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These PlayStation Games Have Dropped to Just $20 at Walmart – Best PS5 Deals

There are some amazing PS5 deals to check out right now, including a selection of PlayStation games that have dropped to just $20 at Walmart. Now, just to prefix this with a ‘YMMV’ — as some of these offers are location-dependent, but if you can secure them you’re sure to bag an incredible offer.

For starters, God of War Ragnarok (PS4) is down to $20 (which can be digitally upgraded to PS5 for $10 after purchase). Diablo 4 is also down to $20 on PS5, which is a massive $50 off the MSRP and a huge deal. Be sure to check the Walmart listings to see if you can get some of the best PS5 games for just twenty bucks. Below, you can also find other deals on everything from consoles to SSDs and even information on where to buy a PS5 now.

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Best PS5 Game Deals: $20 Games at Walmart and More

While the God of War deal works out at $30 for PS5 (after the $10 digital upgrade from PS4), it’s still $10 cheaper via this deal compared to any other retailer currently, and a massive $40 off the MSRP. In any case, you’re still securing the best possible price for God of War Ragnarok on PS5.

$20 games is a huge deal, with the only issue being that Walmart offers free delivery for baskets of $35 or more. But, we can assist there as well. If you sign up for a Walmart+ account with a 30-day free trial, you can get free fast delivery (alongside a slew of other benefits right now like three months of YouTube Premium for free). Otherwise, you can also check to see if your local store has stock, and pick it up from there instead.

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WD_BLACK PS5 4TB SSD for $309.99 at Amazon

Looking to completely maximize your PS5 storage capabilities? Then this is the deal for you. For a limited time only, this PS5 4TB SSD is available at Amazon for just $309.99 (see here). It has an MSRP of $699.99 which is rather dramatic, but in reality, this and many other 4TB SSDs have been sitting around $280-$300 recently.

Note that Sony recommends a heatsink attached to your SSD and not all SSDs listed here have pre-installed heatsinks. For the ones that do, we’ll be sure to mention it. For the ones that don’t, all you have to do is purchase your own heatsink (like this one for $9) and install it yourself. You can also check out the best PS5 2TB SSD deals here, or see more of our favorite deals below.

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Best PS5 Headset Deals: 22% Off the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 & More Headset Deals

There’s no shortage of PS5-compatible headsets. If you’re constantly having to turn down the volume when you play, you might want to pick up one of these, then you can listen to your games as loud as you darn well please. And if you’d like to see even more options that are worth buying, check out our collection of the best gaming headsets.

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PlayStation Deals: Budget to Best

It doesn’t need to have a massive discount to be a good deal, so we thought it would be a great idea to pick out our absolute favorite PS5 and PlayStation offerings that would be relevant to buy no matter the time of year, or the sales going on. From the latest DualSense controllers, to the very best PS5 SSDs on the market, we’ve got it all right here.

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Best Time to Buy a PS5

Generally, the best time to buy a PS5 console is during major yearly shopping events such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the various Amazon Prime Day sales. Although PlayStation consoles rarely go on sale, you can often scoop up limited-time bundles that include additional an additional game or two, and more.

How to Trade in Your Old PlayStation Consoles

If you’re looking to trade in your old PlayStation consoles, you can do so at select retailers in-store and online. Often, the most widely available retailers are GameStop and Best Buy. However, you can also trade your used devices online at retailers such as Amazon and Microsoft.

Some retailers will offer you cash for your used goods, while others may provide you with a gift card that can be used in-store and online. This is a great way to offload your old gaming gear and get some money that you can put towards a newer console and games.

While trading devices in at retailers will often net you the lowest amount for your used consoles, there are also online marketplaces such as eBay, Craigslist, and OfferUp that may fetch higher prices, but you’ll often be responsible for packing and shipping costs, or be required to meet someone in person for the transaction, the latter of which poses its own risks.

With how expensive gaming is getting in 2024, we’re trying to save you as much money as possible on the games and other tech you actually want to buy. We’ve got great deal roundups available for all major platforms such as Switch and Xbox, and keep these updated daily with brand new offers. If you’re trying to keep costs down while maintaining your favorite hobby, stay tuned for more incredible discounts.

Robert Anderson is a deals expert and Commerce Editor for IGN. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter.

Morels 2 sure has a lot of unicorns, for a mushroom collection game

Friends, I have officially discovered another game I can play with my life partner, who regards most games with enormous suspicion and fatigue. That game is Morels: The Hunt 2, released this week, and as you might guess, it is about finding and identifying various species of mushroom in lush, photorealistic wilderness locations. There are also unicorns, crystal skulls and robot parts. Slightly confused by the unicorns, crystal skulls and robot parts, if I’m honest. It feels a bit like developers Abrams Studios are unconvinced as to the popular appeal of mushroom hunting, and have garlanded the concept with random mythology so as to widen the Venn diagram overlap between “fungi fans” and “people who want to live in cyberpunk Narnia”.

