The Samsung S84/S85 TVs boast all the advantages of OLED that makes them one of the best TVs for gaming, but at a much lower price tag than other OLED TVs. As part of its early Black Friday sale, Best Buy is offering a 2025 65" Samsung S84F 4K OLED Smart TV for just $899.99 with free deluxe delivery. This is the lowest price right now for a 65" OLED TV. The sale ends on Sunday, November 9, and then you won't have a chance to get in on this deal again until Black Friday.

65" Samsung S84F 4K OLED Smart TV for $899.99

Best Buy is offering a great deal on a powerful gaming laptop ahead of Black Friday. For this week only, you can pick up the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16s GeForce RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop for just $1,599.99 with free delivery after a $300 instant discount. This is a well-equipped laptop, boasting a gorgeous 16" 240Hz OLED display and a high-end Intel Core Ultra 9 HX series processor. The RTX 5070 Ti is a powerful mobile GPU that can run any game you throw at it.

Update: This deal is expected to expire on Sunday, 11/9.

Acer Predator Helios Neo RTX 5070 Ti Laptop for $1,599.99

Black Friday deals season is fast approaching. It's the biggest shopping holiday of the year and overall the best time to find discounts on just about everything. If you're hoping to save some money on gifts and essentials in 2025, this upcoming sales event is your best bet.

With that in mind, Black Friday has evolved well beyond a single day of deals. While plenty of shoppers still tend to do the bulk of their actual shopping over Thanksgiving weekend, you will definitely be able to find good deals well before then. Best Buy has already launched its early Black Friday sale, so you don't even need to wait.

When Do Black Friday Sales Actually Start?

Black Friday is November 28 this year, but we expect most sales to drop much earlier than that. Based on last year, we expect all of the major online retailers to start offering "early" Black Friday disounts at the beginning of November or on Halloween and continue through the week before Thanksgiving. Right after that, the "official" Black Friday sales start going live.

Best Buy was the first retailer to reveal its sale dates for 2025, and it looks like its Black Friday sales will start on Thursday, November 20 this year. Amazon was one of the first retailers to kick off the sale last year on the Thursday before Thanksgiving weekend, and it would seem that trend has caught on for 2025. Amazon will almost certainly match Best Buy's sale start time. Costco has also announced that part of its sale will begin on November 17 this year with more deals arriving online on Thanksgiving.

Best Buy, Costco, Target, and Walmart have all made an announcement about sale dates, so it's probably safe to say that you'll be able to do most of your online Black Friday shopping the weekend before Thanksgiving in 2025. For many brick-and-mortar stores, you may be able to expect the full discounts even earlier. Some sales will still only take place on actual Black Friday, like at the LEGO Store, but for the most part the discounts will start ahead of then.

What Deals to Expect From Major Retailers

With the ongoing tariffs and recent price increases in the U.S., it's difficult to predict exactly what discounts we'll see during the 2025 Black Friday season. The IGN Deals team has been covering shopping events all year and we have a decent idea of what you can expect, even if the prices will be higher than what we saw last year.

Amazon Black Friday

Amazon has one of the biggest Black Friday sales every year and tends to have discounts on just about everything. Based on previous Amazon sales like Prime Day and Prime Big Deal Days, you can expect the same discounts on Amazon devices we saw earlier this year. The lowest prices will most likely be on Kindles and Fire TV sticks, as well as Echo speaker bundles. Amazon has also been pushing a pretty steep discount on the Luna controller and subsequent bundles during every major sale this year. These particular discounts will most likely be exclusive to Prime members.

Outside of Amazon devices, the online retailer will also automatically match prices on popular products that are offered at other retailers. That means you can expect discounts on things like Apple devices, LEGO sets, laptops, TVs, and just about every other brand not exclusively owned by another major retailer. Amazon's Black Friday sale will usually be offering the same low price (or lower) as any of its competitors for these types of items.

To get a better idea of what to expect this year, you can take a look at last year's Amazon Black Friday ad.

Walmart Black Friday

After Amazon, the next biggest Black Friday sale you can expect is at Walmart. These discounts will be both in store and online, but the online savings should start a bit earlier. Walmart usually has some of the best deals on Apple devices like iPad and AirPods. You'll usually also find some of the lowest prices of the year on Walmart-exclusive products like Onn electronics, select Vizio TVs, some gaming PC configurations (see: the recent GeForce sale), and certain home appliances.

In the past, Walmart has also had some great Nintendo Switch deals that Amazon wasn't able to offer. We'd expect to see this again this year, most likely on newer Switch 2 games or Pokémon cards. Expect some of these discounts to be available early for Walmart+ members, which has been the case for other major sales this year.

In addition to popular tech and games, Walmart also tends to have deals on groceries, clothing, and toys. Walmart has been especially known to offer particularly good LEGO discounts, but stock tends to be fairly limited.

You can check out the full Walmart Black Friday ad from last year for more information. Walmart has also released an early deals preview for discounts starting on November 14 this year you can check out.

Best Buy Black Friday

The Best Buy Black Friday sale is usually the best collection of tech deals during the holiday season. Many of these discounts will be price-matched by Amazon and Walmart, but it will still likely have all of the same Apple devices, TVs, and video games on sale as everywhere else. You can also likely expect some sort of video game console deal on the PS5/PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X. With the continued price increases, this could just mean getting a free Best Buy gift card with your purchase, but it will still be a better deal than paying full price with no additional benefits.

In addition to consoles, video games, and video game accessories, Best Buy also tends to be one of the best places to buy handheld gaming PCs and laptops. With the recent release of the ROG Xbox Ally X, Best Buy has been the only retailer to keep stock. You can likely expect price cuts on the previous generation ROG Ally devices at Best Buy this year, as well as other popular handhelds. We also expect competitive pricing around newer laptops with the latest 50-series GPUs.

For more information on what to expect, check out the Best Buy Black Friday ad from last year. Best Buy has stated that it will have new doorbuster deals dropping every friday starting on Halloween this year, so expect the deals to arrive early.

When it comes to buying a new gaming PC, one of the main reasons to buy an off-the-shelf option rather than building one yourself is to get something reliable that is professionally put together. As good as my cable management skills are, they rarely measure up to what the pros can manage.

I want a good spread of hardware to choose from, though, which is why it’s encouraging to see such a broad swathe of configurations from the Asus ROG G700. If you want something modest and affordable, there are options for that. If you’d rather kit it out with the fastest CPU and GPU combination money can buy, that option’s there too. In any case, you get the same high build quality, sleek-looking, gaming PC with a roomy case, capable cooling, and attractive RGB lighting.

It’s a big’ old system, though. So you’ll want to ensure you have plenty of space on your desk or floor, and that you’re feeling strong on the day it arrives – or at least get someone to help you.

Design and Features

The G700 is a full-tower gaming PC measuring 18.88 inches tall and 20.05 inches long, and that doesn’t include the feet, which give it at least another inch of verticality. That means this system takes up a lot of space wherever you put it, but conversely also has plenty of internal volume which makes future maintenance or upgrades much easier.

