A recent check on eBay showed multiple listings for the mini fridge priced at well over $200. Multiple listings have already sold at their listed price or accepted the 'best offer', meaning people are paying for fridges at double the cost of the MSRP price.

In the US, the fridge is on sale exclusively at Target, while it's available from GAME in the UK. Microsoft says it's planning to expand regional availability in 2022. It's also important to note that Xbox called today the "first wave" of preorders, meaning there may be more chances to secure the fridge in the US and UK later on.

It's Fortnitemares season, and among a bucket of other sweets like new NPCs, weapons, and modes, there are five new Dark Jonesy quests to complete as part of his new questline, The Oracle Speaks. This questline re-ups Dark Jonesy's XP offerings to 150,000, the standard rate for new punchcards. It also includes a number of perplexing tasks, but we're here to help. Here's how to complete all Dark Jonesy quests including things like how to touch a cube, where to collect scrolls, and what to do with the Shadow Stone.

Fortnite Dark Jonesy Quests

There are five new Dark Jonesy quests. You can greet him at Steamy Stacks where he is still residing and studying the cubes' elusive motives. As Dark Jonesy is the first NPC of the season to offer two separate questlines, be sure to initiate the correct quest when you are given the choice in his dialogue options.

Here are Dark Jonesy's five new quests as part of The Oracle Speaks questline:

• Collect Scrolls at different IO Bases (2) - 30,000 XP
• Use a Shadow Stone, then recover the Spirit Vessel (1) - 30,000 XP
• Touch a cube (1) - 30,000 XP
• Destroy the Corruption Cluster and all Corruption Fragments (2) - 30,000 XP
• Return the Spirit Vessel to the Oracle and hear his vision (1) - 30,000 XP

If you're a frequent player, you'll recognize these objectives as the sort of odd, one-off story quests we've seen a lot of before. That also means their solutions are rather tricky. Here's what you can do to complete his questline and earn all 150,000 XP.

While its music is exceptional, The Caligula Effect 2 is only just okay. It still feels like a series trying to mimic Persona's success.

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The new Seattle studio will be working on first-person games Electronic Arts is spinning up a new studio in Seattle,...

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With a name like Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, I was hoping to learn a thing or two about taxes, government regulation, and the ways in which the system fundamentally screws people out of money and property. While I can’t say I learned anything about tax evasion playing this adorable 2D action game—don’t do it, I…

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In case you missed it, Netflix is making a live-action adaptation of the classic anime Cowboy Bebop. The show premieres on November 19, and after getting a look at the actors portraying Spike and the gang, we get to see them in action thanks to a new teaser trailer.

The trailer gives us a peek at the performances and chemistry between Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Faye Valentine (Daniella Peneda), and Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir). The trailer plays with the anime’s iconic intro animation in fun ways as the trio chases a bounty and fights bad guys (including a glimpse of Alex Hassell's Vicious). There's also plenty of snarky banter. Check it out below. 

Cowboy Bebop has been a long time coming, first confirmed in 2017. The show is helmed by André Nemec and written by Christopher Yost. While the original series ran for 26 episodes, the Netflix version will debut with 10 episodes. 

What do you think about this look at Cowboy Bebop? Do you think the actors fit the roles based on this clip? Let us know in the comments! 

There's a new update out for Dragon Ball Z Kakarot, and it adds characters like Gotenks and Vegito to the game for free.

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The fan art must flow The Isabelle and Doom Slayer saga spiraled out of control in the best way possible,...

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Dbrand, a tech accessories brand that my roommate described to me as “being for dudes who like new iPhones,” has decided to wage a very loud legal war with Sony Entertainment regarding their totally fine PS5 plates and cases.

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Yesterday, Valve unveiled a new compatibility ratings system for Steam Deck, intended to give users a clear indication of how well specific Steam games will run on the upcoming portable gaming PC. And now, a new beta update for Half-Life 2 has been discovered, seemingly released to ensure the seminal FPS meets the requirements needed to earn Steam Deck's top-tier Verified compatibility badge.

Half-Life 2's new beta branch update, as detailed by Valve watcher Tyler McVicker on his YouTube channel, reportedly covers a surprising amount of ground, not only making adjustments to the way the UI and resolution are handled in-game - primarily to ensure the FPS classic fits Steam Deck's aspect ratio and remains legible at its relatively diminutive size - but addressing some long-standing bugs as well.

