Today there are some new RTX 30 series GPU prices from Amazon and Woot that are rocking the deal world. The ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, often considered the best RTX 3080 on the market, is on sale for under $800. If even that isn't enough, you can pick up an even more powerful RTX 3090 for under $1K.

The Best of the Best: ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 3080 OC 12GB GPU for $799

The GeForce RTX 3080 GPU really doesn't need any introduction. This is the de facto card to get if you plan to run current generation games at 4K, since it's up to 50% faster than the previous generation RTX 2080 SUPER and doesn't command the exorbitant price of the RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3090 (both of which are a mere 3%-5% faster in real world performance). It has an HDMI 2.1 port for passing through 4K @ 120Hz, which it has the power to drive even in resource hungry games like Elden Ring, Battlefield 2042 or Cyberpunk 2077.

The ASUS ROG STRIX model is considered by many to be the very best RTX 3080 variant on the market. It's usually hundreds of dollars more than the 3080 FE price. That's in large part because of the incredible cooling potential of the massive 3-slot heatsink combined with the quietest triple fan cooling you'll find on any RTX 3080. Despite the low noise levels, the ROG STRIX offers a significantly OC'ed 1890MHz boost clock compared o the stock 1710MHz boost on the 3080 FE. This model also comes with 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM instead of the 10GB of VRAM that comes standard and most other RTX 3080 GPUs.

EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU Starting at $749.99

EVGA's XC3 Ultra model is a "smaller" dual slot heatsink with triple fan cooling and a protective metal backplate. It has approximately similar dimensions as the 3080 FE, so it can fit in smaller or more restrictive cases. It boasts a modest 1755Hz Boost overclock compared ot the stock 1710MHz Boost on the 3080 FE.

EVGA's FTW3 Ultra model comes equipped with a ridiculously large triple slot heatsink with triple fan cooling and a protective metal backplate. This amount of dissipation allows the card to run cooler and quieter than the reference model RTX 3080 FE. This also enables the FTW3 Ultra model to have a bit more aggressive 1800MHz Boost overclock. Lastly and certainly the least important detail, let's not forget about the RGB lighting. There's enough there to make this card stand out in both traditional and vertical orientations.

Zotac GeForce RTX 3090 GPU for $999.99

If you were to purchase this 3090 graphics card purely for gaming, even at this discounted price, I'd say your money would be better spent on one of the RTX 3080 deals above. You'd be saving at least $200 and losing only about 5%-10% in terms of performance. Although the RTX 3090 is indeed a best-in-class gaming card, it's not really intended for gamers; it's catered towards professional graphic artists, animators, modelers, software engineers, or data scientists who run render farms, intensive workstation applications like Maya or 3ds Max, or machine learning. The RTX 3090 is the workstation GPU of choice not because of its processing power (which it has in spades), but the amount of VRAM. The RTX 3090 comes with a massive 24GB of GDDRX RAM compared to the RTX 3080's "paltry" 10GB-12GB. Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of games will not benefit from the increased VRAM, and that's why it's not the best purchase for the end gamer.

HP OMEN RTX 3080 Ti Gaming PC for $1350

If you're looking to buy a prebuilt gaming PC with high-end RTX 30 series graphics, this deal cannot be ignored. For only $1350, HP is offering an HP OMEN gaming PC with 11th gen Intel Core i7 unlocked CPU, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU, and a whopping 32GB of RAM. You could easily spend hundreds more elsewhere to get the same kind of specs.

Newest Apple TV 4K for $129.99

This isn't exactly as cheap as Amazon Prime Day of $109, but it's still $50 cheaper than MSRP and the best price you'll probably see for a while. The newest Apple TV features two major upgrades. It boasts an A12 Bionic processor that boosts graphics performance, video decoding, and audio processing and delivers high frame rate HDR with Dolby Vision. It also includes a new Apple TV remote. The overall build quality is better than before, but the biggest enhancements are a 5-way clickpad, mute button, and dedicated power button that works for your TV, receiver, and Apple TV.

Razer Anzu Smart Glasses

These Razer smart glasses retail for a ridiculous $199.99. Fortunately, they're on sale today for a much more reasonable price of $48.96. The Razer Anzu glasses comes with two types of interchangeable lenses; blue-light filtering lenses for PC use and polarized lenses for outdoor use. They also feature a built-in mic and bluetooth speaker for hands-free calling.

Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16" Intel Core i7-12700H Alder Lake RTX 3070 Gaming Laptop for $1599

Walmart is offering an outstanding deal on the new Lenovo Legion 5 Pro laptop that is also equipped with the 12th generation Intel Core i7 Alder Lake CPU and RTX 3070 GPU. The RTX 3070 GPU in this gaming laptop also has a TGP rating of 140W, and it performs as well as the MSI Crosshair on paper. In real world benchmarks, the Legion 5 Pro is one of the best performing gaming laptops on the market. It also looks more like a standard laptop, so you might want to pick this over the Crosshair if you're not into the gamer aesthetic.

XPG S70 1TB M.2 SSD with Heatsink for $109.99

The XPG Gammix S70 Blade is the least expensive 1TB PS5 compatible SSD available right now. Just because it's the cheapest doesn't mean it's the slowest. In fact, the S70 is actually one of the fastest SSDs available with transfer rates up to 7,400 MB/s. It's on par with the likes of the WD Black SN850, the Samsung 980 Pro, or the Seagate Firecude 530. This is a PCIe Gen4 SSD that was pretty much released specifically for PS5 gamers in order to double or triple the storage capacity of their PS5 without limiting the speed. To make this deal even sweeter, it already comes with a very low-profile heatsink.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Free 12-Month Nintendo Switch Online Membership for $49.99 (or Animal Crossing: New Horizons for $50.99)

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Best Buy is offering a free Nintendo Switch Online 12-month individual membership when you purchase Super Mario Kart Deluxe 8 for $49.99. Alternatively, swap the game with Animal Crossing: New Horizons for $50.99. Nintendo Switch Online is required for online play in games like Super Mario Kart or Splatoon, downloading custom maps in Super Mario Maker 2, playing free retro SNES games, saving your game data to the cloud, and much more.

ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1660 Ti Gaming PC

Walmart is offering this AMD Ryzen 5 3600X GTX 1660 Ti equipped gaming PC for only $799. The GTX 1660 Ti is still a very capable video card that can handle just about any game at 1080p resolution. You certainly won't find a more powerful video card for this price.

New Apple AirPods Pro for $179.99

The current generation Apple AirPods Pro is one of the best sounding "truly wireless" earbuds you'll find, especially at this price point. "Truly wireless" earbuds have no wires whatsoever; even the earbuds aren't hardwired to each other. In addition to the excellent sound quality, the AirPods Pro is the only AirPods with active noise cancelling technology. That, combined with the inherent nature of in-ear earbuds, means that the AirPods Pro will provide better noise isolation than over-ear headphones like the Bose QuietComfort or the Sony WH1000XM5. If you're thinking of getting a pair of new AirPods, we highly recommend jumping on this particular model.

PowerBlock Adjustable Dumbbells From $129.99

Currently Woot, which is owned by Amazon, is offering up to 40% off PowerBlock Sport adjustable dumbbells. The 25lb (per dumbbell) set is only $129.99 and the 50lb (per dumbbell) set is $239.99. They are as well built as the Bowflex and the specs are similar. The 25lb set can be adjusted in 3lb increments and the 50lb set can be adjusted in 5lb increments.. These sell out very quickly at Woot so if you've been eyeing a pair, you better not hesitate. Woot is owned by Amazon, so you can sign in with your Amazon Prime account to get free shipping.

Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda

Score a rare 20% off this popular little Zelda collectible. The Game & Watch is a miniature retro handheld game system that comes preloaded with The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. It's very well designed with a vibrant full color 2.36" LCD screen and intuitive control buttons, all in a tiny footprint that can even fit in your pocket.

Dell S2721DGF 27" 1440p GSYNC Gaming Monitor

This excellent monitor has hit a new price low for Black Friday. It's one of the best 27" gaming monitors you can buy for under $500. The S2721DGF boasts a high quality IPS panel (better than the VA panel found on the popular S3220DGF model). It features wide viewing angles and excellent color rendition including 98% DCI-P3 color coverage, a super fast 1ms response time and up to 165Hz refresh rate through the DisplayPort. It's also FreeSync Premium Pro and G-SYNC compatible.

Nope hits theaters on July 22, 2022.

Equal parts comedic knee-slapper and white-knuckle thriller, Jordan Peele’s Nope is a farcical love letter to Hollywood, and to the American dream. It is, at once, a no-frills version of exactly what its trailers are selling — a film about objects falling from the sky, and characters catching glimpses of something sinister in the clouds — and yet, it’s entirely unlike its straightforward marketing, which provides hints of plot, but skillfully disguises its tone. It’s wonderfully spoiler-proof (though you won’t find major details here that haven’t already been revealed), in part because it’s completely unlike Peele’s previous work, both thematically, and in the evolution of his craft.

