The Atari VCS didn't make its original launch date of March 2020, but thankfully, the console has a new release window. The Indiegogo-funded system will ship out to backers this fall, which is also when it'll be available at retailers. The classic-inspired console is still available for pre-order at many locations, so if you haven't snagged one yet, you still have time.VCS stands for Video Computer System, a nod to Atari's 1977 console bearing the same name. Revealed in 2017, it's styled to look like the original Atari consoles and features both modern and older games. One of its launch titles is a reimagining of the Atari classic, Missile Command. Missile Command: Recharged is already available on a number of platforms and will launch alongside the Atari VCS this fall. The VCS also supports the ability to download, stream, and play games through a Linux-based operating system.As for its specs, it's unclear exactly what hardware the Atari VCS is packing. It's powered by an AMD Raven Ridge 2 processor and Ryzen GPU, but other than that, we don't know many details. The VCS comes in two different models, the 400 and 800, which boast 4GB DDR4 RAM and 8GB DDR4 RAM respectively. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Finding the perfect ring to ask that all-important question can be a daunting task, but if you and your partner are both big Pokemon fans then The Pokemon Company might have just made things a little easier. At least, with some of its new Pikachu-inspired engagement rings.The new line--a collaboration between The Pokemon Company and Japanese jewelry company Ginza Tanaka--features three ring styles all inspired by the anime's most recognizable character. Each band can be bought with either pure silver or gold bands, with prices that range from ¥115,500 to ¥346,500 (around $1,054 to $3,225). You can see all the designs below.Engagement Ring inspired by Pikachu's tail Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

FIST: Forged in Shadow Torch, a dieselpunk action-platformer starring an anthropomorphic rabbit with a massive metal fist, has been announced for PlayStation 4. Detailed in a PlayStation Blog post, the game takes place on a planet inhabited by animals that must battle an invading race of machine-like creatures.The main character Rayton is a battle-hardened rabbit with a massive third arm made of metal attached to his back. Rayton must battle and traverse through an industrialized city to rescue a friend captured by the machines.The rabbit warrior has other weapons--a drill and a whip--at his disposal, allowing for a variety of combos and the chance for players to adapt their play style to different enemy types. The game features 2D combat and traversal with 3D characters and environments.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A new update is now live for the Switch version of Pokemon Home. This patch brings the cloud service up to version 1.1.1 and resolves an issue that should make it much easier to complete the Isle of Armor Pokedex.According to the patch notes on Nintendo's website, the new update fixes a bug that prevented Pokemon imported from Home from being registered in the Isle of Armor Pokedex. Once you've installed the update, open Pokemon Home, connect it to your copy of Sword or Shield, and save; this will cause any Pokemon that weren't properly registered to be counted in your Isle of Armor Pokedex.The Isle of Armor is the setting of Sword and Shield's first expansion, and it's home to more than 100 returning Pokemon not available in mainland Galar. Although these monsters can only be found in the wild in the Isle of Armor, there are ways to get them without owning the DLC, such as by transferring them from previous games through Home.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nintendo is hosting another competition in its colorful Switch shooter Splatoon 2 later this month. The Turf War July 2020 tournament kicks off on Saturday, July 18, and the prize is $25 USD in My Nintendo Gold points.Every member of the winning team will take home 2,500 My Nintendo Gold points, which can either be redeemed for rewards on the My Nintendo website or used as credit toward select games and DLC on the Switch Eshop. The tournament is open to players in North America, and each match will be contested in Turf War.Fresh off the #Splatoon2 NA Open June 2020 is a new entry in the @NintendoVS summer series of events, the Splatoon 2 Turf War July 2020 tournament, starting on 7/18! Each member from the top team will get a fresh prize of 2,500 My Nintendo Gold Points.https://t.co/jGHjcCBDsm pic.twitter.com/GyPC2sgS46 — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) June 29, 2020Registration is open now until July 18, 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. To enter, you and your teammates will need to create an account on Battlefy. You can read the full rules for the Turf War July 2020 tournament here.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Slowly but surely, movies that were forced to pause production due to the COVID-19 pandemic are beginning to chart a course to resume work. Upcoming MCU Phase 4 movie, Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings has tentatively scheduled to resume filming in Australia at the end of July, Deadline reports--but will only be doing so with strict safety precautions for cast and crew.Production on Shang-Chi was stopped back in early March after director Destin Daniel Cretton went into self-quarantine. The same week, Disney officially hit the pause button on all currently filming projects, issuing new release dates to accommodate for the delay. Shang-Chi was pushed back to May 7, 2021 while Black Widow was bumped to November 6, 2020, and the Eternals, which had previously held the November spot, was moved to February 12, 2021.