We’re nearing the end of Fortnite Season 8, but there’s still plenty to do before Season 9 of the hit battle royale game inevitably arrives. Week 7’s challenges are now available across PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch, and mobile, giving players another assortment of tasks to complete. Clearing these will help level up your Battle Pass, which in turn will unlock some of this season’s new cosmetic rewards.

If you’re a seasoned Fortnite veteran by this point, you’ll know there’s a secondary reason to complete as many challenges as you can. If you finish all of the ones from a given week, you’ll complete a related Discovery challenge, the reward for which is a special loading screen that contains a subtle clue leading you to a free Battle Star (which levels your Battle Pass up by one tier) or a Banner (which can be used as a profile icon) hiding somewhere around the game’s map.

Complete seven weeks’ worth of challenges this season and you’ll earn the loading screen pictured below. This one features Luxe, the Legendary skin you can unlock at tier 100 of the Season 8 Battle Pass, plundering a treasure-filled cave. However, if you look closely at the left-hand side of the image (behind the words “Battle Royale”), you’ll spot an unusual etching on the cave wall. This’ll lead you to this week’s free Battle Star.

The etching is actually an inverted rabbit, which means the Battle Star can be found on the giant wooden rabbit you needed to visit as part of one of Week 6’s challenges. If you don’t remember where the structure is located, it can be found in quadrant A4, between Haunted Hills and Snobby Shores. Glide there at the beginning of a match, then make your way onto the rabbit’s back and the Battle Star will appear. Collect it as you would any other item and finish the match to level your Battle Pass up by one tier.

If you need more help finding the Battle Star, we’ve marked its location on the map below. We also show you exactly where you need to go in video at the top of this guide. Be aware, however, that the Battle Star won’t appear unless you’ve completed seven weeks’ worth of challenges, so you can’t expect to just go to the right place and find it unless you’ve done all of the necessary steps. If there are still challenges you need to complete, you can find tips and guides for them in our full Season 8 challenges roundup.

Fortnite’s Week 7 challenges follow closely behind the game’s 8.30 update, which introduced a big new feature to the game: Reboot Vans. These vehicles allow you to revive a fallen teammate during a match after you’ve collected their Reboot Card. The patch also kicked off a limited-time Buccaneer’s Bounty event, which features its own daily challenges to complete and special rewards to unlock. You can read the full patch notes for the 8.30 update on Epic’s website.

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Mortal Kombat 11 is just a couple of weeks away, marking the latest entry in NetherRealm’s signature fighting franchise. The studio has dabbled in other franchises like Injustice but is most closely identified with MK–NetherRealm’s name and logo are even explicit references to the series. But creative director and franchise co-creator Ed Boon says he’d like to see the studio branch out.

“I think our studio has a number of good games in it that are completely unrelated to Mortal Kombat,” Boon told Game Informer. “While we love making Mortal Kombat games, we would love to expand into other genres, other IP, other things like that, for sure.”

Boon also suggested that the success of Mortal Kombat X is one major reason the studio hasn’t moved on to another one of those ideas it has stored away. MKX notably sold 11 million copies, making it NetherRealm’s best-selling game.

“One of the challenges of having your last game sell the most of any other game, is … it’s hard to just stop from there and say we’re done,” he said. “But certainly we could take a break from it and build up anticipation for a future title.”

Mortal Kombat 11 is the third game in a refreshed series that began with MK9, which was packaged as simply Mortal Kombat. It was treated as a soft reboot of the series, and retold some of the same story beats from the original games. MK11, by comparison, is paying homage to the series’ long legacy with a time travel plot that brings in alternate timelines and paradoxical variations on several characters. It’s been implied that this game treats the entire series as canonical, including those that came before MK9, thanks to the existence of multiple universes.

It also uses the time travel element to introduce various cosmetic changes for characters, but Boon has ruled out the use of loot boxes. This is also the first main Mortal Kombat since the reboot to appear on Nintendo Switch, which appears to work surprisingly well. For more on Mortal Kombat 11, check out the full character roster so far and consult our preorder guide.

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Fortnite‘s 8.30 update is now live across PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. Not only did this week’s patch introduce Reboot Vans to the battle royale game, it also marked the start of a new limited-time event called Buccaneer’s Bounty, which features its own unique set of challenges and rewards.

Buccaneer’s Bounty runs until April 15. Each day of the event, Epic is featuring a different limited-time mode, and there will be a new challenge to complete and cosmetic reward to unlock. If you manage to complete all four of the Buccaneer’s Bounty challenges before the event ends, you’ll also earn a special reward: an Epic-tier emote.

The first Buccaneer’s Bounty challenge is fairly straightforward: visit a Pirate Camp in different matches. You’ll need to travel to 10 of these camps to complete the mission. Fortunately, the Pirate Camps are always located in the same spots, so with a little persistence you should be able to complete this challenge without too much difficulty. Be sure to check out our Pirate Camp location guide if you need help finding them.

