The faux feud between Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman continues as the two big-name celebrities continuing to poke fun at one another on social media, with Reynolds slamming a recent post on Twitter from Jackman.
April 11 was Jackman’s 24th wedding anniversary, and the star posted a loving message to his wife online to celebrate the years spent together.
These 24 years have been the best of my life. And, as far as I can see, we get better every year. Debs, I love you with every fiber of my soul. Happy anniversary. #24 pic.twitter.com/tpknKsLtqE
In response to this tweet, Reynolds commented “Hang in there, Deb.”
This is only the latest interaction between the two online, going back to the first Deadpool film, when Jackman refused to reprise his role as Wolverine in the movie. In response, Reynolds began to poke fun at Jackman, referencing Jackman at various points in the Deadpool movies. From there the two have continued a playful rivalry online, often playing pranks on one another or sharing some good natured ribbing.
Despite the two agreeing to a truce back in January 2019, the feud continues to this day.
The second half of Rick and Morty Season 4 will premiere on May 3, and now we have the episode titles and official loglines for the remaining five episodes. Curiously, one of the episodes has a name that clearly serves as a homage to the game Children of Morta, a fantastic 2019 rougelike.
The episode titles and loglines were unveiled through a curious Twitter campaign, where the reveals were entrusted to IGN, Riverdale star Camila Mendes, and three much-less-famous fans. IGN has collected the episode titles and release dates:
Season 4, Episode 6 – “Never Ricking Morty” – Choo Choo, broh. Catch this train broh.
Season 4, Episode 7 – “Promortyus” – Get off my face broh.
Season 4, Episode 8 – “The Vat of Acid Episode” – The one with the acid vat, broh
Season 4, Episode 9 – “Childrick of Mort” – Miracle of life broh. Whole family in this one broh.
Season 4, Episode 10 – “Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri” – Parenting is crazy broh. Stuff straight disappearing in this one.
Much like Childrick of Mort, Children of Morta is all about family–you play as a family that is fighting off an evil force, and each playable character is related to the others. It’s an interesting reference, since Children of Morta is, while not obscure, also not a huge cultural touchstone.
The episode titles also pay tribute to Prometheus (and the Alien franchise in general if that logline is the facehugger reference we suspect it is) and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
Whether the episode itself will contain references to the game remains to be seen. Children of Morta received an 8/10 in GameSpot’s review, which praised the game’s focus on family. “Fantastic art style and enjoyable storytelling take what would have been an otherwise fun roguelike dungeon-crawler and elevate it a great deal,” the review says. “Taking down enemies and eventually triumphing over bosses is enjoyable, but what kept bringing me back was the connection I felt to the Bergsons, and my sincere desire to help them push back against the Corruption.”
This week, Red Dead Online is giving players big rewards for Free Roam Events, a free Ability Card, and discounts on various in-game items, with some limited-time clothing returning to the game.
Free Roam Events in Red Dead Online this week will reward players with 50% more XP, RDO$, and Gold. This includes activities such as Fool’s Gold, Fishing Challenges, King of the Castle, and Railroad Baron. Players who complete any Free Roam Event before April 20 will earn a coupon for 50% off any coat that is rank 15 or lower.
Players will be rewarded just for logging on this week, with any player who logs on between April 17 to April 20 getting a free Ability Card to augment their skills. This reward will appear in the Benefits section within 48 hours of playing Red Dead Online.
This week, the Wheeler, Rawson & Co. catalogue is offering discounts on range of in-game items, along with selling previous limited-time only apparel in store. Up until April 27, players can find the following limited-time apparel items in the catalogue:
Plaid Cap
Folwell Hat
Gardenia Hat
Macbay Jacket
Clymene Coat
Cardozo Vest
Carver Pants
Griffith Chaps
Pelt Half Chaps
The catalogue is also offering big discounts on weapons and horses, with 30% off on all Shotguns, Bandoliers, and Multi Horses (including Role horses). Melee weapons will be available for 50% off as well. Players can also purchase emotes at 70% off, and 80% off on all Ability Cards.
