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Shortly after the release of Fortnite‘s 7.20 update earlier this week, players noticed that a mysterious icy sphere had appeared in the game above Polar Peak, leading to speculation that it would somehow tie into the impending Season 8. As it would turn out, the sphere actually housed the Ice King, who has now emerged and blanketed the entire island with an ice storm, kicking off a new event.

During an in-game sequence that unfolded on Saturday, the mysterious sphere burst open, revealing the Ice King, who conjured up a blizzard that rolled over the island. Along with the storm arrived Ice Fiends, zombie-like monsters reminiscent of those that appeared during the Fortnitemares event back in October. You can watch a replay of the entire event below.

The Ice Storm event also brings a new set of challenges to complete. Over the course of the next several days, Epic will be rolling out new objectives. Clearing each will reward you with XP, and finishing six will unlock a black and ice blue wrap. Players who manage to finish all 13 of the Ice Storm challenges will also get a special reward: the Winter’s Thorn Glider.

We’ll be rounding up the full list of Ice Storm challenges as they’re unveiled, so be sure to check back throughout the event. If you need help completing some of Fortnite’s other challenges, we also have tips on those in our full Fortnite Season 7 challenge guide.

While the mystery of the ice sphere has seemingly been solved, a few other unusual objects were recently spotted in the game. The iceberg that was once near Happy Hamlet has been destroyed, revealing a mysterious bunker underneath. Players have also discovered strange, giant eggs within prison cells beneath Polar Peak’s castle. What these signify is anyone’s guess, but we likely won’t have to wait too long to find out.

Epic Games has kicked off a new Fortnite world event that, along with changing the island where all the action takes places, introduces a new batch of challenges to complete. If you’ve been keeping a close eye on what’s been happening in Fortnite you’ll know that a mysterious orb appeared recently above Polar Peak. That orb has now opened, and from within it the Ice King has emerged.

His arrival has also buffeted the island with an Ice Storm, which has frozen it over. An icy mist has reduced visibility and, wouldn’t you know it, strange zombie-like creatures called Ice Fiends have appeared. This is the second event of this type, the previous being Fortnitemares. New changes and enemies to take on means there’s ample opportunity to throw in some fresh challenges for players, and that’s exactly what Epic has done.

Over the next five days, new challenges will unlock in Fortnite, each one offering 500 experience points for completion. Once six Ice Storm challenges are completed, players will received a cool black and ice blue wrap. For those that manage to complete all 13 challenges, there’s a Winter’s Thorn Glider as a reward. Check out the challenges available on day one below.

Fortnite Ice Storm Challenges

• Complete Ice Storm Challenges (6) — Wrap Reward
• Destroy Ice Fiends (250) — 500 XP
• Deal damage with explosive weapons to the Ice Legion (5000) — 500 XP

The mysterious orb that housed the Ice King appeared as part of Fortnite’s 7.20 update, which also brought back glider redeploy as an item you can collect and use. Additionally, it dropped a new gun into the mix: the Scoped Revolver.

The Ice Storm challenges should generally be fairly easy to complete, unlike their weekly counterparts, which take some legwork. We’re now in Season 7, Week 7 of Fortnite, and one challenge for the week involves finding and visiting Expedition Outposts. We’ve put together a guide that will speed the whole process up, so you can see all the Expedition Outpost locations here. For the other difficult challenges from previous weeks, you can use our full Fortnite Season 7 challenge guide for help with those.

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The exploits of Bravo Team are the subject of the 2002 prequel game, Resident Evil 0. Bravo headed out into the mountains by helicopter, only for a mechanical failure (the result of sabotage by Wesker) to force them to make an emergency landing. Trapped in the mountains, Bravo Team started its investigation anyway. Instead of heading to the Spencer mansion as Wesker had intended, however, the group discovered an abandoned military convoy, with documents inside suggesting the vehicle had been transporting Billy Coen, an accused murderer. With the soldiers escorting him now dead, Bravo started to suspect Coen might be the killer they were looking for.

While most of Bravo wound up at the Spencer mansion, rookie Bravo Team medic Rebecca Chambers, one of the player characters in Resident Evil 0, discovered a stopped train, the Ecliptic Express. Boarding it, she discovered that its passengers were all dead–and then started to come back to life as zombies, thanks to the T-Virus. Escaping the creatures, Rebecca discovered Coen hiding on the train. The pair decided to work together to survive whatever was happening.

Since the Spencer mansion facility was being destroyed, Wesker and Birkin had sent the train, filled with Umbrella researchers, to restart work at Marcus’s former facility, which hadn’t been in use since his death. But the Queen Leech, which was responsible for the other attacks and sabotage at Umbrella facilities in the area, attacked the train and killed everyone aboard. After the Ecliptic Express was stopped, Wesker and Birkin dispatched Umbrella soldiers to restart it, but they were attacked and killed by the Queen Leech too, sending the train careening toward the Umbrella facility. Rebecca and Billy managed to slow the train down, surviving the crash. The incident made it clear to Wesker and Birkin, finally, that Umbrella was being attacked–ostensibly by the dead James Marcus.

Rebecca and Billy eventually destroyed the Queen Leech and escaped, while Wesker and Birkin separately activated the facility’s self-destruct system and wiped out the T-Virus and the creatures there. Rebecca released Billy, whom she now believed was innocent, and maintained that he’d been killed. She went looking for the rest of Bravo Team; her search soon took her to the Spencer Mansion, where things got even worse.

Fitness Boxing is the Nintendo Switch’s first dedicated fitness game, and apart from a few issues, it seems like it’s a nice option to consider for a living room workout. GameSpot’s Jess McDonell spent around 10 days playing the $50 USD Switch exclusive, and in a new video feature, she explains what the game is all about and why you should care about it.

Games like Just Dance, Arms, and 1-2 Switch have elements of physicality, but Fitness Boxing goes further with its gamification of getting your body moving, sweating, and burning calories. A rhythm game, Fitness Boxing challenges you to perform a number of punches–jabs, uppercuts, and hooks among them–and move your body in time with the signals on screen. There is a soundtrack of Top 40 songs of tunes like Timber by Kesha and Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5, but they’re all instrumental instead of the actual versions, in case that matters to you.

One of the best features of Fitness Boxing is its customisable daily workouts. You can select areas you want to work on, such as biceps, chest, core, legs, calves, or full body, based on your fitness goals and how long you want each session to last. There are a wide variety options, and it’s nice to be able to tailor a workout session based on your specific interests and fitness goals. The experience isn’t without its issues, however, as the game’s motion controls can be finicky, which can prove frustrating. But overall, Fitness Boxing is a solid option for those looking to work out and play a video game at the same time. Boxer-gaming is what we’ll call it.

Fitness Boxing is available now for Nintendo Switch.