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In most shooters pistols appear as a starter weapon, but Doom Eternal skips players straight to a shotgun instead. It turns out a pistol was once planned, but was ultimately cut out when it didn’t fit the flow of the gameplay. The weapon is still in the game, however, and can be accessed with console commands via Cheat Engine.

Console commands for Doom Eternal are available thanks to the work of SunBeam on Fearless Revolution Forums, while the pistol itself was unearthed by user Archangel73337. The full topic is worth a scroll for anyone keen to see what other secrets have been left hidden in the game’s code, inaccessible through normal gameplay.

Dave Oshry of New Blood Interactive was the one to post this little tidbit on Twitter.

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Warning: Full spoilers for The Walking Dead episode, “Look at the Flowers” follow…

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Some business up top here: For those who missed the news from this past week, The Walking Dead’s Season 10 finale has been postponed until later this year as the COVID-19 outbreak has prevented the post-production work from being completed. So Season 10, for now, will end with the fifteenth episode, “The Tower,” on Sunday, April 5.

Now, let’s dig into a “Look at the Flowers.”

With the nice trajectory this back half of Season 10 has displayed — the escape from the cave, the ramping up to the war and the elimination of Alpha (at a time that actually felt appropriate), and then the stellar Michonne exit episode — it was time for a come down. “Look at the Flowers” was about fallout more than anything else, as both Carol and Beta reeled from Alpha’s demise – each of them still communicating with her in their own way.

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Carol and Alpha

Carol’s arc this week wasn’t anything out of the ordinary as far as the character’s usual M.O. She took off, crumbling under her usual cocktail of grief and guilt. And along the way, Samantha Morton got to play Alpha one final time as Carol imagined her following her through the woods, heckling her with her own darkest fears. It wasn’t the greatest use of Carol, as we’ve seen her run through most of these beats before. In fact, we’ve seen many other characters hobble down this same road. It’s textbook Walking Dead. It’s why last week’s Michonne “multiverse” hallucination felt so fresh.

The turn at the end here involved Carol getting stuck under some rubble and having to fight for her life. The drive to save herself, and also be there for Daryl since he’s the only person she cares about who has yet to meet a grisly end (Sophia, Lizzie, Mika, and Henry were all mention by Alpha), infused her with a new appreciation of life. Enough to drive her back to Alexandria. Again though, most of this felt like recycled grief.

Beta the Country Star

While Carol was having her own personalized Alpha experience, in her head, Beta was spiraling. Carrying around Alpha’s head (which he forced a subordinate to stick his face near, with gruesome consequences), Beta seemed to be following her “commands.”

One meltdown later, Beta has now, apparently, reluctantly assumed the position of Alpha (meshing her own skin into his walker mask) and hit the road with a new pack of walkers  – which he summoned by blasting one of his own country music hits!

Yes, it was hinted at even more this week that Beta, in his past life, was a famous country star named “Half Moon” (if we’re going by the spattered poster that sent him into a tizzy). I don’t know if we’ll get any more confirmation than this tantrum, mind you. The show might just leave it at this. But then again, if Beta fully clashes with Negan, Daryl, Aaron, or anyone else, there’s a good chance that they’ll now recognize him and the story will actually call it out officially.

Also, it’s kind of cool that with Alpha’s pale skin connected to his mask, he looks kind of like a half moon now.

Negan’s Deal

A flashback at the top of the episode showed us the moment when Carol freed Negan from his cell, with the expectation that he’d kill off Alpha quickly. Smartly though, Negan recommended that Carol not give up on trying to kill Alpha in case he failed, which explains why Carol, even with Negan out there on a mission, still kept trying to go after her nemesis.

Both she and Daryl did seem to have some unrealistic expectations about how quickly Negan would get the job done. Negan even called it out at one point after being criticized over and over for taking his sweet time. “What is it with you guys thinking I took too long?” he asked, after Daryl expressed his anger over Negan letting the herd overtake Hilltop. And you know what? Both sides have a point, kind of. Yeah, Negan’s secret assassination op wasn’t easy. And there’s no reason to expect he’d be able to do it fast and easy. Or that he’d be able to do it at all.

