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Nintendo Switch Gaming Console Gen 2 Model with Bigger Battery + Game of Your Choice + Case for $329

This is the best deal we’ve seen for the updated model of the Nintendo Switch and very similar to the Black Friday deal we saw last year. On top of getting the gen 2 Switch, you’re basically getting a game and accessory for just $29. Choose among Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Party, Breath of the Wild, or Splatoon 2. Aside from the new packaging, the main difference is that the new Switch has a much more robust battery life. Expect 4.5-9 hours of charge versus 2.5-6.5 hours for the previous model.

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You want a sweet gaming headset but only have $50 (or less) to spend? We’ve got you covered.

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With Halloween less than a week away, time is running out if you need to pick up a costume, but luckily, Nintendo has you covered! To celebrate the release of Luigi’s Mansion 3, which will be out on Switch October 31, Nintendo has given us the best costume idea of all, and it’s completely free: this printable mask featuring Luigi’s green, gooey counterpart, Gooigi.

With just a few items and three simple steps, you can transform into Gooigi, Luigi’s clone, who returns in Luigi’s Mansion 3 to help solve puzzles, fight ghosts, and navigate areas Luigi can’t reach. All you need are some scissors, ribbon or string, and sturdy paper; tape, glue, and a hole punch may also be helpful. In just five minutes, you can don this mask and head out to the party…or wherever else you feel the need to go as Gooigi. What would Gooigi do? Follow your heart.

If you feel like cosplaying as another video game character this Halloween but want something 10 times more disturbing, we also recommend this nightmarish Sonic mask that covers your entire head. It’s $49, but it’s worth every penny.

Now that your Halloween costume for this year is covered, be sure to check out some of the other Halloween deals available now. The PlayStation Store’s Halloween sale is live now with discounts on excellent horror games like Resident Evil 2 for $30, The Evil Within 2 for $19.79, and A Plague Tale: Innocence for $30. The Epic Games Store has Halloween PC deals on Control ($45) and The Walking Dead: Telltale Definitive Series ($35), and Fanatical’s big Scream Sale also has some great PC horror games marked down, with code SCREAM666 giving you an additional 6.66% off on top of the existing discount. For fans of horror movies, this collectible 30-film collection of horror classics is over 50% off at Amazon, and you’ll find Blu-rays for a great price at Best Buy, including Jordan Peele’s Us in a 4K UHD steelbook edition.

Respawn has released a new update for Apex Legends that severely nerfs the Charge Rifle, the new firearm added to the battle royale at the start of Season 3: Meltdown. This patch follows on the heels of an October 17 update that also nerfed the Charge Rifle–though these latest adjustments lead to more significant changes.

The most significant change in this latest patch is in regards to the Charge Rifle’s attachments. You can now no longer equip extended energy magazines to the Charge Rifle. To balance this out a bit, the base magazine size of the Charge Rifle has been increased to 12, which was the size of the weapon’s magazine with a level one energy extended magazine equipped. So the Charge Rifle will now be able to fire four shots per magazine (every shot uses three ammo).

The Charge Rifle’s fire rate has also been reduced. The laser itself still charges and fires at the same speed as before. However, you’ll have to wait longer between each shot before you’re able to fire again. Finally, the damage falloff for the Charge Rifle has also been modified. Though the weapon will continue to fire in a straight line without bullet drop, the Charge Rifle will do less damage on all targets that are 150+ meters away (it will only deal 90 damage) and even less on those 400+ meters away (it will only deal 30 damage).

When combined with the slower fire rate and loss of extended magazine slot, this damage fallout nerf will make it significantly harder to kill a far-off target that has a rare (blue) or higher-tiered body armor and helmet equipped. Despite being a sniper, these changes will likely encourage players to use the weapon more often as a mid-range option.

The Charge Rifle wasn’t the only new content drop for Apex Legends’ third season though. The battle royale also got a new map, World’s Edge, and playable character, Crypto. Apex Legends is currently in the midst of its Halloween-themed Fight or Fright event, which adds a limited-time zombie mode called Shadowfall to the game and teases a new playable Legend. Also, until 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM BST on October 28, you earn double XP for both account level and battle pass progression for placing in the top 5 or winning a match.

The writers of Avengers: Endgame almost included a scene where Hulk and Bruce Banner talked to each other.

Co-writer Christopher Markus told Cinema Blend that the scene would’ve taken place after Hulk snaps his fingers wearing the Infinity Gauntlet and brings everybody back. In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos sees a young Gamora after he snaps his fingers. So, the writers imagined what Bruce Banner would’ve seen.

“We did actually write a version, and this existed before The Ancient One scene was slowly beaten out, but there was a version where it was Banner talking to The Hulk… and we never shot it, but it was kind of a cool thing to get them both on screen together interacting,” Markus said.

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This is a mostly spoiler-free review for all 10 episodes of Netflix’s Daybreak, which premiered Thursday, October 24.

Daybreak, as a rambunctious comedy-horror series, doesn’t always hit the mark, but at its best, you’ll find a generous swirl of Buffy, Scott Pilgrim, Zombieland, and other bouncily clever genre super-colliders.

Daybreak is also the latest in a line of notable Netflix offerings involving “teens doing whatever the f*** they want.” Whether it’s outcasts on the run in The End of the F***ing World or youths trying to govern themselves in The Society, the streaming service seems to love asking, “But what if there were no adults?” This show, loosely based on the comic series by Brian Ralph, takes the concept a few steps further by turning high school into Mad Max… with zombies. All while (mostly successfully) mashing things up with iconic movie touchstones like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Goodfellas, kung-fu films, three-camera sitcoms, and more.

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A freshly announced four-issue event mini-series from Marvel Comics called X-Men/Fantastic Four will put the spotlight on Franklin Richards, the teenage son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman who is an Omega-level mutant and arguably the most powerful mutant in existence.

The story will be told by writer Chip Zdarsky (Marvel Two-In-One, Spider-Man: Life Story) with art by Terry and Rachel Dodson (Uncanny X-Men). Announced at London’s MCM Comic Con, the crossover won’t hit until February 2020, but until then, Zdarsky gave some juicy details to the folks over at Newsarama to tide us over until then.

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Pirates of the Caribbean is reportedly being rebooted at Disney with the creator of Chernobyl teaming up with a writer on the first four films to work out a story.

Deadline reports that Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, Scary Movie 3) and Ted Elliott (Aladdin, National Treasure: Book of Secrets) are working together to crank out a story that will reboot the blockbuster series. Jerry Bruckheimer is likely to return as a producer, but it’s unknown if Johnny Depp will be back on board.

If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it was reported about a year ago that Disney hired Deadpool and Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to write a Pirates reboot. However, they left the project earlier this year.

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Today is launch day for The Outer Worlds, and as countless gamers start their journey into Obsidian’s latest RPG, many of them are wondering how long it will last them. A few of us here at IGN have already burned through it, so here are our answers to that question.

Dan Stapleton, Reviewer

The clock on my save file read about 30 hours when I wrapped up the final mission, though it’s important to remember that this number doesn’t reflect the amount of time you spend between the most recent autosave and when you die. And though I sailed through the first half without many deaths, I then turned the difficulty up from Normal to Hard and found myself biting the dust fairly regularly if I didn’t take my time when planning out a fight in advance. (In the interest of finishing in time for the review I ended up turning it back down to Normal for the final mission, which is not super easy!)

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