Daily Deals: Big Savings on Webcams, Kindles and More

This Sunday of deals is full of fun. We’ve got a bunch of different Kindle models discounted today, several gaming laptops and desktops from Lenovo and Newegg, a bunch of webcams from the likes of Razer and Logitech and to top it off, a crazy looking chair that we’re pretty sure you would never want to leave once you sat down in.

Lenovo Intel Gamer Days Sale: Save on Legion Gaming Laptops and Desktop PCs

Lenovo’s “Legion” series of gaming PCs and laptops offer the latest and greatest gaming performance at a very reasonable cost. They’re equipped with the newest RTX 30 series video cards, which offer huge speed gains compared to the previous generation’s RTX 20 series cards, along with new technology like DLSS 2.0 (very useful) and ray tracing (not as much). Alongside these new GPUs are your choice of either AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series or Intel’s Rocket Lake/Tiger Lake processors. Lenovo also offers one of the best customer service experiences compared to other prebuilt PC makers, which is especially important if you haven’t built the PC yourself. Lenovo’s sale events can be hard to navigate, so we’ve conveniently rounded up a list of the best Legion deals going on right now.

Lenovo Legion Gaming Laptops

Lenovo Legion Gaming PCs

Daily Deals for August 29th 2021

Aussie Deals: Cheap Co-Op Gems, 30% Off Returnal, 20% Off Aliens: Fireteam, and More!

In these bizarre times, socialising is important. Don’t do enough of it, and you might become isolated, weird, and playwrighting about St. Swithin’s Day. That being said, I’ve located a bunch of discounted co-op experiences that can help you feel a sense of community and common decency again. Alternatively, there’s a compilation that pools together 30 years of Street Fighting. Go heavy kick the ever-loving pixels out of one another instead. We all cope in different ways.

Oh, and before I forget: Battlefield V can be acquired for nix on PC. You just need to sign up to Amazon Prime’s equally free, 30-day trial.

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Adam’s an Aussie deals wrangler who spends too much of his income on the bargains he finds. You can occasionally find him @Grizwords.

Candyman Slashes Through Box Office Competition With Strong $22.3 Million Opening Weekend

R-rated horror slasher Candyman had a strong opening weekend at the domestic box office, earning $22.3 million in 3,569 theaters.

This news comes by way of Variety, which also reports that the Nia DaCosta-directed and Jordan Peele-produced film brought in an additional $5.2 million overseas across 51 international markets. This brings Candyman’s opening weekend grand total to about $27.5 million.

The movie, which cost MGM $25 million to produce, is due to be quite profitable for the studio, according to Variety. This is especially great news for MGM as other R-rated movies have struggled in the pandemic-era box office. The Suicide Squad opened to just $26.5 million, despite industry expectations that predicted it would pull in around $30 million, for example.

However, unlike Candyman, The Suicide Squad also debuted on a subscription streaming service (HBO Max), following suit with many other movies released this summer. What The Suicide Squad didn’t make at the box office, it might have made up for with new HBO Max subscriptions.

Candyman debuted exclusively to theaters, though, and having already made back the money it cost to make, the upcoming three-day weekend could be big for the horror movie. Variety cites the movie’s nature as a sequel, as well as its 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and “B” CinemaScore, as reasons for its box office success.

The Yahya Abdul-Mateen II-led movie knocked Ryan Reynolds’ Free Guy down to second place after the video game-themed movie sat at the number one spot for two weeks straight. Free Guy earned an additional $13.6 million from 3,940 theaters, a decline of 27% from its second weekend to the third, according to Variety’s report. This brings Free Guy’s grand box office total up to $179 million.

The animated PAW Patrol from Paramount took third place this weekend, bringing in $6.6 million from 3,189 theaters. Its grand total in the U.S. and Canada where it was shown sits at $24 million. Disney’s Jungle Cruise came in fourth, bringing in another $5 million for a total of $187 million at the box office (although the movie is also available on Disney+ as a Premiere Access title).

Sony’s Don’t Breathe 2 took fifth place with $2.8 million across 2,703 theaters, bringing the movie’s total at the domestic box office to $24.5 million.

Check out our thoughts on Candyman in IGN’s Candyman review and then read this list of seven things you probably didn’t know about Candyman. Check out this video featuring the movie’s director and cast discussing the legacy and meaning of Candyman after that.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Top Gun Maverick: Tom Cruise Wasn’t Going to Make the Sequel Unless Val Kilmer Was in It

Top Gun: Maverick producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, has revealed that Tom Cruise insisted Val Kilmer return as Iceman for the sequel.

This news comes by way of People, which reports that Bruckheimer said Cruise was the driving force behind getting Kilmer back as Iceman in the Top Gun sequel.

Now, more than 35 years later, Top Gun fans will see Cruise’s Maverick and Kilmer’s Iceman reunite on the screen when Top Gun: Maverick debuts in theaters on November 19.

