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Outside of the holidays, it’s rare to find deals on Nintendo Switch hardware, but Nintendo has announced a new bundle that serves as a good entry point if you’re interested in picking the console up. The bundle goes on sale starting February 15 and includes a system with neon red and blue Joy-Cons, as well as $35 credit for its digital storefront, the Eshop.

The bundle will be available at retailers around the US and costs $300, the standard price of a Switch console. While the bonus credit can be put toward any Eshop purchase, the storefront is home to a preponderance of great–and fairly cheap–indie games, such as Golf Story, Celeste, and the recently released Advance Wars-like strategy game Wargroove.

The credit can also be used to purchase DLC, which many of Switch’s must-have titles have received. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild‘s expansion pass costs $20, as does Splatoon 2‘s single-player focused Octo Expansion. If you pick up Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, its fighters pass runs for $25 and will give you access to five of its planned DLC characters, including Persona 5’s Joker.

If you’re unsure of what to purchase with the Eshop credit, we’ve put together a gallery of the best Nintendo Switch games for $20 or less to help you decide what’s worth downloading.

Nintendo has a number of exclusive games lined up for Switch this year. The adorable platformer Yoshi’s Crafted World launches on March 29, while Fire Emblem: Three Houses arrives this spring. Luigi’s Mansion 3, an Animal Crossing Switch game, and a “core” Pokemon RPG are also slated to release in 2019, although Nintendo has yet to announce release dates for those games.

Activision has revealed the PC system requirements fo From Software’s upcoming Souls-like game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice via the title’s Steam page. The minimum and recommended requirements aren’t all that different from what you needed for Dark Souls III, so if you played From Software’s 2016 Souls game on PC, you should be fine.

The minimum requirements for Sekiro are slightly higher than what they were for Dark Souls III though. For Sekiro, you need either an Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD FX-6300 processor that’s paired with 4 GB of RAM and either a Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU. You’ll have to bump up your system’s specs to run the game on its recommended settings, obviously, but the Steam page does not reveal the difference in targeted resolution and framerate between the two.

Below, we’ve outlined the full list of both the minimum and recommended PC system requirements.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice PC System Requirements

Minimum

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 8 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 | AMD FX-6300
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 | AMD Radeon HD 7950
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 25 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX 11 Compatible

Recommended

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 8 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K | AMD Ryzen 5 1400
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 | AMD Radeon RX 570
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 25 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX 11 Compatible

Sekiro is a very different take on the challenging but fair formula that From Software has developed through Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls series, and Bloodborne. The game changes how combat works–opting for a system that focuses more on guard breaks–and also implementing both parkour and stealth mechanics. Because of the new approach to combat, boss battles will play out very differently in Sekiro as well. Sekiro’s protagonist, known as The Wolf, will also speak, and journey through a Japanese drama that utilizes flashbacks to flesh out the game’s cast of characters. There won’t be online multiplayer in Sekiro either, but this means the game will support a pause function.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice launches on March 22, and it’s coming to Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

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A promotion for Orville Redenbacher popcorn has given us our first glimpse at the costumes worn by the heroes in Avengers: Endgame. The image shows the looks for Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Hulk, and Hawkeye–or as he’s expected to be known, Ronin.

Ronin aside, the photo (via ComicBook) shows the heroes largely returning to their roots. Thor, Cap, and Iron Man all don pretty traditional looks. Iron Man’s suit is much more polished and spiffy than the wreckage we’ve seen in trailers so far, and Cap is back to the clean-cut star-spangled man after his darker, bearded appearance in Infinity War (RIP). Black Widow is wearing a sleek black jumpsuit, and her hair has returned to its fiery red. Hulk is the biggest departure from the norm, wearing a jumpsuit of his own that appears perfectly fitted to his massive frame.

The official synopsis suggests that the heroes will attempt to “undo Thanos’ actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.” We expected as much, given that Marvel has already begun teasing movies starring characters that are ostensibly deceased like Spider-Man. How exactly they’ll do this, and who won’t live through it, remains to be seen.

The first trailer for Avengers: Endgame suggested that Ant-Man could be instrumental to the plan, given Steve Rogers’ surprise at seeing Scott Lang appear on his doorstep. It seems that the Avengers presumed he was deceased, when a post-credits scene for Ant-Man and the Wasp revealed he was in the quantum realm during Thanos’ genocidal finger-snap.

Before Endgame hits, though, Marvel has one more hero to introduce. Captain Marvel is coming on March 8, and the post-credits sequence of Infinity War implies that Nick Fury thinks of her as his trump card. As for Endgame itself, it appears likely to be longer than any other Marvel movie to date–which makes sense given that it’s the culmination of a decade of this connected universe. Check out our breakdown of the Super Bowl trailer for more.

