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Amazon is offering a 50% discount off the popular Beats Solo 4 wireless on-ear headphones just in time for Mother's Day, which lands on May 11, Currently all four of the classic colorways - Black & Gold, Cloud Pink, Matte Black, and Slate Blue - are on sale for just $99.99 with free shipping (normally $200). If you're looking for a more unique coloway for mom, Target is also offering 50% off its exclusive Warm White model as well.
The Beats Solo 4 is a very compact and lightweight headphone that can still pack a punch when you need it. It features 40mm drivers, Spatial Audio with Dynamic Head Tracking, Lossless audio via USB Type-C, and up to 50 hours of battery life. The Solo 4 doesn't have built-in active noise cancellation, but the headphone's design keeps the earcups securely on the head, aiding in excellent passive noise isolation. Because Apple owns Beats, the Solo 4 is one of the few headphones that supports seamless integration with iPhones and, unlike AirPods, is a good option for Android users.
We picked the Beats Solo 4 as the best wireless headphones for Apple users. "If you’re not fully in the AirPods camp but want headphones that work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, the Beats Solo 4 is the way to go. Rather than going with an Apple chip like in previous models, the Solo 4 is powered by Beats' own processor, which supports Google Fast Pair for an easy connection to Android devices as well. But you can still link these headphones to an iCloud account for speedy pairing and auto-switching between Apple devices. However, the spatial audio with head tracking is exclusive to Apple users."
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The weather’s cooling down, but these digital deals are heating up across every major platform. Whether you’re nursing a post-payday itch or plotting your next backlog binge, there’s a stack of pixel-packed gems going for a song this week. From cult classics and long-awaited sequels to a few industry oddities, there’s something here to make you equip your wallet.
In retro news, I'm celebrating the 10th anniversary of Project C.A.R.S., a series which, sadly, seems to have put the hazards on and parked. It began here as a serious, deep, and demanding racing sim for motorsport purists. It bore no pop punk soundtrack, or explosive takedowns, or generous rewinds. Slightly Mad Studios just set out to capture the experience of manhandling a real racing car around the world’s most famous racing circuits, and mostly succeeded.
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Nintendo fans can dive into Persona 5 Royal, the definitive version of Atlus’ stylish life-sim-meets-dungeon-crawler. Fun fact: the original localisation team used colour-coded fonts to match each character's personality. Or for retro thrills, the Turok Trilogy resurrects the cult dinosaur shooter series with a hero who actually started in comics way back in 1954 (!!!).
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Over on Xbox Series X, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time delivers brutal platforming and a meta twist—it jokes about how many sequels it’s ignoring. Meanwhile, Star Wars Outlaws offers a rare non-Jedi perspective, and was co-developed by Massive, the team behind The Division.
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PS5 owners can grab the underrated Yakuza Remastered Collection, a series which began life as a way to market games to Japanese adults. Or jet across zones in Sonic Frontiers, which originally started life as an anniversary game before going full open-world.
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And for PC folk, it’s hard to ignore Disco Elysium – The Final Cut at just A$14, a game so dense, its dialogue file is longer than The Lord of the Rings. Or revisit the doomed lands of Lothric in Dark Souls III, where the dev team intentionally designed enemy placement to mislead veteran players.
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Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He plays practically everything, often on YouTube.
Spoilers follow for Thunderbolts.
Some MCU fans had assumed that Marvel’s Thunderbolts – which you may have heard is now Marvel’s The New Avengers – would kill off at least a few of its (seemingly) mostly disposable team of anti-heroes. But when the “directors chair” Avengers: Doomsday announcement in March revealed the metric ton of characters who are returning for that film included most of the Thunderbolts, the fan theories were forced to go in another direction. Still, one character was conspicuous by their absence in that reveal: Olga Kurylenko’s Antonia Dreykov, aka Taskmaster.
