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If you’ve been hunting for the best deal on a Dell or Alienware PC, then you’ve waited until the right moment. Dell’s Memorial Day Sale is typically one of the best sales of the year, on par with the deals you will find on Black Friday. This year, it begins on Friday May 24 and runs through Monday, May 27. The sale will probably include Dell G-series, Inspiron, XPS, and Vostro desktops and laptops as well as the Alienware gaming variants. We also expect to see deals on some of Dell’s excellent gaming monitors. In 2018, for example, the best deal was the Dell S2716DG 27″ 1440p 1ms 144Hz Gaming Monitor for as low as $299.99. Dell may offer best-of-2019 prices on select Samsung, LG, Sony, and Vizio 4K TVs as well.
A new wave of Gen 4 Pokemon has arrived in Pokemon Go. Gible, Cherubi, Hippopotas, Burmy, and more can now either be found in the wild or hatched from Eggs, and developer Niantic has introduced a handful of new items that enable some more Gen 4 evolutions, including Glaceon and Leafeon.
As revealed in a recent leak, three new kinds of Lure Modules have been added to Pokemon Go: Glacial, Mossy, and Magnetic. These can be purchased from the in-game store, and placing them in a Poke Stop will attract certain kinds of Pokemon to that area; the Glacial Lure, for instance, draws in Ice- and Water-types, while the Mossy Lure attracts Grass, Bug, and Poison Pokemon.
Moreover, activating the Lure Modules will allow certain Pokemon to evolve; the Glacial and Mossy Lures let Eevee evolve into Glaceon or Leafeon, respectively, while the Magnetic Lure lets Magneton and Nosepass evolve into Magnezone and Probopass. Niantic says the new Lure Modules will also be given out as rewards for completing Special Research tasks “later this season.” You can read more details about the Pokemon and Lures on the Pokemon Go website.
In other Pokemon Go news, the game’s next Community Day takes place this Sunday, May 19. The featured Pokemon this month is Torchic, the Fire-type starter from the series’ Gen 3 games, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. If you’re able to evolve Torchic into its final form, Blaziken, up to an hour after the Community Day ends, it’ll learn Blast Burn. You’ll also receive three times the usual amount of Stardust for capturing Pokemon during the event.
Shortly after May’s Community Day ends, Niantic is kicking off an Extraordinary Raid Weekevent. From May 21-28, new Pokemon will appear as Raid bosses, including Bronzor, whose Shiny form also has a chance of appearing. On Saturday, May 25, the developer is also holding a special Lapras Raid, which will feature an appearance by Shiny Lapras.
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Dungeons and Dragons’ next story adventure, Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, will send players to hell, Wizards of the Coast announced today.
The new 256-page book will be released on September 17 and focus on the city of Baldur’s Gate as it slowly succumbs to the sway of corrupt powers and evil gods. Adventurers will then get the chance to descend into the first layer of the Nine Hells to discover whether there’s a chance for redemption.
Final Fantasy 7’s Switch port quietly received an update that seems to fix one of its most notorious bugs: an audio glitch that has been reintroduced in nearly all of its modern ports.
The now-squashed bug caused the game’s overworld music to restart from the beginning of the song after every battle. It’s not the worst bug in the world, but can make playing significantly more repetitive as you’ll rarely hear more than the opening moments of any overworld song… and you’ll hear it a whole lot.
Frustratingly, this particular audio bug has been a recurring nightmare for longtime fans. It dates back almost a full decade at this point, first present in the modern PC port of FF7 from 2012 before popping up again in the PS4 port from 2015.
Action cinema has developed so much over the past thirty years that it’s sometimes hard to think of what more can be done with the genre. While stuntmen have been doing amazing work for decades, the advent of CGI has massively increased the scope for wild, unbelievable action to the extent that there’s nothing that can’t be realised on screen, one way or another. How do you impress an audience who has already seen everything?
