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Black Friday 2019: Target’s Offerings

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We never thought we’d say this, but it seems a bit late for the Black Friday circulars to JUST NOW be coming out. In previous years these sheets have leaked before Halloween hit. The reason is, Black Friday itself is late as well — Thanksgiving doesn’t occur until the 28th this year. Here’s what everyone’s offering…

The big front-page deal for Target is a Nintendo Switch with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe pre-installed for $299.99. This is the exact same deal Target offered last year. Ordinarily prices tend to go….down over time, but this is Nintendo we’re dealing with. Maybe next year it’ll be $350.

A PS4 (not Pro) will be available for $199.99 and it’ll include three games: Last Of Us Remastered, God Of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn. If you don’t have a PS4 or any of those games, that’s a tremendous deal. The XBox One X, with Gears 5 and a $40 gift card, is $349.99. The Switch Lite is the exact same price as MSRP.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is $45…crazy for a demanded game that just came out. Gears 5, Borderlands 3, Need For Speed Heat and Monster Hunter World are $35. Super Mario Odyssey, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2, Catherine: Full Body, Mario Tennis Aces, Dragon Quest Builders 2, Judgment and Fallout 76 are $30. Control, Spyro, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, Switch Overwatch, and NASCAR Heat 4 are $25. And for a mere $15 you can get Crash Trilogy, CTR: Nitro-Fueled, Aladdin & Lion King Remastered, Team Sonic Racing, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Killer Queen Black, World War Z, and Overcooked 2.

You can also get $20 off Joy-Cons, PS4 and XBox One controllers for $40, and the Pac-Man and Marvel Arcade 1-Ups for $249. All in all, not bad. We’ll see what Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Amazon do to counter this.

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Black Friday 2018: Target’s Offerings

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Halloween’s over, and the holiday shopping season has officially begun….thus Popgeeks begins its annual tradition of reporting the best Black Friday video game deals. Unfortunately, this year’s overview will be a slightly shorter one, as we are down one option (Toys R Us).

Today was the day Target leaked out their Black Friday circular, and there are some good deals involved. To all those fearful of being trampled, my family finished their Thanksgiving feast early last year and I walked right into Target the minute it opened. I can’t speak for your experience, but it was surprisingly calm and orderly in there. I also went back the following day and plenty of their stock was still available (including the TVs) so it doesn’t have to be at that moment.

This year in hardware, Target will sell you:

  • Nintendo Switch Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Bundle for $299.99
  • PlayStation 4 1TB console with Spider-Man for $199.99
  • PlayStation 4 or Xbox One wireless controllers for $39.99
  • Starlink: Battle for Atlas for $39.99, with 30 percent off all starship, weapon and pilot packs
  • PlayStation VR bundle with camera, two Move controllers and Creed: Rise to Glory and Superhot VR games for $249.99 (This is a $100 discount, but I’m waiting for the inevitable point when these are $50 on clearance)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 on PS4 or Xbox One for $45

In terms of software, Target has:

  • Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Forza Horizon 4, Sea of Thieves, Soul Calibur 6, NHL 19 and We Happy Few for $35
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider, WWE 2K19, F1 2018, Fallout 4 GOTY Edition and Naruto to Borutu: Shinobi Striker for $30
  • Assassin’s Creed Origins, God of War, Far Cry 5, Call of Duty: WW2, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Detroit: Become Human for $25
  • Overwatch, Star Wars Battlefront 2, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Skyrim (XBox One version), Doom, The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein 2, Farming Simulator, LEGO Jurassic World, NBA Live 19 and Marvel Superheroes 2 for $15

And there may be more than that: Target mentions in the ad that not all the games they plan to discount could fit into the circular. See what you can find!

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Black Friday: Target’s Sales And Offerings

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This year’s Black Friday video game sales from Target, console-wise, are similar to what we saw offered from Best Buy yesterday. This is typical — most retailers will cut the prices of big-ticket items comparatively close to one another. Let’s see what we can get.

The Xbox One S 500GB console is $189.99, just like at BB, but Target will also throw in a $25 gift card, effectively lowering the price to $164…not bad there. The PlayStation 4 1TB console will be available for $199.99. Controllers for each will be marked down to $39.99.

