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Riot will be hosting a 48-hour long League of Legends charity stream to raise money for COVID-19 relief. The "Mid-Season Streamathon" will be running from May 19 through to May 31, beginning at 5PM PDT on May 19 at the League of Legends official site.

Fans will be able to donate to a number of nonprofit charity organizations working to provide relief to those affected by COVID-19. After the stream, Riot will be distributing the funds to organizations such as the ImpactsAssets COVID-19 Response Fund and the GlobalGiving Coronavirus Relief Fund.

The broadcast will feature over 48 hours of scheduled programming from around the world. There will be a continental battle of teams in Europe and a battle between influencers Yoda and Kami in Brazil. The stream will also feature a Mid-Season Cup showdown between the top teams in the LPL and LCK.

All 52 games included in the Nintendo Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics have been thoroughly explained in this new trailer from Nintendo.

The collection features card games, board games, and more. There are games included from around the world. There are classics like Chess, Checkers, Blackjack, Billiards, and Bowling. The bowling even looks a lot like the the bowling from Wii Sports for those who mastered that skill back in the day.

Players will be able to use a single Switch for multiplayer, or use multiple Switchs for multi-screen play. There will be a free software download on the Eshop for those who wish to use more than one Switch to play the game without purchasing multiple copies.

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Another week is here, bringing a brand-new batch of discounted games, tech, and more. From PC and PS4 to Nintendo Switch, there are plenty of great deals floating around today and throughout the week, including a huge sale at the Epic Games Store and an exciting free game, a steep discount on the Sega Genesis Mini, and a fantastic gaming keyboard and mouse combo at Best Buy you don't want to miss. You'll also find some great games on sale, including Persona 5 Royal and the Yakuza Remastered Collection.

Below, we've rounded up some of the best gaming and tech deals available today (May 18) and will update this story throughout the week with the latest and greatest deals.

Some new content is headed to Call of Duty: Warzone on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One later this week, developer Infinity Ward confirmed. This includes updating the battle royale's game modes and more.

First up is the introduction of Blood Money Quads. Instead of a group of three, however, players can take teams of four into the battle royale's Blood Money mode, giving you more opportunities to collecting cash and complete contracts.

In addition to Blood Money Quads, Infinity Ward is adding a new limited-time game mode: Classic Battle Royale. As the name implies, this mode removes all the extras from Warzone's battle royale experience, stripping it to the barest of essentials. There are no buy stations, no contacts, and no Gulag to give players any sort of edge in-game this time around.

Pokemon Go's May Community Day is set for this weekend, but players will have a chance to shape the game's next two events. As it did back in February, developer Niantic is letting players vote on what the featured Pokemon will be for June and July's Community Days.

This time around, rather than casting votes by completing in-game Field Research tasks, players will simply be able to vote for their Pokemon of choice via a Twitter poll, which will be live from May 23-24. There will be four candidates to choose from; the one that receives the most votes will be June's featured Pokemon, while the runner-up will be July's.

The four candidates, and the Community Day moves they'd be able to learn if selected, are as follows:

Call of Duty: Warzone, the free-to-play battle royale spin-off of Modern Warfare, has gotten a new item with the latest update. The "Armor Box" can be purchased before or during a battle if you need a little extra protection. According to an update on the Call of Duty Blog, the new Armor Box is available across all battle royale modes. It's similar to a Munitions Box in that you can use it to supply the entire team, but as the name implies, it provides armor instead of ammo. You can find it in ground loot or supply boxes, or you can purchase it at the Buy station.

That's not the only change in Warzone this week. The update also adds more weapons to the Gulag, giving ranged options that Infinity Ward hopes will make for more diverse strategies. And a limited-time "Classic Battle Royale" mode gives you the same Warzone but without Buy Stations, Contracts, or the Gulag.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone have been getting frequent updates, both with game updates like new maps and balance changes, as well as security measures. Recently the game added mandatory 2FA as an anti-cheating measure on PC.

