Month: October 2020

October is a big month in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, largely thanks to the many new Halloween items and spooky DIYs you can get to celebrate one of the best holidays of the year. But like with any month in New Horizons, there are also new critters to catch to keep up with your museum and Critterpedia. In this guide, we’ll detail every new critter for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; note that these are only the new arrivals for the month and not every fish, bug, and sea creature you can catch this month.

For the complete list of every creature in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, we have a full list of all 80 fish to catch, including shadow sizes, and a list of all 80 bugs to catch, with tips on tracking down the handful of rare ones. We also have a list of all 40 sea creatures plus tips on how to dive and catch them.

October Fish, Bugs, And Sea Creatures In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Here are all the new fish, bugs, and sea creatures you can catch in Animal Crossing: New Horizons in October. They’re sorted in order of sell price so you know what to focus on if you’re waiting for Flick or C.J. to visit, but if you’re a completionist, you’ll want to catch them all so you can donate to your museum and complete your Critterpedia!

Northern Hemisphere

New October Fish	Price	Location / Size	Time
Dab	300	Sea / 3	All day
Yellow perch	300	River / 3	All day

October is a tame month for fishing, with only two fish returning to your island’s waters: dab and yellow perch. If you’ve been playing New Horizons since it first launched in March 2020, it’s likely you already have these two fish in your Critterpedia.

New October Bugs	Price	Location	Time
Ladybug	200	On flowers	8 AM – 5 PM

Only one bug, the ladybug, makes its return to Northern Hemisphere islands in October. Like October’s “new” fish, if you’ve been playing the game since it first released, you’ll most likely have caught a ladybug already. If you’re a newcomer, though, they’re only around this month and won’t come back until March, so get them while you can!

New October Sea Creatures	Price	Time
Spiny lobster	5,000	9 PM – 4 AM
Venus flower basket	5,000	All day
Seaweed	600	All day

October welcomes a few higher-value sea creatures to your island’s ocean, plus the return of seaweed after a two-month hiatus. Make sure to swim in your ocean and dive for these creatures, since they can be donated to your museum just like fish and bugs.

Southern Hemisphere

New October Fish	Price	Location / Size	Time
Snapping turtle	5,000	River / 4	9 PM – 4 AM
Guppy	1,300	River / 1	9 AM – 4 PM
Sea horse	1,100	Sea / 1	All day
Butterfly fish	1,000	Sea / 2	All day
Surgeonfish	1,000	Sea / 2	All day
Clown fish	650	Sea / 1	All day
Neon tetra	500	River / 1	9 AM – 4 PM
Zebra turkeyfish	500	Sea / 3	All day
Killifish	300	Pond / 1	All day
Crawfish	200	Pond / 2	All day

For those in the Southern Hemisphere, October continues the springtime boom of new critters to catch. For fish, that means lots of small fries to collect this month, plus the ever-popular snapping turtle–which, when placed in your home or around your island, just chills out with no tank. It makes a good pet.

New October Bugs	Price	Location	Time
Agrias butterfly	3,000	Flying near flowers	8 AM – 5 PM
Atlas moth	3,000	On trees	7 PM – 4 AM
Madagascan sunset moth	2,500	Flying near flowers	8 AM – 4 PM
Rajah Brooke’s birdwing	2,500	Flying near flowers	8 AM – 5 PM
Jewel beetle	2,400	On tree stumps	All day
Giant water bug	2,000	River/pond (surface)	7 PM – 8 AM
Common bluebottle	300	Flying near flowers	4 AM – 7 PM
Long locust	200	On the ground	8 AM – 7 PM
Darner dragonfly	230	Flying	8 AM – 5 PM
Flea	70	On a flea-infested villager	All day

October brings some decently priced butterflies to your island. Plus, now your villagers can get fleas! Check out our guide on how to catch fleas for tips on how to spot them and swipe them right off your villagers (it won’t hurt them, we promise).

New October Sea Creatures	Price	Time
Lobster	4,500	All day
Sea pineapple	1,500	All day

October isn’t a big month for sea creatures in the Southern Hemisphere, but hey–lobster is tasty, right? (No, you can’t eat lobster in New Horizons.)

Regardless of which hemisphere you’re in, be sure to check out our list of the new fish, bugs, and sea creatures that arrived in September to help ensure you’re all caught up. You can also check out more of our guides below.

The new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character has been revealed, and after years of rumors we’re finally getting some Minecraft in Smash Bros. Steve, the hero of Minecraft, is joining the game, along with alternate Alex, Enderman, and Zombie skins, and the Internet is going wild. As it turns out, discussions about getting Steve into the game have been happening for a long time–at least five years, in fact.

