Fall Guys is getting a $50,000 Twitch Rivals tournament today. Top streamers from all around Twitch will be competing in ten rounds of the game show battle royale. May the best blob win.The tournament kicks off at 1PM PT / 4PM ET / 6AM AEST on the official Twitch rivals channel. Big names like Félix "xQc" Lengyel and Edwin "Castro1021" Castro will be competing alongside their four-person squads.On August 27 we got a special preview of the medieval content coming to Fall Guys Season 2, though it won't arrive until October. New games where players need to dodge giant axes and push blocks in order to get over high walls, alongside special knight and wizard skins, are on the way. Developer Mediatonic hopes this keeps the hype around its game alive as the initial honeymoon phase wears off.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Star Wars has had a major presence in video games for decades, but the franchise is expanding to somewhere it's never gone before this September: The Sims 4. During Gamescom Opening Night Live, EA announced The Sims 4 is getting a Star Wars expansion, Journey to Batuu, and it's now available to pre-order as a bundle for PS4 and Xbox One at Amazon. The Sims 4 Star Wars bundle gets you the base game and the new Star Wars expansion for $40, so it's a great intro to The Sims 4 if you've never picked up the game. If you already have the base game, you'll be able to download the expansion on its own for $20 when it releases September 8. The Sims 4 Journey to Batuu Bundle $40 See at Amazon (PS4) See at Amazon (Xbox One) The expansion takes your Sims to the Black Spire Outpost on the world of Batuu, which is occupied by both the Resistance and the First Order. Your Sim will have to choose which side to align themselves with, and as you complete missions, you'll earn reputation points with the faction you've associated yourself with, which in turn affects how the locals react to them.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite: Chapter 2's Season 4 costumes have some entertaining Easter eggs for players to uncover. Mjolnir, Thor's magical hammer, can only be wielded by skins that it deems worthy. The hammer will transform into a boring pickaxe if you hold the hammer as someone else besides Thor or Captain America.The hammer became a big part of Season 4 after it created a crater in the map last season. Players had to visit the crater while wearing the Thor skin in order to unlock it. Thor's not the only one that can hold it--Captain America deemed himself worthy in both the comic books and franchise of blockbuster movies by picking the hammer up.According to the description, Mjolnir will be replaced by a regular pickaxe if used by a skin that's unworthy... Here's Captain America wielding Mjolnir. from r/FortNiteBROther costumes have special accessories and Easter eggs as well, but they are limited to the specific Season 4 battle pass skins. Some players are disappointed; they wish they could use the special Marvel back blings and pickaxes with any costume.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Disney's The New Mutants is finally hitting theaters this weekend, albeit after hefty delays. This is director Josh Boone's first foray into superhero movies, and the movie has taken some weird turns to finally make it into theaters, but the most surprising thing about it might be the role one recognizable x-men character would have played, according to a new report from Vulture.Citing various unnamed sources, that report says that the initial 2015 screenplay drafts written by Boone and collaborator Knate Lee failed to deliver the kind of vividly drawn teen drama the filmmaker had pitched to the studio. Boone had said he was drawing inspiration from 80s teen classics like The Breakfast Club, but nothing was clicking.One of the biggest changes though was the treatment of Storm, a classic character and on-again off-again leader of the X-Men. In New Mutants, Storm was envisioned more as a "sadistic jailer" who enjoyed torturing the kids.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A clever modder has taken one of Nintendo's most successful systems of all time and shrunk it down to the size of another of Nintendo's most successful systems of all time. The WiiBoy Color is a modded Wii that fits into a case that's roughly the size and shape of a Game Boy Color.A video from modder GingerOfMods showed the process. They say that removing the disc drive actually leaves circuitry that doesn't take up too much physical space, allowing for almost the entire hardware to fit into the much smaller space. They made custom circuit boards and a 3D-printed case, but also borrowed pieces like the screen from a car backup camera, and pieces of a GameCube controller.The result is about the same max dimensions as a GBC, not counting the triggers on the back for full controller functionality. It also has custom settings to replicate some of the Wii motion functions that are missing from the hacked GameCube controller functionality, like shaking the Wii remote. Altogether it's a very impressive build.