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Amazon Prime Day is one of the biggest sales of the year, second to only Black Friday. Although this shopping holiday was created by Amazon, it has ballooned into a much wider event. Most major retailers have already announced some sort of rival sale in 2025, and July is shaping up to be a great time to find savings this year.

I've been browsing Amazon Prime Day deals since the very first one back in 2015 and I always try to make at least one major purchase. This year, however, I'm planning on spending a lot more if the deals are actually good. The uncertainty around tariffs that are supposed to resume in August has me thinking it's probably better to buy now rather than wait for prices to go up later.

If you're hoping to plan your shopping ahead of time, we already know quite a few things about Prime Day 2025. Unfortunately, there are also still a lot of unknowns as the start date approaches.

When Does Amazon Prime Day Start in 2025?

The first thing you need to know are the actual dates for Prime Day. Amazon has announced that its Prime Day sale will start on July 8 and run through July 11 this year. This is a break from tradition as Amazon has made the switch from a two-day event to a four-day event. It's the longest Prime Day Amazon has ever had.

In addition to the Amazon sale, both Walmart and Target have announced competing events in July. The dates are slightly different and include varying start times depending on each retailer's membership plan. I'll break down those start dates for you below:

Walmart Deals Start Date - July 8-13

Walmart announced its Deals sale that starts the same day as Prime Day. However, Walmart+ members will be able to access the sale a day early on July 7. A Walmart+ membership is free to try, but early access usually requires paying the monthly subscription fee to activate.

Target Circle Week - July 6-12

Target also announced Circle Week, which starts a little bit earlier than Amazon's sale and runs a little bit longer. Similar to Prime Day, Circle Week is only available to those with a Target Circle membership. It's free to sign up, but the paid Target Circle 360 subscription will get you access to the sale on July 5, a whole day earlier.

Does Amazon Have New Deals Every Day of the Sale?

A lot of Prime Day deals will be available for the entirety of the sale, but some are more limited to specific windows of time. Amazon announced that Prime Day 2025 will be offering something new called 'Today's Big Deals' which will feature brand-specific sales that will launch at midnight each day. Amazon has stated these themed drops will come from brands like Samsung, Kiehl's, and Levi's and only last the duration of the day or until the deal runs out. This new type of sale is separate from the usual lightning deals available during Prime Day.

Which Early Deals Are Worth Shopping Today?

Amazon has already kicked off early Prime Day deals, and they are pretty much the same discounts we see every year. The best offers are on a mix of Amazon's own subscription services and devices. Examples include Audible and Kindle Unlimited subscription with extended free trials, as well as price cuts on select Amazon devices. On such deal of note is the Luna Wireless controller deal that includes a Luna+ free trial. I've gathered up some of the best early promotions going on right now above and will update the list as new official Prime Day deals arrive.

Do you have to be a Prime Member to shop Prime Day deals?

Amazon Prime Day is a sale meant exclusively for those with an Amazon Prime membership. That being said, there are still discounts that non-Prime members will be able to access during the event. These will be discounts on the products that Walmart, Target, and Best Buy will likely also have discounts on, so you won't necessarily need a membership to still find worthwhile savings. Though you will be locked out of any lightning deals Amazon has during the sale.

What Deals to Expect on Prime Day

While Amazon has yet to detail any specific discounts, I've covered the sale enough that I can make an educated guess about what to expect in 2025. Outside of the Amazon device deals that are already live ahead of the event, here's a snapshot of what categories are most likely to get discounts.

Video Games

There a quite a few great times to buy video games throughout the year, and Prime Day is absolutely one of them. Although you may have to shop around a bit to find the best price, you'll be able to find plenty of deals on popular games for the Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series X. For PC games specifically, you'll want to look for the Steam Summer sale, which runs from now until July 10 this year.

I'd expect to see prices on popular games from last year and early 2025 drop under $30, with even older games under $20. Amazon recently started offering first-party Switch games again, but most of the deals on Nintendo exclusives will still probably be at other retailers.

Subscriptions

Although Amazon is most known as an online retailer, it also has a variety of subscription services. Prime Day is usually a great time to find discounts on streaming services via Prime Video, or even just longer free trials of Audible and Kindle subscriptions. Amazon is already offering a few extended free trials to Prime members before Prime Day even begins.

In addition to services like Audible and Kindle Unlimited, Amazon also has free games for Prime members you can already take advantage of. These deals will stick around throughout the sale.

VR Headset Deals

Although you shouldn't expect any discounts on the new Xbox edition of the Quest 3S, you can for sure expect some sort of discount on the standard Meta Quest 3 and 3S this year. These deals were some of the most popular discounts on Amazon for Black Friday last year and we expect to see similar pricing for Prime Day this year.

The most recent Meta Quest 3 deal we saw dropped the price of the 3S by $50, and that same deal will likely return. It's also possible we'll see the same discount on the PSVR2 headset from Days of Play sale earlier this year, but it's not as likely as the Quest 3 deal.

Gaming Accessories

While Black Friday is usually a better time to find discounts on popular gaming accessory brands, Prime Day is likely going to be the best time to find those discounts this year. That's largely because tariffs have already caused some major players to increase prices (Microsoft, for example). With harsher tariffs still set to resume in August, gaming accessory brands are almost certainly going to be affected.

In terms of deals you can potentially expect this year, it will likely be very similar to the PlayStation Days of Play sale for PS5 controllers and headsets. Xbox controllers will also probably get some sort of discount, though maybe not as low as earlier this year. Third-party accessories will most likely have the lowest prices, so keep an eye out for those brands when looking for Nintendo Switch 2 accessories.

TVs

Last year, Amazon discounted multiple quality OLED TVs for Prime Day. We expect to see similar deals this year, alongside great deals for anyone looking for a new gaming TV. You can expect to see TVs of all sizes on sale, from as small as 32 inches to as large as 85 inches. With Prime's free two-day shipping, your brand-new discounted TV can arrive just days after you buy it. All in all, it's one of the very best times to buy a TV outside of Black Friday and Super Bowl season.

As to what specific deals to expect, it's worth highlighting the popular LG C4 has already dropped to its lowest price for 2025. This $300 discount is a good example of what type of price reductions we'll see on last year's models for brands like LG, Sony, and Samsung.

Kitchen Applicances

Any appliances for the kitchen are always a safe bet for Prime Day sales. This includes stand mixers, air fryers, microwaves, and more. In prior years, Prime Day has also had fantastic deals on coffee makers, with hundreds of dollars worth of savings at times. Overall, if you're in need of new kitchen equipment, Prime Day is one of the best days of the year to save some cash.

Price wise, you can most likely expect roughly a 30-50% markdown on these types of smaller appliances. This varies by brand of course, so don't expect some of the higher-end products to have the same level of discounts. You'll most likely be able to get a Keurig for under $40 though.

Apple Products

Apple products are pretty much a given for Prime Day. We expect to see AirPods Pro discounted, alongside AirPods Max and other Apple headphones. Additionally, it's likely Amazon will discount a few iPad models, which makes Prime Day a perfect time to pick up a new device before Apple's big hardware event in the fall.

The newest iPad generations have already been discounted by $50 since they've been released, so you can expect that same pricing or slightly lower for Prime Day. The same goes for the latest AirPods models, which were recently heavily discounted. Major retailers tend to compete with Apple pricing during the event, so it's good to shop around to see who as the lowest prices on any given day.

Vacuums

Vacuums are a hot item every Prime Day. This includes both stick vacuums and robot vacuums, which are great for any household. Big name brands like Dyson and iRobot tend to show out for Prime Day, so we expect to see some quality deals from notable brands this July.

In the past, we've seen some older iRobot Roomba vacuums drop under $100 and that will likely be the case once again. Bissell will also usually have more niche options, like an upholstery cleaner for $90 or less, which are always best-selling items during these types of sales.

LEGO Sets

Amazon is one of the best places to buy LEGO online, and Prime Day is one of the best times to buy LEGO sets every year. There will most likely be some massive discounts on some of the most expensive LEGO sets on the market, and you can even expect some of the cheaper LEGO sets to get discounts during that time, though it won't always be listed as a Prime Day deal.

Amazon also tends to have a lot of excess stock in recently retired sets it's trying to unload. So some of the less popular sets from previous years can sometimes get a discount before they start going up in value again. We're already starting to see some early LEGO deals arrive at Amazon, like the Pixar Up House set that just dropped in price for the first time this year.

School Supplies

Considering it takes place during the middle of summer break, Prime Day is undoubtedly a great time to find discounts on back-to-school supplies. Things like clothing, writing utensils, and backpacks will all receive discounts during this time. If you're hoping to find a cheap Pokémon backpack for your kids, this is the time to do it.

It's worth noting that Target has set it sights on being the main destination for back-to-school discounts this year by claiming it will be offering "2024 prices" on things like notebooks, colored pencils, crayons, and more. Amazon will most likely match these prices.

Gaming Consoles

I don't think video game console deals will be as good as Black Friday last year, but I do think there will be at least some discounts on PS5 and Xbox consoles for Prime Day. It's consistently one of the best times to buy a PS5, a Nintendo Switch, or an Xbox console.

As for what discounts to expect, I'd guess something close to a modest $50 off on the main consoles. The PS5 Pro got its first discount during the Days of Play sale this year and it was right in that range. I'd expect to see some deals on the Switch now that the Nintendo Switch 2 is here, but those will probably be outside of Amazon.

Gaming PCs

The summer is arguably one of the best times of the year to buy a gaming PC or build one yourself. Black Friday tends to have better prices on the PC components themselves, but retailers like Amazon and Walmart will always have solid discounts on budget gaming PCs during the summer months. This is especially true during Prime Day when Amazon tends to discount brands like CyberPower and Asus.

Don't expect to find any real discounts on newer PCs with the latest and greatest Nvidia GPUs, but you should definitely be able to find something less powerful for under $1,000. I'd also expect to see price cuts on some of the more popular gaming handhelds now that the market has grown. The Legion Go, for example, recently got its biggest price cut.

4K and Blu-ray Movies

Amazon has become one of the last places you can find physical media at good prices, and Prime Day is one of the best times to buy. Last year we saw a ton of popular Blu-rays get discounts and Amazon has only increased the frequency of sales in 2025. The most recent buy one, get one 50% off sale for Father's Day is a good example of that.

As for what deals you can expect on Prime Day, it really depends on what you're looking for. Movie collections will likely see the biggest discounts, so things like The Lord of the Rings collection or the Dune franchise will likely be at or near their lowest prices. The only thing that isn't likely to be on sale are preorders for newer 4K releases like Thunderbolts* or The Minecraft Movie.

Amazon also has a tendency to price-match any movie sales that happen outside of Prime Day. One such example is the Criterion Collection sale at Barnes & Noble that has already started.

Books and Comics

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that Amazon is one of the best places to buy books online in 2025. The retail giant got its start as an online bookstore, after all. In addition to discounts on services like Kindle Unlimited and Audible, Amazon will also have some of the best deals on actual physical copies of book during Prime Day.

As to what you can expect from the sale, it's probably best to look back toward the major book sale Amazon offered back in April of this year. It included some of the lowest prices of the years on popular box sets and even some illustrated editions. We've already started to see some of these deals arrive for Prime members, like this discount on the Silmarillion Collector's edition that just went live this week.

Tips for Shopping Amazon Prime Day Deals

With Prime Day less than a month away, it's a good time to start making a plan for what you want to get out of it this year. Here are a few Prime Day tips I'd suggest you consider ahead of the event:

1. Set a Budget - Keeping track of how much money you can actually spend is important to avoid overspending. When everything is on sale, it can be easy to buy more than you really should just because things are at their lowest price of the year.
2. Make a Shopping List - Knowing exactly what you're trying to find discounts on is a great way to avoid making unnecessary purchases. This can also make it easier for you to compare prices between retailers or set price drop alerts ahead of time.
3. Compare Prices - Although Amazon tends to automatically price match on most things, it's still good to compare prices to other retailers before you buy. You can also use the website CamelCamelCamel to compare prices against Amazon's historical pricing.
4. Find Unbiased Reviews - Amazon reviews have gotten somewhat better in recent years, but you should still do research outside of the site before making a decision. Seek out unbiased reviews on expensive purchases before you buy.
5. Be Wary of Sponsored Products - Search results in Amazon include sponsored sales that may not be what you're looking for. Look for the little 'sponsored' tag before you click. You may want to scroll past those.
6. Make Sure to Clip Coupons - One of the easiest ways to save money on Amazon that many folks seem to miss is coupon clipping. There are a ton of coupons available for Prime Members, and all you need to do is check a box on the product page for additional savings.

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A massive sale on The Criterion Collection has officially kicked off at Barnes & Noble. Yes, the 50% off sale. If you’re a certified collector, you probably saw it coming. If you’re a fan of Closet Picks interviews, now’s your chance to feel like you’re in one. Honestly, if you just plain like movies, these deals are worth checking out.

The 50% discount applies to more than 1,700 DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K UHD editions. From what I can tell, that's a huge chunk of the collection with a release date before July 27, 2025, which happens to be the final day of the sale. The only limit between now and then is what stays in stock, so good luck.

50% Off The Criterion Collection at Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble typically runs these 50% off sales two times a year: once in the summer (that’s this one) and once more over the winter holidays. Otherwise, the only real big discounts on The Criterion Collection are flash sales, and there’s only been one of those so far in 2025.

That makes these Barnes & Noble sales something pretty much any physical media collector looks forward to each year. One Redditor stocked up on gift card deals in preparation for the event.

It's that time, friends: Barnes & Noble Criterion Collection 50%-off sale time! Barry Lyndon in 4K?? Let's gooooo https://t.co/z2OOFzxums pic.twitter.com/eHfwszPbqQ

— IGN Deals (@IGNDeals) June 27, 2025

To help you parse through the hundreds of movies available, Barnes & Noble has kindly organized the sale into various categories. Some of these categories are by product type, like Box Sets, while others highlight certain eras in filmmaking history and even specific themes.

Good news for anyone as indecisive as I am: You don’t have to make your decision in a day. The sale is running for a full month, until July 27. The discounts apply online and in stores, so if something goes out of stock or you’d rather avoid shipping costs, definitely check out your local Barnes & Noble. There’s also always the rather strong chance Amazon matches these prices, though I’d consider that a last resort.

What About Preorders?

Barnes & Noble notes that the sale excludes “titles released after 7/27/25,” which, for what it’s worth, means the discount applies to preorders releasing in July. That doesn't mean everything else is full price; most preorders releasing after that are still 30% off.

What Is The Criterion Collection?

Founded in 1984, The Criterion Collection is a distribution company that publishes "important" films in DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD formats with a range of a special features. According to the company’s website, “Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen.” The company has restored films dating back to 1921 and continues to give the "Criterion treatment" to new releases like Flow and Anora.

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Not everyone is the DIY type. If you're in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, Dell is one of the best brands we'd recommend. Alienware desktops and laptops feature solid build quality, top-of-the-line gaming performance, excellent cooling (further improved on the newer models), aggressive styling, and pricing that is very competitive with other pre-built options. Best of all, there are plenty of sales that happen throughout the year, so it's not difficult to grab one of these computers at considerably less than their retail price. This page includes all of the best deals that are currently available.

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Director and Writer Matt Reeves and Co-Writer Mattson Tomlin have finished their The Batman Part 2 script.

