2021 marks the 10th anniversary of BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, and the developer is marking the occasion with a big new expansion and more.The new expansion is called Legacy of the Sith, and it's slated for release this holiday. The expansion marks the start of the MMO's 10th anniversary festivities that will include special events and new content throughout 2022.In Legacy of the Sith, players take part in a military campaign and are trying to take control of a planet, Manaan, as they unravel the true plans of Darth Malgus. A new feature, Combat Styles, comes to The Old Republic in the expansion as well, while the level cap is rising from 75 to 80. New co-op missions, which are billed as the most challenging to date in the game, are coming as well.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

PC peripherals brand Glorious has been around for a while, launching numerous great mice, keyboards, wrist rests, and more. But none of its products have been as eye-catching as its GMMK Pro keyboard--a new product that aims to make getting your hands on a custom keyboard kit easier while also opening the hobby to a much larger audience.Custom keyboards have been an expensive and relatively small hobby for a while, but recently the scene has seen an explosion of interest. This doesn't mean many of the components you need to make your own board are easy to get. Many kits, like the one Glorious is selling with the GMMK Pro, can usually only be purchased through extended group buys or in limited-quantity sales, meaning you're either going to need to get lucky or have a lot of patience to get one.The GMMK Pro aims to change that while also being a compelling option at its price point. Glorious ran its own pre-sale period for this keyboard earlier this year, but starting July 6 you'll be able to get it from its website without needing to register for a chance to purchase it. Glorious says that stock will likely be limited from the outset, but that it plans to always have the GMMK Pro as a standard item on sale, eventually allowing you to grab one whenever you want.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Seven years after it was announced, Space Jam: A New Legacy is finally releasing in theaters on July 16. But you won't have to head to your local theater to watch A New Legacy on release day. The film will also be available to stream on HBO Max as part of HBO's commitment to offer Warner Bros. movies to subscribers the same day they hit theaters this year.How to watch Space Jam: A New Legacy on HBO MaxSpace Jam: A New Legacy will be available to all HBO Max subscribers. HBO Max now has two different subscription tiers: standard and ad-supported. The standard HBO Max subscription costs $15 per month or $150 per year ($30 savings overall). The ads-supported subscription plan is only $10 per month or $100 per year ($20 savings overall).HBO Max does not have a free trial, so you won't be able to subscribe to the service simply to watch Space Jam: A New Legacy and then cancel before you're charged. You'll have to commit to at least one month of the service, but chances are it will cost you less than a ticket to see the film at your local theater.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Streets of Rage 4's upcoming DLC Mr. X Nightmare will bring a lot of new content to the game, and now it finally has a release date of July 15. As revealed in a post on the PlayStation Blog, the DLC will add three new characters to the mix, as well as a survival mode that's designed to push players to their limit.The survival mode injects some RPG elements into the game's beat-'em-up formula, allowing players to choose perks in order to customize their character build. Obviously, some perks are more useful than others with certain characters, so it's up to players to figure out what build works best for them. Players will have to see how long they can last against hordes of enemies.The new characters include Estel, a police officer that you fight as a boss as part of the core Streets of Rage 4 campaign, as well as returning grappler Max and martial artist Shiva. As players last longer in survival mode, they'll also unlock new moves for familiar characters like Axel and Cherry, which gives the game a whole new layer of depth.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

EA has announced that in Madden NFL 22, all 32 teams will have unique home field advantage bonuses, giving the home team a slight boost. EA shared all of the bonuses on Twitter, detailing the wide variety of advantages, ranging from increased momentum gain to opponents having a shorter punt distance.The home field advantages are part of the new Dynamic Gameday features, available only on the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 versions of Madden NFL 22. There are three new features that make up the Dynamic Gameday: gameday atmosphere, gameday momentum, and Next Gen Stats Star Driven AI. The home field advantages fall under gameday momentum, which can give either team special perks depending on how the game is going. The home field advantage makes it harder for the away team to gain momentum.Each teams' home field advantage perk is inspired by real-life factors from the real stadiums, like away teams' fatiguing faster in the cold climate of Green Bay.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

