Genshin Impact is popular. KFC is popular. Why not put them together? Unfortunately, the crossover event in China that resulted from that question attracted so many excited fans that it was forced to shut down over COVID-19 protocol violations.As reported by Kotaku, Kentucky Fried Chicken in China was holding a special promotion with Genshin Impact to award special pins to customers who yelled out to employees when purchasing food.In both the Shanhai and Hangzhou locations, the promotion had to be canceled soon after it began because of COVID-19 protocol violations. Due to the game’s huge fanbase and our collective desire to get exclusive merchandise, it’s easy to see how it could have gotten out of hand. Despite China’s relative return to normalcy--even at the virus’ starting point in Wuhan--the country is taking no chances.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Surviving Mars is back in active development, now with Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Ark: Survival Evolved studio Absraction Games leading the way. More expansive content is in the works, and a free tourism update goes leave on Monday for all players--that “all players” total just so happens to have reached 5 million.The news was made as part of the Paradox Insider presentation on March 13, which also featured news and gameplay from several of the publisher’s biggest series. The tourism update includes an RC Safari, which arrives from Earth, but you can also make own. You can then set different points of interest on your colony and let visitors explore. Additionally, there’s a hotel feature you can use after completing a research task, as well as a low-gravity amusement park. Depending on the rating tourists give you, you’ll get a certain amount of funds and rewards.For those willing to pay a little extra, there are some new furnishing and building options available through the $5 In-Dome Buildings Pack. They include new smart apartments, a nursery, medical and security posts, and a TV studio workshop. They were developed with the help of the modder Silva, who has also published files for languages and huge assortment of buildings on their Steam account.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Strategy game Stellaris is giving you even more ways to explore the vastness of space and control it how you see fit. The expansion Stellaris: Nemesis is out on April 15, and it gives you the power to literally end all life in the known universe.Stellaris: Nemesis features a “destabilizing galaxy,” with several paths to power and peace available to choose from. These include a role as “Galactic Custodian,” where you can persuade the powers that be to give you emergency abilities in order to restore order. It’s up to you to decide whether to relinquish these powers once the conflict is solved, and you can use new ship sets to make your fleet look particularly imposing.If you prefer something a bit more sinister, you can also become a merciless empire that can eventually “unleash enough power to stop all of existence,” which sounds like it could make for a unique endgame. You can use espionage to learn about your enemies’ secrets in order to come up with a plan, even instigating incidents to make them look bad and secretly consolidate your own power. It’s certainly a dastardly way to grow your influence, especially if your true motives aren’t discovered until it’s too late. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

EA has temporarily disabled content granting--the ability for items to be directly given to a player's account--as it continues an investigation into potential misuse of the feature in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team by an employee for personal profit.The news comes a short time after the company started an investigation to see if one of its own employees had been granting access to rare cards in FIFA 21 to buyers online for hundreds of even thousands of dollars. The community has dubbed the scandal "EAGate," and leaked messages appear to show someone--possibly an EA employee--explaining to a buyer how they can send these items to their account for the right price.pic.twitter.com/DtclTPandl — EA SPORTS FIFA (@EASPORTSFIFA) March 10, 2021Because EA isn't sure who is behind the black market sales yet, and isn't even sure if it's actually an employee or someone who compromised an employee's account, content granting has been disabled for now.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Crusader Kings 3 was one of 2020's most-acclaimed role-playing games, with system-based story mechanics that allowed for a high degree of player-choice. The game is getting its first DLC pack, and it's out next week.It isn't a full-scale expansion, but the Northern Lords Flavor Pack enhances Crusader Kings 3 with Norse-themed adventurer realms, character art, new music, and 3D models, as well as new decisions and events that should add more variety to your gameplay. The Flavor Pack is also included if you have the expansion pass. Crusader Kings 3 released about eight years after the previous game, Crusader Kings 2, which itself released about eight years after the original game. In the third game, you can form a Middle Age dynasty and control it for hundreds of years, altering history via familial and political manipulation.