One of the most popular Call of Duty brands, Black Ops, returns this week with Black Ops Cold War from developers Treyarch and Raven. The sub-brand is one of Call of Duty's most successful commercially and with fans, and two veteran developers have spoken to GameSpot about why they believe the series continues to be so popular.Senior creative director Dan Vondrak from Raven said it comes down to the stories that can be told in the Black Ops universe. Whereas the other games, like Modern Warfare, are grounded in real history, the Black Ops games are known for being more playful with their tone. Also, people love conspiracy theories and learning about the seedy underbellies of governments, real or not, and Black Ops delivers this in spades. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Go is hosting not one, but two Community Days this month, and the first is just around the corner. November's Electabuzz Community Day takes place this Sunday, November 15, and like previous events, it gives players around the world the chance to catch a rare Pokemon, participate in an event-exclusive Special Research story, and take advantage of other bonuses. To help you prepare, we've rounded up everything you need to know about Pokemon Go's first November 2020 Community Day below.Table of Contents [hide]November 2020 Featured Pokemon: Electabuzz November 2020 Featured Pokemon: ElectabuzzNovember's first Community Day features the Electric-type Pokemon Electabuzz. Throughout the event, Electabuzz will appear in the wild much more frequently than it normally does, and players will have an increased chance to encounter a Shiny Electabuzz. On top of that, Electabuzz's baby form, Elekid, will be hatching from 2 km eggs during the Community Day.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Black Friday 2020 is starting to ramp up, with major retailers like Walmart, Target, and GameStop releasing Black Friday ad scans teasing their upcoming holiday deals. This year, Black Friday kicked off early and feels much more spread out than usual--many stores started rolling out Black Friday deals in October and have revealed them in phases rather than all at once. Because of COVID-19, most retailers are emphasizing online-only deals and aren't showcasing the in-store doorbusters of years past in an effort to keep people from crowding stores. If you want to shop Black Friday this year, you'll be able to secure all the best deals online from the safety of your home.The best way to plan for Black Friday is to browse each retailer's ad scans and have an idea of which deals you're looking to nab ahead of time, especially when it comes to games. To help you out, we've rounded up the biggest Black Friday ads released so far. All the major retailers, including Walmart and Target, have released Black Friday ads at this point, though some are keeping their Thanksgiving-week deals under wraps for now.We'll be covering the best gaming deals of Black Friday 2020 in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. For now, catch up on all the latest Black Friday news and deals, including the best PS5 and PS4 Black Friday game deals.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Assassin's Creed Valhalla has a strong narrative, one that places the game in an interesting position within the AC canon that long-time fans of the series will likely appreciate. But if you want to get absolutely everything out of its story, you'll need to be proactive, the game's narrative designer has explained.Ubisoft Montreal's Darby McDevitt has taken to Twitter to encourage Assassin's Creed fans with an interest in the "modern day" storyline running through the series, which started with Desmond Miles in the very first game, to log out of the Animus at regular intervals throughout the game's story."We don't kick you out of the Animus often, BUT we do update Layla's dialog with her colleagues quite a few times," McDevitt says, "usually after major events in the Eivor-Sigurd storyline."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The official Call of Duty charity of military veterans has announced a partnership with a toothbrush company to help raise money for veterans looking for work after leaving the service.The Call of Duty Endowment and Burst Oral Care have announced a special-edition Sonic toothbrush that has a camo print inspired by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Burst is donating 20 percent of each toothbrush sold, and it guarantees a minimum of a $100,000 donation to the Call of Duty Endowment.The Limited Edition Call of Duty® BURST toothbrush is here!20% of the proceeds going directly to the @CODE4Vets GET YOURS NOW https://t.co/FuCINJVvlT#BURSTxCODE #BURSTxCOD #brushBURST #callofduty #veterans pic.twitter.com/496tTEMAlS — Burst Oral Care (@burstoralcare) November 9, 2020The toothbrush costs $100 USD on its own, while you can also purchase a bundle that comes with various extras like a travel case, floss, and toothpaste, and a snapback hat for $130 USD.