Star Wars director JJ Abrams is moving from outer space to the Wild West. The director's first new movie since his Bad Robot label signed with Warner Bros. for $250 million is a supernatural thriller in a Western setting called "The Pinkerton," according to reports.The script was written by Daniel Casey and acquired by Warner Bros. for JJ Abrams and his team at Bad Robot to work on. It's unclear what exact role Abrams himself has on The Pinkerton. There is also no word on who will star in the movie or when it will release; it's very early days.The official description of the film is being kept a secret, but The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline suggest that it will be a "supernatural revenge-western hybrid."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It may be only March, but it's never too early to anticipate great deals, and one of the biggest savings events of the year is coming up in just a few months. Amazon Prime Day 2020 is on the horizon, and it's sure to bring steep discounts on some of the best games for Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Prime Day is also an excellent opportunity to snag consoles and PC hardware at a discount, and you'll also find sweet deals on gaming accessories, merch, Blu-rays, collectibles, and practically anything on your wishlist. Prime Day is known for having deals on par with even Black Friday, so for gamers on a budget, it's an event you don't want to miss.The key to snagging the deals you want on Amazon Prime Day is to go in prepared. To help you out, we've assembled a guide with everything you need to know about Amazon Prime Day 2020, including when it might start, the best deals to expect, and more.Table of Contents [hide]What is Amazon Prime Day?What is Amazon Prime Day?Prime Day is a massive sale Amazon puts on each summer for Prime members. It all began in 2015, when Amazon had a sale to celebrate its 20th birthday. In the years since, Prime Day has grown into a shopping extravaganza in its own right, with deep discounts on all kinds of items across the whole store.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

I love Apex Legends' new Evo Shield, the first item that Respawn has added to its battle royale that isn't a weapon or weapon attachment. I hope it's permanently added to the game.For now, the Evo Shield is limited to Deja Loot, the new mode added to Apex Legends during the System Override event. The glowing body shield begins out weaker than a common white body shield but grows more powerful as you damage enemies--ultimately maxing out just above a legendary gold body shield.As the Evo Shield evolves, it doesn't automatically heal itself. So to take full advantage of the Evo Shield, you need to carry extra shield cells and batteries to keep the armor fully charged. If you don't want to make the climb yourself, you can loot Evo Shields off of other players as individual Evo Shields will maintain their level even after their users have fallen.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Before he directed the action-centric John Wick movies, Chad Stahelski was known for his stunt work and fight choreography work on a long list of popular films like 300, Live Free or Die Hard, and 2008's Rambo. And as a fun piece of trivia, he was the stunt double for Keanu Reeves's Neo in the original Matrix. The John Wick movies only increased his profile further, and now we're getting the first word on his next movie.Deadline reports that Stahelski will direct a "high concept" car movie for Paramount that aims to "capture the spirit of the great car movies, with a unique central relationship at its center."No other details were provided about the movie. Given his long run of success with action combat movies, it's really exciting to think about what Stahelski might do with a film focused around cars. Remember the epic car chase from the original John Wick? Yeah, I'll take a full movie of that.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Google Stadia website has just been updated with a feature that people have been waiting for since the system's launch--the ability to access your game capture library. The Stadia controller features a "capture" button, but until now players have not been able to share the screenshots and videos they take.Stadia has today announced that the much-wanted feature is now live, and players can log into their accounts and access their game capture libraries to show off their best shots and videos from Stadia games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Borderlands 3.The latest Stadia update is live! Our game capture library is now available on https://t.co/AoYhdVnzGu 📸Download & save your in-game screenshots and videos on web to show off your legendary gear, brutal finishers, or just some scenic views. — Stadia (@GoogleStadia) March 3, 2020The capture functionality of Stadia is similar to the Nintendo Switch--you can either press the button once for a screenshot or hold it down to capture the last 30 seconds of gameplay. Stadia owners with a Pro subscription are able to save up to 500 video clips and unlimited screenshots. Owners without a subscription can only save 100 clips.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pixar is one of the biggest and most successful film studios in the world, so anytime the company releases a new movie it's a big deal. Pixar's next movie is Onward, a story about two elven brothers who set out on a grand adventure. Tom Holland and Chris Pratt voice the two main characters.But how much money is Onward expected to make over its first weekend and how does that compare to previous Pixar movies? According to Deadline, Onward is expected to make $50 million or more in the US for its opening weekend, with another $45 million - $55 million from international markets to give the film a strong $90 million - 105 million opening weekend.Onward is directed by Monsters University director Dan Scanlon. Octavia Spencer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus also have major voice roles in the movie.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

