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Call of Duty: Warzone is bringing back Trios. Developer Infinity Ward announced on Twitter that Trios will return in the battle royale game through a playlist update on Thursday, April 16 at 11 PM PT.

Trios–which features teams of three–was the only way to play Warzone at launch. It was initially removed to make space for the Quads mode, before returning. Infinity Ward removed it again recently to make space for the newly released shotgun/sniper mode.

Players quickly and passionately let Infinity Ward know they wanted Trios back, and they won’t have to wait much longer for that to happen. It’s unclear if the limited-time mode, Scopes and Scatter Guns Trios, will remain in the game when Trios returns.

In other news, Warzone and the standard Modern Warfare multiplayer mode are offering double XP this weekend to help you level up faster and move through the Season 3 Battle Pass.

Valorant was designed to run on a variety of PCs, so you don’t necessarily need a high-end gaming rig to run it. Riot has released its official system requirements for the upcoming competitive shooter, including the base minimum specs, the recommended specs for a smoother framerate, and high-end requirements for competitive 144+ FPS gaming. Valorant won’t be out for a while, but you can still read up on how to get into the Valorant beta and try it out for yourself.

Valorant PC Hardware Requirements

• OS: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
• RAM: 4GB
• VRAM: 1GB

These are the bare minimum hardware requirements you’ll need to meet in order to run Valorant at all–as you can see, it isn’t very demanding. Keep reading for more detailed system specs in the sections below.

Valorant PC Minimum System Specs

• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
• GPU: Intel HD 3000

With this setup, you’ll be able to run Valorant at 30 FPS.

Valorant PC Recommended System Specs

• CPU: Intel i3-4150
• GPU: Geforce GT 730

With this setup, you’ll be able to run Valorant at the recommended 60 FPS.

Valorant PC High-End System Specs

• CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz
• GPU: GTX 1050 Ti

With this setup, you’ll be able to run Valorant at a smooth 144+ FPS, which is recommended for competitive play.

Riot recently expanded which Valorant streams can drop closed beta invites, so if you’re still looking for a code, check out our guide on accessing the Valorant closed beta for everything you need to know.

One of the most interesting and activity-filled areas of Final Fantasy 7 Remake is Wall Market, the place you visit in Chapter 9. There are side-quests and mini-games here, as well as a whole bunch of collectibles, weapons, and other things to find.

We’ve gone over every inch of Wall Market to help you find everything it hides. Our guide will help you unlock all the side-quests–including some hidden ones–and make the most of your time in Sector 6’s red-light district.

Check out the rest of our Final Fantasy 7 Remake guides so you don’t miss a single secret or collectible. You can also read our FF7 Remake review.

Chapter 9 Walkthrough: The Town That Never Sleeps

Collapsed Expressway

Head into Aerith’s shortcut and keep pushing forward. You’ll fight a few enemies you’ve seen before, and then hit one called the Sweeper Prototype. This thing is weak against Lightning attacks, but watch out–once you hit it for a certain amount of damage, it’ll go berserk. When that happens, focus on spells and Punisher damage to knock it out of its rampage and fill its stagger meter.

Just ahead, you’ll take a ladder down. Check the corner beside it for a chest with two hi-potions.

Right after fighting three Terpsicolts, look for a ramp heading down on the east side of the area. Follow it down to a pipe under the street and a chest, which contains 1,000 gil.

The path will split ahead, and you’ll need to head up the ramp to find controls for the big robot hand just ahead, in order to unblock the path.

Use the hand to pick up the cargo container and move it to the right, so that it makes a path with the wood walkway nearby, which has a Binding materia on it. When Aerith heads down, pick her up and place her on the cargo container. She’ll run over and grab the materia for you. Then place her up by the ladder to open the path forward. When you drop down the ladder into the area, check behind the wall where you first moved the cargo container to find a chest with a mega-potion.

Up the other ladder, make sure you proceed all the way south on this path to find a vending machine that contains the Cosmo Canyon Music Disc.

