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Among Us is a popular party game that supports 4-10 players in both local and online multiplayer. Its massive spike in popularity was driven in part by streamers, but also its relative accessibility (with easy crossplay support) and social elements. You’ve no doubt had friends or family asking you to pick up a copy and play with them in the past few months. If the $5 price tag on its PC version has been holding you back, there’s a way to play it for free: just pick it up on mobile. However, there are some extra things to be aware of.

Is Among Us Free to Play?

At the moment, Among Us costs $5 to play on PC via Steam or itch.io, but you can play it for free if you have an iOS or Android device. That’s right–Among Us is free on mobile! You can download it from either the App Store or Google Play.

The free version of Among Us is currently supported by ads, so you must take that into account if you’re playing on mobile.

How to Play Among Us Without Ads

Once you download and launch Among Us on your mobile device, you’ll see a prompt explaining its use of AdMob and data collection. The only way to turn ads and data collection off is to purchase the $1.99 ad-free version, which you can do by tapping “Remove Ads.” Another box showing all the game’s microtransactions will pop up. From here, tap “Remove All Ads” at the very top (if it isn’t already selected), then “Remove All Ads” again on the bottom left. You will then be prompted to select your payment method if you don’t already have one setup by default.

Can You Play Among Us For Free Without Ads?

At the moment, the only way to play Among Us for free and without ads is if the host of your match has purchased the $1.99 ad-free option. That means if you choose to purchase the $1.99 ad-free upgrade, the game will be ad-free for you and your friends whenever you host a game for them. So somebody in your group has to pay up eventually for a complete ad-free experience on mobile.

Does Among Us Have Microtransactions?

Yes, Among Us has microtransactions. You can purchase pets, skins, and hats, all cosmetic items that don’t affect the gameplay at all. A few of these options will be free, but you will have to pay additional money if you want access to more or all of the available cosmetic DLC, even in the paid version on PC. None of the microtransactions affect gameplay.

The recently announced Among Us 2 was canceled so the developers could spend more time working on the current version due to its explosion in popularity. Many players are hoping for a PS4 or Xbox port of Among Us, which may be a more complicated ask than fans realize, according to the developer.

Fortnite Week 5 challenges are here and that means another Wolverine task is available to complete. This week’s challenges ask you to locate a Trask Transport Truck. It’s easy enough to find, but isn’t near a named location. This guide will show you where to find the truck so you can land there and collect the reward with ease.

The Wolverine challenges are separate from the rest of the Season 4 battle pass. You still need to purchase it to participate, but the rewards won’t come as you level up. They’ll come with one-off challenges like this one similar to how Aquaman worked last season.

Where Is The Trask Transport Truck Located?

The Trask Transport Truck is located in the C1 tile of the map. It’s on top of another chunk of earth, like the Black Panther Statue, surrounded by a house and several trees. All you need to do is walk up to it to complete the challenge. There is a gold XP coin located in the truck’s cargo haul, as well. Be sure to collect that when you visit.

The Trask name is a reference to Boliviar Trask, a supervillain from the Marvel comics. His company, Trask Industries, is known for creating the Sentinels (mutant hunting robots) that we see near Lazy Lake on the map. This could be a hinting that the robots in the Sentinel Graveyard may come to life for an in-game event later in the season.

Wolverine is also now present in Fortnite as well–players can head to Weeping Woods to try and fight him. If they succeed they’ll get to use his claws. Similar to Doom’s Gauntlets and other legendary items, his claws give players the ability to deal lot of close-range damage by slashing through enemies.

What Do I Get For Locating The Trask Transport Truck?

You’ll get a new glider variant for the MCG glider. It shows an image of Wolverine on an LCD-like screen. Be sure to keep up with all the weekly Fortnite Wolverine challenges in order to unlock other goodies.

GigaBash, the B-movie styled 4-player arena brawler in which giant kaiju, monsters and ranger heroes cause merry mayhem as they battle for supremacy, revealed a new character ahead of Tokyo Game Show 2020: Gigaman. A new stage, Siberia, was also unveiled.