In the more immediate term, however, it means you can enjoy a lot of the ROG branding that Asus covered this PC with. That’s going to be a love it or hate it thing for most folks, and it’s worth considering this PC is for gamers. That perhaps shouldn’t surprise considering it’s part of the ROG family, which of course stands for Republic of Gamers. This is no sleeper system, with RGB-lit ROG branding along the PSU shroud and on an acrylic panel just behind the front fans.

There’s even a multi-sentence mission statement of sorts on the PSU shroud which talks about how ROG kingdom gamers don’t conform and stand out from the pack. An interesting juxtaposition for a mass-produced gaming PC.

Cable management is excellent, with Asus seemingly adopting a design philosophy of hiding wires where it can, and making them flow with the natural lines of the system where it can’t. There’s a shroud for the 20+4 pin power connector, a PSU shroud that covers the entire base of the case, and the PWM fan cables and 12v-2x6 connector are as tucked away as they can be, giving everything a clean aesthetic.

It’s decidedly forward-looking in its design, lacking any kind of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drive bay space. There’s enough physical room for heaps of drives, but no mounting solutions. That makes bringing over older SATA drives from your previous PC a little tricky. You can wedge them in behind the PSU shroud with some double-sided tape, but there are no mounting holes for them.

It actually feels like Asus missed a trick there. It could easily have included some screw holes on the back of the motherboard tray for some 2.5-inch drives and there’s a clear spot at the front where a 3.5-inch drive could be fitted to the floor.

If you don’t care about such ancient standards, and most of the people buying this system off-the-shelf probably don’t, it’s no big deal, but it’s something worth bearing in mind if you’re upgrading and want to bring some of your storage with you.

Still, this is one system you’re going to want to dust regularly to keep that sleek and clear aesthetic alive. You won’t need to worry about GPU sag though, as Asus has installed a sturdy GPU bracket that fits the aesthetic without standing out.

Front panel connectors include a pair of USB-A 3.2 gen 1 and a single USB-C 3.2 gen 1, as well as mic and headphone inputs – plenty for most uses. Since this system uses a B860 motherboard, the back isn’t extensive, though you still get nine USB-A ports topping out at 3.2 Gen 2, and a USB-C 3.2 gen 2 port, as well as Gigabit ethernet, DisplayPort 1.4 for onboard graphics, and a trio of audio connectors. The 5070 Ti in this build has the standard three DisplayPorts and a single HDMI connector.

It has all the ports you need for standard peripherals like keyboards and mice, though if you’re the kind of person who does a lot of big data transfers to external drives you might want to invest in some faster ports via a PCIe card.

The PSUs is LiteON branded which is a well known OEM of strong-enough repute that I’m not concerned about it powering the components. At 850W and 80+ Gold rated, it’s got enough going for it that you shouldn’t need to upgrade any time soon. There’s nothing in the way of spare cables, though, so you’ll need adapters if you want to add any add-in cards that require external power.

Performance

AMD might get the most love for its gaming CPUs this generation, but the Intel’s Core Ultra 265K and combined with the 5070 Ti, this PC is more than capable of hitting high frame rates and punching above its weight. I wouldn’t typically consider the 5070 Ti a 4K graphics card, but in most of the games in our test suite, the ROG G700 delivered excellent performance.

It managed over 100 fps in many of the games we tested at 4K, including Forza Horizon 5, Black Ops 6, and Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition – and that’s without frame generation, too. Even the more demanding games, like Cyberpunk and Black Myth Wukong were very playable considering their settings were almost completely maxed out, though DLSS certainly helped smooth out the FPS.

With frame generation enabled we saw much higher frame rates in those two super-demanding games, though with a bit of noticeable flicker in Black Myth Wukong, which would encourage me to play without it – but your mileage may vary. It’s much more of a useful option in Forza, though, where it took the fps very close to a buttery smooth 190 FPS.

Total War: Warhammer III is a great test, as it’s a demanding, but older, DirectX 11 game that doesn’t offer any kind of dynamic upscaling or frame generation support; It’s all pure, raw rasterized rendering. The ROG G700 performed admirably there, almost hitting 90 FPS which looks great on a high refresh rate display.

Unfortunately, when you start gaming quite hard the fans spin up enough that noise levels do become quite noticeable. You’ll probably want to game in headphones for more demanding games that push the heat and fan speed up.

The standard configuration is strong, though, with Asus holding back from filling the system with bloatware. Resizeable BAR is enabled by default too, which is nice to see, although oddly XMP wasn’t. That’s an easy fix, but seems like an odd oversight when so much thought and care seems to have gone into the rest of the system.

Then, during general office work, web browsing, and streaming, the Asus ROG G700 isit’s quiet and lacks any kind of obvious coil whine. Performance is strong, with everyday tasks feeling snappy and responsive

Maintaining a tidy desk area doesn't have to be labor intensive or expensive. Compressed air canisters used to be the standard but nowadays there is a more versatile and cost effective solution. Ahead of Black Friday, the Konpayde cordless electric air duster is on sale for just $17.99 after you clip a $2 off coupon on the product page and apply $20 off promo code "WRHJRJTT". Most electric air dusters under $50 on Amazon are rebadged X3 or X3 Mini air dusters - meaning they are mostly identical - so I'd recommend just getting whichever one is least expensive. There are other more powerful and more rugged options like the Wolfbox MF100 (which I also recommend), but they are much more expensive.

Konpayde Cordless Electric Air Duster for PC for $17.99

It may be the first week of November, but one of the best Black Friday sales for physical media collectors has already kicked off. Barnes & Noble has officially launched a 50% discount on The Criterion Collection that lasts until December 7. That's a full month of deals, so you can take your time scrolling for a solid spread of movies. I'd recommend approaching it as your own month-long Closet Picks interview.

50% Off The Criterion Collection at Barnes & Noble

The Criterion Collection includes well over 1,000 films on various forms of home video. Criterion’s approach to film preservation is most evident in special “Director Approved” editions that were restored in collaboration with the director themselves. All Criterion releases come loaded with audio commentary tracks (a feature Criterion pioneered) and additional special features. And, of course, they have the coolest cover art in the business.

The Criterion Collection sale at Barnes & Noble applies a 50% discount to all existing releases. Most 4Ks are priced at $49.99, dropping to $24.99. Most Blu-rays are priced at $39.99 and have dropped to $19.99. Finally, standard DVDs are usually $29.99, dropping to $14.99. Collections and special editions deviate from this pricing, but the 50% discount applies across the board.

The major exclusion is preorders releasing after the end date of the sale, December 7. New releases up until then, including Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, are on the table. The sale applies to online exclusives like the massive Wes Anderson collection and is available in Barnes & Noble stores. You can also expect price-matching at Amazon and Target.

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Black Friday Is the Best Time to Add to Your Physical Media Collection

The Criterion Collection usually has two major sales in a year: one in July and one in November. This is the one in November. Otherwise, Criterion has somewhat random flash sales that only last for 24 hours. In other words, this is definitely your best bet for stocking up on gifts ahead of the holidays (including gifts for yourself, I don’t judge).

