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It’s all but confirmed that 2020’s Call of Duty release will be another entry in the Black Ops series, and a recent easter egg just might be the most obvious hint yet. The latest update subtly placed a prototype for the RC-XD remote control racecar, a popular killstreak that is known to appear in Black Ops games, inside one of Warzone’s buildings. Popping up in every Black Ops game in the series aside from Black Ops 3, the RC-XD is certainly a fan favorite killstreak, allowing players to control a toy car that they can detonate as soon as it reaches an enemy....

Warzone’s new Most Wanted contracts appeared to be a universally welcome addition to the game. That is, until players figured out it had replaced something else. Call of Duty: Warzone has been a welcome addition to the already crowded battle royale scene for the most part. It is easily CoD’s most popular take on the BR genre to date, and after just one month 50 million people had given it a try....

If you listen closely, every year around October 1st you’ll start to hear things go bump in the night… but don’t worry, instead of g-g-g-ghoooosts it’s mostly just the sound of props department interns who have been made to stay late and dig out boxes of bat bunting, dry ice machines and facepaint ready for another round of Halloween TV specials. Dig through the archives, and – while a couple of spooky stories were read out on Jackanory in the late 1960s, including Doctor Who’s own Jon Pertwee’s memorable reading of Ghoulies, Ghosties and Long Legged Beasties – this 1974 Steptoe and Son episode might be the first proper Halloween edition of a British TV show: Cleverly titled ‘Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard’ as a riff on Richard Attenborough’s horror movie Seance on a Wet Afternoon, the episode was first shown in October 1974, and features an early TV appearance for comedy legend Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances)....

God Of War 2018 is an amazing game, making the ways it evolved into what we are playing today all the more fascinating. As part of a sit-down with IGN, Cory Balrog and other members of the team behind 2018’s mega-hit God Of War showcased a video that included an early cut of the game. Among the many changes highlighted in the video is the appearance of Atreus, Kratos’ son. Despite Cory Balrog’s love for the shorn head, Atreus was eventually given a shock of red hair to help him stand out from other Norse characters, and even separate himself from Kratos a little bit....

[HTML1] Sony fans have numerous ways to enjoy the company’s E3 press conference when it airs live on Monday, June 15th at 6pm PDT. They can watch the Sony E3 2015 press conference in movie theaters, they can watch it on their PlayStation devices, and they can also view it through the above livestream on the official PlayStation Twitch channel. No matter how fans are watching the conference, they will all be able to look forward to seeing more of PS4’s biggest upcoming game, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End....

For so many reasons, this year’s E3 will be very different. It’s the first E3 for a new generation of consoles, with both Sony and Microsoft having revealed their next-gen consoles at special events, and fans reacting with a mixture of excitement and curiosity. This will also be one of the first E3s where Nintendo does not hold a pre-E3 press conference; they will instead hold smaller events to generate hype....

The West Side Story song “I Feel Pretty” is one of the most popular pieces of the American songbook. Over the decades, it’s been played at birthday parties, weddings, and even in Adam Sandler movies. Yet it’s no secret that the song has its share of critics, chief among them being its late great lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who for decades would sheepishly admit he was embarrassed by the song. In the most recent Broadway revival of the Leonard Bernstein and Sondheim musical, iconoclast stage director Ivo van Hove even cut “I Feel Pretty” altogether (much to Sondheim’s delight)....

What Does Chief Analytics Officer (CAO) Mean? The chief analytics officer (CAO) is an executive within a company or business who is in charge of data strategy, with a specific focus on data analytics. The chief analytics officer may lead a data analytics strategy or determine how analysis gets done, with regard to the tools and resources used, any outsourcing, and any other aspects of the actual data analytics that gets done on valuable business data sets....

The Pokémon anime will briefly be returning to its original format, as the upcoming story arc will focus on the storyline from Pokémon Sword & Shield. The current season of the Pokémon anime (referred to as Pokémon Journeys: The Series outside of Japan) is using a brand new format, where Ash travels to every region in the franchise, as he’s taking part in the World Coronation Series. Ash is joined by a boy named Goh, who is trying to catch every Pokémon in the world....

