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Fortnite: Where To Search Hidden XP Drop In Chaos Rising Loading Screen

Fortnite Chapter 2’s Week 9 challenges are now live on all platforms. As usual, if you complete eight tasks from the set, you’ll unlock a special loading screen that features a subtle clue pointing you to a secret item that’s hidden somewhere around the game’s map.

Up to this point, that item was a different letter that ultimately spelled out “FORTNITE,” but now that all the letters are available, this week’s loading screen leads you to an XP drop, which is essentially like the secret Battle Stars from past seasons. If you need help tracking down the XP drop, we show you where it’s located below.

Where Is The Hidden XP Drop Location?

As previously mentioned, the clue that’ll guide you to the XP drop is hidden in the Chaos Rising loading screen, which you’ll unlock after completing eight challenges from that set. The loading screen features a character gazing at different monitors. Look closely at the monitor in the middle of the image and you’ll see the XP drop beneath the infamous purple cube that appeared way back in Season 5.

As it turns out, there’s a statue of the purple cube in the Kevolution Energy Plant, which is located in the northeastern portion of Steamy Stacks–that’s where you’ll need to go to find the hidden XP drop. We’ve marked the location of the area on the map below.

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How To Complete The Challenge

Now that we know where the XP drop is hidden, make your way to the aforementioned Kevolution Energy Plant and the drop will appear on the ground near the cube statue, just as the loading screen teased. Interact with it as you would any other item to collect it and complete the challenge. As was the case with this season’s hidden letters, however, the XP drop won’t appear on the map until you’ve unlocked the Chaos Rising loading screen and its corresponding challenge, so you’ll first need to complete this week’s other missions before you can go pick it up.

The first season of Fortnite Chapter 2 was originally slated to end this month, but Epic recently announced it would be extending the season into February 2020. It’s still unclear if that means we still have more weekly challenges to look forward to, but in the meantime, you can find maps and guides for this season’s previous missions in our Fortnite Chapter 2 challenges roundup.

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Beyond A Steel Sky, A Long-Awaited Sequel With Art By Dave Gibbons, Delayed Into 2020

Beyond A Steel Sky, the long-awaited sequel to 1994’s Beneath A Steel Sky, has been delayed. The game, which was first announced in 2012 and was properly revealed as an Apple Arcade game earlier this year, was due to release before the end of 2019. This will no longer happen, developer Revolution has confirmed on their website, and the game will instead release in 2020.

In the post, Beyond A Steel Sky is called Revolution’s “most ambitious adventure to date,” and it’s said that more time is needed to “realise (their) vision” for it. The game is being made for Apple Arcade, PC, and console, and a release date will be confirmed early in 2020. The game’s Steam page gives us some more details, calling the game “a dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller in which engaging puzzles drive a fast-paced narrative set in a dynamic gameworld that responds to–and is subverted by–the player’s actions.”

The original Beneath A Steel Sky was designed in part by Charles Cecil, architect of the Broken Sword series, and Dave Gibbons, the artist responsible for the iconic style of Alan Moore’s Watchmen comics. Both have returned for Beyond A Steel Sky, too. We gave the remastered iPhone version a 9/10 in our 2010 review, writing that “despite its sober setting, the game comes with a script full of laughs and lighter moments, and even the most inconsequential of conversations will raise a smile or hint at each character’s own little universe.”

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Birds of Prey: New Trailer and Opening Scene Footage Breakdown

The new trailer and opening sequence from Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn at Brazil Comic Con on Thursday. Neither the trailer nor the opening sequence is available online, but IGN Brazil was there to break down what was shown.

The second trailer begins with an overcoat-clad Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) at a bank saying she wants to “report a terrible crime”. The clerk asks: “Which one?” Harley then pulls a big rifle out from under her coat and points it at the clerk: “This one!” Breaking the fourth wall, she looks to the camera and says: “I started the wrong way.”

The next scene shows Harley Quinn walking along Gotham streets and hearing people saying she’ll never get over her relationship with Joker and that she’s going back to him with a snap of fingers. The trailer then shows Harley starting her life all over again along with interactions with Black Canary and Huntress, who is always in a bad mood. The film’s villain Black Mask is building an army, declaring “the Joker is no longer in Gotham” and that now is his time to rule Gotham’s underworld.

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Fortnite: Where To Search The Hidden XP Drop In Loading Screen (Chaos Rising Challenge)

Another batch of Chapter 2 challenges is now live in Fortnite. Week 9’s set is called Chaos Rising, and as usual, completing eight of the tasks will unlock a special loading screen. Up until now, each of these loading screens contained a clue leading to a different letter hidden somewhere around the island, but this week’s instead points to an XP drop, which is effectively this season’s equivalent of the secret Battle Stars from past seasons.

