Summer will be here before you know it, and with the arrival of warmer weather and longer days, you might be wondering about E3 2021. The show was canceled in 2020 due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic and questions remains about this year's event.We've compiled a rundown of the latest updates on this year's show.Is There An E3 This Year?The short answer is that we don't know for sure at this point. The ESA, which organizes E3 every year, penciled in E3 2021 for June 15-17 but what format this year's event takes--if it happens at all--remains to be seen.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

When it comes to PC gaming, you'll most commonly see people rocking setups with monitors no bigger than 27 inches. With how close people usually are to their monitors, this size is a good fit for most spaces. However, it's hard to deny the appeal of an even larger monitor, especially if your desk allows for that kind of room. The Acer Predator CG437K 43-inch monitor is a beastly gaming display, one that commands attention. It provides a great gaming experience that will be appealing to many PC gamers, though those who are already accustomed to HDR-capable 4K TVs may come away disappointed.Display and performanceThe Predator CG7's massive size is accompanied by a sharp 4K image that makes the finest details stand out. Whether I was playing on PS5 or PC, games looked clean. For example, the intricate designs of Demon's Souls armor and enemies are beautifully displayed, while Valheim's stark and simple art style is immediately eye-catching and shines brilliantly on the CG7's 4K VA panel.The CG7's colors can be quite vibrant, too, though its viewing angles tend to let it down a bit. Facing the monitor straight on provides the best image, with bright colors popping off the screen stunningly. However, if you're off-center, you may notice darker colors start to wash out. This is the one area of the CG7 I'm disappointed with. The HDR performance is below par, and if you're accustomed to playing games on a 4K TV with good-quality HDR, you'll notice a big difference. Blacks are a touch washed out, while brighter scenes tend to feel too bright. It took me a while to tweak the settings to where I was happy, and even then, I was never quite satisfied with the image--I would often just play without HDR entirely.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Cable network Starz has finally shared a first look at Heels, an upcoming drama about indie wrestlers vying for national attention in small-town Georgia. In a recent tweet from the network, Jack Spade (played by Arrow's Stephan Amell) and Ace Spade (played by Vikings's Alexander Ludwig) are introduced via a pair of screenshots. Check them out below.Introducing Jack and Ace Spade! We’re so excited to share this first look of @StephenAmell and @AlexanderLudwig in @HeelsSTARZ. #STARZ pic.twitter.com/QiglSFmqsO — STARZ (@STARZ) March 9, 2021Admittedly, these are not the most action-packed shots--the wrestling brothers are literally just standing still--but the tweet is a nice bit of vindication for fans who have never lost faith about the show that was first announced way back in 2017. Ace and Jack don't look thrilled on entering the ring, though that makes sense given the show's official synopsis: "[Heels] follows a family-owned wrestling promotion as two brothers and rivals war over their late father's legacy." The show will dig into their twisted family dynamics, and also explore "the men and women who chase their dreams in the world of small-town wrestling."It's also worth noting that the digging taking place in this show has a fair amount of authenticity. Amell has worked with WWE at SummerSlam in 2015, worked with Ring of Honor in 2017, and wrestled at the huge indie show All In in 2018.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The PS5 may be hard to find, but its controller remains readily available at retailers, and now's the first time you can snag it at a discount. Right now, you can get the PS5 DualSense controller for only $60 at Woot, down from its regular price of $70. This deal comes less than four months after the console's release and is a good chance to stock up on a couple extras for multiplayer. See deal at Woot The DualSense is a much improved controller over the DualShock 4. It boasts greater battery life, USB-C connection, and an improved speaker. The big difference, however, is the controller's haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, both of which enhance gameplay by adding an appropriate amount of tension or force depending on your in-game actions.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

NBCUniversal's streaming platform Peacock lost $914 million in 2020. The numbers come via a filing by parent company Comcast with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.As reported by Variety, Peacock made $118 million for NBCUniversal in 2020. However, the company spent $989 million in what is termed "eliminations." These are payments from within the company for Peacock to license movies and shows from other divisions. The filing by Comcast was made as part of its new method of reporting its results to the SEC, dividing its business into media, studios, and theme parks.While $914 million is obviously a high figure, a loss is to be expected for a new service in its first year. Comcast executives previously told investors that they will be investing more than $2 billion into Peacock over its first two years, and expected the service to break even by 2025.