Movies Anywhere, the cloud-based "digital locker" and streaming platform operated by Disney, is now available for Samsung TVs according to a release. Effective immediately, consumers can download the software on any Samsung TV released since 2017. This move by Samsung finds the electronics manufacturer following in the footsteps of LG, which was the first to roll out the app in March of 2020.Movies Anywhere works with platforms like Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, Google Play, and Vudu. As of this writing, there are more than 8,000 movies in the app's catalog from major studios like Disney, Warner Bros., and Universal."Developed to be a movie lover's perfect companion," Movies Anywhere is geared towards collectors who have embraced streaming over maintaining an exclusively physical library. The app also offers features such as "Screen Pass," which lets you lend purchases to friends for up to 72 hours, and "Watch Together," which allows up to eight people to share a watch party and chat room.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's now 2021, and in these glorious days of ray tracing and DLSS technology and such, it's relatively easy for the average gamer to build a rig, grab a 4K display, and be on their merry way. But more pixels isn't necessarily the winning move when thinking about what to look for in a gaming monitor, and all the graphical horsepower in the world doesn't mean much if you can't display it in its full glory. There's an entire alphabet soup of monitor technologies to consider when choosing the display that's going to be your new best friend going forward, and prettiest or more advanced doesn't always mean best for your experience or your wallet. If you're looking to buy a new monitor in 2021, here's what you should know about monitor technologies in order to find the best display for you.Screen resolutions and sizesScreen resolution is perhaps the most obvious feature of any monitor panel, and it's likely the first setting many PC gamers go running to as soon as they start a new game. A monitor's screen resolution represents the number of horizontal pixels x the number of vertical pixels they display. Now, as most PC gamers know, PC games support a slew of potential resolutions ranging from 640x480--i.e. your average, ancient CRT monitor, and probably what you played Oregon Trail on in grade school--all the way up to 8K (7680x4320)--which will probably be awesome when there's more than just random nature documentaries on YouTube running it natively. Despite the wild list that comes up when starting a new PC title, though, there are four benchmark resolutions you're most likely to see when choosing a gaming monitor:Common screen resolutionsPixels720p1280x7201080p1920x10801440p2560x14404K3840x2160These screen resolutions perfectly conform to the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio that the vast majority of monitor panels are manufactured under and that the vast majority of modern video content--gaming or otherwise--is formatted with. Even among these resolutions, there are some considerations to make. 720p monitors aren't long for this world, but those displays are definitely still out there. For one, they're relatively cheap, and more than that, for folks running super low-spec PC rigs, 720p is a perfectly viable step down to give your CPU/GPU some breathing room while still producing a high-definition image. On the opposite end, 4K resolution is the current gold standard--for now--but running a game at 4K requires a lot of horsepower, and not all 4K monitor technologies are up to the task. Right in the middle is 1080p, which is currently the most common resolution for desktops and laptops the world over.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As part of Sucker Punch's announcement of the Ghost of Tsushima movie from John Wick's Chad Stahelski, the studio also revealed a new sales figure and more for the game. In a blog post, game director Nate Fox revealed that the PS4 exclusive that also plays on PS5 through backwards compatibility has sold 6.5 million copies.Ghost of Tsushima being a success story for sales is no surprise, as the game eclipsed all others from Sony's first-party studios to become the fastest-selling new IP history on PS4. As of November 2020, the game had sold 5 million copies.That's a huge number and makes it quickly one of Sony's best-selling exclusives of the past generation. For comparison, PS4 games God of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn each sold more than 10 million copies, but those milestones came later in their respective lifecycles. Another PS4 exclusive, The Last of Us Part II, sold 4 million copies in its first week.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The original 1996 movie Space Jam starred NBA G.O.A.T. Michael Jordan, who led the Looney Tunes in an interstellar basketball game against a squad of aliens. Twenty-five years on, the movie is fondly remembered, even if the critical response at the time of its premiere was mixed.Will this new movie simply pay homage to its predecessor, or will it be the rare sequel that improves upon it? Here's everything we know so far about Space Jam: A New Legacy.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The first trailer for In the Earth has been released. The new horror movie from Kill List and High-Rise director Ben Wheatley hits theaters on April 23.Wheatley shot In the Earth last year while the UK was in lockdown and is set in a world that has been hit by a deadly pandemic. Joel Fry (Yesterday) plays a scientist who heads into a spooky wood with a park scout Ellora Torchia (Midsommar) to try to find a colleague who hasn't been heard from for several days. This being a horror movie, he's warned in advance that "people get a bit funny in the woods," and of course, things soon start to get very weird and scary. Check it out below:In the Earth also stars Hayley Squires (In Fabric) and Reece Shearsmith (Good Omens). The movie was shot in 15 days last summer. Wheatley deliberately wrote a film with a small cast that is set outdoors to minimize the risk to his actors and crew.