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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 had a massive impact on the Call Of Duty formula by delivering a mil-sim-inspired game. Large maps, a thoughtful attachment system, and the inclusion of vehicles attracted lapsed Battlefield players and gamers who didn’t traditionally enjoy the arcade feel of Call Of Duty. Modern Warfare fans were upset when Cold War took over the season pass, in-game store, and added over 30 Cold War guns into Warzone. Now with Cold War Season 2, Treyarch is taking the series, including Warzone, in a different direction, and it involves a lot of zombies.

In this video we talk about how recent unconfirmed reports say that the Warzone map introduced by Modern Warfare, Verdansk, will finally get nuked sometime in Season 2 to bring it in line with Black Ops Cold War. To make matters even tougher for some Modern Warfare players, the game may no longer fit on a base PS4’s 500 gig hard drive with Cold War also installed. In this video, we talk over the pros and cons of this final switch and check in on how you’re feeling about it.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is now in Season 2 and available on PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of Battlefield 5, including the FP-45 Liberator pistol, the Boys AT Rifle, and the M3 Carbine complete with Infrared Sniper Scope.

By Dave Jewitt and Adam Mason on March 6, 2021 at 7:00AM PST

The Nintendo Switch is one of the company’s biggest successes ever, outselling all of its other home consoles with the exception of the Wii. Despite these big numbers, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa isn’t resting, and he said he wants to avoid the big dropoff that most of Nintendo’s systems see once they’ve been out for a few years.

Speaking to Nikkei Business (and translated by Kotaku), Furukawa explained that with the exception of the Switch, Nintendo has seen its business take a “nosedive” when consoles have hit their midlife point. Since the Switch is now four years old, it’s seemingly at least at its midlife point, but sales continue to be strong for both games and the hardware.

“Because of this, I myself as well as those within the company do not at all think the current state of affairs will keep going and going,” he added.

That’s likely why we haven’t seen the last Switch hardware revision, either. Had the system not succeeded, like with the Wii U, it would have made sense for Nintendo to be preparing for the Switch’s outright successor to launch already. That isn’t the case, and we’ve heard reports of an upgraded Switch with an OLED screen and 4K docked output, instead.

What remains to be seen is if Nintendo’s desire to massively innovate will help it in the future. Given the huge appeal of the Switch as a hybrid device, it would be hard to go back to a Nintendo system that couldn’t be used as a handheld and a traditional console. Still, if there’s one thing Nintendo is good at, it’s giving us something we didn’t know we wanted until we had it.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially approved Microsoft’s purchase of Bethesda. It was one of the last remaining roadblocks to the acquisition finally closing, but Bethesda isn’t becoming part of Xbox just yet.

The SEC published a “notice of effectiveness” for the transaction on its website this week. If you’re not familiar with SEC filings, it doesn’t exactly mean much on the surface, but this notice is used when the SEC accepts a company’s registration. The “S-4” on the page means this is related to either a merger or an acquisition, and if you go to the related documents for this notice, it lists Microsoft’s registration amount as being $7.5 billion. This is the amount agreed upon during the deal last year.

The SEC’s approval actually comes as we were expecting to hear word from the European Commission, the other major regulatory body that could put a stop to this deal. It was scheduled to make a ruling by March 5, though it doesn’t appear to have made it public yet, assuming the ruling hasn’t been outright delayed. Assuming that is approved, it shouldn’t be too long before we see the companies working together officially.

That doesn’t mean PlayStation fans will be immediately left in the dust, however. The upcoming game Deathloop will actually launch as a PlayStation console exclusive, as the agreement was made prior to the Microsoft acquisition, and Microsoft is honoring that. Future games are more up in the air, though it would certainly make sense for big franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Doom to become Microsoft-exclusive in order to draw in more players.

It’s been nearly seven years since the release of P.T., and it’s still left a massive impression on fans and developers alike. Though the ill-fated demo for Silent Hills is now just a specter in the gaming world, that hasn’t stopped other developers from trying to rekindle the same sense of dread and horror with their attempts at paying homage to the minimalist horror game. The latest game paying tribute to P.T. is Evil Inside, an indie psychological horror game that tasks you with exploring a seemingly empty home to commune with the spirits that reside there.

