Xbox Wireless Controller - Doom: The Dark Ages Limited Edition

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Doom fans can save big on The Dark Ages-themed Xbox Wireless Controller at Walmart. Normally $80, this limited-edition official Xbox controller is on sale for only $54. Walmart doesn't list an end date for the promotion, but we wouldn't expect this deal to remain in stock for long. Walmart is one of three retailers with units in stock, but Best Buy and Target are selling the controller for the full $80 MSRP. Amazon, meanwhile, sold out of units shortly after the controller launched at the end of April.

Check out the Doom: The Dark Ages Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller below. And if you haven't picked up the game yet, The Dark Ages is on sale for its best price yet on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.

Xbox Wireless Controller - Doom: The Dark Ages Limited Edition $54 (was $80)

Microsoft's Doom-themed Xbox Wireless Controller has one of the most eye-catching and novel designs of any limited-edition Xbox controller released to date.

The matte green-and-silver color scheme is modeled after the Doom Slayer's iconic armor. It has rubberized grips with a leather-like texture, which makes the controller feel slightly different than other Xbox Wireless Controllers with textured grips. On each side of the Xbox Guide button, you'll find two 3D "spikes" to mimic Doomguy's helmet. Since Doomguy is always slaying demons, the controller has streaks of blood and "chips" in the paint.

The Doom Slayer armor theme extends to the controls as well. The left stick is gray, while the right is red to align with Doomguy's chest port. Instead of ABXY labels, each face button is marked by a letter from the Sentinel alphabet. The triggers and bumpers are green on the left and silver on the right.

Inside the box, you'll find a voucher to redeem the Doom Slayer Executioner Skin in The Dark Ages. When you get the controller, remove the battery cover for a neat Easter Egg.

Like all Xbox Wireless Controllers from Microsoft, the Doom-themed model works wirelessly on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, Mac, Steam Deck, and mobile.

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The First Descendant developer Nexon Games has announced one of its upcoming titles, Woochi the Wayfarer, which is based on a classic Korean novel The Tale of Jeon Woochi. The announcement was accompanied by a teaser trailer that may give fans of The Witcher some Deja vu.

There's no English language audio option for this video, but the closed captioning does offer an English translation of the spoken lines. The woman's name is Myoan, and she's a shaman who performs a violent sacrificial rite with a snake. Woochi is the man who confronts Myoan at her dark shrine before she transforms into a monster before his eyes. Woochi isn't defenseless and the manifestation of his sword is impressive. However, Myoan overpowers Woochi before declaring, "Proclaim it to Heaven, we rise again."

The game is set durning Korea's Joseon era, and Jeon Woochi is said to be a man "who uses his powers to fight injustice and trick the corrupt." This is a single-player game built with Unreal Engine 5 by developer LoreVault Studio. The announcement notes the dev team is currently consulting experts on Korean literature and traditional music, while also scouting locations that will be used to recreate the period setting of the game. The game's music will be composed by Jung Jae-il, whose previous credits include Squid Game and Parasite.

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Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S for Nintendo Switch 2

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Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S for Nintendo Switch 2 is discounted to $30 at Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop. The Tetris and Puyo Puyo crossover was part of the Nintendo Switch 2's June launch lineup. Like several other games in that lineup, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S is a new version of an existing game with extra content. Originally released for consoles and PC in 2021, the Switch 2-exclusive version adds a 2v2 mode and Joy-Con 2 mouse controls.

Multiple other Sega-published Nintendo Switch 2 games are on sale at Amazon. Most notably, you can save $10 on Yakuza 0 Director's Cut and Raidou Remastered. Yakuza 0 Director's Cut is also exclusive to Switch 2, but Raidou Remastered, a Shin Megami Tensei spin-off from Atlus, is also discounted for PS5, Xbox Series X, and original Switch.

Nintendo Switch 2 Sega Game Deals

• Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S -- $30 ($40)
• Yakuza 0 Director's Cut -- $40 ($50)
• Raidou Remastered -- $40 ($50)
• Sonic X Shadow Generations -- $40 ($50)

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S for Nintendo Switch 2 $30 (was $40)

Along with the new 2v2 Doubles mode, Joy-Con mouse support, and improved visuals, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S has all of the content from the original release. There's a massive single-player campaign with increasingly difficult challenges, a plethora of gameplay variants featuring Tetris, Puyo Puyo, and a combination of both. It also has support for local and online multiplayer. There are 40 playable characters with their own unique stats and a slew of unlockables to keep you playing.

