As with the other Shattered Realm locations we've visited in the Season of the Lost in Destiny 2, the Ruins of Wrath hides some strange secrets. These Ascendant Mysteries are longer, more involved story beats hidden within the Ascendant Plane that demonstrate what's going on this season and why the Ascendant Realm is so important. In the Ruins of Wrath, the Hive-focused Shattered Realm area modeled after the moon, the Hive god of war, Xivu Arath, is up to something, and you need to uncover it and stop it.There are two Ascendant Mysteries to uncover in the Ruins of Wrath, each tied to one of the beacons you need to align as you're working your way through the area. Here's where you can find both Ascendant Mysteries and what you need to do to solve them.Lord Of The UndercroftAfter aligning the first beacon, this pressure plate will activate in The Warbringer's Tower area, allowing you to unlock the tower's front door. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

George Lucas may have parted ways with Star Wars when Disney purchased the property back in 2012, but now he's joining the evil Empire--as an action figure. Hasbro announced today that a George Lucas Stormtrooper is joining the ranks of its Black Series line of 6-inch Star Wars figures (via The Hollywood Reporter).The toy, titled "George Lucas (in Stormtrooper Disguise)," features the Star Wars creator in full Stormtrooper armor from the original trilogy, as well as an accompanying helmet and blaster. This isn't the first time Lucas has appeared as a Stormtrooper action figure, either. As noted in the official post on the Star Wars website, Hasbro released a 3.75-inch George Lucas Stormtrooper back in 2006. He's also been immortalized in the past as Rebel Alliance pilot Jorg Sacul in 2002, and as his Revenge of the Sith character, Baron Papanoida, also in 2006.“As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I have both the honor and privilege to bring characters from the franchise to life in product form every single day,” said Vickie Stratford, sr. director of product design at Hasbro, in an official announcement. “When the opportunity came to design the George Lucas figure, we were especially excited for this project. This figure is just one of the many ways we can honor his legacy for years to come and we hope fans cherish it as much as we did!”Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

While the PS Vita was a critical success thanks to some innovative design features and forward-thinking compatibility with the PS4, it wasn't the financial blockbuster that Sony was hoping for. Selling 18 million units through its run, the PS Vita had an OLED screen long before Nintendo upgraded its Switch console with the better display technology, it paired well with the PS4 for remote play, and it had a gaming library to be proud of.With the PS Vita's online store almost being shut down this year, it's another reminder to grab some titles from that console's digital market before it's too late. Sony's pocket gaming machine had a terrific variety on offer, and if you're pondering which games to grab with one of those devices for a recently-retro collection of classics, our top 10 list of the best PlayStation Vita games should help sway your opinion. We've arranged these in alphabetical order and excluded some of the Vita's (admittedly awesome) collections from consideration. But yes, it's still very cool that Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, and Metal Gear games could be played on the go.Danganronpa: Trigger Happy HavocDanganronpa: Trigger Happy HavocIf you've ever pondered causing some mayhem, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is a fascinating examination of just how far some people are willing to go when they reach their breaking point. The setup itself was simple, pulling from The Hunger Games and Battle Royale to establish its core plot. Trapped in an abandoned building with 15 other students, the only way out of the makeshift prison is to kill another student and avoid being found guilty of the crime.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Interpreting stealth as a power fantasy, Aragami 2 deploys the shadows as a literal weapon, not merely as somewhere to hide. One ability discharges tendrils of black mist from your fingertips to grab a nearby enemy and fling them headfirst into your fist, knocking them unconscious. Such powerful abilities emphasize a proactive approach to stealth that's less about waiting for a window of opportunity to open and more about knocking a hole in the wall. With a lean, stylish aesthetic complementing minimalist mission design, Aragami 2 succeeds in making you feel like a daring and deadly shadow warrior, even if it eventually falls victim to repetition and a lack of variety.Afflicted by a mysterious force that corrodes the body and devours the mind (most people would call this "getting old"), the aragami are gifted with shadow essence which grants them supernatural abilities. They call it a curse, but to be honest it's hard to see the downside. The most basic of these abilities lets them briefly assume a shadow form and dash unseen across open ground, grapple up onto the roof of a building, or down to the cliff ledge below. Combined