In a new trailer for its upcoming programming slate, HBO Max has nonchalantly tucked away a few glorious until-now unseen seconds of its Peacemaker series starring John Cena. As was recently announced, The Suicide Squad spin-off is expected to hit the streaming service in January.The HBO Max series will focus on a new team of "black ops combating something catastrophic that's facing the planet," creator James Gunn said, who wrote all of the series and directed five episodes. This is the first DC Extended Universe television series. Check out this brief new clip to get a very abbreviated taste.Not many details are known about the upcoming series with even Gunn shutting down rumors of a Bane cameo or appearance. The Suicide Squad turned out to be a huge hit for Warner Bros./HBO Max, with Peacemaker having been announced before the movie even came out.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The final trailer for Halloween Kills has been released. The latest movie in the long-running slasher franchise arrives in theaters and on Peacock on October 15.The new trailer starts with a character we haven't seen since John Carpenter's original movie--Lindsey Wallace, one of the kids that Laurie Strode was babysitting back in 1978. She's still played by Kyle Richards and warns some kids out trick-or-treating to watch out because Michael Myers is on the loose yet again. The rest of the trailer intercuts scenes of bloody violence with Laurie and the rest of Haddonfield getting ready to fight back. There are also two more characters back from the first movie--Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens once more) and Tommy Doyle (now played by Anthony Michael Hall). Check the trailer out below:Halloween Kills also stars Judy Greer as Karen and Andi Matichak as Allyson, with Michael played by both James Jude Courtney and original actor Nick Castle. It's directed by David Gordon Green, who also helmed the 2018 Halloween, with a script by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems, and a score by Carpenter.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

FFXIV's seven-hour long Letter from the Producer revealed more information about Endwalker's two new jobs--Reaper and Sage. You can check out the Reaper and Sage segments in the Job Action video attached below to get a sense of what the rotations and designs feel like. Other jobs' Endwalker upgrades and tweaks are also included in the same video, if you'd like to check out how your main has changed or stayed the same.ReaperReaper falls under the melee DPS category. Maining a scythe weapon, Reaper players are also accompanied by a shadowy grim reaper-looking avatar. By becoming the vessel for this avatar, reapers can unleash attacks that cause more damage.Reaper has two gauges, one of them being the Soul Gauge. Charging up the Soul Gauge allows reapers to deploy different attacks, including some of the ones available when "possessed" by the avatar. The second gauge, the Shroud Gauge, starts filling up when the reaper uses both their attacks and their avatar's attacks. This gauge will allow you to be possessed by the avatar and utilize special combos.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Tom Hanks reunites with producer/director Robert Zemeckis with Apple TV+'s upcoming film, Finch. Originally scheduled for a theatrical release in October 2020, Apple acquired the film this past August and is releasing it on its streaming platform on November 5.Previously tiled Bios, Finch stars Tom Hanks as a lone survivor with his dog, but after he builds a robot, voiced by actor Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class, Twin Peaks) he sets off on a journey to try and find a new home for the three of them. Check out the first trailer below.Finch is directed by Emmy-winner and television director Miguel Sapochnik, who is mostly known for some of the most important, and critically-acclaimed, episodes of Game of Thrones. Finch is only his second feature film and the first in over a decade. Sapochnik will be returning to Game of Thrones as he is directing the first episode of House of the Dragon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you've been following news of the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, you know that the consoles are still extremely difficult to find in stock. While retailers have been selling a handful of consoles online per week, they've been even rarer at physical stores. According to a new report, though, Best Buy may be preparing to sell the PS5 and Xbox Series X at some of its stores this week.According to reporting from TechRadar, Best Buy will have stock of the Xbox Series X and the disc drive version of the PS5 in stores on Thursday, September 24, which will be for the first time in over a month. If the retailer lets customers actually purchase a PS5 or Xbox Series X in person (as opposed to ordering it online ahead of pick up), it would be one of the first instances of a major chain selling them in stores since last year.TechRadar's story suggests that Best Buy still has not indicated whether it will allow people to buy them in stores. Previously, the retailer has made customers buy them online and wait a few days before picking them up in person; however, Best Buy's recent stockpiling of inventory may be in preparation for in-store shopping. Regardless, the report says Best Buy is planning on putting the consoles on sale on Thursday, September 24. This means you might have to get ready to line up Thursday morning for your shot at getting your hands on one.