A portion of all online purchases this month and all of May will be going towards COVID-19 relief thanks to Rockstar and Take-Two. This includes purchases made in Red Dead Online and GTA Online.
Red Dead Online is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC for those who own Red Dead Redemption 2. A current PlayStation Plus subscription or an Xbox Gold subscription is needed to play online on PS4 or Xbox One.
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The Avengers star Chris Hemsworth’s next movie is the action-packed thriller Extraction on Netflix. The movie contains a particularly dramatic scene midway through that was filmed as a “oner,” which is an industry term for a series of long shots that are joined together to form a single, continuous shot.
The scene looks impressive-featuring a car chase, a knife fight, and a shootout–and now the filmmakers have shed some light on how it came together and the risks of filming a scene like this.
A behind-the-scenes video from Netflix shows that director Sam Hargrave–the stunt coordinator for Avengers: Endgame and Deadpool 2–put his life on the line to film the sequence. He strapped himself to the front of a filming car and held a camera to get some of the shots for the scene.
Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo, who wrote the script for Extraction and is a producer for it, said the filming of this sequence is “as risky as it gets” when it comes to filmmaking.
Hemsworth, meanwhile, said the nature of the “oner” shot meant that they could not use stunt actors. Hemsworth trained with Hargrave to prepare for the stunts and the sequencing, as you can see in the video.
Extraction follows the mercenary Tyler Rake who goes behind enemy lines to save the son of a crime lord, Ovi, who is played by Rudhraksh Jaiswal. The movie premieres on Netflix on April 24.
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Fortnite will soon update to version 12.40, and as always the battle royale game will have to go offline for a short period while the update is applied. Here’s when you can expect the update–and if you’re in the US, you’ll likely still be asleep.
Fortnite update 12.40 will arrive on April 15, with downtime scheduled for 2 AM ET (6 AM UTC), when fewer players (in the US, at least) are likely to be playing. The content of Fortnite updates is rarely known in advance, so we’re not entirely sure what this one will bring.
What we do know for sure, though, is that Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 will continue for longer than originally planned–Season 3 will not begin until June.
You’ll want to act fast if you want to complete the Deadpool challenges in Fortnite to unlock the Unmasked Deadpool skin. Meanwhile, you can unlock an in-game reward by playing Fortnite Trivia on Houseparty (an app that is also owned by Epic).
The last five episodes of Rick and Morty Season 4 are hitting Adult Swim soon, and now we finally know the episode titles and release dates of these five installments – although it’s anyone’s guess as to what they’re actually about. Read on for all the details on when the new Rick and Morty episodes will air, what they’re called, and why Adult Swim has opted for such an unusual release schedule.
When Does Rick and Morty Season 4 Return?
Rick and Morty: Season 4 originally kicked off on November 10, 2019. But the series only returned for half of its ten-episode season before going on hiatus in December. Season 4 will return on May 3, 2020, nearly half a year after it last went off the air.
That’s an unusual move, given that past seasons have tended to air in one, continuous dose. However, it seems to be a sign of things to come, with new episodes arriving more frequently, if not always in large batches. Rick and Morty was renewed for a whopping 70 episodes back in 2018. Work has long since begun on Season 5, and co-creator Dan Harmon says the waits between new seasons won’t be as long as they once were.
Adult Swim has tended to make a big show out of revealing the titles for new Rick and Morty episodes, in part because their odd titles invite all sorts of fan speculation. That was certainly the case when the first five episode titles of Season 4 were revealed.
For the latter half of Season 4, Adult Swim went as far as to partner up with different outlets (including IGN) to reveal the new titles on Twitter. Here’s the full list, including our exclusive reveal of episode 6’s logline:
Season 4, Episode 6 – “Never Ricking Morty” – Choo Choo, broh. Catch this train broh.
Season 4, Episode 7 – “Promortyus” – Get off my face broh.
Season 4, Episode 8 – “The Vat of Acid Episode” – The one with the acid vat, broh
Season 4, Episode 9 – “Childrick of Mort” – Miracle of life broh. Whole family in this one broh.
