Now you’ve successfully preordered the brand new Xbox Series X or Series S (lucky you!), it’s time to sort out those extra accessories as well. Whether you’re looking to rock out with the Shock Blue wireless handset or expand your storage with the new Seagate 1TB SSD, we’ve got you covered.
Several retailers have got a great variety of Xbox Series X/S accessory stock to show off, so have a good look and preorder as soon as possible to ensure you don’t miss out. Don’t forget to also secure yourself a few new games along the way, and check out where to preorder Xbox Series X games.
Amazon Xbox Series X and Series S Accessory Preorders
Amazon is one of the most reliable sources when it comes to Xbox Series X/S accessories, and it certainly doesn’t let us down here with all the latest Xbox controllers, charging gear, and more. But most importantly, they’ve also got the new Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X and S. It’s 1TB and costs $219.99. If you want to learn more about how the new Expansion Card works, check out our dedicated preorder article right here on IGN.
Preorder Xbox Series X Controllers and Accessories at Best Buy
Best Buy is one of the best retailers available at the moment when it comes to keeping next-gen accessories in stock. Here you’ll find controllers, charging kits, the whole lot. It’s ready and waiting for you to throw into the basket and run to the checkout. One item Best Buy has that the other retailers don’t is a bundle that includes a black controller, three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and a collectible card.
Xbox Series X and S Controller Preorders from Target
Target is also rocking some preorders for the new controllers, just in case you have any trouble preordering elsewhere, or even if Target is your retailer of choice.
All three of the new controllers, Shock Blue, Robot White, and Carbon Black are available to preorder.
That’s all there is for the moment when it comes to Xbox Series X and Series S controllers and accessories but check back again soon, as we’ll be updating this page regularly.
The official 007 Instagram account shared a short video teaser for the new podcast, which will feature exclusive interviews with Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Naomie Harris, director Cary Joji Fukunaga, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and a host of key crew members, including the film’s casting director and special effects supervisor.
The six-part series, hosted by film critic James King, will give listeners “unrivalled behind-the-scenes access” to the next Bond film. Each episode will focus on a different aspect of the franchise, giving fans the opportunity to learn more about everything that goes into the making of the iconic film series, from the guns and gadgets to the locations, stunts, costumes and cars.
In addition to all of this top-secret intel, Yahoo reports that the podcast will feature “the first listen to Hans Zimmer’s score for the film with brand new recordings from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.”
Here’s a sneak peek of the individual episode titles for the new podcast series, which will be available weekly from September 30 on Apple, Spotify, Acast, and all major podcast providers:
Episode 1: Bond in Context
Episode 2: Bond Around the World
Episode 3: A Name to Die For: Allies and Enemies of Bond
Episode 4: The Craft of Bond
Episode 5: Clothes, Tech and Cars
Episode 6: Being 007
No Time To Die: The Official James Bond Podcast is a collaborative effort that is being produced by Somethin’ Else in association with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Universal Pictures International, United Artists Releasing and Eon Productions.
After “careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace” throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Sony pushed back the release date of No Time To Die by several months, moving it from April to November. The film is now expected to be released in theaters on November 12, 2020, in the U.K. and on November 20, 2020, in the US.
The upcoming film will see Bond’s peaceful retirement from active service interrupted when his CIA friend Felix Leiter tracks him down in Jamaica, seeking help to rescue a kidnapped scientist. The mission will set Bond onto the “trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.” It has already been heavily speculated that Rami Malek’s supervillain is a rebooted version of Dr. No.
In an interview with Empire, Miller explained that Boseman fought for her to receive an increased salary for her work on the film, even going so far as to giving up a portion of his own salary to help out.
Miller was hesitant to join the project at first as she was exhausted at the time from working non-stop, but Boseman convinced her to take the role of Frankie Burns as he was a big fan of her work.
“This was a pretty big budget film, and I know that everybody understands about the pay disparity in Hollywood, but I asked for a number that the studio wouldn’t get to,” Miller said. “Chadwick ended up donating some of his salary to get me to the number that I had asked for. He said that that was what I deserved to be paid.”
“It was about the most astounding thing that I’ve experienced,” she said. “That kind of thing just doesn’t happen.”
The rules of time-travel have been debated by scientists and sci-fi fans alike for years, but now a student physicist has been able to “square the numbers” to show how paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible. This means that should someone be able to time travel, the dreaded butterfly effect might not be as inevitable as has been feared — but that doesn’t mean a time-traveler might not still face unintended consequences.
