Out of nowhere, Xbox's Black Friday sale has officially gone live. There was a little less fanfare in the run-up to the sale, at least compared to PlayStation and Nintendo's announcements.

Nevertheless, the deals are now available, Xbox fans. Let's jump into all the details and discuss where best to find Xbox deals during Black Friday season.

Just to rip the band-aid off right away, there are currently no discounts on Xbox consoles, instead just a trade-in offer with Microsoft ($130 for a used console). Still, there's plenty of other great deals to consider in the sale, so let's focus on those.

There's up to 75% off digital games, which has a reasonably good selection, including Black Ops 6 for $34.99 (the CoD from last year), The Outer Worlds 2 for $55.99, Ninja Gaiden 4 for $55.99, and Battlefield 6 for $59.49.

There's also a handful a great games from the past few years that are around $10 as well, including Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Sonic Frontiers, The Witcher 3, Dead Space, and more.

Physical games are also on sale at other major retailers, featuring games like Silent Hill f and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater for $49.99, EA Sports FC 26 for $29.99, and Borderlands 4 for $47.99.

Xbox's latest round of discounts also smartly coincide with Amazon's and Best Buy's official Black Friday sale, but there are a few price discrepancies between the major retailers and Microsoft's official sale.

Strangely, whilst Xbox controllers are discounted at Microsoft, they are listed for around $52, around 25% off. But the same Xbox Controllers are also included in other sales I just mentioned for just $40 instead. It's night and day in terms of pricing.

This isn't unusual for Microsoft, and strangely tends to happen every Black Friday, but it really is a stark difference, especially when Amazon was recently selling the Pulse Cipher Xbox Controller for $33 (since sold out), while Microsoft still had it for $59.22 in its own sale.

It's happening — the brilliant Silent Hill 2 Remake is finally arriving on Xbox Series X/S, and it's being released with a hefty 50% launch discount.

Fans have spotted that the game is already available to purchase via the Xbox Store in Australia, where it's already Friday, November 21. Store pages for the game in other regions are also available, though the game cannot yet be purchased elsewhere.

When it does become available — likely when midnight passes tonight — the game looks to have launched at half price. The Australian version has a recommended retail price of AU $99, currently reduced to AU $50, which is something at least after the long wait.

As of yet, publisher Konami is yet to make the launch official, though we are just hours away from Microsoft's impending Xbox Partner Preview showcase, where the console maker is set to detail a raft of new third-party announcements. You can tune into that later today, Thursday, November 20 from 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, or 6pm UK time.

Silent Hill 2 Remake has been available since October 2024 on PC and PlayStation 5, though its eventual arrival on Xbox Series X/S has long been expected. Last month, a new Xbox version of the game popped up on the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), suggesting it was finally almost time — and here we are.

Silent Hill 2 Remake has sold 2.5 million worldwide, something which has propelled sales of the overall franchise past the 10 million mark. IGN's Silent Hill 2 Remake review returned an 8/10. We said: "Silent Hill 2 is a great way to visit – or revisit – one of the most dread-inducing destinations in the history of survival horror."

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Amazon has announced its latest attempt to use generative AI: to add a Video Recaps service for previous seasons of popular shows on Prime Video.

Prime Video is Amazon's streaming platform, and is home to hit TV series such as Fallout, Reacher, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The tool is now in beta on select Prime original series, with catch-ups using music, dialogue, and narration to give the viewer a recap on what happened in the earlier seasons of a show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Amazon is betting AI can identify key plot points for a series to be synchronized with a voiceover narration and dialogue snippets.”

Naturally, the hope with a new feature like this is that casual viewers who may have missed large sections of a TV series can jump back in easily with an AI-generated visual recap that goes over both characters and crucial storylines missed. Prime Video is no stranger to AI, as it uses it to suggest search topics already, but this is certainly a more blatant use of the technology.

“Video Recaps marks a groundbreaking application of generative AI for streaming,” VP of technology at Prime Video, Gérard Medioni, explained in a statement. “This first-of-its-kind feature demonstrates Prime Video’s ongoing commitment to innovation and making the viewing experience more accessible and enjoyable for customers.”

No word just yet on when, or if, this technology will be rolled out for all shows and users, but it stands to reason that Prime is going to at least try to get us all on board as soon as possible, especially with big hitters Fallout Season 2, Reacher Season 4, and The Boys Season 5 waiting in the wings.

The new comes hot on the heels of Disney boss Bob Iger's confirmation that the company's streaming service will soon allow subscribers to create and view AI-generated content.

Speaking during the company's latest earnings call, Iger said Disney+ would change to also host user-generated content for the first time, in a step that looks set to open the floodgates for fans keen to make their own creations featuring the likes of Darth Vader, Iron Man, and characters from Frozen.

"[We're] in the midst of rolling out the biggest and the most significant changes — from a product perspective, from a technology perspective — since we launched the service in 2019," Iger said, per The Hollywood Reporter.

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

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has its debut trailer, showing off a first look at the next entry in the long-running franchise exactly a year before launch.

Due out November 20, 2026, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games led by Jennifer Lawrence, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.

Sunrise on the Reaping, directed by Francis Lawrence (who directed four of the five Hunger Games films beginning with Catching Fire), is based on the 2025 book of the same name by American author Suzanne Collins. It’s the second prequel novel to the original The Hunger Games trilogy, following 2020’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which itself was adapted into movie form in 2023.

As the trailer reveals, because these games are the Second Quarter Quell, each district must send twice the number of tributes to the capital (two boys and two girls), totaling 48 tributes, to remind the districts that "two rebels died for every one Capitol citizen."