In terns of games, Resident Evil 7, Forza Horizon 3, Skyrim for PS4, and Final Fantasy XV for PS4 are just $15. Injustice 2, Ghost Recon, Grand Theft Auto V and the Crash Bandicoot N-Same Trilogy are all $25. Shadow of War for Xbox, Overwatch, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, NBA 2K18, The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein 2 and Destiny 2 are $30.

Target is the place to go for 3DS: Kirby Planet Robobot, Yoshi’s Wooly World, Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Super Mario Maker for 3DS and Smash Bros. 3DS are all $25. Call of Duty: WWII on any console can be had for $45.

And just like Best Buy, Target is NOT discounting the Switch — and the only game they’re putting on sale is Just Dance 2018. Best Buy actually had a few Switch games on sale.

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Target’s Offerings For Black Friday

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Target has released its Black Friday ad, and here are the video game related deals you can find at the shop, provided you can get to them. It’s worth noting Target’s sale begins at 6 PM the previous day — which would normally be Thanksgiving dinner for most people, except the retail workers of Target who have no choice. The CEO of Target will be eating at the normal time.

But, uh, putting that out of your mind….Nintendo has introduced a new Wii U bundle for the holiday season that includes Super Smash Bros. and Splatoon in the same package. Target will be selling that version for $249.99, which is a discount of $120.

The PS4 bundle with the Uncharted collection in it will be $300, however that’s a price most other big box stores are offering and some (Gamestop and Best Buy) will also give you a free copy of Fallout 4 upon purchase. Target has also limited the $300 PS4 to the opening of the sale, meaning you would have to be there that hour (and not eat). My advice: forget this one.

On the XBox side of things, many stores are offering a $300 XBox One, but Target will throw in a $60 gift card upon purchase, enough for another game. And there are plenty of games on sale…Bloodborne is $20, Batman: Arkham Knight is $25, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Need for Speed, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, Destiny: The Taken King and others are all $35. Halo 5: Guardians, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Splatoon and Super Mario Maker are still at normal pricing but come with $15 gift cards.

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Check Those PS4 Boxes

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If there was a lesson to be learned in 2014 besides “don’t store private company information on public servers with zero security” (this will never be learned, by the way)….it’s “if you buy a game console from the store, and it’s been previously opened, for the love of Pete CHECK INSIDE before you leave.” In two separate incidents last month, mere days apart, two people wound up with something other than the PS4 promised on the box.

You may have heard already about the box of rocks. Igor Baksht, hunchbacked assistant to Dr. Frankenstein Denver resident, purchased a PS4 from his local Wal-Mart. The store employee who retrieved the box told him it had been previously returned, and Igor said that was fine. The employee also remarked the box was unusually heavy. Igor thought that was fine too.

Until he got home and discovered the present he’d purchased for his 13 year old niece was a $400 box full of rock bags sealed with duct tape. By the time he’d discovered this, the Wal-Mart he purchased it from was closed, so he took it to a different Wal-Mart that was open 24 hours and tried to get a refund. There, nobody knew him and it was impossible to prove he hadn’t done it himself.

Thankfully, he was able to get a refund from the original Wal-Mart eventually, but not without a lot of badgering and corporate calls.

Later, on Christmas Day, Sandra Ortiz waited excitedly for her boyfriend to open the wrapping that concealed the new PS4 she’d bought for him from Target. It had also been previously returned. he opened his gift and found…..two Bibles. Evidently the crook thought “I’m a thief, but if I spread the Good News in the process, it’ll balance out.”

Based on the previous story you’d think they were in for days of hassles, but this time, the Target they returned the box to believed them immediately. This was because it wasn’t the first time. They had also, in the recent past, had a woman come in with a PS4 box containing nothing but a stack of heavy paper.

As of the new year, there is no word on if any of the three perpetrators have been found or charged. There’s also no word if Target or Wal-Mart is enacting any new policies to prevent this kind of thing from slipping through. Check those boxes!

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GTA V Pulled From Some Australian Shelves

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As of this week, the Australian versions of Target and K-Mart have pulled all copies of Grand Theft Auto V from their store shelves. Why would such a thing happen? Well, the image above might give you an idea. On the left is Barbie, in the middle is a pig plush and on the right is GTA V.

GTA, as usual, is an over-the-top satire of organized crime in a corrupt cityscape. This version includes the option to play as a crazy psychopath named Trevor and there is a scene that forces the player to torture someone. It’s been a while since I saw the belief that video games are only made for kids in action, but somewhere in the world, it reared its ugly head again.

