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Borderlands 3 is getting its first paid story DLC soon, with Moxxi’s Heist of the Handsome Jackpot due to release on December 19 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. It will send you into a massive casino formerly owned by Handsome Jack, the antagonist of Borderlands 2, to pull off a heist while also fending away the various patrons who have been trapped there in the years after his death seven years prior.

The official Borderlands YouTube account has uploaded a video of the first 13-odd minutes after you enter the casino, showing what to expect when your vault hunter stages their own heist later this month. It’s embedded below.

The footage sees the return of Handsome Jack, albeit in talking hologram form. Naturally, there’s also a whole heap of combat within moments of the DLC starting. As it turns out, you’re there to snatch the casino because Jack promised to bankroll Moxxi’s own den of gambling when they were an item–so this will be, on some level, a revenge narrative.

Borderlands 3 has received several free updates since it launched. This DLC is part of the game’s paid season pass, and is the first of four campaign DLC packages.

From budget monitors to ultra-wide displays, we’ve picked out the best G-Sync monitors that’ll crush screen tearing.

Maybe you’re building a new Ryzen Threadripper rig, or it’s just time to upgrade. Whatever the motivation, if you’re going mid-tower you’ll want to give these five cases a long, hard look.

There’s not much going on with video games at the moment so this week Cardy, Joe and Matt talk all about them movies. There’s new Bond and Black Widow trailers to dissect, plus Matt has seen 1917 and tells us why its an absolute banger. Joe got the chance to speak with Joker director Todd Phillips which inspired us to come up with our own pitches for DC movies, the directors we’d like to see make them and why Shaun Williamson aka Barry from Eastenders should play every role in the DC universe.

The Endless Search is a verified nail biter this week as we take on a new game. Please enjoy.

IGN UK Podcast #516: Todd Phillips Interview and Our Pitches for DC Movies

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This review contains spoilers for The Mandalorian episode 5, ‘The Gunslinger’. To refresh your memory of where we left off, check out our Mandalorian episode 4 review, find out when The Mandalorian episode 6 comes out with our release schedule, and if you’re confused about The Mandalorian’s timeline, here’s when it takes place in the Star Wars canon.

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Concrete Genie is getting into the holiday spirit with a free DLC pack that will let you paint the town with Christmas cheer. The game’s creative director Dominic Robilliard has announced on the PlayStation Blog that today’s new 1.06 update–available to download now–comes with the Holiday Brush Design Pack. When you load up the game after the patch you’ll be asked if you want to activate the pack, and if you opt in your in-game painting designs will have a festive touch added to them.

You’ll be able to toggle the holiday brushes on or off from the top menu, so once December 26 rolls around you can keep playing without a Christmas theme if you so desire.

According to Robilliard, these brushes have been added to give back to the community after a successful launch, and is inspired by the families who are playing the game together. “We designed the game and its story to appeal to all ages but, in particular, we hoped that families could benefit from the universal themes and creative gameplay,” he says. “This has been so rewarding to watch! We hope that many more families over the holiday period (and beyond) continue to enjoy everything that Concrete Genie has to offer.”

Concrete Genie received a 7/10 in our review. Reviewer Hope Corrigan wrote that “most of what Concrete Genie has to offer is fun and beautiful in a sort of childlike way.”

Back in October, Humble announced that it was going to transition its Humble Monthly Bundle from being a mystery bundle of PC games to a selection that you get to choose from each month. However, with the introduction of Humble Choice–the bundle’s new name–prices are going up and the number of games you get is going down. That is unless you’re already a Humble Monthly subscriber, which you can still become until December 6 at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST.

If you’re a Humble Monthly subscriber before the transition to Humble Choice occurs, you’ll be locked into the $12/month Classic plan, which gets you 10 games a month, a 20% store discount, and unlimited access to Humble originals and the Humble Trove–a DRM-free collection of games that you can download and keep forever.

For comparison, the Premium plan costs $20/month and grants you access to the same benefits, but you only get to claim nine games a month. The Basic plan costs $15/month and gets you three games, a 10% store discount, and access to Humble originals and the Trove. And lastly, the Lite plan costs $5 a month for access to the Humble Trove, a 10% store discount, and a limited selection of Humble originals. Lite plan subscribers, unfortunately, don’t get any games from the monthly, curated selection. You can see a more detailed breakdown below.

Humble Choice breakdown (click for full-size image)

Some of the games currently available in the Humble Trove include Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, A Short Hike, and Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to), in addition to more popular games like Soma, Tacoma, and Torchlight. You can see the full list of games at the Humble Bundle website.

If you’re interested in subscribing before the transition, you’ll get SoulCalibur VI, Yakuza Kiwami, and My Time At Portia as part of December’s bundle. More games will be revealed on December 6 at 10 AM PST / 1 PM PST. Humble Monthly always held a portion of its game back as a mystery; one of the changes with Humble Choice is that the company will let you know exactly which games you can choose from the get-go.