8 Excellent Movies From Black Directors To Stream On Netflix

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare/Warzone Patch Notes For Season 4 Released

Following a delay, Activision is releasing the much-anticipated Season 4 update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone this evening on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Ahead of the patch’s release, Infinity Ward has released the full patch notes, and there are MANY changes coming to the games with the update.

Perhaps the biggest and most exciting part of the Season 4 update are the new multiplayer maps–Trench, Scrapyard, and Barakett Promenade. Additionally, some big changes have arrived in the Warzone mode. Infinity Ward has introduced in-match events, and these can occur at any point without notice.

The first of the modes is called Jailbreak, and it sets free everyone who was waiting in the Gulag and everyone who was still spectating. “You will get a one-minute notice before a Jailbreak event happens to find additional armor or secure a weapon for your returning teammates. Jailbreak events can occur any time during the middle game of a Battle Royale match, so it may be worth it to spectate, just in case. Be mindful that when a Jailbreak occurs, it’s not just your teammates that are coming back, but tons of additional enemies,” Infinity Ward said.

The second new in-match event is called Fire Sale. Like its name suggests, this discounts every item in the Buy Station by 80 percent, or gives them away completely free. The Fire Sales only run for 1 minute, so players will likely rush to the Buy Stations, creating a deadly showdown between squads.

Finally, the Supply Choppers event adds a “non-lethal but heavily armored” helicopter to the map. This helicopter has lots of health, so you need to shoot it with a rocket or a lot of weapon ammo to take it down. When the helicopter is destroyed, it will drop “high quality loot,” including three UAVS, two armor boxes and munitions boxes, a gas mask, a grenade launcher, and lots of Cash.

“Supply Choppers leave after a certain period of time, so if you want to take one out start firing right away. Remember, that after taking down a Supply Chopper, you have to collect the loot. Watch out for enemy teams who might try to take you out during the collection or steal your hard-earned rewards,” Infinity Ward said.

Check out the full Season 4 patch notes below.

Modern Warfare/Warzone Season 4 Patch Notes

GENERAL FIXES

Fix for some players not receiving their Season 3 emblem
Fixes to help reduce players encountering Error Code 13-71. If you still experience this after today’s update, please reach out to Activision Customer Support
Fix for a bug where the Ghost Perk was not hiding players from the Heartbeat Sensor when viewing the Killcam
Fixed an issue where some players were unable to activate a Nuke after getting the appropriate number of kills
Fix for a bug where the 4th Operator Mission for Talon, “Complete 2 Warzone Plunder Matches” was not tracking as intended
Fix for an issue where some players could find long wait times when attempting to load into Ground War matches
Fix for a bug where neutral Hardpoints were appearing yellow instead of grey
Various exploit fixes across multiple maps
Fix for the Officer Challenge, “Get 20 kill while crouched” not tracking properly for some players
Fixed a bug where the white health regen was triggering on downing other players even if Quick Fix wasn’t equipped
Fix for an exploit where players could sometimes call in duplicate UAVs
Added new weapon perks to the Specialist Bonus (the bonus earned after getting 8 kills while specialist is active): Frangible-Disabling, Frangible-Wounding, Mo’Money, Recon, Heavy Hitter, FMJ, Presence of Mind
Fixed a bug where players were unable to perform executions when on some elevated surfaces
Fixes to help prevent an issue where players were able to move before the match countdown timer completed
Fixes to help prevent against black graphical corruption issues some players were seeing
Fix for the “For the Cause” grip tape not appearing properly on the base M4
Improved stability fixes for PC
Fixes to help prevent issues with voice chat

WEAPONS

Lowered ammo count for reload warning on belt fed LMG
Fixed bug with HDR and Sleight of Hand where reloading would not give ammo to the player

WARZONE

Loot Update: New weapons and updated Blueprints! Be on the lookout for the Fennec, CR-56 Amax, Renetti, and more!
Fixed a bug where the Recon Contract could spawn inside an Ammo Supply cache, making it unusable
After completing the Contraband Mission and calling in the extract helicopter, players could shoot the helicopter without receiving hitmarkers and the helicopter would remain on screen indefinitely
Fixed a bug where players were able to drop their weapon in the Gulag
Fix for an exploit where players were able to duplicate Self Revive kits

