This article contains full spoilers for Episode 4 of Ms. Marvel, "Seeing Red". If you haven’t caught up yet, check out our spoiler-free review of Ms. Marvel Episode 4 and what it's like watching Ms. Marvel As a Muslim Woman.

As Ms. Marvel Episode 4 puts the pieces in place for the final furlong of Bisha K. Ali’s six-part series. Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) makes a trip abroad to meet her Nani, the villainous ClanDestine escape a Department of Damage Control’s Supermax prison and are hot on her trail.

Thankfully, Kamala finds a new friend in the form of the Red Dagger (Aramis Knight). We’ve got the scoop of who he is in the comics and how much the Red Dagger could be a part of the MCU’s future.

Who Is Red Dagger In The Comics?

In the comics, Laal Khanjeer (the Red Dagger) is introduced in G. Willow Wilson and Mirka Andolfo’s Ms. Marvel (Vol. 4) #12 from 2016. Here, he’s known as the protector of Karachi and stalks the streets by night to keep its citizens safe.

Unlike Kamala, Kareem has no Terrigen mist or special bracelets – he’s just a regular Joe. Still, he comes in handy in a scrap, and if he’s not throwing knives, he’s leaping across rooftops with parkour skills he learned on YouTube. Similar to the relationship between Daredevil and Elektra, Red Dagger has been a rival, ally, and even love interest of Kamala. The pair have a frosty meeting in Karachi, where Red Dagger even brands Kamala a foreigner who is stepping on his turf and doing more harm than good.

Jump forward to 2017’s Ms. Marvel #23 and Kareem pops up in America to take part in a school exchange program. Despite living with Kamala’s family, the dynamic duo still doesn’t learn each other's secret identities when stopping a runaway train. However, they later kiss (Ms. Marvel #29) and toy with the idea of coming clean about who they are. Ms. Marvel and Red Dagger have a will-they-won’t-they relationship, but he eventually leaves Jersey City before they can make things official.

In the comics, he has an established tie to the Khan family thanks to his mother being close friends with Kamala’s aunt. It’s also likely the show is skipping over the fact comic book Kareem lived with Kamala’s grandmother in Kamachi before he came to the USA.

What Does Red Dagger’s Introduction Mean For Ms. Marvel?

Like Kamala’s revamped powers and comic book origin, Red Dagger is a little different in the Disney+ series. The Red Daggers are a protective society operating out of Karachi, rather than a singular character. The head of the Red Daggers appears to be Waleed (Farhan Akhtar) who, alongside Kareem, teaches Kamala about how our world connects to the Noor Realm as well as her own destiny as a Djinn.

The introductions don’t last long, though. During a tense showdown between Kamala and her new friends against the ClanDestine, Waleed is killed. While there are questions about Kareem’s future now that his mentor has fallen, it’s unlikely that Najma and the ClanDestine will succeed in forcing Kamala to tear down the veil and it seems Kareem is destined to help her fight them.

Red Dagger’s MCU Future

Although Red Dagger is powerless in the comics, there are also hints that he’s a rogue ClanDestine in Ms. Marvel. Much like how Najma says she realized Kamala’s potential back in Episode 3, Kareem claims he can “sense the Noor” inside her when she asks if he’s following her. In a typical MCU revamp, Kamala could fight alongside a superpowered Red Dagger.

Although Knight isn’t confirmed for Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, it’s possible Red Dagger will appear alongside Kamala. Assuming Kareem makes it to the end of the series and heads back to America with the Khan family, he could feature as part of her introduction to the superpowered team of Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), and Monica Rambeau’s Photon (Teyonah Parris).

There’s no word on whether Ms. Marvel is getting a Season 2, but if it does, it’s also logical to assume we’ll see Red Dagger again to continue his comic book source material. Further down the line, Red Dagger could even team up with Danvers herself. In the comics, Kareem joins a team of Ms. Marvel stand-ins called the Kamala Corps when she takes a hiatus from fighting crime. The group takes out a low-level villain named The Inventor, so it’s easy to imagine Kareem appearing in something like Ms. Marvel Season 2.

