Black Ops 4 is scheduled to launch on October 12, 2018, which many folks might realize is a bit earlier than normal. If you’ve been paying attention over the past few years, or every year since 2006 to be specific, you’ve likely become accustomed to the annual Call of Duty game releasing in the first or second week of November. It’s become standardized to expect Activision’s blockbuster shooter to drop at some point during this span but that’s all changed this year. Is it just pure happenstance? Maybe. But I think there’s something a bit more to it. I believe that Activision is concerned about being caught in the shadow of Red Dead Redemption 2 .

Eagle Vision is basically Red Dead Redemption II ’s easy mode, taking all the challenge out of hunting and allowing players access to every single piece of valuable information on screen at once. It takes all the established effort out of hunting and gives you a means of skipping all the actual work associated with hunt

Released LA Noire: The VR Case Files , featuring seven select cases from the original game rebuilt specifically for a virtual reality experience, for Oculus Rift. LA Noire: The VR Case Files is also available for the HTC VIVE sys

Situational awareness is a skill needed for just about every video game, but it’s more necessary in some scenarios than others. And if you are hunting and your prey falls dead on the railroad tracks… it’s safest to keep both eyes peeled, as Reddit user johnnydoo2 learned the hard way when the train passed right through him and even scooped him up for a free ride. Things could have certainly gone worse; the train could have simply splattered him, but there’s no doubt his Arthur Morgan isn’t going to be forgetting that anytime soon. And what must the passengers on the train thou

Released Kerbal Space Program: Making History Expansion for PC. This first expansion for the critically acclaimed space simulation adds a wealth of new and exciting content to the game, including a robust Mission Builder that lets players create and share their own scenarios, and a History Pack containing missions inspired by historical moments in space explorat

I want to be clear after saying all of this that by no means do I think Black Ops 4 would sell poorly if it did release in November. For Activision though, this is all about maximization of profits. Even if Red Dead Redemption 2’s release didn’t have as big of an effect as I’m pretending it would, it’s obvious that an effect would still be had. Activision knows this, too, and that’s why they’ve pushed Call of Duty into an October window for the first time in 13 years.

It does seem like there will occasionally be a warning of the danger to come, though. A horse with an erect tail standing on the road can be a sign of imminent combustion, so if you happen to see one, get re

Upon arriving on the island of Guarma , the gang once again finds themselves in the midst of a civil war. This time, the battle is between the island’s plantation owners and the slaves working in the fields. Taking arms up against the plantation owners, the gang helps progress the revolution for the slaves’ cause, before heading back to mainland Amer

During the course of his rough-and-tumble adventures, Arthur Morgan gets pretty dirty. It doesn’t help that the roads he travels on are sometimes just muddy tracks in the earth. If you get soiled enough, other NPCs will comment on Arthur’s rundown st

Aside from the story, the world of Red Dead Redemption 2 fishing guide Dead Redemption 2 is amazing as well. Rockstar Games has always been adept at making vast open worlds, but Red Dead Redemption 2 takes the cake. The space your outlaws inhabit feels huge and immersive. Part of the immersion is due to the fact that there are a plethora of activities you can participate in. I’ve had the game for a while, and I feel as if I’ve barely scratched the surface of what I can accompl

The time away did not do much for the group of outlaws, as they almost immediately run into trouble, primarily due to Dutch’s terrible decisions in taking on ever-increasingly dangerous heists. To make matters worse, Morgan catches tuberculosis and is given a grim prognosis. He saves Marston (again), but that is when the group truly begins to disso

A bloody shootout through the streets of Valentine forces the group to move on, leading to the discovery of a considerable amount of gold possessed by the dueling Gray and Braithwaite families in the town of Rhodes. The gang works to play both families in an effort to eventually obtain the gold, but wind up getting played themselves, with John Marston’s son, Jack, getting kidnapped. Jack is eventually rescued, but the gang gets double-crossed in the process, causing Dutch to decline even more in his thoughtfulness and strategy. He plans a bank heist that doesn’t go at all as planned, resulting in Marston being captured, as well as the deaths of two of the more high-profile characters of the gang, including Dutch’s best friend. In an attempt to escape the law (and everyone else who wants them dead) the gang hops a ride on a tanker ship headed to C