But then again, as revealed in the episode, during Negan and Daryl’s uneasy bonding, Negan did like being a part of Alpha’s crew. He enjoyed being out of the cell and being embraced by a new group. And, like a drug addict, Negan enjoyed wielding a bit of power again as he moved up through the ranks and got Alpha to trust him. He noticed this rather pointedly when a few straggling Whisperers bent the knee to him as the guy who killed Alpha. Negan could have used that opportunity to kill Daryl and head out with a new bumbling crew, but he saw himself being tempted by a darkness that he’d now like to leave behind.

Negan’s now in good (well, we’ll use “good” loosely) with Carol and Daryl. Aaron is the big cat who remains staunchly anti-Negan. Let’s see how he reacts to the news that Negan saved the day.

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Eugene’s Expedition (to the Commonwealth?)

In the non-Alpha story, Eugene finally took off for his meet and greet with Stephanie. Yumiko and (a very weak) Ezekiel are with him, heading into a big city on horseback, echoing the famous shot of Rick riding into Atlanta from Season 1. There wasn’t much to this trek, aside from poor Ezekiel realizing this will probably be his final bow one way or another (especially when you consider his emotional farewell with Jerry), until the trio reached the city and saw that someone had chained up walkers all around town in little play scenarios in order to make it look like there were people doing “people things” (eating, getting parking tickets, etc).

That person, in all her giddy glory, arrived at the end, with goggles, a gun, and dyed purple hair! With an “Oh, my God. Hi!,” this character immediately stood out from the usual brooding. Slight comic book spoilers here: This is Princess – aka Juanita Sanchez. Played by Paola Lazaro, Princess marks the TV show’s first big foray into the Commonwealth storyline. In the comics, she meets an expedition, led by Michonne, traveling to the Commonwealth.

Since Season 10 is now, technically, ending with next week’s episode, I’m curious to see how it acts as a default finale given this big character debut. Maybe the season was structured like Season 9 was where the penultimate episode felt like a finale while the actual finale was its own story (complete with a small time jump).

In Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the Pinocchio-esque quest of a child robot to become a real boy hinges on one thing: the love he feels for his mother. For Spielberg (and for Stanley Kubrick, who had been developing the project before he died), the incredible bond shared between parents and their children was fundamentally a human characteristic, and it was so deep, so profound, that if a being with artificial intelligence could experience it, they could basically be said to have achieved consciousness.

Westworld has proposed a similar idea before — particularly in the character of Maeve, whose abiding affection for her daughter was the reverie that both awakened her to the reality of the park and prevented her from escaping it. In the third episode of Season 3, Westworld is ready to explore that notion all over again.

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It starts with Charlotte Hale — or rather an exact Charlotte replica, indistinguishable from the real, late Charlotte, who was of course murdered by Dolores at the end of last season. As we discover at the outset of the episode, Dolores has implanted host-Charlotte with one of the pearls she managed to smuggle out of the park, and she’s been instructing this phony to continue leading Delos and negotiate with the company’s shareholders on her behalf.

There’s a lot going on at Delos these days, including a surreptitious takeover bid, some drama involving the fallout from the board killings, and the suspicion that there may be a mole at the top of the circus reporting things to the nefarious trillionaire Serac. But the episode manages to outline the intersecting problems with minimal confusion, and we now have a clearer idea of what Serac’s after and how Dolores, Charlotte, and even Maeve figure in to his scheme.

We know that the real Charlotte was the mole. She promised Serac that she would retrieve for him the park’s vast stores of visitor data, which he presumably wants to add to Incite’s gargantuan servers. Of course, host-Charlotte works for Dolores, Serac’s current target and budding arch-nemesis, and that’s going to make it considerably more difficult for them to maintain the illusion that Charlotte is alive and well and going about her business as usual. In any case, Serac continues to prove an intriguing, vaguely sinister villain, thanks to a fine turn by Vincent Cassel. The showdown between Dolores and Serac that the season is plainly leading toward is shaping up to be one hell of a battle, even if for the time being it’s strictly one of wits.

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But while Dolores wants her Charlotte facsimile to gather intel and ward off the prospective Delos takeover, all is not going so smoothly with the ruse. It’s an issue of personality: the “real” Charlotte seems somehow lodged inside the host body somewhere, lurking beneath the programming and fighting to get out, or else parts of Charlotte’s identity are so strong that they’re screwing things up.

