The Sims 4 is making some big moves toward inclusivity and customization later this year. With a December update, the game will get a ton of skin tone and other customization options, with a particular eye toward better representation for darker skin tones.In a post on the EA Blog, the Sims team details the changes. A base game update hit on October 6, and will be coming to the console versions on November 10, which fixes some color banding issues with darker skin tones and makes them appear more consistent and properly shaded. It will be building on that with another update, coming on December 8, which will add more than 100 new skin tones. Not only that, but each of the skin tones will let you further customize it with a value slider. EA promises that skins will display better, including a better showing for suntans and sunburns.You'll also be able to use four new makeup sliders to pick colors that will complement the new skin tones. Those will have fine control with hue, value, opacity, and saturation sliders. Three more base game hairstyles will be added as well: braided ponytail with and without baby hairs for children, and a flat top texture hairstyle.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Halloween is a great time for candy and scares, but it's also an excellent opportunity to save on PC games. Steam has just kicked off its annual Halloween sale, in which a heck ton of spooky games have been discounted. Thankfully, if you're not up for a scare, there are also quite a few non-horror titles discounted as well, including Death Stranding for $42 (was $60), DOOM Eternal for $30 (was $60), and Control Ultimate Edition for $27 (was $40). The Steam Halloween Sale runs from now until November 2 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.The popular ghost-hunting game, Phasmophobia, has gotten a slight discount. Normally $14, its price has been slashed to $12.59. It's an excellent game to play with your friends as you try to detect the ghost haunting a house, school, or asylum by using a variety of tools. You'll have to work together to determine what type of ghost you're tracking before it starts fighting back and taking the lives of each player.One of the best VR games, Half-Life: Alyx, is also featured in the Steam Halloween Sale. Valve's triumphant return to the Half-Life series is currently $45, down from its regular price of $60. It follows titular character Alyx before the events of Half-Life 2 as she fights against the Combine and a variety of other monstrous enemies. It's compatible with Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus, and Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amazon has revealed November's lineup of free PC games with Prime Gaming. Starting November 2, those with an active Amazon Prime membership will be able to claim five new games: A Knight's Quest, Smoke and Sacrifice, Lethis - Path of Progress, Victor Vran, and Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan. The new freebies will join an already large lineup as well as new loot for several popular games.A Knight's Quest is a Zelda-esque adventure starring a hapless warrior named Rusty. It's a lighthearted game fit for all ages and features vibrant, cartoonish graphics. Victor Vran is a solid action-RPG from Haemimont Games that will appeal to fans of Diablo. You play from an isometric perspective, and there's a heavy emphasis on loot. Smoke and Sacrifice is a narrative-focused RPG that tasks a young mother with surviving in a dangerous underworld. Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan is also an RPG, but this one is a side-scroller with brawler-type gameplay. Lethis - Path of Progress is much different from the rest of the bunch as a steampunk city-building game.November's free games will be available all month, but they are far from the only games you can claim. You still have plenty of time to claim the 20-plus classic SNK games that Prime Gaming started giving away over the summer. Some of October's free games will be available for part of November, too, including Layers of Fear and Dead Age.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sony has dropped a brand-new crop of high-res photos showcasing the PlayStation 5 accessories and console--and they're absolutely stunning. The gallery, embedded below, shows off the PlayStation 5 and various accessories like the DualSense and Pulse 3D headset.The photos are captured from many different angles, from up-close to highlight the smooth curves to wide-angle to display some perspective. There are even shots of the hardware suspended in mid-air and highly technical photographs of the minute details of the casing.Sony also included images of the PlayStation 5 HD camera, media remote, and DualSense charging station.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Streaming giant Netflix may be producing big-name content down the road--like the recently announced Assassin's Creed series--but the service is also canceling a lot of content in 2020, and now, it's raising subscription prices for US customers.Two of Netflix's pricing tiers are increasing in price. The Standard tier--which allows streaming on two devices at the same time--is jumping from $13 to $14 a month, according to Netflix's Help Center. The Premium tier--which allows streaming on four devices at the same time and Ultra HD viewing--jumps from $16 to $18 a month. The Basic tier will remain $9 a month.Over the past couple of years, there have been two price raises. In January 2019, US subscribers saw a bump in monthly costs for all three tiers. In June 2019, the same thing happened to UK subscribers.