Popular Board And Card Games Are B2G1 Free At Amazon And Target For Black Friday
Amazon and Target are hosting Buy Two, Get One Free Sales on board and card games for Black Friday, making it a great time to stock your game cabinets before your next holiday party. Better yet, many of the board games featured in the promotion have received limited-time price cuts as part of Amazon’s broader game sale that launched last week. We’ve put together a big, alphabetized list of board games eligible for Amazon’s B2G1 free deal below.
The promotion features board and card games inspired by major entertainment franchises, such as The Lord of the Rings Card Game, Star Wars: Outer Rim, Marvel Splendor, and Harry Potter Monopoly.
Video game-inspired titles are also up for grabs, including multiple Minecraft and Sonic games, Small World of Warcraft, the Super Mario edition of The Game of Life, and Mega Man Adventures.
You’ll find beloved modern board games such as Catan, Ticket to Ride, and Arkham Horror. Some recent releases are eligible for B2G1 free, too. O…
Charlize Theron Used To Make Fun Of Marvel Movies, Wants To Revisit Mad Max
Appearing in pictures ranging from Monster to Mad Max to Long Shot, Charlize Theron has made herself difficult to pigeonhole as one type of actor or another. Despite this, even she admits she doesn’t always see what other people see in a project right away, as is the case with her thoughts on Mad Max: Fury Road and the MCU in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
While Mad Max: Fury Road came out as a critically acclaimed return to form for director George Miller, reports of a rough and contentious set–especially when it came to Theron and co-star Tom Hardy–followed it everywhere it went. Looking back at the 2015 film, Theron has much kinder words for the movie, though she couches them in warnings for younger actors.
“I never really truly appreciated or respected George Miller’s vision until I saw [the completed film and] went, ‘Oh my God, this is what was in his head the whole time and I couldn’t hear it,’ Theron said. “And so it’s the one movie where I go, ‘If…
Consortium Review
One thing’s for sure: Consortium isn’t afraid to hide one of its chief influences. Mere minutes in, responding to a quip from the pilot of a futuristic craft crammed with quasi-military types, I jumped on the best of three possible responses: “So you’re the ship’s joker, right?” Had it used a capital “J,” developer Interdimensional Games might as well have shouted out its inspiration. Indeed, Consortium is partly Mass Effect stripped of all that business of exploring worlds and drilling planets, opting instead to unfold events in an aircraft from 2042 that feels like the Normandy and looks strikingly similar to a Boeing 747. L. Ron Hubbard would be proud. But this isn’t some soulless rip-off; look past crippling bugs and visual oddities, such as water faucets that seem to spit mercury and the Tomb Raider-circa-2003 faces, and you’ll find a role-playing game experience that’s at least worthy of breathing the same air as BioWare’s space saga.
Consortium presents us with a distin…
Halo- MCC Brings Grifball Back, So Grab Those Gravity Hammers
343 Industries is bringing a classic game mode back to Halo: The Master Chief Collection, albeit likely for a limited time. As part of one of its routine playlist updates to The Master Chief Collection, 343 has reintroduced Grifball, the game of bombs and gravity hammers.
The game mode, created by Rooster Teeth in its Red Vs. Blue series, was a mainstay in Halo 3 as a custom game mode before being adopted by then-developer Bungie. In the years since, Grifball has made appearances throughout the franchise and is now routinely rotated in and out of Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s playlists.
…
Has-Been Heroes Review
When it was first unveiled, roguelike Has-Been Heroes had unique expectations to meet–here was another game from Frozenbyte, developers of the Trine series, in which you control three heroes at once. But while their previous trios worked together well, this game’s eponymous heroes fall short. At the beginning of the game, the bland triumvirate–made up of two veterans pulled out of retirement and a newcomer, not that it matters–sets out on an uninspired quest to deliver two princesses to school on orders of the king. The plot aims for amusing whimsy, but it doesn’t land, so from the first cutscene on, Has-Been Heroes has a motivation problem. Progress is measured in inches across hours of playtime, with your victories coming more from luck than any discernible decision you made.
You’re given control of three heroes–a mage, a rogue, and a warrior–and sent on a series of brief journeys likely to result in death more often than not. Gameplay bo…
James Corden Confirms Rumor He Auditioned For Lord Of The Rings
James Corden, who is perhaps best known for The Late Show with James Corden, is also an actor who has appeared in films like Into the Woods and Cats. In a new interview, Corden confirmed a popular rumor that he auditioned for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings–but it didn’t go so well.