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The fourth boss you'll take on in Valheim is Moder, the frost dragon queen of the Mountain biome. Moder is a huge enemy that fights on the ground and can take to the skies, but the terrain on which you face the boss can give you an advantage. It's possible to defeat Moder all by yourself if you bring the right gear and carefully manage the fight. Here's everything you need to know to beat Moder.To take on Moder, you'll first need to clear the way to the Mountain biome by taking down Eikthyr in the Meadow, The Elder in the Black Forest, and Bonemass in the Swamp. You'll also need the ability to withstand the cold, so it's highly recommended that you mine and craft some Wolf armor ahead of this battle--at least the Wolf Cuirass or the Wolf Cape, which will give you automatic Frost resistance. We've outlined exactly what gear you should have below, which will give you the best chance of defeating Moder even if you can't bring a squad of other Vikings to help you.We've got lots more Valheim coverage, check out our complete Valheim armor guide, as well as our guide for finding Iron and crafting Iron gear and for finding Silver and crafting Wolf armor, for venturing through the Swamp biome, and for taking down the Elder boss. And if you really want to bend Valheim to your will, check out our cheats guide using the game's console codes.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In February, Gina Carano was fired from her role as Cara Dune on the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian. In a recent statement, Disney CEO Bob Chapek reiterated that she was not fired for her politics.The Disney boss explained in a statement (via Variety) that it had nothing to do with politics and that "values that are universal." He said that Disney wants to make content that is "reflective of the rich diversity of the world that we live in."Disney cut ties with the actor after a series of controversial social media posts comparing the persecution of Jewish people by Nazis to hating someone for their political views. This wasn't the first time Carano found herself in trouble for her social media posts. She's mocked mask wearing during the current COVID pandemic, promoted misinformation about voter fraud, and expressed transphobic views. Carno had been warned by Disney for previous posts. Carano has moved on to produce a movie with Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Despite a lack of recent updates on the game, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut will still release sometime in March. Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM announced The Final Cut back at The Game Awards 2020 last December, a "director's cut"-style version of the game that would extend and expand the acclaimed RPG. It'll also add full voice acting. Though Disco Elysium: The Final Cut was said to release for PS4, PS5, Stadia, and PC in March 2021, some fans have grown concerned that the game might not meet the deadline.However, according to a recent Discord communication by a member of the game's development team, The Final Cut is releasing in March "for sure." ZA/UM's head of publishing Mikk Metsniit said that the team's radio silence is due to the coordination required to make sure that the game launches correctly on all four platforms. Metsniit's public statement came in part due to a "lot of speculation [being] thrown about."Update by the devs! from DiscoElysiumDisco Elysium is a highly literary take on the CRPG genre inspired by genre classics like Planescape: Torment as well as other works, like Émile Zola's seminal novel Germinal. As part of the original announcement, ZA/UM said Disco Elysium: The Final Cut will come to Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch later this summer. The Final Cut will be a free upgrade to existing owners of the original Disco Elysium. This will be the first time that the game will be available on consoles. Disco Elysium is one of the most critically-acclaimed games of the late 2010's, and GameSpot previously named it one of the 10 best games of 2019.Info from Gamespot.com

Season 2 of Russian Doll is finally starting to take shape, with The Hollywood Reporter indicating that Canadian actor Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek) is joining the cast in an undisclosed role and capacity. The Netflix series, heavily inspired by the classic Bill Murray film Groundhog Day, was picked up for a second season back in 2019--but the COVID-19 pandemic had pumped the brakes on production rolling forward as expected. Production is expected to resume again, finally, at some point in March.It's still pretty much a mystery what Season 2 of Russian Doll will encompass or who the main characters will be. It's no spoiler to reveal that Season 1 focused on Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black) as Nadia Vulvokov, a software engineer who is stuck reliving her 36th birthday, which is also the day she seems to die no matter what choices she makes.The season finale wrapped things up satisfactorily enough to function as a series finale, or could even plausibly have teed Russian Doll up to be an anthology series focusing on different characters stuck in similar dilemmas--but until this announcement all that is literally known so far is that a second season was coming, and now, that Murphy is involved.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Content Warning: use of hate speech, antisemitism, explicit language.Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard is under fire for using an antisemitic slur while streaming Call of Duty: Warzone on Twitch earlier this week, according to Defector. The incident has resulted in Leonard getting cut from esports organization FaZe Clan.Leonard, who was streaming Warzone with at least one other person, was complaining about a player trying to snipe him. After a brief moment of accosting that player for trying to snipe him, Leonard called them a "k*** b****." The person that Leonard was playing with just laughed nervously afterwards. You can see the incident in the uncensored video clip belowContinue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Chinese Dynasty Warriors film has been in the works for a long time, but it's still happening. The first trailer for the video game adaptation is here, giving us our first look at the unquestionably epic film before its April release date.The film, simply called Dynasty Warriors, is directed by Roy Chow Hin-Yeung, and stars Louis Koo, Wang Kai, Tony Yang, and Gulnezer Bextiyar. Dynasty Warriors has been in the works for quite a while. Filming wrapped in 2017, and the first trailer for the movie released back in 2018. Dynasty Warriors was meant to come out sooner, but was one of the many films worldwide delayed by COVID-19.Dynasty Warriors has the heroes of the long-running game series--Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and more--fighting against Lu Bu. The movie is based (very loosely) on the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, while taking its visuals from the game series, which has the player stepping into the shoes of legendary Chinese warriors and fighting thousands of enemy soldiers in massive battles.