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Xbox One owners who subscribe to either Game Pass for Console or Game Pass Ultimate will have a handful of titles to play as November approaches. Led by The Outer Worlds, this new crop of Xbox Game Pass titles include a bevy of experiences, from the indie to the expansive. Here’s what you can look forward to playing over the next two weeks or so.

Headlining this assortment of Xbox Game Pass titles is Obsidian Entertainment’s Fallout: New Vegas spiritual successor The Outer Worlds, which launches on October 25. Reviews have started to flood in and the expansive first-person RPG is receiving near-universal praise amongst critics. It’ll be available right at launch through Game Pass on both Xbox One and PC.

Arriving before The Outer Worlds is Lonely Mountains: Downhill and Secret Neighbor, both of which release on October 23. Bite-sized roguelite Minit hits the Xbox Game Pass vault on October 24, followed by Afterparty on October 29, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars on October 31, and Subnautica on November 7.

Upcoming Xbox Game Pass Titles

• Lonely Mountains: Downhill — October 23
• Secret Neighbor — October 23
• Minit — October 24
• The Outer Worlds — October 25
• Afterparty — October 29
• Lego Star Wars III — October 31
• Subnautica — November 7

Earlier this month, Xbox Game Pass received an impressive delivery of games to its vault. These include Dishonored 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Yooka-Laylee, and more.

In our Outer Worlds review, editor Edmond Tran awarded the game a 9/10, saying, “[The Outer Worlds is] not a short game, but it’s one packed with such a steady stream of wonderful characters to meet, interesting places to explore, and meaningful, multi-layered quests to solve, that it didn’t feel like there was any room to get tired of it. The Outer Worlds is consistently compelling throughout, and it’s a superb example of how to promote traditional RPG sensibilities in a sharp, modern experience.”

The newest event in Borderlands 3‘s anniversary celebration has kicked off, offering two paths to claim some extra rewards. This fourth week of the celebration is called “Mayhem on Twitch,” and as you might expect, that means you can snag goodies through Mayhem Mode, or by using the game’s Twitch extension.

The update has gone live through a micropatch, so you’ll need to head back to the main menu for a moment to verify before moving on. Once you’ve secured it, you’ll get an increased chance for Anointed gear in Mayhem Mode, along with extra XP gains and reduced values for penalty modifiers. Mayhem Mode is the post-game content that unlocks once you’ve finished the story campaign, which gives you access to better loot and harder difficulty mods.

You can also rack up some rewards through watching other people play Borderlands. The EchoCast Twitch extension has been tweaked to accelerate voting periods during Badass Viewer Events, marking a permanent change. On top of that, Rare Chest Events will have a 100% win rate for the event period rather than the usual 25% chance. To enable the EchoCast extension, you’ll have to link your Shift and Twitch accounts using the Shift profile page.

This event will last through October 29, and marks the penultimate part of the anniversary celebration. The final part will be a “Spooky Surprise” starting on October 29, and whatever that surprise is, it’s apparently separate from the Bloody Harvest event that starts later this week.

Destiny 2‘s Season of the Undying rolls on with more fresh content dropping this week. Headlining what’s now available in the post-Shadowkeep expansion world of Destiny is Leviathan’s Breath, a new Exotic bow that’s available to people who own the current season pass. Unlike Eriana’s Vow, though, you’ll have to earn the bow by completing a lengthy quest. And the first step–which involves getting into Banshee’s workshop–might be the trickiest, at least in terms of figuring out where to go and what to do.

To start the “Make Bows, Not War” quest to earn the bow, you’ll need to speak to Banshee-44 in the Tower. He’ll direct you to his hidden workshop, but he doesn’t really provide you with enough information to walk right into it. Instead, you’ll have to piece together its location from a clue–Banshee mentions a back way in known to Cayde-6. Destiny 2 players know Cayde used to hang out in the Tower’s Hangar area before he was killed in the Forsaken expansion, so you’ll need to start there.

Actually finding the start of the path to the workshop is a test in and of itself, and it’s a little confusing from there on, as well. Here’s the path’s location and everything you need to know to avoid getting lost as you try to find Banshee’s hideaway.

