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• Fallout 76's Steel Dawn DLC Is Now Coming Out Tonight, Instead Of Next Week

  24-11-2020 23:04 via gamespot.com
  
  Bethesda has a surprise for fans of Fallout 76: the Steel Dawn expansion--originally scheduled to release on December 1--is now going to go live tonight. You can jump into the new content following a maintenance period that is scheduled to end around 7 PM PT / 10 PM ET.In a blog post, Bethesda admitted that the update for Steel Dawn has accidentally already gone live on Xbox One, allowing players to download but not yet play the new expansion. Rather than try and pull the update back, Bethesda d
  
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• Hitman 3 Codes Guide: All The Door Codes, Safe Combinations, And Keypad Solutions

  26-01-2021 04:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Hitman 3 has its fair share of locked doors to open and safes to crack, but if you're observant and persistent enough, you should be able to find the codes to access them. But if you need a helping hand and would rather spare yourself the time required to discover their codes organically, then we've compiled all the code solutions to the game's various locked doors, safes, and keypads for your reference.For more tips and secrets, be sure to read our Hitman 3 walkthrough and guide hub. Otherwise,
  
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• Andy Samberg's Palm Springs Gets Commentary Version On Hulu

  26-01-2021 00:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Hulu is giving us a brand-new reason to re-watch Palm Springs. This week, the streaming service released a commentary cut for which Hulu is calling the first of its kind in streaming. The commentary track features stars Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, as well as director Max Barbakow and screenwriter Andy Siara (with whom Samberg is already working on a new, untitled project).Palm Springs hit during as the doldrums of COVID-19 isolation, and it felt like a perfect fit for the huge shifts we we
  
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• Hitman 3 Shortcut Locations Guide: How To Unlock Every Path In Every Level

  26-01-2021 00:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Among the new features brought to the World of Assassination by Hitman 3 are permanent shortcuts--doors and ladders you can unlock for quick access to handy paths through levels. Once you find a shortcut and unlock it, it's open in all your subsequent playthroughs of a mission, no matter where you start from. These shortcuts can make it a lot easier to get to sensitive areas or to find particular items, disguises, or assassination opportunities. But in order to unlock them for future use, you'll
  
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• Pokemon Go Sneasel Research Event Set For January 30

  25-01-2021 22:35 via gamespot.com
  
  Pokemon Go is holding a new Limited Research event starring Sneasel. The event takes place this Saturday, January 30, from 8 AM to 10 PM local time and features limited-time Field Research tasks that lead to encounters with the Sharp Claw Pokemon. Developer Niantic also says that players will have a chance to encounter Shiny Sneasel during the event.Additionally, Niantic has announced it is rolling out a new line of Timed Research tasks. This line will be available from January 26 to February 7
  
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• Ryan Reynolds Makes Raunchy Twitter Joke About 2010 Sesame Street Appearance

  25-01-2021 22:07 via gamespot.com
  
  An eagle-eyed fan watching Sesame Street reruns with her child recently spotted actor Ryan Reynolds singing while wearing the letter A way back in 2010. That's pretty much all the setup you need to appreciate and understand the deadpan crack (no pun intended) Reynolds made when responding to the excited fan on Twitter about what a struggle it was to fit into the "A-hole." Check out his tweet below and the originating clip as well. I remember how challenging it was to sing because the A-hole was
  
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• Pokemon Go Roselia February Community Day: Shiny Roselia, Event Moves, Start Time, And More

  25-01-2021 22:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Pokemon Go's February Community Day is just around the corner. The event takes place next Saturday, February 6, and features the Thorn Pokemon Roselia. To get you up to speed on the event, we've rounded up everything you need to know about February 2021's Community Day below, from its start time to the other bonuses that will be available.February 2021 Featured Pokemon: RoseliaThe featured Pokemon for February's Community Day is Roselia, a Grass/Poison Pokemon first introduced in Ruby and Sapphi
  
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• Billy Crystal Confirms Monsters Inc. TV Show Monsters At Work Is Still In The Pipeline

  25-01-2021 21:44 via gamespot.com
  
  In an interview with Collider, Monsters Inc. star Billy Crystal confirmed several details about the previously announced Monsters at Work TV show coming to Disney+, including that it is still happening.Crystal confirmed that Monsters at Work will be an episodic show, and will have him and John Goodman reprising their roles as Mike and Sully. He also gave a more solid indication of when the show will be set within the Monster's Inc. timeline."It's a series. John Goodman and I are Sully and Mike.
  
