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Destiny 2‘s community banded together to solve a secret quest and discover the mysteries of the Corridors of Time last week, eventually uncovering the quest for Bastion, the Season of Dawn’s latest Exotic. As of the weekly reset on January 21, you no longer need to complete the final run of the Corridors of Time to access the Exotic quest–but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing else to do in the Vex’s strange interdimensional domain.

The Corridors of Time still hold a few additional rewards. There are 19 paths through the maze that unlock lore items, allowing you to get a deeper look at the story of Saint-14. Another path rewards you with a secret emblem, the “Savior of the Past,” for your trouble. And finally, completing the 30-doorway solution path for the maze offers some Saint-14 dialogue that advances the story of the season. The thing is, if you haven’t unlocked those things, you’re now on the clock to do so: the Corridors of Time will only be in the game for another week. According to Bungie, the Corridors will collapse on Tuesday, January 28, and you won’t be able to get any of the stuff from inside once that happens.

In order to earn rewards from the Corridors of Time, you need to take specific pathways through it. Each room of the maze includes several different exits, each marked with a signpost and a symbol. For the lore book titled “The Pigeon and the Phoenix,” you need to follow the pathways made up of seven different symbols; for the emblem, the pathway is 11 symbols long; and for the maze solution, you need to complete a pathway of 30 symbols.

That sounds like a lot, but navigating the maze is actually pretty easy. It’s filled with Vex enemies but they can almost always be safely ignored. Completing a run takes only 5-10 minutes. For a full rundown of the pathways, check out our complete Corridors of Time guide.

If wandering the Corridors doesn’t sound interesting to you, you can safely skip it and still get Bastion. Use our Bastion guide to complete the quest for the Exotic fusion rifle quickly.

Though the holiday season has come and gone in the US, that doesn’t mean holiday sales are done just yet. With Lunar New Year festivities commencing this weekend, Microsoft is ringing in the occasion with a massive sale on Xbox One games.

The Lunar New Year sale is live now and coincides with the Artistic Adventure sale, both of which run through January 27 and feature steep discounts on an eclectic variety of both AAA hits and revered indies. Essentially, these sales combine to form one giant sale, which is great for Xbox One owners.

The Lunar New Year sale really hones in on older games, though some 2019 titles are included. Control, one of GameSpot’s 10 favorite games of 2019, is discounted from $60 to $39. The Super Bowl is around the corner, so it makes sense to pick up Madden NFL 20, which drops from $60 to $30. If you’re more of a basketball fan, NBA 2K20 is also $30 during the sale. The excellent Life is Strange 2 is slashed from $40 to $20.

As mentioned, this sale is really appealing if you’re looking for some great games you may have missed over the past few years. Rainbow Six Siege, which remains a popular multiplayer shooter four years after its release, is $10 (was $40). At $30, Red Dead Redemption 2 is available for its lowest price since Black Friday.

It’s a good time to catch up on some franchises you may have overlooked. The BioShock: Collection is discounted to $15 and Devil May Cry HD Collection drops to $18. You can also grab the entire Dark Souls trilogy for just $55: Dark Souls 3 is $15, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin is $10, and Dark Souls: Remastered is $20.

Indies are well-represented in the sale, too. Playdead’s brilliant pair of atmospheric platformers, Limbo and Inside, are discounted to $2.49 and $6.59, respectively. The lovely and haunting adventure What Remains of Edith Finch is $10 and the similarly moving Old Man’s Journey is just $5.

You can browse the entire sale at Microsoft and check out our picks below. If you’re looking for discounts on PC games, Fanatical is hosting its own Lunar New Year sale, too.

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Remedy Entertainment’s Control may be the studio’s most interesting game to date, which might explain why Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s co-writer has expressed interest in writing a movie based on the game.

Gary Whitta–writer of After Earth, The Book of Eli, and Rogue One–responded to a fan on Twitter asking what would be the best video game to base a movie on. Without hesitation, Whitta replied that Remedy’s trippy third-person shooter would make a fascinating project–and he would love to write it.

The studio’s communications director, Thomas Puha, said the two should talk. Whitta then told Puha to slide into his DM’s. While nothing is set in stone, it appears some kind of conversations are underway.

Though Whitta is best known as a screenwriter, he has also dipped into game development and television production. Whitta worked on a couple of Telltale games, including original The Walking Dead, its 400 Days DLC expansion, and The Walking Dead: The Final Season. He also wrote four episodes of Star Wars Rebels. Whitta also worked as a games journalist, working for ACE magazine and founding PC Gamer before transitioning to Hollywood.

Control has received numerous awards since its August 2019 launch on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. In addition to getting nominated for Game of the Year at a plethora of awards ceremonies, including The Game Awards 2019 and The Game Developers Choice Awards, Control also secured a spot on GameSpot’s Best Games of 2019 list. In our writeup, we said, “Control is amazingly dense and lovingly constructed by a team that knew exactly what it wanted to make.”

Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, the Apple Original series from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia creators Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, has been renewed for a second season before its first episodes have released.

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The video game studio-set comedy, which is in part produced by Ubisoft’s Film & Television department, will launch its first season in full on February 7. But Apple has already renewed the live-action comedy for a second season, which was announced during the show’s TCA panel (via Deadline).

The announcement did not reveal an episode count for the second season, nor a release date, but it will presumably continue to be an exclusive to Apple TV+.