The XP drop can be found in Steamy Stacks, specifically in the Kevolution Energy Plant. Make your way to the statue of Fortnite’s infamous purple cube and the XP drop will appear on the ground near it. Once it pops up, interact with it just as you would any other item in the game to collect it, and you’ll get a nice boost of extra XP for your trouble.

If you need more help finding the XP drop, we show you exactly where to go in the video above. You can also find a map and more details in our hidden XP drop guide. Before you set off to find the XP drop, keep in mind that it will only appear if you’ve unlocked the Chaos Rising loading screen and its corresponding challenge, so you’ll need to work through the other Week 9 missions before you can collect it. For more Fortnite maps and tips, check out our full Fortnite Chapter 2 challenges roundup.

Halo: Reach Was Nearly Just Called Reach, But Microsoft Objected

Halo: Reach has just released on PC for the first time as part of the Master Chief Collection, bringing the beloved game to the system nine years after it released for Xbox 360. The game, which was brought to Xbox One as well and is available on both systems through Xbox Game Pass, was the final Halo game made by original developer Bungie before they moved onto Destiny. Many of the folks who worked on the game are reminiscing about it on Twitter using the hashtag #reachmemory, and some interesting information has come out about the game’s name.

David Candland, who designed much of the game’s user interface, says that the original intention was to just call the game “Reach”, without a “Halo” attached to it. Microsoft objected, insisting that the game be called Halo: Reach, for “brand recognition.” As Halo was and remains a major flagship of the Xbox brand, this makes sense–but as Candland’s tweet points out, they retained their simpler name on the game’s title screen.

As Candland told USGamer, this was probably, ultimately, the right decision. “I’ll bet it did impact sales. It also made googling the game much easier.” He also reveals that the cumbersome “Combat Evolved” subtitle on the original Halo was added by Microsoft, which is why it’s not on the title screen of the original game.

Elsewhere on the hashtag, Bungie art director Jason Sussman revealed that the game’s iconic finale (which we won’t explain here to avoid spoilers) was nearly cut for time, but that “everyone knew it needed to be part of the game,” and they managed to fit it in.

The original Halo is returning to PC soon too as The Master Chief Collection continues to roll out.

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Birds of Prey Opening Scene Debuts At Brazil Comic Con

The first scene from Warner Bros.’ upcoming Harley Quinn movie–full title Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)–has made its official debut, according to reports out of Comic Con Experience in Brazil. Beyond the Birds of Prey trailer that debuted back in October, and the short teaser that preceded it, this is the first public footage that’s been seen of the movie–and unfortunately, it doesn’t look like WB will be releasing it online right away, so we’ll have to rely on the accounts of Brazil Comic Con attendees to find out what happened in it.

The scene features Harley Quinn explaining the status of her relationship with the Joker, The Wrap reports. “We broke up,” Quinn says. “Mr. J was super broke up about it.” She adds that she has a new place that’s all her own, where she can reflect on her past mistakes–presumably indicating she regrets shacking up with “Mr. J” in the first place. The title of the movie has the word “emancipation” in it, after all, which is not a term you’d generally use for an amicable breakup.

During the panel, star Margot Robbie reportedly revealed that she initially pitched the idea for Birds of Prey while filming Suicide Squad because she “wanted to see more female ensembles onscreen.”

Speaking of Suicide Squad, let’s not forget that there’s a new one in the works–though whatever you do, don’t call it Suicide Squad 2.

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) sees Harley Quinn (Robbie) team up with GCPD detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco). It features the villains Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) and Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina), and it’s directed by Cathy Yan, whose previous directing credits include 2018’s Dead Pigs and various short films. Birds of Prey hits theaters February 7 2020. Until then, we’ll be looking out for any new information that arises.

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The Witcher Just Released Three Mesmerizing Posters

Netflix‘s next big original series is none other than The Witcher, which arrives on December 20. Based on the Polish novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, the show will follow the characters Geralt, a witcher who hunts monsters, Yennefer, a powerful sorceress, and Ciri, a child of destiny.

While we’re still a couple weeks away from the release of the show, The Witcher Twitter account released some images from the upcoming series that are mesmerizing. Check them out below.

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Henry Cavill stars as Geralt, who was created by fear, Freya Allan plays Ciri, who was created by prophecy, and Anya Chalotra plays Yennefer, who was created by power. All of these captions allude to each character’s backstory, which we will see in Season 1 of the show.

Because the upcoming Netflix series is based Sapkowski’s works, there is a lot of ground to cover between the characters and the world they inhabit. However, that didn’t sway showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich from tackling this challenge. “To me, there are challenges, and there are opportunities. And this, to me, was such a great opportunity,” Hissrich told GameSpot during a recent interview. “You have all of these short stories presented in the first couple of books, in The Last Wish and in Sword of Destiny. There is no narrative thread between them, so Geralt doesn’t grow and change that much between the stories, because that’s not how they were originally written.”

The Witcher arrives on Netflix on December 20.