The highly anticipated update for the Robert Pattinson-led, long-in-development The Batman 2 arrived in the form of a new picture Reeves shared on X/Twitter. At first glance, the post looks like a simple black-and-white photo of the director sitting next to Tomlin. The DC duo is only part of the tease, though, with the real news being that it looks like there’s a script featuring a familiar bat-shaped logo placed on the table in front of them.

Partners in Crime (Fighters) ⁦@mattsontomlin⁩ pic.twitter.com/smItoTOdEQ

— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) June 27, 2025

Reeves and Tomlin stop short of confirming that The Batman 2 script is actually finished, but Variety was able to confirm that the script is indeed complete. Today's update isn't much of a surprise, as last week, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn told EW that he was expecting to see a script for the Pattinson-led sequel before the month was out.

“We feel really good about it,” Gunn said at the time. “Matt's excited. I talk to Matt all the time. I'm totally excited about it. So we can't wait to read the scripts, but we haven't read it yet, if that's your question.”

The Batman showed moviegoers a grittier take on Gotham City when it premiered in March 2022 and quickly became a favorite among comic book movie fans, new and old. It fared well with critics (we gave it a 10/10) and fans alike and performed well at the box office, too. Box Office Mojo reports that the 2022 Batman movie managed to glide away with a global total of $772,245,583.

After generating so much hype, it should come as no surprise to hear that fans have had a hard time waiting to see how it will continue. Even as Max spinoff show The Penguin helped with the wait by telling a side story centered on Colin Farrell’s Oswald Cobb, DC has had its hands full trying to find a suitable follow-up to that original story.

Gunn, meanwhile, has been happy to let Reeves and company take their time.

“People should get off Matt's nuts because it's like, let the guy write the screenplay in the amount of time he needs to write it,” he told EW. “That's just the way it is. He doesn't owe you something because you like his movie. I mean, you like his movie because of Matt. So let Matt do things the way he does.”

Following some lengthy delays, The Batman Part 2 is scheduled to drop into the theaters October 1, 2027. In other Caped Crusader news, we know that the upcoming Batman DCU film, The Brave and the Bold, won’t feature Pattinson’s take on Bruce Wayne and will instead feature a completely new version of the character. With two major Batman movies on the way and so many details yet to be fleshed out, Gunn has said that the character is his “biggest issue in all of DC right now.”

For more on the Gotham crime-fighter and The Batman Part 2, you can read about all of the other DC movies planned for the future. You can also check out our walkthrough for how you can watch every Batman movie in chronological order.

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When it was first announced that Remedy, the developer behind seminal single-player epics like Alan Wake and Control, was working on a multiplayer shooter, I was equal parts confused and excited. This is a studio with a knack for creating inimitable worlds, so revisiting one in a less expected way seemed like an intriguing experiment worth checking out. Now, after 15 hours of blasting through FBC: Firebreak’s striking levels, upgrading my loadout, and fighting off a plethora of infected monsters, I feel about as confused and excited as I did at its initial announcement. This is an imaginative jaunt that struggles to make its mark in a fiercely competitive genre, but it’s one that’s at least left me with plenty of war stories to share.

FBC takes place six years after the events of Control, and invites you back to the wonderfully strange architecture of The Oldest House under wildly different circumstances. Instead of saving the day as the reluctant director Jesse Faden, you and up to two friends control a trio of wildly underprepared first responders attending to oddball emergencies that would make even the most battle-hardened OSHA officer wince. If a sentient sticky note infestation is turning the workers into monsters, or radioactive leeches have infested a quarry and need to be thrown into a furnace on wheels that resembles Team Fortress 2’s Payload, it’s you and your team that receive the call. It’s a hard job, but someone's gotta do it!

You thought that was it? Think again. On top of completing the task at hand, you’ll face off against the hordes of Control’s interdimensional antagonist, The Hiss, which seems to have taken up permanent residence in The Oldest House. And, on top of that, once you’ve finished your Jobsite shift, your team will also have to trek back to the elevator you arrived in and survive until it reaches your station. It seems like a lot to handle on paper, and it would be if played solo. But, with the help of two other players, these surreal tasks begin to feel like just another day at the multiplayer office – that is, if your office also includes menacing floating helmets, safe rooms and molten furnaces.

When playing as a full team, which feels like the optimal setup for FBC, each player gets to wield their own ‘Crisis Kit’, which mimics the class systems found in other cooperative shooters. There are three available, with each Kit offering a unique skill that can expedite key tasks during a job. In the sticky note-laden Jobsite, Paper Chase, using the globule-hurling Splash Kit will let you douse the yellow notes to make them more vulnerable, while someone with the Fix Kit can run around bashing the soggy slips with their trusty wrench whenever they’re not using it to fix light boxes which illuminate contaminated areas. With all that going on, the Jump Kit operator can then keep Hiss agents at bay by using their secondary fire rocket jump to fly around the map. This meant that as I dipped between roles while figuring out my favourite Kit, I always felt like a key player in my team’s success.

That’s also due in part to the fact that gunplay is mirrored across all three kits. When you start your campaign, you’ll have a choice of two weapons: a Submachine Gun and a Double-Barrel Shotgun. Both provide more than enough firepower to take down basic enemies in close-quarter duels and offer a decent introduction to FBC’s approachable but limited combat. As you get into more complex levels, you’ll naturally start to unlock increasingly powerful choices like Machine Guns, Pump Action Shotguns, or my personal favourite, the humble Revolver. The rinse and repeat process of taking out hordes of possessed office workers can feel dull at times. Fortunately, FBC’s relentless array of flashy particle effects and vibrant lighting features ensures there’s at least something striking to look at as you work through its objectives.

There aren’t too many constraints on the composition of your cohort, as you always have alternative means to completing Kit-specific tasks. That wrench might make repairs a simple button press, but they turn into a surprisingly stressful rhythm game without it, where you tap Q and E (or L1 and R1) in sequence without making errors to progress a meter. Like much of FBC, what seems straightforward is not, and the surprise here is that if you make errors while button-mashing, you take additional damage. This process starts out cute, but grows quickly tiresome in emergencies, and eventually my team negotiated our roles to include all three kits – nothing makes you miss your Splash Kit operator more than burning to death while trying to extinguish a fire they could have ousted in seconds.

As of right now, there are five total Jobsites, with each site being split into three Clearance Levels that can be completed all at once or in segments. The visual identity of each mission is wildly different and wholly unique, and beyond what I’ve mentioned already, there’s also chubby pink foam-filled turbine halls and dimly lit office spaces consumed by frost anomalies. Unfortunately as much as the chaos is exciting at first, it’s not long before you run out of new zones to take in and enemy variants to fight – which right now includes little beyond tanks, grunts, and aerial attackers. In this way, FBC can feel a little bare.

That said, the inclusion of tweakable Corruption and Difficulty levels ensures that what’s here has reasonable replayability nonetheless. Take the level Hot Fix, for example: your main job in it is to sort out malfunctioning heat fans by zapping and whacking them with the Jump and Fix Kits while someone uses the Splash Kit to keep you both from igniting – easy, right? Well, once you push the Corruption slider to the max, you’ll need to complete that task with random level modifiers popping in, like a Globe that lowers the zone’s gravity or an evil flying Stapler that wildly increases enemy health. Now your team isn’t just avoiding being burned to a crisp; you also need to make perfect shots and watch your footing, too. The addition of these Corrupted Items frequently provided a fresh challenge and delivered some unbelievably frustrating and hilarious multiplayer moments. In retrospect, I wish I’d clipped the audio of my friends screaming, “Where’s the stapler, I’ve got to kill the stapler now!”

If you find yourself in trouble when under attack, each zone is equipped with healing decontamination showers and ammunition bays where you can restock and take a beat. Though true to FBC’s chaotic modus operandi, these essential zones can falter and break, which then requires either a kits or that button pressing minigame to get them back online. The bays also move around as you revisit levels, meaning you won’t be able to rely on your memory to find safety, either. While I can appreciate that this kind of mayhem might not appeal to everyone, I found the unpredictability to be quite moreish, especially when the confusion led to flash arguments in our Discord chat. Thankfully, if – or, more likely, when – it all goes up in flames, depending on what difficulty setting you choose, you’ll have a series of lives to use before it’s actually game over.

Perhaps what’s most disappointing, however, is that while FBC is a Remedy game, it doesn’t feature the same Easter Egg-ridden worldbuilding that always intrigued me about the studio’s other games. You won’t find Alan Wake cowering in a cell or a stray note about Mr. Door – at least, not in my experience so far. That’s not to say there isn’t anything curious to gawk at, and there are hints of the tonal brilliance of the Remedy Connected Universe in the sarcastic posters and redacted notes littered around these maps, as well as the sporadic lore dumps delivered via voice over when you’re waiting in the lobby. But when I went looking for more serious depth beyond the tasks at hand, I came back disappointed. It might be the nature of the genre, but it was still a bummer when I realised investigating the nooks and crannies would never reward me with any lore or secrets, and would instead just leave me open to getting swarmed by bad guys.

Beyond moment-to-moment healing and ammo drops, you can turn the tables more permanently by investing in FBC’s approachable perk and gear upgrade trees. As you attack the primary goal for each Jobsite and explore shelters, you’ll find Lost Assets and Research Samples, which act as upgrade currencies. And, thanks to a post-launch patch (v1.2), Lost Assets are now more visible and have a lot more purchasing power than when I started playing.

I started to feel more adept in FBC once I got into a rhythm of splitting my cash between practical upgrades in the Requisition tree and passive perk upgrades in the Research tree. As a shoot first and ask questions later kind of player, FBC allowed me to specialise with upgraded weaponry and meaningful perks to match, such as the ammo-hoovering Shop Vacuum that allowed me to stock up fast as I darted between zones. What’s more, a Perk will become “Resonant” when upgraded to its maximum level, which means it applies to the other players in your party when they’re in proximity to you, allowing your once-fragile group to share the benefits of an experienced party member and overwhelm Hiss forces. Still, despite these smart ideas, FBC doesn’t ultimately have a wide enough variety of upgrades to work towards in the long term, making it feel like a dubious investment. The heart of what’s here is promising, it just lacks the scope to make a big enough impact, which is a huge shame.

FBC also relies so heavily on team dynamics and coordination that it can alienate people who are matchmaking with strangers or riding solo. During my playtime, I consistently queued up with friends with whom I’ve already established a rapport, which meant that not only could we yap about what upgrades to choose and build our arsenal together, we could also laugh and poke fun when things inevitably went wrong. Without that kind of solid social backing, FBC’s stressful, sometimes unclear objectives become frustrating kick-off points rather than communal goals.

Please Don't Feed the Children is now streaming on Tubi.

If you’re going to a stranger’s house for safety in the aftermath of the apocalypse, it’s important to knock on the right door. In Please Don’t Feed the Children, Tubi’s new original horror movie directed by Destry Allyn Spielberg, a group of orphans gets more than they bargain for when they stumble upon Clara, an isolated housewife played by Michelle Dockery. What starts as a novel – if dubious – spin on the end of the world quickly becomes a bland, overcooked nothing burger, no thanks to Paul Bertino’s one-dimensional screenplay and Spielberg’s unsteady direction.

It starts with news audio explaining the premise: a deadly virus is “turning people into cannibals,” and the world now sees children as a threat, since “most under 18 are asymptomatic when bitten.” Our main character, Mary, played by Fear the Walking Dead’s Zoe Colletti, is trying to flee the country after escaping from a prison camp for children. A chance meeting has her banding together with five other orphans, but their trip to the border is waylaid by a dead car and a bad injury, causing them to knock on Clara’s farmhouse door.

We haven’t even gotten to the real action, and this story is already wearing thin. Why would a virus discriminate based on age? Once a child turns 18, are they somehow no longer a threat? Are all of the orphans even minors? Two of the boys look well past teenhood – one of them so much so that he easily masquerades as an adult on their journey.

It’s also difficult to situate Please Don’t Feed the Children in a particular place, and this is a movie where geography matters. For quite some time, it’s unclear what border the orphans are fleeing to. An old brochure with a palm tree implies Mexico, but Clara and Mary have a conversation about Belize. (Which – what? Belize borders Mexico and Guatemala.) Towards the very end, it becomes apparent that Clara lives in New Mexico, but that only raises more questions. Namely, how did a posh British lady end up living on a farm in New Mexico?

It would be harder to get stuck on these confounding details if the plot wasn’t so obvious. We’ve got a group of refugees in the clutches of a woman who says her daughter succumbed to the virus and her husband is out at work. She’s clearly hiding something. The virus turns people into cannibals. Gee, I wonder what will happen?

Bertino’s no-kids-allowed take on pandemic paranoia is ultimately just a backdrop for much more pedestrian storytelling, a mishmash of previous movie and TV depictions of doomsday. Maybe Spielberg could have made more of this mediocre tale, but she, too, relies on tired horror tropes, disposing of the horniest characters first and reducing Mary to a flat final girl. The small thrills Please Don’t Feed the Children does offer – a Christmas-themed jump scare, a dip in a bucket of blood – aren’t enough to make it stand out.

Spielberg’s timid direction also contributes to the movie’s muddiness and hobbles its capable performers (who also include Giancarlo Esposito as a police detective searching for the missing kids). She seems to have forgotten that old moviemaking axiom: Show, don’t tell. The camera, guided by cinematographer Shane Sigler, doesn’t offer a clear view of some key props and spaces, and a few scenes are too dimly lit to see much of anything at all. Though the winsome Dockery and Colletti lead her cast, Spielberg gives them little more to do than rage and cry, respectively. This is especially vexing for Dockery’s character – after all, what’s more chilling than a horror villain who always minds their manners?

Please Don’t Feed the Children has a few things going for it – the costuming and production design are, weirdly, great! – but this first feature definitely doesn’t feel like it comes from a descendant of filmmaking royalty. The already middling story is further diluted by wishy-washy visuals and one-note characters. This movie isn’t boring, exactly, but it is confusing. Once you piece together the extremely predictable story, you’re left to sit and wonder how it all went wrong.

Before Amazon Prime Day kicks off for 2025, a handful of items have already started having their prices reduced early. One such item is J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion Collector's Edition, a nice hardcover printing of the iconic account of Middle-Earth pre-Hobbit. It's currently 56% off, sitting pretty at $15.51 - its lowest price we've ever seen. Also on sale is the massive and beautiful hardcover Silmarillion Deluxe Illustrated Edition, which includes over 50 paintings, drawings, and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien himself.

The Silmarillion Collector's Edition Is at its Lowest Price Ever For Prime Day

Following in the jet trail of futuristic racing games like F-Zero and Wipeout, Fast Fusion’s blistering speed has all the hallmarks of what has made the Fast series so fun since its 2011 debut. Every muscle in my body tensed up as I blazed through its handful of sci-fi courses, boosting my way to the finish line while using the new jumping mechanic to find shortcuts. As one of only a very small handful of current Nintendo Switch 2 exclusives, this is a dazzling technical showcase for the power of Nintendo’s newly minted system – but annoying progression choices and minimally inventive changes to a well-worn formula dull some of Fast Fusion’s shine.

If I had a dollar for every racing series that added the ability to jump as part of its arrival on Switch 2, I’d only be two bucks richer, but it’s still weird that it happened twice. That jump option is also just about the only thing Fast Fusion and Mario Kart World have in common: where the latter takes things in a bold new direction with its open world, here developer Shin’en sticks to what it’s done well since Fast Racing League on Wii. There are a few new bells and whistles to mess with as you tear through its fifteen courses ( three of which were added in its first update on June 26), but this flavor of hypersonic speed will largely be very familiar to anyone who has played past entries.

