While the streaming service DC Universe is going through a vast transformation, moving away from TV and movies entirely, one of its breakout hits isn’t going away any time soon. The adult animated comedy Harley Quinn has been ordered for Season 3 on HBO Max.
The first two seasons of the former DC Universe show are already available on HBO Max, which is now the official home for the show. Going forward, it will be the only place to stream the show.
Back during DC FanDome, the cast and crew of the series had some ideas of where they would like the show to go in a new season. “We want to focus on Harley and Ivy’s relationship,” explained executive producer Justin Halpern during the Harley Quinn panel. “And I’m less, personally, interested in if the Joker gets a new girlfriend than I am of ‘let’s explore this relationship we’ve spent two seasons building.'”
At the end of Season 2–spoiler warning if you’re not caught up–Poison Ivy left Kite Man at the altar, then she and Harley had a war with Commissioner Gordon and the GCPD. Afterwards, Ivy admitted her feelings to Harley, and now, they’re a couple.
Harley Quinn stars Kaley Cuoco in the titular role, Lake Bell as Poison Ivy, Alan Tudyk as Clayface and the Joker, Ron Funches as King Shark, Tony Hale as Dr. Psycho, and Matt Oberg at Kite Man.
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After a series of escalating disagreements between Comcast-owned NBCUniversal and Roku, the latter has issued an announcement that as soon as Friday night and sometime throughout the coming weekend, 11 national Comcast “TV Everywhere” channels, which are available to pay-TV subscribers, will be disappearing off streaming players.
In an announcement sent to all customers, a Roku spokesperson said, “Comcast is removing these channels in order to try to force Roku to distribute its new Peacock service on unreasonable terms… While these NBC TV Everywhere apps represent a very small number of streaming hours on our platform, we believe they are convenient to people who use them, especially when so many Americans are at home.”
The move seems to be a retaliation against well-documented disputes over NBCUniversal’s Peacock and sharing of ad inventory–rights to resell services in channel stores and free content for an ad-supported platform–with Roku. An NBCU rep told Variety that “Roku’s unreasonable demands ultimately hurt both their consumers and their consumer equipment partners to whom they’ve promised access to all apps in the marketplace.”
The PS5 preorders have been happening since Walmart opened the floodgates a few hours after the PS5 Showcase event gave us the price and release date.
Since then, PS5 preorders at GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon and more have come and gone in a flash. Walmart offered another chance to snag a PS5 or PS5 Digital preorder at 9 PM ET on September 17, and the entire restock was claimed in just 2 minutes.
It looks pretty daunting if you haven’t yet secured your PS5 preorder, but fret not! There are a few things you can do to prepare yourself for the next retailer restock, should there be one. I’ve put together this little guide to help maximize your chances of securing that precious, precious PS5.
How to Increase Your Chances of Getting a PS5 Preorder
Create Accounts at Retailers
The problem with PS5 preorders is they sell out in mere minutes, sometimes seconds. Lots of people following the IGNDeals Twitter account said by the time they got to the checkout with their PS5, it was already sold out. You can save yourself a few precious seconds by signing up for an account ahead of time with retailers.
Signing up for an account is free at pretty much all the places carrying the PS5, and it saves you from having to enter in your address, credit card, billing address and whatever else they require during the frantic checkout process. You just log in, hit “Check Out,” and you’re off to the races.
Note: make sure you’re logged in before the preorders go up. I ran into a snag trying to log-in to my Walmart account when they first went up on Wednesday, due to the massive traffic influx.
Here are the retailers with (possible) PS5 preorders with free account sign-ups:
Make Sure You Have the Cash In Your Account to Cover It
Amazon is pretty famous for its policy of not charging your account until the item ships. This means you can easily claim a preorder on just about anything even if you don’t have the money at your disposal. I don’t recommend using Amazon preordering as a modern layaway program, but lots of people preorder there simply because it gives them some extra time to beef up their bank accounts.
However, other places like Walmart and Best Buy DO charge you when you make the purchase. Or at least, they put a hold on the full amount for a few days before releasing it, only to charge the full amount when the item ships. That means if you don’t have the cash in your account, or don’t have a credit card, you won’t be able to secure your PS5 preorder.
