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The Fortnite Week 9 challenges won’t be live for a few more days, but it doesn’t hurt to plan ahead. The Fortnite Week 9 challenges should arrive on Thursday, May 13 at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET. Before Epic releases its next slate of in-game Quests for players to chase, get a rundown of everything you’ll be tasked with doing in this Fortnite Week 9 challenges preview.

Fortnite Week 9 Challenges

Epic Quests

• Get intel on Wildlife from Bushranger, Tarana, Rex, Cluck, or Grill Sergeant (1) – 24,000 XP
• Hunt a Boar (1) – 24,000 XP
• Spend 7 seconds within 7 meters of a fleeing chicken (1) – 24,000 XP
• Gain health in the Storm (1) – 24,000 XP
• Shockwave Grenade yourself while in the storm (1) – 24,000 XP
• Survive Storm phases (10) – 24,000 XP
• Build in the Storm (10) – 24,000 XP

Legendary Quests

• Catch Fish (50) – 35,000 XP
• Catch Fish (100) – 24,000 XP
• Catch Fish (150) – 24,000 XP
• Catch Fish (200) – 24,000 XP
• Catch Fish (250) – 24,000 XP

We have a complete guide dedicated to the first Epic Quest of the week, in case you need to know where to gather intel from Bushranger, Tarana, Rex, Cluck, And Grill Sergeant. As for hunting animals such as boar, we’ve already got a guide on that linked above, but for a shortcut, you can find a few penned boar within Colossal Crops, so you can hunt one quickly by dropping there.

A fleeing chicken is just any chicken you approach, as they’re always easily spooked by your presence. As it runs away, just stay on its tail and the challenge will complete after the requisite seven seconds are tallied.

Several of this week’s challenges revolve around the Storm, but none are so tough. Because the Storm is quicker to form and close in Team Rumble, we recommend chasing these Storm-related challenges there. To gain health while in the storm, simply use any healing item such as foraged items, bandages, or health kits. Shockwave Grenades don’t drop in any particular place, but you can often find them in chests, so loot those before the Storm arrives so you can use them once you’re stuck behind the purple wall.

While you’re there, be sure to build 10 structures in total, so you can complete the challenge to build while in the Storm. Lastly, you’ll want to survive 10 Storm phases, which is about two rounds if you make it to the final few players. Otherwise, just keep playing until you achieve that milestone.

If you’re trying to finish off the Legendary Quest, we recommend heading into Team Rumble and finding someplace quiet by the water to fish. You’ll find fishing barrels with fishing rods near all bodies of water. If the playing region allows it, you could even stay there for a long time uninterrupted by the rest of the lobby’s mayhem, provided you can stay stealthy. Even if you do get stuck in the Storm, fish are healing items, so keep eating what you catch to replenish your perpetually dropping health as you fish inside the Storm. It may catch up with you eventually, but this is the best way to boost your caught fish totals as you work toward the Week 9 Legendary Quest.

If you still need to finish the Week 8 challenges, we have those too.

Infinite, a sci-fi thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and directed by Antoine Fuqua, is set to debut exclusively on Paramount Plus in the US.

As reported by Variety, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish announced the news on the company’s quarterly earning call, saying that this film is a big-budget offering for Paramount Plus that will skip theaters all together, just as Disney+’s Soul did.

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Wahlberg will play Evan McCauley in Infinite, a man who “is haunted by the fact that he demonstrates skills he has never learned and has memories of places he has never visited.”

After meeting a secret group known as the Infinites, he learns that his memories are real and that they are coming from multiple past lives. Joining Wahlberg will be Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Toby Jones and Dylan O’Brien.

IGN exclusively revealed Infinite’s synopsis and logo last year – when it was scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 7, 2020 – and described a first-of-its-kind SXSW activation known as the ISM Hexadome Experience. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a cancellation of both SXSW and this event.

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Infinite is based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Marikranz and looks to explore the idea of reincarnation and the implications of being reborn throughout generations while keeping all your memories.

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Konami has teamed up with prosthetics company Open Bionics to create a prosthetic arm cover themed after the one worn by Venom Snake in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Now, the first such cover has been distributed in the United States to TikTok artist Laiken Olive.

A post on the Metal Gear Twitter account shows Olive, 21, wearing the prosthetic from Open Bionics, titled the “Hero Arm.” It sports the same red and black color scheme as Venom Snake’s, but that design is optional. In the post’s comments, Olive clarifies that the base of the arm is black, and its red sections are a cover. “Having changeable covers means I can be like Venom Snake, Iron Man, BB-8 and so much more with just a pop on and off of the covers,” Olive said.

While the arm can’t recreate Venom Snake’s abilities, it can create realistic hand movements. According to a press release, the custom-built prosthetic uses myoelectric sensors which detect muscle contractions. Those contractions are then converted into movements by the hand.