With a trailer for the game being released, we put together a comparison video that shows off a side-by-side gameplay of P.T. and Evil Inside. In this video, we show off a number of the similarities between the two games–which there are many. In addition to similar-looking gameplay that focuses on walking down seemingly empty hallways and exploring rooms, we also get a look at the few jump scares that happen in both games. However, Evil Inside takes place in a much larger setting, and it’s fair to say that there’s much more to the game that we haven’t yet seen.

In addition to this comparison between horror games, we’ve also put together several other side-by-side looks at other games, including how the Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster compares to its original counterparts. For more on what’s happening in the gaming world, be sure to keep up with GameSpot.

Sometimes it takes a long time for a movie to get made. James Cameron worked on Alita: Battle Angel for nearly 20 years. But Steven Spielberg has him beat by a country mile with his latest project. Spielberg is finally bringing Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman to life with some help from Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The story behind The Talisman is pretty unusual. Often times, directors, actors, or producers will find a story that grabs them and ‘option’ it so that they can make a film or show out of it. Sometimes the project happens, and other times it peters out and the rights default back to the creator. Spielberg bought the rights to The Talisman right when the book came out in 1984–nearly 40 years ago. Not only that, he also bought the rights in perpetuity, meaning that if someone was going to make The Talisman, it would either be Spielberg himself or someone he hand picked.

Now, it’s finally happening. Spielberg is going to make a television show out of The Talisman for Netflix. In an especially small-world-snake-eating-its-tail moment, Spielberg has tapped the Duffer Brothers to executive produce the series. The Duffer Brothers are the minds behind one of Netflix’s most popular original series, Stranger Things, a story heavily inspired by Stephen King, from the red-outline text on the title card to the super-powered kid fighting otherworldly monsters.

Spielberg and the Duffer Brothers will produce the show in association with Spielberg’s own Amblin Entertainment and with Paramount Television Studios. Curtis Gwinn, who worked as both a writer and executive producer on Stranger Things, will be the showrunner for the project, which THR says is already in development.

The Talisman is the story of a 12-year-old-boy named Jack Sawyer, who sets off on a road trip to find The Talisman, a mystical item that can save his dying mother’s life. The roadtrip will take him not just across America itself, but also to its alternate-dimension twin, The Territories, where everyone has a double and things are much more dangerous. It has all the hallmarks of a Stephen King story: a boy on the verge of becoming a teenager, dual realities, a gunslinger, a roadtrip, even werewolves. It’s all here. Stories about young kids in supernatural situations are exactly the sort of thing we often expect from Spielberg and the Duffer Brothers, too.

The Talisman has no current release date or time frame, as it is in very early development. The Duffer Brothers are working on Stranger Things Season 4, and Stephen King has a full dozen stories in some stage of production or pre-production, so the wait on this series might be a long one.

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Actor Albert Brooks is guesting on The Simpsons, helping a newly-famous Cletus navigate the world of stardom, and Fox has a first look at the episode for us ahead of its Sunday, March 7 air date.

Brooks is no stranger to appearances on The Simpsons. The actor is best known for movies like Drive and Broadcast News, but this will be his eighth appearance on the show, with this first cameo during the first season in 1990. He’s played car salesmen, a seductive bowling coach, and a self-help guru. Oh, and he also voices Springfield’s own supervillain, Hank Scorpio.

This week, he plays Slick Manager. That’s his name, apparently, not his job. He’s also a slick manager, though. In this episode, titled “Yokel Hero,” Cletus (Hank Azaria) has made it big singing, and betrays Homer to sign with Mr. Manager. Simpsons executive producer Al Jean told Variety that Brooks’ role in the show is one of his bigger ones, and that he’ll be a part of “almost all of the third act.”

“Yokel Hero” is The Simpsons‘ 698th episode. The 700th episode, “Manger Things,” airs March 21. Per Variety, the episode will feature a new couch gag and will reveal a never-before-seen room in the Simpsons’ home. Episode 700 is far from the last, as The Simpsons has been renewed for Seasons 33 and 34.