The second challenge is likewise self-explanatory: search one Buried Treasure. Once that’s completed, you’ll unlock a special Pirate Parrot spray. You can see all of the Buccaneer’s Bounty challenges so far below. We’ll continue to update this list as new challenges are unlocked each day of the event.

Fortnite Buccaneer’s Bounty Challenges

1. Visit a Pirate Camp in different matches (10) — Plunder glider
2. Search Buried Treasure (1) — Pirate Parrot spray
3. TBD
4. TBD

In addition to the Buccaneer’s Bounty challenges, Week 7’s challenges are also now live. This week’s tasks run the gamut from visiting three Pirate Camps in a single match to eliminating opponents in named locations and searching chests at Loot Lake or Snobby Shores. Once those are completed, you’ll be another step closer to unlocking the Legendary Ruin skin in Week 8.

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It’s that time of the week again: Fortnite is now in Season 8, Week 7, which means there’s a fresh set of challenges in its wildly popular battle royale. You know the drill: complete the challenges, earn Battle Stars, level up the Battle Pass, and then watch the cosmetic unlocks roll in.

Week 7’s challenges shouldn’t give you too much trouble at all as they’re all pretty easy and, for the most part, can be completed in natural play. In the free section, which is available to all players, there are three challenges. These involve dealing damage with a pickaxe, visiting two locations in a single match, and also heading to three Pirate Camps.

For those that have spent V-Bucks on a premium Battle Pass, you’ll need to do damage to players from above, search chests in Loot Lake or Snobby Shores, take out enemies in five different named locations, and deal damage to enemies while riding a zipline. That last challenge is a multi-part one, so you’ll have another stage open up when it is completed.

Fortnite Season 8, Week 7 Challenges

Free

• Visit Pirate Camps in a single match (3) — 10 Battle Stars
• Stage 1 of 3: Visit Junk Junction and The Block in a single match (2) — 1 Battle Star
• Damage opposing players with the Pickaxe (100) — 5 Battle Stars

Battle Pass

• Get eliminations in different named locations (5) — 10 Battle Stars
• Search chests at Loot Lake or Snobby Shores (7) — 5 Battle Stars
• Deal damage to players from above (500) — 5 Battle Stars
• Stage 1 of 2 – Deal damage to opposing players while riding a zipline (1) — 5 Battle Stars

Damage While Riding Ziplines

The ziplines are fairly plentiful on the island, so the difficulty here really is actually getting on one and then landing shots. Expect lots of players to gather around ziplines and, as we all know, they’re not going to just line up and let everyone take their turn. Prepare to defend yourself while trying to get on the zipline. If you manage to get on a zipline, try and use a weapon that spits out bullets fast, as that’ll give you the best chance of hitting another player.

Damage From Above

Easy peasy: Get to stockpiling resources. Once you’ve got loads of material, start building and go high to give yourself a nice vantage point. When you’re elevated, just start taking shots at anyone around. If you’re feeling particularly spicy, you can aim to do this in the heavily populated areas or even around ziplines to catch players trying to complete the other challenge.

Damage Using Pickaxe

This one is familiar, as Epic likes to throw this challenge in fairly regularly. As a result, you’ve probably got a working strategy at this point. Our one is to group up with other players and wait for ambush opportunities. Now that respawning is a bigger deal in Fortnite, you may get lucky and stumble upon downed enemies or someone so focused on rescuing teammates that they don’t see you coming with your Pickaxe.

Visit Pirate Camps

Epic loves this challenge. It was used in a previous week and is also part of the current Buccaneer’s Bounty event. The upside of re-using old challenges is that we’ve already got a detailed breakdown of how to complete it, including specific locations of the Pirate Camps.

As previously mentioned, a recent Fortnite update has borrowed yet another mechanic from battle royale rival Apex Legends: respawns. You can see how Fortnite and Apex Legends’ respawn systems compare here.

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April’s free NES games for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers are now available. While the selection of titles in recent months has varied between the West and Japan, this month’s lineup is the same across regions and includes the classic boxing game Punch-Out, the shoot-’em-up Star Soldier, and the notoriously difficult Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.

In addition to those three games, Nintendo has added a special save state of one of last month’s titles, Kid Icarus, to the NES library. This version starts players off in the final level before the climactic confrontation with Medusa, with all three Sacred Treasures already equipped. You can watch a trailer for this month’s NES lineup below.

The NES library is one of the perks Switch owners receive for subscribing to the Nintendo Switch Online service, offering unlimited access to more than 30 NES games with added online multiplayer support for as long as you have an active membership. Nintendo adds new games to the catalog every month; March brought Kid Icarus and StarTropics, while Kirby’s Adventure and Super Mario Bros. 2 were added in February.

Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions run for US $4 / £3.49 / AU $6 for one month, US $8 / £7 / AU $12 for three months, and US $20 / £18 / AU $30 for one year. Nintendo also offers a Family Membership that can encompass up to eight Nintendo Accounts for US $35 / £31.49 / AU $55. Other benefits for subscribing include the ability to play Switch games online, cloud save data backup for most games, and exclusive offers such as Tetris 99, which is free to download for NSO members.

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