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Monday18th Sep 2023
News Marvel's Avengers Is Dirt Cheap Ahead of Getting Thanos Snapped Later This Month
Deal or no deal
In case you missed the memo, Marvel's Avengers is leaving storefronts at the end of September. Square Enix's live service-centred superhero action game will be no more after about three years on the market, leaving PS Store on 30th September 2023 (though you can still play it after this date). However, as spotted by
Friday7th Apr 2023
News We Promise This Is the Last Ever Marvel's Avengers PS5, PS4 Patch Now
Well, it should be, anyway
Marvel’s Avengers was supposed to receive its last ever patch earlier this week, but it’s only gone and got another one. To be fair, Crystal Dynamics has released v2.8.2 on PS5 and PS4 to clean up a handful of remaining hiccups, and it deserves credit for returning to the well one last time in order to solve any...
Monday3rd Apr 2023
News Marvel's Avengers PS5, PS4 Upgraded to Definitive Edition, Most Content Now Free
One last hurrah
Marvel's Avengers is officially on its last legs, with support for the lethargic live-service game coming to an end in September, with one last big patch making almost all content in the game free and setting the state of the game in stone. The single-player segment of the game, the campaign and associated side missions will stil
Friday31st Mar 2023
News Marvel's Avengers Makes Almost All PS5, PS4 Content Free Before Delisting
Final update buffs heroes before winding down
Update: After a little bit of a mix-up, the Marvel’s Avengers patch notes for v2.8 are now live, and they include a surprising number of bug fixes, improvements, and tuning considering the release is at the end of its life. We’ve included all of the updates below: NEW FEATURES: The Marketplace has...
Tuesday28th Mar 2023
News Marvel's Avengers Will Add War Machine for Free on PS5, PS4 Before Waving Farewell
War never changes
There’s still a little life left in Marvel’s Avengers, but the pulse is faint at this point. Crystal Dynamics is eager to celebrate the release before it’s permanently taken offline on 30th September, however, and it’s handing out a free War Machine skin for anyone that’s stuck around. The caveat here is that you’ll...
Saturday21st Jan 2023
News Marvel's Avengers Support Officially Ends in September, Three Years After Release
No Cap
Support for Marvel's Avengers will officially end on the 30th September 2023, developer Crystal Dynamics has confirmed. The live service action game will be just three years old by then, having first launched for PS4 in September 2020. You'll be able to keep playing the game after the above date, both in solo and multiplayer, but there'll be...
Monday28th Nov 2022
News Marvel's Avengers' Cloning Lab Has Taken Two Years to Arrive
But it's coming tomorrow
Crystal Dynamics first started talking about Marvel’s Avengers’ Omega Level Threat mission the Cloning Lab all the way back in 2020, but it’ll finally arrive alongside the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes, from tomorrow, 29th November. As part of update 2.7, the end-game challenge will see MODOK resurrected in a massive...
Tuesday15th Nov 2022
News The Winter Soldier Joins Marvel's Avengers This Month
Plus Cloning Lab mission
The Winter Soldier will be added to Marvel's Avengers for free on 29th November 2022 as part of a big update for the game. Voiced by Scott Porter, he'll be given a new heroic mission chain "that sees the Avengers help him regain his confidence in his capacity for good and deal with the trauma inflicted on him by his...
Tuesday28th Jun 2022
News Jane Foster Joins Marvel's Avengers Roster Today
It's Thor, but it's also not
Jane Foster, aka the Mighty Thor, comes to Marvel's Avengers today as a free update. Packing a new moveset and story, she will be playable for everyone who owns the game along with previous post-launch superheroes like Spider-Man and Black Panther. Unfortunately, though, Jane Foster doesn't bundle in a new campaign to...
Tuesday19th Apr 2022
News Jane Foster Is the Next Playable Superhero in Marvel's Avengers
Brings some love and thunder
Jane Foster has been revealed as the next playable superhero for Marvel's Avengers. She'll be part of update 2.5, which is planned for launch at an unconfirmed date past May 2022. Of course, the superhero closed yesterday's reveal trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder, so there's some marketing synergy going on here...
