Red Dead Online has sorely been in need of some new content, and while this week's update doesn't introduce anything as big as the Blood Money update did this summer, it's at least something. Starting today, players can participate in three new Telegram missions, although they're not like any others that have been released so far. Of course, players can also just make more money this week by trading in either furs or moonshine.This week's Red Dead Online update was announced via the Rockstar Newswire, but the most important details can be found below.Hardcore solo missionsRed Dead Online's new telegram missions turn up the difficultyThe three telegram missions introduced in this week's Red Dead Online update aren't just brand-new; they're potentially some of the game's hardest content. Players that take on any of these hardcore telegram missions won't be able to see enemies on their minimap and won't have any aim assist.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With numerous expansions, seasons, and campaigns, Destiny 2 can be daunting for new players. While Bungie has put in features to try to solve this problem, like the free-to-play New Light campaign, it's something that the developer still struggles with. In an interview with GameSpot, game director Joe Blackburn and general manager Justin Truman talked about how Bungie is thinking about onboarding in the upcoming Witch Queen expansion.In essence, Blackburn and Truman explained that Bungie consistently rethinks the array of content available in Destiny 2 and how it's presented when players come into the game. This gets difficult when launching an expansion, as the new content is the first thing the player will likely jump into after finishing New Light, but Bungie thinks that the story of The Witch Queen makes a logical jumping-off point.Blackburn stated, "So we really want to start attacking all of our systems that are sprawled out in the complexity and find out, 'Okay, this is the stuff that's working for us. What's the stuff that feels like corruption now? How can we get rid of that?'... And then that the really good thing for us with our big beats is that that question becomes really easy to answer when you start talking about the Witch Queen. And that we really think about that a lot as the Witch Queen as a great place to come back into Destiny or get into it because if you're into it for the first time, it's like, 'Okay, I should do this thing.' And then you're going to get dumped into the first mission of the Witch Queen."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Apex Legends Mobile is currently being tested in Mexico, Columbia, and Peru, and new images from the mobile version of Respawn's free-to-play battle royale are making console and PC players envious.Included in Apex Legends Mobile are detailed stat breakdowns for each of the game's weapons. The stats page for each weapon includes information on recoil, rate of fire, reload speeds, damage distribution models, effective range, and more. It's a lot of great information to have at one's fingertips, which is exactly why Apex Legends players on console and PC on the game's subreddit are wishing a similar feature would come to the core version of the game.Woah the the Mobile game gives super detailed stats of everything including recoil patterns and different damage on body parts from apexlegendsIt's currently unclear if weapons in the mobile game are balanced identically to that of its console and PC counterpart, but regardless, having more in-game information about how Apex Legends' weapons perform wouldn't be a bad thing.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Warzone is already a frustrating experience with so many cheaters, but players are also fed up with teammates who quit matches early. Warzone duos, trios, or quads matches with random players can quickly devolve into a solo experience, and players are asking developer Raven Software to add a penalty for those quitters.Warzone player Binarycold's Reddit post about frustration with random quitters sparked quite a conversation, as many other players left comments of similar frustrations. Random players don't often stick around and spectate the match long enough to give their teammates a chance to bring them back.Warzone with strangers from CODWarzoneWarzone's standard battle royale mode offers three different ways for players to rejoin the match. Players can fight for a second chance in Verdansk with the Gulag, where "dead" players go to face off in a 1v1 match to see who will earn the opportunity to drop back into the fight. There are also Buy Stations that allow teammates to revive their fallen squadmates for $4,500. Lastly, there's even a chance of a random Warzone event called a Jailbreak that returns all spectating players back to the match.