Not only has Rockstar surprise updated both Max Payne 3 and L.A. Noire on PC, it has also made all DLC for each game free for any who own them. As reported by Eurogamer, these updates were pushed quietly yesterday, April 19, the same day Rockstar accidentally delisted its games on Steam for a short time. As part of this, Rockstar's 2003 racing game Midnight Club 2 was made available for purchase again for a short time before it was delisted once more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2012/05/14/max-payne-3-video-review"] Both L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3 have also seen support for 32-bit operating systems "deprecated," and it's important to note that L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files was not impacted by this. Max Payne 3 was released in 2012 and, in our review, we said "There are plenty of games which are celebrated for their gameplay but lack anything in way of story or character. Max Payne 3 is a different type of proposition. The gameplay is simple yet satisfying, but it’s entirely in the service of a strongly-authored narrative." L.A. Noire was released in 2011 and, in our review, we said "I struggle with L.A. Noire, because at times I love it, yet it has some notable flaws. As a noir fan, I find moments that really get me grinning. There are certain cases that draw me in and side characters who eat up the scene. But it never adds up -- amazing pieces that don’t quite amount to an incredible game. At the same time, no one’s ever played a game like this before." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/16/la-noire-video-review"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

New Quick Resume features are coming to Xbox Series X and S. New updates, including the ability to see and delete Quick Resume save states to create space for other games, are rolling out to Xbox insiders at the moment. If you're unfamiliar, Quick Resume is an Xbox-exclusive feature that allows users to suspend multiple games and swap between them at their leisure. The news was revealed in a series of tweets from Eden Marie, Engineering Lead at Xbox. Marie's tweets talk about how Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead Insiders will now be able to see what games are stored in Quick Resume from the Xbox UI menu, under My Games & Apps. Users will also be able to see if the game they're currently playing is Quick Resume compatible, so that they can make decisions about what save states to keep and get rid of.

Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead Insiders: in case you were wondering why I shared that tip on reordering groups!

See what's stored in Quick Resume from your groups list (Guide, Home and My games & apps) and see if your running game supports Quick Resume in the Guide: pic.twitter.com/AnPEP4JSae — Eden Marie (@neonepiphany) April 19, 2021

Xbox Insider updates are released in a testing capacity, but it's usually not too long before they roll out for all users. In this case, the changes should make it easier to work out which games will actually allow you to Quick Resume in the first place, as well as save space by removing saves from Quick Resume-able games you're not planning on returning to. In other Xbox update news, a previously insider-exclusive feature that allowed users to suspend games to speed up downloads was officially introduced to every Xbox user yesterday. Xbox Cloud Gaming is also entering limited beta for Apple devices and PC starting today, April 20. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

