Game Pass Ultimate Subscribers Get Free YouTube Premium Right Now
One of the benefits of signing up for Xbox Game Pass is that members get subscription benefits from time to time. Right now, one of those perks is access to YouTube Premium for three months.
Game Pass Ultimate members can navigate to the “Perks” tab of their subscription profile to find a page that offers up three months of YouTube Premium for the low cost of $0. The only catch is that you can’t have previously signed up for YouTube Premium or YouTube Premium’s own three-month trial. And the offer does not stack if you’re an existing subscriber to YouTube Premium. The offer must be claimed by May 22, 2024.
This is a pretty nice perk. The subscription normally goes for $14/month or $140 for the year. YouTube Premium was previously added as a Game Pass perk back in 2021.
First and foremost, YouTube Premium removes all ads from YouTube videos. Subscribers can also download videos and watch them in the background. A membership also includes ad-free music streaming via the YouTube Music app.
Other current Game Pass perks include access to Person 3 Reload’s expansion pass and the Spring perks pack for Super Animal Royale that includes a variety of cosmetics. Another perk currently available is the Netherbeasts DLC for Smite, which includes content for the Chaac, Cernunnos, and Cerberus characters.
It’s been a big week for Game Pass, as the catalog added titles like Terra Invicta, Diablo IV, Hot Wheels Unleashed 2, and Open Roads in the past few days. The next big release is Ark: Survival Ascended on April 1.
Where Is Xur Today? (March 29-April 2) Destiny 2 Exotic Items And Xur Location Guide
Sure, some of the best and most sought-after weapons in Destiny 2’s long history will be pulled from the vault next month and overhauled, but you can never go wrong with a few Exotics to complement those legendary tools of destruction. Xur is here once again with a refreshed selection of gear, which might come in handy when the Onslaught mode goes live in April. Here’s where Xur is this weekend and what he has for sale.
This week you can find Xur in The Tower, inside the Hangar. For his weapon, Xur is offering Black Talon. Hunters can pick up Aeon Swift gauntlets; Titans can grab Antaeus Wards leg armor; and Warlocks can buy the Contraverse Hold gauntlets.
Xur Location
Spawn in using the Courtyard transmat zone in the Tower to find Xur this week. Head left and down the stairs to enter the Hangar section, then hang another left. Make your way to the north end of the area and look for a staircase that will take you onto a catwalk, where Xur is waiting.
Xur Exotic and Legendary Items
- Exotic Engram – 97 Legendary Shards
- Black Talon – 29 Legendary Shards
- Aeon Swift – 23 Legendary Shards
- Antaeus Wards – 23 Legendary Shards
- Contraverse Hold – 23 Legendary Shards
- Hawkmoon – 200 Legendary Shards, 125,000 Glimmer, 1 Ascendant Shard, 1 Exotic Cipher
- Xenology quest – Free
- Legendary weapons and armor – 50 Legendary Shards, 1,000 Glimmer
Exotic Armor
Aeon Swift (Exotic Hunter gauntlets)
These Hunter Exotic gauntlets offer several perks to help improve your efficacy in battle, depending on the Sect mod you have active. They work pretty well if you’re playing in a team of Hunters and everyone else is wearing one of these Exotics with a different mod, making them particularly useful in PvP. The roll on this build favors mobility, intellect, and recovery, with resilience, discipline, and strength being quite low, so you’ll need to install some armor mods if you’re planning to wear this during your next match in the Crucible.
- Mobility: 15
- Resilience: 8
- Recovery: 11
- Discipline: 6
- Intellect: 18
- Strength: 7
- Total: 65
Antaeus Wards (Exotic Titan leg armor)
With the Reflective Vents armor Perk, Antaeus Wards gives your Titan a frontal shield to reflect damage when they slide with full class ability energy. Reflecting damage will deplete your class energy meter, but if you’ve ever run across a Titan wearing these in PvP, you know just how deadly their slide-and-shotgun combo is. This Exotic has a high mobility stat, and while that’s something Titans don’t usually prioritize, it works quite well with this armor. Discipline and strength are pretty good as well, but resilience and intellect is quite low so you’ll need to pump these up with some armor mods to get the most out of these fancy boots.
- Mobility: 26
- Resilience: 2
- Recovery: 7
- Discipline: 19
- Intellect: 2
- Strength: 12
- Total: 68
Contraverse Hold (Exotic Warlock gauntlets)
For the Warlock who loves hurling Void-energy grenades around, Contraverse Hold will do a pretty good job keeping them alive for a little longer. Charging a Void grenade allows you to resist incoming damage while landing a hit with them will return some grenade energy back to your meter. While this Exotic has a good discipline stat, it also has an unnecessarily high mobility stat and low resilience numbers. Strength is also good on this roll, but intellect takes a big knock. Get it if you don’t already have it, but this version of Contraverse Hold is a little too random with its allocation of stat points.
