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Destiny 2 is getting cross save functionality on August 21, ahead of the approaching Shadowkeep expansion and free-to-play New Light version, both of which will be available on October 1. Cross save is a system that will let you import your Guardians, your stats and your progress between the PC, PS4, Xbox One and Google Stadia versions of Destiny 2, so you can keep going even if you decide to switch platforms. Bungie has posted a helpful guide to cross save, explaining everything you could need to know. We’ve also summed it up below for your convenience.

Which platforms does cross save support?

All of them, including the upcoming Stadia version.

Does this mean that you can play with friends on other platforms?

Unfortunately, if you’re playing on PlayStation 4, you still can’t play with your friends on Xbox One — however, it means that if you jump over to the Xbox One version, you won’t need to start a new character.

Can Cross Save be used to merge Guardians or Collections built up between different platforms?

No. If you’ve already played through the game and maxed out two characters on two systems, there’s no way to bring those characters together onto the same account, unfortunately. It’s a matter of picking a primary account and porting your save over to other systems. The same goes for Silver, so be aware of that.

Do previous purchases transfer between systems?

No, unfortunately. Make sure that you purchase Shadowkeep, and any Silver, on your primary system.

Can I disable Cross Save?

If you want to do so – because, perhaps, you decide you prefer to split your save files between systems – you can. Once you do so, though, there’s a 90 day wait to re-enable cross save. This is done to discourage account recoveries by other players.

How much does it cost?

It’s completely free! When the New Light free-to-play version of Destiny 2 drops, you’ll be able to comfortably transfer your Guardian and everything you own between systems without spending a cent.

What impact will this have on my clans?

Your active account can only be included in one Destiny clan, which will become your clan across all platforms you’re playing from that account on. Your Active Account takes up one player slot in your Clan Roster, though, regardless of how many systems the account is active on. You’ll also only have access to Clan teammates who are on the same platform as you at any given point. Clan objective progress carries over between systems, though.

GameStop has announced that over a hundred employees have been laid off. These job cuts hit multiple divisions throughout the company, ranging from corporate headquarters to Game Informer magazine.

“As part of the previously announced GameStop Reboot initiative to transform our business for the future and improve our financial performance, we can confirm a workforce reduction was implemented impacting more than 120 corporate staff positions, representing approximately 14% of our total associate base at our company headquarters as well as at some other offices,” GameStop wrote in a statement to GameSpot.

The Reboot initiative was implemented after GameStop failed to sell itself in 2018, though the company has continued to struggle in the growing digital gaming market. The company has put a greater emphasis on used games and pop culture collectibles sales, but both seem to only be slowing GameStop’s descent, not stopping it.

“While these changes are difficult, they were necessary to reduce costs and better align the organization with our efforts to optimize the business to meet our future objectives and success factors,” the statement concluded. “We recognize that this is a difficult day for our company and particularly for those associates impacted. We appreciate their dedication and service to GameStop and are committed to supporting them during this time of transition.”

Unfortunately for several members of the Game Informer staff, the layoffs impacted them as well. Of the 19 full-time members on the editorial team, seven have announced on Twitter that they have been laid off–managing editor Matt Bertz, senior editor Imran Khan, senior associate editor Kyle Hilliard, senior associate editor Jeff Marchiafava, associate editor Suriel Vazquez, associate editor Elise Favis, and associate editor Javy Gwaltney. If you’re looking for talented writers and editors to join your staff, consider reaching out. All seven deserve to continue doing what they did for Game Informer.

“I am trying to get things right with my people,” Game Informer editor-in-chief Andy McNamara tweeted. “I love Game Informer, its people and its readers more than any corporation could, and I will address all the issues when I can, but for now I need to focus on my GI family.”

Ubisoft’s historical fighting game For Honor is once again free on PC, but this time you’ll only need Uplay to claim it. The offer is only available until August 28, so act fast if you still haven’t picked it up.

Get For Honor (PC) for free here

First, you do need a Uplay account. After you’ve signed up, all you need to do is go to the Ubisoft Store website and click the “Get It For Free” button. It’ll ask you to either launch or download Uplay, and once the launcher is open, For Honor will be redeemed to your account. Then it’s just time to install it, and you’re off to the races.

For Honor is currently in Year 3 and has seen the release of the Black Prior and Hitokiri classes. Two more are set to release by the end of the year. Ubisoft supports For Honor with regular events, new items, and more.

The Marching Fire expansion released last year. It added the Chinese Wu Lin faction, the fourth after the game launched with Knights, Samurai, and Vikings. The Wu Lin faction consists of four classes: the Dao blade-wielding Tiandi, Guando heavy Jiang Jun, hook sword-equipped Nuxia, and staff-swinging Shaolin.

Prior to the Wu Lin, Ubisoft spent its first year after release adding several new classes to the Knights, Samurai, and Vikings. These included the Shinobi, Centurion, Gladiator, and more.

In our For Honor review, GameSpot’s Matt Espineli said, “[For Honor’s] fundamental tenets of discipline and restraint are bestowed upon you permanently, forever changing the way you perceive a melee-combat encounter in a game. In its highest moments, For Honor is difficult to put down.” He added that those who take the time to dive deep into For Honor’s combat “will be rewarded with some of the most satisfying multiplayer melee fighting conceived in recent years.”

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The summer of 2019 has already given us numerous great horror movies, but after alligators, cults, dolls, stories, and sharks, the best is yet to come. If you take the wit and the hilarious ensemble of Clue, the sadistic cat and mouse satire of The Most Dangerous Game, and mix them with the knack for subverting expectations with fun and blood from You’re Next, you get Ready Or Not, one hell of a wickedly fun movie and the best horror-comedy of the year so far.

