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One of Destiny‘s most notorious guns was Thorn, a hand cannon that became the blight of the competitive mode known as the Crucible. Players who had it, loved it–the gun basically infected anyone hit by its bullets with poison, resulting in players getting kills even after they’d already lost a battle. Needless to say, anyone who didn’t have Thorn hated it. Now, Destiny most-loved and most-hated gun is finally making its way into Destiny 2.

The Thorn Exotic weapon quest is part of the Jokers Wild content expansion from Destiny 2’s Annual Pass, and dropped with the March 12 weekly reset. It not only brings Thorn back into the Destiny world, it continues a bunch of lines of the story of the Drifter, the weird, possibly evil guy who runs Destiny 2’s Gambit multiplayer mode. Thorn is the gun wielded by the legendary bad guy Dredgen Yor, who was finally defeated by Shin Malphur with his legendary gun, The Last Word. Last season, players got The Last Word, as well as some hints that the Hive were working to recreate Thorn. It looks like they might have succeeded, and that’ll likely have some more story implications going forward as well. Check out our lore rundown for the full skinny on Thorn and The Last Word.

Like other recent Exotic quests in Destiny 2, capturing your very own Thorn is a pretty lengthy endeavor. It’s going to require some grinding, although this time, Destiny 2 has made things a bit easier by adding options: in many steps, you can either play events like Nightfall Strikes or Escalation Protocol, or you can head to the Crucible and earn your Thorn through battles with other players. There’s still one big Crucible step that’s going to take a while to work through, though.

Here’s everything you need to know to get yourself Thorn, including where to start, and plenty of tips to speed up the process.

Go Find A Broken Thorn

Before you can start the quest, you have to find the remnants of a Shadow of Yor’s weapon. You can do that by locating Shin Malphur’s camp, which is hinted at in one of the lore items related to Aunor, the Warlock who’s been sending you messages in Season 6 to warn you about the Drifter. To get it, you’ll need to head to Trostland in the EDZ. Check out our written description for some help, or watch the video above.

Once you get the Melted Hunk of Metal from the camp, take it to Banshee-44 for your next step.

Gathering Materials: The Essence

Next, you’ll need to gather several kinds of materials to rebuild the gun. The first requires Hadronic Essence, a material Warlocks used to use to upgrade their stuff. To get those items, you’ll need to kill Warlocks in the Crucible, complete bounties on Io, or complete Nightfall Strikes. You’ll move the fastest if you do Nightfalls: each completion will net you 15 Hadronic Essence, so four runs will complete the step. If you prefer bounties or Crucible, things will go a bit slower, with bounties and Warlock kills earning you five essence Hadronic Essence each.

The Steel

If you figured that after Warlock materials you’d need to get some from Titans and Hunters, you were right. The next step requires Plasteel, another material from Destiny grinds past. These you can get from bounties on Titan, killing Titans in the Crucible, and from completing the Blind Well event in the Dreaming City. As with the last step, bounties and kills yielded five Plasteel each, while the Blind Well was quicker–it kicked out 10 Plasteel with each Heroic completion. You need 50 in total, so five Blind Wells will do it, and this is a good chance to check off your Gateway Between Worlds weekly bounty from Petra as well.

The Wire

The last item you need comes from Hunters: Sapphire Wire. This one will take you to Mars if you’re going the PvE route, where you’ll need to complete Escalation Protocol levels. Of all the PvE approaches, Escalation Protocol is the slowest, yielding only 5 Sapphire Wire for each level you complete. However, combine it with two bounties from Ana Bray and you can complete the step with one complete Escalation Protocol run, which includes seven levels, since bounties also yield 5 Wire each. You can also head to the Crucible and kill Hunters, but with so many people working on Thorn, it seems like EP is the quicker way to go.

Weaponize The Unknown

Once you’ve finished your work rebuilding Thorn, you’ll need to infuse it with Light to make it more than just a gun. As is usually the case with these sorts of things, that means heading to the Crucible and grinding kills.

There’s good news here, and bad news. The bad news is that you’ll need a lot of kills, although just how many depends on what you decide to take with you. The quest requires either hand cannon kills or Void kills, and you can combine progress with a Void hand cannon if you have one. You’ll also get quicker progress in either the Competitive play mode or the Iron Banner–although that means waiting for IB to show up. Competitive also feels like a bad option for most players, thanks to game types like Survival that result in slower matches and fewer kills. If your skills are up for it, though, Competitive will give you the quickest progress (and you might advance some of those various Crucible Pinnacle weapon bounties if you’re still working on those).