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Outriders is just a week from launch, and Square Enix has shared details on when you can pre-load and then start playing the game. Xbox and PlayStation platforms appear to get a slight head start on both pre-loading and launch, depending on your territory.In fact, on Xbox platforms you can begin pre-loading today. That's doubly significant since it will be available through Xbox Game Pass, so you should be able to pre-load the game through the Game Pass subscription itself. PlayStation will begin pre-loading 48 hours ahead of its release. Square Enix says it is still determining its options on Steam and will share more information next week, and pre-loading on the Epic Game Store is not available.The situation is similar for launch times. On consoles, the game will unlock at midnight on April 1. In the US, this means midnight eastern time, or 9 PM PT on March 31. The PC and Stadia versions will have one single global release time, set for 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET on April 1. The publisher noted that the PC launch time being unified is due to store limitations, and it chose this time to assure maximum technical support staff will be available to resolve any problems.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's almost the weekend, and if you're looking for something new to play, there are a few Xbox games you can check out for the low, low price of zero dollars. Microsoft has announced the details for its latest Free Play Days event, with Tekken 7, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered, and Sid Meier's Civilization VI all available to play for free this weekend only.Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate members can check out each game and play as much as they want through Sunday, March 28.To get started, you can queue up the games to download from Xbox.com. Alternatively, you can navigate to the Subscriptions tab on the Xbox Store and find these games in the Free Play Days section of the Xbox Live Gold area.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Dota 2 fans looking to dive into more of the series' lore can now head to Netflix for Dota: Dragon's Blood, an anime series based on the game that just dropped.All eight episodes of Dragon's Blood are now available on Netflix. The series was written and developed by Ashley Edward Miller (The Twilight Zone, X-Men: First Class) in collaboration with Netflix Animation and Valve. South Korean animation house Studio Mir, the co-producers of The Legend of Korra series and the 2020 film Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, provided the show's visuals.In promoting the series' launch, the NX on Netflix Twitter account shared a new rendition of Swedish producer Basshunter's "DotA." The song, which first dropped in 2006 and is a remix of "Daddy DJ" by French dance duo Daddy DJ, sees Basshunter singing about playing Dota 2. In between scenes of him playing the game are sequences from Dragon's Blood while others watch pieces of the show.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Bungie is rolling out a new change to how it balances teams in Destiny 2's PvP mode, the Crucible, as part of this week's Iron Banner event. The adjustment doesn't change Destiny 2's matchmaking system, but does adjust how players are assigned to teams once they're in a lobby, in hopes of making matches a bit less lopsided.The developer detailed the change in its This Week at Bungie blog post, where it explained how things will work in Iron Banner and Iron Banner: Freelance starting today. The new algorithm for choosing teams, Bungie said, is a little bit like a schoolyard picking system like you'd see as two team captains each take turns picking from a pool of kids to join their teams. The algorithm looks at the skill of players in the lobby and tries to assign them to teams in a balanced way, placing the top player on team one, the second- and third-best players on team two, the fourth-best player on team one, and so on.That's different from the balancing system Bungie was using previously, which would try to make both teams have the same average level of player skill. The result was that teams were often lopsided. This was especially apparent if you were to play multiple games in a Crucible playlist--you'd often see the same players matching with you and getting assigned to teams in roughly the same way, first on one side, and then the other. The result was a series of swings where a player might get clobbered in one match and win handily in the next, while playing with roughly the same group.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Ahead of the launch of Outriders on April 1 (pre-load and launch times have been released), publisher Square Enix and developer People Can Fly have detailed what players can expect to see come launch day. The game will be getting a Day 1 patch, as well as additional quality-of-life improvements for item management and cross-play multiplayer.Square Enix writes that the hope is for the Day 1 patch to go live before the game does, but that there is a possibility that it will actually go live on April 1, and thus require a separate download from the main game. The patch is aimed at addressing bugs and the game's sometimes uncomfortably severe camera shake during cutscenes. You can see the full notes patch notes below.Outriders Day 1 Update Patch NotesMany bug fixes and improvements, with a particular focus on the latter sections of the game.Performance improvements for pacing/stuttering that was observed during the demoCamera Smoothing improvements for cutscenes and dialogues. This should reduce the camera shake that some players are struggling withCutscenes/dialogues frame rate improvements PC cutscenes will have the option to choose