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The Season of the Hunt may be over, but Destiny 2‘s tough Exotic mission, Harbinger, is still available in the game. In addition to fighting through some tough battles, you can also hunt through the mission for Paracausal Feathers to complete the Bird of Prey mission. Their locations rotate each week, but fortunately for you, we’ve scoured the EDZ’s Reservoir and located all five of this week’s feathers. You’ll find them all in the guide below.

Completing Harbinger earns you fresh rolls of the powerful Exotic hand cannon Hawkmoon, and if you complete Bird of Prey by earning 100 Paracausal Feathers, you can unlock a special Exotic ship called Radiant Accipiter. Don’t worry, though–you earn additional feathers by beating bosses in Harbinger, and finding the hidden feathers adds even more to your total. If you find them all this week, expect to finish Harbinger with around 37 feathers. Read on for the complete list of where to find this week’s feathers.

Paracausal Feather 1: Catwalk Near The Taken Centurion Emissary

Once you’re in the Reservoir area, you’ll enter a big room with turbines, in which you’ll find each of Savathun’s three emissaries. Damage each one enough and it’ll flee deeper into the Reservoir, requiring you to hunt them down and eliminate them. You’ll find the Taken Centurion Emissary in a big blue room with catwalks running through it. Look for the feather on top of the catwalk in the center of the room.

Paracausal Feather 2: Cage Near The Taken Wizard Emissary

This one’s a bit tougher to find and very easy to miss. When you find and kill the Taken Wizard Emissary, take the exit out of the room that leads you down a ramp. When you enter the next room, which will contain Taken Goblins, look for a red light on the wall. This marks a switch you can interact with, which unlocks a chain-link cage across from the red light where the third feather is hidden.

Paracausal Feather 3: Cistern Near The Taken Captain Emissary

You’ll find the Taken Captain Emissary in a small room connected to a cylindrical cistern. Keep climbing in this room to a small quarter-circle catwalk way at the top, where the feather waits on top of a crate.

Paracausal Feather 4: Hallowed Rift

Your path through the jumping puzzle this week is a bit confusing, requiring you to stick to some very narrow ledges that wrap around the edges of the first room. Keep climbing until you reach a place where you can jump across to several gray pipes. Follow the path from there toward one big, rusted pipe with a Taken Hobgoblin guarding it. Kill it and follow the pipe to its end, then look up and to your left to a ledge where a Taken Acolyte waits. From that ledge, jump across to the rusted doors on the far side of a chasm. Head to your left through another door, which will lead you to a collapsed tunnel with train tracks. Take that tunnel to its end and jump down to the right to the ledge below, where the feather waits on a rock.

Paracausal Feather 5: Just Before The Boss

The final feather is waiting right outside the boss room. Stop right in front of the energy field blocking the boss room (you need to kill the Unstoppable Champion to remove it) and look for a ledge to the right that wraps around the rock wall, going around a corner. Follow that ledge to find the last feather at a dead-end that’s just out of sight.

The new Fortnite Season 5, Week 11 challenges are available in the game now, and they are all Valentine’s Day-themed for Hearts Wild. Love is in the air, and you’re going to get sent all over the map to help the map’s residents find their soulmates while you try to stay alive and even deal some damage with a very famous weapon. It may take you a few matches to complete these, but we’ll help make your life a little easier with our guides.

Deal damage with crossbows

Your Legendary challenge this week is to deal damage with a crossbow. The weapon is back in the game and can be found scattered all over the floor in many buildings. It’s actually Cupid’s crossbow, and all you have to do to complete this challenge is deal enough damage with it.

Find and deliver a love potion

For this challenge, you’ll get 20,000 XP for finding a love potion and another 20,000 for delivering it to a set location. The love potion can be found at Stealthy Stronghold, Coral Cove, and Fort Crumpet. Just go to one of those locations to find it, then deliver it to either Slurpy Swamp or Shanty Town. In Shanty Town, it’s near the very end of the town in the upstairs area.

Catch three different kinds of fish

This one is pretty straightforward, and it’s the first half of a quest to help out Fishstick. Head to the Lazy Lake dock to get a fishing pole, then start fishing and catching different types around the edge of the lake. You’ll have three different types in a matter of minutes to get your 20,000 XP reward.

