Sony's newest flagship wireless noise cancelling headphone is back on sale again. Just in time for the holidays, Secondipity via eBay is selling certified refurbished Sony WH-1000XM6 wireless noise canceling headphones for just $279.99 (normally $450) after coupon code "KLARNAUS50". It also comes with a 2-year Allstate extended warranty.
This is an amazing gift for anyone who would appreciate a pair of some of the best noise canceling headphones on the market. Your order arrives in 2-4 days, well before Christmas.
Secondipity is a well-established reseller of refurbished Sony products across eBay, Amazon, and more. The eBay storefront has over 100K reviews with a greater than 99% rating.
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The Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones is the 2025 successor to the WH-1000XM5 that was released way back in 2022. Both sound quality and noise cancelation have been noticeably improved on the XM6 thanks to a more powerful QN3 audio processor and a total of 12 beam-forming microphones that do a great job of picking up and cancelling out unwanted noise. The XM6 is also more comfortable to wear because of the hinged earcups. The same design also allows the XM6 to be more easily stowed away since the earcups can be folded inwards to fit in a smaller carrying case.
It can last up to 30 hours on a single charge, and a quick 3 minute top-up over USB Type-C will give you up to 3 hours of continuous playback. You can save some money by going with an older generation XM5 or even the XM4, but as long as it is within your budget, the XM6's improvements in sound quality, noise cancelation, and ergonomics makes the new model worth it.
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Every retailer insists the big sales are done for the year. Yet every time I blink, another discount swan-dives into my feed like it never got the memo. That being said, I've gone and scooped up the best deals still lurking in the wild. Get 'em before they're goneski.
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In retro news, I'm using the chain-reaction detonation of a TNT crate to light a 16-candle cake baked for Angry Birds, the original poultry-flingin’ puzzler that created an empire. I still remember playing it on my original iPhone 1 during morning train rides; the addictive sling-and-smash gameplay loop grabbed me harder than my previous iOS obsession: Paper Toss.
What really cracked me up back then was how Angry Birds basically set up a permanent nest atop the iOS charts. It felt like every commuter in the country was sneaking in a cheeky fling or two between stops, and the sales numbers backed it up as it perched defiantly at number one. Then came the merch, the cartoons, the spin offs, the film deals... before long, a simple pig-abusing time killer had evolved into a full-blown cultural kaiju.
Aussie birthdays for notable games.
- Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (PS) 1998. Redux
- Angry Birds (iOS) 2009. Sequels
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PC) 2011. Get
- Terraria (PSV) 2013. eBay
- Rune Factory 4 (3DS) 2014. Get
- Earth Defense Force 5 (PS4) 2018. eBay
Look, Nintendo discounts are rarer than a Joy-Con that drifts in a straight line, so when they show up you grab them with both hands and maybe your feet too. Here’s the cream of the crop.
Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card.
Xbox players get wild discounts so extreme they feel like accounting errors. Ride the chaos while it lasts.
Or just invest in an Xbox Card.
PlayStation deals hit that perfect sweet spot of prestige gaming and wallet relief. Peak fancy, minimal damage.
Or purchase a PS Store Card.
PC deals continue to be unhinged in the best possible way. Steam discounts hit harder than gravity and twice as often.
Or just get a Steam Wallet Card
Just like I did last holiday season, I'm getting festive with the LEGO section. In Mathew Manor, my sons and I are again racing this year's batch of LEGO Advent Calendars. Basically, we open the City, Harry Potter, Minecraft, and Star Wars on the daily and compare the mini-prizes for "Awesomeness" and "Actual Xmas-ness". 2024's winner was the Lego Marvel one, but, weirdly, there's no 2025 equivalent. So it's anybody's race this year.
Here are the cheapest prices for the four calendars we're using. Score them yourself or just live vicariously through our unboxings.
Adam Mathew is a passionate connoisseur, a lifelong game critic, and an Aussie deals wrangler who genuinely wants to hook you up with stuff that's worth playing (but also cheap). He plays practically everything, sometimes on YouTube.
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Full spoilers below for Season 2, Episodes 1 (I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals) & 2 (Demon Pigeons Attack) of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
The first thing you notice about Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians is how much the kids have grown. In the two years since Season 1 streamed on Disney+, series leads Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri have gotten taller, yes, but also matured substantially in both their acting ability and on-screen presence. It’s indicative of the show as a whole, which was fun and whimsical during its first go-round but now exhibits more depth, higher stakes, and a lingering darkness that permeates each episode.
The show is still a ton of fun, but it’s morphed into something that parents might just want to watch with their kids instead of turning it on for them and walking away.
For those unfamiliar, the series follows titular character Percy, a young demigod (his mom is human! His dad is Poseidon, god of the sea!) and his best friends Annabeth and Grover (a satyr) as they navigate a world full of challenges both mythical (creatures, artifacts, and quests galore) and worldly (hormones, drama, and feelings galore). Much of their time is spent at Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for the myriad human children of Greek gods like Athena, Ares, Zeus, and Poseidon.