SPECIAL OPERATIONS

Fix for a bug where a player was stuck in 3rd person gameplay
Daily Challenges are now displayed alongside Multiplayer and Warzone challenges
Fixed an issue where unlocking an Operator skin in Co-Op would not unlock the base skin for that Operator as well
Fixed a bug where the game would not end correctly if the last player alive used Team Revive immediately before dying

SPECIAL OPERATIONS: SURVIVAL

Fix for being able to duplicate the Juggernaut Suit Munition minigun
Fix for rare instances of waves not ending properly
Fixed an exploit on St. Petrograd where players could fully hide from soldiers behind a bar

Contraband System

Contraband is a new, rare contract with a permanent Blueprint Reward. Contraband contracts have a chance to spawn after a previous contract is completed. If you see the Contraband briefcase, hurry up and collect it. Once you have it, take it to the designated Helicopter Extraction location to call in the helicopter. The player carrying the briefcase must deposit it into the helicopter drop-bag to complete the mission. If you kill a player carrying this briefcase you can steal it complete the contract for your team. Be on the lookout for them on your Tac Map!

Playlist Update

Modern Warfare

Barakett Promenade has been added to Ground War!
Trench Mosh Pit (2v2)!
Scrapyard 24/7!
Blueprint Gunfight!

Warzone

Quads
Trios
Duos
Solos
Blood Money
Warzone Rumble!

Warzone Rumble is a brand-new mode in Warzone. Two teams of 50 players parachute and battle it out in various areas around Verdansk. This mode is high action with custom loadouts, vehicles, and quick respawns.

Modified Special Operations:

Just Reward – Veteran
Just Reward – Regular

Weapon Mastery Challenges

Once you’ve unlocked Gold for a weapon, Mastery Challenges become available. There’s 8 Challenges per weapon, each granting their own rewards, with 4 Playercards and 4 Emblems up for grabs. You’ll need to make your way through 2 Kill Challenges, 2 Headshot Challenges, and 4 additional Challenges that must be done in order (Gold, Platinum, Damascus, Obsidian). Completing all challenges for 51 weapons unlocks a badass special Sticker and Playercard!

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Borderlands 3 Shows Off Its Next DLC Ahead Of Release Later This Month

Borderlands 3 is releasing its third DLC expansion soon, and a chunk of gameplay has been shown off in a new video. The next expansion, Bounty of Blood: A Fistful of Redemption, is western-themed, and will feature new characters (including a narrator) and a Jet Beast Mount. You can see and hear some of those new features in the video below.

The footage shows off some vehicular combat, and highlights some new locations on the desert planet Gehenna, including the snow-covered Ashfall Peaks. The narrator certainly gives the game a more cinematic vibe than it had before.

You can watch the full excerpt below. Spoilers have been carefully cut out, so you don’t need to worry about them.

Bountyu of Blood releases June 25 for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia. Along with the Jet Beast, you’ll be able to find and use the Traitorweed in this expansion, which lets you turn enemies into allies, and the Breezebloom, which helps you jump higher.

The previous expansions for Borderlands 3, included in the Season Pass, were Moxxi’s Heist of the Handsome Jackpot and the Lovecraftian Guns, Love, and Tentacles. The game’s next update for all players, Takedown at the Guardian Breach, has been delayed.

GameSpot has officially kicked off Play For All–a celebration of all things gaming. Join us as we bring you the summer’s hottest news, previews, interviews, features, and videos, as well as raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts and Black Lives Matter with the help of our friends from around the gaming world. Check out the Play For All schedule for more.

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Destiny 2 Season 11’s Most Important New Features Explained

As with its past seasons, Destiny 2’s new Season of Arrival brings a new activity for players to take part in, and new ways to earn weapons and armor to power up their characters. The new activity is called Contact, and completing it helps you power up a machine known as the Prismatic Recaster. The event is similar to Gambit, with some nuances all its own.

Check out the video above to see Contact in action. We run down how to complete it successfully, as well as how to activate the public event’s “Heroic” version for better rewards and some increased challenges. We also explain the new reward mechanic in the Season of Arrivals, the Umbral Engram. You’ll find these Darkness-infused engrams throughout the game, but you can only decrypt them for loot at the Drifter. The Prismatic Recaster can allow you to “focus” those engrams to get yourself specific rewards, but you’ll need to master the season’s new currencies to do it.

We’ve got lots more Destiny 2 coverage for you to check out, exploring the game’s future on next-gen consoles and its newly announced Beyond Light expansion in the fall. There is also sure to be more to find hidden within the Season of Arrivals, so stay tuned to GameSpot for even more from Destiny 2.

