Spanish streamer and EU Heretics team owner David "TheGrefg" Martinez has beaten the record for most concurrent viewers for any gaming-related stream on Twitch. The content creator's stream revealing he's a new skin in Fortnite managed to reach 2.5 million viewers, which is far above the previous record holders.For context of how big this is, the runner-ups to this record include channels like Twitch eLeague and YouTuber Rubiu5. The former has managed to reach 1.1 million viewers and the latter surpassed 1.06 million--both of which are much lower than 2.5 million, so Martinez has utterly smashed the record by a significant margin.Gallery Though not as big, other runner-ups include streamer Ninja, who also has a Fortnite skin styled after him, and has had as many as 667,000 concurrent viewers and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had over 400,000 concurrent viewers when she streamed Among Us.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Monster Hunter Rise launches for Nintendo Switch this March, and alongside the game, Capcom is releasing three new Amiibo figures. The publisher had previously teased that these figures will unlock special layered armor sets in the game, and now it has revealed what those sets look like.All three figures net you gear based on the Magnamalo, Rise's new flagship monster. The Magnamalo Amiibo unlocks the Sinister Seal armor set for your hunter, while the Palamute and Palico Amiibo unlock similar sets of armor for your Palamute and Palico companion, respectively. You can take a look at each of the armor sets below.Sinister Seal hunter armorGallery The standalone Amiibo figures will be sold exclusively at GameStop in the US and EB Games in Canada. The Magnamalo figure also comes packaged with the Monster Hunter Rise Collector's edition, which features other digital and physical extras like an enamel pin and a sticker pack. You can learn more in our Monster Hunter Rise preorder guide.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hitman 3, the stylish assassination game, features Agent 47 trekking and executing missions all over the world. Ahead of the game's launch, IO Interactive took to Twitter to announce all six of the locations Agent 47 will visit.HITMAN 3 – All Locations Revealed: https://t.co/gxw79z1kpCThis is a spoiler-free list of all six locations in the game, where we’re focused on the locations and not the story. pic.twitter.com/SCq33KBsnj — IO Interactive (@IOInteractive) January 11, 2021In addition to the previously revealed Chongqing, Dubai, and Dartmoor locations, Hitman 3 will take players to Berlin in Germany, Mendoza in Argentina, and the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. Mendoza will host Agent 47's penultimate mission, and the game's epilogue will take place in the Carpathian Mountains.GameSpot editor Phil Hornshaw was able to play Hitman 3's first two levels set in Dubai and Dartmoor. Hornshaw praised the gameplay and commented, "For its third game, Hitman 3 isn't changing the formula that made the first two titles so much fun. Each of its missions is a huge, clockwork-like contraption of various characters wandering here and there, which can be disrupted through often-weird, novel killing methods."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

During CES 2021, Sony outlined release dates for some upcoming PlayStation 5 titles, including GhostWire: Tokyo, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Project Athia, Solar Ash, and Stray. The company also confirmed that Capcom's sci-fi title Pragmata has been pushed back to 2023.Neither Sony nor Capcom have shared new footage of Pragmata during CES 2021. Originally slated to launch in 2022, Pragmata was unveiled in June 2020 with a trailer that didn’t reveal much. Questions around narrative, gameplay, characters, and the like have yet to be answered. However, it's supposed to launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2023.Toward the end of Sony's CES 2021 livestream, the company's logo was punctuated by small-print text featuring other release date announcements. This includes Kena: Bridge of Spirits (which releases this March), Solar Ash (launching this June), GhostWire: Tokyo and Stray (which both drop this October) and Project Athia (coming out in January 2022).Info from Gamespot.com

