If you were somehow emotionally attached to Disc Room's stated setting of 2089, we've got bad news for you. Jan Willem Nijman, a developer of the indie action game, recently revealed that the year in the game's intro automatically updates to be 69 years in the future. That means that players who start the game this year will see the following crawl instead.now that it's 2021, I can safely spoil that Disc Room will always be Set In The Future. It used to be set in 2089, but just so that our ancestors don't have to deal with the whole "this is the year disc room was set in" drama we add an extra year whenever necessary. pic.twitter.com/HKdZT2yL4U — Jan Willem Nijman (@jwaaaap) February 11, 2021"Now that it's 2021, I can safely spoil that Disc Room will always be Set In The Future," Nijman wrote. "It used to be set in 2089, but just so that our ancestors don't have to deal with the whole 'this is the year Disc Room was set in' drama, we add an extra year whenever necessary."While this is a silly joke based on an internet meme, it's also a surprisingly common problem, especially in sci-fi media. Many of the classics of the genre are set in a future date that is now the recent past. For example, the original Blade Runner was set in November 2019.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

YouTuber ZHC spent $70,000 to make the world's largest functional PS5. According to ZHC, his gigantic PS5 is 100 times larger than the normal sized PS5. To be more precise, it's 10 feet tall and weighs 500 pounds. The supersized PS5 came with a larger-than-life functional controller as well.In a video titled I Spent 100 Hours Customizing The World's Largest PS5 ($70,000), ZHC held a competition between him and his team members. He painted one side of the PS5 and his team painted the other. If his team won, ZHC would give them each a PS5 and a number of other PS5 consoles to charity. If he lost, ZHC also vowed to give away the world's largest functioning PS5.Spoiler alert: ZHC won but promised to still give away a hundred PS5s to his subscribers.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The first image from the upcoming Disney short film Us Again has been released. It's Disney's first theatrical short for five years and will be released with the studio's upcoming movie Raya and the Last Dragon.The first look at Us Again comes via Entertainment Weekly. It's an image of the films' two main characters, an older couple named Art and Dot, dancing in the street. We see them as they are really in the reflections of a puddle--the main image is them looking young and energetic. Check it out below:The short, from the head of animation on 'Big Hero 6,' will play before 'Raya and the Last Dragon' in theaters on March 5. It will then come to Disney+ in June.​ https://t.co/3606hVnQsY — Entertainment Weekly (@EW) February 15, 2021Us Again is written and directed by Zach Parrish, who was head of animation on Disney's hit Big Hero 6. The short is told entirely without dialogue, using dance and music to tell the story of Art and Dot as they rediscover their love of life through dancing. The score is by Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel), while acclaimed dancers Keone and Mari Madrid performed the routines for the film.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

PC hardware manufacturer NZXT has officially started recalling all its H1 PC Chassis after it failed to adequately address a design flaw that posed a fire hazard.The H1, which strongly resembles the design of the Xbox Series X, features a PCIe riser for GPUs to fit in the space-constrained design. This riser features two screws that don't feature enough clearance, meaning they could potentially short a 12V power rail on the connecting PCB. NZXT attempt to solve this issue by shipping nylon screws to H1 customers to prevent the short, but the company has acknowledged that it failed to resolve the core issue at hand.In a statement on the recall, NZXT CEO Johnny Hou apologized for the design oversight, promising to improve QA processes moving forward.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is getting a gigantic update this week that adds a new game mode, introduces more abilities and skills, and makes a very long list of improvements and fixes.The new mode is called River Raids, and it takes players to previously undiscovered parts of England where they can take part in more raids with loot and rewards to the victors. This is part of the Yule Season event, so it only lasts for a limited time.Some of the new abilities included with the update are Berserker Trap (releases "hallucinatory powder"), Battle Cry (Eivor gains strength and foes stumble backwards), and Shoulder Bash (Eivor pushes enemies back or destroys objects with her shoulder).Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Gina Carano has been fired by LucasFilm after yet another "social media scandal," if one can define "social media scandal" as very deliberately posting blatant anti-Semitism on a public account, including a meme comparing experiencing any sort of pushback on her own conservative politics to being Jewish and living in Nazi Germany. These posts were just the latest in a long line of public aggressions, both micro and macro, from Carano, who has had a long history of making deeply inappropriate and downright offensive posts against vulnerable minorities, and then immediately falling into defensive self-victimization: It's not the groups she's mocking or blatantly attacking that are being hurt by her actions, it's her, and actually, the people reacting to her posts in a negative way are the real bullies here.If this sounds familiar, it should. By now, we all know the words to this song.