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Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4-Exclusive Content Timing Revealed

The box art for Red Dead Redemption 2‘s PlayStation 4 Pro bundle not only revealed that the game carries a 105 GB file size, but also some other key details about the sequel.

According to Rockstar Intel, the back of the box also shows that the PlayStation-exclusive content for Red Dead Redemption 2’s online mode, Red Dead Online, will be exclusive to Sony’s PS4 for a period of 30 days. Sony first started talking about the PlayStation-exclusive content for Red Dead Redemption 2 all the way back in 2016, but this is the first time we’re hearing about the duration of its exclusivity on Sony’s platform.

There is still no word as to what the PlayStation-exclusive content is, but now we know it’s for Red Dead Online and that Xbox One owners will have to wait to check it out.

Sony has a co-marketing deal in place with Rockstar Games for Red Dead Redemption 2, which explains the PS4 Pro bundle and the timed-exclusive content. The game of course is also coming to Xbox One, and it will presumably take advantage of the power of the Xbox One X for those who have Microsoft’s super-power console.

This isn’t Sony’s first co-marketing deal with a big sequel. The company also has a deal in place with Activision to bring Call of Duty content first to PS4. The arrangement seems to have been adjusted recently, as Black Ops 4‘s PlayStation-exclusive DLC will only be exclusive for a week instead of a month as it was for past games in the series.

The packaging for Red Dead Redemption 2’s PS4 Pro bundle also mentions that Red Dead Online will support up to 32 players. This is double the number of players that could be in a Free Roam session in the multiplayer mode of 2010’s Red Dead Redemption. The maximum number of players in a GTA Online session on PS4 and Xbox One is apparently 30.

The Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Pro bundle comes with a 1TB jet black system, matching DualShock 4 controller, and a copy of the standard edition of the game. It costs $400 USD, which is the standard price of the console, so the game is essentially free.

GameSpot recently had an opportunity to play Red Dead Redemption 2. You can check out our hands-on feature where we talk about what’s new and exciting about the sequel.

Red Dead Redemption 2 launches on October 26 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

X-Men Dark Phoenix Trailer Breakdown: Jean Grey Is Unstoppable

It may be almost half a year away from the release of the latest X-Men movie, simply titled Dark Phoenix, but the first trailer for the film dropped during a recent episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, and boy oh boy, is it packed full of information about the upcoming movie.

The movie follows the story of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) as a young girl who manifests mutant abilities. From there, Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) takes her into his school for the gifted to help her learn how to control her newfound abilities. However, his years of work are for naught as Jean Grey loses control in this latest film.

Originally, the film was supposed to hit theaters this November, but the trailer did reveal the new release date of Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2019. Aside from Turner and McAvoy, Dark Phoenix features the return of Michael Fassbender, Tye Sheridan, Evan Peters, Alexandra Shipp, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, and Kodi Smit-McPhee in this latest X-Men outing.

A lot happens in this trailer, and we’re breaking it down to figure out what we can about the upcoming 2019 film.

Fallout 76 Still Won’t Get Cross-Play After Sony Starts Allowing It

Sony made the big-time announcement today that it will finally allow cross-play between PlayStation 4 and competing consoles like Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Cross-play support is currently live, but only for one game: Fortnite.

In its statement announcing cross-play, Sony said cross-play support for Fortnite is just the start of the company’s wider plans. This has led to discussion and speculation about what other games may support cross-play. Bethesda’s Fallout 76 won’t be one of them.

“Folks, chill,” Bethesda marketing boss Pete Hines said on Twitter. “I work with a lot of devs and games for whom this is important going forward. Fallout 76 does not support crossplay, for a number of reasons. I have no idea if it ever will. But I assure you it is not on our radar right now as we focus on B.E.T.A. and launch.”

Bethesda has been saying for a long time now that Fallout 76 will not support cross-play. However, after Sony made its announcement, Hines tweeted, “Well done, Sony,” using the clapping hands emoji. Some fans saw this an indication of hope that Fallout 76 will support cross-play, but it won’t, at least not right away.

Unlike previous entries in the Fallout series, Fallout 76 is an always-online, multiplayer-focused game. A beta for the game kicks off in October, first on Xbox One. The full game launches on November 14 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

As for Sony’s big cross-play announcement, the company said it recognises that cross-play adds “significant value” for players. As such, it decided, after a “comprehensive evaluation process,” that it would allow cross-play for select third-party games, beginning with Fortnite.

The Best Classic Games That Still Hold Up Today – Steam Punks

In the latest episode of GameSpot’s weekly PC show Steam Punks, Jess and Ed talk about some of their favourite old PC games and discuss why they still hold up today.

Watch the video above to see Jess and Ed talk about games like the adventure game/RPG hybrid Quest for Glory series, the original RollerCoaster Tycoon, Jordan Mechner’s The Last Express from 1996, and 1999’s excellent strategy game Heroes of Might & Magic III. Ed also talks about why he believes the original Fallout game is the best in the franchise.

Despite their dated graphics and systems, these games are still worth your time in 2018 (though whether or not you have time to play them with all the big new releases coming up is another matter). All of them are available on GOG.com, where you can get them without any DRM. Classic games are also available on stores like Steam and other digital storefronts.

Jess and Ed also answer your questions about last week’s Steam Punks where they talked about about the always controversial loot boxes and microtransactions.

Steam Punks airs every Monday on GameSpot. What are some of your favourite old PC games? Let us know in the comments below!

Amazing Spider-Man Takes a Fun Detour

Having just wrapped up his first major Amazing Spider-Man storyline, writer Nick Spencer opts for a palate cleanser with this second, shorter arc. Issue #6 kicks off a goofy storyline that emphasizes the odd dynamic between Peter Parer and new roomie Fred Myers (aka – The Boomerang). The result is every bit the goofy interlude fans of Spencer’s Superior Foes of Spider-Man would expect, even if the art serves as a step down from the previous arc.

