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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Winter Update Coming This Week

The holidays are getting near, and a new update will let you celebrate the festive season in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. A free winter update on November 19 will add holiday events like Turkey Day and Toy Day along with other evergreen gameplay features.

Turkey Day (November 26)

The Animal Crossing equivalent of Thanksgiving will take place on November 26, with an appearance from Franklin the turkey chef. Franklin will need your help gathering ingredients for the dishes he’s making for the feast. If you help him properly prepare for the holiday, he’ll give you a special gift.

Toy Day (December 24)

In December, Toy Day will take place on Christmas Eve. It’s very much modeled after the actual Christmas holiday, with decorated trees and an appearance from Jingle the reindeer. You can help Jingle deliver presents to receive a gift from him.

But like Human Christmas, the celebration actually lasts all month long. From December 1 through 25 you can purchase toys from Nook’s Cranny and don a Santa cap or other holiday clothing from the Able Sisters shop. Plus the Plaza will get progressively more decorated for Christmas throughout the weeks leading up to the holiday.

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New Year’s Eve

Between December 26 and December 31, you’ll be able to buy festive New Year’s Eve items. Then on New Year’s Eve itself, you can take part in a countdown event starting at 7 PM. Ring in the new year with your animal buddies.

New Reactions and Hairstyles

The update will also add nine new reactions and six new hairstyles, available through the Nook Miles program. You’ll be able to purchase a Hip Reaction pack or a Stylish Hairstyles pack to unlock the new cosmetics. A trailer showed off some of them in action, including a Yoga and Ta-Da reaction, and several of the hairstyles.

Home Storage, Random Dreams, And Save Transfers

Packrats will be able to store more in their homes with a Storage Upgrade, thanks to a new option available through Nook Services. The Home Storage expansion will bring you from a max of 1600 items to a whopping 2400, which should help you store all those holiday gifts.

You’ll also be able to visit random islands in Dreams, so you’ll no longer need a code to see what other villagers have been up to. To celebrate Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp turning three years old, you can claim a themed smartphone model by linking both games to your Nintendo account.

Finally, a new Island and Resident Data Transfer will let you move all of your save data, island, and residents to another system. The feature will also let individual users who aren’t the Resident Representative move their data to another system.

Another update is planned for late January, according to the teaser video.

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Immortals Fenyx Rising Crosses Over With Adventure Time In A New Trailer

Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Immortals Fenyx Rising, featuring an unlikely crossover with the duo of Finn and Jake from Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time. In the video, the pair run afoul of Cerberus, and not even a combination of shapeshifting powers and youthful exuberance can slay the beast. Fortunately, Fenyx arrives to save the day, which you can see in the trailer below:

While Ubisoft hasn’t mentioned if there’ll be an Adventure Time crossover in Immortals Fenyx Rising, the Cartoon Network series is making a comeback on HBO Max. Having wrapped up the main series in 2018, a new mini-series was announced, with the first episode airing in June. A second episode, Obsidian, will premiere later this week.

Immortals Fenyx Rising releases for Xbox Series X and Series S, PS5, Xbox One, PS4, PC, and Stadia on December 3. Similar to Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, there’s a massive world to explore, as well various mysteries, puzzles, and secrets to uncover as you guide Fenyx in a quest to save humanity and the Greek pantheon of gods from the titan Typhon.

If you’re planning to play on PC and you want to see if your hardware can handle the game, you can check out the minimum and recommended requirements.

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Stephen King’s The Stand: New Trailer For CBS All Access Show Teases Fight Against Evil

Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic 1978 novel The Stand is one of the writer’s most revered works, and a new eight-episode TV adaptation premieres on CBS All Access next month. A new trailer has now been released.

The latest promo focuses on two of the show’s iconic characters. Mother Abagail–aka the Prophet–is a 108-year-old woman played by Whoopi Goldberg, who warns of “the Dark Man.” This is Randall Flagg, played by Alexander Skarsgård, the demonic figure who threatens the survival of what’s left of the human race. Check the trailer out below.

The Stand will debut on December 17 and run weekly through to February 18, 2021. The show also stars Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, and Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith. King himself has written the final episode, as well as a new coda that takes the story beyond the end point of the novel. Check out the first trailer here.

In a recent interview with Variety, showrunner Benjamin Cavell spoke about how the themes and story of The Stand, which deals with the after effects of a global pandemic, were so relevant to life in 2020. “When I came aboard this project in early 2018, I told [CBS All Access head of programming] Julie McNamara how eerily relevant I found this story even then,” he said. “Not because I had any idea we’d be facing our own pandemic, but because I felt we were starting to question so many things we all grew up taking for granted about the structure of human civilization.

“What better moment for a show that imagines that civilization torn down to the studs, forcing our characters to confront questions about the very foundations of government, what society owes the individual and vice versa, what we all as humans owe to one another [and] what we’re willing to sacrifice in terms of personal liberty in order to feel safe and protected?”

For more, check out GameSpot’s guide to the biggest upcoming TV shows of 2020 and beyond.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Black Friday 2020 Deals Drop It As Low As $25 (PS5/PS4)

It feels like a lifetime ago, but Final Fantasy VII Remake came out earlier this year to a great deal of acclaim. And as one of the year’s biggest game releases, it’s of course getting some solid Black Friday deals, which will see its price slashed by upwards of 50%, depending on exactly where you shop.

The best FFVII Remake deal we’ve spotted so far comes from Target, which will drop the RPG’s price down to a mere $25–the lowest price we’ve seen on the game since its launch in April. This deal goes live on November 22. Other retailers will have sales of their own, with Best Buy and Walmart offering it for just $30 if you’d prefer to shop at either of those stores (or if Target sells out). GameStop will have it for $35. This is a physical PS4 copy, so if you have a PS5 with a disc drive you’ll be able to play it on that system as well.

Final Fantasy VII Remake, as its name suggests, is a remake of the beloved PS1 RPG. It features new mechanics, massively improved visuals, and an incredible soundtrack, but its content doesn’t span the entirety of the original game–instead, it focuses on the Midgar portion of the game, diving more deeply into the stories and characters from that section. That doesn’t mean it’s short, however, as you can expect it to still take upwards of 40 hours to beat. It’s a terrific experience, as you can read about in our Final Fantasy VII Remake review, which scored the game a 10/10.

Remake is available exclusively on PS4, but as with almost all PS4 games, it’s playable on PS5 through backwards compatibility. An enhancement patch has not been released for that platform, but you should still benefit from improved loading times by playing on the new hardware.

All of the deals on Remake we’ve seen so far are for the physical editions, meaning this won’t be playable on a PS5 Digital edition. We’ll keep our eyes peeled for additional deals as they crop up–digital or otherwise–as we’re sure to get more deals, including a PSN Black Friday sale, as the month carries on.

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