How To Find Banshee-44’s Workshop

• Head to the Hangar and turn left. Look for the staircase in the back corner that leads up to the second-floor catwalks. This is where you go to meet Xur when he comes to the Tower.
• Up on the second floor, follow the catwalks back toward the entrance to the Hangar. If you look over the door, you’ll see another catwalk you can’t reach unless you jump. Hop over to it and you’ll find a vent entrance.

• Follow the vent through and you’ll enter a series of rooms. When you hit the one full of shelves, look up. In the back of the room is a shelf you can climb to reach another vent. Jump into it.

• Keep following these vents until you drop into a cylindrical shaft. Use the platforms to climb to the top and find the exit.

• Work your way through the path forward until you finally hit Banshee’s workshop. Approach the weapons locker at the far end and interact with it to get another quest step–it seems you need the keys to unlock this thing, so head back to Banshee.

From there, you’ve still got your work cut out for you in achieving the bow. Check out the full list of Make Bows, Not War quest steps, as well as our guide for how to complete the quest as efficiently as possible.

Halloween is just around the corner and the spooky festivities are kicking off in Fortnite this week. The popular Skull Trooper and Skull Ranger skins are back in the item shop, each with a new style. There are also some new Halloween-themed skins as well.

The new Skull Trooper and Skull Ranger skins will be available to purchase today before disappearing into the ether once again. They only come to the store once a year, and there’s a new pickaxe, backbling, and glider accompanying them this Halloween, too.

Ghoul Trooper, Brainiac, and Raptor have also received new styles, and there’s a host of creepy new skins including a horned sorcerer and what looks like an alchemist with a taste for frogs, who’s mostly comprised of teeth. You can also purchase new emotes, pets, and weapon skins.

Credit to Twitter user ShiinaBR for these images.

Along with the final trailer, Lucasfilm has unveiled a brand new poster for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, placing Carrie Fisher as the top-billed actress.

The stunning one-sheet honors the late actress by listing her name, alongside her on-screen brother Mark Hamill, ahead of the rest of the cast and crew of Episode IX in a touching tribute to her final appearance in the franchise.

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Crystal Dynamics has offered a little more insight into why it chose Ms. Marvel as the protagonist for Marvel’s Avengers over other, more well-known superheroes.

Talking to IGN at EGX 2019 in London, where Virgin Media held the UK’s first play of Marvel’s Avengers, senior producer Rose Hunt explained that Kamala Khan was chosen because her personality is very relatable for people playing, and that her lack of history allows the studio more freedom when crafting her story for the game.

Check out the reveal of Kamala Khan’s Ms. Marvel below.

“When Marvel brought

up as a possibility for us, we were super excited about her,” says Hunt. “Because she’s a fan girl like us. She’s a fan of the Avengers like the whole world is, so we thought that she would be a super relatable character to be our protagonist.”

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WWE 2K20 is out today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, but the internet is already filled to the brim with videos showing off the various glitches and hilarious oddities affecting 2K’s latest pro wrestling game.

Twitter user MrMacho419 might have captured the best of the lot so far with this farcical match between NXT’s Dakota Kai and superstar Ronda Rousey. The disappearing ladder isn’t ideal but is mostly fine, but then things take a turn for the worse when the steel steps sink into the ring, Rousey becomes entangled in ropes that aren’t meant to move like that, and Kai’s knees bend and move in a way that belongs in an exorcism movie.

Glitches like this have existed in each of 2K’s WWE games, especially when weapons are involved, but the frequency with which they happen in WWE 2K20 is bordering on the absurd. I’m playing the game for the purposes of writing GameSpot’s review and have encountered various glitches in every single match I’ve played so far. I’ve seen character’s teleport across the ring, witnessed foreign objects gain sentience, and encountered one game-breaking glitch that caused both superstars to stop moving for 10 minutes until I gave up and restarted the match.

The hashtag #FixWWE2K20 has been trending on Twitter throughout the day, and a user on Reddit has even compiled a list of every glitch discovered so far. It’s a bit of a mess.