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite and Balenciaga--the fashion label that dressed Rihanna at the Met Gala--are teaming up to release in-game digital apparel and a corresponding real-life collection as well. The Fortnite x Balenciaga collaboration arrives in-game on September 20 at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET.The digital looks are inspired by "authentic archival looks" from Balenciaga and consist of four outfits. Other accessories like pickaxes in sneaker shapes, gliders, wraps, emotes, and free sprays will also be available.It’s called fashion, look it up. @balenciaga Read more: https://t.co/Oy6YI3bKoB pic.twitter.com/LEOOSM3ifS — Fortnite (@FortniteGame) September 20, 2021In Fortnite, there will also be a Strange Times Featured Hub created by community members that hosts a virtual Balenciaga store modeled after real ones. The hub will be live from September 21 to September 28. You can pick up collab items from this "storefront," or the usual in-game store for--as of this time--an unknown amount. Prices have not been revealed yet.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sea of Thieves' latest season is on the horizon, and this time it will take players into the dark depths of the sea to battle against the game's Siren enemies.As a new trailer details, Season 4 will add multiple new activities for players to engage with, each taking place underneath the waves. New Siren shrines have been added to the map for players to explore. Each shrine is a unique experience, and treasure awaits players who can overcome the challenges within.For players looking for a more combat-focused experience, Siren Treasuries will task players with overcoming waves of Siren enemies in order to secure the coveted loot inside. Carrying so much treasure from the bottom of the ocean to the surface certainly sounds time consuming, so players can actually store treasure found under the ocean at nearby Merfolk statues. Once players return to the surface, the treasure can then be claimed from a helpful Merfolk and placed onto a player's ship.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Vanguard's final beta weekend is still live and extended until September 22 across all platforms, but players are already facing off against hackers. This is Call of Duty: Vanguard's second multiplayer beta weekend, and it added cross-play across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. Unfortunately, it also brought the nefarious hackers, who are ruining matches with the usual mix of cheats, such as aimbot and wallhacks to see and shoot opponents through walls. Some players are also posting clips of hackers ending the matches early, which are abruptly concluded with the message that the host ended the game.Wait this cheater had walls in the Vanguard Beta and when we called him out he made the whole game end. I'm actually mindblowd! pic.twitter.com/2rz9ARSOVd — EasyStomps (@EasyStomps) September 19, 2021Activision continuously works to ban cheaters in Call of Duty, with over 100,000 accounts already banned, and it seems players who have already been hardware banned for Warzone are finding they are also banned in the Vanguard beta. While this does help to reduce the number of cheaters, players are still encountering plenty of hackers in Call of Duty.Hacking in the Vanguard beta is very concerning, but hopefully the cheaters will be better kept at bay once Call of Duty's new anti-cheat system arrives later this year with integration of the new Warzone Pacific map.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nvidia has been steadily growing its library of games that make use of DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling, to help improve performance across a wide range of compatible cards. It's still incredibly impressive technology, and arguably one of the best reasons to stick with Nvidia's latest GPU offerings over AMD. And today, that list got substantially larger thanks to Unreal Engine.Unreal Engine had its DLSS plugin released several months ago, and the benefits are already being felt today. A total of 28 new games are getting DLSS support with Nvidia's latest Game Ready Driver for GeForce GPUs, bringing the total to over 100 games. New games with DLSS support include the imminent Alan Wake Remastered, Industria, and Severed Steel, among many others.Nvidia provided some internal testing figures for Alan Wake Remastered, showing how its DLSS performance settings can double frame rates on most GPUs that support it. On an RTX 2080 Ti, for example, the game jumps from just over 70fps to 120fps at 4K and max quality settings thanks to DLSS, which renders the game at a lower internal resolution and then reconstructs it using deep learning algorithms.