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Fortnite Legacy Controls have been a hot-button topic among the competitive battle royale community since the launch of Chapter 2 last year, as some say it offers a distinct advantage to players using a controller over those using a keyboard and mouse. Epic has decided to step in and starting next week, Legacy Controls, which offer aim assist to players using a controller, will be removed from the game completely.

Epic announced on Twitter and the in-game news feed that it will officially remove its aim assisting Legacy Controls on March 13. Players who are still using Legacy Controls at the cutoff date will have all of their sensitivities reset to the new default settings.

With the improvements we’ve made to Aim Assist, we plan to remove the “Use Legacy Look Controls” setting on March 13.

To use the new settings and maintain your legacy sensitivities, select “Copy from Legacy” in the Controller Options and toggle off “Use Legacy Look Controls.” pic.twitter.com/Latu1j0KNc

— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) March 6, 2020

To avoid having your settings wiped, Epic has added a “Copy from Legacy” option which will allow players to save their current sensitivities once Legacy Controls are turned off for good. To do this, simply head into the in-game setting menu and navigate to the “Controller Options” tab.

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Last year, a “hack” was discovered that allowed controller players to use the Legacy Controls to track players through walls, smoke, and tall grass. Since then, the PC community has been constantly asking Epic to nerf the aim assist controls and level the playing field.

With the successful launch of Chapter 2: Season 2, it seems Epic is finally ready to listen.

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While you’re waiting for the change to go into effect, be sure to check out our Brutus’ Briefing and TNTina’s Trial challenge guides to earn some extra XP for the Season 2 Battle Pass.

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Andrew Smith is a freelance contributor with IGN. Follow him on Twitter @_andrewtsmith.

(Presented by The Division 2) It’s time to return to New York, agents. Here’s everything you need to know about the newest expansion to The Division 2.

Let the hype commence! Bungie revealed more information on Destiny 2’s upcoming season alongside an electric gameplay trailer. Here’s everything you need to know about the story so far, and what you can look forward to.

The city of Austin, Texas has canceled SXSW (south by southwest) the annual music and arts festival that in recent years has featured more video game and entertainment content.

The organizers of SXSW announced the news in a blog saying that this is the first time in 34 years of the event that it has been canceled. The organizers of SXSW are clearly stating that the decision was from the city of Austin and not the organizers themselves.

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“As recently as Wendesday, Austin Public Health stated that ‘there’s no evidence that closing SXSW or any other gatherings will make the community safer,’ However, this situation evolved rapidly, and we honor and respect the City of Austin’s decision.”

SXSW is the latest event to cancel or postpone over coronavirus concerns. Check out a full list of events impacted, postponed, or canceled due to coronavirus concerns.

Read SXSW’s full statement below:

The City of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW and SXSW EDU. SXSW will faithfully follow the City’s directions.

We are devastated to share this news with you. “The show must go on” is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place. We are now working through the ramifications of this unprecedented situation.

As recently as Wednesday, Austin Public Health stated that “there’s no evidence that closing SXSW or any other gatherings will make the community safer.” However, this situation evolved rapidly, and we honor and respect the City of Austin’s decision. We are committed to do our part to help protect our staff, attendees, and fellow Austinites.

We are exploring options to reschedule the event and are working to provide a virtual SXSW online experience as soon as possible for 2020 participants, starting with SXSW EDU. For our registrants, clients, and participants we will be in touch as soon as possible and will publish an FAQ.

We understand the gravity of the situation for all the creatives who utilize SXSW to accelerate their careers; for the global businesses; and for Austin and the hundreds of small businesses – venues, theatres, vendors, production companies, service industry staff, and other partners that rely so heavily on the increased business that SXSW attracts.

We will continue to work hard to bring you the unique events you love. Though it’s true that our March 2020 event will no longer take place in the way that we intended, we continue to strive toward our purpose – helping creative people achieve their goals.

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Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.

Photo by Aaron Rogosin for SXSW.