American manga publisher and anime distributor Viz Media has announced, and also recently opened pre-orders for, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills. The manga is expected to be released on August 10, and runs 196 pages.The manga's synopsis reads as follows: "Presiding over the Kyber Temple on Jedha, the Guardians of the Whills, Baze Malbus and Chirrut ÃŽmwe, had hoped to maintain a peaceful balance despite the growing presence of the Empire in their Holy City. They struggle to maintain their beliefs as stormtroopers threaten to take over, when Saw Gerrera appears offering them a chance to help Jedha. How far are Baze and Chirrut willing to compromise for peace, or will Saw's plan be too dangerous to risk?"Set before and also directly tied into the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the Guardians of the Whills manga is both an adaptation and re-interpretation of the 2017 novel of the same name written by Gary Rucka and illustrated by Diogo Saito. It "revisits Baze and Chirrut before they meet the rebellion members who turn the tide in the fight against the Empire."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nintendo is still pursuing a permanent injunction against RomUniverse owner and operator Matthew Storman--which in non-legal speak means that Nintendo wants to prevent Storman from ever reviving RomUniverse.In June 2021, Nintendo successfully won a lawsuit against Storman. US District Court Judge Consuelo Marshall ordered Storman to pay $2.1 million copyright and trademark infringement damages to the gaming behemoth. The exact math behind the $2.1 million sum Storman owes to Nintendo breaks down to $35,000 statutory damages for each of the 49 copyrighted Nintendo games that were on the site and an extra $400,000 in statutory damages under the Lanham Act.Nintendo originally wanted $90,000 in damages per game, totaling to a sum of $15 million. But the judge thought that Nintendo's asking price was too high, especially since Storman had already closed his site and as a result, did not possess a stream of income anymore.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Bungie has been buzzing for a while now that it'll release a big weapon rebalancing patch for Destiny 2. We now have some details about what the developer is planning, with a number of the upcoming tweaks coming in a mid-season patch planned for July 6. Shotguns and some hand cannons are getting tweaked to be less dominant in the Crucible, and other special weapons should be more viable--at least in certain situations.The upcoming changes were laid out in a This Week at Bungie blog post, which gives a broad-strokes look at the update without drilling too deep into actual patch notes. There are quite a few changes coming, though, including tweaks to perks and a few Exotics, as well as some particular gun archetypes.Bungie says it's looking to adjust special weapons in general, so that all guns in the secondary slot for players are viable in specific situations, but not all the time. The idea is that, if you're up close, a shotgun is a great choice; at a range and without incoming fire, you're free to snipe. But get caught out of position using the wrong type of gun, and you should be at a distinct disadvantage. Right now, a lot of weapons feel more or less essential to Crucible play--if you're not carrying a shotgun, in a lot of situations, you're probably going to get busted by someone who is.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Humble Bundle is updating how its sliders work, no longer allowing purchasers to choose to give 100% of their money to charity. In a blog post, Humble Bundle announced that the company will now have a minimum of 15% to 30% of money going to Humble, where previously any purchasers could choose to have 100% of their money go to charity using the sliders.This comes after Humble reversed the decision to remove the sliders completely back in May, taking away the ability for people to choose how much money goes to Humble, developers/publishers, and charity. Part of the backlash to that decision was removing the ability to give 100% of the money to charity, something that is considered a staple of the platform. In the new blog post, Humble said there will continue to be some 100% charity bundles in the future, but most bundles will have a minimum amount going to the online platform."The PC storefront landscape has changed significantly since we first launched bundles in 2010, and we have to continue to evolve with it to stay on mission," the Humble Bundle team said. "The update will allow us to continue to offer great prices on amazing games, books, and software all while supporting important charitable initiatives with every single purchase."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Facepunch Studios has dropped a new piece of DLC for Rust called the Voice Props Pack that adds a bevy of content to the multiplayer survival title, including boom boxes and megaphones to make some noise.There are several new items included in the Voice Props Pack. Alongside the boom boxes and megaphones, the add-on content features cassettes tapes and a recorder to capture your voice and play it back in real-time, wall speakers, a mobile phone to make calls on the go, and the ability to play internet radio through the new speaker sets. Check out the official announcement trailer below.Items for making an entrance via noise aren't Rust's only additions. The Voice Props Pack also includes disco deployables like laser lights, dance floors, connected speakers, sound lights, and of course, a disco ball. Furthermore, there are new dance emotes for players to bust a move with.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Game Developers Choice Awards will honor Newgrounds creator Tom Fulp and industry veteran Laralyn McWilliams on July 21 as part of this year's all-virtual GDC.Fulp will receive the Pioneer Award for his creation and continued support of the website Newgrounds and Newgrounds Portal, which allows users to self-publish games, art, and animations to the internet for the whole world to enjoy. In the early 2000s this meant an explosion of Flash games and animations that heavily influenced internet culture as we know it today. Fulp also founded the game studio Behemoth, going on to create games like Alien Hominid (which began life as a Flash game on Newgrounds) and later smash-hits like Castle Crashers.McWilliams will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for her nearly 30-year career in the video game industry, which saw her work as creative director for Sony Online Entertainment's MMO Free Realms and lead designer on the original Full Spectrum Warrior. She currently works at Microsoft as principal creative design director for customer success engineering. A regular conference speaker on a number of game-related topics, she is also an outspoken advocate of the idea that games are for everyone and for increased diversity in game development.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

