Brooklyn Nine-Nine has released another new trailer for its upcoming final and "most ambitious" season, which will premiere August 12 on NBC. The cop comedy wrapped production on its eighth and final season in June.Given everything that has happened in our real world since the previous season--including in the policing world--these final 10 episodes should be poignant, tackle some issues, and of course somehow manage to still be funny. While we don't really know much about the plotlines ahead, we do know that the writers had four episodes written for the final season and then threw them all out amid the political unrest in the US specifically focused around police. Check out the new trailer below, which does offer a few clues about where things are heading.Get ready for the most ambitious final season in Nine-Nine history. Season 8 of #Brooklyn99 premieres Thursday, August 12 on @NBC. pic.twitter.com/gQQjUtahYI — Brooklyn Nine-Nine (@nbcbrooklyn99) July 29, 2021The show stars Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Melissa Fumero, Terry Crews, Joe Lo Truglio, Andre Braugher, Dirk Blocker, and Joel McKinnon Miller. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which follows the story of a police unit in Brooklyn, originally aired on Fox for five seasons before the show was canceled. NBC picked it up for season six, and then extended it for two more.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Today's Call of Duty’s trailer vaguely teases more of what's to come when Season 5 kicks off for Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. Treyarch tweeted out a new trailer that could hint to a new map location for Season 5, which should be arriving around August 12.The teaser clip is narrated by the operator Wraith, who is on a phone call with someone. It's possible she's talking to Stitch or someone working to implement the next stage of his plan. She mentions that "the Verdansk tests are looking good" after the satellites were destroyed. This follows the earlier events of Season 4 which saw the destruction of satellites that crash landed all around Verdansk, and critical data that was stolen from Yamantau.“This is Wraith... the Verdansk tests are looking good."After the destruction of the Jumpseat satellite constellation, critical data stolen from Yamantau is passed to an Operator with the unique skills to execute Stitch's endgame.The countdown to Season Five begins. pic.twitter.com/BL7dtwdTCI — Treyarch Studios (@Treyarch) July 29, 2021All season we've waited to see what Stitch's plans would entail now that the satellites are down, but it looks like we'll have to wait until Season 5's launch to see what he's cooking up. Speculation from the previous Season 4 teasers point to Stitch trying to restart the Numbers program, the brainwashing narrative from the first Black Ops game's storyline, as he previously mentioned he needed the satellites down so he can broadcast the numbers to activate his test subjects. There's likely a small army of sleeper agents still waiting to be activated in Verdansk.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fallout 76 has some big updates in the works for later this year, but its August update will be "smaller in scope" and primarily dedicated to bug fixes.The smaller update is currently scheduled to release August 3, and is set to fix a number of bugs reported by the Fallout 76 community. It will also add new cosmetic items to the game's Atomic Shop."While our larger updates and the new features they often contain are exciting moments for [the] game, we're just as eager to bring you patches that primarily focus on swatting the bugs you've helped bring to our attention," an official Fallout 76 blog post reads.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The indie handheld system Playdate has apparently sold out of its initial stock of 20,000 units, though the Playdate Store is still taking preorders for additional units that will go out next year. As promised, the store has not closed preorders after running out of the initial 2021 allotment. Instead, preorders are remaining open and will be shipped in waves as more are manufactured.We likely won't have complete sales figures for Playdate unless the company chooses to share them, but we do know that it placed an order for 20,000 units to ship in 2021. Since the store now says preorders will ship in 2022, we can infer that those 20,000 units sold out. It took roughly 20 minutes for the date to change, though orders placed after that point may not have kept the same pace.Each type of Playdate product is still available though, including the system itself ($180), the cover ($30), and the system plus cover combo ($200). Other accessories, including a stereo dock, will be coming sometime later.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Forza Motorsport 7, the most recent entry in Forza's simulation racing series, will soon reach the end of its life. Developer Turn 10 has announced that Forza 7 will be removed from sale on September 15, although it will continue to support online services for the foreseeable future.In a blog post, the studio shared that Forza 7 will reach "End of Life" status, about four years after its original release in 2017. While this sounds dramatic, in essence it just means that you won't be able to buy Forza 7 or play it with Game Pass anymore after September 15.The game isn't shutting down, though; in fact, the developer is even offering a discount on the game right now if you want to grab it before it's pulled from the Microsoft Store. From now until its "End of Life" date, you can grab Forza 7 for just $10, which is 75% off its normal price. In addition, if you're a Game Pass subscriber and have bought DLC in the past but don't own the full game, Turn 10 is giving you a copy of the game for free. Tokens to redeem it will be delivered through Xbox Message Center from now through August 2.