Our Guide to the Best Nintendo Gifts This Holiday

Nintendo is back in a big way, and it looks like it's ironed out the supply issues with the Nintendo Switch in preparation for the big holiday season. If you have a Nintendo lover in your life, we're here to help. There's a whole world of Nintendo to meet your gift-giving needs this holiday season.

Nintendo has been making consoles for decades, and aside from a few missteps, it's really good at it. Want to give the hottest gift of all this holiday? It's probably a Nintendo product.

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Call of Duty: WW2 Has a Hidden Game-Ending Scorestreak

A hidden game-ending scorestreak has been found in the Call of Duty: WW2 multiplayer.

Streamer Pwnstarz has claimed the "Worlds First Live Nuke in COD WW2", and you can watch the footage here. Pwnstarz was playing on PC when he accrued a 25 kill streak without dying on multiplayer map Gibraltar.

After a prompt to activate the Scorestreak, sure enough, a V2 Rocket bombards the map causing a great flash and a whole lot of screen shake. Every player alive on the map will then (naturally) cease to exist.

Pwnstarz' game ends shortly after, but according to Eurogamer, it isn't clear whether this is due to the rocket itself or the score limit for the match being reached.

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Black Friday – When and What is it?

 

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Welcome to my Black Friday 2017 page where I will be continuously posting the biggest and best deals on things you actually want to buy.

This year, Black Friday falls on November 24 and is expected to surpass both the past two years combined.

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3 More Xbox 360 Games Being Enhanced for Xbox One X

Three additional backwards compatible Xbox 360 games — Gears of War 3, Skate 3, and Mirror's Edge — are being enhanced for Xbox One X.

As noted by Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb on Twitter, this brings the total number of Xbox One X enhanced Xbox 360 games up to seven. Halo 3, Fallout 3, Assassin's Creed, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion previously received Xbox One X-specific updates.

Xbox One X is officially available as of today, November 7. Be sure to tune in to IGN's launch day livestream as we showcase Gears of War 4, Forza 7, Assassin's Creed Origins, Call of Duty WW2, and more on the One X.

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild Gets Xenoblade DLC Soon

During a Xenoblade Chronicles 2-focused Nintendo Direct today, Nintendo announced new content coming to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, including a Xenoblade-themed outfit.

On November 9, players will be able to download a new side quest that includes a costume based on Rex, the protagonist of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Unfortunately, Nintendo still didn’t give a date for the long-awaited Champion’s Ballad DLC, which we least heard is still planned for 2017.

For more, read why Xenoblade Chronicles 2 might be the next great RPG on Switch.

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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Expansion Pass Revealed

Nintendo has revealed an Expansion Pass coming to Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Players who purchase the expansion pass will receive new support items in December, followed by new quests in January. In spring 2018, a new rare blade will be added, then a new challenge battle mode in summer. Finally, a new story/adventure will be released in autumn 2018 for expansion pass holders.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2's Expansion Pass timeline. Xenoblade Chronicles 2's Expansion Pass timeline.

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Zelda Remake Studio Hiring for New “Legend” Project

Grezzo, the development house behind the 3DS remakes of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask is recruiting for a new project utilising Unreal Engine 4.

The Japanese development team has posted an "emergency recruitment" notice on its company website. The banner at the top translates to: "Would you like to make a legend together 2".

That 2 is in reference to the fact that Grezzo had previously used the same sentence when hiring for Majora's Mask 3D before it was officially revealed.

The listing asks for C++ programmers with experience in Unreal Engine, as well as 3D character and map modelers, suggesting that the 'Legend' project will be a 3D title made in Unreal Engine 4.

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Film Critic Societies Blacklist Disney From End-of-Year Awards

Four major societies of film critics have denounced Disney and announced that they will disqualify all films made by the media giant from consideration in their end-of-year awards.

Last week, Disney said the Los Angeles Times had not met "basic journalistic standards" in its reporting about Disneyland in Anaheim, and chose to bar the newspaper's journalists from advance screenings of its films (which includes Marvel and Star Wars).

In a statement (below), the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics denounced the action, and set up their own boycott.

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Wolfenstein 2’s New Patch Opens the Game’s Locked Vault

Wolfenstein 2's latest patch will crack open the mysterious vault found on the game's main menu, and in its between-mission hub area.

The patch notes for update 1.02 were revealed on the Bethesda website, detailing the new content coming to the game.

The timer has now been replaced by a tab called the 'SAS Machine' which allows players to take part in 10 new combat simulations, all having leaderboard functionality.

As long as players have reached Chapter 2 in the game's main campaign, the option will be available on the main menu.

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