Fortnite has removed the latest fan-created The Block choice because it appears to have featured a Mysterious Mansion that had an area that depicted a suicide scene.
As reported by Polygon, creator FuryLeak’s Mysterious Mansion was featured in Fortnite’s The Block beginning on April 2. FuryLeak tweeted out a walkthrough of his creation and in one area there is a chair tipped to the side with a character model hanging from a ceiling.
It appears Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is adding a new stage-builder mode. A new commercial for the game released by Nintendo shows what appears to be the new Stage Builder mode from the main menu. You can see this for yourself at 0:02 in the video below.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U also featured stage-builder modes, so it’s not a big surprise that it could be added to Ultimate. What’s more, the stage-builder mode was already leaked thanks to a data-mine. Another new mode, Home Run Contest, is also reportedly coming to Ultimate, according to Source Gaming.
A Nintendo Direct briefing is reportedly coming on Thursday, April 11, so it might be there that Nintendo officially announces new modes for Ultimate. Nothing is confirmed at this stage, however, so for now consider this a rumour.
Ultimate has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, making it the third best-selling Switch game of all. It’s only behind Super Mario Odyssey (13.76 million) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (15.02 million).
On Sunday, April 14, the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones will premiere. If you don’t have cable, you can sign up for HBO Now, a standalone subscription that costs $15 a month. HBO Go is free, if you have HBO in your cable or satellite TV package. With Go or Now, you can stream Game of Thrones on supported phones, tablets and more. Game of Thrones airs in America on Sunday evening at 9 PM Pacific and Eastern time.
Inspired by the success of games like PUBG, Fortnite, and Apex Legends, a very rich person is looking to buy an island and bring 100 people to it for a real-life game of battle royale.
IGN spotted a listing on the luxury marketplace Hush Hush from an anonymous person who is looking to hire someone to design an arena for a 100-person battle royale game.
Contestants will compete with Airsoft guns, and shots will be detected by touch-sensitive armour. Under the current plan, competition will take place 12 hours per day over three days until only one person remains. Competitors can camp for the night, while food, camping gear, and all equipment will be provided to contestants.
The untitled contest is still in the early stages of planning, so there is no word on yet on how to sign up or other key particulars like a prize for the winner or what island will be used or details on the safety measures and rules to be implemented. Whatever the case, the person who gets hired as gamemaker will get £1,500/day for six weeks to create the event.
“Battle royale games have become incredibly popular over the last few years ago and our customer is a huge fan who wants to make the game a reality in the safest way possible,” Hush Hush founder Aaron Harpin said. “If the championship is a success this year, it’s something he wants to make an annual event moving forward, which is very exciting!”
IGN reports that the sponsor of the event is an anonymous millionaire; his identity is unknown.
When Super Mario Maker released on the Wii U in 2015, many fans joked that Nintendo never needed to make another 2D Mario again – that the fans would ecstatically make the next generation of 2D Mario for them.
While it is interesting to imagine a large developer letting its community take the reins on a major franchise, in Mario Maker that wasn’t necessarily the case. With the blocks finally in their own hands, Mario fans didn’t want to create traditional levels, and instead proceeded to create eclectic and amazing new challenges that Nintendo never envisioned (or did, and deemed too frightening for the average player.)
HBO’s fantasy show Game of Thrones is ending. The six-episode eighth and final season premieres this Sunday, and fans are excited to see who lives and dies and how the story wraps up. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss spoke with Entertainment Weekly about ending the show and the pressure of delivering a good ending.
Weiss said he and Benioff want people to enjoy the ending, but he’s sure it won’t please everyone. “There is no version where everybody says, ‘I have to admit, I agree with every other person on the planet that this is the perfect way to do this’– that’s an impossible reality that doesn’t exist,” he said. “You hope you’re doing the best job you can, the version that works better than any other version, but you know somebody is not going to like it. I’ve been that person with other things, where people are loving something and I’m going, ‘Yeah, that’s okay. I was hoping for more.'”
As for Benioff, he said he and Weiss have discussed from the very beginning how they wanted Game of Thrones to end. It’s been more than a decade in the making, and Benioff said he and Weiss worry about how it’ll be received.
“A good story isn’t a good story if you have a bad ending. Of course we worry,” he said.
At the same time, “part of the fun” with any show, and this would presumably include Game of Thrones, is seeing people debate and discuss the ending, Benioff said.
He said he personally enjoyed the ending to HBO’s The Sopranos–which surprised everyone and cut to black. That doesn’t mean Game of Thrones will end in a similarly dramatic way, but Benioff said he enjoyed the fervour that the ending created among fans.
“I was one of those people who thought my TV had gone out. I got up and was checking the wires, unable to believe my cable had gone out in the most important moment of my favorite TV series,” he said. “I think that was the best of all possible endings for that show. But a lot of people hated it.”
