Fortnite Battle Royale season four is coming to a close, but season five is right around the corner, according to Epic Games. The Fortnite developer announced last week that season five of the game will begin on July 12 at 4 a.m. While season five is upon us, we still don’t know much about what changes the new season might bring. For now, the rifts on the map continue to get bigger and bigger with each passing day. Just like previous seasons of Fortnite, season five will start with server mainte

In Bungie’s weekly update last week, investment designer Matt McConnell revealed some of the details some of how Collections will actually work. Since Destiny 2: Warmind launched on May 9, everything players have earned in Destiny 2 has been tracked and added to their background collection. If the shader came from Eververse, it will dismantle into Bright Dust, and therefore costs Bright Dust to reacquire. If a shader dismantles into Glimmer, buying it again will cost Glimmer; if it dismantles in

Destiny 2’s first Faction Rally event went live shortly after the game’s launch last September. Since then, there have been a number of Faction Rallies in which players have pledged their loyalty to New Monarchy, Dead Orbit or Future War Cult. But for almost an entire year, Future War Cult has been without a single victory — until now, thanks to the Destiny subreddit. Since Future War Cult won this week’s Faction Rally, the gruop is getting its first-ever victory weapon. Players who pledged to F

Destiny has also built a reputation by using language and making jokes that his audience finds funny, despite their offensive nature. Even if Destiny meant it as a joke, the statement violates Twitch’s community guidelines regarding hateful content and inciting violence. Any hateful conduct is considered a zero-tolerance violation and all accounts associated with such conduct will be indefinitely suspended. Twitch’s community guidelines do address situations like this, adding that severity and i

One day, you’re a fairly normal Fortnite player. The next, you hold the record for the most kills in a solo game of Fortnite after wiping out 48 players. Here’s what happened: The game’s client said that a special event would take place on Saturday, June 30, at 1:30 p.m. EST. Except for the one player who destroyed the structure upon which 48 players were watching the event, causing them all to die. My favorite part has been watching people argue about whether seeing 48 players knocked out at on

News on the Black Widow film has been quiet since January, when screenwriter Jac Schaeffer signed onto the awaited project. Fans have been asking for a Black Widow movie ever since the character’s debut in Iron Man 2, and particularly since her starring roles in the Avengers films. Since then, a Black Widow movie has only persisted in rumor. Though Black Widow has played a prominent part in six of the MCU films, Marvel has not fully green-lit a solo film for her. As of now, the only reported sol

You’d think that this latest content update would address that situation in even some small way, but at least we have a new machine gun? “The Drum Gun is a hybrid weapon that combines the stopping power of a rifle with the suppressive ability and fire rate of an SMG,” the Fortnite team explains in the patch notes. Who doesn’t want to use a Tommy Gun Drum Gun when hunting down the other team? And that’s it for the content update, really. You can read about the rest of the content update notes in

And according to an interview with Eurogamer, people shouldn’t expect to be able to play the game anytime soon. The site pressed him on the game’s tech, and during the interview, Howard let slip that the game won’t be out for a good long while. “What systems we put it out on — what’s the hardware requirements — is still to be determined,” said Howard, game director at Starfield developer Bethesda Game Studios. “We’re pushing it; we’re thinking very, very far in future, so we’re building somethin

Not only does the updated Minecraft for Nintendo Switch allow for cross-platform play with Xbox One, an unprecedented partnership that transcends first-party lines, but Nintendo is also now paying even larger tribute to the Microsoft-owned franchise. A trio of New Nintendo 2DS XL systems are heading to Japan this summer, and the star of the show is the Minecraft Creeper Edition. While the Nintendo 3DS version of Minecraft doesn’t have the same Xbox connectivity afforded by the Switch release, th

Shenmue 1 & 2, a bundle containing modern ports of the first two Shenmue games, will be released Aug. 21 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Sega previously announced that it is also releasing physical copies of Shenmue 1 & 2 on PS4 and Xbox One. Shenmue 1 & 2 is part of an impressive lineup of PC ports on the way from Sega. Yakuza 0 will arrive on PC just a few weeks before Shenmue 1 & 2, on Aug. 1. The original Shenmue debuted in 1999 on the Dreamcast, and Sega followed it up with a seq

