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Pokemon Go developer Niantic has rolled out an assortment of bonuses to reward players for completing all the Global Challenges during the recent Pokemon Go Fest event in Yokohama, Japan, but there are still more rewards on the way. Because players managed to clear all of the Global Challenges from this year’s three Go Fests, Niantic is releasing a variety of Ultra Bonuses in the game soon, and they include the return of several Legendaries–as well as the first appearance of some brand-new Pokemon.

The Ultra Bonuses will be released in waves over the next several weeks. First, from September 2-9, some Pokemon originally from the Johto region will appear in the game. During that week, players may hatch Unown letters U, L, T, R, and A from 10 km eggs, and the Legendary dogs Entei, Raikou, and Suicune will return to Raid Battles. On top of that, players will have a chance to find Shiny versions of Sentret and Gligar in the wild.

The next set of Ultra Bonuses will be available from September 9-16. During that time, some region-exclusive Pokemon like Farfetch’d, Kangaskhan, Mr. Mime, and Tauros may hatch from 7 km eggs, and those who are really lucky may hatch their Shiny forms. All five forms of the Mythical Pokemon Deoxys will also appear in five-star Raid Battles. To help you challenge it, Pokemon that are effective against Deoxys will appear in lower-tier Raids.

The final wave of Ultra Bonuses, which will be available from September 16-23, will introduce the first Gen 5 Pokemon to Go. The Gear Pokemon Klink will appear in Raids, and players will have a chance to encounter Shiny versions of it, Patrat, and Lillipup. On top of that, Mewtwo that know Psystrike will appear in five-star Raid Battles, and you’ll have your first chance to catch a Shiny Mewtwo.

In addition to those three waves of Ultra Bonuses, all players will be able to undertake a new Special Research questline that leads to an encounter with the Mythical Pokemon Jirachi, and any Pokemon eggs placed in Incubators over these three weeks will hatch in half the time as normal. You can read more details about all of the Ultra Bonuses on the official Pokemon website.

All The Heroes In One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows

Gears Pop!, the mobile spin-off of the Gears of War series, is launching just ahead of Gears 5. It’s out on August 22, and reimagines the Gears world with Pop Vinyls and a new gameplay style. It’s an arena battle game, and it’ll be free-to-play.

While it might not resemble the classic Gears gameplay, Xbox fans should be happy to know that the game will contain achievements, letting you nab a total of 1000 Gamerscore if you log into your Xbox Live account through your phone. It joins the likes of Minecraft and Microsoft Solitaire Collection as a rare mobile title that you can earn Xbox achievements on.

Here’s the full list of achievements you can earn, and how many points they’re worth. And, yes, there’s a ridiculous ‘Seriously’ achievement in Gears Pop!, as is series tradition.

