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SPOILERS AHEAD for American Psycho!

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It’s been 20 years since Christian Bale killed Jared Leto with an axe — that is, it’s been two decades since the serial killer satire American Psycho opened in theaters on April 14, 2000. In honor of that anniversary, director Mary Harron shared her thoughts on one of her movie’s most infamous and grisliest scenes: Patrick Bateman’s (Bale) murder of his loathed rival, Paul Allen (played by Leto).

In the film, based on Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial novel, Wall Street investment banker Patrick Bateman turns serial killer. Although viewers had already seen Bateman kill a homeless man and a dog, the scene where Bateman brings home his drunk co-worker Paul Allen, gives him a lecture on the Huey Lewis and the News song “Hip to Be Square,” and then hacks him to death with an axe is the movie’s first real showcase of Bateman’s utter depravity and obsessive dedication to his, um, craft.

And as Harron tells it, Jared Leto never saw it coming. That shocked reaction from Leto seen in the movie was genuine.

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“We decided to shoot the rehearsal of the actual murder without telling Jared,” Harron told Entertainment Weekly.

“Christian held back his performance until then so that it would be a real surprise. When he screams ‘Hey Paul’ and Jared turns around and sees Christian running towards him with the axe, he looks genuinely shocked.”

Harron also recounted how arduous the all-night shoot was for the rest of the scene, which saw Bale splattered with blood while Leto lay on the floor awaiting dismemberment.

According to the director, “It’s not easy to do an ax murder.”

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For more on Jared Leto being shocked by things, you must read how Leto found out about the coronavirus.

Note: This post reveals the final summon you can unlock from Chadley. If you’d rather be surprised, quit reading and go finish all 19 of his Battle Intel objectives.

Key to getting new, powerful materia in Final Fantasy 7 Remake is Chadley, a side-character you’ll find in Chapter 3 who gives you Battle Intel assignments to complete when fighting enemies. Knocking out Chadley’s objectives allows him to create new materia, including new summons like Shiva and Fat Chocobo. To get those summons, though, you have to beat the monsters in battle first.

The most powerful of Chadley’s summons is also the most difficult to get. It requires completing all his Battle Intel assignments, before taking on an extremely tough boss fight. Below is everything you need to do to unlock the final summon and defeat it in battle.

We’ve also got a ton more Final Fantasy 7 Remake guides to help you find every collectible, unlock every secret, and beat every boss along the way.

How To Unlock The Bahamut Summon

You can only get Bahamut by defeating it in Chadley’s Combat Simulator. To get the fight, however, you have to clear all 19 other Battle Intel objectives–a time-consuming endeavor. You’ll complete most of these through the normal course of playing the game, but a few require a little more effort. Here’s the full list of Chadley’s objectives:

• Report 01: Monster Bio Pt. 1
  • Assess two enemy types
• Report 02: Magic Elements Pt. 2
  • Hit enemies vulnerable to fire, ice, or lightning using the appropriate magic–one for each element.
• Report 03: The Stagger Effect Pt. 1
  • Use unique abilities on Staggered enemies and charge the ATB gauge 10 times.
• Report 04: The Stagger Effect Pt. 2
  • Stagger 15 enemy types.
• Report 05: Combat Simulator: Shiva
• Report 06: Monster Bio Pt. 2
  • Assess 10 enemy types.
• Report 07: Magic Elements Pt. 2
  • Exploit weaknesses of 15 enemy types.
• Report 08: The Manipulation Technique
  • Defeat two or more enemies with a single attack.
• Report 09: Monster Variants Pt. 1
  • Defeat monsters of three unique varieties–you’ll find most of these in side-quests in Chapter 3, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, and Chapter 14.
• Report 10: Combat Simulation: Fat Chocobo
• Report 11: Monster Bio Pt. 3
  • Assess 20 enemy types.
• Report 12: The Stagger Effect Pt. 3
  • Increase stagger damage bonus to 200%–use Tifa’s Rise and Fall, Omnistrike, and Whirlwind Uppercut on a staggered enemy to increase the bonus.
• Report 13: Refocus Analysis
  • Trigger the Refocus limit break two times. The Refocus limit break is equippable with a materia Aerith has when you get her on your team in Chapter 8, but you can equip it to anyone.
• Report 14: The Stagger Effect Pt. 4
  • Stagger 40 enemy types.
• Report 15: Combat Simulation: Leviathan
• Report 16: Monster Bio Pt. 4
  • Assess 30 enemy types.
• Report 17: Weapon Abilities
  • Acquire all 16 weapon abilities. Use our Weapons Guide to find them all.
• Report 18: MP Consumption
  • Master all 12 types of magic materia. This is a time-consuming one, but you can get a leg up by equipping the Pedometer materia you find in Chapter 14 and walking 5,000 steps to turn it into AP Up materia. You also get a big AP boost when you use the Chapter Select feature after you’ve completed the game once, which can speed up leveling your green magic materia.
• Report 19: Monster Varients Pt. 2
  • Defeat monsters of 10 unique varieties. You can find more of these in Corneo’s Colosseum and the Shinra Combat Simulator.