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Tom Cruise action movies Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 were expected to film back-to-back but film studio Paramount has changed plans and will now shoot the sequel later.Mission: Impossible 7 is wrapping up its shoot now, but Cruise has obligations to do press for Top Gun: Maverick, so he will be unavailable to film Mission: Impossible 8 until later, according to Deadline's sources. The gap shouldn't be too significant, however, the report said.Director Christopher McQuarrie recently said on Instagram that Mission: Impossible 7 has finished filming in Abu Dhabi, the latest location shoot for the action film. The production team is now headed back to London to put the "finishing touches" on the film.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Game developer Josef Fares, who is known for boldly and passionately sharing his opinions, has now spoken up about how people don't finish games. In short, he doesn't like that the data generally shows that people start games but don't finish them.In an interview with Game Informer, Fares said he was told that about 51% of people who played his previous game, A Way Out, actually finished it. He was informed that this was a very good percentage, but it's not good enough for Fares."It actually it saddens me," he said. "That means that 49 percent of people didn't finish it. It's not something I should be happy about. We need to fix the problem that people are not even finishing our games. People are not even finishing the games."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A writer at WB Games Montreal, the team working on Gotham Knights, said that the open-world action-RPG will have a "very fresh, unique take" on the familiar Batman game structure.In a brief interview with the Las Vegas Review Journal, narrative designer and writer Mitch Dyer said that Gotham Knights' focus on characters other than Batman makes the game more approachable. In turn, this should give the game an engaging feel that's "fresh" and "unique.""Shifting the focus to be about these characters in the aftermath of this pivotal death that is important to all of them, the framework of this story is unique," Dyer said. "Having this very fresh, unique take on the DC Universe makes it approachable and engaging in a way that is instantly gratifying to me."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Truth Seekers, the Amazon Prime Video British paranormal investigation comedy from duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, will not be getting a second season according to Frost. Deadline transcribed an Instagram story post from the co-star which is no longer online but in which he reportedly said, "Sadly, Truth Seekers will not be returning… which is a massive kick in the willy for me."The show, which started last fall on the streaming service, was about a team of part-time paranormal investigators using homemade gadgets to track the supernatural and then sharing their adventures online. The show's official logline promises along the way they will "uncover a terrifying conspiracy as they go," which now likely remains a mystery for fans.As a duo, Frost and Pegg have collaborated on many projects and performed alongside one another in the popular Edgar Wright-directed Cornetto trilogy of films: 2004's Shaun of the Dead, 2007's Hot Fuzz, and 2013's The World's End. (This show was their eighth collaboration together.) In Truth Seekers, Pegg and Frost collaborated as co-writers with James Serafinowicz (The Peter Serafinowicz Show), and Nat Saunders (Sick Note). Directed by Jim Field Smith (The Wrong Mans), Truth Seekers ran for a total of eight episodes.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon is officially celebrating its 25th anniversary next week, but Nintendo is kicking off the festivities early with a variety of new merch, events, and more. The latest collaboration is with apparel brand Levi's, so if you're looking to add some new Pokemon gear to your wardrobe, now's a great time to do so. The Levi's x Pokemon collection launched online and in stores today, offering a variety of jeans, shirts, jackets, and accessories that feature Gen 1 Pokemon and characters in their classic styles.To be honest, I was super skeptical when I first saw the teaser images for this collection back in January, but now that the full line of Pokemon apparel has been revealed, some of it's actually pretty cute. There's an adorable Jigglypuff beanie (which I bought right away), a white tee featuring a very sleepy Pikachu napping on the Levi's logo, and even a mini Psyduck clip-on bag that's already sold out online. The collection also pays homage to the original anime, including a T-shirt that features Ash and Misty with their Poke Balls at the ready. You can even pick up Misty's tank top and shorts and cosplay the iconic water trainer. Strangely, Brock doesn't make an appearance in the collection--did you forget the original gang was a trio, Levi's?Of course, there are denim jackets and jeans available as well, including two vintage-style trucker jackets with matching jeans. The first jacket-jean combo has a green foresty pattern with various Gen 1 Pokemon printed on it, while the second pair is slightly more understated, featuring light wash denim with lightning bolts on the sleeves and a fierce-looking Pikachu on the thigh. Each jacket and pair of jeans is available to buy separately. There are also multiple pairs of jeans that you can customize with a more subtle Pokemon pattern.