The holiday season has hit the wild west in Red Dead Online, the multiplayer mode for Red Dead Redemption 2, bringing some seasonal goodies and bonuses alongside a special new bounty event.To start, the holiday festivities will bring special decor like wreaths, lights, and decorations around the towns, and the streets will be filled with carolers. You can pick up some free gifts in the Benefits page, including a coupons for a free coat and repeater. You can also visit gunsmiths for a new Winter Evans Repeater variant, and a purchasable Krampus Shotgun variant.You can also pick up some new Turkoman breeds of horses in four color variants, and gather triple RDO$ and XP payouts in holiday-themed competitive modes. The Wilderness Outfitters are offering 30% off everything, along with deep discounts on butcher tables, moonshine shacks and their respective upgrades.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As is always the case with Christmas approaching, Valve has kicked off the latest winter sale on Steam. 2020's edition features the usual array of discounts on thousands of games and DLC packs, making for an overwhelming selection to choose from. The Steam winter sale is live right now and runs until January 5 at 10 AM PT.Make it through the standard server errors that are accompanying the sale's launch and you'll see it doesn't have a corresponding minigame or anything terribly in-depth to it, as some past Steam sales have. That said, you'll notice birds adorning the various hubs on the Steam store, and you can get "festive bird" stickers for use on Steam that celebrate various games. You can grab these from the Steam points shop.But the real highlight of a Steam sale are the deals, and there is no shortage of them, including great new games released in 2020. Our Game of the Year, Half-Life: Alyx, is discounted to $45, although bear in mind you'll need a VR headset in order to play it. Other GameSpot Game of the Year nominees are on sale, including Hades for $20, Yakuza: Like a Dragon for $45, and Spiritfarer for $22.49.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer CD Projekt Red has announced a new sales figure for Cyberpunk 2077. The embattled RPG sold more than 13 million copies as of December 20, which makes it one of the most successful RPG launches of all time.CD Projekt Red said the number covers sales across all platforms, and it also factors in "returns submitted by retail clients in brick-and-mortar as well as digital storefronts." From the wording of the news release, it sounds like 13 million is the number of copies sold, including returns, except for those filed to CDPR when this news release went out.Here is the exact wording that CDPR used: "This figure represents the estimated volume of retail sales across all hardware platforms (factoring in returns submitted by retail clients in brick-and-mortar as well as digital storefronts), i.e. the 'sell-through' figure, less all refund requests e-mailed directly to the Company by the publication date of this report in the framework of the 'Help Me Refund' campaign."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Throughout its history, the role-playing game genre has offered some of the more complex pieces of storytelling and gameplay within the medium of games. In 2020, the RPG genre hit some notable strides with some great releases. Along with the revival of the legendary JRPG Final Fantasy VII with its remake, we also saw other games lean further into the craft of letting players chart their own stories and character dynamics in games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Crusader Kings III.In the following roundup, you can find a selection of RPGs that GameSpot has rated an 8 and above throughout 2020. This year proved to be a remarkable year for the RPG genre, and the games we've pulled together below take the familiar tenets of the genre and reincorporate them in some exciting ways.For more on 2020's best games, including a breakdown of GameSpot's Game of the Year pick Half-Life: Alyx, be sure to check out our hub page of all the year's standout titles.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With Christmas just a few days away, retailers and digital storefronts are offering one last round of deals before 2021 begins. Whether you game on console or PC, there are plenty of great digital game deals, including multiple holiday sales on the Nintendo Switch eShop. If you're looking for something new to play over the holiday, you can save big on popular games from Ubisoft, Bandai Namco, and Capcom.Capcom's holiday sale on the eShop runs through January 4 and includes healthy doses of Mega Man, Resident Evil, and Devil May Cry. Resident Evil 4, 5, and 6 are all on sale for $15 each, while Revelations and its sequel are only $8 each. Both of the mainline Mega Man Legacy Collections and X Legacy Collections are discounted to $10 each. Meanwhile, you can grab Devil May Cry 3 for $12 and its predecessors for 10 bucks each. Other notable Capcom deals include Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate for $16, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy for $15, and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen for $15.Ubisoft's holiday sale is live through December 31 and is led by Immortals Fenyx Rising. The open-world Zelda-like is on sale for $40, down from $60, just a few weeks after its release. You can also grab turn-based tactics game Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle for $15, Just Dance 2021 for $30, and Rayman Legends Definitive edition for $10.