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Assassin's Creed Valhalla features a massive world to explore during the age of the Vikings. The world of Valhalla has an impressive sense of scale, and you will have your work cut out for you when taking on new missions and unearthing the many secrets that the land has to offer. One of your safe havens in the game is the settlement of Ravensthrope, which is your main base of operations in the campaign. As you continue with Eivor's story, you'll uncover some unique opportunities to expand the settlement in some interesting ways.In this guide, we're highlighting some key details to consider when it comes to building your base and expanding Eivor's influence in England and beyond. While the settlement opens up early in the game, you're only scratching the surface of what opportunities it can bring you for the first 10 or so hours of the campaign. Along with fishing, hunting, and online trading, the settlement can also introduce new quest lines that will let you bond with its inhabitants. So here's a quick rundown of some things to consider when it comes to building your base.Patience Is KeySurprisingly, this is one of the more critical things to consider when working on your settlement. As soon as you reach England and break ground on your new base of operations, you'll likely want to drop everything and focus on recruiting followers, building new structures, and generally just making your base the best it can be. Building your settlement is very much a long-term project in Valhalla, and while you can take part in raids to net some new resources, you'll need to level up more and take on new story missions to continue building it beyond your more modest means in the opening hours.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In Assassin's Creed Valhalla, there isn't a waypoint for everything. In fact, a great deal of the coolest side quests and things to do or discover in the game aren't even tracked in your Quest log. You just have to go out and find them, and mark down what you're supposed to do in your mind or on a piece of paper. It's so cool.Below, we outline a few of our favorite hidden quests and secrets to discover in Assassin's Creed Valhalla--not all of them mind you, just the ones that tickled our fancy or caught our eye. Don't worry, no spoilers here. We're just going to point out where to go to kick off a secret side quest or find a cool discovery.Take A Beat To Take A BreakAs per tradition, a great deal of Assassin's Creed Valhalla is someone in the present-day using an Animus to relive the memories of someone in the past. Unlike older games in the series, however, Valhalla doesn't pull you out of the Animus all that often. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't just hop out every once in a while.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Dynamite, All Elite Wrestling's weekly TNT series, recently celebrated its one-year anniversary, and there is another milestone on the horizon. AEW is launching multiple video games, one of which is from Yuke's, the developer of numerous WWE 2K titles.During the AEW Games event on YouTube, which began 47 minutes after its scheduled start time, three new games were announced, one of which was being developed by Yuke's. Footage was shown of Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho, and Hikaru Shida interferes. While AEW doesn't have intergender competition, it seems like the AEW game will. Hosted by Omega, Dr. Britt Baker, Cody, and Aubrey Edwards, the untitled game is currently in development. There is no release date set at this time.Previously, Yuke's was behind games like the Smackdown series, along with WWE 2K's series--alongside Visual Concepts. Yuke's left development after WWE 2K19, the year before 2K's notoriously glitchy and unpolished WWE 2K20 was released.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

What is expected to be 2020's biggest game, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, is releasing very, very soon. If you want to get started right away when the game unlocks on November 13, you'll want to pre-load, and you can do that now on nearly every platform.Pre-loading on PS4 and Xbox One started on November 5, and PC players were added to the pre-loading party on November 10. People picking up the game on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 can start pre-loading as soon as they get their console.Pre-loading is a good idea, too, because Black Ops Cold War is a gigantic download. You can see the file sizes below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There's a narrative reason for why this game is called The Pathless, but the name is also a reference to how it's supposed to be played. It's an open-world puzzle game with emphases on exploration and skilled traversal, and you are meant to wander and experience its world as you find it, rather than as a series of checklist objectives. The Pathless' vast, puzzle-filled nature creates a nice, quiet space for running through the woods, lining up some tricky shots with your bow, and losing yourself in the moment.In The Pathless, you are a woman simply known as the Hunter. You've come to liberate a ruined land, empty of all human life save for a masked villain called the Godslayer. The land's protector deities, known as The Tall Ones, have transformed into villainous beasts that roam the wilderness. With the help of your eagle, an avatar of the eldest god, you must free the spirits and save the land. The plot is limited--aside from a few sparring exchanges between the Hunter and The Godslayer, the general tenor is simply, "keep going."The Pathless on PS5To free the Tall Ones, you must collect their seals and reactivate monuments scattered around their domains. Each of the four regions is a beautiful, sprawling wilderness, with sweeping plains, peaceful rivers, and high rocky peaks. Hills and valleys are sparsely dotted with signs of life, past and present--friendly animals, ruins, and giant skeletons. There are just enough setpieces in each area so that there's always a new objective on the horizon, without making the world feel crowded or even populated. When you're running from place to place, you feel like you're in nature--not a wasteland or a ruin, but somewhere untouched. It feels quite serene to run through.