Let's make this simple. You want to know if there are any mid- or post-credits scenes in Predator: Badlands; the answer is ‘not really.’ A title card flashes on-screen at the end of the movie, and then one last scene plays out right after that before the credits roll.

Full spoilers follow for Predator: Badlands. If you haven’t seen the film yet, check out our review first!

It’s time to grab your cloaking devices and wristblades, sci-fi fans, because Predator: Badlands is now in theaters. The seventh mainline entry in the Predator franchise (or ninth if you count the Alien vs. Predator films), and the third to be directed by 10 Cloverfield Lane alum Dan Trachtenberg, Badlands looks to be another winner for this new era of the franchise that started with Prey and continued with the animated installment, Predator: Killer of Killers. Badlands brings the series back to the big screen (as opposed to the last two entries, which were released straight to streaming), with Elle Fanning playing the Weyland-Yutani synthetic, Thia, alongside relative newcomer Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as the lead Predator, Dek.

The movie is heading into its opening weekend with great reviews, including an 8/10 from IGN’s Clint Gage, who said the film’s use of a Yautja main character “highlights what’s been great about this franchise in its better moments.” So how does Dek and Thia’s journey pan out? Let’s get into it.

Predator: Badlands Ending Explained

As the first film starring a Predator as the protagonist, Badlands finally fills us in on more about the Predator homeworld and their culture. We meet our hero Dek on the planet of Yautja Prime, where he is engaged in a trial by combat with his brother Kwei. We quickly learn that Dek is spry and crafty, but is still considered a weakling in the eyes of his father, Njohrr. To prove himself and avenge Kwei (Njohrr kills Kwei when he tries to protect Dek from execution), Dek travels to Genna, also known as the “Death Planet.” Genna is full of otherworldly monstrosities, the greatest and most unkillable one being the Kalisk – a beast even Njohrr is said to fear. A crash landing and a couple of mishaps later, Dek winds up traveling alongside Weyland-Yutani synthetic Thia, who is strapped to his back like C-3PO because she lost her legs in a confrontation with the Kalisk.

The unlikely pair journey across the planet’s surface, tracking the Kalisk and getting into various scrapes with local wildlife along the way. Thia becomes friendly with a small creature she names Bud, and we also learn about Thia’s companion synth, Tessa (also played by Fanning), whom Thia was separated from after their encounter with the Kalisk. Tessa is recovered and repaired by the company, who want the Kalisk captured for their bioweapons division; she subsequently becomes the film’s main antagonist, leading a small army of synthetic soldiers (the film doesn’t feature any humans) in their hunt for the creature. The rift that forms between Thia and Tessa mirrors the growing disillusionment Dek experiences with Yautja culture. He slowly learns the value of caring for others because of a story Thia tells him about the wolves of Earth, where the “Alpha” wolf is the one who best protects the pack instead of the one who gets the most kills.

With this new philosophy in mind, Dek abandons his mission to kill the Kalisk in order to rescue Thia, who’s been recaptured by Tessa. Using a variety of new weapons and tools he’s obtained during his quest, Dek infiltrates the Weyland-Yutani compound and wipes out Tessa’s soldiers. He also helps free the Kalisk after learning that Bud is in fact a baby Kalisk, reuniting mother and child. Thia’s torso is reattached to her legs, and Dek and Tessa have a final battle where Tessa drives a construction mech that feels like a jumbo version of the exosuit Ripley used to fight the Alien Queen in Aliens. The freed adult Kalisk eats Tessa, but the villainous android detonates a freeze grenade inside its stomach, killing the creature. Tessa is ultimately destroyed, and Dek returns to Yautja Prime to confront his father. He duels and kills Njohrr in front of the clan, but refuses to rejoin, instead standing alongside Thia and a much bigger Bud (I guess they grow fast?), proclaiming them as his clan.

In the final moments, the three turn to see another Predator ship approaching over the horizon. When Thia asks who’s coming, Dek responds with…“my mother.” The end!