Fight through Beck and his bandits–they’re weak to Fire, but not especially difficult–until you get to the next robot arm section. There’s another materia, this one a Magnify, you can grab by moving the first container up and to the right to make a path to it, then dropping Aerith off on top.

To open the path forward, place the crate you used to get the materia in the yellow box on the left side of the area. Switch robot arms with Triangle, then grab the second container from the wood walkway and stack it on top of the first one. Switch back to the first arm and pick up Aerith. Drop her off on the stacked crates, switch arms, and then carry her over to the walkway with the ladder.

Evergreen Park

After a quick cutscene, check the southeast corner of the area for a little tunnel that leads to a chest with an ether inside.

Outside the gates to Wall Market, after talking to the chocobo driver, check the north end of the area for a chest with a phoenix down.

Wall Market

This chapter will include several side-quests, some of which are only accessible if you make certain choices along the way. You’ll need to get both different sets of missions to complete the “Best in the Business” Trophy, but it’ll require returning to Chapter 9 using the Chapter Select menu that becomes available once you finish the game. To get the “Price of Thievery” and the “Shears’ Counterattack” quests, choose the “luxury” option for 3,000 gil at Madam M’s.

The rest of the guide for this chapter covers the other side-quests that appears along the way; check at the end of this section for a rundown of each of them.

Inside the market, duck into the Item Shop to buy the Honeybee Inn Music Disc. On the south side of the street, you can enter an Inn; check inside the room across from the bathroom for a chest containing an adrenaline. Go down the alley on the west side of the inn, heading south, to find a jukebox containing the Under The Rotting Pizza Music Disc. Keep going south from the jukebox to the end of the path to find a treasure chest with a celeris inside.

Find Chadley to the west of the Item Shop to get some new Battle Intel contracts, including one to get a new summon from a VR battle: Fat Chocobo.

Optional Boss Battle: Fat Chocobo

Fighting Fat Chocobo is a whole lot easier than Shiva, but you still need to keep your wits about you. The summon creature doesn’t have any major weaknesses, so you’ll just want to hit it with your toughest attacks and spells. The best way to pressure Fat Chocobo is with ATB abilities, like Cloud’s Braver and Focused Thrust. Go with the ones you like best and that deal the biggest damage, while having Aerith keep up a variety of spells, and keep hammering at Fat Chocobo in an attempt to stagger him.

Fat Chocobo his back with physical attacks, so if you have Barrier materia, use it to protect your squad. His Wark attack has him throwing random garbage at you, which you can easily avoid. When you get in close, watch out for Boom, in which he pops up into the air and drops back down for a big area-of-effect strike. After a bit, he’ll start rolling around with Roly Poly, which you can dodge clear of if you’re quick.

Meanwhile, the moogle that floats around with Fat Chocobo will occasionally summon spectral enemies to come after you–specifically, Bombs and Tonberries. Knock these out quickly if you can with something like Triple Strike, or let Aerith handle them with her magic while you keep up your assault on Fat Chocobo. You’ll occasionally want to switch to Aerith to speed her ATB gain for healing spells, especially if Cloud gets walloped with a few of Fat Chocobo’s big attacks.

When you get a chance, summon Ifrit or Shiva into the battle to future pressure Fat Chocobo–the further into the fight you get, the more minion enemies will get spawned in to add to your battle. They shouldn’t bother you too much, but if you’re finding yourself taking a lot of damage, peel off and take a second to deal with them before returning your focus to the boss.

Wall Market

Take the stairs just east of Chadley all the way to the top to find a chest with an elixir inside. From Chadley, head north up a flight of stairs. Talk to the woman in the cowboy hat to get the Farm Boy Music Disc. Go around the corner and down some stairs from there, to the south, and hug the western wall to find a narrow street; follow it to its end to find a Barrier materia on the ground.

Finding Johnny

When you’ve explored the north end of town, head toward the Weapon Shop in the south. You’ll see Johnny from Sector 7 run by. Follow him back to the Honey Bee Inn in the northwest corner of Wall Market for a quick scene.

Heading back south toward the Weapon Shop, duck into the gym on the west side of the street and look in the back room for a chest containing a Headband accessory.