After you complete all other Battle Intel objectives, you’ll unlock Chadley’s final challenge: Bahamut. Defeat the summon and you’ll get the Bahamut summon materia–but it’s a tough fight to get it.

Fighting Bahamut

Bahamut is one of the toughest bosses in the game–it’s fast and aggressive, with a number of powerful abilities that hit very, very hard. Crowning all of its lethal moves is Mega Flare, a final attack that will hit all your characters for so much damage that it’ll likely wipe them out, even at full health and even if you’re leveled all the way up to 50. Having the highest defense you can is key to dealing with Bahamut, and you’ll want to rely on Guard when he comes at you with attacks like his claw slashes or his spinning charge attack. You won’t avoid most of these because Bahamut is so huge, so get used to blocking. With Cloud, Punisher mode will allow you to get in some counter-attacks, so you’re not just getting pummeled.

While defending against other attacks is important, you have to stop Bahamut from using Mega Flare at all costs if you want to win the fight. You’ll know he’s getting ready to use his massive attack when he starts counting down. He starts at five, and when he gets past one, he’ll almost immediately wipe out your whole team. You can stop that from happening, however, by staggering him. Building Bahamut’s stagger meter should be your primary focus throughout the fight and guide all your loadout and attack decisions.

You’ll want to equip weapons and armor with high attack and defense. We fought our entire battle with Bahamut using no magic but healing spells; his attacks often come so fast and furious that you’ll get interrupted if you stop to try to sling spells. Your results may vary on the magic front, but it’s fully possible to take him down with just physical attacks, and we found them to be more effective with the focus on staggering the boss. In general, reserve magic for your AI characters, as Bahamut will gun for whoever you’re controlling and interrupt your spells with frequency.

Here’s how we outfitted our team:

Cloud

• Weapons and Armor: Hardedge, Chain Bangle, Champion Belt
• Materia: Healing, Time, Barrier, Ice+Elemental, HP Up, Chocobo & Moogle summon
• Limit Break: Ascension

Tifa

• Weapons and Armor: Purple Pain, Heavy-Duty Bracer, Transference Module
• Materia: Steadfast Block, Skill Master, HP Up, Deadly Dodge, Chakra, Healing
• Limit Break: Dolphin Flurry

Barret

• Weapons and Armor: Big Bertha, Cog Bangle, Revival Earrings
• Materia: Healing+Magnify, Revival, Auto-Cure, Mp Up, Prayer
• Limit Break: Catastrophe

Your battle strategy is to block the big attacks from Bahamut, while closing in and constantly wailing on him with anything that can drive up his stagger meter. We primarily utilized Tifa for this job, while issuing orders to Cloud and Barret to keep up the pressure or to heal teammates. When you can use ATB abilities, tend toward Cloud’s Focused Thrust, Barret’s Focused Shot, and Tifa’s Focused Strike to push up Bahamut’s stagger meter even more. You’ll also want to spend some time in the Corneo Colosseum in Chapter 14, where you can earn the Ascension, Dolphin Flurry, and Catastrophe limit breaks for completing the individual “Character vs. Wild Animals” fights.

When you’re not using abilities that drive up Bahamut’s stagger, use the abilities you have that do high damage, like Braver. With Tifa, keep using Unbridled Strength to increase her attack power, which will allow you to pepper in some Rise and Fall and Omnistrike attacks along with Focused Strike.

We also equipped Tifa with materia to drive up her ATB so that she was constantly able to dish out attacks to raise Bahamut’s stagger, which paired nicely with the Transference Module to quickly build up limit breaks.

