Michael Burry, the hedge fund manager portrayed by Christian Bale in The Big Short, has made a fortune on GameStop's stock after holding it for years.MoneyWeb reported that Burry's company, Scion Asset Management, purchased 3 million shares in GameStop back in 2019, which were worth $16.56 million at the time. He's now turned that into $271 million thanks to the meteoric rise of GameStop.According to reports, Burry made $800 million from the bets he made during the 2008 financial crisis, and now he's even richer thanks to his investments in GameStop.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series is returning to US theatres this week for a special engagement that will bring the movies to IMAX screens for the first time in 4K. Whether or not you want to or feel comfortable going to a cinema, however, is a decision you'll have to make for yourself.The screenings begin on February 5 in select markets--you can see if your local cinema has the movies on this website. Right now, it appears this event is only for The Lord of the Rings and not The Hobbit.For the first time in IMAX, experience the magic of Middle-Earth. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is making its debut on the BIG screen. Remastered by Peter Jackson in stunning 4K, experience the epic in IMAX theatres Feb 5. Reserve your seat: https://t.co/LBzdw8tML0 pic.twitter.com/Q9wexUkRAx — IMAX (@IMAX) February 3, 2021These will be the new, remastered 4K versions of the trilogy, presented in 4K and with all of the other improvements like color grading that makes each film now look more cohesive.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sacha Baron Cohen has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards. This distinction puts the actor in intriguing company who share rarefied air--previously, Helen Mirren earned three nominations in 2007, and Jamie Foxx as well in 2005.Cohen has been nominated for his work separately as an actor and a producer to last year's surprise release (but unsurprising hit) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a follow-up to its 2006 shock comedy tightly laced with satirical content. Additionally, Cohen has been nominated for his supporting role in The Trial of the Chicago 7, a polar-opposite role where he played Abbie Hoffman, the political and social activist. On Twitter, Cohen said he was "shocked and humbled" by the news.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Final Fantasy XIV's next seasonal event is set to kick off next week. The MMO's Valentine's Day and Little Ladies' Day celebrations are being combined into one event this year, and it'll feature a new questline to complete and seasonal rewards to unlock.The event begins at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET on February 10 and runs until 6:59 AM PT / 9:59 AM PT on March 8. To participate in the event quest, A Delivery of Love, you'll need to speak to Lisette de Valentione in Old Gridania. You'll also need to be at least level 15 and have completed the Gridanian Envoy, Ul'dahn Envoy, or Lominsan Envoy story quests before you can participate.A seasonal event like no other is about to debut in #FFXIV! 💖🌸Valentione’s Day and Little Ladies’ Day will be arriving together in a collaboration celebration on February 10 at 12:00 a.m. (PST) / 8:00 (GMT)! 💞 https://t.co/ESir7wlVQj pic.twitter.com/HgNIV8ahL1 — FINAL FANTASY XIV (@FF_XIV_EN) February 3, 2021You'll be able to earn two special items as part of the event: the Lovely Moogle Cap headgear and the Stuffed Kupka Kupp tabletop decoration, both of which you can take a look at below. You'll have until the end of the event to complete the seasonal quests and unlock these items. You'll also have another chance to purchase some items from past years in the Seasonal Shop.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amid the ongoing drama around GameStop's stock price, the video game retailer has announced the hiring of new executives to help lead the company's efforts in the digital and e-commerce markets, as well as other units.GameStop has hired Matt Francis, the former engineering lead at Amazon Web Services, to become the retailer's first-ever Chief Technology Officer. His first day will be February 15.In his role, Francis will lead and oversee the team that runs GameStop's technology and e-commerce units.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's certainly no secret that many on the internet have fallen head over heels for Resident Evil Village's main antagonist Lady Dimitrescu, AKA The Big Lady. Gamers have fully embraced their "horny on main" energy thirsting after this large and in charge vampire. With Capcom releasing the official details on the vampire queen's height, memes have gone pretty wild.Xbox leaned into not just the Big Lady hype, but also the joke that the Series X kind of looks like a fridge with its most recent "update" on the next gen console, featuring Lady Dimitrescu for scale. Though they haven't revealed how many teraflops per inch of big lady the next console/fridge might be packing.Remedy brought its own spin, creating a size chart comparing the villainous monsters from its own franchises with Lady Dimitrescu. In the Remedy-verse, our girl isn't quite as imposing, with the Former towering over her at 79.12 meters. The team even added teeth to the Former so it could pose for the meme with a picture ready smile. But Lady Dimitrescu still manages to outclass protagonist Jesse Faden with her imposing height.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Medium, the latest horror game from Bloober Team, is heavy on story and has plenty of elements that are open to interpretation. Now that the game has been out for a few days on Xbox Series X|S and PC, we're diving deep into its plots and gameplay in a Spoilercast edition of GameSpot After Dark.Video producer Jean-Luc Seipke is joined by associate editor Jordan Ramée, who reviewed The Medium on GameSpot and gave it a glowing 9, and editor Phil Hornshaw (who also played). The three are all pretty big fans of the game and discuss its Silent Hill and Resident Evil influences, its old-school horror gameplay, and its next-generation features--specifically, The Medium's gameplay sequences that have you navigating the material world and the spirit world at the same time.The trio also delves into The Medium's story to discuss aspects that greatly affected them, as well as some parts that didn't land so well.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