The good news, however, is that you can die and lose all you want without losing progress, so you should just go wild on Void stuff and try to rack up as many kills as possible. It seems you’ll need around 200 kills with Void hand cannons in the Valor group of matches, and around 300 kills with Void weapons that aren’t hand cannons, or hand cannons that aren’t Void. Note that you also need to make sure yours are the final blows that kill enemies for them to count toward Thorn. You also get faster progress if you can manage precision kill streaks with Void hand cannons, so equip a helmet with hand cannon targeting if you can.

Savathun’s Song

After you finally grind through the Crucible, you’ll need to head to the Farm on Earth. Remember that? It was the social area while the Tower was captured during the Destiny 2 story campaign. There, you’ll visit Tyra Karn, the Farm’s Cryptarch, for your next Thorn step.

That’ll leave you with one last challenge: an amped-up version of the Savathun’s Song Strike. The big difference is that you’ll need to kill a few tough Hive Knights along the way, with the two spawning during the final boss fight being of particular note. You’ll also have to contend with a few modifiers, including Blackout–which means no radar and increased melee damage, so watch out for Thralls. There’s also Harsh Elements, which means you’ll take more elemental damage, and Iron, which means you can’t stagger enemies with damage. Generally, that means you should keep moving and try to keep enemies at range while you fight them.

Complete the Strike and Thorn is yours. It’s a great addition to your Crucible loadout–you might have been killed by it a few times in your quest to earn your own–but note that it’s not quite the Light-eating powerhouse it was in Destiny 1, so don’t get too cocky.

With all eyes on Avengers: Endgame, it’s clear that big changes are coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, it’s hard to know exactly what those changes will be. While some future projects have already been revealed–including new Spider-Man and Doctor Strange movies, a Black Widow prequel, and shows on the Disney+ streaming service–there are big pieces of the MCU that remain a mystery.

In the midst of all of that, though, Marvel looks to be introducing new characters to the fold as it continues to build out its superhero universe. One of those characters, “Master of Kung Fu” Shang-Chi, was previously revealed to be getting his own standalone movie. This will be the studio’s first film featuring an Asian actor in the lead. Though no release date has been announced, a director for the film has been found. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Destin Daniel Cretton will helm the project, with Wonder Woman 1984 screenwriter Dave Callaham handling the script. The Shang-Chi movie hasn’t been cast, though THR reports Marvel is planning to put together a largely Asian and Asian-American ensemble.

While this will be Cretton’s first superhero film, the director has some impressive credits to his name. He previously served as writer and director on the movies Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle, both of which starred Captain Marvel‘s Brie Larson. He’s currently working on his newest project, Just Mercy. The film sees him teaming once again with Larson, as well as Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan.

As for how Shang-Chi will fit into the larger MCU, that should be an interesting hurdle to tackle. In the comics, the character has the superhuman ability to create duplicates of himself, which could be useful when an army of heroes are needed. Beyond that, it’s simply his mastery of the martial arts that makes Shang-Chi stand out. While he may not shoot photon blasts or be able to fly, he has more than held his own against superhuman villains in the past.

Before we get to Shang-Chi, though, there’s lots to come from the MCU, whether it’s Avengers: Endgame or the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home. Whatever the case, it’s clear that Marvel’s not going anywhere and that’s an exciting thing.

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Take-Two Interactive Software, the parent company of Red Dead Redemption 2 developer Rockstar and 2K Games, has had a dramatic increase to its stock price today. The increase stemmed from an apparently erroneous report that Sony was discussing the possibility of acquiring Take-Two Interactive.

First, Market Watch reported that Wedbush Securities analyst Joel Kulina said Sony is currently in “advanced board level discussions to acquire Take-Two Interactive in a mostly cash deal.” GameSpot contacted Kulina for clarification, and he expressed frustration with what he says was a misquote, leading him to be “bombarded with calls” about the comment.

“There is nothing behind this story that I’ve seen,” Kulina told GameSpot. “No one has found a source. Market chatter refers to simply what we hear on trading desks–happens daily, just more surprised this has gone viral like it has.”

Regardless, the initial comment was enough to kick off a flurry of trading, leading to a stock increase of nearly 7% as of the time of writing. Sony stock is also up slightly, at less than 1%. Kulina said there isn’t more to the story than the chatter, but the Take-Two stock jump is likely due to a favorable market position and the teaser released yesterday by Gearbox, which has been widely interpreted as a reference to Borderlands 3. Take-Two’s stock price has been on the decline recently, especially in the last month, so it was poised for a rebound.

Most recently, Sony and Rockstar partnered for timed exclusive Red Dead 2 content on PlayStation 4 and a special PS4 Pro console bundle. But Take-Two certainly isn’t wedded to one console, having developed games for multiple platforms over the years–some of which never appeared on a Sony console, like Rockstar Presents Table Tennis. Other properties under the Take-Two portfolio include the NBA 2K games, Civilization, and XCOM.

