Fortnite and Marvel are teaming up once again. This time it’s another member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, Gamora, who will be joining the ever-expanding roster of Fortnite crossover outfits, or “skins” as fans tend to call them. Here’s what you need to know about when Gamora is coming to Fortnite and how to unlock her early.

Fortnite Gamora Skin

Gamora will debut in the Fortnite Item Shop on August 14 at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET. Though a price hasn’t yet been revealed, we expect her complete bundle of in-game cosmetics to go for about 2400 V-Bucks, or about $20. Gamora will be sold alongside Star-Lord, who makes his long-awaited return to the game after previously debuting in 2019.

Players who leveled up their Season 4 battle passes enough also previously unlocked Groot with a Rocket Racoon Back Bling, meaning nearly the entire Guardians squad from the James Gunn era have come to Fortnite. (Just waiting on you, Drax.) Gamora’s full set will also include back bling, a pickaxe, and a glider.

It’s appropriate that Gamora arrives in Fortnite this season, since Doctor Slone and the Imagined Order are having such a tough time expelling the alien trespassers. Gamora knows a thing or two about fending off aliens.

Fortnite Gamora Cup: How To Unlock Gamora Early

As usual, Epic is giving players the chance to earn a major new in-game skin before it’s on sale. On August 11, a few days before Gamora’s proper debut, players can jump into the Gamora Cup from the in-game menu labeled Competitive.

In Duos, players will have three hours to complete 10 rounds of Fortnite battle royale and accumulate points. The winners within each region will earn the Gamora outfit and the Gamora Cloak back bling. While few will be so lucky (and skilled), the bar to leave with something in hand is much lower. Any teams that amass eight or more points in the allotted time will receive the Daughter of Thanos spray.

You can find the full rulebook and scoring system breakdown on the official Fortnite site, but suffice it to say scoring eight points in 10 rounds should be quite doable for even many casual Fortnite players, so if you’re a Guardians fan, it may be worth it to try your hand at Fortnite’s competitive scene.

Gamora isn’t the only superhero from another planet coming to Fortnite this week. Alongside his very own Superman quests, the Man of Steel makes his debut on August 12. If you need more Fortnite, don’t miss the Ariana Grande Rift Tour replay, then prep for this week’s Alien Artifacts.

It’s a well-known story at this point that, for many fans, No Man’s Sky has gone from somewhat disappointing to resurgent success, largely through frequent free updates from developer Hello Games. It looks like those content drops aren’t done yet, either: Hello Games just teased another one coming that’s called Frontiers.

In a Twitter post, Hello Games included Frontiers at the end of a list of every update to come to the game so far. The post is accompanied by a sizzle reel of many of the past updates, with a title card at the end for Frontiers that confirms that it, too, will be free for all players. This is about the smallest tease possible, so we have no idea what it’s going to entail yet. But if it follows past named updates, it should contain a substantial amount of new content.

In addition, seeing all of the updates listed out in one tweet puts in context just how much work Hello Games has done on No Man’s Sky since its original launch. The game was originally released way back in 2016, but it has gained a devoted following by essentially becoming a live game.

It appears that the Frontiers expansion is the fifth anniversary surprise that Hello Games hinted at back in May. If it arrives this year, it’ll be the fourth named update to be launched in 2021; Companions was added in February, followed by Expeditions in April and Prisms in June.

Best Buy’s latest video game promotion is one of its more interesting events in recent memory. For each of the next 10 days, Best Buy will offer one game for $10. The promotion will feature Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and PC games. Each game will only be on sale for one day before a new deal takes its place. Day one’s deal is Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, one of the Nintendo Switch’s best strategy games.

While Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is almost always on sale, we very rarely see it for less than $15, especially physical copies. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a tactics game that plays a lot like XCOM, but it’s far more lighthearted. Kingdom Battle pairs Mario and pals with Ubisoft’s zany Rabbids to create a wild and genuinely funny collaboration. A sequel, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, is set to release in 2022 for Nintendo Switch.

