Now Available on Steam – Taphouse VR

Fixed an issue that caused Morphling to gain incorrect levels of certain stolen abilities.

Post-Game Scoreboard:
– Added total time spent dead and total gold lost due to death to the scoreboard.
– Added the raw (pre-reduction) hero damage received and the overall hero damage reduction percentage to the scoreboard.
– Fixed a bug where wards that were bought and then sold back within the sell-back window would incorrectly appear in the Support Items section of the scoreboard.
– Fixed Lone Druid’s Spirit Bear scoreboard inventory positioning.
– Fixed a consumed Moon Shard showing the wrong night vision number in the scoreboard tooltip.

Alt-clicking an unlearned skill (or Ctrl-Alt clicking an already learned skill) now has the following behavior:
1. When you have available skill points will now alert allies with the skill being “Ready To Learn”
2. When you can earn it at the next level, it will alert to allies how much XP required for you to level up.
3. If you can’t learn it at the next level, it will alert with how many levels you will need before you can skill it up.

SoulCalibur 6 Release Date / Pre-Order Guide (US Only)

SoulCalibur VI, the next installment of Bandai Namco's long-running fighting game series, is set to release on October 19 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Like the previous games, this one pits weapon-wielding combatants against each other and sees the inclusion of many familiar faces for anyone who's played the previous games--or anyone who's played The Witcher, for that matter.

If you're ready to go all-in on SoulCalibur VI, you'll probably want to know about any pre-order bonuses, what comes with each edition of the game, and where you can get it. Below, we've gathered all of the information you need to make an informed pre-order decision. Let's get to it.

SoulCalibur VI Pre-Order Bonus

A few retailer-exclusive pre-order bonuses are available for the game. If you pre-order SoulCalibur VI from Best Buy, you'll receive a free 3.5-inch-tall mini figure of Talim (while supplies last). GameStop, meanwhile, is giving away the Ivy Valentine Figpin seen above. Finally, pre-ordering from the PlayStation Store gets you a free SoulCalibur VI PS4 theme.

Standard Edition

The standard edition contains the game itself, plus any applicable pre-order bonuses. The best deal at the time of this writing is at Newegg, where you'll save $10.

• Amazon -- $60 -- PS4 | Xbox One | PC
• Best Buy -- $60 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• GameStop -- $60 -- PS4 | Xbox One | PC
• Microsoft Store -- $60 -- Xbox One
• Newegg -- $50 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• PlayStation Store -- $60 -- PS4
• Steam -- $60 -- PC
• Target -- $60 -- PS4 | Xbox One

Deluxe Edition

Physical versions of the deluxe edition come with the season pass, the soundtrack on CD, and a metal case with a built-in soundbox that can play four voiceover snippets. Digital versions cost $10 less but only contain the game and season pass.

• Amazon -- $100 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• Best Buy -- $100 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• GameStop -- $100 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• Microsoft Store -- $90 -- Xbox One (digital version)
• Newegg -- $100 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• PlayStation Store -- $90 -- PS4 (digital version)
• Steam -- $90 -- PC (digital version)
• Target -- $100 -- PS4 | Xbox One

Collector's Edition

The $150 collector's edition comes with even more items. You'll get everything included in the deluxe edition, plus a 120-page art book and a 12-inch collectible Sophitia figure, all packaged in a long collector's edition box.

• Amazon -- $150 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• Best Buy -- $150 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• GameStop -- $150 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• Newegg -- $150 -- PS4 | Xbox One
• Target -- $150 -- PS4 | Xbox One

Pretty much every article you read about Instagram marketing and how to get more engagement mentions the same general idea: post great or quality content.

But what exactly makes an Instagram post “good” or “high-quality”?

The new Instagram algorithm favors posts with high engagement, so when a post receives a ton of likes and comments, this signals to the algorithm that it’s high-quality content that other users might want to see.

Writing good Instagram captions with effective call-to-actions (CTAs) is one of the best ways to inspire your followers to comment on your posts, which will help drive even more engagement with your Instagram account!

So, this is your checklist on how to write the perfect Instagram caption.

1. Unlock all five senses in your writing:

Describe what the place looks like and the light and the colors of things you can see in the picture.
Describe the sound. What are you hearing?
Describe the weather and temperature. How was the evening?
Describe the smell. Is the smell fruity, woody, sharp, sweet, or chemical?
Describe the taste. Is it sweet or spicy?

2. Storytelling always helps.

What is this?
When did it happen?
Where is it?
Why are you showing this? Why did this happen?
Who is the main character of the story? Who is the enemy in this situation?
How did you get there? How did it happen?

3. Solve your audience's problems

Identify a common problem in your business or industry and imagine how that problem can be solved.
Give them the solution.
Then construct a sentence that mentions these three key points.

