Animal Crossing: New Horizons' next update arrives on March 18, and it's introducing a handful of new seasonal items to the game in addition to the previously detailed Sanrio content and other features. The first will be different colored whoopee cushions to celebrate April Fool's Day, which players will be able to order from Nook Shopping starting March 26.The whoopee cushions will be available until April 1. After that, Nook Shopping will stock different prom-themed items until April 30 to celebrate prom season, including a prom wall, prom night flooring, and a prom sash. Various prom clothing will also be for sale in the Able Sisters' shop during the same time frame.Whoopee cushionGallery Like previous content updates, the March 18 update will also include a free gift for all players. After downloading and installing the update, everyone will receive a special cake celebrating New Horizons' first anniversary in their mailbox. You can take a look at the cake and other new seasonal items above.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite Season 6 is teasing players with new Anomaly puzzles, like the Shark Island Anomaly players encounter once they progress far enough in the Season 6 Battle Pass. This particular challenge and associated puzzle becomes available once you hit Battle Pass level 28. Here's where to find and how to investigate the Shark Island Anomaly in Fortnite Season 6.How to Investigate an Anomaly on Shark IslandNaturally, you'll first want to land on Shark Island. This unnamed location is still quite obvious once you see it in person, as it features a rock formation that looks like a shark opening its jaws. It's found in the northwest corner of the island, north of Coral Castle.Shark Island locationOnce you hit land, you'll want to head to the north side of the island, where you'll find a glowing butterfly which flutters to and from three strange silver canisters sticking out of the ground.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Blizzard has reportedly cut 50 people from its workforce as the company shifts away from live events, a decision brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. [Update: Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier said "dozens of people at the whole company" have been affected, not just those in live events. Schreier also noted that the affected employees will receive $200 Battle.net gift cards on top of the 90 severance and health benefits for one year.]According to a Bloomberg report, the affected employees come from support departments largely responsible for live events, including esports matches. A company spokesperson said that Blizzard and its esports team has "had to adapt" to the world's new conditions."Players are increasingly choosing to connect with our games digitally and the e-sports team, much like traditional sports, entertainment, and broadcasting industries, has had to adapt its business due to the impact the pandemic has had on live events," the spokesperson said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

During the month of April, there are new movies, TV shows, and more coming to Hulu. The streaming service isn't just curating content though. There are a few original series and specials you'll want check out, like the new season of Handmaid's Tale.It's been quite a while since the last season of Handmaid's Tale arrived on Hulu. Luckily, the wait for Season 4 is almost over. The first three episodes of the new season will arrive on April 28, and new episodes will land on Wednesdays. Season 4 will consist of 10 episodes. A revolution is brewing with June becoming the figurehead against Gilead, and the latest trailer looks pretty intense, check it out for yourself below.If The Handmaid's Tale isn't up your alley, and you're looking for something more along the lines of a documentary, with a cryptozoologist twist, you might want to watch Sasquatch, which arrives on April 20. "While visiting a pot farm in northern California in 1993, investigative journalist David Holthouse heard a story that still haunts him: On a nearby farm, three men were torn limb from limb in a savage Bigfoot attack," reads the official synopsis. "Sasquatch follows David as he revisits the Redwoods 25 years later, in search of any evidence that might lead to the truth of what happened that night. As he pulls at the threads of this story, he'll be taken down a path that's far more terrifying than anyone would have imagined."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

After recent news that Activision Blizzard has reportedly cut some 50 employees from its workforce, it's has been reported that company CEO Bobby Kotick is poised to receive a huge cash payout to the tune of $200 million. The investor firm CtW Investment Group is none too happy about this.Kotick will get this massive payout thanks to the "Shareholder Value Creation Incentive" provision in his employment agreement. This loophole allows Kotick to receive a full performance equity payout from previous years regardless of whether company milestones were reached. As a result and in the face of the company's share price increasing over 66 percent since December 2019, Kotick will get cash rewards dating back to 2017.CtW Investment Group issued a statement reflecting much of what the company said last year when criticizing the Activision Blizzard CEO for raking in more than $30 million in 2019.