The full trailer for the animated Netflix show Pacific Rim: The Black is here. The series is a spin-off from the Pacific Rim films and will be released next month.This trailer follows the shorter teaser that was released earlier this week. It reveals more of the plot, and delivers what fans many fans are most looking forward to--spectacular big monster and robot action. The series focuses on two teenage siblings named Taylor and Hayley who have been left alone following the evacuation of Australia. The pair are desperately searching for their parents in the kaiju-infested wasteland and stumble upon an abandoned Jaeger, one of the huge robots built to battle the kaiju. The pair learn to pilot it, given them a fighting chance against the terrifying creatures. It looks like a funny, exciting, and very stylish next part of the franchise--check the trailer out below:We fight, together. #PacificRimTheBlack pic.twitter.com/RfEzbAJFbU — NX (@NXOnNetflix) February 5, 2021Pacific Rim: The Black hits Netflix on Thursday, March 4. The show is produced by Tokyo-based anime studio Polygon Pictures, who also made the three recent Godzilla anime series as well as Star Wars Resistance. The showrunners are Craig Kyle and Greg Johnson, who previously worked on animated Marvel shows such as Ultimate Avengers and X-Men: Evolution.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Veteran actor Christopher Plummer, known for his roles in The Sound of Music, The Insider, A Beautiful Mind, and many more films, has died. He was 91.Plummer died at his Connecticut home with his wife by his side. Plummer's longtime manager, Lou Pitt, told Deadline: "Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us."Plummer appeared in more than 100 films across his 75-year career. He is perhaps best known for portraying Captain John Von Trapp in the 1965 classic The Sound of Music. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in his career, winning the Best Actor in a Supporting Role award in 2010 for the movie Beginners. He replaced Kevin Spacey mid-production on the movie All The Money In The World, and he earned an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of J Paul Getty. Most recently, Plummer played a central role in Rian Johnson's Oscar-nominated film Knives Out.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Turns out Apex Legends Season 8 won't start with two weeks of the map rotation remaining only on the brand-new Kings Canyon. A new hotifix (listed in the Apex Legends Season 8 patch notes) has changed the exclusivity period to only last until February 9 as opposed to the previously advertised February 16. The patch also addresses a few bugs that have popped up since the start of Season 8.Of note, the hotfix lowers the likelihood that the final circle of a match will center around The Pit or Mirage Voyage, two small locations that are easy to defend--you can only enter The Pit via enclosed chokepoints and only land on the Mirage Voyage via a redeploy, an action that prevents you from defending yourself. Having the final circle be at either location stacks the odds towards whichever team manages to get there first, which is a bit unfair.In terms of character bugs, the hotfix addresses both Caustic and Season 8's new playable legend Fuse. Now, the gas cloud from Caustic's Nox Gas Grenade will dissipate once the Caustic's squad is eliminated, as opposed to accidentally sticking around to continue blinding other teams. For Fuse, the hotfix ensures that Knuckle Cluster no longer finds a way to magically circumnavigate shields and deal health damage.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Destiny 2's Season of the Chosen is almost upon us. That makes this your final weekend to jump into the Trials of Osiris during the Season of the Hunt to finish up your Flawless seal or earn this season's rewards. You might want to try to get whatever you're missing--next season, Bungie is adding new rewards to the Trials of Osiris, including new armor.As always, the map you'll play Trials on and the rewards you'll get for venturing into Destiny's toughest PvP challenge rotate each week. Below we've listed the map on which you'll do battle along with everything you can hope to earn for your trouble. Trials ends with the weekly reset on February 9, which is the start of Destiny 2's next content season.Here's the Crucible map you'll face in Trials, plus all the rewards you can earn in this rotation. Trials ends with the weekly reset on February 2, so get your matches in or you'll have to wait for another weekend to roll around. There are only two more weeks of the Season of the Hunt remaining, so you'll want to finish earning your Trials rewards ahead of Bungie rolling out new Trials armor next season.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite developer Epic Games has confirmed it continues to hire people to help with its investor relations initiatives, but that does not necessarily mean the company is planning to go public with an IPO.A spokesperson for Epic told GameSpot that the company is "always monitoring the market" and that it has the foundation in place to make a move if it wanted to. However, right now the company has no official plans to go public, it seems."It's fairly common for companies of our size to hire people to help broaden and deepen relationships with existing investors and build new relationships," a spokesperson said. "Epic is always monitoring the market and is prepared to consider opportunities as they arise, but right now we are focused on investing in our business, executing against our opportunities, and delivering value to our investors."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

