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The Spider has painted a new target on an escapee of the Prison of Elders with the latest Destiny 2 weekly reset. With the new round of bounties comes Wanted: Eye In The Dark, a wanted target players haven’t hunted before. It’s a powerful Hive Shrieker hiding in one of the deep places of the Hellas Basin on Mars. You’ll need some strong weapons to bring it down, as well as the resiliency to fight off a whole horde of Hive minions. Here’s where to find it, and how to take it down to earn a piece of Powerful gear.

Like all of the Wanted Spider bounties, this one will run you five Ghost Fragments, which you can earn from completing public events, bounties, and patrols on the Tangled Shore. Purchase it, and you’ll unlock a new Adventure on Mars. Load into the Glacial Drift area, then head up north along the eastern edge of the map to reach the Ma’adim Subterrane Lost Sector to start the Adventure.

Delve into the cave and you’ll find Cabal fighting Hive throughout the area. Clear the path until you get to the back of the Lost Sector, where you’ll find the Eye In The Dark hovering over you, closed up. You’ll soon find that the Shrieker is invulnerable to your attacks–the only way to hurt it when it is opened is to have the “Wormcursed” buff active, which lets you dish out the damage for 15 seconds.

To get the buff, look for special Wormcursed Thralls, which are glowing Cursed Thralls, hanging around the battlefield. These guys carry orange life bars and are therefore a bit tough to kill, so watch out they don’t explode and take you down. Once they pop, they’ll spray green goo all over the area. You can catch some from the explosion or walk through it to get it on you, which will give you the buff. As soon as you’ve got it, turn your attention to blasting away at the Eye.

Doing a certain amount of damage will cause the Eye In The Dark to clam up again, forcing you to fight a whole bunch of Hive enemies that stream into the area. Try to keep moving so you don’t get overwhelmed, and watch your six, as enemies will enter behind you along the path you took to reach the Eye. Clearing out all the enemies will cause the Eye to open again, and you’ll need to repeat the process of killing a Womrcursed Thrall to get the buff.

If you’re at a high level and have strong weapons like Sleeper Simulant, you should be able to take down the Eye on that second buff. Crowd control supers are really helpful here, since the Hive can be overwhelming, as is anything that does powerful direct damage to the Eye, like sniper rifles or linear fusion rifles. Heavy weapons are good for the Eye, while assault rifles and other fast-firing weapons will be good for fighting the Hive that protect it.

Killing the Eye will complete the bounty and net you your Powerful gear drop, which is the gear in Destiny 2 that will push you toward the Power level cap of 600. To continue the climb, focus on Daily and Weekly challenges, as well as the Ascendant Challenge in the Dreaming City.

You might also want to check out the Iron Banner Crucible event, which is back with this week’s reset. Battling in the Crucible will earn you increased Valor and Glory ranks, plus the opportunity to complete Iron Banner bounties, all of which are good for Powerful gear drops. And don’t forget that this week marks the final step in the Murder Mystery quest to unlock a new Exotic weapon, the heavy machine gun Thunderlord from the original Destiny.

Black Friday is almost here! Odds are there’s something going on sale that will be right for you, but don’t go in unprepared. Brands like Target and Walmart are already rolling out previews of their best deals on electronics, movies, and video games, and we’re here to sift through it all to find the best savings on the stuff you’ve been waiting for.

This gallery will focus on Best Buy’s best Black Friday game deals, but if you’re interested in other retailers too, be sure to check out our coverage of Target’s offerings and what Walmart has in store, and stay tuned to GameSpot in the week to come for more great sales.

What’s that? You’re ready to take the leap into 4K HDR but you don’t have a compatible TV yet? If you’ve earmarked Black Friday as the time to buy, consult our collection of the best cheap TV deals on Black Friday, where you can find everything from $200 4K TV’s being sold on location Meijer stores, to a massive 75-inch 4K TV for the relatively low price of $1,200 directly from Samsung online.

To make sure you don’t miss anything, check out our complete lineup of Black Friday deals here, and our article covering the dates and times every deal goes into effect. And now, onto Best Buy’s best game deals of Black Friday 2018.

The Black Friday 2018 deals are coming in thick and fast, and the event hasn’t even started yet! This year, the annual shopping holiday is set to officially begin on November 23 but retailers are giving prospective spenders a heads-up. The first off the starting line was Target, but others have now followed.

If you’re anything like us, you’ll find it all a bit overwhelming. The ridiculous amount of deals whizzing about the internet right now makes it hard to focus on the best, so we’ve decided to pick through them and pull out the ones we think are worth consideration.

Online shoppers will get access to Walmart’s discounts through Walmart.com on Wednesday, November 21 at 10 PM ET (7 PM PT). Since supplies can be limited, it’s worth scoping out what you want ahead of time to give yourself the best chance of scooping it up.

Walmart has a nice selection of hardware and games on offer. For example, if you’re in the market for Sony’s latest system, the PS4 Slim 1TB with Spider-Man will be available for $199–it’s not the more powerful PS4 Pro, but this is still a great price for current hardware.

