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With Black Friday behind us, we can celebrate the other retail holiday that celebrates online retailers. Cyber Monday is upon us, and one of its bounty of offerings includes the recent release Hitman 2 for cheap. Like the head of an assassination target who stood precariously near a bandsaw, it’s already half-off.

The deal comes from GameStop, which is offering up to 65% off select games. Those include Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and Hitman 2, among others. Hitman stands out at the low price of $30, a full 50% off the usual price, even though it just launched on November 13.

If you act fast enough, you may even be able to kill Sean Bean. He’s the game’s first Elusive Target–limited time missions that give you one chance at taking down a special victim. Bean plays Mark Faba, an ex-MI6 agent notorious for faking his own death. The mission kicked off on November 20, but only lasts for two weeks.

“Hitman is about experiencing the anticipation of seeing whether a plan will work when you try it for the first time,” critic Edmond Tran wrote in GameSpot’s Hitman 2 review. “It’s about feeling the tension of briskly walking away from a bad situation, hoping you can lose the suspicious guards. It’s the satisfaction of knowing the machinations of a level so well that when a target moves into a particular place at a particular time, you have the perfect way to intervene. Hitman 2 is a familiar experience, but in the Hitman world, familiarity is an incredible strength.”

Check out all of our roundups of Cyber Monday deals to score more discounts.

Critics did not enjoy Venom, but audiences liked it better, and that’s proven yet again now that the movie has passed another massive box office milestone. The movie has now passed $800 million globally. It’s made $211.7 million in the US and $610.8 million internationally for a total of $822.5 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.

That makes it the fifth biggest movie of 2018, only trailing The Incredibles 2 ($1.2 billion), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ($1.3 billion), Black Panther ($1.34 billion), and Avengers: Infinity War ($2 billion).

In another superhero movie comparison, Venom also climbs past 2017’s Wonder Woman, which made $821.9 million during its theatrical run.

Just recently, production company Sony announced the release dates for two Spider-Man spinoff movies, and one of them is probably Venom 2.

The end credits bonus scene in Venom strongly hints at the sequel and its main villain–you can read GameSpot’s end-credits scene breakdown here to learn more. Director Ruben Fleischer told GameSpot that this scene was meant to lay the groundwork for Venom 2.

Retailer GameStop has announced all of its Cyber Monday 2018 deals, and there are some really nice offers available. Starting on Monday, November 27, GameStop will offer discounts on hardware, games, accessories and more through its online store.

Starting with hardware, GameStop will give you a $50 GameStop gift card when you buy a new Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, or PS4. It’s limited to one per person, and the 1 TB Spider-Man PS4 bundle and the 1 TB Minecraft Xbox One bundles are not included.

While you can’t get the $50 gift card with the Minecraft Xbox One bundle, GameStop is offering the 1 TB console bundle for only $200 which is a nice deal to begin with. As for the Nintendo Switch deal, it’s sweetened further by the fact that GameStop is also throwing in $35 eShop credit when you buy the console.

In terms of game deals, GameStop will have nice deals on the following games:

What’s more, GameStop is offering a number of second-hand deals, including a Buy 2 Get 1 offer on pre-owned Xbox 360/PS3-era games and old “Retro” titles. Additionally, the retailer is offering 20 percent off all pre-owned phones, tablets, and wearables.

Shipping from GameStop.com is free with orders over $35. Go to GameStop’s website here to see a rundown of all the store’s deals.

It’s nearly Cyber Monday, and that means a lot of retailers will be going live with their deals momentarily. American retailer Walmart will have one of the best PS4 deals around town.

Starting at 12:01 AM ET, Walmart will offer a bundle that comes with a 1 TB black PS4, a copy of Red Dead Redemption 2, and an extra DualShock 4 controller for only $300, according to the product page. That’s an incredible deal, so if you’re interested, you’ll want to act quickly.

Deal-hunter Wario64 linked to a story that states the bundle will go for $200, but the product page shows $300. We’ll know more soon, as the deal is set to go live soon.

We’ll report back with the rest of Walmart’s Cyber Monday offerings when they become available. For more on Cyber Monday, check out GameSpot’s rundown of Best Buy’s deals. Keep checking back with GameSpot for more on Cyber Monday in the hours ahead.

It looks like the new Alien game announced in January might now have a name. 20th Century Fox has filed a trademark application for a new video game called Alien: Blackout.

Trademark applications do not always result in announcements of a new product. It is possible that 20th Century Fox is merely grabbing the trademark to protect the future opportunity to make a game called Alien: Blackout. For what it’s worth, Activision trademarked games like Call of Duty: Secret Warfare and others that never came to be.

If Alien: Blackout is indeed a real game, one place where it could get announced is at The Game Awards next month on December 6. Organiser Geoff Keighley has teased that this year’s show will feature a lot of announcements and surprises, including those from “huge franchises.” The Alien series would certainly meet the criteria of being a “huge franchise.”

Earlier this month, Keighley posted a cryptic teaser for The Game Awards with the tagline “Worlds Will Change.” Intriguingly, the font appears to be similar the one that Weyland Industries uses in the Alien series.

A new Alien game for console and PC was announced in January this year. This game is in development at the San Francisco-based Cold Iron Studios, which was established in 2015 and is now owned by FoxNext, which is the video game division of Fox. Cold Iron is staffed by people who worked on titles such as Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, BioShock Infinite, Borderlands, Doom, and Metroid Prime 3. The new Alien game will be Cold Iron’s first title.

Beyond the fact that it is a shooter, FoxNext also said this game will “deliver an action-packed gaming experience.” No other details are available at this time.

Since there are no details available yet, it’s possible Alien: Blackout is the name of Cold Iron’s game or potentially something else entirely.