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Resident Evil Village details were recently divulged in a Famitsu interview with producers Tsuyoshi Kanda and Pete Fabiano. The interview was translated and shared on Twitter by Resident Evil historian Alex Aniel. There were a few interesting tidbits revealed about the upcoming game, including how Village will conclude Ethan's story, which started in Resident Evil 7: biohazard.According to the translated interview, Resident Evil Village is about 60% complete and has been in development for about 3.5 years. It also serves as the conclusion to Ethan Winter's story that started in Resident Evil 7: biohazard; however, the developer didn't make it clear which of the two mid-game choices is canon. In Resident Evil 7, you're asked to choose who to save between your wife and another character, which results in some striking differences. They also said that the title emphasizes the village because it is "another protagonist" in the game.Village also brings back two staples of the RE franchise--inventory management and puzzle solving--but no specifics were given. They also said that making the game exclusively for next-gen allowed them to make loading times nearly nonexistent, giving the game a deeper level of immersion. Unfortunately, they didn't expand on what they meant by this.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Final Fantasy XIV's delayed 5.3 patch will now arrive in August, Square Enix has announced. The update was originally scheduled to release on June 16 but had to be pushed back due to production difficulties that arose from the COVID-19 pandemic."I would like to apologize again to all of our players for the delay of Patch 5.3--Reflections in Crystal, which was originally scheduled to release on June 16th," game producer and director Naoki Yoshida wrote on FFXIV's official forums. "Although our development and operations teams, as well as QA testing, have experienced a number of setbacks due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), I am pleased to inform you that development production is back on course, and we've settled on a new patch release schedule."Yoshida went on to announce that Patch 5.3 is now scheduled to launch on August 11. "We did everything we could to try and release this update at some point in mid-July, but in the end, we determined more time was needed to thoroughly test and debug the next alliance raid of YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse and the new large-scale encounters of the resistance weapons content," Yoshida said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Actor Asa Butterfield was among those who auditioned for the role of Spider-Man in Sony's latest reboot series. Butterfield was at one point considered to be the front-runner, but the part ultimately went to Tom Holland. Butterfield has now reflected on the past, saying it all worked out in the end because not getting Spider-Man allowed him to make the uber-popular Netflix show Sex Ed."Every so often there's a part [that you really want] and it's a script you love, and you kind of put your heart and soul into it, and you don't get it. And it is tough and it is sh**, but I often find that something even better comes out of it at the end," Butterfield told Collider. "And so in the case of Spider-Man, I did Sex Ed, because I wouldn't have been able to do both of those at the same time."Butterfield went on to say that his take on Spider-Man was not the one that Sony wanted, and he's OK with that in the end. The version of Spider-Man that Holland has on-screen is "entirely different" than what Butterfield had in mind.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Zachary Levi, the star of the DC movie Shazam and the voice of Flynn Rider in Disney's Tangled, is taking on a very different role for his next project. Lionsgate has announced that Levi will play former NFL standout QB Kurt Warner in sports drama called American Underdog, according to Collider.David Aaron Cohen, who worked on the football TV show Friday Night Lights, is writing the script. The story will follow the real life of Warner, who indeed had an underdog story. After playing college football, Warner did not get drafted into the NFL, but he tried out for the Green Bay Packers. The team ultimately cut him, and Warner went home to Cedar Falls, Iowa to stock shelves at a grocery store.Warner eventually signed with the Arena Football League's Iowa Barnstormers, and he performed incredibly well. He was so successful that Midway made a game about him, Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed, which was released in 2000.