DuckTales: Remastered has returned to digital storefronts after being pulled in August 2019. The game, which remasters the 1989 NES classic Disney's DuckTales, has reappeared on Steam, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U. You can also grab it for Xbox One, as it's part of the system's backwards compatibility catalog. An announcement post of the game's reappearance is up on Capcom Unity, but no explanation for why it was delisted and has now reappeared is offered. "If you missed out on this colorful reimagining the first time around, now’s a great time to see what you’ve been missing out on," the post reads.There's also no announcement of whether the game will come to current systems, but it's fair to say that Switch port begging is now back on the menu for this title, which was released in 2013.Although the game is regarded as a classic by many, GameSpot's review of DuckTales: Remastered was less favorable. Critic Tom McShea was not a fan: "DuckTales Remastered will make you doubt happy memories from your childhood, or leave you baffled as to why people were nostalgic for such dull platforming in the first place."Info from Gamespot.com

The first game I played in Dreams was a cute Captain Toad-inspired puzzle platformer called Pip Gemwalker. It's about a Sloth who has to collect hidden gems across seven increasingly-complex levels. The second game I played was Blade Gunner, a Resogun-style twin-stick shooter with upgrades, an in-game store, and online leaderboards. After that I hopped into Art Therapy, a first-person game where your goal, as a disgruntled artist wielding a baseball bat, is to smash your way through a museum without any of the guards catching you in the act. The fourth was Shadows Dance at Olivetop Reach, a fantasy RPG with turn-based combat and an XP-based levelling system.Each of these games is vastly different from the last, not just in terms of genre and gameplay mechanics, but their use (or disuse) of cutscenes, voice acting, art style, music, narrative, and so on. The one thing they each have in common is that they were all created using the exact same set of tools. That's Dreams in a nutshell: a platform where you can create pretty much anything you can put your mind to. Developer Media Molecule has continued the mantra of "play, create, share" that it used to define the LittleBigPlanet series and applied it to a much more ambitious concept with a significantly broader scope. Metaphorically speaking, if LittleBigPlanet is a single country, then Dreams is the entire universe. There's just so much promise and potential for the burgeoning Dreams community to create some innovative and inspired art, all by using an intuitive toolset that's made accessible via a streamlined creation suite and the use of informative hands-on tutorials. Whether these creations take the form of an hour-long video game, a short film, a simple visual spectacle, or something as simple as a sound effect that another player can use in their own project. The possibilities are endless, which I know is a tired cliché, but in Dreams--more than anywhere else--it actually applies.There are two parts to Dreams which both branch out like roots from a tree. DreamShaping is where you can begin creating your own projects and find myriad tutorials that will teach you how. DreamSurfing, meanwhile, lets you find other people's creations and play them for yourself. It's also where you'll find Media Molecule's own creations, including Art's Dream. If you want to construct a level in LittleBigPlanet, you are always confined to the base template of a side-scrolling 3D platformer. Inevitably, some people found inventive ways to circumnavigate this template, but compared to what you can do in Dreams it's overly restrictive. To demonstrate the monumental shift between LittleBigPlanet and Dreams, Media Molecule has created a showcase of sorts, placing Art's Dream front and centre when you jump into DreamSurfing for the first time.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Doom Eternal makes it very clear that it's challenging players in ways Doom 2016 did not. It's asking you to juggle multiple weapons and new mechanics that are essential for survival while still delivering that tight, breakneck pace in combat. But it's not just an extra suite of abilities, wider combat arenas, and aggressive demons who hound you that push Doom Eternal to be more than its predecessor--you'll also have multi-faceted boss fights to contend with.At a recent Doom Eternal preview event at id Software's Dallas, Texas studio, I played the fourth level of the single-player campaign, set in a sinister lab tucked into a snowy mountain top. This level had its share of intense combat scenarios and platforming sequences, but the boss fight that capped off the mission is what I'm still thinking about. You can see exactly what I'm talking about in the gameplay clip below.Doom Hunter, classified as a super heavy demon, is highly mobile and shoots powerful rockets, and fighting one involves multiple steps. First, Doom Hunters are highly mobile and fire powerful rockets. They're protected by an energy shield that has to be destroyed, so you'll want to use the plasma rifle since it's suited for breaking shields. Once you destroy the barrier, you have a short window of time to hit Doom Hunter with heavy firepower to inflict actual damage before their shields go back up. You must repeat this until their health bar is depleted, after which the second phase kicks in.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

