Netflix’s Master Of None Season 3 Gets First Trailer And Premiere Date

Netflix has released the first trailer for Season 3 of Master of None, which will hit the streaming service on May 23. The dramedy series is co-created by Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation) and Alan Yang (The Good Place), and was unexpectedly announced last week as coming in May.

This new season will be five episodes, and are under a banner titled “Master of None Presents: Moments in Love.” As this new trailer confirms, these episodes are expected to focus on Lena Waithe’s character, Denise, and a budding relationship. These episodes have been co-written with Ansari and Waithe, with Ansari directing. Check out the new trailer below to get a sense of the new, more intimate and quiet direction the show will be heading next.

No information has been released about the runtime for these five episodes, and it’s also not known as of this writing if the series may adopt a model similar to other series, rolling out half of a season’s episode on one date, then the rest later. Seeing as how Season 2 came to Netflix in 2017, and that season closed on an ambiguous cliffhanger for Ansari’s character Dev Shah and his new romantic interest, Francesca, fans are likely expecting some closure on what that ending meant.

In the meantime, you can check out our rundown and recommendations of what to check out among what’s coming to Netflix in May alongside Master of None.

Planet Coaster Adds Ghostbusters DLC And More On Console This Week

The theme park game Planet Coaster: Console Edition is getting new DLC packs themed around Ghostbusters and another based on other movie-themed content.

Ghostbusters DLC

Due out later this week, the Ghostbusters DLC pack comes with one new flat ride, one new coaster, and a variety of decorations and other Ghostbusters-themed content. The new ride is called the Ghostbusters Experience, and it puts players into the ECTO-1 as they try to capture as many ghosts as possible. The new coaster is called RollerGhoster, and it’s a children’s ride where the Slimer takes guests around a track.

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There are “hundreds” of new scenery pieces and sounds that players can use to customize their park around Ghostbusters as well. These include a very tall Stay Puft marshmallow man and haunted hotels. There is also a narrative campaign element to the DLC pack that even has Dan Aykroyd and William Atherton lending their voices to reprise their characters, Raymond Stantz and Walter Peck.

This content has been available on PC for a year already, but it’s only just now coming to the console edition of Planet Coaster.

The Studios Pack

As for the Studios Pack, this is themed around the movies. There are Wild West props, zombies animatronics, and vehicles that flip over to simulate an action scene. There is also a train that races off the tracks and scares nearby guests. Some of the new props include green screens, cameras, and clapperboards.

A new ride, Big Screen Tour, is also included in the Studios Pack. “Big Screen Tour is the Hollywood backlot tour experience brought to life, as powered buses with adjustable lengths bring guests face to face with elements from the silver screen,” reads a line from its description.

Another new ride is Re-Motion, which puts players into “pods” controlled by a robotic arm that can move with 360 degrees of freedom. The final new ride is Horror Heights, which is a Tower of Terror-like ride where players fall multiple storeys very quickly.

The Ghostbusters DLC costs $15 while the Studios Pack will sell for $10. Both expansions are scheduled to launch across PlayStation and Xbox on April 29.

Anyone who buys the Ghostbusters of Studios DLC on console and any Ghostbusters movie will get a $5 Xbox gift card in the US and Canada; this promotion is good until May 12.

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Pokemon Go Luminous Legends Event Adds Xerneas, More Gen 6 Pokemon

A few new Gen 6 Pokemon are coming to Pokemon Go soon as part of the upcoming Luminous Legends X event. That event runs from May 4-17 and adds the Legendary Pokemon Xerneas to the game (while its counterpart, Yveltal, will arrive in a later event), as well as a few other Dragon and Fairy types that originated in Pokemon X and Y.

Xerneas will be featured in five-star Raids throughout the Luminous Legends X event, making this your first opportunity to catch it in Pokemon Go. On top of that, the Gen 6 monsters Spritzee, Swirlix, and Goomy will be available for the first time. These Pokemon will appear in the wild alongside other Dragon and Fairy types such as Dratini, Ralts, Bagon, and Cottonee.

In addition to the new Pokemon, the Luminous Legends X event introduces a new item to the game: the Rainy Lure Module. Like other Lures, this can be set in a PokeStop to attract certain types of Pokemon, but it has a secondary function as well. When you’re near an active Rainy Lure Module, you can evolve Sliggoo (Goomy’s evolved form) into Goodra. You can also evolve the Pokemon when the weather in the game is raining.