Around the same time, the ever-watchful fans also kind of figured out that Taskmaster was doomed due to her disappearance from key moments in the trailers. And indeed, the character is in fact unceremoniously killed off early on in Thunderbolts/The New Avengers.
The thing is, according to the film’s co-writer Eric Pearson, Taskmaster was originally intended to have a much bigger part in the movie. And she was meant to have an important connection to fellow team member Hannah John-Kamen’s Ava Starr/Ghost too.
“That's one of the biggest changes from my final draft, because in the last version that I did, [Taskmaster] lived out the whole movie and there was a pretty big subplot of her and Ava connecting as two characters that were raised in labs and being controlled by other people,” explains Pearson.
It makes sense considering Ghost’s Ant-Man and the Wasp backstory is one of secret experimentation and forced acts of violence. “Ava having earned her autonomy a little bit earlier, Antonia was big-sistering her a little bit through the movie,” says the writer.
But the nature of the MCU movie factory – and big-budget blockbusters in general, really – means that Pearson eventually moved on to other projects, particularly with the delays in production on Thunderbolts caused by the Hollywood strikes. And so other writers continued work on the film, including his credited co-writer Joanna Calo.
“When I came back and watched the first cut, that was the biggest shock to me,” recalls Pearson. “Everything else was in the same place, but I was like, ‘Oh my God, you guys just killed the Taskmaster right there.’ So being able to not know what's coming and feel that shock, I understood why they did it, but yeah.”
Pearson says that even though he was surprised by the character’s fate, he understands why the changes to the script were made. (“The journey was even more emotional than I expected it to be,” he says. “I was just thrilled.”) He also confirms that most of the additional material he wrote about Taskmaster was never actually filmed. There was, however, a version of the elevator shaft scene that was different from the one in the finished film where John Walker tries to jump up to escape the shaft. In his script, the scene involved Taskmaster.
“I think they shot it with actually Ava doing the Taskmaster role,” he recalls. “Taskmaster was supposed to pull the bow and arrow [out] and shoot a grappling hook straight up. … And the idea that they all just stand there and look, waiting for the thing to cling, to stick in, and then one of them notices that the rope is coiling up and the thing is coming back down and they all just panic and have to run around like headless chickens because they know this arrow is coming down and they don't know where. And it sticks right in the middle of them. I loved that moment. I missed it, but I can't complain. The movie is spiritually everything that I wanted it to be.”
What do you think? Would Thunderbolts/The New Avengers have been better if Taskmaster hadn’t been killed off so early in the story? Vote in our poll and let’s discuss in the comments.
Here's a rare chance to pick up a well-sized OLED TV at an affordable price and from a trusted retailer. Starting this week, Amazon has discounted the 2024 65" Panasonic Z85 4K OLED Smart TV with Amazon Fire TV for just $999.99 with free delivery. This is an excellent TV to pair up with your PlayStation 5 since it has HDMI 2.1 inputs and a 120Hz refresh rate.
The Panasonic Z85 TV uses a W-OLED panel so image quality is comparable to the Samsung S85C/D/F, Sony Bravia 8/A80, and LG B4/B3 models. Since this is a true OLED panel, the Z85 boasts near instantaneous response time, near infinite contrast ratio, and true blacks. It's superior to any other panel type in nearly every scenario except for one: super bright rooms with no light control (OLEDs aren't as bright as Mini LED or LED LCD TVs).
The Z85 is an excellent future-proof gaming TV because it has a native 120Hz refresh rate and HDMI 2.1 ports. That means it is capable of running games in 4K at up to 120fps on both the PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles. It's a great TV for the upcoming Switch 2 as well, since the console is locked at 60fps when running games in 4K. The Z85 also has other convenient gaming features like variable refresh rate and auto low latency mode.
