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SPOILER WARNING: Major spoilers for the conclusion of Falcon and the Winter Soldier below.

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The official Captain America Twitter account changed its banner image and bio section Monday, simply reading “on your left” alongside a new image of Sam Wilson in his Captain America outfit. The change came in the wake of Friday’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier finale, which saw Sam take up the shield at last.

The changes are part of a broader reaction on Twitter, which has seen #CaptainAmerica trending alongside special hashtag emojis. Fans have also resurfaced a heartwarming clip from a 2020 Vanity Fair interview, in which Anthony Mackie describes how his son was initially mesmerized by the idea of his father becoming Captain America at the end of Avengers: Endgame.

“I’m at the theater with my son, and the movie ends,” Mackie remembered in the interview. “My son goes…’dad? Are you…are you Captain America?’ And I said ‘I think so!’”

Mackie said that after looking a little stunned, all his son said was “cool.”

“I’m like…that’s it? That’s all I get?” Mackie exclaims, imitating his son’s nonchalant attitude. “Cool, cool. ‘You don’t cry, I’m not going to cry.’ So all night we’re hanging out, they get tired, we put them to bed. A week later he calls me bawling. And he’s like ‘dad, you’re Captain America!’ Yeah, dude.”

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Mackie imitated his son’s flustered call. “‘That’s so amazing! I’m so proud of you!’ So then I start crying, and I’m like ‘you’re proud of me?’”

After chuckling a bit, Mackie reflected on the real weight of the moment for him as an actor and a dad.

“It’s funny. As a parent, you do so much, and all you want is the approval of your kids,” Mackie said. “Nobody else matters. I don’t care what anybody else on the internet says. My son said it was cool, so it’s cool. That’s been the biggest thing with Marvel and all these movies. You realize it’s an opportunity for you to spend time with your kids. Every Marvel premiere, I get to take my son and we sit and we eat popcorn and we watch the movie. We talk about it afterwards. He says his favorite part, I say my favorite part. That’s what this character has become. A way for my son and I to bond over movies.”

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Mackie’s son won’t have to wait much longer to see his dad as Captain America again. After the conclusion of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Captain America 4 is reportedly being written by the same showrunner Malcom Spellman and staff writer Dalan Musson. There’s still a few questions left lingering from the Disney Plus series, like what will happen to John Walker’s U.S. Agent. Judging from how things wrapped up, it may all be leading to the Secret Invasion event in the next phase of the MCU.

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Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/Stan stan for IGN.

Pizza buyers beware: The Noid has returned. Yes, the pie-swiping villain from the famous ’80s ad campaign has come back for a series of new advertisements from Domino’s Pizza, but that’s not the only place you’ll find him. For a limited time, The Noid will serve as a mini-boss in the mobile runner Crash Bandicoot: On The Run.

While this might seem like a bizarre example of brand synergy, 2021 marks the 35th anniversary of the Noid ads and the 25th anniversary of the release of the original Crash Bandicoot, so we suppose it makes some sense. (Maybe?) Well, regardless, fans of The Noid can pick up limited-edition Noid-themed merch on Amazon. All proceeds from the sales will go to Domino’s independent nonprofit Domino’s Partners Foundation, which provides financial assistance to employees of the company experiencing hardship such as the loss of a loved one.

As Noid fans well know, this isn’t the first time that the pizza villain has appeared in a game. Capcom’s Yo! Noid is a fairly well-known NES platformer that features the character, who was added to the English localization by translators. He also appeared in the lesser-known Commodore 64 game Avoid the Noid. As for Crash Bandicoot: On The Run, it’s a celebration of the iconic platformer that includes many of the franchise’s best-known levels and characters. Like most of developer King’s games, it’s free to play, but includes microtransactions.

Epic has revealed that Fortnite update 16.30 will arrive tomorrow, April 27, and will bring with it a variety of changes, including quality-of-life fixes to weapon crafting, clearer weapon stats, and a new exotic bow. Here’s everything to look forward to in tomorrow’s Fortnite patch 16.30.

Downtime for the update will begin tomorrow around 1 AM PT / 4 AM ET. Once it’s over, players will be greeted with a new exotic bow which Epic is teasing, calling it “unpredictable.” That’s probably a reference to the leaked Unstable Bow, which hits players with a “glitch” effect on contact, according to dataminers. Think of it as a bit like a bow that fires flashbangs at players. If it is that one, we anticipate Raven will be selling it in her house on the western beach between Coral Castle and Sweaty Sands.

