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Netflix is reportedly working to secure a deal with Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) on turning Knives Out into a proper franchise with two more sequels, according to Deadline. The sequels would see Daniel Craig reprise his role as protagonist detective Benoit Blanc, and unnamed sources are indicating the deal could be at least $400 million–likely more–therefore making it “one of the biggest streamer movie deals in history.”

While the payday is eye-catching, the real big news here is Knives Out potentially turning into a trilogy. Until this news, only one sequel was expected. Of course, as most of the information on this is coming via unnamed sources–and none of the principals yet offering a comment–it’s still unknown what release dates, potential plots, and production start dates might be.

Johnson is doubling down on the mystery genre. Earlier this month, it was announced that Johnson had inked a deal with another streaming service, Peacock, for a 10-episode order for Poker Face. The show would be Johnson’s first television series, and all that’s known so far is it will be an hour-long series starring Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll, Orange is the New Black). Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) and Danielle Renfrew Behren (Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck) will co-executive produce along with Lyonne.

“I’m very excited to dig into the type of fun, character driven, case-of-the-week mystery goodness I grew up watching. It’s my happy place,” said Johnson in a release. “Having Natasha as a partner in crime is a dream, and we’ve found the perfect home at Peacock.”

Discord has launched its own version of Clubhouse, called Stage Channels, that allows users to host audio conversations to a room of listeners. The feature is now available wherever Discord can be downloaded, including mobile devices and the web.

The instant messaging app already allows for voice channels, rooms where all users present can talk freely with a mic connected. Stage Channels are more akin to public events like panels or town halls. In a Stage Channel, only certain people permitted can talk while everyone else is designated a listener, making for a more structured chat. The feature, however, is relegated to Community servers for now.

An invitation-only audio app that’s currently exclusive to iOS devices (though an Android version is in development), Clubhouse lets people setup conversations with a few individuals to be broadcasted to as many as 5,000 people. The app gained popularity throughout 2020 in large part because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a valuation of $1 billion and exceeding over three million users.

Discord is just the latest company to try emulating Clubhouse’s success. Twitter launched Spaces in December 2020 to eke out its own segment of the audio-only app space. Other companies, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Spotify are all reportedly in the process of developing their own live audio-only applications.

Fortnite Season 6 Week 3 challenges go live on April 1 at 6 am PT / 9 am ET, and among them is a challenge that asks you to defeat one of three particular NPCs: Raptor, Zenith, or Blackheart. The Fortnite map features dozens of NPCs that gift you items, assign additional quests, and trade you Gold Bars, but this challenge doesn’t require anything like that. You just need to defeat one of them. Here are the locations for Raptor, Zenith, and Blackheart.

Where To Find Raptor, Zenith, And Blackheart

Raptor can be found at the Crash Site, a landmark on the eastern cliffs beside Coral Castle. He’s wearing a yellow ski mask standing among plane wreckage.

Zenith is located at the Weather Station, a landmark atop a snowy mountain south of Catty Corner. He’s dressed appropriately for the cold with a winter jacket and face mask.

Blackheart can be found at the Viking longboat just west of Holly Hedges. He’s usually on the top deck but he does walk around the ship at times. Though it’s a Viking ship he resides in, Blackheart is dressed more like a traditional pirate. You can always find these NPCs at their respective locations seen in the map below.

For more Fortnite Season 6 Week 3 challenge guides, learn how to catch fish at Camp Cod, Lake Canoe, or Stealthy Stronghold.

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Comcast’s NBCUniversal is reportedly weighing pulling its own movies from non-Peacock streaming services and bringing them home to its own platform, according to Bloomberg. Such a move would likely also bring with it a guarantee that future film releases from the company would be on Peacock either exclusively or for an initial window of exclusivity.

According to unnamed sources, NBCUniversal hasn’t yet made a final decision, and senior executives there “are open to new deals with third parties like HBO Max and Netflix,” in deals that would be expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As Bloomberg correctly points out, this strategy indicates a fair bit about Peacock’s thinking moving forward and also its assessment of its success so far since launching last July. While the nearly year-old service has amassed roughly 33 million accounts, it’s also yet to make original programming as big of a budget priority as some rivals. However, Peacock has invested in and also planted flags with WWE content and streaming PPV events, and it will also have the Olympics streaming as well.

