After announcing that PlayStation owners will get Spider-Man as an exclusive hero for Marvel’s Avengers, Crystal Dynamics detailed more console-exclusives coming to Sony’s console. Including timed-exclusive cosmetics and PlayStation community challenges. In a new blog post, Marvel’s Avengers detailed Community Challenges, which are events where Marvel’s Avengers players work together to unlock rewards for everyone. Each month a new Community Challenge will become available for players to solve together. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvels-avengers-character-combat-breakdown&captions=true"] PlayStation players will have access to exclusive Community Challenges that will unlock specific rewards for that console. There were also more details about cosmetics, which have their own rarities divided up into Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. Cosmetics not only include skins, but also Takedowns, Emotes, and Nameplates. PlayStation players will have 30-day exclusive access to a Legendary Outfit, Legendary Emote, Epic Takedown, and nameplate for each superhero as they are released, including for the six launch heroes. PS Plus subscribers will also get a free cosmetic bundle fore each superhero added post-launch, like Hawkeye. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/hawkeye-reveal-trailer-for-marvels-avengers-4k"] With a variety of exclusive content, including heroes like Spider-Man, PlayStation is putting its stamp on Marvel’s Avengers, which is great for Sony but could leave some players in the cold. Check out the IGN First on Marvel’s Avengers for more exclusive looks at the upcoming superhero title. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.

After announcing that PlayStation owners will get Spider-Man as an exclusive hero for Marvel’s Avengers, Crystal Dynamics detailed more console-exclusives coming to Sony’s console. Including timed-exclusive cosmetics and PlayStation community challenges. In a new blog post, Marvel’s Avengers detailed Community Challenges, which are events where Marvel’s Avengers players work together to unlock rewards for everyone. Each month a new Community Challenge will become available for players to solve together. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvels-avengers-character-combat-breakdown&captions=true"] PlayStation players will have access to exclusive Community Challenges that will unlock specific rewards for that console. There were also more details about cosmetics, which have their own rarities divided up into Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. Cosmetics not only include skins, but also Takedowns, Emotes, and Nameplates. PlayStation players will have 30-day exclusive access to a Legendary Outfit, Legendary Emote, Epic Takedown, and nameplate for each superhero as they are released, including for the six launch heroes. PS Plus subscribers will also get a free cosmetic bundle fore each superhero added post-launch, like Hawkeye. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/hawkeye-reveal-trailer-for-marvels-avengers-4k"] With a variety of exclusive content, including heroes like Spider-Man, PlayStation is putting its stamp on Marvel’s Avengers, which is great for Sony but could leave some players in the cold. Check out the IGN First on Marvel’s Avengers for more exclusive looks at the upcoming superhero title. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare's Season 5 begins on Friday, August 5, and the full details include major changes to the Warzone map, unlockable music tracks for vehicles, new multiplayer maps, and much more. After weeks of teases, Season 5 arrives in a massive patch (that will apparently shrink your game file), and we have all the major details below: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=call-of-duty-warzone-season-5-images&captions=true"]

Warzone Season 5 - Map Changes

• The Stadium Opens: After 4 seasons closed, Verdansk Stadium has now opened up, featuring a cover-strewn football pitch, rows of seating, underground parking and multiple routes of entrance and exit.
• Freight Train Added: A huge new train will now be circling the Southwestern part of the map at all times, allowing for an interesting new dynamic for squads, who could take it over and hold carriages while on the move.
• Train Station Opens: To celebrate the addition of the train itself, the Verdansk Train Station is now also open, including a main ticket hall, platforms, and plenty of new indoor areas to explore.
• Exterior Ascenders: Tall building roofs were previously only accessible by dropping form the air, or riding an elevator cable, making them relatively easily defensible. The new season complicates matters a bit, by adding exterior cables to multiple buildings, offering new points of access to take down snipers.

Warzone Season 5 - New Mode, Weapons and Customisation

• Mini Royale Mode: This is a fast-paced variant of the classic Warzone BR experience, lowering the number of players, and only including the first and last five minutes of the normal experience - essentially, it should be faster and bloodier.
• New Weapon Pickups: Items in supply crates have been rotated once more, adding eight Common, 13 Uncommon, 15 Rare, 19 Epic, and 25 Legendary different variants to discover and equip.
• Wartracks: A new customisation option, Wartracks are unlockable songs that can be attached to vehicles like paint jobs or horn noises, and will play for yourself and all passengers when you're driving. Three Wartracks will be available on day one, and all will be instantly unlocked if you purchase the Battle Pass.

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Multiplayer Season 5 - New Maps

• Livestock (Gunfight Map): A rural compound with a central barn, this Gunfight map includes a large central area with multiple flank routes.
• Petrov Oil Rig (6v6 Map): Split into five sections this oil rig map includes a lifeboat muster area, helicopter pad, bridge, cafeteria and rig drill. It's designed for close to mid-range combat with small areas with sniper-friendly sightlines.
• Suldal Harbor (6v6 Map): This port area is peppered with choke points ideal for snipers to watch, but multiple interior or cramped areas for close range attacks.
• Verdansk International Airport (Ground War Map): Based on the Warzone area, the airport include a large indoor area, along with huge open runways and hangars.