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is only available for $10 until tonight at 10 PM PT / 1 AM ET. We’ll update this article each day as new $10 game deals become available.

10 days, 10 games, 10 dollars promotion

Among the Fortnite Week 10 challenges, you’ll need to place video cameras at different ship landing locations. This is another story-driven quest that paints a fuller picture of Slone’s relentless efforts to gather data on the aliens. She’s been obsessed with driving them back all season, and though her efforts have not totally been in vain, she’s losing the battle. Still, she can’t stop now, and she’s enlisting your help when this challenge goes live on August 11 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. Here’s where to place video cameras in Fortnite.

Fortnite Video Camera Locations – Week 10

There are three different locations you’ll need to travel to this week to complete this challenge, and unlike some other quests, you must visit all three at least once to complete the challenge. Thankfully, you don’t have to do it in one round, though it’s fine if you do, of course. You’ll first want to head to Retail Row and place a video camera on the southern hillside looking down into town.

Once you’ve done so, head west to the next town over. At Lazy Lake, the same logic applies. Slone is running a covert operation, so the camera will be on the northeastern hillside looking down into the town to capture the best evidence.

From there head southwest to Misty Meadows and look for the camera interaction location at the far east end, once more atop a northeastern hill, within this lakeside town. Placing a camera at all three spots in any order will complete this challenge for you and get you one step closer to finishing off the Week 10 challenges.

Doctor Slone is hellbent on stopping the alien “trespassers,” but with Slurpy Swamp being abducted last week and more abductions likely on their way, it seems the Imagined Order’s boss is struggling to stay a step ahead of the invaders.

We’ve got about another month of Fortnite Season 7 to unravel before Season 8 premieres in September. Look to the skies this week not just for aliens, but for Superman too. Don’t forget to finish off the Rift Tour Quests while you’re at it.

As a whole, Fortnite Chapter 2 has thus far been defined by its massive crossovers and frequent in-game events, but the more recent trajectory for the game was pointing downward. Sure, engagement remained high and the game is reliably at or near the top of all platforms’ most-played games lists week in and week out, but consecutive swings-and-misses from Epic Games dating back to a few months ago had left me and some other fans wishing things were different.

Now, two-thirds of the way through a season that has done well to earn back some of that wavering fan trust, it was Ariana Grande who played the part of unlikely hero in rescuing Fortnite from its slow but noticeable decline.

In my mind, Fortnite’s losing streak started with Season 5. Following the immensely popular and Marvel-heavy Season 4, perhaps expectations were always going to be unfairly high, but Season 5 is widely considered a bad season even without the shadow of Iron Man and friends looming over it. While the inclusion of The Mandolorian as the Tier 1 battle pass skin made waves, the bright spots of the season really start and end there.

The center of the map was strangely barren, with the too-large Colossal Coliseum surrounded by hundreds of meters of sand and little else. It was surprisingly boring for a game that has for so long dazzled players time and time again with new, inventive locations each season. Making it worse, a new traversal system that sought to have players burrowing through the sand like a sandworm was broken a few times during the season for extended periods of time, leaving players vulnerable in this central wasteland of the Season 5 map. If you’re not one to build efficiently, this flaw in map design was unkind to you for days or weeks at a time.

The season was light on exciting events and was the first in many months to end without the bang of an in-game event, though players did get their cinematic fix with the start of Season 6 and the Zero Point Finale, but the game felt like it was at its lowest point of Chapter 2.

Season 6 didn’t do a lot to course-correct either. The hunting-focused season brought some interesting new crafting and survival elements to the game, which exist in a limited form even today in Season 7, but map changes were once again lackluster, mostly removing places like Hunter’s Haven and the fan-favorite Butter Barn, but not replacing them with anything.

