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What did you get? The interwebs were full of some pretty sweet deals over the last few days, with all the excitement leading to the magical day known to us as Cyber Monday! Ok, maybe the video game deals weren’t as fabulous as the ones floating around Friday, but come on. Who can resist celebrating a day called, Cyber Monday! Besides sounding cool, the day also makes us keyboard warriors sound a bit different from the hordes of people fighting over prepaid phones in the wee morning hours of Black Friday....

If only police were so honorable in the States TheYakuzaseries is full of oddball missions but the suicide negotiator inYakuza 4takes the cake for being the most obscene. The protagonist is asked to talk a suicide jumper down from a highrise, only to end up in a fist fight with the distressed civilian. YouTube user DavidtheBarbarian1takes the mission to an extreme by applying the most brutal combat tactics against the civilian....

All aboard Animal Crossing: New Horizon‘s whole shtick is having players board a plane and discover a new island to make their home, which allows for all sorts of thematic artwork and fan creations. This onefrom redditor T0Rtur3(with designs by Celesmeh) takes the cake. The concept is very simple but effective, and a great way to pass the time between groups ofAnimal Crossingfriends beforeNew Horizons arrives on March 20. You put in your name, location (with abbreviation) and seat numberin the online app, and it creates a cute fake boarding pass for you that you can print or share online....

While it’s certainly true thatStarfieldalready has more modsthan most games ever receive during their entire lifetime, including thehotly anticipated Script Extender thingamajig, it doesn’t take an eagle’s eye to notice that the vast majority of them are still relatively limited in scope. That’s for good reason, too, asStarfieldis currently missing a crucial feature that all Bethesda Game Studios RPGS eventually receive: Creation Kit support. Until Creation Kit 2 – built specifically forStarfield‘s Creation Engine 2 – comes out, modders won’t be able to easily add new weapons, customizations, and other assorted goodies into the game, but the good news is that it’s bound to happen relatively soon!...

Since the reveal of the officialstory trailer forStar Wars Outlaws, fans have had nothing but questions about certain aspects of the game that don’t quite sit right with them in 2024. First, there was a bit of a debacle about the fact that the game’sphysical edition requiresan online connection to be fully installed. However, after a little time and research, it appears that this is more to avoid leaks and spoilers from copies being sent out too early than anything else....

Jeff Shiefelbein (the human pictured above) has been working on haunted houses — which, in conversation, he simply refers to as “haunts” — for 15 years. Inspired his family’s love of Halloween, throwing elaborate holiday parties every year, Shiefelbein found his passion and creativity for making things go bump in night. “It’s not, obviously, like Christmas,” he says of Halloween, “where you’ve got Santa Claus and you put up your decorations....

Box office round up Black Panthercrushed it once again, pulling in more money than the next seven films combined. That was pretty much a given, though. The film didn’t have any competition this week, and pulled in the third biggest gross for a third weekend of all time. WithA Wrinkle in Timeopening this weekend it’ll probably lose its number one spot, but the film should easily continue to rise rapidly through the box office rankings, where it currently sits at number 10....

‘Every change was validated by core gamers’ From a distance, theXbox One controllermay not look all that different from its Xbox 360 predecessor (or perhaps I’m just rapidly losing my eyesight). Sleeker, yes, but not radically different. There are actually some 40 improvements to be found — some big, some not so big. General Manager of the Xbox accessories group Zulfi Alam walks through what’s new in this video and discusses the thought process that went into some of the changes....

‘ePizza Cash’ Move overFallout 4socks, Best Buy has topped itself in mere weeks. If you pre-order upcoming Wii U exclusiveXenoblade Chronicles Xat Best Buy, it comes with “$10 ePizza Cash Presell Gift.” What? Well, it’s a bit more confusing than getting a pizza should be. You have to pre-order at least a day ahead of its December 4 launch and the pizza cash is limited to the regular version of the game, so nocollector’s versionand pizza....

People do crazy things in ads… Video-game-loving restaurant Arby’s has announced a fun new collaboration withShovel Knight,bringing a range of cheeky themed DLC to Yacht Club Game’s indie platforming hit. For a limited time, customers who purchase Arby’s Kids Meals at participating locations will receive a specialShovel Knightlauncher token, complete with aShovel Knight: Treasure Trovecode. The codes – which can be redeemed on the platformer’s Steam and Switch ports – will unlock one of seven exclusive in-game item, such as a sandwich erm… familiar, or the classic Arby’s stetson....

If you’re into roguelike chaos, that is We’re two days into the Epic Games Store’s15 days of free games promofor the holidays. While I suspect quite a few people snatched upShenmue IIIout of morbid curiosity,today’s free PC game,Neon Abyss, seems intriguing in a “Hey, I might actually mess with this” sorta way. It’s a running, gunning, pet-hatching roguelike action game. If you can handle heaps of projectiles, it’s comfort-food gaming...

Xbox and Twitch are hosting a new showcase for indies A new ID@Xbox showcase is on the way. Xbox and Twitch are collaborating to spotlight a heaping helping of indie news on Wednesday, September 14 in the ID@Xbox Fall Showcase. The event will air on Twitch, both through the/twitchgamingandXboxchannels. Prior to the showcase, Black Girl Gamers will host a pre-show featuring the upcoming multiplayer deception gameEville. That will start at 9:30 a....

For Wii U A lot of people have taken to the Wii U eShop’sAffordable Space Adventures, and it looks like there may be another excuse to boot it up this month. This week, the game’s price will drop down to $14.99 (from $19.99) for two weeks, which will accompany a free “remaster” update, which is set for November 12 in Europe (and “soon after” in the US). There’s an all new Origin Story gametype, five new levels, and fixes all around....