From the Minestrone Mines to Gumbo Grotto, Snack World is an RPG universe entirely founded upon various types of cuisine. But although this base is admirably creative, Snack World's failings outweigh its strengths. Although it is conceptually innovative, the execution never quite lives up to ambition.Right from the get-go, Snack World acknowledges the tropes it attempts to riff off of. You awaken as an amnesiac hero, conveniently discovered just outside the castle gates. You earn an audience with the king, who is simultaneously jovial and relentlessly selfish, and he tasks you with a variety of quests to satiate his daughter's fleeting desires--most of which she no longer cares for by the time you retrieve your boon.Once you embark on an odyssey to regain your memory while becoming a dungeon-crawling virtuoso, you're quickly bombarded with a hefty amount of information tied to the game's various systems. Although they are relatively straightforward and conventional--character traits, codex entries, and opportunities for dungeon co-op--the explanations are buried under esoteric apps on a phone-like device called a Pix-e Pad. It's an interesting idea, but they're unnecessarily facetious, confusing nuance with jargon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Death Stranding is officially coming to PC in June, and now another detail about the PC release has been confirmed. The game's Steam page shows that Death Stranding for PC will use the Denuvo digital-rights-management (DRM) to try to thwart tampering.By nature of being DRM in the first place, Denuvo is often seen as controversial software in the eyes of PC players. One of the main pieces of criticism of Denuvo is that the anti-piracy software has been shown to impact performance in some cases.Denuvo the company understands that no DRM product can stop tampering. What Denuvo offers for publishers is a software that protects initial sales. "Games will be cracked at certain points; there is no uncrackable product. But what we do is protect the initial sales," Denuvo's Elmar Fischer told GI.biz in 2018.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Have you ever seen an old cartoon where a fight breaks out and the brawlers turn into a cloud of punches that flips tables and breaks everything it touches? Bloodroots, a breakneck action-puzzle game from Quebec developer Paper Cult, lives inside that cloud. A short, speedy tale of mayhem and revenge, Bloodroots dares you stab, bludgeon, squash, and otherwise murder dozens of thugs with the ruthless efficiency of the Wild West’s greatest outlaw and the zany gusto of Bugs Bunny trolling Yosemite Sam. Whether you do this for the sake of its well-written story and/or the thrill of a score chase, Bloodroots can be stylish, graceful (once you know what you’re doing), and surprisingly easy to pick up despite demanding a tremendous attention to detail. In its pre-release state, however, its most elating moments are easily and frequently disrupted by technical issues, keeping you from really hitting your stride as often as you should.Bloodroots puts you on the warpath with the Wild West outlaw Mr. Wolf, who’s out for revenge against his gang, the Blood Beasts. The Beasts, who all wear animal skins and go by Reservoir Dogs-style code names like Mr. Boar and Mrs. Crow, betray and nearly kill him after murdering an entire town in the name of their new leader, Mr. Black Wolf. From the moment he recovers from his attempted assassination, Mr. Wolf has one goal: to kill his former gang and anyone who gets between them.The story, though simple and predictable, is made compelling through strong dialogue that forges complex characters. Though Mr. Wolf rarely speaks, you learn a lot about him; his story and the history of the gang are told in carefully constructed interactive flashbacks and through his encounters with the Beasts. You don’t spend too much story time with any one character--this is an action game and the gameplay comes first--but in tracking down each former partner, you come to understand and savor your time with them. Everyone, and I mean everyone, in Bloodroots is a bad guy, but you come to see that every character has their own perspective on how the gang rose and fell. In hearing about Mr. Wolf’s past from the Beasts, in their own unique voices, you not only understand the situation better, but come to understand that there’s more in their lives than a single act of vengeance. That isn’t to say you won’t have reservations about your mission--they’re bad guys through and through--but you understand why they made their choices, which makes your hunt more satisfying.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Xbox ANZ team is at it again with another unique promotion for one of its upcoming games. The company has created 20 limited-edition bonsai trees to mark the launch of Ori and the Will of the Wisps later this month. The trees are meant to capture the essence of the "Spirit" trees from the Ori franchise--and they look pretty stunning."These decade old, real Bonsai trees have been designed to resemble the Spirit Tree, from the glowing ethereal lights in the delicate branches, to the moss-covered ground where the handcrafted mini Ori figurine stands," Xbox ANZ said in a statement. "The Bonsais will emulate the energy of the Spirit Trees, helping guide fans through the game from the comfort of their living rooms." Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Mobile is losing one of its key modes later this month. In the wake of the game's latest season starting alongside a major update, the latest Community Update on Reddit has confirmed that Zombies mode will be removed from the game as of March 25."We had always mentioned it was limited but with no explicit end-date," the post reads. "The mode just didn’t reach the level of quality that we desire. The second map, Nacht Der Untoten, is also not releasing in the global version."The post notes that the mode might eventually come back, complete with the second map, "but for now we’ll focus on development for Multiplayer, Battle Royale, and Ranked Mode."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Sesame Street movie is setting out to a star-filled extravaganza. According to Collider, Chance the Rapper is currently in negotiations with Warner Bros. to join the upcoming Sesame Street Movie.Chance the Rapper will be playing the mayor’s aid in the movie. Just how big of a role this will be is unknown at this point.The plot follows the various Sesame Street characters finding themselves separated from the famous street. Lost and unable to find their way back, they team up with Sally Hawthorne (Anne Hathaway), who hosts a history show, to prove that Sesame Street exists and find their way back.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com