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The weekly playlist refresher arrived to Black Ops Cold War today, and the July 29 patch notes include some minor improvements to Zombies. Players can also expect a new Gunfight tournament and Double Weapon XP.New PlaylistsCollateral Combined Arms 24/7 has returned to Black Ops Cold War, which is a mix of the 12v12 Combined Arms modes. And 3v3 Gunfight Snipers Only replaced the 2v2 Gunfight Blueprints. For fans of the large-scale Fireteam modes, Sat-Link was added to the Multi-Team Moshpit playlist.Gunfight TournamentA new Gunfight tournament starts today with new and exclusive in-game rewards. You can still unlock any previous tournament prizes you missed, you just need to replay and win the tournament bracket multiple times to unlock the additional rewards.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Halo Infinite's first multiplayer beta is beginning today, and developer 343 Industries has revealed much more of what you can expect from the next iteration of Halo multiplayer. In particular, the studio showed off the multiplayer settings, which include a bunch of new accessibility options like the ability to change Halo's iconic red and blue multiplayer colors.Specifically, 343 Industries is including a setting to let you change the coloration of both teammates and enemies. While "red vs. blue" is, of course, famous as the default setup of Halo multiplayer, that color scheme isn't great for everyone. This setting will give colorblind people options to achieve more visible contrast between friendly and enemy players.In addition, the studio is incorporating a whole array of various graphics, UI, and gameplay settings to significantly expand the customization options for players. These include the ability to change the positional offset of weapons on the screen (to allow old-school players to have their weapons more centered, for instance), and an opt-out button for speed lines, a graphic effect triggered when players are sprinting.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Update: In response to the lawsuit, Disney has released a statement obtained by Variety. "There is no merit whatsoever to this filing," it reads. "The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic." Furthermore, the statement says the company has upheld its end of the contract, while noting the actress has already received $20 million for her role in the film, adding that "…the release of Black Widow on Disney+ with Premier Access has significantly enhanced her ability to earn additional compensation on top of the $20M she has received to date." You can read the original story below.Black Widow isn't done fighting yet. Scarlett Johansson, who reprised her role as Natasha Romanoff in the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film, has filed a lawsuit against Disney, alleging that the company releasing the movie on the Disney+ streaming service at the same time it did so theatrically was a breach of her contract.The news comes from The Wall Street Journal, which reports that Johansson's contract not only guaranteed an exclusive theatrical release for the film but that its performance on the big screen would ultimately determine the actress's salary. Of course, Black Widow was originally scheduled to hit theaters in 2020 but was ultimately delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Casting and production news for the upcoming Batgirl movie is pouring in, with a familiar face popping back up in Gotham City for the project. The Hollywood Reporter has stated that J.K. Simmons is in talks to reprise the role of Commissioner Gordon for the project.Simmons first played Gordon back in Justice League, where he infamously got completely shredded for a role which netted him a miniscule amount of time on screen--though with any luck that's about to change. In DC Comics, Gordon is the father of Barbara AKA Batgirl (though he is usually unaware of his daughter's secret vigilante lifestyle). Batgirl herself was recently cast as In The Heights alum Leslie Grace.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Season 11 of The Walking Dead, which is the final season of the series, premieres on AMC on August 22 and will be available to stream on AMC+ on August 15. Leading up to the final episodes, a new trailer for the upcoming season has been released.In the video, Eugene is unmasked by military folk, which you find out are part of the Commonwealth--a major part of the final storyline for the Walking Dead comic. Your favorite walker-slayers are being audited by the Commonwealth in order to gain entry into the city. Check out the video below.Of course, not everyone is at one of the Commonwealth communities. A few members of the group, including Negan, Maggie, and Carol, are up against a group of masked people that feel like they come straight out of a slasher film from the '80s. Of course, there are also still walkers on the show, since the world is filled with zombies.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Annapurna Interactive Showcase revealed a new trailer for Neon White. Despite being in first-person and featuring gunplay, this game is not a first-person shooter. Neon White isn't a roguelike or deck-builder either, despite featuring a cyclical run-based formula and card-based combat. According to its developer, Ben Esposito, Neon White is a "speedrunning" game."