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Shamrock Day seasonal items have arrived in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. From now until March 17, you’ll be able to grab clothing and other items celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. As usual, most of these items will be sold through Nook Shopping, but they’ll rotate each day, so you’ll need to check the catalog daily to grab them all.

In addition to the new Shamrock items, the Able Sisters’ shop is selling Shamrock-themed clothing and accessories. You’ll be able to purchase a Shamrock suit, Shamrock hat, Shamrock sunglasses, and Shamrock shoes from the tailors until March 17. Unlike the Nook Shopping items, these don’t rotate out daily, so you can grab the entire ensemble in one go.

Finally, you can also get a recipe for a Shamrock wand from balloons. You can see the full list of Shamrock items, along with their price and how to obtain them, below.

Those aren’t the only seasonal items available now in New Horizons. You still have a few more days to grab a special pie for Pi Day. That item can be ordered from Nook Shopping until March 14 and costs 314 bells.

The March seasonal items were added as part of New Horizons’ 1.8.0 update, which also introduced a line of Super Mario furniture and clothing to the game. Following the update, Nintendo gave its official Animal Crossing Dream Island a Mario makeover. If you visit the island between March 9-24, you’ll complete a My Nintendo Mario mission.

In other Animal Crossing news, New Horizons’ next update is slated to arrive around March 18 and will add Sanrio-themed content to the game, including new furniture, clothing, and even villagers that you can invite to live on your island. An Animal Crossing Build-a-Bear collection is also coming soon.

Valheim players are combating the frustration of losing everything after death by establishing and dispatching a Body Recovery Squad that ventures out to retrieve all lost items.

The Body Recovery Squad was recently set up through a dedicated Discord server. Their goal is for community members (or operators) to aid players in recollecting everything they lost after dying. This is done by players joining the server, entering a channel called #assistance-application, and pressing the “SOS” button. Once the message has been received, an operator will get in touch with that player in question to organize and execute the item recovery effort.

There are no stipulations for the assistance and it doesn’t matter where a player’s tombstone is located. The Body Recovery Squad, once mobilized, will complete the mission at all costs. Players aren’t required to compensate the Body Recovery Squad; the group does it all for free.

The Body Recovery Squad founder Lucas (aka Rim Jaynor) detailed the rationale behind the group in a brief interview with Eurogamer. After nearly encountering a similar fate–losing everything when battling a deathsquito–but being lucky enough to have “a portal close by,” Lucas thought of the other players who might not escape death and are forced to start over. This thought caused him to establish the Body Recovery Squad as a way to help other players.

“That singular moment, losing everything, can be so detrimental to players and has caused some to quit playing the game entirely,” Lucas said. “I thought to myself, what if it didn’t have to be that way? What if there was a lifeline out there that helped players keep going?”

The Body Recovery Squad currently has 15 operators willing to assist players less fortunate. That number is likely to grow, as Lucas said he received over 50 new operator applications last week. Through the Body Recovery Squad, Lucas is hoping to “foster a great community.”

“We aren’t doing this to make money, we aren’t doing this because we want some reward–we are doing this to help foster a great community,” Lucas said. “It has been such a pleasure so far being able to help other players and give them a lifeline when they get into trouble.”

Any Valheim player can sign up to become an operator through a Google form, though the Body Recovery Squad currently is no longer accepting applications at this time.

Call of Duty: Warzone was released one year ago this week, and to celebrate, Activision created a new stat-tracking tool that lets you see your stats over the first year.

You can get your own “Warzone Report” by replying to the Call of Duty Twitter account with your gamertag/handle and the hashtag #WarzoneReport. Do that and it will spit out a personalized breakdown of your kills, deaths, kill/death ratio, hours played, games played, and wins over the past year. All of this information is already available in the game itself, but the Twitter system provides a graphic that shows all of the key information in one place that you can share.

Also be aware that your results will be posted publicly, in case that matters to you.

Activision also released a celebratory blog post that runs down the key moments and events from Warzone’s first year. There is an interesting line at the end about Warzone’s latest update that brought Zombies to the Vodianoy ship off the coast of the island.

The blog post said:

“It seems that after a year of smooth sailing, Warzone may have to prepare for a threat never before seen in Verdansk, and any Operators who wish to survive might need to save the celebration for another time and get back in the fight before it’s too late.”