When Bahamut starts his countdown, he’ll also fire up a powerful aura surrounding himself that will damage your team while they stand in it. Because of that, you’re going to need to stay on top of healing spells; make Barret your primary healer, since Bahamut will mostly leave him alone. Do your best to keep up the pressure on Bahamut, as you’ll stagger him most effectively if you’re able to do a lot of damage.

Tifa’s constant use of ATB abilities should get her limit break up pretty quickly; make sure Bahamut isn’t about to start moving before you activate it, since landing your limit breaks is essential for big stagger increases. Dolphin Flurry should give you a huge boost to Bahamut’s stagger, so you absolutely need to land it. If you use a summon, go with Chocobo and Moogle and use the Chocobo Kick summon ability, which specifically increases enemies’ stagger meters.

Do your best to block and absorb Bahamut’s big attacks. His Umbral Strikes are some of the most annoying, usually bouncing a teammate for two huge hits. They come from first the left, then the right, so a practiced dodge in one direction and then the other can sometimes avoid them. Bahamut will occasionally swing down and grab a teammate, so dodge that move if you can, but if not, switch to someone else and pound Bahamut with big attacks to get him to drop them (Omnistrike, in particular, seemed to work pretty well). If he pulls up into the sky for Divebomb, scatter your team so that he only hits one of them when he lands, then quickly heal that person. You can also use spells like Barrier to make yourself a little more resilient, but in general, constantly punishing Bahamut is the key to victory.

Staggering Bahamut will reset the Mega Flare timer while leaving him open to huge damage, so when that happens, hit him with everything you’ve got. Take the opportunity to heal up if you’re in trouble, as well. When Bahamut comes out of it, you’ll start the process over again, but you should be able to build up Tifa’s limit break relatively quickly again so you can start building stagger.

We beat Bahamut in two staggers once we were properly outfitted, and he never managed to even pull off a Divebomb. That was after failing the fight three times with our team just one level lower–we cleared it at level 44. Equipment seemed to be the difference, so make sure you’ve got your team set up for high attack damage and defense if you want to survive. Stick to the stagger strategy, and Bahamut should be yours in no time.

Season 2 of Fortnite Chapter 2 is being extended, developer Epic Games has announced. This season was originally slated to end later this month, on April 30, but it will now run until June 4, when Season 3 of the battle royale game is planned to begin.

Now that Season 2 will be running for several more weeks, Epic says there will be “lots” of additional content coming to the game. “We have multiple game updates on the way that will deliver fresh gameplay, new Challenges, bonus XP, and a couple more surprises up our sleeve!” the developer teased in a blog post.

This certainly isn’t the first time Epic has extended a season of Fortnite. Season 1 of Chapter 2 was similarly extended by several weeks from its original December 2019 end date into February 2020. During that additional time, the developer held numerous events in the game, including a Star Wars Episode IX preview and a Harley Quinn crossover event.

Season 2 has its own comic book crossover. Battle Pass owners can unlock a Deadpool skin by clearing some of this season’s Deadpool challenges. An alternate, unmasked Deadpool skin can also be unlocked by completing Week 8’s Deadpool missions, which ask you to find Deadpool’s pool floaty and dance at Deadpool’s Yacht party.

Season 2’s extension means you have more time to complete any weekly challenges you may not have gotten around to from this season. If you need help clearing those, you can find all of our maps and guides in our complete Fortnite Season 2 challenges roundup.

Blizzard has announced that Overwatch‘s 32nd hero Echo, the final character for the game until Overwatch 2, is now live on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One after a new update.

Echo is an adaptable robot capable of fitting into just about every role despite being a Damage character. She carries a lot of similarities to heroes like Genji, Mercy, and Pharah, making her a pesky aerial expert that can whittle down the shields of the bulkiest Tanks. And her ultimate ability, Duplicate, lets her mimic the moveset of any enemy hero in her sights. In other words, she’s almost never limited to her own arsenal of tricks.

Though Echo marks Overwatch’s 32nd hero, she also makes for the game’s 17th Damage character. This means 53% of Overwatch’s roster is damage-focused. Blizzard is aware of this disparity, saying that more Support and Tank heroes are on the way. But these will have to wait until Overwatch 2 comes out.

Game director Jeff Kaplan said that Echo is “the last hero coming to standard Overwatch” until the sequel, which currently doesn’t have a release date. It’s scheduled to hit Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, though PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions have yet to be confirmed. Some Overwatch 2 content, such as characters and maps (among other things), will jump over to the original game.