- Mobility: 20
- Resilience: 2
- Recovery: 12
- Discipline: 14
- Intellect: 2
- Strength: 14
- Total: 64
Exotic Weapons
Black Talon (Exotic sword)
Black Talon is a pretty good Exotic sword that Xur doesn’t offer too often. It works great in close-quarters, but you can also fire a heavy projectile attack from it. If you’re playing as a Titan, throw on some Stronghold Exotic gauntlets and run a Strand Banner of War build to get the most out of this sword.
- Crow’s Wings
- Tempered Edge
- Heavy Guard
- Tireless Blade
Hawkmoon (Exotic hand cannon)
This is a pretty decent roll of Hawkmoon this week, as the Eye of the Storm weapon perk gives you a fighting chance when you’re outgunned in a fight. This is a fairly popular perk in PvP, so pick this hand cannon up if you’re planning to enter that Destiny 2 mode this weekend.
- Paracausal Shot
- Full Bore
- Alloy Magazine
- Eye of the Storm
- Smooth Grip
Legendary Armor
| Titan | Type | Mobility | Resilience | Recovery | Discipline | Intelligence | Strength | Total |
| Simulator Gauntlets | Titan Gauntlets | 10 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 19 | 65 |
| Simulator Plate | Titan Chest Armor | 6 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 23 | 64 |
| Entanglement Mark | Titan Mark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Simulator Helm | Titan Helmet | 10 | 12 | 10 | 26 | 2 | 6 | 66 |
| Simulator Greaves | Titan Leg Armor | 2 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 62 |
| Warlock | Type | |||||||
| Simulator Gloves | Warlock Gauntlets | 20 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 64 |
| Simulator Robes | Warlock Chest Armor | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 64 |
| Entanglement Bond | Warlock Bond | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Simulator Hood | Warlock Helmet | 2 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 64 |
| Simulator Legs | Warlock Leg Armor | 16 | 16 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 67 |
| Hunter | Type | |||||||
| Simulator Grips | Hunter Gauntlets | 10 | 21 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 64 |
| Simulator Vest | Hunter Chest Armor | 20 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 63 |
| Entanglement Cloak | Hunter Cloak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Simulator Mask | Hunter Helmet | 2 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 64 |
| Simulator Boots | Hunter Leg Armor | 6 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 66 |
Legendary Weapons
| False Promises | Kinetic Auto Rifle | Arrowhead Brake / Full Bore | High-Caliber Rounds / Light Mag | Dynamic Sway Reduction | Swashbuckler | Tier 2: Stability |
| Threaded Needle | Heavy Linear Fusion Rifle | Extended Barrel / Polygonal Rifling | Accelerated Coils / Liquid Coils | Rangefinder | Vorpal Weapon | Tier 2: Reload Speed |
| Far Future | Energy Sniper Rifle | Arrowhead Brake / Polygonal Rifling | Accurized Rounds / Alloy Magazine | Quickdraw | Frenzy | Tier 2: Stability |
| Vulpecula | Kinetic Hand Cannon | Polygonal Rifling / Smallbore | Accurized Rounds / Extended Mag | Shoot to Loot | Harmony | Tier 2: Handling |
| Under Your Skin | Energy Combat Bow | Tactile String / High Tension String | Fiberglass Arrow Shaft / Natural Fletching | Tunnel Vision | Adaptive Munitions | Tier 2: Target Acquisition |
| Planck’s Stride | Heavy Machine Gun | Arrowhead Brake / Smallbore | Extended Mag / Steady Rounds | Killing Wind | One for All | Tier 2: Reload Speed |
| Spare Rations | Kinetic Hand Cannon | Full Bore / Polygonal Rifling | Appended Mag / Armor-Piercing Rounds | Moving Target | Kinetic Tremors | Tier 2: Handling |
Xur is present every weekend in Destiny 2, starting with the daily reset at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET each Friday. His exact location is always a mystery when he first arrives, as he is not listed on the map, and for novice players, he can be easy to miss. However, there are a set number of locations where he takes up residence, including the Tower Hangar area, on Nessus in Watcher’s Grave, and in the Winding Cove area of the EDZ.
Cyberpunk 2077 And Witcher Mobile Games Could Come In The Future, CD Projekt Says
Mobile games based on Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher could come in the future, but they wouldn’t be developed by CD Projekt.
As part of a Q&A session during CD Projekt’s recent 2023 Fiscal Year earnings call (via Video Games Chronicle), it was asked if the studio had considered licensing its IP to third-party developers to make games for mobile and whether such a deal would be a one time licensing fee or a profit-sharing agreement between the two studios. According to CD Projekt CEO Michał Nowakowski, the answer to the first question is yes, though they have nothing to announce on that front “just yet.”
