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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s latest movie, Rampage, has arrived in theaters. It’s a loose adaptation of the classic game of the same name, and while that may sound like a recipe for another bad movie, it’s actually quite entertaining, as our Rampage review states. The Rock seems pleased to have possibly cracked the video game movie curse, though he’s upset the people behind Doom’s Twitter account in the process of sharing that excitement.

Score aggregator Rotten Tomatoes tweeted to point out that Rampage‘s average review score at the time (53%) would put it ahead of every video game movie in history. The Rock took note of this, tweeting, “Wow! Very cool Rampage news! Not pointing to the scoreboard yet, but it seems we may have finally broken the dreaded video game curse. And remember, I starred in the stinker Doom so I have lived thy curse.”

Cut to Doom’s Twitter account, which either didn’t take kindly to The Rock taking a shot like that or just reminding people that the Doom movie exists.

While the Doom movie wasn’t very good, things for the franchise have looked better since then. The latest game, 2016’s simply titled Doom, was a stellar first-person shooter, offering a surprisingly engaging single-player campaign. A PS4 Pro and Xbox One X update was released recently that makes those versions look especially nice. And late last year, we got a Nintendo Switch port that actually played quite well (albeit without some of the visual flair of other platforms).

As for Rampage, it’s out now in theaters. Our review says it’s “dumb as hell, but it’s also pretty dang entertaining.” It’s also got The Rock doing The Rock things, which on its own might make it worth the price of admission for many people.

No matter what kind of games you like to play, or what platforms you play them on, this week we found some killer deals for you to peruse. We’ve been posting about them continually, but now it’s time to round up all the week’s best deals in one convenient place.

Free Play Weekend

The best deals are the ones that don’t cost you anything. A handful of games are free to play this weekend on PS4, Xbox One, and/or PC, including Ghost Recon Wildlands and Injustice 2. If you enjoy the trials choose to buy the full games, you can get them for discounted rates this weekend. Click below for details.

PS4 Game Sales

Sony dropped a surprise Flash Sale on us, and that’s good news for horror fans. To celebrate Friday the 13th weekend, Sony has dropped prices surprisingly low on tons of spooky games, including The Evil Within 2, Prey, and Until Dawn.

In other PS4 news, you can get a free Spyro Reignited Trilogy PS4 theme right now by pre-ordering the game on the PlayStation Store. And don’t forget to grab April’s PS Plus games for free if you haven’t already.

Xbox One Game Sales

Microsoft’s big promotion this week is the Spring Add-On sale, which offers hefty discounts on expansions and DLC for a wide range of games. If you’re looking forward to Avengers: Infinity War, be sure to download these free Xbox avatar items. And you’re running out of time to download two of the Games With Gold for April. A new pair of games will be available April 16.

Nintendo Switch Game Sales

Nintendo is having a big Eshop sale right now, with discounts that focus on indie games. You can get great deals on games like The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth Plus, The End is Nigh, and The Jackbox Party Pack. See all the best Eshop deals here.

PC Game Sales

Both Steam and the Humble Store are offering sales on games nominated for the BAFTA Game Awards. Some great ones are available for low prices, including Hollow Knight, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Cuphead, and Rainbow Six Siege.

Steam has the Witcher series on sale for fantastic prices. Gamefly is selling off a bunch of pre-owned games for cheap. And the latest pay-what-you-want Humble Bundle is up, featuring some terrific strategy games.

Other Game Sales

You might have heard about a little game launching Friday called God of War. In our God of War review, we said, “God of War is no longer an old-fashioned action series. With this reboot, it confidently walks a new path that will hopefully lead to more exciting adventures to come.” Here’s a God of War pre-order guide to help you get the best price on the version you want.

Square Enix has a physical game store of its own, and it’s trying to unload inventory by way of a sale. So if you’re looking for a deal on games like Final Fantasy XV, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, or Life is Strange, check out Square Enix’s Spring Cleaning Sale.

The makers of Shovel Knight are celebrating 2 million copies sold by dropping the price of the game on all platforms. If you’re in the market for the physical goodies from the Battlefield 1 Collector’s Edition and you already have the game, you’re in luck: Woot has the whole package without the game for $13. And any Amazon Prime member with a Twitch account can grab five free PC games thanks to the Free Games With Prime program.

Movies

Microsoft is celebrating the semi-holiday in its own way, by slashing the price on the first eight Friday the 13th movies down to $13. Also, Best Buy has some great prices on 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays, including the first season of Westworld.

