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Fortnite Season 7 has arrived and it’s bringing a science-fiction spin to the island of Apollo, including new weapons, new vehicles, and of course a few more licensed crossovers with some of the world’s most popular alien-related franchise, including Superman himself, as well as Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty. Alongside unvaulted weapons, new UFO vehicles, and more, here’s everything that’s new in Fortnite Season 7.

Fortnite Season 7 Battle Pass

The new Battle Pass for Fortnite Season 7 includes eight new characters like most that have come before it. Epic originals like Sunny, the disgruntled rock star, and Joey, a double agent who can swap between alien and human forms with a built-in emote, make their Fortnite debuts.

Joining them is another fully customizable character, the first since Chapter 2 Season 2’s Maya. Kymera is an alien character whom players can customize all throughout the season by unlocking new Alien Artifacts. Players can lock in features such as Kymera’s head shape, eye color, skin pattern, and more. While this is the first customizable character in over a year, Fortnite did more recently offer a customizable Glider, the Season 3 ‘Brella.

Rick Sanchez of Rick and Morty fame will also make his belching debut on Apollo for Battle Pass owners, as will Superman, who represents Season 7’s midseason unlockable character. That means the Justice League’s leader will also include his own special challenges later this season. While not as recognizable as the others, a third tie-in character, Guggimon, is coming to the game as well. Guggimon is a “fashion horror artist” and a digital celebrity on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.

For lore-chasers, the leader of the IO will make his debut as a playable character. Dr. Slone and the Imagined Order represent the opposition to the aliens invading the island this season, and no doubt his related cosmetics will help fill in some storyline gaps for the players deep into the game’s expansive lore bible.

The final Battle Pass character is Choppy, a battledroid designed by the aliens. It seems the IO-alien war will rage all during the season, with players unlocking soldiers from both sides. Along with these eight characters come new cosmetics for each of them, such as Back Bling, Gliders, and more for the first 100 tiers. Enlightened Skins likely await players who exceed that soft limit and continue climbing to tier 220, though Epic hasn’t revealed those yet.

Epic has brought back Battle Stars for this season’s challenge system, which allows players to unlock Battle Pass items in an order of their choosing. Players will no longer be bound by Epic’s default tier list, with the exception of Superman, who won’t be unlockable until later this season.

Fortnite Season 7 New Gameplay Changes

It wouldn’t be a new season of Fortnite if the changes were merely cosmetic. Fortnite Season 7 brings several new ways to play, including new sci-fi weapons from both sides of the IO-alien war, new vehicles, and a revamped weapon crafting system.

Players can equip some of Dr. Slone’s invented weapons never before seen in the game. This includes things such as the Recon Scanner, which players can use to survey their surrounding area, the Rail Gun, which can blast right through structures, and the new Pulse Rifle, which brings a sci-fi twist to the assault rifle weapon class.

On the alien side of the battlefront, players can shoot down or hijack their UFOs. When piloted, these saucers can toss around vehicles below or pick up things such as building materials and other supplies. Players in squads can also fire out of the UFOs as they could before with Choppas.

Weapon crafting returns for the second consecutive season, but it takes on a decidedly different look. The teeth and claws of the Primal season no longer make sense with the science fiction theme, so Fortnite players will now collect Nuts and Bolts to allow them to craft new weapons, including previously vaulted items. With enough Nuts and Bolts, players can craft things like the Burst Assault Rifle, the Lever Action Shotgun, and the Rapid Fire SMG, each of which has been vaulted since Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 5.

We’re still uncovering more secrets of Fortnite Season 7, so stick around as we break down more of what’s in store for this season’s invasion.

After a spate of random alien abductions, Fortnite Chapter Season 7 lifts the curtains on a full-scale invasion.

For the past couple of weeks, players have reported instances of being randomly abducted by aliens. This was simply a prelude to a cosmic war between the players on the Island and an alien race called the Kymera. Alongside the season-length storyline, Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7: Invasion will add new weapons, vehicles, and a new Battle Pass, but with a twist.

