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The MCU timeline reportedly won’t be affected by the delayed release of Black Widow, the first film in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

According to Variety, a Marvel insider recently claimed that “pushing Black Widow affects nothing on the MCU timeline,” even though the Cate Shortland-directed film was initially slated to be released on April 24, 2020, in the UK and on May 1, 2020, in the US, marking the official launch of Marvel Studios’ Phase 4.

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Originally, the new era was set to be ushered in with the release of Black Widow this year, followed by The Falcon and The Winter Soldier on Disney+ in August, 2020, then The Eternals in theatres on November 6, 2020, and WandaVision on Disney+ in December, 2020.

The new slate is expected to offer a coherent collection of interconnected adventures, spanning both television and cinema, with that synergy initially being pushed by the announcement of Elizabeth Olsen’s co-starring role as Scarlet Witch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which will not only tie into her Disney+ show WandaVision, but also has a significant connection to the Loki series, which comes to Disney+ in Spring 2021.

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In these uncertain times, however, it is not clear whether Black Widow will find a release slot ahead of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier or whether other release dates will be shifted around in an attempt to maintain Phase 4’s original order.

It is also highly possible that the placement of the standalone Black Widow movie, starring Scarlett Johansson, may not be critical to the surrounding events of the other upcoming titles on the slate, especially as it’s a prequel that will take place between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, prior to the superhero’s sacrificial act to save her friends and restore the Vanished in Avengers: Endgame.

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Whatever the case, Disney has currently put a pause on most of its live-action productions, including Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, as well as all of its upcoming Disney+ Marvel shows.

Black Widow joins a growing list of movie and TV productions affected by COVID-19, including Universal’s Fast 9, which will now be released in April 2021, almost a year later than originally planned, MGM’s No Time to Die, which will now be released in November 2020, and Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Part II, which currently does not have a new release date set. If you would like to read about how COVID-19 could affect the film industry, head here.

More importantly, take a look at our list of recommendations to help, and stay safe, during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Animal Crossing and Doom Eternal fans, your awesome collaborative fanart has been seen and is greatly appreciated by Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ director, Aya Kyogoku, and producer, Hisashi Nogami. In an interview with IGN, the two briefly lauded the unity that’s grown between the two fanbases leading up to both games’ March 20 release.

“I definitely do notice and have noticed that there’s a lot of Doom and Animal Crossing collaboration art and illustrations that are being posted, and as I look through them I’m in awe of how much creativity our fans have,” Kyogoku said.

If you haven’t seen much from this crossover, fans have often been depicting Doomguy interacting with Isabelle in sweet ways, like teaching her how to slay demons. It’s glorious.

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“I think because there is a common denominator of this type of communication happening between Doom and Animal Crossing fans, and also the fact that Animal Crossing is a communication game, we’re very thankful and very thrilled to see all this,” Kyogoku said. “We’re so excited at the same time to see how the two [fandoms] are coming together to celebrate this day.”

The major link between these two games is their release date and the support of their fandom, and Nogami is celebrating the crossover in a broader sense of what it means for games.

“So Animal Crossing and Doom — obviously the game genres are completely different. We definitely do have something in common, and that is that they’re both video games, and come from that same subculture so to speak. It’s so great to see that these two different [fandoms] are coming together and hyping up the gaming [community] and gaming culture itself. It really is a great thing to see,” Nogami said.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ review and Doom Eternal’s single-player review are both live on IGN. For more on Animal Crossing, be sure to read the other part of IGN’s interview with Kyogoku and Nogami on why New Horizons doesn’t support cloud saves.

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Miranda Sanchez is an executive editor at IGN. As a lover of cute things and FPS, she’s also very into this crossover. You can chat with her about video games and anime on Twitter.

Doom Eternal does not feature a classic-style Deathmatch multiplayer mode because the idea of it is “eons old”, according to Bethesda Senior VP of Comms Pete Hines.

Talking to Shack News, Hines said that he didn’t feel as if Doom Eternal was missing out on anything by not including deathmatch. “That mode is eons old,” he said.

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The decision to leave the classic Doom feature behind came after reflecting on how distant Doom 2016’s multiplayer felt from the core experience. “Whether you’re playing by yourself or with others, we want it to feel like you’re all playing the same game,” Hines explained. “That’s as opposed to, ‘I’m a badass demon slayer in single-player, but when I go over to multiplayer, there are no demons, and it’s just Deathmatch.’ I don’t know what that has to do with [Doom] other than that, well, a couple of decades ago we had that, so we should just have that again.”

Id Software’s refusal to include deathmatch just because it has been long associated with the Doom name has resulted in a new asynchronous multiplayer game called Battlemode, which goes live with Doom Eternal’s campaign when it launches. Rather than just throwing a bunch of Doomguys into an arena together, this new mode pits a Slayer against two other players taking on the role of Doom Eternal’s hardiest demons.

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For more on Doom Eternal, check out our review of the single-player campaign, our look at how speed is vital to survival, and how the Stadia version isn’t quite as promised.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter. 

Hulu has released the first three episodes of its new eight-part limited series Little Fires Everywhere slightly earlier than intended, as more viewers become marooned at home in the wake of the response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Hulu confirmed the news via Twitter.

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Set in 1990s Ohio and based on Celeste Ng’s bestselling 2017 novel of the same name, Little Fires Everywhere stars Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.

New episodes of Little Fires Everywhere will stream each Wednesday on Hulu.

While the spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a considerable amount of upheaval within the entertainment industry, more importantly there are number of things you can do to stay safe during this pandemic.

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Brotherhood is currently available on Showtime, Hulu, YouTube TV, and Amazon.

Welcome to IGN’s new recommendation series, Binge It! Movies, TV shows, books, comics, music… if you can binge it, we’re here to talk about it. In each installment of Binge It!, we’ll discuss a piece of content we’re passionate about… and why you should check it out.

You can’t celebrate out at the pub — because of you know what — on this St. Patrick’s Day. Instead, you’re at home trying to figure out something to watch — and maybe have a pint or two — to compensate for that. Luckily, I’ve just the show you can start to binge-watch on this very holiday.

Before The Departed, before Black Mass — and before the real-life Irish-American gangster James “Whitey” Bulger who inspired both films was caught, incarcerated, and killed behind bars — there was Brotherhood.

Brotherhood, which ran for three seasons on Showtime, transposed the now widely known story of gangster Whitey Bulger and his politician kid brother Billy from South Boston to Providence, Rhode Island, and followed the parallel rises to power of Irish-American mobster Tommy Caffee (Jason Isaacs) and his politician brother Michael (Jason Clarke).

And like Whitey corrupting his FBI handler and fellow Southie resident John Connolly, Tommy and Michael have a complicated relationship with their childhood pal Declan Giggs (Ethan Embry), a Rhode Island state trooper who often finds the lines between right and wrong, loyalty to the badge and to his friends, blurred.

Running from 2006-2008, Brotherhood was a serialized story about the complicated bond between brothers, each of whom are corrupt and righteous in their own ways. Indeed, the “bad” brother and the “good” brother weren’t always so easy to distinguish. The series wasn’t just about the brothers, mind you, but also their conniving mother Rose (the great Fionnula Flanagan), their criminal cousin Colin from Belfast (Brian F. O’Byrne), Tommy’s no-nonsense boss Freddie Cork (Kevin Chapman), Michael’s estranged wife Eileen (Annabeth Gish), their kids, their neighbors, and assorted other morally challenged characters they interact with for power, money, love, or to settle scores.

There was plenty of violence and scheming, as well as a host of powerful performances from the entire stellar ensemble. Brotherhood is an engaging crime drama about family, tribal loyalties, and the pursuit of power. Give it a binge.

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Microsoft has revealed the full tech specs for Xbox Series X and we are pumped. We discuss the ingredients of the next-gen Xbox that have us the most hyped for the new console, from Xbox Velocity Architecture to raytracing. P.S. Please bear with us on our first-ever remote-location episode!

Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, or grab an MP3 download of this week’s episode. For more awesome content, check out the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, featuring an interview with DOOM Eternal director Hugo Martin and executive producer Marty Stratton:

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It’s already an incredibly fun year of Xbox coverage, and the best is yet to come. Join us!

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Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s Executive Editor of Previews. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan, catch him on Unlocked, and drop-ship him Taylor Ham sandwiches from New Jersey whenever possible.