What Does Predator: Badlands Mean for the Future of the Franchise?

With three Predator features now under his belt, Dan Trachtenberg has cemented his status as the franchise’s custodian. Badlands exemplifies what Trachtenberg does best: a strong setup and pay-off; creative action sequences; and demonstrating a love for the conventions of classic science fiction while finding new ways to express them. Yet he also ensures the film has an emotional core, namely Dek coming to reject the toxic aspects of Yautja culture and instead forming new bonds with Thia and Bud. Making a science fiction film with no human characters, and with a lead that looks as menacing and, well, alien as the Predator, that works dramatically and not just as action spectacle is a hell of a task, but it’s one Trachtenberg pulls off to good effect. If you were worried about the film’s lack of an R-rating, don’t worry; there’s plenty of carnage, and the blood isn’t just red this time. Honestly, Badlands being as violent as it is on a PG-13 rating goes to show just how arbitrary the MPAA rating system really is.

As for future installments, while the film does end on a cliffhanger with Dek’s mother about to arrive, we don’t know when or where this thread will be picked up. Dek and Thia both survive the film, and will presumably appear in a prospective Badlands 2 should Disney pursue a direct sequel. There aren’t any other threads introduced in this movie that aren’t tied up, with Badlands working as a fairly self-contained adventure. Don’t expect any cameos of the characters frozen in ice that we saw in Killer of Killers, or any crossover with the Alien franchise besides the existence of Weyland-Yutani as a plot element. Although Trachtenberg has addressed the possibility of an AVP crossover down the line, admitting that his approach to the franchise was inspired by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Badlands doesn’t directly set up a new AVP. But with an incoming sequel to Alien: Romulus that will continue the story of Cailee Spaeny’s Rain and David Jonsson’s Andy, the tease of Amber Midthunder’s Naru in Killer of Killers, and now Dek and Thia, we wouldn’t be surprised if some or all of these characters wind up running into each other in a future AVP film. It really does just feel like a matter of time.

Is There a Predator: Badlands Post-Credits Scene?

There is not, but as noted above, a title screen does pop up at the end before the final scene where Dek and his friends see a starship that belongs to Dek’s mother heading towards them.

What did you think of Predator: Badlands? Let us know in the comments!

Carlos Morales writes novels, articles, and Mass Effect essays. You can follow his fixations on Twitter.

GTA 6 isn’t the only high-profile video game delayed today — Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has suffered a delay of its own.

Coming just an hour after Rockstar announced GTA 6 had moved from May to November 2026, Skydance Games announced Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra was delayed “beyond early 2026.” In a statement, Skydance Games said the delay was necessary "to fully realize our vision." Tellingly, no new release window was offered. This is yet another delay to Rise of Hydra, which in May was pushed out of 2025 to early 2026.

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is a narrative-driven adventure featuring Captain America, Azzuri, the Black Panther of the 1940s, Gabriel Jones of the Howling Commandos, and Nanali, a Wakandan spy embedded in Occupied Paris.

It hit the headlines early 2024 after an eye-catching trailer revealed as part of Epic Games’ State of Unreal event at GDC. It’s in development at the Skydance Games team, which is led by Hennig (Uncharted) and co-president Julian Beak.

Hennig’s Skydance team is also working on an untitled Star Wars game, which has yet to be fully revealed.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Nuremberg will be released in theaters on Nov. 7.

We’re apparently going to be making films about World War II for a very long time. Not just because it’s one of the most pivotal events of the 20th century, one which affected the trajectory of virtually every nation on the planet, and not just because creatives are still finding new angles from which to dramatize the conflict to this day. No, we’re going to keep making films about World War II in part because the fear remains not that we may slip back into another recreation of its horror, but that we never truly reckoned with it. That is the main thrust of Nuremberg, a competent if not quite exemplary historical drama that posits the reason we can’t let go of our fascination with the war is because we never let go of the kinds of prejudices and attitudes that brought it about in the first place.