Host-Charlotte can’t stop cutting herself, as if psychologically tortured, and this is clearly going to get worse before it gets better — as evidenced by the relationship between her and the real Charlotte’s son, who immediately senses something is wrong with this so-called mommy. Her son’s suspicion, as well as her conflicted affection, is the crux of the episode, and it’s maybe the most emotionally complex that Westworld has ever been. The hosts are becoming more and more human, yes, but here we have a case where a human seems to be becoming more host — where a human’s feelings refuse to die with their body, and where an identity is too strong to be programmed away. Of everything going on so far in the season, I’m most intrigued to see where this goes.

Charlotte’s son recognizes that the woman in front of him isn’t his real mother. Caleb’s mother, meanwhile, can’t recognize the man in front of her as her real son — “where’s Cal?” she pleads with him as he visits her in hospital, in a very clever parallel the show is smart enough not to underline. Caleb has made the possibly fatal mistake of lending Dolores a hand, and now the crime-share app with which he’s been making an illegal living has deemed him a lucrative target to track down and kill. You can’t help but feel for Caleb, whose life is endlessly disappointing and who can’t catch a break. On the other hand, getting involved with Dolores may help give his life meaning: as he tells her, unaware of the irony, she’s the most real thing that’s happened to him in a long time.

The season’s action sequences continue to impress — both Caleb’s attempt to defend an injured Dolores from a couple of goons and an equally dangerous exchange with a different set of goons who want to torture and kill him are thrilling. (I also loved the touch of Caleb’s faithful robot construction worker buddy trying and failing to come to his rescue, which was strangely poignant.) And the design of future Los Angeles continues to dazzle, from the look of the Delos headquarters down to the style of the cop cars and ambulances.

If last week’s return to Westworld and the parks seemed visually dull, that’s only because the outside world Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have created is so engaging. Even a two-second establishing shot of the hotel where Dolores meets Charlotte for a drink, covered in trees and vines, blew me away. (It doesn’t hurt that Westworld is shot on 35mm and looks downright sumptuous at times.)

Dolores elects to reward Caleb’s kindness with some revelations we will also find interesting: Rehoboam, Incite’s all-powerful computer, has actually computed so much data that it can predict exactly how and when someone will die. Caleb is destined to take his own life in about a decade’s time. The scene in which Dolores shocks Caleb with a verbatim transcript of the day he was abandoned by his mom certainly resonates in a world already dominated by Big Data — it’s another of the show’s sci-fi predictions that seems eerily plausible. What elevates it to the next level, though, is Aaron Paul’s outstanding performance, which makes it seem extremely intense and real. One of the obvious highlights of Breaking Bad, Paul’s already brought so much to this season of Westworld. Now that he’s teamed up with Dolores, I can’t wait to see what’s to come.

Charlotte Hale’s been keeping secrets and the war is reaching a boiling point.

In Westworld Season 3, Episode 3 “The Absence Of Field,” even more questions about the truth of Dolores’s crusade against the humans were raised. We learned who’s (probably) puppeteering the host version of Charlotte Hale, but it turns out things may not be as simple as just plugging a new person into an old body after all–and we may not have seen the last of Hale’s real personality, which seems to be fighting back from beyond the grave. But as the lines between host and human continue to blur, the reality of Delos and Incite’s secret war–a fight that seems centered around the rights to the personal data of every person on the planet–gets harder and harder to decipher.

And if that weren’t complicated enough already, this week dug even further into the history of Hale, dragging even more skeletons out of her closet and completely reframing her story from back in Season 2. Meanwhile, Dolores and Caleb got to know each other a little better–and all it took was yet another near-death experience for both of them.

We’ve pulled together 14 little details, potential clues, and things to pay close attention to as the season progresses to help shape your theories for the rest of the season. Be sure to share your ideas in the comments below.

1. New Charlotte

We can’t be completely certain, but based on the conversation between Charlotte and Dolores, it certainly seems like the host implanted in the Charlotte body is none other than Teddy, one of Dolores’s closest companions from the park. He may even be the only other host Dolores trusts entirely–so it would certainly make sense for him to be given such an important job.

