While we’ve seen quite a few doorbuster Nintendo Switch game deals for Black Friday, discounts on 2020 exclusives have been less common. Over the past day or so, however, retailers have started to offer modest deals on recent releases such as Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (this deal has sadly ended, though). And now you can also save on Paper Mario: The Origami King at Amazon. Normally $60, the charming role-playing game is down to $50 for a limited time.
As with most Amazon discounts, there’s no telling how long this deal will be available. If you’re looking to pick up The Origami King for yourself or someone on your holiday shopping list, you should grab it as soon as possible. This deal ties the lowest price we’ve seen for Paper Mario: The Origami King since it launched over the summer, and it’s been a while since we’ve spotted it on sale.
It nabbed an 8/10 in GameSpot’s Paper Mario: The Origami King review in large part due to its fun and inventive grid-based combat system. “With a newfound combat system that steals the show and offers a novel take on turn-based combat, its winking, nodding, and adventuring shine all the brighter,” critic Suriel Vazquez wrote. “Its world and characters might not be the series’ best, but it’s still able to consistently throw left turns, good gags, and smart surprises at you. Each piece of The Origami King elegantly fits into its whole, taking its irreverent flair to new heights. The Paper Mario series has recently shown that being clever and being smart are two different things, but thankfully, it’s once again managed to be both.”
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Creating a Champion Hero edition art book comes in a royal blue slipcase. It also includes some goodies: a cloth-printed map of Hyrule, an art print featuring Link, Zelda, and the other Champions, and a glass replica of the Spirit Orb.
The 424-page hardcover book includes a bounty of illustrations as well as commentary from developers about the game. In addition to close to 300 pages of concept art from Breath of the Wild, you’ll find a treasure trove of sketches from Nintendo illustrator Takumi Wada. There’s even a deep dive into the world of Hyrule as depicted in Breath of the Wild and interviews with numerous members of the development team, including producer Eiji Aonuma.
Sweetening this deal even more is the fact that it’s part of Amazon’s current buy two, get one free sale on books and movies. It’s not the only official The Legend of Zelda book you can snag as part of the sale either. You could pair Creating a Champion with:
Persona 4 Golden is one of the most beloved RPGs of its era, but many fans of the series didn’t get to play it back when it was a PlayStation Vita-exclusive. Today, the Steam version of Persona 4 Golden is only $12.79 at Fanatical. However, this is a one-day-only flash deal, and less than 24 hours remain to claim it.
For comparison, Persona 4 Golden is usually priced at $20 on Steam, but it’s currently discounted to $16 in Steam’s Black Friday sale. Purchasing the game at Fanatical will get you a Steam key delivered via email, similar to other key sellers like Humble and Green Man Gaming, so it’s worth saving yourself a few extra bucks and snagging Persona 4 Golden there today.
The game earned a 9/10 in GameSpot’s Persona 4 Golden review in 2012 for its memorable characters, fantastic dialogue, and engaging mystery story. To celebrate Persona 4 Golden’s release on Steam, editor Michael Higham revisited the game this year–check out his thoughts on how Persona 4 holds up 10 years since its initial release. “It may not have been known at the time, but Japan (in July 2008) and North America (in December 2008) received what would be remembered as one of the greatest role-playing games ever made,” he wrote.
“Over the course of a decade, Persona 4 has become more than just an incredibly fun RPG with a refined battle system and quirky characters, though. A story about Japanese high school students confronting their worst fears, fighting for what’s right, and becoming the best of friends spawned a lasting legacy that has empowered the people who played it and continually inspired new games. Our love for Persona 4 has kept it alive for so long with several fighting games, two anime adaptations, an adorable (and difficult) spin-off RPG, and even a rhythm game. And after 10 years, we’re still seeing our good friends from Inaba in a new light.”
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla features a dynamic world to explore, filled with all manner of danger and mystery. If you’re looking to start a fight and make some coin in the process, the Thousand Eyes merchants are happy to hand out contracts that will reward players with Opals that can be used to buy rare gear and exotic cosmetics.
Many of these contracts revolve around a simple formula of being sent to assassinate an unlucky target: one who is usually near your location. A new bug around these contracts has risen up though, and it’s allowing players to easily bank some Opals in the process. In the Ravensthorpe settlement that Eivor calls home, you’re able to grab contracts from the head of the Thousand Eyes, Reda.
The bug that players are encountering is that the nearby training dummies being marked as the guilty culprits that Eivor needs to kill, each one having committed a particular crime that needs to be punished with a lethal injection of steel to the neck.