While the prosthetic isn’t designed after Venom Snake’s arm, Laiken still found that the character’s story resonated with her own. “In Metal Gear Solid, the main character wakes up from being in a coma for nine years,” Olive said. “And I’ve been waiting a decade to have a prosthetic that is functional and intuitive to my needs.” The Hero Arm is now available for amputees in the USA.

This isn’t the first time Open Bionics has collaborated with a gaming company to create prosthetics. In 2016, Open Bionics partnered with Eidos Montreal to create what was described as an “affordable” prosthetic based on Deus Ex.

Similarly, this isn’t Konami’s first foray into prosthetics. The massive publisher engineered a Metal Gear Solid V-themed prosthetic arm that was featured in a documentary titled Bodyhack in 2016.

It looks like a new game in the universe of the Yakuza spin-off, Judgment, has leaked on the Japanese PlayStation Network under the name Lost Judgment. It’s most likely a direct sequel to the 2019 game, but we’ll know for sure tomorrow as Ryu Ga Gotoku studio previously teased Judgment Day for May 7 at 7 AM PT. There have also been clips released from the new project as well.

According to the leaked PSN listing, Lost Judgment will release on September 21 in Japan for both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, and will also have a Standard Edition and a Digital Deluxe Edition. There also might be a localization announcement tomorrow during Judgment Day as well. Judgment was called Judge Eyes in Japan, so it could be possible that Lost Judgment might receive a localized name if and when it launches in the West.

Fans have already figured out that Lost Judgment will take place in Yokohama, based off already released screenshots and footage. Interestingly, Yokohama is also the same setting that Yakuza: Like a Dragon primarily takes place in, so a cool crossover with protagonist Ichiban Kasuga could occur.

Judgment released on June 25, 2019 for PlayStation 4 in the West, as well as on PlayStation 5, Google Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S a few weeks ago on April 23.

Time is running out but that doesn’t mean you have to show up empty handed at Mother’s Day brunch this Sunday. In my opinion, gift cards are a safe and completely valid gift to give — especially if your mom is particularly picky. Thankfully, these gift cards are delivered to you almost right away via email or electronic code. Your mom doesn’t need to know that this was done last minute. Keep on scrolling to see what some of the best gift cards are for Mother’s Day this year.

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Christi is IGN’s Social Commerce Editor tracking sales for @igndeals and writing about all things shopping. You can find her on Twitter @caliatownsend.

A massive piece of a Chinese rocket is in an uncontrollable orbit that will eventually see it plummet down to Earth and it could theoretically land anywhere on the planet.

Despite how scary that might sound, and to an extent it is, scientists say there’s no real need for concern. According to a TIME report on the matter, there are a couple of reasons for that, the biggest being that over 70% of the Earth’s surface is water.

The second major factor is that scientists from all over the world, including the U.S. military, are working to solve this dilemma. Plus, a lot of the rocket will literally burn up before ever touching down on the Earth’s surface.

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According to Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who spoke to TIME about this event, “what typically survives… are small components made of metals that can tolerate the extreme heat of reentry and larger ones that melt at lower temperatures, but may partly make it through due to their size.”

If that’s not enough to calm your nerves, TIME reports that Space Command is tracking 27,000 human-made objects, like this Chinese rocket, in space at any given time with the majority of those 27,000 objects in low-Earth orbit. Basically, you can rest your head at night without needing to worry too much that a rocket will come falling through your roof.

How did all of this come about, though? According to TIME, China launched its Long March 5B rocket on April 28 with the job of bringing a 22-ton, 16.6-meter core module of the country’s new Tianhe space station into orbit. Typically, the first stage rocket used to launch something like this into space and orbit is not flown high enough or fast enough to actually enter orbit.

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This allows the rocket to fall back down to Earth — almost always over water, like the Pacific Ocean in China’s case — safely and predictably. But the Long March 5B first stage rocket did go into orbit and an unsustainable orbit at that.

That unsustainable orbit means the rocket piece will continue to go around the Earth, falling more and more as it does. This means where it might land will remain a mystery until it’s much closer to the surface of the planet. TIME reports that U.S. Space Command is aware of and tracking the whereabouts of this rocket and that while its expected reentry point is unknown, it’s expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere on May 8.

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“The rocket stage’s orbital inclination — its angle relative to the equator — is 41.5 [degrees], carrying it as far north as Chicago, Rome, and Beijing and as far south as New Zealand and Tasmania,” according to TIME’s report.

According to McDowell in TIME’s writeup, because of the rocket’s orbital speed — 28,000 kilometers per hour or 17,500 miles per hour — miscalculating its entry by even half an hour can make a difference of 10,000 km in landing distance.

Again, to reiterate, despite the unknowns surrounding this, scientists and the U.S. military (and probably many other officials) say there isn’t a huge cause for concern due to how much of the Earth is ocean and how much of this rocket will burn up in the planet’s atmosphere.

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If you’re curious about successful space rocket landings that don’t involve so many unknowns, read this story about how SpaceX made its first successful rocket landing on Earth two days ago. Check out this story of how SpaceX successfully launched 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit after that and then read about how the company plans to race remote-controlled cars on the Moon this year.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.