Barnes & Noble has also launched its annual gift card deal, offering a $10 bonus for every $100 you spend. Individual physical media deals have kicked off in early Black Friday sales at Target and Best Buy. One retailer I’d definitely keep an eye on is Amazon, which featured a “Buy 2, Get 1” deal on movies and books during Black Friday 2024 that I would expect to see return later this month. You can check out our full breakdown of early Black Friday sales and predictions for more details.

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Physical media has always been important to collectors, but its popularity died down quite a bit in the age of streaming services. There was a delighful in-between era when you could buy a bunch of Blu-rays and DVDs from a bargain bin at Walmart for only $5 each, but that time has since passed. These days, there is still a steady stream of movies and TV shows released on physical discs, but it's not nearly at the same level of abundance as it was even 10 years ago.

The good news is that 4K UHD and Blu-ray movies have been making a comeback. With major streaming services like HBO Max dropping even originals from its platform, there are many folks looking for a way to truly own their favorite media. Unfortunately, the cost of these discs is a lot higher than it used to be. There are no longer bins you can sort through to find a great movie for cheap and most of your shopping will be online. If you want to continue to build (or start building) a physical media collection, it can get expensive fast.

If you're looking for advice for saving money, IGN pretty regularly covers discounts on 4K and Blu-ray releases. There's no "best" time to buy for every movie or TV show, but there are a few times a year where you can definitely expect savings. We'll break down the best times to buy below.

Look for Savings During Sales Events

Online retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble will usually offer some sort of discount around major sales events. This could either be in the form of direct discounts or some sort of "buy one, get one" sale. Here are the key times throughout the year to look for these savings.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday (November-December)

Arguably the best time of year to buy pretty much anything at a discount is Black Friday season, followed by Cyber Monday. Every major retailer will be competing for your business, and physical media has been more a part of that in recent years. You should expect similar discounts we've seen throughout the rest of the year and some of the very first discounts on some of the most popular 4K movies of 2025. These sales begin in early November and will last all the way through December after Cyber Monday wraps up. This year, we've already seen Barnes & Noble launch their annual Black Friday sale: 50% off the entire Criterion Collection.

Prime Day (July)

Amazon Prime Day has consistently been one of the best times of year to buy physical media. In 2025 that was especially true as Amazon launched a massive "Buy 2, Get 1 Free" sale on a ton of movies. This promotion was in addition to some great discounts on popular 4K movies and TV series box sets. Prime Day takes place sometime in the middle of July every year, so it's a great time to grab discounts on popular titles from the previous summer that got released earlier.

Criterion Collection Sales

If you're specifically looking to buy movies from the Criterion Collection, you'll be happy to know there are usually four times a year when you can find savings. The biggest Criterion Collection sales take place at Barnes & Noble, with a blanket 50% off sale on everything in the collection except for preorders. The sale typically occurs throughout July and has now returned for Black Friday. Outside of that, the Criterion website has two 24-hour flash sales a year that offer similar discounts for a much smaller window of time. The next one of these will supposedly take place sometime in October.

Holiday Weekends

While discounts on 4K and Blu-ray discs aren't as guaranteed during holiday weekends, they are still usually a pretty good time to find deals. Almost every major online retailer will have some sort of sales page for Labor Day, Memorial Day, and even Presidents' Day—which usually means discounts on movies as well. These types of sales will usually take place about a week before the actual federal holiday, so you can usually start shopping ahead of the weekend to find price cuts. Amazon also has a tendency to offer one of its "Buy One, Get One" sales around these times that make shopping for your collection worthwhile.

When to Find Deals on Steelbooks

If you're building a collection, you are likely going to want to add at least a few steelbooks to your collection. These are movies or TV series collections that are wrapped up in a special steelbook case with some sort of limited-edition artwork on the front and bonus features inside. Because of these extras, they tend to be the most expensive version of any release. That being said, they do go on sale and when those discounts actually happen varies.

Near the End of the Preorder Window

The ongoing list of upcoming 4K and Blu-ray releases includes a mix of steelbooks of the most new movies of the year as well as re-releases of popular older movies. When preorders for these steelbooks first go live, they tend to be at their most expensive. Depending on how popular the movie is, limited-edition steelbooks have the potential to sell out pretty quickly. However, if it isn't a really sought after title then you can usually find some sort of discount closer to its actual release date. So if it's a collector's edition of something you really want, you can potentially wait for a discount and hope it doesn't sell out. Amazon also offers a preorder price guarantee that will automatically get that discount if the price does drop, so you can always take the route of preordering early if your don't want to miss out on your chance to get it.

A Month or More After Release

Assuming a steelbook doesn't sell out before it actually releases, retailers will likely have an abundance of stock they will need to offload at some point. Sometimes this comes in the form of a discount pretty shortly after the initial release date, but usually you'll have to wait a bit. Collectors who missed the initial preorder window are often still willing to pay full price for a new steelbook shortly after release. This means you can usually expect discounts about a month or so after the initial release date. You're unlikely to find these discounts on the really popular new movies with limited-edition steelbooks, but they are often available on the re-releases or anniversary editions of films that don't get as much attention from being in the zeitgeist as recently.

A Lynne Ramsay film is often bracing and biting, wrestling with thorny themes in a way that promotes raw, salt-in-your-wound vulnerability. Her latest, Die My Love, is an honest depiction of post-pregnancy woes that greeting card companies don’t want you to see. The harrowing adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel aligns with titles like If I Had Legs I’d Kick You or Rosemary’s Baby, depicting motherhood not as this angelic blessing, but grueling entrapment. It’s a bit too surreal and non-linear for its own good, shuffling through narrative fogginess, but is propelled by performances that rage with passionate expressions. The good, the bad, it’s all artfully depicted by Ramsay (whose previous directing credits include Ratcatcher, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and You Were Never Really Here)—as long as you don’t find yourself lost in the film’s more ethereal qualities.

Jennifer Lawrence stars as Grace, and Robert Pattinson as Jackson, transplants from New York City who seek serenity in Montana. Before long, they become new parents in the sticks—not much to do, hardly anyone around except Jackson’s mother, Pam (Sissy Spacek). Grace and Jackson transform from this sexually charged, free-willed couple into stressed-out, exhausted husks of their libido-fueled selves. Grace especially succumbs to the crushing isolation of rural motherhood, which causes her mental health to rapidly decline. Once a writer, Grace trades her poetic words for a whining baby and soul-sucked husband—ah, the American dream.

Die My Love is about the “death” of Grace. Lawrence and Pattinson begin the film with puppy-love optimism and tremendous sexual chemistry, unable to stay untangled in one another’s limbs. Ramsay and co-writer Enda Walsh ensure we clock Grace and Jackson at their most heated, hypnotized by Cupid’s magic, as a comparison to the sobering mundanity that overtakes once the baby arrives. This steamy, magnetic energy brings Grace and Jackson together, with Lawrence and Pattinson depicting love in an addictive fervor, if only to emphasize the sunken-eyed maturation of a relationship that has lost its spark. We’ve surely encountered this arc before, but Ramsay brings an intensity to both sides that stokes intrigue by escalating conflicts à la Marriage Story.