“He said, ‘We have to have Val, we have to have him back. We have to have him in the film,'” Bruckheimer told People. “And he was the driving force. We all wanted him, but Tom was really adamant that if he’s going to make another Top Gun, Val had to be in it.”

Bruckheimer said Kilmer is a “fine actor [and] such a good individual,” revealing that watching him and Cruise reunite on set was “very emotional.” The producer continued and explained that bringing back some of the Top Gun gang was something the Maverick team wanted to do.

Kilmer’s son, Jack Kilmer, told People that the actor was “so stoked” to return to the role and that Top Gun: Maverick really honors the legacy of Iceman.

Kilmer has actually been wanting to return as Iceman for years now. When the sequel’s title was revealed back in 2017, Kilmer took to Instagram to express his interest in reprising his original Top Gun role.

“I’m ready Tom — still got my Top Gun plaque,” Kilmer said. “Still got the moves! Still got it!”

Then, a little over a year later, it was reported that Kilmer would, in fact, be returning to the role of Iceman in Top Gun: Maverick. Now, audiences will see Iceman and Maverick on screen together once again when the sequel hits theaters November 19.

While waiting for the movie’s release, check out the first Top Gun: Maverick trailer and then read about how the Navy stopped Cruise from flying an actual jet in Top Gun: Maverick. Read about how Kelly McGillis wasn’t asked to return for Top Gun: Maverick after that.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Ed Asner, Star of Pixar’s Up, Dies at 91

Acting legend Ed Asner has died, Variety reports. He was 91.

Asner is known to modern audiences most for his role as Carl Fredricksen in Pixar’s Up, where he played the curmudgeonly old man who tied hundreds of balloons to his home and embarked on an adventure alongside Doug the dog and “Junior Wilderness Explorer” Russell.

A publicist for Asner confirmed the actor’s death to Variety, stating Asner died on Sunday surrounded by his family.

Asner’s big break as an actor was the Mary Tyler Moore Show, which ran from 1970 to 1977. Asner played the grumpy newsroom producer Lou Grant, Moore’s boss. Asner won three Emmy awards for best supporting actor for his role on the show. The Lou Grant character proved so popular he got his own spinoff, a more serious in tone hour-long series simply titled “Lou Grant.” Asner similarly won two Emmy awards for his work on Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots. Asner appeared as Santa in Will Ferrel’s Elf.

Asner told CNN in 2010 that he had never seen a Pixar movie until Wall-E, which debuted one year before Up.

“I was shocked to see how adult [Wall-E] was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it. … And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, “Up,” how adult it was,” Asner said. If I would fault the producers [and] distributors in any way [it’s that] they didn’t find some better way to immediately make adults realize that this was as much for them as for kids. … My God, that four-minute passage in there detailing their life together. We all wish that our lives could be displayed as beautifully as that one is.”

Asner’s more recent roles include appearances on Grace & Frankie, Netflix’s Cobra Kai, voices on American Dad, and The Boondocks. The hugely positive reception to Up reinvigorated interest in the actor’s presence, landing him spots on Law & Order: SVU, The Middle, and Hawaii Five-0.

Asner is survived by his four children.

Joseph Knoop is a producer/writer for IGN.

27 MORE Things You STILL Didn’t Know In Zelda Breath Of The Wild

In the video above, we cover 33 tips and tricks that aren’t quite as well known, ranging from secrets to glitches, some that are pretty simple and others that are fairly complex. Breath of the Wild has been out for four years at this point, and players have found some amazing things, intended or not, that keep the game and its sense of discovery feeling fresh.

Fortnite Adds Will Smith’s Mike Lowrey Character From Bad Boys

Fornite has added Will Smith’s Mike Lowrey character from the Bad Boys movie franchise to the battle royale’s Item Shop.

Epic Games announced the Bad Boys x Fortnite crossover in a blog post on Saturday, revealing that a little of Miami’s South Beach would be coming to the game by way of detective Mike Lowrey.

The Mike Lowrey Outfit can be purchased in the Fortnite Item Shop right now and it includes the Detective’s Duffle Back Bling. The Loose Cannon set also features Lowrey’s dual-wielding pickaxe known as the Loose Cannon Cutters. You can see the entire Mike Lowrey set in the image below:

Unfortunately for Bad Boys diehards, Lowrey’s police partner and best friend, Marcus Burnett (played by Martin Lawrence in the movies) is nowhere to be seen.

“Mike Lowrey is one cool customer,” the blog post reads. “Whether he’s involved in explosive action or a high-speed chase, he’s always undeniably smooth.”

Hopefully he’s great at building, too.

While the addition of Lowrey is probably exciting for Will Smith and Bad Boys fans, the character’s inclusion in Season 7 of Fortnite Chapter 2, specifically, is an odd one. That’s because the entire season is themed around aliens and alien invasions, and not many actors have fought aliens on the big screen more than Will Smith, as noted by PCGamesN.

The most obvious alien-themed choice when choosing a Will Smith character would have been Agent J from Men in Black, but Steven Hiller from Independence Day would have worked just as well too. Lowrey, however, has not fought off an alien invasion before.

