Here are today’s Nerd News! headlines:
Take Me Out To The Video Game: MLB the Show 21 has been announced and will be available on both PlayStation AND Xbox consoles. This means that cross platform play is definitely possible in the future. If you haven’t gotten the next gen systems (PS5 or XBox Series X) you’ll need the collectors edition of the game to upgrade MLB the Show once you do get the new systems.
Filmstock: One week into the GameStop Wall Street madness and there’s already a movie deal in ink for the story. A New York times best-selling author named Ben Mezrich is reportedly shopping around a book proposal, and MGM has already acquired the rights to it.
Insta-scam: Online fraud criminals figured out how to take advantage of our stay-at-home lifestyle over the past year. Instagram scams went up by fifty percent in 2020, 0ne instance being a guy named Jonathan Reuben. He was somehow duped into participating in an investment program on Instagram, and instead ended up losing $23,000.