Riot Games is updating its privacy notice to inform players across all of its games that new voice chat moderation tools will be implemented to tackle toxicity. The first game to use these abilities, which will record in-game voice chat when a report is filed, is the tactical shooter Valorant.The studio will store audio data for use when players report those engaging in abusive or disruptive behavior. The data is then scrubbed through to see if anything violates Riot Games' Terms of Service or other policies. It will be made available to the violating player if an infringement occurred and deleted after it's no longer needed. Data will also be deleted if the recording contains no disruptive behavior.Riot said the new voice moderations tools don't involve actively listening to live in-game audio. The studio clarified that it will only listen to audio once a report has been filed. For now, the system will be beta tested in North America before expanding elsewhere around the world. Those concerned about their privacy can always opt for a third-party voice chat app like Discord.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

We're nearly at the end of the Season of the Chosen, with only two more Trials of Osiris weekends before Destiny 2's next content season kicks off on May 11. Though you can't get one of the killer Trials guns for clearing out its weekly bounty this week, it's still worth dipping into for a chance to go flawless. Here's what you can expect to win from this weekend's Trials of Osiris and what map you'll play.As always, this weekend's Trials event continues to the Tuesday weekly reset, so you've got until May 4 to earn rewards and spend tokens with Saint-14.Trials of Osiris Map And Rewards (April 30-May 4)Map: Widow's Court3 wins -- Exile's Curse, Arc fusion rifle5 wins -- Hunter, Warlock, or Titan helmet: Pyrrhic Ascent Mask, Hood, or Helm7 wins -- Hunter, Warlock, or Titan leg armor: Pyrrhic Ascent Strides, Boots, or GrievesFlawless run -- Exile's Curse (Adept)If you can manage five or seven wins this week, you'll earn two pieces of Trials of Osiris-themed armor.The Trials of Osiris runs from Friday to Tuesday every week, providing one of the toughest challenges in Destiny 2 for Crucible players. Your goal in the PvP mode is to win as many matches as possible before you suffer three total losses, which forces you to reset your Trials run, or Passage, and try again. You'll earn loot at certain points as you rack up victories, but the best rewards in the event come when you go on a winning streak of seven matches in a row--a "Flawless" run.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The latest PlayStation-exclusive DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and the battle royale game Warzone has arrived. The Season 3 Combat Pack comes with a new, Epic-tier Operator skin for Garcia and an Epic-level weapon blueprint.As you can see in the video below, it also includes a watch and a weapon charm. You can see the full contents of the Season 3 Combat Pack listed below the video. You must be a PlayStation Plus subscriber to get the special DLC pack.Boost your #Warzone & #BlackOpsColdWar experience with the Season 3 Combat Pack. Includes an Epic Operator Skin for Garcia, Epic Weapon Blueprint, and more. Available now for PlayStation Plus members: https://t.co/sMZAzVcisE pic.twitter.com/2pqZ4HbJ6H — PlayStation (@PlayStation) April 30, 2021This is just the latest DLC to arrive in Black Ops Cold War and Warzone on April 30, as a new Call of Duty Endowment charity bundle to support military veterans is also now available in the game. Alongside this, Warzone is now offering a new challenge that gives you a special calling card if you revive five fallen teammates. Activision will donate $1 for every person who does this, up to $1 million.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

WePlay Esports--fresh off of the first and potentially only season of its Ultimate Fighting League--has lost the support of both major developers featured in that first season.Both Mortal Kombat 11 developer NetherRealm Studios and Tekken 7/SoulCalibur VI publisher Bandai Namco have announced they will no longer be working with WePlay, weeks after the first season of the WUFL featured all three of the games. Both developers cite "differences in vision" in their official tweets regarding the move.pic.twitter.com/ckWZZ2fZuC — NetherRealm (@NetherRealm) April 30, 2021 Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Although George A. Romero passed away in 2017, his final zombie movie Twilight of the Dead is in the works, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Romero's wife, Suzanne Romero, has been working with screenwriters to complete the final movie Romero had been working on up until his death.Romero wrote the treatment for Twilight of the Dead with Paolo Zelati, who got permission from Suzanne Romero to continue working on the project. Zelati has now brought on Joe Knetter (Blind) and Robert L. Lucas (One for the Fire: The Legacy of Night of the Living Dead) to help write."I gave him my full blessing as long as I could be there every step of the way for it to remain true to George's vision," Suzanne Romero said. "We had a solid treatment and the beginning of the script. I can 100 percent say that George would be incredibly happy to see this continue. He wanted this to be his final stamp on the zombie genre."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

