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Prepare to “amp up your breakfast with a sonic boost,” because Overwatch just announced a breakfast cereal featuring Lúcio. Brought to you in partnership by Blizzard and Kellogg’s, the new cereal is called Lúcio-Oh’s and looks a lot like Fruit Loops ran out of every color but yellow and green.

In Overwatch, Lúcio Correia dos Santos, a world-renowned musician, uses a Sonic Amplifier to pummel enemies with projectiles. He can also push them back with the force of the sound blasts. Lúcio helps his team by either boosting their speed or healing them with his music.

Every cereal box comes with a special loot boost inside which you can redeem in-game. Lúcio-Oh’s will be available in the United States starting December.

Want to see what else is going on at BlizzCon? Watch the entire opening ceremony here. 

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During Blizzcon today, Activision-Blizzard and Bungie revealed that the PC version of Destiny 2 would be free for everyone to claim a copy. The publisher says the movie is meant to celebrate the PC version’s highly successful launch a year ago.

PC players have from today until November 18 to claim their copy. This version does not include the recently launched Forsaken expansion pack (review here) but players will have a chance to try out the expansion’s cooperative Gambit mode from November 9 to November 11. 

Those who are interested in claiming a copy will need a Battlenet account. If you have one, you can claim your copy here.

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The 2012 National League Rookie of the Year, 2015 National League MVP, and 2018 Homerun Derby champ, Bryce Harper will be gracing the cover of this year’s MLB The Show 19.

Because it’s still not known where Mondo will go next season, the cover art for the game currently has the six-time all-star depicted without a jersey. This morning on PlayStation.blog, San Diego Studio announced that it was partnering with the outfielder to reveal his next team on the game’s final cover.

According to the Chicago Tribune this morning, Haper’s prior team, the Washington Nationals will make Mondo an official qualifying offer before Friday’s deadline, which means he’ll likely reject the offer because it’s less than he made in 2018. Harper became a free agent this off season after the Washington Nationals had a less than stellar run in the 2017-18 season. 

MLB The Show 19 will be hitting store shelves March 26 and is available now for pre-order. If you still haven’t played MLB The Show 18, you can check out our review to see if it’s a home run.

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Blizzard is holding their annual convention for all things Overwatch, Warcraft, Diablo, and more again, kicking off with a livestreamed keynote today. What will they show off or announce? With Diablo III also launching on Switch today, will we be seeing anything new announced for consoles? 

Watch the video at the embedded link below so we can all find out together.

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Actress Brie Larson has built a considerable following and respect for her talents after appearing in films like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and starring in the indie critical darling Short Term 12. She’s also the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Captain Marvel and appears to really dig Metroid!

For Halloween Larson dressed up as the Zero Suit version of Metroid’s bounty hunting, alien-fighting protagonist, Samus Aran:

Brie went on to say on Twitter that she’d love to make a Metroid movie:

Fingers crossed, fellow space travelers.

Captain Marvel releases on March 8. You can watch the trailer here.

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Today, Nintendo murdered every character in their catalog, except Kirby. It was actually a pretty cool trailer, and Captain Falcon is a huge coward. The cinematic trailer for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s World of Light single-player mode bears more than a few similarities to the Avengers movie released earlier this year, Infinity War, which is not, like, super shocking. You can only really raise the ceilings on epic crossovers so much without them all bearing a resemblance. 

Fans definitely took notice, however, and there’s already edits pairing the two properties, or ur-properties, together. Check out this video, which cheats a little by using the Robin/Lucina trailer from Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U in it, as one example.

There have also been reactions on Twitter comparing the two.

With Final Fantasy XIV’s penchant for dramatic trailers, of course that got some crossover love, too.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate releases on December 7 on Nintendo Switch. The next Avengers film, continuing from 2018’s Infinity War, lands in theaters in May.

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The second chapter of Stephen King’s nightmare-inducing book adaptation has gotten a release date. Coming to a sewer near you, Pennywise the Clown will be returning to the big screen on September 6.

Following the story originally penned by Stephen King, the film picks up 27 years after the events of the first movie when the evil entity known as Pennywise the Clown is set to return. At this point all the kids in the Losers Club have grown up and must once again face their worst nightmares.

The cast has long since been announced with big-name actors like James McAvoy, Bill Hader and Jessica Chastain taking on the roles of the now-adult children from the first movie. Once again, Bill Skarsgard will resume his role as the infamous clown and the director of the first film, Andy Muschietti is still directing.

With the first film being a critical success and breaking the box office record for highest-grossing opening weekend for an R-rated film, it’ll be interesting to see how the horrific sequel stacks up. Thus far, no official trailer has been released.

[Source: Collider]

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Pokémon Let’s Go is coming fairly soon, launching later month on Switch and leaning heavily into collaboration with mobile title Pokémon Go, but it appears it might be the momentous for other reasons, as well. In an interview on the official Pokémon website, Junichi Masuda, who has been either assistant director or director on every mainline Pokémon game since Gold and Silver until Sun and Moon, stated that he might be done directing the mainline games.

Masuda was asked about working on a Switch game and the ways it ties into Pokémon Go. He answered talking about how familiar he was with Go and how working on the Switch let them experiment with new things like the Pokéball controller.

“For example, developing the Pokéball Plus and working with Bluetooth to facilitate the connection with Pokémon Go were both very interesting things that I had a chance to work on as the director this time,” Masuda said. “But at the same time, it’s important to have the younger generation at Game Freak take over the development of Pokémon as a series. I do believe this will probably be, in terms of the main Pokémon RPGs, the last time that I work as the director.”

It is possible that Masuda might just be thinking wistfully, or he could be planning to merely oversee the projects, but it does suggest the biggest change in the creative hierarchy of the game’s staff in nearly 20 years. That could put Sun & Moon’s director, Kazumasa Iwao, as the most likely person to follow in Masuda’s footsteps.

Pokémon Let’s Go releases in Eevee and Pikachu variations on the Nintendo Switch on November 16.

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