Blizzard has announced that Overwatch's 32nd hero Echo, the final character for the game until Overwatch 2, is now live on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One after a new update.Neural network initialized.Echo is now live on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One!🤖 https://t.co/JCSkZJGOzc pic.twitter.com/EfFOeEwTdm — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 14, 2020Echo is an adaptable robot capable of fitting into just about every role despite being a Damage character. She carries a lot of similarities to heroes like Genji, Mercy, and Pharah, making her a pesky aerial expert that can whittle down the shields of the bulkiest Tanks. And her ultimate ability, Duplicate, lets her mimic the moveset of any enemy hero in her sights. In other words, she's almost never limited to her own arsenal of tricks.Though Echo marks Overwatch's 32nd hero, she also makes for the game's 17th Damage character. This means 53% of Overwatch's roster is damage-focused. Blizzard is aware of this disparity, saying that more Support and Tank heroes are on the way. But these will have to wait until Overwatch 2 comes out.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

While spring sales are still in full swing for Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC, Xbox Live's seasonal sale has come to an end. However, that doesn't mean there aren't solid discounts to be had on Xbox One; in fact, you'll find some great options for playing online or locally with others, which has become a crucial way to stay connected with remote friends as well as stay entertained with those you're isolating with.The couch co-op sale features some great titles you can play with family, a significant other, or roommates. You can snag last year's excellent Gears 5 for $30, although keep in mind this game and many others are available with Xbox Game Pass for free (and you can get your first month of Game Pass Ultimate for $1). The always thrilling Rocket League--which is soccer, but with cars--is also 50% off, selling for just $10. While hard to master its physics-based controls, Rocket League is a blast to play with others, even when the AI competing team is completely stomping you. Be sure to snag Borderlands: The Handsome Collection while it's $15 if you don't own it--compiling both Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, the Handsome Collection offers two great first-person shooters and a fantastic multiplayer experience. The latest game, Borderlands 3, is also on sale for $30.Other great co-op games worth snagging include Child of Light for just $3.74, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection for $20, and Rayman Legends for $5. If you're looking to play with someone who doesn't normally play games, we've also got a guide to the best games for playing with non-gamers.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Season 2 of Fortnite Chapter 2 is being extended, developer Epic Games has announced. This season was originally slated to end later this month, on April 30, but it will now run until June 4, when Season 3 of the battle royale game is planned to begin.Now that Season 2 will be running for several more weeks, Epic says there will be "lots" of additional content coming to the game. "We have multiple game updates on the way that will deliver fresh gameplay, new Challenges, bonus XP, and a couple more surprises up our sleeve!" the developer teased in a blog post.Chapter 2 - Season 2 has been extended.Plenty more coming this season: fresh gameplay, new Challenges, bonus XP & more!Additional info here: https://t.co/H5Obesm3qf — Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 14, 2020This certainly isn't the first time Epic has extended a season of Fortnite. Season 1 of Chapter 2 was similarly extended by several weeks from its original December 2019 end date into February 2020. During that additional time, the developer held numerous events in the game, including a Star Wars Episode IX preview and a Harley Quinn crossover event.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Note: This post reveals the final summon you can unlock from Chadley. If you'd rather be surprised, quit reading and go finish all 19 of his Battle Intel objectives. Key to getting new, powerful materia in Final Fantasy 7 Remake is Chadley, a side-character you'll find in Chapter 3 who gives you Battle Intel assignments to complete when fighting enemies. Knocking out Chadley's objectives allows him to create new materia, including new summons like Shiva and Fat Chocobo. To get those summons, though, you have to beat the monsters in battle first.The most powerful of Chadley's summons is also the most difficult to get. It requires completing all his Battle Intel assignments, before taking on an extremely tough boss fight. Below is everything you need to do to unlock the final summon and defeat it in battle.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

On the new Quibi series, Fight Like A Girl, WWE superstars team up with people in need of some change in their lives. The short-form series features some familiar faces like Alexa Bliss, the Bella Twins, and Sonya Deville.In a time of uncertainty, everyone needs a little positivity, motivation to keep chugging along, and changes in our routines to become better people during a scary situation. And while Deville is currently involved in a very dramatic storyline with Mandy Rose on WWE's Smackdown--as their friendship is on the rocks--Deville in real life is passionate about changing people's lives for the better.Deville knows that she and her peers in WWE have a daily impact on people's lives, and she's taking that impact one step further on Fight Like A Girl. "We have a platform that we're blessed with at WWE where we can have a positive influence on the world through social media and through our weekly television series," Deville told GameSpot. "But it's really cool to break that down on a more personal level and kind of talk to a fan one-on-one who's experiencing something, and hopefully, you can help push them through. And with my girl Samantha [the woman Deville worked with in her episode], that was exactly what we were able to do. And it was just such a rewarding experience for me, hopefully as it was for her."