Of course, the pandemic has been a huge unpredictable wrench in whatever plans NBCUniversal may have had for Peacock. Back in December, Warner Bros. made a bold move to potentially change movie-going as we know it when it suddenly announced it would put its entire theatrical line-up onto streaming in 2021–a first move that’s set into motion many dominoes finding many major players in the space both rethinking and doubling down on betting which way streaming’s future might go. As of this writing, a top Netflix executive said they think exclusive theatrical windows will go away; Warner Bros., intriguingly, still thinks they’re important.

While The Office’s return to Peacock was met with much fanfare–and a reboot may happen, as well–something that’s been noticeably absent from discussion of Peacock is its original content. Peacock ended its first year in the business very much in the red with a $914 million loss in 2020, and reclaiming its other content may demonstrate a lack of understanding that as streaming services increasingly snatch up the expiring rights to the same movies and TV shows, an expectation of the strategy with all platforms to be worth paying to be a member is their ability to cultivate a healthy ecosystem of original content.

The next film installment in the Resident Evil franchise, titled Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, has had its release date pushed back to November 24, 2021.

The new release date is a two-month delay, as the movie was originally going to hit theaters on September 3. The new November 24 release means the film will hit theaters the day before Thanksgiving in the United States.

GameSpot has reached out to Sony for further information about the delay. We’ll report back with any additional details we receive.

The film is written and directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) and will star Kaya Scodelario (Crawl), Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp), Robbie Amell (Upload), Tom Hopper (Black Sails), Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap), and Neal McDonough (The 100).

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City takes place in the titular midwestern town which was once home to the pharmaceutical company the Umbrella Corporation. The company left and the city is a wasteland, and there is a “great evil brewing below the surface.” Of course, said evil is unleashed upon the town and a group of survivors is trying to uncover the mystery behind it all–which leads back to Umbrella. The goal of the movie was to add a lot more depth to these characters fans are familiar with.

The official title of the movie was revealed this past month, and we learned that Welcome to Raccoon City will be a grounded story, according to Roberts. There is a lot coming down the pipeline for RE fans, with Resident Evil Village arriving in May, an animated RE Netflix series following Leon and Claire, and a live-action Netflix series that follows the Wesker family

One of PSN’s biggest annual sales has kicked off once more on PS4 and PS5 to celebrate the start of a new season. This year’s PlayStation Store Spring Sale is truly massive, with 700+ PS5 and PS4 games marked down. The PSN Spring Sale is so big that PlayStation is breaking the sale into two parts, the first of which includes discounts on a wide variety of titles like Ghost of Tsushima, FIFA 21, and Grand Theft Auto V. The second wave of deals will be added on Wednesday, April 14.

In addition to those games, the primeval survival game Ark: Survival Evolved is on sale, along with Doom Eternal, Fallout 76, PUBG, and The Last of Us: Part II. EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront II is also marked down nicely for its Celebration Edition, while No Man’s Sky–which just got a big new expansion–is available for half off. Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption II, GameSpot’s 2018 Game of the Year, is marked down by 50%.

The Spring Sale wraps up on Wednesday, April 28. Sony also warned that some games will leave the sale before then, as part of the second wave of deals going live, so you’ll want to check a game’s store page for its specific end date. We’ve highlighted a handful of the most notable deals below, but you can check out the full list of 700+ games on sale on the PlayStation Blog. We’ll also be updating this story once the new batch of deals goes live at the midway point on April 14.

Best Spring Sale deals on PS4 and PS5

• Ark: Survival Evolved — $10 ($50)
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla — $40.19 ($60)
• Battlefield 1 — $6 ($20)
• BioShock: The Collection — $10 ($50)
• Borderlands 3 — $25 ($70)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare — $39 ($60)
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy — $20 ($40)
• Dark Souls III — $15 ($60)
• Day Z — $30 ($50)
• Destiny 2: Beyond Light — $26.79 ($40)
• Doom Eternal — $24 ($60)
• Dreams — $13 ($20)
• Fallout 76 — $13.19 ($40)
• FIFA 21 — $25.19 ($60)
• Ghost of Tsushima — $40.19 ($60)
• God of War: Digital Deluxe Edition — $20 ($30)
• Grand Theft Auto V — $15 ($30)
• Madden NFL 21 — $24 ($60)
• Mafia: Definitive Edition — $30 ($40)
• Metro Exodus — $12 ($40)
• No Man’s Sky — $30 ($60)
• The Last of Us: Part II — $30 ($60)
• PUBG — $9.89 ($30)
• Red Dead Redemption II — $30 ($60)
• Star Wars: Battlefront II Celebration Edition — $12 ($40)

In addition to all the Spring Sale deals, you can take advantage of a new batch of PS Plus games for April starting on April 6. Days Gone and Zombie Army 4: Dead War will be available to claim on PS4 and PS5, while Oddworld: Soulstorm will be available exclusively for PS5. In the meantime, you can still claim March’s PS Plus games, including Final Fantasy VII Remake, Maquette, Remnant: From the Ashes, and Farpoint (PSVR).

