Arcade1Up's long-awaited Big Buck Hunter cabinet is finally available to pre-order. The cabinet features four games from the popular light-gun series and two rifles for multiplayer. The best part is that you don't have to go to the local pub to shoot virtual deer anymore--something that's particularly hard during the current pandemic. The Big Buck Hunter Arcade1Up cabinet is $550 at Best Buy, and while you can reserve yours now, it's unclear when it'll release--Best Buy says it'll notify you when a release date is announced.The Big Buck Hunter cabinet comes with Big Buck Hunter Pro, Big Buck Safari, Big Buck Hunter Pro: Open Season, and Big Buck Safari: Outback--that's a lot of Big and a lot of Buck. It's a 3/4-scale cabinet, meaning it won't take up as much space as a real cabinet. It includes an 18x24-inch tin sign and a matching riser, the latter of which will raise the cabinet and make it playable for adults. Big Buck Hunter Arcade1Up cabinet $550 See at Best Buy Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you've watched trailers for Marvel's Avengers, you might assume it's a straightforward story-driven single-player action game. And while you're technically half-correct, there's far more under the hood of this game than you might expect. In fact, Marvel's Avengers has a multiplayer component that pushes the game into operating something more akin to a Destiny-like live-service experience complete with battle passes, challenges, and rare gear to collect.As such, there's a lot to cover and try to keep track of as you spend time playing through the early- and late-game hours Marvel's Avengers. To help you succeed all across your journey, we've rounded up all of our essential guides, which include our beginner's tips, hero guide, endgame explainer, and more.If you're more curious about the game's quality, read editor Phil Hornshaw's Marvel's Avengers early impressions ahead of his final review. You can also check out our review roundup to see what other critics think about the game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

We're into September now, which means the days are getting shorter and there's even more reason to stay home and watch your favorite streaming services. Luckily, Netflix has plenty on the way over the next seven days.Fright fans will want to watch the latest Netflix Original movie The Babysitter: Killer Queen, which is the sequel to the 2017 horror comedy The Babysitter. It's directed by McG (Terminator: Salvation) once more and continues the story of Cole, a teenage boy who has been targeted by a satanic cult made up of jocks and cheerleaders.Several animated shows and movies also arrive on Netflix this week. Those ever-popular Pokémon return to Netflix, with the second part of the latest season, Pokémon Journeys. There's also the animated Spanish fantasy adventure The Idhun Chronicles, based on the popular YA series, plus the hugely successful movie sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Animal Crossing: New Horizons gives players a ton of freedom in how they want to design their islands. They've used that freedom to come up with new events and games to play with their friends online. One of the most inventive creations is by Redditor BunnyBoiEthos, who is turning their village into a Mario Party map."I love the [Mario Party] series," BunnyBoiEthos wrote in a Reddit Post. "At first I thought I was gonna model it after some of my fave boards (Shy Guy's Perplex Express and Grand Canal and a couple others) but then decided to just make it a bunch of smaller boards with themes based on the island!"Animal Crossing 'Party On' Island. Credit: BunnyBoiEthosBunnyBoiEthos' island has blue, red, and question mark spaces laid out across the map like a game board. The spaces, along with some of the pathways, are created with custom designs. Nook's Cranny and the Able Sisters shop are placed as if they were the item shops from Mario Party. It's still a work in progress, but BunnyBoiEthos wants to try running Mario Party-like games within Animal Crossing soon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Derek Yu has confirmed that Spelunky 2 will launch on Steam on Tuesday, September 29. You can wishlist the game on the platform right now to be notified when it releases.This new date comes after the game suffered a delay on PC, missing its planned September 15 launch. Yu said the extra time was to ensure the game "runs well" on PC, as well as to test online multiplayer. Spelunky 2 still drops on September 15 for PlayStation 4.Splenuky 2 was originally due out toward the end of 2019 but suffered a delay to focus on "density and detail." Yu went quiet for a few months, only popping back up in March 2020 to confirm that development was going well before announcing the September release date at the beginning of August. He also shared a blog post at the time detailing how much more expansive Spelunky 2 is over its 2012 predecessor.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There was a naked man in my court.On June 14, 1073 AD, my steward, vassal and knight, Earl Muiredach mac Carthach of Desmond arrived at the meeting of my small council dressed only in, well... his birthday suit. This was the man I'd entrusted to manage the paperwork of my realm, to ensure taxes were being collected. Was this newfound fashion choice a portent of his impending madness? Was it some bold power move designed to put me off my game? A sign of the contempt in which he held his ruler? Or was it a bug, a highly specific graphical glitch that just happened to leave one of my councillors undressed? I didn't know.Perhaps it's a credit to Crusader Kings 3 that I didn't have an immediate answer, a sign of the depth and complexity of its simulation and its capacity for surprise. Perhaps it was also a failing, a breakdown somewhere between the calculations of a mass of colliding gameplay systems and how their results were communicated to me. Perhaps it's both. Regardless, this memorable event served only to highlight the singular vision of Crusader Kings 3, a grand strategy game that successfully operates across a bewildering scale, feeling vast and unknowable one moment yet awkwardly intimate the next. It's a marvel of connectivity, effectively linking together complementary elements plucked from different genres--the role-playing game, the visual novel, the life simulation, the city-builder, the wargame--even if at times you can sense it straining at the seams.