Last year, Rockstar Games sent GTA Online players on a wild goose hunt for the Double-Action Revolver, a new weapon inspired by its other critically acclaimed open world series, Red Dead Redemption, in anticipation of the release of its upcoming sequel, Red Dead Redemption 2. Better yet, Chilliad Mystery Guru’s full walkthrough video reveals that getting 25 kills with the Stone Hatchet will unlock the weapon exclusively for players in Red Dead Redemption 2, once the game launches on October 28.

We love the HyperX Alloy Elite RGB. There’s something to be said for a functional piece of kit that spruces the place up a bit, and the HyperX Alloy Elite RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard ticks all the boxes and then some. If you want more, here are the best gaming keyboard options for 2018. HyperX Alloy Elite RGB – DesignThe HyperX Alloy Elite RGB is, for all intents and purposes, the same as the HyperX Alloy Elite, which features a red backlight, rather than the RGB’s resplendent rainbow of colo

The late Carrie Fisher will return in Star Wars 9 , and director JJ Abrams has explained how the movie will bring Leia Organa’s actress back for the final part of the new trilogy. Fisher died in December 2016, a year before Star Wars: The Last Jedi came to theaters but after her filming had already been completed. Since then, there’s been no end of uncertainty about whether or how Star Wars 9 would feature Leia, the character she’s embodied since the original Star Wars in 1977; fans wondered if

Watching Castle Rock as a longtime Stephen King fan feels like coming home. All the way through there are references, large and small, to Stephen King stories. It’s fitting for a show based in Castle Rock, a longtime King location, and you’ll be able to smell the smugness coming off King fans as they count up their fan points for spotting every connection. Sissy Spacek does sterling work as Deaver’s mother struggling with dementia, but it’s impossible for a King fan to see her without her famous

“While we’ve never charged money for prize crates in Forza Motorsport 7, their presence in the game has continued to be a source of controversy,” he wrote. After careful consideration, we have decided to completely remove prize crates from Forza Motorsport 7. Similarly, paid tokens – which were a part of previous Forza games – will not be coming to Forza Motorsport 7 or Forza Horizon 4.” That’s fantastic news for any racers who loathes the uncertainty of loot crates – and you’ll probably notice

Battlefield 5 has big ambitions to change up the 16-year-old shooter series, and its new Grand Operations mode might be the most daring of all. Electronic Arts and DICE revealed that Grand Operations will go live “shortly after launch” in a post on Battlefield 5’s official website . If you’re not familiar with the concept, Battlefield 5’s Grand Operations are a sort of uber-multiplayer that meld together new and classic Battlefield modes. In other words, Grand Operations are like Battlefield 1 O

Fortnite ‘s gone back to basics with its latest Showdown Limited-Time Mode, and it’s pumped up the V-Bucks prize pool for contenders across all regions. The Solo Showdown LTM is playable now through 7am PDT / 10 am EDT / 3 pm BST on Monday, July 30th. You’ll have to finish 25 matches by then to qualify for the final standings, so you’d better get busy. There are no special in-match rules variants to keep in mind for this Solo Showdown LTM; it plays exactly like the usual Fortnite: Battle Royale

So while none will be too surprised at the news of another free trial for Blizzard’s near perfect hero shooter on PC this week, this one’s worth paying attention to. Handy for keeping things fresh if you’re running multiple playthroughs of the main story campaign. Fortnite: Save The World is still 50% off, but is it worth buying for the V-bucks alone? For months now rumours have been swirling around about Save The World following in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Fortnite Battle Ro

In a first for team sports games, EA is introducing the ability to create female players in NBA Live 19. This time out you won’t only be limited to that single mode, says EA. Marquee mode The One enables you to carve out a career using created female players, with the same progression trees and unlockables (such as fresh gear) as those offered to male characters. Men and women can play on the same team in the mode, and Icon Abilities based on legendary female players such as Candace Parker are a

Two years after launch No Man’s Sky is reborn with its new NEXT update. Let’s work through some the more important changes and what they mean for this new and improved No Man’s Sky. Multiplayer means you can finally explore the galaxy with friendsThe ability to play properly with other people has been No Man’s Sky biggest request pretty much from day one. You can now customise your character and play in third personYou’re no longer a bodiless presence in No Man’s Sky. The space stations aren’t e

