Black Friday Ad Scans 2020: Best Deals At Walmart, Target, And More

Black Friday 2020 is starting to ramp up, with major retailers like Walmart, Target, and GameStop releasing Black Friday ad scans teasing their upcoming holiday deals. This year, Black Friday kicked off early and feels much more spread out than usual–many stores started rolling out Black Friday deals in October and have revealed them in phases rather than all at once. Because of COVID-19, most retailers are emphasizing online-only deals and aren’t showcasing the in-store doorbusters of years past in an effort to keep people from crowding stores. If you want to shop Black Friday this year, you’ll be able to secure all the best deals online from the safety of your home.

The best way to plan for Black Friday is to browse each retailer’s ad scans and have an idea of which deals you’re looking to nab ahead of time, especially when it comes to games. To help you out, we’ve rounded up the biggest Black Friday ads released so far. All the major retailers, including Walmart and Target, have released Black Friday ads at this point, though some are keeping their Thanksgiving-week deals under wraps for now.

We’ll be covering the best gaming deals of Black Friday 2020 in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. For now, catch up on all the latest Black Friday news and deals, including the best PS5 and PS4 Black Friday game deals.

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Pokemon Go November 2020 Community Day Guide: Electabuzz, Event Move, Bonuses, And More

Pokemon Go is hosting not one, but two Community Days this month, and the first is just around the corner. November’s Electabuzz Community Day takes place this Sunday, November 15, and like previous events, it gives players around the world the chance to catch a rare Pokemon, participate in an event-exclusive Special Research story, and take advantage of other bonuses. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know about Pokemon Go’s first November 2020 Community Day below.

November’s first Community Day features the Electric-type Pokemon Electabuzz. Throughout the event, Electabuzz will appear in the wild much more frequently than it normally does, and players will have an increased chance to encounter a Shiny Electabuzz. On top of that, Electabuzz’s baby form, Elekid, will be hatching from 2 km eggs during the Community Day.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Devs Talk About Why The Series Has Remained So Popular

One of the most popular Call of Duty brands, Black Ops, returns this week with Black Ops Cold War from developers Treyarch and Raven. The sub-brand is one of Call of Duty’s most successful commercially and with fans, and two veteran developers have spoken to GameSpot about why they believe the series continues to be so popular.

Senior creative director Dan Vondrak from Raven said it comes down to the stories that can be told in the Black Ops universe. Whereas the other games, like Modern Warfare, are grounded in real history, the Black Ops games are known for being more playful with their tone. Also, people love conspiracy theories and learning about the seedy underbellies of governments, real or not, and Black Ops delivers this in spades.

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3 Classic Serious Sam Games Are Coming To Switch Soon

The first three Serious Sam games are coming to Switch soon. Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, and Serious Sam 3: BFE are all coming as a single package, called Serious Sam Collection.

This triple-header will arrive on the Nintendo Eshop on November 17, and supports split-screen deathmatch and co-op for up to four players. It weighs in at 4.1GB, and is published by Devolver Digital, which recently bought developer Croteam.

A first-look trailer for the collection has been released, and it’ll look pretty familiar for fans of the series.

The game retails for $30, and includes the expansions The Legend of the Beast and Jewel of the Nile. This will be the first time the Serious Sam franchise has appeared on a Nintendo home console. The Game Boy Advance got its own Serious Sam game, Serious Sam Advance, in 2004; it wasn’t anything special.

The fourth game in the Serious Sam franchise, Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass, released earlier this year on PC and Stadia.

Warner Bros. Eyes Mads Mikkelsen To Replace Johnny Depp As Grindelwald In Fantastic Beasts 3

Warner Bros. has been building its house on a foundation of Harry Potter for almost 20 years now. It’s been a solid formula for the studio, but the last year has shaken the foundation. Author J.K. Rowling’s problematic tweets have caused the company to distance itself from the author, and this week the studio formally announced that Johnny Depp would be exiting Fantastic Beasts 3, where he was set to reprise his role as Gellert Grindelwald. Now, though, WB is reportedly eyeing actor Mads Mikkelsen to replace him.

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is at the top of the short list to join the Fantastic Beasts 3 cast, according to a report from Deadline. Deadline’s sources say that Mikkelsen is Fantastic Beasts director David Yates’ first choice to play Grindelwald, and that he’s already in early talks to do so.

Depp, who played the character in the first two movies, found himself pushed out of the role earlier this week after losing a British court battle against a tabloid that labeled him a “wife beater” in connection to his marriage to actress Amber Heard. Warner Bros. asked Depp to leave after he’d filmed just one scene last month in London. Depp isn’t hurting–the studio is apparently paying out an eight-figure salary to the actor for his single scene.

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Every Xbox Series S Has A Secret Master Chief Inside It

Back when the Xbox One S first launched in 2017, teardowns revealed that the console hid a tiny stylized Master Chief in the form of an etching on one of its internal components. Now, teardowns of the newly released Xbox Series S have revealed that the same is true of Microsoft’s latest console, as picked up by Kotaku.

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A teardown posted by Modern Vintage Gamer found the easter egg, this time in the form of a tiny Master Chief helmet stamped on the console’s power supply.

It’s a cute touch for a part of the console that most users will never see–gaining access to your Xbox Series S’s internals requires removing two security stickers that will absolutely void the console’s warranty. The Xbox Series S’s minimalist black and white design was a stark departure from Xbox’s classic green and black consoles, so it’s nice to know that Xbox staple Master Chief is still keeping an eye on things from the inside.

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