Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade comes to PS5 on June 10, and if you want to snag the game ahead of launch, so you're ready to jump in as soon as it releases, there are a number of ways to do so. The PS4 version comes with a free next-gen upgrade, though you won't get the bonus episode that stars the ninja, Yuffie--that will cost extra for those that upgrade. Deal: FF7 Remake $30 (was $60) | Includes free PS5 upgrade See at Amazon If you don't already own Final Fantasy VII Remake on PS4, then you can snag it right now for $30 at Amazon or Walmart. That'll get you the 60fps PS5 version that features improved textures and a higher resolution when it releases in June. However, if you want to hold off and wait for the PS5 version, there are two different editions to choose from.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Despite being released in 2016, Overwatch remains an incredibly popular multiplayer experience, with a healthy community of players returning day after day for online skirmishes. Naturally, longtime players are eager to play the next entry in the franchise, which was originally announced in 2019. Many fans expected 2021 would be the year a new chapter in the Overwatch saga would unfold, but that is not the case.The community became crestfallen in the immediate aftermath of this news. However, at BlizzCon 2021, the Overwatch 2 team showed off more of the game than we'd ever seen, and the scope of the effort became more apparent. As well as making drastic changes to the player-versus-player experience, Blizzard is creating a large-scale player-versus-environment suite complete with story missions and over a hundred repeatable missions that can be played with friends, and will allow characters to be developed in an RPG-like fashion. It looks to be much bigger than most imagined.Following the reveal, we spoke to game director Jeff Kaplan about what the team showed at BlizzCon, balancing their vision with the demands of the community, the challenge of keeping the first Overwatch fresh, and its narrative ambitions for Overwatch 2.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

343 Industries has released an interview-focused blog post for Halo Infinite, which looks at Zeta Halo, the open-world setting of the upcoming game. Halo Infinite campaign art lead Justin Dinges said that one of the largest challenges of creating the space was honoring the nostalgic feel of Halo, while creating something that feels brand-new."With Halo Infinite, we wanted to take this new adventure back to its roots and create a visually pleasing experience that doesn't overwhelm with unnecessary complexity where readability and clear artistic composition prevail," Dinges said. "This is our artistic interpretation of a beautiful world to exist within--rather than something that is purely grounded in photo realism. Both goals have been a true challenge to balance, especially against the expectations of what it means to be a 'next-gen' title."Part of honoring the appeal of Halo's roots comes from Zeta Halo's layout. As an open world, Zeta Halo invokes the same sensation of Halo: Combat Evolved's opening hours when you could approach problems in different ways depending on what weapons you have, vehicles you're driving, or pathways you uncover.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hulu is working with the team behind 2017's I, Tonya to examine the life of another infamous sports figure. This time, the team is taking on the baddest boxer to ever step into the ring, and the only one to get an iconic NES game, Mike Tyson, in Hulu's Iron Mike.Iron Mike will be an eight-episode limited series that Hulu says will explore "the wild, tragic and controversial life and career behind one of the most polarizing figures in sports culture--heavyweight champion Mike Tyson."Tyson himself is not involved with the show and is, in fact, not happy about the announcement. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Tyson had no kind words for the production.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Did you know Netflix's Bridgerton is a popular show? If not, you may have been living on another planet for the last few months. Nielsen released its latest streaming ratings this week, for the week of January 25 to January 31, and guess who's on top?Indeed, Bridgerton is once again the single most popular streaming program, though it finally dipped below one billion minutes streamed. Fate: The Winx Saga, a live-action adaptation of the Nickelodeon Winx Club series, comes in second. The math here can be deceptive; people streamed 936 million minutes of Bridgerton, and 918 million minutes of Fate: The Winx Saga. The thing to remember is that Bridgerton has been out for two full months, having released on December 25, 2020. Netflix's dump-and-binge method of show releases often means that shows come and go quickly, but Bridgerton is staying strong. Bridgerton viewers between January 4 and January 10 streamed 1.6 billion minutes of the show. For comparison, Cobra Kai, which is still ranked third, dropped from 2.1 billion minutes for the week of January 4 to 568 million for the week of January 25. That's still nothing to sneeze at, but it demonstrates how well Bridgerton is doing.Netflix makes up all of the top ten streams but for one. Marvel Studios' WandaVision on Disney+ ranked in at #5. But again, those numbers don't tell the whole story. WandaVision only had four episodes out at the time (we didn't even know yet who it had been All Along!), and Disney is releasing the show week by week rather than all at once. Disney+ is growing quickly, but also has far fewer subscribers when compared to Netflix. That all goes to suggest that a huge portion of Disney Plus's 94 million subscribers are tuning in week to week to get the numbers up as high as they are with so few episodes and a traditional weekly release schedule.