Category: Video Games
Deal Alert: Buy a Nintendo Switch Gaming Console, Get $35 Dell eGift Card
The Nintendo Switch deals from Black Friday are all but a memory. If you want to pick up a Switch right now, this is the best deal available. Dell is offering a bonus $35 Dell egift card when you purchase a Nintendo Switch console for $299.99.
Buy Nintendo Switch, Get $35 Dell eGift Card
You’re essentially getting 10% back on your Switch purchase, provided you use the gift card within the allotted time period. The gift card will be sent to your inbox a few weeks after the console ships, and you’ll have 90 days to redeem it. It can be used on anything at Dell, including Switch video games and accessories.
What Should I Use My Dell Gift Card On?
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Destiny 2: Where Is Xur Today? Location and Exotic Items for January 13-17
Destiny’s loot hobo, Xûr, is now live in Destiny 2 for the weekend until next week’s reset. If you’re looking to get your some shiny new Exotic armor or weapons for your Guardian, look no further.
Each week, Xûr has a random assortment of Exotic armor, one for each Guardian class, as well as a random Exotic Weapon and an Exotic Engram available for purchase. In addition to his Exotic wares, he’s got a random collection of Legendary weapons and armor to deck out your Guardians.
We’ve rounded up all the info on Xûr for the week including where to find Xûr, which Exotic weapons and armor are available, as well as which Legendary weapons you should pick up, either for PvE or PvP.
Where Is Xûr Today?
Xûr’s location can be found at The Tower on January 13 through January 17. To reach him, travel to the landing point at The Courtyard and make your way to the Hangar. Hang a left when entering the hangar and you’ll come face-to-face with space Amazon.com.
What’s Xûr Selling Today?
Exotic Engram
Suros Regime – Exotic Auto Rifle
Orpheus Rig – Exotic Hunter Boots
- 4 Mobility
- 22 Resilience
- 2 Recovery
- 8 Discipline
- 19 Intellect
- 6 Strength
- Total: 61
ACD/0 Feedback Fence – Exotic Titan Gauntlets
- 7 Mobility
- 11 Resilience
- 15 Recovery
- 2 Discipline
- 18 Intellect
- 9 Strength
- Total: 62
Phoenix Protocol – Exotic Warlock Gauntlets
- 18 Mobility
- 2 Resilience
- 10 Recovery
- 17 Discipline
- 13 Intellect
- 2 Strength
- Total: 62
While some of these Exotics are generally great, their rolls this time around are just…super underwhelming. I’d skip all of them unless you need one for collections.
Exotic Weapons
Hawkmoon – Exotic Hand Cannon
- Paracausal Shot
- Chambered Compensator
- Alloy Magazine
- Opening Shot
- Heavy Grip
Dead Man’s Tale – Exotic Scout Rifle
- Cranial Spike
- Arrowhead Brake
- Accurized Rounds
- Subsistence
- Hand-Laid Stock
I’d skip this week’s Dead Man’s Tale, unfortunately, but the Hawkmoon roll is pretty darn spicy, with Opening Shot being my favorite perk for the GOATed weapon, plus Alloy Magazine. You love to see it!
Legendary Weapons
Chrysura Melo – Auto Rifle
- Chambered Compensator/Full Bore
- Steady Rounds/Flared Magwell
- Dynamic Sway Reduction
- Harmony
- Range Masterwork
Whispering Slab – Combat Bow
- Agile Bowstring/Polymer String
- Compact Arrow Shaft/Natural Fletching
- Rangefinder
- Vorpal Weapon
- Accuracy Masterwork
Cartesian Coordinate – Fusion Rifle
- Red Dot 2 MOA/Red Dot Micro
- Liquid Coils/Projection Fuse
- Under Pressure
- Thresh
- Reload Speed Masterwork
Tarantula – Linear Fusion Rifle
- Arrowhead Brake/Chambered Compensator
- Accelerated Coils/Projection Fuse
- Feeding Frenzy
- Wellspring
- Charge Time Masterwork
Jian 7 Rifle – Pulse Rifle
- SRO-41 Ocular/SLO-12 Post
- Appended Mag/Ricochet Rounds
- Full Auto Trigger System
- Dragonfly
- Range Masterwork
The Keening – Sidearm
- Chambered Compensator/Polygonal Rifling
- Flared Magwell/Light Mag
- Under Pressure
- Snapshot Sights
- One Quiet Moment
- Reload Speed Masterwork
Ikelos_SR_V1.0.2 – Sniper Rifle
- Corkscrew Rifling/Polygonal Rifling
- Accurized Rounds/Steady Rounds
- Perpetual Motion
- Focused Fury
- Stability Masterwork
Unfortunately it’s slim pickings this week, but my favorites are the roll for Whispering Slab, which has a killer combo in Rangefinder and Vorpal Weapon that could make it quite nice in PvP, and The Keening, which has a set of perks that would make it easy to keep shooting off rounds like crazy.