Season 1, which was based on Rick Riordan’s bestselling novel The Lightning Thief, saw Percy learning about his true nature and undergoing a quest to return Zeus’s Master Bolt to Mount Olympus (also known as the Empire State Building in the world of the series) in order to avert a war. Season 2 adapts Riordan’s The Sea of Monsters, which has Percy and his friends traveling to the Bermuda Triangle in search of a golden fleece to help protect their camp from impending doom.
As with Season 1, the acting is stellar across the board, particularly among the young leads. Scobell once again shines as Percy, imbuing the principal character with a sense of quiet determination occasionally painted by intense vulnerability. Jeffries plays Annabeth, Percy’s friend-slash-crush, with such strength and loyalty that you have to wonder if she ever had to defend Scobell in a fight. Simhadri, whose Grover is unfortunately separated from the others due to his being captured by Polyhemus while on a quest to find god / fellow satyr Pan, continues to bring a sense of wonder and enthusiasm whenever he shows up on screen.
Season 2 also brings new faces and characters galore. The always-hilarious Timothy Simons (Veep, Nobody Wants This) joins the cast as new Camp Activities Director Tantalus. A scene-stealing Daniel Diemer plays Tyson, Percy’s cyclops half-brother. Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal, and Margaret Cho cameo in the season’s first episode as The Grey Sisters, who ferry the kids to camp in a taxi. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jason Mantzoukas return as Hermes and Dionysus (Mr. D.) respectively, adding some familiar faces to the all-around knockout cast.
Along with the acting, the action, production design, and visual effects for Season 2 are ramped up to 11. Numerous monsters try to invade the camp. A villain flies into the sky on a black pegasus. A prominent character (Tyson) has only one huge, blinking, emotive eye every time he’s on screen. Episode 2’s chariot race (a typical camp activity in the world of Percy Jackson) is a particularly impressive set piece, with loads of action, monsters, and age-appropriate violence.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is not high art. It’s not even prestige TV. The pacing of the show feels plodding at times and complex, mythology-heavy plot points are often clumsily blown through with a few lines of exposition. But this is not a show trying to be something more than it is. After a few middling attempts to bring the world of Percy Jackson to the big screen, the stories seem to have found their footing as a television series, which is probably the best possible format for an adaptation of Riordan’s novels (whose world has now expanded to games and beyond).
The world here is rich, both visually and story-wise, and the series consistently pulls off the trick of getting its (mostly younger) audience to learn something (in this case, Greek mythology) while remaining delightfully compelling and entertaining throughout. If you’re looking for a dark, moody, and intellectually challenging binge, look elsewhere. But if you want something for the whole family to dive into during your next session of joint family screentime, you could do a lot worse than Percy Jackson.
Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians are streaming now on Disney+. New episodes premiere each Wednesday.
If you're looking to upgrade your gaming PC and want to keep your budget to under $1,500, then one deal stands out above all the rest. Walmart is offering the iBuypower Element Pro gaming PC equipped with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU for just $1,449 with free delivery. This beats out the Black Friday price for the exact same configuration by $50. The Radeon RX 9070 XT is an outstanding graphics card that can run the latest games (like Battlefield 6) in 4K. See the deal below.
The iBuypower gaming PC is generously equipped across the board. It features an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X CPU, Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 2TB M.2 SSD. The Ryzen 9 7900X processor has a max boost clock of 5.6GHz with 12 cores and 24 threads. This is an excellent CPU for both gaming and multi-tasking and you won't need to upgrade from it for a long time. It's cooled by a very robust 360mm all-in-one liquid cooling system and runs off an 850W power supply.
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is the only 2025-released GPU that we gave a 10/10 score. Even though it costs $150 less than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, the 9070 XT beats it out in several of the games we tested. In a few benchmarks, the results aren't even close. The 9070 XT approaches the performance of the $1,000 RX 7900 XTX but with better ray tracing and upscaling performance than its predecessor.
This is the least expensive graphics card from either AMD or Nvidia that I would comfortably recommend for playing the latest and most demanding games in 4K at 60fps or higher framerates. Check out our AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review for more information.
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.
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En s'imposant mercredi soir en quarts de finale du Mondial (31-26), les Bleues ont pris leur revanche sur des Danoises qui les avaient battues en demi-finales de l'Euro l'an passé, et qui n'ont pas réussi à tenir le rythme cette fois-ci. 
Si Luis Enrique regrettait les occasions non converties mercredi soir à Bilbao (0-0), l'entraîneur du PSG se satisfaisait du visage affiché par ses joueurs. 
Au cours d'un mercredi soir où peu de Français étaient sur le pont, Pierre Kalulu a livré une prestation solide lors de la victoire de la Juventus contre Paphos (2-0). Prêté par le PSG à Copenhague, Yoram Zague a, lui, alterné le bon et le moins bon lors du succès contre Villarreal (3-2). 
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Le sélectionneur Sébastien Gardillou a goûté l'engagement et la maîtrise de l'équipe de France tout au long de son quart de finale contre le Danemark, mercredi (31-26). 
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