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With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 now a week old, fans of the Multiplayer portion of the game are having their say on the controversial — and unskippable — Winner’s Circle feature.The Winner’s Circle shows the top three performing players from the winning team after the Play of the Game has run its course. Under normal circumstances it lets each player who does well enough to appear on the podium perform an emote, most of which are either toxic or hilarious depending on your point of view.Black Ops 6 isn’t the first Call of Duty to feature The Winner’s Circle mechanic, as it’s appeared in the likes of Black Ops 3, Infinite Warfare, and WWII. But it’s impact feels particularly pronounced this year, and the debate around it was only exacerbated by the recent release of fan-favor…

The House of the Dead will be the latest video game to head to the big screen, and it's got a seasoned adaptation director at the helm.Per a Deadline report on Thursday, Paul W.S. Anderson will write and direct the big-screen version of The House of the Dead, the Sega horror shooter series. He'll also be producing alongside his longtime creative partner Jeremy Bolt.And it seems Anderson just can't stay away from this genre, with The House of the Dead marking his fourth adaptation of a video game property. Previously, Anderson directed Mortal Kombat (1995), Resident Evil (2002), and most recently Monster Hunter (2020). Paul W.S. Anderson is writing and directing a The House of the Dead film. Anderson also gave an interview to Deadline where he gave a quick glimpse as to how h…

Sony is shuttering Firewalk Studios in the wake of its disastrous release of Concord, the PS5 shooter that lasted less than two weeks before being shuttered. The news was first reported by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has outperformed both Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 on Steam, with data from player tracking website SteamDB showing the Call of Duty app saw a peak concurrent player count of 306,460 in Black Ops 6's first weekend on sale. It peaked at 263,174 during Modern Warfare 2's opening weekend in 2022 and just 190,707 for the universally panned Modern Warfare 3.Warzone 2.0, of course, still has the best debut of a recent Call of Duty with a peak of 491,670 players, but the free to play battle royale is much more accessible than the $69.99 Black Ops 6.Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launched October 28This SteamDB data is the best indication of how Black Ops 6 is performing, as neither Xbox or PlayStation release player numbers for their consoles and publisher …

With the release of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Update 4.1, the community is rallying against “gatekeepers” who have called on developer Saber Interactive to retire a reward given only to those who complete all PvE missions on the hardest difficulty.Update 4.1, out now, follows hot on the heels of last week’s controversial Update 4.0, widely criticized by Space Marine 2 fans for making the game significantly harder. The backlash to Update 4.0 even spread to Space Marine 2’s Steam page, where disgruntled players review-bombed the game.Update 4.0 added the Lethal difficulty to Space Marine 2’s PvE Operations mode, and with it exclusive rewards. One of these rewards, the Survivor’s Helm, is highly coveted by the community because all PvE missions must be completed on Lethal t…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is following a recent trend by adding an arachophobia setting to Zombies, but its solution somehow seems even worse.As part of its blog detailing Black Ops 6's various acccessibility features, Activision showed off its new arachnophobia mode, explaining, "For the first time in Black Ops 6 Zombies, a new arachnophobia toggle feature will be available. This setting will allow players to change the appearance of spider-like enemies in Zombies without affecting their game play."Black Ops 6's arachnophobia mode somehow seems even worse. Image credit: Activision.The description is accompanied by a screenshot that shows a spider beast crawling toward the player on one side, and what it looks like when the arachnophobia mode is turned on. It seems the …

Netflix and A24 are moving forward with Beef Season 2 and an all-star cast.The streaming giant announced its plans today to move forward with another batch of episodes for the award-winning show. It’ll be an eight-episode season this time around, giving viewers two less episodes than they received with last year’s season. Beef Season 2 adds Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny to the cast.While the slightly shorter run may be disappointing to some, audiences should know that Beef Season 2 will bring with it a number of big names, including Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Star Wars: Episode 7 – The Force Awakens), Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, Maestro), Charles Melton (Riverdale, The Sun Is Also a Star), and Cailee Spaeny (Civil War, Alien: Romulus).Beef go…