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The Big Stuff:

It was a big week for Mass Effect: Andromeda. N7 Day was November 7 and BioWare celebrated by making a number of announcements about the spacefaring game–see all of our coverage here.

For the fourth straight month, the Xbox One was the best-selling console in the United States. Microsoft made the announcement this week, citing NPD data–get all the details here.

The Other Stuff:

Hero’s Song, the new game from former SOE boss John Smedley’s Pixelmage Games, launched this week through Steam Early Access for $20.

“We’re investing in Hero’s Song for the long term so it’s important to us that we’re transparent through the course of the game’s development,” said John Smedley, CEO of Pixelmage Games. “We are making a game that the community and our own developers want to play, and having players involved in the process from the beginning is an important step in bringing the best of this virtual world to life.”

This is pretty cool: watch someone beat Titanfall 2 in only 98 minutes. That’s apparently a world record.

A new report from Windows Central has some information about Project Scorpio and how the console’s games will run at a native 4K in some cases. Get the full story here.

Forza 6’s Apex Edition for PC now has a premium edition that includes additional cars, tracks, and more. Get the full scoop here on Microsoft’s blog.

We have to wait until 2017 to see the new Wolverine movie, Logan, but actor Hugh Jackman this week released an image from the movie. Take a look:

Sony’s PlayStation Vue TV streaming service PlayStation Vue is losing all Viacom channels, Sony announced this week. That includes Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, among others. Get all the details here.

World of Warcraft’s popular legacy server, Nostalrius, is making a comeback, the team behind the vanilla server announced this week after BlizzCon. Go to Kotaku to get the scoop.

Pacific Rim 2 has finally started shooting, actor John Boyega (from Star Wars) revealed this week on Twitter. He also published a picture of his script, which reveals the movie’s subtitle: Maelstrom.

Sony this week announced a new DualShock 4 controller–it’s camouflage green and looks pretty cool. It goes on sale in late December.

Activision has always said it doesn’t think Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare can sell as well as Black Ops 3, and now the evidence is bearing that out. Early Steam data shows that Infinite Warfare players are down significantly from Black Ops 3.

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Each week we search and gather up the coolest comic book art you won’t see in actual comics. The reason you won’t is because professional artists often draw sketches for fun or commissions and post them on their websites, blogs, and Tumblrs. Some artists even arrange commissions through their sites so be sure to check them out. This is a way to see the artists working on one book draw characters from other comics or publishers.

Rod Reis posted more commissions on his Instagram.

Kevin Wada posted recent commissions on his Tumblr.

Chris Samnee posted a Wonder Woman sketch on his Instagram.

Mike Maihack posted a Captain America drawing on his Tumblr.

Yildiray Cinar posted new sketches on his Instagram.

Paolo Rivera posted a Doctor Doom commission on his blog.

Joel Gomez posted a couple new sketches on his Tumblr.

Andrew Robinson posted a new sketch on his Instagram.

Chris Giarrusso put more sketch cards up for sale on his website.

Denis Medri posted new sketches on his Deviant Art page, including some mock up covers for a Rockabilly Batman pitch.

Ryan Stegman posted a Spider-Man sketch cover on his Tumblr.

Jim Cheung posted new art on his Instagram, including the sketch used for the Daredevil Hot Wheels packaging.

Skottie Young posted new Daily Sketches on his Tumblr.

Marcus To posted a Captain Picard sketch he drew at Shanghai Comic Con on his Instagram.

Daniel HDR posted new sketches on his Instagram page.

Mike Henderson posted new art on his Instagram.

That’s it for this week. We’ll have more awesome art next time.

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Yet another store’s Black Friday ad has been uncovered, and this time it’s GameStop’s offerings that we’ve gotten a look at.

The 12-page ad has been published online by BFAds. On the console side, you can get the PS4‘s 500 GB Uncharted 4 bundle for $250–and for Friday only, you’ll receive a free copy of either The Last of Us Remastered or Ratchet & Clank. $50 is also being taken off all Xbox One systems, letting you pick up, for example, the 500 GB Gears of War 4 Xbox One S blue bundle for $250. The store will also be among those where you can get a $100 New 3DS.

Game-wise, No Man’s Sky, Doom, Fallout 4, Rainbow Six Siege, Dark Souls III, Mortal Kombat XL, Recore, and Just Cause 3 are all marked down to $20. At the $40 tier, you’ll find the likes of Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, Mafia III, BioShock: The Collection, Civilization VI, Dragon Quest Builders, and Rise of the Tomb Raider. For $10, you can get Battleborn, Star Wars Battlefront‘s Deluxe Edition, Mad Max, Dragon Quest Heroes, Ratchet & Clank, and Batman: Arkham Knight.

Other deals of note include Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare‘s Legacy Edition for $60, Overwatch for $35, The Witcher 3: Complete Edition for $30, Gears of War 4 for $35, and Far Cry Primal for $25.

PS4 controllers are marked down to $45, while Xbox One controllers will go for $50. The stylish Gears of War 4 special edition JD Xbox One controller is also down to $55.

Not all of these deals are as good as the prices you’ll find elsewhere: PS4 and Xbox One controllers will be $39 at Walmart, for example. Luckily, we’re getting these ads far enough in advance for you to plan out what you’d like to pick up–though actually getting your hands on them will be an entirely different matter.

You can check out the full GameStop ad at BFAds. Hit the links below to see the Black Friday game deals other stores will have.

• Best Buy
• Costco
• Dell
• Kohl’s
• Sam’s Club
• Target
• Walmart

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Update 2: Amazon’s availability has come and gone in what was seemingly the blink of an eye. Numerous people are reporting the site crashed for them or otherwise prevented them from adding the system to their cart, though it was still possible to successfully place an order. There’s no word yet on when more systems will be in-stock. We’ll report back when that changes.

Update: Amazon says it will have “very limited quantities” available for sale today, November 11, at 2 PM PST (5 PM EST). That may be your best chance to order one today, though the retailer notes, “Demand is expected to be very high, and there’s no guarantee that it will remain in stock for long. We will announce when additional inventory becomes available.” It also says it “will be receiving additional quantities over the coming weeks.”

Original Story: The NES Classic Edition launched today and perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s already sold out and reselling online for more than triple the retail price. It was–however briefly–available through a number of retailers in the US. We’ve rounded up a number of these for you below to hopefully make it easier to secure one once more are made available.

For its part, Nintendo tells GameSpot that it’s “working hard to keep up with consumer demand.” It also states, “There will be a steady flow of additional systems through the holiday shopping season and into the new year.”

We don’t know just how soon those systems will come in or how many will be available. Certainly, Christmas being right around the corner won’t make it any easier to buy one. There is the eBay route, but as of this writing, that will cost you far more than the $60 retail price of the Classic Edition.

There aren’t any special versions of the Classic Edition available–it’s just the $60 system, which comes with one controller. (Extra controllers go for $10 and are also sold out, though Wii Classic Controlers are supported.) All of the major retailers are sold out currently. Even if you were able to place an order today through places that seemed to have them in stock, such as Toys R Us, it looks as if there might be a longer-than-expected wait.

You can find listings for the Classic Edition through the retailer links below. Again, there’s no telling exactly when more will be available or if advance notice will be given, as was sometimes the case with Amiibo figures that also faced supply shortages. If that does prove to be the case, we’ll report back with all the details.

NES Classic Edition:

• Amazon
• Best Buy
• GameStop
• Target
• Toys R Us
• Walmart

For more on the Classic Edition, check out GameSpot’s full review. You can also see a list of all 30 games it comes with here.

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