Gears POP! Gameplay Showcases Marcus Fenix, Cole Train, and Chainsaws

Gears POP! is now available on iOS, Android, and PC and merges together Gears of War and Funko Pop! in a multiplayer PvP battle arena-style game, and we have nearly ten minutes of gameplay for you to see the game in action for yourself.

Gears POP! is a free-to-play game that features over 30 characters from throughout the Gears of War universe with a Funko Pop! design, including Marcus Fenix, Augustus “Cole Train” Cole, General Raam, Kait Diaz, and many more.

New characters are unlocked from Gear Packs and allow players to mix and match their favorite COG and Locust units into one epic team.

Gears POP! players can also utilize Ultimate abilities like the Emergence Hole that “floods the battlefield with Wretches.”

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Legends of Tomorrow: Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford Exit in Season 5

The Legends of Tomorrow lineup will be changing again in Season 5. As reported by Deadline, both Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford will no longer be series regulars in Season 5.

Routh has been an Arrowverse mainstay for years, having made his debut as Ray Palmer in Arrow: Season 3 in 2014 before transitioning over to Legends of Tomorrow the following year. Ford joined the Legends cast as the adult version of Nora Darhk in Season 3, later becoming a series regular in Season 4.

According to Deadline, the decision was made to wrap up Ray and Nora’s shared storyline in Legends’ upcoming fifth season. It’s not clear when exactly in Season 5 the two actors will exit the show, but their final episode is said to be filmed in October.

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Disney+ Dates and Prices For an International Roll-Out in Have Been Revealed

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Riot Games Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Gender Discrimination

Riot Games has settled the class action lawsuit in principle for gender discrimination, according to a new statement from the Riot Walkout group.

“Settling this class action is a victory for women in games,” a representative from Riot Walkout said in a statement today. “We believe that the policy changes Riot agreed to make will continue the progress toward equality that we’ve made over the last year.”

An explosive investigation by Kotaku uncovered widespread discrimination and harassment at Riot Games. Following the report, a class action lawsuit was filed against the developer accusing it of gender-based discrimination and violating the California Equal Pay Act.

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Legion: Favorite Moments From The Entire Series

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Gears Pop Is Available For Free Right Now

Gears Pop! is available to download right now on Android, iOS, and Window 10 PC for free. You can now take Locust hunting on the go with this cutesy Gears of War spin-off.

The official Gears Twitter account shared the news, along with a brief announcement video of gameplay and squad assembly. In Gears Pop, you will build your team from an assortment of Pop Vinyl-styled Gears characters like Kait and Marcus, challenge players around the world, defend against the Horde in co-op, and more.

Gears Pop was announced at Microsoft’s E3 2018 presentation. The game is described as a “mobile Gears experience with an official Funko Pop twist” and comes just two weeks ahead of Gears 5, which is slated to launch on Windows 10 PC and Xbox One on September 10.

In other Gears news, developer The Coalition unveiled a new Gears 5 campaign trailer at Gamescom 2019. Game director Rod Fergusson stood next to show host Geoff Keighley during the Opening Night Live presentation, where Fergusson showcased the new trailer featuring NIN’s Head Like a Hole. Fergusson later stuck around to talk about the new ultimate abilities in Horde mode and more.

Nintendo Switch Deal: Two Incredible Games Are Dirt Cheap Right Now

A pair of critically acclaimed games from indie studio Supergiant are on sale for Nintendo Switch now. Both its freshman effort Bastion and its followup Transistor are less than five bucks apiece, letting you own both on the go for just $7 combined.

Bastion is $3 on the Eshop, while Transistor is $4. The studio’s third game, Pyre, is not on the Eshop, and its latest, Hades, is currently in early access on the Epic Games Store.

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Bastion was Supergiant’s debut in 2011 and featured a stylish world and art design with action-RPG mechanics. It received an 8.5 in GameSpot’s original Bastion review.

“The world of Bastion is brought to life with some truly exceptional hand-painted environments,” Maxwell McGee wrote. “Every stylish bit of scenery is filled with tiny touches that add to the game’s fairytale vibe. While the world may be filled with color, its muted tones help underscore a somber tale that grows darker and darker as you progress. It’s a wonderfully crafted adventure that presents a fun and focused challenge you can customize in all sorts of ways. Once you finish, a new game-plus feature opens up that lets you carry over all your weapons and experience from the previous game. Even though it may be the end of the world in Bastion, it’s still an amazingly good time.”

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Transistor followed in 2014, with a more strategy-focused combat system that had you pausing the action to plan your attacks and combining abilities to control the battlefield. One element that remained consistent, though, was Supergiant’s art style, which has remained throughout all of its games.

“There are a few astounding moments in Transistor… in these instances, it demonstrates a rare knack for combining its visuals and music to powerfully convey both narrative information and tone, driving the story forward with Red’s own unwavering resolve,” wrote Carolyn Petit in GameSpot’s Transistor review. “So in the end, yes, Transistor is a fun action role-playing game with a neat combat system, but beautiful moments like these make it more than that. They make it a game with a soul.”