All 11 seasons of the comedy Modern Family are coming to Disney-owned Hulu and NBC's Peacock beginning February 3, according to a statement. You can start watching the show about the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan in Los Angeles immediately."Peacock is home to a massive catalog of iconic movies and shows, so a groundbreaking comedy like Modern Family is a perfect addition and representative of the quality entertainment our free and premium customers enjoy on the service," said Val Boreland, executive vice president of content acquisitions for NBCUniversal Entertainment, Television, and Streaming. "Because viewers of all ages love Modern Family, we are creating a fan experience on Peacock that goes beyond just episodes of the series to include curated collections, bonus content, and more."It's hard to read that and not think immediately of how Peacock has given The Office the royal treatment by offering Superfan Episodes--re-cut and re-edited episodes of the beloved series that add a wealth of bonus materials, deleted scenes, and even completely new plotlines that never made it to air. Boreland recently told Deadline that "the bar has been set by The Office," in rolling out classic series on these streaming services, but it's unclear if Modern Family will be supplemented in a similar fashion.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Universal Japan's Super Nintendo World has soft-launched in Osaka, and with it has come a pretty extensive playlist from the Universal Parks News Today YouTube channel of videos showing off Super Nintendo World's rides, restaurants, stores, and other secrets. There's tons to see, even if you can't make it to the park in person quite yet.Through the videos from Universal Parks News Today, anyone can get a glimpse of what Super Nintendo World is like. The park itself has been gamified, with each park-goer receiving a wearable wristband that works in conjunction with a mobile app to take the experience up a notch. Using these bracelets and the app, visitors can explore the park and solve various puzzles to snag digital keys to unlock special attractions and other collectibles like virtual coins and stamps. There's even a leaderboard for the visitors who earn the most points across the whole day or for specific rides.With three keys in hand, attendees can take on Bowser Jr. in an AR duel at one of the attractions. To do so, players have to make their way through a recreation of Bowser's castle, complete with Bowser family photos and various Mushroom Kingdom graffiti on the walls, to a screen where Bowser Jr. and his cronies are ready to do their worst. Players then have to use their bodies to avoid attacks, swinging their arms to bat away Bob-ombs, ducking to dodge incoming Bullet Bills, and jumping to hit Question Blocks for power-ups. Combining all these movements, it's time to take on Bowser Jr. and his gang to reclaim the Golden Mushroom for the good guys.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition brings the entire Mass Effect trilogy together with tons of DLC and quality-of-life enhancements. The most noticeable new feature for most players will probably be the visual upgrades, and BioWare is showing that feature off in detail.The Mass Effect Twitter account put out a brief side-by-side video of the jungle world of Virmire from the original Mass Effect. It slowly pans around the environment, letting you see the greater level of detail in the trees and swampland. You'll also notice the changes to the UI, as BioWare has changed it to be more reflective of later games for consistency.The jungles of Virmire have never looked better. Take a peek at #MassEffect Legendary Edition compared to the original. pic.twitter.com/fWZLYJIbHY — Mass Effect (@masseffect) February 3, 2021The tweet forwards to the official site, where you can use a slider to check out some other key scenes and even a nice close-up of the new skin textures on Thane.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

For the upcoming 2021-2022 season, The CW has renewed 12 of its series for new seasons and has ordered additional episodes for current seasons of Walker and Superman & Lois.Many of the renewals are from CW's Arrowverse--even though Arrow is no longer on the air, and Supergirl and Black Lightning are coming to an end. The DC superhero universe has been a major force in The CW's television arsenal for years. Batwoman--which recently began its second season with Javicia Leslie playing the new Batwoman, Ryan Wilder--landed a third season. Additionally, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow were renewed, and the new series Superman & Lois got two additional episodes added to its first season.Outside of the DC shows, fan favorites like Legacies and Walker also got renewed as well. "Though we're just a few weeks into the new season, we wanted to get a strategic head start on next season with these early renewals, which allows our production teams to start laying out story arcs and hiring staff, and at the same time, continues to provide us with a strong, stable schedule to build on for next season," said The CW's chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz in a press release. "As The CW's 2020-2021 season kicks into high gear, we are thrilled creatively with the direction of our first new shows out of the gate, Walker and Superman & Lois, that we wanted to order the additional episodes to complete their first seasons, and we are particularly pleased with the huge success of the launch of Walker, which debuted as our most watched series premiere in 5 years."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

