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Call Of Duty: Warzone Adding 200-Player Modes, Leaked Image Shows

It appears the rumors are true: Call of Duty: Warzone is introducing a 200-player mode. Some free-to-play Warzone players recently discovered an image that shows references to three modes that have not been officially announced for the battle royale game.

The three modes include BR 200, Plunder 200, and BR Juggernaut. The Juggernaut mode was teased in the Season 4 roadmap, but the 200-player modes have never been confirmed. However, Infinity Ward said in an interview that a 200-player mode was coming, eventually.

Currently, Warzone is capped at a maximum of 150 players per match. The titling of the rumored 200-player modes suggests they will include a 200-player variant of the regular Warzone mode and a 200-player version of the Plunder mode where you try to collect the most cash.

Warzone has constantly evolved since release, so new modes like these rumored ones would be no surprise. The latest new mode is Warzone Rumble, which pits two teams of 50 players each in a team deathmatch across a portion of the Versansk map. It’s a frenetic, large-scale twist on team deathmatch, and it’s a great way to train your sniping skills with players spread out and very long sightlines available to players.

Warzone and Modern Warfare recently kicked off Season 4, which introduced a new Operator, Captain Price, and a brand-new Battle Pass containing lots of extras that you can earn through gameplay or buy outright. For more, check out GameSpot’s rundown of everything in the Season 4 Battle Pass.

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PGA Tour 2K21’s Full Player Roster Finally Confirmed

PGA Tour 2K21 has had its full roster announced over Twitter, with a confirmed list of 12 pros taking to the green for the game’s release on August 21.

PGA Tour 2K21 is the first official PGA Tour title for 2K Sports, who were the team behind The Golf Club 2019. The publisher had already released some information about a few of the game’s featured pros last week. Notably, it featured a much less-jacked looking Bryson DeChambeau when confirming the American’s participation in the title.

The full list of PGA Tour professionals who will be making an appearance in 2K21 is as follows:

  • Justin Thomas
  • Matt Kuchar
  • Bryson DeChambeau
  • Kevin Kisner
  • Cameron Champ
  • Tony Finau
  • Ian Poulter
  • Gary Woodland
  • Jim Furyk
  • Billy Horschel
  • Patrick Cantlay
  • Sergio Garcia

The pros have been introduced over on the official PGA Tour 2K21 Twitter over the past week, with an image of each accompanied by a fact about their professional play. The roster is looking pretty stacked, with the likes of Garcia rubbing shoulders with Furyk, who boasts 17 PGA Tour victories. Cantlay is also currently seventh in the PGA Tour’s world rankings, and DeChambeau is raking in while ranked thirteenth on both the earnings and rankings ladder.

When the actual PGA tour was postponed because of COVID-19, it was looking like 2K21 would be the closest that fans would get to experiencing pro golf. However, thanks to the tour resuming this past week, PGA 2K21’s launch on August 21 for Xbox One, Switch, PC, and PS4 will be a happy addition to fans’ PGA experience instead of an alternative to in-person events.

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HBO Is Simplifying Its App Line-Up, Scrapping HBO Go

The recent release of HBO Max meant that HBO was split between HBO, HBO Now, HBO Go, and HBO Max. Now, to reduce confusion, parent company WarnerMedia is discontinuing one of their apps and rebranding another to make it clearer what you’re getting. HBO Go will be discontinued from July 31, and HBO Now will be re-branded as just HBO.

The Hollywood Reporter has detailed these upcoming changes, which should ultimately encourage more subscribers to make the switch to HBO Max, which offers more content for the same price. While previously the app you used to access HBO content depended on whether you were signed up through a cable provider or third-party platform. While some platforms will automatically upgrade users to HBO Max, it’s more complicated if you’ve signed up through Amazon, Roku, or other companies that have not made specific deals with WarnerMedia–which is why the HBO app still needs to exist.

When HBO Go is discontinued, subscribers who access HBO through a cable provider will mostly be able to move over to HBO Max, or by either watching their programs on TV when they’re scheduled or accessing them via hbogo.com, which will remain accessible until August 31.

