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Heatran has returned in Pokemon Go. The Legendary Lava Dome Pokemon is once again appearing in five-star Raids for a limited time, making this your first chance to catch one in nearly a year.

Heatran will be available until February 4. Even if you already have one, you’ll want to take advantage of its return, as this time you’ll have a chance to catch a Shiny Heatran. If you’re hoping to add one to your collection, we’ve rounded up some tips on how to battle and catch Heatran below.

Where To Find Heatran

Until February 4, Heatran will randomly appear as a five-star Raid boss at Gyms around the world. To catch one, you’ll first need to head to a Gym where a Heatran Raid is taking place and battle it alongside other players in-person.

Before you can participate in a Raid, you’ll need to have a Raid Pass. You can either purchase these from Pokemon Go’s in-game store or receive one for free when you spin the Photo Disc at a PokeStop; however, you can only hold one free Raid Pass at a time in your inventory.

While Heatran Raids can happen any time, your best bet for finding one will be on Wednesday evenings from 6-7 PM local time, when Niantic hosts its weekly Raid Hour events. During that hour, Heatran Raids will occur at most Gyms, effectively guaranteeing you’ll be able to find one. The Heatran Raid Hour events will occur on the following dates:

• January 8
• January 15
• January 22
• January 29

Best Heatran Counters

Heatran is a Fire/Steel type, which makes it doubly susceptible to Ground Pokemon. Groudon, Rhyperior, and Garchomp will be especially helpful when battling Heatran. The Legendary is also weak to Water and Fighting types, so Pokemon like Machamp, Kyogre, and Swampert will also be good choices.

Two types you’ll generally want to avoid using, however, are Dragon and Psychic. Heatran resists both thanks to its Steel typing, so neither will be very helpful when challenging it. Bug, Grass, and other Steel Pokemon are also weak to Heatran, so avoid bringing any of those along to the Raid.

Shiny Heatran

As previously mentioned, you’ll have a chance to encounter a Shiny Heatran while it’s in Raids. However, your odds of finding a Shiny are fairly low, and there’s no guaranteed way to ensure you encounter one, so you’ll need to be persistent and participate in as many Heatran Raids as you can to improve your chances. You also won’t know if Heatran is Shiny until you get to the capture phase, but if you are lucky enough to find one, you’re guaranteed to catch it (provided you don’t miss all your throws).

CGI effects are par for the course in superhero films these days. It’s likely that you sit through the credits at Marvel films to check out post-credit sequences, so you’ve probably seen the very long lists of people who work in the effects departments. Computer-generated effects are a specialized skill – sometimes directors know a lot about the process, and sometimes they rely more on the specialists to create sequences and tell them what is possible for a scene.

IGN got a chance to speak to the VFX department for Avengers: Endgame, including Dan DeLeeuw, and Captain Marvel’s Shannon Justison, Janelle Croshaw Ralla and Nick Crew. They told us all about working with directors, and what they prefer in terms of director knowledge about their craft.

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This article contains some spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

When Carrie Fisher passed away in 2016, Star Wars fans were heartbroken. They were also concerned about the role General Leia Organa would play in the then-yet to be filmed third installment in the final trilogy of the Skywalker saga. Director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy made the decision not to digitally recreate Fisher for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but to instead use footage she had already shot for the earlier films and work them into the plot.

Of course, a lot of digital work had to be done to blend Leia into scenes with the actors. IGN got a chance to speak to some of the visual effects department for the film, including visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett, creature effects supervisor Neal Scanlan and ILM visual effects supervisor Patrick Tuback about what it took to bring Princess Leia back for the final chapter in the Skywalker Saga.

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Just because the holiday season is over doesn’t mean you’re out of luck on a great laptop deal. Whether it’s Black Friday, back to school, graduation, Amazon Prime Day, or whenever, vendors always find a reason to put up sales and deals on laptops. Right now CES, the largest consumer electronics show, is underway, so many vendors are clearing out 2019 models to make room for brand new 2020 stock. Most of the laptop deals we find are catered towards gamers, but we also add in the craziest deals on laptops that are perfect for students, employees, or road warriors. This article is updated constantly.

This Gigabyte AERO laptop is equipped with one of the nicest displays we’ve come across, especially at this price point. The 15″ screen uses an X-Rite Pantone certified IPS AMOLED panel with true 4K (3840×3160) Ultra HD resolution. The rest of the specs aren’t bad either. It comes equipped with a 9th generation Intel Core i7 processor, a very gaming-capable video card, 16GB of memory, 512GB of SSD storage, Killer AX1650 wireless networking, Intel Thunderbolt 3 port, UHS-II card reader, RGB keyboard, and up to 8.5 hours of battery life. It also only weighs 4.4 pounds.

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Battlestate Games, the studio responsible for Escape From Tarkov, said it has no plans to add women as playable characters to its fictional first-person military shooter. The reason, according to the developer, is because women require too many animations and call for “a huge amount of work.”

Battlestate took to Twitter to confirm that, while it respects women both as people and active military participants, the studio won’t add playable female characters because game lore won’t allow it. “[T]here will be no playable female characters because of game lore and more importantly–the huge amount of work needed with animations, gear fitting, etc.,” the studio tweeted.

Comments from Battlestate in 2016 about war being too stressful for women and a place only for “hardened men” drew criticism recently in part because women already serve in our military. In a separate tweet following the confirmation that women won’t appear as playable characters in Escape From Tarkov, the studio said the quotes “didn’t reflect the official position of the company” and were delivered by “not a key [Battlestate Games] employee.” The employee has since been reprimanded and “properly instructed.”

Escape From Tarkov has been in early access since 2016 but has seen a resurgence in popularity lately. The first-person shooter became one of the most-watched titles on Twitch at the start of the new year as part of a limited-time promotion put on by Battlestate Games, and reports suggest the game will arrive on Steam at some point in the future. There may even be a console port somewhere in there.