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Gearbox Software has announced that Borderlands 3 will be available from September 13 and the PC version will be distributed through the Epic Games Store at launch. The game will be available on additional storefronts in April 2020.

Borderlands 3 is the latest in a growing number of games that are shifting their focus from Valve’s Steam platform to Epic’s nascent digital delivery service. In a statement, publisher 2K said this decision was in line with the company’s efforts to embrace new delivery platforms.

“The PC gaming community has been an important part of the success of the Borderlands series, and we are excited to be partnering with Epic, who recognize its worldwide popularity and share in our commitment to bring Borderlands 3 to this rapidly expanding audience,” said 2K president David Ismailer.

“Our mission, in addition to delivering the most engaging and captivating entertainment experiences, is to embrace new distribution platforms that will contribute to our effort to grow the audience for Borderlands 3,” he added.

Gearbox also said that the PC version has been developed with hardware manufacturer AMD. As a result, it has been optimized for AMD Radeon graphics cards and also and Ryzen CPUs.

Borderlands 3 will also be available on PS4 and Xbox One from September 13. Gearbox has released a new trailer for the game, showing off some of its explosive gameplay and also providing us with a closer look at the four new Vault Hunters that players will take on their adventures. Gearbox certainly seems to be being more ambitious for its third entry in the series, and you can read about some of the new features coming to Borderlands 3 here.

The first trailer for Joker is here. The DC film is the much-anticipated origin movie about the Clown Prince of Crime and stars Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role. It hit theaters on October 3.

As has been previously hinted, the trailer suggests that Joker is going to be quite unlike anything else that DC has released so far. It focuses on Phoenix’s lonely, unstable Arthur, who clearly has trouble fitting into society. We see him being attacked on the street, visiting Arkham Hospital, and dressing up as a clown, while his voiceover hints at the dark criminal turn his life will soon take. Check it out above.

Joker is directed by Todd Phillips, who previously helmed the Hangover movies. It also stars Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Shea Whigham, and Marc Maron.

Joker is one several DC movies on the way over the next couple of years. It will be followed by Birds of Prey in February 2020, which sees Margot Margot reprise her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn. An early teaser was released in January, and more details about the film emerged at the recent CinemaCon in Las Vegas.

Beyond that, Wonder Woman 1984 is set to hit theaters in July 2020. There are also 2021 dates for the standalone Batman movie and James Gunn’s Suicide Squad reboot, while Aquaman 2 will be with us in 2022.

Netflix has released a new trailer for the Ted Bundy movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, and it provides the best look yet at Zac Efron as the notorious serial killer.

The movie follows the crimes of Bundy but told from the vantage point of his longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer, who is played by Lily Collins (Tolkien, To the Bone).

The film also stars Kaya Scoderlario, Jim Parsons, John Malkovich, and Haley Joel Osment. Metallica singer and guitarist James Hetfield also has a role; you can see him at 0:47.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is directed by Joe Berlinger. He was nominated for an Oscar for the documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.

Netflix paid a reported $9 million to acquire the film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile and Evil also expected to have a limited theatrical run.

This is the second very high-profile Ted Bundy programming on Netflix, as the streamer already has Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, which itself was created by Berlinger.

Avengers: Endgame tickets are finally on sale, and as you might have guessed, they’re selling very well. Ticket-seller Fandango announced today Endgame needed just six hours to surpass the previous single-day pre-sale ticket sales record on Fandango, which was held by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Tickets for Endgame went on sale at 5 AM PT / 8 AM ET today, April 2, and “within minutes, Fandango saw historic numbers of fans reserving their seats,” the company announced. The company didn’t share specific ticket sales numbers, but they were strong enough to reach No. 1 after just six hours, beating out the likes of The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, Rogue One, and Avengers: Infinity War, which make up the Top 5 all-time fastest-selling tickets on Fandango.

Fandango Top Five First-Day Ticket First 24 Hour Sales

1. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
5. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Fandango managing editor Erik Davis said Endgame ticket sales have “exceeded all expectations” on the site. “We’ve never seen anything like this–it’s truly a groundbreaking accomplishment–as fans simply cannot wait to see how this epic saga comes to a close,” Davis said.

Fandango also shared some of the results from an Avengers-themed survey. 98 percent of respondents said the cliffhanger from Infinity War was a “main factor” in buying a ticket for Endgame, while 86 percent said they are eager to find out how Captain Marvel features in Endgame.

In other news, new footage from Endgame was released today; check it out in the embed above. Endgame hits theatres on April 26.

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New consoles from Microsoft and Sony might be coming soon. Retailer GameStop today said on an earnings call that it expects new hardware sales to slow down in 2019 on account of people hearing about new consoles and waiting for them to arrive.

“With respect to new hardware, as we get closer to the end of the current console cycle for Xbox and PlayStation, we expect demand to decline as some customers choose to wait on the sidelines in anticipation of acquiring the next generation of innovative consoles,” CFO Rob Lloyd said.

Lloyd was specifically talking about business elements that GameStop shared with analysts to “help provide context” for 2019. This suggests that new consoles from Microsoft and Sony may be announced and/or released this year.

