A Quiet Place: Day one has been a big hit at the box office, and if you're looking to bring the sci-fi thriller home, preorders are now open for its upcoming Blu-ray release. Like most major releases, you'll be able to choose between A Quiet Place: Day One steelbook Blu-ray or a regular release, and for an extra-special version, Walmart is offering its own steelbook version that's slightly different from the one on Amazon. Walmart has "Stay quiet, stay alive" written on its Blu-ray steelbook cover, and who knows, that extra touch could make this extra-collectible. A Quiet Place: Day One If you haven't seen it yet, A Quiet Place: Day One shows the exact moment a horde of almost-unkillable aliens crash-landed on Earth and wreaked havoc across the planet. Bestial and almost unstoppable, the only way to survive was to go completely quiet as the alien invaders possess an acute sense of hearing to compensate for their lack of vision. The film stars Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, and Djimon Hounsou. The real star of the show is obviously the cat Frodo, who is played by two feline actors named Nico and Schnitzel.Special features for the Blu-ray haven't been revealed yet, but like other releases, there'll likely be behind-the-scenes documentaries, featurettes, and a collection of promotional materials on the disc. The 4K Blu-ray also comes with a standard Blu-ray disc and a digital version of the film to stream. Walmart-exclusive 4K UHD Steelbook Blu-ray ($35) Amazon 4K UHD Steelbook Blu-ray ($45) Amazon 4K UHD Regular Edition Several other Blu-ray preorders are also available right now, including Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Despicable Me 4, and a 20th anniversary edition of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Yes, it has been that long since Jack Black kicked Baxter off of a bridge.For even more classic cinema, the Criterion Collection is on sale for 50% off at Amazon. This sale typically only happens once a year, so now is a great time to expand your personal film library with some of Hollywood's greatest feature films.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Today, as part of the Tennocon 2024 festivities, the dev team behind Soulframe--a new multiplayer online game from Warframe developer Digital Extremes--hosted a one-hour livestream, which showcased new gameplay, new locations, and the opening moments of the game.The game opens with a small bird flying over a vast field, which quickly turns into a war zone with a massive army descending on a castle in the clearing. The bird flies into a window to find a woman holding a baby in her arms. The narrator then asks questions to the player, and based on their responses, the woman's appearance will change.The NimrodThe stream then jumps to later in the game, and it showed off a few key locations in the world of Soulframe--The Nightfold, for example, is a hub world where players can upgrade skills, weapons, and more. The scene then jumps again to the overworld map, where we see the hero take on a group of knights in open combat while wielding a massive axe.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

SNK has been busy at this year's Evo, thanks to three separate announcements presented during the show. Along with new characters for two other games, the company has also announced that SNK Vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos is back, and PC players can download it today via Steam--with PS4 and Nintendo Switch versions dropping on Monday.The return of SVC Chaos adds multiple enhancements to the 2003 fighting game, including hitbox indicators for precise training sessions and a gallery of artwork. A suite of multiplayer options--buffered by rollback netcode--will also be available, with online lobbies holding nine players at a time and a tournament mode with multiple bracket formats built in.SVC ChaosGallery The playable roster features 36 characters from both Capcom and SNK, and it includes well-known fighters like Street Fighter's Ryu and Ken and Fatal Fury's Terry and Mai, along with some deep cuts like Mars People from Metal Slug (SNK) and Tessa from Red Earth. This new version also unlocks the secret bosses from the arcade version--Athena and Red Arremer--for use at the start of the game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Today, during Tennocon 2024, Digital Extremes debuted a new gameplay trailer for Warframe: 1999, a narrative-driven spin-off quest for Warframe set in the late 1990s. Along with some tubular action sequences, the trailer showed off a new boss fight where the most dangerous enemy might be the earworm that infects your real-world brain during the battle.The trailer kicks off in a deserted shopping mall, complete with old, clunky computers and an arcade lined with machines. A team of Protoframes, led by the main character Arthur, then pursue Dr. Entrati, who Warframe fans know as the first person to make contact with the Void that gives the Tenno their power.What backstreets are these boys from?Gallery The trailer shows multiple action sequences that highlight the new Atomicycle vehicle, new weapons like the AX-52 rifle, and a fight against a massive tank set to late '90s nu-metal. We also get to meet Arthur's teammates, including Amir the brainiac, Aoi the logistics expert, and Quincy, a marksman whose Cyte-09 Warframe is new to the Warframe experience.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Today during a presentation as part of Evo 2024, SNK announced new characters for two of its fighting games--one currently available and one coming early next year. Kevin Rian, the justice-seeking S.W.A.T officer, has joined the Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves roster, while dual femme fatales Vice and Mature will be added to The King Of Fighters XV later this year.Kevin comes to City Of The Wolves from the previous game, Garou: Mark Of The Wolves. His reveal trailer shows off his hard-hitting moveset, which includes the ability to crawl along the ground and rise right into a kick, as well as a few explosive punches.Kevin RianGallery Vice and Mature, meanwhile, are the butlers of longtime KoF villain Rugal Bernstein. The reveal trailer shown at Evo did not show any footage of the duo, but it did confirm that both will be added to KoF XV in December 2024.