Two shows that were once set to air on FX will no longer be part of the cable network's lineup. That's because, instead, they are moving to FX's online component--FX on Hulu.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Y: The Last Man and American Horror Stories, a spin-off of Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story, will stream exclusively on Hulu with episodes releasing each week. Those shows will follow in the footsteps of Mrs. America and Devs, the series by Alex Garland.Hulu announced the news during its NewFronts presentation to advertisers. The streaming service also noted that 50% of its subscribers have partaken in FX on Hulu content thus far. For the unaware, in addition to originals like Devs and Mrs. America, nearly the entire FX programming library is available as part of FX on Hulu, with new episodes of shows on the cable network being added to the streaming service the next day.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's a big day for Facebook as it relates to video games. In addition to Microsoft partnering with Facebook for livestreaming games after closing Mixer, the social network has now acquired a major developer.Facebook announced that it has acquired Ready at Dawn, the studio known for its work on the God of War franchise. The studio developed God of War: Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta for PSP, in addition to the God of War: Origins Collection for PS3. On top of the God of War franchise, Ready at Dawn developed the 2015 PS4-exclusive The Order: 1886.In 2017, Ready at Dawn started working with the Facebook-owned Oculus Studios on the Rift titles Lone Echo, Echo Arena, and Echo Combat. Echo Combat II is currently in development for Rift.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Chris Avellone, a game designer who came to prominence in the '90s following his work on Fallout 2, has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by multiple women, according to Gamasutra. Avellone has worked as a freelance writer after leaving developer Obsidian Entertainment in 2015, 12 years after he co-founded the studio with fellow ex-Black Isle Studio employees. Multiple studios he has recently worked with have now spoken out about his involvement with their projects.Among the studios now addressing his work status is Paradox Interactive, which stated that none of Avellone's contributions to Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will be included in the game, although it appears this does not stem from the allegations. According to a Paradox representative, Avellone's role in Vampire Bloodlines 2 was "brief" and whatever content he made for the game would not be used in any capacity. "Chris Avellone briefly worked with the Bloodlines 2 writing team early in the development of the game," Paradox said. "Through an iterative creative process, however, none of his contributions remain in the game that Hardsuit Labs is continuing to develop." Paradox didn't specifically comment on the allegations made against Avellone.Dying Light 2 developer Techland, in a statement on Twitter, said it has stopped working with Avellone amid the allegations. "We treat matters of sexual harassment and disrespect with [the] utmost care, and have no tolerance for such behaviors--it applies to both our employees as well as external consultants, Chris among them," Techland said. "This is why, together with Chris Avellone, we've decided to end our cooperation." Avellone had served as a writer on Techland's upcoming zombie-parkour survival game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson shared some high level details on where the company is headed in the future, and betting could be on the horizon--but not anytime soon.During a "fireside chat" with the company's top management, Wilson said EA's goal on a longer timeline is to reach players where they are as part of a bigger ambition to expand the company's reach."On a slightly longer term time horizon, there are another couple of vectors we think will drive growth," Wilson said. One of these is betting in some capacity, Wilson said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Electronic Arts is ramping up its efforts in the world of sports games. EA Sports VP Cam Weber said during an EA "fireside chat" that the company is looking to release more sports titles annually than in the past. Currently, EA's annual release slate covers new Madden, FIFA, and NHL games."We're looking a little further ahead into the future. We definitely do expect to increase the number of sports games we launch each year," Weber said.Weber teased that EA Sports is currently working on multiple unannounced new sports games, and some of them are "familiar faces."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Marvel's Avengers has been confirmed for PS5 and Xbox Series X with a free upgrade program, meaning that Iron Man and the gang will be making the jump to next-gen. Some further details about the PlayStation 5 version have come to light, and we now have a better idea of what benefits will be offered by this upgrade.On the PlayStation Blog, and in a press release we received, various upgrades have been discussed. Next-gen versions will get faster load times, higher resolution, and superior textures, and Crystal Dynamics has also promised that the PS5 version will make use of the DualSense controller's haptic feedback and the system's spatial audio.PS5 users will also be able to choose between two different modes: Enhanced Graphics Mode and High Framerate Mode. This means you can either play the game in 60FPS with a dynamic 4k resolution, or boost the graphics for "the highest image quality possible." The system's SSD will also allow for much faster texture load-in.