Netflix’s new show is full of Easter eggs and references.

I’m Not Okay With This is a deeply nostalgic show, and despite being set in the present the show’s teen stars seem to love all things ’80s. There are plenty of references, Easter eggs, and nods towards other films and ’80s icons in the series, as well as a nod or two to End of the F***ing World, which, like I’m Not Okay With This, is a Netflix adaptation of a Charles Forsman graphic novel by director Jonathan Entwistle.

The show follows Sydney Novak, an awkward teenage girl who recently lost her father. Alongside all the other usual teen dramas–pimples, awkward romantic feelings, troubles at school–Sydney has the added burden of a budding psychic power that manifests when she’s angry.

In GameSpot’s review of Season 1, we praised the show as another successful Netflix Original. “This is a show full of charming performances, fun ’80s nostalgia, and a plot that leaves enough dangling to get us excited for more episodes.”

Here are some of the references we’ve spotted in the series so far.

1. Stand By Me

It’s not just the fact that one episode of the show is called Stan By Me–the clearest visual homage to Stand By Me is the train tracks that Sydney walks down throughout the movie. The bridge that runs through Brownsville is often in the shot as Sydney walks alongside the tracks, and it’s hard not to think of the iconic bridge scene from Rob Reiner’s classic film. Thankfully, I’m Not Okay With This contains no scenes of crowds vomiting en masse.

2. Heathers

In the first episode, Sydney is given a diary to write her thoughts in, and all voiceover narration throughout the series is framed as though they are her entries. Michael Lehmann’s dark 1988 comedy Heathers used the same framing device, checking in on Veronica for “Dear Diary” voiceovers throughout the movie. That’s not the only connection–both movies also escalate to murder.

3. The Breakfast Club

If you’ve seen The Breakfast Club–the first of three John Hughes classics on this list–then odds are you knew exactly where this show was going the moment Sydney, Dina, Stanley, and Brad were sent to detention. Although the characters don’t quite line up to the geek/freak/jock/princess archetypes that gradually get unpacked and deepened over the course of the original movie, the show nails the angry principal character, at least. Of course, Sydney’s psychic dilemma and the chaotic element of a fifth character (Jenny, who doesn’t seem like a John Hughes fan), the I’m Not Okay With This version of events ends up being a lot more chaotic.

4. Sixteen Candles

Another John Hughes/Molly Ringwald collaboration, Sixteen Candles hasn’t aged so well, and is a harder watch for modern audiences. But it’s still a huge ’80s movie, and I’m Not Okay With This pays homage to the film’s ending with this shot. It’s the same posing and angle as the iconic scene of Sam and Jake sitting together at the end of the movie–all that’s missing is a cake with 16 candles in it.

5. Pretty in Pink

This one’s not so much a visual reference as a performance. Wyatt Oleff’s character, Stanley, is based heavily on Duckie, Jon Cryer’s character in Pretty in Pink, yet another John Hughes movie from the ’80s. “Obviously I don’t want to just copy the character directly,” he told Bustle, “but kind of basing it off of that, and having that kind of quirky sense of weird that is somehow cool, is really fun to channel.” In the same interview, Sophia Lillis said that Molly Ringwald’s characters from The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles were big influences on Sydney, too.

6. The End of the F***ing World

Rumors abound that there’s a newspaper somewhere in I’m Not Okay With This that outlines the fates of James and Alyssa after the first season of The End of the F***ing World, Jonathan Entwistle’s other Charles Forsman adaptation for Netflix. Decider claims to have seen the newspaper on a set visit, but we’ve yet to find it. There is another, blink-or-you’ll-miss-it reference to the show, though–in the third episode, as Sydney rearranges her desk, you can see the acronym ‘TEOTFW’ scrawled on her notepad. It’s a bit of a cheeky nod–we’ll keep looking for that newspaper, though.