One of the last big items in Destiny 2's Season of the Hunt is the Harbinger mission, which gives players a chance to earn new versions of the Exotic hand cannon Hawkmoon with different perks and stats from the original. In addition to a cool gun, the mission also packs a quest named Bird of Prey, which requires you to find and earn "paracausal feathers" to complete it. Get 100 feathers and you unlock an Exotic ship Radiant Accipiter.Harbinger shifts slightly each week, rotating between different versions of the mission and featuring a different boss and shifting the locations of some enemies and the paracausal feathers. We've run down where to find all five feathers for the Week 3 rotation of Harbinger below.Paracausal Feather 1: Crow's Nest Near Taken Captain EmissaryAfter fighting the Taken Captain Emissary, look for a door leading out of his room on the second level. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

What do you associate with the term "ninja game"? Perhaps you think of speedy action and superhuman agility, crazy character maneuvers, intense swordplay, or sneaky stealth. Odds are, however, that you also associate video game ninjas with games that are really, really hard. You wouldn't be wrong; in the long history of ninja-themed games, a lot of the standout titles are known for the formidable challenges they present. Knowing that, you'd likely expect a retro-throwback 2D platformer starring a cyborg ninja to be a tough test of your skills. Enter Cyber Shadow, a game that delivers everything above, especially the difficulty.Cyber Shadow puts you in the role of the titular Shadow, a cyborg ninja awakened from stasis in the ruins of a massive city. A mad scientist is on the rampage, having fashioned an army of robotic supersoldiers in a crazed quest to revive the dead, and it's up to you to foil his ambitions. It's a simple premise, but Cyber Shadow's story has a complexity that reveals itself as you progress. As you find the souls of your fallen comrades and discover records of the city's destruction and the lunatic doctor's experiments, you learn of a backstory far more interesting and tragic than a simple “mad scientist gone rogue” yarn.Shadow starts the game quite weak, having simple jumping, slashing, and running capabilities. Thankfully, the first level is a merciful introduction, with plentiful health drops, relatively weak enemies, and lots of checkpoints. But it's not long before things start to ramp up considerably, with early bosses and their bullet-spewing, fast-moving patterns giving you a taste of what's to come very soon. By the second area, you start to feel the pressure--quite literally, as crushing factory debris and instant-kill compactors make it clear that your mission is not going to be a walk in the park.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nuts makes a strong start. Its quirky concept and bold art direction are enticing, while its novel yet easily understood core mechanics and hints of mystery offer further encouragement. Unfortunately, Nuts doesn't deliver on its early promise as it struggles to develop its best ideas. Despite a lean playing time, repetition sets in. Nuts opens brightly, but fades all too quickly.Much of your time in Nuts is spent looking for a squirrel and, once found, predicting its next move. The Melmoth Basin Wildlife Reserve is your hunting ground, though as a field researcher you're here only to observe the squirrels, record their movements and file your report. Equipped with a GPS, each day you venture out into the forest to place a few cameras in strategic positions before returning to your tiny caravan to play back the recorded footage and hopefully catch a glimpse of a squirrel or two.It's a delightful premise and the squirrels themselves are adorable, bounding down gullies, clambering up trees, or just perched on a rock, noshing on a nut. Getting footage of these antics is a matter of method and patience rather than any kind of ingenuity. Your handler will first direct you to a specific spot to set up the first camera. When you play back the recording, you need to make a mental note of where the squirrel entered or exited the frame, and then on the next day you return to reposition the cameras and track the preceding or subsequent stage of the squirrel's journey.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Mass Effect franchise is brimming with memorable characters, but there are a few who didn't make it into Shepard's story but are fascinating in their own right. In a new episode of Audio Logs, BioWare's Mac Walters talked about some of the ideas that didn't make the cut, including a Techno-Hippie, among others.Speaking to GameSpot, Walters said that, during development, BioWare took a "there are no bad ideas" stance for coming up with pitches. This, as a result, led to some interesting submissions."There's a lot of really fun characters in here that eventually didn't make it for one reason or another," Walter said, referencing a never-seen-before character ideas document that was shown to GameSpot. "Although I'm sure now that they're going to be out in the world, people will be clamoring for some of them, like the, you know, the crazy Quarian King.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com