Nevertheless, it’s a good day to be a Fortnite fan who’s also a fan of Will Smith. Mike Lowrey and his equipment are now available to purchase in the Fortnite Item Shop.

For more Fortnite, read about how Epic Games recently added Ryan Reynold’s Dude character from Free Guy to the game and then read about how the company added Ripley and the Alien Xenomorph to the battle royale. Catch up on everything in Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7 after that.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Optimize Your Creativity With This Next Level Controller

Technology should be able to help simplify our lives and streamline our workflows, but it can often end up doing the exact opposite.When it comes to creativity, that might be especially true. That’s because when you’re using these insane programs on your computer with a million different commands to master, you can easily end up getting lost and blocked from the tedium of it all.

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, TourBox Neo is the ultimate controller for creators, and it’s on sale now for 21% off at just $150. It’s designed specifically for people operating in creative fields, helpful in navigating Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Capture One, and other programs. So what exactly is it? Well, TourBox Neo is a console that attaches to your macOS or Windows system that you can use for editing photos, videos, and audio as well as drawing. It’s designed to help you use your hand more intuitively than the traditional mousepad or external mouse set up, with a knob, wheel, scroller, and a variety of different buttons.

The controls are much more precise than any mouse, and the knob lets you modify different attributes you’ve probably seen before on editing software: hardness, size, transparency, etc. Of course, you can and should still use a mouse along with it, but you’ll find that this console picks up in all of the places that the mouse is deficient or redundant in. If you’re tired of fumbling around and interrupting your personal process with obnoxious tasks on a mouse, you can finally be free of that.

The TourBox Neo can be yours for $150, and you’ll likely find that with its customizability and general utility, you won’t be able to believe that you were working so long without it. So if you’re on the fence, get off it: There’s limitless value to how much clearer-headed you’ll be when working with the TourBox Neo.

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Fortnite Adds Will Smith’s Bad Boys’ Character Mike Lowrey

Some Fortnite crossovers are more surprising than others, and today’s official reveal of Mike Lowrey of Bad Boys fame would be one such collaboration if it weren’t for a recent credible leak that tipped off the game’s community in advance. Here’s what you need to know about the new Fortnite Will Smith skin.

Fortnite Will Smith/Mike Lowrey Skin

He can't be stopped now.
He can’t be stopped now.

While Lowrey debuts without his buddy cop partner, Marcus Bennett, he does come with several additional cosmetics. Lowrey hits the Item Shop as an individual character skin or in a bundle with his complete Loose Cannon set. Also included in the set are the following items:

  • Detective’s Duffle back bling
  • Loose Cannon Cutters pickaxe

The Bad Boys series began in 1995 and has since seen two sequels release, the latest of which came last year after a seventeen-year gap since Bad Boys 2 in 2003. Talks are ongoing for a fourth movie. Lowrey joins a host of other action heroes in Fortnite, most of which come from the world of comics like Marvel and DC, as well as several from Star Wars.

A recent leak does seem to suggest more grounded square-jaws will be coming to the game in the future, though. One leak indicates Chris Hemsworth’s character from Netflix’s Extraction was at least being made in the game at some point, though given that the movie was released over a year ago, it’s possible those plans were scrapped–or maybe he’ll debut alongside a sequel.

We don’t know when Mike Lowrey will exit the Item Shop, but we expect it’ll take a few days before he’s rotated out, meaning (sings) he ain’t going nowhere.

The season is winding down, so we can expect many more crossovers to come in Season 8 and beyond. For more recent licensed characters, don’t miss the Fortnite skins for Wonder Woman and J Balvin.

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Daily Deals: A Weekend of Gaming Laptop Sales

This weekend has brought with it a plethora of PC sales for you to browse over. Lenovo has a wide variety of offerings in both the laptop and desktop space, while MSI and Newegg both have their own products up for sale in those categories as well. If that’s not what you’re after, we’ve also got the latest from Samsung’s cellphones discounted, cheap SD cards, Transformer figurines on sale and more.

Lenovo Intel Gamer Days Sale: Save on Legion Gaming Laptops and Desktop PCs

Lenovo’s “Legion” series of gaming PCs and laptops offer the latest and greatest gaming performance at a very reasonable cost. They’re equipped with the newest RTX 30 series video cards, which offer huge speed gains compared to the previous generation’s RTX 20 series cards, along with new technology like DLSS 2.0 (very useful) and ray tracing (not as much). Alongside these new GPUs are your choice of either AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series or Intel’s Rocket Lake/Tiger Lake processors. Lenovo also offers one of the best customer service experiences compared to other prebuilt PC makers, which is especially important if you haven’t built the PC yourself. Lenovo’s sale events can be hard to navigate, so we’ve conveniently rounded up a list of the best Legion deals going on right now.

Lenovo Legion Gaming Laptops

Lenovo Legion Gaming PCs

Daily Deals for August 28th 2021