This one sounds weird, but you have to trust me on this. Looking at our own data, and data from other sources like CheapyD on Twitter, there just aren’t many PS5 Digital consoles available for purchase. In the CheapyD tweet, you can see only 0.2% of orders came through for the Digital edition. In our poll (which you can see further down,) of the of respondents who did score a preorder, only 1/6th landed the digital. It’s not because the $499 PS5 is that much more popular: it’s just the PS5 Digital is so incredibly limited in available stock.
Based purely on anecdotal evidence and reading peoples’ replies on the IGNDeals Twitter, the Digital version is the one console people want most of all. But if you can swing the extra $100, and you absolutely want to bring home a PS5 this November, my advice is don’t even waste your time trying to preorder the digital version.
This is probably my most controversial piece of PS5 preorder advice, so if you feel lucky, by all means go for that Digital! Just know, from the data we can see, it looks like it’s a long-shot.
Follow IGNDeals on Twitter
If you aren’t already, you can join the almost 30,000 new people who’ve followed the IGNDeals Twitter since Wednesday. It seems like people are pretty hungry for PS5 alerts. You can also bookmark our PS5 preorder page, which is updated as soon as new PS5 preorders become available.
Since I’m trying to look out for your best interests, after you follow IGNDeals, maybe follow @Wario64 and @videogamedeals to maximize your chances of seeing an in-stock PS5 preorder alert.
After you’ve hunkered down and prepared for another wave of PS5 preorders, my last bit of advice is to work on accepting the fact you might not see one in the wild. However, the good news is Sony said there will be more PS5s at launch than there were PS4 consoles during its launch. That gives you a better shot of picking one up on PS5 launch day, November 12. Walmart has already said it will have them in its stores on launch, ready for your excited hands, rather than do an in-store preorder event.
We don’t know when PS5 preorders will go online again. We don’t even know IF we’ll see more availability. Amazon never even officially posted PS5 preorders (there was a working back-end link that has since been taken down), and Best Buy was plagued with troubles. Walmart offered a second round yesterday, and Sam’s Club also came out of left field with a preorder window.
Keep watching Twitter and hoping for the best, but prepare yourself for the very real possibility you may be standing in line on November 12.
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Seth Macy is Executive Editor, IGN Commerce, and just wants to be your friend. Find him on Instagram at sethgmacy.
Developer Superbrothers has announced that Jett: The Far Shore has been delayed to 2021. Revealed at Sony’s June PlayStation Showcase that also officially unveiled the PS5 console, Jett was also due to release simultaneously on PS4 and on PC via the Epic Games Store this year. In a statement, the studio explained that the delay came from wanting to increase the quality of the game and look after the wellbeing of its staff.
“As of now it seems we’re in need of more time in order for Jett to soar, and for the squad to complete this interstellar trip in good condition,” Superbrothers said. “Jett: The Far Shore is now fixing to deploy in 2021 on PlayStation consoles and PC on the Epic Games Store. Hectic times, so we’ve revised our trajectory. It’ll be stellar, when it alights.”
Aside from the June reveal trailer, details on the new Superbrothers game have been sparse so far. What was shown in the first trailer was a journey into outer space that spans multiple centuries as humanity makes its way to an alien planet in search of a new home.
According to Superbrothers, players will guide an explorer by the name of Mei as she scouts a new planet alongside her co-pilot Isao and investigates an interstellar transmission known as the hymnwave that sits at the heart of a cosmic mystery.
“We’ve had a strong focus on audio and haptics since we carved out Jett’s concept, so of course we’re thrilled about the new Dualsense controller,” Superbrother’s said of the PS5’s hardware. “As for what the PS5 uniquely offers in terms of 3D audio processing: it’s revelatory, and it’s a great fit for Jett. This may sound silly, but with the PS5 it’s as if you really have ears in a videogame for the first time. There is suddenly an unprecedented fidelity available for perceiving audio spaces.”
While Jett: The Far Shore won’t arrive in time for the launch of the PS5 console, other games such as Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Demon’s Souls, and several other backward compatible PS4 games will still allow for a healthy catalog to dip into on November 12. For information on where you can purchase the new Sony console, you can check out our PS5 preorder guide.
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As the November release for Cyberpunk 2077 draws closer, developer CD Projekt Red has prepared the third part in its Night City Wire series. The new episode will be streamed today, September 18, at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET and will focus on Night City and the gangs who inhabit it.
How To Watch Cyberpunk 2077 Night City Wire
You’ll be able to watch the latest Cyberpunk 2077 Night City Wire video in several different places, including the official CD Projekt Red Twitch channel. You can also check the developer’s official YouTube channel, or to make it even easier for you, we’ve embedded the stream below.
