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A new report claims that Nintendo is going to add Game Boy and Game Boy Color games to its Nintendo Switch Online service.

This news comes by way of Eurogamer, which corroborates a report from Nintendo Life that games from these two Nintendo handhelds might finally come to the company’s online Netflix-like service.

Nintendo Life reported earlier this week that Nate the Hate podcast host, NateDrake, had revealed that Nintendo might be adding Game Boy and Game Boy Color games to its online catalogue. The publication confirmed this with its own sources, adding that these games could be coming “really soon.”

Now, Eurogamer writes that its own independent sources say the same. The publication also revealed that its sources say games from other retro platforms are on the table as well.

As noted by Eurogamer, a 2019 datamine by OatmealDome of the NES Switch app revealed that SNES titles would be coming to the service before Nintendo made the official announcement. Nine months after that datamine, SNES games were added to the service.

OatmealDome noted that they had discovered two additional emulator types — Hiyoko and Count. Nintendo Life’s report, which has now been corroborated by Eurogamer, mentions that Hiyoko could be the emulator name for Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles.

Eurogamer’s report indicates that additional retro consoles could be added to Nintendo Switch Online, and perhaps the Count emulator discovered in OatmealDome’s datamine is the emulator that these additional consoles (or maybe just one console) will use.

While waiting to see if these games come to Nintendo Switch Online, check out one of the latest game drops for the service in this Super NES: July 2021 game updates trailer. Watch IGN’s unboxing of the Nintendo Switch Online SNES controller after that.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG and a pioneer in the battle royale world, has teased more of what to expect from his very ambitious-sounding new project.

Greene left PUBG Studios recently to work on new projects at his PlayerUnknown Productions company, which is financially backed by PUBG publisher Krafton. His new project is a massive open-world game on a scale that is bigger than anything he’s made before.

“We want to create a realistic sandbox on a scale that’s seldom attempted. Worlds hundreds of kilometers across with thousands of players interacting, exploring, and creating. I am humbly following in the footsteps of so many other great open-world developers. My dream is not to create a game but rather a world,” Greene said in a new video.

Among the many issues with creating such massive worlds is that the sheer volume of content–assets, game mechanics, and locations, just to name a few–that are required. “Realistic open worlds take a great deal of time and effort to produce,” he said.

To solve that issue, Greene and his team are using machine-learning to offload some of the processes to computers. For its part, EA has more than 1,000 people working on a ridiculously ambitious-sounding machine learning project as well.

“Our machine is a neural network, and our network then gives us a way to learn and then generate massive, realistic open worlds at run time,” Greene said, labeling this a “breakthrough” in game development to help make game worlds bigger than ever before.

Part of the appeal of such massive game worlds, he said, is that players will feel a more authentic sense of freedom and exploration. If the game world can be big enough, players will be constantly finding new things, and this will keep them engaged and interested, he said.

Greene and his team will show off the earliest stages of the technology they have created with machine learning through the new Prologue game. In this experience, players will be dropped into an open world and must find their way to a destination on the map. There are no guns or hostile encounters, apart from weather effects, Greene said. There is also no set path, so players will need to scavenge for resources and tools on the map to reach the end.

The game, which is actually a tech demo, Greene said, is meant to introduce players to the studio’s terrain-generation systems. Because it’s an early tech demo, Greene is offering Prologue on a pay-what-you-want basis.

Prologue is only a small glimpse at the technology that will power what Greene called a much more extensive experience. He said it’ll be a multi-year journey to get to a place where the team has a more expansive interactive world for players to explore.

More details on Greene’s vision for Prologue will be released as part of an interview with VentureBeat, so keep checking back for more.

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With the holiday weekend almost here, major retailers are discounting a wide variety of games for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Now’s your chance to save on hit releases from 2021, including Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart for PS5, Scarlet Nexus, and Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Most of the game deals we’ve highlighted here should be available all weekend, but there’s always a chance that some could sell out. We’ve linked to Amazon when possible, but make sure to check other retailers–namely Best Buy and Walmart–if the game you’re looking for is out of stock.

