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Last month, Fanatical hosted its July Madness Sale, discounting a ridiculous number of games over several weeks. While it would be easy to assume that was Fanatical’s big summer promotion, that’s not the case. Fanatical has kicked off its official Summer Sale with another round of massive savings on Steam games. Thousands of games are up for grabs for discounted prices until August 16, including Death Stranding ($48), Resident Evil 2 ($18), Monster Hunter World ($18), and more. Like usual, Fanatical also has flash deals that expire in just a few hours, so you’ll want to hurry to get some of the best discounts.

Fanatical is also throwing in a bonus game if you spend $10 or more. You don’t get to see the bonus game until you finish checking out, but you will get to pick from a number of titles. Most games in Fanatical’s Summer Sale are Steam keys, except for titles from publishers with their own launchers such as Ubisoft and Rockstar and the occasional Epic Games Store key.

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Fanatical’s Summer Sale includes some stellar deals on AAA games from the past few years. You can grab A Plague Tale: Innocence for $15.29, Resident Evil 2 for $18, and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Deluxe edition for $24. While not technically part of the sale, it doesn’t hurt to mention that pre-orders for NBA 2K21 and Yakuza: Like A Dragon are discounted through Fanatical. You can get NBA 2K21 for $54 and Yakuza: Like A Dragon for $49.79.

There are also some fantastic flash deals right now, but they end today, August 3 at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET. Red Dead Redemption 2 is down to $46.19, The Outer Worlds is discounted to $46.19, and BioShock: The Collection is only $13.79.

Additionally, Fanatical has a Summer Mystery Bundle up for grabs for the next two weeks that lets you purchase anywhere from one to 10 random Steam keys. It’s cheap, too, with 10 keys costing just $7.

The Alienware Area 51m is one of the best “desktop replacement” gaming laptops that money can buy. Normally such luxury would be reserved for only the deepest of pockets, but not today. Last week we saw one Alienware Area 51m config drop nearly $1400. Today there are several more heavily discounted options to choose from. Dell’s Black Friday in July Sale has already ended so these last minute deals will expire very soon. In other deal news, there’s a 10% off Green Man Gaming coupon that works on nearly all PC games, including Red Dead Redemption 2, The Outer Worlds, and even the upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition PC variant.

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Another week means a new crop of deals at every retailer, and Best Buy’s deals have been better than most recently. This week’s game deals are no different, featuring a nice group of games for Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One at lower-than-usual prices.

Notably, at least one game is at its lowest price yet: Burnout Paradise Remastered, which just launched on the Switch in June. As with many Switch ports, it was priced considerably higher than what you’d pay for the game on other platforms, selling for $50 on Switch compared to $20 on PS4 and Xbox One. This week, however, you can snag Burnout Paradise Remastered on Switch for $30–still higher than other platforms, but a $20 discount on a new Switch port isn’t anything to sneeze at. If you’re in the mood to play a fantastic racing game, Burnout Paradise Remastered is worth grabbing on sale.

Of course, Best Buy has many other games on sale this week to help you pass the time during this never-ending pandemic. PS4 players have some particularly great picks, including the critically acclaimed open-world adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 for $30 and the definitive edition of a JRPG hit, Persona 5 Royal, for $40. The Xbox One offerings are less notable, but you can pick up the excellent survival horror game The Evil Within 2 for just $11 on Xbox One. The brand-new 3×3 shooter Rocket Arena has already received a steep discount as well, with its $40 Mythic edition now going for $10.

Quite a few Switch games are discounted this week at Best Buy too, including the rarely discounted Astral Chain for $50, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age for $28, and Daemon x Machina for $40. Games like Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are also down to $50, a price that’s becoming more common for first-party titles but is still cheaper than what you’ll find on the Eshop.

It’s no secret that Netflix has become a haven for slickly-produced documentary films and series on all sorts of topics, from true crime to exotic animal ownership. Later this month, designers and artists behind some of the most successful video games of the ’80s and ’90s will get their turn, when the Netflix series High Score premieres on August 19.

A press release describes High Score’s focus as the “golden age of video games,” a descriptor that some enthusiasts might quibble with. Examined games include arcade classics like Space Invaders, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter 2, as well as home console hits like Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy, and Madden NFL.

While High Scores may prove to be the most high-profile video game documentary yet, it’s far from the first. Indie Game: The Movie chronicled the struggles of high-profile indie developers like Super Meat Boy’s Edmund McMillen and Fez’s Phil Fish back in 2012. The most famous video game documentary might still be The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, which documented (and arguably dramatized) the feud between now-disgraced arcade champ Billy Mitchell and rival Steve Wiebe as they competed for the top score in arcade Donkey Kong.

