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Disney Shuts Down Marvel Heroes; EA Addresses Star Wars Loot Box Drama – GS News Roundup

It’s Wednesday, and yep, we totally called it. This week’s news is all about the microtransactions. Join Jess McDonell and Dan Crowd on GameSpot News to get the latest.

Marvel Heroes Is Shutting Down

In some sad news, Marvel Heroes, the free-to-play Diablo-style action RPG featuring almost every Marvel comic book hero you can think of, is shutting down. That’s thanks to Marvel parent company Disney who ended their relationship with developer Gazillion Entertainment. Get all the details in today’s episode.

EA Executive Responds To Star Wars Microtransaction Currency

Battlefront 2’s microtransaction model has been the talk of the town this week, with player enhancements being tied to in-game currency and the randomisation of loot boxes. Today, EA’s Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen addressed the controversy at an event, find out what he had to say.

EA Teases New Action Game

But in slightly more enticing EA news, Blake Jorgensen also teased an as-yet unannounced new project from EA Motive, under the direction of former Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond. He stated that was an action game with “a lot of new, interesting gameplay that I don’t think anyone’s seen before”, among some additional details regarding the game’s structure. Tune in for the scoop!

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Hulu’s Future Man: Full Season Review

This is a spoiler-free review for all 13 new episodes of Hulu’s Future Man – which premiered Tuesday, November 14th.

Here’s the thing about Hulu’s Future Man, which stars The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson as a homebody gamer who gets recruited into an epic quest to save humanity’s future: it’s good. It has a lot going for it, including the cast, which also features Happy Endings’ Eliza Coupe and Preacher’s Derek Wilson. The idea of a go-for-broke time travel action comedy is solid and Future Man is nothing if not committed to certain elements of shock and awe laughs.

Where the series falters somewhat (I’ve watched all of Season 1, which premiered this past Tuesday) is actually in that very commitment. Occasionally the series, which goes all in on gross-out visual humor, becomes its own worst enemy by going overboard with raunch. There’s nothing inherently wrong with comedic vulgarity, but in order to make the crass elements funny there also needs to be some restraint. Netflix’s Big Mouth ran into these issues recently as well, where all of a sudden creators land on a streaming service and have license to, basically, do and show what ever they want without fear of advertisers, demographics, or decency standards and a certain unmeasurable quantity of “funny” gets lost in their gusto to put absolutely everything out there.

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