So why can’t they just put the game on the shelves designated for adults, which every store seems to have a lot of? Welllll…..this particular movement makes it hard to sell the game anywhere. It started with a Change.org petition demanding that the game be banned from Target completely because it “encourages players to murder women for entertainment.” They go on; “The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get ‘health’ points.”

The petitioners here are referring to the old belief about GTA being a “kill prostitutes for money” game, which goes all the way back to the release of GTA3 in 2001. In truth, while you can do this (and you shouldn’t, especially in real life), GTA does not discriminate as a murder simulator; all NPCs, cops and pedestrians are equally killable, male or female. The only act of discrimination in the gameplay is that you can’t target children (because there are none). Also, I thought the old “points” argument died with Jack Thompson (who’s not dead, just his career). Obtaining health or money in GTA is not the goal of the game. It being the sandbox genre, the goal is mainly to goof around.

While a lot of these erroneous beliefs have been dying down in America, as the audience for games continues to widen and the experience with adult-targeted games grows, it’s depressing to see them flourish somewhere else.

The Australian Target and K-Mart are separate entities from their American counterparts, and are owned by the same company down under.

What To Expect When You're Black Friday-ing, Part 1

What To Expect When You’re Black Friday-ing

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If you own a suit of armor, have a black belt in martial arts, or just don’t care about desecrating a sacred American tradition with pure greed, the barbaric annual event known as Black Friday may be for you. Advertisements and circulars from all the major big boxes are just beginning to be purposely leaked, and here are a few of the newly-announced deals you can look forward to seeing in the video game department…..

Target will be offering Super Mario 3D Land for $15, last-gen versions of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag and Call of Duty Ghosts for $15 also, and current-gen versions of those games for $25. The new Madden is 50% off for last-gen and $35 for current-gen. Skylanders and Disney Infinity humungo-sets will be $39.99, a savings of $35.

If you can find a K-Mart, you can buy Destiny for $30. Grand Theft Auto 5, Just Dance 2014 and Call of Duty: Ghosts are also low in price but not as much as they’ll be at Target. The new Madden is $34.99.

If a new console is what you’re after, Best Buy will sell you:

A Playstation 4 with Grand Theft Auto 5 and The Last Of Us Remastered, for $399 (this is the normal price, but two games are typically not included)

The 500GB XBox One with the Kinect, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, Dance Central Spotlight and an additional controller, all for $429 (regularly $499)

A Wii U with Super Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, Nintendo Land and the new Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, bundled for $359.97

Target is offering:

An XBox 360 for $179 (including Kinect)

The Nintendo 2DS (regular price) with a free copy of Yoshi’s New Island

Many other stores have yet to reveal their plans for Thanksgiving weekend. We’ll be back with details on the offerings of other brick-and-mortars (and online markets) in a future article. Until then, be sure to tell everyone you know a curved HDTV is a stupid idea.

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Free “Photos With Mario” App Released on 3DS eShop

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Today Nintendo released a augmented-reality camera app on the U.S. 3DS eShop called Photos With Mario. The new app allows users to pose 3D models of Mario characters onto the surfaces of real-world environments and record the models using the 3DS camera.

Previously released in Japan alonside AR cards on retail, the app is now available for free download on North American shores. Users can pose models of Mario, Princess Peach and a Goomba using the 3DS camera and there are a number of interactive features to change the visuals like blowing through the microphone to make the models strike different poses or taking photos on using a timer.

Users will be able to create different visual effects on the camera including bubbles, steamers, and sparkles using the directional pad of the 3DS.

While the app itself is free users will need to purchase special AR cards currently only sold at Target in order to pose and use models on the app. The a set of cards cost $10 and without them users will be unable to use the models. However, users can print the cards for free from the AR cards database here. It appears that the database is the only place to access the Koopa Troopa, Luigi, and Bowser cards outside of Japan for the moment.

It should be noted that the AR cards sold alongside the 3DS are not in fact compatible with the app, only the new ones now sold at Target.

Twitter users can be rewarded in Crystal Saga

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PlayStation Vita System Update 1.60

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The PlayStation Vita has been updated to system software 1.60 today and we have the full changelog.

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BloodRayne: Betrayal Gets a Price Cut

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