It's time to retire that bike of yours and upgrade to electric! For Cyber Monday, AliExpress is offering two of its most popular ebikes down to historically low prices, both well under $500. The deals below stand out for the following reasons: 1) they're a lot less expensive than buying the exact same bike off Amazon, 2) they're all shipped from a local US warehouse so you don't need to worry about tariffs or shipping delays, and 3) they're sold by reputable vendors with plenty of reviews and sales to back them up.

Amyet V9-G60 1000W Electric Bike for Less Than $400

If you're exhausted by the ever-increasing price of Xbox Game Pass, there's relief at Amazon in the form of three months of Game Pass Ultimate for just $56.99. That's $18.99 per month, or more than $10 cheaper than the Ultimate plan's usual $29.99 monthly.

Microsoft charges promotional rates first, even if a deal like this is added to existing Game Pass subscriptions, so buyers don't pay their usual rates until the three months is up. And for those who can swing it, the company lets subscribers stack deals. That $30+ savings every three months adds up – it's the difference between paying $240 vs $360 annually.

Save $30 Off Three Months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

It’s back, tabletop fans. Both Amazon and Target are running a “Buy 2, Get 1 Free” sale on board games, many of which are already individually discounted for Cyber Monday. And these deals are stackable, an elite-level deal-hunting move I always appreciate. Let’s take a look at what board games are eligible for the sale.

Buy 2, Get 1 Free at Amazon

The deals include a lot of standards that should be in most people’s game collection, like Ticket to Ride, Catan, and Azul. It’s also a great sale for parents looking to pick up family board games, as tons of classic games are on sale. Games like Scrabble, Operation, Mouse Trap, Guess Who, Twister, and the like are all represented here.

I’d especially recommend Flip 7, a simple card game that only takes a few minutes to teach newcomers, with matches that last just 15 - 20 minutes. That makes it great to whip out with a group of friends when you’re looking to kill some time. Check out our Flip 7 review for more information.

Flamecraft is an excellent strategy game with dragons (see our review here). The latest edition of Talisman brings a classic dungeon-crawler into modern times (review). And The Lord of The Rings Journeys in Middle-Earth Board Game made it on our list of the best fantasy board games.

Those are just a few of the games eligible for the Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale at Amazon. You can click through to the full sale here to see every game available. There are plenty. And remember, you can also check out the same sale at Target, where you may find a handful of different games available.

Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert for IGN. He also runs IGN's board game and LEGO coverage. You can follow him on Bluesky.

LEGO sets are popular this Cyber Monday, and the best LEGO Star Wars deal is the Battle Droid with STAP from the Phantom Menace. It's currently down to $89.99 on Amazon, saving you $50 off of its original price of $139.99. It's not the only LEGO Star Wars set discounted, but it's definitely the biggest bang for your buck. LEGO's Cyber Monday sale ends today, so make sure you look through what they're offering in case there's a set you've had your eye on.

LEGO Star Wars Battle Droid With STAP

Phantasmal Flames has exploded in popularity from release, but the good news is larger print runs are starting to pay off with more stock floating around. We're not out of the woods yet, but prices are coming down for both sealed and single card values, so it's having the right effect on the market.

With TCGPlayer running their Cyber Weekend event until 11PM ET today, this is your last chance to knock an extra 10% off whatever you purchase on there. If you're already a TCGPlayer subscriber, that cashback percentage goes up to 16% depending on how long you've been a subscriber for. If you right up today for $8.99 per month, that flat 10% goes up to 13%, which adds up if you're stocking up.

Phantasmal Flames Booster Packs

The cheapest way to get in on Phantasmal Flames are single booster packs and blister packs. If you're collecting, i'd reccomend going for the sleeved booster packs or the blisters. It just means you'll get better chances of cards being in a gradable condition if you pull something worthwhile.

Phantasmal Flames Boxed Products

Looking to keep some Phantasmal Flames in your sealed collection? This is a great time to catch the Pokémon Cernter Exclusive Elite Trainer Box and The Mega Charizard X ex Ultra Premium Collection. With 10% knocked off, they'll run you $173.70 and $165.59 respectively, which is going to be the best price you're likely to ever find on these products.

If you're planning on ripping booster packs i'd go for the Booster Bundle that contains six boosters for $43.84 after cashback or the Booster Box for $243, which is $12 cheaper than Amazon's cheapest price right now. Just remember, this cashback offer ends today at 11PM ET, so make sure to lock in yuour order today if you're in the market.

Bulk / Case Phantasmal Flames

If you're looking at really bulking up your sealed collection or ripping a high amount of booster packs, buying a case of Phantasmal Flames product is the way forward. It's usually cheaper buying in bulk, and keeping this all sealed is extremely collectable.

For example, buying the case of six Phantasmal Flames booster boxes means you're paying $227.99 per Booster Box after cashback, which is currently a saving of $15.01 per Booster Box, or $90.06 total by comparrison.

Christian Wait is a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything collectable and deals. Christian has over 7 years of experience in the Gaming and Tech industry with bylines at Mashable and Pocket-Tactics. Christian also makes hand-painted collectibles for Saber Miniatures. Christian is also the author of "Pokemon Ultimate Unofficial Gaming Guide by GamesWarrior". Find Christian on X @ChrisReggieWait.

It’s Cyber Monday, and possibly the last day to enjoy the best discounts this year. That includes deals on Xbox accessories, like Amazon's 23% discount for the Xbox-approved 2TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card, now available for just $199.99.

Seagate's 2TB Xbox Storage Expansion Card Is $75 Off

Xbox console deals may have been absent from Black Friday sales this year, but Best Buy's not letting the season of savings come to an end without a little treat for Xbox fans. The retailer is throwing in a free $100 Best Buy e-gift card with Xbox Series X purchases for Cyber Monday.

It's not a proper discount, but it's a nice salve for the burn of the console's $649.99 starting price, giving you some extra money to put toward on-sale Xbox games and accessories, or any of the other things Best Buy is discounting for Cyber Monday. The deal also applies to open-box consoles, which can net you extra savings if you happen to find one in stock near you. Alas, the deal doesn't extend to the cheaper Series S.

