Month: May 2018

It’s a new week, and that means another fresh set of digital gaming deals on Xbox One and Xbox 360. Microsoft’s Major Nelson announced all of these deals on his blog today, and we’re rounding up some of the notable offers here in this post for you to consider.

Starting with Xbox One, some of the biggest games on sale this week include Call of Duty: WWII ($39), NBA 2K18 ($30), Battlefield 1 Revolution ($15), and Alien: Isolation ($7.50). Additionally, Monster Hunter World is marked down to $45, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is discounted to $24. Also, EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront II is on sale for just $24 this week.

Moving to Xbox 360, there are some nice deals to be had on backwards-compatible Call of Duty games, including Modern Warfare ($15), Black Ops ($15), and Black Ops II ($16.50). The acclaimed Original Xbox game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which also plays on Xbox One with backwards compatibility, is marked down to $10.50, while another backwards-compatible Star Wars game, The Force Unleashed II, can be had for $15.

These are just a small sampling of this week’s Xbox One and Xbox 360 deals. Go to Major Nelson’s blog to see a complete rundown of offers, some of which require an Xbox Live Gold membership. The offers are good through May 7.

It’s the start of May, so that means a fresh set of Games With Gold titles are available to subscribers for free, including Super Mega Baseball 2 (Xbox One) and the backwards-compatible Streets of Rage for Xbox 360.

The fourth Avengers movie hits theatres about a year from now, but we still don’t know what it’s called or how will address all of the crazy stuff that happened in Infinity War. As it turns out, Marvel intentionally decided to not reveal the title just yet so as to not take attention away from Infinity War. That’s according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, who remarked in an interview with Collider that this plan didn’t exactly work out.

“It’s gotten completely blown out of proportion,” Feige said about all the talk surrounding the title of the Infinity War follow-up. “It will just be a name and the reason to hold it back was to keep the attention on Infinity War. That backfired a little bit because now everyone thinks what’s the name of the next one gonna be? But it was really just to keep the focus [on Infinity War].”

Feige went on to say that Marvel didn’t want to call the new Avengers movies Part One and Part Two; directors Joe and Anthony Russo said titling the movies this way would be “misleading.” Pretty much all Marvel Cinematic Universe films are connected, but the next Avengers movie will connect “very directly” relative to the others.

“It will be quite evident that the films obviously connect, as all our films do, but this in particular connects very directly,” Feige said. “And then we changed the Part One and Part Two, we said let’s just keep this Infinity War and we’ll talk about the next movie later. We had done things in the past that had taken attention off of whatever the film at hand is because we talked about this. For instance, Infinity War announcing before Ultron came out, and it worked out, it was fine, but it felt like let’s keep the attention on the film at hand.

One thing is for sure: the next Avengers movie is not going to be called Infinity Gauntlet, a title that Collider’s interviewer put forward. “That is definitely not what it is called. Definitely not called that.”

Intriguingly, brothers Joe and Anthony Russo have said Infinity War and its follow-up will be “very different” movies. Infinity War and its follow-up were shot back-to-back, so now all that’s left is to wait and theorise about what the movie will bring.

Infinity War made more than $640 million worldwide this week, dethroning Star Wars: The Force Awakens to set a new all-time record. The next MCU film is Ant-Man and the Wasp, which comes to theatres in July; Captain Marvel starring Brie Larson comes out in March 2019.

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Fortnite Season 4 does indeed see a comet crashing into the Battle Royale map, adding a new area, Hop Rocks filled with an alien new item.

While the game is still in downtime between Season 3 and 4, the iOS version has added details to the App Store a little early:

“The comet has crashed and brings new locations to explore! Jump in and witness the aftermath of the impact while you level up your Battle Pass and earn all new loot.

“HOP ROCKS – The comet has left a mark on the island… Visit the crater and you’ll find glowing rocks all around. Consume them and lift off with low gravity!”

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Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of ten years and 18 movies-worth of interconnected storytelling. But what’s next? We don’t mean Ant-Man and the Wasp, Captain Marvel, or the next Avengers 4 – those are set in stone, but after that – Phase 4 and beyond.

We interviewed Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo, who have worked on multiple Marvel movies including Infinity War, and Marvel’s head honcho Kevin Feige, and asked them all about the future of the MCU. This was before we got to see the latest Avengers movie, so we couldn’t get stuck into specifics. Instead we asked them some larger questions about how Marvel may tackle things in the future.

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