The first trailer for The Last Duel has been released. The latest movie from director Ridley Scott stars Matt Damon, Adam Driver, and Jodie Comer, and it releases on October 15.The Last Duel tells the true story of Jean de Carrouges (Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Driver), two knights and former friends in 14th century France who were ordered by the French parliament to fight to the death after Carrouges accuses Le Gris of raping his wife Marguerite (Comer).The trailer suggests Scott is back in the realms of epic historical action and gripping intrigue, following movies such as Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven, and as expected, it looks visually stunning. Check the trailer out below and see the stylish poster at the end of this story.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Lost Judgment bills itself as a legal-suspense game, but between the brawling action and investigative activities, there's a whole lot more to do. Similar to the Yakuza games, protagonist Takayuki Yagami can also take part in a number of other mini-games such as darts, in-game arcades, and board games like Mahjong. If that's not enough for you, the latest gameplay trailer also shows off a few wilder activities such as skateboarding, extreme dog-walking, and customizing a scooter so that you can hang out with a colorful Bosozoku motorcycle gang.Still not satisfied? There's a boxing gym where you can trade blows, a high school pop start program to take part in, mini-robot battles, and drone racing to try out. You can see all that and more in the trailer below. If you'd prefer something more atmospheric, the dramatic opening cinematic that Sega released not too long ago also makes for great viewing.Aside from the numerous mini-games, Yagami's detective skills have also been beefed up as he makes use of various gadgets to eavesdrop on suspects and infiltrate locations to gather clues. As for his combat skills, Yagami's martial arts now include the Snake stance, which allows him to use his opponent's momentum against them.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Apple announced a pair of games coming to its Apple Arcade subscription service, one a twist on an old classic and the other a port of a recent Japanese RPG. Tetris Beat and Monster Hunter Stories will join the service soon.Tetris Beat is branded as an Apple Original from developer N3twork. It merges the familiar Tetris block-stacking gameplay with rhythm mechanics, including a soundtrack with tracks from Alison Wonderland, GARZA, Hannah Diamond, Octo Octa, Dauwd, and CINTHIE. Dropping your Tetriminos to the beat will build up your combo chain. You can also play the traditional way in Marathon mode, where you can choose the soundtrack.Monster Hunter Stories is a port of the 2017 spin-off RPG from Capcom. Instead of a standard action-oriented Monster Hunter game, in which you stalk monsters for their precious hides, Stories is a bit more animal-friendly as you forge kinships with "Monsties" and hatch eggs. It was followed up by the recently released Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite Season 7 Week 7 challenges are nearly upon us. The Legendary Quests will go live on Wednesday, July 21 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET, while the more numerous but less story-driven Epic Quests will follow precisely 24 hours later. We've got a full breakdown of all the challenges coming to Fortnite this week, so use our guides to quickly earn your way up the Battle Pass.Fortnite Week 7 Legendary QuestsConstruct a wooden hatchery (1) - 45,000 XPMark an Alien egg (1) - 30,000 XPCollect records from Pleasant Park or Craggy Cliffs (2) - 30,000 XPStoke campfires near different hatcheries (2) - 30,000 XPCollect parenting books from Holly Hatchery or Retail Row (2) - 30,000 XPFortnite Week 7 Epic QuestsUse a Recon Scanner to spot an enemy player (1) - 30,000 XPVisit Misty Meadows, Catty Corner and Camp Cod in a single match (3) - 30,000 XPSearch ammo boxes (5) - 30,000 XPDefeat Riot (1) - 30,000 XPReach top speed in a Whiplash (1) - 30,000 XPDrive a Whiplash through the Storm (1) - 30,000 XPComplete Whiplash Time Trials (1) - 30,000 XPOnce again, the Legendary Quests tell more of the alien invasion story this week. For reasons unknown, Bushranger has assigned you with nesting and hatching alien eggs. Stay tuned for our step-by-step guides on challenges such as construct a wooden hatchery, collect records from Pleasant Park or Craggy Cliffs, and collect parenting books from Holly Hatchery or Retail Row. To stoke campfires near different hatcheries, head to Holly Hatchery and stoke the fire outside the westernmost home. Remember that stoking a campfire takes 30 wood after you've lit it (which is free the first time), so make sure to have that on hand. If the campfire is extinguished before it's stoked, it'll cost 200 wood to reignite it. You can also find more campfires near hatcheries within the woods of Weeping Woods in order to finish off this challenge.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

French publisher Ubisoft reported earnings for its fiscal first quarter of the 2021-22 year ending June 30, giving us a look at how the company is performing financially. The company also gave an update on some of its upcoming games, revealed a new mobile title is coming, and more. Management also discussed its plans for Assassin's Creed Infinity at a high level, saying it will stay true to the DNA of the brand with "high quality" narrative experiences. Management also reacted to the Steam Deck and Netflix's apparent push into the world of video games, while the company also very briefly discussed Beyond Good & Evil 2. Here is a rundown of all the key details from Ubisoft's latest earnings report.Starting with revenue, Ubisoft made €326 million during the three-month period, which is down more than 20% from how much money the company made during this same period last year. Digital revenue, and revenue from "player recurring investment" (i.e. microtransactions), were also down by double digits. Revenue from back-catalog title sales also slid year-over-year, dropping by more than 20% compared to the same quarter last year.Ubisoft management did not provide any explanation regarding the across-the-board downturn in revenue.