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Each Tuesday, Microsoft refreshes its weekly Deals with Gold and Spotlight sales. This week’s discounts are now live, meaning Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners have a new selection of cheap games to choose from. Some of the deals require an Xbox Live Gold subscription, as indicated below. The prices go back up on August 28, so don’t wait too long to make your purchases. Here are some of the sale’s highlights.

Whether or not you participated the Rainbow Six Siege free play weekend, you can pick up any version of the game on sale this week (provided you have Xbox Live Gold). The standard game is on sale for $20 / £12, though it’s missing many of the Operators found in the more expensive versions of the game. The Advanced Edition costs $24 / £16 and comes with 10 Outbreak Collection Packs and 600 Rainbow Six Credits. The Gold Edition costs $45 / £31.50 and contains everything in the Advanced Edition, plus the Year 3 Pass. If you want everything available in the game, you’ll need to spend $65 / £48 on the Complete Edition, which comes with everything above, plus the 16 Operators released prior to Year 3. Phew.

You can pick up the acclaimed Gotham-set trilogy by grabbing Batman: Return to Arkham and Batman: Arkham Knight on sale for $10 / £14 each. If next year’s Metro Exodus has you intrigued, you can play through the first two games in the Metro Redux Bundle on sale for $7.50 / £6. The sale price of the action-RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been creeping down since it launched earlier this year; you can grab it now for the lowest price we’ve seen yet, $40 / £37.

Many more games and add-ons are on sale between now and August 28. We’ve highlighted more below, but you can see the full list on Major Nelson’s blog.

* Requires Xbox Live Gold

The Pokemon series is one of the longest-running animated shows on television, spanning more than 1,000 episodes and 20 movies to date, and now you’ll be able to relive nearly the entire saga on Twitch. The Pokemon Company is partnering with the streaming service for a massive Pokemon marathon, which kicks off next week, on August 27, at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.

This certainly isn’t the first television show marathon Twitch has broadcast, but the service says it’s the “single longest programmatic viewing event” in its history. The stream will air as a series of smaller marathons over the next several months and into 2019, encompassing 932 episodes from 19 seasons of the TV series beginning with the original Indigo League, as well as 16 Pokemon movies.

The Pokemon marathon will be broadcast on the TwitchPresents channel. According to the official Pokemon website, 10-16 Pokemon episodes will air Mondays through Thursdays, with encores of those episodes running on Fridays and Saturdays. A different Pokemon movie will also be broadcast every Sunday. You can find the schedule for the first nine seasons of the series below.

In addition to watching the series, you’ll be able to interact with the stream thanks to the Pokemon Badge Collector Twitch Extension. Those with a Twitch account will see “catachable” Pokemon appear during the broadcast, which they’ll be able to click on and add to their collection. The Extension will also feature a leaderboard, and the rarer the Pokemon you capture, the more points you’ll receive.

The Pokemon Company recently announced the series’ latest film, The Power of Us, will receive a limited theatrical release this fall. The film will appear in select theaters on November 24, 26, and 28, with one final showing following on December 1. The Power of Us is set in a town that reveres Lugia and marks the debut of the brand-new Mythical Pokemon Zeraora.

Pokemon the Series Twitch Marathon Schedule

• August 27 — Pokemon: Indigo League (Season 1)
• September 3 — Pokemon: Adventures in the Orange Islands (Season 2)
• September 10 — Pokemon: The Johto Journeys (Season 3)
• September 17 — Pokemon: Johto League Champions (Season 4)
• September 24 — Pokemon: Master Quest (Season 5)
• October 1 — Pokemon Advanced (Season 6)
• October 8 — Pokemon: Advanced Challenge (Season 7)
• October 15 — Pokemon: Advanced Battle (Season 8)
• October 22 — Pokemon: Battle Frontier (Season 9)

Following a round of server maintenance, a new update is now available for Fortnite. Patch 5.30 has arrived on all platforms–PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and mobile–and it introduces new items to both Battle Royale and Save the World modes, along with an assortment of bug fixes and other improvements.

On the Battle Royale side, Epic has introduced the previously teased Rift-to-Go. As its name suggests, this Epic rarity item is a portable rift that you can use to warp into the air and skydive back down. The rifts will last for 10 seconds once they’ve been activated, so other players will also have a brief window of time to jump into them.

Epic has also tweaked a handful of other weapons in Battle Royale. Now, Clingers will only detonate once their timer is up, while the Double Barrel Shotgun’s spread has been reduced by 15% when crouching. Epic has also slightly decreased the equip time of the Pump Shotgun and increased the max stack size of Impulse Grenades by one.

Beyond that, the latest update marks the start of a new limited-time mode called Score Royale. This mode has players scrambling to be the first to surpass the designated high score, and they’ll earn points by collecting coins, acquiring loot, and eliminating other players. The storm circle at the start of the match is also larger than normal, while the late-game circles close in more rapidly.

On the Save the World side, Epic has added the Bundlebuss Assault Rifle to the Weekly Store. This powerful new gun with a large magazine will only be available from August 23-29. A new Horde Weekly Challenge is also now available to take on.

You can find the full patch notes for update 5.30 on the Fortnite website. This week’s batch of challenges will arrive a little later than usual, rolling out on Friday, August 24, instead of on Thursday like they normally do. In the meantime, you can find guides for all the missions that are currently available in our complete Season 5 challenge guide.