Aliens Invade the Island

As with past Fortnite seasons, there will be an overarching storyline for Chapter 2 Season 7. Yes, aliens are invading, but Doctor Slone and the Imagined Order (IO) are ready to step up and take on the threat with new weapons and inventions.

New Weapons and Vehicles

With the IO and Kymera taking on one another, there will be new weapons from both sides players can pick up and use. The IO will introduce tools and guns like the Recon Scanner, Pulse Rifle, and Rail Gun, while the aliens will fight back with the Kymera Ray Gun.

The map will also be inundated with flying saucers, which players can either shoot down or hijack. Taking over one of the saucers will allow players to travel around the Island with their squad and blast foes using the built-in weapons.

Nuts and Bolts will also fall from the Saucers and can be used to craft new weapons from existing ones. Transform Assault Rifles into Burst Assault Rifles or Shotguns into a Lever Action Shotgun using these materials.

A Battle Pass With a Twist

As usual, Fortnite will introduce a new Battle Pass to go along with the season. Instead of unlocking cosmetics by reaching specific levels on the Pass, players will instead earn Battle Stars every time they level up. Battle Stars can then be exchanged for Battle Pass rewards in whichever order players want.

Leveling up will unlock more pages of rewards, so more cosmetics to exchange for Battle Stars. There will also be special rewards that only become available after purchasing all the other rewards on a page.

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New Skins – Rick and Morty, Superman, and More

As teased by the Fortnite Twitter account Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty, and DC’s Superman are two of the featured characters in this season’s Battle Pass.

Here are the other characters included in the Battle Pass

• Sunny – An Alien sympathizer and Punk rocker.
• Guggimon – Synthetic artist “who thrives in the chaos.”
• Joey – A double agent alien in disguise. Unlock Joey’s transformation emote.
• Zyg – A battle droid created by the Alien Choppy. Choppy is included as Back Bling.
• Doctor Slone – The leader of the IO.
• Rick Sanchez – Of Rick and Morty fame.
• Superman – It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman.

Also as part of the Battle Pass, players will immediately gain access to the Kymera Outfit. This skin is highly customizable and over 800,000 different looks can be created by mixing and matching different head shapes, eye colors, skin patterns, and more. These customization options can be unlocked by finding Alien Artifacts scattered around the Island.

For more on Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7, check out the details on the graphical upgrades coming this season to Fortnite.

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Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor.

If you see Black Widow in a standard theater when it comes out on next month, you’ll be missing something–the top and bottom of the picture. When Black Widow hits IMAX next month, moviegoers will get 22 minutes of scenes with an expanded picture, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

If you catch the movie on an IMAX screen, you’ll see Black Widow shift from its standard 2.40:1 to a taller 1:90:1 aspect ratio. It’s not quite as square as what we saw with Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but it’s a noticeable difference. That film expanded from a typical widescreen aspect ratio to a 4:3 ratio to fill up the largest IMAX screens (despite it playing almost exclusively on home televisions).

To be clear, these screenings will not include any additional footage–but 22 minutes of the existing footage will be shown in IMAX aspect ratio. The above image is a rough idea of how much more space IMAX offers, but is not indicative of the final product; Natasha’s forehead will likely be appropriately visible in close-ups.

After Marvel Studios completes a film, the studio sends it off to IMAX, THR notes. IMAX then sends the film through its Digital Media Remastering process for the appropriate scenes. Marvel has done this with a bunch of its other movies; according to Deadline, these shots usually make up about 30 to 45 minutes of other Marvel films.

Black Widow hits theaters and Disney+ Premium on July 9.

Knockout City is getting patch 1.2 later this week, in addition to the season one, week three playlist update, which brings a new game mode on June 8, Coin Hoarders. In a blog post, Velan Studios gave a quick overview of the next week in Knockout City, including a brief description of patch 1.2, with the full patch notes coming later.