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As the new year approaches, Microsoft has announced the free games Xbox Live subscribers will get next month as part of its Games with Gold offering. For January, Xbox users can get their hands on Breakdown, Dead Rising, The King of Fighters XIII, and Little Nightmares.All four games are available to any Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S owner with an Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate membership. Check the list below to learn the availability of each.Free Xbox Games With Gold For January 2021Little Nightmares: January 1-31The King of Fighters XIII: January 1-15Breakdown: January 16-31Dead Rising: January 16-February 15Developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, Little Nightmares is a 2D horror platformer where players must survive a massive industrial ship called The Maw with the fragile, yellow rainjacket-clad child Six. Having released to much critical acclaim in 2017 and receiving a few pieces of DLC thereafter, Tarsier Studios announced a sequel was in the works in 2019. Little Nightmares 2 drops on February 11, 2021.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There's really nothing quite like getting invested into a great shooter. With games like Destiny 2 reinventing itself with new mechanics and storytelling, and Doom Eternal leaning further into combat puzzle formula, the shooters of 2020 offered players new ways to embrace fast-paced action and responsive shooting gameplay in satisfying ways. Along those games, there were also other shooters like Half-Life: Alyx that embraced new technology to further enhance the sense of immersion and reshape our view of what first-person shooters are capable of.In GameSpot's best of 2020 coverage, we've pulled together a selection of the year's best shooters across different platforms. This particular breakdown focuses on games that GameSpot has given a score of 8 and above, which includes both first and third person shooters. For more on 2020's best games, including a breakdown of GameSpot's Game of the Year pick Half-Life: Alyx, be sure to check out our hub page of all the year's standout titles.Destiny 2: Beyond Light -- 8/10“Beyond Light might not be the biggest expansion, but it does feel like we've entered a new chapter in the game's life, with new priorities and an approach that makes the game more resonant in a way that goes beyond satisfying shooting. On the whole, Destiny 2 might be more of the same than it is different, but what's the same about it--like its phenomenal raids and tight, satisfying gameplay--is still largely pretty great, and what's different is mostly making the game all the more worthwhile.” -- Phil HornshawContinue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The action-adventure genre is among the most prominent in gaming. As experiences that are easy to pick up but still demand a level of finesse to play, they're frequently where folks go for a balanced mix of fun and challenge. If you're a fan of the genre, then you'll be happy to know that 2020 was packed with several standout gems.In the following roundup, you can find a selection of action-adventure games that GameSpot has scored 8 or higher throughout 2020. The games below cover a wide range of styles within the genre as a whole, from action-RPGs and platformers to first-person shooters and beat-'em-ups. Whatever you lean toward, these action-adventure games are well worth playing and come highly recommended.Like previous years, we've determined as a team some of the best games this year. For a look at what GameSpot finds as this year's finest games, be sure to check out our Best Games of 2020, but if you're keener to see what's in store next year, jump into our hub for the Most Anticipated Games of 2021.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

2020 was unsurprisingly light on superhero movies, and, in fact, this was the first year since 2009 that no Marvel movie hit the big screen. But that doesn't mean we were completely lacking in quality cape-and-cowl content--far from it. While the MCU may have been MIA through 2020, the vacuum was filled by an unexpected bright spot by the name of Birds of Prey--or, perhaps more accurately, called Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, the title it held onto for about a week or so after it hit theaters. But it's just Birds of Prey now, and that's what really matters.Birds of Prey was a movie that nobody saw coming, especially given Margot Robbie's introduction to the role of Harley Quinn back in 2016's Suicide Squad. The movie really had no right to shape up the way it did, not with so much stacked against it. Sitting down in a theater to finally see it at release--just a month or so before the pandemic really took hold in early February--there was an overwhelming sense of both trepidation and curiosity from the crowd. Everything about this could so easily go south, or just become a Suicide Squad Part 2. It could have brought the DCEU's winning streak to a crashing halt and regressed all the progress made right back to the rain-slicked, grey-toned monotony of days gone by.