The Gulag is one of Call of Duty: Warzone's most defining elements, letting players fight for their right to return back into the game after dying. And if you thought your options within the cramped tiled walls of the prison were limited, developer Infinity Ward is giving you more weapons to play with.

When you're sent to the Gulag, you start a one-on-one match with a random weapon. The pool for these options was shallow, however, with only pistols and shotguns available. This meant that options for ranged engagements were limited, which is why this week's update will introduce SMGs and assault rifles into the mix.

Specifically, you can look forward to getting served the AK-47, M13, Kilo 141, Ram-7, Striker 45, and more when fighting in the Gulag. Infinity Ward hopes that these additions will shake up the way players approach these duels, with more options beyond simply rushing your opponent.

Another week means some new content will hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. This week, developer Infinity Ward will introduce a new Gunfight map to Modern Warfare's multiplayer mode: Aisle 9.

Infinity Ward said there are "multiple ways to fight on this small map," which will host a variety of game modes in its own playlist. Dubbed "Clean Up on Aisle 9," the 3v3 moshpit will feature Domination, Grind, Kill Confirmed, and Team Deathmatch. It will also get tossed into the mode's map rotation.

Some other additions and changes will come to both Modern Warfare and Warzone this week as well. This includes a new multiplayer map, bringing more weapons into The Gulag, adding a new item to Warzone, and more.

The Epic Games Store is partnering with three more digital retailers for keyless game authentications, similar to its partnership with The Humble Store last year.

Fanatical, Green Man Gaming, and Genba Digital have announced integration with the Epic Games Store, letting your purchases appear on the client without any additional steps. Each of these retailers will now let you link your Epic Games account to their storefront. When you purchase a game, it will then automatically appear in the Epic Games client on your PC, without the need to add it manually using a generated key. Epic Games states it does not take a cut of game sales from third-party retailers.

This process helps both consumers and game developers. For consumers it streamlines the process of purchases, and gives additional choices when making a purchase decision. For game developers and publishers, it gives them the peace of mind that sales of its games are coming from legitimate retailers, with the removal of generated keys meaning fewer grey market sales issues.

Pokemon Go's May Community Day is just around the corner. The event takes place this Sunday, May 24, and just like last month, developer Niantic is tweaking the event to make it easier to participate in from home amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. To catch you up, we've rounded up everything you need to know about May 2020's Pokemon Go Community Day below.

May's Featured Pokemon: Seedot

The featured Pokemon during this month's Community Day is Seedot, a Grass type first introduced in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Throughout the event, Seedot will appear in the wild much more frequently than usual, making this a good chance to stock up on Seedot Candy. You may also encounter Shiny Seedot during the event with a little persistence and luck.

May's Community Day Move: Bullet Seed

If you can evolve Nuzleaf--Seedot's evolved form--into Shiftry during May's Community Day, it'll know the event-exclusive move Bullet Seed, which it normally cannot learn in Pokemon Go. You'll have up to two hours after the event ends to evolve Nuzleaf and have it learn Bullet Seed.

Gaming keyboards and mice can be quite expensive, so this Best Buy deal is particularly exciting. The retailer is selling the Razer Huntsman gaming keyboard for $95, down from $150, and that's not even the best part: You also get the $90 Razer Mamba Elite wired gaming mouse absolutely free. It's important to note this offer is only valid with the black version of the Razer Hunstman. This gaming bundle deal lasts until May 23 and comes with free shipping. Best Buy makes claiming this offer easy. All you need to do is add the Razer Huntsman to your cart, and the free Razer Mamba Elite will be added as well.

The Razer Huntsman line of keyboards is fantastic. They feature optical sensors inside each key switch, providing a fast and responsive experience, and programmable keys and macros--you can even save your different profiles right in the keyboard or in Razer's cloud storage.

Razer Huntsman gaming keyboard

$95 ($150) with free Razer Mamba Elite gaming mouse

Last year Oculus added hand-tracking support to its standalone VR headset, the Oculus Quest. While it was initially released as an experimental feature, it will be released to all users at the end of this month.

