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Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of The Last Of Us Part 2, including the Taurus Model 66 revolver, the Thompson Centre Arms Contender hunting pistol, and the SIG-Sauer MPX silenced submachine gun.

By Dave Jewitt and Adam Mason on April 24, 2021 at 7:00AM PDT

Last month, it appeared that Sony had finally killed off the web version for its older PlayStation Store, which included games for legacy systems like the PS Vita and PS3. However, a browser plugin now allows you to access the store once again.

The plugin, available through Firefox, provides renewed access to the web version of the “Valkyrie” PlayStation Store, which is what was used until around the time the PS5 released. In addition to being arguably easier to navigate, it’s the only way you can buy and download Vita or PS3 games without using the systems’ own software. Try to search for a Vita exclusive on the current PlayStation Store and you’ll get a whole lot of nothing. The older version also provides a very easy-to-use download list for quickly choosing what to install.

Because Sony was planning to shutter the Vita and PS3 stores completely within the next few months, this plugin would seemingly serve little purpose. However, the company reversed that decision just days ago and now doesn’t have a timeline for when they’ll close. Though the PSP store will still be closing in July, it doesn’t have the same huge digital-only game selection as the other systems.

When the original closing dates were announced, some developers were caught off guard and weren’t sure they would be able to release their games in time. At the very least, they can now breathe a slight sigh of relief and have another option for players to easily buy them.

Despite the stores no longer closing, we made a list of games you should definitely try out from the PlayStation Store of yesteryear. They include a few games never released on newer systems, such as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

There are a total of five endings in Nier Replicant and seeing all of them is important for getting the entire picture of the game’s incredible story. However, each ending leads to changes in subsequent playthroughs you need to do certain things in those playthroughs in order to unlock them all. We have a guide on how to get all the endings in Nier Replicant, which provides the specific steps necessary, but they’re inherently tied to collecting all the weapons in the game. That’s where this guide comes in.

A total of 33 weapons make up Nier Replicant’s roster of blades, which are divided up in three categories: one-handed swords, two-handed swords, and spears. Some can be purchased, and some must be earned in quests or found out in the wild. It’s not too complicated, though. Here, we tell you where and how to get them, because Endings C, D, and E can only be accessed if you have all of them in your inventory before you finish your third playthrough.

The details and explanations for how and where to get these weapons will be as spoiler-free as possible, so don’t worry about that. For more on this upgraded version of the game, be sure to read my Nier Replicant review, and if you’re already playing, refer to my spoiler-free endings guide to make sure you’re covered.

Weapons Acquired Through The Story

• Nameless Blade
  • This is your first weapon. Congrats!
• Moonrise
  • On your way to the Seafront for the first time, you’ll come across a man being attacked by Shades. Help him and you’ll receive this weapon.
• Rebirth
  • You’ll receive this after a major story event in Facade in the story’s first act.
• Kusanagi
  • Automatically in your inventory at the start of the second act.
• Transience
  • Automatically in your inventory at the start of the second act.
• Ancient Overlord
  • You’ll receive this after a major story event in Facade in the story’s second act.
• Iron Will
  • Completing a main quest in the Junk Heap in the second act will reward you with this weapon.
• Iron Pipe
  • You will automatically get the Iron Pipe in time for your third route, but it can be acquired earlier through the sidequest “The Magical Stone” if you want.
  • If you want to do the sidequest, it’ll be available at the Forest of Myth just before heading to the final dungeon. You then need to go see Popola, then head to the Lost Shrine rooftops and fight a huge Shade there. Return to the Forest of Myth quest-giver. In this next scenario, be on the lookout for the Iron Pipe pickup in this area.

Purchasable Weapons

Money might be hard to come by in Nier Replicant, but doing sidequests (especially in the second act of the main story) will get you a good chunk of change. You can also sell materials you collect from enemies, as long as you don’t need them for upgrading a weapon you want to use. Plenty of valuable materials can be farmed in the Junk Heap, especially if you equip Words in your loadout that boost your item drop rate.

• Lily-Leaf Sword
  • Available at the Village weapon shop in the first act.
• Beastbain
  • Available at the Village weapon shop in the first act.
• Earth Wyrm’s Claw
  • Available at the Facade weapon shop in the first act.
• Axe of Beheading
  • Available at the Village weapon shop in the second act.
• Sunrise
  • Available at the Village or The Aerie weapon shops in the second act.
• Phoenix Dagger
  • Available at the Seafront weapon shop in the second act.
• Vile Axe
  • Available at the Seafront weapon shop in the second act.
• Spear of the Usurper
  • Available at the Seafront weapon shop in the second act.
• Captain’s Holy Spear
  • Available at the Facade weapon shop in the second act.
• Phoenix Spear
  • Available at the Facade weapon shop in the second act.

