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Released in November, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity offered The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild fans a look at the events that occurred 100 years prior–namely, the war fought by Link, Zelda, and the four Champions of Hyrule. The game’s launch led to the re-release of the four Breath of the Wild Champions Amiibo, and while the collectibles have only been available at Best Buy recently, all four are currently back in stock at Amazon.

The Champions Amiibo include each of the four heroes that star in both Breath of the Wild and Age of Calamity: Daruk, the Goron Champion; Revali, the Rito Champion; Mipha, the Zora Champion; and Urbosa, the Gerudo Champion. Originally released in 2017 for Breath of the Wild, each of the four Amiibo are available to buy again, though it’s curious that Amazon is just now getting stock, months after the release of Age of Calamity. In any case, you can buy them for $16 each.

While Amiibo are neat collectibles to have, they also have in-game functionality. The Champions Amiibo can be used with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to unlock various bonuses. Daruk will gift you the Vah Rudania Divine Helm (with Flame Guard Level 1), while Revali will unlock the Van Medoh Divine Helm (with Cold Resistance Level 1). Mipha will grant you the Van Ruta Divine Helm (with Swim Speed Up Level 1), while Urbosa will get you the Vah Naboris Divine Helm (with Electricity Resistance Level 1). Each of the Divine Helms will trigger a set bonus when you equip them with the Ancient Cuirass and Ancient Greaves, and each figure will also unlock randomized in-game materials and weapons.

Fortnite has a new set of challenges and legendary quests to complete for Season 5, Week 9. You can get an early look at the leaked challenges below. You won’t be able to start grinding away at these quests until Thursday, January 28, but stick with us for a quick rundown of each challenge, including how to shakedown an IO guard, where to find the hidden bunkers, and where to find the crashed plane’s black box.

Fortnite Season 5, Week 9 Epic Quests – 140,000 XP

• Shakedown an IO Guard – 0/1 (20,000 XP)
• Find a hidden bunker??? – 0/1 (20,000 XP)
• Find the crashed plane’s black box – 0/1 (20,000 XP)
• Deal damage while in water – 0/200 (20,000 XP)
• Emote at stone statues – 0/1 (20,000 XP)
• Ride the Steamy Stacks – 0/1 (20,000 XP)
• Deal damage to a Loot Shark – 0/1 (20,000 XP)

Fortnite Season 5, Week 9 Legendary Quests – 143,000 XP

• Shakedown Opponents 0/5 (55,000 XP)
• Shakedown Opponents 0/10 (22,000 XP)
• Shakedown Opponents 0/15 (22,000 XP)
• Shakedown Opponents 0/20 (22,000 XP)
• Shakedown Opponents 0/25 (22,000 XP)

Shakedown an IO Guard

IO Guards are hostile NPCs that spawn near Elevators around the island. To complete the “shakedown an IO Guard” challenge, you’ll have to locate and knock down an IO Guard, then perform a shakedown when they’re downed. They have 250 Shield and 100 Health and can be pretty tough to take out since they spawn in groups.

Elevators can spawn at 20 different locations around the map. Refer to the map provided by dataminer Mang0e below.

Find a hidden bunker

There are three hidden bunkers around the map. Below you’ll find the general location of each one and how to uncover the secret bunker. For more detail, check out our guide on where to find the hidden bunkers in Fortnite.

Unremarkable Shack bunker

You can find one secret bunker under the Unremarkable Shack, on the tiny island northwest of Craggy Cliffs. Simply approach the shack from the side of the beach and destroy the wooden pallets and other debris blocking the way.

Underwater bunker

Another hidden bunker is located under the ocean, south of Holly Hedges and northwest of Slurpy Swamp, right off the shore near the circle of stone statues. (While you’re here, perform an emote in the middle of the statues to easily complete another challenge on this week’s list.) To find the bunker, you have to use the jump button to dive underwater. It’s between two patches of coral. Make sure you dive close to it to register it as a landmark.

Campsite bunker

The last secret bunker can be found on the cliffs east of Retail Row. Find the small campsite overlooking the ocean and turn away from it so you’re facing south. You should see a large bush between two trees. Destroy the bush to reveal the hidden bunker underneath.

