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Quick Links The day is here, and the time is now. It’s Cyber Monday 2023, and we at TheGamer have scoured the internet to bring you some of the best deals available for every type of gamer. We’ve found deals you might not have even known existed, with amazing price points and deep discounts on great gaming content and more. Whether you’re shopping for the holiday season or for right now, you can fill your backlogs and stockings with these ideal items....

Dragon Ball Zfans have noticed that the Japanese trailer forSparking Zerosays that the game is “Coming Soon”, which is a bit more positive than the English trailer saying “Wishlist Now”. Just a few days ago,Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2024 treated fans to our best look yet at Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero. Not only did we get to see more gameplay than we’ve seen in any other trailer so far,but we also got the confirmation of giant characters like Great Ape Vegeta, and ashowcase of nearly all of Goku and Vegeta’s transformations....

Compared to the dire days of Battle of Z and Ultimate Tenkaichi, the last decade has been incredible forDragon Ballgames. We’ve been feasting for some time thanks toXenoVerse,Kakarot, and especiallyFighterZbut, as great as those games are, something has been missing - Budokai Tenkaichi. As great as those Dragon Ball games are, we’ve been asking for a Budokai Tenkaichi andanother chance to break controllers during Beam Clashes for as long as I can remember, and thestart of this year finally confirmed that our wish to Shenron was coming....

Summary Persona 5 Tacticais a 2023 tactics-based spin-off game from the much-belovedPersona 5series, which pits its anime teenager characters against a whole new slew of bad guys that they’ll need to handle using careful planning and strategy. But like any good spin-off, Tactia offers more than a few callbacks to its original source material. Whether it’s in a side-comment made during an optional chat, character quirks that followed from the base game to the spin-off, or defining the Thieve’s overall mission, we’ve found a handful of callbacks to and Easter eggs from Persona 5 in Persona 5 Tactica....

Quick Links PlayStation Plusused to be a subscription service that got you a few free games every month and access to other titles' online features. Needing to come up with something that looked a little more likeXbox Game Pass, PlayStation shook things up in 2022 and introduced a tiered PS Plus system. Now there are three options to choose from: Essential, Extra, and Premium. Each tier costs more than the last, but paying more will get you access to more features and a bigger library of games....

Quick Links Tekken 8, while the most beginner-friendly release of the entire series, is filled with legacy systems and mechanics that aren’t touched upon much - or at all - in the game’s Practice or Arcade Quest modes. This isn’t to say the onboarding process of Tekken 8 is terrible by any means. It just means that Tekken’s many systems, rules, and mechanics can still be daunting to newcomers. Arcade Quest does an excellent job at teaching the player how to perform specific actions but never goes into too much detail about universal system mechanics....

On June 11, 2025,the teaser trailerfor the upcomingFallouttelevision adaptation was unveiled to the world. First announced in July 2020 with Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy serving as the showrunners, this series will take the open-world video game franchise in a live-action direction. Even though the trailer showed promise, it’s hard not to be skeptical. While there have been some fantastic video game adaptations likeArcaneand The Last of Us series, there have also been horrendous ones like Paramount’sHaloseries....

A newSonypatent could allow players to get stuck into games while they’re downloading, splitting big installations into chunks. The patent focuses on getting fans playing a game as soon as possible, instead of leaving us with long wait times on launch day. The patent was filed last August, but was recently spotted byVeryAli Gaming, then discussed onNeoGAF. This would differ from pre-existing systems, which sometimes allow you to play early portions of the game while the rest installs, as it would separate the entire download into chunks, “discreetly” installing each part as you progress through the game and predicting how long it will take for you to get through each part....

Playing games in the palm of your hand has been possible for decades. The options you have at your fingertips have never been as extensive or powerful as they are right now, though. You can playPlayStationgames on your couch through thePortal,Nintendotitles anywhere onSwitch, and carry aPCaround with you through theSteam Deck. Even better, you can currently pick up a Steam Deck for considerably less. All of the Steam Decks on sale atGameStopthrough the links below have been refurbished....

Grand Theft Auto 5fans will be aware of who Ned Luke is. For those of you who don’t, he plays Michael in the game’s campaign, and frequently streams himself playingGTA Onlinefor his fans, sharing little tidbits about development, mocap acting, and other interesting insights that only the actor behind a beloved GTA character could tell you. Unfortunately, due to how famous he is among the GTA community, and how frequently he streams, GTA Online fans usually know when he’s streaming and go out of their way to make his streams as chaotic as physically possible....

On occasion we enjoy featuring specific Lorcana cards here at TheGamer. Editor-in-ChiefStacey Henley wrote about her admiration for Big Tinkand her fascination withBelle, Hidden Archer. Clearly she has a type. Meanwhile, Card-Boy-in-Chief Joe Parlock has fawned over the uniquely brilliant style ofMerlin, Self-Appointed Apprentice. The Rise of the Floodborn expansion introduces hundreds of new cards that might all be worthy of their own article, but none are more deserving than Heihei, Persistent Presence: Lorcana’s Most Perfect card....

DespiteSenua’s Saga: Hellblade 2having been first announced way back in 2019, we’ve seen very little of protagonist Senua and developer Ninja Theory ever since, with the odd short gameplay trailer used todemonstrate the cutting edge techbeing used to develop the game. We gota very vague release window of 2024during this summer’s Xbox showcase, and despite getting a new trailer, we still don’t have a more narrowed down release date. Hellblade 2 was shown off via a new trailer during this year’s show, which gives us the best look at the game’s combat and visuals....

Summary The world has gone woke, the age of television as we know it is over. Homer will no longer choke Bart onThe Simpsons. This drastic change, essential to the dysfunctional family dynamic, has been the talk of the internet this past weekend. But the internet, as usual, has gotten it wrong. The crux of the situation is correct - Homer no longer chokes Bart. However, the last time he did this was in The Winter of Our Monetized Content, in season 31....