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Retro Console Maker Analogue Teases Announcement For October 16

Retro gamers of the world have long praised the output of Analogue, a retro gaming company that specializes in crafting FPGA-based versions of classic consoles like the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. In a tweet, the company teased a major announcement for October 16, leading fans to speculate about what they might unveil.

Several observers pounced on the use of the squared exponent in the tweet, which they interpreted as a possible hint. One reply noted that the Nintendo 64 used a superscript in its logo. Another speculated that the “2” may refer to the TurboDuo, which used a superscript two in marketing materials. The TurboDuo is a version of the NEC PC Engine–a niche console popular with collectors– which is better-known as the TurboGrafx in North America.

Given that Analogue tends to focus on the 2D side of gaming–as well as the fact that there does not appear to exist a FPGA core for the N64, which is the technology that powers most of Analogue’s consoles–the smart money is on some version of the PC Engine being announced on Friday. Hudson Soft released an official TurboGrafx-16 Mini back in May 2020, which included 57 total games, including well-known titles like Bonk’s Adventure and Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. Sadly, Johnny Turbo could not be reached for comment.

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Pokemon Go Team Rocket Event Now Live, Adds Red Eggs, New Shadow Pokemon, And More

A surprise new event has begun in Pokemon Go. From now through October 19, you’ll earn new “strange eggs” when you defeat Team Go Rocket leaders in battle. Not only that, but you’ll also have a chance to catch new kinds of Shadow Pokemon, including Shiny versions.

As developer Niantic previously teased, the aforementioned strange eggs feature red polka dots. What sets them apart from other eggs is that they’ll hatch into certain Poison- and Dark-type Pokemon, such as Larvitar, Scraggy, Trubbish, and Vullaby. The eggs also require much more time to hatch; you’ll need to walk 12 km to hatch a strange egg, although hatch distance will be cut down by a quarter for any egg that you place in an Incubator during the event.

As previously mentioned, you’ll receive a strange egg when you defeat one of Team Go Rocket’s three leaders: Cliff, Arlo, or Sierra. You’ll still be able to receive these eggs even after the new event ends, but the Rocket leaders will be appearing much more frequently until October 19, making this your best chance to get them. On top of that, the following Pokemon will appear in the wild more frequently during the event:

  • Spinarak
  • Houndour
  • Poochyena
  • Gulpin
  • Stunky
  • Purrloin

Team Go Rocket grunts have a few new Shadow Pokemon at their command as well. You’ll now have a chance to battle and rescue Shadow versions of Diglett, Shellder, Slowpoke, Aerodactyl, and Skarmory, while Go Rocket leaders will be using Shadow Growlithe, Drowzee, and Omanyte. Niantic teases that you’ll have a chance to rescue Shiny versions of these Shadow Pokemon during the event. Team Rocket head honcho Giovanni will make an appearance as well, and if you can defeat him, you’ll be able to rescue Shadow Mewtwo.

Finally, as part of the event, Niantic has rolled out a new Team Go Rocket Special Research questline. The studio notes that this will be the final Team Rocket Special Research of the year. You can read more details about the event on the official Pokemon Go website.

That’s not all that’s happening in Pokemon Go this week. The Legendary Pokemon Origin Forme Giratina has returned to five-star Raids until October 23. October’s Community Day also takes place this Saturday, October 17. The featured Pokemon this month is Charmander, and you’ll have a chance to get a Charizard that knows the Dragon-type attack Dragon Breath during the event.

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PS5 And Xbox Series X Preorder Bundles Will Be Available Tomorrow

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S preorders have been sold out since the consoles first appeared on retailers’ websites a few weeks ago, but you’ll have another shot at getting your hands on either console tomorrow, October 13. Online retailer Antonline announced on Twitter it will restock some of its PS5 and Xbox Series X bundles at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET, and unsurprisingly, quantities will be “extremely limited.”

The bundles feature various combinations of either the PS5 (standard or digital) or the Xbox (Series X or S) with other accessories. On the PS5 side, you can buy the standard PS5 console with a bonus DualSense controller and copies of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Ultimate Launch Edition, Demon’s Souls, and Destruction AllStars for $780. Various other combos include PlayStation Plus or the Pulse 3D wireless headset too.

On the Xbox side, you can get the Series X with the Elite Wireless Series 2 controller and a three-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership for $700. If you’re hoping to preorder the Xbox Series S, you can buy it bundled with an extra Xbox wireless controller, a copy of Minecraft Dungeons: Hero Edition, and a three-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership for $410.

