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Unlike last year’s game, FIFA 22’s next-gen upgrade will only be offered to those who purchase the (much more expensive) Ultimate Edition of the game.

Eurogamer spotted the information in a new Dual Entitlement FAQ listed on EA’s website, where it outlines players’ eligibility for the next-gen upgrade. “Dual Entitlement is only available with the purchase of the FIFA 22 Ultimate Edition,” it reads on the site. “The Standard Edition of FIFA 22 does not include Dual Entitlement.”

Therefore, in order to qualify for the free upgrade, players must shell out $99.99 USD/£89.99 for the Ultimate Edition of the game rather than $59.99 USD/£59.99 for the Standard Edition. This also means that if someone purchases FIFA 22’s Standard Edition on PS4 and later upgrades to PS5, they would then need to purchase the PS5 version of the game to play.

This marks a different strategy to last year’s game, when Dual Entitlement was offered to owners of all versions of FIFA 21 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In that instance, a next-gen version of FIFA 21 was available at no additional cost if someone purchased a PS5 or Xbox Series X/Xbox Series S at a later date.

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Coupled with the fact that many players haven’t been able to buy next-gen consoles in the last year due to consistent shortages that could continue into 2022, it’s unlikely to be a decision that goes down well with fans.

If you’re an EA Play member, you’ll score an automatic 10% discount against FIFA 22, which means the Ultimate Edition drops down to $89.99/£80.99. Fans who pre-order the Ultimate Edition by August 11 will also receive an untradeable FUT Heroes player item from December 1. To boot, this edition includes up to four days Early Access, FIFA points, and more.

EA announced that FIFA 22 will be released on October 1, 2021, and that Paris Saint-Germain’s striker Kylian Mbappé will be its cover star. A gameplay video was also shared with fans to highlight FIFA 22’s new HyperMotion Technology, which promises to deliver “the most realistic, fluid and responsive football experience for next-gen consoles and Stadia.”

FIFA 22 will be available on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC via Origin and Steam, and Google Stadia. FIFA 22 Legacy Edition will be released for Nintendo Switch owners.

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Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

New Alien Artifacts are on their way with Fortnite Week 6. The latest batch of Alien Artifacts will go live on Thursday, July 15 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. This week brings another set of five Artifacts to find spread across the island of Apollo. Here’s our complete guide to help guide you through grabbing all of this week’s Alien Artifacts.

Week 6 Alien Artifacts

With five new Alien Artifact locations to seek out in Week 6, you can once again collect a total of 20 Alien Aritfacts to spend on Kymera (four Artifacts within each canister), the tier one Battle Pass character for Fortnite Season 7. The Artifacts are tucked away pretty well as usual, but this map guide should have you grabbing them all with ease. You can find the Week 6 Alien Artifacts:

• In the shed south of Lockie’s Lighthouse
• Among some alien trees south of Steamy Stacks
• In the small shed full of hay in the west of Corny Complex
• At the snowy mountaintop camp east of Catty Corner, inside a small building
• In the ground floor of Orelia’s island ruins

Kymera, the Tier 1 Battle Pass alien character, can be customized across a variety of features, including armor color, skin color, armor underglow, eye color, head shape, and more. Each category of Kymera’s features includes a tiered list of options ranging from two to 17 Alien Artifacts per item, including a full set of free options which act as the default Kymera style. To unlock the most expensive item in any category, you’ll need to first unlock all the others before it in the same category.

That’s why collecting all Fortnite Alien Artifacts each week is so important if you’re hoping to unlock the full range of features. Unlike past customizable Battle Pass cosmetics like Chapter 2 Season 2’s Maya or Chapter 2 Season 3’s ‘Brella, Kymera can be restyled whenever you feel like it. There’s no permanent locking-in of his look. You could even make multiple Kymera characters for different presets. It’s like amassing an alien army for your loadouts. But you have to get Alien Artifacts during the week in which they debut, as they’re replaced the following week with new ones.

You’re unlikely to grab all Alien Artifacts in one round since they’re spread out–though you could with a UFO and a little Storm luck. But don’t worry, so long as you get them all before they disappear next week, you’ll be all set. You can even earn extra Alien Aritfacts each week by playing in teams of two or more and opening Cosmic Chests.

If you need more rewards this week, you can preview the forthcoming Week 6 challenges, or bear witness to the LeBron James skin and his associated King’s Bling Quests.

