Red Dead Redemption had an impressive soundtrack — we’re still fans of the theme “Compass” by Jamie Lidell — and Red Dead Redemption 2 is no different. That would be D’Angelo, whose Black Messiah was one of the best albums of 2014. His career spans more than two decades, although he’s as well known for his incisive R&B as his infrequent output. The song that shows up in Red Dead Redemption 2, “May I? Standing Unshaken — Oh Traveller Have a Seat,” is his first new release since Black Messiah.

The latest Google Doodle, the company’s stylized redesigns of the Google logo for its homepage, is a competitive multiplayer game. Titled The Great Ghoul Duel, it’s a capture-the-flag-style battle between eight players, and you can try it out in your browser. The Great Ghoul Duel has players compete as two teams of four, each tasked with collecting spirit flames scattered around the map and returning them to their home base. Google calls The Great Ghoul Duel its “first-ever multiplayer interacti

Battlefield 1 will be available free to Xbox Live Gold subscribers in November as part of the Games With Gold program, Microsoft announced Tuesday. It’s a smart move by Microsoft and Battlefield publisher Electronic Arts — the next entry in the military franchise, the World War II shooter Battlefield 5, will debut Nov. 20. Battlefield 1 will be free all month long, and the other Xbox One game for November is Flippfly’s Race the Sun; it will be free from Nov. 16 through Dec. 15. On the Xbox 360 b

Battlefield 5, the World War II multiplayer shooter being released on Nov. 20, will not launch with the option to purchase premium currency with real-world money. Premium currency, called Battlefield Currency, will be sold for real-world money, but will only be used to unlock cosmetic items. “Battlefield Currency can be used to acquire specific cosmetic items for your Company,” McArthur wrote. Learn about ranks, rewards you can unlock as you play as well as the currencies of Battlefield V: https

Patch 2.0.5 brings much needed changes to the game, as well as a new quest as part of Festival of the Lost. Here are five things you need to know before logging into to Destiny 2 today. For a full list of changes, check out the patch notes on Bungie’s website. Exotic duplicate changesIt’s been a long, fruitless road of exotic grinding for players over the last six weeks since Forsaken released. Thankfully, patch 2.0.5 changes the game to prevent frequent duplicates from dropping.

The Blackout Club, a co-operative survival horror game by indie studio Question, launches in Early Access today on Windows PC via Steam. The Blackout Club has been designed with drop-in/drop-out multiplayer in mind. Since April, Question has shown off The Blackout Club at PAX West and conducted a closed beta. A news release today said the Early Access version will feature content not seen in either, including new locations to explore, more character customization, and new missions. The Blackout

Andy Muschietti, the director of last summer’s box office smash It, will direct a feature film version of Attack on Titan, one of Japan’s most popular manga and anime series, Variety reported on Monday night. Attack on Titan is written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. Attack on Titan will be Muschietti’s third film for Warner Bros. which produced last year’s It: Volume 1 and will produce It: Volume 2, which is due out next year. Muschietti’s first It film proved to be a massive success, pullin

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Netflix’s Riverdale-adjacent, new series, premiered this Friday just in time for the Halloweekend. But there’s a bigger, theory-ready mystery brewing, and it makes the conclusion both fulfilling and primed for a second season. Madame Satan takes advantage of this, summoning an evil so strong that it threatens both the witches and the mortals. In the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comics, Sabrina’s father, Edward Spellman, was the Big Bad who originally messed with

Hello again — The History of Fun is back for season two, y’all. This time around, Plante, Russ and I are narrowing our research scope to bring you something seasonally appropriate. Russ recalls the story of Mischief Night, a.k.a. Devil’s Night, a.k.a. Reply with any memories of Devil’s/Mischief Night (aka the night before Halloween).