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The Payday series celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and Starbreeze and developer Overkill are going big to celebrate the milestone with a docu-series, an in-game event in Payday 2, and the soft-launch of Payday Crime War this year.

The series had humble origins, and few could have predicted what a gigantic success the heisting series would go on to become--Payday 2, for example, has reached a whopping 35 million installs and remains one of Steam's most popular games.

Payday: The Heist was originally known as Stone Cold, and Overkill was planning to show the game for the first time at E3 2011 until publisher Sony Online Entertainment said the name needed to change due to a clash with the WWE wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin. For a company that was bankrupt before this, it was tough news, but the team found a new name--Payday!--and had a successful showing and launch in 2011. But that was just the beginning.

***Fair warning, the following content spoils a major twist in the Netflix original show, Squid Game. If you haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to be spoiled, come back after you’ve seen at least the first episode.***

The Gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia are always looking for a solid scheme that’ll make them rich and famous. So when Youtuber Jonkari P combined Frank Reynolds and Ronald “Mac” McDonald with the highly popular Netflix show, Squid Game, you knew that you were in for a treat.

In the short clip below, Frank and Mac are superimposed into the first episode of Squid Game, Red Light, Green Light. In the video, the two talk strategy, and how they should play it subtle.

The clip ends with Frank running away from the ensuing chaos of the first game and getting eliminated. It’s a hilarious bit of brevity that many fans of Squid Game need, especially if they binged all nine episodes in one sitting.

Adata is one of the best brands for budget RAM, and their long-standing Gammix D10 series offers a good balance of low price and high performance. Right now you can pick up two 8GB sticks of DDR4-3200 CL16 memory from Ebuyer for £56, around £10 cheaper than you'd pay for RAM with the same specs on Amazon.

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In Fortnite, you'll want to place Ghostbusters signs and deploy a ghost trap in order to close out the five-part Ghostbusters: Afterlife questline you can pick up from the new Containment Specialist NPC. This questline awards not just a ton of XP, but also an exclusive No Ghosts back bling, so you'll want to complete these challenges before the end of Fortnitemares on November 2. Here's how to complete the final two Containment Specialist quests.

Where To Place Ghostbusters Signs And Deploy A Ghost Trap In Fortnite

These two objectives represent the final challenges in the Ghostbusters questline and are all that stand between you and the rewards you can earn. While you can do each of these quests in a number of places, we're going to show you a shortcut so you can complete them both quickly and in the same area. Call it your very own ghost tour--no swearing, please.

First, you'll want to drop into Pleasant Park. Be careful, as that's also where to find candy in Fortnite, so it's going to be a hot drop for the duration of Fortnitemares. Once you're there, you'll need to place three Ghostbusters signs around town. We've labeled them in red in the map below. You can place the signs:

Titled "The Lost Session," we can finally see Spike, Jet, and Faye in action.

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Paranormal Pokemon activity A new teaser trailer for Pokemon Legends: Arceus dropped today, and it’s a bit tonally different from what you’d...

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Call of Duty's Haunting event is live, bringing spooky modes, horror-themed operator skins, and a brand-new submachine gun for both Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. Here we'll show you the different ways you can unlock the LAPA submachine gun.

How To Unlock The LAPA

The LAPA is a full-auto submachine gun that is part of the Haunting event rewards, and just like the Sai weapon reward from the Numbers event, you must complete one of the two sets of event challenges to unlock the weapon for free.

The Haunting includes a set of nine Black Ops Cold War challenges that can be completed in either multiplayer or Zombies. Warzone also has a unique set of nine challenges to complete, for a total of 18 challenges and 19 rewards to earn during the event. Completing a full set of nine challenges in either game will unlock the LAPA submachine gun and reward and 5000 XP.

The era of Marvel video games is looking bright, as multiple developers and publishers have several games in development starring beloved characters from the House of Ideas. The next game in that multimedia multiverse is Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, a new title from developer Eidos Montreal and publisher Square Enix. With the team behind this decade's Deus Ex games and Shadow of the Tomb Raider at the helm, expectations are naturally high for this cosmic caper starring the galaxy's most recognizable A-holes.

In case you've missed out on all the game's reveal at E3 2021 and the steady stream of trailers since June, we've got a roundup on what you can expect when the Guardians arrive later this month.

