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Another lawsuit has been filed against Sony regarding its digital game sales, alleging that PlayStation customers have been overcharged by “billions” of dollars because of policies that prevent retailers from selling digital game codes on their own.

The lawsuit Cendejas v. Sony Interactive Entertainment was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and follows a separate suit, Cacccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment, which is essentially arguing the same thing.

Before April 1, 2019, PlayStation Store digital games could be purchased at retailers via code cards, letting the retailers set prices and put them on sale. That is no longer an option, leading to Microsoft’s digital game store sometimes getting better prices than what Sony’s gets. Microsoft still allows retailers to sell code cards for Xbox systems.

The Cendejas case also specifically calls out the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition. While the standard PS5 supports discs, and thus gives players the chance to shop around for the physical versions of many games, the Digital Edition only supports the PlayStation Store.

“Consumers, limited to a single source for purchasing any digital PlayStation content, are forced to pay a higher price for digital PlayStation games than they would in a free and unrestrained competitive retail market,” the suit says.

According to attorney Richard Hoeg, we’ll likely see similar cases like this lumped into one to be heard by a court. There probably won’t be a whole bunch of different lawsuits arguing the same case against Sony, especially since there doesn’t appear to be much difference between them.

“You’ll only get multiple lawsuits if there is some element of a complaint/proposed class that is materially different from other claims,” Hoeg told GameSpot. “In general, though, you’ll just be looking at one case.”

It’s likely we’ll see similar lawsuits filed before too long, as Hoeg said attorneys make money when they’re chosen to be the counsel for a class in a class-action lawsuit.

“Because of that, there is often a ‘race to the courthouse’ of overlapping proposed lead plaintiffs, in an effort for a plaintiff’s class-action firm to get that position,” he added.

Sony’s decision has made it impossible for certain retailers to offer console parity on their digital game sales. Newegg, for instance, has run $10 off deals on digital Xbox versions of a few different games lately, including Resident Evil Village and Biomutant. Without a way to sell game codes, retailers can’t offer the same savings to PlayStation users.

Yveltal is making its debut in Pokemon Go very soon. The Legendary Destruction Pokemon will arrive in five-star Raids as part of the Luminous Legends Y event, which runs from May 18-31. This marks your first chance to catch Yveltal in Niantic’s mobile game, so we’ve rounded up some tips to help you beat and catch the new Gen 6 Legendary below.

Yveltal Weaknesses And Counters

Yveltal is a Dark/Flying type, which gives it a handful of common weaknesses that you can exploit. The Legendary is particularly weak to Electric, Ice, Rock, and Fairy Pokemon, so you have a variety of options to choose from when battling it. Here are some good Pokemon of each type, along with recommended moves:

Pokemon	Type	Recommended Fast Attack	Recommended Charge Attack
Zekrom	Dragon/Electric	Charge Beam	Wild Charge
Raikou	Electric	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge
Zapdos	Electric/Flying	Thunder Shock	Thunderbolt
Mega Manectric	Electric	Charge Beam	Wild Charge
Mamoswine	Ice/Ground	Powder Snow	Avalanche
Galarian Darmanitan	Ice	Ice Fang	Avalanche
Mega Abomasnow	Ice/Grass	Powder Snow	Blizzard
Kyurem	Dragon/Ice	Dragon Breath	Blizzard
Rhyperior	Ground/Rock	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker
Rampardos	Rock	Smack Down	Rock Slide
Tyranitar	Rock/Dark	Bite	Stone Edge
Alolan Golem	Rock/Electric	Rock Throw	Wild Charge
Aerodactyl	Rock/Flying	Rock Throw	Rock Slide
Xerneas	Fairy	Tackle	Moonblast
Togekiss	Fairy/Flying	Charm	Dazzling Gleam
Gardevoir	Psychic/Fairy	Charm	Dazzling Gleam
Granbull	Fairy	Charm	Play Rough

While the above monsters are among the best Yveltal counters, almost any Electric, Ice, Rock, or Fairy Pokemon will be helpful when battling the Legendary, especially if they know Fast and Charged attacks of their respective types. Rock Pokemon in particular are good choices to use because they have naturally high defenses and will resist any Flying-type moves that Yveltal may know.

Types To Avoid

Although they are normally among the game’s best offensive Pokemon, Psychic and Ghost types will take super-effective damage from Yveltal, so you’ll want to avoid using them when challenging the Legendary. Fighting and Bug Pokemon may also prove to be a liability; while they are typically strong against Dark types, they won’t last long against Yveltal if it knows a Flying-type attack.

