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Wes Anderson fans can save big on the recent Criterion Collection box set featuring 4K UHD remasters of 10 of the auteur filmmaker’s movies. The Wes Anderson Archive just launched September 30 with a lofty $500 MSRP, but thanks to the Criterion holiday sale at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, fans can grab The West Anderson Archive for $250. The 50% discount will be available until December 7–unless it sells out before then.At $250, the 10 movies are going for $25 each, the same price as the average 4K Blu-ray in the promotion. But considering only two of the movies…

April feels like a lifetime ago, but that’s when Arc Raiders, the extraction shooter from ex-DICE developers at Embark, was last available to play. The game’s second tech testbegan and ended in April, and remained invite-only throughout its runtime. The test was immensely successful, and almost everyone who played it came away wanting more. Most assumed the developer would open the test up for one final weekend, or host some sort of open beta in the weeks to follow. None of that happened. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Instead, we got a lot of…

Harry Potter LEGO sets usually cost a fortune because the Wizarding World license commands premium pricing on everything it touches. Most detailed Harry Potter builds run well over $100 and puts them out of reach for casual fans who just want a cool display piece. Hagrid’s Hut finally brings an iconic location from the films into an affordable price range that makes sense for gift-giving or treating yourself: Amazon just dropped this 891-piece set from its usual $74 price down to just $47 for an early Black Friday deal. That’s an all-time low that makes one of LEGO’s highest-rated Harry…

The Fantastic Four: First Steps jumps from Earth 828 to Disney Plus, offering another chance to do your MCU homework ahead of Avengers: Doomsday. Meanwhile, Frankenstein movies are often Halloween fare, but Guillermo del Toro treats the story of a mad scientist building a monster as a deeply emotional Gothic fairy tale. After a limited theatrical run, Netflix releases the Creature onto streaming this weekend. If you’re looking for real horror, The Black Phone 2 is much scarier than the original, and it’s calling for you to rent it. Keanu Reeves gets the chance to relax and smile as a…

Earlier this week, Square Enix disclosed its ambition to drastically cut its Quality Assurance employees and use generative AI to handle 70% of its game QA and debugging. The company went on to note that it wants to “establish a competitive advantage in game development.” However, Michael Douse–the publishing director of Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian–has called out Square Enix and described its plan as “stupid.””So QA are some of the most video games engaged people in any company,” Douse wrote on X. “They are integral to your community teams. To publishing. They give you the real feedback. They know…

Black Ops 7 is a little far off still, but if you thought next week’s big Call of Duty: Next multiplayer reveal event was going to be where most remaining information would be revealed, you’d actually be a little off base this time. That’s because Treyarch and Raven have unveiled practically all details about the game’s multiplayer mode ahead of Next, showing off the hardware, the multiplayer arenas, and even going deep on movement and map design. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The blog post has to be one of the largest I’ve ever…

Have you heard the whispers? According to my sources, Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed again. It’s weird, because a guy promised me this wouldn’t happen. Anyway, PlayStation Plus subscribers can somewhat console themselves with word from the extremely reliable leaker billbil-kun over at Dealabs: GTA V seems to be making its way back onto PS Plus yet again later this month. This is the third appearance of GTA V on PS Plus, last disappearing from the service in May this year. It seems likely that had the game met its original release plan of fall 2025, it would not have returned, so…

Fairly early in Mass Effect 2, Shepherd and the crew find themselves on the outskirts of Omega, a red-hued, mined-out metallic asteroid that serves as a haven for criminals, terrorists, and other outlaws. From the moment players take control, a grimy, bassy electronic tune straight out of Blade reverberates across the rock, setting the tone for how this sketchy society operates. Moving through Omega, it quickly becomes clear that anyone not involved in the Underworld lives in squalor, with citizens sprawled across the streets. But dead ahead is the source of the music: a nightclub called Afterlife, which happens to…

Lego Marvel collectors can finally get a nice deal on the Marvel Logo & Minifigures model. Released at the beginning of the year, the 931-piece set has rarely budged from its $100 MSRP at major retailers. That changed today thanks to a Walmart rollback that Amazon is matching. For a limited time, the Lego Marvel Logo & Minifigures is on sale for $80. It’s just one of many awesome Marvel Lego deals at Amazon ahead of Black Friday 2025. $80 (was $100) The Lego Marvel Logo & Minifigures interactive display is a practical addition to any collection. If you already…

Battlefield 6 has just received a server-side update that is bound to make the game’s entire player base happy, or at least those who had been waiting for it to arrive after the developer first discussed plans for it. The long-awaited overhaul of many of the game’s Challenges and Assignments is here, altering the requirements for most of them to be something that mere mortals are able to do. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings One of the loudest criticisms Battlefield 6 received at its launch had to do with its poor progression – we…