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The 2020 Money in the Bank match was a dumb, ridiculous spectacle with tons of fan service and an action film soundtrack. But most importantly, it was funny and entertaining. It felt surprisingly spontaneous for something that was pre-taped. WWE needs to do more matches like this for the remainder of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The dialogue between the fans and performers is indispensable in a professional wrestling event. This is not a dramatic play, where the audience sits quietly and holds its applause for the final bow. In professional wrestling, fans respond–immediately and viscerally–to what they see. The performers, in turn, have to listen to the fans and adjust their acts accordingly. Speed up. Slow down. Play to the crowd or taunt them. It’s an interactive medium.

Take away this interplay, and it’s hard for even longtime wrestlers to know how to react. And on a general, week-to week basis, WWE’s programming has suffered as a result. We’re getting matches that are technically great but lacking that difficult-to-define intensity that results from a live crowd.

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Empire of Sin, the upcoming 20s-set mobster strategy game from Romero Games Ltd, will feature a real-life figure from developer John Romero’s family tree. Elvira Duarte was Romero’s great-grandmother, an eccentric character who developers John and Brenda Romero wanted to honor in the game. The announcement has been made to coincide with Mother’s Day.

In the video below, John and Brenda explain that Duarte was an interesting character–she walked around with a green parrot on her shoulder, who would deliver punchlines to jokes she told. She ran three brothels, but quit and retired after winning the lottery. And now, a century later, she’s a video game character.

Duarte will be a playable mob boss in the game, with her own powers and a revolver that she can take enemies down with. She’s introduced in the trailer below.

Elvira Duarte’s “mob ability” in the game is called Devil’s Breath, which allows her to take control of enemy characters and use them to kill their own people.

The in-game model of Elvira is based on John’s grandmother Socorro, one of Elvira’s nine children. As Brenda says, she kind of looks like John, too. In any case, it’s a cool bit of character trivia–if you pick Elvira, you know you’re playing as a real person.

Empire of Sin is coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC this year. The game will release in Fall 2020.

The next update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One is coming soon, and it introduces a new bug in Halo 2: Anniversary. In a blog post, developer 343 Industries warned players that the new update adds a bug where the reticule moves off-center for couch co-op split-screen multiplayer.

343 said it is currently working on a fix for the problem, with the aim of it releasing in the coming weeks.

“Our test teams identified a newly introduced issue in H2:A where the reticule is off centered when playing split screen multiplayer,” 343 said. “The team is working on a fix for this and we will be targeting a hot fix build update for this in the coming weeks ahead.”

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Thimbleweed Park, Ron Gilbert’s charming 2017 adventure game, just got a surprise free spin-off. The new game, Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure, is available to download now on Steam and the Epic Games Store. It weighs in at just 52MB.

The new game is a parallel story following Dolores, one of the main characters from the original game, getting a job as a photographer. It’s designed as a test for Gilbert’s new adventure game engine, which is why it’s free–don’t expect an experience as long as the original. It is not available on consoles.

Here’s the launch trailer for the new adventure, if you need further convincing to download a free game.

Thimbleweed Park is also discounted by 60% on Steam and the Epic Games Store right now, but that discount is due to end very soon.

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Given that Microsoft has said almost nothing about what to expect from Halo Infinite, which is releasing later this year, fans are understandable hungry for any morsel of news about the game. Halo community manager John Junyszek has now shared a tease for Halo Infinite as it relates to its use of Medals.

Replying to a fan who remarked that Medals feel meaningless in Halo 5 because they are doled out so generously, Junyszek said, “We’re definitely aware of this feedback,” adding the smiley face and punch emojis to his message, whatever that means.

Reading between the lines here, it seems developer 343 Industries is planning some kind of change for how Medals work in Halo Infinite. Some people criticized Halo 5 for simply having too many medals. Other people, meanwhile, enjoyed the frequent feedback of in-game performance. It’ll be interesting to see how Halo Infinite addresses the feedback.

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Halo: The Master Chief Collection continues its PC rollout, with Halo 2 Anniversary releasing on May 12, and plans already underway to get Halo 3 to users as soon as possible. Microsoft recently released the first screenshots of Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST on PC, and now they’ve announced that the first “flight” (their term for a beta test) will start soon.

In a new MCC Development Update on Halo Waypoint, 343 Industries has promised that preparations are underway for the “Ring 1” flight to begin soon. Ring 1 is typically a very small group of folks who work closely with the developer, but future updates will bring in other members of the Halo Insider program to test the game ahead of launch.

According to the update, testing will begin “in the coming weeks,” and will begin expanding out to more Insiders soon. “As it progresses and we work through our process we will make sure to keep folks apprised of when and where to expect the next series of PC flights to take off,” the update reads.

Since Halo 3: ODST does not have its own multiplayer mode, there’s a good chance it will release alongside Halo 3 after the flight period. After that, Halo 4 will be the last remaining part of The Master Chief Collection to come to PC.

Unfortunately, it seems that Halo 2 Anniversary’s PC launch will be fairly compromised–at launch, at least.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has taken the world by storm, but it’s not the only huge, long-awaited 2020 game release–Final Fantasy VII Remake finally released in April, and scored a very rare GameSpot 10/10 review. And now, you can (kind of) combine the two games.

Twitter user The Regressor, an animator and cosplayer who has been putting some time into Animal Crossing: New Horizons, has designed some incredible costume recreations of the main costumes worn by Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Aerith in Final Fantasy VII Remake. Paired with the right hair, you can make a character that looks a lot like their Final Fantasy counterpart.

The codes for these costume parts are in the tweet below.

Additional codes are included for costumes that show some skin–like Cloud’s shoulders and Tifa’s midriff–because that “skin” is actually part of the costume, and there’s no guarantee that your Animal Crossing villager’s skin will be the same color. If it does not match, you can use the other code.

Everyone is getting in on Animal Crossing, even United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The game is already the highest selling Animal Crossing game ever.