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The first Night City Wire episode revealed Cyberpunk 2077’s districts and the Braindance gameplay mechanic that allows players to hack into the psyches of various characters and explore their memories. A new anime adaptation called Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners was also announced, which will be produced by Kill La Kill’s Studio Trigger for Netflix.
August’s second episode revealed more of the various weapons that players will be able to wield, which include sub-machine guns with tracer rounds, sniper rifles that can pierce through barriers, and thermal katanas that can slice through enemies. Cyberpunk 2077 will launch on November 19 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and will include a free next-gen upgrade to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
For more on Cyberpunk 2077, be sure check out our hub where you can get the latest news on the game as well as deep dives into the lore of the sci-fi RPG series.
The Department of Commerce has ordered that downloads for mobile apps TikTok and WeChat be banned in the US from Sunday.
American users will not be able to download the apps after September 20. Those with the apps already downloaded will still be able to use them, but they won’t be able to access any future updates for TikTok or WeChat, which may damage their functionality.
The apps will be fully banned and made illegal on November 12 if President Trump’s security concerns with TikTok and WeChat are not resolved by that date. Oracle was recently negotiating to become TikTok’s ‘trusted tech partner’ in the U.S. – if that deal goes ahead, the ban can be reversed.
You can read the full release from the Department of Commerce here, in which Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross details the reasons behind the order. According to Ross, this order has been issued to “safeguard the national security of the United States.”
“The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has demonstrated the means and motives to use these apps to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and the economy of the U.S. Today’s announced prohibitions when combined, protect users in the U.S. by eliminating access to these applications and significantly reducing their functionality.”
This move follows Executive Orders signed by Trump in August which sought to block TikTok and WeChat’s operations in the US if they were not sold by their Chinese-owned parent companies, ByteDance and Tencent.
Nintendistas (Brazilian Nintendo fans) were delighted with some long-awaited news on August 19th. On its official Twitter account, Nintendo of America announced that the Switch is coming soon to Brazil – Nintendo’s first official release in the country since it ceased operations in the country back in 2015.
The official launch of the Nintendo Switch in Brazil arrives today, September 18, 2020, for the suggested price of 2,999 real – which is equivalent to about $567 USD. The announcement shared on social media was accompanied by an image of Switch’s standard version, leading fans to correctly guess that this model would be the only one to arrive in the country at launch. That information was confirmed by Bill van Zyll, Nintendo’s General Manager of Latin America, who added that the Pro Controller and Joy-Con will also arrive at launch, and that the Lite model will follow in 2021.
Greetings to all the Brazilian Nintendo fans out there! We’re excited to announce that #NintendoSwitch will be coming soon to Brazil!
How did Brazilians have access to Nintendo products up until now?
While there is a large gray market for Switch consoles and a system to buy games digitally, it has been five years since Nintendo stopped official sales of its products in Brazil. Upon ceasing its operations in 2015, the company stated that its model of distribution in the country had become unsustainable due to “challenges in the local business environment”, such as “high import taxes”. Because of that, Nintendo fans in Brazil missed out on physical editions of major releases such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Pokémon Sun & Moon, as well as the New Nintendo 2DS XL.
Nintendo first established a distribution model in Brazil back in 1993, when the company established a partnership with Gradiente and Estrela – which merged to become Playtronic. The enterprise assembled consoles domestically – to avoid high import tax payments – and translated printed materials, like manuals and packaging. At that time, clone NES and SNES consoles were so popular that the official releases struggled to outsell the fake ones.
For more than two decades, Nintendo maintained some of its logistics in the country, changing its local distributors from time to time. Distribution was cut short for two years during the GameCube era, between 2004 and 2006 – however, the biggest gap started when the company ceased its contract with Gaming do Brasil in 2015.
For the past five years up to 2020, the only way that Brazilians could buy Nintendo products was through the gray market. Retailers and specialized stores had to directly import consoles, peripherals and games and, because of that, there weren’t fixed prices and some products had prices considered excessive – a gray market Switch would sell for up to 4000 real ($756 USD). Many players found buying abroad or importing themselves a more viable option.
Nintendo’s booth at Brasil Game Show 2019.
Indeed, these gray market prices make the new official price of 2,999 real seem much more reasonable. For comparison, this is the same price as the PlayStation 4 Pro in Brazil; the standard PS4 sells for 2,000-2,500 real, about $378-$470 USD.