Benioff and Weiss are directing the Game of Thrones series finale. Weiss said he and Benioff trust the season’s other directors, but they wanted to direct the finale because they didn’t want to create a scenario where they micro-managed the director to make sure it was fitting their vision.
“When something has been sitting with you for so long, you have such a specific sense of the way each moment should play and feel,” he said. “Not just in terms of ‘this shot or that shot,’ though sometimes it’s that as well. So it’s not really fair to ask somebody else to get that right. We’d be lurking over their shoulder every take driving them crazy, making it hard for them to do their job. If we’re going to drive anybody crazy, it might as well be ourselves. At least if something goes wrong, he can yell at me and I can yell at him.”
Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres April 14 on HBO. There are six episodes in the final season, and one of them will showcase a massive battle that is reportedly the longest battle sequence ever committed to film.
A new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate commercial includes an image of the game’s menu that may indicate a stage builder mode could be on the way.
The screenshot appears right at the beginning of the new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate commercial and the icon on the bottom right indicates the mode that was included in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U may be returning for the Switch version.
Back in October and November, Destiny 2‘s Festival of the Lost brought back Thunderlord, a lightning-slinging machine gun of original Destiny fame. Since the timed quest to retrieve it expired, though, any players who didn’t earn Thunderlord have been hoping it to earn it randomly from the pool of Exotics that sometimes drop as they play. As part of the festivities of its Arc Week event, though, the Thunderlord quest is back, and if you haven’t completed it, you absolutely should.
The multi-part Exotic quest to grab Thunderlord is back with Update 2.2.1, and you’ve got until April 23 to grab it. Part of the experience is the chance to revisit the Cosmodrome, a location from the original Destiny that’s not available in Destiny 2 in any other way. After the quest vanishes again, you’ll have to get your Thunderlord from the Exotics pool, which means the chances of it dropping are extremely low.
To start the Thunderlord quest and hunt down the killer of Master Ives, the Cryptarch from Destiny’s Reef area, head to Amanda Holliday in the Tower. She’ll give you Master Ives’ journal, which requires players to search for the missing pages from Ives’ diary out in the world. Here’s how to solve the mystery and get Thunderlord.
Step 1: The Crytarch’s Journal
Clearing that first step is actually pretty easy to accomplish. There are 10 pages to acquire, and players can get them either by finding Legendary engrams in various activities–including Gambit, the Crucible, Strikes, and everything else you already do in Destiny 2–or from killing tougher Fallen enemies in the EDZ on Earth.
Actually snagging all the pages is an easy feat to knock out if you head to the EDZ. You’re looking for Fallen with orange-colored health bars, which are otherwise known as Elite bad guys. You need the orange enemies in particular; you won’t get pages from Majors, who have yellow health bars, like the ones designated as high-value targets, for instance.
The quickest way to find Elite Fallen to kill in the EDZ is to find a public event and join it. The Glimmer Mining event that takes place in various places in the EDZ is a solid bet, especially if you knock it up to its Heroic level. You won’t get a page for every Elite you kill, but the drop rate is pretty high–one or two public events should do it.
If you don’t feel like messing around on Earth, you can also spend some shards at the Cryptarch in the Tower to quickly gather up the Legendary engrams you need to complete the step. That method will cost you 250 Legendary shards if you buy 10 engrams to get all 10 pages. Given how easy it is to get the pages in the EDZ or by earning Legendaries organically, though, you probably don’t need to waste the shards.
Step 2: Hunting The Fallen
The second step is almost as quick and easy as the first. It returns you to the EDZ, this time to complete four Lost Sectors. You’ll start with a batch of three that need cleaning out: Atrium, Widow’s Walk, and Terminus East. If you’re not familiar with the names, those are the three Lost Sectors located in the Trostland area of the EDZ.
You’ll find Atrium in the church where Devrim Kay hangs out, Widow’s Walk in the northwest corner of the area, and Terminus East in the northeast corner. Once you’ve wrecked the Major enemies in all three, you’ll get a new step that directs you to yet another Lost Sector, called Whispered Falls.
Jump on your Sparrow and drive west to the Outskirts area, and look for the Lost Sector up in the hills in the west end of the area. It’s north of the narrower portion of the map you drive through to access Winding Cove.
Kill the Major in Whispered Falls and you’ll need to wait for Amanda Holliday to summon you back to the Tower. She’ll eventually give you new coordinates, which will send you to the third and final stage of the quest.
Step 3: Return To The Cosmodrome
Your final step for the mission unlocks when you’re prompted to return to Amanda Holliday. She’ll identify a strange teleporter in Earth’s European Dead Zone you should go check out–it’s actually a Mission that starts you on the final step of the quest. To get there, warp into the Winding Cove location in the EDZ, then ride east toward the Outskirts. You’ll find the mission start in the northern part of the canyon in the Whispered Falls Lost Sector. Fight your way inside to reach the teleporter.
