Target is offering deep discounts on games this week to encourage use of its in-store pickup feature. The 30% off is a sweet deal if you can make it out to a store, but if you’re not near a Target or just don’t feel like making the trip, Amazon is price-matching many of the same deals. And since it’s Amazon, you don’t need to go anywhere. The result is some great deals on games for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

To take advantage of the Target deals, you’ll need to order online and select “Order Pickup” at checkout. The feature lets you swing by a Target store and grab your purchase at the customer service area. If you don’t mind waiting a few days, though, you can get many of the same deals through Amazon.

There is one wrinkle, though. Amazon’s sale price doesn’t reflect the discount price, but many of the games have coupons and other promotions that take off the difference and match Target’s sale prices. Some promotional prices are automatically applied at checkout, while others require you to click on a coupon to apply it. While you’re at Amazon, you can also get a Fat Black Chocobo for Final Fantasy 14 with any purchase over $20.

The sale includes Devil May Cry 5 for $35, Kingdom Hearts 3 for $24.50, and Metro Exodus for $35, among many others. Which store you use depends on whether you want to get the games now or later, because the prices will be the same.

Check out the full list of eligible games at Target and Amazon should be matching them. If you find any deals that aren’t matched, you may be able to score the deal by contacting Amazon customer service. The Target promotion ends after June 29, which presumably means Amazon will stop then too. But more discounts are coming soon, since Amazon has announced the dates for its annual Prime Day promotion.

• Devil May Cry 5 — $35 (PS4) / $42 (Xbox One)
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• The Division 2 — $40
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• Forza Horizon 4 — $34
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• God of War — $24
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• Just Dance 2019 — $21
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• Kingdom Hearts 3 — $24.50
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• Marvel’s Spider-Man — $28
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• Metro Exodus — $35 (PS4) / $39 (Xbox One)
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• Mortal Kombat 11 — $35
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• NBA 2K19 — $14
  
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• Resident Evil 2 — $28
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• Spyro Reignited Trilogy — $24 (PS4) / $25 (Xbox One)
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• Team Sonic Racing — $28 (Switch, Xbox One) / $30 (PS4)
  
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• XCOM 2 Collection — $20
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from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/amazon-just-hijacked-some-great-switch-ps4-and-xbo/1100-6468067/

During Bethesda’s E3 2019 press conference, we learned about a new expansion coming to Fallout 76. The Wastelanders DLC doesn’t land until this fall, but the online action-RPG has received a new update for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One that addresses a variety of issues, including graphics, loot, performance, and more.

Patch 10.5 went live Tuesday, June 25, and is a little under 3GB on console and 1GB on PC. The fixes are geared toward all game modes, with a handful specifically targeting Nuclear Winter, a battle royale beta mode which has seen an extension.

Bethesda has outlined several fixes in the graphics department, like changing the blocky appearance of some shadows, dealing with visual corruptions on the Storm wall, and making adjustments to the Power Armor’s headlamp eye color. Additionally, lighting inside Vault 51 is brighter, which should make navigation more manageable.

Loot has seen some alterations as well, such as adjustments to the rate of supply crates, changes to where automatic combat rifles can be found, and the ability to mark certain items as favorites in the Atomic Shop. Magazines have also been flipped over, making it easier to identify the magazine type.

Fallout 76 patches have continuously addressed performance issues, and patch 10.5 is no different. The update improves C.A.M.P. load times when connecting to a world and after fast travel, fixes crashes that occur during certain activities like fast traveling, and reduces server disconnections after finding a Nuclear Winter match.

Check out the full patch notes below.

Nuclear Winter Design Changes

Items and Loot

• Underarmor: Players can now favorite one Underarmor in the Atomic Shop for use in Nuclear Winter, in addition to one Headwear item and one Outfit.
• Automatic Combat Rifles: Can now be found in Small Supply Crates rather than pre-existing containers in the world.
• Submachine Guns: Can now be found in Medium Supply Crates rather than Small Supply Crates.
• Supply Crates: Adjusted Supply Crate density in a few areas where more Crates were spawning than intended.

Perks

• Dead Man Sprinting: This Perk previously was not applying its effects correctly and has been redesigned. Dead Man Sprinting now causes Action Points to drain 25% slower while under 30% HP.

Overseer Progression

• Terminals: New entries have been added to ZAX Terminals that can be unlocked by reaching Overseer Rank 100.

