There's a lot happening in May on Disney+, and the month gets off to a hot start on May 1 with the series finale of Star Wars: The Bad Batch and the first installment of the three-part X-Men '97 Season 1 finale. The animated anthology, Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, will follow on this year's Star Wars Day: May 4.

Pixar fans should also look forward to May 5, which will feature the debut of Monsters At Work Season 2. And on May 10, Doctor Who officially kicks off a new era with a two-episode premiere, with new episodes following on a weekly basis.

Disney+ also has a very strong lineup of rock documentaries this month, with The Beatles: Let It Be on May 8, Queen Rock Montreal on May 15, and The Beach Boys on May 24.

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Yet another massive tabletop RPG book bundle is available at Humble Bundle this month, but unlike some of their recent collections that offer an entry point for new players, this new Classic Pathfinder Mega Bundle Part 1 is aimed at established Pathfinder players looking to expand their collection with new adventure modules, setting books, third-party expansions, and more. The materials in the Classic Pathfinder Mega Bundle Part 1 are compatible with Pathfinder 1E, so this is a great deal for anyone wanting to bust out their original Pathfinder rulebooks and roll a classic-style adventure.

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Humble's Classic Pathfinder Mega Bundle Part 1 comes in multiple buying options, with the full $25 bundle offering 69 digital books like the 300-page Southlands of Pathfinder expansion, as well the player's guide, worldbook, and adventure modules for the third-party Midgard setting.

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Plenty of video games have made deals for film and TV adaptations, but it usually happens after a game is on the market. That's not the case every time, though. The developers behind the upcoming game Spine have signed a deal with Sonic the Hedgehog movie producer Dmitri Johnson's production company Story Kitchen for potential film and TV adaptations.

Spine, from developer Nekki, is a single-player game with close-quarter gun fights featuring a hero named Redline. Nekki CEO Dmitry Terekhin said to Variety, "We believe that truly great stories always stand out, and Spine universe will captivate audiences across any media."

It's still very early days for any possible Spine film or TV series, so there is no word yet on a cast or director, or where a potential adaptation could end up. It seems what's happening here is Story Kitchen has snapped up the rights, just like it did with Dredge earlier this month.

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Wednesday's Season 1 finale left an opening at Nevermore Academy, and it looks like the job has now been filled. Variety is reporting that veteran actor Steve Buscemi has joined the cast of Wednesday Season 2. While specific details about Buscemi's character weren't released, Variety's sources indicate that he will be playing the new principal of Nevermore. Since his character's predecessor, Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie), had powers, it stands to reason that the new principal will as well.

Buscemi has extensive experience in both film and television roles. Some of his most memorable movies include Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Con Air, Miller's Crossing, and a leading role in Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs. On TV, Buscemei headlined HBO's Prohibition drama Boardwalk Empire for five seasons in addition to his stints on The Sopranos and Miracle Workers. Buscemi has also guest starred in 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Most of the cast of Wednesday Season 1 will return for the new season, including Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. In a nod to her increased star power since the first season, Ortega is now a producer of the series as well. Ortega is also starring in Wednesday director Tim Burton's upcoming sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

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If you're in the market for a dedicated capture card for consoles and PC, the Elgato HD60X is on sale for over $60 off at Amazon and Best Buy. Over at Amazon, you can snag the HD60X for $137.49 (down from $180). This deal is available to all customers, but Best Buy's offer, which drops the price to $138, is only available to My Best Buy Plus subscribers ($50/year). Either way, this is the lowest price we've seen for the Elgato HD60X, so we wouldn't be surprised to see this superb gameplay recorder for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC sell out.

Elgato HD60 X Capture Card $137.49 (was $180)

There’s a lot to love about the Elgato HD60 X. With the ability to capture 4K video at 30fps or 1080p video at 60fps, support for PC, Switch, Xbox, and PS5, and less than 100ms latency, few capture cards in this price range can rival its performance. You’ll also benefit from no time limits or the need for monthly subscriptions. Plus, the HD60 X doesn’t put any pesky watermarks on your content.