It was only in 2018 that Nintendo took steps towards being closer to South America’s regional market again. During that year’s E3, the company revealed exclusively to IGN Brasil that it was planning to launch Loja Nintendo, a website from which fans can buy download codes of Switch games using local currency. Loja Nintendo has since had its catalog expanded and is now releasing games more quickly, in addition to offering pre-sale services. However, the catalog does not include all titles released on the Switch, and games like Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Spiritfarer are not available.
At Brasil Game Show (BGS) 2018, the company announced a partnership with a local retail store to sell Nintendo Switch prepaid game cards, for those players who had imported a console. Nintendo also had a booth at BGS 2019, which further stoked the hopes of fans.
Brazilian fans still don’t have a fully functional eShop – the app includes no browsable catalog or any other feature besides redeeming codes for digital versions of games.
Other issues that Nintendistas face are related to technical assistance. Nintendo has only one certified repair center in the whole country, which is located in the city of São Paulo. Therefore, if a player wants their Joy-Con drift problem fixed, they will have to send it or come to the city themselves.
Nintendo’s booth at Brasil Game Show 2019.
How will the Switch arrive in Brazil?
According to van Zyll, when the Switch is officially released Nintendo will keep its operating system “simple” at first. The company will be working with two distributors – Rcell and Ingram Micro – as well as big retailers such as Lojas Americanas, Magazine Luiza and Submarino. This pared-down approach is intended to avoid the problems that led Nintendo to exit Brazil back in 2015.
“We tried different approaches that seemed to be right at that time [2015], but we ran into different issues or different challenges in each case,” says van Zyll. “So, what we did this time is we took another step back and we really looked at it and we went with a model which is simple, direct, straightforward and something that we think will work and something that we think we can build on.”
At this point, the company still has a long way to go to fully establish itself in Brazil. Economist Roberto Dumas believes that the reactivation of Nintendo’s operation in the country will cause an overall improvement in customer’s lives, but he also has words of caution.
“One thing is for certain: This will improve fans’ well-being; otherwise, there would be no reason,” he says. “Brazil is a great consumerist market: 68% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is made by domestic consumption. We love to spend money, and Nintendo most certainly has noticed that people are buying more of their products during the pandemic, so they must have decided to not lose this good opportunity to invest here. However, don’t get your hopes too high, because now is not the time to establish a robust operation.”
Nintendo’s booth at Brasil Game Show 2019.
Why now?
So, why return to Brazil now, five years after exiting the market and during a global pandemic? Van Zyll tells us, “This has been in the works for a while. This did not happen overnight. We’ve been working at this for some time, really, for years, and we took our steps, our deliberate steps, which is how Nintendo works.”
According to the executive, the Brazilian market is very important for Nintendo. He explains that “Brazil is one of the top 10 economies in the world, it has 210 million consumers, and it’s the largest gaming market in Latin America.”
Van Zyll also mentions the passion of the Brazilian fans, the Nintendistas: “While we’ve been out there working and trying to get ready for this, we’ve continually heard from the Nintendistas. And I’ll tell you, every time I go to Brazil, I have a chance to talk to people and just that the passion, the love that people have for Nintendo it is just so… it really hits you! It’s quite an experience. I think it’s really unique.”
He adds: “Please don’t confuse us getting late to Brazil as Nintendo not caring, because we absolutely do.”
If you’re planning on pre-ordering a Playstation 5 this fall, odds are Spider-Man: Miles Morales is one of the first games on your priority list. This spinoff to 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man puts Miles in the spotlight, as he defends his new home of Harlem from a destructive conflict between the evil energy corporation Roxxon and the brilliant supervillain known as The Tinkerer.
If you’ve read many Spider-man comics or followed the MCU, you may be familiar with The Tinkerer by now. But as the latest Spider-Man: Miles Morales trailer shows, the game is delivering a very different take on this classic Marvel villain. Read on for a full breakdown of The Tinkerer’s comic book origins and how the character has been portrayed in Marvel’s animated shows, movies and video games. The topics covered here include:
It’s not easy being a supervillain in the Marvel Universe, especially if you don’t have superhuman powers, magical abilities or a mutant gene to level the playing field. How are you supposed to rob a bank when it seems like Spider-Man or Daredevil are always around the corner? Opportunistic villains have two options. They can either set up shop somewhere other than New York City (crazy talk!) or they can turn to The Tinkerer for help.
