Jon Favreau is riding high at the box office with The Jungle Book, but when IGN sat down to talk all things Kipling and Disney with the director, we also asked whether a third superhero movie might be in his future.

Favreau laid the foundations for the MCU by helming the first two Iron Man movies, and has executive produced several Marvel movies since, so we asked what it would take to get him back in the director’s chair.

“A great story” was the response. “I know the people over there. I like them. I still executive produce the Avengers series and I like what they’re doing a lot now, I do. By the same token I feel like I’ve made my mark; whatever we did in those early days has continued and is in good hands with new filmmakers with fresh voices.

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Ubisoft Massive has responded to issues with cheating in The Division, and is going to take steps to combat it.

First of all, a new detection system has been implemented to catch players using cheat engines in the game. This is already starting to take effect, and Ubisoft will be handing out the largest wave of suspensions and bans to date over the next few days.

Players caught cheating will be given a 14 day suspension if it is their first offense. A second offense will always result in a permanent ban.

Ubisoft will also be clamping down on players using bug exploits. All known exploits will be kept in public forum threads, and new ones will be quickly confirmed. If a player is caught repeatedly using the exploit, there is the possibility of character rollbacks, account suspensions, and permanent bans.

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Just days after launching, the Kickstarter for John Romero and Adrian Carmack's new game has been pulled down.

According to the latest backer update the Doom co-creators have paused the project as they prepare a demo. A demo which will display "the things we've waited years to put into an FPS and which make us incredibly excited about this game."

The game in question is the first-person shooter Blackroom. Romero and Carmack teased the project, and launched their crowdfunding campaign, just days ago. In that time they raised more than $131 thousand of their stated $700 thousand goal.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's first DLC pack will be available for Xbox 360 players on May 5, Xbox Live director of programming Larry Hryb announced today.

The Awakening DLC pack—which has been playable on PlayStation 4 since February 2, and on Xbox One and PC since March 3—will introduce four new maps for Xbox 360 players. Additionally, a new episode of Black Ops III's zombie story will be released.

Awakening is the first in a set of four maps packs to be released. Call of Duty: Black Ops III's second DLC pack, Eclipse, debuted on PlayStation 4 on April 19. Xbox One and PC players are expected to get the DLC next month—and it may be a while before the expansion comes to Xbox 360.

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Boy oh boy did we go off-piste this week. We matched discussions of new Game of Thrones, the Ratchet and Clank movie and The Division with our dream film pitches, the brilliance of The Cube (game show and film) and the problems of Looper-face.

Plus: Mr. Zurkon or Mr. ZurkOFF?

IGN UK Podcast #329 - Is Game of Thrones Worth Going Back To?

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DICE will reveal the next installment of the Battlefield series next Friday, May 6 at a "world premiere" event.

The game will be revealed to attendees of the event, before a global livestream shows off as-yet unspecified details at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm BST

IGN will be at the event, so make sure to check back for the announcements as they happen.

Early reports have suggested that the game will move from the recent modern settings back to World War I.

The game will be released Holiday 2016, according to a 2014 EA investor call.

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Confirming reports from earlier this year that it was in development (though Marvel downplayed the possibility at the time), The Punisher - as introduced in Marvel's Daredevil: Season 2 - is getting his own Netflix spinoff series.

As first reported by Entertainment Weekly, Jon Bernthal will be reprising his role as the tortured vigilante, while Steve Lightfoot, who was a writer and executive producer on Hannibal, will serve as showrunner on Marvel's The Punisher and write the first two episodes.

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Daybreak Game Company has released DC Universe Online on Xbox One today.

If you're an Xbox Live Gold member, you can download and play DCUO for free now. In addition, Xbox players are getting three exclusive items: the Powered-Up Cape, Powered-Up Emblem, and Vapor Aura.

The game is supported by consistent DLC releases, such as the recent Batman v Superman content. Updates also add Episodes which are sets of additional missions.

New Episodes are available to purchase individually, or can be accessed if you have DCUO membership. New Xbox players will have access to all currently available content, and future additions will release simultaneously across all platforms.

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With Captain America: Civil War hitting UK screens today, we’ve been busy scouring the film for trivia, references and Easter Eggs, with the following 10 of the best.

Just Beware of MASSIVE Civil War Spoilers Ahead….

Captain America: Civil War is loosely based on the 2006 seven-issue comic Civil War, by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. Yet while the central storyline that pits Iron Man against Cap remains the same, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have taken liberties with pretty much everything else, crafting a different inciting incident, having Zemo pull the strings, introducing new characters and dropping old ones to fit the MCU, and giving Spider-Man a VERY different character arc.

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It looks like Lego Dimensions is getting its very own Supergirl mini-figure.

According to BrickSet, the Supergirl instruction manual appeared on the official Lego website before being pulled moments later.

The Supergirl LEGO Dimension mini-fig.

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