Nintendo has amassed what is inarguably the most storied collection of video game franchises. Staple series like Mario and Zelda have kept fans invested in the Nintendo ecosystem for decades, while the company’s hardware innovations and more recent series like Splatoon continue to attract new fans. Its catalogue is vast and its characters beloved, which comes with an inevitable downside: certain franchises get left behind, leaving passionate fan bases waiting (often begging) for new releases.

To gain a better understanding of Nintendo’s first-party output, we’ve created the list below, which shows how long it’s been since Nintendo has released an original, mainline entry in 34 of its biggest franchises.

(This list measures the time between original, mainline releases only — if a spinoff or remake was released more recently, it’s noted with an asterisk (*). Time elapsed figures are based on U.S. release dates, except where noted, and are recorded as of August 2020. The list begins with Nintendo’s most recent releases and is broken up into three generation-based groups.)

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0-3 Years (Switch/3DS)

Paper Mario – 1 month

Latest release: Paper Mario: The Origami King (July 2020)

Animal Crossing – 4 months

Latest release: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (March 2020)

Brain Age – 7 months

Latest release: Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (December 2019 (JP))

The latest from Nintendo’s Brain Age series is not available in North America, despite being released in Japan, Europe, and Australia. The series’ latest North American release, Brain Age: Concentration Training, came in 2013.

Pokemon – 9 months*

Latest release: Pokemon Sword and Shield (November 2019)

*A free-to-start spinoff, Pokemon Café Mix, is the franchise’s most recent release (June 2020). Two additional spinoffs, Pokemon Unite and New Pokemon Snap, have been announced, though Nintendo has yet reveal a release date for either.

Nintendo is taking a new direction with its latest mainline releases by supporting Sword and Shield through two expansions. The first, Isle of Armor, was released in June; the second, Crown Tundra, is scheduled for later this year. Future mainline entries are all but a certainty considering the importance of the franchise to Nintendo and the overwhelming success of Sword and Shield, which have combined to sell over 17 million copies.

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Mario Sports – 9 months

Latest release: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (November 2019)

The Mario Sports umbrella encompasses the Mario & Sonic franchise, Mario Tennis (latest release: Aces in 2018), Mario Golf (World Tour in 2014), Mario Baseball (Sluggers in 2008), and Mario Strikers (Charged in 2007).

Luigi’s Mansion – 10 months

Latest release: Luigi’s Mansion 3 (October 2019)

Ring / Wii Fit – 10 months

Latest release: Ring Fit Adventure (October 2019)

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Fire Emblem – 1 year, 1 month

Latest release: Fire Emblem: Three Houses (July 2019)

Fire Emblem: Three Houses received a new side story, Cindered Shadows, as part of its expansion pass in February.

Nintendo Labo – 1 year, 4 months

Latest release: Nintendo Labo VR Kit (April 2019)

Yoshi – 1 year, 5 months

Latest release: Yoshi’s Crafted World (March 2019)

Super Smash Bros. – 1 year, 8 months

Latest release: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (December 2018)

Coming up on the two-year anniversary of Smash Ultimate, Nintendo continues to support its prize fighter through Challenger Packs, DLC that adds a new fighter, stage, and music. The latest pack introduced Min Min from Arms in late June. Nintendo’s support of Smash Ultimate will continue for the foreseeable future with five additional fighters coming by the end of 2021.

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Mario Party – 1 year, 10 months

Latest release: Super Mario Party (October 2018)

Xenoblade – 1 year, 11 months*

Latest release: Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country (September 2018)

*Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, a remastered version of the original Xenoblade, was released for Switch in late May.

Wario – 2 years, 1 month

Latest release: WarioWare Gold (July 2018)

Kirby – 2 years, 5 months*

Latest Release: Kirby: Star Allies (March 2018)

*A free-to-start mobile spinoff, Super Kirby Clash, was released more recently in September 2019.

Super Mario – 2 years, 10 months*

Latest release: Super Mario Odyssey

*Super Mario Maker 2, the creation-based spinoff, was released just over a year ago. Nintendo is also reportedly planning to release multiple Super Mario remasters this year to commemorate the series’ 35th anniversary.

Splatoon – 3 years, 1 month

Latest release: Splatoon 2

The Octo Expansion for Splatoon 2 added 80 single-player challenges to Nintendo’s colorful shooter in June 2018. Three years after its release, Splatoon 2 is still supported with semi-regular multiplayer updates — Nintendo most recently released two updates in June to address bugs.