Cross the street and go into the building on the east side to find a guy doing karaoke. Talk to him and he’ll give you the Midgar Blues Music Disc. Ahead at the Weapon Shop, you’ll find Hardedge, a new sword for Cloud.

The Trio

Keep moving south and you’ll spot Don Corneo’s estate. Before you cross the bridge, turn right toward the west to find a chest with 1,200 gil inside. As you approach the front door, go around the corner to the east to find another chest containing an ether. When you’ve got everything, go inside.

Return to the entrance to Wall Market to talk to the first member of the Trio: Chocobo Sam. As you approach him, check on Johnny, sitting right in the entrance to Wall Market. When you’re done with him, head to Honeybee Inn. You’ll finally need to go to the north to talk to Madam M, then back south to the Colosseum. At the bottom of the elevator, use the bench and vending machine to prepare, then go into the next waiting room to find Johnny. You can also try the “Mystery Drink” found on the edge of the table before you go.

Sanguine Stalkers

The Beastmaster and his guard dogs aren’t too difficult to deal with if you prioritize the dogs first. Note that they’ll evade magic spells, but are weak to Ice magic, so if you can infuse Cloud’s sword with an Ice elemental strike, you’ll have an edge. The dogs hit hard, so be ready with Cura and Barrier spells to protect yourself. Focus fire on one of the dogs until it’s down, then hit the other, using ATB attacks like Triple Strike to spread the damage around. Finish off the Beastmaster once his pets are down to win the fight.

Beck’s Badasses

You walloped Beck and his Badasses in Aerith’s shortcut on the way to Wall Market, but there are more of them this time. All the enemies are vulnerable to Fire spells and attacks. Try to focus on using Cloud’s attacks that hit lots of enemies at once, including Triple Slash, to try to knock out lots of enemies quickly. Watch out for the electric mines Beck’s men will leave on the ground, which can stun you and take you out of the fight. Keep Aerith focused on healing and you should be able to best all eight combatants.

Cutty and Sweepy

You’ve fought Sweepers and Cutters before, so this fight shouldn’t be all that difficult. You’ll want to pick one of the robots and focus on bringing it down. The Cutter is the bigger threat, so go after its arms first; have Aerith fire off powerful spells while Cloud uses ATB abilities on the arms to raise the Cutter’s stagger meter. Focus on crippling the robot by breaking down its arms to minimize what kind of damage it can do to you, and keep clear when it starts to rampage–use Aerith to hit it with a spell and calm it down.

When the Cutter’s dealt with, focus everything on the Sweeper. Spells will soften it up, allowing you to get in close, stagger it, and put it down with Punisher attacks.

Boss Fight: Hell House

The Hell House is a tough fight, so make sure you’re prepared. Spread magic materia between Cloud and Aerith so you have spells covering all four elements: Ice, Fire, Wind, and Lightning. It’s also a good idea to remove Elemental materia from your weapons for this fight. You need a balance of elements because the Hell House will constantly change its elemental affinity, using a barrier that will defend it from your attacks. That means that if you’re using Elemental materia and the wrong barrier is up, your physical attacks will be useless, putting you at a big disadvantage. You also want to bring plenty of ethers to this fight.

At the start of the fight, watch the Hell House’s windows. When they’re red, the house’s barrier is tuned to Fire; green is Wind; yellow is Lightning; and blue is Ice. You want to cast spells of the opposite type of whatever the barrier is in order to run up the Hell House’s stagger meter–so if the barrier is Fire, use Ice, and if it’s Wind, use Lightning, and so on.

In the first phase, the house will fling explosive furniture and toys at you, so stay well back. The Chair Salvo attack will launch a bunch of chairs that will track you like missiles, but you can avoid them fairly well if you just run around the arena and try to keep moving. When the house sprays out stuffed animals, stay clear of them–they’re all bombs. And when it uses its Hospitality attack, try to run away; it’ll suck one of your characters into the house, taking them out of the fight briefly while inflicting a bunch of damage. If you can hit the house with a spell opposite its barrier during that attack, do so.

