Marvel’s Captain America Suits Up for Battle in San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Art from Alex Ross

At the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, Alex Ross Art will showcase their exclusive Captain America: Ready for Battle fine art lithograph to eager fans.

Captain America: Ready for Battle will be available for purchase at the Alex Ross Art Booth #2415 when the convention begins on July 18. The print is signed by Ross himself and will cost you $195. This is a limited-edition item, with only 100 copies made. Here is a description of the illustration from Alex Ross Art:

"This illustration is a tribute to the classic comic cover "Invincible Iron Man #126" by Bob Layton and John Romita, Jr. Originally created as a lenticular cover for "Marvel Legacy: Captain America #695," this illustration depicts Captain America getting ready for battle. It mirrors the 1979 cover of Iron Man suiting up."

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GTA Online’s Next Update Revealed

What seems to be the next expansion for Grand Theft Auto Online has been revealed.

Facebook posts from artists SolomunThe Black Madonna, and Dixon include a teaser trailer that indicates a July release. The update is seemingly focused on nightlife in Los Santos, and features tracks - as well as in-game appearances - by all three artists, as well as Tale of Us.

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Telltale Is Reportedly Ditching Its Almost 15 Year-Old Engine

After 14 years and 34 games, Telltale Games is apparently dropping its Telltale Tool engine in favor of the widely-used Unity engine.

Multiple sources have told Variety that Telltale Tool is on the way out. Its last outing will be The Walking Dead: The Final Season, set to release its first episode on August 14. After this, the first game to use the Unity Engine will be Telltale's Stranger Things project.

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Devil May Cry 5 Director Talks Story Details

Devil May Cry 5 director, Hideaki Itsuno, has shared extra details on the game's story, and says there's more to showcase at this year's Gamescom.

In a new video for Inside Xbox (below), Itsuno explains that the title is a direct sequel to Devil May Cry 4, and is set a few years after the events of the game. Nero is now running a mobile demon hunting agency out of his van, and has been gifted the neon Devil May Cry sign from Dante.

His weaponised robotic arm is called the Devil Breaker, and has a number of uses that fans might be able to pick up by watching the trailer closely. Itsuno says there will be more on that at Gamescom, and that there will be a playable demo at the German expo.

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Legends of Tomorrow Promotes Villain to Series Regular

Legends of Tomorrow villain Nora Darhk will be showing up a lot more in Season 4.

Deadline reports Courtney Ford, who portrays the villain, has seen a promotion to series regular in the upcoming season. She first appeared in the fifth episode of Legends of Tomorrow: Season 3.

02817800b4a_7954_1280 Courtney Ford plays Nora Darhk on DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

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Metal Gear Rising on Mac Is Now Unplayable Because of DRM

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is now unplayable on Mac because of DRM.

According to a recent Reddit post (via VG247), Transgaming developed the PC port and opted to include a constant online connection for the game. Transgaming has since shut down, leaving Metal Gear Rising's DRM without a server to contact, rendering it unplayable.

In addition, the Mac OS X compatibility notice has recently been removed from the game's Steam page.

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Microsoft Seemingly Working on New HoloLens

Microsoft is reportedly working on a new HoloLens with a better field of view for release next year.

TechRadar says Twitter user WalkingCat spotted a patent that implies Microsoft is looking into a wider field of view for the next HoloLens. In fact, the company might be doubling the view with the next iteration of the AR headset.

On top of that, TechRadar previously mentioned that it's rumored the next HoloLens will launch in early 2019. The device's codename is apparently Sydney.

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Spider-Man PS4: Mystery Villain Possibly Revealed

The newest PlayStation 4 Spider-Man villain may have just been revealed thanks to the game's Rhino voice actor, Chris Jai Alex.

Warning: If you want to go into Spider-Man entirely unspoiled, perhaps give this one a miss.

Talking to Call of Duty YouTuber, Drift0r, during E3, Chris Jai Alex let slip that Doctor Octopus is in one of the fight scenes. The video was taken down, but Eurogamer found a link to the interview that's managed to escape the purge for now.

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Han Solo’s Blaster From ‘Return of the Jedi’ Sells for $550,000

One of the blasters that Han Solo used in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi has sold at auction in Las Vegas for $550,000.

Han's weapon was part of a collection owned by Return of the Jedi art director, James L. Schoppe, for over 30 years.

Han

The blaster was sold to Ripley's Believe It or Not and was the top-selling item of the "Hollywood Legends" memorabilia auction put on by Julien's Auctions at the Planet Hollywood casino-resort.

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