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Bravely series has always excelled at evoking the feeling of playing classic Final Fantasy-style RPGs, while sanding off some of the rough edges that may make those classic games less approachable to modern audiences. Bravely Default II, confusingly enough the third game in the franchise, maintains much of its predecessors' retro charm--but it actually removes some of the quality-of-life features that made the first two such breezy nostalgic throwbacks. Instead of simply reminding you of the satisfaction of playing a classic RPG, Bravely Default II demands that you relive the entire experience, faults and all.For the uninitiated, Bravely Default gets its namesake from its innovative risk-reward combat system. Along with your typical health and magic meters, you have Brave Points (BP). And rather than a standard Defend command, you can choose to Default, which both defends and banks BP for later use. You can spend up to four actions using Brave command, but if you don't have enough BP banked you go into debt and skip future turns undefended.This has always been key to Bravely Default's battle system, and it remains essentially untouched here. The approach is a little less novel the third time around, but it still creates a unique wrinkle of strategic RPG battle planning. Do you go into debt to unleash a flurry of attacks or do some emergency healing? Do you bank first and take the damage for a few turns? Bravely veterans will fall right back into the habit, but nothing about it feels too complex that it should give newcomers trouble. And newcomers will be able to jump in here because, like Final Fantasy, Bravely Default II's story is disconnected from any continuity. Four strangers come together as the selfless Heroes of Light to stave off certain doom--you know the drill.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Housemarque has dropped a brand-new trailer for the PlayStation 5-exclusive third-person shooter Returnal, which gives us a brief look at gameplay and narrative setup. This trailer comes a day before PlayStation's imminent State of Play livestream, which goes live on February 25 at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET.In the trailer below we see ASTRA scout Selene traverse several biomes while a voiceover from her log details what she is experiencing and seeing. While it is unknown how many biomes the full game has, the Returnal trailer indicates there are at least six to explore, with three of them hidden. Selene bounces from the Overgrown Ruins to the Derelict Citadel to the Crimson Wastes, trying to piece together why things have changed or have gone missing.Housemarque detailed Returnal's roguelite action earlier this year, digging deep to explain many of the game's systems. The game will reflect Housemarque's bullet-hell experience--think Nex Machina and Resogun--with each run resetting the player's loadout. However, there are permanent upgrades players can unlock to add a personal touch to the available weapons.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The next Spider-Man movie will be titled Spider-Man: No Way Home. The film stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker once more, and it hits theaters on December 17, 2021.The announcement of the movie's title follows a series of fake titles that stars Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon tweeted yesterday. The real name was revealed in a video that shows Holland leaving the office of director Jon Watts, and being told by Zendaya and Batalon that he spoils too much about the Spider-Man films. The camera then moves to a whiteboard, where the actual name is written. Check it out below:#SpiderManNoWayHome only in movie theaters this Christmas. pic.twitter.com/8C4e15Lw2k — Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) February 24, 2021Plot details Spider-Man: No Way Home are currently under wraps, but there are rumors that it might involve the multiverse concept, with former Spider-Man actors Andrew Garfield and Toby McGuire returning to their previous roles. Charlie Cox, who starred as Daredevil on the Marvel Netflix show, was also seen on set, and Zendaya seemingly confirmed that Alfred Molina, who played Doctor Octopus in 2002's Spider-Man 2, is also part of the cast.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

One of the biggest jaw-dropping moments from the Disney+ series WandaVision was the inclusion of Evan Peters as Wanda's brother Pietro. That's because Peters played the character in the X-Men movies, but not his lone MCU appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige explained it was an early addition to the show.During the TCA winter press tour, Feige was asked about the discussion of deciding to include Peters or Aaron Taylor-Johnson, as both actors played Quicksilver in different superhero universes. "There are discussions on everything," Feige said. "That's one of the fun things about developing these things are blue skying it in a room. It's my favorite part of the process. It's always the very very beginning, when we're figuring out what something could be and at the very very end, when we're finally we're finding it and then putting it out into the world. So there were all all sorts of discussions, but I believe it, we ended up going with what you saw relatively relatively early on in the development process. And just another way that certain people were were messing around with Wanda."There were rumors in mid-2020 that Peters had been cast, but nothing was confirmed. Prior to his appearance as Pietro in WandaVision, Peters appeared as Quicksilver in three X-Men films: Days of Future Past, Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix. Taylor-Johnson's first and only appearance as the speedy hero was in Avengers: Age of Ultron, where he was shot and killed.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

