Adult Swim has greenlit and will be producing three new movies based on its original hit series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, and The Venture Bros. According to a release, the movies will be released globally on Blu-ray and DVD and on TVOD (transactional video on demand) services for a 90-day exclusive window, followed by premieres on HBO Max and Adult Swim. No release dates for any of the films have been announced."Leveraging the power of WarnerMedia allows us to deliver original content to our amazingly dedicated and not-shy fans, while also giving our talented series creators an opportunity to tell stories in new and interesting ways," said Michael Ouweleen, president of Adult Swim.The fact that each of these series is coming back in any form is both incredibly exciting and unexpected--but the biggest shock may go to The Venture Bros., which was canceled last September. The long-running series had Season 7 air in 2018, which unceremoniously ended a run that began with the pilot episode's release in 2003. It had been a couple more years since anything was last heard about either Aqua Teen Hunger Force or Metalocalypse, which were both canceled in 2015.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It turns out that Mass Effect 3's online multiplayer experience could make some kind of return in the future, according to Mass Effect: Legendary Edition's project director.In an interview with GameSpot sister site CNET, project director Mac Walters was asked if the still-active Mass Effect 3 online multiplayer offering would come back in some capacity. Walters didn't deliver a straight answer but said it depends on the reception the Legendary Edition receives and if there's a demand for multiplayer."I would never say no to that," Walters said. "We want to see what kind of reception the Legendary Edition gets and what the demand for the multiplayer is. And then we'll ask ourselves if we have the resources and time to bring it up to the quality level we and fans want."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amazon is reportedly spending $465 million to produce the first season of its Lord of the Rings TV show, making it one of the most expensive TV shows in history. Even if the figure is not that high, as some have suggested, Amazon is undoubtedly paying a lot of money to produce the show. Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke has now spoken about the huge price tag, saying--perhaps jokingly to an extent--that the show needs to attract "a lot" of viewers for the investment to be worth it.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter (via Collider), Salke said the entertainment market these days is "crazy." She cited Netflix's recent move to pay $469 million for the two Knives Out sequels as an example of this. For Amazon's Lord of the Rings show, Salke said Amazon's investment covers a "full season of a huge world-building show," which incurs a major cost.Salke said the $465 million budget for The Lord of the Rings season one makes for a good headline for people to latch onto, but she reminded people that this money is being spent to "sustain the whole series."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has acknowledged the PlayStation 5's continued absence from store shelves, laying out his plans to fix the shortage as the year progresses.In an interview with Wired about the new console--which has sold 7.8 million units since March 31 despite the shortage--Ryan spoke about the steps being taken to mitigate the shortfall. "We’re working as hard as we can to ameliorate that situation," Ryan says. "We see production ramping up over the summer and certainly into the second half of the year, and we would hope to see some sort of return to normality in terms of the balance between supply and demand during that period."The lack of PlayStation 5s on the market has not hurt the console's performance when compared to its predecessor, however. The Wired article mentions that according to Sony, from the November launch to the end of March, PS5 owners have spent 81 percent more time on the console than early PS4 owners did during its first months on the market in 2013-2014. Sony also notes an 11 percent rise in software sales between the PS5 and PS4 in that same period of time.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Singer Janelle Monáe (Homecoming) has joined the excitingly and suddenly growing cast of Knives Out 2, which now appears to be in full force ramping up pre-production. The addition was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, but little is still known about what roles the ensemble will all be taking on or the movie's plot.In addition to Monáe, Dave Bautista (Army of the Dead) and Edward Norton (Fight Club) are among the earliest of what's expected to be many casting announcements, based on the 2019 movie that kicked off the new franchise. Knives Out 2 currently has no set release date, but is expected to begin production in Greece sometime this summer.Like the first installment, the movie will see Daniel Craig play master detective Benoit Blanc--with an inexplicable southern accent--solving a mystery where there's a large pool of potential suspects. The original Knives Out starred Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer, Michael Shannon, and Toni Collette.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

