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Metro
2 days ago
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- Metro
Elden Ring Nightreign and Silent Hill 2 get huge discounts on Amazon
Metro journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. If you make a purchase via links on this page we will earn commission – learn more FromSoftware's Elden Ring spin-off has been discounted barely a month after launch, as the Amazon sales somehow get better after Prime Day. Amazon Prime Day came to an end last Friday, but that hasn't stopped a bunch of new deals on games popping up on the website almost straight away. In fact, many Amazon Prime Day deals are still up now, including discounts on Split Fiction, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Tekken 8, and others. While it's unclear exactly why, you might want to jump on them sooner rather than later, in case someone's fallen asleep at the deal wheel. Some new discounts have popped up too, with one of the standouts being Elden Ring Nightreign. The co-op multiplayer spin-off has been a big hit sales wise since it came out at the end of May, and it's not full price anyway, so these discounts are surprising. On Amazon, Elden Ring Nightreign is 28% off on PlayStation 5 at £28.93, down from £39.99. Similarly, it's 20% off on Xbox Series X/S at £31.95. However, the best discounts are on the special editions. The Seekers Edition, which includes a SteelBook, digital artbook, soundtrack, and access to upcoming DLC, is 35% off at £35.95 on PlayStation 5. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Meanwhile, the Collector's Edition, which throws in a statue of Wylder, eight Nightfarers cards, and a physical artbook, is £80 off at £99.99. More Trending There are other notable discounts too, with The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered 44% off at £25, while Silent Hill 2 is down to £34.99. You can check out all these deals below. According to SteamDB, Elden Ring Nightreign's popularity has remained fairly steady since it launched on May 30, 2025, although it is naturally declining. After it racked up a peak player count of 313,593 players at launch, its 24-hour peak at the time of writing is 77,172. It is currently 22nd in the list of Steam's most played games though, just behind Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight. While the game has been a success so far, it's biggest test will be whether it can maintain these numbers in the months to come. FromSoftware has already promised a two-player mode and upcoming DLC, although a release date for those is yet to be announced. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Need For Speed 'shelved' by EA as Forza Horizon 5 PS5 sales hit 2 million MORE: Xbox handheld prices accidentally leaked by Asus and they're super expensive MORE: Games Inbox: What is the hardest game on PS5?
Metro
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Games Inbox: What is the easiest Soulsborne game?
The Friday letters page predicts the next big Nintendo Switch 2 reveal, as one reader hopes Resident Evil Requiem is the right kind of scary. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@ Relatively easy A friend asked me recently which was the easiest FromSoftware game to get into and I honestly wasn't sure what to say at first. I think Elden Ring is generally regarded as the easiest, but I'd say it's also very confusing in terms of how it's laid out, with no real instruction, and not really the game I'd recommend for a newcomer. I've seen Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice described as both the easiest and hardest game they've done. Personally, I think it comes somewhere in the middle, but I also think it depends on how good you are at the parrying. Dark Souls 2 is also relatively easy, I'd say, but then I'd also say it's easily the worst of their games, so again not a great one to start with. All of which leaves me with Bloodborne, which is both a great game and slightly easier, if you can say that of any From game, than some of the others. Curious to know what other readers think as I do think it depends on your experience and natural aptitude, especially with something like Sekiro. Benson New kid on the block This is very strange news about Nintendo giving a newcomer the director role on such an important game as Donkey Kong Bananza. And someone that has been at the company for barely five years? I know it's not entirely certain what he's worked on before but I feel if it was something major they would've said. So either he seriously impressed Miyamoto and co. or he's got dirt on them or something? I'm going to assume it's the first thing, so that's very encouraging about the game. Although you've got to ask again, why this information had to be dragged out of Nintendo rather than them just saying, 'Hey, we got a hot new director, but you can't wait to see his new game!' Lentil Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Optimal scariness Personally, I hope that Resident Evil Requiem does not have co-op, or at least hat it's not designed around it, like Resident Evil 5. I think it's neat that every time the series starts to lose its way it edges back to the slower-paced, scarier style of the very first game. We saw it with Resident Evil 7 and that's what it looks like from the footage so far of the new game, and I'm all for that. I just hope it's not too scary. Resident Evil is always described as shlock and I think that's what Capcom needs to aim for: not too gory or serious or gross, but just scary enough to make you want to test yourself and see if you can handle it. James