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 6 is here and early leaks have revealed a full list of vaulted weapons and items, as well as weapons and items making a return. In Fortnite lore, The Vault is an extradimensional nexus housing The Zero Point, but beyond its story significance, it is also where items "go" when they're removed from the battle royale.Check out the list of Fortnite weapons and items that have been vaulted or unvaulted for Season 6.Vaulted Weapons and ItemsAccording to Fortnite leaks on Twitter, the following weapons have been vaulted for Fortnite Season 6, which means they will not be available in the main game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Few games make as many headlines with their season passes as Fortnite does with its Battle Pass. Recent seasons have delivered exciting crossovers like Marvel superheroes, The Mandalorian, and more. Chapter 2, Season 6 is no exception, and it even continues an ongoing streak of including licensed characters. Alongside new Back Bling, emotes, Trails, and more, here's what's in the Fortnite Season 6 Battle Pass.Table of Contents [hide]Agent Jones Saves The Day Agent Jones Saves The DayThe Season 6 Battle Pass gives fans access to one long-rumored character and another long-requested, with another famous face coming later this season.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Its hardly news that superhero stories are big business these days with Marvel and DC movies alike regularly passing the $1 billion mark. Those mega-sized super tales are usually reserved for the cinema, but Jupiter's Legacy from Mark Millar and Netflix hopes to be the exception, according to a new interview with Millar by Empire."It's part 2001, part Avengers, part Godfather II," said creator Mark Millar in a new interview with Empire. Millar is one of the most-adapted comic creators out there, with original stories like Kick-Ass, Wanted, and Kingsman having made it to the big screen. Millar also wrote Marvel's Civil War comic series, which became one of the biggest Marvel films. Then, he cut a deal with Netflix to bring his work to the streaming service a few years back. Jupiter's Legacy will be the first project to make the leap to live-action.Empire described Jupiter's Legacy as "a sprawling superhero epic with an almost limitless ambition," and Millar says the story is a "50-year story self-contained inside one franchise," and that it has a cast of "50 or 60 super-characters," which seems almost incomprehensible. The show stars Josh Duhamel (Transformers) as Sheldon Sampson/The Utopian. Other cast members include Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Kara Royster, and Matt Lanter.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Neymar Jr., soccer star and pride of the Brazilian National Team, is coming to Fortnite, and why not? This is, after all, a game that has already featured The Terminator, Batman, Ellen Ripley, and now even the Tomb Raider herself, Lara Croft. In Fortnite, there are no bounds to who might show up.Neymar was teased a few days ago, and has now been fully revealed with even the game's menus leaving no room for doubt. But you can't play as him just yet, no matter what Fortnite Season 6 Battle Pass tier you climb to. Here's what you need to know about when he will become unlockable and how you'll probably go about earning Neymar in Fortnite.When Is Neymar Coming to Fortnite?If you heard Neymar is coming to Fortnite and booted up the game today only to find a collection of other characters, such as Agent Jones and DC Comics' Raven, it's not your fault. Neymar is a midseason unlockable character for Fortnite Season 6, so he's not available just yet. In recent seasons, we've seen other big names like Predator and Wolverine become available this way, and this time Epic Games is choosing to use a figure from real life instead of beloved fictional characters.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite Season 6 has gone "Primal" and if you missed the trailer showcasing some of the new additions, one round in the new map should be pretty revealing. From the prehistoric-looking huts to the new weapons clad with teeth and bones, Fortnite Season 6 almost resembles ARK Survival Evolved, if it weren't for all the TikTok dancing and superheroes running around. Oh yeah--and there's weapon crafting now.How to craft in Fortnite is sure to be a big topic of discussion this season as it's a complex new system all players are trying to learn on the fly. We've built this cheat sheet so you can have a better understanding of new elements such as Mechanical Parts, Animal Parts, Makeshift, Classic, and Primal weapons, and a general overview of how to craft in Fortnite. Here's everything you need to know.How to craft in FortniteWhile the list of craftable items is long, none of it matters if you don't know what you're dealing with. First, you'll want to get to grips with new crafting parts: mechanical parts and animal parts.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Being stranded on a hostile alien world teeming with dangerous wildlife would be reason enough to adopt new methods of staying alive, but having to deal with super-powered humans requires brand new mantras for survival according to the latest Outriders trailer.As the video below points out, survival on Enoch boils down to four key factors; ditching cover, liberally using the powers that you've unlocked, killing to heal yourself, and thinking aggressively. With the Outriders demo providing a substantial chunk of the game's opening act to play through, all four of those key pillars of gameplay were on display as the early opening missions and boss fights motivated players to use aggressive tactics to overcome early challenges.Outriders launches on April 1 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S, and will also be available on Xbox Game Pass on launch day. If you've been enjoying the demo and you're looking to farm it for a few legendary items to carry over to the full game, your best bet to do so is to grind through a few of the game's tougher foes according to our Outriders Legendary Loot farming guide.