More teasers arrive for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's upcoming mid-season update on May 20. Today, Treyarch teased an image for Zombies, which likely hints at the long-awaited Easter egg for the Outbreak mode.There's not a lot to discover from the image, which is the blueprint of some sort of device, but Treyarch captioned it with, "The hunt begins May 20."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With so much unfolding in Season 3 of Mayans MC on FX, there's still one big piece of the puzzle that's yet to be revealed. While the Mayans are at war and EZ (JD Pardo) has decided to give in to the darker aspects of his life, there's still a massive question mark hanging over the relationship between Miguel (Danny Pino) and Felipe (Edward James Olmos).Warning: The following contains spoilers for Season 3 of Mayans MC. If you haven't finished the latest batch of episodes, head over to FX on Hulu and do that right now.After it was revealed in Season 2 that Miguel was the son of Felipe, it seemed like only a matter of time before that particular ticking time bomb exploded. However, the issue continued to simmer in Season 3, even through one of the strongest scenes of the season, which saw the two of them having a heart-to-heart about Miguel's mother. Ultimately, though, the cartel boss remained completely unaware of who his actual father is. He will find out eventually, though.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fall Guys Season 4.5 update is coming on May 13, and it adds two new rounds, improved custom games support, crossplay, and plenty of bug fixes. Christened "Dave" for some reason, the update also stomps a lot of bugs that have cropped up recently. The full patch notes are below, so check it out.The main additions that the Season 4.5 update brings to the table are two new rounds. One is the Slimescraper, which is the sequel to Slime Climb, and the other is Button Bashers, which splits players into pairs that must duel it out to see who can mash buttons better. The patch will also bring 55 new variations to the game's many modes across 12 rounds, so if you're a bit bored of the current offerings, that'll hopefully change it up for you.🚨 Season 4.5 (Dave) is coming out tomorrow 🚨🔥 Here's a BIG LIST of patch notes 🔥To start with... we have 2 new rounds!- The Slimescraper (A sequel to Slimb Climb) 👀- Button Bashers (Players are split into 1v1 duelling pairs. Best beans go through) 👀 pic.twitter.com/j044J0Elli — Fall Guys 🤖 Season 4 🤖 (@FallGuysGame) May 12, 2021The patch also introduces crossplay for PC and PS4 players. Though PC and PS4 players can matchmake together in all game modes, cross-platform parties are still not a thing, though the developers are hoping to make that happen soon. In addition to crossplay, the update improves the custom lobby feature, opening it to everyone, with support for as few as four players. PC and PS4 players can also play together in these custom games.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Oregon Trail has been a staple in the classroom for decades, and a new mobile version has updated the game's representation of Native Americans.Gameloft Brisbane, the team behind the new version of Oregon Trail that hit Apple Arcade in April, spoke to NPR about some of the changes made to bring the educational computer game up to more modern expectations of Native American representation. Creative director Jarrad Trudgen said the team wanted to weed out historical inaccuracies and other cliches about Native American culture.To do this, Trudgen brought in three indigenous historians to consult on various aspects of the game, including the music, naming conventions, speech patterns, and more. One aspect that was addressed in the game was the use of bows and arrows for Native peoples, which can carry stereotypes for being seen as primitive. While Trudgen wanted to use bows and arrows, University of Nebraska historian Margaret Huettl informed the Gameloft team that Indigenous Americans of the time would have also used modern tools--such as rifles and metals--for crafting and hunting.