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Riot Games has teamed up with designer fashion brand Louis Vuitton to create an exclusive collection of League of Legends apparel. You can check out the exclusive collab on the Louis Vuitton website, with items ranging from multiple hundreds to thousands of dollars.

This isn’t the first time Riot Games has partnered with the fashion brand, as Louis Vuitton skins were released in League of Legends this past November. However, purchasing something from the LVxLoL collection will cost a bit more than purchasing an in-game skin – with the most expensive item coming in at over $5,000.

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Fortnite is full of dance moves and costumes based on memes and properties, but every now and then developer Epic Games runs into trouble when content in their game is accused of being taken from elsewhere. In court documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, details have emerged of a new legal scandal involving one of the game’s dance moves and a pumpkin head costume.

The strange detail here, though, is that Epic actually bought the rights to the dance–but they’ve been accused of copyright infringement over the effect of pairing the dance with certain costume elements. Furthermore, Epic Games are actually the plantiffs in this case, seeking to have the court declare that they are not committing infringement.

Matthew Geiler, who responded to the lawsuit through his company Sick Picnic Media, sold Epic Games the rights to the dance in the video below for $10,000. Geiler believes that Epic Games is using his likeness without permission, though, as the Halloween ‘Fortnitemares’ event allowed the player to dress their character up in a pumpkin head and performing the dance with it on.

The argument put forward by Epic Games’ lawyer, Dale Cendali, is that there are no similarities between the jack-o-lantern costume available to players and Geiler’s own, and that the concept of a person with a carved pumpkin for a face did not originate with Geiler, and is essentially public domain. Because of this, the elements of Geiler’s video beyond the dance do not warrant copyright protection.

Epic Games has good reason to be careful, as they’ve been sued before over dance routines. Suits were filed by “Backpack Kid” and Alfonso Ribeiro, among others. All of these suits were eventually dropped. Epic Games seeks a judgment of non-infringement plus legal costs. You can view the full lawsuit filing in The Hollywood Reporter’s original article.

A special Fortnite announcement is anticipated during this week’s Game Awards.

Square-Enix has just updated the box art on its store page for the upcoming Final Fantasy 7 Remake, which now displays a message on the bottom-right corner that reads “PlayStation Exclusive. Play first on PS4” followed by further messaging that clarifies it will be a timed exclusive until March 3, 2021.

Originally spotted on Twitter by Wario64, who pointed out the updated box art. With Final Fantasy 7 Remake set to launch March 3, 2020, this puts the timed exclusivity window at a year for PS4 users. This updated box art comes shortly after Square-Enix revealed a slick reversible cover for the upcoming game.

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Ashen, which debuted on Xbox One as part of Xbox Game Pass and on the Epic Store, is now much more widely available. The game has released in the US today for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, as well as on Steam and GOG, as its Epic exclusivity period has now ended. Ashen is available at a 20% discount to celebrate the game’s launch.

Console players in Europe and Asia will have to wait a little longer, though; the PlayStation 4 version releases in Europe on December 16, and in Japan and Australia in early 2020. On Nintendo Switch, the game is due in Europe, Japan, and Australia on December 19.

The game’s DLC expansion, Nightstorm Isle, has also arrived alongside the game. A new launch trailer has also been released to give new players a taste of Ashen’s world and action. Ashen is a Souls-like, but with a focus on community and rebuilding the world.

The game is also, sadly, due to leave Xbox Game Pass on December 13, but it will remain available on Xbox One. The game has been available on the service since it launched on December 6, 2018; now anyone looking to play the game will have to purchase it.

Ashen received a 9/10 in our review when it released last year. Reviewer Jordan Ramée had a lot of nice things to say about it: “Ashen does more than enough to differentiate it from other Souls-like games. Although its combat utilizes the same stamina-focused mechanics, the inclusion of features that promote a sense of community with the game’s characters makes for a wholly different experience.”