with a double-jump, the ability enables you to fling yourself around a level with abandon, traveling swiftly to bypass enemies, move in for the kill, or make a speedy getaway.Movement in this mode is limited by a stamina meter, but it's a generous one, allowing you to string together several jumps and dashes before requiring a moment's pause to regenerate. Traversal through an area tends to be a matter of grappling to high ground, quickly surveying the surroundings, then executing clean and decisive strikes, whether you're nimbly darting through gaps in enemy patrol routes or eliminating them one by one. There's nothing stopping you from spending half an hour hanging off the roof of a pagoda or squatting in some waist-high reeds before making your move, if that's what you want to do. It's more that the tools at your disposal, and the ease and speed with which you can utilize them, better encourage the fast, fluid approach.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has surpassed another MCU film, Black Widow, to become the highest grossing movie in the US during the pandemic era.Shang-Chi has now made $196.5 million in the US, which is ahead of Black Widow's $183.6 million. Internationally, it's a different story, with Black Widow ($378.4 million) pacing ahead of Shang-Chi ($363.4 million). Both Marvel films would have no doubt generated substantially larger box office results in North America and globally in pre-pandemic times. Both movies were obliterated by the success of F9, which has made $716 million globally (but only $173 million in the US).Comparing Shang-Chi and Black Widow isn't totally fair, however, as Black Widow was also released on Disney+ with Premier Access at launch, while Shang-Chi was not. This release strategy surely impacted box office results one way or the other for Black Widow (and it's also led to a messy lawsuit between Scarlett Johnasson and Disney).Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Oktoberfest is quickly approaching, and while your in-person beer-drinking plans may be interrupted due to COVID, you can celebrate everything beer in Call of Duty with some special DLC.The previously announced Oktoberfest Bundle is out now for Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War, and perhaps the most fun thing about it is that it lets you shoot beer bullets. "Grab your lederhosen and slosh your way through the battlefield," Activision said.Grab your lederhosen and slosh your way through the battlefield 🍻The Oktoberfest Bundle has arrived just in time. Available now in #BlackOpsColdWar and #Warzone. pic.twitter.com/PyXpSinm80 — Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) September 26, 2021The DLC bundle comes with the Lederhosen operator skin for Beck, as well as two weapon blueprints themed around booze called Hefeweizen and Kolsch, along with a knife called Keg Tap. It also comes with a "beer tracer fire effect," which emits beer cans. There is also a new finishing move, Tapped Out, in which your soldier tosses the enemy into the air and drop-kicks them in the face. A "Happy Hour" watch where all the numbers are beer is included as well, along with a "Prost" calling card. You can see everything in the Oktoberfest Bundle in the video below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Razer Turret $250 See at Amazon Corsair K63 And Lapboard $160 See at Amazon Razer Power Up Bundle $165 See at Amazon Logitech G613 Lightspeed Wireless Keyboard $130 See at Amazon HyperX Alloy Origins Core $90 See at Amazon Logitech G502 Gaming Mouse $80 See at Amazon Razer Deathadder V2 $70 See at GameStop Couchmaster Cycon 2 $180 See at Amazon Underneath the veneer of its operating system, it's easy to think of the Xbox Series X and S as compact, powerful computers. And that's mostly true, especially when you consider that both have broad support for mouse and keyboard inputs, with Microsoft introducing the functionality already during the Xbox One generation. That means you don't have to sacrifice your favorite input method just to enjoy console gaming, which might have you asking what some of the best xbox keyboard and mouse options are.Before that, you need to understand some of the limitations that come with mouse and keyboard support on Xbox consoles. Firstly, while the console might support it at a base level, each game still needs to individually support it too in order to work. This is especially true in competitive multiplayer titles, where a mouse and keyboard can constitute a big advantage. Many of these games, such as Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone, get around this by separating players depending on their input scheme rather than by the platform they're playing on, so just keep in mind that even though you're playing on a console you'll likely be matched up with more PC players in most cases.Like PC, you'll also have the option to use either wired or wireless keyboard and mice, although unlike the PlayStation 5 you won't be able to use them via Bluetooth. The Xbox Series X and S only communicate to wireless devices using 2.4GHz dongles or Xbox's own wireless signal for controllers/headsets, and even then, it's restricted to certain peripherals that have support. Thankfully there are some options that have been specifically designed with the Xbox in mind, meaning you won't need to worry about compatibility out of the box.