WarnerMedia provided a statement to The Hollywood Reporter suggesting that they expect to make more deals to switch customers over to HBO Max in the future. “The vast majority of HBO Go customers now have access to HBO Max through their cable providers through the distribution deals we’ve secured for HBO Max,” a WarnerMedia spokesperson said. “For those remaining distributors, we’re remain committed to making HBO Max available on every platform possible to as many viewers as possible.”

Despite some current complications, it seems that the plan is to move as many subscribers as possible over to HBO Max, and the discontinuation of the HBO Go app is the first step towards that. HBO Max will be the only place where you can access the Snyder Cut of Justice League when that launches.

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Halo Infinite — See How The Developers Recorded Huge Explosions

Fans have been eagerly awaiting Halo Infinite gameplay footage for a long time, and it’s finally (probably) coming in July. While we wait for that, Microsoft has now released the penultimate instalment in its “Sound Design Saturday” series, showcasing how the audio team went about capturing and recording sounds for the new Halo game set to launch this year.

This latest video is the second instalment of its series that shows how the audio team captured explosion sounds. The team placed microphones all over the place at a range in the desert, and used multiple different types of explosives for the sounds. As you can see in the video, there is a great variety of explosive noises on display here, including deep, booming explosions and crisper sounds, too.

Halo being a shooter series, it’s expected that there would be a great diversity of explosion sounds, and it’s neat to see how they’re created in this behind-the-scenes video. Previous instalments of the series showcased the various weapon sounds and vehicle noises that will be in Halo Infinite. Another video showed how the team recorded a little pug who created some alien-sounding noises.

Microsoft says this newest sound design video will be its second-to-last.

Halo Infinite is a launch title for the Xbox Series X, and it will also be available on Xbox One and PC. Ahead of its release, Microsoft will hold a beta test for the game, but the company has yet to share any details about this.

The game was slated to have its big unveiling at the Xbox E3 2020 briefing, but that event was canceled. Instead, Microsoft is showcasing Halo Infinite–and other first-party Xbox games–during an event in July.

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Devolver Direct 2020, One Of The Best Parts Of E3 Each Year, Is On Track To Air Next Month

Devolver Digital has, historically, always done E3 a little differently, hosting an unofficial showing in a lot near the Los Angeles Convention Center and releasing reveal videos that mix new game trailers and announcements with a strange, ongoing narrative element. The Devolver Direct, also known as the Big Fancy Press Conference, has been running since 2017–but with E3 cancelled this year, it hasn’t been clear when we’d see the next installment.

Now, Devolver Digital has given us some idea of when the stream will go ahead. In a tweet, Devolver Digital said that the video will release in “mid-July”, if all goes as planned. They’ve promised that there will be a mix of updates and release dates for games we’re already aware of, as well as new reveals.

Upcoming Devolver Digital published games that we might expect to see more of during the stream include Serious Sam 4, Fall Guys, Disc Room, and Carrion. Hopefully nothing too awful will happen to Devolver’s chief synergy officer Nina Struthers in this year’s video.

One of Devolver’s recent classics, the top-down shooter Ruiner, is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 18.

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Madden 21 Reveal Coming Very Soon, Here’s When

EA Sports originally planned to officially announce and detail Madden NFL 21 on June 1, but the developer delayed its reveal as part of EA’s wider decision to push out its big announcements out of respect and solidarity for Black Lives Matter.

EA Sports has seemingly now set a new date for its reveal, telling fans on Twitter to look out for news on June 16. There will be some kind of announcement trailer on that day, but no further details about the event have been announced yet.

Whatever the case, the reveal of Madden NFL 21 on June 16 will likely only be just the beginning. EA’s annual E3 show, EA Play 2020, is scheduled for June 18. With Madden 21 being one of EA’s biggest games of 2020, you can expect it to be featured during the show. You can watch EA Play 2020 live on GameSpot.