Serve the fish at a date

To do the second half of this challenge, you need to serve a fancy meal for Fishstick’s date. There are a few different restaurants available for this, but the easiest one to reach is Durr Burger. It’s located south of Holly Hedges, and Fishstick is at a table just outside the building itself. You’ll get another 20,000 XP for completing it.

Find a rose

You only need to find one rose to complete this challenge, and we recommend the Orchard location. It’s north of the Coliseum and if you go into the house located there, you’ll find the rose sitting on the floor next to several more in a vase. Pick it up for another 20,000 XP.

Find chocolates

For this challenge, you actually need to get three separate boxes of Valentine’s Day chocolates. You can find them at Pleasant Park, Holly Hedges, and Retail Row. The one in Pleasant Park is located on a desk, while the one we found in Retail Row is on a bed, and the one at Holly Hedges is on a dining room table. You’ll get another 20,000 XP for finding them.

Help Lovely celebrate Hearts Wild

This challenge is incredibly easy, despite not having much direction from the game itself. Once you’ve completed the other challenges–except the Legendary challenge we’ll discuss below–just find any NPC you can talk to on the map and give them the Valentine to complete it for another 20,000 XP.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will officially be released on PS5 on June 11, 2021.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart arrives on PS5 June 11.

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Pigs can be trained to play simple video games, scientists have found, demonstrating the animals’ potential for a “remarkable” level of behavioral and mental flexibility.

A BBC report presented a trough of information about the piggy players, sourced from a research paper published in a journal entry on Frontiers in Psychology. The document details an investigation into whether pigs are capable of playing a joystick-operated video game task, with four pigs – Hamlet, Omelet, Ivory, and Ebony – trained to move a joystick with their snouts to steer an on-screen cursor.

The pigs were required to move the cursor to make contact with randomly-positioned walled targets, and a reward was provided if the cursor collided with a target. However, researchers noted that the pigs exhibited a “high level of social motivation to perform the task,” and continued playing the game even when a food reward was not dispensed because of social encouragement from the trainer.

“This sort of study is important because, as with any sentient beings, how we interact with pigs and what we do to them impacts and matters to them,” said Dr. Candace Croney, lead author of the study.

The data analysis from the gaming sessions showed that neither Hamlet nor Omelet achieved significant performance on three-walled targets but performed “above chance” on one-walled targets and two-walled targets, with “78 and 70% correct responses” on the latter. Ivory and Ebony were both more successful than expected by chance on three-walled targets but had a bigger gaming gap on the one-walled targets.

Ultimately, researchers were satisfied that the pigs had the capacity to acquire the joystick-operated video game task, though they also noted that future studies into the cognitive behaviors of domestic species may benefit from the use of touchscreens or other advanced computer-interfaced technology due to dexterity and visual constraints as all four subjects, in this case, were far-sighted.

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Similar experiments have been conducted with chimpanzees and monkeys, who have proven to be even more skilled, with their opposable thumbs and individually moving fingers giving them an advantage. It remains to be seen, however, what might happen when a monkey plays video games in its own mind. Elon Musk might have the answer for us soon, as he claimed that one of his companies has implanted a device into a monkey’s brain, and hopes to make it play “mind pong” with another cyborg monkey.

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

CBS has handed out a formal pilot order to the long-gestating True Lies TV reboot, three-plus years after the series was greenlit at Fox.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed late on Wednesday that the network had commissioned a pilot adaptation of the 1994 hit action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis as Harry and Helen Tasker, a dysfunctional married couple who must simultaneously save the world and their relationship.

James Cameron and McG are both still attached to the project despite the series being dormant for many years. Cameron, who directed and produced the 1994 action-comedy, is on board to executive produce the potential series alongside McG who has also been lined up to direct the pilot, which is coming from the Disney-owned studio 20th Television.

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Burn Notice scribe Matt Nix has also joined the team as he will be handling the scripts on the now back-in-development series. The story is said to follow the same concept as the ’90s action flick.

