Now, we have confirmation that Netflix is making moves to realize its gaming ambitions, starting with mobile games. What kind of mobile games should we expect from Netflix? Netflix’s usual slate of shows has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, as has the rest of the movie industry. However, now that things are starting to normalize once again, Netflix appears confident enough to try other ventures. In particular, video games....
Netflix makes its games more available and accessible A few months ago, Netflix confirmed that it wanted to add games as part of its subscription. A few weeks later, Netflix launched a pilot test in Poland. Fast forward to today and Netflix just confirmed that it’s going to release more games to even more people in Spain and Italy. Unlike Netflix’s other previous tie-ins, the video game experience is built directly into the app....
CD Projekt RED introduced the world to Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels after using them as the source material for its award-winning franchise of the same name. Unfortunately, while The Witcher games themselves are universally loved, especially 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the studio hasn’t avoided controversy. Specifically, CDPR has been the target of much criticism since 2019 after admitting that employees faced"inhumane" levels of crunch in the lead up to the 2015 open-world title’s release and doing it again just to release Cyberpunk 2077 in late 2020....
While Michael Jordan’s live-action/animated sports comedy film that was released in 1996 was a huge success, even pulling in $250 million in the box office against an $80 million budget, most people probably don’t remember the video game tie-in to the movie that released for Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn around the same time the movie did. The Space Jam video game sold poorly and was met largely with negative reviews....
Cage to star in The Wold Way and Butcher’s Crossing According to Deadline, the award-winning actor is going to play the role of Colton Briggs in The Old Way. Apparently the former gunslinger-turned-general store manager, Briggs, has given up his old ways to spend time with his family. Unfortunately, it appears that the bad guys just can’t leave him alone. From out of nowhere, a band of outlaws decides to murder his wife in cold blood....
Written like an actual in-game municipal site for the city, nightcity.love is full of attention to detail, and features things like mayoral election propaganda as well as in-universe pop-up ads, giving fans a taste of what living in the futuristic metropolis might really be like. The website gives us some additional flavor text regarding the past of Night City, a run-down of its districts with brief descriptions, threat level categorizations and new screenshots....
This crossover was made possible by the generous cooperation of EA and BioWare, allowing the homage to take place in Hello Games’ huge space exploration sim. Sean Murray and many of the folks working on No Man’s Sky are huge Mass Effect fans, so this is as much a treat for them as us. Expeditions were launched in No Man’s Sky back in April, and combine in-game community goals with ARG elements....
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Yellowstone will return for a fifth season with production scheduled to kick off in May with a potential fall premiere. For the fifth season, Yellowstone will bring back Jen Landon and Kathryn Kelly, who portrayed Teeter and Emily, respectively, and turn them into series regulars. Yellowstone didn’t just set cable TV records, it completely changed Paramount’s plans for Paramount+. Previously, ViacomCBS had intended to focus more on movies and less on TV shows on the streaming platform....
The latest installment to the Scream series, Scream 5, is scheduled to premiere on January 14, 2022. According to the film’s producer, Chad Villella, Scream 5 will be rated R. Scream 5 to help satisfy the demand for more R-rated movies Whether the current generation of moviegoers has been desensitized to violence and gore, or people are just more open-minded these days, the fact is that viewers are more attracted to R-rated movies today than ever before....
GoldenEye 007 was one of the most influential video games of the 90s, helping popularize split-screen gameplay, among many other gameplay features. We ranked GoldenEye 007 near the top of all James Bond games, which only makes it all the more curious as to why a remaster or remake is yet to happen. Now, Achievements for GoldenEye 007 on the official Xbox website are fueling the rumors again. For some reason, Microsoft occasionally let things slip before their official reveals....
Remedy confirms that 505 Games has agreed to come back and publish Control 2. The two companies originally worked together on the development of Control, which first came out in 2019 for the PS4 and PS5 before getting a next-gen upgrade two years later. It’s unclear if the Control sequel will be exclusive to the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X but we can presume that this is the case. Either way, this new development is good news for Control fans waiting for more news on the ever-expanding Remedy Connected Universe....
We’ve known that Cyperunk 2077 will be getting some form of multiplayer long before release, as well as that being a single player experience first and foremost, online functionality would have to wait. Since then, the developers have revealed not to expect multiplayer until 2022 at the soonest and analysts have predicted a model similar to the highly successful Grand Theft Auto Online in terms of monetization. Now, thanks to data extracted from the game executable, we know about two of the game modes that the game will support - the basic, expected deathmatch mode, and heists....
After a surprising lack of marketing, the first teaser for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City was released only this past month of October. Beyond set photos and vignettes, not much else had been shared by Sony Pictures. With the release of the full trailer so close before the theatrical debut, there is a scarcity of hype behind the movie based on the famous survival horror game franchise. Read on for the details revealed for the upcoming film and the potential future of the film franchise....
In addition to Obi-Wan Kenobi hitting Disney+ on May 25, marking the 4th year since Star Wars: A New Hope hit theaters in 1977, rumor has it that Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment are planning something big for gamers on that day. According to Jeff Grub in his latest GamesBeat Decides podcast, Respawn will be at Star Wars Day later this year to announce Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 2....
But with the game being based so heavily on its multiplayer elements, players have long wondered when the game would start supporting multi-platform cross-play, or even cross-progression. Is Rust cross-platform? Most players perceive Rust as what Fallout 76 could have been. The game follows much of the same plot, dropping players into a barren post-apocalyptic world riddled with radiation. Differences arise when players are pitched against bears and wolves instead of Deathclaws, and the similarities resume again with the PvP aspect of the game....
Millie A poured gasoline into the rumor mill dumpster fire after claiming that Santa Monica Studio will write, film, edit, and produce a documentary covering “the pressure to follow up on God of War, the impact of Covid and more.” Naturally, the tweet gained traction but Santa Monica Studio quickly put a knife to it. We’ve put a lot of love and effort into our BTS series, which releases every Tues, that is our look into development for GoWR....
Although fans had high hopes for a Hogwarts Legacy trailer at Sony’s most recent State of Play event, which included the likes of Exoprimal and Valkyrie Elysium, the game did not ultimately appear. But, completely out of nowhere, Sony just confirmed that a State of Play presentation is coming this Thursday, March 17, exclusively for Hogwarts Legacy. It has been a long road for Hogwarts Legacy. Fans first got wind of the Harry Potter RPG back in 2018, when looked footage of the game first appeared online....
Why isn’t Nixxes Software working on the God of War PC port? PlayStation recently announced that God of War was headed to the PC platform. Naturally, the announcement made a lot of waves. As we’ve already mentioned, 2018’s God of War is the best-selling on the PS4. The fact that it’s headed to the PC platform, along with Uncharted, is proof that Sony is serious about porting over its biggest titles....
The recent update to Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered lets players receive in-game rewards such as early access to certain costumes by linking their PSN and Steam accounts. It’s not a bad time for Sony to start experimenting with this feature as it prepares to launch more games on the PC platform. After God of War kickstarted the movement for the year, games such as Marvel’s Spider-Man have since made their way to the PC....
In the absence of new blockbuster movies, Sony’s re-release of the latest Spider-Man movie gave cinema-goers something to look forward to during what would have otherwise been a boring Labor Day weekend. With a haul of over $6 million across 3,935 cinemas in the US over this period, The More Fun Stuff originally took the highly coveted top US box office spot. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the 27th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....
