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A modder named Krollywood has recreated almost all of GoldenEye 007’s single-player campaign in Far Cry 5. Krollywood’s map-by-map approach includes every core level in the era-defining N64 shooter, with the exception of the two bonus levels.

Krollywood told Kotaku that the process took about 1,400 hours over the period of nearly three years. While Krollywood says that they’re a fan of both games, they prefer Far Cry 5’s level editor because of its ease of use compared to other games. It also includes many assets and objects from other Ubisoft games like Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs, which made it easier to recreate the environments from Goldeneye 007.

If you’d like to see more of Krollywood’s fan remake, you can check out their YouTube page for more info. In other Far Cry news, Ubisoft recently revealed that Far Cry 6 will be coming out on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Stadia, PS4, and PS5 on October 6. Unfortunately for Krollywood, Far Cry 6 will not feature a level editor. We do know for a fact that Far Cry 6 will be at Ubisoft’s E3 show, so check it out if you’re interested. Then again, they told Kotaku that they plan to play “other games” now that they’ve completed their project, so good for them.

Gearbox Software has announced plans for E3 2021, and it includes a 30-minute broadcast that could be where the studio’s rumored Wonderlands game is shown off. The Borderlands studio, which also operates a publishing division, announced its plans on Monday.

How To Watch

The Texas-based studio behind the Borderlands series announced that a “segment” of Saturday’s E3 2021 broadcast will be dedicated to Gearbox. During this presentation, Gearbox will share “everything that Gearbox has been busy getting its hands into.” The broadcast begins at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET on June 12, and you can see more stream times below. Like E3’s other programming, the broadcast will be available on YouTube, Twitch, and other streaming sources, including here at GameSpot.

Start Time

• 2 PM PT
• 5 PM ET
• 10 PM BST
• 7 AM AEST (Sunday, June 13)

What To Expect

According to a tweet from Gearbox, the event will be hosted by Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford. The executive has recently been spending time in Budapest for the Borderlands movie. One of the biggest rumors about Gearbox is that the studio is developing a Borderlands spin-off based around Tiny Tina and called Wonderlands, but whether or not it’s shown off during the event remains to be seen.

Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest Kick Off showcase on June 10 will contain at least one reveal from Gearbox ahead of the Gearbox presentation itself two days later.

Gearbox is now owned by Embracer Group. As part of the sale, Gearbox has said it may be working on a new IP that could shake things up like Borderlands did years ago. Gearbox is also known for franchises like Brothers in Arms and Duke Nukem, though nothing so far has suggested new entries in those franchises might be revealed at E3.

Outside of its own game development, Gearbox runs a publishing division that puts out games in the Homeworld franchise, among others, so there is no telling what the company might have in store for E3.

For more, check out GameSpot’s E3 2021 schedule overview that covers everything you need to know about the show and all of its press conferences.

An 8-year-old boy was devastated to learn that his 4-month-old puppy needed an expensive medical treatment to survive, so he sold his Pokemon cards on his front lawn to help pay for the procedure. But as the Washington Post reported, Bryson Kliemann’s neighbors and friends were so moved by his concern for his dog Bruce that they donated more than $400 to the effort, sometimes without even buying the cards.

Bruce was diagnosed with a contagious virus known as parvo, which can be lethal. The Kliemann family knew that the procedure would be a minimum of $655, plus additional expenses for future treatment. When Bryson overheard his two parents discussing how they could not afford to pay the cost of the procedure, he decided to sell his Pokemon cards to help fund it, a decision that caused his mother Kimberly Woodruff to cry.

Thanks to people in his community of Lebanon, VA, as well as online donors to the family’s GoFundMe, Bryson ended up raising a lot more money than was needed for Bruce’s procedure. As such, the family donated the rest of the funds to support other sick pets in their area. Additionally, an employee at The Pokemon Company sent Bryson a package of rare cards after hearing about his selflessness. Currently, Bruce is recovering from the procedure, but all signs are positive.

“I never in a million years would have thought something that my 8-year-old did in a small community would have such an impact,” Woodruff told the Post. “It truly has been incredible.”

The first image of Jensen Ackles in the upcoming The Boys Season 3 has been released. The actor will play the fan-favorite character Soldier Boy in the third season of Amazon’s dark superhero comedy.