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Netflix announced it has acquired Night School Studio, the developer behind Oxenfree, Afterparty, and Next Stop Nowhere."Night School wants to stretch our narrative and design aspirations across distinctive, original games with heart. Netflix gives film, TV, and now game makers an unprecedented canvas to create and deliver excellent entertainment to millions of people," wrote Sean Krankel, co-founder and studio director in a statement. The developer is the first game studio bought by Netflix, which earlier this year announced its plans to expand into the video games industry.In the statement, Krankel wrote that Netflix has a track record for supporting diverse storytellers, which felt like a natural fit for Night School Studio. "The Netflix team has shown the utmost care for protecting our studio culture and creative vision. We’ll keep making Oxenfree II. We’ll keep cooking up new game worlds," he wrote.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As with the other Shattered Realm locations we've visited in the Season of the Lost in Destiny 2, the Ruins of Wrath hides some strange secrets. These Ascendant Mysteries are longer, more involved story beats hidden within the Ascendant Plane that demonstrate what's going on this season and why the Ascendant Realm is so important. In the Ruins of Wrath, the Hive-focused Shattered Realm area modeled after the moon, the Hive god of war, Xivu Arath, is up to something, and you need to uncover it and stop it.There are two Ascendant Mysteries to uncover in the Ruins of Wrath, each tied to one of the beacons you need to align as you're working your way through the area. Here's where you can find both Ascendant Mysteries and what you need to do to solve them.Lord Of The UndercroftAfter aligning the first beacon, this pressure plate will activate in The Warbringer's Tower area, allowing you to unlock the tower's front door. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

George Lucas may have parted ways with Star Wars when Disney purchased the property back in 2012, but now he's joining the evil Empire--as an action figure. Hasbro announced today that a George Lucas Stormtrooper is joining the ranks of its Black Series line of 6-inch Star Wars figures (via The Hollywood Reporter).The toy, titled "George Lucas (in Stormtrooper Disguise)," features the Star Wars creator in full Stormtrooper armor from the original trilogy, as well as an accompanying helmet and blaster. This isn't the first time Lucas has appeared as a Stormtrooper action figure, either. As noted in the official post on the Star Wars website, Hasbro released a 3.75-inch George Lucas Stormtrooper back in 2006. He's also been immortalized in the past as Rebel Alliance pilot Jorg Sacul in 2002, and as his Revenge of the Sith character, Baron Papanoida, also in 2006.“As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I have both the honor and privilege to bring characters from the franchise to life in product form every single day,” said Vickie Stratford, sr. director of product design at Hasbro, in an official announcement. “When the opportunity came to design the George Lucas figure, we were especially excited for this project. This figure is just one of the many ways we can honor his legacy for years to come and we hope fans cherish it as much as we did!”Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

While the PS Vita was a critical success thanks to some innovative design features and forward-thinking compatibility with the PS4, it wasn't the financial blockbuster that Sony was hoping for. Selling 18 million units through its run, the PS Vita had an OLED screen long before Nintendo upgraded its Switch console with the better display technology, it paired well with the PS4 for remote play, and it had a gaming library to be proud of.With the PS Vita's online store almost being shut down this year, it's another reminder to grab some titles from that console's digital market before it's too late. Sony's pocket gaming machine had a terrific variety on offer, and if you're pondering which games to grab with one of those devices for a recently-retro collection of classics, our top 10 list of the best PlayStation Vita games should help sway your opinion. We've arranged these in alphabetical order and excluded some of the Vita's (admittedly awesome) collections from consideration. But yes, it's still very cool that Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, and Metal Gear games could be played on the go.Danganronpa: Trigger Happy HavocDanganronpa: Trigger Happy HavocIf you've ever pondered causing some mayhem, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is a fascinating examination of just how far some people are willing to go when they reach their breaking point. The setup itself was simple, pulling from The Hunger Games and Battle Royale to establish its core plot. Trapped in an abandoned building with 15 other students, the only way out of the makeshift prison is to kill another student and avoid being found guilty of the crime.