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Developer Lucid Games has revealed the Year 1 roadmap for Destruction AllStars, which contains three seasons of post-launch content. Along with new seasons, Lucid Games plans to add battle passes, a competitive mode, photo mode, and a brand-new playable character.

Season 1: Hotshots will begin in April, and is scheduled to continue until July. Season 2 will be July through September, and Season 3 will be September through December. Lucid Games hasn’t announced exact dates yet, but we’re willing to bet that Season 1 will begin on April 6, the day that a new Digital Deluxe Edition launches.

The Destruction AllStars Digital Deluxe Edition contains several rewards, which are listed below:

• 1100 Destruction Points
• Lupita Character and Hero Vehicle Skin
• Lupita Emote
• Profile banner set
• In game Avatars set
• Digital Artbook
• 8x Challenge Series

Season 1 will add Destruction AllStars first new character. We still don’t know who they are or what their abilities might be, but you can see the outline of the character in the image of Destruction AllStars Year 1 roadmap, which is embedded below.

Season 1 will also add a battle pass to Destruction AllStars–it will have both a free and premium tier. Both tiers will include cosmetic rewards that are exclusive to Season 1.

The first season will bring a competitive and photo mode to Destruction AllStars as well. The competitive mode will be a whole new game type called Blitz, which will be a team-based 3v3v3v3 match. Photo mode will only be available in Destruction AllStars’ single-player modes, allowing you to pause the action at any time and snap pictures from different angles.

And speaking of single-player modes, Bluefang’s challenge series is officially live, offering more solo challenges to take on while exploring the backstory and motivations of one of Destruction AllStars’ most popular (and powerful) characters. Completing the challenge series will allow you to unlock exclusive skins for both Bluefang and his hero vehicle, Shredder.

Destruction AllStars is exclusive to PS5. The game is free to all PlayStation Plus subscribers until April 5. So if you don’t have a PS5 yet but you’re at all interested in trying Destruction AllStars, log onto your PlayStation account and grab this freebie. The game will be in your library and waiting for you until you manage to nab a PS5.

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Fortnite Season 6 has gone “Primal” and that means a whole bunch of new features have arrived. We’ve already gone over things like how to craft weapons in Fortnite and what’s in the Fortnite Season 6 Battle Pass, but what about the map itself? In this guide, we’ll cover all the new sights, sounds, bosses, and boar you’ll discover on the Fortnite Season 6 map.

Fortnite Season 6 Map

If you played Fortnite Season 5, the most glaring change in Season 6 is the disappearance of all that sand around the center of the map. The Zero Point has been fixed… sort of. At least total annihilation seems no longer imminent, but there’s more to see and do in the seasons ahead, no doubt. But while we await the next chapter in Agent Jones’ saga to save the multiverse, Season 6 is feeling the brunt of the current chaos.

New Location: The Spire

In place of the sand comes a monolithic new location, The Spire. This tall, spiral rock formation houses a bunch of loot at its peak but it’s been very popular for that reason, so visit it off the drop at your own risk. It’s certified spicy. If you do head there, make sure to use the new nearly vertical ziplines stretching out in all directions for a quick getaway.

The Spire’s influence has spread like an ooze to the surrounding area, and now much of the map looks autumnal and harsh, with huts made of scales and bones and an overall prehistoric makeover coming to the island. If an area is brownish orange on the map screen, you can bet it’s been reimagined with this aesthetic, while elsewhere places like the residential Holly Hedges and the industrial Dirty Docks scenery remains unchanged from Season 5.

This gives the entire island a sort of dichotomous design, as players can quickly move between the prehistoric and modern in any given round. Some places, like Weeping Woods, have even been coated in a bit of each style, as you’ll see for yourself moving between the green and orange forestry.

If you’re exploring around The Spire, don’t forget to be on the lookout for three golden artifacts as part of the new Season 6 challenges.

More New Locations: Boney Burbs, Colossal Crops, and Towers

In total, there are three new named locations, including the aforementioned Spire at the center. To the west from there, Salty Towers is now Boney Burbs, while the location once known as Frenzy Farm and most recently went unnamed for Season 5 is now back on the map with an official title: Colossal Crops.

In each brownish corner away from The Spire sits smaller spires, each featuring ample supplies on the top and a new type of launch pad cemented into each rock that can fling players away in a flash. Be careful though, as each use of this will land you in the same spot, so if someone is on your tail and you dash away, watch for them to come in quickly right on top of you.

