Fortnite Ghost Town Location Guide: Where To Search Chests For Fortnitemares Challenge

The Fortnitemares 2019 event is now live in Fortnite: Battle Royale, bringing a new Storm King limited-time mode to the game, along with a related set of challenges. Many of these missions are tied to the aforementioned LTM, while a handful are more obviously Halloween-inspired, like destroying haunted household furniture and leaping out of hideouts when unsuspecting players are nearby.

One of the trickier Storm King challenges asks you to search chests at a haunted forest, a ghost town, and a spooky farm. The challenge itself is easy enough to complete, but the hard part is knowing where to go, especially if you’re not very familiar with Fortnite’s new map yet. If you fall in that camp, don’t worry; we show you what to do below.

Where Are The Haunted Forest, Ghost Town, And Spooky Farm Locations?

As the challenge states, you need to search chests at three specific areas. The haunted forest and spooky farm are simple enough to find; the former is Weeping Woods, while the later is Frenzy Farm–both named locations that you can easily spot on the game’s map.

The ghost town, however, is a bit harder to track down. Unlike the other two areas, it isn’t a named location, so you can’t obviously see it just by looking at a map of the island. For this one, you’ll need to go to quadrant G1, in the top portion of the island. The town is northwest of Steamy Stacks, and it’s received a ghostly makeover for this event. You can see where all three areas are located on the map below.

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How To Complete The Challenge

Once you know where the locations are, all you need to do is head to all three areas and search one chest in each. Do that and you’ll clear the challenge, netting you 30,000 XP for your troubles. If you need more help, we walk you through how to complete the challenge in the video below.

Chapter 2, Season 1 is slated to run until December 12. If you need help completing any other challenges from this season, be sure to check out our ongoing Fortnite Chapter 2 challenges roundup for all of our other maps and guides.

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Ghost Recon Breakpoint Improvement Plan Outlined By Ubisoft

Ubisoft has revealed in a blog post that it intends to introduce a number of large-scale improvements to Ghost Recon Breakpoint, including a “more radical and immersive version” of the game that will focus on player choice and an authentic military experience.

“We are aware that some of the design choices made have caused polarized reactions and discussions regarding the direction taken by the Ghost Recon franchise,” explains the blog. “Some of you would like our new survival mechanics to have more impact on your experience, while others dislike the tiered loot progression we have added.”

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Fortnite’s Halloween Fortnitemares Event Now Live, Features New Skins, LTMs, And More

As teased, Fortnite‘s Fortnitemares event has returned. The Halloween-themed festivities are now underway on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices, and they include new limited-time modes, along with a new set of challenges to complete and some devilish skins and other cosmetics to earn.

Headlining this year’s Fortnitemares event are three special LTMs. The first is called Storm King, and it has players taking on the titular super boss. This mode, however, is currently disabled while Epic addresses an issue. Additionally, the developer has highlighted two community-made LTMs: Gun Fright and Mansion of Power.

Alongside the LTMs is a set of Storm King challenges. These are, fittingly, Halloween-themed, and they have you destroying haunted household furniture, searching chests in a ghost town, and leaping out of hideouts when unsuspecting players are nearby. Complete the challenges and you’ll unlock Halloween-themed cosmetics, including a special Storm Sail umbrella.

Finally, Epic has added the Cryptic Curse Bundle to the in-game store, which includes the Phantom Outfit and Time Keeper Back Bling. You can unlock different styles for both of these cosmetics by completing the Cryptic Curse challenges. Fortnitemares runs until November 4. You can read more about the event on the official Fortnite website.

Epic kicked off Chapter 2 of Fortnite earlier this month, and it made a ton of changes to the hit battle royale game. Not only are there new mechanics like fishing and weapon upgrading, the map has also been revamped, and a variety of new challenges are already available. If you need help completing those, be sure to check out our ongoing Fortnite Chapter 2 challenges roundup for our maps and guides on this season’s trickiest missions.

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Doraemon Story of Seasons Review

After an hour-long tutorial, Doraemon Story of Seasons has me running out of battery faster than my Switch. It’s been 62 minutes, and I’ve barely touched a thumbstick. Soon, this licensed farm life spin-off will have me familiarly watering crops, collecting bugs, and rearing livestock in a farming sim that borrows from both Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. But first, I have to get through the boring part.

Doraemon, one of the best-selling manga in the world, has come together with Marvelous, the original developer behind the Harvest Moon farming series. The crossover is as unusual as it sounds. What do a sleepy 10-year-old and a robot cat from the 22nd century have to do with farming? As it turns out, not much! The characters are lost in an alternate dimension, and the only way they can get home is to befriend the townsfolk. There’s just one problem: this town puts its children to work, and I’m not talking about mowing the lawn.

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Excalibur Puts a Fresh Spin on a Familiar X-Men Spinoff

Note: this is a mostly spoiler-free advance review of Excalibur #1, which releases on Wednesday, October 30.

Another week brings another new addition to Marvel’s growing Dawn of X relaunch. This time it’s Excalibur up to bat, with writer Tini Howard and artist Marcus To crafting a new take on a familiar X-Men-adjacent franchise. Excalibur #1 isn’t quite the home run Marauders #1 was last week, but it does find similar success in terms of offering readers something that’s both very different from Jonathan Hickman’s work while still feeling like a cohesive addition to the line.

Unlike Marauders, which has basically nothing to do with the original band of mutant killers employed by Mister Sinister, Excalibur does dabble in some of the expected tropes. This series is heavily centered around the Braddock family in general and Psylocke in particular. It’s also heavily steeped in the mythology of Camelot and Otherworld and even features Morgan le Fay as a major antagonist. But in other ways, the new series is a major deviation from the norm. Most of the old Excalibur mainstays are ignored in favor of a new team that includes iconic X-Men characters like Gambit, Rogue and Jubilee. And that’s to say nothing of the central role played by Apocalypse.

