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

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl launch for Nintendo Switch on November 19, and The Pokemon Company has a special gift for early adopters. Everyone who purchases either version before February 21, 2022 can claim a free egg containing the Mythical Pokemon Manaphy in their game.The egg will be distributed via the Mystery Gift function, which unlocks approximately two hours into the adventure, The Pokemon Company estimates. After you've claimed the egg, keep it in your party and it will eventually hatch into Manaphy after you've walked enough steps. You'll need to have an internet connection in order to claim the Manaphy egg, but a Nintendo Switch Online subscription is not required.What's unique about Manaphy is that it can produce a different Pokemon. If you leave Manaphy and a Ditto together at the nursery in Solaceon Town, you'll be able to obtain a special egg that hatches into another rare Pokemon called Phione. Neither Manaphy nor Phione can be caught in the wild, making this the only way to obtain them.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The DC movie Black Adam recently wrapped production ahead of its 2022 release. Here's everything we know about it so far.Dwayne Johnson is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, so it's surprising that it's taken him until now to star in a superhero film. Of course, he's been busy with many other projects, but with the ongoing popularity of superhero movies, it was only a matter of time before he headlined one.The character that Dwayne Johnson has chosen to play--the superpowered DC antihero Black Adam--might not be one of the best-known comic book characters, but it's clear that the star has been passionate about the role for a long time. Way back in 2007, Johnson was approached to play Shazam in a movie, but instead revealed he was more interested in playing the film's villain, Black Adam, instead. "He's a character that I can't wait to play," he said at the time.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

September brings the start of fall and also the start of TV's big fall push, where old favorites come back for another season and new shows are also given a chance to find audiences. Streaming services, such as Prime Video, aren't always about following those traditions--but Amazon's platform is bringing a handful of potentially interesting newcomers in September.Among them is the investigative docuseries LuLaRich, which will drop on September 10. The four-part series, from Fyre Fraud documentarians Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby, examines the pyramid scheme LuLaRoe. The pyramid scheme has already been exposed and reached a settlement earlier this year, and the women's clothing business is now working towards greater transparency. But this looks worth a watch, even if you haven't heard of it, because the company's co-founders happily sat to be interviewed by the filmmakers, and rather than the film playing up the "true crime" angle, the trailer (which you can watch below) seems to play it more as a comedy of errors that just spiraled out of control.Other than that, Prime Video can always be counted on for surfacing classic content that's worth a rewatch or finally giving a shot. September 1 brings classics and "classics" from a number of genres. Do you have cheesy '80s throwbacks? Both the theatrical and extended cuts of 2010's The A-Team are coming to the platform. Ready to start re-thinking your relationship with social media? Also coming to Prime is Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network. The first of the month may be most worth looking at--it's both when the highest number of things are being added to the catalog, and also where the greatest variety is on display.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Warzone's sniper meta has mostly been a battle between Modern Warfare's Kar98k marksman rifle and Cold War's Swiss K31 sniper, but there are other sniper loadouts worth giving a try. Here we highlight some of Warzone's top snipers for Season 5 and recommend the best attachments for each.These suggested sniper builds range from fast-paced, aggressive playstyles to the slow and steady long-range sniping, so you can surely find one on this list that suits your personal playstyle.Here are some recommended sniper builds to try in your next match of Warzone.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com