It's looking possible that Marvel's The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, as well as the upcoming Loki series, could see multiple seasons – but WandaVision looks more likely than ever to be a one-and-done show. IndieWire revealed that Falcon and Winter Soldier would be submitted to the Emmy Awards in the Drama Series category, whereas WandaVision will be submitted to the Limited or Anthology Series categories. In part, that's because Marvel Studios doesn't want its streaming series to compete with one another for the same awards – but it also speaks to the studio's future plans. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvel-cinematic-universe-every-upcoming-movie-and-tv-show&captions=true"] Marvel Studios VP of Production & Development Nate Moore wouldn't outright confirm a Falcon and Winter Soldier Season 2, but does "absolutely" want to leave the possibility open. “We’ve definitely kicked around ideas because we always like to keep thinking about where things can go, but we also, frankly, in the crush of the pandemic, we’re just trying to finish the show and make sure it got out in a timely matter. Hopefully at the end of this season, you will see the potential for what we could tell in a subsequent season.” IndieWire asked Moore if there were other yet-to-be released Marvel shows that could also see multiple seasons. “The one that comes to mind — and that probably isn’t a secret — I think there’s a lot of storytelling in ‘Loki’ that’s really irreverent and clever and cool," he replied, "but also lends itself to multiple seasons in a way where it’s not a one-off,” WandaVision, however, is a different story. The 'mystery box' nature of that show means that it's fundamentally revealed its secrets after the finale, and will now tie into other Marvel movies – and its creators seem to consider that show's story entirely closed. “I think ‘WandaVision’ is a show you can only do once," said Moore. "She can’t go back into that reality." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/marvel-studios-loki-official-trailer-2"] While we know that WandaVision will tie into the upcoming Doctor Strange and Spider-Man movies, we don't yet know exactly where the finale of Falcon and Winter Soldier will leave the MCU – but we've got theories ahead of this week's final episode. It seems we'll be coming up with theories about an entirely new season once that one's done. The next big show to theorise about will be Loki, which arrives in June. Right now, we're wondering if the trailers are teasing Lady Loki, and star Tom Hiddleston has been teasing us by saying there are clues to be found in the show's logo. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Call of Duty: Warzone is set to receive a major Season 3 update on April 22 – widely expected to see the existing Verdansk map being nuked – which will arrive as part of a 25GB patch. Revealed in a bumper post on the Call of Duty blog, the update will first address the games' metanarrative, introducing a "Hunt for Adler" event where players will have to complete in-game challenges across Black Ops Cold War and Warzone to learn of the character's whereabouts, unlocking skins and charms in the process. Three new Operators will also be brought to the game across the season, including the "alpine warfare specialist" Wraith, a Dublin-born MI6 operative called Knight and an ex-hitman called Antonov. Wraith is available at Tier 0 in the Season Three Battle Pass, with the remaining Operators unlockable via Season Three Store bundles. A special Cold War variant of Captain Price will also be provided to players who own or purchase Black Ops Cold War when the season starts. The April 22 update will also introduce six new weapons to the game, including the PPSh-41 SMG, the Swiss K31 Sniper Rifle, The CARV.2 Tactical Rifle, the fully-auto AMP63 Pistol and two new melee weapons. Players will be able to wield a Ballistic Knife that can "silently fire lethal retrievable blades" and a Baseball Bat which is good for walloping miscreants. The return of the Ballistic Knife coincides with the return of the melee/projectile-focused Sticks and Stones game mode popularized by earlier games in the Black Ops series. Black Ops Cold War multiplayer fans will also be pleased to hear that the update is set to introduce new Prestige Levels up to Prestige 15 as well as four new maps. Yamantau (6v6) and Diesel (6v6/2v2/3v3) will arrive during launch week, whereas Black Ops II's Standoff (6v6) and Duga (Multi-Team) will arrive within the season. The Multi-Team tag also alludes to the new Multi-Team Elimination mode coming during the season, where "multiple teams of four will fight to survive ever-expanding radiation zones" on some of the game's biggest maps. Season Three will also introduce a new Strafe Run Scorestreak, a Cargo Truck vehicle in large Multi-Team maps and a new Field Upgrade and Outbreak map for Zombies fans. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/call-of-duty-warzone-cheaters-don-nightvision-goggles-to-brag"] For Warzone in particular, the blog post explains that the zombie map invasion has "hit a critical level." The update notes tease that the combat zone "has become too dangerous for even a Tier 1 Operator to survive in" and ponders whether a "conflagration" (a huge fire) could be imminent. Players have been asked to make themselves available for "Operation Rapid Sunder," which is said to kick off on April 21, with first instructions arriving at 12 PM PT. It's thought by many that this could be when the Warzone map will be nuked and, according to leaks, revise the Verdansk map with a style closer to the 1980s theming of Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Netflix has announced that DOTA: Dragon's Blood has already earned itself a second season: Book Two. No release date for DOTA: Dragon's Blood: Book Two has been announced, but in classic Netflix fashion the streamer has announced another season "is coming". The Netflix Geeked Twitter account has posted a single image to offer a quick glimpse at what is to come, though.

IT'S HAPPENING DOTA: Dragon's Blood: Book Two is coming. take a peek into what the next book has in store… pic.twitter.com/vzTBIbDASb

— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) April 20, 2021

The image features Luna and a character that looks like Pangolier, a furry Dota 2 hero who belongs to the sword-fighting organisation, Nivan Gallants. "i know what you’re thinking, and it's not who you think it is..." Netflix said in a follow-up tweet, suggesting that the character with Luna is not Pangolier from the game. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/03/02/dota-dragons-blood-official-season-1-trailer-2021"] With no extra information out there for now, you can catch up with everything DOTA: Dragon's Blood here on IGN. We've got our glowing review, as well as a look at how the show influenced the pick rate of Dragon Knight in Dota 2. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Update 04/20/2021: LEGO has now officially announced a Luigi figure to join its LEGO Super Mario set. The Luigi Starter Course is scheduled to arrive on August 1, and will come in at $59.99 USD / £49.99 / $89.99 AUD.The set includes 280 pieces, and can be combined with all previous LEGO Super Mario sets.