Netflix’s New Black Lives Matter Playlist Has Launched, Focused On Black American Lives

Netflix has launched a new Black Lives Matter playlist in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The list, which is available to all subscribers globally, focuses on Black storytelling.

In a statement on Twitter, Netflix said that it is “highlighting powerful and complex narratives about the Black experience.” The list includes many Netflix originals, such as Mudbound, Barry (the Obama biopic), Rodney King, 13th, When They See Us, and Trigger Warning with Killer Mike.

Netflix has also released some documentary titles for free on YouTube, including Zion, Strong Island, and the Academy Award nominated 13th.

When we say “Black Lives Matter,” we also mean “Black storytelling matters.”

With an understanding that our commitment to true, systemic change will take time – we’re starting by highlighting powerful and complex narratives about the Black experience.

— Netflix (@netflix) June 10, 2020

There are some shortcomings, though–the list is focused entirely on American narratives. Accessing the list here in Australia, you’re greeted with a thin 42 titles–none of which feature Indigenous Australians. It’s an unfortunate oversight on what is otherwise a good initiative.

GameSpot stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Bill Burr Reveals The Unlikely Story Of How He Ended Up On The Mandalorian

Bill Burr–a comedian who is known for his jokes about why Star Wars is dumb–appeared in an episode of The Mandalorian, and now the comedian has explained how it all came to be.

Speaking to Uproxx, Burr said he became attached to the TV show thanks in part to his involvement in the 2014 Mike Binder movie Black or White. Binder is friends with The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau, and Binder eventually introduced him to Favreau at a party.

“And then Mike had his birthday party, and I went there, and Jon was there. And I was there with my wife, and he said, ‘Hey man, I’m doing this Star Wars thing. There’s a part in it that we’re writing for you. Would you want to do it?,'” Burr said.

Burr went on to say that he pointed out to Favreau that he had been making fun of Star Wars for a very long time. Favreau said that was kind of the point of looking to cast him.

“He goes, ‘I think your fans will get a kick out of it if you were in it,'” Burr said. “So I was like, ‘Really?’ And my wife was standing there and she’s kicking my leg going, ‘Do it!’ So I was like, alright, I’ll do it.”

Also in the interview, Burr said he’s not really a Star Wars-hater. He’s just trying to be funny. Similar to how he made fun of Michelle Obama’s book tour, Burr was poking fun at the Star Wars crowd with his jokes just to get laughs. “Well, the thing is, when I was making it, I wasn’t being serious. I was just doing that comedian thing,” he said.

Burr is coming back for The Mandalorian Season 2.

In other news about The Mandalorian, the director of the Netflix movie Extraction came aboard for The Mandalorian Season 2 to ramp up the action.

The Mandalorian Season 2 premieres on Disney+ this October. The sophomore season features a number of new cast members, including Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson, Michael Biehn, and Temuera Morrison. A third season of The Mandalorian is now in pre-production.

The Most (And Least) Rewatchable MCU Movies | You Should Be Watching Ep 15

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19:48 Movie Theaters Re-Opening Soon?

29:41 Most Rewatchable MCU Films

42:12 Least Rewatchable MCU Films

This week, Greg recommends Upload and Ad Astra, Chastity recommends Porco Rosso and Queer Eye Season 5, and Mike recommends Twin Peaks. We discuss news that 90% of the movie theater market will be open by mid-July, according to The National Association of Theatre Owners, and Chris Evans’ recent comments on if he will play Captain America again.

Then we list the most rewatchable and least rewatchable MCU movies, From Iron Man to Guardians of the Galaxy to Thor Ragnarok to Avengers Endgame and many others in between.

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The Witcher Season 2 Could Start Filming Again Soon

It appears that Netflix’s hit fantasy show The Witcher may be able to resume production on its second season sometime soon. Deadline reports that production studio Arborfield in the UK–where The Witcher is filmed–will be open for business again “in the coming weeks.”

Arborfield shut down in March after Game of Thrones actor Kristofer Hivju–who is joining The Witcher for Season 2–tested positive for coronavirus. Arborfield’s Bob Terry told Deadline that plans are underway to open the production studio soon, and he’s is currently in the midst of meetings to come up with safety procedures. However, it remains to be seen when, exactly, The Witcher Season 2 will begin filming again.

