Yakuza: Like a Dragon is potentially on many shortlists for 2020's Game of the Year, and today you can pick it up for nearly half off its launch price.At both Best Buy and Amazon, this soft reboot of the Yakuza franchise is going for $35, giving you few excuses not to dive head-first into the adventures of protagonist Ichiban and company. See at Amazon See at Best Buy Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Id Software has rolled out a new update for Doom Eternal that makes some changes to the game, including adding another Master Level for free and increasing the resolution on Xbox Series S and Series X. Check out Update 4's full patch notes below.Players looking for a challenge may have run through Doom Eternal's Master Levels already, but Id Software has added "an entirely new combat experience" to the challenge levels. Super Gore Nest, the latest free Master Level, features a plethora of environmental hazards and conditions meant to challenge players in ways the already-difficult campaign hasn't. With a new Master Level comes new rewards, too, including player icons, nameplates, and cosmetics.Update 4 also increases the resolution on the latest Xbox consoles. Through dynamic resolution scaling, the Series S reaches 1080p at 60 Hz while the Series X hits 4K at 60 Hz.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sony adds new games to its PS Now service every month, and the company has now revealed the six games that will make up December's lineup. It's a fairly stout selection of popular games, including the critically-acclaimed open-world game Horizon Zero Dawn, the side-scrolling smash 'em up Broforce, and several others. Check out the full list of PS Now games below.The highlights of the list include the demolition derby-inspired racer Wreckfest, the Soulslike slasher The Surge 2, and the high-profile Horizon Zero Dawn. All of these games are available now, though Wreckfest is only part of the service until May 31.The action movie parody Broforce, the ocean survival game Stranded Deep, and the dark fantasy RPG Darksiders 3 round out this month's selections. As with the rest of the games, they're available immediately, and they don't seem to have any particular departure date, unlike Wreckfest.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Red Dead Online is now available as a standalone download, meaning you can embark on your own wild west adventure without needing to buy into Red Dead Redemption 2.The multiplayer game is out on Xbox One, PS4, and PC (Steam, the Epic Games Store and the Rockstar Games Launcher). If you've picked up an Xbox Series X, Series S, or PlayStation 5, Red Dead Online is playable via backwards-compatibility.Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus will be required to play on consoles, but do entitle you to a 75% discount, letting you jump in for just $5. The special extends to PC, too, and will run until February 15, 2021. There after the standalone mode will retail for $20. The announcement of Red Dead Online standalone also mentioned an upgrade path to the full Red Dead Redemption 2 version at a later date, but a price hasn't yet been revealed.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Co-creators Evil Empire and Motion Twin have announced that their side-scrolling roguelike RPG Dead Cells will receive a brand-new piece of DLC early next year.Fatal Falls is the next major update for Dead Cells and retails for $5 USD when it drops in 2021 for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It adds two new biomes (The Fractured Shrines and The Undying Shores) as well as additional bosses, enemies, and rewards. While specifics about Fatal Falls have not been shared, the studios said parts of the DLC are "parallels to the 'Stilt Village,' 'Clock Tower,' and 'Time Keeper' areas and their alternate paths." More details about Fatal Falls, including the new set of weapons, will be revealed soon.In the meantime, the co-creators shared a teaser that briefly shows off the new areas players will explore come early next year. An exact release date for Fatal Falls has not been revealed.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

After a cheeky tease on Twitter, Microsoft has announced that Remedy Entertainment's third-person action-adventure game Control will come to Xbox Game Pass on December 3, alongside a slew of other titles like Doom Eternal, Haven, and Va-11 Hall-A. And plenty more will be coming to Game Pass in the following days and weeks.This follows a similar tease the Xbox Game Pass Twitter account made of Doom Eternal before the brutal first-person shooter arrived on the service a week later. And like Doom Eternal, Xbox dropping the critically acclaimed action-adventure game onto Game Pass is a big win. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the version of Control available through Xbox Game Pass is the Ultimate Edition, meaning players won't have access to the next-gen version once it's out.A bevy of other games will also be available on December 3 and over the next week, including the PC version of Doom Eternal, Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition, GreedFall, Rage 2, Superhot: Mind Control Delete, and Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. A personal interest of mine is Unto The End, a narrative-driven, cinematic action-platformer with gorgeous visuals and challenging combat developed by a husband and wife team. That one comes to Xbox Game Pass on December 9.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