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sony has kicked off a new pair of game sales on PS4 and PS5 right now. The Extended Play sale runs until May 26 and includes over 400 deals on games and DLC, with games like Celeste to Destiny 2 up for grabs. The second sale is a great option for budget-minded players--the Games Under $15 sale brings a selection of older PlayStation games, such as Infamous: Second Son, down to just $15 or less. That sale runs for an extra day, ending on May 27.Even if you already own one of the games on sale, you may be able to snag its DLC for cheap. Both the Extended Play and Games Under $15 sales feature various expansions and DLC at a discount. This includes season passes for titles like Dragon Ball FighterZ and Mortal Kombat 11.The Deal of the Week on PlayStation is an excellent one, featuring Tarsier Studios' Little Nightmare 2. Until May 19, the critically acclaimed puzzle-platformer is $24. Those looking for the Deluxe Edition, which features The Nome's Attic DLC and more in-game goodies, costs $30. Both of these include the PS4 and PS5 versions of the game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Insomniac boasted that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart would have loads of accessibility options, and now the developers have started to detail just how extensive the options will be in the final game. One feature we learned from our recent preview was the tool that will let you slow down gameplay at will, and the studio says it won't penalize players for using it by disabling Trophies.From what we learned during our recent preview of the game, you'll be able to map the slowdown mechanic to the D-pad, and then hit it anytime during play. The studio said this is intended to help anyone who needs a hand with the game's "dexterity challenges." An Insomniac representative later confirmed to GameSpot that using it and other accessibility options won't disable trophies.Insomniac hasn't outlined the full array of accessibility options, but promises more details soon. The studio previously provided only a quick glimpse of its accessibility menu during a recent State of Play presentation.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you need some new gear for your PC and you like Razer products, now's a good time to check out Best Buy. The retailer has a pretty nice deal going on Razer peripherals that'll net you 20% off if you buy two and 25% off if you buy three. Razer Bundle Offer The promotion applies to Best Buy's range of Razer PC gaming accessories, which includes headphones, keyboards, mice, and mouse pads. That means no laptops or controllers, but what's on sale is still pretty extensive. If you're into RGB gear, there are plenty of RGB keyboards and mice featured in the sale. That includes the DeathAdder V2 Pro gaming mouse, one of GameSpot's picks for best gaming mouse, and the Huntsman Elite gaming keyboard. See eligible products at Best Buy If you're more interested in headphones, check out the BlackShark V2 Pro, a very comfortable wireless headset with great battery life. And, finally, if you're in the market for a massive mouse pad, take a look at the Gigantus V2 3XL. There's no word yet on when the deal will expire, so you might want to check it out soon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

William Chyr Studio has announced that Manifold Garden will release on PlayStation 5 on May 20. This version will include PS5-specific features such as 4K graphics support, 60fps frame rate, DualSense wireless controller haptic support, and Game Help. Players who own the PS4 version already will receive a free upgrade to the PS5 one.Additionally, physical editions of Manifold Garden for PS5 and Nintendo Switch have been revealed. iam8bit will be distributing both versions on its website. They come with intricately detailed pop-up display art and a reversible cover art by Sasha E Head. The game is region free too with worldwide compatibility for all regional versions of the respective hardware. See Manifold Garden at iam8bit Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The original Xbox animation, with all of its neon-green-and-black vibes, has returned to the Xbox Series X|S. It's now been added to the current generation of Xbox consoles as a dynamic background.The new dynamic background is a much higher-resolution version of the laser-green orb, and it's a free addition as part of the latest Xbox system update. Of course, the original Xbox interface doesn't come over--no surprise changes to the Xbox Series X|S dashboard--but it's nonetheless a nice gesture to Xbox nostalgia from Microsoft. Let's hope that one day Microsoft will let us relive the glory days of the original Xbox's lava lamp startup animation, as well. You can see video of the dynamic background in action in the embed below, via The Verge.Xbox insiders can now access the original Xbox dashboard animation as a dynamic background called "The Original" pic.twitter.com/Nvh6D8iw2X — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 11, 2021In addition to this surprise dynamic background and the Motes dynamic background, the latest Xbox Series X|S update brought a number of welcome changes to the Xbox Series X|S user experience. Most notably, it addresses user complaints about the performance of the Quick Resume feature. Following the update, Quick Resume should be, well, quicker and more reliable.