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Alex Zedra, a gun-focused Instagram model and Twitch streamer--as well as the likeness for Mara in Call of Duty: Warzone--has no love for cheaters in the game. She managed to catch two players using auto-aim tools while she was streaming, and the exposure resulted in a swift ban.Zedra hosted one of the streamers, who went by the name IcyVixen on Twitch, and she's seen popping from behind a hill and sniping an enemy almost instantly from a long distance away. Hey @Twitch I hosted a streamer hacking during a tourney...just thought you should know. IcyVixen and BeardedBanger. pic.twitter.com/ZQgEpAgYeM — A L E X ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ່࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏 💕 (@Alex_zedra) March 12, 2021Her partner, who goes by the name BeardedBanger, can be heard in a separate clip bragging about his kill-to-death ratio, as well as how quickly he was becoming partnered on Twitch. His gameplay is even more obviously done through cheating, however, and the clip is extremely vulgar, so we won't share it here--if you click through the tweet above, you can see it. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

For the third week in a row, Destiny 2's Trials of Osiris event has been canceled because of a technical issue. It comes as Bungie looks to curb players engaged in "win trading" by throwing matches on purpose. The issue this time is, according to Bungie, related to "Fireteam Rejoin functionality," which certainly sounds like it's the same problem as before. Trials of Osiris has been available on March 12, but it will not be available through the rest of the weekend.Due to an issue with Fireteam Rejoin functionality, Trials of Osiris has been disabled for the remainder of the weekend.We will provide updates when available. — Bungie Help (@BungieHelp) March 13, 2021Typically, it lasts for about four days, giving players the chance to get high-level gear if they can go on a flawless seven-win streak. It's for this reason that players have been throwing games, letting others have a clear path to victory. It's unclear how Bungie plans to stop this problem for good. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Netflix is making moves again, this time spending $30 million to buy the rights to a new Dev Patel movie that marks the actor's directorial debut. The movie has already finished filming. Patel plays a character who gets out of prison and seeks revenge for those who wronged him. According to Deadline, the movie screened for potential buyers at a virtual European Film Market event and there was a lot of buzz around it. The report said Netflix outbid other companies, but it did not mention who. Monkey Man is being produced by Joker studio Bron and John Wick company Thunder Road, which add to the appeal.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Golden Raspberry Awards has announced its 2020 nominees for "the worst the film industry had to offer" in a year that, let's face it, was pretty bad for filmmakers and audiences alike. While the dubious "awards" have been a Hollywood tradition since 1981 that have been increasingly criticized, this year's list demonstrates the parody accolade can also set its sights on particularly problematic productions.For example, the recently released Music, directed by singer-songwriter Sia, is a film about a newly sober drug dealer who becomes the sole guardian of her half-sister, Music, a young autistic girl. The film received massive criticism for not casting an autistic actor in the role, which is one of several reasons why Music merited nominations for Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actress, and Worst Supporting Actress.Similarly, Netflix drama 365 Days received a total of six nominations--a movie that largely received negative reviews from critics, and that was widely criticized for its portrayal of sexual violence. Dolittle, the Robert Downey Jr. vehicle that served as a reboot of the Eddie Murphy films, was a more conventional many-people-didn't-like-it selection, which also received six nominations.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is coming to PC on March 26 via Battlenet. A new trailer to celebrate the launch on new platforms like PS5 and Xbox Series X|S dropped the PC date at the very end.This will be the first launch of Crash 4 on a PC marketplace, as Battlenet is Activision's usual marketplace of choice for PC releases. The release trailer didn't give PC recommended specs or other details, but presumably it will come with performance similar to the PS5 and Series X|S upgrades if your system is up to snuff.The PS5 and Series X|S versions are upgraded with 4K and 60fps and faster load times. If you already own it on PS4 or Xbox One, the upgrade is free within the same console family, and your save data will transfer as well. Xbox Series X|S features Smart Delivery to make the process easier, and the PS5 version makes use of the system's activity cards and the DualSense adaptive triggers. The Nintendo Switch version also released this week. Both the Switch and PC versions are $40. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new, nasty hack might have been discovered in Call of Duty: Warzone, with cheaters apparently able to end matches instantaneously.There are two accounts of the hack being used in-game circulating on Twitter, with both showing final killcams that are usually reserved for Modern Warfare's competitive multiplayer mode. In the first clip from streamer Bisag10, it shows how a team fight is prematurely finished and the match ended once a cheater (noticeable by the otherwise illegal in-game name) dies.Hackers can now end a game of #Warzone by themselves... 🤯They’re evolving... 😭(Clip via https://t.co/IMwK4DhJCN ) pic.twitter.com/sOmcKZqJoc — ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) March 11, 2021In another instance, a player has a match end after encountering another cheater, even though the in-game counter clearly shows over 60 players still alive. In both instances a killcam is displayed before rewarding each player with a victory.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A spin-off movie from the 2018 Netflix sci-fi horror hit Bird Box is in development. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the spin-off will be a Spanish language film to be directed by Alex and David Pastor.The next Bird Box movie is being fast-tracked by Netflix and is expected to be in production in Spain by the end of 2021. The Pastor brothers are best known for writing the 2015 sci-fi movie Self/Less--which starred Ryan Reynolds--and for directing 2009's Chris Pine-starring Carriers. More recently, they made the drama series The Head, which is available on HBO Max. No further details about the Bird Box spin-off are available yet.Bird Box is set in a terrifying futuristic world where humans are driven insane by demonic forces that only manifest themselves to the human eye. To survive, people must remain blindfolded, and the film starred Sandra Bullock as a woman trying to keep two children alive. The film was a huge hit for Netflix, and was the most streamed movie in the company's history at that point.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Beta tests for Halo: The Master Chief Collection's Season 6 are currently underway, but one planned feature that fans have been waiting for has been delayed, for now at least.The latest test, or "flight," will not include the Custom Game Browser. In a blog post, developer 343 Industries said early testing periods led to less-than-great results for the browser, so the studio has decided to hold back its release until a later time."During development and feedback sessions amongst our Ring 1 players as well as our own internal playtests, we determined that this feature is not quite ready to be flighted. The team is going to take more time to develop this feature and let players know when and where it will be available for a future flight," 343 said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The popular survival game Rust suffered a setback this week when the game's data center in Strasbourg, France caught on fire, bringing the servers down and wiping data. Producer Alistair McFarlane has spoken to PC Gamer about the situation and how the team was able to get the servers back up and running in short order.McFarlane said when he woke up at 7 AM, his phone was already overrun with messages about the fire that took place overnight. McFarlane said he didn't imagine it would be such a bad situation because "data centers these days are built to high standards with advanced fire suppression systems." Even so, the fire ripped through the data center and crashed Rust's EU servers.Thankfully, no one was injured, but it took hours for firefighters to put out the blaze.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The weekend has arrived in Destiny 2 and with it comes Xur, purveyor of Exotic weapons and armor. With the Trials of Osiris restored after two weeks off and tougher Grandmaster Nightfall Strikes on their way, it's a great time to visit Xur and pick up some new high-caliber weapons and armor.Head to the Tower, to the Hangar area, to find Xur this week. For his weapon, Xur is offering Monte Carlo. Hunters can pick up the Knucklehead Radar helmet; for Titans, there are the Synthoceps gauntlets; and for Warlocks, Xur has the Winter's Guile gauntlets.Xur LocationSpawn in at the Tower in the central transmat location, then turn left to head down the stairs to the Hangar section. When you reach the hangar, turn left and head to the north end of the area, toward the edge of the hangar. You'll find Xur up the stairs, standing on a catwalk in the corner of the area, behind the Dead Orbit section.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com