Beyond that, there will be new event-exclusive Field Research tasks, which will lead to encounters with Psychic, Dragon, and Fairy Pokemon like Galarian Ponyta and Gible. Galarian Ponyta and Alolan Exeggutor will also be featured in Raids, while Dragonite and Salamence will be able to learn new attacks via Charged TMs.

Niantic is also holding a collective challenge. If players can collectively catch 500 million Fairy-type Pokemon from May 4-11, then a variety of bonuses will be available during the second part of the event. These include the debut of Pancham and Shiny Galarian Ponyta, as well as a triple XP bonus each time you catch a Pokemon. You can read more details about the event on the official Pokemon Go blog.

Yveltal Is Debuting Soon In Pokemon Go

Shortly after the Luminous Legends X event ends, Niantic will be holding a Luminous Legends Y event. As part of that event, the Legendary Pokemon Yveltal will make its debut in Pokemon Go, presumably as a five-star Raid boss. Yveltal is known as the Destruction Pokemon, and it served as the cover monster for Pokemon Y. Niantic hasn’t shared many other details about the Luminous Legends Y event yet beyond that, but it did confirm that Pancham will also hatch from Strange Eggs. Further information will be announced at a later date.

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Leonardo DiCaprio To Potentially Star In English Version Of Oscar-Winning Movie Another Round

An English-language version of Another Round, which just won Best International Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, is in the works with Leonardo DiCaprio set to potentially star.

According to Deadline, DiCaprio’s Appian Way film banner bought the English-language rights with Endeavor Content and Makeready. The report said the English-language rights were in high demand even before the Oscars.

The producers are now looking to hire a writer “quickly,” according to the report.

If DiCaprio joins the movie, he would play the part that Mads Mikkelsen played in the Swedish movie, which follows a man facing an existential crisis who decides to drink all day as an experiment to improve his happiness.

Thomas Vinterberg directed Another Round, and he was nominated for overall Best Director. Vinterberg gave an emotional speech during his acceptance for Best International Film, dedicating it to his daughter Ida, who was killed in a car crash just days into filming. She was cast to play the daughter of Mikkelsen’s character.

“We wanted to make a film that celebrates life. And four days into shooting, the impossible happened. An accident on a highway took my daughter away,” he said. “Someone looking into a cell phone. We miss her and I love her. We ended up making this movie for her, as her monument. So Ida, this is a miracle that just happened. And you’re a part of this miracle.”

Another Round, which is called Druk in Swedish, will be just the latest Swedish film to get an English-language version. One of the more famous examples was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Swedish version of which was adapted by David Fincher in 2011.

Today Only: Pick Up Corsair’s K95 RGB Gaming Keyboard For $80 Off

A sale at Best Buy has discounted one of Corsair’s premium keyboards, taking a whopping $80 off its price tag. For today only, the Corsair K95 RGB Platinum gaming keyboard is on sale for $120, down from its usual price tag of $200. For comparison, it’s on sale for $170 at Amazon today.

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The K95 RGB Platinum is a full-size keyboard, meaning it comes with a number pad attached on its right side. The Platinum’s left side also includes six keys you may not find on other keyboards–these are made for assigning macros to. If you’re a content creator, you can bind them to specific actions in editing software, and streamers can set the keys to different commands on their Stream Deck. If you’re an MMO or MOBA player, these keys can also come in handy, letting you perform multiple actions with one keystroke.

Naturally, the K95 RGB Platinum also comes loaded with RGB goodness. Every key on the board is lit up by a backlight, and the border on the top of the keyboard even has its own RGB strip, making for a genuine light show if you’re using this keyboard in the dark. Like most other Corsair products, you can use iCue, the company’s software, to customize the K95 Platinum’s RGB and keybindings.

If you’re a fan of quiet keyboards, be aware that this one may be a bit louder than you’re used to. The K95 RGB Platinum comes with Cherry MX Speed switches under its keys–combined with the keyboard’s aluminum frame, those make for a rather clicky sound.

