The highly anticipated Halo TV show has long been in the works at Showtime, but the series will have a new home when it finally arrives, moving instead to the ViacomCBS streaming service Paramount+. The series is still being produced by Showtime, which, like Paramount+, is owned by ViacomCBS.The Halo show has been in the works for many years. Nevertheless, we don't know much about it, since Showtime and Halo game developer 343 Industries have been incredibly tight-lipped up to now. We do know that it's filmed in Budapest, and that Pablo Schreiber, who you'll most likely remember as the prison guard known as "Pornstache" on Orange Is the New Black, is playing Master Chief. And if that seems like weird casting to you, well, you're not alone--but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now.Besides Schreiber, the show has a large announced cast, including Jen Taylor as Cortana. Taylor originally wasn't playing Cortana in the show, so the news that she would indeed be the voice in Master Chief's ear once again came as a pleasant surprise for fans.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is celebrating this week's launch of Bravely Default II with a new Spirit Board event. The event kicks off at 10 PM PT tomorrow, February 25, and introduces the four Heroes of Light from Square Enix's newest Switch RPG as Spirits.The heroes are paired up to make two different Spirits: Seth & Gloria and Elvis & Adelle. Each of those will appear periodically on the Spirit Board throughout the event. You'll also earn extra Spirit Points each time you defeat the new Bravely Default Spirits. The event runs until 10 PM PT on March 2.Bravely Default II launches for Switch on February 26. Despite the number in its title, it's actually the third proper installment in its series thus far, following the original Bravely Default and its sequel, Bravely Second. Bravely Default II is also a self-contained adventure, featuring an original cast of characters and story.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Horizon Forbidden West, the sequel to 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, launches on PS5 and PS4 sometime in 2021. Without a doubt, it's one of the most anticipated releases of this year, and with a PS5 State of Play livestream scheduled for this Thursday at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET, it's possible we'll learn even more details about the upcoming open-world adventure. In any case, PlayStation is clearly preparing for increased hype around the game, as new Horizon Forbidden West merch is available now from the PlayStation Gear Store. The Gear Store ships to the US, Canada, and Mexico--and most recently, it now ships to Europe as well.The new Horizon merch line has released under developer Guerrilla Games' Horizon Raw Materials brand and adds three T-shirts as well as three pieces of drinkware to the Gear Store's Horizon collection. Each of the new tees is made of 100% cotton and features imagery from the game. There are also two new mugs and a water bottle, each of which has a minimalistic Horizon design and is vacuum-insulated to keep drinks hot or cold.In addition to the new Horizon Raw Materials merch, the PlayStation Gear Store has brought back previously released Horizon products, like The Sunhawk graphic novel, Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game, and the Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete OST vinyl. So if you're on edge waiting for news about Forbidden West, you can at least tide yourself over with some Horizon retail therapy. You can check out the full Horizon Forbidden West and Zero Dawn collection below. In some cases, merch is available for cheaper elsewhere (like Amazon), so we've linked that where possible.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new promotional video for Destory All Humans' 50% off sale on Steam includes a peculiar cameo that seemingly teases a possible remake for the action-adventure game's sequel.In the video, revealing a midweek discount for Destroy All Humans on Steam (which also includes sales across other platforms like PlayStation and Xbox), protagonist Crypto-137 is interrupted toward the end by a clone. The clone asks if he is done flaunting yet, to which 137 says for the "little tadpole" of a clone to wait his turn because 137 is "only getting started."Fans of the series would immediately be able to recognize the clone, but for the uninitiated, its Cryptosporidium-138, the main protagonist of Destroy All Humans 2. What gives 138 away is his outfit, which differs from 137 in that it's darker and clad in gold accenting instead of blue.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Go's next season of content kicks off on March 1, and it'll include new Legendary Pokemon, as well as various events and in-game bonuses. Developer Niantic has now outlined some of the biggest events it has in store for the game throughout March, from the debut of Therian forms to new Bonus Hour events and more.March 2021 Research Breakthrough Reward: GibleAs usual, Niantic is rolling out a new batch of Field Research tasks and rewards starting March 1. In addition to the standard rewards, the studio is offering a new Research Breakthrough encounter next month. Each time you achieve a Research Breakthrough in March, you'll earn a chance to catch the Dragon-type Pokemon Gible.Tornadus, Thundurus, And Landorus RaidsLandorus, Tornadus, and. Thundurus in their Therian