Spoilers for Spider-Geddon #5 and light spoilers for Marvel’s Spider-Man for PS4 follow.

Spider-Cop, who was used as a persona for Spider-Man in PS4’s Marvel’s Spider-Man, is now a real Marvel comics character thanks to issue #5 of Spider-Geddon.

As reported by comicbook.com, Spider-Geddon #5, the finale to the crossover mini-series, has a panel that includes many versions of our beloved Spider-Man from Marvel’s multiverse, and one of them is none other than Spider-Cop himself.

While that is all we get of Spider-Cop, the mere knowledge that he exists is exciting and leaves the door open in the future to hopefully explore the many adventures of the grizzled police officer known to many as Spider-Cop.

Spider-Geddon, which includes PS4’s Spider-Man, has a ton of alternate versions of Spider-Man and we’ve gathered them all in one article/slideshow.

Speaking of the latest PS4 title, Marvel will be releasing a new comic series, Marvel’s Spider-Man: City at War, that will look to follow the plot of the game that is currently in the running for our Game of the Year 2018.

For more on Spider-Man and the countless other versions of the web-slinger, be sure to check out our review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, in which we said it is amazing and “delivers a dynamic visual experience unlike any other.”

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who loves a good crossover event. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Head coach Belinda Hendrix, along with associate head coach Jimmy Hendrix and assistant coach Kelly Brookins of the National Champion Chipola College (Fla.)  have been selected as the NFCA National Junior College Athletic Association DI National Coaching Staff of the Year, announced on Friday.

Under the guidance of the 11-year veteran Hendrix, the Indians enjoyed an undefeated run to the program’s second NJCAA DI national title. Chipola posted a 5-0 mark to claim the FCSAA/Region VIII State Championship, which included wins over No. 1 Central Florida College (5-3) and in the title game against Miami Dade (3-2). The momentum carried into the NJCAA DI Championship in St. George, Utah where the third-seeded Indians culminated their perfect (10-0) postseason with a 7-2 triumph over Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in the national title game.

Chipola finished its 2015 campaign with a 49-10 mark and earned the Panhandle Conference title with a 13-3 regular season record. Behind her team’s run to the title, Hendrix improved her 11-year record at Chipola to 507-144. For their work this year, Belinda Hendrix, Jimmy Hendrix and Brookins were also chosen as the NFCA South Region Coaching Staff of the Year.

Other regional winners this season were:

Midwest Region – Blinn College (Texas)

Head Coach: Rick Church
Assistant Coaches: Jami Ingram
Record: 45-16 (21-3 Region XIV)

In Church’s 16th season at the helm, the Buccaneers garnered a trip to the NJCAA DI National Championship Tournament after taking home the Region XIV crown. In making the program’s sixth trip to the NJCAA tournament under Church, Blinn went 2-2 in St. George, Utah. It defeated Georgia Perimeter in the opener and followed that with a 3-2 triumph over Chattanooga State. However a pair of defeats to national runner-up Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (2-5 in 9 inn.) and Howard ended the Buccaneers’ tournament run. This is the fifth Midwest Region honor for Church and Ingram.

West Region – Howard College (Texas)

Head Coach: Kelly Raines
Record: 49-14 (23-5 Region V)

Garnered a Region V title and a trip to the NJCAA DI National Championship tournament. Raines’ Hawks put forth a 4-2 showing at the national tournament. They split their first two games defeating Jefferson College (4-3 in 10 inn.) and falling to eventual national champion Chipola (1-6). Howard would win three straight elimination games before having its tournament come to end at the hands of Chattanooga State.  Howard claimed the Region V title by defeating Midland College (9-4) in a winner-take-all title game.

PUBG is getting its first 6×6 map, the snowy Vikendi, as well as a new assault rife and brand new Snowmobile.

Announced at The Game Awards, Vikendi is filled with snow, meaning players fighting for their chicken dinner will have to pay attention to their footprints as they trek through the wintry new map, as they can potentially lead others to their location.

Vikendi will be available tonight on PC Test Server, and will launch on PC Live Server on December 19.

Xbox One and PlayStation 4 owners will be able to try out the new map in January 2019.

Tomorrow, December 7, PUBG finally arrives on PlayStation 4, making it almost a year since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds joined Xbox Game Preview in December of 2017.

To celebrate, PUBG and Metal Gear Solid movie director Jordan Vogt-Roberts collaborated for a live-action short film.

In addition, PUBG is now part of Xbox Game Pass, joining a list of 15 others announced at Xbox’s X018 event and many more that are already available to play.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who loves winter and snow so this announcement is pretty, pretty cool. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Throughout the 2016 softball season, the NFCA will feature some of the sport’s highest-profile contests in our “Featured Five” Games of the Week.

Each weekly installment will be released on Thursday, providing live stat links, game notes, team info, social media accounts and any available broadcast links in hopes of becoming another reason for fans to visit us during the season for information on some of collegiate softball’s best games.

As the year continues, we will attempt to expand our focus to include matchups throughout as many divisions as possible. This week’s featured games come from NCAA Division I, II and III.

