The Kingdom Hearts series made its debut on Xbox in 2019 with Kingdom Hearts III, but newcomers to the series can now go back and experience every title in the series. The HD releases of every previous game have, as predicted, made their way to Xbox now as two separate purchases.If you live in a region where it is currently February 18, 2020 or later, then you'll be able to buy the games right now.The first bundle collects Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX, which collect together four playable games (including Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II) and two cinematic "retellings" of portable games in the series.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

While Sony is bowing out of E3 2020, Microsoft will be at the show to reveal more of Halo Infinite and share more of its plans in the lead-up to the Xbox Series X launch later in the year.Xbox boss Phil Spencer has now provided an update on how Microsoft's E3 2020 planning is shaping up. He said on Twitter that Microsoft held the latest planning meeting on February 15, during which he and his team discussed some of the titles it might show off or announce during the company's briefing. He teased there will be a "deep portfolio" of Xbox Game Studios titles scheduled to appear at E3, though he did not name any outright.Spencer also mentioned how "console launch years are just special," referring to the launch of the Xbox Series X later this year.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

James Bond is returning to cinemas in 2020 with No Time To Die, the 25th film in the long-running franchise. Between the international trailer and the recent Superbowl trailer, we've seen quite a bit of Bond's next adventure, which will see Daniel Craig return as the character one last time. As hype builds, though, fans will take whatever they can get--including a car ad that uses footage from a scene in the film.Land Rover has debuted a new ad for their Defender four-wheel drive, which features in the new film and has already been spotted in the trailer. The ad, which has debuted on the James Bond YouTube page and is narrated by Craig, features rehearsal footage from a car chase scene that has been shot for the new film.This might not give us any great insights into the plot for the new film, but it looks like a fun scene. It's not quite as fun as the recent James Bond vs. Daniel Craig Heineken ad, though.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show is one of the most-anticipated projects currently in the works, and as such, it's seemingly a highly sought-after job for actors. A lot of the cast has already been announced, but that hasn't stopped people from sending in audition tapes in the hopes they might land a role in the big-budget fantasy show.Glenise Mullins, one of the writers of the Amazon show, has been receiving these tapes--and wants you to please stop sending them. "I'm sure they're great and I trust you're super talented. And I really do understand your passion, but again, I'm not involved in the casting," Mullins said.Another writer, Gennifer Hutchinson of Breaking Bad fame, replied, "Yeeeaaaahhhhhh" to suggest she was also receiving a lot of audition tapes. Patrick McKay, one of the showrunners of the Amazon Lord of the Rings show, replied to Mullins and Hutchinson with the Anchorman "sorry" GIF.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Ibb & Obb, a co-op puzzle platformer that was first released for PC and PS3 in 2013, is the sort of game that looks and feels like a perfect fit for Switch. Now, years after its initial, well-received release, it's coming to Nintendo's portable machine. It will release on March 5.The two-player game will be playable with detached Joy-Cons, and while you can play the game alone, it's designed to be played with someone else, as shown in the trailer below. The two characters need to stick together, and many of the puzzles involve dealing with changes in gravity.The game is available for pre-purchase now at a 15% discount, meaning that you can get it for $12.69. It will sell for $15 after launch.The game received a 7/10 in our original review, and reviewer Tom Mc Shea wrote that "Beneath the whimsical exterior lies a devious and clever puzzle game that makes you curse gravity for being so strict." The Switch has a huge range of games heading its way in 2020, of course--here are some of the highlights. Info from Gamespot.com