Story

Eidos Montreal hasn't shared too much regarding the story of this game, but what is known is that picks up several years after a cataclysmic war took place throughout the galaxy. The damage dealt by that conflict was devastating, and when we join the Guardians, they're a gang of heroes for hire who are barely held together by their common interests. Naturally, things get worse for the team when they set off a chain of catastrophic events, eventually leading to a wild ride across space to fix their mess.

Building a gaming PC can be a time-consuming and laborious process. Extensive research is required to make sure all of the components you are purchasing are compatible with one another. The building process can also be challenging, requiring precision and specific tools.

The efforts are usually worth it, however. Not only are you building a machine that is tailored to your exact gaming needs, but you are also likely making something unique that screams of your personality, especially if you add lighting and graphics.

If you have always been intimidated by the amount of work or expertise that is required to build a gaming PC, a company called NZXT is streamlining the process into a guided experience. Much like building a Lego set, the kit box includes all of the components you need, including an illustrated guidebook that takes you through the build step-by-step.

On today's Game Informer livestream, we're going to build NZXT's latest product: the Streamer Plus PC. We haven't even cracked open the box yet, and hope to show you exactly what it's like to get this product, not to mention how challenging the build is. Will we run into trouble? Or will it be as easy as building a Lego set?

Fortnite candy is all over a particular part of the island this month. As part of Fortnitemares 2021, you can essentially go trick-or-treating if you know where to find candy in Fortnite. Unlike last year, which featured a lot of sweets at Holly Hedges, this year the Fortnite candy is in a new location. Here's all you need to know about how to get Fortnite candy and what it does.

Where To Find Candy In Fortnite

Fortnite candy is outside of several houses within Pleasant Park for Fortnitemares 2021. During the Wrath of the Cube Queen event, which extends until November 2, you'll be able to land inside Pleasant Park and find candy outside of many residences in this formerly quaint neighborhood. I say formerly because the appeal of candy is going to pull in a lot of players, so prepare for a fight every time you land.

You'll want to collect candy as part of the Hollowhead quests. These Fortnitemares limited-time quests offer several free cosmetics to anyone who completes the pumpkin-headed NPC's challenges. When you come upon a pail of candy, like that in the image above, simply break it open and pick up the scattered candy.

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Microsoft is continuing its support of Xbox Game Pass with the announcement of what it describes as ‘three epic months’ of back-to-back blockbuster games, which includes Age of Empires IV, Minecraft, and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Here’s the full breakdown via the publisher’s official website:

The hit MOBA Pokémon Unite gets its first Halloween event and it kicks off tomorrow. Greedent from Sword & Shield joins the fray along with plenty of treats to accompany your strategic tricks. 

A new character is always exciting, and hopefully, Greedent fits the bill for diehard players. This squirrel-like critter serves as a melee defender that’s also cute as a button. Check him out in action in the spotlight trailer below. 

Destiny 2's next expansion, Year 5's The Witch Queen, will center around Savathun and the events following Season of the Lost. The foundation of Savathun's story was built during Destiny 1's The Taken King DLC in the Books of Sorrow lore that came from her brother, Oryx. With Savathun having finally arrived in the game, The Witch Queen will more fully explore what Bungie has been building toward for years. Normally, Destiny has one major expansion every year, but this year it’s different since Covid-19 concerns pushed the release date to February 22, 2022. Like every major expansion, Bungie will implement new features and changes in Destiny 2. Here's everything you need to know about The Witch Queen DLC.

Announcement

Bungie's tantalizing preview of Savathun left everyone in awe because that tiny glimpse revealed her powerful character design. Her cryptic comment about truth and a casual stroll into a sea of skeletons floating on the water made fans curious about Savathun’s intentions.

What's New?

The reveal trailer during Bungie’s The Witch Queen showcase answered some questions from the teaser while creating so many more. We now know that the upcoming expansion will take place in Savathun's throne world called High Coven, a strange and luscious wilderness unfamiliar to Guardians.

Mob Psycho 100 season 3 is on the way, and there's a new trailer teasing its events and key art of Mob and Reigen.

