It’s Week 9 in Fortnite, and among a host of other challenges you can do to unlock everything new this week–like Haven Masks–you can also finally unlock The Foundation, The Rock’s Fortnite hero (or villain). But one of those challenges requires you to chase down a specific landmark, Mighty Monument, which you may not know by name. Unless you’re brand-new to Fortnite, however, you’ve been there by now. Here’s what to look for and how to easily complete the rest of this quest too.

Fortnite Mighty Monument

The clue to find Mighty Monument is right in its name. Recall any grand statues of mighty-looking characters on the island this season? Yeah, Mighty Monument is the statue of The Foundation, which you’ll find on the eastern coast by Sanctuary. To visit it, simply approach closely enough until your quest tracker updates. That’s it! You’ll have visited Mighty Monument, and be at lest one third of your way to finish off a specific Foundation challenge.

In order to finish this whole challenge, you’ll need to also visit one Seven Outpost as well as Sanctuary, the natural residence to The Seven. While Seven Outposts are scattered all across the island, Mighty Monument and Sanctuary are both right next to the one on the east coast.

Mighty Monument is the can’t-miss statue of The Foundation.

Therefore, the best way to finish this challenge quickly is to drop out of the Battle Bus onto the Seven Outpost which is farthest east, then head west to the statue, then a bit more west to Sanctuary. At the base of Mighty Monument is a strong gust of vertical wind too, so use that to propel yourself back into the air and glide over to Sanctuary to do this whole challenge in about 60 seconds.

Once you’re done with that, you’ll be one step closer to gathering all Foundation cosmetics. But don’t forget about the new Haven Masks too, which arrived as part of the Fortnite 19.20 patch.

Read MoreGameSpot – Game News

Ahead of Dying Light 2: Stay Human‘s launch, developer Techland boasted that the first-person parkour game set in a zombie apocalypse would take players roughly 500 hours to complete. That number indicates how long it will take players to see absolutely everything that Dying Light 2 has to offer, including the outcome of dozens of story choices (requiring multiple playthroughs). So assuming you’re only going to play through Dying Light 2 once, how long is it going to take you?

How long does it take to beat Dying Light 2?

Honestly, it really depends on how much you want to pull out of it. GameSpot guides editor Mark Delaney played through Dying Light 2’s campaign for review, finishing the story in about 48 hours. Though he strayed from the main path in order to complete side quests that he ran across, he didn’t go out of his way to chase everything down–only pursuing whatever happened to catch his fancy.

Mark estimates that, all told, the critical path missions in Dying Light 2 took him 20-25 hours, so you can expect that level of commitment if you only want to play the main campaign. Looking at the map, he predicts he still has a couple dozen hours of content left over, estimating his final playtime would be over 80 hours if he decided to go back and do everything.

To compare that to its predecessor, How Long To Beat lists the original Dying Light‘s campaign at 17ish hours. To complete the campaign and do a little extra pushes you closer to 35 hours, and seeing everything the game’s open world has to offer puts you at 55 hours. So Dying Light 2 is a fair bit longer.

In GameSpot’s Dying Light 2: Stay Human review, Mark writes, “Dying Light 2 is a perplexing game. Its story and characters are headache-inducing, and it appears to lack polish in many areas. But even a dozen hours after I rolled credits, I’ve found myself going back to the game to do another parkour challenge, rummage through another abandoned science lab, or just see if I can get from Point A to Point B without ever hitting the ground. It’s rough around the edges and it asks players to invest a lot in its weakest element, but once you realize the story, like gravity, is only going to pull you down, you can begin to defy it and enjoy the things Dying Light 2 actually does well.”

Read MoreGameSpot – Game News

Apex Legends Season 12: Defiance introduces Mad Maggie, an offensive legend with an explosive close-quarters skill set. During a preview event, Apex Legends game engineer Chris Winder went into the origins and design goals of Mad Maggie, as well as where in the in-game meta Respawn predicts she’ll fit.

“Maggie is–first and foremost–an aggressive playmaker,” Winder said. “She really likes to break up enemy defenses and push other characters.”

Apex Legends already has a few legends that can technically fit such a description, with characters like Octane and Revenant excelling at aggressive close-range playstyles. Maggie differs, however, in how she’s able to disorient an enemy and get up in their face. Mad Maggie’s abilities make her somewhat of a breacher–so unlike Octane and Revenant, who are geared towards rushing an enemy before they have a chance to get situated, Maggie can safely get to her foe even if they’ve already managed to hide themselves behind cover.

This is most evident with her tactical ability, Riot Drill, a mining tool that Maggie has modified into a weapon. When fired, the Riot Drill burns through obstacles, ejecting burning flames out the other side. Maggie’s Riot Drill can even burn through Rampart’s Amped Walls or Gibraltar’s Dome Shield. Basically, if you’re taking cover behind something, the Riot Drill can reach you–the only way to deal with it is to sit there and take the damage or abandon your position. In either case, Maggie and her allies can potentially turn that to her advantage.

“We’re always looking for that open space [in the meta]–new problems to solve, new play styles,” Winder said.

