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Last month it was reported that Marvel is developing a standalone movie focusing on Black Widow, the Avenger played by Scarlett Johansson, and that writer Jac Schaeffer had been hired to pen the script. Now Captain America star Chris Evans has seemingly confirmed that the film is in the works.

In an interview with ET Canada, Evans was asked about the huge success of Marvel’s latest movie, Black Panther. “There’s nothing they can’t do, man,” he said. “I’m sure it’s going to have the exact same effect when Captain Marvel comes out, and then the Black Widow movie comes out. Marvel just has the winning recipe.”

To date, Johansson has appeared in five movies in the MCU–Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War. She will reprise her role in this summer’s Avengers: Infinity War and next year’s currently untitled Avengers 4.

There has been much discussion about a standalone Black Widow movie for some time. In October 2016, Johansson said time might not be on her side. “If I did it, I’d have to do it while I still actually wanted to wear a skin-tight catsuit,” she explained. “I don’t know how much longer that’s going to be.”

In 2017, Johansson said she had already spoken to Marvel boss Kevin Feige about the movie and that the initial discussions were positive. What’s been keeping the movie from happening is the timing and schedules for Marvel and Johansson’s other projects. For more Black Widow coverage, check out GameSpot’s list of her 10 most badass moments.

In related news, Captain Marvel is now in production. The movie stars Brie Larson and will be released in March 2019. Last month, an on-set image and video were leaked. They showed Larson wearing a green costume, rather than the character’s distinctive traditional red, blue, and gold ensemble.

FIFA 18 returns to the top of the UK sales chart for the week ending February 17, “boosted by a heavily promoted Nintendo Switch version and smaller price drops across other formats,” according to sales monitor GfK Chart-Track.

EA’s sports title forces Deep Silver’s new release, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, to settle for No.2 in its debut week. It manages to stay ahead of chart mainstay Grand Theft Auto 5, however. Capcom’s Monster Hunter: World spends its fourth week in the chart at No.4, ahead of Bayonetta 2 for the Switch. The placement of this Switch re-release is the highest Bayonetta 2 has ever reached, as it originally debuted at No.7 for the Wii U in 2014.

EA Sports UFC 3 moves down four spots to No.6 and is followed by last weeks top performer, Shadow of the Colossus, at No.7. Rounding off the top 10 are Call of Duty: WWII, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Assassin’s Creed Origins at No.8, No.9, and No.10 respectively.

You can read the full top 10 sales chart below, courtesy of UKIE and Chart-Track. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.

1. FIFA 18
2. Kingdom Come: Deliverance
3. Grand Theft Auto V
4. Monster Hunter: World
5. Bayonetta 2
6. EA Sports UFC 3
7. Shadow of the Colossus
8. Call of Duty: WWII
9. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
10. Assassin’s Creed Origins

Toy giant Mattel has announced its next Barbie doll, and it’s none other than iconic video game hero Lara Croft. Based on Alicia Vikander’s version of the character from the upcoming movie, the collectible launches in March just ahead of the new movie, according to IGN.

The doll is priced at $30, and pre-orders open on February 19 through the Barbie website. There are a few accessories included with the Barbie, including her pick axe, journal, map, and more, as well as a certificate of authenticity. You can see an unboxing video below, courtesy of the Panic Pixie YouTube channel.

This is not the first video game Barbie. In 2016, Mattel launched a video game developer Barbie for its Career of the Year line. It does, however, appear to be Mattel’s first Barbie based on a specific video game character.

The new Tomb Raider movie comes to theatres on March 16. Vikander, who won an Oscar for her role in The Danish Girl opposite Eddie Redmayne. Dominic West (The Wire), Walton Goggins (Sons of Anarchy, The Hateful Eight), and Daniel Wu (Warcraft) also star. The director is Roar Uthaug, who previously helmed the acclaimed disaster movie The Wave.

Like the 2013 video game reboot, the movie sounds like it will tell an origin story. “She has all the fierce, tough, curious, intelligent traits,” Vikander said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “But we’ve stripped away all of her experience. She hasn’t gone on an adventure just yet. She thought she was a stuck up businessperson living in the modern youth culture of suburban London, but then this whole box of information. This is the beginning.”

A new Tomb Raider game is on the way. Official details remain a mystery, but last year, the title “Shadow of the Tomb Raider” was potentially leaked, though it’s unclear if that was real.

While the Xbox One does not have an official, Microsoft-approved plan for support keyboard and mouse controls (at least not yet), there are ways to do it. One way is through the use of adapters. Microsoft is apparently aware of this, but the company is not taking action in the case of multiplayer shooters–where keyboard and mouse players would theoretically have an advantage.

The reason? According to Xbox engineering lead Mike Ybarra, Microsoft could block keyboard and mouse setups on console, but won’t do it because the company wants to give developers the freedom to operate their games as they see fit. Not only that, but a keyboard and mouse setup can be a helpful solution for players with accessibility considerations.

For a long time now, Microsoft has said it is considering bringing an official keyboard and mouse solution to the Xbox One. In September last year, Ybarra said keyboard and mouse support is “definitely coming” to Xbox One, but he didn’t say when or in what form.

Crucially, Ybarra said Microsoft understands the concerns people have about keyboard and mouse users having the upper hand against people using a controller.

“We have to be very smart in how we do that. We’ll leave it a lot up to developer choice,” Ybarra said at the time. “A lot of people tweet me and say, ‘You can’t do this because of fairness,’ and we understand that. We run two platforms; the Windows platform and the Xbox platform.”

Ybarra said one solution is that developers can create systems in their games that allow players to decide if they want to play against people using controllers or a keyboard and mouse setup. In fact, Microsoft’s Gears of War 4 supports cross-play between Xbox One and PC, and the company already tested the waters with controller versus keyboard and mouse setup. Xbox One players can choose whether or not they want to play with PC users.

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