Month: October 2024

Activision has released an impressive and dramatic cinematic trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s Zombies mode, and specifically the Liberty Falls map in the new game.”Welcome to Liberty Falls. Small town, big problems,” reads a line from the video’s description. The trailer is best viewed without knowing too much, so we won’t spoil anything here–take a look:

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Best Buy has an excellent limited-time deal on the Atari 2600 Lego set. The 2,532-piece buildable model is on sale for 30% off, which drops the price from $240 to $168. This set is routinely sold out at major retailers, including at Amazon and Walmart right now. Lego itself has marked the set as hard to find, so it’s certainly possible that Best Buy’s deal will sell out before the promotion officially ends.The Atari 2600 is most affordable of the three Lego sets celebrating retro video game hardware. The Nintendo Entertainment System and Pac-Man Arcade kits very rarely budge from their $270 price points. Amazon is offering a small discount on the Lego NES, which is routinely out of stock.
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Universal Orlando Resort has shared more information about the Universal Helios Grand Hotel, a 500-room resort coming to Universal’s upcoming Epic Universe theme park in 2025. The hotel is named after the Greek god of the sun.One of the big perks of staying at Helios is that it is basically inside the park and has its own dedicated entrance to Epic Universe. Additionally, guests at Helios (and Universal’s other hotels) get early park admission and access to a complimentary shuttle bus.Universal teamed up with Loews Hotels to create the Helios Grand Hotel, which features a Mediterranean-inspired look featuring gardens and water fixtures surrounding it. Universal described the new resort as “palatial,” and one that has the aim of blending “immersion and relaxation.” Helios sports fl…

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“Google is horrible.”This was among the first things that Raccoon Logic creative director Alex Hutchinson said to me as I settled in to learn about his studio’s newest game, Revenge of the Savage Planet. He followed this up with a promise to elaborate further as the presentation progressed. I would ultimately be shocked by how much of the nearly two-hour showcase and interview would be about this topic.Raccoon Logic consists of a bunch of Montreal-based developers that, after working together on games like Assassin’s Creed and the Batman Arkham series, went on to form Typhoon Studios in the late 2010s. In early 2020, that studio put out Journey to the Savage Planet, an action-adventure game that was largely met with praise. Later that year, the studio was bought by Google to help bolster i…

As part of Gamescom Opening Night Live, Embark Studios–which was co-founded by Battlefield veteran Patrick Soderlund–revealed a new trailer for the PvPvE third-person shooter Arc Raiders and also confirmed a key detail about its pricing plan.Arc Raiders was announced as a free-to-play game, but it is now shifting to a premium model and will cost $40 at launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. A public technical test will be available October 24-27 on Steam. Regarding the price change, Arc Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal said, “It became increasingly clear to us during development that a premium model is a better fit for the experience we’re building with Arc Raiders.”The developer added: “This shift allows us to focus on what truly matters for this game–creating a…

Claudi Doumit is reportedly joining the upcoming M3gan erotic thriller spin-off called Soulma8te. A new report says The Boys star will appear in Soulm8te alongside the previously announced cast members Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl. The story for Soulm8te follows a man (Rysdahl) buying an AI-powered android (Sullivan) to help him deal with the loss of his wife. “In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, the man inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate,” reads a line from the movie’s description. Deadline broke the news of Doumit joining the cast.Doumit plays Victoria Neuman on The Boys. She’s also known for portraying Farah in the Call of Duty franchise.Blumhouse is partnering with James Wan’s Atomic Monster on the spin-off after both companies enjoyed great …

It’s been five years since DC’s standalone Joker movie that shifted the focus on Batman’s greatest villain and his rise to become Gotham’s greatest criminal. For the sequel, Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) is joined by Harley Quinn (Lady Gaga) but don’t expect to see him as the Clown Prince of Crime, though he’s having a killer time along the way. Warner Bros. released a new poster to hype up Joker and Harley’s budding and bloody romance.The poster features the duo dressed in their Sunday best, Harley and Joker locked into each other’s eyes, their faces speckled with blood.

Let’s give the people what they want. Joker: Folie à Deux – only in theaters and @imax, October 4. #JokerMovie #FilmedForIMAX pic.tw…

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Earlier this year, The Acolyte debuted on Disney+ with impressive streaming numbers. But despite an open-ended conclusion for the first season, Disney+ has reportedly canceled The Acolyte and the Star Wars series will not continue.Via Deadline, the decision to end the series comes just over a month after The Acolyte wrapped up its first season. The show was the first live-action Star Wars project set in the High Republic era and featured Amandla Stenberg in a dual role as twin sisters Osha and Mae. While The Acolyte was an apparent victim of audience review-bombing, that isn’t what ultimately did in the series. The show’s two-episode premiere in June had 4.8 million viewers on the first day, which was the highest Disney+ premiere this year. In the first week, it climbed to 11.1 million vie…