User Interface

• Tutorials: A “More Info” button has been added to the Nuclear Winter Perk Card menu, which can be used to re-open the Perk Card tutorial.

Adventure and Survival Bug Fixes

Art and Graphics

• Power Armor: Sections of the Power Armor Chassis are no longer visible through the Black Rider Power Armor paint, and the paint’s headlamp eye color has been adjusted.
• Power Armor: Pieces of rebar no longer obstruct the player’s view when wielding a heavy weapon in first-person perspective while wearing Power Armor with the Inferno Mk1, Mk2, or Mk3 paint.
• Shadows: Addressed an issue that could cause character shadows to appear blocky.
• Weapons: The First Responder’s Pump-Action Shotgun Paint will now correctly apply to Silencer mods.

C.A.M.P., Crafting, and Workshops

• Exploit: Addressed an exploit that could allow items in Player Vending Machines to be duplicated.
• Signs: Fixed an issue preventing the Red Rocket Mega Sign from taking damage from subsequent player attacks after the first.

Perks

• Gun Fu: V.A.T.S. no longer automatically closes after killing an enemy while the Gun Fu Perk Card is equipped.

Performance and Stability

• Performance: Improved C.A.M.P. load times when connecting to a world and after Fast Traveling.
• Stability: On PC, attempting to Fast Travel from one active Event to another no longer sometimes causes the game client to crash.
• Stability: Addressed a rare crash that could occur when Fast Traveling or loading into a world.
• Stability: Fixed rare crash that could occur when clicking on a Wanted teammate’s Map marker.

Quests and Events

• Operation Tidy: Players can once again speak to Scout Leader Pompy to start the Operation Tidy Daily Quest.

User Interface

• Character Creation: Being removed from a world due to inactivity while creating a new character no longer causes portions of the UI to disappear upon joining a new world.

Nuclear Winter Bug Fixes

Art and Graphics

• Exploit: Addressed an exploit that could be used to disable grasses and shrubs during Nuclear Winter matches.
• Graphics: Grasses beyond the sear line no longer appear to fade out when a player spawns nearby.
• Graphics: Fixed a graphical corruption that could appear on the Storm wall during Storm constrictions.
• Lighting: Vault 51’s interior is now a bit brighter, which should make it easier to see who is practicing their boxing skills on you before a match begins.

C.A.M.P.S

• Blueprints: Players can now place Blueprints in Nuclear Winter that normally require the Home Defense or Science Perks in other game modes. However, all objects a Blueprint contains that require those Perks, such as Turrets or Traps, will be removed on placement during a Nuclear Winter match.
• Blueprints: Perk requirements, such as Home Defense or Science, no longer appear when attempting to place a Blueprint in Nuclear Winter.
• Build Menu: Water, Food, and Resources tabs no longer appear in the Build menu during Nuclear Winter matches.

Challenges

• Combat: Nuclear Winter “Complete Matches” challenge descriptions have been updated to “Stay in matches until the end” to help clarify the objective.
• Daily: Nuclear Winter Daily Challenges can no longer be completed more than once per day and Daily Challenges have been re-enabled.

Creatures

• Mirelurks: No longer get stuck in the trees after spawning at New River Gorge Resort.

Hazards

• Rad Barrels: Now more consistently apply Rads to nearby Candidates.

Perks

• Frog Legs: The Frog Legs Perk Card description has been updated to “Jump significantly higher” to better match its effect description in the Pip-Boy.

• Ground Pounder: Now correctly increases Automatic Rifle reload speeds.

• Wrecking Ball: Now correctly increases damage dealt to C.A.M.P. and Workshop objects by 120%.

Items

• Headwear: The Stalker Bandana, Stalker Goggles, Wasteland Trapper Mask, and Wasteland Trapper Hat, can now correctly be marked as Favorites in the Atomic Shop for use in Nuclear Winter in addition to Outfits like the Elder’s Battlecoat.
• Holotapes: Vault 51 Holotapes can no longer be placed in containers.
• Item Spawns: Removed a location where it was possible for a Bowie Knife to spawn, as this weapon is not intended to be available in Nuclear Winter.
• Magazines: Flipped over a few Magazines that previously appeared face-down.
• Magazines: The duration of the AP reduction effect applied by “Scouts Life #8” has been increased from 30 minutes to 1 hour, which is consistent with other Nuclear Winter Magazine effects.
• Power Armor: Looking away from a downed teammate while attempting to revive them no longer causes the reviving player to exit their Power Armor.
• Power Armor: Holding to revive a teammate while wearing Power Armor no longer causes the controls to become unresponsive.