7. Carrie

Alright, so you probably didn’t miss this one, because it’s extremely blatant. The prom? The blood? The psychic powers? The end of Season 1 of I’m Not Okay With This could only look more like the end of Carrie if Sissy Spacek showed up. If you haven’t seen the 1976 Brian De Palma film based on Stephen King’s first novel (or the lesser 2013 remake), Carrie gets a bucket of pig’s blood dumped on her by a group of bullies, and exacts brutal revenge with her psychic abilities. It makes Sydney’s single exploded head look tame.

8. It

The third Stephen King reference here is also the loosest, but it’s hard to imagine that the casting director of I’m Not Okay With This wasn’t aware of the fact that Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff starred in It Chapters 1 & 2 recently. The shot here reminds us of Derry, which was similarly small, industrial, and fond of murals–in fact, these two actors spent a lot of time in Chapter 1 hanging around a lake that looked a lot like this one.

9. Stanley’s VHS Collection

Stanley’s nostalgia extends to his VHS collection, which we get a good look at in episode 2. There are a few covers we can’t quite make out, but we recognise plenty of classics on his shelves. There’s Remember the Titans, Sister Act 2, Bring It On, The War, Rags To Riches, Permanent Midnight, A Family Thing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Can’t Hardly Wait, and Erin Brockovich. The most obscure one we could identify was a Crunch fitness tape–Master Blaster with Bonus Workout, starring Billy Blanks and Tracy York. These are all real movies, but the comic Sydney picks up a moment later, NotMen, is a fictional spin on Spider-Man.

10. More VHS

Another shelf! Here we see Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Murphy’s Romance, Dances With Wolves, Brown Sugar, The Cider House Rules, another fitness tape, and a lot of blurry VHS spines surely put in there to ruin us. Let us know in the comments if you recognize any of these VHS tapes from your own childhood.

11. Spider-Man

NotMen isn’t the only fake comic in Stanley’s collection. What could have inspired this book, which, Stanley notes, is about a man who gains powers after being bitten by a spider? That turns him into, if you will, a sort of spider-man? We’ll leave this one up to the comic nerds.

12. Matilda

A young girl discovers that she has psychic powers that flare up, often against her will, when she gets angry. I’m not saying that I’m Not Okay With This is Matilda for teenagers, but I’m also not not saying that.

13. Bloodwitch

Before I’m Not Okay With This, Stanley’s favorite group Bloodwitch was not a real band. It’s a collaboration between singer Tatyana Richaud and Blur’s Graham Cox, and the band has a full album on Spotify.They sound pretty good, too–no wonder Sydney and Stanley enjoyed listening to their album so much in episode 1.

14. Jessie’s Girl

Rick Springfield’s 1981 hit is one of Dina’s favorite songs, as seen during the party she goes to with Sydney in episode 3. There’s an obvious parallel here with the plot–like the singer, Sydney is jealous of Brad, and wishes she was dating his girlfriend. The song has been used in plenty of films before, like 2004’s 13 Going On 30, where it springs up at a pivotal moment in the plot.

15. Here Comes Your Man

This song, from The Pixies’ second album Doolittle, plays over Dina, Sydney, and Stanley getting ready for homecoming in the episode 7. It was written by band frontman Black Francis when he himself was a teenager, and In a 1989 issue of NME magazine (referenced on Wikipedia), Francis said that the song was about the feeling before an earthquake. “Everything gets very calm — animals stop talking and birds stop chirping and there’s no wind. It’s very ominous.” Of course, because of the flash forward in Episode 1, the viewers know that something big and terrifying is coming–but this song is another clue.

16. The Killing Moon

Is there anything subtle about the use of Echo and the Bunnymen’s The Killing Moon as Sydney walks out into the night, coated in Brad’s blood? Perhaps not. But the song has a special relevance, as it opens the original, non-director’s cut version of the teen cult classic Donnie Darko. The movie, which debuted in 2001, is also a rich repository of ’80s nostalgia–and the kind of movie Stanley would probably love.

This month’s IGN First for Half-Life: Alyx is officially in full swing, with brand new gameplay and some commentary on it from Valve! As part of our coverage, Ryan McCaffrey and I played through roughly the first four hours of Alyx, and now we want to know what you want to know.