Relationships are difficult, especially if they are with someone from a different economic background. You have different expectations and experiences, and it sometimes it can seem like you’re speaking different languages.

On Grace’s (star-in-the-making Samara Weaving) wedding day, her husband-to-be, Alex Le Domas (Mark O’Brien), keeps apologizing for inflicting his affluent and lousy family on her, as they don’t take well to new people. While most members of Grace’s new family are skeptical of her short courtship, Alex’s sardonic brother Daniel (Adam Brody) and seemingly approachable mother Becky (Andie MacDowell) give Grace room to believe she can be accepted into the family’s board game business empire–or “dominion,” as Alex half-jokingly corrects her.

Having grown up as a foster kid, Grace’s longing for a family makes her acquiescent enough to go along with the strange tradition of playing a game on wedding nights. You see, the Le Domas clan went from printing playing cards to producing board games and now owning sports franchises, all due to a strange encounter between an old ancestor and a mysterious traveling salesman who sold him a “magic” card box that gave the family their unholy amount of wealth generations ago. When Grace pulls out a card marked “Hide and Seek,” the family gives her 100 seconds before they pick up a variety of 18th century weapons and spend the rest of the night hunting Grace, with the goal of performing a nefarious ritual they’ve carried out for decades.

From there the movie descends down a rabbit hole of fast and witty dialogue, a great ensemble cast, and a plot that keeps getting crazier and bloodier. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett deliver an impressive sophomore feature after their Rosemary’s Baby-inspired Devil’s Run, and great segments in both V/H/S and Southbound. They still wear their inspirations on their sleeves. The film’s use of three-point lighting is eerily Kubrickian, and the use of creepy cult-y ritual masks and ceremonial robes during a flashback scene set in the ’80s is a clear nod to Eyes Wide Shut.

Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin also manage to make the most out of their one setting, using every nook and cranny of the family’s huge mansion location to make a series of mini set-pieces and gags that keep the action fresh and creative. The focus of the movie isn’t necessarily on gore, but the violence stays intense throughout, aided by a punchy soundtrack (including the best use of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture in years) and great cinematography that really accentuates red tones and will have you thinking twice about wearing white during game night.

The script by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy does a great job of subverting expectations and keeping the audience guessing if the family’s occult history is real or not, and how exactly Grace can get out of this hell. That said, it does little to develop the Le Domas family beyond the broadest of descriptions, and it fails to meaningfully follow up on certain things set up early in the film.

Luckily, the performances are so good, it is easy to forgive these minor issues. You see, despite being wealthy and ruthless people, the Le Domas are also sometimes comically incompetent, constantly screwing up their kills and arguing over the rules of the game. They’re more akin the cast of Clue than the killers in The Strangers. Recent additions to the family, Charity (Elyse Levesque) and Fitch (Orphan Black’s fantastic Kristian Bruun), are hilarious. Because this is the first time both are witnessing this particular game night, and they’re not accustomed to the traditions (Fitch watches a tutorial on shooting a crossbow on YouTube). Adam Brody’s role as the conflicted Daniel gets some of the best moments in the movie. Though he says he wants to help Grace and Alex, he isn’t really about to take any initiative or move a finger. The banter between the family members will have you in stitches even if the performances and kills make you jump out of your seat.

While the performances are strong across the board, this is Samara Weaving’s show through and through. She finds a pitch-perfect balance between complete terror and vulnerability, childlike bewilderment, and total badass who won’t go down without a fight. And while they’re quickly separated in the hunt, Weaving and O’Brien have great chemistry that brings to mind April and Andy in Parks and Recreation. Though Weaving already made a splash in Mayhem and The Babysitter, this is her most prominent role to date. Her next role is in next year’s Bill & Ted sequel, so if there’s any justice in this world enough people will see this movie and in turn she’ll have a career as long-spanning and successful as her uncle Hugo’s.

There is something to say about Ready Or Not arriving in the same month that the release of The Hunt was indefinitely canceled. Without having seen the latter film it is hard to compare the two, but Ready Or Not does have something to say about class and money. The movie argues that it is not money at the root of all evil, but that evil is the root of all money. It is a less direct allegory for socioeconomic inequality than rich people hunting poor people in The Purge, but it makes for a satire with timeless appeal.

Ready Or Not breathes new life into the people-hunting genre with a fast-paced, brutal fun time. In just 95 minutes, blood is spilled, laughs are had, and expectations and genre tropes are met and subverted, ending in an explosive finale that will leave you eager to RSVP for this particular wedding over and over.

Sony just capped off a big sale on the PlayStation Store, and it’s already kicked off another with a bunch of deals on PS4 games and a bunch more. The August Savings sale lasts until September 3 at 8 AM Pacific.

The discounted PS4 games include Injustice 2: Legendary Edition ($30), Middle-earth: Shadow of War – Definitive Edition ($30), and Dying Light ($14), as well as Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – Zombie Chronicles Edition ($24), Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy ($20), and BioShock: The Collection ($15). XCOM 2 ($15) is also on sale, in addition to its expansion War of the Chosen ($16).

Yakuza 0 ($12) is another great game that sees a discount, though it’s important to note that you can get Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, and Yakuza Kiwami 2 in a newly released bundle. The Yakuza Origins Digital Bundle costs $50. That’s not a sale price either. It’s a great deal, considering Yakuza Kiwami 2 itself currently costs $50.

There are also a couple PS3 games discounted including GRID Autosport ($7), Risen 3: Titan Lords – Complete Edition ($8), and The Walking Dead ($10). And if you’re wondering about the Vita: yes, there are discounts for Sony’s handheld. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls ($15) and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony ($24) are both on sale, as well as Zero Escape: The Nonary Games ($12) and Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma ($12).

You can see a list of some of our favourites from this sale in the list below.

PS4

PS3

Vita