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The Epic Games Store has continued to offer free weekly games for its users, and another solid batch of games are now available: The End Is Nigh and Abzu. It’s hard to top last week’s offering of freebies–Celeste and Inside–but it’s worth claiming these latest free games while they’re available for the next week. To take advantage of these weekly free games, all you need is a free Epic Games account. Once you add them to your account, the games are yours to keep–no subscription of any sort needed.

Abzu is an underwater adventure game where you play as a diver exploring lush ocean environments, from kelp forests to coral reefs and black trenches, encountering all kinds of sea life along the way. Its development team included several people who worked on Journey, and Abzu is similar to that game in that there’s no dialogue or overt story. It did, however, earn a 9/10 in GameSpot’s Abzu review.

“When I die, I hope whatever happens next is even half as beautiful as Abzu,” wrote critic Scott Butterworth. “Its mesmerizing soundtrack and Wind Waker-esque visuals are among the most enrapturing in recent memory, yet the game’s true beauty stems not from its bittersweet score and inviting undersea environments but from its unfailing ability to imbue every moment with childlike wonder. Abzu is serene and meditative, calming and cathartic, moving and timeless, its simple components assembled so elegantly as to become something altogether richer.”

Then you’ve got The End Is Nigh, an apocalyptic platformer from the developer of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac. In The End Is Nigh, you’ll control a small black blob called Ash, one of the sole survivors of “the end of the world.” As you make your way through over 600 single-screen levels, you’ll gather collectibles that consist of tumors and video game cartridges (yes, you read that right). There are also multiple endings and bonus levels to be discovered. While GameSpot hasn’t reviewed The End Is Nigh, the game has generally positive reviews on Metacritic and Steam.

Abzu and The End Is Nigh will be available for free via the Epic Games Store until next Thursday, September 12, when they’ll be replaced by Conarium as the next free game.

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Xbox ANZ has announced a new product line around Gears 5, and it might not be what you expect. The company is working with Australian designer Jason Moss on a line of Gears 5-inspired unisex jewellery.

There are two products in the collection, the first of which is a Locust-themed necklace featuring gear and skull pendants attached to a silver chain. The other piece is a ring that features the gear and the skull uniquely interwoven into one item to in essence form the crimson omen that the Gears franchise is known for. Both were forged in fire and cast in cold silver.

You might not know Moss by name, but you may be familiar with his work. Most recently, he created some of the pieces that Harry Styles wore in his Rolling Stone cover shoot.

The Gears of War jewellery is extremely limited, as only 100 of each are being made. Microsoft is giving them away through the Xbox ANZ Facebook; go there to learn how you can win one.

“We know that fans of Gears are loud and proud when it comes to their passion for the franchise, and we wanted to create something that would allow them to showcase their pride every day. With so many complex themes weaving throughout the Gears universe, Jason Moss with his experimental, raw style was the perfect artist to bring this collection to life,” Xbox ANZ boss Tania Chee said in a statement.

The Gears of War jewellery is just the latest unique product from Xbox ANZ. Before this, they released the Xbox body wash (which is currently on sale) and the Xbox Onesie.

Gears 5 launches today, September 6, through the Ultimate Edition and for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. Everyone else can start playing on September 10. Gears 5 is available for Xbox One and PC.

GameSpot awarded Gears 5 a 7/10 in our review in progress. We’re currently in the process of testing the multiplayer servers more extensively before handing down a final verdict.

Thieves stole over $240,000 by using voice-mimicking software to trick a company’s employee. The thieves used an AI voice deepfake of a company executive to get the employee to wire money to an offsite account in what researchers say is the first publicly reported AI heist.

If you haven’t heard by now, AI technology like deepfakes are able to accurately mimic or copy the likeness and sound of real people. This is what happened to one company’s managing director who received a call from someone he believed was his superior. The superior’s voice told the employee to wire the money to a Hungarian bank account to avoid “late-payment fines.”

According to the company’s insurer Euler Hermes, who detailed the events of the heist to The Washington Post, the AI-altered voice “was able to imitate the voice, and not only the voice: the tonality, the punctuation, the German accent,” of the company superior. The heist was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

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Epic has rolled out another set of Season 10 challenges in Fortnite: Battle Royale. This week’s batch is called Boogie Down, and fittingly, most of the tasks involve dancing in front of certain objects or in specific locations. However, there are some areas of the island where dancing isn’t allowed, and you’ll need to go there and destroy the “no dancing” signs to complete one of this week’s challenges. If you’re not sure where those are located, here’s what you need to do.

Where Are The No Dancing Sign Locations?

There are at least seven “no dancing” signs scattered across the island, and most are spread far apart, so you’ll need to do quite a bit of walking around to find them. Thankfully, you only need to destroy three of the signs in order to complete the challenge, so it shouldn’t take too long. You can see all of the locations we’ve found below.

• Northwest of Junk Junction
• On the mountain between The Block and Pleasant Park
• Northwest of Salty Springs, near the monster skeleton
• Top platform in Pressure Plant
• On the mountain southeast of Paradise Palms
• On a mountain southeast of Frosty Flights
• Southwestern tip of the snow biome

How To Complete The Challenge

As previously mentioned, you only need to destroy three signs to complete this challenge, and they don’t need to be within the same match, so you can land at one, destroy it either with your harvesting tool or a weapon you picked up, get eliminated, then hop into another match and land at a different sign until you’ve broken all three. Once the required number of signs have been smashed, the challenge will be complete.

We still have a few weeks to go before Season 10 of Fortnite ends, which means there’s still plenty of time to complete any remaining challenges from earlier in the season. If you need help with those, we’ve rounded up maps and tips for all of the trickier tasks in our complete Fortnite Season 10 challenges guide.

Week 6’s challenges arrive on the heels of Fortnite’s 10.20 content update, which added a new throwable item called the Zapper Trap. It also brought the Floating Island from Season 6 back, and you’ll need to visit it if you’re trying to complete another challenge from this week: dance in front of a bat statue, way-aboveground pool, and a seat for giants.

Following yesterday’s 40-minute Nintendo Direct extravaganza, Nintendo revealed that five new Mii Fighter costumes were coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – but only one stole the hearts and attention spans of fans across the internet: Sans from Undertale.

Sans is a wisecracking, fatalist, lazy skeleton with a penchant for fighting, and fans have been requesting he be added to Smash Ultimate as a fighter for quite some time (though judging by fan reactions, nobody thought it would actually happen). While Sans isn’t an original fighter, his Mii Gunner outfit is pretty darn faithful to his character, complete with his dimpled smile, skull Gaster Blaster, and comfy pink slippers.

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