Fans of F-Zero or Wipeout will also know the drill: Fast Fusion is set in a distant future where the only speed is fast and every road is dangerous. High-tech racing machines careen through obstacle-laden courses at blinding speeds. The Fast series sets itself apart with a unique boost system, where driving over boost pads or through other elements of the course will give you an extra push as long as you switch your vehicle to the corresponding orange or blue color. Making that swap only takes the press of a button and rewards you with a satisfying burst of speed. Fast Fusion knows how good it feels to go faster than the speed of sound, and it leans into it as its highly detailed, staggeringly impressive environments melt into a blur as you carve through them.

You can also collect orbs to fill up an independent boost meter, and switching as you weave between tight turns before boosting through a straightaway to shave nanoseconds off your time adds just enough to focus on without becoming overbearing. But that has always been true of the Fast formula, and Fast Fusion’s jump button breaks from tradition in a smart but ultimately not too impactful way. Shin’en used this change to add more complexity to its courses with alternate paths stacked on top of each other, but I wish the Munich-based studio had leaned into the change even more, as it doesn’t amount to much more than adding small shortcuts and an extra way to dodge some obstacles.

These are still fun, but I feel like there’s just a bit too much rigidity in how and where you can use the jump to put yourself ahead. It has a ton of range, and you can cover some massive gaps with the right timing, but I never felt rewarded by pushing these mechanics to the absolute limit or mastering them beyond jumping where it felt natural or obvious.

The mechanical changes from 2017’s Fast RMX on the original Switch to Fast Fusion mirror the similarly incremental jump in graphical power between these hardware generations, leaning into one or two specific improvements rather than attempting a complete overhaul. This is easily one of the most impressive-looking Switch 2 games available right now, with incredible lighting and gorgeously smooth visuals while playing in 4K docked, but it’s missing some of the initial wow factor that Fast RMX had. Don’t get me wrong, it still looks stunning, but the generational jump just isn’t nearly as exciting or surprising.

Thankfully, Fast Fusion does at least offer a decent selection of different graphics settings, making it easy to favor framerate, graphical quality, or a balance of both. I usually went for the second-best quality setting that promised 4K output and some high-fidelity lighting while maintaining a consistent 60 frames-per-second, but then opted for a higher framerate choice when playing in splitscreen. I love that Shin’en decided to include this option, really letting me juice my Switch 2 for every last drop of processing power it has.

Just like Formula 1 or NASCAR, futuristic corporations have a mechanical horse in the race. Instead of racing bounty hunters and samurai clashing on the track, you’re controlling faceless cars made or sponsored by different manufacturers. That sterile, far-flung futuristic vibe has the same somewhat empty, tech-demo-like feeling you see in those videos of Unreal Engine fan mockups where a beloved character runs around a grey box and the comments are begging some publisher to, “Please hire this man.” But Fast Fusion moves so quickly that you hardly have any time to pay attention to those basic-looking spiky balls rolling around the course unless you’re doing your best to steer around them.

Separated by standard racing stats like top speed, acceleration, and boost, Fast Fusion’s garage has a great selection of vehicle configurations that cater to tons of different playstyles. Maybe you’ll aim for a high boost stat, which rewards you for precisely switching between blue and orange when driving over boost pads or through color-coded zones. Alternatively, a high acceleration stat makes it easier to get your zero-G legs, allowing you to catch up to the herd more quickly as you contend with Fast Fusion’s somewhat punishing wipeouts. I usually went for a blend of high top speed and boost once I got used to each course, dodging obstacles and nailing hairpin turns while optimizing routes that allowed me to boost as much as possible.

Finding that perfect build isn’t easy at first because you start with a paltry three vehicles, and are forced to use the in-game currency won by completing races to expand your stable of zero-gravity racers – and eventually fuse them together. Fusing vehicles results in goofy corporate merger names and better vehicles with improved stats. You’re all but required to unlock higher-grade vehicles and fuse them to compete at the highest speeds and difficulties Fast Fusion will throw at you.

Each fusion is nebulously graded on a lettering system, which I still haven’t completely deciphered even after a dozen hours of racing. But as far as I can tell, it rewards saving up cash to unlock the most expensive vehicles you can and kit-bashing two high-ticket rides together more than anything else. Frustratingly, fusing racing machines removes the option to use either of the original, pre-fusion vehicles. I get this from a flavor perspective, but it doesn’t make sense within the context of an arcade-y racing game where you want to unlock many different options. Fusing and de-fusing cost in-game currency, making its artificial scarcity all the more annoying; this wouldn’t be as much of a problem if you didn’t also need to use that currency to unlock new cups to compete in. To make things even worse, Fast Fusion forces you to unlock the second, third, and fourth cups in each speed class, which doubles as a difficulty setting.

I understand that Fast Fusion isn’t meant to be as forgiving or easy to pick up as a kart racer; gating higher difficulties behind reaching the winners’ podium in every cup would make sense. But obscuring cups I’ve already completed by making me unlock them at every difficulty – while also making me buy nearly every car and then additionally pay to fuse them into better ones – unnecessarily stalls Fast Fusion’s economy. It’s like putting training wheels on a Harley.

Side modes can at least make for fun alternate ways to earn extra cash beyond just repeating the same cup over and over again, like the sudden death-style Hero Mode where your vehicle’s boost and health are linked. That’s neat, but I wish the challenges offered in these other modes had a little bit more going on. Instead, they’re mostly just slight tweaks to a normal race with no change to the courses themselves, which doesn’t alleviate the repetitive grind of unlocking everything.

Compared to 2015’s Fast Racing Neo, Fast Fusion is smaller – but what it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Most courses offer clever designs that had me white-knuckling my controller, from a fun series of shortcuts on Yama Crest to dodging tornadoes on Tempesta. This laser-sharp focus on great levels is probably the best and most interesting part of Fast Fusion. Every time I’ve booted it up, I’ve found a new, satisfying way to shave a few seconds off of a lap I thought I’d mastered. Boost orbs make for compelling breadcrumbs in that pursuit, encouraging you to find new ways to approach a turn or hinting at a hidden path or more efficient way to handle an obstacle.

Need codes for Anime Rising? We've got all the latest active codes so you can earn mythical fragments, tokens, and more. You can rely on us for when new ones are released and updates on when codes expire. And if you're not sure how to redeem codes, we have a quick explanation for that too.

Working Anime Rising Codes (June 2025)

These are all the current active codes for Anime Rising that you can redeem for a variety of rewards:

• DUNGEONREWARDS - 10 Quirk Tokens, 3 Arise Luck Boosts, 3 Summon Move Speed Boosts, 5 Class Quirk Tokens, 8x 1 Hour Quick Income, 5 Random Chests, 25 Mythical Fragments, 2 Altar Summons, 3 Shiny Luck Boosts, 3 Player Move Speed Boosts (NEW)
• UPTUESDAY - 10 Quirk Tokens, 6 Arise Luck Boosts, 6 Summon Move Speed Boosts, 1 Class Quirk Token, 2x 1 Hour Quick Income, 5 Random Chests, 25 Mythical Fragments, 2 Altar Summons, 6 Shiny Luck Boosts, 6 Player Move Speed Boosts
• THANKYOU - 1 Hour Break Orbs, 3 Arise Luck Boosts, 1x 1 Hour Quick Coins, 3 Shiny Luck Boosts, 5 Revive Scrolls, 1x 1 Hour Quick XP, 1 Class Quirk Token, 1x 1 Hour Quick Income, 5 Random Chest, 25 Mythical Fragments, 2 Altar Summons, 3 Player Move Speed Boosts, 3 Summon Move Speed Boosts
• RISEUP - 10 Quirk Tokens, 6 Arise Luck Boosts, 4x 1 Hour Quick Coins, 6 Shiny Luck Boosts, 5 Revive Scrolls, 4x 1 Hour Quick XP, 1 Class Quirk Token, 2x 1 Hour Quick Income, 5 Random Chests, 25 Mythical Fragments, 2 Altar Summons, 6 Player Move Speed Boosts, 6 Summon Move Speed Boosts

Expired Anime Rising Codes (June 2025)

There aren't currently any expired codes for this Roblox experience but if that changes, we'll be sure to update this section with them.

How to Redeem Anime Rising Codes

Redeeming codes in Anime Rising doesn't require too much effort unlike some other Roblox games. Fortunately you don't have to reach a certain level or join a specific group. Here are the quick simple steps to redeeming them:

1. Launch Anime Rising
2. Press the green "Store" button on the left side of your screen
3. Then press the "Codes" button of a blue bird near the bottom right.
4. Enter your code here and press the blue Redeem button to get your rewards.

Why Isn't My Anime Rising Code Working?

If you're having trouble redeeming a code, there are two main reasons why one usually doesn't work. Here's what you need to know:

• The code is expired
• The code has been entered incorrectly

If a code is entered incorrectly or doesn't exist, you'll see a message that says, "Invalid code". To avoid running into this problem, we recommend copying and pasting directly from this article. Just make sure you don't accidentally end up with an extra space in your code when copying one. This is why it never hurts to double-check before redeeming a code.

Where to Find More Anime Rising Codes

You can always check back here for whenever new codes are added since we try to update as often as we can. However, if you want to search for Anime Rising codes yourself, there is a dedicated Discord server where they're announced. The in-game window for codes mentions each developer's Twitter account but they don't seem to post any on there.

What is Anime Rising in Roblox?

Anime Rising is a collector game that seems to be inspired by Solo Leveling. You can defeat all sorts of enemies and then resurrect them to fight for you. Over time, you'll amass a large squad of teammates to help you complete quests. Using free summons from the codes in this article, you can also get characters heavily inspired by other popular anime shows too.

Jeffrey Lerman is a freelance game journalist for IGN who has been covering games for over a decade. You can follow him on Bluesky.

When it comes to LEGO sets, high piece counts and high prices often go hand-in-hand. For years, the standard LEGO pricing came out out to approximately 10 cents per brick, which meant a 5,000-piece set would probably cost $500, give or take. But the modern era has made this formula a bit more nuanced. Partnering with a third-party (like Disney, for example) will drive the price higher. And sometimes, the uniformity and commonness of the pieces will make the price lower.

So, even though this list and our list of the Most Expensive LEGO Sets have some significant overlap, it's not identical. Here, in ascending order, are the 10 Biggest LEGO Sets You Can Buy, as measured by piece count. We'll be updating this list, but it'll probably be awhile before another set tops 10,000 pieces.

Biggest LEGO Sets You Can Buy

The above is a quick TL;DR of the list. If you want details about any of the sets, keep on reading.

Star Wars: Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser

The Lord of the Rings: Barad-dûr

Harry Potter: Diagon Alley

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Castle

Ninjago: City Markets

The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell

Star Wars: Razor Crest

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon

Titanic

Eiffel Tower

Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy expansion came out just a couple of short weeks ago, but the card chase is still on. Many collectors and longtime players have been on the hunt for the hottest printings of their favorite new cards, with some getting up to four versions.

Surge Foils, which appear in other MTG Universes Beyond sets like Fallout and Warhammer 40K, are a unique style of foiling that is significantly prettier than their regular foil counterparts.

TL; DR: 10 Most Valuable MTG Final Fantasy Surge Foils

The market prices for some of these are obviously a little bit insane, but I expect they'll go down a bit once the hype dies down. Though, that could be a while.

For context, the base printing of Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER is sitting at a market price of $37.76 at TCGPlayer, so if you're looking for a copy for Commander and not trying to break the bank, just stick with the base version - they're the same card at the end of the day.

Make sure you know the difference in foiling; I opened a Noctis, Prince of Lucis borderless foil thinking it was a Surge Foil (they have the same art) and went to sell it at a vendor, only to be disappointed at the $3 offer.

Back in the old days of Magic (like ten years ago), single card prices were based mostly on their age, availability, and playability. For awhile, cards like Jace, Vryn's Prodigy were $100+ extreme outliers due to its power and prominence in that Standard format.

Now, with Universes Beyond sets, casual Magic fans buying into the game to chase these gorgeous treatments have driven up prices. Jace is now sitting around $4 since it's been a victim of power creep, but I'm not sure these Final Fantasy Surge Foils will follow the same trend. Time will tell. Whatever the case, let's have a look at these money cards.

10. Emet-Selch, Unsundered

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is now available to stream on HBO Max. If you already have a subscription to the streaming service, now is your chance to watch the film for yourself. IGN had the chance to review the new movie earlier this year and had nothing but good things to say, calling it "one of the funniest movies of the year."

If you don't already have an HBO Max subscription, however, it's worth noting that the physical version of the film is actually cheaper than purchasing an ad-free plan. Considering the service unceremoniously pulled the original Looney Tunes shorts from the platform earlier this year, taking the Blu-ray route is certainly an option worth considering. In an era where digital ownership doesn't actually mean ownership, going back to physical media has started becoming popular once again.

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie Blu-ray Sale

This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Squid Game.

After three seasons, 22 episodes, and so, so many deaths, Squid Game has finally played its last game – and declared a winner, as Season 3 comes to a close on Netflix.

…Or has it? Show creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has already teased a potential spinoff taking place between Seasons 1 and 2. Earlier this week (June 25), Front Man actor Lee Byung-hun teased even further that the finale may not tie things up with a bow, leaving the world of Squid Game more open than you might expect. And in fact, that’s exactly what happened in the finale as we move the action from South Korea to Los Angeles, featuring a shocking, surprise A-list cameo. Squid Game has gone Hollywood, baby, and Cate Blanchett herself is recruiting the players!

There’s a lot more to delve into there, and we will. But first, let’s give a recap of what went down in the finale, for context. Leading into the final episode, the game was down to two – well, technically three – players: Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae), aka Player 456; Lee Myung-gi (Im Si-wan), aka the crypto-scamming YouTuber Player 333; and Myung-gi and Kim Jun-hee’s (Jo Yu-ri) baby, who has been rechristened Player 222.

Meanwhile, rogue guard Kang No-eul (Park Gyo-young) had left a dead body in the Front Man’s office while trying to find info on Park Gyeong-seok (Lee Jin-wook), aka Player 246, whom she had helped escape. Gyeong-seok was almost killed on the water, only to be saved by police officer Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), who was almost killed himself but is now within reach of the Game’s secret island, the thing he’s been searching for since Season 2. And also, unfortunately for everyone, including the viewing audience at home, the billionaire VIPs are back.

That’s a lot to juggle going into the final hour, but it wouldn’t be Squid Game without chaos. So here’s how it all turned out in the finale, “Humans Are…”

Squid Game Season 3 Ending Explained

Without getting too lost in the rules of Sky Squid Game, the final game in the series, Gi-hun realizes that Myung-gi is likely going to kill the baby in order to claim the final prize money. So despite his oath to save everyone by reentering the game at the beginning of Season 2, Gi-hun instead ends up in a knife fight with the YouTuber. Myung-gi ends up falling to his death, so it’s down to Gi-hun and the baby – and only one of them can survive, or they both die.

There’s a moment where it seems Gi-hun might throw the baby off the pillar they’re on… But instead, he kisses the baby’s head, puts her down, and then looks directly at the camera – talking to the Front Man, but also us, the audience.

“We are not horses,” Gi-hun says. “We are humans. And humans are…”

Without finishing the sentence, Gi-hun falls backwards off the pillar, to his death.