Directed and written by James Vanderbilt, Nuremberg opens a few days after Hitler’s death in 1945. Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), President of the Reichstag for the Nazi regime and Hitler’s second-in-command, surrenders to the U.S. Army in the opening scene. From there, he and 21 other Nazi officials are taken to Nuremberg, Germany, where American Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon) intends to try them for war crimes. We are then introduced to Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), a psychiatrist assigned to maintaining the mental health of the prisoners before the trial, but who is mostly there to write a hopefully lucrative book about the experience and maybe charm a beautiful woman or two with some slick talk and card tricks.

So begins Nuremberg, less a movie about the trial itself (although the trial is featured in the back half) so much as it is about the push and pull between Kelley and Göring, who develop a strange bond as Kelley tries to understand what makes Göring tick. The film places the burden of its moral dilemmas on Kelley, who has to weigh his own ambitions and growing fascination with Göring against the altruism espoused by Leo Woodall’s Sergeant Howie Triest, the translator assigned to help Kelley, and also pressure from Jackson to break doctor-patient confidentiality by providing information on Göring’s legal defense strategy to the Allied prosecutors. At the same time, Kelley’s attempts to get deeper in with Göring lead him to becoming the man’s main connection with the outside world, including his wife and daughter, whose treatment by U.S. forces later in the film reminds Kelley that his country is not above the tactics used by their enemies.

When approaching these story threads with the gravity they deserve, Nuremberg is mostly successful as a drama. But the movie doesn’t make the best first impression, with the opening act littered with ill-conceived jokes and dialogue that veers a bit too close to contemporary irony. Not that movies about heavy subject matter can’t have the occasional dose of humor in them (there is one particular location switch in Nuremberg that is both an excellent bit of editing and the best gag in the film), but the film’s early reliance on levity comes off like the filmmakers are worried modern audiences won’t pay attention to a historical epic if they aren’t coaxed into it with treats. It’s a creative choice that betrays the film’s dramatic intentions and hurts its narrative credibility, but it’s a tendency the film thankfully moves away from as it heads into its later acts.

What helps keep the movie above water is a deep bench of solid actors. Crowe strikes exactly the right tone for Göring, played as something between Hannibal Lecter and Crowe’s own take on Dr. Jekyll from the 2017 Mummy movie. That sounds cartoonish, and it sometimes is, but Crowe keeps Göring compelling even when teetering on the edge of caricature, never letting us forget that beneath the smiles and occasional antics lies a sharp analytical mind who oversaw numerous crimes against humanity. Vanderbilt fills his supporting roles with a strong collection of names, including Shannon, John Slattery, and Richard E. Grant, all of whom prove to be as dependable as ever. Special mention has to go to Woodall, who gets one of the film’s best scenes at a train station late in the film that serves to cement Nuremberg’s emotional core.

The question mark is Malek, who is not bad in the film so much as slightly outclassed by the group surrounding him. His facial expressions and line deliveries don’t always match the tone of a given scene, with many of the aforementioned moments of “contemporary irony” falling on his shoulders. He sometimes can’t help but feel like a man from a 21st century movie airdropped into the 1940s. It’s not a dealbreaker by any means, but his performance and the writing of his character (the fact that he’s also a magician is seemingly only there to provide a Chekhov’s skill for Göring to learn in time for the finale) doesn’t always work in tandem with the film’s dramatic aims. But he does serve as Vanderbilt’s mouthpiece at the end, where the filmmaker plainly states that the Nazis were not a unique type of evil, but instead proponents of the exact kind of ideologies that can and have suited imperial interests in nations all over the world.

It’s not a new concept, and I would argue that Stanley Kramer’s excellent 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg was a better take on both that idea and the trials at large, but Vanderbilt’s film is a worthwhile watch all the same.

Well, it was bound to happen: CRKD has teased a new drum kit controller. The four-pad, triple-cymbal CRKD Drum Kit Controller will be out next year.

