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Borat 2, or as it’s now officially known, Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan, will be debuting on Amazon Prime prior to this year’s US Presidential Election Day.

According to Deadline, Amazon Studios has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the upcoming sequel.

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Arriving seemingly out of nowhere, Borat 2 was one of the first films to shoot during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak earlier this year. As filming restrictions were being lifted, Cohen returned with a skeleton crew to finish shooting.

While fans spotted the titular character driving around parts of Los Angeles recently, the crew actually travelled internationally to film specific portions. As with the first movie, some places were more dangerous than others.

Cohen even “risked his life multiple times to shoot the scenes in this film” even going so far as wearing a bulletproof vest on a couple occasions due to some of the film’s locations.

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Now, after months of filming undercover and remaining silent about the upcoming film, Cohen is ready to debut his first-ever theatrical sequel to the world just in time for the US Presidential Elections on November 3rd.

Since movie theaters are either still closed or severely limiting moviegoer capacity, Cohen felt the best option was to release the film digitally for as many people as possible and thus struck a deal with Amazon Studios to allow the tech giant to distribute the film on Prime Video.

No official release date has been given at this time, but with just over a month to go until Election Day we can expect some more classic Borat antics very soon. High five!

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Adult Swim has “permanently retired” an episode of The Boondocks and an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force as well as “temporarily rested” an episode of The Shivering Truth. The episodes are not currently available on either the Adult Swim website or HBO Max due to “cultural insensitivities.”

When HBO Max, which also hosts Adult Swim content, launched in May 2020, it didn’t take fans long to realize that episodes were missing. The Adult Swim Reddit page has a user pointing out on HBO Max’s launch date that episodes of The Boondocks that were once banned are on the service, except for season 3, episode 4 “The Story of Jimmy Rebel.” The Aqua Teen Reddit page has a user complaining back in June about the lack of season 6, episode 2 “Shake Like Me.” The Aqua Teen episode was reportedly reinstated back in August, according to another Reddit user, but is currently not available.

A representative for HBO Max told The Daily Beast in an article published on Tuesday that “neither of those episodes are part of our streaming deals.” Variety reports that the “Shake Like Me” episode was uploaded “due to a software error and was promptly removed.”

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Adult Swim takes the blame and says that the removed episodes don’t line up with their current “policies.”

“When Adult Swim transitions series to a new platform, we determine what episodes are selected through creative and cultural filters and our standards and practices policies,” the Adult Swim representative told The Daily Beast. “Oftentimes these decisions are made in collaboration with the show’s creators.” The Aqua Teen and Boondocks episodes are now “permanently retired due to cultural sensitivities.” For example, the episode of The Boondocks that was retired features the character Uncle Ruckus partnering with a racist country singer.

The Daily Beast contacted the creator of The Boondocks, Aaron McGruder, but a representative for him declined to comment. McGruder recently signed up for a two-season revival of The Boondocks that will air exclusively on HBO Max.

HBO Max and the Adult Swim website has incorrectly labeled The Boondocks season 3 to hide the missing episode. Episode 5 is now listed as episode 4, episode 6 is now listed as episode 5, etc. HBO Max has all of Aqua Teen’s episodes listed correctly, and South Park, which has episodes missing from HBO Max because of potential terrorist threats, also has their episodes listed correctly.

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The Adult Swim series The Shivering Truth has also had an episode removed from the Adult Swim website. The Daily Beast says the episode that was removed featured “a pregnant woman who gives birth to a police officer, who is then called a ‘dirty pig.'” Adult Swim told The Daily Beast that that episode will “be returning to the site and included when the series debuts on HBO Max.” They did not specify when that will be.

HBO Max and Adult Swim are both owned by WarnerMedia, which previously received praise for how they handled controversial content by not editing or hiding it. WarnerMedia reissued a Tom and Jerry Blu-ray as recently as March 2020 that comes with an unskippable, 45-second content warning that plays before the main menu about the racism in the cartoons and how editing them “would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.”

Two months after that Tom and Jerry Blu-ray came out and the murder of George Floyd has sparked a new policy in Hollywood regarding controversial content. An episode of The Office had blackface content edited out and the Dungeons and Dragons episode of Community was removed altogether. Other TV shows such as 30 Rock, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Scrubs have also had episodes removed due to blackface. Disney also announced plans to remodel the Splash Mountain ride at their theme parks after petitions from some Disney fans showed up online.