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Riot has revealed some of the social changes that will soon come to the multiplayer shooter Valorant, and they're the sort of changes that fans have been asking for for a while now. These upcoming tweaks will target patches 2.04 and 2.05, and will focus on punishing AFKers and other undesirable player behavior.The meat of the changes will target AFK players and "AFK-type behavior." As a 5-on-5 shooter, losing a single teammate can make or break a Valorant match, and it's clear that Riot is trying to do something about it. Patch 2.04 will implement a new system that will improve detection of AFKers, and the penalty structure for that behavior has been completely overhauled.Essentially, the new system will track your behavior holistically, meaning that players who drop due to intermittent internet issues won't get much of a penalty at all. However, those players who go AFK in the middle of games will be hit with increasingly stringent punishments, including queue restrictions, ranked rating reductions, or even an outright ban.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A highly detailed series of fake additions to the Left 4 Dead wiki has inspired fan-art and even a mod that puts the nonexistent content into the game. The vandalism focuses on a bizarre character called "Purple Francis," a poorly recolored version of one of the game's four Survivors. The vandal cooked up a surprisingly thorough backstory for Purple Francis, including his untimely death in a comic book, described by the article as a "national tragedy."Someone vandalized the Left 4 Dead wiki, for seemingly no reason, with an *extensive* article about a nonsensical nonexistent character called Purple Francis, including cross-referencing him on other pages on the wiki pic.twitter.com/XixF7VCSpq — 🏴i open up my wallet and it's full of blood.🏴 (@thinkiamsad) February 14, 2021According to the articles, Purple Francis's purple hue was caused by an iron-rich diet. Prior to Left 4 Dead, he owned a root beer factory and sired two sons, Cungulus and Skibbity. Though the wiki's moderators sadly deleted Purple Francis's page, a mod on Left 4 Dead 2's Steam Workshop page will add Purple Francis to the game, which the mod's author labels as "cut L4D content." There's also a Discord page to join if you're a true Purple Francis enthusiast.btw i downloaded the mod and he looks like jelly pic.twitter.com/WK1DsDBrvv — Jett™ (@jettstranded) February 14, 2021While there's no word on the state of the Left 4 Dead franchise, the game recently got its first official patch in nearly a decade. Though the patch came from Valve, it was primarily built by more than 30 members of the game's community. A spiritual successor called Back 4 Blood is currently being made by many of the game's original developers.Info from Gamespot.com

Dead Cells' Update 21 is now live on Xbox One, PS4, and Switch. The update went live in the PC version of the game in December 2020.Update 21 adds the new Katana weapon, a sword with the unique ability to chain together standard slash attacks with a dashing charge attack. The update adds the Demolisher mob and four new mutations, too.The new mutations are Acrobatic Preparation (allows you to attack with your equipped range weapon and a ranged weapon in your backpack at the same time), Porcupine Backpack (allows you to attack with your equipped melee weapon by rolling through enemies, Tortoise Wheel (allows you to block or parry attacks by rolling), and Fatal Cadence (increases attack).Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite's 15.40 update is just around the corner, and it's going to bring some interesting changes to the game. As with all Fortnite updates, it's not precisely clear what the patch is going to do, but we have a few hints from the game's official Twitter account. The patch is set to go live on February 16.According to the below tweets, it appears that popular limited-time modes Air Royale and Floor is Lava will be making a comeback. The patch will also allow you to adjust object level of detail in the Perf Mode alpha, but only on PC. Additionally, characters will have more exotics in stock for you to grab. Let's just hope the opposing teams won't get there first.Knock knock. 🚪The v15.40 update is scheduled to release on February 16. Downtime for the update will begin at approx. 4 AM ET (09:00 UTC). pic.twitter.com/W54TynVlZQ — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) February 15, 2021v15.40 brings:✅Blast back with an unvaulted favorite!✅Fun for the whole squad! Characters will have more Exotics in stock for allies (or enemies) to acquire.✅LTMs coming soon: Air Royale ✈️+ Floor is Lava 🌋✅Adjust object/build level of detail in PC Perf Mode alpha — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) February 15, 2021The above tweet also references an "unvaulted favorite." Based on context clues, it's likely either pump shotguns or an explosive weapon. Then again, the "knock knock" phrasing in the first tweet has led some to think that the Flint-Knock Pistol might be making a comeback, too. We'll know for sure when the patch comes out on February 16.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com