It appears that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War‘s Zombies mode will have a free week coming up soon. CharlieIntel spotted a store page on Xbox that states a “Free Access” trial for Zombies will run January 14-21.
If that is indeed the case, an official announcement may not be far off. We have contacted Activision in an attempt to get more details and will update this post with anything we hear back.
Presumably the Free Access trial for Zombies, if it is real, will also be available on other platforms beyond Xbox. Keep checking back with GameSpot for the latest.
You might think OLED TVs are in a tight spot with Samsung Neo QLED and TCL Mini LED TVs coming to market soon, but LG is here to show you its emissive displays still have a few new tricks.
LG has announced a new G1 Series with OLED Evo technology that promises to deliver greater luminosity for a brighter picture with punchier colors. The new LG G1 Series is also an elegantly thin panel display, making it perfect for wall mounting. Alternatively, this 4K TV also comes with a standing tripod base so it can stand at eye-level without need any TV console.
LG G1 Series
On top of announcing a new series of screen, LG has also updated its flagship CX Series with the new C1 Series. Whereas last year LG announced a compact 48-inch option to act as a gaming monitor, this year there’s a new 83-inch version for users looking for the biggest OLED screen possible.
LG’s 2021 TVs also come with a new bag of gaming tricks including a 1ms response time and low input lag. There’s also a new Game Optimizer that applies the best picture quality depending on the type of games you’re playing while also placing all game-related settings in one place. LG’s TVs also come with G-Sync, FreeSync, and Variable Refresh Rate support.
LG C1 Series
Both the new G1 and C1 Series TVs come fitted with an α (Alpha) 9 Gen 4 AI processor for deep learning enhanced sound and audio. AI Picture Pro removes noises and optimizes picture quality, and it can use scene detection to improve picture quality based on the scenes you’re watching. AI Sound Pro adds virtual 5.1.2 surround sound to boost the quality of the LG’s TV speakers.
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For 2021, LG isn’t overhauling its popular line of OLED TVs. Instead, it’s addressing one of the most common complaints with the technology: peak brightness.
With its more expensive G-series of OLED TVs, announced during CES 2021, LG is promising better overall brightness levels with what it’s calling OLED Evo. This should, in theory, make picture quality better in brightly lit rooms, where the lower brightness levels of OLED vs. LCD struggled.
LG isn’t including this with its new C-series line, the follow-up to arguably one of the most popular TVs series around the launch of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. The new C1 comes in various sizes, including 48″, 55″, and 65″, and features a refreshed panel, LG’s new 6.0 webOS, and a more powerful a9 internal processor to help power this year’s iteration of AI picture enhancements.
The ninth Fast & Furious movie was one of the first films to be delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, and it still won’t be with us until late May. We did however get to see the F9 trailer before the delay was announced, and it revealed that fan favorite character Han will be making his return to the series. Now star and producer Vin Diesel has spoken about Han’s return and what fans can expect from the next movie.
Han, played by Sung Kang, was seemingly killed off in 2006’s Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift and shown again in Fast & Furious 6–which takes place before Tokyo Drift–leading to a fan campaign termed “Justice for Han.” But as last year’s F9 trailer revealed, he’s very much alive. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Diesel explained that the character is a vital part of the series.
“Han is an integral character in this franchise,” he said. “If you remember, he’s kind of responsible for the away years of [Diesel’s character] Dom Toretto. He’s the one doing jobs with him in Mexico, he’s the only one who knows where Dom is, and in many ways is the bridge for Dom when Dom comes back in Tokyo Drift. So there’s something very special and magical about the Han character. When you see the movie you’ll feel it, but I believe at the core it’s another testament to, not only don’t turn your back on family, but don’t give up on family.”
This is not exactly the busiest week ever for new shows and movies hitting Netflix, but what will be on offer is thankfully pretty solid. With just a handful of new content coming to the streaming service, there still is somehow something for pretty much everyone.
Easily one of the big standouts among the upcoming days is Season 3 of Disenchantment–landing on the streaming service January 15. Where creator Matt Groening’s The Simpsons is a satire of modern life, and Futurama was a send-up of sci-fi, Netflix’s Disenchantment is an animated sitcom both celebrating and skewering fantasy tropes. While the offbeat show has not exactly blown up since debuting in 2018, fans of Simpsons sensibilities and animation style have a lot to love in this show that follows the story of Bean, a rebellious and alcoholic princess. (It’s funnier than that sounds.) This season will be the show’s true test, as it will now be up for renewal after getting the greenlight for an impressive three seasons when first getting picked up.
Also that day, Steven Spielberg’s Hook surfaces on Netflix. It really says a lot about the 1991 film (and the actor, for that matter) that Robin Williams as Peter Pan is one of the actor’s more grounded performances, and his chemistry with Dustin Hoffman as the arch Captain Hook is likely more nuanced than most people remember. (Julia Roberts is also excellent as the digitally shrunken Tinkerbell.) The film is flat-out fun, which is just what these winter months call for.
TCL is rolling out a new 6-Series of TVs and while you might think it’s yet another batch of budget TVs, the entire TCL 2021 lineup will only feature 8K TVs.
With this bump in resolution, the new TCL 6-Series will pack four times the resolution of today’s 4K TVs. These sets will also feature an improved AiPQ Engine to power 8K image upscaling.
Unfortunately, those are all the details TCL is serving up on its 8K TVs for now, so there’s no word on further specs, pricing, or availability. At the very least though TLC pledges that this move will make 8K more accessible.
85 inch 4-Series TCL Roku TV (85R435)
XL Collection
On top of raising the resolution of its flagship TVs, TCL also announced a new XL collection of 85-inch screens. This is the first time TCL has put out sets this big, and the XL collection so far consists of an 85 inch 4-Series TCL Roku TV (85R435), 85-inch 4K HDR TCL QLED TCL Roku TV (85R745), and 85 inch 8K mini-LED TCL TV.
The 85 inch 4-Series TCL Roku TV aims to be the most affordable big screen TV at $1,599 when it arrives within the first quarter of this year.
85-inch 4K HDR TCL QLED TCL Roku TV (85R745)
For those looking for a higher-quality HDR experience, the 85-inch 4K HDR TCL QLED TCL Roku TV (85R745) adds Quantum Dot (QLED) color technology to deliver better brightness and wider color volume. Lastly, the 85-inch 8K TV is powered by a mini-LED backlighting system.
The 85 inch QLED TCL Roku TV (85R745) and 85 inch mini-LED powered 8K TV are both set to arrive later within the next few months.
OD Zero mini-LED
TCL also took this time to tease its 3rd generation mini-LED backlight called OD Zero mini-LED technology that will be launching later this year.
TCL was one of the first TV makers to put mini-LED technology into its TVs last year. OD Zero kicks things up a notch by packing tens of thousands of mini-LEDs to create thousands of Contrast Control Zones.
OD Zero also reduces the distance between the mini-LED backlight layer and the LCD display layer to 0mm, so you get an unbelievably high brightness and deep contrast from an ultra-slim display.