If you already own Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 for Switch (or another console), the new features probably aren't worth the price of admission. But if you don't have Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, we'd highly recommend it.

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2's Switch edition cannot be upgraded to the newer 2S edition. Like the other Sega games for Switch 2, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S is a Game-Key Card, so you'll download the bulk of the game from the eShop when inserting the cartridge for the first time.

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From the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption franchises to the 2K sports titles, Take-Two Interactive has some of the most-desirable games in the industry. However, the company has largely kept its marquee titles away from Xbox Game Pass or PlayStation Plus. Now, Take-Two President Karl Slatoff has explained why the company hasn't embraced lending more of its games to subscription services.

"We do put our titles occasionally into some of the subscription services," Slatoff said earlier this month during a Take-Two investor call (via The Motley Fool). "They're great partners for us. And in many cases, they're great ... We wouldn't do it unless it was a good economic deal. The platforms wouldn't do it either. So we do take advantage of that, and it's been compelling much from an economic standpoint. As it relates to NBA, we have done it in the past. We don't really talk about whether we're gonna do anything in the future. But when you do put something into a channel like that, it generates obviously, engagement. It generates income for us. And it's something that we consider, and we do it if the time is right, if the math makes sense."

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has previously weighed in on the subject by stating that it doesn't make sense to put any of the company's new titles on Game Pass or PS Plus. He also said that high-profile day-one games like Call of Duty will only drive up Game Pass subscriptions for a short period of time.

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The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand

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Stephen King fans can save on preorders for the intriguing new companion anthology to The Stand, the horror author's masterful post-apocalyptic novel. The hardcover edition of The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand is available for $26.74 (was $35) ahead of its August 19 release. The short story anthology is fully authorized by Stephen King and features an introduction by the horror legend himself.

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The 800-page anthology is edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning horror writers Christopher Golden and Brian Keene.

The Stand is widely regarded as one of King's best novels, and there are many constant readers who view the gargantuan tome as King's magnum opus. A sweeping masterpiece of post-apocalyptic fiction, The Stand has such a large cast of characters and stories to tell that King feasibly could have turned it into a series of novels instead. And that's perhaps why this anthology exists.

The End of the World As We Know It is pitched as "an essential companion to the classic, bestselling novel." It features short stories by dozens of authors working in horror, thriller, dark fantasy genres today. Some of the stories take place during the events of the book, while others will take place after and probably before. Gallery Books has kept relatively quiet on the characters in these stories, but it seems likely that the anthology will feature existing and brand-new characters.

We do know the full list of contributors. Some of the standout names who wrote stories for the anthology include S. A. Cosby, Richard Chizmar, Caroline Kepnes, Catriona Ward, Josh Malerman, Ronald Malfi, Paul Tremblay, and Gabino Iglesias. Assuming all of the contributors wrote one story, you're looking at 35 new short stories, plus the introduction, foreword, and afterword.

Here's the full list of contributors:

• Stephen King - Introduction
• Christopher Golden - Foreword, Editor
• Brian Keene - Afterword, Editor
• Wayne Brady
• Maurice Broaddus
• Poppy Z. Brite
• Somer Canon
• C. Robert Cargill
• Nat Cassidy
• V. Castro
• Richard Chizmar
• S. A. Cosby
• Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes
• Meg Gardiner
• Gabino Iglesias
• Jonathan Janz
• Alma Katsu
• Caroline Kepnes
• Michael Koryta
• Sarah Langan
• Joe R. Lansdale
• Tim Lebbon
• Josh Malerman
• Ronald Malfi
• Usman T. Malik
• Premee Mohamed
• Cynthia Pelayo
• Hailey Piper
• David J. Schow
• Alex Segura
• Bryan Smith
• Paul Tremblay
• Catherynne M. Valente
• Bev Vincent
• Catriona Ward
• Chuck Wendig
• Wrath James White
• Rio Youers

Many of the contributors likely grew up reading Stephen King novels. Perhaps he's part of the reason why they wanted to become writers in the first place. For dozens of professional fiction writers to create new stories inside the world of The Stand demonstrates how influential the novel continues to be nearly 50 years after its original publication.

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At 800 pages, New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand is roughly the same length as the original 1978 hardcover edition of the novel. At the time, King was forced to remove roughly 400 pages from his manuscript due to printing costs. In 1990, Scribner published The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition with the unabridged text. Today, this definitive version of The Stand is 1,152 pages in hardcover.