Season 4, Episode 10 – “Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri” – Parenting is crazy broh. Stuff straight disappearing in this one.
For those keeping track, here’s a full breakdown of Season 4’s release schedule, including both past and upcoming episodes
Season 4, Episode 1 – November 10, 2019
Season 4, Episode 2 – November 17, 2019
Season 4, Episode 3 – November 24, 2019
Season 4, Episode 4 – December 8, 2019
Season 4, Episode 5 – December 15, 2019
Season 4, Episode 6 – May 3, 2020
Season 4, Episode 7 – May 10, 2020
Season 4, Episode 8 – May 17, 2020
Season 4, Episode 9 – May 24, 2020
Season 4, Episode 10 – May 31, 2020
What Time Does Rick and Morty Air?
While the series may come and go at a whim, at least Rick and Morty sticks to a consistent time schedule. The series will continue to air on Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT on Adult Swim.
If you don’t have a cable TV subscription, you’ll have to buy the season digitally or wait five months until it’s available to stream on Hulu. Rick and Morty will also be available to stream on HBO Max at launch, but only the first three seasons for now.
Each character in Final Fantasy 7 Remake has six different weapons, and each one has its pros and cons. Some weapons are better for straight melee fighting, others amp up your magic capability, and a few carry benefits like increased critical hits and boosted defenses.
Weapons and their upgrades are the avenues through which you can customize your characters and their roles in battle. But while some weapons come your way through the course of the story or are waiting for you in shops, others are in particular places that you can blow right past. Below is everything you need to know to find every weapon in the game, for every character.
Though you start with the Buster Sword, the Weapon Upgrade system can keep it a viable weapon all the way through the game. It’s well-balanced between physical and magical attacks, so if you want a weapon that can handle any situation, the Buster Sword is a good one.
Iron Blade
The Iron Blade is your first weapon upgrade and you’ll get it as part of the story. After you clear our Scrap Boulevard in Chapter 3, return to the Beginner’s Hall and talk to Biggs and Wedge to get your new sword. It gives you a lot of boosts to magic power, while still maintaining decent melee strength.
Nail Bat
Complete the Kids On Patrol side-quest in Chapter 8 to unlock the Nail Bat. You’ll need to defeat the Toad King and his Hedgehog Pie minions in order to get it. The Nail Bat mostly focuses on critical attacks and boosting Cloud’s HP, at the expense of power in both attack and magic.
Hardedge
Drop by the Weapons Shop in Wall Market in Chapter 9 to get Hardedge. You’ll need to work through part of the story in the chapter in order to get access to the shop, but it’s a good idea to hit it before you go to Corneo’s Colosseum. Hardedge is a sword that sacrifices magic and materia slots for raw power and defensive boosts.
Mythril Saber
You’ll be back to Wall Market in Chapter 14, and the Weapons Shop will have updated its inventory. If your Cloud is a heavy magic-user, the Mythril Saber is a good bet for him. It has a lot of materia slots and gives you a big boost in magic power.
Twin Stinger
You’ll pretty much trip over the chest that gives you the Twin Stinger in Chapter 17. Look for it after you reunite with Barret after the bridge collapses as you chase Hojo. It’s on the walkway just through the door where Cloud and Barret first encounter the M.O.T.H. Unit. It’s a balanced weapon that gives you good elemental damage and a lot of materia slots.
Tifa
Leather Gloves
Tifa’s first pair of gloves stay pretty formidable throughout the game. If you spec them for it, their attack power can be pushed up relatively high.
Metal Knuckles
The Metal Knuckles are your reward for besting the Crab Warden. They don’t have too many materia slots, but make up for it with a bunch of upgrades to attack power.
Sonic Strikers
Look for the Sonic Strikers in a chest in Chapter 7. It’ll be in the hallway between the B6 and B5 Air Buster labs. The Sonic Strikers are particularly good if you favor elemental damage and spells.