And that's it. That's the news. Unlike the Gibson Les Paul Guitar Controller praised in an IGN review earlier this year, the Drum Kit Controller has no hint of a licensed partnership with any other companies. If there is one, CRKD didn't say so in its email to IGN, nor did I spy so much as a Zildjian logo on any of the cymbols in the teaser video that the company posted to YouTube today. Just mostly jet black hardware that almost feels more matchy-matchy with the PDP Riffmaster than CRKD's own guitar controllers.

In fact, CRKD is staying tight-lipped on this controller in general, letting loose no details about console compatibility or connectivity. Still, we can glean some information from the video. One, that the controller looks like it breaks down into several smaller parts for transportation, which would mirror the removable neck and headstock of its guitar predecessor. And two, based on the row of lights just under the drum pad section, it's probably wireless, which, yeah you'd hope so!

It looks like a quality gaming kit with a nice, beefy bass drum pedal. Like the old Rock Band drum controller, the layout's not that close to what you'd get with a real drum kit, electronic or otherwise – drum heads aren't usually that close together and the cymbals are kind of awkwardly placed. But also, it's a pretend drum kit that's mainly going to be used for rhythm games like Clone Hero and YARG. There's also Fortnite Festival, but that game mode doesn't allow for drum controllers quite yet, instead relying on good ol' fashioned controllers and keyboards – maybe this means an update will be coming soon?

Wes is a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they call him) who has covered technology, gaming, and entertainment steadily since 2020 at Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and most recently, The Verge. Inside of him there are two wolves: one that thinks it wouldn't be so bad to start collecting game consoles again, and the other who also thinks this, but more strongly.

GTA 6 is delayed again, this time to November 19, 2026, marking the game's third delay since it first got a release window. But publisher Take-Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick is "highly confident" that this is the last time.

Speaking to IGN on a call ahead of the announcement, Zelnick reiterated the company's statement that the delay was simply for Rockstar to have time to polish the game. “We wanted to give Rockstar the appropriate amount of time to polish the title and make sure it can be the very best it can be," he said.

Previously, Grand Theft Auto VI was announced for a fall 2025 release, which CEO Strauss Zelnick told me he felt confident in even as rumors swirled of a delay. The game was later delayed to May of 2026, with Take-Two and Rockstar similarly citing a need for polish.

So I asked Zelnick again: How confident do you feel in this new date? Do you think there’s any chance we’re looking at GTA 6 in 2027?

"I’m highly confident," he replied "And at the same time, there have been limited circumstances where more time was required to polish a title and make sure that it was spectacular and that time has been well-spent, when our competitors go to market before something was ready, bad things happen. That said, that said, I’m highly confident on the new date."

Take-Two reported net bookings of $1.96 billion in the best second quarter in company history thanks to the releases of NBA 2K26, Mafia: The Old Country, and Borderlands 4. GTA V continues to sell millions each quarter, having now reached over 220 million units sold lifetime.

Meanwhile, Take-Two fired dozens of employees last week, alleging they leaked "confidential information in a public forum." Those employees claim they were actually fired for discussing unions and organization at the company, and protested their firing in front of Rockstar North and Take-Two's UK offices today.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.

Take a deep breath and remember: Delays are good.

OK, that statement isn’t always true, but it usually is. Delayed projects sometimes result in bad games (looking at you, Duke Nukem 3D), but much more often taking more time produces good stuff. Spending meticulous weeks to get something just right matters in art, as does finding the bravery to throw out ideas that seemed wise in concept but never panned out. Think about how many half-finished games you’ve ever bought and played and then wished the publisher had just delayed until it was right and ready. Got that thought in your head? OK, hold onto it.

GTA 6 is delayed again, and that’s good, because it will probably be better for the delay.

Rockstar has a long history of delaying games to make sure they’re ready for market, a strikingly consistent bit of discipline that places them alongside Nintendo in an elite fraternity of studios that wait until the casserole is fully cooked before serving. And boy, is it always delicious.