History Channel's Vikings--a historical drama inspired by the sagas of legendary hero Viking Ragnar Lothbrok--may be wrapping up after Season 6, but it's far from the end of the partnership between the show's creative team and the powers that be at the channel. Vikings creator Michael Hirst will be executive producing a new History Channel miniseries titled The Plague Year, according to Variety.As the name suggests, the upcoming show takes place during one of the worst outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague--in London, during 1665. The show is described as a series of portraits of Londoners "of all stripes" as they decide whether to flee or remain in the city, learn "how [to] keep going when everything around you has fallen to pieces." It should be just the thing to get our minds off the coronavirus when the show premieres. A&E Studios will produce The Plague Year. In addition to Vikings, Hirst's pedigree includes similar works of historical fiction including 1998's Elizabeth, 2007's Elizbeth: The Golden Age, and the Emmy Award-winning television series The Tudors. The miniseries originates from a script by writer Coleman Herbert, whose past work includes Big Love, The Killing, and Rectify. No casting information or premiere date has yet been announced.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The CW's Arrow may have wrapped earlier this year, but in true DC multiverse fashion, some of the familiar faces you got to know and love across the show's eight seasons aren't ready to call it quits just yet. Actor David Ramsey, who played Oliver Queen's friend and fellow superhero John Diggle, will be returning to the shared TV universe both in front of and behind the camera according to Deadline.Ramsey will be reprising his role as Diggle AKA Spartan in the upcoming Superman & Lois--and he’ll be joined by some familiar faces:Supergirl, The Flash, and Batwoman. Interestingly, however, he will also be playing a new role in Legends of Tomorrow, but who that role is or what it might entail is being kept under wraps.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Twitch streamers hoping to get in on the Fortnite excitement today faced an unexpected hurdle. Epic Games announced that it had no way of preventing clips from today's Galactus event from getting flagged by Twitch's copyright detection systems, and it turns out it was due to the use of an AC/DC song. This led to streamers such as DrLupo temporarily cutting the game's audio in order to avoid encountering any issues."For Twitch Creators streaming the Galactus event: Due to a lack of solutions similar to Lickd, we cannot prevent your VOD/clip content from getting flagged by the platform's copyright detection systems," a tweet from Epic Games read ahead of the event. "The general recommendation is to either mute your VoDs or turn off VODs/clips entirely to protect yourselves against any kind of claims or strikes as best as possible."Hypex, a notable Fortnite leaker, said in advance that the copyright issues would only come from a small segment of the event, and that proved to be true. "Fun-Fact for streamers: Not the whole event is copyrighted music, just a 20-30 seconds part, and its gonna be so obvious to notice," they tweeted. "So I suggest you to prepare some hotkey to mute the game audio in OBS!"Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite's Marvel-filled season is over. Season 5 officially starts on December 2, and although little has been confirmed about the season as Epic Games wants to surprise everyone, but we do have a few clues about what's in store for the future of Fortnite. Here's what we know about when Fortnite Season 5 starts and what to expect from the upcoming update.When Does Fortnite Season 5 Start?Fortnite's Galactus event has taken place, and it concludes with a countdown revealing the start time for Season 5: 9 PM PT on December 1 / 12 AM ET on December 2. Server maintenance is scheduled to take place then, though, meaning you won't be able to jump right into the game. That maintenance should take four hours, so here's the schedule for when you can start playing Season 5:US West Coast: 1 AM PTUS East Coast: 4 AM ETUK: 9 AM GMTAustralia: 7 PM AETUntil then, Fortnite is currently down and unplayable.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The thriller game Martha is Dead is coming to PS5, along with the already-announced PC and Xbox versions. It's scheduled for Q1 2021, and the announcement suggests that all three versions will hit simultaneously.The game takes place against the backdrop of World War 2 amid the Italian countryside. A young woman, Martha, is found drowned on the shores of a lake. Her twin sister sets out to solve the murder as the war approaches closer to their home. LKA says that the story ties in history, superstition, folklore, and psychological trauma.That all sounds pretty spooky by itself, but it's matched by an equally shudder-inducing trailer depicting the basic plotline with marrionettes. There's nothing creepier than marionettes. That's just a science fact.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