Paramount+ has announced that its South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 film will arrive on the streaming service on July 13 in the U.S.

A brand new trailer for Part 2 was also shared on South Park's Twitter (below) that shows Randy going "full nuclear Karen" as chaos takes over the town.

According to the official plot synopsis, "a drought has brought the town of South Park to the brink of disaster," and there're sure to be plenty more rowdy and ridiculous moments in the Paramount+ exclusive.

In SOUTH PARK THE STREAMING WARS PART 2, a drought has brought the town of South Park to the brink of disaster. The sequel premieres exclusively on Paramount+ on July 13 in the US and Canada. pic.twitter.com/tEJhU0Hg5c

— South Park (@SouthPark) June 29, 2022

While the runtime wasn't revealed, the sequel will likely be a similar length to the first Streaming Wars, which clocked in at around 48 minutes.

Audiences outside the U.S. will likely to have to wait a little longer to watch the film, though it's unclear how long as Paramount+ only said it would be rolled out to international markets after, with no specific mention of timings.

The original was announced in May and premiered on Paramount+ on June 1, parodying the "streaming wars" that the new service had entered against Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, and so on.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Treehouses in Minecraft provide a wonderful way of incorporating unique and cool designs into your home. Whether you're just starting out and want some more niche house ideas to work from, or you're a pro in Minecraft but want to think outside the box, we've got ideas and tips for you.

There are two things to consider as you scroll through our favorite treehouse build concepts:

• In order to dictate the size of your treehouse, it will depend if you’re working on your main hub or an addition to an existing build.
• Furthermore, the biome you choose to build in will control the extent to which you can use naturally generated trees versus trees that you artificially create yourself.

That said, we’ve rounded up some of the best treehouse build ideas for Minecraft, from simple, starter tree houses to next-level designs and challenging builds, and everything in between.

1. Simple Treehouse

If you’re struggling with how to build a treehouse in Minecraft, just go basic to begin with. Find a tree that has a decent height (a nice clear view is a bonus), and attach a small four-walled house to it. Whether it’s actually in the air hanging from the tree or just on the ground adjacent, it doesn’t really matter!

You can expand up and out, even artificially increasing the height of the tree as you progress in the game. If you're new to Minecraft or building this type of house, definitely start here.

2. Jungle Treehouse

In the biome that has the tallest trees, it only makes sense to use the real estate and build a shack high in the sky. The abundance of tightly-packed tall trees and hanging vines allow an easy method of interconnecting various small structures.

How to Easily Build a Jungle Tree House via Mr Mirror:

Video via: Mr Mirror

Not only do the vines that adorn a number of the trees in Jungle biomes act as a natural ladder, but you can also place them on the leaves all the way around the tree you’ve built upon to create some natural cover/camouflage.

If you’re in a multiplayer world with friends, this can be a particularly enjoyable, and accomplishable project, with individual houses creating a lovely Ewok-style village as the end result!

3. Leaf House

Can’t quite get your house to look right, clinging to the side of a tree? Think outside of the box and instead have your home base within the leaves of a tree. Using Shears to gather leaves from surrounding trees, you can create a bubble of leaves on top of those that are naturally generated on the trees.

Though this may limit your range of decoration and scope, this can prove to be the best way for your house to blend in with the surroundings.

As a tip: turn your graphic settings from Fancy to Fast and the leaves will no longer be translucent, meaning any build beneath the leaves will be completely invisible.

4. A Literal Tree House

If you want to take things to the next level of weird and unique, drop the chore of looking for the perfect tree to call home and instead make your own. Whilst somewhat inefficient in terms of resource usage, it can be a fun build to try and structure your house so it replicates the shape and looks of a tree, albeit slightly wider and larger than its brethren.

5. Nether Tree House

With the Nether gaining forest biomes as of late, you can take advantage of the new leafy real estate to build a home up high in the deep down below. Using blocks exclusive to the Nether, like Crimson Blocks and Netherrack can help your build feel more at home amongst its surroundings, but also means you might lose it as it blends in more and more.

