Nvidia has confirmed the release date of the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card.
In a post on Twitter, Nvidia announced the card will become available on October 17. Cards will start at $500, and a $600 Founders Edition card will be available on the Nvidia site.
Star Trek: Discovery is currently filming its second season for CBS All Access with an expected premiere date sometime in early 2019. Fans were left hanging when the first season ended with a stunning tease as the Discovery found itself face to face with the USS Enterprise. The famous ship’s arrival naturally led to the assumption (which was later confirmed) that we’d be meeting a younger version of lead character Michael Burnham’s adoptive brother Spock, who we now know will be played by Ethan Peck.
But since Discovery takes place about 10 years before the events of Captain Kirk’s The Original Series adventures on the Enterprise, the current commanding officer of the ship is Captain Christopher Pike (played by Inhumans’ Anson Mount on Discovery), who Trek history tells us helmed the Enterprise just before James Kirk took over. Though Pike only played a minor role in The Original Series in its final form (more on that in a moment), the character has endured across several films and television series and has been portrayed by four different actors to date. So let’s take a moment to get to know the first commanding officer of the Enterprise to give the order, “Engage!”
Microsoft’s Major Nelson has announced the free Games with Gold for October 2018. Xbox owners with subscriptions to Xbox Live Gold will be able to download four new games at staggered intervals between October 1 and 31. The games in question are the Xbox One titles Overcooked and Victor Vran, and the Xbox 360 games Stuntman: Ignition and Hitman: Blood Money.
Overcooked is a co-op cooking game you can play with up to four players. Orders come in, and your job is to cook the food and deliver it before a timer runs out. This becomes more difficult as the dishes become increasingly labor-intensive and the kitchen layouts start to go to outlandishly unexpected places. It’s available the full month of October. Victor Vran is a loot-based action-RPG in the vein of Diablo III. It’s available October 16-November 15.
Over on Xbox 360, Stuntman: Ignition puts you in the shoes of a low-level stunt driver in Hollywood and has you work your way up to handling elaborate stunts in massive blockbuster films. It’s available October 1-15. And much like the rest of the series, Hitman: Blood Money finds Agent 47 working on open-ended assassination jobs in locations like a Las Vegas casino, New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and on a riverboat traveling the Mississippi River. It’s available October 16-31. Both 360 games are also playable on Xbox One.
It’s not too late to download some of September’s Games with Gold. Right now Xbox Live Gold members can grab Prison Architect and Livelock for Xbox One and Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World on Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
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A new week means a new sale on video games at Best Buy. This week’s discounts offer a wide range of savings on everything from hardware and services to games and pre-orders. We have all the details you need below, so take a look and start saving some cash.
The hardware discounts aren’t so hot this week (see below), but lots of games have gotten appealing price drops. With football back in full swing, now is a great time to save $20 and pick up Madden NFL 19 for just $40. The unique racing game Onrush is on sale for $45, and Switch owners can grab Fire Emblem Warriors for $50.
If you’re looking for a shooter, you can grab the single-player game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus for $25, or the online-focused games Star Wars Battlefront II and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands for $20 each. PlayStation VR owners can blast some demons in Doom VFR for $20 or explore a massive fantasy world in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR for $40.
Anyone looking to upgrade their console situation might want to place a pre-order for the just-announced Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Pro Bundle. It comes with a black 1 TB PS4 Pro, a wireless DualShock 4 controller, and a physical copy of Red Dead Redemption 2. The price is $400, which effectively saves you the $60 the game would otherwise cost.
The rest of the hardware deals aren’t exactly door-busters, but you can save a whole $3 on a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, bringing it down to $67. PS4 owners can get a slightly better deal by saving $5 on a DualShock 4 controller for a total of $60. And if you buy an Xbox One, you get $10 off select controllers. On the other hand, Kingdom Hearts fans get a decent break this week, with 40% off select collectibles.
More video game discounts are listed below, or you can click over to Best Buy’s weekly ad to find even more savings. Just make sure to finalize your purchases by September 30, when a new set of discounts will become available.
While Andrew Lincoln, who has played Rick Grimes since the first episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead in 2010, is leaving his character behind during season 9, he doesn’t plan on leaving The Walking Dead family as he intends to direct future episodes.
Speaking to EW, Lincoln has said that he will be returning to season 9’s set in Senoia, GA shortly to “learn the directing ropes, with the plan of helming his own episode next season.”
“I’m going back,” Lincoln said. “I’m going back to shadow a director, and my intention is to direct next year.”
During the Inside Xbox live stream, a new Xbox One S Fortnite bundle was announced.
The bundle comes with 2,000 V-bucks, which is enough to get a season 6 battle pass, along with other in-game items.
Also included is a legendary Eon character outfit, Epic Aurora glider, and the rare Resonator pickup.
The release date is yet to be announced, but the bundle will include a 1TB Xbox One S and is the first Xbox exclusive Fortnite content.
Inside Xbox announced during their stream Tuesday, the Xbox Live Games with Gold lineup for Oct. 2018.
The following titles will be available for Gold members next month.
Hitman Blood Money – Oct. 16 (Xbox 360)
Overcooked! Oct. 1 (Xbox One)
Victor Vran Oct. 16 (Xbox One)
Stuntman: Ignition Oct. 1 (Xbox 360)
Hitman Blood Money is a stealth game from 2006 and is the fourth installment in the Hitman series. The game follows Agent 47 around as he overcomes obstacles and completes missions.
Spoilers for the episode follow.
The slow burn stylings of FLCL: Alternative continue with “Freestyle Collection.” Following the blueprint laid out by the previous episode, Freestyle Collection takes a closer look at Mossan through the lens of Kana’s constant struggle with her future prospects.
The episode kicks off when Kana, having not turned in her college planning sheet, inquires about what Mossan wrote down for hers. Mossan tells her friends about her dream of being a fashion designer and reveals she has made it through the first round of a fashion design contest. Unlike Hijiri’s fling from the last episode, which felt a little par for her character, Mossan’s reveal was actually a surprise to me and had me interested from the start. Mossan’s reveal also provided a great opportunity to add to Kana’s maturity crisis which has become one of the show’s main threads.
Bill Cosby was sentenced three to 10 years in a state prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004, reported by Variety.
Judge Steven T. O’Neill from Montgomery Country denied Cosby’s request for bail pending his appeal.
Cosby will need to serve the minimum time of three years under Pennsylvania law before he can be up for parole. The maximum sentence is five to 10 years in prison.
“This is a serious crime,” said O’Neill, who rejected the defense request for house arrest, partial confinement, and even a chance to serve the sentence in the county jail as opposed to state prison.