The technological revolution in light-emitting diode (LED) monitors took gaming by storm, producing thinner monitors with better graphics that use less energy. Now LED lights are branching out with the advent of smart TVs, voice-activation, and custom lighting. If you’re looking for that special something to make your entertainment or gaming room pop, look no further than The Smart TV LED Backlight , now on sale for only $10 (reg. $13).Save your eyes from strain with the soft backlighting so you can avoid harming your vision during gaming marathons. The Smart TV LED Backlight produces millions of color combinations that let you customize the lighting exactly how you want it while protecting your vision from the harsh glare of normal lighting. The backlight comes with countless options for saturation, brightness, contrast, and pattern that let you turn your room into the perfect place for an adventure, a party, or just a quiet romantic evening in. The ease of setup and installation means you can have your LED backlight up and running in minutes, making an exciting addition to your gaming setup. You can even program the lights to work with your Alexa or Google Home so you don’t even need to get up to change the settings.Best of all, the Smart TV LED Backlight has a built-in microphone that senses sound coming from your TV and syncs with the audio to produce amazing lighting effects that will dazzle friends and guests alike. Crank up the excitement for the big game, your favorite streamer, or a season finale with customizable LED backlights. With 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, you can rest assured that the Smart TV LED Backlight is well worth the money, especially while it's on sale for 28% off the normal price .Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Actor Robert Patrick has revealed the time that Sopranos star James Gandolfini terrified him on the set of the classic TV show. Patrick was a guest on the Talking Sopranos podcast, which is hosted by Sopranos actors Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa.Terminator 2 star Patrick played the character David Scatino in three episodes of The Sopranos Season 3, back in 2000. In one scene, Tony Soprano, played by Gandolfini, has to physically assault Scatino in order to get some money he is owed. Via Insider, Patrick revealed that he had never met Gandolfini before the day they rehearsed this scene and was told by producers to "provoke" Gandolfini ahead of shooting.As a result, Patrick told Gandolfini that he "better bring your f***ing A-game," to the scene, to which Gandolfini replied, "Oh, I'll bring my f***ing A-game."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Marvel has released a series of character posters for Eternals, which will be out in the real world as Entertainment Weekly covers. The images pair with a cover story that offer a few new details about production for the film, which is due to hit theaters on November 5.While a trailer was recently released, plot details are still pretty light. However, director Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) told EW that she "pushed Marvel to leave the blue screens in the studio and film on location as much as possible." There's one scene when the super team lands on Earth in 5,000 BC, and the cast and crew hiked to rugged cliffs in the Canary Islands, Zhao called "probably the windiest cliff that I have ever been on… you'd have to have a helicopter to achieve the wind that we had that day." Zhao recalls being overcome with emotion, seeing the whole ensemble in an ancient-looking landscape--being both unable to stand due to her excitement, and the wind. We are not liable if the images below have the same effect on you, though you have been warned!Check out the new @EW exclusive covers featuring Marvel Studios' #Eternals. Experience it in theaters November 5. Read the full story here: https://t.co/YXBPF7Fu2L pic.twitter.com/4VeOGtSkhy — Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) August 18, 2021When Marvel's Eternals was first announced as coming to the MCU, studio president Kevin Feige described the tone as being "full Jack Kirby," referring to the famed comic book artist/writer's unique and colorful cosmic art style, and described the characters as "a group of immortals who have been on earth for 35,000 years, but we haven't met them before."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A Pokemon game wouldn't be complete without it sticking to elements that have made the franchise a household name for more than two decades: exploring a strange new land, battling a nefarious organization that plans to use Pokemon for world domination, and of course, discovering Pokemon that have absolutely horrifying origin stories.Pokemon Legends: Arceus has a prime example of that last point, as the ancient Sinnoh region--known as the Hisui region in this game--features a Basculin which has succumbed to the influence of its dead comrades and evolved into a much more ferocious form called Basculegion."Basculin in the Hisui region can evolve into this Pokémon," Nintendo's official Basculegion synopsis reads. "This evolution occurs when a Basculin is possessed by the souls of other Basculin from its school that could not withstand the harsh journey upstream. Basculegion fights together with these souls, which attack opponents as if with a will of their own. This Pokémon gains power from the souls possessing it, letting it swim on and on without tiring."