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Hopefully, you haven’t gotten your fill of live-action Pokemon movies. Following the box office success of Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, which has already earned over $60 million after one week in theaters, it’s being reported that a sequel is being developed. Though there aren’t many details at this point, it’s hardly a surprise that a property with as much lore as Pokemon is being looked at for more big screen adaptations.

The news comes from ComicBook.com, which cites numerous sources that claim Legendary Entertainment is moving forward with a sequel to the film, which stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular yellow pocket monster. Based on the report, it sounds as if the next movie will be a direct sequel to Detective Pikachu, while further Pokemon films will be explored in the years to come.

While a second Detective Pikachu film would likely put its primary focus on Pikachu once again, there are still tons of Pokemon that populated the world of Ryme City and beyond in the first film. GameSpot’s resident Pokemon experts managed to identify nearly 100 different little monsters in the movie, as well as a slew of Easter eggs that hint at even more.

While Detective Pikachu is the first live-action foray for the franchise, it’s not the first movie. The animated Pokemon: The First Movie was released in theaters in 1998, with a long line of sequels and spin-offs in the years since.

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Destiny 2‘s Season the Drifter is quickly coming to an end. The season’s last Exotic, Outbreak Perfected, is out in the wild, and we’re currently seeing the final Iron Banner before the Season of Opulence starts on June 4 and brings new content for Annual Pass holders. And with his arrival this weekend, Xur brings not only another stash of Exotic weapons and armor, but the final Invitation of the Nine, completing the story of the Drifter and the Emissary. Unfortunately, at least one of those Exotics has a nerf coming its way.

Head to Titan if you’re looking for Xur. He’s hanging out on The Rig in a small building to the north of the spawn point. Ride your sparrow until you’ve got water on your left, then head into the low building to your left to find Xur inside. He’s offering D.A.R.C.I. this week, an Exotic sniper rifle that gives you information on enemies when you aim down the sights at them with its Personal Assistant perk, and which amps up the damage you do when Personal Assistant is active.

For armor, Xur offers Celestial Nighthawk helmet for Hunters, which gives you one high-damage shot for your Golden Gun Super, rather than several weaker shots. It also makes enemies explode, and killing enemies with your Golden Gun gets you Super energy back. Titans get the Ursa Furiosa gauntlets, which give you Super energy back based on how much damage you absorb with your Sentinel Shield Super, and gives you faster movement speed when you’re using it. Finally, for Warlocks, there’s Geomag Stabilizers, a set of boots that increase the duration of your Chaos Reach Super as you do damage with it. You can also sometimes get Super energy for sprinting.

Here are all the Exotics Xur offers this week and what they’ll cost you:

• D.A.R.C.I. (Exotic sniper rifle) — 29 Legendary Shards
• Ursa Furiosa (Exotic Titan gauntlets) — 23 Legendary Shards
• Celestial Nighthawk (Exotic Hunter helmet) — 23 Legendary Shards
• Geomag Stabilizers (Exotic Warlock leg armor) — 23 Legendary Shards

If nothing Xur has strikes your fancy, you can also purchase a Fated Engram from Xur. Thanks to a recent update, Fated Engrams can now dish out Exotics from the Forsaken expansion, as well as from the original Year One group (but not from the Black Armory or the Jokers Wild expansions). Grabbing one of the engrams gives you a random Exotic that you don’t already have–if you can afford it. Fated Engrams will run you 97 Legendary Shards, and you can only get one per account each week. Xur also offers the Five of Swords challenge card for free, which allows you to add difficulty modifiers that increase your score in Nightfall runs.

Finally, this Xur visit marks the arrival of the final Invitation of the Nine weekly bounty, which you can also snag one from Xur. Completing these gives you a Powerful gear drop, as well as a bit of story about the Nine and the Drifter and a new Lore entry that fills in the history of the Emissary of the Nine. Unlike the other bounties that have had players visiting planets and completing Strikes, this one takes you to the Crucible to play through nine different matches. If you’re not finished with your older Invitations, you can still complete one per week until you’ve received them all. Be sure to finish the bounty by Thursday’s daily reset, or you won’t be able to grab a fresh bounty from Xur on Friday.

Legendary creators Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev are teaming up for the first time at DC Comics with a six-part mystery thriller event called Event Leviathan this June–and it’s already shaping up to be an ominous affair. Take a look at these promotional posters highlighting each of the characters caught in Leviathan’s web, from Batman and Batgirl to Plastic Man and Lois Lane.

“You have tried everything,” Leviathan’s message reads. “The world needs us to do better.”

Likened more to Agatha Christie novels than typical superhero bombast, Bendis teased the event in an interview with GameSpot at DC’s Burbank offices late last month.

“[By the end of the story] Leviathan will have risen and what it is and what they’ve done will have landed,” Bendis said. “And so there are a lot of pieces that are going to shift and a lot of heroes are going to have a kind of a new purpose–like a new motivation, because the enemy will have revealed itself. He’s not selling villainy and he’s not selling antagonism. There are heroes and there are villains and then there’s this other thing right now. And that other thing isn’t playing by the rules dictated by the rules of the genre. That’s going to mess up a lot of people’s heads.”

While Event Leviathan itself is a self-contained six-issue series, it’s being supported by various specials and one-shot issues, like the preview in last month’s Year Of The Villain kick-off special and next week’s upcoming Superman: Leviathan Rising special by Bendis and artist Yanick Paquette.

Take your first look at the Leviathan Rising special here.

Superman: Leviathan Rising hits shelves on May 29 while Event Leviathan #1 arrives June 12, everywhere comics are sold.

A new wave of Gen 4 Pokemon has arrived in Pokemon Go. Gible, Cherubi, Hippopotas, Burmy, and more can now either be found in the wild or hatched from Eggs, and developer Niantic has introduced a handful of new items that enable some more Gen 4 evolutions, including Glaceon and Leafeon.

As revealed in a recent leak, three new kinds of Lure Modules have been added to Pokemon Go: Glacial, Mossy, and Magnetic. These can be purchased from the in-game store, and placing them in a Poke Stop will attract certain kinds of Pokemon to that area; the Glacial Lure, for instance, draws in Ice- and Water-types, while the Mossy Lure attracts Grass, Bug, and Poison Pokemon.

Moreover, activating the Lure Modules will allow certain Pokemon to evolve; the Glacial and Mossy Lures let Eevee evolve into Glaceon or Leafeon, respectively, while the Magnetic Lure lets Magneton and Nosepass evolve into Magnezone and Probopass. Niantic says the new Lure Modules will also be given out as rewards for completing Special Research tasks “later this season.” You can read more details about the Pokemon and Lures on the Pokemon Go website.

In other Pokemon Go news, the game’s next Community Day takes place this Sunday, May 19. The featured Pokemon this month is Torchic, the Fire-type starter from the series’ Gen 3 games, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. If you’re able to evolve Torchic into its final form, Blaziken, up to an hour after the Community Day ends, it’ll learn Blast Burn. You’ll also receive three times the usual amount of Stardust for capturing Pokemon during the event.

Shortly after May’s Community Day ends, Niantic is kicking off an Extraordinary Raid Week event. From May 21-28, new Pokemon will appear as Raid bosses, including Bronzor, whose Shiny form also has a chance of appearing. On Saturday, May 25, the developer is also holding a special Lapras Raid, which will feature an appearance by Shiny Lapras.