In addition to Rift Apart, PS5 owners can grab other noteworthy exclusives such low prices. Demon’s Souls is slashed to $45, and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is $30. We’ve rounded up the best Labor Day game deals below.

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Sega has revealed its DLC roadmap for Lost Judgment, which includes a story DLC, a new fighting style, cosmetic items, and more.

Sega says players who preorder the Digital Deluxe and Ultimate Editions of Lost Judgment will have access to additional content at launch and beyond. Right now there’s no word on pricing or availability for standard edition owners.

In Spring 2022, Lost Judgment is getting a major story expansion with The Kaito Files. In this additional content, Masaharu Kaito, Takayuki Yagami’s partner, takes center stage as the playable character. Sega says this expansion adds about 10 hours of content to Lost Judgment.

On October 26, the School Stories expansion comes to Lost Judgment. In this expansion, Yagami’s friends join the boxing ring minigame as extra opponents. Yagami can also take his boxing moves to the street with a new fighting style.

Before the additional story content launches, players can expect the Quick-Start Support and Detective Essentials Pack. Everyone who preorders the game gets the Quick-Start Pack, which comes with bonus health items, combat buffs, and attacks. The Detective pack is available at launch for those who preorder one of the game’s special editions. It comes with cosmetic items, additional playable Sega Master System games for your detective office, a rideable hoverboard, and more dateable characters.

Lost Judgment comes to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S later this month. The game includes a free next-gen upgrade on PlayStation and Xbox. It launches on September 21 for those who preorder the Ultimate or Digital Deluxe Edition, and on September 25 for the standard edition. For more, check out our Lost Judgment preview.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Marvel Studios’ latest superhero movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings offers fans a pair of end credits scenes, one taking place shortly after the movie wraps and the other after the credits finish.

We’re going to explain what happens in each scene and use the comics to help understand exactly what these scenes are setting up for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Warning: full spoilers for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings!

Shang-Chi Mid-Credits Scene

The mid-credits scene shows Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) and Katy (Awkwafina) fresh off their victory in Ta Lo, recounting their fantastical adventure to their friends over drinks. A magical portal opens and Wong (Benedict Wong) steps out to invite the duo back to a place we assume is the base of operations for Earth’s sorcerers, Kamar-Taj. (Maybe Doctor Strange wasn’t around because he was busy helping Spider-Man?) Wong is particularly interested in the Ten Rings that Shang-Chi now wears, having inherited them after the soul-sucking Dweller-in-Darkness killed his father Wenwu (Tony Leung).

The Ten Rings are a weapon of extraordinary power, and we watch as a small council of Avengers meet to discuss them now that they’re in friendly hands. Shang-Chi, Katy, and Wong are joined by holograms of Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) as they observe a mystical diagram projected by the Ten Rings. (It’s notable that Bruce is no longer Smart Hulk–he’s now back to his human self and the arm injured from snapping with the Infinity Gauntlet is still in a splint.)

The group debates the origin of the Ten Rings. At the start of the movie it’s said that Wenwu discovered the rings 1000 years ago but their exact origin is unknown, with one story saying they were found in a crater and another in a tomb. Wong says the rings don’t match any artifact from their codex in Kamar-Taj. Bruce says the rings aren’t made from Vibranium and asks Carol if they could be from the Chitauri. Carol says they’re not Chitauri nor are they like any alien tech she’s ever seen. Shang-Chi says his father found the rings about 1000 years ago, and Bruce says a thermal luminescence scan shows the rings are a lot older than that.

Wong explains that when Shang-Chi came into possession of the Ten Rings, he felt it all the way in Kamar-Taj. Zooming in on the diagram of the Ten Rings, we see the rings are emitting a beacon of some kind. It appears Shang-Chi, by using them in the final battle, somehow awoke the rings, but it’s unclear what the signal means. The characters think the rings are sending a message, but to where no one can say.

In the comics, the Ten Rings are quite different than in the movie. Instead of a set of armbands, they are 10 different colored finger rings that grant the wearer various super powers.