These unnamed towers are also guarded by new NPCs called Tower Guards, though we only know their names because such a character is the tier 100 Battle Pass reward. These Tower Guards take some extra firepower to bring down as they’re buffed by not just a health bar, but shields as well. They’re best taken on when you’re not playing solo.

New Island Wildlife

All across the map, players will also encounter wildlife, such as chickens, boar, frogs, and wolves. Later this season, raptors will be introduced, according to dataminers. You can defeat these animals be they passive or aggressive and use their parts like bones and meat as crafting or healing supplies. We go over all of that in greater detail in our Fortnite crafting guide, but just know that when you’re creeping through the woods and hear a growl, it’s not just for show. There’s maybe something already stalking you.

This season’s theme is “Primal” and with wolf packs, deadly-accurate NPCs, and new prehistoric locations, it definitely feels like there is a stronger emphasis on Fortnite being a survival experience. Even ammo feels scarcer and some weapons, such as snipers, are totally absent right now, driving players toward each other for closer, grittier combat with new Primal weapons. It will be interesting to see how the map evolves over the next many weeks, as Epic always has something up its sleeve. If we had to guess, Stealthy Stronghold, which has always looked eerily like Jurassic Park, might have secrets in (dino)store for players.

For everything else you need to know about Fortnite Season 6, check out our Battle Pass overview or get started on some challenges, including how to investigate an anomaly in Lazy Lake and where to find golden artifacts.

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The first footage of Rosamund Pike in the Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time fantasy book series has been revealed. Pike plays the key role of Moiraine Damodred.

The footage is extremely short, but fans will be excited to see the first footage of Moiraine. In the clip we hear a voiceover from Pike, stating “Do not underestimate the women in this tower,” followed by a close-up of the dark-haired Moiraine, and finally a flash of light. Check it out below:

The Wheel of Time takes place in a world where magic exists but only some women are able to use it. Moiraine is part of the Aes Sedai, a powerful and magical female organization, while the tower is the White Tower, their home. This teaser follows the first promo which was released in February and showed the ruby-hilted dagger stolen by the character Matrim from the haunted city of Shadar Logoth.

Other cast members include Sophie Okonedo as Siuan Sanche, Kae Alexander as Elmindreda “Min” Farshaw, Kate Fleetwood as Liandrin Guirale, Peter Franzen as Stepin, and Clare Perkins as Kerene Nagashi. The showrunner for The Wheel of Time is Rafe Judkins (Agents of SHIELD), and Uta Briesewitz (Westworld, Stranger Things) is directing the first two episodes. The series doesn’t have a release date yet.

The first 11 Wheel of Time novels were by Jordan, with the first published in 1984. Brandon Sanderson wrote the final three after Jordan’s death in 2007, based on Jordan’s notes.

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DC Comics hero Hourman will be getting his own film, according to Deadline. DC Films and Warner Bros. will be partnering with Chernin Entertainment to produce the project. Gavin Games and Neil Widner (The Hot Wheels Movie) are set to write the script.

It is not currently known which incarnation of the character will feature in the movie. Introduced back in the 1940s, the original Hourman, Rex Tyler, was a scientist who had invented a chemical compound called Miraclo, which imbued him with incredible strength for exactly one hour, hence the name. Rex’s son, Rick, had similar abilities but the effects of Miraclo were changed over the years as the character’s story progressed, granting him things like precognition in addition to enhanced speed and strength. A live-action version of Rick was introduced on the CW series, Stargirl, played by Cameron Gellman.

Later, a third incarnation of Hourman was introduced as Matthew Tyler, an android from the future, composed of a “colony of intelligent machines” that could repair themselves and maintain humanoid form. Matthew Tyler’s powers were loosely based on the Miraclo “hour of power” premise, but gave him an hour’s worth of power over time where he could move between nanoseconds, view both the future and the past, and time travel.

Details about the project’s planned production timeline, casting, and scheduled release are being kept under wraps.

WizKids has been helping elevate your Dungeons & Dragons games with its miniatures and WarLock tile sets, which allow users to create custom dungeons and scenes that you can use in you D&D sessions. Now, WizKids has new expansions, a new set, and a slew of accessory kits to help you craft the perfect encounter.

Since the massive boom in popularity, due to the rollout of 5th Edition, WizKids has pumped out some great miniatures–like these horrifying Boneyard minis–but where the company is truly shining is with WarLock, its tile set which can be used for your D&D games.

Five new expansions were released recently, along with multiple accessory sets to bring your scenes to life, and WizKids provided GameSpot with a few to check out. Four of these are expansions to previously existing tile sets to give your dungeons or buildings a bit more dimension. One is a brand-new set that will take your games to the city streets.