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sent players on dozens of quests to help protect Hyrule from Ganon. Players had hoped they'd get the chance to rebuild Castle Town, one of the main locations across the Zelda series, once they finished the game's main quest line, but they never got the chance. Holomento, an upcoming RPG, wants to give players the chance to rebuild its in-game castle town. It's not Hyrule, but players can use their imagination."I've always wanted to rebuild/upgrade Hyrule Castle in Breath of the Wild and I figured it would be fun to try something similar in my game," said game developer Sean Weech in a Reddit post. "Once you clear the central castle dungeon in the game, you will have the opportunity to upgrade various parts of the castle by removing boulders, replanting trees and more."Alright, first building for the festive upgraded castle town is the max-upgraded item shop.The item shop features a large selection of 8 (randomized) items and displays all the items currently in the game in display cases along the walls.😎#Indiedev #Gamedev #indiegamedev pic.twitter.com/Ks9grA9opW — Holomento (@HolomentoGame) September 4, 2020Holomento is an upcoming third-person RPG developed by Weech. It's scheduled to launch in 2021 and is currently in a closed alpha.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Remastered is out now and I'm sure many of you folks out there playing it want to mess around with cheats or mods. Well, to get them all, it's quite simple: Just complete the THPS 1 and THPS 2 tours and you'll unlock them.You have the most useful ones right off the bat, though. Mods like perfect balance, no bailing, and full special meter are available as assists, which come in handy if you're having trouble with some aspects of the tours--there's also no consequence or drawback from using them outside of ranked modes. However, the more silly ones are locked behind finishing the tours. Once you complete the THPS 1 tour, you get Skater Size--you can be massive and take up most of the screen, or you can be vewy smol and make it impossible to see what tricks you're doing.After finishing the THPS 2 tour, you get a few more mods. These include doubling the base score of your tricks, further modifying your skater's stats in session, and some graphics filters. The filters are "Green Boy" that makes things look greenish like an old Game Boy, "Inverted" which inverts the color spectrum, "Black and White" which is self-explanatory, and "Old Timey" that looks like a sepia tone effect.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Bots that cheat, spam racist comments, and generally ruin games have become and remain a big problem in Valve's Team Fortress 2.The newest solution by an unknown player (or group of players) pits the "good" bots against "bad" bots. Called extermination bots, these new non-human players target cheating bots, and according to a Twitter user who shared screenshots of the bots in action, "they're friendly with true players, [and] they will help you." They've also been sighted in-game in bot takedown video compilations.there is a new type of bots on tf2 "the extermination bot services", they're cheaters but scripted specially to kill other cheaters in any game, they won't kill you, if you see one of them don't kick him, they're friendly with true players, they will help you. pic.twitter.com/M3FSuM4GBu — Mr Quattro (@MR_QUATTRO) September 3, 2020Team Fortress 2's recent bot issues began with players noticing a disturbing level of bot infiltrations earlier this year, outlets reporting on it, Valve taking minor steps to address the bot issue, and lately, a subset of players taking the matters into their own hands by creating extermination bots.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The official Call of Duty Twitter account has confirmed that the worldwide multiplayer reveal for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will take place on Wednesday, September 9 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.It's unclear where publisher Activision will stream the game's multiplayer, but you can set a reminder on Twitter to be notified when the broadcast will go live. The reveal will likely be livestreamed on the official Call of Duty Twitch and YouTube channels. It's also unclear what aspects of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's multiplayer will be shown, as well as how it will connect to Warzone.The Call of Duty Twitter account shared a brief teaser video of what appears to be unseen Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War footage. The clip, below, shows players shooting in a desolate cavern, driving around on dune buggies, and evading exploding helicopters.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Out now, Marvel's Avengers is an action-RPG that focuses on rebuilding the team of Earth's mightiest heroes to face off against a new threat. Starring some of Marvel's most iconic characters, including Captain America, Hulk, and Iron Man, you'll work with your team of heroes to battle robot minions and various supervillains. One of the Avengers' key members is the master assassin Black Widow. And while she doesn't have superpowers of her own, she possesses a particular set of skills that makes her one of the deadliest members of the superhero crew.If you want a more detailed look at each playable hero, then check out our on-going break downs for each character, such as this explainer for Iron Man, along with a general look at the entire roster of the Avengers.Black Widow Hero SummaryTo paint a clearer picture for what Natasha Romanova--AKA Black Widow--brings to the table, think of her as the rogue class in the Avengers. She's the fastest character on the roster, and with her skills that focus on getting in and out of combat with ease, she can be surprisingly tricky to get accustomed to when compared to the other more over-the-top and straight-forward characters. Her skills in taking out foes, in her particular way, can make for a playstyle that's both slick and clever in its approach. Black Widow is more geared towards agility and heroic attributes when it comes to stats, which will give you some great ways to move around the field and strike at your enemies when they least expect it.Compared to seeing Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, and the Hulk in action, Black Widow's somewhat reserved approach certainly sticks out. However, what makes Black Widow such a deadly fighter is that her abilities are tailor-made for single-target enemies. She doesn't have the bombast of Thor or the Hulk, with their attacks sweeping through large groups of enemies at once. Instead, Black Widow's abilities focus on incapacitating targets, which means that your attacks will deal heavy stagger damage, opening them up to takedown finishers. When you get used to her style, Black Widow can be a blast to play as.