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Apple has finally announced about Apple Arcade, a game subscription service that will feature over 100 new and exclusive games, including original releases from renowned creators Hironobu Sakaguchi, Ken Wong, Will Wright and dozens more.

Apple Arcade games will redefine games and be curated based on originality, quality, creativity, fun and their appeal to players of all ages. Apple Arcade will give customers the freedom to try any game from its handpicked collection of titles that are all-you-can-play, have no ads, ad tracking or additional purchases, and respect user privacy.

The App Store is one of the world’s most successful and vibrant gaming platforms with nearly 300,000 free and paid games. Free games, supported by advertising or in-app purchases, are enjoyed by hundreds of millions of players around the world. Paid games are often critically acclaimed and beloved by the people who play them, but competing with free is hard, so even the best of these games have only reached a smaller audience. With the simplicity of a single subscription, Apple Arcade will bring games like these to the App Store’s more than 1 billion gaming customers. Apple Arcade is the perfect complement to the already enormously popular catalogue of free games on the App Store, making iOS the premier gaming platform for players of all ages.

Apple is not just handpicking the games in Apple Arcade, but also contributing to the development costs and working closely with creators to bring the games to life. Made by some of the most critically acclaimed game developers in the world, Apple Arcade games will entertain customers with incredibly fun gameplay and immersive stories, while capturing imaginations with original art and music. The service will feature games from Annapurna Interactive, Bossa Studios, Cartoon Network, Finji, Giant Squid, Klei Entertainment, Konami, LEGO, Mistwalker Corporation, SEGA, Snowman, ustwo games and dozens more.

“The App Store is the world’s biggest and most successful game platform. Now we are going to take games even further with Apple Arcade, the first game subscription service for mobile, desktop and the living room.We are working with some of the most innovative game developers in the world to create over 100 new and exclusive games to play across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Apple Arcade games will be great for families, respect user privacy and will not have ads or require any additional purchases. We think players of all ages are going to love Apple Arcade,” said  Applesenior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller.

Apple Arcade will introduce an innovative way to access a collection of brand new games that will not be available on any other mobile platform or in any other subscription service. Rather than pay up front for each game, a subscription to Apple Arcade will give players the opportunity to try any game in the service without risk. Since every game includes access to the full experience, including all game features, content and future updates, no additional purchases will be required. Every game will be playable offline, and many games will offer support for game controllers. Because subscribers can play Apple Arcade games across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, they can pick up where they left off in a game, even if they switch devices. New games will be added to the service on a regular basis.

Apple Arcade will launch in fall 2019 in more than 150 countries from a new tab on the App Store across iOS, macOS and tvOS.

With the App Store, Apple ignited a worldwide app phenomenon that has revolutionised the way people work, connect, learn and play. The App Store drives the app economy and has earned $120 billion for developers worldwide. Today, the App Store is the world’s safest and most vibrant app marketplace, with over half a billion people visiting each week. Privacy, security, quality and curation are fundamental to the App Store. Every app must meet and maintain Apple’s strict guidelines to launch and remain on the App Store. For enhanced discoverability, experts create rich editorial content and curated collections of the best apps every day. The App Store is the single best place to explore the world of apps, and is available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and iMessage.

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Captain Marvel is ruling the box office and has crossed the $900 million globally, which makes it rank at number 10 of superhero release of all time internationally, and 21 in US.  

As Disney lately revealed, the first female superhero film from MCU starring Brie Larson, has earned more than $910 million globally in 19 days in which breaks down to earnings of more than $322 million domestically and $589 million outside the US.

Internationally, the film’s earnings have broken records of all time superhero movies like Thor: Ragnarok ($854 million), Venom ($855 million), Spider-Man: Homecoming ($880 million), Spider-Man 3 ($891 million), Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice ($874 million) and Wonder Woman ($822 million) .

Captain Marvel provided a much-needed boost into the worldwide box office being one of the biggest movies of 2019. It’s no surprise, as Marvel positioned it as an essential stepping stone ahead of Avengers: Endgame, the epic culmination arriving this April that will determine the fate of ‘Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’.

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The streaming service recently dropped its trailer for the third season of Stranger Things on Wednesday morning, and it racked about millions of views overnight.

Season three of Netflix’s supernatural original, which follows a group of kids coming of age in the fictional town of Hawkins, Ind., in the 1980s, is set to pack in a lot of the show’s trademark nostalgia when it premieres on July four.

The clip plays to The Who’s Baba O’Riley featuring cassette players, perms, lots of neon prints and the kids spending time at the teenage wasteland also known as the mall.

“We’re not kids anymore,” Mike Wheeler (played by Finn Wolfhard) says in the trailer. “I mean, what did you think? We were just going to sit in my basement all day?”

The motley crew of outcasts, comprising the superpowered Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Will (Noah Schnapp), are seen indulging in classic summer activities like running across fields, hitting the local pool, checking out carnival rides … and speaking to the local paper about the unethical research that the sketchy Hawkins Lab was doing in their quiet town, being chased by a government spook armed with a gun.

And Eleven, who spent entire time running from the government agents who wanted to continue conducting experiments on her, is shown finally living a mundane life and bonding with Max (Sadie Sink) over ice cream and magazines.

We can’t wait to watch the season.

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We are fully convinced by now that regardless of the clamours or how relentlessly we issue the clarion call for some concrete insight into Avengers: Endgame, we ain’t getting one. Not for all the tea in China.

And if you were one of those steadfast MCU cranks who was still clinging to that last beacon of hope, this new TV spot will effectively squish that too.

Clocking at exactly half a minute, the new Endgame teaser is merely dropped to play frivolously with your thoughts by stringing together visions of all the three trailers so far.

As it wasn’t many moons ago that the second official trailer came about, this new clip heavily features shots of the same. Those cathartic and colourless flashbacks to some of our beloved heroes’ origins, the one’s we lost after the snap – are all revisited.

The only minor – but relatively inconsequential – addition is the hazy flashback of the principal characters of the Guardians of the Galaxy in a single frame.

Marvel continues its game of reticence with these ambiguous previews of the film. But with the release just over a month away, the marketing arm of the MCU has shifted gears too. So brace yourselves for more such instances of obscurantism.

Based on Marvel Comics, Avengers: Endgame is directed by Joe and Anthony Russo and opens in cinemas on 26 April 2019.

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