Speaking to Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Corden confirmed that his try-out for Samwise Gamgee was one of his first auditions as an actor. How did it go? “Not good,” Corden said bluntly.
“Every single person in London auditioned for The Lord of the Rings–everybody. I auditioned for Samwise,” Corden said.
Corden recorded an audition tape in which he did the full-on Sam accent and belted out Sam’s popular line, “Mr. Frodo!” Corden said he got called back twice, but never made it further. The audition video and other details about his take on Sam will evidently be kept a secret, as Corden didn’t sound enthusiastic about sharing more details during the interview.<…
Hulu's How I Met Your Father Adds Veronica Mars And GLOW Star
The father has (possibly) been found. According to a report from Deadline, Hulu’s gender-swapped How I Met Your Mother reboot–How I Met Your Father–has found its male lead to star opposite Hillary Duff. Chris Lowell, who you likely remember most as Bash on Netflix’s GLOW or Piz from the final season of Veronica Mars and the movie that followed, has snagged the role.
How I Met Your Father sees Duff as Sophie, a woman telling her kids the story of how she met and fell in love with their father, using that storytelling device to explore love in the digital age, when everyone’s staring at their phone and dating apps are all the rage.
Per Deadline, Lowell plays Hesse, “who is smart, with a bit of an edge and cynical about love. He’s an aspiring musician who works as an Uber driver to make ends meet and lives with his best friend Tom.” Will he be the father? Nobody knows at this point.
Hopefully, though, this romance…
Jason Momoa Teases His Fast X Character- "He's Definitely Got Some Daddy Issues"
Actor Jason Momoa has teased his Fast X character, a villain that the Aquaman star said is “evil and quirky and androgynous.” Speaking to ET, Momoa shared what he could about the upcoming action movie.
“I’ve never played a character that, what’s the word–he’s evil and quirky and androgynous,” he said. “He’s very sadistic and fun. It’s very bizarre.”
In an interview with Variety, Momoa shared a little more. He said he had the “time of my life” making the movie, in which he turns the tables and portrays a bad guy.
“I’ve been the good guy for a while,” Momoa said. “He’s very sadistic and androgynous and he’s a bit of a peacock… He’s got a lot of issues, this guy. He’s definitely got some daddy issues.”
Fast X is scheduled to hit theaters in May 2023. In addition to Momoa and series star Vin Diesel, the movie brings back the rest of the main cast, including Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, and Sung Kang.
…
John Cena Announces His Retirement From Wrestling In 2025
During a surprise appearance at WWE’s Money in the Bank live event, John Cena told fans around the world that he plans to retire from professional wrestling in 2025. But not before he goes out on one last run, including an appearance at next year’s Wrestlemania.
Cena debuted in the WWE in 2002, and he worked his way up the ranks before winning his first world title in 2005. He went on to hold the WWE Championship and World Championship belts 16 times, tying the record held by Ric Flair. However, Cena has only appeared sporadically in the ring since 2018, while his career as an actor took off.
The final run for Cena will begin in January when Monday Night Raw moves from USA to Netflix. Cena also mentioned that he plans to participate in 2025’s Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber. Other WWE events weren’t specified by Cena, but he noted that he intends to wrestle through the end of 2025 rather than ending his career at Wrestlemania.
There is also the possibility tha…
Cyberpunk 2077 Update Adds New Mode That Pretty Much No One Can Play
Cyberpunk 2077’s Overdrive mode is now available, and if you have the right hardware, you’ll be able to experience a technology preview that pushes the boundaries of what current hardware is capable of. You’ll need to own one of the latest–and expensive–Nvidia 40-series graphics cards to get Overdrive Mode working on your PC, but if you have it, expect a really, really ridiculously good-looking version of Cyberpunk 2077.
If you’re still stuck in last-gen, there is some good news here as CD Projekt Red says that a measly GeForce RTX 3090 GPU can run Overdrive Mode, but at 1080p and 30fps. Alternatively, CDPR has enabled the mode on older hardware, but with a neat twist. Ray-tracing-capable PC graphics cards with at least 8GB VRAM will be capable of rendering path-traced screenshots in Photo Mode. This is possible because it means that these GPUs just need to render one frame, as opposed to rendering several frames every second when playing the game.
“Note that the highe…