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In the opening hour of Marvel's Avengers, you'll get to experience a small sampling of each playable hero. From Captain America's firm resolve and focus in combat, to the tactical abilities of Iron Man, and the Hulk's raw strength, the playable roster of heroes covers many different bases in a fight. The story campaign is a great way to experience the game's slate of heroes and get accustomed to them at a steady pace. With each character having their own complex skill trees, gear-sets, and customizable options to pick from, it might feel overwhelming when deciding which hero is right for you.With that in mind, GameSpot has a quick explainer on each of the game's current slate of characters, detailing what they bring to the table and how you might enjoy playing them during an intense fight. While you can jump straight into the online multiplayer, it's best to start with the campaign to get a sense of what the game is about. So with that, here's our look at each hero in Marvel's Avengers. If you want a more detailed look at each playable hero, then check out our on-going break downs for each character, such as this explainer for Iron Man.For more of GameSpot's coverage of Marvel's Avengers, including our beginner's tips, a breakdown of the endgame content and our current set of impressions about the game, check out our Marvel's Avengers hub page.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's September in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and like with any new month, that means there are some new fish, bugs, and sea creatures to catch. In this guide, we'll detail every new critter for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; note that this is only the new arrivals for the month and not every fish, bug, and sea creature you can catch this month.For a more comprehensive list of every creature in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, we have a full list of all 80 fish to catch, including shadow sizes, and a list of all 80 bugs to catch, with tips on tracking down the handful of rare ones. September also marks the shift to a new season--fall for Northern Hemisphere players and spring for those in the Southern Hemisphere--which means some key seasonal changes as well. Those in the North can look forward to a variety of fall seasonal DIYs and materials, while those in the South can get some bamboo recipes.September Fish, Bugs, And Sea Creatures In Animal Crossing: New HorizonsHere are all the new fish, bugs, and sea creatures you can catch in Animal Crossing: New Horizons in September. We've sorted them by bells so you know what to focus on if you're waiting for Flick or C.J. to visit, but if you're a completionist, you'll want to catch them all so you can donate to your museum! Keep in mind that the only way to get the coveted golden fishing rod and net DIYs is to complete your Critterpedia.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There is no singular theme to the puzzles in The Last Campfire. In fact, there aren't even distinct spaces where puzzles exist. Instead, the entirety of this quaint puzzle adventure is just one puzzle built on another. Yet despite this, The Last Campfire isn't simply one conundrum after the other. It's a touching tale of helping others while finding your way, and sometimes accepting that not everyone who might look like they're ready to move on needs a nudge in that direction.You play as Ember, a small hooded figure lost in a world between worlds. After some misfortune, you find yourself completely off your intended path, searching for a way back to the gates that so frustratingly passed you by. Littered across your journey are a handful of campfires, each situated in the center of distinct biomes that house numerous other characters in need of your help. These similarly lost souls, known as Forlorn, have abandoned hope of moving on from this world, requiring you to help them overcome any fears and doubts holding them back.Each manifests as a bite-sized puzzle with its own distinct theme. Some puzzles involve moving an object through a level toward a weighted switch, navigating chasms, and pulley elevators. Others task you with keeping a small flame lit through a maze littered with wind-generating hazards or rotating a block logically to set nearby lanterns alight without extinguishing the flame. The sheer variety of the puzzles is impressive, as is their intelligent design, which makes each one's premise easy to understand. None of The Last Campfire's puzzles are brain-racking conundrums, but each one does still manage to stir a sense of accomplishment on its solution.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled developer Beenox has announced that there will be no more updates for the popular kart racer. Fans of the game have been clamouring for new content, but the developer says it's busy working on other projects."We've been getting quite a few comments asking for more new content for CTR," Beenox said in a statement. "We're thrilled that you all are still enjoying the game."The Beenox Pack, which was released back in March, is the final update for the game, and the developer says there's no additional content in the works. "Part of the reason is that we're hard at work on some incredible projects, including making the N. Verted modes in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (which will blow you away), and some other things we can't quite mention yet," Beenox said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com