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Daily Deals: Save On Various Figurines at GameStop

Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

Looking to add to your collection of figurines and Funko Pops? This is the weekend for you, as GameStop is running a bunch of sales on tons of Marvel and Star Wars figurines, as well as discounts on several dozen Funko Pops. Along with that, we’ve got some gaming discounts, a great rice cooker on sale and much more.

Daily Deals for September 25th, 2021

50% Off 6 Months of Ad-Free HBO Max

HBO Max is taking 50% off your first 6 months of its ad-free streaming service. That drops the price to only $7.49/mo. HBO Max hosts some of the biggest recent releases like Malignant, Suicide Squad 2, Mortal Kombat, Godzilla vs Kong, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Tenet, and more. You’ll look forward to watching Dune on October 22 and Matrix 4 on December 22 with your HBO Max subscription as well. You also have access to some great TV shows like Lovecraft Country, Friends, Rick & Morty, and South Park. This is one of the best streaming services around and at this price it’s a steal.

Back in Stock (Including 1TB Model): WD Black SN850 M.2 SSD with Heatsink

The Western Digital official storefront has all models of the SN850 SSD with heatsink in stock right now, and that includes the extremely hard to find 1TB model. This is currently the most popular (and probably the best) SSD to get for your PS5 storage upgrade. It’s blazing fast drive with transfer speeds rated at up to 7,000 MB/s and a PCIe Gen4 interface and it comes preinstalled with a heatsink. It’s also confirmed by Western Digital themselves to be compatible with the PS5.

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Hollywood Bidding War: Studios and Streamers Circling George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jon Watts Film

Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, Variety

Start your engines. Hollywood players are falling over themselves in the hopes of landing a new movie package featuring the “Ocean’s 11” team of George Clooney and Brad Pitt, who will reunite under the watchful eye of “Spider-Man: Homecoming” director Jon Watts. According to the Hollywood Reporter, which broke the news, the package has drawn […]

Xbox Will Soon Let You Switch Back to Your 360 Gamerpic for a Hit of Pure Nostalgia

Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

If you’re sick and tired of your larger, flashier current-gen gamerpic and were blessed enough to have one dating back to the Xbox 360 days, then you’re in luck. Xbox will soon let you switch back to your retro 360 gamerpic and unlock that sweet feeling of nostalgia.

Microsoft Engineering Lead Eden Marie revealed on Twitter (below) that Alpha Skip Ahead Insider players will now be able to reboot their consoles today for a new option on their “change gamerpic” screen. It’s out with the new and in with the old. With the change in place for Insiders, the option should appear for regular users in the not-too-distant future.

When changing your gamerpic back to its 360 counterpart, Marie notes a few important things. Firstly, the only option you have in terms of your old 360 picture is whatever you set it to last. Not only does this mean that you might want to prepare yourself for a bit of self-reflection if it’s not what you expected, but also that to change it, you’ll still need to log back into your 360 console where any changes should then carry over.

When setting your 360 gamerpic on newer consoles, fans might notice that it looks a little different to how they remember. To bring it over to current-gen consoles, the 360’s classic square design has been mapped over the top of a semi-transparent dark circle to ensure consistency with other current gamerpics. Unfortunately, for fans who didn’t originally have a 360 gamerpic, there’s no option to go back and choose one from the catalog of images available at the time.

News of the change follows a similar story that surfaced last month after Marie decided to make it her “personal mission” to fix one Twitter user’s 360-era profile picture that, as a result of advances in Xbox UI, had shrunk to the size of a tiny square surrounded by a void-like grey circle. With 360 gamerpics as far back as 2006 now firmly back in play, who knows what Xbox might drag out from the late 2000s next.

For more on the Xbox Series X, make sure to check out this article discussing updates rolled out to Alpha-Skip Ahead users in August that have allowed the console’s dashboard to run at a higher resolution.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.