Looking to spend some holiday money on games? Best Buy has rolled out new daily deals, including some nice discounts on Xbox One games such as Gears of War 4 and Halo 5: Guardians.
Today only (December 30), you can get Gears of War 4 for only $25, while Halo 5 is going for $20. Another Xbox-exclusive, Quantum Break, is discounted to $40. Additionally, Best Buy has marked down EA Sports UFC 2 to $40 for today across Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
You can see all of Best Buy’s Deal of the Day video game offers here (via DualShockers), while this page shows Best Buy’s entire rundown of daily deals.
You can read GameSpot’s reviews of the discounted games through the links below.
Posted on Facebook (via DualShockers), the image shows main character Link preparing to do battle against some wild-looking monster. The location of the zone is unknown, but it looks pretty cool.
This is just the latest image that Nintendo has shared from Breath of the Wild. Before this, Nintendo put out concept art for Link, an image of a very nice holiday scene, and one that shows Link hunkering down and starting a fire to stay warm–you can see all of those here.
As spotted by IGN, a listing for the premium edition shows that its centerpiece is a 14-inch “highly detailed” statue of the game’s main warlord, Apollyon. The $220 bundle also comes with the game’s Gold Edition, along with all of the content listed below:
Exclusive Apollyon Lithograph – The Warlord of the Blackstone Legion seeks to bring war to her enemies in this exclusive Limited Edition Lithograph.
Origins Note – Go deeper into the battlefields of For Honor as you uncover Apollyon’s previously untold origins. What secrets lie in the past of the Blackstone Legion’s mysterious leader?
For Honor launches on February 14, 2017. The game will be available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. A beta for the game will be held in January–click here to find out how to sign up.
Following its huge launch on iOS this month, Nintendo’s Mario auto-runner, Super Mario Run, comes to Android in 2017. We still don’t have a specific release date, but Nintendo has now announced that Android users can now pre-register to learn precisely when the game will be available.
Super Mario Run launched for iOS devices on December 15 and racked up 40 million downloads in its first four days and 50 million in just over a week. The game is free to download, but only a limited selection of levels are playable until you purchase it for $10. Importantly, Nintendo has not released information on how many players have spent money on Super Mario Run.
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi may reveal his next project in 2017. In an interview with 4Gamer, as translated by DualShockers, Sakaguchi said the plan right now is to reveal this project next year, though he did not share any specifics about when the game will be revealed or what it is.
As Siliconera points out, Sakaguchi has also spoken about opening a new “development-type” company, though whether or not this ties in to the new game is unclear.
We’ll report back with more details about Sakaguchi’s new game as they’re made available.
What would you like to see? Let us know in the comments below!
The second week of Xbox Live massive “Countdown” sale kicked off today, December 29, ushering in a new set of weekly deals and more daily deals. Scroll down to see the daily deals (we’ll update this post every day with new ones), while the weekly offers follow further below.
Note that the deals listed here are just a small sampling of everything that’s on sale for Xbox One. Go to the Xbox Countdown site to see all deals, for all platforms. Also note that the prices are for Xbox Live Gold members.
Actor Ryan Reynolds has spoken out to confirm that the character Deadpool will not show up in the upcoming Wolverine movie, Logan. A report today claimed that would be the case.
Prisoner 24601 is a reference to Jean Valjean, the character Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman played in Les Miserables.
The Wrap reported today that Reynolds filmed a scene as Deadpool for Logan that was said to possibly be a post-credits scene. Director James Mangold also denied that Deadpool would be in the movie.
@PotterDarth DEADPOOL IS NOT IN MY FILM. Does all caps help confirm it?
Logan is scheduled to come out in March 2017. The Deadpool sequel, meanwhile, is currently without a release date. Tim Miller, who directed the first and was on board for the sequel, recently dropped out.
It’s already out in Europe, and soon Mario Kart 64 will arrive in the Wii U‘s Virtual Console in North America. The Nintendo 64 game lands on the console tomorrow, December 29, priced at $10.
As reported by Destructoid, Mario Kart 64’s Wii U Virtual Console version does not support ghost data, in case that matters to you.
1997’s Mario Kart is one of the Nintendo 64’s best-known and most-beloved games. The Wii U version supports up to four players and features some of the most memorable Mario Kart courses ever, including Moo Moo Farm, Toad’s Turnpike, and Yoshi Valley. The game’s Battle mode, which is a ton of fun, is also included.
Are you planning to re-buy Mario Kart 64 on Wii U? Let us know in the comments below!
Diablo III’s in-game event is called The Darkening of Tristram–it lets players run through a “reimagined” version of the cathedral from the first game. Heroes of the Storm is offering up a Diablo-themed portrait, while Hearthstone has a mysterious “hooded stranger” awaiting players.
As for Overwatch, it has some Diablo-themed sprays up for grabs, while “strange things are afoot” in World of Warcraft.
Here is a full rundown of what’s happening in Blizzard’s games “soon” to celebrate Diablo’s 20th anniversary, with descriptions written by Blizzard;
Diablo III:
Recapture the feeling of your first play through of the original Diablo with The Darkening of Tristram tribute event. Venture through a reimagined version of the original cathedral in Diablo III and keep an eye out for some familiar items.
Heroes of the Storm:
The battle for the High Heavens continues, and a new Diablo-themed portrait is up for grabs! Can you emerge victorious on this hectic new brawl map?
Hearthstone:
In this Tavern Brawl, a hooded stranger awaits, holding a grim deck in his hands. Will you unravel the secrets surrounding this dark wanderer?
Overwatch:
Bring the battle for Sanctuary into the fight for the future with in-game sprays representing your favorite Diablo III classes–along with a new player icon modeled after the Lord of Terror!
StarCraft II:
Put the Lord of Terror to work for you with a Diablo-themed worker portrait.
World of Warcraft:
Strange things are afoot in the world of Azeroth as denizens of Sanctuary cross over into an unfamiliar world.
A new feature may be on the way to Windows 10 that improves performance when playing PC games. That’s according to a file discovered in a leaked version of a forthcoming preview update.
Twitter user WalkingCat reports the addition of a dll called “gamemode” in the latest build of Windows 10 (version 14997). A subsequent tweet notes it “looks like Windows will adjust its resource allocation logic (for CPU/[graphics] etc.)” for the purpose of prioritizing game performance.
WindowsCentral lends further credence to this, indicating that its sources say it works similarly to how Xbox One runs a game. The feature will reportedly launch as part of the Creators update and will be enabled for Windows Insider users soon.
What’s unclear is exactly which games this is compatible with. It’s possible it could be limited to only to those downloaded from the Windows Store, or it might be much more far-reaching. We should know more once Windows Insiders testers get their hands on the feature.
The Creators update is slated for release sometime this spring. Microsoft has announced it includes some additions of interest to those playing games, including new streaming and tournament features.
