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If you’re still using the same guns from Season 3, your loadouts are going to be a bit outdated for this new season of Call of Duty: Warzone. Raven Software made some pretty impactful weapon tuning with the launch of Season 4, nerfing some overpowered weapons like the CR-56 AMAX assault rifle and Streetsweeper shotgun, while buffing some less popular choices. Changes to the barrel attachments for Cold War’s assault rifles and light machine guns will also require a little tweaking to your assault rifle loadouts.

Warzone Season 3 gave a pretty good mix of weapons to use, but Season 4’s balancing changes give the healthiest weapon pool variety we’ve ever seen in Warzone. Instead of getting sent to the gulag by the same overpowered weapon, players are branching out and using a variety of guns.

And this is just the start of what Raven has called “sweeping balance changes” to weapons with the aim of bringing the average time to kill to between 60-100 milliseconds. We’ll be updating our loadout recommendations as more weapon tuning changes arrive to Call of Duty: Warzone.

For now, here are some recommended gun builds to try in your next match of Warzone.

Best MG82 Loadout

The MG82 is Cold War’s newest light machine gun that arrived with Season 4, which has been absolutely beaming in Warzone with very little recoil. This is probably the only overpowered “broken” weapon currently found in Warzone, and Raven already announced a nerf is coming soon. However, if you’re wanting to make a class before or even after the nerf, there are certain attachments you’ll want to unlock and equip.

Recommended Attachments:

• Muzzle: Agency Suppressor
• Barrel: 16.4″ Task Force Barrel
• Ammunition: Fast Mag
• Rear Grip: Airborne Elastic Wrap
• Optic: Axial Arms 3x

Best FARA 83 Loadout

Cold War’s FARA 83 assault rifle is still a contender, and after the most recent nerf to the CR-56 AMAX, this might be one of the best assault rifles for Warzone. The FARA can be built as a great long-range weapon to be paired with a submachine gun.

Recommended Attachments:

• Muzzle: GRU Suppressor
• Barrel: 7″ Spetsnaz RPK Barrel
• Ammunition: Spetsnaz 60 Rnd
• Rear Grip: GRU Elastic Wrap
• Optic: Axial Arms 3x

Best CR58 Loadout

The CR58 is Cold War’s newest assault rifle added at the start of Season 4. In addition to the FARA 83, the CR58 is also a solid choice to replace the CR-56 AMAX for a long-range option to pair with a submachine gun.

Recommended Attachments:

• Muzzle: Agency Suppressor
• Barrel: 18.5″ Task Force
• Ammunition: STANAG 55 Rnd
• Rear Grip: Airborne Elastic Wrap
• Optic: Axial Arms 3x

Best XM4 Loadout

The XM4 assault rifle has always been viable, but receiving an additional buff for Season 4 makes it even more of a contender for the mid-range assault rifle. This assault rifle is great for pairing with a sniper.

Recommended Attachments:

• Muzzle: Agency Suppressor
• Laser: Tiger Team Spotlight
• Stock: Raider Pad
• Ammunition: 45 Rnd
• Rear Grip: Airborne Elastic Wrap

Best Stoner 63 Loadout

In addition to the MG82, the Stoner 63 is another solid light machine gun choice for Warzone, especially with Season 4’s buff to bullet velocity and effective damage range on the Task Force barrel. Just combine the Task Force barrel with Fast Mag and a Rear Grip attachment to help with the speed of wielding such a hefty weapon.

Recommended Attachments:

• Muzzle: Agency Suppressor
• Barrel: 21.8″ Task Force
• Ammunition: Fast Mag
• Rear Grip: Airborne Elastic Wrap
• Axials Arms 3x

Best Milano Loadout

Previously, the Milano was an undesirable submachine gun for Warzone, but Season 4’s balancing update brings this weapon from peashooter to a viable secondary weapon to pair with your favorite long-range gun. The PPSh-41, MAC-10, and LC10 submachine guns are all still popular in Season 4, but the Milano’s damage buffs make this a new contender for Warzone.

Recommended Attachments:

• Muzzle: Agency Suppressor
• Barrel: 10.6″ Task Force
• Laser: Tiger Team Spotlight
• Stock: Raider Stock
• Ammunition: STANAG 55 Rnd Drum

Best Kar98k Loadout

Modern Warfare’s Kar98k marksman rifle is still a top-tier sniper choice in Season 4, which pairs nicely with something like the mid-range XM4 build or the Milano submachine gun.

