Animal Crossing Collection Site Showcases Every Single Item In New Horizons

There are a lot of items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. From furniture to clothing to Redd’s art to DIY recipes and beyond, there’s quite a bit to collect over time, and it can be hard to know where to begin. Luckily, our sister site GameFAQs has a handy New Horizons catalog list so you can look up any item (or even villager!) in the game–or just browse if you’re looking for decor inspiration.

The catalog tool lets you sort by item type–housewares, wall-mounted furniture, shirts, shoes, and so on–or search for a specific item either in general or within the selected category. You can then click on any item in the list to see how much it costs (if you can buy it), how much you can sell it for, and where you can get it. You’ll also be able to see the various color and design options for each item where applicable.

The catalog is also up-to-date with the latest events and updates in the game–this means you can preview the upcoming wedding content, for example, well before you’ll be able to get it during the wedding season event in June. This is great for planning ahead!

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E3 2020 Is Canceled But E3 2020 Funko Pops Can’t Be Stopped

If a giant meteor obliterated Earth, I’m fairly confident that Funko Pops would somehow still be manufactured and released into space to either the amusement or disgust of aliens. The Pop figurine collection grows in number every week, and soon you can get your hands on five figures that were originally intended as E3 2020 exclusives. E3 2020 was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the exclusive Pops are releasing on May 26.

E3 2020 Funko Pops
E3 2020 Funko Pops

Naturally, the five new Funko Pops all hail from video game franchises. There’s the Skull Trooper from Fortnite, Tyrael from Diablo 3, Shegorath from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a metallic Handsome Jack from Borderlands 3, and a particularly unnerving 6-inch Leshen from The Witcher 3. The four standard 3.75-inch Pops are available to pre-order at GameStop for $12 each, while the super-sized Witcher Pop costs $19. You can also purchase all five E3 2020 Pops for $67, which is, sadly, a savings of exactly zero dollars.

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Studio Ghibli Teases Miyazaki’s Next Movie, Explains Why It’s Taking So Long

Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki has said the next feature film from writer, director, animator, and Ghibli co-founder Hiyao Miyazaki should be finished within the next few years. The news comes in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, in which Suzuki discusses the studio adding its catalog to HBO Max and new details on Miyazaki’s upcoming movie, How Do You Live?

Suzuki calls How Do You Live?, which is based on author Yoshino Genzaburō’s 1937 novel of the same name, “a big, fantastical story” about a teenage boy’s intellectual and spiritual awakening following his father’s death. According to Suzuki, “one of the new approaches” used in How Do You Live?’s creation is a longer production schedule and a larger budget than is typical for a Ghibli movie.

“When Miyazaki came back and said that I want to make a film again, I actually said that’s not a great idea because he’s achieved so much already,” Suzuki says in the interview. “You can’t come back and do something that you’ve already done in the past.”

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Iron Man VR Pre-Order Guide: Release Date, Pre-Order Bonuses, And Deluxe Edition

After a series of delays–most recently alongside The Last of Us Part 2–PlayStation’s Iron Man VR finally has a new release date. The PSVR exclusive will now launch on July 3, and if you want to be ready for its release, you can pre-order Iron Man VR now from a number of different retailers. There’s also a pre-order bonus for securing your copy early and a digital special edition if you’re looking to snag some extra content.

As its name suggests, Iron Man VR follows the Armored Avenger on a brand-new adventure. In this story, Tony Stark has retired from making weapons and now uses his tech to fight evil as Iron Man. Several years later, he’s attacked by a villain known as Ghost, a hacker and anti-corporate activist who is now repurposing old Stark Industries weapons to attack his corporate locations around the globe. Aside from flying through the sky and facing off against Iron Man’s foes in high-stakes battles, you’ll also be able to upgrade Tony’s tech and customize Iron Man’s armor and abilities.

Iron Man VR is a PlayStation VR-exclusive, so you won’t be able to play it on the Oculus Quest or any PC VR headset. And since you’ll be playing as Tony Stark inside the Iron Man suit, you’ll be moving your hands around shooting down enemies. That means you’ll need the Move controllers as well as a PS4 and PlayStation VR headset.

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Apex Legends Season 5 Quests–How To Find Treasure Packs And Unlock Hunt 1: The Cranky Clown

Apex Legends Season 5 has begun, adding new playable character Loba and the Fortune’s Favor battle pass. There are quite a few notable changes in Season 5–detailed in the Fortune’s Favor patch notes–including a brand-new mode, Quests, which adds story-based PvE missions to Respawn’s battle royale game. However, to participate in the nine Hunts that make up this seasons’ questline, The Broken Ghost, you’ll need treasure packs.

Treasure packs are not found in Quests–you’ll need to drop into matches in Apex Legends’ PvP modes. It doesn’t matter which one. Trios, Duos, and Ranked will all work. You can play as any character as well, though both Loba and Bloodhound can make the process a little bit easier. We’ll explain why in a bit.

