On this week's episode of GameSpot After Dark, Jake, Lucy, and Kallie are joined by MinnMax co-host Suriel Vazquez. As always, the crew talks about what they've been playing (or doing in general), and this week includes some rather timely and spooky picks: early-access ghost-hunting game Phasmophobia and Frictional Games' horror followup Amnesia: Rebirth. Suriel also shares his passion for Hades, which he reviewed for GameSpot.The crew then discusses the news from the week--in this case, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's debut Twitch stream designed to get out the vote. They talk about what made it such a compelling stream and their appreciation for Ocasio-Cortez's genuine approach to political outreach.In far more controversial news, we also got a first look at Tom Holland as Nathan Drake. Does the After Dark crew care at all? That's for us to know and for you to find out.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In November, a beloved animated series from the '90s returns with all-new episodes. But this time around, it's coming to the Hulu streaming service. That's not all Hulu has new for the month. There are plenty of new movies, TV shows, and original programs for you to binge as we slowly head towards winter.On November 20, the first season of Animaniacs drops on Hulu. The revival follows the adventures of the Warner Brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and their Warner sister Dot. They live in the Warner Bros. water tower on the studio lot. The original show also introduced the world to Pinky and the Brain--two lab rats of which one is a genius and the other insane. All of these characters will be appearing in the new season, and you can check them all out in the trailer below.If you're looking for a solid dad adventure that doesn't have a challenging story, you should check out Wild Hogs which arrives on November 1. Starring Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, John Travolta, and William H. Macy, Wild Hogs follows a group of middle-aged men clinging to their younger years as weekend warriors--riding their motorcycles to freedom. Of course, the group comes across men who live their lives riding through this world, all alone, and they do not all get along.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Disneyland Resort in Southern California has been closed since March. At least, the two theme parks in the resort--Disneyland and Disney California Adventure--have been. That's about to change, though.Starting in November, a portion of Disney California Adventure will open to the public. That doesn't mean you should get ready to ride the rides, though. The Buena Vista Street section of the park, made up of dining options and stores, are going to be open for business, according to the official Disney Parks blog.While the shopping will be indoors, the seating for dining will be in expanded outdoor seating areas. Among the eateries opening are the Carthay Circle Lounge, complete with a new food and cocktail menu. For shopping, a number of gift shops will be open along the Buena Vista Street section, offering a ridiculous amount of Disney-branded items for you to take home.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will offer an exclusive Zombie mode to PS4 and PS5 players for one year. Called Zombies Onslaught, the new two-player co-op features waves of increasingly difficult zombie hordes spawning and attacking. The goal is to kill the undead and survive.According to PlayStation's blog, the Zombie Onslaught mode will deploy you and another player to locations from various multiplayer maps. Players will have the same custom loadouts as they do in traditional Zombies and Multiplayer modes.When arriving on the map, the players' range of movements will be restricted to a smaller area by a Dark Aether orb. Zombies will then start spawning and attacking, and each subsequent wave of the undead will be harder to kill. After defeating enough zombies, the Orb will shift locations. If you're inside the Orb, you will be protected from Dark Aether damage.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Back in August, I had the chance to play Little Nightmares II, and in my preview I talked about the uneasy trust between main characters Mono and Six. I theorized it could present a new kind of fear for the series--if you can't fully trust your partner, then you're never really safe. But having now gotten a chance to play another preview of Little Nightmares II, I'm beginning to wonder exactly how much Mono and Six's partnership factors into the game.The new demo takes place in the Hospital environment, which seems to pop up much further into the game than the Forest area seen in the first demo--Six has her trademark yellow raincoat in the Hospital, something she didn't have prior to Mono meeting her in the Forest. Both Mono and Six need to go down an elevator, but it doesn't have power. A nearby panel reveals that they'll need to find two batteries. I can't go through the door on the left because it needs one battery to open, but the door on the right is already ajar. My path is clear.After going down a hallway, Six hoists Mono into the next room. And just like that, she's cut off from me. I can't bring her with me and must face the future horror alone. I was very surprised. The earlier demo contained puzzles and a chase sequence where Mono and Six needed to work together in order to ultimately get away from this freaky Hunter, which seemed to imply that Little Nightmares II would solely focus on brand-new "co-op" puzzles, ones where you had to figure out what both you and your NPC partner had to do in order to solve them. But in this recent demo, I was largely solo.