Feathered Gloves
After you enter the sewers in Chapter 10, you’ll hit a room in which you need to raise a sluice gate to drain water so you can cross a gap. Once the water is gone, duck under the gate to find a chest with the Feathered Gloves inside. They give some solid buffs to ATB generation, speed, and strategies like attacking from the rear.
Mythril Claws
You get the Mythril Claws as part of the main story when you defeat the Failed Experiment boss in Chapter 13. Like other Mythril weapons, these have big boosts to magic power and are good if your Tifa is a spellcaster.
Purple Pain
You can easily miss the Purple Pain gloves, which are found in Chapter 16 in the lobby of the Shinra Tower. When Tifa goes for the keycard in the reception desk, you’ll climb up a display to reach a ladder with a red toolbox beside it. Walk around to the back of the ladder to find a place where you can cross hand-over-hand to the west wall of the area, where a chest waits on top of a display. The Purple Pain gloves pack a bunch of materia slots and carry critical hit boosts.
Barret
Gatling Gun
Barret’s initial weapon is a strong choice if you’re using him as a tank to absorb damage for the team. You can raise his HP pretty high with the Gatling Gun’s upgrades, which is great with later weapon abilities like Lifesaver.
Light Machine Gun
Your second weapon for Barret is fairly balanced, with a few good boosts to his defenses. You’ll get it automatically from Biggs as you advance the story in Chapter 6.
Big Bertha
When you return to the Collapsed Expressway with Tifa and Barret in Chapter 13, you’ll eventually emerge in Evergreen Park, where a few merchants have gathered. Visit the Weapon Store to get Big Bertha, which is Barret’s hardest-hitting ranged weapon. Drive up its attack power to make it useful in a lot of big, arduous battles.
Steel Pincers
The first of Barret’s melee weapons is Steel Pincers, which you can buy from the Moogle Emporium in Chapter 14. This is Barret’s weapon for focusing on elemental damage–you can get a lot of buffs to your elemental spells, and unlock a number of materia slots, as well. The trade-off is that you need to get in close to fight enemies.
Wrecking Ball
Barret’s Wrecking Ball is another melee weapon, and it carries the highest attack power of all his gear. You’ll earn it for completing Chapter 14’s “Subterranean Menace” side-quest, which you can get from Wymer in Evergreen Park.
EKG Cannon
The EKG Cannon, Barret’s last gun, is also the one you’re most likely to miss. You get it from talking to Hart, Mayor Domino’s butler, in the Shinra Tower archives. After dealing with Domino, talk to Hart for information about the Shinra executive you’re seeking. He’ll agree to clue you in, but only for 10,000 gil. It sounds like a rip-off, but pay the man anyway; after he dishes out the information, he’ll give you the EKG Cannon, which packs a ton of materia slots and focuses on critical hits.
Aerith
Guard Stick
Aerith’s first weapon gives you big boosts to magic and MP, as well as to her primary attack abilities and healing spells. It’s a well-balanced magic-focused weapon that’s good no matter what role you assign Aerith.
Silver Staff
Once you get to the Sector 5 undercity in Chapter 8, work through the story until you’re allowed into the Kids’ Hideout. You can purchase the Silver Staff from the Moogle Emporium there. This is another well-balanced magic staff, with focuses on reducing the costs of spells and amping up Aerith’s HP.
Arcane Scepter
You’ll get this staff just by completing specific side-quests in Wall Market in Chapter 9. When you interact with Madam M in her parlor, choose any option except “Luxury” to unlock two side-quests: “The Party Lasts All Night” and “Dynamite Bodies.” Win the fight in the Colosseum for “Dynamite Bodies” and the Arcane Scepter is your reward. It’s particularly for elemental magic.
Mythril Rod
You can easily run past the Mythril Rod if you’re in a hurry in Chapter 11. Just after you enter the Train Graveyard, you’ll walk through a train car to advance. When you exit the other side, straight in front of you is another train car. Go through it and turn right to head south. At the end of the area, behind a cargo container, is a chest containing the Mythril Rod. This one gives you a huge boost to magic power, at the expense of everything else.