No one would blame you if you thought The Forever Purge, which hits theaters on Friday, was the last installment of the franchise, which has now spanned five movies and two seasons of television--even writer James DeMonaco thought so. But DeMonaco still has ideas rolling around in his head, he said in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly."I thought it was [the final Purge film]," said DeMonaco who wrote all five Purge films and directed the first three in the series. "It was like, this is it, my end of America, America is burning. So that was the initial intent.""I'm going to be completely honest, I came up with something about two months ago. I woke up with a new way that we can keep it fresh and turn the thing upside down. So if people want it, the idea's in the works, I've outlined it, so it could happen," DeMonaco he.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

You know how Aliens works--scrappy scientists and workers get trapped with Xenomorphs in a spaceship or colony, and they have to fight to survive. The upcoming Aliens TV show, though, won't be a simple retread, says show creator Noah Hawley in an interview with Vanity Fair.Instead of trapping humans with aliens, the show will be about "What happens if you can't contain it?" the Legion and Fargo creator said. The show will not re-cast or revisit Sigourney Weaver's iconic character Ellen Ripley."It's not a Ripley story," Hawley said. "She's one of the great characters of all time, and I think the story has been told pretty perfectly, and I don't want to mess with it."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Patch 0.12.11 for Escape From Tarkov has launched after days of hints and teasers from developer Battlestate Games. The patch includes a full wipe of player inventories, setting everyone playing the hardcore MMO first-person shooter back to square one. However, a full list of patch notes for update 0.12.11 has not been released yet.It's no secret that a wipe for Escape From Tarkov was coming up. The game has long been due for one, with its last wipe arriving last December. Escape From Tarkov issues player inventory wipes twice a year. Battlestate Games also implemented some in-game changes to prepare players for an inventory wipe, including the deactivation of secure containers, which players use to keep precious equipment and cargo between runs, and hefty discounts at the game's vendors.While players may have lost their gear, Battlestate Games has more than made up for it with new content. The Factory expansion was added to the game with patch 0.12.11, adding a new Scav boss as well as new gameplay mechanics, including weapon malfunctions and deterioration. Your trusty Kalashnikov can now misfire, and all weapons slowly deteriorate based on what weapon mods and ammunition you use.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

On July 23, the first season of Masters of the Universe: Revelation will debut on Netflix. The series is one of a number of He-Man-centric projects in the works, with director Kevin Smith serving as showrunner. Now, through this show, he's speaking directly to fans of the original animated series with a tale tailored to them.Revelation is a direct sequel to the original Masters of the Universe, featuring all of the characters you remember playing with--voiced by the likes of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Chris Wood, and Tiffany Smith. Now, though, the franchise has a bit more of an adult tone to it, where the violence and stakes feel a bit scarier than when you were a kid.This new take on the iconic franchise all started in a meeting between Smith and Mattel vice president of creative content Rob David. "He's like, 'We want to do a show that honors the original show and just kind of continues the storyline. This show is for all the people who grew up watching the original Masters of the Universe,'" Smith told GameSpot.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com