Fan-Made Simpsons: Hit And Run Demo Created In A Week, Then Taken Down Due To Copyright Issues

Unreal developer and YouTuber reubs showcased how he remastered The Simpsons: Hit And Run, updated with 4K graphics and ray tracing capabilities. At the same time, he released a playable demo of his work that was unceremoniously taken down due to undisclosed copyright concerns.

In an approximately 13-minute long video, reubs demonstrated the process of remastering Hit And Run. This included several convoluted steps, like exporting all the map’s art assets, programming the playable characters, and adding in the vehicles. The result is a gorgeous-looking experience, with smooth animations and striking visuals that look more in line with modern games. Reubs also implemented a first-person mode just for the fun of it.

Alongside dropping the video, reubs published a free demo of the game’s first mission. According to the description in the video, though, it was taken down. He cited “copyright concerns” but didn’t disclose who had issues.

The Simpsons: Hit And Run is a 2003 GTA-inspired action-adventure game developed by Radical Entertainment. A product of its time, it’s largely unavailable to play outside of old physical copies, which tend to either be sold out at retailers or cost more than it should online. Unfortunately, paying upwards of $50 USD for a disc seems to be the only way to get ahold of it.

As of March 2019, The Simpsons exists under Disney, as the media giant purchased 21st Century Fox for an eye-popping $71.3 billion.

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Dave Bautista Wants To Star In A Buddy Cop Movie With Jason Momoa

Dave Bautista recently announced that he wants to be in a Lethal Weapon-type movie with none other than Jason Momoa. Not only did the actor have a co-star in mind for his movie pitch, he suggested David Leitch, director of Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw would be the person he would want to helm the film.

This potential pipedream project between Bautista and Momoa would not be the only time these two actors have graced the screen together. Bautista and Momoa star as brothers in the Apple TV+ dystopian drama See as Edo and Baba Voss respectively.

The former WWE wrestler wasn’t the only one to have fantasy booking suggestions to his film pitch.

WWE superstar Titus O’Neil and AEW wrestler Big Swole threw their hats in the ring to join Momoa and Bautista in the would-be film.

While Bautista waits to see whether his tweet receives some traction, Momoa and Bautista will co-star in Dune as Duncan Idaho and Glossu Rabban respectively in which will be in theaters and HBO Max on October 22.

Ghost Of Tsushima Iki Island Guide – How To Get The Monkey See Hidden Trophy

Scattered around Iki Island, the new explorable area in Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, are animal sanctuaries where you’ll meet some of the cuter inhabitants of Iki. Of the many sanctuaries you’ll find, the toughest to reach is the monkey sanctuary at the top of Saruiwa mountain. But in addition to the sanctuary and the charm you’ll earn from reaching it, the mountain also hides another secret: a hidden Trophy called “Monkey See.”

To unlock the Monkey See Trophy, you have to find some specific locations on Saruiwa and take some specific actions. Here’s everything you need to do to unlock the Monkey See Trophy.

Climb Saruiwa

First, head to Saruiwa at the southern end of Iki Island and find the staircase that will lead you to climbing the mountain. You’ll know you’re on the right path when you find two monkey statues on either side of it. Up the stairs, you’ll hit an open area with a lot of statues. Look to the right of the path and you’ll see the three wise monkeys depicted in statues, embodying the maxim of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” One covers its ears, another covers its eyes, and the last covers its mouth.

The trick to the Trophy is to seek out each of those three trophies around the mountain. They’re actually pretty easy to find, however.

Where To Find The Three Monkey Statues

Look for the path to the first monkey immediately to the left of the entrance of the mountain. Play your flute for the statue to activate it.
Look for the path to the first monkey immediately to the left of the entrance of the mountain. Play your flute for the statue to activate it.

1. Kikazaru, Hear No Evil: After you find the three small monkey statues, you’ll see the exit to this section of the cave, which is a narrow hole you’ll have to squeeze through. Ignore that and instead, look to the left side of the cave if you’re facing the exit to find a tree stump you can hit with your grapple hook and climb. Follow that path upward until you hit a slackline you can walk across. That’ll lead you to a rocky outcropping with the first statue, which covers its ears. To trigger it, play a song with your flute. You’ll know you did the right thing if the black bars appear on the top and bottom of the screen.

