This week's Red Dead Online update, the now standalone online component of Red Dead Redemption 2, includes a new Legendary Bounty, a new Outlaw Pass, and a rank expansion for the Bounty Hunter role. Newly available, the Prestigious Bounty Hunter license adds 10 new ranks to the original 20 Bounty Hunter ranks. Players must already own a Bounty Hunter license to obtain the Prestigious license, which can be purchased at any Bounty Board.Prestigious Bounty Hunters can also track down this week's Legendary Bounty, Gene "Beau" Finley. Dressed in dapper suits, the villain stages robberies in the south and causes general criminal havoc. Finley and his gang are based in a dilapidated colonial property in Bayou Nwa. To apprehend him, you'll need to fight your way into the base.This week's update also includes the fourth Outlaw Pass, a 40 Gold Bar purchase that gives players winter clothing, new gear and skill pamphlets, advanced photography enhancements, bonus cash, 30 Gold Bars, special gifts, and more. Players who buy the new Outlaw Pass will also get an extra RDO$400 and a 10 Gold Bar rebate.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Halo Infinite's road to release hasn't exactly been smooth. Developer 343 Industries has experienced a good deal of high-level staff turnover, the game was delayed from its place as an Xbox Series X launch title, and what we have seen of the game has been underwhelming in the eyes of some in the Halo community.Halo community director Brian Jarrard responded to these concerns on Twitter recently. He said he understands the frustration fans are feeling, because he has felt it too. He asked for patience and understanding as 343 finishes the game."As an avid fan of many properties (games, movies, TV, music) I 100% understand and appreciate the passion the Halo community has. I also understand the frustration when things don’t go the way you want or it feels like you're somehow being wronged or not heard," Jarrard said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye and the 1997 game based on it included an epic action sequence at the end where 007 fights on a giant radio telescope.That telescope, which is located at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, has now collapsed. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.The instrument platform of the 305m telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico fell overnight. No injuries were reported. NSF is working with stakeholders to assess the situation. Our top priority is maintaining safety. NSF will release more details when they are confirmed. pic.twitter.com/Xjbb9hPUgD — National Science Foundation (@NSF) December 1, 2020This news comes not long after it was announced that the dish was being decommissioned over concerns about its structural integrity.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite's latest Marvel event, which brought the devourer of worlds himself, Galactus, to the game, was a huge draw, but it also seemingly caused some issues.Streaming site Twitch reported that its platform experienced a problem that led to "multiple service issues." In some cases, this problem prevented people from accessing the site and logging in altogether.Thankfully for Twitch users, the issues were fixed less than an hour after they were first widely reported. Twitch should be operating normally now, but as always, your mileage may vary.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Dead by Daylight is running a promotion all December, handing out free currency and items to all players. The Advent Calendar 2020 event runs until January 3, and if you log in every day until then you'll nab some bonuses, including some additions to the game's Ugly Sweater collection.Every day you'll get bonuses for logging in, while there are also weekly cosmetic bonuses that can be claimed through codes. Here are the first week of treats--you'll have to wait to see what the next four weeks have in store.Dead by Daylight Advent Calendar Week 1Cosmetic codesDecember 1-3: Killer’s Stocking Charm Code: NAUGHTYSTOCKING December 4-6: Zarina’s Snap Snap Sweater Code: SNAPSNAPCurrencies for log-inDecember 1: 10,000 BloodpointsDecember 2: 1,000 Iridescent ShardsDec. 3-5: 10,000 Bloodpoints (per day)After the holiday season is over, you'll be able to buy the items from the Ugly Sweater collection through the in-game store, too. The Advent Calendar announcement notes that Dead by Daylight will focus on "event" celebrations like this going forward, and thus activations will look a bit different from now on. "We will still be celebrating Winter, Lunar New Year, etc. but are taking new approaches to them to better define and focus our efforts on those larger ones," the post reads. "This means that you won’t see special event gameplay mechanics or earnable cosmetics for these Celebrations, but will continue to see activations such as login rewards, Bloodweb items, and themed assets."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Rocket League went free-to-play in September, kicking off "Season 1" of the game, which is now 5 years old. Now developer Psyonix is making up for lost time, launching Season 2 on December 9. The theme of this season is music, and the game will add new tracks from EDM artist Kaskade to the game's soundtrack.The first of Kaskade's new tracks, Flip Reset, is available now. More tracks will follow in the update.Along with new tracks, players will also have the ability to choose a "Player Anthem" from the soundtrack. This means that whenever they score a goal, their song will play, letting you really soak in your achievement after a good goal. All players will also have access to a new arena, called Neon Fields, which is EDM-inspired and covered in cool glowing lights.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies are now available in 4K UHD, and director Peter Jackson has spoken about the process of updating the movies and some of the issues that came along with it.In a new video promoting the 4K release, Jackson said the six movies lacked consistency in their coloring and other elements, due to the evolving way in which the movies were shot. Updating them for 4K gave the team an opportunity to go back and address this."It was interesting going back and revisiting these films because I realised how inconsistent they were," he said. "And that's really due to the way in which the Lord of the Rings trilogy was shot first, about 20 years ago. The lord of the rings was shot on 35mm. The color timing was done on an old-fashioned mechanical way for the first Lord of the Rings movie. Then we switched to digital color timing for the 35mm negative for the next two," he said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

