After unveiling and rolling out Ubisoft Connect--the combination of the Ubisoft Club and Uplay services--the company has detailed some of the games that support cross-generational play.Ubisoft said that For Honor and Rainbow Six Siege feature cross-gen support, meaning anyone who owns these games can play together on the same console family. Cross-gen won't work if you're playing on PlayStation 5 and your friend is playing on PC or Xbox One. Ubisoft confirmed that more details on cross-gen play will be revealed "in the near future."The company also said that Rainbow Six Siege will support cross-progression between current- and next-gen consoles as long as players are transferring their data between the same console family. It's possible to carry data over from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series S / Series X but not between PlayStation and Xbox consoles. The same sort of cross-progression support (and restrictions) are also be applied to For Honor.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It was the final Call of Duty: Warzone circle and Redditor otbdotcom and his teammate were the only ones breathing clean air on the map. Every other corner of Verdansk was covered in deadly gas, but another player was still alive.A few seconds passed and the gas closed in and killed both otbdotcom and their partner, giving the win to the hidden player. They were hiding in the train station using what Warzone players call the "stim glitch," where they use an item that refills their health an infinite amount of times until they win the game.Call of Duty: Warzone's Stim."I'd tell you to report these players but it's not gonna change anything," otbdotcom wrote. "I found these two on the Call of Duty app and they won 3 games tonight with 0 kills...pathetic."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Gears Pop, Microsoft's mobile and PC Gears of War spin-off, is shutting down. You'll have until April 26, 2021 to enjoy the game's mix of Clash Royale and Gears characters before the servers go offline.Developed by Fall Guys creators Mediatonic, Gears Pop Was part of a push from Microsoft to diversify the genres its core franchises appeared in. The mobile game was announced alongside Gears Tactics in 2018--a XCOM spin on the Gears formula--before launching in 2019.A post on the game's official website apologized for having to shut down the game so soon, stating that a lot more goes in maintaining a multiplayer title than just keeping the servers online.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

NHL 94 Rewind, the retro-inspired hockey game mode that takes the current NHL roster and throws them into the trappings of NHL 94 but with modern controls, is now available for those who preordered NHL 21 on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One.NHL 21 launched on October 16, and those who preordered can now take their skills into the retro-styled throwback mode. All current NHL players will take on 16-bit styled graphics while retaining the controls featured in the main NHL 21 game.Publisher EA said that those who missed the preorder period but still want NHL 94 Rewind can get the mode sometime this holiday. An exact release date has not been announced yet. EA said more details on how to get NHL 94 Rewind will be revealed in "early December."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In this week's Grand Theft Auto V Online update, extraterrestrial Halloween-themed activities are in full swing. You'll get double payouts from Alien Survivals, Business Battles, and Gruesome Adversary modes.As Halloween season hits fever pitch this week, things are out-of-this-world unusual in GTA Online.Alien Survivals are paying out Double GTA$ and RP, plus there are whispers that a UFO has been hauled off to Fort Zancudo for testing.https://t.co/MjG2cbJXcM pic.twitter.com/2mLPQOkp42 — Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) October 29, 2020A new Business Battle event featuring Merryweather agents in Fort Zancudo also takes place this week. Players will need to take out the agents and make off with any alien technology found. Upon winning any Event Business Battle, players will also receive a free Cultstoppers Tee.If you want more free T-shirts, log in anytime this week and get perks like the Butchery and Other Hobbies Tee, the Knife After Dark Tee, and the Orange Dot Tech Mask. In the Diamond Casino & Resort's Lucky Wheel, a Blazing Death Albany Fränken Stange is up for grabs as the top prize.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Halloween event is nearly upon us, but some players are creating events of their own. They're using Animal Crossing as a way to trick-or-treat since it isn't safe to go house-to-house in real life.Players had already turned their islands into haunted houses and used the new skin tones from the Fall update to make elaborate costumes, so it's only natural that they would turn to the game to replace trick-or-treating. While some players simply plan to open their gates to let people in, others have started Discord servers to organize wider community events.Animal Crossing: New Horizons Halloween CostumesAnimal Crossing's Halloween event runs from 5 PM to 12 AM on October 31. Players can give candy to their villagers and Jack, a special visitor, and receive in-game rewards. Other players can participate in the event, similarly to how they could with the summer fireworks, by visiting their friend's islands.