To prepare for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker you might want to dig into your pile of unfinished video games. The latest book from publisher DelRey, titled Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, puts some of the canon’s most under-appreciated characters to good use. Not only does it tie together multiple novels and comic series into a cohesive story, it also makes some very deep pulls from Star Wars Battlefront 2. [Warning: What follows contains spoilers for Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, as well as Sta

A host of Halloween-themed changes are coming to Red Dead Online, including a new limited-time showdown mode: Fear of the Dark. Fear of the Dark is a mode where players are divided into two teams: plucky Hunters and terrifying Night Stalkers. As Hunters destroy masks, Stalkers become weaker and the tables turn in favor of the Hunters. Hunters win if they destroy all masks and clear all Night Stalkers; Night Stalkers need to survive until the timer ends or all Hunters are dead. A Legendary Bounty

The first Nier: Automata raid is now playable in Final Fantasy 14, which means there are new extremely cool outfits to get, including 2B’s outfit. Three sets will drop, so only three lucky players will score the outfit per run. Her outfit is level one and can be equipped by every race and job in Final Fantasy 14, so players can use it as sweet glamour no matter what level they are. The rest of the high-level raid gear is based off of the looks of other characters from Nier: Automata, but they’re

On Oct. 23, Weiss Auctions opened bidding on a super-rare Pokémon card, Japanese Illustrator Pikachu, a promotional card created as a contest prize in 1998. Phil Weiss, a collectibles expert and owner of Weiss Auctions, knew the card was worth a lot. This particular card is a PSA 9, the closest to perfect a card could get without a 10 rating. This Pikachu card, however, went a lot higher — to $195,000 at the hammer. IGN, which first reported the sale, said the sale broke the record for the highe

Riot Games is releasing the first Louis Vuitton skin for League of Legends. The skin, True Damage Qiyana Prestige Edition, has the champion’s weapon covered in the iconic Louis Vuitton pattern. This Qiyana skin was designed by Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton’s artistic director of women’s collections. To unlock this exclusive skin, League of Legends fans will have to buy the 2019 Worlds Pass for 1,650 RP, which is a little over $10. This skin is the first to come after Riot Games announced its

No matter which side you’re on, however, the hack of the Nintendo Wii was a very big deal when it first went down. And without a pair of tweezers, it might not have happened at all. A channel called Modern Vintage Gamer has a concise, 12-minute story that’s fairly easy to digest. It just so happens that one of those sensitive secrets was the encryption key that unlocked Wii game disks. Other hacks have evolved since then, but as far as the history of console hacking goes Modern Vintage Gamer’s v

Weiss, the co-creators of HBO’s Game of Thrones, have exited the Star Wars trilogy they were set to make for Disney. However, the two cited their recent deal with Netlfix and said that their schedules had simply become too busy to work on the new Star Wars trilogy. Disney Plus, Disney’s streaming service, is set to launch of Nov. 12 — along with the new Star Wars show, The Mandalorian. As part of that announcement three Star Wars movies were confirmed for release in 2022, 2024, and 2026. Rian Jo

Valve will no longer allow Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players to trade container keys. CS:GO container keys are now tied to the purchasing account, Valve said, so they can’t be sold on the Steam Community Market or traded with others. “As a result we have decided that newly purchased keys will not be tradeable or marketable.”“Pre-existing” CS:GO container keys already purchased are unaffected, and can still be sold or traded. A CS:GO player filed a lawsuit against Valve for its complicity

Now the race is on to crack Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds right open. The fastest run we’ve seen so far clocks in at just over 30 minutes. We’ve embedded video of runner Jabo’s sprint through The Outer Worlds above. In the final minutes especially, Jabo makes excellent use of the game’s stun mechanics to cripple a major boss robot. I can’t wait to see what happens to The Outer Worlds speedrunning scene once folks get their heads around the science weapon set.

After a series of teases and rumors, it’s official: Electronic Arts is coming back to Steam after eight years of being absent on the distribution platform. The first new EA game coming to Steam will be Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which will arrive on Nov. 15 — and incidentally can be pre-ordered starting today. The full extent of the partnership will come to fruition in spring 2020, when users will be able to subscribe to the EA Access program via Steam. The subscription gives players access t

Twitter isn’t planning to enter the Chinese market: CFONed Segal of Twitter says the company is focused on markets where the app is accessible instead of trying to get into China, where it is blocked. He also discusses the company’s strategy.

CEO Dennis Muilenburg is testifying before a Senate panel on Tuesday, his first appearance before Congress since the crashes of two 737 Max planes over the last year. Boeing’s board stripped Muilenburg of his chairman role earlier this month, saying separating the jobs would allow him to focus on getting the Max back to service as the timeline slipped. Last week, the company replaced the head of its key commercial airplane unit, which made the Max, after three years on the job. The two crashes p

The UK is most likely ‘already in a recession’: EconomistWilliam Adams of PNC says the pound sterling could reach 1.30 against the dollar by the end of 2019 but may not move much higher because the U.K. economy is weak and the Bank of England has less need for rate increases.

Amazon just added a new perk to its popular Prime membership program: free grocery delivery. Amazon announced on Tuesday that it will start delivering grocery products within a two-hour window to all Prime members living in the 2,000 regions eligible for the service. Until now, Prime members had to pay an additional $14.99 per month to get access to Amazon Fresh, a separate program that offered free two-hour grocery delivery. Amazon’s Landry declined to give a timeline for when free grocery deli

Report: Saudi Aramco to set IPO price range on Nov. 17Saudi state-owned oil giant Aramco plans to announce the transaction’s price on Nov. 17, Reuters reported Tuesday. The company will begin trading on the local stock market, the Tadawul, on Dec. 11, the broadcaster reported.

U.S. government debt prices were higher Tuesday morning, amid signs of progress in the latest round of trade talks between the world’s two largest economies. ET, the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, was lower at around 1.8279%, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also lower at around 2.3141%. President Donald Trump said Monday that he expected to sign a significant part of the trade deal with China ahead of schedule. The prospect of Washington extendi

The short-term funding market, or repo, is a corner of the financial markets that is obscure to most people. The repo market became a hot topic after the market showed signs of strain in September, and the Fed intervened with open market operations. It also immediately started open market operations and has since expanded them. Axel expects Powell to be asked about the Fed’s response to the pressures in the repo market. As the Fed met in September, the fed funds rate actually moved temporarily a

Nearly 80% of the 43 respondents believe the Fed will cut rates at its meeting this week, the third cut this year. But 63% believe the Fed will pause in its rate cuts for the remainder of the year. On average, the respondents, who include fund managers, economists and strategists, think the next cut will come in February. Although twice burned, respondents to the CNBC Fed Survey once again had confidence in a positive outcome to trade talks. Meanwhile, 76% say tariffs have resulted in higher pri

An Australian regulator has filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google, accusing it of misleading smartphone users about how it collected and used personal location data, advancing a global crackdown on the world’s biggest tech firms. “Google’s conduct caused users to understand that personal data about their location was not being obtained … by Google when in fact personal data was being obtained,” the ACCC wrote in a Federal Court filing on Tuesday, which it published on its website. “The

Oil markets are expected to face excess supplies in 2020 due to a production boost amid weak demand growth, the director for energy markets and security at the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. Oil demand is expected grow at a “still solid” 1.2 million barrels a day in 2020, IEA said in the report. However, oil supplies this year have been boosted by non-OPEC members such as the U.S. in shale oil production. Meanwhile, demand in 2019 has been weak, amid weak growth in the first half and