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Beyond its class-leading performance, the Elgato HD60 X is easy to set up and doesn’t require any additional drivers on Windows or Mac. It’s also a sleek-looking device that won’t take up too much real estate on your battlestation. Once you’re ready to manage your footage, the HD60 X is fully compatible with third-party software like OBS and Streamlabs.

All of these features add up to make it one of the best capture cards available in 2024. And at this new low price, it’s an easy recommendation for anyone interested in streaming (or a current streamer that wants to up their game). More Elgato products aimed at streamers are on sale at Amazon right now. Check them out below:

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Prime Video has yet to officially renew Fallout for a second season, but it seems likely, and now some of the key people working on the show have discussed what to expect in Season 2 if it gets made.

Jonathan Nolan, who directed the first three episodes of Season 1 and is an executive producer on the series overall, told The Wrap, "The challenge, especially with television, is in success, the hope that you get to go again." He said when he was making Fallout Season 1, the aim was to create a "terrific season of television," and he also thought about what could come next.

"I think at the same time, you'd be remiss, almost irresponsible, to not have started to talk about where your story could take you," Nolan said. "So we have been talking from the beginning about how this would develop and evolve in subsequent seasons, if we should be so lucky."

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There is something to see here, as the Naked Gun remake has brought on Baywatch icon Pamela Anderson to star alongside Liam Neeson. Her role hasn't been disclosed yet, but the actress will follow in the footsteps of the original film trilogy's Priscilla Presley, according to a new report.

The Hollywood Reporter says Anderson will play the love interest of Neeson, who will play Drebin. In the original trilogy--including the TV show Police Squad--Leslie Nielsen hilariously brought Detective Frank Drebin to life. When the Naked Gun reboot was initially reported in development back in 2022, it was believed that Neeson may in fact play as the son of Nielsen's Dreben.

Anderson rose to prominence in the 1990s, appearing in the first two seasons of Home Improvement and then starring in Baywatch from 1992-97. Her personal life has also been well documented, such as getting a Hulu limited series called Pam & Tommy in recent years. She also spearheaded her own personal project with Netflix's Pamela: A Love Story that debuted last year.

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A free trial for the 2023 game Assassin's Creed Mirage is available now on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. The trial is also available for PC through the Ubisoft Store and the Epic Games Store, but not Steam, where the game was never released.

The trial allows users to play the first two hours of Mirage, and all progression carries forward for people who buy the game outright. The game supports cross-platform cloud saves, so people can play the trial on one platform and buy the game outright on a different one, and their saves will be intact.

Additionally, Ubisoft is offering 40% off Mirage's standard and deluxe editions, bringing the prices down to $30 and $36, respectively.

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The second week of Destiny 2's Into the Light brings more fan-favorite weapons back to the game--including The Mountaintop, a breech-loading grenade launcher that dominated the Crucible for years after its release. While the new version of The Mountaintop isn't quite the force of terror the original was, it's still a pretty powerful option for your Special weapon slot, whether in player-vs.-player or player-vs.-environment content.

As with the other reprised weapons in the Brave arsenal, it's possible to earn both a curated version of The Mountaintop and random rolls of the gun, which brings new options to the fore with a new perk pool. Here's everything you need to know to unlock The Mountaintop, how to farm more rolls on it, and which copies of the gun you'll want to keep for your god roll collection.

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• How To Unlock The Mountaintop

How To Unlock The Mountaintop

As with the other weapons in the Brave arsenal released in Into the Light, you can get The Mountaintop by completing quests in the Hall of Champions and taking part in the new Onslaught activity. As with the other weapons, you'll first need to complete the Feats of Strength quest with Lord Shaxx in order to unlock the full potential of the Hall of Champions. That also means knocking out the first weapon-specific quest you can pick up from Shaxx's right-hand bot, Arcite 99-40, called Stranger Danger.

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It has been more than a decade since Rayman last headlined a game, but at long last, Ubisoft's limbless hero is making a comeback. Only he's not headed to PC or console, but will instead be landing on current and last-gen tables in a new board game from Flyos.