We open in Division II as NCAA-record holding pitchers go head-to-head for the final time in the regular season as No. 1 Indianapolis and No. 8 UMSL face off in a key Midwest Region and Great Lakes Valley Conference twin bill in St. Louis. Indy’s Morgan Foley and UMSL’s Hannah Perryman are the No. 1 and No. 4 all-time strikeout leaders in Division II. They have combined to fan over 3,100 batters during their illustrious careers, while totalling 248 wins between them. In addition, Foley owns two single-game strikeout records, while Perryman has twirled a Division II-best nine perfect games.

The fifth-ranked Ragin’ Cajun of Louisiana-Lafayette head to Gainesville for a top-five non-conference tilt against top-ranked Florida. In SEC action, a pair of programs (Georgia & Tennessee) coming off sweeps of nationally-ranked squads go head-to-head in Athens, Ga. Also on the docket, is a battle for second place in the Sun Belt between South Alabama and Georgia Southern. 

In Division III, No. 8 Illinois Wesleyan and No. 24 (tie) Wheaton (Ill.) face off in a pivotal College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin doubleheader.

We may not be able to highlight every division or big game each week, but our hope is to provide a spotlight for as many different teams and games as possible throughout 2016.

Make sure you follow the NFCA on our social media (NFCAorg) through Twitter (Periscope), Instagram and on Facebook and let us know what you think of our “Featured Five” segment.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is officially free-to-play on PC and Mac, and a new, smaller scale battle royale mode has been added.

Announced through counter-strike.net, the mode is called Danger Zone, and is played by 16 players at a time (this can go up to 18 if players queue as a squad of two or three). This battle royale mode revolves around a tablet that characters can use, seeing a visual representation of where the Danger Zone is closing in as the match progresses.

The tablet can also track the movements of other players and their drone deliveries, allowing you to strategically use this information to your advantage. The tablet can be upgraded to gain more detailed intel on the ever-changing Danger Zone.

Taking place on the Blacksite map, players can find equipment, money and special deliveries throughout matches that last 10 minutes on average. In-game cash can be earned by blowing up safes, carrying hostages to rescue zones, and hunting down contracts that give you extra money for taking out a high value target. This cash can then be used to upgrade your tablet, buy new weapons, and more.

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Each Danger Zone match includes pistols, rifles, SMGs and heavy weapons featured in the CS:GO’s classic arsenal. Danger Zone can be played alone or with up to two friends and you can hunt, and be hunted, as a group. For a limited time, players can nab a MP5-SD | Lab Rats gun, and earn 17 rare weapons with skins designed by fans.

Though not explicitly stated on the website, it appears CS:GO remains a paid title on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and no announcement was made for Danger Zone to hit those consoles. The PC and Mac versions of CS:GO can be downloaded for free on Steam now.

In our review of CS:GO back in 2012, we called the game “Great” calling it a “top-tier tactics game that will probably share the long-tailed legacy of its predecessors.” CS:GO managed to make it onto IGN’s list of the top 25 modern PC games.

Colin Stevens is a news writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

JOLIET, Ill. — Dick Smith, a longtime coach at the University of Saint Francis and Valparaiso University, who also was an accomplished author and served his country in the U.S. Army and as an FBI special agent, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 83.

Smith served two 10-year stints as St. Francis head coach — most recently from 2003-12 — winning 562 games over his 20 seasons at the school. He was a part of 143 more NAIA victories as an assistant to his former all-conference pitcher Ali Franzen from 1999-2002 at St. Francis, and he claimed 24 Division I triumphs as Valparaiso’s head coach in 1995 and 1996.

In all, he was a member of the Saints’ staff for 27 of the program’s 37 years and was involved in softball for a total of 67 years — including the last 59 as a coach — starting in 1953 when he was introduced to the sport while in the Army. He had written for the NFCA’s member newspaper, Fastpitch Delivery, for most of its two decades of publication, and also wrote for Women’s Fastpitch World and penned two books, including Fast Pitch Softball Fundamentals.

“Our entire NFCA community is deeply saddened by the passing of Dick Smith,” NFCA Executive Director Carol Bruggeman said. “Coach Smith was one of our most selfless members. He dedicated his time and talents equally between the softball teams he coached and the NFCA. His educational insight shared through his column in Fastpitch Delivery helped numerous coaches across the country. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Smith family.” 

After retiring from the FBI, where he did domestic counter-intelligence during a 21-year career that followed a stint in Army intelligence, Smith joined the St. Francis staff in 1981 under head coach Ed Serdar. Together, they led the 1982 squad to an NAIA World Series runner-up finish in just the program’s third season and Smith took over the reins in 1985.

In his first 10 seasons, Smith went 304-199 with three NAIA World Series appearances, seven Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference titles and another seven NAIA District 20 championships. His teams were ranked in the NAIA Top 20 Poll in eight of those years. After two seasons at Valparaiso, Smith won 258 more games in his second 10-year run at St. Francis.

During his 20 years as Saints head coach, his teams won 30 games seven times on the field and he graduated 100 percent of his players off the field.

