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With the Xbox Series X coming later this year, and Microsoft’s pledge to keep it backwards, and even forwards-compatible, there’s no reason not to get an Xbox One S or Xbox One X now and start accumulating a handsome collection of games.

Best Xbox One X and Xbox One S Deals

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Xbox One All-Access Bundles

Another chance to save on Xbox One, the Xbox All-Access program is a subscription service that gets you everything you need to start playing: console, Xbox Live and Game Pass memberships. The deal lets you pay a monthly price for a new Xbox console with the option to upgrade to Xbox Series X later on. However, it’s ONLY a good deal if you qualify for the best rate. It’s also an option if you’d rather just pay a monthly fee spread out over 12-24 months instead of all at once, but that’s your call to make.

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• Xbox One S All-Digital All-Access – Starting at $19.99
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• Xbox One S 1TB NBA 2K20 Bundle All-Access – Starting at $22.99
• Xbox One S 1TB Gears 5 Bundle All-Access – Starting at $22.99
• Xbox One X 1TB Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Bundle All-Access – Starting at $30.99
• Xbox One X 1TB NBA 2K20 Bundle All-Access – Starting at $30.99
• Xbox One X 1TB Gears 5 Bundle All-Access – Starting at $30.99
• Xbox One X 1TB Gears 5 Limited Edition Bundle All-Access – Starting at $30.99

.@Steam has broken its record for most concurrently online users that was held for two years. Previous record was 18,537,490 users. It’s still increasing!

But there’s about 1 million less players actually in-game (≈5.8mil vs ≈7mil two years ago).https://t.co/D6WDHbz0B4

— Steam Database (@SteamDB) February 2, 2020

When it comes to wearables,  Apple has locked down most of the mindshare. The latest version of the Apple Watch improves on everything people like about the earlier models, and right now at Amazon you can get your choice of Apple Watch Series 5 color on sale. You can also pick up an Apple Watch Series 3 at a slight discount, if you’d rather spend less than $200.

Apple Watch Series 5 and Series 3 Deals

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An Apple Watch is a great way to help make your tax refund disappear, or maybe give one as a gift for Valentine’s Day. While you’re shopping for the most romantic gifts, make sure to check out our guide to the best gaming chairs. What better way to say “I love you?” than with a reclining space ship chair for your loved one’s PC gaming needs?
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Gina, a 12-week old Labrador Retriever / Chow Chow Mix playing in her rookie year in the prestigious Puppy Bowl, has been officially named the Puppy Bowl XVI MVP. Hailing from Waldorf, MD, Gina showed dogged determination in the face of alpha competition as part of the 2020 Starting Line-Up at this year’s Puppy Bowl.

The epic 16th year of Puppy Bowl pitted champion against chomp’ion, with some of the most doggone determined competitors the Geico Stadium has ever seen. Raised in over 60 shelters across 26 states, these All-American animals came ready to rustle and tussle in a battle for the treasured Lombarky Trophy. 2019 saw Team Ruff gnaw their way through the defense of back-to-back Best in Show Team Fluff for an upset victory. Would the rambunctious Ruffs stuff the Fluff again and put two trophies up on the tailgate? Or would the ferocious Fluffs imprint some fear in the heart of their rivals and get their bone back? One thing was for sure — you wouldn’t need a seeing-eye dog to know that 2020’s Puppy Bowl was looking to be a real slobberknocker!

Puppy Bowl XVI MVP (Most Valuable Puppy) award winner Gina of Team Ruff dug deep into her bag of puppy tricks for her two scores, most notably pulling off the amazing “Hound-Around Ground-and-Pound” move that took her goalpost-to-goalpost without even a single other pup on her coat or tail. Terrier teammate Cafecito also poured it on to put double-digits up on the scoreboard. But the competition did give chase, with big boy Bert scoring twice for Team Fluff and showing just how “great” a Great Pyrenees can be. Neither team would let go of the lead for long in this tug-of-rope! A tied-up half-time score sent both teams to the locker room to think about what they’d done, and even in the hair-raising final 45 seconds of the game, the scoreboard rolled over on each side of this dogfight…

Final Score: 63 to 59, and the Team Fluff “Blue Bones” once again stand on the puppy podium as champions, taking home the Puppy Bowl Lombarki Trophy for the third time in its furry franchise history.

 

Each and every one of these canine competitors left it all on the field in this year’s big game. And in the end, no pup was left out in the cold, as Animal Planet found adoptive parents for the stars of the event. Puppy Bowl XVI was one for the Hound Hall of Fame. Stay tuned to IGN for more information on Fluff as it becomes apparent.