This week on GameSpot After Dark, the crew gets together to talk all things Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Lucy and Tamoor run down everything they know from their behind-closed-doors access, and Kallie and Jake ask the hard questions (and some softballs). Jake gets into the weeds with Rust, a game Tamoor evidently despises and which seems to bring out the worst in people. Lucy gives her impressions of The Medium--spoiler chat out now!--and we discuss the annoying, but perhaps necessary, trope of protagonists who talk to themselves about obvious things. Kallie goes on and on about Stephen King and shakes her proverbial fist at the sky for her mean high school English teacher. Tamoor also gets very passionate about Persona 5 Royal's worst palace, in his opinion, now that he's playing the game for the third time. Kallie nods along because she hasn't gotten to that one yet. We still think P5R is an absolute banger, but come on, you can see how some of that stuff would be a drag the third time around, right? Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

GTA Online, the multiplayer mode for Grand Theft Auto V, just keeps growing. Rockstar Games has announced that GTA Online was a record-breaking year for the game, reaching a new all-time high for players during the year. It's a wildly impressive achievement given that the game originally released back in 2013.The milestone came during a year that saw Rockstar release the Cayo Perico Heist for GTA Online, which represented the biggest-ever update for the game.Rockstar also shared that more than half of GTA Online players who tried out the Cayo Perico Heist did so alone. This was the game's first Heist that allowed players to go solo.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Razer announced a new gaming keyboard today, one that uses key switches that emulate the analog movement of a controller's sticks and triggers. The Razer Huntsman V2 Analog gaming keyboard was designed to work like a controller in that sense, and Razer told GameSpot that any game that uses analog movement or functions will be compatible with the Huntsman V2 Analog's key switches. The Huntsman V2 Analog is going for $250 through Razer right now, though we expect it to come to other retailers in the near future. Razer Huntsman V2 Analog gaming keyboard $250 The V2 Analog's key switches allow for more nuanced movement, making subtle presses on a key result in more accurate analog movement. The key switches' actuation points are adjustable, and users can even set up dual-step actuation to allow for two different inputs as you push down on a specific key further. For example, players can create settings so that pushing lightly on a key pulls out a grenade and pushing all the way down throws it. See at Razer In addition to analog key switches, the Huntsman V2 Analog boasts Razer's Chroma RGB lighting, borderless magnetic wrist rest, and a braided cable with USB-C connection. For those who don't have a USB-C-equipped PC, it also comes with a USB-A adapter. Other features include programmable keys, macro recording, USB 3.0 passthrough, and much more.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nvidia has changed its policy surrounding information that manufacturers must supply to consumers when selling any laptops with any of its new RTX 30-series chips.The change comes amid growing concerns over the differences in performance from laptops using the same hardware, which comes down to how the laptop has been designed to cope with the chip's thermal capabilities. There are many laptops that feature new RTX 3080 and 3070 mobile GPUs, but their performance hasn't been easy to discern outside of the model specification.Nvidia understand that this, coupled with the fact that it's reworked its Max-Q specification to refer to features instead of performance, has caused confusion. To remedy this, Nvidia is now requiring laptop makers to explicitly list specifications such as core and boost clocks for the GPUs on the product pages, letting consumers better inform themselves before a purchase.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