Also coming is an overhaul to the crafting menu that will allow players to smoothly transition to the crafting menu when holding a craftable item in their hands by holding down the inventory button. This should keep players out of the menus when they need to be focused on the enemies ahead. For players seeking to compare all these weapons, their stats on screen will now be represented with numbers rather than the more abstract bars.

We know another Spire Quest is due to arrive as well, and it may be the last of them. This season’s storyline has been leading to a fight between Jonesy and Raz, and tomorrow’s Spire Quest promises to deliver that showdown. Completing all Spire Quests not only unlocks hundreds of thousands of seasonal XP, but also grants players the Raz alternate Style, Glyph Master.

A new LTM called The Floor Restores arrives tomorrow as well, as an apparent reference to the game’s Floor Is Lava modes that have populated the LTM space lately. For players in Creative mode, the remaining weapons not previously seen in the suite will make their way to it as well.

Of course, all of this is perhaps secondary at best to the addition of Neymar Jr. The soccer susperstar and his many related challenges arrive with tomorrow’s update as the midseason (not-so-)secret character for all Season 6 Battle Pass owners.

The next big patch for Watch Dogs: Legion has been pushed back a week, as the team at Ubisoft says it discovered some issues in the late stages of development. As a result, title update 4.0, which had been scheduled for late April, will instead release on May 4.

Ubisoft shared a brief statement on Twitter, but did not go into details about the issues it encountered. It did say that these are problems that need to be addressed before deployment, to launch the update “in the best shape it can be.” It also said that the extra time will allow it to continue to work on bugs that players have reported recently, since the update will also include more fixes.

“We are really excited about you playing our upcoming content on Watch Dogs: Legion, and seeing your reactions to our roadmap has been fantastic,” the team stated. “Thanks for your ongoing support and passion.”

According to Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: Legion roadmap, the next update will feature a new hero character who wields mind control powers and a new mission as paid content in the season pass. Alongside that, the update will include free content composed of new co-op missions, new assignments, more character customization, and two new regular characters.

Apex Legends Season 9: Legacy will see the return of one of the game’s most powerful weapons, the Peacekeeper shotgun, to ground loot. Like the Triple Take, the Peacekeeper comes with the Precision Choke hop-up naturally equipped.

The Peacekeeper was pulled from ground loot in Season 5: Fortune’s Favor, replacing the Mastiff shotgun in care packages. It has remained in care packages for the past four seasons. With the Peacekeeper’s return to ground loot, the Triple Take is being put into care packages, where it will automatically come equipped with the 2x-4x Variable AOG Scope.

The Peacekeeper returning to ground loot isn’t the only major weapon change coming in Season 9. A new weapon type is being added. Called Marksman Weapons, this classification includes the G7 Scout, Triple Take, 30-30 Repeater, and brand-new Bocek Compound Bow.

The Bocek will take a new ammo type called Arrows, which silently travel through the air and don’t break on impact–missed shots can be looted from wherever they land, while shots that hit their mark can be looted from the target once they’re dead.

Weapon hop-ups are changing too. Both Skullpiercer Rifling and Hammerpoint Rounds are being pulled from ground loot. To make up for this, the weapons that use these hop-ups (Wingman, Longbow DMR, P2020, and Mozambique) are being buffed. The Wingman and Longbow will naturally deal more damage on headshots, while the P2020 will do more damage on both body and head shots. The Mozambique’s clip size is increasing from four shells to six.

To replace these hop-ups, two brand-new ones are being added: Shatter Caps and Deadeye’s Tempo. Shatter Caps can be attached to the 30-30 Repeater and Bocek Bow, allowing you to change their shots so that they split into a blast pattern like a shotgun. Deadeye’s Tempo can be attached to the Sentinel and Bocek Bow, increasing their fire rate if you shoot at the perfect moment. In the Sentinel’s case, that’s when a new round has been chambered; for the Bocek, it’s the moment you fully pull back the bowstring.

The Bocek Bow is unique among Apex Legends’ weapons in that you don’t have to decide between which of its hop-ups to equip. You can equip both Shatter Caps and Deadeye’s Tempo to the Bocek at the same time, allowing you to transform the precision mid-range weapon into a semi-automatic short-range weapon.