Microsoft is rumoured to announce one or multiple new consoles at E3 in June, while Sony is known to be working on a new PlayStation console. Sony is not coming to E3 this year but that doesn’t mean the company won’t have news to share at other venues at some point. Nintendo, meanwhile, could announce multiple new Switch models at E3 and release them not long after.

Llyod specifically mentioned Xbox and PlayStation in his comments, but not Nintendo.

There have been numerous rumours and reports about Microsoft’s new consoles, a lot more than the new systems from PlayStation and Nintendo. You can check out GameSpot’s rundown of all the big rumours about Xbox hardware here.

In other news about GameStop, the retailer announced a $673 million full-year loss. Despite the downturn, the retailer is optimistic about its future, thanks in part to new cost-saving and profit-improving efforts to be implemented by incoming CEO George Sherman.

Learn To Use Damage Information

A lot of info is conveyed to you the first time you hit an opposing player with a shot. When you hit someone with your first bullet, you see how much damage you’ve inflicted–but Apex Legends also shows you exactly what kind of damage you’re inflicting. If your opponent is wearing a body shield, you’ll see an armor icon next to the damage number, and the color of the icon and numbers will tell you what kind of armor they’re wearing. Knowing how much damage you’re doing to an enemy can give you essential insights into how a fight is going, and whether you’re likely to win it.

When you engage someone and shoot them, note the damage you’ve done and the armor they’re wearing–white armor protects them for 50 damage points, blue armor for 75 points, and purple and gold armor for 100 points. If your armor is worse than theirs, you’ll want to think seriously about disengaging until you can get the upper hand by breaking their armor or otherwise out-damaging them. When damage numbers turn red, you know you’re through an enemy’s armor and damaging them directly–and if you see red numbers outlined in yellow, you know you’re dealing headshot damage. Getting used to recognizing how much damage you’ve done to an enemy and what kind of damage you’re doing will help you make key decisions, like whether to press the attack or fall back to heal.

You can change how damage information is displayed in Apex Legends to help you make those decisions. By default, damage info is set to “Stacking,” which adds up all the damage together. You can change it to “Floating,” which shows you how much damage each shot does individually, or “Both.” Pick the one that helps you the most–Stacking or Both should give you enough information to gauge how close to death anyone you’re fighting actually is.

Fans of the Borderlands series can rest easy, as developer Gearbox announced Borderlands 3 during its PAX East panel last week. Also during the panel, Gearbox confirmed the remaster of Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition. The release date for the remastered Borderlands: GotY is nearly here–here’s exactly when it unlocks and how to get it for free on PC.

The official Twitter account confirmed that Borderlands: GotY drops tomorrow, April 3. It’ll be available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. Steam customers who own the existing Game of the Year Edition can download an update for free at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. It’s possible to obtain physical copies of the game on consoles, but they’re limited to US and Canada stores only.

When the Borderlands: GotY launched in October 2010, it gathered the original Borderlands with all four of its DLC packs–The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, and Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution–into one package. This remastered version will do the exact same, but will also bring about some new additions like gameplay tweaks (such as a new minimap, for example), a series of new guns, new character customization options, and more. Gearbox is also altering the campaign’s final boss, making it “more engaging, challenging, and rewarding.”

Further, an Ultra HD texture pack for Borderlands: The Handsome Collection will be available the same day as the Borderlands: GotY drops. According to the official Borderlands website, the UHD texture pack will affect “characters, vehicles, weapons and environments.” Gearbox didn’t specify how the UHD texture pack will affect the game, so it’s unclear if it’s receiving more frames per second, higher graphical fidelity, or both.

Borderlands: GotY is currently not live on neither the PlayStation 4 nor Xbox Store. However, it’s currently available for pre-order through GameStop for $30 on both platforms.

Late last month, it emerged that Sony would no longer offer PS4 game codes at retailers like GameStop and others beginning April 1. The thinking followed that GameStop and other affected brick-and-mortar stores would take a hit as a result. While it’s too early to say for sure, GameStop believes the move by Sony won’t have much of a negative impact.

Speaking on an earnings call today, GameStop CFO Rob Lloyd, who was involved in discussions with Sony about the change, said the majority of digital games bought at GameStop in fact come from point cards, not full-game download codes.

“Most of the sales of full-game downloads … at retail come in the form of currency,” he said. “So the move by Sony to go back to the currency model, we don’t expect it to have a material impact on our results because we’ll continue to sell that currency.”

GameStop is uniquely positioned to sell virtual currency thanks to its buy-sell-trade model, Lloyd said. He also said buying virtual currency at a physical retailer is also attractive for people who want to use cash, or those who are are unwilling or unable to use a credit card on the internet to buy directly from Sony or theoretically other digital stores.

Sony only stopped supplying full-game codes to GameStop and other retailers on April 1, so it’s certainly too early to say if the change will indeed have any material impact on the bottom lines of affected retailers.

GameStop recently reported earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year, and it could have gone better; for the full year, GameStop lost $673 million. The retailer also said it expects next-generation consoles to possibly be announced or released soon.