AC: Valhalla offers repeatable quests that turn random NPCs in the gameworld into targets with a little back story and everything. The problem: Training dummies seem to count as NPCs – so I just got the quest to kill a dummy 20 feet away, that apparently committed crimes. pic.twitter.com/R9uiBar9dI
Reddit user DontCrushMyJaw encountered an even more horrifying bug when the dummy near the tattooist Tove decided to gain sentience and wander off:
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla received a new title update this week, fixing many other bugs and broken missions that made advancement in the game’s story impossible. A new graphical option was also added to the PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S versions of the game, which now allows players to choose between the Performance mode that targets a 60fps frame rate while scaling the resolution to maintain it, or Visual Quality mode which targets 30fps and renders the game at a higher resolution and graphical setting.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla “brings a satisfying finish to the current saga of the franchise,” associate editor Jordan Ramée wrote in his Assassin’s Creed Valhalla review. If you’re interested in plundering England as you build a new home for your clan, you can also grab Ubisoft’s latest sandbox for $48 during Black Friday.
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Black Friday might be over, but the deals certainly aren’t. Xbox deals continue to pop over during the Black Friday weekend, and we’re sure to see a few more once we get into Cyber Monday and Cyber Week on November 30.
For now, we’ve found 10 of the very best Xbox deals that we loved during Black Friday, and that are still hanging on for us at the moment. But, these amazing deals won’t last forever, so check them out before they’re gone.
Top 10 Xbox Series X and Xbox Deals Still Live After Black Friday
Robert Anderson is a deals expert for IGN, he’s both excited and terrified at the prospect of Black Friday. Be nice and ask him how his day is going @robertliam21
Black Friday may be over, but Cyber Monday is just around the corner, so it’s still a great time to score deals on all the best tech.
Right now, you can visit Amazon to score discounts on Nintendo Switch memory, with everything from smaller 64GB cards to the massive 512GB behemoths discounted up to 50%. If you picked up a Switch in the Black Friday scramble, or you have one and are simply looking to expand your game storage, this is a great way to improve your experience.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare saw the COD franchise return to a more gritty, realistic shooter experience, which was full to the brim with contemporary weapons like the SIG MCX assault rifle, the DP-12 shotgun, and the Russian ASh 12.7 battle rifle.
In the above video, Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weapons of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, including the Dragunov sniper rifle, the Uzi submachine gun, and silenced versions of the Colt 1911 and the Desert Eagle. Across the video, Jonathan breaks down the weapons and their in-game functionality, and compares them to their real-world counterparts.
The PlayStation Plus Collection gives PS5 owners access to some of the biggest PS4 games as part of their standard PS Plus subscription, but you cannot claim the games via PS4. That led to a market of PS5 owners offering to sell access to these games via temporary guest logins on their console, but it appears this practice is resulting in bans.
Here’s how it works in a nutshell:
PS5 owner offers to claim PS Plus Collection games for a PS4 owner.
PS4 owner gives them their login details so the PS5 owner can claim the games.
PS5 owner signs back out of the account after claiming games.
PS4 owner changes their password.
As it turns out, Sony isn’t a big fan of players doing this. According to VGC, Hong Kong PlayStation 5 players who have sold access to the games–as well as the PS4 players who purchased them–are having their accounts banned. The bans on the accounts don’t appear to be permanent, but the PS5 consoles themselves can no longer connect to PSN. Given that online access is required for nearly everything in modern gaming, including finishing installations of disc-based games, in many cases, this essentially renders the PS5 systems useless.
Still, if you have a PS4 and a PS5, there shouldn’t really be anything stopping you from downloading the PS Plus Collection games across both systems. Several of the games were also offered as freebies through PS Plus in past months, though there are a number of titles that were made free for the first time on November 12.
If you’re still in the market for a PS5, you can check out our PS5 order guide. The system is currently very difficult to find, but listings do pop up sporadically. You can also find great PlayStation Plus membership deals so you can access those games.
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Easy come, easy go. That’s the motto anyone who watches streaming services should keep in mind, because shows and movies are leaving services just as often as they appear. And that makes sense for an independent service like Netflix or a multi-studio service like Hulu. Warner Bros., on the other hand, owns HBO Max as well as most, if not all, of the titles available on it. That includes the list below of new titles joining and leaving HBO Max in December.