We see a young Haymitch Abernathy played by Joseph Zada (Woody Harrelson played the character in the original Hunger Games), Elle Fanning, fresh from her star turn as a Weyland-Yutani synth in Predator: Badlands, as a younger version of Effie Trinket, who was originally played by Elizabeth Banks, Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland played the character in the original films), and Glenn Close introducing the games itself.

Jesse Plemons, meanwhile, is a younger version of Plutarch Heavensbee, the character the late Philip Seymour Hoffman played in the original Hunger Games films. Succession star Kieran Culkin plays a young Caesar Flickerman.

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

The time has come: Best Buy has kicked off its Black Friday sale, and it's full of excellent deals to look through. This is especially true on the video game front, where we've spotted quite a few exciting deals already. One that's jumped out to us is Silent Hill f, which has received a $20 discount that's dropped its price from $69.99 to $49.99.

This applies to both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions of the game (see the deal here at Best Buy), so no matter the platform you play on, you can still save if it's been on your radar.

Silent Hill f Drops to $49.99 for Black Friday

October was an incredible debut month for Battlefield 6: it's officially the best-selling title in franchise history in the U.S., and the best-selling game in the U.S. as of last month.

This comes from Circana's monthly report, which states that Battlefield 6 is the best-selling game of 2025 on both Xbox and PC, and the second best-selling on PlayStation so far, behind NBA 2K26. It also says that Battlefield produced the highest single month tracked full game dollar sales total of any video game in three years. That means it sold more than the last few Call of Duty games did in their debut months, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II in October of 2022. Is this troubling news for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 when the November report comes out? We'll see.

Battlefield 6 is followed by Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which is the second best-selling game of October and, per Circana, the best-selling physical game year-to-date. Notably, because Nintendo does not share digital sales data, its second-place spot is entirely based on physical sales.

Other debut games for October included The Outer Worlds 2 at No.7, Little Nightmares III at No.8, and Ninja Gaiden 4 at No.11. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake didn't make it to the top 20, but it was No.6 on Nintendo platforms for the month. There weren't any other major outliers in the charts this time around.

Hardware spending was up 36% year-over-year to $351 million, with the Nintendo Switch 2 offsetting declines in the other three major consoles: Nintendo Switch (sales down 52% year-over-year, wonder why?), Xbox Series (down 37%), and PlayStation 5 (down 22%). The Nintendo Switch 2 sold approximately 328,000 units in October, 68% ahead of the original Nintendo Switch's pace and 3% ahead of the PlayStation 4, which was the previous record-holder.

Thanks to Battlefield, the Nintendo Switch 2, and a good month for mobile, overall game hardware, content, and accessories spending was $4.9 billion for the month, up 3% year-over-year.

October 2025 U.S. Top 20 Best-Selling Games:

1. Battlefield 6 (NEW)
2. Pokemon Legends: Z-A (NEW)*
3. Ghost of Yotei
4. NBA 2K26
5. EA Sports FC 26
6. Madden NFL 26
7. The Outer Worlds 2 (NEW)
8. Little Nightmares III (NEW)
9. Digimon Story: Time Stranger
10. Borderlands 4
11. Ninja Gaiden 4 (NEW)
12. EA Sports College Football 26
13. Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2*
14. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
15. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
16. Silent Hill: f
17. Minecraft*
18. Helldivers II
19. Grand Theft Auto V
20. Red Dead Redemption II

* Indicates that some or all digital sales are not included in Circana's data. Some publishers, including Nintendo, do not share certain digital data for this report.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.

Games Workshop is once again expecting big profits despite an expected slowdown in licensing revenue from blockbuster video game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2.

Games Workshop’s main business is the sale of miniatures fans assemble and paint for use in tabletop wargames, such as Warhammer 40,000. But it is increasingly an IP business, with huge revenue from smash hit video games such as 2024's Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and animations, such as Amazon’s Warhammer 40,000 Secret Level episode. Last year, Games Workshop and Amazon finalized a deal for Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe, which will involve the creation of films and television series. Space Marine 3 is also in development.

In a trading update, the Nottingham, UK-based tabletop wargame company said it now expects revenues of at least £310 million for the six months to the end of November 2025, which would amount to a 15% rise from the same period last year. Pre-tax profit is expected to be about £135 million for the half year, up from £126.8 million last year. Shares in Games Workshop were up 12.8% on the news this morning.

That’s despite expected licensing revenue of at least £16 million, which would be down from the £30.1 million reported during the same period last year.

Space Marine 2 may well be the most successful Warhammer 40,000 video game ever made. It sold over 7 million copies less than a year after going on sale, and, according to Saber Interactive exec Tim Willits, changed everything for the studio. Even Games Workshop itself has talked about the money it’s made from Space Marine 2, and protagonist Titus is now leading the charge on the next narrative expansion of the Warhammer 40,000 setting.

In January, Games Workshop said it was on the hunt for the next blockbuster Warhammer video game, but CEO Kevin Rountree also expressed a degree of caution on potential future video game success, admitting hits like Space Marine 2 are few and far between. “We recognise that successes like these for Warhammer are not a given in the world of video games,” Rountree said at the time. “Clearly we are looking for the next one. We remain cautious when forecasting royalty income.”

Meanwhile, Games Workshop had warned that Donald Trump’s tariff plans could damage its profits by up to £12 million, but it seems the impact has yet to significantly dull financial performance.

Games Workshop’s primary business is of course the sale of tabletop wargames and their miniatures, with an expansive bricks and mortar retail business providing a foundation for the hobby. In July, Games Workshop said that a “cute looking pipistrelle bat” was “delaying our work on our new temporary car park.” Yes, really.

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