When Destiny 2: Forsaken — the game’s first major expansion — releases next month, we’ll have to say our goodbyes to Cayde-6, the wisecracking robotic character we’ve known since the original game. He has been murdered at the hands of “Prince of the Reef” Uldren Sov, but not before getting out one last joke.
“How’s your sister?” asks Cayde-6 before being killed by Sov in the Destiny 2: Forsaken launch trailer. The sister Cayde-6 is referring to is Mara Sov, Queen of the Awoken in the expansion’s playable Reef area.
Naturally, it’s up to you and the rest of your Guardian pals to venture into the Reef and track down Uldren and his eight Barons — they’ve escaped from the Prison of Elders and turned the Reef into a highly dangerous land of outlaws, and all of them need to be eliminated.
The trailer shows the Guardians taking it to Barons with a few of the expansion’s new abilities, including the Warlock’s powerful “Chaos Reach” beam and the Titan’s “Thundercrash.” The latter might be our favorite attack in the entire game, as it turns your character into a flying projectile that does massive damage wherever it lands.
“The line between light and dark is so very thin,” Uldren says as he approaches a mysterious glowing wall at the end of the trailer. “Do you know which side you’re on?”
In addition to the new campaign, Destiny 2: Forsaken includes a ton of new content for both cooperative and competitive play. A new raid called “Last Wish” is included with the expansion, and you’ll be able to try out new adventures and other open-world missions in the Tangled Shore and Dreaming City locations. For those who like blending cooperative and competitive multiplayer together, the four-on-four mode Gambit should be right up your alley, and you can try out all the expansion’s new weapons and abilities against other players. We can’t wait to score a headshot with the bow.
Destiny 2: Forsaken hits Buy Now , Buy Now , and Buy Now on September 4. You can pre-order it now to gain access to the “Cayde’s Last Hand” pack, which contains an exotic ship and emote, as well as armor shaders.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.