Today’s discount on the Corsair K95 RGB Platinum is part of Best Buy’s deals of the day. There are a few other sweet items PC enthusiasts can pick up for cheap until the end of the day, including a 4TB NVMe drive, a monitor arm mount, and a Logitech USB headset.

The Office Season 1 Supercut Episodes On Peacock Have Finally Arrived

Fans of The Office will be able to watch never-before-seen footage of Season 1 starting today on Peacock. Jokes and scenes that haven’t been available before will see the light of day with what Peacock is calling the Superfan Episodes.

These episodes feature interviews, featurettes, and bloopers from the first season of the hit NBC series. Check out a video featuring some of these moments below.

Earlier this year, Peacock did this same thing for Season 3 of the series–and you can check out what’s contained in the Superfan Episodes here. Peacock has plans to do this for more seasons of The Office. There were plans for Season 4 to arrive back in March, but as of this writing, only Seasons 1 and 3 have these Superfan Episodes.

While Peacock has a free tier, you’ll need a Premium ($5 a month) or Premium Plus ($10 a month) subscription in order to watch these Superfan Episodes–or any episodes of The Office in general. The difference between the two tiers–aside from price–is that Premium Plus is ad-free.

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There was a reboot of The Office in the works, dating back to 2018. While things were slowly coming together for years, series creator Greg Daniels said back in January that it’s not in active development. The Office reboot isn’t completely out of the question for the future, though.

Peacock has been making some big moves in the past year. While the streaming service lost near $1 billion in 2020, the service recently gained all of WWE’s back catalog and streaming rights to PPVs. There is also a new Bill Nye show coming to Peacock in the near future. You can take a look at what’s coming to Peacock in May 2021 for a better look at the streaming service.

Mortal Kombat Helps US Box Office Reach Highest Numbers Since March 2020

Mortal Kombat is in theaters now (in addition to HBO Max) and it’s making an impact during a time when the box office is coming back to life. The video game movie made $22.5 million in the US for its opening weekend to stand as the No. 1 movie domestically this weekend.

Coming in at No. 2 was the anime movie Demon Slayer ($19.5 million). In total for all movies, the US box office generated $52.9 million this weekend, which is the biggest single-weekend result since mid-March 2020 when the pandemic was kicking off.

Mortal Kombat also now owns the record for biggest R-rated movie release during the pandemic. All of these box office figures and insight comes from Deadline. “All of this is a great sign that the world is opening up again, as the pandemic eases and vaccinations go up,” Deadline reported.

The site also reported that Warner Bros.’ decision to release the first seven minutes of the movie last Tuesday proved to be very successful. Deadline said pre-sales for Mortal Kombat tickets tripled on the day that footage was released.

Mortal Kombat was just the latest pandemic success story for Warner Bros., becoming the studio’s fourth movie during the health crisis to open in the No. 1 position. The studio’s other movies were Tom and Jerry, Godzilla vs. Kong, and Tenet.

Worldwide, Mortal Kombat has already made more than $50 million at the box office. The movie is also available on HBO Max, but there is no word yet on what impact its release on the streaming service had on subscriber numbers.

Here at GameSpot, our reviewer loved Mortal Kombat. “This new take on Mortal Kombat is one of the most successful video game adaptations yet–by a long shot,” Chris Hayner said in our Mortal Kombat review. “While not perfect, it wonderfully captures the essence of the Mortal Kombat video game franchise.”

For more, check out GameSpot’s recent feature, “Mortal Kombat: 25 Movie Easter Eggs And References To The Video Game Franchise.”

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Xbox Games With Gold Free Games For May 2021 Revealed

Microsoft has unveiled May’s Xbox Games with Gold lineup, and it’s arguable that the backwards-compatible Xbox 360 games lead the way. Lego Batman and Tropico 4 will be free for Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers next month, while the Xbox One freebies include Dungeons 3 and Armello. Lego Batman and Armello will be free starting May 1, while Tropico 4 and Dungeons 3 will be available on May 16. All four of the freebies are playable on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One.

Armello is a digital tabletop game set in a dark fairy tale world ruled by animals. You play as a hero attempting to become the leader of Armello. To get to that point, you have to slowly work your way through strategic card-based battles, make friends, and complete a wide variety of quests. If you like card-based role-playing games and board games, Armello is worth checking out. It’ll be free all throughout May.