Treasure packs can be randomly discovered in supply bins. Occasionally, opening a supply bin will spit out a treasure pack. Walk over the pack to pick it up. Don’t worry, treasure packs do not count towards your in-match inventory. Upon completion of the match, regardless if you win or lose, your treasure pack will be added to your in-game inventory.

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New Last Of Us 2 Video Says Game Will Be “More Divisive” Than Its Predecessor

Following the reveal of a new story trailer for the highly-anticipated The Last of Us 2 on Tuesday, developer Naughty Dog has released an “Inside the Story” video giving new details about the game’s narrative. In it, creative director Neil Druckmann reiterates the game’s focus on cycle of violence and “acts begetting other acts” as central themes, as well as responding to fans who question why the first game needed a sequel in the first place.

“I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘Why make a sequel to The Last of Us?’ I didn’t even hear the full pitch of the game, just the outline of what [Druckmann] was wanting to do with this game, and I realized, ‘Oh, this is something we have to make. There’s absolutely more to do here,'” says Anthony Newman, a co-game director on The Last of Us 2.

The video outlines the foundation of the game’s story, as revealed by previous trailers and pre-release footage: several years after the events of the first game, Ellie and Joel have settled in a village nestled in the mountains, and they both live relatively happy lives as part of a community. However, when a violent event shatters their town’s fragile peace, Ellie sets out on a journey to Seattle to hunt down those who have wronged her.

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PlayStation Announces The Last of Us Part 2 Video Series, First Episode Available Now

PlayStation has announced a new The Last of Us Part 2 video series, and the first episode is available now.

With a little less than a month to go until The Last of Us Part 2 is out in the wild, PlayStation announced this new series in a blog post today, on May 13, with plans for a new episode to be released every Wednesday for the next three weeks. This series will cover different aspects of the game including its story, gameplay and more.

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“The Last of Us Part II is by far the largest and most ambitious game we’ve ever made and there will be so much for you to dig into when it arrives on June 19th,” Naughty Dog Senior Communications Manager Scott Lowe said in the blog post. “Leading up to the launch, we’re releasing a brand new series of videos breaking down key aspects of the game.”

Lowe said each video will feature interviews with members of the Naughty Dog team to discuss design, technology, and many of the ideas that helped shape the game over its six-year long period of development. The first episode, which is available now, is titled “Inside the Story” and dives into the core themes being explored in the story including a look at Ellie and Joel’s life in Jackson County, Wyoming.

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Each episode will be spoiler-free (although the video’s comments and replies on social media are sure to be filled with spoilers so be cautious wading into those), according to Lowe. The first episode dropped dropped today, May 13, and the next episode, “Inside the Gameplay”, will drop on May 20. The third episode, “Inside the Details”, will be released on May 27 and the final episode of the series, “Inside the World”, will be released on June 3.

The Last of Us Part 2 will release 16 days later on Friday, June 19. Read about how the game went gold last week and then read about how hackers exploited an older Naughty Dog game to leak The Last of Us Part 2 details.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes

PS5 SSD Is ‘Far Ahead’ of High-End PCs, Epic Games CEO Says

Today, Epic Games revealed its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. To showcase the power of its new engine, Epic revealed a brand new, fully playable tech demo that’s running on the PlayStation 5 in real-time.

IGN asked what advancements are in the PS5 that allows for Unreal Engine 5 to function at this high of a level on the console. Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney explained that it was the system storage advancements Sony hardware architect Mark Cerny revealed earlier this year that makes the next-gen Sony console a powerhouse.

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“I think, first of all, Sony has a massive, massive increase in graphics performance compared to previous generations. But you know, I guess we get that every generation?” Sweeney joked. “But Sony’s made another breakthrough that in many ways is more fundamental, which is a multi-order magnitude increase in storage bandwidth and reduction in storage latency.”

As revealed back in March – in a digital deep dive on the PS5 hosted by Sony architect Mark Cerny – Sony revealed its custom solid-state drive that targets at least 5GB per second in terms of bandwidth. That’s compared to the 50-100 MB/s capable on the current PS4 hard drives.

“[The PS5] puts a vast amount of flash memory very, very close to the processor,” says Sweeney. “So much that it really fundamentally changes the trade-offs that games can make and stream in. And that’s absolutely critical to this kind of demo,” Sweeney explained.

“This is not just a whole lot of polygons and memory. It’s also a lot of polygons being loaded every frame as you walk around through the environment and this sort of detail you don’t see in the world would absolutely not be possible at any scale without these breakthroughs that Sony’s made.”

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Sweeney says that Sony’s storage architecture is far ahead of “the best SSD solution you can buy on PC today. And so it’s really exciting to be seeing the console market push forward the high-end PC market in this way.”

While Epic wouldn’t comment on any potential performance differences between the PS5 and Xbox Series X, Sweeney confirmed that the features shown today, like real-time global illumination and virtualized geometry, are “going to work on all the next-generation consoles.”

For more, check out IGN’s comparison of the PS5 and Xbox Series X.

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