Nope follows Hollywood horse-wranglers Otis “OJ” Haywood Jr. (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald, or “Em” (Keke Palmer), who, after the violent death of their father Otis Sr. (Keith David) under mysterious circumstances, find contrasting ways to move forward. For OJ, who witnessed Otis Sr.’s death up close, it’s a matter of silently and diligently keeping the business afloat. For the more outgoing Em, it’s about leaving their ranch behind and marketing her various talents to anyone who’ll listen — including OJ’s cowboy hat-sporting business partner Ricky Park, aka “Jupe” (Steven Yeun), an actor-turned-entrepreneur who runs a Western-themed carnival. Though, as a former child star, he has some (highly publicized) traumas of his own.

Trauma is, perhaps, the one thing Nope has in common with Peele’s blazing race-horror debut, Get Out (in which Kaluuya’s character, Chris, is inhibited by his mother’s death), and with his class-thriller follow up Us (which reveals both the physical and emotional scars of its “tethered” doppelgangers), but this time around, the theme is at once more central and more satirical. Compared to Peele’s other work, Nope has a much deeper reading of the ways OJ, Em, and Jupe carry their burdens — often told through lingering, piercing close ups of each actor’s nuanced performance — and yet, the way their suffering factors into the story is shockingly cavalier (though not without reason).

As much as Nope is about characters threatened by what could be a flying saucer, it’s also about what drives their responses to events like mysterious power failures, and an assortment of mundane objects raining down from above. Whether or not they’re in it to save the world, or even to survive, what they ultimately want is to capture the spectacle of this UFO, repackage it, and sell it for a fortune, as middlemen in a long lineage of entertainment. Which, of course, is not to suggest that Peele takes a casual approach to the material — it’s one of the most genuinely edge-of-your-seat summer movies in quite some time — but it also can’t help but read like a introspection of Peele’s own hand in modern Hollywood, and its Black Horror resurgence.

For one thing, Peele has the gall to kick things off with a Bible verse (Nahum 3:6) that immediately invites subtextual scrutiny, but turns out to be hysterically, grossly literal, before deploying the image of George Washington on a $1 coin in a particularly grisly context. What exactly is Peele saying here? Knowledge of his previous films might imply an invocation of genocide or slavery, America’s original sins, and while those readings are seldom far from the movie’s lips, it’s the melding of American history with monetary value — the most superficial reading of them all — that ends up the most important. Get Out and Us have already been echoed and imitated poorly, even in their short lives (Antebellum, Cracka, Karen, Them; the list goes on), so it stands to reason that Peele might, on some level, question what his images even mean, and what his place might be within cinematic history.

That history is front and center from the moment we meet Em and OJ, who introduce themselves as movie royalty. Some of the very first moving images, captured by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, were of a Black jockey riding a horse, and while Muybridge is world renowned, and even the horse’s name is well-documented (Annie G), the rider remains anonymous to this day. Through fantasy, Peele seemingly course-corrects this deep-seated erasure of Blackness in Hollywood history: the Haywood siblings claim to be the descendants of this jockey, a Bahamian man, and their continued horse-training in an age of CGI is, in part, a means to keep the jockey’s and their father’s legacies alive — or at least, that’s how they sell it. The text gives us no reason to doubt their claims (it’s a background detail for the most part), and they themselves seem to believe it. But the more the film unfolds, the more the question of its veracity seems to creep in through the corners of the frame, given what Nope ends up being about.

On one hand, it’s an ode to filmmaking, and to the power of moving pictures. Em and OJ know people won’t believe what they’ve seen in the sky unless they capture convincing images, for which they enlist the help of both mousey tech retail cashier Angel (Brandon Perea), who helps them set up security cameras, and raspy-voiced documentarian Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott), who’s introduced working on a Steenbeck editing machine, and who speaks in riddles and platitudes, but is obsessively dedicated to capturing the perfect shot on celluloid. Nope’s affinity for analog technology is something cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar) pours into every IMAX frame, imbuing it with a sense of warmth, texture, and tactility. However, this affinity is something the film also turns its lens back towards, in moments that ride a fine line between parody and introspection (at one point, it seems as if the fate of the world rests on Holst’s ability to hand-crank an enormous IMAX camera, a bizarre analog fantasy that no celluloid aficionado actually has, which makes it all the more uproarious). It seems to ask: what, or who, is this love for cinema, and of crafting images, actually in service of?

Because, on the other hand, Nope is about the carny spirit of American myths, and the American dream. And what’s more American than Hollywood?

