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Blast Your Friends with These Discounted Nerf Guns

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Sometimes your friends, colleagues, and family members are just begging to be blasted with foam ammunition. Thankfully, Walmart feels your pain and has discounts on a number of Nerf guns that can do the blasting. Whether you’re into pistols, chainguns, rifles, shotguns, or even brainsaws, you can likely find a discount on the toy weapon of your choice. Let’s check out the deals.

Nerf N-Strike Elite SurgeFire Rotating Drum Blaster is 17% Off

Get it at Walmart – $24.88 (save $5)

Maneater Is a Deranged, Open World Shark-PG

Maneater is an open-world action game presented as a reality show about a vengeful shark, narrated by SNL and Archer’s Chris Parnell. Somehow, that’s not the strangest part of it. This Tripwire-developed passion project has you chomping your way through several underwater ecosystems, growing and evolving as you go, allowing you to enter harsher waters, all while terrorising the surface world on the hunt for your meaty end-goal. It’s basically F**ko the Dolphin.

In a hands-off demo at E3, my first impression is that Maneater looks far nicer than expected, an oversaturated city casting harsh neon light over a polluted bay as a single fin pokes out of the swell. My second impression is that the shark that fin’s attached to has just grabbed a nearby swimmer in its teeth, breached 20 feet out of the water and whipped the remaining half of the still-screaming man into a concrete bridge strut with a bloody pop. I’m giggling despite myself.

How Superman: Year One Adds a Darker Twist to His Origin

You may think you know Superman’s origin story forward and back by now, but there’s always room for a few changes. That’s the takeaway from the first issue of Superman: Year One, as writer Frank Miller and artist John Romita, Jr. chronicle the formative years of the Man of Steel in the Dark Knight Returns universe.

Read on to find out the major changes this story makes to an established formula, and why this version of Superman’s origin is darker than the norm.

Superman’s New Power

Superman is well-known for being one of the strongest heroes in the DC Universe, but it’s comparatively rare for comics to focus on Clark Kent’s heightened intelligence. Miller and Romita depict an infant Kal-El as an unusually self-aware child, one who bears witness to Krypton’s destruction and grows steadily more intelligent as his journey toward Earth unfolds. By the time he arrives, young Kal is already in firm command of his mental faculties. This issue even suggests that he uses telepathy to mentally nudge Pa Kent into deciding to adopt him.

Age of Wonders: Planetfall – Hands-On With Cyborg Trash Zombies

Whenever a strategy game gives me the option to choose between several distinct factions, I’m always faced with a petrifying dilemma. Do I choose the stalwart mech-using humans known as the Vanguard that are always reliable and familiar? Do I change things up and go exotic with a race of bug-like aliens called the Kir’ko that are eager to defend their newfound freedom after centuries of enslavement? Wait a minute — is that a faction comprised of undying dumpster divers who meld whatever tech they can find or kill for and graft it onto their bodies? Yes please!

That’s right, in my hands-on demo with Age of Wonders: Planetfall, I got some time in with the faction known as The Assembly. True to their name, they love manufacturing: slapping together pieces of people and machinery, engineering virulent diseases — you name it. Somehow, they feel right at home next to the dinosaur-riding Amazons and insectoid aliens all vying for a slice of planetary conquest. So far, each faction I’ve seen is more than just eye candy, as they all have their compelling backstories in a world reeling from the collapse of an imperious galactic civilization. Even the tech trees and upgrades tell a story of your faction’s desire to stand apart and evolve, and you’ll have a major role in choosing how they grow each time you play.

AHS 1984: Predictions for American Horror Story Season 9

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Everything Leaving Netflix in July

With Keanu Reeves experiencing a well-deserved Keanu-ssance, and with Carrie-Anne Moss currently starring in the final season of Jessica Jones, it’s a bummer to have to break the news that all three Matrix flicks will be expiring from Netflix in July.

The rest of Netflix’s official Last Call listings feature notable dramas like Gone Baby Gone, Pan’s Labyrinth, American Gangster, Cool Hand Luke, and East of Eden along with comedies like Austin Powers, Bull Durham, Dumb and Dumber, and Wedding Crashers. Plus, say goodbye to all of Pretty Little Liars.