Lawrence shoulders tremendous burdens in Die My Love, as Grace watches her playful vivaciousness, her sun-bright vitality, melt away. She’s stripped of defining qualities, which Lawrence reacts to with tragic instability. The actress glides through a rapid-fire display of emotions in a single scene, shifting from seething mad to tearily depressed and then zanily uninhibited. Grace becomes the unpredictable centerfold for women who classify motherhood as an identity crisis, where they devolve into an extension of their child. How Lawrence sustains that chaotic brand of severe displeasure, or how Pattinson portrays a workaholic husband increasingly out of his depth, is the film’s secret sauce. If it were a just world, Lawrence would be in the same Best Actress pool as Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

However, for as remarkable as the lead performances are, Die My Love’s storytelling structure is bent out of shape. Scenes feel more like dreams crashing into one another, whether they’re Grace’s delusions or actual events. LaKeith Stanfield plays a mysterious motorcyclist who tempts an inconsolably horny Grace, but his teases offer a disjointed subplot. It’s sometimes hard to decipher if what’s happening is in chronological succession or a flashback, as Ramsay wants us, the audience, to succumb to Grace’s mania. It’s a risky maneuver that sets continuity ablaze, much like how Grace finds comfort in a vision of forest fires engulfing her existence. Ramsay deploys hysteria as a weapon, letting it infect, yet ultimately tarnish her film’s composure as narrative throughlines blow away like embers lost to Grace’s inferno.

Once the ash settles, Die My Love is seen in a different light. It’s the story of a wild-at-heart mama losing her individuality to societal conformity, but with a basic examination under arthouse flourishes. Lawrence’s provocative interactions with Pattinson and a standout Sissy Spacek are lost to stylistic distress over substantial emotional payoffs. We’re captured by breathtaking moments and Seamus McGarvey’s intimate cinematography, vignettes where Grace passionately pleads for help in destructive ways, but altogether, Ramsay’s latest is haphazardly assembled. Whether or not that ruins your experience will depend on your ability to view Die My Love as a performance showcase—its crowning quality, no doubt.

You know something didn’t quite go right when the best mode in Battlefield 6’s battle royale-focused spin-off, Battlefield REDSEC, is the one that isn’t a battle royale at all. While REDSEC takes notes from other grounded-ish military battle royales, it doesn’t innovate much on what’s already worked. The destructible environments and powerful vehicles of the otherwise exciting multiplayer seem like a perfect fit for this genre, but REDSEC’s relatively shallow execution just hasn’t hooked me the way Fortnite’s cartoonish chaos and electrifying events did, nor has it separated itself from the likes of PUBG or Call of Duty: Warzone. Instead, I’ve had way more fun when its map is used to push the boundary beyond the requisite ever-shrinking storm in the squad-based, elimination-driven Gauntlet mode that cleverly fleshes out the mission structure hidden within the battle royale’s streamlined familiarity.

You know the drill: you and a squadmate drop onto a massive map in the rapidly blinking eye of a destructive storm. In REDSEC’s case, a closing plume of neon-scarlet-streaked charcoal clouds surround a fictional military base in Southern California called Fort Lyndon. Looting Lyndon’s blown out shops and construction sites for anything you can find, your squad has to scrap its way to be the last one standing. EA clearly believes that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and I can’t fault them for that.

Dotted with memorable named locations like the Golf Course and the Lighthouse, there are all kinds of high vantage points for sniping and tight corridors for scrapping. And with destructible terrain and a seemingly endless supply of artillery and airstrikes, these locations have a tendency to “lev-olve” into bombed-out rebar skeletons or collapse entirely (I learned this the comically hard way after dying to a ceiling). This blend of different battlefields makes for a balanced, tense frenzy within each named location, especially in matches with four-player squads. Even the dusty roads and stark topography in-between do a good job of keeping things balanced, with plenty of hills and valleys or scattered vans and small buildings offering cover from enterprising marksmen.

But when cover fails, you’ll get a second chance if you fall early enough in battle and your squadmate doesn’t revive you in time. That comes complete with a second drop-in (over your squadmate if they’re still kicking, or above a random location if you’re both wiped within a few seconds of each other), and you’ll need to re-up on gear and consumables from there. I like that you can even make re-deploying at the right moment work in your favor, because you can aim for special pickups from your parachute that weren’t there when the match started.

Battlefield 6’s class system translates well into a battle royale, with each of the four classes offering something helpful. I usually stuck with the all-around Assault class that specializes in assault rifles because it has the best boosts for completing REDSEC’s mid-match missions, but each class shines in its own way. The Engineer class seems the most useful at first glance because it can repair vehicles just like in the main mode, as well as use its blowtorch to open special weapon lockers that are otherwise locked. But the Recon and Support classes each offer their own benefits too, especially in a four-player squad.

Classes aside, REDSEC’s battle royale modes actually dilute the chaos and excitement of Battlefield 6’s premium modes, spreading the madness out over a massive map. Its 100-person lobbies are about 50% bigger than the 64 people in an All-Out Warfare match, but Fort Lyndon is definitely more than 50% bigger than your average Battlefield 6 map. This math does REDSEC no favors. Suddenly, crazy and complex sequences with collapsing buildings and vehicular showdowns lose their chaotic excitement because the open map gives you more places to run and hide. As a result, REDSEC doesn’t have much to set it apart from other military battle royales. Its hardcore “realism-ish” nature might be part of the draw to anyone looking to avoid getting ran at by Nicki Minaj or Homer Simpson, but nobody’s going to confuse the tacticool aesthetic for personality. It kind of feels like this could be any other big-budget military shooter adapted into a battle royale.

Thankfully, REDSEC’s compelling mission structure takes a rewarding cleaver to the otherwise ho-hum military doldrums. They’re kind of like the missions and bounties you’d find in Fortnite, but with better rewards and more diverse challenges. Automatically populating in your map menu after the first few seconds of each match, you’re usually presented with three missions, but those options might diminish as the round goes on. The rewards (and risks of attracting others) that come with each mission, on the other hand, remain consistently worthwhile and well-communicated. They can provide helpful stuff like weapon upgrade packs, one-time-use abilities like destructive airstrikes and UAV surveillance drones that reveal enemies’ locations, battle pass XP, and strong guns. I love how explicit REDSEC makes all of the mission rewards. Sure, it doesn’t specify which weapon (or even type of weapon) will drop from a mission, but guns outside my preference still made a huge difference.

Even with otherwise uncooperative squadmates, those irresistible rewards spurred me into planting the bombs and capturing the waypoints required to earn them. That seems to be REDSEC’s secret sauce: each in-game mission pops up like clockwork after a few seconds, only requiring a couple of button presses to reveal the next target. Hinging on classic military FPS objectives like babysitting a planted bomb or picking up an important file so you can transmit its signal back to home base, these smaller sidequests add order and welcome direction to the otherwise listless pace of conquering the battlefield. Some, like planting a bomb, will reveal your location with a big red marker on nearby enemies’ screens and match that with an equally loud siren alerting opponents to your location.