Bladed Staff
If you don’t know the deal with the Bladed Staff, you might never know it’s there. You have to use the Steal materia on Eligor, the chariot-riding ghost boss in Chapter 11, to get this one–and it might take you more than one try. If you like Aerith as a ranged attacker, though, this is a handy weapon; its upgrades are mostly focused on amping up your critical attacks.
Reinforced Staff
You can’t miss Aerith’s final weapon. It’s located in a chest right at the start of Chapter 17, in Aerith’s room in the Shinra Tower, so don’t leave before opening it. The Reinforced Staff is good for defense, while packing a whole bunch of materia slots.
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Developer Obsidian has spoken about the numerous cuts it made to the award-winning RPG The Outer Worlds, labelling some of the cuts “painful” and how they limited the story the studio wanted to tell.
In a new Noclip documentary, which you can watch below, game director Leonard Boyarsky said the team “had to make one cut too many.” Specifically, the studio decided to axe some content that would have shed more light on some of the companion characters, while the company also removed some main story chunks.
Despite these cuts, Obsidian remains proud of The Outer Worlds because if people are calling for more content, that means they like the game, Boyarsky said.
“We had to make one cut too many. All through the project we were making cuts. We started out with a smaller scope in mind and we found out that that was too big as we went, and we made several rounds of cuts,” the developer said. “The last cut for me was the painful one. Because I feel like I would have liked to have a little more depth in some of our characters. I wish you could have delved a little bit deeper into who our companions were and had a little bit more reactivity there. But at the end of the day, if somebody says the biggest problem with your game is it’s too short that means they liked it.”
Regarding the story cuts, Boyarsky said this content would have helped the story more naturally progress towards its finish. In the final version, the ending feels rushed, he said.
“We had to cut some chunks out of the main story, but we did it early enough so it didn’t feel disjointed. But we felt we could have built to the end a little bit better,” Boyarsky explained. “That’s one thing I’ve seen, that people feel like the end kind of jumps up all of a sudden without much warning, and I feel like we could have built a little more towards that.”
The Outer Worlds’ other director, Tim Cain, also remarked that it’s a good sign if people finish a game and want more of it. “If the biggest complaint about our game is that it’s too small and people want more of it, that’s good. We told our story. We had lots of side quests and lots of interesting companion characters. And we were really happy with the scope,” he said.
The developers added that it was always the plan, from the beginning of development, for The Outer Worlds to be a “shorter game” to encourage people to replay it and experience the branching narrative options.
Obsidian cut an entire planet from the game. “It hurt to cut that because it makes all the areas on Terra 2–Roseway, Byzantium, Edgewater–kind of feel disjointed,” Cain said.
The Outer Worlds was the first game that Obsidian created using the Unreal Engine 4, and this led to production problems that limited what the studio could achieve in an efficient manner, the team said in the documentary.
The Outer Worlds was published by GTA company Take-Two’s indie label, Private Division. Going forward, the franchise will be published by Microsoft, which acquired Obsidian in 2018. Microsoft believes The Outer Worlds could become a new franchise, and it’s exciting to think about what the team could do with the resources and backing of a giant like Microsoft.
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The Guild, Felicia Day’s hit webseries about the members of an online MMO guild who begin interacting in real life, is currently available for free on the Microsoft Store. You can pick up most of this award-winning series and revisit a time when “webisode” was a term people used and good original streaming content was rare.
This deal only applies to the US store, unfortunately, and only the first five seasons are available. The sixth season can be watched on Netflix.
The members of The Guild are also reuniting this week for a one-off charity Twitch stream. On April 16 at 7 PM PT, Day and the rest of the crew will be hosting a live D&D session. It’s happening in support of No Child Hungry, a charity focused on feeding disadvantaged kids in the US.
If you’re after something a bit geeky to keep you entertained while self-isolating, you can do a lot worse than The Guild. There’s no indication of how long it’ll be free for, so make sure to grab these seasons as soon as you can, just in case.
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