After roughly 80 hours, I finally rolled credits on Red Dead Redemption 2, and even with lots still left to do in that world, it’s hard not to look to the future. Rockstar has done some amazing things in their rendition of the Old West, and despite some of its faults, they’ve set a new bar for themselves as a studio. From the gorgeous environments to the world’s interactivity, there are plenty of new ideas and mechanics that would be great additions to the studio’s flagship franchise — but there are few smaller lessons that we think Red Dead’s older sibling could benefit from, too. Here are 8 things that GTA 6 can learn from Red Dead 2.
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Beautiful Boy Review
It’s hard to make a good film about drug addiction, because it’s hard to portray drug addiction honestly without turning your movie into a finger-wagging cautionary tale. Even the best films to tackle the subject sometimes carry a streak of the old Reefer Madness scare tactics, and Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, even though it features some truly incredible performances, is no exception.
Beautiful Boy tells the story of David Sheff (Steve Carell) and his teenage son Nic (Timotheé Chalamet), who becomes addicted to a series of dangerous drugs, including crystal meth and heroin. The way David saw it, their their lives were relatively perfect: they’re affluent, they have a loving household, and yet Nic’s seemingly conventional teen ennui led to one experimentation after another, and now he’s disappearing for days on end, and he’s an emotional train wreck whenever he does come home.
The Best Black Friday 2018 Deals at Best Buy
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Best Buy dropped its Black Friday sales flyer, joining a growing list of retailers who’ve made their 2018 Black Friday sales known. We also have predictions on what we expect from Black Friday 2018.
Best Buy is kicking off the shopping season by making some of its Black Friday 2018 deals live already. These deals run until Sunday, at which point Best Buy will wrap them up and put them on the shelf for another day.
Fortnite: NFL’s Melvin Gordon vs IGN’s Sydnee and Chappy
Laces out, Einhorn!
The NFL’s Melvin Gordon will join the IGN Plays team tonight, November 9, starting at 7pm PT/10pm ET to show off the newest addition to Fortnite: NFL skins and jerseys.
Can the NFL’s fourth leading scorer in rushing touchdowns and seventh in rushing yards beat IGN’s number 1 cat lover, Sydnee Goodman?
As always, you can watch right here on the front page of IGN.com, or you can find us on YouTube, Twitch, and Mixer.
The Clovehitch Killer Review
The Clovehitch Killer is in theaters and available on VOD and Digital HD on November 16.
The contemporary idea of a serial killer is a very American phenomenon. In IFC’s new offering The Clovehitch Killer, director Duncan Skiles and writer Christopher Ford dissect it with chilling accuracy.
Tyler Burnside (Charlie Plummer) is a young upstanding citizen from a small town in Kentucky that a decade ago was ravaged by a spate of serial killings which were never solved. The murders are the proverbial ghost which haunt the town, with an annual remembrance attended by all local citizens from the adults who survived it to the children who weren’t even alive when the killings began. It’s a perfect representation of the hold that these killers have on the national psyche, taking over and quickly becoming an obsession, especially when they evade capture.
The Best Blu-ray Players
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It might seem a bit quaint to be talking about something that plays physical media, but many of us still have a wall of discs – or at least a couple shelves – and might even still be adding to that collection. I personally added Blade Runner 2049 to my collection this summer because though the availability of streaming content continues to grow, it still doesn’t encompass everything, since new content is added and old stuff is removed from services monthly.
Best Gifts Under $25 for 2018
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The holidays can be a stressful and demanding time, especially for that poor wallet of yours. All the gift buying and the present shopping can leave your wallet beaten and empty so we’ve compiled a guide with awesome gifts at an affordable price for under $25 apiece.
Best Game Gifts Under $25
Fallout 76 B.E.T.A. Impressions
After 20 hours spent in the West-Virginian wasteland of Fallout 76 via the now-concluded B.E.T.A. (playing on Xbox One X, if you’re curious), I’ve been left with an overarching sense of curiosity. Mainly, I’m curious why Fallout 76 exists.
That’s not meant to be a criticism. With so many elements working together and against one another, I wonder why this is the next Fallout game that we’re playing, as opposed to one that leans harder into the traditional story-driven single-player experience or a full-fledged multiplayer survival game set in the Fallout universe. As it stands now, Fallout 76 is neither of those things – it’s stuck in some strange Appalachian limbo between two points.
First Deltarune Merchandise Revealed
The first chapter of Deltarune, the latest project from Undertale creator Toby Fox, has been released, and it is now getting some official merchandise to go along with it.
The products, which can be pre-ordered on Fangamer, include a poster, two T-shirts, a plushie and a pin set. The poster features characters from Deltarune like Ralsei, Jevil, Susie and more. One shirt includes an image of Rudebuster Susie, and the other has a group image on the front and Lancer riding a bike on the back. The plushie is of Ralsei, and the enamel pins come in a set of four, featuring the faces of Susie, Lancer, Ralsei and Kris.
The Road to Overlord: When Horror Mixes with World War II Movies
It’s not exaggeration to say that World War II was a war of many horrors, but as the years have passed, storytellers have used the shocking, world-spanning conflict as the backdrop for many horror stories that go above and beyond the battlefield.
Julius Avery’s Overlord (read our review here), about a squad of American soldiers whose mission sends them straight to a Nazi mad scientist’s horrifying laboratory, is the latest and probably the most expensive World War II horror movie to date, but it’s by no means the first. There’s a long history of World War II horror movies, some of them brilliant, some of them schlocky. So buckle up, folks. These are the World War II horror movies you really need to see…