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It appears the battle royale game Warzone will be supported on the soon-to-release next-generation consoles. Infinity Ward’s Taylor Kurosaki told GamerGen that the plan is to support the game for “quite some time,” and this will include a release for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

“I know that our plan is Warzone is going to be around for quite some time, so as soon as those new systems are out and available I’m sure we’ll support them,” he said.

Presumably, Infinity Ward is also planning for Modern Warfare to be supported on the next-gen consoles as well. The two games exist in the same universe and are built on similar technology. They share the same Battle Pass, including weapons, items, gear, and more.

It’s no surprise at all that Warzone and Modern Warfare will play on PS5 and Xbox Series X, as both next-generation consoles play titles from the previous generation by default. Whether or not Infinity Ward is planning any upgrades for the next-gen consoles remains to be seen.

The PS5 and Xbox Series X are both due to launch this Holiday, though neither company has announced a price or release date for their machine.

Now that hedges have been added to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a whole load of new designs are now possible for island landscaping–including this iconic location from Ocarina of Time. A Twitter user has recreated the Hyrule Castle garden where Link and Zelda first meet, complete with the hedged garden, statues, and a nice little surprise at the end.

Japanese Twitter user @penpen_0907 posted a video of the intricate Animal Crossing design, saying it was their favorite place in the Zelda series, and that they were planning to add more details to the scene, including the patrolling troops.

The recreation is so spot-on that you’ll start hearing the scene’s iconic music in your head the second the video starts playing.

This isn’t the first Zelda-themed island to have gone viral since the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch. One player made their island into an exact replica of the Zelda: Link To The Past map, while others have recreated scenes from Pokemon, and made a crossover with another of this year’s big games, the Final Fantasy 7 remake.

Call of Duty’s free-to-play battle royale game, Warzone, is performing incredibly well right now, and Activision is apparently going to continue to support the game even after the next mainline Call of Duty game comes out later this year. In a new interview, Infinity Ward’s Taylor Kurosaki teased that Warzone will be the “through line that connects all the various sub-franchises of Call of Duty.”

Reading between the lines here, it sounds like Warzone will continue to be supported with content based on the year’s new Call of Duty game.

“We’re in kind of uncharted territories here,” Kurosaki told GamerGen. “Call of Duty has been on a very regular cadence for many many years, and Warzone has made us rethink exactly how best to release new content and how to integrate it. Call of Duty is a genre in itself, there are different branches in the Call of Duty tree, but they’re all connected in some ways. Warzone will be the through line that connects all of the different various sub-franchises of Call of Duty.”

Kurosaki further teased that he’s excited to see how the various other Call of Duty games get incorporated into Warzone as the years go on.

“It’s going to be really cool to see how the different sub-franchises sort of come in and out of focus, but Warzone will be the one constant,” he said.

2020’s new Call of Duty game is reportedly a Cold War/Vietnam-era Black Ops spin-off from Treyarch with the support of Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. It is expected that it will be a cross-generation title, releasing for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, as well as PS5 and Xbox Series X.

Warzone is Call of Duty’s second battle royale experience, following the Blackout mode that was featured in 2018’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The situation is different, however, as Blackout is only available to people who bought Black Ops 4, while Warzone is a free-to-play standalone game.

A day before the official celebration begins on May 4, Fortnite has brought back Star Wars goodies. Only available for a limited time, they include lightsabers from some of the franchise’s biggest characters as well as outfits, emotes, and more.

Four different lightsabers are currently available in the game’s item shop. These include Rey and Obi-Wan’s blue lightsaber, Luke’s green saber, Mace Windu’s purple saber, and Kylo Ren’s special red lightsaber, complete with its unique crossguard.

A “dark side” emote is available now for 200 V-Bucks, as are skins for Kylo Ren, a red Sith Trooper, and Rey. Though they won’t give you any competitive advantage in battle royale, looking that cool may boost your confidence enough to increase your performance.

You won’t have very long to get the goodies before they’re gone again. Star Wars Fortnite items will be gone on May 5, but the fun doesn’t stop with Fortnite. There are a ton of different deals available on Star Wars games right now, including Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and older releases on Steam.

The deals are available across PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, and include popular games as well as smaller titles from decades ago. It’s also worthwhile to get a month of Disney+ in order to watch The Mandalorian as well as all nine films in the Skywalker Saga.

Call of Duty: Warzone has most of the features players have come to expect from battle royale games, including a high player limit and different party sizes, but Duos mode has been mysteriously absent so far from the game’s flagship mode. That is going to change in the future, but the game’s development team has encountered issues that have delayed its rollout.

Speaking to French publication GamerGen (via VGC), Raven Software creative director Amos Hodge explained that there are still bugs that need to be ironed out before it can be implemented into battle royale. He also wants to ensure that the timing is right for the mode and that players are interested in playing new content while building on what was there before.

This includes identifying the most popular modes, which will remain in the game as others are swapped in and out. It’s this strategy that Warzone’s developers are still adjusting, as players have reacted negatively when certain modes, like Trios, have been removed from the game several times. In response, they’ve been added back in, but too many options could split up the player-base.

The updates and tweaks have certainly increased the game’s total file size, as well. If played through Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, players on PC will need more than 180 GB of free space, and even more is needed on PS4 and Xbox One. Warzone is also available as a separate download, making the file size lower.