Today's long-awaited Verdansk nuke event in Call of Duty: Warzone isn't going smoothly. Warzone players on Reddit are reporting being stuck in unmoving server queues (and have now expanded to impact CoD: Black Ops Cold War, too). The event began at 12 PM PST / 3 PM EST and was only scheduled to run for two hours, making it a real problem that some players were unable to get right in--and leading to some anger (and memes) from fans on Twitter. Activision has since extended the event by an hour and is now set to end shortly as of the time of this writing.Activision has commented on the apparent struggle players are going through to log on to Call of Duty: Warzone. In a tweet posted by the Activision Support account, the company said, "We're actively investigating an issue with long wait times in the server queue for Warzone." Players trying to get into a game of Call of Duty: Warzone are being met with a server queue that remains locked at 20 minutes.We're actively investigating an issue with long wait times in the server queue for #WARZONE. Stay tuned for updates. — Activision Support (@ATVIAssist) April 21, 2021A number of players that make it through the server queue are still reporting server issues. For some players, the end of a match is met with a server error or game crash. It is possible to play through the event in its entirety though.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Go developer Niantic is tweaking the game's upcoming Friendship Day event. As the studio announced on Twitter, it is removing the event's Global Challenge. In its place, Niantic is increasing the amount of XP you'll receive from completing the Friendship Day Collection Challenge, from 100,000 to 175,000.Friendship Day takes place this Saturday, April 24, from 11 AM to 2 PM local time. Various Grass-type Pokemon such as Chikorita, Cottonee, Foongus, and Sunkern will appear in the wild more frequently than usual throughout the event, and you'll see green confetti raining down on the map screen.Trainers, we're making some adjustments to the upcoming Friendship Day event:- The Collection Challenge reward will be increased from 100,000 to 175,000 XP.- There's no longer a Global Challenge for this event. — Niantic Support (@NianticHelp) April 21, 2021Niantic is also offering a few friendship-themed bonuses during the event. First, you'll be more likely to receive a Lucky Pokemon in a trade. To make it easier to exchange monsters with other players, Niantic is temporarily increasing trading distance to 40 km.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Are we entering a golden age of video game adaptations? We sure hope so. Production on the Borderlands movie is in full swing, according to a photo posted to Twitter by Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Patricia Tannis in the Eli Roth-directed film.YEP #borderlands @GearboxOfficial @Lionsgate pic.twitter.com/vrSkJYp21z — Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) April 21, 2021The photo itself isn't going to offer up much for even the most eagle-eyed of Easter egg hunters; it shows Curtis's on-set seating on rocky ground on the film's Budapest set. The background is just your standard movie set stuff. While Curtis doesn't explicitly state as much, it seems safe to assume that filming has begun on the movie.Curtis has been posting about the Borderlands film as much as she can, including a post about on-set COVID precautions and her personal on-set soundtrack.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In an exclusive interview, Game of Thrones star and Emmy-nominated actress Emilia Clarke revealed she has been working on a new project: a comic book series. The series, titled M.O.M.: Mother of Madness, will debut July 21 at Image Comics and run for three issues. In addition to Clarke, GLAAD Award-nominated Marguerite Bennett will help write the books, with Leila Leiz providing art.M.O.M.: Mother of Madness follows struggling single mother Maya as she takes down a ring of sex traffickers. While Maya starts off ashamed of "everything that makes her unique," through her journey she reaches a place of "true acceptance of who she is."In the EW interview, Clarke described the series as "a Deadpool-esque blend of 'a lot of silliness' and tongue-in-cheek humor, combined with a very current feminist sensibility." While Maya's powers have yet to be revealed, Clarke laughed while revealing Maya's monthly cycle plays a part in them.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Disney and Sony have inked a new deal that will give streaming and TV rights for Sony Pictures' new releases--including movies like Spider-Man: No Way Home--to Disney's many streaming and linear services. It's complicated, so buckle in.The streaming deal includes Sony's new theatrical releases between 2022 and 2026 as well as titles from Sony's existing library, with releases heading to Disney+, Hulu, ABC, Disney Channels, Freeform, FX, and National Geographic as appropriate. In the press release, Sony specifically calls out its Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters films, which would include any Spider-Man films, as well as spin-off characters like Venom, Morbius, and Kraven--not to mention Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its upcoming sequel.Here's where things get complicated, though. Earlier this month, Sony made a very similar-sounding deal with Netflix, which specifically included Spider-Man. So what's up? These features would go to Netflix first during what the industry calls the "Pay 1" window. Historically, that would've been the period after theaters but before home video; that time period where you could catch the movie on HBO or order it on Pay-Per-View from your cable provider. It typically lasts about 18 months, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Plenty of games