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The best PS4 racing games span numerous sub-genres, from simulation and arcade to cart racers and extreme sports. Whether you're a car enthusiast who wants to tinker with the smallest of details to perfect your style of racing or you simply want to drive fast (and maybe get into some exciting crashes), there's a wide range of racing games on PS4 that are well worth checking out. While all of the racing games on this list are for PS4, you can play them on PS5 too thanks to backwards compatibility. Note that our picks for the best PS4 racing games are listed in alphabetical order, not ranked.For more PlayStation game suggestions, make sure to take a look at our roundups of the best PS4 games, best PS5 games so far, and best split-screen PS4 games. We also have lists dedicated to other platforms, including best Xbox One games, best Xbox Series X games so far, best Nintendo Switch games, and best PC games to play in 2021. Absolute Drift Absolute Drift is more about precision than speed. As the name suggests, the goal here is to master the art of drifting through more than 30 levels scattered across five differentiated areas. Played from a top-down perspective with minimalistic visuals, Absolute Drift is mechanically sound and quite relaxing. The electronic music that plays in the background adds to the zen-like experience that Absolute Drift offers. If you're looking for a more mellow racing game to chill out with, Absolute Drift is a great choice. See on PlayStation Store Burnout Paradise Remastered With heaps of spectacular crashes, ridiculous stunts, and a wide assortment of exciting game modes, the Burnout series is one of the best arcade racing franchises ever made. While it's been more than a decade since a new mainline Burnout game released, Burnout Paradise Remastered still plays like a dream. The open-world racing game received updated visuals and performance on PS4, and it comes with all of the game's post-launch DLC. Whether you're playing solo or online with friends, Burnout Paradise Remastered offers a constantly invigorating racing experience. There's plenty of varied objectives to tackle in Burnout Paradise Remastered, but you can also make your own fun and see what kind of havoc you can create. See at Best Buy Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled blends nostalgia with modernity to create a sound cart racer that will make you at least a little less sad that Mario Kart isn't on PlayStation. While it's a remaster of the original game, it also pulls from other entries in the series while adding modern flourishes and new content to keep the experience fresh. Crash Team Racing has some of the best track designs in the cart racing sub-genre, and it makes great use of these across its single-player adventure and various competitive multiplayer modes. This is a racing game that's great for both adults looking to relive their childhoods and kids who are zipping onto the track for the first time.See our Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled review. See at Amazon Descenders Endlessly exhilarating, Descenders is a mountain biking game with an emphasis on speed and stunts. With tight controls and a wonderfully designed physics system, Descenders' moment-to-moment action is top-notch. Where Descenders truly stands out, though, is in its world design. Randomly generated worlds aren't common at all in the racing genre, and Descenders uses this feature to take it to big heights. From forests and barren wastelands to human-made tracks and more, Descenders' environments come to life (and blur by you in an instant) each time you start your descent. Descenders has tremendous replay value thanks to the randomly generated worlds, and thankfully the loop never tires. See at Amazon Dirt 5 Dirt 5 brought the series back to its pure arcade roots, offering a racing experience that's casual enough for newcomers to dive in and enjoy while also retaining enough depth to keep things interesting for the long haul. It has a cool dynamic weather system that actively changes how you have to approach each race and an excellent mix of tracks to burn rubber on throughout its lengthy career mode. You can also create your own tracks in the new Playgrounds mode, which is a cool inclusion that adds to the level of variety available in Dirt 5. If you like speeding around in fast cars but don't want to get into the nitty gritty details of vehicle performance, Dirt 5 lets you hit the ground running and never lets up from its enthusiastic and friendly tone.See our Dirt 5 review. See at Walmart Dirt Rally 2.0 If you're looking for a rally racing sim that aims for realism, look no further than Dirt Rally 2.0. It's essentially the opposite experience of Dirt 5. Made for rally enthusiasts, this off-road