Fortnite‘s Season 7, Week 5 is in full swing, and among them there are a couple of tricky challenges. Both of these are exclusive to those that have paid for a Battle Pass, with the first tasking players with searching a specific location for a Battle Star (we’ve got a guide for that), while the second is a multi-stage quest that involves dancing on towers.
The quest begins by asking players to dance on a Water Tower. Once the first part of the challenge is complete, it’ll be updated and direct players to dance on top of a Ranger Tower, and then on top of an Air Traffic Control Tower. So, three in total, and although they’re pretty easy to spot, you’ll need to be in their general vicinity first.
To make things easier for you, we’ve put together a map of where you can find each of the towers, as well as listed their locations below. All you’ve got to do is either land on or build up to the top of the towers and then bust a move.
Fortnite Tower Locations
Water Tower: Can be found at Retail Row
Ranger Tower: Can be found at Lonely Lodge
Air Traffic Control Tower: Can be found at Frosty Flights
With this challenge and the “Search Between” challenge mentioned above completed, you’ve done all the hard work for the week. All that remains is mopping up the rest, which will just require you to have solid Fortnite fundamentals and put some time into the game.
If you’ve got outstanding challenges from previous weeks, you can use our comprehensive Fortnite Season 7 challenge guide for a full breakdown on every challenge that has been featured so far, as well as links to guides for the more difficult challenges for each week.
Netflix’s Marvel shows may be dwindling, but if The Punisher is also heading for the chopping block, at least Frank Castle gets one more shot at justice before the axe falls.
Cult movie star and character actor Bruce Campbell is rebooting the TV series Ripley’s Believe It Or Not for The Travel Channel. The channel has ordered 10 episodes, one hour each, that will be hosted by Campbell. He’s also serving as executive producer.
The new episodes will be shot on location at the Ripley Warehouse in Florida and will tell “astonishing, real, and one-of-a-kind stories” from around the globe. It’s set to premiere in Summer 2019. The launch this year makes it mark the 100-year anniversary of the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not brand.
This will be the fifth series in all. The first aired on NBC in 1949 and was hosted by Robert L. Ripley, the namesake of the show. It has since been revived or rebooted by several networks over the years, with hosts like Jack Palance and Dean Cain. It even had an animated series.
Most recently, Campbell has appeared as a series regular on the AMC series Lodge 49, and reprised his iconic role as the monster-hunter in the Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead.
“Travel Channel fans have an insatiable curiosity about the world and sharing this wonderful and weird series with the next generation of fans is a thrill,” said general manager Jane Latman, in the announcement. “This entirely new version of Ripley’s is a fresh contemporary approach to the odd and unusual and will be jam-packed with larger-than-life characters, cool facts, history and science.”
The comic book industry came racing out of the gate in 2019 this week. Marvel ushered in a new era for the Conan franchise with Conan the Barbarian #1 and debuted the weekly miniseries Man Without Fear. DC delivered another key chapter of Heroes in Crisis, while Image gave fans a new chapter of The Walking Dead.
Scroll down to check out our new reviews, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
We’re in the fifth week of Fortnite Season 7, and that means there’s new challenges to be completed. At this point, the challenges aren’t exactly a huge surprise, but that doesn’t mean they’re all super easy to complete. One of the challenges available to those that have a paid Battle Pass, for example, is a bit of a treasure hunt. We’ve done the leg work and have the exact location of that Battle Star, so you won’t have to spend too much time looking.
The challenge in question says “search between a giant rock man, a crowned tomato, and an encircled tree.” If you know your way around the map, you’ll know that means you need to head southeast of Tomato Temple, just south of the bridge. Now that you have that specific location, the easiest way to get there is to just start a new match, hop out of the Battle Bus at the right time, and plummet down to the island.
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Of course, you’ll need to be careful about other players hanging around in the area, as they will want to take you out to complete challenges or work their way to that precious Victory Royale. When you land, make a beeline for the Battle Star and you should be fine, but be prepared to take a few attempts at it if the landing zone is hot.
Take a look above for a map of the exact location and a screenshot from the area where the Battle Star can be found. You can also watch the video above and see us complete the challenge, which will give you a good indication of where to land to maximize your chances of grabbing the Battle Star before being popped by an enemy.
On January 2, Fortnite developer Epic Games released a new update for the game. You can see all the changes, tweaks, and new additions in the full Fortnite update 7.10.2 patch notes. The headliner for the update is the Boom Box item, which does big damage to any built structures. This is a handy item to keep an eye out for, as one of the other challenges for Week 5 asks players to do 5000 points of damage to structures.
Here’s what we know so far about Bayonetta 3: Platinum Games is developing it, and Nintendo will publish it as a Switch exclusive. When it will arrive is anyone’s guess at this point, however. We saw a teaser trailer during the Game Awards 2017, but the upcoming action title was a no-show at E3 2018. So far, we find ourselves with more questions than answers. Despite the lack of information, you can already lock in your Bayonetta 3 pre-order, and even get a nice discount from one retailer.
