Month: May 2018

These choices and discoveries early on can open important doors for you later on during your playthrough of Detroit: Become Human.

IGN’s weekly Nintendo show tackles the latest releases, the rumored N64 Classic, Japan’s Dockless Switch Bundle, Resident Evil 7 Cloud, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle DLC, and more!

Microsoft is preparing for its big E3 2018 stage show to debut and hype the biggest and best games coming to Xbox One this year. The company has been setting lofty expectations, calling the show its “biggest showing ever.” To that end, it has mostly moved its actual show presence out of the Los Angeles Convention Center and into the nearby Microsoft Theater at LA Live.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has promised “positive changes” and more support for Japanese publishers. Aside from those vague hints, though, we know very little about what the company will actually be showing this year. In fact, Microsoft has been so secretive that we don’t even know which first-party games are slated for the rest of this year. Halo? Gears of War? Forza? Any of them could be a surprise announcement.

We could also hear expansions or announcements related to the company’s own popular initiatives like Xbox Game Pass and Xbox One backwards compatibility. As for third-party support, it’s a safe bet that Battlefield 5 will be prominently featured given the apparent marketing deal for EA’s upcoming shooter.

Microsoft’s E3 2018 briefing will take place on Sunday, June 11 at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET. Check out the full E3 conference schedule, and check the list below for all of the Xbox One games we know are slated to make an appearance at the show.

Xbox One Games At E3 2018

• 3 Minutes to Midnight
• Anthem
• Arcade Islands: Volume One
• Battlefield 5
• Beyond Good and Evil 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
• Defiance 2050
• Destiny 2 – Fall Update
• Division 2
• Heavy Fire: Red Shadow
• Remedy’s “P7”
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• Strange Brigade
• The Sinking City
• Transference
• V-Rally 4
• Warhammer Martyr

With nearly $2 billion at the worldwide box office thus far, it’s safe to say a lot of people have seen Avengers: Infinity War. Now, nearly a month after its release, the writers of the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, along with its follow up Avengers 4, are tackling some very important questions.

Naturally, they aren’t getting into spoiler territory when it comes to the next Avengers adventure. After all, with so many superheroes turned to dust by Thanos (Josh Brolin), even the smallest tidbit about what’s to come could give away far too much. Screenwriters Stephen McFeeley and Christopher Markus did have plenty to share about Infinity War on a wide-ranging interview with Collider, though. Here are just a few of the juiciest bits.

Where was Sharon Carter?

After the role she played in Captain America: Civil War, many fans were surprised Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) didn’t appear in Infinity War. However, as Markus reveals, that wasn’t always the case. “She was in previous drafts [of the script],” he admits.

“Sharon Carter was a victim of what we came to realize as we were writing it, which was if you are writing scenes that set up people before the story has gotten to them, such as Steve and Sharon trying to make it work in an apartment, they’re gonna go because the movie does not have time to catch up to previously on the life of Steve Rogers,” the screenwriter elaborates. Truthfully, he’s not wrong. Infinity War was already packed to the brim with story and characters. Setting time aside to deal with the personal lives of the characters, for the most part, would have been a distraction.

What about Hawkeye?

The question of Hawkeye’s (Jeremy Renner) involvement in Infinity War has been one fans obsessed about. In the end, he didn’t appear in the film at all, though there was a mention that he cut a deal with the government to go home. Was that always the case, though?

According to McFeeley, the archer was never going to appear in the film. “We’ve said this before. Some characters have great stories in the second movie,” he explains. “We also gave ourselves permission to tell complete arcs for the characters.”

Sorry, Hawkeye fans.

Is Avengers 4 even done?

It turns out, filming on the fourth Avengers movie is not complete yet. Reshoots and pickups are scheduled to film in September. However, the writers aren’t revealing how much more shooting is needed or who will be involved.

How are they including Captain Marvel?

Avengers 4 is in a tricky position–and it’s one they’ve never been in. Though the standalone Captain Marvel will hit theaters first, star Brie Larson filmed her scenes as the superhero in the next Avengers film before her solo movie started production.

“We were in the same position as we were with Spider-Man and [Black] Panther, where Brie was going to have to shoot her scenes before she shot Captain Marvel,” McFeeley says. “We’re trying to set up something that will work for our movie that won’t screw up their movie.”

Of course, the major difference is while Civil War introduces fans to Spider-Man and Black Panther, that will not be the case for Captain Marvel, whose standalone film releases on March 6, 2019–nearly two months before Avengers 4.

There have to be deleted scenes, right?

There was a bunch of stuff cut from the film, though the writers are careful not to reveal much. Some of it could wind up being used in Avengers 4, while other bits will be included in the home release of Infinity War.

However, Markus does have one moment to share. “We shot an unbelievably long version of Tony and Pepper in the park that features cameos,” he says. “It was sort of Robert and his friends’ day at the park.” According to the writers, the scene featured several MCU characters showing up, as well as Infinity War co-director Joe Russo. “It got kind of out of control and was off-plot entirely,” Markus admits.

Hopefully, that winds up on the Blu-ray.

Deadpool 2 delivered the goods when it comes to what fans of the superhero franchise want. The Merc with a Mouth, played by Ryan Reynolds, had plenty of meta jokes and dirty words to sling at audiences, while poking fun at himself, other comic book movies, and anything else that stood in his way.

As with the first movie, Reynolds embraced the utter ridiculousness of the character and his personality, taking it to the extreme. Still, there is one moment the actor was against–at least at first. The following contains spoilers for Deadpool 2. If you haven’t seen the movie, you should stop reading now.

In the movie’s post-credits scene, Deadpool uses Cable’s (Josh Brolin) watch to travel back in time, rectifying a number of events–including preventing the deaths of Peter (Rob Delaney) and Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). Originally, though, Vanessa wasn’t going to be resurrected.

“The entire tag to the movie… was actually initially conceived as a scene with Peter,” Reynolds tells the Empire podcast. “The whole thing was a scene with Peter, just because we loved Peter.”

Director David Leitch didn’t think that was enough, though. He approached Reynolds and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick with the idea of using the moment to undo Vanessa’s death, which Reynolds wasn’t a fan of at first. He remembers, “I was like ‘No, we can’t bring Vanessa back! That’s cheating!'”

In the end, though, they settled on the scene as it plays out. “Rhett, Paul, and I thought, ‘Fine, if we’re going to go back to save Vanessa, then let’s bring back Peter, let’s kill Baraka-pool, and let’s execute Ryan Reynolds,'” the Deadpool 2 explains. And that’s exactly what they did. The scene stands out as one of the most ridiculous and memorable of any comic book movie and leaves room for Baccarin to return in future Deadpool movies.

Like it or not, it’s hard to forget the scene as it played out. Still, while it’s great that Vanessa is still alive, what the world really wants to know is if Peter will be back for Deadpool 3.

According to Battlefield V’s developer, the studio is prioritizing player choice, inclusion, and diversity for the upcoming game, but the highest priority is fun.

DICE General Manager Oskar Gabrielson shared his thoughts on the reactions to the game’s recent reveal on Twitter, saying “player choice and female playable characters are here to stay.”

After the reveal of Battlefield V, a vocal minority spoke out in protest of the game’s cover art, which features a woman soldier. Some said the game’s depiction of women WWII soldiers was “unrealistic,” even though the inclusion of women fighting in WWII is one of the most realistic things Battlefield does.

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