This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Cyber Monday and Black Friday are done, and many of the best video game deals of the year are gone with them. But there are a few games on sale that you can still buy. Here we look at games for the Xbox …
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Finding a good computer monitor for less than $200 hasn’t been easy this year. But with Black Friday sales rolling over to Cyber Monday, one of the best we’ve tested is now well below that mark. The Lepow Z1-Black, Z1-Silver, Z1-Blue and Z1-Gamut USB-C displays are priced at $140, $140, $142 and $160, respectively. Each is a 15.6-inch IPS display with a 1,920×1,080-pixel …
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Alto’s Odyssey and its precursor Alto’s Adventure — two of the most popular and meditative mobile games around — made the leap from casual gaming to consoles and PCs in August when they arrived on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the Epic Games Store. Now, the version for Nintendo Switch is arriving on Nov. 26, with preorders starting Thursday. The two Alto games, which …
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Retro gaming is back in style and people are snapping up old-style arcade cabinets (like ones from Arcade1Up) for their basements and game rooms. But you don’t need a spare wall to experience old-timey video games. My Arcade’s Pixel Classic looks like a Nintendo Game Boy clone but comes packed with 300 vintage games. Right now you can get the …
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Nintendo Switch sales aren’t slowing down. The Japanese company sold more than 735,000 Switch and Switch Lite units in the US in October, it revealed on Thursday, as previously reported by Nintendo Life. The hybrid console already beat the NES’ lifetime sales earlier this year. The Switch’s October 2020 sales are the “second-highest October sales of any video game console …
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I don’t know how many times I’ve played Super Mario Bros. It’s a ritual, some baked-in routine. Versions of the 1985 Super Mario Bros. game are littered all over my house. On a Nintendo 3DS. On a Nintendo Switch. On an NES Classic. Nintendo puts its classics up for sale over and over and over again. This year is Mario’s …
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As promised earlier this year, Pokemon Go started rolling out the ability to connect to the Pokemon Home storage service on Wednesday. That means you can transfer shiny Pokemon you’ve caught out in the real world in Sword and Shield on Nintendo Switch. To start transferring, you’ll need to link Pokemon Go to your Nintendo account in the settings menu. …
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Update, Nov. 10: Read our reviews of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. The day has come: The Xbox Series X and the smaller, cheaper Series S have officially launched. This is exciting news, particularly if you’re one of the lucky ones who actually snagged a preorder. The new Xbox was meant to launch alongside a new Halo, but the delay of Halo …
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The Nintendo Switch beat the NES in lifetime sales earlier this year and became the company’s second-best-selling console, Nintendo’s latest financial earnings report revealed Thursday. The hybrid console has sold 68.30 million units, compared with the NES’ 61.91 million, as previously reported by Nintendo Life. The Switch overtook the SNES‘ 49.1 million lifetime sales over the 2019 holiday season. Between …
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Let’s talk audio. If you’ve been following along, you know that Walmart’s first early Black Friday sale kicks off today at 4 p.m. PT. One highlight: $99 AirPods. But guess what? Best Buy just jumped in with Apple AirPods for $100, currently (and temporarily) the lowest price on record. Apple sells them for $159, though they’ve been available for $129 …
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