There are threats abound in the Nether, so if you have access to a surplus of Obsidian, it might be worth building your house (or the outer shell at the very least) with it. That way, any Ghast fireballs that stray near your build, the damage will be drastically reduced.

6. Tree Root House

Want to get a little unconventional? Head underground with some Stripped Logs, and build out some tree roots. Using the roots, you can hang a house from the ceiling of a cavern.

Incorporate some Pointed Dripstone, Spore Blossom and Glow Lichen to give it a natural, overgrown look and your humble underground abode will be complete.

7. Bonus: Make a Tree House for Every Tree Type

If you're up for it, you can also challenge yourself to make a tree house for every Minecraft tree type in the game. We're talking all of them; Oak, Spruce, Birch, Dark Oak and Jungle!

Video via TheMythicalSausage

What are some of your favorite tree house builds in Minecraft? Let us know in the comments.

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Samuel Heaney is a freelance writer with expertise in gaming guides and all things Minecraft. You can follow him on Twitter.

One of the biggest rumors heading into the week was potential information surrounding God of War: Ragnarok, possibly even a release date. But with June almost over and no mention of the next God of War game, Santa Monica Studio’s Cory Barlog is asking fans to keep the faith.

“If it were up to me I would share all the information hen I know about it. But it is not up to me,” Barlog tweeted. “So please, be patient.”

dear all,

if it were up to me I would share all the information when I know about it. but it is not up to me.

so please, be patient.

I promise things will be shared at the earliest possible moment they can be.

we make games for you. we get to make games because of you. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/aw7dje5XxF

— cory barlog (@corybarlog) June 29, 2022

Barlog also added that information “will be shared at the earliest possible moment they can be,” meaning any information, or lack of is for a reason.

For the past week, there have been rumors that there will be some kind of announcement for God of War Ragnarok on June 30 after reports from Bloomberg suggested Ragnarok is slated for a November 2022 launch.

But without any announcement, it looks like God of War Ragnarok could skip June altogether, though there are rumblings that any news could be surprise dropped tomorrow.

In other God of War news, Sony is reportedly developing a God of War series for Amazon, to go along with its other series productions like the Horizon series on Netflix and The Last of Us for HBO.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Sometimes you need to take a break and escape everyday life, and there's no better escape than placing a pin in the infinite interstellar map and taking a trip to outer space.

Space tourism has finally become a reality and although the ticket to ride is still at a premium for most, the cost of booking a galactic getaway is gradually falling as companies find new and innovative ways to make space travelling technology more efficient to reduce the prices for inquisitive citizen explorers.

So, whether it's something you could consider now or perhaps way off into the future, we have a rundown of everything you need to know before journeying beyond our planet. Click through our slideshow or scroll through the celestial catalogue below for all of the information you need about the services and packages currently on offer.

Modes of Transport

Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and SpaceX are three companies that have been at the forefront of the race to space, having already made headlines for their various crewed spaceflights. However, more and more companies are now gearing up to offer suborbital jaunts to space… or at least to the very edge of it.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin shared news of its fourth successful space tourism mission in March 2022. That trip saw five paying customers board the company's New Shepard capsule to travel past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space – before floating weightlessly for several minutes to take in the surrounding sights.

According to the Blue Origin website, there are reclining seats in the pressurized crew capsule, with room to take up to six people on a suborbital spaceflight. Each passenger gets their own window seat, and those windows take up over one-third of the capsule's surface area, giving every occupant a spectacular view of the Earth as they depart it.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson achieved his dream and reached the edge of space aboard the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane in July 2021. Following the success of that mission, the company reopened ticket sales to the general public for its commercial spaceflights. Those flights are due to start departing sometime in 2023, per SpaceNews.

Branson's company promises a "first-of-its-kind flight" that begins with a smooth runaway take-off, much like a regular plane lifting off from one destination to travel to another. The Virgin Galactic spaceship, however, is attached to a mothership and will climb to approximately 50,000 ft before being released and propelled towards the stars.