The Last of Us and Uncharted developer Naughty Dog is helping raise money for the ongoing bushfire relief effort in Australia. The studio has announced a special livestream event featuring game director Neil Druckmann and Ellie actor Ashley Johnson.The pair will play The Last of Us: Left Behind as part of Sony's #Gaming4Life2020 charity campaign. The livestream begins at 10:30 AM PT on Wednesday, February 19. You can watch the livestream through Naughty Dog's Twitch account.Reminder: this Wednesday, Feb. 19, we're streaming The Last of Us Left Behind with guests @Neil_Druckmann and @TheVulcanSalute to raise funds for #Gaming4Life2020 and those impacted by the Australian bushfires. Tune in starting at 10:30am PST - https://t.co/W2rDVSHrzu pic.twitter.com/IeHllBQZ4s — Naughty Dog (@Naughty_Dog) February 17, 2020It's not just Naughty Dog that's helping raise money for Australia. The Sony Foundation Australia charity campaign will also see Insomniac Games (Spider-Man) conduct a livestream event on February 20 featuring company founder Ted Price. Additionally, PlayStation games boss Shuhei Yoshida will appear on a stream on February 21. LittleBigPlanet and Dreams developer Media Molecule held its own livestream on February 14.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Doom (2016) composer Mick Gordon has signed a vinyl copy of the game's soundtrack for an upcoming auction being held by Bethesda Australia to support bush fire relief. Gordon was asked to provide his signature, but he ended up giving a little more.In a tweet, Bethesda ANZ showed off the album that will go up for auction, showing that the Doom Slayer is now rocking out with a silver guitar on the cover.We recently asked @Mick_Gordon to sign this DOOM Original Game Soundtrack to help raise money for our Australian bush fire relief fundraiser.What we got back was... a work of art 😂 pic.twitter.com/PDQ9p3TWC2 — Bethesda ANZ (@Bethesda_ANZ) February 18, 2020Gordon also sketched a pentagram beneath his name.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced a massive new campaign to help save the Earth from climate change. The world's richest man has announced he is launching the Bezos Earth Fund with $10 billion of his own money to kick things off.He announced the initiative in an Instagram post, in which he stressed that "climate change is the biggest threat to our planet." He said the Bezos Earth Fund will provide grants to scientists, activists, non-governmental organizations, and other campaigns that fight the impact of climate change."I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share," he said. "This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, NGOs--any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world. We can save Earth. It’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organizations, and individuals."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The PlayStation community forums are being shut down. The brief announcement posted by community manager Groovy_Matthew encourages users to "continue the conversation via PlayStation.Blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram" instead.The PlayStation forums, which have largely served as help and support outlets for people who encounter issues with their PlayStation devices and accounts in recent times, will no longer be active from February 27.It looks like Sony is closing support forums across all parts of their business, as the Sony Xperia forums are also closing.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The NPD Group has released its latest monthly sales report, revealing which games, consoles, and accessories sold the best in January 2020 in the United States.Starting with games, Dragon Ball Z: Kakorot was the month's top-seller, and its launch-month sales were the third-highest in franchise history, following Dragon Ball: Fighterz and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare finished No. 2 in January, marking the first month since release that it fell to the second sales position. While it's dropped down the charts, it remains the best-selling game over the past 12 months.Another notable move was made by Grand Theft Auto V, which re-entered the Top 5 for the first time since August 2019. As announced previously, GTA 5 is the best-selling video game in history for the United States.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Sonic the Hedgehog movie has enjoyed a strong first weekend at the US box office, opening to $57 million, according to Box Office Mojo. This eclipses even the most generous of pre-release expectations, and means that the movie has now had the best opening weekend ever for a movie based on a game, surpassing Pokemon: Detective Pikachu's $54.3 million opening.It's worth noting that the $57 million figure is an estimate, and although eventual figures tend to trend up rather than down, there's always the possibility that the movie made slightly less than expected (Pokemon: Detective Pikachu was originally reported to have made $58 million in its opening weekend, which was later revised.)In any case, it's a good opening for the movie, which has attracted mixed reviews (although GameSpot's review from Phil Hornshaw was very positive, as were many others.) The movie is expected to do well at the box office on President's Day (February 17), too. The movie has made an additional $43 million outside of the US so far.Recent successful movies based on games have made the majority of their money overseas. Warcraft and Tomb Raider succeeded internationally while doing poorly in the US, while Resident Evil: The Final Chapter made less than 10% of its money domestically. This makes Sonic's opening weekend in the US all the more unique. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Call of Duty movie is seemingly no longer a priority for Activision, though that doesn't mean it's been scrapped altogether. Director Stefano Sollima (Sicario: Day of Soldado) said in a new interview with BadTaste that the action movie is on hold as the parties decide how to move forward.Sollima pointed out that this move is nothing out of the ordinary, given Hollywood movies can take a very long time to come together. The Uncharted movie, for example, has been in various stages of production for more than a decade already and has cycled through 7 different directors.Sollima also mentioned in the interview that he wrote the Call of Duty movie script alongside Scott Silver, who wrote the scripts for Joker and The Fighter, both of which earned Oscar nominations.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

New Releases highlights some of the hottest games releasing each week, and this episode has a whopping 23 games. Double Dragon & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle has 18 of them, and the Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Anniversary Bundle is another two-in-one package. They're not the only re-releases coming this week either, as Hunt: Showdown comes to PS4 and Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition lands on Nintendo Switch. Meanwhile, the fighting game community gets a chance to throw down with Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r].Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Anniversary Bundle -- February 18Available on: PS4, Xbox OneThese Platinum Games cult classics launched 10 years ago, and they're being bundled together on PS4 and Xbox One to celebrate. Those of you with a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X can even experience them in 4K resolution at 60 frames per second. Seems like a good way to refresh yourself before we finally get Bayonetta 3.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

StarCraft: Ghost was originally planned as an Xbox/PS2/GameCube spin-off, a new third-person shooter entry in the StarCraft series. The game was never finished, though, and was only ever seen or played behind closed doors during E3. Now, for the first time, footage of the game has appeared online.First spotted by Kotaku, a playable test build of StarCraft: Ghost, stored on an Xbox dev kit, has leaked online. Footage from the game is emerging, showing what the full game would have looked and played like, had it ever released. The first video, below, is off-screen gameplay that includes footage of the dev kit menu that the build is being accessed from.This next footage shows the game upscaled to 720P, and is direct capture footage. The only build available is very much a work-in-progress--it looks like aiming is quite wonky, but it's also the clearest look many of us have ever had at how the game played. It's likely that more footage will surface now that this build has surfaced.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Uncharted movie has been a long time coming, as it's been in one form of production or another for more than a decade. It now seems like the stars have finally aligned, as Spider-Man actor Tom Holland is on board to play a young Nathan Drake with Mark Wahlberg attached to play Sully. Holland has now given an interview about the film, and he seems enthusiastic about the script. In particular, he said the movie may succeed where other video game adaptations have struggled because its story is a new one, not a re-telling of any of the games."I read the newest draft of the script ... and it's one of the best scripts I've ever read," he told IGN. "It really, really jumps off the page. I think what Uncharted offers that most video game films don't is that it's an origin story to the games, so if you've played the games, you haven't see what's going to happen in the film. If you haven't played the games, you're going to enjoy the film because it's information that everyone else is getting at the same time."Holland went on to himself acknowledge that the Uncharted movie has endured a protracted development timeline. There has been lots of turnover as well, as the movie has shuffled through seven different directors and numerous scriptwriters before getting to where it's at today.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com