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In March, Capcom offered a wonderful Humble Bundle that supported the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This month, 2K is offering its own stellar Humble Bundle, with a portion of 2K's revenue going toward another organization that is combating the pandemic, the International Medical Corps. Like other Humble Bundles, you can pick what you pay, with more PC games unlocking at each of the three tiers. The Game Together Bundle is valued at roughly $500, but you can get all 13 games for only $20 total until April 28 at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET.For just $1 or more, you'll get The Darkness 2, Spec Ops: The Line, Sid Meier's Pirates, and Carnival Games VR. Spec Ops: The Line is one of the most thought-provoking military shooters ever made, while The Darkness 2 is an underappreciated gem of a first-person shooter.If you pay the average contribution (currently $11.09), you'll unlock four additional games: BioShock: The Collection, The Golf Club 2019 featuring PGA Tour, Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, and NBA 2K Playgrounds 2. BioShock: The Collection comes with all three BioShock games, each of which is great. For sports fans, NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 is a fun arcade basketball game that harkens back to NBA Jam, and The Golf Club 2019 is an excellent golf sim.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Along with adding the 32nd hero Echo to the game, Blizzard has released a new Overwatch update that tweaks various aspects of the hero shooter. We've compiled the full patch notes below. The update is live on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.While Echo may be the update's headliner, Blizzard added a brand-new feature for players to experiment with. The Training Partner Spawner can be found in the Practice Range, allowing you to create a bot of any hero. This means new Echo players can test out her ultimate ability, Duplicate, which basically lets her to fit into just about every role despite technically being a Damage character.The patch makes some quality-of-life improvements, particularly for players in the Middle East. Blizzard said the Overwatch team opened a new data center in the region to help stabilize the experience. These servers are now available. Other bug fixes include issues with hero switching when spectating D.Va in custom games, enemy voice lines being heard during hero selection, knockbacks not performing as expected, and more.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Like Chapter 3 of your journey through Midgar in Final Fantasy 7 Remake , Chapter 8 slows down the pace and lets you spend some time in another set of slums, completing side-quests. There's a lot of ground to cover in Chapter 8 as you're introduced to Sector 5, as well as a bunch of new characters. And with so many quests flying at you, it's easy to miss stuff.Below, we've got everything you need to know to find everything in Sector 5. Check out the rest of our Final Fantasy 7 Remake guides so you don't miss a single secret or collectible. You can also read our FF7 Remake review.Chapter 1: The Destruction of Reactor 1Chapter 2: Fateful EncountersChapter 3: Home Sweet SlumChapter 4: Mad DashChapter 5: Dogged PursuitChapter 6: Light The WayChapter 7: A Trap Is SprungChapter 8: Budding Bodyguard WalkthroughBoss Fight: RenoAs soon as the fight starts, take care of the two waves of Security Officers; the Triple Slash ability should come in handy here. Once they're all dealt with, focus your attention on Reno. You want to maintain a steady balance between speed and measured defense. Similar to Roche, this is a duel, and you'll need to block Reno's attacks to open him up to your own blows. He likes to zip at you with a dash to get behind you, then attack you from the back, so you'll want to be ready to guard when he closes the gap.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Last week, Gearbox introduced a mini-game to Borderlands 3 called Borderlands Science, a block-matching puzzler similar to Bejeweled or Puyo Puyo that allows players to compare microbes. According to Gearbox and the project's co-developers, since even supercomputers can't effectively compare these microbes to each other as well as a human, players are advancing the cause of science by simply spending time with the game.Since then, Gearbox has posted a blog that answers some of the questions that players have been asking about the mini-game, which was developed in conjunction with McGill University, Massively Multiplayer Online Science, and The Microsetta Initiative. For one, the developer has now confirmed that the mode is a permanent addition to Borderlands 3, rather than a limited-time mode. Gearbox also says that it's "looking into" introducing the mode to mobile devices, since many players have specifically requested that.In other Gearbox news, Borderlands 3 recently released its new DLC, titled Guns, Love, and Tentacles in late March. It increased the game's level cap, added new legendary weapons, and a whole raft of cosmetics. The game also released some patch notes this week.