The second monkey statue is off the path to the right, where you can climb down. Throw a smoke bomb in front of it to activate it.
The second monkey statue is off the path to the right, where you can climb down. Throw a smoke bomb in front of it to activate it.

2. Mizaru, See No Evil: Return to where you climbed up and go through the narrow passage. That’ll put you on a mountain path that continues upward. Wait for a break in the rock wall on your right. You’ll see both a footpath ahead and a spot where you can climb down on the right. Take the climbing path down–be careful, as the first handhold will break away when you grab it–and descend to the bottom. There, you’ll find the statue in a small alcove, next to a painting of a samurai with lightning bolts behind him. This monkey is all about being blind, which is your clue to how to trigger it: stand in front of it and throw a smoke grenade to make yourself disappear.

The last monkey can be reached when you cross a bamboo footbridge to find a path you can climb down using your grappling hook. Descend to a small pond below and swim across it to find the last statue. Bow before it to activate it.

3. Iwazaru, Speak No Evil: The last monkey is a little farther up the mountain. Return to the footpath and keep going until you cross a bamboo bridge. You’ll eventually see a slackline that lets you cross to go further, and if you’re paying attention, a climbing path on your left leading up. Ignore the upward path–you actually want to climb down a significant way to reach the last monkey. Keep following the footpath until you can start using your grappling hook to climb downward. Descend until you find a tide pool with monkeys all around it; jump in and swim to the other side, where you’ll find the last monkey statue covering his mouth. Since this monkey doesn’t speak, you need to communicate with it non-verbally, so to trigger it, stand in front of it and bow.

If you’ve done it all correctly, you should get small cutscenes from each statue. When you’re done, climb back up to the slackline above the pond where you started and take the handholds to climb up.

Continue To The Monkey Shrine

If you haven’t already reached the shrine at the top of Saruiwa, keep climbing up to reach it. Complete the shrine by playing your flute for the monkeys there and you’ll receive the Monkey See Trophy for your efforts.

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How To Use Xbox Controllers On PC

Some PC games require (or just play better with) a controller, and few controllers beat Xbox when it comes to PC gaming. Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S controllers can all be used to play games on Windows 10 PCs–for the latter two, you can even connect them to your machine wirelessly.

There are actually a few ways to connect an Xbox controller to your PC. A wired connection is the easiest to do, though the two wireless options aren’t that difficult to pull off either. It really just comes down to your personal preference.

Connect an Xbox controller to your PC via wired cable

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You can buy wired Xbox 360 controllers, but if you’re using an Xbox One controller, you’ll need a micro-USB cable, and if you’re using an Xbox Series X|S controller, you’ll need a USB-C cable. For Xbox One controllers, we recommend using the cable included in the Xbox One Play and Charge Kit. And for Xbox Series X|S controllers, you should buy the Xbox Rechargeable Battery + USB-C Cable bundle. That said, in our experience pretty much any micro-USB or USB-C cable will do, so you may already have a cable you can use lying around your home–some of us use our old cellphone charging cables to connect our Xbox controllers to our Windows 10 PCs.

Here’s what you do:

  1. Simply connect your Xbox controller to your PC via the cable, and Windows 10 will automatically begin installing the necessary driver.
  2. When the Xbox button on your controller lights up, you’re good to go. And that’s it! You don’t even have to worry about batteries–the micro-USB or USB-C cable will pull a charge from your PC, keeping your controller constantly juiced.

Connect an Xbox controller to your PC via wireless adaptor

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Connecting your Xbox controller to your PC via an adaptor isn’t much harder than using a wired connection, but it does incorporate a few more steps. The process isn’t all that different from syncing an Xbox controller to a console, so if you’ve done that before, you have an idea of what to do here.

As an added note: This process won’t work with Xbox 360 controllers. You’ll need an Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S controller to make this work.

To connect an Xbox controller via an adaptor, you’ll (obviously) need an adaptor–specifically, the Microsoft Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows 10. It will plug into a USB port on your PC.