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hideki Kamiya, the director of Bayonetta 3, says that if fans want to see the game come to other platforms, then they should tell Nintendo.Bayonetta 3 is an exclusive title for the Nintendo Switch. Kamiya said on Twitter (via Google Translate), "Bayo 3, like Bayo 2, is being developed with funding from Nintendo." Platinum Games is only handling the development of the game and all product decisions are decided by Nintendo.He continues, "So, for example, if you have a request such as 'put it out on another model', please contact Nintendo. If Nintendo asks us to 'port it to PS5' and provide funding, we may receive it." Porting Bayonetta 3 to PlayStation or Xbox isn't completely out of the question, it's just that the decision is entirely up to Nintendo, and the company hasn't branched out to PC as Sony and Microsoft have.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

While its release date is still nowhere to be seen, Blizzard is finally starting to share some of the nitty-gritty details of what players can expect in Overwatch 2. The developer has previously gone over new game modes being added in the game, along with new maps and skins. However, this is the first time it has gone over specific changes to either Sombra and Bastion.Sombra, the game's hacking fiend, potentially has the more contentious changes among the duo. Overall, she'll be able to go on the assault more often thanks to some serious buffs to her hack ability, which now refreshes every three seconds. Enemies who are hacked still can't use their abilities, although that's just for a single second after being hacked. For the duration of the hack though, which lasts eight seconds total, targets are highlighted and can be seen through walls. Hacked targets also take a whopping 50% more damage from Sombra, giving the character a mean one-two punch of hacking a target then peppering them with bullets.Similarly, Sombra's ultimate has been changed as well. While it no longer disables shields, it deals damage to any enemies in its radius, for a total of 40% of their current health. Naturally, any enemy caught in the blast is also hacked, so Sombra can easily take down enemies she hits.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In Sable, you can forge a mask by tracking down three copies of the same badge. The Merchant Mask--a sandy gold face covering with four red dots--can be built this way and you can do it fairly early on in the game if you know where to look for the components. As is the case for many quests in the game, to get the Merchant Mask, you will need to head to Eccria and speak to Merchant Iria, a terse businesswoman who presides over trade in the city.If this is your first time going to the desert settlement, you can reach Eccria by heading west from Burnt Oak Station. You should see tall rocks to the north and south, and a lake to the north. Once you reach the city, you will find that the power is out. Follow the “Heartbreak in the City” quest until you restore the power, then return to this guide.Now that the power is back on, you can find Merchant Iria holed up in an office toward the center of the town, at the end of a narrow hallway. But in order to reach her, you will need to pay off Yannis, a bulky guard in armor who is watching the door. This particular bouncer has a taste for pomegranates and you can purchase one from Serai Merchant Josh at the open-air market located beneath the bridge that leads into Eccria from the south. (You may need to get closer to Josh than you think to speak to him. Unfortunately for Josh’s other customers, we had to climb up on top of his fruit display to get the dialogue prompt to work).Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As in our own world circa 2021, many of the denizens of Sable wear masks. And one of the coolest masks you can find during the course of the game is a sleek black face covering dotted with dozens of darting eyes. It’s called the Shade of Eccria mask, and you will, fittingly, earn it as part of a quest called “The Shade of Eccria.” To get it, you’ll need to head for, you guessed it, Eccria, a bustling settlement on the western side of the map, and roughly straight west, with a slight north list, from Burnt Oak Station.Once you reach Eccria, go beneath the bridge that leads into the city from the south. Here you’ll find Maz, who will ask you to recover a child he looks after who has been imprisoned by the town guards (If Maz isn’t there, follow the ‘Heartbreak in the City’ quest until you restore power back to Eccria). But you can’t just walk up and tell the guards to hand the child over. Instead, Maz informs you that he was once a vigilante called the Shade of Eccria and says that, if you don the mask he once wore, the guards will be too terrified to stop you from rescuing the child. Maz instructs you to seek out the Shade of Eccria mask by looking for a symbol on the town gate and following it until you find the mask. The town gate is right above Maz, so climb up on the bridge and have a look.The symbol, which looks like a film reel, is painted on other surfaces in and around the town, too, but we had a hard time following Maz’s logic for how exactly it directed us to the mask. Fortunately, Eccria isn’t too big of a place and Maz (helpfully) hints that you will need to go through water in order to find it. So head to the lake immediately north of Eccria and swim out to the rocks on the western side of the water. In the hidden alcove within the rocks, you should spy the symbol again. This symbol is above a cave. Enter it and open the chest at its center to receive the Shade of Eccria mask.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Accompanying the latest set of PS5 updates, Sony published a behind-the-scenes interview on the PlayStation Blog with the SVP of Platform Experience Hideaki Nishino. In it, he discussed the new major updates--like M.2 storage expansion and 3D audio, as well as acknowledging that "there's a lot" of other future updates that players are asking for.His full comment: "When I look back at the list of things we need to do, there's a lot. There's a lot the community is asking for as well. I want to say in the Japanese way, I'm diligently working on these lists and there will be more coming out in the future."Elaborating on how system updates are put together, Nishino also commented that the team had a wishlist of updates put together before the PS5 launch, and that it is also monitoring the feedback from the community.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Grand Theft Auto fans hungry for information about GTA 6 aren't shy about pestering developer Rockstar Games for information in any way they can, and that includes YouTube comments. Unfortunately for those fans, it looks like Rockstar may have gotten tired of people constantly asking about GTA 6 on the platform, as the phrase now looks to be muted.As pointed out by one Twitter user (via Dextero), new comments related to GTA 6 posted on an old video on the Rockstar Games YouTube channel fail to appear. A quick scan of more recent videos posted to the channel, such as the widely disliked GTA V for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S trailer, shows what appears to be a complete lack of GTA 6 comments as well. Alternate spellings, like GTA Six, also don't appear. Rockstar declined to comment for this story.Rockstar Games has muted the word “GTA 6” from their official YouTube channel. On the left, my main account with the comment. On the right, my alt checking the latest comments. Link to the video: https://t.co/kAseh0kSZv pic.twitter.com/OSFpPfzntf — The Strange Man Expanded and Enhanced (@Not_StrangeMan) September 19, 2021Those who still want to comment about GTA 6 will need to come up with some creative math problems that produce the still-unannounced game as the answer or unique alternate spellings to get around the censor. Of course, fans can still ask Rockstar about the status of GTA 6 via other social platforms like Twitter. Unfortunately, no real information is known about about the game, but that hasn't stopped fans from speculating on rumors and theories regarding GTA 6 regardless.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

One of the perks of preordering Call of Duty: Vanguard is getting access to Arthur Kinglsey from the WWII game as a playable soldier in Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War. Access to Kingsley is rolling out now, Activision has announced. Everyone who digitally preorders Vanguard or already has gets access to Kingsley, beginning today, September 27. Kingsley is one of two bonuses that you get right away for preordering Vanguard, the other being the "Night Raid" Mastercraft submachine gun.Additionally, people who preorder a digital copy of Vanguard get to pre-load the game early and will receive the Frontline weapons pack, which includes two SMG blueprints for Vanguard. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty Season 5 Reloaded's ongoing Numbers event offers in-game challenges across Black Ops Cold War and Warzone, but many players are complaining that the battle royale part of the event is way too loud.Themed around the iconic Black Ops campaign narrative of the brainwashing Numbers program, Call of Duty's Numbers event in Warzone includes activating Mobile Broadcast Stations around Verdansk. Activated stations then loudly broadcast a series of numbers and include a scrambled audio effect that hinders players from hearing the important game sounds around them. It's excruciatingly loud audio, and there are often a series of numbers flashing across the screen that can be very distracting. Many players have used social media to plead with the developers Raven Software to either remove the audio completely or allow players to toggle off the event sounds.The numbers station audio has gotta go. Can’t hear anything while it’s playing and this “event” lasts 15 days when it only takes 5 minutes to complete. #CallOfDuty l #Warzone — ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) September 22, 2021Players who activate all nine of Verdansk's Mobile Broadcast Stations will complete the Warzone-side of the Numbers event. This will reward players with cosmetic items, 5,000 XP, and unlock the new Sai melee weapon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com