Is there anything more reliable than a shotgun? It’s the jackhammer of video game weapons, able to carve a path forward with sheer brute force and always satisfying to load another round into its chamber with a satisfying pump of the barrel. In The Division 2, you’ll find plenty of these valuable corrider-cleaners, with the very best shotgun being the Exotic Sweet Dreams.

There’s no shortage of sidearms in The Division 2, but with all manner of SMGs, light machine guns and shotguns available to grab in the ruined streets of Washington DC, these little lifesavers and life-takers are often neglected. The Liberty Desert Eagle on the other hand, is a hell of a gun. With eight rounds and an RPM of 150 it might not sound like much, but it is able to unleash upwards of 30 000 damage in Tier 4 of The Division 2, which is holy smokes a lot for a sidearm.

I’m a big fan of SMGs in The Division 2. They’re nippy, able to offer quick reloads and more than capable of taking down a single enemy before you’ve spent every round in the magazine. Favouring an aggressive playstyle, they’re perfect for the type of player who enjoys closing a gap and getting up close and personal with their prey. One of the more agile SMGs that you can find in The Division 2? Easily the Exotic Chatterbox, which has a staggering 60 bullet magazine and a 700 RPM stat that will absolutely shred anything in front of you.

The cream of the rifle crop in The Division 2, belongs to the Merciless Exotic rifle. With thirty rounds in its clip and an RPM of 260, this beast can easily shoot the wings off of flies. And that's before we even get to its explosive priming and detonating rounds.

A hand cannon reborn! A curse reignited, as the legend of Dredgen Yor lives on again in Destiny 2. While the rogue Guardian may have fallen at the hands of Shin Malphur and The Last Word, Dredgen Yor’s legacy lived on through the centuries thanks to one iconic weapon that would become the bane of many a Guardian in the Crucible: Thorn. How do you get it? Here’s how!

Destiny’s best Exotic may not be the most powerful gun around when compared to the ludicrous firepower of Riskrunner or the Gambit-breaking weapon of choice for Invaders known as Sleeper Simulant. But it certainly is a gun with the most interesting history out of all the storied weapons in Destiny 2. A story that is making a return, as The Last Word is finally coming home.

Say what you like about E3, but it’s hard to deny just how effective a good trailer can be when it coms to showing off what a game may be capable of. The product may change and what you see on the screen is in no way indicative of what you’ll actually get (Meanwhile at Ubisoft: Hey my ears are …

Heavy Machine Guns will return in Destiny 2’s Black Armory update in December, but you won’t have long to wait to get a proper taste of these reworked death-dealers. A couple of weeks back, data-mining for The Festival of the Lost revealed that at least one quest would reward players with a reimagined Thunderlord. How do you get one? Here’s how…kind of.