Red Dead Redemption 2 has a lot of different weapons (over 50) with multiple types of ammunition for each one. Here’s what you need to know about dealing with weapons in Red Dead Redemption 2. Getting to know your weaponsBroadly speaking (very broadly), there are two types of weapons in Red Dead Redemption 2: sidearms and longarms (we’re skipping your knife). When you look at a weapon in your L1/LB wheel (or in a gunsmith’s catalogue), you’ll be able to see that weapon’s stats. Some of the custo

A new Star Trek animated comedy series is on its way to CBS All Access, Variety reported on Thursday morning. The animated comedy series, which was given an order for two seasons, will be called Star Trek: Lower Decks and will be developed by Rick and Morty writer Mike McMahan. While “Lower Decks” is also the name of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation — in which junior officers vie for a promotion, this series won’t be much like previous Star Trek shows. The new animated Trek series, w

On the face of it, the Marvel Comics character Black Cat could seem like a complete ripoff of DC Comics’ Catwoman. Catwoman predates Black Cat by several decades, and they’re both infamous female cat burglars who wear black, skintight costumes. And that brings us to one major difference between Black Cat and Catwoman: Black Cat can cause people to have bad luck. You might be able to argue that that costume was ripping off Black Cat’s black catsuit … but Black Cat’s costume doesn’t have a tail

This month’s remake of Suspiria opens with fresh-faced Susie (Dakota Johnson) achieving her dream of joining the illustrious Helena Markos Dance Company. If you haven’t yet seen Dario Argento’s Suspiria from 1977 and are interested in either film, I would hold off on the original until after you’ve seen the remake. Rest assured, in the end Suspiria manages to avoid this cliche, although without really substituting an alternative in its place. Suspiria won’t appeal to everyone. Suspiria debuts in

In this storyline, we are treated to another surprising twist: Jason’s former dance squadmate/rival Donkey Doug is actually his Donkey Dad. It would’ve broken up my whole break dancing crew and Donkey Doug was our best pop-and-locker. We were called “Dance Dance Resolution: We Resolve to Dance.” One day, Donkey Doug and I got into a fight because I’d framed his girlfriend for boogie board theft. He gives a passionate speech to the 59 other members of Dance Dance Resolution about working hard to

Since its launch in 2016, I’ve heard only enthusiasm and praise for Reigns (and its sequel Reigns: Her Majesty). I have no good excuse for this, but it’s taken me a shamefully long time to finally play a Reigns game. Game of Thrones is a good choice for a game about making leadership choices. A tornado of whimsSome of the desires of Martin’s characters come through in Reigns: Game of Thrones’ structure and its writing. Reigns: Game of Thrones contains enough problems, paths and missions to susta

World War 3 had its big coming-out party earlier this year during Gamescom. This combined-arms, tactical shooter feels a lot like Battlefield 4, but with bigger maps and all the training wheels taken off. That sort of strategy has always been easy for me to port over to whatever game I’m playing at the time, whether it’s a Call of Duty, a Battlefield or something else. So far in WW3, I’m running with a high-powered Israeli assault rifle with a dynamic angled foregrip for added stability. By pari

Fast travel in Red Dead Redemption 2 takes on a few different forms. Each one will prove useful in its own way as you travel the vast expanse of Red Dead Redemption 2’s world. Stagecoaches and trainsStagecoaches and trains are forms of fast travel in Red Dead Redemption 2, but they’ll cost you. Actual fast travelTraditional video game fast travel becomes available after you upgrade your lodgings at the Van der Linde Gang’s camp. Keep in mind that this form of fast travel only works one way — fro

Your gang’s camp in Red Dead Redemption 2 is your base of operations. People, icons and suppliesMost of the icons around the camp are places for you to restock on supplies like tonics, provisions and ammunition. Like other wagons, supplies here depend on how well your camp is stocked. Red icons mean your camp is low, white means you’re OK, and yellow means you’re well-stocked. How well-stocked your camp’s wagons are is really up to you.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game that wants to be absorbed slowly, and with that comes a lot of built-in vagueness that will become clear with time. Luckily, there are a lot of settings in the menu that you can toggle to help you keep track of what’s going on. Speakers and subtitlesRed Dead Redemption 2 is full of gruff outlaws who spend a lot of time speaking to each other while riding their horses. In your Settings menu, go to Settings > Display, then scroll down and turn on Subtitles and Subti