The first phase isn’t too tough if you have the magic to deal with it. After the house takes some damage, it’ll flip to a much more aggressive second phase. You’ll get fewer indications of the house’s barrier from here on out; what magic to hit it with will be dictated by its attacks, which you can interrupt with the right spells. Keep back from its Jetstream attack, in which the house will spin around and spray fire, then use Ice. Do the same for the Double Rocket Charge attack, where the house will shoot itself straight at you–run to the side to avoid the first charge, but know that the house will follow up with two more. The Housing Shock attack will see the house chasing you around to do electrical damage, so try to hit it with Wind. Renewed Hospitality is a Wind attack, so use Lightning.

The tough part of this fight, really, is dealing with God House Mode. The house will create a barrier for itself that severely reduces both physical and magical attacks and isn’t tied to an element. When that happens, change targets to the Hell House’s arms and focus fire. A couple of big spells from Aerith or ATB attacks from Cloud should be enough to damage the house and drop the barrier, opening it up for your regular slate of attacks. You’ll really need to be on your toes for this one, though; as soon as the barrier is down, hit the Hell House with whatever spell will stagger it most based on its window color, since you have a brief period after God Mode drops where you can get a big boost on stagger.

This battle will put you through your paces because it’ll require you to be ready with the right spell at the right time, but it also makes charging your ATB meters difficult as you deal with the barriers. When you do get a big hit with the right element, close the gap with Cloud for Punisher attacks and ATB abilities in order to run up as much stagger as you can. Above all, though, be careful about keeping your team alive; don’t be afraid to use a lot of items and healing spells here, because you’re going to need them.

In the last phase, Hell House will add an attack called Heavensward, where it’ll fly around the battlefield, shooting more chairs and other explosives at you. If you keep moving, you should be able to avoid the missiles, but eventually the house will shoot itself back down at you. You’ll have a brief window before it hits it with a spell, if you can land it, so pay attention and get your ATB bars charged ahead of time.

After winning, you can now return to the Colosseum to fight additional battles to earn rewards. If you mean to go through the Colosseum fights at any point, take a moment to clear the two Aerith-specific fights: Aerith vs. Wild Animals and Aerith vs. Shinra Thugs. If you don’t do these fights now, you won’t be able to access them until you finish the game and unlock the Chapter Select menu.

Both the “Cloud vs. Wild Animals” and “Aerith vs. Wild Animals” Colosseum fights are worth doing before you move on, as each unlocks a new limit break for the character who fights. Your rewards are the Legacy: Ascension Limit Break for Cloud and Legacy: Planet’s Protection Limit Break for Aerith. You’ll want to do Aerith’s specific fights now, as you won’t get another opportunity because of the way the chapter plays out.

When you’re all done, head back to Madam M’s. Make sure you complete anything else you need to get done in and around Wall Market before you agree to have Aerith put on her dress, as this is a point of no return. After that, talk to Chocobo Sam to trigger a new slate of side-quests.

Side-Quest: Burning Thighs

It’s squat time. Head to the gym on the south side of Wall Market, near the weapon shop, to engage in a squat minigame. It’s pretty straightforward, and you only need to beat the first competitor to complete the quest. If you stick around and challenge the other two, you can earn a Luck Up materia and a Champion Belt accessory (plus the “Sultan of Squat” Trophy).

Side-Quest: The Party Never Stops

Just north of the gym on the same side of the street is the clothing shop. Talk to the owner, who will dispatch you to go find his father at the bar across from the gym. You mostly just need to follow Johnny around Wall Market, talking to people. Your performance will be based on the quality of your materia: Assess, elemental materias like Fire and Ice, and Cleanse. If you’ve leveled them up, you’ll earn Moogle Medals at each step.

The Materia Shop owner will send you to the Inn to use a vending machine, where your Assess materia will be tested. After that, drop by the restaurant and help the owner with whatever your best elemental materia is. Finally, the Item Shop owner will send you to deliver medicine; depending on the level of your Cleanse materia, you’ll deliver more medicine for more rewards. Check the bathroom at Drunkard’s for your first delivery to get a sedative. The second goes to the alley behind the gym, accessible from the northwest side of the map, and gives you a celeris. The third is for the narrow alley just north and east of the Item Shop, which will earn you a pack of three Big Bombers. After you’re done with the medicine, the Item Shop owner will give you the “Inspiration” to bring back to the dressmaker and complete the quest.