The math involved in all this is enough to make Will Hunting scratch his head but Tobar, like a different Matt Damon character, has been able to “science the shit” out of theorizing how one could travel through time without causing those pesky logical paradoxes that bedevil many a science-fiction protagonist.
One such example is the so-called grandfather paradox wherein, as their paper puts it, “a time traveller could kill her own grandfather and thus prevent her own birth, leading to a logical inconsistency.” Or, someone going back in time to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from happening would then nix the very reason why they ever traveled through time. Yes, it’s like those arguments about time travel in Avengers: Endgame all over again!
“This is a paradox – an inconsistency that often leads people to think that time travel cannot occur in our universe,” Costa said. “Some physicists say it is possible, but logically it’s hard to accept because that would affect our freedom to make any arbitrary action. It would mean you can time travel, but you cannot do anything that would cause a paradox to occur.”
Tabor basically said, hold my beer and went about proving that, theoretically, one can travel through time, exert free will, and not create any such logical paradoxes.
Because classical dynamics and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity are at odds with each other on the matter, Tobar’s paper calculated how closed time-like curves (CTCs) “are not only compatible with determinism and with the local ‘free choice’ of operations, but also with a rich and diverse range of scenarios and dynamical processes.”
Or, as Popular Mechanics succinctly puts it, “as long as just two pieces of an entire scenario within a CTC are still in ‘causal order’ when you leave, the rest is subject to local free will.”
Tabor’s calculations show how theoretically one could time-travel and exert free will in a way that wouldn’t prevent the reason why they went back in time. But it could make them wish they had never time-traveled to begin with:
“In the coronavirus patient zero example, you might try and stop patient zero from becoming infected, but in doing so you would catch the virus and become patient zero, or someone else would. No matter what you did, the salient events would just recalibrate around you. Try as you might to create a paradox, the events will always adjust themselves, to avoid any inconsistency.”
Amazon has announced that Prime Day 2020 will take place October 13-14. That’s a few months later than usual, but these are nothing if not unusual times. A vast array of products Amazon sells will be on sale during the event, including gaming chairs. So if your current desk chair could use an upgrade–and specifically an upgrade to a racing-style gaming chair–you’ll want to be on the lookout for any killer deals that crop up. Luckily for you, we have a whole article on that, and you’re looking at it now.
So bookmark this page now and come back during the sale to find all the best gaming chairs for your needs. And if you’re interested in discounts on anything else, also be sure to check out our mega-list Amazon Prime Day 2020 article, which will transform into a collection of the best deals available when the discounts go live.
In the meantime, here’s some info you may find useful.
Prime Day Deals Live Now
Amazon isn’t waiting until mid-October to put up all the deals. Already you can save on a handful of items, assuming you’re a Prime member.
Speaking of, since it’s Prime Day, you do actually have to be a Prime member to take advantage of the savings event.
Thankfully, you have a number of options for how to subscribe. For starters, if you’ve never done a free trial before, you can get one for a month at no cost. It even lets you participate in Prime Day, regardless of whether you cancel before paying a dime.
For those who have used their free trial before, you can get a one-month membership for $12.99 or a one-subscription for $119.
Last Year’s Prime Day Gaming Chair Deals
One of the best ways to figure out what kinds of deals to expect from this year’s Prime Day is to see what the online retailer did last year. Last year, a number of gaming chairs went on sale during the big day(s), including chairs from Homall, Respawn, and OFM. The discounts tended to be on the more affordable chairs, but they were good enough that they brought chairs that retail for $200 down to $100. Not bad
It’s also worth noting that Amazon wasn’t the only retailer to offer gaming chair discounts. We also saw discounts at Best Buy and Walmart. We’ll be keeping an eye on all of the retailers this Prime Day, and we’ll park all the best gaming chair deals right here. So come back on October 13 for the goods.
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Season 6 of Call of Duty starts today at 11 PM PT and this latest update is jam-packed with new features. A new trailer teased what’s to come, but for those eager to know it all, here’s everything you need to know about what’s coming to Modern Warfare and Warzone.
Story
To set the scene for Season 6, recently dispatched Nikolai and Farah discover a huge secret about Al Qatala’s operations in the city of Verdansk: They use the empty subway tunnels to travel unnoticed. By recommissioning the trains, Armistice is put back on track towards freedom from this dangerous international syndicate. These tunnels are key narratively and mechanically, as they facilitate this season’s new fast travel system in Warzone.
Fast Travel
The Metro is your new way to speed around Verdansk in Season 6. It combines pre-existing points of interest with new stations, so players will now have a high-risk, high-reward option while navigating the city.