Winder went on to explain why the more recent legends have fit far more specific roles than the characters seen earlier in Apex Legends’ roster. “Early on, we were thinking about Apex with no characters–there was a lot of open design space for the kind of gameplay spaces that legends could take over,” he said. “There’s the smoke character, toxic gas character, grappling [character]–all these different kinds of spaces that we could explore, we did with those early characters. And naturally this design space sort of closes over time.”

He continued: “[Apex Legends] has changed and it’s changing all the time with how players are playing different characters and how the meta shifts from season to season, and the types of gameplay that we want to encourage and players want to see more of. So that’s definitely been an interesting challenge, and one of the fun, surprising things is being able to adapt a breacher character like Maggie from when we were thinking about her to what types of breaching that she’ll need to do by the time she needs to come out and how she needs to evolve.”

Intriguingly, Winder explained that Maggie’s abilities weren’t always hers. Originally, her kit belonged to another character. “We started with the inspiration of a Polish winged hussar–it’s like a mounted soldier with plumage as decoration for some really awesome imagery–named Husaria,” Winder said.

Husaria is an old name in the Apex Legends’ community–it first appeared in files datamined during the early weeks of Apex Legends’ launch. The name appeared in a list of 10 upcoming legends, which included Octane, Wattson, Crypto, and Rampart, as well as legends that fans theorize may have gone on to become the inspirational template for Year 2-4 characters, like Rosie (who players believe is the basis for Season 5’s Loba).

“The [Husaria] kit began as a breacher character, a one-woman SWAT team, a character that could really take some of the defensive legends and their abilities to lock down a building and really bust in there and help breach that situation for her and her team,” Winder said. This kit evolved in numerous ways as Respawn adapted this breacher character to fit Apex Legends’ changing meta. Winder said that the team tried a riot shield and flashbang grenades, and for a while, Husaria had “a shotgun attached to her leg which could blow down doors in one kick.”

Though this trait ultimately didn’t stick around, this affinity for shotguns did, becoming the inspiration for Maggie’s passive ability, Warlord’s Ire, which highlights enemies through walls that Maggie has damaged and allows her to move faster while holding shotguns.

Rounding out Mad Maggie’s skill set is her ultimate ability, Wrecking Ball. When used, Maggie tosses out a giant metallic ball that slowly breaks apart as it bounces forward. The pieces left behind will offer a speed boost to whomever steps on them, allowing Maggie and her allies to quickly cover a lot of ground by trailing after the ball. Once set in motion, the ball will keep moving forward, only changing direction if it bounces off a wall. The Wrecking Ball stops when it’s either completely broken apart or runs into an enemy, which causes it to explode. According to Winder, the explosion knocks players back, temporarily stuns them, and deals 20 damage. Wrecking Ball isn’t designed to bring the pain; it instead introduces a chaotic force to the battlefield (especially when indoors) that’s meant to both distract an entrenched enemy team and help Maggie and her allies close the distance on said team.

“Wrecking Ball was definitely one of our biggest development challenges,” Winder said. “Finding a good fantasy for explaining what this ball was and how it worked and what it exactly looked like took a number of tries. Our team, I would say, was initially a little bit skeptical of the idea and how it might fit in our somewhat grounded world. But despite it being a little bit ridiculous, the sort of intuition of how it plays and the fun really won out in the end.”

And if all that sounds like Mad Maggie may launch a bit on the strong side, then you’re right. That’s a bit of what Respawn is going for with Mad Maggie–purposively launching a new hero shooter character in an overpowered state. It’s a strategy Respawn has used before to encourage players to pick a new legend more often at the start of a season, allowing the developer to gather a large pool of data about said legend right from the get-go.

“You heard Chris [Winder] talking about Mad Maggie’s kit, and if you look at the last few seasons, I think it’s very clear that we don’t shy away from launching legends strong and really shaking up the meta,” Apex Legends game director Steven Ferreira said. “I think the same is going to be true of Maggie and I’m looking forward to seeing how her aggressive nature and her kit that flows out of that is going to change things up this season.”

Apex Legends Season 12: Defiance begins February 8. Alongside adding Mad Maggie, the new season introduces a nice buff to Crypto, a nerf to Caustic, and map changes to Olympus. Season 12 also marks the start of Apex Legends’ in-game celebration of its three-year anniversary. A roadmap of Season 12 teases two new events as well.

Read MoreGameSpot – Game News

Pokemon Legends Arceus is off to a very good start, as Nintendo has announced the game sold 1.425 million copies during its first week. That is a huge result, and it’s second only to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which sold 1.881 million copies during its first week in 2020.

The numbers came from industry analyst David Gibson, as shared on social media. Legends Arceus was released on January 28, so in fact it’s been out for less than a week.

GameSpot’s Pokemon Legends Arceus review scored the game an 8/10. “It’s the most daring and inventive the series has been in years, breaking apart the staid core and creating something new and exciting from its pieces,” Steve Watts said.

In other news about Switch game sales, Nintendo updated its list of the best-selling Switch games, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe topping the list with a whopping 43.35 million sold.

As for hardware, the Nintendo Switch has now soldmore than 103 million units, surpassing the Wii.

Read MoreGameSpot – Game News