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If you’re a PS4 owner who regularly plays online with friends, you’re probably very familiar with PlayStation Plus, Sony’s premium membership that grants access to not only online multiplayer but also steeper game discounts and free monthly games (May’s freebies are two excellent indies). While the perks are great, the annual fees are less exciting–a year of PS Plus generally sells for $60. However, for a limited time, you can grab a 12-month PS Plus subscription for $40 at MassGenie.

The digital code can be redeemed in the PlayStation Store, and even if you’re already subscribed, you can stack subscriptions to automatically extend your membership, so you’re still saving money down the road.

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MassGenie’s PS Plus deal is running through May 31 (or while supplies last). The 24-hour countdown timer resets every day, so you have more time than what it indicates to claim the deal. Here’s how to claim the Power Deal: On the product page, click the Power Deal circle. You’ll be prompted to sign in or create a free account (there’s no guest checkout for Power Deals). After you’ve signed in, you’ll be redirected to checkout, where you’ll see that the coupon PLAYSTATIONPLUS2 has automatically been applied, dropping the price to $40.

After checkout, the PlayStation Plus digital code will be the tracking ID in your order history. To see the digital code, click “track your package” in the tracking email you receive, and you’ll be redirected to your order history where you’ll see the tracking ID at the bottom right.

The Week 1 challenges for Fortnite are now available with Season 9 underway. For the most part they’re fairly easy going and mostly intended to push players to check out the new locations, Neo Tilted and Mega Mall, while using the new Slip Stream transportation system. However, one of the challenges requires a little bit of extra effort, so we’ve put together a guide to make it easier for you.

The challenge asks players to visit all the Sky Platforms on the new Season 9 map. This might be familiar to you if you played a bunch of Season 8. If you cast your mind back to when the Pirate Camps appeared–it’s basically the same challenge. All you’ve got to do is visit the locations and before long you’ll have the challenge completed.

The actual platforms are very easy to spot as they’ll look like weird, hovering drones. Just hop on board, and then move on to the next one. Below you’ll find a map of all the locations as well as a list of where the platforms can be found.

Sky Platform Locations

• South-east of the volcano in the newly named area, Pressure Plant
• South-west of Pleasant Park
• South-west of Lazy Lagoon
• East of Neo Tilted, overlooking Dusty Divot
• North of Paradise Palms
• South of Salty Springs
• West of Shifty Shafts

For details on what’s changed, check out our Fortnite Season 9 update patch notes article. We’ve also put together a comprehensive gallery showcasing all the new items in the Battle Pass, and collected all the new Fortnite skins in one place. If you’re new to the game and not quite sure what a Battle Pass is or what it does, take a look at our explainer.

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The rollover to Fortnite Season 9 is complete. We’ve got a brand new Battle Pass that’s absolutely packed with cosmetics to unlock, including some very cool skins. But if you want any of those, you’ll need to earn Battle Stars so that they level up your Battle Pass and make them accessible. The best way to do that is the weekly challenges, the first batch of which is now available.

Remember, everyone that plays Fortnite will have access to a small selection of the weekly challenges, but there’s a second set that’s exclusive to players that have spent 950 V-Bucks on a premium Battle Pass. That also includes exclusive unlocks and, overall, is the quickest way to earn Battle Stars, thanks to the extra set of challenges.

In Fortnite Season 9, Week 1, players will need to ride the new Slip Stream travel system around Neo Tilted, one of the new areas. On top of that, they’ll need to visit the seven sky platforms, and deal damage to enemies immediately after using the Shadow Bomb item.

Players that have the premium Battle Pass will have to grab a legendary item in five different matches, search seven chests in either Lucky Landing or Loot Lake, take out enemies using scoped weapons, and deal damage to opponents from at least two stories above them.

Free

• Stage 1 of 2: Ride the Slip Stream around Neo Tilted (1) — 2 Battle Stars
• Visit all Sky Platform (7) — 5 Battle Stars
• Deal damage to an opponent within 10s after using a Shadow Bomb (200) — 10 Battle Stars

Premium

• Pick up a Legendary Item in different matches (5) — 5 Battle Stars
• Search chests at Lucky Landing or Loot Lake (7) — 5 Battle Stars
• Scoped weapon eliminations (3) — 10 Battle Stars
• Stage 1 of 3: Deal damage to opponents from at least 2 stories above (300) — 3 Battle Stars

Epic Games has released the patch notes for Fortnite’s 9.0 update, which details everything that’s new to the game for Season 9. On top of that, there’s info on all the tweaks that have been made, including a list of items and weapons that have been vaulted.

