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Amazon Prime Day kicks off this coming Monday, June 21, and with it loads of deals across every category on the website. If you’re looking for a new, powerful gaming laptop you’ll be well treated during the event, but you might struggle to find a deal better than this one on the Razer Blade 15 Base. Razer has announced the Razer Blade 15 Base will drop to $1,000, down from its usual price of $1,500, during Prime Day 2021. This is the first time a Blade laptop has been available at this price, making it a hot ticket item during this year’s Prime Day.

$1,000 (was $1,500) | Available Monday

This is the Base model of the 2020 Blade 15, which means you shouldn’t expect the latest Intel CPU or RTX 30-series GPU. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t getting a lot of power in a sleek, black aluminum chassis. The Blade 15 Base comes with a 10th-generation Intel Core i7-10750H, a Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti GPU, 16GB of RAM (which is user-upgradable), and a 256GB SSD. Along with access to the RAM, there is a spare M.2 slot for an additional SSD drive should you want to expand storage in the future, too.

This is just one of many Razer products that will be on sale during Amazon Prime day, but certainly one of the best deals the company is offering. If you’re interested more in peripherals, the Razer DeathAdder V2 and Viper Ultimate mice will be on offer, along with the ring light-equipped Kiyo Pro webcam and Iskur Black gaming chair. We’ll be tracking all the best Prime Day deals as they go live at midnight PT / 3 AM ET on June 21..

While other first-person sword fighting games like Mordhau and Kingdom Come: Deliverance have tried to sell themselves on the realism of their hitboxes or the high skill ceilings of their combat systems, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare has always been unashamed to fall a bit more on the arcadey side. Its sequel, Chivalry 2 continues that tradition, and I think it’s actually a better multiplayer experience because of that philosophy. There’s still a lot of skill involved, but it’s easier to dive in and start getting some gloriously gory kills without feeling like you’re a sheep surrounded by wolves. And that’s how you build and keep a strong community.

Chivalry 2 catapults you onto stylish, saturated battlefields with up to 64 players in objective-based team modes or a giant free-for-all. There aren’t a ton of maps right now, but I was pretty impressed with the ones we have. Each has a good variety of objectives to attack and defend, exciting terrain and architecture, an effective mix of open areas and bottlenecks, and great overall pacing. One moment you might be pushing titanic siege towers up to a wall with ballista bolts flying at you from above, and the next you might be trying to loot as much gold as possible from a village and get it back to your cart before time runs out.

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Sure, there are definitely a few objectives that feel unbalanced at the moment. The bridge on Falmire, for instance, I’ve only seen successfully taken by the attackers once in the dozens of times I’ve played it. The ramp on Lionspire is pretty sticky, too. But it’s nothing that a few minor tweaks shouldn’t be able to fix. And it might even out a bit once everyone gets a bit more experience and understands how these objectives work.

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Rather than having you build out a complex custom kit with all the exact weapons and armor you want, Chivalry has 12 set classes divided into four archetypes, with four available at the start and the rest unlocked as you go. You can also unlock new primary and secondary weapons within each class, so there’s a lot of meaningful progression to work toward. I was a little disappointed I couldn’t just go crazy mixing and matching, but I soon found that there are kits to support just about every playstyle I could imagine, from a deadly crossbow sniper to a frenzied, axe-hurling berserker.

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Some have stronger niches than others. There’s a rogue class which gets a bonus to backstab damage, but I never really found that I could make the most of this in team fights or one-on-one. The skirmisher, who throws javelins, is supposed to be kind of a hybrid between a melee and a ranged class, but ends up just feeling worse at both than her specialist counterparts. And shields, I found more often a burden than a boon. But the offensive monsters like the devastator and the crusader are a ton of fun. And while you’ll see plenty of people in chat moaning about archers being too powerful, it does require a lot of practice and good instincts to make the most of them.

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I also admired that, within each class, special abilities tend to focus on supporting your team rather than simply making you better as a single combatant. Even if you’re not the best one-on-one fighter in the world, you can still make a world of difference in big encounters by blowing your war horn and giving a hefty area-of-effect heal to your side of the melee. And in another clever bit of design, you recharge these powers faster by doing things your class is good at and should be doing anyway, like getting kills with your charge attack as the furious raider or blocking attacks as the stalwart guardian.