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Unite is doing well ahead of its launch on mobile, with more than 9 million players having downloaded the pocket monster-themed MOBA so far on Nintendo Switch. To celebrate, developer TiMi Studio Group is giving players 2,000 Aeos Tickets starting on September 29.What are Aeos Tickets, exactly? They can be used to purchase trainer cosmetics like new clothes, as well to purchase held items and held item upgrades that are used by Pokemon in battle. For players who don't want to spend cold hard cash to acquire better held items, TiMi Studio's gift will be a welcome bonus.What a goal! The Nintendo Switch version of #PokemonUNITE has just exceeded 9 million downloads! To show our excitement and gratitude, every Trainer will receive 2,000 Aeos Tickets starting 9/29.Thanks for playing Pokémon UNITE, and look forward to the mobile launch on 9/22! pic.twitter.com/m9xyYXhL0k — Pokémon UNITE (@PokemonUnite) September 16, 2021Pokemon Unite, which is free-to-play, is set to release on mobile platforms September 22. Some of the game's most recent patches brought series buffs to characters like Blissey, while nerfing characters like Snorlax. Two new Pokemon will soon be introduced to the game in the form of Mamoswine and Sylveon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty Season 5 is winding down, but there's still one last big event happening, as the Numbers event is set to go live across Black Ops Cold War and Warzone on Tuesday, September 21 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.It's uncertain exactly what will happen during Season 5's Numbers event, but this will be a seasonal event across Black Ops Cold War and Warzone that players can participate in to earn in-game rewards. Treyarch's patch notes for Season 5 Reloaded detailed this upcoming event as including a set of nine Cold War challenges that can be completed in multiplayer or Zombies. Warzone will also receive a unique set of nine challenges to complete, for a total of 18 challenges and 19 rewards to earn during the event. Completing a full set of nine challenges in either game will unlock a Sai melee weapon reward.Sai melee weaponThis event's storyline revolves around the mysterious Red Doors found on Warzone's Verdansk map and the iconic Black Ops campaign narrative of the brainwashing Numbers program. Warzone players should finally notice some activity around Verdansk's Mobile Broadcast Stations when the update goes live. Raven Software detailed these points of interest in the Season 5 Reloaded patch notes for Warzone, stating, "It is suspected that they will soon begin amplifying the 'Dragovich Program' tapes – A.K.A. the Numbers broadcasts – across the region."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Diablo II: Resurrected will bring Blizzard's 2000 action-RPG classic into the modern age when it releases later this month, complete with updated visuals and small quality-of-life changes. What it won't have, at least at launch, is new content, but that's something that could come down the line according to a new developer interview.As part of a group media interview (via Windows Central), Vicarious Visions studio design director Rob Gallerani and project lead Michael Bukowski discussed the creation of Diablo II: Resurrected and also touched on what the future might hold. Gallerani said the team is focused on getting the core game right first, but that there are plenty of ideas for what could come next."We wanted to build a really strong foundation before we started talking about the third and fourth floors on this building," Gallerani said. "If we misstepped on what the core game was, anything else we were doing would have been kind of meaningless. [...]We definitely have lots of ideas, but right now we're waiting to make sure that we get the core game right. [...] We'll have to see once the game goes live what we do about new runewords, new items, rebalancing, things like that."