• It ain’t easy, bein’ green… Complete the Tutorial (10)
• Trooper Played 150 Troop Pins in Versus (5)
• Fortifiplaytion Played 25 Fortifications in Versus (10)
• Projectile Pro Played 25 Armaments in Versus (10)
• For Sera Killed the enemy Leader with the Hammer of Dawn in Versus (10)
• Territorial Captured 1000 pieces of cover in Versus (30)
• Covered Won a Versus Battle where you captured all available cover positions (20)
• Uncovered Won a Versus Battle without capturing cover (30)
• Superior Won a Versus Battle without losing any of your Outposts (10)
• Superiority Complex Won 100 Versus Battles without losing any of your Outposts (30)
• It ain’t easy, bein’ green… Complete the Tutorial (10)
• The cavalry has arrived! Killed 50 enemy Pins with Carmine’s Shotgun Blast skill in Versus Battles (20)
• Player POP! Played 10 Battles in any multiplayer mode (5)
• Pro Player POP! Played 500 Battles in any multiplayer mode (30)
• Prime Player POP! Played 1000 Battles in any multiplayer mode (60)
• Coalition of Ordered Wins Fully upgraded your Win Streak Gear Pack before opening it (30)
• Corporal Reached Player Level 5 (10)
• Sergeant Reached Player Level 10 (20)
• Major Reached Player Level 20 (50)
• Put a Pin in it Collected a new pin from a Gear Pack (5)
• Put 20 Pins in it Collected 20 different Pins (20)
• Pin-nacle 1 Upgraded a Pin (5)
• Pin-nacle 2 Upgraded a Pin 3 times (10)
• Pin-nacle 3 Upgraded a Pin 10 times (20)
• Pin-nacle 4 Upgraded a Pin to max level (50)
• Arena Hunter Got promoted in Arena or League once (5)
• Arena Master Got promoted in Arena or League 3 times (20)
• League Rookie Reached the first league (30)
• League Legend Got promoted to the highest League (50)
• Bolo me away Killed 5 units at once with a single Frag Grenade in Versus (10)
• Power Trip Spent 100,000 Power in any multiplayer mode (30)
• Squad Goals Named one of your Squads (5)
• Time to Go! Destroyed 10 enemy Outposts with Kait Diaz in Versus (10)
• Well we’re not here to sell cookies! Used Marcus Fenix to capture 6 different pieces of cover in a single Versus battle (20)
• Rapid Engagement Won a Versus Battle within 2 minutes (15)
• Dominant Won a Versus Battle 3-0 (15)
• Common Purpose Won a Versus Battle with a Squad consisting of only Common rarity Pins (15)
• War Chest 1 Earned 20,000 Coins (10)
• War Chest 2 Earned 200,000 Coins (15)
• War Chest 3 Earned 2,000,000 Coins (20)
• The Big Bad Defeated a Boss in Horde (10)
• Ankle Buster Cleared 50 Horde Waves (10)
• In the Pocket Cleared 250 Horde Waves (30)
• Endless Summer Cleared 500 Horde Waves (50)
• Never Go Alone Played Horde with 20 different allies (30)
• Seriously POP! Defeated 100,000 pins, won 1000 Versus Battles, reached highest League and cleared 1000 Horde Waves (100)

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With Gamescom 2019 in full swing, announcements are trickling out at a steady pace. Prolific anime game publisher Bandai Namco has unveiled a trailer for One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows, which shows new gameplay mechanics and characters.

Alongside series regulars Saitama, Genos, and Speed-o’-Sound Sonic, S-Class heroes Terrible Tornado, Silverfang, and Atomic Samurai are joining the game’s roster. These three characters bump A Hero Nobody Knows’ roster to 13 playable characters. It’s unclear what the final roster count will be.

Saitama is known to defeat enemies with one punch, and the new trailer shows how his overbearing strength is used in-game. A Hero Nobody Knows implements some sort of Hero Arrival mechanic, where you must survive while Saitama makes his way to the battlefield. In the trailer below, Saitama is running on the left-side of the screen with quite a distance to go. Performing combos and perfect guards reduces his arrival time. Matches seem to become one-sided when he gets there, as Saitama absorbs a lot of damage and defeats everyone with one punch.

One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows was announced back in June 2019. No release date was provided, but the 3D fighter is “coming soon” to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Another update has arrived for Fortnite. Content update 10.10 is now live across PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices, and it adds a new throwable item to the popular battle royale game, along with a new type of consumable. Here are the patch notes.

First up is the Junk Rift, a new Epic rarity item. When thrown, it’ll create a Rift in the sky that will rain cars, statues, and other large debris down on opponents, damaging players and destroying objects caught in its path. The Junk Rift drops in stacks of two and can be found as floor loot or in chests, supply drops, and supply llamas.

On top of that, this week’s content update introduces Glitched Consumables, which have begun appearing after the Rift Beacon at the Rec Center exploded. These items can be found near the explosion site and randomly change into different foraged consumables, such as apples, coconuts, and mushrooms.

The Glitched Consumables are also capable of turning into some previously vaulted items, such as Season 4’s Hop Rocks and Season 6’s Shadow Stones. However, the latter have been temporarily disabled in the game due to an issue.

You can see all of the other changes in this week’s content update for Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode below, while the full patch notes can be found on Epic’s website.