formes Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The first footage of the highly anticipated Halo show has debuted--but you're not allowed to see it. The footage was shown during ViacomCBS's February 24 investor presentation, but as the company introduced whatever was shown, the screen faded to a blue screensaver for most of the people watching. It seems only the actual investors on the call got to see what the Halo show will look like.No doubt Halo fans will find this to be a lackluster way for ViacomCBS to finally show off the Halo series. The footage was played directly after the company announced that the series won't air on Showtime after all, but on the ViacomCBS streaming service Paramount+ (previously CBS All Access). That news came along with a ton of other Paramount+ news, like the announcement of a Beavis and Butt-Head movie and a Frasier revival.The Halo show has been in the works for years, originally with Steven Spielberg attached. We still know very little about it, besides a handful of casting appointments (such as Orange is the New Blacks' Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief and Jen Taylor, who played Cortana in the Halo games, reprising her role). We also know that the show has shot in Budapest.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The slices of the streaming pie are getting smaller and smaller, but ViacomCBS is working hard to grab its piece. Paramount+, recently rebranded from CBS All Access, is heading to its back catalog once again. The service announced a raft of new shows greenlit for Paramount+ this week, cherry-picking from films as far back as 1969.Joining the previously-announced Grease prequel musical and Godfather documentary are five new shows based on films from Paramount's library: The Italian Job, Fatal Attraction, Love Story, Flashdance, and The Parallax View.Each show is taking a slightly different approach to updating its material. The Italian Job acts as a sequel to the original 1969 film--ignoring the 2003 remake. The show will focus on the grandchildren of Michael Caine's character, Charlie Croker, who inherit his safety deposit box and set out to find the Italian bullion from the movie. Hawaii Five-O writer Matt Wheeler is helping the show. Donald De Line, who produced that 2003 remake, is onboard as well.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Beavis and Butt-Head are finally making a return. The animated comedy duo will star in a new movie headed directly to the new streaming service Paramount+, announced today during the ViacomCBS investors day call.Both Beavis and Butt-Head joined the call via Zoom to announce the project. Check out their cameo below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Paramount will be sending their biggest movies to the upcoming Paramount+ streaming service 45 days after their theatrical releases, the studio announced today during the ViacomCBS investor's day call. The slate includes blockbusters like A Quiet Place 2, Mission: Impossible 7, and the upcoming James Bond film, No Time To Die.Also announced were several new franchise installments that will debut directly on the streaming service like the latest Paranormal Activity movie and the upcoming Pet Sematary "origin story" movie, says The Hollywood Reporter.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nickelodeon is establishing a new division dedicated entirely to creating content in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise. Avatar Studios is being run by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, creators of the original animated series. The duo will also serve as co-chief creative officers as the studio creates new animated series and movies set in the world of Avatar.As reported by Deadline, Avatar Studios will produce content that will be aired on Nickelodeon, the home of the original series and its spin-off, The Legend of Korra. The content will also make its way to Paramount+, as well as third-party platforms. Theatrical releases are also expected for the movies.An animated movie is the first project for Avatar Studios and will begin production later this year.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With Rick and Morty well ahead of schedule, co-creator Justin Roiland has time to work on other projects. Solar Opposites feels like it could take place a few blocks from Morty's house, though Rick probably wouldn't abide aliens like the Schlorpians living on Earth. Hulu dropped a second trailer today for Solar Opposites Season 2 ahead of its March release.In Solar Opposites Season 2, the team tries to escape Earth, only for their ship to fail, dropping them right back where they started. The trailer gives us an idea of what to expect. That includes timely jokes about Big D*** Energy, poking fun at wearing masks during the pandemic, and, of course, beasts that eat people and defecate them as wine bottles. Listen, we're just telling you what's in the trailer.Solar Opposites, co-created by Roiland and ex-Rick and Morty writing assistant Mike McMahan, is the story of four Shlorpian aliens who crash-land on a home in suburban America. Krovo and Yumyulack hate the planet, while Terry and Jesse love everything humanity has to offer. Either way, they have to endure the planet until they can escape, or until their living super computer Pupa evolves to consume them and terraform Earth.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