Season 1 filmed in Budapest, but production moved to the UK for Season 2. According to reports, the production at Arborfield includes “several” sound stages and two backlots.

The Witcher Season 2 is expected to premiere in 2021. It comes after a highly successful debut season in 2019 which set a record for the “biggest” first season of any Netflix show ever at the time.

Killer Instinct–This Feature-Length Documentary Explores The Game’s Enduring Appeal

Killer Instinct, the free-to-play Xbox One launch title that continued on the legacy of Rare’s 1995 original of the same name, continues to be popular towards the end of the current console cycle, despite the wealth of fighting games that have released over the past seven years. Now, a new documentary has emerged, exploring the enduring popularity of the series, and the legacy of the original game.

Fight On: The Killer Instinct Documentary is cut together from over 34 hours of interviews with key personnel involved in the creations of both the original and the new game (including Ken Lobb, the inspiration for GoldenEye 007‘s Klobb gun), as well as several of the game’s biggest players.

The full movie runs for 104 minutes, so make sure you have some spare time before you start it. It’s also completely free to watch.

If you loved the first game on Super Nintendo and in arcades, the discussion around the technology behind it–and how Rare managed to create such a visually advanced game–is particularly interesting.

Killer Instinct will be part of EVO 2020–although it’s not one of the official competitive titles, there will be an open online tournament hosted as part of the event.

Another classic Rare SNES-era series is getting a revival towards the end of the Xbox One lifecycle–a new Battletoads is in development.

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8 Excellent Movies From Black Directors To Stream On Netflix

8 Excellent Movies From Black Directors To Stream On Netflix – GameSpot

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We know you need more to watch, so here are some fantastic films from black directors you can stream right now.

This story originally appeared on GameSpot sister site TV Guide. It has been republished to amplify black voices in GameSpot’s support of Black Lives Matter. Donate to the effort to fight systemic racism here.

With Black Lives Matter protests happening all over America in reaction to the frequent, unaccountable murders of Black people by the police, there has been a concurrent push to celebrate Black lives through art and appreciate the contributions that Black people make to American culture. One such area of culture is film, where Black directors have made incredible features and documentaries.

There’s a study that shows reading fiction builds empathy. I don’t know if watching movies works in the same way, but I think it’s fair to assume that it doesn’t make you less empathetic. Here are some great films by Black filmmakers that are streaming now on Netflix. The majority of these films are part of Netflix’s new Black Lives Matter collection, which highlights movies, TV shows, and documentaries about Black American experiences.

But cultural consumption is not activism. When we’re not watching movies to unwind, there’s work to be done. Black Lives Matter has shared these resources for people who want to donate, sign petitions, and protest safely. Text DEMANDS to 55156 to sign Color of Change‘s petition to reform policing.

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1. Moonlight

A few years removed from this drama’s Best Picture win, it’s easier to appreciate Barry Jenkins‘ gorgeous film on its own terms as a personal and intimate story about Black masculinity, sexuality, and vulnerability. It tells in three parts, from childhood to young adulthood, the story of Chiron (Ashton Sanders), aka Little (Alex Hibbert), aka Black (Trevante Rhodes). Chiron lives in an impoverished neighborhood of Miami where toughness is currency, and he is mistreated by people who sense that he is gay, and by his drug-addicted mother (Naomie Harris). But he is really seen by Juan (Mahershala Ali, who won a much-deserved Oscar for his extraordinary supporting performance), a drug dealer who nurtures him as a boy, and Kevin (Jharrel Jerome as a teenager, Andre Holland as an adult), a classmate with whom he shares an unspoken bond. Moonlight has one of the best screenplays, some of the best acting, and some the most beautiful cinematography of any film of the past decade, and it depicts Black life in a way that had never been shown quite like this before. And while its description may make it sound like a difficult, painful movie to watch, it has so much kindness and compassion and romance that you will come away from it feeling uplifted.

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2. Malcolm X

Spike Lee, America’s most acclaimed Black director, has made some of the best and most important movies of the past 35 years, including Do the Right Thing, 25th Hour, and the documentary 4 Little Girls, about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham in 1963. One of his greatest movies, and certainly his most epic, is Malcolm X, his 1992 biopic of the civil rights leader. It stars Denzel Washington in a magnetic performance, following X’s life from his time as a petty criminal to his incarceration, where he converted to Islam, and his ministry and activism after he got out of prison, to his fallout with the Nation of Islam and his assassination. The film’s three-hour running time and epic scope give one of the most important American leaders of the 20th century the weight he deserves, and it serves as a great introduction to the concepts of Black liberation he preached. Netflix also has a documentary series investigating the questionable circumstances of his assassination called Who Killed Malcolm X?

