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In honor of this weekend’s springtime holiday, game developers are sharing some of their favorite Easter eggs in games they’ve worked on. A Twitter thread asked devs to respond with “the best Easter eggs you ever hid in a game,” and developers were happy to oblige.

The request from Vlambeer lead Jan Willem Nijman was followed by a treasure trove of Easter eggs in everything from big AAA releases to smaller indie games. The homages range from film references to hat-tips to other games to small in-jokes.

Both Uncharted 4 and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy have a camera-pan reminiscent of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. All four Ninja Turtles weapons are tucked away in different spots in The Division. The original Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare has a background meant to evoke the island from Zelda: Wind Waker. The list goes on and on.

This comes just after a few other recently discovered Easter eggs, like the Last of Us 2 reference in Uncharted 4, or the “F— the Oscars” reference in It Takes Two. You can see some of our favorites from developers below, and comb through the Twitter thread for even more.

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There is more news about the Borderlands movie today, as Edgar Ramirez has been cast in the role of the nefarious Atlas Corporation’s founder. Ramirez is known for his roles in Zero Dark Thirty, Gold, and Point Break, so he’s well-versed in action.

He joins a cast that includes a number of other huge names, including Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black. The film is directed by Hostel’s Eli Roth, who said in a statement that it’s an “incredible honor” to have Ramirez star in the movie.

“Atlas has to be a truly magnetic personality, someone with charisma and charm but that air of menace underneath it all,” Roth said in a statement (via Deadline). “I’ve been a fan of Edgar’s since his early performances and he continues to amaze me with each dramatic turn. We want to create something wild, fun, and very different from anything they’ve seen from Edgar before. I am so, so excited to work with him.”

The plot for the Borderlands movie has also been revealed today. In short, it follows Lilith (Blanchett), who returns to Pandora to find the missing daughter of Atlas. She teams up with Roland (Hart), a former mercenary, on her quest. Along the way, Lilith and Roland meet up with Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tannis (Curtis), and Claptrap (Black).

“These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power,” reads a line from the description. “The fate of the universe could be in their hands–but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.”

Film giant Lionsgate is producing the movie, which is written by Craig Mazin, who is also writing the HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us. Additionally, Take-Two’s CEO, Strauss Zelnick, is an executive producer.

As for the Borderlands game series, the Borderlands 3 Director’s Cut releases on April 8 following a delay related to the terrible storms in the studio’s home state of Texas.

Personal information for over 500 million Facebook users was recently posted online on a hacking forum. According to Business Insider, the data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, birthdays, bios, locations, and some email addresses.

The posted data includes users from 106 countries, with the vast majority of records coming from either the US, the UK, or India. Business Insider obtained a sample of the publicly available data and verified its contents by matching known Facebook users’ phone numbers with information in the data set.

A Facebook spokesperson told Insider that the leaked data is the result of a data breach that occurred in 2019. The tech company patched the vulnerability that allowed hackers to scrape the set later that year. Alon Gal, the chief technology officer of the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, told Insider that while the data is old, it can still be used by hackers and scammers to trick users into giving up their private information.

“A database of that size containing the private information such as phone numbers of a lot of Facebook’s users would certainly lead to bad actors taking advantage of the data to perform social-engineering attacks [or] hacking attempts,” Gal told Insider.

The existence of the data has been known since at least January, when Gal and journalists discovered an automated bot that was advertised on the same hacking forum that spat out phone numbers for Facebook users for a price. This isn’t the first time that Facebook user data has been compromised due to questionable practices. Back in the early 2010’s, the data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of 87 million Facebook users in violation of the company’s policies.

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Actress Zendaya is voicing Lola Bunny in the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy as part of the movie’s ambition to make the character more “fully realized.”

Director Malcolm D. Lee said that Lola was inappropriately depicted in the 1996 movie. She’s wearing a crop top and is overall “not politically correct,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

“This is a kids’ movie: why is she in a crop top? It just felt unnecessary, but at the same time there’s a long history of that in cartoons,” he said.

Lee said it was his goal to “reflect the authenticity of strong, capable female characters” in A New Legacy. Lola Bunny will be seen first in the new movie alongside the Amazons from Wonder Woman.

“We reworked a lot of things, not only her look, like making sure she had an appropriate length on her shorts and was feminine without being objectified, but gave her a real voice,” Lee said. “For us, it was, let’s ground her athletic prowess, her leadership skills, and make her as full a character as the others.”

Kath Soucie voiced Lola Bunny in the original movie, while Kristen Wiig voiced the character on The Looney Tunes Show.

A New Legacy debuts on July 16 in theaters and on HBO Max. The first trailer came online over the weekend, showing off LeBron James in the lead role of the live-action/CGI hybrid film.

A self-described “casual engineer” has created a working Nintendo Switch that is 650% larger than normal. According to a Reddit post, Michael Pick created the very big Switch in order to donate it to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Tennessee.

As spotted by VGC, Pick documented the build process on his YouTube channel, and he also showed off how the comically oversized Joy-Cons actually work. He played a few rounds of Mario Kart before switching to Fortnite and claiming a Victory Royale.

The giant Switch consists of a television and a docked normal Switch that hides inside of the device’s housing. The oversized Joy-Cons are attached to levers that manipulate the real Joy-Cons when the large button is pressed. Pick also placed chargers in the mounts to ensure that they don’t run out of juice.

A college student at Cornell recently donated several Nintendo Switches and games to the Children’s Minnesota Hospital after collecting more than $30,000 from the GameStop stock boom. If you’re looking for the best Switch games to play, check out our list of the top 25 best Switch games. Nintendo Switch sales recently surpassed 80 million units sold, making it one of Nintendo’s most successful consoles ever.