To its credit, Season 6 did remove the dry desert taking up much of the center portion of the map, but once more, the season as a whole felt like Fortnite was spinning its wheels. The most exciting parts of Seasons 5 and 6 were their numerous crossovers with characters like Kratos, Master Chief, and Lara Croft, but Fortnite’s best moments are when the community can come together and enjoy the game, not just its Item Shop. Personally, I didn’t miss a single weekly challenge or even most dailies during either season, but they became rote parts of my day. Looking back, I was completing challenges for the same reason I brush my teeth: because I was compelled to do so, not because I was excited

The slump continued with the springtime NBA crossover event, which saw fans team up to take on in-game challenges and represent their favorite NBA squads. But predictably, the event was won easily by the Lakers contingent, blowing out the competition with a final in-game score greater than the sum of the next four best-ranked teams. The event was flawed from the start and marked the first time I consciously dwelled on the slump the game was in.

Epic then followed that with the Cosmic Summer event, which doled out free cosmetics to players who participated in fan-made limited-time modes (LTMs). Frustratingly, these LTMs were all extremely tedious, in such a way that I was genuinely stunned to see the developer highlight them so prominently. Before Cosmic Summer, there wasn’t a Fortnite event I ever ignored, no matter how much I didn’t like its content, simply because I love completing challenges and earning free cosmetics.

But after dragging my feet through two of the game’s four LTMs during Cosmic Summer, I threw in the towel. I couldn’t bear to engage with the modes anymore–ice cream truck emote be damned. It seems silly to accuse Fortnite of a “slump” given its perpetually high engagement, but it’s all relative. Compared to where the game was a year ago, it felt like Fortnite was cooling off and ever so slowly losing its place in the zeitgeist.

The first half of Fortnite in 2021 left a hole in the hearts of players like me who adored Seasons 2-4 and today consider them the strongest run the game has ever seen, introducing adored characters like Meowscles, delivering incredible finales like the fight with Galactus, and displaying some of the biggest map overhauls to date like the Season 3 flood.

It was the longest drought of awesome new content the game had ever seen since its rise to dominance over three years ago. Then the Rift Tour happened.

Following weeks of rumors, Epic confirmed that popstar Ariana Grande would headline an in-game concert similar to last summer’s Travis Scott show. To be honest, I’d never heard an Ariana Grande song before, but knowing what Fortnite’s past in-game concerts looked like, I was hopeful that the Rift Tour would revitalize the game’s community-at-large, as well as my own love for everything Fortnite. I was not disappointed.

The visual spectacle on display was unique, exciting, and above all, enchanting. I shared the moment with my wife and son and all three of us were blown away. We ended up playing it multiple times across the weekend’s five showings. It stylishly transitioned from competitive surfing to floating among Seussian pink trees to an aerial battle with the Storm King himself, all before the headliner took the stage and impressed with a digital showcase featuring several of her songs. On some level, I became an Ariana Grande fan that day, just as the year prior gave me a newfound appreciation for Travis Scott.

Epic’s chief creative officer Donald Mustard often talks about the “blue ocean,” the limitless potential of a metaverse where people convene in real-time, digital spaces and live extensions of their lives in fantastical worlds. He says these concerts are just the start of the future of entertainment. I tend to believe we’ll get to such a place, but even if you think the metaverse is just the latest Silicon Valley pipe-dream, the Rift Tour itself can’t be overlooked as a marvel at the center of contemporary audiovisual pageantry.

It’s not like anything else you could see this year, not in-person or online, and most absurd of all: it was totally free. You didn’t need to own the battle pass to gain access, you didn’t need to buy the Ariana Grande skin to reserve a seat. You just had to download the game for free and join millions of others while the show unfolded live for the whole world. It’s these communal events that lift Fortnite to new heights, and the game was lacking in them for the whole year to date–and not for lack of trying.

While the bigwigs at virtually any other brand, perhaps even Netflix, would trade places with the Fortnite braintrust in a heartbeat, the game itself had suffered subtle but cascading whiffs for the majority of the year to date. But Ariana Grande smashed that narrative to pieces with the same diamond-encrusted mallet she used to warp players to new realities a half-dozen times during the Rift Tour.