Find the crashed plane’s black box

You can find the crashed plane on the beach at the southeast end of Coral Castle. It is broken up into several parts. The black box should spawn somewhere around here once this challenge goes live on Thursday, when you’ll be able to interact with it to complete this challenge.

Deal damage while in the water

This one is pretty straightforward, but might still require some explanation. All you need to do is deal 200 points of damage to an enemy or enemies while you are standing in a body of water. Your opponent does not need to be in the water for this to count.

Emote at stone statues

You can find the circle of stone statues south of Holly Hedges and northwest of Slurpy Swamp, on the section of cliff jutting out over the water. To complete this challenge, just stand in the middle of the circle and perform an emote.

Ride the Steamy Stacks

To complete this challenge, head to Steamy Stacks in the northeast corner of the map. Just head over to one of the stacks, walk under it, and let yourself be whisked into the sky by the wind.

Deal damage to a Loot Shark

This one is straightforward and can probably be knocked out at the same time as another challenge, which asks you to deal damage to enemy players while in the water. However, we don’t recommend actually fighting the Loot Shark while in the water, because they can deal a lot of damage and have about 2,000 Health themselves. Just hang around on land near bodies of water, like Sweaty Sands or Pleasant Park, until you see one swimming around, and start shooting. One thing to keep in mind is the amount of ammo required to take down a Loot Shark. They can be quite the ammo drain, so make sure you have an extra weapon handy. Loot Sharks may also drop weapons when defeated.

Nintendo has revealed a new Monster Hunter Rise variant of the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller.

Posted to Twitter by Nintendo of Europe, the special edition Monster Hunter Rise Nintendo Switch is adorned with a variety of runes and symbols relating to the game, with some engraved onto the back of the console. The Joy-Cons also feature golden accents, with the dock itself depicting the Magnamalo and raining fire.

The tweet reads, “This Monster Hunter Rise #NintendoSwitch bundle (includes download code for #MHRise + Deluxe Kit DLC + bonus content) will be available on 26/03, alongside this special edition Nintendo Switch Pro Controller.” pic.twitter.com/38qm3qPZF0

— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) January 27, 2021

According to the tweet, the Monster Hunter Rise Nintendo Switch bundle will include a download code for the game as well as “Deluxe Kit DLC + bonus content.”

The bundle and the Monster Hunter Rise Nintendo Switch Pro Controller will be available for purchase on the 26th of March to coincide with the game’s release.

In other Monster Hunter Rise news, Capcom is set to launch ultra-rare and golden Japan-only Monster Hunter Rise amiibo, available as part of a 7-Eleven promotion. If you want to figure out what version of the game to buy, check out our article rounding up all of the different editions of the game.

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

Bethesda has revealed The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood, a new story chapter that serves as a prequel to the events of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It will launch on separate dates in June for PC and consoles.

Revealed in a livestream on the Bethesda Twitch channel, the chapter will launch on PC on June 1 and June 8 on consoles. Blackwood will task players with “uncovering the schemes of the Daedric Prince Mehrunes Dagon,” who served as the primary antagonist of Oblivion. 30 hours of story content is set to be added to the game, set over 800 years before the events of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

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This update will also introduce Oblivion Portal World Events, quality-of-life features and a Companions system similar to the single-player Elder Scrolls games, where players will be able to recruit, develop and customize NPCs to fight alongside them.

It’s all part of a year-long ‘Gates of Oblivion’ content roadmap for Elder Scrolls Online. The expansion will send players to famous locations related to the fourth Elder Scrolls game, including Leyawiin and Blackwood itself, which is “caught between the Argonian homeland and Imperial province of Cyrodiil.”

The Blackwood narrative will kick off with the Flames of Ambition DLC, which adds new dungeons that “reveal the threat of Mehrunes Dagon”. Flames of Ambition is set to launch on March 8 for PC, Mac and Stadia and March 16 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

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Bethesda’s stream also teased an “end-of-year story DLC” which will take players to the Deadlands, Mehrunes Dagon’s personal realm. In other Bethesda news, a Naughty Dog veteran recently joined Elder Scrolls Online developer Zenimax Online to work on a “new, unannounced AAA IP.”