December is officially here, which means we're quickly coming up on the end of 2020. That doesn't mean there are no new games to look forward to before the year wraps up, however. Although this month is fairly light in terms of new releases, there are still some notable games coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Switch, and last-gen consoles over the next few weeks.Undoubtedly the biggest release is CD Projekt Red's highly anticipated (and long-delayed) Cyberpunk 2077, but it's not the only notable game coming out this month. Life Is Strange developer Dontnod is releasing its surreal thriller Twin Mirror at the start of the month, while Ubisoft's Breath of the Wild-inspired epic Immortals Fenyx Rising arrives on December 3.There are also some exciting retro releases out this month. Nintendo is officially localizing the very first Fire Emblem game, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, for Switch on December 4, and Square Enix is bringing the first three Final Fantasy Legend games to the hybrid console later this month in Collection of SaGa.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With Mortal Kombat 11 still going strong, fans of the franchise are likely looking forward to the upcoming movie. However, with cinemas struggling amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Warner Bros. currently planning to launch tentpole film Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max alongside a global cinema rollout, there's been reason to think Mortal Kombat might go straight to streaming, too.However, in a new report by Variety, it's been suggested that while numerous Warner Bros. titles will launch on HBO Max in the future, Mortal Kombat is not expected to be one of them. Variety suggests that films like Judas and the Black Messiah, The Little Things, and Tom & Jerry will likely release on HBO Max alongside a cinema release, but Mortal Kombat will not."The studio also considered taking the same route with “Mortal Kombat, an adaptation of the popular video game, but expect to delay the film’s theatrical debut instead," the report says. The film was expected to land on January 15, 2021, but has been knocked back to an indefinite later date.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As the 2016 election approached and passed, President Obama was very quiet about the Republican nominee and eventual President-Elect Donald Trump, and that silence lasted throughout President Trump's presidency. It's only been in recent months that President Obama began to actively criticize the Trump administration. Apparently, though, the gloves are now off; the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions is reportedly pairing with comedian Adam Conover to produce a comedy series about the transition to the Trump administration.Adam Conover, best known for the TruTV series Adam Ruins Everything, will produce a sketch comedy series for streaming on Netflix that is "based on the chaotic transition of power when Donald Trump became president in 2016." The show is titled The G Word with Adam Conover, and is reportedly inspired by the Michael Lewis book The Fifth Risk. The book "takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed," according to its synopsis, and "vividly unspools the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works."Vanity Fair reports that The G Word will be "part documentary, part comedy sketch," which sounds a lot like Conover's Adam Ruins Everything series, which investigates specific topics and then explains them through a combination of cited facts and sketch comedy.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With Twin Mirror, Dontnod abandons the episodic model it has experimented with since 2015's Life is Strange in favor of a six-hour standalone release. The result is a focused crime thriller with some great character work. However, Twin Mirror's exploration of its story and mechanics suffers somewhat from its brevity, relative to Dontnod’s recent work. It's longer than an episode of Dontnod's serialized games but still shorter than what it needed to be to explore characters with depth and tackle the heavier subject matter and themes its narrative alludes to. Twin Mirror comes to a conclusion just as the plot and gameplay are really beginning to gain momentum.In Twin Mirror, players take on the role of Sam Higgs, a tenacious investigative reporter returning to his hometown of Basswood, West Virginia, after a period of self-imposed exile. Two years prior, Sam published a damning investigative piece on unsafe practices at the Basswood mine, which employed a huge portion of the town. As a result, the mine closed, putting a huge swath of Basswood out of work and pushing the town into an economic depression. In the midst of this firestorm, Sam proposed to his girlfriend Anna, another writer at the paper. She turned him down and, struggling with the personal and professional devastation, Sam left town without a word. In the time since, Anna has started dating Sam’s longtime best friend, Nick.Gallery The pain of all this is still fresh for Sam. But, when Nick