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Nintendo Switch eShop has some fantastic sales running this week, but the latest crop of deals discounts some of the Switch's best indie games. The Annapurna Interactive publisher sale kicked off alongside Gamescom 2020 and brings markdowns on eight great games, including Florence, Sayonara Wild Hearts, and Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition. The sale runs from now until September 10 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.Annapurna has quietly been publishing some of the most thought-provoking indie games in recent years, and the new sale is a great opportunity to snag some of these gems for cheap. What Remains of Edith Finch, a first-person exploration game about a family repeatedly struck by tragedy, is down to just $8 in the sale. Last year's Telling Lies, a mystery game featuring live-action footage, is down to just $14, while Kentucky Route Zero's TV Edition, which packages the point-and-click episodic adventure in one complete bundle, is just $17.49. The gorgeous rhythm game Sayonara Wild Hearts ($7.79) is another must-play, along with Florence ($3), an interactive novel that'll resonate with anyone who's experienced a painful breakup.Annapurna Interactive Switch sale:Ashen -- $20 ($40)Donut County -- $3.89 ($13)Florence -- $3 ($6)Gorogoa -- $6 ($15)Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition -- $17.49 ($25)Sayonara Wild Hearts -- $7.79 ($13)Telling Lies -- $14 ($20)What Remains of Edith Finch -- $8 ($20)While you're looking for a new Switch game to play this weekend, check out the "Share the Fun" sale, which includes Luigi's Mansion 3 for just $42 until August 30. You'll also find markdowns on Ubisoft games, including Rayman Legends and Assassin's Creed: The Rebel Collection, along with Mega Man 11 and the Mega Man Legacy Collections.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fox is developing an animated comedy version of its hit series X-Files, according to Variety. Details are extremely sparse still, but creator Chris Carter will be executive producing, and Rocky Russo (Paradise PD) and Jeremy Sosenko (Brickleberry) are attached to write and executive produce.The show, currently titled The X-Files: Albuquerque, will "revolve around an office full of misfit agents who investigate X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous, or downright dopey for Mulder and Scully to bother with. They're essentially the X-Files' B-team."In other words, it sounds like a series similar to CBS' Star Trek: Lower Decks, another animated series expanding on another already-popular series--also about a band of second-stringers who live within but operate in the deeper margins of a pre-existing world and lore.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

During the Future Games Show, a new trailer for Chinatown Detective Agency: Day One was shown off. Releasing for PC on September 30, Day One is a free prologue to Chinatown Detective Agency, an upcoming Carmen Sandiego-inspired mystery adventure game set in 2032.As seen in the trailer, you play as Amira Darma, an INTERPOL agent turned private eye who sets up shop in Singapore and whose investigations take her around the world. In the trailer, you meet three of the individuals who you'll interact with in Day One: Rupter Zhou the fixer, Tiger Lily the kingmaker, and Keeran Iyer the reformer.Unlike most mystery-driven adventure games, Chinatown Detective Agency asks you to be intuitive enough to know when to look for clues beyond the game. You'll have to think like a detective and find the answers you seek through real-world investigations. Maybe that means popping into Google to look up the airport code that Amira needs or tracking down the origins to some quote you discovered in-game and then deducing how that information is relevant.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Note: This post spoils some of the story points of Control's AWE DLC. If you'd rather experience those moments in the DLC, hold off on reading this until after you're done.The folks at Remedy Entertainment have been pretty clear over the years that they would really like to continue the story of 2010's Alan Wake. Despite two DLC additions and a smaller, combat-focused pseudo-sequel, there's been no resolution to the story of the titular writer, who ended the original game trapped by an evil supernatural entity called the Dark Presence.There are connections to Alan Wake in other Remedy games, but up until now, we've only gotten them as Easter eggs and hints. But Control's final DLC addition, AWE, is very focused on tying the world of Alan Wake to the world of Control. And the end of the DLC makes it very clear: We're headed back to Bright Falls in the future to continue Alan Wake's story.