But if your loadout isn’t battle-ready and you’re worried about running into other players, there are more ways to get better gear. In addition to the standard looting option, weapons, armor, and other useful pickups will randomly rain from the sky. Custom Weapon Drops make for the most useful and desirable pickups, giving you access to one of your customized weapons from Battlefield 6’s standard multiplayer modes. I like that these drops work once for each player, rather than just giving one squad their trusty sniper or assault rifle, but it almost feels like a microcosmic participation trophy rather than rewarding squads who treat these drops like hard-push objectives and beat out the others.

REDSEC doesn’t offer enough to do in-between wiping enemy squads and looting military-themed chests compared to some of its contemporaries, but the map-driven context of each mission does add spontaneity and strategy to the ways you might carry out a mission. For example, taking a bomb-setting mission when you’re close to the otherwise slow and unthreatening firestorm that closes in around you might dissuade anyone from a risky diffusion that puts them right at the edge of the billowing wall of smoke.

In contrast, the Gauntlet mode ditches the storm entirely as it expands each of these extra objectives into full-fledged game modes. It pits a handful of four-player squads against each other to rack up the most points on each objective, and even adds a few extra scenarios to the mix, totaling eight different game types. I think my favorite is the area control mode, where each squad is competing for a small hexagonal chunk of the map that has its own corresponding satellite dish to take over. There are 15 to compete for, making each round a chaotic, scrappy battle for domination that rewards different kinds of play depending on which part of the map you’re fighting over.

Gauntlet also cleverly recognizes that some people just want to play each mode like Deathmatch, and weighs points accordingly with kills and revives contributing to the scoreboard. And to make things more competitive, all points double in the last minute of each quick round, preventing any team from completely running away with the win. High-performing players from otherwise losing teams might also get reassigned into squads whose teammates disconnect, adding extra reward and incentive to do well.

The mode and objective will change throughout the four total rounds, with the two lowest-performing of eight squads getting eliminated each round until only two remain for one final showdown that plays out like a mini Battlefield match. Rotating through different named locations within Fort Lyndon, Gauntlet ends up working almost more like a brilliant mish-mash between Fall Guys and a squad-based, free-for-all version of traditional Battlefield than it does the otherwise uninspired battle royale that houses it.

Mass Effect fans have uncovered fresh artwork teasing the franchise's next game, which will feature the krogan race in the middle of a civil war.

Clues hidden in today's blog post from series boss Mike Gamble have been decoded by fans to uncover a hidden link on BioWare's website — and on it, our first piece of new Mass Effect teaser in two years.

The Mass Effect 5 artwork shows a battle-scarred krogan firing his gun, flanked by an army of helmeted krogan warriors. The title of the image is simply: "Civil War."

Ahead of Black Friday, the official LG Store just dropped the price on a current generation LG OLED TV. Right now you can order a massive 77" LG Evo C5 4K OLED Smart TV for $1,999.99 with free delivery, which also includes your choice of free stand setup or free wall mounting. LG is also offering a free LG S40T 2.1ch soundbar and TV wall mount when you add them to the same order. If you can't wait until Black Friday, this is a great deal on a 2025 OLED TV.

Note that Amazon has price matched the TV, however you do not get the soundbar or wall mount.

77" LG Evo C5 4K OLED Smart TV for $1,999.99

Free LG S40T 2.1ch soundbar and wall mount (must add to the same order)

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.

AliExpress is known for being one of the best online shops to pick up a 3D printer at the lowest possible price. I'm not talking about obscure, unvetted models. Some of the most popular 3D printer brands, including Creality (arguably the most well-known), Anycubic, and Flashforge, have official storefronts that carry some or all of their product lineup.

Below, I've picked out the best deals on 3D printers that are well-reviewed; the entry-level models are a great choice for anyone just starting out and not ready to invest a ton of money, and the higher-end models have all the features a seasoned professional could ask for, but without the exorbitant price tag. With coupons applied, you can pick up a fully-assembled 3D printer for as low as $170. All of the printers I've recommended below are sold by the manufacturer and ship locally for free from the United States. Plus, most orders will arrive within one to two weeks.

3D Printer Deals on AliExpress

Flashforge Adventurer 5M CoreXY 3D Printer

Not long you you wouldn't be able to find an electric bike for under $1,000. Although there are still plenty of "premium" brands that still sell ebikes for well above this threshold, it's no longer an accurate blanket statement. As we enter the Black Friday and holiday season, you can pick up an entry level ebike for as low as $300. The three deals below stand out for the following reasons: (1) they're a lot less expensive than buying the exact same bike off Amazon, (2) they're all shipped from a local US warehouse so you don't need to worry about tariffs or shipping delays, and (3) they're sold by reputable vendors with plenty of reviews and sales to back them up.

Amyet V9-G60 1000W Electric Bike for $423

Nintendo recently raised the price of the new Nintendo Switch 2 Pro controller from $85 to $90, but here's an opportunity to get one for less than either price. AliExpress is currently offering an official Switch 2 Pro controller for just $83.02 after you apply $12 off coupon code "USCD12" during checkout. Your order ships free locally from the United States.

This is a brand new, genuine model, most likely from Hong Kong, China, or Japan. All Switch hardware (including the Pro 2 controller) is region unlocked, meaning you can use the controller with any US-based Nintendo Switch console without any additional steps. The only caveat is that imported peripherals don't come with a Nintendo warranty however AliExpress does offer a 15-day free return window.

Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller for $83.02

If you still haven't yet picked up a Nintendo Switch 2 because it's too expensive, there is an opportunity to get one at a discounted price. AliExpress is offering a Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World console bundle for just $459.30 (normally $500) after you apply a $65 off coupon code "USCD65" during checkout. It ships free locally from the United States (which means no tariffs and no obnoxiously long wait times).

Note that the console is a Hong Kong import. All international Switch consoles are region unlocked, meaning they can be used in the US without any problems and without any modification. You'll also be able to select English as your default language. This specific model will come with a Hong Kong style plug, but a US adapter is included. Imported consoles do not get a US-based Nintendo warranty. Fortunately, Aliexpress offers a generous 90-day free return window.

Nintendo Switch 2 with Mario Kart World for $459.30

Brand new, genuine, imported, region unlocked units

Following the Nintendo Direct on August 19, Kirby Air Riders for the Switch 2 went up for preorder on the Nintendo eShop for $69.99, or $10 less than the Mario racing sim. Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco, the same team behind Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, as well as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, has teamed up to make this game, setting expectations high. Besides the obvious graphical improvements, gameplay changes, and track additions compared to the original Kirby Air Ride way back in 2003 for the Gamecube, other updates include an expanded roster that includes Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede, Chef Kawasaki, and Bandana Waddle Dee, more abilities, and more copy moves.

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.

The holiday season is here and AliExpress is kicking off November with some early Back Friday deals on hundreds of its locally shipped products, including best sellers like electric bikes and scooters, gaming handhelds, imported Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 consoles, brand name 3D printers, and more. All the products listed below ship from a local US warehouse, which means you don't need to worry about tariffs or obnoxiously long shipping times. Even better, Retailmenot is offering an additional 15% cash back on all AliExpress purchases, up from the 5% cashback you'll usually find.

