The Best Cyber Week 2018 Deals: Preorder Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Get Free Amazon Credit

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday is over, but there’s still Cyber Week. This is the last week of sales for 2018, and prices will go back up afterwards to take advantage of the late holiday gift shoppers. There are still plenty of great deals still available from Black Friday and Cyber Monday, as well as some new deals that we hadn’t see yet.

supersmashbrosOut Next Friday – Get $10 Amazon Credit When You Preorder Super Smash Bros Ultimate for Nintendo Switch

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Aquaman Opening Weekend Box Office Tracking Revealed

Aquaman is tracking for domestic opening weekend sales of at least $65 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The report cites Warner Bros. insiders for this high number, but if Aquaman crosses the $65 million mark during its opening weekend, the film could continue past $85 million by Christmas Day, with one major tracking service predicting it could near $100 million.

With Jason Momoa in the title role, Aquaman will debut the weekend of Dec. 21-23 and will go up against Mary Poppins Returns and Bumblebee. Of these three, Aquaman is expected to earn the most during this period.

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Blade Runner Anime Series Coming to Cartoon Network, Crunchyroll

Blade Runner – Black Lotus, a new Blade Runner anime series, has been announced and will air on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and Crunchyroll.

Created in partnership with Alcon Television Group, Black Lotus is set in the year 2032 and will feature “some familiar characters” from the Blade Runner universe.

Shinichiro Watanabe, who directed the 2049 anime companion short Blade Runner Black Out 2022, will serve as a creative producer, while Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama will direct all 13 episodes of the premiere season, each confirmed to be 30-minutes long. Aramaki is known for his work on Appleseed and Evangelion, and Kamiyama served as director and chief writer for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

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5 Predictions for the 2018 Game Awards

The Game Awards airs live on Thursday, December 6 (watch it live on IGN starting at 6pm PT/9pm ET). Over the years, host and executive producer Geoff Keighley has built the event into not only a celebration of the gaming year coming to a close but a look ahead at the one to come. With that, we’ve got a few predictions on what announcements may be in store for us at the last major gaming event of 2018.

Yeah, Reggie just downplayed anything happening anytime soon with Nintendo’s third pillar. But the fact of the matter is that they’ve probably got something to show by now, even if it’s just a CG trailer. And Keighley has a knack of getting major exclusives out of Nintendo. Look no further than 2014, when he scored a video of Miyamoto running around Hyrule from a Nintendo conference room. As someone who does this for a living, I can assure you, getting that is no easy task. Or take last year, when Zelda’s Master Cycle was revealed at The Game Awards. Point is, I think Reggie is playing coy, and Metroid is coming out to play – in some form – at this year’s event.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Gets A Nice Discount–But It Won’t Last Long (PS4, Xbox One)

If you missed out on the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, there’s no need to despair. A number of great deals on recently released games are still alive and well. For instance, you can get Battlefield V for just $30. But if you prefer the Call of Duty style of shooter, you’re not left out in the cold. Even though it just came out last month, you can get the PS4 or Xbox One versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 for just $40 right now, no strings attached.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 comes with all-new versions of the series’ well-established multiplayer and Zombies modes. But instead of the third pillar being a single-player campaign like in previous installments, developer Treyarch has introduced a new online mode called Blackout. Blackout is a battle royale-style mode that has around 100 players drop onto an island and fight it out as the playing field shrinks. The match ends when only one player or team is left standing.

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Critic Kallie Plagge scored the game 8/10 in GameSpot’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 review, summing it up like this: “Black Ops 4 isn’t short on content, and its three main modes are substantial. Multiplayer introduces more tactical mechanics without forcing you into them, and it largely strikes a good balance. Zombies has multiple deep, secret-filled maps to explore, though its returning characters don’t hold up and prove distracting. Finally, Blackout pushes Call of Duty in an entirely new direction, making use of aspects from both multiplayer and Zombies for a take on the battle royale genre that stands on its own. Sure, there isn’t a traditional single-player campaign, but with the depth and breadth of what is there, Black Ops 4 doesn’t need it.”

If that sounds like a game you want to try for yourself or buy for someone on your shopping list this holiday, grab it quickly. The sale price ends today at Target, and Walmart may follow suit.

Fortnite Leak Points to Destruction of Tilted Towers

A datamine may have revealed the next area of Fortnite’s map to be affected by story developments. @FNLeak tweeted an alleged bit of Fortnite code that points to the destruction of Tilted Towers.

“The game files now include the explicit mention of destroying Tilted Towers!” FNLeak tweeted Tuesday. The leaker continued: “These lines of text have to do with bots that are configurable in some manner to attack things.”

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Fortnite Week 10 Challenges: Visit Camel, Vehicle Timed Trials, And More (Season 6)

It’s now Week 10, the last week of Fortnite: Battle Royale Season 6. What Epic Games has in store for the wildly popular battle royale title in Season 7 remains a mystery, but what we do know is that time is running out to get this season’s Battle Stars, level up your Battle Pass, and unlock the cosmetic items attached to it. Once the season is over, it could be a long time before any of those items return, so if you’ve had your eye on a skin, bling, or harvester, it’s now or never. Here’s what to expect from Week 10 challenges.

Week 10’s challenges are now available and, as always, come in two categories: free to everyone and exclusive to paid Battle Pass owners. In the free section, players will need to build 250 structures in exchange for five Battle Stars. Visiting a ship, a camel, and a crashed Battle Bus will also net you five Battle Stars (check out our guide for exact locations), while searching seven chests at either Tilted Towers or Paradise Palms will get you 10 Battle Stars.

