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The title of the upcoming standalone Spider-Man movie has been confirmed. As rumoured last week, the film will be called Spider-Man: Homecoming, and hits cinemas in summer 2017.

The name of the Spidey movie was revealed by Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman at the CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The film will be a co-production between Sony and Marvel Studios, after a deal was struck between the two companies in 2015. The movie rights to the character were previously owned solely by Sony, but the arrangement allows the iconic webslinger to now be a part of Marvel’s ongoing cinematic universe.

Rothman explained that the name had a double meaning, referring both to the high-school age of Spider-Man’s alter ego Peter Parker, and also that “Peter is trying to find his way home.”

Spider-Man is now played by British actor Tom Holland, and he will make his debut next month in Captain America: Civil War. The new Spidey can be glimpsed at the end of this trailer, while the Sony presentation showcased another clip from the film, featuring Holland and Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark.

In addition, BDM have reported that the winged bad guy Vulture might play a part in the new film. According to the site, he has a “non-main villain role.”

Last year Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts spoke about the decision to make Peter Parker a teenager. “I love the idea of making a coming-of-age high school movie,” he told Empire. “We’re really going to see Peter Parker in high school and get deeper into that side of it. He’s just 15 now.

“[The film] will not be an origin story. We want to reveal it in different ways and spend much more time focusing on this young high school kid dealing with his powers.”

Spider-Man: Homecoming is set for release on July 7, 2017.

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A Dark Souls 3 player on PC has detailed a temporary workaround for a bug that is causing crashes at the very start of the game. Posting on Steam, user Elioden Ward explained the issue is being caused by a bug in the lighting.

“There aren’t really any details but if your ‘Lighting’ settings are set above LOW you have a chance to crash when approaching a bonfire,” the post explained. “Therefore, the fix is (most of the time) as simple as swapping your Lighting option (in advanced options) to LOW.”

For those that aren’t willing to drop their lighting settings down to low, wearing a helmet also helps. Since equipment is limited at the start, the easiest way to acquire a helmet is to pick the Knight class.

“Apparently, if you wear a full helmet (a helmet that completely conceals your character’s face/hair) you won’t crash when approaching bonfires, even with your Lighting setting on MEDIUM, HIGH, or MAX,” the post adds.

Following the launch of Dark Souls 3 on April 12, numerous players reported issues with crashing at the very first bonfire. The bug has been brought to publisher Bandai Namco’s attention and a more permanent fix is reportedly in the works.

GameSpot’s Dark Souls III review awarded the sequel 8/10.

“There are several possible endings to Dark Souls III, and although most are anticlimactic, they drive home the loneliness of the paths we took,” reviewer Mike Mahardy said.

“The old lords have abandoned their posts, and in the hunt to usurp them, we descend into those dark valleys, and climb those imposing peaks. This is the essence of Dark Souls III: periods of doubt, followed by great reward. The journey may be rocky, but there’s a throne waiting at the end.”

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Ubisoft’s third-person shooter The Division welcomed its first major update today, introducing the game’s first raid-like Incursion, as well as more gear, a loot-trading system, weekly missions, and more.

The Division’s servers were offline this morning to prepare for the update, but have now returned to operation. The update is around 4.9 GB on PlayStation 4 and should be about the same on Xbox One and PC.

You can see everything that’s new with The Division’s 1.1 patch through the changelog below, while some key features are shown and spelled out in the image above.

Incursions is The Division’s first free update; the next one is Conflicts, which comes out in May. Looking beyond that, paid expansions will follow further into the summer and beyond.

The Division April 12 Incursions Patch Notes:

NEW FEATURES

Falcon Lost

• Falcon Lost is a new incursion available in the Stuyvesant area
• You must be level 30 and have completed the mission “General Assembly” to access this mission
• The encounter is balanced for 4 players with high level gear

Gear Sets

• Gear set equipment can be found by completing the most challenging activities in Manhattan
• Collecting and wearing gear sets grant powerful stat bonuses and talents
• Gear sets of varying gear scores can be found for many playstyles. Find the set that best suits yours
  • “Tactician’s Authority” – enhances electronics and support capabilities
  • “Striker’s Battlegear” – provide bonuses for assault capabilities
  • “Sentry’s Call” – enhances marksman capabilities
  • “Path of the Nomad” – provides bonuses for lone wanderers

Trading

• Items dropped by enemies can be shared with other players
• Trade items by dropping them as loot from your inventory, so players in your group can pick them up
• You can only share items for during the first 2 hours after you have acquired them
• Items can only be shared with players who are currently in your group and who were also in your group when the item was originally dropped

