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Things get dark in Turf War, the second episode of Marvel’s Spider-Man‘s DLC campaign. After the relatively lighter and slower investigation into Black Cat’s plans with the mob in The Heist, the first of three expansions that make up a campaign called The City That Never Sleeps, Spider-Man finds himself thrown into a full-on gang war at the start of the second. Turf War is The Empire Strikes Back of the campaign, and throughout the two or so hours of story missions trying to stop the powerful mob boss Hammerhead, Spider-Man is completely embattled and potentially outmatched.

Turf War doesn’t pull its punches. Cops are dying, gangsters are threatening witnesses and openly committing murders, and Spider-Man is struggling to keep up with it all. The basic structure of the game remains the same–there are missions scattered around New York as part of the story campaign, and in between them you can wander around doing whatever you feel like–but the nature of Turf War makes every objective feel dangerously time-sensitive. When Hammerhead’s men threaten to kill an informant, you’ll want to swing across town to stop them. When gangsters prepare to attack police convoys and take their weapons, you’ll be concerned that your presence is needed. This chapter is at its best when it feels like Spider-Man really is at war–and he’s losing.

It helps that Turf War feels significantly more challenging than vanilla Spider-Man. Another new batch of enemies, these ones wearing jetpacks and sporting shields, join the array of enemies from both the base game and The Heist to make for some pretty dicey encounters. More than one fight in Turf War will put seasoned Spider-Men through their paces, especially if they’re a bit rusty from the month off between the two DLC chapters. Scraping through some fights against an extremely well-outfitted enemy as Spider-Man swings madly from one crisis to another perfectly fits the tone of Turf War.

Spider-Man PS4 is at its best when it’s taking close, intimate looks at the game’s characters, and in Turf War the game casts that spotlight on Yuri Watanabe, Spidey’s high-ranking friend in the NYPD. Yuri is operating with a personal vendetta against Hammerhead that builds in the early part of the DLC, and as she and Spider-Man try to stop them, his reliance on her authority and her reliance on his superpowers are weaknesses that strain their relationship and have serious consequences.

Yuri saw some characterization in the base game, but she was largely a voice on Spidey’s radio advising him where to go. Here we spend more time with Yuri as the battle between the gangsters rages and she and Peter Parker grapple with their own exploited personal failings. You might wrap up Turf War’s story campaign in a couple hours, but thanks to the frantic pace and challenging difficulty, those hours will feel fraught. The speed and challenge bring a bit of a different pace and tone to Marvel’s Spider-Man, the variety of which makes Turf War new and fresh, while the dark focus on character channels the best parts of the game’s main story.

As you clear Turf War’s campaign, you’ll also find a small handful of new open-world events to New York to complete, mostly just to give you a little more to do in this chapter. Like in The Heist, there’s not a lot to them and you’ve gotten a taste of some or all of them before now, but they provide a few solid reasons to hang around the game after completing the story chapter. The gang war leads to new open-world crimes that are a bit different from the generic set that came in The Heist, which is welcome given that you’ll need to clear quite a few of them to hit 100 percent completion in this chapter.

Screwball is also back with more challenges, some of which have new wrinkles added that make them a bit tougher than their vanilla counterparts. And there are new Hammerhead-themed base-clearing challenges, which can be pretty tough thanks to new locations and new enemies to fight.

As with The Heist, it’s nice to have a reason to jump back into Spider-Man PS4 and mess around in its world, but its Insomniac’s story and characterization that once again are making Spider-Man something worth revisiting. Turf War excellently ratchets up the stakes on Spidey and forces him to deal with a whole host of new personal and interpersonal issues. Together with its predecessor chapter, Turf War suggests there are plenty of stories Insomniac could continue to cover in Spider-Man, and that they’ll all be worth swinging back to New York to experience.

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The release of Fallout 76 has also seen the full launch of the multiplayer game’s real-money shop, the Atomic Shop. Bethesda previewed the store during Fallout 76’s many beta sessions, but with one key piece of information missing: how much it would cost in real money to purchase Atoms, the store’s premium currency.

Now that the game’s out, looking into the ability to buy Atoms with real money reveals that, like most premium currencies, you get a discount the more you buy. At the lowest purchase tier, 500 Atoms will run you $5; $10 gets you 1,100 Atoms; $20 gets 2,400 Atoms; and $40 is good for 50,000 Atoms. But if you’re looking to spend the least amount of real money in the store, the exchange rate is $1 per 100 Atoms.