Similarly, the Xbox One S Minecraft Creators Bundle is going to be knocked down to $199. Alternatively, you can opt for the Xbox One X and save $100 on it, meaning you’ll pay $399. Nintendo Switch, meanwhile, will be available for $299 with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

In terms of games, Walmart has recent releases such as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Destiny 2: Forsaken Legendary Collection, among others. Take a look through this gallery to see the best deals we’ve seen at Walmart. If you want more options, take a look at all of our coverage in our Black Friday deals roundup.

The Mandalorian may have found its star. Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, Kingsman: The Golden Circle) is reportedly set to head up the original Star Wars series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Mandalorian is preparing to launch on Disney’s paid subscription service, called Disney+, next year.

Disney confirmed The Mandalorian with its first official image and some very high-profile names set to direct individual episodes. Those include Taika Waititi (Thor Ragnarok), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), and Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones). It will join another planned series that will bring back Diego Luna to reprise his role as Cassian Andor from Rogue One.

The Mandalorian takes place after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi but before the new episodic films. It’s said to follow a lone gunfighter outrunning the law of the New Republic, after the legendary Mandalorians Jango and Boba Fett’s time has passed.

A film spin-off featuring the fan favorite character Boba Fett was said to be in the planning stages at Lucasfilm, but Solo: A Star Wars Story was a commercial disappointment and appears to have led the studio to reevaluate its plans. Disney head Bob Iger suggested that the sequels may have come “too much, too fast” and a shortly after reports circulated that the Boba Fett movie was officially put on hold. The Mandalorian still lets the studio tap one of its more iconic character designs, though.

Each Tuesday, Sony refreshes the weekly deals on PS4, PS3, and PS Vita games on the PlayStation Store. And while many other retailers are offering barebones sales this week (presumably saving their best deals for Black Friday), the PlayStation Store has some fine discounts on great games this week. As usual, to get the discounts on some of the games, you’ll need a PlayStation Plus membership.

For starters, most PS4 Final Fantasy games are on sale, so if you’ve been waiting for a sale to round out your collection, now is a good time to buy. Final Fantasy VII is on sale for $10, while Final Fantasy IX will run you $12.60. Next come a pair of remasters, with Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on sale for $15 and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age down to $25.

Also on sale is the recent Tomb Raider trilogy. You can grab Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for $6, Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration for $12, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider–which just came out in September–for $30.

Those who only want to spend a few bucks can pick up a handful of games for next to nothing. The often-overlooked Square Enix game Murdered: Soul Suspect is on sale for just $2 right now. For $6, you can buy Just Cause 3 to get ready for the upcoming sequel. And if you’re into smaller-scale games, you can grab Hitman Go: Definitive Edition for $2 or Lara Croft Go for $2.50.

You’ll find more of our picks listed below, or you can head to the PlayStation Store to find the full sale, encompassing over 600 items. To see if any of these deals will be beat on Black Friday, check out our roundup of all the best PS4 Black Friday deals you’ll find next week.

When Jovan Adepo first read the script for Overlord during the auditioning process, he was excited. “I was just thinking to myself, ‘This is an incredibly ambitious film,'” the actor told GameSpot during a recent interview.

Overlord follows a small squad of World War II paratroopers on a mission to destroy a radio tower on the eve of the famous Normandy landing in 1944. In a small French village, they discover horrifying experiments being perpetrated by evil Nazi scientists. Adepo plays Boyce, a member of the squad and the movie’s main protagonist.

Naturally, in addition to the film’s ambition, Adepo also liked one of the names attached to the movie: producer J.J. Abrams. “When my agent first told me about it and he told me who was involved, you know, I was obviously intrigued,” Adepo said. But it was more than just working with Abrams. Adepo spent much of production wondering the same thing as many fans: whether Overlord was going to be a Cloverfield movie.

“I’m a digger, man. I came from a journalist background, so I’m naturally very nosy,” Adepo said. “I was watching Cloverfield Paradox right after the Super Bowl, and I was really curious as to how we were going to be connected to them, or if we were at all.”

The question was treated as mystery internally, just like it was to those outside the movie. At one point, Adepo flat out asked: “It might not have been the smartest thing, but whatever–I just went up to one of the producers and I was like, ‘Hey are we a part of the Cloverfield universe? And he was like, ‘Uh, Jovan, I don’t know,’ and I know he knew, but he just wasn’t going to tell me. But I mean, that’s what you expect. Bad Robot is very good at keeping everything in this ‘mystery box’ until it’s the perfect time.”

Adepo said if there were Cloverfield connections in the early version of the script that he saw during auditioning, he never noticed them. And the script apparently underwent only minor changes after that, such as altering Boyce’s background after Adepo was cast. Adepo said the producers allowed the question to float around set well into production. But eventually, they came clean to the cast.

“There was a moment, from what I can remember, when we were doing a couple of pickups, where they just knew that we were very curious about the whole thing, and they were like, ‘No guys, we’re kind of just teasing you,'” Adepo recalled. “‘We were just pulling your leg. We very much wanted this to be its on thing.’ Because when it was conceived, it was its own thing.”