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Every year at GameSpot, we give a variety of awards to the best games that came out. Aside from our top 10 list, category awards, and overall pick for Game of the Year 2020, we also wax about our favorite games and moments. We've already published our Editor's Spotlight Awards, which features our team's favorite games that didn't make it into our main awards. But we also have our Editor's Highlight Awards, a roundup detailing our favorite moments, game mechanics, and cultural events in the world of gaming this past year.These highlights encompass a wide range of things that we loved experiencing in games in 2020, whether it was Ghost of Tsushima's outstanding Guiding Wind mechanic or the first time we celebrated a villager's birthday in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This year may have been tumultuous due to the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, it was also one packed with some outstanding moments in games and the joyous community surrounding it.As a note, there are potential spoilers around the games we've discussed below, so be wary as you read through our various highlights. But what were your biggest highlights in games this past year? Let us know in the comments below!Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

When it came time to decide GameSpot's top 10 shows of 2020, it wasn't an easy task. In a year where many of us spent months at home locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, TV was an escape. That should be evident in our top 10, filled with shows that made us think (Devs), scream in terror (The Haunting of Bly Manor), relive past glories (The Last Dance), and simply feel good (Ted Lasso). When it came to deciding our top TV show of 2020, though, the answer was clear.FX's What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 was the perfect escape from this year. It made us laugh nonstop, it constantly surprised us, and it managed to take a stellar first season and actually improve on it to create a more interesting world, filled with disco vampires, socially awkward slayers, and a society of the undead that wants nothing to do with the characters we've grown to love since the series premiered in 2019.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

2021 is just around the corner now, and Pokemon Go is kicking off the new year in a big way. Developer Niantic has outlined a variety of events it will be hosting in the first month of 2021, including a New Year celebration, new Pokemon Spotlight Hours, and lots of Legendary Raids. You can read more about January's biggest Pokemon Go events below.Table of Contents [hide]New Year's Event New Year's EventPokemon Go New Year's event Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

On the evening of December 20, WWE held one of its best PPVs of the year, TLC. The evening saw a couple exciting matches featuring wrestlers use tables, ladders, and chairs. We saw a man get set on fire in the middle of the ring--RIP The Fiend, for now--and Roman Reigns vs. Kevin Owens was one of the best matches of the year. Check out all the results below.The main card of WWE's PPV TLC kicked off with a championship TLC match between Drew McIntyre and AJ Styles. However, along the way, Money in the Bank contract holder The Miz got thrown into the mix, and it didn't go too well for him.The Thunderdome has moved to a new location, and TLC will take place at Tropicana Field in Tampa, Florida. That's right. It's a WWE PPV in the middle of a baseball stadium. However, since you can't attend the show in person, you'll have to watch it the old fashion way--through the WWE Network.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Steam runs a number of big seasonal sales each year, but it has revealed that the most recent--the Autumn Sale that coincided with the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend--was its biggest yet. The sale drew in new users to Steam, as well as a huge number of returning players.While the sale exceeded previous events according to a number of benchmarks Steam tracks, the one it chose to highlight was a record amount of revenue going back to developers and publishers. The blog post says that, while it's difficult to quantify how many games are finding success on Steam, the data shows that there are more games than ever grossing at least $10,000, all the way up to $1,000,000.Valve also reveals that just under a million players spent money on Steam for the first time during the Autumn Sale--which isn't too surprising in a year that has seen rapid increases in the number of people gaming on all devices, due to the pandemic keeping them inside. The peak number of concurrent players logging on for the sale also increased by around 7 million when compared to last year's Autumn Sale.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Destiny 2's big Beyond Light update may have started the process of retiring much of the game's old content, but Bungie is also bringing back some old favorites--starting with the original Destiny raid, Vault of Glass. In a new interview with Polygon, assistant game director Joe Blackburn has explained how he's working to make sure the new version of Vault of Glass plays just how you remember, despite the differences between Destiny and the current version of Destiny 2.Blackburn said that the goal of the re-release is to make running Vault of Glass in Destiny 2 feel the same as it did when players got into it for the very first time. He explains why this means that some tweaks are necessary, rather than including the original version of the raid as a straight port."The guardians have become significantly stronger in this amount of time," Blackburn explains, saying that the raid team went back into the original raid to see how it played, before deciding that "we would smoke this with Destiny 2 weapons and armor mods."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com