Overwatch 2 is the globe-spanning sequel to Blizzard Entertainment’s acclaimed team-based game, building upon the original’s battle-honed foundation and carrying forward everything players have earned into a new era of epic competition and team play. Square off against rivals in PvP modes, and explore the Overwatch universe firsthand in all new, fully cooperative missions that challenge the world’s heroes to team up, power up, and take on an overwhelming outbreak of threats around the globe.
Funko is always putting out new batches of adorable figures. A new line of Star Wars figures based on The Mandalorian–and season two, specifically–has just gone up for preorder. They look fantastic. Just all around great work. You can preorder them now from Amazon or Walmart, and you’ll receive them on October 15.
So without further ado, let’s take a look at what’s available.
While there have been numerous Baby Yoda Funkos released in previous batches, I have to be honest: Grogu with Cookie might be the star of this release. He’s just too adorable.
Previous releases have included Mando himself in full Beskar armor, so this set goes full “season two” by giving us a helmet-less Mandalorian holding Grogu. It’s adorable.
Fans of Beskar armor need not despair, though, because this batch includes a Boba Fett figure, complete with his properly banged-up helmet.
There are also two Ahsoka figures this time around. One has her action-ready with dual lightsabers, and the other is an Amazon-exclusive hooded Ahsoka, also with two sabers, because why wouldn’t you want her holding two sabers?
Also available is an awesome-looking dark trooper droid, plus Bo-Katan. If you order the Bo-Katan, there’s a chance you’ll receive a rare variant of her wearing her helmet. Finally, a Target-exclusive figure finds Grogu with a soup creature attached to his face.
There will also be a Grogu with Butterfly figure that’s exclusive to GameStop, but at the time of this writing the listing hasn’t gone live yet.
Call of Duty’s Season 3 Reloaded has arrived, bringing an ’80s Action Heroes event that features John Rambo and John McClane. And with Die Hard’s John McClane comes the movie’s iconic Nakatomi Plaza to Warzone, which has a lootable vault of $100,000.
Nakatomi Plaza has replaced the Broadcast Tower in Downtown, now serving as Verdansk’s tallest building. There are also optional missions around the plaza that will help you get into a vault loaded with cash.
The vault is located on the 31st floor, and it contains three safety deposit boxes that each require their own keycard to unlock. You can access the vault using any of the three keycards, but you’ll need all three keycards to cash out with all the money. Here’s how to obtain the Warzone keycards needed to loot Nakatomi Plaza’s vault.
I recommend attempting the cash grab in Warzone’s Plunder mode with a squad of friends, as Nakatomi Plaza is a pretty crowded place to land, and you’ll want to take advantage of Plunder’s respawning. You can also do this in three trips or with all the keycards at once, which will be a very difficult feat until the novelty of this map wears off and fewer enemies are crowding the area.
KEYCARD 1
Go to the Downtown area and look for the Unfinished Business contract. These special Warzone contracts can be found around the Nakatomi Plaza. You want to grab one quickly because there are limited contracts available for each match. Activate it and complete the contract, which is pretty similar to Warzone’s existing Scavenger contracts. Completing this will reward you with Keycard 1.
Take the keycard to Floor 31 of Nakatomi Plaza. It might be faster and safer to use the rappel to ascend the elevator shaft. This only gets you so far up the tower, then you’ll need to climb another set of stairs, or take another zipline to rappel up. The vault is opposite a wall with a large black and gold logo.
There are monitors by the vault entrance. Interact with the screens to open the vault, then go inside and collect your cash. This doesn’t work without at least one keycard.
Once inside the vault, look for the wall of safety deposit boxes, and one can be opened with each keycard. Just look for the safety deposit box that correlates to your keycard(s) in hand.
Keycard 1’s safety deposit box awards you a Specialist Bonus and more cash.
KEYCARD 2
For this keycard you’ll want to access Nakatomi Plaza’s roof. As soon as you hit the rooftop, a mission will pop up on your screen that says: “Hostile Fire: find and disarm the C4.” And disarming the C4 is pretty easy, assuming there aren’t any hostile players in the area. The C4 is marked on your screen, so you simply need to go over to it and deactivate. Completing this mission will earn you Keycard 2.
It’s also worth noting here that everyone on the rooftop gets this mission, but there’s only one chance to disarm the C4. If someone beats you to the punch and gets the keycard, you’ll have to kill them to loot the card off their body.
After obtaining Keycard 2, you can use it at the same vault. Pretty much the same process is used here. You grab the money and open the safety deposit box designated for Keycard 2.
This box will reward you with an Advanced UAV and cash.
KEYCARD 3
For the third keycard, you’ll want to search the base just outside of Nakatomi Plaza. Look for a small staircase just off the sidewalk that leads underneath the building, which will take you to the Plaza’s underground parking lot.