Weapons Found In Exploration

• Nirvana Dagger
  • Found in a box on the upper levels of the Lost Shrine in the first act.
• Blade of Treachery
  • Found in Emil’s Mansion near the save point before a boss fight in the first act.
• Fang of the Twins
  • Found in a box in Emil’s Mansion (underground) in the second act.
• The Devil Queen
  • Found in a box near a ladder along the rear entrance path of the Lost Shrine in the second act.
• Beastlord
  • Found in a box at the rooftops of the Lost Shrine in the second act.
• Beastcurse
  • Found in a box in the Junk Heap just before a boss fight in the second act.
• Phoenix Sword
  • Found in a box in the first room of the game’s final dungeon.
• Dragoon Lance
  • Found in a box just before a spiral staircase in the game’s final dungeon.

Weapons Obtained Through Sidequests

• Faith
  • Complete all the text adventure sidequests in the Forest of Myth and talk to the mayor in the first act.
• Labyrinth’s Whisper
  • Complete the sidequest “A Bridge in Peril” in your village during the second act.
• Labyrinth’s Song
  • Complete the sidequests “A Shade Entombed” then “Disturbing the Sleep of Kings” in Facade during the second act.
  • “A Shade Entombed” is available after you’ve completed your main quest in Facade for the second act. Completing this sidequest will unlock “Disturbing the Sleep of Kings,” which is the one that’ll grant you the weapon.
• Labyrinth’s Shout
  • Complete the sidequest “The Damaged Map,” which starts in your village, by talking to the weapon shop owner later in the second act.
  • “The Damaged Map” has you going on a wild goose-chase, but the main concern is obtaining Machine Oil, which is a required item for the quest.
  • The best way to do this is to equip Words to your loadout that boost item drop rate. Then head to Junk Heap B2 and destroy the floating robot enemies–they are the ones that drop Machine Oil. You can continually do this by exiting and entering B2 and going back to a specific corridor that spawns them (see screenshot below).

“15 Nightmares” Weapons

The 15 Nightmares content (which was originally DLC) can be accessed during your Route B playthrough. You start it by inspecting the left-most shiny object in the protagonist’s house. It’s a series of combat arenas, which shouldn’t be too hard if you’re level 30 and up. There are three sets of five battles, and while the third set can be challenging, you don’t need to complete it all the way through.

• Fool’s Embrace
  • Awarded for completing the third fight in the first set of battles in the 15 Nightmares side content.
• Fool’s Lament
  • Awarded for completing the third fight in the second set of battles in the 15 Nightmares side content.
• Fool’s Accord
  • Awarded for completing the third fight in the third set of battles in the 15 Nightmares side content.

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April was a big month for Peacock, with the WWE joining the service and streaming Wrestlemania 37. This month, things are a bit more low-key, with a huge pile of movies coming to the service. Most of them hit right on May 1.

The list includes classic animation like An American Tail and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West; action films like the Bourne Identity, the Bourne Supremacy, and the Bourne Ultimatum; and superhero movies of debatable quality, including Catwoman, Green Lantern, Kick-Ass 2, and Hellboy (2019). On the other hand, we’ll also see stuff like Mystery Men, Crank, and Waterworld arriving on the service.

NBC has two Peacock Originals coming, as well. Girls5eva is a musical comedy arriving on May 6. A ’90s one-hit girl group gets a second chance when a rapper samples their song. Busy Phillips stars, and Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, who produced 30 Rock and the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt together, are executive producing the show. The other Peacock Original, Intergalactic, arrives May 13. NBCUniversal has provided no information about this property, and we literally can’t find any reliable information about it anywhere. Peacock doesn’t even have a trailer on its official YouTube channel.

Here’s the full list of what you can expect from Peacock in May, and when. Asterisked* items are exclusive to Peacock, at least for May.

