We are only 3 days away from Black Friday proper, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait around for Black Friday sales to happen. Several Black Friday deals have already gone live. These include the best Black Friday PS4, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch deals, as well as the best Black Friday iPad and Apple Watch Series 5 deals. If you’re a Black Friday veteran, you’ll probably already be aware that by Wednesday evening / Thursday at midnight, at least 50% of all the Black Friday deals will have gone live. We’ve included these and even more deals, discounts, and coupons that we found from the Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart Black Friday ads. The savings contiue through Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, and we’ll make sure to keep updating this article.
Arrow: Season 8, Episode 6 Review
Warning: this review contains full spoilers for Arrow: Season 8, Episode 6! If you need a refresher on where we left off, here’s our review for Season 8, Episode 5.
In the interest of not burying the lede, “Reset” is easily the strongest chapter of Arrow” Season 8 since the premiere. It’s no coincidence this episode also happens to be the most similar in terms of tone and plot. “Reset” embraces the larger-than-life mature of the Crisis while also delivering a fond farewell to one of the series’ most important supporting characters.
Much like how Susanna Thompson and John Barrowman stopped by in the premiere, there’s no way the series could take its final bow without bringing Paul Blackthorne’s Quentin Lance back one last time. Quentin was there since day one, and over the course of six seasons he evolved and grew as much as any character. “Reset” encapsulates that growth nicely, highlighting just how much the dynamic between Quentin and Ollie evolved as they went from bitter rivals to close-knit friends and allies. Plus, with as convoluted a history as the Lance sisters have in the Arrowverse, it’s only fitting Quentin gets a quick hop in the superhero resurrection machine.
The Flash: Season 6, Episode 7 Review
Full spoilers for The Flash continue below.
Over six seasons of The Flash, we’ve seen Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) tempted by darkness and alternate possibilities, and every time, it has usually ended up coming at a cost. With a Crisis (on Infinite Earths) coming less than two days away in series’ time, Barry is forced to confront his insecurities at a time when he knows he has seen many variations of his world’s end.
“The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Part 1” was a mixed bag for me. It hits when it moves forward and lagged a bit for me whenever we were stuck in Barry’s mind, as these are tropes that I’m frankly over in the various series in the Arrowverse. One might argue that such a psychological story is the hearty meal that comes before the “dessert” that will be next week’s inevitable confrontation between Bloodwork (Sendhil Ramamurthy) and Team Flash, but for now, Ramsey Rosso’s attempt at getting Barry to accept his “lifeblood” felt like the show was treading on all-too-familiar territory.
Wasteland 3 Dev Says Microsoft Hasn’t Meddled, Only Helped After Buyout
Wasteland 3 is due to release on May 19, 2020, and is coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. The PS4 release is still going ahead despite developer inXile Entertainment having been bought out by Microsoft in November 2018. In a recent interview, studio founder Brian Fargo has spoken about Microsoft’s purchase of the company, and has made it clear that they’ve essentially let them do their thing, albeit with the added financial safety net that a major publisher can provide.
Talking to Gamesradar+, Fargo explained that Microsoft propped the company up with money and then left them to their own devices. “Microsoft basically came in, gave us a tonne of cash, and said go and make the best game that you possibly can,” he said. Similarly, game director Tim Campbell says that the buyout “hasn’t changed the game (they) are making at all.” He acknowledges that it’s reasonable for people to expect otherwise, but assures Gamesradar+ that “Microsoft is just helping us do what we do but better, right?”
Microsoft’s support has reportedly allowed them to add far more voice acting to the in-game dialog, and ultimately create a better version of the game they originally set out to make with the over $3 million the game earned through its Fig crowdfunding campaign. “Microsoft has a user research lab, which is going to give us feedback on the UI and what people are experiencing,” Fargo says. “And they have their localisation groups and their QA groups… I could go on, but you have to understand that it is allowing us to make a more robust product.”
Brian Fargo is expected to retire after the release of Wasteland 3. He is perhaps best known for his work on The Bard’s Tale and its sequels.
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Fired Star Wars Director To Donate His Rise Of Skywalker Profits To Charity
Although Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow was fired from his role as director and co-writer of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, his contributions were great enough to earn himself a writing credit for the final film. As such, he will earn residual checks from the sci-fi blockbuster, and those are expected to be significant given the profile and popularity of the film.
Trevorrow has now announced that he will donate this money to the Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice, a UK-based charity that gives money and services to sick children. Trevorrow said donating his royalties is keeping in spirit with what he learned from Star Wars creator George Lucas.
“Through his films, George Lucas taught us about our connection to all living things,” Trevorrow said, according to Deadline. “He taught us to take care of one another, and he set a powerful example himself. The Alexander Devine Hospice helps families in the most challenging of times. I can’t think of a more fitting way to honor George’s legacy.”
The hospice’s co-founder, Fiona Devine, said the charity is “blown away by this incredibly generous gesture.” Trevorrow’s donation is expected to be enough to pay for a nurse for a year, and this will allow the group to “continue to do this and importantly reach out to even more families that need us.”
