Many of us remember Bob Odenkirk first as a comedy guy, creating stuff like Mr. Show and writing for some of the best comedy shows, like Saturday Night Live and Late Night With Conan O'Brien. Even after his turn as Saul/Jimmy in the Breaking Bad universe, we couldn't have predicted his next move: Bob Odenkirk is officially an action badass in the second trailer for his upcoming movie Nobody.Nobody stars Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell, the very definition of a mild-mannered suburban dad. Thieves break into his house and he declines to fight back, leaving his wife and son disappointed. The frustration that follows awakens a long-dormant part of Hutch, who was once an "Auditor" and has to once again bring his skills to bear to defend his family.This latest trailer highlights Hutch's improvisational skills in the heat of battle, contrasted against him being able to cook only one meal--lasanga--as a father.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There are now a grand total of four movies in development about the recent GameStop/Reddit stock price drama and controversy. According to Deadline, Console Wars director Jonah Tulis has started production on a feature documentary about the recent frenzied uprising that saw social media day traders beat Wall Street at its own game. Tulis will be collaborating with fellow Console Wars producer Julian Rosenberg and Console Wars author Blake Harris."This is a true David and Goliath story and our goal is to tell it through the eyes of the incredible men and women who risked it all," Tulis told Deadline. "[They] made millions in the process and changed the landscape of the stock market forever."This new, untitled, and fourth film is the latest entry in a quickly growing category of productions. Things are moving quickly for projects inspired by events that started taking place a few weeks ago in January and are still playing out. Part of what's notable about this new project and the previously, recently announced three is the real story doesn't yet have an ending. Charles Randolph, co-author of The Big Short told the Los Angeles Times that he's gotten several calls asking if he'd be interested in also writing one.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

We all worry about aging, but the characters in M. Night Shyamalan's latest film will have to worry about it a lot sooner than they expected. Universal Pictures showed off the first trailer for Shyamalan's film, titled Old, during Super Bowl LV.Based on the novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, Old traps us and the movie's protagonists on an idyllic, secluded beach with white sand, verdant plants, and rocky cliffs. As the children visiting the beach begin to quickly grow into full-on teenagers, the beachgoers find that they can't escape, can't call out, and are themselves getting older, too.Old stars Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierce, Vicky Krieps, Alex Wolff, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Gael García Bernal, and Ken Leung. M. Night Shyamalan is directing and producing the film, as well as adapting the original story for the screen.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

We've been waiting a long time to find out what's next in the saga of Captain America after Steve Rogers passed the shield to his successor at the end of Avengers: Endgame, and we're now one step closer: The first full trailer for the upcoming Disney+ streaming series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier has arrived, and you can watch it for yourself below.The trailer debuted in a truncated form during the Super Bowl, with this extended version appearing online shortly after.The Falcon and The Winter Soldier will tell the story of Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson post-Endgame. The two appear to have developed a buddy cop-like rapport, based on their interactions in the trailer, which give us a hint to the show's tone. They aren't the only two familiar characters who appear in the trailer, though--we also catch glimpses of Captain America: Civil War villain Helmut Zemo and Sharon Carter (Peggy Carter's great niece and Steve Rogers' one-time love interest). Appropriately, there's even a shot of someone in full Captain America gear (seen only from behind) jogging out onto a football field.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Every year during the Super Bowl, we're treated to plenty of trailers for new movies and upcoming TV shows. This year, we thought the Big Game would be a bit light on these videos, considering most of the movies that were supposed to come out in 2020 were delayed because of COVID. Nevertheless, there were still plenty of spots for upcoming TV shows and films that we hadn't seen yet.From Disney+ showing off its first full trailer for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier--which looks awesome--to a sneak peek at M. Night Shyamalan's next movie, Old, there's plenty to be excited about in the upcoming year.And this doesn't just apply to trailers for recently announced movies, while F9: The Fast Saga has been delayed for a year, we still got a new trailer for the upcoming film with some new footage. And because the past year didn't have a ton of big movie releases, we'll take what we can get.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