Madden 21 features Baltimore Ravens standout QB Lamar Jackson on its cover. The game is expected to release around August, ahead of the start of the NFL season (which is scheduled to go forward despite ongoing COVID-19 concerns). Madden 21 has so far been confirmed for release on Xbox One and Xbox Series X, while it’s also expected to come to PS4 and PS5, as well as PC.

Everyone who buys Madden 21 on Xbox One can get the Xbox Series X edition for free as part of a limited-time upgrade program. In other Madden news, the NFL has voted to give EA the exclusive rights simulation NFL games for years to come.

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Rock Of Ages Devs Reveal The Eternal Cylinder, A Survival Game With Several Weird Twists

Rock of Ages developer Ace Team has unveiled their new game, The Eternal Cylinder, as part of The Guerrilla Collective showcase. It’s a open-world survival game set on an alien planet, and you’ll play as a herd of creatures (called Trebhums) that need to survive not only the other creatures you’ll encounter, but also a giant rolling cylinder that pops up and rolls right through the game world.

There are shades of Maxis’ Spore here, as you have to grow and evolve over the course of the game to deal with the harsh procedurally-generated environments you encounter. While you’ll be weak to begin with, the creatures you’re controlling will gain new abilities and ways to adapt as you play, and will mutate in a way that grants them new skills. The game will feature real-time environmental destruction, so when the Cylinder rolls over a tree, for instance, it will stay broken.

The game is coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC via the Epic Games Store later this year, and it’s designed so that if you play through more than once you’ll have a different experience each time. The debut trailer is below.

We’ve also got some fresh screenshots below, showing off the game’s weird art style, which will be familiar to fans of Ace Team’s other work. There will be multiple different biomes in the game, although only three have been named so far–the Savannah, the Tundra, and the Desert.

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An exact release date for The Eternal Cylinder has not been set yet. An open beta will run on PC later this year, which you can sign up for on the game’s website.

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WWE Backlash PPV: Results And Live Updates

Today, WWE’s latest event is coming to the Performance Center. The Backlash PPV will feature some of the company’s top talent battling-it-out over the course of the evening. There will be plenty of championships on the line, including the Universal and WWE Championships.

If you’re interested in checking it out, even if it’s in the middle of the show, you can sign up for the WWE Network–which costs $10 a month. Check out the match card below, so you know what to expect coming up tonight.

Match card:

  • Edge vs. Randy Orton
  • Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Bobby Lashley (WWE Championship)
  • Braun Strowman (c) vs. The Miz & John Morrison (Universal Championship Handicap Match)
  • Asuka (c) vs. Nia Jax (Raw Women’s Championship)
  • Jeff Hardy vs. Sheamus
  • Bayley & Sasha Banks (c) vs. Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross vs. The IIconics (Women’s Tag Team Championship)
  • Apollo Crews (c) vs. Andrade (United States Championship)
  • The Street Profits (c) vs. The Viking Raiders (Raw Tag Team Championship)

Below, you’ll find all the live results as they happen during the course of the evening, so make sure to keep checking back throughout the PPV.

If you want to dive deeper into the weird world of wrestling, check out GameSpot’s weekly podcast Wrestle Buddies. Each week, Mat Elfring and Chris E. Hayner talk about the fun side of wrestling, from silly gimmicks to their favorite PPVs. Also, they occasionally interview wrestlers. New episodes arrive every Thursday, and you can check it out on Spotify, Stitcher, and Apple Podcasts.

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Backlash’s pre-show begins at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET.

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The Evolution Of The PlayStation Controller

The PlayStation brand has carved out its own identity over the last few decades, in no small part because of the iconic line of PlayStation controllers. From the very start the PlayStation design was influential, having popularized elements like dual shoulder buttons and a handlebar design. But the company has continued to drive trends with elements like vibration, pressure-sensitive buttons, and a touchpad.

Not every experiment was a success, however. The much-derided boomerang controller never even made it to market, and its replacement, the Sixaxis, removed a popular feature. The path of the PlayStation controller has been a rocky one, and we outline all of it in the video above as we look ahead to the PlayStation 5 controller, the DualSense.