While we can’t reveal everything we saw just yet (and Ryan has a full preview coming next week that will offer his in-depth impressions), we want to open the floor to any burning questions you have about what it’s like to play Valve’s long-awaited return to the Half-Life universe.

Leave any questions you might have about our time playing Alyx in the comments below! We’ll grab a bunch and update this post with our answers next week.

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Keep in mind, Valve has asked us not to share certain details about the story, some of the later mechanics we saw, and other spoilery things like that just yet. But maybe you’re curious about the movement, how its weapons feel, or what the pacing and atmosphere is like from within VR? We had a lot of fun playing Alyx, and we’re excited to tell you about it!

You can find all our Half-Life: Alyx IGN First coverage here, and be sure to keep an eye out all month long for even more exclusive reveals.

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Tom Marks is IGN’s Deputy Reviews Editor and resident pie maker. You can follow him on Twitter.

Kingston is no stranger to gaming mice. In the last couple of years, the company has built a veritable colony under its HyperX brand, from the budget-minded Pulsefire Core to the premium Pulsefire Surge with its eye-catching wrap-around lighting. All that was missing from the lineup was a wireless model, and the Pulsefire Dart has arrived to fill that gap. Interestingly, Kingston has decided to cut the cord at a mid-level price point, and what you end up with is a mouse for gamers who want a precise and capable gaming mouse that trades some high-end features for industry-standard Qi charging.

Design and Features

I admire Kingston’s restraint. The Pulsefire Dart, like the rest of the Pulsefire family, is styled conservatively. There are no Lamborghiniesque angles here, like on the Logitech G900. Instead, it’s got a lot of gentle curves and a beefy, ergonomic hump that’s comfortable for palm grippers. Nor are there a dozen buttons buried in every nook and cranny of the shell. It’s got exactly six buttons, all programmable, and they’re the ones you’d expect: left and right on top, two under the thumb, a mouse wheel, and a DPI toggle behind the wheel. The left and right buttons sit on top of Omron switches and are rated for 50 million clicks.

The mouse’s signature feature is wireless connectivity, of course. Unlike a lot of mice, though, there’s no proprietary wireless tech (like Corsair’s Slipstream) or dual mode wireless connectivity (like the Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless’s 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth). It features a standard 2.4 GHz radio and includes a USB antenna dongle for your PC, with a twist: If your PC isn’t close to the mouse, you can plug the dongle into the included six-foot USB cable and use it as an extension to position the dongle close to the mouse.

I experimented with various positions and never noticed any glitches, but it’s great that Kingston accommodates users who might run into issues with PCs that are too far from the mouse. When the cable isn’t acting like an antenna extension, you can use it to charge the mouse or use it as a wired controller.

Overall, the Dart measures 1.7 by 2.9 by 4.9 inches and fits my hand quite nicely, but it’s admittedly a lot to push around the desktop, especially if you’re used to a lightweight mouse. Weighing 112 g (120 g if you plug in the USB cable), it’s the heaviest Pulsefire by far. That’s understandable, though – it’s got a battery in its belly. Speaking of the battery, Kingston cites a 50-hour battery (or 90 hours if you turn off the LEDs).

I hate charging my mouse with a clumsy USB cable, so the mouse’s Qi charging capabilities are especially welcome. Unlike many wireless mice, the Dart doesn’t rely on proprietary charging tech. Instead, you can place it on any Qi-compliant charger. Kingston has released its own Chargeplay Base, a dual charger that can handle the Dart and one other device (like your phone) simultaneously. This $60 charging pad isn’t cheap, but it’s super handy to be able to charge two things at once. And if you remember to put the mouse on a charging pad when you shut your PC down at the end of the day, you’ll never have to use it with its included USB cable or find out how long it takes to charge a dead Dart.