Rayman the Board Game

Designed by Maxime Tardif, the same person behind acclaimed board game Earth, Rayman: The Board Game can be played by two to five players, and is suitable for anyone within an oddly-specific 70-year age demographic. It's currently scheduled to arrive in Q3 2024.

Beyond that, additional details on the board game are about as plentiful as Rayman's catalog of solo games in the 2020s. The box art does feature Rayman and several of his allies, and two of the game pieces shown off include the titular hero himself alongside Globox, the big blue brawler from previous Rayman games.

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Evercade is refreshing its hardware lineup this July with the launch of the Evercade VS-R home console and Evercade EXP-R handheld. The cartridge-based platforms are receiving fresh coats of paint, while the EXP-R is also getting an updated price tag. The Evercade EXP-R and VS-R will be sold for only $100 each.

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Preorders are not yet open, but are expected to begin on April 30 through the official Evercade website. We'd also expect the hardware to be available to order at Amazon at some point. The EXP-R and VS-R have charcoal gray color schemes with turquoise accents. They each will come bundled with a cartridge, but specifics have not been revealed just yet.

If you're unfamiliar with the Evercade family of systems, it's a retro gaming platform that lets you play over 50 cartridge-based collections. The original Evercade handheld released back in 2020, and Blaze Entertainment has iterated on the Evercade hardware multiple times since, including with the Evercade VS home console, Evercade EXP handheld, and last year's spin-off $60 handhelds, the Taito and Capcom Super Pockets.

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Supergiant Games has announced that the Hades II Technical Test will begin shortly, before the game launches into Early Access.

Supergiant Games explained that the Technical Test will only contain the first major area of the game and other early-game characters and content. It's far less content than will be in the Early Access version so that the studio can solve any technical issues beforehand. Additionally, the Technical Test might only be available to a small group of players relative to those that sign up.

In order to sign up, simply just go to the Hades II Steam page and click "Request Access" on the section that says "Hades II Playtest." After doing so, you should get a confirmation saying that you'll receive an email from the developer if you end up being chosen for the Technical Test.

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The Outlast Trials hit consoles and released into its 1.0 state a few weeks ago, and today Red Barrels kicks off the horror multiplayer game's first limited-time event since then. Toxic Shock brings new MK-Challenges and Trials as part of the new program full of XP and limited-time currency that can be redeemed for a new costume in the game, the apocalyptic Crossing Guard.

The Toxic Shock event runs from now until May 7, during which time you can unlock new tokens for completing missions within the program. In total, 28 tokens can be earned if you played each mission only once, with the Crossing Guard costing 20 tokens, so you needn't complete every single mission to unlock it. You can also replay missions to unlock more tokens and earn more of the event's exclusive rewards seen below. Completing the final trial will unlock an exclusive poster for your sleep room, however, so diehards may find it's worth seeing through to the brutal end.

The missions play out on previously released maps but with new objectives and variators, including the centerpiece that routinely dispenses toxic gas across the whole map, demanding you jump into a hiding place until it evaporates. There's also a new optional objective akin to tearing down the game's propaganda posters that tasks you with collecting rats scattered around each map.

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The latest Call of Duty update arrived to Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone on April 16. The patch notes include weapon balancing across both games, and multiplayer's Ranked Play mode gets new weapon options for a limited time.

On the multiplayer side, the MTZ-556 assault rifle received a 6% buff to bullet velocity, and the Holger 556 now has adjusted recoil and gun kick to allow for a more predictable recoil pattern. The popular RAM-9 submachine gun was nerfed with a 10% decrease to the minimum and maximum hip-fire accuracy, and the aim-down-sight time was increased by 10% as well.

Additionally, an adjustment was made to Season 3's new MORS sniper rifle to correct an optic misalignment that previously caused shots to travel slightly off-center.

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Netflix recently underwent a big change with movie boss Scott Stuber leaving the company and Dan Lin taking over as the top boss for the streaming giant's film division. Right away, Lin cut 15 jobs and restructured the movie division, and now we've learned more about how Lin plans to shake things up as the company looks to the future.