“We cannot thank Colin Trevorrow and his family enough for their amazing support and generosity,” Devine said.
Trevorrow wrote multiple drafts for Episode IX alongside his Jurassic World writing partner Derek Connolly, who is also receiving a “story-by” credit for the movie. This confirms that the final Rise of Skywalker script included a significant enough amount of the work done by Trevorrow and Connolly, but it remains to be seen what that is. Abrams and his own co-writer, Chris Terrio, finished the story for Rise of Skywalker in their own way.
Trevorrow told Empire Magazine that Abrams did a good job finalizing the Rise of Skywalker script. “This was a tough story to unlock, and he found the key,” he said.
“I’m grateful to [Abrams] for embracing some of our ideas. It’s exciting that fans will get to see the moments that felt essential to all of us,” Trevorrow added.
When Abrams and Terrio started writing their new script for Rise of Skywalker, they decided to add Emperor Palpatine–something that Trevorrow said he “never considered.”
According to The Wall Street Journal, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy was unhappy with the scripts that Trevorrow and Connolly turned in for Episode IX, and that’s why they were fired.
The Rise of Skywalker comes to theatres on December 20. If you like C-3PO, you’re in for a treat, as the robot character is said to feature prominently in the film.
Path of Exile: Conquerors of the Atlas – New Screenshots and Trailer
Though Path of Exile 2 may have already been announced, that doesn’t mean the end of the line for the original Path of Exile. Far from it. The long-running action-RPG is getting a new expansion, called Conquerors of the Atlas. It will include, among other things, a new challenge league. Take a look at the story gameplay trailer above, and dig the latest screenshots from the gallery below.
Path of Exile: Conquerors of the Atlas will be released on December 13.
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Watchmen: David Hayter Reveals Footage of His Rorschach and Nite Owl
The screenplay writer of 2009’s Watchmen movie adaption, David Hayter, has revealed footage of an original test clip for Watchman from back in 2003.
Hayter posted the clip to his Twitter account, explaining it’s the colour corrected version he directed all those years ago featuring Iain Glen, perhaps better known for his role as Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones, as Nite Owl and Ray Stevenson as Rorschach.
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Black Friday 2019 Best Gaming Deals: Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC
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Black Friday sales are here on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and more
Black Friday is the prime time of the year for spending your hard-earned money either for yourself or loved ones during the holidays. While sales happen year-round and July’s Amazon Prime Day has become a mini Black Friday in its own right, nothing quite measures up the impact and chaos around Black Friday and its subsequent online-only follow-up sale, Cyber Monday. Currently, Black Friday deals are already live at many retailers despite the day itself not coming until later this week, post-Thanksgiving, so now is as good a time as any to dive into all of the sales.
So what kind of gaming deals can we expect this year? At this point, all major retailers have released their Black Friday ads, including Amazon, GameStop, Walmart, Best Buy, and Target, and as noted above, many of those sales are actually live right now, providing more than a week of deals (though you can expect some of the best offers to sell out). The big publishers–Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft–have all confirmed their official Black Friday 2019 deals, which will be available at most major retailers ahead of Black Friday. That’s on top of their respective digital store sales; PS4’s PSN and Xbox One’s Xbox Live sales are already live, with the Switch Eshop sale expected to begin sometime this week.
Below, you’ll find the best gaming deals confirmed so far for Black Friday 2019. This includes console bundles for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch; console and PC accessories; gaming subscriptions like PlayStation Plus; and some of the year’s best games–even Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, released just last month, is on sale at a surprisingly steep discount.
Please note that not all of the following products have listings yet on retailers’ sites. Those links will be added as soon as they’re available. For reference, here’s when each retailer’s Black Friday sale kicks off.
Black Friday 2019 start times
- Walmart
- Online: Early deals begin November 24 at 12 AM ET. Official Black Friday deals begin November 27 at 7 PM PT / 10 PM ET.
- In stores: Thanksgiving Day, November 28 at 6 PM local time
- Best Buy
- Online: Thanksgiving Day, November 28 (unknown time)
- In stores: Thanksgiving Day, November 28 at 5 PM local time
- Target
- Online: Thanksgiving morning, November 28
- In stores: Thanksgiving Day, November 28 at 5 PM local time
- GameStop
- Online: Early deals begin November 24. Official Black Friday deals begin Wednesday, November 27 at 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET.
- In stores: Thanksgiving Day, November 28 at 3 PM local time
- Amazon
- November 22 to November 29
Netflix Cancels Mystery Science Theater 3000, Jonah Ray Reveals
Netflix has elected to cancel future seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000, according to Jonah Ray, the show’s host. Thanksgiving was often a memorable time for MST3K fans — with new episodes and marathons typically showing up around the holiday — but it seems this time around it’ll be bittersweet.
As reported by AVClub, the future of MST3K seems unclear for now, but the shows creator, Joel Hodgson, promises that he will do his best to keep the series alive. In a note to Kickstarter backers, Hodgson reassures fans that this is “not the last chapter” for Mystery Science Theater 3000.