Animal Crossing: New Horizons Player Turns Island Into Zelda: Link To The Past Homage

Thanks to the addition of terraforming and infrastructure options available in the newest Animal Crossing game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players are free to create almost any island home they like. One player, reddit user VaynMaanen, has created an impressive homage to Zelda: Link to the Past, recreating the original SNES map with high levels of detail and dedication.

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The recreation goes beyond just the map, with VaynMaanen going to the effort to recreate the landmarks and villagers as best you can with the tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Paths, flowers, trees, ponds, and even an ocarina all work in tandem to recreate the classic Zelda feel in a 3D space on the Switch. Seeing an island like this makes you wonder how a Zelda: Link to the Past remake would look on the Switch.

Link's House
Link’s House
Haunted Grove
Haunted Grove
Great Swamp
Great Swamp
Eastern Palace
Eastern Palace
Desert of Mystery
Desert of Mystery
Lost Woods
Lost Woods
Kakariko Village
Kakariko Village
Hyrule Castle
Hyrule Castle
Death Mountain/Waterfall of Wishing
Death Mountain/Waterfall of Wishing
Eastern Palace
Eastern Palace
Full Map
Full Map

Of course putting in enemies, dungeons and some of the more unique structures will prove to be difficult, but the whole point of Animal Crossing is to be creative, it will be interesting to see what kind of solutions people come up with.

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More Xbox Series X Game Reveals Are Coming Soon, According To Xbox Boss

Xbox Series X is due holiday 2020, but up until now we haven’t seen many game reveals for the console beyond Halo Infinite and Hellblade II. But in an interview for IGN’s podcast Unlocked, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says that’s going to change soon, and future reveals will have a much greater focus on games.

When asked if there was anything left to say about the system itself, or whether it was “all games from here on out,” Spencer said that while there are still things to reveal about the system and services provided by Xbox Series X, what they’ve announced so far has been done to “make room for games” in their further reveals.

“We know games are what people play,” Spencer says. “You don’t play variable rate shading, you don’t play ray tracing, you play the games that use those technologies.” Showing off these technologies has paved the way for them to show off how their games will use them. “This is one of the reasons we had Hellblade when we did the unveil at the Game Awards–I thought showing up at the Game Awards without a game would be a little tone-deaf,” he continued.

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The Division 2 Urban Jungle Apparel Event Is Now Live On PS4, Xbox One, and PC

The Urban Jungle Apparel Event is now live in The Division 2. Running until April 20, the latest event gives you a chance to earn new apparel for your agents via time-limited Apparel Caches.

There are 35 new apparel items included as part of the Urban Jungle event. Earning cache keys is done by leveling up your SHD levels (one key is awarded for every four levels), or by purchasing them outright using Premium Credits. Anyone who logs in will receive one key to get started, and you can gift keys to other players as well.

The event contains a collection of four full cosmetic outfits: Reconnaissance, Hazard, Gorilla, and Chrome. It also includes additional clothing items, four weapon skins, and one mask. If you manage to collect every item from the event, you’ll be awarded the unique Purifier Face Mask. Fortunately, Event Caches don’t contain duplicates, so there’s no RNG preventing you from getting your hands on everything.

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Elder Scrolls Online Patch Notes Prepare For Greymoor

The Elder Scrolls Online is preparing to close the book on its Skyrim story as it transitions into the Greymoor season. The new content isn’t live yet, but the prologue chapter is now available alongside a patch on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

The patch notes across all three platforms make some of the same changes, especially across the two console platforms. On PC the patch has fixes for some abilities and a game crash, but the notes say the developers are still investigating ability desyncs and lag. On PS4 and Xbox One, there are input delay and desync fixes, and a fix to the Coldharbour questline.

A free prologue chapter for Greymoore is now available in advance of the story’s launch. Paired with a limited time free-play period, you can dip a toe in the new content. Parent company Bethesda also recently announced that it is canceling the digital showcase that it had planned to give in absence of its E3 appearance.

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How Resident Evil 3 Has Us Excited for RE’s Future

On this week’s episode of IGN’s weekly PlayStation show Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano and Max Scoville discuss Resident Evil 3 Remake, which Beyond!’s own Lucy O’Brien reviewed for IGN. Watch the episode below!

We discuss what we loved and didn’t about Resident Evil 3’s gameplay, offer our spoiler-free impressions overall, and discuss what RE3 makes us hope for Resident Evil’s future and what the series could look like on PS5 and Xbox Series X.

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Plus, we discuss why you need to play Persona 5 Royal, Jonathon’s Predator: Hunting Grounds impressions, and more!

Don’t forget to send in your Infamous: Second Son thoughts to beyond@ign.com for our lookback episode!

Have a That One Thing or Memory Card story to share? Write in to beyond@ign.com!

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Podcast Beyond! is live every Wednesday at 3 p.m. PT. For the latest on PS5, check out the PS5 full specs list, why we’re excited about PS5’s 3D audio focus, an analysis of what teraflops really mean for the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and check out images of the allegedly PS5 dev kit and controller.

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Jonathon Dornbush is IGN’s Senior News Editor, host of Podcast Beyond!, and PlayStation lead. Talk to him on Twitter @jmdornbush.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Spirits Are Coming To Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s next Spirit Board event is themed around Animal Crossing, Nintendo has announced. The event kicks off at 11 PM PT on April 2 and adds four new Spirits from the recently released Animal Crossing: New Horizons to the game.

Spirits based on the major new characters introduced in New Horizons–Flick, CJ, Daisy Mae, and Orville & Wilbur–will appear on the Spirit Board at certain times during the event. On top of that, all of Smash Bros. Ultimate’s previous Animal Crossing Spirits will also be featured periodically throughout the event, giving you a much better chance of encountering them.

The Animal Crossing Spirit Board event runs until 11 PM PT on April 7. You can learn more about the event on Nintendo’s website.

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