Given the siblings’ industry involvement, Nope abounds with logos and terminology that play as in-jokes about movie making — not to mention, as rallying cries when our protagonists concoct increasingly detailed plans to capture the UFO on film. However, their grand scheme also involves the numerous tube men seen in the marketing (or sky dancers, or Tall Boys), an ostentatious hallmark of car salesmanship. At every turn, even their most sincere efforts have slimy undertones, albeit with deeply relatable motives. Will warning the world of this threat have an altruistic outcome? Sure. Will it also make them rich and famous? Absolutely. They’re heroes with a huckster spirit, as much cowboys as they are climbers. Even the way Jupe retells his real-life horrors comes disguised in layers of pop culture commodification (the nature of his story is best discovered for yourself, but let’s just say Terry Notary is in the opening credits for a reason; if you know, you know).

And yet, stylistically, Nope is hardly a dressing down of studio filmmaking. If anything, it’s a testament to Peele’s craftsmanship, that he can both project an uneasiness (if not an all-out disdain) for the blockbuster as a concept — images, stories and spectacles as a money-first endeavor — while also making one of the most purely entertaining pieces of popcorn cinema this year. It’s a film that has its cake, eats it too, and absolutely deserves to, ramping up the tension with every subsequent scene (thanks in no small part to Michael Abels unsettling score).

Peele’s sounds and silences (courtesy of designer Johnnie Burn) are where most of his chills are conjured, thanks to a rumbling aural landscape that demands a big-screen experience. And while he deploys horror’s traditional tools, like dark corners and jagged music, for most of his fake-out scares, he trades in the cinematic language of the Western for his most genuinely unnerving moments. Wide open spaces feel menacing, because of how and where he stages his actors. Mountains, rather than containing memories, hide something monstrous, and the wistful nostalgia of on-screen galloping is something he immediately robs of its beauty and power, given the UFO’s seeming affinity for beaming horses into its hull (the design of this apparent saucer is, initially, shocking in its simplicity, but by the end, you may as well call it “Biblically accurate”).

At times, Nope is a Spielbergian nightmare, not only for the occasional sci-fi conceptions that harken back to The Beard’s work, but because of the way Peele captures people at their most awestruck — albeit in a wackadoo context, where it becomes clear just how tongue-in-cheek his take on an alien invasion movie really is. He also has a nod towards E.T. that ends up hilariously shocking, during a chilling and ingeniously staged Jupe flashback that seems poised to tie into the film’s conspiracy musings, but turns out to be both hollow in its plotting, yet absolutely foundational from a character standpoint.

Few in mainstream Hollywood are working on Peele’s level from a purely craft perspective, the biggest testament to which is the way he still manages to slow down amidst the satirical bombast and connect you to his characters, often through the way he directs and captures performance. Palmer, who’s shouldered with balancing dire stakes and a casual façade, turns Em into a rich and multifaceted career-hopper through body language alone, vaping and hitting on women as a shield for whatever emotions she refuses to face (in a climactic moment, when she eventually stares down her lingering fears of loss, the result is cinematic gold). Yeun, one of America’s underrated gems, has rarely been more hauntingly enrapturing, especially with so little screen time. And Kaluuya, Peele’s not-so-secret weapon in Get Out, returns once more to guide us on an entire rendezvous using reaction shots alone. It’s his lingua franca this time, given OJ’s commitment to steering silently out of everyone’s way, muttering more than he projects, and looking steadfastly ahead when most horror characters would be peeking over their shoulder (it’s the epitome of an “acting is reacting” performance, given how inward Kaluuya turns).

What makes Nope work as both satire and sincere blockbuster is how downright persuasive it is, emotionally and aesthetically. It makes you cheer not for a rousing stand against oblivion, but for the gaudy pursuit of money and stardom, even at the cost of your own traumas. Beyond a point, the eye in the sky may as well be a hovering manifestation of lifelong pain, but rather than defeating it, Peele’s characters do what most in the modern American gig economy have been conditioned to with their every trait and experience. They find a way to monetize it, and the result is a f***ing rollercoaster.

LEGO has announced three new sets based on James Cameron's Avatar in the run-up to San Diego Comic-Con.

Joining the Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls set announced in June, the Neytiri & Thanator vs. AMP Suit Quaritch set, Jake & Neytiri’s First Banshee Flight set, and Floating Mountains: Site 26 & RDA Samson set will be released on October 1.

The first (and cheapest) LEGO set, the Neytiri & Thanator vs. AMP Suit Quaritch (number 75571) will retail for $39.99 and comes with 560 pieces and comes with two minifigures as the name suggests: Neytiri and Colonel Miles Quaritch.

The Jake and Neytiri's First Banshee Flight set (number 75572) recreates the iconic scene from the movie as it comes with both character as minifgures and the two banshees. It will retail for $59.99 but comes with only 12 more pieces than the previous set at 572.

Finally, the Floating Mountains: Site 26 & RDA Samson (number 75573) is the biggest and most expensive of the three newly revealed sets, coming in at 887 pieces with a price of $89.99. It comes with five minifigures (Jake as a human and a Na'vi, Norm, Grace Augustine, and Trudy) along with the SA-2 Samson helicopter and science lab.

The Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls set is therefore still the biggest of the new Avatar range, with a price of $149.99 and 1212 pieces. The franchise is once again receiving mainstream attention as the second film, Avatar: The Way of Water, hits cinemas on September 23, 2022.

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Konami is developing a baseball video game in partnership with the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) alongside an international esports competition.

Very little has been revealed about the game given the deal was just announced today, July 20, but the two companies said the new game "will allow the global baseball community, National Federations, and gamers worldwide to participate in a potential newly/jointly created WBSC esport international baseball competition."

It therefore appears the game will lean heavily into this competitive side, with Konami's representative director Hideki Hayakawa also describing it as a "global esports initiative".

He continued: "We wish to continue to support the development of the baseball and softball communities around the world through our games by utilizing our experiences in games and eSport."

The two companies also collaborated for a virtual baseball event last year that used Japanese-only game eBaseball: Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 to create events including a Home Run Derby and a full tournament.

"Following our partnership and immense success at the inaugural Olympic Virtual Series last year, the WBSC is proud to work with a video game publishing giant like Konami on this exciting new project, which has unlimited potential to further grow our sport and connect with audiences that we’ve not yet reached before," said WBSC president Riccardo Fraccari.

"The WBSC, together with Konami, aims to harness esport to expand the baseball population worldwide while adding another powerful tool for National Federations to attract and make our sport relevant to new audiences and players [and] gamers in their respective countries and territories.”

Konami's other premiere sports franchise, eFootball (previously Pro Evolution Soccer), has had a difficult few months since a pretty disastrous pre-release version was released last September. The development team attempted to "regain the trust" of players but even its major update in April failed to improve much, with IGN saying it was bad in our 4/10 review.

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House of the Dragon could be just the beginning for the Game of Thrones spin-off that follows the ancestors of Daenerys Targaryen.

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, House of the Dragon co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik explained how the upcoming series could be the backbone for even more stories.

“The Targaryens span both directions,” said Sapochnik, refering to both the past and future of the family's timeline. “So as a spine to other possible stories and spinoffs … this is a great place to start.”

House of the Dragon is set two hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones. Starring Paddy Considine and Emma D’Arcy, it chronicles the ultimate fall of House Targaryen, including the Targaryen civil war, also known as the Dance of the Dragons.

“I liked the idea of focusing on one family, and obviously the Targaryens have a lot of drama to go around,” said HBO chief content officer Casey Bloys. “I also liked the echo of how empires can quickly fall — those are the types of conversations we are having in our own country, which I don’t think is anything I would’ve thought we’d be talking about 20 years ago.”

It also happens to be the first Game of Thrones spin-off to head to our screens, with an earlier project canceled despite a $30 million pilot having been produced. Then there’s the upcoming Jon Snow series, which will presumably act as more of a sequel to the original series.

Three more spin-off shows are also in the works. 10,000 Ships will tell the story of Princess Nymeria, an ancestor of House Martell and founder of the kingdom of Dorne. This series is set a millennium before the events of Game of Thrones, making it even more of a history lesson than House of the Dragon.

Another spin-off show is set in Flea Bottom – the shady, slum district of King’s Landing. Finally, 9 Voyages will tell the story of Lord Corlys Velaryon, also known as the Sea Snake and the head of the House of Velaryon.

Although House of the Dragon will feature some familiar names for fans of the show, its setting might feel a little different.

“The biggest difference about this series is the fact that dragons exist in this [era], whereas they were an extinct species that came back to life in the original show,” said co-showrunner Ryan Condal (at least 17 dragons will appear in the show, according to THR). “So, there’s an infrastructure built around them. There’s a dragon pit, saddles, and dragon keepers — this monk-like order that takes care of them.”

Thankfully, you won’t have to wait long to find out how that all works – House of the Dragon will debut over at HBO on August 21, 2022.

Want to find out more about Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon? Check out the latest details from the show and find out everything you need to know before it airs.

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