Recommended attachments:

• Muzzle: Monolithic Suppressor
• Barrel: Singuard Custom 27.6″ Barrel
• Laser: Tac Laser
• Optic: Sniper Scope
• Stock: STVOL Precision Comb

Again, the weapon balance is really healthy in Warzone, so if you don’t want to try something new like the Milano build, you won’t get punished for keeping guns like the PPSh-41, MAC-10, and LC10 in your loadouts. There is a great variety of submachine guns options for Season 4. However, the nerf to the Streetsweeper was pretty significant, so it’s time to put away that shotgun and try a new secondary.

Fortnite Season 7 Week 3 Challenges are coming this Thursday, June 24 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM PT, but ahead of their arrival, we’ve got the leaked list straight from the game’s files. With hundreds of thousands more XP to be gained, here’s the full list of new Fortnite challenges for Week 3 to give you a head start.

Fortnite Week 3 Epic Quests

• Get Slone’s orders from a Payphone (0/1) – 15,000 XP
• Converse with Sunny, Joey or Beach Brutus (0/1) – 15,000 XP
• Place welcome signs in Pleasant Park or Lazy Lake (0/2) – 30,000 XP
• Place Boomboxes in Believer Beach (0/2) – 30,000 XP
• Place alien light communication devices on mountain tops (0/2) – 30,000 XP
• Collect cat food (0/2) – 30,000 XP

Fortnite Week 3 Legendary Quests

• Dance near a lit campfire (0/1) – 30,000 XP
• Catch fish at a fishing spot (0/5) – 30,000 XP
• Destroy Boats (0/3) – 30,000 XP
• Glide 20 meters while holding a chicken (0/20) – 30,000 XP
• Finish in the top 10 (0/1) – 30,000 XP
• Travel between Porta-Potties (0/1) – 30,000 XP
• Use nuts and bolts (0/3) – 30,000 XP

This week’s Epic Quests include several which can’t really be practiced since they include challenge-specific items that won’t appear until each related challenge is active on your Quest log. This includes things like how to collect cat food, how to place alien light communication devices on mountain tops, place welcome signs in Pleasant Park or Believer Beach, and how to place boomboxes in Believer Beach.

To converse with Sunny, Joey, or Beach Brutus, use our guide linked above. As for how to get Slone’s orders from a payphone, we assume this can be done at one of the many payphones around the island, but we’ll update this section if that proves to be incorrect.

As for the Legendary Quests, things are much simpler. To dance near a lit campfire, simply light one by interacting with it, then choose any emote. Whenever Fortnite instructions say to “dance,” any emote will do. Fishing Spots are the rippling spots in any body of water, so grab five total fish from there. To destroy boats, look for them near bodies of water and, if you’ve got the time, use your Pickaxe melee attack to conserve ammo. You can glide with a chicken by grabbing it and simply jumping.

To travel between Porta-Potties, enter one and it will spit you out from another nearby, like a short-distance fast-travel mechanic. Lastly, you can find nuts and bolts dropped by AI UFOs or inside red toolboxes scattered randomly around the island, often found in garages or at gas stations.

While you wait for these challenges to go live, there are plenty more available in the game right now thanks to Cosmic Summer. You can also catch up with what’s new the Fortnite 17.10 patch notes.

Fortnite Cosmic Summer kicks off today and brings with it Cosmic Summer challenges, a host of beachy items for players to unlock, and new summer-themed LTMs to play, all between now and July 5. Here’s everything players need to know about Fortnite Cosmic Summer.

Cosmic Summer LTMs

Fan-favorite limited-time modes are back for another round. including Bios Zone Wars Trio 1.0 – Custom Teams, Pro 100, Freaky Flights – Air Royale, and The Pit – FFA. Across each of these modes, players can complete new Fortnite Cosmic Summer challenges to unlock new cosmetics like the Brain Freeze Back Bling, made to look like a popsicle, and the Cloud Llama Board Glider. Both the Back Bling and Glider include additional styles to unlock, so equipping their default versions is just the beginning.

Players who complete any two Cosmic Summer challenges will unlock the Believer Beach Loading Screen, featuring Fortnite’s resident pro-alien activist, Sunny from the Season 7 Battle Pass. Go on to complete six total Cosmic Summer challenges and players will also unlock the Icy Pop Wrap, which is reminiscent of the classic red, white, and blue Firecracker popsicles we probably all enjoyed growing up.

Epic says the LTMs and related Cosmic Summer Quests will be made available sequentially between now and July 5, and players can complete them anytime before that deadline to earn all the event’s items.