New DLC is now available for Minecraft Dungeons in the form of the Flames of the Nether expansion, while a free update is available for everyone.The Flames of the Nether DLC, which costs $6 USD, takes players inside the Nether. It includes six missions that feature new artifacts, weapons, and gear. The DLC also includes a new Baby Ghast pet and two additional skins. Overall, Mojang is calling the Flames of the Nether DLC the "most ambitious" content for Minecraft Dungeons thus far. Check out the launch trailer below.In addition to the paid DLC, Mojang is launching what it also calls the "most ambitious free update" to Minecraft Dungeons to date. The update adds a new feature called Ancient Hunts, which are procedurally generated end-game missions.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Marvel Studios has a massive slate of upcoming TV projects--and some of them may be getting second seasons, according to studio head Kevin Feige. The Marvel Studios CCO spoke with the press today at a virtual Television Critics Association panel from the set of Ms. Marvel, confirming that while the story will dictate the direction of the shows' respective futures, continuing with multiple seasons is not out of the question."We've already said that [Elizabeth] Olsen will go from WandaVision to the new Doctor Strange film. The fun of the MCU is obviously all the crossover we can do between the series' and the films. It will always be very based on the story, sometimes they'll go into a season two, sometimes they will go into a feature and then back into a series as is the case with Ms. Marvel after he debut on Disney+, she'll be in the second Captain Marvel film."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A semiconductor shortage brought on by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is beginning to become detrimental to a wide range of industries, prompting President Biden to launch an investigation into how it can be resolved.President Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that will kick off a 100-day review of the semiconductor production pipeline, so that alternatives and strategies can be formulated to alleviate its effect on the American economy. This follows a collective call from companies such as Apple, Sony, AMD, and Qualcomm for the president take notice of the shortages and what it might mean for the economy in the short and long term."Semiconductors play a critical role in enabling the products and services that fuel our economy, contribute to American innovation, and enhance our national security," the groups said in a letter to the president last week. "Given the central role of semiconductors, strengthening the US position in semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing is a national priority."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The sci-fi action game Defiance, which tied into the TV show of the same name, is closing down for good. Developer Trion Worlds has announced that the servers for Defiance and Defiance 2050 will close on April 29, 2021."This decision was not an easy one to make. We concluded that both games could no longer sustain themselves," the studio said in a blog post. "While we are discontinuing the games service, we will never forget the incredible journey we embarked on together. It is never easy to announce the shutdown of any game, knowing how much time and effort we have all put into making Defiance and Defiance 2050 enjoyable for many years."Starting immediately, Trion Worlds is no longer accepting cash purchases in the games. If you already have an allotment of in-game currency, you can spend it freely until the servers close.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Clark Gregg began his Marvel Cinematic Universe journey as Agent Coulson in 2008's Iron Man, then appearing in numerous MCU films afterwards before starring on ABC's Agents of SHIELD for seven years. In 2019, Gregg returned to movies, reprising his role as Coulson in Captain Marvel. And many fans want to know if other cast members of Agents of SHIELD could return as well.During the TCA winter press tour conference, Marvel Studios CCO Kevin Feige held a Q&A session to discuss just that. "It was a great fun to having Clark Gregg come back to the MCU and in Captain Marvel," said Feige. "[He's a] founding, important member of the MCU for us--Agent Coulson."However, when it comes to seeing more people from Marvel's SHIELD agents popping up somewhere in the MCU, Feige was being tight-lipped, telling reporters, "We'll just have to wait and see."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Electronic Arts and BioWare have decided to cease development on Anthem, following an internal review. In a statement, BioWare Austin studio head Christian Dailey says that the team has been working hard on its concepts for "Anthem NEXT," but the pandemic has had an impact on studio productivity."I know this will be disappointing to the community of Anthem players who have been excited to see the improvements we've been working on," Dailey said in the update. "It's also disappointing for the team who were doing brilliant work. And for me personally, Anthem is what brought me to BioWare, and the last two years have been some of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my career."He goes on to say that going forward BioWare will be focusing its efforts on the Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and updates to Star Wars: The Old Republic. Anthem's live service will continue running for the current player community, without further updates.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com