Traveling between stations happens in seconds, and players will be able to explore the stations before they board giving opportunities to find item spawns on the way to the platforms. The cars themselves have a retro look, but follow modern safety protocols; they won’t take you outside the safe area during battle royale matches and they cease to function if there’s conflict onboard. Fighting on the train is strictly a no no.
That said, fighting in and around the stations is totally fair game.
New Warzone Mode and Weapon Rotation
Armored Royale is the new Warzone mode coming in Season 6. It’s a battle royale variant that gives each squad an armored cargo truck, complete with turret, that doubles as your respawn point. As long as the truck is intact, you and your squadmates can return to the fight. But once it’s gone you can’t come back from a killshot. The last squad standing is the winner, regardless of the state of their truck.
Verdansk also has a new shipment of weaponry scattered across the map, giving players access to a new weapon rotation this season. You’ll be able to find these weapons on the ground or in supply boxes, and there will be a combination of familiar tools and new armaments to try out. Season 6 will offer up six common, ten uncommon, 13 rare, 18 epic, and 24 legendary variants.
Modern Warfare Maps
The full version of Modern Warfare is getting four new multiplayer maps, one of each size.
Station is a rural train station in Kastovia and serves as the latest gunfight arena. It has a relatively simple design, but provides opportunities to find jump spots and varying tactical angles. This map embraces verticality by allowing you to climb every boxcar and passenger car, though these areas are more exposed. If you stick to the ground, there will be more cover in the way of crates and even tank parts.
Broadcast is a map franchise long-timers will recognize. It debuted in 2007, and is making its return for season six. As the name implies, Broadcast is an abandoned communications center that you’ll infiltrate in 6v6. It features plenty of tight corridors and even some limited verticality of its own.
Mialstor Tank Factory can be played in both 6v6 and 10v 10 modes, and its playable dimensions change depending on the lobby size. Either size will feature both indoor and outdoor combat as the focus of the map is the tank factory and adjoining warehouse which have accessible rooftops. Still, there are other buildings your squad will be able to explore including a workshop, a skybridge, a residential zone, a scrap yard, and a shipping area. Some of these will be sectioned off in 6v6.
Verdansk Riverside is a previously unlabeled map location that’s actually a suburban area located across the Gora River from the Verdansk International Airport. As you’d expect from a suburb, this map largely consists of two-story homes and buildings you’d find in a strip mall like a pharmacy and a chain restaurant. There’s also a small construction project of some kind that doesn’t seem to have an end date. This is a Ground War map, and will focus heavily on vehicles to navigate in and around the neighborhood.
Modern Warfare Modes
Killstreak Confirmed is the new Kill Confirmed variant to shake up killstreaks in multiple ways. You can only rack up killstreaks by getting enemy dog tags, but your streak won’t reset if you die, so you’re going to want to keep hustling for those tags. This mode will also allow you to “wrap” killstreaks so you can earn the same one multiple times in one life. Whichever team collects the target number of dog tags despite killstreaks wins.
Get ready for the random weapon assortment of Gun Game to come to Team Deathmatch in Gun Game TDM. You get to choose your loadout for perks and equipment, but you’ll have to be prepared to use whatever you’re dealt once the match starts. Each kill with a given weapon cycles you through a predetermined list of weaponry. First team to the target kill count wins.
Headquarters is getting a new spin with HQ: Firefight. This mode gives a team score for both holding the objective and getting kills. After a team captures an HQ, respawns are disabled until the enemy team neutralizes it. The team that gets to the target score first wins.
Hardpoint: Hills and Kills is similar to HQ: Firefight; it gives a team score for holding hills and earnings kills. First team to the target score wins.
There are also nine trials this season to spend your trial tickets on, alongside additional side missions and challenges where you can earn blueprints and items.
Battle Pass
This season’s battle pass comes with 20 tiers of free content for all Warzone and Modern Warfare players. Just by playing, you can earn a few blueprints, cosmetics, and some Call of Duty Points. The free tiers also provide opportunities to unlock multiple new war tracks to play while driving. Some of these war tracks come from outside the CoD universe, including DMX’s “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem.”
There are two new weapons that can be unlocked in the free tiers: the SP-R208 marksman rifle (Tier 15) and the AS-VAL assault rifle (Tier 31). The SP-R208 is a bolt-action rifle that’s one of the most accurate in its class. The AS-VAL is an assault rifle built for stealth and accuracy.
If you purchase the battle pass, all 100 tiers open up and you’ll get access to unlocking a variety of goodies. Farah and Nikolai are both unlockable operators, and the paid pass includes perks like double XP and weapons tokens, weapon charms, watches, stickers, emblems, and calling cards. The paid version of the battle pass also includes skins for operators and vehicles, additional weapon blueprints, and a new finishing move that features a pet bat named Edward presumably eating the faces of your enemies. Players can also look forward to some seasonal Halloween content coming to the store soon, and the Halloween event The Haunting of Verdansk will kick off October 20.
