Some mornings you wake up and you have a pretty good idea of what you’ll be writing about. Today was not one of those days.

Next week’s Marvel’s Avengers is adding plenty of upgrades to the Crystal Dynamics-developed game, and while a sweeping overhaul that actually makes it fun to play isn’t currently on the list, a few admittedly neat features are.

A perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. But enough about the Queen of England! We’re here to talk about Xenomorphs, second only to the British monarchy in its sheer ruthlessness and the stars of the upcoming Aliens: Fireteam game.

It’s official! ZeniMax, parent company to Bethesda and other subsidiaries, is officially owned by Microsoft after the company spent $7.5 billion to acquire it. With the formality of competition committees and EU approval process giving the acquisition the thumbs up, the approved merger now paves the way for Microsoft and Xbox to become the biggest name in the hemisphere for western RPG video games and much more.

Wanda in all of her arcane anarchy glory and her loving Synthezoid husdband Vision have been given the sixth-scale treatment, and as always the end result looks fantastic.

Marvel’s Avengers does have the potential to be fun, but turning a burly Gamma-powered bouncer into one of Earth’s mightiest mortals requires a heck of a lot of grinding to get to a point where that character is a true powerhouse. That journey towards the top of the superhero food chain is going to take even longer next week when next-gen upgrades and a new patch arrive in Avengers, the messaging of which was kind of murky according to developer Crystal Dynamics.

In today’s episode I dig deep into the well of my current obsession of obtaining retro video games, Brad doesn’t shut up about Loop Hero, and I request a bucket of the gravy used to make KFC mash so delicious.

Six Days In Fallujah publisher Victura Games is changing its tone on the upcoming and controversial first-person shooter based on one of the most brutal battles in the Iraq War. The studio now says that the game is “inseparable from politics” because of how it depicts real-world events, something which Victura boss Peter Tamte shied away from originally when he mentioned in an earlier interview that Six Days in Fallujah was “not trying to make a political commentary” about the war.