“When we saw the EA press conference, and Skate 4 was a no show… yeah, we have to admit it was quite a relief.” explains Houde, creā-ture Studio’s co-founder and Session’s Creative Director. “We were the only people who were actively hoping for Skate 4 not to show up! So maybe skateboarding games are the same. “But Session is a live project, and something that we want to keep building, so the soundtrack will have cycles. We still have a lot to prove, but if our game encourages other studios to m

In Early Riser, the entire human population hibernates for four months every year… well, almost the entire population. Charlie Worthing is one of the Winter Consuls, the misfits tasked with ensuring the safe passage of the sleeping masses. It gets serious when the dreams start to kill people. Then Charlie starts getting the dreams too – and they start to come true…Early Riser is available in hardback, ebook and audiobook formats from 2 August. To put your name in the hat for the chance to win on

The Walking Dead season 9 is undergoing a fair few changes, to put it mildly. Not only is there a new villain on the way, but both Rick and Maggie are departing the show very, very soon. We’ve heard plenty about Andrew Lincoln saying his goodbyes but, as of yet, very little from Lauren Cohan – until now. Needless to say, the opening six episodes will be well worth watching just to see how two of the show’s longest-serving stalwarts bow out. Or maybe, just maybe, riding off into the sunset?

Read more The best upcoming games of 2018Meanwhile, H1Z1: Battle Royale released a PS4 Beta in May, racking up an impressive 10+ million player count in the process, and is officially launching the game next month, on August 7, as explained by H1Z1’s producer Terrence Yee in a PS Blog post. Yes, H1Z1 is getting a Battle Pass, complete with 45 day seasons, 30 unlock tiers, and an in-game currency that can be used to buy different items on an ad-hoc basis. On top of that, Daybreak will be adding a

If the loot cave taught us anything, it’s that Destiny players are in it for the shiny loot as much as the space-wreck aesthetic and stories about warring intergalactic races. Bungie knows this only too well, and is happy to feed our sickness with a preview of the Exotics you can expect from upcoming Destiny 2 expansion, Forsaken . Personally, I like the attention-grabbing visuals of the Voice of Thousands Trace rifle, which shoots “an exploding beam of fire.” Ready for Destiny 2: Forsaken on Se

You can play Street Fighter 2 on just about anything these days, but there will always be something special about sidling up to a cabinet and choosing your fighter. Typically, you’d have to spend thousands on buying and maintaining an original arcade cabinet, or put a ton of work into building your own emulated facsimile. Street Fighter 2 Arcade 1Up cabinet for $299 (save $100) at Walmart: The seminal fighting game comes to your living room with the Champion Edition, Turbo, and The New Challenge

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the final game in the rebooted trilogy that refreshed the Lara Croft mythos, taking us back to her first adventures. “You can’t kill Lara Croft!” We have no plan on our side on Eidos Montreal for the next Tomb Raider at all. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider the storyline deals with the actual apocalypse, and will see Lara become the Tomb Raider of the title. “This trilogy is not about the Tomb Raider franchise – it’s about Lara Croft,” explains Anfossi.

No Man’s Sky has multiplayer now, and you’ll probably want some friends with you in case you encounter one of the unpublicised new features in the big NEXT update. That way someone can hear you scream when you discover your first swarm of biological horrors. I’m not trying to sensationalize anything here, that’s what they’re called: biological horrors. No Man’s Sky has grown in many ways since it launched two years ago – a deeper narrative, base building, community led Star Fleet-style federatio

After all, the Xbox Project Scarlett is expected to drop sometime in 2020, so we’re in for a bit of a wait. Until there, here’s everything we know so far about Xbox Project Scarlett. First we got the codename – Xbox Project Scarlett – and then reports on Elder Scrolls 6, CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 and Microsoft’s own Halo Infinite all being destined to launch on PS5 and Xbox Project Scarlett. Like the main console, Xbox Project Scarlett Cloud is also slated for a 2020 release date. If rumou

It’s been quite a couple of days for Fortnite fans. Last week, a captured scene from a match of Battle Royale went viral, showing streamer Muselk attempting to rescue someone trapped on the side of the island, before accidentally killing them with a ATK buggy in true tragi-comic fashion. There have been some successful ceremonies, and I’m sure plenty of civil interactions have taken place unrecorded, but what do you expect? This is Battle Royale, and players are going to do whatever it takes to