It's LEGO Luigi Time! Introducing #LEGOSuperMario Adventures with Luigi Starter Course! Meet up with Pink Yoshi and go face-to-face with Boom Boom. Pre-order today! https://t.co/jKB5vhq7ye pic.twitter.com/itcKhyWdRJ

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 20, 2021

The set description says, "Players earn digital coins for helping LEGO Luigi complete spinning seesaw and flying challenges, interactions with Pink Yoshi and defeating Boom Boom and a Bone Goomba. The nougat-brown-coloured bricks in this Tower biome also trigger different reactions from LEGO Luigi, and the ? Block offers extra rewards." [poilib element="accentDivider"] A LEGO Luigi starter course set has seemingly leaked after a recent LEGO Mario firmware update teased its arrival. As reported by TheBrickFan, the LEGO Super Mario Adventures With Luigi set was leaked on Amazon China over the weekend. The set was previously teased by LEGO Super Mario himself, in a spooky bit of marketing which saw LEGO Mario start to cry out for his brother following a firmware update. Amazon's listing came with a number of official images for the set, which you can see in the gallery below: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=lego-super-mario-adventures-with-luigi-leaked-images&captions=true"] The set contains Luigi sporting the same reactive LCD screen as his brother, as well as a set of new side characters including a Bone Goomba, a Boom Boom and a pink Yoshi. The listing (which has now been taken down) apparently featured a release date of July 9 and noted that the set would be compatible with the rest of the LEGO Super Mario sets. LEGO is yet to officially address and reveal the Luigi starter set, but it's thought an announcement can't be too far away given the firmware marketing push and this substantial leak. Here are our impressions of the initial set, where we noted how LEGO Super Mario is great... once it clicks. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Should astronauts exploring Mars eat the corpses of their crew members in a last-ditch effort to survive? No space agency has an official policy on cannibalism, at least for now. But in terms of ethical theory, experts are split on what to do if a space mission has gone completely awry. Talking to Popular Science, Emory University bioethicist Paul Wolpe explained that there are split opinions on the topic of eating humans in a bid for survival. “There are two kinds of approaches to it,” he explained. “One says even though we owe the body an enormous amount of respect, life is primary, and if the only way one could possibly survive would be to eat a body, it’s acceptable but not desirable.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/13/nasa-releases-image-of-blue-sand-dunes-on-mars"] The grisly concept in relation to space exploration comes courtesy of The Martian, Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel about a manned mission to Mars. Such a mission is gradually on its way to becoming science fact; NASA’s current activities on Mars is essentially the predecessor to an eventual crewed mission to the red planet. Potentially happening in the 2040s, NASA’s Mars expedition will take an estimated three years to complete. That’s three years where anything could happen, including the deaths of astronaut crew members, or the loss of food supplies. In The Martian, a contingency plan is devised in which all but one of the crew members would commit suicide. Their bodies would become a food source for the remaining crew member. “That’s a time-honored tradition,” says bioethicist Paul Wolpe, referring to extremes taken by explorers on Earth. “People have committed suicide to save others, and in fact religiously that’s totally acceptable. We can’t draw straws to see who we’re going to kill to eat, but there are many times when we’ve considered people heroes who jump on the grenade to save their buddies.” In less grim Martian news, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been able to capture what it sounds like on Mars, and will be able to collect rock and soil samples to be brought back to Earth. The mission has had its own challenges - the Ingenuity helicopter rotors had technical issues - but thankfully machines on Mars don’t have to make ethical decisions on if they need to eat each other to survive. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Yoko Taro, the creator of Nier, has confirmed he is the creative director of a brand-new Square Enix game. During a video presentation live stream for the upcoming Nier Replican ver. 1.22474487139, the director revealed that he has started on his next project at Square Enix. He is currently the creative director of Nier Reincarnation, a Nier mobile game. As reported by Gematsu, Taro says his next game is an indie, digital-only title that is “difficult to explain,” and a “somewhat unusual game,” that is mysterious and he has “no idea how to explain or sell.” So basically a Yoko Taro game. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/25/nier-replicant-ver122474487139-opening-movie"] Taro is likely being humble as Nier Automata has sold 5.5 million units worldwide since its 2017 launch. A hugely successful figure for a relatively unknown spinoff of the Drakengard series. While Taro has maintained he will work on any project as long as he’s being paid, the director has kept a relatively low profile since Nier Automata. He has served as creative director on the mobile game SINoAlice, as well as scenario writer on the Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers Nier raid cycle. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=nier-replicant-screenshots&captions=true"] While Taro hasn’t explained if this is a new series or related to Nier, Taro’s next project definitely has our interest. Meanwhile, the Nier remake/update is set to be released this week and you can check out our final preview here. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor.