Soldier Boy is the “original” superhero, who claims to have fought in World War II, and in the The Boys comic books, he is the leader of the superhero team Payback. He wears a superpowered suit that was designed by Laura Jean Shannon and Greg Hopwood. Check the image out below:

In a statement, Shannon described the inspiration behind the suit’s design. “Soldier Boy is the original bad ass,” she said. “Our goal was to highlight a bygone era of overt masculinity and grit. With that pedigree we dove headfirst into baking in an all-American quality grounded in a military soldier’s practicality with a heavy dose of old school cowboy swagger. We knew that the actor had to have Steve McQueen looks and chops with a John Wayne attitude, luckily Jensen Ackles embodies all of that.”

Ackles is best known for the long-running lead role of Dean Winchester in Supernatural, as well as for roles in Smallville and Dawson’s Creek. He also voiced Bruce Wayne in the new two-part animated DC movie Batman: The Long Halloween.

The Boys Season 3 doesn’t have a release date yet. However, showrunner Eric Kripke previously revealed that the comics story arc known as “Herogasm” will be adapted in the new season. This story involves the “supes” in The Seven traveling to a resort to engage in a week-long superhero orgy.

For more, check out GameSpot’s guide to everything we know about The Boys Season 3.

Ahead of Ubisoft Forward and E3 2021 this coming weekend, Ubisoft has begun to set expectations–and this includes informing fans that there won’t be news about The Division.

The statement posted on The Division’s Twitter page plainly states, “We won’t be at Ubisoft Forward this year.” That might come as a surprise to some given that a new free-to-play spin-off game, The Division: Heartland, was just recently announced, while the developer is also making new content for The Division 2.

That content remains on track to launch this year, the statement said, but there won’t be any news about it at E3. As for Heartland, Ubisoft said it will host more tests for the game, but it didn’t say when or how you might be able to get in.

A mobile game based on The Division is also in the works, but the statement didn’t include any mention of this. A Netflix movie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain is coming, too, along with a new novel.

The Division developer Massive is also making an open-world Star Wars game and a new title based on James Cameron’s Avatar franchise. Whether or not these titles will show up at E3 remains to be seen.

Ubisoft also recently confirmed that its Ubisoft Forward event at E3 2021 will not have any news on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake.

Ubisoft Forward takes place on Saturday, June 12. The event will showcase Rainbow Six: Extraction, which is the new name of Rainbow Six Quarantine. The event will also show more of Far Cry 6, Riders Republic, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and other Ubisoft titles. As usual, there could be some surprises as well.

Check out GameSpot’s rundown of the Ubisoft Forward schedule to learn more about how to watch and what to expect.

Apple has formally revealed iOS 15 at WWDC 2021, the next annual update for iPhones that is set to launch later this year. The update is set to introduce many new features to existing apps such as FaceTime, Messages, and more, some of which will certainly help if you’re still spending a lot of time indoors and at home.

First and foremost are additions to FaceTime, which now links into many apps and media features of your iPhone. Similar to in-app options in Netflix, FaceTime will now let you share video with anyone on the call, with the stream synced up with all participants. Apple says this will work with both Apple services and third-party ones, including Disney+ and Twitch. This will also work on non-Apple devices, too, with Apple announcing FaceTime support for Android and PCs using web browsers and shared links.

Another big update concerns notifications, and several groups that you can collect them into. Apple calls this Focus, allowing you to define groups for your morning routine, work, personal time, do not disturb time, and more. Changing between these states can organize notifications and apps accordingly, either with user-defined parameters or with iOS intelligently learning what apps you’re using and when. Pages on your home screen can also be changed to reflect what Focus state you’re in, while you can allow and block notifications for certain apps and contacts, too.

Other Apple users will now also be able to see if you’re in Do Not Disturb mode, and also mark a message as urgent to break through your notification block. Many of these features are designed to help you separate the apps and contacts you need during the day, with Apple saying it wants it users to be put in control of what information they’re served and when. That might be useful if the lines between work and personal time have blurred lately, especially with working from home.

Apple also introduced Live Text, a take on Google Lens. This allows you to extract raw text from photos throughout iOS, whether it’s in your own library or on an image in Google search. This might be helpful in converting the text from a business card or grocery list photo into something more useable in notes or messages. Having it integrated on the OS-level is great, too, as other apps will be able to utilize it where useful.

Apple also revealed smaller changes to its Weather and Maps apps, as well as an expansion to Apple Wallet to include support for Driver’s Licenses and IDs in select US states. These will start rolling out near the end of the year, with iOS 15 expected to launch later this year with Apple’s next iPhones.