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Doctor Strange 2 AKA Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, has found a new director in horror legend Sam Raimi. This news comes after the departure of Scott Derrickson, who directed the first Doctor Strange film, due to "creative differences."Raimi's involvement in the project was first discussed back in February as rumors of negotiations began circulating. Derrickson took to Twitter to congratulate him, but Raimi himself did not comment. However, during an interview with ComingSoon.net, Raimi spoke about including a Doctor Strange Easter Egg in Spider-Man 2, and in the process, seemingly confirmed that he will be involved in the new MCU film.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you've been enjoying the increased melee damage associated with certain Exotic gauntlets in Destiny 2, we have some very specific bad news for you. Bungie has determined that due to a bug, the Winter's Guile and Wormgod Caress gauntlets exhibit their effects longer than their intended timer cooldowns, and it's made the decision to disable them until a fix can be made.This isn't the first time that these gauntlets have presented a problem for Bungie. As several players in one Destiny community noted, this is the fourth time that Wormgod Caress has been disabled, and the third time for Winter's Guile. In fact, the text of the announcement tweet is identical to that of a previous one from back in January.Bungie hasn't exactly been conservative when it comes to disabling Destiny 2 Exotics as of late. Back in 2017, the game's Curse of Osiris expansion was marred by a broken weapon called the Prometheus Lens, which was too powerful due to a bug. While it dominated the game's PvP mode Crucible for a time, Bungie took the alternate route of allowing players to buy the weapon from Xur. After the revamp to Exotic weapons in 2018, Bungie has taken the disable route more aggressively than in the past, starting with the Rat King hand cannon. Destiny 2's playerbase has remained steady in the interim, due in part to a promotion that allows Stadia Pro users to play much of the game's content for free.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It's not just Netflix that has seen its share value climb significantly during the COVID-19 crisis. The world's biggest online store, Amazon, has reached its highest-ever stock price.On Tuesday, April 14, the company's share price jumped by 5 percent, to reach an all-time high of more than $2,280 per share. With the bigger valuation, Amazon now has a total market value of more than $1.1 trillion. According to Variety, Amazon's previous per-share record was $2,170 back in February.Amazon was already an incredibly popular online store, but with more and more people staying home amid the global pandemic, people are doing even more shopping online these days. Not only that, but Amazon hosts a huge library of video content to stream during lockdown for Prime subscribers.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Following a surprise announcement that XCOM: Chimera Squad, a standalone spinoff that takes place after the events of XCOM 2, would release next week, developer Firaxis revealed additional details about the upcoming tactics-based game. Namely that Chimera Squad was not designed to be a direct sequel or expansion, but as an entry point for new players."[XCOM: Chimera Squad] is neither a sequel or expansion to XCOM 2, though its story is set after the events of the past games," a Firaxis spokesperson said, in an interview with USgamer. "As reflected in our pricing, we're lowering the barriers of entry to the game and making it easier for fans new and old to check out XCOM: Chimera Squad."Chimera Squad makes several big changes to the franchise's traditional formula. One of the more noticeable adjustments is having a set squad, a change that Firaxis believes is a natural course for the series. "The decision to move toward having unique agents in XCOM: Chimera Squad was partly driven by some of the choices we made in the War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM 2, where you had characters with distinct personalities like the Chosen, Elena Dragunova, and Pratal Mox," the developer said. "Having your full squad composed of unique characters with unique abilities felt like a natural evolution of those decisions."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Unlike other MMOs, Blizzard's genre-defining World of Warcraft launched on PC and never made the jump to console. There are still no official plans to bring the game to home consoles, but the developers are introducing controller support with the upcoming expansion.A data-mining effort of the game's code recently revealed references to gamepad support, leading some to believe that an announcement of a console version of WoW was imminent. That's not the case, but Blizzard will add support for the Xbox Adaptive Controller.Writing in the WoW forums (via GamesRadar), community manager Kaivax said some people in the WoW community have been using third-party add-ons like Console Port 39 to help with accessibility issues. The developer is now trying to get ahead of this by releasing official gamepad support.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There is a new world record for most kills in a Call of Duty: Warzone solos match. This record is a whopping 37 kills, set by streamer HusKerrs, who used to play Apex Legends professionally.You can now watch this entire record-setting match below (via GamesRadar), and it's damn impressive. Upon dropping on top of a building, HusKerrs immediately gets into a heavy firefight and nearly goes down. He ends up wiping five enemies from the rooftop, which is more kills than most people probably get in an entire match.He just keeps on truckin' from there, strategically using the helicopter to move from building to building and smoking people with his grenade launcher and sharpshooting skills.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com