Pokemon Go's big Go Beyond update is now live, which means a new generation of Pokemon are soon making their debut in the mobile game. Niantic is introducing the first wave of Gen 6 Pokemon to Go this week as part of the new Kalos Celebration event, which kicks off tomorrow, December 2, at 8 AM local time.Throughout the week-long event, a handful of Pokemon originally from the Kalos region will appear in the wild and hatch from eggs, including the Gen 6 starters Chespin, Fennekin, and Froakie. On top of that, players will be able to encounter some Kalos Pokemon in Raids. Among them will be the Psychic type Espurr, which will be appearing throughout the event in one-star Raids.Gear up and get ready! We’ve just gotten word that a mysterious Pokémon is appearing in raids! Good luck, Trainers! Open #PokemonGO to discover what this surprise Raid Boss is. pic.twitter.com/E8Q0PrsrBb — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) November 30, 2020In addition to increased Pokemon spawns, there will be event-exclusive Field Research and Timed Research tasks to complete during the event. The Kalos Celebration runs until 10 PM local time on December 8. You can read more about the event on the official Pokemon Go website.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

HBO recently greenlit the Last of Us TV show, meaning it might enter production relatively soon. An official release date for the program has not been announced yet, but people are guessing that it may debut around the time that another show with zombies--The Walking Dead--airs its 11th and final season in 2022.Scott Gimple, the head of content for The Walking Dead at AMC, said in a new interview with Insider that he's not worried about potentially competing with The Last of Us. "I think there's room for all of us, with zombies and the different ways of telling zombie tales," Gimple said of the two shows. "I'm going to be watching both. I hope a lot of people will be watching."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Queen's Gambit, a recent Netflix miniseries about the rise of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (played by Anna Taylor-Joy), has been a huge success for the streaming giant, scoring the biggest debut ever for a scripted limited series. The ripples of this success spread much further, though--chess itself has greatly benefited.A recent report from NPD states that chess-related sales have spiked since the show debuted in October. In the 21 days following the show's release, chess set sales increased by 87% in the US, and sales of chess books leapt up an incredible 603%.NPD Group also reports that across its first nine days on Netflix, US homes spent a total of 40.8 million hours watching the series. To put this into perspective, finishing the whole series takes under seven hours.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The newest patch for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has arrived, and the big-ticket change is a tweak to how fast you'll earn weapon XP.Across multiplayer and Zombies, Treyarch has increased the earn rates for weapon XP. With the update applied, players should now level up their weapons faster than before, allowing them to unlock new gear and attachments at a quicker pace.The update also fixes an XP-related problem with the Zombies mode that caused the game to not pay out enough XP in solo matches and later in rounds.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Halo Infinite has been delayed to 2021, but Microsoft is still rolling ahead with news and previews of the sci-fi FPS. The latest special look at the game comes in the form of an "audio field recordings" video that shows off how the audio team went about capturing various sounds.Most of the sequences in this video were released earlier, but this is a "supercut" video that puts them all together in one place. In the video, you'll see how the team used everything from an original Xbox to a staffer's little dog and even a wolverine to record sounds for Halo Infinite. It's an impressive video that showcases the creative ways in which the team went about creating unique sounds for Halo Infinite--check it out below.If you like this video, you might also enjoy this other video showing off how the team captured the weapon and vehicle sounds in Halo Infinite. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Good Life, the next game from Deadly Premonition director Hidetaka "Swery65" Suehiro, has picked up a publisher. The game, about New York photographer Naomi Hayward and her move to the mysterious town of Rainy Woods, is due to release in Summer 2021.The Good Life will be published by The Irregular Corporation, the publisher of Murder by Numbers and PC Building Simulator. The game is being developer by Suehiro's White Owls Inc. team, and is the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign.The new trailer shows off some of the game's major mechanics, including photography and animal transformation--Naomi can turn into a cat or a dog during the adventure. This is, ultimately, a detective adventure, with Naomi digging into the town's secrets. Hopefully she'll uncover some interesting truths. It looks just a little janky in the trailer, but that's part of the charm of Swery65's work. The game is coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It'll also be playable on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S thanks to backwards compatibility. Deadly Premonition 2 released exclusively on the Switch earlier this year. It received a 5/10 in GameSpot's review, which criticized the "jarringly inconsistent frame rate of the open world." A later patch improved things somewhat. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nintendo Switch update 11.0.0 is here, and the latest numbered update makes some big additions. The main one is the addition of a Nintendo Switch Online hub on the main page, but there's plenty of other stuff to dig into.The new "Nintendo Switch Online" hub button appears on the home screen next to News, and it collects together all of Online's functions and services into one place. This includes a list of smartphone apps, online games, current tournaments, an archive of NES and SNES titles arranged by year, your save data in the cloud, and member offers.Cloud data will now be automatically downloaded on multiple systems attached to the same account, too. This could be a blessing for anyone using a regular Switch and a Switch Lite in conjunction, as once it's activated save data will jump between the two systems automatically. A new "Trending With Friends" option is now available on your user page, below "Friend List". It shows what your friends have been playing recently, telling you exactly how many of the folks on your friend list are still regularly playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons and other titles. It tracks who has played over the last ten days, and will tell you the total playtime of the friends listed.12 new user icons are also added. They're focused on Mario's 35th anniversary, with icons based on Mario's classic appearance right through to Odyssey. You can even use Mario with FLUDD as your icon, if you're a huge fan of Super Mario Sunshine.Perhaps most useful of all for those who like to share screenshots, it's now much easier to transfer screens and videos from the Switch to other devices. You can copy to a computer via USB, or to a smart device via a QR code. There are a few other changes introduced here, including download prioritization, the ability to name button remaps, and support for Brazilian Portuguese. You can read the full update notes below.Nintendo Switch Ver. 11.0.0Nintendo Switch Online was added to the HOME Menu.Access all Nintendo Switch Online services, from getting the latest information to checking your membership status.*This feature is not available in some countries/regions.A new feature that automatically downloads backed up save data was added to the Save Data Cloud.When using software with the same Nintendo Account linked to multiple systems, save data backed up from one console will automatically be downloaded to your other system(s).*To use this feature, it must be enabled under System Settings > Data Management > Save Data Cloud.*Save data will not be downloaded automatically unless save data for that software exists on the console. The first time only, users must download the save data manually.*A Nintendo Switch Online membership is required to use the Save Data Cloud service.A new Trending feature was added to the User Page.Users can check what software their friends are playing or have started playing recently.Information will not be displayed for friends who have their online status set to display to no one.Users can now transfer screenshots and videos from Album to their smart devices.Users can wirelessly connect their smart devices to Nintendo Switch to transfer the screenshots and videos saved within their Album.For screenshots, users can transfer a maximum of 10 screenshots and 1 video capture at once.*To connect, users must use their smart device to scan the QR Code displayed on the Nintendo Switch screen.A new Copy to a Computer via USB Connection feature was added under System Settings > Data Management > Manage Screenshots and Videos.Users can use a USB cable to connect Nintendo Switch to their computers to copy the screenshots and videos saved under Album.* A USB charging cable [model HAC-010] or a USB-IF certified USB cable that supports data transfer is required to connect to a computer.Users can now select what download to prioritize when there are multiple downloads in progress.When there are multiple software, update data, or downloadable content downloads in progress, users can now select which they want to download first.You can set this under Download Options by selecting the icon for the software you want to download first on the HOME Menu.User icons were added.12 user icons that commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros. series were added.Users can now name preset button mappings with the Change Button Mapping feature.Brazilian Portuguese was added as a supported language.When users set their region to the Americas and their language to Português, the language used on the HOME Menu and in certain software will be displayed in Brazilian Portuguese.Several issues were fixed, and usability and stability were improved.Info from Gamespot.com