Buy an Xbox Series X 1TB Console, Get a Free $100 Best Buy E-Gift Card

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are theoretically the best times to buy just about anything, but with ongoing price hikes, I’ll be the first to admit it’s getting harder to figure out what’s an actual deal. Rest assured, there is one certainty: Right now is definitely when you’ll find the lowest prices on streaming subscriptions.

We've seen plenty of Cyber Monday streaming deals go live, but Apple TV is offering one of the best discount on an ad-free subscription. Until midnight tonight, you can grab six months of Apple TV for $5.99/month.

Save Over 50% on Six Months of Apple TV

Woot!, which is owned by Amazon, is offering a rare Cyber Monday deal on one of the new Nvidia RTX 50 series graphics cards. The factory reconditioned MSI Inspire GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB graphics card drops to just $719.99 (normally $850 new). Amazon Prime members get free shipping, otherwise it's a trivial $5 delivery fee. This GPU comes with a 180-day MSI warranty as well as a 30-day Woot return policy. From past experience, these listings have extremely limited inventory, so this deal probably won't last the entirety of Cyber Monday. If you've been waiting for a discount on an RTX 50 series GPU for your upcoming PC upgrade, this is a good opportunity to pick one up at no markup.

MSI Inspire GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU for $719.99 (Retail $850)

Factory reconditioned with 6 month MSI warranty

I've been annoyingly busy lately, and haven't had as much time as I would have liked to dive into World of Warcraft's housing feature, which is now live in the World of Warcraft: Midnight beta. So even though I've now had multiple tours of its features and possibilities at this point, I was blown away when I poked my head into the community and saw this:

And this:

And, holy smokes, this:

Come on. There's no way we're going to be able to make that! Well, okay, maybe no way I, a deeply mediocre interior decorator, will be able to make that.

Nevertheless, early testing for housing in WoW is proving to be quite the success. In fact, amid a lot of controversy around both add-on removal and transmog, it's nice that there's one new feature everyone's just sort of unanimously positive about.

Still, there are still plenty of questions still up in the air about how housing will work once it gets into the full game, and what its long-term future is going to be. I sat down with Jesse Kurlancheek, housing lead and principal game designer, and Joanna Giannullis, senior UX designer, to pepper them with questions specifically about housing: how will it work, what features can we expect down the line, and what the future holds. Here's our full interview below, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity:

IGN: So in the past we've sometimes seen Blizzard introduce new features and then drop them at the end of the expansion, like Pandaria's Farms, and the Garrisons in Warlordsof Draenor. Can we be reassured that housing is going to continue to be supported with new content and added to with each new expansion?

Jesse Kurlancheek: I will reassure you as much as possible that that is the case. We have a short-term, medium-term, long-term list of features and content that we want to add. We talk about what are we doing in 12.0 and 12.1 and 12.2 and beyond pretty regularly. One of the things that's most exciting about housing is that, if I ask you, "Hey, what are the three things you want most from housing?" Just rattle off, and I ask Jo[anna Giannullis] and I ask Aramis [the PR representative on the call] and I ask 10 players, I will get a dozen different answers ranging the gamut, but chances are 90, 95% of those things totally make sense in housing. It's such a wide, open field that you can't really say no to a lot of stuff, and because of that, it's really exciting to add all of these things. And you can see a through line as we talk about stuff, we want players to have this area to express themselves, to be creative, to build sort of what they want, their ideal home in Azeroth.

But then we also say, "But we want you to be amongst other players. We want you to be with your friends or Guildies. We want to give you a space that is not just yours but is ours." And then from there, where do people get excited? What sort of sparks your joy? What lights your eyes up? What do players do on day one, on month one that they want to keep doing, that they want to build on? So, we have our roadmap. We have the things that we think are really exciting. We have the things that we know players want. We know that, yeah, you want more content, you want more decor, you want more of this culture or that culture or this expansion stuff or that expansion stuff. You want to be able to have access to these types of features and we want more customization.

We want better quality of life. We want to be able to do things together that we can't right now. But then, we have things that you don't necessarily think about. When you say, oh, when we announced neighborhoods back in the spring, you'd see people sort of be like, "Oh, now that we have this sort of collaborative space, what does that mean for us?" And watching people have conversations about the what ifs with housing is very gratifying. Hopefully, that very long-winded answer reassures you that we're thinking about things as not just a single feature release, that this is a very long-running thing.

You were talking about having a space for people to hang out in. So, I log in and I go do dungeons or whatever it is I do and I play, but there's also sort of a home base that I tend to hang out in. And generally in the history of WoW, that's always been a capital city, because there's an auction house and a bank, and a bunch of other people there. And I'm wondering how you're thinking about the tension between, do I want to hang out in my house where there's no bank and no auction house, or do I want to hang out in a capital city? But if I don't hang out in a capital city, is the capital city going to be empty? How are you kind of thinking about that?

Joanna Giannullis: I think we are expecting players to sort of settle into different types. We made sure that a lot of things that you go to the capital city for, that's still where you have to go to do that. You got to go and visit your professions trainers, do your crafting orders, visit the bank, the auction house. A lot of those things are still going to be central in the city. You may still want to go there so you can see the Brutosaur parades or whatnot. There's still going to be a lot there for you. But we also wanted the neighbors to be a space where you could be more social with your friends and your Guildies because that's a little bit harder to do in those hub cities. So, we're hoping that there's a nice balance. We're also not making you choose where to put your Hearthstone, we're going to give you a hearth to your actual home so you'll be able to quickly go to either location to do the things that you need to do while you're waiting for raid or what have you.

Is there any thought to making there be practical benefits to being in the house though? I know you probably don't want to put a bank there because then everyone would just sit in there all the time, but I wonder if there's anything else? I saw this thing where tourist NPCs were coming by and taking pictures, which is really cute. I don't know, could NPCs come visit? Could there be a reason to just sit there and hang out that's practical and gameplay oriented?

Giannullis: Right now, we do have cooking stations in your house. There are a couple small things and I'm sure there's things that will happen in the future, but there are some things that you might find more enjoyable to just do in your home or your plot or your neighborhood, and there's a lot of reasons to keep returning to your neighborhood. We've got endeavors coming up with the launch Midnight and that's something that you're going to be participating in, but then those are also going to send you back out into the world. So, there should be a lot of give and take there.

