Fortnite Festival Season 5 launches this weekend with a headliner who’s a pretty major pivot from Metallica: Colombian pop and reggaeton singer Karol G. As has been the custom for each season of Festival so far, Karol G will have two skins available to obtain–one in the Season 5 Festival Pass, and one in the item shop–along with a variety of instruments, jam tracks, emotes and other cosmetics. For good measure, Karol G will have her own Fortnite concert experience next weekend, and the new Festival season is bringing us some highly requested quality-of-life changes.Season 5, which runs until November 2, adds an all-new Festival Pass to the game. The pass costs 1800 V-Bucks, as it did in previous seasons, and includes both free and paid tracks. Buying the pass will immediately get you the…
Read moreHunt: Showdown just received its massive 1896 re-launch–one that overhauls Crytek’s supernatural extraction shooter and updates it for current-gen consoles–and it’s doing the numbers on Steam to prove it.Crytek’s shooter has always had a consistent player count of around 20,000-30,000 people on Steam over the last few years, slowly but surely cementing its place as one of the best extraction shooters available. The Hunt: Showdown 1896 launch has pushed the game’s concurrent Steam players to new heights, reaching over 55,000 players and counting at time of writing, according to SteamDB.
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Blizzard may have just inadvertently revealed a new feature coming in World of Warcraft’s new The War Within expansion: the ability for Dracthyr to be classes other than Evoker.In the most-recent episode of the WoWCast, Blizzard shared an image of the game’s new account-wide Warbands login screen, showing four characters around a campfire. One of the characters in question is a Dracthyr, the humanoid dragon race added as part of the Dragonflight expansion. The Dracthyr are currently only able to be one class, the Evoker, which channels the magical powers of the various dragonflights to deal damage and support allies.
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Note: This guide focuses on the Bedrock version of Minecraft, available on Windows 10, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and mobile.There aren’t many truly inhospitable biomes in Minecraft, but it’s easier to make a life in some than others. These temperate biomes are the easiest place to start whether you’re logging in for the first time or are a Minecraft veteran. Below, we detail everything you need to know about them.Table of Contents [hide]
- Plains
- Forests
- Swamps
Plains
The massive world of Warhammer 40,000 has seen a whole lot of adaptations into video games, covering genres from third- and first-person shooters to turn-based strategy. For the latter, Fanatical has the massive Build Your Own Battles: Warhammer 40,000 Battles bundle. It’s full of PC games and DLC, giving you plenty of opportunities to wage war with games you can snag for as little as $2.50 each. You can get the entire bundle of games and DLC packs, 18 in total, for $45. Build your Warhammer bundle The centerpieces of the bundle are Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War; Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach; Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon; and Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector. Each is a massive turn-based strategy gam…
Read moreLord of the Rings fans have to wait just two more weeks before the Season 2 premiere of Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. As we saw a few weeks ago at Comic-Con, the season is packed with Middle-earth goodness with Ents, the Balrog, and of course, the rings themselves.Prime Video released a new trailer Wednesday that shows what’s at stake when war comes to Middle-earth and the Rings of Power come into play. Check it out below. We have Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) coming to terms with his creations, as well as realizing he was also deceived by Sauron, under the disguise of Annatar. This trailer is more concentrated on the world at war showcasing some serious battles coming up with elves above and dwarves below, both taking on dark forces.There’s also a forging o…
Read moreThe next fighter for Warner Bros.’s platform fighter MultiVersus is scaring his way into the roster soon. WB and Player First Games dropped a new trailer focusing on Beetlejuice–the bodacious “bio-exorcist” from the 1989 film of the same name–who will join the playable roster next week.Beetlejuice is an Assassin-class character in MultiVersus, which focuses on dealing lots of damage while constantly moving around the arena. The trailer highlights multiple moves from Beetlejuice’s wacky repertoire, including his ability to shape-shift and an aerial attack where he summons a Sandworm through a magically materialized door. We also see a brief flash of “Beetlejuice! 1/3” after he scores a KO, which indicates a power revolving around saying his name three times–or the way he’s usually summon…
Read moreDoom Anthology $80 Preorder at Amazon Doom Anthology preorders are available now at Amazon for PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox. The $80 collection releases October 22 and comes with six games, a replica BFG collectible, and a steelbook case. Doom Anthology was briefly available to preorder for PC when it was revealed last week, but Amazon sold out in minutes. Today (August 14) is the first time con…
Read moreMinecraft features a wide variety of weapons that you can use to damage mobs and other enemies. However, one of the most effective weapons players choose to wield time and time again is the simple bow. The bow is a weapon designed for longer range encounters, but it can deal a ton of damage if used correctly. Before you can think about wielding the bow, though, you need to know how to craft it in Minecraft.
Making a Bow in Minecraft
A bow is one of the easier weapons to make in Minecraft, only requiring two materials. Unfortunately, one of those materials can be difficult to come by. You can see the full crafting recipe for the bow below:
- Take three Sticks to a crafting table and place them in the top middle box, middle left box, and bottom middle box.
- With the Sticks…
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Bleach has been better than ever since it returned to the anime airwaves, and ahead of the revival’s upcoming third season, preorders for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 2 are now live. Releasing on October 22, the second part of the resurrected series will be available in two formats, a standard Blu-ray release and a limited edition, both of which are available to preorder at Amazon. Part 1 released on Blu-ray earlier this year with a matching limited edition.Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Blu-rays at Amazon
- Part 2 – Limited Edition — $78 | Preorder
- Part 1 – Limited Edition — $51.74 ($
60) - Part 2 – Standard Edition — $38 (
$45) Preorder - Part 1 – Standard Edition — $27.49 ($
35)
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