The Atomic Shop, which is accessible from Fallout 76’s main menu once you’ve created a character and stepped out of Vault 76 at the start of the game, won’t get you anything that will boost your ability to survive in the Wasteland or succeed in battling other Wastelanders. Instead, it focuses on customization items, like clothing, cosmetic items for your CAMP, Photomode poses, skins for your Pip-Boy and Power Armor, and emotes.

It’s worth noting that you can earn small batches of Atoms without paying for them by completing in-game challenges of all sorts, some of which reset on a daily and weekly basis. You get 10 Atoms just for stepping out of Vault 76, for instance; Daily challenges are good for 10 Atoms each, and include activities like scrapping a piece of chest armor; and Weekly challenges can net you as much as 40 Atoms, which is what you’d get for taking five Photomode shots near Vault 76. There are a lot of these challenges, so while the earnings might come a little slowly, they at least provide a lot of ways to get a little extra currency to help you keep your money in your wallet.

As for the Atomic Shop and its goods, prices vary widely even within the specific departments in the store, but in general things seem fairly pricey. In the clothing section, you can pick up the Red Shirt and Slacks clothing set for 250 Atoms, but the striped Two-Piece Pajama set will set you back 600 Atoms, the slick Vampire Suit goes for 800 Atoms, and the retro Rocket Suit costs 1,200 Atoms. Prices are similarly steep for customizing your CAMP building materials and buying skins and paint jobs for your Pip-Boy.

Your money goes a bit further when purchasing poses for Photomode, but those get expensive in a hurry as well. The fairly simple Wave pose is just 150 Atoms, but the Rock Out pose, which comes with a guitar and microphone stand, will set you back 600 Atoms. Cosmetic accoutrements for your character’s face are some of the more cost-effective investments, with the department’s tattoos and faceprint customizations all running 250 Atoms. The cheapest set of things in the store are the icons, which all cost 50 Atoms.

Overall, the point is that if you’re hoping to grab lots of customization items from the Atomic Shop without spending real money, you’re going to have your work cut out for you. If you completed all the currently available challenges, which span seven different categories, you’d only be 640 Atoms richer. Tuning in for Daily and Weekly challenges will be essential if you’re hoping to keep your real cash while still gussying up your Wastelander and your CAMP in-game.

If you wanted to purchase everything in the store, you’d tally up a tab of a cool 29,160 Atoms. In real money terms, that’s $240–but you’d have 840 Atoms to spare, at least.

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We’ve updated this post with the details for the third and final step of Destiny 2’s Murder Mystery quest, which unlocked on November 13. Here’s what you need to know to complete all three steps and claim Thunderlord.

Destiny 2‘s Festival of the Lost has ended, but there’s still one piece of Destiny’s Halloween-themed event to go. It’s a murder mystery quest line Bungie teased at the start of the Festival, in which players are tasked with figuring out what happened to Master Ives, the Cryptarch formerly seen in the Reef back in the first Destiny.

Ives’ death is both a story point and a quest to get a new Exotic weapon. That gun is Thunderlord, a lightning-slinging machine gun from the original Destiny that, until now, hadn’t shown up in the sequel. Unlocking it is a multi-step but relatively low-level quest, whose first step unlocked on October 30, the second on November 6, and the final on November 13. With that last step, you’ll return to some familiar territory if you’ve played Destiny 1: Earth’s Cosmodrome in Old Russia.

To start it, head to Amanda Holliday in the Tower, where you’ll receive Master Ives’ journal. The pursuit item is colored gold, like other Exotic weapons quests, and requires players to search out the missing pages from Ives’ diary out in the world. Here’s how to solve the mystery and get Thunderlord.

Step 1: The Crytarch’s Journal

Clearing that first step is actually pretty easy to accomplish. There are 10 pages to acquire, and players can get them either by finding Legendary engrams in various activities–including Gambit, the Crucible, Strikes, and everything else you already do in Destiny 2–or from killing tougher Fallen enemies in the EDZ on Earth.

Actually snagging all the pages is an easy feat to knock out if you head to the EDZ. You’re looking for Fallen with orange-colored health bars, which are otherwise known as Elite bad guys. You need the orange enemies in particular; you won’t get pages from Majors, who have yellow health bars, like the ones designated as high-value targets, for instance.

The quickest way to find Elite Fallen to kill in the EDZ is to find a public event and join it. The Glimmer Mining event that takes place in various places in the EDZ is a solid bet, especially if you knock it up to its Heroic level. You won’t get a page for every Elite you kill, but the drop rate is pretty high–one or two public events should do it.