We'd highly recommend reading The Complete and Uncut Edition before diving into the upcoming anthology. You have multiple different formats and editions to choose from.

The Stand by Stephen King:

• Hardcover -- $32.69 ($55)
  • Sold by Amazon -- $51.15 ($55)
• Trade Paperback -- $14.40 ($22)
• Trade Paperback (International) -- $24
• Mass Market Paperback -- $12 | August 26
• Mass Market (TV series Tie-in) -- $8 ($11)
• Kindle -- $10
• Audible Audiobook
• Deluxe Special Edition -- $400

For paper book enthusiasts, we'd generally suggest the hardcover edition for a novel of this size. Unfortunately, Amazon is no longer offering a great discount on the $55 book. For the past months, Amazon had been selling The Stand for around $25 in hardcover, but now it's $51.55. That said, you can purchase it for around $32 from a reputable reseller, and your book will still ship from Amazon.

The trade paperback edition, which is 1,200 pages, would be our second choice. The pages aren't quite as spacious. as the hardcover, but it's still easier to read than the mass market paperback editions. There is a pretty darn cool mass market paperback edition releasing later this month for $12. Just keep in mind this is 1,328 pages with small typeface. The cheapest mass market paperback edition has promo art from the 2020 miniseries. Like most film and TV tie-in editions, it's pretty ugly and has a CBS All Access (now Paramount+) advertisement at the top. Unfortunately, even the Kindle and excellent audiobook versions have this cover.

For existing fans of The Stand who want to splurge, check out the beautiful--and very expensive--new Deluxe Special Edition below.

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This stunning edition of The Stand is printed on thicker, higher-quality paper stock, so this would be the heaviest 1,300-page hardcover you own. The pages measure 7 x 10 inches, making it about a half-inch taller and wider than the regular hardcover edition. It has a fine binding and foil-stamped cover with brand-new artwork on the dust jacket. The jacket is protected by plastic, much like a library book. Artist Glenn Chadbourne created original illustrations as well as new endpapers and a black-and-white limitation page.

You can protect and display the Deluxe Special Edition with the custom-designed slipcase. The hardshell slipcase has a leather-like texture and features the author and title on the front.

The Stand: Deluxe Special Edition is part of Cemetery Dance's series of highly limited, lavish printings of King's classic novels. Cemetery Dance is a nearly 40-year-old publisher of horror founded by Richard Chizmar--the same Richard Chizmar who co-wrote (and published) the Gwendy Trilogy with Stephen King and is contributing to The End of the World As We Know It.

The Deluxe Special Edition of The Stand has been in the works for a long time. Cemetery Dance announced three different versions of this edition back in 2019: Lettered (52 copies), Limited (1,250 copies), and Gift Edition (4,000 copies). Those who preordered the Gift Edition just recently began receiving their copies. It was initially limited to 3,000 copies, but that number jumped to 4,000. Back in 2019, the price was $150, but as you can imagine, a lot of things can change in six years.

I recently purchased a copy on eBay for roughly $225. Just keep that in mind before you buy one from Amazon for $400. The $400 listing is official and is sold/shipped by Amazon, but it's possible to find a copy for considerably less (at least for now). Collectible editions of King's work almost always become more valuable over time.

Like other King limited editions from Cemetery Dance, The Stand: Deluxe Special Edition will never be printed again. Amazon lists two different dates on its store page, August 12 and August 19. The retailer doesn't offer an estimated delivery date, so we suspect it won't have copies available to ship until next week.

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In June, Paramount Pictures announced a film adaptation of The Stand with Doug Liman tapped to direct. Liman is an industry veteran with decades of experience directing action films, including The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, and American Made. The adaptation is still a long ways off, as there isn't even a script yet. It will be interesting to see how Paramount approaches The Stand due to the novel's length.

The Stand has twice been adapted for TV, first by ABC in 1994 and again in 2020 by Paramount. The 1994 adaptation had four lengthy episodes totally just over six hours. Paramount split the 2020 miniseries into nine episodes with a total runtime of 8.5 hours. Even with those runtimes, the miniseries adaptations felt like small chunks of the story, so adapting it successfully to film is a tall task. Let's just hope The Stand's film adaptation is better than The Dark Tower movie.

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Warhammer 40: Dawn of War's original opening cinematic has been remastered a second time in order to restore a "beloved" Space Marine scream that, to the dismay of fans, had been removed the first time around.

