Following the latest leak, Niantic has confirmed Pokemon Go's annual Halloween event is coming back for another year. The event kicks off today, October 23, at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET and introduces a handful of new Gen 4 Pokemon to the game, as well as the first Gen 4 Legendary.
As in previous years, Niantic is debuting a couple of new Ghost- and Dark-type Pokemon during the Halloween event. This time around, players will have their first chance to catch Drifloon, Stunky, and their evolved forms Drifblim and Skuntank. The studio is also offering new trainer hats, shirts, and backpacks inspired by Ghost Pokemon through the in-game store, including a Gengar backpack and Drifloon cap.
On top of that, Niantic is kicking off a new Special Research questline. Whereas previous Special Research quests led to encounters with the Mythical Pokemon Mew and Celebi, this new one revolves around Spiritomb--another Ghost Pokemon introduced in Gen 4. Niantic is also rolling out new Field Research tasks that focus on Ghost and Dark Pokemon. Finally, just as in past years, players will earn double the normal amount of Candy for capturing Pokemon during the Halloween event.
Perhaps most notably, the first Gen 4 Legendary Pokemon is set to debut in Pokemon Go. Coinciding with the start of the Halloween event, Pokemon Platinum's cover monster, Giratina, will appear around the world as a Raid Battle at Gyms until November 20, giving players roughly a month to add one to their collection. Giratina is dual Ghost/Dragon Pokemon, so you'll want to bring along a powerful Dark- or Dragon-type to challenge it.
Pokemon Go's Halloween event is slated to run until November 1. Meanwhile, the game's next Community Day is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 10, although Niantic hasn't announced any further details as of yet.
Fallout 76's beta is beginning today on Xbox One, and Bethesda has released a whole new batch of screenshots to mark the occasion. These images put an emphasis on the lovely vistas of West Virginia, albeit a slightly more irradiated version than you may have seen in the state's tourism ads.
To prepare for launch, the company also released a letter to its fans thanking them for their support and cautioning that this is a very different kind of Fallout game. It stressed that the studio cares about these worlds and wants to do right by them, and that as an online and live game the launch of Fallout 76 would be just the beginning. The studio is looking ahead to a long period of bug fixes and other support.
"Given what we're doing with 76, we know we're opening everyone up to all new spectacular issues none of us have encountered," Bethesda wrote. "Some we're aware of, such as areas where performance needs to improve with lots of players."
The beta is coming first to Xbox One, with PC and PS4 to follow on October 30. Pre-ordering will grant you access to the beta but you may not get in right away. Instead, Bethesda will be giving out codes for the beta itself as it invites in more players to stress test. For that same reason, the tests themselves will take place in concentrated chunks of a few hours at a time to force players together.
The beta is said to be the the full game and your progress will carry over to the full game. The full game launches on November 14.
The story in Marvel's Spider-Man continues in The Heist, the first piece of a three-part DLC expansion called The City That Never Sleeps. The Heist includes several old characters and a few new ones, but primarily focuses on Peter's ex-girlfriend Felicia Hardy, aka Black Cat.
The Heist is about three hours long in total, including all story missions and optional side quests and activities. An hour of that time is devoted to the story of Black Cat's return to New York. She's stealing flash drives from members of the prominent crime families in the city, and Peter and Mary Jane work together to both figure out why and discover a way to stop her before she starts a gang war. The first half of the story involves a new type of stealth mission and plenty of chase sequences, while the latter half includes a Mary Jane stealth mission and a powerful new enemy type that utilizes a minigun. Standard combat missions are sprinkled throughout, and enemy base missions are dropped entirely.
The remaining two hours of the DLC consist of the The Heist's new side quests, which are mostly variations of what can be found in the base game. Instead of hunting backpacks, for example, you'll be looking for the art that Felicia's father has left hidden around the city. The only new side activity involves using the Spider-Bot to look for bombs under cars. The new Screwball Challenges--which replace the Taskmaster Challenges--will probably take up most of your time. They're similar to what you had to do in the main game's challenges, but you'll also be tasked with capturing your web-slinging or combat moves on camera at the perfect moment to rack up a higher score.
