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Year 3, Season 3 of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege kicks off soon with the release of Operation Grim Sky. While the expansion is already available to try out on the game’s test server, Ubisoft has now revealed when it’ll go live for all players on PS4, Xbox One, and PC: September 4.

Like previous Operations, Grim Sky introduces two new Operators to the game: Maverick and Clash. Both hail from different organizations and fall under different classes. Maverick is an Attacker from America who can use stun grenades and a blowtorch (and who has already been nerfed). Clash, meanwhile, is a Defender from Great Britain. She’s the first Defender in the game to wield a shield, which also comes equipped with a taser.

In addition to the new Operators, Grim Sky makes a significant overhaul to Hereford Base, one of the game’s first maps. Ubisoft says this is the first such map overhaul the development team has undertaken in Siege. Following the update, each floor of the base will a larger surface area and more destructible walls, and new staircases and hatches have been added to give players more options for moving around the map.

The Consulate map is also receiving a buff as part of the Operation Grim Sky update. These changes aren’t as significant as the ones being applied to Hereford Base, but they’ll nonetheless force you to tweak your strategies. The police line spawn point has been extended, while a wall has been moved near the gas station spawn point “to prevent spawn peeking and early kills.” Ubisoft is also adding another bomb site to the map in Tellers and Archives.

Rounding out Operation Grim Sky are a range of balance tweaks and bug fixes. You can find the full patch notes for the update on the official Rainbow Six Siege website.

Activision has announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will introduce cosmetic variations of the base firearms called signature weapons. Two of the signature weapons can be unlocked before Black Ops 4 even releases, but you’ll need to complete in-game challenges to get the rest.

Signature weapons do not provide any in-game benefits over the base weapons. Instead, they act as bragging rights. Most signatures are locked behind specific challenges that will test your skill in different ways. Completing different challenges nets you additional rewards, with the Mastercraft variant being the final and most difficult design for all signature weapons. If you run into another player with a Mastercraft version of a signature weapon, you’ll have a better idea of just how skilled they are and how much time they’ve invested into Black Ops 4.

Two of the signature weapons can be unlocked without completing any in-game challenges. If you pre-order Black Ops 4’s Digital Deluxe, Digital Deluxe Enhanced, Pro, or Mystery Box Editions you’ll get a MX-9 signature weapon on day one that wraps the SMG in a golden eagle design. The Divinity Strife Pistol Signature Weapon can be unlocked day one by pre-ordering Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 from GameStop. One of Black Ops 4’s other signature variants of the Strife pistol, the Divine Justice, can only be unlocked by completing in-game challenges with the Divinity. So if you want a heads start on the Divine Justice, you better pre-order Black Ops 4 from GameStop to get the Divinity.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches on October 12 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. The beta for the game’s battle royale mode, titled Blackout, starts on September 10 for PS4 and September 14 for Xbox One and PC.

The Predator is unquestionably one of the most iconic movie monsters in modern cinema. First introduced in the 1987 classic Predator, this ruthless, highly intelligent killing machine was seen working his way through a heavily armed squad of soldiers before meeting his match against the equally iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger. The success of the movie has led to five sequels–including the upcoming The Predator–plus a wider universe of comic books, novels, and video games.

But despite the brilliance of that initial Predator design, the first movie started shooting with an entirely different alien protagonist. The original Predator costume had a long neck, a strange bird-like head, and backward-bending legs, but technical issues with the suit led to production closing down for several months while makeup effects visionary Stan Winston worked on a new look, which is now part of movie history.

Since then, the look of the Predator has evolved from movie to movie, with each new entry in the series adapting and updating the basic design. Some of these changes are to the armor and weaponry, and sometimes to the appearance of the alien itself. Often the changes are to make the Predator look scarier than the previous film, but occasionally a more sympathetic Predator is required, such as in the first Alien vs. Predator. The writers, artists, and designers of the comics and games have also taken the design in some interesting new directions.

In 1994, a name was given to this race of alien hunters–the Yautja. The name is never used in the films, but was introduced into the wider universe in the novel Alien vs. Predator: Prey and is now commonly used by fans. The same applies to the names of the Predators themselves–many of these were simply used on set or have been applied by fans after the movies were released, but are now accepted titles.

With the latest movie, The Predator, hitting theaters on September 14, we’ll soon be able to see what the next stage of Predator evolution is. We already know from the trailers that director Shane Black has something very big and scary in store. So here’s a look back over the past 31 years of Predator evolution, to see exactly how this much-loved (and feared) movie monster has changed. Let’s hunt!

Fortnite‘s wild popularity continues, and Epic Games is looking to capitalize on that with a significant presence at PAX West 2018. This consists of a number of things, including the conclusion of the ongoing Summer Skirmish tournament, where $1.5 million is up for grabs to those at PAX West.

What you’ll also find if you’re at the show is Lazy Links Live. One of the major additions to Fortnite: Battle Royale’s Season 5 map has been a golf course and golf carts (in the form of the All-Terrain Kart, or ATK). With that in mind, Epic has set up a nine-hole mini-golf course inspired by the in-game Lazy Links golf course. This is located inside the convention center where PAX is taking place.

To make it even more worth a visit for those at PAX, Epic has brought in professional cosplayers who have dressed up as some of the game’s best skins. You can get a look at this cosplay and the golf course above.

As always, there’s a lot happening in the world of Fortnite. Epic has released a new Battle Royale dev update video that outlines changes to storm damage, as well as plans to vault the revolver. There’s also a new event, High Stakes, on the way next week that will consist of multiple things: a limited-time mode called Getaway, a Wild Card skin, and High Stakes challenges.

Details are still scant, but in the meantime, there’s plenty to do thanks to the release of Week 8 challenges. Among other things, those call on players to search between oversized seats and to use Rifts at different spawn locations. The most recent content update also added the new shockwave grenade.