The latest US box office figures are in, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It won the weekend with $24 million. That’s below the $25 million that was project, according to Collider, but it’s a good result as more and more people head back to the cinemas.

The Conjuring’s $24 million was the third biggest opening for a movie in the US during the pandemic, only behind A Quiet Place Part II and Godzilla vs. Kong. It’s also notable because The Conjuring becomes the fifth WB movie to open at No. 1 this year. All of WB’s movies for 2021 are releasing on HBO Max as well, but clearly people are still interested in going to the movies, which is good news for WB and for movie studios overall.

A Quiet Place Part II drops down to No. 2 this past weekend, pulling in another $19.5 million to improve its overall box office receipts to $88.6 million after two weekends in the US. A spin-off film is coming in March 2023.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the eighth entry in the Conjuring universe, and its opening weekend was the second lowest overall, only behind Annabelle Comes Home ($20.2 million). According to Deadline, the lower results might be due to franchise fatigue. But helping things is the fact that the budget was relatively low, at $40 million.

Go to Deadline to see a full rundown of this weekend’s box office results in the US.

The Matrix 4 has added to its cast. Collider spotted an updated press kit from Warner Bros. that included Christina Ricci’s name.

Ricci joins a big cast that already includes Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Jada Pinkett Smith reprising their characters. Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Henwick, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Jonathan Groff are among the newcomers.

Ricci has worked with directed Lana Wachowski before in Speed Racer.

The Matrix 4, which may not be its official title, is slated for release this December in theaters and on HBO Max. It’s the first new entry in the series since 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions.

Very little is known about the plot of The Matrix 4. Neil Patrick Harris has discussed how the movie felt “intimate” to film despite being such a massive production.

“You’d film pages at a time in 30 minutes and then be done… You would think that a giant movie would be 100% storyboarded, animatics, and we’d be checking off shots,” he said. “I think she lived that before three times over, and I would suspect that she wants to do things her own way now. It wasn’t often that you felt that you were doing something gigantic because she made it feel very intimate.”

Following the success of A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place 2, Paramount is moving ahead with a third movie in 2023. The new film is a spin-off that is written and directed by Jeff Nichols, who previously directed Mud and Midnight Special. It’s releasing March 31, 2023.

There were reports that the March 2023 date applied to A Quiet Place 3, but this is apparently not true. Whether or not a third entry in the main series is made remains to be seen. John Krasinski directed the first two films.

While Krasinski is not directing the Quiet Place spin-off, the story is based on an idea of his, according to Variety, though Nichols wrote the script. Additionally, Krasinski is attached as a producer, so he remains involved in the series.

As for Nichols, he wrote and directed the 2012 Matthew McConaughey/Reese Witherspoon movie Mud, and he followed it up with Midnight Special in 2016 starring Adam Driver, Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, and Kirsten Dunst.

A Quiet Place 2 made another $19.5 million this weekend in the US to improve its total domestic box office haul to $88.6 million, according to Deadline.

GameSpot’s A Quiet Place II review scored the film an 8/10.

“A Quiet Place Part II is the best kind of horror sequel–one that honors the elements that made the first so successful, but instead of simply repeating the formula, finds new ways to keep the story fresh and the scares effective,” reviewer Dan Auty said.

The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is one of Ubisoft’s most exciting upcoming games, but it won’t be seen at the Ubisoft Forward event this coming weekend.

The development team said in a social media post that “we are not ready to share any additional information just yet,” though the game is making good progress, the studio said.

This update came after Ubisoft delayed the remake indefinitely earlier this year. The game was originally slated to arrive in January 2021 before being delayed to March and then pushed again. In the new statement about Ubisoft Forward, the developers thanked fans for their patience and understanding about the latest developments about the remake.

In addition to the overhauled visuals, game director Pierre-Sylvain Gires says camera and combat have been improved in the remake. In particular, the developers have added a targeting system to the game, which according to Gires “enhanced the velocity of the Prince and his abilities to do amazing moves.”

When it is released, the remake will come to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The game will retail for $40 USD and includes the original 1989 Prince of Persia as an unlockable bonus.

As for what Ubisoft will showcase at Ubisoft Forward on June 12, you can likely expect some new footage or updates on Far Cry 6. Other Ubisoft games slated for release in 2021 include Riders Republic and the roller derby game Roller Champions, as is the game formerly known as Rainbow Six Quarantine, so updates on those titles are expected.

For more, check out GameSpot’s Ubisoft Forward schedule to find out how to watch and what to expect.