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• Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Reached 19 Million Players From Epic Games Store Freebie

  25-01-2021 21:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Star Wars: Battlefront II was recently free on the Epic Games Store, and the promotional period was massively successful for the sci-fi shooter.Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that the game reached more than 19 million players as part of the promotion. "Thank you so much for the continued support, even after our final content drop! We'll watch your careers with great interest. May the Force be with your troopers!" EA said in a tweet celebrating the accomplishment.More than 19M PLAYERS go
  
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• New To Amazon Prime Video In February 2021: Fleabag, The Prestige, And So Much More

  25-01-2021 21:27 via gamespot.com
  
  And just like that, the first month of 2021 is nearly over, and it's already time to start looking ahead to the shortest month of the year and what streaming content will be on offer. You can take a look at what Netflix, Shudder, and Hulu have teed up for February--here's a look at Amazon Prime Video for the month coming up.Prime Video is setting the mood right for Valentine's Day by right out of the gate on February 1 offering up tons of rom-coms, romantic misadventures, and all sorts of movies
  
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• Fall Guys Season 3.5 Update Teased: New Level; Sonic, Godzilla Costumes, And More

  25-01-2021 21:26 via gamespot.com
  
  The whimsical battle royale game Fall Guys is getting a new update soon that will deliver a bunch of new content, including a brand-new level and more crossover DLC.Season 3.5 will include the following: a new level, 40+ new variations for existing levels, something called a "Fall Feed," a new DLC pack, and Godzilla, Sonic, and Untitled Goose Game costumes. Developer Mediatonic also teased more to come over the ensuing weeks.What will be in Season 3.5?
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• Mass Effect: A New Garrus Figure Is Coming In February Before Legendary Edition

  25-01-2021 21:06 via gamespot.com
  
  2021 is already a big year for the Mass Effect series, as BioWare plans to launch Mass Effect: Legendary Edition during the year. But that's not all. BioWare has announced a new Garrus figure is also in the works, and it's already generating a lot of buzz.BioWare teased the new figure on Twitter, posting a black-and-white image of the figure. "We're in the middle of some calibrations," the tweet says, referencing the unfinished nature of the image and Garrus' lines from the games. It seems all w
  
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• Rainbow Six Siege Update 4.3 Now Live On PC Test Servers, Full Patch Notes Revealed

  25-01-2021 20:43 via gamespot.com
  
  Ubisoft has dropped a new update for Rainbow Six Siege on the PC test servers that adjusts Ranked and tweaks operators, among other things. The full patch notes for Y5S4.3 are outlined below.The leading features of this latest update center around tweaking the game's many operators. Ash's Breaching Round explosive has had its area of effect reduced to two meters, down from 3.5 meters previously. Buck's shotgun ammo capacity has been increased from 26 to 31. Meanwhile, a number of other operators
  
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• New Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch Controllers Available To Preorder At Amazon

  25-01-2021 20:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans can add two new Nintendo Switch controllers to their collections next month. The adorable controllers featuring Tom Nook and Isabelle are available to preorder now at Amazon for $25 each. Both controllers release on February 14, and Prime members can get release-day delivery just in time for Valentine's Day.Tom Nook controller $25 See at AmazonIsabelle controller $25 See at AmazonThe Tom Nook controller is blue and features a graphic of the entrepreneurial racc
  
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• John Boyega, Robert DeNiro To Star In Netflix's The Formula