New Sets

The new Town Square: Town & Village set contains 74 tiles and numerous accessories to create an outdoor area. Much like other WarLock sets, everything is on a grid system, which you can use WizKids miniatures on. Check out some images of the set below.

Quick note: For the purposes of setting up these scenes, I used the half-height walls over the full height walls. I wanted everything to look consistent while working with these new expansion sets.

The Town & Village set is highly-detailed, and the paint job on the tiles is fantastic. I didn’t use everything that was available in the set, as I wanted to create a cityscape that worked with a building–more on that later. The set comes with lampposts, accents, and sewer grates to give your scenes a little bit more realism. Obviously, you don’t have to create one road that has a 90 degree turn in it though. There are a plethora of options when building out your set.

Additionally, you can add Marketplace and Merchants accessory sets to your scene to give your players something to navigate around or places to shop outdoors. Check out some of the images below on the Town & Village set for the full effect.

Much like the Town & Village set up, not everything from both accessory sets was used in putting these together. You can have your heroes–or villains–go grab some fruit from a merchant or have one of them at the whims of an executioner, probably because laws were broken, which happens a lot.

For those looking to take things indoors, there are two new expansions for your Town & Village sets: Angles and Curves. These expansions give your scenes some more definition. Curves can bring grandeur to entryways or help add an interesting aesthetic to a room, and the same can be said for angles. Check out some of the photos from the set below.

You can turn that inn room into something a bit more spectacular with a nice curve or two. But it also helps if you add in the Tavern accessory kit, which comes with some beds, a bar, a bartender, a fireplace, and more. There is also a Kitchen accessory kit, just in case you want to add some flavor to your scenes.

Much like the Town & Village sets, the Dungeon Tiles also got the angles and curves treatment. You can check out some images below, which gives you a better idea of how these new expansions can add more to your gameplay.

Sometimes you make dungeons too big for your photo box. Luckily, I made a dungeon that can be split up into sections. Diving in, you can see in the main entry room that there are divider walls for both straight and angled pieces–curved as well, which you can see in later pictures.

Of course, we added in some of the Boneyard minis to certain places along with some other minis I have in my collection. However, there is also a new Torture Chamber accessory kit which add a lot of flavor to your rooms, or iron maidens to throw your foes into. Everything from the accessories to tiles is incredibly detailed and painted. And there is a lot to choose from to add to your collection.

Pricing

Here is where we get to probably the biggest roadblock for some people when it comes to the WarLock tile sets: the price. WarLock sets are expensive; however, you’re paying for a high-quality product. The Town Square set costs $130, which can be a tough pill to swallow, but it does add a lot to each of your scenes.

The curves and angle expansions cost $80 each and you can choose between dungeon or village tiles. The basic half-height WarLock tile sets will cost $100–with full-height sets coming at $130. Then there are the accessory sets. They all run $50 each.

You can check all of these out on the WizKids store online, but there are also links below to Amazon to the products discussed here, some of which are a little bit cheaper.

WarLock tiles sets on Amazon:

WarLock tile sets for preorder on WizKids:

Thoughts

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room first: the cost. WarLock tiles are pricey. It costs more than printing out your own tiles using a 3D printer–if you’re someone who already owns and knows how to operate one. It’s still a little costly to create them on your own, keep in mind. However, what sets WarLock apart from making them at home yourself is the paint job and finishing of the products, which is consistent and far and above what most people can do on their own.

And while tile sets can be a solo purchase, in my personal experiences playing D&D, purchases like this are a shared experience between the people you play with. So while the price can seem a little steep, it’s not something you would have to purchase on your own. (How many people playing out there share Player’s Handbooks? I’m guessing the majority of people reading this.)

Pricing is the only downside to the WarLock tile sets. It’s exceptionally easy to build your own dungeon. The pieces just snap together using WarLock clips, and there’s a handy chart that shows you the best way to do it inside each box. And if you are one of those people who 3D printed their own tiles, there are WarLock clips that can connect personalized tiles to the WarLock tiles, which was actually a huge surprise.

While I was a little skeptical about the angles and curves expansions, they really add another dimension to your dungeons and village buildings. I found using these expansions for the dungeons to be much more fulfilling, as using them for a tavern or inn I created looked aesthetically great but didn’t excite me as much as using them in a dungeon. While the full-height walls add a little more realism to the game, the angles and curves only come in half-height versions. And after creating buildings and dungeons for hours, I found the half-height walls to be more favorable in general, as it was a little easier to put in scene dressings.