Minor spoilers for a new Spider-Man villain introduced in the first 20 minutes of The Heist follow.
The Heist truly feels like a first part, ending in a way that implies its story isn't finished, and will continue in later DLC. Although it seems as if Black Cat's piece of the tale is complete at the end of The Heist, her actions bring the Spider-Man villain Hammerhead back into the wall-crawler's life. Insomniac has not confirmed which character will be the focus of Turf Wars, the second part of The City That Never Sleeps, but The Heist makes a good case that we can expect to see Spidey go up against the gangster with a steel skull fairly soon.
Marvel's Spider-Man is exclusive to PS4. The City That Never Sleeps continues with Turf Wars in November and Silver Lining in December.
By Anonymous on Oct 23, 2018 11:28 pm After spending some time raiding dungeons and crushing bosses on the new Nintendo Switch version of Diablo III, Tamoor and Dave sit down and talk about the best parts of the game.
History Channel's Knife Or Death is a spinoff of its wildly successful series Forged In Fire, where competitors forge weapons for judges to test. However, on Knife Or Death, the competitors come onto the show with premade blades and run them through a series of tests, which includes slicing through raw chicken, fish, and more.
The host of the series, now in its second season, is none other than Bill Goldberg, the former WCW Heavyweight Champion and WWE Universal Champion. He spoke with GameSpot to reveal the most important question Forged in Fire fans have, "Where does all that sliced up meat go?"
"Well, it just depends on what's on the menu that day because it's quite possible that it can end up on a grill right next to set, depending upon whether it be the pork loin," explained Goldberg. "Most of the time, the fish does not go to waste, whether it be cleaned up and sushied or put on the grill. We try not to waste anything on that show."
One of the most challenging parts of the course is cutting through a raw chicken, in one slice, which looks easier than it sounds. Many competitors end their run here.
It's safe to say the cast and crew eats well on the show. However, the focus of the series is on these competitors and the weapons they bring to run the show's obstacle course, which involves a whole lot of slicing and dicing. You can see handcrafted weapons like longswords, katannas, and more.
However, Goldberg was more than puzzled about a contestant's blade choice during Season 1 of the series. "There's no question that the guy from Valley Center or somewhere out near me in San Diego, California who came to the show with a butcher knife [was the strangest blade], and a very, very small one at that. I could not believe it. He did as well as he could, but it wasn't... it was like bringing a kitchen knife to a knife fight. It paled in comparison."
Forged in Fire: Knife or Death is currently in its second season and airs Wednesdays at 10 PM on the History Channel.
With Halloween right around the corner, your friends, family, and loved ones might start acting pretty weird. You might even start to wonder whether they're possessed. If you want to avoid getting too paranoid, definitely don't watch any of these movies.
The fear of losing control of your mind and body is one of the most potent plot devices in horror movies. Not just going going mad but actually having something else invade you and take control, bidding you to commit terrible acts against your will. The horror blockbuster The Exorcist stunned audiences back in 1973, with the sight of an innocent young girl transformed into a puking, cursing demon against her will. Since then, demonic possession has become a favorite subject for many horror filmmakers.
But it's not just demon and devils that can possess the living. There's buildings, ghosts, vehicles, and strange substances, and sometimes, it isn't clear exactly what is invading the victim. Many movies deal with the ambiguity of possession, while others use it as a background to explore deeper themes.
Whatever the perpetrator, these 13 films are the scariest possession movies ever made. Just remember: Possession is a fictional phenomenon. Probably.
While Stephen King's novel Christine is ostensibly about a demonic '50s Plymouth Fury, there is plenty of suggestion that the car's evil power actually derives from its former owner Roland LeBay, whose wife and daughter both died in it. John Carpenter's movie adaptation streamlines the plot to make Christine simply an evil car but still has LeBay possess its new owner, high school kid Arnold Cunningham. As the movie progresses, Cunningham transforms from nervous, nerdy teen to a badass, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed ladykiller, as LeBay takes control of his personality, all aided by a knock-out performance from Keith Gordon.
