Devolver Digital releases Athletic Club apparel with serious indie drip


The holiday season is nearly upon us, which means all around the world eager eyes are on the hunt for excellent gifts (opens in new tab). When it comes to PC gamers, if you’re not specifically out for tech, we can be a tricky market to buy for. We have an amazing collection of Black Friday deals (opens in new tab) that can help you save heaps on great techy gifts like a new PC, laptop, or headset, but maybe the gamer in your life already has this completely covered.

Well, then it’s time to help cover their booty and the new lineup of clothing from Devolver Digital is a pretty excellent choice. This selection of sportswear for people who may or may not play sports is the Devolver Athletic Club (opens in new tab) collection of apparel and it’s a great tongue in cheek nod to one of our favourite and most chaotic publishers around.



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Warzone 2’s scariest weapon is a flying bomb, and that’s OK



Call of Duty: Warzone 2’s most vicious weapon might not be a gun at all, it might just be a drone equipped to blow up near targets. The bomb drones, a rare pickup on the Warzone 2 map, are quiet, can find targets through walls, and blow up with such power that an entire team at full health can be reduced to rubble in seconds. Reddit, and other social media, is littered with videos of players cackling madly as their bomb (opens in new tab) drones (opens in new tab) take down enemies.

bomb_drone_quadrakill_by_chuloboy from r/CODWarzone

“I have nearly 1k hours from WZ1 and I can say nothing came as close to being [overpowered] as the bomb drone is,” said one player on Reddit (opens in new tab)… to which another replied that the weapon’s weakness was “the 80% chance to get glitched and frozen in place,” referring to a persistent bug (opens in new tab) around using drones that locks you in place, unable to move.



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Some clown tried to sneak a knife onto a plane inside a gaming laptop



On Friday, November 11th, 2022, someone tried to sneak a double-bladed knife onto an airplane hidden inside a gaming laptop. The incident took place at Richmond International Airport in Richmond, Virginia, and was foiled by officers of the United States Transportation Security Administration—more commonly known as the TSA.

The laptop, which our colleagues at Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab) note was neither “a Razer Blade or an MSI Sword,” looks to have been a Gigabyte Aorus notebook with entirely–too-dusty uncleaned fans. If you’re going to open up a laptop to hide a knife in it, why not at least give it a little spritz of compressed air while you’re in there?



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The world’s most stunning gaming laptop is $800 off for Black Friday



Black Friday week just started and one of the best gaming laptops is already $800 off.

The Razer Blade 14, AKA “the most desirable gaming laptop” (opens in new tab), is $1,999.99 at Amazon (opens in new tab). Price-wise, that puts it in even closer competition with our favorite gaming laptop, the Razer Blade 15. You lose an inch but gain a superbly designed laptop that makes up for its slightly lacking specs.



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Microsoft offered Sony a 10 year deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation



Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard (opens in new tab) is facing intense scrutiny from regulators around the world, with one of the main sticking points being the future of the Call of Duty series on PlayStation platforms. In an effort to help assuage those concerns and push the deal through, Microsoft told the New York Times (opens in new tab) that earlier this month it committed to a 10-year deal with Sony to keep the Call of Duty series on PlayStation consoles.

It’s a bit ironic, because in recent years PlayStation owners have actually had a leg up on the rest of us, with early access to Call of Duty beta tests and other content. That seems very unlikely to continue if the series comes under Microsoft’s stewardship, but Sony is more concerned that it could be cut off altogether. Microsoft said shortly after the acquisition plan was announced that it wanted to “keep Call of Duty on PlayStation (opens in new tab),” but with no specificity beyond honoring agreements that were already in place.



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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is finally coming to Steam in December



Two weeks after the discovery of backend data (opens in new tab) that pointed to Ubisoft returning to Steam, it is now official: The comeback will begin with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (opens in new tab), which will debut on the storefront on December 6.

Outside of its own online store, Ubisoft has been an Epic exclusive publisher on PC since early 2019. That’s kept big releases including The Division 2, Far Cry 6, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Watch Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Extraction, and of course Valhalla off of Steam, which is by far the most popular digital storefront for PC gamers. As we noted when the likelihood of a Ubisoft return first came to light earlier this month, it was an unusual situation: Epic Games Store exclusives generally tend to be for a year, or less in some cases, yet Ubisoft appeared content to make the arrangement indefinite. That’s why this Steam comeback is a pretty big deal.



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Can you change your appearance in Warhammer 40K: Darktide?


Imagine bashing the endless hordes of Warhammer 40K: Darktide with a bad haircut. I couldn’t possibly—when I started up Darktide and entered the character creator to build my first warrior, I spent at least five minutes deciding on the perfect haircut for my Ogryn. I wanted him to be stylish, or at least as stylish as Ogryn get, so that when anyone I play with sees me charging to their rescue through a giant pile of baddies, they think “Now that’s a cool Ogryn.”

But part of being stylish is knowing when to change up your look, which is why I immediately wondered if there was a way to change my appearance in Darktide after I left the character creator. Am I stuck with this exact face, eye color, tattoo allotment, and haircut? 



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Magic: The Gathering’s Jumpstart 2022 set includes a theme to embiggen the smallest man


Jumpstart was introduced to Magic: The Gathering in 2020 as a way of putting new decks together fast. You get two packs of 20 cards, almost always monocolor, each with a theme. That theme might be a particular creature type like Cats or Goblins, or a concept like Smashing, Tree-Hugging, or Well-Read. You shuffle two packs together to give yourself a lean deck of 40 cards—Smashing Cats or Well-Read Goblins—and you’re off. It’s a faster way to assemble a new deck than playing draft or building one from scratch, handy for sit-down events.

The original Jumpstart set was mostly reprints, with a handful of new cards. Some of Magic’s recent expansions have been available in Jumpstart boosters as well, in addition to all the other flavors of booster packs you can buy these days, so I got to play Dominaria United and The Brothers’ War at local Jumpstart events, which was a convenient way of trying out the new hotness.





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The best SP-R 208 loadouts for Warzone 2


As millions of players are all rushing to understand the ins and outs of Warzone 2’s 54 guns during launch week, know this: if you want a reliable bolt-action rifle that can carry you through almost any situation in Al Mazrah, the SP-R 208 will get the job done. It’s one of the best, most accessible rifles in the game, and it’s also easy to unlock. The SP-R 208 unlocks at account level 7, so even if you’re starting Warzone 2 on a fresh account, you’ll have it within your first few hours.

What’s nice about the SPR is how many different hats it can wear. An SPR with a high-powered scope and extended barrel makes just as much sense as an iron sight build meant for close-range. This is a perk of the SPR technically being a “marksman rifle” in Warzone 2 instead of a proper sniper rifle—it doesn’t pack the same raw power as the bulky, box-shaped Signal 50, but when the circle is shrinks to an arena the size of a 6v6 multiplayer map, it’s the SPR I want backing me up.



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Evil West review


Need for speed

What is it? A character action game set in a vampire-ridden wild west.
Expect to pay $50/£43
Developer Flying Wild Hog
Publisher Focus Entertainment
Reviewed on RTX 2070, i7-10750H, 16GB RAM
Multiplayer? 2-player co-op
Link Official site (opens in new tab)

Jesse Rentier is a no-nonsense action man; a stubbled slab of beef who sees every situation in black and white. He’s the type to remind you constantly that he’s not cut out for pencil pushing deskwork, as if you couldn’t tell by looking at him that he’d struggle to even hold a pencil without snapping it in half. In other words, he’s neither refined nor imaginative, but he is solid, focused and capable of magnificent violence. A description that equally applies to Evil West.

In an alternate late 19th century USA, Jesse is the top field agent at family business the Rentier Institute, an organisation established to combat a scourge of vampires that’s been nibbling on cowboys since the founding fathers. Given the sun-fearing nature of his foes, shootouts at high noon are off the table here, so Jesse heads out on expeditions to track down and smash the bloodsuckers to bits, along with their pet werewolves and other abominations they’ve manufactured. There’s more to the story than that, of course, explained in cutscenes sandwiched between the game’s sixteen missions, but walloping the undead is always your chief concern.

(Image credit: Focus Entertainment)

Indeed, Evil West adopts a ‘get on with it’ approach throughout. The main path connecting the game’s combat arenas is marked with a glowing silver chain to keep you oriented as you indulge in some very light exploration, ducking into half-hidden side passages to grab minor treasures. A few levels get a touch adventurous with more open, branching and looping sections, and sometimes you have to find a lever before advancing, or push a mine cart, or dislodge some scenery with your rifle, but very little that would qualify as a puzzle. In some ways that’s a blessing, as Evil West is less bloated than, say, God of War, but it also feels rather short on aspiration.

This conservatism infects Flying Wild Hog’s vision of the west too, which is strangely colourless aside from some striking landscapes, not to mention old-fashioned. The saloon bar that acts as a front for the institute’s base, for example, is filled with stock image (white) cowboys and courtesans, while ‘Indians’ feature only in passing reference to their mystic legends. Coupled with Jesse’s distaste for intellectual expertise, quips such as “Welcome to America” when he dispatches a foe, and a government official character who represents state corruption, there’s a somewhat politically regressive tinge to proceedings. Nor does the dialogue add nuance, as characters growl at each other in sentences laden with cringeworthy expletives. The aim is to evoke the vibe of macho ’80s action movies, but it’s a clumsy tribute act.

(Image credit: Focus Entertainment)

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