Fortnite’s new creativity-focused Playground Mode has returned to the game, days after developer Epic Games was forced to take it offline due to technical difficulties. The Playground Limited Time Mode debuted as in Wednesday’s patch v4.5, but just a few hours after its release, Epic took it down. Playground is far and away the most anticipated Limited Time Mode in Fortnite’s history, which made its all-too-brief appearance after patch v4.5 even more disappointing for fans. The first signs that

Generation Zero is just one of several new titles announced by Avalanche Studios, makers of the Just Cause series and 2015’s Mad Max, announced prior to E3. That same stealth system was applied to 2015’s The Hunter: Primal, which asked players to hunt herbivores and massive, deadly carnivores. In Generation Zero, he said, those stealth mechanics are being applied to a high-stakes guerilla-style engagement between up to four players and a mysterious breed of killer robot. Some of them can have he

Mutant Football League, which launched in January on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is coming to Nintendo Switch as well on Sept. 18 with a retail “Dynasty Edition” relaunch featuring new teams and new content. Werewolves and demons will join the species slugging it out on Mutant Football League’s bloodspattered gridiron, along with two more teams added to the base roster of 18 squads. Mutant Football League is the spiritual successor to the Mutant League Football hit for Sega Genesis 1993 years ag

In the show’s 14th episode, “Lars and the Cool Kids” we learn that Lars may suffer from a compulsive desire to fit in. The episode opens with him standing against the wall of Fish Stew Pizza, waiting for a chance to befriend the Cool Kids. When the group does hang out with him and Steven, Lars spends the entire time worrying about the opportunity, ultimately self-sabotaging his dreams of connecting with Beach City’s coolest teens. Though Steven revives Lars, the former doughnut server carries on

Such is the reality of pop culture in the year 2018. — a different pop culture figure or brand. Who said that getting your new favorite pop culture breakfast cereal would be easy? The “generic” Freddy Funko FunkO’s will be available through Funko directly. Funko has an entire arsenal of pop culture figures at its disposal, and damn if the company isn’t going to put them to good use with a sugary breakfast cereal.

Does watching hours of World Cup football every day leave you feeling hungry for more? Or is this World Cup your entry point into the sport, and now you want to learn how it works? This PC soccer game has taken over the part of my life that isn’t already consumed by the World Cup. When I first came across this turn-based football game, I thought it sounded goofy. The time will come, all too soon, when the World Cup will be over and the Premiership will seem months away.

Investigating it will summon a trio of Batwing Demons that will carry you to the city of Anor Londo. There isn’t much crafting material to find in Anor Londo, but what you’ll find is rare — Demon Titanite and Twinkling Titanite. After you’ve visited the Catacombs and found the Darkmoon Seance Ring, you’ll be able to return to Anor Londo and meet Gwynevere’s brother, Gwyndolin. From Anor Londo, you can continue on to the Duke’s Archives or visit the optional area, the Painted World of Ariamis. To

Those people are the winners of Nathan’s Fourth of July Got Dog Eating Contest, an annual competition that’s become a nationwide phenomenon. Fun Historian Chris Plante is no competitor, but he’s studied this extreme show of digestive fortitude extensively. Here is the full thread of responses:I’m talking about the history of Nathan’s hot dog eating contest for an upcoming episode of @TheHistoryOfFun. — Chris Plante (@plante) June 20, 2018Enjoying The History of Fun? Every Monday, Russ Frushtick,

While there are a few deals on consoles and hardware, the most exciting part of this sale is definitely the discounted games. GameStop is offering up to 50 percent off “the biggest games,” according to its flyer announcing the sale. While that designation is debatable — the decision to include Star Wars: Battlefront 2 in the promotional images isn’t doing them any favors — there are indeed some great discounts on some great games here. For a full list of the deals available at GameStop’s summer

It seems like everyone in the video game industry has been beating up Sony over the company’s unwillingness to bend on cross-platform play. And now Bethesda has joined the ranks of major gaming developers who have called out Sony for keeping people from playing together. As we’ve said before, the cross-platform play itself isn’t the reason that Sony is loathe to open up its platform; the question is one of user accounts. Or maybe Bethesda had never planned to offer cross-platform play, and Sony’