Just days after announcing that it had filed for reconstruction and would be parting ways with its CEO, game publisher Starbreeze has had its Stockholm headquarters raided by authorities on suspicion of insider trading.

According to Dagens Industri (via Variety), Starbreeze's offices were raided by authorities, equipment was seized, and one anonymous person was arrested as a result.

Executives at the company reportedly sold back large shares of the company just a few weeks ago. Since the announcement of Starbreeze's financial troubles, stock prices for the studio have fallen by as much as 80 percent.

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PC players can log into PUBG during December's seasonal event to get kitted out like Rudolph.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' PC players can nab themselves the Festive Beanie with Pom Pom along with a Red Nose by logging into the game during the seasonal event this month. You'll be given the items to wear for the rest of December, but if you'd like to carry them over and give them a permanent home in your inventory, you can.

"Place in the top 10 of any map or non-custom game mode ten times during the event and you’ll get permanent versions to wear all year round," reads the update.

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The PlayStation Classic could have had a very different line-up, if a purported datamine of the console is to be believed.

Posted on GitHub, the code dump shows differences between the core PCSX PlayStation emulator and a custom version of that emulator, seemingly the one being used in the micro-console (the PlayStation Classic uses a port of the PCSX emulator to run its games).

If legitimate, those differences include a list of 36 games not included on the release version of the PlayStation Classic, which appear to have been tested for the micro-console, but not included.

Here's that list in full:

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Tom Cruise has tweeted a PSA about how best to watch Mission: Impossible Fallout, from the set of Top Gun: Maverick.

Motion smoothing is a plague on home entertainment and Tom Cruise is doing his part to wage war against it with the DVD and Blu-ray release of Mission: Impossible Fallout, alongside the film's director, Chris McQuarrie. In a short PSA the pair explain more about motion smoothing and - more importantly - how to turn the thing off.

I’m taking a quick break from filming to tell you the best way to watch Mission: Impossible Fallout (or any movie you love) at home. pic.twitter.com/oW2eTm1IUA

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Ninja Gaiden, Wario's Woods, and Adventures of Lolo will all be added to the Nintendo Switch Online - Nintendo Entertainment System library next Wednesday, December 12.

These three titles will join the ever-growing list of NES classics that saw Metroid, Mighty Bomb Jack, and TwinBee added last month.

Ninja Gaiden was released on the NES at the end of 1988 in Japan and in the United States in March of 1989.

Player's take control of the Ryu Hayabusa, a "rising ninja in his family’s clan who travels to America to seek vengeance for his father’s death."

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Robert Schwentke, director of such films as RED and R.I.P.D., is in early talks to direct Snake Eyes, a G.I. Joe spinoff film.

As reported by TheWrap, Schwentke will be helming the Paramount and Allspark Pictures film based on the fan favorite Ninja Commando, Snake Eyes.

Beauty and The Beast and The Huntsman: Winter's War screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos has written the first draft for the film and the story "centers on the character’s origins where he tries to become a member of the Arashikage Clan, a ninja clan based in Japan."

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While Netflix may have recently canceled Daredevil after its third season, it reportedly wasn't due to viewership as the viewer demand for the Marvel show was quite high.

As reported by Deadline, Parrot Analytics, an analytics firm not associated with Netflix, has revealed that Daredevil "ranked fourth last week in viewer demand among all digital originals in the United States across all streaming platforms."

The demand for Daredevil was only bested by Narcos, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Stranger Things, which all also happen to be Netflix series.

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UPDATE, Dec. 8: Well, the trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home was indeed shown to attendees at Brazil Comic Con on Saturday ... and it turns out they are the only ones seeing it for now.

The trailer was not released online as had been expected. We'll keep you posted on when it might be released.

IGN Brazil was on hand for the Sony presentation so we will have a description of the trailer from them for you soon.

The original story follows.

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home is set to debut at Brazil Comic Con on Saturday, December 8.

Collider claims that the trailer will premiere at Sony's panel at the Comic-Con Experience in San Paulo, and will be released online shortly thereafter: IGN can report via sources that this claim is accurate.

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Kevin Hart will officially host the 91st annual Academy Awards ceremony in 2019.

Confirmed by the official Academy Awards Twitter account and through Kevin Hart’s Instagram, Hart will host the show on February 24, 2019. Hart commented on the announcement, saying “I am so happy to say that the day has finally come for me to host the Oscars. I am blown away simply because this has been a goal of mine for a long time... to be able to join the legendary list of host

that have graced that stage is unbelievable.”

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