The Avengers: Age of Ultron is due out in movie theaters on May 1. That doesn’t mean you have to hold back the hype until that long, though.

Marvel has released a third trailer that depicts a near-hopeless situation. Tony Stark has created a “suit of armor” intended to surround the Earth. The Ultron project has gone awry though, and now the automatons threaten to exterminate the human race.

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Sega has released Alien: Isolation’s fifth DLC pack, “The Trigger,” as part of the game’s Survivor Mode.

“The Trigger,” which is set before the events of the first game, puts players in the shoes of Ricardo as he attempts to assist Marshal Waits in dealing with the alien. The new pack continues Sega's trend of regular DLC support for the game's Survivor Mode, following roughly a month behind the last pack. 

For more on Alien: Isolation, check out our review of the game or the hub for our horror issue.

It wasn’t even September when readers started asking when we’d publish the initial list of 2015 release dates. Our ever-popular and regularly updated roster of launch dates for the new year is here.

If you see anything we’ve missed, please let us know in the comments. Please note that games will not get assigned to a month until they have confirmed release dates. Prior to that, they will appear in the bottom grouping.

343 Industries is applying another bandage to Halo: The Master Chief Collection today. The company has rolled out a new update designed to further improve some of the lingering problems from the game’s November 11, 2014, launch.

Included in the patch are matchmaking improvements that seek to improve success rates, speed up searches, and generally improve stability of the process across the included titles. Parties, which have also had some issues, will see improved stability, also.

On the gameplay front, both Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 are getting some tweaks. In the original Halo, 343 has fixed a problem with aim assist that actually pushed the reticle away from enemies. Hit detection across host and client devices is also improved.

The PlayStation 4 is the only new-gen console that Tropico 5 is appearing on, and now that version of the sim title has an official release date.

The game will appear on the system on April 24, and it'll work with the Vita via remote play.

For a look at the PS4 version in action, take a look at this previous video.

The co-founder of Gone Home developer Fullbright has explained that the game's console versions is no longer being "actively" developed.

Steve Gaynor, writer and designer of Gone Home and co-founder of developer Fullbright, said on Kinda Funny Games' Colin and Greg show (around the 7:40 mark) "At this point, unfortunately I have to acknowledge that Gone Home for console is not actively in development any longer."

"That deal with Majesco has sadly come to an end, so we don't really know what that means for Gone Home console..." he explained. Last year it was reported that Majesco and its Midnight City label were in trouble.

Bonus XP, a studio made up of many former members of Ensemble Studios, has announced its first project. The team is working on a hybrid real-time strategy / role-playing game called Servo.

The premise is that humanity has fled Earth after mucking it up somehow. After many years, we’ve returned to fix that problem (which we assume are the little non-robotic critters, the Bloomspawn, in the video below).

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Bethesda and Machine Games are giving fans of Wolfenstein: The New Order a little surprise. The duo have announced a standalone prequel expansion to last year’s entry in the franchise.

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a two-chapter adventure that takes place in 1946. The Nazis are winning the war and BJ Blazkowicz is going to stop them (or not, as we learned from The New Order).

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After yesterday’s errant leak of the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain release date, you might have thought that all the news had been exhausted. Let us give you a hand.

Konami has announced some more details, including two different Collector’s Editions and a Day One edition with added content. Here’s what’s coming in each:

Day 1 and Steam Edition digital items (also comes with a map):

If you’re like me (friendless and alone), you might not have had success playing Evolve. It’s a game that thrives when you have friends to coordinate with (or stomp as the monster).

Now, you can enjoy Evolve even if you don’t interact with other human beings regularly. The new Observer mode will allow a new crop of shoutcasters to try their hand at commentating matches.

And if you are a group that wants to add an observer to your match, you can do so from the hunter and monster selection screen. Once added, the observer can select each of the players and jump to their view.