Yveltal Raid Schedule

Yveltal is debuting in Pokemon Go as part of the Luminous Legends Y event, which kicks off at 10 AM local time on May 18 and runs until 8 PM local time on May 31. The Legendary will be available as a Raid boss throughout the entire event, giving you almost two full weeks to catch it.

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2021 marks the 20th anniversary of Xbox, and Microsoft is going big to celebrate with a variety of promotions, events, and activities scheduled to mark the occasion.

The original Xbox launched on November 15, 2001, so its 20th anniversary is right around the corner. As an excellent oral history explained, it was a struggle to get Xbox off the ground inside Microsoft at the start, but now the business is thriving and Xbox has become synonymous with gaming. A new blog post runs down a number of the ways Microsoft is celebrating the milestone, and also dropped some stats, like how 7,000 games have been released across all Xbox platforms over the past 20 years. Additionally, players have collectively tallied nearly 1 trillion in combined Gamerscore.

Halo: Combat Evolved was the so-called killer app for Xbox at the start, and to celebrate, Microsoft created a special piece of artwork that pays homage to the past and looks forward to the future. The next Halo game, Halo Infinite, releases this fall. A release date hasn’t been announced yet, but November 15 would be a pretty special date to launch it.

Microsoft’s celebrations for Xbox’s 20th anniversary are on now through November 15, and they include a number of events and promotions. These include a social media campaign where users can share their favorite memories and stories using the #Xbox20 hashtag.

The Xbox Gear Shop, meanwhile, already has new merchandise to pick up, including T-shirts, mugs, bags, and more. Fans can also now snag free anniversary-themed wallpapers, while registration for the 20th Anniversary Xbox FanFest are now open.

A 20-year gamerpic and “The Original” profile theme are now available on console to help you deck out and customize your console with the anniversary in mind. Those on Xbox Series X|S can get a special dynamic version of The Original.

Additionally, Microsoft has curated a collection of memorable and noteworthy games from Xbox’s 20 years. You can also search “Xbox Anniversary” in the console store to bring up these games.

Additionally, Microsoft will host a livestream today, May 13, on Twitch.tv/Xbox beginning at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET. The hosts will reminisce about the anniversary while playing Halo: Combat Evolved through The Master Chief Collection.

Microsoft is planning even more anniversary events in the lead-up to the November 15 anniversary date, so keep checking back for more.

He-Man is returning to TV on July 23. The new series, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, will premiere on Netflix on July 23, and finally, the first images are out for the show. If you love the original ’80s cartoon, this will be right up your alley.

The Mattel Television series comes from showrunner Kevin Smith (Clerks), and the show picks up right where the original series left off: a battle between He-Man and Skeletor has left Eternia fractured, and Teela wants to reunite the heroes of the land to help find the missing Sword of Power. Part 1 of the series will consist of five episodes.

There are a lot of familiar voices in Revelation. Mark Hamill (Star Wars) will play Skeletor, Chris Wood (Supergirl) plays He-Man/Prince Adam, and Stephen Root (Office Space) will voice He-Man’s trusty cat Cringer. The show also features Lena Headey, Griffin Newman, Henry Rollins, Tony Todd, and Kevin Conroy. Masters of the Universe: Revelation is produced by Mattel Television, featuring animation from Powerhouse Animation, which also animated Netflix’s Castlevania.

Showrunner Smith has a fondness for the original series, and wants to create something that really follows in the footsteps of it. “Narratively our show is set up as the next episode in the legacy ‘80s animated series that aired from 1983-1985,” Smith said in a press release. “This is a continuation of that story. We’re playing with the original mythology and characters, and revisiting and digging deeper into some of the unresolved storylines. Visually we also made the conscious decision to lean into the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE line of toys for inspiration as well. Mattel owns this entire vast library of that artwork, so right away we wanted the show to open with classic pieces of that artwork. Mattel has been committed to this look since they first started as a toy line in the ’80s, and now we’re leaning into it and honoring it.”

Additionally, Mattel will be producing a toy line for Revelation arriving at major retailers on June 15, with additional toys coming in the fall.

This week, Grand Theft Auto Online is living up to its name, paying players extra for committing its namesake. After last week’s focus on everything high-end and militaristic, the game is shifting to the streets of Los Santos with bonuses for Special Vehicle Work and more.

The full list of bonuses for Grand Theft Auto Online players can be found below or in a blog post from Rockstar.

More Cash And XP For Vehicle Work

Anyone that likes spending their time in GTA Online driving around in souped-up hotrods or heavily armored machines of destruction will be rewarded a bit more this week. Whether the job is delivering a car or blowing things up, all Special Vehicle Work will earn players twice the usual cash and XP for their efforts.