GameSpot reached out to Take-Two Interactive, which declined to comment.

Devil May Cry 5 has enjoyed a strong start on the UK physical sales chart, topping the all-format list in its debut week. For the week ending March 9, sales monitor Chart-Track says Capcom’s hack-and-slash game displaces the previous No.1, Anthem, becoming the first in the series to top the chart since DmC in 2013.

Below Devil May Cry 5, Red Dead Redemption 2 finishes at No.2, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe claiming the final podium position at No.3. The week’s only other new entry is Square Enix’s stealth game Left Alive, which sneaks in at No.39.

We enjoyed Devil May Cry 5 here at GameSpot, with critic Matt Espineli awarding the game a 9/10. “DMC5 thrives on the stylistic and mechanical prowess of its predecessors,” he wrote in our Devil May Cry 5 review. “It sticks to tradition above all else, pursuing a few ambitious new ideas along the way, but mostly maintaining the series’ focus on intricate fighting systems and campy bravado. Rarely does the game stumble, consistently leveraging its spectacle and mechanical depth to push aside any small frustrations. All the while, the story exudes a charismatic charm that keeps you constantly intrigued as you’re refining your skills. DMC5 proves the series can still be brilliant and imaginative without compromising its longest-held traditions.”

You can read the full top 10 sales chart for this week below, courtesy of UKIE and GfK Chart-Track. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.

1. Devil May Cry 5
2. Red Dead Redemption 2
3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
4. Anthem
5. FIFA 19
6. Far Cry: New Dawn
7. The Lego Movie 2 Video Game
8. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
9. Metro: Exodus
10. Grand Theft Auto V

Although reviews for the Spyro Reignited Trilogy were mostly positive, praising the remaster’s faithful recreation of the originals’ charm, the PS4 and Xbox One collection also attracted some criticism upon launch. Some people were angered by the game’s lack of subtitles, which many gamers–for example, the hard of hearing–rely on to be able to enjoy games to their fullest.

Now, developer Toys for Bob has finally added complete subtitles to the three remastered games in a new update. The patch notes state the subtitles include “character headers to identify active speakers, succinct line splits for readability, [and] colored text for improved character association in most languages.”

Publisher Activision had previously avoided directly addressing the Reignited Trilogy’s lack of subtitles. At the time, it simply stated, “While there’s no industry standard for subtitles, the studio and Activision care about the fans’ experience especially with respect to accessibility for people with different abilities, and will evaluate going forward.”

Video game accessibility options have become a more openly-discussed topic in recent years, though some titles do not meet basic standards of accessibility. Colorblindness options are only just becoming commonplace, for example, while full closed captions–such as those offered by Far Cry: New Dawn–are still rare.

Phoenix Labs has announced the console release for Dauntless has been delayed. The developer also released further details for what’s included in the Hunt Pass Season 3–which went live today–for the PC version of this free-to-play action RPG.

Currently only available on PC via Steam, Dauntless was originally being ported to Xbox One and PS4 for release in April 2019, with a versions for Switch and mobile later in the year. The Xbox One and PS4 versions have now been delayed to Summer 2019, with Phoenix Labs stating it is using the “additional time to polish gameplay, stress-test for scale, and complete additional features.” The PC version of Dauntless is also scheduled to migrate from Steam over to the Epic Games Store, a move which has also been delayed to coincide with the release of the game on Xbox One and PS4.

Currently in open beta on PC, Dauntless will officially launch when it releases on Epic Games Store, Xbox One, and PS4. All of your progress from the beta will carry over, regardless of which system you choose. As Phoenix Labs plans on having all Dauntless players’ saved date be tied to an Epic account, the game will support cross-platform play and progression across all systems. Cross-platform support will extend to the Switch and mobile versions of the game as well when they eventually launch.

The third season of Dauntless Hunt Pass, titled Overgrowth, is now live. Listening to the community, Phoenix Labs has decreased the number of Title rewards you can unlock while increasing the number of Transmog rewards. You’ll earn 500 platinum for completing all levels of the pass, with an additional Elite track costing 1,000 platinum. The new season also brings several aesthetic changes to Dauntless. The snow has completely melted and spring has begun, with moss and vines covering buildings and giant green leaves hanging from the trees and other tall vegetation. Season 3 adds a new weather effect too–rain–as well as new items to find and plenty of collectibles to unlock. Overgrowth will continue until April 16. Complete details about the new season can be found on Dauntless’ website.

Similar to Monster Hunter, Dauntless takes place in a fantasy setting where you hunt down massive creatures in order to collect loot and craft new weapons and gear. Hunts can be lengthy affairs, taking anywhere from a few minutes to nearly half an hour. Like Monster Hunter World, Dauntless can be tackled completely solo or in a team of up to four people.