The combat system is, of course, the core of everything. And with more than 30 hours under my belt, I’m loving it. It’s not the most realistic medieval brawler I’ve ever played, but this is power fantasy, not a documentary. The overall flow of it and the ways in which it limits how much an extremely skilled player can absolutely dominate the battlefield hit a sweet spot for me. Though don’t think you can easily climb to the top of the leaderboards by wildly swinging a mace around.

There are just enough ways to attack, parry, riposte, dodge, and counter that it pays to be able to think on your feet and react to what your opponent is doing. But executing those moves once you’ve committed to a decision doesn’t require godlike reflexes or extremely precise mouse movements. There’s a high skill ceiling, but the difference between a pretty good player and a really good player is smaller than in a game like Mordhau, which I think is a smart decision. Bad and okay players are always going to outnumber the truly exceptional ones, and they need to still be able to have fun or they’ll abandon you. Even if you’re the best blademaster in the realm, you need teammates to stand on the objective. It also doesn’t feel too arcadey, which is an issue I had with the first Chivalry.

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Aside from the very first couple of days, the servers seem to be holding up pretty well, too. Getting into a match is lightning quick, thanks in no small part to the willingness to include a few bots to get those huge, 64-player matches off the ground. I’ve rarely experienced any major connection issues while playing for at least a few hours a day. The skill-based aspect of matchmaking could still use some work. It will auto-balance teams if one side seems to be completely dominating, but there doesn’t seem to be anything to keep the swapped players from going back to their original team if a spot opens up. And I see that happen a lot. So if people are just being jerks and insisting on wearing their favorite color, you can end up in some extremely lopsided battles.

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The one other thing I’ve found a bit lacking is the visual customization of your character. It’s nice that you can play as a woman for the first time, but if you do, each class only has one voice to choose from and far fewer face options than the guys get. Also some of the ladies look pretty weird, almost like they took an existing male face model and stretched it out like the title screen for Super Mario 64. There are some bizarre male faces, too, but the difference in quality is pretty easy to see.

At least there’s a good variety of armor styles, heraldry, and weapon skins you can unlock with premium currency or in-game cash you get from levelling up. Some of the skins require you to reach a certain level with the weapon before you can even buy them, so you can show off your skill with a shiny, gilded sword. And rest assured, as far as I could find there’s nothing that’s exclusively locked behind spending real money.

Developer Granzella is taking a very bizarre step with its shoot-’em-up revival game R-Type Final 2. Via a free update later this year, the game is getting turned into R-Type Final 3. Yes, the game is turning into its own sequel, in one form or another.

In a post on the game’s Kickstarter page (it initially received crowdfunding before its release earlier this year) Granzella outlined a development roadmap for the rest of 2021. R-Type Final 2 will be getting more DLC stages and player ships in either June or early July, and over the course of the summer, there will be improvements to the PC version, more player ships, more data, and additional stages. But the real kicker is what is promised by the year’s end: R-Type Final 3.

This will be a free upgrade for those who already own R-Type Final 2, and a video explaining the roadmap was shared on June 18. Unfortunately, it’s only in Japanese right now, with English subtitles promised at a later time. Releasing the sequel to a game so quickly is pretty rare these days, and, at least to our knowledge, no other major game has become its own sequel through an update like this. We’ve reached out to publisher NIS America for more information on what R-Type Final 3 will actually be.

R-Type Final 2 was the legendary series’ first new entry in over a decade, and in the West, the previous R-Type Final was the last new shooter. As the name suggested, it was intended to end the series, but nothing in gaming stays dead forever, and R-Type Final 2 continues the classic horizontal shooting action on PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

If you’re a Marvel fan, there’s a pretty awesome deal that you won’t want to miss. The new Marvel Legend Series Iron Man Nano Gauntlet, the newest “Infinity Gauntlet” from Hasbro, has been up for preorder for a little while. Today, there’s a new coupon that drops the price by as much as 25% directly from the Disney Store. If you’ve been eyeing this for your gauntlet collection, there’s no better time to grab it. There are some other excellent deals as well, like a discount on a Nintendo Switch Online Membership and The Lord of the Rings Triology in 4K Blu-ray for only $59.99.

20% Off Marvel Legend Series Iron Man Nano Gauntlet Preorder

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Not only is the newest Infinity Gauntlet (this time Iron Man’s version) up for preorder, it’s discounted for a very, very limited time. The coupon code SAVEMORE takes 15% off $50+, 20% off $75+, and 25% off $100+ eligible orders. It’s hard to believe that this gauntlet was meant to be eligible, but alas it is for the time being. This guantlet improves upon past iterations with fully articulating fingers; you can even snap your fingers and trigger the iconic snap sound.