11. Night of the Demons (1988)
Horror in the 1980s was packed with partying teens, and while most ended up being hacked to death by masked maniacs, there were a few variations on the theme. In the very silly but highly entertaining Night of the Demons, a bunch of kids gather to party in--where else--a funeral parlor. Inevitably, they decide to have a seance, summoning an ancient demon who proceeds to take control of these idiotic kids. In this case, the possession is passed along by via physical contact, and these being teenagers in an '80s horror movie, there's plenty of that. Before long, they're all a bunch of slavering, sex-crazed, fanged demons. Party's over!
10. The Last Exorcism (2010)
Part of the found footage craze that followed in the wake of The Blair Witch Project, The Last Exorcism uses its handheld, documentary-style to impressive effect. It's produced by Eli Roth, and like a few films on this list, it plays around with the possibility that its victim is simply disturbed rather than possessed. The movie focuses on a priest who has lost his faith and makes a living by performing fake exorcisms on the mentally ill. This leads him to a girl called Nell, who claims to inhabited by an demonic entity called Abalam. It's a smart shocker that deals with questions of faith and belief, as well delivering some intense and scary scenes.
9. Shock (1977)
Mario Bava is considered to be the godfather of Italian horror, and he is one of the most important directors ever to work in the genre. Bava dabbled in most types of horror over his long career, including a couple of possession movies. There's the post-Exorcist tale Lisa and the Devil (released in the US as House of Exorcism to cash in on the success of The Exorcist), and this final movie. The victim of Shock is a young boy called Marco, who has seemingly been taken over by his dead father, who died in an plane crash. As the movie continues Marco's mum becomes increasingly convinced that Marco is being controlled by her jealous husband from beyond the grave, leaving to all sorts of nightmarish sequences and the uncovering of dark secrets. Like many of the best possession movies, the ambiguity adds to the mystery--is it all in her mind, or is Marco really being controlled by his dead dad?
8. Prince of Darkness (1987)
John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness is one of those horror movies that throws everything into the mix--there's demonic liquids, evil cultists, mind control, scientific mumbo-jumbo, zombies, Alice Cooper, and, of course, possession. In this case, it's a team of scientists who are investigating a mysterious cylinder than contains a strange green liquid. Turns out that the liquid is the essence of Satan himself, and one-by-one, it possesses members of the team, turning them into its murderous minions. Prince of Darkness is a bit of a confusing mess at times, but it's huge fun, and who doesn't love the sight of Alice Cooper impaling a man on a broken bicycle?
7. The Conjuring (2013)
One of the most successful scary movies of recent years, The Conjuring plays out like a horror greatest hits package. But while there might not be anything original going on, and it's skillfully handled by director James Wan. There's some impressive possession scares towards the end, when the spirit of the evil witch Bathsheba takes control of one of the daughters of unlucky homeowners Roger and Carolyn Perron. She is transformed into a screaming, convulsing, biting lunatic, with incredible strength and a desire to bites people's faces off.
6. Possession (1981)
There's no other film quite like Possession. Directed Andrzej Zulawski, this deranged, notorious Berlin-set movie combines arthouse filmmaking with full-on horror and includes a couple of the most unforgettable scene in the genre. Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani play a couple whose marriage is imploding; he suspects her of having an affair, which she is, but it's not with anything he (or anyone) could possibly expect. To say any more would spoil the movie's many perverse surprises, but Adjani's wild performance as she becomes by possessed by something truly terrifying must be seen to be believed. Two words: subway scene. If you've seen Possession you'll know exactly what means. And if you haven't--what are you waiting for?