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Interpreting stealth as a power fantasy, Aragami 2 deploys the shadows as a literal weapon, not merely as somewhere to hide. One ability discharges tendrils of black mist from your fingertips to grab a nearby enemy and fling them headfirst into your fist, knocking them unconscious. Such powerful abilities emphasize a proactive approach to stealth that's less about waiting for a window of opportunity to open and more about knocking a hole in the wall. With a lean, stylish aesthetic complementing minimalist mission design, Aragami 2 succeeds in making you feel like a daring and deadly shadow warrior, even if it eventually falls victim to repetition and a lack of variety.Afflicted by a mysterious force that corrodes the body and devours the mind (most people would call this "getting old"), the aragami are gifted with shadow essence which grants them supernatural abilities. They call it a curse, but to be honest it's hard to see the downside. The most basic of these abilities lets them briefly assume a shadow form and dash unseen across open ground, grapple up onto the roof of a building, or down to the cliff ledge below. Combined with a double-jump, the ability enables you to fling yourself around a level with abandon, traveling swiftly to bypass enemies, move in for the kill, or make a speedy getaway.Movement in this mode is limited by a stamina meter, but it's a generous one, allowing you to string together several jumps and dashes before requiring a moment's pause to regenerate. Traversal through an area tends to be a matter of grappling to high ground, quickly surveying the surroundings, then executing clean and decisive strikes, whether you're nimbly darting through gaps in enemy patrol routes or eliminating them one by one. There's nothing stopping you from spending half an hour hanging off the roof of a pagoda or squatting in some waist-high reeds before making your move, if that's what you want to do. It's more that the tools at your disposal, and the ease and speed with which you can utilize them, better encourage the fast, fluid approach.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has surpassed another MCU film, Black Widow, to become the highest grossing movie in the US during the pandemic era.Shang-Chi has now made $196.5 million in the US, which is ahead of Black Widow's $183.6 million. Internationally, it's a different story, with Black Widow ($378.4 million) pacing ahead of Shang-Chi ($363.4 million). Both Marvel films would have no doubt generated substantially larger box office results in North America and globally in pre-pandemic times. Both movies were obliterated by the success of F9, which has made $716 million globally (but only $173 million in the US).Comparing Shang-Chi and Black Widow isn't totally fair, however, as Black Widow was also released on Disney+ with Premier Access at launch, while Shang-Chi was not. This release strategy surely impacted box office results one way or the other for Black Widow (and it's also led to a messy lawsuit between Scarlett Johnasson and Disney).Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Oktoberfest is quickly approaching, and while your in-person beer-drinking plans may be interrupted due to COVID, you can celebrate everything beer in Call of Duty with some special DLC.The previously announced Oktoberfest Bundle is out now for Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War, and perhaps the most fun thing about it is that it lets you shoot beer bullets. "Grab your lederhosen and slosh your way through the battlefield," Activision said.Grab your lederhosen and slosh your way through the battlefield 🍻The Oktoberfest Bundle has arrived just in time. Available now in #BlackOpsColdWar and #Warzone. pic.twitter.com/PyXpSinm80 — Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) September 26, 2021The DLC bundle comes with the Lederhosen operator skin for Beck, as well as two weapon blueprints themed around booze called Hefeweizen and Kolsch, along with a knife called Keg Tap. It also comes with a "beer tracer fire effect," which emits beer cans. There is also a new finishing move, Tapped Out, in which your soldier tosses the enemy into the air and drop-kicks them in the face. A "Happy Hour" watch where all the numbers are beer is included as well, along with a "Prost" calling card. You can see everything in the Oktoberfest Bundle in the video below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Razer Turret $250 See at Amazon Corsair K63 And Lapboard $160 See at Amazon Razer Power Up Bundle $165 See at Amazon Logitech G613 Lightspeed Wireless Keyboard $130 See at Amazon HyperX Alloy Origins Core $90 See at Amazon Logitech G502 Gaming Mouse $80 See at Amazon Razer Deathadder V2 $70 See at GameStop Couchmaster Cycon 2 $180 See at Amazon Underneath the veneer of its operating system, it's easy to think of the Xbox Series X and S as compact, powerful computers. And that's mostly true, especially when you consider that both have broad support for mouse and keyboard inputs, with Microsoft introducing the functionality already during the Xbox One generation. That means you don't have to sacrifice your favorite input method just to enjoy console gaming, which might have you asking