UPDATED: IGN spoke one-on-one with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige on Sunday at the Avengers: Endgame press junket where he told us that the reveal of Hawkeye's adoption of the Ronin guise was NOT a spoiler.

"You gotta be looking at that stuff to see it, so I figure if I wanna know all the secrets of, you know, whatever big sequel - Episode Nine. I could dig deep enough online and find it. I just think it's all out there, but I don't do that," Feige said. "Ronin was in the trailers. I mean, he was in the marketing materials."

Feige continued, "And because Hawkeye had been so absent in Infinity War, we though it'd be fun, as far as the marketing to showcase one of the many different aspects of this movie is that he's in it, and answering the question, sort of, where has he been?"

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Saturday Night Live had exactly as much fun as you'd imagine with Game of Thrones star Kit Harington's hosting gig on April 6. In addition to a self-deprecating monologue in which Harington's GOT co-stars grilled him for spoilers about the show's ending, SNL also came up with a number of new Game of Thrones prequel, sequel, spinoff and crossover series ideas - and some of them sound pretty great.

First up, a Riverdale-esque "sexy, moody drama about forbidden love" between Jon Snow and a white walker, who doesn't see why her undead status should affect their relationship, since Jon was previously dead too.

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Kit Harington, Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, was the host of Saturday Night Live tonight and his opening monologue included some familiar faces asking for answers about the final season of HBO's hit series.

Harington took the stage - without Snow's trademark beard - and began taking questions from the audience after self-deprecatingly mentioning his other acting credits, which include "hits" like Pompeii and Silent Hill: Revelation.

First up was none other than Emilia Clarke, Daenerys Targaryen herself, who asked Harington, "Could you just give us a general sense of how it ends?" After Harington reminded her she was in the show, Clarke confessed that it's been so long since the last season and that she only talks to a dragon, which is actually just a tennis ball on a green pole, so she has no idea what's going on.

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As the children reach the conclusion of the first season of The Promised Neverland anime, there are still plenty of unanswered questions. If you don't want to wait until 2020 to find out what's next for Emma, Ray, and the rest of the kids, your best bet is to pick up the manga. There are a total of 13 volumes and counting (only nine of those are officially translated) of the manga, but we have two suggestions as to where you should start.

The Promised Neverland anime ends with Chapter 37 of the manga, so you'll want to read Chapter 38 in volume 5 to see what happens next. Though that's a place where you can start, I highly recommend going back and reading from Chapter 1. The Promised Neverland anime's production team took some liberties with their adaptation to make it a more exciting (and tense) viewing experience. The manga features quite a few monologues and other great moments that were ultimately cut or trimmed for the anime. The tone of the manga can be different at times too. I guarantee you'll have a better sense of the world of The Promised Neverland if you start with the beginning.

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In honor of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, IGN is taking a look back at some of the iconic characters who've fallen along the way, and the lasting impact they had on the story. These heroes and villains may not have made it to the end of the road, but their lives weren't in vain - they stand as a fitting reminder that when you play the game of thrones, you win, or you die.

Shireen Baratheon was one of the true innocents on Game of Thrones, which is why her death stands as one of the most memorable -- and horrifying -- in the show's history. She was a sweet little girl with no guile or malice, and with her death, Game of Thrones proved to us that not even the most innocent characters are safe.

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Paramount’s CinemaCon presentation showed the first footage from director Ang Lee and star Will Smith’s Gemini Man, an upcoming sci-fi action film that sees Smith’s master assassin pitted against a clone of his younger self. Utilizing digital de-aging tech, Smith, 50, faces off against his 23-year-old self in the high-concept movie.

In a prerecorded greeting to theater owners, Smith sang the praises of Ang Lee and the film they made together: “We managed to shoot something that’s never been done before, an action-adventure exploration of what one’s younger self can teach one’s older self.” Smith added that Gemini Man will feature “nuanced, relatable characters, with some crazy action.”

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‘Difficulty’ in games is entirely relative to individual players; what’s ‘ultra hard’ and ‘unplayable’ for one is ‘too easy’ and ‘boring’ for another. Meaning, it’s a construct of the realities that game designers create, delicately tailored to the perceptions of their audience. And accessibility – my focus as a consultant on games, working with AAA developers like Guerrilla to Indies like Gambrinous – is an area of game design that’s often deeply misunderstood; it’s about barriers, not difficulty. So, by focusing on “difficulty modes” we might miss wider opportunities of being able to welcome more players because they may perceive any number of barriers to playing well or pain/stress free as ‘difficulty’. I’m here not just as an expert trying to shed some light, but also as a passionate fan of gruelling games like Souls-likes who wouldn’t want to see any of their defining qualities diminished.

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