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3. Mudbound

This period drama from Dee Rees tells the story of two World War II veterans, Jamie (Garrett Hedlund), who’s white, and Ronsel (Jason Mitchell), who return home to Mississippi and find that they have changed, but their community has not. It’s about poor white and Black people coming to understand that they’re more alike than different, but in a class-conscious rather than purely emotional way, which makes it more meaningful. It has beautiful acting and cinematography, and cinematographer Rachel Morrison became the first woman ever nominated for an Oscar in that category. Also, Mary J. Blige made Oscar history as the first person ever to be nominated for acting and original song Oscars in the same year, for her performance as Ronsel’s mother Florence and the song “Mighty River.”

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4. 13th

Ava DuVernay‘s two Netflix projects, the documentary 13th and the narrative limited series When They See Us, blend skillful filmmaking with powerful activism. 13th is about mass incarceration in the United States, and breaks down historically, from Reconstruction to the present, how the racist systems of policing, criminal justice, and prison perpetuate slavery. The title comes from the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery but kept a loophole for involuntary servitude as punishment for the conviction of a crime. This loophole has led to the mass incarceration of Black people by a system that wants to keep them enslaved, deprive them of their voting rights, and profit off their uncompensated labor through the prison-industrial complex. It’s an infuriating, convincing documentary that methodically shows how Republicans and Democrats both have failed and exploited America’s most vulnerable people. If you don’t have Netflix, 13th is available to watch in full for free on YouTube.

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5. Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé

Beyoncé‘s concert film she co-directed with Ed Burke captures one of the 21st century’s greatest entertainers at the peak of her power, documenting her otherworldly performance at the 2018 Coachella music festival. Beyoncé used her platform at the festival and at Netflix to celebrate Black culture, specifically Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), using iconography and performers from Black institutions of higher education, intercut with quotes from Black leaders and intellectuals. Homecoming is an unapologetic, unequivocal statement from one of the world’s biggest pop stars that she is a Black woman first and foremost. It’s a joyous, dynamic movie that will have you marveling at Beyoncé’s stamina. How could she dance and sing like that for an hour and 45 minutes nonstop?

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6. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992

The last bout of civil unrest anything like what we’re experiencing now was in 1992, when riots rocked Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four LAPD officers in the savage beating of Rodney King, a Black man. This documentary from John Ridley (writer of 12 Years a Slave) takes a sprawling look at the conditions in the city in the decade leading up to the riots, putting what happened in the full historical context of economic inequality, the rise of street gangs and the crack epidemic, and the brutal heavy-handedness of the LAPD. It features interviews people who were there for the riots, from cops to the cops’ victims to rioters, and creates a comprehensive tapestry of one of the definitive political events of the ’90s. If you’re interested in another complementary angle on the L.A. riots after watching this, Netflix also has another documentary called LA 92 that entirely consists of archival footage.

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7. Strong Island

Yance Ford directs this intensely personal documentary about the 1992 murder of his brother William, an all-white grand jury’s choice not to indict the white man who killed him, and the effect of the murder on his family. Ford turns the camera on himself and shows the human cost of this act of violence and subsequent failure of justice through interviews with his family and William’s friends and devastating scenes of himself talking on the phone with the detective who investigated the case and the Suffolk County, Long Island prosector who declined to indict. While it might technically qualify as a true crime documentary, it’s a meditative memoir rather than a polemic or an attempt to get justice, because what happened to William is done. Strong Island eschews expert talking heads for a more intimate and directly emotional approach. It just tells you about William Ford, a young man whose life was snuffed out. When Strong Island was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2018, Yance Ford became the first openly transgender man ever nominated for an Oscar.

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8. Uncorked

Let’s end this list on a lighter note. This heartfelt dramedy was written and directed by Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, and tells the story of Elijah (Mamoudou Athie), who’s trying to find a way to balance his dream of becoming a master sommelier with his father Louis’ (Courtney B. Vance) expectation for him to take over the family’s Memphis barbecue restaurant. It’s a story about wanting something different from life while staying true to where you came from. It’s an uplifting movie that will have you ordering a plate of ribs and a bottle of Château Haut-Brion.

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare/Warzone Patch Notes For Season 4 Released