This special Pikachu can only be obtained in Okinawa, Japan.
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It can be hard looking for a new TV, what with the copious amounts of jargon that makes parsing the different features a challenge. But Amazon Prime Day simplifies the task a little with some fantastic TV deals, including Samsung's 85-inch Q80A 4K Smart TV that's on sale for over $1,100 off right now. Normally $3,700, the 85-inch model is down to $2,600 (with an extra $200 knocked off by a coupon on the listing), plus you get another $200 Amazon credit with your purchase by using code IX6EQTI5E2T5 at checkout--effectively getting you the TV for $2,400. If you're looking for a massive TV for your game room, this is one of the best Prime Day Samsung deals available now, alongside discounts on the company's smartwatches, phones, and other tech.
The Q80A 4K Smart TV is a new 2021 model from Samsung, and notably, one of its four HDMI ports is an HDMI 2.1 input, which is needed to play games at 4K and 120Hz on your TV. Though it's not a required feature for enjoying next-gen games on PS5 and Xbox Series X right now, it'll let you get the most out of your powerful console. Unfortunately, there's only one HDMI 2.1 port, but if you have only one of the next-gen consoles, that won't be an issue.
There are a ton of great Prime Day monitor deals available this year, but the absolute highlight has to be Samsung's Odyssey G7 monitor, which has been discounted from £550 to £429 - the lowest price we've ever seen it. That's incredible for a 27-inch 2560x1440 QLED monitor that has a 240Hz refresh rate, G-Sync compatibility and a DisplayHDR 600 certification.
This combination makes for a great screen for gaming or watching HDR video, as you get bright highlights, extremely deep blacks and therefore superior contrast - perfect for dark scenes in movies or games. The 240Hz refresh rate is ideal for anything fast-paced and competitive, such as first person shooters, while the 1440p resolution is ideal for the 27-inch screen size. It's incredibly rare to see these specs for anywhere below £500, so £429 is outstanding.
Note that you can actually get the monitor by paying only £422, a further £7 savings. To do this, top up your Amazon account by £50 after opting into the top-up deal, and you'll see that your account has £57. Use this money and your normal payment method to pay for the monitor, reducing the price by £7 overall. If you don't have Prime, you can get a 30-day free trial.
Abandoned is an upcoming horror game set in a spooky forest that's coming out later this year. It was revealed back in April, and it didn't take long for folks to start comparing it to Silent Hill - it shares a similar brand of eeriness, plus a setting is reminiscent of early PT teasers. Now however, thanks to odd comments from developers Blue Box Studios, some really weird naming coincidences, and a strong desire for more Silent Hills, people actually think Abandoned could be a new Kojima game.
With Amazon's massive Prime Day 2021 upon us, a lot of top Samsung products are seeing some big discounts. Whether it's earbuds, a laptop, or even a TV that's on your shopping list, Prime Day is one of the best times to take advantage of expensive tech at low prices, and Prime Day Samsung deals are looking pretty impressive this year.
Samsung is seeing some incredible markdowns across multiple product lines, from Galaxy cell phones and tablets to TV and monitors. The Galaxy S21 5G starts at $600, a $200 discount from its normal $800 price, while the excellent 2021 Q80A 85-inch 4K Smart TV with HDMI 2.1 is available for $2,400 thanks to both a coupon on the listing and an extra $200 credit you get with your purchase. The Galaxy Watch Active 2, T5 2TB SSD, and Galaxy Chromebook Plus V2 are all seeing great discounts as well.
If you've been struggling to upgrade your PC recently due to the hardware shortage and are thinking about jumping ship to a laptop, then this Asus ROG Strix G513QM is currently £300 off for Amazon Prime Day, taking this normally £1600 laptop down to a much more agreeable £1300. Not bad for a 300Hz display and an RTX 3060 graphics chip, eh?
Additionally, new variants of Devola, Popola, and Emil will appear during this event.
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After being interrupted during mining in the Black Forest for the thousandth time, you could be forgiven for wanting to beat up a Greydwarf with your bare hands - and thanks to the work of Valheim's modding community, you now can. Well, while holding VR controllers, I guess.