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amazon PrimeVideo has released a new show, just in time for Halloween--and it's perfect for the season. Truth Seekers, starring buddy comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, is all about paranormal investigation with a goofy twist. Clocking in at only eight episodes, it's a great weekend binge if you're for a spooky time to distract yourself from the lack of costume parties and trick-or-treat this year.The set up is relatively simple. Frost plays Gus Roberts, a self-serious and deeply eccentric broadband internet technician who moonlights as a paranormal investigator with a YouTube channel. Roberts is one of the best at his boring day job, so he's tasked with training up a rookie, Elton John (Samson Kayo)--and yes, the name is the punchline of more than a couple very funny jokes. Elton, as it turns out, is both a coward and a person who is genuinely sensitive to paranormal occurrences, so Gus quickly ropes him into his investigative side-hustle, despite Elton's protests.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

While reboots and remakes have been pretty standard for the movie industry over the past decade or more, there are also the rare franchises that just keep moving forward, finding new life without starting from scratch. That's especially the case with the horror genre, where beloved movies like Halloween and The Craft are being kept alive to tell stories to a new generation of viewers, without throwing out the original films in their respective series.In 2018, Halloween hit theaters as a direct sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 original film of the same name--and there's two more on the way. What's more, The Craft: Legacy picks up nearly 25 years after the 1996 original Craft film, following a new group of young witches as they tap into their dark sides. Either of these movies would have been easy to imagine as a reboot, and in Halloween's case, that's already happened once before--lest we forget that franchise's ridiculous complicated timelines and the two Rob Zombie movies many of us would rather forget.But for the founder of Blumhouse Productions, the company behind new installments of those franchises, that was never an option.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With the launch of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X/S coming up very soon, people understandably want to know which system is right for them, which dovetails with the contentious "console war" debates about which plastic box is better than the other plastic box.It's well and good to get all the information and make an informed decision about which console to buy, since we're talking about hundreds of dollars. But at the end of the day, we should remember that the big three--Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo--are all playing different games, measuring success differently, and succeeding in their own ways. As a result, the idea of a console war is sillier and less productive than ever.There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the launch of the new consoles this year, and this post will round up some of them. Of course, you may not be excited about or interested in next-gen, and there are plenty of very good reasons to hold off buying a shiny new PlayStation or Xbox until 2021. But this story aims to highlight what gaming is doing right in 2020.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The big selling point of Watch Dogs: Legion is that just about any character you encounter in its futuristic open-world London setting can be added to your squad of hackers, provided you put in the work. But anybody who's taken a profiler out onto the street knows that there are a lot of people who wouldn't be all that helpful to DedSec as it fights fascism and organized crime. Some people are more talented and more useful than others, and finding them is a job unto itself.There are some shortcuts you can take, though. If you know where to look and you're willing to put in the effort, you can grab some high-quality recruits. Legion also helps out by making good recruits a little easier to come by at points. But really, the trick is to build a well-rounded team that can fill a lot of roles. To get that, you'll want to explore London and learn where you can find different kinds of people with a variety of perks and weapon loadouts.We've compiled a few quick tips that can help you get a quality DedSec team together without spending hours profiling every Londoner walking down the street. Here's what you need to know to get good hackers, drivers, and brawlers in short order to build your resistance. We've also got a bunch of tips for starting out in Legion that'll help you build your resistance.