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Blizzard is holding a Diablo-themed contest, with some real-life loot at stake. The Legendary Scavenger Hunt will send you searching for items across the Internet and even some in real life, each of which will reward you with entries in a random drawing for various Diablo prizes.

The announcement promises that clues will be doled out regularly through the Diablo Twitter page. Deciphering those clues will lead you to an online or real-life destination, where you’ll find an item or QR code. Clicking or scanning those will lead you to your Collections page, which will compile all the treasures you’ve found. Each item will give you entries into the prize drawing, with rarer items like Legendaries being worth more entries.

Prizes include the Diablo 3 Eternal Collection Nintendo Switch Bundle, digital copies of Diablo 3 for Switch, and other goodies. Some of the prizes will even be real-life prop versions of the items featured in the scavenger hunt, created by Volpin Props. Full contest rules are available here.

The hunt has already begun with a handful of clues being distributed via Twitter. You can dive into the replies where some users are helpfully solving them for less perceptive treasure-hunters, or abstain and try to solve the riddles yourself.

Blizzard appeared to have something up its sleeve at BlizzCon regarding the Diablo series, given the conspicuous presence of a panel on the main stage. It also recently updated its storefront with gear bearing the title “Diablo Reign of Terror,” but Blizzard denied that was any kind of leak. Most recently the studio tempered expectations for a big Diablo announcement at all, saying that it will present some Diablo-related news, but not the big announcements fans might be expecting. The show begins on November 2, so we’ll know just what it has in store then.

Ubisoft has issued a new patch for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The 1.0.5 patch weighs in at 0.16 GB on PS4 and 0.1 GB on Xbox One, and focuses on squashing bugs–including fixing one issue that only appeared after a previous patch.

According to the patch notes, it improves stability and fixes an issue that would make the game crash to the dashboard after the release of update v1.0.3. That update itself was aimed at quality-of-life improvements and fixing game-breaking bugs. The two updates were only days apart, though, so Ubisoft is seeing to these issues quickly.

This week Ubisoft cancelled its first planned live event, explaining that a missing mercenary had gone AWOL. The studio still has big plans for live content and expansions, though, promising the “biggest and most ambitious” post-launch support in franchise history. That will include one story, The Lost Tales of Greece, for free to all players, along with paid episodic installments Legacy of the First Blade and The Fate of Atlantis. The studio has already said it doesn’t plan to release another Assassin’s Creed next year, instead leaning on its post-launch content plans.

If you’re just beginning your journey into Ancient Greece, check out some tips for beginners to get started on the right foot. If you’ve reached far enough in Odyssey, on the other hand, you can start taking on mythological beasts. Of course to do that, you might want to get your hands on some Legendary armor sets.

Update focus:

• Improving game’s stability
• Fixed an issue that led to crashes to dashboard on PS4 and Xbox One after 1.0.3

You can get to the battle royale a little faster in Fortnite, thanks to a buff of sorts to the Battle Bus. Epic has rolled out an update that makes it move 25% faster while flying, so you can start jumping out and heading for the fray that much quicker.

Epic didn’t give a specific reason for letting the Battle Bus driver hit the gas. Presumably as the audience has grown more accustomed to dropping onto the battlefield, Epic feels it can speed up the process slightly. A 25% increase is substantial enough to be felt, but not so fast that it will be too disorienting. Maybe it can be attributed to people thanking the bus driver.

In a follow-up tweet, Epic noted that demand for the Alpha Tournament was high, and made a cheeky joke about running out of Battle Buses. It then wrote that a small patch was being deployed to help tournament crashes and Android issues.

The Alpha Tournament is the official kickoff of the new in-game tournament feature introduced in the 6.10 patch. A separate tournament called Friday Night Fortnite will be held every Friday night through the end of November. Tournaments are in a testing phase right now and the pins you can earn are mostly for bragging rights. Epic has said that in the future those pins may serve as your entry fee for higher-tier tourneys.

If you need a leg up on earning your challenge rewards once you’ve touched ground, check out our ongoing challenge guide for the latest.