Side-Quest: Dynamite Bodies

After speaking with Sam, go to the Colosseum for more fights. If you can, combine a Fire and Elemental materia on your armor to give yourself additional protection. You’ll fight two Bomb enemies, which don’t have any major weaknesses, but are strong against Fire attacks. How you fight these guys is the key, though–you’ll want to catch them with attacks while they’re in the middle of doing attacks of their own, like the Flamethrower or Fireball, to raise their stagger meters. The best way to do this is to stay out of range, flinging Blizzara spells at the Bombs when they blow fire your way.

Avoid hitting the Bombs when they do the Inflame move, because that’ll cause them to grow in size, making their attacks more potent and expanding their range. Do your best to keep away from the Bombs and keep pushing their stagger meters up until you can close the gap and take one out with Punisher attacks and ATB abilities. At that point, finishing off the other should be pretty simple. You’ll get an Arcane Scepter weapon for Aerith for your trouble.

When you’re done with all the available side-quests in the Wall Market, head back to Madam M. Make sure you’ve done everything you’ve wanted before you visit her, though, because this is a point of no return.

Extra Side-Quests

As mentioned above, if you opt for Madam M’s “Luxury” option, you’ll access two different side-quests that don’t appear in the group above.

Side-Quest: The Price of Thievery

Head just outside of Wall Market and talk to Mirielle. Return to Evergreen Park and enter the Collapsed Highway again, where you’ll find Beck’s Badasses. This time, they’ve got a big Grungy Bandit backing them up, who will like to charge at you and pick you up. He’s slow and weak to fire, however, so just avoid him and hit him with magic attacks or Punisher strikes until you put him down.

Side-Quest: Shears’ Counterattack

Once you finish both “The Price of Thievery” and “Burning Thighs,” head to Madam M’s to get a new challenge in the Colosseum. You’ll face the Jury-Rigged Cutter in the battle. It’s a powerful but slow opponent, and at this point, you’ll have fought through a bunch of Sweepers and Cutters–deal with this one the same way, with Lightning magic and Punisher melee strikes. Keep clear of its attacks by dodging and you shouldn’t have much issue.

Honey Bee Inn

After some cutscenes, you’ll reunite with Aerith and head to the Honey Bee. Check the room at the south side to find a chest with a sedative inside. When you’re prompted to practice your dance moves, keep trying until you get 10 Great marks to unlock the Let The Battles Begin Remake Music Disc.

You’ll soon find yourself in Don Corneo’s mansion. Before you’re called into the audition, head to the south end of the room and interact with the Don Corneo-themed vending machine to get the Don of the Slums Music Disc. There’s also a chest to the right of the vending machine with a turbo ether inside.

After Tifa and Aerith get their gear back, check the room for a chest with a molotov cocktail. Leave the room and head to the room at the east end of the walkway. Inside, interact with the run in front of a bookcase on the southern wall to open a passageway to a staircase. You’ll find a chest and an Otherworldly Crystal accessory inside. Back in the main foyer, go downstairs and fight Corneo’s men, then slip through the narrow passageway on the western wall to get a chest containing a Fury Ring accessory.

Getting More Wedding Dresses

You’ll get the “Snappy Dresser” Trophy for unlocking any three dresses in this chapter, but after you finish the game, you can unlock two more dresses each for Tifa, Aerith, and Cloud, for a total of nine. Getting all the dresses to unlock the “Dressed to the Nines” Trophy. Check out our Wall Market Dress Guide for more details, but here’s a quick rundown unlock the other six.

Tifa’s Other Dresses

The choice you make with Tifa in Chapter 3 in the “Discovery: Alone At Last” scene determines what she wears to Don Corneo’s mansion, so to get the other two dresses, you’ll need to replay Chapter 3 and make the other two choices. Check out our What Would Suit Tifa guide for a rundown of what each choice will get you.

