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This week Rockstar is adding double rewards to GTA Online for Biker Sell Missions, Clubhouse Contracts and Transform Races. Players who embrace their inner Biker can earn massive rewards on Biker related activities through to May 13.

The Rockstar Transform Races will be rewarding twice the money and RP for racing in supercars, motorcycles, airplanes, and more across challenging courses.

This week also marks your last chance to get the on-time gift of GTA$500,000 just for logging in.

There’s a new podium vehicle at the Diamond Casino to be won on the Lucky Wheel. Use your daily free spin for a chance at the Coil Cyclone this week.

A number of in-game items are also discounted. The Arcade Master Control Terminal is 30% off, along with a selection of high-end vehicles on sale. The Principe Lectro is 35% off, the Nagasaki Shotaro is 40% off, the Benefactor Krieger is 30% off, the Pegassi Tempesta is 40% off, and the Pegassi Toros is 35% off.

Twitch Prime members can get a rebate on Pixel Pete’s Arcade base property in Paleto Bay this week. Members can also purchase the Pfister 811 hyper-car for 80% off and the Declasse Drift Yosemite pick-up truck for 60% off.

A portion of all online purchases this month will be going towards COVID-19 relief thanks to Rockstar and Take-Two. This includes purchases made in Red Dead Online and GTA Online.

Val Kilmer taken on some huge roles in his time, including Jim Morrison in The Doors and Doc Holliday in Tombstone, but there’s one major role he took that perhaps did him more harm than good. Val Kilmer played Batman in 1995’s somewhat ironically titled Batman Forever, and dropped out before Batman and Robin. The reviews were not kind–and neither was director Joel Schumacher, who has not been particularly charitable when talking about the actor.

Now, in a lengthy (and excellent) deep-dive into his career and current life with The New York Times, Kilmer–who has difficulty speaking now after receiving a tracheostomy for throat cancer–has opened up about the role. Although he has previously cited scheduling conflicts as the reason for stepping away, it turns out that Kilmer just outright did not enjoy playing Batman, and that a set visit led to a realization for him.

In the piece, Kilmer recalls that Warren Buffett and his grandchildren visited the set to meet Batman, and that he stayed around in the suit for their sake. However, once the kids arrived, it became clear that they didn’t actually care about meeting Batman, and wanted to play with his gadgets instead. “That’s why it’s so easy to have five or six Batmans,” he told the reporter. “It’s not about Batman. There is no Batman.” On top of this, the suit was extremely uncomfortable to wear.

The article also shows off a weird trinket from Kilmer’s home–a big, detailed Batman statue, with Batman’s head removed and replaced with the head of Mark Twain.

Val Kilmer is set to appear in Top Gun Maverick on December 23, reprising the role of Iceman.

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The professional golf game The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA Tour is now free on Xbox One and PC, but only for a limited time. You can grab the game for free right now on either platform’s store.

Once downloaded, you can play as much as you want until May 13 on Xbox One and through May 14 on Steam. You can find download links here: Xbox One, Steam. More specifically, the free play period ends at 11:59 PM PT for Xbox One on May 13 and 9:59 AM PT on May 14 for PC.

Progress carries forward for those who decide to buy the game after the free promo period.

Developed by HB Studios, The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA Tour is a sequel to The Golf Club 2 that features the PGA Tour license for the first time. This brings a number of real-world Tour courses to the game, including TPC Boston and TPC Sawgrass, while the game has a course-editor, too. There are no player likenesses, however, so you can’t tee it up as Tiger Woods or any other real-world player.

The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA Tour scored an 8/10 in GameSpot’s review. Other reviews were mostly positive as well, but you should know that this is a challenging golf sim, not an arcade game. 2K is offering up the game for free as part of its Give Back Project.

The series is published by 2K, and the franchise will continue with a new installment called PGA Tour 2K21. 2K recently released a teaser trailer for this game, while the full reveal is coming on May 14.

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The Nintendo Switch is currently going through a shortage of stock, with the current COVID-19 pandemic slowing down the production of units in factories around the world. Thankfully, it seems that this shortage is going to be over soon, with figures from the Nintendo financial results release indicating that Nintendo believes the impact of production will be over by this Summer.

David Gibson, who works for the research company Astris Advisory Japan KK, live-tweeted and translated the release of the financial results as they released. The Switch is only halfway through its lifecycle, with no plans for a Nintendo Switch 2 anytime soon, so the continued sales of the console are key to the success of the system.

The sales of the Nintendo Switch are currently on track to overtake the Wii’s total sales figures even with the setback in production. The sales on games during this period for the Switch have remained strong as well, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons selling 13.41 million copies since launch, with 50% off those as digital sales.

For the time being, the Nintendo Switch is still sold out across the world and online. While the Nintendo Switch Lite has come back in stock periodically, each time the stock has sold out once again.

Tokyo Game Show is the latest 2020 event to be cancelled, at least in its usual form. The show’s organizers have announced in a press release, shared on Twitter by user Wario 64, that the physical event will not go ahead this year. Instead, it’ll be entirely digital.

The event, which will be held between September 24 and 27, will now take place entirely online. “Due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on a global scale and the situation remains unpredictable in Japan as well, the organizer and co-organizers have reached this decision after a long consideration to place the utmost priority on the health and safety of visitors, exhibitors, and stakeholders,” the press release reads.

You can read it in its entirety below.

Tokyo Game Show is, generally, a big show for many publishers–last year Sony used it to show off Death Stranding in-depth ahead of its release. In 2018, close to 300,000 people attended the show.

This is far from the first major games event cancelled in 2020. Paris Games Week will not go ahead, E3 will not happen this year, and GDC will be digital only.

With the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 on the way this year, Tokyo Game Show likely would have been used to showcase the next generation of games–that could still happen, but don’t expect hands-on reports.

We’ll be sure to keep you updated when more details emerge of what Tokyo Game Show will look like, and how it will operate, as a digital event.

The American rock band Weezer is coming to The Simpsons. The band will be featured in the end-credits sequence for this Sunday’s episode, performing the show’s theme music in a heavier manner.

The clip was posted to YouTube ahead of this weekend’s Season 31 episode, and it rocks. The group is captured faithfully, it seems, with lead singer Rivers Cuomo’s character model looking particularly authentic-looking. The clip also shows Moe Szyslak in attendance at the concert, throwing up the flying W sign as he enjoys the gig. You can check out the clip further down the page.

This is just the latest musical outro for The Simpsons in recent years. A 2019 episode of the show featured a music video for the song “White Wine Spritzer” by the Ned Flanders-themed metal band, Okilly Dokilly–and it was truly a sight to behold. Before that, the band Green Day was featured in The Simpsons Movie, performing the show’s theme and trying to tell the crowd to be more environmentally responsible. Earlier on, Fall Out Boy performed The Simpsons theme for the outro segment in Season 20, Episode 9, “Lisa The Drama Queen.”

In other news, The Simpsons has predicted the future once again. Fans recently noticed that Season 4, Episode 21, “Marge In Chains,” features a sequence where members of Springfield are demanding a cure for a virus, only to get attacked by killer bees.