VHVR is a community-made VR mod for Valheim that was first released back in April, and did a pretty good job of translating Valehim's Viking world into VR (even if players could only move using a standard gamepad or mouse and keyboard). Here's our own Ian Higton trying it out at the time:
Work on the mod continued post-launch, and now VHVR has been given a game-changing update that adds motion control support. Thanks to the work of modder Maddy25 (who apparently almost single-handedly implemented many of the motion control systems), you can now interact with items in Valheim more directly. There's upper-body and finger tracking using VRIK, melee combat, bow and arrow controls, fishing, point and click building, and you can use your hands to interact with the environment. There are also custom VR controls for interacting with menus, along with switching and equipping items.
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Amazon Prime Day is live right now, offering numerous deals across the website through Tuesday, June 22. If you've been holding out on bolstering your storage capacity, these Prime Day storage deals ranging from SSDs to HDDs might be fit the bill perfectly. Whether you're looking for the fastest NVMe drives on the market or just a standard HDD with loads of capacity, reliable brands like Samsung, Seagate, and more have deals available. There's additional some deals on NAS Drives, which are crucial if you need data accessible in your own "private cloud"--whether it be at home or for your business.
Some of the best deals are on familiar storage items, such as the Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD, one of the fastest M.2 drives on the market currently. But speed isn't the only factor to consider when shopping for a new hard drive. The Seagate Game Drives, both in 4TB variations, offer loads of storage space for any USB 3.0 device but are specifically designed with Xbox and PlayStation consoles in mind. Check out some of the best Prime Day storage deals for gaming and more below--plus, see the very best Prime Day deals available now and our full Prime Day 2021 guide.
The PlayStation 4 version of Cyberpunk is back on the PlayStation Store, but Sony still recommends you do not buy it to play on a base PS4 console.
In a message posted to PlayStation's Twitter this morning, Sony said that work on the version of the game would continue "throughout the year", and that "playing on PS4 Pro or PS5 consoles is recommended".
Eurogamer has verified the game is back on sale via the PlayStation Store on consoles and via the web.
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The latest volume of the Final Fantasy XIV Eorzea Collection will feature items from the Shadowbringers expansion.
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While it might seem that some of Japan’s best arcades are already like museums, here is an officially branded one. Called The Game Center Museum, it opened this month in Nagoya.
It's time! The Amazon Prime Day sale has arrived and there are some great deals on Nintendo Switch bundles and software. While we're still waiting for an official announcement regarding the Switch Pro, these bundles should do a good job of enticing anyone who's still on the fence about picking up a Switch.
All of the Switch bundles in the Prime Day sale are for the neon colour variant of the console, and like a lot of the deals in this year's Prime Day sale, are only available to Prime members.
The best of the bunch is the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle for £289. There's also a Ring Fit Adventure bundle with a 15 percent discount. If you're not familiar with Ring Fit Adventure, Robinson called it 'pure Nintendo magic'back in his 2019 review. The game carries an RRP of £64.99 but you can grab it bundled in with the Nintendo Switch for £314.99.
Pokémon Go will introduce a new costumed Pikachu variant only available in the Okinawa islands of Japan.
It's the first time the game has reserved a costumed Pokémon specifically for a certain region - and a small one, at that.
Immediately, the announcement raised eyebrows among fans wanting to catch 'em all - but unable to do so due to ongoing international travel restrictions.
The Logitech G502 Hero is down to just £35 for Amazon Prime Day today, matching its previous all-time low price from last year's Prime bonanza. That's a fantastic price for the mouse you - yes you, RPS readers - named your favourite gaming mouse of all time, and a saving of £15 off its most recent price.
Pity the poor Battlefield 4 players of Boring, Oregon. Battlefield 2042's announcement caused an uptick in players in the US West server region, leading to long server queues for the eight-year-old FPS. The influx of players was large enough for EA to spin up more server capacity to help players get back to the game.
A demo for a fan made remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica is available, and it features the opening area of the game.
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Amazon's Prime Day 2021 sales have begun, and we've already rounded up some of the best Prime Day deals on PC. Right now though, we wanted to cover the best Prime Day TV deal we've discovered so far: hundreds of pounds off LG's NanoCell line of 4K TVs.
The Nano86 and Nano90 are notable for being the most affordable HDMI 2.1 TVs on the market, allowing them to take advantage of 4K 120Hz gameplay on PS5, Xbox Series X and PC - and now they're available at much lower prices than ever before.
Here are the links and what you need to know!
Magic Red Doors arrived with Call Of Duty: Warzone Season 4 but what players hadn't anticipated were regular doors getting jealous. It seems like there's one door on Verdansk which kills you instantly if you touch it. Clearly, it does not want to be shown up by the silly red ones.
