How to Get the Most out of Days Gone

Sure, Days Gone has some problems (as detailed in our Days Gone review), but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a fun ride. It’s a slow build-up, but if you know what to do first and what to focus on, you can get up to speed and get the most out of Days Gone, fast.

Here are the tips and strategies you should know before diving into the Freaker fest that is Days Gone.

Best Skills to Unlock First

Deacon St. John starts out as a relatively average joe without any great abilities. To feel like you can actually take on the numerous Freakers and Hordes out in the Oregon wilderness, you’ll nee to level up and earn skills. We recommend these two first:

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How Did Captain America Do THAT In Avengers: Endgame?

Warning: This story contains full spoilers for Avengers: Endgame!

Captain America was able to make the mighty Mjolnir budge only a bit in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but in Endgame he was able lift Thor’s hammer and use it to bring the fight and the lightning to Thanos. So what changed that let Cap finally lift the hammer?

The Rule of Mjolnir

As we saw in the first Thor movie, Odin enchanted the hammer so it may only be used by the worthy. In the comics, this rule was essentially the same, and a small selection of Marvel characters aside from Thor were able to lift it on rare occasions, including Steve Rogers, who did so twice.

Once was while Steve was operating as The Captain and he merely picked up the hammer to wallop some villains and give it back to Thor.

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Giga Wrecker Alt Gameplay – GameFreak’s New Platformer

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Where Is Xur? Destiny 2 Location, Exotics, And Invitation Of The Nine Guide (April 26-30)

The Revelry is in full swing and the Iron Banner has returned in Destiny 2, and if that wasn’t enough, it’s also the weekend–which means it’s Xur time. The Agent of the Nine is back once again with an offering of Exotics to sell, although unfortunately he’s not bringing any of the Exotics from Forsaken with him this time out. He does, however, offer a Fated Engram that guarantees a fresh Exotic, and a new Invitation of the Nine weekly bounty. And if you’re still hurting for Exotics, you can head into the Verdant Forest and snag the Arbalest with our handy guide.

Head to Titan to find Xur this week. He’s in the area marked as The Rig, hanging out in a low building to the northeast of the spawn point. Ride your sparrow north with the edge of the platform and the water on your left until you see a low building; the vendor is inside.

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Xur brings Sweet Business with him this week, an Exotic auto rifle that sprays an ridiculous amount of ammo. The gun increases its fire rate and range the longer you hold down the trigger and automatically reloads from ammo you pick up off the ground, allowing you to do a ton of shooting without stopping. On the armor side, Xur brings Hunters the Lucky Pants leg armor, which reloads your stowed hand cannon for every precision hit you land, and makes hand cannons faster and more accurate when you swap to them. For Titans, there’s Doom Fang Pauldron, which gives you Super energy when you make melee kills, extends your Super on Shield Throw hits, and recharges Shield Throw when you get melee kills with your Super active. Finally, for Warlocks, there’s the Aeon Soul gauntlets, which recharges your allies’ class abilities, especially if they’re also wearing Aeon Cult Exotics.

Here are all the Exotics Xur offers this week and what they’ll cost you:

  • Sweet Business (Exotic auto rifle) — 29 Legendary Shards
  • Doom Fang Pauldron (Exotic Titan gauntlets) — 23 Legendary Shards
  • Lucky Pants (Exotic Hunter leg armor) — 23 Legendary Shards
  • Aeon Soul (Exotic Warlock gauntlets) — 23 Legendary Shards

You can also purchase a Fated Engram from Xur, if his inventory doesn’t interest you. Fated Engrams can now dish out Exotics from the Forsaken expansion, as well as the Year One group. Grabbing one of the engrams gives you a random Exotic that you don’t already have, provided you can afford it. Fated Engrams will run you 97 Legendary Shards, and you can only get one per account each week. Xur also offers the Five of Swords challenge card for free, which allows you to add difficulty modifiers that increase your score in Nightfall runs.

Finally, Xur brings another Invitation of the Nine weekly bounty. It gives you a Powerful gear drop when you complete it, as well as a bit of story about the Nine and the Drifter, and a new Lore entry. As usual, you’ll have to clear out a mess of enemies of various types, and complete a Strike. Stick to the planet mentioned in the bounty to kill the enemies you need, as they don’t always count if you kill them in other places.

Avengers: Endgame Box Office Breaks Thursday Record, Could Top Weekend Record

Avengers: Endgame is now in theaters. This is a far bigger-than-average movie even by Marvel’s standards, as it sets out to complete a story arc that has spanned a decade and more than 20 films. It didn’t take much of a leap to imagine it performing well at the box office, and early projections suggested it could be a record breaker. While it still has the entire weekend to go, the early preview showings on Thursday in the US have already helped it to break one record.

