In the most dramatic move yet for a studio making its plans for movie releases in 2021, Warner has announced that it will put its entire theatrical line-up onto streaming next year.As reported by Variety, the studio's movies will hit HBO Max in the US and Canada simultaneously with a theatrical release for the first month of release. This includes films such as the The Matrix 4, Dune, Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat, The Suicide Squad, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Space Jam: A New Legacy, James Wan's horror movie Malignant, and the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. Once the first month is over, the movies will leave HBO Max and will follow a normal release pattern.I got you something ✨nice✨ this year:🎁 The biggest movie premieres🎁 In theaters and on HBO Max the exact same day🎁 Beginning December 25 with #WonderWoman1984#HBOMax #WBPictures https://t.co/BZgFFRrrg2 pic.twitter.com/J2KBdWd9Tf — HBO Max (@hbomax) December 3, 2020Warner has stated that this is a "one year plan" and that the initiative won't continue into 2022. In a statement, WarnerMedia chair and CEO Ann Sarnoff said, "We're living in unprecedented times which call for creative solutions, including this new initiative for the Warner Bros. Pictures Group. No one wants films back on the big screen more than we do. We know new content is the lifeblood of theatrical exhibition, but we have to balance this with the reality that most theaters in the U.S. will likely operate at reduced capacity throughout 2021."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Total Recall is celebrating its 30th anniversary in a big way with a 4K UHD rerelease that includes brand-new special features. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays Quaid, a mild-mannered man who may or may not be a secret agent from Mars. And in one of the new featurettes, we learn that the reason this movie got made was because of its star.As you can see in the video below, which is part of the special features for the new release of the film, more than 40 drafts were written for this movie. In 1989, Schwarzenegger had become a monumental star in Hollywood, coming off of Terminator, Predator, The Running Man, and Twins to name a few.So at that point, Schwarzenegger had a lot of pull and pushed for the movie to get made. "What happened was that Arnold saw Robocop," explained director Paul Verhoeven. "And he had wanted to do Total Recall for years. He basically convinced [executive producer] Mario Kassar to buy that script."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Phantasy Star Online 2 is getting a significant update next week that will usher in the next chapter of the MMORPG's storyline. Beyond new story content, Episode 6 will include Phantom and Etoile classes to check out and will raise the level cap to 95. All of the Episode 6 content releases on December 9 for free.Episode 6's story picks up after the alternate dimension Omega was able to get rid of the gigantic black hole. The victory doesn't last long as the ARKS find a new foe in the form of the Goddess of Annihilation Shiva, who declares war upon the entire universe. It's now up to players to go up against her fleets of spaceships in what Sega is calling "the most massive battle in the history of ARKS."Players will be able to take the battle to Shiva while playing as two new classes. The Phantom class uses rods, katanas, and assault rifles to damage enemies and are able to modify their Photon Arts by using weapon actions. Meanwhile, the Etoile class specializes in support and melee combat. Wielding blades and wands, these defensive-minded characters are able to restore party members' HP and PP during combat.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Warzone player Garry2206 was running to pick up a contract in lumberyard when he turned a corner and was blinded by the bright lights that lined the building in front of him. He could barely see the enemy in his peripheral. He was gunned down a few moments later."Christmas came early in lumberyard," they wrote on Reddit after getting killed. The lights were actually caused by a rendering bug and not anything related to old Saint Nick, but it's pushed players to imagine what Verdansk would look like during the holidays.Christmas came early in lumberyard. Has anyone seen these lights? If its normal i never noticed before from r/CODWarzoneInfinity Ward and Raven Software went all out with jump scares, special skins, and a night time mode for Warzone's Halloween event, The Haunting of Verdansk. Players are hoping for something similar in December. They're asking Santa for a new limited-time mode, special Elf cosmetics, and even a candy cane melee weapon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Go is closing out the year with a variety of December events, including another Community Day weekend celebration. The two-day event takes place on December 12 and 13, and it brings back all the previous featured Pokemon not only from this past year, but from 2019 as well. To get you up to speed on the big event, we've rounded up everything you need to know about December's Community Day weekend below.Table of Contents [hide]December's Featured Pokemon December's Featured PokemonAs has become tradition at this point, December's Community Day brings back all the featured Pokemon from every Community Day this past year. Throughout both days of the event, the following Pokemon--and their Shiny forms--will appear in the wild much more often than normal:Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