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launches for consoles and PC this week, which makes Nvidia's latest Game Ready Driver a timely reminder to make sure that your GPU is updated beforehand.The latest Game Ready Driver adds support for Cold War specifically, ensuring that Nvidia-specific features that the shooter supports will work at launch. This includes DirectX-enabled ray tracing as well as support for Nvidia's Deep-Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), latency reducer Nvidia Reflex, and Nvidia's screenshot tool, Ansel.Nvidia Reflex is also being added to Destiny 2 just ahead of the launch of the game's latest expansion, Beyond Light. On certain supported GPUs, Nvidia says that latency can be reduced by up to 49%, with the biggest winner in its provided graph being the older GTX 1660 Super. Nvidia Reflex requires specific implementation from a game's developers but is supported all the way down to Nvidia's GTX 900 Series.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Mediatonic has announced that its massively popular battle royale platformer Fall Guys will receive a new update on all platforms this week. While an exact release date has not been confirmed for the update, the studio did outline what's coming to Fall Guys very soon.In a brief Twitter thread, Mediatonic shared the additions and fixes Fall Guys will receive this week. The headlining feature is the inclusion of a brand-new level, Big Fans. It's reminiscent of available Fall Guys levels like See Saw and The Whirlygig. However, in Big Fans, you're tasked with platforming across several enormous rotating fan blades while racing to the finish line.Other additions include a new name selection option for PC players, the ability to choose the server region on all platforms, and additional in-game language choices. Mediatonic has also lowered the chance of Medieval Rounds, Perfect Match, and Tail Tag appearing in the game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The 2018 game Marvel's Spider-Man is going to be a PS5 launch game of sorts, with a remastered version coming alongside the new Spider-Man: Miles Morales. But that version was to launch without the ability to import your PS4 saves, which is an issue Insomniac now plans to address.In a tweet, Insomniac announced that Spider-Man for PS4 will allow you to export your save to Spider-Man Remastered. On top of that, the PS4 update will add the three new suits from Remastered: the Amazing suit from the Andrew Garfield films, and the Arachnid Rider and Armored Advanced suits. The update is coming sometime around Thanksgiving.Since it's an update to the PS4 version but coming post-launch to PS5, you may need to play the backwards compatible version on your PS5 to export the save. After that, though, you should be able to import your progress to Remastered and continue on your webslinging way with prettier graphics, faster load times, and Peter's new face.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Over the past decade and change, Disney has made huge moves, acquiring Marvel, Lucasfilm, and most recently, 21st Century Fox. Although Disney's catalog has expanded to include two of the largest entertainment franchises around--the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars--that doesn't mean classic Disney has been pushed into the shadow. Mickey Mouse, the most iconic animated character of all time, remains a cultural staple, and people still flock to Disney Parks (though not nearly as much in 2020). If you have a Disney fanatic in your life, we've rounded up 20 great Disney gift ideas for 2020.We've kept the focus on original Disney and Pixar properties for this gift guide, which means no Star Wars or Marvel. However, we also have separate gift guides dedicated to Marvel and Star Wars as well as a bunch more in our 2020 gift guide hub. Disney+ Subscription While it's certainly possible--and maybe even probable--that the Disney fan on your list already has a subscription to Disney+, a one-year subscription really is the safest gift. Disney+ features a bevy of classic animated Disney movies, Pixar hits, Star Wars films, and Marvel content. And if the person you're shopping for already has a subscription, this gift subscription can still be added to their account. See at Disney Lego Steamboat Willie Building Set Lego released this Steamboat Willie kit to celebrate Mickey Mouse's 90th anniversary. Fans of Lego and Disney's rich history will surely enjoy building this adorable black-and-white model. It's a sizable build at 751 pieces and comes with cute Mickey and Minnie figures. See at Amazon A Disney Sketchbook A Disney Sketchbook is a fittingly imaginative piece of work that makes for a unique and thoughtful gift for the Disney fan on your list. Inside this hardcover book are sketches and illustrations from animators, dating all the way back to 1928. The evolution of Disney animation is on display here, and that means practically all diehard Disney fans will embrace this coffee table book. See at Amazon Winnie the Pooh Plush Disney bought the rights to Winnie the Pooh in the 1960s, and the lovable bear has been a staple ever since. This official Pooh Bear plush is equal parts adorable and soft. See at Amazon Frozen 2 Deluxe Figure Play Set The Frozen franchise is a modern phenomenon for Disney, and this playset is great for young fans. It comes with eight figures, including Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, and Olaf. See at Amazon Villainous Disney's Villainous is a fun asymmetrical board game starring villains from six Disney films. Each player takes command of Captain Hook, the Queen of Hearts, Prince John, Jafar, Maleficent, or Ursula. Depending on who you play as, you'll have different goals to achieve. The first player to complete their mission wins. See at Amazon Codenames: Disney Family Edition Codenames is a popular party game that tasks you with answering riddles using clues, both pictures and words. The Disney edition skews toward a younger audience, making it great for families to play together this holiday. Codenames is a lot of fun, and games tend to be both breezy and unique. See at Amazon Forky Creativity Set Toy Story 4 introduced the world to a "toy" having