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AMC Theaters has criticized Warner Bros.’ plans to release its 2021 movies on HBO Max on the same day that these feature films arrive in cinemas. These films will be available to HBO Max subscribers for one month after release and include tentpole movies such as Dune, The Suicide Squad, and The Matrix 4.

“Clearly, Warner Media intends to sacrifice a considerable portion of the profitability of its movie studio division, and that of its production partners and filmmakers, to subsidize its HBO Max startup,” Adam Aron, CEO and president of AMC Entertainment, said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “As for AMC, we will do all in our power to ensure that Warner does not do so at our expense. We will aggressively pursue economic terms that preserve our business.”

AMC has been hit especially hard by the Coronavirus pandemic, having been forced to close a number of its cinemas throughout the year. Warner Bros. had also originally signed a deal with cinema chains to provide a larger cut of ticket sales–up to 60%–in a once-off agreement for Wonder Woman 1984 which will debut in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas day.

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Hulu has finally extended its Watch Party feature to all subscribers, regardless of tier. Initially launched in May of 2020, and exclusive to the $12 pay tier, the company has now extended the feature to all users.

The news comes via Variety, as Hulu reported that over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, customers hosted a record number of watch parties to watch the new holiday romcom Happiest Season. The Hulu original series Pen15 and episodes of ABC’s The Bachelorette also have been popular titles for Watch Party during this initial trial run.

To use Hulu’s Watch Party, users select the Watch Party icon on each title’s Details page and then share a link with up to seven other Hulu subscribers to link with. While you’re watching, group members can react in real-time through the chat function and control their own playback. Watch Party, for now, is available only on the web-browser version of the service.

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It’s been over a year since I last – and first – played Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, the VR revival of the classic World War II first-person shooter franchise. It’s in very capable hands at Respawn Entertainment, a renowned development studio which includes some members of the original Medal of Honor team from the late ‘90s. I played the first two missions with an Oculus Rift S and largely came to the same conclusion I did in my initial impression: that the supplemental Gallery and its emotionally powerful and historically crucial documentary-style videos with surviving WWII veterans is somewhat at odds with the arcade-y tone and fictional narrative of the video game.

Once you’ve completed the clever preferences configuration disguised as a doctor’s-office visit and run through the firing range to get a feel for how combat works, Medal of Honor’s first mission puts you in the thick of trouble in 1940s Nazi Germany. You’ll mostly do a lot of walking and shooting in the warm-up, which has an interesting feel to it. While the AI isn’t that bright, being able to physically close one of your eyes and look down the iron sights to pick off your targets from medium range is a pretty cool trick that a traditional FPS on a TV screen can’t replicate. You can also use your “teeth” to pull the pin out of a grenade before chucking it by moving your hand up near your mouth. Lighting the fuse on a bundle of dynamite to blow open a safe was another highlight.

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The second mission, though, is where Above and Beyond starts to better find its identity. You begin by mowing down other planes from an airplane gunner chair, then jumping out and drifting down from the sky via parachute and landing in a tree before your CO tosses you a knife (careful!) so you can cut yourself down. Your overarching goal is to pull off a daring moving-train rescue of a Resistance ally who’s been captured by the Nazis. From going undercover to tiptoeing through a literal minefield to gunning down bad guys from the sidecar of a speeding motorcycle, its moments are a lot more memorable than those in the opening mission, in my opinion, and hopefully the subsequent missions build off of that momentum.

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But, as ever, the Gallery is what sticks with me. While Medal of Honor is a video game meant to be fun, I look at the game as a delivery method for the historically significant documentary vignettes that profile a collection of surviving WWII heroes. I unlocked and watched a few of them after completing my two-level preview, and quite simply, these are incredibly powerful human stories. Everyone should see them, and unlocking them all will alone make Above and Beyond worth playing through. To that end, though, I just can’t shake the feeling that the arcade-y nature of the game can’t live up to the emotional power of the veteran videos. That might not be fair to the game, and I certainly wouldn’t want the Gallery to not be there, but the two, for me, just don’t jell well together, tonally.

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It didn’t help the game’s case that I also encountered a LOT of bugs in Above and Beyond both big and small, including two showstoppers. Normally I probably wouldn’t mention them in a preview, as the developers deserve the benefit of the doubt while the game is still technically in development, but when we’re this close to the final release, I feel like it’s appropriate to send up a caution flag. Here’s hoping these problems get smoothed out by the time Medal of Honor ships next week.

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Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s Executive Editor of Previews. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan, catch him on Unlocked, and drop-ship him Taylor Ham sandwiches from New Jersey whenever possible.

Veteran video game developer Keiichiro Toyama has left Sony to create a new development company called Bokeh Game Studio. Toyama is best known as the director of Silent Hill and the Gravity Rush games and will be joined by fellow Gravity Rush developer Junya Okara.

Kazunonu Sato, who worked on Puppeteer and The Last Guardian, has also joined up with Bokeh Studio and plans to create games alongside his fellow professionals that rekindle the joy for the medium.

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Warner Bros. dropped a nuclear megaton on the entertainment world when it announced its entire slate of 2021 movies will debut on HBO Max the same day they arrive in theaters. As if that wasn’t enough to entice movie lovers to subscribe to the streaming service, right now you can save 20% if you pre-pay for six months. It’s a fantastic deal that will get you access to some blockbuster movies in the coming months, starting with Wonder Woman 1984 on December 25.