The Tinkerer is the secret force behind many of the technological villains of the Marvel U. This brilliant inventor has built a lucrative business out of designing gadgets, battle-suits and other weapons capable of giving ordinary criminals a fighting chance against costumed heroes. Even many of Spider-Man’s greatest foes, from Mysterio to Kingpin, have relied on Tinkerer’s services in their futile efforts to squash the pesky bug.
The Tinkerer is among Spider-Man’s oldest foes, both in terms of his physical age and his franchise debut. The character first appeared in 1963’s The Amazing Spider-Man #2, the same issue that introduced future Mysterio Quentin Beck to Spidey’s rogues gallery. That also makes him one of many characters created by the iconic duo of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
A brilliant scientist and inventor, Phineas Mason used to live a humble existence as the owner of a repair shop called Phineas’ Fix-It. But after growing disgusted with the ever-increasing number of reckless superheroes and Spider-Man in particular, Mason decided to turn to a life of crime. His repair shop is now a front for his real business – designing and upgrading weapons for many of New York’s worst super-criminals.
To draw a comparison to Game of Thrones, The Tinkerer is sort of the Iron Bank of the Marvel Universe. He doesn’t normally get his hands dirty in the various hero vs. villain conflicts playing out across the globe. He simply sits back and profits from those conflicts. Some might argue he’s not even a villain so much as an amoral opportunist. Even after becoming The Tinkerer, Mason has maintained a healthy relationship with his law-abiding, secret agent son Rick. He’s even a tragic figure in some ways, as he’s been forced to mourn the deaths of his wife, his son (same son whose status has been retconned over the years!) and his grandson.
That said, other stories have painted The Tinkerer in a darker light. For example, 2004’s Secret War revealed Mason is secretly bankrolled by Latveria (Doctor Doom’s kingdom), with then-Latverian president Lucia von Bardas hoping to destabilize the U.S. by increasing the number of technological supervillains and waging covert acts of terrorism.
The Tinkerer’s Powers and Abilities
The Tinkerer has no innate superhuman powers, but he is an incredibly gifted engineer and inventor. His creations might not rival those of Tony Stark or Reed Richards, but they have allowed dozens of criminals to commit crimes and stand toe-to-toe with heroes like Spider-Man.
Mason rarely uses his own inventions, preferring simply to sell them to the highest bidder. But he has been known to protect himself from backstabbing buyers who try to cheat their way out of paying for his wares. Mason often builds fail-safe systems into his weapons, allowing him to sabotage his own work whenever it’s turned against him.
The Tinkerer’s Most Nefarious Inventions
A great many Marvel villains owe their advanced weapons and armor to the skills of The Tinkerer. Over the years, Mason has either built or upgraded weapons for Scorpion, Grim Reaper, Stilt-Man, Rocket Racer, Blizzard, Beetle, Grizzly and many others. He’s also worked in the employ of the Kingpin.
However, a few other inventions really stand out. In The Tinkerer’s very first appearance, he joined forces with Quentin Beck to create a complex, convincing illusion that New York City was being invaded by aliens. After Spider-Man’s very brief tenure driving the infamous Spider-Mobile, Kingpin hired The Tinkerer to recover the car and turn it against its former owner.
Even Spidey’s own gadgets aren’t safe from the Tinkerer.
The Tinkerer even acted as a middleman when Eddie Brock was dying of cancer and sought to auction off the Venom symbiote to the highest bidder.
Perhaps Mason’s most impressive accomplishment, however, is one he used for his own personal benefit. Mason built a lifelike robotic suit and created the fake identity Hophni Mason, pretending to be his own brother. Adopting the nickname The Mason and pretending to be a more benevolent inventor, the disguised Tinkerer began working with various heroes and secretly cataloging their weaknesses for his own ongoing research.
The Ultimate Universe’s Tinkerer
Like many villains, The Tinkerer received a substantial overhaul when he was introduced in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe imprint in the early 2000s. In fact, Phineas Mason and The Tinkerer are two separate characters in this alternate universe. Mason is depicted as a much younger character – a member of a government-sponsored think-tank full of young scientific prodigies.
The actual Tinkerer role is instead filled by a character named Elijah Stern. Stern is an ex-employee of Roxxon who turns on his former boss after being fired. He’s later pressed into working for SHIELD, though that doesn’t stop him from trying to kill Spider-Man or helping Norman Osborn outfit the Sinister Six with new weapons. Ultimately, Stern is interrogated and murdered by the Prowler, uncle to the new Spider-Man, Miles Morales.
