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If you’re in the market for an Xbox One X, now is a good time to buy. GameStop is offering all of its Fallout 76 bundles for $100 off, including the store-exclusive white model. That matches some of the lowest prices we’ve seen, including for Black Friday, even without a game.

Each of the Fallout 76 models at GameStop are priced at $400. That includes the 1 TB bundle with the game, and two different versions of the white console: one with the physical disc, and another with a digital copy. That bundle was exclusive to the retailer, giving you options for which neutral color you want to match with your decor.

Usually the Xbox One X goes for $500, and some discounts during the holiday season reduced it by $70-100, usually with some store extras like Kohl’s Cash.

Fallout 76 has had a rocky start. It received low review scores at launch, and then Bethesda was criticized for its advertisements about a special edition canvas bag that was switched for a nylon one. In its attempt to send the canvas bags as a make-good, it leaked personal data. More recently, a bug temporarily disabled nukes, and a series of patches had unintended consequences.

Still, Bethesda has consistently stated its plans to continue supporting the game, having announced upcoming features like a new mode without PvP restrictions and player shops.

“Bethesda has stated it intends to continue supporting the game for a long time, but at launch, Fallout 76 is a poor experience,” critic Edmond Tran wrote in GameSpot’s review. “There are echoes of the series’ admirable qualities, but look past that facade, past the cute Vault Boy animations, past the familiar radio tracks, and you’ll find no heart–just an inconsequential wasteland doomed to be nuked over and over again.”

The Mission Impossible series might be six films and over 20 years in, but the huge success of last year’s Mission Impossible: Fallout proved that the action franchise is just as popular as ever. Earlier this month, it was reported that the next two parts will be shot back-to-back and will arrive in 2021 and 2022. We now have confirmed release dates for both.

As reported by Variety, Mission Impossible 7 will hit theaters on July 23, 2021, while the eighth movie will arrive on August 5. Both films will be written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who helmed both Fallout and 2015’s Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. While we know Tom Cruise will return as Ethan Hunt in both movies, other cast members and titles are yet to be revealed.

Mission Impossible: Fallout was a massive success commercially and critically. It made more than $791 million worldwide, which represented the biggest box office performance in the history of the Mission Impossible series. It was also well-received by critics, notching a franchise-best 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes; it was heralded as one of the best action movies of 2018.

Before we see more of Ethan Hunt, Cruise will reprise another iconic role next summer. Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the 1986 classic Top Gun, is currently in production and hits theaters on June 26, 2020. Cruise will play Pete “Maverick” Mitchell once more, and the cast also includes Glen Powell (The Dark Knight Rises), Jay Ellis (Insecure), Jennifer Connelly (Spider-Man: Homecoming), and Miles Teller (Whiplash). Additionally, Top Gun alumni Val Kilmer has been cast to reprise his role as Commander Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. McQuarrie is one of the writers on the movie.

Microsoft plans to expand Xbox Live to other platforms, including Nintendo Switch and mobile. The company says bringing the network to more consoles will “enable game developers to connect players between iOS, Android, and Switch in addition to Xbox and any game in the Microsoft Store on Windows PCs.”

The move was teased in the description for an upcoming session at GDC, where the plans will presumably be revealed in more detail. The session, titled Xbox Live: Growing & Engaging Your Gaming Community Across iOS, Android, Switch, Xbox, and PC (Presented by Microsoft), will include details on the expansion, which Microsoft says will take Xbox Live to “over 2 billion devices with the release of our new cross-platform Xbox development kit.”

The description continues: “Xbox Live players are highly engaged and active on Xbox and PC, but now they can take their gaming achievement history, their friends list, their clubs, and more with them to almost every screen.” Further details are scant at present, but we’ll learn more during GDC, which takes place from March 18-22.

Taking Xbox Live to other consoles seems like the natural next step after the cross-platform play that exists within certain games, such as Fortnite or Minecraft. Sony has been less cooperative when it comes to cross-platform play and allowing other services on to its PlayStation Network, and it appears this Xbox Live expansion will not apply to PS4 as yet. However, Sony did enable Fortnite cross-play as a beta late last year, so perhaps further integration of the major gaming platforms will become a possibility down the line.

