Discord officially launched the beta of its new store, which the company announced back in August, in every region today. The Discord Store is open to all users and has games from a variety of publishers. Also coming to the store are a few games that are “First on Discord,” meaning that they’ll be available exclusively on the Discord Store for a certain time. Access to this list of around 60 games will be included in the $9.99 monthly cost of Discord Nitro. Finally, today’s store update adds the

With Festival of the Lost comes Destiny 2 patch 2.0.4. So before you log in today, here are the five things you need to know about Destiny 2’s new patch. According to the very vague patch notes, scout rifle damage has been increased against combatants. Tracking quests just got easierWith patch 2.0.4, you now have the ability to track three separate items at once. If you want to track another item, you’ll need to un-track one of the quests you already have checked.

The fourth generation of Pokémon has started to appear in Pokémon Go, which means there’s a reason to go out into the wild again. Just don’t expect to be able to catch everything currently available from the Sinnoh region without some traveling, because there are already new region-exclusive Pokémon in the wild. The Silph Road community is crowdsourcing data on which gen-four Pokémon players have found and where, and three stand out as the rarest thus far. Carnivine has been found in the southea

Crysis is now playable on the Xbox One, along with sequels Crysis 2 and Crysis 3. News comes courtesy of Microsoft spokesperson Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb today on Twitter. The game dropped just two years into the life cycle of the Xbox 360, leading to jeers from die-hard PC enthusiasts, who asked, “Yeah, but can it run Crysis?” The Xbox 360 port was finally released in October 2011. News of the addition of the Crysis games only serves to highlight Microsoft’s impressive list of backward-compatib

Sony’s PlayStation Network is currently experiencing some issues with account management, gaming and social features, although details are scant about how many people are affected or when the problems will be fixed. The only notice of the issues was a tweet that pointed players toward the official site for checking the availability. We’re aware that some users are experiencing issues logging into PSN. Thanks for your patience as we investigate: https://t.co/AHRZfHtRvq — Ask PlayStation (@AskPlay

In this week’s Quality Control podcast, we discuss the newest edition to the Call of Duty franchise, a battle royale mode called Blackout. At a glance, it looks like many other battle royale games on the market. It obviously doesn’t have the building from Fortnite, but it’s a faster-paced, military-style battle royale game. Austen: Sometimes, in other battle royale games, it is more limited by where the plane comes. I think in a way this abandons the survival tropes that the battle royale genre

Drew Goddard’s follow-up to Cabin in the Woods, Bad Times at the El Royale, is full of twists and turns, but one of the biggest questions is just sort of skipped over by the film. note: this post contains major spoilers for Bad Times at the El Royale]Just about every mystery movie starts with a crime being committed by a shadowy figure. So, too, in Bad Times at the El Royale, which begins with Nick Offerman getting a back full of buckshot after tenaciously burying a sack of cash. I kept waiting

Profiting off mental healthAfter Memeology 101’s videos, various creators and viewers accused DeFranco and BetterHelp of promoting a “scam app,” and profiting off mental illness. Rogue Rocket reached out to BetterHelp to inquire about a sponsorship, but DeFranco told Polygon he initially used the app prior to their first meeting. DeFranco did, however, address one of the most contentious points within the YouTube community about the controversy — his take in other YouTube creators sponsorships.

Pokémon is art in the same way that a sandwich — or an arrangement of stuff on your desk, or a urinal — is art. That is to say, of course the monster-collecting phenomenon is art, a truth made clearer thanks to a collaboration between the Pokémon Center and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, inspired by the classic painting The Scream. A line of Pokémon trading cards will soon be available at both the museum and the storefront, each one featuring a Pokémon mimicking the classic pose from Edvard

Epic Games has always said that Fortnite players would have a way to take on the pros, and with the newly announced in-game tournament system, it looks like that’s finally here. The in-game tournaments, which were announced this afternoon, will be added to the game in patch v6.10 and open to every single Fortnite player, regardless of platform or control scheme. The first of these in-game tournaments is going to be the Alpha Tournament, a solo event that kicks off Oct. 16 and runs through Oct. 2