December is officially here, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons players can snag a couple of new seasonal items in the Switch life sim this month. Two new wintry items are now available to purchase from the Nook Shopping catalog: the Aurora wall and the Midwinter sweater. Like other seasonal items, however, these will only be available for a limited time.The Aurora wall costs 7,000 Bells and lets you gaze at a beautiful aurora borealis localized entirely in your own kitchen or other room at any time of year. The Midwinter sweater, meanwhile, costs 1,200 Bells and features a cute reindeer design. Both items can be found under the Seasonal tab in the Nook Shopping catalog and will be on sale until December 31.In addition to the new seasonal items, Nook's Cranny has begun selling festive toys ahead of Toy Day, the game's Christmas event. You'll find a different toy on display in the seasonal corner of the store each day until December 25. Toy Day itself falls on December 24, and as part of the event, you'll need to dress up like Santa and help Jingle the black-nosed reindeer deliver presents to your villagers.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

After the Dark Universe debacle in 2017, the success of this year's The Invisible Man showed that Universal's catalogue of movie monsters could still produce a box office hit. The studio has several other classic monster movies in development, and it's been revealed that Conjuring and Aquaman director James Wan is working on a new movie about Van Helsing.As reported by Deadline, Wan will produce what is described as "an original horror/thriller" featuring the iconic vampire hunter, who was created by writer Bram Stoker and first appeared in his classic novel Dracula. The film will be directed by Julius Avery, who previously helmed the JJ Abrams-produced World War II horror Overlord. The movie does not have a release date yet.This isn't the first time that Universal has produced a Van Helsing movie in the last couple of decades. In 2004, Hugh Jackman starred in the critically-panned Van Helsing, and a "present day" movie about the character was in development back in 2016.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

No one predicted that Fortnite's Galactus event would have players flying battle buses in a mission that felt like it was straight out of Star Fox. The event, which played like a souped-up Disneyland ride, was a lot of fun, but it only added to the random jumble of themes that makes up the Fortnite universe.The event saw the entire lobby, along with Iron Man, Galactus, and other heroes, get sucked into what's called the "Zero Point" after Galactus tried to absorb it. The Zero Point has been a part of Fortnite's storyline since Chapter 1's Season 4 and is said to be a singularity that doesn't abide by the laws of space and time. That's the reason why different realities from the Marvel and Fortnite universes collided this season.Galactus trying to absorb the Zero Point.The event ended with Jonesy, one of the mainstays of Fortnite's narrative, lying face down in his office. He wakes up right before the screen cut to black. We saw Jonesy two seasons ago during The Device event in the same office, although he wasn't knocked out that time. Players believe that Jonesy works for a company that runs Fortnite as some sort of simulation and Season 5 may explore more of his background.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite's big Galactus event has come and gone, and it was an exciting, if somewhat brief, live event. It concluded with the confirmation of when Season 5 will begin, but perhaps more notable right now is that you can't play Fortnite. Servers are down, and that's by design.The live event concluded with a "to be continued in Season 5" message, along with a seven-hour countdown that reveals a start time for Season 5: 12 AM ET on December 2. However, rather than sending players back to the menu to continue playing or grinding away at the battle pass, the only option is "exit." That closes out the game, and re-opening it only replays this short message from the end of the event. There's no way to access any component of the game right now, even including something like Fortnite Creative or Save the World, let alone the Battle Royale mode that functions as the game's main aspect.As Epic said in advance, you can't replay the event, but it turns out you can't do anything. Hopefully you didn't have plans to play Fortnite tonight. This isn't the first time Epic has done this--previously, it shut down Fortnite for days, which proved to be quite the unexpected viral moment. It's not often a massively popular game is shut down in that fashion. In this case, the wait won't be quite so long--following the conclusion of the Galactus event, there were just over seven hours until Season 5 begins and Fortnite returns.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com