Month: July 2018

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Live-Action Mulan Casts Another Villain

The live-action remake of Mulan has found a new villain. Jason Scott Lee has reportedly been tapped to play Bori Khan, a warrior on a quest of vengeance for his father’s death, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Lee has a long history with Disney movies. He played Mowgli in the 1994 live-action The Jungle Book, Aladdin in the Arabian Nights TV series, and David in Lilo & Stitch and its sequel. More recently he has played a regular part on Hawaii Five-O.

The story behind Bori Khan implies that villains will have a bit more motivation this time around. In the original animated Mulan from 1998, the Hun leader Shan Yu led a villainous army intent on overthrowing the Chinese emperor, but they weren’t given much on-camera motivation. This squares with other reports that this adaptation will have Gong Li playing a powerful witch as the primary villain, bringing a more supernatural element to the antagonist’s side.

Mulan tells the story of a girl who disguises herself as a male soldier to join the army and protect her father, and saves China in the process. The title character will be played by Chinese actress Liu Yifei, and Jet Lee will play the emperor. It’s set to release on March 27, 2020.

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Fortnite Challenge Guide: Follow Treasure Map In Flush Factory (Season 5, Week 3)

Fortnite: Battle Royale Season 5 is now entering its third week, which means developer Epic Games has introduced another new set of challenges for players to complete on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile. As with previous weeks in Season 5, the challenges are split into two categories, with some being available to everyone while others are exclusive to Battle Pass owners.

On the free side, this week’s challenges involve dealing 500 damage to opponents in a single match, using a launch pad, and following the treasure map found in Flush Factory. While the first two shouldn’t give you much trouble, the third of the bunch will require a little bit of legwork. Flush Factory can be found in the southern part of the island and it’s there that you’ll find the treasure map.

However, you aren’t actually required to get the map first. Instead you can skip this bit and go to quadrant F8 of the map, where you’ll find a house on a hilltop. If you’re looking at the house head-on, the Star you need to collect will be on the right of the path leading up to the house. Although gliding onto the spot from the Battle Bus is the easiest way to get to it, you can also build your way up. Take a look below to see the location on the map or watch the video above to see us do it.

For those with a Battle Pass, you’ll need to search seven chests in Fatal Fields, shoot a Clay Pigeon at five different locations, eliminate five enemies in Haunted Hills, and then get three eliminations using an explosive weapon. You’ll also get 5K worth of XP for doing completing all of these challenges. If you need help hunting them down, check out our Clay Pigeons location guide. You can also find all of Fortnite Season 5, Week 3’s challenges, along with their rewards, below.

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Fortnite Season 5, Week 3 Challenges

Free

  • Deal damage to opponents in a single match (500) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Use a launch pad (1) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Follow the treasure map found in Flush Factory (1) — 10 Battle Stars

Battle Pass

  • Search chests in Fatal Fields (7) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Shoot a Clay Pigeon at different locations (5) — 5 Battle Stars
  • Eliminate opponents in Haunted Hills (5) — 10 Battle Stars
  • Explosive weapon eliminations — 10 Battle Stars

In related news, Fortnite’s SMG and Compact SMG have been nerfed, following feedback from the community. Epic Games has tweaked a number of attributes for both guns, including damage, range, fire rate, and accuracy. This, the developer says, brings it more in line with how it wants the guns to perform in-game.

Fortnite is also celebrating its 1st birthday with a set of challenges that will unlock a birthday-themed emote, spray, and bling. The first two challenges are relatively easy, requiring you to do a specified amount of damage and play a certain amount of matches. However, the third challenge is a little trickier. For this you’ll need to find 10 cakes that have been scattered around the island and dance in front of them. To make things a little easier on yourself, check out our Fortnite Birthday Cake Location Guide to watch us do the entire challenge and also see a map of where all the cakes are.

Epic Games is also giving new Fortnite skins to those that have been playing the game from the very beginning. If you purchased the Founder’s Pack when Fortnite’s Save the World mode originally launched, you’ll be prompted about the classic skins when you next boot up the game. These were promised to Founder’s Pack owners when the Battle Royale mode first launched, and have finally been delivered around a year later.

