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Contrary to popular belief, it’s very easy to find great great Apple Black Friday deals. There’s a preconception that Apple is very stingy with discounts even on Black Friday, and although that’s true for the Apple Store, there are plenty of other vendors who are very willing to lower their prices. This year, Amazon is released several of their Apple Black Friday deals early. These include Black Friday iPad deals, Black Friday Apple Watch deals, Black Friday MacBook Air deals, Black Friday MacBook Pro deals, and Black Friday Apple AirPods deals. Some deals keep going in and out of stock so definitely don’t hesitate on a deal you really want. Not all of the Amazon Black Friday deals have gone live , so expect more to come.
Facebook has announced that it acquired Beat Saber developers Beat Games. The Czech Republic-based developer will join Oculus Studios as an independently operated studio in Prague.
In a press release, Facebook says that the acquisition will not impact upcoming content for Beat Saber. Beat Games will continue to ship content and updates for its popular VR rhythm game, including the upcoming 360-degree level mode and new songs in December.
“Beat Games is a strong team with proven potential across VR, games, and music. With the resources and know-how that we can offer, Beat Games will be able to accelerate, adding more music and more exciting features to Beat Saber as well as bringing the game to more people,” Facebook director of AR/VR content Mike Verdu said.
Some amazing Black Friday laptop deals are already live. They include Black Friday deals on Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, MSI, Lenovo, and Apple laptops that we pulled from Walmart, Best Buy, Dell, and Amazon Black Friday sales. We’ve included laptops for both gamers and road warriors, at a range of price points. You can opt for a $299 Chromebook, or a $2000 Intel Core i9 RTX 2080 equipped HP OMEN. At this point there’s very little risk. Every purchase is covered by an extended holiday return policy that expires in January. It’s a win-win situation.
We’ll be continually adding to this list of Black Friday laptops as more go live.
After nine years, the Pokemon Global Link is shutting down, The Pokemon Company has announced. Since the release of Pokemon Black and White on the original DS, the website has served as an online battling hub for the mainline Pokemon series, allowing players to join online competitions and view their rankings, but the latest entries, Pokemon Sword and Shield, have moved away from the service, making it no longer necessary.
In a statement on the Pokemon Global Link website, The Pokemon Company revealed the service will cease on February 24, 2020. After that point, players “will no longer be able to use any gameplay features that require a connection to the PGL” in either Pokemon Sun and Moon or Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. However, regular online features such as battling and trading will still be available in those titles.
Before the Pokemon Global Link shuts down, The Pokemon Company is giving away one final free Pokemon to Global Link users. From now until February 24, you can claim a free Fennel’s Munna in a Gen 7 3DS game. This Munna is modeled after the one owned by Fennel, the Dream World researcher from Pokemon Black and White.
To receive the Pokemon, log into the Pokemon Global Link and a personal notification about the gift will appear on the homepage. Click on the link within the notification to generate a download code. After that, you’ll need to go into Mystery Gift in your 3DS game of choice (either Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, or Ultra Moon) and go through the following steps:
Select Receive Gift
Select Get with Code/Password
Follow prompts to connect online
Input download code
Open your save file
Retrieve the Pokemon from the deliveryman in any Pokemon Center
While the Pokemon Global Link may be shutting down, its functionality still lives on in Sword and Shield’s Battle Stadium, which lets players compete in ranked online competitions. The upcoming Pokemon Home service will feature some PGL functionality as well. That is slated to launch sometime in early 2020 and will also allow you to transfer Pokemon from 3DS to Switch.
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Hollow Knight‘s soundtrack is receiving a piano arrangement this week, with the release of Hollow Knight Piano Collections. Composer Christopher Larkin’s soundtrack has been arranged for piano by David Peacock and performed by Augustine Gonzales. The album will consist of 15 tracks taken from the hit game, and will be available digitally on November 28.
Hollow Knight Piano Collections is currently available for pre-order. It can be purchased as a digital album for $10, on CD for $19, or as a deluxe 2LP vinyl for $39. The sheet music is also available to purchase in physical form for $25, or digitally for $15. As well as Bandcamp, it will be available on Apple Music, iTunes, and Tidal. Two tracks are available to listen to right now for free–Hollow Knight, named after the game itself, and Greenpath. The art for the album is below.
We gave Hollow Knight a 9/10 in our review, and reviewer Alessandro Barbosa stated that the music tracks “breathe an immense amount of personality into each area with fitting backdrops.” Developers Team Cherry Games are currently working on a sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, which Larkin is also composing music for.