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Streaming services have been cranking up their prices in recent months, and now Peacock is the latest to follow that trend. As listed on its official site, the service is increasing its prices by a significant amount for all three major plans, though the optional monthly add-on to the premium plus plan remains unchanged.The price of Peacock's Premium Annual plan is increasing by $20, from $60 to $80, while the monthly version is increasing from $6 to $8. Premium Plus Annual is also increasing by $20, from $120 to $140. The add-on fee for monthly members who want to subscribe to Peacock Premium remains $6, making that cost $14 total per month. These changes are effective on the day they were announced, July 18.Most (if not all) of the major streaming services have increased their prices this year, a trend seemingly kicked off by Netflix, which increased the price of its Basic plan from $10 to $12 a month in the US last October. Max and Paramount+ followed suit, with the former increasing the price of its ad-free plan to $17 a month, and the latter increasing its ad-free plan to $13 a month.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto VI is set for release in 2025, and given how massive the game's launch is expected to be, many are wondering how it could affect titles from competing companies. Ubisoft, for its part, has said it's looking forward to GTA VI's release because when a game as big as GTA VI comes out, it helps the market overall."What we see, generally, when GTA is coming, is that more people come to play. So generally it's positive on the overall market," CEO Yves Guillemot said during Ubisoft's latest earnings call.Guillemot went on to say that historical trends for Ubisoft's business bear this out. He said Ubisoft's games enjoyed "very good sales" around the time that GTA V came out in 2013, while its titles also performed well when the GTA V re-release for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S launched in March 2022.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The final trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine has arrived, and it's possibly the best one yet. This trailer is a little more serious and somber, setting up the high-profile stakes for why Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) wanted to team up with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman).The trailer is best experienced without knowing much more, so go ahead and watch for yourself below. Dead Pool & Wolverine comes to theaters on July 26. It takes place six years after the events of Deadpool 2, where mercenary Wade Wilson has left the Deadpool life behind him. However, he gets pulled into a new mission, and with the Time Variance Authority and Wolverine involved, the movie connects Deadpool with both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and 20th Century Fox X-Men movies.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Ubisoft has rolled out a free trial for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S--but not for PC players. The offer is available now and runs through July 28 for the action-adventure game.There are a few caveats, however. On a Ubisoft blog post, it's noted that the Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora free trial will last either five hours for players or until they "reach Hometree in 'The Aranahe Clan' main quest." Additionally, only single-player functionality is part of this offer, meaning co-op isn't available. An online connection is a requirement, as well.Progress made in the free trial will carry over for people who decide to purchase Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Ubisoft is sweetening this transition by offering up to 50% off the game, though double-check that price and edition before buying.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's a big day in the world of sports video games, as EA's long-awaited College Football 25 is officially out now for everyone. The franchise has been away for 10 years, and it seems people were really excited for it to come back. EA announced today that more than 2.2 million unique players played the game during its early-access period, with an additional 600,000 people trying the game through the EA Play trial.The early access period began July 15 for people who bought the $100 deluxe edition or tried the game via the 10-hour EA Play trial. Today, July 19, the game's $70 standard edition arrives.EA's last college football game before this was 2013's NCAA Football 14. EA and the NCAA broke off their partnership due to a variety of reasons, including legal problems and lawsuits. Instead, EA brokered separate licensing deals to feature all 134 FBS schools in College Football 25. And in a major change, EA is paying athletes to be in the game as part of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Actor Jack Quaid voices Clark Kent/Superman on the animated show My Adventures with Superman, but when he auditioned for the live-action version for James Gunn's new movie, it didn't go so well. He told Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he sent an audition tape to Gunn, but it "went nowhere.""I didn't get very far at all... and that's fine," he said, as reported by IGN. Quaid said that although he's the voice of Superman already, he didn't "fit the bill physically at all." He said he's fine with not getting the role and said it was "cool" to audition for such a big part.