Unfortunately, despite what the cover indicates, there isn’t a great deal of emphasis on the Peter/Mary Jane romance in this issue. The focus is more on the growing friction between Peter and Fred and the former’s struggle to expose the latter without outing himself as Spider-Man. It’s a ore low-key conflict, but one that serves as a fun change of pace given the wacky spectacle of recent issues. The plot also takes some amusing turns along the way, resulting in Peter finding himself in the most unlikely place imaginable.

The Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep Review

If you entice me with deep, turn-based RPG combat, clever puzzles, and jaunty, Gaelic folk ballads, you can pretty easily have me eating out of the palm of your hand. The Bard’s Tale IV certainly did for the majority of the 50-ish hours I spent delving its dungeons and enjoying its quirky lore and charming voice acting. The fact that so much of it is so great made it all the more disappointing that it’s hobbled by technical problems too frequently to disregard them.

Set in a picturesque, storybook land that resembles a romanticized medieval Scotland – but with elves and goblins running around – the straightforward but rousing main quest tells a decent tale of ancient sorcerers, kingly bloodlines, and wicked gods. It can get a little hard to follow at times as it seems preoccupied with calling back to as many characters and events as possible of the first three Bard’s Tales, which came out in the ‘80s. But the small lore snippets discovered in books, notes, and NPC conversations help the setting come alive even if you have no idea who Tarjan the Mad God is.

What This Year’s Elseworlds Crossover Tells Us About the Future of the Arrowverse

Today brought even more reason to look forward to this year’s Arrowverse crossover. We now know that the crossover will be titled “Elseworlds,” and that it’ll be introducing the Monitor (played by LaMonica Garrett).

Both reveals offer a much better idea of what this year’s big DC crossover will be about. But even more intriguingly, it hints at the larger direction the Arrowverse could be heading in the years to come. Here’s why the Monitor news is significant and why we think the Arrowverse is building towards a full-fledged adaptation of DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Who Is the Monitor?

The Monitor is a character first introduced in DC’s comics in 1982. Essentially, he’s DC’s answer to Marvel’s The Watcher – an omniscient being who observes the universe from afar. The Monitor’s duties extend to the whole of the DC multiverse, however. The Monitor became a central figure in 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. There he rallied a group of heroes against his dark opposite, the Anti-Monitor. This villain sought to devour all life and destroy the multiverse entirely, a goal it nearly succeeded in.

American Horror Story: “Forbidden Fruit” Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow…

Hah. There’s the tie-in we’ve been waiting for!

No more allusions to connective Coven tissue or whiffs of Murder House collusion, but actual Coven witches arriving on the scene. Just as Sarah Paulson’s Apocalypse character fell, her Coven role, “Supreme” Cordelia, showed up to – hopefully – answer a question or twelve.

So, yes, business picked up at the end of “Forbidden Fruit.” Things got interesting. Ah, but does interesting mean good? Not necessarily. See, one of the greatest tricks American Horror Story has pulled over the years is becoming a show so utterly overflowing with massive “WTF?” moments that it gaslights us into thinking good things are happening. Well, things are happening, surely. But that’s all. It’s just plot movement. For every one question answered, three more get raised. Miriam Mead actually being a robot is so bizarre and arbitrary that it feels like a small weird part of a fridge magnet poem where someone keeps switching the words around.

DC’s Doomsday Clock Picks Up the Pace

While Doomsday Clock has so far proven itself to be an engrossing read and a worthy follow-up to Watchmen, it hasn’t been delivering *everything* readers have been wanting out of this story. For a conflict that hinges so heavily on the confrontation between Superman and Doctor Manhattan, we’ve seen surprisingly little of either character in the first six issues. But as the series passes the halfway mark, that’s finally beginning to change. Doctor Manhattan finally becomes a central player in the narrative in issue #7, offering new and compelling insight into how this godlike being reshaped the course of an entire universe.

One of Doomsday Clock’s strengths is the way in which this series so effortlessly replicates the look and tone of Watchmen despite not involving any of that book’s creative team. Part of that boils down to the fact that Gary Frank and Dave Gibbons have such complementary art styles. They’re both precise draftsmen who bring plenty of detail and nuance to every page. But it’s also due to the way Frank and writer Geoff Johns emulate so many of Watchmen’s storytelling devices. There’s the ironic juxtaposition of narration and image, something that only works when writer and artist are working closely in sync.

Video Games Was A Category On Jeopardy Tonight, And The Contestants Didn’t Do So Well

Tonight’s episode of the long-running TV game show Jeopardy featured a “Video Games” category, and the contestants struggled. In the hard-to-watch clip below, the contestants get almost every single question wrong or don’t answer at all, as they do their best at coming up with answers about video games.

Before watching the clip, test yourself and see how you would do. Here are the questions:

“This company’s ‘Infinity’ allowed you to play characters from The Incredibles and Cars, to name a few.” (For 200)
“Morrowind and Skyrim are iterations of this ‘venerable’ set of games.” (For 400)
“A big gaming story of 2018 is Fortnite: This genre of game where the winner is last shooter or last team standing.” (For 600)
“In the classic video game Joust, contestants were placed upon these birds.” (For 800)
“Make your future fighting Ghaul, leader of the Red Legion in the second iteration of this Bungie game.” (For 1,000)

Host Alex Trebek jokes about the contestants not doing so well, which draws laughter from the audience. The fact that the Video Games category was chosen last probably says something about the contestants’ confidence in their video game knowledge.

The cringe-worthy clip can be seen below.