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Treyarch has released a Reddit post that details new updates for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. One update has already gone live, adding new featured Multiplayer playlists. The rest are scheduled throughout January and mostly patch Zombies and Blackout.

The January 8 update adds Endurance Chaos Moshpit to the Featured playlist. It also puts Mercenary Capture Moshpit, Mercenary Hardcore Moshpit, Deathmatch Moshpit, and Map Pack Moshpit into the Featured category.

Treyarch will add League Play to Black Ops 4 later this month. The new feature transforms competitive multiplayer into something more along the lines of what’s seen in professional matches with skill-based matchmaking putting participants into 50-player groupings. League Play events will typically last for three days, much like a tournament, with unranked scrimmage matches taking place in between each event for you to sharpen your skills.

There are also scheduled plans for implementing new Zombies features and content as well. Gauntlets is launching first in Voyage of Despair sometime next week, and three new Elixirs are coming to the PS4 version of the game. Treyarch also teased new details about the major changes coming to Zombies mode this year will be shared next week during a “very Zombies-specific date.”

Also next week, Treyarch will release an update on consoles that makes it easier to loot in Blackout. You’ll be able click through your inventory, instead of having to move a pointer, and more easily select the item you want to pick up off the ground if you’re near multiple weapons and equipment.

All the changes that are currently live in Black Ops 4 are listed in the full patch notes below. Black Ops 4 is available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 January Update

Multiplayer

Featured Playlists

• Added Endurance Chaos Moshpit as Featured Playlist.
  • 6v6 with higher score limits.
  • Team Deathmatch with 150 score limit, 15 minute time limit.
  • Domination with 200 score round limit, 400 score match limit.
  • Hardpoint with 500 score limit, 10 minute time limit.
  • Kill Confirmed with 150 score limit, 15 minute time limit.
• Added Mercenary Capture Moshpit, Mercenary Hardcore Moshpit, Deathmatch Moshpit, and Map Pack Moshpit to Featured category.

Stability

• Improved stability with Torque’s Barricade and its effects on enemy players.
• Improved stability with the Mantis Scorestreak, particularly when firing rockets.
• Improved stability when killing Strike Team members as they rappel out of the helicopter.

Zombies

Miscellaneous

• Dead of the Night
  • Addressed an issue that occasionally prevented a gravestone marker from appearing during the Main Quest.
  • Addressed an issue that could prevent progression of the Stake Knife quest.
  • Addressed an issue where players were able to pick up the Savage Impaler while their Special Weapon was in use.
  • Addressed a rare stability issue involving the clock step in the Pack-A-Punch Quest.

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• Addressed an issue that could prevent progression of the bull head portion of the Main Quest.

Stability

• Improved stability when multiple Sentries are active.

The new live-action Barbie moving starring Margot Robbie in the title role is now finally official. Movie giant Warner Bros. and toy company Mattel have announced a partnership for the film, and also confirmed that Robbie will be a producer on the film.

According to Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich, the new Barbie movie will “bring Barbie to life on screen in a fresh and relevant way for today’s audiences.”

He added that the new Barbie movie is the first in a new partnership with Mattel’s new film division, Mattel Films, which suggests some of the iconic toy company’s other brands may get spun into films someday. Barbie is arguably Mattel’s biggest brand, but the company also owns the American Girl Doll, Hot Wheels, Hot Wheels, Thomas the Tank Engine, and Fisher Price brands, among many others.

Mattel’s share price has plummeted over the past year, and the company also cut more than 2,000 jobs in an effort to improve its profitability, according to CNBC.

Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz said in his own statement that the company is trying to become an “IP-driven, high performing toy company,” and the new film division is one part of this. The new Mattel Films division is led by Robbie Brenner, who shared the Best Picture Oscar nomination for Dallas Buyers Club.

As for Robbie, who earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her leading role in I, Tonya, said she is “honoured” to be playing Barbie in the new film.

“Playing with Barbie promotes confidence, curiosity and communication throughout a child’s journey to self-discovery. Over the brand’s almost 60 years, Barbie has empowered kids to imagine themselves in aspirational roles from a princess to president,” she said.

According to Variety, the story is along the lines of Enchanted and Big, in that the main character finds herself kicked out of Barbieland and thrust into the real world.

Amy Schumer was originally lined up to play Barbie in the movie when it was set up at Sony. Before the studio changeover, it was expected to open in Summer 2018, but the date has been pushed. Reports now say that Barbie is slated for a May 8, 2020 release date.