Big Bonuses For Target Assault Races

If you’re more of a fan of cars with mounted .50 caliber machine guns than the ones with powerful engines, this week has something in store for you. Target Assault Races, which have gunners work with drivers to navigate down a target-filled track, will pay out three times as much money and XP, regardless of what place players end up in.

Double Rewards For Business Battles

If you have a nightclub in GTA Online, you know you have to look out for number one. That’s why Business Battles are rewarding players with twice the usual cash and XP this week. If you see another nightclub owner trying to move product and get ahead, remind them who’s boss.

Triple Rewards For Motor Wars Competitors

If vehicular manslaughter is your game, you can rake in the big bucks for the rest of this month. Motor Wars is rewarding all competitors with three times the usual cash and XP, regardless of how they place.

Free Items Galore

Just for logging in every week, players get their own grab bag of free schwag, and this time around is no different. Every player will get some fresh threads in the form of a white Vom Feuer hoodie. If you’re over level 100 though, you can pick up something extra special. Anyone that’s bought an Anti-Aircraft Trailer can deck it out with a free Galaxy Livery. Just be aware that it will be added to your account within three days of playing after May 24.

If you’re up for a gamble, this week also has a new car on the podium in the Diamond Casino’s Lucky Wheel. This week players that get lucky could walk away from the casino with a new Declasse Drift Yosemite, a souped-up pick-up truck.

Discounts On Offices And Weapons Alike

This week, players can get almost anything they need at a discount. If you’re not in the business of sourcing special vehicles just yet, you can get in on it for 50% less this week. For the executives already out there, improvements to your office are also half off.

Players that are looking for more firepower will also find a ton of savings for the next seven days. Any upgrade to weapons applied in the Weapons Workshop in your Mobile Operations Center will also be 50% off.

Finally, anyone looking to pick up some weaponized vehicles has their best opportunity this week. These rides are usually pricey, so if you’re looking for a drivable drill or a nice truck with a mounted machine gun, now’s the time.

• Jobuilt Phantom Wedge – 40% discount
• Benefactor Turreted Limo – 40% discount
• Anti-Aircraft Trailer – 40% discount
• Karin Technical Aqua – 40% discount
• BF Dune FAV – 30% discount
• Vapid Caracara – 30% discount
• Bravado Gauntlet Hellfire – 30% discount
• HVY Menacer – 40% discount

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The latest Fortnite Wild Weeks in-game event is now live alongside the Week 9 challenges update. This week’s theme is Fish Fiesta, and to celebrate the pescado party, Epic is altering the way fishing works in Fortnite for one week only.

With Fish Fiesta, players will enjoy several gameplay buffs to fish, both catching and eating them. Fishing spots will now remain present in bodies of water for longer, with a minimum of three catches per spot, up to a maximum of six catches. Normally, they have a chance of disappearing after just one catch, so this should greatly help this week’s Legendary Quest to catch up to 250 fish.

Rare fish will also be more likely to be caught from fishing spots, and any weapons pulled instead will be no worse than Rare (blue). On top of that, Pro Fishing Rods will be more plentiful. The Pro Fishing Rod differs from the usual in that it can also pull items–and even players–outside of the water. It’s also helpful in catching rarer fish. Combined with this week’s boon to rare fish drops, a Pro Fishing Rod may feel like a near-guarantee of catching the game’s rarest fish or higher-rarity weapons.

The Fish Fiesta will remain active until May 20 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. At least two more Wild Weeks are scheduled to occur for subsequent weeks thereafter, which will take us right up to the end of the season. Fortnite Season 6 is currently scheduled to end on June 7, though Epic has been known to move seasons’ start and end times around as needed.

There’s no word yet on whether this season will feature a climactic event like the start of it did with the Zero Point Finale, but it’s been over a year since Epic switched seasons without some sort of spectacle, so we expect word on this soon, be it by official sources or the ever-active datamining community.

For more on Fortnite, don’t miss the full list of Week 9 challenges, including one that asks players to activate a rift by purchasing it from a character.

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The list of pandemic-inspired movies is growing, as James McAvoy (Split) and Sharon Horgan (Military Wives) will appear in a new film called Together about a struggling couple who become forced into lockdown.

The Crown’s Stephen Daldry is directing the movie, which is written by Utopia’s Dennis Kelly. Together takes place in the UK at the start of the pandemic and its lockdowns in March 2020. The movie will follow McAvoy and Horgan’s characters through until present day.