AliExpress Coupon Codes (Tested and Verified)

Most of these deals are made better by using one of these tiered coupons:

• USCD02 ($2 off Orders $14+)
• USCD04 ($4 Off Orders $23+)
• USCD07 ($7 Off Orders $29+)
• USCD12 ($12 Off Orders $89+)
• USCD20 ($20 Off Orders $159+)
• USCD35 ($35 Off Orders $279+)
• USCD55 ($55 Off Orders $369+)
• USCD65 ($65 Off Orders $449+)
• USCD85 ($85 Off Orders $569+)
• USCD11 ($110 Off Orders $799+)

Extra 15% Cash Back at Retailmenot

Electric Bikes Starting at $319

LADPED Electric Scooter

3D Printers Starting at $170

Portable Gaming Handhelds

AliExpress is widely regarded as the best online store to pick up a portable gaming handheld at an outrageously low price. These portable gaming handhelds feature small 3.5" displays, 32-bit or 64-bit processors, and usually run off Android or Linux. Despite the low price, these gaming handhelds are well built and feel like a professionally engineered product.

Nintendo Switch 2 with Mario Kart World (Import)

Donkey Kong Bananza for Switch 2 (Import)

Arzopa Z1C 16" 1080p USB-C Portable Monitor

Allpowers 299Wh LiFePO4 Power Station

Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller (Import)

Sofirn SP36 Pro 8,000-Lumen EDC LED Flashlight

Licensed JoyToy Warhammer 40K Figures

This one's for fans of games like Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo: BlizzCon is coming back. After a two-year hiatus, Blizzard Entertainment’s fan convention is officially happening once again in 2026. Between now and Sunday, November 9 at 11:59 p.m. PST, discounted tickets are available for $249.99 on Tixr. That rate represents early bird pricing, and is only available while supplies last. It’s an all-in price that includes all taxes and fees.

The event itself is scheduled for September 12 - 13, 2026 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

BlizzConn 2026 Tickets

If you miss out on the early bird pricing, you’ll have to wait for standard-rate tickets to go on sale on Tuesday, November 18 at 9 a.m. PST. Those tickets will cost $289.99 each and will also be available while supplies last. So if you're able, your best bet is definitely to grab them now and save $40 per ticket.

BlizzCon Passes get you two-day weekend admission to BlizzCon on Saturday and Sunday, September 12 - 13, 2026. While there, you can do things like go hands-on with Blizzard games, sit in on developer panels, and watch the opening ceremony, where Blizzard says it will have reveals and major announcements.

Also coming back is the Blizzard Arcade, where you can play games like Heroes of the Storm and Starcraft with fellow attendees. There will be a Hearthstone Tavern, where you can meet up with your guild, and the Darkmoon Faire, where you can get “mystery items, limited edition pins, plushies, and more.” Pass holders also get access to in-game goodies and exclusive BlizzCon commemorative items.

Check out the Tixr page to learn more about BlizzCon 2026, plus additional details about hotel and event information.

Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert for IGN. He also runs IGN's board game and LEGO coverage. You can follow him on Bluesky.

Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands has just hit theaters, but if you only watch the film, you're only getting part of the story. That's because Marvel is set to release Predator: Badlands #1, the official prequel that reveals more about the past of Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi's young Yautja hunter Dek.

Ahead of the comic's release next week, IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of Predator: Badlands #1. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:

Predator: Badlands #1 is written by Ethan Sacks (Star Wars: Bounty Hunters) and drawn by Elvin Ching (The Woodsman), with a main cover by Juan Ferreyra and a variant cover by CAFU. Trachtenberg consulted on the book's storyline to make sure it aligns with the plot of the film.

Here's Marvel's official description of Predator: Badlands #1:

The official prequel, done in collaboration with director Dan Trachtenberg, to the new, eagerly anticipated film, PREDATOR: BADLANDS, is here! A young Yautja warrior is given a seemingly simple task by his father: Retrieve a piece of technology from a derelict spaceship that crashed years ago. Inside, however, an ancient and deadly threat lies in wait. Now the Predator will become the prey…

"Our story directly ties into Dek's journey in the film, and I approached it in a similar way to how I approached Old Man Hawkeye, the prequel to Old Man Logan," Sacks tells IGN. "I wanted the story to feel like a unique and interesting puzzle piece that could slide right in and connect seamlessly with the beloved original."

Predator: Badlands #1 will be released on November 12, 2025. You can preorder a copy at your local comic shop.

Clint gage gave the movie an 8 in IGN's Predator: Badlands review, writing, "Dan Trachtenberg is heading in an interesting direction with this franchise and he gets bonus points for that. The Predator as a mysterious murder monster is getting some of his backstory filled in, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Badlands, in shifting the perspective to a Yautja main character, actually highlights what’s been great about this franchise in its better moments. Dek and Thia are an unexpectedly fun pairing that bring a new energy to the franchise and an altogether different kind of hunt. It might not be pulling the skull and spine out of us and screaming in bloody victory, but it gets close."

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on BlueSky.

Target's early Black Friday sales end tomorrow, but there's still plenty of time save on some toys and LEGO sets. One of them is the LEGO Star Wars Wicket the Ewok (75430) buildable figure, which is currently sitting at $77.99 during this sale period. That's 40% off of the original price of $129.99, saving you a nice $52. While this isn't the only LEGO set to be offered at discounted price through Target, Wicket was hard to find and quickly went on backorder shortly after its release. And with this new discount it's one of the most popular LEGO deals of this entire sale so far.

LEGO Star Wars: Wicket the Ewok On Sale at Target

More LEGO Deals at Target

Wicket the Ewok isn't the only LEGO Star Wars set discounted until tomorrow. Target also has the Star Wars 24-day advent calendar on sale, right in time to get in the mood for the winter holidays. Then there's the AT-AT Driver's Helmet, another in the ever-growing collection of Star Wars helmets like The Mandalorian and Darth Vader. The Minecraft Crafting Table set is another intricately designed model set that would look great in any home office or game room space.

Myles Obenza is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social.

Perhaps the best Meta Quest deal we are going to see during Black Friday has already gone live. Starting today, the official Meta Store on eBay is offering the refurbished Meta Quest 3 512GB VR headset for just $359.99 after a 20% off coupon code "TECH4THEM". Better yet, it comes with an extended 2 year warranty supplied by Allstate. The Quest 3 normally retails for $500 new and is rarely discounted. I saw this deal once before during Amazon's October Prime Day and it was so popular that it sold out within a day. This is easily the best deal I've ever seen on the Meta Quest 3 and you should absolutely buy it now over waiting for another deal during Black Friday.

Update: The Meta Quest 3S is also on sale starting at $215.99.

Refurb Meta Quest 3 for $359.99

Includes extended 2 year warranty

Now is the best time to get a 3D printer. Gone are the days of messing around trying to get it to actually work, AnyCubic, Creality and Flashforge make their units easy to learn and get users crafting with multiple filiments at once in most cases these days. AliExpress is having an awesome pre-Black Friday sale on a wide range, so get cracking.

TL;DR: Deals for Today

Apple Watch 10 is on sale at Walmart and Amazon right now and are all LTE enabled and ready to be added to your network of choice. And if we're talking about cool smartphone-related tech, Sony's legendary WH-1000XM6 noise cancelling headphones are down to $299. They're refurbed with a two year warranty, and this deal works out a damn sight better than paying the full price of $459.99.