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Rumors suggest that there is another Star Wars game in the works, this one developed by Quantic Dream, which previously worked on Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human. The rumors began when French YouTuber Gautoz posted a video in which he claimed that Quantic Dream might be working on a Star Wars game, which was picked up by VGC.Shortly after, Tom Henderson of DualShockers posted an article stating that an independent source provided evidence that the game was real and had been in development for the past 18 months, which Kotaku was able to corroborate from its own sources. The Star Wars game in question is supposedly different from Quantic Dream's other, quick-time event-heavy games, like Detroit: Become Human. Instead, the game will have more traditional action gameplay, possibly in an open-world environment and with multiplayer elements.Quantic Dream, helmed by studio head David Cage, announced back in 2019 that it would be ending its deal with PlayStation and working on multiplatform titles moving forward. Similarly, earlier this year Lucasfilm Games announced that Electronic Arts will no longer be the exclusive developer of Star Wars games and announced that Ubisoft has an open-world Star Wars title in the works. It was also recently announced that Aspyr is working on a full remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you've ever wanted a bit more Master Chief flavor with your Mahjong or Solitaire games, Microsoft has good news for you. Halo themes are now available for the Microsoft versions of the two games.The themes are free for all players and were designed by Halo developer 343 Industries. For Solitaire, which is on PC and mobile, the cards get an overhaul, with all of the face cards now showing Halo characters instead of the normal Jack, Queen, and King. The gems in Mahjong, which is only on mobile, are changed to look like Halo's multiplayer medals.🔊 #Halo has landed in Microsoft Solitaire (PC & mobile) and Mahjong by Microsoft (mobile).Check out the new @Halo Themes that were designed by 343 Industries for casual gamers throughout the universe.Play now!♣: https://t.co/KEYE7fhh24🀄: https://t.co/F6hF7D6mSy pic.twitter.com/NSqhSP5EZB — Microsoft Casual Games (@MSCasualGames) September 20, 2021It might seem weird on face for Microsoft to target its casual games like this, but Solitaire and Mahjong are enormously popular. Solitaire in particular is comically massive: During Microsoft Solitaire's 20th anniversary celebration last year, the company announced that over 35 million people still play it each month. Many of those people probably don't play many other Microsoft games yet, despite already being connected to the Xbox ecosystem. As a result, it's a big pool of people to market Microsoft's exclusives to--and these themes are a straightforward way to raise awareness.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In every Final Fantasy XIV expansion, jobs get tweaked to and fro--often receiving new abilities or a complete change in rotations. In FFXIV's Letter From the Producer, director and producer Naoki Yoshida and other staff members introduced the upcoming changes to jobs in Endwalker. We detailed the Reaper and Sage gameplay in a separate article, and the info below covers adjustments to existing jobs.Out of all of the jobs, Summoner received the largest amount of changes. It's basically a new job--losing its damage over time abilities, which have been an integral part of the job's gameplay--for new summoning abilities. In any case, have no fear of your favorite job becoming obsolete: Every FFXIV job is viable and can take you to the endgame. That will certainly remain true for Endwalker.TanksGeneralUsing mitigation abilities at the right times will increase the effects of said ability.Combos will not be broken by ranged attacks.You may notice changed numbers for physical attacks, but magical attacks and physical attacks are of equivalent potencies. (See 1:56:08 if you want the full detailed explanation behind this.) Applies to other classes as well.PaladinRequiescat will be equally effective no matter how much MP you have remaining.Confiteor will launch a new three-attack combo.Gap closer Intervene gets an additional 5 yalm for a total of 20 yalm.WarriorDamage up effects can now be triggered and extended by AoE combos. This will make smoother transitions from single target rotations into AoE rotations.Onslaught and Upheaval will no longer drain the Beast Gauge. Onslaught will also get a new total charge of three.Inner Release now can trigger a new action. Inner Release's recast time is also adjusted to 60 seconds now--making its execution more available.Dark KnightSalted Earth will now affect the area immediately around you and make a new action available. You no longer have to "place" Salted Earth.Your Living Shadow is going to get a new action as well, when you receive one of the new job abilities.Delirium's recast time will be adjusted to 60 seconds, affected up to three times.Plunge will get an extension of 5 yalms, for a total of 20 yalms.Will receive a new action that is a single target defense buff.GunbreakerSavage Claw and Wicked Talon will swap for Gnashing Fang on the hotbar, making combo execution easier and saving hotbar space.Continuation will be able to be used following Burst Strike.A trait will raise the number of cartridges raised to three.Paladin's gap closer also will get an extension of 5 yalms.Melee DPSGeneralFeint's effect will be changed to reduce physical damage dealt, and will also reduce magical damage dealt.Combos will not be broken by ranged attacks.DragoonAoE rotation expanded.Weapon