Assignments

• Assignments are automatically obtained when you log in and can be tracked from the map via the menu called “Mission Overview”
• Assignments are available for a limited time (24h for Daily Assignments and 7 days for Weekly Assignments), after which, they will be replaced by different assignments
• Assignments come in different categories:
  • Combat
  • Dark Zone
  • Crafting
• Most assignments can be completed while playing alone but some will require enlisting other agent’s assistance to complete

Dark Zone Supply Drops

• Dark Zone Supply Drops are a global event where the Strategic Homeland Defense agency airdrops multiple supply caches to assist Division agents
• Supply drops will occur multiple times over the course the day
• The supply drops will contain non-contaminated gear of all types that will be ready to use without the need for extraction
• These supply drops will be heavily sought after by other agents and enemy factions that roam the Dark Zone, so be ready for resistance

Gear Score

• Every non-vanity gear piece that can be found when your agent is level 30 has a Gear Score value. The higher an item’s Gear Score, the stronger the item
• The overall Gear Score of your agent can be seen in your main menu next to your player level. Gear Score indicates the advancement of an agent
• Other agents’ Gear Scores are displayed next to their health bars
• Improving your gear and increasing your overall Gear Score will grant your agent access to the most dangerous high-end challenges

Group Spectator Camera

• The Group Spectator Cam lets players spectate members of their group while waiting to be revived or the entire group to be down
• Players can use RB/LB, R1/L1 or Q/E keys to switch between group members

New High-End Named Weapons

• Added new High-End named weapons:
  • Warlord: Assault Rifle
  • Valkyria: Submachine gun
  • (Historian: Marksman Rifle) Please note that while the Historian will be implemented in the game with this update, it will not be acquirable in-game until update 1.2

GAME CHANGES

Gameplay

• Turret skill can no longer suppress enemy NPCs, as this allowed named NPCs to be defeated too easily
• Recalibrating High-End items will now cost normal Credits instead of Phoenix Credits
• Phoenix Credits drop have been increased on lvl 31 and 32 named enemies:
  • Level 30: 1-3 Phoenix Credits
  • Level 31: 2-4 Phoenix Credits
  • Level 32: 3-5 Phoenix Credits

Dark Zone

• The vendor in the Church Safe House will now sell items in Dark Zone Funds instead of Phoenix Credits
• Ranks requirements for Superior and High-End quality items at the Dark Zone Vendors have been adjusted:
  • Superior (Purple) items: Rank 15 instead of 30
  • High-End (Gold) level 30 (Gear Score 163): Rank 25 instead of 50
  • High-End (Gold) level 31 (Gear Score 182): Rank 40 instead of 50
• Added a new Dark Zone bracket for characters with Gear Score 160+

Crafting

• Increased costs for converting crafting materials and crafting High-End items:
  • 10 Standard (Green) materials instead of 5 to craft 1 Specialized (Blue) material
  • 15 Specialized (Blue) materials instead of 5 to craft 1 High-End (Gold) material
  • 10 High-End (Gold) materials instead of 8 to craft 1 lvl 31 High-End (Gold) item
• Changed deconstruction yield of Standard (Green) and High-End (Gold) items:
  • Deconstructing a Standard (Green) item yields 1 Standard material instead of 2
  • Deconstructing a High-End (Gold) item yields 1 High-End material instead of 2
• Added new level 31 and 32 High-End items Blueprints to Vendors
• Removed Division Tech requirements from some level 31 High-End Blueprints

User Interface

• Added gamepad deadzone calibration in settings menu (all platforms)

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the weapon talents would not activate if the player has the exact stat requirements
• Fixed a bug where players could exit the Dark Zone on East 43rd street
• Reloading stripper clips is now correctly interrupted by firing the weapon (marksman rifles and shotguns)
• Fixed an issue where buying a weapon with a pre-attached scope using the buy and equip feature sometimes caused the scope to un-equip
• Fixed an exploit where players could shoot through corners of covers
• Fixed a number of locations where NPCs could shoot through walls
• Fixed an exploit where players could ignore the fire rate of certain weapons
• Fixed some locations where players would get stuck in Queen Tunnel Camp mission
• Fixed various prop collisions so that players no longer become stuck
• Fixed a bug where the final cut scenes would unlock before the final missions were completed
• Fixed a bug where the Water Supply side mission would not activate
• Fixed an issue where the Morphine Supply side mission sometimes would not complete
• Players no longer receive too much XP for completing the Morphine Supply side mission
• The buff from Smart Cover no longer stacks if multiple teammates are using it on the same piece of cover
• Fixed some bugs where deployable skills would not activate under certain circumstances
• Fixed a bug where voice chat volume indicators would overlap in the group UI frame
• Fixed a bug where receiving a group invite via Matchmaking would sometimes not show up on the screen
• Fixed a bug where the dead teammate icon would turn into a blue dot instead of a red cross if the players were too far away from each other
• Fixed an issue where a player would be unable to inspect the appearance of his/her character while changing outfits
• Fixed some UI elements for mission overview frame and adjusted some of the misaligned icons
• Corrected the colors for the appearance items in the Mission rewards list
• NPC’s will no longer ignore the player while they are attempting to interact with props (arming/disarming bombs)
• Fixed a bug where a NPC would sometimes not leave its spawn area during the Morphine Supply side mission
• Fixed a bug where NPC’s would sometimes not respawn at one of the landmarks in the Dark Zone
• Several clipping issues have been fixed with various appearance items
• Some tooltips have been updated with more clear information
• And many more

