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How To Play Among Us As A Horror Game

I usually try to hop on Among Us once a week to link up with my friends back home and get rowdy either trying to get away with virtual murder or ratting each other out. But they like to keep things spicy. So, they put together a sort of alternate game mode by customizing the in-game rules and getting us to follow certain gameplay etiquette. And with the vewy scawy Halloween season right around the corner, this makeshift game mode is quite fitting and helps freshen up the traditional paces of Among Us.

Basically, think Dead By Daylight, or any similar game, but in Among Us. Here’s the setup: you have one imposter and nine (or however many) crewmates, but the imposter announces who they are right at the beginning of the match. The imposter counts to 10 while the crewmates scramble to get out of sight, complete tasks, hide, and make mad dashes to dodge the imposter once they start hunting down the crew–there’s no voting phase necessary, just survival.

What makes this style of play work is the tweaking of the custom rules. Here, you’ll want to have the imposter’s kill cooldown timer set to the lowest possible (10 seconds) so they can really act like a serial killer. However, you’ll have to limit their vision range as low as possible (0.25x) to make it challenging for them to actually find crewmates. To make things a lot more thrilling, we set all players’ movement speed higher (at least 2x, but 3x works too).

There are a few rules that can’t be hard-coded into the game, so you need to make sure players mind some general manners. The imposter cannot use any sabotages. They also should not vent (not that it would help them much anyway). Crewmates cannot call emergency meetings or report dead bodies–this wouldn’t really help anyone because there’s nothing to discuss since the imposter is revealed from the start. However, everyone can communicate with each other at all times during the match. Not only is it funny as hell to hear everyone wild out when they spot the imposter chasing the team down, it’s also helpful for keeping tabs on the killer’s position.

The goal remains simple: For crewmates, complete your tasks before the entire crew is killed. And of course, for the imposter, kill everyone before they finish their tasks.

Halloween 2019 promotional art for Among Us.

By twisting the traditional rules of Among Us, you get a pretty unique thrill seeing the imposter running by or chasing after you. You know you can get out of sight since they have limited vision, but you’re well aware that they’re mashing that kill button while hunting you down. Especially when you’re preoccupied with a task and only hear your teammates screaming position callouts that are nearby, it creates a different type of tension.

Depending on the group you’re playing with or the map you’re on, you can (and should) tweak the rules a bit to find a good balance for both sides. What I outlined works well for my friends and is likely a good starting point for others, but switching up the number of long and short tasks can help balance things out.

Of course, we aren’t the ones who came up with this mode, as you may have seen other streamers or content creators play Among Us in this way–I’m sure that’s where my friends got it from, too. But you can be the one to introduce it to your friends if you have a good group to play with. Admittedly, it’s also best if you’re able to communicate through voice chat apps like Discord, but this mode does make things more approachable since you don’t have to engage in discussions or the lying/blame game aspect (especially if you find that a bit uncomfortable).

I really do miss when folks would come up with emergent styles of play and make up rules to create an experience that was never intended to be in the game. (I often think back to playing Project Gotham Racing 2 on the original Xbox and hopping into lobbies for the made up “cat and mouse” mode.) Among Us in particular gives room for these kinds of modifications to spice things up–and if there are any styles of play that you’ve tried, or if you already played this Friday the 13th-style spin on the game, we’d love to hear about it!

For more on the breakout multiplayer game, be sure to check out all our coverage of Among Us below:

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Borat 2’s Many Incredible Disguises Ranked

Borat 2’s Many Incredible Disguises Ranked – GameSpot

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By Michael Rougeau on October 23, 2020 at 2:31PM PDT

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We rank all the “Real American Guy” disguises Borat had to don in his Subsequent Moviefilm.

Borat 2, or Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, or several other absurdly long titles depending on the day, is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Plenty of viewers–fans and detractors alike–are now reuniting with Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical Kazakhstani journalist, and meeting his daughter, the wonderful Tutar, for the first time.

We liked the sequel quite a lot. One of its best running jokes is the fact that Borat can’t go anywhere in US of A without being recognized due to the success of the first movie. Instead, he relies on a series of “regular” American guy disguises to help him do hijinks without being hounded.