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Get ready if you're a fan of The CW's Arrow-verse, as a whole slate of new seasons is coming to the network in the upcoming months. While many of these CW productions shut down to COVID, everything is back on track. In 2021, you can expect new episodes of Batwoman, The Flash, and more.On January 17, the new season of Batwoman arrives. Back in May, Ruby Rose left the series in her titular role. However, Javicia Leslie will now star on the show, taking over the Batwoman mantle, and she looks pretty great. One other thing we know about the new season is that serial killer Victor Zsasz will be facing Batwoman.CW's Black Lightning will also be returning for a new season, which kicks off on February 8. This will mark Season 4 for the hit series. And speaking of hit series, Season 7 of The Flash arrives on February 23. During DC FanDome, we got a sneak peek at the new season, and everything seems pretty dang hopeless.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

According to Comcast's Q3 earnings, young-buck streaming platform Peacock currently boasts nearly 22 million users since launching six months ago in April. However, as with all earning reports, there is always some chicanery to pad numbers that must be squinted at and scrutinized: 22 million is certainly a large user base, but the report does not indicate how many of those signups were for Peacock's free, ad-supported plan and how many were for its more premium paid tiers.Still, those numbers--and the accompanying $6.7 billion from NBCUniversal in the same quarter--are nothing to sneeze at. NBC Universal Chief Jeff Shell reportedly said in an accompanying Comcast earnings call, "The fact that we have such a deep library of family stuff, it's kind of the opposite of Quibi." It's a timely bit of corporate shade aimed at the recent high-profile shuttering of an ostensible and now-ousted competitor: Quibi shut down last week.Elsewhere in the report, the company indicated that theater closures due to COVID has resulted in a 25% revenue decline "which more than offset higher content licensing and home entertainment revenue." Theme parks were also down, unsurprisingly, 80.9%. However, Comcast seems poised to offset these downturns due to a forward-thinking (though long embattled) new deal with AMC that was reached over the summer that allows its films to hit streaming services just 17 days after they've been released in theaters.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With Cyberpunk 2077 suffering a 21-day delay possibly due to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports, issues with crunch have become a hot-button topic at Polish studio CD Projekt Red. On a recent investor's call, joint CEO Adam Kicinski said the extra crunch period is "not that bad--and never was." Kicinski has since walked this sentiment back in an email to staff.On the investor's call, Kicinski said that some members of the development team have been "crunching heavily," but most have finished their work. Kicinski also noted that the issue of crunch is "not that bad" because some employees are happy with the extra three weeks."Regarding crunch. Actually, it's not that bad--and never was," Kicinski said. "Of course it's a story that has been picked up by the media, and some people have been crunching heavily, but a large part of the team is not crunching at all since they have finished their work; it's mostly about Q&A and engineers, programmers--but it's not that heavy. Of course, it will be extended a bit, but we have feedback from the team; they're happy about the extra three weeks, so we don't see any threats regarding crunch."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Niantic has announced another new event for Pokemon Go. The Animation Week event kicks off next Friday, November 6, and it features Pokemon and other content based on the current Pokemon anime series, Pokemon Journeys.Throughout the Animation Week event, Pokemon that have featured prominently in the anime will appear in the wild. This includes World Cap Pikachu, which is making its debut in Pokemon Go, as well as Bulbasaur, Exeggcute, Cubone, Scyther, Dratini, and Cyndaquil. Players will also have a chance to encounter Shiny Cubone during the event.The Animation Week 2020 event is coming soon!https://t.co/5BZfwq8mVd pic.twitter.com/ZJQvPArJEt — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) October 26, 2020 Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Ubisoft has pushed two of its biggest games, Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine, out of the current fiscal year and into FY 2021-2022. That means we'll see them coming sometime between April 2021 and March 2022. During an earnings call, CFO Frédérick Duguet narrowed that timeline slightly, saying the company expects both to hit in the first half of the fiscal year.The company announced the delays as part of its recent financial earnings statement. It also updated its expectations to reflect the delays of these two "high-contribution titles," which it says were delayed "due to production challenges related to work from home."The Far Cry team explained the delay in a statement posted to Twitter:Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com