Performance and Stability

• Disconnects: Implemented an improvement to reduce cases where players may be disconnected from a server immediately after finding a Nuclear Winter match.
• Disconnects: Repeatedly adding and removing players from a team no longer cause those players to be disconnected.
• Performance: Objects placed with C.A.M.P.s no longer cause hitching when they are destroyed by the Storm.
• Stability: Fixed a crash that could occur when returning to the Main Menu from Nuclear Winter’s spectator mode.
• Stability: Addressed an issue that could cause a server to crash at the end of a Nuclear Winter match.
• Stability: Fixed a pair of crashes that could occur while in Nuclear Winter’s spectator mode.

User Interface

• Compass: Fixed an issue that could cause the Compass to display false teammate markers.
• Compass: Machinegun Turret markers in the Compass no longer appear hostile toward player who placed them.
• Exploit: Addressed an exploit that could allow a player to obtain a weapon inside of Vault 51.
• Exploit: Addressed an exploit that could allow a player to remain inside of Vault 51 rather than loading into a match with the other Candidates.
• Favorites: Players can no longer mark Nuclear Launch Codes as Favorites.
• HUD: On Xbox, fixed a rare issue that could cause non-functional UI elements to appear and persist during a match under specific circumstances.
• Localization: Notification text that appears after launching a Nuke is now correctly translated in the Russian version of the game client.
• Localization: The word “Overseer” that appears on duplicate Perk Cards no longer has missing characters in the Japanese version of the game client.
• Localization: Text is no longer truncated on the Nuclear Winter “More Info” page in non-English versions of the game client.
• Map: The boundaries of the Storm now correctly display on the Map when the Storm constricts.
• Match Results: Fixed an issue that could prevent the player’s match placement from appearing on the match results screen.
• Match Results: Progression rewards the player has already earned no longer appear in the “Upcoming Rewards” section of the match results screen.
• Match Results: Launching a Nuke via the Pip-Boy or Favorites menu after winning a match no longer prevents the match results screen from displaying.
• Notifications: “Follow leader to new world” and “Searching for world” notifications no longer persist for players who decline to join their team leader in an Adventure Mode world after quitting Nuclear Winter.
• Perk Menu: Fixed an issue that could cause the Perk Menu to become unresponsive when managing Perk Card selections.
• Photomode: Nuclear Winter Photomode Frames now correctly display the Atomic Shop logo when viewed in Photomode.
• Quick C.A.M.P. Kits: When attempting to place a Quick C.A.M.P. Kit, the Build menu now correctly opens to and highlights the selected Kit.
• Quick C.A.M.P. Kits: Fixed an issue in which the Quick-Boy UI could visually persist while attempting to place a Quick C.A.M.P. Kit.
• Spectator Mode: At the end of a match, a banner now appears for Spectators indicating who won.
• Spectator Mode: The game camera no longer zooms for Spectators when the player they are watching looks down a weapon’s sights.
• Spectator Mode: The Red Skull icon that marks a player’s death location will no longer appear for the player who was killed. Instead, it will only appear for their teammates.
• Stats: When the final enemy on a team is killed while all of their teammates are in the downed state, the kill credit for the downed enemies will be awarded to the player who originally downed them as long as that player is still alive.
• Terminals: Removed a blank second page from a Terminal entry in Vault 51.
• Tutorials: Added several missing tutorials to Nuclear Winter.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/a-new-fallout-76-patch-is-out-now/1100-6468064/

The second day of Fortnite: Battle Royale’s 14 Days of Summer event has brought with it another unvaulted weapon and another challenge to complete. Like the first, it involves another summer-themed objective: Epic Games asks you to bounce a giant beach ball in different matches. Here’s where to go to find the locations of the giant beach balls and what to do once you reach one.

Keep in mind, you have the full duration of the 14 Days of Summer event to complete these challenge. Despite the name, it will be available in Fortnite for about three weeks, wrapping up on July 16.

How To Complete The Giant Beach Ball Challenge

As with beach parties dancing challenge, this is simple in theory–all you have to do is make contact with a giant beach ball. But also like the preceding challenge, you’re given zero indication of where to find these giant beach balls or even how many there are. When you do happen upon one, there won’t be any uncertainty–they are quite large, as advertised–and all you have to do to receive credit is run into the ball. That should trigger the pop-up notification letting you know you’ve progressed the challenge.

