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Macklemore hallucinates a series of surreal, hilarious scenes – from reigning over his own personal Heaven to posing for a 1970s prom photo – in his new video for “How to Play the Flute.”

The Jake Magraw- and Macklemore-directed clip opens with featured emcee King Draino placing the rapper under hypnosis on a park bench. The rest of the video is a series of wacky vignettes: Macklemore rapping on the beach with his head poking out of the sand, painting a nature scene in a Bob Ross-styled outfit, posing nude for...

If early impressions are correct, “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful, most robust releases in the long-history of the franchise. It features an expansive dialog tree, a story that can be shaped by the player, the option to play throughout the game as a female lead (a surprising first for the franchise), islands to explore, open seas to sail, and sharks.

I mention the sharks because their inclusion in the game struck a chord of fascination with some, also, I happened to capture some footage of a fight between two of the creatures and the game’s protagonist during my hands-on with the game just before E3.

It doesn’t end well, really, for anyone, but you can watch the sharks in action above.

“Assassin’s Creed Odyssey,” due out Oct. 5 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One, has players take on the role of mercenary,...