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The third campaign expansion for Borderlands 3, Bounty of Blood, is scheduled to release on June 25. In a GameSpot Play For All interview, Gearbox creative director Matt Cox revealed that this new DLC would break the pattern of seeing the return of a Borderlands character. You can watch the full interview in the video embedded below."We do have some freedom to try some new things with certain story moments," Cox said. "And we're keeping a lot of the story close to the chest because we built something that we think is pretty special--some surprises here and there. And I just want to say this: When I say surprises, I know a lot of people think, 'Ah, returning characters are coming back, who is it?' But I just want to be very clear that the only returning characters are the Vault Hunters themselves. The planet of Gehenna and all the characters we meet are all brand-new."Both of Borderlands 3's first two campaign DLCs saw the return of fan-favorite Borderlands characters. In Mad Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jack, you teamed up with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel's Timothy and the Lovecraft-themed Love, Guns, and Tentacles reintroduced Borderlands 2's Gaige. Based on the teaser image for the fourth and final DLC expansion, it's assumed DLC 4 will see us reunite with Borderlands 2's Krieg, which would mean that Bounty of Blood will be the only campaign expansion not focused around a returning character.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With Star Wars, EA has one of the most sought-after licenses in all of entertainment--and the company plans to take full advantage of it. In a "fireside chat," EA executives spoke about how the company plans to "double down" on Star Wars after the huge success of Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and 2, Galaxy of Heroes, and Jedi Fallen Order more recently."Up is my hope--up and to the right," EA CEO Andrew Wilson said about where he hopes the company will take Star Wars in the future. "We have a tremendous relationship with Disney. We have a tremendous relationship with Lucas. We have a longstanding relationship with them going all the way back to Star Wars The Old Republic that we launched in 2011."Wilson called out Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and 2 as top-performers from EA's partnership with Disney on Star Wars. Those games have combined to sell around 35 million copies, he said. Wilson added that the mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has enjoyed "extraordinary" success, and it continues to perform well. Additionally, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order sold 10 million copies to stand out as another big success.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway sensation, Hamilton, is coming to Disney+ on July 3, finally giving the wider public a professionally filmed version of the perpetually sold-out play. A trailer recently debuted, and in the lead-up to its release, Miranda has revealed that he's working on a new film for Disney, too.Deadline is reporting that Miranda discussed the upcoming project during an episode of Good Morning America, and he spilled some details about who is working on the movie and where it'll be set. "I’m actually writing a new animated musical with Disney Animation," he told the show's hosts. “I’m collaborating with the Zootopia guys and Jared Bush, who wrote Moana with me. It’s set in Colombia, in Latin America."RISE UP if you’re excited for #Hamilfilm to stream on @disneyplus on July 3! @lin_manuel takes us through the groundbreaking filming process of the musical special. ⭐️ https://t.co/bRwIBvhrgP pic.twitter.com/nSeaMuiRhR — Good Morning America (@GMA) June 22, 2020The movie will be directed by Zootopia directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard, alongside producer Charise Castro Smith, who will co-direct. Miranda said that he could not reveal any further details, and we're not sure when the movie is due to release.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

On June 25, Borderlands 3 will get its third campaign expansion, Bounty of Blood. In a GameSpot Play For All interview (which is embedded below), Gearbox creative director Matt Cox talked about four new additions that the DLC will implement into Borderlands 3's combat loop."We wanted to take four gameplay objects and throw them into the combat mix," Cox said. "So while we still have that core loop going on, we have different avenues of different styles of combat and ways to negotiate all the craziness in Borderlands."Each of these four new gameplay objects are designed to encourage the player to tackle combat a little bit differently in Bounty of Blood. "So there's something called a traitor weed where if you shoot it, it releases these bugs that turn enemies to your side for eight to nine seconds," Cox said. "And a core-sploder, if you melee it, it will shotgun out high-damage shrapnel. There's also a breezer, which acts sort of like a jump-pad but it soars you into the air by a puff of air. And then there's a telezapper, which is essentially a teleporter--it lets the player travel from point A to point B instantaneously."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Space Invaders: Invincible Collection is coming to Switch, and it'll bundle together 11 Space Invaders games from between 1978 and 2018. The bundle, which is exclusive to Nintendo's console, has been confirmed for a limited physical release from Strictly Limited Games, and preorders will open on Sunday, June 28.The game is something of a collector's item in Japan, where it released in March in numerous different versions. Over there, four games were locked to the more expensive and limited Special Edition; that is not the case for the western release.This is the most complete collection of Space Invaders games ever released, and it will include the following 11 games, ported by Gotch Technology:Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Editor's note: You may have seen our spoiler-free The Last of Us Part II review, originally published on June 12, 2020. Due to a strict embargo, we were limited in what aspects of the game we could touch on in that review. While I critiqued the game in full for that embargo, there may be some parts of the review that could use more explanation. Now that the embargo has lifted and the game is now available, I've expanded on my thoughts here; this review has the same arguments and score as the first one and is simply more detailed in my analysis. Note that this review contains spoilers, including