Fortnite Week 6 challenges are coming up fast. The Legendary Quests will go live on Wednesday, July 14 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET, while the Epic Quests will follow a day later at the same time. Players will once again be taking orders from Doctor Slone, leader of the Imagined Order, as she seeks to thwart the alien invasion. That means your first challenge of the week will be to get to a payphone and receive your covert mission. As for the full list of Fortnite Week 6 challenges, read on.

Fortnite Week 6 Legendary Quests

• Get Slone’s orders from a payphone (1) – 15,000 XP
• Place prepper supplies in Hayseed’s Farm (1) – 45,000 XP
• Deal damage to opponents in farms (25) – 30,000 XP
• Use an Inflate-a-Bull (1) – 30,000 XP
• Place cow decoys in farms (3) – 30,000 XP
• Damage an alien-driven saucer (25) – 30,000 XP

Fortnite Week 6 Epic Quests

• Collect gold bars (500) – 30,000 XP
• Spend gold bars (500) – 30,000 XP
• Destroy equipment on top of Abductors (3) – 30,000 XP
• Open chests or ammo boxes in low-gravity areas (3) – 30,000 XP
• Deploy alien nanites anywhere other than Holly Hatchery (3) – 30,000 XP
• Destroy alien trees (5) – 30,000 XP

As has been the case each week in Season 7, the Legendary Quests are more story-driven than past seasons. That also means they include one-off objectives that even the most seasoned players can’t have mastered before, so we’ll be updating this guide hub with specific solutions to those challenges very soon and ahead of the quests going live.

Some of them you should already know how to do anyway, such as damage an alien-driven saucer, which you can do by going to any invaded location–where its name is written in purple on your map. Those spots change with each round but are always home to UFOs being piloted by AI aliens, or “trespassers.” Getting Slone’s orders from a payphone can once more be any payphone, and you can find these at all bus stops or, if you’d like one specific spot, on the western edge of Misty Meadows. To deal damage to opponents at farms, simply drop at Farmer Steel’s (now Hayseed’s) farm or at Corny Complex. Damage within those limits will apply.

An Inflate-a-Bull is a brand-new traversal item coming with this week’s 17.20 patch. Those details have not been revealed in full just yet, but we know from prior leaks that an Inflate-a-Bull will allow players to use a balloon (shaped like a cow) to float across the island at will, sort of like gliding with a chicken but with more air time. You won’t be able to shoot while inside an Inflate-a-Bull and you’ll be at risk of being shot down from opponents popping the cow balloon with bullets–so be careful!

As for the Epic Quests, they are once again more familiar for frequent Fortnite flyers. Collecting and spending gold bars can both be done by interacting with NPCs across the island. You can also find smaller sums of gold bars by smashing beds, chairs, sofas, and washer/dryer machines whenever you see them. They each have a high spawn chance for dropping gold bars. If you want to spend 500 gold bars in one swift motion, you can visit Sunny at Believer Beach and select her offer to “tip the bus driver” a small tip, which will spend 500 gold bars instantly. Just be careful you don’t select the large tip option or you’ll be 4,000 gold bars lighter.

Abductors are coming back after a week away, so you’ll want to land on at least one and destroy some equipment on top of them. To open chests or ammo boxes in low-gravity areas, your best bet will be to head to Holly Hatchery and search within the deployed alien nanites. You can’t miss them. They’re the massive, gelatinous, fluorescent cubes spread across the town.

Cow decoys are another one-off challenge this week and we’ll have a guide on those for you very soon. To deploy alien nanites anywhere other than Holly Hatchery, you’ll first need to come upon the rare item. It’s said that they’re found more often around satellite stations or abductors, so try those places, and remember not to use them within the limits of Holly Hatchery or else they won’t tally toward your challenge completion.

The final Week 6 challenge is to destroy alien trees. Those are the purple trees spread all over the map. You can even see them from your map screen. Drop into any deep purple zone and you’ll find alien trees to destroy.

This is the full rundown of the Fortnite Week 6 challenges, but remember that Epic Quests can be beaten all season long. If you still need to finish up your Week 5 challenges, we have those too. You may also want to learn more about the incoming King’s Bling Quests, which herald the arrival of LeBron James.

The enduringly popular online multiplayer game Warframe is set to grow once again with a new expansion, The New War, and the game’s developers will show it off at the TennoCon event very soon. Digital Extremes will broadcast the gameplay reveal for The New War on July 17 as part of this year’s all-virtual TennoCon event.

The event begins Saturday, July 17 at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET. Everyone who watches the event on Amazon’s Twitch service will get a free Prime Warframe for the game. Coinciding with TennoCon, Digital Extremes will also conduct an in-game Relay event where players can meet up to get a “sneak peek” of “exclusive new content.” Some developers from Digital Extremes will be in the game to mingle with as well, the studio said.