One of the most annoying problems with Destruction AllStars, PS5's exclusive hero-focused demolition derby game, has been fixed. Now, when you jump into the game for some car-filled mayhem, you'll no longer have to listen to everyone else in the lobby.Destruction AllStars Hotfix 1.2.2 disables multiplayer lobby voice chat by default for all players. This means that no one will be able to hear you if you accidentally leave the DualSense mic on, nor will you hear anyone else.If you want to hear the voices of the people you're playing with, you'll have to now actually party up with them. This really only makes sense for Destruction AllStars' two eight-vs-eight modes, Carnado and Stockpile. We can't foresee folks wanting to party chat for the one-vs-one Gridfall and Mayhem modes--though, now that we think about it, team-focused variations on those two modes would be pretty cool.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Looking for a something to play this weekend but don't want to spend any cash? Microsoft has announced the latest Free Play Days games, and they are good ones.Now until Sunday, February 7, you can download and play The Sims 4 and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 at no cost, provided you have an Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate membership. You can start your download from the Xbox.com website or by visiting the Subscriptions tab on your Xbox from the Xbox Store in the Gold area.Free is a nice priceOnce the free weekend ends, you can buy the full versions of The Sims 4 for 80% off, which brings it down to $8, or the standard edition of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 for $30 instead of $40. The Sims 4's Snowy Escape expansion pack ($16) and the Realm of Magic expansion pack ($12) are also on sale right now.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's been nearly a year since the gates of Disneyland closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, other California theme parks like Universal Studios Hollywood and Knott's Berry Farm have also remained shuttered due to state guidelines. It's possible those guidelines could be changing, though.According to The Hollywood Reporter, two California assembly members have proposed a new bill that would accelerate the opening of the state's larger theme parks. Currently, larger parks like Disneyland are in Tier 4 of the state's reopening plans. That essentially means the counties the parks are located in have to achieve a COVID-19 infection rate of fewer than one new daily case per 100,000 people and fewer than 2% positive tests.Under the new bill, all theme parks would be able to open once their home counties entered Tier 3, which allows for 1-3.9 new cases per 100,000 people and a 2-4.9% positive test rate. Assembly members Sharon Quirk-Silva and Suzette Valladares have sponsored the bill, AB 420, and it shouldn't be surprising that they have the support of the theme park industry.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A bidding war has erupted to buy a new movie starring Will Smith and directed by Deadpool 2's David Leitch. According to Deadline, multiple studios and streaming services are vying to buy the action movie, Fast & Loose.The drama, written by The Megs's Erich Hoeber, is reportedly attracting bids from Warner Bros., Paramount, MGM, and Sony, as well as unspecified streaming platforms. The size of the bids is unknown, and there is no word on any potential frontrunners at this stage.Fast & Loose tells the story of a criminal organization leader John Riley, played by Smith, who suffers memory loss after an attack. He then reunites with his crew but things are not how he remembers.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Following the mobile game BTS Universe Story, the popular K-pop boy band is back in yet another game. Titled Rhythm Hive, the new mobile rhythm game features music from artists under BTS's label, Big Hit Entertainment.Rhythm Hive Pre Season Open!!!!📢Downlaod: https://t.co/dKxqwYwfZL#RhythmHive #RhythmGame #with_your_artist #BTS #TOMORROW_X_TOGETHER #ENHYPEN pic.twitter.com/QTqwGcyIKc — Rhythm Hive Official (@RhythmHive_twt) February 4, 2021Rhythm Hive offers solo, multiplay, and competitive modes. Players can choose the short or full version of a single song or a mix of three different songs. Performance cards with your favorite member from BTS, TXT, or Enhypen are also available and offer different bonus points."Rhythm Hive allows users to optimize the game’s level of difficulty, speed and other factors so that a wide variety of players, from experts to beginners, can enjoy it," the developer Superb Corp. told Variety.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new Fortnite update has gone live on all platforms to address stability and performance issues going into the weekend. Epic Games posted some notes explaining the update on Reddit, which you can also read below.We've released a maintenance patch to address:-The queuing bug with tournaments-The "Disable Pre-edit Option" in BR/Creative applying to STW-The recent performance issues on PC (DX12 still impacted)-The PS5 stability issues — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) February 5, 2021The maintenance update, labeled patch 2.03, specifically addresses a bug that was preventing players from queuing in tournaments, an issue involving the "disable pre-edit" option, and performance issues affecting players on PC and PS5.According to Epic Games, running Fortnite in Performance Mode may degrade the game's texture quality after updating to this new version, which is an intentional feature meant to preserve high framerates.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com