While he dies, there are several other things going on. No-eul has set the records room on fire, but not before discovering that her child, the one she was trying to find, which led her to working for Squid Game, is dead. She almost kills herself, but stops when she sees Gi-hun’s sacrifice. Meanwhile, Jun-ho gets to the island and sees his brother, the Front Man, take the baby, and stops short of killing him. “In-ho!” he shouts. “Why? Why’d you do it?” But there’s no answer, and the Front Man has started a countdown sequence to blow up the island, as the Coast Guard approaches.

So, our surviving characters escape, and six months later, someone takes the stacks of money Gi-hun was hiding in his hotel room. Who is it? It’s not explicitly stated, but is likely the Front Man, or a rep of the Squid Game. Back at the carnival where she worked, No-eul visits with Gyeong-seok, whose daughter is recovering from cancer. And No-eul also gets a call that her daughter may be alive in China. She’s likely not, but No-eul has decided to hope and search, rather than move on with her life.

Oh, and after picking up his old cohorts at prison (who are going to take over Gi-hun’s hotel), Jun-ho gets home to find Baby 222, along with a note that she is the winner, and a gold card. When Jun-ho checks it at an ATM, he sees that it has 45,600,000,000 won.

What Are Humans: Breaking Down Squid Game’s Horse Metaphor

You get it, right? It’s not just the money: 456 won. Despite dying, the ideological challenge the Front Man put to Player 456 was proven false, as the latter sacrificed himself to save 222. The Squid Game continues, because as was established in Season 2, you can’t stop the game. It’s a metaphor for capitalism, and only by breaking the whole system of the entire world could Gi-hun ever hope to eliminate the Squid Game.

Instead, he won a personal, moral victory by letting himself fall to his death to preserve new life. You can see this in the Front Man’s interactions later on (more on those in a second); but there’s also the ominous, dangling question of what that money will do to Jun-ho, now that he has access to it, as well as how it will impact 222’s life going forward.

So what is the end of the sentence Gi-hun left us on? What are humans anyway, bro? The first thing to understand is that horses have been a pervasive metaphor throughout the series, from the literal horses on the carousel in Mingle to the horse mask worn in the club scene in Season 2. And if you’ll remember, when we first met Gi-hun he spent most of his money on horse races. In the finale of Season 1, the Front Man told Gi-hun that “You bet on horses. It’s the same here, but we bet on humans. You’re our horses.” Later on in that same episode, Gi-hun fired back, “Listen carefully. I'm not a horse. I'm a person.”

That sets up the “horse” part of Gi-hun’s final line, but what about the rest? The important part here is that Gi-hun is looking at us, the viewer. It’s likely that Hwang Dong-hyuk has a possibility, or possibilities in mind for what humans are. But it is up to us to fill in the blank there. No shade to horses, but the idea is that humans are unlimited. Are we compassionate? Greedy? Loving? Vain? All of that? The answer is yes, humans can be anything, and are so much more than horses running around a track. We have the capacity for anything, and that is how Gi-hun “wins,” by proving that he can break the cycle with his own sacrifice.

…But he hasn’t really broken the cycle, has he?

Squid Game Heads To Los Angeles, But Is This David Fincher’s Series?

In the final scenes, we cut to LA, and see the Front Man has come to where Seong Ga-yeong (Jo A-in) lives. That’s Gi-hun’s daughter, who left with her mother in Season 1, in case you forgot. She doesn’t want anything to do with her father, but the Front Man gives her a box with his “belongings,” which weirdly include the bloody 456 uniform, as well as a gold card. Of note, the Front Man clearly still sees things as capitalist exchanges, despite what Gi-hun taught him about horses versus people. Whether the money will change Ga-yeong, and also what she’ll do with the very clear evidence of a death game existing, is TBD.

But the bigger, dangling cliffhanger is that as the Front Man is driven through the city, he passes by an alleyway and hears the distinctive sounds of ddakji being played, followed by slaps. Sure enough, someone is in the alley playing the game that leads to Squid Game… And it’s not just “somebody,” it’s Cate Blanchett. She’s the recruiter and is playing with a bearded man, who is losing just like Gi-hun did all those many years ago.

Funnily enough, in Squid Game: The Conversation, a half-hour that follows the final episode, it turns out that not only did Lee Jung-Jae have no idea who the cameo was, but Byung-hun didn’t even get to meet her.

“Cate Blanchett, she’s one of my favorite actors, but I didn’t even get to say hello,” he says. “She and I shot that final scene separately, since it’s just the camera cutting back and forth between us. I couldn’t say hi because once we shot it, we had to go.”

They also add that Blanchett got ddakji in advance to practice, but according to Hwang Dong-hyuk, “She wasn’t able to try it out much before the shoot. She had to hit the other ddjaki and flip it, but she couldn’t get it. So I went over and gave her a quick lesson.”

Don’t worry, he adds, “the take we used, that was real… The tilt up from the ddjaki, where we first show her face. That confidence you see, that’s all real, because she’d finally managed to flip it over.”

So is there more ddjaki in Blanchett’s future? Back at the end of 2024, it was reported that David Fincher is working on an English-language version of Squid Game. The initial fear was that it was a remake of the Korean series, which would be highly unnecessary. And at one point, it seems that Fincher might have been working on a movie version. But as of October of last year, the project reportedly coalesced into a series. Fincher, as a contextual note, has a long-standing deal with Netflix, and has already created The Killer, Mank, Mindhunter, and Love, Death and Robots for the streamer.

While we don’t know as of this writing if David Fincher’s project is what’s being teased here or if it’s just a cool celebrity cameo of note, Fincher and Blanchett have worked together before on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. So it’s entirely possible this is a fun tease for the potential spinoff series. Or it could be Fincher getting the hook-up for Hwang Dong-hyuk for a cameo. Either way, Squid Game seems to be far from done.

And frankly, that’s the way it should be, right? It’s more true to the series that the pervasive octopus arms of capitalism stretch all over the world. No one man’s sacrifice can change that, even if we do see hope, love, fear, and an array of non-horse-like emotions coursing through our characters in the final half-hour of the series. After all, humans are…

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League of Legends has become a global phenomenon, reaching out to multiple audiences with the likes of the popular MOBA game, the award-winning TV series Arcane, and the virtual K-pop group K/DA taking on the music world. Among the many projects that Riot Games has tinkered with, we’re finally getting a look at the anticipated League of Legends physical Trading Card Game, Riftbound. After getting hands-on with the cards and learning about the flow of the game, it’s a pleasant surprise how well the Riftbound team has translated the MOBA into a competitive card game.

After getting a chance to talk to the Game Director of Riftbound, Dave Guskin, and receiving a breakdown of the game’s inception to the upcoming release, I had a good grasp of what the Riftbound team’s hopes were for the future. With the four trial decks on hand representing Jinx, Viktor, Volibear, and Yasuo, it was time to get some games in. Like many TCGs premiering their first set, keywords specific to the game will have brief descriptors for new and experienced players to familiarize themselves with the mechanics. With that said, gameplay was pretty easy to pick up if you have any TCG experience. Guskin did mention that they’re not trying to “reinvent the wheel,” taking inspiration from other card game systems and developing an “approachable” game that highlights the League of Legends champions. Based on my experience so far, I do think League of Legends players will take to this gameplay pretty well. Either way, it looks to be a great foundation for folks that are fans of both the game and TCGs.

All the usual suspects for TCG card types are there, with specific ones being reminiscent of leader-type game formats. First and foremost, there is the Legend card that dictates the deck you’re playing. For example, Jynx Loose Cannon is a red and purple Legend, so the deck must consist of cards with either of the two colors. These also dictate the deck’s playstyle – typically with their abilities – so choosing a Legend is very important to deciding what kind of deck you want to play. Next, we have units, which are the creatures or characters that will help you vie for domination on the field of play. Another familiar type are spell cards that can be used for removal or support. Then there are gear cards that serve as artifacts or items that stay on the field alongside your units. Rune cards are the resource or mana of the game that sits in its own resource deck to pull from. Finally, an interesting card type that really emphasizes the MOBA aspect are battlefield cards. Players will conquer these battlefields to both score and win the game. Each battlefield has unique effects as well which makes for interesting interactions as players go back and forth to hold these battlefields throughout a match.

With some games under my belt, the gameplay reminds me of other card games that revolve around leaders. The One Piece Card Game or Hearthstone, for instance, are good examples of what Riftbound feels like, with leaders having unique abilities that support the cards you play. Unlike leaders who typically have the choice of engaging in combat, your Legend takes a step aside and benefits the player with a passive or activated ability which can be used at certain times. For instance, the Viktor Legend can play a recruit unit token onto the field by paying one rune and tapping down or exhausting himself. With that said, players can choose a champion unit of the same name as your Legend to sit outside of your deck to be played whenever possible. So instead of a single leader unit dishing out and using abilities, the game has a Legend aside safely to always assist the player while the champion unit goes in to handle the combat. This champion unit acts like any other unit in your deck. As part of the setup, the game guarantees that you see the champion unit that you most want to play versus hoping you draw into it.

The game starts with a hand of four and the draw phase only gives one card, but I didn’t feel like I was dumping my cards too much to my detriment. Jynx, for instance, thrives on rushing down and playing cards because she allows the player to draw a second card if the player begins the turn with one or less cards in hand. Sometimes you can luck out for a turn and you just don’t have enough runes to play anything meaningful, but there were enough chances to manipulate the field to give myself time to set up. Also, if all else fails, you have the champion unit that was chosen at setup as an option. Getting two mana or rune cards every turn is a familiar concept and it helps avoid being mana-screwed. In this game, there’s a maximum of 12 runes, which leaves a bit more room for card plays compared to similar games. There is a recycle action, which is just another name for “putting at the bottom of its respective deck,” whether it’s a rune card or a card from your main deck. Recycling mostly happens with your runes in the form of payment for cards. Strong cards tend to have a recycle cost, meaning you bring your total rune count down to play the powerful cards. This helps to avoid spamming said strong cards, and also makes players consider their choices if they want to play cards efficiently or on curve. It happens fairly often here, but it’s not debilitating enough that it’s a distraction.

To help with this recycle mechanic, there are gear cards in the decks that help pay for the recycle cost versus using your actual rune cards. It’s a nice addition that helps speed things along and ramp up the action. Speaking of which, the combat and scoring is probably the most interesting part of the game. Battlefield cards are the locations that your units will fight over, similar to how players fight for lanes in the MOBA. In a one-on-one game, each player chooses one battlefield from the three they have with their deck and sets them onto the field. When a unit enters or conquers a battlefield, the player scores one point. If the player continues to hold the battlefield up until the beginning of their next turn, they also score a point. Scoring the final point is a little nuanced, but the concept is pretty straightforward. In addition, Riftbound streamlined a lot of the math that players tend to do when going into a combat for said battlefields. Unlike Magic the Gathering, unit cards in Riftbound have only one number that signifies both their strength and health in the form of Might. If a unit card with five Might attacks a battlefield with two units, one with three Might and another with two Might, all three units kill each other and are sent to the trash. That’s right! It’s as simple as adding the total might of both the attacking and defending units in a battlefield showdown to determine who survives. Of course, spells can help break any ties or turn around the tables, but this system streamlines the combat compared to other games.

I can see League of Legends players getting a good understanding of the strategy with this game based on how positioning works in the gameplay. When first deploying your units, they are played in your base. From there, you can move your units when able to any battlefield whether there are enemies or not. A unique keyword in Riftbound is ganking, which MOBA fans are familiar with. For those that don’t know, ganking is another term for surprise attacks on enemy units. In Riftbound, units can only move to and from the base and a battlefield. They cannot move from battlefield to battlefield unless they have the ganking ability. The strategy of knowing when to move and where really matters in this game, and it’s a pleasant surprise from the typical ongoing charge of characters to an opponent’s life in other TCGs.

Meanwhile, deck brewing is, for me, the lifeblood of any TCG. There’s no better feeling in card games than creating a deck that caters to your playstyle or taste and seeing it perform well against your friends or at your local store. Riftbound has six different colors – or domains, as they call it – to build decks around. Red or Fury is of course the aggressive color, which consists of damage removal and putting out cheap units that can attack quickly. Green or Calm appears to revolve around buffing and counterspells. Blue or Mind has a lot of draw capabilities and is usually known for control. Orange or Body appears to play around big bodies and mana-ramping effects. Purple or Chaos consists of bouncing enemies off the field and movement abilities. Finally, Yellow or Order seems to focus on token units and going wide. This is all based on what I see from the trial decks, but I have seen some overlap in terms of removal. The most exciting color for me is purple because of the movement in this game. It really does matter in Riftbound how you move throughout a match, and purple has some benefits when moving.

From what I’ve experienced and heard from others, matches can be fairly quick – averaging less than 25 minutes if both players are familiar with the mechanics. Guskin mentioned to me that they’ll leave it up to the stores about whether or not events are best of one or three. When it comes to the bigger competitive events, best of three from Swiss to Top Cut is the plan, but final details are still being determined at this stage. Riftbound is launching this summer in China first before going global later in October. As I’ve seen in other card games, staggered releases do leave a sour taste – especially if it affects big competitive events – but Guskin assured me that the goal is to “narrow the gap in the first few sets and eventually have a simultaneous global release”.

Coming into Riftbound with a medium understanding of the MOBA and characters, I was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed the gameplay. I come from an RTS background and never really understood what the MOBA custom game was in Starcraft at the time, but I learned about the genre much later. Now I enjoy aspects of League of Legends through Arcane or even the K/DA music. Like many TCGs nowadays, the existing fandoms help folks get that first foot through the door to experience a new TCG. And with League of Legends’ pedigree, I really think Riftbound has a great foundation for what they’re hoping to build and I look forward to checking out more of the game when they do.

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Eliminating creatures and infected players will give you credits and level you up. This will help you unlock new weapons for taking on tougher creatures. But you can also use traps to wipe out hordes of parasites via decontamination or electricity.

Jeffrey Lerman is a freelance game journalist for IGN who has been covering games for over a decade. You can follow him on Bluesky.

Resident Evil Requiem will feature a return to the series' "overarching narrative" begun 30 years ago, Capcom has said, following the launch of more recent games such as Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village which focused on events set elsewhere, with fewer connections to past titles.

Requiem not only features the return of Raccoon City, but will also apparently pick up on the current status of the shadowy Umbrella Corporation. The last we heard of that, the company had gone bankrupt. But is it back now, somehow — or did it ever really go away?

Speaking in a interview published on the PlayStation blog, Resident Evil Requiem producer Masato Kumazawa said the game was being designed to to commemorate the franchise's 30th anniversary next year, when it releases on February 27, 2026, three decades on from the March 1996 launch of the original Resident Evil.

"In recent mainline titles like Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village, the series has explored the broader world of the Resident Evil universe by focusing on incidents involving the Winters family," Kumazawa said.

"With Resident Evil Requiem, however, we wanted to return to a story that continues the overarching narrative rooted in Raccoon City and the secret machinations of the Umbrella Corporation. As the series celebrates its 30th anniversary, we believe Raccoon City is the most fitting setting."

While Resident Evil 7 is relatively recent in terms of the series' overall timeline, it still arrived back in 2017. Think back to when we last saw classic Resident Evil characters outside of remakes, and its clear the series has plenty of fan-favorites ripe for a return.

Another classic Resident Evil story thread that Requiem will link back to is that of spin-off series Resident Evil Outbreak, with new protagonist Grace Ashcroft the daughter of Outbreak's Alyssa.