This is the best price I can find for a brand new 65" OLED TV with a full warranty. Panasonic is a well-known brand with a solid TV history. Although they had been out of the game for a while, they've recently returned, targeting the higher-end market with Mini-LED and OLED offerings.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
Not everyone is the DIY type. If you're in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, Dell is one of the best brands we'd recommend. Alienware desktops and laptops feature solid build quality, top-of-the-line gaming performance, excellent cooling (further improved on the newer models), aggressive styling, and pricing that is very competitive with other pre-built options. Best of all, there are plenty of sales that happen throughout the year, so it's not difficult to grab one of these computers at considerably less than their retail price. This page includes all of the best deals that are currently available.
You can quickly browse through all of the listed products on sale above. See below for our favorite picks.
Dell has one of the best prices on an RTX 5080 equipped prebuilt desktop computer. Right now you can pick up an Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 gaming PC starting at $2,349.99 shipped. This is a good price for a well-engineered (and warrantied) rig that can handle 4K gaming at high frame rates. In the current market, buying a prebuilt gaming PC is the only way to score an RTX 5080 GPU without paying an exorbitant markup. If you were to try to find a 5080 GPU for your diy PC build, you'll probably spend nearly as much for the GPU as you would for an entire system.
Earlier this year, Dell rebooted the legendary Alienware Area-51 lineup of prebuilt gaming PCs, but until recently you could only configure it with one graphics card option - the RTX 5080. That's no longer the case since now you can select the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, which is the most powerful graphics card on the market.
In our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review, Jackie Thomas wrote that "The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is complicated. It does what it says on the tin: play games at 1440p at a high frame rate. But the problem is that it doesn’t necessarily do that better than the RTX 4070 Super, or any other graphics card in this price range. It does add Multi Frame Generation, which is nice to have for anyone with a high-refresh monitor, but that alone isn’t worth the upgrade."
Alienware's new flagship gaming laptop - the Alienware Area-51 - was released earlier this year. It replaces the m-series laptop and bring to the table a host of upgrades including a sleeker redesign, current generation components, and better cooling potential. They can be equipped with the new Nvidia GeForce Blackwell cards in RTX 5070, 5080, and 5090 variants.
The Alienware x16 gaming laptop is a slimmer and lighter redesign of the traditional m-series laptop. It's the thinnest 16" Alienware laptop ever and compares in build quality and performance to other high-end ultra-thin laptops like the Razer Blade. This Alienware x16 R2 laptop is built with premium materials, like a magnesium alloy chassis and palm rest, anodized aluminum lid, stainless steel keyboard tray, and Micro LED RGB accent lighting. It's only 0.73" thin and weighs in at 6 pounds. That's impressive considering the fact that this laptop can be equipped with the most power NVIDIA GPU.
There are two important tidbits that deserve mention concerning graphics cards found in laptops. First, mobile GPU variants are not as powerful as their desktop counterparts. For example, a mobile RTX 4060 doesn't perform as well as a desktop RTX 4060. The mobile versions are generally about one to two tiers lower in performance. Using the same example, the mobile RTX 4060 performs more similarly to a desktop RTX 4050.
Second, not all laptops feature the same performance out of the same GPU. For example, the RTX 4060 found in the Alienware m16 will be more powerful than the RTX 4060 found in the Alienware x14. In order to roughly tell how good a GPU will be, you can look at the TGP rating. That's basically the amount of power supplied to the GPU. A higher TGP rating means more power will be delivered, equating to stronger performance, however the wattage consumption and heat generated will be higher. Here are the maximum TGP rates for the RTX 40 series graphics cards:
Dell just dropped the price of one of its best gaming monitors to the lowest price ever, better than even Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Right now you can pick up an Alienware AW3423DWF 34" QD-OLED gaming monitor for only $552.49 after 15% off coupon code "MONITORS15". This is one of Alienware's highest end monitors, with a gorgeous QD OLED panel, WQHD resolution, and a respectable 165Hz refresh rate.
