Crash Bandicoot's 25th-anniversary celebrations have officially kicked off, with Activision marking the occasion with a special Crashiversary bundle of the latest games and a teaser for the future of the franchise.Toys for Bob studio heads Paul Yan and Avery Lodato began the festivities with a video highlight reel of the original Crash Bandicoot games, the N. Sane Trilogy remake, Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. Right at the end of the video, Lodato dropped another hint that more Crash content is on the horizon."Happy 25th anniversary, Crash, we'll see more of you very soon," Lodato said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit against Disney over Black Widow has been one of the most talked-about events in recent months, and now another MCU actor has weighed in. Doctor Strange actor Benedict Cumberbatch said in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter that he thinks it's "sad what's going on between the lawyers." He specifically took issue with how the lawsuit has been wrapped up in the context of the pandemic."Just the verbiage and the accusations of, 'Put it in a global pandemic context.' The whole thing's just a bit of a mess," he said.Cumberbatch said the shift to simultaneous releases in theaters and on Disney+ With Premier Access is a "new paradigm." He said it will take time to get to a place where artists can be paid fairly even if a movie's box office numbers are lower than in pre-pandemic times.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The history of poker is nebulous. Nobody seems to know exactly when the game started being played in America, but what isn't in question is the rapid ascent of poker that has seen it become one of the most popular card games, whether you're gambling with real money or fake chips. Nowadays you can find a game, in person or online, anywhere, with a vast variety of different skill levels and stakes.If you want to become a high-level poker player, The Ultimate Poker Pro Blueprint Mastery Bundle from Alton Hardin is a great choice. Valued at $2,200, it's on sale now for just $21.Featuring classes inspired by Amazon's #1 bestselling poker book and led by a pro poker coach, this bundle deals with the essentials of poker all the way up to the tiniest details that will give you an edge over your opponents. Plus, you'll learn about the different types of games you'll be playing as you make further progress as a player, such as Zoom games, micro-stake multi-table tournaments, and 30nl cash games. With 11 different mastery courses included, you can take serious strides toward becoming a positive cash flow poker player, and maybe one day reaching a professional level. While you may not get to the level of Daniel Negreanu, you'll be able to improve your skills.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

GameStop has laid out its future ambitions, and it's not all about selling video games. The retailer said as part of its latest earnings release that it is taking steps to evolve to become a more general technology company. This won't come as much of a surprise to anyone who has been to a GameStop store or visited the retailer's website in the past few years, as the physical and virtual shelves are populated by plenty of non-gaming items like Funko Pops, clothing, general merchandise, electronics, and other products not strictly tied to gaming.Still, GameStop is now putting it in writing that it no longer wants to position itself as a video game company first and foremost."GameStop has two long-term goals: delighting customers and delivering value for stockholders. We are evolving from a video game retailer to a technology company that connects customers with games, entertainment and a wide assortment of products," the retailer said in a filing with the SEC (via Yahoo! Finance). "We are focused on offering vast product selection, competitive pricing and fast shipping--supported by high-touch customer service and a frictionless ecommerce and in-store experience."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Anyone who's been playing Destiny 2 for a while has likely managed to build up a sizable arsenal of Exotic weapons to replace the gear that was lost when Dominus Ghaul attacked the Tower, way back during the Red War campaign in the game's vanilla release. But for veterans of Destiny, no shiny laser rifle or fast-firing scout rifle can replace a certain Gjallarhorn-shaped void in their emotional inventory. It's one that happens to be shaped like a rocket launcher that's capable of tearing through entire armies of anything unlucky enough to be in your way.As part of Bungie's 30th-anniversary celebration, the developer announced that it's bringing back the Exotic weapon of mass destruction in a new dungeon inspired by the original Destiny's infamous loot cave. The dungeon will provide players a new challenge with the ultimate reward being the return of a Destiny 1 favorite.Here's why Gjallarhorn's entry inside of Destiny 2 is such a big deal.