"When creating a story set in the ruins of Raccoon City, we felt it was fitting to have a character with a personal connection to the city itself," Kumazawa continued, referencing Leo- sorry, Grace.

"In this title, which aims to focus on horror, we introduce Grace as a new, relatable protagonist, who is unlike previous protagonists Leon or Chris," he added.

Kumazawa went on to reiterate what have we heard from other Requiem developers previously, that Grace was specifically chosen as the game's protagonist because she was someone who still "jumps in fright" when an enemy appears.

But again, Capcom has also stated that Requiem will feature more action-heavy sequences. And perhaps it's here that fans will get to play as someone like Leon — someone also with a personal connection to Raccoon City — if he is also in the game, as many fans still believe.

"We always thought about making Leon the protagonist," Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi said during the Capcom Spotlight 2025 broadcast last night, before saying he was a "bad match for horror" gameplay. In a separate developer diary, Capcom confirmed it had experimented with plans to make Resident Evil: Requiem an open-world game, and for it feature online elements, before realising this wasn't what fans wanted.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

Sorry, Baby is now playing in select theaters, and opens nationwide Friday, July 25.

There’s an effortless effervescence to the bond between the two central characters of Sorry, Baby: Agnes (Eva Victor) and her pregnant best friend Lydie (Naomi Ackie). Former grad school students in the quaint Massachusetts town where Agnes still lives and now teaches, they’re written and played with a lived-in closeness, giddy playfulness, and nurturing warmth. Agnes is the delightful eccentric, Lydie the balanced grounding force.

But that’s only one layer of this bittersweet, unassuming stunner. Writer-director-star Victor (who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/she pronouns) assembles one of the year’s best debut movies from nonchronological glimpses of a few years surrounding Agnes’ sexual assault at the hands of a former mentor and instructor. The way this event and its aftermath are depicted is quietly piercing, life-affirming, and precisely humorous – an unexpected quality given the subject matter. It’s a character study that achieves universality not by sidestepping the specificity of Victor and Agnes’ points of view, but by observing this personal tragedy through a panoramic, generous lens.

The friends’ goodbye after a weekend together (along with other hints) implies Agnes is on the mend, but not entirely out of the woods. The most harrowing details and snapshots of her hard-earned road to a new sense of normalcy come later, in segments set in the near past. This out-of-sequence structure is practically a way of bringing optimism to life in words and images. It prioritizes letting us know that Agnes survives her devastating ordeal; we first meet her in a state of safety and security, before knowing anything about what’s happened to her. And though Lydie’s concern for her friend’s mental state remains, Agnes reassures her that the worst has passed, and that she might even be ready to meet new people romantically.

And yet, despite opening Sorry, Baby at the mid-point of its story, Victor leaves enough room for dramatic growth as she moves backwards and forwards in time. Though it shows how Agnes grapples with anger and resentment, the movie doesn’t peddle virtuous resilience or cathartic revenge. Instead, Sorry, Baby argues that the only way forward involves sitting with the betrayal of trust and the impotence that sets in after being victimized, and letting them slowly run their course. It’s impressively and conclusively stated: There are no short cuts to recovery, and no certainties that we’ll see the other side of sorrow. But saving yourself is worth trying.

Victor doesn’t just commiserate with her charmingly idiosyncratic character, but portrays her as a bright individual whose academic intelligence helps her see the unfortunate situation with restraint, rather than in a visceral, self-destructive manner. But intellectualizing the wound can’t keep it from stinging. Such composure also applies to Sorry, Baby’s imagery. The assault is only implied with exterior shots of the house where it happens. The camera never steps into that place. In turn, the interior spaces in the home Agnes turns into her refuge from the world become Sorry, Baby’s main locations.

How Victor gives her supporting characters memorable, convincingly flawed personalities is another sign of Sorry, Baby’s exceptional, fine-tuned virtuosity. The men in Agnes’ life range from her abuser, Professor Preston Decker (Louis Cancelmi), to her mature, yet clumsily enchanting neighbor, Gavin (Lucas Hedges). Late in the movie, Gavin and Agnes share a moment of playful vulnerability in the bathtub – they’re physically naked, but even more exposed emotionally. That same tub witnesses Agnes at her most broken; that it then serves as the venue for a heartfelt intimacy she may have thought impossible attests to the healing powers of time.

Victor’s richly textured writing extends even to one-scene characters like Pete (John Carroll Lynch), a cantankerous restaurant owner who shows Agnes compassion in the form of a sandwich and an honest conversation following a reminder of her assault. There’s also a tactless doctor, the seemingly empathetic school officials, and classmate Natasha (Kelly McCormack), who holds a one-sided rivalry with Agnes and earns laughs with her peculiarly, perpetually disgruntled expression.

A jury duty scene poses one of the most revelatory, and difficult questions of our time: What do we expect from predators, abusers, and users? Is imprisonment the solution or is there a different path towards justice or even atonement? And what does that mean for both the victim and the offender? Victor handles Agnes' convoluted thoughts about Professor Decker with well-realized ambivalence. Does she want to burn his office to the ground? Perhaps. But does she wish he would rot in prison? That’s trickier. Her hope is for him to learn from his wrongdoings and evolve, and not just remain unchanged but behind bars.

Building on her work on TV shows like Billions and her massively popular social media channels, Sorry, Baby is a spectacular flaunting of Victor’s filmmaking and acting prowess. All of the diminishment and doubt that Agnes weighs in order to move along are visible on Victor’s puzzled faced – we can almost see how she’s processing the reality of what has happened, and how unequipped she feels to confront it, in real time. (Adopting a cat seems like an appropriate move.) Victor’s performance melds perfectly with the dialogue of her script, often depicting the character’s mental jumble through cutting punchlines.

It’s meaningful that her introduction to a wider audience leads with an apology: The “sorry” in the title is aimed not only at the infant Agnes has a one-sided chat with, but to Agnes herself and those of us watching as well. It makes us aware of and offers solace for all the hardships of being alive. Agnes learns not to abhor the darkness inside and strives to live despite its presence.

That’s the linchpin of her friendship with Lydie (portrayed luminously by Ackie). When the former gives into her worst instincts, the latter doesn’t judge her feelings, nor does she try to convince her not to feel them. Instead, she accepts them at face value, as hopefully fleeting, but more than justified. That doesn’t mean Lydie won’t try to stop Agnes from making an irreparable mistake, but that she is willing to accept her loved one’s untidy, even scary emotions. Lydie’s unwavering consistency saves Agnes from succumbing to despair; few movies have ever depicted such an unconditional embrace of a friend’s chaotic being.

Similarly, Victor grants Sorry, Baby an abundance of wisdom – the kind that’s not sanctimonious or punitive, but generous and sympathetic. It’s as if her intent with the film is to comfort, to shoulder some of our shared burdens, and say, “even if I haven’t been in your exact position, I accompany you in your struggles.” Not because she has any surefire answers about how one continues after something bad occurs – but because she wants to search for them together.

HBO has been forced to defend the safety standards on the set of its Game of Thrones franchise after a new video was obtained that shows a stunt gone wrong on set back in November 2014, during work on Game of Thrones season 5 — years before a more recent, similar injury.

In the footage — obtained by Deadline but not released by the outlet, who instead opted to share a screenshot depicting the incident to preserve the identity of the on-set source — stunt performer Andy Pilgrim can be seen fracturing his ankle during a serious stunt on the season 5 episode “Hardhome.”

In legal documents filed in 2019 obtained by Deadline, the performer claims his ankle was fractured while performing a stunt where he was riding a 16-foot wooden wall that fell to the ground. The stunt, which was originally rehearsed with a crane that would lower the wall to the ground safely, was changed after rehearsal but before the shoot, thus leaving Pilgrim vulnerable to injury. Deadline alleges that the video they received is in alignment with Pilgrim’s story.

Rowley Irlam was the stunt coordinator responsible for designing and executing the stunt — and he has stood by his work, as he continues to be employed by HBO as a stunt coordinator on the Game of Thrones spinoff series House of the Dragon.

“As an experienced stunt coordinator of over 20 years, I have successfully and safely managed hundreds of complex stunt sequences across film and television,” Irlam said in a statement released by HBO. “We put great care into designing stunt sequences with safety as the top priority. In the rare instances when an injury does occur, it is deeply upsetting for everyone involved.”

He continued, “The unfortunate incident involving Mr Pilgrim took place 11 years ago. The matter was resolved between Mr Pilgrim and the production company and there were no rulings or findings of fault against me personally. Mr Pilgrim continued to work within my team for two additional seasons following the incident, serving as stunt performer and stunt safety professional only. The accusations you put forward are simply untrue and unfounded.”

As for the network, they have stood by his work as well. “We take these matters very seriously. Mr. Irlam is a celebrated and respected stunt coordinator and has an extensive history with HBO productions,” an HBO spokesperson explained. “As an expert in such a physically demanding field, we remain confident in his abilities and know he has always done everything possible to maintain the high safety standards that are required on our productions.”

Four years after Pilgrim’s incident, Pilgrim settled out of court with Fire & Blood productions, who produce GOT, for £500,000 or $686,000. That same year in 2018, another stunt performer, Casey Michaels, suffered a career-ending ankle injury on season 8 of the show after being dropped from a 12-foot ledge into a pit of cardboard boxes.

Irlam oversaw the stunt that ended Michaels’ career as well, and she alleges he also changed the stunt from rehearsal to execution, which she feels was the reason for her injury. In 2023, Michaels settled her own lawsuit over the incident and received £7 million, or $9.3 million, from the network — a significant jump in monetary value from the £4 million, or $5.3 million, she sued for.

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.

The Switch 2 may be out now (and if you're interested in buying it, check out our Switch 2 buying guide), but that doesn't mean that we've forgotten about the original Switch. If you're looking for some good Nintendo Switch deals, we're here to help. Here we've gathered up some of the best Switch deals currently available, including some nice discounts on Super Mario RPG at Walmart and The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom at Woot.

You can see these deals and even more of our current favorites below. For more updates on the latest discounts, follow @IGNDeals on Twitter/X. And if you're curious to see our favorite discounts for Switch 2, head over to our roundup of the best Nintendo Switch 2 deals.

Best Nintendo Switch Game Deals

Woot's 'Video Game Super Sale!' is full of great Nintendo Switch game deals right now. Some of our favorites include discounts on Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but those just scratch the surface of what's out there. There are also some great deals at Amazon and Walmart at the moment. You can see those deals and many more of our favorites above.

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When Should You Buy a Nintendo Switch?

The short answer is that you should buy a Nintendo Switch whenever there’s any kind of sale, regardless of the time of year. Amazon will likely offer the same console bundles as it will on Black Friday or Amazon Prime Day in any other sale, so there’s no real reason to wait if you’re in need of a Nintendo Switch.

That being said, there are sometimes some unique bundles and promotions during Black Friday that you won’t find any other time of the year. They usually include additional games (like the famous Mario Kart 8 bundle) or Switch accessories for free, but quantities tend to be limited. As always, do your research into the seller before you make a purchase.

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With how expensive gaming is getting in 2025, we're trying to save you as much money as possible on the games and other tech you actually want to buy. We've got great deal roundups available for all major platforms such as PlayStation and Xbox, and keep these updated regularly with brand-new offers. If you're trying to keep costs down while maintaining your favorite hobby, stay tuned for more incredible discounts.

Robert Anderson is a deals expert and Commerce Editor for IGN. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter.

Elden Ring Nightreign has been out for about a month at this point, but players are still uncovering little interactions sprinkled throughout the game. One, apparently, lets you circumvent the downsides of dealing with a demonic merchant, for the low, low price of many, many runes.

If you've advanced far enough into Elden Ring Nightreign, you're probably familiar with Libra, the demonic Nightlord who loves to offer a bargain. These offers come with downsides, that players have found are sometimes worth tanking and sometimes not. Libra is an end-of-run Nightlord, but can also appear through a random world event in other expeditions against other Nightlords.

Much like other events, a purple fog will envelope the area and you'll get a notification, telling you a demon has cursed you. A chunk of your maximum health will also be blocked off, in the upper-left corner. Normally, to clear this, you'll need to head to the spot where the merchant has spawned and pay him, either 15,000 or 35,000 runes depending on the day, to lift the curse.

Once the curse is lifted, you also get a buff. But as one reddit user has pointed out, paying off the Libra event lets you get a free buff if you interact with him again.

"For 15k/35k runes, you can get any of the available merchant buffs by talking to Libra again without any of the downsides," they wrote. "Eventual greatness activates instantly, the flask doesn't remove levels when you drink it. Feel free to kill the demon on day 2 if you're prepared enough, but ONLY AFTER you pay off the curse and get the free buff."

Normally, these buffs offer a trade-off. YouTuber Garden of Eyes catalogued all the possible buffs and side-effects, which range from extra flasks to stat boosts, at the price of some immediate cost to your person. Maybe a little less maximum health, or a timed stat debuff.

With this particular event, though, it looks like you can get the possible pay-off without the recursive consequences, making the Faustian bargain just a bargain. Sure, it costs either 15,000 or 35,000 runes depending on the day. But some of those buffs? They might be worth the cost, and if you're already paying to fix your health bar, why not get a little more?

It's really, really important to note that this only applies to the specific instance where Libra spawns and curses your squad. If you find Libra hanging out somewhere in the world, sans curse, you won't be able to spend the 15k or 35k runes, and thus won't get the follow-up freebie.

Also, you won't be able to pull this off if you attack and fight the merchant, obviously. So maybe hope that your teammates are on the same page as you, when it comes to dealing with the devil.

While it's a fairly specific buff, any advantage helps when facing down some of the more terrifying Nightlords of Elden Ring Nightreign. If you want to test it yourself, you could even try rolling for the right seed to spawn the Libra event, and then find out whether the power is worth the price.

We’ve got plenty of Nightreign tips and tricks to help you take down all the eight Nightlord Bosses, and if you’re wondering how to unlock the two locked Nightfarer Classes, check out How to Unlock the Revenant and How to Unlock the Duchess, plus How to Change Characters.

Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.

IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak reckons the key to his studio's survival in an increasingly volatile games industry is down the pan… literally.

In a candid interview with The Game Business, Abrak confirmed IO's upcoming Bond game, 007 First Light, will benefit from Hitman's model of keeping fans engaged while keeping development costs sustainable, as the studio acquired "tons of experience now from World of Assassination, and tons of experience on how to extend a single-player experience by giving desirable free content to players."

“I was the executive producer on [2012’s] Hitman Absolution, and I swore never to do more new toilets," he explained. "We were just doing new everything. It was just a throwaway. When we were doing the initial foundation on Hitman 2016, we built it in a way where we would do smart reuse.

“Without being too precise, Hitman 2016… let's say it was a $100 million game. Hitman 2 was maybe $60 million. Hitman 3 was $20 million. And Hitman 3 was the highest Metacritic. It was 85, 84, and 87 Metacritic," he added. "And it had very unique new locations."

Intimating that the studio learned the hard way that Hitman Absolution was a "wasteful production," Abrak now says it "completely changed [the IO team's] thinking."

"Building this foundation, the brick system as we call it, where we can make an experience, like [new Hitman mission featuring Mads Mikkelsen] very quickly and efficiently," he added. "This was a really [important] part of us creating sustainable AAA production. I'm not going to sit here and say we are doing everything right. We'll keep on trying to improve and be less wasteful, but still super ambitious."

While there is, by Abrak's own admission, "a bigger investment into Bond," the director is confident that "longevity" will be built into production.