ask you to tweak the brightness or take a moment to scale the resolution to fit your screen before you begin playing. But Before Your Eyes is the only game I’ve played that asks that, before you start, you take a moment to do pretty much the same thing for your eyes. It’s strange, sure, but it helps set the tone for the wonderfully weird and moving adventure that you will help unfold across its impactful 90-minute runtime using nothing but a mouse, your webcam and voluntary and involuntary blinks.That initial calibration is crucial for gameplay reasons, too. In this first-person narrative game, time moves forward each time your webcam sees you blink, so it’s imperative that the game can accurately detect when you’re actually blinking. To that end, Before Your Eyes presents you with a series of empty circles that fill in white as you blink. If it misses some, you can up the sensitivity and if it records blinks when your eyes are actually open, you can tell it to ease up. Like mouse sensitivity, but your peepers are the mouse.It’s a memorable introduction to a game, and reminded me of the heady days of Nintendo’s mid-aughts experimentation; a time when you might be asked to blow into a microphone, or twist your Game Boy Advance like a steering wheel, or swing your Wiimote like a golf club. From this distinct starting point, high concept mechanics meet an equally high concept narrative.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The time has come. t the end of this week you'll finally get to watch the new Mortal Kombat movie in theaters or on HBO Max. If you still can't wait, though, you're in luck. Warner Bros. has released the first seven minutes of the film, featuring a battle between the men who will become Scorpion and Sub-Zero, for you to obsess over. What's more, GameSpot has seen the first 13 minutes of the film, which expands on the clip.If you want to go into the new Mortal Kombat movie without having anything spoiled, you should turn away now and even avoid the clip below. The clip and scene center on Hanzo Hasashi, before he becomes Scorpion, living with his wife and children under the protection of, one assumes, the Shirai Ryu--the clan of ninjas he's a member of in the Mortal Kombat video game universe. After running to fetch water, though, Hanzo returns to see his wife and one of his children slaughtered--and frozen in ice--and all of the protective guards around his home killed. Missing is his youngest child, who we see his wife hiding beneath the floorboards of their family home once she realizes an attack is happening.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Go's Sustainability Week is underway until April 25. Not only does the event feature new Research tasks and other bonuses, but it also gives players their first chance to catch two new Pokemon in the mobile game: Binacle and Shiny Trubbish. If you're looking to add either monster to your collection, here are some tips to help you catch Binacle and Shiny Trubbish during Sustainability Week.How To Catch BinacleBoth Binacle and its evolved form, Barbaracle, have arrived in Pokemon Go as part of the Sustainability Week event. The Rock/Water types were first introduced in Pokemon X and Y, making them the latest Gen 6 monsters to appear in Pokemon Go.You can find Binacle one of three ways during Sustainability Week. First, you can encounter it in the wild. This will require a bit of luck, since you can't tell what Pokemon will spawn at any given time, but you can increase your chances of finding one by using an Incense.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In May, Prime Video is offering up plenty of reasons to stay at home with fresh content arriving throughout the month. This includes new movies, series, and classic catalog titles.Starting with the original content, May 14 will see the debut of the new series, The Underground Railroad. The series is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel of the same name, which came out in 2016, and was out of the gate already being developed for a television series. In 2017, it was revealed that Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, Dear White People) would direct all 11 episodes of the limited series, in which the Underground Railroad is "no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil… The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman’s will to escape the horrors of bondage--and a powerful meditation on the history we all share." Jenkins's Dear White People, a satirical dramedy about escalating racial tensions at a fictional Ivy League college from the perspective of several Black students, also hits Prime Video on May 1.For classic content, May is bookended by some pretty great picks that may have gone under most radars after all these years. On May 9, the 2012 film Robot & Frank hits Prime Video--Frank Langella stars as an aging jewel thief whose son buys him a robot, which he at first resists, but ultimately warms up to when he realizes the mechanical pal can restart his career as a cat burglar. On May 2, the sci-fi action film Snowpiercer, based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige and directed by Parasite's Bong Joon-ho, comes to the streaming service. In 2020, the film has in turn spawned a spinoff rebooting the world's continuity, which is currently running on TNT.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Marvel's Avengers has received its big 1.6 update, which paves the way for the Tachyon Anomaly event. According to the patch notes, the update also adds a few new features, and squashes a handful of pesky bugs in the process. The 1.6.0 patch notes were posted on the official site. The Tachyon Anomaly event will begin later this week on April 22, and will last until May 3. It includes a Temporal Assault event which will allow more than one of the same hero in your strike team, and you'll get new daily missions that will build progress toward an event reward Priority Set gear for your selected hero. You can also claim new animated nameplates as a reward for your first completion of a weekly mission chain or daily mission, or buy additional ones from the marketplace.Meanwhile, the update adds two new Custom HARM room groups: Dreadbots and Airborne. As the names suggest, these two will focus on Dreadbot enemies and flying enemies.