It is, however, important to remember that that trust may not go both ways. Dolores and Teddy’s relationship came to a brutal end back in Season 2 when Teddy’s deeply ingrained morality began to struggle against the violence and bloodshed that Dolores was inflicting on both humans and hosts. He “killed” himself as a way out–but, naturally, being a host, escape was never going to be that simple. If it is Teddy inside Host Charlotte, there’s probably going to be some really complicated emotional baggage dug up somewhere down the line as he and Dolores are inevitably forced to confront their shared past.

2. Creeping Tender

Delos is being taken over by a “creeping tender,” a real-life investment strategy where a buyer gradually takes over a target company’s shares via purchasing on the open market.

3. Caleb’s past

We can assume that Caleb’s military past taught him a thing or two about field medicine, which would explain why he seems to know exactly how to handle a gunshot wound in real time while the two EMTs would rather wait for their system to spit out a diagnosis and treatment plan.

4. Serac

Serac has “complete anonymity” in a world where every living person has been profiled to some extent, this makes him not only the richest man in the world (to the tune of a trillion dollars) but the most powerful as well. Of course, we know that his anonymity comes from the fact that he helped create Rehoboam, the computer responsible for the profiling, but no one else does.

5. Charlotte’s Husband

Surprise! Charlotte Hale hasn’t always been such a loner–she has an ex-husband, and a son. It certainly seems like this information was not something Teddy (or whoever is inside of Host Hale) had before stepping into the role. Whoops.

6. Extinct Elephants

In case you needed a reminder about just how bleak the Westworld future really is, it turns out elephants have gone extinct. RIP.

7. “I feel like I’m changing.”

We don’t know much about the relationship between a host’s body and control unit, but it would certainly seem like it’s much deeper than just a computer inside a robotic shell. It would seem that Charlotte’s body is actually affecting Teddy’s personality in a major way–and that this is something Dolores has not accounted for.

Part of the “change” is manifested as lines carved into host Hale’s skin, which are eerily similar to the scarification the host Ghost Nation tribe used to use to represent the Valley Beyond.

8. Even more black and white

Westworld’s monochromatic symbolism is back again, with a vengeance. During Dolores and Hale’s emotionally charged talk in the hotel room, Dolores is wearing solid black while Hale is in solid white–interesting, considering they’re both on the same “team,” at least on paper.

9. “Drip”

We’ve known for a while that Caleb had turned off whatever common place cybernetic implants everyone seems to have, but this is the first time we’ve actually seen what the tech looks like or what it can do (other than send people on hallucinogenic drug trips). The thugs use Caleb’s reactivated “drip” to torture him–almost the same way that the techs would torture and control hosts with their tablets back in the park.

10. “Expression/Collaboration”

The signs behind Caleb and Dolores read “EXPRESSION” and “COLLABORATION,” which sure seem like a pretty unsubtle way to hint at the beginning of a promising new friendship.

11. The Predator

Charlotte “remembers what it’s like” to be herself–a predator–which may or may not signal the real Hale taking over Teddy’s programming entirely. If you remember back to Season 2, Teddy was the exact opposite of a predator–and trying to become one triggered his mental breakdown.

12. Rehoboam’s predictions

It turns out that, just like the host’s narrative loops, Rehoboam’s predictions are kept entirely secret and invisible from the general population. Caleb had no idea that all of his data had been harvested. The song playing in the background of this scene is a slowed down version of the main theme, another nod to the similarities between hosts and humans.

13. The phone

The mysterious calls Hale has been getting were the first five notes to “You Are My Sunshine,” the song she would sing to her son.

14. The mole

Charlotte spent Season 2 trying to get the guest data out of the parks, and now we know why–it wasn’t for Delos, she’s been working for Serac this entire time. But Serac may have an ace up his sleeve–he has more than one person at Delos under his thumb. He doesn’t, unfortunately, seem to know about the Hale switcheroo.

15. The Absence of Field

This week’s episode title comes from a poem titled Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand. “In a field, I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing.”

When NBA 2K16 depicted the tattoos of LeBron James, Kenyon Martin, and Eric Bledsoe on its in-game models, it led to a lawsuit from the original tattoo artists. Tattoo company Solid Oak Sketches filed a lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive and Visual Concepts, claiming the companies didn’t license the tattoo designs owned by Solid Oak.

