Ubisoft has discounted Star Wars Outlaws across several different storefronts for this year’s Cyber Monday, but the best deal on the game comes from Amazon. There, an Amazon exclusive Star Wars Outlaws – Limited Edition has seen a steep 43% discount, bringing its price down Buy at Amazon . At that price tag, and with all of the improvements Ubisoft has made to the game over the past few months, especially in title update 1.4, Star Wars Outlaws is worth checking out.
Star Wars Outlaws is an ambitious open-world Star Wars game that follows a new character named Kay Vess. She’s a smuggler from the plant of Canto Bight who gets swept up in the feuds between the different clans that rule the galaxy’s criminal underworld and the fight between the Empire and Rebels over the course of the game. There’s a lot of fun to be had just exploring and immersing yourself in planets like Tatooine or Kijimi. In particular, I enjoy the arcade games that players can find scattered in its open world and the card game Sabacc.
This is certainly one of the most ambitious Star Wars video games ever made, up there with 2023’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite nail its concept at launch. It was glitchy and relied on some frustrating design tropes like forced stealth. That turned many people off at the time of release; even I gave the game a tepid three-star review.
There is a lot of good to be found in Star Wars Outlaws, especially now that Ubisoft has had more time to work on the game and improve it via post-launch updates. Several of its worst bugs and weird camera issues have been ironed out. More importantly, forced stealth segments have all been reworked so players can’t instantly fail them anymore. Now, players can outsmart enemies and fight their way out, which makes way more sense for the smuggler fantasy.
Improvements to enemy AI, the addition of enemy weak points, and giving Kay the ability to hold enemies’ weapons for longer have all also made combat in Star Wars Outlaws a lot more engaging. While it’s far from a perfect game, Star Wars Outlaws has come a long way since its launch in August. If you’ve heard mixed things about the game and have been waiting to take the plunge, now is a good time to check the game out. Thankfully, this Amazon Cyber Monday deal will let you do so at a steep discount and net you the Rogue Infiltrator Character Pack in-game cosmetics.
Star Wars Outlaws is available now for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.