PlayStation is hosting another flash sale on PSN, offering deals on some games that you may have missed during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. Many of the discounts are to games that released in the fall, so you could be forgiven for having them overshadowed by all the big AAA releases of 2018.

Darksiders 3 is the long-awaited sequel, and the first entry in the series since THQ Nordic acquired the rights. It’s been marked down to $48, or you can pick up the Blades & Whips edition for $70. Similarly, Fallout 76 has been marked down to $36, and the more expensive Tricentennial Bundle is going for $48. You can also snag Monster Hunter World for $25, or its Digital Deluxe edition for $30. In each case, going for the pricier option gets you some exclusive unlocks.

Other highlights include Tetris Effect, one of our top games of 2018, for $30, Earth Defense Force 5 for $48, and Moonlighter for $12, among others. Tetris Effect will also let you try it for free this weekend on PS4, so if you like what you play you can grab it at a discount. Check out the full listing below, which is relatively short for a flash sale.

These are notably all PS4 games, with no PS3 or Vita games on the list. That appears to be another sign that Sony is slowly phasing out its attention on those platforms, as it will no longer offer games for them as freebies on PS Plus as of March. Plus members are getting a boost to their cloud storage space, though, and that perk went live today.

This is a flash sale, so the discounts don’t last long. You’ll have to make your purchases by February 11 at 8 AM PT.

• Chasm ($12)
• Darksiders 3 ($48)
• Darksiders 3 Deluxe Edition ($60)
• Darksiders 3 Blades & Whips Edition ($70)
• Earth Defense Force 5 ($48)
• Earth Defense Force 5 Deluxe Edition ($72)
• Evasion VR ($20)
• Fallout 76 ($36)
• Fallout 76 Tricentennial Bundlle ($48)
• Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms: Idle Champions Outfit Pack: Minsc’s Giant Boo Costume ($7.50)
• Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms: Idle Champions: Bruenor Starter Pack ($6)
• Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms: Idle Champions: Faerie Dragon Familiar ($7.50)
• Marooners ($4.50)
• Metal Max Xeno ($30)
• Monster Hunter World ($25)
• Monster Hunter World Digital Deluxe Edition ($30)
• Monster Hunter World Deluxe Kit ($9)
• Moonlighter ($12)
• Nascar Heat 3 ($24)
• Nascar Heat 3 Bundle ($30)
• Override: Mech City Brawl ($18)
• Override: Super Charged Mega Edition ($24)
• Realm Royale Primarch Pack ($10.50)
• Slime Rancher ($12)
• Sprint Vector VR ($12)
• Swords of Ditto ($10)
• Tetris Effect ($30)
• The First Tree ($6)
• The Long Journey Home ($24)
• Ticket to Ride ($10)
• Ticket to Ride – First Class ($15)

It’s a great–if confusing–time to be a fan of the Child’s Play series. The classic killer doll franchise is now more than 30 years old, and not only is a new TV show in the works, but an unrelated movie remake also hits theaters this summer. The first trailer has now been released for that film.

The trailer doesn’t give much away, and fans hoping to see or hear Chucky might be disappointed. But we do get the story set-up, which seems to hit the beats of the original 1988 movie. A young boy is given a Buddi toy, the hottest doll on the market. Unfortunately, this doll has a mind of his own and sets about causing all sorts of murderous mayhem. No word yet if the remake Chucky has been possessed by a serial killer like in the original films, but he certainly seems every bit as evil as the first version. Check the trailer out above.

Child’s Play is directed by Lars Klevberg, who has also helmed the upcoming horror Polaroid. It stars Aubrey Plaza (Legion) and Brian Tyree Henry (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), plus Gabriel Bateman (Light’s Out) as the kid who end up in possession of the evil doll Chucky. It’s produced by David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith, who also produced the blockbuster 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s It The movie hits theaters on June 21.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Klevberg spoke about getting involved the remake. “Child’s Play was, and is, one of my all-time horror movies and it was one of my introductions to horror,” he said. “I got the script [for the remake] and it was really really good, and I knew it was from the producers from It, and I jumped in immediately.”

As for the Child’s Play TV series, it’s titled ‘Chucky,’ and is being developedfor SyFy. While Child’s Play creator Don Mancini is not involved with the new movie, he is writing and producing the show.

The Chucky series kicked off in 1988 with Child’s Play, which was followed by two direct sequels in 1990 and 1991. The series took a more overt comic turn with 1998’s The Bride of Chucky and three subsequent films. Mancini wrote every movie in the series to date and directed the last three, including 2017’s The Cult of Chucky.