They play a husband and wife who–like many people in the real world–took time to re-evaluate their relationship and themselves amidst the pandemic and lockdowns. The BBC reported that break-ups and divorces spiked in the UK during the pandemic, so this story is likely to hit home for some people.

“Horgan plays a charity worker who is a co-ordinator for all of Europe at a refugee charity, while McAvoy plays a self-employed man who runs a boutique computing consultancy. He’s been forced to furlough his staff and take up growing vegetables. The couple share a 10-year-old son, who is the one thing that has kept his parents’ relationship together–until lockdown,” reads a line from the BBC Two movie’s description (via Variety).

McAvoy and Horgan’s characters “totally hate each other,” and they were able to manage this before the lockdown by staying physically distant. But the pandemic changed everything.

“It’s about how humans negotiate their shared experiences when they think they have nothing in common other than staying alive, and it’s about how you can hate what you love and love what you hate,” he said.

McAvoy said he’s a fan of Kelly’s writing, and after learning Horgan and Daldry were involved, he said it was a “no-brainer” to sign on. “It’s a hilarious, heartfelt, entertaining, and unconsciously funny exploration of a relationship and a couple facing real tragedy across a year we have all lived through,” he said.

Horgan said she wasn’t keen on doing a COVID drama until she read Kelly’s script. She also revealed that filming took place over 10 days, and she described the process as a “beautifully stressful experience.”

“It also felt like we were making something important. And the fact that it feels like news means that the COVID death toll, the tragedy of so many lives lost unnecessarily, has not been talked about enough,” Horgan said.

It was recently revealed that Phil Lord and Chris Miller are set to direct a pandemic movie, while comedy legend Judd Apatow is making a meta-movie about the pandemic and actors who get stuck in hotel quarantine.

The first image from Monsters at Work has been released. The series is a spin-off from the 2001 Pixar hit Monsters Inc and hits Disney+ on July 2.

The image has been revealed by IGN. It shows the group of all-new monsters who work on the Laugh Floor of Monsters, Incorporated. They are Tylor Tuskmon (Ben Feldman), Fritz (Henry Winkler), Val Little (Mindy Kaling), Cutter (Alanna Ubach), and Duncan (Lucas Neff). Check it out below:

In March, Disney released details about these new characters in a series of tweets. Monsters at Work will also see the return of Billy Crystal and John Goodman as Mike and Sully, the main characters from both Monsters Inc. and its sequel Monsters University.

Disney has also released an official synopsis for the show. It reads, “Monsters At Work takes place the day after the Monsters, Incorporated power plant started harvesting the laughter of children to fuel the city of Monstropolis, thanks to Mike and Sulley’s discovery that laughter generates ten times more energy than screams.

“It follows the story of Tylor Tuskmon, an eager young monster who graduated top of his class at Monsters University and always dreamed of becoming a Scarer until he lands a job at Monsters, Incorporated, and discovers that scaring is out and laughter is in. After Tylor is temporarily reassigned to the Monsters, Inc. Facilities Team (MIFT), he must work alongside a misfit bunch of mechanics while setting his sights on becoming a Jokester.”

Pixar’s latest movie is Luca, and that arrives on Disney+ in June. Check out the latest Luca trailer, and then read why some Pixar employees are reportedly not happy about the decision to send it straight to streaming.

The Kate McKinnon-led series about Carole Baskin and “Tiger King” Joe Exotic is changing its roll-out broadcast plans to now exclusively air on Peacock, according to The Hollywood Reporter. When the new show was first announced back in 2020, it originally had an unusual plan to hit three different NBCUniversal platforms: NBC (a broadcast network), Peacock (a streaming service), and USA (a basic cable network).

“Joe Exotic is shaping up to be a bold and provocative drama and perfectly suited for Peacock, where we can push the envelope and truly bring the story to life in a way that we would be unable to do on broadcast television,” said Susan Rovner, chairman of entertainment content at NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. “Moving Joe Exotic to Peacock exclusively is just one example of the strengths of our new structure, which gives us the ability to let the art dictate the platform and not the other way around.”

This announcement comes on the heels of NBCUniversal indicating it is considering pulling its movies from HBO Max and Netflix and have them live at Peacock instead, in a push to make it a streaming service destination with more exclusive content. That announcement itself continued a trend established with The Office leaving Netflix earlier this year and winding up on Peacock.

Even if NBCUniversal is changing its plans for its Tiger King show–which recently added John Cameron Mitchell (Shrill) in the titular role–with exclusivity in its mind, it will still have some competition. There’s currently also both a Joe Exotic documentary and an Amazon retelling of his story starring Nicolas Cage in the works.