Warlock Legendary Armor
For Warlocks, Xûr is selling the Wild Hunt set which includes:
Wild Hunt Gauntlets
- 2 Mobility
- 22 Resilience
- 8 Recovery
- 14 Discipline
- 6 Intellect
- 9 Strength
- Total: 61
Wild Hunt Chest Armor
- 16 Mobility
- 10 Resilience
- 7 Recovery
- 16 Discipline
- 13 Intellect
- 2 Strength
- Total: 64
Wild Hunt Helmet
- 10 Mobility
- 10 Resilience
- 12 Recovery
- 10 Discipline
- 9 Intellect
- 10 Strength
- Total: 61
Wild Hunt Leg Armor
- 16 Mobility
- 6 Resilience
- 12 Recovery
- 2 Discipline
- 6 Intellect
- 26 Strength
- Total: 68
Wild Hunt Bond
Warlocks have some good rolls this week, including the absolutely insane boots with 68 stats and an enormous Strength stat. Buy that immediately, Warlocks. There’s also a pretty decent chestpiece you might want to consider.
Titan Legendary Armor
For Titans, Xûr is selling the Wild Hunt set which includes:
Wild Hunt Gauntlets
- 2 Mobility
- 22 Resilience
- 6 Recovery
- 8 Discipline
- 6 Intellect
- 16 Strength
- Total: 60
Wild Hunt Chest Armor
- 2 Mobility
- 27 Resilience
- 2 Recovery
- 14 Discipline
- 2 Intellect
- 14 Strength
- Total: 61
Wild Hunt Helmet
- 16 Mobility
- 6 Resilience
- 12 Recovery
- 15 Discipline
- 6 Intellect
- 12 Strength
- Total: 67
Wild Hunt Leg Armor
- 2 Mobility
- 25 Resilience
- 2 Recovery
- 2 Discipline
- 9 Intellect
- 20 Strength
- Total: 60
Wild Hunt Mark
Titans got one great option this week in the helmet, which has a well-rounded set of stats and 67 overall points to offer. Unfortunately, some of that is wasted on the not-very-useful Mobility stat, but it’s still a great option.
Hunter Legendary Armor
For Hunters, Xûr is selling the Wild Hunt set which includes:
Wild Hunt Gauntlets
- 28 Mobility
- 2 Resilience
- 2 Recovery
- 12 Discipline
- 2 Intellect
- 16 Strength
- Total: 62
Wild Hunt Chest Armor
- 12 Mobility
- 2 Resilience
- 17 Recovery
- 22 Discipline
- 2 Intellect
- 9 Strength
- Total: 64
Wild Hunt Helmet
- 17 Mobility
- 10 Resilience
- 6 Recovery
- 2 Discipline
- 11 Intellect
- 20 Strength
- Total: 66
Wild Hunt Leg Armor
- 2 Mobility
- 11 Resilience
- 17 Recovery
- 2 Discipline
- 24 Intellect
- 2 Strength
- Total: 58
Wild Hunt Cloak
Hunters have two great options this week with the incredibly good helmet and a chestpiece that’s quite respectable as well — both great options for any Hunters out there.
That’s a wrap on Xûr for this week, Guardians! Are you getting hyped for Lightfall, which is just over a month away? Let us know in the comments! For more on Destiny, check out all the news from the Lightfall reveal and read about how Sony’s purchase of Bungie fits into its larger plans.
Travis Northup is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @TieGuyTravis and read his games coverage here.
Skull & Bones looks sumptuous in its latest developer video, but there’s still no release date
Skull & Bones is still coming. A new developer video proves that, offering a fresh look at some sumptuous seas during a hunt for an Ungwanan renegade. The most interesting part of Skull & Bones is still its tortured history, with a recent sixth delay pushing it even further back from the original 2018 release date – but oh, maybe I do want to be a boat after all. At least for a bit.
Sephiroth and Kazuya Amiibo Are Now Available
Good news, Nintendo fans. One of gaming’s most iconic and popular characters is now available in one of gaming’s most popular and iconic collectibles. The Sephiroth amiibo is available to purchase right now from Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target. And for fans of Kazuya, you can pick him up too.
Where to Buy the Sephiroth Amiibo
Where to Buy the Kazuya Amiibo
The Kazuya amiibo is also available right now, and is also super cool.