I’ve been playing GTA games as long as they’ve been around, starting with four-player PC GTA LAN parties. I’ve played the most obscure (London 1969), the best (GTA V), and the true best (Chinatown Wars for DS). I’ve ransacked and crashed and shot my way through these goofy, wonderful worlds for decades. And thankfully, these games are practically always late... and not coincidentally, always great. Here’s every delay in GTA history (and some Red Dead too).

Grand Theft Auto III

Rockstar’s New York offices were located only a few blocks from the World Trade Center, and Take Two didn’t waste any time briefly delaying GTA III following the September 11 attacks. . Marketing VP Terry Donovan announced the delay only days after the tragedy:

"Our decision is based on two factors, firstly it has been a little difficult to get work done in downtown Manhattan in the last week since basic communications infrastructure has been intermittent at best, and secondly we felt that a full content review of all our titles and the marketing materials we use to represent them was absolutely necessary for us in light of the horrifying event we all witnessed in the United States last week.”

He continued: "As for Grand Theft Auto, since the game is so huge the review is no short process. So far we have come across certain small contextual references that we were no longer comfortable with, as well as a couple of very rare gameplay instances that no longer felt appropriate to us. We apologize to you and all the people waiting for this game to ship for the delays that have now ensued, but I'm sure you can understand our reasoning. Rest assured the game will be phenomenal...and you can expect it to hit shelves in late October.”

Even with only minimal content changes, the delay was a wise decision for Rockstar and players alike. Blasting cops and ambulances in Liberty City so soon after the violent deaths of thousands wouldn’t have been appealing to anybody.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

The co-prize for shortest delay is shared between Vice City and San Andreas. Back in the olden days before downloadable game stores and day-one patches, manufacturers guessed ahead of time just how much of a physical product they’d need to produce for a given shelf date, and sometimes they guessed wrong. Rockstar delayed Vice City by seven days to give them time to manufacture more discs (and thus meet the tremendous day-one demand for a GTA III follow-up).

San Andreas for PS2 also hit streets a week later than planned, a strategic decision designed to give the dev team a few extra days to polish their two-year project.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Okay, so real talk: The GTA handheld games go hard... hard enough that it’s worth dusting off your ancient PlayStation Portable or DS to try them. GTA’s excellent forays onto portables usually arrive on time, but Vice City Stories for PSP was delayed for two weeks in North America, and longer in parts of Europe.

The best GTA of them all (fight me!) didn’t arrive precisely on time. The incredibly creative and intricate DS gamechit shelves two months later than expected. When it did finally arrive, it blew the socks off of critics, and it’s one of gaming’s great tragedies that nobody bought it... we might be playing Chinatown Wars 3 on our new Switch 2s right now if they had.

Grand Theft Auto IV

After GTA III changed the landscape of video games, anticipation for GTA IV was palpable. With clunky RenderWare left behind and a brand new console generation to work with, Rockstar Leeds was aiming for the stratosphere. Bringing their vision to reality ultimately demanded several months of delay.

As Rockstar’s Sam Hause explained, “The new consoles [PS3 and 360] are allowing us to create the Grand Theft Auto game we always dreamed about. Every aspect of the game and its design has been completely transformed. The game is huge and is pushing the hardware platforms to their absolute limits. The top engineers from Sony and Microsoft are working closely with the team in Edinburgh right now, helping us to fully leverage the power of both platforms. As always, our goal is to surpass even the wildest expectations of the game's fans, and to create the ultimate high definition video game experience."

Grand Theft Auto V

The biggest console game of all time was a long time coming. GTA V finally landed in September 2013, but was originally anticipated to arrive in the spring of that same year. But in late January 2013, Rockstar released the following message:

“We know this is about four months later than originally planned and we know that this short delay will come as a disappointment to many of you, but, trust us, it will be worth the extra time. GTAV is a massively ambitious and complex game and it simply needs a little more polish to be of the standard we and, more importantly, you require. ‘To all Grand Theft Auto fans, please accept our apologies for the delay, and our promise that the entire team here is working very hard to make the game all it can be. We are doing all we can to help ensure it will meet if not exceed your expectations come September – we thank you for your support and patience.’"

