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Actor R. Lee Ermey, who is perhaps best known for his role as Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, has passed away from pneumonia complications. His manager shared the news of Ermey’s death on Twitter today. He was 74.

Ermey served in the US Marines before becoming an actor. According to THR, Ermey served 14 months in Vietnam and did two tours in Okinawa. He retired from the service after 11 years. Ermey had a small part in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, before landing a bigger role in Full Metal Jacket.

Ermey worked with Activision on the Drill Instructor Voice Pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts in 2014. The $3 add-on swaps out the voice of the regular in-game alerts for Ermey’s.

Ermey is also known for voicing the leader of the plastic Army soldiers in the Toy Story series, while he also had parts in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Se7en.

A Way Out, the new game from the outspoken creator of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, is selling well. The prison escape co-op game has sold more than 1 million copies, developer Hazelight announced recently. Josef Fares, the game’s creative director, responded to the news with his usual amount of enthusiasm, exclaiming, “HOLY SHIT.”

Fares pointed out that A Way Out has in fact reached 2 million players because the game requires you to play with another human. To play, only one person needs to have purchased the game, with the other getting a free copy. Before launch, Fares discussed how this works, and you can watch his cheeky video about it embedded below.

A Way Out is published by gaming giant Electronic Arts. According to Fares, his studio, Hazelight, gets 100 percent of the proceeds from the game; EA doesn’t get a penny.

Fares is already working on his next game. He is very excited about it, but since it’s so early, we don’t know much at all in the way of specifics about it.

GameSpot’s review of A Way Out scored the game a 6/10. Reviewer Oscar Dayus praised the game’s set pieces, diverse environments, and puzzles that make use of co-op, while lamenting the game’s QTEs and varying tone.

Halo 5 came out almost three years ago, but the community is sticking with the game and continuing to create astounding maps using the game’s Forge tools. The latest example is a scale recreation of the Titanic from user C0naN 0007. The map was spotlighted by Brusky and the Halo Spark Forge Network, and brought to our attention by Halo developer 343.

This is an aesthetic map, so it was made to be great to look at and not necessarily the best for gameplay. Impressively, it is appropriately scaled to the size of Spartans, and there is an impressive attention paid to details like smokestacks and rails and more. Check it out:

This map caught the attention of Halo developer 343, which highlighted the creation as part of the studio’s latest weekly blog post. You can grab the map for yourself by following C0naN 0007 in Halo 5, and selecting the map from their list of creations.

There have been SO MANY incredible Forge creations in Halo 5 over the years, including Star Wars podracing, a “clogged toilet” mode where you kill zombie poop, and Quidditch.

Halo 6 is on the way, and we sure hope it brings back Forge mode and beefs it up further with even more features and functionality. Microsoft has confirmed a new Halo game is in development, and while an E3 reveal is potentially possible, nothing is confirmed yet.

April’s second round of free games of Games with Gold on Xbox One and 360 are available now. The Witness is still in rotation until April 30, but this round’s new additions are Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Dead Space 2.

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate follows the story of twins Jacob and Evie Frye as they take back London from the Templars in the Victorian era. The game not only allows you to freely explore London, but also switch between the twins for most missions. Jacob is brutish, while Evie is a rouge-like character. Syndicate will be free for Gold member through May 15.

Dead Space 2 on the other hand is a bit more visceral. This is backwards compatible title is set three years after the events of Dead Space, following Issac’s battle against the Necromorphs on Sprawl. Unlike the first game, this sequel also has a multiplayer mode, pitting humans against Necromorphs. It’s available for download through April 30.

In other Xbox One news, 19 new backwards compatible titles from the OG Xbox were added to the catalog this week. Xbox’s big spring sale is still running strong too, slashing deals until April 17.

April 2018 Games With Gold

Xbox One

• The Witness (April 1-30)
• Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (April 16-May 15)

Xbox 360 (playable on Xbox One)

• Cars 2 (April 1-15)
• Dead Space 2 (April 16-30)