Kurlancheek: We do a fairly hard line on sort of the player power aspect of stuff not coming into housing. You should never feel that, "I have to go engage in a housing loop because if I don't, I can't attune to a raid, or I won't have a 3% DPS boost or whatever." So, that sort of practical stuff is really not on the table. What you mentioned about NPCs coming by and doing cutesy, neighborly, things like that, I think is very much a part of housing. Feeling like this little part of the world that is yours and your friends is alive is important. Seeing the NPCs put the little umbrellas up when it starts raining, seeing them sort of queue up for the shops and things like that really just gives a life and a vibrancy to this place. But it's not practical, right? It's all just vibes, man.

Is there any thought to eventually doing something where two people could have possession of a house together or you could give other people permission to decorate your house? I feel like there's a budding scene of potential interior decorator professions that could spring up around this.

Kurlancheek: Yeah, one comes up a lot is, "I'm not especially creative or I'm not great with a tool set. Can my friend come over and sort of deck out my apartment or deck out my house?" Yeah, it's certainly on our radar.

Was there anything that you had to leave on the cutting room floor for this initial launch that you really wish you could have gotten in? And are you willing to say what it is?

Giannullis: So much. So much. I mean, one of the things that's known is we were able to get the outdoor rooms in for the testing, but those won't be available to players until we actually launch Midnight, just due to some technical reasons, but we were really excited to get them out. We're glad we got them out early so players could give feedback and test them and see what they like about him. But there's some things like that.

Kurlancheek: There's exterior lighting we had to disable during alpha or beta, I can't remember what, just because of the performance impacts. If everybody in your sight line put 100 lights on their lawn, that was going to cause a problem. So, we had to disable those. We're going to fix it up, get them working post-launch, post Midnight launch. Yeah, I think there've been a number of things that sort of people held near and dear to their hearts that we had to just not cut, but just be like, "That's going to wait a little bit and then we'll get to it."

In the future, there might be more to types of neighborhoods, right? We have an Alliance and a Horde neighborhood look and then there's set places in those, but are you thinking about other environments you might want to do down the line?

Kurlancheek: Yeah, I think there's, letting players make a space that they vibe with. I'm sorry, I say vibe a lot with housing.

It's very vibes-based.

Kurlancheek: It's very vibes-based. But getting players a space that they feel like they can make theirs is really important. In designing the neighborhoods, we are very intentional about trying to hit a very broad spectrum of, here are players, here are houses that are for very hermit players, that they don't want to live next to anybody. Here are houses that are in a little cute cul-de-sac, so there's 2, 3, 4 houses that a small group of friends can live in. Here's houses on the ocean, here's houses in the woods, here's houses sort of in all of these aspects. But that's not going to necessarily hit everybody's thing, and so figuring out what the large missing pieces there are is part of the early post-release sort of conversation.

Giannullis: Another thing to add to that, something that we've made an effort is going out and looking in the world, especially even in old content and finding decor or foliage, things that we could add as props and decor so that the players can make their space into what they want. So, if they've always loved a specific zone in the game, great, let's add some of those trees and some of those flowers as decor that they can buy and then put in their yard. And that's something that we're working really hard, I think, to get a variety of decor that feels like every little part of the game has its place, and you can go back to old content and get those things and then you can put them in your house.

Going back into old content and finding things, from each of you, what is the most surprising or weird or favorite thing that you found that you're like, "Oh, I have to put that in housing."

Kurlancheek: So, there's literally a spreadsheet or a form that people can fill out for, "Oh, this thing was something we should add." It's a little bit unfair being me because I can sort of nudge things a little bit harder to go in and say, "Hey, Jay," Jay's the decor lead. I'm like, "Can you add this for me? Literally just for me. I don't know if anyone else cares about it, but I would like it." And he'll be like, "Yeah, fine, that's fine."

I think the more interesting thing has been, this is a massive game, right, and seeing players pull up props that have long been forgotten about. They're like, "That was a cool prop. We should get that in." Someone posted this, it was a shark, it was a new asset. So, probably from Battle for Azeroth if I had to guess. But it was a shark that had been caught, but that was maybe still alive, I'm not quite sure. But it was a very nice, they wanted to make a fishing village on their lawn. And I was like, "That's great." And so, having people post what they're looking for is really useful for us because stuff like that shows up and we're like, "That is a great asset."

Giannullis: We also have had a lot of, this is oddly internal too. This is, everybody really wants goblin items and then trash items. Those get requested a lot. It's really fun. Yeah, people love them and one of the ones I think we added was the Johnny Trash pile. So, if you get the achievement with him back in Battle for Azeroth, and it's so funny, it's like who wants that? But as soon as you see it, you want it. You are like, "I have to have that. I don't know what for, but I know I need that." And it's so fun to see people get excited about those sort of sort of decor.

Kurlancheek: String lights. Everybody loves the string lights.

Would you ever consider making certain housing items super rare or super secretive? I'm thinking about a decoration equivalent of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake or something that's the reward at the end of a secret quest, like the Hivemind or something?

Kurlancheek: Let's see how I'm going to answer this. So, there's the catalog that shows you all the items in the game, all the decor in the game. There's a flag we can say to hide items until you've earned them. So, yeah, that.

Would you ever lock anything behind world first or make something fairly exclusive?

Kurlancheek: I think depends on your definition of fairly. So, meta achievements for expansions are pretty exclusive. And so, we have decor for meta achievements. I think where it's maybe require more conversation of stuff that's time limited. We try to generally err away from things that if, you're like, "Oh, I just need this green placard or whatever, but it was only available for some weird event or something," that kind of feels bad.

Giannullis: We've also, we talked a while back about what sort of decor would we reward for something like PvP, because we'd like to have, and this is no secret, you can get housing decor from everything in game. If there's a way you can earn something in game, we're going to let you get housing decor that way. So, we wanted to do something for PvP and it was like, okay, well if we do this and then other people that don't PvP want it, is that going to feel bad? And so, the concept of trophies came up and you can see some of that early stuff is showing up on the beta. So, I think there's been real conscious effort to make sure that if it's something that you can get from something very exclusive, it's not something that we expect everybody to want to have a ton of in their house or it's something that you can get a version of another way. But if you see that specific version, you know they did something awesome to get it. It's a balance there.