Hand-tracking support on the Oculus Quest requires no new peripherals or setup. The feature uses the same built-in cameras and sensors to detect both of your hands and individual finger motion, giving you an alternative input option to the included Oculus Touch controllers.

Apps and games need to be updated with this support in mind, which is why Oculus initially released the features as an experimental one. In a blog post announcing the move to a full release, Oculus highlighted three games (Elixir, The Curious Tale of Stolen Pets, and Waltz of the Wizard) that will make use of hand-tracking when the feature releases with a Oculus software update this week. Oculus also stated that it will begin accepting third-party titles with hand-tracking support on the Oculus Store from May 28.

Over the years, the Mortal Kombat series has offered a panoply of ways of finishing off your opponent, from the original "fatalities" to the infantile "babalities" and even the beastial "animalities." Starting in Mortal Kombat 2, however, you could also choose to spare your opponent with a goofy gesture of "friendship," such as Scorpion cranking a jack-in-the-box with a skull in it, or Shang Tsung making a rainbow.

Now, NetherRealm Studios is bringing back friendships for Mortal Kombat 11 as part of a free content update ahead of its Aftermath expansion. According to the trailer, these friendships include Jax playing a lengthy saxophone solo, Liu Kang disco-dancing, and the long-awaited return of Raiden's diminutive friend (and possible nephew) Kidd Thunder. Kitana's friendship involves her playing patty-cake with her "sister" Mileena, a possible new character tease, since she is not a playable character in MK11.

You can perform friendships on May 26, the same release date as Mortal Kombat 11's new expansion. Titled Aftermath, it will add new playable characters--including the wind god Fujin, the four-armed Sheeva, and special guest RoboCop--as well as new story content that explores where MK11 left off. The free friendship update will also include brand new arenas, including classic favorites like MK2's Dead Pool and MK3's Soul Chamber, as well as introducing stage fatalities back to the franchise.

Gigantamax Pikachu is leaving Max Raids in Pokemon Sword and Shield today, but another previously exclusive Pokemon will take its place. Starting at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET, Gigantamax Eevee will appear in Max Raid dens around the Wild Area for a limited time, giving everyone a chance to catch one.

Up until this event, the only way to get Gigantamax Eevee in Sword or Shield was if you had save data for Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee on your Switch. If you fell into that category, you would receive Gigantamax Eevee as a free gift from a character in the Wild Area station. Thanks to this event, however, you can catch one even if you don't have a Let's Go, Eevee save.

Much like Gigantamax Pikachu before it, Gigantamax Eevee cannot evolve. You'll need to refresh your Raid dens before it begins appearing in your game. You can do so either by connecting online via the Y-Comm or going into Mystery Gift and selecting Get the Wild Area news.

Respawn Entertainment has come a long way since the critically-acclaimed Titanfall 2 fell well-below EA's sales expectations in 2016. The combination of the free-to-play shooter Apex Legends and the cinematic action game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order gave the studio an outstanding 2019. As it marks its tenth anniversary, Respawn has announced that it is expanding, with a second studio opening in Vancouver that will focus entirely on Apex Legends.

According to interviews with key Respawn staff conducted by GamesIndustry.biz--including with Apex game director Chad Grenier and head of operations Henry Lee--the decision to expand into Canada is driven in part by the existing EA Vancouver campus. Lee says the proximity to other EA developers will help the studio leverage their resources more efficiently. Additionally, Grenier says that the new location will help Apex grow into a larger franchise like Call of Duty and FIFA.

Gamescom has moved to an all-digital event in the wake of coronavirus concerns, and as a result the show is getting a slight date shift. Previously scheduled to take place August 25-29, the new digital event will instead be held August 27-30. That also shifts the date for the Opening Night Live event held by Geoff Keighley, which will now be August 27.

According to the announcement, Gamescom will now serve as a "content hub" for news and publisher events. Unlike the standard Gamescom, the digital event won't require a ticket since the events will be streaming. Opening Night Live will kick off the show, in addition to some other special events like Gamescom: Awesome Indies and Gamescom: Daily Show. The event will culminate in the August 30 presentation of Best of Show.