Of course, some of those disguises are better than others, so we decided to rank them all in ascending order of efficacy, hilarity, and creativity. Keep scrolling for that, and for more on Borat 2, read our review. Be sure to get in a lengthy argument in the comments. And before you continue, be warned that there will be spoilers from the movie discussed below.

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10. “A typical Jew”

Catchphrase: “Very nice weather we have been controlling”

This disguise is so offensive it makes my brain hurt. Of course, that’s the point. And the sweet Jewish ladies Borat meets are one of the highlights of the movie.

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9. Uninvited Sound Guy

Catchphrase: “Sound problem”

Late in the movie, Borat manages to infiltrate his daughter’s interview with Rudy Giuliani. He chooses the surprisingly practical disguise of a sound guy on her crew. Points for efficacy, but it’s not very creative.

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7. Cliff Safari

Catchphrase: “Hell yeah!”

Cliff Safari lasts about as long in the movie as Rudy Giuliani’s deniability once he enters the bedroom with Tutar, but he makes an impression nonetheless.

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6. Whatever is happening here

Catchphrase: “She 15, she too old for you”

When Borat bursts back into the room before Giuliani and Tutar can consummate their union, he’s wearing this hybrid lingerie and tighty-whiteys number, while retaining Uninvited Sound Guy’s beard, wig, and glasses. In July 2020, following the incident, Giuliani described Sacha Baron Cohen’s appearance as “a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit…a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top.” It was a bold choice, for sure.

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5. Stephen Miller

Catchphrase: “Sorry I’m late”

Kicking off the top 5 on the list is the fact that Borat burst into the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) wearing a full-blown KKK robe and peaked hood, declaring himself to be Stephen Miller. Miller, of course, is an advisor to Trump and a blatant racist.

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4. John Chevrolet

Catchphrase: “I want you to make hotzy out of this notzy”

Worried that Tutar’s makeover stylists will recognize him and foil his plot to gift his daughter to Vice Premier Mikhael Pence, Borat assumes the persona of John Chevrolet, a Real American.

Mr. Chevrolet ranks high for his bold, quadruple denim style and the cute moments he shares with Tutar at the fair.

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3. Professor Phillip Drummond III

Catchphrase: “How much you think my daughter is worth?”

The character Borat inhabits for the debutante ball is Professor Phillip Drummond III, who for some reason is named after the protagonist of the 1978-1985 sitcom Diff’rent Strokes. However, he is also a professor, which earns him extra points.

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2. McDonald Trump

Catchphrase: “Mike, You’re fired”

The reason this disguise works so well is it’s just so incredibly high quality. That’s a good thing, because Cohen really did crash Pence’s CPAC speech–although nobody knew it was him at the time. No doubt a few puzzled attendees who glimpsed the getup in passing–with Tutar thrown over his shoulder–thought they’d just really witnessed the president on a date.

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1. Country Steve

Catchphrase: “You bet your a**hole I am”

Country Steve might be John Chevrolet’s country-singing alter ego. That, or Cohen’s production decided to save money by re-using certain wigs. Either way, one thing is clear when he takes the stage at the anti-mask rally and gets bumpkins to sing along with lyrics about chopping up journalists and injecting Obama with COVID: Country Steve is a True American Hero.

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Rob Zombie’s Halloween: 37 Things You Didn’t Know About The Slasher Remake

Rob Zombie’s Halloween: 37 Things You Didn’t Know About The Slasher Remake – GameSpot

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By Dan Auty on October 23, 2020 at 2:30PM PDT

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Rob Zombie was known throughout the ’90s as the frontman for rock band White Zombie, but by the 2000s he had reinvented himself as a horror director. His first two movies, House of 1000 Corpses (2003) and The Devil’s Rejects (2005) won fans with their mix of grueling B-movie-inspired horror, over-the-top gore, gaudy visuals, and dark humor. His love of the genre was clear and, in particular, his affection for the groundbreaking movies that emerged in the 1970s. So it wasn’t surprising when in 2006 he was announced as the director of a remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween.

By that point, there had already been seven movies in the slasher franchise (not including the standalone Halloween III: Second of the Witch). But the previous movie, 2002’s Halloween Resurrection, was a commercial disappointment and critical bomb, and it was unclear with what direction the series would go in next. Zombie took the series right back to its roots and delivered his own very specific spin on this classic story.