Multiplayer Season 5 - New Modes and Missions

• Bare Bones: A new playlist of TDM, Domination, HQ, Hardpoint and Kill Confirmed maps with a crucial twist - no killstreaks, field upgrades or perks.
• Search and Destroy Double Down: A larger version of Search & Destroy - it's 12v12, not 6v6.
• New Mastery Challenges: For "the most elite players", there are more than a dozen new challenges to max out your weaponry skills.

Season 5 Battle Pass

• Instant Unlocks: Buying the new Battle Pass will immediately earn you a new Operator, Lerch, the head of the new Shadow Company faction. You'll also receive three Wartracks, the a Rodion Opeartor skin, and a 10% XP boost for the season.
• New Weapons: At Tier 15, players will unlock the new ISO SMG, a close range, lightweight gun with rapid rate of fire. At Tier 31, you'll unlock the AN-94 AR with a "hyperburst" feature that fires a full-auto volley, followed by a second round, without much recoil. Both of these are free to all players once the Tier level is reached.
• New Unlocks: Other new Battle Pass unlocks include skins for multiple characters, the Nevermore finisher (where a raven kills your opponent), 15 new weapon blueprints, and a Compass watch.
• Tier 100 Unlocks: Reaching the top Battle Pass tier will net you the Rook skin for Roze, the Veil vehicle skin, and The Company's Might, an Assault Rifle Lima with negative tracer rounds.

[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 Modern Warfare's Season 5 begins on Friday, August 7, and the full details include major changes to the Warzone map, unlockable music tracks for vehicles, new multiplayer maps, and much more. After weeks of teases, Season 5 arrives in a massive patch (that will apparently shrink your game file), and we have all the major details below: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=call-of-duty-warzone-season-5-images&captions=true"]

Warzone Season 5 - Map Changes

• The Stadium Opens: After 4 seasons closed, Verdansk Stadium has now opened up, featuring a cover-strewn football pitch, rows of seating, underground parking and multiple routes of entrance and exit.
• Freight Train Added: A huge new train will now be circling the Southwestern part of the map at all times, allowing for an interesting new dynamic for squads, who could take it over and hold carriages while on the move.
• Train Station Opens: To celebrate the addition of the train itself, the Verdansk Train Station is now also open, including a main ticket hall, platforms, and plenty of new indoor areas to explore.
• Exterior Ascenders: Tall building roofs were previously only accessible by dropping form the air, or riding an elevator cable, making them relatively easily defensible. The new season complicates matters a bit, by adding exterior cables to multiple buildings, offering new points of access to take down snipers.

Warzone Season 5 - New Mode, Weapons and Customisation

• Mini Royale Mode: This is a fast-paced variant of the classic Warzone BR experience, lowering the number of players, and only including the first and last five minutes of the normal experience - essentially, it should be faster and bloodier.
• New Weapon Pickups: Items in supply crates have been rotated once more, adding eight Common, 13 Uncommon, 15 Rare, 19 Epic, and 25 Legendary different variants to discover and equip.
• Wartracks: A new customisation option, Wartracks are unlockable songs that can be attached to vehicles like paint jobs or horn noises, and will play for yourself and all passengers when you're driving. Three Wartracks will be available on day one, and all will be instantly unlocked if you purchase the Battle Pass.

[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=call-of-duty-modern-warfare-multiplayer-season-5-images&captions=true"]

Multiplayer Season 5 - New Maps

• Livestock (Gunfight Map): A rural compound with a central barn, this Gunfight map includes a large central area with multiple flank routes.
• Petrov Oil Rig (6v6 Map): Split into five sections this oil rig map includes a lifeboat muster area, helicopter pad, bridge, cafeteria and rig drill. It's designed for close to mid-range combat with small areas with sniper-friendly sightlines.
• Suldal Harbor (6v6 Map): This port area is peppered with choke points ideal for snipers to watch, but multiple interior or cramped areas for close range attacks.
• Verdansk International Airport (Ground War Map): Based on the Warzone area, the airport include a large indoor area, along with huge open runways and hangars.

Multiplayer Season 5 - New Modes and Missions

• Bare Bones: A new playlist of TDM, Domination, HQ, Hardpoint and Kill Confirmed maps with a crucial twist - no killstreaks, field upgrades or perks.
• Search and Destroy Double Down: A larger version of Search & Destroy - it's 12v12, not 6v6.
• New Mastery Challenges: For "the most elite players", there are more than a dozen new challenges to max out your weaponry skills.

