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Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has been a huge success, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. In a feature interview with PC Gamer, Paul Croft, founder of developer Mediatonic, has spoken about the team’s history–and the many, many games that led up to Fall Guys.

As PC Gamer points out, Mediatonic had worked on about 130 games before Fall Guys, including many web and flash games–here’s an incomplete list. In fact, it’s not even the first game the studio released in 2020–that would be picross narrative game Murder By Numbers. Other games they’ve worked on include Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess, Foul Play, Hatoful Boyfriend, Gears Pop!, Fable Fortune. The studio has also worked with Disney, Nickelodeon, Sega, Adult Swim, and other companies on major brands.

Croft talks about the studio’s first big success, 2008’s Amateur Surgeon–which was, on some level, much bigger than even Fall Guys. “That was a sort of huge moment for us,” Croft says. “It exploded online with 100 million players and that was a sort of turning point for us in terms of moving towards creating our own games as opposed to creating or porting games for brands.”

“We went from making flash games to making games on Myspace, then to making Facebook games, and then slowly expanded from there to console platforms and iPhones,” Croft says, reflecting on the studio’s journey as social gaming began to bloom. “It was easier to pivot and change direction because we weren’t locked into a three or four-year development cycle and we could keep pace with things.”

Croft notes that the studio started as two people, and has now grown to over 200 employees across four studios.

Fall Guys was first pitched internally in 2018 during GDC, Croft says. “Jeff Tanton, who’s our creative director and responsible for pitches in the studio, put a call out to the design team, and as part of that and I’m pretty sure part of his brief was no battle royales,” he notes.

He also notes, sadly, that because of social distancing it’s been hard to celebrate the game’s success. “We haven’t been able to get together and celebrate as a team with a giant party,” Croft says. “It’s been all online, which is what we have to do for now, but I’m looking forward to the day where we can all get together properly and celebrate the game.”

Fall Guys has just released its mid-season update, which has added a new huge hammer–which is, of course, called Big Yeetus.

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A new trailer for The Crown Tundra, the second part of the Pokemon Sword / Shield expansion pass, has emerged. Interestingly, it comes from Nintendo South Africa, and hasn’t been posted by the US Nintendo YouTube account.

The trailer, though brief, squeezes in several Pokemon and gives us a preview of some of the expansions’s new environments.

It also shows off Regice, Registeel, and Regirock, just three of many returning Legendary Pokemon coming in the expansion. These are three Legendary Pokemon that were first introduced in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, and finding them required readers to read and translate braille. Whether this will be the case for Sword/Shield remains to be seen.

There will also be new “Regi” Pokemon coming in this second DLC. You won’t see them in the trailer, though.

Pokemon Sword / Shield has been a big success for Nintendo, and is currently the third best-selling game in the series.

A new Tracer event is now live in Overwatch on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. From now until September 28, you can earn a new Tracer skin and more by participating in matches.

Titled Tracer’s Comic Challenge, the event gives you two weeks to earn a total of nine rewards. Winning three matches in Competitive Play, Arcade, or Quick Play nets you a player icon. Similarly, six wins in either mode rewards you with a spray, and nine wins gets you the epic Comic Book Tracer skin.

In addition to playing the game to get new rewards, you can watch any Overwatch match on Twitch to earn additional cosmetics in two-hour increments. This means if you watch for two hours, you’ll get one new spray. Watch for four hours and you’ll get two sprays, and you’ll get three sprays if you watch Overwatch games on Twitch for six hours. You can check out the rewards below.

The event is in celebration of the new Tracer comic series, London Calling. Blizzard partnered with Dark Horse Comics to release the series, illustrated by Babs Tarr (Batgirl) and written by Mariko Tamaki (Skim, X-23), which focuses on young Tracer as she navigates London’s streets. There are five issues in total, each one releasing on a monthly basis, with the first one available to read right now. Physical editions of London Calling will be launch in the coming months.

Fortnite’s Season 4 Week 4 challenges bring more Marvel madness into the mix. One challenge will send you to a new location that recently appeared in the snowy mountains near Retail Row. The challenge tasks you with destroying Collector Cases at The Collection. This guide will show you how to find The Collection and complete the challenge with ease.

These Week 4 challenges leaked early; check back on Thursday to try them yourself.

Where Is The Collection?

The Collection is a new location based off the comic book equivalent of Benicio Del Toro’s character in the Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers movies. It’s located near Retail Row in the H6 tile on the map. It’s near the peak of one of the snowy mountains. You won’t miss the giant floating structure with tons of glass cases on it. Here’s a map with the exact location:

Once you’re there you’ll need to break three of the glass cases on the platform. That shouldn’t a problem as there are far more than three cases available. There are also plenty of weapons, ammo, and health scattered around the nearby area. Be sure to loot up quickly in case someone shows up. Try and be friendly though–we’re all trying to complete the same challenges.

What Do I Get For Completing The Challenge?

Smashing three collector cases will net you 25,000 experience points to level up your battle pass towards unlocking Iron Man and other rewards. Be sure to check out our other guides on how to destroy twenty Gatherers and hack Stark Robots at Stark Industries this week as well.

I would just like to say @Twitch this is crusty. This is not the way to support and uplift your hispanic and latinx creators with mexican stereotypes.
Just saying. pic.twitter.com/yf2vN1KRdn

— 🧜🏼‍♀️ mermaid queen 🧜🏼‍♀️ (@MerQueenJude) September 15, 2020

We launched these emote modifiers today as part of our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month but we clearly missed the mark, and we apologize. These were not an appropriate representation of Hispanic and LatinX culture, and we’ve removed them.

— Twitch (@Twitch) September 15, 2020

Like everyone else here.
No. If you tested this you had a skewed audience.
If you didn’t test this before this, this is bad.
Either way. Please don’t do this. Most of us have scheduled ad breaks during stream for a reason. Don’t interrupt our stream flow with a random ad.

— Griver84 ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 (@Griver84) September 14, 2020

Hey Griver, thanks for your comment. For what it’s worth, this *is* the test – we will be monitoring the data from this experiment coupled with your feedback to improve and provide a better experience over time.

— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) September 14, 2020