As previously announced, Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally coming to the PC on November 5. It will be available on all major PC launchers including Epic Games Store, GOG, and Rockstar’s own launcher. Red Dead Redemption 2 will also be coming to Steam, but in December.
Rockstar Games provided the PC specs you’ll need to run Red Dead Redemption 2. Check below to see if your PC rig meets the minimum and recommended specs.
Minimum Specifications:
Amazon’s deal of the day offers 30% off Anker charging accessories. While these might not be the most thrilling gadgets on their own, they make sure your actual thrilling gadgets, like your phone, tablet, and Nintendo Switch, have enough juice to get you through the day and then some. So you might as well stock up on this stuff while it’s on sale. But hurry, because the deals turn into a pumpkin at midnight.
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Last week’s 24-hour Pokemon Sword and Shield livestream gave us our first look at what many assumed was a Galarian form of Ponyta. The Pokemon Company has now made it official and shared some more details about the newly discovered Pokemon.
Whereas the recently revealed Sirfetch’d is exclusive to Pokemon Sword, Galarian Ponyta can only be found in Pokemon Shield. Unlike a standard Ponyta, it has a sparkling purple mane and a small horn on its head, much like a unicorn. It’s also a Psychic-type, rather than Fairy as previously assumed.
According to the Pokemon Sword and Shield website, “Galarian Ponyta have been found in a certain forest of the Galar region since ancient times. It is said that they were exposed to the overflowing life energy of the forest over many generations, and this is why their appearance became unique in this region.”
Galarian Ponyta has two possible Abilities. The first is Run Away, which guarantees you’ll be able to flee wild battles. The second is a new Ability called Pastel Veil; this prevents Galarian Ponyta and its ally in a double battle from becoming poisoned. If an ally is already poisoned when Galarian Ponyta enters the field, it will automatically cure that Pokemon of its status ailment.
Pokemon Sword and Shield launch for Nintendo Switch on November 15. You can take a look at all the new Gen 8 Pokemon revealed so far in our gallery. For more details on where you can reserve a copy of the games and what pre-order bonuses you can get, be sure to check out our Pokemon Sword and Shield pre-order guide.
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One of 2019’s biggest games will soon be open to everyone, but only for a short time. Starting this Friday, October 11, you can jump into Mortal Kombat 11 on PS4 or Xbox One and play for free. The free trial period will run all weekend, ending Monday, October 14. Of course, you’ll need PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold for online play, but if you’re not subscribed to either, you can still download the trial and access offline content.
Haven’t jumped into Kombat yet? Free Trial Weekend comin’ in hot 10/11-14!
📂 MK11 Free Trial
ᴸ 📂 Story Mode (2 Chapters)
ᴸ 📂 1v1 & Online 1v1 with Base Roster
ᴸ 📂 The Krypt
ᴸ 📂 Fatality Training
ᴸ 📂 Towers of Time
ᴸ 📂 Play as Terminator, Nightwolf, & Shang Tsung pic.twitter.com/2evYeQnO6M— Mortal Kombat 11 (@MortalKombat) October 9, 2019
The free trial includes enough content to keep you busy this weekend. You’ll be able to play two chapters of Mortal Kombat 11’s story mode as well as local and online 1v1 matches with the base roster. You’ll also have access to The Krypt, Fatality training, and the Towers of Time mode, the latter of which you’ll be able to play as Terminator, Nightwolf, and Shang Tsung.
If you like the game, you can grab it for 40% off at the PlayStation and Xbox Stores this weekend, dropping the price of the standard edition to $36 from $60. The Premium edition, which normally sells for $90, will be discounted to $54 and includes the Kombat Pack, adding new playable characters, character skins, and exclusive gear sets. And as usual with these free trial periods, any progress you make will be rolled over into the full game if you purchase it.
In GameSpot’s Mortal Kombat 11 review, critic Edmond Tran had excellent things to say about the game’s deep, yet accessible fighting system, diverse roster of classic characters and interesting new additions, and more. Mortal Kombat 11 earned a 9/10.