We can’t help but wonder, then, why so many things are leaving the service this month. Wonder Woman 1984, which debuts on Christmas Day, headlines the arrivals. The departures, though, include Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition, and Jonah Hex. Whether or not any of those movies are good is in the eye of the beholder, but they’re all Warner Bros.-produced movies about DC Comics-owned characters, both of which are part of WarnerMedia.
Wonder Woman 1984 isn’t the only thing arriving in December, though. Along with the tentpole superhero film, we’ll be able to watch Shaun of the Dead, the Shawshank Redemption, the 1973 Westworld film (Michael Crichton’s first movie about a theme park gone wrong), and a lot more. The majority of the content drops on December 1, though the service has an almost-daily trickle of stuff throughout the month, too. Keep reading to see what’s coming and going.
Joining HBO Max in December
December 1
3 Godfathers, 1949
40 Days And 40 Nights, 2002 (HBO)
Absolute Power, 1997
Adam Ruins Everything, Seasons 2-3
The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996
Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World, 2018
Amistad, 1997 (HBO)
Annabelle: Creation, 2017 (HBO)
The Bay, 2012 (HBO)
The Beguiled, 2017 (HBO)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt, 2017
The Bishop’s Wife, 1947
The Blind Side, (HBO)
Blow-Up, 1966
The Book Of Henry, 2017 (HBO)
Bright Young Things, 2004 (HBO)
Bundle of Joy, 1956
The Carbonaro Effect, Seasons 2-5
Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta, 2019
Cinderella Story: If The Shoe Fits, A, 2016
Code 46, 2004 (HBO)
Comedy Knockout, 2016
Contraband, 2012 (HBO)
Crimes of the Century, 2013
The Crow, 1994 (HBO)
The Crow: City Of Angels, 1996 (HBO)
The Crow: Wicked Prayer, 2005 (HBO)
Dead Wives Club, Season 1
Death Row Stories, Seasons 1-4
De Blanco La Patuda (aka White Is For Virgins), 2020 (HBO)
Deep Blue Sea, 1999
Demolition Man, 1993
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, 2012 (HBO)
Fallen, 1998
Falling Skies, 2011
The Family Man, 2000 (HBO)
Father of the Bride, 1950
Fifty Shades Of Black, 2016 (HBO)
Final Destination, 2000
Final Destination 2, 2003
Final Destination 3, 2006
The Final Destination, 2009
Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery, 2015
Freelancers, 2012 (HBO)
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, 1995
Free Willy 3: The Rescue, 1997
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove, 2010
The Girl With All The Gifts, 2016 (HBO)
Gladiator, 2000
Gun Crazy, 1950
Harry And The Hendersons, 1987 (HBO)
Hell in the Heartland, 2019
Hero, 2004 (HBO)
The History of Comedy, 2017
Holiday Affair, 1949
Hot Fuzz, 2007 (HBO)
How It Really Happened, Seasons 1-4
The Human Stain, 2003 (HBO)
The Hunt with John Walsh, 2014
Inside Evil with Chris Cuomo, 2018
It Happened on Fifth Avenue, 1947
Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990
Juice, 1992
Just My Luck, 2006 (HBO)
Kung Fu Panda 2, 2011
Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks, 2018
The Last Samurai, 2003
La Unidad, 2020
Logan’s Run, 1976
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001
The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1942
Mars Attacks!, 1996
Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944
Michael Clayton, 2007
Misery, 1990 (HBO)
The Misery Index, 2013
My Dream is Yours, 1949
Nancy Drew, 2007
No Blade of Grass, 1970
Omega Man, The, 1971
On Moonlight Bay, 1951
Outbreak, 1995
Paid Off with Michael Torpey, 2018
Phantom Thread, 2017 (HBO)
Period of Adjustment, 1962
Pope: The Most Powerful Man In History, 2018
Project X, 2012 (Extended Version) (HBO)
Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack, 2016
The Redemption Project, 2019
Risky Business, 1983
Robots, 2005 (HBO)
Rock Of Ages, 2012 (Extended Version) (HBO)
Romance on the High Seas, 1948
Room for One More, 1952
Sanctum, 2011 (HBO)
The Sentinel, 2006 (HBO)
Sex and the City, 2008
Sex and the City 2, 2010
Shaun Of The Dead, 2004 (HBO)
The Shawshank Redemption, 1994
Shop Around the Corner, The, 1940
Snakes on a Plane, 2006
Snow White And The Huntsman, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO)
Something’s Killing Me, 2017
Southland, Seasons 1-5
