Do you like bad jokes, hard puzzles and have exactly one friend? Get ready to lose that one too. Solvimus is a two-player cooperative puzzle game made for best friends, brave duos, and sworn frenemies. Step into the sleek, chaotic labs of the I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. Initiative (Institute for the Neurological Testing of Exceptional Logic, Looks, Intuition, Genius, Eloquence, Narcissism, Charisma, and Expression) - a suspiciously acronym-obsessed organization with a passion for testing minds… and friendships. This isn’t just a puzzle game - it’s a 10+ hour friendship test, packed with 30 intricate, teamwork-based puzzles across five mind-melting parcours. Whether you're solving laser logic mazes, mastering time manipulation, or shouting "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" into your headset, every moment demands communication, coordination, and maybe a little therapy.

Lego F1 Collectible Race Car 6-Pack

$17.78 (was $30)

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The minifigure version of Lego's Formula 1 Racing series is on sale for an all-time low price ahead of Black Friday 2025. Over at Amazon, racing fans can snag Lego F1 Collectible Race Car 6-Packs for only $17.78 (was $30). Amazon is matching a deal that first popped up at Target, but Target is currently sold out. We wouldn't expect this offer to stick around at Amazon for long, so collectors should try to complete the series for cheap while they can. As a backup option, Walmart is selling the mystery boxes for $19.48.

The mystery box comes with six random cars from the collection (174 pieces total). Each car is sealed in its own smaller mystery box, so you have six surprises to unwrap. This also makes it a good stocking stuffer idea for multiple Lego fans or kids. You’re very unlikely to get a duplicate from the same box, but you will inevitably have duplicates if you try to complete the 12-car collection by purchasing multiple boxes.

Formula 1 fans can also save big on the larger Lego Speed Champions F1 Race Cars and Lego City F1 Playsets at Amazon.

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Ubisoft was working on a new Splinter Cell game that was going to embrace games-as-a-service before it shifted to become XDefiant, a game that the publisher shut down not long after release. This is according to Nick Herman, a developer who worked on the game before leaving to start AdHoc Studios, the team that just launched the episodic game Dispatch to great success. Following the publication of this report, XDefiant director Mark Rubin spoke out to react to the report and share his side of the story.

"I was so excited to be a part of this and help revitalize it, because it's been dormant for a while," Herman said told Bloomberg. "And we thought we could tell a great story and do something the fans would love."

The game was in development "for a few months," Bloomberg reported, and Herman confirmed that Ubisoft wanted to have it feature games-as-a-service elements.

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MONUMENTUM is a metroidvania-rage-puzzle-platformer-pinball-like where you control both the environment and the player character. Overcome platforming challenges, climb upwards, and activate new mechanisms of movement to reach the top!

Batman: The Arkham Saga Omnibus (1,648 Pages)

$81.25 (was $150)

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Batman: The Arkham Saga Omnibus is on sale for nearly 50% off at Amazon ahead of Black Friday 2025. The limited-time deal drops the price of DC Comics' enormous 1,648-page hardcover book to only $81.25 (was $150). This doorstopper collects a treasure trove of comic book stories set in the world of the Arkham video games. If you love Rocksteady's Arkham Trilogy--and Arkham Origins--these comics were written and illustrated as companion stories, so they retain the style and tone of the games.

Batman: The Arkham Saga is one of many great Caped Crusader graphic novel deals available now. Amazon also has Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol. 2 for a ridiculously low price of $27.63 (was $75) when you click the coupon box on Amazon's store page. Volume 3 is discounted to $40.83 (was $75), but unfortunately Amazon is sold out of Volume 1. Meanwhile, the Batman and Robin Adventures Omnibus is 50% off, dropping the price to only $37.56 (was $75).

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Mark Z. Danielewski - Tom's Crossing: A Novel

$23.27 (was $40)

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Tom's Crossing, the long-awaited new novel by House of Leaves author Mark Z. Danielewski, is on sale for an enormous discount just two weeks after hitting stores. Amazon has a limited-time deal on the hardcover edition of Tom's Crossing that drops the price to only $23.27 (was $40). If that sounds like the price you'd expect out of the gate, there's a good reason for the $40 MSRP: Tom's Crossing is an epic 1,232-page novel that is probably best described as a horror-western--and a very good one, at that.

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Set in 1982, Tom's Crossing takes place in a small Utah county and the mountain ranges surrounding it. Kalin March, the 15-year-old protagonist and new resident in town, promises his dying friend that he will save two horses from slaughter. The friend, Tom Gatestone, accompanies Kalin from beyond the grave as a ghost.

Tom's Crossing is beautifully written in a distinct style that feels like listening to a very clever friend tell ghost stories by a campfire.

If you've read Danielewski's House of Leaves, The Familiar, or one of his other works, you may expect to see a wide array of fonts, inverted text, random pictures, academic citations, and other formatting oddities. But you actually won't find any of those quirks here.

Tom's Crossing is structured and presented like a conventional novel, one paragraph after another--though Danielewski does italicize dialogue instead of quotes. Traditional formatting means you won't find large swaths of white space, so Tom's Crossing is by far his longest novel by word count. But if you aren't scared away by the staggering page count, I think you'll find Tom's Crossing to be Danielewski's most approachable work of fiction. I eclipsed the halfway mark this week and am thoroughly enjoying it.

But if you don't want to take this Steven's word for it; the lone blurb on the back of the dust jacket is from Stephen King:

“This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart you’ll find a blood-drenched story of pursuit and two brave and resourceful children. But there’s so much more. I immersed myself. Have never read anything like it.”