racer has a unique handling system that mimics the unexpected conditions you'd find while moving at blazing speeds across bumpy terrain. With a huge variety of rally cars and great customization features, gearheads can fine-tune their rides to fit their preferred play style. Dirt Rally 2.0 uses the FIA World Rallycross championship as its foundation, offering eight official circuits as well as tracks across numerous continents. See at Amazon F1 2020 F1 2020 offers the most authentic Formula One experience in the series to date, mainly because of its new mode dubbed My Team. Just like the real deal, My Team lets you create and manage a Formula One team from the ground up, giving you total control over everything from your team colors to training facilities and so much more. F1 2020 doesn't abandon its traditional career mode; it exists separately, giving players a lavish amount of solo content to choose from. And if you're interested in racing with friends, F1 2020 brings back split-screen racing to go alongside the online multiplayer mode. Though designed with realism in mind, F1 2020 has a great casual driving mode that makes it a stellar Formula One game for beginners as well. See at GameStop Gran Turismo Sport Though Gran Turismo Sport felt limited on content at launch, it has expanded significantly over the years to offer a more well-rounded Gran Turismo experience. While it's still not a full-fledged mainline game, GT Sport packs enough content under the hood to keep you playing until Gran Turismo 7 finally launches. Gran Turismo Sport is almost solely focused on competitive online races, with rotating competitions available all the time. It still looks and handles like a Gran Turismo racing sim, which is to say it's superb. With over 300 cars and 80 tracks, GT Sport offers a ton of variety. And if you're not much of a competitive racer, a more traditional single-player campaign is available as well. Still, this is a racing sim that largely focuses on competition. If you want to test your skills, GT Sport is as refined and compelling as racing sims get.See our Gran Turismo Sport review. See at Amazon Horizon Chase Turbo Inspired by old-school arcade racers and console games like Out Run and Top Gear, Horizon Chase Turbo is fueled by nostalgia. What you see is what you get here. Colorful but rudimentary visuals yank you back to the arcade, and the emphasis on pure speed with whippy handling makes Horizon Chase Turbo feel authentic. 3D car models racing against 16-bit backdrops gives it a unique look that is shown off brilliantly across the game's more than 100 tracks. While you can enjoy the various cup series solo, Horizon Chase Turbo really hits its stride when playing split-screen multiplayer with three friends or trying to beat your buddy's best time on a tricky track. See on PlayStation Store MotoGP 21 MotoGP 2021 is the latest game in the long-running bike racing series. If you've played recent entries in the franchise, MotoGP 2021 doesn't do much to move the needle, but it's still your best bet if you prefer two-wheel racing over four wheels. A robust campaign mode lets you either create your own team or join a real-life MotoGP squad. For longtime fans, MotoGP 2021 is a treat, as it features 120-plus riders. The track list is relatively small, but each one is intricately designed and the moment-to-moment racing offers a superb challenge that encourages you to really get to know your bike, the tracks, and your competitors. See on PlayStation Store Need for Speed Heat Need for Speed Heat is mostly a return to form for a series that had been falling into mediocrity for years. Like many games in the franchise, Need for Speed Heat has its own unique hook. As a street racer, you compete during official competitions when the sun is up. Once the sun sets, things get much more risky. You can compete in illegal street races and try to avoid less than savory cops who don't just want to bust you--they want to steal from you by any means necessary. Heat also has a well-implemented drift system that feels more realistic than the simplistic overall car handling, which adds another layer to races. Great customization features help you optimize your rides to your liking, too. Heat is at its best during the thrill of the chase, and luckily, there's plenty of that here.See our Need for Speed Heat review. See at Best Buy Project Cars 2 Project Cars 2 is a grueling racing sim designed for enthusiasts who prefer realism over fast-paced action. The handling system was influenced by input from real race car drivers, which makes it quite demanding. While playing with a controller is serviceable, Project Cars 2 really hits its stride when playing with a racing wheel. In terms of authentic feel, you'd be hard-pressed to find a racing game that tops Project Cars 2 when driving with a wheel. The level of realism extends to the 24-hour day cycles and dynamic weather and surface conditions, which