BB-8 and his evil doppelganger BB-9E are coming to Star Wars Battlefront II this month. The update bringing the two droids has been delayed from its original January 31 date, and it will now arrive on February 3 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One game. The two droids have now been detailed extensively on the game’s forums, so we know what to expect from them.

BB-8

BB-8, the famous droid from the recent new Star Wars trilogy, is defined by his speed–not only can he move very quickly, but the droid captures Command Posts at twice the rate of other characters. He can roll even faster with his Rolling Charge attack, which lets roll zoom straight forward into opponents. His Shock Prod attack lets him deal electrical damage to enemies. BB-8 can also use his “Resistance Backing” ability to reveal enemy locations (while also increasing the damage they will take), and he can use his Cable Spin ability to hit enemies around him using three tow cables.

Here’s the complete list of other abilities, functions, emotes, and poses for BB-8.

Passive Abilities

Technical Support

• BB-8 will count as two units when capturing a Command Post, and activating an objective device is much faster.

Swift Reaction

• BB-8 increases the cooldown speed of nearby friendly character’s abilities.

Health on Kill

• Upon defeating an opponent, BB-8 will receive some health back.

Movement Type

Dodge

• Quick Dodge to the side

Jump

• A quick impulse jump that is slightly higher than blaster heroes

Speed

• Similar to a Force user in terms of sprinting speed

Flashlight

• Ability to turn on and off a flashlight

Star Cards

Self Repairs

• BB-8’s maximum health regeneration is increased.

Spared Batteries

• Every trooper defeated or 200 damage to villains increases Shock Prod damage.

Shielded Roll

• BB-8 takes less damage while using Rolling Charge.

Headfirst

• BB-8 deals more damage when hitting an enemy with Rolling Charge.

Spinner

• When hitting multiple enemies with Cable Spin, the next cooldown of the ability is reduced.

Whirlwind

• Both the damage and area of effect of Cable Spin is increased.

Uncover

• Enemies revealed by Resistance Backing will take extra damage from attacks.

Trusty Droid

• When BB-8 defeats an opponent that was revealed by Resistance Backing, he will heal nearby friendly characters.

Roll Together

• The increased cooldown speed of BB-8 is improved.

Victory Poses

• Sided
• Thumbs Up
• Wired Parade
• Cables Out

Emotes

• Excited
• Thumbs Up
• Twist
• Angry Beeps

BB-9E

BB-9E, the evil version of BB-8, will also come equipped with his own Shock Prod. He can also emit a smokescreen, which will shield him while also revealing all enemies in the surrounding area for a limited time. His Charge Up attack lets him emit a pulse that allows all friendly units nearby to fire their guns without needing to worry about them overheating for a while, and also reduces the recharge time of abilities for anyone in the vicinity. BB-9E can also use Shock Spin, which pushes and damages all nearby enemies, and overheats the blasters of enemies caught within the wider range of its radius.

Here’s everything else you can enjoy with BB-9E once the update hits.

Passive Abilities

Technical Support

• BB-9E will count as two units when capturing a Command Post and activating an objective device is much faster.

Bacta Support

• BB-9E periodically regenerates the main health of friendly characters around him.

Health on Kill

• Upon defeating an opponent, BB-9E will receive some health back.

Movement Type

BB-9E is faster than most and can traverse the battlefront at great speeds.

Dodge

• Quick Dodge to the side.

Jump

• A quick impulse jump that is slightly higher than blaster heroes.

Speed

• Similar to a Force user in terms of sprinting speed.

Flashlight

• Ability to turn on and off a flashlight.

Star Cards

Full Reconstruction

• BB-9E’s maximum health regeneration is increased.

Linked Systems

• Every 200 health healed to friendly characters reduces the shock prod stun cooldown.

Hearty Exhaust

• The radius of smoke screen is increased.

I See You

• Enemies revealed by Smoke Screen will be revealed for longer.

Faster, Faster!

• If shock spin hits enough targets, its damage will be doubled for the remaining time.

Spin me Round

• Enemies hit by Shock Spin will be pushed further away, but its cooldown is increased.

Swift Power

• The cooldown of Charge Up is reduced.

Supercharged

• The radius of Charge Up is increased.

Potent Bacta

• The radius of Bacta Support is bigger, but the cooldown between heals is also increased.