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

A Tomb Raider anime series is in development at Netflix, and will be set after the events of Crystal Dynamics’ most recent trilogy of games.

The streaming service announced the news in a press release on Wednesday. Tasha Huo, who is working with Netflix on The Witcher: Blood Origin, will write and executive produce.

Legendary Entertainment is working with Netflix on Tomb Raider after previously working with the streamer on the Lost in Space remake. It was also announced on Wednesday that Legendary is working on a Skull Island anime series at Netflix.

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dj2 Entertainment is also working on the Tomb Raider anime. It’s the latest in a long line of video game adaptations for the company following the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. They have a movie based on Sleeping Dogs in development along with TV shows based on My Friend Pedro, Disco Elysium, Life is Strange, and more.

There’s no word yet if Camilla Luddington, who played Lara Croft in the reboot trilogy, is part of this project. The actress is currently starring on Grey’s Anatomy and recently played Zatanna in the animated Justice League: Dark movie from 2017 and its 2020 sequel, Apokolips War.

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider was the last game released in the series. It came out in 2018 and earned mostly positive reviews from critics. IGN’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider review praised the game and said, it “convincingly leaves her in a place resembling where she was when we were first introduced to her more than 20 years ago.”

The Tomb Raider movie franchise is also still in full swing. The sequel will be written and directed by the creator of Lovecraft Country with Alicia Vikander once again playing Lara Croft.

Anybody looking for some current anime recommendations on Netflix can check out IGN’s updated list of the best anime on Netflix.

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Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has packed on the praise for Eternals filmmaker Chloé Zhao and, more specifically, the pitch that she delivered for her upcoming MCU Phase 4 movie.

Rolling Stone magazine recently published a profile piece on Zhao, featuring insight from Feige and others in the industry about the process of bringing her visions to life on the big screen. Feige commended the Eternals helmer for catching his attention with her ideas for the upcoming MCU entry, as he apparently referred to “Zhao’s pitch for the movie the best he’d ever heard.”

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“Not only does Chloe make remarkable, small, personal movies in a remarkable, small, personal way, but she thinks in grand, cosmic, gigantic terms, which fit perfectly with what we wanted to do,” Feige explained, speaking about Zhao’s journey to the MCU. “Eternals is a very big, sweeping, multimillennial-spanning story. And she just got it.”

During last year’s D23 Marvel panel, Disney officially revealed the celestial costumes for Thena, Ikaris, Ajak, Phastos, Kingo, and the rest of the Eternals. Despite being a clan of god-like beings, Rolling Stone says Zhao wanted to keep the story grounded and experimental, “like you’re right there in this space with these characters,” so she shot the movie with the same rig she used for her indie film Nomadland.

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Marvel’s Eternals, the third film in the MCU’s Phase 4, features a stellar cast consisting of Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kit Harington. Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, and Salma Hayek. Reportedly the most “sci-fi” movie of the MCU, Eternals follows the exploits of an immortal alien race created by the Celestials as they reunite to protect humanity from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.

Sadly, Eternals was part of the huge slate of Disney movies that were delayed towards the end of last year, with the movie now scheduled to arrive on November 5, 2021. For more on Marvel Studios’ future slate of projects and releases, read our breakdown of the biggest and most noteworthy developments in the MCU, on Disney+, and in Marvel’s comics this year.

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

Sony has revealed that Destruction AllStars, Control: Ultimate Edition (PS4 and PS5!), and Concrete Genie are the PlayStation Plus games for February 2021.

Announced on PlayStation.Blog, all three games will be available on February 2, 2021. While Control: Ultimate Edition and Concrete Genie will only be available until March 1, Destruction AllStars will stay until April 5.

Alongside this news, PlayStation also shared its newest State of Play, and it is focused entirely on Destruction AllStars. It lasts nearly eight minutes, and gives an in-depth look at the “car-smashing, heart-pounding, thrill-seeking world of Destruction AllStars.”