Immortals Fenyx Rising knows perfect is the enemy of good. Typhon, its big bad, is obsessed with perfection; as he overthrows the gods of Mount Olympus and strands them on the Golden Isle, he strips them of their essences, and with those essences, the flaws that made them legend. Aphrodite loses her passion, pettiness, and jealousy; Ares his rage; Hephaistos his suffering; Athena her self-righteousness. In their quest to reclaim those essences, Fenyx, a lowly soldier in search of their brother Ligryon, argues those flaws should be celebrated, not forgotten. Their tale doesn't always impart that lesson, but it's able to deftly take its own flaws in stride and, while not reaching the highs of the gods it worships, earn its own praise.Fenyx Rising sets the bar high for itself by borrowing heavily from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. You can climb your way up just about any solid surface if you have enough stamina; one of your four major abilities lets you magically float objects above your head and move them around to solve puzzles; the Golden Isle is littered with vaults, one-off puzzles that take place in self-contained parts of Tartaros. The list runs deep.Despite all the borrowed elements, Fenyx Rising hews closely to Ubisoft's flavor of open world. At first, it was hard not to treat every similarity I spotted as a point of comparison. Fenyx Rising, for example, lacks a real sense of exploration. You're rarely lost, since the first thing you do in every region is head to the nearest vantage point, scout the area to reveal it on your map, then mark a bevy of collectibles and activities to chase. I never got the sense I was "exploring" the Golden Isle so much as I was beelining it to all the icons I'd already marked, which told me exactly what I would find when I reached them. I wasn't paying much attention to the world around me because nothing is really "hidden," which is disappointing only because in its early hours, Fenyx Rising did remind me of the spacious Hyrule of Breath of the Wild, where every rock formation or tree stump hinted at some surprise worth telling someone else about.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In 2018, Tetris Effect's mesmerizing sounds and sights heightened the classic game's aesthetically pleasing properties and its ability to consume our attention to almost therapeutic levels, reinvigorating our appreciation for one of gaming's oldest obsessions. But even as former GameSpot editor Peter Brown proclaimed Tetris "better than ever" in Tetris Effect, he noted it "sadly" did not apply its wondrous approach to multiplayer. Two years later, Tetris Effect: Connected--an updated re-release for Xbox consoles and PC--fills that gap. Just as the original did for the classic version of the game, Connected reimagines Tetris multiplayer with flair and vision. It also loses a major component, VR support, which delivers the most intense version of the experience. While I'm of two minds on that tradeoff, the soothing intensity of Tetris Effect hasn't lost any potency. On the contrary, it feels more vital than ever in 2020.Though it adds and removes modes whole cloth, the core of Tetris Effect remains unchanged. Despite the fact that Journey mode hasn't been touched, its shifting, syncopated themes enraptured me level by level, even on my second time through. Tetris Effect is a significant challenge to average Tetris players like myself. Each level revs the speed up to push you just up to the edge of what you can handle. Even as you improve--and you are getting better, whether you see it or not--the levels scale to demand your full focus. It sounds unapproachable, but there's something about the combination of the way your brain looks for patterns, combined with the rhythmic sensory elements and this challenge, that lets you give yourself over to the game, almost trance-like, without even trying.You'll need that focus in multiplayer. Whether you're playing cooperatively with other players or competing against them, the multiplayer modes in Connected ratchet up the intensity found in the original. Connected features four multiplayer modes--three competitive, one co-op. As in most games, other players will push you in ways a single-player campaign will not.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

One amateur game developer has decided to give two of the most notoriously terrible Legend of Zelda games a second chance, remaking Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon for a new audience, as reported by Eurogamer.Originally developed by Animation Magic and released on the CD-i console in 1993, Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon are considered to be the worst Legend of Zelda games in the entire series thanks to the frustrating gameplay and unintentionally terrifying animated cutscenes which eventually became bizarre memes."I wanted to prove to myself that I could make a game," the remake's developer Dopply said in an FAQ. "It started as a joke between friends, but then I wanted to see if I could actually pull it off. I've flirted with game making for a while but never finished something. This was my chance to do that (well, over the course of four years, I guess). Over time, remastered versions of these notorious titles was something I wanted for myself as well."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