Thankfully there are still movies and filmmakers pushing the boundaries of action cinema, as the John Wick franchise proves. The first movie in 2014, while smaller in scale than the next two films, still delivered some of the most exciting action since Gareth Evans’ Raid movies. Directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch got every cent from the relatively modest budget (reportedly less than $30 million) on screen, and made sure that the action was varied, inventive, and beautifully shot. The movie gave star Keanu Reeves another action hit, and the film quickly gained a cult following.
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) was bigger and bolder, both in terms of its scope and its action. Leich was gone, but Stahelski and writer Derek Kolstad returned, taking us further into the franchise’s mysterious criminal underworld. By this point, Stahelski had coined a phrase for his brand of action–“gun-fu”–taking influence from legendary filmmakers such as John Woo, Sergio Leone, and Akira Kurosawa, and giving it his own twist. The movie was not afraid to get weird either, with a number of scenes that stick in the mind for both their sheer audacity as well as the insane body counts.
The third movie, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, is now in theaters. This one goes even further with the action, throwing horses, dogs, knives, and swords in alongside the more familiar gunfights and martial arts showdowns. Stahelski has already spoken about a fourth part, and while it’s hard to imagine how Chapter 3 can be topped, he’ll no doubt find a way. So here’s our look at every single action scene in the John Wick series to date. And of course, there are big spoilers for all three movies ahead…
At the end of John Wick 2, with what looked like the entire city of New York about to take up arms against Keanu Reeves’ titular hero, it seemed like the next chapter in the assassin’s saga would have to wrap things up one way or another. We were pretty surprised, then, when John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum concluded not with John’s death or his triumph over the High Table, but basically where it began: with John Wick on the run, out of friends, the whole world against him. But was Winston’s betrayal of John real, or is there more to it than that?
At the end of John Wick 2, Winston (Ian McShane) gave John an hour’s head start. He was still on the assassin’s side, despite the reality of John’s affront against the High Table’s laws when he spilled blood on Continental grounds. By John Wick 3’s conclusion, Winston has fully turned on John, shooting him repeatedly and sending him careening over the edge of the Continental’s roof. But are things really that black and white?
The Continental vs. The High Table
First off, let’s talk about the conflict that served as John Wick 3’s climax: the fight between the Continental (well, really John and Charon (Lance Reddick), since Winston mostly hid in a vault with John’s dog), and the High Table’s elite strike team. The High Table doesn’t take lightly to being defied, and the hour Winston gave John at the end of 2 was enough to get the NY Continental manager in deep trouble with his overlords. They sent the Adjudicator (Asia Kate Dillon) to negotiate Winston’s “retirement,” and the High Table’s Elder (Saïd Taghmaoui) sent John back to New York to kill Winston.
Obviously, the High Table’s plans in this case didn’t work out, largely thanks to the bond that Winston and John share after years of working together. Winston had no interest in stepping down, and John didn’t really want to kill him. John may have gone through with it in order to survive, had Winston not offered him an alternative–teaming up to fight the High Table.
The Continental and John won the initial skirmish, but both sides knew this fight was just the beginning. When they met for a parley, Winston and the Adjudicator agreed to a ceasefire, under the shared revision that Winston had only risen up in the first place in order to prove his strength and devotion to the High Table. It was a simple show of force–at least, according to the version of events Winston and the Adjudicator settled on in the end.
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Either way, that left one loose end: John Wick himself. Winston shoots John several times, seemingly taking the assassin by surprise, and John plummets off the Continental’s roof.
If you take this scene at face value, it seems that Winston betrayed John in order to reaffirm his loyalty to the High Table. But that may not necessarily be the case. Throughout these movies, the friendship and trust between John and Winston have seemed genuine. When Winston said he’d rather be killed by a friend, he appeared to mean it.
Another Possibility
In light of that, there’s another possibility: Winston was just doing what he had to in order to make it seem like he’d turned on John, while actually trying his best to ensure John walked away from the situation with his life. Winston shot John in the torso, where he knew John’s magic bulletproof suit would prevent the bullets from killing him, and he may have even known that John would hit some obstacles on his way down, breaking his fall, if he hurtled off the roof in that exact place. Winston never looked over the edge to make sure John was dead, and he didn’t seem too concerned about the fact that the boogeyman-assassin he’d just seemingly betrayed had apparently gotten up and walked away.