The blog post discusses three highlights from the upcoming patch, which include reducing the likelihood of players getting put into high ping matches. It also addresses a bug that plays the match audio before you load in when joining a match in progress. The other highlight is that mouse and keyboard settings will no longer reset whenever the game is closed.

The new game mode, Coin Hoarders, is a 3v3 objective-based mode where teams must collect and hold eight coins placed around the map. Each player can hold up to three coins and are dropped whenever a player is knocked out. Teams win the round whenever they hold all eight coins at once and two rounds win the match. Coin Hoarders will be added when season one, week 3 starts on June 8.

The new week also adds new contracts for players to complete and items to buy. This update releases on the heel of the arcade-style dodgeball game reaching over 5 million players during the game’s Block Party, a ten-day free trial. While the full game trial has ended, new players can check out the game for free up to level 25.

Loki has taken the forms of Captain America, Odin, and Thor in the MCU movies; he even once took the form of a snake, according to Thor himself, and the sky’s the limit for a trickster god. Now, Disney has confirmed via a teaser video that the character is genderfluid, as his ability would seem to suggest.

Check out the last couple seconds in the video accompanying the tweet above for a look at Loki’s TVA rap sheet. In Norse mythology and the MCU alike, Loki can take virtually any form he likes. Shapeshifters in Marvel and general fiction alike are often faced with the question, ‘if you can take any shape, what is your actual shape?’ While Loki seems to have chosen the body we see in the films–that of actor Tom Hiddleston–he’s anything but limited.

In the comics, Loki has taken multiple female forms. Sometimes it’s borrowing the form of someone like Scarlet Witch for subterfuge, but the character has his own female body that he’s lived in on multiple occasions.

While Hiddleston is undoubtedly Loki’s primary form in the MCU, including the upcoming show, this little tidbit seems to suggest we could see Loki becoming Lady Loki at some point.

Loki debuts on Disney+ on Wednesday, June 9, so make sure you’re ready with our How to Watch guide. In the meantime, check out the tricky new Loki twist on Lucky Charms, and see what Owen Wilson is bringing to the table as Mobius M. Mobius (not to be confused with Morbius, the Living Vampire), and hear Hiddleston’s own version of Loki’s epic MCU journey.

Niantic is holding a Special Raid Weekend event in Pokemon Go from June 12-13. Raids will be occurring more frequently throughout the weekend, and you’ll earn twice the usual amount of Candy for catching Pokemon during the event.

In addition to the aforementioned bonuses, Niantic says that players who have hit level 40 or higher will have three times the chance to receive Candy XL when they catch Pokemon. You can read more details about the event on the official Pokemon Go blog.

The Legendary Regi trio–Regirock, Registeel, and Regice–are back in five-star Raids until June 17, while Mega Slowbro will be appearing in Mega Raids. You’ll have more chances to battle and catch these Pokemon during this weekend’s Raid event. After that date, Niantic teases that a “surprise” Legendary Pokemon will make its debut in Pokemon Go.

In the meantime, a Slowpoke-themed event is kicking off starting June 8. As part of that event, the aforementioned Mega Slowbro is being introduced to the game, as are Galarian Slowpoke and Galarian Slowbro. Niantic is also offering exclusive Field Research tasks and a new Collection Challenge to complete during the event.

Niantic has a few other June events lined up for Pokemon Go, including a Solstice event from June 17-20 and a mystery event set to begin on June 25. Pokemon Go Fest 2021 will follow on July 17-18. This year’s event will have a musical theme, and Niantic is reducing the price of a virtual ticket to only $5 USD.

Indie game developer Pendulo Studios is making a game called Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, but if you were hoping to hear Nolan North’s best Jimmy Stewart impression, you might be disappointed. When publisher Microïds announced in 2018 that it had licensed Hitchcock’s name and likeness for a Vertigo game, it said that the game would be “loosely based” on the classic film.

