Buy Now might be taking up the majority of your Tom Clancy third-person shooting time these days, but you shouldn’t forget about last year’s smash hit Buy Now . The game is getting two more content expansions in 2017, and both of them will be completely free to all players.
The first of these expansions, which is still unnamed, will focus on keeping players routinely playing with an “event system” that features “unique vanity items that will only be available” through these time-sensitive challenges. The content update will also add a way for players to more quickly switch between different loadouts, as well as an in-game achievement system.
The second expansion will not add any more main story missions, but creative director Julian Gerighty told the UbiBlog that they will still feature “narrative content” to continue to flesh out the game’s world — with the continued success of Rainbow Six Siege and the launch of Ghost Recon: Wildlands, we wouldn’t be surprised to see The Division attempt to tie itself in some way to the rest of the series, though its post-apocalyptic setting could pose a challenge.
The Division launched last March with a season pass that gave players access to three expansion packs released over the course of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. The first of these, Underground, explored the chaotic sewers of New York City, while Survival sees a group of Division agents fighting against encroaching enemy forces after they run out of supplies. The final paid expansion, Last Stand, launched on February 28, and features both a new competitive mode as well as the “Incursion” Stolen Signal.
Given the game’s continued legs, Ubisoft is likely to continue supporting The Division for the foreseeable future. A film adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain is also in the works, as are films based on the Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell franchises.
Remember when transparent gadgets were the coolest things you could own? Sony is bringing that late '90s aesthetic back with its new PS5 Prism Collection. The gorgeous lineup gives your DualSense controller and PS5 console a glossy, see-through makeover in three eye-catching colors.
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For years, Call of Duty’s campaign mode has used big, scripted set pieces to tell the overarching story amid all the adrenaline-pumping action. The 2023 Modern Warfare 3 tried to shake up the established formula by introducing a handful of short open combat missions, and I genuinely liked the idea, but the game's overall negative reception seeped into how those missions were received.
I feared the next iteration might abandon the idea because of the backlash, but I am glad it didn't. MW4’s “Stranded” mission uses the same approach, but instead of fragmenting it across the campaign, it puts it all in a single large-scale open-world mission.
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.