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Get up off that couch and warm up those Fortnite fingers because there’s another batch of weekly challenges for you to complete. We’re now in Season 7, Week 4, and that means there’s new Battle Stars to be earned, and doing so will level up your Battle Pass and get you one step closer to unlocking all those cosmetic rewards.

As always, there’s two categories of challenges. The first is available to everyone, while the second is exclusive to those that have a paid Battle Pass. In the free section players will need to use an X-4 Stormwing plane in five different matches and launch fireworks three times for five Battle Stars apiece. The harder challenge in this group involves eliminating three opponents in Expedition Outposts, which will net you 10 Battle Stars.

For the paid tier, meanwhile, players are tasked with starting off a three-stage challenge by destroying 80 chairs. When you’ve done that, you’ll unlock the second stage, and completing that will reveal the third and final stage in turn. After that, they’ll need to get up-close and personal with enemies to deal 100 points of pickaxe damage for five Battle Stars.

For the remaining stars there’s another multi-stage challenge which begins by searching the letter ‘O’ west of Pleasant Park. That’s the first part of a total of five stages, so there’ll be more to do after that. The final challenge tasks players with taking out three enemies at either Happy Hamlet or Pleasant Park. Take a look below for the full list of challenges.

Free

• Use an X-4 Stormwing plane in different matches (5) — 5 Battle Stars
• Launch fireworks (3) — 5 Battle Star
• Eliminate opponents at Expedition Outposts (3) — 10 Battle Stars

Battle Pass

• Stage 1: Destroy chairs (80) — 2 Battle Stars
• Deal damage with a pickaxe to opponents (100) — 5 Battle Star
• Eliminate opponents at Happy Hamlet or Pleasant Park (3) — 10 Battle Stars
• Stage 1: Search the letter ‘O’ west of Pleasant Park (1) — 3 Battle Stars

If you haven’t been keeping an eye on Fortnite, you may have missed the 14 Days of Fortnite event that’s been happening. Every day until January 2, developer Epic Games will be updating the game with one challenge per day which, if completed, will unlock a new customization option. We’ve been updating our 14 Days of Fortnite event guide regularly and, based on what we’ve seen, the challenges are quite simple, so they’re a quick and easy way to score some cosmetics.

If doing these challenges has got put you in the mood to grind out some more, we’ve got a comprehensive Fortnite Season 7 challenge guide that’ll help you with all the trickiest challenges from previous weeks. If you’re planning to unlock everything in the season 7 Battle Pass, you’ll want to get it all done as early as possible, as the last week rush to finish everything can be brutal.

Christmas has come and gone, which means the big shopping frenzy has drawn to an end. Thankfully, you can still get some great deals on video games if you know where to look. This week’s sale at Best Buy finds discounts on a number of big games for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Let’s take a look at what kind of deals area available between now and December 30.

Fans of tiny retro consoles can get a killer deal on the PlayStation Classic this week. This plug-and-play system comes with two controllers and 20 games, and while it normally retails for $100, it’s on sale this week for just $60, bringing it more in line with the pricing of Nintendo’s Classic consoles. In other hardware news, if you buy any new Xbox One S or X, you’ll get a $50 e-gift card for free.

As for the games, some of the fall’s biggest titles are on sale for steep discounts this week. Fallout 76 is down to $40, as is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Both of those games are big enough to keep you playing well into 2019. Battlefield V is even cheaper this week at $30, and it’s scheduled to keep getting free updates for months to come.

No matter which console you have, you can save money on exclusives as well. Anyone with a PS4 can pick up Persona 5 for $30, and PSVR owners can grab the delightful platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission for $20. Xbox One owners can get Forza Horizon 4 for $35 or State of Decay 2 for $20. Switch owners can pick up Fire Emblem Warriors for $45 or Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle for $25. And no matter which system you have, you can get Starlink: Battle for Atlas Starter Pack–which comes with a toy ship, pilot, and weapons–for $35.

You’ll find more of our picks below, or you can view the full list of games on sale at Best Buy this week here.

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Earlier this month, a quickly-deleted tweet from Netflix suggested that the acclaimed sci-fi anthology show Black Mirror would be returning to screens before the end of 2018. It turns out that the tweet was accurate, and the one-off Black Mirror “event” titled Bandersnatch is set to hit the service tomorrow, December 28. A trailer has now been released.

The trailer confirms the rumors that Bandersnatch will be set in the 1980s, and will focus on the creation of a new video game. Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) plays a developer who is hired by a software company to work on a game based on a novel titled Bandersnatch, whose author “went cuckoo and cut his wife’s head off.” It looks like a typically weird, futuristic nightmare–check the trailer out above.

The episode also stars Will Poulter (Detroit), Alice Lowe (Prevenge), and Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing). There have been rumors that Bandersnatch will be an interactive “choose-your-own-adventure”-style episode, in which viewers can make certain choices to affect the direction of the story. While we are unlikely to know for sure until tomorrow, it would make sense given what we know of the plot.

Season 4 of Black Mirror hit Netflix in December 2017, and in March it was confirmed that the show will return for a full fifth season in 2019. For more on Black Mirror, check out GameSpot’s guide to the most WTF moments in Season 4.

If there’s one thing that’s been a hallmark of Vikings since the very beginning, it’s the deaths of major characters that viewers hold near and dear. Still, in the latest episode– titled “Hell”–a death came that was particularly surprising, even to the show’s creator Michael Hirst.

In a battle against King Harald Finehair (Peter Franzén) and his forces Bishop Heahmund (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) was killed, bringing his short story in the Vikings universe to a close. With his final breaths, as he was being pierced by arrows, he screamed out “Lagertha,” showing his ultimate allegiance to the former queen of Kattegat one last time.

It was only the end of Season 4 that saw the introduction of Heahmund, who became enamored with Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) in Season 5. So it comes as something of a shock that he was dispatched of so quickly. “It was a bit of a surprise for me,” Hirst told GameSpot. “These things sometimes, you have different possibilities in your head and then you think, not just about that character but how they fit into the pattern–the general pattern of where you want to take the other characters.”

And while Heahmund’s death will have a lasting impact, especially on Lagertha, his death also meant something to the tale being told about the bishop himself. In the episode, he saw visions of Hell that led him to believe his soul was doomed, after aligning with the pagans and falling in love with one. For Hirst, that’s what was so surprising. He didn’t realize that in writing Heahmund’s story the way he did, he was also crafting the most logical ending for a bishop and a warrior for Christ.

“Because he felt he was a great sinner and that he was bound for hell, itt was difficult for me then to think how I could regroup and where I could take it,” he admits.

In the end, though, Heahmund died in a way that was true to himself, regardless of where he may have ended up in the afterlife. “He’s not particularly, political and scheming he’s a warrior–a warrior for Christ,” Hirst said. “And so when all those things were added up, then it made sense, that he should die, spectacularly, and he should die recognizing that, although he was going to hell, he loved her. He loved her. To me, that was a beautiful thing that despite his real fear of going to hell he was willing to admit that he was in love and that was great.”

Still, Hirst admits it would have been nice to keep Heahmund around, should it have made sense in the story. “I thought Johnny was brilliant,” the writer said. “He’s absolutely wonderful, but it just seemed a kind of natural place to do that, poor guy.”

As is usually the case with Vikings, though, nobody is truly safe or eternal. Viking history is long and caked in the blood of the fallen. From Ragnar Lothbrok to Christian monk Athelstan. When the time comes, everyone in this world faces certain death and chances are it’s not going to be pretty.