Despite being more than a year away, Sony has been rather talkative about its next-gen console, now officially named the PlayStation 5. Between a blog post from Sony and two interviews with Wired magazine, we’re starting to get a good idea of what the next system means for gamers in 2020. Here’s a blow-by-blow comparison between the current-gen PlayStation 4 and its upcoming successor.
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It’s been more than 24 hours since a black hole appeared in Fortnite and the game seemingly deleted itself as part of Season 10’s “The End” event, and players are not quite sure what’s going on. Those who try to log in are greeted by the black hole, with no way to jump into matches or view your skins and V-Bucks (although Sony and Nintendo assure those are safe). Rumors have been circulating that this series of events would lead to the game being rebranded as Fortnite: Chapter 2, and sure enough, a leaked trailer seems to confirm this, showing off a new map, vehicle, and more.
The trailer, which you can see for yourself below, shows an overview of the new content and mechanics apparently coming to Fortnite next season. Rather than picking up as Season 11, the new season is dubbed Chapter 2, Season 1, and it makes some significant changes.
First, it appears the game will be set on an entirely new map, as many have speculated, and there are a load of new skins to earn. The trailer also touts there are new ways to level up, showing one player upgrading different medals they’ve earned by completing in-game actions, such as opening chests, eliminating opponents, or harvesting materials.
On top of that, it appears a new vehicle is on the way. Toward the end of the trailer, we can see a group of players shooting it out on speed boats, and at one point a player can be seen diving into the river, suggesting you’ll now be able to swim. The video closes out with a clip of one player carrying another on their shoulders across a beach, which may mean you’ll have a new way of rescuing downed allies.
None of this has been confirmed as of yet by Epic. The developer has been conspicuously silent on the status of Fortnite following The End event. The game’s official Twitter account went dark, and the official Fortnite website currently displays a livestream of the mysterious black hole, so it’s unclear when the next season of the game will begin. Based on the trailer, however, it looks like there are a lot of big changes in store for the new season.
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Respawn has released a new trailer for Fight or Fright, Apex Legends‘ first Season 3: Meltdown limited-time event. The event will see the return of Kings Canyon, the addition of a new mode, an assortment of Halloween-themed skins, and a possible teaser for a brand-new character.
The trailer begins with Wraith and Pathfinder under fire while in Kings Canyon. Seeing a portal, Pathfinder tries to escape into it, jumping through before Wraith can fully warn him that the portal doesn’t belong to her. Pathfinder ends up in a nightmarish version of Kings Canyon, one overseen by a shadow-like entity. Pathfinder teams up with the Halloween versions of his fellow Legends to escape, but the foes they each defeat rise up as living shadows that continue to hunt the Legends down. The trailer ends with Pathfinder ultimately finding his way back to the portal and returning to the normal Kings Canyon.
What Pathfinder stumbled into is Shadowfall, the new mode tied to Fight or Fright. For a limited-time, you’ll be able to drop in this solo mode that takes place in the nightmare Kings Canyon. If you’re killed, your deathbox will spawn killer spiders and you’ll drop onto the map again as a member of the Shadow Squad–beings with enhanced speed and melee damage. Your goal is to survive until there are only 10 players left, and then work together to flee to the dropship. If you die and return as a member of the Shadow Squad, you can still win by working with your fellow shadows to kill off the remaining survivors before they can escape to the dropship.
During the event, Halloween-themed items will be available for you to unlock as well. Most are skins which–as seen in the trailer–dress up the Legends in Halloween costumes. You can unlock a cowboy costume for Mirage, for instance, or a spooky scarecrow outfit for Bloodhound. If you happen to unlock all of the new epic and legendary cosmetics, you’ll be rewarded with Lifeline’s heirloom.
Though it’s not confirmed, the Fight or Fright trailer may also further tease Apex Legends’ twelfth playable character. The shadow-like entity that is overseeing Shadowfall has a similar outline to Revenant–a character first seen in Season 3: Meltdown’s launch trailer, revealed in further detail via a leaked screenshot alongside new character Crypto, and then officially teased in a tweet by Respawn level designer Alex Graner. Revenant’s rumored ultimate ability is Death Recall, allowing them to use a totem to resuscitate squadmates without the need to retrieve their respawn banner–which may explain how the overseer is able to keep the Legends from fully dying in Shadowfall.
Fight or Fright will continue from October 15 to November 5.
Originally, Zombieland was intended to be a TV show, in which each episode would have a “Zombie Kill of the Week.” But it eventually evolved into the acclaimed feature film that grossed over $100 million in 2009.
What made Zombieland fresh was its self-awareness. Most horror films take place in universes where the main characters are basically oblivious; they spend the first half of the movie figuring out who or what the monster is and its weakness, and the last half trying to kill or otherwise defeat it.
But the characters in Zombieland act as though they were raised on zombie movies; they anticipate and lean into the genre’s tropes as a means of survival. This was a meta-zombie film, more in the vein of Shaun of the Dead rather than Dawn of the Dead. And if the trailers are any indication, the upcoming sequel looks to be more of the same.
Here’s everything we know so far about Zombieland: Double Tap.
A trailer for Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 1 has leaked, and features what appears to be a brand new map, boats, a new progression system, and more, according to a report by PC Gamer.
The trailer was originally posted by the Twitter account SkinTrackerCom before being removed. Neither IGN nor PC Gamer was able to confirm where the video was originally obtained, but IGN has reached out to SkinTracker for comment.
As for the trailer itself, there’s a lot to parse through.
Most notably, it appears we are in fact getting a new map, as none of the areas displayed in the trailer are recognizable from any season of the original map.
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Another Overwatch seasonal event is scary-close. Blizzard has announced that Halloween Terror, its yearly October event filled with spooky skins and events, is coming on October 15.
The teaser didn’t give much information beyond the date, though it did give us a cute look at what Zenyatta apparently does when no one’s looking. Past Halloween Terror events have included tons of new seasonal skins, a limited-time loot box bundle to collect them, and the continuing story of Dr. Junkenstein. Last year introduced Sombra as the Bride of Junkenstein.
All of this will come right alongside the launch of the Nintendo Switch version of the game, which we recently got hands-on time with. Alessandro Fillari wrote that it’s “a great way for players, new and lapsed alike, to revisit the game in a more fresh and laid back way.”
The event may be overshadowed, though, by another incident from outside Overwatch entirely. After Blizzard made the controversial decision to punish a Hearthstone player after expressing his views on unrest in Hong Kong, some fans were calling to boycott Blizzard entirely. Overwatch fans rallied to help by attempting to turn Mei, the game’s only Chinese character, into a symbol of the boycott. Blizzard has since rescinded most of the punishment.
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Fortnite players believe that they’ve cracked the code posed by the mysterious numbers displayed by the black hole. The hole and the numbers are now the only elements available following the destruction of the game’s island map.
In the hours since Fortnite’s map exploded at the end of Season 10, the sole remaining aspect of the game – a black hole – has been displaying a series of numbers. That series has now begun to repeat itself, and fans on Reddit have determined that the full sequence is 11 146 15 62 / 87 14 106 2 150 / 69 146 15 36 / 2 176 8 160 65. But what do those numbers mean?