The annual Devcom conference will take place August 17-30, running partly concurrently with Gamescom.

Chex Quest was the result of one of the most creative ad campaigns of the '90s, which bundled a non-violent take on Doom with Chex cereal. Now, General Mills has released an HD remake of the original Chex Quest on Steam, and it's free.

The Chex Quest of 1996 was essentially an ambitious Doom mod, which meant that it used a now-dated combination of 2D sprites in 3D environments. This HD remake overhauls the game's visuals, as well as adding in multiplayer modes with six playable characters. This is still an advergame, however: In order to unlock those characters, you can buy packages of Chex Mix or check Chex Mix's Instagram account for the codes.

Despite its "advergame" status, many kids from the era fondly remember playing Chex Quest as one of their formative PC gaming experiences, which has led to its continued popularity over the years. Recently, boutique publisher Limited Run Games announced that it will be giving the game a physical release, as well as a $150 collector's edition that comes with a replica Zorcher and several other goodies. Today is the last day to pre-order either package.

Following a rebranding to Mojang Studios, the Microsoft-owned developer is celebrating over 200 million sales of Minecraft, with over 126 million players logging in monthly.

The milestone was celebrated during a difficult period for Mojang Studios due to the ongoing challenges present by COVID-19. Helen Chiang, Studio Head at Mojang Studios, explains in a Minecraft update that as soon as the pandemic started affecting its players, the studio switched to thinking about how to better support its players.

One of those initiatives was to make Minecraft: Education Edition free until the end of June, helping educators use Minecraft to engage learners remotely. Since March 24, Mojang Studios has seen a big uptake in its educational Minecraft offering, with over 50 million downloads of education content from the Minecraft Marketplace.

Each week, Best Buy has a new batch of deals spanning across gaming, entertainment, and tech. This week's deals include a bunch of stellar discounts on PS4, Xbox One, and Switch games as well as Blu-rays. There's also an excellent daily deal on Microsoft's Surface Pro X, slashing the price of the popular 2-in-1 from $1300 to $900.

One of the most revered action-RPGs of this generation, Nier Automata, is discounted to $25 on PS4. This is the Game of the Yorha Edition, so it includes every piece of DLC released for the Platinum Games hit. PS4 owners can also save on 2019's Dragon Quest Builders 2, which is 50% off at $20. Dragon Quest Builders 2 melds Minecraft-style building with grand open-world action. Yakuza Remastered Collection--which compiles Yakuza 3, 4, and 5--is $40, the best price we've seen so far.

Rainbow Six Siege has been going strong for years, but the relatively recent addition of a battle pass model has been divisive in the community. Ubisoft is happy with the addition, though, stating that it's performing well in a recent earnings report.

"The battle pass is doing very well," said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. "It's a good new addition to the franchise and a new way to play the game so it has good momentum and it's doing well for the franchise."

Similarly, Ubisoft mentioned that microtransaction revenue is growing for both Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

After a week of players working together to complete the first step of Destiny 2's latest story quest, "The Lie," it appears many won't be able to finish it. The last step of the quest is bugged, failing to trigger the mission players have to go through to get their reward.

Bungie confirmed the issue Sunday night on Twitter. After completing the other steps of the quest, The Lie directs you to Rasputin's bunker on the Moon to activate a mission called "The Tyrant." For many, starting the quest respawns you not at its start, but near bounty vendor Eris Morn at the Moon's main landing zone. When that happens, there's no way to advance; you just have to quit the activity and try to load it again. As of this writing, we've tried to run the quest roughly 10 times, to no avail.

The AFL is teaming up with Epic to host a charity Duos tournament in Fortnite. The charity event will be called the "AFL Stream King featuring Fortnite" and will run on Thursday, May 21 2AM PT and Friday, May 22 7PM AEST on the AFL Gamers Network YouTube channel.

