They’ve taken on rival gangs, big business, government stormtroopers, armies of undead, and alien invaders, so of course the next stop for the Third Street Saints is Hell. Deep Silver used PAX Prime 2014 to announce Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, coming to PC and PlayStation/Xbox consoles on January 27, 2015. It’ll be the first appearance on PS4 and Xbox One for the series, though it’s joined on the same day by Saints Row IV: Re-Elected.
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Gat Out of Hell follows Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington, both playable characters, as they venture into the underworld to save the leader of the Saints (also the President of the United States). The trailer below suggests that the Saints boss is kidnapped by demonic forces so that he (or she!) can be married off to a woman that appears to be the daughter of Satan. There’s a whole lot more to this though: “Historical icons, old friends, a talking gun, [and] a full length musical number” are all part of the game, according to the press release.
Deep Silver is calling Gat Out of Hell a “standalone expansion,” meaning you won’t need to own Saints Row IV to play it, but you probably will have to buy it — for $20 — as a download-only proposition. Get your first look in the trailer below, though take note: There’s a naughty word in there.
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 One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it.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.