For more info on buying the next-gen consoles, check out our PS5 preorder guide and Xbox Series X/S preorder guide. You’ll find a complete list of all the various retailer listings–some stores will even let you sign up for restock notifications. We’ve also rounded up where to buy all of the new PS5 and Xbox accessories for next-gen, so if you manage to get your hands on a new console tomorrow, you’ll be able to pick up a new headset or charging station with it as well.

The restock overlaps with Amazon Prime Day 2020, which also kicks off tomorrow. Though we certainly don’t expect any discounts on the PS5 or Series X, you’ll likely find plenty of deals on compatible games and accessories. Check out our guides to the best PS5 and PS4 deals along with the best Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One deals we expect to see during Prime Day.

Daredevil Is Coming To Fortnite

Fortnite is getting another superhero skin this week. Daredevil, clad in red tights, is coming to the battle royale as a tournament reward on October 14.

“Become the guardian devil…[by] competing in the first cup of the series — the Daredevil Cup — this Wednesday, October 14,” Epic Games wrote on its official blog. “Top teams in each region will earn the Daredevil Outfit early before it hits the Item Shop.”

The top players, depending on what region they play in, will get the Daredevil outfit as a reward. The players who finish within the top 800 in Europe or the top 500 in the Western North American servers, for example, will get the skin. It’ll still be purchasable on the item shop later on.

The Daredevil Cup is the first of four tournaments in the Marvel Knockout Super Series. This is Marvel Knockout, a limited-time mode that pits players in small 2v2 matches. It’s not taking place in the games’ standard battle royale mode. Three more tournaments are coming next month before the final on November 21. Players who participate in all four tournaments will get a special glider.

We’ll likely see more heroes, and more special superhero legendary weapons, in Fortnite as these tournaments take place.

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Lovecraft Country Episode 9: Easter Eggs And References In Rewind 1921

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The ninth episode of Lovecraft Country connects past to present.

The ninth episode of Lovecraft Country connects past to present.

In the past two years, the Tulsa race massacre has attained a high profile in mainstream pop culture. It refers to an incident in 1921, when over the course of two days, white residents burned and looted Tulsa’s Greenwood District, an upper-middle class Black neighborhood popularly known as “Black Wall Street.” Thirty-five city blocks were razed to the ground; anywhere from 150 to 300 people died. That so many people today don’t know about the incident is testament to how history books can distort the truth by omittance.

In 2019, HBO mini-series Watchmen opened with a recreation of the massacre. In February 2020, a dramatic film, Black Wall Street Burning, was released in U.S. theatres. And in October 2020, the ninth episode of Lovecraft Country sent our main characters back in time to Tulsa, on the first night of the riots, to connect with their lost family and save a little girl’s life.

Here are all of the Easter Eggs and references we found in “Rewind 1921,” the ninth episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country. There’s just one more episode to go. You can read all of our episode reference guides below:

Episode 1: “Sundown”

Episode 2: “Whitey’s on the Moon”

Episode 3: “Holy Ghost”

Episode 4: “A History of Violence”

Episode 5: “Strange Case”

Episode 6: “Meet Me In Daegu”

Episode 7: “I Am”

Episode 8: “Jig-A-Bobo”

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1. Gas

1. Gas

Leti tells Christina that the police officers died as a result of a “gas explosion” outside of her house. We learned from the past episode that it was actually a massive shoggoth who ripped everyone to shreds. However, since the police brass are Sons of Adam, it explains why there hasn’t been any reprisal for the killings; they know that Leti, Tic, and their families are under magical protection.

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2. A Convenient Ally

2. A Convenient Ally

Christina helps the Freeman family, but only to the extent it helps her achieve her goals; she’s more than willing to sacrifice Tic if it helps her to become immortal. This echoes a common 3rd wave feminist stance–most recently alluded to by Bill Burr on the October 10 episode of Saturday Night Live–that white women have benefitted from Black Civil Rights efforts, while often co-opting those efforts as their own. Christina aspires to the privilege afforded to the white men above her, rather than wanting for everyone to have an equal chance.

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3. Robot Arm

3. Robot Arm

The camera spends a lot of time focusing on Dee’s withered left arm. Tic says in Episode 8 that when he traveled to the future, a woman in a hood and a robotic arm gave him the Lovecraft Country book. Could this have been a future version of Dee? It’s certainly possible, given the other overlaps between the past and present in Episode 9.