MLB: The Show has been developed as a Sony-exclusive title by first-party developer SIE San Diego since 2006. However, the developers have announced that MLB The Show will be on other platforms as early as 2021. The announcement that the game will no longer be a PlayStation exclusive comes alongside the MLB’s decision to extend its partnership with Sony in a new “multi-year extension.”

With more information promised to be coming soon, it didn’t take long for Xbox head Phil Spencer to weigh in on the news, taking to Twitter to say, “Great to see the game is coming to more players.”

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Big news for the future of professional baseball video games today, as Major League Baseball has announced a new deal that will see the MLB The Show series extend beyond PlayStation systems. For the first time in the history of the series, MLB The Show won’t be a PlayStation-exclusive, but it’ll be a while before that happens.

MLB, the Major League Baseball Players Association, Sony, and Sony’s San Diego Studio announced the new, multi-year agreement on Monday.

The MLB The Show series will come to “additional console platforms beyond PlayStation” starting as early as 2021. That’s all that was said, but MLB said more details will be confirmed “at a later date.”

It remains to be seen what those “additional console platforms” might be. Nintendo of America’s Twitter accounted retweeted the news with the baseball emoji. Xbox boss Phil Spencer responded as well, saying, “Great to see the game is coming to more players.”

This is not total confirmation that MLB The Show is coming to Switch and Xbox, but it seems something is indeed brewing.

Sony remains the publisher of the MLB The Show series, but it remains to be seen if this would continue to be the case if/when the franchise comes to new platforms. Specific terms of the deal between MLB and PlayStation were not disclosed.

NPD analyst Mat Piscatella remarked in a tweet that he sees the upcoming decade as being about “ecosystems and player choice, not locking people to one specific piece of hardware.”

It wouldn’t be unheard of for a publisher to publish one of its titles for a rival platform. Microsoft publishes the Minecraft series on competing platforms, including Switch and PS4. In fact, Spencer has said Microsoft is one of the biggest publishers on PlayStation already thanks to Minecraft.

MLB The Show 20 is launching in March for PlayStation 4, and it features Chicago Clubs standout Javier Baez on the cover. 2020 marks the 15th anniversary of the MLB The Show series.

The CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover features an enviable lineup of TV superheroes, including both Arrowverse mainstays and fan-favorites like Tom Welling’s Clark Kent and Kevin Conroy’s Bruce Wayne. But the crossover also features a major villain making their return to the Arrowverse stage. Jon Cryer’s Lex Luthor is alive and well, and he’s already made a big impact on the DC multiverse.

We had a chance to chat with Cryer over the phone to learn more about his return to the Lex Luthor role and the surprising events of Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part 2. Read on to learn more, but beware of full spoilers for the first two episodes of Crisis!

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The team who you’re gonna call is not QUITE back in the first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, but there are plenty of clues that point towards the return of an old friend.

First up we get this symmetrical book stacking just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947 AND the New York Public Library in the original Ghostbusters film. While this isn’t a trademark of Gozer, it did mark the beginning of a very busy time for ghosts in 1984 that culminated in the return of the Gozerian.

Of course, the most telling clue is the Shandor Mining Company. Ivo Shandor was the architect and Gozer worshipper who designed Dana Barrett’s apartment complex on central park west. That building was an antenna of sorts, a gateway to bring Gozer into our world. It would seem that Ivo Shandor had another location that served a similar purpose as the one in Manhattan.

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This story contains spoilers for “Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part 1 and 2,” aka Supergirl Season 5, Episode 9 and Batwoman Season 1, Episode 9. Check out our review of “Crisis on Infinite Earth Part 2” and interview with Lex Luthor himself, Jon Cryer.

The Arrowverse’s fearless leader, Oliver Queen, died during “Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1.” His death came as quite a shock to both his daughter Mia, his fellow heroes, and likely plenty of viewers at home who were watching the Crisis unfold. Oliver sacrificed his life to save billions of people on Kara’s world of Earth-38, just as the anti-matter wave consumed the planet. The Monitor was able to bring Oliver’s body back to Earth-1, but he didn’t survive the battle.

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