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Arcane Season 1 Limited-Edition 4K Blu-ray (Steelbook) $60 Preorder at Amazon (Steelbook) Arcane Season 1 Limited-Edition Blu-ray (Steelbook) $55 Preorder at Amazon (Steelbook) Preorder at Amazon (Standard) Arcane Season 2 is slated for a November release on Netflix, and fans of the League of Legends animated show will have a great way to rewatch Season 1 beforehand. Arcane Season 1 is coming to Blu-ray on October 8, and multiple editions are available to preorder at Amazon, including limited-edition 4K steelbook and standard Blu-ray steelbook editions, each of which has a unique collectible cover. Arcane Season 1 Limited-Edition 4K Blu-ray (Steelbook) $60 The 4K Blu-ray edition comes with a steelbook case featuring Jinx cover art and is currently priced at $60. With Amazon's preorder price guarantee, if you order now, you'll get the 4K Blu-ray for the lowest price offered by Amazon until release. You won't be charged until your order ships.For this release, there'll be over three hours of bonus features in addition to the entire nine-episode run of Arcane. Fans can go behind the scenes of Arcane with exclusive conversations involving key creative talent and writers, numerous scene breakdowns from the animation staff at studio Fortiche, making-of videos, and more. Here's the full breakdown of these extras:Bridging the Rift: The making of Arcane"Making Mel" featurette"Happy Progress Day" scene breakdown"When these walls come tumbling down" scene breakdownEkko vs Jinx: scene breakdown"The monster you created" scene breakdown Preorder at Amazon (Steelbook) Arcane Season 1 Limited-Edition Blu-ray (Steelbook) $55 The standard 1080p Blu-ray is also getting a steelbook edition, but this one features Vi, Jinx's sister. Big League of Legends and Arcane fans will have to preorder both to get these complementary steelbook cases. You'll get the same bonus features with the Blu-ray release.At the moment, limited-edition Blu-ray preorders are $55 at Amazon, which is only five bucks less than the 4K edition. But just like with the 4K edition, you'll be backed by Amazon's preorder price guarantee. Many Blu-rays eventually receive preorder discounts, so we'll update this Arcade preorder guide if the price of either edition changes.If you don't care about steelbook cases, you can preorder the standard edition Arcane Blu-ray for $45 (it also has different cover art). Preorder at Amazon (Steelbook) Preorder at Amazon (Standard) For Arcane fans looking to go all out, there's an Arcane collector's edition available from GKids Films. Normally $200, it has been discounted to $150 and includes original artwork, a diecast D20 dice, resin dice, a velvet dice pouch, double-sided poster, six art cards, and a fabric map.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

K-pop stars Stray Kids have unveiled their latest single “Chk Chk Boom,” featuring a star-studded music video with Deadpool and Wolverine stars, Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, who also happen to be fans of the group. It was teased earlier this week that the Marvel stars have been recruited for the shoot.The track, released July 19, is the lead single for the group’s new mini-album ATE. ATE marks Stray Kids’ second release of 2024, following their English single “Lose My Breath” featuring award-winning singer Charlie Puth. The music video opens with Jackman as Wolverine trying to read the weather and gets bored. Enter Ryan Reynolds as himself to continue a news bulletin on a fake news program. Reynolds eventually dons the Deadpool gear sans make-up later and jokingly asks if he could join the group. Outside of the superhero skits, Stray Kids delivers another one of their trademark kinetic performances, this one across a cityscape.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

One of the biggest points against any sort of augmented reality, mixed reality, or virtual reality is that the headsets are just too big and bulky. "Once they're just like wearing a pair of glasses," people will often say, "then I'll be more interested." Well, the latest iteration of Viture's virtual display glasses, the Viture Pro XR, are about the closest I've seen a device get to that point. Viture Pro XR Glasses $450 See at Amazon True to its name, the Viture Pro XR is an XR or "mixed reality" headset that works as a virtual display. While it's not an all-in-one device like the Apple Vision Pro, you can hook up the Viture Pro XR to a wide range of devices and use it as a monitor for office work, a personal home theater for watching movies or YouTube, or a giant screen for gaming. The screen reaches up to 1080p resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. Best of all, they look like a chunky pair of sunglasses. While you won't be mistaking these for a pair of Ray-Bans, they nonetheless sport a design that looks unmistakably like sunglasses--ones that just project a giant screen in both lenses.Viture Pro XR glassesWe tested the Viture Pro XR over the last few weeks, specifically to determine its viability for gaming. After several sessions across multiple games and consoles, it's fair to say the Viture Pro XR lives up to its promise as an affordable virtual display--once everything is set up and the glasses are finally on your head, the experience is largely great. But, as you'll see, it can take some trial and error get to that point.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Prime Video's The Boys TV series wrapped up its fourth season this week, and the season went out with a bang. Now, the show's creator and showrunner has provided a peek behind the curtain of how the most climatic part of the finale was created, and it's getting people talking about the possibility of a video game based on The Boys. Major spoilers follow below.Eric Kripke revealed that the team works with Cncpt Studio to create detailed CG pre-visualizations for major scenes prior to filming, and this was the case for the season finale. Creating a pre-vis sequence like this can help the team decide on camera positions, lens, and coverage, Kripke said, all without having actors rehearse in person. Peter Jackson famously used pre-vis animatics to plan out some of its biggest and most complicated scenes as well. Many Hollywood productions do this.For the season finale of The Boys, Kripke enlisted Cncpt's help for the pivotal sequence where Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) launches tentacles out of his chest and uses them to rip the would-be president Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) in half. Cncpt's pre-vis of this sequence is pretty impressive in its own right, featuring all the main characters and their movements from the scene in pretty solid detail.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com