In the paid Battle Pass section, meanwhile, you’ll need to place Mounted Turrets in three different matches for five Battle Stars and complete three vehicle timed trials for 10 Battle Stars. This tier also has two multi-stage challenges. The first starts by landing at Lazy Links, while the second begins by getting a shotgun elimination. As you complete those, additional stages will reveal themselves. Take a look at the full list of challenges below.

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Fortnite Season 6, Week 10 Challenges

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  • Build structures (250) — 5 Battle Star
  • Visit a Viking ship, a camel, and a crashed Battle Bus (3) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Search chests at Tilted Towers or Paradise Palms (7) — 10 Battle Stars

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  • Place Mounted Turrets in different matches (3) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Stage 1: Land at Lazy Links (1) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Complete vehicle timed trials (3) — 10 Battle Stars
  • Stage 1: Shotgun eliminations (1) — 10 Battle Stars

Epic has launched Fortnite update 6.31 and, as part of it, a new feature that allows players to gift items to others. According to the studio this feature isn’t going to be around for long, but it’s described as an “initial gifting period,” suggesting it could return in the future. The item shop currently allows players to buy cosmetics as a gift and then select someone on their friends list to send the item to.

In order to make use of the gifting feature, you’ll need to have multi-factor authentication enabled, and you’ll need to have been friends with a person for at least 48 hours before a gift can be sent to them. Gifts are limited to three in a 24-hour period and Epic will not refund any gift purchases. Fortnite’s 6.31 update also added new shotgun variants and a fresh limited-time mode, among other things. You can get all the details in the full patch notes here.

Fortnite Camel, Crashed Battle Bus, Viking Ship Locations (Week 10 Challenge, Season 6)

The final set of challenges for Fortnite Season 6 have been revealed, and while they’re all pretty straightforward, one will require you to have good knowledge of the island. For Week 10‘s free challenges, developer Epic Games wants players to visit a Viking ship, a camel, and a crashed Battle Bus. In return, they’ll be awarded with five precious Battle Stars that can be put towards leveling up their Battle Pass and unlocking cosmetics. Here’s where to find all three.

If you’ve played a lot of Fortnite, you should have a pretty good idea of where to find these landmarks on the island. However, if you need a helping hand, we’re here to provide it. The Viking ship can be found on the southwest of the map at coordinates B6. It’s huge, so if you glide over there you will not miss it. The camel, meanwhile, is near Lucky Landing at the coordinates G9. Again, another one that you can’t miss. The Battle Bus is slightly trickier as it has moved recently. While it used to be around Shifty Shafts, it’s now at the map grid E3, which is to the west of Lazy Links.

All you’ve got to do to finish the challenge is head to those locations. However, make sure you finish the game–win or lose–as if you quit out immediately it will not count. To make things a little easier we’ve put together a video of ourselves completing the challenge, which you can watch above. Below you’ll find the exact locations of the three landmarks.

Fortnite Viking Ship, Camel, Crashed Battle Bus Locations

  • Viking Ship: Southwest at B6, on top of the snowy mountain
  • Camel: Northeast at G9, near Lucky Landing
  • Crashed Battle Bus: West of Lazy Links at E3

That’s just one of the challenges for Season 6, Week 10. As previously noted, this is the final week of challenges for the season, which means it’s also the last week you can unlock the cosmetics tied to the Battle Pass for this season. Once it’s over, there’s no telling when they’ll be available again, so it’s worth spending some time finishing challenges from this week, and previous ones, so you can get everything you want.

It might seem daunting, but we’ve been putting together guides for all the hardest challenges week by week. If you use our Fortnite Season 6 complete challenge guide, you’ll get everything done in no time. You’ll want to act fast, as Fortnite Season 7 is just around the corner.

Will The Lion King’s Photorealism Rob It of Character?

The trailer for Jon Favreau’s The Lion King broke records over Thanksgiving, and no wonder: It’s a remake of a beloved classic, and it looks stunning. But in between breathless exclamations of emotion since the trailer hit – whether borne of CGI majesty or nostalgia – there’s been much debate around the film’s photorealistic visual style. Put simply: Will a “live-action” Lion King feel weird? And can it possibly be as visually stylish as the original? Indeed, these questions also raise a more existential one about animation’s history and future in general.

The most tedious version of this argument concerns the jargon of moviemaking. Given that the film will be entirely computer-generated, calling it “live-action” is patently incorrect. One can split hairs over the production process – shooting motion-captured actors on a bluescreen stage, rather than animating by hand – but not a single frame of live-action footage will make the film. How you define it, however, makes little difference; the intended aesthetic is that of live-action animals, and that’s that.

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Netflix’s Prodigy Comic Trailer Pits a Super-genius Against a World-ending Problem

Here’s your first look at a trailer for Prodigy, a new comic book from Netflix’s Millarworld comic company. The trailer introduces super-genius Edison Crane and sets the stakes as he’s faced with the first problem he may not be able to solve, and if he doesn’t, it could mean the end of the world.

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Prodigy is written by Mark Millar and drawn by Rafael Albuquerque.

When Netflix acquired Millar’s comic book company Millarworld earlier this year, the streaming giant announced plans to create movies based on Millar’s Empress, Sharkey the Bounty Hunter, and Huck as well as TV series for Jupiter’s Legacy and American Jesus. In addition, Millar has been working on creating new movies and shows for Netflix, some of which will be getting comics. The Magic Order (written by Millar with art by Olivier Coipel) was the first of these comics and up next is Prodigy, out next week. A Prodigy movie is currently in production for Netflix. A comic for Sharkey the Bounty Hunter from Millar and artist Simone Bianchi is on the way in February 2019.

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