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Ahead of the November 13 release of Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, the developer has shared a sneak peek at some of the missions that’ll make up the single-player campaign. Led by studio Raven Software, the campaign continues the story of the original Black Ops game, picking up with Woods, Mason, and Hudson 13 years later.

The Call Of Duty blog post has detailed three separate campaign missions ahead of the game’s release–one a covert urban mission turned rooftop chase, the second a flashback against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, and the last an infiltration of the KGB headquarters.

The missions featured have been chosen to illustrate the philosophy behind Cold War’s campaign– Raven Software wants to include everything that die-hard fans of the series will love, while also mixing up the formula and still making Cold War accessible to newcomers to the series.

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We got our hands on the Naraka Bladepoint Closed Beta. We try out the solo mode called Endless Trial that pits you against 15 other players. The player with the most points win. We use Viper Ning, the Crimson Night as our hero. Armed with a repeating crossbow and a katana we slay our foes.

Xbox Game Pass subscribers will soon be able to access games from the EA Play catalog, and they’re now able to better prepare themselves for this influx. Games from EA Play can now be preloaded, and it looks like they’ll be available to play from November 10.

The Verge‘s Tom Warren has reported on Twitter that games from the EA Play list can now be preloaded. They won’t be playable for another week, but you can prepare yourself now for when all of these games are available.

We’ve checked and can verify that Battlefield V and other titles from EA Play can now be pre-installed by Game Pass subscribers who do not own these games.

EA Play contains over 70 games on Xbox–here’s the complete list. Its inclusion makes Game Pass even better value. This only applies to the console version of EA Play, though–the PC still requires a separate subscription.

It was previously announced that EA Play would be available to Game Pass subscribers in November, and that’s now coming to pass. Some other major games recently added to Game Pass include a trio of classic point-and-click adventures and the upcoming console release of Gears Tactics.

The Xbox Series X, which you’ll also be able to play all of these games on, launches November 10.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope gives me a little hope for the future of Supermassive Games’ horror series. Some smart gameplay tweaks ensure that Little Hope still highlights Supermassive’s vital role in the modern adventure space, but it also highlights why the studio’s future games need to be better than this for those smart changes to really shine.

Little Hope, like its immediate predecessor Man of Medan, is a mashup of horror tropes and subgenres. It borrows iconography from The Blair Witch Project. It borrows its Puritan-era paranoia from The Witch (and Arthur Miller’s non-horror play The Crucible). And its conceit, which finds a group of college students and their professor stranded in the woods after their bus crashes, hangs on a premise that will be familiar for fans of Stephen King’s The Mist or John Carpenter’s The Fog. As the game progressed, I became increasingly skeptical that those threads would come together in a satisfying way. In the end, they don’t, but I still had a good time on the ride to that disappointing conclusion.

Little Hope begins with a flashback to the 1970s and a brief introduction to a troubled family of six. Dad is a heavy drinker. The older sister feels isolated and depressed. And, in a hint at the spiritual warfare that will dominate much of Little Hope’s second half, the younger sister has been held back repeatedly after church to speak with the reverend. These glowing embers of drama soon blaze up into a literal raging fire when the younger sister leaves her doll on the stovetop. In the ensuing blaze, every member of the family meets their grisly demise, save Will Poulter’s Anthony, who helplessly watches on.

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Even though going out to search for new Pokemon was a much more difficult in 2020, some modifications to the game and a player base with more time on their hands than usual has meant to Pokemon Go has made a lot of money this year.

Sensor Tower is reporting that Pokemon Go has brought in $1 billion so far in 2020, and has surpassed $4 billion in lifetime revenue. Its total is now around $4.2 billion.

These are estimates based on the site’s analytics, but the game, which launched in July 2016, is unquestionably still very popular. 2020 is now the game’s single biggest year.

The game’s previous best year was 2019, when it earned $902 million. The game still has two more months to keep driving that record up. Pokemon Go is the third-highest grossing mobile game worldwide for the year, behind PUBG Mobile (which has made enormous money) and Honor of Kings.

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