Apex Legends Legacy begins May 4. Alongside all these weapon changes, the new season will introduce playable character Valkyrie and a permanent team deathmatch mode called Arenas.

The theme park game Planet Coaster: Console Edition is getting new DLC packs themed around Ghostbusters and another based on other movie-themed content.

Ghostbusters DLC

Due out later this week, the Ghostbusters DLC pack comes with one new flat ride, one new coaster, and a variety of decorations and other Ghostbusters-themed content. The new ride is called the Ghostbusters Experience, and it puts players into the ECTO-1 as they try to capture as many ghosts as possible. The new coaster is called RollerGhoster, and it’s a children’s ride where the Slimer takes guests around a track.

There are “hundreds” of new scenery pieces and sounds that players can use to customize their park around Ghostbusters as well. These include a very tall Stay Puft marshmallow man and haunted hotels. There is also a narrative campaign element to the DLC pack that even has Dan Aykroyd and William Atherton lending their voices to reprise their characters, Raymond Stantz and Walter Peck.

This content has been available on PC for a year already, but it’s only just now coming to the console edition of Planet Coaster.

The Studios Pack

As for the Studios Pack, this is themed around the movies. There are Wild West props, zombies animatronics, and vehicles that flip over to simulate an action scene. There is also a train that races off the tracks and scares nearby guests. Some of the new props include green screens, cameras, and clapperboards.

A new ride, Big Screen Tour, is also included in the Studios Pack. “Big Screen Tour is the Hollywood backlot tour experience brought to life, as powered buses with adjustable lengths bring guests face to face with elements from the silver screen,” reads a line from its description.

Another new ride is Re-Motion, which puts players into “pods” controlled by a robotic arm that can move with 360 degrees of freedom. The final new ride is Horror Heights, which is a Tower of Terror-like ride where players fall multiple storeys very quickly.

The Ghostbusters DLC costs $15 while the Studios Pack will sell for $10. Both expansions are scheduled to launch across PlayStation and Xbox on April 29.

Anyone who buys the Ghostbusters of Studios DLC on console and any Ghostbusters movie will get a $5 Xbox gift card in the US and Canada; this promotion is good until May 12.

A few new Gen 6 Pokemon are coming to Pokemon Go soon as part of the upcoming Luminous Legends X event. That event runs from May 4-17 and adds the Legendary Pokemon Xerneas to the game (while its counterpart, Yveltal, will arrive in a later event), as well as a few other Dragon and Fairy types that originated in Pokemon X and Y.

Xerneas will be featured in five-star Raids throughout the Luminous Legends X event, making this your first opportunity to catch it in Pokemon Go. On top of that, the Gen 6 monsters Spritzee, Swirlix, and Goomy will be available for the first time. These Pokemon will appear in the wild alongside other Dragon and Fairy types such as Dratini, Ralts, Bagon, and Cottonee.

In addition to the new Pokemon, the Luminous Legends X event introduces a new item to the game: the Rainy Lure Module. Like other Lures, this can be set in a PokeStop to attract certain types of Pokemon, but it has a secondary function as well. When you’re near an active Rainy Lure Module, you can evolve Sliggoo (Goomy’s evolved form) into Goodra. You can also evolve the Pokemon when the weather in the game is raining.

Beyond that, there will be new event-exclusive Field Research tasks, which will lead to encounters with Psychic, Dragon, and Fairy Pokemon like Galarian Ponyta and Gible. Galarian Ponyta and Alolan Exeggutor will also be featured in Raids, while Dragonite and Salamence will be able to learn new attacks via Charged TMs.

Niantic is also holding a collective challenge. If players can collectively catch 500 million Fairy-type Pokemon from May 4-11, then a variety of bonuses will be available during the second part of the event. These include the debut of Pancham and Shiny Galarian Ponyta, as well as a triple XP bonus each time you catch a Pokemon. You can read more details about the event on the official Pokemon Go blog.

Yveltal Is Debuting Soon In Pokemon Go

Shortly after the Luminous Legends X event ends, Niantic will be holding a Luminous Legends Y event. As part of that event, the Legendary Pokemon Yveltal will make its debut in Pokemon Go, presumably as a five-star Raid boss. Yveltal is known as the Destruction Pokemon, and it served as the cover monster for Pokemon Y. Niantic hasn’t shared many other details about the Luminous Legends Y event yet beyond that, but it did confirm that Pancham will also hatch from Strange Eggs. Further information will be announced at a later date.