The comic book version of the Mandarin originally found the rings aboard an alien spaceship belonging to a Makluan explorer named Axonn-Karr, who he killed before raiding his ship and making off with the rings. The Makluans are a reptilian alien race from a planet called Maklu IV. Marvel Comics fans are likely familiar with the most notorious Makluan, Fin Fang Foom, a massive dragon that has attacked Earth on more than one occasion. Dweller-in-Darkness appears to be the MCU’s version of Fin Fang Foom, considering its similar dragon-like appearance and telepathic powers, but the name was likely changed because it has long been criticized for being racially insensitive. If the Ten Rings are sending a message back to Maklu IV, then they could be summoning a whole army of reptilian monsters to attack Earth.

Then again, Carol’s comment about the Ten Rings not appearing to be any sort of alien tech might contradict that theory. Given how she has traveled the cosmos for decades and is the Avengers’ resident expert on aliens, she would probably know alien tech when she saw it. So her being unfamiliar with the Ten Rings may be a hint that they do not come from any place in the known universe.

With that in mind, we have another theory on where the Ten Rings came from, and it fits in with the overarching theme of Phase 4: the multiverse. If the Ten Rings aren’t from anywhere in our universe, then maybe they came from another universe altogether. As we saw in the Season 1 finale of Marvel’s Loki series, the “Sacred Timeline” was shattered after the death of He Who Remains (aka Kang the Conqueror), causing the multiverse to spawn anew. Perhaps the Ten Rings came from one of those new branch realities and in the chaos somehow came to be on Earth. In the comics, Kang has access to the most powerful weapons across space and time, so it could be that the Ten Rings are a weapon he left behind while waging his multiversal war. The MCU’s next all-hands-on-deck crisis seems like it will have to do with the multiverse (Secret Wars, anyone?), so if the Ten Rings are connected to it then that would give our new hero Shang-Chi a tangible tie to it.

It’s also worth pointing out that the upcoming MCU movie Eternals will tell a story that spans 7000 years, and it will feature the cosmic titans known as the Celestials, so perhaps we will learn more about the origin of the Ten Rings in that Marvel film. The Celestials are essentially space gods that wield unimaginable power, so it could be that the Ten Rings are an artifact they left behind on Earth long ago.

Shang-Chi End-Credits Scene

After the credits finish rolling, the post-credits scene reveals what’s next for Shang-Chi’s sister Xialing (Meng’er Zhang). During the movie, Xialing shared how she ran away from home to create her own criminal enterprise because her father wouldn’t let her be a part of his. And with the death of her father, she wastes no time merging her organization with the Ten Rings and moving into her father’s base of operations.

Most notably, women are now seen receiving the martial arts training there that Xialing never did when she was young.

While MCU Xialing seems to have proven herself to be a decent person at heart who is now on good terms with her brother Shang-Chi, one key moment shows that she may be turning to the dark side. During the mid-credits bar scene, when asked about his sister Shang-Chi says that she’s shutting down their father’s operations, so she seems to have deceived her brother and hidden her intention to take over instead. This duplicitous turn falls in line with the comic book versions of her character that are far more villainous.

It’s important to point out that there is no Xialing in the comics–she was created just for the movie (most likely due to her origin as the daughter of the racist “Fu Manchu” character), but her character seems to be an amalgamation of Shang-Chi’s five sisters in the comics (sister Zheng Shi-Hua and half-sisters Zheng Bao Yu, Kwai Far, Esme and Zheng Zhilan). Common traits among Shang-Chi’s sisters include a villainous edge, conflicted feelings about their brother, a desire for their father’s power, and deadly martial arts skills. Xialing’s appearance seems to be based on Zheng Bao Yu in particular.

If Shang-Chi’s sisters from the comics are any indication, then we’re likely to see Xialing once again at odds with her brother as she uses the new Ten Rings organization to accumulate more power. After all, the movie’s final moment does promise “The Ten Rings will return.” and seems to imply the return of both the criminal organization and the actual weapon.