Now it appears that the developers who labored to produce Red Dead Redemption 2 may have snuck a reference to their working conditions into the game. Arthur Morgan, the game’s protagonist, starts out with a six-shooter known as the Cattleman Revolver. At that point, the player can visit a gunsmith and buy a second Cattleman Revolver to give Arthur twice the stopping power. The Cattleman Revolver’s description in Red Dead Redemption 2 may just be some jokey flavor text, the kind that is peppered

Red Dead Redemption 2 seems like a lock for game of the year, thanks to its rich narrative, dynamic systems and diverse gameplay. Developing a modern video game is one thing, but teaching people to play it is something else entirely. Red Dead Redemption 2 is remarkably complex, and tasked with spoon-feeding the player a lot of narrative content alongside gameplay mechanics. Take the game’s cover mechanic, for example. That kind of conditional use of the square button isn’t made explicitly clear

If your Halloween plans are less focused on dressing up to score free candy and more about playing games into the wee hours of the night, Steam has a Halloween-themed sale just for you. The offerings are mainly horror-themed, but just about anything dark, scary or otherwise with a tangential connection to Halloween is on sale right now. Steam’s Halloween sale runs Oct. 29 to Nov. 1. Here’s a selection of some of the top sellers currently on sale (which, yes, includes Rocket League, currently hol

Sony was perhaps doomed from the start in curating a perfect lineup for the PlayStation Classic. Let’s walk through a few potential reasons why the PlayStation Classic is missing so many of the console’s standout games. The publishers may have opted to keep the classic games off the PlayStation Classic to avoid cannibalizing sales of their stand-alone, upgraded software. Most of the PlayStation’s best games were third-partyNintendo has made most of the best games on its consoles. But for retro t

Red Dead Redemption 2 is going to be the best visual showpiece for the Xbox One X this year, and likely will remain so for some time. Retailers are running a special where you can save $100 on the purchase of an Xbox One X if you buy it with Red Dead Redemption 2. But Amazon may have the best deal here: an Xbox One X bundled with Fallout 76 for only $399.99 if you purchase it with Red Dead Redemption 2. While you don’t need a 4K television for an Xbox One X, the console doesn’t make a lot of sen

When they log in to the game, players will see their friends and other Tetris Effect players represented as glowing, particle-based avatars, like birds and manta rays, orbiting the Earth. In addition to Journey Mode, a variety of so-called Effect Modes are included to add diversity to the puzzle-based gameplay. Focus game modes are designed to make players concentrate on their gameplay and, according to Tetris Effect director Tetsuya Mizuguchi, “energize” players. The Adventurous category is whe

Games Workshop launched the eighth edition of its flagship Warhammer 40,000 tabletop miniatures game just last year. Games WorkshopThe vehicle in the foreground, called the Shokkjump Dragsta, is exclusive to the Speed Freeks standalone game. Games WorkshopThe $150 version of the Speed Freeks game. Games WorkshopThe $330 version of Speed Freeks includes even more vehicles. That includes a new Ork trike, a rocket-propelled fast-attack vehicle, a more traditional four-wheeled war buggy and a weapon

Today the team at Hello Games is launching a massive new update for No Man’s Sky. Called The Abyss, it focuses on expanding gameplay in underwater environments. “We wanted to focus on improving underwater,” said Hello Games, “and also on some of the eerier elements of the game for Halloween. Hello Games said that it’s added five underwater biomes for players to discover and filled them with greater quantities of “more interesting” creatures. Hello Games said that it’s completely reworked underwa

Bethesda has been a champion of the Nintendo Switch during the system’s early life, porting games like Skyrim, Doom and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus to Nintendo’s hybrid console and portable. We’re guys who will take some risks.”But Bethesda’s latest game, Fallout 76, won’t be coming to Nintendo Switch. The company discusses each new release to see if it’s something that could work on the Switch, and Fallout 76 didn’t make the cut for what sounds like technical reasons. “If the game will work

For some reason, I thought it might be a good idea to do something similar with the Elder Scrolls series. Instead, I decided to take on the much more flashy and exciting task of reading every single published book in Skyrim. I was only interested in the pieces of fiction that have an ISBN, or whatever the equivalent is in Tamriel. So here I am, exploring the 337 books of Skyrim, and giving you my top five picks. Think of this as Oprah’s Book Club, but for elves.