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Valheim is a game about survival, building a settlement, and finding various materials to build better weapons and armor so that you can find and defeat the enemies of Odin. If you want to shortcut that process, though, you can, thanks to a huge number of Valheim developer console commands that allow you to cheat. The commands are very easy to use if you know what they are. Lucky for you, we've got the complete list of console commands in this cheater's guide, allowing you to bend the realm of Valheim to your will.It's worth noting that these codes won't work in multiplayer servers for the most part--they're single-player cheats only. That said, since Valheim allows you to take characters from one game world to another (along with all the stuff they're carrying), it's pretty easy to jump into a single-player game, spawn yourself a bunch of cool stuff, and then take it with you to a server with friends. If you're looking to build some ridiculous Viking fortresses and bases, this is a handy way to do it without hours of mining materials and cutting down trees.We've got lots more Valheim coverage, check out our complete Valheim armor guide, as well as our guide for finding Iron and crafting Iron gear and for finding Silver and crafting Wolf armor, for venturing through the Swamp biome, and for winning the Elder boss fight and defeating Moder, the frost dragon boss.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Apex Legends is now available on Nintendo Switch, letting you experience the popular battle royale while you binge a streaming show or visit the restroom. Or both at once, we don't judge. Obviously you'll need a stable Internet connection for the multiplayer FPS, but other than that you can tote it around wherever you want.You can find Apex Legends on the Nintendo eShop. The game is listed as 25 GB, but Nintendo suggests you have at least 30 GB available on your system to accommodate it. And like Apex on any other platform, it requires an EA account.Oh hey there, Switch players, WELCOME! We're pleased to announce Apex Legends is now available on #NintendoSwitch! 🎉 To get you started, enjoy:✌️ Double XP for the first two weeks🔑 30 free Season 8 Battle Pass levels🤖 Limited-time Legendary Pathfinder skin - P.A.T.H. - pic.twitter.com/E9ulOc01hu — Apex Legends (@PlayApex) March 10, 2021This is dropping right in the middle of Season 8: Mayhem, so to make sure Switch players aren't left in the dust behind other platforms, EA has arranged a few boosts for the new platform. For one, you'll get a 30-level head start for free, rocketing you to around the level most players have reached in the battle pass right from the start. In addition, you'll get double XP for the first two weeks after launch, letting you keep up that momentum.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Jumping into the Outriders demo ahead of the game's launch on April 1 is worth it--not only is it a free way to see whether you'll enjoy the game, but your progress carries over into the full experience. To that end, farming for powerful legendaries can ensure you have a leg up on your foes. Your best course of action for finding rare items is to grind captain and boss fights.Before getting on the grind for legendary items, you need to reach a certain World Tier. World Tiers determine how difficult Outriders is, increasing enemy health and damage but offering higher tier rewards more often. You'll unlock higher tiers in the demo just by leveling up. In World Tier 1-3, you won't see any legendary drops because the legendary drop rate bonus will only be +0%. Once you reach World Tier 4, that jumps up to +10% and at World Tier 5, it's +25%. That's still not an ideal bonus, but that's the highest World Tier you can unlock in the demo. So keep playing and leveling up until you unlock it--you'll likely reach it just by playing through the demo and completing all of the available campaign missions and each of the four optional side quests at least once. From here, there are two ideal methods.As far as we can tell, you won't find Golem's Limb in the demo--this legendary shotgun seems to be exclusive to the full game.Fight The CaptainThe first way to grind for legendary loot is to replay one of the aforementioned side quests, Payback, over and over. It's a very short quest so it's easy to repeat multiple times. You'll first encounter this quest after reaching Outriders' first hub area, Rift Town, and setting out on the story mission to deal with Gauss, an Altered and Outriders' first boss battle. Partway through this mission, you can find a wounded soldier named Audrey Storm off on the side of the main path, near the Crossroads warp flag. They will give you the Payback side mission, which you can repeat as many times as you want by returning to Audrey.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Crystal Dynamics has responded to the feedback surrounding the changes coming to Marvel's Avengers involving the XP grind. The March 18 next-gen update for the game makes a big change that means after level 25, the amount of XP needed to level up will increase the closer you get to level 50. Many players responded negatively to the news, prompting a further explanation for the change.Posting on Reddit, Crystal Dynamics said its initial announcement "was not comprehensive enough," and this prompted confusion among fans.To explain what's changing and why, Crystal Dynamics said the XP required between levels "didn't scale well." The studio said it's not uncommon for players to "ding" two or three times in a single mission, which might seem good, but according to the developer, it's not.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com