Deadline reports that the film’s Thursday night screenings brought in $60 million, toppling the record set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens at $57 million. For the purposes of tabulating, Thursday evenings are counted as part of Friday’s box office take, which industry estimates say could reach around $130-140 million. If so that would beat the total Friday record, also set by Force Awakens at $119 million.

Meanwhile, the movie is breaking records in the other markets as well. THR reports that its overseas two-day gross since opening on Wednesday is $305 million, which includes a large chunk from China. That brings the grand worldwide total up to $365 million before the weekend has even started.

And there may be more broken records to come. Industry watchers think the full domestic weekend box office take could top $300 million. Even getting close to that point would be enough to beat the opening weekend record set by Avengers: Infinity War, which brought in just over $257 million.

We’ve known for quite a while that Avengers stood a good chance at breaking records. Initial estimates put it at a $200-250 opening weekend, which would have just missed the Infinity War record. But even those estimates were couched in reminders that the Infinity War’s own estimates pegged it at an opening of $180-225 million, and it blew past those easily.

Then we got word that ticket presales were already outpacing several other blockbusters combined. Deadline estimated earlier this week that Endgame could break opening weekend records, and that appears to be happening.

It also remains to be seen if Endgame will match or exceed Infinity War in total global sales at just over $2 billion. Even if it does, it will still need to go a lot further to take down the current reigning champion of total global sales: Avatar, with $2.78 billion.

If you’re getting ready to take part in that weekend box office gross, make sure you check out our spoiler-free review and plan ahead with our advice on when it’s safe to pee. Or if you’ve already seen it and you’re still processing all that happened, we have you covered with everything from who’s alive and dead to Doctor Strange’s plan.

Avengers Endgame: Who Is That Kid At The End?

Now that the world is seeing Avengers: Endgame, the final installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Infinity Saga, there are many questions to be answered. And that’s before you consider what happens from here in the MCU. We know some of the movies still to come, but how will Marvel Studios top what it has already done? Warning: The following contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame.

While most of the questions you have will likely be answered with time, there’s some we can solve right now, whether it’s if there was a post-credits scene or what the ending of the film means. However, there’s yet another question–a minor one, but still–that is ready to be answered.

Toward the end of the film, during Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) funeral, many of those he’s has known throughout the first decade of the MCU are seen, from his fellow Avengers to the Guardians of the Galaxy, to even friends like Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). There was one face in the crowd you might not have recognized, though: that of a teenage boy. At a glance, you may have dismissed him as being Peter Parker (Tom Holland), but the answer is actually a really nice Easter Egg.

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The boy is Harley Keener (Ty Simpkins). You should remember him as Tony Stark’s kid sidekick in Iron Man 3. In the 2013 film, Tony winds up in Tennessee after an attack by the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), where he befriends Harley. The kid then helps him track down the Mandarin and plays a big role in helping Tony cope with the PTSD he’s suffering from due to the fallout of the first Avengers film.

Harley was not seen or mentioned in the MCU after Iron Man 3, but including him in Tony’s funeral is a very nice touch–and one that shows the impact Stark had on the young man. In fact, now that he’s growing up, perhaps Harley could be a candidate to become the next Iron Man. That probably won’t happen, but what a fun twist it would be. Regardless, the mystery is solved.

Avengers: Endgame is in theaters now. Made sure to check out GameSpot’s review of the film, as well as an accounting of everyone who dies, and a deep dive into figuring out Dr. Strange’s plan between Infinity Was and Endgame.

PS4: PSN’s Golden Week Sale Launches With Hundreds Of Games And DLC On Sale

The latest PlayStation mega sale is upon us–the annual Golden Week sale launched this morning on PSN (North America only), offering hundreds of game and DLC discounts up to 65% off (and 75% off for PS Plus members), including titles for PS4, PS3, PS Vita, and PSP.

The Golden Week sale is a nod to the week of national holidays celebrated this time of year in Japan and features Japanese-made (or Japanese-inspired) games, including popular series like Resident Evil, Persona, Dark Souls, and Dragon Quest. The sale will run until Tuesday, May 7 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET.

It’s a good week to put your PS Plus membership to use: In addition to greater discounts on Golden Week deals, there’s also a huge sale on hundreds of PS4 games and DLC going on right now that’s exclusive to PS Plus members. Be sure to check it out before it ends Tuesday, April 30.

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See some of our picks from this year’s sale below, and browse the full collection of offerings at the PlayStation Store.