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Cyborg actor Ray Fisher has become an outspoken critic of Warner Bros. higher ups over the course of the year. He's taken to social media multiple times to call out abusive and racist behavior he and other cast members faced while on set for the 2017 box office flop, Justice League, after production was handed over from original director Zack Snyder to pinch hitter Joss Whedon, who finished the film.The first of Fisher's allegations came on July 1st where he publicly retracted his praise of Whedon during the movie's San Diego Comic-Con Panel, adding that producers Geoff Johns and John Berg were also complicit in the abuses the cast faced. Later, Warner Bros. issued a statement saying that Fisher wasn't complying with their attempts to investigate these allegations, which Fisher denied. He was then publicly supported by co-star Jason Momoa who took to social media of his own to condemn the actions Warner Bros. had taken, including leaking information about a film Momoa was set to star in as a "distraction."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Activision has confirmed that integration between Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and the battle royale title Warzone starts this December on current- and next-gen consoles.Activision said Black Ops Cold War content will begin making an appearance in Warzone this December, though when remains to be seen. This integration time period coincides with Black Ops Cold War Season 1. However, Activision didn't outline what's packed into Season 1 yet. The company said more details about this stuff will be revealed in "the next week or two.""All the awesome new Black Ops Cold War weapons and operators you unlock and your level 1 to 255 progression will be usable in Black Ops and in Warzone," Activision president Rob Kostich said. "Just like that worked in Modern Warfare. Black Ops battle pass content and store content will also work across Black Ops and Warzone. Now players of course can continue to use their Modern Warfare content in Warzone once Black Ops launches... We expect Season 1 for Black Ops Cold War and Warzone to launch this December. And that's when you're going to be able to start to see the impact of Black Ops and Warzone really starting to work together in cool and fun ways. Again, [there are] a lot more details here, which we're going to reveal in the next week or two."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

This week on Wrestle Buddies, GameSpot's professional wrestling podcast, Chris E. Hayner and Mat Elfring are celebrating Halloween the only way they know how--it's the first-ever Wrestle Buddies Halloween Spooktacular. This episode is filled with tricks and treats as we talk about Halloween costumes, NXT's Halloween Havoc, an all-star Wrestlepiece Theatre, and a certain hacker hijacks the show once again.First up, we have many thoughts about the best pro wrestling Halloween costumes--including some we've created ourselves. With so much wrestling history to dig through for costume ideas, we break down the best and worst options, our dream costumes, and wonder what the most expensive wrestling cosplay would be.Up next, Mat surprises Chris with an all-new Wrestlepiece theater, complete with special appearances by the GameSpot all-stars Kallie Plagge, Chastity Vicencio, and Tamoor Hussain, along with We Enjoy Wrestling hosts Eric Goldman and Matt Fowler.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Everyone thinks of something different when they think about Paul Rudd. Ant-Man in the MCU, Andy in Wet Hot American Summer, that memetastic Hot Ones interview. To me, he'll always be Celery Man. But lately, Rudd has been taking part in New York civics. September brought us the actor's Covid/Mask PSA (on Governor Cuomo's YouTube page, no less), and this week New Yorkers spotted him handing out cookies to queuing voters in New York City.Hey, look at us, who would’ve thought.. we’d be enjoying cookies with Paul Rudd after voting in BK😎 #MakeHistoryHere pic.twitter.com/WyJfbKvwFT — Barclays Center (@barclayscenter) October 29, 2020Rudd stopped by the Barclays center in Brooklyn, New York to snap a few masked-up selfies with voters as they waited in the rain to place their votes. While there, Rudd thanked voters for "coming out and doing your part and voting."In this contentious presidential race, a bunch of normally-quiet celebrities have been coming out of the woodwork to show support for the first time ever. Michael Keaton proclaimed himself the best Batman last week and reiterated that in a political ad endorsing Joe Biden. Earlier this year, Dwayne Johnson endorsed a political candidate officially for the first time.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Demon's Souls remake launching alongside the PS5 on November 12 has been studied and scrutinized by fans of the PS3 original. Over multiple trailers, fans have noticed the look of the game is quite different from the PS3 original, which makes sense given it's a remake with all-new visuals.One such fan is GameSpot's own Tamoor Hussain, who recently spoke with Gavin Moore, creative director at SIE Worldwide Studios External Development, about the remake. While discussing the visual presentation, Moore revealed that developer Bluepoint Games has created filters that can be used to change the way the game looks."For the visual look of the game, what we do is we allow a whole set of filters," Moore says. "So you can pick the filter that you would like to play with in the game."