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Ahead of NBA 2K22's release in September, 2K Sports has announced the first player ratings for some of the league's top athletes and published brand-new screenshots.The NBA 2K22 player ratings revealed so far cover players in the NBA and WNBA, and if the list looks short and incomplete so far, that's because it is. 2K Sports will release more player ratings later today, August 18, so keep checking back to see more player ratings. Of note, the initial wave of ratings include players from the Milwaukee Bucks, who won the 2021 NBA Finals.NBALuka Doncic (94)Kevin Durant (96)Steph Curry (96)Giannis Antetokounmpo (96)Khris Middleton (88)Jrue Holiday (85)Nikola Jokić (95)Lamelo Ball (84)Damian Lillard (94)Jayson Tatum (90)Steph Curry has a 96 rating in NBA 2K22Gallery WNBACandace Parker (93)Breanna Stewart (95)A'Ja Wilson (94)Jonquel Jones (94)Brittney Griner (93)2K Sports said it will announce more NBA 2K22 player ratings through social media throughout the day today, August 18, and this will include the top 10 overall highest-rated players, the top three-point shooters, the top rookies, and top dunkers.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nintendo held a short but informative showcase for its various Pokemon games this week, dropping plenty of new details on its upcoming remakes, mobile spin-offs, and a grand reimagining of its core series. In case you missed the 27-minute Pokemon Presents presentation for August 2021, you can catch up on it below or you can take a quick read of the biggest announcements for what to expect from Pokemon in 2021 and 2022.Pokemon UniteNintendo's Pokemon MOBA is officially coming to iOS and Android mobile devices on September 22 and will feature cross-play with the Nintendo Switch version of the game. In addition to that, Mamoswine and Sylveon are being added to the game's roster and multiple gifts will be available to players on all available platforms.Pokemon Unite Releases For Mobile On September 22Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Blizzard has silently released a new public test realm of World of Warcraft Classic with little fanfare, causing players to speculate on what, exactly, the realm is supposed to be testing. Many players are hoping it's "fresh" servers for WoW Classic.The test realm currently only includes raid content from WoW Classic's first phase, although it does include more recent updates to the game, like the ability to purchase a world-buff saving item from Chromie that didn't exist in the original version of vanilla WoW but was added prior to Burning Crusade Classic's release. The arrival of the new test realm has players speculating it could be a sign that Blizzard is looking to roll out brand-new servers for WoW Classic where players can start their adventure into Azeroth all over again from scratch.Currently, WoW Classic servers are a ghost town. Blizzard required players to decide between playing in what it now calls "Classic Era" servers or moving forward to the game's first expansion, Burning Crusade Classic, back in June, and it seems the majority of players chose to continue on into Outland over staying in Azeroth. But there is still a dedicated community of players who prefer WoW Classic to Burning Crusade.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The first gameplay video for Life is Strange: True Colors has been revealed. Showing off a moment from the story of Alex Chen, the video showcases some of the interactions you can expect from the game. Oh, and a very good cat makes an appearance, too. Life is Strange: True Colors is the third main entry in the series of interactive narrative-centric games, and it focuses on Alex's quest to use her psychic abilities to unravel the mystery of her brother's fate. The first video shows about 13 minutes from early in the game, centering on a scene in a record store. You can see the full demo in the embed below.As with all of the Life is Strange games, the gameplay of True Colors is primarily based on dialogue trees and some basic exploration and interaction with environments. The video shows some light puzzle-solving, like encouraging the store's resident feline to move. It also demonstrates the core supernatural mechanic in the game, which is Alex's use of her empathic powers. Basically, she can perceive strong emotions as auras around other characters and can perceive ways to help them feel better, but she is forced to simultaneously feel those emotions.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl and Pokemon Legends: Arceus will be compatible with Pokemon Home, but not at launch. Near the end of the latest Pokemon Presents stream, The Pokemon Company confirmed that support for the upcoming Switch games will be added to Pokemon Home sometime in 2022.Once support has been implemented, you'll be able to transfer Pokemon you caught in Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl and Pokemon Legends: Arceus and store them in Pokemon Home. Beyond that, however, details are scant. It remains unclear if transfers will be one-way, as they are with Pokemon Go, or if you'll be able to bring compatible Pokemon you've caught in other games from Home into Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl or Legends.Like Pokemon Bank for 3DS, Pokemon Home is a cloud service that lets you store Pokemon you've caught in different games in one place and move them between titles. The service has free and paid plans. The latter costs $16 USD annually and offers more benefits, including significantly more storage capacity, a Judge function that lets you see a Pokemon's base stats, and the ability to transfer monsters from Pokemon Bank.