Fortnite Season 5 Coverage

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Black Friday In July Sale Is Live Early For My Best Buy Members In The US

July is turning out to be an incredible month for video game deals. First we got Amazon Prime Day. Then came the (still ongoing) Xbox Ultimate Game Sale. And now the retail giant Best Buy has announced a major sale: Black Friday in July. The event officially begins July 27, but My Best Buy members can get early access to it right now–and you can join the My Best Buy program here for free. Supplies are limited during the sale, so your best chance of getting great deals is to check it out sooner rather than later.

The sale has discounted items in nearly all categories of products Best Buy sells. Tons of video games are on sale, including newer titles that haven’t gotten many discounts yet, like the PS4 exclusives God of War and Detroit: Become Human, both of which are marked down to $50.

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Other heavy-hitters include Assassin’s Creed Origins and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege on sale for $30, and the digital version of Far Cry 5 discounted to $40. Nintendo Switch owners can grab Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection or Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle for $30 each.

Xbox One owners have a nice selection of discounted exclusives as well, like Sea of Thieves ($45), Halo 5: Guardians ($15), and Halo: The Master Chief Collection and State of Decay 2 (both $20).

On the hardware side of things, PC gamers can save $110 on a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card, bringing it down to $450. A number of other laptops and desktops are on sale as well, including gaming rigs.

You can find more of our picks below, or check out the full list of video game deals here.

  • Assassin’s Creed Origins — $30 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered — $30 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • Call of Duty: WWII — $40 — PS4 | Xbox One | PC
  • Cuphead (digital) — $15 — Xbox One
  • Detroit: Become Human — $50 — PS4
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ — $50 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • Far Cry 5 (digital) — $40 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition — $40 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • God of War — $50 — PS4
  • Halo 5: Guardians — $15 — Xbox One
  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection — $20 — Xbox One
  • Just Dance 2018 — $30 — PS4 | Xbox One | Switch
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance — $40 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle — $30 — Switch
  • Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 + 2 — $30 — Switch
  • Monster Hunter World — $40 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • MLB: The Show 18 — $30 — PS4
  • Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom — $30 — PS4
  • PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds — $20 — Xbox One
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider — $15 — Xbox One
  • Sea of Thieves — $45 — Xbox One
  • South Park: The Fractured But Whole — $20 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • South Park: The Fractured But Whole — $40 — Switch
  • Star Wars Battlefront 2 (digital) — $25 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • State of Decay 2 — $20 — Xbox One
  • Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection — $30 — PS4 | Xbox One | Switch
  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands — $20 — PS4 | Xbox One
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Advanced Edition — $30 — PS4 | Xbox One
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Fortnite Challenge Guide: Clay Pigeons Locations (Season 5, Week 3)

Epic Games has rolled out Fortnite’s Season 5, Week 3 challenges, which means there’s lots of new rewards to work towards unlocking. We’ve already got a guide for following the treasure map in Flush Factory, which is the harder of the bunch. If you’re a Battle Pass owner, however, there’s also a challenge that requires you to shoot a clay pigeon at five different locations, which can be tricky if you don’t know where to look. Luckily, we’ve spent some time hunting them down and put together a guide that’ll have you sniping those suckers out of the air in no time.

Thankfully, there’s a whole bunch of Clay Pigeon shooters scattered around the map for you to find, and you only need a total of five, so the odds are heavily in your favor. On our brief trek across the island we managed to find a six, and you can take a look at the locations below.

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Fortnite Clay Pigeon Locations

  • West of Pleasant Park (Quadrant B4)
  • North east corner of Loot Lake (Quadrant E4)
  • North west of Tomato Town (Quadrant G3)
  • Between Lonely Lodge and Wailing Woods (Quadrant J4)
  • Between Shifty Shafts and Flush Factory (Quadrant D8)
  • South of Paradise Palms (Quadrant I9)

Once you’ve done that, it’s smooth sailing as the rest of the challenges are pretty simple. You can read a full breakdown of Fortnite Season 5, Week 3’s challenges here and see all the rewards for each one.

In related news, Fortnite’s SMG and Compact SMG have seen nerfs, as developer Epic Games thought they weren’t working quite as intended (read: they were too powerful). After receiving feedback from the community, the studio has tweaked both guns, changing their range, damage output, fire rate, and accuracy.

Fortnite Season 5 Coverage