The New War was first announced back in 2018 during that year’s TennoCon event.

“It’s been a while since we first discussed this expansion with players. We truly hope Tenno will enjoy a day dedicated to them and the memorable experiences we’ve shared together in Warframe,” Digital Extremes executive Sheldon Carter said. “There’s plenty of new and exciting reveals to be made, but players will have to tune-in to TennoLive to find out more.”

Digital Extremes live operations and community director Rebecca Forward thanked fans for their patience, as the wait for The New War has been lengthy. “We are so excited to finally provide some answers and give everyone a small piece of what’s to come with The New War. We’re thankful for the patience of our players and we look forward to seeing their reactions to some of our big reveals in the chat,” Ford said.

Finally, Digital Extremes provided a rundown of the special content you can unlock for Warframe by watching the showcase:

• Vastilok Gunblade Weapon
• Awarded for watching thirty consecutive minutes between 12:30 PM ET – 5:00 PM ET

In-Game Relay Event Reward During TennoLive Segment

• Tannukai Longsword Skin and Armor Set
• Awarded at the end of the TennoLive in-game Relay event, must be present to qualify

Twitch and Steam Drop During TennoLive Segment

• Loki Prime Warframe with Slot
• Awarded for watching thirty consecutive minutes between 5:00 PM ET – 7:00 PM ET

Warframe is a free-to-play game available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, as well as PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Digital Extremes is owned by Tencent, after that company acquired Leyou, a former chicken meat supplier based in Hong Kong.

Delays are par for the course in video games, but developer Triband has decided to buck that trend by accidentally rolling out a massive new Switch update for What the Golf a few days early. The game–which turns the entire idea of golf on its head by going beyond 18 holes with the sport into weird and wild directions–now has three additional packs of content available that were previously released on the Steam and Apple Arcade versions.

This includes the Sporty Sports Pack, It’s Snowtime Pack, and a Challenge mode, each one including the following content:

Sporty Sports

• 30 new sporty levels
• All-new sports gone wrong: Weightlifting golf, Cycling golf, Hurdles golf, and more!
• Copyright-compliant references to the Olympics

It’s Snowtime

• 30 new Extra ❄COOL❄ levels and lots of jokes
• Silly adventure about finding that frozen pizza in the back of the freezer
• Frozen peas, pizzas, and popsicles

Challenge Mode

• Content for the people who are actually good at golf!
• A harder version of all your favorite levels, plus a few new ones
• Leaderboards

In addition to that, new fixes and optimizations for the Nintendo Switch version of What the Golf will also be available. Beyond that, players can also look forward to a new free campaign called “A Hole New World” that features over 50 new levels with over 1000 holes, game mechanics, more puns, and extra music tracks.

“What the Golf was already excellent on PC and mobile, but the Switch version is the definitive one, especially if you have another player handy,” James O’Connor wrote in his What the Golf review.” It’s still wildly funny, weird, and lots of fun, and if it was just the campaign again, it would still be the best version of the game thanks to the ability to switch between touch and stick controls–but the addition of Party Mode really elevates the whole package.”

Death Stranding‘s Director’s Cut is on the way, but Kojima himself is not a fan of calling it that. He said on Twitter that Director’s Cut often applies more appropriately in the world of film to represent content that was cut from a movie due in part to a movie studio’s control over the production. But with Death Stranding’s Director’s Cut, Kojima pointed out that the game will feature new content not originally even planned for the base game.

“A director’s cut in a movie is an additional edit to a shortened version that was either released reluctantly because the director did not have the right to edit it, or because the running time had to be shortened,” Kojima said. “In the game, it is not what was cut, but what was additionally produced that was included. Delector’s Plus? So, in my opinion, I don’t like to call ‘director’s cut.'”

Given Kojima’s commentary here, it sounds like the decision to call it a director’s cut for Death Stranding was a decision made by Sony and not Kojima and his team. For what it’s worth, Sony is also releasing a Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut in August, and beyond that, Sony might have plans for additional ones.

The Death Stranding Director’s Cut releases on September 24, and Kojima is hopeful to be able to personally edit a trailer or some piece of content for the game. He polled his 3 million Twitter followers about this, and they overwhelmingly agreed that he should be able to.

For more, check out GameSpot’s rundown of everything in the Death Stranding Director’s Cut and what additional Director’s Cuts we want to see from Sony in the future.

In other news, Kojima’s next game might be a cloud-based title for Xbox, though it’s still early days and no official announcements have been made thus far.