They weren't wrong. GTA V went on to become the most successful console game of all time, and alongside RDR2, it’s a true jewel in Rockstar’s crown.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Speaking of RDR2... it’s not a part of the GTA series, but it is Rockstar’s best game and I love talking about it. In keeping with the tradition of Rockstar quality-based delays, we’re adding a bit of an appendix by mentioning Red Dead Redemption 2, which was delayed twice, first in spring 2017 for quality assurance purposes. The second delay came in February 2018, pushing RDR2 to late October. The statement from Rockstar explained that, again, this was a quality issue.

"We are excited to announce that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released on October 26th 2018. We apologize to everyone disappointed by this delay. While we had hoped to have the game out sooner, we require a little extra time for polish.

“We sincerely thank you for your patience and hope that when you get to play the game, you will agree the wait will have been worth it. In the meantime, please check out these screenshots from the game. We look forward to sharing a lot more information with you in the coming weeks."

That delay, like all the others here, worked out swimmingly, delivering a true work of art still unparalleled in adventure gaming.

So friends, don’t despair. GTA 6 will come, and when it comes, it will almost certainly be very, very good. See you in Vice City.

Note: This story originally ran in May, 2025, when GTA 6 was first delayed. Everything in it is still true!

Jared Petty is a former IGN editor who likes writing about how wonderful and silly video games are. You can find him at Bluesky as pettycommajared.

Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed until November 19, 2026.

This news was announced today by Rockstar as a part of Take-Two's second quarter earnings. In a release shared with IGN, Take-Two shared that the delay was "giving the team some additional time to finish the game with the high level of polish players expect and deserve. Rockstar has our full support of course, and we are confident they will deliver an unrivalled blockbuster entertainment experience."

Grand Theft Auto VI was originally announced for a fall 2025 release, which CEO Strauss Zelnick said he felt confident in even amid speculation of a delay. The game was then delayed to May of 2026, with Rockstar citing a need for extra time to "to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve."

In a conversation with Zelnick ahead of the announcement, IGN asked him what had changed in the year since he first said he felt confident in the Fall 2025 date. Zelnick replied, "It’s- it's all of 2025. We’ve had more time to develop the title. And so we are getting closer to the release. We are grateful that it is still within the same fiscal year. And mostly we’re grateful to Rockstar for constantly seeking perfection."

It's not exactly a surprise that GTA 6 has been delayed again, given the studio's past record of delays. And while most fans are prepared to wait patiently for GTA 6 regardless of when it drops, some fans are taking the news a little bit hard:

On a call with investors today, Zelnick also said players shouldn't expect any changes to the cadence of updates to GTA Online due to GTA 6's delay. We also spoke to him about how confident he actually is in the new release date.

Just last week, Take-Two fired dozens of employees, alleging "gross misconduct" and, later, leaking "confidential information in a public forum." However, those employees claim they were instead fired for participating in online chats about organizing a union. The group and supporters protested in front of Rockstar North and Take-Two's UK offices today.

Take-Two reported net bookings of $1.96 billion in the best second quarter in company history thanks to the releases of NBA 2K26, Mafia: The Old Country, and Borderlands 4. NBA 2K26 has sold five million units since launch. GTA V continues to sell, having reached over 220 million units.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.

The first trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday will reportedly debut this December.

Collider says it “has learned from multiple sources that the first footage from the MCU's next big team-up film is scheduled to be attached to the latest installment of one of Disney's other blockbuster franchises, Avatar: Fire and Ash.”

As Collider points out, that could change between now and when Avatar: Fire and Ash hits theaters on December 19, 2025. Avengers: Doomsday opens almost exactly a year later on December 18, 2026.

Disney had not yet responded to IGN’s request for comment as of the time this article was published.