Zombie’s Halloween hit theaters in August 2007 and was a box office hit. But the movie was–and remains–extremely divisive. It’s a film of two halves, the first being an “origin” story for Michael Myers, which showed how his troubled family life helped transform him into a killer. The second half is essentially a compressed remake of Carpenter’s film, as an adult Michael returns to his hometown of Haddonfield on October 31 for a night of bloody mayhem. But while many of the events are the same and all the familiar characters are in there, the oppressive atmosphere and mix of graphic gore and sex made it unmistakably a Rob Zombie movie.

But love it or loathe, Rob Zombie Halloween–plus its 2009 sequel–are a crucial part of the history of this long-running franchise. As with many of Zombie’s movies, the home entertainment releases have been packed with bonus material, including an extensive making-of documentary and director’s commentary. We’ve been back through the behind-the-scenes material to find some of the best, most surprising, and fascinating references, Easter Eggs, and things you didn’t know about the film. And once you’ve read that, check out our guides to the original Halloween and 1998’s Halloween H20.

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1. The movie was shot in the same town as the original

Like the first film, Zombie shot Halloween in South Pasadena, California. The house used for the exteriors of the Myers house was two miles from the one that Carpenter used. However, Zombie said he couldn’t use it because it was “all restored and looking good.”

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2. William Forsythe’s leg cast was real

William Forsythe plays Michael’s abusive stepdad Ronnie. His character’s leg is in a cast throughout because shortly before production started Forsythe had a motorcycle accident and couldn’t walk properly. Zombie said he was in pain throughout the shoot and that’s why he is sitting in every scene.

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3. Baby Angel didn’t want to cry

The baby playing young Angel/Laurie found Forsythe’s voice very soothing. Even though Zombie wanted the child to be upset during the argument scenes, he said that she would stop crying every time she heard Forsythe yelling at Sheri Moon Zombie, playing Michael’s mom.

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4. This kitchen was accidentally tidied

The opening breakfast scene in the Myers house was shot on the first day of production. The real kitchen was initially messy as it appears in the film, but not realizing that’s how Zombie wanted it, the art department tidied the whole room ahead of filming. Zombie then had to tell them to put it back how they found it.

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5. There were three Myers houses

Zombie and his team had trouble finding a house that had all the rooms they needed for the various scenes set there. In the end, the exterior, the downstairs, and upstairs scenes were shot in three different houses.

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6. This kid was already famous

Daryl Sabara, who plays school bully Wesley, was best known in 2007 for his lead role in the Spy Kids movies. These scenes were shot in a real school, and Sabara kept getting mobbed by the kids there when they discovered who he was.

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7. Young Michael loved to swear

Daeg Faerch, who plays young Michael, loved the scenes where he gets to swear because he wasn’t allowed to at home. Zombie said that he kept laughing as he said that dialogue, and you can see him start to crack up a couple of times in this scene.

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8. This old movie is a homage to the first Halloween

Zombie has the characters watch the ’50 horror classic The Thing from Another World on TV because that’s what they were watching in the original. In a later scene, adult Michael deliberately stops to watch some more of the movie, having missed a lot of it 15 years earlier because he was busy killing his family.

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9. William Forsythe didn’t want a kid to cut his throat

A stunt double stood for Faerch for the scene in which Michael cuts Ronnie’s throat. Even though Forsythe is wearing a make-up appliance, it still had to be cut open for the blood to flow out, and Forsythe understandably didn’t want a 10-year-old waving a knife near him.

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10. This clever shot was actually very simple

The striking shot of the camera moving through what seems to be a freeze-frame to Michael sitting in the police car, was designed on the day of shooting. While it looks like a clever use of visual effects, Zombie actually told the background actors just to stand very still while he moved the camera towards the car.

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11. A lot of these reactions were genuine

The interview between Loomis and Myers was semi-improvised. Zombie gave Malcolm Dowell and Faerch random things to say to each other, without telling each other what they were, in order to get genuine responses.

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12. Zombie had a week to create several seasons

The hospital scenes were shot at a Veterans’ Hospital in North Hills, California. Zombie only filmed there for a week but needed to give the impression of many months passing. So he used fake snow, rain, and sunshine for the various brief establishing shots. The rain scene was literally just someone standing to the side spraying a hose in front of the camera.

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13. The hospital scenes were influenced by a classic movie

Zombie said that the character of Chief in the 1975 classic One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest was a big influence on the hospital scenes. Everyone has stopped paying attention to Michael, who has not spoken or committed a violent act for many years, until it is too late.

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14. This scene was changed to make it more original

The giant image of Michael on a screen behind Loomis was decided on the day of shooting. Originally Zombie planned to show him giving his lecture in a standard theater, but decided it looked far too conventional.

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15. This gory effect didn’t work very well

The blood smash effect, as Michael (played as an adult by Tyler Mane) slams the orderly’s head against the wall, had to be filmed over 20 times as they couldn’t get the effect to work properly.

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16. Danny Trejo’s death was added later

The scene of Danny Trejo’s character Ismael getting killed by Michael was filmed at a different hospital months after principal photography because Zombie decided he needed a resolution. “When you’re shooting he seemed like a minor character, but when editing he seemed more important,” he said.

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17. Michael dropped the TV

When Mane first picked the TV off the wall in this scene, he accidentally dropped it and it smashed. That’s why the shot quickly cuts away and you don’t actually see the set as Michael kills Ismael with it.

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18. This scene was entirely reshot

The scene of Loomis being awoken to hear about Michael’s escape was totally reshot. Originally, the escape was during the day, but Zombie changed the timeline in editing to make it happen at night. In the first version, it was hospital administrator Morgan Walker, played by Udo Kier, who makes the call. But Kier wasn’t available for reshoots, so Doctor Koplensen, played by Clint Howard, makes it instead.

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19. This dialogue was taken from a classic Paul Newman movie

In the director’s cut, Big Joe Grizzly, played by Dawn of the Dead star Ken Foree, tells Michael “what we have here is failure to communicate.” This is a classic line taken from the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke. Zombie cut it out of the theatrical version, but put it back in for the longer DVD director’s cut after Foree complained.

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20. Ken Foree wasn’t very good at playing dead

Zombie had to use CGI to make sure Big Joe looked dead, as Foree kept breathing and blinking. “Ken is an amazing actor, but he’s the worst dead body ever,” Zombie said in the commentary.

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21. This Laurie is very different to the one in the original movie

Zombie made a conscious decision not to make Laurie prudish like she is in the original film, because it wouldn’t make as much sense for a teenage girl in 2007. However, he did admit that the vulgar joking with her mom “seemed to bother everybody.”

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22. They had to recreate fall in Illinois

Zombie’s decision to shoot Halloween in California meant he had many of the same issues that Carpenter did 30 years earlier in trying to make Hannonfield look like it’s in Illinois. The tree that has been placed in front of the Strode house is hiding a palm tree.

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23. Michael’s mask and wig caused issues

Zombie discovered on set that there was an issue with Michael’s mask. Tyler Mane was wearing a long-haired wig throughout, and it was impossible to put the mask on or pull it off without dislodging the wig. This is why you never see Michael fully mask up–he starts, then Zombie cuts away. The same is true later on in the scene with Laurie, when he takes the mask off.

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24. There was a full-time leaf wrangler

Zombie said they employed a crew member whose only job was to put leaves on the ground for the exterior Haddonfield shots. Sometimes he’d run out of leaves, and just have to collect them all up and move them to the next location.

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25. Danielle Harris is the only previous Halloween actor

Danielle Harris, who plays Annie, is the only cast member to have already appeared in the Halloween franchise. She played Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 5 and 6 in the late ’80s when she was only 11 and 12. Initially, Zombie didn’t want to include anyone from a previous film, but her audition convinced him to cast her.

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26. That’s the original Myers house

When Laurie, played by Scout Taylor-Compton, looks out of the window and sees Michael, he is standing in front of the Strode house from the original movie.

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27. Scout Taylor-Compton turned 18 during production

It was Taylor-Compton’s 18th birthday on the day this scene with Dee Wallace Stone, playing her mom, was shot. Zombie said he was worried that Taylor-Compton would “go out and get wasted and show up hungover the next day,” but thankfully she didn’t.

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28. Zombie reshot Bob’s murder

Originally Bob was killed when Michael follows him out to his van. But Zombie reshot the scene so it mirrored the same shots and music (Blue Oyster Cult’s Don’t Fear The Reaper) as Judith’s murder earlier in the film, as well as Bob’s death in Carpenter’s film.

