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Daredevil, Punisher, and Entire Defenders Saga Added to Official MCU Timeline on Disney Plus

Marvel’s Daredevil, Punisher, Jessica Jones, and the entire Defenders Saga has been added to the official MCU Timeline on Disney+, essentially extending the canon by 161 hours.

Spotted by @CanWeGetToast on X/Twitter, all of the Marvel Netflix shows — which released adjacent to the MCU but have always been questioned when it comes to what’s technically considered canon — have for the first time been listed as part of the official MCU timeline.

These Netflix shows include Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher, and in total add around 161 hours of content to the MCU. Daredevil and Jessica Jones each had 39 hour-long episodes across three seasons, Luke Cage and The Punisher had 26 across two, Iron Fist had 23 across two, and The Defenders had eight across one.

The shows were generally considered separate from main MCU despite events from Avengers being referenced within them. But as Marvel itself never made the shows official, and the likes of Daredevil and Iron Fist didn’t show up in Avengers films or elsewhere in the regularly collaborating franchise, many fans following the MCU didn’t add the Netflix shows to their watch list. Until now, anyway.

Questions were raised a little earlier though, when Daredevil (played by Netflix actor Charlie Cox) appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home and She-Hulk, and Kingpin (played by Netflix actor Vincent D’Onofrio) appeared in Hawkeye.

Things ramped up earlier in January 2024 when MCU executive producer Brad Winderbaum said he considers Daredevil to be MCU canon, and a trailer for Echo, which also features Daredevil and Kingpin, featured clips from the Netflix shows.

The addition of the Defenders Saga comes as the MCU is widely considered bloated, with even Bob Iger, CEO of Marvel owner Disney, saying the volume of TV shows has “diluted focus and attention”. This is evidenced by the recently completed Phase 4 lasting 54 hours and 40 minutes compared to Phase 1’s 12 hours and 24 minutes.

Marvel fans are already struggling to stay up to date too, as the latest film, The Marvels, had the worst box office numbers so far despite positive critical reception.

Cox will also star in his own, dedicated show Daredevil: Born Again, though he said in September 2022 that it won’t be a continuation of what’s come before. This was put on hold pending a creative reboot in October 2023, however, though Marvel found a new showrunner later that month.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Nintendo Shares Hit Record High, Apparently Thanks To ‘Switch 2’ Fever

What have you got, 2024?

Nintendo shares have hit a record high of 7,823 yen (roughly $54.14) as of Wednesday, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

While increasing steadily over the last year or so, shares have recently spiked with WSJ citing ‘solid earnings’ and the expectation of new hardware from the firm to succeed the current Nintendo Switch. It’s no secret that fans have been clamouring for new hardware, and the general expectation is that Nintendo will finally reveal its upcoming plans at some point this year.

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Microsoft Issuing Xbox Firmware Update to Fix Baldur’s Gate 3 Save Bug, Dev Says

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has said Microsoft plans to release a firmware update to fix the pesky save bug that has plagued the game’s release on Xbox.

In a tweet, Larian said Microsoft had identified the cause of the save bug on Xbox and will issue a firmware update to fix it. Users can update their console manually on January 16 or wait a week longer for the update to roll out globally, Larian added.

“Although we haven’t been able to independently verify this fix, we’re optimistic that Microsoft have gotten to the bottom of it,” the developer said.

Larian boss Swen Vincke had tweeted to say Microsoft had “found the firmware issue that cause save games to go missing” and that a fix was coming out. “In the end, all will be well.”

Xbox players of Baldur’s Gate 3 will be hoping this firmware update will mark the end of the game’s troubles on the console, although of course Larian will continue to update the game across all platforms. Just this week Larian released a beefy hotfix for Baldur’s Gate 3 that makes quest items more accessible.

It’s not all fun and games when it comes to Baldur’s Gate 3, though. Also this week, Xbox users criticised Microsoft for its policy of having auto-upload of captured content on by default, after some Baldur’s Gate 3 players were banned when captured sex scenes were automatically uploaded to the Xbox network.