Avengers: Doomsday wrapped filming in September. Hard facts about the movie’s plot remain scarce although we know the movie will bring together the Avengers, Fantastic Four and the original movie X-Men for the first time on the big screen.

A bevy of actors who have appeared in past Marvel projects – including Brie Larson, Famke Janssen, Elizabeth Olsen, Charlie Cox, Andrew Garfield, Halle Berry, and Chris Evans – have all played coy or flat-out denied that they’ll reprise their respective characters in Doomsday.

Channing Tatum, who returns as Gambit, recently said Avengers: Doomsday will include moments 50 times bigger than when Wesley Snipes' Blade turned up in Deadpool & Wolverine.

Fans recently got their look at 28 Doomsday characters in costume via an image posted to social media by a production member.

Prior to that, Disney revealed the first look at Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom through promotional artwork and videos featured at the Walt Disney Marketing Expo in Shanghai.

For more MCU coverage, enjoy this rundown of every loose end in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, watch the latest trailer for Wonder Man, and find out who the Internet thinks Sadie Sink is playing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

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It’s November, which means pretty much every major retailer on the planet is going to launch some form of Black Friday sale. Target has joined Best Buy in kicking things off sooner rather than later, with early Black Friday deals now live through November 8. While we’re still in the early days of discounts, Target has particularly strong deals on toys and LEGO sets that definitely have the potential to sell out.

Target’s Early Black Friday Sale Is Now Live

Target’s early Black Friday sale is offering 30–50% off some of its biggest product categories. A big highlight for us is the 40% off LEGO deals. LEGO Wicket the Ewok was put on backorder within days of release earlier this year. Not only is the set back in stock, it now has that solid 40% discount. Aside from the spread of LEGO Star Wars sets, we've also seen discounts on the LEGO Minecraft series and this year's themed advent calendars.

The Toys section is a great spot to do some early holiday shopping, with up to 50% off Barbie dolls, Nerf guns, and even LeapFrog learning activities. Target often has exclusive releases, like the recently announced Transformers x Stranger Things figures, which you can rest assured won’t be price-matched or available for a better deal elsewhere.

Aside from the joy of toys, you’ll also find discounts on clothes, kitchen appliances, and even Christmas decorations. We haven't seen any TCG deals yet, so here's to hoping that's a surprise for later in the month.

Target Black Friday Schedule

Target’s Early Black Friday Sale is a three-day event from November 6–8. The official Target Black Friday sale will kick off online on November 27 and in stores on the day itself, November 28. The retailer will also be unveiling new deals every week as well as a rotating "Deal of the Day" until the end of the December. Some of the best deals will be exclusive to Target Circle members, which is free to join.

Another feature Target has rolled out is a price guarantee on all purchases starting November 1 until December 24. If you pick up a LEGO set in an early Black Friday deal that gets an even bigger price cut or in store, you can request a price adjustment (here's the details on how to do so). The goal here is to help shoppers feel confident making purchases without worrying about whether they're getting the best possible holdiay deal. It’s worth noting this price-matching no longer applies to other retailers, just Target.

Prepping for the season of savings? Best Buy has also launched an early Black Friday sale, while Walmart and Costco have announced Black Friday plans for later this month. The LEGO Store will be having a Black Friday sale exclusively over the Black Friday weekend. For more, check out our full breakdown of when to expect Black Friday sales at all the big retailers.

As part of its early Black Friday Sale, Lenovo is offering an excellent price on one of its highest end laptops. You can pick up the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop, equipped with a 16" OLED display and RTX 5080 GPU, for just $2,417.49 after you apply two stackable coupon codes "EXTRAFIVE" and "BUYMORELENOVO". That's nearly $1,200 off in savings and one of the best prices I've seen so far for this configuration.

Lenovo Legion Pro 7 Gen 10 RTX 5080 Laptop for $2,417.49

Apply both codes: "BUYMORELENOVO" and "EXTRAFIVE"