As for the Town Square, it isn’t a set you necessarily need, but helps create connectivity between your buildings, instead of placing the buildings on a dry-erase grid board–something I’ve sworn by in my 20+ years of playing D&D. Adding the accessory kits helps complete a whole scene, but what I loved about the Town Square set was the simplicity of it. You get sewer grates, which can take you to the sewers underneath your town. There are lamp posts as well, but overall, the accessories for the Town Square set alone were very underwhelming. There just isn’t a lot. Regardless, it’s an exciting addition to the WarLock collection, and who doesn’t want to have a giant battle against their mortal enemies–probably a bunch of Kobolds–in the middle of a town on highly-detailed tiles?

As for all the set dressings, the WarLock accessory kits add a whole new dimension to your dungeons and buildings. Once again, they are expensive–coming in around $50 a piece–but they’re worth the price of admission if your D&D group wants to invest in them. Empty rooms turn into the local watering hole, an inn, or a horrific torture chamber with iron maidens and cages you can lock your minis in. And like all WarLock kits, the attention to detail is wild. These are some of the best-looking minis and accessories available now–unless you’re a master painter and do it yourself.

WizKids’ WarLock tile sets are impressive. But those highly-detailed and painted tiles and accessories come at a price, one that is worth it if you want to create elaborate scenes for your D&D games. That’s the only downside to everything in these sets. It costs quite a bit, but it’s worth it. Everything about the WarLock sets and accessories is something long time D&D players would love to add to their arsenal in order to create a fulfilling gaming session.

Hulu has released a foreboding trailer for the upcoming documentary WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn. As the title makes very clear, the film is a feature documentary “that explores the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years.” It’s due to hit the streaming service on April 2.

WeWork is a real estate company that provides flexible shared workspaces for tech startups and services for other enterprises, and to director and executive producer Jed Rothstein, its story is synonymous with its co-founder, Adam Neumann. Neumann is described in the official synopsis as a “hippie-messianic leader… that sent the little co-working venture sky-rocketing into unicorn investment territory.” The film bills itself as an investigation of “what was really going on behind the scenes.” Check out the trailer below.

In addition to Rothstein, the film is co-executive produced by Rebecca Evans and Ross Girard from Campfire, Tim Lee, Michael Cho and Mimi Rode from Olive Hill, Travis Collins, Kyle Kramer, and Randall Lane from Forbes, and Danni Mynard.

The documentary recently premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, and has already received a review from IndieWire. IndieWire speculates that the film offers some decent insights into how the startup was able to endure its PR nightmares, but may overly focus on Neumann to give those theories greater context.

Check out what else is coming to Hulu in April 2021.

Actor Martin Freeman has spoken about returning to the role of CIA agent Everett K. Ross for the upcoming Marvel sequel Black Panther 2, and about making the movie without star Chadwick Boseman, who tragically died last year.

Speaking to Collider, Freeman revealed that the script for Black Panther 2 had been completed prior to Boseman’s death from cancer last August. “Just before Chadwick died, if my memory serves correctly, the script had gone in,” he said. “They had the script and they were working on the script, and then Chadwick died, and [I] sort of immediately thought, ‘Oh, okay, I could see a world where there’s no Black Panther then, because how can you do a Black Panther without Black Panther?'”

Freeman went on to state that while he knew he was still in the movie, he was unsure about what direction it will now take without Boseman playing T’Challa. “I’m going to be speaking to [director] Ryan Coogler soon about what shape that’s going to look like,” he said . “I have no idea about the script [so] I don’t know what’s going to happen.

“Obviously, before Chad died, the idea of doing it without him would have been a stupid idea. It would have been crazy. It was very shocking, and still is very, very strange, that he is not here. So, I’m as curious as you are to see what that will look like and I find out quite soon. All I know is that I’m in it.”

Freeman’s comments follow those made recently by Coogler about making the movie without Boseman. Coogler explained that it was hard to separate his personal loss from the fact he has a job to do. “I’m trying to find a work-life balance,” he said. “But I’m not there yet, so this is without a question the hardest thing I’ve had to do in my professional life.”

Black Panther 2 is scheduled to hit theaters on July 8, 2022. It was previously reported that production will start in July this year. Other returning cast members include Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong’o, and Angela Bassett, while Narcos: Mexico star Tenoch Huerta has joined the cast in a villainous role. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige previously confirmed that the role of T’Challa wouldn’t be recast.

In related news, Boseman received a posthumous Oscar nomination this week for his final role, in the acclaimed Netflix movie Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.