"If we were to look at sequel at one point, who knows? At IO, we have a really, really good way of trying to be efficient. That's extremely important to us.

“The first objective with 007 First light is to come out with the best possible, most impactful journey for gamers. Again, without giving too much detail, you could expect that we'll be applying some of our learnings from World of Assassination to Bond." I'll certainly be counting the number of toilets we see…

IO Interactive's James Bond game was first announced back in 2020 as Project 007. From the off, IO said that it was developing a fresh James Bond origin story and a wholly original piece of work, rather than anything that followed the events of any particular film.

It wasn't until June 2025's PlayStation State of Play broadcast that we got our first proper look at 007 First Light. Set to launch in 2026, 007 First Light's incarnation of James Bond was involved in a childhood tragedy that left him an orphan at the age of 11, after which he spent the rest of his childhood in various British boarding schools. We later see Bond as a young recruit in the Royal Navy, from which he is recruited by MI6.

More recently, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak has said he hoped 007 First Light would be the start of a new trilogy of games, though, unfortunately, the studio's beloved Hitman franchise is on hiatus while IO works on this game. We also learned that in addition to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, 007 First Light is getting a Nintendo Switch 2 release.

As for Hitman? It's not totally abandoned, of course. IO just announced that a co-op mode is in the works for the games, and Mads Mikkelsen will reprise his iconic Casino Royale role as an Elusive Target. But as for new Hitman games, the franchise has officially been on hiatus since 2023.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.

I can’t believe the XY era of Pokémon cards launched 12 years ago but here we are, watching Mega Evolutions return later this year. With the Scarlet and Violet era coming to a close, Mega cards are about to spike in both demand and price. Now’s the time to grab big hitters like M Charizard EX and Shiny M Rayquaza EX before the hype hits full throttle. Once the new sets launch, these originals will be harder to find and much more expensive.

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Over in tech, the Baseus 67W USB-C Charger is a massive win for anyone running a Nintendo Switch 2 or ROG Ally X. It’s compact, fast and doesn’t overheat, which makes it ideal for travel or all-day sessions. The slim RFID wallet is still going strong as a clean everyday carry option and if you're following the MCU, the Thunderbolts UHD combo preorder with steelbook and extras is already discounted. Let's go over the best of this weeks daily deals:

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Mega Evolution Pokémon Cards Are Climbing

I can't believe the X Y era of Pokémon cards came out 12 years ago, but it was an amazing era for the TCG introducing the Mega Evolution mechanic. Mega's will be returning later this year with the start of the Mega Evolutions era and the end of Scarlet and Violet, so snapping up these top Mega cards before prices go even higher is a wise move. We know how it'll play out, no one will be able to grab the new sets at launch, then the nostalgia will kick in and these cards will skyrocket. Just the Charizards and Rayquazzas alone are worth a look.

Pokémon TCG Classic

The Sam's Club Pokémon TCG Classic deal is back, and it's massively undercutting other big box retailers and the secondary market. Just for comparrison, the top four cards from this set, Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur and Mewtwo, are worth the same price as this discounted offer. This deal is well worth it and should be snapped up as soon as possible.

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As usual we're looking at over-inflated pricing at big box stores, but it's a dependable source of sealed product for trainers looking to add to their collections or rip open boosters. Although we'd recommend checking out secondary market prices first, as big retailers are now regularly selling over market value now too. I've already done the hard work for you:

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The Most Expensive Japanese Black Bolt White Flare Cards

The most expensive cards from Pokémon TCG's Black Bolt and White Flare sets are already commanding serious prices in Japan. Top of the list are the Special Illustration Rares of Zekrom ex and Reshiram ex, both featuring intricate, hand-drawn artwork and fetching well over ¥20,000 (around $130–$150 USD) on the secondary market.

Also climbing fast are the new BWR (Black White Rare) cards and the full-art Victini promos from the themed file sets. With stunning clay and knitted art styles also making their debut, collectors are pushing prices up across the board, especially for low-population, high-style secret rares.

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With Black Bolt and White Flare wrapping up the Scarlet & Violet era, all eyes are now on what’s next—and Mega Evolution is officially back. The Japanese Championships 2025 confirmed MEGA Symphonia and MEGA Brave as the first entries in the new Mega Expansion Packs, launching August 1 in Japan. These sets reintroduce Mega Evolution ex cards in a powerful new form, now Stage 2 Pokémon worth 3 Prize Cards when knocked out. Cards like Mega Gardevoir ex, Mega Venusaur ex, and Mega Lucario ex are leading the charge, and collectors are already snapping up classic Mega cards in anticipation of their return to the spotlight.

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September 12th is closer than you think, so get Borderlands 4 preordered from Green Man Gaming and secure your preload on Steam. Randy Pitchford reckons that it's co-op mode will be "The best ever", too.

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Preorders are now live for Magic: The Gathering’s next major set, Edge of Eternities, ahead of its August 1 release. You can lock in Play Booster Boxes, Bundles, Commander Decks, and Collector Boosters, with prices already dipping below MSRP in some spots. With some chunky lore, borderless cards, and premium packaging teased, now’s a good time to grab your picks before stock tightens closer to launch.

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There's the usual suspects of insanely priced boosters such as Theros Beyond Death, but there's also some discounts such as 9% off a box of Assassin's Creed collector boosters and a massive 32% off a booster box of Lord of the Rings set boosters.

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I was going to say how insane MTG Final Fantasy's popularity is, but it's completely understandable. Whilst sealed stock is going up in value and becoming harder to get, there's plenty of option for the most in-demand cards for your deck or collection.

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Aetherdrift is one of Magic: The Gathering’s more experimental sets, blending high-speed vehicle mechanics with a bold visual style. Released as part of the Universes Beyond series, it introduced new archetypes and card types designed to shake up both casual and competitive formats.

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Monster Hunter Wilds has hit its lowest price yet for the standard physical edition on PS5 and Xbox Series X at just $55.99, down from $69.99. This latest entry takes the series into a fully voiced narrative, dynamic biomes, and crossplay multiplayer. If you’ve been waiting for a price drop to jump into the Forbidden Lands, this is a solid time to grab a copy.

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Itching to ditch the big city and take on farm life instead? A virtual opportunity awaits you in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, which is now available to preorder if you're a Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 owner (see here at Amazon). There's a Standard Edition and Premium Edition of the game available for each console that are all set to release on August 27 this year. Alongside the game and its various preorder prices, the Premium Edition also comes with some extra goodies, which we've broken down below.

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For only $20 more than the Standard Edition, you can pick up the Premium Edition of Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, which comes with quite a few bonus items for fans to enjoy. These include an original soundtrack CD, an art book with over 100 pages to look through, a cloth poster, and a sheep pocket plush toy that are all stored in an adorable outer box alongside the game itself.

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What Is Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar?

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is a remake of Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar. It's set in Zephyr Town, which is home to a bazaar that's seen better days. You turn up as a brand new resident who's tasked with breathing new life into the town's once-famous bazaar. As a farmer, you'll grow and harvest a variety of crops, then sell them at the weekly bazaar from your own customizable stall. Per the Story of Seasons website, it also features a "rich story, enhanced with voice acting for the first time in the series."

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Elden Ring Nightreign is filled with excellent loot for Nightfarers to wield, on your expedition to take down the Nightlords. But how excellent can it get? Well, one player who found a rare weapon and decided to find out has gone viral for building their blade up into the ultimate Nightlord-slaying machine — only to see it also then ultimately tumble back down to nothing.

All of this centers on Japanese YouTuber mintius (via Automaton Media), who acquired the Marais Executioner Sword, a weapon that raises attack power upon defeating enemies — but usually only by a certain amount.

Given that Nightreign usually has time limits, thanks to its encroaching storm, this sword's power wouldn't normally have the chance to snowball too far out of control, despite being a strong weapon. But Mintius managed to get the right combination of enemy and encounter spawns to scale it as far as it can go, and then even further.

Per Automaton's translation, Mintius hunted mobs in the Wormface encounter for "about an hour" with the Marais Executioner Sword, to see what would happen. Their attack power hit a damage cap at 9,999 after defeating 725 enemies, with the last damage value he saw as 63,375. After defeating the 727th enemy, though, Mintius was "suddenly unable to deal any damage at all," and got killed.

「マレー家の執行剣」で1時間ほどミミズ顔の雑魚を狩り続けて検証
727体の敵を撃破して攻撃力は9999で余裕のカンスト
最後にステータスから確認したマレー家の執行剣の表示攻撃力は63375
725体目を撃破したところで、突如として全ての敵へ一切ダメージを与えられない状態になり死亡した pic.twitter.com/q95neZfdu3

— 負けミン mintius (@amabamamabam1) June 24, 2025

The going theory is that Mintius hit an "overflow," and suddenly went from hitting the damage ceiling to scraping the damage floor. Much like the internet tall-tale about Gandhi in Civilization, hitting the upper-limit may have caused Mintius to wrap back around to the lower.

Mintius is apparently going to continue testing the Marais Executioner Sword, to see what kind of limits and bounds exist on it, as well as the incredible damage potential behind it. They apparently want to try doing a plunging attack on a Flame Chariot, just to see what kind of damage numbers it can put up. It will probably get wild.

For the average Elden Ring Nightreign player, maybe take this as a sign to not get too greedy in farming up that Marais Executioner Sword when you find it. Or at least, don't spend an hour doing so. It certainly seems like a good weapon, but it looks like there's some hubris to be found in trying to take it to its highest heights.

We’ve got plenty of Nightreign tips and tricks to help you take down all the eight Nightlord Bosses, and if you’re wondering how to unlock the two locked Nightfarer Classes, check out How to Unlock the Revenant and How to Unlock the Duchess, plus How to Change Characters.

Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game Season 3.

Squid Game Season 3 is here. The final game has been played, the winner declared, and nothing will ever be the same – at least until Netflix gets going with Squid Game: American Style. Regardless, you know what that means… We can finally rank all the games, baby!

Specifically, we’re going to rank the games not by how cool or deadly they are in the three seasons of the series, but by actual difficulty level. Because you may or may not have noticed, the thing that makes each of the games trickiest is that human nature gets in the way. Sure, strategy and sizing up your opponent is going to play in any game, from Monopoly to Football. But with plenty of fans inexplicably playing (hopefully) non-deadly versions of Squid Game at home or at Netflix pop-up experiences, some are naturally going to be easier than others.

With that in mind, let’s break down every game in Squid Game, ranked by level of real-world difficulty (and as a note, this was written before watching Season 3, Episode 6, so if there are any last second surprise games we’ll add in later).

Unranked: Special Game/Bathroom Fight/Revolt

There are several sequences in Squid Game that are part of the overall games, but would not be considered games, per say. For example, the “special game” in Season 1 when the lights go out and everyone tries to kill each other, or the bathroom fight in Season 2. Similarly, while the revolt towards the end of Season 2 is part of the mental chess game between Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and Hwang In-ho, aka The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun), it is also not actually a game. Imagine asking your friends “hey do you want to play special game” and then you turn out the lights and try to kill them? You’d likely not be invited back to parties, is all we’re saying.

15. Russian Roulette

As seen in Season 2, Episode 1, this is ranked towards the bottom because it isn’t a difficult game to play. The Squid Game twist here is that they only spin the chamber once, versus between every turn like a “normal” game of Russian Roulette. There’s no skill involved, it’s pure luck, and even less luck in this variation. You just pull a trigger and by turn six, one of the two players is dead. Deadly level? Pretty high. Difficulty level? Extremely low.

14. Bread and Lottery

Another simple game from Season 2, Episode 1, The Recruiter (Gong Yoo) approaches unhoused people in a park and offers a loaf of bread, or a lottery ticket. At the end of the “game” he stamps on all of the remaining bread. That’s it! As long as you know how to make a choice, you can play this game.

13. Sky Squid Game

The one original game in the series, this is introduced in Season 3, Episode 5, and uh… It’s utter nonsense. There are three large pillars: a square, a triangle, and a circle. The rules are that one person needs to get pushed off while still alive, and then everyone else can move on. However, if nobody has been pushed off in the allotted time, then everyone dies. To add to the game they have all the time they want to discuss, the timer doesn’t start until they press a button on the floor. And there’s a long metal pole in the center they can use to push people off.

There is some strategy here in the mix on the show because Gi-hun and Player 222, who is a baby (not a joke), are considered two different players. So the other folks would really like to push them off separately, on subsequent pillars. But in terms of playing this game in the real world there’s no real strategy other than poke someone with a pole until they fall down.

12. Hide and Seek

Introduced in Season 3, Episode 1, and played in Episode 2, the Squid Game version of Hide and Seek has a few variations. First, the seekers all have knives. Second, the hiders have keys they can use to open doors – with three different types of keys available (did you guess they were circle, triangle, and square keys? Because they are). The hiders get a head start, and can hide anywhere on the multi-level maze. They either need to escape or not get caught during the 30-minute game. Meanwhile, the seekers have 30-minutes to find the hiders and kill them. If they fail to kill anyone, they’ll be killed themselves.

Other than the knives, this is pretty similar to a game of hide and seek. And as it plays out in the show, there’s a lot of hiding, a lot of seeking, and occasionally some scuffling and stabbing… For the most part, once a seeker finds someone, they stab them and kill them and that’s the end of it.

To be fair, this whole thing is definitely skewed in the hiders direction, it’s much easier on their end, which is why this is ranked so relatively low. On the seekers end it’s a little more difficult. But only a little. They have knives, after all.

11. Marbles

As seen in Season 1, Episode 6, the Marbles game is wide open: two people play a game of marbles, whatever rules they want. Whoever takes the other’s marbles, wins. The loser dies (unless they’re an old man who is secretly running the game).

It’s hard to quantify this one on difficulty level mostly because it can be any marble game imaginable. But since some marbles games do involve skill (other than the instances where a player is aiming to throw the game to let the other player live) it’ll sit here towards but not at the bottom.

10. Jump Rope

A riff on Season 1’s iconic Glass Bridge (more on that in a bit), Season 3, Episode 3 introduces a thin bridge with a broken track in the middle, and a large, extremely solid “jump rope” that rotates past the bridge at an increasing rate. Meaning to cross, you need to run, jump, run, jump, until you get to the end.

This doesn’t seem that easy as it takes a lot of coordination on a thin bridge, but as we see on the show… Everyone, other than the baby and the baby’s mother (who broke her ankle) can complete the task pretty easily. The issue comes from a bunch of dudes who decide to throw people off the bridge. But otherwise despite how difficult this seems at first glance, it’s really only human nature that causes a problem here.

9. Tug-of-War

On the surface, there shouldn’t be much strategy involved in Tug of War. You pull. The other team pulls. One team wins. But as demonstrated by Oh Il-nam (O Yeong-su) in Season 1, Episode 4, there actually is a fair amount of nuance that comes in, based on the strengths and weaknesses of each team. In fact, despite having the “weaker” team, Gi-hun and company win by outthinking their opposition. There aren’t a lot of rules here other than “pull,” but if Squid Game convinced viewers of anything, it’s that Tug-of-War is a little more “war” than “tug.”

8. Red Light, Green Light

The first game played in the arena in both Season 1 and Season 2, Young-hee (that would be the massive doll who looms over the players) calls out green light, and everyone runs; and then red light, and everyone stops. If someone moves when she’s said red light, they die. It’s a simple physical test, but given how many generations of schoolyards have played this game where it does always end up with one winner, you probably already know this is more difficult to accomplish than it seems on the surface.