The Legend of Zelda – 3 years, 5 months*

Latest release: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

*A remake of Link’s Awakening for Switch was released 10 months ago. A Breath of the Wild sequel is currently in development at Nintendo, though there’s no word on when it will be released.

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4-9 Years (Wii U/3DS)

Star Fox – 4 years, 4 months*

Latest release: Star Fox Zero (April 2016)

*Star Fox 2, the once-cancelled sequel developed in the ’90s, was released more recently than Star Fox Zero as part of 2017’s SNES Classic Edition. Fox McCloud was also prominently featured in Ubisoft’s 2018 toys-to-life game, Starlink: Battle for Atlas.

It’s not uncommon for Nintendo to take four or five years between Star Fox releases. However, the series’ sales have continuously declined, as charted by analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, and Nintendo has made no announcement regarding the future of the franchise.

Mario Kart – 6 years, 3 months*

Latest release: Mario Kart 8 (May 2014)

*The latest Mario Kart game, Mario Kart Tour, is a mobile spinoff released in September 2019.

This is the longest Nintendo has ever gone between mainline entries in the Mario Kart franchise. However, in 2017, it released Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, an upgraded version of MK8 for Switch. MK8 Deluxe remains Nintendo’s best-selling game on Switch and continues to sell well three years later — it was June’s ninth-best-selling game in the U.S. — which offers a possible explanation for Nintendo’s recent restraint with the franchise.

Donkey Kong – 6 years, 6 months*

Latest release: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (February 2014)

*A Switch version of Tropical Freeze was released a little over two years ago in May 2018.

Nintendo’s long history with the series, going back to the 1981 arcade original, has resulted in a diverse collection of Donkey Kong games. On console alone, the Kong family has been the subject of an educational game, two racers, several platformers, and a series of rhythm games. Nintendo hasn’t announced any future DK games, and with recent Donkey Kong Country developer Retro Studios working on Metroid Prime 4, it’s unclear which direction Nintendo will take with the series’ next installment.

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Pikmin – 7 years, 1 month*

Latest release: Pikmin 3 (July 2013)

*A 3DS spinoff, Hey! Pikmin, was released more recently, in July 2017.

A fourth mainline entry was announced back in 2014. Last we heard development was “progressing,” though that update came three years ago at E3 2017. A release window has not yet been announced.

Kid Icarus – 8 years, 5 months

Latest release: Kid Icarus: Uprising (March 2012)

Just months after the release of Uprising, developer Project Sora shuttered. Prior to the studio’s closure, Nintendo’s Masahiro Sakurai told IGN the company had no plans for a sequel. “We pushed a lot into the game in order to let people have this short yet deep experience, but the novelty of that would likely grow thin in the next game,” he said. “For now, my thought is that perhaps we’ll see someone else besides me make another Kid Icarus in another 25 years.”

For now, the dormant franchise lives on through Smash Ultimate, which features Pit, Dark Pit, and Palutena as playable characters.

PilotWings – 9 years, 5 months

Latest release: PilotWings Resort (March 2011)

Nintendogs – 9 years, 6 months

Latest release: Nintendogs + Cats (February 2011)

The nine and a half years since the last Nintendogs is perhaps the most surprising figure on this list, considering how well the DS entries sold — just shy of 24 million copies, good for second on Nintendo’s list of best-selling DS games — and how well-suited the franchise is for a home-handheld hybrid like Switch.

A spiritual successor of sorts, Little Friends: Dogs & Cats, came to Switch in 2019, though it holds an unfavorable Metacritic score of 53.

Metroid – 10 years*

Latest release: Metroid: Other M (August 2010)

*Since Other M, Nintendo has released both a spinoff (Metroid Prime: Federation Force in August 2016) and a remake (Metroid: Samus Returns in September 2017).

The long-awaited Metroid Prime 4 is currently in development at Retro Studios. Development on the sequel restarted in January 2019, and as of this February, the studio was seemingly still hiring for key roles. There’s currently no timeline for its release.

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Excite – 10 years, 9 months

Latest release: Excitebike World Rally (November 2009)

It’s been over a decade since Nintendo released a new Excite game, yet the racing franchise hasn’t completely been ignored; the series is honored in Mario Kart 8 with a DLC track based on the original NES game, and versions of that original were released in 2016 and 2018 on the NES Classic and Switch eShop, respectively.

Punch-Out!! – 11 years, 3 months*

Latest release: Punch-Out!! Wii (May 2009)

*A spinoff called Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!! was released a bit more recently in October 2009, exclusively for Club Nintendo members.