Aerith’s Other Dresses

Which dress Aerith gets from Madam M is actually determined by the side-quests you complete in the Sector 5 slums in Chapter 8. Completing no side-quests will get Aerith one dress; finishing three of the six side-quests unlocks a second dress; and doing all six side-quests gets you a third option.

Cloud’s Other Dresses

Cloud’s dresses are determined by your actions in Chapter 9 in Wall Market. One dress is unlocked if you do zero side-quests in Chapter 9; one dress comes if you do the Johnny-related side-quests; and one dress is unlocked if you follow the process to unlock “The Price of Thievery” and “Shears’ Counterattack.”

World War Z is currently in development for Nintendo Switch and Publisher Focus Home Interactive has also announced that World War Z GOTY Edition is launching on May 5 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The GOTY package includes the full base game, a new location with three new missions, and all upcoming and existing content included in the Season Pass.

The French city of Marseille is the setting for three new PvE missions, featuring its own maps, story, and characters. Additionally, the GOTY Edition comes bundled with new weapon packs, including The Lobo Weapon Pack, Biohazard Weapon Pack, Military Bundle Weapon Pack, the upcoming Last Aid Weapon Pack, plus one more upcoming weapon pack. The Professionals Character Skin Pack and War Heroes Character Skin Pack are also included.

On top of this, purchasing the GOTY Edition grants you access to a year’s worth of free content added to World War Z since it launched. This includes the wave-based Horde Mode Z, Xbox One-PC cross-play, new PvE missions and enemies, a weekly challenge mode, extreme six-skulls difficulty setting, and more, as well as a new playable class with a unique skill tree and abilities, which is coming in a free update later this year.

The Switch port, meanwhile, is currently in development at Saber Interactive, as reported by IGN. There’s no word on whether it will include the aforementioned GOTY content, and it’s currently without a release date.

Initially released in April 2019, the co-operative zombie slayer was awarded 6/10 in GameSpot’s World War Z review. Alessandro Barbosa said, “World War Z has many rough edges that are easy to spot, exacerbated by limited content that makes repeated playthroughs less interesting with each run. But it’s also a cooperative shooter that has the space for those dynamic and ridiculous player stories to emerge in. The rush of taking down a swarm with friends is core to what makes World War Z’s action work so well, and it rewards you well for the time spent on the classes and weapons you like. It could benefit from having more to go around, but if there’s a future for World War Z and its chaotic cooperative action, this is a good foundation to build it on.”

Note: This post contains light spoilers for Chapter 9 of Final Fantasy 7 Remake. We recommend you play through the chapter first before reading this guide.

In your mission to infiltrate the mansion of the reclusive Don Corneo during Chapter 9, Cloud must disguise himself in a dress. Like Tifa and Aerith, the look Cloud has during this section will change depending on which side-quests you’ve recently completed.

Below we’ve got a full rundown of everything you need to know to unlock Cloud’s three dresses, and you can find more information about finding every single dress for Aerith and Tifa with our Wall Market Dress Guide. If you manage to get every single dress across multiple playthroughs, you’ll earn the “Dressed to the Nines” trophy.

For more guides, check out our Final Fantasy 7 Remake guide rundown. Otherwise, be sure to read our Final Fantasy 7 Remake review.

No Chapter 9 Side-Quests Completed

Instead of completing any quests while you wait for Aerith to get dressed, just double-back to Madam M’s and enter when prompted.

Complete “The Party Never Stops” and “Dynamite Bodies” Side-Quests

Most of the choices you make in Chapter 9, including following Johnny to the Honey Bee, will result in you getting two of four possible quests: “The Party Never Stops,” which you’ll take on with Johnny, and the “Dynamite Bodies” fight in the Corneo Colosseum.

Complete “The Price of Thievery” and “Shears’ Counterattack”

If you take the right actions in Chapter 9, you’ll switch “The Party Never Stops” and “Dynamite Bodies” for two different (non-Johnny) quests. Unlocking them requires you to choose the “luxury” option for 3,000 gil at Madam M’s. Do that, and you should get the “The Price of Thievery” and “Shears’ Counterattack” side-quests.