Also in the blog post, Activision said it is eager to share more details on what’s to come in the future. However, the company said, “It’ll be better for you to experience it for yourself.”

This sounds like it could be a tease for the rumored nuke event in Warzone that is reported to destroy the map before it gets re-launched with a Black Ops theme. This is supposed to happen in March or April, so hopefully we learn more soon.

Microsoft might be teasing an upcoming enhancement for Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight based on an image in the latest Xbox Wire post.

The post, which relates to a new feature allowing you to see which games support your chosen language, feature a screenshot of the Xbox Series X dashboard with a handful of games on it. One of the tiles is for Batman: Arkham Knight, and features a logo for Xbox Games Pass and another indicating it has been enhanced for Xbox Series X|S.

Batman: Arkham Knight is on Games Pass, and none of the other games featured in the screenshot have been incorrectly labelled either. This suggests that Microsoft, accidentally or not, has leaked a potential upgrade releasing in the near future.

Batman: Arkham Knight hasn’t received any enhancements for both Xbox One X and the PS4 Pro, so even with the Xbox Series X you’re still stuck playing at its native 900p resolution. An upgrade to that would be a nice treat for those wanting to play the game on a 4K display, or perhaps with a framerate beyond its current 30 fps.

Rocksteady is currently working on Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, its first game since the launch of Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015. It is expected to launch sometime in 2022. Gotham Knights, a new take on the Batman universe, is currently in development at WB Games Montreal and is expected to release later this year.

Roblox Corp. CEO David Baszucki’s own net worth is projected to rise by $3 billion on Wednesday thanks to his company going public. Yahoo Finance estimates that Baszucki made $3 billion thanks to the direct listing, which is in addition to the “hundreds of millions” he might have made by selling Roblox Corp. shares to third-parties in the lead-up to the direct listing this week.

Baszucki put about half of his 12% stake in Roblox in the Baszucki Family Office in California, which he registered in 2020.

The executive could get even richer, as Baszucki will get 11.5 million more Roblox shares if the company is able to reach long-term share price targets. A filing also mentions that Baszucki will not draw a salary or receive any equity-based compensation as Roblox’s CEO until 2027. It’s also stated that the executive will make charitable donations from his windfall.

Roblox Corp. as a company is expecting to continue to grow in the future, but the company–like many others–is expected to have a more challenging year to come. That’s because gaming saw massive spikes during the height of the pandemic as people stayed home and played more games and spent more money on them. With the vaccine becoming more widely available and case numbers dropping, companies that benefitted from the pandemic may begin to see their results fall back to down Earth.

In fact, Roblox CFO Michael Guthrie acknowledged that the company expects its rate of growth to be “well below” the numbers for 2020 as restrictions ease.

Roblox, which is trading as RBLX, started at $45 and is up by more than 12% at press time to around $72.

Nintendo has given its official Animal Crossing: New Horizons Dream Island a Mario makeover. Following the arrival of Mario-themed furniture and clothing to the game, Nintendo has added a dedicated Mario section to its Animal Crossing island, complete with a small obstacle course that leads to a flagpole (with a confetti machine ceremoniously spewing confetti behind it).

The redesign is related to one of Nintendo’s Super Mario 35th anniversary My Nintendo missions, which asks you to simply visit Nintendo’s Dream Island between March 9-24. To visit the island, all you need to do is lay down on any bed in your house, select Search by Dream Address when prompted by Luna, then input 6382-1459-4417. You’ll get credit for completing the mission within seven days of the event ending.

The aforementioned My Nintendo missions are tied to the special Super Mario 35th anniversary pin set. You’ll need to purchase Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury and complete at least 14 other My Nintendo missions to be eligible for the pins. If you’re still a few missions short, visiting Nintendo’s Dream Island is an easy way to put yourself closer to the total.

Animal Crossing’s Super Mario furniture arrived as part of the 1.8.0 update, which also introduced a handful of new seasonal items to the game. Right now, you can purchase a Pi Day pie from Nook Shopping until March 14. A variety of Shamrock Day items will also be available to order later this month.

Animal Crossing’s next update is slated to arrive around March 18. The update will introduce a variety of Sanrio-themed content to the game, including furniture, clothing, and even new villagers that you can invite to live on your island. You can get the villagers and items by scanning the Animal Crossing Sanrio Amiibo cards, which will go on sale in the US at Target stores starting March 26.