Developer Next Level Games, the studio behind Wii’s Punch-Out!!, continues to work with Nintendo, most recently developing Luigi’s Mansion 3. However, neither company has hinted at a future entry for the boxing series.

Advance Wars – 12 years, 7 months

Latest release: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (January 2008)

Nintendo hasn’t returned to Advanced Wars in over a dozen years, and regular series developer Intelligent Systems has found success in its other turn-based strategy franchise, Fire Emblem. In 2017, Nintendo’s Hitoshi Yamagami said he’d “love to do Advance Wars, but since it’s harder to create relationships between its characters compared to Fire Emblem, I don’t have a clear idea of what kind of setting it could have.”

Fans of the tactics series may find their fix in 2019’s Wargroove, which our review called “the Advance Wars successor its long-neglected fans have been waiting for.”

EarthBound/Mother – 14 years, 4 months

Latest release: Mother 3 (April 2006, Japan only)

Outside of the Japan-exclusive Mother 3, Nintendo hasn’t released an original game in the series since Mother 2/EarthBound 25 years ago.

Despite the time gap, the franchise remains part of the conversation around Nintendo and its major franchises, in large part due to the appearance of protagonist Ness in each of the five Smash Bros. games. Outside of Smash, Nintendo’s recent activity with the series includes the western release of Earthbound Beginnings (Mother 1) in 2015 and the inclusion of Earthbound (Mother 2) in the 2017 SNES Classic.

There have long been rumors of Mother 3 coming west, though an official English version has yet to materialize. In a 2018 interview with IGN, former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said the company is “aware” of the franchise’s fan base, but in regard to a new entry, was quick to note he was making “no promises, no commitments one way or the other.”

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F-Zero – 15 years, 10 months

Latest release: F-Zero Climax (October 2004, Japan only)

The last F-Zero to be released outside of Japan, GP Legend, came to North America and Europe shortly before the release of Climax in 2004.

F-Zero fans were given hope for some sort of series revival in 2012’s Nintendo Land, the Wii U pack-in game that featured Captain Falcon’s Twister Race as one of its 12 attractions. There’s been no word on a new entry since, though the series lives on through Smash, in which Captain Falcon is a regular fighter, and Mario Kart 8, which features two F-Zero-inspired tracks and a kart.

Hope was briefly rekindled earlier this year when a new F-Zero Twitter account was seemingly linked to Nintendo, according to VGC. Unfortunately, that hope was extinguished when the account posted a risqué video that was definitively not from Nintendo.

1080 Snowboarding – 16 years, 9 months

Latest release: 1080: Avalanche (November 2003)

Alongside Sony’s Cool Boarders, Microsoft’s Amped, and EA’s SSX, 1080 helped popularize snowboarding games during the subgenre’s boom in the late ’90s and early 2000s. However, that boom has since faded, and Nintendo isn’t alone in recognizing its decline; Sony, Microsoft, and EA have also shelved their once-popular snowboarding series.

Wave Race – 18 years, 9 months

Latest release: Wave Race: Blue Storm (November 2001)

In 2018 series producer Shinya Takahashi teased a possible return of Wave Race on Switch. “We have been trying to make many games and that may be one of them,” he said. “I personally love Wave Race!” However, in the two years since there’s been no indication Nintendo is working on another Wave Race.

Detective Club – 23 years, 5 months

Latest release: BS Detective Club: Lost Memories in the Snow (February 1997, Japan only)

A remake of the first two games is expected to be released in Japan this year, according to Nintendo. There’s no word on a western release, which isn’t a surprise given the previous three games’ Japanese exclusivity.

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What do you think of Nintendo’s first-party output? What series on this list surprised you most? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to vote in the poll below!

And stay tuned to IGN in the coming weeks as we explore how Microsoft and Sony have managed the output of their biggest franchises.

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Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN.

Additional reporting by Peer Schneider.

Some eagle-eyed Xbox fans have noticed a strange quirk on the Xbox One store. Several Xbox 360 games that were previously delisted are now available for purchase on Xbox One, including Silent Hill: Downpour, Deadly Premonition, and Tom Clancy’s HAWX. Several racing games also make the list: Dirt 3, Fuel, Grid 2, and Midnight Club LA.

These Xbox 360 games are playable on the Xbox One thanks to that platform’s limited backward compatibility, which the Xbox Series X will share. It’s not clear why exactly these games are available now, but it could have something to do with Microsoft preparing the Xbox store for the upcoming Xbox Series X. According to Reddit users, purchasing these games only allows you to play them on Xbox One, not Xbox 360.