PS4

  • 2064: Read Only Memories — $7 (PS Plus: $4)
  • 428: Shibuya Scramble — $20 (PS Plus: $15)
  • Attack on Titan 2 — $42 (PS Plus: $36)
  • Dark Souls III — $27 (PS Plus: $21)
  • Dark Souls Remastered — $32 (PS Plus: $28)
  • Dead Cells — $20 (PS Plus: $17.49)
  • Devil May Cry HD Collection — $21 (PS Plus: $18)
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ — $30 (PS Plus: $24)
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ — FighterZ Pass — $21 (PS Plus: $17.49)
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ – Ultimate Edition — $66 (PS Plus: $55)
  • Dragon Quest XI: Digital Edition of Light — $36 (PS Plus: $30)
  • Final Fantasy: Royal Edition — $30 (PS Plus: $25)
  • Furi: Definitive Edition — $8.79 (PS Plus: $6.59)
  • God Eater 2: Rage Burst — $21 (PS Plus: $15)
  • Gravity Rush Remastered — $12 (PS Plus: $9)
  • Gravity Rush 2 — $14 (PS Plus: $12)
  • Jump Force — $42 (PS Plus: $36)
  • Kingdom Hearts Collection — $90 (PS Plus: $87)
  • Kingdom Hearts III — $42 (PS Plus: $40.19)
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite — $20 (PS Plus: $16)
  • Monster Hunter: World — $25 (PS Plus: $20)
  • Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom — $42 (PS Plus: $36)
  • Nioh: The Complete Edition — $30 (PS Plus: $25)
  • Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight (VR) — $42 (PS Plus: $36)
  • Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight (VR) — $42 (PS Plus: $36)
  • Resident Evil 2 — $45 (PS Plus: $40.19)
  • Resident Evil Revelations — $10 (PS Plus: $8)
  • Resident Evil: Deluxe Origins Bundle — $20 (PS Plus: $16)
  • SoulCalibur VI — $42 (PS Plus: $36)
  • Street Fighter V — $10 (PS Plus: $8)
  • Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection — $30 (PS Plus: $26)
  • Tales of Berseria — $21 (PS Plus: $15)
  • Tekken 7 — $30 (PS Plus: $25)
  • Tokyo Xanadu eX+ — $18 (PS Plus: $12)
  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life — $28 (PS Plus: $24)
  • Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — $12 (PS Plus: $8)
  • Zero Escape: The Nonary Games — $15 (PS Plus $10)

PS3

  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night — $4 (PS Plus: $3)
  • Catherine — $10 (PS Plus: $8)
  • DMC Devil May Cry: Ultimate Edition — $20.24 (PS Plus: $13.49)
  • Final Fantasy IX (PSOne Classic) — $6 (PS Plus: $5)
  • Final Fantasy V (PSOne Classic) — $6 (PS Plus: $5)
  • Final Fantasy VIII (PSOne Classic) — $6 (PS Plus: $5)
  • Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster Digital — $15 (PS Plus: $12.49)
  • Gradius V (PS2 Classic) — $4 (PS Plus: $3)
  • Mega Man Legends 2 (PSOne Classic) — $4 (PS Plus: $3)
  • Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions — $2.39 (PS Plus: $1.79)
  • Persona 4 Arena — $10.49 (PS Plus: $9)
  • Silent Hill (PSOne Classic) — $2.39 (PS Plus: $1.79)
  • Suikoden 3 (PS2 Classic) — $4 (PS Plus: $3)

PS Vita

  • 2064: Read Only Memories — $7 (PS Plus: $4)
  • Death Mark — $20 (PS Plus: $16)
  • Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention — $24 (PS Plus: $21)
  • Downwell — $2.19 (PS Plus: $1.69)
  • Dragon Quest Builders — $28 (PS Plus: $24)
  • Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster Bundle — $15 (PS Plus: $12.49)
  • Muramasa Rebirth: Complete Collection — $14 (PS Plus: $10.49)
  • P3D & P5D Bundle + Megaverse Costume Pack — $52.49 (PS Plus: $45.49)
  • Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight — $28 (PS Plus: $24)
  • Persona 4: Dancing All Night — $15 (PS Plus: $12.49)
  • Persona 4: Golden — $12 (PS Plus: $10)
  • Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight — $28 (PS Plus: $24)
  • Yomawari: Midnight Shadows — $14 (PS Plus: $12)
  • Zero Escape: The Nonary Games — $12 (PS Plus: $8)

PSP

  • Final Fantasy III — $6 (PS Plus: $5)
  • Final Fintasy IV: The Complete Collection — $9 (PS Plus: $7.49)
  • Final Fantasy Tactics (PSOne Classic) — $6 (PS Plus: $5)
  • Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions — $6 (PS Plus: $5)
  • Mega Man Maverick Hunter X — $4 (PS Plus: $3)