Fortnite: Battle Royale 10.10 Content Update Patch Notes

Weapons & Items

• Junk Rift
  • A throwable item that breaks on contact and spawns a large object in the sky that plummets to the ground.
    • The plummeting object:
      • Damages players and destroys everything in its path.
      • Creates a small shockwave upon landing that damages players and destroys everything in its radius.
    • Damage:
      • Direct hit: 200
        • Direct hits slightly knock players back.
      • Shockwave hit: 100
      • Both hits immediately destroy vehicles and destructible objects on impact.
  • Drops in stacks of 2.
  • Max stack size: 4
  • Epic Rarity.
  • Available from Floor Loot, Chests, Supply Drops, and Llamas.
• Glitched Consumables
  • Glitched Consumables are at the explosion site. These randomly switch between different forageable items from the past.
    • Apples
      • Grant 5 Health.
    • Mushrooms
      • Grant 5 Shield.
    • Coconuts
      • Grant 5 Effective Health (sum of a player’s Health + Shield).
    • Peppers
      • Increases player movement speed for a short duration.
    • Hop Rocks
      • Decreases player gravity for a short duration.

Gameplay

• The map has changed! The Rift Beacon at the Rec Center malfunctioned, causing an explosion that left a giant crater and created the Glitched Consumables.
  • Glitched Consumables can only be found at the crater.

Art & Animation

The Green Toy Wrap has been updated.

• Because of this, owners of the Toy Soldiers Wraps bundle have been given the option to refund the bundle without the use of a Refund Token.
  • NOTE: Players have 30 days from their next login to redeem this refund.

Cyberpunk 2077 might wind up with a New Game Plus mode, but CD Projekt Red is still figuring out what it might be. That’s contrary to a previous report that a post-game replay mode was in the works.

“What I can tell you is we are looking into a suitable idea for implementing New Game Plus,” producer Richard Borzymowski told GameSpot at Gamescom. If and how has yet to be seen and talked about.”

Borzymowski went on to explain that the most important thing about adding a New Game Plus mode to Cyberpunk is making sure it’s the right implementation of the idea for the game. CD Projekt’s upcoming open-world sci-fi RPG will likely have some means of encouraging you to play beyond the end of the story, Borzymowski said, but the developer hasn’t decided what form it’ll take.

In Cyberpunk, much of what you experience depends on the character you create–their backstory and upbringing dictates some conversation choices, for instance, and the skills you develop dictate which paths you can take through missions. That means the character you make through the course of the game determines what portions of the game you see and what portions you don’t.

“Let’s go with the two most basic approaches to New Game Plus, or whatever,” he said. “Complete example: either you finish the story and you’re left in the open world, or you can start a new game with the character you’ve previously developed. With the first approach, in our case, the benefit of replaying or playing more is that there are many, many activities. I presume that most players will first finish the story rather than do everything there is because that’s pretty time-consuming. The other approach basically funnels you into one of the playstyles, right? So we’re looking for a way to ensure that you’re able to keep your progression, but are you still able to take a different path in order to see one of those parts that was hidden behind one of those actual choices. And we will probably get to something, but it’s too early to talk exactly how, because we want to make sure that it fits [Cyberpunk]. Everything we want to do, we want to fit.”

Reports previously suggested Cyberpunk 2077 would have a New Game Plus mode, but that it might not be ready for the game’s launch in April 2020. CD Projekt added a New Game Plus mode to The Witcher 3 after its launch as a free update.

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The title of the next James Bond movie, previously referred to as Bond 25, has been revealed. It has been confirmed that the 25th movie in the long-running series is titled No Time To Die. The movie sees Daniel Craig return to the role as the iconic British superspy for the fifth time and it hits theaters on April 3 2020.

The news was announced via the franchise’s official Twitter account. Check it out below:

An official synopsis for No Time To Die has also been released. It reads: “In No Time To Die, Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.”

The movie is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who is best known for the first season of True Detective and last year’s acclaimed Netflix show Maniac. Jeffrey Wright reprises his role as Felix Leiter, while Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, and Léa Seydoux, all return to the roles of M, Q, Miss MoneyPenny, and Madeleine Swan respectively. The new cast members include Remi Malick in a villainous role, plus Billy Magnussen and Ana de Armas. Check out some on-set footage here.

No Time To Die is co-written by writer/actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve, Rouge One). Waller-Bridge was reportedly paid $2 million USD to rework the existing script and contribute “sharper dialogue.”. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Waller-Bridge downplayed her contribution. “A lot has been made of me coming on board because I’m a woman, and that’s wonderful. But also I can’t take credit for the movie that was written. It’s Cary’s movie,” she said.

For more, check out GameSpot’s guide to the biggest upcoming movies of 2019.

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