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Rocket League's latest partnership has been revealed, and it's a big one. The Epic-owned soccer-with-cars game is teaming up with legendary car company Lamborghini to bring its iconic vehicles into the game, while Lamborghini will also sponsor an upcoming event. A new in-game event called Battle of the Bulls is also on the way through this partnership.Starting off, the Lamborghini Huracan STO bundle will be available from Rocket League's item shop for 200 Credits beginning April 21 and running through April 27. The bundle comes with the Huracan STO, the Huracan STO Engine Audio, two sets of Huracan STO wheels, a Huracan decal, a Huracan STO banner and antenna, and a Lamborghini antenna. There will also be a free Lamborghini player banner for all players starting April 21.Additionally, Lamborghini will sponsor the Rocket League Championship Series X Lamborghini Open, which is the final leg of the North American Regional.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A Change.org petition that calls for Sony to greenlight Days Gone 2 has amassed over 50,000 signatures. The petition was launched in early April, and it has 56,000 signatures as of this writing.As noted by VGC, this news follows a report from Bloomberg that states that developer Sony Bend prepared a pitch for a Days Gone 2 that was rejected by Sony, apparently due to its "mixed" critical reception. That report also claimed that a remake of The Last of Us. (Days Gone has a Metascore of 71 on Metacritic; for comparison's sake, fellow first-party Sony title The Last Of Us Part 2 has a 93.)Since the publication of that report, and word that several key creative staff behind the open-world zombie game have left Sony Bend, fans and developers alike have expressed their frustration with the lack of a Days Gone 2. Director John Garvin stated in a conversation with Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe that fans should "buy a game at full ****ing price" if they "love it."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has announced he is leaving Blizzard Entertainment. In a post on the official Overwatch website, Blizzard addressed new leadership for the project, while Kaplan released a personal statement speaking to his time at the company."I am leaving Blizzard Entertainment after 19 amazing years," Kaplan in a statement. "It was truly the honor of a lifetime to have the opportunity to create worlds and heroes for such a passionate audience. I want to express my deep appreciation to everyone at Blizzard who supported our games, our game teams and our players. But I want to say a special thanks to the wonderful game developers that shared in the journey of creation with me. Never accept the world as it appears to be. always dare to see it for what it could be. I hope you do the same, gg. -- Jeffrey Kaplan"Kaplan is, of course, beloved in the Overwatch community as a source of information, discussion, and many memes. But his long career at Blizzard has spanned multiple titles, including the company's other juggernaut title: World of Warcraft. Along with these two games, he also worked on Warcraft 3 and the ill-fated Titan, which became Overwatch. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Apple TV+ has announced that Season 2 of Ted Lasso will be hitting the streaming service on July 23. The show has been one of Apple TV+'s earliest hits, with the sports comedy show getting picked up for another season with 12 episodes only five days after having a strong debut in 2020. Similarly, according to a release, the series has already been renewed for Season 3 ahead of the upcoming premiere.The show, and its titular character, have had an incredible and unexpected fast ascent. Ted Lasso centers on and is based upon a character that Jason Sudeikis (Saturday Night Live, Eastbound & Down) first portrayed in a series of promos for NBC Sports's coverage of the Premier League--and has recently netted the performer a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy. In the show, Sudeikis stars as Ted Lasso, "a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer." Check out the trailer for Season 2 below.In addition to Sudeikis, Ted Lasso's cast includes Hannah Waddingham (Game of Thrones), Jeremy Swift (Downton Abbey), Brett Goldstein (Doctor Who), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), Nick Mohammed (Drunk History), Brendan Hunt (Community), and Phil Dunster (Murder on the Orient Express). Sarah Niles (Catastrophe) will be joining the cast in Season 2 in an undisclosed role.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is joining the new Marvel TV show Secret Invasion that is coming to Disney+. Variety reported that Clarke is in "final negotiations" to appear in the show, but her role is being kept a secret for now.If the deal closes, this will be Clarke's first project for Marvel. She has, however, appeared in a gigantic Disney property before in the form of Solo: A Star Wars Story.The rest of the cast for Secret Invasion includes Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Olivia Colman. Jackson and Mendelsohn are reprising their MCU characters Nick Fury and Skrull Talos, respectively, while we don't know yet what character Oscar-winner Colman will play in the show.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com