New Pokemon Snap released today on Nintendo Switch, and if you're looking to get your hands on the brand-new Switch exclusive, there's a slight discount available right now at eBay. Nationwide Distributors, a reputable seller, is offering brand-new, unopened copies of New Pokemon Snap for $50 each (down from the usual $60 list price), and they come with free standard shipping. Release-day deals on Switch games are rare, so if you're willing to wait a bit longer to play the game, this New Pokemon Snap deal is worth hopping on to save yourself 10 bucks. This is one of eBay's featured deals today, and it comes with the site's money-back guarantee. See New Pokemon Snap deal at eBay Delivery times will vary based on where you live, of course. For me, it shows an estimated delivery between May 11-14 with free ground shipping. So you'll be waiting a little over a week for your copy, but if you're digging into another new game release right now, like Nier Replicant or Returnal, you may not mind the delay to save yourself some cash. Of course, if you want to begin your New Pokemon Snap adventure sooner, you can always snag the game at Amazon with free one-day delivery.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

NBC has renewed Young Rock for a second season. The announcement came via Variety, which also revealed the renewal for the the sitcom Kenan.Young Rock is, of course, the NBC series about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, portraying the wrestler and actor at various points throughout his life, from his childhood to his college days and beyond. Johnson himself executive produces and serves as the show's narrator."From my perspective, this was truly a love letter to professional wrestling, which is a business that I grew up in and a business that I've loved all my life and learned some of my most valuable, while very unorthodox, lessons coming out of the world of pro wrestling," Johnson said of the show during the TCA winter press tour. "So to highlight and showcase these men who were, in essence, my superheroes--they didn't wear capes when I was a little boy."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