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29. The sheet was problematic

Zombie had issues with the sheet that Michael wears to disguise himself as Bob. The glasses kept falling off, so they had to be sewn on with a fishing line. And when the sheet was pulled off, it kept making the hair on Michael’s mask “stand up in some funny way.”

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30. Some of the local residents got angry with the production

All of the Haddonfield scenes were shot around a real neighborhood in South Pasadena and in houses where people lived. Zombie said that at one stage unknown residents started throwing rocks at the set.

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31. Michael’s hand was taped to Annie’s foot

When Michael pulls Annie, played by Danielle Harris, across the floor, her shoe kept coming off in his hand. So Mane’s hand had to be duct-taped to Harris’s foot.

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32. No blood was allowed on the floor

The owner of the house that Annie is attacked in requested that the filmmakers didn’t get any blood on the floor. This is why Annie is found lying on a rug, with blood all over her but very little anywhere else.

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33. Zombie has a voice cameo

Zombie provided the voice of the 911 operator as Loomis and Sheriff Brackett race across town.

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34. Lindsey’s screams are real

Neither Skyler Gisondo and Jenny Gregg Stewart, playing Tommy and Lindsey, had seen Mane in his Michael mask before this scene was shot. Stewart was genuinely terrified when she saw him come through the door, and her screams were real. Zombie said he had to calm her down after the scene was shot.

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35. Michael kept tripping

Mane kept tripping down the stairs as he left the house carrying Laurie, because of his huge size and the fact his mask obscured his vision.

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36. This stunt went wrong

The balcony fall stunt went wrong, and the stunt performer playing Laurie hurt herself badly when she fell. Production had to be paused while she was rushed to hospital.

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37. The ending was reshot

Zombie reshot the entire ending. In the original climax, Michael is killed in a hail of police gunfire after he is cornered by Loomis and the cops. However, Zombie said that he only ended it this way because of the rushed schedule. When he realized it didn’t really work he was able to go back and totally reshoot it, to allow Laurie to be the one who kills Michael.

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Apex Legends On Switch Delayed To 2021, Steam Version Launches Next Month

Electronic Arts has provided an update on Apex Legends for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam, confirming when the battle royale launches on both platforms.

Apex Legends hits Steam on November 4. Origin players can switch back and forth between that and Steam, letting you transfer all progress and unlocks between the two. Meanwhile, Steam players will get free Half-Life and Portal gun charms for logging in during Season 7. The new Apex Legends season also starts on November 4, the same day the game hits Steam.

EA said the Nintendo Switch port of Apex Legends has been delayed to 2021. An exact release date or window has yet to be announced. Game director Chad Grenier said the “unexpected new challenges” of this year impacted the game’s development on Switch. Whenever the game drops on the console-handheld hybrid, it will come with “full feature parity with the other versions of the game,” including cross-platform support and the latest seasonal content.

Look at these super-cute Apex Legends gun charms.

Check the specs below to see if your PC can handle Apex Legends.

Full Apex Legends Steam System Requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: 64-bit Windows 7
Processor: AMD FX 4350 or equivalent, Intel Core i3 6300 or equivalent
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7730 or Nvidia GeForce GT 640
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 22 GB available space

Recommended:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: 64-bit Windows 7
Processor: Ryzen 5 CPU or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 290 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 22 GB available space

Respawn has begun teasing the content coming to Apex Legends in Season 7, including the new hero Horizon. While we don’t know much about her, it’s said she can manipulate gravity.

While players wait for Season 7 to start, a Halloween-themed event is now live. Titled Fight or Fright, it adds a Shadow Royale mode that incorporates Titanfall’s wall-running mechanic.

Apex Legends is available on a variety of platforms, including PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Those interested in the game should consider the Champion Edition, a $40 package that features unlocks, cosmetics, rewards, and immediate access to every character up to Horizon.

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How to Watch UFC 254: Khabib vs Gaethje

UFC 254 is set to kick off this weekend, in what could be an eventful night of MMA action. In the main event, Khabib Nurmagomedov will be taking on Justin Gaethje. This is after Khabib beat Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 last September, but a return to the ring for ‘The Eagle’ was then hampered by COVID-19 when he had to pull out of his fight with Tony Ferguson, originally scheduled for May of this year.