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Rick and Morty Season 5 is right around the corner, and while a specific release date has yet to be announced, the new episodes could arrive in 2021. Here's what we know about the upcoming season of the Adult Swim show.Like most TV shows in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic put a halt on production, which in turn led to numerous delays. Eventually, production for most TV series picked back up, but according to Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon, working on the series had become more efficient during lockdown. "We're more on schedule than we’ve ever been," Harmon said during PayleyFest NY 2020 (via Syfy). "It kind of makes you have to focus on the whole process when you don't have this office environment anymore. Everyone has to run this bee colony remotely, so the honey just gets made more consistently. It's working for us."Season 5 release dateA specific release date has not been announced yet. Writing wrapped on the show and animation was underway as of July 2020--Adult Swim released an animatic for Season 5 during Adult Swim Con in July, which you can check out below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The recently announced 93rd Academy Awards nominations have something surprising in common with last week's list of Golden Raspberry Awards nominations: They've both included Glenn Close's performance in Hillbilly Elegy to be in the running for their highest honor extended to supporting actresses.On both lists, Hillbilly Elegy appears twice for Oscar noms (Actress in a Supporting Role and Makeup and Hairstyling) and three times for Razzies (Worst Supporting Actress, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay). As The Hollywood Reporter has helpfully pointed and also diligently listed out, this situation isn't entirely unusual--there have been other award seasons where an actor has been simultaneously honored for both their best and worst performances in the same year. What is unusual about Hillbilly Elegy, however, is the same actor receiving both nominations for the same role--which may be further support for the belief that the only aim for art should be for it to cause a reaction, period.Hillbilly Elegy, a drama co-starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams (Arrival, The Fighter), was released on Netflix back in November. Directed by Ron Howard and adapted from a 2016 memoir of the same name by J.D. Vance, the movie is an exploration of the American Dream through three generations of an Appalachian family in Ohio.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Game developer Troy Leavitt, who found himself in hot water after coming under fire for his controversial YouTube channel, has explained why he left Harry Potter: Hogwarts Legacy studio Avalanche Software. He released the recording of a video presentation he gave to colleagues at the time of his departure, which spells out the reasons for his departure, his reaction to the articles written about him, and more.He started by laying out a timeline. In January 2020, before the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Leavitt said he received some "difficult news" about his family. By April of 2020, he told HR that he was planning to retire in August of 2020 and then move to Nevada to be closer to family and help with the "family issues." The Avalanche team suggested that Leavitt instead take some time off and come back when he could, and that's what he did.Leavitt said WB Games was a good partner during his time at Avalanche and said again that the management was aware of his YouTube channel years ago. After reports about Leavitt's YouTube channel began to make the rounds, management at WB Games did not pressure him into retiring or stepping away, Leavitt said. "Not in the least," he said. "I never felt like my job or my position was truly threatened." But Leavitt eventually followed through with his plan to retire and he did so in March 2021 to be with his family.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A few fresh job listings at Blizzard seem to suggest that the company is working on a "unannounced triple-A multiplayer game." The listings were first promoted on social media by Blizzard senior artist Dan John Cox, who said that his team is "looking to hire a LOT of people on a REALLY REALLY cool unannounced project."The listings call for an associate combat designer, a senior 3D environmental artist, and a senior systems designer, among others. Each job posting is tied to an "unannounced project," and while we don't know the nature of this new game--or if it will even ever see the light of day--it seems likely that it's some sort of online action game.My team is looking to hire a LOT of people on an REALLY REALLY cool unannounced project. We've even got some awesome Associate level design jobs!!This is hands down the best project and team I've ever worked with in my career.Message me or DM me and I'll toss you job links! pic.twitter.com/Maf3MnQL4R — Dan John Cox (@danjohncox) March 11, 2021In general, drawing conclusions about upcoming games based on job listings isn't always a good idea, since incomplete games are shelved, delayed, and completely reconfigured all the time. (For example, Blizzard's own mega-hit Overwatch famously came out of the demise of Project Titan, perhaps the most high-profile failure in the history of the developer.) However, considering that Cox is speaking publicly about these roles, it's clear that people at Blizzard are excited about this project.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com