Particularly if you’re attempting this right away, you’re likely to run into a lot of other people doing the same thing. They could be hostile, or you might find other players camping the area in search of some easy kills. Fortunately, you can complete each step of this challenge without actually landing. As you’re descending with your glider, you can move into the ball and register progress before your feet touch the ground. That should make it a little easier to complete the challenge before you’re killed.

You’ll need to bounce a total of five beach balls to finish the challenge. As the challenge text notes, you have to do this across different matches, so you’ll need to play at least five rounds to get this done. However, you can keep returning to the same beach ball location over and over from match to match.

Where To Find Giant Beach Balls – All Locations

We’ve discovered three different giant beach ball locations on the map. You’ll be able to see the ball from a far distance, so if you head to the general area you shouldn’t have much trouble tracking one down. You can see the locations and a map below, or check out the video guide above for a walkthrough on how to complete the challenge.

• On the border of D3/E3, south of The Block
• Western part of F6, southwest of Dusty Divot
• On the border of H7/I7, northwest of Paradise Palms

Giant Beach Ball Challenge Reward

Finishing the giant beach ball challenge will earn you an Uncommon rarity loading screen called Soak It Up that shows various Fortnite characters lounging on the beach. This is also one step toward earning the Smoothie back bling, which you’ll get for doing all 14 challenges from the 14 Days of Summer event, which kicked off with the release of Fortnite’s 9.30 content update patch.

14 Days of Summer Challenges

• Dance at different beach parties
• Bounce a giant beach ball

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fortnite-where-are-giant-beach-balls-locations-14-/1100-6468062/

Upgrading your Chalice of Opulence in Destiny 2‘s Season of Opulence is something of a tall order. Luckily, Emperor Calus’s emissary on Nessus, Werner 99-40, offers weekly bounties that can help speed you along on that path–but to complete them, you need to go on a treasure hunt. The Golden Experience bounty is one of the easier ones to clear, requiring you to earn a bunch of experience points in other activities to unlock its Treasure Map.

Where To Find The Treasure

Once you have the Golden Experience map, your search will send you to Earth’s EDZ. This one isn’t too tough to locate, but you might be thrown off by the name of the location in question: Maevic Square. This is the area where you hit the first encounter when running the Lake of Shadows Strike.

From the Trostland landing zone, head north to the eastern side of the area, the same way you’d go for Lake of Shadows. The road should take you through a couple of ruined, blasted-out buildings. As you come through on the other side, you’ll enter Maevic Square, an overgrown town center where Fallen and Taken enemies like to hang out.

Look over to the line of storefronts and buildings on the right side of the square. There’s an elevated platform here you can leap up onto, and you should see the chest glowing there as you arrive. As usual, the chest will dispense a few Imperials, a Powerful gear drop, and some Runes for your Chalice of Opulence.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-2-treasure-map-guide-golden-experience/1100-6468065/

PC gaming giant Steam just launched its annual summer sale, offering huge discounts across the board on thousands of PC games, and now you can save even more with this great deal on Steam gift cards. For a limited time at MassGenie, $100 and $50 Steam gift cards cost $85 and $43, respectively. An additional 15% off when you’re already seeing discounts of 50-75% is the cherry on top of a savings sundae. Enter the code STEAMGIFTCARD100 or STEAMGIFTCARD50 at checkout to apply the discount. Per usual with MassGenie deals, ignore the ominous, 24-hour clock counting down on the side of the page–the offer is valid until June 30, or while supplies last.

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This year the Steam sale includes a new mini-game in its Grand Prix theme. Users select a team for a race (among Hare, Corgi, Cockatiel, Pig, and Tortoise) and then complete quests in their various games to earn points toward a boost, which then helps their team do better in the race. Supporters of the winning teams will earn free games from their Steam wishlists, so be sure to get yours up to date.

We’ll be posting more highlights from the sale as it goes on, but for starters check out our favorite overall deals. Also be sure to take a look at the best games under $10, since that category explodes during this time of year with some absolute steals. Not to be outdone, Fanatical also has its own Red Hot summer sale going on right now with a lot of great deals on Steam codes as well. Fanatical is worth keeping tabs on in general, since they often have better deals than Steam does directly, so be sure to compare prices to make sure you’re getting the best deal possible.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-to-get-steam-sale-summer-games-for-even-cheape/1100-6468060/