During the Final Fantasy XIV announcement showcase, the next expansion for the MMORPG was revealed through a teaser trailer--it's called Endwalker and it's set to launch in Fall 2021. You can watch the trailer from the livestream below (be aware that there may be spoilers in the trailer).The trailer shows the Warrior of Light (your character) walking on the moon of your realm followed by the map of Eorzea being burnt. You then see core character Alisaie fighting against what looks to be a dragon-like monsters as the world around her burns. Her brother Alphinaud, who's representing the expansion new Sage healer Job, and the Warrior of Light show up to join the fight. There are also teaser shots of the new villain overlooking a flame to represent new "Final Days" and you see returning villain Zenos as well. It appears that the world of Hydaelyn is a lot more than just an Earth-like planet from these shots. The final shot returns to the moon to reveal the new representation of the Warrior of Light who is now a Paladin.New JobsAfter the trailer, director and producer Naoki Yoshida went to much greater detail about what you can expect from FFXIV Endwalker. The first of which was the two new Jobs--one healer and one melee DPS. The trailer shows Alphinaud sporting the new healer Job--it's called Sage and uses a set of floating aether-infused knives called Nouliths (a wild Gundam reference for those who are aware). It's said to be a barrier-focused healer, similar to Scholar. Sages will start at level 70 with no required class prerequisite, but you need at least one other Job at level 70 and you must own the Endwalker expansion.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Final Fantasy XIV announcement showcase provided a wealth of new information for players of Square Enix's MMORPG, including details on the upcoming Endwalker expansion set to launch in Fall 2021. Toward the end of the presentation, it was also revealed that a full PlayStation 5 version of FFXIV is in the works. It will take advantage of the new generation of hardware and it'll hit open beta on April 13 this year.Although the PS4 version of FFXIV can be played on PS5 through backwards compatibility, this new version features performance and graphical perks. You'll be able to choose between two graphics options--a full native 4K resolution mode and a frame rate priority mode that uses 1440p resolution. Either way, the PS5 version will benefit from much faster loading speeds, performance stability, and overall visual enhancements.Continual improvements to graphics and performance are planned to be rolled out in subsequent updates and patches. No official release date was given, although it was said that full service will begin after open beta ends.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker was revealed during the FFXIV announcement showcase--it's the next expansion for the MMORPG, and it came with a teaser trailer and several details outlined by director and producer Naoki Yoshida. While there are wild implications for where the story is going next, that wasn't all that the FFXIV team had in store. A new Live Letter from the Producer stream followed the showcase to detail FFXIV patch 5.5, which will lead into the Endwalker expansion.It's a two-part update that's called Death Unto Dawn and will set players up for the Endwalker story. The first part will go live on April 13, which lines up with the PlayStation 5 open beta for FFXIV, and the second part is set for the end of May, which comes after the digital FFXIV Fan Fest event (scheduled for May 15 and 16). The following details may contain spoilers for those not caught up in FFXIV's main story.Screenshots shared in the Live Letter stream show a gathering of several major characters who represent the various regions across FFXIV's world, and this is likely about the events that happened at the very end of the 5.4 storyline. The new main story dungeon was also teased--it's called Palgth'an and looks like it could be the beginning of destruction across Eorzea (which has been alluded to in the narrative and Endwalker details). Palgth'an is compatible with the Trust system so you can take AI characters with you.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you were worried you'd have to go more than a few months without a new video game documentary, worry no longer. A new five-part Nintendo documentary is reportedly planned for a March 1 premiere date, and it will be free for everyone to watch.According to Deadline, Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story will premiere on Crackle, the ad-supported streaming service previously owned by Sony. Written and directed by Jeremy Snead and narrated by Sean Astin, who previously worked together on Video Games: The Movie, the series will tackle over a century of Nintendo's history and it was developed over the course of four years.The series includes interviews with a number of industry figures, including former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime and head of Xbox Phil Spencer, as well as celebrities like Wil Wheaton. One other interview subject who will appear is Tom Kalinske, the former CEO of Sega of America who is credited with the Genesis' success and actually standing a chance against Nintendo's SNES. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's never too late to learn how to play video games--or connect with family you've never truly gotten to know. That was the case for Mary, a woman from Bolton, England who finally began to learn about her grandson Jason via Xbox Live.In a video posted by Xbox on February 5, grandmother Mary and grandson Jason--who live hours apart and have never really known each other--finally get to learn about each other through gaming. Mary received an Xbox Series S so she could play Minecraft with Jason, who ran her through how to use the controller and play the game over voice chat.Over the course of several weeks, Jason learned about Mary's life, including her large family that included five siblings. Meanwhile, Mary learned how to race across the English countryside in Forza Horizon 4, and she also explored the wide-open water with Jason in Sea of Thieves. It seemed to help her fend off loneliness during the ongoing pandemic. With lockdown in various parts of the world approaching 12 months now, that human connection is extremely important.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hitman 3 stands as the culmination of IO Interactive's reboot of the series, which took stealth and assassinations into a bunch of intricate, elaborate sandboxes. Though the Hitman series is done (for now), we know IOI's next move: a James Bond game, tentatively titled Project 007. The details on what exactly that game will entail are pretty thin at the moment, but with its three most recent Hitman games essentially forming one big, expansive package, we have a lot of material through which to search for clues as to what the developer might have in mind for an interactive take on 007.We've played a ton of the World of Assassination series, and some aspects of its levels seem like they could work pretty well in a 007 game. At the very least, we've got some ideas about which we can speculate wildly. Take a look below at our notions of how Hitman might inform James Bond when players turn in their ICA 19 for a Walther PPK.Unconventional Solutions (To The Problem Of Killing Guys)Most Bond adventures start with 007 visiting Q to pick up whatever new gadgets the scientists working for MI-6 have devised. So we always see Bond heading into a mission with things like a watch that hides a cutting laser or a car with an ejector seat. The thing is, those items rarely get used in a straightforward way. The ejector seat isn't to save Bond from a wreck but to get rid of a henchman who has Bond at gunpoint.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Nemesis System used in the games Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War is one of the coolest open-world gameplay hooks we've ever seen, letting you form rivalries against non-player characters based on your previous actions. If you were hoping other games would implement it, however, that will be a lot harder to do now, as Warner Bros. has patented it.As spotted by IGN, this week the US Patent and Trademark Office announced that a patent for the Nemesis System would be valid as of February 23. However, the page listing the issuing date is not available online at the moment.This followed years of attempting to patent the system that went back to shortly after the release of Shadow of Mordor. A filing from 2016 described a system "for managing non-player characters and power centers in a computer game [that] are based on character hierarchies and individualized correspondences between each character's traits or rank and events that involve other non-player characters or objects."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Kadokawa Corporation has given Sony a 1.93% ownership stake in the company, a financial deal that the Japanese media conglomerate says will allow it to utilize Sony's “global expansion power of animation and consumer games.”“We believe that it is necessary to procure such funds in order not to miss potential investment opportunities and to solidify our ability to create IP based on our track record of creating rich and unique IP consisting of a diverse portfolio of books, movies, animations, games, and UGC platforms, both financially and financially,” it said in a statement as reported by VGC.The deal will also see CyberAgent--owner of popular smartphone game developer CyGames--receive the same percentage of shares in the company, which in turn will allow Kadowkawa Corporation to create and develop new intellectual properties in addition to maximizing the IP that it already owns.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Acclaimed and Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino has shared his thoughts on 2019's blockbuster smash Joker, and in particular the grisly and uncomfortable talk show scene involving Robert DeNiro's character.In an Empire podcast conversation with director Edgar Wright, Tarantino discussed the scene, in which Joaquin Phoenix's Joker meets DeNiro's Murray Franklin, confesses his murderous ways, and then shoots Franklin in the head.Tarantino said the scene succeeds in subverting expectations and convinces the audience that Joker should kill Franklin.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Tetris Effect and Rez Infinite director Tetsuya Mizuguchi has confirmed that Enhance has begun work on a current-generation title, likely PS5, using past games as an inspiration.Speaking to Famitsu (via VGC), Mizuguchi says that the studio's next game will likely be building off Area X, an area added to Rez Infinite when it launched in 2016 that is widely considered one of the best parts of the re-release."In particular, Area X in Rez Infinite was developed as a 'prologue' to the next game, and we hope to use that concept in the next generation of games," says Mizuguchi. "With the concept and XR technology, we’d like to increase the overall resolution and create a more detailed game."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com