There you’ll find a blue cargo truck with its doors open. The truck’s interior is lit up and there’s a table inside. Interact with the table to activate the Deal Gone Wrong mission, which spawns some AI henchmen to kill. You need to kill off two waves of the bot enemies, and wave two has a tough brute enemy that is a bullet-sponge. This is a very difficult fight to attempt alone, so bring some teammates and finish both waves to earn the keycard.
Again, take the keycard back to the vault using the same process as before, and you’ll be rewarded with cash. Keycard 3’s safety deposit box gives you a Contraband weapon blueprint.
With this being day one of Season 3 Reloaded’s event, it’s going to be really hard to obtain all the keycards and cash in one match. I’d recommend dropping on the roof and going for the C4 mission straight away, or maybe try your luck with the henchmen in the basement. Assuming it’s like past Warzone Easter eggs, these vault missions will probably stick around throughout the entire event.
NBC has announced that the eighth and final season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine will premiere on August 12 at 8 PM and 8:30 PM ET/PT. As stated in the release, that means the long-running, hit police sitcom will begin its last, abbreviated season by airing two episodes–and the remaining eight will air on subsequent Thursdays in those time slots.
Until as recently as last week, it was only known that Brooklyn Nine-Nine would be back sometime in August. Considering the series was once extremely close to never getting past Season 5, following Fox’s cancellation in May 2018, the show has enjoyed an unexpected renewal and rejuvenation on the new network. In a new trailer released by the show, the series insists it’s “going out in a blaze of glory.” Check it out below.
Plotwise, not much is known about this final batch of episodes. Last year, it was announced that the season may feature a storyline about the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-creator Dan Goor had mentioned in interviews last year that he and the show’s writing team “value[s] escapism, but at the same time, we don’t want to be ignorant… there is a debate about what next year will look like.” Most likely, Goor says, the show will explore more subtle ways of acknowledging the crisis rather than “toiling away in the depths.”
Since that quote was given in April 2020, before the pandemic really got underway, and as the show’s creative team was just beginning to meet and break new story ideas–and before several months of social unrest involving real police brutality–the show may wind up somewhere completely unexpected or not yet discussed in interviews. But in a few short months, we will finally know how Brooklyn Nine-Nine plans to take it all home.
Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 “What’s Next” stream has revealed a major gameplay change coming to its upcoming hero shooter. Rather than having standard matches played with six-player teams, Overwatch 2 will shift to 5v5 matches in PvP.
The 5v5 structure will consist of one tank, two support, and two DPS players per team. That’s a major change from the 6v6 matches of the original game. But with Overwatch and Overwatch 2’s multiplayer being compatible with one another, Blizzard confirmed to GameSpot that this change will also be introduced to the original game. However, that change won’t happen until Overwatch 2 releases, whenever that might be.
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Following the 5v5 announcement, the stream then went on to show new content, like the New York City hybrid map. It includes some landmarks like Grand Central Station.
No release date has been announced for Overwatch 2, though this is the first major update we’ve received since game director Jeff Kaplan announced he was leaving Blizzard in April. The game director role was taken over by Aaron Keller, who cohosted the What’s Next stream alongside associate art director Dion Rogers and lead hero designer Geoff Goodman.
Microsoft has announced the latest additions to its Free Play Days promotion, which drops games to the low, low price of $0 for a limited time. The latest Free Play Days titles are Microsoft’s own shooter Gears 5 and the racing game F1 2020.
Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate members can play both games at no extra cost now through midnight Pacific on Sunday, May 23, so it’s a full weekend of free play. You can download the games from Xbox.com through the Free Play Days hub or by navigating to the Subscriptions tab in the Xbox Store on console to get started.
It’s a good time to jump into Gears 5, as the game’s big Operation 7 update just recently arrived. It adds a new multiplayer map, Ephyra, along with new characters Ukkon and Hana. Gears 5 is also available on Xbox Game Pass.
As for F1 2020, it hasn’t received a major update recently, but the game was praised by critics. The newest game, F1 2021, is scheduled for release in July.
All progress, including Gamerscore and Achievements, carries forward should you decide to buy Gears 5 or F1 2020 after the free weekend. And both games, as well as their premium versions, are on sale.
If you’re looking for a just one or plenty more Funko Pops to adorn your desk or collectible shelves with, GameStop has many deals on the popular collectibles today only. You can grab some Funko Pops for as low as $4, from a range of properties including Sonic, Death Stranding, The Mandalorian, Halo, and more. Given how great some of the prices are and how popular the collectible is, you’ll need to hurry to grab the ones that you want quickly.
Funko Pops reach far beyond just pop culture references. You can grab figurines of real-life athletes, brand icons (like Ronald McDonald or the Monopoly Man), and more. GameStop has a few of these on offer, too, including collectibles based on tennis player Maria Sharapova, the Lakers’ LeBron James, and even a tiger-striped Furby. If you can think it, Funko has probably made it into a Pop vinyl figure. Be sure to check out the full sale before it ends tonight.