dies in a car accident, he finally feels he must return to Basswood. Though the local police have ruled the death an accident, Nick's preteen daughter, Bug, suspects foul play, and Sam agrees to investigate. In classic Dontnod fashion, that investigation mostly plays out via dialogue with the locals--some of whom hate Sam for the problems his reporting caused, and some of whom are old friends. You'll investigate densely packed areas, read documents, and analyze objects to get to know the cast of characters and uncover clues to the cause of Nick’s death. Dontnod is great at this kind of environmental storytelling, and Twin Mirror is no exception. Discovering objects evoke memories of Sam's past, and hearing his thoughts on the people that he once called neighbors is especially enjoyable. There’s even some fun Bandai Namco brand synergy in Sam recalling his and Nick’s childhood Pac Man competitions.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The farming/life-sim genre is an increasingly crowded field these days. There is no shortage of games that offer the experience of building a small farm, raising crops and livestock, and making friends and relationships along the way. But every so often, a game in this genre comes along that really turns things on their head, taking well-worn tropes and expectations and making them feel fresh and new. Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin is such a game. It combines an in-depth rice-farming simulation with excellent 2D platforming action and a wonderful atmosphere to make a delightful, fulfilling experience.Sakuna is a haughty, bratty harvest goddess of the old-timey Japan-inspired world of Yanato. She lives comfortably with her divine peers in the Lofty Realm away from the suffering of mortals below. When a group of hungry mortals stumble into the Lofty Realm looking for food on her watch, she discovers to her horror that they've destroyed the offering to the great deity Lady Kamuhitsuki. As punishment, she and the mortals are banished to the Isle of Demons, where she is tasked with cleansing the land of evil forces while eking out a meager subsistence living with her newfound companions. Now, the goddess Sakuna needs to get her hands dirty--and bond with the humans that have lived beneath her--in order to survive.Gallery The base gameplay of Sakuna is split into two parts: exploration and simulation. The exploration sections have you traversing 2D environments to hunt enemies, collect materials needed for combat and survival, and discover new areas for gathering. The simulation sections task Sakuna with managing the day-to-day labor involved in harvesting a rice crop needed to sustain a family. Engaging in both of these activities is necessary for progress, but you need to decide how to best invest your time. A day-and-night cycle means there's a constant march onwards through the quite truncated seasons, which affect many things, such as when collected materials spoil, enemies' strength, which materials can be gathered, what farmwork can be done, and so on. The need to balance activities and manage both item and time resources makes for a gameplay loop that's interesting and challenging without being too punishing. It also allows for the gradual introduction of new elements as you progress, like additional farming tools and more exploration abilities.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise, and arriving just in time for Pokemon Day on February 27 is a $100 replica of the franchise's iconic Poke Ball.The collectible from The Wand Company features a detailed metal shell and a high-gloss paint job, as well as interactive features such as a glowing button and animated, multicolor case illumination that lights up when the proximity sensors detect your presence.You can even click the button on the replica to create your own Pokémon-catching sequence; two clicks change the light color from white to red and then green to indicate a successful capture. Each Poke Ball will be individually numbered and can be mounted on a stainless steel display ring.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The first teaser for the Doctor Who holiday special was revealed last week, and now the full trailer and release date are with us. The episode, which is titled "Revolution of the Daleks," will air on BBC America on January 1.The trailer focuses on Captain Jack Harkness, the fan-favorite adventurer played by John Barrowman, teaming up with the Doctor's assistants Yaz Khan (Mandip Gill), Graham O'Brien (Bradley Walsh), and Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole) to fight the Daleks. Fans will remember that the previous twelfth season ended with the Doctor (Jodie Whittker) locked up in an alien prison, and her brief appearance in this trailer shows she's still there. Check the trailer out below.Revolution of the Daleks also stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfts) and Harriet Walter (Killing Eve), plus Chris Noth (Sex and the City), who will reprise his villainous Season 11 role as Jack Robertson.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Saved by the Bell revival series, which premiered last week on Peacock, has been generating controversy over the extended holiday weekend. Episode 6, "Teen-Line," has a running gag about actor-singer Selena Gomez's 2017 kidney transplant, which you can see in the embedded tweet below and decide for yourself about what was intended.pic.twitter.com/fWwS4iwVMn — vs (@VirtualShowz) November 28, 2020Peacock and NBCUniversal issued a joint statement (via Variety) expressing their shared regrets over this saying, "We apologize. It was never our intention to make light of Selena's health. We have been in touch with her team and will be making a donation to her charity, The Selena Gomez Fund for Lupus Research at USC."Gomez has not issued a comment in response.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com