Category: Games

Like many retailers, Best buy releases a new weekly ad every Sunday, showing off what’s on sale in the coming week. Since video games are among Best Buy’s offerings, a new set of games gets discounted as well. This week finds some good deals on individual video games (see the list below), as well as some conditional discounts for buying things like a Nintendo Switch or a game over $30. Let’s dive in.

Purchase a Nintendo Switch at Best Buy, and you’ll get $30 off Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Splatoon 2, or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. That’s a great deal, considering you’ll almost certainly want at least one of those games on your new system.

The PS4 exclusive game Spider-Man is also out this week (September 7, to be exact), and Best Buy currently has pre-order stock of the limited edition Spider-Man-themed PS4 Pro. It costs $400 and comes with a red 1 TB PS4 Pro emblazoned with the Spidey symbol, a red controller, and a copy of the game.

Destiny 2 got its major year-two Forsaken update this week, and if you spend $30 on any game or Turtle Beach headset, you’ll get a copy of the base game for free. It’s worth noting that you’ll have to shell out extra money for the Forsaken content, so you might be better off just buying the $60 release Destiny 2: Forsaken Legendary Collection if you don’t already have the game and the first two expansions (which you’ll need to play Forsaken).

For the sports fans out there, you can pre-order NBA 2K19 to get one of three Funko Pop figures for free while supplies last. A number of other gaming deals area available at Best Buy this week, so take a look at the list below to see if anything catches your eye.

The release of Destiny 2‘s Forsaken DLC is just hours away–servers are down and the 2.0.0.1 update is available. And while there’s a variety of new changes to check out already, we’ve got some gameplay footage from Forsaken’s early story missions to tide you over and to give you a taste of what awaits. Spoiler warning: If you’re attempting to go into Forsaken without seeing anything about it beforehand, you’ll want to stop reading and avoid the video.

Above, you can see some of the early Forsaken missions. This actually starts prior to the Cayde-6 death sequence we’ve seen in previously released trailers, as he calls you in to help deal with a riot at the Prison of Elders. It’s here you’ll bump into the Awoken character Petra Venj (returning from Destiny 1’s House of Wolves DLC), who serves as an ally during the DLC.

The riot turns out to be an attempted prison break, as Uldren Sov–the brother of the Queen of the Reef, Mara Sov, who has been missing since The Taken King–is looking to bust the captured Barons out. As opposed to the version we saw in one of the aforementioned trailers, you actually get to experience Cayde’s Ghost destroyed from the perspective of your Guardian. Beyond all of this, you’ll also get to see some of the new enemy faction, the Scorn. These are Fallen enemies who have been corrupted, giving some Taken-style twists on existing archetypes.

Forsaken looks to be a major expansion for Destiny 2; it’s been positioned as this game’s equivalent of The Taken King, which marked a major turning point for the original Destiny. Alongside a new campaign, it includes the new PvP/PvE hybrid Gambit mode, a new Raid (unlocking on September 14), nine new subclass tiers (with accompanying Supers), and a variety of new gear, Crucible maps, and more. It releases on September 4 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, although PS4 gets some exclusive content that won’t be on other platforms for at least a year.

The Stephen King adaptation It was released a year ago, and it went on to become one of the most successful horror movies of all time. The follow-up is due for release next year and has now wrapped production. To mark the end of shooting, director Andy Muschietti has released a new behind-the-scenes image.

Muschietti posted the picture on his Instagram page. It shows him with happy-looking star Jessica Chastain, who is somewhat blood-splattered, and is accompanied by some reworked David Bowie lyrics. Check it out below:

It: Chapter 2 hits theaters on September 6, 2019. The movie is set 30 years after the first film, and it follows the adult versions of the kids in the original. Chastain plays the older Beverly, while the rest of that cast features James McAvoy as Bill, Bill Hader as Richie, James Ransone as Eddie, Andy Bean as Stan, and Isaiah Mustafa as Mike. Bill Skarsgård returns as the evil clown Pennywise, one of the guises of the terrifying interdimensional entity of the title. In July, images of the adult cast on set were revealed.

Although the focus of the movie will be on the so-called Losers Club as they reunite as grown-ups to confront the evil once more, the young cast from the first film will also appear. In an interview last year, Muschietti explained that the cross-cutting between the two timelines that occurs in the novel is important to the story.

“In my opinion, it can’t only be about adults,” he told The Independent. “Something that I love about the book is the dialogue between the two timelines because, ultimately, it’s a story about childhood. It’s a love letter to childhood, but it’s also a story of the death of childhood. It’s symbolic, of course, because when Pennywise describes himself as the eater of worlds, he’s not talking about a monster that eats planets; he’s talking about eating the world of imagination and magic.”

With the Battlefield V open beta client now available to download, the game’s numerous “Options” tab on console has become available to see for one of the first times. While PC players might be accustomed to having a wealth of graphics and control options to tweak, this level of personal customisation is a relatively new phenomenon on console.

In Battlefield V, there are a ridiculous number of things you can change. For controls, you can do basic things like toggle vibration on or off and go inverted. There are also sliders for solider stick sensitivity, vehicle stick sensitivity, and zoom sensitivity from 0 to 100. There are also numerous different button layouts you can choose from for your solider and vehicles. On the more advanced side of control options, you can adjust things like the dead zone–which is how much you need to move the stick before it activates. There are also zoom sensitivity sliders for 1-10X zoom and sensitivity sliders for tanks and turrets.

In terms of gameplay options, you can choose to show or hide all HUD elements or player-created content. You can also decide if you want the kill log to show a weapon icon, a name, or both, while you can turn the kill log off entirely if you want. Additionally, there is a slider for “Share Usage Data,” which, when turned off (it’s on by default), will limit the data that EA collects while you’re playing to only that which is “necessary to operate [the game].” Turning this off “may result in loss of functionality,” though it’s not clear what functionality may be lost.

The User Agreement for the Battlefield V beta contains more details about EA’s use of your personal data. It states that EA may collect information like your IP address and operating system, along with gameplay elements like how much you play and what you do in the game. The notes also explain that EA will still collect your data if you play offline by grabbing it once you connect back to the internet. It’s not immediately clear how this applies to the Battlefield V beta, as it’s a multiplayer beta that requires you to be connected to the internet.

Battlefield V’s gameplay customisation goes much further. You can now set the specific colour you see when you hit an enemy, including a specific colour option for headshots. A nice little colour palette pops up from within the menu to let you pick a colour. Additionally, you can change the size of the minimap and adjust the opacity of friendly and enemy soldiers, as well as the opacity of objectives.

On the sound side, you can change the level of the master and music volume, and also turn the in-game announcer on or off. You can also make the announcer voice speak in a native language. Finally, some of the video settings you can change include basic things like brightness and field of view, while you can adjust motion blur with a slider from 0-100 %. You can also toggle on or off weapon depth of field, chromatic abberation, film grain, lens distortion.

Click through the images in the gallery above that GameSpot captured on Xbox One to get a broader sense of what you can adjust in Battlefield 5. Bear in mind that this information comes from the game’s beta menu, so the final version might be different.

Battlefield V’s open beta begins on September 6, but people who pre-ordered and those with an EA/Origin Access subscription can start playing on September 4. For more on the beta, here’s everything you need to know about its maps, modes, and more.