The developers – who are indeed brothers – explain their thinking in broad strokes on the Steam page. “We loved morel mushroom hunting growing up,” they write. “We still do it every year. One of the greatest things about mushroom hunting is just being out in nature. We take a lot of photos while we are hunting which is how the game came about. We wanted to create an immersive experience of being out in nature, mushroom hunting, and photographing the beautiful environment around you into a game, without having to hunt something with a weapon.”

I guess the blend of photography and mushroom gathering makes sense, but I continue to be confused by the unicorns. You can also turn into one of the game’s animal in Exploration Mode, by the way – I’m not sure whether this extends to make-believe creatures. I do not feel a pressing need to either photograph a unicorn or turn into one, but I really want to fire this up and have my partner passenger-seat-drive while I go ferreting around for chantarelles.

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Exclusive: Sci-Fi City Builder ‘Imagine Earth’ Docks Onto Switch Next Month

If we build it…

If you’re a fan of city builders, then buckle up, because we can exclusively reveal that Imagine Earth, a sci-fi city builder from indie developer Serious Bros. is heading to the Switch on 9th May, 2024.

Originally released on Steam and Xbox to positive reception, Imagine Earth combines laidback strategic gameplay with themes of sustainability as you look to establish new homes in the cosmos in the year 2084. Corporate greed has led your own planet to ruin, so it’s your job to build propserous cities in a more eco-friendly, sustainable manner.

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Sea of Thieves Sails Past 40 Million Players Ahead of PS5 Launch

As Sea of Thieves prepares to set sail for PlayStation 5, developer Rare has announced it has seen 40 million players since launching in 2018.

In a blog post, executive producer Joe Neate said Sea of Thieves’ 40 million player milestone comes from users across Xbox, Windows 10, and Steam. Since launching on Xbox One and PC six years ago, Rare has released over 100 free updates. Season 12 launches soon, and with it brings new additions like throwing knives and the Bone Caller.

Sea of Thieves launches on PS5 on April 30, with the premium edition offering five days of early access from April 25. Progress and items transfer from the Xbox version to the PS5 version, and there are PlayStation-only servers with the ability to disable crossplay. Performance options match the Xbox Series X version, and the PS5 version has 60 base Trophies and a Platinum Trophy called Pirate Perfectionist.

When Sea of Thieves launched it was seen as a make or break game for Rare, which had made a couple of Kinect Sports games before Microsoft moved on from the motion-tracking add-on. But Sea of Thieves is a success for the studio, becoming one of its most-played games ever. As for the future, Rare is still working on Everwild, announced in 2019 but without a release window.

Sea of Thieves is the latest Xbox game to make the jump to rival platforms, joining Obsidian’s Grounded and Pentiment, and Tango Gameworks’ Hi-Fi Rush. Microsoft is testing the multiplatform waters with this quartet, and may release more of its first-party games on non-Xbox consoles in the future. In an interview with IGN, former Xbox chief Peter Moore offered his thoughts on why Microsoft was making this move now.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

No Rest For The Wicked will be playable on Steam Deck, although recommended PC specs may be a worry

Nowadays, I’m more than happy to sacrifice high frames and a big screen for the comforts of the Steam Deck. I like lounging on the couch, the light forearm workout, and heating my room in only a few minutes. So it’s good news that Moon Studios’ upcoming ARPG No Rest For The Wicked will be playable on launch for Deck, the ROG Ally and other handhelds. Minimum PC specs also don’t look too taxing, but those after the shiniest-looking game on recommended hardware may be in for a shock.

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Diablo 4 Has Dropped to Just $20 at Walmart

Diablo 4 is now available on Xbox Game Pass, but there’s some good news for those who have yet to play the game but want to own a physical copy. Diablo 4 is down to just $20 at Walmart right now (see here), which is a huge saving for a critically acclaimed game that only came out last year and a discount we’re unlikely to see again for a while. Also, it’s worth noting that this price could be based on your location, so fair warning as YMMV!

Diablo 4 launched with a $69.99 MSRP, so a $50 reduction is pretty substantial, and well worth considering if you want to own the game to play whenever you want. Even when the Prime Day sales eventually roll back around this summer, we’d be increasingly surprised if the deal comes anywhere close to this. Your only barrier to entry now — stock levels. This is such a good deal, that it’s highly likely to sell out fast.

