Here’s When The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Trailer Is Released

The highly acclaimed comic book adaptation Umbrella Academy returns to Netflix at the end of July, and fans will finally get a look some footage this week. The streaming giant has confirmed that the first trailer arrives tomorrow, July 8.

The news was announced via a teaser that Netflix tweeted. It shows the character of Klaus (Robert Sheehan), sitting cross-legged, with “trailer tomorrow” written on his hands. Check it out below:

Umbrella Academy is adapted from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s cult comic book, and Season 2 hits Netflix on July 31. The show focuses on a dysfunctional superhero family, and also stars Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, David Castañeda, Robert Sheehan, Aiden Gallagher, and Justin H. Min.

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Destiny 2 Ruinous Effigy: How To Do The Growth Exotic Quest Fast

The story of the Season of Arrivals in Destiny 2 is also one of departures. With the release of the Beyond Light expansion this fall, several of the game’s current destinations–Titan, Io, Mercury, and Mars–will be removed from the game, at least for the time being. So as you venture through this season’s activities, you’ll be learning about and visiting those spots. A new Exotic quest in the game this week, dubbed “Growth,” has you visiting those locations and uncovering their secrets.

The quest has you hunting for Ruinous Effigy, a new Exotic trace rifle. To get it, you’ll need to engage with the Darkness, complete seasonal events, and trek across the solar system hunting hidden objects. We’re building a complete guide to getting you Ruinous Effigy as quickly as possible. Here’s what you need to do and where you need to go. Also be sure to check out our guides to the new patch notes and Moments of Triumph.

Step 1: Compete “Interference”

To get started on the Growth quest, head to the Prismatic , which will dispense the quest. You’ll then need to convene with Eris Morn by completing the weekly Interference quest at the center of this season’s events. To do that, knock out the weekly Prismatic Recaster bounty, “Means to an End,” as normal.

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Pokemon Go Anniversary Art Teases Gen 6 Pokemon And Mega Evolutions

Pokemon Go‘s fourth anniversary event is underway until July 8. To commemorate the occasion, Niantic has released a new piece of anniversary art for the game, and as usual, it teases a few new Pokemon that will be making their debut soon.

Hidden among the various monsters in the picture are Chespin, Fennekin, and Froakie–the three starters from Pokemon X and Y, the series’ first sixth-generation installments. This suggests that Gen 6 Pokemon are on the way to the game in the near future, although Niantic has not confirmed when they’ll begin appearing.

This certainly isn’t the first time Niantic has teased the arrival of new Pokemon this way. Each year, the studio releases a new piece of anniversary art that features upcoming Pokemon; last September, we got a glimpse of a few Gen 5 monsters before they officially debuted that fall.

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Shudder’s Newest Horror Movie Was Made With Social Distancing Over Video Conferences

Finally there’s a film that expresses the true horror of Zoom calls. Shudder–the thriller, horror, and suspense-themed streaming service–recently announced that a new film coming their catalog on July 30, Host, was made during the coronavirus lockdown, with the cast and crew strictly following social distancing guidelines.

Host is a film seen through several small screens, over the linked-up video call of six friends who hold a séance during quarantine. But of course, an evil spirit shows up and begins terrorizing the group in each of their separate locations.

Over the past few months, stay at home and quarantine orders in major cities across the globe ground the film-making industry to a halt, but Deadline reports that the all the actors in Host operated their own cameras and managed their own stunts, lighting, and practical effects while the director, Rob Savage (Dawn of the Deaf), guided them remotely. When Shudder’s general manager saw a short film that Savage directed during lockdown go viral, he reached out about potential feature-length works.

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Rocket League Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary With In-Game Event

In celebrating five years since its launch, developer Psyonix is hosting an anniversary event inside Rocket League. The event brings some limited-time modes and unique items for you to participate in and earn on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

The Fifth Anniversary Event started on June 30, which means one mode–Spike Rush–has already come and gone. However, the anniversary lasts for a full two weeks, meaning there are still two other LTMs you can play on all platforms. This includes the 2v2 Heatseeker mode, which runs until July 13, and the Redemption period (which allows you to earn any items you may have missed) that picks up immediately after and concludes on July 16.

In addition to the LTMs, you can head over to Rocket League’s Event Store to spend balloons that you accrue from online matches to purchase unique items such as antennas, toppers, wheels, and more. Golden Eggs, collectible items that contain unknown goodies, are back and now give you the chance to get items from the game’s Champions Series. You can check the images below to see the various earnable in-game items.

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How To Get Watch Dogs 2 Free On PC During Ubisoft’s Upcoming Livestream

Ubisoft Forward is set for this coming Sunday, July 12, at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET. The publisher event promises a look at upcoming titles like Watch Dogs Legion and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla along with “a few other surprises,” but you’ll also have an opportunity to claim a free game, Watch Dogs 2, during the event.

To claim Watch Dogs 2 for free on July 12, you’ll need to log into your Uplay account, which is free to create if you don’t have one yet. Ahead of the event that day, Ubisoft team members will kick off their pre-show by streaming Trackmania at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET, and Watch Dogs 2 will be free to claim right after the Trackmania playthrough. You’ll have until the end of the main show, which begins at noon PT / 3 PM ET and should last around 45 minutes, to claim your free copy. That’s a window of less than two hours, so you’ll want to be ready to claim the game that day.

If you’re interested in Watch Dogs Legion but have never played any Watch Dogs games, Watch Dogs 2 offers a great introduction to the stealth action-adventure series. Playing the first game isn’t necessary as Watch Dogs 2 stands on its own, although there are references and connections to the original. Before heading to post-Brexit London in Legion, you’ll be able to explore the San Francisco Bay Area in Watch Dogs 2, a large open-world setting you can traverse on foot or by using vehicles like cars, buses, and motorcycles. You’ll play as a young hacker named Marcus Holloway who has joined hacking group DedSec and is working to expose corruption and crimes committed by a technology company. The game also features both a co-op mode and competitive multiplayer modes such as Hacking Invasion, Bounty Hunter, and more.

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Destiny 2 Patch Notes Open Up Raid Rewards

The newest things to come to Destiny 2 are a new Exotic quest for Ruinous Effigy and the Moments of Triumph, the game’s yearly opportunity for players to show off their biggest achievements in the game and earn some flashy rewards. This year’s Moments comes with some major upcoming changes to the game, though–the removal of several destinations and their activities, which is set to happen with the Beyond Light expansion this fall. Since that includes a bunch of raid activities, the update makes them all much more rewarding.

Bungie detailed the changes in Update 2.9.1 on its blog, complete with full patch notes. It primarily sets the stage for Moments by altering how rewards get dished out in several raid activities. Usually, you can only run a raid one time per week on a given character and expect to get the best rewards. If you’re hunting the Exotic grenade launcher Anarchy in the Scourge of the Past raid, for instance, you would only have one shot at it each week on your Titan. You can increase your chances to three a week if you run the raid on all three characters, but once you’ve got those three completions, you’re stuck waiting for Destiny 2’s weekly reset on Tuesdays to try again.

That changes with the latest patch. Now you can “farm” those activities for their rewards as much as you want–meaning you can keep beating the Scourge of the Past until you finally get Anarchy, or any other reward you’re missing. The change applies to Scourge, which will leave Destiny 2 in the fall, and to all the raid activities that take place on the Leviathan location: the Leviathan raid itself, the Crown of Sorrows raid, and the two smaller raid lairs, Eater of Worlds and Spire of Stars.

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