BioWare's Casey Hudson (general manager) and Mark Darrah (Dragon Age: Inquisition executive producer) are retiring from the studio to make way for a new wave of creators. Hudson will be replaced by interim general manager Gary McKay (senior director of development operations) and Darrah's role will be filled by Christian Dailey (BioWare Austin studio director)."It's not an easy decision to make, and big changes like this always come with a certain degree of sadness," Hudson wrote in a farewell post on the BioWare blog. "I will miss being able to work every day with our inspiring developers on the biggest and most exciting projects I can imagine. But I also know that this is a good time for a change, for both myself and BioWare."Darrah echoed Hudson's sentiment, saying he's confident in BioWare's pedigree as a studio and is certain the Dragon Age series will live on without him spearheading development.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Prophecy dungeon launched in Destiny 2 back in June, adding another inventive, high-level activity to the game that wasn't one of its six-player raids. But when the Beyond Light expansion was released, a whole slate of Destiny 2 content was removed from the game, with no information as to when (or if) it might return. Prophecy wasn't quite in the same boat as destinations like Mars, Mercury, Titan, Io, and the Leviathan--Bungie always said it would come back after Beyond Light's release--but we didn't know exactly when, until now.Bungie included an update on Prophecy's return in its latest This Week at Bungie blog post. We now know that Prophecy will be back in the game very soon: December 8. That's the date of the game's next weekly reset, which will see a new patch, Update 3.0.1, that fixes some issues and adds a few extra elements along with Prophecy.Those extra goodies are the next-generation upgrades that Destiny 2 will receive for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S players. Right now, the game is available on both platforms, but only as the backwards compatible version for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The update coming to Destiny 2 on December 8 upgrades the game for next-gen players, amping up framerates to 60 fps, offering 4k resolutions, and speeding up load times.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's a big news day over at the house of Warner; the studio announced that all of its movies, including tentpole features like The Suicide Squad, The Matrix 4, and Dune, will appear on HBO Max day-and-date with their movie theater debuts. WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar took to Medium to talk about the news, and let a little detail slip that should get Game of Thrones fans excited.After talking about the decision to shift those big movies to HBO Max, Kilar talked about other Max-exclusive content like Zack Snyder's Justice League and the upcoming Friends reunion. Kilar signed off, and then dropped a post-script at the end."Principal photography starts on the next Game of Thrones series, House of the Dragon, in a few months. Look out for dragons overhead!" Kilar wrote.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Whenever I find out that a game I like has been picked up for a film adaptation, I cringe a bit. We're more likely to get something like Street Fighter: The Movie than we are Detective Pikachu. The people who make these movies so often seem to completely misunderstand what makes these games special. While we won't know if Monster Hunter is another dud until it actually comes out later this month, we at least know that if it fails, it's not because director Paul W.S. Anderson doesn't understand the source material. Talking on a recent Twitch stream with Capcom USA, Anderson revealed that he took some inspiration from the most obscure of obscure places: a side quest in a Metal Gear Solid handheld game.Anderson is in deep. He's already said that he first played Monster Hunter 12 years ago, well before it hit American shores in any significant way, and has been trying to adapt it for nearly as long. One of the things that worried fans of the games in initial trailers is that our main character, portrayed by Milla Jovovich, isn't a native inhabitant of the Monster Hunter world. Rather, she's from our world; she and her team get pulled into Monster Hunter through a storm, and she has to adapt, working with Tony Jaa's character, "The Hunter," to survive and thrive.There are two reasons why Anderson made Jovovich's character, Lieutenant Artemis, military.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Destiny 2's toughest multiplayer challenge, the Trials of Osiris, has been disabled for more than a month. Bungie says it has found the issue that led it to cancel Trials soon after the release of the Beyond Light expansion, and we now have a date for when we can expect Trials to return: December 18.Bungie released the date on Twitter alongside its This Week at Bungie blog post. The fix for the issue is coming in a future update--but since Bungie didn't identify it as part of a hotfix coming to the game on December 8, we can probably expect the patch with the weekly reset on December 15.The team has identified the issue and is currently developing a future Hotfix. Trials of Osiris is currently planned to return on 12/18. https://t.co/tfGUvyG2lL — Bungie Help (@BungieHelp) December 3, 2020Trials of Osiris is the peak player-vs.