Naturally, not every production from Abrams’ Bad Robot studio is going to wind up being a secret Cloverfield movie, like 10 Cloverfield Lane and Cloverfield Paradox were. Overlord’s potential place in that canon felt both likely and unlikely; on one hand, a movie set during World War II would take place long before the events that set any of the other Cloverfield films in motion, but on the other, Overlord’s mix of grounded action and sci-fi horror is the exact right kind of weird to fit.

Adepo said he was intimidated to work with Abrams either way–until he met him. “It was a really cool experience, and it was really cool to meet him, because, you know, just seeing him only in videos and in interviews and stuff, he’s so intimidating to me,” Adepo said. “But to get to meet him in person, he’s one of the kindest people I’ve met, and he just genuinely wants you to do well.”

Abrams visited the set in England multiple times to check on production and offer his own creative input. “It’s so cool to see him walk around and just like, smile to himself and nod his head, and he’s like, ‘Show me the next thing, because I think you’re doing a good job,'” Adepo said. “When J.J. flies from Los Angeles to England to see the work on the film and he’s just smiling the whole time, you’re doing your job.”

He said Julius Avery, Overlord’s director, deserves a lot of credit for having a clear vision and executing it while also balancing the studios’ demands. “[Julius] walked in the first day of pre-production with this idea of the type of movie that he wanted to make,” Adepo said. “This is a guy who is in love with action movies, the classical heist film–that’s like, his jam. His favorite movie is Heat, for Christ’s sake. So when came into this movie, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. And of course, when you’re working with the studio, you have to learn to collaborate and be efficient in your collaboration, because everybody’s bringing great ideas to the forefront. You want to just try to mix it as much as you can and still come out with your movie.”

Cloverfield tie-in or not, Adepo thinks the people who will enjoy the movie most are the ones who understand what it’s supposed to be. “I’ve heard people talk about it’s like one of those classic B horror films,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong–you know, my first film was [1950s period drama] Fences. I get like, the importance of heightened drama and, you know, proper filmmaking. But like, you want to be able to go to a movie and enjoy a movie without it speaking to the social climate of what’s going on right now, or whatever the case may be. You know what I mean?”

“We get enough of that every day in the news,” he continued. “You want to have a moment where you can go to the movies, get some popcorn with your buddies or go on a date, and just see a really fun movie that’s high energy that’s going to keep you involved, and that’s exactly what Bad Robot wanted to do with this film. And I think we accomplished that.”

Overlord is in theaters now.

Black Friday 2018 is set to officially kick off on November 23 but retailers are getting people primed to spend their hard-earned cash by revealing their ads early. For those looking to drop some dollars on new entertainment hardware, games, or pretty much anything else, this is actually pretty helpful as you can compare prices to find the best deals ahead of time.

Walmart’s Black Friday ad is already available, and you can also get an early peek at Best Buy’s and Target’s too. Now, Sam’s Club has also unveiled its ad a little early, and we’ve gone through to pick out everything that may be of interest to anyone that loves to park themselves in front of a screen to enjoy a movie, game, or TV show.

As noted on the Sam’s Club website, customers will need to return on November 22 for more event pricing, and many of the deals visible in the advert now may not be available until that date too. For someone looking to do a complete overhaul of their setup–and has a lot of cash to work with–the retailer is offering a 75″ Samsung 4K TV along with an Xbox One S (1TB) for $2,280.

In terms of console specific deals, you can get the PlayStation 4 1TB with Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man for $199. It’s worth keeping in mind that this is the slim version of the PS4, and not the more powerful PlayStation 4 Pro. If you’re in the market for an Xbox One, the S model is available as part of the Minecraft Creators bundle for $199. Again, if you want the most powerful Xbox One on the market, you’ll need to seek out deals on the Xbox One X instead.

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Black Friday 2018 is going to be the ideal opportunity to grab yourself some video games that you can play with family and friends throughout the holiday season. Sports games are always a great way to pass some time, settle existing feuds, or start new ones, and if you’re a fan of basketball, NBA 2K19 is probably something you’ll want to consider grabbing.

It seems that most retailers have reached the same discount price for NBA 2K19, with the game available for $30 at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart across both their PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions. You can find links to them below.

In GameSpot’s NBA 2K19 review, Michael Higham said the “core NBA 2K mechanics are challenging and rewarding” and that it offers a variety of game modes to enjoy. “If you want to immerse yourself in the sport and culture, NBA 2K19 has you covered with a breadth of content,” he continued. “But even that has its limitations after several years of iterations. Although those willing to grind for everything will eventually get rewarded, the system of VC still comes off as exploitative. But there’s a lot of fun to be had in NBA 2K19 despite its flaws, especially if you have a strong love for the sport.

“NBA 2K19 dishes out what you’d expect from the franchise: accessible yet deep core mechanics that often work just right and occasionally falter. Beyond that, there’s a full roster of ways to enjoy the sport thanks to a robust package of game modes.”

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If you’d like to see more of the deals that Best Buy, Target, and Walmart have on offer, check out our full Black Friday 2018 roundup. Along with video game hardware and software, you’ll also find some of the noteworthy discounts on TV sets and other entertainment equipment that we’ve seen in the lead up to Black Friday.