When developer Relic Entertainment first announced the August 14 release date for Dawn of War - Definitive Edition--an updated version of the RTS classic that includes features like upscaled unit textures, lighting upgrades, and 4K resolution support--it did so by releasing a new, remastered version of the original's iconic opening cinematic. The CGI trailer shows the Space Marines of the Blood Ravens battling against an Orkish horde in a desperate last stand against all odds.

It's a well-loved cinematic, largely because at the time it was released in 2004, it was one of the first great looks at the Warhammer 40K universe in action. The remastered cinematic (the first time it was put out) was nearly identical to the original aside from the higher-definition visuals, except for one notable exception--the scream of a Space Marine charging into battle had been removed and replaced with voice over from a different character entirely, that of Blood Ravens Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos.

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Writer-director Zach Cregger has two majorly successful movies under his belt with Barbarian and Weapons, and his next project is an adaptation of Capcom's Resident Evil series. Not a whole lot is known about Cregger's take on the series, but he's now shared some more details, including how the movie has a "way bigger budget than Weapons" and what his vision is for it.

Speaking to his fellow Whitest Kids U'Know castmate Sam Brown, Cregger said he's in prep for the Resident Evil movie now and, despite the bigger budget than Weapons, he's in the midst of racing to find solutions to how to get things done. He said that despite Resident Evil having a massively larger budget than any of the comedy sketches that he and Brown made together in the past, some of the vibes are the same.

"We're in prep, and we're already like, 'How are we going to do anything? We're drowning!'" he said.

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Paper Mario was released in Japan 25 years ago today, August 11, 2025. Below, we look back at how the dynamic battle system and an unusual approach to Mario lore influenced the series for years to come.

I would wager that when GameSpot posted its first preview of the original Paper Mario--then known as "Super Mario Adventure" in the US and "Super Mario RPG 2" in Japan--two and a half decades ago, no one expected it would become a beloved sub-series that people would still hold in high regard a quarter-century later.

Yet, here we are, exactly 25 years ago to the day that Paper Mario first hit store shelves in Japan. While the majority of Paper Mario fans dote on Thousand-Year Door as the best game in the long-running series, I've always held a special fondness for the original that started it all.

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In 2021, Mass Effect fans were rewarded with a modern remaster of the first three games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition. However, fans hoping for a similar remaster of the original Dragon Age trilogy may be disappointed to hear that it was already "softly" pitched to EA and rejected.

Mark Darrah--an executive producer on the first three Dragon Age games before leaving BioWare--shared that revelation during an interview with MrMattyPlays on YouTube (via Eurogamer).

"One of the things that we pitched at one point pretty softly--so pitch is a massive overstatement--was to kind of retroactively rebrand the first three games as if they were a trilogy [and] call it the Champions trilogy," said Darrah. "EA's historically been--and I don't really know why--but they've even said this publicly. They're kind of against remasters ... It's strange for a publicly traded company to basically seem to be against free money, but they seem to be against it."

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With inflation on the rise and recent US jobs reports coming in lower than some economists predicted, there are fears of an economic slowdown. Some believe people may spend more conservatively on all range of products, including entertainment like games, which could negatively impact the video game industry overall.

Now, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has commented on this economic backdrop, saying the US economy is neither booming nor busting, going on to predict that consumers will be more choosy when it comes to the games they buy. Zelnick said Take-Two is well-positioned here because, in his belief, the company makes must-have games.

"It is true that people still consume entertainment even in tough times. They're just gonna be much more selective. So where are they gonna go? They're gonna go with quality," he said during Take-Two's latest earnings call. "And that's a trend that's already been occurring in our business because our business is maturing."

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Peak has turned up the heat with a new area to explore called Mesa, a sandy biome with the sizzling sun beating down on climbers. Thankfully, the patch notes state that shade can be found as well as sunscreen and parasols as part of the Mesa update, which is available now for the co-op game.

Developers Aggro Crab and Landfall broke down the major update for Peak on Steam. For the next week, Mesa will actually replace the Alpine biome in runs, and then afterward, they "will rotate randomly." Sunscreen and parasols aren't the only new items in the update. Other additions include aloe vera, scout cannon, and dynamite. There are also a couple of mysteries that aren't detailed.

Along with the Mesa biome, the update introduces the Bug Phobia Mode for people who don't want to see spiders and other multi-legged insects on their climbing runs. You can also now navigate Peak's settings with a controller, and the developers are promising better performance in the game.

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