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Only a handful of challenges have been added to the Destiny 2 quest tab this week, now that the Wayfinder's Voyage storyline has wrapped up. An easy selection of tasks, a few runs in Astral Alignment, and a journey into the Ascendant Realms with the right gear equipped should see most of these objectives completed quickly and smoothly.

Like previous weeks, you won't have to complete every objective within seven days as Destiny 2 stacks new seasonal challenges on top of older ones. The advantage to this system is that it not only allows you to prioritize the tasks you deem most important, but you can sometimes complete multiple challenges at the same time.

Here's how it works and all of the seasonal challenges available so far.

Season of the Lost Weekly Challenges

Legendary Ley Liner

Complete the Astral Alignment activity at Legendary difficulty.

Astral Assault

Defeat combatants with Auto Rifles and melee attacks. Defeating combatants in the Astral Alignment activity grants bonus progress.

Trial by Firing Squad

Win multiple rounds in the Trials of Osiris.

Elemental Gambit

Complete Gambit matches with each elemental subclass.

Armory-Wide Calibration

Calibrate Kinetic, Energy, and Power weapons. Bonus progress against Champions.

Elemental Splicing

Complete strikes as each elemental subclass.

That’s a helluva lot of monsters hunted Capcom’s best-selling release of all time, Monster Hunter: World, continues to rake in...

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It's a hard life, being a soothsayer in Grotto. You live in a dingy little cave, the locals look at you with varying levels of distrust and suspicion, and occasionally your campfire will perk up and talk to you when no one's looking, its yellow flames turning an ominous shade of blue as it whispers dread-filled words about failure and the beating heart of the mountain into your ear. It's unclear how you ended up like this, but day after day you're tasked with consulting the handful of stars visible through a crack in the cave's ceiling to dole out advice to the local tribespeople, a group of anthropomorphic animals known only as The Brutes.

Said advice comes in the form of 24 constellations you can discover by looking up and drawing shapes in the sky with your mouse. You'll need to give one of them to each Brute that asks you a question, but when every constellation has its own fortune-cookie-like meaning attached to it, finding the right one to answer their question successfully can be a challenge. As the toad man Ouuch tells you at the start, if you ask three separate people what the word 'blue' means to them, you'll get three separate answers. Sometimes, your intentions will be misinterpreted, while others will willfully ignore you. But one thing Grotto always manages to do is to keep you coming back for more. Once you've set this car crash of consequences in motion, it's very hard to tear your eyes away.

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Call of Duty Season 6 is in full swing, and the October 19 update for Black Ops Cold War brings in changes for the Halloween-themed Haunting event that will run from October 19 through November 2. The patch notes also detail several improvements for Season 6's Forsaken Zombies map.

Multiplayer Maps And Modes

Season 6's Haunting event brings a Halloween-themed Nuketown map to Black Ops Cold War. Players can also expect three limited-time modes:

• Scream Deathmatch: Two players become masked Ghostface killers chasing after "survivors" in a game of hide-and-seek.
• Infected mode with a new twist: it’s an18-player game of Zombies vs. Survivors, where Survivors now earn bonuses with each zombie player they kill.
• Halloween Prop Hunt: This mode will let players hide around the map as skulls, jack-o'-lanterns, black cats, bats, skeletons, and more in Call of Duty's hide-and-seek mode.

Zombies

For Zombies, The Haunting event adds the new All Hallows' Eve Outbreak mode, in which players will need to survive for 10 minutes and exfiltrate from a single Outbreak region. This holiday version is more difficult than standard Outbreak mode, as the difficulty of the region will increase every two minutes. Ultimately, this means more zombies and greater difficulty to kill them. When the 10-minute time limit is reached, the exfil point will spawn and players will need to fight to safely exfil from the match.

Outbreak's Survival mode, which was previously a co-op mode for public matches, has been made available for both private matches and solo play.

Remember cassette tapes? Yes, we’re showing our age a bit there! Well, Bytten Studio has announced that its monster collecting open-world RPG, titled Cassette Beasts, is coming to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC, and it looks rad as hell.

Behold today’s bodacious announcement trailer down below:

As you can see above, the bulk of the gameplay centers around acquiring new critters that take the shape of the aforementioned analog format. You’ll be using them to battle pesky beasties and there’ll be a ton of tapes to collect.

Additionally, combat is turn-based and there’ll be a large open-world for you to explore. Plus, you’ll be able to combine all the monsters you find with a fusion mechanic, which means there’ll be plenty of customization and variety, too.