Hearthstone Nerfing Powerful Cards Like Dr. Boom And Luna’s Pocket Galaxy

Hearthstone recently introduced its Saviors of Uldum expansion, and now that it’s been out in the wild and the meta has started to form, Blizzard is getting ready to rebalance some cards. This time the nerf stick is hitting some cards that have been recognized as problematic in the community for quite some time, including rolling back two of the cards it buffed in a June update. The balance update will go live next week.

The two biggest changes are coming to prominent Warrior and Mage cards. The Warrior Hero card Dr. Boom, Mad Genius and the Mage card Luna’s Pocket Galaxy have both been hot topics in the Hearthstone community since Uldum launched, and both are having their Mana cost increased. Dr. Boom will increase from 7 Mana to 9, which Blizzard says should make it more difficult to find a good time to play, and give opponents more time to make their own power-plays. Luna’s Pocket Galaxy, which was reduced to 5 Mana in June, is being reverted back to its 7 Mana state.

That isn’t the only Mage card to get a nerf, though. Conjurer’s Calling is having its Mana cost raised from 3 to 4, which Blizzard says will make it more difficult to play both of its Twinspell instances back-to-back. Similar to Luna’s, the Priest card Extra Arms will have its cost reverted to 3 Mana, reversing the buff it received. Finally, the years-old card Barnes is having his cost raised to 5 Mana to better balance Wild, where he’s still in play.

Notably, none of these balance updates are coming to cards that were actually introduced in the Saviors of Uldum expansion. These are all older cards that have proven to be consistently too powerful through more than one expansion, or alternatively, have now become problematic in conjunction with new cards from the Uldum set.

Saviors of Uldum is the second chapter in a planned year-long story event. Like the first chapter, Rise of Shadows, a single-player element is planned to launch roughly a month after the expansion itself.

Fortnite Week 4 Smash And Grab Challenges List (Season 10)

Week 4 of Fortnite Season X has arrived, and it brings Battle Pass holders another set of challenges to complete in the popular battle royale game. This week’s set of tasks is called Smash and Grab, and the loose theme running through each of the challenges is dishing out damage and grabbing loot quickly.

As usual, only three of the challenges are available from the outset, with additional ones unlocking as you complete them. Fortunately, all of this week’s missions seem rather straightforward; there are no tasks that set you off on a search for obscure landmarks, so you should be able to complete the entire batch with enough persistence.

This week’s challenges include searching a chest within 60 seconds after landing from the Battle Bus, landing at a Hot Spot in three different matches, and dealing damage within 30 seconds after using a Launch Pad. You can see the full list of Smash and Grab challenges below. If you need help with any of this season’s previous missions, be sure to check out our tips and guides in our full Fortnite Season X challenges roundup.

Week 4’s challenges arrive on the heels of Fortnite’s 10.10 content update, which introduced another new item to the game: the Junk Rift. When thrown, it creates a Rift in the sky that rains debris down on an opponent. The content update also added Glitched Consumables, which can change into different foraged consumables and even some previously vaulted items like Hop Rocks and Shadow Stones. You can read the full patch notes for the content update on Epic’s website.

Fortnite Season X Smash And Grab Challenges

Standard Challenges

  • Search a chest within 60 seconds after landing from the Battle Bus (3)
  • Land at a Hot Spot in different matches (3)
  • Deal damage within 30 seconds after using a Launch Pad (100)
  • Search two chests within 30 seconds of each other (3)
  • Pick up a Legendary item in different matches (3)
  • Search a Supply Drop within 10 of it landing (3)
  • Deal damage to opponents at Hot Spots (200)

Prestige Challenges

  • Search a chest and an Ammo Box within 30 seconds after landing from the Battle Bus (3)
  • Destroy Loot Carriers within 60 seconds after landing from the Battle Bus (3)
  • Eliminate an opponent within 30 seconds after using a Launch Pad (1)
  • Search three chests within 30 seconds of each other (3)
  • Pick up three Legendary items in a single match (3)
  • Collect 100 of each material within 60 seconds after landing from the Battle Bus (100)
  • Eliminate an opponent at a Hot Spot (3)

Marvel Reveals Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen From the Future

As Marvel Comics’ X-Men relaunch continues to unfold, a new iteration of Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen has been revealed in Powers of X #3 by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist R.B. Silva.

Warning: full spoilers for Powers of X #3!

The opening page of Powers of X #3 doesn’t jump into the action but rather displays one of those graphical charts Hickman is so fond of including in his comics. This one drops quite the big bombshell: 100 years in the future after the creation of the X-Men, the last four surviving mutants from Earth are the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. Obviously anytime there are four mutants paling around with Apocalypse, it should be a given they’re his personal squad of biblically-themed enforcers, but it came as a surprise this time around. The reason being, they don’t appear to be transformed and under his control — they seem to have joined him willingly in order to stand as one in an attempt to save mutantkind.

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