Starting the mission warps you back to the Cosmodrome, the place where Destiny players first started way back in the beginning of the original game. You’re basically following the path of the very first Destiny mission, fighting through Fallen into the Wall around the Cosmodrome. Keep following the mission markers until you get inside, where you’ll face a big battle with a Fallen Captain called Kikliss, Murderer, and a huge batch of minion enemies.
This is the toughest fight of the mission by far, so bring your best guns and try to keep moving. Smaller Fallen enemies will continually spawn into the battle, so Supers that take out lots of enemies at once or are good for crowd control will help. Once you damage Kikliss enough, a giant Servitor will join the fight, which makes it even more annoying. Try to keep space between you and Kikliss while you focus your fire on the Servitor, since it can make other enemies invincible–including the boss.
Killing the Servitor should make it a little easier to take down Kikliss, which is your main objective for the mission. Once you do, you’ll be prompted to fight your way back out the Cosmodrome. Back outside, you’ll get a message from Amanda Holliday suggesting that this could be your last time back in the Cosmodrome, and you’ll see an objective prompt reading, “Leave The Cosmodrome?” It seems Destiny 2 is suggesting there might be more secrets to find hidden in Russia, so take your time in leaving to look around. We haven’t found whatever secret the game is hinting at just yet, but we’ll update this guide when we do.
If you approach the teleporter near where you started, you’ll be sent back to orbit and prompted to return to Holliday in the Tower. When you do, she’ll wonder about what the Fallen who killed Master Ives were really after, but she’ll also thank you for avenging his death. Your final reward is a “trinket” she found in his stuff, which is none other than the sparking machine gun Thunderlord. The Exotic goes in your Heavy weapon slot, and carries the “Reign Havoc” perk, which causes lightning strikes from the sky as you rack up kills with bullets.
Nintendo is launching its first virtual reality headset (of sorts) this month in the form of the new Labo VR kit. Not only do the included VR Googles allow you to experience Labo minigames in virtual reality, they will be compatible with two of Switch’s biggest games, Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, following free updates for both titles later this month.
Ahead of the updates, Nintendo has revealed a few more details–as well as a handful of new screenshots–for Super Mario Odyssey’s upcoming VR mode on the game’s official Japanese Twitter account (via Siliconera). The VR mode will take the form of three “mini missions” set in the Cap, Seaside, and Luncheon Kingdoms, with the main objective being to collect coins and music notes.
The notes will be scattered throughout each kingdom, and when you collect enough of them, you’ll obtain different musical instruments that you can then give to NPCs to assemble a band. Once all of the performers have received an instrument, you’ll be able to watch a special concert in the Metro Kingdom. You can take a look at some new screenshots of the mode below.
Both Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be updated to support the Labo VR Goggles on April 25. While the former will receive a dedicated VR mode, the latter will be entirely playable in VR (with the exception of pre-rendered cutscenes). You’ll be able to toggle the option on or off at any time from the game’s menu, and you won’t need to create a new file in order to play it in VR.
The Nintendo Labo VR kit launches on April 12 and will be available in two configurations. The full suite will retail for $80, while the starter set–which includes the Labo VR software and the materials to make the VR Goggles and Blaster Toy-Con–will cost $40. The remaining Toy-Cons can be purchased in $20 expansion sets. You can read our impressions of the Labo VR kit here.
Disney’s upcoming streaming service, Disney+, does not yet have a launch date, but it is developing a hugely impressive list of new shows. We already know that there are Star Wars and Marvel series in the works, and it has now been reported that a show based on the Pixar hit Monsters Inc. is also on the way.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series is titled Monsters at Work. John Goodman and Billy Crystal, who played monstrous pals Sully and Mike in 2002’s Monsters Inc. and its 2013 sequel Monsters University, are set to reprise their roles. Also returning are John Ratzenberger as Yeti, Jennifer Tilly as Celia, and Bob Peterson as Roz.
There are a few new names joining the cast too, including Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Henry Winkler (Barry, Arrested Development), Ben Feldman (Superstore), Alanna Ubach (Coco), and Stephen Stanton (Star Wars Resistance).
The new show takes place six months after the original movie. The Monsters Inc factory now processes kid’s laughter in order to fuel the city of Monstropolis, and Mike and Sully are among the team working on the “laugh floor.” The new show’s main character is an aspiring monster called Tylor Tuskmon, played by Feldman. Monsters at Work does not have a release date yet, but THR states that it will appear in 2020. Disney+ itself is expected to arrive later this year.
In terms of other Disney+ shows we know about, the Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian recently finished production. There’s also a seventh season of the animated show The Clone Wars on the way, plus a series focused on the Rogue One character Cassian Andor in the works. On the Marvel side, fans can expect Loki and Scarlet Witch shows, and a limited series focusing on the Falcon and The Winter Soldier.