Fortnite has been redecorated for its Fortnitemares 2021 event called Wrath of the Cube Queen, and the new Ghostbusters NPC is just one of several new characters on the island for the spooktacular two-week event. You'll want to make time to meet the Containment Specialist because completing his five-part questline will grant you 150,000 XP and an exclusive Ghostbusters back bling. Here's where to find the Fortnite Ghostbusters NPC and what his quests entail.

Where To Find The Ghostbusters NPC In Fortnite

The Containment Specialist can be found at Camp Cod, which is the small island off the southeast shore of the main Fortnite island, Apollo. Camp Cod now hosts two NPCs, but the Containment Specialist usually spawns in one of two buildings on the eastern side of the area, so check in those to meet and greet the Ghostbuster.

Once you do, you'll initiate his Ghostbusters: Afterlife questline inspired by the upcoming movie. His five quests must be completed in the order shown below, but doing so will net you those aforementioned rewards. Here's the full Ghostbusters questline:

A new Pokemon Legends: Arceus promotional video takes on a moody found-footage horror format and atmosphere. Set in the Hisui region, the video is grainy and the audio cuts in and out. The content is also quite mysterious: All we find out is that the poor researcher doing the filming first encounters wild Snorunts, then goes up on a hill, and subsequently gets attacked (killed?) by a wild pokemon that is "adorable." It's unclear what causes the narrator to drop the camera, and the video fades to black with their fate unknown.

The Pokemon the researcher saw before meeting an abrupt end (maybe--they could still be alive) has yellow round eyes and white fur on top of its head and around its neck. It's likely that this video is a teaser for a mysterious pokemon in Arceus--perhaps some fluffy adorable murderous entity suggested and described in the found footage video?

Pokemon Legends: Arceus will launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch on January 28, 2022. Set in the distant past before the Pokemon League or Pokemon Trainer as a profession existed, players get to explore an era where Sinnoh was still known as Hisui. Your starting Pokemon are Rowlet, Cyndaquil, and Oshawott.

SNK Character Designer Tomohiro Nakata talked about Heidern in KOF XV, bringing up how his projectiles and Stinger behavior will change.

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Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has opened a new EA studio primarily focused on first-person games, roughly seven months after the closure of V1 Interactive, which is the studio founded by Lehto responsible for Disintegration. 

Lehto founded V1 Interactive back in 2016 with SOCOM co-creator Michael Gutmann. The studio created Disintegration and while the game showed a lot of promise, it wasn’t met with the reception the team had hoped for. V1 Interactive announced that it was closing on March 8 earlier this year. Now, a little over seven months later, Lehto is back to making games, this time under the EA umbrella. 

Hey everyone, I’m very excited to announce that I’ve joined @EA as a Game Director, building a new studio in the Seattle area working on first-person games. I can’t wait to share more about what we’re creating! pic.twitter.com/GnfVFNLSaW

In Fortnite: Wrath of the Cube Queen, you'll need to know where to deploy seismographs in Misty Meadows or Catty Corner as part of the new Ghostbusters questline. Completing all of these quests will unlock you a huge bounty of XP and an exclusive Ghostbusters back bling cosmetic item for free, but it all starts with these seismographs. Here's where to deploy them seismographs Fortnite.

Where To Deploy Seismographs In Fortnite - Misty Meadows

Two locations, Misty Meadows and Catty Corner, have three seismograph interactions each, so you'll theoretically only need to visit one location. Let's start in Misty Meadows. You'll find you can deploy seismographs in Misty Meadows at the following spots:

• By the water fountain where the main road turns in the southwest corner
• Beside the covered patio area on the west side of the bridge
• By the small dock north of the bridge

Where To Deploy Seismographs In Fortnite - Catty Corner

Assuming you'd rather start in Catty Corner--or just need to finish off the quest on a second try--you'll find three more seismograph locations. If all else is equal, Catty Corner's three quest-relevant spots are actually much closer together and thus will be faster to complete, but remember to account for enemy density and the storm circle's movement.

Within Catty Corner, you'll find you can place seismographs at the following spots:

• By the back door of the auto body shop
• Next to the Reboot Van
• In front of the bounty board and airstream trailer to the north

You can see all six locations on this one map below.