Cori Bush, a racial justice activist who was once homeless, wins Missouri’s Democratic primary.
Beirut explosion: What we know so far
A devastating explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed at least 135 people and injured thousands.
Tony Hawk Maps Are Being Modded Into Skater XL
Skater XL left Early Access last month and some players have been slightly disappointed with how bare bones the final package is. Modders have been trying to add new content to spice it up–including maps and other items from the Tony Hawk franchise.
Fans have recreated boards, clothing, and some maps from multiple games including Tony Hawk’s Underground and the Skate franchise (gabrielfluorite recreated Skate 3’s Sanatorium). Modder Aaronb543 remade the New Jersey map from Tony Hawk’s Underground from 2003.
“It’s a great sized map with a huge amount of spots and creativity,” he wrote. “You’ll find an entrance to the skate store to the left and the bedroom is also accessible.”
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Fortnite: Destroying Shipping Containers At Dirty Docks Guide
Fortnite’s Week 8 challenges include a few treks to named locations that have been previously flooded. Dirty Docks has been submerged in water for the majority of the season, but you’ll need to head there to complete a new challenge that asks you to destroy shipping containers at Dirty Docks. This guide will show you a quick and easy way to complete the challenge.
This challenge has leaked early. Check back tomorrow to try it yourself in Fortnite.
Where Is Dirty Docks?
Dirty Docks is a named location on the map, although it’ll be hidden until you visit it for the first time now that it’s no longer flooded. You can find it on the right-hand side of the map in the H4 tile. It’s right on the water surrounded by green rolling hills.
Watch Dogs: Legion NPCs Follow Set Schedules, Which You Can Spy On
By all early indications, Watch Dogs: Legion is shaping up to be a particularly ambitious take on the open-world genre, giving you the ability to play as any NPC in the city of London. However, the game’s focus on NPCs doesn’t end there.
According to a recent Game Informer cover story, all of the inhabitants of the game’s digital London follow their own set schedules. Players will be able to use an upgrade to their tech called a “deep profiler” to access this schedule, which will make it easier for you to follow their every move and recruit them to your hacker collective. The story gives a specific example of a player using the upgrade to delve into a woman’s calendar, knowing when she’ll go to marriage therapy, when she’ll relax with her cousin, or meet with her lawyer.
Watch Dogs: Legion is far from the first game to feature NPCs that follow an hour-to-hour pattern–highly influential titles like Shenmue and The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask popularized the concept–but Legion is likely doing it at a much larger scale. The cover story suggests that players will use this information to understand how individual citizens view the organization of DedSec, allowing you to come up with strategies to pull them over to your side. Legion may offer a multiplayer mode with a higher player count than its 4-player co-op.What exactly that means remains to be seen.
These Great Laptop Deals Are Perfect For School, Work, And Entertainment
The back-to-school season looks different this year, but retailers are still holding their same annual sales, discounting a lot of laptops that are great for studying, work, or entertainment. Newegg and Best Buy are among those with the best deals, both of which are offering free shipping with their laptops. They can arrive quite soon as well, though the current pandemic may cause some delays.
Among the discounted laptops are several Lenovo options. Lenovo is a great maker of all kinds of laptops, but it also has a bunch of great budget options that are great for students. They work well for schoolwork, entertainment, and social media, but they should also be good for most people’s workdays as long as you’re not handling heavy workloads like graphic design or video production.
There are also a number of Asus VivoBook laptops on sale, which are among the best-looking and reliable Windows laptops out there. Similar to Lenovo, they have some budget options that are great for students.
Black Friday 2020: Is It Canceled, Store Closings, And Everything We Know
It’s been an incredibly strange and brutal year, but somehow, it’s already August, and the busy holiday shopping season will be here before we know it. In the United States, Black Friday is known as the best time of year to save money on big-ticket items, to cross all those names off your shopping list and splurge for yourself a little (or a lot) too. But with COVID-19 still a very real threat in the US, some are wondering whether Black Friday 2020 has been canceled entirely.
Fortunately, Black Friday has been developing a strong online presence for years now. With companies like Amazon proving that huge online sales like Prime Day can be a major success, retailers have slowly been offering more noteworthy Black Friday deals online over the years, and this year will be no exception. In fact, with retailers looking to avoid mass crowds that normally push into stores on Black Friday, there’s even greater incentive to make sure the best deals are also available online–and earlier.
So what has been confirmed so far regarding retailers’ plans for Black Friday 2020? Here’s what we know right now about Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday shopping this year.
Horizon Zero Dawn’s PC Port Needs Some Work
It’s a pretty big deal that another PlayStation 4 exclusive has made its way to PC. This time, it’s the open-world action game Horizon Zero Dawn. It may be a little over three years old at this point, but proper PC ports of former exclusives tend to offer an optimal way to play for a mostly new audience. In my case, I was just hyped to replay one of 2017’s standout games with cranked up visuals, higher frame rates, and, in this particular case, keyboard and mouse controls. After about 12 hours with this version, I’ve come away with some very mixed results.
Horizon Zero Dawn is a visually captivating experience; its depiction of nature and the wilderness is rich with thick vegetation, vast mountain ranges, and sweeping deserts. Remnants of the world’s high-tech past with imposing, beastly machines also contrast with the environments in a fascinating way that entices you to uncover more of the story’s mysteries. That’s all part of why a PC version is such a big deal. However, in the current pre-launch phase, performance hiccups and some graphical shortcomings can overshadow these elements.
(You can watch the review of the PS4 version from 2017 in the video above, or read the original Horizon Zero Dawn review.)
Windbound – First 30 Minutes Of Gameplay
We find ourselves stranded on a deserted island, and head out across the seas to unknown territories.