Fortnite Season 9, Week 9 Challenge List – Use A Chug Jug, Visit A Solar Array, More

Death; taxes; Fortnite challenges–the three certainties of life. Like clockwork, new Fortnite: Battle Royale challenges arrive every week, and Season 9, Week 9’s set is now live.

In the free section (challenges that anyone can do without buying the Battle Pass), you’ll need to use a chug jug or chug splash in three different matches. You’ll also need to visit a solar array in the snow, the desert, and the jungle. Finally, make sure you’re getting lots of kills with common, then uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary weapons.

If you’ve got a Battle Pass, you’ll be able to do some exclusive challenges. If you haven’t got one and want to get all the cosmetics this season, it’s worth getting one as you’ll get more challenges and thus more opportunities to get Battle Stars. A Battle Pass can be purchased using V-Bucks from the in-game store. Take a look at the full list of challenges for this week below; alternatively, check out the full list of Season 9 challenges or take a look at the mysterious Fortnite x Stranger Things crossover event.

Fortnite: Battle Royale Season 9, Week 9 Challenges

Free

  • Use a chug jug or chug splash in different matches (3) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Visit a solar array in the snow, the desert, and the jungle (3) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Get an elimination with a common/uncommon/rare/epic/legendary rarity weapon (1) — 2 Battle Stars

Premium

  • Deal 500 headshot damage — 5 Battle Stars
  • Search chests at Lazy Lagoon or Happy Hamlet (7) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Eliminate opponents in different named locations (5) — 10 Battle Stars
  • Deal damage to an opponent within 10s of landing from a volcano vent (200 damage) — 10 Battle Stars

Forza Horizon 4 Adds Free Top Gear DLC

Forza Horizon 4 will be getting a crossover with Top Gear, the popular BBC auto series. Microsoft announced that the free update is available now, with loads of new vehicles and some cosmetic options for your driver.

The Top Gear content is narrated by Chris Harris and features seven new story chapters. The actual race content will let you drive a 1999 Lotus Elise, Austin taxi, the Top Gear modified Mercedes-Benz E-AT, a 65 Mini Cooper, Porsche 911 GT2 RS, G65 6×6 AMG, and the Guinness record-setting 500bhp Track-tor.

Finishing the Top Gear missions will unlock the E-AT Mercedes Benz and Track-tor, along with an “I am The Stig” shirt and white overalls for your driver. A trailer shows off some of the Top Gear gear.

Like all of Microsoft’s first-party games, Forza Horizon 4 is included with Game Pass, the company’s all-you-can-eat subscription service for Xbox One and PC. The game has been putting out DLC on a pretty regular basis, including premium Lego Speed Champions-themed content announced and released during E3 2019.

PES 2020 Has No “Plans To Integrate Women,” Konami Says

Women’s football is more popular than ever before, with the ongoing 2019 World Cup enthralling audiences across the globe. While EA added women’s teams in a limited capacity back in FIFA 16, PES has so far eschewed the women’s game entirely. Publisher Konami has now confirmed that stance will continue in PES 2020.

“I personally support the women’s game and have been following the World Cup closely,” the series’ European brand manager, Lennart Bobzien, told GameSpot in a statement. “However we currently don’t have any plans to integrate women into eFootball PES 2020.”

EA’s series holds the licensing rights to feature the FIFA World Cup competitions–for both men and women’s teams–so it’s unsurprising the tournament hasn’t been featured in PES in an official capacity.

However, it’s disappointing to see the women’s game not represented at all in PES given the sport is now more popular than it has ever been. For example, the England v USA World Cup semi-final on Tuesday had the highest peak audience of any TV show this year in the UK, with 11.7 million people tuning in to BBC One concurrently–a 50.8% audience share. Women’s football is arguably of a higher standard and has enjoyed increased media coverage than ever before.

Manchester United, PES 2020’s newly-unveiled partner club, themselves launched a women’s team in 2018. The upcoming season will see them compete in the top division of English women’s football, the Women’s Super League, after being promoted last term.