Hardware

If you’re in the market for an Xbox One X, we spotted a good deal that comes with the console, an extra controller, and Assassin’s Creed Origins, for less than the suggested retail price of the console alone. Check it out here.

That does it for this week’s deals. Be sure to check back often for more savings throughout the week.

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While Superman fans are eager for the arrival of Brian Michael Bendis on Action Comics and his Man of Steel miniseries, the current events of Patrick Gleason and Peter Tomasi’s Superman comic have been a blast. The story revolves around brand-new Bizarro characters, including Robzarro, a Bizarro version of Robin with a really wonderful mustache.

The Boyzarro Re-Death storyline–which began in Superman #42–explores the relationship between Bizarro and his son Boyzarro, much like how the current Superman series delves into Kal-El’s family dynamic and relationship with his son, Jon. In the current Superman story, Boyzarro has become trapped on Earth, and from there, things get pretty wacky, even though the heart of the story entirely revolves around the dysfunction between Bizarro and Boyzarro.

And while the series introduces a plethora of Bizarro-fied DC characters, one of the best introductions came from the Bizarro version of Damian Wayne (Robin), Robzarro. Many Bizarro characters have a trademark to their look, and with Robzarro, it’s a mustache. “The mustache just kind of came to being out of the ether,” writer and artist Patrick Gleason told GameSpot. “We had Boyzarro and obviously Pete Tomasi is writing Super Sons so I thought, ‘We have to have the Robin version.’ We’ve never seen a Damian Wayne Bizarro version of Robin.

“So, as I was drawing it, and I was thinking about him, and a lot of this comes together as I’m drawing on the page. And as it’s coming together, I’m thinking, ‘Well, what’s he gonna be like? You know, he’s gotta be the opposite. He’s gotta be so affectionate and loving and over-the-top, like Shakespeare in the Park kind of flamboyant,’ and I don’t know why I just drew a mustache on him. I think in my mind it’s like a blend of Clark Gable and Gone With the Wind meets Gomez Adams meets, I don’t know, Pepe le Pew. So that’s really where that kind of came from in my brain.”

Gleason went on to say that we will see more of Robzarro in this current story but in a “cameo sense.” However, Gleason did go on to discuss the biggest challenge of writing this story: Bizarro’s dialogue. As many know, Bizarro speaks in antonyms. Instead of saying “hello,” he says, “goodbye.” Ultimately, it’s confusing and tough to read. “It’s horrible,” Gleason said jokingly. “Have you read it? It’s unreadable. It’s like eating brussel sprouts. It’s like you just choke it down because that’s the point. Bizarro doesn’t make sense. If you do read the dialogue, which I wrote, you know I wrote in regular speak and then kind of translated it.”

This entertaining and bizarre Boyzarro Re-Death storyline concludes with issue #45. It goes on sale Wednesday, April 18, at local comic shops and the digital market.

A new poster for the upcoming Incredibles 2 has arrived, and it’s loaded with hints about the new movie–including a bunch of new characters. What’s more, the poster precedes a new trailer for the Pixar film, which will release tomorrow (April 13). [Update: The new trailer has arrived!]

The poster, which you can see below, features the first movie’s superheroes springing into action, plus baby Jack-Jack using his superpowers to make life miserable for a raccoon. Additionally, a new villain looms over the movie’s logo. What’s most interesting is the characters hiding in the background, though.

If you look behind the Incredibles, Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson) and Edna, a new group of supers can be seen standing in front of an explosion. The names of these characters have not been revealed, but they certainly look like an interesting team of heroes in their own right.

What role they’ll play in the movie is a mystery, but it’s exciting to see that Pixar is expanding this universe of superheroes. After all, more heroes could mean more story possibilities.

Hopefully, when the new trailer arrives, it’ll offer some clues about these new supers and the villain causing so much trouble. Incredibles 2 hits theaters on June 15.

Monster Hunter World’s New Mega Man Armor And Weapon Now Available

A new PS4 and Xbox One quest lets you get your hands on Mega Man Tickets to craft a cool new look (and weapon) for your Palico companion.

by Jean-Luc Seipke, Ben Janca, and Chris Pereira on April 13, 2018 at 1:58PM

Monster Hunter World‘s Spring Blossom Fest rolls on. It’s already introduced new content and brought back some special, limited-time quests, but now we’ve gotten special crossover gear that you can craft for your Palico–letting them dress up like Mega Man.

We have a guide on how to get the Mega Man gear on PS4 and Xbox One, but it all involves grinding out an event quest that is available for a limited time. In the video above, we run through that mission, which takes the form of an Arena where you take on two Odagarons. While that sounds rote on paper, reality is a bit different, as one of the two monsters is a much smaller version of what you’re used to fighting. It’s actually a bit upsetting–it’s kind of cute!–but when you see how it clips through the ground due to its small size, you might not feel as bad about wailing on it with your weapon of choice.

