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It’s that time of the week again where Destiny 2 players on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC drop everything and go to see Xur to pick up some new Exotic gear and weapons. This week everyone’s favorite part-timer has shown up on Earth and, as always, we’ve got all the information you need to find him and see what wares he’s peddling this week.

Finding him, at this point, should be easy. He’s been on this spot multiple times, but if you need a refresher here it is: fast travel to the Winding Cove and when you arrive hop on your Sparrow. On the left-hand side you should see a winding road, follow that up a bit and you’ll see a small cliff with a downed ship above. Get off your Sparrow and get to jumping on rocks and you’ll be able to make it up to him. If you’re still finding it tricky, watch our video above, in which you’ll also get to see what he’s offering. Alternatively you can check out the gallery below for pictures of his latest stock.

• Sweet Business (Auto Rifle) – 29 Legendary Shards
• Lucy Raspberry (Chest Armor) -23 Legendary Shards
• Synthoceps (Gauntlets) – 23 Legendary Shards
• Skull of Dire Ahamkara (Warlock Class Helmet) – 23 Legendary Shards

Bungie has detailed its vision for Destiny 2’s future in a preview blog post, which took the place of a canceled Curse of Osiris livestream. The studio outlined its plans for two updates coming next month, the first of which arrives on December 5 alongside Curse of Osiris, with another following on December 12. These updates will “deepen rewards for advanced players; provide more player control over obtaining rewards; make Shards useful by adding things to use them for; [and] provide general quality fixes wherever possible.”

In the December 5 update, new Armor Ornaments will be added for “some” existing armor, so players will be able to change the look of their gear without affecting your Shaders or Mods. There will also be changes to how mods are acquired from Banshee.

In the December 12 update, Bungie will introduce Masterworks versions of Legendary weapons, which track and display your kills with that weapon (and can be set to show Crucible kills or total kills). Masterworks weapons can also create Orbs when scoring multi-kills, and have weapon stat bonuses that are “selected randomly from a small pool and are re-rollable.” They address a common complaint that weapon duplicates are effectively worthless in the current game. You can read more details about the upcoming Destiny 2 update changes here.

The Curse of Osiris expansion, meanwhile, launches on December 5. It will increase Destiny 2’s level cap and offer PS4-exclusive content. For more, take a look at some of the new Curse of Osiris armor and gear or check out some Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris gameplay.

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Razer’s phone isn’t a gaming phone per se, but it is a device built for gamers. As a result, it breaks unprecedented ground in a few areas but falters in others. Here are the top five things you should know about the Razer phone.

Display:

The Razer Phone uses a 5.7 inch 2560x1440p display. This is the same resolution that many high-end gaming monitors use and it looks really sharp. What really makes it unique, though, is the fact that it features a variable refresh rate, that’s similar to G-Sync or Freesync, and can scale up to 120Hz. Most other phones are locked to 60. It’s really refreshing to see Razer break into a mature market here and disrupt a bunch of leading phone manufacturers like Apple, Google and Samsung. One downside here is that it doesn’t use an OLED panel like many other flagships and opts to use an IPS LCD instead. This means that it doesn’t feature true black levels that OLED displays offer, which might be a deal breaker to some, but unfortunately they don’t make 120Hz OLED panels.

Specs:

The Razer Phone uses top tier Android parts. It’s equipped with Qualcomm’s leading Snapdragon 835 SOC coupled with a massive 8GB of RAM. To put things into perspective, that’s twice as much RAM as Google’s flagship Pixel 2 XL. It also has a HUGE 4,000 milliamp hour battery that is more than capable of lasting a typical day. While it comes with 64GB of built-in storage, it thankfully allows you to install a microSD card so you can expand it to 2 terabytes.

Camera:

The Razer Phone has an 8 megapixel f2.0 front-facing camera coupled with 2 cameras on the back. One is a 12mp f.175 wide angle and there’s another 12MP f.26 zoom. The bad news is that the cameras are pretty bad. Overall, they make images look much too soft and lack image clarity. In addition, the back cameras oddly shoot almost everything in a forced portrait mode, so that only a certain part of the image will be in focus. Software updates could potentially address some of these issues, but if you’re looking for a great camera on your phone, I’d focus elsewhere for now.

Speakers:

The Razer phone has two large bezels at the top and bottom, but I don’t really mind them because the company has squeezed in some amazing speakers here. I’d say they are the best phone speakers currently on the market. They’re good enough to replace small, cheap bluetooth speakers.

Operating system:

The Razer phone is rocking Android Nougat 7.1.1 with a clean nova launcher skin. It also comes with different Razer themes you can download along with additional settings that allow you to optimize battery life over performance and vice versa. Razer tells me it plans to update the phone to Android 8.0 Oreo in Q1 next year, but hasn’t laid out an update roadmap beyond that.