When I log in on December 2nd and I have access to this feature, I'm just immediately going to have a bunch of decor already, right? Because I have achievements that exist, I have things that I have done before, so I should just have a bunch of stuff?

Kurlancheek: You will, if you've been playing hard for 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, you will potentially log into 150, 200 things that you will just get spammed with and showered with and be able to be like, "Oh yeah, I remember when I did that quest in MoP or something and it gave me whatever it gave me." And the meta achievements kick in and you start with this very eclectic mix.

I'm sure whatever I have is totally mismatched and makes no sense.

Giannullis: Well, we also start you with the starter packs, which have some more streamlined modern items. Yeah. So, you'll have a mix of some wild stuff and then some, okay, at least I have a bed and a chair. So, we're going to start you with a good mix of things, I think.

Are you looking into any eventual copy-paste functionality or the ability to save custom item combinations? I know that's something a lot of people have been asking about.

Giannullis: A lot of people have asked about that. Definitely copy-paste. Being able, once you get something just right in advanced mode, not having to do it all over again. We're definitely keeping an eye on everything that people are asking for. There's a lot of things that people want. There's a lot of things we want to do, so it's just trying to decide what's going to help players the most.

Yeah, I mean the next question is basically the same one about export strings. If people want to decorate a house, show people and then have someone else copy it if they have those items.

Kurlancheek: Yeah, I think when we talk about any feature that's sort of in housing, it's what is sort of maximally useful across that spectrum of different players. And so, when you talk about something like importing or exporting strings of stuff, that helps the interior designer type player who wants to sort of provide services. It helps the players that are not necessarily super creative, right, are not really jazzed about the mechanical side of decorating. They have a vision but don't want use the tool set.

It helps the players that they like to browse. You just sort of, I have a room for this and room for that, a room for this and a room for that. And also, I think maybe the most compelling part about it is it helps players have a sense of ownership where you might not already. So, if you're a great decorator and I'm a less good decorator, and you make your little pirate cave and like a great pirate cave, "I'm going to take that pirate cave, but I don't like that she doesn't have sharks in the water," or whatever. And then, I throw a bunch of sharks in the water. Now that's sort of mine in a way that remixing of content in general is sort of a part of the internet. Being able to do that in game is also really valuable.

How are you thinking about things like housing contests and stuff like that? I don't know. I think about Race to World First and how that's a tune-in event, and I feel like I would watch an interior decorating show.

Giannullis: The thing is we've already seen a bunch of creators pop up that are like, "I'm a housing creator, this is what I'm doing." And they're starting to run their own challenges and contests, and so that's really exciting to see. I think we're all kind of watching that to see what sort of activities the players are getting up to.

Kurlancheek: Yeah, and how we can sort of build tools to support whatever that sort of shenanigans of being, right? A Trial of Style kind of thing. What do players need to be able to do that? What sort of functionality makes sense to better enable that?

Giannullis: I remember talking about how many people you can even have in your house at a time, and it was something that we were working really hard to make sure we could get that to a good place because we know people want to have parties, they want to do all these different things and we're trying to make sure that what we're building is supporting that and can handle that.

Is there a limit to how many people can come into your house at a time?

Kurlancheek: There is, there is. We're still figuring out where the line is. We do our stress testing and throw a ton of bots into a very decorated house. What happens? In the neighborhoods, regardless of what the solution or whatever the number is there, everybody who lives in the neighborhood can come into the neighborhood. So, if there's 55 players and the max number of players is 100, say, then we reserve those 55 lots or 55 places for people that live there. So, you can always come into your house.

So I know we can decorate the exteriors of our houses. Is there any thought to stuff like, okay, my guild has our neighborhood together. We can collectively decorate the parts of the outside that are not attached to a house. Can we build a little community center?

Kurlancheek: Yes. The idea of us building together is super compelling, I think. As soon as players can build something themselves, we want to build things together. And so, what that ends up being depends on what people are trying to do or what is interesting for them. If it is just us coming together in the town square and hanging up balloons or whatever, because we're having a birthday party, what does that look like? Versus we want to build a racetrack for our mounts around the outside of a town and what does that look like? Versus we want to do prop hunts and dueling things and all of these different potential pieces of stuff. What's juicy?

It feels really wild to talk about it. It feels like we're almost discussing a completely different game than WoW, like a game within a game. I could very easily just do this all the time and then my raid team would wonder why I'm not there.

Kurlancheek: That's an actual problem, by the way, that there are people that are finding housing really compelling and be like, "I don't know if I can make it to a raid tonight. I'm busy with my house."

I don't know that that's a problem you even need to solve, but you were talking about having creators that just want to do housing. And I don't know, has that changed the team's perspective on how they approach this? Has that changed the perspective of the holistic design of the game?

Giannullis: I think we've already always started wanting to make sure that we were kind of in it for the long haul. This is a feature that we know is going to live in the game for some time to come, and we're going to be adding more to it with every, not just every patch, but in future expansions and we want to keep growing it. And so, when you say like, "Oh, well what about all these things we got?" It's like, yeah, over time, yeah, let's do it. Tell us what you want and let's see what we can do.

This is how we eventually get the dance hall. This is the way.

Kurlancheek:

Oh, dance hall is, that's a real low hanging fruit. People are going to toss that together right quick.

I'm sure they already have.

What is the biggest piece of feedback you're seeing from players right now and what do you plan to do to address it?

Kurlancheek: I'm going to reframe that to critical feedback because the biggest piece of feedback is just, "We want, give us more decor, give us more features, give us more of this, that and the other thing." I think one of the things that gets talked about most frequently is outdoor decor limits are too low. People want to be able to build more stuff outside their house. We're trying. We're going to see where things land and sort of, we want players to be as creative as they want to be. And placing restrictions on folks is never the goal in any of our sort of guiding principles.