When you die in 30XX, thus bringing your run to a premature and perhaps permanent end, there's a good chance you will receive a message from the Bureau of Encouragement. In a roguelike platformer where death can feel like a crushing setback or at best wasted time, you would be forgiven for expecting to find comfort in such a message. A consoling pat on the back, some inspiring words, or at least a sliver of hope. You would be wrong. "Ooooh! So close…" says the Bureau of Encouragement. "Just kidding. That was terrible!"I received a lot of messages from the Bureau of Encouragement because I died a lot in 30XX. But the Bureau was not the only regulatory agency to contact me in the aftermath of my demise. The Failure Board and the Department of Aggravation also got in touch to register their contempt at my performance. "Remember, you can stop whenever you have given up hope," they laughed.Despite their derision, I pressed on. Much like the classic action platformers from which it draws heavy inspiration, 30XX is a game in which defeat is never an ending but rather an opportunity to start over and try again. A roguelike structure is a smart complement to this life-death cycle and positions 30XX--even in its Early Access state--as an accomplished title, worthy of comparison to its 8- and 16-bit forerunners.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The robotic mascot of Kojima Productions, a Ludens figure, was spotted on Xbox boss Phil Spencer’s bookshelf in a recent stream. To be clear, this doesn't necessarily mean that anything is happening with Hideo Kojima and Xbox--though a possible Death Stranding Xbox Series X port wouldn't be out of the question--but since Spencer has hidden surprises in his streaming background before, it's made people pay increased attention to it.Perhaps most notably, Spencer hid the Xbox Series S on his bookshelf in July 2020--months before the console's specs were fully announced--and no one noticed. In a somewhat similar move, Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya was wearing a headset in the Xbox Series X launch trailer back in October 2020, which was later revealed to be the new Xbox headset, which wasn't announced until February 2021.Phil Spencer on stream, he has a Kojima Productions Ludens figure in the background apparently next to the Xbox logo pic.twitter.com/nept872D7n — Wario64 (@Wario64) February 23, 2021In that stream, Phil Spencer spoke about the future of cloud gaming, saying that developers may build games for the cloud natively, without worrying about the limitations of consoles. Given the high-profile failure of Google's cloud gaming platform Stadia, which recently laid off all of its development staff, that future seems a bit far off.Info from Gamespot.com

You may have seen his videos floating around social media, relatively short snippets of him jamming out to groovy remixes of songs like Final Fantasy VII's "One-Winged Angel" by Nobuo Uematsu. What Alex Moukala is attempting to do, he explains on Twitter, is normalize video game music to make the sounds he grew up with and was inspired by more accessible to the masses. His process: take a popular video game track, split it in half, send a funky bassline and catchy kick drum pattern through the whole thing, and crank the volume all the way up.One-Winged Angel is Funky (Full Version)#FinalFantasyVIIRemake pic.twitter.com/7yEO7sai2a — Alex Moukala (@alex_moukala) February 2, 2021In order to start the conversation of normalizing video game music, Alex started a YouTube channel a couple of years ago to upload the full remixes of his funky-fied tracks. He also uses his skillset as a self-trained composer and producer to analyze his favorite video game songs, which includes tracks like Devil May Cry 5's "Bury The Light" and Persona 5's "Last Surprise."But what does bringing video game music into the mainstream actually look like? Popular music award ceremonies such as the Grammys don't include video game soundtracks for consideration and the revived MTV Video Music Awards killed the Best Video Game Soundtrack category in 2006, just two years after the celebration was originally established. The only other place where video game music is admired is in circles specific to video games, including shows such as the Game Developers Choice Awards and The Game Awards.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Following Gina Carano's firing by Disney due to her controversial statements, action figures for Cara Dune, the character she played in The Mandalorian, not only began selling out at most retailers but are also being sold for exorbitantly high prices on stores like Amazon and eBay.A cursory search on eBay for Cara Dune pulls an assortment of results with a common factor: their spiked price tag. While it's possible to find a few action figures selling for a reasonable price on eBay, most have their cost bumped by as much as 1150%. Cara Dune action figures typically sell for anywhere between $15 and $40, but the prices on eBay climb as high as $300. There's even a Star Wars Black Series 6-inch figurine going for $10,000 on eBay.The situation over at Amazon looks similar to eBay. There are more Cara Dune collectibles on the massive digital shop--such as posters and sweaters--but most everything, and especially the action figures, have absurd price tags. A Carbonized Vintage Collection series of Cara Dune sells for $118, while a Pop figurine and protector case are going for $100 on Amazon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com