Month: March 2021

Nintendo is offering another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate freebie for Switch Online members. For a limited time, subscribers can claim the Spirits Set 1. This pack unlocks two random Spirits in your game: one Legend-class Support Spirit, and one Ace-class Primary Spirit.

To claim the Spirits Set, select the Nintendo Switch Online icon from your system’s home screen and open the Special Offers tab. The Spirits Set will be listed among the other free offers. Alternately, you can grab the freebie directly from the Nintendo eShop by selecting Nintendo Switch Online from the left sidebar.

As was the case with previous Smash Bros. freebies, you can only claim the Spirits Set if you have an active, paid Switch Online membership. The offer isn’t available to those who have a free trial to the service. Individual memberships cost $4 for one month, $8 for three months, and $20 for one year, while an annual family plan runs for $35.

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EA’s battle royale behemoth Apex Legends is getting another big event very soon with the Chaos Theory Collection Event, which we’ve now gotten a closer look at.

Mad Maggie returns with a terrible plan to sabotage the ring, which is causing ring flares to show up across the map. In the new Ring Fury mode, players get a new heat shield for their inventory that allows them to sustain ring damage to rescue teammates. This shield projects a dome that can protect players from the ring damage.

Additionally, players can visit Caustic’s Town Takeover to find gold-tier loot, while Apex Legends overall is offering up 24 items that will only be available for a limited time. Players who collect all 24 will get Bangalore’s “Cold Steel” heirloom, which looks pretty rad.

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The Lego Group has announced a new partnership with Disney to release a Winnie the Pooh set as part of its Lego Ideas collection. It’s coming on April 1 and is priced at $100. VIP early access to the set begins on March 18.

The new set features classic characters Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, and Eeyore, all gathered around Pooh’s hollowed-out tree. It’s 1265 pieces in all and recommended for adults with an 18+ age rating. Usually higher age ratings mean complex or multi-phase builds, especially when it comes to collector’s items.

In addition to the minifigs, the set includes some iconic Winnie the Pooh imagery based on the classic books and Disney adaptations. Props like Pooh’s honey pot, beehive, and red balloon are present in the set, and Pooh’s treehouse opens up for interior detail.

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WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar says the movie industry is still in “experimentation mode” on theatrical windows, according to Variety. Speaking recently at the 2021 Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, the executive’s comments adds a bit of clarification and also an asterisk to the sudden announcement from Warner Bros. in December that it will put its entire theatrical line-up onto HBO Max.

Warner and Kilar’s stance on exclusive theatrical release windows, it should be noted, is in stark contrast to Netflix and product chief Greg Peter’s view: The latter recently predicted that these exclusive windows will go away because “it’s what consumers want.” And so, it seems that the next battle playing itself out in the streaming wars is a competition in navigating what role release windows will have in getting in front of audiences.

“Is theatrical attendance going to have a crazy resurgence because people have been cooped up for a year?” asked Kilar. “I could easily see that happening. And we will be there to serve them in that situation, and proudly so. When you look at our development pipeline, we absolutely are developing movies for theatrical exhibition.”

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Genshin Impact’s mobile edition is an absolute juggernaut, as Sensor Tower is reporting that the game brought in around $874 million from its microtransactions since launch at the end of September 2020.

Genshin Impact is a success globally, as it ranks third in terms of revenue on iOS and Google Play, only trailing Tencent’s Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile, both of which have made over $1 billion from microtransactions over the past five months.

Genshin Impact’s $874 million outpaces the amount of money that Pokemon Go and Roblox made on mobile over the past five months, but those games are considerably older.

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The publisher showcase New Game+ Expo is back for 2021, and the all-day stream starts very soon. The event begins at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET, and then continues through the afternoon with individual studio showcases.

The NGPX site promises new and upcoming releases, spanning diverse genres from action to puzzle-solving. You can check out the stream and a full schedule of the day’s events below.

This year’s stream will include games from Aksys Games, Koei Tecmo, Idea Factory, Natsume, Inti Creates, Gung Ho, Playism, NIS America, and Arc System Works. Many of these developers were on-board with last year’s NGPX as well, so this appears to be becoming an annual tradition with this coalition of devs.

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Fall Guys Season 4 is expected to kick off soon, bringing with it a series of new costumes. Developer Mediatonic has now teased the new outfits, posting silhouettes of them on social media and calling on fans to sound off with what the outfits might be.

None of them are very easily identifiable, as least not to me, but the internet has its guesses. For now, they’ll remain a mystery, but Mediatonic will reveal all four of them on Friday, March 5, through the game’s Discord, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter accounts.

Before this, Mediatonic challenged its fans to complete a 2400-piece jigsaw puzzle to find a new clue about Season 4–and, of course, the community completed it in short order. The teaser revealed a flying saucer-themed outfit and other otherworldly costumes.

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One of the last challenges you’ll complete in Fortnite for Week 5, Season 14 tasks you to visit different restaurant kitchens. You have to visit two of them to complete this challenge, but it comes at the end of a sequence before you’re actually able to count any progress you’ve made. Here’s how to do it.

First off, prior to trying this challenge, ensure you’ve done the other three steps. You’ll need to collect cookbooks, harvest eight fruits or vegetables–which can be done quickly at the Orchard northeast of the Coliseum–and then collect 150 gold bars. For collecting the 150 gold bars, just complete a bounty, as the one we completed rewarded us with 200.

Restaurant Kitchen Locations

Once that’s done, you have a few different options for visiting kitchens, including:

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IO Interactive level designers Toke Krainert and Victor Rasmussen break down Hitman 3’s incredible Dartmoor mission, including the development of the enthralling murder mystery storyline.