Giannullis: I know a lot of players are giving feedback about bits and pieces of the UI and the UX for the actual act of decorating, and there's not a strong one. There's a lot of things and things that we know will help players decorate. I think we're just trying to keep all of those in mind. We're keeping accessibility in mind a lot as well. We know that there's some things that might work for one player but not another. So, we're just keeping in our eyes open to what we're seeing and trying to make sure that's all stuff that we'll be able to address in the future.

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

Black Friday has given way to Cyber Monday, extending gaming and tech deals another day - and Nintendo Switch owners could be in for a treat. That’s because of big discounts on first-party and third-party games for Nintendo's hybrid system, including a Mario and Rabbids double pack for under $15, Just Dance 2026 Edition for 50% off, and even a third off of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

Check Out The Best Switch Games On Sale For Cyber Monday

Other deals on first-party Nintendo Switch games include a 34% off digital download code for Luigi’s Mansion 3, bringing the spooky, goo-filled adventure down to $39.99. And Mario Party Superstars, a sort of greatest hits of the series’ best minigames, is down to $51.95 at Amazon, while Walmart is selling Splatoon 3 for $30 – that's an almost 50% discount.

HP just unloaded an excellent Cyber Monday deal on one of the most powerful gaming laptops currently available. The OMEN MAX 16 RTX 5080 gaming laptop starts at just $1,799.99 with free shipping after a $1,400 off instant discount and $100 off code "GOBBLE100". This is one of few RTX 5080 equipped laptops I've seen so far priced under $2,000. The RTX 5080 is an absolute monster of a mobile GPU that surpasses the previous generation's top performer, the RTX 4090.

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Remember the 2004 The Punisher film? Yeah, these days, that version of the popular character has mostly been relegated to the sidelines since Jon Bernthal took over in 2016. But it turns out the actor who played Frank Castle in the film, Thomas Jane, doesn’t even think he should’ve played the character in the first place.

"I was miscast as Frank Castle," he recently told ComicBookMovie.com. "Frank Castle is an Italian, he's got black hair, he's got a whole different sort of lineage that was born out of [being] the antithesis of the mob in the '70s. I'm not that guy. I had to dye my hair black. I had to become a different guy. I'm happy the part is played by somebody who is more right for that role. I had fun, I did the best I could with it, and I'm very grateful for it, but I'm not that guy."

Jane’s time as the Punisher saw him going up against Howard Saint, played by John Travolta. Their movie garnered a painful 30% on Rotten Tomatoes and only grossed about $54 million on a $33 million budget. IGN's The Punisher review returned a 3/10.

The actor did not reprise his role for the 2008 sequel Punisher: War Zone — duties were passed to Ray Stevenson — but he did return as Punisher for the 2005 PS2 game The Punisher.

Jon Bernthal took over the character in 2016 when he appeared in the second season of Netflix’s short-lived series Daredevil, Bernthal later went on to play Frank Castle in a spinoff series titled simply The Punisher from 2017 to 2019. He also reprised the role in the 2025 Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again.

Cyber Monday is your last chance to secure the best offers of the year before the holidays. If you're on the hunt for some last minute deals, we're actively rounding up the strongest Cyber Monday discounts, and you can all our top picks and price drops in IGN's comprehensive Cyber Monday hub.

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

Cyber Monday has officially landed, and with it a stellar price drop on God of War Ragnarök for PS5. Ragnarök, which is a 10/10 masterpiece by IGN's reckoning, is just $19.99 at Best Buy and Target, a whopping $50 discount from its original list price of $69.99 and one of the best Cyber Monday deals we've seen so far.

God of War Ragnarök (PS5) for $20

Prospective VR gamers, there's no better time to immerse yourself in real next-gen gaming. The best Cyber Monday deal on the popular Meta Quest 3S VR headset has been carried over from Black Friday, which means you have one more day to get in on this deal before it potentially expires at midnight.

Amazon has discounted the Meta Quest 3S 128GB model to $249.99 (normally $300) and is also throwing in a bonus $50 Amazon credit with purchase. That's basically getting a Quest 3S headset for $199. You also get the game Gorilla Tag for free.

Best Buy is offering similar Meta Quest 3S deals to Amazon, but with a $50 Best Buy gift card. The 128GB model also comes with The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners instead of Gorilla Tag. The 256GB model is down to $329.99 (was $400), also includes a $50 Best Buy gift card, and comes with the Batman: Akrham Shadow.

Meta Quest 3S Starting at $249.99 Plus $50 Amazon Credit

Uncut Gems may be the most hectic, viscerally discomforting, anxiety-inducing theater experience of my life. Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner managed to make wrong decisions faster than I could realize there was even a bad decision to be made. In the process, he became one of the most captivating protagonists of 2010’s cinema. Uncut Gems is an absolute masterpiece, and I’m excited to report that Marty Supreme - which stars Timothée Chalamet and comes from Josh Safdie, one half of the Uncut Gems Safdie brothers directing duo - shares much of the same DNA of that film.

If you’re looking for the spiritual sequel, the Casino to Uncut Gem’s Goodfellas, you’ll probably find it in a ping pong savant played by Timothee Chalamet.

A Quick Overview of Marty Supreme’s Plot

The film follows Marty Mauser, a persuasive shoe salesman stuck working for his uncle who thinks table tennis could be his way out of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Marty’s unassailable self-confidence will obviously be put to the test when it comes to ping pong. But the film’s true impact — its most memorable moments — come from testing Marty’s confidence away from the table, as he’s forced to scheme, hustle, and charm his way into competitions. A lot happens in between all the ping pong. But it happens fast. A lot of the time, it comes out of nowhere. And you don’t want to know about it going in. If you like movies like The Color of Money and Catch Me if You Can, good. Josh Safdie, who in addition to directing, co-wrote with Ronald Bronstein, pulls familiar elements from those films as well as Uncut Gems to paint a portrait of ambition under pressure that is genuinely fun to watch, but doesn’t lose that cinematic brand of stress the filmmaker has become known for.

Marty Supreme is a film that’s doing great work on all fronts, but it starts with Timothée Chalamet, who is a clear contender for all of this year’s best actor awards.