what some of the best xbox keyboard and mouse options are.Before that, you need to understand some of the limitations that come with mouse and keyboard support on Xbox consoles. Firstly, while the console might support it at a base level, each game still needs to individually support it too in order to work. This is especially true in competitive multiplayer titles, where a mouse and keyboard can constitute a big advantage. Many of these games, such as Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone, get around this by separating players depending on their input scheme rather than by the platform they're playing on, so just keep in mind that even though you're playing on a console you'll likely be matched up with more PC players in most cases.Like PC, you'll also have the option to use either wired or wireless keyboard and mice, although unlike the PlayStation 5 you won't be able to use them via Bluetooth. The Xbox Series X and S only communicate to wireless devices using 2.4GHz dongles or Xbox's own wireless signal for controllers/headsets, and even then, it's restricted to certain peripherals that have support. Thankfully there are some options that have been specifically designed with the Xbox in mind, meaning you won't need to worry about compatibility out of the box.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hideki Kamiya, the director of Bayonetta 3, says that if fans want to see the game come to other platforms, then they should tell Nintendo.Bayonetta 3 is an exclusive title for the Nintendo Switch. Kamiya said on Twitter (via Google Translate), "Bayo 3, like Bayo 2, is being developed with funding from Nintendo." Platinum Games is only handling the development of the game and all product decisions are decided by Nintendo.He continues, "So, for example, if you have a request such as 'put it out on another model', please contact Nintendo. If Nintendo asks us to 'port it to PS5' and provide funding, we may receive it." Porting Bayonetta 3 to PlayStation or Xbox isn't completely out of the question, it's just that the decision is entirely up to Nintendo, and the company hasn't branched out to PC as Sony and Microsoft have.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

While its release date is still nowhere to be seen, Blizzard is finally starting to share some of the nitty-gritty details of what players can expect in Overwatch 2. The developer has previously gone over new game modes being added in the game, along with new maps and skins. However, this is the first time it has gone over specific changes to either Sombra and Bastion.Sombra, the game's hacking fiend, potentially has the more contentious changes among the duo. Overall, she'll be able to go on the assault more often thanks to some serious buffs to her hack ability, which now refreshes every three seconds. Enemies who are hacked still can't use their abilities, although that's just for a single second after being hacked. For the duration of the hack though, which lasts eight seconds total, targets are highlighted and can be seen through walls. Hacked targets also take a whopping 50% more damage from Sombra, giving the character a mean one-two punch of hacking a target then peppering them with bullets.Similarly, Sombra's ultimate has been changed as well. While it no longer disables shields, it deals damage to any enemies in its radius, for a total of 40% of their current health. Naturally, any enemy caught in the blast is also hacked, so Sombra can easily take down enemies she hits.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In Sable, you can forge a mask by tracking down three copies of the same badge. The Merchant Mask--a sandy gold face covering with four red dots--can be built this way and you can do it fairly early on in the game if you know where to look for the components. As is the case for many quests in the game, to get the Merchant Mask, you will need to head to Eccria and speak to Merchant Iria, a terse businesswoman who presides over trade in the city.If this is your first time going to the desert settlement, you can reach Eccria by heading west from Burnt Oak Station. You should see tall rocks to the north and south, and a lake to the north. Once you reach the city, you will find that the power is out. Follow the “Heartbreak in the City” quest until you restore the power, then return to this guide.Now that the power is back on, you can find Merchant Iria holed up in an office toward the center of the town, at the end of a narrow hallway. But in order to reach her, you will need to pay off Yannis, a bulky guard in armor who is watching the door. This particular bouncer has a taste for pomegranates and you can purchase one from Serai Merchant Josh at the open-air market located beneath the bridge that leads into Eccria from the south. (You may need to get closer to Josh than you think to speak to him. Unfortunately for Josh’s other customers, we had to climb up on top of his fruit display to get the dialogue prompt to work).Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com