Destruction AllStars screams onto PlayStation Plus next week.
State of Play arms you with everything you need to know before leaping into the arena. pic.twitter.com/YVqwsElZBD

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) January 27, 2021

Control: Ultimate Edition is a welcome one, as there was a bit of controversy over the fact that this version was the only one that would get the next-gen upgrades. Those who purchased the base game would have to buy Control again to get these improvements.

Control was our game of the year in 2019, and in our review, we said “thanks to a strong supporting cast, a well-written script, and plenty of intriguing breadcrumb trails, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my adventure through the shifting rooms of Oldest House. Jesse’s personal story feels like an afterthought next to that, but there’s enough to Control’s world that I remain invested in uncovering every secret, even though the story’s over.”

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Concrete Genie was released on PS4 in 2019, and in our review, we said “Short and very sweet, Concrete Genie is a spellbinding experiment in player creativity.”

Concrete Genie also includes two additional modes that were designed for PS VR.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Fall Guys developer Mediatonic wants to bring the whimsical battle royale game to more platforms and add cross-play support for “all the different platforms.”

CEO and co-founder Dave Bailey told GI.biz that while Mediatonic is keeping its expansion plans under wraps for now, the aim is to bring Fall Guys to more platforms … eventually.

“We haven’t said much about the roadmap for this, but what we can say is we want this to reach as many people as possible,” he said. “We want it to come to every major platform, and we’re working hard to achieve that.”

Recent speculation suggested that Fall Guys was headed to Xbox Game Pass, but publisher Devolver and Microsoft itself shot down these rumors immediately. Still, fans are hoping to see the game on Xbox, along with Switch, sometime down the road, and Bailey’s comments do track with the idea that Fall Guys will be on other platforms at some point in the future.

Fall Guys is coming to another platform, mobile devices–but only in China.

Bailey also said he hopes to bring cross-play to Fall Guys on all platforms over time. “We want to come to all the different platforms, and hopefully connect those platforms so people can play together. If we do that right, that can be a superpower for other ambitions around original games and that publishing business, too. It’s really propelled everything forward by quite a bit,” he said.

And speaking about Fall Guys in general, Bailey said the team has only “just scratched the surface” of what’s possible for the battle royale title. The original pitch for the game was to create the “greatest game show on Earth,” and Mediatonic plans to deliver on that ambition.

“When you think about it in that way, there’s a million different ways we can take this and I hope people will see that come through in future,” Bailey said.

Next up for Fall Guys is the Season 3.5 update, which introduces a new level, along with Sonic and Godzilla costumes.

Sony has unveiled February’s lineup of PlayStation Plus freebies for PS5 and PS4 users. We’ve known about one of the upcoming free games since the PS5’s launch. Destruction AllStars, which was originally slated to release alongside the console, will be available to PS Plus subscribers in February. The vehicular combat game is a PS5 exclusive and joins Concrete Genie and Control: Ultimate edition, which is getting a free PS5 upgrade on February 2. All three games will be available to claim starting February 2.

Destruction AllStars is an online multiplayer title developed by Lucid Games. Players take control of one of 16 playable characters, each of whom has their own vehicle with unique weapons and moves. As the title suggests, the goal is to zip around the arena and destroy your opponents’ vehicles. If your vehicle gets destroyed, you can compete on foot, which understandably will make it tougher to emerge victorious. Destruction AllStars will be free for subscribers until April 5.

Control: Ultimate edition‘s PS5 version releases on February 2, the same day it becomes free for PS Plus subscribers. It will be available for both PS4 and PS5 users. The Ultimate edition comes with both DLC packs, and PS5 owners will get a free upgrade that lets you play in two different modes: Performance and Graphics. Performance will run the game in 60 frames-per-second, and Graphics mode features ray tracing. The stellar action-adventure from Remedy Entertainment earned an 8/10 in our Control review.

Concrete Genie is an action-adventure game starring Ash, a young boy who happens upon a paintbrush that turns his doodles into reality. It earned a 7/10 in GameSpot’s Concrete Genie review for its colorful art style and charming story.

February 2021 PS Plus Free Games

Available February 2 to March 1

• Control: Ultimate edition
• Concrete Genie

Available February 2 to April 5

• Destruction AllStars