Email your comments to: gamecentral@ Console wishes I've come to find wish-listing a very useful tool. To be alerted to games on sale, now that back compatibility makes trawling through the sale list an epic undertaking. Also, to keep track of the smaller or indie games that catch my eye. I do wish the console stores were as good as Steam for wish-listing though. Often that soon-to-be-released obscure indie game that has caught my eye and has been announced for console is nowhere to be found except on Steam. I still buy a few games for my old PC but have taken to wish-listing all upcoming games on Steam then, when it's actually released, add it to the consoles wish list. Simundo Too good to be true I've been reading about a lot of horrible things that companies do to their employees lately, most of it from Microsoft, but the idea of delaying a game so people don't get their bonus is next level. Although how did they ever get an agreement for a $250 million bonus?! That's so much that there was no way any company wasn't going to do anything they could to get out of having to pay it. They don't care if it's split between 100 people, they just know they don't want it leaving their bank account. I assume this was all a deal that was made when they bought the developer of Subnautica but I think they were being a bit naïve if they thought they'd ever pay up. Zeiss Guessing game My prediction is that the next big Nintendo game to be announced will be Animal Crossing. Maybe not some hardcore fans' favourite but the last one was super successful and with Metroid Prime 4 out this Christmas (presumably) I can see Nintendo wanting to go from one extreme to the other. The fact that they dropped support of New Horizons so quickly, for no obvious reason, has been talked about a lot and while the obvious explanation is that it's so they can make the sequel we are talking about Nintendo, where nothing is what you expect. But I do really think that it makes far more sense to release Animal Crossing sooner rather than later, since it's an evergreen game that people will be wanting through the whole console's life. You could argue that Nintendo will stick to more hardcore franchises in the early years, when it's mostly old school fans buying the Switch 2, but I think Animal Crossing will convince more casual folks to get interested too. So that's my prediction. When it's going to be announced is just going to be a blind guess though, as I don't think there's much to go on there. But I can see it being late in the year, as an extra incentive to get a Switch 2. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. If I'm right, I demand 200 internet points. Blanco Indie world So, Microsoft is going to shut down Rare once Sea Of Thieves has run its course, right? Such a sad end for one of the most important developers in the UK. If they've canned the only other game they're working on I'm not sure what those people are going to do, because I assume Sea Of Thieves already has everyone it needs. Maybe they'll be allowed to do something smaller and cheaper, perhaps more experimental, but I think that's probably a pipe dream. All these companies getting bought by other companies that then get bought by even bigger companies… I really wish everyone had stayed independent and in charge of their own destiny. Tacle Bedroom action In the infinitely swinging pendulum that is my gaming habits, I've found myself playing my 'bedroom PS3' recently, rather than picking up a handheld. And yes, I'm so rich I have a bedroom PlayStation 3 and a gaming room PlayStation 3. It's a shame MTV Cribs ended, they'd have loved it. Anyway, the games hold up well and I've been dipping back into my backlog while picking up a few games I missed or ignored at the time, things like MotorStorm, inFamous, and Blur. If anyone has any niche favourites from that era let me know please, gotta strike while the iron is hot. I think that it's maybe the last generation that's really worth keeping as a retro console, given the lack of hardware backwards compatibility in PlayStation 4 and 5 means that it's still the only place to play certain games like Metal Gear Solid 4, Puppeteer, and Killzone 2 and 3 (I always liked them… wheesht) without sailing the high seas. I guess there's the option to stream now, but that never feels quite right to me. Right, better pick up my Sixaxis and see if I can finish Resistance: Fall Of Man ~20 years after I got it and decided it was rubbish after half a level. Magnumstache Inbox also-rans Has GC seen the new Lego Soundwave? It looks fantastic, with the sound brick and two cassettes included. Maybe they should do a Lego Transformers game at some point. Euclidian Boxes GC: That does look amazing, Soundwave was always our favourite. Sad to think we'll probably never get another WipEout from Sony. With no new F-Zero either it seems the future racer genre… didn't have much of a future! Dougal More Trending Email your comments to: gamecentral@ The small print New Inbox updates appear every weekday morning, with special Hot Topic Inboxes at the weekend. Readers' letters are used on merit and may be edited for length and content. You can also submit your own 500 to 600-word Reader's Feature at any time via email or our Submit Stuff page, which if used will be shown in the next available weekend slot. You can also leave your comments below and don't forget to follow us on Twitter. MORE: Select Games Inbox: What's the best superhero game?Games Inbox: What's the best superhero game? MORE: Games Inbox: Will Wii games come to Nintendo Switch 2? MORE: Games Inbox: What will be the setting for GTA 7?