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As Godfall‘s November 12 launch date for PlayStation 5 inches closer, publisher Gearbox Software shared a new cinematic trailer for the game filled with betrayal and disillusionment.

The cinematic trailer, embedded below, features a monologue by some gruff-voiced warrior named Orin. It seems Orin and some former comrade-in-arms, Macros, ended up turning on each other in an effort to end some unnamed war. It ends with a grand face-off between Macros and Orin in some cathedral tower, with Macros coming out the victor after tossing Orin off the cliff face.

During the climactic fight, Macros and Orin swap between a variety of weapons. An August 2020 PS5 gameplay overview revealed that there are five weapon-types in total: Longswords, Dual Blades, Polearms, two-handed Warhammers, and two-handed Greatswords.

Godfall, which Gearbox is calling a “looter-slasher,” will drop on PlayStation 5 as a launch title for $70. Check out our Godfall preorder guide to learn about the bonuses you get for buying early.

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A Demon’s Souls remake is set to release for PS5 on November 12 (see it on Amazon). That makes it a launch title for Sony’s upcoming system. The game is a from-the-ground-up remake of original, which appeared on PS3 back in 2009. It was something of a cult favorite, but it didn’t sell all that well at the time (though IGN gave it a 9.4/10 in our review). Despite the slow sales, the game planted the seed for what would turn into a massively popular franchise for developer FromSoftware.

This Demon’s Souls remake was done by the Bluepoint Games, the same studio that remastered Shadow of the Colossus for PS4. The graphics have certainly gotten a massive upgrade, which isn’t all that surprising, seeing as it’s landing on a platform two generations removed from the original. It will also take advantage of the PS5’s next-gen features like super-fast load times, 3D audio, and haptic feedback on the DualSense PS5 controller.

If you’re ready to lock in a copy of PS5’s Demon’s Souls for yourself, you can do so right now. It’s up for preorder at a number of retailers. Here’s everything you need to know.

Preorder Demon’s Souls Standard Edition

• Get it at Amazon – $69.88
• Get it at Best Buy – $69.99
• Get it at GameStop – $69.99
• Get it at Target – $69.99
• Get it at Walmart – $69.88
• Get it at PlayStation Store (digital) – $69.99

The standard edition comes with just the game itself, but that’s all you really need to fully enjoy the experience.

Preorder Demon’s Souls Digital Deluxe Edition

• Get it at PlayStation Store (digital) – $89.99

The PS Store-exclusive digital deluxe edition comes with the game, as well as the following digital items:

• Legendary Hero Soul
• Renowned Warrior Soul
• Storied Warrior Soul
• Red-Eye Knight Armor
• Boletarian Royalty Armor
• Ritual Blade
• Hoplite Shield
• Ring of Longevity
• Preservation Grains
• Phosphorescent Grains
• Bearbug Grains
• Large Hardstone Shard
• Moonlightstone Shard
• Original soundtrack

And if you preorder this edition, you get the Reaper Scythe shown in the upper right corner of the image above.

Other Preorder Guides

And if you’re looking to preorder other PS5 games (or Switch, Xbox One, or Series X|S), we have you covered there, too.

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Predator: Hunting Grounds developer IllFonic has released new content for the multiplayer title, adding a new map and a PvP mode. The new mode, called Clash, pits teams of four against each other, but it still keeps the Predator element that gives the game its namesake intact.

According to the announcement, rounds of Clash last about 15 minutes and the teams are tasked with taking a series of control points. But while you’re battling, you’ll also be slowly filling your Predator meter, and once it’s filled up one teammate will become the hunter. That grants you the superpowered abilities you’ll recognize from the Hunt mode, but you don’t get a second wind or target isolation tools.

The update also includes a new map called Excavation, which features the usual jungle biome alongside a more vertical multi-level cave. It’s built to create confrontations in narrow chokepoints, which facilitates the Predator’s hunting style.

Finally, the update includes a Quickplay menu to choose the Hunt or Clash modes, and loadout slots are increased from 5 to 10. IllFonic teased this update in August, when it announced a patch that included cross-play between PC and PS4.

In time for the spooky season, developer NetherRealm Studios has unveiled an additional character outfit pack for owners Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath with three brand-new skins.