Sony's CES 2021 presentation gave us a look at some of the new tech on the way from the company this year, including various PS5 titles. Although few details were shared during the stream, we did learn some updated release windows for a handful of upcoming games, including Ghostwire: Tokyo and Stray.As noted in a disclaimer during the presentation, both Ghostwire and Stray are now slated to release for PS5 in October 2021. Both had previously been confirmed for this year, but this further narrows down their release window. No further information about the titles was revealed beyond that.Ghostwire: Tokyo is the next project from Tango Gameworks, the studio founded by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. We've heard little about the game since last summer, when director Kenji Kimura spoke about how the title will take advantage of PS5's DualSense controller and other hardware features.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There are plenty of indie games to look forward to in 2021, and Sony has just confirmed that two PlayStation console exclusive indie titles are coming out sooner rather than later. You can expect to get your hands on both Solar Ash and Kena: Bridge of Spirits within the first half of 2021.In a small text message seen during Sony Interactive Entertainment's CES 2021 press conference, Sony revealed the release windows for several upcoming games. Both Solar Ash and Kena: Bridge of Spirits are listed, with the former scheduled to come out in June and the latter in March.From developer Heart Machine, Solar Ash sees you play as a mysterious individual who can seemingly glide across practically anything, speeding through beautifully stylized worlds and just as quickly getting thrown into frantic bouts of combat. The game is scheduled to launch for PS4, PS5, and PC.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

During Sony's CES livestream, Sony revealed that Square Enix's Project Athia will launch on PlayStation 5 in January 2022. The window was confirmed by way of a very small block of text on a PlayStation disclaimer image, which also confirmed dates for other upcoming PS5 titles. A release date for the game was previously unknown.Project Athia was first announced as an exclusive title for the PS5 during Sony's PS5 reveal event stream. The trailer played during the announcement revealed a protagonist leaping and exploring a fantasy world with menacing-looking enemies. Project Athia's taglines suggest that the protagonist will endure something like a fish out of water trial: "In a world not her own, where resolve will be tested, truths will be questioned, and devotions will be doubted, she will rise." Not much else is known about the game at this time.Project Athia is being produced by Square Enix's Luminous Productions, a subsidiary formed to develop AAA titles. Luminous Productions' past titles include only Final Fantasy XV, and Project Athia is the studio's first departure from a Final Fantasy installment.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sometimes the list of names attached to a project is enough to pique our interest before we even have a name or a logline for it. Such is the case with an upcoming project set to star actor Andy Samberg. THR reports that Samberg is set to star in an upcoming sci-fi comedy-drama for Apple Studios under the Apple Original Films name, and will produce it, too. Andy Siara will write the script for the film, which is based off an idea by Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg; Siara also wrote Palm Springs, another science fiction comedy-drama starring Samberg, which released on Hulu in summer 2020.Noah Hawley will produce the film through his 26 Keys production company alongside Dan Seligmann. Hawley created Legion and Fargo for FX, and is attached to the upcoming FX Aliens show as well. Ben Stiller and Nicky Weinstock will produce through Red Hour, with Jackie Cohn as executive producer. Bob-Wakberg will receive a production credit, too.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

When WandaVision premieres on Disney+, it'll be the first Marvel Cinematic Universe entry released in well over a year. While this is the first step into Marvel Studios' future, though, it's a show deeply tied to the past of television. The series finds Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) not fighting superpowered villains, but instead living inside a series of sitcoms as they slowly try to decipher what is happening to their reality.The trailers show a number of tributes to sitcoms from decades dating back to the '50s, long before the majority of the show's cast was born. Naturally, though, director Matt Shakman knew exactly how to get the actors and crew of the series ready for filming. After all, his own history is tied to sitcoms as one of the stars of the late '80s series Just the Ten of Us."This was the best homework that one could be asked to do, which is watch awesome old timeless television," he told GameSpot. "And so yeah, we watched episodes of I Love Lucy and [The] Dick Van Dyke [Show], The Donna Reed Show, My Three Sons, all the way up through Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie--especially those two because they're about people with special powers trying to hide them from their suburban friends. Then all the way up through The Brady Bunch and All In the Family, you name it."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

