Grand Theft Auto V has announced this week's bonuses, discounts, and Lucky Spin prize car, and if you're a fan of Survival Series of Arena War you're in luck. These modes will pay out higher than usual this week, so they're worth jumping into if you need more GTA$.The Horde Mode-style Survival Series is paying out double rewards all week long, so you'll be rewarded for enduring at a better rate than usual. Arena War, the game's large-scale destruction derby-style mode, is paying out double RP and GTA$, but it's also giving players triple Arena Points this week. By competing, you can also get 50% off the Apocalypse variant for any vehicles that can be used in this mode.The Lucky Wheel at the Diamond Casino and Resort can win you a Dinka Sugoi this week, a hatchback without quite as much oomph as some of the game's other cars, but still a classy little vehicle. Of course, you'll have to rely on luck to land it.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amy Adams has signed on for a new film with a wild premise. Deadline is reporting that Adams is attached to star in and produce a film adapted from the upcoming Rachel Yoder novel Nightbitch (that name could change for the cinema release), which will be released through Annapurna Pictures.The book is a dark comedy about a mother who used to work as an artist, but is now a stay-at-home mother. For one reason or another, the woman believes that she is turning into a dog--hence the name.Yoder is adapting her own book for the screen, and will serve as executive producer along with Megan Ellison, Sammy Scher, and Sue Naegle. Stacy O'Neil will also produce. The book is due to be published in Summer 2021, so it's a while away yet. It's not the only Amy Adams adaptation on the horizon, either--she recently wrapped on The Woman in the Window, a Joe Wright (Atonement) adaptation of the popular A. J. Finn book.Adams has been nominated for six Oscars (Junebug, Doubt, The Fighter, The Master, American Hustle, Vice), but has never won. Her time is surely coming. Info from Gamespot.com

As you're slinking around air ducts and planning a surprise attack on a helpless scientist, it's difficult not to feel empowered by Carrion's approach to horror. Here you aren't the one slowly peeking around each corner to make sure you're safe--you're the one doing the hunting, leaving a gory trail of devastation as you pick apart an underground laboratory one department at a time. When Carrion gives you the tools to be the best betentacled killing machine you can be, it's a satisfying monster simulator with engaging puzzles and clever combat, but it falters in moments where you don't feel as in control as you should be.Carrion's star is undoubtedly the gooey red monster you play as. Simply moving around is immensely satisfying. It feels as though you're constantly floating, with extending appendages latching onto surfaces around you to feed into the illusion of chaotic but calculated traversal. By making movement effortless, Carrion lets you appreciate how good it looks in motion, from squeezing your red mass into a narrow air duct to transforming into a school of parasitic worms to swim through grates. There are a handful of instances where your size makes orienting yourself slightly challenging, but they're small teething issues as you learn to navigate around.When you consume humans, you gain life and grow, while the reverse happens when you take damage. As you progress through each level, you unlock new abilities which are directly tied to your current size. When you're at your largest, you can cause devastating damage by sending a flurry of tentacles forward and viciously pulling anything in their way towards you. At a medium size, you can encase yourself in spikes and roll around a room dealing damage in all directions, while your smallest sizes offer more utility-style abilities like stealth and a handy stun attack. Tying abilities to your size makes combat dynamic, where you're constantly watching the damage you take and adjusting your strategy as you go. It takes a bit to get comfortable with the sudden ability shifts in the heat of the moment, but getting access to movesets that let you dominate or flee a fight when you need them feels great.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The first Halo Infinite campaign footage was released during the July 23 Xbox Games Showcase, and people commented that the graphics left something to be desired. In a new blog post, developer 343 Industries responded to the concerns, stating that the company is trying to make a more "classic"-looking game, while also acknowledging the studio still has work to do to make Halo Infinite look better before launch. The blog post also touched on how Halo Infinite will approach microtransactions.Regarding the graphics, 343 said there are multiple issues at play here, including the overall art style and the visual fidelity. For the art style, 343 is moving back to the "legacy" look of the original Halo trilogy. The company said it's doing this based on the feedback surrounding Halo 4, Halo 5, and Halo Wars 2, which had more modern-looking graphics."With Halo Infinite, we're returning to a more 'classic' art style which was a key message going back to the very first reveal that garnered enthusiastic and positive responses," 343 said. "This translates to a more vibrant palette, 'cleaner' models and objects with less 'noise,' though it doesn't mean less detail. While we appreciate this may not be everyone's personal preference, we stand by this decision and are happy to see it resonating with so many fans around the world."