The event will consist of 40 professional AFL players and 40 of Australia’s best Fortnite players will team up to battle it out for the ultimate crown and $50,000 AUD for the charity of the winner’s choice. Second place will earn $30,000 AUD for their chosen charity, with third earning $15,000 AUD, and fourth getting $5,000 AUD for their charities. The winners will also be crowned as the AFL Stream King(s).

"We are proud to partner with global giant Epic Games to put on this charity tournament, harnessing the strengths of both organisations, and providing what should be an amazing product for footy fans and gamers alike. Bringing together some of the biggest names in footy with the biggest names in Fortnite - we can’t wait to see who takes out the title," said Ben Sellenger, AFL Head of Commercial Growth.

It doesn't seem possible, but one Call of Duty: Warzone squad has set a new world record for most kills in a match, racking up an unthinkable 121 kills in a Quads mode match recently.

Well-known Call of Duty streamers TeePee, Symfuhny, HusKerrs, and DougisRaw set the record. There are 150 players in Warzone matches, so this team took down the overwhelming majority of them by themselves. You can see highlights from the achievement in the video below.

Call of Duty pro player Nadeshot responded to the achievement, writing on Twitter, "Wow, I can’t even fathom how you guys pulled this off. GGs."

Valve Software has made the tools for editing Half-Life: Alyx’s levels open to the community. In a new blog post on the official site, the developers have announced the release of the tools as part of the Steam Workshop support, an initiative by Valve to support the modding community.

The tools will allow for the creation of new levels, models, textures, and animations for the Half-Life VR game, along with letting creators upload their mods to the Steam Workshop for anyone to try.

Seems like it’s golf week on the Nintendo Eshop, with the chaotic multiplayer indie title Golf With Your Friends and the hilarious What The Golf making their Switch debuts. There’s also the remastered edition of realMyst: Masterpiece Edition releasing in celebration of the game’s 20th anniversary.

There's only two weeks to go until Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition consumes our every waking moment, so until then scoop up some of these indie titles to tide you over. Sink some hole-in-ones with friends in Golf With Your Friends, consume some questionable content in the new co-op cooking game Cannibal Cuisine, date some hot monsters in Monster Prom: XXL, and blast through waves of enemies in the non-stop arcade space shooter Fluxteria.

What The Golf is having a launch sale too, with the pre-purchase price for the game at 25% off.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated, which is due to release on June 23, has shown off its boss fights in a new trailer. Watching this footage reminds us of the hey-day of the PS2 3D platformer--after all, this is a remake of a game from 2003, when boss fights like this were a dime a dozen.

In the footage below, you can see SpongeBob take on a variety of giant enemies, including robots based on his friends, a huge jellyfish, and his arc nemesis, Plankton. The game has received a huge visual update, but it still looks like a PS2 platformer in many ways--and that, for many fans, is surely a good thing.

Battle for Bikini Bottom is receiving the remake treatment because the original game has earned something of a cult following among the speedrunning community--and also because SpongeBob is still going, with a new movie on the way, and the 12th season of the TV show currently airing sporadically.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection's latest update, which also brought Halo 2 Anniversary to PC, did not go exactly to plan. The release led to numerous bugs, issues, and oddities, and now developer 343 Industries has posted an update that explains what's being done to fix them.

As of May 17, 343 said it conducted a "full day of testing" on the changes to address the issues, and the developer is seeing "good results" so far. An upcoming "hotfix" patch for The Master Chief Collection will feature fixes for two main issues.

First, the hotfix will address a projectile bug in Halo 2 that caused various projectiles to not operate as intended. 343 said it identified and fixed the bug, and players can expect the fix soon. The hotfix will also address issues with Halo 3 including rubber-banding, desycned vehicles, and missing effects. Additionally, 343 continues to look into a problem with the Valhalla map that can cause the game to crash in custom games and matchmaking. While the studio has not yet fixed this issue in its internal tests, it believes it will be able to do so and include it with the upcoming hotfix.

