana, she explains to Finn and Poe that she used the Force to transfer a part of her life essence to the snake in order to heal it, but given how we see her holding her hand in pain, it’s implied that using the Force to heal someone takes something (whether it’s energy or pure life force) from the wielder. Rey again demonstrates the power when she heals Kylo Ren from what looks like a fatal lightsaber wound through his midsection during their battle on the ruins of the second Death Star.

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This review contains full spoilers for The Witcher Season 1, episode 7, titled “Before a Fall”. For a refresher, check out our review of episode 6, “Rare Species”.

The penultimate episode of The Witcher’s freshman season resembles the show that many fans likely expected. Grand in scope (albeit not in physicality), it places Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri at the crossroads of a potentially monumental conflict. Armies march, mages scheme, and Geralt approaches his goals with singular purpose. After a season-long struggle with structure, it finally feels as if the show has found itself.

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