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4. Dreamland

4. Dreamland

The Dreamland Theatre was a real landmark in the Greenwood district that showed silent films and hosted theatrical performances. It was destroyed during the Tulsa massacre by arson.

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5. Planes

5. Planes

The planes that bombed the downtown area during the massacre are part of the historical record. Multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing planes circling overhead, raining fire down on the buildings below. City officials would later claim that these planes were purely for surveillance. But many critics counter that this explanation is part of an extensive coverup, and proof that the city was complicit in the riots.

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6. Names

6. Names

While the city burns, Montrose gives a eulogy to the victims of the massacre, and he names specific victims. These are real people who perished in the actual riots. Among the people he names: A.C. Jackson, who was considered “the most able Negro surgeon,” according to the Mayo Brothers, at the time of his death.

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7. Orithyia Blue

7. Orithyia Blue

With her new mane of blue hair, Hippolyta more closely resembles the science fiction main character of Dee’s comics, Orithyia Blue. There was a more accurate depiction, complete with a space suit, in Hippolyta’s multiverse adventures in Episode 7. But now she has blue hair in the “real” world. Perhaps she claimed this specific identity while trapped in the multiverse, and is now showing her “true” self.

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8. Fire

8. Fire

The poem that plays over the climactic scene, where Hattie burns to death and Tic beats the rioters with a bat, is “Catch A Fire, written and performed by Civil Rights activist Sonia Sanchez. It discusses a common theme throughout this series–of Black people using ingenuity to transform the tools of their oppression into the tools of their liberation.

The bat sequence has been alluded to several times during the series. During the first episode’s opening, Tic has a dream about Jackie Robinson beating monsters with a baseball bat. It turns out that in the family story Tic heard growing up–about how his mother , George, and Montrose were saved from the Tulsa Massacre by a mysterious man–that he was the mystery man the whole time.

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9. Opera

9. Opera

The requiem used at the very end of the episode was written specifically for this episode, by composer Laura Karpman. The soprano is Janai Brugger, who, due to the ongoing pandemic, recorded her solo in her house in a makeshift studio.

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GameStop’s Anti-Prime Day Sale Goes Live Tonight, With New Deals Every 4 Hours

GameStop, like many other retailers, is competing with Amazon Prime Day by hosting a big sale of its own. GameStop’s online-only 1UP sale goes live at 10 PM PT / 1 AM ET, and it’s a step in a different direction for GameStop. The deals change every four hours, so you’ll probably want to check back periodically over the course of the 48-hour sale.

Select early deals are live now ahead of the 1UP sale. All pre-owned games priced $30 or less are buy two, get two free. The promotion includes more than 5,000 games, including Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, BioShock: The Collection (for Switch), Doom Eternal, and many more great titles.

If you’re still looking for a Halloween costume, all of GameStop’s costumes are 20% off, including Wonder Woman, Wolverine, Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, and more. You can also save 15% when you spent $75 on collectibles and 25% when you eclipse $125.

After the 1UP sale ends, GameStop will host a new Pro Days sale from October 15-18. The first two days of the sale are exclusive to PowerUp Rewards Pro members, while non-members can shop the sale starting October 17.

Though not technically part of GameStop’s new sale, there are some other notable deals right now. Five Nintendo Switch exclusives are down to $40 (or $38 pre-owned): New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Super Mario Party, Yoshi’s Crafted World, Splatoon 2, and Mario Tennis Aces. NBA 2K21 is also on sale for $40 on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

Pokemon Go Appears To Be Adding Team Rocket Eggs [UPDATE]

Update: As teased, a new type of eggs has premiered in Pokemon Go. As part of a new Team Rocket event, players can get red “strange eggs” from Team Go Rocket leaders. These 12 km eggs will hatch into certain Poison- and Dark-type Pokemon like Trubbish and Vullaby. On top of that, new Shadow Pokemon have been added to Team Go Rocket’s lineup, and there’s a new Rocket-focused Special Research questline that will lead to a battle with Giovanni and a chance to rescue Shadow Mewtwo.

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Pokemon Go is introducing a new type of egg soon. The game’s official Twitter account shared a short teaser clip showing off a clutch of eggs specked with red polka dots. “We’ve heard reports from Spark that he’s stumbled upon an odd, distinctly red egg. Stay tuned as we learn more,” the tweet reads.