Saturday19th Mar 2022
News Marvel's Avengers Will Rework War Table in PS5, PS4 Patch Next Week
Command centre
Marvel’s Avengers is not dead… Well, not yet. Crystal Dynamics has committed a new patch for the PlayStation 5 and PS4 brawler, which is due out on 24th March. This was previously communicated, and will revise the way the War Table works. For those of you unfamiliar with the superhero game, the War Table is what you use to launch...
Thursday30th Dec 2021
News She-Hulk Seemingly Marvel's Avengers' Next Heroic Addition on PS5, PS4
Smashing
Many felt that Crystal Dynamics may disassemble development of the oft-maligned Marvel’s Avengers following the fulfilment of its contractually obligated Spider-Man add-on earlier this year, but it seems the studio is busy beavering away on a new addition: She-Hulk. The character was first teased by a Twitter insider, and before you roll...
Tuesday30th Nov 2021
News Spider-Man, Raid Arrive in Enormous Marvel's Avengers Update
Dropping on 30th November
A new War Table for Marvel’s Avengers has been published, outlining everything you can expect to be added to the game in its massive 30th November update. This, of course, is the one that adds Spider-Man for PlayStation 5 and PS4 players, and despite what you may have thought previously, he looks fantastic in this new...
Monday22nd Nov 2021
News Spider-Man Gameplay Shared in New Marvel's Avengers Hands On
I came in like a wrecking ball
There might be $3,317 worth of Marvel's Avengers cosmetics to buy, but it's because of that you get the likes of Spider-Man's upcoming expansion for completely free. Arriving on 30th November 2021, IGN was lucky enough to go hands on with the web-slinger for two hours, except the video above isn't a result of that.
News All Marvel's Avengers Cosmetics Pegged at $3,400
Assemble those dollar bills
In a headline that perhaps isn’t a surprise for a live service game, one Marvel’s Avengers fan has taken the time to calculate the cost of all of the title’s cosmetics – and it adds up to an eye-watering $3,317. While all of this content is, of course, completely optional, it’s an astounding figure for a release...
Wednesday17th Nov 2021
News Spider-Man Will Have Some Pretty Cool Suits in Marvel's Avengers on PS5, PS4
Here's the first seven coming to the game
Perhaps the best thing about Marvel’s Spider-Man is the sheer array of suits and costumes that Insomniac Games packed into the open world adventure, and the upcoming web-slinging add-on for Marvel’s Avengers will be no different. Crystal Dynamics has revealed seven suits on its website which will be...
Thursday11th Nov 2021
News Marvel's Avengers Trailer Shows Off Spider-Man In All His Glory
PlayStation exclusive hero coming soon
Yesterday, we got our very first glimpse of Spider-Man in Marvel's Avengers with a pretty cool image. Now, though, we have a full-on trailer, revealing the character in full. The video sets up the webhead's appearance in the game, which introduces the superhero with the event Spider-Man: With Great Power...
Wednesday10th Nov 2021
News Here's What Spider-Man Looks Like in Marvel's Avengers
Web-slinger revealed
And here he is. This is what Spider-Man will look like in Marvel's Avengers when the hugely popular character arrives on 30th November 2021 as a PlayStation exclusive. Supported by Thor, Iron Man, and Kamala Khan, the wall-crawler will be part of a Hero event that brings with it a ton of other content, including a new raid. You...
Thursday4th Nov 2021
News Spider-Man Finally Swings to Marvel's Avengers on 30th November
Alongside big content update
Well over a year since the game launched, Crystal Dynamics has confirmed PlayStation exclusive character Spider-Man will finally be added to Marvel's Avengers on 30th November 2021. The web-slinger will arrive as part of a Hero Event alongside lots of other content, including a new raid, skins, and challenges. You'll...
News Square Enix Insinuates Crystal Dynamics Was the Wrong Dev for Marvel's Avengers
Says the title produced a disappointing outcome
Ouch! Square Enix boss Yosuke Matsuda has insinuated that Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics may have been the wrong studio for Marvel’s Avengers. Speaking as part of an alarmingly candid annual performance report, via VGC, the executive assured shareholders that the publisher had learned from...