Despite these issues, Baldur’s Gate 3 has enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim since its launch last year. Updates continue, and Vincke is already teasing the studio’s next game.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Steam will now accept “the vast majority” of games using “AI” generation, but only with disclosures

Little-known indie platform holder Valve have announced a new policy for Steam releases that make use of “AI” technology. To boil it down, developers will now have to disclose how they’re using AI tools on Steam pages, including what “guardrails” they’re putting in place for live-generated stuff that might be illegal or infringe on copyright. Valve are also introducing a new player reporting system for breaches. The company say these adjustments “will enable us to release the vast majority of games that use AI”, with the exception of Adult Only Sexual content that is generated live.

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Mortal Kombat 1 Adds Another DLC Kameo Fighter Next Week

Quan-Chi was the latest DLC fighter.

Mortal Kombat 1 continues its fight in the new year with the announcement Khameleon will be coming to the game as a DLC fighter next week.

Yes, a date is now officially locked in, with the game’s social media account confirming she’ll be arriving on 16th January 2024. Khameleon is the latest release alongside the newest playable fighter Quan Chi, who was made available at the end of last year.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s New Spirits Have Been Revealed, Out This Week

Celebrating the game’s fifth anniversary.

Last month, Nintendo announced it would be celebrating the fifth anniversary of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with a special event as well as brand-new spirits. Now, in an update, the Japanese company has revealed the new spirits.

These spirits will be up for grabs for five days and will be made available this week on 11th January 2024. Included in the lineup are characters from Splatoon 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4.

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Cult Of The Lamb’s so-called sex update will launch January 16th

Cult Of The Lamb‘s Sins Of The Flesh update promised to allow your followers to breed, in a way, by finding an egg that would hatch and produce new potential cult members. Players of the action-RPG/management hybrid on social media quickly did what people on social media do: demanded that they add sex.

Its developers said they would and now we get to see what that means when the update launches on January 16th.

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Community Update January 2024 – First Month Accounts

Hi there, Xbox Insiders!

Passages

I hope this Community Update finds you as well as all those emails, meeting invites, and “let’s start the year strong” messages you marked all as read have in your Inbox. We’re only a week into 2024 and so much has happened already. We saw a real-life “Getting Over It” cosplay at a New Year’s party, the Internet™ collectively decided that Leon Kennedy would absolutely smoke Joel, and these are the streets I grew up in.

Over here at Xbox Insider HQ, we’ve also been busy chasing the hamsters back on their wheels (read: we are the hamsters) and getting back into the swing of things. It’s going to be a bit of a lighter January before we really kick it into high gear for the 10th Anniversary in February. So, let’s take a look at some of what we’ve been working on:

Connections

You might have noticed some changes to the layout, design, and overall look/feel of our lovely Xbox Wire pages over the last few months. As part of our strategy shift, we’ve been looking at different ways we can utilize the space we have here on the Xbox Wire and we think this redesign (as well as more interesting changes coming soon™!) is a great way to kick things off.

We’ve also been working to make our current content even better. It turns out, our resident Release Notes Virtuoso, Joshua, never got off his wheel. In fact, he’s been secretly whipping up some improvements and updates to Release Notes across all categories. We think you’ll agree these changes will make getting details on new builds easier and faster than ever!

Why Becomes How

I know, I know. Another one for the collage. I had hoped I wouldn’t have to use this joke for a while, but it’s taking longer than we initially thought for this process to happen. Apologies for this continued delay. I’ll take this one firmly on the chin though. I didn’t foresee the additional investments we’re now making, but I’m glad we’re making them nonetheless!

Full Tilt

That being said, we’re actually sprinting ahead with some of our other initiatives, specifically those tied to the 10th Anniversary. One thing I’m excited to share is that we’ll be publishing an absolute glut of content in February to the Xbox Wire. Interviews from past, present, (and future?!) Xbox Insider team members, an oral history of the program, and more will all be coming out to celebrate ten years of wonderful Xbox Insider Program accomplishments and highlights. This is something we’re super stoked about and we can’t wait for everyone to learn more.

Bright Future

We’ve also been working under the proverbial hood on a few items that aren’t quite ready to be fully revealed yet. These items are being worked on “in-house” within XIP, and I think it’s some of the coolest stuff we have cooking. We’ll be talking more about this in February, so stay tuned! In the meantime, please enjoy an updated/modified content roadmap.

As always, I hope everyone enjoyed this installment of the Xbox Insider Program Community Update. If you want to chat about this—and everything else XIP—hop on over to the r/XboxInsiders subreddit or throw us a follow @xboxinsider.

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