“We are saddened to hear the news of Coach Smith’s passing,” Dave Laketa, University of St. Francis director of athletics said in a statement posted on the school’s athletic website. “He was a tremendous asset to our softball program and was very giving of his time and donated a lot to the program. We were extremely fortunate to have had him involved for nearly three-quarters of the program’s existence.”

“Dick never concerned himself with the wins and losses of the program or the many championships that his teams won,” Laketa continued. “His main concern was that the young women that he recruited to the program were successful in the classroom and after they left St. Francis. Everything else was topping on the cake.”    

A graduate of Huntington (Ind.) High, where he starred in baseball, and Indiana University, where he earned both bachelor’s and law degrees, Smith spoke six languages — English, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Russian and Spanish. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, his son, Ernie, daughter-in-law, Debra, and three grandsons. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Tracy.

Friends and family will be received on Thursday from 2-8 p.m. at the Monee Funeral Home in Monee, Ill., and a funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at the same location with an 1 p.m. burial at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill.  

The St. Francis softball team will honor Smith with a patch on their helmets this season.

— Some information courtesy of the University of St. Francis

Update #2: According to a report by Ars Technica, Wade Callender filed a discrimination claim with the Texas Workforce Commission’s Civil Rights Division 10 days before Gearbox sued him.

Ars Technica’s report says the claim alleged Gearbox took part in “harassment, discipline, inequitable terms and conditions, and discharge” because of an employee’s religious beliefs.

Gearbox then offered a statement to Ars, saying Callender’s recent allegations were “absurd” and without “merit,” while also pointing to the company’s policy of “equal opportunity for employment.”

Stay tuned to IGN for more updates as this story develops.

Update: Randy Pitchford has publicly alluded to the lawsuits following Kotaku’s original story, while Gearbox itself has offered an official statement.

In a series of tweets posted this afternoon, Pitchford said “The attacks made by my former friend and colleague have no basis in reality or law. He is simply trying to shake me down for money,” while Gearbox’s statement reveals the company is filing a grievance in Texas against Wade Callender.

Gearbox’s full statement to Kotaku reads:

“I am just going to try to focus on my work and trust that truth and justice will prevail with the courts,” Pitchford also wrote on Twitter. “It is very painful that a former friend and colleague would lie to try to associate me with such vile behavior in his own greedy pursuit of money.”

Additionally, while remaining unspecific, Gearbox’s former VP of Business Development David Eddings tweeted “Yes. It’s true” following Kotaku’s original report. However, Eddings did not go into any further detail regarding what specifically he claims is true from the lawsuits.

Stay tuned to IGN for updates on this story as it progresses. Original story follows:

Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox, and a former general counsel for the game studio are in a legal battle in which the counsel accuses Pitchford of allegedly receiving “a secret $12 million bonus from publisher Take-Two Interactive as an advance against Borderlands profits.”

As reported by Kotaku, the legal battle was sparked when Gearbox sued its former counsel, Wade Callender, for “fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.”

According to the lawsuit, Gearbox alleged that Callendar, who worked at the company from 2010 until 2018, borrowed money and destroyed evidence for a home loan, borrowed money for tuition, and paid back neither in full.

In addition, Callendar reportedly “abused the privilege of credit card access by charging unapproved, wholly personal expenses, including family vacations, gun club memberships and firearms accessories, and trying to get six-pack abs.”

A little over a month later, in December of 2018, Callendar sued Gearbox and Randy Pitchford, accusing Pitchford “of violating various contracts involving both Gearbox and a separate real estate company that they both owned, as well as Callender’s own employment contract.”

Callendar’s lawsuit claimed Pitchford and he were longtime friends, but the relationship began to deteriorate over the past couple of year.

The main point of the lawsuit alleges “Pitchford struck a deal in 2016 to receive a “personal, secretive ‘Executive Bonus’ of $12,000,000 to be paid directly to a Pitchford entity called ‘Pitchford Entertainment Media Magic, LLC.’” That bonus, Callendar and his lawyers argue, is an advance upon royalties that would otherwise go to Gearbox’s staff.”

The allegations don’t end there, and some get pretty ugly.

Callendar claims Pitchford left a USB drive in a Dallas, Texas restaurant that contained sensitive corporate documents for Gearbox and many partners including Sony and Microsoft. Furthermore, the lawsuit states “upon information and belief, Randy Pitchford’s USB drive also contained Randy Pitchford’s personal collection of ‘underage’ pornography.”

Wade also accused Pitchford of hosting parties in which “adult men have reportedly exposed themselves to minors, to the amusement of Randy Pitchford.”

“The allegations made by a disgruntled former employee are absurd, with no basis in reality or law,” a Gearbox spokesperson said in a statement to Kotaku. “We look forward to addressing this meritless lawsuit in court and have no further comment at this time.”

This isn’t the first time Gearbox has been in a lawsuit, as in 2013 the company found itself in a legal battle over Aliens: Colonial Marines for falsely advertising the title.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN and thinks this is quite a messy situation. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.