one major character death.The Last of Us Part II begins with serious tonal whiplash. One moment, Ellie and her close friend Dina are becoming more than friends in a basement filled with weed plants and Naughty Dog porn puns; the next, Joel is being savagely beaten to death with a golf club. It's the first of many, many gruesome deaths. Some happen whether you want them to or not, in intimate cutscenes that are hard to watch, while others happen just because an NPC got in between you and your objective and killing them was the easiest thing to do. Either way, that brief glimpse of happiness at the beginning is left very much in the dust.But while the scale and severity of death and loss in this game is incredibly high, The Last of Us Part II is more a character study than a musing on the nature of violence. On that front, the story of Ellie, her playable foil Abby, and their quests for revenge and redemption is a gripping and harrowing one, and I found myself deeply emotionally entangled with each woman and her strengths and flaws. The bloodshed is very much a part of that story, but it's far from the most effective one, and it's where the game stumbles a bit.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nearing the end of SpongeBob's journey under the sea, you're tasked with guiding a ball through a giant Rube Goldberg machine in Mermaid Man's Lair. Once you activate the machine you have to match the ball’s painstakingly slow speed while using SpongeBob's arsenal of bubble abilities to make sure it doesn’t fall over. It’s a simple task in concept, but trying to execute it is some of the most unfun and Sisyphean gameplay in recent memory. In one section of the puzzle, all you need to do is stand on a button, and that button opens a gate for you to bowl a bubble into so you can progress. The only problem is that during SpongeBob's wind-up animation for bowling, he walks forward. That means you fall off of the button, which closes the gate and prevents you from bowling the bubble where you intended, when you intended. These kinds of gameplay barricades are common, and force you to restart and face your demons again, and again, and again.SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated is rarely amusing or challenging, and completing it is an entirely dry experience. It looks nice, and brings back fond memories of a classic cartoon through iconic set pieces and tight voice acting, but its uncomfortable and outdated mechanics make you feel frustratingly trapped and are ultimately outclassed by countless other modern and classic platformers.SpongeBob is a show built on rapid-fire humour and good pacing, but this game misses that mark. The game is a remake of the 2003 cult classic 3D collect-a-thon platformer of the same name. There were three versions of the original: a 2D platformer, a 3D platformer, and one full of minigames. This version took me around 20 hours to play through the main story and get a bunch of bonus collectibles, and from the movement to the jokes, the whole thing feels slow, with none of the comedic timing that makes the show so beloved.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

[Update: The official Crash Bandicoot Twitter account has confirmed Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is real and will be fully revealed on June 22 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET. A short teaser video was also posted]🌀😮🌀 Tune in June 22 @ 8AM PDT / 4PM BST for Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time reveal. Official reveal > leaks, promise 😉 pic.twitter.com/chSNyILcpn — Crash Bandicoot (@CrashBandicoot) June 21, 2020Following a tease dating back to November 2019, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time has leaked thanks to listings filed by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. The listings state that the game is being developed for PS4 and Xbox One (with Xbox Series X compatibility, according to the box art). No official announcement has been made regarding the game, nor do we know when one might be coming, although ratings board listings are often solid predictors of impending reveals. Here's what we know about Crash 4 based on the leak.The listing includes a blurb (translated by Gematsu) for the first numbered sequel since Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped on the original PlayStation, which was the last in the series to be developed by The Last of Us Part II developer Naughty Dog. It mentions new masks akin to that of Aku-Aku--a series stalwart and familiar companion to Crash Bandicoot.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Last Of Us Part 2 is the latest big AAA blockbuster video game from the team at Naughty Dog for the PlayStation 4. So naturally, a lot of different people are probably quite interested in playing it and seeing what the big deal is. Common sense suggests that not all of those people are going to be on the same level when it comes to their experience with stealth and actions games, or video games in general. Not all of those people are going to have the same level of facilities that might help them hear or see an enemy, and some people might need some assistance in manipulating a controller.Thankfully, The Last Of Us Part 2 features a ton of different accessibility options that will let you adjust things like the granular difficulty of the game, how enemies work, how different game mechanics function, and how the game looks, feels, and control. It's all in the service of hopefully making the game comfortable to play no matter what your situation is, at least, as comfortable as a tense, violent, and sometimes horrific thriller can be. Compared to other AAA games, the accessibility options here are much more robust and should let many more people enjoy the story and combat. In this article, we've highlighted the more notable accessibility options in The Last Of Us Part 2, with some explanations on what some of them do. If you're interested in playing the Last of Us Part 2 but want to know whether you can change the game to suit your particular needs, hopefully this article will be of some help.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com