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Zack Snyder’s Justice League appears to have accidentally included a symbol from the Halo games as part of a character’s costume. Though unconfirmed, it appears the symbol’s inclusion was the result of an artist using a fan’s custom design as inspiration for logo.

As pointed out by PCGamesN, the symbol visible on Deathstroke’s sword in the film is supposed to be a reference to the League of Assassins, which is the organization run by Batman villain Ra’s al Ghul. However, the symbol also bears a striking resemblance to an emblem that Bungie developer Christopher Barrett said he made 20 years earlier for Halo.

It appears that a fan then modified this symbol for their own take on the League of Assassins, someone working on Zack Snyder’s Justice League saw this when researching for the project, assumed it was a symbol used in official DC media, and did their own take on it for Deathstroke’s sword.

Should that have been the course of events that occurred, a second or third Google search likely would have stopped this from happening. Searching for “League of Assassins symbol DC” does come up with a similar symbol to the one on the sword, but it’s surrounded by others that are completely different. Search “Ra’s al Ghul symbol,” however, and the Halo lookalike is the very first result. Oops.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League releases via HBO Max on March 18, so we won’t have to wait too long to see if any Viva Piñata or Sea of Thieves references found their way into the movie. You’ll be able to watch it live with Snyder himself using Scener on the Chrome browser that night.

Mark Twain once famously said, “Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.” It held true for a century, but games like Minecraft have proven the author wrong. In fact, one company is even hiring real landscapers to help Minecraft players improve their virtual spaces.

As spotted by CNN, a UK-based company called Whatshed is looking to hire a team of virtual landscapers who can give players advice on how to “improve their in-game outdoor space.” The company is primarily focused on offering advice on outdoor buildings like sheds and workshops, as well as greenhouses, and with the pandemic keeping so many inside, it’s likely a good portion of players have been diving deep into Minecraft for the first time.

Applicants need to have experience with Minecraft already, though not necessarily with landscaping–they do need to be able to demonstrate a “passion for gardening” and the outdoors.

One humorous line in the “responsibilities” section of the listing says that landscapers must provide suggestions that stay within a client’s “budget.” Whether this means real money based on hourly work or Minecoin in the game isn’t clear, but another page also mentions the latter.

If you’re on the other side and want to hire a virtual landscape gardener for your Minecraft world, you can also sign up on the same website. You’ll get an hour-long consultation and will then receive mockup designs and ideas for how to improve your world. This is truly the future.

Minecraft is available on basically everything at this point, including Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and mobile. The majority of supported platforms also feature cross-play, so it shouldn’t matter which platform the consultant is on versus the client.

Watch Dogs: Legion launched back in 2020 without an online multiplayer mode, and the mode finally launched last week for most platforms. The game is available with cross-buy support between console generations, but the game doesn’t support any sort of cross-play. However, that is going to change in a future update.

The game’s official Twitter account confirmed this when replying to a fan’s request, saying that the development team will be adding it in a later update. It didn’t give a date for when this update will happen and based on the delays we’ve seen for Legion’s online mode already–it was originally set to come out months ago–Ubisoft Toronto is likely working to make sure it runs smoothly before moving on to adding more features.

The previous Watch Dogs games have both included multiplayer modes, as well, and they didn’t try to deliver the exact same experience as the single-player portion but with more people. In the original game, for instance, you could use a separate phone app to attempt to stop a player running around on the ground. It was a novel idea given the phone-hacking interface the series is known for.

Watch Dogs: Legion is one of several Ubisoft games that feature cross-buy support, meaning you can buy the PS4 copy and play it on PS5 or buy the Xbox One copy and play it on Xbox Series X. The same is not universally true for the reverse–the physical games with PS5 branding will only work on the newer consoles, but the Xbox game supports Smart Delivery, so it will work on either and automatically install the correct version.