Here’s what you do:

  1. Put batteries into your controller and turn it on. The Xbox button will start blinking, signaling that the controller is on but not synced to anything. Press the sync button on the top of the controller, which will cause the Xbox button to start rapidly flashing.
  2. Once the Xbox button has begun flashing, go to your adaptor and hold down the identical sync button. Hold it down for a few seconds (like three or four). If the Xbox button on your controller eventually stops flashing and remains on, then the controller has successfully synced to your PC.
  3. If the flashing slows down and goes back to the slow blinking from before, just repeat the process. It shouldn’t take more than two or three attempts. If the controller hasn’t successfully synced after that, something may be wrong with your controller and/or the adaptor.
  4. And that’s it. Remember: Since you’re connecting your controller wirelessly, you’ll need a steady supply of AA batteries or a rechargeable battery pack to keep your controller working.

Connect an Xbox controller to your PC via Bluetooth

Controllers with the design on the top do NOT have Bluetooth, while those with the bottom design do.

Connecting your Xbox controller via Bluetooth requires the most steps, but it’s also the only method that doesn’t ask you to buy anything other than the controller–no cables or adaptors are needed. That said, you will need to buy a specific controller.

This method will not work for Xbox 360 or original Xbox One controllers. You will need an Xbox One controller that entered production alongside the Xbox One S (so the newer version of the controller) or an Xbox Series X|S controller. So basically no Xbox controllers that were made prior to August 2016.

The easiest way to know whether you have an Xbox controller that supports Bluetooth is to read the supported features listed on the side of the box it came in. If you no longer have the box, you can tell just by looking at how the controller is designed. The original Xbox One controllers have a larger plastic molding along the top. The newer Xbox One controllers and Xbox Series X|S controllers incorporate bumpers with a wider click range and feature a smaller top plastic molding.

Here’s what you do:

  1. Once you have the correct controller, you can start the process of connecting it to your PC. First, go into your PC settings and turn on Bluetooth.
  2. Next, turn on your controller by holding down the Xbox button. The button will blink to signal it’s not connected to anything.
  3. Hold down the Xbox button until it starts quickly flashing, signaling that the controller is now searching for something to connect to.
  4. Now go back to your PC. In the Bluetooth settings menu, click the option to “add Bluetooth or other device,” and then make sure Bluetooth is selected. Your computer should then start searching for devices to connect to via Bluetooth–you’ll know you’re on the right track if syncing with your Xbox controller appears as an available option. It should only take three to four seconds to appear. If it doesn’t, repeat this process until it does.
  5. Once it does, just click on the option and your controller should sync to your Windows 10 PC. And there you have it.

Director Lisa Joy Reinvents the Male Gaze in Reminiscence

Director Lisa Joy began writing Reminiscence after years of working in a writers’ room full of men. Being the only woman in the room, Joy felt disappointed as her male counterparts wrote female characters from the point of the male gaze. Frustrated with the constant misogyny she encountered, Joy eventually made her exit and decided to write her own screenplay. Studios had expected her to write a romantic comedy, but Joy had other things in mind.

“I’ve tried to follow the things that I’m excited about,” says Joy on a Zoom call with IGN from her home. “There are so many genres that have belonged to men, like the Western, [film] noir, and sci-fi. I just didn’t want to stay in my lane. I wanted to just follow those things and try to look at the genre [of noir and sci-fi] itself from a new point of view.”

Reminiscence is set in a futuristic Miami where the coastline has sunken under rising tides due to climate change. Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) and his assistant Watts (Thandiwe Newton) run a business that allows people to relive their fondest memories via tech. Bannister’s life is turned upside down with the arrival of a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson). What starts as a whirlwind romance turns into an obsession; after his lover’s sudden disappearance, Bannister searches her past, unearthing dark secrets and a conspiracy that connects them all together.

Although Bannister is the narrator of this story, and Jackman is front and center in all of the posters, Joy wants to make it clear that not everything is what it seems: Bannister is not the story’s hero. Memory is a fickle thing. You never know what is truly real, and who is the hero or the villain, because of the subjective biases placed from the narrator’s perspective.

“The thing I was trying to explore was like, ‘how do you be a full person in a game that is so dictated by men?’” says Joy. “In a world, even for me professionally, that’s so dictated by men.”

After years of working with men writing from their perspective, Joy wanted to take ownership of the male gaze from the perspective of a woman. She wanted audiences to see beyond the first impressions — that people may not appear to be what they show on the outside. Mae is this mysterious, seemingly perfect woman who enters Bannister’s life, but as he digs deeper into her past, he begins to unveil the truth behind the woman he loved.