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Ahead of its debut sometime in 2018, the first look at the upcoming live-action adaptation of Teen Titans has been released and it showcases a major DC universe character. Robin, otherwise known as Dick Grayson, leads the team in Titans, and his vigilante suit is an impressive one.

The first image from the series shows Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) in Robin’s suit, complete with his signature staff. The costume was designed by Laura Jean, who is no stranger to superhero looks with costume credits that include both Iron Man and The CW’s upcoming Black Lightning.

Titans hails from DC Entertainment and The Berlanti Company, with Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, and Sarah Schecter serving as executive producers. In addition to Robin, Anna Diop stars as Starfire, Teagan Croft as Raven, Ryan Potter as Beast Boy, Alan Ritchson as Hawk, and Minka Kelly as Dove.

An official synopsis for the series reads, “Dick Grayson emerges from the shadows to become the leader of a fearless band of new heroes, including Starfire, Raven and many others. Titans is a dramatic, live-action adventure series that will explore and celebrate one of the most popular comic book teams ever.”

Titans is being produced exclusively for the still-unnamed streaming service DC is planning to launch in 2018. It’s one of three programs in the works for the service so far, along with a revival of the animated Young Justice series and a Harley Quinn cartoon geared toward adult audiences..

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It’s officially December around the world, which means Xbox Live Gold subscribers can now pick up the first of December’s free Games With Gold titles. Two more games are now available to download for free if you’re an Xbox Live Gold member, with another two set to arrive later in the month.

On Xbox One, Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide is free all month long, while Child of Eden is the freebie on Xbox 360. Note that this title plays on Xbox One through backwards compatibility, so you Xbox One owners can grab it as well.

Also note that one of November’s Games With Gold titles, Tales From the Borderlands, will continue to be free on Xbox One through through December 15. You can see the full Games With Gold schedule for December below.

In other news, Microsoft has rolled out the latest weekly Xbox One and Xbox 360 deals, with titles like Never Alone, Mordheim: City of the Damned, and EarthLock: Festival of Magic discounted this week. You can see a roundup of the deals here.

December 2017 Free Xbox Games With Gold

Xbox One

• Warhammer: End Times – Verminitide (December 1 – December 31)
• Tales From the Borderlands (through December 15)
• Back to the Future: The Game – 30th Anniversary Edition (December 16 – January 15)

Xbox 360

• Child of Eden (December 1 – December 15)
• Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death (December 16 – December 31)

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[Update] Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene has clarified that PUBG will run at 30 FPS on all the Xbox devices, including the Xbox One X, when the game becomes available through Xbox’s Game Preview Program.

[Original story] PUBG is finally coming to Xbox One in December. On Xbox One X, you can expect the Hunger Games-style shooter to run at 60 FPS, creator Brendan Greene said in a new interview. But on the standard Xbox One, which has less power, the frame rate could be halved.

“Definitely on Xbox One X, 60 FPS,” Greene said in the latest issue of GamesTM, as reported by Wccftech. “On [the standard] Xbox One, we’re not sure. We may have to limit it at 30 FPS, maybe, but the last time I saw it, it was running at about 30 to 40.”

Greene, who is the Playerunknown from the game’s title, added that developer Bluehole is “constantly improving” the game before launch, with an aim of hitting 60 FPS on both the standard Xbox One and the Xbox One X. One of the reasons why PUBG is launching on Xbox One through Game Preview program is to allow the developer the opportunity to improve the game in a test environment before its official launch. Overall, Greene said he has “great faith” that PUBG will hit 60 FPS on both.

At the same time, Greene acknowledged that frame rate “isn’t that important” for a game like PUBG compared to a twitch-based shooter like Call of Duty.

Also in the interview, Greene spoke generally about bringing PUBG to console. He said he’s happy to have partnered with Microsoft for the initial launch because “Xbox is synonymous with gaming.” Greene said there is the opportunity to see “incredible numbers” on console. Indeed, the huge success of the PUBG-like Fortnite Battle Royale seems to suggest console gamers are thirsty for the Battle Royale experience.

Greene told GameSpot earlier this year that he wants the Xbox One X version of PUBG to use 4K assets, but he wasn’t sure if this would be possible. That still seems to be the case, as Greene told the magazine that these 4K assets “don’t exist yet,” adding that “it’s going to take us some time to get them, but we do have a plan.”

Whatever the case, no matter which platform you’re playing on, Greene said he wants to ensure that the experience is similar on all systems. “There shouldn’t be an advantage to buying one console over another,” Greene explained.

While PUBG’s only current announced console platform is Xbox One, Microsoft has said the game is a “console launch exclusive” for Xbox. That seems to suggest a PlayStation 4 release may follow. PUBG launches on Xbox One on December 12.

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