an existential crisis. Forky is perhaps more relatable to adults, but kids will surely love creating their own Forky with this creativity set. It also has materials to create Buzz Lightyear, Bunny, and Ducky. See at Amazon Mickey Mouse and Friends Backpack This large travel backpack features classic Disney characters like Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, and Pluto. It'd be an ideal gift for boys or girls. See at Amazon Mickey Mouse Pillow Pet Pillow Pets used to be quite trendy, and while they aren't as in demand as before, they are still cute and comfy. This Mickey Pillow Pet is sure to comfort the youngster in your life who loves Mickey Mouse. See at Amazon Mickey Mouse Baby Blanket If you're shopping for a baby, chances are they don't know they are a Disney fan just yet. But you can introduce your love of Disney with this cute Mickey Mouse baby blanket. This soft plush blanket has a three color scheme and measures in at 30 x 36 inches. See at Amazon Disney Character Socks This five-pack of women's socks features some really cute Disney designs. The set comes with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, and Goofy socks. They are only available in women's size 7-9. See at Amazon Minnie Mouse Birthstone Earrings You can combine the love of Disney with birthstones with these cute Minnie Mouse earrings. All 12 birthstone colors are available, making this a truly special and personal gift. See at Amazon Travel Tumbler Simply Modern's Disney tumblers and water bottles feature slick Disney designs featuring Mickey, Minnie, The Lion King, or Jack Skellington. The tumblers are stainless steel and insulated to keep drinks warm or cold. See at Amazon Slinky Dog Plush It's a slinky and a dog--it's Slinky Dog, the toy canine from the Toy Story franchise. This Slinky Dog plus is soft and cuddly, and cloth covers the slinky portion of the little guy to give him optimal cuddle capabilities. See at Amazon Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and Lion King Available on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PCDisney Classic Games: Aladdin and Lion King is a really neat collection of retro console games. While game adaptations of movies tend to fare rather poorly, Aladdin and Lion King stood out. Both are side-scrolling action games that released for multiple platforms. What's really cool about this collection is that it comes with multiple versions of each game (Genesis, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, etc.) The result is one of the best retro collections around. It should be noted that both of these games, especially Lion King, are quite challenging. See at Walmart Lego Disney Pixar's The Incredibles Available on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PCIf someone on your list loves The Incredibles, there's a solid Lego video game that would make for a nice gift. Lego Disney Pixar's The Incredibles released in 2018 for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. It covers story beats from both the original movie and The Incredibles 2. Like all Lego games, The Incredibles is wonderful for couch co-op. See at Amazon Disney Classic Little Golden Books Little Golden Books are a fond childhood memory for many, and this box set compiles some of the most iconic Disney Golden Books in one elegant package. The set comes with Alice in Wonderland, Bambi, Cinderella, Dumbo, The Lucky Puppy, Mother Goose, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Scamp, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Three Little Pigs, and The Ugly Duckling. This would be a great gift for kids and parents alike. See at Amazon One Day at Disney One Day at Disney gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at their favorite resorts. What's really interesting about this book is that every photograph you'll find was taken on the same day. From Disney Parks to studios and much more, One Day at Disney offers a global look at the many wheels that turn each day to keep Disney chugging along. See at Amazon Conductor Mickey Funko Pop Symphony Conductor Mickey is one of the most iconic "roles" the Disney mascot has played in his lengthy career. If we had to pick one Mickey Funko Pop to get the Disney fan in your life, it would certainly be Conductor Mickey. Dressed in his snazzy mouse suit, Conductor Mickey would look great on any Disney fan's shelf. 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A Quiet Place Part 2 was one of the first movies to be pushed back at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally scheduled to hit theaters at the end of March, it found a new release date on April 23, 2021. Still, despite this major setback, the minds behind the Quiet Place franchise are hard at work coming up with ways to expand the line-up with more stories. A new installment is set to release in 2022 with filmmaker Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special) to helm, Deadline reports.It's not clear whether Nichols' new film will be A Quiet Place Part 3 or a spin-off movie set in the same shared universe. For the uninitiated, the Quiet Place films take place in a world besieged by sound-hating monsters that arrived one day without warning and proceeded to violently take over, slaughtering anything that so much as made the slightest noise and forcing people to either adapt to this new world order or die. Because of the first film's zoomed-in scope, it's hard to tell exactly how far the monsters' reign of terror extends--we only really see and experience the lives of one family, the Abbotts, who have carved out a very quiet life for themselves. But we can easily assume, based on the glimpses we see in the first movie and some of the hints dropped in the second movie's trailers, that the Abbotts aren't the only ones out there surviving.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com