If you don’t feel like messing around on Earth, you can also spend some shards at the Cryptarch in the Tower to quickly gather up the Legendary engrams you need to complete the step. That method will cost you 250 Legendary shards if you buy 10 engrams to get all 10 pages. Given how easy it is to get the pages in the EDZ or by earning Legendaries organically, though, you probably don’t need to waste the shards.

Step 2: Hunting The Fallen

The second step is almost as quick and easy as the first. It returns you to the EDZ, this time to complete four Lost Sectors. You’ll start with a batch of three that need cleaning out: Atrium, Widow’s Walk, and Terminus East. If you’re not familiar with the names, those are the three Lost Sectors located in the Trostland area of the EDZ.

You’ll find Atrium in the church where Devrim Kay hangs out, Widow’s Walk in the northwest corner of the area, and Terminus East in the northeast corner. Once you’ve wrecked the Major enemies in all three, you’ll get a new step that directs you to yet another Lost Sector, called Whispered Falls.

Jump on your Sparrow and drive west to the Outskirts area, and look for the Lost Sector up in the hills in the west end of the area. It’s north of the narrower portion of the map you drive through to access Winding Cove.

Kill the Major in Whispered Falls and you’ll need to wait for Amanda Holliday to summon you back to the Tower. She’ll eventually give you new coordinates, which will send you to the third and final stage of the quest.

Step 3: Return To The Cosmodrome

Your final step for the mission unlocks when you’re prompted to return to Amanda Holliday. She’ll identify a strange teleporter in Earth’s European Dead Zone you should go check out–it’s actually a Mission that starts you on the final step of the quest. To get there, warp into the Winding Cove location in the EDZ, then ride east toward the Outskirts. You’ll find the mission start in the northern part of the canyon in the Whispered Falls Lost Sector. Fight your way inside to reach the teleporter.

Starting the mission warps you back to the Cosmodrome, the place where Destiny players first started way back in the beginning of the original game. You’re basically following the path of the very first Destiny mission, fighting through Fallen into the Wall around the Cosmodrome. Keep following the mission markers until you get inside, where you’ll face a big battle with a Fallen Captain called Kikliss, Murderer, and a huge batch of minion enemies.

This is the toughest fight of the mission by far, so bring your best guns and try to keep moving. Smaller Fallen enemies will continually spawn into the battle, so Supers that take out lots of enemies at once or are good for crowd control will help. Once you damage Kikliss enough, a giant Servitor will join the fight, which makes it even more annoying. Try to keep space between you and Kikliss while you focus your fire on the Servitor, since it can make other enemies invincible–including the boss.

Killing the Servitor should make it a little easier to take down Kikliss, which is your main objective for the mission. Once you do, you’ll be prompted to fight your way back out the Cosmodrome. Back outside, you’ll get a message from Amanda Holliday suggesting that this could be your last time back in the Cosmodrome, and you’ll see an objective prompt reading, “Leave The Cosmodrome?” It seems Destiny 2 is suggesting there might be more secrets to find hidden in Russia, so take your time in leaving to look around. We haven’t found whatever secret the game is hinting at just yet, but we’ll update this guide when we do.

If you approach the teleporter near where you started, you’ll be sent back to orbit and prompted to return to Holliday in the Tower. When you do, she’ll wonder about what the Fallen who killed Master Ives were really after, but she’ll also thank you for avenging his death. Your final reward is a “trinket” she found in his stuff, which is none other than the sparking machine gun Thunderlord. The Exotic goes in your Heavy weapon slot, and carries the “Reign Havoc” perk, which causes lightning strikes from the sky as you rack up kills with bullets.

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Sony’s Black Friday sale is now live on the PlayStation Store, dropping prices on over 100 popular PS4 games. The sale runs between now and November 27 at 8 AM PT (11 AM ET). So if you see something you want, grab it before then. But before you finalize your purchase, you might want to check our Black Friday PS4 coverage to see if you’ll be able to get a better price somewhere else in the coming days (though it might be on a physical copy). Without further ado, let’s see what’s on sale.

First off, a couple of key the PlayStation services have gotten temporary price cuts. A 12-month PlayStation Plus subscription, which lets you take your console online and also gets you free games each month, is on sale for $40 right now. Also, a year’s subscription to PlayStation Now, a service that lets you download or stream over 650 games, is on sale for $80.