May 1

• Along Came Polly, 2004*
• Alpha Dog, 2007*
• An American Tail, 1986*
• An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, 1991*
• The Bourne Identity, 2002*
• The Bourne Supremacy, 2004*
• The Bourne Ultimatum, 2007*
• Boy Erased, 2018*
• Casino, 1995*
• Catwoman, 2004*
• Crank, 2006*
• Crank 2 High Voltage, 2009*
• Dazed and Confused, 1993*
• EDTV, 1999*
• Elizabeth, 1998*
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age, 2007*
• Evan Almighty: 2007*
• Green Lantern (2011), 2011*
• Half Baked, 1998*
• Hellboy, 2019*
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012*
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, 2014*
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 2013*
• Kick-Ass 2, 2013
• King Kong (’05), 2005*
• Leap Year, 2010*
• Lord of War, 2005*
• Miami Vice (’06), 2006*
• Mystery Men, 1999*
• National Lampoon’s European Vacation, 1985*
• National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1983*
• October Sky, 1999*
• Parenthood, 1989*
• Public Enemies, 2009*
• Tales from the Hood, 1995*
• Top Five, 2014*
• Vegas Vacation, 1997*
• Waterworld, 1995*
• White House Down, 2013*
• The Wood, 1999
• The World’s End, 2013

May 2

• WWE Untold: Two Dudes with Attitudes

May 3

• 300, 2007*

May 6

• Girls5eva, season 1 (Peacock Original)*

May 9

• WWE Chronicle: Damien Priest

May 10

• American Ninja Warrior Women’s Championship (NBC)

May 11

• The Best of WWE: WrestleMania Rematches

May 13

• Intergalactic (Peacock Original)*

May 14

• Dateline Collection: Courtroom Drama

May 16

• American Dreamz, 2006*
• The Chronicles of Riddick, 2004*
• WWE Icons: Rob Van Dam

May 17

• WWE Wrestling Challenge

May 18

• Best of WWE: Rob Van Dam

May 20

• Carmen Christopher: Street Special (Peacock Original Comedy Special)*
• Def Comedy Jam, season 7

May 23:

• Best of WWE: Andre the Giant

May 26

• Café Con Aroma (Telemundo)

May 27

• Madagascar: A Little Wild, season 3 (Peacock Exclusive)*

Hulu has a wealth of great scary horror movies available to stream right now, and we’ve picked out some of the best. The sheer number of streaming services available now means it’s sometimes hard to know what to watch, but it’s hard to deny that it’s a great time to be a movie fan. Whatever genre you like, there’s a huge number of movies available on both the big platforms and more niche services, and horror fans are perhaps the best served of all.

Hulu’s selection is heavier on modern horror than older classics, but that makes it a great place to catch up on some stand-out chillers from the past two decades. Monster movie fans can check out the hungry alligators of Crawl and subterranean creatures in The Descent, while those who prefer vampires and zombies have got favorites such as Let the Right One In and 28 Days Later to watch.

There’s movies from established filmmakers such as Danny Boyle, Lars Von Trier, and William Friedkin, and some from rising genre talents like Brandon Cronenberg and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. It’s not all newer movies either–fans can get ready for the upcoming Chucky TV show with the original Child’s Play, while the classic ’70s sci-fi oddity Phase IV will terrify anyone who hates creepy-crawlies.

So here’s GameSpot’s look at the best horror movies to watch on Hulu. And once you’ve checked these out, read our guide to the biggest upcoming horror of 2021.

1. Let the Right One In

Tomas Alfredson, 2008

This modern vampire classic is based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel and focuses on the friendship between Oskar, a lonely 12-year-old boy, and Eli, his vampire neighbor. It’s a stylish mix of bloody horror and moving coming-of-age drama that struck a chord with audiences worldwide.

2. Child’s Play

Tom Holland, 1988

This ’80s classic introduced the world to killer doll Chucky. While subsequent Child’s Play movies would put Chucky front and center, director Tom Holland keeps him off-screen for much of the film, and the result is a tense and inventive slasher movie with a real emotional center.

3. Crawl

Alexandre Aja, 2018

Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) stars as a girl who gets trapped in a Florida house with her dad after a hurricane hits, bringing not just devastating floods but hungry alligators too. Crawl is a highly entertaining, fast-paced shocker from The Hills Have Eyes and High Tension director Alexandre Aja.

4. The Cabin in the Woods

Drew Goddard, 2011

Written by producer JJ Abrams and director Drew Goddard, this ingenious meta-horror starts off as a standard backwoods slasher, as a group of friends head to the remote location of the title. But part of the way in, it takes a very different turn. To say any more would be to spoil the film’s many delights, and going in cold is absolutely the best way to watch it.

5. The Descent

Neil Marshall, 2008

Marshall’s acclaimed chiller focuses on an all-female team of cave explorers, who become trapped deep underground with something very scary down there hunting them. It’s a claustrophobic and intense movie that uses the darkness and sound design to truly scary effect.

6. Sputnik

Egor Abramenko, 2020

Sputnik is an impressive Russian horror about a cosmonaut who returns to Earth after a mysterious accident with what seems to be a symbiotic alien lifeform living inside him. While Sputnik takes ideas from numerous famous movies, most notably Alien and Arrival, it’s a scary, serious, and stylish creature feature in its own right.