Now, IGN has an exclusive 17-minute gameplay video showing the new character in action in five matches, along with recently unveiled new monster Skorak and stages including Sibera, Hawaii and Tokyo. Check it out below:

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Power-suited hero Gigaman is a homage to Japan’s tokusatsu effects series, firing laser-based projectile attacks with his Giga Beam that ricochet around corners and aerial boost attacks in addition to fighting with his fists. As a limited special move, he can target and fire a powerful volley of lasers that burns a “G”-shaped emblem into the ground, for an extra adorable touch of collateral damage. His suit is blue by default but several color skins are available, as shown in the gameplay video.

According to the character’s profile, he is a once-mighty hero who has emerged from retirement to kick kaiju keister. Although he has seen better days, he has managed to retain his acrobatic skills, pulling off cartwheels, flying kicks, dive kicks, somersaults and tornado kicks.

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The press release accompanying his unveiling says “Gigaman is ideal for players looking for a high mobility type, fast-paced, combo-oriented character. His core mechanics require mastery in spacing and precise timing in each attack. In the right hands, Gigaman can overwhelm his foes in an unending string of air juggles and combos, perfect for players who prefer to beat their opponents with style points.”

The Siberia map is a snow-covered industrial complex of factory buildings, most of which are destructible. The gigantic statue of a pickaxe-wielding worker at its center can be toppled during play, to launch a missile from the silo hidden within and damage your foes.

Developed by Malaysia’s Passion Republic Game, GigaBash will feature 1-vs-all battles as well as team battles among other modes when it is released on PlayStation 4 and PC in 2021. For more information, check out GigaBash’s website, Twitter account or Discord server.

Tokyo Game Show 2020 is taking place 24-27 September as an online-only event. IGN will be covering the show in collaboration with our Tokyo-based team at IGN Japan, so stay tuned for much more.

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Daniel Robson is Chief Editor at IGN Japan. Follow him on Twitter for the latest on life and games in Tokyo.

IGN is happy to exclusively show off a new trailer for The Medium, which reveals a little more about the upcoming next-gen horror game’s story, and helps introduce two of its key characters, the mysterious Sadness, and Troy Baker’s antagonist, The Maw.

Revealed as part of Tokyo Game Show, the trailer shows us lead character Marianne across both of the realities she can perceive, introducing The Maw, and talking about the stalking entity with Sadness, “a mysterious masked girl who resides at the abandoned Niwa Hotel.”

Check out the trailer below:

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We also have some brand new concept art to exclusively show off (click to enlarge), showing Marianne, “as she readies her psychic energy against the backdrop of the material world and the spirit world”:

The Medium – which arrives for Xbox Series X & S, and PC via Steam this holiday – comes from Bloober Team, the horror-focused studio behind Layers of Fear, Observer, and Blair Witch.

It will use next-gen power to render two separate worlds simultaneously, with players forced to solve puzzles and overcome challenges in both to proceed – all while avoiding The Maw. Storied voice actor Troy Baker has described his villain as “something I’ve never done before”, and even gave a brief demonstration of how he performs The Maw’s voice for us during Gamescom 2020.

The Medium is just one of two Bloober Team games coming to next-gen this year, with Observer: System Redux also arriving on launch day.

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Joe Skrebels is IGN’s Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to [email protected].

The developers of Among Us have cancelled a planned sequel to the game to focus on updating the original, with all content designed for the sequel to be added to the original.

Innersloth co-founder PuffballsUnited broke the news on the game’s Itch.Io Devlog, revealing that – despite only announcing the sequel last month – the team has decided to cancel Among Us 2 and fold planned features for the sequel into Among Us.

Innersloth held “several long discussions” about the future of the game in the wake of its viral success. Initially, Innersloth had been focusing on the sequel due to the outdated nature of the Among Us codebase, which is “not built to support adding so much content.” However, given how many people have flocked to the game recently, the studio decided that they wanted to focus on supporting the original instead.

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“All of the content we had planned for Among Us 2 will instead go into Among Us 1,” PuffballsUnited explains. “This is probably the more difficult choice because it means going deep into the core code of the game and reworking several parts of it. We have lots of things planned and we’re excited to bring new content to everyone as you continue to enjoy playing!”