On Twitter, former Mojang employee Daniel Kaplan has been celebrating the announcement, and has revealed that discussions began long ago. After initially asking people to guess, he eventually revealed in a tweet that serious discussions first happened about five years ago, which would have been right around the time that development on Ultimate began.

Kaplan also recalled a fun story about a time Super Smash Bros. on the 3DS almost made him and some other Mojang team members miss a flight, so clearly the fighting series has some fans within the studio.

During the reveal video, Masahiro Sakurai spoke about the huge challenges involved in making Steve work in Smash Bros., which might be why it took such a long time.

Minecraft Live is happening on October 3, and more details about Minecraft’s implementation in Super Smash Bros., including a DLC release date, will be announced then.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ long-awaited Halloween update has finally arrived, and with it comes a number of new Halloween costume items so you can get in the spooky spirit. These include clothing, shoes, headwear, socks, and an accessory, all of which are sold at the Able Sisters shop, plus a backpack item exclusive to the traveling salesman Kicks and a special outfit only available on Halloween night. You’ll also be able to purchase new Halloween skin and eye colors with Nook Miles at Resident Services.

Here are all the Halloween costume items included in the new update and how to get them.

New Halloween Costumes and Items

Below are all the Halloween dress-up items, headwear, shoes, socks, and more you can buy at the Able Sisters tailor shop. Each one comes in six color varieties–white, black, red, orange, green, and purple–except for the animal nose accessory, which comes only in black. The impish wings, a backpack item, are only sold by Kicks when he comes to visit your island, so you may need to trade with friends to get every color.

• animal nose
• flashy animal costume
• flashy animal boots
• flashy pointy-ear animal hat
• flashy round-ear animal hat
• horizontal-striped tights
• impish horns
• impish wings (Kicks only)
• mage’s boots
• mage’s dress
• mage’s striped hat
• magic-academy hood
• magic-academy robe
• raggedy outfit

Note that there are existing clothing items that might be confused with these new costumes. The mage’s boots are different than the Kicks item mage’s booties, for instance; likewise, mage’s striped hat is different than the mage’s hat item that was already in the game. If you’re trading with others for items, be sure to look carefully at the names!

Halloween Day Exclusive Costume Items

On Halloween night, you’ll be able to get a special costume from none other than Jack himself. To get them, you’ll have to give Jack candy or a lollipop in exchange. They are:

• Jack’s face
• Jack’s robe

How To Get the New Skin and Eye Colors

In addition to costume items, you can also get new skin and eye color options for when you change your appearance in a mirror. These include zombie- and ghost-like colors as well as some more fanciful ones, like pink and purple.

To get them, go into Resident Services and use the terminal on the right. Select “Redeem Nook Miles”; the new skin and eye color packages will be near the top of the list. They are:

• Body-Paint Costume Tips (2,400 Nook Miles)
• Exploring New Eye Colors (2,400 Nook Miles)

To change your skin or eye color, select any mirror and start the appearance-changing process.

This is a spoiler-free review of the series premiere of Gangs of London on the AMC+ streaming service. Gangs of London first debuted in the UK back in April 2020. AMC+ will release the first three episodes on October 1, with the following seven dropping every Thursday until the finale. AMC+ is available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Dish, Sling TV, and Xfinity.

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It’s been six long years since director Gareth Evans blessed us with The Raid 2, which featured his distinct blend of frenetic martial arts mixed with a gripping crime narrative. And while his rumored involvement in DC’s Deathstroke film appears to be at a standstill, streaming provider AMC+, in partnership with Sky Atlantic, is debuting a thrilling new TV series from Evans and The Raid’s cinematographer Matt Flannery, titled Gangs of London.

In terms of its narrative structure, Gangs of London embodies many of the themes and character studies previously explored in mobster movies of the past, most notably The Godfather. The series centers on The Wallace crime family, who, after losing their patriarch — Finn Wallace (portrayed by Star Trek: TNG’s Colm Meaney) — appoint his son to take over the family business. In many ways, Sean Wallace (played by Peaky Blinders’ Joe Cole), is similar to Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone; both are ambitious, cunning, and ruthless in their pursuit of justice for the fathers they lost.

