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Remothered: Broken Porcelain, one of 2020’s big upcoming horror games, has been delayed. The game, which showed off debut gameplay footage and announced an August release date just last month, will now arrive on October 20 instead.

In an update on publisher Modus Games’ website, community manager Luke Croft has announced that developer Stormind Games is delaying the release to “deliver the experience you deserve.” As with many recent delays, COVID-19 is to blame: “Having additional time for polish and to accommodate unanticipated longer timeframes due to the current global situation will help us do exactly that.”

As Croft points out, this means the game will now launch closer to Halloween, which is fitting. It will now launch on the same day as Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga–a game it shares little in common with.

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Actor Elijah Wood, who played Frodo in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film series, has sounded off on Amazon’s new TV show based on Middle-earth. He told IndieWire that he’s “super fascinated” with what Amazon is doing, but he believes calling it “Lord of the Rings” is misleading.

“They’re calling it ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ but I think that’s slightly misleading. From what I understand, the material they are working on exists chronologically further back in history in the lore of Lord of the Rings or Middle-earth than any characters represented in Lord of the Rings,” he said. “It sounds more Silmarillion era. Not to get nerdy, but it’s the Second Age of Middle-earth.”

Wood, who stressed that he has no inside knowledge about Amazon’s series, said he’s “curious” about the stories the new Lord of the Rings show may choose to tell. He added that he’s happy that it’s filming in New Zealand because that will give it an element of continuity with the film series, which also filmed there.

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Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise is a welcoming return to its strange and absurd world, but feels diluted and missing many of the flavor notes that defined its predecessor.

The One And Only Ivan, another Disney+ exclusive film, has released a first trailer, and it’s taking us right back to our childhoods. The film, which stars Sam Rockwell as silverback gorilla Ivan, is based on Katherine Applegate’s 2012 book of the same name. It’s about a circus gorilla who learns to paint so that it can ask for freedom, and it’s based on a true story.

The movie also stars Bryan Cranston as Ivan’s human owner, who raised Ivan from infancy. It features voice performances from Angelina Jolie, Brooklynn Prince, Helen Mirren, and Danny DeVito.

The film is directed by Thea Sharrock (Me Before You), making it one of the very few Disney films directed by a woman.

The movie is inspired by true events, in that Applegate’s original novel was inspired by a real-life gorilla, also named Ivan, who was on display in shopping center in Tacoma, Washington for 27 years, before eventually being rehomed at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

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Psychonauts 2 developer Double Fine was acquired by Microsoft in 2019, and it turns out that the buyout had a major impact on the company’s newest game. Double Fine founder Tim Schafer told GI.biz that when his studio was acquired by Microsoft, it allowed the developers to bring back content for Psychonauts 2 that would have otherwise been left on the cutting room floor.

“With Psychonauts 2, we could see the end of our budget coming up, and so we had cut a lot of stuff,” Schafer said. “We had cut our boss fights. Now we are able to put those back in, and we’re like, ‘We think people would have noticed if we didn’t have those boss fights’. Being able to complete the game in the way that it was meant to be was very important.”

Psychonauts 2 was initially funded on Fig, where it raised more than $3.8 million USD, before the Microsoft acquisition. The game, which was announced all the way back in 2015, is now due to launch later in 2020 following a delay.

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Borderlands 3 has received a hotfix, detailed on the game’s official site, to address an issue in Bounty of Blood and with the Legendary pistol Lucky 7. This quick fix has dealt with two issues, but Gearbox has admitted that there’s a bigger problem that was introduced into the game with a recent update.

Here are the two changes in the hotfix, which is now live on all platforms. The first one is, presumably, a reference to a clipping issue.

• Patched a hole in the Atrium of the Bounty of Blood campaign add-on to prevent players from busting through the wall and seeing the other side
• Addressed a reported concern that some damage effects from Lucky 7 sometimes did not function after exiting Iron Bear

The other issue Gearbox has identified is perhaps a bigger deal, but how it will be addressed might depend on how a change that was made by accident is received by players.

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Ryan and Greg break down American Horror Story Hotel Episode 6 “Room 33.”

Following the huge success of the ESPN/Netflix Michael Jordan documentary series, The Last Dance, two more high-profile sports-themed documentaries are on the way from other networks.

According to Collider, the new documentaries will focus on Tiger Woods and the 1986 New York Mets. The Tiger Woods documentary is coming from HBO, and it will be directed by Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) and Matthew Hamachek (Amanda Knox). The series is based on the book, “Tiger Woods,” from authors Jeff Bendict and Armen Keteyian. It will delve into Woods’ history as one of the world’s best golfers and his troublesome past with his sex scandal and his DUI arrest.

Woods himself is not involved in the documentary, but it will feature commentary from Woods’ longtime caddy Steve Williams and biographer Pete McDaniel. One of the women caught up in Woods’ sex scandal, Rachel Uchitel, is also involved in the documentary.

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World of Warcraft has historically charged players to change their avatar’s gender, but that is set to change with the new expansion. Right now, it costs $15 to change your character’s gender, but Shadowlands will remove this charge entirely.

In an interview with Eurogamer, executive producer John Hight has talked about this mechanic, and promised that in the future you will be able to change your gender along with your appearance at the barber shop. “As we were adding things up in Shadowlands, we realised, ‘Gosh the only way you can change your gender in World of Warcraft is to go through this paid service,'” he says. “And we felt like that’s not the right message.”

This change will not arrive until the next expansion does, as it’s difficult to implement. “That’s not something we can easily hotfix – unfortunately we can’t do that right now,” Hight explains.

It’s not clear if this feature will be added for all players, including those who don’t buy the expansion, with the Shadowlands update–but hopefully this will be the case.

This answer came from a question Eurogamer posed about Pelagos, a character discussed in a July 2 Blizzard forums post who many believe is Blizzard’s first transgender character. According to Hight, it’s likely that other characters designed in-house at Blizzard are trans, even if it is not explicitly stated in-game: “knowing some of our designers and having conversations with them, I’m sure that was the intent.”

Here are some more insights from GameSpot’s own interviews with World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas.

• World Of Warcraft Is Getting Controller Support With Shadowlands, But Don’t Expect A Console Port
• Why World Of Warcraft Is Making Such A Big Change To Starting Zones With Shadowlands
• WoW Game Director On Releasing Shadowlands During COVID-19 And Working From Home