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Niantic is holding another Incense Day event in Pokemon Go this Sunday, March 14. The event will run from 11 AM to 5 PM local time and gives players more chances to catch Beldum and certain other Steel- and Psychic-type Pokemon.

Beldum in particular will be plentiful during the event. The Pokemon will appear more frequently when you use an Incense, and you’ll have an increased chance of encountering a Shiny Beldum. On top of that, if you can evolve Metang (Beldum’s evolved form) into Metagross during the event, it will automatically know Meteor Mash, a move it could previously only learn during the Beldum Community Day.

In addition to Beldum, the following Steel and Psychic Pokemon will be drawn to Incense during the event:

Psychic Pokemon

• Natu
• Girafarig
• Meditite
• Baltoy
• Munna

Steel Pokemon

• Alolan Diglett
• Magnemite
• Aron
• Bronzor
• Shieldon

The aforementioned Pokemon will appear more frequently at specific hours throughout the event. You can see what time each type of Pokemon is more likely to spawn below:

• 11 AM – 12 PM: Psychic Pokemon
• 12 – 1 PM: Steel Pokemon
• 1 – 2 PM: Psychic Pokemon
• 2 – 3 PM: Steel Pokemon
• 3 – 4 PM: Psychic Pokemon
• 4 – 5 PM: Steel Pokemon

Finally, Niantic says it will offer an exclusive item bundle in Pokemon Go’s in-game shop for the event. The bundle will cost 1 PokeCoin and features an Incense. You can read more details on the official Pokemon Go blog.

In the meantime, Niantic is kicking off a Searching for Legends event in the game on March 9. That will feature certain Ground, Rock, and Steel Pokemon such as Nosepass, whose Shiny form will be appearing in Pokemon Go for the first time as part of the event. The Legendary Pokemon Tornadus is also back in five-star Raids until March 11.

DC’s Wonder Woman: Earth One saga is nearly complete, and IGN has an exclusive preview of the third and final graphic novel in the series.

Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 3 reunites writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette for one last Wonder Woman epic. In this climactic chapter, Queen Diana is forced to lead the charge in defense of her homeland as Max Lord’s army of robots invade Themiscyra. Can Diana remain a force for love and peace when she’s forced to become the warrior her mother designed her to be?

Get a taste of what’s coming and see Diana interacting with Artemis by checking out the slideshow gallery below:

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For those not familiar with the Earth One line of graphic novels, they’re simialr to Marvel’s Ultimate Universe imprint in that they reimagine and modernize familiar heroes for a 21st Century audience, with some heroes changing more drastically than others. The Wonder Woman books offer a fairly unusual take on Diana and her world, as they draw heavy inspiration from the original Golden Age Wonder Woman comics and the themes of bondage and subservience that were so prevalent in the work of creator William Moulton Marston. The first volume even drew controversy for its depiction of Diana being the daughter of Hercules, a choice even Morrison admitted he “struggled” with.

“In this particular story I wanted that tension,” Morrison told IGN in 2016. “I wanted that push and pull, and I wanted Diana to be a bit more impure in the sense that, yeah, there is a little bit of masculinity that has been put into her. Originally, Hippolyta does it just for the reasons that Hercules’ DNA will then go on to destroy women, and there would be no more sons, as Hippolyta said. So it’s actually kind of an act of revenge. Diana is used as revenge on the battlefield, which to me seemed much more this sort of thing that people could relate to. She’s a character who’s so pure and so perfect that it seemed like we needed that little bit of dark in the character to give her a chance to grow and to think about things and change.”

Vol. 2 further shook up the Wonder Woman mythology by depicting long-time DC villain Doctor Psycho as a supervillain pickup artist and a critique of toxic masculinity.

“Part of it was my revenge on having seen [this level of manipulation] actually done to someone. You can see the narcissist type, the sociopath type and how easy it is for them get to people — people you wouldn’t even imagine could be that manipulated by anything,” Morrison told IGN in 2018. “It’s a very real problem for young people in the world. There are people out there who are quite willing to use these techniques so I kind of wanted to draw attention to it, but, you know, on the Wonder Woman scale where the guy is a supervillain. I wanted to put these paragon of femininity up against that threat and see how she deals with it — because even paragons of intelligence and grace I’ve watched having real trouble with people like this. Here are the techniques. If you see anyone using these techniques against you, the warnings should go off.”

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You can check out IGN’s review of Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1 and Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 2. DC is also finally releasing the third volume of Batman: Earth One in 2021, which will introduce a very different version of Two-Face and shed more light on this Bruce Wayne’s ties to the Arkham family.