Complete the two new side-quests to get Cloud’s last dress.

Planet Entertainment, the publisher contracted to release the new Cooking Mama game at the center of a bizarre controversy, has fired back at allegations that it was not authorized to release the new Cooking Mama: Cookstar.

The Japanese creators of the Cooking Mama series, Office Create, released a statement earlier today calling the new Switch game, Cooking Mama: Cookstar an “unauthorized” release citing that it had “rejected a wide range of deficiencies affecting the overall feel, quality and content of the game” produced by Planet Entertainment and developer 1st Playable.

As such, Office Create seemingly requested the new Cooking Mama game to be pulled from digital retail. Hence why the title mysteriously disappeared from Nintendo eShop stores and some retailers.

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In a counter-statement released by Planet Entertainment, the company says that “Planet is fully within its rights to publish Cooking Mama Cookstar” and that “There is no active litigation or ruling that prevents pLanet from publishing the game.”

Planet admits that there were some “creative differences” that arose towards the completion of Cooking Mama Cookstar that “were outside the scope of our agreement and the game design approved by Office Create,” but that it was still allowed to publish the game.

At this time, Planet Entertainment is selling copies of Cooking Mama: Cookstar on its official website and used physical copies can be found online. However, the game is still not available on the Nintendo Switch eShop.

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Cooking Mama: Cookstar is a new game in the long-running Cooking Mama series. Earlier this month, around the time Cookstar was officially listed for release, the game mysteriously disappeared from retailers. While Planet Entertainment maintained the launch was still incoming, details came out that seemed to hint at some kind of dispute between Office Create and Planet.

The dueling statements seem to confirm that, while there no legal case, there is some dissatisfaction between the two parties. IGN was able to obtain a copy of Cooking Mama: Cookstar and you can read our review here.

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Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.

Chapter 10 of Final Fantasy 7 Remake takes you even lower than the Midgar Undercity, into the sewers below. Though the section is fairly straightforward, this is an area where FF7 Remake likes to hide a few key items, including new weapons and Materia.

That’s okay, though: We’ve mapped the sewer system to find everything worth getting in Chapter 10. Read on for all the details you need to defeat the sewers denizens and claim their treasures.

Check out the rest of our Final Fantasy 7 Remake guides so you don’t miss a single secret or collectible. You can also read our FF7 Remake review.

Chapter 10 Walkthrough: Rough Waters

Boss Fight: Abzu

Abzu is a big foe with a long reach, but the biggest danger in this fight is poison from all the sewage. Getting hit by certain attacks from Abzu will poison your characters, and you’ll want to deal with that quickly with Antidotes or Cleanse magic, because you might not realize how much damage you’re taking from it until too late.

Abzu is weak to Fire spells, so a pumped up Fire Materia or two is key here. Fire massively drives up his stagger meter while also taking him out of the fight briefly, allowing you to inflict big damage. You’ll want Aerith wielding the Fire Materia if you only have one, but if you’ve got more, it can’t hurt to get more magic into this fight, especially to stop some of Abzu’s big attacks. Primarily, you want to focus your attacks of Abzu’s horns whenever you can. Crippling the horn knocks out some of its biggest water-based attacks, so the quicker you can do that, the better off you’ll be.

Early on, Abzu will use its Backwash attack, which is deadlier than it first appears. It makes bursts of sewage fly out of the brown puddles scattered arond the arena, which hurt and inflict poison. If your characters get hit, deal with the poison so that the damage doesn’t pile up. Other than that, be careful of its Ground Slam attack, which you can dodge when you see it coming, and its big melee swings, which you can block and counterattack with Punisher mode. When Abzu jumps up onto the pipes alongside the arena, it means he’s about to come back down with a big Pounce attack and pin one of your team. This is a great time to nail him with Fire, which will interrupt his mauling of your teammate and leave him vulnerable to more damage. After a few seconds, he’ll flee into the water.

You can’t raise Abzu’s stagger meter with magic attacks, so reserve those for damage–instead, lay into him with melee strikes, particularly with Tifa, to try to push his stagger meter up. More important, though, is trying to cripple Abzu’s horn, which will also open up to sustained attacks.