Metro
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Elden Ring Nightreign was the best-selling video game in May in the US
FromSoftware's multiplayer Elden Ring spin-off has been a major hit, as Star Wars Battlefront 2 continues to see a resurgence in interest. One of the great difficulties of following the video games industry is working out whether individual games have been a hit or not. Especially in Europe, there's almost no timely public data and while Japan lays everything bare the US info is all based around monthly charts – which isn't nearly as useful as weekly would be. A lot of the time you have to rely on secondary information, like Steam charts and console store information, but now we know for a fact that multiplayer spin-off Elden Ring Nightreign has been a major hit, despite earning a far less favourable critical reception than its parent title. At the same time Doom: The Dark Ages, which previously had shown little sign of being a major success, was the second-best seller. Although it's a $70/£70 game, whereas Nightreign is $40/£35. Apart from being monthly, the other problem with the charts is that there's no indication of how much any of the games have sold. May is not traditionally a busy time for game sales, so the general answer is probably not very much. Although, at the beginning of last month Bandai Namco indicated Nightreign had 3.5 million players. That's not quite the same as the number of sales and Doom's claim of 3 million players in its first week is even less helpful, as that includes Game Pass subscribers. Nevertheless, Nightreign has been in the bottom end of the Steam top 20 ever since its release in late May, so it's been consistently popular ever since launch. It's also now the 11th best-selling game of the year in the US, behind Civilization 7. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. That level of success will no doubt encourage developer FromSoftware when it comes to Switch 2 exclusive The Duskbloods, which is also multiplayer-focused. The other new releases of the month were F1 25 at number 15 and Capcom Fighting Collection 2 at number 19, which without any further evidence we're going to take as proof that Power Stone is in fact a very popular franchise that Capcom would be fools not to make more of. However, perhaps the most interesting news of the month is that 2017 multiplayer title Star Wars: Battlefront 2 jumped from 135 in the top sellers list to number 12, and got as high as number five in terms of PC sales alone. More Trending There's no obvious reason for the game's sudden, but not unwarranted, popularity, which has already led many – including one of the actors from Andor – to call for a new sequel. In terms of hardware sales, they were overall down 13% on 2024, with Switch down 44%, Xbox Series X/S down 30%, and PlayStation 5 up 3%. Obviously, the PlayStation 5 was the biggest seller, but despite being only a month away from being replaced by the Switch 2, the Switch 1 still managed to outsell the ailing Xbox Series X/S. Interestingly, analyst Mat Piscatella notes that spending on video game subscriptions reached an all-time high in May of $600,000,000 (£442 million) and the third consecutive month of growth. Although there's no indication of how that breaks down between PS Plus, Game Pass, and others. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Switch 2 owner banned for playing second-hand Switch 1 games MORE: Play The Last Of Us Part 2 in chronological order thanks to a new update MORE: The best and worst Superman games and why developers need to do better
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Steam Summer Sale is live — get up to 80% off popular PC games