Season Six Download Sizes
Please note that the Season Six update will have a download size of approximately 19.6 – 63 GB for owners of the full version of Modern Warfare and free-to-play Warzone, who are up to date with the latest update.
PlayStation 4: 19.3 GB
Xbox One: 22.66 GB
PC: 57 GB (Modern Warfare owners) and 25.5 GB (Warzone only owners)
At launch on console, owners of the full version of Modern Warfare will also have to download the Compatibility Pack to access Multiplayer and Special Ops, and the Survival Pack to access Survival. File sizes for these two Packs are below:
PlayStation 4 Compatibility Pack: 7.8 GB
PlayStation 4 Survival Pack: 5.8 GB
Xbox One Compatibility Pack: 8 GB
Xbox One Survival Pack: 5.9 GB
Note that on October 1, Xbox and PC players can access the Survival mode.
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With the brand new announcement that we’ll be seeing Amazon Prime Day return in 2020, it’s time to speculate what sort of deals we will be seeing once the retailer giant’s event actually rolls into town for 48 hours. This might not actually be too difficult this time around, as we are already seeing a few early Prime Day deals popping up from none other than Amazon itself. One of the best early Prime Day offers is definitely on the Echo Dot 3rd Gen, where you can get two of the smart speakers for just $39.98.
From 4K TVs for your new next-gen PS5 or Xbox Series X to the latest smart home devices from Google, Amazon, Philips, and more. Amazon Prime Day is set to have some of the best electronics deals of the year, so try not to miss out. Stay tuned for more updates, and follow @IGNDeals on twitter for instant deal alerts.
With the launch of the new Echo Dot and other Amazon family of devices, you can expect to see a few more deals on the older generation of stock as they continue to sell as much of that as possible while the tech doesn’t seem too old.
Not only that, but there is also the ‘Spend $10, Get $10‘ promotion to consider in the build-up to the event. We’ve marked these particular items above to let you know, but the gist of the deal is when you buy from a smaller or independent retailer via Amazon, you’ll be rewarded for helping the little guy. That means you’ll be gifted a $10 credit to spend during the Prime Day sales on October 13 and 14.
2020 is primed and ready to give us some good deals. We’ve got Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday, and then the Christmas sales. Surely, there will be some good deals to come? Well, we certainly hope so. If you want to find out more, make sure to check out what to expect from Amazon Prime Day 2020 right here on IGN.
We’re currently predicting that 4K TV deals are going to be one of the hottest tech items up for grabs again come October 13, with big discounts heading towards some top of the line OLED TVs. It’ll be the big purchases that you see the most discounts on because $400-600 4K TVs have already been produced to be rather cheap. However, you may still see a few receive so minor discounts, so keep an eye out.
Smart home devices are also expected to be big once again, just like every other year. Amazon year on year sells more and more Echo smart speakers, and linking these up with all your new smart tech is definitely the go-to thing to do during big sales. But, you can also expect more deals for other electronic items around the home, including new household tech like vacuums, microwaves, kettles, rice-cookers, insta-pots, and much more.
What is Amazon Prime Day?
Prime Day is a massive shopping event put on by the online retailer Amazon, specifically curated for the use of Amazon Prime members. Prime is a premium membership system where users can get access to a wide range of benefits, such as next day delivery, Prime Video, and even several exclusive deals throughout the year, including every single deal that pops up during Prime Day. Prime Day usually situates itself in the Summer, normally July, but with everything that’s been going on in the world, it now finds itself firmly in October instead.
Prime Day is set to start at 00:01 AM on October 13 and ends at 23:59 on October 14, so you’ve got two full days of deals to race through when it finally launches. But, we’re here to help with everything Prime Day and will be covering all the new and exciting deals that we are expecting to pop up.
If you’re not already a member, now is the time to sign up and take full advantage of the event. A 30-day free trial won’t cost you a thing, and you’ll be getting access to all of the best electronic, gaming, and tech deals available during the two-day event for 2020. If you’re a seasoned Amazon shopper, then the 1-year membership offers the best long-term value. The $119/yr fee is well worth the many perks of Amazon Prime.
We’ll be covering all the best video game and tech deals right here on IGN, so stay tuned for more updates, and follow @IGNUKDeals for instant deal updates throughout the event.