Season 7, to its own credit, has been widely regarded as the fans’ most enjoyed season since Season 4–some would say even longer–and though we still have another month before Season 8 kicks off, the Rift Tour feels like the perfect way for Epic to regain its foothold on the live-service landscape and once again find itself as the topic of every lunch table when schools reconvene in a few weeks.

Epic makes headlines with each new season, but sometimes the excitement is proven to be more of a honeymoon period for fans, as it did in Seasons 5 and 6. If we’re to make way for the metaverse, its promise has to be one of more than just compulsory boxes being checked, logging on for in-game challenges, then moving on with our day. Season 7 and especially the Rift Tour are, in my opinion, the game’s proper return to form and set one of my favorite games back on course to keep players not just engaged, but excited.

If you haven’t picked up Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Amazon has PS4 and Xbox One physical copies on sale for excellent prices. The PS4 edition is on sale for $38.29, while the Xbox One version is $37.61. Both were on sale for a new low price of $35 over the weekend, but these deals are pretty darn close to that mark anyway. Amazon Prime members can get free shipping arriving as early as tomorrow.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition comes with remastered versions of Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 as well as almost every piece of DLC. The games are optimized for 4K Ultra HD resolution and feature a myriad of visual enhancements, including updated character models and high-resolution textures.

The collection earned an 8/10 in GameSpot’s Mass Effect: Legendary Edition review. “All in all, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition isn’t this huge transformation for the original trilogy,” associate editor Jordan Ramée wrote. “The remastered Mass Effect 1 is a more enjoyable experience than playing the original game today, and makes for a far more palatable entry point to the series. And Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 look far better than they did before, with minor but welcome changes to specific pieces of content.”

Amazon also has another great 2021 release on sale for an excellent price right now. Hitman 3, which closes out the inventive World of Assassination Trilogy, is discounted to just $35 for Xbox and PlayStation.

Fortnite Season 7 Week 10 challenges are just around the corner. This season has been a fan favorite, and this week should be one of the busiest yet, and not just because of the new Legendary and Epic Quests. Look for the Legendary Quests to go live on August 11 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET, while the Epic Quests will follow exactly 24 hours later. Here’s how to complete all Week 10 Fortnite challenges.

Week 10 Legendary Quests

Week 10 Epic Quests

• Use the Grab-itron or saucer’s abductor beam to deliver a tractor to Hayseed’s Farm (1) – 30,000 XP
• Travel in an Inflate-A-Bull (200) – 30,000 XP
• Visit Guardian Towers (3) – 30,000 XP
• Catch a gun while fishing (1) – 30,000 XP
• Outlast opponents (200) – 30,000 XP
• Eliminations at close range (1) 30,000 XP
• Damage Doctor Slone (50) – 30,000 XP

This may be the easiest week of challenges of the season so far. Let’s start with the Legendary Quests. As always, head to any bus stop to get Slone’s orders from a payphone. If you need an exact location, try the payphone at the west end of Misty Meadows, or outside any gas station. Next head to the southwestern quadrant of the map to damage an opponent in the Slurpy Swamp abduction site. Any amount of damage will do. To collect a Grab-itron, your best best is to search atop Abductors or on the Mothership, but they can appear in even basic chests–or among the loot from fallen enemies, of course.

We’ll have a separate guide helping you to place video cameras at different landing ship locations, but the TLDR of it is to look toward the hills overlooking Retail Row, Lazy Lake, and Misty Meadows. You’ll need to visit all three spots and place a camera within each locale. To visit an Abductor, simply drop on top of any Abductor in any round. They move with each match you play, but there are always multiple to choose from and you can see them on your map before boarding the Battle Bus.

The final Legendary Quest tells you to visit Slurp Factory inside the Mothership. Starting on Wednesday, the factory from Slurpy Swamp will not be on the map anymore; it’ll be on the Mothership. All you have to do is get Abducted by waiting under any Abductor for a few minutes until it abducts everyone in range of its humming, green tractor beam. Once on the Mothership, look for Slurp Factory and get close enough to it to complete this week’s Legendary Quests.

Moving onto Epic Quests, the fastest way to use the Grab-itron or saucer’s abductor beam to deliver a tractor to Hayseed’s Farm is to pilot the UFO that sits inside the big red barn at Corny Complex. Then use the tractor beam to lift any nearby tractor–there are plenty within Corny Complex–and take it across the river to nearby Hayseed’s Farm.

To travel in an Inflate-A-Bull, find one in any chest or buy one directly from Rick, then travel in it for 200 meters. There are six Guardian towers around the island, and for this week’s quests, you need to visit any three of them, so pick the three that work for you. In a UFO or other vehicle, you can complete this challenge very quickly.

To catch a gun while fishing, you need only to fish at any fishing spot. Loot is randomized, but after a few tries, you’ll probably catch a gun instead of a fish or other loot. Any gun will count, so don’t sweat it. To outlast 200 opponents, you’ll need to play at last three matches. Just stay alive by any means necessary until you’ve outlasted a cumulative 200 loopers.

To record an elimination at close range, your best bet is to use an SMG or shotgun. Eliminating just one player at “close range,” or within 10 meters, will complete this challenge. The last challenge demands you damage Doctor Slone. Thie leader of the IO has been holed up in the secret bunkers within Corny Complex and she’s a very tough boss to defeat. Luckily, you only need to deal 50 total damage, which isn’t much at all.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll be almost 400,000 XP richer thanks to the Week 10 challenges. But don’t forget to complete the rest of the Superman Quests and Rift Tour Quests too.

There are plenty of great new deals today. The PowerBlock adjustable dumbbells (a more inexpensive alternative to Bowflex SelectTech) is on sale at Woot. Traditionally this has sold out well ahead of the end-of-day expiration date. Apple AirPods Pro have dropped back down to the lowest price we’ve ever seen. Herman Miller has kicked off its first ever gaming sale, with a sweet 15% discount on all of their gaming gear, including their high(est) end gaming chairs. These deals and more below.,

PowerBlock 50lb Adjustable Dumbbells (Pair)

Don’t be fooled by the price; these dumbbells normally cost just more than a pair of Bowflex SelectTech 552 dumbbells. Currently woot (owned by Amazon) is offering a hefty 42% discount. They are built as well as the Bowflex and the specs are similar. Each dumbbell ranges from 2.5lbs to 50lbs in increments of 2.5lbs. These sell out very quickly at Woot so if you’ve been eyeing a pair, you better not hesitate. Woot is owned by Amazon, so you can sign in with your Amazon Prime account to get free shipping.

Apple AirPods Pro Noise-Cancelling Earbuds

If you regret not picking the Airpods Pro up on Amazon Prime Day at 24% off, here’s your chance to get it today at the same price. The AirPods Pro is considered one of the best truly wireless noise-cancelling in-ear headphones you can get, especially for under $200.

Apple AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

These are the 2nd generation Apple Airpods upgraded with the wireless charging case that you normally get with the higher end AirPods Pro. The wireless charging case allows you to charge the case via a wireless induction charger OR an Apple Lightning cable (the wired charging case can only be charged via cable). This version of the AirPods has rarely dropped in price this year, not even on Prime Day.

Herman Miller Gaming Sale: 15% Off Gaming Chairs, Including the Herman Miller x Logitech G Embody

Herman Miller makes the best ergonomic chairs in the industry. They’re also not cheap, with several of their models easily topping over $1000 in price. Penny pinchers might find it a waste of money, but honestly, in this case you get what you pay for. Many of us could spend a majority of our lives stuck to our chair, it makes sense that this would be one of the most important purchases we make. Today, Herman Miller is offering 15% off their top-of-the-line gaming collaborations with Logitech. This is the first time we’ve seen a substantial discount on these outside of Sample Sales and employee-only offers. If you’ve got deep pockets, then you’ll save on what is probably the best gaming chair on the market.