What’s notable about the clip is that the eggs are shrouded in the same purple aura that veils Team Go Rocket’s Shadow Pokemon, suggesting that Shadow Pokemon will hatch from them. Niantic itself seems to have inadvertently confirmed this; a deleted version of the tweet revealed that the clip was named “RocketEggs,” all but confirming that the new red eggs are tied to Team Go Rocket.

It’s not yet clear when the new eggs will go live in Pokemon Go or how far players will need to walk to hatch them; however, Niantic recently rolled back one of the temporary bonuses that made eggs easier to hatch amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Although egg hatching distance has been reverted to normal, the studio is now offering more incubators in boxes you can get from Pokemon Go’s in-game shop.

In the meantime, there’s a lot happening in Pokemon Go this month. Origin Forme Giratina has returned to five-star Raids until October 23, while October’s Community Day takes place this Saturday, October 17. The featured Pokemon this time is Charmander. The Gen 1 starter will appear more frequently in the wild throughout the event, and any that you evolve into Charizard will learn the Dragon-type Fast attack Dragon Breath.

Niantic still has a few other October events lined up for the game beyond that, including Pokemon Go’s annual Halloween celebration. No details have been announced just yet, but Niantic has previously teased that Mega Gengar may make its debut in the game during the event. October’s Field Research tasks are also available to complete.

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This Might Be Prime Day’s Best Deal On Switch, Xbox, And PS4 Games, But You’ll Need Amazon’s Credit Card

If you have an Amazon Prime credit card, you can take advantage of some enticing deals on console store gift cards, online gaming memberships, and in-game currency ahead of Prime Day 2020. For a limited time, Amazon is offering 25% cash back when you buy gift cards for console stores like the Xbox Store, Nintendo eShop, and PlayStation Store as well as memberships like Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PlayStation Plus.

Generally, Amazon Prime cards offer a flat 5% cash back on Amazon purchases. However, this deal essentially allows you to buy up to a $100 gift card for your preferred console for $75, meaning that you are receiving a de facto 25% off all purchases.

The Xbox credit can be used toward Xbox games as well as the broader Microsoft Store, which includes hardware purchases like the upcoming Xbox Series X. Nintendo eShop credit can be used for Switch games, and the same applies to the PlayStation Store for PS4 and PS5 games.

Some games and digital currencies can be purchased directly from Amazon for 25% cash back, including Minecraft Dungeons and NBA 2K21. A 60-day time card for the popular MMO Final Fantasy XIV is also available.

Best cash-back deals for Prime cardholders

Amazon Prime Day 2020 starts tomorrow, October 13, and runs for a full 48 hours. Early Prime Day deals are already starting to go live. Other retailers, including Walmart and Best Buy, are running their own anti-Prime Day sales too.

Netflix Haunting Of Bly Manor: 26 Easter Eggs And Details You Missed

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From classic literature to '80s nods, Bly Manor is packed with details you may have missed.

From classic literature to ’80s nods, Bly Manor is packed with details you may have missed.

The Haunting of Bly Manor has finally arrived on Netflix and is ready to be binged in all its terrifying glory. We’ve already provided a guide for spotting some of the show’s trickiest hidden ghosts, and made a breakdown of the scariest moments across all 9 episodes, but now it’s time to take a look behind the curtain and break down all the other–hopefully less terrifying–things you may have missed.

Like The Haunting Of Hill House, Bly Manor is an adaptation of some classic literary works. This season is defined by the short stories and novellas of Henry James, as well as some of their many live-action adaptations over the years. Also, Bly just happens to be a period piece. It’s set in the 1980s, which means that not only can you expect to find some fun horror Easter Eggs, there are also plenty of nods to the era.

But there’s more than winks and nods to classic novels or things from the ’80s. Bly is packed with tiny bits of easy-to-miss foreshadowing that inform each character’s story. So, we went through the show frame by frame to find 25 things you may not have noticed as you binged the season.

And before you go, check out our guide to the show’s scariest moments and breakdown of the ending.

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1.) The Great Good Place

1.) The Great Good Place

Every episode of Bly shares its title with a story written by Henry James. First up is The Great Good Place, a short story published in 1900 about a man who is able to access a dream-like retreat that could either be a supernatural or time-bending experience or simply a figment of his imagination.

