You’ll spend a significant amount of your time in Starfield exploring its vast universe of planets and finding new and exciting flora, fauna, and treasures. More often than you’d think, though, you’ll have to engage in some old-fashioned shootouts using the game’s wide variety of weaponry. This means you’ll want to be able to swap back -and-forth between your favorite weapons on the fly so that you’re always using the best gun for the situation in which you’ve found yourself. However, Starfield doesn’t offer a traditional one-button weapon-swapping option, so you’ll need to add your preferred weapons to your favorites bar. Here’s how to do that.
Your favorites bar can be pulled up at any time by selecting Q on PC or pressing any direction on the D-Pad on Xbox. You can assign a variety of items here, including weapons – and you’re going to want to do so. Without adding your preferred weapons to this bar, you’ll have to completely pause the game and access the inventory menu each time you want to swap weapons, which can be quite a cumbersome task.
To add a weapon to your favorites bar, head to your inventory and open up your weapons list, then select the weapon you want to add and select the Favorite button/key listed at the bottom right of this screen. From here, you can choose which section of your favorites bar you’d like to place the weapon. Place it in the spot you feel will be easiest for you, then you’ll be able to swap to that weapon at any time during battle. Of course, feel free to also add other useful items to the favorites bar!
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 One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it.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.