PC specific

• Added new resolution scaling and lighting options
• Added support for reporting players on PC. Players can now type in chat /report
• Improvements to resolution detection and switching between display modes
• Fixed some issues with camera movement while using Tobii Eye Tracker
• Fixed screen look for minimap when using Tobii Eye Tracker
• Fixed several issues with Logitech peripherals
• Fixed several graphic issues due to dual monitor display
• Fixed an issue where players could move UI elements out of the visible screen area

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Unreal Tournament and Gears of War creator Epic Games today announced the formation and opening of a office in Berlin, Germany. This is a publishing office, not a game development studio.

It represents Epic’s first branch in the country. In a statement, Epic said this office will help the developer to better serve its players in Europe and Russia specifically.

“The best way to serve our players is to have a local presence,” Epic president Paul Meegan said. “Our European and Russian community is important to us, and establishing our Berlin office is the first step to ensuring they’ll have a great day one experience with our games.”

Epic has recruited Paw Larsen (director of publishing for western Europe) and Sergey Galyonkin (director of publishing for eastern Europe) to lead the office. Before epic, Larsen and Galyonkin worked at Riot Games (League of Legends) and Wargaming (World of Tanks), respectively.

The new Epic office in Berlin is currently looking to fill positions in the marketing communications, community, and player support fields. You can visit this page and this page for more on job opportunities.

Epic’s headquarters is in Cary, North Carolina. Its other US-based studios include Epic Games Seattle and Chair Entertainment in Utah. Internationally, Epic has offices in the UK, Japan, Korea, and China.

The studio is currently working on Paragon, Fortnite, and an ambitious-sounding game titled Spyjinx, which Chair Entertainment is making with Star Wars director JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot team. Epic also runs and licenses the Unreal Engine, which is used in many high-profile games.

Epic sold the Gears of War franchise to Microsoft in 2014.

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Bully: Scholarship Edition, Rockstar’s classic and well-received open-world action game, is currently marked down to less than $4 on Steam. You can get the 2008 title for just $3.74, but you’ll have to act quickly, as the deal expires tomorrow, April 13. Head to Steam here to pick up a copy.

The game normally sells for $15, meaning this is a 75 percent markdown.

Bully takes place in a fictional New England boarding school and stars 15-year-old troublemaker Jimmy Hopkins. It’s a story about the challenges and awkwardness of growing up.

“Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl, and ultimately navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around,” reads a line from its description.

PC players also get the complete soundtrack, which features 26 songs created specifically for the game.

The 2006 original Bully and the 2008 Scholarship Edition were well-received and are considered fan-favorites among Rockstar’s lineup of franchises. Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser said in a 2011 interview that the company “adores” Bully and might make a new game in the series in the future.

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Marvel Studios like to plan far in advance–the schedule of upcoming superhero movies usually stretches several years ahead. However, changes can occur along the way and as new movies are added some inevitably disappear from the line-up. It seems that Inhumans is one such casualty.

Inhumans was originally scheduled for a 2019 release, but this was before the standalone Spider-Man film and Ant-Man and The Wasp were added, not to mention the fact that Marvel are now exploring the story of the genetically-created superhero race on TV in Agents of SHIELD.

In an interview with Collider to promote Captain America: Civil War, Marvel boss Kevin Feige was asked about whether Inhumans would still happen.

“I think it will shuffle off the current date that it’s on right now,” he confirmed. “How far down it shuffles, I’m not sure yet.

“Since we made our initial phase three announcement, we added Spider-Man, which was a big joyous coup for us. We added Ant-Man and the Wasp, which was a big fun continuation of that story for us. Walt Disney Company has announced an Indiana Jones film for right around that same time.”

However, when asked specifically about whether the fact that Inhuman characters now featured in TV’s Agents of Shield meant the film would be scrapped entirely, Feige was firm in his answer: “No. It’s a question of when.”

Although Feige’s comments suggest the film may not be released in 2019, neither Marvel Studios nor Disney have officially confirmed a change in its planned release window yet.

The Inhumans were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in a 1965 issue of Fantastic Four. Led by hypersonically-voiced Black Bolt, their first self-titled comic line ran from 1975 to 1977. They have subsequently appeared in a variety of limited and ongoing series over the past four decades.

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