5. Amityville II: The Possession (1981)
1979's The Amityville Horror was a pretty pedestrian haunted house thriller, but the sequel was something very different. Like pretty much every Amityville sequel that has followed (and there have been a lot), it has very little to do with the first movie, instead just using the title and throwing in all manner of unwholesome fun. In this one, Burt Young--best known for playing Rocky's loveable pal Paulie--plays an abusive father who is targeted by something evil living in the basement. Before you know it, the whole family is possessed, with incest and shotgun murder providing the prelude to one of the most insane exorcism sequences in cinema.
4. Session 9 (2001)
One of the most underrated horror movies of the last two decades, Brad Anderson's Session 9 is a seriously unsettling experience. The movie focuses a clean-up crew who are sent into an abandoned mental hospital to sort an asbestos problem, but along the way become obsessed with the past history of its inmates via a series of therapy session recordings that have been left behind. The men get more and more disturbed the longer they spend in there, and the company's boss (Westworld's Peter Mullan) begins acting on some murderous impulses. Like Kubrick's The Shining, it's never entirely clear what has taken control of Mullan's mind, but like Jack Torrance, there is something within the walls of that building that turns a decent family man into an axe-wielding monster.
3. The Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2 (1981/1987)
While Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies are sometimes lumped in with the wave of zombie comedies happening around the same time in the early-to-mid '80s, the series's scary "Deadites" are actually demonically possessed rather than simply undead. In Evil Dead mythology, reading from the passages of the Necronomicon conjures up a Kandarian demon that chases its victims around until it can catch them and possess them. What that means in terms of the movies is Raimi whizzing his camera around, as the "eyes" of the demon chase its victims, until it catches up and takes control of their bodies. It is hapless hero Ash who is frequently tormented by the demons and transformed into a scary white-eyed Deadite, brought brilliantly (and hilariously) to "life" by genre god Bruce Campbell.
2.The Shining (1980)
The themes of possession in Stanley Kubrick's classic Stephen King adaptation take some time emerge. At first, we think we're just watching a writer go slowly insane from the isolation of the remote mountain hotel that he has taken his family to over a long winter. But gradually, it becomes more and more clear that Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is under the control of something more sinister. While King's novel is more overt about the demonic power that controls Torrance, Kubrick's interpretation is more ambiguous about the source of his insanity. Is it the spirit of Charles Grady, a man who also went mad and killed his family years earlier? Or perhaps Delbert Grady, the ghostly butler that Jack encounters in the Overlook. Or maybe the hotel itself? Kubrick doesn't provide any clear answers, but either way, it's one of the scariest movies ever made.
1. The Exorcist (1973)
The Exorcist is the granddaddy of possession movies, and many of the elements contained in William Friedkin's masterpiece have become shorthand for the genre. The endless stream of imitators that have followed over the next 40 years may have dulled its more horrific edges, especially for younger viewers who might be more familiar with the rip-offs and copies that the original. But the sheer level of brilliance is undeniable, and it still holds the power to unsettle like nothing else. Few of the possessed performers on this list have inhabited their roles quite like Linda Blair did. From the profanity and spinning heads, to pea-soup vomiting and unmentionable acts with a crucifix, Blair's performance (aided by the unforgettable voice of Mercedes McCambridge) terrified an entire generation of moviegoers.
For better or worse, a big part of what makes many great horror movies work is the fear of death. Whether it's being stabbed, hacked, turned into a vampire, or eaten by a werewolf, putting sympathetic characters in danger of dying unpleasantly keeps audiences scared and coming back for more. And there's no other type of horror that features more spectacular death scenes that the zombie movie.
Ever since George Romero reinvented the zombie film with his 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead, we've been watching the undead kill and eat the living in increasing gruesome and inventive ways. Some zombie movie death scenes are horrifying, some are hilarious, and others just plain disgusting and weird. But few horror filmmakers working with zombies pass up the opportunity to dispatch the living in memorable ways. So here's 11 of the greatest deaths from the last 50 years of zombie cinema…
11. Dead Snow (2009)
While zombie films can feel extremely familiar, every now and then one appears that throws something new into the mix. The wildly entertaining Dead Snow did this by not only making its zombies reanimated Nazis, it's also set in the snow-covered mountains of Norway. There's a particularly disgusting death about halfway through, when movie nerd Erland is set upon by the undead. First they stick their thumbs in his eyes, before tearing his entire head apart. Director Tommy Wikola seals the deal by cutting to a close-up of poor Erland's brain plopping out onto the floor. Mmmm.