7. Mingle

First seen in Season 2, Episode 6, this is essentially a more complicated version of musical chairs… Of death!! The players are all spun around on a carousel, a number is called out, and then the players need to join in a group of that number and lock themselves in a room together. As the surviving players are whittled down, it becomes more difficult and more cutthroat.

There is a surprising amount of gamesmanship involved here, though there’s also manipulation from the gamesmaster in order to eliminate players and find a winner. Mind you, the way it’s executed in the show is mostly to create mass death to whittle down the number of players in the game. But even without the fear of getting shot, a lot of winning at Mingle involves making alliances on the fly, shifting those alliances, and figuring out what to do if you suddenly find someone else in the room you’re aiming for, with time running out.

6. Squid Game

The rules to the titular Squid Game are… Very complicated? One player is offense and can only hop on one foot outside the squid-shaped court. The other is defense and can move on both feet, inside the court. Then once offense has passed the neck of the squid, they try to get to the top of the squid and tap it with their foot, before they’re pushed out and “killed.” Or killed without the quotation marks in the case of the Season 1 finale.

Beyond keeping all the rules of Squid Game straight, there’s keeping an eye on your opponent, physical prowess, and psychology that play into Squid Game. It’s tricky, even if you are supposed to be able to casually play it on a schoolyard.

5. Ddakji

The game that started it all, the goal is take a square of paper, throw it at the other players square of paper on the ground, and make it flip over. That’s the long and the short of it, but while it is possible to do this, it is extremely hard to do – as seen in the first episode of the series, where Gi-hun loses approximately a million times in a row. To be clear, there are likely people this sort of thing is easy for; but for most of us, this is a task of precision and practice.

4. Rock Paper Scissors, Minus One

This amped up version of Rock Paper Scissors is also introduced in Season 2, Episode 1, and boy are there a lot of parts to it. You play the traditional game, but with both hands, and then both players pull away one of their hands. So there’s the psychological guessing game of your regular Rock Paper Scissors, times two: you have to try to figure out what your opponent is going to put out in the first round, and then what they’re going to pull away.

If that wasn’t complicated enough, the Recruiter adds that the loser needs to play traditional Russian Roulette (i.e., spinning the chamber). As we’ve established there’s no skill involved in playing Russian Roulette, but what this adds is time between rounds of Rock Paper Scissors. The only real way of beating someone at RPS is getting a sense of what they might do next based on what they think you will do next. These extra steps make the whole process more complicated, and far harder to win. Surprisingly complex!

3. Dalgona

Probably the most popular game to come out of Squid Game Season 1 and capture the imagination of the real world, the Dalgona candy game involves popping a shape out of the honeycomb candy intact. In the show if you break it, you die. In the real world if you break it, you lose. Some shapes are easy, for sure, but this is extremely tricky with more complicated shapes, as millions have realized since Season 1 dropped… And even tricky with some of the simple shapes, as well.

2. Six-Legged Pentathlon (mini-games: Ddakji, Biseokchigi, Gonggi, Paengi Chigi, Jegi)

The second “game” in Season 2 is actually five mini-games as well as a six-legged race. To quote BoJack Horseman: that’s too much, man! The games include Ddakji, which is hard on its own as we’ve already established. Then there’s Biseokchigi, aka Flying Stone, where you need to knock over a stone with another stone and if you miss, all six legs need to walk over and pick it up. Next up is Gong-gi, which involves throwing dice in the air in various combinations, ending with catching them on the back of your hand. Paengi Chigi, aka Spinning Top, is up next, and you have to wrap a cord around a top, throw it, spin it, and if you don’t once again everyone has to walk over and pick it up. And finally there’s Jegi, which involves bouncing a little paper wrapped around a coin in the air five times on your foot or ankle.

Any one of these would be – and is – difficult on its own. Together this is a near impossible and frustrating task that would turn from team building exercise to mass quitting on a company retreat.

1. Glass Bridge

Difficulty level? Impossible. As seen in Episode 7 of Season 1, the glass bridge features two paths of 18 glass tiles each. On one side, the glass is tempered and able to hold the weight of two people. On the other, it breaks instantly. And you don’t know which is which.

There’s an argument to be made here that like Russian Roulette, this is entirely chance. Except there’s a lot more to it. As we learn, Do Jung-soo (Lee Sang-hee) worked in a glass factory for years and was able to figure out which piece of glass was which, based on the refraction of light. Naturally, they turn off the lights… To which Do Jung-soo was able to test the glass by hitting it with a marble. Unfortunately, the folks behind him became impatient – there were only 16 minutes to cross – and threw him off the bridge.

So in fact, there are at least two ways to tell the difference between the breakable and non-breakable glass. You just need to have an intimate and life-long knowledge of how glass works. Barring that, though, there’s the psychological weight of second-guessing your choice based on what you think is going to break that will drive you quickly insane as you play. For that alone, this takes the number one spot. Just don’t jump on this ranking to test how fragile it is.

Jon Watts, the director of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man trilogy, was once set to bring us The Fantastic Four: First Steps as well — and who wouldn’t want that, after his excellent job with our favorite webbed hero? Well, Watts himself, it turns out. The filmmaker opened up about his departure from the project for the first time, revealing he was simply too “out of gas” after working on Spidey, both on set and in post, through the pandemic to take it on.

“The emotional strain of having to go through all of those COVID protocols while also trying to make something creative while also trying to make sure that your cast and crew were all safe — literally, people could’ve died if you did things wrong — that and the post-production process was very difficult,” Watts revealed at the Mediterrane Film Festival in Malta recently while participating in a storytelling masterclass on June 26.

“When you’re doing [visual effects work],” he continued. “There’s a whole international component to it where you’re using vendors from all over the world, and the supply chain had been interrupted because of COVID. It was really hard to get effects done in a traditional way.”

The filmmaker, who was a producer on and has a story credit for the recent hit Final Destination: Bloodlines, originally committed to working on First Steps between the second Spidey film, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and the third, Spider-Man: No Way Home. But when it came time to shift gears and get into pre-production mode, he realized he was “out of gas.”

“The COVID layer on top of making a giant movie layer, I knew I didn’t have what it would’ve taken to make that movie great,” he continued during the discussion. “I was just out of steam, so I just needed to take some time to recover. Everyone at Marvel totally understood. They had been through it with me as well, so they knew how hard and draining that experience has been; in the end, very satisfying, but at some point, if you can’t do it at the level that you feel like you need to for it to be great, then it’s better to not do it.”

Watts did note that he’s excited to see what director Matt Shakman and the cast and crew have pulled together for their version of the story, but that “it’s going to be [a] totally surreal experience for me to go and watch that movie.”

The Fantastic Four: First Steps — which stars Pedro Pascal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ralph Ineson — will arrive in theaters on July 25.

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.

In case you wondered, yes, all the Kojima-related Easter eggs sprinkled through Death Stranding 2: On The Beach were indeed created by game creator and director Hideo Kojima himself.

In a Japanese-language interview with GameSpark, Kojima revealed that even when he begged his staff to include little jokes and secrets for players to find, his team would "pretend not to know" what he wanted.

"All of that stuff was added by me," Kojima said, as translated by Automaton.

"Even if I said to the staff, 'Please put them in!' they would just say, Huh? and pretend not to know," he added.

Kojima even suggested a location in the game where fans could go to see an example of something he added. "If you look up at the sky at night in a hot spring, you can see a very beautiful sky," Kojima said. "If you zoom in there, various things will appear, so please play around with it."

What you find may not be to everyone's taste, however — "it might cause certain people to cringe hard," Kojima admitted.

We recently learned that Kojima changed the game halfway through because playtesting results were "too good," and he doesn't want his work to be "mainstream."

IGN's Death Stranding 2 review returned a 9/10. We said: "Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is a triumphant sequel that emphatically delivers on the promise of its original."

Don't forget, Hideo Kojima is also working on a live-action Death Stranding film with A24, and we recently learned that a Death Stranding anime is in the works, too. He's also working on a PlayStation exclusive action espionage project called Physint, and called the upcoming Xbox-published OD "a game I have always wanted to make."

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.

The Nintendo Switch is going out in a blaze of glory, with some exciting games launching to make way for the console's successor: the now officially released Switch 2. Whether they’re exclusively developed for the Switch or ported over from other platforms, these upcoming Switch games will likely wrap up the Switch era while also being compatible with the Switch 2.

In the second half of 2025, we'll hopefully be getting our hands on well-known in-development titles as well as a host of new games announced at the most recent Nintendo Direct. Here are all of the new Switch games we can look forward to this year.

All Upcoming Switch Games With Release Dates

A hand-drawn, open world platformer that lets you change the textures and objects you encounter. Think Scribblenauts, but somehow even quirkier.

Tamagotchi Plaza (June 27, 2025)

A new instalment in the Tamagotchi Corner Shop series (which I was personally obsessed with on the DS), Tamagotchi Plaza puts you in control of 12 different shops in Tahamiko Town. Complete minigames to serve adorable Tamagotchi friends in shops (including the dentist) to upgrade your town and build relationships.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 (July 11, 2025)

This remake collection truly brings the Tony Hawk experience, banging soundtrack and all, to the Switch. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 includes all of the original tracks, remastered in HD, and extra content for the Create-A-Skater and Create-A-Park modes. The game also supports cross-platform multiplayer for up to 8 people and lets you create your own challenges to share with friends.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has released its long-awaited 'Review Bomb' cape as a free gift for all players, commemorating last year's brief backlash when Sony tried to force PC players to link their PSN accounts.

Sony eventually U-turned on its snafu after provoking a firestorm of fan fury, as well a number of pointed comments from Arrowhead's own boss, Johan Pilestedt. The result was seen as a win by Helldivers 2's community, who got to work designing their own versions of the game's commemorative capes sporting the game's then-plummeting Steam review score graph.

Now, a year later, Arrowhead has finally released an official version for all players — with the graph-like design now dubbed the "Pillars of Freedom".

"In honor of their unquestioning commitment to the defense of Managed Democracy, the Helldivers have been awarded a commemorative cape," Arrowhead wrote via a new, in-universe update posted on social media. "The new uniform piece will be available in all Super Destroyer Armories as soon as the rollout is complete.

"This cape will be awarded to all existing players. As with our previous item rollouts, please allow some time for the item to arrive in your inbox."

COMMEMORATIVE CAPE ISSUED

In honor of their unquestioning commitment to the defense of Managed Democracy, the Helldivers have been awarded a commemorative cape. The new uniform piece will be available in all Super Destroyer Armories as soon as the rollout is complete.

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— HELLDIVERS™ 2 (@helldivers2) June 27, 2025

While initially a moment of real frustration for the game's fans and developer, the incident is now just another part of Helldivers 2 lore — and initial reactions among the game's community to the cape's release have all been positive.

"Not only is it a special event, it looks great too," one fan wrote. "I'll be wearing this one for a while. For a game with no story there's quite a lot of stories."

"Another day, another example of Arrowhead being the best devs," wrote another fan. "The madlads actually did it," said a third.

Last month, Helldivers 2’s ongoing Galactic War appeared to have reached another turning point, with the Federation declaring victory over the Illuminate. But, as ever, some in the game's vocal community were once again aggreived as players fought to hold the various Mega Cities of Super Earth.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

Magic: The Gathering has had plenty of Secret Lair crossovers this year, from SpongeBob to Deadpool, and one more is speeding onto the scene next month. Sonic the Hedgehog is getting three individual Secret Lair drops, and we've got the exclusive first look at one that's all about artifacts.

Flip through the gallery below to see all 7 cards in the Turbo Gear Secret Lair drop:

Unlike the recent Final Fantasy crossover, which is an entire draftable Magic set alongside four pre-constructed Commander decks, this Sonic crossover follows the blueprint of similar tie-ins by being limited to three Secret Lair drops. Secret Lair is what Magic calls its series of timed releases that contain just a handful of specific cards with special art, and they are all sold direct by Wizards of the Coast rather than in randomized packs.

In this case, the Turbo Gear drop has six exisiting Magic cards redone with new Sonic-themed art and names, as well as one token card. That includes a few fitting staples of Magic's most popular format, Commander, like Swiftfoot Boots and Lighting Greaves – because of course Sonic's shoes deserve their own cards. Also of note, a legendary vehicle called the Weatherlight is here as Tornado, Sonic's Biplane, and thanks to a recent rules change, you could actually have that be your Commander if you are so inclined.

WOTC says this drop is designed to complement the cards in another one of the drops that focuses on Sonic's characters themselves. While we don't have those to reveal, an example given in Turbo Gear's store description is equipping The Reaver Cleaver, reimagined here as Knuckles's Gloves, to Knuckles himself. This idea goes hand-in-hand with other crossover drops, like 2023's Tomb Raider, where the reprinted cards are meant to fit nicely with the new Legendary creatures, almost like a little "build your own Commander deck" starter kit.

The Turbo Gear Secret Lair drop (as well as the other two) will go on sale on July 14 at 9am PT on the official Secret Lair website, and will cost $29.99 for the non-foil version or $39.99 for foil. You better get there on time, too, because they will only be available in a limited quantity – and if other recent crossovers are any indication, they will likely sell out fast.

Tom Marks is IGN's Executive Reviews Editor. He loves card games, puzzles, platformers, puzzle-platformers, and lots more.

Need some cash for your Car Dealership Tycoon enterprise? Look no further. We've scoured the web for all of the currently active codes available in Roblox's car-selling sim, so you can keep your business running smoothly with some free cash injections.

Working Car Dealership Tycoon Codes (June 2025)

Below, you'll find all of the currently active and working Car Dealership Tycoon codes in June 2025 that you can redeem for free rewards:

• R8FOXZIE - Free Audi R8 Foxzie Edition
• URAGANO - $80,000
• DRAGRACE - $80,000
• LUCKY7 - $80,000
• AUDIRS7 - $80,000
• MAYLIMITED - $80,000
• SEASON17 - $80,000
• AUDIR8 - $100,000
• Killasfs - $50,000
• Foxzie - $15,000
• Tstingray - $50,000
• IranRan - $50,000

Expired Car Dealership Tycoon Codes (June 2025)

The following Car Dealership Tycoon codes have expired and can no longer be redeemed as of June 2025:

• CUSTOM200
• EASTER2025
• BARNFIND04
• SEASON16
• EVENT03
• ZENVOCOLLECTOR
• UPGRADELAUNCH
• EASTER2
• SAUSAGE
• PAGANISALE
• VOLKSWAGEN
• POLICESEASON
• VWCOLLECTOR
• IMMORTAL
• SCAVENGERHUNT
• COLLECTORCAR
• COPSANDCRIMS
• RETURNINGLIM
• NEWLIMITED
• NEWMAP
• XMASUPDATE

How to Redeem Codes in Car Dealership Tycoon

To redeem Car Dealership Tycoon codes, boot up the game and, once you’re in, follow the steps below:

1. Look at the top of the screen. To the left of the cash counter, you'll see a settings icon. It's represented by the small gear.
2. Click this icon to bring up the settings menu. At the very bottom of the settings menu is the redeem code bar.
3. Input your code into the bar and then press the "+" icon beside it to redeem it.

Why Isn't My Car Dealership Tycoon Code Working?

If your Car Dealership Tycoon code isn’t working, it’s likely due to one of two scenarios. The first is that the code was inputted incorrectly. Check the spelling and that the case is correct, then redeem again. You can even copy and paste the codes directly from this article over to Roblox if you want to make sure you’re inputting them correctly.

The other possibility is the code has expired or you’ve already used it. In this scenario, you should see an error message appear in the codes bar informing you that the code has already been redeemed or is invalid.

How to Get More Car Dealership Tycoon Codes

If you want to hunt down some Car Dealership Tycoon codes on your own, you'll have to scout through several different social accounts for the game. The main spots you should be checking are the CDT update info channel in the game's official Discord server, Foxzie's YouTube channel, and Foxzie's X account. All three will be updated from time to time with codes, so make sure you're subscribed to each to keep up to date with new code drops.

What is Car Dealership Tycoon in Roblox?

Car Dealership Tycoon is exactly what it says on the tin. You're offered the keys to your very own car dealership, and from there, your mission is to build it, customize it, and purchase new cars to display on the show floor. As you grow, you can take part in a variety of activities to increase your cash flow, including taking to the streets to race other players and avoiding police in high speed chases. So, do you have what it takes to cement your dealership as the go-to hub for the most luxurious rides in the city?

Callum Williams is an IGN freelancer covering features and guides. When he's away from his desk, you can usually find him obsessing over the lore of the latest obscure indie horror game or bashing his head against a boss in the newest soulslike. You can catch him over on Twitter at @CaIIumWilliams.

A new Lord of the Rings LEGO set featuring the iconic Balrog is raising eyebrows among fans, due to an oddly-posed product photo.

The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook launched this month, and lets fantasy fans decorate their shelves with the franchise's iconic fire-breathing enemy. It's available to purchase now at Amazon and the LEGO Store.

It's a great-looking set, though fans have spotted one particular image of the Balrog that has prompted a few jokes online. In it, fans say, the position of the creature's fiery whip makes the demonic foe appear to be urinating.

The 1,201-piece LEGO set is designed to recreate the iconic moment from Fellowship of the Ring where Gandalf fights the Balrog as his allies flee the Mines of Moria. As the wizard makes his stand, uttering the immortal line "You shall not pass!", the Balrog falls while striking out with its whip — taking Gandalf with down into the depths also.

"We all know we thought it with that image," wrote one fan in lengthy thread of responses.

"*jumps to comments* Ok good, it wasn't just me," wrote another.

"Thank you comments for confirming I'm not crazy," wrote a third. "I know it's the fire whip but it really does look like the Balrog is taking a piss on Gandalf."

And of course, before long, there were several comments stating: "You shall not piss."

Other responses were more critical of the set's $129 price point, and suggested it was that, more than anything else, that was making them reconsider a purchase.

For those keen to see more hot Balrog action, Amazon Prime's Lord of the Rings prequel series Rings of Power includes the iconic enemy in its second season. This is, it's strongly suggested, the same enemy Gandalf faces centuries later, situated deep in Moria's depths.

It's been a busy month for Balrogs in general, as Rapper Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, seemingly rubber-stamped a report that indicated he was in talks to play Balrog in the upcoming Street Fighter movie.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

Want to grab some free cash with Arise Crossover codes? You're in the right place. We've compiled all of the active codes currently available in the popular Roblox open-world anime action game, so you can get your hands on some useful resources instantly.

Working Arise Crossover Codes (June 2025)

Below, you'll find all of the currently active and working Arise Crossover codes in June 2025 that you can redeem for free rewards:

• SUMMER - Skyrend Ptero Mount, 350x Legendary Dust, 400x Rare Dust, 600x Common Dust, 100x Legendary Ticket, 2x Legendary Potion Bundle
• SHADOWSTATS - Various Rewards
• 1.1MLIKES - Moon Gecko Mount, Various Rewards

Expired Arise Crossover Codes (June 2025)

The following Arise Crossover codes have expired and can no longer be redeemed as of June 2025:

• WORLD2
• Delay
• NEWENCHANT
• SORRY4SHUT
• LOADOUTSFIX
• LOADOUTS
• LOADOUTS2
• UPGRADES
• QUESTS
• ALIENS
• 1MLIKES
• WINTERRAID
• EASTER
• GZIRU
• ENCHTICKET
• TICKETS
• DUSTS
• Potions
• Beta
• COFFIN
• RUNES
• UPDATE
• DRAGONBLUE
• AlphaTester
• TESTERQA
• TESTER

How to Redeem Arise Crossover Codes

To redeem Arise Crossover codes, boot up the game and, once you’re in, follow the steps below:

1. Look at the icons on the left-hand side of the screen. In the top left-hand corner of the icon menu, you'll see an icon with a shopping basket.
2. Click the shopping basket to be taken to the in-game shop. Scroll to the bottom of this shop menu or press the codes icon on the right of the pop-up box and you'll find the codes bar.
3. Enter your code into this bar and then click send to redeem it.

Why Isn't My Arise Crossover Code Working?

If your Arise Crossover code isn’t working, it’s likely due to one of two scenarios. The first is that the code was inputted incorrectly. Check the spelling and that the case is correct, then redeem again. You can even copy and paste the codes directly from this article over to Roblox if you want to make sure you’re inputting them correctly.

The other possibility is the code has expired or you’ve already used it. In this scenario, you should see an error message pop up at the top of the screen informing you that the code has already been redeemed or is invalid.

How to Get More Arise Crossover Codes

If you're on the hunt for new Arise Crossover codes, you'll probably want to make your way over to the game's official Discord server. Once you're a member, you'll be able to access the codes channel, where you'll find new codes whenever they're published.

What is Arise Crossover in Roblox?

Arise Crossover is an open-world action game with a unique twist. It's world is comprised of multiple anime-inspired lands, with players able to travel to islands ripped directly from Solo Leveling, One Piece, Naruto and more. While exploring this familiar landscape, they'll be able to battle enemies native to each world, levelling up their character, unlocking new powers and completing dungeons.

Callum Williams is an IGN freelancer covering features and guides. When he's away from his desk, you can usually find him obsessing over the lore of the latest obscure indie horror game or bashing his head against a boss in the newest soulslike. You can catch him over on Twitter at @CaIIumWilliams.

Details of a developer-only Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 playtest have been accidentally released to all fans on the Call of Duty app. This included details of unannounced multiplayer modes, such as a 20v20 wingsuit option. Whoops.

"An internal, developer-only Black Ops 7 playtest was set to begin this weekend," explained CharlieIntel on X/Twitter. "[Activision or developers Treyarch/Raven Software] accidentally pushed the message of the day to everyone on Xbox on the Call of Duty app, instead."

CharlieIntel also attached previously unannounced details about multiplayer modes, Skirmish and Overload.

Skirmish's description detailed in a screenshot said: "Two teams of 20 fight to compete objectives across a large map. Capture points of interest, destroy payloads, and transmit valuable data to score. Use your wingsuit to flank and reach objectives before your enemy. The first team to reach the score limit wins."

There's also Overload, which is described as "two teams of six players each fight to control a neutral EMP device that must be delivered to the enemy HQ for score. Reach the score limit and claim victory by delivering multiple EMP devices."

An internal, developer only Black Ops 7 play test was set to begin this weekend. They accidentally pushed the message of the day to everyone on Xbox on the Call of Duty app, instead.

— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) June 27, 2025

Developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — which was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025 earlier this month — is the first ever consecutive release within the Black Ops sub-series. Matt Cox, General Manager of Call of Duty, insisted that “as a team, our vision from the start was to create a back-to-back series experience for our players that embraced the uniqueness of the Black Ops sub-franchise.”

Black Ops 7 is set to star Milo Ventimiglia, Kiernan Shipka, and Michael Rooker, with Ventimiglia portraying David Mason, Shipka as new character Emma Kagen, and Rooker reprising his Black Ops 2 role of Mike Harper.

Earlier this month, Activision pulled controversial adverts placed inside Black Ops 6 and Warzone loadouts, insisting they were a “feature test” published “in error.” It’s worth remembering that Black Ops 6 is a premium, $70 game, and this year’s Black Ops 7 is expected to jump to $80 after Microsoft said that gamers will see Xbox charging $79.99 for new, first-party games around the holiday season.

And don't forget, Beavis and Butt-Head are now in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

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The Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman has said that a recent episode of the long-running animated series that showcased the aftermath of a key character's demise should not be considered canon — as the show actually has "no canon".

Indeed, Selman stated that the events of The Simpsons' Season 36 finale episode Estranger Things would likely never be referenced again.

Warning! Spoilers for The Simpsons' Season 36 finale follow.

As noted by IGN earlier this week, The Simpsons fans were left stunned when recent flashforward episode Estranger Things took the unprecedented step of featuring the events that followed the death of a core family member: Marge Simpson.

The Simpsons has a loose, floating timeline and has aired numerous flashforward episodes over the years (some of which now contradict each other, as the show's decades-long run has continued).

But the series does feature something of a consistent narrative. Past events are frequently mentioned (remember that time Homer went to space?), and the rare times a major character does die — such as Maude Flanders, and Edna Krabappel — these deaths are permanent.

Recent seasons have even featured two flashforward episodes that were connected, and none have delved as far into the future as Estranger Things, which sets itself 35 years later.

"Obviously since the The Simpsons' future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they're all different every time," Selman told Variety, in response to the episode provoking headlines.

"Marge will probably never be dead ever again. The only place Marge is dead is in one future episode that aired six weeks ago."

As IGN noted at the time, fans have been debating whether Estranger Things was canon. The series' fan wiki, for example, currently includes a warning that the episode is likely non-canon, as it is set outside The Simpsons' usual time setting. Perhaps fans will now need to reconsider whether this warning is even necessary, if the show's own makers are stating that The Simpsons' canon does not exist.

"There is no canon," Selman concluded. "The Simpsons doesn't even have canon!"

The Simpsons has currently been renewed until its 40 season, set to debut in 2028-2029.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

Anime Saga codes will have you stocked up on Gems, Gold, and Trait Rerolls. These will help you summon new units, buy materials and items, as well as craft new items, and evolve your team. If you're looking for all the latest active Anime Saga codes, IGN has you covered.

Working Anime Saga Codes (June 2025)

In the list below, you'll find all working and active Anime Saga codes. Be sure to redeem them before they're expired!

• BossStudiosQOL - Rewards
• BossStudiosSaga - Rewards
• WeeklyUPD! - Rewards
• AnimeSagaIsBack! - Rewards

Expired Anime Saga Codes (June 2025)

These codes are now expired:

• Firefighting
• MaintenanceSaga
• 400KLikes
• Release
• 50MVisit
• BossHidden
• 300KLike
• 100KFavorites
• HeadLessSaga
• 200kMembers
• 10MVisits
• InBugSagaWeTrust
• BugSaga
• 50KActive
• 1MVisits
• SorryForDelay
• SorryForShutdown

How to Redeem Anime Saga Codes

Now that you've got a handy list of all working Anime Saga codes, here's what you need to do to redeem them:

1. Load up the Anime Saga Roblox experience
2. When you load into the game, go to the left of the main hub, where you should see the golden PLAY portal
3. Go up the stairs and past the PLAY portal, toward the red leafy tree
4. You'll see the blue REROLLS hub. To the left, you'll find an NPC standing underneath the red trees and by the leaderboard
5. This NPC called Frierin is who you need to speak to, to be able to use codes
6. Interact with Frierin and the codes! bar will appear
7. Copy and paste the codes from this article into the "Enter Code" section and hit redeem!

Why Isn't My Anime Saga Code Working?

There are usually two reasons why a code isn't working. It's either because:

• The code is expired
• The code has been entered incorrectly

If a code has been entered incorrectly for Anime Saga, it will say the "code is invalid." If the code is expired, you'll see yellow text saying it's expired. To help you use the right codes, we'd recommend copying and pasting the code directly from the working list of codes in this article. We check and test each of the codes before we add them to our articles. However, when copying them, you can sometimes accidentally include an extra space somwhere, so always double check there's no additional spaces!

Lauren Harper is an Associate Guides Editor. She loves a variety of games but is especially fond of puzzles, horrors, and point-and-click adventures.

Looking to earn some useful potions in Capybara Evolution? You've come to the right place. Below, you'll find all the currently active codes in Roblox's adorable evolution game, as well as a rundown of exactly how to redeem them.

Active Capybara Evolution Codes (June 2025)

Below, you'll find all of the currently active and working Capybara Evolution codes in June 2025 that you can redeem for free rewards:

• PARTY - 3 EXP Potions
• INDEX - 3 EXP Potions
• ZAPYBARA - 3 EXP Potions
• VOIDEVENT3 - 3 EXP Potions
• VOID2 - 2x Void Ticket
• VOID - 3x EXP Potions
• Smelter - 3x EXP Potions
• Barablocks - 3x EXP Potions
• BunnyCrate - 1 Golden Easter Crate
• BunnyMan - 1x Easter Ticket
• i2perfectfix - 5x EXP Potion
• SorryForDelay - 2x EXP Potion
• Scrolls - 1x Bronze Scroll
• Capytropolis - 3x EXP Potion
• FIXWINS23 - 3x EXP Potion
• AnotherFIX - 3x EXP Potion
• Capymera - 2x EXP Potion
• I2PERFECT2 - 3x EXP Potion
• CAPYHARA - 1x EXP Potion
• RB23 - 1x Bronze Crate
• CRATES - 2x Bronze Crate
• NEWUPD1 - 1 EXP Potion
• capycode289 - 1x EXP Potion
• I2PERFECT - 1x EXP Potion
• Release - 1x Wins Potion

Expired Capybara Evolution Codes (June 2025)

The following codes have expired as of June 2025.

• Brrrra

How to Redeem Codes in Capybara Evolution

To redeem Capybara Evolution codes, boot up the game and, once you’re in, follow the steps below:

1. Look in the bottom right-hand corner of the page and you'll see a flyer icon. It's indicated by the red circle in the image above.
2. Click this flyer icon to bring up the Update Log.
3. On the right-hand side of the Update Log text you'll see a code bar icon labelled "Codes." It's indicated by the pink circle in the image above.
4. Click this code bar icon and it'll bring you to the codes bar.
5. Type in your chosen code and then hit Verify.

Why Isn't My Capybara Evolution Code Working?

If your Capybara Evolution code isn’t working, it’s likely due to one of two scenarios. The first is that the Capybara Evolution code was inputted incorrectly. Check the spelling and that the case is correct, then redeem again. You can even copy and paste the codes directly from this article over to Roblox if you want to make sure you’re inputting them correctly.

The other possibility is the code has expired or you’ve already used it. In this scenario, you should see an error message pop up below the code bar informing you that the code has already been redeemed or is invalid.

How to Get More Capybara Evolution Codes

The best way to stay up to date with Capybara Evolution codes is by joining the Capybara Evolution Discord server. Once you're a member, you can head directly to the server's Announcements and Codes channels, which are both updated by the devs when new codes drop. You can also check out i2Perfect's YouTube Channel, where the creator posts clips that reveal secret codes.

What is Capybara Evolution in Roblox?

Capybara Evolution drops players into a colourful world as a tiny capybara with a single mission: evolve. Surrounded by formidable creatures, they must battle to level up and transform their capybara, making their way up the food chain across a variety of different worlds. To aid in their battle, they can purchase eggs that hatch into pets, which will help them take down stronger enemies and ascend to the ultimate capybara life form.

Callum Williams is an IGN freelancer covering features and guides. When he's away from his desk, you can usually find him obsessing over the lore of the latest obscure indie horror game or bashing his head against a boss in the newest soulslike. You can catch him over on Twitter at @CaIIumWilliams.