Horses are a big part of Red Dead Redemption 2. Here’s everything you need to know about dealing with your equine friends in Red Dead Redemption 2. As you do things out in the world with your horse, you’ll earn bonding points (think of it like a specific kind of XP). Stables also offer grooming for your horse(s) that lets you change the style and color of your horse’s mane and tail. Once you get it to a stable, you’ll be able to sell it or stable it (at which point you own it).

Red Dead Redemption 2’s cores system manages your health, stamina and dead eye. CoresYou have cores for Arthur’s health, stamina and dead eye, as well as cores for your horse’s stamina and health. For example, you can see your stamina core drain when you sprint and your health core drain when you take damage. Dead eye is activeYour dead eye core and ring control how often and how long you can use your bullet-time ability. Horse cores and ringsHorse cores and rings work almost exactly like your o

One of the more complicated challenges for week five of Fortnite Season 6 is here to give players the need for speed — a very modest speed that’s still almost 20 under the legal limit. To complete this challenge, players will have to drive by five different Radar Signs while going at least 27 — it’s not really clear if this is miles per hour or kilometers an hour or some entirely made up way of measuring speed. Once you’ve found a fast enough vehicle — there should be a few at most named locatio

Fallout 76 is an online multiplayer game, and Bethesda has insisted that there are no human characters in the game that aren’t actual players. I was interacting with other human characters in the quest, however. There was never any shock or tension in these reveals, because I was already told that the story wouldn’t have any human characters in the narrative. The unexpected outcome of this strategy for the game’s story is that Bethesda created an introduction to Fallout 76 that resembled Idiocra

Rockstar hasn’t announced a Windows PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2, so all I can do is speculate. The pessimistic take: The original Red Dead Redemption has yet to be released on PC, so why would Red Dead Redemption 2 get special treatment? Red Dead Online will be available to all owners of Red Dead Redemption 2 on PS4 and Xbox One, with a few items exclusive to PS4 owners for 30 days. The Dead Eye system from the original Red Dead Redemption returns, allowing you to slow time to a crawl an

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The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive esports pro who was caught cheating over this weekend has been handed a five-year ban by the Esports Integrity Coalition. Nikhil “forsaken” Kumawat was caught using and even trying to delete an aimbot hack during this past weekend’s Extremesland Zowie Asia CS:GO 2018 tournament in Shanghai. But Kumawat’s ban instead pertains to cheating in an earlier tournament, the ESL India Premiership, which OpTic India won. After the news of Kumawat’s cheating spread, ESI

The team behind the Star Citizen project has received plenty of grief over the years for what many perceive as a bad case of feature creep. Reaction to the recent addition of face over internet protocol (FOIP) technology has been particularly savage, including here at Polygon where we called it horrifying. The new FOIP technology has been created in partnership with Faceware Technologies. The clip starts out simple enough, with a long zooming pan in on an avatar seated inside one of the Star Cit

Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake is once again available to purchase from online marketplaces like Steam, GOG.com and the Humble Store. The developer confirmed in a tweet that it was able to sell Alan Wake again with help from Microsoft. In May 2017, the company announced that it would no longer be able to sell Alan Wake after running into problems with music rights. Humble and GOG have similar deals running, also pricing Alan Wake at $2.99. Now is an especially good time to try out Alan Wake; a

Kingdom Rush: Vengeance — the fourth title in the Kingdom Rush franchise — will be released for iOS and Android devices on Nov. 22. Unlike other Kingdom Rush games, Vengeance is all about the bad guys. As always, Kingdom Rush: Vengeance will offer player-controlled heroes to fight alongside their allied towers. Kingdom Rush: Vengeance’s developer, Ironhide, has been responsible for Kingdom Rush, Kingdom Rush: Frontiers, and Kingdom Rush: Origins. It’s currently unclear if Kingdom Rush: Vengeance