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Best Buy is running a Microsoft 3-Day Sale from now until Sunday, with steep price cuts on laptops, desktops, handheld PCs, and dozens of other electronics. Some products are discounted up to $500–making this a great time to upgrade your laptop or desktop PC. You’ll also find a few accessories for cheap, as well as an enticing deal for the ROG Ally. We’ve pulled together the best deals to help you make the most of the event.Remember–these prices disappear Sunday night at 10 PM PT / 1 AM ET (Monday), so carve out a few minutes this weekend to check…

Earlier this summer, Nintendo released the unsettling first look at Emio – The Smiling Man, before revealing that it’s a long-awaited sequel to the Famicom Detective Club games. The game will be arriving before the end of the month, but players won’t have to wait that long to get their hands on it because the first chapter will be released as a demo next week.Nintendo has announced that it will be releasing multiple demos for Emio – The Smiling Man, starting with Chapter 1 on August 19. Additional chapters will be added on August 22 and August 27. And in…

Skyblivion, the ambitious mod that looks to port and remaster The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion into the more-modern engine used by its sequel, Skyrim, is looking better than ever. The volunteer development team behind the project recently dropped a new 20-minute gameplay video highlighting two of the game’s side quests for fans to salivate over.While Skyblivion will feature some original quests (with original voice acting), the two quests highlighted in the gameplay video are existing Oblivion quests, Fingers of the Mountain and Killing Fields. They are largely as fans remember, albeit with a new coat of paint thanks to the…

Xur has touched down in Destiny 2, bringing a resupply of Exotic weapons and armor pieces to his stash in the Tower. Toward the end of the month, Xur will also be offering Exotic class items, although you’ll need quite a few Strange Coins to afford one of these ultra-rare armor pieces. Here’s where Xur is this week, and what he has for sale.This week, Xur is offering the Exotic weapon catalysts for MIDA Multi-Tool and Lumina, and for Exotic armor, Hunters can pick up Mechaneer’s Tricksleeves; Titans can grab Heart of Inmost Light; and Warlocks can buy Sunbracers. If…

Exclusives apparently haven’t moved the needle for the Epic Games Store. In fact, most haven’t even been wise investments, according to Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. What has worked instead for the company is giving away free games.PC Gamer reports that Sweeney revealed this strategy evaluation with reporters earlier this week while discussing user acquisition for the Epic Games Store. “We spent a lot of money on exclusives,” said Sweeney. “A few of them worked extremely well. A lot of them were not good investments, but the free games program has been just magical.”Sweeney didn’t go into detail…

The video game industry layoff trend continues as Ubisoft has cut 45 jobs across its teams in San Francisco, California and Cary, North Carolina this week.A spokesperson for Ubisoft confirmed to Bloomberg that the company made the “difficult yet necessary decision” to lay off staffers in an effort to “align these studios’ organizations with their future business and development objectives.”Those who lost their jobs will get severance payment and outplacement support. Back in April this year, Ubisoft eliminated 45 jobs across other divisions. GameSpot has contacted Ubisoft in an attempt to get more details on these cuts.These cuts appear to…

Qualcomm unveiled a new Snapdragon chip on Tuesday, designed to give entry-level mobile phones more muscle and 5G connectivity. The Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 platform promises all-day battery life, improved camera capabilities, and 1 Gbps peak 5G speeds — seven times faster than LTE platforms in the same price tier. Qualcomm stated the mobile platform will make 5G accessible to 2.8 billion smartphone users in select regions around the world, and added it will be initially adopted by key OEMs, including Xiaomi, with the first units being available before the end of the year. “The Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 Mobile…

The Prismatic Shard is one of the rarest minerals in Stardew Valley, worth a decent chunk of change and useful in many ways. While you will need to find one to complete the Museum collection, it might be a while before you actually get one. There are a few different places you can find a Prismatic Shard, although many of those avenues have very low odds of it actually appearing.How to get Prismatic ShardThe Prismatic Shard is a rare drop in Stardew Valley.The best place to find a Prismatic Shard is in the Skull Cavern. There is a small chance…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta (Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg headlined at Siggraph last week. While the fireside chat with Huang didn’t really cover any new territory, the subsequent chat between Zuckerberg and Huang was fascinating, particularly when it came to what they didn’t talk about, which was the future of Facebook with AI. But, based on what they did say, I think I can fill that gap. The two men differed on the future of personal technology, mainly because Zuckerberg talked about what could be done, while Huang focused on what should be done. That dynamic is worth exploring,…

Marko: Beyond Brave is not at all what I expected. From the hand-drawn visuals to the cryptic lore tablets, and from the silent protagonist to the largely underground opening levels, I figured it would tickle the same part of my brain that adores the likes of Hollow Knight. But Beyond Brave seems to put a far heavier emphasis on grounded combat–more than I’m used to when it comes to a metroidvania. In the hour demo I played, I never quite got used to it, but the Slavic folklore-inspired world seems interesting and I want to try the game some more…