Peripherals firm Razer has announced that after just 10 months of trading, it is closing its digital games store. Razer hasn’t disclosed any information that gives us a clue as to its success or otherwise. Instead the firm cited “the company’s realignment plans” as the reason for the shutdown. The store originally went live in April of 2018, less than a year ago, and currently displays as in Beta. It sells a mix of Steam and uPlay keys....

This article contains The King’s Man spoilers. Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man is on streaming now. That’s a quick turnaround since its Christmastime release last year, but perhaps it’s for the best. With the largely underappreciated (and under-seen) Kingsman prequel making its debut on HBO Max and Hulu, there’s a chance the strange action mash-up may finally find its audience. In fact, The King’s Man is so steeped in World War I history that the truth behind many of its larger-than-life characters and story beats could surprise casual audiences....

Anthony and Joe Russo (Avengers: Infinity War) had a virtual panel to themselves last weekend at the Comic-Con Experience in Brazil, one of the largest pop-culture conventions in the world. In addition to talking about their future projects, like next year’s science fiction film Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Russos mentioned that they’re working on not just a sequel to their Netflix original film Extraction, but a full “universe of films” set within the same storyline....

The Sims 4 recently released a new type of DLC called “Kits,” which has been received with both praise and critique in The Sims community. Kits are meant to be ultra-small DLC packs that hyper focus on one aspect that players may want to implement in their Sims 4 gameplay. It seems each pack will have specific elements for each section of the game, so one Kit will pertain to CAS (Create-a-Sim) items, Build/Buy items, or focus on additional live mode gameplay....

Oh Doctor O’Loughlin, for a “brilliant” man you are a very silly boy. In episode two of ITV’s crime thriller The Suspect, based on the novel by Michael Robotham, the clinical psychologist with the formerly “perfect life” has learned absolutely no lessons from episode one. To recap, a young woman is found dead, stabbed 21 times (it appears she has stabbed herself, or been forced to stab herself), buried in a shallow grave in a cemetery....

Over the years, the Call of Duty franchise has created a name for itself, and it has become a huge deal. Every year a new game in the series comes out, and every year we get to hear about how it sucks compared to some of the older COD titles. One of the biggest reasons why people were starting to get disappointed from the franchise was that it was the same game being released each year, only with a different story and skin....

S. Craig Zahler’s follow-up to his blood-soaked western debut Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, is one of the most underrated action movies in recent memory. It’s a pulpy throwback to old exploitation revenge movies, but with a gritty, realistic edge. A tough-as-nails Vince Vaughn beats and gouges his way through the guards and protected inmates of a dingy underground prison block, paving the way for some of the gnarliest violence ever put on film....

Last week The Sims team was giving away free codes for various Sims 4 games, including the base game and DLC, as part of EA’s Stay Home, Play Together campaign. This week that has continued, with the codes being given out via different game-changers. We’ve also seen some amazing sub drops in Twitch streams and been given an insight into what content to expect from the team over the next few months....

The collector’s edition of the recently revealed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 includes a full-sized skateboard deck alongside the game and some extra content. Hardcore skateboarding fans won’t have to fork over too much cash to secure a Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 collector’s edition, but it still costs considerably more than the base game. Collector’s editions typically come with some sort of physical item, like a statue or a map, but Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 takes things to the next level by offering a unique reward to anyone dedicated enough to purchase a more expensive edition of the game....

The original PlayStation’s time in the sun was a golden era for J-RPG fans. Square-Enix was churning out a Final Fantasy game what seemed like every year, and every other developer under the sun was trying to compete with them. Since it was the pre-HD era, even smaller developers could try their hand at putting out lengthy J-RPG epics, filled with cinematic Full Motion Videos meant to pull young gamers into their stories....

Four years ago, the overused and increasingly predictable zombie genre got a shot in the arm with Train to Busan, a South Korean film from director Yeon Sang-ho about a young father desperately attempting to get his little daughter to her mother via train as a zombie pandemic breaks out all around them. Even if it veered close to outright sentimentality at times, Train to Busan differed from most of the films and TV shows we’ve seen in this genre due to its genuine bond of love between its main characters, and the flickers of empathy and humanity found therein....