In the next phase of the fight, Abzu will get Enraged and become more aggressive. It’ll jump on the pipes again and use its Backwash Blast attack, which will spray a bunch of sewage out of one of the big pipes on the sides of the arena; when that happens, run alongside the pipe to avoid the flood. You’ll also want to watch out for Backwash Spout, which creates water tornadoes out of the puddles on the battlefield, which will come at you fast.

Crippling Abzu’s horn will knock him out of Enrage and open him up to attacks again, so keep up with hitting him as much as you can and lay down big damage with Fire magic. Keep clear of him when he readies his Triple Charge and Bash and Smash moves, although if you’re quick with a powerful spell, you’ll be able to interrupt both. Keep your party healthy and keep setting the boss on fire until you’re victorious.

The Sewers

After the fight with Abzu, turn right down the next tunnel, heading south. You’ll find a chest with ether in the corner at the end. You’ll next run into a Sahagin enemy; both Fire and Ice spells will quickly fill its stagger gauge, but beware its Harpoon Haul move, which will transform anyone caught by it into a toad. You can clear the effect with a Maiden’s Kiss item. Once the Sahagin is dead, open the chest at the end of the walkway at the top of the ladder to find two hi-potions.

In the next section of sewers, you’ll use a switch to raise a sluice gate to lower the water. Go down the stairs and duck under the gate to find a chest that contains Feathered Gloves for Tifa.

Continue into the small break room up ahead to find a bench and a vending machine, where you can buy a The Oppressed Music Disc.

You’ll soon come to a darkened tunnel. Keep moving through it until you hit a locked door on the other side, then enter the door on the other side of the room to find a switch to turn on the lights. In the east waterway room, drain the water with the switch on the wall and you’ll find the sewer key. In the west waterway room, you’ll discover a chest with 800 gil and Shinra crates.

The next area has you draining the water from the waterway so you can cross it. After entering the waterway, you’ll come back up a ladder and lower a gate that’ll get stuck on some debris. Make sure you head through the wrought iron gate here to find a Poison Materia on the ground before continuing across the sluice gate itself.

You’ll leave the waterway soon after. Follow the path all the way south (ignoring the ladder up to the west) to find a treasure chest that contains two orbs of gravity.

The path will fork to the north and south in the next area. Head south first, through a round room with a smattering of enemies. At the bottom of the next ladder, turn right and take the pathway north to its end to find a Warding Materia. Back to the south, you’ll find a ladder that leads to another fight, and then a pathway to some crates and a chest with a Revive Earrings accessory. Take the north path to reach Primary Treatment.

You’ll complete a quick pump mini-game here, which is pretty self-explanatory. Once the water is drained, you’ll contend with a running fight against Sahagins to the exit. Your primary goal here is to avoid being turned into a toad by the Sahagins’ harpoons, so try to keep an eye out for that attack and use items to counteract it if you get into trouble.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ Bunny Day event has ended (much to the relief of players everywhere), but as Nintendo had previously teased, an Earth Day event is also slated to take place in the game soon. This year’s Earth Day falls on April 22, which is presumably around when New Horizons’ event will be held given that the series typically matches up with the real-world calendar.

As was the case with Bunny Day, the Earth Day event will be added as part of a free update, although Nintendo has not yet announced when that will be released. The company also hasn’t yet shared any details about what the event will entail, but it seems it will be hosted by Leif–the flower-loving sloth who runs the gardening store in New Leaf.

That may not be all that’s coming to New Horizons this month. During March’s Nintendo Direct Mini, Nintendo teased that the game’s upcoming update will “usher in some newly added features, including the Earth Day event,” suggesting that some other things will be added as well. However, the company didn’t share any further information beyond that.

In the meantime, some new fish and bugs are available to catch in the game (although that also means tarantula farming is harder than it used to be). If you need help making the most of your deserted island life, you can find guides on how to terraform, how to make custom designs, and more in our Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide roundup. You can also get some special items in the game by playing the series’ mobile spin-off, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.