But that’s a good question. How long does it take to charge a dead Dart? I never ran it all the way down to empty, but when it reached about 30 percent, I put it on the Chargeplay Base and found it took about 90 minutes to top off. Charging a second device on the other pad had no effect on charge time. It would be faster to charge the mouse via the USB cable, of course, and you could continue to use the mouse while it charges – but the cable adds additional inertia to the mouse.

Surprisingly, the Pulsefire Dart doesn’t have any sort of slot or compartment to stow the wireless dongle for travel. That’s weird, but aside from that, the mouse hits the right notes for comfort. The sides are padded with imitation leather, which is surprisingly comfortable. If you anxiously dig your fingertips or the fleshy part of your thumb into the mouse, the sides actually “give,” as if you’re pressing into a sofa cushion.

Under the hood, the Dart is equipped with a Pixart 3389 sensor, which has a maximum resolution of 16,000 DPI. Certainly, there are mice that offer more DPI, but on any reasonably sized monitor, most gamers won’t come anywhere close to needing the full resolution that this mouse offers. And if your PC can’t handle the mouse’s default 1000Hz polling rate, you can dial that back as well.

On the hood, as it were, Kingston illuminates the Dart in two zones – on the scroll wheel and the HyperX logo on the mouse’s rump. At full brightness, it glows great even in a brightly lit room.

Software

HyperX’s NGenuity desktop software is extremely straightforward, mainly because the features it offers are fairly limited. On the lighting tab, you can choose from among three lighting patterns and a color wheel to dial in exactly how you want it to look.

The sensor tab lets you specify up to five DPI settings you can toggle through, though out of the box, the mouse is configured with just three. You can also choose a mouse wheel color to associate with each DPI, so there’s a visual indicator of which one you’ve chosen.

Modders will be most interested in the buttons tab, where you can remap each of the six buttons on the mouse. You can assign keyboard functions, choose multimedia playback commands, or program and assign simple macros. The macro recorder isn’t especially powerful – there’s no cut and paste or other fancy editing, for example, or run once/loop controls – but it’s easy to use and can handle most ordinary macro tasks. One annoying frustration: there’s no visual indicator to tell you what functions the mouse buttons are currently assigned to.

The mouse’s base settings are saved to the mouse itself, so you can easily take it on the go (don’t lose that antenna dongle), but you can also save any number of additional profiles, and bind them to specific games.

Gaming

To put the Dart through its paces, I played Call of Duty 4: Black Ops and Fortnite. The mouse glided well enough on my mousepad, but the lack of PTFE or a similar low-friction material on the bottom was somewhat noticeable, especially when I tried using it directly on the desktop.

In general, the mouse was accurate and responsive – though it did have a tendency to force me to overshoot and sometimes over-correct when aiming, such as when I had to fly across the screen quickly to engage a distant enemy. That’s because it’s a bit on the heavy side, and personally, I’ve gotten used to playing with featherweight controllers. But if you’re already comfortable using mice in the 80- to 100-gram range, the Dart probably won’t feel that much different.

I rarely use more than two DPI settings in a game. I like to switch between relatively low and high DPIs depending upon whether I have a shotgun or sniper rifle, for example, and when I’m scouting or pixel hunting, but I don’t enjoy cycling through five different settings to get past the ones I rarely use. That’s why I really appreciated the fact that I could delete DPI slots I didn’t want from NGenuity desktop software, so the DPI button truly became a toggle between 800 and 5000 DPI for me. I didn’t need the helpful LED color coding that announced which DPI I had selected, but I was glad it was there, since it eliminated all ambiguity when adding additional DPI settings.

Speaking of buttons, despite the price and wireless capabilities, this is an admittedly basic mouse. With only six buttons available, most gamers will probably only reassign the two side buttons, and so that gives you limited flexibility in a lot of gaming scenarios. For FPS games like Call of Duty, that suited me just fine, but MMO players might feel limited.

Purchasing Guide

The HyperX Pulsefire Dart is available on Amazon with an MSRP of $99, while the Chargeplay Base costs $60.