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Do Not Open, an upcoming PlayStation VR horror game from Quasar Dynamics, has been revealed in a first-look trailer. The game, which was developed as part of the PlayStationTalents initiative and is exclusive to Sony’s platform, is an escape room survival horror with permadeath.

The game casts players as Michael J. Goreng, a zoologist and epidemiologist who is trapped within a warped version of his own house. Each time you play, the layout of the house will change, as will the puzzles you’ll need to solve to escape the supernatural being haunting the house. There are no save points, so each time you play, it’ll be a complete experience from beginning to end, whether you finish without dying or not.

The game is described by the developers as being similar to an escape room, but with a terrifying supernatural bent. Check out the trailer below, which effectively ramps up the tension over its short run-time before…well, you’ll see. It’s not for the faint of heart, though, so proceed with caution.

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The developers of Lego games, Traveller’s Tales, spent $1 million on a pitch for a Hobbit video game that never came to be. Studio co-founder Jon Burton revealed this in a new video for his YouTube page, GameHut, and he speaks very freely and openly about the project and how it came to be (and not be).

In 2008, Warner Bros. announced plans to make two Hobbit movies, with Guillermo del Toro attached to direct. Burton wanted to make an Xbox 360/PS3 video game tie-in for the movie, but not a Lego game like his studio had become known for.

Burton and his team got the greenlight to pitch to del Toro and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, and the studio worked for six months to create a demo to pitch in February 2009. Burton said it is his belief that a video game tie-in for a movie should try to replicate the movie as closely as possible so it feels like you’re “living” the film. With the movie not out yet, Burton’s team used Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings as a template, recreating key moments from the movies.

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Even though no one is allowed to attend in person, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference for 2020 is going ahead this week as a virtual event. One of the new announcements to come out of it is that keyboard and mouse gaming will be possible on iPad from June 25, as well as increased support for new controller types.

The news from the conference was tweeted out by games personality Wario64, along with some info from a video mainly aimed at developers, announcing that keyboard, mouse and trackpad controls will now be supported through the Game Controller framework.

Unfortunately for gamers, the update doesn’t mean you’ll be able to immediately plug a keyboard and mouse mouse in and start playing your favorite iPad game. You’ll have to keep an eye out for news from developers on when and whether support for different control schemes will be added.

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Command and Conquer Remastered Collection has received a new patch, and it’s added a few key features and a whole heap of tweaks and improvements. The big change is the added ability to host private game lobbies, which should make it easier to arrange multiplayer matches with your friends.

The Remastered Collection, which brings together the original game and its sequel Red Alert plus all their DLC, has tailored this update based on “the continued feedback from the passionate Command & Conquer,” according to a press release. They’ve detailed everything included in the patch in a post on the Command and Conquer Reddit page.

Bugs have been squashed in this update too, and a stuttering issue has been addressed, although this may have led to slightly longer load times. The post also warns that the update might have invalidated some mods, and modders will need to update their work to make sure it is still compatible.

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Activision is bringing the Crash Bandicoot franchise back with the first mainline instalment in 20 years. Crash Bandicoot 4 is coming to PS4 and Xbox One on October 2, and it brings an end to the 20-year wait following 1998’s Crash Bandicoot: Warped, for which it is a sequel.

As part of GameSpot’s Play For All charity campaign, we sat down with producer Lou Studdert from developer Toys For Bob. In the interview, Studdert speaks about the game’s new art style, new gameplay mechanics like collecting masks and bending time, and the new playable characters. You can play as Crash and Coco, while Studdert teased that you may be able to play as the evil Neo Cortex to give players the ability to see the story from a different perspective.

Also in the interview, Studdert speaks about the new and expanded Crash 4 boss battles and how the game makes use of a new engine to allow for better graphics and gameplay features.

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SpongeBob: Sponge On The Run, which had been delayed from its May 22 release until August 7 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been delayed again–and now it won’t release in cinemas at all.

Variety is reporting that the film, which is the third cinematic SpongeBob SquarePants feature, will now debut as a premium rental in early 2021 ahead of an eventual release on CBS All Access, the streaming company of ViacomCBS (disclosure: ViacomCBS is GameSpot’s parent company).

Exact dates have not been set, but Marc DeBevoise, chief digital officer at ViacomCBS, told Variety that “this launch will be perfectly timed with our continued expansion and planned rebranding of the service in early 2021.” The rebrand is currently being planned.

All previous seasons of the show will also be available on the streaming service.

This is far from the first movie aimed at kids to go digital in the wake of COVID-19–Scoob had a digital release, as did Trolls: World Tour, to great success. The new Artemis Fowl movie from Disney, meanwhile, went straight to Disney+, as did the movie Onward in several regions.

A new SpongeBob Squarepants game remake, Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, is available now. You can read more in GameSpot’s review.

Lin-Manuel Miranda has shared some new insight on the upcoming Disney Plus release of Hamilton coming up on July 3, including how it’s censored for the family-friendly platform.

Hamilton on Disney Plus is a recording of a Broadway performance from 2016, featuring the original cast–and the original swears–minus two. The movie version is rated PG-13, so it is only allowed to have one use of the word “f**k.” The actual play has three, so two “f**k”s were censored or changed.

In the Yorktown scene, the line “I get the f**k back up again” will be muted on the swear word. The other censor will be on the “Southern mother f**king Democratic Republicans” line.

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It could no longer be said that gaming is having a #metoo moment, but rather an ongoing #metoo movement. Amid a new wave of allegations surfacing on social media, those who have previously named their abusers are now demanding to know why the platforms that host known abusers’ content have not acted to take them down–with Twitch at the center of the controversy.

With multiple tweets claiming that Twitch has been given information on how some of their big-name partners are using that platform to abuse women, and chosen not to act on it, streamers and fans called on Twitch and its CEO Emmett Shear to step up.

Shear has now shared an internal Twitch email sent on the subject, while Twitch has put out an official statement, but some don’t think the statement is enough.

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