Casey Viner, an Ohio gamer who fatally “swatted” another player, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for hiring someone to make a prank emergency call to the police that led to the fatal shooting. Viner is also banned from gaming for two years.
Swatting is where the perpetrator makes a false emergency call on someone in the hopes of getting the police or other law enforcement to show up unexpectedly at the victim’s house. Viner, 19, was upset after losing a $1.50 bet in a game of Call of Duty: WW2 and hired someone else to make a prank call to the police.
Tokyo Ghoul S opens September 16 in 400 theaters across the U.S. and Canada. The film will have a three-day limited theatrical run (September 16, 18, and 20) and will screen in Japanese with English subtitles.
You can watch our video review for Tokyo Ghoul S in the player above.
Before you get into Tokyo Ghoul S you should probably know that it’s a sequel to the 2017 film Tokyo Ghoul and both are based on the 14-volume manga of the same name that was originally published in the weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
The story centers on a world where mortals live alongside so-called ghouls who need to eat human flesh to survive and our hero is a college student, Ken Kaneki (Masataka Kubota), who has to live his life as a half-ghoul after being attacked by one of the malicious monsters. This context is important as the surreal and often silly sequel doesn’t offer any real backstory or world-building as it throws you straight into the supernatural world of the murderous flesh-eating ghouls.
As disappointing as Titans’ Season 2 premiere was, at least there was little reason to assume “Trigon” was indicative of the season as a whole. That episode was torn between the need to wrap up Season 1’s unfinished threads and begin establishing Season 2’s new direction. With that thankless task out of the way, the series is now free to start charting a new course for itself. “Rose” makes it clear that Titans is becoming a much different series in its second year.
When you first arrive at Sanctuary in Borderlands 3, you’ll notice a locked Golden Chest. You might wonder how to open it for a moment but inevitably settle on the hope that the answer to that question will be revealed to you later on. No such luck! You can only open this mysterious Golden Chest with a Golden Key, and can only get these through a few specific methods.
The first method is by getting it through pre-ordering Borderlands 3, which earns you five Golden Keys. The second method involves obtaining Shift Codes that you can redeem for a chance to receive some Golden Keys. These have historically been distributed by Gearbox via newsletters and social media channels. You can plug Shift Codes into the Shift Code section in the main menu or the Borderlands VIP site. Speaking of which, you can also get Golden Keys by using Borderlands VIP points.
The other course of action you can take for Golden Keys is to bank on the third method, which is to wait for any of the upcoming free content updates, such as the Halloween-themed Bloody Harvest event in October. For a full breakdown of that content, be sure to read our article explaining all the post-release DLC.
In our Borderlands 3 review, author Jordan Ramee gave the game an 8/10 and said, “Borderlands 3 has a few stumbling blocks when it comes to bosses, but these fights are overshadowed by the game’s rewarding gunplay and over-the-top humor. The game’s character-driven narrative acts as a satisfying finale for the loot-shooter franchise, and the new mechanics and features–especially the reworked skill trees and weapon manufacturer effects–give you plenty of agency in how you want to play through it. If you’ve never been a fan of the franchise, it’s unlikely Borderlands 3 does enough things differently to change your mind, as the game best excels at continuing what the series has always done: deliver a humorous tall tale of misfits looting and shooting their way to heroism.”
Batman is celebrating his 80th anniversary in 2019, which includes a very special auction taking place in London September 30 – October 1, featuring iconic props and costumes from classic Batman films. According to auction hosts Prop Store, Michael Keaton’s Batsuit from Tim Burton’s seminal 1989 film is estimated to sell for upwards of $148,000.
For a closer look at the awesome Caped Crusader props for sale in the auction, check out the gallery below:
“Prop Store is very excited to be offering props and costumes from so many fantastic eras of Batman, from an autographed Batarang from the 1966 series to Michael Keaton’s Batsuit from the 1989 film and Heath Ledger’s Rocket-propelled Grenade Launcher from his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight,” said Prop Store CEO Stephen Lane.
As you progress through Borderlands 3, you might find chests marked with a “T” symbol. These are what the game calls Typhon Dead Drops and they’re linked to one of the major challenges you can complete in the game involving audio logs left behind by the first Vault Hunter, Typhon de Leon. You might’ve encountered a few of these in Pandora during the opening hours of the game and probably spent five minutes flailing about in frustration figuring out how to unlock it.
To open these chests, you need to find all of the logs left behind by Typhon de Leon in the map you’re currently in. While you might be thinking, “Oh no! I have to figure out where all of these tedious collectibles are?” Don’t worry, the log locations are clearly marked on the map, sparing you the difficulty of having to find them completely blind. And once you’ve acquired all three, the location of the Typhon Dead Drop will be revealed to you on the map.
There’s typically one Typhon Dead Drop per open area map, so try taking the time to seek out the logs to nab yourself some solid loot. It’s also worth finding and listening to these logs because they actually include details that have ramifications on what you discover later on in the story. Definitely take the time to do it to better enjoy the twists and turns of the game’s more potent revelations.
In our Borderlands 3 review, author Jordan Ramee gave the game an 8/10 and said, “Borderlands 3 has a few stumbling blocks when it comes to bosses, but these fights are overshadowed by the game’s rewarding gunplay and over-the-top humor. The game’s character-driven narrative acts as a satisfying finale for the loot-shooter franchise, and the new mechanics and features–especially the reworked skill trees and weapon manufacturer effects–give you plenty of agency in how you want to play through it. If you’ve never been a fan of the franchise, it’s unlikely Borderlands 3 does enough things differently to change your mind, as the game best excels at continuing what the series has always done: deliver a humorous tall tale of misfits looting and shooting their way to heroism.”
A historic rival comes to a one sided victory involving a hat trick! Check out Liverpool going against Manchester United in this extended highlight gameplay clip. Captured on PS4 Pro.