Some big recent games have gotten nice discounts, including Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 for $48. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is on sale for $40, and last year’s installment, Assassin’s Creed Origins, is down to $24. While the standard edition of Red Dead Redemption 2 remains at full price, you can get the Special Edition on sale for $70 or the Ultimate Edition for $90 if you want some extra in-game items.

A number of PS4 exclusives got the discount treatment as well. You can get God of War and Detroit: Become Human for just $22 each, Persona 5 for $20, and Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for $15.

Anyone with a PlayStation VR headset (or anyone who’s planning to pick one up at a Black Friday sale price) can grab the online team shooter Firewall: Zero Hour for $30, the surreal puzzle adventure Torn for $21, or the boxing game Creed: Rise To Glory for $15.

You’ll find a lot more games on sale below, or you can check out the full list, which includes DLC, virtual currency, and special editions, here.

• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey — $40
• Assassin’s Creed Origins — $24
• Batman: Return To Arkham — $5
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 — $48
• Call Of Duty Black Ops III: Zombies Chronicles — $20
• Call Of Duty: WWII – Gold Edition — $30
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy — $20
• Creed: Rise To Glory (PSVR) — $15
• The Crew 2 — $24
• Destiny 2: Forsaken (expansion)– $30
• Destiny 2: Forsaken – Legendary Collection — $36
• Detroit: Become Human — $22
• Diablo III: Eternal Collection — $20
• Dishonored 2 & Prey Bundle — $26
• Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition — $42
• Doom — $15
• Doom VFR — $15
• Dragon Ball FighterZ — $27
• Dragon Quest XI: Day One Edition — $42
• Dying Light — $14
• EA Sports UFC 3 — $18
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition — $20
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR — $30
• The Elder Scrolls Online — $10
• The Evil Within 2 — $20
• Fallout 4 — $15
• Fallout 4 GotY Edition — $24
• Far Cry 5 — $27
• FIFA 19 — $30
• Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD — $20
• Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition — $25
• Firewall: Zero Hour (PSVR) — $30
• Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise — $40
• For Honor — $10
• For Honor Marching Fire Edition — $30
• God of War — $22
• The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA Tour — $30
• Grand Theft Auto V — $20
• Hollow Knight — $7.50
• Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition — $15
• Injustice 2: Legendary Edition — $18
• The Jackbox Party Pack 5 — $19.50
• The Jackbox Party Quadpack — $37.50
• Just Dance 2019 — $24
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance — $30
• The Last Of Us Remastered — $6
• Lego DC Super-Villains — $30
• Lego The Incredibles — $30
• Madden NFL 19 — $30
• Metal Gear Survive — $15
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War — $20
• MLB The Show 18 — $20
• Monster Hunter World — $25
• Mortal Kombat XL — $6
• Naruto To Boruto Shinobi Striker — $36
• Nascar Heat 3 — $20
• NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 — $20
• NBA 2K19 — $30
• NBA 2K19 20th Anniversary Edition — $50
• NBA Live 19: The One Edition — $20
• NHL 19 — $30
• Nier: Automata — $30
• Nioh — $16
• Nioh – The Complete Edition — $22.50
• Overwatch Legendary Edition — $20
• Persona 5 — $20
• Prey — $18
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 — $30
• Red Dead Redemption 2 Special Edition Bundle — $70
• Red Dead Redemption 2 Ultimate Edition Bundle — $90
• Rocket League — $10
• Rocket League – Game Of The Year Edition — $12.50
• Scribblenauts: Showdown — $20
• Shadow Of The Tomb Raider — $30
• The Sims 4 — $16
• South Park: The Fractured But Whole — $15
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew — $12
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew + TNG Bundle — $27.50
• Star Wars Battlefront II — $10
• Starlink: Battle For Atlas Digital Edition — $45
• Starlink: Battle For Atlas Digital Deluxe Edition — $60
• Strange Brigade — $30
• Super Bomberman R — $20
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege — $15
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands — $20
• Tom Clancy’s The Division — $10
• Torn (PSVR) — $21
• Track Lab (PSVR) — $12
• Transference — $15
• Unearthing Mars 2 (PSVR) — $10
• Valkyria Chronicles 4 — $30
• Watch Dogs 2 — $18
• We Happy Few — $40
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus — $20
• WWE 2K19 — $30
• Yakuza Kiwami 2 — $35
• Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner – Mars (PSVR) — $20

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