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Michael Keaton will once again don his giant metal wings as he plays Adrian Toomes, AKA The Vulture, in Morbius, which arrives on January 28, 2022. While Keaton appeared in the first trailer for Morbius, back in January 2020, the actor was confirmed to be reprising the Spider-Man villain in Sony's upcoming film in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter.While he's played Marvel's Vulture and DC's Batman, Keaton says he's never been a fan of comics and doesn't think he's ever seen a comic book movie. So when it came to reprising the role as Vulture, which he first played in the MCU's Spider-Man: Homecoming, the Morbius filmmakers discussed recent Marvel plot points and explained the universe to him."I'm nodding like I know what the f*** they're talking about," Keaton told THR. "I go, 'Uh-huh.' And I'm thinking, 'You may as well be explaining quantum physics right now to me. All I know is I just know my guy. And I know the basics.' So finally, they were looking at me, and they just started laughing. They said, 'You don't know what we're talking about, do you?' I said, 'No, I don't, no idea what you're talking about.'"Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In a thoroughly enjoyable new profile on Michael Keaton in The Hollywood Reporter, the actor shares his thoughts on the dawn and rise of the superhero film genre. Keaton will be reprising the role of Batman he originated in the 1989 Tim Burton film for the upcoming movie The Flash--according to this THR piece, he "just finished shooting" that performance.Since the OG Batman movie, Keaton says he's been "stunned" by the genre's explosion both in print and on screen. While he recently proudly has self-appointed himself the best Batman of all time (who would argue?), he made a point in this profile to share credit with Burton: "What Tim did changed everything… Everything you see now started with him. If you really think about what happened between 1989 and now, on a cultural, corporate, economic level, it's unbelievable."Still, he admits he is not and has never been a comics fan--though is "awed by the phenomenon." Keaton said, "after the first Batman, I'm not sure I've ever seen an entire [comic book] movie… I just never got around to it." Elsewhere in the profile, Keaton admits he doesn't understand the MCU.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hollywood news site Variety has a new report out that breaks down the salaries for some of the highest-profile TV roles, and included on the list are two names that have a connection to gaming. The report reveals how much money Pedro Pascal is making to play Joel on HBO's The Last of Us and the fee that Henry Cavill is apparently getting for Netflix's The Witcher.According to the report, which is based on estimates provided by sources to the website, Pascal is being paid $600,000 USD per episode to appear in The Last of Us. There are 10 episodes in all, so he stands to make $6 million in total. Now, that's pre-tax and before paying agent fees and other costs he might incur, but it's still a big baseline payday.As for Cavill, the report says he makes $400,000 per episode on The Witcher. The first season had eight episodes and the second will have eight as well. Assuming Cavill is paid $400,000 per episode in both seasons, he will make $6.4 million USD before taxes and fees.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Blue Box Game Studios is looking to put the minds of gamers at ease by offering up a free copy of the studio's upcoming PlayStation 5 game Abandoned to those who purchased an unfinished, early access version of the studio's previous game, The Haunting: Blood Water Curse.The news, via an IGN interview with Blue Box head Hasan Kahraman, comes in the wake of the studio releasing a "realtime experience app" for PS5 that didn't go exactly as planned. When the highly anticipated trailer (after multiple delays) didn't actually turn out to be a trailer at all but instead just a gif of a man walking that had already been shared on Twitter, skeptical players began to renew their investigations into Blue Box's history.What they found, as illustrated by Reddit user TicTacPaul, is a history of cancelled and unfinished games dating back to 2015, with multiple cancelled Kickstarter projects and games pulled from sale while still in early access and seemingly, ahem, abandoned.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty players can now add Season 5's Marshal secondary weapon to their arsenal. The Marshal pistol is a hand-loaded, double-barrel pistol that fires 12-gauge shells, and it apparently has the ability to set enemies on fire.There are a few different ways to get your hands on Black Ops Cold War's newest weapon, depending on your game mode preference. This fiery new weapon can be unlocked in Warzone, as well as Black Ops Cold War's multiplayer and Zombies.Warzone And Black Ops Cold War MP UnlockMarshal Warzone and Cold War Multiplayer unlock challengeTo unlock this weapon in Black Ops Cold War multiplayer and Warzone, you want to equip your favorite pistol and ask for patience. Using pistols, you'll need to get a headshot kill in 15 different completed matches. Getting a headshot shouldn't be too difficult, but you'll need to see each match through.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new entry in the Ace Combat franchise has been confirmed by Bandai Namco. During a 25th-anniversary retrospective live stream, series producer Kazutoki Kono spoke more about the new game.Translated by Gematsu, Kono explains, "We've started work on a new project in the Ace Combat series. Project Aces staff will of course continue to be involved in the development of this new project, but as we celebrate 25 years and three million copies sold, we’ve come to understand we have many fans of all tastes."Since the Project Aces team is small, Bandai has decided to collaborate with developer ILCA. ILCA worked on cinematics and environment production for Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown and is also known as the developer behind the upcoming Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl games.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com