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The hit game Among Us has been hit with a hack that both advertises a streaming channel and sends a political message. The studio InnerSloth was forced to issue a hasty patch in response to the hacks.The hack would spam text chat messages advertising a streamer and threatening to damage your phone if you don't subscribe. It ended with a "TRUMP 2020" message. The hack became widespread rather quickly, with some players estimating it had afflicted hundreds or even thousands of matches.InnerSloth issued a statement via Twitter saying it was "super duper aware" of the issue. It announced an emergency server update and encouraged players to stick to private games in the meantime. Programmer Forest Willard later explained that the update had taken some time so as to avoid false positives, to prevent the game from wrongly identifying a hack.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Electronic Arts has provided an update on Apex Legends for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam, confirming when the battle royale launches on both platforms.Apex Legends hits Steam on November 4. Origin players can switch back and forth between that and Steam, letting you transfer all progress and unlocks between the two. Meanwhile, Steam players will get free Half-Life and Portal gun charms for logging in during Season 7. The new Apex Legends season also starts on November 4, the same day the game hits Steam.EA said the Nintendo Switch port of Apex Legends has been delayed to 2021. An exact release date or window has yet to be announced. Game director Chad Grenier said the "unexpected new challenges" of this year impacted the game's development on Switch. Whenever the game drops on the console-handheld hybrid, it will come with "full feature parity with the other versions of the game," including cross-platform support and the latest seasonal content.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

I usually try to hop on Among Us once a week to link up with my friends back home and get rowdy either trying to get away with virtual murder or ratting each other out. But they like to keep things spicy. So, they put together a sort of alternate game mode by customizing the in-game rules and getting us to follow certain gameplay etiquette. And with the vewy scawy Halloween season right around the corner, this makeshift game mode is quite fitting and helps freshen up the traditional paces of Among Us.Basically, think Dead By Daylight, or any similar game, but in Among Us. Here's the setup: you have one imposter and nine (or however many) crewmates, but the imposter announces who they are right at the beginning of the match. The imposter counts to 10 while the crewmates scramble to get out of sight, complete tasks, hide, and make mad dashes to dodge the imposter once they start hunting down the crew--there's no voting phase necessary, just survival.What makes this style of play work is the tweaking of the custom rules. Here, you'll want to have the imposter's kill cooldown timer set to the lowest possible (10 seconds) so they can really act like a serial killer. However, you'll have to limit their vision range as low as possible (0.25x) to make it challenging for them to actually find crewmates. To make things a lot more thrilling, we set all players' movement speed higher (at least 2x, but 3x works too).Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Joe Manganiello is reportedly returning as the deadly assassin Deathstroke for the HBO Max cut of Justice League. This should be treated as a rumor, though a credible one, as Collider cited an anonymous source, with TheWrap corroborating.Hard evidence of the casting is lacking. Along with their anonymous source, Collider cited Manganiello appearing on Twitch with gray hair as the main thing pointing to this information. Manganiello has been sporting a salt-and-pepper beard for years, so it's tough to call that genuine evidence, but it's not impossible either.Deathstroke's time in Snyder's corner of the DC cinematic universe was relatively short-lived until this point. Manganiello first appeared as the merc in the post-credits scene of the theatrical cut of Justice League. In that scene, Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) was asking him to join his team of bad mean men to fight the newly-formed Justice League.