The first new hero for Overwatch 2, Sojourn, was revealed back in November 2019. While she’s appeared in previous Overwatch cinematics for Anna and Winston, Blizzard has yet to reveal more information about her. And though she was revealed for Overwatch 2, she will be playable in the standard game as well.

There’s a lot coming to Call of Duty this week across Modern Warfare, Warzone, and Call of Duty Mobile. Steel Legion continues in the mobile game, and the returning Gun Game is available for a limited time, among a couple of other new additions.

You can now earn the newest Scorestreak, the Shock RC, in the Free Battle at Tier 25. This handy little RC car can detect nearby enemies and paralyze them with a continuous electric shock, allowing you to roll in and finish them off for an easy kill. Simply play matches and complete challenges to ascend the Battle Pass and earn the Shock RC for free.

Meanwhile, Gun Game returns for a limited time this week. The long-running Call of Duty game mode rotates through a variety of weapons, with each kill unlocking a new gun for you to use. You need to get a kill with each weapon to win, but if you suffer the “humiliation” of being melee’d to death, you’ll be knocked back a weapon.

There are also more weekly challenges to complete and further opportunities to level up in Ranked Mode to earn more rewards. This season’s Ranked Mode runs until June 1, so you have plenty of time to earn an Epic Ruin skin and the Man-O-War.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick says the company is taking some big steps in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, including one surprisingly personal one. In an interview with CNBC, Kotick said he gave out his personal cell phone number to the entire workforce.

“About a month ago we sent out an email, from my email address, with my phone number and we encouraged every single employee that has a concern that relates to their health care to just contact me directly,” Kotick said. “So far that’s been working well, we’ve gotten a lot of attention, a lot of good care from all of our providers.”

Kotick went on to say that “a few hundred” have reached out to him directly, but that fortunately very few employees have tested positive for coronavirus. He also mentioned a few other initiatives Activision Blizzard is taking, including financial support for clinical trials and local hospitals near employees.

The coronavirus pandemic has interrupted distribution channels and slowed development as studios adjust to a work-from-home structure, resulting in game delays including high-profile ones like The Last of Us 2. It also forced the cancellation of E3 2020, so there may be other unannounced games that have also been impacted. The ESA has stated it won’t be coordinating a digital show, so individual publishers will be making their own announcements on their own schedules.

Animal Crossing players have applied their creativity to recreating some of their favorite video game words on their tropical islands, and the world of Pokemon is the latest to get the treatment. Japanese Twitter user @hinopika showed off an impressive recreation of Johto, the region that trainers explore in Gold, Silver, and Crystal, as well as their remakes.

The island includes an impressive amount of spritework from the original game, as well as recreations of Johto’s towns and open areas for training and catching Pokemon. It also features illustrations of Poke Balls, NPCs from the games, and even a few Pokemon, like Snorlax.

Pokemon isn’t the only game to receive a detailed Animal Crossing recreation. Twitter user @koumepo recently shared a tribute to EarthBound’s Onett, which garnered a large response on social media. Another player molded their island in the image of Zelda: Link to the Past. As for Pokemon Sword & Shield, your opportunity to catch baby Pokemon such as Pichu and Togepi in a Max Raid is coming to an end soon, on April 15, so get on it if you’re interested.

One of the next big Microsoft exclusives, the XCOM-style strategy game Gears Tactics, launches at the end of April. Ahead of that, pre-loading for the game is now available.

You can follow the links here to pre-load the game for Xbox Game Pass for PC, Windows 10, and Steam right now ahead of its April 28 release date. Also worth noting is that everyone who either pre-orders the game or subscribes to Xbox Game Pass for PC before May 4 will get the Thrashball Cole character pack. This includes the fan-favorite Gears character Augustus Cole–AKA Cole Train–dressed in his Thrashball gear to join your squad. Like the other characters in Gears Tactics, Thrashball Cole also has unique abilities.

An official canon entry in the Gears franchise, Gears Tactics takes place 12 years before the events of the original Gears of War game. You play as Gabe Diaz, the father of Gears 5 protagonist Kait Diaz, and the story is said to delve into some of the mysteries about the Diaz family tree.

For more on Gears Tactics, check out the launch trailer here that spotlights some of the new game mechanics and more. The franchise is sure to live on after this game, and narrative designer Bonnie Jean Mah recently discussed some of the possibilities.

Gears Tactics will release on Xbox One later this year–free for Xbox Game Pass subscribers–but an official release date has not been announced as of yet.