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Warner Bros. has announced details regarding the future of Middle-earth: Shadow of War – the latest video game to be set in JRR Tolkein’s fantasy universe – and it certainly gives players plenty to look forward to, particularly anyone who has invested in the Season Pass.

Over the next couple of months, two new tribes of Orc will be introduced to Shadow of War, with the Slaughter tribe arriving in November and the Outlaw tribe following in December. Both expansions will introduce new tribal fortresses along with throne rooms, monuments and outposts, as well as new Epic and Legendary Orcs which can be defeated for enhanced loot, including brand new Legendary gear. The Slaughter tribe are specifically noted as being “the most bloodthirsty in Mordor”, with a warning for players that they can lay an ambush at any point. The Outlaws, meanwhile, hold a “deep contempt” for both foreign invaders as well as Lord of Mordor.

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Gear.Club Unlimited is in the enviable, and risky, position as the first proper racing game on the  Nintendo Switch, and it succeeds, in context.

For a PC sim racing player, it’s easy to be frustrated at AAA simcade games that are severely limited by the lack of hardware availability. Why bother wrestling an ultra-realistic Koenigsegg with all the assists off when you’re stuck with a non-customizable wheel or a controller? These frustrations don’t exist with Gear.Club Unlimited, since the game doesn’t present itself as feathering the edge between real-life and virtual racing.

This isn’t to say that the game is completely lacking in physics, but rather that it has just enough of it. The real success is the game’s pick-up-and-play factor. The varying cars differentiate enough to translate through the controller. You can tell the difference between the weightiness of a BMW M4 and a Lotus Elise’s petite figure. The straightforward selection of driving assists will enable less experienced racers to attempt competing with the veterans. The hardest settings provide veteran racers enough of a challenge with the Switch Joy-Cons / Pro Controller to keep wanting to play, but without often-frustrating pseudo-realism. It’s fun in the way that older Need for Speed titles are fun. You pick up the controller, choose the car that you have on a wall poster, and race.

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We’ve teamed up with THQ Nordic to offer 10,000 keys for the multiplayer closed beta for Aquanox Deep Descent. The beta will run from Friday, October 27, 6:00 PM CET / 9 AM PT / 5 PM BST, to Sunday, October 29, 11:59 PM CET / 02:59 PM PT / 10:59 PM BST.

Aquanox is a PC first person underwater vehicle shooter set on a near future Earth, deep below the sea. The beta includes two game modes, Team Deathmatch and Deathmatch, which can be played 4v4 or 8v8 depending on the map. There will be four maps available to play during the beta, two of which are brand new for this beta.

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We have a crack at taking on the bullet meanies in Enter The Gungeon on Switch!

Despite the commercial and critical failure of 2015’s Terminator: Genisys, the Terminator series is continuing, with the next movie due in July 2019. Franchise creator James Cameron is producing and overseeing the story, and original stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton are set to return.

Schwarzenegger has been speaking about the next movie, which will be directed by Deadpool‘s Tim Miller, and suggested that it is taking a back-to-basics approach and will ignore most of the events in the films since 1991’s Terminator 2. In an interview with Business Insider, the Austrian action icon explained that the titular killer robot and Hamilton’s Sarah Connor will be the only characters who appear from earlier movies.

“I think Cameron and Tim came up with a concept where they can continue on with the T-800 but make a whole new movie,” he said. “What they are doing now with this one is basically to just take a few very basic characters, like Linda Hamilton’s character and my character, and dismiss everything else. Just move away from all these rules of the timeline and other characters.”

Schwarzenegger explained why the new movie wouldn’t go down the route of confusing multiple timelines like Genisys did. “It’s hard to come up with new ideas when you stay within that framework,” he said.

In a recent interview, Miller hinted that the movie will avoid the huge-scale, effects-laden style of Genisys and 2009’s Terminator Salvation. “Believe me, there was no lack of things up on the whiteboard,” he said. “He could do this and he could make a marching band out of endoplasmic metal, but who the f**k cares? I don’t want to see that. So we’re trying to keep it grounded like Jim did for Terminator.”