After a long wait, Kingdom Hearts 3 is finally out, and its release has clearly struck a chord with UK gamers. Square Enix’s RPG has debuted at the top of the UK physical sales chart for the week ending February 2.

The Disney-Final Fantasy crossover pushes last week’s No.1, Resident Evil 2, down to No.2. Below that are perennial high achievers Red Dead Redemption 2, FIFA 19, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 in Nos. 3, 4, and 5, respectively.

Aside from Final Fantasy, only one new release entered the chart this week. DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders, a tie-in to the new How to Train Your Dragon movie, debuts at No.37.

Kingdom Hearts 3 has received a positive critical reception since its launch, including an 8/10 from GameSpot. “The story of Keyblade wars, time-travelling villains, body-hopping also-rans, and world-ending darkness isn’t what I’ll remember about Kingdom Hearts 3 or the series as a whole,” wrote Tamoor Hussain in our Kingdom Hearts 3 review. “What sticks with me is the exciting battle against elemental titans with Hercules, taking Rapunzel out into the unfamiliar wide world for the first time, snapping selfies with Winnie the Pooh, and going toe to toe with Davy Jones. In 2002, as Sora, I left Destiny Islands to travel across the universe and make new friends. In 2019 I brought old ones home, and I had so much fun doing it.”

You can read the full top 10 sales chart for this week below, courtesy of UKIE and GfK Chart-Track. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.

1. Kingdom Hearts 3
2. Resident Evil 2
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. FIFA 19
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
6. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
8. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
9. Grand Theft Auto V
10. Spyro Reignited Trilogy

As expected, Super Bowl LIII has given us plenty of new trailers to watch. On top of a new Avengers: Endgame spot, Marvel and Disney offered viewers another quick look at Captain Marvel, which releases in theaters next month. The trailer begins with Carol Danvers getting ready to hop in a jet, saying she’s ready to go “higher, further, and faster.” You can get a full rundown in our Captain Marvel Super Bowl trailer breakdown.

From there, there’s quick cuts between hard-hitting moments of action, with Carol training, standing in the midst of some destruction in her Captain Marvel costume, being subsumed by energy, and flying into outer space where she launches projectiles at enemies. The whole time an almost robotic female voice can be heard saying, “higher, faster, further.” It’s pretty badass and you can watch it above–it’s all a bit more optimistic than the Endgame trailer, where things remain fairly bleak.

Captain Marvel follows the shocking conclusion of Avengers: Infinity War, during which Nick Fury put out a distress signal to Carol. How that moment plays into the ongoing broader story remains to be seen, but a younger version of Fury plays a central role in Captain Marvel, so we’ll see plenty of him anyway. As for Captain Marvel herself, yes, the character is a woman.

Captain Marvel hits theaters on March 8. Check out one of the other trailers for the movie to get acquainted with the character before the movie releases, and before she becomes a big part of Avengers: Endgame too. Avengers: Endgame comes to theaters on April 26.

Head over to CBS Sports to watch Super Bowl LIII, along with the adverts and trailers, live.

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This year’s Super Bowl is delivering some fantastic, championship-level play, just without much scoring so far. More notably for Marvel fans, it also brought a new trailer for Avengers: Endgame–and you didn’t even have to wait for the game to get underway to watch it. What more could you want? Finally, we get to learn a little more about the second Marvel movie of the year, in which the surviving heroes try and find a way to stop Thanos (and Captain America picks up his shield again for the first time in years).

In this new Super Bowl LIII trailer for Avengers: Endgame, which you can watch above, the world is pretty bleak. This movie will take place sometime after the events of Infinity War, where the planet is trying to move on after so many were dusted away by Thanos. However, there is still a group of heroes who refuse to give up. These will be the Avengers who will try to make things right. But can they? You can get a rundown on everything in this new look at the movie in our Endgame Super Bowl trailer breakdown. Beyond everything it suggests to us about the plot, it’s possible we also get a glimpse at a Rocket Raccoon outfit that diehard comic fans might recognize.

