Category: Games

French indie studio Motion Twin is celebrating the release of Dead Cells‘ new free DLC in a hilarious new trailer. Promoting the game’s Rise of the Giant DLC, we see the protagonist effortlessly incinerated by the end of the one-minute trailer.

The trailer starts with the character walking into a cave before tumbling Emperor’s New Groove-style into a pit overrun with monsters who seamlessly take all of the protagonist’s weapons. As he flees, he climbs up the bones of a giant, who reanimates itself and cheekily burns our protagonist to a crisp with eye lasers. Seems the giant doesn’t mess around. You can check out the trailer above.

In marking the Rise of Giant DLC’s release, Motion Twin has announced that the critically-acclaimed indie title sold more than two million copies. The DLC is available everywhere (Nintendo Switch, PC, and PS4) except Xbox One because, as the team has discovered, there was “a last minute bug in the Certification process.” Xbox players will see the update a bit later, Motion Twin explained.

Motion Twin also announced earlier this month that Dead Cells will make the jump from consoles and PC to mobile devices, with iOS releasing first and Android following shortly thereafter. There’s no exact release date as of yet, but the title is expected to drop “soon.”

In our Dead Cells review, we said that “Dead Cells is a phenomenal effort to blend together some very disparate genres into a tight, cohesive whole. It’s one of the better examples of how to remix ideas without losing their individual strengths.”

Season 9 of Fortnite rolls on with a new batch of content for Epic’s hit battle royale shooter. In addition to the ongoing Downtown Drop limited-time mode, Week 3’s challenges are now available across PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch, and mobile devices. These are your best bet for snagging all the new Season 9 cosmetics, as each task you complete will net you Battle Stars, which in turn will level up your Battle Pass and unlock rewards.

Week 3’s challenges are particularly straightforward, so you shouldn’t have too much difficulty completing them. This is fortunate, because there’s an added bonus for finishing all seven challenges from a given week: You’ll also complete one of Season 9’s Utopia challenges, which will reward you with a special loading screen. These typically hide a clue that points you to a free item hidden somewhere around the game’s map, such as a Battle Star that will level your Battle Pass up by one full tier.

If you’ve finished three weeks’ worth of missions this season, you’ll complete the third Season 9 Utopia challenge and unlock the loading screen pictured below. Per tradition, this screen features a clue leading eagle-eyed players to a free Battle Star. Specifically, the clue is scrawled onto the concrete wall the puppies are standing on; look closely and you can see the sketch of a Battle Star above a stack of cars. You’ll need to go to someplace on the map that resembles the drawing in order to find the item.

If the drawing wasn’t clear enough, you can find a pile of cars like that in Junk Junction, near the northwestern corner of the island. Glide toward the area at the start of a match and you should be able to easily spot the stack of cars. Make your way to the top and the Battle Star will appear. Collect it, finish the match, and your Battle Pass will be leveled up by one tier. If you need more help finding it, we’ve marked the Battle Star’s location on the map below. You can also watch us lead you to it in the video at the top of this guide.

Unlike Week 2’s secret Fortbyte #13, there’s a caveat to be aware of before you can collect this Battle Star. The item will only appear if you’ve complete three full weeks’ worth of challenges, which means you won’t simply be able to go to the stack of cars in Junk Junction and expect to find it unless you’ve done all of the necessary work first. If you need help completing any earlier challenges, you can find guides for all the trickier ones in our full Fortnite Season 9 challenges roundup. We’ll continue to update that with more tips as the season rolls on.

Epic recently rolled out Fortnite’s 9.10 update, which kicked off the aforementioned Downtown Drop LTM, which features its own assortment of challenges to complete and rewards to unlock. Alongside that, Epic introduced the Hang Time bundle, which comes with a pair of Jordan tie-in skins. Other changes the patch made include the addition of Hot Spots–areas on the island where you’ll have a chance to find Rare or better loot–and the reintroduction of the Semi-Auto Sniper Rifle, which is once again available in Vending Machines, chests, and as floor loot.

With the possibility of PS4 and PS5 playing together via backward compatibility, Sony has no plans of leaving the nearly 100 million PS4 owners in the past. Given how much recent attention has been given to PS5 and the fact that Sony won’t be at E3, you might wonder what’s going with first-party games coming to PS4. But Sony has reaffirmed that these exclusives are still headed to the current-gen platform.

“For the next three years or so, PS4 will be the engine of SIE’s engagement and probability, as we seek to keep the existing owner base engaged and delighted and attract new owners from different markets and different demographics,” SIE CEO and president Jim Ryan said during a Sony Investor Relations Day 2019 presentation (via IGN). “In this we will be massively helped by an outstanding roster of new and exclusive games that have yet to be launched.”

Ryan was speaking over a slide at the investor meeting, which featured a graphic (pictured above) with one tile that read “Outstanding roster of exclusive AAA games still to come,” followed by thumbnails of three upcoming PS4 games: The Last of Us Part II, Death Stranding, and Ghost of Tsushima.

This doesn’t rule out the possibility that these games are also released on PS5, but Ryan and the rest of Sony are not ready to cut off the flow of PS4 games just yet.

We recently saw footage of the PS5’s insanely-fast load times, thanks in large part to the system’s newly-equipped solid-state drives. Despite some of the impressive power packed into the system, PlayStation 4 lead architect Mark Cerny told Wired writer Peter Rubin that the PS5 will have an “appealing” price point: “I believe that we will be able to release it at an SRP [suggested retail price] that will be appealing to gamers in light of its advanced feature set.”

Overwatch League, the official competitive scene for Blizzard’s team shooter, is pitting fans against each other to win the honor of topping the teams. The winning team gets to take over the official OWL Instagram account.

From May 27-31, equip an Overwatch League team hero skin and take part in Quick Play or Competitive matches. Each match you complete earns one point for the team you’re representing, and the winning team will be announced on June 3. It all works similar to Splatoon‘s Splatfests, which tie team colors to surveys.

The announcement notes that you must complete a match for your point to register, including overtime. It’s okay if you need to switch to a different hero, as long as you were wearing a team skin at some point during the match. It also doesn’t matter if you’re wearing the Home or Away skin. You can also contribute points on Twitter by tweeting with the #MyOWLTeam hashtag and tagging your favorite team. Blizzard promises that stage three of the event will begin on June 6, but it didn’t specify exactly what that will entail.

This is run concurrently with the middle of the Overwatch Anniversary event, which runs through June 10. As usual that has introduced a bunch of new skins, as well as other cosmetics and rotating brawls. Still, if you’re a fan of the Los Angeles Gladiators or the Philadelphia Fusion, you may want to put aside your Honeydew Mei or Gargoyle Winston temporarily and support the team.

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