However, based on the trailer that premiered recently, it seems that the game will mostly share thematic parallels with the movie. It will also borrow the trademark visual motifs from its opening sequence, which was designed by Saul Bass. As many insufferable moviegoers know, Vertigo follows an ex-police officer who becomes obsessed with a client’s wife and slowly begins to wonder if he can trust his own mind. It is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time.

According to a recent dev diary by narrative designer Josué Monchan, the game follows a man who becomes traumatized after a car crash. The man believes that his family was in the car with him at the time of the collision, but it’s not clear if he can trust his own recollection, similar to Jimmy Stewart in the film. In that same dev diary, Monchan said that the studio plans to recreate some of Hitchcock’s signature techniques, including the “dolly-zoom effect” that is highly associated with Vertigo. (It involves rolling a camera on a dolly one way and zooming in or out to distort an otherwise static image in a subtle way.)

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo will come to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X sometime in 2021.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart launches later this week, yet developer Insomniac is referencing one of its old games strangely frequently. Over the past week, the studio has called out Sunset Overdrive in its promotional materials for Ratchet and Clank at least three times, seemingly indicating that it’s teasing… something.

Today, the Insomniac Twitter account–which has been entirely dedicated to the Rift Apart launch–posted an image depicting the inflatable Sunset Overdrive mascot Fizzie bursting through a dimensional rift. The photo also shows a Sunset Overdrive character wielding one of the game’s cartoonish weapons. This tweet was posted nearly simultaneously with a post from the Fizzie Twitter account, which had previously been dormant for over two years.

The first reference to Sunset Overdrive, though, was snuck into a trailer that Insomniac and Sony put out last Friday. The video features a TV on an entertainment center that’s decorated with all manner of Ratchet and Clank merchandise, but a Fizzie toy is also visible on the top shelf behind a Ratchet figurine.

Insomniac has been similarly referencing other Sony first-party games through its Twitter account, like the Sly Cooper series. The strangest aspect of Insomniac’s teases, though, is that Sunset Overdrive remains an Xbox One and PC exclusive to this day, even though Insomniac is now owned by Sony. Released in 2014, Sunset Overdrive is a terrific open-world action game with an over-the-top aesthetic. It seems unlikely that Sony would promote references to an Xbox exclusive just for fun, so we have to guess that something’s up. What that could be, though, will likely have to wait for Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’s launch on PS5 on June 11.

Chargin’ Chuck’s presence in Mario Golf: Super Rush raises one question: why use a 9-iron when you can yeet a ball across the green? In the Mario-ified sports title, players that pick the athletic Koopa can forgo the limitations of a club in favor of pure, unbridled brawn to get a golf ball towards the green.

Sadly, players won’t always be able to just throw a golf ball in Mario Golf: Super Rush. Instead, it seems the ability to charge up a chuck is just Chargin’ Chuck’s Special Shot, hence the name. The Koopa’s ability was shown off in a video posted to Twitter by Nintendo of America.

The clip also shows Chuck sprinting across the fairway, rushing to reach his ball. At the end, we see Chuck activate his Special Dash and dive under a Bullet Bill being ridden by Bowser Jr. That Bullet Bill is the result of Bowser Jr.’s Special Dash, which lets him surf one of the oversized ballistic bullies.

Chargin’ Chuck is just one of 16 playable characters that will be available when the game launches on June 25. Preorders for Mario Golf: Super Rush are open right now.

A recently released trailer for Mario Golf: Super Rush also goes over two of its new game modes. The first, Speed Golf, has players tee off at the same time and rush to finish the hole before anyone else, even if it means racking up more strokes. Battle Golf, the second twist the game is placing on the old sport, places players in an obstacle-filled arena with the goal of winning just three out of its nine holes.

If you’re looking for more of the latest Mario Golf title, you’ll probably be able to see more during the upcoming E3 Nintendo Direct.