Whether you're completely new to battle royale, or you've been on the hunt for those key Blackout tips - this guide will get you ready. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout is proving popular with diehard Call of Duty fans and newbies alike. Blackout works a little differently to the Battle Royale modes found in Fortnite or PUBG. The skills you've picked up playing these other games will come in handy here, but there are a lot of fresh ideas in Blackout.

Fight off the Skulls’ assault and return to Mother Base with Code Talker. Eliminate the Skulls Extract Code Talker Complete the mission without being grabbed by a puppet soldier Extract the Skulls Eliminate or extract the Skulls There's no escape this time. Quiet or D-Walker are good choices for buddies and depending on your play style, an RPG wouldn't hurt either. You can call in a supply drop outside of the airport gate, and it's worth noting that the Skulls won't leave the airport to follow you out.

Bethesda's just confirmed that Broken Steel will release for the PS3 version of Fallout 3 on September 24. Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt will follow on on October 1. Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta hit on October 8. Fallout 3's Game of the Year edition, featuring the game and all five content packs, will release on October 16 for PC, 360 and PS3. The full banana'll cost you £39.99/€59.99 on 360 and PS3, and a mere £29.

Beyond Light will tell "the next trilogy of stories" in Destiny 2, according to the latest ViDoc. In Beyond Light, you'll be moving away from the norm in Destiny 2 as Guardians follow a new path involving the Darkness. The Exo Stranger returns to encourage us to take on the Darkness by working with it, not against it. Europa, as expected, is a massive, beautiful and desolate area for Guardians to explore, with much of its delights hidden underground.

Crackers have finally managed to break Assassin’s Creed Origins' several layers of protections. Assassin's Creed Origins on PC has proven very challenging to crack, compared to other modern titles that also use Denuvo. Denuvo, itself once considered unbreakable, was cracked days after release with many recent releases, but not Origins. With some exceptions, Denuvo is no longer being seen as the ultimate answer to piracy on PC. But then Origins came along and Ubisoft decided to use another layer of protection on top of Denuvo version 4.

It looks like Valve may be working on a second VR headset as a successor to the Index, and this time it seems to be targeting a standalone, wireless model that'd work more like on Oculus Quest or Oculus Quest 2. Hints that the company that owns Steam is working on this new hardware initially came from YouTuber Brad Lynch who found multiple references in Valve’s SteamVR code “Deckard” – a nice, sci-fi codename for the theoretical headset.

A clip from Heavy Rain, showing the infamous scene where Madison strips at gunpoint for a nightclub owner, has surfaced over on D'toid - which compares the scene to Jamie Lee Curtis' in True Lies. Unlike True Lies, this scene is not meant to be sexy. If you have not seen it, well, like a lot of games lately, it shows her identical lady bits as the nightclub owner gets out of his chair to go grab her ass.

Game Freak is treating Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon as the “culmination" of the series on Nintendo 3DS. Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon will be the last core title in the series for 3DS due to the game having pushed the "absolute limits" of the handheld system. Considering the story volume in Ultra Sun and Moon is twice that of Sun and Moon, saying 3DS was pushed to its limits with the updated version doesn't sound far-fetched.

Sea of Thieves doesn’t hold your hand - it just throws you out into the world, tells you how to shove a banana into your face, and lets you get on with it. You might even spawn onto the starting island in your first game only to find your ship is nowhere to be seen. Let VG247 talk you through the structure so you can set sail with confidence. Sea of Thieves - dude, where’s my ship?

There's no such thing as bad publicity, but the reaction to the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer appears to have the film's producers at least a little spooked - and so Sonic's design is changing. Poor old Sonic. He can't catch a break. If it's not an amazing fan project (be it Sega endorsed or an unofficial labor of love) he's felt a little lost for a while now. Mediocre games, licensed curry that turns your turds blue.