[Neon White] is structured like a speedrunning game in the sense that you have a bunch of levels and to proceed in the game--to continue in the in-game competition so to speak, in the fiction of the game--you have to achieve certain medals or certain status by playing the levels faster," Esposito told GameSpot. "So you play a set and you survive through them and then you revisit them and you start to pick them apart and start to play them faster and get more familiar with them.""I'm a little reluctant to say it's exactly like a speedrunning game because I think that to a lot of people, that scares them a little--it evokes the extreme dedication of a Twitch streamer. But I think it's an accurate description because [Neon White] is structured where the main goal is to get faster at it. But the game is designed to onboard you into speedrunning in a pretty gentle way if you haven't done it before."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new trailer for A Memoir Blue debuted during the Annapurna Interactive Showcase, showcasing a beautiful-looking atmospheric game that mixes together 3D animation and hand-drawn 2D art. The trailer noticeably doesn't feature any words, and creative director Shelley Chen says that's true for the full game."There's no words in there, like zero words are spoken by the character, zero narration," Chen told GameSpot. "We decided to have the character animation do all the communicating. Back in the old days, people didn't need words to watch movies. They can get a joke, they can get at the emotion of the characters. So that pumped me to do it this way, because I don't really play many games. I watch more movies than play games."Instead, A Memoir Blue's story of champion swimmer Miriam, who begins to think back on her childhood memories with her mother, is primarily told through the character's body language, which can be captured in different ways depending on whether the character is a 2D or 3D model. And as a big fan of Disney movies, Chen also sought to use music to tell A Memoir Blue's story.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new trailer for Solar Ash debuted during the Annapurna Interactive Showcase, revealing that developer Heart Machine's upcoming game will launch for PS5, PS4, and PC on October 26. The trailer showcases a bit more of what exploration looks like in Solar Ash which, according to creative director Alx Preston, is the first-and-foremost focus for the game."We're traversal first," Preston told GameSpot. "That was kind of the vision of the game: Control the traversal, the environments that you're moving through, and the spectacle of it all. Especially the scale on the grandiosity of it just feeling impossibly large and you're feeling really tiny and insignificant in as many ways as possible. The traversal absolutely takes precedence and the combat is kind of intermingled with that traversal."To do that, Heart Machine has designed Solar Ash's movement mechanics to be fairly easy to grasp. You will have to practice to achieve the same level of fluidity seen in trailers. But when I asked Preston, he said that Solar Ash's movement more closely resembles the easy-to-pick-up web-swinging mechanics of Marvel's Spider-Man than the carefully timed button presses and precise turns needed to perform an amazing aerial goal in Rocket League.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In very unexpected but wonderful news, a TV series based on the 1995 Kevin Costner movie Waterworld--and also, we hope, the award-winning Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular stunt show at Universal Studios Hollywood--is in the works. The news comes from Collider, which reports that John Davis, a producer on the film, is currently developing the project for a streaming network.Speaking to Collider, Davis said, "We're going to do the streaming version of that movie, the continuation of that movie." The film is set in the year 2500, with the seas having risen to cover the entire planet with water. Costner played a character called the Mariner--a fish/human hybrid with gills and webbed feet--that traveled the seas, trading dry dirt to people. After discovering a young girl with a map to a dry piece of land tattooed on her back, the Mariner protects her from the evil Deacon (Dennis Hopper) and ultimately they journey to the top of Mt. Everest--the only remaining land above water.As for what the continuation would be, there's no telling. At the end of the movie, the Mariner realizes the sea is his home, leaving the little girl and their friends to live on dry land, while he sails away. According to Davis, the new series would take place two decades later and feature the characters from the first movie. Of course, that doesn't mean the cast would return.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Stray, a game about a cat wearing a backpack in a world taken over by robots, was already poised to be the most precious thing in the world before we even saw gameplay. During the July 29 Annapurna Interactive stream, however, we were given our first look at Stray in action, including a harrowing chase sequence. And we also learned as part of the event that it's coming out next year.After meeting a drone named B12, the cat is able to communicate with those around it, including the humans who still exist in the harsh world we wouldn't wish on a single real kitty. It's so harsh, in fact, that a chase soon begins as slug creatures try to consume the cat. Using B12's unlockable abilities, the drone is able to stun them long enough for them to be defeated.You'll have to use your stealth and agility to make it through Stray, and according to Annapurna Interactive, you'll also need to sometimes be "as annoying as possible." If you have ever had a cat, you know this is a crucial element of their entire species. You can even knock stuff off of ledges to solve puzzles and claw up a leather couch like a little demon. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com