Get 20% Off 6 Months of HBO Max

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The deal is available between now and January 15, so grab it by then if you want to save some cash. To get the deal, go here and click the “Get the Deal” button on the banner at the top of the page. After the six months ends, your subscription will auto-renew at $14.99 a month until you cancel.

In the fine print, it says the deal is available to “new and returning customers.” So if you’re already an HBO Max subscriber, it sounds like you can take advantage of the deal by canceling your subscription. Then, after waiting out the remainder of your time, you should be able to get the deal then–as long as that happens before January 15.

Among the movies coming to the service in 2021 are Dune, The Matrix 4, Mortal Kombat, Godzilla vs. Kong, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark.

Each movie will arrive on the service the same day it lands in theaters. The movies will be available on HBO Max for 31 days before leaving the service again.

Warner Bros. 2021 Movie Lineup

• The Little Things – January 29, 2021
• Tom & Jerry – March 5, 2021
• The Many Saints of Newark – March 12, 2021
• Reminiscence – April 16, 2021
• Godzilla vs. Kong – May 21, 2021
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It – June 4, 2021
• In The Heights – June 18, 2021
• Space Jam: A New Legacy – July 16, 2021
• The Suicide Squad – August 6, 2021
• Dune – October 1, 2021
• King Richard – November 19, 2021
• Matrix 4 – December 22, 2021
• Cry Macho – TBD
• Malignant – TBD
• Those Who Wish Me Dead – TBD
• Mortal Kombat – TBD
• Judas and the Black Messiah – TBD

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In addition to Warner Bros.’ 2021 movie lineup, HBO Max offers a whole lot of content. It has tons of other films, including every movie on HBO, plus movies from DC, Studio Ghibli, and selections from TCM.

A long and terrific list of TV shows is also available on HBO Max, including HBO shows like Game of Thrones and Westworld, plus Friends, Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, South Park, Doctor Who, and on and on.

In short, you’re getting an absolute mountain of content, including first-run movies, for an extremely reasonable cost, even at the standard price. Knocking 20 percent off if just icing on the cake. Take advantage of the deal by January 15 or you’ll miss out.

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Chris Reed is a commerce editor and bonafide deals expert at IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO, Jim Ryan, has insisted that a recent report that suggested PlayStation has “sidelined” Japanese developers and markets is “inaccurate”.

Talking with Edge magazine issue #353, Ryan said: “The Sony stance is that the Japanese market remains incredibly important to us. We have not been as excited about the engagement of the Japanese game development community as we are now for many years.”

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The stance is in opposition to a report from Bloomberg, published in early November. The report stated that PlayStation staff in Japan suggested Sony’s home country had been sidelined in promotional planning for PS5, and that Japanese development support teams had been reduced by as much as a third.

But Ryan’s stance is that PS5 continues to strengthen PlayStation’s relationship with Japan. “In our two launch shows – which featured a reasonable amount of games, but not a huge number of games – there were eight Japanese-developed titles there, many of which are the subject of collaboration and partnership between PlayStation and the Japanese publishing community,” he said.

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Ryan also noted that the PS5 was released in Japan on the same day as it was in the US, unlike the PS4 which was released almost a whole three months after the November 2013 US and EU launch.

“So I read that stuff,” said Ryan, referring to reports like the Bloomberg one, “A lot of that commentary is inaccurate, and Japan – as our second largest market and as Sony’s homeland – continues to be really important to us.”

While Japan continues to be important to Sony, it hasn’t stopped them changing some traditions. The PS5 makes X the default select button in Japan for the first time, where previously it has always been Circle. Several veteran developers from Sony Japan have also left to set up their own studio.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Hawkeye is one of several live-action Marvel shows in the works for Disney+. The show is currently in production in New York, and following the confirmation that Hailee Steinfeld is co-starring alongside Jeremy Renner, several new cast members have been reported.

The news comes via Variety, which states that Florence Pugh, Vera Farmiga, Fra Fee, Tony Dalton, Alaqua Cox, and Zahn McClarnon will all appear in Hawkeye. Pugh is set to reprise her role of Yelena Belova from the movie Black Widow, which was originally set for release earlier this year but will now hit theaters in May 2021, while Fermiga will play the mother of Steinfeld’s character Kate Bishop.

In terms of the other actors, Variety states that Fee will play a character named Kazi, who could be Kazimierz Kazimierczak, the alter ego of the villainous mercenary Clown. Dalton will appear as Jack Duquesne, aka Swordsman, who was a mentor to Renner’s Clint Barton.

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Earlier leaks made it all but official, but Epic Games has officially confirmed the big news: God of War’s Kratos is the latest character making their way to Fortnite. You can purchase his outfit now in the game’s item shop, and it’s based on his iconic look from the 2018 game.

Kratos’ outfit can be purchased on its own, and you can also get the Oathbreaker set from the item shop. This set contains a Guardian Shield glider along with a Leviathan Axe pickaxe–complete with the first-ever pickaxe emote–and Mimir back bling, If you’ve played the game, you know Mimir’s severed head is still very capable of talking.

Because of the series’ PlayStation exclusivity, PS5 Fortnite players get a special bonus with Kratos. After you purchase the base outfit and play one match on the system, you will also receive an Armored Kratos skin. This armor was only available to Kratos in God of War after he completed some of its toughest optional challenges. A sequel to that game, God of War: Ragnarok, is currently in development.

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