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Newegg is kicking off the weekend with an awesome gaming PC deal that knocks a fair chunk of change off its price. The ABS Master gaming PC is $1,300 (down from $1,500) and comes with a Steam key for the standard edition of the upcoming Marvel's Avengers. This deal is only valid until September 6, and supplies are limited, so you'll want to order soon if you're interested. It comes with free shipping and can arrive as early as September 3--or even sooner if you increase your shipping speed.The ABS Master gaming PC comes equipped with an i7-10700K processor, an RTX 2060 Super, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. That makes it one heck of a machine that's capable of running most modern games at 1080p with high settings. It also comes with a 512GB SSD. I'd recommend buying an extra SSD if you want to store a lot of games on your PC at once. The ABS Master also comes with a keyboard and mouse. ABS Master gaming PC with Marvel's Avengers $1,300 (was $1,500) See at Newegg Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Mega Evolutions have arrived in Pokemon Go, giving players the ability to power up certain Pokemon into new forms. In order to Mega Evolve a Pokemon, however, you'll need to collect that monster's Mega Energy, which can primarily be obtained through Mega Raids.These new Raid Battles having you facing off against a Mega-Evolved Pokemon, and they're quite challenging. To help you out, we've put together this rundown on Mega Raids and rounded up some tips to help you conquer each of the new Mega Raid bosses.What Are Mega Raids?Mega Raids are a new tier of Raid Battles that will periodically occur at Gyms. These are roughly equivalent to Legendary Raids in terms of challenge, except they feature a Mega-Evolved Pokemon as the Raid boss.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new trailer for Cris Tales debuted during Future Games Show. It provided a fresh look at the upcoming stylish RPG. You can watch it, below.In Cris Tales, you take control of the titular Crisbell (unless the title is actually in reference to her ally, Cristopher--yup, there's more than one Cris), a young orphan who becomes a time mage. Each time mage can affect time in a unique way--in Crisbell's case, she can see the world in the past, present, and future all at the same time. Using this knowledge, she can change the flow of time and influence the course of events.For example, early-on in the game, Crisbell sees that in the future, two shops in town will fall on hard times after their respective store fronts mysteriously collapse. The means of preventing their collapse can only be achieved by mixing a potion from a rare fruit.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It may have taken three decades, but the third installment in the Bill & Ted franchise is here. Bill & Ted Face the Music has arrived in select theaters and on digital release for you to enjoy, whether you watch it on its own or watch it along with Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey for the greatest triple feature of all time.Bill & Ted Face the Music picks up years after 1991's Bogus Journey, finding Bill and Ted middle-aged and not the wildly successful rock stars they expected to be. They do, however, wind up adventuring across time once again in an attempt to save reality from tearing itself apart. How does it end, though? And should you stick around after the credits? Keep reading to find out.Warning: The following contains major spoilers for the end of Bill and Ted Face the Music. You're going to want to watch this one, so go away until you've done that, then come back here so we can dig into that ending.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new trailer for Call of the Sea premiered during Future Games Show, discussing the themes of Out of the Blue Games' debut title. According to Out of the Blue Games co-founder Tatiana Delgado, Call of the Sea takes inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft's stories, albeit with a twist."But as you can see, although our game is heavily influenced by his tales, Call of the Sea is a twist on the traditional H.P. Lovecraft works," Delgado said. "We're trying to focus on the surreal and the oneiric more than the horrific and the grim. In short, Call of the Sea isn't a descent into madness but a rise to sanity. Losing your mind makes you see a dream-like, colorful world."Previously, Delgado said the team wanted to specifically "target the next gen" with Call of the Sea, which is scheduled to release for Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC later this year. The game will be available through Xbox Game Pass as well.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Note: This post contains some spoilers for Control and some tiny story tidbits. If you want to uncover it all on your own, you might want to come back after you've completed Control and the AWE DLC.When Control was released, it was fascinatingly weird and full of mystery. As we tried to fight the extra-dimensional Hiss, we learned about the strange entities in charge of the Federal Bureau of Control, discovered supernaturally Altered Items, and uncovered story tidbits linking Control to a Remedy cult classic, 2010's Alan Wake. But the game's greatest secret was hidden away in its best sequence, the Ashtray Maze. Listen carefully to the song that plays there, and you could hear a secret message that seemed to hint at hidden content buried somewhere inside Control.One year later to the day, Control fans have discovered what that secret message was all about. It did hint at hidden content--but it was content that didn't appear in Control until the release of its final DLC expansion, AWE. Discover the right nook of the Oldest House in AWE and you'll find the puzzle's solution, unlocking a tiny tidbit of a story Easter egg--and what seems to be the game's greatest piece of gear.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com