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Google Stadia is now in the hands of players, and some are reporting that it does not deliver on what was initially promised. The system, which launched with several features missing and which currently feels like a “costly curiosity,” has now been accused of not rendering games at the promised resolution. While Google has promised 4K resolution for all games, a report by Digital Foundry found that flagship launch title Red Dead Redemption 2 renders at 1080p or 1440p before being upscaled by the Chromecast Ultra. Destiny 2 also runs at 1080p, Eurogamer reports.
That same report from Eurogamer contains a statement from Google about what is happening here, and whether or not they feel that Stadia is achieving what the company promised it would. “Stadia streams at 4K and 60 FPS,” the statement reads. “That includes all aspects of our graphics pipeline from game to screen: GPU, encoder and Chromecast Ultra all outputting at 4K to 4K TVs, with the appropriate internet connection.”
“Developers making Stadia games work hard to deliver the best streaming experience for every game. Like you see on all platforms, this includes a variety of techniques to achieve the best overall quality. We give developers the freedom of how to achieve the best image quality and framerate on Stadia and we are impressed with what they have been able to achieve for day one.”
Google is essentially saying that it’s on developers if their game renders at a lower natural resolution. “We expect that many developers can, and in most cases will, continue to improve their games on Stadia,” the statement continues. “And because Stadia lives in our data centers, developers are able to innovate quickly while delivering even better experiences directly to you without the need for game patches or downloads.”
For now, it seems that the Stadia cannot match the performance offered by the PS4 Pro and the Xbox One X for every title currently available on the system. It was also promised that Stadia titles would deliever 60fps performance; according to users on Reddit, this has not been the case.
While several of the Stadia’s launch titles had their release dates pushed forward at the last minute, both Red Dead Redemption 2 and Destiny 2 were part of the originally announced launch line-up. The majority of Stadia games available now at ports (except for Gylt, the system’s one exclusive,) and they’re not cheap.
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If you missed the crazy Black Friday deals on PlayStation 4, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch consoles that were released over the weekend, fret not. Most of these deals are still available. In fact, starting today, Amazon has launched a big Black Friday sale on 2019 Apple iPads and Series 5 Watches that were supposed to be reserved for Friday. We’ve included these and even more deals, discounts, and coupons that we found from the Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart Black Friday ads. The savings contiue through Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, and we’ll make sure to keep updating this article.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will feature C-3PO in a bigger role. Director JJ Abrams told Uproxx that C-3PO is “very center” to the story of the new film, and that he sees the robot character as being “underused” in the previous Star Wars films.
“He’s very center to this story and truly wonderful in it,” Abrams said. “[Actor] Anthony Daniels gets to do some things…”
Unfortunately, Abrams didn’t continue that line, though he did share that Daniels “bemoaned” performing a particular scene that he declined to share more about. “I was like, listen man, you wanted this! But he’s wonderful in this. I don’t think he’s ever been better,” Abrams said.
But just how much of C-3PO will we see in The Rise of Skywalker? Abrams said the character will appear in “more scenes than he’s ever been in.”
“It just turned out that the story was best served using a character that has been underused to see a new side of him … ,” he said. “So it was very much a utility, but it felt inspired that you got to see a character in a whole new light.”
C-3PO appears in the newest Rise of Skywalker trailer where he delivers an emotional line about taking a look at his friends for what could be the last time. This is seemingly setting up some kind of element of finality as it relates to the character, or it could be trademark trailer deception. We’ll know for sure soon, as The Rise of Skywalker comes to theatres on December 20.
Also in the interview, Abrams teased that The Rise of Skywalker will deliver answers to questions that fans have had about certain elements of the new trilogy and wider Star Wars universe. He was asked directly if The Rise of Skywalker will explain more about Snoke, the character who died in The Last Jedi that fans wanted to know more about, but Abrams gave a high-level answer instead.
“I will say, without giving anything away, knowing this movie is an ending is, for me infinitely more challenging than a beginning,” said Abrams, who also directed 2015’s The Force Awakens. “We knew we needed to provide answers. And while there may be some things that aren’t entirely demystified by the end of it, we wanted to make sure people left feeling that they were satisfied. So I hope, on a number of issues, people will leave and feel like that it’s a true ending and not an advertising ploy. We really are bringing it to an end.”
In other news, a new Rise of Skywalker clip was released recently, showing a thrilling chase filled with stormtroopers, blaster fights, and a funny moment between the heroes. There are still a few weeks to go before The Rise of Skywalker comes to theatres, but you can get your Star Wars fix right now with The Mandalorian, which airs weekly on Disney+
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