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This is an advance review for the first episode of Marvel’s Hero Project, which will premiere on Disney+ at launch on November 12. The second episode will be available on November 15, followed by weekly releases on Fridays. For more Disney+ reviews, check out our review of Lady and the Tramp.

Positive, inspiring stories seem to be in short order these days, but they do exist. Usually as “slice of life” segments on network morning shows or bits banished to the very end of a local evening news broadcast.

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Rocket League will change how upgrades and rewards work next month when Crates are replaced by Blueprints. Paid Crates are on their way out, and Blueprints will use a new premium currency, Credits (which are replacing Keys). Blueprints will let you see exactly what they’re going to build, so it’s always clear what you’re getting for your money. This will take some of the randomness out of the loot game in Rocket League.

Developer Psyonix has further detailed how Blueprints will work in a new post on the official Rocket League website. Once the update hits, online matches will begin to reward players with “revealed” Blueprints. You can build the items on these Blueprints by spending Credits, hold onto them for a while, or trade them with another player. Any existing Crates that you have in your inventory when this update occurs will change to “unrevealed” Blueprints, which you can then change to revealed Blueprints at no extra cost.

Players will be able to trade Blueprints with one another, just as they’re currently able to trade items (which will remain the case going forward). You’ll be able to trade revealed Blueprints, as well as items that have been built from Blueprints, as well as Credits (although you cannot trade Credits for other Credits or give them away, only for items and Blueprints). You will not be able to trade Unrevealed Blueprints.

Any Decryptors you have in your inventory will be turned into “Bonus Gifts” after the update. These will contain items from the Vindicator Crate series and the first Blueprint Series, which is called the Revival Series. The Revival Series will “bring back some fan-favorite items throughout Rocket League’s history.”

2019 has been a big year for Rocket League, despite the game being over four years old now. Earlier this year, Psyonix was bought by Epic Games, which saw Rocket League moving over to the Epic Games Store (although it’s also still available on Steam). Paid Crates were also removed from the game in both Belgium and the Netherlands; soon the rest of the world will follow.

Developer IO Interactive is shifting its focus to the next Hitman game. In a blog post, the studio said more of the Hitman 2 team is now transitioning to “the next Hitman game.”

Development on this unannounced title is “well underway,” the studio said. No further details about the new Hitman game were divulged, but you can bet it will involve a certain bald contract killer.

IO Interactive worked on Hitman 2’s post-release content for 13 months, and now the studio said it is “looking increasingly to the future,” as you would expect.

The November update for Hitman 2, which launches on November 19, will be the final major patch for the game, though more content releases are scheduled for December and beyond. Additionally, IO Interactive will add more “live content” to Hitman 2 in 2020 through more contracts. On top of that, IO Interactive said it will bring back the game’s elusive targets at some point.

IO Interactive was owned by Square Enix until 2017, after which point it regained its independence and retained the Hitman IP. The company is now working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on Hitman and a “new universe.” Despite its publishing arrangement with Warner Bros., IO Interactive remains an independent company.

What would you like to see from the next Hitman game? Let us know in the comments below!

Despite a November 2019 release date in North America, Rick and Morty Season 4 won’t come to the UK until January 2020. Since the new season is airing exclusively on Channel 4, those in the UK will have to wait two months longer than those in North America to see the first five episodes of Rick and Morty’s fourth season.

Rick and Morty Season 4 will be split into two parts, with the first half of the season premiering in the UK in early 2020 and the second half coming a few months later. It has been more than 2 years since Season 3 came to a close, which is a long enough wait for Rick and Morty fans.

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As Joker continues to break box office records, one of the biggest unresolved mysteries of the movie left viewers unsure of a certain characters fate.

Possible spoilers ahead for Joker.

As many of weighed whether Joker killed his neighbor Sophie, several creatives behind the film have spoken up. Lawrence Sher, cinematographer, for The Joker confirmed to IGN last month that Sophie was still alive. Todd Phillips, the film’s director, however, has spoken on the fate of Sophie. And according to him, no, the Arthur did not kill Sophie.

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Indie platformer Gris was celebrated at launch for its beautiful art (among other things), and plenty of folks took notice of its gorgeous sense of style. Now, it seems that one designer took too much notice and copied many elements of the game’s style in their own work for wellness app ‘The Fabulous’.

Gris publisher Digital Devolver publicly accused the app makers of ripping off Gris’ artwork in a tweet, which includes a side-by-side video of the app running alongside Gris. In the tweet, they warn other developers to be careful of “big companies and brands stealing creative work” from them.

The Fabulous took notice, and took the video down. Speaking with Gamasutra, Fabulous’ CEO Sami Ben stated that the team’s wrongdoing was “unintentional,” and that the team has been inspired by several other games in their work, including Journey and Monument Valley. “We have a team of two artists and freelancers, and that video was created a few months ago,” Ben said. “We’re still investigating this as all of this has been sudden, but any wrongdoing from our side is not intentional. It might be that one of our artists or freelancers got inspired by a game that they liked.”

Fabulous also followed up on Twitter, directly tweeting at Devolver Digital about the situation.

Following this, The Fabulous conducted an investigation, and ultimately made a post on Medium with a direct explanation from the designer who made the video in question. “When I was about to start the animation, I told our design lead that I was gonna get inspired from a game called ‘Gris’ for the animation,” they wrote. He never played the game, so he gave me the OK for ‘getting inspired’. I took the word ‘inspired’ way too far.”

“I took things way too far and what I thought I was managing got slipped out of my control without me even noticing. Our lead designer had no idea about that since he, like I said, didn’t play the game. I am the only person responsible for this catastrophe. As a content creator, I am ashamed that I ended up copying someone else’s hard work, and believe me this is the first time that I know of this has happened to me.”

Gris launched on PC and Switch late last year, and also came to iOS in September 2019.