The Nintendo Switch Lite has been easier to find during the current pandemic than a standard Switch system, and if you just got your console, you’re going to want to keep it protected. The Nyko Premium Travel Kit has everything you need to keep your Switch Lite safe, and it’s on sale for a drastically reduced price at Amazon.
Normally $25, the Nyko Premium Travel Kit for Nintendo Switch Lite is currently available for just over $9. It comes with a hard-shell case, a tempered glass screen protector, silicon grip cover, wired earbuds, and a microfiber cleaning cloth.
With both the case and screen protector keeping it safe from drops and scuffs, you shouldn’t have to worry about needing console repairs, and the soft interior material on the case should keep it looking pristine. Right now, that is especially crucial, as Nintendo has temporarily halted repairs at its own centers due to the outbreak.
The popular card game Magic: The Gathering is expanding, with a collective of charming designs now available on the IGN Store. Each design shows off and honours all the brilliant aspects of the famous card game, with highlights including the Magic Pentagram, the tier list, and the various crystal logos.
Predator: Hunting Grounds only released last week, but the game has already received a new hotfix patch that aims to improve the multiplayer experience and add more polish. The patch notes for the game’s update 1.05 focus heavily on user interface and improving AI.
The update splits fixes into four different categories, which you can see in full below. They include fixes for issues involving customization items permanently showing as new, objectives being made impossible, collision issues, and matchmaking issues. The titular Predator also got tweaks to its thermal vision and a “Target Isolation” prompt.
Predator: Hunting Grounds is an asymmetric multiplayer game from Illfonic, the developers behind Friday The 13th: The Game. Though the latter game received fairly scathing reviews, it found an audience with fans of campy and over-the-top slasher movies.
A newly discovered species of green pit vipers has been given a very magical, and very apropos, name by team of researchers from India.
In the journal Zoosystematics and Evolution, the research team calls the species, which can be found throughout East and Southeast Asia, Trimeresurus Salazar – after Harry Potter-verse pure-blood wizard Salazar Slytherin.
One of the four founders of Hogwarts — along with Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Godric Gryffindor — Salazar Slytherin was a Parselmouth (he could speak snake) and a Legilimens (mind reader). He was the noble founder of House Slytherin.
Trimeresurus Salazar, as one of the 48 species of this genus found in the region, is notable due to the orange-reddish stripe found on the side of the head in males. The researchers use “Salazar’s pit viper” as a nickname.
Salazar’s Pit Viper from Zoosystematics and Evolution.
Speaking of the Potter-verse, Fantastic Beasts actor Dan Fogler said that the third installment of the prequel series will feature some “epic battle scenes.” The production on the third movie however, like every other movie and TV show shoot right now, has been delayed due to the pandemic.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