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“The answer is pretty simple here,” Nowakowski said. “The answer is yes, we are considering such a move. In fact, we were pursuing, through conversations, opportunities like that. We have nothing to announce just yet, but when the time comes, we would.”
Nowakowski went on to say that they would not go into specifics for any kind of business deal and that there “is nothing in place that we’re talking about.” There is no “predesigned business model,” he said, and that it would share more information about any such deal “when the time comes.”
Though Cyberpunk 2077 has not yet received a mobile game, The Witcher has. Gwent: The Witcher Card Game received mobile ports, though support for the title ended in October 2023. Another Witcher mobile game, the Pokémon Go-inspired The Witcher: Monster Slayer, released in July 2021 but shut down nearly two years later in 2023.
CD Projekt is currently working on The Witcher 4, with full production slated to begin this year on what will be the first game in what is planned to be a new Witcher trilogy. More than 400 people are working on the next entry in the critically acclaimed RPG series, roughly two-third of the studio, according to Nowakowski. A small number of developers are still providing support for Cyberpunk 2077, while around 47 are working on its follow-up, currently codenamed Project Orion.
Humble Bundle Audiobook Deal – Get James Clavell’s Acclaimed Shogun Series For Cheap
It took James Clavell over 30 years to write The Asian Saga, a story that has since been adapted into Shogun on FX and Hulu. The novels take place over three centuries, starting with feudal Japan and moving through World War 2–and if you’re looking for a piece of historical fiction to get lost in, The Asian Saga is worth a closer look. Best of all, the series is now included in an audiobook bundle at Humble, letting you pick up eight audiobooks valued at $232 for just $18.
Three different tiers are available for the bundle. Pay just $1, and you’ll get the audiobook for Shogun, Part One (which encompasses the first half of the novel). The better option is to step up to the $10 tier to get Part One and Part Two, along with audiobooks for Gai-Jin and Tai-Pan. Gai-Jin covers the political drama of 1800s Japan, while Tai-Pan examines the founding of Hong Kong.
The most premium tier costs just $18 and gets you all the above audiobooks, plus the rest of the series with King Rat, Noble House, Whirlwind, and Escape. Most of these push the timeline forward considerably, taking place during World War 2 and throughout the 1960s. But despite the different settings, fans of the show should find much to love about these iconic tales.
You’ll find a breakdown of all the available tiers below. And if none of them catch your eye, be sure to check out all the other bundles available at Humble, which include everything from Boomer Shooters to Warhammer books.
Pay at least $1
- Shogun, Part One
Pay at least $10
- Gai-Jin
- Tai-Pan
- Shogun, Part Two
- Shogun, Part One
Pay at least $18
- Escape
- Whirlwind
- Noble House
- King Rat
- Gai-Jin
- Tai-Pan
- Shogun, Part Two
- Shogun, Part One
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’s Joker-Themed Season Is Now Live
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s first season, Season of the Jokes, is now live, adding Batman villain the Joker as a new playable character, another Elseworlds dimension to explore, and several new Legendary and Notorious-class weapons.
This version of the Joker hails from a different dimension in the DC Multiverse and is very different from the deceased version who menaced Batman in the Arkham games, although both villains do have a theatrical personality and love prop comedy, especially when said props are explosives.
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The new Elseworld dresses Metropolis up as a version of the city viewed through the warped lens of the Joker, and you can also experiment with a Poison status effect. This deals damage over time and reduces the amount of damage that poisoned enemies can inflict on you, but they will drop fewer shields when harvested. Buildcrafters can experiment with the new Fear Bonus on Infamy Sets, adding extra power to this effect when they reach higher tiers.
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These are inspired by some of the more disturbing DC villains, like Scarecrow, Dr. Poison, and the Mad Hatter. A nightmare-inducing set can stack Fear and Horror on your enemies to keep them terrified of you.
For the new weapons, some of the highlights include items inspired by the Mad Hatter, Polka-Dot Man, and Reverse Flash, and Intergang will debut as a new weapons manufacturer. The Metropolis gang’s weapons pack a punch when used up close and they shoot multiple projectiles with every shot, making them ideal for close-quarters specialists. Finally, Season 1 will see the debut of the Suicide Squad battle pass. This costs 1,000 LuthorCoins–$10 when purchased online–and allows players to unlock new outfits, color swatches, emotes, expressions, and banners across 76 tiers.
In a February financial call, Warner Bros. Discovery said that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had fallen short of its expectations since it launched, but the company still plans to double down on free-to-play and mobile games in the future.