After a 20-year legal dispute, magician and spoon-bending illusionist Uri Geller has given Nintendo permission to once again use Kadabra on Pokemon cards. The self-proclaimed psychic's dispute with Nintendo began in 2000 when he sued the company, alleging that his name and signature spoon-bending act had been stolen and used in the creation of a Pokemon that vilified him."I want to tell the world before the start of the holiday season that I have nothing whatsoever to do with these violent characters," Geller said in November 2000. Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokemon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image."As Screen Rant noted, Geller may have had a super effective case at the time as Kadabra's Japanese name--which can be written as Yungerer, Yungeller, and Yun Geller--had a passing resemblance to his own name. Kadabra is also a Psychic-type Pokemon that is always seen clutching a spoon in every form of media that it appears in, possibly indicating at more references to the magician.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Xbox Game Pass Twitter account is up to some shenanigans again. Back in September, the account posted an email exchange that not-so-subtly implied that Doom Eternal was coming to the service soon, and it joined the console Xbox Game Pass on October 1. Now, the account is teasing another big addition, but we can't quite tell what game they're referencing.Honestly we have no idea what gif or sinister red light Melissa is referring to pic.twitter.com/QaOK7jZNkM — Xbox Game Pass (@XboxGamePass) November 29, 2020A "gif with a sinister red light" certainly points to Control Ultimate Edition, since that game uses red and orange hues to represent its antagonist, the Hiss. In the Doom Eternal tweet, internet sleuths quickly discovered that inverting the image's colors revealed a message that all but confirmed that Eternal was the game being discussed. In this tweet, flipping the colors reveals a very different hidden message: "You really think we'd put the tease here again?"It's certainly possible that the game is something other than Control--after all, red lights aren't exactly uncommon in big video games--but our money is certainly there. Control Ultimate Edition is the next-gen version of Remedy's paranoid action game, and includes both of its expansions. However, it will only be available as a free upgrade for players who bought the Ultimate Edition on PS4 or Xbox One.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Target's Cyber Monday sale is live now, but select deals won't be available until tomorrow, including one particularly solid Nintendo Switch deal. You'll be able to pick up the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Super Mario Party Double Pack for $80, down from $100. The Double Pack is a Target exclusive, and the deal will be available tomorrow only, according to Target's weekly ad. There's a good chance this Cyber Monday deal will sell out, so you'll probably want to snag it as soon as possible. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Super Mario Party Double Pack $80 (was $100) The Double Pack includes physical versions of each game, and you're essentially paying $40 for each. While Super Mario Party's digital edition is currently on sale for $40, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe rarely drops below $50 and wasn't on sale for Black Friday. See at Target Since it features two of the best Switch multiplayer games to play on the couch with the family, this bundle is an ideal Nintendo Switch gift this holiday. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is arguably the best entry in the storied racing series. It earned an 8/10 in GameSpot's Mario Kart 8 Deluxe review. Super Mario Party's classic Party mode is as fun as ever, and new modes such as the cooperative Partner Party mode add to the experience. It received a 7/10 in our Super Mario Party review.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

After weeks of retailers promoting Black Friday deals, we're finally approaching the end of the year's biggest sales period--but it's not over quite yet. Cyber Monday 2020 is here, bringing one last wave of steep discounts before the holidays. While some Black Friday sales are wrapping up today, most retailers have moved on to Cyber Monday already, with sales going live at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy.Cyber Monday deals tend to be a mixture of recycled Black Friday deals and brand-new ones that retailers have saved for the post-Thanksgiving week. The best Cyber Monday offers are usually one-day-only, so you'll want to check out the big sales at Walmart, GameStop, and other online stores then.As far as game deals, we're seeing quite a few great discounts on games for PS5/PS4, Xbox One/Series X, and Nintendo Switch this week, some of which are already live and continuing into Cyber Week. Unfortunately, the best Switch game deals may have been Black Friday exclusives--GameStop had several first-party games down to $27, and those are returning to $40 for Cyber Monday. Still, it's a great time to find anything on your wishlist before the holidays.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

November 29 is Chadwick Boseman's birthday, and to mark the occasion for the late actor, Disney updated the Marvel movie intro for Black Panther on Disney Plus to be focused on him. Boseman passed away in August. This would have been his 44th birthday.The new video uses the same structure as the main one, but the text, images, and video puts the focus on Boseman and his various appearances in the MCU.Long live the King. #WakandaForever pic.twitter.com/uW1KisOkTq — Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) November 29, 2020Disney chairman Robert Iger also tweeted about the new tribute, telling fans to keep an eye on the Disney Plus version of Black Panther to catch the video.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com