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Marvel’s Avengers fans got a lot of answers last week about the short-term future of the game. There wasn’t any actual new content released during the Deep Dive for Clint’s Hawkeye, but players did learn about the new hero’s abilities and release date. The Clint Hawkeye mission is still weeks away, which means players are continuing the usual grind throughout the early days of March. Players who are sticking with the game and staying engaged while they wait for the new Hawkeye to arrive on March 18 can entertain themself this week by grinding through the usual rotation with the arrival of Week #26 in Marvel’s Avengers....

Marvel’s Avengers will suit up with costumes inspired by the Marvel Cinematic Universe this spring. MP1st spotted a reply from Crystal Dynamics’ Warzone Director Philippe Therien in the Twitch chat of a recent developer stream. Therien reportedly said that the costumes will drop alongside The Red Room DLC. That is scheduled to release sometime this spring, according to Square Enix’s 2021 content roadmap for the game. Every character on the roster has or will appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in some shape or form, so it makes sense that each of the heroes will receive a new look based on the films or upcoming Disney+ shows....

With the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition set to remaster all three games in the beloved original trilogy, Mass Effect 2’s lead writer Mac Walters recently shed some light on some of the early ME character concepts that didn’t make it into the final game, or were reworked into other characters. There’s no doubt that countless sci-fi stories have been inspired by Star Wars ever since the iconic film series hit the silver screen in 1977....

One of the biggest selling points for the Xbox One over its competition is its backward compatibility support. Ever since backward compatibility was announced a couple of years ago, the service has grown significantly to include over 200 games, and now many of those games are being discounted in the Xbox One Backward Compatibility Super Sale, which is going on now and ends May 22nd. For a full list of discounted titles, click here....

The week 13 Overwatch League hero pools have been confirmed and Mercy sees her first ban while Wrecking Ball receives his second. McCree and Widowmaker top the list for the upcoming week as the duo have now been banned three times together with McCree leading all heroes with four bans to his name so far this season. The Overwatch League promised hero pools throughout the 2020 season and while the first few weeks did not match the hero pools in standard competitive play for all players, the hero pools have since then merged, making one unified hero pool for all levels of play....

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order released back in November 2019 as the first single-player and story-driven Star Wars game in quite a long time, and the game was met largely with positive feedback from fans and critics. The story of escaped Jedi Cal Kestis and his quest to recover a repository of Force-sensitive children throughout the galaxy before it could be put to nefarious use by the Empire featured many elements of Star Wars prequel, sequel, and original trilogy lore....

Some select people outside of those working on Hideo Kojima’s next game Death Stranding have been able to go hands-on with the game, with the latest being film director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. Vogt-Roberts, who has seemingly become closer to Kojima over the past few years as he sits at the helm of the upcoming Metal Gear Solid movie, is one of those lucky few to see Kojima’s mysterious new game. He tweeted his reaction saying that the game is a “miracle....

Microsoft recently announced that it has acquired Bethesda and all of its studios, meaning that the teams who brought you Skyrim, Fallout, Doom, Dishonored, Wolfenstein, and more will now make games exclusively for Xbox Series X and PC. The news comes from Xbox Wire on Twitter, where a recent blog post from the official Xbox website was recently shared online. You can check out the tweet for yourself below. “Today is a special day, as we welcome some of the most accomplished studios in the games industry to Xbox,” reads the official blog post....

It may not be all hard wires and physical configuration for the Xbox One X. Recent reports indicate that Microsoft is considering using cloud storage to consolidate large game files for the upcoming console. For the Xbox One X, a number of titles sport massive file sizes – like Forza Motorsport 7 clocking in at 100GB, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare requiring 130GB of space – which means that players will have to swap hard drive storage space for a fully immersive 4K experience....

It’s typical for a game to have some type of an ending, but Minecraft, among a bunch of other sandbox or competitive games, doesn’t exactly have one ⁠— not officially at least. The only accepted final boss to survival is generally considered the Ender Dragon, found when accessing a portal within a stronghold. As the first boss ever introduced to Minecraft, the Ender Dragon has seen a few changes to her character over the years....