We've been waiting to see where else Sony can take its live-action Spider-verse following the mixed bag that was 2018's Venom film, but we're going to be waiting a few months longer. Sony has delayed its upcoming film Morbius until the fall, according to a report from Variety.Sony has reportedly pushed Morbius from its already delayed March 19 release until October 8, 2021, Variety writes. The film, set to star Jared Leto, has been on Sony's schedule for a while now. It was originally set to release in July 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It held onto its March 19, 2021 release date at least up through mid-December, before this latest delay.Jared Leto plays the part of Morbius, the Living Vampire, an anti-hero from the Spider-Man comics. Like many of Spider-Man's allies and enemies, Morbius is a mutation resulting from the combination of human and animal DNA. Dr. Michael Morbius seeks to cure his rare blood disease but, in doing so, inherits many vampiric characteristics. Though he began life as a villain, he's morphed into an anti-hero character in the vein of Venom.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Capcom's limited-time Monster Hunter Rise demo is now available on the Switch eShop, and it supports local and online multiplayer for up to four players. To take advantage of the latter, however, you'll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, but Nintendo is letting players try out the service free of charge right now.To coincide with the release of the Monster Hunter Rise demo, Nintendo is offering a free seven-day NSO trial through its My Nintendo rewards program. It doesn't cost any points to redeem the trial, so it's available to everyone who has a Nintendo Account but not an existing subscription to the service.This free trial is a limited-time offer; it will only be available until February 2, one day after the Monster Hunter Rise demo is scheduled to be delisted. You can also only redeem the offer once, and it will automatically convert into a one-month subscription after the seven-day period end unless you turn off automatic renewal before then.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Last week, a custom black PS5 model went on sale via the store SUP3R5, promising a sleek and classic look for the PS5--which is currently only available in a white version. The systems went out of stock on the site almost immediately, but following what the site says were threats to its safety, orders are being refunded and the system is no longer being sold at all.According to VGC, a statement on the company's now-deleted Twitter account said the sale didn't go as planned, as players were charged without knowing if they had actually secured a system, and a later message said existing orders were canceled due to threats to the staff's safety."Last night, our team began receiving credible threats to their safety," the store said in the statement. "We take these threats seriously. We aren't willing to risk the safety and well-being of our team, or the potential impact this would bring to delivering your order."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Awesome Games Done Quick 2021--better known as AGDQ 2021--came to an end early Sunday morning, and the speedrunning marathon managed to raise big numbers to support the Prevent Cancer Foundation. In total, over $2.7 million was donated during the week-long event, and we saw some truly marvelous feats in a variety of games.The final donation total for AGDQ 2021 was $2,760,516.03, to be precise, with more than 25,000 different people and organizations contributing. Of these, the largest donation total came from the Games Done Quick organization itself, which donated a little over $187,000, while the shirt website The Yetee donated $160,000 in total. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Capcom's limited-time Monster Hunter Rise demo is now available on the Switch eShop, and it supports local and online multiplayer for up to four players. To take advantage of the latter, however, you'll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, but Nintendo is letting players try out the service free of charge right now.To coincide with the release of the Monster Hunter Rise demo, Nintendo is offering a free seven-day NSO trial through its My Nintendo rewards program. It doesn't cost any points to redeem the trial, so it's available to everyone who has a Nintendo Account but not an existing subscription to the service.This free trial is a limited-time offer; it will only be available until February 2, one day after the Monster Hunter Rise demo is scheduled to be delisted. You can also only redeem the offer once, and it will automatically convert into a one-month subscription after the seven-day period end unless you turn off automatic renewal before then.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Barely ten days into 2021, the world remains more chaotic than ever. If you're looking for some way to escape the madness outside, then Bandai and Nintendo may have a solution for you: A massive Pokemon pillow that allows you to stick your head into the gaping maw of the ghostly Gengar.More than just a comfortable plushy portal to block out the outside world and possibly scream into, the Gengar cushion also allows you to unroll the Pokemon's trademark lengthy tongue out as a convenient blanket. At five feet and five inches in length, it looks to be a comfortable surface to lay on before you enter the sensory deprivation chamber that is Gengar's mouth.Good luck getting your hands on one of these pillows right now though. According to Pokemon merchandise-tracking website Pokeshopper, the Gengar cushion--which costs over $250--sold out after an hour of going live. It's also worth noting that in Pokemon lore, Gengar's mouth is capable of breaching the dimensional barriers between life and death.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com