The best Alienware high-end gaming monitor deal just got even better is on sale for this week. The 32" Alienware AW3225QF 4K QD OLED gaming monitor has just dropped to $899.99 with free shipping after a $300 off instant discount. If you're looking for the best 4K gaming monitor, this should definitely be on your short list.
If you're in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, Dell is one of best gaming brands we'd recommend. The Alienware gaming desktops offer a staggering array of options, all built into a custom chassis. Alienware gaming laptops in recent years have been redesigned to be thinner and lighter while still offering the same immense power under the hood. Consistent build quality, available inventory, frequent sales, and solid customer service are the main reasons why Dell is at the top of our buying list for gaming laptops and PCs.
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Ahead of Mother's Day, which lands on May 11, Amazon has dropped the price of the Apple iPad Mini (A17 Pro) to $399 shipped. That's a $100 price drop for the newest Mini. If you're looking for a pocketable, the iPad Mini will be your best pick; because of its compact size, there's no better iPad to take along when you're travelling.
The iPad Mini may be the most diminutive tablet of the bunch, but that doesn't mean it's hindered in any way. In fact, the iPad Mini has a more powerful processor than the standard iPad and a sharper display (326ppi vs 264ppi) with wide color gamut. The newest iPad Mini was released on October of 2024 and features some pretty significant improvements over its predecessor, including a more powerful A17 Pro processor, double the base storage, Wi-Fi 6e, a USB Type-C port, compatibility with the Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C), and Apple Intelligence support.
If you're not sure which iPad is best for you, we have an iPad guide which details which iPad is ideal for which use case. If you intend want to get an iPad for schoolwork, we have an iPad guide for students as well. If you're looking for options outside of iOS, check out the best Android tablets of 2025.
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La semaine dernière, Gearbox a partagé une longue vidéo « deep dive » pour Borderlands 4, leur prochain tireur-pilleur. Mais si on n’a pas pu vous en parler avant, c’est parce qu’on s’est endormis au bout de quelques minutes de visionnage de gameplay, d’une mollesse incroyable. Pensant pouvoir ruser, on a mis la vitesse en x2 pour tenter d’atteindre la fin sans tomber de sommeil, mais on a constaté avec effroi que c’était toujours aussi mou ! C’est donc après quatre expressos, trois Red Bull et une crêpe au sucre glace, qu’on peut enfin vous faire un compte rendu de cette atroce vidéo.
Bon, le premier choc, c’est Randy Pitchford, déguisé en gourou de secte, et qui débite son texte d’une manière aussi naturelle que la poitrine d’Aya Nakamura. Le second, c’est de voir du gameplay qui oscille entre 20 et 30 FPS. Combiné avec l’utilisation de la manette, on a l’impression que la vidéo est au ralenti. Au moins, ils ne mentent pas sur les perfs déplorables qu’est capable de sortir une PS5 Pro sur ce jeu. Sinon, les combats sont horriblement lents et inintéressants, contre des adversaires qui avalent les balles, mais qui ont heureusement parfois des réactions aux impacts. Ça doit dépendre de l’ennemi, sans doute. Côté armes, on nous promet des possibilités infinies avec des combinaisons d’effets des différents manufacturiers habituels sur les accessoires (chargeur, viseur, etc.), en plus de la pétoire en elle-même. Il y aura encore plus de loot, encore plus d’accessibilité pour rejoindre ses potes, et évidemment, des compétences garanties zéro skill, pour éviter de frustrer Jean-Kevin, affalé sur son canapé. Ils parlent aussi du scénario, qui ne volera certainement pas très haut, avec notamment le retour de personnages de la série. Youpi.
Pour ajouter l’insulte à l’injure, Gearbox nous annonce que Borderlands 4 ne sortira pas le 23 septembre, comme initialement prévu, mais le 12 septembre, soit 11 jours avant, pour nous faire souffrir encore plus tôt. Si, pour une raison étrange, le jeu vous chauffe, vous pouvez l’ajouter à votre liste de souhaits depuis sa page Steam ou Epic Games Store.
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