“MK11 isn’t just a sequel for series fans and NetherRealm devotees, it’s a gateway into the realm of fighting games for anyone who has a passing interest in watching ruthless warriors beat each other silly,” he wrote. “Streamlined mechanics keep the act of fighting furiously exciting no matter what your skill level, and comprehensive tutorials encourage you to dig into the nitty-gritty. There’s a diverse roster of interesting characters and playstyles, and the story mode is an entertaining romp. The randomization of Krypt rewards and the odd issue with the game’s always-online nature can occasionally chip away at your patience, but Mortal Kombat 11 absolutely hits where it matters.”
The Division 2’s Title Update 6 will be released on October 15, according to Ubisoft. This update will add Episode 2 – Pentagon: The Last Castle, as well s a new Conflict PvP mode.
Episode 2 will be available early for any player with the Year 1 season pass or a UPlay+ account, while everyone else will have to wait until October 22. The changes and gameplay updates will be available for everyone on October 15.
The second episode pits Division Agents against Black Tusk forces as the two factions race to discover the secrets inside the Pentagon. There will be two new main missions inside the Pentagon and the DARPA Research Labs.
There will also be a new “Technician” specialization that will be immediately available for Year 1 pass holders and UPlay+ subscribers. Non subscribers or pass holders will be able to unlock the Technician after completing a series of objectives.
Activision has detailed the contents of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Special Ops, which is coming back after being absent since Modern Warfare 2, and provides a story that picks up where the main campaign ends.
Up to four players can play Special Ops together when the mode launches alongside the full game on October 25. According to an official blog post, players battle against an “evil” that has overtaken the Eastern Hemisphere. The main objective is to “stop and sever a global terror organization’s access to weapons, funds, intelligence, and hardware.”
Watch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s multiplayer trailer in the video above.
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Back to the Future has remained a steadfast part of pop culture thanks to nods from modern science fiction media such as Stranger Things and Ready Player One. Now you can relive the trilogy and the follow-up animated series for a low price. Back to the Future: The Complete Adventures on Blu-Ray is available on Amazon right now for $22. It’s normally $80, so this is a really stellar deal.
If you’re interested in picking up the collection, you should know that the shipping window is October 25 to November 16. The delay isn’t a huge deal if you’re buying The Complete Adventures as a gift, though. And to be honest, scoring the trilogy and animated series at this price is probably worth the wait regardless.
The Complete Adventures includes all three live-action films: Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, and Back to the Future Part III. While Marty McFly’s second and third adventures weren’t nearly as compelling as the excellent first movie, they are still worth revisiting.
In addition to the films, the collection includes Back to the Future: The Animated Series, which ran for 26 episodes from 1991 to 1992. Fun fact about the animated series: Bill Nye appeared at the end of each episode to tackle experiments as Doc Brown’s assistant. Call it a precursor of things to come for the Science Guy.
For Back to the Future enthusiasts, The Complete Adventures also includes a 64-page book chronicling the history of the franchise and a bonus disc featuring two hours of interesting behind the scenes content.
Update: Famitsu has added one more detail to what we’ve already learned about PlayStation 5. Sony’s next console will include an 8 core, 16 thread x86-64-AMD Ryzen “Zen2″ CPU.
We’d already learned that the console would include a custom AMD Ryzen CPU, but not what exact specs it would sport. This brings it in line with AMD’s current mid-tier Ryzen 7 processors.
Original story: Sony has announced that PlayStation 5 will be released during holiday 2020.
Revealed in a PlayStation blog post, the console is (as you might have expected) officially called PlayStation 5. The blog also reveals that the console’s controller will feature two key new innovations – haptic feedback (replacing the traditional rumble) and adaptive triggers. It will also feature USB C charging, a higher-capacity battery and is a little heavier than its predecessor (but still lighter than an Xbox One controller with batteries inside).
What the Golf prides itself in being a golf game for people who don’t like golf. Its absolute irreverence means that, for long periods, it only resembles golf in that the controls are similar to other touch-screen golf games, especially Desert Golfing–you aim in a direction, pull your finger back to gauge your distance, and then let go for the swing (although here you’re just trying to hit the pin, not land in the hole). But as often as not, you’re not actually shooting a golf ball here. Sometimes you’re firing off a soccer ball, or hurling a golf club, or an object that’s not even golf-adjacent like a rocket that needs guiding through a mess of trees or a crab that must be protected from rising tides. What you’re doing changes completely, but the controls, and the humorous sense of surprise, remain unchanged for the majority of the game.
