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If you’ve been playing Red Dead Redemption 2, you’re no doubt aware of the open-world game’s lovely music and overall sound design. But you might not have known or noticed that the soundtrack also features some massive names in music who performed songs for it.

Woody Jackson returns from Red Dead Redemption 1 to compose the second game’s soundtrack, with further production and arrangement work by Jeff Silverman, who previously worked with Aloe Black. Colin Stetson, who previously worked with Bon Iver, did additional work on the score and orchestration, as did David Ferguson (Johnny Cash’s engineer), David Ralicke (Beck, Sons of Anarchy), Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers, True Detective), Luke O’Malley, Mario Batkovic (of Geoff Barrow’s Invada), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Prince Billy), Rabih Beaini, and Senyawa.

More than 110 other musicians also contributed to the soundtrack, including Kanye West collaborator Arca, as well as Queens of the Stone Age drummer Jon Theodore.

As you might have noticed already, Red Dead Redemption 2 also features a number of vocal moments over music, and all of them were produced by Grammy-winner Daniel Lanois. He previously worked with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Willie Nelson.

Speaking of Willie Nelson, he did vocal work on the game alongside Queens of the Stone Age singer Josh Homme, rapper Nas, singer-songwriter D’Angelo, and musician Rhiannon Giddens. Ferguson, who was Johnny Cash’s engineer, also produced and performed an original song for Red Dead Redemption 2.

In a blog post, Rockstar Games said it will share more details about Red Dead Redemption 2’s music and availability in the time to come. Here’s to hoping Rockstar releases the music everywhere, while a special edition vinyl version would be a treat as well.

Red Dead Redemption 1 featured Bill Elm as a co-composer alongside Woody Jackson. However, Elm is apparently not involved at all with Red Dead Redemption 2, for reasons that have yet to be explained. We’ve contacted Rockstar for comment, and we’ll update this post with anything we hear back.

Sony has launched a new line of products, but it’s probably not what you’re expecting. Sony has partnered with PBTeen for a new, officially licensed line of PlayStation-themed furniture.

The “tasteful” collection includes decor and furniture that you can buy to spruce up your living room and give it more of a gaming vibe–if that’s something you want to do. The line includes the following items:

• Acrylic Cubby — $70 USD
• Icon Wall Light — $200
• Beanbag — $250
• Lounge Table — $400
• Gaming TV Media Console — $1,100

PBTeen already offers decor and furniture collections themed around major brands such as Harry Potter and Star Wars, but it appears PlayStation is their first gaming brand. You can go to PBTeen’s website to order any of the new PlayStation items now.

In other PlayStation news, Sony recently confirmed the full list of the 20 games on the new PlayStation Classic mini-console coming in December. What’s more, Sony this week announced that total lifetime PS4 shipments have passed 86 million units.

From ’70s possession movies inspired by The Exorcist to the wave of found footage films sparked by The Blair Witch Project, horror has long been marked by the popularity of sub-genres that follow a big box office hit. As the 1980s dawned, the huge success of John Carpenter’s Halloween and Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th led to dozens of interchangeable slasher movies, before the craze died out by the middle of the decade. This was the era of the horror franchise, with the commercial power of the Friday the 13th, Halloween, and in particular the Nightmare on Elm Street series cementing the idea that there was no limit to the number of sequels that audiences would turn up for.

The ’80s were also marked by the rise of the comedy horror. Gone were the serious, gritty movies of the ’70s–mainstream American horror of this era was frequently played for laughs, with some classics (Re-Animator, Evil Dead 2), but many more movies that were neither funny nor scary. There is no better illustration than the change in the decade’s biggest horror icon–Freddy Krueger–who, over a few years, was transformed from a terrifying, loathsome child killer in the original Nightmare on Elm Street to the wisecracking cartoon villain of the later Elm Street movies.

But while Freddy and Jason might be the first things we think of when it comes to ’80s horror, they’re far from the whole story. Some the genre’s great directors continued to put out impressive work, with the likes of David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, and John Carpenter delivering some of their best movies. The rise of VHS also meant that there was an incredible amount of horror available to watch easily, allowing some fascinating movies to find an audience that they otherwise might not have. There are many terrific ’80s horror movies that tried to do something different, some within the popular subgenres of the era, some from way outside. So here’s 14 underrated ’80s horror movies well worth rediscovery.

Fences–merchants, not boundary markers–in Red Dead Redemption 2 are the only businesses that will buy goods you’ve found while looting strangers and rifling through private property, and by gum, they sure are hard to find. Considering the size of RDR2’s map, and that there are only four fences in all the land, odds are you may be wondering where they’re hiding. We’ve got a handy reference guide to help locate the black-market traders that peddle in illicit goods.

Fair warning: you have to first complete Chapter 2’s ‘The Spines of America’ mission before you can use any fence, and you won’t be able to access either of the specialized fences–for horses or wagons–until you reach certain progress milestones in the game’s main story.

Let’s start off with the first location you’re likely to find: Emerald Ranch

EA may be planning to add two more major Clone Wars characters to Star Wars Battlefront 2. Nothing has been confirmed, but it appears as if both Ahsoka Tano and Padme Amidala will be added to the game in 2019.

General Grievous, who was added to Battlefront 2 as a playable hero on October 30, mentions both Ahsoka and Padme in certain lines of dialogue, implying that DICE is planning to have the Separatist leader interact with the two heroines in the future. EA has already confirmed that DICE has more content planned for Battlefront 2 beyond the post-launch DLC roadmap–scheduled to end in December 2018. During the company’s quarterly earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson stated that Battlefront 2 would continue to get more content throughout the “next year.”

In an earlier blog post, EA revealed the process by which new Star Wars Battlefront 2 Hero characters are created. The most steadfast rule was that every “hero must counter a villain, and vice versa.” This is why General Grievous and Count Dooku are being added to the game, as the two villains share a natural rivalry with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker–two other new Hero characters. So if Ahsoka and Padme are implemented into Battlefront 2, then that means two corresponding villains are being planned for the game as well.

Matthew Wood, James Arnold Taylor, Corey Burton, and Matt Lanter–all Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series voice actors–have returned to voice General Grievous, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Count Dooku, and Anakin Skywalker respectfully in Battlefront 2. As both Ahsoka and Padme are major characters in the same show, it stands to reason that EA would also recruit Ashley Eckstein and Catherine Taber to voice them in-game.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is available on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.