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Another big update is coming very soon to Monster Hunter World. Capcom will release a new patch for both the PS4 and Xbox One versions tomorrow, April 18, which will introduce new gear, another Elder Dragon, and a new type of quest to the game.

The update is scheduled to roll out at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET (1 AM BST on April 19). Most notably, it introduces a new Elder Dragon to hunt: the gold-plated Kulve Taroth. “Cloaked in a heavy golden mantle, this dazzling threat is fast approaching and it’s up to you and your Hunting Squad to work together and repel it at all costs,” Capcom said in a post on the PlayStation Blog.

Arriving alongside Kulve Taroth is a new type of hunting quest: Sieges. These are limited-time hunts that all players in the Gathering Hub can participate in, meaning up to 16 hunters–divided into four teams of four–can work together to hunt the same Kulve Taroth and make progress toward the quest.

“The primary goal of this Siege is to repel Kulve Taroth, but its shimmering golden mantle happens to be a collection of shiny weapon relics it has gathered along its journey through the New World,” Capcom said. “We don’t have much information on when and where Kulve Taroth has amassed all these relics, so the nature and quality of these weapons (read: type and stats) are entirely up to fate.”

In addition to the weapon relics, players will be able to acquire new materials from the Elder Dragon and use them to craft new Kulve Taroth α and β armor sets, as well as a new set of Palico gear. Capcom is also introducing two new layered armor sets in the update.

The Kulve Taroth Siege kicks off alongside the patch on April 18 and takes place in a new area called the Caverns of El Dorado. It will only be available for a limited time, although Capcom says it will return again sometime in the future. You can take a look at some screenshots of Kulve Taroth and its new armor sets above.

With the fourth Community Day now behind us, Pokemon Go players can begin looking forward to next month’s event. Niantic has announced the first details for May’s Community Day, which is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 19, and will feature another very popular Pokemon from the Red and Blue versions.

As always, the event begins at different times depending on where you live and will run for three hours. In the US, it kicks off at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET and ends at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET; in Europe and Africa, the Community Day takes place from 10 AM – 1 PM UTC; and in the Asia-Pacific region, the event lasts from 12 PM – 3 PM JST.

During the event, any Lure Modules that are activated will last for three hours. In addition to that, players will receive triple the normal amount of Stardust for capturing Pokemon.

The featured Pokemon during May’s Community Day is another Kanto starter: the Fire-type Charmander. During the event, Charmander will spawn in much greater numbers than usual. Niantic hasn’t revealed what special move the Pokemon will be able to learn, though if the past few Community Days have been any indication, players will presumably need to evolve Charmander into Charizard before the event ends to learn the exclusive attack.

In the meantime, players only have a few more hours to take advantage of the ongoing Kanto Week event. That is scheduled to end on April 17 and grants players double the normal amount of Candy for capturing and transferring Pokemon. Kanto-native Pokemon such as the aforementioned Charmander are also appearing more frequently for the duration of the event.

The week may be not even half over, but we already have loads of sales and discounts on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC games to choose from. Here’s a roundup of some of the best deals from a variety of sources.

Best Buy’s weekly video game sale is particularly good this week. It has discounts on everything from Overwatch and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands to a foam replica of Kratos’s axe. As always, Gamers Club Unlocked members get extra savings on games from Best Buy.

The digital PC game retailer GOG keeps track of all items its customers place on their wishlists. This week, it’s putting that information to good use by dropping prices on some of the “most wishlisted” games, including The Witcher 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and more.

The new Razer Game Store is having a sale on Rockstar and 2K games. You can get GTA V for $24, which is a deeper discount than we’re used to seeing. Also on sale at GOG are games like Civilization VI and NBA 2K18.

The Humble Store has a number of excellent games on sale this week, including The Long Dark for $9 and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain for $5. Not bad at all.

The BioWare Store is temporarily shutting down, and the company is trying to liquidate its inventory with a massive closeout sale. That’s good news for fans of Dragon Age and Mass Effect. Tons of apparel, accessories, and collectibles are on sale for cheap.

Horror games are on sale on Xbox One. So if you’ve been meaning to scare the pants off yourself playing games like Outlast 2 ($10) or Layers of Fear ($6), head over to see the full list.

The PlayStation Store’s weekly promotion is the Double Discount sale. It has discounts on games like Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Star Wars Battlefront II. If you have a PS Plus membership, you get twice the discount on each of the games.

Oh, and Peggle is currently free for PC on Origin. Download it. Play it. Love it.