2014’s Alien: Isolation from UK studio Creative Assembly is the latest installment in the Alien video game series for console and PC. The game sold more than 2 million copies. Creative Assembly talked about ideas for a sequel, but it remains to be seen if that will ever happen.

GameSpot and Paramount Pictures Australia are excited to give readers the chance to win tickets to see upcoming WWII horror-action film OVERLORD, from producer J.J. Abrams.

“With only hours until D-Day, a team of American paratroopers drop into Nazi-occupied France to carry out a mission that’s crucial to the invasion’s success. Tasked with destroying a radio transmitter atop a fortified church, the desperate soldiers join forces with a young French villager to penetrate the walls and take down the tower. But, in a mysterious Nazi lab beneath the church, the outnumbered G.I.s come face-to-face with enemies unlike any the world has ever seen. From producer J.J. Abrams, Overlord is a thrilling, pulse-pounding action adventure with a twist.”

In the GameSpot review of the film, Tony Wilson said that “this part-war, part-horror movie doesn’t shy away from the bloody reality of combat, combining World War II action with monster movie moments for a thrilling ride that rarely lets up. With likable heroes and despicable villains, Overlord is a trip into Nazi-occupied France that’s worth taking. “

There are a total of 15 double-passes up for grabs, and to be in the running, all you have to do is fill in the form below, and answer a simple trivia question.

Good luck! Entries close on December 5, 2018.

OVERLORD is in cinemas DECEMBER 6

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The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red’s upcoming ambitious RPG Cyberpunk 2077 aims to be as “refined” as Red Dead Redemption 2. CD Projekt Red CEO Adam Kicinski said during a recent investor presentation that Red Dead Redemption 2 has taught CD Projekt Red that the Polish studio must release “extraordinary games” so it can earn itself a “nice fat slice of cake.”

Kicinski’s comments came in response to an investor question about what lessons CD Projekt Red learned from Red Dead, and if the studio believes Cyberpunk 2077 can score as high critically as Rockstar’s open-world western did.

“Without a doubt, quality is of paramount importance,” Kicinski said. “We strive to publish games which are as refined as Red Dead Redemption 2, and recent Rockstar releases in general. That game is excellent, by the way, we are rooting for it. Rave reviews, excellent sales. What does that teach us? Well, it teaches us that we need to publish extraordinary games, and that’s exactly what we are planning.”

Kicinski added that he has observed a general trend in games today where people play more of the “hit releases” and pass on other titles that don’t capture their attention. Time is a finite commodity, and as such, CD Projekt Red is focusing on making Cyberpunk 2077 “the best.”

“Gamers, it seems, tend to focus more and more on hit releases. There’s only so much time one can devote to video games, and while there gaming community is growing, time cannot be stretched,” he said. “There is–well, maybe not a surfeit, but a fair deal of good games out there, and playing them consumes a lot of time.

“So it pays to be among the best–that’s how you get a nice fat slice of cake, businesswise, and the same cannot be said for the lower leagues. In summary, we are rooting for Rockstar and for Red Dead Redemption 2, and we’re happy to see that excellent games continue to sell well.”

Also during the presentation, Kicinski clarified what stage of development Cyberpunk 2077 is in right now, at least to a degree. He said developers are now “fleshing out the game world.” He commented that the what you saw of Cyberpunk 2077 at E3 and Gamescom was “not quite as detailed” as the final version will look. Overall, development is on schedule, Kicinski said, though it sounds like there is quite a lot of work still to do before it is finished.

“We are filling the world with content and tweaking things, and this involves a great deal of hard work on the part of developers,” Kicinski said. “What I can say today is that we’re progressing fast and according to plan. When we finish, there’s also the hugely important phase of polishing all that game content. There was a question about the quality of the game we plan to deliver at launch and our intention is to deliver something of great quality. Once the game is complete, we can begin to patch various bugs, both major and minor, and we are setting aside time to complete this process.”

Cyberpunk 2077 places players in the role of V, a mercenary who can be augmented with all manner of cybernetic enhancements. The game is set in the futuristic dystopian metropolis Night City, and unlike the Witcher titles, it is played in first-person. You can watch 48 minutes of gameplay in the video embedded above.

In other news, CD Projekt Red recently enlisted the help of a multiplayer studio to help with Cyberpunk 2077 in some capacity. No release date has been set yet for Cyberpunk 2077, but it is one of the most-anticipated games across the entire industry.

Black Friday is over and Cyber Monday is beginning soon. Retailer Best Buy has launched its Cyber Monday deals ahead of time, but you need to sign up for the (free) My Best Buy membership to see all the deals and get early access.

There are some nice gaming offers available, including:

You can see all of Best Buy’s game deals here.

If you’re after a new controller, Best Buy has DualShock 4 controllers for PS4 down to $40 USD in black, gold, camo, red, silver, and blue. Xbox One controllers are also discounted; you can get the Microsoft gamepad for only $40 USD in black, white, and gray/blue. The red edition is going for $45, while the special-edition phantom black and sport white controllers are going for $50 USD.

In terms of hardware deals, the high-end 1 TB Xbox One is down to $400 USD, while the 1 TB Xbox One S Minecraft bundle is going for only $200 USD. A PlayStation VR bundle that comes with Astro Bot, Moss, and a PlayStation Camera is down to only $200 USD. There do not appear to be any PlayStation 4 hardware deals at Best Buy for Cyber Monday.

Best Buy is also offering discounts on PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold subscriptions. A 12-month PlayStation Plus subscription is going for only $40 USD, while a six-month Xbox Live Gold subscription can be had for only $30.

Go to Best Buy’s website here to see all the Cyber Monday deals. For more on Cyber Monday deals, check out GameSpot’s roundup of all the best offers for games, TV, and more.