Phantasmal Flames preorders have been springing up today too, including the Booster Bundle at Amazon and even Barnes & Noble getting in on the action with preorders. Let's get into it:

AliExpress 3D Printer Deals

Seeing some of these printers are these low price points makes me appriciate how far the hobby has come. I wouldn't dream of full metal extruders, multi filament setups and enclosed setups going for any less than $600 a couple of years ago. 3D printing really is more accessible than ever and opens up so many creative and practical doors. Why not treat yourself to something different this holiday?

Apple Watch Series 10 Deals

Watch your Apple Watch watch your heartbeat whilst you watch TV, say that three times! Yes, there's a shiny new generation of Apple Watches out right now, but don't give into the FOMO. Series 10 is just as capable and you can score one of these GPS and Cellular SKUs for around the same price as the base Series 11 model without LTE functionality, just Bluetooth. It's a no-brainer if your in the market for one.

LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2025

Sony WH-1000XM6 Noise Cancelling Wireless Headphones

Phantasmal Flames Booster Bundle

Mega Evolution Booster Bundle

Mega Evolutions Mega Gardevoir Elite Trainer Box

Xbox Controller SixSeven Sale at Lenovo

Use the cursed code "SIXSEVEN" to get these discounted prices, Getting limited edition controllers for under $40 and newer editions such as my personal favorite, the "Heart Breaker" for under $50. If you literally just want an official spare pad, the Robot White flavor is $34.99.

INIU 45W Power Bank

Alienware Aurora R16 Intel Core Ultra 9 285K RTX 5080

CyberPowerPC AMD Ryzen 7 8700F Radeon RX 7800 XT

Baseus 20,800mAh 145W Power Bank

Pokémon TCG at or Below Market Value

The Team Rocket Tin is $4 under market value on Amazon right now and has three Destined Rivals and two Journey Together booster packs. TCGPlayer takes the lead for the Mega Evolution Enhanced booster box, $20 below Amazon. And if you'd sooner take advantage of Prime Delivery, the White Flare Booster Bundle is at market value on Amazon. How can you loose?

Inflavive Cordless Tire Inflator and Air Compressor

JVSCAM Compressed Air Duster

PlayStation DualSense Edge Wireless Controller - Midnight Black

LG Evo C5 77-inch Deal

This is the kind of deal that beats Black Friday TV offers before they've even begun. 77-inches of LGs finest with $2,300 knocked off plus a free soundbar and wall mount packed in, which is another $299.98 saved. This is a dream gaming setup thanks to 120Hz native support that can be pushed to 144Hz through HDMI 2.1 inputs. Don't wait on this deal, this is one of LGs best panels for the money.

Steelseries Arctis GameBuds

Meta Quest 3 512GB VR Headset

Bambu Lab - P1S Combo 3D Printer - Black

Alienware Aurora R16 Intel Core Ultra 7 265F RTX 5080 Gaming PC

The Best Pokémon TCG Deals

The main highlights of these Pokémon TCG deals has to be the Black Bolt and White Flare Elite Trainer Boxes. White Flare is at market value for $82.94, whilst Black Bolt is dipping under market value at $84.95. It's a great time to get into the dual set that capped off the Scarlet and Violet era. Don't forget the latest set, Mega Evolution, either. TCGPlayer is destroying big box retailer Amazon in pricing right now, and that includes the Enhanced Booster Box featuring a stamped Bulbasaur Illustration Rare.

The Cheapest MTG: Avatar Preorders

The biggest saving here is with the single Avatar Collector Booster. It's half the price of market value on Amazon now at $37.99, which is 100% worth the a look. Bar the Jumpstart Booster Box and Begginer Box, Amazon is under market value for preorders right now. Don't forget that Amazon don't charge for preorders until they ship, and their preorder price guarantee ensures you're getting the best price.

Xbox Series X|S Controller Sale

Hyperkin knocked it out of the park with their OG Xbox S controllers. Yes, they're wired, but that also means they're perfect for competitive play thanks to zero input lag. There's also three special edition controllers which never stick around for long, and one of the best controllers ever made, Xbox Elite V2, is on offer for $139.99 currently too. Don't sleep on these deals.

Resident Evil: Requiem Deluxe + Steelbook

No discounts, but this is one for steelbook collectors. You'll get the base game, deluxe edition content and a cool steelbook and sleeve for this special edition of Resident Evil: Requiem. The Deluxe Edition include's the Apocalypse costume for Grace as they flick between first and third person views whenever they want, a first for the series.

Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games have been busy. GTA 6 was delayed yesterday, news that broke alongside Take-Two's quarterly earnings call. And just last week, Rockstar fired between 30 and 40 employees, claiming later that they were "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum" against company policy. The fired employees, however, say they were participating in a union-related Discord chat, and that their firing was "blatant" and "ruthless" union busting.

Amid all this, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is defending the company's culture and labor record, saying Take-Two is "incredibly proud" of its labor relations.

Speaking to IGN yesterday ahead of the earnings announcement, Zelnick pointed me to Take-Two and Rockstar's existing public statements when I asked if he had any response to the allegations of union busting, and reiterating that "we fully support Rockstar."

So then I asked Zelnick, what is Take-Two's stance on unions, generally? Zelnick did not reply to that specific question. But here's what he did say:

“Here’s what we have a stance on. We value every one of our colleagues greatly. We have 13,500 colleagues worldwide. We’re so proud of our culture. In the last few years we’ve been recognized over 15 times as an employer of choice... we’ve been certified this year as a great place to work in the U.S. and UK, Forbes recently called us one of the world’s best employers, and further... our attrition rate is half or less of the industry average. To be specific, our global attrition rate is just over 6%, in the UK it's less than 4%. The industry average is over 12%, and Rockstar is even lower than our average."

"So, you know, the proof is in the pudding, and the food is good, and I think our culture is extraordinary. And we strive to be the most creative, most innovative, and most efficient company in the business. So that’s how we look at it. We’re incredibly proud of our labor relations."

Halloween has taken over Roblox for the past three weeks, and as the day finally approaches, it's no surprise that the celebrations are continuing across the weekend. But this week, it's not just Halloween updates you'll see, as your favorite experiences return to their usual content. Whether it's spooky or not, this weekend is still packed with updates, so here's everything you can expect to see if you're looking for something to play this weekend.

Friday, November 7 Roblox Updates:

As usual, several experiences are getting their updates in before the weekend starts, and here are some of the ones to watch out for:

Raise Animals Update

Raise Animals is an experience that lets you create and run your very own farm. By visiting the play area, you can catch animals, and you'll then need to care for them and feed them to help them grow. If you're looking for something a little bit more prehistoric to have in your farm, then the Ancient Update will be of interest. The experience is launching Cretaterra, a new prehistoric biome that has dinosaurs and eggs to discover.

Brookhaven Update

Brookhaven is a roleplaying game where all of the inhabitants live on an island and can use vehicles and visit stores. The simulator experience regularly releases new items, clothing, and more to customize your character. This week, it's saying goodbye to Halloween, but not to witches as it launches its Wicked: For Good limited time event. You'll be able to explore the Emerald City and get exclusive items. whether you're a good witch or a bad witch.