Gaethje promptly stepped in instead to face Ferguson, winning the fight and promptly setting up a fight between him and Nurmagomedov this weekend. It’s set to be an intense encounter, with Nurmagomedov currently sitting 28 wins and no losses, meaning he holds the longest active undefeated streak in MMA.

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UFC 254: How to Watch

The main event of UFC 254, Khabib vs Gaethje, will start at 4 PM ET on October 24, and the only way to watch it is through ESPN+, the current and exclusive home of UFC pay per view events. To be clear, you’ll need to be paying for an ESPN+ account, and you’ll also need to front the cash for the pay-per-view fight.

If you haven’t got an ESPN+ account, you can either pay the $4.99 monthly fee or sign up for an annual subscription. Right now, you can actually get a package deal on ESPN+ and the PPV fight at the moment, with ESPN offering you 25% off versus when buying them separately. This works out at $84.98, or you can pay $64.99 for just the fight itself.

If you’re an existing user you can even convert your subscription to an annual one to get a hold of that 25% discount on the Khabib vs Gaethje fight. Remember, ESPN+ is a fully integrated part of the ESPN app, so if you’ve got ESPN on your Roku, or other smart devices, you and find the ESPN+ content near the top of the page.

UFC 254: Full Event Details

Currently, some of the fights scheduled are subject to change, especially since the Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Sergey Morozov fight has been canceled. Other fights may be shuffled around to accommodate this.

UFC 254 Main Card at 2 PM ET

Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Justin Gaethje
Robert Whittaker vs. Jared Cannonier
Alexander Volkov vs. Walt Harris
Jacob Malhoun vs. Phil Hawes
Cynthia Calvillo vs. Lauren Murphy
Magomed Ankalaev vs. Ion Cutelaba

UFC 254 Prelims at 12 PM ET

Stefan Struve vs. Tai Tuivasa
Alex Oliveira vs. Shavkat Rahkmonov
Da-un Ung vs. Sam Alvey

UFC 254 Early Prelims at 10:15 AM ET

Nathaniel Wood vs. Casey Kenney
Liana Jojua vs. Miranda Maverick
Joel Alvarez vs. Alexander Yakovlev

Where to Watch: ESPN+ via the ESPN App

All the fights mentioned can be streamed on ESPN+ through the ESPN app. Alongside the UFC content, you’ll also be getting access to a lot more sports content, including NHL, MLB, MLS, and a lot more.

This includes some of the biggest sporting events around the world in November, such as the FA Cup, The Masters, and UFC 255 featuring Figueiredo vs Perez on November 25.

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Among Us Hack Spams Trump 2020 Message

The hit game Among Us has been hit with a hack that both advertises a streaming channel and sends a political message. The studio InnerSloth was forced to issue a hasty patch in response to the hacks.

The hack would spam text chat messages advertising a streamer and threatening to damage your phone if you don’t subscribe. It ended with a “TRUMP 2020” message. The hack became widespread rather quickly, with some players estimating it had afflicted hundreds or even thousands of matches.

InnerSloth issued a statement via Twitter saying it was “super duper aware” of the issue. It announced an emergency server update and encouraged players to stick to private games in the meantime. Programmer Forest Willard later explained that the update had taken some time so as to avoid false positives, to prevent the game from wrongly identifying a hack.

Hello everyone,
We’re are super duper aware of the current hacking issue and we’re looking into it. We will be pushing out an emergency server update so people who are in game will get kicked from games. Please play private games or with people that you trust!!! Bare with us!! 😰

— InnerSloth (@InnerslothDevs) October 23, 2020

“I was curious to see what would happen, and personally I found it funny,” the hacker, identified as Eris Loris, told Kotaku. “The anger and hatred is the part that makes it funny. If you care about a game and are willing to go and spam dislike some random dude on the internet because you can’t play it for 3 minutes, it’s stupid.”

Loris also confirmed he’s a supporter of President Trump, explaining the political element of the hack. He also said the recent success of Among Us means InnerSloth is big enough to hire more developers to prevent hacks like his. He says the hotfix has not stopped his bots entirely, but reports of the hack appear to have gone down.

Among Us became a surprise sensation, having been out for more than two years before it suddenly gained popularity. That boom of popularity has attracted the attention of streamers, along with political outreach from the likes of U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, whose recent Among Us stream raked in over 430,000 viewers.