The Mandalorian would be nothing without its little green mascot, Baby Yoda (or Grogu if you want to get technical.) That’s what makes this deal on the character drinking from his little baby soup bowl so great. It’s Baby Yoda, drinking Baby Soup. What more do you need?
Sony Santa Monica’s God of War was one of the best games of 2018, filled to the brim with memorable characters throughout its adventure. Some of the standouts included Brok and Sindri, two brothers with a sibling rivalry that gets directly addressed by protagonist Kratos. You can grab both Pop collectibles to keep the two close and happy together on your shelf.
Speaking of great games, Death Stranding, the latest IP from Hideo Kojima, is far less of a straight-forward story, but it does have equally interesting characters. Although he doesn’t feature as much as you might like, there’s no denying that the design for antagonist Higgs Monaghan (voiced by Troy Baker) is one of the game’s best. And that’s translated rather well into the Pop vinyl for the character.
Level-5’s Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is getting a Nintendo Switch re-release, and this new edition will include all of the released DLC for the 2018 action-JRPG.
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Prince’s Edition will include all the original game’s DLC, including The Lair of the Lost Lord and Tale of a Timeless Tome. The game will be getting a physical release and will also be available on the Switch eShop September 17 for $60.
Players take on the role of Evan, the young ruler of Ding Dong Dell, after he is overthrown in a coup. From there he embarks on an epic adventure to rebuild his kingdom and unite the world, teaming up with a number of supporting characters along the way. Players will also team up with entities known as Higgledies over the course of the game. These are Pokemon-esque creatures which support the party during battle with various offensive and defensive buffs.
The series is well-known for its visual style. Acclaimed Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli produced the animated cutscenes for the previous game in the series, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, in 2013, and both it and its sequel recreate those visuals in-game. Though Studio Ghibli wasn’t technically involved in Ni no Kuni II, the game still uses the signature Ghibli style, with Ghibli character designer Yoshiyuki Momose and composer Joe Hisaishi both involved in the project’s creation.
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is currently available on PlayStation 4 and PC. An anime film based on the game series arrived on Netflix last year.
Well, this is an interesting way to find out what a movie is about. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is currently in production, and we know that both Knuckles and Tails will appear in it. Now, though, it looks like we know the plot of the film thanks to a government copyright listing for the project.
The synopsis, which was first noticed by Twitter user @Ninja_Risu, reads, “After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is ready for more freedom, and Tom and Maddie agree to leave him home while they go on vacation. But, no sooner are they gone, when Dr. Robotnik comes back, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to both build and destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and together they embark on a journey to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands.”
What we can take away from this is that Knuckles is a villain, Tails is, of course, Sonic’s friend to the end, and it looks like Chaos Emeralds are being introduced. Also, while Jim Carrey’s Robotnik likely plays a big role, Sonic’s human friend Tom (James Marsden) might be out of town for the majority of the film.
In addition to both Marsden and Carrey returning for the film, Ben Schwartz will once again voice Sonic. Jeff Fowler, who directed the first movie, has also returned for the sequel. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is scheduled to hit theaters in April 2022.
Actor Kevin Bacon would love to appear in a Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and while it’s too soon to say if it will happen, the director of the film series, James Gunn, wants to work with him again.
Bacon told Esquire that he “would love” to have a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. “Listen, I love the idea. I would love to be part of that,” he said.
Bacon has worked with Gunn before, as he starred in Gunn’s 2010 film Super as the bad guy. Gunn has been a fan of Bacon’s for a long time. He met Bacon at a screening many years ago and remembers telling Bacon, “You’re my favorite actor.”
Gunn said he had a great time working with Bacon on Super and is excited to work with him again, though whether it’s for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 or something else remains to be seen.
I met Kevin as a very young man in New York City at a screening. “You’re my favorite actor,” I told him, “Along with Mr. Peter Falk.” He told me he took that as a very high compliment. Loved working with him on SUPER & can’t wait till we can work together again. https://t.co/iDvqPTDEN8
Also in the Esquire piece, Bacon said when he saw the original Guardians of the Galaxy, he had no idea that Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord would reference Bacon’s part in Footloose.
“It was an afternoon in New York, I was on 67th Street and went by myself, as I often do. I was like, ‘Holy sh**. They’re talking about me. Are you guys getting this?'” he said.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is scheduled for release in May 2023. Gunn is currently busy with a number of projects before he gets to it, including finishing up The Suicide Squad for release in August and then he’s making the John Cena Peacemaker show for HBO Max. Gunn is also writing and directing the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special that’s in the works. After all of these projects, Gunn said he would like to take a nap–we can’t blame him.
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