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Reminiscent of Pacino, Cole does a marvelous job of exuding a menacing calm, with a deadly gaze and purposeful way of speaking, as if he’s afraid he’ll miss a syllable. After watching Cole portray the rebellious and often immature John Shelby on Peaky Blinders for three seasons, it’s refreshing to see the young actor take on a more complex character like Sean. And like any good crime story, being the new boss comes with a slew of new enemies from outside of the family, and even a few from within who are jealous of Sean’s newfound power.

Brian Vernel’s Billy Wallace (Sean’s brother) is the Fredo Corleone of the story, struggling to live up to his father’s expectations before and after his death, with his excessive drug use and overall lack of ambition. Like Michael and Fredo, Billy and Sean’s relationship is complicated, but also endearing, as Sean does his best to keep his brother safe from himself. Hopefully, Billy won’t meet the same fate as Fredo… Time will tell.

Quietly observing all of the chaos in the background while Sean runs the family business is Game of Thrones’ Michelle Fairley as Finn’s widow, Marian Wallace. Like the Lady of Winterfell she once was, Fairley uses her commanding on-screen presence to great effect here, duplicitously playing the hurt widow while making moves of her own without Sean’s permission. In the same vein as her late husband, Marian has some enemies of her own, most notably her daughter, Jacqueline (Valene Kane), who appears to despise her mother for reasons unknown. In these first few episodes, there’s a suspenseful dual threat going where it’s unclear whether the Wallace family will be destroyed from within the family, or by outside forces.

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While the other crime organizations claim to be in unison with the Wallace family, everyone has their own particular interests at heart. Thankfully, Evans and Flannery give their gangsters a bit of backstory, by including character-building scenes with each crime boss with their families or in their respective communities. The diverse offering of criminals includes a Pakistani kingpin named Asif Afridi (Asif Raza Mir), and the most compelling adversary to the Wallace family early on is Narges Rashidi’s Lale, a Kurdish militant with a vendetta to settle and a diverting backstory that we won’t spoil here. The writer’s attention to detail with each of their characters, even if they’re only in a scene or two, really makes Gangs of London stand out from other titles within the same genre.

And last but certainly not least are the superbly choreographed fight sequences sprinkled throughout the three-episode premiere. Evans and Flannery, having worked together on both of The Raid films, have a keen understanding of how to create jaw-dropping action in every single frame of a fight. The majority of these high-octane brawls center on one of Wallace’s up-and-coming foot-soldiers, Elliot Finch (played by Humans’ Sope Dirisu). Dirisu’s character has a background in boxing, so while the fights are still very over-the-top, the combat still feels grounded and somewhat realistic for a guy who knows how to throw a punch — Dirisu isn’t flipping around and doing crazy kicks like Iko Uwais or Yayan Ruhian from The Raid franchise. Elliot’s storyline proves to be one of the most intriguing in the early episodes – and not just because he’s the focal point of so many incredible action sequences.

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October has officially arrived, and there are a number of events happening in Pokemon Go this month. Developer Niantic has now added one more to the schedule, announcing a special autumn event for next week that will feature a variety of fall-themed Pokemon, including a new monster from the Unova region.

The autumn event kicks off next Friday, October 9, at 8 AM local time and runs until 1 PM on October 12. Throughout that time, the following Pokemon will appear in the wild more often than usual:

• Oddish
• Vulpix
• Bayleef
• Hoothoot
• Sudowoodo
• Yanma
• Pineco
• Zigzagoon
• Seedot
• Shroomish
• Plant Cloak Burmy
• Foongus

Those aren’t the only Pokemon you’ll be able to find in the wild. The Gen 5 Pokemon Deerling will make its debut in Pokemon Go during the event. Deerling and its evolved form, Sawsbuck, have different forms depending on the season, and during next week’s event players will have a chance to catch its autumn form. Additionally, Shiny Kantonian Vulpix will appear in the wild during the autumn event, and fall-themed Pokemon will be hatching from 5 km eggs.

Finally, berries will get a little boost during the autumn event. Niantic says they’ll be twice as effective when you feed them to your Buddy Pokemon. You’ll also earn twice the normal amount of Candy when you catch a Pokemon after feeding it a Pinap Berry, and you’ll get more berries than usual when you spin the Photo Disc at PokeStops and Gyms. You can read more about the autumn event on the official Pokemon Go website.

In the meantime, Pokemon Go is holding a fashion event from October 2-8. The Legendary Pokemon Moltres is also returning to five-star Raids starting October 2, while October’s Community Day is set for Saturday, October 17. This month’s featured Pokemon is Charmander, and if you can evolve it all the way into Charizard by the end of the event, it’ll learn the Dragon-type attack Dragon Breath.