7. Wounds

Babak Anvari, 2019

This unpredictable and sometimes nightmarish film takes influence from David Cronenberg, as well as Japanese horror classics such as Ring. It focuses on a bartender who finds strange messages on a phone left in his bar, from someone who claims something or someone is following him.

8. Little Monsters

Abe Forsythe, 2019

This undead comedy stars Lupita Nyong’o as a schoolteacher who must protect her class during the onset of a zombie apocalypse. It also features Josh Gad (Frozen) as a bungling kids entertainer and is a lighthearted undead romp for those looking for something a little less serious than many of the other movies on this list.

9. The House that Jack Built

Lars Von Trier, 2018

Von Trier’s 155-minute serial killer movie certainly isn’t for everyone, but fans of the Danish provocateur will know what to expect, especially if you’re seen his last horror movie, 2009’s equally controversial Antichrist. It’s a provocative, sometimes hilarious, sometimes shocking film that charts the life of a killer, chillingly played by Matt Dillon.

10. You’re Next

Adam Wingard, 2010

Many years before Godzilla vs. Kong, director Adam Wingard delivered this home invasion/slasher movie hybrid, in which a dysfunctional family gathering is brought to an abrupt close by animal-masked crazies. Lead character Erin (Sharni Vinson) takes matters into her own hands and starts to fight back against the attackers in a variety of crowd-pleasing and creative ways.

11. Anna and the Apocalypse

John McPhail, 2017

Holiday horror has long been a staple of the genre, but Anna and the Apocalypse might just be the first holiday comedy horror musical. It’s yet another zombie movie, but this time the undead action is punctuated by rousing song-and-dance numbers, as a young woman named Anna fights to save her loved ones.

12. Possessor

Brandon Cronenberg, 2020

The second movie from Brandon Cronenberg, son of body horror legend David, is a dark sci-fi horror thriller about an assassin who takes control of people’s bodies to commit acts of murder without being detected. The striking visuals, brooding atmosphere, and explicit gore makes this one of the most powerful horror movies of recent years.

13. Phase IV

Saul Bass 1974

Saul Bass is best known for creating legendary opening sequences for directors such as Hitchcock and Kubrick, but he also made this scary and hypnotic ’70s dystopian chiller. Scientists discover that the world’s ant population has undergone rapid evolution and set about trying to stop its progress before billions of tiny aggressive insects take over.

14. Spring

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2014

A young American man on an Italian holiday falls in love with a local woman–but soon finds she is hiding a strange and scary secret. Synchronic directors Benson and Moorhead’s second movie is an assured and unique blend of weird Lovecraftian horror, laugh-out-loud humor, and moving romantic drama that delivers superbly on all fronts.

15. Bug

William Friedkin, 2006

This adaptation of Tracy Letts’ intense play centers on a paranoid former soldier who is holed up in a motel with an equally disturbed woman and convinced that he is being watched. The one-room setting and powerful performances from Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd make this a late-career highlight from Exorcist director Friedkin.

16. Inside

Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, 2007

Part of the mid-2000s wave of boundary-pushing French horror movies, Inside is a gory and stylish home invasion shocker, in which a psychotic woman attempts to steal the baby from the woman who lives there–while she is still pregnant. It’s not for the faint-hearted, but directors Maury and Bustillo keep the tension high and the blood flowing throughout.

17. 28 Days Later

Danny Boyle, 2001

London is overtaken by insane and ravenous once-human monsters who have been infected by a virus in Boyle and writer Alex Garland ‘s nightmarish post-apocalyptic horror movie. 28 Days Later helped usher in the new wave of zombie movies that followed over the next decade and beyond, and remains a classic of the genre.

18. The Lodge

Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, 2019

A man heads to a remote cabin for the winter with his kids and new girlfriend. But when he is forced to leave for work on short notice and blizzard descends, the children find themselves trapped in the house with a woman they barely know–who, inevitably, is not all she seems. The Lodge is an oppressive and dread-filled horror from the directors of the equally disturbing Goodnight Mommy.

19. We Are What We Are

Jorge Michel Grau, 2010

This Mexican movie follows a family of secret cannibals living in a small town who are left with the problems of finding their next meal when the father dies. It’s an intense and strikingly directed film that lingers in the mind long after the end.