Season 5 Battle Pass

• Instant Unlocks: Buying the new Battle Pass will immediately earn you a new Operator, Lerch, the head of the new Shadow Company faction. You'll also receive three Wartracks, the a Rodion Opeartor skin, and a 10% XP boost for the season.
• New Weapons: At Tier 15, players will unlock the new ISO SMG, a close range, lightweight gun with rapid rate of fire. At Tier 31, you'll unlock the AN-94 AR with a "hyperburst" feature that fires a full-auto volley, followed by a second round, without much recoil. Both of these are free to all players once the Tier level is reached.
• New Unlocks: Other new Battle Pass unlocks include skins for multiple characters, the Nevermore finisher (where a raven kills your opponent), 15 new weapon blueprints, and a Compass watch.
• Tier 100 Unlocks: Reaching the top Battle Pass tier will net you the Rook skin for Roze, the Veil vehicle skin, and The Company's Might, an Assault Rifle Lima with negative tracer rounds.

[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.

This week in Red Dead Online, track two brand new Legendary Animals, the dangerous Teco and Sun Gators and get 50% bonuses for doing so.

This week in Red Dead Online, track two brand new Legendary Animals, the dangerous Teco and Sun Gators and get 50% bonuses for doing so.

Back in June, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios said that the early access release of its Dungeons & Dragons RPG would happen in August. Maybe. Well, as the developer announced today, it turns out that maybe clause has come into effect. Baldur's Gate 3's early access release won't happen this month. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/baldurs-gate-3-new-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Announced on Twitter, Larian said "BG3 won’t hit August, but it’s just around the corner." The studio does have a release date set, though, and will reveal it as part of the 'Panel From Hell', which takes place at 10am PT on August 18. Larian boss Swen Vincke will be joined by his team and Geoff Keighley to deliver the news.

Good news and bad news. BG3 won’t hit August, but it’s just around the corner. We’ll be announcing the release date, as well as big news on the Panel From Hell alongside @geoffkeighley, @LarAtLarian and the Larian crew. Tune in Aug 18th. https://t.co/S1RlVpJ8yw pic.twitter.com/NCkrnHHpH0

— Larian Studios (@larianstudios) August 4, 2020

For more from Baldur's Gate, be sure to check out our coverage from the previous reveals, where we ran down everything new in the latest BG3 build, as well as chatted in-depth to Vincke about how the game is more like Dungeons & Dragons the more it's developed. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=baldurs-gate-3-early-access-announcement-screenshots&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

Back in June, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios said that the early access release of its Dungeons & Dragons RPG would happen in August. Maybe. Well, as the developer announced today, it turns out that maybe clause has come into effect. Baldur's Gate 3's early access release won't happen this month. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/baldurs-gate-3-new-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Announced on Twitter, Larian said "BG3 won’t hit August, but it’s just around the corner." The studio does have a release date set, though, and will reveal it as part of the 'Panel From Hell', which takes place at 10am PT on August 18. Larian boss Swen Vincke will be joined by his team and Geoff Keighley to deliver the news.

Good news and bad news. BG3 won’t hit August, but it’s just around the corner. We’ll be announcing the release date, as well as big news on the Panel From Hell alongside @geoffkeighley, @LarAtLarian and the Larian crew. Tune in Aug 18th. https://t.co/S1RlVpJ8yw pic.twitter.com/NCkrnHHpH0

— Larian Studios (@larianstudios) August 4, 2020

For more from Baldur's Gate, be sure to check out our coverage from the previous reveals, where we ran down everything new in the latest BG3 build, as well as chatted in-depth to Vincke about how the game is more like Dungeons & Dragons the more it's developed. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=baldurs-gate-3-early-access-announcement-screenshots&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

What's up, everybody? We love checking in with the listeners (and viewers), and now you have the chance to actually let your beautiful voices be heard on Game Scoop! At the bottom of this article, you will find an option that lets you share a brief video with us and the IGN community, powered by the audio and video commenting tool, Yappa. We want as many Game Scoop! fans as we can get to answer this question: What do you think about Spider-Man being exclusive to PlayStation in Marvel's Avengers? It's obviously good for PlayStation. But is it good for gamers? Let us know your thoughts, and we'll pick out our favorite responses to play on this week's episode of Game Scoop!

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What's up, everybody? We love checking in with the listeners (and viewers), and now you have the chance to actually let your beautiful voices be heard on Game Scoop! At the bottom of this article, you will find an option that lets you share a brief video with us and the IGN community, powered by the audio and video commenting tool, Yappa. We want as many Game Scoop! fans as we can get to answer this question: What do you think about the Halo Infinite delay? It's obviously good for PlayStation. But is it good for gamers? Let us know your thoughts, and we'll pick out our favorite responses to play on this week's episode of Game Scoop!

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• When you can see your face, hit record to start recording your video. Hit stop when you’re done. You can leave a message that's up to 45 seconds long.
• You can rewatch your video and then choose to cancel or post.
• If you'd rather upload a video you recorded separately, you can use the Upload Media function to do so. This'll be handy to show off your amiibo or classic games collections. But please, no copyrighted content.
• You can watch and share videos from fellow commenters by clicking on their icons and you can follow contributors you like as well.

Still have questions? You can learn more details about the new commenting system. And, please remember to follow our guidelines for commenting. To everyone that submits a video: Nicely job! Daemon