Sony Pictures Animation has assembled the team for its Spider-Verse sequel. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson will direct the upcoming follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, per Variety. Dos Santos’ involvement had been previously reported, though the three filmmakers have been collaborating from the start. The first Spider-Verse movie was also directed by a trio of filmmakers:  Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, and Rodney Rothman. Ramsey is returning to executive produce the sequel. The writing-directing duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller of The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street are teaming up with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings screenwriter David Callaham to write the upcoming sequel. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/12/21/why-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-is-igns-2018-movie-of-the-year"] “We are so lucky to have Joaquim, Justin and Kemp on the Spider-Verse team,” Lord and Miller said in a statement. “We are huge fans of Joaquim’s work — he makes his characters so heartfelt and unique, and he can tell an emotional story with an action sequence the way a musical does through a song. Justin is a maverick filmmaker who relentlessly pursues visual innovation and surprise but always in support of the emotional storytelling. Kemp’s work is incisive and ambitious and funny — with a writer’s wisdom and a director’s heart — he just knows what matters in every scene. "All three of them elevate every project they take on, and they are certainly raising our game," the statement continues. "We honestly just like them and want to be their friends and we’re hoping working on this movie together for the next few years will totally make that happen.” Powers has been quite busy over the past few months. He is currently nominated for the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for his work on One Night in Miami, which he adapted from his play of the same name. Additionally, Powers is the co-director on Pixar’s Soul, which is Oscar-nominated in the categories of best animated feature, best original score and best sound. Powers also wrote on the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. Dos Santos and Thompson are both mainstays at Sony Pictures Animation. Dos Santos has worked on both The Legend of Korra and Avatar: The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon, as well as directing the mini-series G.I. Joe: Resolute. Thompson worked as a production designer on the first Spider-Verse, as well as the two Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movies. The Spider-Verse sequel will mark the directorial debut feature of both animation veterans. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-trailer-every-easter-egg-reference-and-cameo-we-found&captions=true"] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a critical and commercial smash when it released in December 2018. Sony Animation’s innovative approach to capture the graphic style of comic books was awarded with the studio’s first Oscar win for best animated feature. The film went on to gross $373.5 million worldwide. We named Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse IGN's movie of the year in 2018, calling it a "visual experience unlike anything we've seen before" in our review. The sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is set to hit theaters on October 7, 2022. [poilib element="accentDivider"] J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer.

Zack Snyder revealed several alternate titles for Superman: Dawn of Justice over the weekend, including one that sounds like it could have been pulled from a Pokemon game. As reported by Coming Soon, Snyder told an assembled crowd at Justice Con that naming Batman v Superman involved some intense negotiation with Warner Bros. Even the decision to use a "v" instead of "versus" required protracted wrangling between all parties. According to Snyder, Warner Bros. ultimately settled on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but he pushed hard for more esoteric titles. "I was like, ‘Guys, can't we just do something like Son of Sun and Knight of Night or something that’s a little bit more poetic?’ And they were like, 'Absolutely not' [Laughs]. I was like, ‘Is it a court case?" [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/08/21/the-true-story-behind-the-snyder-cut"] Screenwriter Chris Terrio added that other possible names axed Batman and Superman entirely, choosing instead to focus on the creation of the Justice League. Options included "Justice League: Foundations" and "Justice League: Rising." Warner Bros., of course, got their way, but there's something appropriately Snyder-esque in calling it "Son of Sun and Knight of Night." Snyder would later step down from his role as Justice League director and be replaced by Joss Whedon, seemingly bringing his tenure with the DC Cinematic Universe to a close. But with the recent success of the Justice League's Snyder Cut, Snyder's star is once again in ascent. Who knows, maybe it's time to consider a Snyder Cut of the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice title? [poilib element="accentDivider"] Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN.