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3 new Xbox Game Pass games to try out this weekend (August 16-18)

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3 new Xbox Game Pass games to try out this weekend (August 16-18)

Xbox has only received five new games so far this August, but three of them share a theme. The connective tissue between all of these additions is that they’re new versions of older classics. With collections for some bombastic first-person shooters and cartoony platformers, and a remake of a crime action game, Xbox Game Pass‘ … Read more

With Echo, Marvel bets on Indigenous superheroes and standalone projects as its cinematic universe struggles

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With Echo, Marvel bets on Indigenous superheroes and standalone projects as its cinematic universe struggles

An Indigenous superhero gets her own Marvel spinoff next week — the first of the company’s bets on projects that don’t require prior knowledge of its popular cinematic universe. The Disney+ series Echo stars Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez, a.k.a. Echo, the Indigenous-Latin American leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, a criminal gang run by the villainous Wilson Fisk, … Read more