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still in the works at Ubisoft, and is apparently progressing nicely. In Ubisoft's latest earnings report, CEO Yves Guillemot fielded a question about the long-in-development sequel following the departure of Michel Ancel, creator of the series, from the games industry.Guillemot didn't drop anything too revealing about the game, but he gave a brief update on how things are going."The game is progressing well," Guillemot said. "The world is really fantastic; as you could see, Netflix also decided to take that universe and create a movie with it. So there's a lot of progress in that team and the game is coming along very well."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The PlayStation 5 begins its global rollout on November 12, and fans are wondering what the next several years of PlayStation are going to look like. Now, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan has spoken about all things PlayStation in a new interview, and he's made some interesting comments on the immediate future of VR.Talking to The Washington Post, Ryan said that he believes the "future" of VR is going to take some time. "I think we’re more than a few minutes from the future of VR,” he said. “We definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. Will it be this year? No. Will it be next year? No. But will it come at some stage? We believe that."What this means, essentially, is that Sony still believes in VR--having sold 5 million PlayStation VR units--they don't think the next big step in VR is happening for a while yet. "We’re very pleased with all the experience that we’ve gained with PlayStation VR, and we look forwarding to seeing where that takes us in the future,' Ryan adds.While the PS5 will not have a new VR headset at launch--or for a while, by the sound of it--it will support the PS4 VR headset.Xbox CEO Phil Spencer has previously said that Microsoft is not pursuing VR for the Series X because no one is asking for it.For more on Sony's new system, check out GameSpot's PS5 preview.Info from Gamespot.com

Destiny 2 is getting a lot of changes and new features with the Beyond Light expansion. But for Guardians who like to look fashionable, among the coolest is the addition of armor transmogrification--the ability to wear a piece of gear, but change it to look like another piece. Players have been holding on to a bunch of old pieces of armor waiting for transmogrification to kick in--but Bungie has revealed that you can finally throw all that stuff away.Transmogrification is a common system in MMOs. Since there are so many pieces of gear in those games, offering so many different looks, transmogrification offers a lot of customization. If you like the stats of a helmet, but not its look, you can use transmog to make it look like a different helmet, while still maintaining the original's stats; only the cosmetic aspect changes. On Twitter, Bungie revealed that the transmogrification system will work with your Collections tab, rather than armor pieces you're storing in your vault or on your characters.Per @thislukesmith - You don't need to have armor pieces in your vault when Transmog goes live for them to be eligible. Collections based.Free up some vault space.Info from Gamespot.com

Warframe is currently going through a file downsize on PC, hoping to cut down its footprint by 15GB across three updates. Now, the second update in what developer Digital Extremes playfully refers to as "The Great Ensmallening" is on its way, and some details and screenshots have been revealed.In a new Warframe forum post, Digital Extremes has explained that this coming update will focus on textures. "We are anticipating about 8-10 GB of savings with this round after a 10GB download," the post says--which means that after an update, the overall size of the game will shrink as older files are jettisoned.While compressing these textures, the developer decided to also touch-up and improve them--meaning that the game will actually look better than it did before.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 1 feels like a thrilling action movie occasionally interrupted by a game of I Spy. You want to keep watching John Wick’s balletic slaughter but your impertinent host won’t unpause the Blu-ray until you spot the ficus in the background.It’s also tough as nails. If you haven't played Doom Eternal since it launched back in March, the first moments of its new DLC, The Ancient Gods Part 1, will feel like a kick in the teeth--n a good way, mostly. Once you get back in the demon-slaying swing of things, it's exciting to have more high-level Doom Eternal to play, unconstrained by the need to reintroduce you to the basics. But, still: Be ready.The Ancient Gods Part 1 picks up right where Eternal left off. After an opening "previously on" text screen and a cutscene that will remind you that Doom Eternal focused way too much on story and Proper Noun-riddled lore, the DLC tosses you back into the action. Your entire roster of weapons--save the Crucible, that overpowered glowing red sword Doom Guy scored toward the end of the vanilla game--is unlocked right from the start. The Ancient Gods also throws the big bads of Eternal's late-game roster at you right out of the gate. I had my first fight with a Marauder less than an hour in.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com