Play Every Xbox Exclusive Game from E3 with Game Pass Ultimate

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The sheer amount of value you get with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is impressive. This membership gives you both Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass for PC. Xbox Live Gold is required for online gaming. Xbox Game Pass gives you access to a huge library of games that is free as long as you maintain your membership. The list includes AAA games that you can play as early as launch day. These include MLB The Show 21, FIFA 21, The Medium, and every Bethesda game ever. If you’ve also got a great gaming PC, Xbox Game Pass for PC offers stellar games like Crusader Kings 3, Forza Horizon 4, Nier Automata, and more. If you watched the Xbox/Bethesda E3 2021 presentation, you’ll notice that the vast majority of upcoming Xbox exclusive titles will also be on Xbox Game Pass. Additional perks include exclusive discounts at the Microsoft Store and a free 30-day Disney+ trial.

The Lord of the Rings Extended & Theatrical 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

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This long-awaited Lord of the Rings 4K box set came out in December of 2020 at a hefty $99.99. It subsequently dropped to $89.99 in a relatively short amount of time and stayed at that price until this month. Last week, the price dropped once again to $70 and I thought that was a pretty solid deal. Today, though, it finally reaches that sweet spot of $59.99. This is probably an early Amazon Prime Day deal but you best jump on it now since the best Prime Day deals don’t last. This set includes 4K Ultra HD and digital versions of the LotR trilogy, including both theatrical and extended editions.

Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership and 128GB Memory Card

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Amazon is offering a free official Nintendo Switch (SanDisk) 128Gb Micro SDXC Memory Card when you pick up a 12 month Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership. Nintendo Switch Online is required for online play in games like Super Mario Kart or Splatoon, downloading custom maps in Super Mario Maker 2, playing free retro SNES games, saving your game data to the cloud, and much more. The “Family” membership allows for up to 8 different account holders, not necessarily in the same household. The 128GB memory card will increase your storage capacity by quadruple the stock amount.

LEGO Creator Expert London Bus 10258 1,686-Piece Kit

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LEGO Creator Expert kits are hard to come by on sale. There are challenging kits that are meant for ages 16+, but they’re also some of the most clever and fun builds around. The double-decker London Bus consists of 1,686 pieces and measures 13″ long and 7″ tall. Both decks as well as the roof are removable so you can observe the detailed interior.

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If you’ve been looking to play one of Sega’s more classic games without having to shell out cash for a retro console, the good news is that you can return to 1988 in Lost Judgment. New footage from the game has revealed that a playable Sega Master System is in protagonist Takayuki Yagami’s pinball office.

You can see the retro games played, at around the four-minute mark in the video below:

It’s not clear how many games will be playable on it, but at least two of them were shown off: 1986’s Alex Kidd in Miracle World and 1988’s Penguin Land. The first Judgment game had a pinball machine in Yagami’s office, which was then replaced by an OutRun arcade machine in the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game. Yagami clearly has a mercurial taste in gaming hardware.

Judgment isn’t the only Sega title to have a game within a game, as the main series of Yakuza games from developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio featured playable versions of Virtua Fighter 2, Super Hang-On, and Space Harrier in the arcades of those games, a nod to Sega’s gaming legacy.

Billed as a legal suspense game, Lost Judgment retains the street-brawling action of the first game, a system which, for the main Yakuza games, has now been replaced by the turn-based RPG system used in last year’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon. The Kamurocho district will once again be a new hub to explore, with Yagami even venturing to Yokohama, a seaside location that has appeared in several Yakuza games.

Lost Judgment will release worldwide on September 24, 2021 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One.

When Thanos came to Fortnite in 2018, it became the first major crossover event of the game’s now storied history in that regard. Whether players missed him before or just hoped he’d return someday, Thanos is coming back to Fortnite for the first-ever Thanos Cup, where top qualifiers will have a chance to unlock the Thanos skin in Fortnite for free and ahead of his Item Shop debut.

Thanos will hit the Item Shop next week on June 26 at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET. He’ll come bundled with the Infinity Gauntlet Back Bling including all six Infinity Stones properly placed and ready to wipe out half of the island–okay, that part’s on you, actually. It seems entirely likely that Epic will once again sell the Snap Emote too, so players can complete the look.