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Ubisoft has released the patch notes for the latest Rainbow Six Siege test server update. The update is live in the test server now, fixing a few bugs in the game.

Of note, the update addresses some issues tied to Aruni, Siege’s newest defender operator that was added in December 2020’s Operation Neon Dawn expansion. Aruni can erect a laser grid over doorways and windows with her Surya Laser Gate, denying an attacker operator’s entry and destroying projectile gadgets.

The update fixes a bug that was causing Surya Laser Gates to appear deactivated if players were over 20 meters away, which messed with the plans of both defenders and attackers. Additionally, a bug has been fixed that was causing Surya Laser Gates (as well as Kaid’s Rtila Electroclaw) to incorrectly pulse when disabled by Thatcher’s EMP Grenade or seen via IQ’s Electronics Detector.

Beyond Aruni, the update addresses an issue tied to destroying barricades by vaulting and a bug preventing IQ from detecting defender’s phones. All in all, it’s a small update, and in the full patch notes Ubisoft reminds players that “all changes made in the [test server] are for testing purposes and do not have any guaranteed impact on the live-servers.”

Rainbow Six Siege March 8 Update Patch Notes

Gameplay

• FIXED – When players vault over a prop or through an entryway in a wall, nearby barricades are destroyed.

Operators

• FIXED – Aruni’s Surya Gate appears deactivated to players over 20 M away.
• FIXED – Aruni’s Surya Gate and Kaid’s Rtila Electroclaw incorrectly display a pulsing effect when disabled by Thatcher’s EMP Grenade and viewed through IQ’s Electronics Detector.
• FIXED – Defender phones don’t display a pulsing effect when detected by IQ’s Electronic’s Detector.

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Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber has said he won’t do an impression on the Halo TV show, suggesting he won’t try to replicate Steve Downes’ iconic voice from the video game series.

Writing on Twitter, Schreiber said, “I don’t do impressions, I play characters.” He said the video games focus on Master Chief the super-soldier, but the TV show will provide more depth and insight on the man under the helmet, John.

“I don’t do impressions, I play characters. While everyone knows the Master Chief, this show is an opportunity for all of us to get to know John,” he said. “Thank you for your kind words. We are all working incredibly hard to bring something to the screen that everyone can get behind.”

In 2019, it was teased by Showtime boss Gary Levine that Master Chief’s helmet would come off in the Halo TV show. That’s a big deal because Master Chief keeps his helmet on during most of the Halo video games.

As Schreiber is alluding to in his tweet, it appears the Halo TV show will focus more on John as opposed to Master Chief, so it makes sense that he wouldn’t be wearing his helmet the whole time.

Halo’s transmedia boss Kiki Wolfkill is heading up the production of the Halo TV show for Microsoft, and she recently spoke about how the program will take risks and present something new to fans–and fans may not like it.

“It’s amazing to have these dedicated fanbases and communities. But it’s also hard because there are so many diverse perspectives. At some point, you can’t satisfy all the voices. You need to have your own voice,” she said.

The Halo TV show stars Orange is the New Black’s Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief, with Californication’s Natascha McElhone as Dr. Halsey. Jen Taylor, who voices Cortana in the video games, will voice the character on the TV show as well.

The Halo TV show will premiere in 2022 on Paramount+.

As for the video game series, Halo Infinite launches this fall for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The multiplayer element will be completely free-to-play, while Game Pass subscribers can get the campaign at no extra cost.

Ahead of the start of Apex Legends Chaos Theory, Respawn has renamed the new Wattson legendary skin that will be added during the event. Previously announced as the rather problematic Charged Conquistador, the skin will thankfully now be called Chaos Conductor.

“Thank you to folks who reached out about it and kept us honest,” Respawn director of community and communications Ryan Rigney tweeted. “This was an oversight that shouldn’t have happened.”

Respawn’s decision seems inspired by folks pointing out how uncomfortable they were with Respawn naming one of Wattson’s skins after the conquistadors, a group of white colonizers who are well-known for conquering countries through murder and slavery, and killing thousands of people through the spread of diseases. It’s not a good label to give to any of Apex Legends’ characters.

“Definitely no ill intention, it’s one of those things that slip through the cracks,” Respawn design director Jason McCord tweeted. “We don’t have a lot of approval process around skins names, since we release so many.”

Chaos Theory begins March 9, launching alongside a Switch port for Apex Legends. The event introduces a major update, which transforms all four of the game’s defenders, including a new “selfish” passive for Wattson.