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Rockstar Games has released a brand-new trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 PC ahead of its November 5 release. Like the last Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer, this one is also in gorgeous 4K.

After months of rumors, Rockstar officially announced Red Dead Redemption 2 PC back in October. The biggest changes for the PC version are related to the game’s visuals which harness the power of PCs to look even better than it did on consoles.

Rockstar previously released a 4K trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 PC that showed off those visual improvements. And those same improvements can be seen in the new trailer as well. Rockstar claims that the PC version will support 4K resolution, HDR, multi-monitor support, 60fps, and visual enhancements to textures and models.

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It’s no secret that professional wrestler and executive vice-president of All Elite Wrestling Kenny Omega loves video games. And on the October 30 episode of TNT’s weekly wrestling show, AEW Dynamite, Omega showed off his love for Undertale.

Before he entered the ring, his video package played a 16-bit cutscene that was very reminiscent of the game, featuring a yellow and red disembodied head, which is totally a knock at the New Japan Pro Wrestling’s logo–a company Omega wrestled for–explaining Omega left all his friends and now, he’s all alone. This includes a silhouette of Omega’s former tag team partner, Kota Ibushi. You can check out the video for yourself below.

The sound effects and dialogue from the end of that section are taken directly from Undertale. After the video package ended, Omega entered wearing a Sans mask and outfit, while Megalovania–the song from the game–played in the arena. Surprisingly, this worked incredibly well as entrance music for one of the greatest wrestlers of this generation.

This was a Halloween-themed episode, which contained a lot of Rick & Morty moments, clips, and masks, as AEW was helping promote the upcoming season of the animated series. The Best Friends and Orange Cassidy wrestled as two Ricks and one Morty in their 6-man tag match during the evening.

You can catch more video game references from Omega every week on TNT’s AEW Dynamite which airs ever Wednesday night.

Walmart decided to start its Black Friday pricing early… REALLY early, with a special savings event on all sorts of different items you’d expect to find on sale for Black Friday. Among those are some truly great deals on Samsung QLED 4K UHD TVs.

Samsung 75-inch QLED 4K TV Deal

This is a huge television with a fantastic picture, and you can get it for half its MSRP. This is a 2019 model, too, so it’s the latest and greatest, if that really matters to you. If 75 inches to too many, the 65 and 55 inch versions are also on sale right now. This is the last day for these savings, so if you’re looking to save big you don’t have much time. They also have free delivery, which is always a nice touch.

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The Nintendo Switch Lite is off to a successful start. In its first 11 days on sale, the redesigned, handheld-only Switch model shifted 1.95 million units worldwide, as reported in Nintendo’s six months earnings release.

In total, Nintendo sold 6.93 million units of Switch hardware in the fiscal second quarter that concluded at the end of September, up 36% on a year-to-year basis. The release of the Switch Lite and a new base model Switch with improved battery life and other improvements, contributed to the increase in hardware sales. Sales of software also rose 38% with Super Mario Maker 2 selling 3.93 million units, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening selling 3.13 million, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses selling 2.29 million.

Nintendo also notes that digital sales are up considerably, increasing 83% from the same point last year, with sales accumulating 71.6 billion yen. Over the same six month period, Nintendo’s total sales reached 443.9 billion yen, bringing its operating profit to 94.2 billion yen.

This brings the total number of Nintendo Switch units sold up to 41.67 million worldwide, putting it on track to overtake all-time sales of the SNES before the end of the next quarter in December. Though this is still a ways off from reaching the Wii’s all-time sales of a staggering 101.63 million units.

Apex Legends is finally getting a Duos mode next week, though only for a short while. Developer Respawn Entertainment announced the news in a recent tweet, revealing that Duos will be arriving in the battle royale shooter on Tuesday, November 5.

The mode will only be available for a limited time, but Respawn didn’t say when it will be removed. This is similar to when Apex Legends introduced a highly requested Solos mode back in August. Apex Legends’ emphasis on teamwork and communication is what initially deterred Respawn from deviating away from the standard three-person setup, but with the success of Solos and the current Halloween-themed Shadowfall game mode, the developer is clearly more willing to branch out and offer different experiences, if only for a limited time.

You only have a few days left to try Shadowfall if you haven’t already, as it will be going away when Duos launches on November 5.

George R. R. Martin has promised that he will not write scripts for Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, until he finishes writing his next book, The Winds of Winter.

The legendary author shared a blog post titled “The Dragons Take Wing” to address the recent announcement that HBO has picked up House of the Dragon as a straight-to-series order. In the post, he outlined several details regarding the new series, which will be based on his novel Fire & Blood, while also offering an update on the sixth instalment of the Song of Ice and Fire saga.

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The Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic, launched in 2011 behind much anticipation. The game couldn’t sustain its paying player population, however, and EA dropped the mandatory subscription in favor of a free-to-play model just 11 months after release. Developer BioWare continues to support the game years after release with its new hybrid business model spread between subscriptions and a microtransaction-supported free-to-play option, and it seems that’s working out.

Publisher Elctronic Arts announced on an earnings call that The Old Republic is now closing in on $1 billion in lifetime revenue. “Believe it or not, we are close to $1 billion on Star Wars: The Old Republic revenue from the start of its history,” EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said. “So it’s a business that just keeps on going. We like those types of businesses.”

$1 billion is a lot of money, but the game itself was a massive, expensive production. According to a 2012 report, EA spent $200 million to produce the game. The report claims 800 staffers on four continents worked for six years to bring game to market.

For further context, Blizzard’s genre-defining MMO, World of Warcraft, reportedly brought in $1 billion per year during its heyday. Unlike many other MMOs, World of Warcraft continues to be a subscription-based MMO with no true free-to-play option.

The Old Republic’s latest expansion, Onslaught, arrived on October 22. It is the game’s seventh expansion, following Rise of the Hutt Cartel (2013), Galactic Starfighter (2014), Galactic Strongholds (2014), Shadow Revan (2014), Knights of the Fallen Empire (2015), and Knights of the Eternal Throne (2016).

The next Star Wars game is Jedi Fallen Order, which was developed by Apex Legends studio Respawn. As for BioWare, the studio is working on Dragon Age 4 and other unannounced projects.

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