Fortnite’s Season 9 has begun, bringing new skins, a new battle pass, a new v9.0 update, and more. All the new content means there’s plenty for dataminers to delve into–and they’ve been at it already. It seems there’s a John Wick event coming to Epic’s battle royale game.

According to Twitter user and Fortnite dataminer FortTory, a set of John Wick challenges are on the way to Fortnite very soon. It appears they’ll task players with collecting coins, dealing damage with the new combat shotgun, and winning a match of a seemingly new mode named Wick’s Bounty. The challenges also make reference to a new gun named the tactical assault rifle.

Another Fortnite leaker, Lucas7yoshi, has uncovered a new John Wick cosmetic set that seems to have the codename “assassin suit.” Fortnite received a series of John Wick-style cosmetics named the hired gun set all the way back in Season 3, over a year ago. With John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum coming to theaters on May 17, now would be a perfect time for an official crossover event to occur.

Avengers: Endgame–and Infinity War before it–received similar treatment just recently, with a new Fortnite event based on the Avengers franchise and an entire set of Avengers challenges. John Wick fans have plenty more to look forward to, meanwhile: Thomas Was Alone and Volume developer Mike Bithell is working on John Wick Hex, a new action-strategy game based on the films.

Nintendo has announced its plans for E3, once again including a pair of tournaments and a special Nintendo Direct presentation in lieu of a formal press conference. The Nintendo Direct will detail its plans for Nintendo Switch throughout 2019.

The Direct presentation will kick off on June 11 at 9 AM PT–the morning the E3 show floor opens, as usual. After that, Nintendo will follow up with its three days of Treehouse streams, which often include developer chats revolving around the games revealed during the presentation.

Before any of that happens, though, Nintendo is planning two game tournaments for the weekend prior to E3. First on June 8 at 11 AM PT, the company will host the Splatoon 2 World Championships. Then, once that wraps up around 2 PM PT, the company will host a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World Championship tournament, composed of 3v3 teams.

The announcement didn’t detail what is on Nintendo’s slate for this year’s presentation, but given that it focuses on 2019 it’s likely that both Pokemon Sword and Shield and Animal Crossing Switch will be on tap. Super Mario Maker 2 and Fire Emblem: Three Houses could also be shown, but those are both summer releases that will be just weeks from release during E3.

One game that’s unlikely to make an appearance is Metroid Prime 4, which reportedly restarted development under Retro Studios earlier this year.

Nintendo hasn’t removed itself from E3 entirely like Sony, but it was among the first major platform holders to eschew a press conference in favor of a streaming presentation. Sony appears to be announcing its lineup of titles through a series of State of Play streams, one of which is scheduled for today, May 9. Microsoft, meanwhile, promises to “go big” at E3 and says we’ll start to see some projects from its newly acquired studios.

All Fortnite Season 9’s Battle Pass Rewards

A new season of Fortnite is exciting for many reasons, but perhaps the biggest among them for many fans is the opportunity to get new skins and styles. Making your character look cool as you take out enemies in the hopes of achieving that Victory Royale, or completing challenges to earn Battle Stars, is a big part of the Fortnite experience, and now that we’re in Season 9, there’s a lot of new looks to get excited about.

Yes, Season 9 has plenty of skins and styles that you’re going to have to work hard to get. If you’re not familiar with the process, here’s a quick overview: Every player is given a Battle Pass when they start playing Fortnite and, as part of that, there are tiers and cosmetic unlocks tied to those tiers. By completing challenges you unlock Battle Stars, which level up the pass and push it through the tiers, unlocking the skins and other goodies as you go along.

However, there’s also a premium Battle Pass that can only be acquired by spending 950 V-Bucks on it. This premium pass not only has exclusive cosmetic unlocks, but also exclusive weekly challenges, which means those that have one can unlock more and unlock it faster. You can learn more about the Fortnite Season 9 Battle Pass here. If you decide to purchase one, you’ll get the Sentinel and Rox skins immediately, and they’re pretty cool. Rox, in particular, is a really nice outfit as it evolves over time. However, for the remaining skins, you’ll have to put in the work and earn them. You can take a look at all the new skins, and also the styles that alter them slightly, in the gallery below.

Fortnite Season 9 takes players to the future, specifically in Tilted Towers and Retail Row, which were destroyed during the climax of Season 8 and then remade for Season 9 as Neo Tilted and Mega Mall. You can get a closer look at Fortnite’s new locations here.

But that’s not all that’s new in the season, as developer Epic Games has also introduced an interesting new transportation system: Slipstreams. You can read about that, as well as all the other various changes, tweaks, and new additions included in the update by reading the Fortnite Season 9 patch notes.