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Good news, Guardians: Destiny 2 now allows you to chase the Whisper of the Worm Exotic sniper rifle at any time. Gone are the days of waiting until the weekend rolled around to complete the steps necessary to access the hidden special mission, or to unlock one of the best guns in the game.

Bungie made the announcement on Twitter, revealing that The Whisper mission is now available on the moon Io any day of the week. The change is part of Update 2.1.4, which rebalances a ton of Supers and weapons throughout the game. The update also adds in The Draw, another Exotic weapon quest.

The Whisper quest only appeared in the game last summer, and it took the Destiny 2 community a while to discover what it was all about and how it worked. Used to be, from Friday to Sunday on any given week, you could access the quest by waiting for a particular public event to occur in the Lost Oasis area of Io. When the right event popped up, a special enemy would also appear, and killing it would open up a portal to the special mission.

From there, you had to complete a long, elaborate platforming puzzle, before engaging in some extremely tough battles with hordes of Taken enemies–all within a 20-minute time limit. The mission was difficult enough that most people required a team to complete it, but The Whisper was so super-secret that it didn’t include matchmaking. Finishing the mission, though, granted you Whisper of the Worm, a powerful Exotic sniper rifle similar to Destiny 1’s Black Spindle. The weapon has become a mainstay for players taking on big boss fights like the ones found in Destiny 2’s raids.

With Bungie’s latest change, The Whisper is available all week in Lost Oasis, and it can be activated from any public event in the region, which should drastically reduce wait times. The mission itself is still pretty tough, but removing the weekend requirement should make it a whole lot easier for Guardians to band together and finally unlock Whisper of the Worm if they’ve been waiting.

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The Lunatic Fringe is headed for the exit. Former WWE Champion Dean Ambrose will leave WWE once his current contract expires in April. The news was first reported by PWTorch, before the company commented on the manner.

“Dean Ambrose (Jonathan Good) will not be renewing his contract with WWE when it expires in April,” WWE said in a statement. “We are grateful and appreciative of all that Dean has given to WWE and our fans. We wish him well and hope that one day Dean will return to WWE.”

The news comes as a surprise, given the last few months of Ambrose’s career. After returning from injury, he briefly reunited with fellow The Shield members Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns. After Reigns took a leave of absence from the company to battle leukemia, Ambrose turned heel and became Intercontinental Champion, entering into a lengthy feud with Rollins.

In recent weeks, Ambrose lost the title to Bobby Lashley, before being eliminated from the Royal Rumble match by NXT’s Aleister Black. On this week’s episode of Raw, he was attacked by Nia Jax.

“I’m going to assume that Nia simply tripped and fell into me, and was not trying to start some physical altercation with me, a man,” he said in an interview after the exchange. “Because that’s insane, right? So, I’m going to accept her, what I assume is an apology is what she was yelling at me from the ring as I was being escorted away by referees, like I would do something. Can you imagine? I’m going to accept her apology. And we’re all good.”

Ambrose, who first made his name on the independent wrestling scene as Jon Moxley, first signed with the company in 2011 and began training in the Florida Championship Wrestling developmental territory. He debuted on the main roster in 2012 as part of The Shield.

As for what Ambrose does next, that’s anyone’s guess. With Ring of Honor, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and All Elite Wrestling looking to bolster their rosters, though, it should be an interesting few months if he’s looking to stay in professional wrestling.

Gaming giant EA is removing FIFA Points, a form of virtual currency for the franchise’s lucrative Ultimate Team mode, across all titles from the franchise in Belgium following the country’s crackdown on loot boxes. In a blog post, EA said it came to the decision to remove FIFA Points following “discussions with the Belgian authorities.”

The FIFA Points will be removed from all FIFA games on console and PC by the end of January, EA said. While FIFA Points will no longer be purchasable for Ultimate Team, people can still of course play Ultimate Team; going forward, all extra content can only be unlocked through gameplay. This was always the case, as the FIFA Points were available as an option for players who wanted to unlock new content faster. The game’s other in-game currency, coins, along with the transfer market, will remain up and running in the wake of this news.

Gamers in Belgium will get to keep any unspent FIFA points, but, as mentioned, they will no longer be available to buy more. “We apologize to our players in Belgium for any inconvenience caused by this change,” EA said.

With all of its games, EA said its goal is to provide players with “choice, fairness, value, and fun.”

EA also pointed out that franchises like FIFA and others with loot box mechanics contain systems that display probability figures. EA removing loot boxes from FIFA might seem like the company is taking a stance against loot boxes, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. EA said previously that loot boxes are not gambling, and the company doubled down on this in its new statement.

“While we are taking this action, we do not agree with Belgian authorities’ interpretation of the law, and we will continue to seek more clarity on the matter as we go forward,” EA said.

On the investor side, EA said it doesn’t expect the removal of loot boxes to having a “material” impact on the company’s financial performance. That may be true because Belgium is a small country relative to other places; the potential worry for investors is that this announcement might lead to more widespread changes in other countries that EA operates in.

Loot boxes and Ultimate Team are very big business for EA. Across all of its sports games, EA’s Ultimate Team revenue came in at close to $1 billion in 2017, according to GI.biz.

In 2018, Belgium’s Gambling Commission announced that loot boxes constitute a game of chance, and were therefore subject to the country’s gambling laws. Blizzard swiftly removed loot boxes from Overwatch in Belgium, but EA had taken longer to make the change.

The conversation about loot boxes in video games is not ending anytime soon, so be sure to keep checking back with GameSpot for more.