Both the Sephiroth amiibo and the Kazuya amiibo are part of the newest wave of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate line of amiibo figures. There’s also amiibo for Pyra and Mythra coming sometime this year, although Nintendo hasn’t yet announced the release dates for that pair.
As far as amiibo go… these might be some of the best, ever? The Sephiroth amiibo alone is just extraordinary, but the Kazuya one also carries over that same attention to detail. But come on, we all know which of the two you’re planning on getting!
Sephiroth’s popularity in gaming is undeniable. Go to any gaming-related forum or discord server and you’ll find at least one username based on “Sephiroth” or his identity as the one-winged angel. Even his theme music is one of the most iconic in gaming.
Preorders of these sold out quickly, but they’re back in stock now for their release date. Who knows how long stock will last? Not I.
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The Anacrusis, one year on: “This is the game we wanted to release”
The Anacrusis launched into early access in January 2022, its retrofuturist take on the co-op FPS instantly delivered on funky sci-fi fun. Yet it was also tempered fun: a brutal AI Director could easily tip manageable chaos into a fatiguing onslaught of fishy alien minibosses, and I still remember my will to persevere being sapped by connectivity issues and a general lack of weight to the otherwise enticing pew-pew gunplay.
Happily, following a year of tweaks and additions, The Anacrusis is in a much better place. Even if that place is still turtleneck-deep in extraterrestrial viscera. Ahead of the game’s first anniversary, I poked developers Stray Bombay for a chat on how their early access approach is working out, the impact of long-awaited mod tools, and what’s next for this most stylish of space shooters.
Random: Fans Create ‘Nuzlocke-Style’ Mode For Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Can’t keep a good fan down.
It has officially been one year, two months, and nine days (and counting) since Nintendo has made any significant content updates to its second-most successful game in history — Animal Crossing: New Horizons. So, on January 4th, YouTuber NintenTalk released a challenge to their viewers to “Make Animal Crossing: New Horizons fun again” by introducing what they have dubbed #ACNHHardMode.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Share of the Week: Unlucky
Last week, we asked you to find moments where characters ran out of luck in the game of your choice, and share using #PSBlog #PSshare. Here are this week’s unlucky highlights:
ForgottenJasmin shares Aloy falling from a snapped rope in Horizon Forbidden West.
OuterRimsPhoto shares a troll about to be whipped by Kratos’ Blades of Chaos in God of War Ragnarök
masaoandm shares an unsuspecting cat lover about to be ambushed by a headless yokai in Ghostwire: Tokyo.
GameTogg shares Sam tumbling down a cliffside in Death Stranding.
MilanesfanTJG shares Nathan Drake caught in a rainstorm in Uncharted 4.
elicitus__ shares Amicia caught up in a fire in A Plague Tale: Requiem
Search #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to see more entries to this week’s theme. Want to be featured in the next Share of the Week?
THEME: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on January 18, 2023
Share of the Week grabs a lightsaber and hops in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, available as a PlayStation Plus Monthly Game for January. Share daring moments with Cal using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.
Dragon Age: The Missing – See Dark Horse’s Prequel to BioWare’s Dreadwolf Game
BioWare is finally gearing up to release the next entry in the Dragon Age series. But if you want a taste of what’s coming in this acclaimed fantasy saga, Dark Horse Comics is releasing a prequel miniseries dubbed Dragon Age: The Missing.
IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of Dragon Age: The Missing #1, which is written by George Mann and drawn by Kieran McKeown. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:
Here’s Dark Horse’s official description for the first issue:
A new story leading directly into BioWare’s upcoming game Dragon Age: Dreadwolf! Varric Tethras and Lace Harding descend into the abandoned Deep Roads beneath Marnas Pell in pursuit of a former friend. But the corruption of the blight has infected the walls, and the threat of darkspawn looms heavy in the air . . .
Dragon Age: The Missing #1 will release in comic shops and on digital storefronts on Wednesday, January 25.
While we still have no release date for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, BioWare did confirm the much-anticipated RPG recently completed its Alpha milestone, meaning the game is now playable from start to finish. BioWare also recently released a new cinematic trailer shedding light on Solas, the titular Dread Wolf.
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Someone made a custom Katamari controller with roll-on deodorants and a football, and it rules
Katamari Damacy the first things that spring to mind are usually balls, and the rolling thereof. Computer scientist and custom controller kitbashing experimenter Dr Tom Tilley had the same thought and, erm, rolled with it. In a case of life imitating art, Tilley repurposed a trackball he’d made from roll-on deodorant and a soccer ball to play the game with (thanks, Time Extension). You can watch Tilley mucking about with the trackball to control an emulated version of the PS2-era Katamari Damacy in the video below.