from 30, 60, 90 and 120fpsXbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 cutscenes will be locked to 60fpsXbox One and PlayStation 4 cutscenes will remain locked to 30fpsThere's also a post-launch patch in the works, which should go live in the first few weeks of Outriders' release. "At this point in time we do not yet have a set release time for this patch as its release will depend on the amount of content we want to roll into it," Square Enix writes. What's currently scheduled to go live in the post-launch patch is outlined below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Metacritic, a sister-site of GameSpot, has published its annual rankings of game publishers. These rankings apply to games released in 2020, and the top publisher of the year may surprise you. Even more surprising are some of the names that ended up low on the list.48 publishers' games were compiled for the ranking, which used several factors such as average game Metascore, percentage of products with "good" reviews, and percentage of products with "bad" reviews to determine the final total. This way of factoring in both the stinkers and the hits meant that even the smallest publishers had a shot of reaching the top spots. Several did, in fact, including Annapurna Interactive, Aksys Games, and No More Robots.Sega took the top spot this year, averaging an 81.6 average review score and narrowly beating out Annapurna in terms of total points factoring into the ranking. It benefited from the continued success of the Yakuza series as well as Persona 4 Golden hitting PC. Capcom, Sony, and Activision Blizzard rounded out the top five.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Writer Gary Whitta is very close to achieving one of his dreams: making a sequel to the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter. During a Twitch stream, Whitta revealed a sizzle reel, concept art, music, and the working title of the film.The Last Starfighters (working title) has not been given the green light. However, Whitta--working alongside The Last Starfighter writer Jonathan R. Betuel--believes that's right around the corner. "We are, I believe, very very close--closer than anyone has ever been to making a new Last Starfighter fighter movie, like right on the one yard line," Whitta explained. "After pushing the boulder uphill for years we are very, very, very close. I can't really say anything more. Other than that, you know because it's there's all stuff happening behind the scenes now, like there's things I can't tell you but we are very, very close, I believe it will happen."Whitta explained that this movie would be a sequel--not a reboot, revamp, or reimagining. Betuel and Whitta became friends and quickly realized when it came to the movie, they were both on the same page: "We wanted to do a sequel that kept the original in canon, and which, which continued the original storyline and honored the original."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many companies, and now video game retailer GameStop has revealed exactly how much money it has spent to address the pandemic. In its latest earnings report, GameStop revealed that it incurred about $25 million in costs to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.These costs includes incremental wage payments to hourly associates who could not go to work due to store closures, while GameStop also spent money on "enhanced cleaning measures," along with the expanded use of personal protective equipment at its stores, service centers, and distribution sites around the world."In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we prioritized the health and safety of our associates and implemented significant changes that we determined were in the best interests of our associates as well as the communities in which we operate," GameStop said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The latest trailer for the PvP heist game Hood: Outlaws & Legends details the fourth and final character class, the Mystic. The class seems tuned to support, though it's not without its share of combat abilities as well.The Mystic is an ex-inquisitor who uses a flail as his primary weapon. He can regenerate his stamina faster than other characters, so he can win battles of attrition. He also has a poison ability that saps opponents' stamina. His Ultimate ability is Instinct, which allows him to see through walls for a short time and heal himself and nearby allies. Altogether, the trailer explains, he's well-suited for healing and crowd control.Within that context, though, the Mystic can be customized to suit your needs with different loadouts. Your perks could make your grenades heal allies instead of poison enemies, convert damage to health to withstand a battle even longer, or increase everyone's movement speed if you sprint alongside them.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Legendary actress Jessica Walter, most recently known for her turns as Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development and Malory Archer on FX's Archer, has died at age 80, Deadline has confirmed. She passed away in her sleep in her New York home last night.Across her decades-spanning career, Walter was nominated for both Emmy and SAG awards and lent her incredible talents to film, TV, and Broadway. In addition to her now iconic (and frequently memed) role as the hilariously cruel Lucille Bluth, Walter also starred in such pieces of cinematic history as Clint Eastwood's Play Misty For Me which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.On the stage, Walter performed in multiple Tony award winning productions such as Anything Goes, and most recently a 2016 revival of Steel Magnolias. When she wasn't turning out gut-splitting live-action performances, Walter lent her talents to animated shows like Archer, where she delivered deadpan zingers as Archer's mother Mallory across a whopping 110 episodes.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com