Rockstar Games renewed the ongoing conversation of game industry crunch after co-founder Dan Houser suggested in a New York Magazine interview that the development team worked multiple 100-hour weeks on Red Dead Redemption 2. Houser told the magazine that the entire script of Red Dead Redemption 2, if stacked, “would be eight feet high,” and that the game features 500,000 lines of dialogue. What it is, though, is dangerous — an implication that spending almost all your waking hours working is so

Players have found that the game will occasionally get confused, and set them on a loading screen that appears to be for Oryx’s Dreadnaught — the primary location in Destiny: The Taken King, which is not a playable location in Destiny 2. This glitch — along with the Dreadnaught music that can be found in Destiny 2’s files — suggests that players could be returning to Oryx’s Dreadnaught soon. Oryx’s Dreadnaught is shown in this cutscene directly after the Reef — the area that much of Forsaken tak

Starlink: Battle for Atlas, out today, is a new toys-to-life game from Ubisoft. Turns out that you don’t need the expensive physical toys to play the game at all. Each additional physical ship bundle, which comes with another pilot and some additional weapons, costs another $24.99. Grid View The contents of the physical edition of Starlink: Battle for Atlas for the Nintendo Switch. Ubisoft via TwitterAn assortment of Starlink toys shown at PAX West.

In a recent interview with Vulture, Peter Dinklage opened up about the final days of shooting Game of Thrones. It’s just, ‘That’s a wrap on Peter Dinklage,’” the actor told Vulture. A lot of people whom I love were on set that day. Though he was tight-lipped about the details, Dinklage says he is satisfied with Tyrion’s end. I think he was given a very good conclusion.” He added, “No matter what that is — death can be a great way out.”The final season of Game of Thrones will air in 2019.

The role of Alfred Pennyworth in Epix’s Pennyworth will be played by Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game) and will start filming in Warner Bros.’ Leavesden studios on Oct. 22. Epix announced that it had given Pennyworth a series order in May 2018, but not much has been heard from the production until now. The show will be set in 1960s England and follow Alfred Pennyworth, a baby-faced former British special forces operative who starts his own security company and winds up working with a young billio

Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, creators of the BBC’s Sherlock, are trading the consulting detective for Count Dracula himself, as they take on Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel. The miniseries will be written and created by the duo and follow the same format as Sherlock with three 90-minute episodes. Gatiss and Moffat have been associated with a Dracula project produced by Hartswood Films since June 2017, but this is the first real news of the project since then. Dracula will take place in 189

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has expanded the refined the Specialist character system from Black Ops 3, and one character’s special ability has been causing a combination of anger and angst when it’s deployed on the battlefield. It feels horrible when I’m killed by this dog, but killing the dog before that happens feels even worse. Dogs have existed as killstreaks and scorestreaks in past Black Ops games, but the attack dog of Black Ops 4 is just Nomad’s special ability; no need to be on a roll to

Pokémon: Let’s Go! But when I tried out both catching a Pokémon and fighting a trainer with a Pokémon Company rep, I found that Let’s Go!’s difficulty dropped way, way down. “There’s no getting around it,” admitted Junichi Masuda, director of Pokémon: Let’s Go! “There are some difficult trainer battles in the game, so [kids] may have trouble in the game,” said Masuda. Just like how Pokémon Go’s battles are more entertaining than they look, so too are Let’s Go!’s battles.

Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3: Eternal Collection is coming to Nintendo Switch on Nov. 2. To commemorate the launch of that game, Nintendo and Blizzard have teamed up for a Switch hardware bundle that, in the United States at least, will be exclusive to GameStop. The Diablo 3: Eternal Collection Switch bundle includes a download code for the game, a Diablo-themed carrying case and the console, with Diablo artwork on the system and its dock, for $359.99. Nintendo’s Diablo 3 Switch bundle drop

After watching it on a 100-foot IMAX screen, I can’t imagine seeing it any other way. So why, you may ask, is it worth finding a true IMAX screen to see this film? You can see the sequence in a featurette that IMAX released online prior to the movie’s debut, but it simply cannot and does not compare to watching it unfold on a true IMAX screen. First Man imparts a sense of stepping out onto an alien worldLess is moreChazelle’s use of IMAX in First Man is masterful. Nolan went from a total of 28 m