Timothée Chalamet Could Win Best Actor

Chalamet is completely mesmerizing as Marty Mauser. The character’s tendency to use his razor-sharp wit to talk his way out of corners isn’t dissimilar to Uncut Gem’s Howard Ratner. Both are insanely confident and driven to win, and both can be described as narcissistic, exploitative, and manipulative.

Where Howard’s frequent bad decisions drive Uncut Gems’ plot forward at the cost of the audience’s empathy, Marty is a much more sympathetic character. He may not always make the righteous decision, but he does it with an affability reminiscent of Paul Newman or Robert Redford in a ’70s crime movie.

There’s a moment early in the film where the press is interviewing Marty about his opponent in an upcoming match and, when he says, “I’ll do to him what Auschwitz didn’t.” There was a huge gasp in the theater when I saw the film, followed up quickly by, “It’s okay if I say it. I’m Jewish,” which got a big laugh.

That kind of outrageous claim is part of Marty’s charm and is also a testament to Chalamet’s on-screen charisma. It takes a lot of confidence to pull off a line like that, and it isn’t the only time Marty drops that kind of conversational bomb in the film.

But this is a Josh Safdie movie, and his films’ vibes are not those of a George Roy Hill movie. With Marty Mauser, Chalamet puts his own stamp on that Safdie brand of overwhelming turbulence by combining the hectic intensity Al Pacino brought to roles like Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon with the charisma Paul Newman brought to Gondorff, his Depression-era grifter in The Sting. When he needs to talk his way out of a situation, he’s pure Pacino. When he needs to talk his way into something, he’s all Newman. But the best writing and acting in Marty Supreme comes in the scenes where Chalamet code-switches from Pacino to Newman mid-scene.

The Supporting Cast Does More Than Just Support

But as incredible as Chalamet is, he’s also bolstered by a very talented supporting cast.

We're at the end of the seemingly endless saga that is Black Friday season. The Crunchyroll Store has been having sales all month long, discounting its spread of DVDs, figures, and anime merch. However, for Cyber Monday, the service is also offering an incredibly rare deal on what I think most people actually use it for: anime streaming. Until tonight, you can get $20 off annual Mega Fan subscriptions, which already offer some savings over the monthly price.

Get $20 Off 12 Months of Mega Fan Crunchyroll for Cyber Monday

Warning: This article contains spoilers for IT: Welcome to Derry Episodes 1-6!

Fans of Stephen King’s novels will know that these tales of small-town terror and tortured souls aren’t simply standalone stories. They’re all part of a larger storytelling multiverse, and crossovers can and do frequently happen. That’s certainly true for IT: Welcome to Derry – not only is this series a prequel to the It movies, it also includes nods to other King characters and storylines.

With the first six episodes having premiered on HBO Max, we figured now is a great time to break down the key Stephen King easter eggs in Welcome to Derry and explore how the series is taking advantage of the King multiverse. Keep checking back, as we’ll update this piece as more episodes air.

What Is Bill Skarsgård’s Villain Pennywise?

With Welcome to Derry taking place 27 years before the events of 2017’s It, it should come as no surprise that there aren’t many returning actors for this prequel. In fact, the only confirmed veteran of the series is Bill Skarsgård, who is once again playing the demonic, shapeshifting villain, It (whose favorite form is Pennywise the Dancing Clown). We don’t actually see Skarsgård's Pennywise until Episode 5, but the character’s nefarious influence is certainly felt throughout the season. If there’s any takeaway from the series, it’s that Derry was a cursed place long before the Losers Club clashed with Pennywise for the first time.

With Pennywise being such an important part of the series, it’s worth taking a step back to explore what exactly this character is and how he fits into King’s monster multiverse. The It novel establishes that It is an alien entity created in the void outside the universe. It eventually crashed on Earth via an asteroid millions of years ago, at which point it took up residence in the area that would become Derry, Maine. We see this origin story play out during Episode 4's flashback sequence.

Ever since people began to settle in Derry, It has shown a pattern of emerging for a year or two to seek victims and feast on their fear; it is essentially a psychic vampire. After gorging itself, It then goes into hibernation for 27 years before reawakening and starting the cycle all over again. It tends to target children because their fears are more primal and easier to exploit.

It/Pennywise is easily one of the most terrifying creatures in King’s massive library, but it’s not necessarily unique. King’s Dark Tower novels establish that the multiverse was once bathed in a mystical energy source called the Prim. When the Prim receded like an ocean tide, it left behind a great many supernatural creatures embedded in the worlds of creation; Pennywise is just one of many of those monsters. One of the Dark Tower books even introduces a cousin of sorts – a similar psychic vampire who feeds on laughter rather than fear.

The Hanlon Family

Welcome to Derry may not feature many returning characters, but it does feature one family that should be very familiar to fans of the films. The first episode introduces Jovan Adepo’s Leroy Hanlon; Leroy is the grandfather of Mike Hanlon, who was played in the films as a child by Chosen Jacobs and as an adult by Isaiah Mustafa.

Welcome to Derry shows us how the Hanlon family first came to settle in Derry in 1962. Leroy is a decorated and well-respected Air Force major who is recruited by General Shaw (James Remar) to work on a top-secret program. Little by little, Leroy is becoming exposed to the darkness lurking beneath the idyllic facade of Derry and the racism still rampant in the ranks of the military. In Episode 2, Leroy learns that Shaw is working to harness a weapon that can instill absolute fear in America's enemies. Apparently, Shaw wants to weaponize It.

Episode 2 introduces Taylour Paige as Leroy’s wife, Charlotte, and Blake Cameron James as his son, Will, neither of whom seem particularly enamored with their new home. But however bad things get this season, it’s not going to drive this family out of Derry.

The Shining’s Dick Hallorann

Welcome to Derry is going to draw on more than just the It movies and novel; that much has been apparent ever since an earlier trailer included a shot of a Shawshank Prison bus. But in what is easily the most significant King easter egg so far, the series’ cast includes a major character from The Shining: Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk).

