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Genshin Impact’s mobile edition is an absolute juggernaut, as Sensor Tower is reporting that the game brought in around $874 million from its microtransactions since launch at the end of September 2020.

Genshin Impact is a success globally, as it ranks third in terms of revenue on iOS and Google Play, only trailing Tencent’s Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile, both of which have made over $1 billion from microtransactions over the past five months.

Genshin Impact’s $874 million outpaces the amount of money that Pokemon Go and Roblox made on mobile over the past five months, but those games are considerably older.

Genshin Impact is, however, the highest-grossing mobile RPG worldwide. It brings in around $175 million each month from microtransactions.

These results do not capture the full extent of Genshin Impact’s success, as the game is also available on PS4 and PC. Also bear in mind that all of these numbers are estimates that come from SensorTower and not directly from the developer.

In terms of geography, Genshin Impact makes the most money in China, where it’s generated $253 million so far. Japan is the second-biggest market for the game ($237 million), while the US ranks third with $162 million so far. iOS is the bigger platform for Genshin Impact, with revenue on Apple’s store coming to $521 million compared to $352 million on Android.

Mobile is a massive category in gaming. Electronic Arts has said mobile is bigger than PC and console, which is why the company spent more than $2 billion to acquire the developers of Kim Kardashian’s hit mobile game. EA also recently announced six new FIFA mobile games.

Mobile is also hugely important to Activision Blizzard, which spent $5.9 billion to acquire Candy Crush developer King. Activision Blizzard makes most of its money from mobile, which is why it may develop new mobile games based on every one of its franchises.

Fall Guys Season 4 is expected to kick off soon, bringing with it a series of new costumes. Developer Mediatonic has now teased the new outfits, posting silhouettes of them on social media and calling on fans to sound off with what the outfits might be.

None of them are very easily identifiable, as least not to me, but the internet has its guesses. For now, they’ll remain a mystery, but Mediatonic will reveal all four of them on Friday, March 5, through the game’s Discord, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter accounts.

Before this, Mediatonic challenged its fans to complete a 2400-piece jigsaw puzzle to find a new clue about Season 4–and, of course, the community completed it in short order. The teaser revealed a flying saucer-themed outfit and other otherworldly costumes.

Season 4 has a futuristic theme, which we know about from the re-branding of the game’s social media pages to Fall Guys 4041.

Dave Bailey, the co-founder and CEO of Mediatonic, said the team has only “just scratched the surface” of what’s possible for the battle royale title. The original pitch for the game was to create the “greatest game show on Earth,” and Mediatonic plans to deliver on that ambition.

“When you think about it in that way, there’s a million different ways we can take this and I hope people will see that come through in future,” Bailey said.

In other news, Mediatonic has been acquired by Fortnite studio Epic Games, giving the company yet another battle royale game. Fall Guys is still available on Steam, though fans are wondering if a day may come when the game moves to the Epic Games Store.

Fall Guys will be released on Nintendo Switch and Xbox consoles this summer, following its exclusive console debut on PS4 back in 2020.

One of the last challenges you’ll complete in Fortnite for Week 5, Season 14 tasks you to visit different restaurant kitchens. You have to visit two of them to complete this challenge, but it comes at the end of a sequence before you’re actually able to count any progress you’ve made. Here’s how to do it.

First off, prior to trying this challenge, ensure you’ve done the other three steps. You’ll need to collect cookbooks, harvest eight fruits or vegetables–which can be done quickly at the Orchard northeast of the Coliseum–and then collect 150 gold bars. For collecting the 150 gold bars, just complete a bounty, as the one we completed rewarded us with 200.

Restaurant Kitchen Locations

Once that’s done, you have a few different options for visiting kitchens, including:

• Sticks, at Craggy Cliffs
• Butter Barn, southeast of the Zero Point
• Pizza Pit, northeast of Collassal Coliseum
• Durrr Burger, southeast of Holly Hedges

As you can see from the way they’re arranged on the map, the two locations in the northern section of the map–Pizza Pit and Sticks–are the closest together. Land near one of them, walk into the kitchen, and then head for the other one, doing the same when you get there. Once you have completed that, the challenge is done.

As you can see in the image above, Pizza Pit is separate from the other landmarks around it, but its giant pepperoni-covered roof make it impossible to miss. You can also spot it super easily from the air, making this a good starting point.

Sticks is the centerpiece of Craggy Cliffs. It isn’t quite as obvious to spot from the air, but you should find it almost immediately once you’ve arrived in town.

You’ll get 40,000 XP for completing this challenge, as you will with the other Fortnite challenges in Week 14. This is up double from typical weeks, so you won’t want to miss out on completing them.

The new challenges for Fortnite Season 5, Week 14 are now live, and a few of them are food-themed. Though not particularly difficult, they are a little bit tedious and can be annoying to complete if you don’t know what you’re looking for. One such challenge tasks you to collect cookbooks from Pleasant Park and Craggy Cliffs. We’ll show you how to complete this challenge in just a few minutes.

The name of the challenge is a bit dishonest, as you don’t actually have to go to both locations. We’ve circled them on the map, but we strongly recommend going to Craggy Cliffs, as you’ll be returning to this location at least one other time this week for a different Fortnite challenge.

Cookbook Locations

Head around the buildings in Craggy Cliffs, especially the homes, and examine the floors. All of the cookbooks we found were on floors rather than tables or counters.

You’ll see very small green and yellow books on the ground, and all you have to do is collect them. They aren’t exclusively in kitchens, but we found two of them on kitchen floors and two in other areas of the buildings.

In Pleasant Park, the cookbooks also look exactly the same. We found one in a kitchen almost immediately when entering a house. If for some reason you couldn’t find four at Craggy Cliffs, you can finish the challenge by heading over to Pleasant Park.

Once you’ve collected four of these, the challenge is complete. It’s the first in a four-challenge sequence that will eventually send you back to Craggy Cliffs, so make note of the landmarks.

MOBA-inspired spin-off Pokemon Unite looks set to have some form of extra monetization when it launches, as leaked footage of the game’s Canadian beta has confirmed a battle pass system. Videos surfaced online of the game once its beta on Android went live and while a number of them have been taken down, Twitter account Centro Pokemon Leaks managed to grab a few screenshots.

Like most battle passes, Pokemon Unite’s take on the gameplay mechanic rewards persistent leveling up with various cosmetic rewards. You can purchase the battle pass with an in-game currency that is acquired with very real-world money and will likely need to grab a new one once the current season of activity wraps up inside the game.

Leaked footage of Garchomp, Cinderace, and Greninja doing battle also surfaced during the beta, although Nintendo has been quick to strike down any of this content online as it violates the NDA that beta testers are required to sign before trying the game out.

There’s no guarantee that the battle pass in its current form will remain when Pokemon Unite is eventually released and it could still be further tweaked. Battle passes have proven to be very successful in games like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Destiny 2. While the current beta is being held on Android devices, Pokemon Unite will also come to iOS when it launches globally.

It’s a big year for Pokemon as the franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary, and so far Nintendo has rolled out a number of celebrations to mark the momentous milestone for its pocket monster franchise. From a partnership with Katy Perry, who will take part in what’s being called the “P25 Music” celebration event, to a McDonald’s tie-in event that was predictably ruined by adults, Pokemon even featured rapper and singer-songwriter Post Malone performing in a virtual concert.

The show may have been short and weird as Malone’s digital avatar took to the stage, but a mix of original songs and a cover of Hootie and the Blowfish’s “Only Wanna Be With You” made for a memorable event.