A federal judge has now ruled in favor of the developers, saying that the tattoos make such a minor appearance in the game that copyright can’t be claimed, and that an implied license was granted via the players, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

After a judge refused to dismiss the case initially, James himself testified. “My understanding is that [my] tattoos are a part of my body and my likeness, and I have the right to have my tattoos visible when people or companies depict what I look like. I always thought that I had the right to license what I look like to other people for various merchandise, television appearances, and other types of creative works, like video games,” James said, as reported by the Hollywood Reporter.

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Rick & Morty has not announced a return date for the second half of season 4 yet, but a new short has given us a little bit of non-canon content to keep us going. Samurai & Shogun, which was made by Studio Deen (The Seven Deadly Sins, Junji Ito Collection), is a Lone Wolf and Cub tribute that sees Rick (dubbed Rick WTM-72 here) fighting off an army of samurai doppelgangers.

The film uses 3D animation, and Rick and Morty are played by Yohei Tadano and Keisuke Chiba, the same voice actors who play the characters in the show’s Japanese dub. Tadano even does Rick’s burp.

There’s plots of blood spraying and anime/samurai movie tropes to look out for in the short, which you can watch in full below.

Fans of the series will likely enjoy the moment here that pays tribute to the Goodbye Moonmen song from season 2 (as well as David Bowie’s Space Oddity, which inspired it).

Rick & Morty co-creator Justin Roiland has been very busy lately, working on both the Quibi series Gloop World and the Hulu exclusive Solar Opposites–along with, we hope, the rest of Rick & Morty season 4.

Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of the ambitious PC space sim Star Citizen, has raised even more money, but this time from investors instead of fans.

The studio has announced (via Kotaku) that the Calder Family Office, Snoot Entertainment, and ITG Investment have all purchased additional shares in Cloud Imperium. In total, Cloud Imperium has raised $17.25 million from these investors in the latest round of funding.

The three companies had already invested in Cloud Imperium before, back in 2018, so they were able to negotiate with the company to buy shares at a discounted price. Exact financial terms of the investment was not disclosed.

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Throughout gaming history, most consoles have kept to the same basic rectangular shape (with some notable exceptions). Now, Microsoft is throwing a new form factor in the game with the distinctly fridge-shaped Xbox Series X. In an interview with Eurogamer, key members of the design team revealed why the new Xbox is so different.

To give the shortest answer to this question–it’s all about performance, creating an over-powered console without it ending up the size of a regular PC. From the beginning the team knew it would require a different design mindset than any other console. “We knew it was going to be powerful and we knew it was going to require a totally different way of thinking about how to design a console,” principle designer Chris Kujawski said.

The goal for the new console was to double the system’s graphical performance, while keeping it just as quiet as the Xbox One. This technical challenge meant completely rethinking the structure of the machine.

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One of the ideas that filmmaker Peter Jackson toyed with for his The Lord of the Rings trilogy was to end the third movie on a much darker note. He said in his biography, Peter Jackson: A Film-maker’s Journey, that one of the ideas being tossed around was for Frodo to kill Gollum in cold blood.

The idea was that Frodo was so overwhelmed by the allure of the One Ring that he would kill Gollum to get it back when they were tussling at the Cracks of Doom. This was in fact more than an idea, as it turns out, as Jackson revealed that he actually filmed this version of the ending.

“When we originally shot the scene, Gollum bit off Frodo’s finger and Frodo pushed Gollum off the ledge into the fires below,” Jackson recalled (via Digital Spy). “It was straight-out murder, but at the time we were okay with it because we felt everyone wanted Frodo to kill Gollum.”

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Nier: Automata, one of the most beloved games of this console generation, is going to expand to a wider audience soon. The Become As Gods edition of the game–which includes all of the DLC released for the PS4 version–is joining the subscription service on April 2.

The game is coming to the console version of Xbox Game Pass, so PC users are out of luck. But Xbox One players who have not checked out the critically-acclaimed action title will be able to dig into it very soon.

This news comes alongside the reveal of a Nier remake, Nier Replicant Ver. 1.22474487139, which will be based on the Japanese PS3 version of the game (which is a bit different from the version that was released for PS3 and Xbox 360 in the west).

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