Delisted games are an unfortunately common phenomenon due to rights expiring and the like, particularly when it comes to licensed music. On social media, players have reported that some of these relisted games have become unavailable again, so if you want to pick up one of these games, time is of the essence.

The executive shake-up at Ubisoft is still ongoing. Co-vice president Tommy François has left the company. Ubisoft confirmed the departure in a statement to GameSpot, saying it is “effective immediately.”

The company didn’t share further details on François’ departure. He had previously been placed on disciplinary leave pending an investigation into the allegations of sexual assault and harassment at the company. Reports of his departure began circulating from Business Insider reporter Samuel Horti, who said the other investigations remain ongoing. François was part of the editorial team in charge of greenlighting projects, and also worked on writing or design for some games.

François is just the latest in a long line of Ubisoft executives who have left following a reckoning with the company’s toxic “frat-house” culture. Others include executives Serge Hascoet, Yannis Mallat, and Cecile Cornet, and global head of HR Cecile Cornet. Assassin’s Creed creative director Ashraf Ismail also left the company in the midst of these revelations, seemingly for personal reasons.

Ubisoft has promised large structural changes and various investigations in light of the accusations but has been mostly quiet with its public statements about the issue. It chose not to address the abuse allegations at its Ubisoft Forward event, and CEO Yves Guillemot was notably evasive in response to direct questions at a recent investor Q&A.

Riot Games has revealed that Act II of Valorant will begin on August 4, 2020, and will bring with it a new Battlepass, a new agent, a new Glitchpop Skinline, and a free-for-all Deathmatch mode.

Valorant’s Act II Battlepass will feature “unique unlockables, including gun skins, gun buddies, sprays, player cards, player titles, and Radianite Points,” and will cost 1000 VP.

The new agent arriving in Valorant, Killjoy, was revealed last week and will become playable on August 4 as well. She is a “wunderkind” that can use a variety of robots and gadgets to gain the upperhand against her enemies.

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The new Glitchpop Skinline “leans into a dystopian future where death has no consequence and comes to life through bright, colorful skins and a playful but deadly attitude.” These new skins will be available for Frenzy, Odin, Bulldog, and Judge. There will also be a melee weapon as well.

Free-for-all Deathmatch will launch in Beta form and will become available on August 5. It will see 10 players battling for dominance, with no abilities, infinite money, and no Spike.

A player will become victorious with 30 kills or if they have the most kills after 6 minutes. All weapons will be available and players will start with heavy armor. When a player dies, they will respawn within 3 seconds and will start with 8 seconds of invulnerability that will allows them to swap weapons if desired. Once they move or fire, the invulnerability goes away.

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Health packs will drop after an enemy is killed, an UAV will reveal the current location of enemies every 5 seconds, and Kill Banners will appear for those who can achieve a double kill, triple kill, etc.

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Developer Riot Games has announced that Valorant‘s second act starts on Tuesday, August 4 for PC. The new season of content introduces a brand-new Agent, battle pass, and more.

Act 2’s headlining feature is Killjoy, the brand-new Agent coming to Valorant, who was recently leaked. A tech specialist, Killjoy has a variety of abilities centered around using drones and turrets to dish out damage. And her ultimate ability, Lockdown, does just as the name suggests: ensnares all enemies caught in the radius.

Act 2 will also bring about a new set of skins called Glitchpop Skyline. The skin set features multiple variants for the Bulldog, Frenzy, Judge, Odin, and dagger, and costs between 2,175 and 4,350 Valorant Points for each individual skin. The entire bundle will set you back 8,700 Valorant Points. You can check out the Glitchpop Skyline set, and the trailer showcase, below.

With the introduction of Act 2 comes a new game mode: Free-For-All Deathmatch. The game mode strips everything back from Valorant and makes it a more classic shooter akin to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. There are no abilities, no teams, and infinite money. This means there are respawns, as well as drop-in/drop-out multiplayer with teams competing to score 30 kills first. FFA Deathmatch will launch in beta on August 5, but if Riot finds the mode stable and the servers functioning properly, it will be left as a permanent addition.

Finally, Valorant’s second act houses a new Battle Pass that features “a series of unique unlockables” including weapon skins, gun buddies, sprays, player cards and titles, and Radianite Points. You can check out some of the unlockable items below.

In other, sillier Valorant news, an Australian streamer recently had his Valorant session interrupted when a magpie–yes, the Australian bird considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world–one-clicked his head in real life.