  25-01-2021 20:11 via gamespot.com
  
  John Boyega and Robert DeNiro are set to star in the upcoming Netflix feature The Formula from director Gerard McMurray, according to Deadline. McMurray (2019's The Twilight Zone, The First Purge) has the distinction of having directed Burning Sands, one of the streaming platform's first original features--then much more untested waters in 2017. No release date or other casting information has been announced.The Formula is a drama-heist about a Formula One racer who becomes a getaway driver "to
  
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• Kojima: "I Hope The World Comes Together And We Can All Live In Peace"

  25-01-2021 20:06 via gamespot.com
  
  Iconic video game designer Hideo Kojima is calling for world peace. In an interview during his acceptance of the New York Game Awards' Legend Award, Kojima said the world remains divided, just as it was before he and his team made Death Stranding.Part of the reason he wanted to make Death Stranding was to help bring people together. During the planning stages of Death Stranding, Kojima remarked that the world was becoming increasingly divided and people were becoming isolated from one another, a
  
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• New Assassin's Creed: Valhalla Soundtracks Hit Spotify On January 29

  25-01-2021 19:59 via gamespot.com
  
  Composers Jesper Kyd and Sarah Schachner, who both worked on the music for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Valhalla, will drop two new soundtrack albums this Friday on Spotify that are comprised of previously unreleased songs from the open-world Viking adventure, Game Informer reports.Titled Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Sons of the Great North (Kyd) and Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Twilight of the Gods (Schachner), the two albums offer 61 songs that will transport players all across England to further fl
  
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• The Medium Is "Still The Same Great Experience" On Xbox Series S

  25-01-2021 19:57 via gamespot.com
  
  The Medium is one of the first Microsoft published titles that will be exclusive to the company's new consoles, with developer Bloober Team assuring fans that the horror with run well on the Xbox Series S.In an interview with VG24/7, lead designer Wojciech Piejko and producer Jacek Zięba spoke about the experience of playing The Medium on Microsoft's less powerful Xbox Series S. The pair agreed that the experience was identical, and that only small graphical differences really separate the
  
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• Former PlayStation, Xbox, And Nintendo Execs Are Getting Together For A Big Interview

  25-01-2021 19:52 via gamespot.com
  
  A panel of video game industry veterans who worked at the three main console companies are getting together for a special interview later this week. Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime will be joined by ex-Xbox executive Robbie Bach and former PlayStation higher-up Jack Tretton for a special chat during the New York Game Awards festivities. The interview will take place on January 26 starting at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET, and you can watch it live on Twitch.Industry Icons? Frenem
  
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• The Last Of Us TV Series Writer-Producer Inks Extends Deal With HBO

  25-01-2021 19:14 via gamespot.com
  
  The Last of Us TV show adaptation is having some of its creative team set down stronger roots with HBO--according to The Hollywood Reporter, writer and executive producer Craig Mazin has extended his overall deal with WarnerMedia outlets for an additional three years. In addition to currently working on The Last Of Us alongside video game company Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann, Mazin was also the creator and showrunner of HBO's Chernobyl.Recently, there was a personnel change on The Las
  
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• The Last Of Us TV Series Writer-Producer Extends Deal With HBO

  25-01-2021 19:14 via gamespot.com
  
  The Last of Us TV show adaptation is having some of its creative team set down stronger roots with HBO--according to The Hollywood Reporter, writer and executive producer Craig Mazin has extended his overall deal with WarnerMedia outlets for an additional three years. In addition to currently working on The Last Of Us alongside video game company Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann, Mazin was also the creator and showrunner of HBO's Chernobyl.Recently, there was a personnel change on The Las
  
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• Call Of Duty: What's New In Black Ops Cold War And Warzone This Week?

