The Biggest Anti-Prime Day Sales We Know About So Far

Though delayed several months by the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon Prime Day 2020 is set to run a full 48 hours again this year starting next week on Tuesday, October 13. As usual, Amazon's biggest competitors have started to announce major sales of their own to compete with Amazon's yearly blowout sale for Prime members, and with the holiday shopping season coming up fast, it'll be a great opportunity to save some serious cash on games, tech, and more. As of right now, we've only learned about a few of the Prime Day-adjacent sales happening next week, and we've detailed what we know about them below. We expect to add more stores to this list in the coming days, as we also saw competing sales from Best Buy, Ebay, GameStop, and Fanatical last year. In the meantime, catch up on the latest Amazon Prime Day 2020 details, including early deals available now, tips for getting the best discounts, and more. Walmart Big Save Event October 11 through October 15 Walmart is getting the jump on Amazon by launching its big sale a couple of days before Prime Day. Walmart's "Big Save" event kicks off this coming Sunday, October 11 at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET and runs through Thursday, October 15, ending a day after Prime Day. The Walmart sale will bring steep discounts across all of its categories, including games and electronics. Though we don't know most of what will be on sale, Walmart did tease a few upcoming discounts, including Super Mario Party for $40, the JVC 55-inch 4K Roku Smart TV for $248, and the Roku Ultra LT streaming device for $69. Walmart promised "Black Friday-like savings" during the Big Save event, so it'll be worth checking out what games, accessories, and more are on sale. Go to Walmart Target Deal Days October 13 and 14 Target's annual Deal Days sale overlaps directly with Amazon Prime Day on October 13 and 14, and it marks the beginning of Target's holiday shopping season, the retailer said in a press release. The sale will feature online discounts on hundreds of thousands of items, more than double the number of deals last year. The vast majority of deals will be available with contactless Drive Up or Order Pickup if you want to pick up your order that day, and many of them will be eligible for same-day delivery as well--no membership required. Early deals are starting to go live at Target, just as they have at Amazon, though the pickings are currently slim. The best deals, according to Target, will only be available to Target Circle members, the retailer's free loyalty program, so you may want to sign up for that before Target Deal Days starts. Go to Target Newegg Fantastech Sale October 13 Newegg's Fantastech sale is coming back this year to compete with Amazon Prime Day and offer steep discounts on tech and electronics. A countdown is live on Newegg's website for the sale, which begins October 13 at midnight PT / 3 AM ET. The sale page doesn't say how long the sale will last, but it'll likely run through October 14 to span a full 48 hours as it has in the past. As with other sales on this list, no membership is required to shop the Fantastech sale. If you're a PC gamer, you'll definitely want to check this one out, as Newegg tends to offer some of the best deals on graphics cards, SSDs, gaming desks, ergonomic chairs, and more. Go to Newegg Continue Reading at GameSpot
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Nintendo Treehouse Live: How To Watch Today's Stream On Pikmin And Hyrule Warriors

Nintendo has been light on news this summer regarding its upcoming Switch games, but that should change today with the latest Nintendo Treehouse Live presentation. The show will focus on deep dives and gameplay details for two games launching very soon on the system: Pikmin 3 Deluxe and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and you should get some of your biggest questions answered. Nintendo Treehouse Live Start Time The Nintendo Treehouse Live presentation will kick off today, October 7, at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. The presentation will include gameplay details for both Pikmin 3 Deluxe and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, but Nintendo hasn't shared how long the presentation will be or how much time is devoted to each game. * 10 AM PT * 12 PM CDT * 1 PM ET * 6 PM BST How To Watch Nintendo Treehouse Live You can watch Nintendo Treehouse Live through Nintendo's official live site, the Nintendo YouTube channel, or right here through the embedded stream above. Nintendo also tends to broadcast these events on Twitch, if you prefer watching it there.Continue Reading at GameSpot
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This Week's Red Dead Online Update: Golden Spirit Bear