4. Use the right hashtags

Hashtags are extremely important on Instagram and should be used on every post to increase reach. Choose 10-15 relevant hashtags to include in your caption. Don’t use popular hashtags like #tagforlikes or #onedirection or #love. Using general hashtags actually, end up not showing your photo on any of the hashtag.

Every time you are thinking about adding a hashtag, ask yourself this question:

"Is this hashtag ONLY used by my target audience or by other people on Instagram?"

YES: add the hashtag. NO: do not add the hashtag.

So there you have it! The recipe for great Instagram captions and high-quality content:

1 nice picture
2 ounces of creativity
½ grams of inspiration
1 pound of originality
A few words

And Voila!

Are you doing all of these things? Do you need help with any aspect of your Instagram account? River Team is available online, almost 24/7 in all time zones. You can reach us via email and chat in River Tool. We are always happy to help and you can ask us anything!

When Windows 10 was released, it seemingly broke the ability to easily connect to Linux Samba shares. Considering how many businesses rely on Samba for the sharing of folders, this was a bad move on the part of Microsoft. Fortunately, the ability to connect to Samba shares wasn't actually removed from the Windows platform, it was merely tucked a bit out of sight.

I want to walk you through the process of making that connection between Windows 10 and your Linux shares.
I will assume you have both Windows 10 installed on a machine (or multiple machines) and a Samba share at the ready from your data center. With that said, let's connect.

Connecting to your server

Open up File Explorer and then right-click on This PC (in the left pane). From the resulting context menu, select Add a network location (Figure A).


Figure A


This PC right-click menu.

A new wizard will open, one that will walk you through the process of creating a shortcut for a new network location within File Explorer. Click Next in the Welcome window. In the resulting screen (Figure B), click Choose a custom network location (the only option) and then click Next.

Figure B


Select the location for your custom network.

Next you must enter the IP address of your Samba server (Figure C) in the form of //SERVER_IP/SHARE (Where SERVER_IP is the IP address of your Samba server and SHARE is the name of the share you want to add).


Figure C


Entering the IP address of your Samba server.

Click Next to continue on. In the next window (Figure D), type a name for the network location. A default name will be picked up by the Samba server, you can either use that or enter a custom name that makes it easier for you to remember either where the share is or what is housed within the share.


Figure D


Giving your share a name.

Click Next to reach the final screen of the wizard. Here (Figure E) click Finish and the share is now ready for you to use.


Figure E


Your share is ready.

And that is all there is to connecting a Windows 10 machine to a Samba share in your data center. It's not quite as easy as it once was, but the feature is, in fact, still there.

Fear not

After hearing a number of people coming to me asking why Microsoft had to break the Windows-Samba connection, I'm happy to tell you that it is not, in fact, broken. Although it's a bit hidden away, you can still make that much needed desktop to data center connection.

The Best Game Deals Of The Week: Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, And PC (US)

We all love playing video games, but with new titles going for $60 or more depending on the edition, the hobby gets expensive fast. Thankfully, many gaming retailers have regular sales to save you money. But even so, it's hard to know if you're getting the best deal available at any given time. To help solve that problem, we've gone through the week's video game sales and highlighted the best game deals for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

Before looking at the discounts, though, you should make sure you've picked up all the free games you can get. PlayStation Plus members can download some fantastic games for free this month, including Destiny 2 (for next month's freebies, see the video above). Xbox Live Gold subscribers can also grab a few freebies right now, and if you're an Amazon Prime member, you can get five free PC games from Twitch.

With that out of the way, let's look at this week's best discounts on individual games.

Madden NFL 19

The latest installment of the best football game franchise around is $20 off this week.

• Buy Madden NFL 19 for PS4 -- $40
• Buy Madden NFL 19 for Xbox One -- $40

The Last of Us Remastered

September 26, 2013 was Outbreak Day, the day the fungus zombies in The Last of Us took over the country. Each year, Naughty Dog celebrates Outbreak Day by putting The Last of Us Remastered on sale.

• Buy The Last of Us Remastered for PS4 -- $10

Rise of the Tomb Raider - 20 Year Celebration

Lara Croft's latest adventure is now available, but if you missed out on her previous journey, you can pick it up for cheap this week.

• Buy Rise of the Tomb Raider for PS4 -- $20

The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+

A roguelike inspired by classic Zelda games, The Binding of Isaac has you pick up all kinds of weapons and abilities as you explore a monster-filled cellar--just try not to step in the piles of poo.

• Buy The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+ for Switch -- $20

Star Wars Battlefront II

No big Star Wars games are coming anytime soon, but if you missed out on this online shooter, you can get it now for a nice price.

• Buy Star Wars Battlefront II for PS4 -- $20

Civilization VI

Like the previous entries in this strategy series, Civilization VI starts you out with a small settlement and has you build it into a colossal world power.

• Buy Civilization VI for PC -- $24

Sea of Thieves

Join up with friends, hop on a ship, and plunder the isles in this shared-world game from Rare.