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Tom's Crossing's is Danielewski's first book since the strange and unsettling 2019 picture book The Little Blue Kite. And it's his first novel since 2017's Redwood, Volume 5 of what was originally planned as a 27-volume series called The Familiar. Sadly, The Familiar was canceled by Danielewski's publisher after the fifth volume due to low sales and high printing costs, but now longtime fans have a new doorstopper of a novel to spend many hours with.

If you haven't read House of Leaves or want to gift a copy to a friend who loves puzzles this holiday, the 709-page paperback edition is on sale for $15.43 (was $29), and the 736-page hardcover edition is $31 (was $55). Both editions are eligible for Amazon's Buy Two, Get One Free Book Sale. The last two volumes of The Familiar are eligible for the promotion, too.

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Disney Lorcana TCG: Into the Inklands Bundle

$24.49 (was $35)

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Disney Lorcana TCG: Elsa Gift Box

$25 (was $30)

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Disney Lorcana TCG: Whispers in the Well Booster Box

$121 (was $144)

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Now's a great time to expand or start your Disney Lorcana TCG collection. Ahead of Black Friday 2025, Amazon has a bunch of great deals on Lorcana Gift Boxes, Starter Bundles, Booster Boxes, and more. Several of the offers are Lightning Deals with limited quantities, including the Into the Inklands Bundle for only $24.49 (was $35). Amazon is the only retailer carrying this value-packed bundle featuring two Starter Decks, six Booster Packs, and a Mickey Mouse promo card. The newest Lorcana Gift Box featuring Elsa from Frozen is on sale for the first time, too.

New players can snag the Disney Lorcana: Gateway Board Game for 50% off, which drops the price to only $12.49. Similarly, the solo and cooperative game Illumineer's Quest: Palace Heist is down to just $28 (was $60).

Lorcana collectors can also save on several Booster Boxes. Most notably, the Whispers in the Well Booster Box is up for grabs for over $25 off just one week after launch. For the largest savings, the Reign of Jafar Booster Box is down to only $98, a remarkable $46 price cut.

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Earlier this week, Embark Studios debuted Arc Raiders' first major update, North Line. It includes a new map called Stella Montis, which was locked behind a community event that had to be finished first. However, Arc Raiders players didn't waste any time and unlocked Stella Montis in under 38 hours.

To reach Stella Montis--a map located in the "cold pristine" part of the Rust Belt, players had to donate a sizable amount of resources to tunnel through to that location. On Discord, Embark noted that it raised the requirements to enter Stella Montis because players were being more generous with resources than the studio anticipated. Despite that, players still powered through the goal.

Now that Stella Montis is open for exploration, players can visit the map and start earning XP there. The map's description calls the ruins in the map "eerily pristine," as well as "cold, sterile, and steeped in mystery." There are ARC enemies to battle there, and two new types have joined the game: The Matriarch and the Shredder.

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Dispatch feels like it harkens back to the early 2010s--a time when Telltale Games was creating incredible episodic adventure games inspired by graphic novels, superhero stories were beginning to fill to the brim with quips to counterbalance the angst of the genre in the 2000s, and office-based TV comedies were everywhere. If not for snippets of gameplay, Dispatch would simply be a great TV show that I would want to tune into every week. It sometimes feels like it skews a little bit too much toward its TV show inspirations, but superb writing and voice acting maintains investment in this character-driven drama and makes for a story I want to replay.

In Dispatch, you play as Robert Robertson III, aka Mecha Man. Once a prominent hero without superpowers who had to rely on piloting a mechsuit to stop monstrous supervillains, Robert finds his life adrift after his suit is damaged beyond repair. He's approached by Blonde Blazer, a famous hero-for-hire, who offers him a job as a dispatcher--someone who directs and assists a team of paid heroes. The catch: Robert's assigned group of misfits is entirely composed of former supervillains, and their crass attitudes, explosive tempers, and lack of camaraderie make them a poor team and ill-suited for hero work.

Sometimes one good speech is all a group of misfits needs.

It's a stellar set-up, made even stronger by an incredible cast of varied characters. While trailers and advertisements offered an initial impression of Robert being your typical washed-up hero defined by dour sarcasm, the character is a remarkably refreshing take for a protagonist in a superhero story. Yes, he's depressed and often uses humor to deflect, but he has an earnest desire to help people and continue being a force for good. He doesn't view the supervillains under his command as a hindrance, but a mission: He'll mentor the roster into a group of heroes even greater than he was because it's best for the city and for the former villains' lives.

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I've been an Arknights: Endfield fan since the first global technical test in January 2024. Its art style that blended anime with realism and similarities with RPGs I enjoyed like Genshin Impact convinced me to try it. In the process, I found an intriguing world with a layered combat system and building mechanics that set it apart from competitors. Now, with the game's latest build, developer Hypergryph has reforged and polished those systems to feel even snappier and more accessible than what I remember.

According to developer Hypergryph, the team has redone 80 to 90% of the cutscenes and dialogue, about 50% or so of the structure of the maps, and nearly 40 to 50% of the game's overall level design--a lot of the game I first played back in 2024 is just not there anymore. But, after previewing Arknights: Endfield again for over five hours ahead of the official beta's launch, I have no doubt I'd spend another 20 in this brave new world.

When I first booted up this new version of Arknights: Endfield, I was quickly reintroduced to the controls with an action-packed battlefield. The player character, the Endministrator (or just Endmin), harnesses the power of a resource called Originium, which they can use to attack during combat and create and repair Originium-based machines. Later, we learn that the Endmin was the leader of Endfield Industries and the creator behind many of the machines that they control. Perlica, the poster character for Arknights: Endfield, and Chen Qianyu, a counterpart of Ch'en (a popular operator from the original Arknights), come from the same faction.

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