Month: September 2019

Given the series traditional love for referencing pop culture, and given how prevalent battle royale games have become in the years since the release of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, it’s of little surprise that the sub-genre would appear in Borderlands 3. In Borderlands 3, you can participate in a battle royale side quest that’s given to you by Moxxi. It’s called Kill Killavolt.

In Kill Killavolt, Moxxi tasks you with killing one of her ex-lovers, Killavolt. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to get to him as he’s taken to wearing a near-indestructible suit that channels massive amounts of electricity. Moxxi believes the only time he’s vulnerable is when he’s having sex, and thus tasks you with entering the battle royale competition in which the sole victor wins the opportunity to spend the night alone with Killavolt. Moxxi then gifts you with a means of shorting out Killavolt’s suit, which will allow you to hold your own against him once he’s let his guard down around you.

Despite taking place within a battle royale, several of the standard rules for a battle royale do not apply to the mission. You can afford to die without losing all of your progress, for example, and the battlefield you’re thrown into does not shrink as time goes on. Like a battle royale, however, you do have to kill all of your competition. And this mission lasts a very long time, so you’ll need to regularly stop to loot for ammo and health or you’ll risk finding yourself in a firefight without any means of defending yourself. So yeah, Borderlands 3 kind of has a battle royale, if only in the loosest sense of the term.

When we say this mission is long, we mean it takes up an entire area of Borderlands 3 and can last up to 40 minutes. It goes on for such a long time that there are additional side missions you can find to do in the midst of participating in the battle royale–one of which even gives you a grenade launcher that shoots explosive poop that’s very helpful for fighting against Killavolt. You’ll know which side mission gives you the poop gun, trust us–it’s very difficult to miss. You can see the gun in action in the video embedded above.

Killavolt is one of the earliest bullet-sponge bosses in Borderlands 3, as he’s (obviously) resistant to shock damage but he also wears shields–which are strong against everything except shock damage. So make sure you just have a big damage dealer firearm before taking Killavolt on. You’ll need it.

In GameSpot’s Borderlands 3 review, I wrote, “Borderlands 3 has a few stumbling blocks when it comes to bosses, but these fights are overshadowed by the game’s rewarding gunplay and over-the-top humor. The game’s character-driven narrative acts as a satisfying finale for the loot-shooter franchise, and the new mechanics and features–especially the reworked skill trees and weapon manufacturer effects–give you plenty of agency in how you want to play through it.”

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There have been a bunch of great games released for the PlayStation 4 this year, so many that you may not have been able to pick them up when they first launched. Well, now seems like a good time to go back and see what you missed, as the PlayStation Store has a great little sale for PS Plus subscribers.

Games that came out earlier this year like The Division 2, Mortal Kombat 11, and Metro Exodus are on sale, but there is also a selection of discounted games from some years ago. Those include GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Horizon Zero Dawn. You can check out the full list of games on sale (and their PS Plus discounts) below.

There are also several bundles, many of which are special editions for the games above, so be sure to check out the PlayStation Store on your PS4 or its website to see the entire sale.

If you’re interested in more discounts and sales, then be sure to check out our collection of the best PS4 deals for September 2019.

Tokyo Ghoul S opens September 16 in 400 theaters across the U.S. and Canada. The film will have a three-day limited theatrical run (September 16, 18, and 20) and will screen in Japanese with English subtitles.

You can watch our video review for Tokyo Ghoul S in the player above.

Before you get into Tokyo Ghoul S you should probably know that it’s a sequel to the 2017 film Tokyo Ghoul and both are based on the 14-volume manga of the same name that was originally published in the weekly Shonen Jump magazine.

The story centers on a world where mortals live alongside so-called ghouls who need to eat human flesh to survive and our hero is a college student, Ken Kaneki (Masataka Kubota), who has to live his life as a half-ghoul after being attacked by one of the malicious monsters. This context is important as the surreal and often silly sequel doesn’t offer any real backstory or world-building as it throws you straight into the supernatural world of the murderous flesh-eating ghouls.

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This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Abominable opens Sept. 27 in the US, Sept. 19 in Australia, and Oct. 11 in the UK.

Abominable is an adorable if somewhat derivative animated adventure in which a group of kids journey through China in an effort to return their Yeti friend to his home atop Mount Everest — a storyline that makes sense considering the film is a co-production between America’s DreamWorks Animation and China’s Pearl Studio, and has therefore been fine-tuned to appeal to both markets. But while the kids are likable and the Yeti impossibly cute, this tale has been told countless times before, and oftentimes in more engaging fashion.

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Like most games these days, Borderlands 3 is currently experiencing its fair share of launch-day issues. One of the most prominent manifests on PlayStation 4 when two players are playing in split-screen and one pops open the menu to tweak their gear or skills. After numerous players reported this issue and IGN confirmed it with our own testing, A 2K representative confirmed to us that it and Gearbox are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it. The complete statement follows.

“We are aware that in some cases during split-screen couch co-op play, players can experience lag while in heavy combat and one of the players goes into their ECHOdevice and tries to navigate the skill trees and menus. While we will continue to work to optimize the Borderlands 3 experience, we’d advise split-screen players to prep for combat ahead of big encounters, and not leave a teammate to fight solo mid firefight!”

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MoviePass announced that the subscription theater ticket service will be shutting down for good tomorrow, September 14, 2019. The announcement caps off months of speculation regarding the future of the service.

In a statement released today, Helios and Matheson Analytics announced that MoviePass will be shuttering on September 14 because “efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date.”

The company is exploring several options for MoviePass including selling the company “in its entirety, a sale of substantially all of the Company’s assets including MoviePass, Moviefone, and MoviePass Films,” and a reorganization of the business. Furthermore, any sale of MoviePass comes with “the assumption or settlement” of MoviePass’s liabilities. You can watch our video on MoviePass’ demise below.

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