Continuing the Naturalist theme this week, Red Dead Online's newest animal to track is the Golden Spirit Bear. If you kill or sample the bear, you can receive 50% off an Established or Higher Naturalist Item. And if you bring it to Gus' Trapper Store, you can get a coat made out of the bear's blonde fur. As always, players can visit Harriet at her store to launch the mission. While there, players can also pick up a Vitalism Studies Pamphlet and start gathering Harrietum Officinalis to transform temporarily into a wild boar. If you play Red Dead Online anytime between October 6 and 12, you can earn 5,000 Club XP. Players will also earn double XP from roleplay missions--including Bounties, Trader and Moonshiner Sell Missions, Moonshiner Story and Bootlegger Missions, and Naturalist Sighting and Poaching Missions. More events are also offering double XP and include Free Roam Events and Missions, Showdowns, Races, and A Land of Opportunities Missions.Continue Reading at GameSpot
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Baldur's Gate 3's Map Is Already Big In Early Access

Baldur's Gate 3 is now available in early access on PC, Mac, and Google Stadia. And while it's just a taste of the overall game, we can already see that the finished product is shaping up to be massive. In our experience so far, we found that the explorable part of the early access map represents about 25 hours worth of content. But this sliver of the map is only about 1/5 of the total promised map size. This doesn't necessarily mean that the full game will be five times as long. It's possible the rest of the map will be more sparsely populated with activities, quests, and content. Then again, it's also possible that the rest of the map will be just as or even more dense, especially in the case of the actual city of Baldur's Gate.Continue Reading at GameSpot
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Pokemon Go Adds A New Ash's Pikachu In Today's Spotlight Event

Pokemon Go's fashion event is currently underway, but that's not all that's happening this week. The first Spotlight Hour of October 2020 also takes place in the mobile game tonight, October 6, and it introduces a new hat-wearing Pikachu to catch. From 6-7 PM local time, World Cap Pikachu will make its debut in Pokemon Go, appearing in the wild throughout the spotlight hour. This particular cap is based on the one Ash wears in the current Pokemon Journeys anime series. In addition, players will earn twice the usual amount of XP for catching Pokemon during the hour.World Cap Pikachu Another hat-wearing Pikachu will be available during next week's Spotlight Hour as well. On October 13, Original Cap Pikachu will return to the game, giving you another chance to catch it if you've previously missed out. Along with the Pikachu, players will receive twice the usual amount of Candy for catching Pokemon during next week's Spotlight Hour.Continue Reading at GameSpot
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Will PS4 Save Games Transfer To PS5? It's More Confusing Than You Might Expect

The next generation is coming, and thanks to backwards compatibility and upgrades, it will also be a soft continuation of the current one. In the case of the PlayStation 5, though, it isn't quite as simple as you might think. You may expect to just boot up your new PS5 and have it retain any progress from your old PS4 games, but that won't necessarily work. The confusion is compounded by the fact that playing PS4 games on your PS5 comes in two distinct methods. The first is simply playing backwards compatible games on your PS5, while the second is upgrading your PS4 version to a PS5 version. So will your old saves work if you're playing a PS4 backwards compatible game on PS5? Will it work if you upgrade? The answer to one doesn't always apply to the other. This doesn't appear to be a problem on Xbox Series X/S, where Smart Delivery essentially treats games as the same across platforms. We've seen at least two specific instances already in which developers have said the Xbox saves will transfer, but PlayStation ones won't.Continue Reading at GameSpot
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Resident Evil Reboot Movie Cast Announced, New Details Revealed

While the most recent Resident Evil movie series ended in 2017 with The Final Chapter, there's still plenty to come from the long-running zombie action franchise. Last month, it was reported that there are two Resident Evil shows in development for Netflix, and there's also a movie reboot in the works too. The first cast members from the film have been revealed, as well as some details about what to expect. As reported by Deadline, the movie will feature characters that will be familiar to fans of the classic video games series. Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) will play Claire Redfield, with Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (Upload) as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, and Neal McDonough (Yellowstone) as William Birkin. The movie will be directed by Johannes Roberts, who helmed the hit shark thriller 47 Meters Down and its sequel, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged. In a statement, Roberts spoke about what fans could expect from the latest Resident Evil film. "I really wanted to go back to the original first two games and re-create the terrifying visceral experience I had when I first played them whilst at the same time telling a grounded human story about a small dying American town that feels both relatable and relevant to today’s audiences," he said.Continue Reading at GameSpot
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