GameStop was once a total juggernaut in the video game space, but thanks to the rise in digital game sales and other factors, it’s been relatively tough sledding for the company of late. Last June, the company announced that it was exploring the option to sell itself to another company, and now it appears a deal might be coming soon.

The Wall Street Journal reports that at least two companies are bidding for GameStop, and a deal to buy the retailer could become public by the middle of February. Citing a person familiar with GameStop, WSJ reported that private equity companies Sycamore Partners and Apollo Global Management are interested in buying GameStop.

Both companies declined to comment when approached by WSJ, and GameStop itself refused to elaborate on acquisition discussions.

Sycamore, which raised a further $4.75 billion USD in capital last July, specialises in consumer and retail investment, so going after GameStop makes sense.

Apollo, meanwhile, is a firm that prides itself of making investments in companies that have fallen out of favour–and this would also cover GameStop in theory. Apollo Equity co-president and lead partner Scott Kleinman says Apollo is looking for investment opportunities that “others are unable or willing to figure out.”

An example of a company Apollo might go after would include one that has missed earnings for a few quarters, or a company that the market has given up on, or a company that operates in sector that has fallen out of favour. In periods of transition, some investors pull back, but Kleinman says Apollo is an investor with “conviction.”

Longtime GameStop CEO Paul Raines died in March 2018 at the age of 53. He was replaced by Michael Mauler, who himself left after just three months for “personal reasons.” Shane Kim, the former boss of Xbox during the Xbox 360 days, is GameStop’s current CEO.

One of the benefits of subscribing to Nintendo Switch Online is that you get access to a library of classic NES games to play as much as you want. Nintendo is adding two (or three, depending on where you live) to the service in January, and now they’ve been announced.

Arriving January 16 are two games from 1998: Blaster Master and Zelda II: The Adventures of Link. In Japan, subscribers get a third game, Joy Mech Fight.

The NES library for Switch Online subscribers launched with 20 big-name games, including Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Dr. Mario, Ice Climber, Metroid, and Donkey Kong.

Nintendo Switch Online costs $4 USD/month or $8 USD for three months. A 12-month subscription goes for $20 USD, while a Family Membership for up to eight Nintendo Account members costs $35 USD for a year. New subscribers can sign up with a seven-day free trial. In addition to free NES games, subscribers get access to cloud saves, online player for many titles such as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Mario Kart 8 Ultimate.

Nintendo has announced the release dates for two upcoming exclusives games. First, the adorable-looking Yoshi’s Crafted World will launch for Nintendo Switch on March 29. Another game with a handcrafted style, Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, is due out on March 8 for 3DS, Nintendo announced.

You play as Yoshi, of course, in Yoshi’s Crafted World, with the goal of solving puzzles, collecting eggs and throwing them, and jumping around to make it through levels. Stages can be played backward for another challenge, while the game also supports two-player co-op.

Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, meanwhile, is an “enhanced” edition of Kirby’s Epic Yarn from the Wii. As its name suggests, Kirby is brought to a universe where everything is made of cloth and yarn, and the objective is to use the yarn to defeat enemies and solve puzzles.

All of the stages from the Wii version are included in the 3DS edition, while the game also boasts new features like “Ravel” abilities and new mini-games. There is also a new “Devilish” mode that makes each stage more challenging.

In other Nintendo news, some Nintendo Switch and 3DS games are now available through the Humble Store in the United States.

After Marvel Games changed its social handle to “Marvel G4mes,” the company has now further teased a Fantastic Four-related announcement for one of its games.

During a livestream today, Marvel boss Ryan Penagos teased that “something fantastic” is coming to Insomniac’s Spider-Man game for PS4. “I can’t tell you anything more right now…but you’ll want to keep an eye out for this. It’s going to be amazing and fantastic,” he said, according to IGN. Developer Insomniac playfully teased the announcement with the eyes emoji, so it looks like an announcement may be coming soon.

So what is this all about? Nothing is certain at this stage, but one possibility is that Insomniac is adding a new suit to Spider-Man on PS4. Spider-Man was a member of the Fantastic Four, sort of, as part of the spin-off group Future Foundation.

Some of the previously released Spider-Man PS4 DLC outfits have included the Spider-Clan outfit from Marvel’s Mangaverse, Spider-UK from Edge of Spider-Verse, and his look from the Sam Raimi movies.

In other Spider-Man PS4 news, Sony just recently announced that the game reached 9 million in sales as of November 25.

We’ll report back with more details on the new Spider-Man PS4 Fantastic Four news as soon as it’s announced. What are you hoping to see? Let us know in the comments below!