Fans of The Shining and its sequel, Doctor Sleep, will remember that Dick is the head chef at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Because he has the psychic aptitude known as “the shine,” Dick is more sensitive than most to the many ghosts haunting the Overlook’s halls. Dick becomes rightfully concerned when he senses that young Danny Torrance, the son of winter caretaker Jack Torrance, shines especially brightly, and is therefore a ripe target for those ghosts. Eventually, Dick is forced to brave the harsh Colorado winter in order to rescue Danny and his mother from the hotel’s wrath.

Welcome to Derry takes place nearly two decades before The Shining; at this stage, Dick is serving on the same Derry air force base as Leroy Hanlon. We only catch a brief glimpse of Dick in Episode 1, but he seems intently interested in Leroy, as if he can sense something is supernaturally amiss with the major.

Episode 2 provides more context for Dick's presence in Derry and his interest in Leroy. Dick is using his psychic abilities to help the Air Force dig up and harness the slumbering It. Dick seems to sense that Leroy is special in his own way. A bullet to his brain has robbed Leroy of the ability to feel fear, which may make him the only person capable of standing up to It. And by Episode 4, Leroy is starting to come to terms with the fact that Dick truly does have supernatural abilities.

We fully expect Dick to play a central role in battling It in this series. Just as at the Overlook, Dick’s powers will make him more aware than most adults of the danger lurking underneath the town. It may even target Dick specifically, hoping to draw extra sustenance from his psychic abilities, much like the vampires in Doctor Sleep.

That's basically what happens in Episode 5, when It singles out Dick in the sewers and preys on his fear of his late grandfather. As established in Doctor Sleep, Dick had a loving relationship with his grandmother, who shared his shine ability, but he lived in constant terror of his "Black Grandpa," a monstrously cruel and vindictive man. Dick developed a technique of shutting away his fears inside metaphysical lockboxes in his mind. Here, Dick is forced by the spectre of Black Grandpa to open his lockbox, freeing all the ghosts that had been trapped away and causing Dick to once again see dead people.

Click here to learn more about Episode 5 connects to Doctor Sleep.

The Shining's Calumet Baking Powder

Episode 2 incldues another fun The Shining Easter egg, as we see a stack of Calumet Baking Powder cans in the grocery store, all displaying that iconic logo of an Indian chief. These cans were also seen in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of The Shining, part of the Overlook Hotel's extensive larder.

The exact significance of the cans and the Indian logo has been the source of much debate over the years, with some arguing (like in the documentary Room 237) that Kubrick was trying to include subtle commentary about American imperialism and the genocide of Native Americans. The Indian chief image may also speak to the ancient history of the supernatural terrors in this world. Again, It has been in Derry for a very long time.

Juniper Hill Asylum

Episode 2 also introduces another iconic King landmark in Juniper Hill Asylum. We learn that Susie (Matilda Legault) was previously committed there after the death of her father, and she's forced to return at the end of the episode after suffering through another of It's terrifying hallucinations. That means we'll surely see inside its dark halls as the season unfolds.

Juniper Hill appears in the original IT novel as well as numerous other King works, from Insomnia to Needful Things to The Dark Half. It's a place every bit as twisted as you'd expect from a mental institution in Stephen King's multiverse.

Shawshank State Prison

Alongside Juniper Hill, the series is also introducing another very recognizable facility in the form of Shawshank State Prison. The wrongfully imprisoned Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider) looks doomed to be imprisoned there, even as Charlotte fights to clear his name.

Shawshank was most famously featured in King's 1982 novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," which was later adapted into the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption. Both versions of the story follow the pliught of Andy Dufresne, a man imprisoned for decades at the hellish prison after being convicted of murdering his wife. Shashank was also heavily featured in Castle Rock, another series notable for bringing together pieces of the King multiverse.

Project Arrowhead

Episode 4 features a quick shot of a building called the Arrowhead Motel. This may be a reference to the Arrowhead Project, a top-secret government program referenced in King books like The Mist. There, the Arrowhead Project is aimed at creating an interdimensional window allowing the military to peer into other realities. Obviously, General Shaw and his men have a very different goal in mind in Welcome to Derry, but the general theme of the military tampering with otherworldly forces remains in play.

The Real Mrs. Kersh

In Episode 5 we learn a lot more about Madeline Stowe's character, Ingrid Kersh, including that she's the secret lover of Stephen Rider's Hank Grogan. The simple fact that her last name is Kersh is definitely intriguing. That's the name of the old woman who lives in Bev's childhood home in IT: Chapter Two. That woman turns out to be nothing more than another manifestation of It. But it would seem that, at one point, she was a real person, and she did her best to help the children affected by It's evil.

At least, that's what we thought until Episode 6. Now it seems that Ingrid has some real demons of her own. We learn that It's Pennywise form was inspired by her own father's clown persona, and now Ingrid is actively feeding It innocent children as a means of achieving some sort of twisted family reunion.

Salem's Lot

Episode 6 contains a pair of slim but intriguing references to King's iconic vampire novel Salem's Lot. The first is that Mrs. Kersh's and her father Bob apparently vacationed in Cumberland County, the area where the doomed town of Jerusalem's Lot is located. The other comes when the lynch mob references "the Boone brothers," two characters at the center of the 1978 short story "Jerusalem's Lot."

The Importance of the Turtle

Welcome to Derry’s first episode includes another important, albeit more subtle, easter egg in the form of a charm on Susie’s bracelet – a turtle, a creature with deep significance in King lore. We see another turtle reference in Episode 4, when the Indian tribe buries one of the pieces of the meteorite inside a turtle shell.

Getting back to It’s cosmic origins, this demon was created at the same time as a benevolent turtle entity; the Turtle is It’s polar opposite and a sign of strength to the members of the Losers Club. The Turtle is also one of the 12 animals featured in the Dark Tower books who guard “The Beams,” invisible energy forces that lead directly to the titular tower at the center of existence.

We’d expect to see multiple turtle references in this series, all meant to serve as reminders that there are other forces at work in Derry beyond It/Pennywise…and not all of them are so sinister.

The 12 Pillars

Episode 4 reveals a lot about the history of It in Derry and how this demonic entity was clashing with the local Native American tribe long before white settlers came to the area. We even learn that the tribe has a legend about the heroic warrior who imprisoned It centuries ago. According to the story, the tribe buried 13 pieces of the meteorite that originally carried It to Earth. 12 of these pieces form a ring around It's woodland territory, while the 13th is located at the center of the ring. As long as that circle remains unbroken, It's evil is contained to the Derry area.