10. Burial Ground (1981)
The worldwide success of Romero's Dawn of the Dead in 1978 inspired dozens of rip-offs and cash-ins, many of which were made in Italy. Burial Ground is hardly remembered as one of the best--frankly, it's terrible--but it does feature what has to be the weirdest, most perverse zombie kill in film history. During the climax, in which the living dead besiege a countryside mansion, a woman is reunited with her son Bark. This "kid" is supposed to be 10, but due to Italian rules about child actors being involved with scenes involving sex and violence, he was actually played a diminutive 25-year-old man. And if that wasn't weird enough, Bark has had a disturbing fixation on his mom throughout the movie. Their happy reunion is cut short when mom decides to start, erm, breast-feeding her son, who we discover is now a zombie. You can probably imagine the rest, although it's honestly best not to.
9. Zombieland (2009)
This is the one death on our list that's actually a human killing another human, but it's so good we had to include it. In the hilarious zombie comedy Zombieland, our band of heroes end up sheltering in a mansion. It turns out the house belongs to none other than comedy legend Bill Murray, playing himself. Ever the joker, Bill decides to scare Jesse Eisenberg's character Columbus by pretending to be a zombie; unfortunately for Bill, Columbus reacts by shooting him through the chest. As he lies dying, Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) asks him if he has any regrets. "Garfield, maybe" Murray deadpans, before expiring.
8. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
George Romero's classic Dawn of the Dead is so full of spectacular, inventive gore scenes it's hard to pick a favourite death. But there's one moment that typifies Romero's irreverent, witty approach to horror. At the end of the movie, a gang of marauding bikers loot the mall that our heroes have taken refuge in, letting hundreds of zombies in in the process. One of the bikers is so keen to use the blood pressure testing machine in the mall that he pops a quarter in, despite the fact that his colleagues are starting to be overwhelmed by the living dead. Of course, he doesn't last long either, and with his arm caught in the strap, is torn apart by zombies. Romero's brilliant punchline is to cut back to the severed arm, still in the machine. Blood pressure reading: zero.
7. Dead Alive (1992)
Long before he was bringing the works of JRR Tolkien to the screen with the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, Peter Jackson was known for his wild, inventive New Zealand horror comedies. 1992's Dead Alive (aka Braindead) is an outrageous zombie epic that features one of the most outrageously gory final sequences ever filmed. Earlier on there's the glorious scene in which Father McGruder--aka the kung fu priest--delivers the immortal line "I kick arse for the Lord!" and uses his martial arts skills on a couple of ravenous graveyard zombies. Sadly it doesn't end well. He takes a flying leap towards one creature, but misses and ends up impaling himself on the giant stone finger on a headstone, which is helpfully pointing to heaven.
6. Re-Animator (1985)
The 1980s was the decade of the horror comedy, and there are few better than Re-Animator. Stuart Gordon's brilliant adaptation of an HP Lovecraft short story features pitch-black laughs and gallons of gore, as mad doctor Herbert West attempts to bring the dead back to life with the help of his mysterious green fluid. West becomes a victim of his own success, when at the end of the movie, he is strangled by a set of reanimated intestines. OK, to be fair, the disappointing sequel Bride of Re-Animator, released 5 years later, reveals that West somehow survived. But we're counting this one because there's nothing in the original movie to suggest he gets out alive, and frankly, it's a spectacular way to go.