The official logline reads the same as the movie: “Shocked to discover that her bland and unremarkable computer consultant husband is a skilled international spy, an unfulfilled suburban housewife is propelled into a life of danger and adventure when she’s recruited to work alongside him to save the world as they try to revitalize their passionless marriage.”

McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision president Mary Viola and frequent Cameron collaborator Rae Sanchini of his Lightstorm Entertainment banner will also executive produce the reboot.

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Cameron has been pursuing a True Lies TV series reboot on-and-off for more than a decade. He reportedly shopped the idea around various networks back in 2010, though we didn’t hear any more until seven years later when Fox handed out a pilot commitment for an hour-long episode. For unknown reasons, that also failed to move forward.

In recent years, an abundance of movies have been adapted for TV, with the likes of Terminator, Hannibal, and Psycho, all having made the transition to the small screen, with varying degrees of success. McG was also previously involved in another TV remake of an action classic as he served as an executive producer on the Lethal Weapon TV reboot and directed some of its episodes.

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

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has been targeted for the first half of 2021, but Sony has now announced a release date for the upcoming PS5-exclusive shooter-platformer. It’s coming on June 11, and will cost $70 for the standard edition and $80 for the Digital Deluxe edition.

As noted in the announcement, preordering either version will get you the Carbonox Armor and Pixelizer weapon. Participating retailers will sell physical editions with these preorder goodies included as a voucher. Both the Carbonox Armor and Pixelizer have been updated for the PS5, with the Carbonox armor showing off high-definition textures and ray-traced reflections.

The Digital Deluxe edition will also include five more armor sets, 20 Raritanium for upgrading your weapons, a sticker pack for use in the photo mode, and a digital artbook and soundtrack.

Insomniac noted that this is a new Ratchet story revolving around alternating dimensions, which is how Clank gets separated from his usual pal Ratchet and instead meets up with a new Lombax. The blog may be slyly teasing her name, yet to be revealed, by telling fans to, “Hang in there, you’ll be feeling rosy soon.”

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a showpiece exclusive for the PS5, and was a major part of Sony’s early console presentations. The dimension-swapping mechanic that appears to be at the heart of the game relies on the PS5’s SSD for quick loads, so it’s one of the relatively few first-party PS5 games that isn’t also slated for PS4.

February’s a romantic month, and to celebrate Borderlands 3 will be joining in on the festivities with the return of its Broken Hearts Day event. Much like last year’s event, players will be tasked by Maurice the Sentient Saurian to travel the galaxy, find love, and possibly even some sweet loot.

Maurice’s research on human courting rituals has resulted in enemies spawning floating hearts which when destroyed, add positive buffs to players such as increased health regeneration, a higher chance of obtaining rare loot or turning the floor around enemies into lava puddles. Broken Hearts Day will be live from 12:00 PM PT today and will run until February 25.

A number of gear adjustments have also been added in the latest hotfix, which buffs damage to Legendary weapons such as Kaoson, Garcia, and Impaler. Today’s hotfix also brings the Gear Rush mini-event to an end.

Gear adjustments

Hail

• Increased weapon damage

Crit

• Lowered the chance that the weapon would drop on reload

Bouncing Pair Grenade Mod

• Increased damage

Kaoson

• Increased weapon damage

Garcia

• Updated weapon to fire correctly in multiplayer. Players will notice that the weapon will now only fire two shots before reloading in both solo and co-op
• Increased weapon damage

Impaler

• Increased damage dealt

Void Rift

• Increased Spike damage
• Increased Black Hole singularity damage

Black Hole

• Increased damage dealt

It has been an interesting couple of days for Borderlands 3 developer Gearbox. Having joined the Embracer group in a $1.3 billion acquisition deal, Gearbox still plans to continue and publish the Borderlands series alongside 2K Games. Borderlands 3’s Designer’s Cut update launches in March, adding a new series of murder mystery levels and a raid boss challenge amongst other cosmetic additions.

The cult-classic Tales From The Borderlands will also return to digital stores on February 17, and if you’re looking to jump into Gearbox’s weird universe of vaults and bandits now’s a good time to do so as Borderlands 3 is heavily discounted this month.