skill combo rotation execution will make a new action available.Blood of the Dragon will become a trait, so there's no need to execute or maintain it.Spine Shatter will get changed to two charges.Lance Charge recast changed to 60 seconds, Litany recast to 20 seconds.MonkChakras will now be unlocked at a lower level.Perfect Balance activates the chakra system and can be stacked up to two. Each stack is charged up every 40 seconds.When you light up the three chakra slots, Perfect Balance lets you execute Masterful Blitz. The Blitz changes depending on what weapon skills you used while Perfect Balance was active.True Strike and Twin Snakes will no longer have directional conditions.Shoulder Tackle will get removed, but a rush movement will get added. You can target a party member to rush over to.SamuraiEffects granted by Jinpu and Shifu can also be applied by AoE combos.New actions in the vein of Taijutsu and Tsubame-gaeshi will be available.NinjaActions linked to Raiton, Doton, and Huton will be added.An action making it easier to apply Huton will be added.Shadow Fang--a damage-over-time--will be removed.New actions will be linked to Bunshin as well.Ranged Physical DPSBardEach of the three songs can trigger a new action that applies a party buff.Apex Arrow can trigger a new action.Wanderer's Minuet and Battle Voice recast times will be adjusted to match 120 seconds.MachinistA new action called Chain Saw will be added.Automaton Queen will get a new action too.Reassemble will get two charges.DancerWeapon skill effects like Flourishing Cascade will now be shared across single-target and AoE skills.New actions will be available upon the execution of Technical Finish, Improvisation, and Devilment. Core of Dancer's gameplay is applying buffs to party members, and the dev team kept the development of Dancer in that general direction for Endwalker.Magical Ranged DPSBlack MageEnochian will become a trait that is automatically applied while under the effect of Astral Fire or Umbral Ice.Under certain conditions, swapping between Astral Fire and Umbral Ice will make new actions available. In the Job Action trailer, you saw Black Mage execute a new spell that looked like ice and fire were being simultaneously casted.When casting Fire IV and Thunder, the resulting proc will be extended.Red MageA new action will be available upon execution of Scorch.Verflare, Verholy, and Scorch will be changed to AoEs, available as part of AoE rotations.A defensive party-wide enhancement will be added.Black Mana and White Mana depletion amount will be reduced.Displacement and Engagement will have the same potency.SummonerSignificant rework to the job to make the job feel more like a "summoner."All actions applying damage over time will be removed.Can summon Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan--not just Egis.When summoning each of the primals, the summoner will gain an elemental aether and will switch into different modes.Updated flow: You will call forth demi-Bahamut, obtain an elemental property, and be able to summon Ifrit, Garuda, or Titan, and fight using the elemental properties of those different summons. Once you've depleted those three, you will be able to call forth the phoenix. There is no specific order that you need to call the Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan in.Physick and Resurrection were almost removed, but both will still be available.HealersGeneralAll healers will get new actions that apply single-target buffs.Offensive spells cast time will be reduced.Limit break area of effect will be expanded to 50m.White MageA functionally and visually distinct restorative field actions will be added.Higher tier for Holy Spell will get added.Fluid Aura will get removed.Divine Benison will become a charged action.AstrologianDiurnal Sect and Nocturnal Sect will be removed, and basic healing actions will be adjusted to have the same effects as they would have while under Diurnal Sect.A new action called, Neutral Sect, will get added. Under this Sect, there will be barrier effects that you can use.The effect of Divination will be changed, and the seals used for new enhancements can be applied to yourself.Redraw will no longer be a Charge action.Will get a new AoE spell that has both a healing and offensive component, inspired by White Mage's Holy.ScholarAdjusted so that Scholar leans more towards a barrier healer.Will receive a unique job action that can enhance the party's movement speed during combat. Same action will also give a damage reduction buff. The speed enhancement will not overlap with sprint.Will receive an action that gives an enhancement to a single party member.Endwalker releases on November 19 for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, and Playstation 5. This expansion will conclude FFXIV's 10-year story arc surrounding Hydaelyn and Zodiark, but will not mark the end for FFXIV as a whole. You can check out a short interview we did with Yoshida for more information.Info from Gamespot.com