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Final Fantasy XIV has seen a massive influx of players, especially following the Endwalker expansion reveal and popular World of Warcraft streamer Asmongold playing the MMORPG to over 200,000 people earlier this month. The surge has resulted in a myriad of server issues such as instability and long queues. Director and producer Naoki Yoshida shared a lengthy blog post outlining some steps the development team will take to combat server congestion, which include implementing features like automatic logout.In the blog, posted to the game's official North America website, Yoshida said incoming features like auto-logout are "an effective means to temporarily combat [server] congestion." Though only a temporary solution, more permanent fixes are in the works. This includes things like increasing server capacity across the North America and European regions to allow for more simultaneous player logins, as well as upping the amount of data centers around the world to withstand the rush.Auto-logout will function just as it sounds when it arrives in Patch 5.58. If players are idle for an unspecified amount of time, they will be automatically logged out. This is to ensure those sitting in the queue, who sometimes are people creating a character for the first time, can log in to play.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Resident Evil Village has received an update for the Steam version of the game that adjusts the game's anti-piracy measures to improve performance. The update also adds AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) to the game, which uses upscaling and sharpening to make the game run smoother.Earlier this month, Digital Foundry determined through testing that the cracked (i.e. pirated) version of Resident Evil Village actually runs better than the official version of the game, a difference that is apparently caused by the game's DRM. Capcom quickly announced an update that would fix these issues, and that update is now live.An important update for Resident Evil Village players on Steam:- FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) from AMD is now supported. FSR supports higher frame rates on PC for an improved gaming experience.- Adjustments have been made to optimize the anti-piracy technology. — Resident Evil (@RE_Games) July 20, 2021These stutters are a significant problem for PC players, bringing frame rates down from the low hundreds to 20 or 30fps during certain sequences. It's also worth noting that the Resident Evil Village performs better on consoles, even with ray tracing enabled. It's currently unclear if this update manages to fix these stuttering issues, but we'll have to see how the player base reacts. If not, perhaps modders can fix the problem, as was the case with Nier: Automata's resolution woes on PC. That issue was finally officially fixed this week on Steam.Info from Gamespot.com

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' newest raid, the Sanctum of Domination, has finally been cleared on the game's Mythic difficulty following an intense world-first race between the game's top guilds over the last week.The honors went to the European guild Echo, who defeated the raid's final boss, Sylvanas Windrunner, after 176 attempts over four days and with zero deaths on their final attempt to boot, according to Icy Veins. For a while the race was neck and neck between Echo and the guild Complexity-Limit, but Echo managed to eke out the victory, despite taking a break overnight. You can see the race's final moments in the Twitch clip below.Echo even had to overcome a little divine intervention from Blizzard itself. One of the guild's initial Sylvanas strategies involved having one player tank an additional enemy, the Mawforged Colossus, in order to allow the rest of the guild to effectively ignore the Colossus and instead focus on bringing down Sylvanas as fast as possible. In theory, this would allow Echo to skip the boss's enrage mechanic, which would see Sylvanas pumping out significantly more damage.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Unite launches on Nintendo Switch this week, and you can now preload the upcoming spin-off ahead of its release. A product page for Pokemon Unite is now available on the Nintendo eShop, letting you download the free-to-play Pokemon MOBA so that you can jump right in when it unlocks on July 21.According to the game's eShop, Pokemon Unite weighs in at only 928 MB. The game is free to download and play online, with optional in-game purchases in the form of cosmetic costumes for your trainer and Pokemon.Pre-download for #PokemonUNITE on Switch is now available! Pre-download now and get into the action even faster this Wednesday! ➡️https://t.co/S2k3xaqmtj pic.twitter.com/hXZ2nTvKUd — Pokémon UNITE (@PokemonUnite) July 20, 2021According to The Pokemon Company (via Serebii), Pokemon Unite preloads will unlock at midnight local time on July 21. However, the game will officially be live to play beginning at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET / 7 AM UTC.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The first trailer for Malignant has been released. The latest horror movie from Conjuring and Saw director James Wan hits theaters and HBO Max in September.The plot of Malignant has been shrouded in secrecy since the movie was first announced in 2019, but now we know what the movie is about. Annabelle Wallis (The Mummy) plays a woman who discovers that the violent hallucinations she is experiencing are real visions of murder, happening in real-time. She sets about trying to find out why this is happening and soon discovers it's all linked to something scary in her past. It looks like another stylish and inventive chiller from Wan--check the trailer out below:Malignant also stars Jake Abel (Supernatural), Jacqueline McKenzie (CSI: Miami), Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters Afterlife), and Maddie Hasson (The Finder). It's written by Wan, Akela Cooper (Jupiter's Legacy), and Ingrid Bisu, who also acted in The Nun and The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In late 2000, MTV introduced the world to a new type of prank and stunt show featuring a new type of reality star with Jackass. Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Jason Acuna, and Chris Pontius created a moment in pop culture that has only been intimidated but never replicated.Their first movie, aptly called Jackass the Movie, was a box office hit in 2002. They followed up that success with three more films, each upping the ante of the stunts and performances with each successor. Now, the team is back with a brand-new movie, Jackass Forever. Check out the trailer below.As you can see, the contraptions and stunts have been exponentially upgraded, with guest appearances by the likes of Eric Andre, who is sort of the one-man heir to the Jackass throne with his absurd and abstract Eric Andre Show. Even AEW star Darby Allin will participate in the jackassery this time around.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There are more games coming out now than ever before, but it's rare that we slow down and take notice when a lot of promising games come out on the same day. Tuesday, July 20 saw the release of an unusual number of promising games, including Cris Tales, Death's Door, Samurai Gunn 2, and Mini Motorways.Cris Tales is perhaps the most well-known of these games, having received quite a notable push over the past year or two. It's a indie JRPG created by a small Colombian team with a striking artstyle and unique time-traveling mechanics. Our review of Cris Tales is still in the works, but it appears to be garnering positive reviews as of this writing. It's available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Nintendo Switch. It's also on Xbox Game Pass.Death's Door is a Souls-like action game with an aerial perspective and impressively fluid combat. It's garnered some very positive reviews so far. In GameSpot's Death's Door review, critic Alessandro Barbosa praised the game's satisfying boss fights and colorful artstyle, while noting its challenging gameplay and lack of an in-game map. Fans of Hollow Knight and the Souls series will probably be intrigued by this one. Death's Door is available on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Wolverine is the best there is at what he does, and nobody sulks on a bed while caressing a photo frame better than Marvel's most popular Canadian. Collectibles website Mondo is preparing to bring Wolverine's most iconic moment to life as a new sixth-scale figure for Comic-Con, and yes, it comes with its own bed.Mondo explained to IGN that it "took great pains to capture Wolverine in this rare moment of repose, pining after his crush Jean Grey in a photograph."For the sake of context, here's the moment that became Wolverine's greatest meme:Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Zelda: Breath of the Wild challenge runs are nothing new, but one player managed to find a new way to push the envelope: by turning Link's adventure into a giant game of Snake. Game developer and streamer Everest Pipkin managed to beat the game without recrossing their path, an undertaking that took them eight months and six restarts.The Master Trials DLC added a mode to the game called Hero's Path, which allows the player to see where Link has travelled over the past 200 hours of gameplay. As such, Pipkin decided it would be funny to turn the game into a version of the "travelling salesman problem", calling it the Traveling Swordsman Problem as a joke.I DID IT. i beat snake in breath of the wild. it took me 8 months and 6 restarts and countless moments of terror as it began to rain, but it is DONE pic.twitter.com/OwHTxauYP5 — everest (@everestpipkin) July 1, 2021Pipkin finally managed to finish the run on June 30. As the above map shows, it's a surprisingly difficult route that they had to follow, as they opted to visit all of the game's towers to fill out the map. Additionally, the fact that the game doesn't track 3D space (and therefore elevation) meant that Pipkin had to make sure not to travel over the same space twice, even taking X and Y positioning into account. They actually failed their first run because a cutscene required them to stand on a roof of a building that they had already entered. For more details on this challenge run, check out Kotaku's lengthy write-up--it's pretty impressive stuff.Info from Gamespot.com

Fortnite Week 7 challenges are nearly here, with one of several Legendary Quests asking you to collect parenting books from Holly Hatchery or Retail Row when the quests go live on July 21 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. This is a story-driven quest with one-off quest items involved, which means you can't even see these items on the map unless this quest is active for you. But here's the solution, so once it's active, you can complete it in a hurry.Fortnite Parenting Book LocationsYou need to find just two parenting books for this Week 7 challenge, and once you do, you'll unlock 30,000 XP toward your Season 7 Battle Pass. As is often the case, there are more collectibles on the map than you'll need, so pick whichever two of these six that work for you. Here's where to find parenting books in Holly Hatchery:In the living room of the house east of the landscaping storeIn the garage of the northeastern houseJust inside the front room of the northwestern houseWhere to find parenting books in Holly HatcheryIf instead your travels take you to Retail Row, you can find another three parenting books within Fortnite's shopping center. Here's where to find parenting books in Retail Row:Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com