This circular structure is almost definitely meant to be a reference to King's Dark Tower novels. In Mid-World, the place where heroic gunslinger Roland Deschain carries out his long quest to find the titular tower, there are 12 portals forming a great ring around the planet. The beams mentioned above start at these portals and move inward, converging on the Dark Tower in the center. Each of the 12 portals is protected by a Guardian of the Beam, like Maturin the Turtle and Shardik the Bear. It's prison is clearly mimicking the structure of the Dark Tower itself.

We probably won't see any more overt references to the Dark Tower books than this, as Warner Bros. doesn't hold the rights to those stories. Instead, The Haunting of Hill House's Mike Flanagan is currently developing a Dark Tower TV series for Amazon. Still, it's a fun nod for hardcore King fans.

The Second Hand Rose

Episode 2 establishes a key throwback to 2019's IT: Chapter Two with the scene at the Second Hand Rose thrift shop. In the movie, that shop is run by Stephen King's character (that same character cameos as a younger man here), and it's where Bill Denbrough buys his beloved Schwinn bicycle. Back in 1962, it's where Leroy purchases a telescope for his son Will.

Like the turtle, the rose is an image with special significance in King's work, and it also ties back to the Dark Tower books and their central protagonist, Roland Deschain. The rose is a symbol of goodness and purity, though we definitely get a slightly creepy vibe from the shop in this series. If anything, we can't help but be reminded of Needful Things and its infamous shop of horrors.

On the other hand, the shop's current owner, Kimberly Norris Guerrero's Rose, has become a major focus of the series, and she seems to be one of the few genuinely good people in Derry. We'll see if Rose survives the entire season.

For more on IT: Welcome to Derry, check out our review of the series premiere and see director Andy Muschietti break down the shocking ending to Episode 1.

Note: This article was originally published on 10/27/2025 and updated on 12/1/2025 with the latest information about IT: Welcome to Derry.

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Grand Theft Auto 6 work-in-progress development footage appeared online over the weekend before it was scrubbed from the internet. But while Rockstar’s hotly anticipated sequel has suffered substantial and damaging leaks in the past, this latest leak is anything but.

Eagle-eyed leak hunters uncovered an animation reel uploaded to Vimeo by a developer who has worked on a number of Rockstar games. In it were three snippets of development footage apparently showing GTA 6 (they were indeed labeled as such).

As you’d expect, the video was pulled from Vimeo, but the internet noticed and so the GTA 6 clips are doing the rounds. There are three separate clips, each brief and showing animations on what looks like a test map.

The first shows a male character removing and inserting a bike into a rental bicycle rack. We see the word ‘LomBike’ on the frame of the bike, which is probably a parody of real life LimeBike rental bicycles. No big surprise there for GTA 6! And we even saw this bike rental system in an official GTA 6 screenshot released by Rockstar earlier this year.

Commander is Magic: The Gathering’s most popular format, giving players 100-card decks helmed by a powerful legendary creature with a game plan built around that card’s abilities, and it’s never been easy to get into.

That’s because Wizards of the Coast regularly prints preconstructed Commander decks that are a great way to jump in or try a new playstyle, and as part of Cyber Monday, we’ve found plenty worth a look at steep discounts.

From Universes Beyond to Magic’s own characters, here are our picks. And, don’t forget we have a guide to the best Magic Commander Decks around right now.

Final Fantasy

Kicking off with Universes Beyond: Final Fantasy, the June 2025 set defied expectations and set new records for Magic.

It doesn’t hurt that all four Commander Decks are pretty great, and while they did balloon in price for a time, fresh printings mean they’re easier to get hold of again.

We ranked the decks already, but they’re all solid. Counter Blitz arguably comes out on top, but it can be complex for newer players. Still, every deck is worth a look for fans of Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy X, and Final Fantasy XIV.

Fallout

Cyber Monday 2025 is finally here, and that signals the final hours of the November-Black Friday-Cyber Weekend deals that just never seem to end! Well, that's good for anyone who has missed out on these Nintendo Switch 2 deals until now, as you've got one last chance to save before the deals disappear forever... or at least until late next year.

The Best Switch 2 Cyber Monday Deals

If you're looking for the best Cyber Monday deal recommendations for Switch 2, then you've come to the right place. A lot of Nintendo discounts have come and gone in the chunky sale period, but there are still new deals popping up every day that are well worth checking out. Here's what I'd suggest picking up before the end of Cyber Monday.

Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Cyber Monday Deal

If you call the number on the “missing teen” poster in Stranger Things Season 5, it has a message from the “Hawkins Police Dept” looking for Jane Hopper, fans have confirmed.

The missing poster in question appears during Season 5, Episode 1, as the military hunts Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown, down. On the poster, displayed in Hawkins High School, an Indiana area code phone number can be seen (Hawkins is a fictional town but it is meant to be set in Indiana).

Cyber Monday is your last chance to scoop up streaming services for their lowest prices of the year. Some of these discounts last a full 12 months, setting you up until the next round of Black Friday deals.

Yes, the deals aren’t as good as last year’s. Pretty much every service has increased their prices since then, so I think it’s fair to debate what’s worth keeping. Heck, I’d check out some 4K and Blu-ray deals for your favorite movies or comfort shows. That said, if you’re dedicated to certain subscriptions, you might as well get them at the lowest price possible.

Here’s what Cyber Monday streaming deals are on offer this year, most of which last until midnight on December 1.

Cyber Monday Streaming Deals 2025

Here’s the big spread. You can learn more about some of my top recommendations below or check out our full breakdown of Cyber Monday sales for more guidance through the deals chaos.

Disney+ and Hulu Deals

Walmart has dropped a surprisingly brilliant Cyber Monday deal, and knocked $50 off the Switch 2's Mario Kart World Bundle. It's the first and only discount the Nintendo Switch 2 has had since it launched earlier this year.

Surprise Switch 2 Cyber Monday Deal at Walmart