The 1TB model of the excellent Samsung 860 Qvo is down to a new all-time low price of just £70 today for Amazon Prime Day, saving you £25 off its usual price. It's the cheapest it's ever been, too, making it a great time to pick up this excellent SATA drive and give your storage banks a big old boost.
UPDATE 21/6/21: Nintendo has quietly performed network maintenance which reportedly fixes the dreaded Switch error code 2123-1502.
As spotted by Nintendo Life, a notice warning of maintenance taking place overnight last night was posted to Nintendo's Japanese maintenance website. Subsequently, fans affected by the error code have reported a return to normal service.
A Switch firmware update will also now follow, for release next Monday, 28th June.
Star Wars Squadrons developer EA Motive is working on the revival of an established, fan-favourite IP.
That's according to a comment made by GamesBeat's ever-chatty Jeff Grubb, which was picked up by VGC, and which tallies with information we've also heard.
According to Grubb, EA plans to announce the project at its upcoming EA Play event in just a few weeks' time. So, act surprised.
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Play as Tanjiro and experience battles first-hand with enemies such as the Hand Demon, Susamaru and Yahaba, Kyogai, and more.
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Death Trash is a silly name, let's get that out of the way. It's a tiny bit Hoxton marketing agency for me, a bit Punk IPA. But do not let that put you off! Death Trash is a looker, in that very vogue, twisted pixel arty kind of way, but it's more than its good looks, and another highlight from a very indie-friendly E3 - and Steam's ongoing Next Fest.
In fact it's actually a very nicely pitched RPG, a Fallout built within indie budget confines. Character creation is flexible - a mix of ages, races, body types and some neat outfits including a cape, love a good cape. You have a set of core abilities - hardiness, strength, finesse, occultism, cybertech, and empathy - governing what you're capable of doing. Most of those are familiar enough, empathy gatekeeping certain dialogue options for instance, cybertech what types of gear you can equip, but occultism is obviously the most curious, letting you summon little living globs of flesh to fight by your side.
It's hard to read too much into how those skills will open the game up, seeing as the demo, part of that Steam Next Fest going on now, is on the short side at around an hour and a half, and running from the very start of the game. But the potential is there. Already, from the off, certain avenues were closed off or at least narrower, thanks to how I built my character towards occultism - obviously - and ranged attacks, neglecting empathy (who needs that in the post-apocalypse?) and lockpicking (or that?). And already I love this, a little opportunity to replay, to circle back, have another conversation again.
Amazon's mid-season shopping holiday, Prime Day 2021, has bow begun and runs until June 22nd, so here are the best discounted items in the US and UK that get the DF seal of approval. Of course, Amazon is far from the only retailer taking part, as its competitors are launching conveniently timed "Black Friday in June" sales that happen to fall on exactly the same dates - so if you don't like shopping with Amazon, you have some alternatives.
Here at Digital Foundry, one of our big focuses this year is on the best 4K HDR TV sales, as many people are looking to upgrade their living room setups with a shiny new TV to hopefully coincide with your PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S.
We've also got our own separate recommendations for the best Prime Day PC deals, so if you're looking to upgrade your PC with new components or peripherals - or even build afresh! - then you should definitely check that out.
The best monitor deal from last year's Amazon Prime Day is back for another round this year, with Samsung's Odyssey G7 monitor falling back down to its all-time low price of £429 (from £550) for the next 48 hours. The 1440p, 240Hz, G-Sync Compatible monitor has a fantastic set of specs for the money, and is sure to be one of the hot ticket items of this year's big Prime Day deals bonanza.
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The Nintendo Switch is a sort of inverted version of the Wii or Wii U, when you think about it. While those predecessors all but demanded that games be redesigned to make the most of their strange features, the Switch manages to make old ideas new again simply by allowing you to take them out into the wild. Dark Souls on the tube! Mario at the beach! Tetris everywhere!
While Nintendo's had a thing for portability since the days of the Game Boy, the Switch is also defined by its excellent multiplayer accessibility, and was sold on the unlikely promise of friends gathered together in public spaces crowded around a single screen.
While that might still be somewhat on hold for the moment, one day it'll return, and so whether you're looking for a game for the TV, the commute (remember those?), one of those improbably stylish rooftop parties from the launch ads, or just for laying in bed at the weekend, hopefully there's something for you here in our list of the 20 best Nintendo Switch games.
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Earlier this month, Netflix India reportedly listed Record of Ragnarok as starting streaming on June 17. The day came and went, but the show was missing.
