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Gaming on an ultrawide is a wonderfully immersive experience. The extra screen real estate on the sides is incredibly useful both for the increased HUD and hotbar space as well as the wider view it allows – especially in first-person shooters. The LG UltraGear 34GK950G (See it on Amazon) is the company’s newest ultrawide, and it adds Nvidia’s G-Sync technology to the mix along with a high refresh rate, and a nano IPS display. At $1,400 it’s one of the most expensive monitors available right now but the price isn’t that surprising given its spec chart. Let’s see if it’s worth it.
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Black Friday 2018 is behind us, and while Amazon’s best Black Friday deals started early, many of them have rolled over into Cyber Monday sales. We’re gathering up all of the best Cyber Monday deals at Amazon and listing them here for your convenience. Instead of a one-day sale, it looks like Amazon is just extending its Black Friday sales week into an entire Cyber Monday deals week.
Be sure to check out all the deals for Cyber Monday 2018 if you’re looking to save big today.
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Walmart’s Cyber Monday sale is live right now, with plenty of chances to snatch up some great deals on games, Nintendo Switch, smart TVs and more.
Walmart advertised a $199 Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Slim deal last night, and if you’re looking to grab one for that price, it looks like you’re out of luck. The sale was over almost as soon as it went live, which is a huge bummer because that was a huge deal. However, Walmart has Nintendo’s Switch bundle with a $35 eShop card deal live right now.
One of the latest skins for your character in Fortnite was conceptualized by an eight-year-old fan, and though American players likely just finished eating a mound of turkey, it’s time to switch over to chicken.
Back in September, a Fortnite player named Connor got his father to submit a picture of his own Fortnite skin concept to the game’s Reddit board. Called the “Chicken Trooper,” the drawing was simple, but it resonated with fans who really wanted a chicken included in the game.
Reddit users helped to turn his concept into more detailed artwork, and the idea apparently struck a chord with Epic Games.
Following the success of Rooster Teeth’s RWBY and Red vs. Blue, the studio is preparing to debut a star-studded new anime-style series, gen:LOCK, which features the vocal talents of David Tennant, Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Fanning, and Maisie Williams.
In gen:LOCK, on the losing side of a global war, Earth’s last free society recruits a diverse team of young pilots to control the next-generation of mecha — giant, weaponized robot bodies. These daring recruits will find, however, that their newfound abilities come at no small cost. Tennant plays Dr. Weller, the head of the Experimental Science Unit, tasked with identifying potential new recruits for Colonel Marin (voiced by Monica Rial), who leads the resistance’s Vanguard army.
The first still for the upcoming Hellboy reboot staring David Harbour has officially arrived.
Premiered by Empire, this exclusive first look gives us a glimpse at a hornless Hellboy running down a hallway with his Right Hand of Doom. This image and more will be included in Empire Magazine’s January 2019 issue, complete with an interview with the film’s director, Neil Marshall.
Credit: Empire, Lionsgate.
Rico Rodriguez has got himself an improved grappling hook, able to fire out combos of balloons, rockets and retractors with impunity.
We owed it to him, and ourselves, to try and make something really weird with all that, so allow Rory to take you (and Gav) through his most outlandish creations.
Cyber Monday is turning out to be a good time to stock up on Nintendo Switch consoles and gear, and one of the most popular accessories has gotten its biggest discount yet. The Pro Controller, usually priced at $70, is just over fifty bucks for the retail holiday.
The price applies across both Amazon and Target. Both stores list the controller at $60, but apply an extra discount at checkout bringing it down to $51. The extra Target discount actually applies store-wide, as the store is offering an additional 15% off of everything with some exceptions. One such exception is to Xbox One hardware.
Cyber Monday has also brought good deals on hardware and games. GameStop is offering a Switch with a $50 gift card, while Best Buy is offering a $35 eShop card. Nintendo’s eShop Cyber Monday sale is offering lots of discounts on digital purchases. And to make use of all those digital games, you may want to expand your system’s memory with a cheap MicroSD card. You can check out our full list of Cyber Monday Nintendo Switch deals for more details.
Other notable deals include deep discounts on recent games like Hitman 2 and Fallout 76, as well as discounts across a wide range of games and movies. Read our Cyber Monday 2018 roundups for full details on all the deals you can snag.
Rockstar has finally delivered details on Red Dead Redemption 2‘s online mode, revealing when it’s going to kick off. Shortly after launch, publisher Take-Two confirmed Red Dead Redemption 2 had shipped 17 million copies, which means there’s going to be a fair few people interested in taking their outlaw antics online into a multiplayer environment. To ensure Red Dead Online’s servers don’t completely buckle under the weight of the entire community, access to the beta is being given to gradually.
When you’re able to play the beta depends on the version of the game you have or when you actually started playing the game. The first group of people that will be able to play the game are those that purchased the Ultimate Edition. Anyone who has that version will be able to jump into the beta from November 27 at 8:30 AM ET / 5:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM GMT / 12:30 AM AEDT (November 28).
The next group of people to be given access is anyone who played the game on October 26 (that’s Red Dead Redemption 2’s launch day). If you’re one of those people, you can head online on November 28. If you played the game between October 26 and October 29–according to Rockstar’s data–you’ll be able to join the fun from November 29.
Finally, public access to Red Dead Online will be available to anyone that owns Red Dead Redemption 2 from November 30. This rollout method will help Rockstar “ease into the beta and to mitigate major issues.” The studio is being very candid about potential performance issues, saying that the beta is “the first step in what will be a continually expanding and dynamic world.”
As such, Rockstar is expecting the “inevitable turbulence of launching any online experience of this size and scale” and it is asking the Red Dead Redemption 2 community to report any issues and share their feedback so that Rockstar can shape the experience with them in mind. You can find out more about Red Dead Online here.
Red Dead Redemption 2 earned a 9/10 in GameSpot’s review, with Kallie Plagge saying it “is an excellent prequel, but it’s also an emotional, thought-provoking story in its own right, and it’s a world that is hard to leave when it’s done.”
“While Red Dead Redemption was mostly focused on John Marston’s story, Red Dead 2 is about the entire Van der Linde gang–as a community, as an idea, and as the death rattle of the Wild West. It is about Arthur, too, but as the lens through which you view the gang, his very personal, very messy story supports a larger tale.” Read our full Red Dead Redemption 2 review for a more in-depth analysis of the game.