If you've ever bought a game on a digital store and then seen it go on sale at a greatly reduced price days later, you know how painful an experience it can be. If you're using the Epic Games Store to buy games, though, that feeling might soon be a thing of the past--users are now receiving partial refunds for recent purchases made before a game comes on sale.

This news comes via Joshua Boggs, the director at Studio MayDay (and previous director of Framed at Loveshack Entertainment), who tweeted out part of an email he received about a partial refund being paid into his account.

"You recently placed orders from the Epic Games Store," the email reads. "The price of the game(s) you purchased were recently lowered, so we are issue partial refunds for the difference(s)."

This means that players will receive back what they would have saved. It's a very generous move, in line with their recent decision to not charge developers royalties on their games until they hit $1 million in revenue.

Disney has ordered all unauthorized clones of Club Penguin to be shut down after a fan-run clone was found by the BBC to be exposing children to explicit messages.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a fan-made Club Penguin Online server was flooded with over a million new players. Usually this would be enough for Disney to order a take down, with Club Penguin falling under the mega corporation’s ownership in 2007 for $350 million.

It seems some fans have missed the original so much that they made their own server of the game, using stolen or copied source code. These clones are relatively easy to find online, with even children finding their way onto the servers. This is where the issue lies, as the nature of this particular Club Penguin clone was not suitable for children at all.

As part of Ubisoft's latest financial briefing, the company provided an overview of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and outlined the steps it's taken to keep its workers safe.

In a statement, Ubisoft said the health and well-being of its employees remains "our top priority." Ubisoft's teams are now working from home, with the company's IT department helping staffers get up to speed on working in the new remote environment. The publisher described the move as a "challenging new context that has required all our employees to adapt quickly."

Looking ahead, Ubisoft said it is preparing for a future when offices open once more. The company is "taking special precautions to make sure that team members who are returning to the office can do so safely." There is no exact time for when Ubisoft's teams will be able to go back to work, however. Ubisoft has offices around the globe, and local governments will decide when business places can re-open.

In the latest update for the Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord beta, even more bug fixes have been rolled out, along with some alterations to units for balancing purposes. Patch e1.4.0 also marks the move from the current beta branch to the main Steam branch, syncing the two versions.

As with all games in beta, there are a myriad of bugs that need fixing, with the majority of patches so far focusing on erasing these issues. The developers have been patching the game almost daily since the beta launched, working hard to make the game playable despite still being in beta. This update patches the following known bugs in-game:

Latest Bug Changes

There's a new Harry Potter game coming to mobile, but it doesn't look like it's going to be quite as exciting as Wizards Unite. The game, which has received its first trailer ahead of release, is called Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells, and it's a match-3 puzzle game.

You can watch the trailer in the tweet below, although it doesn't show off any gameplay.

The game is being released under the Portkeys label, and is developed by Zynga (Words with Friends, Farmville). It seems to be set early in Harry's time at Hogwarts, based on how young the characters are in the key art. If you're in Australia, the game has already soft-launched on both the App Store and Google Play--but other regions will have to wait a little longer. No release date has been announced.

Ubisoft's latest financial report included new details on microtransaction spending for Rainbow Six Siege and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. In short, both are performing very well in regards to microtransansactions.

Ubisoft categorizes microtransactions as Player Recurring Spending (PRI), which covers digital items, DLC, season passes, subscriptions, and advertising. The team-based tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege enjoyed "record engagement" in the months of January, February, and March 2020, with PRI spending jumping by 26 percent.

That's an incredible achievement for a game that was released in 2015. Ubisoft will be supporting Siege for a long time to come, as the company is releasing the game as a launch title for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X later this year. GameSpot recently re-reviewed Siege, and we awarded it a 10/10.

Nioh 2 has received a free update, and it has brought new playable content and a photo mode to Team Ninja's punishing action game. Update 1.09, announced over at PlayStation Blog, will let you capture images of some of the game's stunning vistas and horrifying enemies.