• Buy Sea of Thieves for Xbox One/PC -- $39

Thumper

Music/rhythm games might seem passé now that the plastic instrument fad is over, but Thumper doesn't bear much resemblance to anything that came before. This is a trippy, hard-hitting rhythm game that requires deep concentration and is guaranteed to get your blood pumping.

• Buy Thumper for Nintendo Switch -- $8

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Fixed an issue that caused Morphling to gain incorrect levels of certain stolen abilities.

Post-Game Scoreboard:
– Added total time spent dead and total gold lost due to death to the scoreboard.
– Added the raw (pre-reduction) hero damage received and the overall hero damage reduction percentage to the scoreboard.
– Fixed a bug where wards that were bought and then sold back within the sell-back window would incorrectly appear in the Support Items section of the scoreboard.
– Fixed Lone Druid’s Spirit Bear scoreboard inventory positioning.
– Fixed a consumed Moon Shard showing the wrong night vision number in the scoreboard tooltip.

Alt-clicking an unlearned skill (or Ctrl-Alt clicking an already learned skill) now has the following behavior:
1. When you have available skill points will now alert allies with the skill being “Ready To Learn”
2. When you can earn it at the next level, it will alert to allies how much XP required for you to level up.
3. If you can’t learn it at the next level, it will alert with how many levels you will need before you can skill it up.

New Preview Beta and Delta (subset) 1810 Update – 9/20/18

Starting at 6:00 p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Beta and Delta (subset) Rings will begin receiving the latest 1810 Xbox One system update (180916-1920). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest 1810 system update.

NOTE : Today a subset of Delta Users are receiving the 1810 build.  We are doing the subset of users as we are targeting the upgrade process and will move the remaining set of Delta users in over the next week as we flight new builds to test the upgrade process.

Fixes:

Audio

• Fixes to the audio stream to fix microphones not working when plugging in or unplugging a chatpad.

System

• System Memory and Performance fixes in this build.
• Localization fixes in this build.

Known Issues:

Avatars

• It can take up to 10 seconds to view an Avatar on the profile screen after creating a new Avatar.

My Games & Apps

• We are aware that some users are experiencing crashing of a game or the Youtube app when you are either launching or resuming the Youtube app.
• If you are in the Youtube app and then Resume to a Game the app/game and console may hang or crash.

Power

• We are tracking an issue in which the console is fully powering off when it is placed into Instant On mode.

Profile Color

• Sometimes users may encounter the incorrect Profile color when powering on the console.

Virtual Keyboard

• We are aware that special characters appear incorrectly when using the Virtual Keyboard.
• We are aware that the recently used emoji’s/characters are not present when you launch the VK again.

Video: Super Mario Run Makes A Big Cameo In Apple iPhone XS Commercial

Prior to the release of Super Mario Run on mobile, it might have been a shock to see Mario in an iPhone commercial. Nowadays, it’s not as surprising. To promote it’s new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, Apple has released a commercial about upsizing – with Mario making an appearance in it just after the halfway mark.

Titled “Growth Spurt” the short one-minute clip shows food, objects, and even pets growing in size – to help drive home the point Apple’s new device is a lot bigger than past models. Mario’s inclusion in the commercial makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, though, the mushroom behind the act is not credited.

Super Mario Run was originally released on the Apple Store for iOS devices in December 2016. This followed with its release on Google Play in March 2017. In July this year, Sensor Tower revealed it had netted about $60 million in profits from worldwide player spending since its launch.

Take a look at the clip above and tell us in the comments if you’re still playing Super Mario Run.

Bandai Namco And HTC Are Bringing Mario Kart VR To The United States

Following a successful launch in Japan and the UK, the Mario Kart Arcade GP VR experience is now on its way to the United States. Bandai Namco and HTC will bring the immersive Mario Kart game to the new “VR Zone Portal” in Washington, D.C.

Mario Kart VR allows four players to hop into specially designed karts and race through the Mushroom Kingdom as Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi. It’s powered by the HTC Vive VR system, and features “industry-leading graphics” along with all the usual items you would find in a Mario Kart game.

Bandai Namco’s US sales boss Steve Ignarski expects the game to be well-received locally:

The launches in Japan and the U.K. brought great success, and we hope to follow suit in Washington, D.C. Mario Kart VR is a long-awaited title, and we have no doubt it will be well-received in the states, due to its incredible, immersive game-play and outstanding equipment from HTC Vive.

The VR Zone Portal is part of Bandai Namco’s arcade division. The aim is to make VR more accessible to the public. Mario Kart VR was built by Bandai Namco, previously known for working on the Mario Kart Arcade series. The zone will run for six months in Union Station in Washington D.C. and will then pack up and move on.

Below is a video of Mario Kart VR in action, courtesy of Simon Davidian:

Will you be heading to the VR Zone Portal featuring Mario Kart when it arrives in Washington? Have you already been lucky enough to play the VR version of Mario Kart? Are you sold on VR yet? Tell us below.