Fortnite Thanos Cup

Before his Item Shop release, Thanos can be won in the Thanos Cup. In the game’s Competitive tab on June 21, players will find the Thanos Cup, an open tournament for all Fortnite players willing to vie for The Mad Titan’s new cosmetics. In Duos mode and across up to 10 matches during the tournament’s three-hour time limit, players will need to survive the Storm, outlast and eliminate other opponents, and score cumulative points, following a similar scoring system to other Fortnite Cups of this nature, whereby players get more points the longer they survive and for every elimination they record.

String together a series of 10 highly competitive rounds of battle royale and players may find themselves as the scoring leaders in their region, giving them access to Thanos and his Back Bling days before the rest of the world can get their hands on him. All participants in the Thanos Cup who tally at least eight total points will unlock the “Thanos Watches!” Spray too, so there’s reason to jump in even if you don’t expect your skills to carry you to victory.

As always with Fortnite Cups, players must have enabled two-factor authorization on their Epic Games accounts and be at least level 30 on their lifetime Epic account. You can find the full rules on the developer’s website.

We’ve got more on Fortnite, like the full run of guides on the Week 2 challenges, Week 2 Alien Artifacts, and a complete look at the Season 7 Battle Pass, including a superpowered alien from another comic legend, Superman.

Final Fantasy VII Remake and a remaster of Alan Wake could be coming to the Epic Games Store, as site tracker EpicData tracker spotted listings for the games on the Epic Games Store database.

For Final Fantasy VII Remake, it was found on the database listed under the codename “Pineapple” in the cloud saves sub-folder. Originally a PlayStation-only game, Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s 12-month exclusivity period ended in April this year, although publisher Square Enix made no mention of what was next for the game.

What was mentioned was that the new Intergrade content from the PlayStation 5 upgrade for Final Fantasy VII would remain a timed exclusive, but it’s worth noting that Square Enix’s relationship with Epic Games saw the Kingdom Hearts series made available on PC for the first time as an Epic Games Store exclusive back in March.

Alan Wake’s data was discovered in an item codenamed “Heron”, with a cloud save folder path reading “{UserDir}/Remedy/AlanWakeRemastered/.”

The folder itself is owned by Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment, who signed publishing agreements with Epic Games back in March 2020 for a AAA multi-platform game and a “smaller-scale” game.

Alan Wake has remained largely untouched since it first released on Xbox in 2010, but the game’s protagonist did make the leap to more modern systems in Control’s AWE DLC in 2020, which hinted at the embattled author’s battle being far from over.

New footage of Lost Judgment has revealed that the game includes a fully playable Sega Master System. Replacing the pinball machine in detective Takayuki Yagami’s office, the playable console continues the series’ celebration of classic Sega games, and strong variety of minigames.

The footage, released on the RGG YouTube channel (and pointed out by VGC), shows off some new gameplay from Lost Judgment, and for the first time, reveals an in-game playable Sega Master System. It’s not yet clear exactly how many games will be playable on the system, but the footage does confirm Alex Kidd in Miracle World and Penguin Land will be playable.

Many classic Sega games have featured as playable mini-games found in the Yakuza and Judgment series’ virtual arcades; including Virtua Fighter 2, Super Hang-On and Space Harrier, but this marks the first time an actual console will be playable within one of these games.

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The reveal trailer previously released for the game shows a significantly darker game than previous iterations, so it’s good to know that the random and wacky minigames that make the Yakuza and Judgment games so fun will remain. The sandbox gameplay of the series will be returning as well, with players able to explore across both Yokohama and Kamurocho.

Lost Judgment launches September 24 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, and picks up the story of private detective and ex-lawyer Yagami as he hunts down a new criminal across Kamurocho and Yokohama. In case you hadn’t heard, the Judgment series will replace Yakuza as Sega’s beat-em-up action game series, with Yakuza transitioned to being turn-based in its latest iteration, Yakuza: Like A Dragon. Lost Judgment will also be the first game in the series to receive a worldwide release.

For more about Lost Judgment, check out an interview with the developers at RGG Studio where they discuss how the series is charting a new future with these popular Sega franchises, and watch the reveal trailer for Lost Judgment here. If you need to catch up on the series, a next-gen version of Judgment is available now.

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Liam Wiseman is a Freelance News Writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @liamthewiseman