“That’s the girl you’re supposed to want,” says Joy. “But, that’s no girl. That girl doesn’t exist. There were layers to her that, because [Bannister] was so besotted with that image of her, that she had to hide because it didn’t fit into what he wanted her to be. I think that’s […] a really difficult thing that women face.”

This is what Mae represented to Joy. The character became a way for Joy to deal with all the difficult things she went through while in that writers’ room.

“That was really this exploration of something that had really hurt me,” Joy reveals. “[It is] where a lot of times I use writing to explore something I’ve gone through and see how someone else [Mae] can navigate [it].”

Joy made sure to also include the indictment of the male gaze towards the film’s sex scene, in which Mae seduces Bannister in her home. Like all-important fight scenes, Joy found it essential to carefully craft the sex scene. Joy explains, “It’s just about blocking. It’s about lines, composition, emotion and feeling.”

Joy did extensive research on famous sex scenes in films to see what’s considered steamy and sexy. She was disappointed with the results.

“If you Google ‘sex scenes’ or whatever, what you see is a lot of very sexy [and] very handsome people engaging in coitus where the woman is just getting banged,” Joy explains. “Basically, they’re just having sex and it looks sexy and quite aerobic, but the interesting thing for me was, if you were to fade to black there, but continued watching the sex scene, there’s literally no way, anatomically, that woman is going to have an orgasm.”

Annoyed that most sex scenes allowed only for men to achieve orgasms, Joy wanted to direct a sex scene that made the most sense for women to have the greater chance to orgasm while retaining the scene’s sex appeal. She worked closely with Jackman and Ferguson to ensure they were comfortable, carefully choosing the angle that Ferguson would approach him and position herself. Joy knew she also wanted to keep Mae’s clothes on, because the sex scene shouldn’t be about a beautiful woman naked.

She reveals, “It was about seeing a woman in full possession of her body [and] claiming pleasure for herself.”

Reminiscence stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton, Daniel Wu, Cliff Curtis, Angela Sarafyan, Natalie Martinez, and Marina de Tavira. It is now playing in theaters and on HBO Max. Be sure to read our Reminiscence review.

Black Myth: Wukong’s New Gameplay Trailer Shows Off Awesome Snow Physics

A new Black Myth: Wukong 12-minute gameplay test video dropped and is no less impressive than the first announcement trailer. The footage captured is Black Myth running on Unreal Engine 5 and at 4K/60 FPS with Nvidia’s ray-tracing and DLSS tech.

The new gameplay test video takes place in an entirely different location than the first video. Sun Wukong traverses over a snowy landscape instead of a forested area, leading to interesting battle effects and pretty great snow physics. When a monster throws an attack and it cuts through the snow, the visual impact of the blow is *chef’s kiss*. The boss fight at timestamp 3:30 demonstrates the character model’s interactions with the snowy ground the best.

Now Playing: 12 Minutes of Black Myth: Wukong Unreal Engine 5 Test Gameplay

We also saw more of how Game Science devs will incorporate Wukong’s signature moves in Black Myth. At timestamp 8:49 in the trailer, Wukong’s staff grows larger as he lands the final blow on an enemy dragon–extending his legendary weapon (金箍棒 Golden Staff) to any size is a signature ability in the classical myth. Some of his other special talents in the original tale include shape-shifting, cloning himself into many copies, and of course, zooming around on a golden cloud.

As revealed by analyst Daniel Ahmad, Wukong should end up having 72 abilities in total at the player’s disposal.

Journey to the West has received multiple adaptations through various mediums. See: the 5 million different Journey to the West TV shows, Stephen Chow’s hilarious comedic Journey to the West movie, and rather uniquely, Minekura Kazuya’s Saiyuki–a cowboy-slash-chain-smoking spin on the classical Monkey King tale. An honorable mention includes Dragon Ball Z, which also borrows heavily from the original 16th century story.

And now we have a gritty Dark Souls-inspired (also Sekiro vibes?) AAA game taking on the fantastical Monkey King myth and joining the ranks of adaptations. It’s an unexpected confluence of visual identities, mythologies, and gameplay style, but as far as the released gameplay footage shows–it’s a compelling one.

Black Myth: Wukong doesn’t have a confirmed release date yet. You can check out Black Myth: Wukong’s first trailer for more information on what the game looks like.