We can’t spend all of our free time gaming. If you want to expand your leisure activities to movies, you’re in luck: Best Buy is running special offers on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray movies. For instance, you can grab a Kubrick collection and the Lord of the Rings trilogy for $20.

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God of War now has the distinction of being the highest-rated PlayStation 4 exclusive, based on aggregate scores at GameSpot sister site Metacritic ahead of its release this Friday. It ties The Last of Us Remastered for an aggregate of 95, but God of War has a larger pool of scores–as of time of writing, 89 to TLU’s 69. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End rounds out the top three with an aggregate 93.

This result almost makes God of War the best-reviewed PlayStation 4 game overall, but that spot belongs to Grand Theft Auto V. It stands at a 97, where it’s unlikely to be shaken anytime soon.

God of War takes Kratos out of his usual Greek environment into the realm of Norse mythology, this time watching over his son, Atreus. In our God of War review, Peter Brown said it’s a “spectacular action game with epic set pieces, big-budget production values, and hard-hitting combat.” Our review roundup showed a definite consistent tone among critics, who almost universally agreed that a refocus on building character paid off in a big way for this half-sequel, half-reboot.

If you need a refresher course on Kratos’s bloody tour through the Greek pantheon, check out our history of the series. Alternatively, if you’re just waiting for the digital copy to unlock on your PS4, familiarize yourself with what time the game will be available.

Farva may seem like an unlikely character to become as iconic as he did, but nevertheless the Super Trooper played by Kevin Heffernan is just one of those comedy figures who you can’t help quoting endlessly. So it actually might not come as a surprise that the upcoming Super Troopers 2 almost became “the Farva show,” according to the members of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, who held a Q&A after a recent screening of the sequel.

“We had to actually pull ourselves back. We would have these writing sessions and it was like, ‘Oh my god, and then Farva would do this, oh my god, then Farva says this,’ and we realized we had this script that was like all about Farva,” said Super Troopers 2 director Jay Chandrasekhar, who also plays Arcot “Thorny” Ramathorn in the movies. “And he had become exponentially more obnoxious than in the first movie.”

“And insane–f***ing insane,” Heffernan interjected.

“To the point where we’re like, ‘Wait a minute, we’re going to have to write in that he has a brain tumor, because he’s so outlandish,'” Chandrasekhar continued. “And we finally had to take a step back and be like, ‘Wait a minute, OK, this can’t just be the Farva show.’ And we tried to trim it back.”

Super Troopers 2 sees the gang sent up to Canada to help transition a Canadian town into the US after the government discovers that the US’s northern border is actually farther north than was thought. Although the other troopers might have preferred to leave Farva behind, fans wouldn’t have been happy, and Heffernan’s character has a large role in the sequel, even if it’s definitely not “the Farva show.”

As the original Super Troopers grew into a cult hit, Farva became infamous for absurd lines like asking for a “liter of cola” at a fast food restaurant or calling a speeding motorist a “chicken f***er.” He basically has no self-awareness and limited social intelligence, and he always takes things too far, which makes for hilarity as well as relatability–many people know someone just like Farva, if usually not to the same cartoonish degree.

“I think it centers around Farva,” said Steve Lemme, who plays trooper MacIntyre “Mac” Womack, about returning to set for Super Troopers 2 after so long (the original came out in 2001). “The second you walk in, and he’s got the s****y mustache, the chewing gum, he shaved his head, and you’re just funneling all the obnoxious lines to him, it’s like mother’s milk. It feels really good.”

“If you watch the first Super Troopers, you’ll see that Farva is actually kind of normal. He’s just obnoxious,” Lemme continued. “If you go back and watch [Super Troopers 2] a second time, you’ll see that everything he says is totally insane. And the character arc we’re actually trying to do now is that in Super Troopers 3 he’s just f***ing bonkers.”

That last part seemed to be a joke, although the group did clarify that they have a story in mind for Super Troopers 3, should they get to make it.

Finally, Heffernan gave an example of a Farva gag that was just too over the top to include in the movie.

“There’s a point that just went on too long, but when [another character] is giving me mouth to mouth, I talked to him about how I died, and I went to Heaven, and I met Saint Wilson there, and Saint Wilson is the patron saint of chicken wings, and how he was the greatest saint because he told me that chicken wings are made out of chicken. There was this whole thing that went on where Farva’s just f***ing crazy,” he described, adding that we might see the scene in the movie’s special features after release.

Super Troopers 2 hits theaters this friday, April 20.