Dungeons 3 is a dungeon simulator where you play as Thalya, the leader tasked with commanding troops to create diabolical dungeons. Dungeons 3 has a single-player campaign with 20 mainline missions and a co-op mode where you and your partner can construct dastardly dungeons together. Dungeons 3 will be free from May 16 to June 15.

Lego Batman released way back in 2008, but if you’re looking for a game to play with the family, it’s still a good one to check out. In Lego Batman, the Caped Crusader and Robin must track down the most notorious villains of Gotham, including Riddler, Penguin, and Joker. Lego Batman, like all Traveller’s Tales Lego games, has breezy gameplay mechanics and a lighthearted tone. It will be free from May 1 to May 15.

Haemimont Games’ Tropico 4 is a strategy management sim that places you in the role of El Presidente. You work to create a prosperous nation, tending to your citizens’ needs and thwarting attacks from enemies of the government. The satirical storyline is compelling and bolsters the solid strategy and management sim mechanics. Tropico 4 will be free from May 16 to May 31.

You still have until April 30 to claim two of April’s free games: Vikings: Wolves of Midgard and Hard Corps: Uprising. Truck Racing Championship will be free until May 15, too.

Free Games with Gold for May 2021

  • Armello — May 1-31
  • Dungeons 3 — May 16-June 15
  • Lego Batman — May 1-15
  • Tropico 4 — May 16-31

EA Is Trying To Drive Players Towards Lootboxes, Leaked Documents Reveal

A 54-page document leaked by an insider to the Canadian Broadcast Corporation suggests that FIFA publisher Electronic Arts is actively pushing players to spend money on microtransactions. The document, which was provided by a leaker from EA Vancouver, appears to be a presentation that frankly discusses the importance of FIFA’s microtransaction-fuelled mode FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT).

“We are doing everything we can to drive players there,” a portion of the presentation reads. That same bullet-point refers to FIFA Ultimate Team as the “cornerstone” of the game. Another portion of the presentation details how the game’s developers use “content teasers” to attempt to incentivize players to spend money on Ultimate Team, summarizing that strategy as “all roads lead to FUT.”

According to the CBC, the insider felt obligated to leak the document because he and others dislike working on video games that include loot boxes and other gambling-type elements. An EA representative declined to comment, other than to say that the document was “viewed without context.”

“All EA games can be played without spending on in-game items, and the majority of players do not spend,” the representative stated.

In a sense, this news should not be surprising to anyone who has followed gaming news in recent years. It’s been clear for quite a while that microtransactions are immensely profitable as a business model, with EA’s rival Activision Blizzard making $1.2 billion in revenue from in-game microtransactions in just three months. A law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against EA back in 2020, claiming that FIFA Ultimate Team is a form of predatory gambling. For now, however, loot boxes are legal in most jurisdictions, though some countries like the UK have commissioned studies to determine how exactly they affect vulnerable players.

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Call Of Duty: Warzone Verdansk ’84 Glitch Lets You Go Under The Map, And It’s A Problem

A newly discovered glitch in Call of Duty: Warzone allows players to access an area under the map where they can take out players who can’t see them. People on Reddit have discovered that it’s not very difficult to get under the map at the airport, in particular.

The potential for negatively impacting the game with this glitch is immediately obvious, and players who have been killed by those who use the glitch are understandably voicing their frustrations. You can see an example of the glitch in the video below, as spotted by PC Gamer. It’s also been reported that it’s possible to get under the new map, Verdansk ’84, at locations like the train station, downtown, and TV station.

Here is an example of what it looks like to be on the receiving end of the glitch. As you can see in the video, the unsuspecting player is taken out at the Stadium by someone who has gotten under the map. The player who was killed never saw it coming. The person who uploaded the video titled it “What’s the point of even playing right now?”

Cheating continues to be an issue with Warzone, but this problem appears to be more of an issue related to the map itself and out-of-bounds areas that are accessible when they should not be. It’s not clear yet if any of the developers of Warzone have responded to this issue.

The new Verdansk ’84 map is just a few days old at this point, so it was likely inevitable that there would be some teething issues like this. Here’s to hoping the developers close out these glitches before they become too commonplace.

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