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Team 17 has announced a new Worms game to celebrate the series' 25th anniversary, and it's unlike anything we've seen before from the series. The game, Worms Rumble, is a real-time combat game for up to 32 players, with cross-play enabled. It will release for PC, PS5, and PS4. Each player will control a single worm in either Team Deathmatch or Battle Royale (both solo and squad) combat, and will battle it out over huge, semi-destructable environments. The game will receive regular content updates to add new levels and worm customizations, and there's a rank system to unlock cosmetics. Weapons available at launch include the iconic Bazooka, Hand Cannon, Baseball Bat, Assault Rifle, and Shotgun. The trailer below also shows the Holy Hand Grenade making an appearance.There will be seasonable events and challenges to take part in, too. You can register now to try the game's closed beta, which will run from July 15 at 4 AM PT until July 20 at midnight PT, if you're curious about how Worms will work in real-time. In a statement sent to press, lead designer Adam Findlay called Worms Rumble "a significant rethink around the Worms experience," and said that he hopes that the cross-play 32-player experience will "unite the community and newcomers to the series in wonderfully Worms-tastic mayhem."There is no mention of a potential Xbox or Nintendo Switch release, so console players will need a PlayStation 4 or 5 to jump in.The last game in the Worms series was Worms: W.M.D., which was a more traditional turn-based Worms combat game. It received an 8/10 in GameSpot's review, and reviewer Jason D'Aprile called it "easily the best game in the Worms series in several years."Info from Gamespot.com

Apple has purchased yet another big movie, and they're paying a huge fee for it. Deadline reports that the iPhone company has purchased Will Smith's new movie, Emancipation, for $120 million USD.The site reported that seven different companies bid on Emancipation after it was put up for sale, with Warner Bros. and Apple finishing as the final two serious candidates before Apple won out.Emancipation stars Will Smith as a runaway slave from Louisiana who embarks on a perilous journey to the North while he's tracked down by "cold-blooded hunters." The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua, who made the Oscar-winning 2001 crime drama Training Day starring Denzel Washington.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Mafia: Definitive Edition will feature an all-new cast when it releases on August 28 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. In English language territories, Tommy will be played by Italian-Australian actor Andrew Bongiorno, who also serves as the likeness for the character and performed motion capture for the role.In a new post on the Mafia website, developer Hanger 13 has discussed the casting process for this remake. The remake is extensive enough that they did not want to reuse the original audio from the 2002 Mafia, and according to Hanger 13 president Haden Blackman, they wanted to ensure that they made use of new technologies for this release. "Since our cinematics rely heavily on motion capture data, it was essential that we have both voice and physical performances," he says. "We looked for actors who not only sounded the part, but also looked the part and could perform on both the motion capture stage and in the VO booth."While producer Nicole Sandoval initially looked into whether they could reuse the original actors, it ultimately was not viable. "No one's voice stays the same, especially after such a long period of time," she says. The team decided that building up an ensemble cast would be important, especially since a major theme of Mafia--and most mob media--is the concept of family.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Publisher Annapurna Interactive has unveiled a new first-person puzzle game, and it looks incredible. Maquette is the debut game of studio Graceful Decay, and it's focused on recursive, nested environments. We were confused by that description at first, but the trailer below clears up everything.The environments within Maquette seem to be matching concentric areas that scale down. In a simple example in the trailer, an area might contain a block that is too large to move--but if you head into one of the buildings there you'll find a smaller version of that same building, and moving the block there moves the bigger block, too.It looks like many of the puzzles will involve manipulating the size of objects and moving smaller versions of large items. The trailer below shows off a few examples, and make the game look very clever.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Microsoft's Xbox team has in the past been criticized for a perceived lack of first-party exclusives compared to PlayStation and other competing platforms. But going forward, Xbox boss Phil Spencer doesn't believe that will be an issue. After acquiring studios like Obsidian, Double Fine, and Ninja Theory, and starting a new studio with the writer of Red Dead Redemption, Microsoft now has 15 Xbox Games Studios teams, all of which are developing content exclusively for Xbox and PC.These studio acquisitions and formations came at no small expense, of course, and Spencer recently spoke about how this was made possible thanks to the leadership from Microsoft higher-ups believing in Spencer's vision."First-party content is really important to where we're going," Spencer said during a recent GameLab event. "It's important to our hardware platforms, it's important to things like Game Pass and our overall gaming strategy at Microsoft. As we got in place the new leadership team a few years ago, we started building our strategy and articulating our strategy internally to the company, it was really encouraging to see the support that we were getting from the board and the senior leadership team at the company to go and grow our first-party."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com