Soylent Green, 1973
SPAWN, 1997
Stargirl, Season 1
Striptease, 1996
Susan Slept Here, 1954
Talk Show the Game Show, 2017
Tea for Two, 1950
Those Who Can’t, 2016
Three Godfathers, 1936
THX 1138, 1971
Timeline, 2003 (HBO)
Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale, 2007
Tom And Jerry: Santa’s Little Helpers, 2014
True Grit, 2010 (HBO)
Unfaithful, 2002 (HBO)
Unmasking a Killer, 2018
Very Scary People, Season 1
The Wedding Date, 2005 (HBO)
Westworld, 1973
What Bitch? (HBO)
Wrath of the Titans, 2012 (HBO)
Wrecked, 2019
Yogi Bear, 2010
Young Man with a Horn, 1949
December 2
Baby God, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
December 3
Full Bloom, Season Finale
Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults, HBO Max Documentary Premiere
Looney Tunes Cartoons,Bugs Bunny’s 24 Carrot Holiday Special Premiere
My Gift: A Christmas Special From Carrie Underwood, HBO Max Special Premiere
Stylish with Jenna Lyons, HBO Max Original Series Premiere
December 4
Beyond the Spotlight, Season 1
Bright Now: Alien Worlds, 2020
Engineering the Future, 2020
La Leyenda Negra (HBO)
Jujutsu Kaisen (Crunchyroll Collection)
December 5
The Photograph, 2020 (HBO)
December 6
Euphoria Special, Special Episode Premiere (HBO)
Murder On Middle Beach, Docuseries Finale (HBO)
December 7:
Axios, Season Finale (HBO)
December 8:
40 Years A Prisoner, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
La Jauria (The Pack), Season 1
One Night in Bangkok, 2020
December 9
Alabama Snake, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
The Trial of Christine Keeler
December 10
4 Blocks, Seasons 1-3
Esme & Roy, HBO Max Holiday Special Episode
Haute Dog, HBO Max Holiday Special Episode
House of Ho, HBO Max Original Series Premiere
Let Them All Talk, HBO Max Original Film Premiere
Summer Camp Island, Season 3 Premiere
Veneno, Season Finale
Valley of Tears, Season Finale
December 11
Adult Material
Midnight Family, 2020 (HBO)
One Way Or Another, Season Finale (HBO)
December 12
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
December 15
Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
December 16
The Art Of Political Murder, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
December 17
CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute
The Flight Attendant, HBO Max Limited Series Finale
Homeschool Musical Class of 2020, HBO Max Special Premiere
Love Monster, Season 1-2
Sesame Street: Holiday at Hooper’s
December 18
Diego Torres Sinfonico, Season 1 (HBO)
Hasta Que La Boda Nos Separe (aka The Wedding Unplanner), 2020 (HBO)
December 19
Wendy, 2020 (HBO)
December 20
I Used To Go Here, 2020 (HBO)
December 21
Industry, Season Finale (HBO)
December 23
Squish, Season 1
December 25
The West Wing, Season 1-7
Wonder Woman 1984
December 26
Independence Day (Extended Version), 1996 (HBO)
Road Trip, Season 1
December 28
His Dark Materials, Season 2 Finale (HBO)
December 29
Los Dias De La Ballena (AKA The Days of the Whale) (HBO)
December 31
The Champ, 1979
Conan Without Borders
Leaving HBO Max in December:
December 10
Lights Out, 2016 (HBO)
December 15
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, 2019 (HBO)
December 26
American Animals, 2018 (HBO)
December 27
Arizona, 2018 (HBO)
December 31
An American in Paris, 1951
Analyze This, 1999
Austin Powers In Goldmember, 2002
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, 1997
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, 1999
Batman & Robin, 1997
Batman Forever, 1995
Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition, 2016
Bonnie and Clyde, 1967
Boogie Nights, 1997
Bringing Up Baby, 1938
Clash Of The Titans, 2010
Constantine, 2005
Demolition Man, 1993
Dirty Harry, 1971
Doctor Zhivago, 1965
Empire of the Sun, 1987
Friday the 13th, 2009
Free Willy, 1993
Giant, 1956
Gladiator, 2000
The Hey Arnold! The Movie, 2002
The Hobbit, 1977
Jonah Hex, 2010
La La Land, 2016 (HBO)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life, 2003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2001
The Lego Ninjago Movie, 2014
Lucy In The Sky, 2019 (HBO)
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, 2012 (HBO)
Monsters vs. Aliens, 2009
Rugrats Go Wild, 2003
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