20. Sea Fever

Neasa Hardiman, 2019

A fishing trawler is ensnared by a mysterious lifeform which causes a parasitic infection to spread throughout the crew, leaving a marine-biology student to try to save the day. This eerie aquatic Irish horror might have been made before the COVID-19 pandemic, but its themes of isolation now feel extremely relevant.

Doom Patrol was easily the weirdest and most interesting show to come out of the short happy life of the DC Universe streaming service, and the show ended up getting a third season when it made the interdimensional jump to HBO Max. Now, Doom Patrol is gearing up for production on Season 3 and has added a bunch of cast members for two groups that promise to be more than weird enough for the Doom Patrol.

Doom Patrol Season 3 will introduce the Sisterhood of Dada and the Dead Boy Detective Agency. The Sisterhood of Dada is obsessed with all things absurd and bizarre, sort of an opposite of the show’s recurring villain, the Bureau of Normalcy, which weeks to contain and weaponize all things abnormal. Even so, the Sisterhood is historically regarded as being evil, even if the group itself doesn’t see things in such absolutes. The Dead Boy Detective Agency, meanwhile, is a three-person team consisting of a medium and two boy ghosts who read every book in their school’s library to learn how to become detectives.

Make sure to read every character description (unless you’re spoiler averse), because each one is wilder than the last. The cast members that make up the Sisterhood of Dada are all season regulars, meaning we’ll be seeing them throughout the show’s third season.

• Micah Joe Parker (Into The Dark – Blumhouse, The Flash, The Vampire Diaries) will play Malcolm, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. He is a quiet, sensitive and thoughtful soul who would often rather be invisible than face this unforgiving world.
• Wynn Everett (Palmer, Teenage Bounty Hunters, Agent Carter) will play Shelley Byron aka The Fog, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. Supposedly a deadly terrorist, Shelley is charming, seductive, poetic and a bit mad.
• Miles Mussenden (Swagger, Cloak & Dagger, The Good Lord Bird) will play Lloyd Jefferson aka Frenzy, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. A sculptor of strange life-like masks who is covered with tattoos and scars, the memories and injustices that immortalize his life, he is cryptic and stoic with a capacity for extreme devastation.
• Anita Kalathara (Room 104, MacGyver) will play Holly McKenzie aka Sleepwalk, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. A light-hearted ne’er do well, Holly knows where the best parties are. After a wild night of partying, she usually takes a nice long nap in the ice cream truck where she works, and if she is awoken mid-nap, there is hell to pay.
• Gina Hiraizumi (Dynasty, Hawaii Five-0) will play Sachiko aka The Quiz, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. She is an enigmatic germaphobe whose crippling phobias mask awe-inspiring powers.

The members of The Dead Boy Detective Agency, meanwhile, are listed as guest stars.

• Madalyn Horcher (Jack Reacher 2, Origin, Gracepoint) will play Crystal Palace, part of the Dead Boy Detective Agency. A cool, sarcastic teen who is also a psychic medium, her only friends are Charles and Edwin, the two dead boys who freed her from demonic possession.
• Ty Tennant (War of the Worlds, Tolkien) will play Edwin Payne, part of the Dead Boy Detective Agency. Dead since 1916, Edwin spent 80 years in hell due to a clerical error and has seen horrors no one could imagine.
• Sebastian Croft (HBO’s Game of Thrones, Horrible Histories: The Movie) will play Charles Rowland, part of the Dead Boy Detective Agency. Affable, charming, and dead since 1989, he always does his best to be chipper, but his death by hypothermia and neglect haunts him.

Doom Patrol Season 3 does not yet have an air date, and it’s pretty early in production, so it’ll be a while. Meanwhile, you can catch Doom Patrol Season 1 and the COVID-shortened Season 2 on HBO Max.

Judgment was originally released for PS4 in 2018 in Japan and 2019 in the West. The game stars Takayuki Yagami, a former lawyer turned private detective who’s hunting down the mystery of multiple Yakuza members getting their eyes gouged out. Judgment is a spin-off of the Yakuza games and has similar beat-em-up combat. But this game also includes detective sequences where you comb through an area to find details that might help your case.

In this side-by-side video, we’ve put the original PS4 version (running on PS4 Pro) against the new PS5 version and we show off load times, cutscenes, combat, detective work, tailing people, and a chase sequence. The original PS4 version only ran at 30 frames per second and the new PS5 version goes up to 60 frames per second so you’ll definitely notice one is smoother than the other.

Judgment is now available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Stadia with refined visuals and running at 60fps. RGG Studio, the creators of Yakuza and Judgment, are also teasing a Judgment related announcement on May 7 at 7am PT. A countdown to that can be found here: http://ryu-ga-gotoku.com/20210507/