In addition to seeing the Odagaron fight, you can also see what it’s like to have your Palico in the full Mega Man setup. This consists of a two-piece full armor set (like the Street Fighter gear for players, it can’t be equipped individually) and an accompanying weapon. During the event quest, you’ll hear special Mega Man music with this gear equipped depending on the weapon you’re using. That was first teased during the announcement of the gear last year, though we’ve only just now learned that you can’t hear the music while on standard missions.

The quest to get the Mega Man Tickets necessary to craft the new gear is only available for a limited time–it runs from now until April 27. The Spring Blossom Fest, meanwhile, ends on April 19.

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Have you heard? It’s Friday the 13th weekend, which means you’re almost contractually obligated to indulge in a horror movie marathon tonight. The people at Microsoft would like to lend you a hand–or a machete, as the case may be. This weekend, you can buy Friday the 13th parts 1 – 8 for $13 on the Microsoft Store. Hurry, though, because the deal ends Sunday.

It’s a particularly good bargain, considering that the collection normally costs $104. To watch the movies, you’ll need a device that lets you log into your Microsoft account. That means you’ll need something like an Xbox One, computer, tablet, or phone. If you prefer using Vudu, you can buy the same set of movies for $20 here.

The movies, which came out between 1980 and 1989, have their ups and downs in terms of quality. Not that that really matters, since half the enjoyment of marathoning the franchise is poking fun at the hopelessly dated parts that are laughable today.

Even so, it’s always fun to get friends together to watch the masked killer cut down groups of teenagers before supposedly dying, only to come back in the sequel. We’ve even ranked each Friday the 13th film by kill count.

If binge-watching these movies inspires you to play the game, read our Friday the 13th review before you dive in. Just note that it’s received a number of updates and expansions since it launched last summer.

Fortnite has another update available right now on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and mobile. Version 3.5.1 aims to address a few issues with the game’s previous patch, version 3.5, and as such is limited to bug fixes. In other words, no jetpack.

In particular, the new replay system caused some problems whereby players’ games could crash. These problems have now been addressed, according to developer Epic Games’ official patch notes. Meanwhile an issue where players could fire weapons before the equip animation had finished under some circumstances has also now been resolved.

In Save the World, Epic has changed the way it converts event tickets into Llamas. From now on, players will receive one event Llama for every 1000 tickets; for any additional tickets above 1000, you’ll receive one extra Llama regardless of how many extra tickets you have. The developer has also granted all Save the World players two Spring Llamas for free. Take a look at all the patch notes at the bottom of this article, via Epic.

More free Fortnite items are now available as an apology from Epic for the game’s recent server problems. This weekend, Battle Royale players can get a free Back Bling item (a new type of customization slot added for Season 3), which is pictured below. Also this weekend, Save the World players can grab a Troll Stash Llama. Both of these will be available from the respective modes’ in-game stores. In addition, Battle Royale players will receive a “pack of Battle Stars,” which are used to rank up the Battle Pass and earn rewards.

There’s still no word on when the removed Guided Missile weapon will return to Fortnite: Battle Royale, but the game is at least playable once again. That’s good news, as the 3.5 update introduced a new Port-a-Fort item and made a variety of other changes. Week 8 challenges are also now available, although the server issues have prompted Epic to delay the release of the new 50v50 limited-time mode until next week.

Fortnite Update 3.5.1 Patch Notes

Save The World Bug Fixes

• ‘Building Edit’ hotkey can be bound to keys other than ‘G’
• We’re changing the Mini-Boss Mission Alerts for Canny and Twine back to their pre v3.5 state.
• ‘Repair the Shelter’ objective now activates when you interact with the control panel rather than be based on proximity to the objective.
• Granted all players two free Spring Llamas (can be found in the Loot tab).
  • We’ve changed the way we convert event tickets. Players get 1 event Llama per 1000 tickets and 1 Llama for any tickets left over.
    • (Example) If you have 5 tickets left at the end of the event, you still get 1 free event Llama.

Battle Royale Bug Fixes

• ‘Building Edit’ hotkey can be bound to keys other than ‘G’
• Fixed an issue where players could fire weapons before the equip animation had finished, if they were sprinting.
• Fixed several client crashes that were related to the new Replay System.
• Fixed an issue that broke player’s walking/sprinting animations if they were firing a Guided Missile while walking/sprinting.