The blog also gave us a glimpse at what features will be headed to Among Us in the near future. The team is “working very hard” to figure out server issues at the moment, but will be bringing new features such as colourblind support, a new, Henry Stickmin-themed stage and a friends/account system, something Innersloth has been wanting to implement for a while now.

Among Us is an online social game in which a crew of players prep a spaceship for takeoff, but are faced with impostors trying to murder them. It’s become a viral success two years after its initial release, thanks in large part to streaming influencers beginning to play the game in front of huge audiences. In the last month, it peaked with the third-highest concurrent players on Steam, with 388,000 people playing simultaneously.

If you want to figure out how to play Among Us, check out our handy guide to help you understand the game’s mechanics.

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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Microsoft announced during Tokyo Game Show today that the price of the Xbox Series S in Japan will be reduced by about $28.

Originally the Series S was announced at 32,980 yen (about $313 USD) plus tax. This is in contrast with the Series X, which was announced for Japan at 49,980 yen, which is about $474 USD – much more in line with the US price of $499. The new price of Series S in Japan is 29,980 yen plus tax, or about $284, which is closer to the US price of $299.

Xbox Series S価格改定 29,980円（税抜）
次世代ゲーム機を、より多くの皆さんにお求めやすく https://t.co/AXMUjPbEm9

— Xbox Japan (@Xbox_JP) September 24, 2020

No reason was given for the price drop. PlayStation 5’s disc edition and digital edition are priced at 49,980 yen ($474) and 39,980 yen ($379) respectively, plus tax. Since the PS5 price was announced after Xbox Series X/S, it may be that Microsoft wanted to offer a more aggressive price difference between the cheaper models of the rival consoles.

Xbox has failed to break into the Japan market with past consoles, being beaten by a very wide margin by PlayStation and Nintendo with every generation. This time around, it is encouraging to see a more aggressive pricing strategy around the Series S, and indeed the Series X, which surprised gamers in Japan with its sub-50,000 yen price point.

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Tokyo Game Show 2020 marks Xbox’s first appearance at the show since TGS 2014. Tune in to IGN for a livestream of Xbox’s TGS showcase (Japanese only), which begins at 5am Pacific / 8am Eastern / 1pm UK / 10pm AEST today.

Preorders for Xbox Series X/S in Japan begin at midnight JST on 25 September, a few hours from now. Both units go on sale in Japan on November 10, the same date as in the United States.

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Daniel Robson is Chief Editor at IGN Japan, and he loves it when you follow him on Twitter.

Former Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein has revealed that Nicolas Cage was originally considered for the voice of Homer Simpson’s nemesis, Frank ‘Grimey’ Grimes.

Weinstein, who was hired to write for the show on a permanent basis in the early nineties, shared the little-known Simpsons trivia on Twitter in response to a tweet which asked: “Is Nicolas Cage a good actor, bad actor, or a good-bad actor?” He replied: “Nicolas Cage is one of the only other actors we considered asking to play Frank Grimes, before we realized Hank Azaria would be the ultimate Grimey. And Hank’s performance was one of the best in the show’s history.”

The Season 8 episode “Homer’s Enemy” introduced us to Frank Grimes, the man who was everything that Homer wasn’t. Grimes was intelligent and ambitious, yet he could never seem to catch a break in life. And all of his pent-up aggression burst forth when he encountered Homer, a happy family man with a house, a decent job, and just about everything that Grimes couldn’t attain. To this day, Hank Azaria’s Grimes remains one of the most popular peripheral characters in the series.

Earlier this year, Azaria, the long-time Simpsons voice actor responsible for some of the show’s most iconic voices such as Moe, Chief Wiggum, and Comic Book Guy, announced that he would no longer be the voice of Apu, the proprietor of Springfield’s Kwik-E-Mart convenience store. The show came under fire for the portrayal of the character in the 2017 documentary The Problem With Apu, which explored negative stereotypes, racial microaggressions, and representations in popular culture.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.