There had been some confusion about whether a new Terminator would happen at all. Terminator: Genisys was originally intended to be the first part of a new trilogy, but its box office failure ended this plan. Subsequent reports suggested that Paramount had abandoned the idea of any more movies, before Cameron’s return to the series was confirmed last month.

The launch of Assassin’s Creed Origins is just a couple days away, and Ubisoft has unveiled the official launch trailer. It gives players a sneak peek at the game’s action and its story, which tells the tale of the beginning of the Assassin Brotherhood. Check it out in the video above.

The trailer, called Legend of The Assassin, introduces Bayek, a warrior in Ancient Egypt whose struggle against the corrupt forces of the time leads him towards becoming the first Assassin. Unlike other games in the series, which always advanced the story forward in time, Origins is a prequel to those that came before it. There’s a lot to the plot and lore of the franchise’s universe, so if you haven’t played the previous games or just need a refresher, check out GameSpot’s recap of the Assassin’s Creed story so far.

The trailer showcases a lot of the action and beautiful cinematic cutscenes in Origins, too. Players can expect more of the series’ trademark parkour-inspired adventure and fight sequences but, unlike previous Assassin’s Creed games, Origins adds RPG elements to its open-world gameplay. You’ll level up your abilities in a skill tree, which will increase your hit points, damage, and abilities over time.

Assassin’s Creed Origins releases October 27 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. When the system launches on November 7, it will also be available for Xbox One X, rendering in beautiful 4K for those with 4K displays and offering enhanced “architectural models, vegetation, rocks and display[s] them at longer Draw Distances in dense environments like the grand cities of Alexandria and Memphis,” according to developer Ubisoft.

You can watch our new video to see how Origins looks on an Xbox One X, and check out GameSpot’s roundup of gameplay videos, features, and everything you need to know ahead of the game’s official release.

GameSpot News with Jess McDonell–and oh hey I guess Dan Crowd is back–is back to give you another hot ever-relevant dose of video game news. Here are today’s stories:

Nintendo Switch Secretly Gets GameCube Controller Support

Hey, remember that 4.0 update that added gameplay recording to the Switch? Turns out it also enabled a couple of other things too. These include support for USB wireless headphones, and more surprisingly, GameCube controller support. You know what that means: Time to speculate wildly on when the new Smash Bros. game is coming out!

• Nintendo Switch Update 4.0 Also Adds GameCube Controller Support

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Getting Physical Xbox One Release

Are you playing everyone’s favourite battle royale game, PUBG? No? Maybe it’s because you don’t have a PC and hate digital storefronts. Well you’ll be excited to hear that the game will be getting a physical retail version when the game eventually comes out on Xbox One later this year. Maybe you can get a chicken dinner to compliment your chicken dinner simulator?

• PUBG Physical Release Confirmed For Xbox One

GTA 5 Story DLC Expansions Won’t Happen

And in some downer news today, it’s basically been confirmed that Rockstar Games will not be releasing any single-player focussed expansion content for Grand Theft Auto V. While GTAIV had some killer DLC in the form of The Lost And Damned, as well as The Ballad of Gay Tony, it seems like that activity won’t become a trend. For more details on the reasoning behind it, check out the story or keep watching today’s episode.

• GTA 5 Story DLC Expansions Won’t Happen And Here’s Why

GameSpot News may or may not be back tomorrow–the Australian team will be in transit to PAX Aus so who knows? Maybe you’ll see some Americans, and maybe not. Life is just one big mystery sometimes.

With Rogue One’s Ben Mendelsohn now up for the role of a Skrull in Captain Marvel, we break down everything you need to know about the alien shapeshifters.

Get off the hard floor and slide into one of these video game chairs.

The cinematic Apes game may no longer be available on the PSN, but IGN has a look at the game’s opening.