Following the Endgame trailer, the Super Bowl also brought us a look at a new Captain Marvel trailer. We’ve got a breakdown of all the major details from it, though like this Endgame spot, it isn’t especially long.

The first trailer for Endgame debuted in early December, and it got more than 200 million views in the first 24 hours. It gave just enough away to leave fans speculating and to come up with crazy, completely non-probable theories. The new Super Bowl spot has helped shine a little bit of light on certain elements of the upcoming movie like who is left to defeat Thanos and just how far ahead in the future this movie takes place.

Avengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton, and Karen Gillan as Nebula. And you can see what happens to the heroes of the MCU for yourself when Endgame comes to theaters on April 26.

It will be a big year for Marvel starting next month, when Captain Marvel hits theaters on March 8. Check out one of the newer trailers for the movie to get acquainted with the character because she’ll probably be a big part of Avengers: Endgame.

Before Super Bowl LIII officially began, viewers were treated to a few trailers, one of which was for Alita: Battle Angel, the upcoming blockbuster movie adaptation of the Japanese manga series. The movie is directed by Robert Rodriguez and produced by James Cameron, and its special effects are front and center in the short trailer.

Spectacle looks like its going to be a big part of the Alita: Battle Angel viewing experience and, between shots of Vector–who is played by Mahershala Ali–hunting the titular cyborg, we get to see some impressive shots of the futuristic setting. There’s also some very threatening looking bad guys floating around.

Alita: Battle Angel also stars Jennifer Connelly (Hulk), Ed Skrein (Deadpool), and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen). When the first trailer for Alita was released in 2017, it sparked some controversy for the look of the title character–specifically, her unnaturally large eyes. At the time, Rodriguez explained at San Diego Comic Con that he wanted a realistic depiction of the source material, which in turn stayed true to James Cameron’s wishes to bring the manga to life.

To watch this year’s Super Bowl, you can head over to CBS Sports and catch the game, along with the adverts and trailers, live.

The Super Bowl was in full effect on February 3, airing on CBS, where the L.A. Rams took on the New England Patriots to determine which team is the best in the NFL for the 2018 season. However, there were a good chunk of people watching this game around the world for the weird and funny commercials. So why not keep track of some of the best ones that aired during the big game?

Listen, I know comedy. I was once paid $50 to do standup at a cosmetology school, but that’s besides the point. Throughout the evening, we’ll be reporting some of the funniest, silliest, and wackiest commercials from the evening. From Harrison Ford yelling at his dog with a collar equipped with Amazon Alexa to the Bud Knight getting murdered by The Mountain from Game of Thrones, there were some fantastic TV spots this year.

If you’re looking for every single new TV spot for this year’s Super Bowl, don’t worry, we have a list of everything that aired during the big NFL game for you as well. For now, here are the funniest commercials we saw during the evening.

Olay Won’t Save You From Murderers

Sarah Michelle Gellar pops into this Olay ad which aired during the 1st quarter. Apparently, her Olay facial products have worked so well, she can’t unlock her phone with her face anymore.

Audi Fever Dream

A man finds himself inside an electric Audi, but it was all a dream, as he was choking on a cashew.

Game of Thrones Bud Light

In quite possibly the weirdest crossover commercial of all time, the Bud Knight was murdered by The Mountain from Game of Thrones. Dilly dilly?

Amazon Alexa

There were plenty of items that incorporated Alexa which didn’t work out. The best bit of this star-studded commercial was Harrison Ford’s dog ordering dog food.

Alexa Can’t Eat Pringles

While stacking Pringles to make a new taste combination is something we all do, an Amazon-like device, in this commercial, is depressed it can’t taste them.

Buble Rebrands Bubly

Acclaimed singer Michael Buble has decided to rename PepsiCo’s product Bubly by taking a marker to every single product.

Tony Romo In Easy Mode

Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo shows us all what his easy mode is like, which includes a golf putt that even I could make.