are unparalleled in the genre. Project Cars 2 is chock-full of intricately designed tracks and more than 180 rides, ranging from sports cars to IndyCars to rallycross.See our Project Cars 2 review. See at Amazon Team Sonic Racing Team Sonic Racing is Sega's answer to Mario Kart, and while it doesn't have the depth and polish of the Mario Kart franchise, it is still a ton of fun. Team Sonic Racing has a solid foundation thanks to great cart controls that are responsive and easy to grasp and a wide range of cool tracks filled with Sonic trappings. With three different classes of drivers that have their own unique racing styles and an emphasis on playing as a unit, Team Sonic Racing adds its own flavor to the cart racing genre.See our Team Sonic Racing review. See at Walmart The Crew 2 The Crew 2 is one of the weirdest racing games on this list, purely because it never really decides what it wants to be. In this case, that's a good thing. The Crew 2 is a consistently surprising open-world game that features cars of all types, boats, planes, and motorcycles--all of which you can cycle through instantly. Fly off a bridge in a car and land in a boat. Soar past skyscrapers in a jet and switch to a muscle car that plummets out of the sky. The Crew 2 gives you free reign over how you approach its rather wild premise. The open-world map, which is a scaled version of the United States, is gorgeous to explore. The many dedicated races and objectives help show off The Crew 2's myriad of approaches from getting from point A to point B.See our The Crew 2 review. See at GameStop Trackmania Turbo Trackmania Turbo is different from most of the games on this list. Rather than beating your opponents on the track, your goal is to beat the track itself. The campaign has more than 200 courses scattered throughout four unique environments. Each time you start your engine, it's a race against the clock in an effort to beat the best time. This is pure arcade racing across some seriously zany tracks, each of which tests your skills and teaches you something new about how to approach the objective at hand. Trackmania Turbo also has a cool track creator that lets you make your courses or randomly generate tracks that can be uploaded to the servers for others to play.See our Trackmania Turbo review. See at GameStop Trials Fusion Trials Fusion is an always compelling and often hilarious physics-based motorcycle game filled with absurd tracks that keep the action interesting throughout. While you can play local multiplayer races with up to four players, Trials Fusion is primarily a game about besting times and scores, whether that be preset track times or your friends' best scores. Trials Fusion could be aptly described as "touchy," because it's easy to get greedy and wipe out. It doesn't try to be realistic, but the adherence to this wacky physics system is ultimately what makes Trials Fusion so fun to play. Despite the fact you're maneuvering across a 2D plane, Trials Fusion has plenty of depth and rewards those who stick around to really master the physics and the elaborately designed tracks. While there's a steep learning curve, you can make your own tracks using a robust course creator.See our Trials Fusion review. See at GameStop Wipeout Omega Collection Though it's unclear if we'll ever get a new Wipeout game, PlayStation users can still enjoy some of the best the series has to offer in the Wipeout Omega Collection. The compilation contains three anti-gravity racers: Wipeout HD, Wipeout HD Fury, and Wipeout 2048. All three games show a different side of Wipeout, which helps them complement each other in fun ways. Wipeout HD, of course, is classic anti-gravity racing on futuristic tracks. For a more action-packed experience, Wipeout HD Fury injects more combat into the mix. Meanwhile, Wipeout 2048 is a prequel taking place before the technologically advanced tracks were developed, which means you're racing across natural environments. The three experiences add up to create a special collection that is a whole lot of fun whether you're playing solo or against friends.See our Wipeout Omega Collection review. See at GameStop Wreckfest A spiritual successor to the popular FlatOut series, Wreckfest is a demolition derby game oozing with style. As the name suggests, there's a lot of collisions and pileups in Wreckfest. The physics and crash systems are top-notch, offering exhilarating spectacles of carnage. Between Wreckfest's traditional races and demolition derby crash fests, there's a ton of differentiated content to enjoy. Each vehicle in Wreckfest has a different handling system and general feel, and you can also use an in-depth customization system to fundamentally change how your vehicles perform. Wreckfest's PS5 update releases in June, but PlayStation Plus subscribers can grab the game's upgraded version for free already this month.See our Wreckfest review. See at Amazon Info from Gamespot.com