The promotion is part of a wider campaign from Marvel and Xbox that aims to highlight STEM disciplines and coding.
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You could game with the Black Panther(-themed Xbox Series X).
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Ahead of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘s release on Nov. 11, Marvel fans and gamers can win one of the limited edition Wakanda-themed Xbox Series X consoles. Microsoft’s custom consoles feature a look that references the Black Panther suit from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and come with matching controllers, controller holders and replica Kimoyo beads, the all purpose, Wakandan wearable wonder tech featured in the movies.
Fans and gamers can enter to win by successfully completing a memory game on the giveaway’s website.
The giveaway comes alongside several other initiatives from Xbox timed to coincide with the movie’s release. A new coding curriculum related to the movie from Microsoft’s MakeCode learning platform and Microsoft will host five showings of the movie with programing aimed at helping under resourced kids learn more about coding and tech careers, according to an email statement from Xbox.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the follow up to 2018’s Black Panther, and some early screeners generated have generated glowing first reactions. It’ll be the first Black Panther movie since Chadwick Boseman’s death from colon cancer in 2020. Boseman played T’Challa, the king of Wakanda and the Black Panther, in the first movie and several other MCU outings.