Cosmic Summer Challenges

Here are all the Cosmic Summer challenges, or Quests, available in the game. Note that this list will be updated as more are added to Fortnite over the next nine days.

• Deal damage to players in Bio Zone Wars Trio (1000)
• Get headshot eliminations in Bios Zone Wars Trio (10)
• Gain health or apply shields in Bios Zone Wars Trio (500)
• Assist teammates with eliminations in Zone Wars Trio (50)
• Spend coins to buy items at the vending machine in Pro 100 (10)
• Deal damage to players with a rocket launcher in Pro 100 (1000)
• Revive teammates in Pro 100 (20)
• Travel 5000 meters in X-4 Stormwings in Freaky Flights (5000)
• Spend coins to buy items at the vending machine in Freaky Flights (50)
• Eliminate players while in a X-4 Stormwing in Freaky Flights (25)
• Build structures in the put (500)
• Eliminate players with 5 different types of weapons in a single the pit match (5)
• Get headshots in the pit (50)

Cosmic Summer Skins

Also making their debut during this scorching seasonal event are brand-new skins for some of Fortnite’s fan-favorite characters. Midsummer Midas puts the normally gilded anti-hero in his beach bottoms, while his daughter Jules will be getting new tan lines to go with her tattoos as Beach Jules.

Other new makeovers include Beach Brutus, Scuba Crystal, and the return of previously seen summery-themed skins like Summer Drift and Unpeely, Fortnite’s anthropomorphic banana, now ready for beach volleyball. These new skins will appear in the Item Shop throughout the Cosmic Summer event and will include optional bundles to complete their cosmetic sets.

Once you’re ready to feel the sand at your feet, make sure you also acquaint yourself with the Fortnite 17.10 patch notes.

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With Amazon Prime Day in its second day, you might think you already know the best deals the event has to offer. However, there are still a few hidden gems where you can save big, particularly on gaming monitors, and these LG 27-inch gaming monitors are among some of the best.

$280 (was $400)

This 27-inch monitor is tailor-made for performance, with a 1080p display and 240Hz refresh rate for the smoothest gameplay experience possible. The 1 ms response time, FreeSync support, and compatibility with Nvidia’s G-Sync tech only sweeten the deal, making this a fantastic monitor option. If top performance is more important than pristine visuals, this monitor is for you.

$285 (was $380)

The LG Ultragear 27-inch gaming monitor is currently down to $285, a $95 drop from its usual $390 price tag. That’s a great price for a 27-inch curved monitor capable of 1440p, 144Hz gameplay with a 1 ms response time. Factor in its support for FreeSync and G-Sync compatibility and HDR 10 support, and this deal becomes too good to pass up. This should be the monitor of choice for players who are less worried about the fastest frame rate and more concerned with their games looking as good as possible.

If LG isn’t what you’re looking for, there are still some great monitor deals to be had. If you have a little more room in your budget, check out the Samsung Odyssey G7 32-inch monitor for $560 (down from $800). If your budget’s not quite that high this Acer Predator 27-inch monitor is a great buy at $420 (down from $600).

We’re tracking all of Amazon Prime Day’s best deals as they release, including more of the best monitor deals if this LG isn’t quite what you’re looking for. If you need a larger screen for your game room, check out the best Prime Day TV deals still available. And if you’re looking for the best deals outside of Prime Day, Walmart’s Deals for Days promotion and Best Buy’s “The Bigger Deal” flash sale both are offering some great savings as well.

The dramatic ending of The Handmaid’s Tale’s fourth season was one of its biggest finales yet, though it raises plenty of questions about where the show will go next. For those curious what protagonist June Osborne will get up to in season five, showrunner Bruce Miller gave some hints in an interview with Deadline, joined by series star Joe Fiennes.

While season four essentially wrapped up some of the show’s biggest plotlines, the story was always intended to continue, with a fifth season ordered before the fourth even premiered. The quoted interview contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season four finale, so only read on if you are up to date.

“What we want the show to do is move forward,” Miller said on the topic of season five. “It should be aggregate. I mean, the characters should be the characters they were at the end of the season added to the characters they are in this season, not just restarted.”

“The finale definitely is a pivot,” Miller continues when pressed for more specific details. “I think what you get at the end of the episode after June spends this whole episode really getting a sense of who Fred is, and we’re reminded of who Fred is in the worst way. So, she makes this decision in the episode.”

“I think we end the episode five minutes before she reckons with what she just did,” he continues. “He is dead, but it isn’t the end of her relationship with Fred Waterford, it isn’t the end of relationship with her anger towards Fred Waterford. It’s all about what happens when you get what you always wanted. She’s in Canada with her husband holding her child. She’s got revenge on Fred, and it doesn’t particularly feel lovely or settled.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Miller hints that Fred may in fact reappear in future episodes, in the form of June’s flashbacks.

Miller also spoke about season five in terms of how it’s being produced, sounding relieved that it would be free of many of the Covid-related restrictions that governed season four’s production.

“It’s nice to be able to think about a season where we can actually maybe be on set and do it normally.” Miller explained. “We’re just starting to kind of gather our wool and gather our writers and gather up people to pull them back together.”

Microsoft’s recent Xbox & Bethesda showcase at E3 gave a glimpse into the company’s publishing strategy, with its broad mix of big titles, new games, ports, and varied indie games. A new interview with Xbox Game Studios head of publishing Peter Wyse by Polygon has given further insight into those plans–with the exec pointing to diversity as one of the company’s biggest goals.

Xbox Game Studios has spent years getting to where it’s at now, building a strategy that transcends the Xbox console itself. As well as its many studio acquisitions, including the mammoth Bethesda purchase, Xbox has also been investing a lot into the Xbox Game Pass and Cloud Gaming, increasing the number of ways its games can be played.

Wyse says Xbox is also prioritising diversity in the traditional sense, drawing attention to some of the company’s initiatives around inclusivity. “You can see this come to focus in a game like Tell Me Why,” Wyse told Polygon. “We’re super proud of that game. It speaks to our values around LGBTQIA+ representation, mental health awareness, and more.”

These practices extend to both Xbox’s third-party partnerships and internal recruiting processes, Wyse says, citing Microsoft’s relationship with non-profit Gameheads, a mentorship program for people of color and low-income people aged 15 to 25 who are looking to get into the games industry.

Wyse also spent some time talking about Xbox’s investments in cloud gaming, a part of the company’s step away from the traditional console-centric business model and towards gaming on whatever device a player has available. Wyse said that the company is aiming to develop “cloud-native games,” though he added that “we don’t know exactly what that looks like today, or what that even plays like.”

For Wyse, cloud gaming is an important part of the company’s “mission of bringing our Xbox games to connect 3 billion gamers to play our games,” adding that that number will include players on all different platforms. “I do get super excited about the idea of high-fidelity gaming on a phone… that’s the carrot I keep chasing, for sure.”

Xbox Series X is finally seeing some consistent stock online, and it is currently available to purchase from Amazon for £449.99. This has come just in time for Prime Day 2021 and marks an important time for Xbox gamers. There’s no telling how long this stock will last, but it’s a very good sign for anyone looking to make the upgrade to true 4K gaming.

Prime Day 2021: Xbox Series X In Stock at Amazon

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It’s been quite a struggle for some time to get hold of an Xbox Series X, especially from the likes of Amazon where it felt like the console would sell out in seconds. This is also the case for PS5 consoles at online retailers, where some consoles were even snapped up a day before going on sale by scalpers.

Microsoft announced quite a lot for Xbox users during E3 2021, but it would be hard to bring even more users into the Game Pass camp if they couldn’t even get one of the latest consoles.

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Ahead of the release of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds‘ upcoming Taego map, developer PUBG Corp has released a new trailer for the battle royale, detailing the in-game universe’s origins of the game. And who better to reveal the twisted conspiracy behind PUBG than Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction).

In the video, Frakes reveals his investigation into the man known as “The Russian,” the mysterious overseer of the deadly competition known as “the Battlegrounds.” In a series of in-depth interviews with criminals, ex-employees of tech conglomerates, and INTERPOL agents, Frakes puts together the true origins behind the 100-man competition, in which the winner is the last man still alive.

For a while now, PUBG Corp has been building the lore of its battle royale with these documentary style videos and in-game teasers. It all points to a greater, singular mystery at the heart of PUBG–it appears that there is an actual motive behind the battle royale beyond winning a chicken dinner.

Perhaps that motive will come to light in PUBG’s upcoming 12.2 update, scheduled to release on PC on July 7 and on consoles on July 15. The update adds a brand-new map to the game called Taego, the first 8×8 map added to PUBG since Miramar.

It’s also possible that this is very early set-up for establishing how PUBG ultimately connects to The Callisto Protocol, an upcoming survival horror game from developer Striking Distance which was co-founded by Dead Space co-creator Glen Schofield. The Callisto Protocol takes place in the PUBG universe, just several centuries into the future.