The teaser trailer is the only actual Bayonetta 3-related document that’s available so far, and it doesn’t show any gameplay footage, so it offers few hints. But it does feature the leather-clad heroine wielding dual pistols, her weapons of choice in the previous installments.
Bayonetta 1 & 2 on Switch
Speaking of previous installments, if you’re looking to brush up on the series before Bayonetta 3 comes out, $50 gets you a physical copy of Bayonetta 2 on Switch, which comes with a digital code for the first game. For those who prefer digital Switch games, you can buy both titles from the Nintendo Eshop for a total of $60.
But if it’s Bayonetta 3 you’re after, you have several pre-order options so far. No pre-order bonuses are available at this time, but we’ll add them here if that changes in the future.
Pre-Order Bayonetta 3
At the time of this writing, Walmart has the best Bayonetta 3 pre-order deal, offering $10 off the MSRP.
Fortnite fans will no doubt want to start 2019 off on the right foot by securing themselves a healthy helping of Battle Stars, and it just so happens that there’s another batch of challenges now available for them to complete. We’re in Week 5 of Season 7 now, so you should know how this goes, but if you’re new to it all here’s a quick breakdown.
Challenges come in two varieties, with the first free to everyone playing Fortnite’s battle royale mode, and the second available exclusively to those that spend V-Bucks to get a premium Battle Pass. By completing challenges you are rewarded with Battle Stars, which in turn upgrade your Battle Pass and make cosmetic unlocks available. If you’ve got a premium pass, you get the option of doing more challenges and thus can earn more Battle Stars and get new unlocks faster.
In the free category, Week 5’s challenges involve dealing damage to an opponent’s structures, eliminating an enemy player from a specific distance, and completing a multi-stage challenge that begins with dancing on top of a water tower.
For those with a premium Battle Pass, you’ll need to search a location that can be found between a giant rock man, a crowned tomato, and an encircled tree. There’s also a challenge that asks you to get three elims with a silenced weapon, along with another that requires you to search chests in Wailing Woods and Paradise Palms. The final challenge in this section is another multi-stager that is activated by landing at Polar Peak. Take a look at the full list of challenges below.
Free
Stage 1: Land at Polar Peak (1) — 1 Battle Stars
Deal damage to opponent’s structures (5000) — 5 Battle Star
Stage 1: Dance on top of a Water Tower (1) — 1 Battle Stars
Search chests at Wailing Woods or Paradise Palms (7) — 5 Battle Star
Search between a giant rock man, a crowned tomato, and an encircled tree (1) — 10 Battle Stars
Eliminate an opponent from closer than 5m away (3) — 10 Battle Stars
If you haven’t been keeping up with challenges thus far, we’ve got a very handy Fortnite Season 7 challenge guide that keeps track of all the weekly challenges and provides links to guides for the more difficult ones. Use that to get any outstanding challenges completed and you’ll have the unlocks you want in no time.
Fortnite developer Epic Games released a new update for the game on January 2. Along with various tweaks, it introduced the Boom Box, which is an item that does significant damage to built structures. This item is very handy for removing barriers between you and any enemies you may be gunning for. If you’re on the receiving end of its destructive power, you can counter by shooting the Boom Box. Check out the full Fortnite update 7.10.2 patch notes for more on the item and the other changes and tweaks.
Lego: The Lord of the Rings and Lego: The Hobbit have been removed from a number of digital storefronts on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. You can no longer buy the games digitally, and their removal could be tied to the expiration of a licensing deal.
Lego: The Lord of the Rings (2012) and Lego: The Hobbit (2014) seemingly require numerous licenses, from the films, Lego toys, and other rights-holders, so it’s not a total surprise to see them leave digital stores. Other Lord of the Rings games, like Middle-earth: Shadow of War, remain available to buy, however.
Reddit user SuperMoonky, who first reported the removal of the games, reckons the Lego games might have been removed because they feature dialogue and music that came straight from the movies, while Shadow of War does not do this.
Outside of games, Amazon is producing a very expensive Lord of the Rings TV show that is set long before the events of the movies. Additionally, a movie about author J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife Edith Bratt is in the works with Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins.
True Detective Season 3’s release date is drawing ever closer–the series returns to HBO for its Season 3 premiere on January 13. For True Detective fans, that comes with some trepidation, as the general consensus is that the show’s second season in 2015 did not live up to the high bar set by Season 1. But there’s some hope: True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto said during a recent press conference that he didn’t shy away from the backlash against Season 2.
“I understood that there was a lot of stuff in Season 2 that people hadn’t really wanted to see, based on Season 1 of True Detective, but I’m very proud of the work everybody did,” he told a room of journalists. “I just try to keep getting better at what I do, and move forward, and I think substantive criticism is a big part of that, so I try not to shut myself off from any of it, and really just try to get better.”
He added that for True Detective Season 3, he wanted to “narrow the focus” of what they’re trying to do, and he emphasized that creating the show is “a big team effort.”