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Daily Deals: 65″ LG OLED 4K TV for $1599, 50% Off 1 Year of PS Plus, Preorder Harry Potter 4K Collector’s Edition

Today’s deals included an Amazon renewed 65″ LG OLED 4K TV for only $1599.99, a Lenovo ThinkPad 15″ 4K RTX 3080 laptop for only $2399 (possible price error), an ASUS ROG RTX 3080 gaming PC for only $1999, and 50% off 1 year of PS Plus. There’s also a new Harry Potter 4K Collector’s Edition contained in a really snazzy package that’s up for preorder. These deals and more below.

65″ LG CX 4K OLED Smart TV for $1599.99

Note that this is a refurbished model with a 90-day Amazon warranty. It’s shipped and sold by Woot (which is owned by Amazon). That said, The cheapest we’ve seen a brand new set go for is $1900. The CX-series is LG’s 2020 OLED TV. It’s considered by many to be the best looking TV of 2020. The OLED panel blows away any IPS, VA, or TN monitor in black levels, color rendition, response time, and HDR. The new 2021 C1-series model has very negligible improvements over the CX-series and in terms of image quality, they’re practically identical. The CX OLED TV is a perfect match for the PS5 console because it has HDMI 2.1 inputs which can output 4K at 120Hz.

Preorder the Harry Potter 8-Film 4K Collector’s Edition with Hogwarts Express Train Packaging

This upcoming Harry Potter Collector’s Edition includes a total of 17 discs, which features every Harry Potter film in both 4K UHD and Blu-ray. You also get plenty of extras like a Hogwarts Express Ticket replica, a 32-page anniversary booklet, and The Harry Potter Magical Movie Mode on its own Blu-ray disc. Everything is packaged in a finely detailed Hogwarts Express train made of heavy paper board. Amazon’s preorder price guarantee means that if the price ever drops before the set is released, Amazon will adjust your price to the lowest available. There’s no limit to how often this can happen.

$2,600 Off Lenovo ThinkPad 15″ 4K RTX 3080 Laptop

Lenovo ThinkPad laptops are known for their best-in-class ruggedness and reliability, and even if it ever breaks down, Lenovo offers the best customer service in the business. Unfortunately, that level of build quality and support usually comes at a steep price. Add an RTX 30 series video card to the mix and you’d expect a cost that most people would balk at. Take this laptop for example. It’s retail price is nearly $5,000. However, there is a coupon code today that drops the price way down to under $2400. That’s almost too good of a deal and we suspect that it could be a price error. Throw in the fact that the laptop probaby won’t ship for up to 4 months (because of COVID, according to the site), and it’s possible that your order might be cancelled. That said, if you’re looking to purchase a ThinkPad that’s got the power to do some serious gaming, you won’t find a price like this anytime soon.

ASUS ROG RTX 3080 Gaming Desktop PC

It’s back in stock! One of the least expensive pre-built RTX 3080 equipped gaming PCs on the market is back in stock today at Best Buy. The price is quite a surprise because ASUS ROG gaming PCs are generally considered to be well built with quality components and a slick gaming aeshetic. This particular model is equipped with an unlocked 11th generation Intel Core i7-11700KF processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, and a 2TB HDD for extra storage.

1 Year of PS Plus for $29.99 (New Subscribers)

For those of you who aren’t PS Plus members, you can save 50% off a 1 year PS Plus subscription directly from the PlayStation Store. That’s a fantastic value for a membership that’s absolutely recommended. The PS Plus membership is necessary to play online, but it also offers perks like new free games every month, exclusive discounts at the PlayStation Store, and (for PS5 owners) access to the PS Plus Collection. The PS Plus Collection includes games like God of War, Persona 5, The Last of Us Remastered, Days Gone, Final Fantasy XV, Mortal Kombat, Ratchet & Clank, and more.

Amazon Prime Student Members Get 3 Months of Free Audible Premium Plus

If you’re an Amazon Prime Student member, you get a lot of pretty amazing perks like 6 months of free Amazon Prime membership followed by 50% off your Prime membership for up to 4 years, Amazon Music Unlimited for $0.99/mo, and more. Now, there’s yet another perk exclusive to Amazon Prime Student members; get 3 free months of Audible Premium Plus (normally $14.95/mo). If you’re a current student or faculty, you’re eligible for an Amazon Prime Student membership.

Apple Watch Series 6 44m GPS Smartwatch

Currently only the Pink color is available at this price (normally retails for $429). The 44mm is the larger size and boasts a bigger display that can fit more pixels/text than the 40mm. It’s better for people who have larger wrists or just want a larger profile watch.

Razer Hammerhead Truly Wireless Earbuds

The Razer Hammerhead truly wireless earbuds is over 60% off today at Amazon. These gaming-centric earbuds feature 13mm drivers with ample amounts of bass, low latency, IPX4 rating for sweat and water resistance, up to 15 hours of battery life. These earbuds had some stiff competition at its original $100 price point, but now, it’s definitely one of the best earbuds you can buy for the price.

Apple AirPods Pro Noise-Cancelling Earbuds

If you regret not picking the Airpods Pro up on Amazon Prime Day, here’s your chance to get it today for an even lower price. Today the price of the AirPods Pro has dropped $70, or 28% off. This is the lowest price we’ve seen, ever, for these highly rated earbuds. The AirPods Pro is considered by many to be the best truly wireless noise-cancelling in-ear headphones you can get, and a very big step up in quality from the standard AirPods.

2021 LG C1 4K OLED TVs with Free Newegg Credit

Newegg is offering a bonus gift card and extended 3 year warranty on top of the best price you’ll find on the new 2021 LG OLED TV. The LG C1-series OLED TV improves upon last year’s highly-rated CX model with an upgraded A9 Gen 4 processor that delivers slightly better image quality, better 4K scaling, and improved audio handling as well as a new webOS smart TV redesign. The C1 OLED TV (especially the 48″ model) works well with an RTX 30 series equipped gaming PC because it has HDMI 2.1 inputs that support 4K at 120Hz, G-SYNC, and chroma 4:4:4. It’s easily one of the best (if not the best) TVs on the market right now.

Arcade1Up Ms Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet

The price of the Arcade1Up Ms Pac-Man cabinet dropped again today; now you’re saving over 33% off and getting free shipping from Walmart. The Ms Pac-Man arcade cabinet is a 3:4 scale replica that measures 4 feet tall. A themed riser is also included that raises the cabinet by an additional 1 foot, so you can choose to play comfortably while sitting or standing. There are multiple games preinstalled, including Ms Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Pac-Man Plus, and Galaxian. The entire package comes flat packed, but it is very easy to assemble and should take you less than one hour.

Arcade1Up The Simpsons Arcade Cabinet

Arcade1Up just recently announced their Simpsons arcade cabinet in all of its 4-player glory. It’s going to be released on November 8, but it’s up for preorder right now. Unfortunately, if you were to buy it directly from Arcade1Up, it would cost you a whopping $700. Fortunately, Walmart just released their “version” today. The arcade cabinet is identical, and it even comes with riser, but you don’t get the stool and the tin wall sign, but you also pay $171 less. We think that is a fair tradeoff. Another perk: Walmart offers free shipping. Getting it shipped from Arcade1Up directly will cost you around $60.

Extra 12% Off Alienware Aurora R12 RTX 30 Series Gaming PCs with New Coupon Code

Dell launched a new coupon code yesterday that takes 12% off select desktop and laptop PCs. Unfortunately many configs aren’t eligible, including all the PCs currently on Dell’s Deals page. Fortunately, specific Alienware Aurora R12 desktop models are eligible, and they can be upgraded all the way up to an RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3090. With the coupon applied, you won’t be able to find a cheaper prebuilt RTX 30 series PC on the market.

The 12% coupon is eligible with the Alienware Aurora R12 models below. These all have starting specs: Intel Core i5-11400F CPU, 8GB RAM, and 1TB HDD. You can upgrade to an 11th generation Intel Core i7 processor for an additional $150 (minus 12% off discount with code). I’d recommend upgrading your RAM and storage on your own because you’ll probably save money and you won’t be voiding the warranty.