WizKids has two new sets of miniatures that give Druids and polymorphing characters a bit more representation--or for players who want to fight a shark. D&D Icons of the Realms: Wild Shape and Polymorph Sets feature miniatures modeled after various animals from the fantasy realm, and like most of WizKids' miniatures, they are highly-detailed with some excellent paint jobs.Released this month, the two Wild Shape and Polymorph Sets feature animals and beasts from the world of Dungeons & Dragons that you can battle, shapeshift into, or have as your familiar, depending on the situation. Check out some of the minis from Set 1 below.Wild Shape and Polymorph Set 1Gallery Set 1 features seven minis including a cat, giant boar, giant octopus, giant shark, giant toad, rat, and tiger. As you can see in the image above, they vary in size, and have stunning paint jobs on each one. And look at that giant toad, ready to eat your player and digest it very slowly. Delicious! And who doesn't want to encounter a shark and fight it--or polymorph into it? Your players can recreate your favorite scene from Sharknado in your campaign with the addition of this mini to your collection.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Like superhero comics, fighting game franchise Mortal Kombat is packed full of complicated continuity involving resurrections, reincarnations, and revivals of characters, and Sub-Zero actor Joe Taslim doesn't see why this practice can't make its way into the new live-action movies. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Taslim detailed the ways he thinks Sub-Zero can live on should Mortal Kombat see a sequel or prequel.For those of you who haven't sat down and watched the new Mortal Kombat movie just yet--spoilers alert--the villainous Sub-Zero does not survive the film. The ice-based fighter meets his end after a climactic confrontation with the resurrected Scorpion, who returns to settle an old score. This particular plotline is adapted based on stories from the video games, but in the games, Sub-Zero's death results in his transformation into Noob Saibot.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Earthbound fans have been clamoring for Mother 3, the final entry in the series, to officially make its way stateside since its initial launch in 2006. Hopes for a localized version of the game are still alive a decade and a half later, and the conversation has sparked again, thanks in part to actor and professional muscle man Terry Crews.Crews took to Twitter to request one thing to his 1.6 million followers: "LOCALIZE MOTHER 3!" The tweet has blown up, receiving some 50 thousands likes and 18 thousand retweets at the time of writing.LOCALIZE MOTHER 3! — terry crews (@terrycrews) April 30, 2021Since launch, Mother 3 has been exclusive to Japan. The game also landed on the WII U Virtual Console in 2016 as a Japan-only re-release. Despite all the praise Mother 3 received at the time from both critics and fans alike, the only English translated version came from the Starmen.net online community in 2008. It can still be downloaded, but there may be some hiccups since it's an unofficial translation.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Netflix has released a trailer heralding the beginning of the end for its fantasy series Lucifer. The second half of Season 5 is expected to, as recently announced, hit the streaming service on May 28.Season 5 Part 2 is only described in a release as an arc of eight episodes in which "God himself comes to Earth. Secrets will be revealed, heroic sacrifices will be made, and the world will never be the same." Despite all that heaviness that might imply, the trailer hints a tongue-in-cheek wind-down with stakes being ever-heightened. Check it out below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sony Pictures has announced that the upcoming Spider-Man spinoff Morbius has once again been delayed. Thankfully, this time it's only been pushed a week from January 21, 2022 to January 28, 2022. News of the release calendar update issued by Sony also clarifies that Morbius will screen in both IMAX and premium large formats.The movie is based on the Marvel comic book Morbius: The Living Vampire, and stars Jared Leto as a biologist with a rare blood disease, who gains the powers of a vampire when he performs an experiment involving vampire bat DNA. The official synopsis continues: "Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed and transforms this healer into a hunter." Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Your overarching goal in New Pokemon Snap is to help Professor Mirror research the Illumina phenomenon, a mysterious occurrence causing certain Pokemon and plant life around the Lental region to inexplicably glow. As part of this research, you'll need to travel about the region's different islands and photograph the elusive Illumina Pokemon, which are the key to unraveling the mystery behind the phenomenon.While most of the six Illumina Pokemon you need to photograph are fairly easy to find, the one located in the Lental Seafloor area, in particular, may give you some trouble, as it's tied to a very specific interaction that you need to trigger using Illumina Orbs. This is the only instance in which you need to use these orbs to open a new pathway, but the game offers no clear indication of this, so you may find yourself at a loss for how to progress. If you get stuck, here's how to find the Seafloor Illumina Pokemon.How To Find The Seafloor Illumina PokemonBefore we get into the specifics, it's important to note that your quest to find Illumina Pokemon is primarily tied to Research Levels, one of the new features that New Pokemon Snap boasts over the original game. Each locale you visit has its own Research Level, which you can increase by taking photos of its endemic Pokemon and having them evaluated by Professor Mirror. The more photos you take, the more Expedition Points you'll earn, especially for photos that the professor scored higher--this is the quickest way to boost your Research Level. As a locale's Research Level increases, you'll open up more photo opportunities; new kinds of Pokemon and interactions will appear around that area, and you'll even gain access to alternate pathways that will help lead to Illumina Pokemon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A lot of the pre-release discussion about Returnal has focused on how tough it is. Here's the thing, though: You're supposed to die in Returnal. You should probably die more.Developer Housemarque is known for its difficult, intense bullet-hell arcade games, and it brings those sensibilities to a third-person shooter that can definitely ratchet up the difficulty at times. That combines with the game's roguelike nature, where every time you start playing, you'll face a different, randomized map of rooms and start with the bare minimum of equipment. Some upgrades you'll earn are permanent, but many are lost whenever you die, forcing you to build up the power to survive on the alien world of Atropos anew.That's caused some critics and players to complain that Returnal is too punishing--some of the popular consensus is that you'll have to really step up your shooter skills to hang with it.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hulu announced in January that it would be adding a bunch of popular channels to its live TV subscription courtesy ViacomCBS. Nearly four months later, the channels are now available, The Verge reports.The deal between Hulu and ViacomCBS includes Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., BET, VH1, MTV, CMT, TV Land, and Paramount Network. These channels are part of Hulu's $64.99 live TV package, which also comes with access to a bunch of shows from ViacomCBS' back catalog. A bunch of other channels like BET Her, Discovery Life, MTV2, and TeenNick are also available via a separate "Entertainment Add-On" package, which is an additional $7.99.The good news here is that these additional channels arrive without a commensurate price hike--at least for now. The Verge notes that Hulu raised the price of this package by $10 back in November, so another increase so soon seems unlikely.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com