The amount of animals available in Minecraft that players can tame, breed, ride, or keep as pets continues to grow with every new update. Players can tame horses, cows, sheep, dogs, cats, and even tame polar bears in Minecraft. But the most colorful critter that players can keep as passive friends is the parrot. Parrots are brightly colored birds that come in an array of colors. From jewel-toned blues, greens, reds, purples, and yellows to browns, greys, and a rainbow of other possibilities....

On Wednesday, Jens “Jeb” Bergensten, the lead designer for Minecraft, announced that the first official major update for the game since it launched in November would release this week. It would include all of the “snapshot” updates over the weeks into one large patch, fixing a few bugs, adding a few options, and generally improving the game. Leading up to the full release of Minecraft, major beta updates were released almost monthly, adding a variety of in-game items, lighting changes, options and eventually the content that made up the major ‘Adventure Update’ - many of which came from the modding community - giving users more to explore and do than ever before....

The Untamed, a Chinese web drama starring Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo as cultivator soulmates fighting injustices in a fantasy version of ancient China, broke through to international audiences in 2019 and remains one of the most popular shows in English-speaking transformative fandom two years later. The live-action xianxia series is based on Mo Dao Zu Shi, a very popular web novel written by Chinese author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (MXTX)....

Monster Hunter World is no stranger to crossovers, from Final Fantasy to Assassin’s Creed, the game has had its fair share of collaborations. While not an official Monster Hunter World collaboration, players can now add Doom and to a lesser extent, Animal Crossing, to that list thanks to a mod by LyraVeil and IIICrimsonIII. One franchise that Monster Hunter World collaborated with was The Witcher. With that collaboration, the leshen from The Witcher was added as a monster for players to hunt....

It looks like we have an early contender for CEO of the year. In a statement to his company on Twitter today, CEO Masaki Hiyama (who runs VR company Mark-on) announced that he would be giving his staff the day off for Monster Hunter Rise’s launch this Friday. Since a lot of Japanese workers take the day off for other Monster Hunter releases, he figured he would celebrate it rather than demand employees come to work....

After years of drama, hundreds of hashtags, and a lot of discourse we finally got our first look at the Snyder Cut of Justice League. You might say “isn’t this just a director’s cut, what’s the big deal?” and honestly looking at this new trailer you might not be wrong. But for a lot of fans this moment has been a longtime coming and if you’re a big DC Comics head then there are some interesting deep-cut moments to dig into....

Kingdom Hearts 3 is the latest main installment of the long-running and crowded Kingdom Hearts franchise. Despite its extremely convoluted story, the series is beloved by many for its nods to various Disney franchises, inclusions of Final Fantasy characters, and its stellar gameplay. Kingdom Hearts 3 holds a number of worlds the players can visit. The way for the players to reach those worlds is to travel via Gummi Ships. These ships have always been a big part of Kingdom Hearts’ gameplay, and that statement is especially accurate for 2019’s entry....

At D23 earlier today Square Enix revealed a brand new Kingdom Hearts 3 trailer, showing off the Toy Story world. But although fans of the Disney Pixar film franchise were delighted to see Woody, Rex, and Co. getting the KH treatment, they were even more excited to get an update on the Kingdom Hearts 3 release date. A screen right at the end of the trailer confirms that Kingdom Hearts 3 will be released in 2018....

Another update for Kingdom Hearts Dark Road has arrived, but the focus of its news isn’t anything good. As it stands right now, the development team has delayed the game indefinitely. Square Enix announced this through Dark Road’s Twitter account last night. Precisely why the game received a delay wasn’t specified, but the tweet claimed it was “due to current conditions,” which could only mean the coronavirus. The pandemic has forced a lot of businesses and projects to come to a standstill....

Disney and Square Enix partner with the pop culture toy manufacturer Funko Pop to distribute figures from the Kingdom Hearts role-playing game franchise. Although Square Enix has promised fans that Kingdom Hearts 3 is set to receive a fuller reveal later this year, the video game publisher and developer has decided to partner with Disney and Funko Pop to provide a fun little diversion for all of the longtime followers of the franchise....