SAVE UP TO 80%: Until July 10, the Steam Summer Sale is offering a wide range of discounts on PC games. The Steam Summer Sale 2025 has officially kicked off, and it's a scorcher. Running now through July 10, Valve's annual discount blowout is delivering steep price cuts of up to 80% off everything from AAA blockbusters to indie darlings. Some of the most talked-about titles are on serious discount. One such game is the Resident Evil 4 Remake — 50% off at just $19.99. That's survival horror at its most affordable. Plus, with the recent announcement of the sequel Resident Evil Requiem — with 4's protagonist Leon Kennedy returning as a rumoured character, this is the ideal time to catch up. Another headliner is Cyberpunk 2077. Thanks to multiple patches, the Phantom Liberty DLC buzz, and the game's launch on the Nintendo Switch 2, it's back in the spotlight and down 65% to $20.99. Horror fans can snag Dead Space (2023) for just $11.99 at an 80% markdown — while Force-wielding action fans can grab Star Wars Jedi Survivor at a shocking $13.99 (that's 80% off). Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, arguably one of the best games of 2025 so far, has already had a price cut at $44.99. Meanwhile, Elden Ring, one of the finest games of this generation, has had 40% slashed off to only be $35.99. Monster Hunter Wilds is also now only $55.99 with a 20% discount, if you've yet to catch up on the latest multiplayer/co-op hunting action. Beyond the big hitters, the sale is stacked with great deals under $15. Vampire Survivors is basically a no-brainer at $3.74, and Slime Rancher 2 is a wholesome escape for just $19.79. Plus, American Truck Simulator is cruising at a low $4.99, perfect for those chill, podcast-fueled drives. This year's sale doesn't feature flash sales, so the prices you see now are what you'll get throughout. Make sure to check your Wishlist for custom alerts, and earn trading cards and other profile goodies as you browse and spend. And don't forget — all trading cards expire Aug. 12, so if you're hunting for the seasonal badge, plan accordingly.
Gizmodo
08-07-2025
- Gizmodo
Amazon Offers AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Processor at Nearly 50% Off for Prime Day, Clearing Out This 4.8-Star CPU
Are you considering putting together your first gaming PC by yourself? We'll let me just start by letting you know it isn't as difficult as you might think. As soon as you find all the PC parts you need that fit within your budget, it's just a matter of putting them in the right spot. There are tons of great tutorials and guides on YouTube to show you exactly what you need to do, even if you're a complete novice to this sort of thing. See at Amazon The real hard part is actually that very first step—securing the parts you need and staying under budget. There's a crapload of options waiting for you out there, if you don't really know what the specs mean, it can be overwhelming and paralyzing. So, let me focus your attention on at least one part of the build—your processor. This AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is currently down 46%. That brings the price from $299 to just $161 for a limited time during prime day. You'll be saving $138 on your purchase and be one step closer to building your budget gaming PC. The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is a few years old at this point so you're not going to be getting the shiny, new option, but you will get a perfectly capable processor for significantly cheaper. You'll still be able to play new release games like Elden Ring: Nightreign, but just maybe not at ultra-high graphics settings and a million frames per second. If you're playing indie games like Date Everything or Balatro, you shouldn't expect any measurable difference. With this AMD processor, we're looking at six cores and 12 threads. It's capable of speeds of 4.7GHz. It's unlocked so you can choose to overclock it for even faster performance while playing games—up to 5.3GHz. Consider also installing the AMD Ryzen Master utility, This helpful app will grant your real time analytics and adjustable settings for your CPU such as temperatures, fan speeds, memory timings, core voltage, and frequencies. Something cool you can do with it is configure different profiles to swap between optimized for the task or game you're playing. For the time being, Amazon is running a promotion on the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-core, 12-thread processor. It's going now for 46% off. Normally priced at $299, we're looking at a $138 discount. That brings the price down to just $161. Take that money you saved and put it toward a new SSD, graphics card, or whatever else you still need for your budget gaming PC. See at Amazon