  25-01-2021 19:13 via gamespot.com
  
  It's a new week, and that means Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and the battle royale game Warzone are being updated once again with new playlists and store bundles.Activision outlined everything that's new in both games in a blog post, and you can see all the important announcements right here.Black Ops Cold WarFor Black Ops Cold War, developer Treyarch is adding the 3v3 Gunfight playlist on January 28. This time, however, it has a special twist: it's snipers only. Two teams of three square of
  
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• Hitman 3 Acknowledges Coronavirus In Throwaway Line

  25-01-2021 18:56 via gamespot.com
  
  Hitman 3 might be a game about assassinating the depraved rich in increasingly creative ways, but Agent 47 isn't the only silent killer lurking around its baroque levels. As discovered by Kotaku, Hitman 3 contains a throwaway line that acknowledges the existence of the real-world coronavirus pandemic, which throws the world of the game into stark relief.In the game's Dubai level, your target Carl Ingram may say the following line: "I bet the people with coronavirus get more tranquility than this
  
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• Ninja Thinks Parents Should Parent Their Kids

  25-01-2021 18:53 via gamespot.com
  
  Popular Twitch streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins has some choice words for parents in an interview with The New York Times: Listen to, and more importantly, teach your kids.Ninja was asked several questions by the publication about a number of things in his life, from his plans to transition to voice acting to his comments a few years ago about not playing games with women. One question, in particular, was centered around the behavior of the kids who frequent his livestreams. When asked what could
  
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• Monster Hunter Rise: Last Chance To Play The Free Switch Demo

  25-01-2021 18:20 via gamespot.com
  
  Capcom's free Monster Hunter Rise demo is being delisted from the Nintendo Switch eShop very soon. The demo will only be available to download and play until 1 AM PT / 3 AM ET on February 1, giving you only a few more days to try it out if you haven't yet.The demo encompasses four quests: two training missions that explain the game's controls and mechanics, and two proper hunts. The "beginner" hunt asks you to slay the Great Izuchi, one of the new monsters debuting in Rise, while the "intermedia
  
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• Major GTA Online Cheats Site Shut Down After Pressure From Take-Two

  25-01-2021 18:08 via gamespot.com
  
  A well-known site that specialized in selling cheats for the popular online game GTA Online has shut down following "discussions" from publisher Take-Two. As reported by Eurogamer, LunaCheats now contains a single text message, saying that the site will "immediately cease all maintenance, development, and distribution of our cheat menu services." The message goes on to say that the site will donate all proceeds of its hacks to a charity designated by Take-Two.Despite being released almost a deca
  
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• Live-Action Harry Potter TV Show Could Happen At HBO Max, But It's Early Days

  25-01-2021 17:34 via gamespot.com
  
  Warner Bros. is in the planning stages for a live-action Harry Potter TV show. This is according to The Hollywood Reporter, which says the program is in "early development" for the streaming service HBO Max.A Harry Potter TV show had been rumored for years, but this is the first time we're learning about some of the specifics. THR says executives from Warner Bros. have taken meetings with potential writers who are pitching "various ideas" for the show.Don't get too excited yet, however, as it so
  
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• Konami Announces Corporate Restructure, Effect On Gaming Unclear

  25-01-2021 17:25 via gamespot.com
  
  Konami has announced a corporate restructure that will consolidate many of the company's internal departments on February 1st. According to an official translation of the announcement, this means that the company's three "production divisions" will be dissolved, though its "production departments" remain unchanged.According to financial professionals, this is a move that will have an unclear impact on the company's gaming operations. Analyst Daniel Ahmad suggests that this restructure is similar
  
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• Today's Best Deals: Xbox Elite Series 2 For $140, Borderlands 3 For $8, And More

  25-01-2021 17:13 via gamespot.com
  
  Another week is here, and if there's anything to sweeten the blow of heading back to work, it's good deals on games, controllers, and more. As we head into the last full week of January, we're already spotting some very nice discounts, including a $40 markdown on the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, courtesy of our friends at CNET. Borderlands 3 is the cheapest we've seen as part of Best Buy's latest Deal of the Day, and GameStop is running a very nice sale on statues and figures with characters
  
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• Tenet Star Kenneth Branagh To Play Boris Johnson In New Limited Series About COVID-19

  25-01-2021 17:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Veteran actor Kenneth Branagh's next role has been confirmed, and he's set to portray UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a limited series chronicling the leader's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.The show is called This Sceptred Isle, and it's in production at the British studio Sky; there will be five episodes in total. The series will look into the early days of the COVID-19 virus and touch on how Johnson and his administration took on the pandemic.Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People)
  
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