According to The New York Times, Lin's mandate at Netflix is to "improve the quality" of its movie releases and produce a "wide spectrum of films" at different budget levels to help create more content that can appeal to Netflix's subscriber base. Another big change is that Netflix is changing how it pays filmmakers--"no more enormous upfront deals," the NYT reported.

Whereas Netflix previously focused on volume--in 2021, it released a new film every week--Lin's aim is to make Netflix's films "better, cheaper, and less frequent," the report said. Sources also told the site that Lin is asking his team to be more proactive and seek to develop their own content instead of waiting for producers and agents to reach out to make a deal.

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Becoming a Ghoul takes time. On the Fallout TV show, the character is over 200 years old, and in real life, actor Walton Goggins sat in the makeup chair for up to five hours to transform into the mutant bounty hunter.

Goggins chronicled the extensive process on Instagram--seen below--and gave praise to FX makeup artist Jake Garber. The Fallout show star said Garber "worked his ass off." While the process started out lasting five hours, "Jake got it down to 1:45-2:15 depending on what movie we were watching (I think this one was The Wild Bunch)," Goggins said. "Everyday he dealt with my anxiety. Everyday he was my friend."

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One intriguing aspect of the video above is how the prosthetics not only cover the face of Goggins, but also a portion of his upper body and shoulders. You can also see the actor eating some food at one point.

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The Disney+ experience was recently upgraded to include everything from Hulu through the same app if you subscribe to both services. But that may not be the only change coming to Disney+. The Information is reporting that Disney is planning to introduce new ad-supported TV-style channels that have a constant stream of programming 24/7.

The channels in question would follow the F.A.S.T. (Free ad-supported streaming television) model that has been popularized by Pluto TV and Tubi. The Information's report suggests that the channels will be centered on the major brands of Disney+: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. However, there could also be more specialized channels devoted to older and modern Disney shows, as well as genre-specific channels.

Although the F.A.S.T. channel services are typically free to watch, it's expected that a Disney+ subscription would still be required to watch these new channels. The whole point of adding them is to keep Disney+ users engaged on the platform, especially since the streamer has dramatically cut back on original programming in the last year.

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In 2020, Sony lined up Venom scribes Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner to co-write the live-action One-Punch Man movie. There hasn't been much movement on the project since then, but The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that two other writers are now on working on the One-Punch Man script: Dan Harmon and Heather Anne Campbell.

Harmon is the co-creator of Rick and Morty and Strange Planet, as well as the creator of Community and Krapopolis. Harmon also provided some uncredited additions to the script for Marvel's Doctor Strange. Campbell is a writer and co-executive producer on Rick and Morty, whose previous credits include Saturday Night Live and the 2019 revival of The Twilight Zone.

One-Punch Man debuted as manga in 2009 by ONE and artist Yusuke Murata. The manga and the subsequent 2015 anime adaptation follows Saitama, the most powerful superhero in the world. He can literally defeat almost anyone by landing a single punch. But Saitama longs for a real challenge to his exceptional strength, and boredom appears to be his greatest enemy.

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Nintendo has announced that it will be hosting a new Indie World game showcase tomorrow, April 17. Here's how to watch and what to expect.

Start time

The live presentation is scheduled to begin at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET on Wednesday, and the announcement said that it will last "roughly 20 minutes." No specific games, announcements, or developers have been confirmed for the event prior to this writing. However, Nintendo's announcement specified that the games revealed will arrive on Switch in 2024.

How to watch

Audiences who want to watch the Indie World showcase on April 17 live can do so through three ways: Nintendo's official YouTube and Twitch channels, as well as the official Indie World website. We will also have the stream available right here on GameSpot. Nintendo will upload everything that it reveals, including adding individual trailers for each announcement.

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Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra has suggested that tipping culture could benefit games, with some "special" single-player games leaving him wishing he could give more money to developers after completing them. Ybarra noted that "most will dislike this idea," with many consumers already tired of tipping culture coming to other industries.

Ybarra introduced the idea in a tweet, as picked up by IGN, saying he had been thinking about it for a while as he was playing more single-player games.

"At the end of the game, I've often thought, 'I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20 because it was worth more than my initial $70 and they didn't try to nickel and dime me every second,'" Ybarra explained.

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