-player challenge that Destiny 2 offers, with loot rewards to match. Available only on weekends, it requires players in teams of three to take on other teams in a series of elimination matches. The goal is to win seven matches in a row without losing any, which is known as "flawless." Starting with Beyond Light, teams that can manage a flawless Trials run can win special Adept weapons, which offer stat boosts that aren't available anywhere else in the game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The holidays are fully upon us now, and that means that winter-themed events will soon come to all of your favorite multiplayer games. Apex Legends is the most recent game to show off its holiday offerings in its Holo-Day Bash event, which features the return of the Winter Express limited-time mode, as well as winter-themed cosmetics for both old and new Legends.As shown in a lengthy video, Winter Express has been fine-tuned for its 2020 return. If you missed its 2019 debut, it's a king-of-the-hill mode where Legends compete to conquer a moving train. This year, slain players will respawn aboard flying loot ships that they can then parachute from to get back in the fight. The developer has also added a fifth train station so that respawning players have more chances to take the train back before the game's end.The video also goes over the new Apex-themed merch available for purchase for the holidays. This includes sweaters, lounge pants, and even a onesie for those who enjoy really relaxing when you're trying to clutch the win. The event also includes new winter cosmetic items for Legends that weren't in the game during the previous holiday event, which includes Loba, Rampart, Revenant, and Horizon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In lieu of patch notes, it's left to players to uncover whats's new and different each time a Fortnite: Battle Royale update rolls out. With a particularly large update like the 15.00 patch that kicks off Season 5, there's a huge array of potential changes to dig into. Large swaths of the revamped Fortnite map are now covered in sand, and if you stand still for a moment, you'll discover a sneaky new way of getting around.By remaining stationary for a few seconds while standing on any deep sand (which is to say, any sand that isn't simply covering up a road), you'll sink in, making yourself hard to see. You aren't entirely invisible, as you'll create a round lump on the surface, but as disguises go, it's not bad. But you aren't stuck in place once you do this: You can actually move under the surface, and while the sight of a speeding pile of sand might draw some attention, you can move more quickly than you can on foot. The trade-off, aside from needing an extra moment to pop out and ready your weapons, appears to be that initial wait to sink into the sand, which you likely won't have time for during a fight.Sand covers a large part of the interior of Fortnite's Season 5 map, so getting a good handle on how to best use this--perhaps to flank an unsuspecting foe--may give you an edge. Just be sure not to unwittingly bump into any areas you can't stay underneath, as doing so will pop you out and further expose you to enemy fire.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite's Season 5 began with a bang earlier today when it brought a semi-new map, Baby Yoda, and the Mandalorian to the battle royale. Players were quick to dissect all the changes that came with the new season--including a mysterious secret skin.There is an entire set of cosmetics listed under a "Mystery Rewards" tab in Fortnite's battle pass menu this season. They include a skin, back bling, harvesting tool, built-in emote, and more. There are no clues as to what the skin is, although players believe it'll be the Agent Jonesy character we saw in the Galactus and The Device event. Other players hope it'll be a different skin that goes along with Season 5's hunter theme. (And it's possible, although unlikely, that this relates to the leaked Fortnite Kratos skin.)Previous seasons had additional skins like this as well, but they weren't hidden. Season 3 featured Aquaman with different unlockable styles and last season had Wolverine as an additional reward. Both were revealed at the beginning of the season. Players could earn them by completing character-specific challenges. Season 5's mystery rewards also have challenges but they haven't been revealed yet.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Warzone might soon be getting a new map to wage war on, according to several map leaks attributed to this year's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.Fans of Black Ops 4 might recall recognize the landmass too, with the leak (via BlackOpsLeaks on Twitter) suggesting that Alcatraz will play host to Warzone gameplay soon. The splash screen isn't enough to determine whether this will be an addition to the existing map or a much smaller, new map to play on, but both prospects are equally exciting.In addition to the leak of "Rebirth Island," two more maps for Black Ops Cold War were also shared. The first takes place in and around a snow-covered mall, while the second brings back another Black Ops classic in the form of Raid. It's not clear yet when these might be added to multiplayer, if at all.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Christofer Sundberg, cofounder of Avalanche Studios and creator of its most recognizable game, Just Cause, has returned to the gaming industry and opened a new studio, Liquid Swords.After taking a year off from game development, Sundberg says he is reenergized on focused on going back to a style of game development that is all about entertainment over redefining storytelling in games. Also, lots of explosions, which shouldn't be too surprising given Sundberg's background."After living and breathing the Just Cause franchise from the day I started Avalanche Studios to the eventual sale of the company, I am excited to come back and create spectacular experiences for players to explore, share and enjoy," Sundberg wrote on Facebook. "We have no intention of reshaping the world of storytelling as we know it. Our road to leaving our mark and making a difference in the industry is built first and foremost on games that are immediately accessible and consistently rewarding."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com