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2.) Dani Clayton

2.) Dani Clayton

Dani’s last name is a reference to director Jack Clayton, whose 1961 psychological horror movie The Innocents famously adapted James’ Turn Of The Screw, which Bly is directly inspired by.

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3.) “A Governess”

In the original Turn Of The Screw, the main character is referred to as a “governess” rather than a nanny or an au pair, which is what Dani’s job title is in this version of the story

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4.) Room 217

4.) Room 217

Dani’s room at her hostel is 217, is the infamous room in Stephen King’s The Shining where some of the most gruesome hauntings took place. In Kubrick’s movie version, the number was changed to 237. Creator Mike Flanagan recently wrote and directed Doctor Sleep, the movie adaptation of King’s Shining sequel by the same name.

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5.) She'll walk the rest of the way

5.) She’ll walk the rest of the way

Dani asks Owen to let her get out of the car and walk the rest of the way to the manor, a scene directly quoted from Clayton’s The Innocents where the Governess does the same.

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6.) O Willow Waly

6.) O Willow Waly

The folk song O Willow Waly is used again and again throughout the show, and is another element referencing The Innocents, which used the song to similar haunting effect.

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7.) Hannah's candles

7.) Hannah’s candles

Hannah lights four candles in the chapel, one for each of the deceased Wingraves, one for Rebecca Jessel, and a mysterious fourth–we don’t learn until much later that Hannah herself is a ghost, which makes her extra candle some very subtle foreshadowing.

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8.) Monster Squad

8.) Monster Squad

Miles has a poster for the 1987 horror comedy movie Monster Squad on his wall.

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9.) Star Trek: The Motion Picture

9.) Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Miles’ other movie poster is for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which came out in 1979.

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10.) The Pupil

10.) The Pupil

Episode 2’s title comes from James’ 1891 short story The Pupil, which tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who is taken in by a tutor who has the opportunity to raise him as his own. However, the tutor hesitates, which makes the boy panic, have a heart attack, and die.

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11.) Peter Quint in the window

11.) Peter Quint in the window

Peter Quint’s introductory shot, where Miles sees his reflection in the window, is another direct quote from Peter’s introduction in The Innocents.

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12.) Tainted Love

12.) Tainted Love

One of Bly Manor’s few musical moments is Soft Cell’s 1981 smash hit, Tainted Love.

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13.) The Two Faces

13.) The Two Faces

Episodes 3 and 7 share their title with Henry James’ The Two Faces, a story that explores social anxieties in Victorian culture.

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14.) Mary Poppins

14.) Mary Poppins

Not only does Dani get called “Poppins” by Jamie, Ms. Jessel gets a reference to the fictional super-nanny from Flora. Ms. Jessel uses a quote from the character, that she’s not “practically perfect” but “perfectly splendid,” which gives Flora her catchphrase.

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15.) Peter's bouquet

15.) Peter’s bouquet

Peter presents Flora (but really Rebecca) with a bouquet of flowers–it is intentionally the exact same arrangement that Miles (possessed by Peter) presents Dani in the present.

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16.) The Way It Came

16.) The Way It Came

Episode 4’s title borrows from the James story about a creeping jealousy between a narrator, her fiance, and a friend that seemingly persists after death.

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17.) The Altar of the Dead

17.) The Altar of the Dead

Episode 5’s title comes from the short story about a man who lights candles for his dead loved ones–you know, exactly like Hannah does throughout the show.

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18.) A ghost for one

18.) A ghost for one

Ironically, Henry is haunted by Bly Manor’s own personalized “ghost”–in this case, a hallucinatory doppelganger of himself. In Hill House, Hugh Crain experienced a similar phenomenon where he was haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, who was really just a part of his own subconscious. In Hill House, Young Hugh was played by Henry Thomas, who plays Henry Wingrave here.

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19.) The Jolly Corner

19.) The Jolly Corner

Episode 6’s title comes from the short story about a man who is haunted by the “ghost” of his own alter ego, the man he could have become.

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20.) “He was a soldier”

Uncle Henry tells Flora in a flashback that he had an imaginary friend here at Bly once, too, a soldier that he was very afraid of. If you’ve paid close enough attention to the various hidden ghosts in the show, you’ll know that one of them is indeed a soldier. Henry’s imaginary friend wasn’t imaginary after all.

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21.) Jamie's monologue

21.) Jamie’s monologue

Interestingly, Jamie is the only character in the show who doesn’t get her own flashback episode–because, it’s eventually revealed, the entire show is her own sort of flashback. She’s the narrator providing the framework for the story, adding comments where she can. Fittingly, she delivers her own story to Dani as a monologue in her garden.