For now, however, there is a new promotion called ‘Spend £10, Get £10’ where Amazon will offer a £10 credit to use on #PrimeDay to Prime members who spend £10 on items sold by select UK small businesses in Amazon’s store. You can find all of the current Amazon Support Small deals on it’s dedicated landing page.
There aren’t any specific electronic deals popping up just yet, like the US, but you can get some great deals on subscriptions for your electronics, the most notable being 4-months of Amazon Music Unlimited for just £0.99. This is an exclusive Prime deal, but non-Prime members can also pick up 3-months for just £0.99 so it’s not all bad.
Ubisoft took to Twitter to announce that the AC Sisterhood crest will now be available as an in-game tattoo in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Designed by Sebastian Dell’Aria, the tattoo is inspired by Amunet, a female character from Assassin’s Creed Origins. Game director Benoit Richer hinted that players could find the tattoo “hidden under one of the 3 major cities in England.”
Today, we’re happy to reveal that the #ACSisterhood crest will be available as a tattoo in #AssassinsCreed Valhalla! This collaboration between our community and development team brings a momentous community effort into our game. So grateful to all those who made this possible! pic.twitter.com/UibnFUwev5
AC Sisterhood is a community-led initiative by Assassin’s Creed fans and was created in response and in the context of Ubisoft’s highly publicized “frat house culture.” Many former employees have alleged that the company is rife with misogyny and incidences of sexual harassment. Ubisoft has also been criticized for creating games with sexist mindsets, such as adding Kassandra’s brother Alexios as a playable character in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey when a male-dominated editorial team said that a female protagonist wouldn’t sell. According to a report, Kassandra was originally supposed to be the only playable character in the game.
AC Sisterhood is an offshoot of The Mentor’s Guild and according to a statement written by group member Kulpreet Virdi, was formed in order to “highlight, appreciate and support the women (including those who identify as women) in the Assassin’s Creed Universe, the community and development teams, creating a safe space for women” and to “help to push for meaningful change by way of better representation for women in Assassin’s Creed games and for better treatment of women within the company.”
In the statement, the group also explicitly debunked false claims made about AC Sisterhood on social media. They emphasized that they are not directly attacking male Assassin’s Creed players or characters, and that this is a movement for not just for women, but everyone who shares the community’s goals. AC Sisterhood has also stated that their goals do not include boycotting Ubisoft and “are hoping that this movement highlights the need for internal change so that women in the company can shine.”
AC Sisterhood has set up a Discord and started a podcast series. Their first episode was released on September 27 and features voice actors Alix Wilton Regan (Aya/Amunet) and Zora Bishop (Cleopatra) from Assassin’s Creed Origins.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla releases on November 10, 2020 (November 12 for the PS5 version). It will be available on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.
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Chadwick Boseman died suddenly on August 28, and while the actor has long since been synonymous with his turn as Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, stories continue to come out about the man’s real-life acts of heroism and generosity. UK magazine Empire‘s new September issue is a tribute dedicated to Boseman, and an interview with Sienna Miller (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Foxcatcher), Bosewick’s co-star in the 2019 action-thriller 21 Bridges, is bursting with anecdotes about his efforts to boost her presence and salary for last year’s movie.
“He produced 21 Bridges, and had been really active in trying to get me to do it,” Miller said. “He was a fan of my work, which was thrilling, because it was reciprocated from me to him, tenfold. So he approached me to do it, he offered me this film, and it was at a time whenI really didn’t want to work anymore. I’d been working non-stop and I was exhausted, but then I wanted to work with him.”
Beyond that, Miller says, Boseman saw to it personally–in many selfless ways–that the project would be worth her time financially. “I asked for a number that the studio wouldn’t get to… Chadwick ended up donating some of his salary to get me to the number that I had asked for. He said that was what I deserved to be paid.”
Miller added that although there is a wide public awareness of the gender-pay disparity in Hollywood, Boseman’s efforts were “unfathomable.”
Although a Black Panther sequel was expected prior to Boseman’s surprising death from colon cancer–the actor had kept his condition private after being diagnosed in 2016–the franchise’s future currently remains uncertain. Speaking with Variety back in 2018, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was enthusiastic about how the film franchise still had “many, many stories to tell” and he hoped director Ryan Coogler will come back to shepherd them. Before Boseman’s death, filming on the first Black Panther sequel was expected to begin in March 2021, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Disney is currently still trying to figure out how to proceed with the franchise.
Because classical dynamics and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity are at odds with each other on the matter, Tobar’s paper calculated how closed time-like curves (CTCs) “are not only compatible with determinism and with the local ‘free choice’ of operations, but also with a rich and diverse range of scenarios and dynamical processes.”