The only other issue we can identify is Walmart only offers free delivery for baskets of $35 or more. But, we can assist there as well. If you sign up for a Walmart+ account with a 30-day free trial, you can get free fast delivery (alongside a slew of other benefits right now like three months of YouTube Premium for free). Otherwise, you can also check to see if your local store has stock, and pick it up from there instead.

In our review of the game, we said: “Diablo 4 is a stunning sequel with near-perfect endgame and progression design that makes it absolutely excruciating to put down. The story is a pretty big disappointment despite still being a noticeable improvement over Diablo 3 and there are some annoying bugs that need squashing, but the combat, the loot game, and both the sights and sounds of this world are impressive enough to smooth over those rough edges.”

“Diablo 4 takes the strategy of refining things the series already did so well rather than giving it a more substantial overhaul, and that careful and reverent path has shaped this massive sequel into one of the most polished ARPGs ever created, which makes slicing through the legions of the damned a hell of a good time.”

This is one of the best PS5 deals available right now, but there are a couple of decent Nintendo deals going on at the moment that are worth checking out, too. Mainly, you can pick up a select few Nintendo games for just $39.99 right now, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Kirby and the Forgotten Land. To see even more Nintendo deals, check out our roundup of the best Nintendo Switch deals right now. And if you’re curious about what’s on sale on other platforms, have a look at our roundups of the best Xbox deals and the best PC video game deals this week.

Robert Anderson is a deals expert and Commerce Editor for IGN. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter.

Video: New Endless Ocean Luminous Overview Trailer Teases “Limited-Time” Event Dives

“A free 7-day trial for NSO is included with purchase”.

In between some Mario games, a new Endless Ocean game is arriving for Switch next month on 2nd May 2024.

While we’ve already got a decent idea of what to expect from Endless Ocean Luminous, Nintendo has now uploaded an overview trailer – providing an extended look at this upcoming release. The video details the mysterious region known as the Veiled Sea, which changes with every dive.

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Jack Black Seemingly Confirms He’s Steve In The Minecraft Movie

Scheduled to arrive in cinemas next year.

In January, there were reports the Minecraft movie had cast actor and musician Jack Black as the famous character “Steve”.

Now, in an update, this has seemingly been confirmed by Jack Black, who has also recently starred in Kung Fu Panda 4, reprising his role as Po, and voiced Bowser in last year’s hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

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Round Up: All The Games You Missed From Japan’s Indie World Showcase (April 2024)

Nine new trailers and announcements.

Today’s Indie World Showcase gave us a rather delightful little basket of release dates, shadow drops, and ports for games we’ve been wanting to see on Switch.

As is often the case with these presentations, however, Japan’s Indie World was a fair bit different from our own. There was some overlap, of course, but we’ve rounded up a list of everything that was exclusive to the Japanese showcase. Lots of these are also coming out in the West, too, and we’ve even got a date for one or two of them. Enjoy!

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Bethesda Quietly Removes Denuvo DRM from Ghostwire: Tokyo

Bethesda and Tango Gameworks have quietly removed Denuvo DRM technology from Ghostwire: Tokyo on PC as part of a recent update.

The controversial anti-piracy measure was removed (via SteamDB) as part of an unscheduled update that arrived earlier today. This comes more than two years after Ghostwire: Tokyo originally launched, and with no comment or patch notes from the developers, it’s unclear why the move was made.

Although Bethesda hasn’t officially commented on Denuvo’s removal, there are many who will no doubt be pleased to hear it’s gone. The software’s primary use allows it to keep associated games from being tampered with, with plenty of developers using it as a roadblock against those looking to pirate their games. Many players, meanwhile, have reported that Denuvo negatively impacts in-game performance and the overall user experience regardless of whether a game was pirated or purchased legitimately.

Bethesda and Tango launched Ghostwire: Tokyo in 2022, but the creative action-adventure game didn’t originally come with Denuvo. As reported by PC Gamer, the DRM technology was added more than a year after the base game was released. That update brought along a plethora of other features as part of a content drop called Spider’s Thread. It’s unclear how else today’s update affected the overall experience past Denuvo’s removal.

IGN has reached out to Bethesda for comment.

Bethesda moved to take Denuvo away from Doom Eternal, a game that launched in 2020, last September. Last month, Denuvo announced new technology that would allow game developers to track down potential leakers.

For more on Ghostwire: Tokyo be sure to read out 7/10 review. We loved the game’s detailed, neon-lit world but came away a bit unsatisfied, saying, “With superb visual design and an incredibly well-realised rendition of Tokyo, Ghostwire gets a lot right, but just doesn’t quite have the gameplay chops to push it over the top.”

Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He started writing in the industry in 2017 and is best known for his work at outlets such as The Pitch, The Escapist, OnlySP, and Gameranx.

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