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Genshin Impact has undoubtedly had an eventful first month of operation, with millions of players globally jumping into the world of Teyvat. With the passage of time comes the first change of the promo banner for Wishes and an introduction of a new five-star character, Klee.Klee is the featured character on this new promo banner, titled Sparkling Steps. Though you may have already been introduced to Klee and her abilities in the quest "The Mystery of the Girl in Red's Treasure," this is the first chance you have to recruit her permanently.The odds haven't changed for Sparkling Steps compared to the previous banner--your chances of a 5-star roll are still quite low at 0.6%. But, as with the previous banner, if you do roll a 5-Star character, there is a 50% chance of it being Klee. The "Pity Roll" mechanics also come into play here, so if you really want Klee, you can pour all of your resources into Wishing multiple times to have a better chance. (Also, if you didn't roll a 5-star unit on the last promo banner featuring Venti, the accumulated rolls from that banner will carry over onto this one, making a Pity Roll easier to trip.)Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Countless movies and television shows are have been delayed, canceled, or changed in significant ways as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adult Swim's mega-hit Rick and Morty, however, is doing just fine according to co-creator Dan Harmon."We're more on schedule than we’ve ever been," Harmon said during a virtual panel for PaleyFest NY 2020. "It kind of makes you have to focus on the whole process when you don't have this office environment anymore. Everyone has to run this bee colony remotely, so the honey just gets made more consistently. It's working for us."Harmon said that the team is "very late into the process of writing Season 6" even as he reviews animatics for Season 5 episodes. He also told the panel that the writers don't map out the seasons ahead of writing them, despite being on Adult Swim's books for at least a sixth and seventh season.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Halloween is getting closer, which means it's time for New Releases to get a little spooky. This week, you can run from monsters in Amnesia: Rebirth or face them head-on in the first part of Doom Eternal's The Ancient Gods DLC. You can also take a few runs at rogue-lite The Red Lantern or try the game that started it all with the re-release of Rogue. Finally, Transformers: Battlegrounds rolls out this week, too.Amnesia: Rebirth -- October 20Available on: PS4, PCThis new spin on the Amnesia games is set in the Algerian desert, where you'll have to run from the series' trademark monsters, solve puzzles, and figure out why the desert residents have disappeared. Rebirth is also more about the theme of survival, according to developer Frictional Games. Expect a mix of wide-open and claustrophobic spaces as you try to survive.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Sucker Punch Productions has revealed that the first raid for Ghost of Tsushima's new Legends multiplayer mode kicks off on October 30 for PlayStation 4.The raid, titled The Tale of Iyo, is a three-chapter mission that puts players directly into the heart of Iyo's realm. Players need a minimum Ki level of 100 and a full team of four Ghosts to tackle the raid. Sucker Punch recommends players finish Legends' story and survival missions on higher difficulties in order to obtain better gear. Doing so will get players raid-ready.An exact start time for The Tale of Iyo has not been confirmed as of yet. Sucker Punch said it will provide more details on its official Twitter account closer to the launch of the raid.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite's Week 9 challenges include a familiar task. You'll need to find five floating rings while fending off enemies at Steamy Stacks. This guide will give you the location of all five rings to help you complete the challenge with ease.Where Are All Five Floating Rings At Steamy Stacks?The rings are located both inside and on top of several buildings. It's good to try and land at Steamy Stacks when the bus route is farther away from the named location. That way fewer players will show up to interrupt your ring hunting. You can find the exact locations for all floating rings in the map below.Floating Rings At Steamy StacksThis challenge will probably take most players a full match. The rings take some time to collect, so it'll be difficult to try and do anything else once it's complete. Here are the specific locations of all five rings.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer One More Level has confirmed that its upcoming cyberpunk action-adventure game Ghostrunner will launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X as a free upgrade for those who own the current-gen version of the game on either console when it launches on October 27.The only stipulation to gain access to the next-gen version of Ghostrunner is to buy the game digitally. If players purchase Ghostrunner on the Microsoft or PlayStation stores, they can upgrade to the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series S/X version at no extra cost. Though the next-gen consoles drop this November, the next-gen version of Ghostrunner won't be available until 2021. An exact release date for these upgrades has not been announced as of yet.Ghostrunner is available for preorder right now on most platforms like PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as well as PC via the Epic Games Store, GOG, and Steam. The game is also on sale on these platforms for 10-20% off until October 26 and those who preorder get two exclusive katana.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com