Victory Poses

• Shocking Victory
• Incognito
• Vigilant
• Bow

Emotes

• Suspicious
• Alarm
• Backfire
• Spiral

There’s a huge range of additional tweaks and changes coming along with this update, too. It’s worth reading the full post to get everything, but here are the main new features and quality of life improvements that have been highlighted.

• Two new Heroes, BB-8 for the Resistance and BB-9E for the First Order, are now available.
• Supremacy and Instant Action are now available on new Planets (Takodana, Jakku, Ajan Kloss).
• Added new Capital Ship interior maps, the MC85 Star Cruiser and the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer, as part of the Supremacy game mode on the new planets.
• Hero Showdown is now available on Ajan Kloss.
• New emotes have been added for Finn (Thumbs Up) and Kylo Ren (Showdown), unlockable via milestones.
• Added era selection to Supremacy, including the option for matchmaking into any game.
• Droideka units are added as AI players on Co-Op and Instant Action.

All of these updates will be available in the BB update on February 3.

Marvel just debuted a new teaser for its upcoming Disney+ series, giving fans their first good look at WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki. And while the latter series is only briefly teased in this footage, it does reveal one crucial detail about Loki’s plot. The god of mischief will be butting heads with the Time Variance Authority.

Read on for more about this important Marvel organization and why Loki will be getting on their bad side in his first solo adventure in the MCU.

Loki Imprisoned

We only glimpse one shot of Loki in the Disney Plus: Big Game Spot. We see Tom Hiddleston’s familiar character wearing a strange uniform that appears to be some sort of prison garb, while he gleefully tells an unseen enemy, “I’m gonna burn this place to the ground.”

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When last we saw Loki in the MCU, his 2012 self managed to sneak away with the Tesseract and vanish right under Thor’s nose. Clearly, at some point between then and now, Loki has run afoul of a new enemy. And thanks to the logo on his uniform, we know what that enemy is. Loki’s shirt features the letters TVA, or Time Variance Authority.

What Is the Time Variance Authority?

As the name suggests, the Time Variance Authority is an organization charged with protecting the timeline of the Marvel Universe. Anyone who attempts to use time travel to alter either the past or future has to answer to the TVA. The group’s authority isn’t necessarily absolute, as they’ve never had much luck keeping powerful villains like Kang the Conqueror in check. Nor have they stopped the X-Men from screwing up reality over and over. But despite this, the TVA has done its part to keep the Marvel timeline from going too far astray.

The TVA is literally a faceless bureaucracy, as most of its agents are artificial clones called chronomonitors. A new chronomonitor springs to life every time an alteration to the timeline creates a divergent reality. The agency does have a handful of higher-ranking judges who enforce the TVA’s regulations, including Justice Peace, Justice Love and Justice Goodwill. Unfortunately, many of these judges have a tendency to go rogue and commit the same crimes they’re meant to prevent. The TVA is also led by a mysterious being known as Mr. Alternity.

Loki vs the Time Variance Authority

Marvel hasn’t revealed much about the plot of the Loki series, with director Kate Herron teasing only, “We’re taking Loki to an entirely new part of the MCU.” However, we know that a version of the character from before his death in Avengers: Infinity War is still alive and is once again in possession of the Tesseract. And various rumors and set photos suggest Loki will be travelling across time and attempting to influence the course of human history. With that in mind, it’s no surprise to learn he’ll be butting heads with the members of the TVA.

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Loki will likely find the TVA to be a very different kind of opponent from the ones he’s used to fighting. His brother Thor may be powerful, but he’s pretty easy to outwit. The generic drones of the TVA are another story entirely. This brief shot of Loki in TVA custody suggests he’ll be arrested by the organization during the course of the first season. We could even see the recently cast Owen Wilson playing the various interchangeable chronomonitors or a judge like Justice Peace (a character who actually teamed up with Thor in his first appearance). It’s not just any peacekeeping agency who can imprison an Asgardian, but Loki isn’t someone known for staying imprisoned for long.

Marvel has been teasing plenty of connections between its Disney+ shows and the MCU movies (with Loki having a direct connection to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), but the debut of the TVA could also play into the upcoming Disney Plus She-Hulk series. The TVA has also appeared in She-Hulk’s comics, with the organization helping out She-Hulk’s law firm during an important time-related trial. We could easily see this new organization popping up in all sorts of places across the ever-growing MCU.

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For more on Marvel’s Super Bowl reveals, check out a gallery of new Black Widow character posters and learn more about Taskmaster’s familiar fighting style. And check out our roundup of all the Super Bowl movie commercials released so far.

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