Part of the All Hallow’s Eve Skin Pack, the skins are for D’Vorah, Johnny Cage, and Sub-Zero. They transfer these three fighters into Halloween tropes, like Cage as a beastman and D’Vorah as an undead nurse. The All Hallow’s Eve Skin Pack is free for anyone who owns the Aftermath expansion.

The studio shared a brief trailer of the skins in action, as well as a screenshot with all three of them on display next to each other. You can check out the Halloween-themed skins below. At present, NetherRealm is investigating an issue where Xbox players can’t download the pack.

Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath is the latest major expansion to the critically acclaimed fighter. It includes additional characters, an extra storyline centered on Liu Kang’s attempts to defend Earthrealm, skin packs, and more. It retails for $40 USD on its own or $60 as part of the Kollection bundle.

In other Mortal Kombat news, MK11 may be getting a voice pack based around the cult ’90s film. There’s evidence that suggests actors from the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie may have recorded lines for the game.

Perhaps the primary appeal of the wildly popular Among Us is its social element, which would partly explain why the two-year-old game didn’t quite take off until quarantine began in March of this year. We now know that Among Us’ massive popularity is actually having a ripple effect for another social-oriented product under lockdown. According to Apptopia, the chat client Discord is raking in about 800,000 new installs per day thanks to the growing audience for Among Us.

Discord’s recent growth spike was aided first by nationwide shutdowns as COVID-19 cases began to rise earlier in the year, forcing many to seek alternate, no-contact ways to socialize. As lockdown continued and Among Us began to rise in popularity, so too did Discord’s download rates. You can see the worldwide daily download rates for both Among Us and Discord in Apptopia’s chart below.

Based on Apptopia’s data, “Discord has been hitting a new lifetime high for mobile app downloads every day since September 5th.” You can get a better idea of just how high that is in Apptopia’s second chart below, which shows both the initial spike in downloads around the start of the pandemic (“hockey stick like growth,” according to Apptopia) and the second spike as Among Us began to take off a few months later. At this point, that’s about 800,000 new Discord downloads per day.

Discord offers a quick and easy way for Among Us players to connect in voice chat, which probably accounts for a portion of those downloads. Discord’s recent rebranding efforts have also centered around making the chat client more appealing and accessible to non-gamers and non-gaming communities. While Among Us is still a video game, its party game format and social deception elements grant it a much wider appeal.

Among Us is free to play on mobile, but also offers crossplay support with its paid PC version, making it super easy and quick to hop into a match with friends, family, and even strangers. It is so popular that its planned sequel Among Us 2 was canceled so the developers could spend more time and resources on the original game, which remains one of the top mobile games right now.

When the PlayStation Store page for Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time launched, it revealed that the game would support offline multiplayer for 2-4 players. In an interview with GameSpot, Toys For Bob’s co-studio head Paul Yan revealed more details about the upcoming game’s competitive and co-op multiplayer modes.

“Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is at its core a single player game,” Yan explained. “However we’ve added some new modes for players to compete or cooperate locally by taking turns and passing the controller between rounds.”

Both the competitive and co-op modes will work on a pass-the-controller basis. The competitive mode is called Bandicoot Battle and involves two separate mini-games for players to race against their friends in. “Two to four players can compete head-to-head on any level of their choosing,” Yan explained. “Either by racing to be the first to the next checkpoint in ‘Checkpoint Races’ or by achieving the biggest combo of crates for the highest score in ‘Crate Combo’.”

Players can choose to play as Crash, Fake Crash, Coco, or Fake Coco–who was newly introduced for Crash 4. Players take turns racing through the level, and will be able to see ghosts of previous players going through the same level to compete against.

The Co-op mode is called Pass N. Play, and “allows two to four players to take turns making their way through the campaign, passing the controller between turns. Each player’s scores will be tallied individually at the end of the level before moving on to the next,” Yan said.

As a long-awaited sequel to Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Crash 4 is adding a lot of new features to the classic series. Other previously-announced game modes include the classic homage levels of Flashback Tapes, as well as a mirror mode-style of gameplay called N. Verted mode.

Crash Bandicoot 4 is due out on October 2 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Check out our Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time pre-order guide for more details about the release, as well as what pre-order bonuses are available.