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Amazon Announces 5 Free Games For Prime Members In November

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Most gamers are generally aware of the free monthly games that come with PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold, and you’ve probably snagged a free game from Steam, Epic, Humble Bundle, or some other digital store from time to time. But if you have an Amazon Prime subscription, you might be missing out on another regular source of free PC games: Twitch Prime, a premium membership that comes free with Amazon Prime.

Twitch Prime has been handing out free games and loot like candy for quite some time now, and if you’re not checking their monthly offerings on a regular basis, you’re missing out. You still have a few more days to grab October’s free games, including The Walking Dead: Michonne and Deadlight: Director’s Cut, but Amazon has also announced the free games and in-game loot that will be available during the month of November.

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Kicking things off next month is Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition, an RPG and hack-and-slash adventure where you play as Death, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The Deathinitive Edition includes the remastered game in 1080p and improved graphics as well as all DLC.

The game earned a solid 8.5/10 in GameSpot’s Darksiders II review, in which Kevin VanOrd praised the fluid, colorful action, expertly crafted dungeons, and apocalyptic tone of its audio and visuals. “Darksiders II is remarkably well put together, particularly in light of its impressive scope. Bigger doesn’t mean better, of course, but this isn’t a ‘more of the same, just bigger’ kind of sequel. The game uses its expansive geography to cultivate a poetic tempo in which your intellectual triumphs are rewarded with the immediate pleasures of fleet-footed platforming and demonic brutality,” he wrote.

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Get stranded on an alien world in Planet Alpha, a 2D puzzle-platformer where you play as an unnamed space explorer on a mysterious, beautiful planet. The game earned a 7/10 in GameSpot’s Planet Alpha review, in which James O’Connor wrote, “While there are moments of frustration in its platforming, and the puzzles are relatively unsophisticated, the locations of Planet Alpha will most certainly stick with you. It doesn’t matter why you’re there, or what it is you’re looking for. There’s great pleasure in just existing on this planet, in navigating its harsh terrain and admiring its vistas, and the sheer beauty of it all makes the game’s shortcomings easy to bear.”

Several other free games will also be available in November: a turn-based tactical RPG set within a reimagined King Arthur mythos, Sword Legacy: Omen; a tongue-in-cheek simulation game based on the 19th-century oil rush, Turmoil; and an interdimensional action-platformer, Double Cross.

In November, you can also claim plenty of free in-game loot and cosmetics. Current offers that will extend into next month include an exclusive Jackal Operator set for Rainbow Six Siege and exclusive wheels, engine audio, and decal for Rocket League. There will also be three special loot drops for PUBG Mobile throughout November. You can see all the current offers at Twitch Prime.

To claim any free loot or free games, you just have to link your Twitch and Amazon Prime accounts. An Amazon Prime account costs $119 / £79 a year and gets you other benefits like free two-day shipping, access to Prime Video streaming, and more. You can also sign up for a 30-day free trial anytime (it might not be a bad idea to do it before Black Friday).

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November 2019 Free Twitch Prime Games

  • Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition
  • Planet Alpha
  • Sword Legacy Omen
  • Turmoil
  • Double Cross

Jurassic World 3 Director Reveals Why He Brought Back Original Stars

Jurassic World 3 director Colin Trevorrow has opened up about his decision to bring back Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum for the next movie, which he refers to as “Jurassic Park IV.”

In an interview with Empire, Trevorrow, who is co-writing the upcoming trilogy-capper with Emily Carmichael, revealed that he had always wanted the original franchise stars to feature in the Jurassic World trilogy in some capacity, but he needed to establish the best way to continue their legacy.

“We’d have to come up with a reason why Ellie, Malcolm and Grant all went to the theme park on the exact same day it broke down – again,” he said, addressing their absence in Jurassic World. “The next film allows the legacy characters to be a part of the story in an organic way.”

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Red Dead Redemption 2 Online’s Halloween Event Grants Special Rewards

Red Dead Online, the multiplayer mode in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2, has gotten a spooky update just in time for the Halloween festivities. The new additions include an anxiety-inducing game mode, a new bounty to collect, more items in the shop, and even cosmetic masks.

To start, the game has added a “Fear of the Dark” limited-time mode to the Showdown Mode selection. It pits super-strong Night Stalkers against human Hunters. The deck is stacked against the mortals, but skull masks are littered around the battlefield, so the more masks the Hunters collect, the weaker the Night Stalkers become, while the Hunters have their weapon power increased. Hunters win by collecting all the masks and wiping out the Night Stalkers, while Night Stalkers win by defeating all the Hunters or just surviving until time expires.

The mode will be available through November 12. Don’t wait to play, though, because you can get 3X Gold and 2X RDO$ through November 3.

The announcement also details a new bounty, the former mayor Tobin Winfield. He was caught embezzling public funds and went into hiding near Thieves’ Landing. Plus this week you can get 30% off sharp objects like cleavers, machetes, tomahawks, and throwing knives.

Finally, you can claim an exclusive mask by marking a specialization. Bounty Hunters get a Creature mask, Traders get a Swine mask, and Collectors get a Masquerade mask. If you achieve Tier 10 and 20 of the Outlaw Pass, you can get special Freak and Horror masks, too. Winning a round of Fear of the Dark will also earn you an exclusive tint for the Freak Mask. Those are available through November 3.

Plus as usual, the update brings a new selection of items for sale through the catalog, and more stipends to collect for Collectors.

The Fear of the Dark mode will still be going when the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 launches on November 5, so presumably PC adopters will have a little time with it too–though they’ll miss out on some of the timed rewards. For more details check out our Red Dead Redemption 2 PC pre-order guide.

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