If you’ve managed to get hold of PS5 this year, or plan to get one before February of 2022, then I’ve got some good news. Horizon Forbidden West preorders are now finally live in the UK (see at Amazon), with a release date of February 18, 2022 to look forward to.

Both the Standard and Special Edition are up on Amazon to preorder, while the Collector’s and Regalla Editions will be exclusive to GAME in the UK. You can find preorder details for all of these below.

Preorder Horizon Forbidden West in the UK

Horizon Forbidden West is finally available to preorder in the UK, costing £69.99 at launch on PS5 (£59.99 on PS4 without a free upgrade). Or, for £10 more, you can pick up the Special Edition on PS5, which includes the game, plus a SteelBook case, mini art book, digital soundtrack, and a Nora Legacy Spear + Outfit.

Preorder Horizon Forbidden West Collector’s Edition and Regalla Edition in the UK

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The fun of Radiant Dance Machines might be over for now in Destiny 2 (at least in the Crucible and Gambit), but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more great Exotics for you to mess around with in the Season of the Lost. Xur is back with a new inventory of Exotics for you to fill out your collection and give yourself an edge throughout the solar system.

We’ll update this post as soon as Xur lands in the solar system, identifying exactly where you can find him and what Exotics–and other weapons and armor–he’s carrying this week.

Xur returns to the solar system every weekend in Destiny 2, starting with the daily reset at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET each Friday. The thing is, where he’ll land isn’t known until he actually arrives. Xur can hang out at one of several locations, including in the Tower Hangar area, on Nessus in Watcher’s Grave, and in the Winding Cove area of the EDZ. Xur’s inventory also changes each week, so it’s worth revisiting him on the weekends for new weapons and rolls on Exotic and Legendary armor. You can visit him any time between his arrival Friday and the weekly reset at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET the following Tuesday when Xur departs the solar system.

Each week, Xur offers one Exotic weapon and three pieces of Exotic armor: one for each character class. The inventory is random, as are the stat rolls you can expect on each of his armor offerings, so if you’re looking to fill out your collection or if you’re hoping for better versions of Exotics you already have, it’s worth visiting him. Xur also brings an Exotic Engram, which is guaranteed to drop something you don’t already have, if there are Exotics missing from your collection on that particular character–but that doesn’t include Exotics you have to earn through activities, including the new Exotic armors added each season, which can only be claimed from Legendary or Master Lost Sectors.

The Fortnite Shang-Chi skin is now available in the Item Shop, signaling a relationship between juggernauts Epic and Marvel that is still going strong. The Shang-Chi skin arrives in Fortnite just in time for the hero’s debut feature film, Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which hits theaters on September 3.

Fortnite Shang-Chi Skin

Like most collaborations with other brands, the Fortnite Shang-Chi skin includes more than just the character. Also included in the hero’s complete bundle for those who want it are the following items:

• Great Protector’s Shield back bling
• Blades of the Brother Hand pickaxes
• Dragon’s Scale wrap

The Shang-Chi skin joins a lengthy list of Marvel heroes already in Fortnite. These days, a Marvel launch is a virtual guarantee of a Fortnite tie-in. While sometimes the skins are based on new iterations of the character or stay closer to their comic styles, the Shang-Chi skin looks plucked right out of the new movie.

Last year, Fortnite hosted an all-Marvel Season 4 where the entire battle pass was made up of Marvel characters and cosmetics like She-Hulk, Wolverine, and Iron Man. Epic CCO Donald Mustard once said crossovers like that were merely the tip of the iceberg between the two companies.

“This is just the start,” Mustard told the This Week In Marvel Podcast back in 2020. “This is the start of lots of stuff we have planned for many years in this Marvel integration. Like, this is not the end. This is the beginning.”

Shang-Chi is still but a continuation of that virtually endless train. So long as Fortnite and Marvel remain atop the pop culture mountain, we can expect many more collaborations between the two brands for years to come.

If you need more licensed skins, other recent crossovers have included the Justice League’s Wonder Woman, reggaeton ambassador J Balvin, and Bad Boys’ Mike Lowrey.