SpaceX launched its first commercial orbital crew spaceflight in May 2020, successfully transporting NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. More than a year later, it was reported that Elon Musk had sent four private passengers into orbit for a three-day flight, marking the company's first mission to space with an all-civilian crew.

NASA is using the Boeing Starliner spacecraft and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for its tourism missions. The Dragon spacecraft can carry up to 7 passengers to Earth orbit and beyond. The official site for Elon Musk's SpaceX shows the practicality of the capsule, with a row of seats, control displays, and storage space filling the quarters.

Two alternative options come by way of World View and Space Perspective. Both companies have designed space tourism solutions that will allow curious travellers to explore new perspectives from the "edge of space," with their Balloon capsules reaching a peak altitude of 100,000 feet (almost 20 miles), above 99% of Earth's atmosphere.

World View's Explorer capsule is equipped with eight reclining seats, personal monitors, and large viewing ports for passengers to gaze upon the curvature of Earth and the darkness of space, while Space Perspective operates a state-of-the-art, customizable Space Lounge with chairs, tables, couches, and even a bathroom that has a skylight.

Experiences

Companies such as World View and Space Perspective might not be able to thrust their passengers into the far reaches of space like Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and SpaceX, but they are offering a luxury experience to make their trips beyond the blue marble as memorable as possible for the passengers aboard their space balloons.

The seats in World View's hexagon-shaped pods are comparable to the level of luxury that a passenger would experience in business class on a standard commercial flight. According to Dezeen, each seat is accompanied by "a cocktail table, a screen providing educational materials and activities, a central console, personal storage and a beverage holder."

There's also a concierge service on board to ensure that all guests are catered to during their six-hour trip at altitude. Flyers will be offered "a gourmet meal as well as drinks" as part of their fare and will be able to "stream and use their mobile phones from the capsule," though the capsule's two-metre-high elliptical windows might make for better viewing.

Space Perspective's virtual tour of Spaceship Neptune reveals the luxury interior of its Space Lounge, complete with comfortable lounge chairs, mood lighting, and even plants and herbs that can be used in food and drink prep. The vessel also has its very own cocktail menu because, after all, it's five o'clock somewhere down on the Earth below.

The experience aboard Spaceship Neptune is fully customizable for those explorers looking to book a full capsule. "From the menu and cocktails onboard, to the soundtrack and lighting, your individual preferences can be incorporated into your journey to create your definitive ultimate adventure," the company's official website notes.

Prices

While space travel has opened up to the public, it's only possible for those who can afford it and prices vary from company to company. For example, a suborbital trip with Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic will typically cost between $250,000 to $500,000 while SpaceX is considerably more – a reported $55 million each for those that travelled to the Space Station.

Companies offering balloon rides over rocket launches can offer space tourism experiences at lower prices. A voyage with World View will cost $50,000 a ticket and they have "flexible financing" options available for curious space explorers. Meanwhile, Space Perspective is asking $125,000 per ticket with a $1,000 refundable deposit to reserve a seat.

Launch Dates

Booking a galactic getaway is just a few clicks away and most of the companies mentioned in this article are already up and running with their space tourism ventures. Reuters reports that Blue Origin completed its fifth crewed flight in June and the company currently remains open to bookings for flights in 2022 right the way through to 2025 and beyond.

Virgin Galactic opened its ticket sales back up in February and is still taking spaceflight reservations now. The company aims to have about three launches per month when operations start in 2023, according to SpaceNews. Likewise, SpaceX welcomes people to start planning their journeys now, though it's unclear when those flights will actually launch.

World View is taking bookings and deposits for its commercial spaceflights, which are scheduled to begin from the Grand Canyon and Great Barrier Reef in 2024, with more locations opening up in the future. And Space Perspective's first flights have sold out for 2024 but the company is still accepting reservations for its spaceflight experiences.

Before you start exploring space for yourself, you might want to learn a little more about it. After all, there are over 5,000 planets outside our solar system and there are a lot of weird and wonderful ones. There are also heaps of noteworthy stars to write home about, including one named after a Tolkien character and another that is the farthest star ever detected.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Thumbnail image credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman.