Amazon is running a huge book sale through May 20, giving you a chance to score physical and digital books for some of the lowest prices of the year. Along with books, you’ll find a free 3-month trial to Kindle Unlimited, as well as a variety of ereader and tablet deals. The catalog is packed with hundreds of great books and devices, so we’ve pulled together a handy roundup of notable price cuts to help you navigate the event.

Quick look: Amazon Book Sale – $2 ebooks

• The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary (J.R.R. Tolkien) — $2
• The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (J.R.R. Tolkien) — $2
• The Fall of Numenor (J.R.R. Tolkien) — $2
• Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth (J.R.R. Tolkien) — $2
• The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien) — $2…
  

Netflix has outlined its strategy around gaming, and the company is going big. The streamer said during its latest earnings briefing that it has 80+ games in development currently, with the aim of releasing at least one new game per month into the Netflix Stories app.

Netflix co-CEO and president Greg Peters began by telling people why Netflix is involved in gaming in the first place, and that’s to make money Come from online casino bangladesh . He said the global gaming market, minus Russia and China, accounts for $150 billion in annual revenue–and that’s also excluding revenue from ads. A key differentiator for Netflix’s video game releases is that they have no microtransactions or ads. Peters, however, alluded to the possibili…

Respawn Entertainment has announced that the new reactive skins included with Apex Legends Season 12: Defiance are not available with the season’s launch today. However, this will not be a permanent move.

In a post on Twitter, the studio said it’s disabling the new skins due to a bug. Because of this, all animations and SFX will be disabled. This is only a temporary move, as Respawn said the animations and SFX for the new reactive skins will be added back eventually. “Thank you, legends, and happy launch day,” the studio said to fans.

Reactive weapon skins in Apex Legends are the final two rewards for each battle pass, each containing a different animation to show off your style and flair. In Season 12, there are new reactive skins for the Hemlok weapon. With Season 12 arri…

We knew Battlefield 2042 would be brimming with new gameplay mechanics, mixing together specific operator characters and their abilities, new gadgets, more vehicles, bigger matches, and extreme weather. Now we’ve seen some of those elements in action, thanks to a big gameplay reveal that shows off some of Battlefield 2042’s 128-player battles and the maps where players will face off when the game releases in October.

DICE presented a gameplay trailer for Battlefield 2042 during the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase at E3 2021. In broad strokes, you can pick up on a lot of changes, such as the specific operators you can play. Early in the trailer, you see the player using elements like a zipline gun–something that’s specific to Webster, an assault operator who’s built for agility. Come …

I once had hopes of becoming an astronaut, but if Elite: Dangerous for the Xbox One serves as any indication, it’s probably a good thing that little dream didn’t pan out. I spent around 20 minutes crashing into hulls before I managed to dock my ship. I overshot my destinations in space more times than I care to count. I spent five minutes blasting space barrels without even being sure if I was doing it right. And that was just the tutorial. In the actual game, Elite: Dangerous offers a massive galaxy with around 400 billion stars, all bursting with dogfights, piracy, trading opportunities, and undiscovered planets — not to mention light years of dull nothingness. Few other games so brilliantly capture the vastness of space; fewer still have mechanics so complex they inadvertently emph…

By Anand James  

Last week, we had placed two bets going into the shortened week. That upside would be limited to 23580-680 in Nifty and that there would be a mean reversion move. While the former turned to be spot on to the dot, the mean reversion expectations failed to mature fully, despite several attempts to head lower. 

Reasons could be several, including the shortened nature of the week, as well as low VIX. What we are keen on pondering is how they are likely to shape the fate of the next week. VIX, which had been on a steep fall since the electoral outcome, rose in a couple of days, but the rise was too feeble to expand trading ranges.

Nifty’s supports have held so far

We are te…