True Detective Season 3 focuses on Wayne Hays, a detective played by Mahershala Ali, and a single investigation that spans three separate time periods: 1980, 1990, and 2015. Hays remains the focus in all three settings, which made for unique challenges in every aspect of this season’s creation, from the writing to Ali’s multi-faceted performance of the same character at three very different points in his life.
Pizzolatto said he started with the character, Wayne Hays, “and the desire to tell a man’s life story in the form of a detective story.” In the most recent setting, Hays is beginning to suffer from dementia, and he struggles to recall aspects of the case. “If he’s losing his life story near the end of his life, then who he is becomes a mystery to himself, in a way,” Pizzolatto said.
With those ideas and themes in place, Pizzolatto began to conceive of the case itself, in which two children go missing in the Arkansas Ozarks. “I wanted a case that it was possible could be revisited over these three separate timelines, so there would have to be an element that was unresolved in each of those timelines,” he said. “And I also wanted something that was–even though there is that murder, something that was less sensationalistically violent and perhaps more closely tied to the idea of family, because so much of the case would ultimately impact this character’s family and haunt the family in its own way…It kind of haunted me the more I thought about it.”
Comparisons with True Detective’s beloved Season 1 will be inevitable, but Pizzolatto said Season 3 is vastly different–both structurally and thematically–from the original eight episodes, which aired all the way back in 2014.
“It’s a much, much more complicated structural thing we all tried to do this year than existed in Season 1,” he said. “I feel like this one has a lot more light in it than previous seasons, and maybe reaches for hope a bit more. I’m not even sure this is properly ‘noir,’ given where it goes.”
Ali, who was also present during the press conference, added that he thinks the anthology show’s treatment of its settings provides a through line between seasons. “Your setting is always a character in the story in a very real way,” the actor said, turning to address Pizzolatto. “Even looking for the children, as the mystery unfolds, we were really with a camera crew hiking 30 minutes to start work, with gear, and finding our location, and then beginning our day’s shooting. So to really be in that space, I really can’t put words to it, but I will say that I’m confident that it feeds you with something, as an actor, to be in the environment of the real mountains or the caves in which this mystery started.”
Season 3’s structure seems inherently at odds with its genre, as a mystery is generally dependant on withholding some information from viewers until it’s time to make the reveals. With Hays revisiting the case in later time periods, how can the events of earlier ones remains mysterious? How do you keep viewers engaged when huge chunks of the show are set decades after the initial case?
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“It was the most challenging thing I’d ever tried to do,” Pizzolatto admitted. “When I originally had this idea, I was like, ‘Yeah, but how would you even do that?’ It’s like some impossible math problem, how you keep a mystery going and have these reversals and revelations without cheating the audience and going, ‘Well, I could have shown you this, but I just didn’t show you.'”
He said one of his goals this season was to have “no tricks up his sleeve”–in other words, not to mislead viewers simply to keep the mystery going. “Because 2015 and 1990 are happening at the same time as 1980, you’re sort of constantly being told what is going to happen,” he said. “It’s telling you everything that’s going to happen before it happens. I wanted to be able to do that–to not play any cheap games with the viewer, to respect their attention and their time, but still reward them with revelation and reversal.”
With that goal in mind, it seems possible that True Detective Season 3 will swing too far in the other direction. But Pizzolatto said he’d love if viewers restarted Season 3 from the beginning after watching the finale, to pick up on things they missed the first time around.
“I’d love it if they did that, but I don’t know,” he said, clearly humbled: “I mean, they might get to the end and be like, ‘I never want to watch this again.'”
Let’s hope, when True Detective Season 3 premieres on HBO on January 13, that isn’t the case.
Disney had a monster year in 2018 at the box office. Its movies collectively made $3.092 billion in the United States and $7.325 billion globally, according to a box office roundup by Entertainment Weekly. The domestic box office performance is a new all-time record, while the global result is the second-highest ever, only behind the $7.605 billion that Disney movies collectively made in 2016.
Marvel movies helped Disney’s performance substantially in 2018. Avengers: Infinity War raked in $2.049 billion globally, while Black Panther made $1.347 billion worldwide. The Disney Pixar movie Incredibles 2 pulled in $1.24 billion globally, while Ant-Man and the Wasp took in a mighty $623.1 million. New releases Ralph Breaks the Internet and Mary Poppins Returns are also expected to be big-time money-makers.
Disney movies were not guaranteed box office smashes in 2018, however, as Solo: A Star Wars Story took in $393.6 million worldwide–the worst result in the history of the Star Wars series. The Oprah-starring A Wrinkle in Time, meanwhile, only made $132.9 million worldwide.
Disney is expected to have another massive year in 2019 thanks to major new releases like Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame from Marvel, along with new live-action versions of Aladdin, Dumbo, and The Lion King. Disney also has Toy Story 4 coming up this year from Pixar, while the long-awaited Frozen 2 hits theatres just before Thanksgiving, and it’s expected to be a huge success. On top of those, the final entry in the new Star Wars trilogy, Episode IX, comes to theaters in December 2019.
What’s more, Disney is buying many of competitor Fox’s assets, including Deadpool and X-Men, so even bigger box office returns in the future are expected.