5. Shaun of the Dead (2005)
As the title of Edgar Wright's much-loved zom-rom-com suggests, Shaun of the Dead is a massive homage to the movies of George Romero. The film is packed with easter eggs and references to the great man's films, and the movie's most spectacular death scene is a clear tribute to the groundbreaking gore effects pioneered by Tom Savini in Romero's films. Comedian Dylan Moran plays the movie's "villain," a sneering, unlikable rival to Simon Pegg's hero Shaun, and his death is wonderfully satisfying moment. In true Romero style, he is pulled apart by zombies as he's dragged out of the window of the Winchester pub, his guts, limbs, and head getting passed around by the hungry dead.
4. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Romero's groundbreaking masterpiece set the template for the modern zombie movie, and invented many of the "rules" that still govern the genre to this day. While much of its violence seems tame by modern standards, it's still a damn scary film, with one particularly shocking moment. Helen Cooper, one of the main characters hiding out in a farmhouse, descends into the basement to discover her eight-year-old daughter Karen eating her husband Harry. As Helen falls to the floor in shock, zombie Karen stops munching on dad, picks up a trowel, and brutally hacks her mom to death.
3. Zombie (1979)
Also known as Zombi 2, Lucio Fulci's Italian shocker was the first of many Italian zombie rip-offs that followed the success of Dawn of the Dead. Fulci's horror movies were renowned for their spectacular gore (as well as their frequently nonsensical plots), and Zombie features one of his most notorious scenes. The movie set on a cursed Caribbean island where the dead are rising from their graves, and includes the moment when a woman is grabbed from the other side of a door by a zombie. In excruciatingly drawn-out style, she is pulled closer and closer to a large wooden splinter sticking out from the broken door, until it eventually enters her eye and impales her brain. Owwwww!
2. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Zack Snyder's 2004 reworking of the Romero classic is one of the best horror remakes to appear over the last couple of decades. It starts with a stunning sequence in which a normal suburban couple are woken one morning by their neighbor's young daughter, who is standing in the doorway of their bedroom. The man gets out of bed and is set upon by the girl, who has become a slavering zombie. His throat is torn out within seconds, and his wife barely makes it out of the house alive. It's one of the best, scariest openings in horror history.
1. Day of the Dead (1985)
Few zombie movies have ever matched the claustrophobic intensity of Romero's Day of the Dead. The movie focuses on a group of scientists who are living in a military bunker with a squad of soldiers, and the slow build-up of simmering tensions finally explodes in the last 30 minutes, as the dead invade the bunker. Perhaps the most iconic death scene in Romero's filmography occurs at the end, when the villainous Captain Rhodes meets his doom. Cornered by vengeful zombie soldier Bub, Rhodes is shot, then torn apart by the living dead. As he watches the lower half of his body dragged off down the corridor, he croaks his final words: "Choke on 'em… choke on 'em..."
By Anonymous on Oct 23, 2018 11:12 pm Joey and Rob websling their way through the DLC expansion, "The Heist" as well as the New Game Plus mode that was added recently to Marvel's Spider-Man.
This week's US PlayStation Store sale is now live, lowering prices on a selection of PS4, PS3, and PS Vita games. Better yet, the Sale of the Dead continues this week, giving those looking for frights a chance to save some cash. To top it off, a handful of first-party games have gotten permanent price drops. As usual, PS Plus members get an additional discount on some of these deals. Now let's take a look at the best games on sale between now and October 30.
Starting with the price drops, it's nice to see some of the year's biggest PS4 games leaving their original price tags behind. If you missed out on either God of War or Detroit: Become Human they're now available to buy for $40 each. Meanwhile, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and the PS4 remaster of Shadow of the Colossus are down to $20 apiece. These new prices aren't going anywhere, so you can pick them up at your leisure.
As for the temporary discounts, Epic is doing a Fortnite sale this week and next. During that time, you can get any Founders Pack on the PlayStation Store for half price. That includes the Standard Founder's Pack for $20, Deluxe for $30, Super Deluxe for $45, and Limited Edition for $75. Each one comes with the Save the World PvE mode, plus an array of in-game heroes, weapons, llamas, piñatas, and other digital goodies.
Thanks to the launch of its Battle Royale mode, Fortnite has enjoyed incredible levels of popularity. That's due in part to its availability as a free-to-play game. But Fortnite's original mode--the cooperative affair dubbed Save the World following the launch of Battle Royale--will also eventually move out of early access and be available as a free-to-play title. However, those plans have been delayed out of 2018, as developer Epic Games says it needs to progress on some reworks and additional features before it makes the switch.
In an update about its Save the World mode, Epic suggests that the popularity of Fortnite as a whole means it needs to be prepared for a large influx of new users once STW goes free for all.
"We're working on a broad set of features, reworks, and backend system scaling we believe are needed to go free-to-play," it said. "Scaling up for the legions of player heroes who will be joining the fight is key to providing an excellent experience. This applies to all of our players, old and new, so we're taking the time to get this right."
If you just can't wait for it to go free-to-play, Epic is hosting a 50% off sale for the Standard, Deluxe, Standard Deluxe, and Limited Founder's Packs starting later this week. That means that your cheapest option will be $20 soon, until it goes free. Founders will also get a Brainiac Jonesy and Skull Ranger Ramirez for free if they log on during the Fortnitemares Halloween event.
The update also details a big change to the Hero System to give you more flexibility in the loadouts, along with several front-end UI improvements.
The cooperative PvE Save the World mode was the original pitch for Fortnite, and has remained in development as the free-to-play PvP Battle Royale has exploded in popularity. It's fair to say the free version of the game has overshadowed its original vision, especially since the PvE isn't available for some versions, including the Nintendo Switch or mobile games. But at least some of its large audience is likely to jump into Save the World once it's free, so Epic is looking to be prepared.
If you need a hand on earning your rewards in Battle Royale, make sure to check out our challenge guide for this season.
The Spyro Reignited Trilogy is quickly approaching, bringing the mascot character back to his roots before his trip to Skylands. The latest trailer shows the little dragon and his surrounding cast looking better than ever.
The reignited trilogy features three Spyro games that hit the PlayStation from 1998-2000. That includes Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. The character was notable at the time for its characterization and animation, and that shows well in this visual overhaul. Developer Toys for Bob had its work cut out for it creating an updated style that remains true to the original, which required some filling in the gaps.
"When you look at the original game and you squint your eyes at it, there's a lot of imagination that you had to do at the time to fill in the blanks." Toys For Bob co-studio head Paul Yan told us. "For us, it's taking the game, and asking: What do people remember about this? It was important to start with the memories as opposed to how do you interpret exactly what's on the screen."
Pre-ordering can get you a Spyro keychain. There's only one version of the game, so you don't have to pick and choose between editions that are special or definitive. As a remaster of a classic trilogy, it comes in at a budget price of $40. It's due to release on November 13 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
WWE fans were shocked and saddened to hear the news on the October 22 episode of Raw that Universal Champion Roman Reigns was leaving the company, after revealing he has leukemia. Before exiting the ring, he laid his Universal Championship in the middle of the ring.
During the opening segment of the Monday night series, Reigns came down to the ring, with the title on his shoulder, and gave a heartfelt speech to the fans in attendance and those watching at home, breaking character to reveal that for the past 11 years, he's been battling with leukemia. "My real name is Joe, and I've been living with leukemia for 11 years," explained Reigns. "And unfortunately, it's back. And because the leukemia is back, I cannot fulfill my that role. I can't be that fighting champion. And I'm going to have to relinquish the Universal Championship.
A portion of the speech was tweeted out by WWE, which you can see below.
Reigns went on to say that he was diagnosed with leukemia at 22 years old, but the leukemia was quickly in remission. He stated that he didn't have a job or a home and football was done with him. On top of all that, Reigns had a child on the way.
"But you wanna know who gave me a chance? The team that gave me a chance was the WWE," continued Reigns. "When i finally made it to the main roster, and I was on the road, they put me in front of you, the WWE Universe, and y'all have made my dreams come true. It didn't matter if you cheered me. It didn't matter if you booed me. You've always reacted and that's the most important thing, and for that, I have to say thank you so much.
"Sometimes life throws you a curveball. And right now, the best thing for me to do is to go home and focus on my family and my health... But I want to make one thing clear. By no means is this a retirement speech. After I'm done whooping leukemia's ass once again, I'm coming back home. And when i do, it's not just gonna be about titles and being on top. It's about a purpose. I will beat this, and I will be back, and you will see me very, very soon."
Reigns laid the title in the middle of the ring and walked back up the ramp, where his brothers-in-arms Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins met him and gave him a hug. With tears in their eyes, they lined up their fists in the classic Shield pose one more time.
As with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Destiny 2, players who pick up Rockstar's highly anticipated western, Red Dead Redemption 2, on PS4 will get access to some timed-exclusive content. A handful of items for the main game and its online component, Red Dead Online, will be available on PS4 30 days before they roll out to Xbox One, and now Rockstar has shown them off in a new trailer.
The trailer, which you can watch below, showcases three Red Dead Redemption 2 items that PS4 players will have access to before their Xbox One counterparts. First is the Grizzlies Outlaw Outfit, a "slick but rugged look" that Rockstar says is "perfect for exploring the forests of Ambarino." The outfit will be available from the start both in the main game and Red Dead Online.
Additionally, PS4 players will have early access to a special horse and gun in Red Dead Online: the Red Chestnut Arabian Horse--which comes outfitted with the health- and stamina-boosting Alligator Skin Ranch Cutter Saddle--and the High Roller Double Action Revolver. You can read more about the items on the PlayStation Blog.
As of now, these are the only three timed-exclusive Red Dead items that Rockstar has announced, but the trailer suggests that other timed-exclusive content for Red Dead Online is on the way. Red Dead Online will launch as a beta in November, roughly a month after the main game releases, although we still don't know too much about it. However, Rockstar warns players to expect some teething problems when the beta first begins.
Red Dead Redemption 2 launches for PS4 and Xbox One on October 26. The game will be available in several editions that come with some bonus items; you can read more in our Red Dead Redemption 2 pre-order guide. If you're thinking about getting the game digitally, however, you're going to need a lot of space, as Rockstar has confirmed RDR 2's file size on both platforms. It also appears the game's full map has leaked ahead of launch.
Update: Epic has released yet another Fortnite event teaser, this one reaffirming that Fortnitemares will begin on Wednesday, October 24. The tweet reads, "The crack of lightning / Illuminates your wins / Arise, dark ones- / The fight begins." It's accompanied by the image below, which doesn't include a look at any of the inevitable new skins we'll get as part of the event.
Original Story: Epic has begun teasing an apparent Halloween event for Fortnite, titled Fortnitemares. The event will kick off this Wednesday, October 24 and last through Monday, November 26. It promises "spooky rewards" for completing special Fortnitemares challenges, and uses a variation on the Season 6 theme, "Darkness has risen."
One such reward could be a skin that Epic appears to be teasing through Twitter. Three images have been revealed so far, and at least two of them look like they fit together like a puzzle. The Fortnitemares rewards will probably go through both the Battle Royale and Save the World modes, since Epic has announced that you can win a couple of skins by logging onto Save the World during the event.
That same announcement gave word that the Save the World mode, which had been planned for release as a free-to-play mode this year, won't be switching to free after all. That means to earn any Fortnitemare rewards you'll need to be a founder, but the studio is offering those packages at half-price.
The whole season is fairly creepy, and its biggest Battle Pass reward is the Dire Wolf skin that changes you into more and more of a werewolf as you level it up. We've also seen a slow drip of special Halloweenskins. For more Halloween events, check out our Halloween roundup.
After spending some time raiding dungeons and crushing bosses on the new Nintendo Switch version of Diablo III, Tamoor and Dave sit down and talk about the best parts of the game.
You'll have to wait a little longer for the return of Diana.
Joey and Rob websling their way through the DLC expansion, "The Heist" as well as the New Game Plus mode that was added recently to Marvel's Spider-Man.
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