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22.) The polaroid

22.) The polaroid

Rebecca’s memory version of her night with Peter and his polaroid camera features a more horrific photo than the real thing. Both she and Peter are rotting corpses in this version of events.

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23.) Our cast of hidden ghosts

23.) Our cast of hidden ghosts

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24.) The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

24.) The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

Bly’s history, and the title of Episode 8, comes from the short story of the same name about two sisters who meet a tragic fate after succumbing to jealousy and greed. The climactic moment of the story and the episode are the same, with ghostly arms reaching out from an empty dress to murder the surviving sister.

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25.) A Batter Place

25.) A Batter Place

The name of Owen’s restaurant is a groan-worthy pun: A Batter Place, in keeping with both his lost love Hannah, and his affinity for making her roll her eyes at his terrible jokes.

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26.) The Beast in the Jungle

26.) The Beast in the Jungle

The finale episode’s title comes from a short story about a man whose life is defined by his belief that a catastrophic event is waiting for him somewhere just out of sight, a “beast in the jungle” ready to pounce. Thankfully, Dani is able to achieve a different ending than the protagonist of the original story, when she accepts Jamie’s love and makes a life with her until she ultimately has to confront her ‘beast.” The protagonist of the original spent his life alone, unable to let anyone close to him for fear of the doom always lurking around the corner.

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Watch Dogs: Legion Revised System Specs Call For An RTX 3080 At The High End

Watch Dogs: Legion is just a handful of weeks away, which means you’re quickly running out of time to upgrade your PC if you plan to play the open-world hacking adventure with all its bells and whistles. If you’ve been lucky enough to snag an RTX 3080, you’ll be pleased to know that Legion supports a full suite of ray-tracing options, which have now been added to the game’s specs.

The update specifications sheet details some of the options you can toggle for the best ray-traced experience based on your hardware. All three tiers of ray tracing make use of Nvidia’s DLSS (Deep-Learning Super Sampling), which can render the game at a lower resolution and use AI to upscale it with impressive results. This lets less capable cards like the RTX 2060 run Watch Dogs: Legion with a modest suite of ray tracing effects, as you can see in the full sheet below.

If you have one of the best cards on the market right now, Nvidia’s new RTX 3080, you should be able to run Watch Dogs: Legion with all its ray-traced effects at their maximum at 4K. You’ll have to settle for DLSS in performance mode with the additional high-resolution texture pack that adds in a whopping 20GB to the install size too.

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Watch Dogs: Legion is one of two big Ubisoft titles scheduled for this season, launching on Xbox One, PS4, and PC on October 26. It will also be available on Xbox Series X / Series S on November 10, and on PS5 on November 12. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will launch across all platforms on November 10.

Watch Dogs: Legion PC System Requirements

Low / 1080p

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 / AMD Ryzen 5 1400
  • GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / GTC 1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X
  • VRAM: 4GB
  • RAM: 8GB (Dual-Channel)
  • Storage: 45GB

High / 1080p

  • CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
  • GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 / GTX 1660 Super / AMD Radeon RX 480
  • VRAM: 6GB
  • RAM: 8GB (Dual-Channel)
  • Storage: 45GB

High / 1440p

  • CPU: Intel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super / AMD RX 5700
  • VRAM: 8GB
  • RAM: 16GB (Dual-Channel)
  • Storage: 45GB

Ultra / 4K

  • CPU: Intel Core i7-9700k / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti / RTX 3080
  • VRAM: 10GB
  • RAM: 16GB (Dual-Channel)
  • Storage: 45GB (+20GB for high resolution texture pack)

High / 1080p / Ray Tracing Medium

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060
  • VRAM: 6GB
  • RAM: 16GB (Dual-Channel)
  • Storage: 45GB
  • DLSS: Quality

Very High / 1440p / Ray Tracing High

  • CPU: Intel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070
  • VRAM: 8GB
  • RAM: 16GB (Dual-Channel)
  • Storage: 45GB
  • DLSS: Quality

Ultra / 4K / Ray Tracing Ultra

  • CPU: Intel Core i9-9900k / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080
  • VRAM: 10GB
  • RAM: 16GB (Dual-Channel)
  • Storage: 45GB (+20GB for high resolution texture pack)
  • DLSS: Performance

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