If you own a PS4, you probably know you have to shell out cash for a PlayStation Plus subscription to play most games online. But what if you didn’t? That’s the question posed by Rockstar Games with the release of the After Hours update for GTA Online in Grand Theft Auto V. Between now and August 6, anyone with a PS4 and an internet connection can play GTA Online, regardless of whether you have a PlayStation Plus membership. That gives you two weeks to run amok in San Andreas for free.
GTA 5’s After Hours update introduces a whole new set of night life content to the game, including nightclubs, vehicles, outfits, and more. Nightclubs are the biggest addition. To get a nightclub, you have to partner up with Tony Prince, who will help you buy and run the club. You get to personalize your establishment however you want, choosing the decor, hiring staff, and deciding how to promote your new enterprise.
Nightclubs also include an underground warehouse, which becomes the hub for your less-than-legal activities. Here you can assign technicians to gather supplies for your existing Biker, Special Cargo, Smugglers, and Gunrunning businesses. They can then sell the items to add to your bankroll, all without you lifting a finger. The update also introduces seven new vehicles, including the Ocelot Swinger sports car, the Dinka Jester Classic, as well as delivery vehicles for your warehouse supplies.
In addition to not needing PS Plus to play right now, some other bonuses are waiting for you. If you log in to GTA Online between now and July 30, you’ll get a free Tony’s Fun House t-shirt. And if you joined the “guest list” by logging in before July 2, you’ll receive additional rewards, including GTA $350,000 and some free apparel.
But once August 6 rolls around, free GTA Online access goes away unless you subscribe to PlayStation Plus. It’s a worthwhile subscription service, though. In addition to online play, PS Plus members also get free games each month.
After the first trailer for Castle Rock, Hulu’s new series inspired by the works of Stephen King, it was clear this show would be packed with Easter eggs and references to novels from the iconic writer–and the films they were adapted into. Now that the first three episodes have been released, though, fans of the author are facing a serious challenge when it comes to decoding every little nod.
Whether it’s monologues that reference everything from Stand By Me to Cujo or an opening credits sequence that features pages from a number of King’s books, there’s plenty to uncover when watching Castle Rock over and over again. Within the show itself, though, there are a number of visual cues that act as clever references.
Thus far, we’ve had the opportunity to watch the first three episodes of the series and have compiled some of the very best Easter eggs and references to Stephen King’s works. Some of them are more obvious than others–Shawshank State Prison plays a huge role in the series–but all are incredibly important in setting the creepy tone for the series.
What Easter eggs and references did you notice while watching Castle Rock? Sound off in the comments with your favorite moments and come back as new episodes air and we update this gallery!
Hello Games has launched the new update for No Man’s Sky, called Next. The free update makes massive overhauls to the game by adding multiplayer, character customization, command freighters, and visual upgrades. Next is the fourth major update to No Man’s Sky, following Foundation, Pathfinder, and Atlas Rises. However, it is perhaps the most substantial of them all.
No Man’s Sky originally launched on PS4 and PC in August 2016, and was harshly criticized for a perceived lack of content. Although multiple updates have since expanded the number of activities that players can do, Sony management admits the PR strategy “wasn’t great” and No Man Sky designer Sean Murray acknowledged that he made “mistakes.”
Despite the initial backlash at launch, No Man’s Sky’s updates have slowly earned the game a growing playerbase. “One day I hope to reach a point where I feel No Man’s Sky is ‘finished,’ but luckily there’s still so much more we want to do,” Murray said.
The major changes in No Man’s Sky Next are outlined below, but you can read the full patch notes and bug fixes on No Man’s Sky’s blog. Though it’s not in the patch notes, Murray tweeted out that Next also allows players to command their in-game avatar to sit down–a feature that players have been asking for. Perhaps a few more playful secrets are hidden within the game’s newest update. We’ll keep you updated as we find them.
Multiplayer is the largest change to No Man’s Sky. Though it was never confirmed whether multiplayer would be included prior to launch, many players wished to explore the galaxy with their friends however they wanted. Next adds a lot of the mechanics those players wanted, as well as a few more.
You can now join up with random strangers, or team up with a small contingent of friends to construct colonies of small shelters, race exocraft, or engage in space battles against other players. You’ll be able to team up with friends right from the start, as the multiplayer extends to No Man’s Sky’s story and tutorial missions.
To help differentiate between avatars, Next adds character customization so that everyone can personalize their in-game appearance. You’ll be able to switch up your race and change your outfits too. Depending on the species of your character, you’ll even be able to change your hairstyle. Next allows players to be a Gek, Vy’keen, Korvax, Traveller, or Anomaly.
Not every player you meet is a friendly face, so when you run into another player in the midst of exploring the stars, it’s best to be cautious. Although a stranger could be a harmless passerby or a future ally, Next allows players to prey on others to survive. A collection of ships approaching on the horizon might be a crew of players acting as space pirates who rely on the stolen loot of others.
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You’ll be able to invite your friends onto your very own command freighter to tackle challenging multiplayer missions. If you’re still having trouble, you’ll be able to build and upgrade a whole fleet of frigates, which you can then customize to specialize in combat, exploration, trade, industry, or support.
You can use what you’ve found to build bases, which can now be built anywhere on any planet. You’ll even be able to build on top of mountains and beneath the sea. And if you don’t like how the terrain is affecting the shape of your base, the improved terrain manipulator allows players to sculpt the planet’s surface to their needs. The manipulator can be used to excavate ancient treasures too, which can be sold in the new Space Station Marketplace.
There are hundreds of new base parts that allow you to build bases that are larger and more complex so you can construct your perfect hideout. Next also lets players own multiple bases and place teleporters anywhere so travel goes much faster.
The resources used to customize your fleet and bases, as well as craft your gear and equipment, have all been reworked and rebalanced. Many of the resources you remember from the original No Man’s Sky have received new names and been given completely different uses. Planetary resources have been expanded, and a planet’s biome, weather, and classification have a much larger effect on what type of materials you’ll find there.
To help you excavate the larger amounts of materials you’ll discover, the deployable tech used in resource collection can now be easily picked up and carried in your inventory. The improved analysis visor makes it easier to locate terrain resources as well. You can also quickly find your bearings while exploring, thanks to visible latitude and longitude coordinates and the ability to tag points of interest with a marker.
Missions
The opening section of No Man’s Sky has been updated with new story elements, as well as a tutorial that teaches you advanced gameplay features. Mission chains help get players started with exploring planets and starting bases.
Once past the tutorial, new types of missions are available to complete. Exploring is still at the core of No Man’s Sky, but new photography, feeding, freighter attack and defense, archaeology, and hunting missions expand the amount of activities that players can do. Players won’t be getting all of their objectives from the same NPC either, as a diverse assortment of random NPCs on different stations offer missions.
Patch Notes
Hello Games has released detailed patch notes for Next that outline everything that’s changed, including the extreme minutia. Beyond all of the major features above you can see adjustments to controls (like the ability to manually holster the Multi-Tool), the overhaul to space station interiors, bug fixes, and much more.
Galactic Atlas
Just prior to the Next update going live, Hello Games launched a new website called the Galactic Atlas. This is essentially a guide to a specific area of the game–the Euclid Galaxy–that Hello seeded but will leave in the hands of players to explore and grow. From the site, you can track the progress of the galaxy, highlight points of interest, and join hubs or factions.
New Visuals
The visuals to No Man’s Sky have also gotten an overhaul. Terrain generates faster and ground, water, and cloud textures have been upgraded. Ships, NPCs, and buildings have more detail too. No Man’s Sky is also now fully playable in both first- and third-person, whether you’re walking on the surface of a planet or soaring amongst the stars.
Draw distance has been improved so planets appear more dense and a new colour palette paints the forests, oceans, and plains of each world with added vibrancy. The hazardous storms that can spell the doom of smaller aircraft use new biome-specific particle effects to look more dangerous than ever before.
Fauna And Flora
The creatures you’ll discover on your travels will now act more enthusiastically towards you if you feed them, letting you herd them together. The creatures’ AI has also been revamped so they act more intelligently, responding to players they recognize as friendly and fleeing as a group from a perceived danger. Not all of the new animals and plantlife are friendly, however. Keep on the lookout for new hazardous species, as they will kill you if you’re not careful.
Release Date/Time
No Man’s Sky is available on PS4, PC, and Xbox One. Next is live on all platforms.
Before she became a voice actor in games like Firewatch, Darksiders 3, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Cissy Jones found herself in a moment of existential crisis. Her corporate job brought her a comfortable amount of income, but it didn’t fulfill her the way she imagined voice acting might. Little did she know that a writer named Sean Vanaman and a studio named Campo Santo would give her the break every actor dreams of, and lead to international recognition. Jones sat down on IGN Unfiltered to chat with Ryan McCaffrey about her journey as a voice actor.
As the Mission Impossible movies have got bigger, so too has star Tom Cruise’s desire for danger. While many action stars slow down a little as they hit middle age, 56-year-old Cruise has gone the other way, pushing his body for the sake of our entertainment in ways that would terrify many actors half his age.
The sixth movie in the series, Mission Impossible: Fallout, hits theaters this week and reviews have suggested that it’s the most spectacular entry to date. Some of Cruise’s Fallout stuntwork was notorious long before the film had even finished shooting, with an on-set accident causing the star to break his ankle and production to shut down for several months. Behind-the-scenes promotional videos have teased some of the movie’s other amazing action sequences, such as the terrifying-sounding HALO jump, showing that the movie’s marketers know that Cruise’s willingness to risk his life is now a big selling point for the series.
The previous five movies all feature some incredible moments–from climbing onto planes and being thrown around by explosions to getting way too close to knives and cliff edges. So as we get ready to marvel at Cruise’s latest batch of movie-set madness, here’s a look back at the wildest stunts from the series so far:
This is an advanced SPOILER-FREE review of Hulu’s Castle Rock from Comic-Con 2018. You can stream the first three episodes on July 25 on Hulu.
The expanded Stephen King universe has finally arrived in Hulu’s new psychological-horror series, Castle Rock.
Castle Rock’s showrunners, Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, had the difficult task of not only creating a believable Stephen King-inspired playground for their characters to inhabit, but also delivering a compelling standalone drama that will attract non-King enthusiasts as well. Fortunately, Castle Rock accomplishes both in this tense, haunting, and surprisingly funny slice of creepy small-town America.
Alright guys, San Diego Comic-Con is over for 2018, so it’s time to get back to watching movies and shows on Netflix. This week, there are a bunch of titles coming to the service, including a lot of Originals from the streaming giant.
Perhaps the most exciting addition on Netflix this week is Season 6 of Orange Is The New Black, which will be released on Friday. After the dramatic conclusion of Season 5, many fans are really looking forward to seeing what will happen next.
Some other originals coming to Netflix include shows like Roman Empire: Reign Of Blood (July 27), and Iliza Shlesinger’s new stand-up special, Elder Millennial (July 24).
As far as non-Originals go, there are a few movies coming to Netflix this week including Her, the futuristic love story starring Joaquin Phoenix, and The Company Men starring Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones. Season 8 of Shameless is also hitting the service this week.
Check below if you’d like to see the complete list of everything coming to Netflix this week, or if you’re looking for something more comprehensive, head over to our complete list of everything coming to Netflix in July. We don’t yet know what’s coming in August, but that list should be coming along soon, given that the end of July is in sight.
Arriving On Netflix This Week
July 22
An Education
Bolt
July 24
July 27
Cupcake & Dino – General Services- Netflix Original
Extinction-Netflix Original
Orange Is the New Black: Season 6-Netflix Original
Roman Empire: Reign of Blood: Master of Rome- Netflix Original