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone's big Season 5 update is nearly here, and now developer Infinity Ward has offered a few more details on what to expect.Season 5 introduces the Shadow Company, which is a "mysterious new private military company" that is aligned with the Alliance, but in name only. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Jeff Minter has been delivering strange, unique games since the early 80s, and that trend is going to continue on August 12 with the release of Moose Life. The game, which now has a Steam page with a release date (as picked up on by Eurogamer), is an arcade shooter with VR support.The game continues on with the style of gameplay Minter pioneered with 1994's Tempest 2000, meaning that it's another tube-style shooter made to feel like older Vectrex arcade games."Moose Life is the latest step on our journey into euphoric trance," the Steam page reads. "Created in the style of an 80s arcade game, but in fully immersive 3D/VR. You'll feel like you are inside the mind of Eugene Jarvis himself."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

I love two types of sci-fi stories: the ones that are very dark and heavy with themes about humanity's failures, and the ones that are corny and feel like the product of someone who thinks space is a playground for fun. Destroy All Humans is firmly in the second category, embracing its cheesy story and dialogue, creating an entertaining sandbox for destruction that's still satisfying 15 years after its first release, even if it's bogged down by poor audio quality and shallow stealth mechanics.The story plays out as a B-grade sci-fi movie set in the late '50s/early '60s. Over the six hours of campaign missions you'll laugh (or groan) at the majority of jokes and bad one-liners, making for an overall enjoyable experience. The premise of two aliens completely taking over America because humans are wildly incompetent is too ridiculous to take seriously, and the game embraces the absurdity well.The voice work from the original release helps up the camp level, but the reused dialogue raises a few issues. The audio quality is flat-out bad by modern standards; its low-fidelity really sticks out when paired with the updated graphics. The characters don't have very many lines, either, resulting in annoying repetition very early on. Be prepared to hear about communists hundreds of times before you're done.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Maid of Sker begins in earnest as you walk under a burgundy banner advertising the Sker Hotel's grand reopening. The ivy-covered building looks more castle than inn, with gray stone walls and a central spire flanked by turrets. It's an imposing piece of architecture, starkly distinct from the sun-bleached wilderness that surrounds it. Passing under that banner and into the dark and secluded inn is the playable version of that moment in a horror flick when things in idyllic suburbia go sideways, or when a shark shows up to wreck a perfectly nice day at the beach. The banner is the dividing line between Maid of Sker's "before" and "after." Unfortunately, much of the evocative promise of the before disappears the moment you enter the after.We move through this story as Thomas Evans, a composer who has traveled to Sker Point, a rocky peninsula on the southern coast of Wales, to rescue his lover Elisabeth. She grew up here, the daughter of renowned singer Prudence Williams--the titular Maid of Sker. Her father, owner of the reopening hotel on the Point, intends for Elisabeth to take up the mantle now that her famous mother has passed and to become the star attraction, drawing visitors to the isolated land. She tells Thomas that she has refused and that, as a result, her father has locked her up until she acquiesces.But as Thomas arrives at Sker's abandoned train station, it becomes clear that Sker Point has descended into supernatural chaos. Elisabeth has sent Thomas her mother's locket and asked him to compose a song that serves as a musical counterpart to the melody within. This will, in some way that remains unclear for much of the game, help defeat the "darkness gathering here." In his quest, Thomas needs to explore the hotel and surrounding grounds to collect four brass cylinders scattered throughout, then plug them into her father's harmonium, a massive pipe organ that dominates the hotel's central hall.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Cloud Gardens is a game about cultivating seeds to overgrow a post-industrial wasteland. It was announced today by Thomas van den Berg and his small studio Noio, known for developing the IGF-nominated Kingdom: New Lands."In Cloud Gardens players must harness the power of nature to overgrow lo-fi scenes of urban decay and manufactured landscapes," explains the game's newly launched Steam page. "By planting seeds in the right places, they’re able to create small overgrown dioramas of brutalism and beauty, salvaging and repurposing hundreds of discarded objects to create unique structures for nature to reclaim."We've seen plenty of post-apocalyptic games where nature has retaken urban environments. The Last of Us Part II is a recent and prominent example. Yet Cloud Gardens differs by putting the onus on you to create a delicate balance between natural life and metropolitan erosion.