Co-created by McElhenney, Day, and Megan Ganz, the first season consists of nine episodes following the development team behind the fictional Mythic Quest. McElhenney stars as the game’s creative director Ian Grimm, who works alongside an ensemble cast including F. Murray Abraham, Community’s Danny Pudi, and ever-popular video game voice actor Ashly Burch.

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Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet was first announced at Ubisoft’s E3 2019 conference. Since then only a few details have emerged, including McElhenney assuring fans that he will make It’s Always Sunny “forever” despite his involvement in a new project.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter. 

The first set of Cyberpunk 2077 Funko Pops have been revealed and they’ve been given a very familiar release date.

Yes, announced at London Toy Fair, the Cyberpunk 2077 Funko Pops will be available on April 16, 2020. That’s Cyberpunk 2077’s original release date before it got another delay recently, if you didn’t know.

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So while you won’t be able to play the game itself in April you could at least bring a little bit of its futuristic world into your life via Funko Pops.

Similar to McFarlane’s Cyberpunk 2077 action figures, the Funko Pops will include both V and Johnny Silverhand, who is the digital ghost that accompanies main character V throughout the game and is played by Keanu Reeves.

Unlike McFarlane’s figures, however, the Funko Pops include both the male and female versions of V, as well as two different Johnny Silverhands. One of them sports sunglasses and dual-wields pistols, while the other is calmly resting on one knee.

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If you’re after more Keanu Reeves then check out our history of his appearances in games. Or if you need something else to tide you over until Cyberpunk 2077 comes out then we have seven cyberpunk games you should start playing.

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Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Disney+ is set to launch in the UK and several other territories across Western Europe on March 24, which is a whole week earlier than the original release date that was announced.

The House of Mouse recently updated its rollout plans for Europe, confirming that the release date for the streaming service has been brought forward for the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland, while much of the rest of Europe will gain access to the platform by summer. Pricing has also been confirmed as £5.99/€6.99 per month or £59.99/€69.99 for an annual subscription, per Deadline.

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The streaming service is expected to launch with a library of content from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, including plenty of original content such as Star Wars’ live-action series The Mandalorian, the Toy Story short series Forky Asks A Question, the live-action Lady and the Tramp, and The World According to Jeff Goldblum, though certain titles may vary by territory due to regional differences.

In its first year and beyond, Disney+ is slated to add Frozen 2 and a documentary on the making of the film, a Toy Story Bo Peep short, WandaVision starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, a Loki series starring Tom Hiddleston, a series based on Rogue One’s Cassian Andor starring Diego Luna and Alan Tudyk, and much more.

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Despite suffering a few technical glitches, Disney+ signed up more than 10 million subscribers on its first day of operation in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, where the direct-to-viewer service launched on November 12.

Further statistics indicate that, with an immense catalogue of titles available at launch, Disney+ users collectively spent 1.3 million hours streaming and watching the films and shows available to them on the first day of release.

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For more on Disney+, check out our reviews of The World According to Jeff Goldblum, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, The Imagineering Story, Forky Asks a Question and Marvel’s Hero Project. Alternatively, read our detailed write-up and final verdict of Disney’s new streaming service.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

The creative director of the latest two Splinter Cell games has returned to Ubisoft after leaving the company in 2019.

VGC reports that Maxime Beland is one of the people who will make up Ubisoft’s newly expanded and restructured editorial team that oversees creative decisions on all its games.

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Beland started as a game tester for Ubisoft back in 1998. He worked there for the next 20 years, serving as creative director on Rainbow Six: Vegas, game design director on Assassin’s Creed, and creative director for Splinter Cell: Conviction and Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

Before he left Ubisoft in February 2019 to become a creative director at Epic Games, Beland provided creative direction on Far Cry 4, Far Cry Primal, and Far Cry 5.

Beland left Epic Games in October 2019 and has now reportedly rejoined Ubisoft. Whether that will lead to a resurrection of Splinter Cell is unknown. But there were signs that Ubisoft was gearing up for a new Splinter Cell game in 2018.

In 2019, the creative director tweeted that he was working on the next Splinter Cell game, but then told IGN that he was just joking. No mention of a Splinter Cell game in development has come since.

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Ubisoft’s newly restructured editorial team is reportedly an effort to encourage more diversity in Ubisoft’s game lineup after the disappointing sales of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and The Division 2. It was this disappointment that allegedly led to the delay of Watch Dogs Legion, Gods and Monsters, and Rainbow Six Quarantine. An unannounced project that had been in the works for three years at Ubisoft was also cancelled around the same time for the same reason.

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Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

A new job listing posted by Naughty Dog says the developer is looking for someone with a background in PC programming to join the team working on the upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive The Last of Us Part II.

The job listing is for a graphics programmer who will join Naughty Dog’s rendering team to “develop and implement new and existing rendering techniques” for The Last of Us Part II. The successful applicant will need either console or PC programming experience, and have a thorough understanding of current GPU architectures and experience with APIs.

Here’s the full list of requirements and skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Strong math skills with an emphasis in 3D math
• Strong knowledge of C and C++ programming languages
• Thorough understanding of current GPU architectures (AMD GCN, NVIDIA CUDA)
• Experience with DirectX12, Vulkan or other modern graphics or compute APIs
• Experience with HLSL/GLSL or other equivalent shader languages
• Console or PC programming experience
• Passion for playing and developing exceptional games

A single job listing isn’t concrete proof of anything, but after Kotaku reported that PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn is on its way to PC, it might not be completely outlandish to suggest another Sony-owned developer could release a game on the platform.

If that is the case, don’t expect a PC release anytime soon. For those who own a PS4, The Last of Us Part II is set to launch on May 29.