Use code “SAVE12” to get the prices below:

Herman Miller Gaming Sale: 15% Off Gaming Chairs, Including the Herman Miller x Logitech G Embody

Herman Miller makes the best ergonomic chairs in the industry. They’re also not cheap, with several of their models easily topping over $1000 in price. Penny pinchers might find it a waste of money, but honestly, in this case you get what you pay for. Many of us could spend a majority of our lives stuck to our chair, it makes sense that this would be one of the most important purchases we make. Today, Herman Miller is offering 15% off their top-of-the-line gaming collaborations with Logitech. This is the first time we’ve seen a substantial discount on these outside of Sample Sales and employee-only offers. If you’ve got deep pockets, then you’ll save on what is probably the best gaming chair on the market.

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Call of Duty: Vanguard – Here’s What Comes in Each Edition

This year’s installment of the perennial bestselling series is Call of Duty: Vanguard — or COD Vanguard, if you’re into the whole brevity thing. It’s set to release for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on November 5. It brings players back to the well-trodden battlefields of WWII.

You don’t have to wait until November to lock in a copy for yourself. Call of Duty: Vanguard is up for preorder now at all the usual retailers. Here’s where you can preorder it.

Preorder Call of Duty: Vanguard

PS5

PS4

Xbox Series X

Xbox One

PC

The physical version of COD Vanguard is not cross-generation, with the exception of the Xbox Series X version (it includes the Xbox One version as well). The digital versions for Xbox Series X and PS5 are cross-gen, however. Bit confusing, but that’s life.

Call of Duty: Vanguard Ultimate Edition (Digital Only)

The digital-only ultimate edition includes you the following digital extras:

  • Battle Pass Bundle (1 Season Battle Pass + 20 Tier Skips)
  • Task Force One Pack (3 Operator Skins and 3 Weapon Blueprints with Tracer Rounds)
  • 5 hours of 2XP

Call of Duty: Vanguard Preorder Bonus

Preorder any digital version of the game, and you’ll get early access to the open beta.

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Halo Infinite Won’t Include Campaign Co-Op And Forge At Launch, 343 Says

Halo Infinite will not ship with campaign cooperative play or Forge, developer 343 Industries announced during a development update video.

Joseph Staten, who is the creative head of Halo Infinite and served as a writer on the franchise up through Halo Reach, said the ongoing challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic put a strain on development. This has caused the team to push several features out of Halo Infinite’s launch state, particularly split-screen co-op in its campaign and the level editing platform Forge.

“Unfortunately, as we focused the team for shutdown and really focused on a quality experience for launch, we made the really tough decision to delay shipping campaign co-op for launch,” Staten said. “And we also made the tough call to delay shipping Forge passed launch as well.”

That’s not to say these features won’t ever appear in the game’s future. Staten specifically called Halo Infinite a “live service,” saying new content will get introduced to the game as time goes on. He clarified that 343 Industries already has a Halo Infinite roadmap worked out and in development.

“Yes, some of the things we won’t be able to do for launch, but that’s part of being a service,” Staten said. “And the good news is we have a year-long, post-launch content and feature roadmap already worked out. You know, we’re already working on those things now. So yeah, some things won’t land in a launch timeframe, but some things will just roll out over time. That’s part of this Halo Infinite journey that we’re kicking off together with fans.”

Staten went on to say that the biggest reason for the delay to both campaign co-op and Forge was the team’s focus and commitment to quality.

“What is our number one priority? Well, our number one priority is making sure that whatever we ship, whenever we ship it, it meets the right quality bar across all platforms–Xbox devices, PC and all its different configurations,” Staten said. “And when we looked at these two experiences, campaign co-op and Forge, we made the determination they’re just not ready. And as a studio we don’t want to ship things when they’re not ready. […] So, we’re going to keep campaign co-op and Forge in the oven for a little bit longer, and then when they’re ready, we’re going to release them as part of our seasonal roadmap next year.”

To be specific, Staten said the team is looking to release campaign co-op in Season 2 of Halo Infinite, while Season 3 will see Forge’s introduction.

Campaign co-op and Forge aren’t the only two missing features at launch. Earlier this month, 343 Industries announced that assassinations also won’t make it in time for Halo Infinite’s release. And there are likely several other issues to iron out, like those bots having a hard time climbing stairs.

Despite these issues and performance reports of it struggling on older consoles, 343 Industries is still adamant that Halo Infinite will launch this holiday season for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. Whenever the game does launch, multiplayer will be free and it’ll be available on Xbox Game Pass.

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