Often, the first shot on any course is a punchline. On one early level, you go to shoot the ball, but on release, the on-screen golfer gets flung forward instead, rag-dolling towards the green. In other instances, the punchline comes at the end of the hole: you’ll hit the pin and discover that the whole reason for putting in a level about driving a car was so that they could hit you with the pun ‘driving range’. What the Golf is an inventive, charming and funny game, one that speeds through ideas, jokes and oddities at a steady clip so that none of its ideas ever have a chance to get old. It’s fast, strange and pretty easy–the exact opposite of real golf, and all the better for it.
What the Golf’s high-concept golf japery isn’t trying to deliver a serious or deep experience. Each level is short–getting the ball (or equivalent) to the pin rarely requires more than a few shots, and while the overworld that you navigate through to access each level contains only the mildest of traversal puzzles. The whole point of the game is to make you laugh at how flexible its internal definition of ‘golf’ is. It’s literally a weird flex, but it’s more than okay.
The game’s irreverence for golf doesn’t tick over into malice, nor are there any real elements of parody–golf simply provides a rough framework and theme for the game to build on. Levels are divided up by rough themes and concepts: some levels are set in space, for instance, or based on other sports, or require you to switch your phone orientation, switching to a first-person control scheme. Some even bring in augmented reality elements, asking you to move your phone around to fully comprehend a 3D level. The level of creativity on display here is what makes the game so charming, and right up until the end it’s still finding new ways to wring joy out of some very simple control mechanics.
It’s literally a weird flex, but it’s more than okay.
Unfortunately, if you’re playing on PC, some of these fun gimmicks have been excised or cut back–this is a game clearly designed with mobile devices in mind. It’s also not as intuitive to control, as moving a mouse is not as immediate or satisfying as using a finger, especially in levels that require you to take numerous shots in quick succession. But the game remains very funny, no matter how you play it. To explain too many of the game’s gags would dilute their power, but it does a very good job of baking the comedy into the mechanics. What the Golf repeats the same basic gags often to great success–a favourite is when you think you’re controlling the ball, but when you take your shot some other object gets propelled, which is somehow funny every single time. Even the soundtrack, which is largely made up of discordant tunes and singers singing “what the hell” and “golf” repeatedly, is funny.
The game is at its most fun the more recognisably connected to golf it is, although that doesn’t mean that all the best levels have you shooting a ball at a pin. The game turns into a spot-on homage to Superhot for a few levels, for instance, where you pick up new clubs to fire balls at enemies who only move–and shoot–when you do. It’s a committed homage, right down to the “SUPER. PUTT.” voiceover after you complete each level. There are other direct game parodies in here (and even one challenge that feels like a direct homage to Untitled Goose Game), and most of them are a delight. At a few other points, though, the game stumbles somewhat–some levels have so little to do with golf that the game’s central joke feels briefly abandoned, and it would be nice to have a few more levels that required some outside-the-box thinking. Even with all the zaniness, a lot of the gameplay boils down to simply pointing at the pin and firing, and some more puzzle-based levels would not have gone amiss.
Thankfully, the two extra challenges holes attached to each level do a lot to flesh the game out. You can finish What the Golf in about two hours, but it’s worth going back and trying to 100% it (which can still be done in about six hours). These extra levels are a ‘par’ challenge, and then another level that usually provides a significant shake-up, one that’s often unrecognisable from the hole’s first challenge. Often there will be new gags or ideas to enjoy tucked away in these challenges, so it’s worth going back for them.
What the Golf is a comedy game first and foremost, and it succeeds at its primary goal. Perhaps the game’s most telling feature is the ‘Show To A Friend’ option on the main menu, which runs you through a quick playable “best of” reel of some clever challenges the game offers up. What the Golf is an experience that can be shown off, fully understood, and effectively sold to a player in the span of about two minutes–and like all great jokes, you’ll want to share it.
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