PES 2020 launches for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on September 10. A demo version, which includes online and offline match types as well as the game’s edit mode, will launch on July 30. Stay tuned to GameSpot for a full PES 2020 gameplay preview.

Netflix’s Pacific Rim Anime Is Coming in 2020

Legendary Entertainment has revealed that the Pacific Rim animated series will launch on Netflix next year, and will initially run for two seasons.

Talking at Project Anime, an industry event proceeding Los Angeles’ massive Anime Expo, Legendary Entertainment’s executive vice president of brand development and consumer products, Elie Dekel, revealed that Pacific Rim’s first season will begin in 2020 and that the show has been confirmed for two seasons.

The series will be produced by Legendary in partnership with Tokyo’s Polygon Pictures. “

one of the biggest budget anime series I’ve had the pleasure of working on, and I think that speaks to the commitment of Netflix and Legendary

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F1 2019 Review

There have been a touch over 100 Formula One Grands Prix since the sport’s controversial engine revision in 2014. Over half of them have been clinched by a single bloke, and more than 80 of them won by the same manufacturer. Terms like ‘boring’ and ‘predictable’ aren’t exactly the types of adjectives F1 bosses would want associated with the world’s top-tier motorsport, but they’re being levelled at F1 with increasing gusto from all corners.

However, while real-life F1 may be flagging somewhat after more than half-a-decade of spirit-sucking Mercedes dominance, Codemasters’ F1 games have only become stronger with each instalment. The crew at Codemasters have whipped the studio’s F1 franchise into one of the best racing series on four wheels, and F1 2019 continues that winning run. The improvements over F1 2018 are only moderate, but F1 2019 is not only the best F1 game to date, it’s one that’s frequently more thrilling, more interesting, and more rewarding than watching the real thing.

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Stranger Things Season 3, Episode 6 – ‘E Pluribus Unum’ Review

Warning! Full SPOILERS follow for our review of Stranger Things Season 3, Episode 6, titled “E Pluribus Unum.” For a refresher, be sure to check out our review of “The Flayed.”

Stranger Things’ third season really picks up steam here, with some significant OMG reveals that point to a climactic finale. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s start with Eleven’s mind-bending trip into Billy’s memories. This particular moment is one of the series’ most impactful scenes, with its stunning use of visuals, and exceptional performances from Millie Bobbie Brown and Dacre Montgomery.

Without relying on chunks of exposition to get their narrative points across, the Duffer brothers are able to convey Billy’s bleak childhood in a heartbreaking, yet beautiful montage. The way the scene follows Eleven from a peaceful shoreline during the happier days to a roaring storm filled with hate and torment after Billy’s mom leaves him behind, is an effective way to present Billy as a more sympathetic character. The part when Eleven looks back at Billy’s dad with her “I’m going to mess you up” stare is marvelous. It would have been cool if she could have punched Billy’s dad through time, but apparently her powers don’t quite extend to time travel (yet). Hopefully, Billy will get a chance to free himself from the Mind Flayer’s influence and gain redemption.

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Stranger Things: Season 3, Episode 5 – ‘The Flayed’ Review

Warning! Full SPOILERS follow for our review of Stranger Things Season 3, Episode 5 – “The Flayed.” For a refresher, be sure to check out our review of “The Sauna Test.” 

That hospital scene is kick ass! What a great build-up to Jonathan and Nancy’s confrontation with the Mind Flayer’s hosts, resulting in the creation of a terrifying new creature. The special effects in Season 3 have really been given a boost, with the monster looking particularly gruesome up close. And while we do love a Demogorgon and his trusty Demodogs, it’s been enjoyable to see a new kind of Upside Down being brought to life. Even the way it’s created is super disgusting. The flesh and bones coming together are evocative of John Carpenter’s The Thing, or more recently the Resident Evil movie franchise.

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