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Activision's Call of Duty series is among the biggest, most popular, and best-known gaming franchises of all time. The franchise has dominated the sales charts in recent years, and this is expected to continue when Sledgehammer's Call of Duty: Vanguard releases this November amid an ongoing lawsuit against parent company Activision Blizzard. With the new game's release coming up in just a couple of months, we're looking back at the shooter series and ranking the top 10 best Call of Duty games. With Activision releasing a new game every year since 2003 (with the exception of 2004), we're only calling out the top 10 games we believe are the best and not ranking the entire series overall. With that caveat out of the way, let's dive in.10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 32011's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is perhaps best known for what happened behind the scenes to bring the game to market. In the middle of the game's development, Activision fired Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella for insubordination. A team of developers left with West and Zampella (who would go on to establish Respawn Entertainment and create the much-loved Titanfall series), and Activision had to find another way to finish the game and launch it on time--and it turned to Sledgehammer to co-develop and finish the game. This proved to be an especially notable move because Sledgehammer at the time was working on a more experimental third-person Call of Duty game set in the Vietnam War. The game has never seen the light of day, and Activision has never made a third-person Call of Duty game aside from a limited multiplayer mode.As for Modern Warfare 3 itself, the game was received positively by critics and fans alike and went on to sell many millions of copies, despite the behind-the-scenes drama. The game is remembered for its gripping campaign that continued the popular Modern Warfare storyline of members of Task Force 141 and also for its Horde-style Survival mode and for its integration with the since-shuttered Call of Duty: Elite stat-tracking and social app.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Though it's a live-service game with an increasing number of game modes, Fortnite is also largely a fashion show where players show off their best Fortnite skins in every lobby, match, and mode. It's the community's zealous buying habits that fund its continued development, after all, but thankfully Epic has gone to great lengths to bring creative original characters and licensed crossover characters together in the Item Shop.These days, the total number of Fortnite skins has surpassed 1,000, and increasingly that includes licensed superheroes, singers, streamers, and other fictional characters and real-life celebrities. It's tough to narrow a list of 1,000 characters across several years down to just a few, but we've tried to be discerning and really only save space for our favorites. Some are elaborate, others are rare, others are just awesome fan service. Here are our picks for the best Fortnite skins.Toon MeowsclesMeowscles starred in his very own cartoon, Toona Trouble.Meowscles is an already awesome workout warrior cat created by Fortnite fan artist RexSadio. After acquiring the character from Rex, Epic has since reimagined him into a Golden Age cartoon character a la Steamboat Willy. The distinctive black-and-white cartoonish look pops off the screen whenever you see him flexing in the pre-match lobby, and he even includes his own built-in emote with an original Fortnite hip hop song.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Ubisoft has announced the DLC roadmap for Far Cry 6's post-launch content, and it includes crossover missions featuring Rambo, Stranger Things, and the actor Danny Trejo.The missions are part of the free updates coming to Far Cry 6 at some point after launch. Playable solo or in co-op with two players, the DLC includes the crossover missions featuring the characters above, as well as weekly "insurgency" missions and events called operations.The Insurgencies, as they're called, take place each week after launch on October 7, and they will stay playable even when a new one arrives. The Insurgencies involve players tracking down Anton Castillo's underlings to earn new gear.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

WarnerMedia Kids and Family along with DC released the first trailer for Aquaman: King of Atlantis. The new animated three part mini-series shows a complete reimagining of Aquaman, Mera, and his royal court of characters as they retell Aquaman's first adventures as King of Atlantis.If the animated style looks familiar, it's because Victor Courtright and Marly Halpern-Graser from ThunderCats Roar! will be showrunners and co-executive producers. Aquaman: King of Atlants will also be executive produced by Aquaman director James Wan, Atomic Monster's Michael Clear, Rob Hackett, and Sam Register, who worked on Swamp Thing and Teen Titans, Go!, respectively.The voice cast includes Cooper Andrews (The Walking Dead) as Aquaman, Gillian Jacobs (Community) as Mera, Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) as Vulko, and Dana Snyder (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) as Ocean Master, Aquaman's half-brother.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Apple and Epic Games have been locked in legal proceedings ever since the iPhone maker removed Fortnite from the App Store over a year ago. Today, September 10, the judge in the trial has handed down a permanent injunction in Epic's favor in some respects, mandating that Apple must allow app developers to source income from outside of the App Store ecosystem.Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers concluded in the ruling that the court could not prove that Apple was engaging in monopolistic behavior under federal or state anti-trust laws, but that "the trial did show that Apple is engaging in anti-competitive conduct under California’s competition laws." This was the only count that the court sided with Epic Games on, with Apple winning all other nine counts."The Court does not find that Apple is an antitrust monopolist in the submarket for mobile gaming transactions," the ruling reads. "However, it does find that Apple’s conduct in enforcing anti-steering restrictions is anticompetitive. A remedy to eliminate those provisions is appropriate. This measured remedy will increase competition, increase transparency, increase consumer choice and information while preserving Apple’s iOS ecosystem which has procompetitive justifications. Moreover, it does not require the Court to micromanage business operations which courts are not well-suited to do as the Supreme Court has appropriately recognized."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty Season 5 Reloaded has arrived to Black Ops Cold War, and the mid-season update includes plenty of new Zombies content, with one major highlight being a rewarding new world event in Outbreak. The Black Chest event is a tough challenge to complete, but our guide will help you understand how to complete this challenge, earning powerful rewards for those high rounds of Outbreak.The Black Chest world event is definitely one of the most interesting additions to Outbreak's arsenal of world events. Interacting with the Black Chest and completing the event will, as Treyarch describes it, "form a pact with a spirit that will be summoned against enemies when you’re low on health."Here are the details of these new Black Chests, and how to complete this world event.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

This October, Pokemon Go is getting into the Halloween spirit with its monthly community day. Starting on October 9, from 11 AM local time to 5 PM local time, the community day will feature Duskull, the adorable skull-faced wisp Pokemon. During that timeframe, Pokemon Go players will be able to find more Duskull out in the wild and pick up some bonus items and rewards.October's Pokemon Go community day will be filled with timed events for players to take part in. By completing Timed Research on October 9, players will earn up to four free Sinnoh Stones that can be used to evolve their Duskull. Players who manage to evolved Duskull all the way into Dusknoir, the Pokemon's third and final evolution, will receive a version of the pokemon that knows the Charged Attack Shadow Ball.DuskullPlayers can also purchase the community-day exclusive Special Research story, Nothin' Dull About Duskull for $1 or their currency's equivalent.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

This year marks the 35th anniversary of one of gaming's greatest exploits, the Konami Code. Originally introduced in 1986's Gradius, the classic up, up, down, down, and several other button presses would give players a helping hand in that challenging game, and Konami plans to celebrate the occasion with a history lesson and some new merchandise.Konami launched a website that features information about the retro game series Arcade Archives, shows off new anniversary merchandise, and includes lofi arrangements of retro Konami game tracks by artists DJ Tokyo Machine and DJ No.2. There's also plenty of merch, as the site is stocked with t-shirts, mugs, and more gear that is emblazoned with the iconic cheat code inputs.They probably won't give you 30 extra lives if you wear them though.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Taking the legal route against hate speech on the platform, Twitch is suing two individuals who have allegedly participated in creating and facilitating hate raids against multiple creators.Twitch has always suffered from toxic chats--namely, comments that attack marginalized creators based on their race, gender, or sexuality--but recently, such activity intensified into "hate raids." Perpetrators of hate raids often use bots to overwhelm the chat with harmful language, usually at a rate that exceeds the streamers' ability to moderate the chat.Twitch acknowledged the hate raid problem--in conjunction with campaigns by Twitch streamers that asked for the company to do more about hate raids--and promised that it was looking for solutions. Now in a lawsuit filed on September 9, Twitch named Cruzzcontrol and Creatineoverdose as two individuals who created bots and launched multiple hate raids against racial minorities and LGBTQ+ community members.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The September Pokemon Go Community Day is almost here. This month's event, set to take place on Sunday, September 19, features the fifth generation starting water-type Pokemon Oshawott. As such, players will be able to find more of this Pokemon around and get some bonuses for focusing all of their attention on a lucky Oshawott in their party. Here's everything you need to know about Pokemon Go's September 2021 Community Day.September 2021 Featured Pokemon: OshawottOshawottPlayers can look forward to finding more Oshawott around their neighborhoods and malls during this month's community day, but catching one is just the start of what players can earn. Evolving the Pokemon, which can be attracted to Rainy Lure Modules, to Samurott will earn players a version of the Pokemon that knows the Charged Attack Hydro Cannon. Samurotts will also be able to learn the Charged Attack Razor Shell starting September 19.Along with some new moves, players can also earn Oshawott-inspired stickers during September's community Day, either by spinning PokeStops, opening Gifts, or by purchasing them from the in-game shop. The shop will also have an exclusive Special Research Story, From Scalchops to Seamitars, available to purchase for $1 or your currency's equivalent.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com