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Fortnite Season 8 Adds Volcano, Pirate Cannonball, and Party Assist Challenges
Season 8 brings another big shakeup in the world of Fortnite with new volcanic and jungle locations, a cannonball weapon, and the ability to allow friends to help complete your challenges.
A volcano has emerged from depths of the map, creating a jungle and lagoon in the surrounding areas. In exchange for saying goodbye to Wailing Woods, Lazy Links, and Tomato Temple, three new locations have appeared on the map. Volcanic Vents, Lazy Lagoon, and Sunny Steps can all be found in the northeastern portion of the map.
A new Pirate Cannonball can be found in different places on the map. Players can position the cannon, aim, and fire a ball to deal 100 damage on a direct hit and 50 damage for anything caught in the radius. You can even throw yourself into the cannon to launch yourself wherever you'd like to go.
Suicide Squad 2: Will Smith’s Deadshot Won’t Return For Sequel
According to sources, Will Smith will not be returning as Deadshot in Suicide Squad 2.
As reported by Variety, even though it appears Margot Robbie will return as Harley Quinn, Smith will be bowing out of the sequel to 2016's Suicide Squad due to scheduling issues, although the "decision was made on amicable terms between both sides with no hard feelings."
These same sources have said that the studio had wanted Smith and Robbie to return and have the rest of the cast be new faces.
IGN Can’t Draw: Our Imaginary Pokemon Sword and Shield Starter Evolutions
Since this morning's reveal of the three new starters in Pokemon Sword and Shield - the grass chimp Grookey, the fire rabbit Scorbunny and the water lizard Sobble - there's been a lot of discussion around what their evolutions might look like.
After all, Pokemon always start out cute and cuddly but can end up as imposing, muscle-studded beasts. We at IGN decided it would be a fun experiment to draw what we think Grookey, Scorbunny and Sobble's evolutions might look like, but the catch is...not a lot of us can draw.
Please enjoy IGN Can't Draw: Our Imaginary Pokemon Sword and Shield Starter Evolutions Edition.
What You Need to Know About Umbrella Academy’s Commission
This article contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy Season 1.
For more on Umbrella Academy, check out our feature on What Happened to Ben, or catch up on our Umbrella Academy Powers Explained piece!
Time travel plays a huge role in the first season of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy. We see Number 5’s time-traveling misadventures, meet two assassins (Hazel and Cha-Cha), and their boss (The Handler), and get a sneak peek at their place of work: The Commission. But the organization and its operatives leave plenty of unanswered questions at the end of Season 1, including whether we'll see Hazel and Cha-Cha in Season 2. Here's everything we know about The Commission, and the role it could play if the show gets a second season.
FedEx Building Delivery Robots
FedEx announced it will begin testing an autonomous, six-wheeled delivery robot called the SameDay Bot this summer.
Revealed by FedEx, the SameDay Bot features four primary wheels and two extra front-facing wheels designed to navigate over various kinds of terrain including streets, sidewalks, sand, puddles, steep slopes and steps. Its cargo can be configured for single or multiple deliveries, and secures its contents so a recipient only has access to their own delivery. It also allows for the transportation of hot and cold items, like food deliveries or groceries.
The SameDay Bot. Credit: FedEx.
Detective Pikachu: Every Pokemon in the New Movie
At this point, there are over 800 species of Pokemon in this wildly popular video game franchise. And with another pair of sequels hitting the Nintendo Switch later this year, expect that number to grow. But Pokemon fans are also looking forward to the release of Detective Pikachu, the very first live-action Pokemon movie. The trailers released so far have been absolutely crammed with Pokemon both large and small, so to help you make sense of this sensory onslaught, we've got a breakdown of every Pokemon we know will be appearing in the movie (so far).
Check out every Pokemon from Detective Pikachu below!
Game of Thrones: George RR Martin Turned Down Season 8 Cameo
George R.R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series that HBO's Game of Thrones is based off of, turned down the chance to make a cameo in the show’s final season.
In an interview with EW, Martin revealed that series showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss invited him to travel to Belfast, Northern Ireland to make an appearance in one of the show’s final episodes, but he turned it down, reportedly citing a desire to focus on writing The Winds of Winter.
“David and Dan invited me to a cameo in one of the final episodes, which I was tempted to do,” said Martin. “But I didn’t think just for the sake of a cameo I could take the time to return to Belfast.”
How Can Anthem Survive Post-Launch?
BEYOND!
On this week's episode of IGN's PlayStation show Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush discusses the launch of Anthem with Brian Altano, Max Scoville, and Andrew Goldfarb. The panel takes a look at the ups and downs of the launch of BioWare's latest, and dive into what we'd like to see to give Anthem longevity moving forward, and to keep us coming back beyond its launch.
But beyond that, we also say goodbye to Andrew Goldfarb, after he's announced he's leaving IGN this week. Andrew's been with the show since episode 221, and will have more to say about his future soon.
Timecodes:
- 0:00 - Andrew's goodbye
- 19:10 - Anthem
NBC Renews Brooklyn Nine-Nine for Season 7
NBC has announced that Brooklyn Nine-Nine will be renewed for a seventh season, reported by Variety.
This will mark the show's second season on NBC, as it was cancelled on its original network, Fox, just last year. There were talks of it heading to Hulu at one point, but the streaming company ended up passing.