$100 Off the Newest Apple iPad Air

The 4th generation Apple iPad Air released in 2020 is still the newest model out. It’s the best iPad to get if you don’t need the power (and price tag) of the iPad Pro. Thanks to its slim bezels, it has a larger screen size (10.9″ vs 10.2″) compared to the iPad without noticeably increasing the overall footprint. The iPad Air display also features Tru Tone and P3 Wide Color (gamut). It connects via USB Type-C cable, which is much more convenient than the proprietary Lightning cable.

Available: Nintendo Joy-Cons Skyward Sword Edition

After a long haitus, these special edition Skyward Sword themed Joy-Cons are available for order again on Amazon. They Joy-Cons are made over in a royal blue color with white accents. The right Joy-Con controller is themed after the Master Sword and the left controller features a Hylian Shield motif. Get it now before it goes out of stock again.

The Last of Us Part 2

If you thought this game was worth it before, it’s doubly worth it now. Save 50% off one of the only 10/10 IGN “Masterpiece” rated games of 2020. There’s also a free PS5 patch out that locks the frame rate to 60fps instead of 30fps, which in my opinion completely elevates the game to a new level.

Scarlet Nexus

Scarlet Nexus is definitely one of the most surprisingly good games of the year. This is an action RPG by Bandai Namco Studios, developer of the acclaimed “Tales” series. It has great fluid battle mechanics similar to something like Devil May Cry 3, but it also has a fleshed out 40-hour storyline and some very impressive character development. Check out our review.

Best 4K Gaming Monitor: 2021 LG C1 48″ OLED TV

This is the lowest price ever for the 48″ version of the LG C1 OLED TV. The 2021 LG C1 OLED improves upon last year’s highly-rated CX model with upgraded A9 Gen 4 processor that delivers slightly better image quality, better 4K scaling, and improved audio handling as well as a new webOS smart TV redesign. I personally use the older LG CX OLED TV as my main gaming monitor, and after nearly a year of heavy usage, I still firmly believe that this is the best gaming monitor you can buy right now. The C1 OLED TV has HDMI 2.1 inputs, so you can output 4K at 120Hz when you pair it with an RTX 30 series video card. It also supports 4:4:4 chroma at 4K and G-SYNC technology. The OLED panel blows away any IPS, VA, or TN monitor in black levels, color rendition, sub-1ms response times, and HDR quality.

Best Ultra-Wide Gaming Monitor: Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 49″ 5120×1440 Mini LED Monitor

Preorder the Samsung Neo G9 gaming monitor (out on August 23), and get the JBL Quantum One Gaming Headset for free. That’s a $300 headset. This is the first Mini LED gaming monitor we’ve seen and easily the best monitor in Samsung’s “Odyssey” series. Mini LED technology is pretty new. You’ll see them in the highest end Samsung and TCL TVs as well as the newest Apple iPad Pro 12.9″ XDR display. The cost keeps 99% of us gamers at bay, but for those who can afford it, you currently won’t find a better ultra-wide monitor.

2021 LG C1 65″ 4K OLED TV

LG has somehow done it again; the new 2021 C1-series and G1-series OLED TVs look even better than last year’s CX and GX models. These are considered by many to be the best TVs on the market. Unlike Sony and Vizio, LG now has several generations of updates under its belt, and its well-oiled OLED lineup overcomes pretty much all of the OLED pitfalls while incrementally improving image quality each year.

More Daily Deals for August 9

If you’re into hewing through rats and zombies or liberating yet another outpost from despot control, have we got some deals for you. For starters, a few online store platforms are offering prices that are, well, a far cry from RRP. For seconds, we’ve also spotted a ton of other cheap peripherals, AAA titles and more!

Notable Sales for Nintendo Switch

Purchase Cheaply for PC

Exciting Offers for XO/XS

Product Savings for PS4/PS5

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Adam’s an Aussie deals wrangler who spends too much of his income on the bargains he finds. You can occasionally find him @Grizwords.