Like any good game in the Soulslike genre, Lords of the Fallen is filled with intricate explorable areas featuring branching pathways and well-hidden secrets. To uncover them all, you’ll have to take things slow and be extremely thorough, but even if you’re checking every nook and cranny, you’ll occasionally find that you’re missing an important item or key needed to pass through specific barriers. For instance, early in the game while exploring Pilgrim’s Perch, you may come across a door or two that requires a Pilgrim’s Perch Key, which you actually won’t be able to find in the area itself. Don’t worry, though – we’ll tell you where to get it below.
The Pilgrim’s Perch Key can be purchased for 9,500 Vigor from Stomund, Captain of the Fidelis in Skyrest. You can find this NPC standing to the right of the vestige, but he’ll only start selling you items after you’ve exhausted all of his initial dialogue, so be sure to speak with him multiple times if you haven’t already.
It’s perfectly reasonable to see the cost of the Pilgrim’s Perch Key and feel a bit overwhelmed – that’s an absolutely staggering amount of Vigor to obtain early in the game. However, it shouldn’t take too long to farm it up, especially if you use our favorite XP farming spot a bit further into Pilgrim’s Perch. Plus, the cost will be worth it, as you’ll be able to open various doors throughout Pilgrim’s Perch that lead you to new areas and rewards.
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.
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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.