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Little Nightmares 2 Brings Back Six, But It Doesn’t Always Put Her To Good Use

Back in August, I had the chance to play Little Nightmares II, and in my preview I talked about the uneasy trust between main characters Mono and Six. I theorized it could present a new kind of fear for the series–if you can’t fully trust your partner, then you’re never really safe. But having now gotten a chance to play another preview of Little Nightmares II, I’m beginning to wonder exactly how much Mono and Six’s partnership factors into the game.

The new demo takes place in the Hospital environment, which seems to pop up much further into the game than the Forest area seen in the first demo–Six has her trademark yellow raincoat in the Hospital, something she didn’t have prior to Mono meeting her in the Forest. Both Mono and Six need to go down an elevator, but it doesn’t have power. A nearby panel reveals that they’ll need to find two batteries. I can’t go through the door on the left because it needs one battery to open, but the door on the right is already ajar. My path is clear.

After going down a hallway, Six hoists Mono into the next room. And just like that, she’s cut off from me. I can’t bring her with me and must face the future horror alone. I was very surprised. The earlier demo contained puzzles and a chase sequence where Mono and Six needed to work together in order to ultimately get away from this freaky Hunter, which seemed to imply that Little Nightmares II would solely focus on brand-new “co-op” puzzles, ones where you had to figure out what both you and your NPC partner had to do in order to solve them. But in this recent demo, I was largely solo.

You can hold Six's hand in Little Nightmares II but I'm not quite sure why--she already follows you automatically. At least it looks cute. — You can hold Six’s hand in Little Nightmares II but I’m not quite sure why–she already follows you automatically. At least it looks cute.

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Which, I want to clarify, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I loved the Hospital environment. It’s a much spookier segment of the game than the Forest, and one that leaned on its environment and player expectations to create some satisfying swearing-under-your-breath scares.

Acquiring your first battery involves climbing onto tables and sliding under benches to outrun and ultimately outsmart a sentient disembodied hand that scurries after you like a predatory spider. With that first battery, you can unlock that door to the left of the elevator, where you’re once again separated from Six and thrown into an area filled with mangled mannequins that come to life when the lights turn off. Your only means of stopping them in their tracks is to turn the lights back on or, barring that, shine your flashlight on them. But you can’t shine your flashlight on every single one at once and you occasionally need to shine it in front of you so you know where you’re going–all the while, the creaking groans of the mannequins can be heard as they shamble after you.

It’s good stuff (assuming you’re like me and the sensation of mounting dread is your thing), but the whole experience left me puzzled as to why Six is even there. Once you do manage to go down the elevator, there’s a sequence when that hand comes back, only this time it’s brought friends. So while Six tries to pry some planks off the door in front of you so the two of you can continue, you have to pick up a pipe and fight the hands. But here’s the thing: Six can’t actually remove all the planks without your help. So it’s not a moment where you’re holding off an unbeatable threat while you’re hoping, praying that your partner can hurry up. Until you smash all the hands (killing them, I hope; those things are disgusting), drop the pipe, and help Six pull off the last board, you can’t continue. It’s a moment that would have played out no differently had I been on my own and just been unable to pry off the boards until I’d defeated the group of enemies. If I left the first demo feeling uneasy about whether Six would stick with me, I walked away from this second demo wondering why I was bothering to keep her around.

So my biggest takeaway from this demo is just why. Why is Six here, beyond acting as a connection to the first game? Why is Little Nightmares II a game about two heroes when it plays just fine when you’re on your own and occasionally makes you feel like a babysitter when your partner is around? This Hospital segment felt so much scarier, so much more satisfying to overcome in comparison to the Forest arc–and a part of me wonders if that’s because I was mostly on my own, which is the case for most horror games. All of this, of course, assumes the Hospital level isn’t the exception–the Forest environment could be the norm. But I’ve now had two very different experiences with Little Nightmares II, and there’s no indication as to which serves as the primary gameplay loop.

Regardless, I enjoyed what I played, and I’m looking forward to seeing exactly how Little Nightmares II shakes up upon its release, which has been pushed back to next year. The game is currently scheduled to launch on February 11, releasing for Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Xbox Series X|S and PS5 versions will come out sometime in 2021–if you buy Little Nightmares II for Xbox One or PS4, you can upgrade to their corresponding next-gen versions for free.

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