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hitman III was announced a month ago during Sony's PlayStation 5 reveal event, and it looks like business as usual for Agent 47 as he travels the world and hunts down new targets. Hitman players are no strangers to maps that require several runs so that they can familiarize themselves with every nuance of the levels that their targets inhabit, but Hitman III may be focusing on trial and error more than ever thanks to consoles such as the PlayStation 5 and its SSD technology that allows for "blitz-fast" load times."Hitman III is going to mark yet another big leap forward for our technology, driven and inspired by the capabilities of the PlayStation 5," Game Director Mattias Engström said to PlayStation Official Magazine via WCCFTech.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

While weekly sales discount a variety of Xbox One games on the Xbox Store, it's not often you can save on gift cards. One of the Newegg's daily deals does just that, offering a $100 Xbox Store gift card for $90. It's only available today (July 29), so make sure you snag this deal while you can. See at Newegg Newegg is limiting the deal to two per customer, so if you want, you can get $200 worth of Xbox cash for $180. Codes are emailed to you after purchase, which you can then plug in at the Xbox Store to fill your wallet. While $10 off may not sound like much--especially when you still have to spend $90 right now--it's a great deal to take advantage of if you buy most of your games digitally. The gift card can also be used to re-up your Xbox Live Gold subscription or subscribe to Game Pass, which opens up a library filled with hundreds of Xbox One games to play.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, winner of the 2019 Game Awards and our own Game of the Year award, is receiving a new update. This update will bring multiple changes to the game, including a boss rush mode where you can take on previous foes called Gauntlet of Strength/Reflection of Strength. Based on information on the Sekiro website, the update is expected to release on PC, Xbox One and PS4 in late October.A new free update for Sekiro has been announced- Reflection of Strength / Gauntlet of Strength (boss rush mode)- Change form (3 new forms/outfits)- Remnants ("Send a recording of your actions to the worlds of other shinobi.")https://t.co/jigUo7mXqo pic.twitter.com/XwV9S6XMPJ — Nibel (@Nibellion) July 29, 2020 Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As the movie industry as a whole continues to navigate what a path to re-opening looks like in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cineworld, the world's second largest cinema chain has issued a response to AMC Theaters and Universal reaching a compromise between theatrical and home digital releases of new movies: "We do not see any business sense in this model."That quote comes from a longer series of statements Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger gave to Deadline, further elaborating that: "While we don’t know the full details and we are always analyzing any move in the industry, we will analyze it. People need to be aware that the first big movie from Universal is coming only in six months so there is no pressure here… But we clearly see this as a wrong move at the wrong time. Clearly we are not changing our policy with regards to showing only movies that are respecting the theatrical window."It should be noted that the compromise between AMC Theaters and Universal has not yet borne out any specific details of what their deal entails, and for how long--all that's known as of this writing is that the movie-theater chains are working together. It's still unknown how other theaters and movie studios could fit into this developing scenario in the future.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

New Releases highlights some of the top games releasing each week. This episode has a lot of variety: Skater XL for the skateboard kids, Ageless for the puzzle solvers, and Fairy Tail for the Shonen Jump fans. Did you miss out on the original Destroy All Humans? Good news, the remake is on its way. Lastly, Xbox One gamers get their own Yakuza Kiwami 2 port this week.Destroy All Humans! -- July 28Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PCThis is a remake of the original Destroy All Humans from 2005. Once again, you'll be stepping into the space boots of alien invader Crypto as he extracts DNA from the residents of a Midwestern town, using all types of alien weapons and gadgets. This remake includes content cut from the original game, too.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Xbox head Phil Spencer says that more news on the next big Xbox event " should " be coming in August, after speaking to iJustine's Same Brain podcast. Discussing the backwards compatibility work currently being done for the Xbox Series X, Spencer confirmed that the event (which may also reveal Xbox Series X pricing and an official launch date) is coming."I am encouraged to be able to talk more about [Microsoft's Xbox plans]…should be August. I think August we'll have more to say," Spencer said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com