EA has halted all FIFA discretionary content granting for an indefinite period of time as it investigates allegations that an employee, or at least someone involved with EA FIFA, has been selling rare FIFA 21 Ultimate Team items on a makeshift black market for real money.

EA gave an update on this scandal, which the community has dubbed “EA Gate,” and explained how it has launched a “rigorous investigation” on how this could have happened and how it is narrowing down which accounts received content through this “illicit method.”

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The company has also made clear that any accounts that have received items that were “transferred nefariously” will be permanently banned.

These items, which are meant to be earned through gameplay or other engagement (i.e. a Twitch broadcast), were granted to other accounts by one or more EA accounts, which were “either compromised or being used inappropriately by someone within EA.”

Content granting or purchasing player items in exchange for money is in no way condoned by EA, as it “runs counter to the game’s competitive integrity, is a violation of EA’s User Agreement, and is not something we tolerate.”

While EA’s initial investigation uncovered that this questionable activity only involved a small number of accounts and items, it is still unacceptable to the team.

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Following the investigation, EA will take action against any employee found guilty and any items that have been granted through this manner will be removed from the FUT ecosystem and the accounts that had these items will be permanently banned.

“Regardless of these actions, we appreciate how concerning this is to all of our players, and we apologize for the impact of these improper grants within the community,” EA wrote. “We also appreciate how extremely annoying and frustrating it is that this practice might have come from within EA.  We’re angry too.  We know that the trust of our communities is hard-earned, and is based on principles of Fair Play.  This illicit activity shakes that trust.  We’ve also been clear since the creation of Ultimate Team that items cannot be exchanged outside our game, and that’s key to how we keep our game safe from manipulation and bad actors.  This is a breach of that principle, as well — and we won’t let it stand.”

For those who are unfamiliar with content granting, it is a process in which certain in-game items are directly distributed to a specific account. In FIFA, these items can be a player, a kit, or a consumable.

The three most prevalent ways content granting occurs is through Worldwide Customer Experience, Testing & QV, and Discretionary Content Granting (Athletes, Partners, & Employees).

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A Worldwide Customer Experience granting is for when a player accidentally deletes content, content goes missing due to a technical glitch, or a mistake was made by EA and a player is given to them as a make-good.

Testing & QV is for when content is granted for testing and quality verification. This usually occurs on dedicated test servers and isn’t seen by the global player base, but sometimes these tests must occur in the live environment to ensure all is working as it should.

Discretionary Content Granting is for when EA wants to “recognize contributions that have been made by certain Pro Footballers, celebrity partners, or even our [EA’s] own employees.” These items are always non-tradeable and can only be used by the account to which it was given.

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These items only account for 0.0006% of the total player items in the FIFA 21 ecosystem and have no impact on the odds of any account receiving a specific player or item through normal means.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Strategy game Stellaris is giving you even more ways to explore the vastness of space and control it how you see fit. The expansion Stellaris: Nemesis is out on April 15, and it gives you the power to literally end all life in the known universe.

Stellaris: Nemesis features a “destabilizing galaxy,” with several paths to power and peace available to choose from. These include a role as “Galactic Custodian,” where you can persuade the powers that be to give you emergency abilities in order to restore order. It’s up to you to decide whether to relinquish these powers once the conflict is solved, and you can use new ship sets to make your fleet look particularly imposing.

If you prefer something a bit more sinister, you can also become a merciless empire that can eventually “unleash enough power to stop all of existence,” which sounds like it could make for a unique endgame. You can use espionage to learn about your enemies’ secrets in order to come up with a plan, even instigating incidents to make them look bad and secretly consolidate your own power. It’s certainly a dastardly way to grow your influence, especially if your true motives aren’t discovered until it’s too late.

Alongside the expansion release date, Paradox Interactive also announced that Stellaris: Console Edition will be getting the Lithoids rock species on March 25. The news came as part of the Paradox Insider livestream presentation, which also featured information and gameplay from several of Paradox Interactive’s other biggest franchises.