Marvel Will Return To San Diego Comic-Con Next Month–Report

We’re now only a few weeks away from being entirely up-to-date with the Marvel Cinematic Universe release schedule. Spider-Man: Far From Home hits theatres on July 5, and no further MCU films have been officially announced. But this could change later in July, as it has been reported that the studio is set to make its return to San Diego Comic-Con.

According to Deadline, Marvel is planning to appear in Hall H at this year’s SDCC, which takes place on the weekend of July 19-21. Hall H is traditionally the location of the convention’s biggest panels and announcements. Marvel did not appear at all at SDCC 2018, with studio boss Kevin Feige having previously made it clear that no more movies would be announced until after Avengers: Endgame was in theaters. But with Endgame released back in April and Far From Home about to arrive, Marvel is expected to reveal the schedule for the next batch of films soon.

Marvel’s potential return to Hall H is also notable because rivals DC won’t be at SDCC at all this year. While parent company Warner is set to showcase upcoming horror releases such as It: Chapter 2 and Doctor Sleep at the opening night event ScareDiego, DC won’t be making any announcements. Unlike Marvel, it already has a packed slate of upcoming movies due over the next two years, including Joker, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman 1984, and The Batman.

While Marvel is yet to officially announce its next titles, we do know what some of them are likely to be. Production has now started on the Black Widow prequel movie, starring Scarlett Johansson, while Ryan Coogler and James Gunn are set to direct Black Panther 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 respectively. Other Marvel movies rumored to be in the works include The Eternals, Shang-Chi, and Doctor Strange 2.

For more on this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, check out GameSpot’s guide to every Funko Pop Exclusive that will be available there.

Xbox Game Pass Adding Rare Replay, Goat Simulator To Close Out June

Microsoft has announced another spate of Xbox Game Pass games being added to the subscription service over the next two weeks. This time, thanks to the newly launched Game Pass for PC, the announcement includes notations of which games are hitting PC and consoles.

First on June 20, Xbox One players can get Resident Evil: Revelations and Rare Replay. The latter is a compilation of Rare’s work over decades, which includes retro games from the ZX Spectrum to games that appeared on the N64 like Banjo Kazooie and Perfect Dark to 360 games like Viva Pinata. It’s quite a bit of bang for your Game Pass buck.

Then on June 27, PC Game Pass users will get Torment: Tides of Numenera, and both PC and console players will get Goat Simulator.

As Microsoft notes, each of these games is available through individual Game Pass subscriptions for PC or console, but all of them together can be had with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. That includes both the PC and console subscriptions and Xbox Live Gold. It usually costs $15 per month, up from the usual $10, but you can get Game Pass Ultimate for cheap for a limited time.

Microsoft also noted that a few games will be leaving Game Pass this month as well. Next Up Hero will be gone as of June 27. Then, on June 30, it will retire Dead Island Definitive Edition, Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition, Shadow Complex Remastered, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Zombie Army Trilogy. If you want to hold onto any of those games, grab them now while they’re still on Game Pass for a 20% discount.

June Game Pass Games

June 20
- Rare Replay (Xbox One)
- Resident Evil: Revelations (Xbox One)
June 27
- Goat Simulator (PC, Xbox One)
- Torment: Tides of Numenera (PC)

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Still Has the Cross-Dressing Sequence

Final Fantasy 7 Remake will still feature the original game’s infamous cross-dressing sequence, according to an interview with Square Enix conducted by Famitsu.

The news comes as a slight surprise as the same Famitsu feature (via Eurogamer) reveals that Square Enix has an ethics department, which instructed the developers of Final Fantasy 7 Remake to “restrict” Tifa’s chest for her new look, to ensure she didn’t look “unnatural” during action sequences. This led to her new design featuring a more athletic build and fitted clothing, rather than the more pin-up girl look she sported in the original game.

Avengers: Endgame Returning to Theaters With Post-Credit Extras

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has said that Avengers: Endgame will be popping back up for a theatrical re-release “next weekend”, and will include post-credit extras not included in the original theatrical release.

Screen Rant reports that Feige confirmed this at a Spider-Man: Far From Home junket, explaining that the new release will not be an extended cut, “but there will be a version going into theaters with a bit of a marketing push with a few new things at the end of the movie.” It’s not clear at time of writing if this is a US-only re-release.

It’s not entirely clear what those new things are, but Feige gives some hints: “If you stay and watch the movie, after the credits, there’ll be a deleted scene, a little tribute, and a few surprises.”