Anime Eternal Update

First up is Anime Eternal, which is a fighting game that will take you through different anime-inspired worlds as you level up and build your strength to be the strongest player. This experience is planning to release Update 23 in three parts just like the previous one. The first part is planned to launch today, with the second part is due on Sunday, November 9. The final part will conclude on Wednesday, November 12. The new updates are set to add a new island, champions, powers, and overall quality of life improvements.

Adopt Me! Update

Adopt Me! is a notoriously adorable experience that lets you collect and trade pets. After celebrating its Halloween content, this week is all about Penguins. New varieties will be added to the expeirience, including Ice Cream Penguins. Following this, Adopt Me! are planning to continue their Admin Abuse event and will be running this for half an hour after the update has launched.

Additional Roblox Updates for Experiences on Friday, November 7

Those are not the only popular experiences launching updates today, you can also find:

• Hunty Zombie is getting new content
• Build a Zoo begins Season Three with includes new dragon pets

Saturday, November 8 Roblox Updates:

Heading into the weekend, you'll see the most-played Roblox experiences launch their usual weekly content.

99 Nights in the Forest Update

99 Nights in the Forest has sat near the top of the Roblox charts for months, showing that survival horror isn't just for Halloween. For the unfamiliar, the game involves trying to keep your character fed, warm, and sheltered while you rescue missing children and avoid a dangerous deer-like entity at night.

The final week of Halloween updates were released last week with The Hedge Maze and an extra special event took place, which launched the Deer plushies. No details have been released for this week's update yet, but the next event is planned to launch as usual on Saturday and will actually be running until Saturday, November 22.

Grow a Garden Update

The gardening simulator, Grow a Garden, has an abundance of seeds, pets, and mutations to discover as you plant, harvest, and sell your crops. Grow a Garden launched their Halloween event three weeks ago with Ghoul Garden.

Last week, a Safari Harvest will instead took the place of all the ghoulish NPCs that we've seen visiting the gardens. Along with a new Safari Harvest event, there was the introduction of a new season, along with the usual new pets, seeds, and weather events. If you liked the Safari Harvest event, you're in luck, as the event has been extended and turned into the Mega Safari Harvest!

Steal a Brainrot Update

Steal a Brainrot is a particularly popular Roblox experience where you'll need to capture Brainrots from a conveyor belt and keep them locked away from other players. You can steal Brainrots and have your Brainrots stolen, so we advise you stick close to that lockdown button if you want to protect your Secret Brainrots.

The details of this weekend's event haven't been released yet, but the experience is planning to stick to it's typical weekly schedule. Expect the usual Admin Abuse and chances to get Godly and Secret Brainrots.

Plants vs Brainrots Update

This experience, which is a fusion of Grow a Garden, Steal a Brainrot, and Plants Vs Zombies, has quickly climbed the Roblox charts and is regularly releasing new content. In Plants Vs Brainrots, you'll plant seeds that attack Brainrots, helping you capture them. As you earn money, you can unlock better plants and take down rarer Brainrots.

Last week, we saw the experience launch its Halloween content, and this week will be Merge Magness. This will see a new fushion machine introduced, so you can combine Plants and Brainrots for new mutations. You can also expect weather events, new brainrots, story missions, rebirths, and more.

Fisch Update

Fisch refers to itself as the "ultimate fishing adventure", where the are over 400,000+ possible variations of fish to catch. You'll complete quests, level up, switch out your bait and rods, and hope for enough luck to catch the rarest finds. This weekend, Fisch is launching some new content, though no details have been released yet.

Dress to Impress Update

It's not just Brookhaven that's celebrating Wicked, but Dress to Impress is also getting in on the action with a DTI x Wicked: For Good crossover. Dress to Impress is all about serving looks by creating outfits that you can strut on the runway. This week, if you're a fan of the musical, and want to pull out your best Glinda or Elphaba, you can! Exclusive designs created by Paul Tazewell will feature in the experience.

Blue Lock: Rivals Update

Blue Lock: Rivals is a competitive 5v5 football experience inspired by the popular Japanese manga series. This weekend, it launches another new update, following its Halloween content. On Saturday, you can expect the Aiku Rework to happen.

Additional Roblox Updates for Experiences on Saturday, November 8

Those are not the only popular experiences launching updates today, you can also find:

• Hypershot is launching its new update
• Brainrot Evolution is introducing a new world and Cadabra Restaurant
• Build a Roller Coaster launches Update 3 with new tracks, carts, and gear
• Volleyball Legends get new masteries for TSO and Taichou

Sunday, November 9 Roblox Updates:

Rounding out the weekend, the following Roblox experiences will launch their content.

Next Fish It! Update

If you're a fan of Fisch, you're likely to be a fan of Fish It! The fishing simulator boasts over 1,000,000+ variations of fish for you to catch. It recently launched its Halloween events, and just this week, began its Bloodmoon Event. There's even more Fish It! content coming on Sunday, as a Jungle Expansion is introduced to the game.

That's everything for Roblox updates this weekend, but we're sure there's plenty more to cover throughout all of November.

Lauren Harper is an Associate Guides Editor. She loves a variety of games but is especially fond of puzzles, horrors, and point-and-click adventures.

Major movie news incoming: Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill is going to finally be released as one film, and the new version, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, now has a brand spanking new trailer.

The Whole Bloody Affair reframes the films, originally released as Volume 1 and Volume 2, as one mega epic — which is how Tarantino originally envisioned the story and how he originally wanted it released. The new version of the films promises to be unrated and uncut, and will feature new, never-before-seen footage not included in the original releases.

Some of that new footage is a brand new anime sequence. Additionally, it looks as though Tarantino has decided to change the black and white footage during the Crazy 88 sequence to color, which will be exciting to watch anew considering the immense gore during that section of the film.

Plus, the upcoming cut also got a sick new poster, which bathes Uma Thurman's The Bride in white and sees her brandishing her legendary Hatori Hanzo sword against her face.

That all said, The Whole Bloody Affair isn’t entirely new, despite how exciting it is for the national audience. Tarantino owns two beloved movie theaters in Los Angeles, the New Beverly and the Vista, where he has screened his preferred cut of Kill Bill over the years. In fact, he most recently did a run of the cut over the summer — and believe it or not, the one-film cut clocks in at over four hours long, which confirms that it is by far Tarantino’s longest film thus far. But for the folks who don’t live in Los Angeles, this is a major opportunity to see the filmmaker’s intended cut.

Interestingly enough, there’s a little tease you may have missed in the new trailer, and it’s for all the gamers who are Tarantino fans. There’s an incredibly short shot of lead Beatrix Kiddo’s ride, the Pussy Wagon, but it’s not actually from the film. It’s from Fortnite, which will soon boast a big collab with Tarantino to support the theatrical release of the cut. They’ve changed the name of the truck a bit to comply with the general PG-rated nature of the game, but it will make an appearance nonetheless.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair will hit theaters nationwide on December 5. It clocks in at 281 minutes (including a 15-minute intermission).

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.