The camera mode will feature plenty of options for fine-tuning, such as exposure, gradation, and lighting and tint adjustments. There are also numerous filters, letting you pretty up your photos of the game's various grotesque beasts, as well as options to tilt your photos or display watermarks. You can see it in action in the screenshots below.

Bohemia Interactive's survival shooter DayZ is enjoying a newfound level of success on Xbox One after the game was recently added to the Xbox Game Pass catalog. The publisher said in a news release that "hundreds of thousands" of new players jumped into DayZ following its introduction into the subscription program on May 7.

The game is "flourishing now more than ever, and has become one of the Most Played games on Xbox," Bohemia said in its press release (via Eurogamer).

Publishing director Vojtěch Ješátko added: "Xbox Game Pass is a great opportunity for us to open the game to a different audience, and to let a massive number of new players experience DayZ in all its crude harshness and beauty, together with the veterans."

After announcing that Destiny 2 is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, voice actor Lance Reddick has now posted a teaser for "new stuff" coming to the shared-world shooter.

Reddick, who voices Zavala in the game, posted a video on Twitter of his new at-home recording studio that is his closet. With physical recording studios shut due to COVID-19, actors of all types are finding creative solutions for how to continue their work. You can check out his setup in the video below.

Reddick did not give any teases for what to expect from this "new stuff" but presumably it will be related in part to Titans in Year 4. Recently, Destiny 2 added a new quest called "The Lie," and GameSpot's Destiny expect Phil Hornshaw believes it could be the next step in Bungie's plan to change everything.

New game releases have slowed to a crawl as of late, but you can enjoy some of the best retro games for a great price on the Sega Genesis Mini. The plug-and-play system is currently being sold for just $50 on Amazon, and it comes with 40 of the most popular games for the Genesis across several different genres.

Typically sold for $80, the Sega Genesis Mini comes loaded with 40 games from the original Genesis library as well as two bonus games: Darius and an unreleased Genesis version of Tetris. Its design features impressive attention to detail, including a non-functional volume switch, cartridge slot, and expansion port. The console comes with two controllers by default, as well, so you can start playing competitive fighting games and other multiplayer titles right out of the box.

Rainbow Six Siege is one of the most popular multiplayer games on the planet, so it comes as little surprise that it has its share of imitators. One such imitator, however, is doing more than that in eyes of Ubisoft. The company has filed a lawsuit against both Google and Apple for selling a game Ubisoft says is a direct ripoff.

As reported by Bloomberg, Ubisoft's suit against Google and Apple concerns the game Area F2, a multiplayer shooter created by Chinese mega-corporation Alibaba and its website Ejoy. According to Ubisoft's suit, the game allegedly copies Rainbow Six Siege's user interface, including its final score screen and the operator selection screen. Area F2 is available in the United States on mobile devices and is currently in a free period, while Rainbow Six Siege is only on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

Prior to filing the lawsuit, Ubisoft said it had told Apple and Google that the game infringed on its copyrights but the games were not taken down. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles, and neither Google nor Apple have commented on it yet.

I probably speak for many of us in our mid/late-20s or early-30s when I say that the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games were a cultural phenomenon that permeated our real lives at a young, impressionable age. We were smart enough to realize that dreams of launching off ramps to land a Kickflip Mctwist or grinding on a 50-foot handrail doing a Casper Slide were well out of reach, yet that didn't stop us from asking our moms for a cheap deck and a few bucks to buy our new favorite punk band's album on CD. But while many impulses or fads throughout the years have come and gone, the ones born out of THPS have been ever-lasting.

Seeing the reveal of THPS 1 and 2 remastered was yet another reminder that the storied video game series has, in many ways, significantly helped in forming our identities. I vividly remember watching Tony Hawk himself landing the first 900 at the 1999 X-Games and realizing it was sports history in the making, yet it wasn't quite the motivation to seek out skating for myself. Participating in the act virtually in THPS bridged that gap and packaged a chunk of skate culture in a form that I did have expertise in: video games. And through the THPS games, I then looked at skating more like, "this shit is cool."