It’s important to single out this version of The Tinkerer since he may wind up influencing Insomniac’s version of the character as much as the classic Tinkerer. After all, the plot of Spider-Man: Miles Morales deals heavily with the conflict between Roxxon and Tinkerer’s army, suggesting this character may also be a jilted former employee. And don’t forget that before Miles became a resident of Marvel’s core comic book universe, he made his debut in the Ultimate Universe as the heir to Peter Parker.
TV: Despite his long history in the Spider-Man comics, it took a surprisingly long time for The Tinkerer to appear in any of the numerous Spider-Man animated series. He didn’t show up until 2008’s Spectacular Spider-Man (voiced by Thom Adcox-Hernandez), which depicted him as a much younger inventor who worked for villains like Mysterio and Tombstone. Tinkerer also plays a recurring role in the current Marvel’s Spider-Man series (voiced by Aaron Abrams), where he’s battled Team Spidey both alone and in league with Scorpion.
Movies: Tinkerer also made his live-action debut in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, where he’s played by Michael Chernus. Here, Mason is shown working for the salvage company run by Michael Keaton’s Adrian Toomes. After Toomes loses a lucrative contract to the Tony Stark-funded Damage Control, Toomes and his employees begin running a black market business harvesting and re-purposing weapons from conflicts like the Battle of New York and Ultron’s attack on Sokovia. Mason is responsible for designing Toomes’ Vulture suit and building The Shocker’s vibrational gauntlets out of the wreckage of Crossbones’ weapons from Captain America: Civil War. While Toomes himself is imprisoned at the end of the film, Mason seemingly remains at large and will almost surely pop up elsewhere in the MCU.
Games: Tinkerer has enjoyed a much busier career in Marvel’s Spider-Man video games, even well before Spider-Man: Miles Morales arrived on the scene. The character first appeared in the Sega Master System version of 1991’s Spider-Man vs. the Kingpin. Weirdly, that sparked an ongoing trend of The Tinkerer only appearing in specific ports of certain Spider-Man games, or playing much larger roles in some versions than others. For example, he only appears in the Nintendo DS version of 2010’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. And while Tinkerer appears as an ally in the main version of 2008’s Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (where he builds a machine to help Spidey defeat symbiote-infected humans without killing the hosts), the PS2 and PSP versions feature a unique boss battle with Tinkerer. 2009’s Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 also features a significant role for Tinkerer. The game’s story mode is heavily inspired by both Marvel’s Secret War and Civil War comics, with the plot also drawing on the idea that Mason is colluding with Latveria’s Lucia von Bardas to arm super-terrorists. Mason is ultimately revealed to be the secret mastermind behind the superhero civil war, using it as a cover to create a mind-controlling nanite swarm known as The Fold.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales will introduce a brand new take on The Tinkerer. The biggest change this time around is that the character is a woman. A new gameplay trailer reveals the game’s plot is set a year after the events of Insomniac’s first Spider-Man game, with New York caught in the crossfire of a battle between Roxxon and The Tinkerer’s army (suggesting the game is drawing from Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man comics). The Tinkerer is shown wielding tech that could possibly be rebuilt Doctor Octopus tentacles, which would suggest the game is also drawing from the MCU version. But whether The Tinkerer is the true villain of the game or a prelude to something else, we’ll have to wait and see when the game is released alongside the Playstation 5.
Michel Ancel, the influential creator behind Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil, says he’s retiring from the games industry. He made the announcement with an Instagram video featuring a sneaky fox.
The video was Ancel’s way of saying that he’s going to be focusing on a different passion: wildlife. He says his new work will take place in an open wildlife sanctuary and will focus on educating nature-lovers.
His departure doesn’t spell doom for his current video game projects, though. He says that the development of both Wild and Beyond Good & Evil 2 have transitioned to moving on autonomously without him and the projects are going well. “Beautiful things to be seen soon,” he said.
Ancel may be known best as the creator of Rayman, which got a revival with the well-regarded Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends.
What was set to be his next project, Wild, appears closely tied with his interest in nature. The adventure game has you surviving in a harsh environment with the help of creatures like bears and eagles. It has been in development for quite some time, though, having first debuted in 2014. Meanwhile, Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been receiving semi-regular development updates, but no release target has been set.
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