Best PS Plus deal

You can snag a 12-month PS Plus code for $31 via eBay.

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For more recommendations of games to play next, be sure to check out our guides to the best PS4 games of all time (some of which are included in the Spring Sale) and the best PS5 games to play right now.

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WWE’s biggest PPV of the year is none other than Wrestlemania 37, which is coming to Peacock on April 10 and 11. The two-night event will see wrestlers from Smackdown and Raw battle each other on the biggest stage of the year.

2021’s Wrestlemania will span two nights, much like last year’s, taking place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. However, this year, you’ll be able to attend the event live if you so chose–but you’ll have to buy groups of tickets as social distancing will be in place.

If you can’t or won’t attend the live event, you’ll probably want to watch from the safety and comfort of your own couch. If you live in the United States or Australia, Wrestlemania airs at a reasonable hour. If you live in the UK, we’re very sorry if you want to watch live because it’s going to be two long mornings for you. Check out some global start times below.

Start time on April 10 and 11:

• 5 PM PT
• 7 PM CT
• 8 PM ET
• 1 AM BST (April 11, 12)
• 10 AM AEST (April 11, 12)

Of course, these start times are for the main card. Typically, WWE has a Kickoff Show–which has been two hours long in the past for Wrestlemania–that airs on Twitter and YouTube for free. It’s unknown how long this year’s Kickoff Show will be, but there should be a match or two on each one on both nights. We’ll keep you updated as we learn more.

How to watch:

For years, the best way to watch WWE PPVs was by signing up for the WWE Network, the company’s streaming service. And while people outside of the United States can still do that, folks in the US will have to access Wrestlemania through NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock–as the WWE Network service will have ended by then.

Peacock will be the new home to WWE content for now, with classic episodes of Raw, Smackdown, and NXT available to watch on demand. Additionally, Peacock will live stream major events and you can check out the backlog of WWE PPVs, original content, and plenty of other things that were available on the WWE Network.

Sign up for Peacock

Peacock has multiple subscription tiers, including a free option

See at Peacock TV

In order to watch WWE PPVs on Peacock, you’ll need a Premium or Premium Plus account, which costs money. A Premium account is ad-supported but only costs $5 a month, and a Premium Plus account has no ads–there’s some small exceptions to that rule though–and costs $10 a month. Peacock also has original series and like other services, as a catalog of movies and TV shows. However, Peacock also will be live streaming the Tokyo Olympics this summer, which is a big plus for fans.

Wrestlemania 37 match card:

The Wrestlemania 37 card is already pretty stacked, with 12 matches already booked. At the time of this writing, the Smackdown Tag Team Championship match has not been booked and neither has the Women’s Tag Team Championship. Additionally, it would be great to see some NXT titles celebrated at this event, but that doesn’t look like it’s in the cards. Here is what is booked for the show so far.

Night 1:

• Bobby Lashley (c) vs. Drew McIntyre – WWE Championship
• Sasha Banks (c) vs. Bianca Belair – Smackdown Women’s Championship
• Bad Bunny vs. The Miz
• Cesaro vs. Seth Rollins

Night 2:

• Roman Reigns (c) vs. Edge vs. Daniel Bryan – Triple Threat for Universal Championship
• The Fiend vs. Randy Orton
• Asuka (c) vs. Rhea Ripley – Raw Women’s Championship
• Matt Riddle (c) vs. Sheamus – United States Championship
• Big E (c) vs. Apollo Crews – Intercontinental Championship
• Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn

No night assigned yet:

• The New Day (c) vs. AJ Styles & Omos – Raw Tag Team Championship
• Braun Strowman vs. Shane McMahon (Steel Cage Match)

Predictions:

Who will win? Who will lose? These are two questions people are probably asking about Wrestlemania. And while GameSpot’s wrestling podcast Wrestle Buddies will be giving you predictions for Wrestlemania next week in a special episode, check out our Fastlane 2021 predictions where we discuss how these matches will lead into the April PPV. A couple of these predictions are right on the money, while others… not so much.

The Wrestlemania 37 predictions episode will be live next week.

Of course, make sure to come back to GameSpot in the upcoming weeks for interviews with WWE wrestlers, more Wrestlemania podcasts, and live coverage and a review of the PPV on April 10 and 11.