At the very end of the movie, Jason Mantzoukas’s character (the Tick Tock Man, who we didn’t get nearly enough of) finds John and takes him to the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), who apparently lived through his seven slashes. Like John, the Bowery King isn’t looking so hot–but given both characters’ current standing with the High Table, that’s not the only thing the two now have in common.
Is there a real rebellion against the High Table brewing for the inevitable John Wick 4? Will Winston and John reconcile, or was that betrayal the last straw? We’ll have to wait and see, but the foundation is certainly there for a fourth chapter in John Wick’s saga.
We’re turning our IGN First spotlight for the month of May onto Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, the latest in the long-running military shooter series. It was announced in a livestream event and is coming soon – its release date is October 4.
We’ll be updating this page all month long as each new feature drops. Stay tuned for more behind-the-scenes videos, interviews, and gameplay!
A major PC game sale already launched this week in the form of Epic’s Mega Sale, but for those who may prefer to own games on Steam, another major sale just kicked off that you’ll want to keep your eye on. Digital store Green Man Gaming, which sells licensed digital game keys, is celebrating its ninth year in business with a week of flash deals.
A new wave of games will be available every day and stick around for 48 hours, so you’ll want to grab the deals you want quickly. In addition to the discounted games, Green Man Gaming is offering free bonus gifts with certain deals, including DLC and sometimes even a full game or two. All the deals that have been posted so far are for PC and/or Mac, and you’ll have to have a free Steam account to redeem them.
Browse the full offering of deals at Green Man Gaming, and see some of the current deals below! We’ll be updating this story as more deals become available, so stay tuned.
Bandai Namco has announced the dates for the upcoming Network Test for Code Vein. As we previously speculated, the test will begin at the end of May and continue into the first days of June.
For the US, Code Vein’s Network Test begins May 30 at 8:00 PM PT / 11:00 PM ET and continues until June 3 at 12:00 AM PT / 3:00 AM ET. In Europe, the test starts May 31 at 4:00 AM BST / 5:00 AM CEST and ends June 3 at 8:00 AM BST / 9:00 AM CEST. Though Code Vein is releasing on Xbox One, PS4, and PC, the Network Test will only be live on consoles. To participate in the Code Vein Network Test, sign-up on Bandai Namco’s website. You’ll receive your Xbox One or PS4 code on May 29, allowing you to preload the demo before the test goes live.
In the Network Test, you’ll be able to play through the opening chapter of Code Vein and try the game’s multiplayer. In Code Vein, you usually travel throughout the world with an NPC companion. If you want, you can also team up with one other human-controlled character for a three-person party. Though Code Vein takes inspiration from Dark Souls—both thematically and mechanically–Bandai Namco’s game does not feature invasions. Multiplayer in Code Vein is entirely supportive.
We played through Code Vein’s opening chapter during a preview event and had the chance to try the game’s revamped Blood Code system. After delaying the game in July 2018, Bandai Namco changed how Code Vein’s build system works. Now, thanks to Code Vein’s eight unique Blood Codes, you can quickly respec your vampiric character with new stats and abilities in seconds whenever you want. Most of the eight Blood Codes are too melee-focused, but a few do provide interesting abilities, such as a teleporting backstab called Phantom Assault.
Code Vein is a perfect example of how Dark Souls has had a lasting impact on the gaming industry. In our The Most Influential Games Of The 21st Century series, Tamoor Hussain wrote, “Dark Souls’ impact on gaming is undeniable. Such is its influence that the term Souls-like has become a genre in and of itself. But describing a game as ‘Souls-like’ can mean so many things, from challenging gameplay to emergent storytelling, or even a distinct sense of place. The fact that the term can be used in such a diverse way to explain facets of action games, RPGs, puzzle games, or even text adventures is the strongest indication of just how important the game was and is to this day.”