Wednesday3rd Nov 2021
News Marvel's Avengers Dumps Damaging XP Booster Microtransactions
Hulk smash
Crystal Dynamics has confirmed that, as of today, it’s removed the controversial XP and resource boosters from Marvel’s Avengers’ in-game store, as it takes the “first step in rebuilding [players’] confidence”. A few weeks ago, the title attracted immense ire from its community, after it introduced microtransactions which sped...
Wednesday8th Sep 2021
News Marvel's Avengers' PS5, PS4 Exclusive Spider-Man Swinging By This Year
But not part of PlayStation Showcase
Marvel’s Avengers’ controversial PlayStation 5 and PS4 exclusive character, Spider-Man, will arrive this year. Crystal Dynamics confirmed the web-slinger as part of its all-new roadmap, which puts an emphasis on “replayable” content rather than cinematic expansions, like the recent War for Wakanda add-on...
Tuesday17th Aug 2021
News Marvel's Avengers' Free Black Panther Update Looks Impressive
Vibin' with all this Vibranium
Marvel’s Avengers isn’t a bad game, it’s just a bit of a bland one. Fortunately, the game’s hotly anticipated War for Wakanda update looks set to add a little spice to the co-op brawler. Frankly, this looks absurdly large: there’s a new campaign, missions, villains, enemies, and even a fresh biome to explore...
Thursday29th Jul 2021
News Marvel's Avengers' Free Black Panther Add-On Claws 17th August PS5, PS4 Release Date
Wakanda forever
King T’Challa will make his grand entrance in Marvel’s Avengers on 17th August, when the War for Wakanda heats up on PlayStation 5 and PS4. The campaign – which will be free for all players – will add the Black Panther to the roster of playable superheroes, and will add two new villains, a new biome, new enemies, and the...
Friday16th Jul 2021
News Black Panther to Be Voiced by God of War's Kratos Actor in Marvel's Avengers
Story to depict an older T'Challa
The premature passing of the late but great Chadwick Boseman has cast a cloud over the Marvel Cinematic Universe ever since the news broke, and also created challenges for Marvel’s Avengers’ upcoming War for Wakanda expansion. Now, it’s been confirmed that Christopher Judge – famous for his role as Kratos in...
Friday9th Jul 2021
News Black Widow's White Movie Attire Arrives in Marvel's Avengers on PS5, PS4
She's done running from her past, apparently
The white threads that Scarlett Johansson is sporting in Marvel Studios’ Black Widow are now available in Marvel’s Avengers – for a small fortune, of course. The white jumpsuit will cost you 1,400 Credits, which works out at about $14 – an extortionate sum for a single cosmetic. It does look...
Monday28th Jun 2021
News Marvel's Avengers Will Soon Let Everyone Play as the Same Superhero on PS5, PS4
Everyone's the Hulk
After making a big song and dance out of it earlier in the year, Marvel’s Avengers will soon allow everyone to play as the same superhero online if they so choose. This feature was temporarily enabled in the Tachyon Anomaly event, but developer Crystal Dynamics has confirmed it’ll be a permanent addition in a forthcoming...
Wednesday23rd Jun 2021
News Marvel's Avengers Dev Urges PS5 Players Not to Stream Due to IP Being Displayed on Screen
Hot fix is due first thing tomorrow
Poor old Marvel’s Avengers, eh? Crystal Dynamics has been desperately trying to revive the fortunes of the live service game, but despite some meaningful improvements, it very much remains on life support – at least until the Wakanda update later in the year. The developer would have been hoping for a big...
Monday14th Jun 2021
News Marvel's Avengers' Cosmic Cube Brings the Scientist Supreme to PS5, PS4
Don't be a square
Marvel’s Avengers’ slow path to redemption will perhaps reach make-or-break point with the Black Panther update due in August, but in the meantime Square Enix is keeping things ticking with its previously announced Cosmic Cube update. This will get underway from 22nd June, and will introduce a new Villain Sector named Beating t
Sunday13th Jun 2021
News Marvel's Avengers Fights the War for Wakanda in August, Free for All Players
A wild Black Panther appears
Marvel’s Avengers’ somewhat anticipated Black Panther expansion, War for Wakanda, will finally flash its claws at PlayStation 5 and PS4 in August – and here’s your first taste of what to expect. Like all other expansions for the game, this will be free for everyone to play – and, of course, you’ll be able to...
